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not. only. was. at least 7 protest as a killed in iraq the security forces break up a sit in to 4 demonstrations were shot dead in the capital baghdad. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up chile's president announces tougher penalties for hooded vandals and looters after weeks riots and protests. a former congo warlord known as the terminator is sentenced to 30 years in prison for murder rape and conscripting child soldiers and donald trump is ordered to pay
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$2000000.00 for misusing his foundation to advance his election campaign. we begin in iraq credit least 7 protesters have been killed the security forces broke up a sit in in the southern city of basra another $150.00 have been injured it comes off or at least anti-government protests as was shot dead by security forces in baghdad clashes broke out in the capital when demonstrators tried to remove barriers leading to 2 bridges ahead of baghdad security forces says that is now a ban on the use of military grade take aspirin a day on demonstrators off the amnesty international said they were used to kill protest is not dispersed them a crackdown against mostly protest as has killed more than $260.00 people since last month it's actually going to has more from baghdad. says he came to talk
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or square with his brother may yield on october 1st ready to push for change. carried him out that day after a tear gas canister sliced open his stomach the unemployed teacher died last week from complications related to his injury a mystical thought when i hold his photo i feel like he's with me just like he came with me to the protest i want to avenge his death by playing the politics among the protesters there are people like nasir hashem trying to scrape together a living one shined shoe and one step on the scale at a time nasser says he supports the protesters but he can't afford to join them despite the crowds he says few are interested in perfectly polished shoes the father of 5 from basra has been forced to leave his family behind to work in the capital it's
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a very difficult situation there are no jobs if you have money to bribe someone you will get a job if you don't they'll tell you to go the oil rich province of basra has been the scene of violent protests people block the entrance to the port halting operations for days the government says that's cost iraq more than $6000000000.00 protesters say that revenue is being looted by the government all they are getting is for services pollution and cancer. intact rear there is a congenial spirit as people bond over their love of iraq and their common cause to create a government that is responsive to their needs people are coming here to offer their services free of charge salem says he supports 3 families but he felt compelled to help in the one way he knew how now i want to head on i came here with a group of my friends to look off to the protesters so they can continue we try to
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provide them with everything packets of food so they don't go home on friday tom we're square could see its largest crowd yet for. courage iraqis to call in memory of those who have been killed according to the u.n. about 300 people have been killed since the protests began on october 1st the talks are going a bit old to the iraq baghdad. today as president has announced tough new measures in an effort to stop 3 weeks of antigovernment protests descending into the rioting and looting president sebastian pinera is proposing to do is to congress to toughen penalties for looting and acts of violence especially by people hiding their faces with hoods and mosques had to protest as attacks upscale areas of the capital santiago on wednesday
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a series of concession measures have failed to pacify the protest as you are in great economic inequality on latin american at attending see a new impose more from santiago at this hour there are more and more protesters coming precisely to be if you like the one affluent center of santiago this is where the big business offices are where set must campaign yet of the president's office. from where i am right now and just about 20 meters behind me you i can see the water cannon and the tear gas trucks opposition there they've just been dispersing protesting in front of the post i never said there would be in some ways the symbol of opulence of the country with the precisely why the protesters are coming here and a little bit to my right we understand that some looters are trying to break pharmacies and other shops so it is quite chaotic it certainly hasn't stopped people from the continuing to gather but some people believe it was necessary because the level of violence is out of control the president said you cannot have
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social improvement social reforms without having peace but others say that this is just an attempt to pacify some of his own sense of his own political base which is becoming more and more edgy as the protesters get closer and closer to their own part of town until just 2 days ago this was a kind of an oasis in the middle of all the chaos we've been seeing. the united nations has urged bolivia's government and opposition to restore dialogue and peace offer a 3rd person was killed in protests that parts of the capital of powers were lit up in the early hours of thursday as rival demonstrator groups clashed with each other . sporadic and intense demonstrations have grips the country since the disputed election last month opposition supporters say the result was rigged to allow president even morale is to stay on for another 5 years he's already been in power for 13 years has accused
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the opposition of trying to stage a coup and their feet intense clashes between rival protesters in the bolivian town of into the mare of the town was attacked by opposition supporters but to see our say was dragged through the streets covered in red paint and activist forcibly. office was set alight in the windows of the town who was smashed the protestors accuse them of having bussed in supporters of the president to try to break a blockade oblivion protest leader has become a symbol of the opposition to president evo morales is on his way to the powers. plans to deliver a pre written resignation letter from royalist to sign. that you know what we want disappears to return to our country and for hatred confrontation and racism among libyans to be said to song that we want to have a country with peace and hope. and another mass protests has been taking place in guinea against the president's plan to change the constitution it comes days after
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2 people were killed during a funeral procession for 11 people killed in earlier demonstrations there's widespread anger at president alpha condo's plans to alter the constitution of the west african nation so he can run for a 3rd term in next year's elections. but the beginning. of the people of guinea if they are here because they do it to take the risk the risk of getting killed the risk of being a risk to put in prison because when we go to a peaceful protest of the reign of this president we know that nothing could be ruled out as it was during the few little victims. still to come on al-jazeera the arab league. summit. cambodian opposition leader sam rainsy and other politicians a block from returning home. french police dismantle a migrant camp in paris that was home to thousands of people a day after the government announced tough new immigration law.
