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i've been injuries. israeli forces have killed 3 palestinians at the gaza border and injured another one has took to the streets of northern gaza calling for blood and a force that has more from western. that was thousands on the streets of baker here in northern gaza calling for revenge against israel this was a mass funeral for 3 palestinians in the early twenties mohammad out mahmoud a day and mohammed abu now moves targeted by the israeli army late on saturday night. called i demand the palestinian fighting groups retaliate against the israeli crimes either and we spank from gaza. israeli military says it used tank and helicopter fire on the group after spotting armed men near the border fence it comes a week after 4 armed palestinians were killed in similar circumstances in a month that has seen a surge in attempts to break through the fence. hamas and islamic jihad according
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them unsanctioned individual actions carried out by angry youths. there is anger among the palestinian youths of israeli aggression and crimes including their crimes in dealing with palestinian prisoners arrests and attacks on west bankers and the siege on gaza all israeli aggression created this kind of anger among the palestinian youths for a 2nd night in a row on saturday rockets were fired out of gaza one of them landing on a terrace in the israeli town of steroids increasing in security around gaza in recent weeks is being seen in israel as at least in part related to the upcoming elections in september before the recent polls in april there was an upsurge in rocket fire out of gaza seen here as a way of trying to increase pressure on israel at a politically sensitive time. in recent months rocket fire as long as it resulted in no injuries or loss of life has typically been followed by israeli airstrikes on
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evacuated bases and camps inside gaza these attempts to break through the gaza fence though are being met immediately by deadly force as little doubt the temperature is getting higher again in and around gaza but the chances of another military escalation are also on the rise. al-jazeera west jerusalem in the news ahead. was the u.s. president considers to clear a new group of peace activists as a terrorist organization but not the far right demonstrators they were facing. and green with envy an award winning artist sanctuary in the middle of one of the world's biggest and busiest cities. we've got more flooding rains across southern parts of china at the moment the big
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area cloud here right from the north of a vietnam era across the south of china over towards hong kong more showers here as you go on through the next couple of days but a very wet one lead just up towards hong kong as you can see from monday less wet as we go on into choose day but i'm afraid the wet weather yes it is still very much in evidence to say the flooding rains too of course a good part of india lots of cloud showing up on the satellite picture kolkata what remains in flood lots of big downpours here recently and the showers along the spells of rain continue to cause problems looks a little drier up towards the fallen off west of india into pakistan for now monday going on into choose day showers they will continue through much of the northern plains over towards the ganges i would say was that northeastern corner of india not quite as wet as it has been recently across the west and gas meanwhile across iraq you say hey we do have laws you dry and sunny weather hazy sunshine 38 celsius
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here in doha a little humid side as we go on through the next couple of days but it's pretty much wall to wall sunshine a little more cloud around the southern end of the red sea with a chance of the arch shower for western yemen. millions of workers a big in slave in the brigham of india one i want east explores how satellite technology is now helping to set the brain. 0. counting the cost india $1.00 of the biggest defense spending is in the world but the emerging superpower ramped up its security purely on imports plus the young people tap into the world of sports and streaming services pay t.v. killing off leash sports. counting the cost on al-jazeera.
