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2000 people have moved to safety. but not everyone is willing to leave well they're pretty sure of walked around the corner of yesterday and told me it was mandatory right back you were. well he was wrong i don't have to do anything but sit right here i want to in southern california a major fire in santa clarita north of los angeles has forced 50000 people from their homes within like 10 minutes we started to see the fire in the smoke getting darker by our house and we started packing everything because our neighbors doing it as well and then that's when our brother started shouting out to me to get in the car and we got the dogs in the car and the fire was literally on our backyard and it promises to be a tough weekend for hundreds of firefighters the rough terrain high winds and low humidity all hampering their efforts to stop the flames spreading victoria gate and
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be al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera life from london still ahead 25 year old is charged with manslaughter in the u.k. after 39 people were found dead in the back of his container truck and medical professionals join hong kong's protest movement accusing police of brutality and excessive force. and a few more showers in your forecast of the southeast of australia the cat has been coming into the last year as that's where we're seeing the showers and that's where we may well see a few more as we go through sunday so much is a little bit about the average for this time of year 16 cells is a melbourne the same across into hobart and feeling better in sydney not as warm as it was at the end of the week $23.00 degrees very warm in perth these temperatures
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about 10 degrees above the average but by monday there's a massive drop down to $26.00 and a fair amount of cloud although it'll be cloud with some nice sunshine warming up as well once that system falls into the southeast so 23. in melbourne on a warm 25 celsius view in adelaide on it should be a dry couple of days a has into new zealand starting to christ church and all clint music is skies across the north island time of $21.00 if you know oakland on sunday the rain is on its way towards crys church on sunday but it should be mostly dry and in fact a little bit cooler on monday but again still mostly dry conditions the rain beginning to try and push into or clinton and then up towards japan we've had some very heavy rain here yet again is that to more flooding across central regions of home show sunday it is a clearing picture if a cloud you on and then all monday much improved the hive 19 in tokyo.
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rewind returns with a new series. premiere updates pants down to 0 documentary thinking. it was. the wind continues with police gold millions of dollars in people's money being taken in for their whole lives from the moment you. down the drain and one day on al-jazeera. welcome back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera at least $63.00 people have been killed in iraq during 2 days of anti-government protests that's according to the iraqi
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high commission for human rights demonstrators are angry over corruption and the lack of jobs the ship clerical style that has called on the prime minister to resign chile's president has called for a major cabinet reshuffle and says that he will lift the state of emergency that's in place across much of the country this comes a day after 1000000 people who are leaving the capital santiago demanding economic reform. and more than a 1000 firefighters are battling major wildfires and were both northern and southern california power companies are planning precautionary blackouts with strong winds forecast for the weekend. british police have charged a 25 year old truck driver with manslaughter after $39.00 people were found dead in the back of his container near london earlier this week this comes after a priest from rural vietnam said that he believes most of the dead were from his country and the reports. as the search for answers could. news police say they're
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working day and night on the case several people are now being held one man from northern ireland has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter conspiracy to traffic people conspiracy to assist a lawful immigration and money laundering the process of formally identifying the bodies won't start until they've been examined to determine what caused the death of the $31.00 men and 8 women the whole process is forensic the recovery process was forensic and the fact actually we have to gain so much information as we go through to make sure that we don't miss anything all of that takes time and it will continue unfortunately to take time initially local police said the victims were all chinese nationals now it's thought at least some were from vietnam the u.k. based community group b. at home says it's received photos of nearly 20 people reported missing from vietnam since the lorry was discovered east of london early on wednesday. this priest in vietnam says he's liaising with family members of suspected victims he get them in
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. india when i learned the news of the people who died on the way to the u.k. in search of a new life not only the district again 10 but perhaps the whole country is in sorrow this is a tragedy that the whole country has to bear british police are urging people who are in the u.k. illegally and might have useful information about the tragedy to get in touch that promising not to prosecute them. over in belgium police are trying to find out who delivered the refrigerated container to the port of from where it set off for england g.p.s. data shows it had previously crossed back and forth between the u.k. and mainland europe in several thoughts he's admitted such containers rarely get x. rayed and and never checked by heat sensors which would indicate stowaways. 19 years ago 58 chinese migrants died from asphyxiation in a refrigerated truck in southern england that had come from say. experts say people
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in poverty will carry on taking huge risks and fueling the lucrative people trafficking trade as long as they can travel legally not certainly not something that's unique to the to you all over the world there are immigration restrictions that limit for people to take a legal option and then they fall prey to. traffic. campaigners say hundreds of vietnamese people are trafficked to the u.k. each year often they're forced to work in slavery. or cannabis farms. al-jazeera a russian woman jailed in the u.s. for being a foreign agent has arrived home after deportation maria patino was released early for good behavior after serving most of our 18 month sentence she was convicted of conspiring to influence u.s. conservative activists in infiltrating the national rifle association and gun lobby . i'm very thankful to everyone who supported me all the russian citizens who
