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foreign currencies the fact that he said method to receiving money and then he didn't go through the usual sort of official process how significant is that. wealth i mean it's came at a time when the country was going through an economic crisis the country was already going through a shortage of fuel and shortage of flour and what the former president said was that he wanted to use that money to try to get that country to try to get the country out of that crisis he said he was going to try to use it for personal sorry for for public interest and not personal interest but it comes at a quite significant time because again like i said that the country at that time was going through an economic crisis so it's not clear why it did not go through formal channels it's not clear he was not able to explain why it didn't go through the central bank or the ministry of finance like the judge asked these are questions that he asked why did they why was it sent on board a private plane why was it not why through the back to the official channels that people know of and again the president said it was given temp as
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a person and not at the head of state and that is the line that's going to be very hard to draw up to be all right thanks so much to morgan there. some ahead on al-jazeera shutting down streets in the u.k. protests are taking place across the country against the suspension of parliament. rebuilding more so we made the people putting the iraqi city back together piece by piece. for the nomadic jackass tribe survival is about reaching their destination if we don't hurry we'll never be able to get the time focus on the story we follow the mongolian herdsmen on a treacherous migration during the country's dangerous to the ice of them as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life you live with me or sometimes losers leave you there would die of cold or because of the storm risking you don't
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al-jazeera. where ever you are. there watching out 0 time to recap our headlines now protesters in hong kong set up
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. barricades after a violent confrontation with police outside government headquarters protesters threw rocks and petrol bombs with police who responded with tear gas a sudanese judge is formally charged deposed president ahmed bashir with corruption and possession of illicit currency issue of told the call to receive $25000000.00 from saudi crown prince mohammed bin from a man but that he had not used the money for private purposes. let's return to our top story in those protests in hong kong andrus folder is a senior fellow at the university law school asia research institute joins us now from taipei good to have you with us thanks for having me good to have you with us how significant is it that we're seeing this level of protests with this level of violence a day after at least if you follow the government figures 900 people were rounded
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up in a campaign of arrests on friday i think we're witnessing a very dangerous escalation and it must be pointed out. not just to hong kong as our government is to blame actually a central government in beijing that clearly from day one has welcomed an escalation going to broke the story yesterday that chief executive caroline actually offered to fully withdraw the extradition law but she was. told off by the central government so in effect what we're now having is. a local government that is not in charge and worse still what we're witnessing is basically. a city that is being governed by martial law in all but name. so we've seen very worrisome signs reinforced t.l.a.
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garrison. the mainland chinese police is now active in hong kong kind of disguised as one police force and of course there were some other developments have happened as you mentioned like master rats and democrat activists have been beaten by some of the receiving declaration of a defect or like curfew so all of the people who are out and about today seriousness they could all be arrested for unlawful assembly so i think where we are witnessing really a very dangerous escalation right now and. the blame should be put squarely. to the hong kong as our government and the central government in beijing. do you sing the song as he's watching this realizing that the measures they've taken have been words are going to come down even harder sighs you meant to with martial law all will anything comparable towards making concessions and trying to diffuse this
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i think a lot of long term hong kong watchers are actually quite concerned that. this is entirely their tactics to even is kind of image it does been speculation that the whole government may impose emergency regulations ordinance which would if chief executive extraordinary powers she would be able to singlehandedly kind of put this extradition law into effect and. in a way these kind of images as graphic as they are kept in a thing they are for t.v. cameras in a way they play into the hands of the central government. and so there is a real concern that we will see a very harsh crackdown. over this weekend and in a way this crackdown has already begun. the same time
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while all of this is going on of course you have beijing giving its instructions to carry lamb. what's at stake here for beijing is it bigger than simply hong kong a loss of face perhaps a signaling that protests violent protests can be a model for change within wine to china. see what's really at stake here is one country 2 systems has ended it's basically history and so we have now from a transition. toward one country one system and what that means is that a challenge to the hong kong as our government is. a direct challenge to the central government and i think everyone understands what that means and i said from the outset that this is indeed a challenge to central government and it has in the case for mainland china and i think this the underlines the danger that. the top leadership may now come
