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exposing deep rules in denmark's adoption system. a witness documentary on al-jazeera. deep main anger against police in hong kong as a student is injured during demonstration who was injured during demonstrations dies in hospital. i'm fully back to watching al jazeera live from my headquarters in doha also ahead the high cost of calling for change security forces in iraq kill at least 11 protesters. chile's president announces new measures to clamp down on violent protests. unfortunately we are in uncharted
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territory the softly. dozens of bush fires burned across eastern australia forcing a record number of emergency one it's. the death of a 22 year old protester in hong kong has triggered citywide memorial ronnie's the anti-government movement is accusing the police of causing his death while dispersing a protest with a gas on monday but police say they're not to blame sour clock has more from. the hospital confirms the student's death on friday morning charging luck suffered a brain injury after falling from a car park during a protest on monday but after 2 operations he died of a cardiac arrest was of course. the family wants to tell the media and the people of hong kong thank you very much for showing your support and encouragement to
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queen elizabeth hospital in the past few days they are very thankful. child was a computer science undergraduate at the hong kong university of science and technology fried i was the graduation ceremony for many of these students that event became a memorial as his colleagues paid tribute to the 22 year old i think is a very grave day and we all have we all have i think a lot of home people not just oh yes remember i have a man talk operation for this but still when it comes to fact it hurts a lot this could be the 1st death as a direct result of the confrontations between police and protesters in hong kong the anti-government movement blames the police for a chance injury which occurred when tear gas was fired on students during a dispersal operation she was trying to avoid eye contact from the police fired tear gas was caught for them from a cop car and so today we want to call our house and also
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obviously my for the government and the police to launch a full test against the government has expressed its regret and sorrow of the death of the 22 year old student standing in sympathies to the family but this incident is lucky to further anger the anti-government movement more protests is expected to join demonstrations this weekend. high profile pro-democracy activists joshua wall and agnes chow have called on protesters to join the rallies which are now in their 5th month they were charged with organizing a legal assembly. in june before friday's court appearance they demanded an independent police inquiry into what they describe as excessive force being used on protesters it's now is the time for the government to step up in the band as investigation on the clash we didn't know and see for truth and justice. the police have denied any wrongdoing and will conduct
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a comprehensive investigation into the circumstances of the student's death sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. while a senior superintendent of kano in east where the student was found injured on monday had this to say about his death. there are accusations that police offices chased after the man before his fall we must clarify so we must terrify that it is certainly falls. lastly we are aware that some that the sins call on others to stage protests tonight and over the weekend there are also critical comments made online we appeal to members of the public to stay calm and rational. to you rock now a continued anger has led to a night of violence security forces shot dead at least 5 protesters in the southern city of basra that came after reports that protesters tried to break into
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government buildings earlier security forces spoke up a sit in at the entrance of casa or the country's main port for oil and food in the iraqi capital baghdad meanwhile at least 6 more protesters were shot dead on thursday broke out on shahada bridge where security forces used live ammunition against demonstrators who are angry at the lack of public services and want a political overhaul name has more from. the state protestors are coming to talk or square agere it is mounting this rio de internet is really angry protesters one man told me the government is trying to isolate us from the world and the us the un has released a report saying that there are she writes violations being committed against protesters they include tear gas canisters being aimed directly at protesters heads and bodies the suppression of the media then this they're not locked out and before
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that a week long social media blackout the government social media sites are showing 2 quote killing and feature that is quite easy in the minds of young people the government did acknowledge though that an amnesty international report is accurate last weekend international released a report saying that on me at least 5 occasions in baghdad security forces fired military grade tear gas grenades intended to kill her the government says they investigated and it turns out the police was using this banned type of tear gas canister they say that it will no longer be used for protests or say this is all additional evidence that 5 mr odd. to. these human rights violations the government. specifically needs to be held accountable.