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greatest place holder britain. is delayed. drama a brick suit on al-jazeera. a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera it's been another deadly day in iraq as anti-government protests continue at least 7 protesters have been killed in the southern iraqi city of basra after 4 were shot dead in baghdad. chile's president has announced a raft of new penalties against protesters as he fights to end weeks of unrest the measures target looters and vandals especially those wearing hoods or mosques. the united nations has been living as government and opposition to restore dialogue and peace after
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a 3rd person was killed in the protests running battles continued in the in the early hours of thursday. we're turning to our story the deadly protests in iraq mohammed john june joins us on the phone now from baghdad mohammed what more can you tell us about these deaths in basra. charlie details are still trickling in right now we don't yet have any type of government confirmation but what leads to some reports emerging larry that there are 7 people dead in that 7 for city of basra and as many as a $150.00 people which is the anti-government demonstrators that would be a big injured. and the reports are that security sources a bus or heads at u.c.i. fire on protesters outside government buildings in that surely there are also reports emerging that some of the protesters may have tried to storm government buildings in basra but as i said we do not yet have government comment about these
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reported interview and also. out of baghdad. some reports just mcconnachie hours emerged that more people than originally reported may have been killed in baghdad and entered into the security forces with used live fire against good insulators in central baghdad. moderator several in appointed that have been possibly killed on thursday. in central baghdad some people saying in the center of the city on the alley bridge which is an area where demonstrators as you can use to try to occupy these past several days know much amended still coming on the heels of the statement condemnation on thursday that the boys to mix the concern over the situation and that said the use of force against protesters is deplorable a statement also said despite repeated calls for restraint there has been for the
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loss of large a great number of injured and destruction of public and private property of course in baghdad also continue to move the an intermittent internet shut down in effect in part due to the quality of the country and that something has also been heavily criticized here. also you got a response a little bit early age. responded to it and she even more sure footed it should travel days ago a little poor richard richard if you changed. your agreed. to kill which tourist traps jews now have. told it to. restitution and to try. to report that's correct and the entire riot police had cheered him along. john muhammad john dean there on the phone from
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baghdad thank you a new york judge has ordered us president donald trump to pay $2000000.00 for misusing his namesake charitable foundation trump was found to have distributed some funds from the foundation to his tight 2016 presidential campaign the supreme court judge also signed off on an agreement to close the trunk foundation and says the payment should go to a group of nonprofit organizations the former national security adviser to president trump has failed to appear before the impeachment inquiry john bolton was formally invited to testify on thursday his lawyer quickly made it clear that his client was unwilling to have him voluntarily shelton who was fired by trump in september says he will only be willing to testify if a federal court backs a subpoena impeachment invest make that a geisha and centers on whether president trump abused his power by pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden caster has more from washington d.c.
