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at least 2 people were killed and 200 injured in iraq as police and hundreds protesting against the government. a political standoff in peru the opposition refuses to leave congress after the president loses its closure. and scientists say possible glassy on the italian side of most blome could be days from collapsing on to a value. china's day of celebration has descended into violence in hong kong with tens of thousands of anti-government protests clashing with riot police as mainland china marks 70 years of communist rule a teenage demonstrator was shot at close range by police in hong kong leaving him in a critical condition it is the 1st injury from a live round in. nearly 4 months of protests across the territory pro-democracy
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organizers say despite a protest by at least 100000 people most of what they are describing as a day of grief this as beijing showed off its military might in a jubilant parades with $15000.00 servicemen and advanced weaponry will have more gas in a moment but 1st adrian brown reports from hong kong the police would warn the choose day would be very dangerous it was the pitched battles carried on into the night with protesters defying repeated police warnings for people to stay off the streets even diners ignored the call though. this clash spread from one side of hong kong island to the other and then back again. police a day earlier banned all marches but people still took to the streets not to celebrate 70 years of chinese communism but to mourn it but everyone down commented
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they were may have loved cats tomorrow this is an illegal notch does are you all or will we all know there were more than a 100 arrests some of the most intense violence was on the other side of the harder in cow loons. a much watched video on social media appears to show a policeman shooting a young protester in the chest with a pistol the hong kong police force say it was in self-defense but this was the 1st time someone had been wounded from a police bullet since the protests began almost 4 months ago by quite. a large group of protesters were attacking police officers despite warnings from the police the assailant still continued the violent attacks the police officers lives were under serious threat to save his own life and his colleagues lives he fired a live shot at the assailant here we must again warn all rioters must stop all illegal acts police will continue to enforce the law seriously the anger of recent
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weeks had been building up to this day the most important date in china's political calendar this year many train stations and shopping malls were closed in the security clampdown just a few months ago hong kong was regarded as one of asia's most law abiding cities a model of good governance now all of that has been turned on its head with the police left to solve what is effectively a political problem these pro-choice in a protest is also see themselves as defenders of hong kong. today's the 70 birthday of our model and i wish madeleine to have prosperity hong kong to have peace people to be happy national day celebrations here were low key this year the annual flag raising ceremony was held in a secure area well away from the protests which model what was never going to be a day of celebration adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. well i was of course
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a very different picture on mainland china is it not 70 years since the communist party power and the people's republic of china was formed and reports from beijing . aircraft thunder through the skies above beijing armored vehicles rumble through chan in the square a display of china's military strength as president xi jinping calls for economic and political confidence and sends a message to hong kong. we have to maintain their peaceful united one country to assist them. to keep hong kong and macau is a long term prosperity and stability 70 years ago when john and square communist party chairman mao tse dong announced the founding of the people's republic of china. in the following 27 years mao so-called great leap forward plan to boost farming and industrial production led to famine and the deaths of an estimated
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30000000 people his cultural revolution clamped down dissent a year after mao's death in 1986 new leader dense helping declared china would open up internally and to the outside world. the china of today bears little resemblance to the china of chairman mao the new middle class is getting wealthier and the country's transformed itself into an economic global power but one of the central messages of the celebrations today seems to be a cautionary one yes we should acknowledge what china has achieved so far but there could be tough times ahead. for president xi as centralizing and strengthening control in beijing some of the president's political rivals have been swept up in his crackdown on corruption as well as the ongoing protests in hong kong and allegations linked to human rights the trade war with the us is forcing china's economy to slow and this is a not
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a adversary of high expectations that is going to be very glorious in the near future it's an anniversary in which we look back on what china has been able to attain and we talk about a new era of sacrifices and struggle in 198911 squares all bloodshed when pro-democracy demonstrators stood up against tanks in 2019 china is determined to show that its military is stronger than ever but the success of president xi jinping his leadership may depend on how he handles china's newfound respect or to rob matheson algis in beijing. at least 2 people have been killed and more than 200 injured in a roll call for anti-government protests turned violent well then a 1000 people marched in times square in the center of baghdad many of them students angry at