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down or may have already made the decision to crack down on the pro-democracy movement and i think. of course that would be a grave mistake because that would lead them to a situation not like sally like a man $2.00 but it would most likely to a situation as we've seen in northern ireland for example of a very protective protracted and long term kind of been a struggle against outside. all right thank you so much andreas food and. protests are taking place across the u.k. of a prime minister barak's johnson's move to suspend parliament just weeks before the break deadline at the baba has more from london. there is a large crowd a concordia a precise figure but thousands of people here on white hole near downing street and it is very noisy good natured but noisy and it's
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a lot noisier than the marches that we've seen over the last few months in the last year from the remaining camp of people calling for a people's vote a 2nd referendum the emphasis here is that boris johnson in the protestors opinion is acting illegally in as you were saying trying to shut down parliament there are other protests happening in the major cities of the u.k. on saturday but over the next week as well dozens of demonstrations are being primed in the really does tell you about the strength of feeling that there is it's not just remain group c. we've got left wing grassroots groups we've got environmental campaigners and a whole host of groups as you say some of them just helping to march and to rally others calling for civil disobedience they're not really giving that their tactics away right now but i think you can expect a lot more of this kind of street action in the days to come. in india nearly
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2000000 people have been excluded from a citizen's register and could be left staying close as a result they'll have to prove they're not foreigners or face detention the national register of citizens was created in 93 to determine who came to the state rather before neighboring bangladesh declared independence from. reports. some state. more than 1900000 people have been left out of a science updated finally rich history of citizens that means they will now have to appeal to foreigners tribunals with evidence to prove that they are indian the decision on citizenship will be decided by foreigners tribunals the of course have the right to appeal it high court and supreme court but it is expected to be a long legal process the government says about $200.00 foreigners tribe you know will start operating the coming few days and that number could increase to up to 1000 additional staff have also been appointed they're also promising legal aid for
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vulnerable and marginalized communities of different villages and towns office but it's a mammoth process and this n.r.c. list seems to be just the beginning of what is likely to be a long drawn out legal process deciding citizenship of these more than 1900000000 people senior b.g.p. minister ahead of the draft ahead of the list being published has already voiced concerns about the fate of genuine citizens who might be left out and they are saying that they want to make sure that indians are not left out of the final list and they have also promised support to all these people who might appear in foreigners tribunals amnesty international meanwhile has come up with a statement voicing concerns about reports about decisions of foreigners tribunals that they have heard are. biased as well as discriminatory. on exploded bomb. just one of the problems in rebuilding northern iraq the battle to
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evict fighters from the south the caliphate 2 years ago left the city in ruins some iraqis are returning to rebuild but it's going to be a slow and expensive task star reports. in this market. mind of the importance of perseverance after defeating eisel these blacksmiths in mosul the city living there centuries old profession. took out loans to rebuild his shop. i came back for the love of my city and my people and i wanted to carry on my forefathers profession. as people return children in this neighborhood spend their summer at the center and escape from the destruction around them. and also a chance to catch up on education they missed underwrite. aid agencies are helping thousands of people to get identity papers and other important documents lost
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during the war with the group but going through the bureaucratic system and tightened security means it can take up to 6 months to get an identity card and death certificates property ownership papers and compensation is even more complicated. unfortunately still suffering we have money problems like electricity and water health care and other basic services including paved roads. it's been 2 years since iraqi forces took back mosul from isis and reintegrating close to half a 1000000 people is a major challenge. there are many reasons hindering the return to mosul this includes social political and security as well as economic reasons there are areas that need services for instance we have coordinated with international actors for help we are also planning to create job opportunities. not everyone can afford to rebuild and getting help different easy. a u.n. estimate puts the yearly cost of rebuilding mosul at $1800000000.00 it's hard to