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the latest developments in the inquiry. the impeachment inquiry of u.s. president donald trump is at full steam ahead with the testimony on thursday of an advisor to the vice president mike pence who listened in on that phone call between trump and the president of ukraine in which trump asked for a favor on a little investigations into he is opponents in the united states now witness there is said to have not only listen to that call but also being present at a later follow up meeting between her boss the vice president and the president of ukraine in which the korean president asked why was his country not receiving the close to $400000000.00 of u.s. security aid that he was expecting that is because concurrent to all of this trump had made the decision to withhold that aid to this point he has said that it was not a quid pro quo however witnesses have testified to the contrary another development
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is the release of the testimony the transcript of a previous witness george kent who was in charge of ukrainian policy at the state department he told investigators that trump empowered his personal attorney rudy giuliani to go to ukraine and peddle what he called conspiracy theories that were full of lies but finally the big picture here though is that the one witness that investigators truly want to hear from john bolton the former national security adviser to trump he was a no show on congress on thursday that's because the white house had ordered him not to cooperate with the inquiry but investigators want to hear his story because bolton is someone who was very critical of this rogue campaign that when a round traditional u.s. foreign policy toward ukraine in fact he called this campaign a drug deal but his attorney has said bolton is not appearing until and unless
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a federal court rules that he should defied the white house order not to appear. the international criminal court in the netherlands has sentenced a former kong rebel leader to 30 years in prison the harshest penalty it's ever given oscar and the gander was convicted of 18 war crimes including murder rape and using child soldiers in eastern democratic republic of congo catherine soi reports . rape and conscripting children a soldier's offenses committed by. that along with other war crimes have led to him being sentenced to 3 decades in prison he ordered fighters to carry out attacks in the tory province over to yes in 200220032 drive out one ethnic community judges of the international criminal court in the hague described his involvement in atrocities carried out by rebel soldiers as a substantial parade of civil unions as a crime against humanity and as
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a war crime for the 8 years for a murder and attempted attempted murder as a crime against humanity and as a war crime said yes for prosecution as a crime against humanity said 2 years of imprisonment he moved into ganda was called the time in a town by people in eastern democratic republic of congo the crimes committed by the patchy arctic force for the liberation of congo rebel group included modern sexual violence and the sexual slavery of female child soldiers one as young as 9 and tug on the lead the military wing thomas lubanga was the head of the group and is serving 14 years in jail at the i.c.c. this man says his 2 brothers were killed by the fighters what they did to the we lost many family members sisters brothers uncles we also lost a lot of property. to remind be the focus of this case but in another town more
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than 800 kilometers south victims of a massacre where 150 people were killed in one day in 2006 have been following court proceedings keenly they claim to have done to was one of the leaders of rebel fighters who attacked their villages in q one and was in charge of the killings almost everyone here in q one delhi lost a loved one goes we talked to said. and the fighters he led them off protecting a rival rebel they also say they want justice killed when they queue and. shows us has scars she says her husband and one year old son were killed. what's happening with tug on the should be a deterrent to others who want to come and terrorize us in the villages those people destroyed our lives and that is the 4th person to be convicted by the i.c.c. . say's he deserves to be in jail for life rebecca one
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job is still waiting for justice catherine sorry al-jazeera q one job east and democratic republic of congo. mccain of president says his security forces will hunt down the people responsible for killing at least $47.00 employees of a mining company gunmen and target a convoy of 5 buses from a canadian owned mine now bunco in the east of the country despite a military escort or than 50 people were wounded no one has claimed responsibility but groups linked to i so and al qaeda have staged dozens of attacks in the region in recent years in an address to the nation president russia has called for his people to unite to tackle the violence. we must remain dignified and courageous that's why i willing gauge the defense and security forces to track these terrorists and i call all of our people to mobilize against the terrorists i ordered the recruitment of volunteers for the defense of the
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homeland in the throat only a general mobilization of the sons and daughters of the nation without any consideration for the region ethnicity political opinion and religious faith can defeat these murderous faithless lawless who dream of submitting our nation and our courageous people to their mercy south sudan's president and opposition leader have been given another 100 days to reach an agreement over forming a unity government president salva kiir and his longtime rival react which are met face to face in the ugandan capital kampala for talks brokered by neighboring sedan and uganda the 2 men fell out in 2013 sparking a conflict that left hundreds of thousands dead regional leaders agreed next tuesday's deadline was too soon for them to resolve their differences. the leaders of a banned cambodian opposition party have been blocks from returning home sam rainsy and most secure have been living in self-imposed exile and was stopped from
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boarding flights in paris and malaysia they'd vowed to return this week to lead demonstrations against cambodian prime minister hun sen no a burden manly has more. from his home in paris sam rainsy says he's determined to return to cambodia he's been in exile for much of the past decade raese says he wants to gather other opposition politicians from the band cambodian national rescue party to lead protests against prime minister. was telling us he says it's to restore democracy to the country but as he arrived as an airport in paris in an effort to return home this happened and not enough for me to. i'm not allowed to vote or to try international. right and so i visited. a certain have received from very
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high up in the structure not to allow the to hold his deputy musak is one of several opposition leaders who fled from cambodia fearing arrest she to try to return to cambodia but was detained after landing in malaysia and since being released. a day before her news conference in jakarta was interrupted by the come podium ambassador to indonesia so you're here. with the kind. but she's a really difficult here. she's a criminal we have chosen to go back home to cambodia. we have high hopes that. that chair. would be on the side of cambodia democrat. party's acting leader sam rainsy has been part of cambodia's political fold for decades he was the finance