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helped who wrote me letters he generated money for my defense i'm very glad to see my family. the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president trump has resumed after a judge dismissed republican claims that the process was illegitimate senior state department official philip precarious testifying behind closed doors of the u.s. capitol the career diplomats current portfolio includes ukraine the country central of course the investigation he is expected to be asked about the swiss all of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine back in there. on sunday 30000000 argentinians are expected to vote in the country's presidential election the opposition candidate a bet often on this is holding a firm lead over president. in most polls their support has more now from. everything is ready here in argentina for elections this sunday where over 30000000 arjun times will head to the polls to elect argentina's new president it's been
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campaign that's been filled with i could all make and certainty. currently struggling with inflation and with recession a rise in poverty level some other things that already what we have been seeing here is people heading to exchange houses in order to change their pesos for u.s. dollars because the continues to devaluate because of economic uncertainty there's a lot to fear here in argentina about what will happen on october 28th monday october 28th once we know who argentina's next president is going to be and of course there's lots of here here that there could be another economic collapse. protesters in lebanon are continuing to call for the government to step down thousands of gathered across the country as part of a civil disobedience campaign widespread protests began 10 days ago amid anger of a corruption and the country's spiraling economic crisis earlier security forces
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work to reopen major roads after demonstrators blocked highways across the capital stephanie decker has the latest from beirut. these roadblocks are one of the way the protesters are using to keep the pressure on the government now for the most part the interactions by the security forces and the protesters have been one of negotiation and been peaceful there has been an incident in the north near tripoli an area called the dowie but that had to do with one protester inside the army the army trying to arrest and from what we understand from sources on the ground protesters opening fire but it does highlight just how tense the situation can be and how things can escalate this is a country where pretty much everyone has weapons at home these are parties the parties that are being challenge right now do have men who they can send to the streets these are concerns of the protesters but for the most part certainly things have been peaceful there's been negotiations at the moment the people refuse to
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leave they do however move for any kind of emergency vehicle but not for civilian vehicles and of course there are demands are the same basically it comes down to very basic principles of improving living conditions accusing this government of creating that the terrible conditions in this country. 26 people have been detained following anti-government protests in kazakhstan demonstrations organized by a band opposition group criticizing the government and chinese expansion in the oil rich country were held in our marty as well as 1000 kilometers away in the new capital nor sultan the city is named after 79 year old former president nor sultan nazarbayev who stepped down in march but protesters say the nuns have by of regime still controls key ministries and appointments they also accuse the government of corrupt police selling state assets to china as part of beijing's belt and road initiative. let's go to barcelona now where there is
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a standoff between police and protesters following a major rally in support of jailed separatist leaders the rally saw hundreds of thousands marched through the catalan capital repeating their demand for autonomy but organizers were hoping to avoid a repeat of last week's demonstrations which to send it into violence the spanish prime minister better sanchez has called the recent unrest an attack on catalan society so a year ago has the latest from barcelona. earlier this evening at least 350000 people had gathered in the center of barcelona to demand the release of the 9 capsule on politicians and activists have been sentenced will sedition maybe 2 weeks ago after that as we have seen all week they broke off into a smaller group a still quite a huge number of them and made their way over here to the outside of the national spanish police headquarters now this is a site which has seen trouble breaking out the days now and always has been one of
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the points of where violent actions and activities and clashes between the police and the protesters have been taking place but of course also the tensions from that sentencing are still very much heightened that amman's whole so being made alongside more dialogue between the central government in madrid and the capital on government but in an election season where both sides of this argument are not backing down it's looking very unlikely that a dialogue in this kind of environment is going to take place. medical workers in hong kong have joined the city's protest movement over what they say is an excessive use of force by police riot police have often used tear gas and rubber bullets against demonstrators during 4 months of pro-democracy protests locational live rounds of also been fired for testers of also attacked police with petrol bombs and rocks and often sean lasers in their eyes police the ny accusations of
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brutality and say the issue warnings to protesters before using force if they go palin has been. among these crowds are doctors nurses paramedics and other medical professionals they say they have several concerns so one of them is that they're not being asked to disclose to the police which of their patients were involved in the protest movement the other main concern is what they're calling the excessive use of force by the police against protesters radiographer in hong kong proper hospital so. we have created quite a lot of citizens being arrested by the police after the solomons kinds of. protests and we and we saw. a lot of these patients has been assaulted by the poll of the hong kong protesters have 5 key