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imagine how people will come back to destruction like this many try to come back and rebuild their lives but they had to return because there was nothing there for a while he left the refugee camp but after house raids and inability to afford essential she returned to her tent her son was a nicely fighter now she says the shia militias aren't much different she's bitter about being considered a criminal by association when she had no other choice and derisive rule but to accept their tyranny. there is no integration they consider as an infectious disease we had nothing to do with all of this it was a calamity which affected all muslims in our area or the children women are left now the men are gone most of them are either in detention centers under the rubble we are considered to live in that. people here say it will take a lot of effort to rebuild mosul and they need international help as well for some it's too much but others say they're here to stay and build
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a new future. mosul in bolivia volunteer veterinarians are doing everything they can to save animals trapped by wildfires huge areas of tropical forests are being destroyed as are latin america editor and senior reports. a team of polygamy in veterinarians traveled to the reserve forest fires have been raging for weeks. their mission is to try to rescue wild animals which may have been injured. this was the scene the previous night the fire destroyed everything in its path. but a few animals were saved like this 2 day old wild pig whose mother died in the fire . the nature is extraordinary the way the allows these creatures to adapt in the face of danger and stress and find refuge in ormoc dillo with burnt eyes
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a hawk recovering from smoke inhalation along with a boa constrictor they're all receiving treatment at the shelter. today the rescue is hope to find more survivors riding in the direction of the huge black mushroom of smoke which indicates sometimes when there's a fire and we can tell because of the large number of butterflies that are flying away. this area has already burned to the ground and there's no sign of life. spokes around a serpent hole if it's deep enough he says the snakes may have survived. if you can see this is apocalyptic there's nothing left these are part of the world's lungs now it's nature that's disappearing next it will be us this is no sign of firefighters here as you can see the wind here is absolutely fierce and it's fanning the flames again in this direction the plan is to bring a super tanker helicopter here in the next couple of days to leave water for the
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animals that have survived but that helicopter is also needed to put out the fires to save human life. the fire remains out of control a thick layer of smoke and ash fills the air making the sun look red. it's too dangerous to stay on the 2 nerine's are upset that they couldn't save a single animal i mean when i feel impotent because people are and seen how the amazon is burning and he was a burning alive and no one is doing anything. while much of the world focuses on the fires raging in the brazilian amazon the devastation here in neighboring bolivia is receiving far less attention. even though assistance is desperately needed not. just to put out the fires but to regenerate this fragile and diverse eco system so that what has survived will still be able to live here you see in human as just in the tropical forest believe.
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let's take you through some of the headlines here now just over the last couple of hours in hong kong violence has broken out in the central district where protesters have been surrounding the government headquarters protesters threw rocks and petrol bombs at police who responded with tear gas and water cannon street battle has been unfolding next to the main barracks of the chinese military in the city so a clock is the latest. i am where the protests are being chased so you might be able to see behind me the right place just charge those protesters who were hiding behind that fire those barricades that was lit by the pencil bomb so we've now got the water cannons have moved in and all the right place have have charged these protests is boring but i don't know what it was or something was a tear gas but they were firing and charging and running so we've seen thousands of protests behind me fully that way and all the police bands are now moving in as
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well as of course all the press is following behind the police. and the judge is formally charged deposed president ahmed bashir with corruption and possession of illicit currency the sheer told the court he received $25000000.00 from saudi crown prince mohammed bin for that he had not used the money for private purposes lawyer says his client denies all charges against him. in india nearly 2000000 people have been excluded from a citizens' register and are some and could be life stateless is the result they'll have to prove they're not foreigners or face detention a national register of citizens was created in 1951 to determine who came to the state before neighboring bangladesh declared independence from pakistan are some state is now on high alert with extra security forces being deployed bows are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after one on one east stay with us.
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it was supposed to be a new dawn for afghan women. play was often easy being terrorized by the taliban they celebrate so it will be us overthrew the brutal regime. we will not tire. we will not fail. but after 18 louise and teens of thousands of casualties the war rages on. the taliban insurgency is stronger than ever. in a the american people are weary of war without victory
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place desperate to withdraw its troops the u.s. is now negotiating a peace deal that could see the group's return to power along with its violent repression of women because saudi king will create hadley as the people who have signed the death sentence of many women and i have no expectations of the. one on one east in vista gates if afghan women who pay the price for peace they war torn country illegally. players. play. money on the announcement was played out on the back of that i'm not proud of the profit.