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and earthquake in northwestern iran has killed at least 6 people and injured hundreds more the magnitude 5.9 quake struck in the east azerbaijan province it was followed by dozens of aftershocks so officials say rescuers have been deployed to the region the 3rd round of a joint military patrols between turkey and russia is getting underway near the syrian border with turkey the patrols are part of an agreement between ankara and moscow to remove kurdish fighters from an area turkey wants to establish as a safe zone turkey says it plans to resettle as many as 2000000 syrian refugees in the area. or has more from gaza the turkey syria border. so this is what is happening now the joint patrols will be traveling through the area of us which is the obviously all the way to maliki on the border with iraq they won't be able to get into the city of commission because it is not part of the sochi agreement and because the syrian government troops maintains a military presence inside the city after. maliki the 2nd phase would be to.
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conduct those patrols in kabbani around could barely tell replied and been busy and this is where you have some problems because russia says that all the y.p. 2 fighters have pulled out from those areas something which is contested by turkey turkey still believes of those fighters are still operating of those areas along with their weapons and this is why they would like to ensure through their joint patrols that everyone has left at a later stage turkey is intending to. setup observation post a longer safe zone a very of us questions from an early kjell the way to words. to ensure that we as their fighters are not stage any come back to the areas all the border with turkey . fire fighters in the australian sate of new south wales say they are in uncharted territory with more than a dozen tries
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a severe risk authorities say they've received reports of people being trapped in their homes 16 of the fires are now considered to be at imagine sea level around $370000.00 hectares have already burned. unfortunately we are in uncharted territory to softer than the we've never seen this many followers concurrently an emergency warning alert level we've got 94 hours burning across new south walls 50 of them remind can time we've got more than a 1000 fathers working on the fires more than 70 year graph working on the fars and dozens of heavy planter machinery trying to do the best they can to save and protect as many people as possible. acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney has been subpoenaed to testify the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump the house intelligence committee wants him to appear on friday but it's possible the white house will exercise
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executive privilege and block the order the inquiry is looking into whether the president abused his power by withholding aid to ukraine to pressure the new government there into investigating his political rival joe biden the president's former national security advisor didn't show up at the inquiry john bolton who was fired by trump in september says he'll only appear if he's ordered by a federal court to gallagher has more from washington. well not much surprise to the democrats i think that john bolton was a no show they did expect that to a certain extent and the democrats are really now focused on the next phase of these in pietschmann proceedings and that will be public open hearings which begin next week they have 3 key witnesses including the former ambassador to ukraine and that really gives the democratic party a chance to show the american public what really happened here we've heard what these people have said in depositions now we will see it on live television across
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the nation that is an important opportunity for the democrats to show there in preachment proceedings do have some weight meanwhile president trump is in trouble for something else entirely different the trump foundation was found guilty today and fined $2000000.00 because essentially a judge said that the president was using his charitable foundation to further his own political career for instance using money from the foundation to settle legal claims using it to have a portrait painted that $2000000.00 fine will go to an array of different charities and i think that story would be far bigger if not for these inpatient proceedings which of course will start next week and everybody will be watching very closely indeed through the head on al-jazeera helpless and terrified why families of miners who were attacked in brooklyn are faster for more violence plus i'm dominic kane at the bergen war funding of the lance people went to to escape the prison they felt
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this put them in. hello there some pretty good conditions across much of japan with same kinds of mostly stayed well to the east of the country and now we have got actually more in the way of cab pushing into us here across the korean peninsula as you can see through some. today there's just a chance if you shall just eastern areas of home she time it is not too bad in tokyo 18 degrees celsius much the same on sunday and that is when the rain begins to push across the korean peninsula with huge blanket of cloud elsewhere it is mostly clear now further to the south 3 much of the china we have got those kids skies remaining $900.00 cells in shanghai a little bit cooler 27 hong kong the rain stays that well to the south and in fact as we go through sunday my season cloud just beginning to push up across into high now because of that system but is this that we are watching this is going to
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continue to work its way away from the philippines still producing some heavy amounts of rain is a go through saturday but the very heavy rain working its way as you can see towards vietnam elsewhere we've got quite a lot of rain pushing south across into borneo some showers across into sulawesi mostly a cloudy picture across much of sumatra and the malaysian peninsula on saturday by sunday there's more there in the way of rain showers pushing further tools the south and sunday by sunday that rain really becoming very heavy into vietnam it could well lead to some localized flooding. a story 1400 years in the. story of succession. tells the story of disputes division.
