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many of these cases amount to human rights violations so the hope this evening is that this massive historic protests taking place remains mostly peaceful so when indeed while you have that unrest and uncertainty in the capital it does reverberate across the country in terms of the stability that people feel about their lives but also affects the economy and of course everybody still has to try and get about doing their daily. living and they can't do that when there is political instability across the country. absolutely right people throughout the course of the week have been struggling to to try to find and regain a sense of normalcy there's been an undoubtable impact on the on the national economy but what most of the attention has been focused on the protest and the violence that's been taking place on the streets of the chilean capital we should know that these protests have been widespread the demonstrations have moved to other parts of the country and i don't even i don't think that there is a corner of chile where the discontent over growing inequality which is what
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protesters are saying is is not being felt want to give you a sense of what that's been like for the average chilean outside of the capital let's take a look. at a small fishing village just south of santiago chile. and other fishermen are getting ready to head out to see. things here appear calm but a state of emergency remains in effect in the country and it's a subject that's on everyone's mind. what's happening in the country isn't about politics this is a social problem. if any president has announced reforms to social programs in an effort to calm the crisis but who says says people have lost confidence in political leaders are yet to seem to not have. the president of the republicans only patched a wound but there is still a wound underneath until that wound is treated and heals the problems of our country are not going away. she days latin america's most developed nation but over the past. protests have highlighted
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a growing anger among the citizenry. the unrest began over an increase of 30 pesos to the cost of metro transport which amounts to about $0.10 of a dollar. that cost increase was like a spark to a powder keg in a country where many were already complaining about a worsening wealth gap between the rich and the middle class because. say a solution out of the crisis will require a delicate compromise from the country's political elite and the perception is that she is not in a crisis in the vehicle situation but we are developed enough for everyone to have better living conditions so it's a matter of distribution if we can better these tributes their wealth and the opportunities that exist in chile everyone is going to be better off. after a week of unrest demonstrations and she to have spread to other parts of the country a recent national poll found that 83 percent of chileans are in favor of the ongoing
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social mobilizations even in sheila's smallest communities far away from the protests that have paralyzed the country's capital the discontent from citizens is palpable for everyday chileans the crisis isn't about an increase of 30 to the cost of public transportation it's about 30 years of policies that many see as being bad for the nation. fishermen like who say they hope political leaders will act on the demands of demonstrators before their quiet seaside town joins in the protests. so once again back to the mobilizations that we're seeing take place tonight here in the chilean capital well over 1000000 people on the streets of santiago people are not only angry over growing inequality saying that they reject the notion of chile's political system again the most developed country in latin america nobody expected that this was going to reach the fee. repitch that it's reached this
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evening here friday night in the chilean capital but the biggest concern is been over the violence and people wanting to avoid more violence like this has been witnessed over the course of the last week enough that's caught the eye of international human rights observers and the united nations in fact the united nations will be sending a delegation in on monday that will stay here for 4 weeks investigating and examining claims that many say amount to widespread human rights violations by armed forces here in the country so well we'll continue to follow events with you through the day model republic our correspondent in chile well still to come here on the al-jazeera news hour including the failings of boeing and others are laid bare by an indonesian investigation into last year's lion air crash also riot police out in force in lebanon amid mornings the government has tense could lead protests could lead to civil war. and defending champions do zealand take on england in the world cup semifinals we'll hear from both rugby camps later in the
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news that. the u.s. court says the secret portions of robert miller's report must be released to congress well it concluded a 2 year investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election earlier this year but large sections of his findings were withheld by the justice department democrats seeking the full reporter's part of their impeachment investigation of u.s. president donald trump kristen salumi is following events forced washington d.c. i mean what are the democrats actually looking for kristen. well so democrats are particularly interested in any information regarding the president's alleged efforts to stifle the moller investigation remember he fired f.b.i. director james komi and they're looking for this information as they attempt to build their case for impeachment on obstruction of justice grounds that's in