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that played driving with a high though the cobbles traffic can be stressful. mostly the motion rests unique. to. lead the side never. committed to exactly legal but then this is the. risk of the sound of them up on the sands not. between. their lives to produce the. facts to sit. out in these congested roads like never fails to cause the same it might be the christic the
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human origin might be that you really see women driving. especially one that scuffle how do people react when they see you drive it's not as though i was on the run toys for. the mother not to have it is said to me. but. when it comes to a farce layla is not one to back down to her driving isn't just a convenience in afghanistan it's an act of defiance and go away and then you've got. them the bane of will probably because in the u.k. the good news or the among the main opponents doesn't beginning from the cutting spending. but it's not just these streets that have made life a little tough for taking the lead she has worked on the frontlines of an epidemic that's a bold enough to take on. driving around looking for drug addicts on the streets of
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kabul so that labor can take them back to a rehab center it's pretty dangerous work but she does it all the time. crowd. at the limo that campaign. under a bridge in broad daylight we spot dozens abuses. in decay. have all of us. modem by small arms and that's going to be ok.
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because more to. come out is. one of the main season's filming and starts throwing rocks. but layla pushes on. the saw and that is it was. suddenly she spots a young man she's already treated several times. but it was for the blood of all of them now with. this work is not for the make but enough gonna stand a woman doing this job is so offensive to some that people have attempted to kill
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her she had to follow the whole of 2 men who broke into her home and tried to strangle her in her sleep. another time she was attacked in what she thought was a taxi because i was just i want to show what i'm told that i'm out of i got it on monday. the people in the back pulled a scarf around my neck and strangled me i thought i was finished the driver took a weapon from the glove compartment and said if you don't stop your work it's this easy for us to kill you. but didn't stop in fact she doubled down. as my has taken on the honor society expects me to stay at home have children be a good host and no man should hear my voice. i have just one life and i don't want to live the way society wants. it's a choice she wouldn't have had 18 years ago when the taliban ruled afghanistan.
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under its regime women were not seen or heard. they were forced to raise a bhutto and look back and from stints in jobs and if they broke these rules they will feel old and sometimes executed was in the gift was it we've gambled with our lives minute by minute. because we want women to have a place in society. to show them how much things have changed. and a lot of new friends take me to a place so to be it was completely banned by the taliban. it's a bowling alley. not exactly the hotbed of vice i was expecting. but not that long ago all of us would have been publicly flogged just being paid. to do something like this 18 years ago and probably not we're going to send it ali
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khamenei didn't get. one shot or not will not enough if we should not have it that any look now at the moment should be at the scene. and they tell me the. that's not the only change was the design on the job. for to keep. it still so that was the time of that donnish go. on with the business make money on it. but now women fear that these freedoms may not last for much longer. room is a rife that the taliban could come back into government as part of the deal negotiated with the us. the taliban think it's. more of a you should make sure the movie's title was. there
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as an afghan i'm shocked that the americans introduce democracy human rights and women's rights to us and encouraged us to defend them but they're telling us that now the taliban is legit how has the taliban changed was all this talk of human rights women's rights democracy was a just a game. is not the only one outraged by these peace talks under the hash tag my red line women the taking to social media to defend their rights on eggs on our farm cut this off a has to hash out i think. money got them money academy got. cut the subcommand also idea by animals but money at their athletes musicians market it's all coming together to make it clear that big freedom isn't up for negotiation but in a country so scalloped by a women's rights
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a luxury that only affluent afghans can afford to care about battle buddy agency as if cut the so come. to find out i head to the northern province of. down on. the mound. is a much smaller. there are definitely no bowling alleys here and in public at least many women still wear the blue collar. can. you come here to meet. the crushing her isn't easy.