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just. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera crowds in hong kong are demanding justice after the death of a fellow protester the 22 year old student fell off a parking garage during demonstrations on monday police were firing tear gas in the area but the cause of his fall is unclear iraqi security forces have shot dead at least 5 protesters in the southern city of basra 6 others were killed in the capital baghdad on thursday demonstrators are angry about
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a lack of public services and want a political overhaul and more than a dozen wildfires are posing a severe risk to safety in the australian state of new south wales authorities say they've received reports of people being trapped in their homes. chile's president has announced new measures measures to clamp down on violence as demonstrations continue there for a 3rd week a lot america at its end to see a new man reports from santiago. it's been 21 days of mass disturbances and demonstrations in. and amid mounting criticism for not controlling the violence that often accompanies peaceful protests presidents of us dumping it addressed the nation with a series of measures getting. we want to announce a public agenda to strengthen public order and better safeguard our citizens security we've lived days of tremendous violence vandalism and delinquency provoked in most cases by groups of organized crime. the temple and plan includes outlawing
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barricades and the use of masks and other methods to disguise one's face including and used in the role of intelligence services and the use of helicopters during protests among others. wednesday the uptown headquarters of the conservative party which is part of being it is governing coalition were attacked and ransacked. we are facing coordinated and organized groups who are acting in a directed way we need to investigate this so that we can find the leaders of these violent groups who are causing destruction and i intelligence system wasn't prepared for this type of violence and the threat of higher penalties hasn't dissuaded protesters perhaps not surprisingly the president's new and now trying to security measures coincide with the mass demonstrations moving uptown to an area that had been considered off limits that kind of always peace in the middle of 3 weeks of demonstrations because you can see this area which is the epicenter if you like the headquarters of the biggest businesses in the country are now being closed
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and surrounded by protesters. while most protest is insist they don't support violence some argue the current upheaval is a necessary evil. piniella says he listens to peaceful protests but what about those who have been demonstrating for more than 4 years but better pensions if those who started those protests had written a letter to the president instead of brushing the metro with the president listened no. well premier called for a rare emergency meeting of chile's national security council opposition members and demonstrators accuse the president of trying to criminalize the protests while others lamented that he had not been so energetic about increasing penalties to curtail police brutality. you see in human al-jazeera santiago.