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of the headlines on al-jazeera this hour organizers say more than 1700000 anti-government protesters have marched in the streets of hong kong it is one of the city's largest demonstrations since nearly 2000000 people gathered back in june . families in afghanistan have begun burying those killed in a suicide bomb attack in kabul on saturday at least 63 people dead 200 others injured and i still has claimed responsibility and rejected the u.s. request to keep an iranian tank in detention the government says it can't comply as it is banned by e.u. law iran now expects the tanker to leave in the next few hours. so that brags that now the united kingdom scheduled to leave the a you all know all before toba 31st but according to government documents leaked to
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the times newspaper it is likely to face shortages of food fuel and medicine if it leaves without a break that deal these documents say among many things that france will be imposing e.u. mandatory controls on u.k. goods from day one of an exit and it's built up the computer systems to manage customs declarations it shows up to 85 percent of the trucks which use the main channel crossings may not be ready for french customs which could reduce the flow rate of all those trucks about 60 percent in just one day and the worst disruption to the short channel crossings that conceivably could be lasting up to 3 months well we've got more on this now with a man mccann as a journalist and political activist and says the irish border issue will also continue to be a sticking point deal or no deal. the u.k. least used them is difficult to see either couldn't be a hard bargain for
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a different jurisdiction different customs arrangements different taxation i raise once defend regulations concerning it always have the health and checking of i grew up cultural projects etc etc that to monitor all this it will have to be some sort of installations across the i respond or are goods traveling back and forth are examined now the a odd thing about this so is that the british government owned a bar as johnson says that they will not use any restrictions or any close to installations along the border on the u.k. say different i and that would mean that it was the european union which would have . a hard border and this is a chaotic situation because both fights are saying there will be no hard bar but it's very difficult for any rational observer to see how there could not be a hard border with all the implications that would hop for politics in ireland
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north onsides the us president on the trump is considering designating an anti fascist movement of the terrorist organization he should that warning to members of anti fat as they gathered in oregon to counter a rally by far right groups of friends with us from portland. sporadic clashes between members of far right organizations and anti-fascists spread through the streets of portland hours after a far right rally concluded portland police declared a state of civil disturbance in the city. we estimate that there were approximately $1200.00 demonstrators at the peak of the demonstrations our team spent many hours monitoring the various groups as they gather splintered reformed and moved throughout the downtown core the day of tension began with a demonstration staged by far right groups led by a militant organization called the proud boys they were heavily outnumbered by.
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their supporters and peaceful protesters expressing opposition to far right groups a heavy police presence covered the area officer seized shields poles and bear spray from protesters many portland residents were upset that far right demonstrators came to their liberal left leaning city to cause trouble as far as somebody coming here and getting a group together just to fight al that's mascot a short time after the proud boys and their supporters arrived in the park tensions rose and you could see that the groups of anti-fascist protesters have gathered here underneath this bridge to the other side there cross that green law on the far right and neo-fascist groups have gathered there being kept apart by the police and the hope is that the police presence will keep these 2 sides from engaging in any violence police in riot gear ordered anti fun not to crowd into the streets at one
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point pushing the group back then abruptly the far right crowd beat a hasty retreat the proud boys and their supporters with through across a bridge which police closed off to prevent from pursuing and i think that what we need to do is continue to show that we are going to fight against these ideals of fascism and the nazis as much as it takes president donald trump inserted himself in the affair tweeting that might be named an organization of terror but he. had no criticism of neo fascist or far right groups proud boys leader joe big was pleased by trump's message delivered strong presence from twitter he talked about the city's watch and that's all the morning he wanted missile to be guarding the violence and dueling demonstrations are further evidence of a country deeply divided with a president who exploits those divisions in search of political gains robert oulds
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al jazeera portland thoughts now brian levin director of the center for the study of hate and extremism at california state university he says that is the far right groups like those who marched in portland who pose the biggest threats in the u.s. those of us who were analysts in the national security community yes we have our eye on hard left but bottom line is the biggest most prominent extremist threat facing out of states right now are white supremacist far right and there are others that are percolating up there might very well be some colas small groups on the left but but the bigger risk is from actually loners or small cells and not these groups to begin with but yes if we can find groups for instance like rise above movement does a criminal predicate where or some other groups. possibly so but i'm very i'm very worried that in this highly politicized environment that these laws if it acted