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addition to the other tranche of their investigation which has to do with the ukraine and a possible oh abuse of power for withholding money from ukraine withholding aid from ukraine in exchange for investigating a rival of the president so if you remember robert mahler found that there was russian interference in the elections in 2016 insufficient evidence to show that president trump or his crew were involved in any way but he left open the possibility of obstruction of justice because the justice department can't charge a sitting president he declined to provide any guidance on that front a lot of the information that he collected was not passed on to congress. and congress is the only arm of the government that can remove a sitting president so democrats were very very keen to get this information and it is a major victory for them in their impeachment efforts they'll now have access to all
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of this information and beyond that the judge in the ruling actually validated the inquiry itself the impeachment inquiry itself which the department of justice had said was not proper because it hadn't been voted on yet by the full house in a formal vote but the judge said no that's incorrect he should go forward it is cool so we assume that we will get some sort of colored toll response from the white house because of this court case. well we haven't heard anything from the white house just yet we can guess from past reactions from president trump that he might point out the fact that the judge was an obama appointee but you know democrats really have their own reason to be worried now at the same time that this is happening the justice department has launched its own criminal investigation into the mall investigation and specifically how it got started attorney general
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william barr has a long expressed concern that the investigation itself was politically motivated it was launched by the obama administration it was like spying on the trump campaign and he's been looking into this for a while but now there is a prosecutor assigned to this which indicates that they found some evidence that a law was broken and we don't know how serious it is what kind of evidence it is if it will actually lead to charges but lots of investigating going on in washington on both sides of the aisle. maybe more so than lawmaking at this point so what we see what does a little bit kristen thank you though the family of the young leaves with come forward saying that she was about 39 people found dead in a contained a truck east of london relatives of the 26 year old say they haven't heard from her since receiving distressing text messages which she described suffocating which is
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police have not confirmed the the identities oldish analyses of the victims of the hayward times the latest all the investigation from london. well i think the police have made a 4th arrest in this fast moving investigation here as a 48 year old man arrested at stansted airport on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people a manslaughter 2 other people were arrested earlier both 38 a man and a woman in northern england with a lorry driver arrested at the scene is still being held by police the real focus now of course is trying to identify the victims in the early stages of the investigation it was thought they were all chinese nationals but some they had them is families are reported to have raised concerns about the welfare of their relatives including the family of a 26 year old woman who they believe could have been inside the container the deputy chief constable of essex police gave this updates we owe it to those who have died to get this investigation right and speculation is not helpful it may in
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fact hinder our investigation and its progress. if also not commenting on any speculation about the nationalities of those who have tragically lost their lives well this clearly is becoming an international investigation involving the belgian or thought is where the lorry came from and also the chinese authorities who are pushing the british police to find out exactly what happened and the focus really is on trying to find out where the lorry started its journey and how those people came to be on it in the 1st place. and did these investigators have found boeing lying pilots to blame for last year's plane crash which killed everyone on board the boeing 737 max plunged into the sea world of the 2 accidents that led to the aircraft being grounded worldwide in the reports. it's taken these investigators a year to determine exactly what happened in the final moments of lion air flight $610.00 the final crash report blames
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a combination of factors including design flaws in boeing 737 max jet as well as maintenance problems and in adequate pilot try. in. the line a plane crashed into the java sea 12 minutes after takeoff from indonesia's capital jakarta all 189 people on board died including anton saudi's cousins he says he's disappointed with the report's conclusions. we actually had big hopes that the government would answer all our questions but the information we've been given adds almost nothing to what we already know the report highlights problems with boeing's anti stall software known as an cas it's also implicated in a similar crash in ethiopia in monch which led to the grounding of the max fleet worldwide it's significant because it sort of reaffirms that boeing does share responsibility for this for the way they designed the in care system which is the