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a lack of opportunity as the situation deteriorated it only seems live ammunition stun grenades and tear gas dozens of the injured all members of iraq's security forces in the process also took. control has more now from i think. of it started beginning around about lunch time here in baghdad when there was a very small protest that took place in tahrir square it was very quickly dispersed by iraq's security forces however there was then a call made on social media for more people to come to the square around 6 o'clock people started gathering and the numbers became bigger and bigger what we're hearing is there were thousands of people out on the street there's no official figures actually to say how many people there were but what we did see was very quickly an escalation of violence the police pushed back the protesters as they tried to march on a bridge to go into the former green zone which is where still a lot of the foreign embassies based they were pushed back and then what was
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happening is they were moved into different parts of central baghdad and they were pitched battles between the police and the protesters the police used life they used rubber coated steel bullets they used water tanks cannons to come and try to disperse the crowd and it's it was only going for a while now it's got a lot of people in the government very worried about it one of the most influential shia clerics tweeted saying the government must look into exactly what went on them how these events unfolded and he he's also very interesting because his. party is a crucial part of the government so he's effectively asking the government to investigate itself now we are hearing that there is concern about these protests spreading it wasn't just in baghdad it was in nasiriyah and it was in not just as well in the south so what people are very concerned about to be in the government is that these protests may develop into
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a nationwide movement now on the social media people been sharing the videos from the scene itself it is clear that the violence was significant certainly more significant than we've seen in a few years here in baghdad what happens next remains to be seen but there are calls already well more people to come out on the streets in the coming days tens of thousands of jordanian teachers have defined a government call to end their 4 week strike of pay the education ministry has threatened to sanction those who continue to stay in their jobs the government off the teachers a pay rise on tuesday but it falls far short of the 50 percent salary increase the odds of holding a deepening crisis is threatening to further strain a country's heavily indebted finances. cinesias court of appeal has rejected a request to release the presidential candidate not built from detention he's been charged with money laundering and tax evasion the court says any release is pending
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on the outcome of the verdicts the 56 year old came 2nd in the 1st round of the presidential election last month. are not to be released before the next version of day planned for asserting that cruz police and military chiefs say they still support martin this car as president despite the opposition controlled congress voting to suspend him from office his current dissolved congress on monday and the building is now being guarded by police after it defied the order they continued to sit symbolically swearing in his vice president as the nation's leader right wing opposition has a long standing feud with conor oberst attempts to tackle corruption but he does still have widespread public support. you get to know that the winners here are the people not of his camera the people and the people who've been looting for the complex to close alfred his cat is a courageous man and that's why we support him. or 4 of peru's
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most recent presidents have been embroiled in corruption inquiries involving the brazilian construction giant odebrecht the daughter of the disgraced former president alberto fujimori is leader of the opposition majority party in the now dismissed congress keiko fujimori is currently in prison awaiting trial after being accused of accepting $1200000.00 in elicit electoral funding from order breaks his car has accused the opposition of trying to use congress and the courts to shield themselves from ongoing criminal investigations freeze judicial system is notoriously corrupt with judges chordal wiretaps the go sheeting deals on sentences for serious crimes by a such as has more now from the peruvian capital lemur. well there's a lot of police here in the area of the congress which is behind me blocking all entrance to it the situation right now is of much uncertainty bizarre she says the least now peru has 2 presidents one sworn in vice president but has hurdles
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sworn in as the new interim president for 12 months. for the presidency was declared vacant after legislators filed a motion last night and right after that approved a vacancy for moral incapacity without a trial without an impeachment so there's a lot of questions about the legality of this move on the other hand this president mapping discover at the presidential palace he swore in the new prime minister he received the visit of the top military who issued a communique saying that the legal precedent of peru is nothing discover and for a president who doesn't have a party in congress he has received his views the support of thousands of peruvians who has been marching not only since last night but throughout the last few months demanding that president bush who discovers the soul of congress because many people associate congress with corruption. or i still had the program u.s.