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could be used in a way to violate civil liberties on either the left or the right but the right is the biggest risk right now and that's where the fatalities have been although going forward who knows very volatile political season and we see hate crimes of political violence rise going into these kind of seasons. the operators of a humanitarian rescue ship carrying around 100 migrants have rejected an offer from spain to dock at one of its ports a spokeswoman for the open arms ship says there's an emergency on port constant fights breaking out some people have even tried to swim ashore migrants have been stranded on the ship for 2 weeks now after they were rescued off the coast of libya meanwhile more than $350.00 people are still stranded on a humanitarian rescue boat off the coast of malta the ocean viking vessel is operated by 2 aid groups including doctors without borders but it has not been allowed to dock at ports in italy and malta its passengers were rescued over the past 2 days once again in the waters off libya has some turn in our head of mission
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for libya at doctors without borders and what he had to say about the conditions the migrants are facing our team on board our medical team have conducted over 100 consultations already and they've seen a large number of people with injuries both nonviolent from the time that they were fleeing danger in libya but also violence related injuries where people have been struck with guns or were beaten with sticks. or had hot liquid or on them. it was extremely clear amongst all of these people on board the ocean biking right now is that they have gone through a traumatic experience both during their time in libya and over the course of their time at sea many of them were at sea for days or being rescued by the regime biking and now they've been stuck on board for over a week and are clearly left in limbo without a clue as to what's going to happen next. chad's president has declared a state of emergency in the east of the country after days of ethnic violence
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president idriss deby says the order will stay in place for 3 months in the day and cilla provinces at least 50 people have been killed in fights between cattle herders and farmers in the past 10 days of these 2 people killed and several are injured in toronto rain in india's northern him alone states flooding there is cause landslides in the state of look at a car. it also damaged several roads stranding hundreds of people all at least $270.00 people in india have died from floods and landslides this month and a wildfire in the canary islands has forced at least 2000 people to leave their homes more than 250 firefighters are working to tackle the blaze on gran canaria the regional government says they began on saturday it could spread to at least 6 times the spanish and it was hit by another devastating fire just last week. our plant has been unveiled in iceland to remember the 1st of its 400 glasses to be
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lost to climate change or. used to cover 15 square kilometers of mountainside now barely one square kilometer less than 15 meters deep in 2014 it was officially declared dead but now this memorial bears the inscription of a letter to the future warning that all of iceland's glasses are expected to disappear in the next 200 years. and 2 kayakers have narrowly avoided being killed after a glassy a collapse this is in southern alaska as the moment part of spencer caved in just over a week ago it creates a huge wave across spencer lake since the fleeing as fast as they could but did escape with no injuries even though one was hit in the ribs by a piece of flying ice. now the woodlands of mexico. have received a large urban parks gold or wart remember this is
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a city really polluted the mexican capital it's a sprawling lifeline to nature and to clean air. mexico city's chippie depict park is the largest urban forest in latin america. it's a massive area nearly twice the size of new york city's central park there's a manmade lake zoo there's even an 18th century castle sitting atop a hill one of 8 museums located within the park complex. is the park's administrator and is especially proud of the diversity of attractions the park has to offer the local community he didn't move there is that the thought this park has everything from archaeological ruins to contemporary art we have an entire section devoted to sports and another section focused on conservation and capturing valuable rainwater for the city's awkward for years. one of the park's many hidden gems is
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a quiet reading space nestled among the trees there we met a caretaker here of more than 33 years he says the forest is rich in history but also has a unique effect on its visitors. who sometimes people arrive here emotionally charged but the energy in the forest removes all the negativity and stores it in the earth people all. leave her more peace it's a place of positive energies. this summer the chap with the pick part was awarded the 2900 international large urban parks award a recognition that takes exception to a spaces environmental value to a city. and after all the most important feature of the park is the forest itself the world urban parks association has referred to chapultepec park as a 7 square kilometer green long for mexico city walking among the more than 180000 trees that make up with that big forest it's easy to forget that we're one of the