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maneuvering characteristics saying that basically took control of way from the pilots and the pilots were having to fight the airplane pilots flying the line jets had reported problems the day before it crashed and they say it should have been grounded for further tests i mean i feel that safety is not yet the core concern in indonesia except for the flag carrier airlines i'm worried about the private aviation companies because even though on paper they're checked by safety inspectors accidents keep happening boeing has already paid a high price for 2737 max crashes within 5 months its chief executive was fired and the company's income has hogged engineers have been forced to redesign software and boeing needs to convince the aviation regulators the grounded jets all safe to take off again victoria gate and be there. the u.n. says it's a polls an audit of bolivia's disputed election results protests continued after
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the electoral tribunal confirmed the controversial reelection of president evo morales extending his rule to nearly 2 decades john holdren has more from la paz. there was no way through the cars in the southern zone of the powers the bolivian capital on friday. groups of neighbors stood on street corners stopping traffic to protest against president ever more alleys and the vote count the proclaimed him the outright winner of last sunday's election. people are coming now that the government can see the anger they have a what's happened it's the only way that they can show that's why from young to old we all have to duty to get our one to streets. it's now the 5th day of protests not just here but in points across the country the european union and the organization of american states have both expressed concern over freezing of the supposedly rapid vote count for almost 24 hours when it was pulls it was heading towards
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a runoff between morale is the nearest challenger carlos meso when it came back online the president was on the brink of outright victory the opposition has called for a 2nd round what they say is fraud the president rejects that asking where their proof is. his popularity is full and in this election but many still stand behind him as a leader whose almost whole poverty and presided over a flourishing economy and he's 13 years in charge for them the street blocks are an unjustified nuisance. someone's notice they have to accept that they're lost without president evo morales we've got nothing to complain about his work with whoever wants it and with the government before there wasn't anything i've personally been able to buy my car with a credit line. but especially in recent years analysts say that the electorate authorities have become uncomfortably close to the government many feel democracy is slipping. and for those who are taken to the streets this is where they draw the
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line. the lights turned green but there's no cause heading down an avenue that would usually be full of the it's not all of the capital city pies but especially in the south groups of neighbors have blocked off most of the roads. elsewhere in the country protests and so continued the general strike and to its 3rd day in the dust through hope of santa cruz the election results are in but the discontent he continues to at home and out to sea to the past. well still ahead here on the news a call for an end to sanctions not done zimbabwe during the era. of the late us congressman elijah cummings is remembered as a fierce champion of truth and suitable. parents for european champions legal battle to change their kit manufacturer to die keep it a deal actually less money. and
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more rain in the forecast across the south and the southeast united states as a fun sliding through this is what this cloud is and a lot of moisture coming up from the gulf of mexico however where we need the rain is out towards the west which is above the average through much of california animals very hot and dry up to the north so those fires continuing to burn well we have got those snow and much colder piling down here from the northern rockies and look at this on saturday 22 celsius in denver and then the system works its way further south it really brings in this very very cold air on the temperature is actually at 0 at best so a drop of $22.00 degrees in one day and this is well below the average for this time of year meanwhile the rain continuing across the east pushing through eastern seaboard so a wet sunday in new york with a high of 19 degrees celsius and no kinds of rain showers across much of the
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caribbean sunny quite heavy. times through much of the bahamas elsewhere we've got a lot of cloud in the picture some rain pushing into afghanistan today and again southern mexico seeing some fairly heavy amounts of rain there's a disturbance we're watching in the bay of a complete you that will be moving into the gulf of mexico through sunday but still the rain showers a piling down to the south and a very white day particularly in panama with a high of a 29. in germany's capital there's a barber like no other sort of what you teach. both from cross what you have. but as he said he changes he's moving. and going on the road. the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live down. the
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people have been killed in the latest major bout of violence during protests in iraq thousands rallied in several cities rejecting the prime minister's promise for reforms and calling for political change. security forces have moved in on huge crowds in santiago firing water cannons and tear gas more than a 1000000 people came out for the largest at the government protests yet. the u.s. house judiciary committee has been granted unrestricted access to robert miller's report into russian interference in the 26th election democrats demanded it as part of the efforts to build an impeachment case against donald trump. 8 people have been killed and 2 injured after a russian soldier opened fire on his fellow servicemen it happened at a military base near the eastern city of that is said to have been suffering from a nervous breakdown he's now in custody. and the government protests in