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to. play with. right now she's juggling 17 cases defending women who have fled abusive families and forced marriages. that i was making up of. a lot of them. but what that water is the one that was. i guess that was most remeasure was are they going that are they go there with that would you wash it. works for an ngo called women for afghan women which run secret shelters. close on one cause if only most of the cases we have are connected to domestic violence and family issues women want the relatives who have abused them to be punished that are not met i mean that you know that we don't get as. many here fear for their lives for their protection we change their names. to us that's not for girls you must not
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get out of the market that is in there which. today nigeria's meeting with her client fatah maher and her husband. fatah must says her husband is violent and that his uncle sexually harassed her accusations he denies quote my younger son missing his honest youngest son would do something serious stuff sure my family got little in the last hour america yeah because you are going to make me go that is like you know what i mean and i want government. has tried to leave him before none of the more that's very much and i mean felt so numb you're maybe you're not maybe i can my young what i'm about to jump we can all meet in the. good arias ya gotta be home soon we're going to resign if i make or not. i make any money on me. i'm a little made of that. despite knowledge is best efforts this meeting is going
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nowhere not it was a guy myself nothing on me does that has learned i was out of well about a 1000000 only need. something you have all you need. you most of them up and as a. new story so. how can i say in order to us all to go. but. husband says he will never agree to a separation she'll have to take him to. the worker is the most no one knows. him if i got the asylum autonomic. but it's her 3 children that fossil is worried about under afghan law she lose custody if she leaves.
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government. only god. knows her client is in a desperate situation. she also knows it could be much worse. on what these women that we help now as defense attorneys they would never have been able to raise their voice under the taliban. and not just says she'll never forget what life was like under the brutal regime she was only 12 when taliban fighters seized his city afghan leader we want allowed to go outside without a male guardian girls aged from 12 or 13 you had to wear the school and college was forbidden for girls. under the taliban we were in conflict darkness we didn't know about women's rights that they could separate from their husbands or punish the
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people who are violent towards a. world. where mothers are. doing what. is it. now has a daughter of her own and another baby on the way she says this is why she and so many women are worried that the taliban may come back into power. i was just a child and it was so traumatic i don't want my children to go through this so i'm fighting for my kids for their future and for the future of this country. right now one of her most pressing cases. especially the. which i think. she has run away from her father and a forced marriage it's up to 9 to protect to use in the law.
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he cocked his gun and put it against my head and said why don't you want to marry him you have to marry him. there were tiles on the kitchen floor he grabbed me by the hair and banged my head against the floor again and again then he locked me in and my older brother came and he hit me in the eye and it became swollen then he punched me in my mouth and broke 6 of my teeth they were in pieces. not just says yasmin is fortunate that she could reach the shelter that's not always possible. in areas controlled by the taliban are you able to help women who. may be suffering from violence that we cannot to help them because we don't know about the wireless to hear what's going on do it look like everything's ok there looks like an activist because did the woman doesn't have the right don't have the
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right to raise. so when a bit if you don't here's something so how can you help. today roughly house of afghanistan is under the taliban's control. we don't know how they're treating women in these areas because it's too dangerous for us to go. but a confidential source close to the taliban said he could help us investigate. after days of careful planning he was able to film this extraordinary footage and smuggle it to us through government checkpoints. it's from a district in gaston province which fell to the taliban music i. am very. generous enough to even try to give another journalist for you. because. here we see finds his carrying a k
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47 it's an r.p.g. it's parading through the district. and you know. we hear from taliban judges running different courts. what we don't see is any footage of a single woman. one could say that understand this it's on this planet so what will you be i don't know. the spokesman months who gets nabil tells us the girls in the area are allowed to go to school. we do. you have female madrassas in our district but they have to wear that he job even in the future when we're in government will allow them to go to school according to sharia law. this might sound like progress until you dig a little deeper. but should i know that sharia law only allows women to wear the