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demands one of them was met earlier this week when the hong kong government formally withdrew a proposed extradition law that law could see hong kong criminal suspects being sent to mainland china to face the judicial system there the other main demand is an independent inquiry into what seen at excessive force used by the police but hong kong chief executive has rejected this saying that one of her concerns is the reaction upon const 30000 strong police force they say they themselves are victims of violence they accuse protesters among other things of throwing rocks and petrol bombs at police stations and the police told. side interest but that would be foolish and people call. it of course. police have used what you can in tear gas rubber bullets and even live rounds against protesters not long to go home ponce peace corps finally regarded him highly respected they were seen as one of the most professional institutions in the city but over the past 5 months or protests their
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reputation has deteriorated dramatically. taiwan has celebrated its annual gay pride parade the 1st since the island legalized same sex marriage 5 months ago over 2000 same sex couples have married since organizers say more than 200000 people marched in the capital taipei the island is the 1st place in asia to allow gay marriage and this year's pride parade drew participants from nearby countries such as malaysia vietnam japan and korea. england are into their 1st rugby world cup final in 12 years this after they stunned tournament favorites and defending champions new zealand 197 in yokohama reports. i target the states 2007 the last time the all blacks lost a rugby world cup match until now as the haka rang out across the yokohama
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international stadium the faces of the england team suggested they would be up for the challenge and after 2 minutes nobody was left in any doubt as the england resolved not to allow any over for the kinds 1st priority be it could and perhaps should have got even better with sam on the hill by of. and then bang young's bar thinking that scored early for the video referee to pull them out by a vote with england coach eddie jones looking all brought forward kick to penalties to lead the 2003 world cup winners with a 13 point lead with 30 minutes left in november last year the old mark overturned a 15 point deficit to be a little twickenham but what are the severe stored thoughts of another new zealand come back we're going to really on a once again nerveless kicking from ford new zealand at arm's length and he guards eventually closing out a 19.67 victory so we had the better. u.i.
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scouting with an idea of how you want the game to be the never guys exactly like that and i was just going to give sam much credit to news in the way they kept fighting right to the end we had to dig deep to win that can't stay said we. have as much as we had and just came up short so you know with extremely disappointed by that. you know all right now it's you know it's hard to put things into words. so it's the end of the ride for coach steve hansen and these elan tame ice rink and they can now look forward to a far later yokohama. exactly very vocal topic i want to do. and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera at least $63.00 people have been killed in iraq during 2 days of anti-government protests that's according to the iraqi high commission for human rights at least 2 people were killed in the southern city
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of nasiriyah when guards opened fire on demonstrators trying to storm a government office you know in the capital baghdad protesters tried to enter the heavily fortified green zone where the iraqi parliament is located demonstrators are angry of a corruption and the lack of jobs cleric locked up outside that has called on the prime minister to resign turkey's president has threatened to allow millions of refugees to enter europe if the e.u. doesn't support its so-called safe zone in northern syria british fighters have until tuesday to retreat from the 30 kilometer zone and advance as ankara will clear those that it considers terrorists from the border area if that time frame is not met. chile's president has called for a major cabinet reshuffle in a bid to quell a week of mass protests against the government friday saw the largest demonstration in decades as 1000000 people rallied in the capital something that will save us m.p.'s says that the land of protests. but i want to
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announce to all my compatriots if circumstances allow i intend to live to the states of emergency starting at midnight on sunday i asked all ministers to resign in order to form a new government and to be able to respond to these new demands and to take charge of these new times. more than 1000 firefighters are battling major wildfires in both northern and southern california tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate across the state power companies are planning precautionary blackouts with strong winds forecast for the weekend. british police have charged a 25 year old truck driver with manslaughter after 39 people were found dead in the back of his container near london earlier this week police have asked for help from the vietnamese community to identify the bodies those are the headlines stay with us rewind fulls gold is coming up next more news from half an hour and i'll see you
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tomorrow thank you for watching ok. injury. and welcome to rewind i'm laurin. in this series we're returning to some of the best documentaries said on al-jazeera english since we launched over
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a decade ago back in 2011 the africa investigates series dug deep into africa's 2nd largest gold producer for centuries it was called the gold coast's but today this west african country is known as gone and in recent years has been home to a multi-billion dollar industry that once gave it its name using heaven cameras investigative journalists and that. went undercover and scratch beneath the surface of what appeared to be in the desolate gold traders bought as a last was about to discover all that glitters may not necessarily big gold from 2011 falls gold. my name is and i remain anonymous i am an undercover journalists here in van and with my team have spent years now infiltrating and fighting cramming corruption in my country my anonymity is my secret weapon and this time i am using it against a new. campus this for us this has become
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a major threats to companies and individuals looking to invest in a country's most vulnerable. and foreign investors and it's well below normal reach and with global gold prices now hitting record profits seem to exist but that doesn't exist that investors are taking for millions while defrosters gets rich this time i am going to make this chemist be as i go undercover to lift the lid on distant luzhin report of. i'm on my way to meet a businessman. who was being scammed of over 1.5 dollars. from america was coming last year when finally a deal for $56.00 kilos of gold at the local refinery recalled a service i was storing. there. we tested it was good fun to do the next shift didn't find old st.