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lebanon's capital have clashed clashed with protesters of hezbollah riot police aborted to try and defuse a situation as below is a political movement and is part of prime minister saad hariri coalition government its leader hassan nasrallah warns that if the government falls there could be civil war stephanie decker has more from beirut. it's the 9th day of these protests and we've seen some trouble already at the protest areas we had a group of men who supported hezbollah i'm enter the square in front of me government not as we're just a couple 100 meters away from here they started throwing stones and sticks the word injuries among the protesters it was very tense people were very scared the police on the ground riot police trying to separate the 2 sides with this is one of the fears number doesn't really matter the political parties will start to send their men down to the streets to make trouble now and has distanced themselves with these
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bad we have heard from some of the leader of hezbollah he spoke earlier today his voice boomed out over the microphones here and everyone listened to what he had to say this is a little bit about what i'll mainly look to see under the current monetary and economic situation and the fragile political climate in all of the targeting that is happening internationally and regionally void will lead to chaos void will lead to destruction well the reaction here from the protesters not welcoming that sweet shop or to give when he said not there were far and out of that mold all speak the protesters who is behind funding cause so many people here not too happy in terms of the protesters about his message that we're not the free of all the messages of fear and it's been promoting with a good image to stay on the streets with the digital and it doesn't make any difference in the. streets what was interesting for the 1st time behind us under
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the collar was the lebanese mob not the part of hezbollah clearly sending a message that he has a lebanese leader i don't want all but even by salma admission of moderate by iran these are very difficult to not protect of all times and against they are not unprecedented yes there is euphoria and hope on the streets but what happened here in the square is when you see the big. virginia was the dream man supportive of those political marches and there were many many of them will show you why people are concerned about the way for the masses not one moment when it was it's not time to move this government he is of course the most powerful political and military force in this country at the moment we're in a stalemate the government isn't standing down the protests are not leaving it is uncertain which way this is all going to go. is a barbara supporters of the rulings on appear to have been demanding an end to sanctions imposed during robert mugabe's rule when he was removed from power 2
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years ago and died last month or which also has more from harare. some troubled overnighted to get out in time for the anti sanctions march organized by zimbabwe's government they want the removal of sanctions imposed by the european union and united states many have steel they still are being punished by the west because of land reforms by former president robert mugabe when many white farmers had their property seized. his successor says sanctions imposed nearly 2 decades ago are hurting the economy. the sanctions were imposed following human rights abuses and electoral fraud allegations the punishments include travel bans and the freezing of assets of some officials in the ruling sun appear party as well as the forces of the united states
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the sanctions are targeted with $141.00 individuals and companies on its list the americans blame government corruption and failed economic policies with the bar with economic crisis some economists say even though sanctions are targeted every citizen and local business is affected in. the country's response is based on restrictive measures that have been put by the international community even if i'm a 3rd party investor i ask questions 1st before i come into the country to say why is this you know country and sanctions so the fact that it's in such an increase is the country specific perception and that's one being you know in the e.u. 2 it really cool continue to ignore zimbabwe and say this suffering yet another economic crisis this one the worst in a decade there is high unemployment soaring inflation and shortages of fuel cash and medicines the main opposition movement for democratic change party says the
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government is using sanctions as an excuse to avoid taking responsibility does what this government has done to the innocent citizens of this country that is innovative the kind. to me as if it's to do with the internal problems since the prescription of democratic rights innocent citizens action of innocent citizens and then the external sections of. the e.u. and usa sanctions will only be fully removed when political and economic reforms are implemented and the rule of law is respected. that the late us congressman elijah cummings has been remembered as a champion of truth and civil rights at his funeral in his hometown of baltimore he spent the final years of his life as a face critic of donald trump and played a leading role in impeachment efforts particle hain has more. mr president mr president mr vice president with that the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives sent the message this was no ordinary sendoff this was no