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secretary of state mike pump a 0 on the leaders of 3 house committees accuse each other of intimidation if the impeachment inquiry. and hope fades to 6 people still missing after a bridge collapses in taiwan. hello there plenty of nice sunshine across southern regions of year of a good start unfortunately to the central and northern areas it is much more of what we have seen over the last a few days slightly for the end of september but look at the sunny skies this is how kitty key in greece glorious these guys glorious will. and you should have more of that over the next couple days now there is some rain on the way wednesday
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sitting across the central regions and actually work its way across central and southern areas of italy as well ahead of this pond a rainy warm air in place so 23 if you're in here on wednesday much colder in london just 13 degrees celsius and that is out into thursday we got this line of cavity sitting from greece scotland right the way down into southern sections of spain so cloudy not particularly wet there is a system trying to do its best to push into the northwest and then this is where we'll see this rain working its way further eastwards and actually eventually pushing across into much of greece now as the system works its way across the central regions of europe we could just see one or 2 rain showers just clipping these coastal areas of algeria on into tunis he said temperatures a little bit lower still warm 28 celsius in algiers but as that system heads its way through wednesday into thursday it will be the temperature down in tunis so we could see a nice high temperature the of 26. al
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jazeera world tells the dramatic story of the birth of a nation and how a political agreement reached my france in 2 newseum would spark the bitterest of few. this guy the london see it. meant we were still ok rivalry conflict murder division to have tunisia the battle for independence on al-jazeera. hello again undermined of the top stories on al-jazeera they have been mass rallies on violent clashes between protesters and police because of the 70th anniversary of
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the founding a communist china police using live rounds of ammunition and one person is in a critical condition after being shot. at least 2 people have been killed and more than 200 injured in iraq of the anti-government protest violence over the 1000 people most of them students marched on baghdad's tahrir square angry at a lack of job opportunities. peru's police and military chiefs say they still support martin this car as president despite the opposition controlled congress voting to suspend him from office this current dissolve congress on monday but it defied the order and has continued to sit. now the chairman of 3 of the house committees investigating trump's dealings with ukraine have accused the u.s. secretary of state's pay off intimidating witnesses they sell to pompei or push back against a request by house democrats that oppose 5 current and former state department
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officials in ukraine investigation saying it could be seen as an intimidation attempts u.s. president is facing an impeachment inquiry relating to his dealings with the ukrainian president a lot of the landscape let's go to our white house correspondent kelly how kids in washington she joins us live so kimberly a lot of accusations counter-accusations between the secretary of state and some senior house democrats. that's right it all started when the u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe that we now know had actually listened in on the july 25th phone call between the u.s. president and the ukrainian president now the focus of an impeachment inquiry whether or not the president abused his powers of office in order to get after a political adversary well we now know that might come pale has sent a letter to the chairs of some key committees that are launching this impeachment inquiry accusing him of it intimidation with regard to their attempts to get more
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information about that phone call to get more information about what exactly president trump might have been trying to get from ukraine there is an attempt to depose not only the u.s. ambassador to ukraine but also the former u.s. envoy to ukraine and as a result might pump a are outraged by this sending a letter to those committees accusing them of intimidating the witnesses that is when the chairs of these 3 committees the house foreign affairs committee intelligence as well as oversight fired back saying that they are simply trying to get more information to make such a suggestion would be illegal and in fact if there is no cooperation this could be perceived as an obstruction of justice what we can perceive from all of this is things are getting very messy is both sides fire back the democrats claiming they're trying to get more information republicans saying they're trying to simply protect those who may have information but potentially are facing intimidation by
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the democrats who are investigating committee when you look at a look at the polls is there much public support for impeachment. well this is not great news for president trump there is increasing support for the at least the impeachment inquiry in fact that courting to poll numbers is going to 8 percent and this is why it's bad for president trump because what that means is there is more traction among republicans and independent voters the very voters the president needs in when it comes time for his reelection chances in november of 20 twentieth's so donald trump has taken to twitter repeatedly as he has for days making the case that not only is what this in korea hoaxes he's called it but he also is trying very hard to find out the identity of the whistleblower prompting members of his own party in the senate republican as well as the democratic chair of the senate intelligence committees to meet demand protection for this