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nick good for us thoughts or deal didn't end there of the going to do police the people who stole his money that threaten him. follow me in a car and i threatened to kill me the biggest problem here is that a foreigner loses money they're going to try to do something and then come in it's like a mafia a threat they scared people and then they just pack up they really weave their money behind this millions and millions of dollars and people's money just being taken in for their whole lives from the money shot. down a drain and one day here in told story it's made me and that not only way this chemist stealing from individuals like to do with the reputation and development opportunities of my country i went to the police headquarters in atlanta the director of fed me to the head of the department in charge of goldstein cases
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dennis and his chief of operations ralph some years for those companies from us just when i look at small unit to lose 2000 or so we have. to do this with you. this 2000 level we have. to treat the good stuff just so you can see. this. so what kind of figures are we talking about here so far from lost about $200000.00 some in millions of dollars across the country there have already been $38.00 cases report that d.c. dennis and ralph took me to see some of the figure had a pain to fight against gould's chemists. who usually how did a victim is being blamed for pain and deceive to them. and they realize that there is no boom and that even infant just for instance in this case you know that guy or
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the victim so prevailed. and when this bus was booked to the police. we look at it in distress as are you and people. we found this newsgroup's and then sent. us shocked because initially did stop what he saw. actually deliver laughs and. how this looking to the police it's clear this is a growing and serious issue but i want to get a view from inside to find out what is really going on one of my connections monies to put me in contact with the goods coming yes i agreed to talk on the condition his identity is concealed so how many people are involved in this scum in business europe. really myself people. aren't induced mr. truro to ward off connection to this regard and refer to come by anyone any
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good for sure would be instantly good. to good works he explained to me that goods comes where just the tip of the iceberg part of a much wider network of for us this all working together these crimes are becoming endemic in the west african region and gama is now a global hotspots on lines comps. people are you good do group good to. be a problem for do you need to find this motorways. high unemployment and poverty levels are clearly a major factor in the rise of these cranks but distrust this destroying people's lives as an undercover journalist my mo to east name. is time to give these camps a taste of my medicine i've been tipped off about the book was good business abreu mining company an informant has told me that it is a front for a well established group of scum yes but to prove it i need to get inside the
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operation and run a sting so f.n. listed an associate to act the part of the world the investor the pros in passes trent a professional footballer who has played so. i can take the mining company because i tell them you'll be arriving from the middle east in a few days' time and that he's keen to buy some within hours i get an interest yes the response from a man called patrick watching their company even office to collect my friend from the airport and taking to his game is on a salaam aleikum bill this is the plan when you are. meet i would also be there for. our cover story is that we are friends and that we enjoy the way i play football they will provide us once we tell them we can go up stairs quickly for a preparatory so that will be the very 1st phase of the investigation before we
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start moving to meet them to take. us. right. we are on our way to meet the law. and to meet just thomas for the 1st. time this time so usually on certain times close to dealing with. times predicts what to do most of what i've never had and took into consideration. to stay focused on being iraq. and overall disallows. when i went to the call to say he had arrived and had already been met by someone as he came of the plane i was worried as i wanted to be with him when this comment i write. i had read in sight to find him to meet him if he
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knew them and who had might be in a loose shit if that day the cool soon be arriving to collect us and take us to do will tell outside desmond and seles who i can feel and look up. as who are waiting for the vehicle i decided to go ahead to the hotel and make sure everything with the room was set up about 10 minutes later this come as i arrived to collect the thought that he was happening. yet filmed and everything on p.t. looking. now this issue's. going. to give you.
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a real. investigation. tonight. how.
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yeah one well we had a conversation with him and she has to make him believe that we are wondering and
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he has been eating and like. though consistently want to tell you to be wary and to be careful that you're not scalloped passes what he was trying to say. the next step was to check the authenticity of the documents provided to us by patrick. is the money of monitoring and evaluation at the minerals commission the government body responsible for regulating the main insect but. also really look out i do so in the name here. i've been through mining company limited reactionary service documentation from all sides trying to choke on the ground of this company merely testify that it's a firm and company course you don't affinity leganes for consent is concerned it's gonna explode in council it was consenting to think how.

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