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ordinary congressman elijah cummings the longtime democratic leader he was known as the party's moral voice to former presidents celebrated what they called his very american story his parents were sharecroppers. from the. pick to back. and strawberries. and then sought something better in this city. south baltimore it's not even a teenager when he hauled down to the swimming pool and joins a group to integrate it in for his trouble gets banged on the head with a glass model living a life time scar. which he bore with on or. he was a civil rights activist that often promoted his hometown baltimore a majority black city in 2017 as riots consumed those streets with protests against
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police brutality cummings took to the streets with a megaphone to send a message of call partner i want your car just. back from washington one of the people. but his final months would find him in the center of a presidential storm cummings led the committee investigating president donald trump's conduct and trump lashed out as he often does on twitter the president calling baltimore disgusting rodent and rat infested cummings widow responded but congressman chairman cummings did was not easy and it got infinitely more difficult in the last months of his life when he sustained personal attacks and attacks on his beloved city. and while he carried himself with grace and dignity in all public forums it hurt him. the underlying message of the entire hours long service cummins spent his life trying to perfect the promise
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of this democracy which he saw in his final years as being under threat when we're dancing with the angels watching will be as in 2019 what do we do to make sure we kept our democracy intact yet we stand on the sidelines as say nothing. the message today he did will you. al-jazeera washington britain is a law professor at the university of the district of columbia joins me now live from washington d.c. good to have you with us on the program sir though he was a larger cummings's one of many black civil rights leaders that fought for equality jury in a time that many younger people living in the usa would never of experience so where do you place congressman cummings in that long list of civil rights activists who came before him and even continue right now i play
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congressman allowed to comment at the top of the list typically those congress persons who not only lead in the house of representatives but lead in the community we have a last. allies here come in for now but when i look back over my 50 years in the law and education and civil rights i look at for an example adam clayton powell and charlie diggs and when they passed on john conyers who just left congress into their team came along but there was surely chisholm there was charlie rangle and there was of course barbara jordan and even now that he's passed on we have still there jim clyburn the number one for number 3 man
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leader in the house of representatives and behind them we have al green and we have you know we are omar some of the new 19 ques indeed they are very they have buddies they are definitely has been they all that so what are the issues than that you think that. those that are around are taking up the mantle of civil rights for ethnic minorities what are the big issues that continue to to hold the united states still lead to be you might say fought for in the corridors of power in government in the us i think. fair voting is still an important issue with the lingering effects of segregation taken against african-american and that next as we repair for the 2020 vote i think health and health care is still. as the bomber affordable care act goes
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before the supreme court term i think education is still critical in terms of the cost of education access to education continuing segregation in education i think fair housing and affordable housing is still a challenging core civil rights issue and particularly i think one of congressman elijah cummings pet projects was criminal justice reform it did to me one of the one of the points that was raised in the various eulogies that were given at his funeral was the fact that as a those one republican. and i support the fact that he said that congressman cummings always had a seat at the table for everyone which was a great compliment in that he managed to get all sides talking to each other at this time in the united states it's very difficult is it not to try to get all
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sides to talk to each other it takes people of a certain character and certain experience to do that are the younger generation of politicians up to that in the light of the sort of rather fractious nature of of of the way that politicians speak to each other in the u.s. at the moment. i think you're quite right and indeed the paper reports that up to the time of death congressman cummings was planning for the tribute to him today where he invited numerous persons as they say from across the aisle in the house of representatives and beyond the republican whom you guest mentioned earlier was the republican governor of this home state of maryland maryland governor hogan yet you also posed a challenging question for the new generation of civil rights leaders and building coalitions that are multiracial multiethnic multi language multicultural economic
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status and also multi urban multi row and i think that is a fair challenge and that's what will be missed and mediately by someone like a lot of your cummins who could go out on the straight after the riots in baltimore after the shooting in the killing freddy gray and come people down and bring people together to find a solution and it's professor britton it's been good to have your insights a lot has been quite a soulful day during the funeral of a logic to me thank you for your time. you're welcome now the full pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif has been going to dial so that he can seek medical treatment the 69 year old is serving a 7 year prison sentence for corruption which he.
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