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slowly trying to push them back the aim is to get them out of the city center the police fear that if people are to stay in this area they could be looting and damage to property many zimbabweans blame president government for economic mismanagement soaring inflation rising food prices and growing unemployment they say they want an end to their misery and to be heard every road leading into iraq is good police stops they have thousands and thousands of people that are stopping people come from all we asked for was just an hour. they're marching along. somewhere much of a can of kind of in a position of opposition to parliament it doesn't last for more than one hour but the crittur believe it has been stopped much of harare city center was unusually quiet on friday shops and businesses were closed many people stayed home fearing violence president says fixing the economy will take time and that's the need to be patient but it seems for some patience is running out.
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a bowl of virus has spread to a 3rd province in the democratic republic of congo the 1st 2 cases have been confirmed in south kivu doctors say a 24 year old woman and her baby contracted in beni north considered the epicenter of the virus they then travel 700 kilometers. south where they tested positive for a bowler the mother died on thursday and what has more now from nairobi. the 2 new cases a woman and the child other 1st cases in the south kivu province the woman died on tuesday and was subsequently identified positively as an abode of patient now her journey began in beni which is the epicenter of the about her outbreak which started a year ago she traveled by bus and then my boat she traveled through 2 densely populated urban centers firstly the city of goma on the north shores of lake key
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which has a population of about 2000000 and we 1st saw a bowl of cases there last month and she traveled by boat to the city because of you on the south shores of lake kivu we haven't yet seen any apolo cases there and if you travel to a remote village in south kivu province now this is more than 700 kilometers from where the outbreak started about a year ago more than 800 people have died since then in spite of a very effective vaccine and some recently reported successes of drugs used to treat patients if they caught early enough it's clear that the government still struggling to control the spread of this about the outbreak. still ahead for you on the program it's been given a fresh like of peyton reregistered as iranian oil tanker at the center of a diplomatic standoff gets ready to set sail. and why pacific island leaders a blasting australia for its stance on climate change.
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hello and all the wet and windy weather i'm afraid on its way across the great bite in the southeast of australia and of course it's been the same story for the last few days meanwhile across central regions high pressure is in control and temperatures all the rise. springs on saturday but you'll see what happens is fun to cross the south as it swings through western australia it really brings the rain but also cool down the as so just 13 celsius in perth on saturday me want to head a bit very warm 20 degrees in adelaide and then i'm afraid as it moves through that rain and that cool air dipping down to 14 celsius on sunday and that is the day you could well see some rain not a bad day there was sydney 23 degrees and feeling pretty nice in brisbane 25 and a mostly sunny skies but warm across into new zealand systems
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a cool streaming across the tasman say into the south holland a few showers into christchurch and suffered a rain very much in the 4 calls in oakland and really staying put as we go on into sunday as well but it's a clearer day sunday in christchurch a little bit cooler there with a high of 8 celsius and it's improving picture generally across much of japan still with single threatens of this tropical storm is moving away generally from her so really by sunday it's moving very quickly it because of the skies but not a cold day 24 degrees celsius the few in sapporo. all i'm counting the cost india $1.00 of the biggest defense spending is in the world but the emerging superpower ramp up at security purely on imports plus the young people tap into the world of the sports and streaming services we offer these pay t.v. killing off leash for. counting the cost on al-jazeera. this
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is the opportunity to understand the very different way where there recently happens and we don't leave up to. come back a quick look out the top stories now the un security council has met to discuss the tensions in indian administered kashmir after new delhi were folk the region special rights last week hundreds of kashmiris have to fight a security lockdown that is now in its 12th day. riot police in zimbabwe these actions and take out to quell anti-government demonstrations in the capital harare several protesters were injured as they rallied against the soaring cost of living . and the outbreak has spread to
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a 3rd province in the democratic republic of congo doctors say a woman and her child contracted the virus and north kivu considered at the epicenter of the disease. a spanish rescue ship with 134 refugees and migrants onboard remain stranded in the mediterranean as a political battle in rome prevents it from docking 6 e.u. countries have offered to take in migrants who were picked up off the coast of libya almost 2 weeks ago but the ship remain stranded near the italian island of lampedusa after it was barred from docking by interior minister. he has ordered italian officials not to let the migrants disembark. u.s. democratic congresswoman it was she did to labor has rejected an offer by the israeli government to visit her family in the occupied west bank israel had initially