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full her job and to always be accompanied by a male relative because in the koran it says that women should stay at home and if they have to go out they should be with a male relative. morphy to our contact chris's him to be more specific asking will women have the right to work to study and marry whoever they want to. do or this well i can't answer this question. but we tried down a young woman cannot so. i want to go to my avi is totally controlled by the telly but. they forced young girls into marriage they burnt down the school there was a medical clinic but they burnt that down too. at 1st masuda says girls still try to go to school but it didn't last long. the taliban came to
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my school and took a girl out and shot her because she liked a boy she was bleeding all over her body we all screamed and ran away. there was forced to marry when she was just 12 she says her husband beat her and her father in law demanded sex she's now in hiding but insurgents in her area have ordered her to come back when i drive out the long again tomorrow about on the bellybutton see if they'll control all of afghanistan soon anyway then execute. they are calling me from my mom's phone she's begging me to come back she says if you love me you should come back if i go back they'll kill me if i don't they'll kill my family. throughout the peace talks with the u.s. the taliban has insisted that it has changed and that it will uphold women's rights
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. but these videos taken in areas under their control tell a different story. in this 40 taliban fighters are shown executing a woman accused of adultery. these women were gunned down in the dead of night on a dirt road because the taliban thought they were prostitutes. and this video from earlier this year shows a woman being publicly lashed for singing and dancing. even if they have changed surely even if you believe them for what they say it's very unlikely that a truly impose what they say on the 4 soldiers in afghanistan. politician fozia
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koofi is one of the few afghan women to meet the taliban face to face during the peace negotiations held in russia and qatar speaking at a moscow in a 5 star hotel is much more easier than actually practicing it in afghanistan in the rural villages through you are full soldiers who are not educated what they have heard 2 years of fighting is hate towards woman hate towards society killing murder how do you change perspectives but saves her harshest criticism for the u.s. which she says has failed to follow through on the wall that it began the west came to afghanistan not just because they wanted to save us they came to afghanistan after the 911 attack happened to me york so they actually came to afghanistan partly to save their own sites from terroristic attacks now because the americans want to leave we just ignore the woman.
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it's a question u.s. government cannot answer and they did not agree to speak to us. what is clear is that after the death of tens of thousands of people many view a peace deal with the taliban as a stunning betrayal. on all those american and nato soldiers who have been killed they weren't fighting me i didn't kill them they were fighting the taliban the same taliban that you're now going to bring back into power. is the face of who country and its women has never been more than. she also has a warning for the west. side now that i own the car. if american politicians can play with the future of afghan women like this. then they can make
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the same deal for their own women it's possible so american women need to stay vigilant because their politicians can trade away their freedom to. my last day with her layla takes me to a place she often visits on the outskirts of kabul. past the casimir. enjoys a cat has has new clothes out of india. when it came to had their commission and. she says like most afghans she's desperate for peace. but not at any cost. when i'm home by choice of hard hours no i don't want my children to ask me what did you do when the taliban came. i can't tell them that i ran away. this is not peace but not for me or for any woman.
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heather that wanted to. america but you will hear we've got quite a mass of clouds his way into southern sections of brazil this is very with it. fairly widespread also what it will do behind the system and cool. down of the next
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couple days this on sunday the rain pushing into 22 and a little bit cool in an area with a high of 27 degrees celsius that we had been across into the cab in a very closely on base it is hearken dorian this is a major hurricane right now it is category 4 and that means we will sustain winds of 225 kilometers an hour gusting at over 260 now it is very close the bahamas there is a in place for this storm and it will produce some terrific amounts of rainfall but also with winds as strong. as catastrophic damage so the really could be widespread damage across the bahamas even if it doesn't directly but we're looking at rain accumulations over the next 3 days of around $400.00 millimeters and in 5 days because it's quite a slave moving storm we could see nearly a meter of rainfall but as this system will keep a very close eye on. he was
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illegal use of. nearly 2000000 people who call india home are denied citizenship raising fears of statelessness. message to stop what they're calling a coup protests in london against boris johnson's move to suspend parliament before the break that deadline. and i'll have english premier league and tennis news for you plus lewis hamilton faces a race to be ready for qualifying after hitting the wall in belgium. now in the past couple of hours there's been violence in the hong kong central district where protesters have been surrounding government headquarters demonstrators threw rocks and petrol bombs at police who responded with tear gas. and water cannon street battle unfolded next to the main barracks of the chinese