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biggest and busiest cities in the world. mexico's dry season often means an increase in air pollution made worse by the more than 6000000 motor vehicles that transit the city. there are species of trees here that actually trap contaminants from the air such as volatile how organic compounds which are released when you burn fuel such as gasoline would coal or natural gas these dangerous contaminants are captured by the trees. there is even more good news coming from the world class to depict part mexico's federal government has allocated in additional one and a half kilometers of land to expand the already sprawling urban forest. but up a little under sita mexico city. has time to run into the headlines on al-jazeera hundreds of thousands of antigovernment protesters have marched into the night in hong kong on sunday it is
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one of the city's largest rallies since close to $2000000.00 people gathered back in june demonstrators have kept victoria park near capacity all day that gathering was authorized by police but many also marched without permission through the city and to thomas has been speaking to the protester what's. the number they say it's 1700000 in victoria park where i am in tim how in the suburbs to the east of here and the coolest way back to the west and they say that doesn't include hundreds of thousands that then marched on to admiralty at the central where many many tens of thousands still and now now we have to be a little hill. yes with this number because this number is given by the organizers so it's likely to be on the high side and the place when they release their number later on monday will no doubt have a lower number overall nevertheless the organizers is saying that despite to rent sure right at the beginning of this rally here victoria park and pretty steady rain all throughout the day on sunday the numbers of come to this rally and unauthorized
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march exceed those that they saw in june. the headlines families have been burying the bodies of those killed in a suicide bomb attack on a wedding reception in afghanistan at least 63 people are dead 200 others injured and eisel has claimed responsibility gibraltar's deny the u.s. request to seize an iranian oil tanker that's been held in the british territory for 6 weeks and as we see from these live pictures now it seems the now iranian flag tanker is leaving gibraltar and waters after those 6 weeks being held there israeli forces have killed 3 palestinians that the gaza border and injured another dozens of palestinians protested in the streets of gaza are after the men were killed israel says they were trying to break through the border fence and were fired on by helicopter and a tank in the u.k. is scheduled to leave the you on october 31st but according to government documents leaked to the times newspaper it's likely to face shortages of food fuel and
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medicine if it leaves without a deal the report also says ports could be jammed for up to 3 months and that is you up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera one o one east starts right now. they are the voiceless and vulnerable force to work against they will millions of people are condemned to lives of slavery he didn't in remote areas behind factory walls and in brick kilns where abuse is common it's on advantage of jogging on ventura wanting a calm like you need a gang a dog out of miller now the fight against slavery is going into space we're able to
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say to the local n.g.o.s here is a brick kiln that we believe has all the earmarks of slave labor and $1.00 to $1.00 east explores how technology is giving slavery no way to hide. that. there was more. was done. back. in. the fight against slavery has a new weapon. who. she said she was going to live and that. is a lawyer working for volunteers for
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a social justice or vs j a local n.g.o.s fighting to free families from slavery and set another one if it be that according to cut math over 30 years. the s.j. has freed thousands of people in northern india from slavery. today they going to a raid at taco bricks. the kilns distinctive footprints can be seen clearly from space using station satellite technology. what we can think head of a fiction naif not typical of 50 to kill a cow dr doreen boyd is an associate professor of of ations at the university of nottingham and she points out the telltale signs of slave labor. what we're looking at full. building typically you know
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a family will be living in order to return to where. you can feed the smoke from the chimney that shows the food if you've been active carol and both of labor being use all of you think give us an idea of the perhaps the prevalence of flavor wheat activity bonded labor for example happening in the killing. of the nuts and some of the food there mr. caudle and. i'm going to go into the big concerns is in the 1st 3. years from a covered congress backgrounder human condition we're going to. let you go do you get i do not a diplomatic yeah well but if we're going. to talk on the ground here in the interim or in this new fact that hamas and his wife fled to debbie a bone did work is at the kill there but i've been i've been able to get food from
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other demagoguery and it's a mother never mind about her own. career going to going to grant this is a very. so bring talk about modern slavery kevin bales is one of the world's leading experts on modern slavery whole families are in slave to do this work to. cut the mud make it into bricks and the very dangerous work of firing the bricks as well. i had spent several months in brick kilns and i had worked out very precisely the exact economics of the brick business and particularly the slave based brick business and that was important to understand where were these bricks going how were they were being produced how did slave holders make a profit we still however even after all that we're going to was done had no idea of how many recounts there were where they all were and so forth. he decided to