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banned fellow congresswoman ellen omar from making an official visit over their support for a global boycott movement so i was later offered entry on humanitarian grounds to visit her grandmother but she says she will not take up the offer because of oppressive conditions designed to humiliate so laves relatives in palestine say they support. a good rule. of law for she does visit to her homeland as under conditions we reject that it's rashid is right as a palestinian to come and visit her family in country. roslyn jordan has more now from washington. the u.s. president donald trump has not commented since the michigan congresswoman marsha to leave has decided not to go to the occupied west bank to visit with her grandmother and other members of her extended family on friday to labor put out a statement saying that her initial decision to accept on humanitarian grounds it
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doesn't was undercutting the very reason why she chose to run for the u.s. congress to stand up for the rights of those whose rights have been oppressed she said that she could not live with herself even though she very much had wanted to spend time with her 90 year old grandmother and with other members of her extended family this prompted an immediate response from the israeli interior ministry which accused the leap of essentially trying to play the visa application process for political gain here in the united states the israeli government recently in act in a law that bans those supporters of the b.-d. else movement or boycott divest sanctions movement from visiting israel or the occupied west bank but because of her status as a member of congress and because she had promised that she would not discuss politics while in the occupied west bank the interior ministry had decided on
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thursday to give to leave a visa to visit her family. the chief executive of hong kong's biggest ally in cathay pacific has resigned after employees were sacked and suspended for taking part in protests protests cafe's board said rupert hogg needed to be with place because the allens commitment to safety and security had been called into question china's leaders had one cafe not stuff not to take part in the protests which closed hong kong sample it and crowned it hundreds of flights were protesters across the territory planning more demonstrations this weekend on the abdel-hamid brings us the latest from hong kong. koen kong is gearing up for a weekend of many rallies and protests about 5 of them are scheduled you have people who will be on the streets because they stewpot beijing but the bigger rallies would be the pro-democracy protesters sunday is a key day thousands or tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people
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expected to attend that rally authorities have not given the permission for any marches citing the fact that there have been deceived the violence unfolding on the streets however ask anyone and they would tell you that they expect the some protesters will break away there is a bit of anxiety that we could see again tear gas and scenes of violence here in hong kong but really at the end of the day you have the resilience of these protesters they will continue making their voices heard getting them as loud as possible until they get what they want. but if it and leaders have blasted australia for refusing to commit to strong action on climate change and us from 18 pacific nations have been meeting on the low lying islands of tuvalu they were hoping to produce a strong statement on climate change targets but negotiations nearly collapsed
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twice and member states are allowed to ignore any measures they oppose to valis prime minister says his australian counterpart was central to the dispute. we were exchanging inverts for larry language not swearing but the job. but of course you know it's bristling the the concerns of leaders and i was really happy with the exchange of it was fred prime minister most of them of course david is bushes most the positions of the leaders we need to save these people the prime minister of tom truly cried in the retreat you know. the leader of drama that truly ship tears in front of the leaders by i understand the sensitivity to these issues particularly where we're standing and and and i should respect towards that in my judgment it's not just about a strike as a comic. it's about. it's about how strider continue to provide the support that
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we do across the pacific region when we have the biggest investor in the pacific stability and protection of any nation on the planet we invest 1400000000 dollars in the region every year that's the highest it's ever been on the my government. joseph. is the head of the pacific region at greenpeace he called the forum statement a monumental failure. it's very much extension existing to a lot of people will talk about climate change and it's kind of this far off thing that might happen whereas in the pacific it's our daily reality now it means that many of our communities are having to decide with it to be able to stay in their interest or homes will have to leave florida and i don't know if you can really fully grasp that until you can really feel the dread what it would be like to leave your homeland for you about the other thing is you know there are countries who are facing increased so the nation of this oil which is you know rendering agriculture
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and also clearly economic consequences for the region so it was in the pacific we have been hit by this crisis and you know we really need everyone in the region particularly our larger partners the strength to really be pushing ahead to do the right thing it's considered one of the most passionate yet difficult down system of stuff now the well fast tango down says a gathering in argentina for a tango welcome daniel shaima put his best foot forward in the home of the famous don't find his iron. they say that tango is more than just the dogs. but if you let the spirit of tango take you it will help you to better milieu a self and not only in time or close embrace this music we can really explain without words what they're feeling there and sometimes really really deep what we can't even describe with the words. it was developed in one osiris by 19th