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military in the city is the 13th straight weekend of mass protests in hong kong. where in hey has more. said today started out very peacefully we had big numbers taking to the streets of hong kong defying a police ban with many many people marching around different parts of the city in protest but then things have taken a significant turn for the worse late on saturday afternoon protesters surrounded the legislative council building effectively hong kong's parliament engaged in a battle with the riot police there many rounds of tear gas being fired by the riot police also water cannon being used on the protesters then the protesters moved a short distance away to where we are here we are very close to the police headquarters of hong kong we saw some protesters throwing molotov cocktails into the compound of the police headquarters and here they have blocked an intersection
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which is a familiar tactic. but this is certainly not familiar they have set fire to the barricade that they have erected and it is now a huge blaze still thousands of protesters on the other side of this barricade like i say this started out very peacefully like we have seen in the past but it is descended into something that we have not seen before or it is take you now to some live pictures from hong kong where protesters are still out on the streets several kilometers away from police headquarters and you can see the police here they're holding banners telling people to disperse all the banners says we will fire. let's bring in sara clark she's following all of these developments for us live from hong kong a chilling warning we can see it there disperse or will file. what are police referring to. what we are. what we are right here on that front line of that to
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say that sign has now gone down where we are which means they are about to fire now you can see from our direction are not in front of that shop because the place of told us to stand back so i'm hiding in a shopping area like an entrance right in front of this place is a couple of 105th place standing here on the other side in front of them the protesters now this is where the protesters have dispersed to you might be able to see them the down the end and what they've been doing is they've been charging on the police using petrol bombs and throwing bricks at the place in the place have moved in and earlier we saw them charging run at those protesters firing rubber bullets and now they're about to they look like they're about to say team and fire more rounds of tear gassed up behind them you'll see 2 of the water cannons with the trucks and with the port cannons on top that's what they've been using earlier at government headquarters using blue dye and that's quite a powerful force to try and disperse or move these protesters back it's been about 3 hours or so to take them to get to here and we're only
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a couple of kilometers away where they all gathered in central but this is a long and slow process and neither side is showing any any sign of retreat so just to clarify those where when they talk about will fire the furring to rubber bullets to tear gas or something morman us. ok well there but they're using but if they're using rubber bullets and they're using tear gas at the moment they've got their guns with the tear gas or the calluses pulled up and ready to fire they do have a dispersal method that put a warning sign up and then they put you need to disperse the 2nd one is we will use force and the 3rd time is when they do use force i have used rubber put some they've used rounds of beanbag bullets or grenades i should sign. but certainly several rounds of tear gas which is being affected to kill the back as far as this but again it's been about 3 and a half hours so the process is slow and as we mentioned earlier it's a cap mouse they fling that they're going to court it was one shopping center where they ran into the shopping center and that's a shopping center was barricaded off so this certainly this part but we saw before
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the protesters run and charge the police and again as i mentioned that was using a picture of bombs that each particular like they've been creating fires putting fire on those barricades to try and separate themselves from where those police are so about 9 o'clock at night then hours in this area how much the protest is left out on the streets now facing that throng of riot police we can see. well as far as i can see where we are there's another fire down here which is just getting started and lots are probably a couple of 1000 as opposed to the several tens of thousands we saw earlier but there are different techniques being used tonight and when i said that these petrol bombs were just starting fires behind these barricades it's certainly creating a barrier to keep the protests is the site for some time but not when they the water cannons move in so those water cannons are being used to not only disperse
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the crowd they've also been used to put out those fires are being lit by those picture bombs. so. if you can can you just ask the camera to hand we would love to see that far you're referring to and just get a feel for the intensity of the moment there right now. i can tell you the cameraman his paul if he could try and get the fire it's down down the end i'm not sure what you can see beyond these bus signs here but it's down on it on a corner we want to mind for our face so you go which is on my left that's a big department store it's a bit further down there once you get to barricades and this is also what police are hoping to move in to put that. far out as you can see they're now moving in and this is this is not the time to get straight to him and clear and yet make sure to say he's. right up $100.00 will follow them so.