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whistleblower in the midst of all this the president continues to say that his call with the ukrainian leader in july was a perfect phone call in fact this is help the president's reelection efforts in one regard and that is in fundraising we know that in just 2 days after this impeachment inquiry was lodged he gained more than $50000.00 new donors and 8 and a half 1000000 additional dollars for his reelection campaign effort committee at the white house thank you in texas a white former police officer has been found guilty of murdering her black neighbor and could face decades in jail the september 28th teen killing of 26 year old both jean widespread street protests as part of the black lives mass movement. had said she believed it was an intrusion in her own home when she shot and killed him crowds outside the donna school celebrations when the verdict was read out. divers in taiwan are searching for survivors after a bridge collapsed on to several fishing boats an oil tanker was on the bridge when
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it collapsed in the fishing village of non-defined go the accident happened hours after a typhoon swept through taiwan but it's not known if that weakened the bridge 10 people have been treated in hospital and hope is fading for another 6 who are still missing. they will come again down moment and that i've already said that the 1st priority is to rescue the papal that have not been rescued yet the if it is that we seeing behind us are above all a rescue mission as to the risky people we are giving them the best care in hospital and we're also thinking about their consolation money you know. around a 1000 refugees and migrants have staged new protests in europe's largest migrant camp to demand better living conditions as olive seekers march from moria count towards a port on the greek island of les boss of holding stops by riot police somehow signs reading for us from hell protests came after one was killed and 17 injured on
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sunday in a fire at the overcrowded camp which sparked riots morea camp was built for 3000 people the currently houses around 12000 or more than a 1000 refugees and migrants have died trying to cross to europe this year united nations is calling for expanded search and rescue operations in the mediterranean sea. if the figures do show that we have passed the very sad milestone of a 1000 deaths so far in 2019 and that is the 6 year in a row that we have passed a 1000 deaths what i can stress is of course the numbers of people attempting to cross the mediterranean a much lower so that points to the fact that the journeys themselves are much more dangerous a man wielding a sword and a gun has killed one person and injured at least 10 others finland's the attack happened at a vocational college in copiapo in the east of the country the suspect was a student at the school stabbed several people before police opened fire to stop
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him one police officer and the attacker also seriously hurt during the incident the british prime minister has confirmed there may need to be custom checks on the island of ireland after breck's its force johnson is expected to submit his formal bricks that proposal to the e.u. of the his conservative party wraps up its annual conference this commons aboard the spot concern in the e.u. and anger in ireland which opposes a return to a hard border and a warning that would challenge reports contains flash photography. it's boris johnson thinking of bringing customs checkpoints back to the island of ireland it's what dublin fears after an irish broadcaster said it had seen leaks bricks proposals sent by london to the e.u. and the british prime minister spent cheese day morning at the conservative conference in manchester denying it it's of course early days and we're working very hard to get a deal over the line i think the references that i've heard
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a plan over to papers don't actually relate to what we are going to table i think there's some. confusion about what's being what's being reported but yeah look and this is going to be a difficult negotiation what breaks it means for the irish border is still as foggy as the landscape itself to preserve northern ireland's delicate $998.00 peace deal its border with the republic of ireland must be kept open and free of physical infrastructure but after bret's it this will be the u.k.'s only land front here with the european union so hardening of the border seems inevitable solving this conundrum has eluded everyone so far boris johnson's predecessor to reason may and the e.u. agreed to the backstop a fudge of sorts that would keep the whole of the u.k. inside the e.u. use custom zone after bret's it until
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a proper solution could be worked out but boris johnson says he's ditching the backstop for hard it's never been a clean enough break. the government is about to send europe its final ideas for whatever will replace the backstop but brussels doesn't like what it seen thus far we have received by now and for documents from the u.k. as of last tuesday we have not received any proposals from the united kingdom that need or the objectives of the backstop as we have been retreating and demanding some analysts think the prime minister knows it's probably futile boris johnson has to square a circle get a deal the e.u. will approve of which will get through parliament at the moment that looks all but impossible so it's hard not to believe that actually in number 10 what they're gaming is a situation as to how best to fail to get a deal to go to the electorate to look convincingly as if you tried your best