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century immigrants mostly men dancing with men developing their fight moves in the slums of the emerging city. they grew throughout the 20th century in popularity and respectability to become the swirling sequin dot form it is today now danced around the world and every year the world's best dancers return to reacquaint themselves with the hope of tango. tango soul lives around the world because tango ease universal which is one of the most important things it has achieved in its history the possibility that the whole world can dance it. the world cup has 2 categories traditional tango which is improvise with the dances not knowing what music will have to work with. and choreographed stage tango no support of the. among the thousands of anjan times both young and old the essence of tango
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is still alive and thriving. her father a tango singer. in 3 minutes there's a connection between a man and a woman that takes him from the moment to the tango is danced with the fate but it's felt in the hot. on a teacher's classes to foreign tourists beguiled by a dog which has long provided the soundtrack to life in argentina. i believe it's in our d.n.a. it's the way we live the way we love and what we feel it's not to do with whether you're a good dancer or can sing or play an instrument it's to do with being born here and living here they say that everybody is able to learn tango the house with some exceptions. every year comes home that hearing argentina that never really goes away. when there are 201 osiris.
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developing news to bring you now the united states has announced a warrant to seize the iranian super tanker the grace one which is currently preparing to leave. it alleges the tanker and its 2100000 barrels of oil have been used for bank fraud money laundering and terrorism live now to john hendren who's following the story in washington and of course we know john this comes after the u.s. justice department launched a last minute request to effectively extend the detention of the grace one tank that hasn't happened because the court and the british territory of gibraltar ruled that it was free to set sail what is the u.s. trying to do now. that's right the brits who decided that they were able to let this ship go because they had assurances they said from iranian officials that it would not go to syria which would have been a violation of european union sanctions the iranians on the other hand said in fact
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they gave no assurances they simply said it had never been bound for syria so that dispute aside the united states entered in in said in a court filing the u.s. wanted to hold vatten vessel this is the filing which we've just got and i must confess i'm still going through but in that filing the u.s. says the f.b.i. the federal bureau of investigations here in the united states launched an investigation and wants to hold the ship in gibraltar based on violations of the international emergency economic powers act. and under that bank fraud statutes money laundering laundering statutes and a terrorism forfeiture status that is based on the fact that it was allegedly the shipments of about a $1000000000.00 worth of oil were to go to the iranian national revolutionary guard forgive me the iranian revolutionary guard which has been designated by the
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u.s. as a terrorist organizations or this we don't know this status of what the court and your brother is doing but the u.s. has asked to hold on to that vessel until the court can decide on this matter all right now thank you very much jon heder with all the latest on that story from washington but of course fabry tonight for much more on everything we're covering as always our web site al-jazeera you'll find all the latest breaking news but also analysis that takes you behind the headlines. it's a quick recap of the top stories now the un security council has been meeting to discuss the crisis in indian administered kashmir off to new delhi revoked its special rights last week inside indian administered kashmir hundreds of people have defied a security lockdown that is now in its 12th day that means of all those have been
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forced to stay in their homes without access to phones t.v. or the internet india's move inferior to pakistan which also claims kashmir in its entirety the voice of the kashmiri people the voice of people of occupied kashmir has been heard today in the highest diplomatic forum of the word they are not alone their voices have been heard their plight their hardship to pin their suffering the occupation and the consequences of that occupation has been heard we're ready to address these issues in a manner that. will have normal approaches to international ties should address them. i'm innocuous be a committed to the same like dream and it's not for pakistan to make that commitment to stop terror to stop docs human rights groups have accused riot police in zimbabwe of using excessive force to quell anti-government demonstrations
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passions and tear gas have been used on the streets of the capital harare with several people injured protesters were rallying against the country's economic crisis and the soaring cost of living demonstration went ahead despite a government ban. at least 14 people including children have been killed in a suspected russian as strike in syria volunteers from the white house this rescue group say happened in the town of hust just south of province. and our developing story this hour the united states has announced a warrant to seize the iranian supertanker that grace one car is preparing to leave gibraltar it alleges the tanker and its 2100000 barrels of oil have been used for bank fraud money laundering and terrorism tanker was seized by british forces last month released by supreme court judges in the british territory on thursday it's not clear what's likely to happen next but obviously that move to release the tank was aimed at the escalating recent tensions counting the cost is coming up next.