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we up will follow them through behind them but as you can see this is they are moving or not so. with high speed by arcane to get these protesters out and behind where the protesters are that's victoria park so we've moved a fair amount of ground from central down into times square in victoria park but this is this is assuming where they're hoping to move them out from it's a big park area where they could disperse but certainly they're using their escalating their tactics to not to try to move the protesters out from central hong kong does it look to you sara i'm trying to figure out from the pictures i'm looking at this it looks like the demonstration the standing their ground there. and i lost you know i'm told as well as here i mean the protesters have fled or whether they're standing their ground and heading into a head on have clashed with the police now they are flamed i am moving back. now
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they were that were here right where i'm standing now they're moving back to also dispersed in the street facade me so they dispersing in a number of just different directions but it doesn't mean that especially all together they certainly just regrouping and so on we regrouping and moving to different spots because the water cannons coming in as you can see here. and that's the last the place telling us to move out but in the for if it is pretty effective it is pretty effective by moving. them into an area called times square which is directly in front of where the camera is. and they are playing to have it used to just now bus no doubt they will these sorts of scenes. sometimes remind one of a situation where you have emergency rule developing how much concern is there the values while perhaps hong kong is heading towards.
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well certainly that issue has been rise this week that those emergency rules could be put in place i seem to miss the tactics they using tonight is trying to avoid that by using heavy tactics in removing these protesters by force and that is again using these different levels of different weapons but at this stage the emergency rules haven't been but by kerry lamb but having said that we've got tomorrow the is the fire you mentioned we saw really another smaller fire but again one of the tactics used by other protesters to try and protect themselves the city set up a barricade between themselves and the place but i think i mentioned earlier about the airport strike which will be able to start the airports protest tomorrow if it does get to another stage where the airport has to be closed the government will be very angry because the last time the airport was closed was parts for 3 days and thousands of aircraft were blocked from entering and from from departing hong kong disrupting the travel for thousands tens of thousands of passengers so that will cause economic disruption it will no doubt anger the government and carry lamb and
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therefore we could go down the path of those emergency rules and laws being invite so another thing perhaps you can help me with here you know all day we've been seeing the police whenever they move or charge i can't figure out if they're actually making any arrests though we saw them using the wall to die tomorrow people assume with me for arrest have you been able to see whether they are making arrests and trying to pick up some of the organizers of the protest movement yes. we've seen a number of arrests rests on the why they moved in a couple of times and actually taken in the protesters from in the crowd and removed them and arrested them so whether or not i don't know what they'll be charged with been. certainly a number of arrests on this particular street and where we are is in tennessee right anyone who knows hong kong it's a very busy thoroughfare we've had 33 or 44 to 6 lines being blocked off in various parts of the city so the police there frustrations are growing they're getting
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impatient the arrests being made and as we can see from behind me they're moving into trying to specify further to the east of hong kong island and then as some of the organizers get arrested how are demonstrators responding to that situation do they have any sort of. backup plan in place to make sure they can continue to organize themselves of key figures are taken out. so i think i've got the 2nd part of that question sami what are the tactics a changing every weekend i think over the past 13 weeks we've seen a different strategies used tonight it's the same kind of tactics we've seen in recent weeks from the protesters side when outside that gather walk march and march but it's a legal what's been declared legal by the place and then disperse and play cat and mouse games around hong kong when it comes to tomorrow and early next week the general strikes and targeting the airport there are different tactics certainly
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looking at the financial economic disruption trying to stifle a city that's a busy busy center when it comes to being a thoroughfare through to europe through to a number of countries at the airport by the busiest in the world so by targeting that it's a different wire a different tactic trying to kind of get that message through to the government sara bear with me for a moment i think it might be a good idea just to update viewers what's happening on the right side of the screen there we've got police they seem to have formed made a formation again moments ago we saw them charged towards the protesters and the other a little further down on that street who had camped out there after an early campout outside the legislative building they moved. away from the legislative building after throwing rocks molotov cocktails there police. chase them out of there they moved here they've camped out here they made makeshift barricades set fire to them and now we've just seen moments ago police try and
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charge them in this 1st them that's what we're looking at all right let's thank you sarah clarke for bringing coverage there clearly we need to come back and check in with you later on. and so that the judge is formally charged deposed president obama will bashir with corruption and the illegal use of foreign funds bashir told the court he received $25000000.00 from saudi crown prince mohammed bin sandman but he had not used the money for private purposes sudan has embarked on a transition to civilian rule following a power sharing deal agreed between protest leaders and the generals who ousted bashir let's look at how bashir got to this point demonstrations big.

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