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parliament requires boris johnson to ask europe for a breakfast extension if he can't get a deal he says he'd rather be dead in a ditch than do so but he still want to explain in any detail how he can avoid it. down to 0 manchester. thousands of cattle and separatist supporters of rallied on the streets of basra lonna to mark the 2nd anniversary of the region's banned independence referendum separatist leaders pledged to keep up their fight for independence prompting spain's acting prime minister petro sanchez to warn them not to play with fire spanish media say riot police have been sent to cats and i hear because of fears of violence. experts say a section of a rapidly melting glass on the italian side of mobile could break off in the coming days it's only with origins have closed the road and banned hikers from the area faring the collapse of a much bigger chunk of gases instability has been blamed on climate change and high temperatures over the summer months from the time reports. the
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more prominent in range is the highest in europe jutting dramatically into the sky on its southern slopes in italy is the plot of past year glazier for as long as anyone here can remember the vast expanse of slow moving ice has been part of the landscape but that could soon change scientists say the glacier is melting at an alarming rate because of climate change and could collapse the faith that is happening is that the movement of the of part of the present of the glacier is much faster than the rest of the glacier and this means that we have a sector of the glacier that could and train. collapse or part of it the section at risk is the equivalent in volume of $100.00 lympics swimming pools below it a valley popular with tourists if part of the glazier was to break away would cause a huge avalanche of snow ice and rock the wooden danger anyone using this road that
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is why the local mayor is taking no chances he has closed this road and walkers and hikers are not allowed to access any of the mountain huts in this area the mayor says the shrinking glazier shows how climate change is transforming the region. this is evidence of global warming we have higher temperatures in the summer and winter now our mountains are in crisis our glass is a diminishing we must take responsibility and stop this as we are increasingly losing parts of our glasses with some tories staying away livelihoods are also it risk. and i really hope the earth approach will soon so it's over because it's hard for me to work i make trees but there's no want to buy it. how long the plan passed your place you can remain intact is unclear but scientists say it's case is far from unique nearly all of the more blah ranges
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glaciers are shrinking faster because of climate change what once seemed able to withstand the pressures of time is now very visibly fragile natasha butler al-jazeera plant italy. just time to tell you that you can find out much more about many of the stories we are covering by going to our website usually dress out as heroes dot com. and reminder the top stories on al-jazeera the have been massive rallies and violent clashes between protesters and police in hong kong on the 70th anniversary of the founding of communist china and the scenes in iran with the notion of one person supposed to be in a critical condition after being shot it is the 1st injury from a live round in the 4 months of process across the country. by.
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a large group of protesters were attacking police officers despite warnings from the police the assailants still continued the violent attacks the police officers lives were under serious threat to save his own life and his colleagues lives he fired a live shot at the assailant 118 year old man was shot his left shoulder area was injured he was sent to the princess margaret hospital in a conscious state the police do not wish to see anyone injured in the incident it is really heartbreaking here we must again warn all rioters must stop all illegal acts police will continue to enforce the law seriously but in beijing there were large celebrations and a military parade to mark the chinese 70th anniversary it showcased around $15000.00 me personnel along with hundreds of weapons and $160.00 aircraft president xi jinping addressed thousands of supporters saying no force can shake the status of this great nation. at least 2 people have been killed or more than
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200 injured in iraq after until government protests turned violent more than a 1000 people marched in the sense of baghdad and elsewhere in the country many of them students angry at a lack of job opportunities as the situation deteriorates his police who has lived a mission stun grenades and tear gas dozens of the injured are members of iraq's security forces. peru's police and military chiefs say they still support martine this car as president despite the opposition controlled congress voting to suspend him from office his car dissolved congress on monday and the building is now being guarded by police after it defied the order they continued to sit symbolically swearing in his vice president as the nation's leader and most of the nation's headlines here on al-jazeera the stream is coming next stay with us.
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