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millions of workers a being enslaved in the british jones of india i want to east explores how satellite technology is now helping to set them free. hello i'm come on santa maria and this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week india it is one of the biggest defense spending in the world but it doesn't for imports are asking if that's really the way for an emerging superpower to ramp up its security especially as tension over kashmir continues to rise. also televised sport but on which screen younger people are increasingly tapping into the world of streaming services not to mention in sports so where does pay t.v. face him is it still the savior of cash strapped sports or is it killing off the
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nation one. and will take you to bangladesh to see how traditional farming practices are offering solutions to the modern problem of climate change. you have seen in the past few weeks the increasing tension between india and pakistan 2 nuclear powered neighbors this was of course after india's prime minister narendra modi ended 7 decades of autonomy and kashmir we're actually not looking at that this week but rather india's defense spending because bamiyan rest of the kashmir does give us pause. let's go through this bit by bit the last time the 2 nations clashed a pakistani war plane blew up an aging indian mig 21 out of the sky one which had been updated with western technology modi has been criticized for delaying the delivery of new planes a deal to acquire 126 jets was about to be signed off back in 2015 but he cancelled
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the order instead he struck his own deal for $36.00 referrals with $8700000000.00 a deal which led to allegations of corruption the shooting down of the make there raise other questions about india's aging arsenal most notably because of the way india is seen particularly by the u.s. as opposed to rising china but the problem is india isn't spending as much as china or on defense and probably with good reason it's got other priorities things like poverty reduction education and health care so let's pause there and think about india and china side by side on this defense spend now beijing's defense budget is huge 175400000000 dollars and 2019 and some analysts actually reckon it could be higher if you take into account the acquisition of your equipment in contrast india's defense budget just a 3rd of beijing's coming in at 62000000000 however india has been rapidly spending money in the past few years to update its walky or at least in 2018 it was the
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world's 4th biggest spender. exactly what is india spending on well here are some of the big ticket upgrades currently underway india wants to order $140.00 new aircraft worth $15000000000.00 and it's ask the likes of boeing and lockheed and saab to make a pitch at the 5 percent of the aircraft are to be made in india as it steps up security in the indian ocean the governments in the market for 6 missile warships and other vessels worth $2200000000.00 and washington one like this one that india is spending $5000000000.00 on buying russia's s $400.00 missile defense system plus another $5000000000.00 on helicopters warships and other gear but here are the thoughts of some defense analysts is it really in india's interest to buy equipment from the likes of the united states and russia to maintain an independent military style should it not ramp up its own industry as part of is making india campaign which really is pretty much been a failure so far remember india does have an independent space program for example
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and it's a successful one it's about to make a controlled landing on the moon so the money and the will to spend are both there so let's get some answers to some of these questions we've raised joining us on skype from chennai is arjun he is a senior aerospace and defense consultant at frost and sullivan and it's nice to have you with us out of june you know i think about say india's space program which has been massively successful and it put a lot of money into it for it to be successful i wonder if defense needs to be sort thoughtful of in the same way going to throw some more money into it. toiling a lot of money to do it is absolutely necessary. you know budget documents are an arc all the various indicate their votes ending effectiveness so you need to go beyond the quantum of money you don't need to enter defense and look at how much money is looked at what's capital acquisition and also look at the
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m. on the underspend that's there in the us by objects so if you look at the capital expenditure component of india the defense budget is usually haulers at around 3436 bust and judge and if you look at the understand it has been steadily increasing or the year us up so this sore points to the fact that there are deeper problems especially that stress big do procurement processes that needs to be corrected or gets to become more effective. also if you look at indian defense budgets and after all the revenue expenditure component the pensions and that go on for inflation you find that the crew all of a what the past few years has not been all that much to be honest i just want to