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fight slavery by joining forces with fellow academics like dr stuart mom i'm an observation specialist so using imagery from all bits around the planet a social scientists came to see us and they say. it's great that we've got this interest you focused on this observation. would you be able to see slavery. and so we said we don't know what the slavery looked like and for us at the stage it was completely new and i showed some satellite images that i had found of slavery spaces i showed them pictures that i had taken on the grounds of people in slavery in those same spaces and begin to say why don't we do at least a pilot test which we did on the sugar bins unesco world heritage site in bangladesh looking at. fish processing camps that use child slaves and in that short pilot we discovered 5 unknown process in camps and here's the
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latitude and longitude you really ought to do something about it. following the success of the pilot study they tend their attention to one of the biggest uses of slave labor in india according to andy slavery international. the reason we thought it with the book it's surely choose to the number of. the number of people that work in the film they tend to be working under forced labor so if we can actually map where these are how people then we could face if we focus on another type of flavor of activity. the slavery from space projects brings together earth observation scientists geographies social scientists engineers and computer specialists they watching 4000 miles from the raid unfolding at the brick kiln. it's
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estimated that up to 23000000 people are held in debt bondage in india and a 3rd of the children working for up to 9 hours a day come under. the toughest. times. chandra gotti has 4 children aged between $9.20 they all work at the brick kiln with her to try and make their minimum quota of bricks. the younger 2 often work at night so they can sometimes go to school during the day to get a better job. in the treasury. there. are some of. the s.j. suspects 14 adults and 10 children are being forced to work as slaves here including tom and his family because i want all of that it is not what i had done i got there but. my god you going a man. takes
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a. lot of that if you got any america are going to talk a little. bit this had a bomb to get on. their mothers. mr reagan a lot of back up out. there. are some of the guys that are going to run the man in red is chandran seeing a jem'hadar contract he brings the labor is from the villages in pradesh to the kilns turn i'm going to get the. job at boncelles that ever we're going to but if anybody but. the taliban can learn again you're going to side you've got to you know it's much harder to be able to go about them going to target to know and you gave me william meaning to come voting. with him. to go to be so it's a legacy i'm talking about we're told by some of the so i'm going to. go
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to the living place today and you solve all our bums questions from last night i'm not there i'm. out of principle with most of. the them i'm not one of those it was not my. son of one of those amazed. at. the part of the company if it was not my shop it's not a new baby. by the minute but i'm going to i'm just been a. brick kiln on is have a legal responsibility to make sure that children go to school instead of working in the kill when they are needed i mean i never thought being a got. ya got that money that i got even got that little bit not me got any and i thought of any of these a serious accusations against the kiln. he finally arrives at the kiln with
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a politician friend of the 1st. woman to come to her. the government runs the network a. recruiter they're going in your brain going to do it and then both of them are not listening the 2nd a 3 minute are darn it. doesn't. tell them about this i've been to their home country morning argues that. they're going to determine better under sadly just very much the. indian national law requires that kiln owners have contracts with their work is that they paid fairly and it records are kept of their payments. they hated b.s.j. seeing wants to make sure the owner of the kiln has he's paperwork in order.
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there are no longer required. of us in the 1. 100 percent of the. vs j brings legal cases against employers who use slave labor and reports them to authorities they try to get certificates from the employers that prove that bonded work is that i don't owe any money. over time. as there. are. no not only didn't pardon just leave. your home it's not. without vs j's intervention chandra bodys family could be enslaved for life when she or her husband dies their children can be compelled to continue the bondage that if i had a. basic i get paid as a detaining. people and that it. will
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be up i think a bit painting out about it by house on the net about it i got what do i need to drag and need to get home but i did get bought a wise one. ensuring their freedom is not that simple the matter still has to be heard in court like. the adults in 10 children ascent to pack their belongings into 2 trucks. with their future uncertain their families are taken to the district courthouse. satellites have long been used to map environmental.

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