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minister under a unity government in the early 1990 s. . the 400 senseis power in a coup in 1970 reigns he says of his own opposition party but he left cambodia many times to avoid government charges against him cambodia trying to bully all its neighbors. c.n.r. exiles out or arrest them and send them back we don't think that anybody actually embody the dirty work to arrest people and actually. argue c.n.r. . like all cambodians have the right to return to their country and. sam rainsy says he's ready to return home and bring an end to prime minister hun sen's government and restore democracy in cambodia even if it means prison or worse as a manly al-jazeera. iran has cancelled the accreditation of an international atomic
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energy agency inspector who was stopped from entering a new to facility last week tehran says it stops the entering into a tense uranium enrichment plant because she tested positive for traces of explosives the u.s. has called her brief detention an outrageous act of intimidation they says iran rolls back on another commitment under the 2050 nuclear deal resuming enriching uranium one of its underground facilities. french police have dismantled a makeshift camp in northern paris home to thousands of migrants and asylum seekers just a day after the government announced tighter immigration rules it's the latest in a series of count closures throughout the capital with still more to come and has nothing to report many of the migrants now face an uncertain future. hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers sheltered from the cold and rain as french police evacuated a camp in northern paris before dawn among them families with young children for
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months nearly 2000 people had been living in desperate conditions in flimsy tents wedged between roads with no sanitation most were from sudan somalia or afghanistan it's a really bad condition for immigration here it's. not good environment it's very cold you know where there is to call. every time a strain i mean this is ground this really is not for good for like in recent years police of evacuated a number of similar camps in the city the mayor of paris at the situation was inhumane and she urged the french government to do more to help shut phone user this and so we'll put you through each time we're told it won't happen again if we don't want this to happen again we need a proper system that recognizes people's rights and gives them a dignified reception a country should be capable of this as daylight broke people carried their
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possessions and boarded buses french authorities said they'd be taken to shelters in the paris region to assess whether they have the right to apply for asylum. as workers began cleaning up police said officers would remain on scientists to prevent future camps in the area or the road here remains closed but most of the tents have been cleared away the cleanup operation is continuing but what is happening is that there are some migrants who are coming back they perhaps live somewhere else last night and they're finding that all their possessions. go on and they don't know what to do this somali man didn't want to be identified but he told me that he had lost all his belongings he said it was the 3rd time he'd been evacuated from a camp in paris an experience that campaigners say is all too common for we don't know yet what solutions are proposed besides temporary housing in a sports hall we have to think about the long term and not only about today that's what's important some people are leaving today but what will happen in 2 weeks in a year can those people stay in this housing and not go back to living on the
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streets the camp clearance comes one day off to the french government's announced new measures to tighten its immigration policy assigned to some that the government serious about cracking down but activists say the evacuation is little more than political p.r. because unless there's a better system to humanely manage migrants who arrive in france vulnerable people who continue to end up in the street the sash al-jazeera paris new zealand has passed a climate change low aimed at reducing its carbon emissions to 0 by 2050 the bill cleared parliament with near unanimous support and will require the government measures that will minimize the impact of climate change an independent commission will also be formed to monitor progress on reducing emissions prime minister december says she believes the law puts new zealand on the right side of history. italy is introducing mandatory lessons on climate change in all public schools lessons will be taught to pupils from primary 3 to high school it's the 1st country
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in the world to make studying sustainability and climate change compulsory the education minister says students will also be excused from class to take part in some climate change protest. the top stories here on al-jazeera at least 7 protesters have been killed as security forces broke up a sit in in the southern iraqi city of basra another $150.00 have been injured comes after at least 4 anti-government protesters were shot dead by security forces in baghdad a crackdown against mostly unarmed protesters has killed more than $260.00 people since unrest broke out last month. chile's president has announced a raft of new penalties against protesters as he fights to bring an end to weeks of unrest sebastian pinera is measures that aimed against people looting or carrying out acts of violence in the course of protests the punishments would increase if
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carried out by people wearing more than $7000.00 people have so far been arrested in the world in the worst demonstrations in the country for decades prosecutors are now investigating 800 allegations of abuse by police including. the united nations has been living is government and opposition to restore dialogue and peace after a 3rd person was killed in protests running battles were seen in parts of the capital of powers in the early hours of thursday as groups for and against president evo morales clashed with each other sporadic and intense demonstrations have gripped the country since the disputed election last month opposition supporters say the result was rigged to allow the president even morale is to stay on for another 5 years one protest leader says he is heading to live to formally ask even morality to resign. what we want to use the peace to return to our country and for hatred confrontation and racism among the libyans to be said to
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song. we want to have a country with peace and hope. cambodia's exiled opposition leader says he's been blocked remember turning to the country rings he's been living in exile and says he wants to remove autocratic prime minister hun sen who's been in power since the 1985 the deputy leader of the cambodian national rescue party was also detained in malaysia when she attempted to fly home. and the congolese warlord who was known as the terminator has been given the international criminal court's the longest ever prison sentence. and was found guilty in july of war crimes including murder rape and sexual slavery those of the top stories stay with us 101 east is next looking at japan's treatment of people with disabilities ahead of next year's paralympics. what kind of. pick up the cost we bring you the stories and
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