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look at some specifics with you near the deal for the with the original deal for the. jets i think it was $126.00 of them and the majority of them would actually be built in india. that's not happening and you can you think about narendra modi's famous made in india played which he wants the the 2 things don't don't go together . oh that's true to an extent but. you need to look at this in a couple of us bit of better of the 1st question here is that op just using the procurement numbers to go to 6 from hungary and greenness 6 isn't going to affect the operation and if it did this off in good air force that yes op but. i think that's just one part of the story here there's a lot of book here and that's going to be especially for eric clapton's in the
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future due to cater to all these deficiencies in terms of number of platforms addressing the 2nd part of your question jericho mug on whether it's in line with it make in india. if you analyze the detail up there is a clause that says that there is 0 there's an offset process but since the $50.00 sent off the contract value has to be invested in procuring defense. items for that so this is from an indian company you are going to want to bring a bit of geopolitics into this now and i'm going to leave kashmir out of it for now because i think that's a whole a huge issue on its own but just more widely you know i think the united states for example would like to see india as some sort of counterweight in the region to the likes of china that would involve again a lot of spending from india wouldn't it. bell exactly you're spot on
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gama if you look at chinese to spend a day in the us military it's more than 3 days of work. and yes pants up but. and the u.s. is planning to use india as a go and of aid in its ship this extract she bought for it to be capable of going to event india has to foster back its arguments and reduce current obsolescence that its in its forces. india can no art gone to china by a number of us but what it can do is it get modernized its forces it technology and one step knowledge of that can act as force multiplier is a trend that we that we see in global defense is that there is a lot of commercial off the shelf technology that be migrated from commercial do
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defense to improve operational efficiencies to improving to intelligence surveillance reconnaissance tactic and then books etc and india has a very poor fish and id industry and a large number of technology driven small and medium enterprises that can be leveraged to deadlock this or bitched aist defense systems that can multiply operational capabilities and at the same day keep up costs and offer dependencies no and just pushing things out a little further india has this long held relationship with with russia going back to cold war times and now you have the purchase of the famous case 400 defense systems how does that sort of play into things further again i have to bring the united states back into it because of all the geopolitical tensions between all these players it doesn't border better for any nation especially india to create
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a dependency crap and it comes to defense procurement it's. not so or if it's a vice meanwhile yes part to keep it supplied nice open and all busy. so. unself maximizing what it can get however. so up india is going to be here shoosh defense market over the next 56 years it already spotted a lot more defense programs will be signed in the future and there's going to be a lot of competition between the u.s. and russia in the market and i think what the indian forces loyal is to get the best of all worlds. not being locked into dependency traps or join it's been a pleasure talking to you thank you so much for your time. moving on now and they trumpet ministration unusually has taken
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a step back from imposing more tariffs on china they were due on september 1st but washington doesn't want to see price increases in the run up to christmas and i know it's meant finally that u.s. consumers are bearing the brunt of the trade war but the collateral damage from the trade war is also being felt globally chile for example regarded as latin america's most stable economy has actually seen a shop rise in unemployment and latin america editor listen newman has been looking at the impact from santiago. for nearly 3 months 55 year old. has been going out every day looking for a job the she joins the queue of disemployment agency hoping like the rest to secure work as a housemaid a job that used to be easy to find but no longer nothing about on me if i don't work i can't pay for my rent my bills my food without a salary how can i survive for me it's essential to the director of the agency says
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the number of chileans looking for work is skyrocketing. last week i was that employment fair before 85 percent of candidates were immigrants now it's 5050 that means that a lot more people are looking for this kind of work for the 1st time so we are trying to train and play something with. the sharp rise in unemployment is just one of the direct consequences of the escalating trade dispute between the u.s. and china. the price of copper chillies main export has fallen 17 percent this year the value of the chilean pisot regarded as one of the most stable in latin america has dropped to its lowest level in more than 3 years making imports more expensive .
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