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political parties are increasingly targeting voters on line ahead of the upcoming british election while the traditional media is tightly regulated some commentators say volz on social media content on not fit for purpose looks at the digital dangers to democracy that i think a straightforward question to labour's brix it spokesperson and a prompt reply why would the e.u. give you a good deal if they know that you're going to actively campaign against it well here's literally what most of you going to be doing but piers i have been talking to that but now look at what the conservative party of prime minister boris johnson made of it in a twitter post actively campaign against. that misleading it it provoked anger and ridicule from some but the conservatives stood by that video does is actually right now what we are concerned about it's not the deep it's what we would call it cheap fake so something that has been edited with a little bit of a video editing software doesn't have to be complicated but it's still changing the
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entire message after video and it is something that is performing very well on line and has a tendency to go viral. the labor party's now taken a well known image from boris johnson's 2016 campaign with a misleading claim about health spending on the side of a bus and twisted it to attack his new bricks it plan labor's opponents of attack very for making outlandish claims but they're not backing down either in the u.k. political advertising on t.v. and radio is restricted to a very few tightly regulated slots for each party making the online arena story important twitter's decision to scrap political advertising can prevent misleading or downright fake content being shared meanwhile facebook has chosen not to block a misleading political posts insisting it can't act as a censor since the 2016 bricks at referendum social media companies say they've got better at dealing with fake accounts and fake news but it took 3 spoke to years to
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show the world misleading referendum advertising like this different groups got different versions of each child's we don't know who got what's or why i'm not kind of micro-targeting is going to be a big feature of this election campaign when you get a leaflet through your door by a political party it says on it it has to have by law a name in an address on it to say who's responsible for that there's no such rule online and so when you see an online advert it's a lot harder for you to know who sent it to you and who's paying for it and those are really really important questions for transparency it's always the golden question how this actually swings election news really unknown how any form of support doesn't actually affects people's decisions to get out and vote day but the worry here is that because it's very hard to scrutinise it could be having an
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impact that we are absolutely on the way so when britain elects a new parliament in a few weeks time one crucial factor could be the growing mountain of fake political content to the barber al jazeera london. been inspired aminta's vowed to introduce a new constitution aimed at easing a political crisis it also plans to issue an amnesty for those still detained over a post-election violence in april hundreds protested in the capital new calling for president that's his style on to step down the amorous followed the electoral commission's decision to ban opposition parties from standing in the election the parliamentary vote so tunnel's allies win of the seats looking at fossils president says a national response is needed to improve security after 47 employees of a canadian mining company were killed during an ambush 60 people were wounded in dozens more are missing the attack near bongo was the worst in 5 years charlotte
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ballasts has details. it's been 2 days since these people's relatives employees of a canadian mining company were killed in a remote ambush in bikini a government ministers tried to appease them as they waited to identify the date and understand what happened. i haven't seen my husband for 2 days i came here today to see his body take it and leave what the minister is a saying here that doesn't work for me it won't bring back the dead. they gathered in the capital ouagadougou hundreds of kilometers from the site of the attack in the eastern corner of the cane a fast so in the border of benign and is year it happened on a public road 40 kilometers from the boom googled mine the victims were employees and contractors of sim of a mining company to get to work they travelled in a military convoy this time there were 5 buses the convoy struck an explosive device on the road then was ambushed by unidentified gunman in
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a remote area without cell phone reception there were no photos or videos of the attack the 3rd on a sim of a convoy in 15 months. 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. no group has claimed responsibility for the ambush but i sill and al qaeda have claimed dozens of attacks in the region in recent years the king of fast so the groups have killed nearly 700 people since 2015 and forced half a 1000000 from their homes the. attacks multiplied after april this year when the recently deceased isolator. baghdadi welcomes new affiliates from the king of neighboring mali. the joints a health security force french and u.s.
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. forces have been unable to contain the violence so illustrate your show continue . if the situation continues it will really be very hard for us we are all worried we don't feel comfortable we really live in fear this is really a disaster for us similar says it's been good mine is secure but operations are on hold out of respect for the victims their relatives now looking for not just respects but answers and security challenge ballasts al-jazeera. on saturday germans will mark 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall for generations of people it was the most obvious symbol of the ideological divide that spanned europe al-jazeera is domini cain has been hearing the stories of some who were tempted the perilous journey to freedom and others who stayed behind the iron curtain on a sunny day dagmar zoomed on likes to walk her dog on bare now or it's a simple pleasure she was denied for much of her adult life because this was where
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the berlin wall once stood guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot to kill tomorrow tuchman's of her manner in everyday life the wall played a role in that it was just there is stands before you if you're standing in front of it you just had to accept it in. august 1961 the height of the cold war when communist control of the east drove many thousands to flee west using the open border in berlin causing a brain drain the east felt could not continue. so they built the wall separating families and friends over night and when the 1st bricks were laid here rows of houses were blocked off meaning those who wanted to get out had to jump from the upper windows onto the street in the west. but as the wall became more solid soon that avenue of escape was blocked off and what became known as the death
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street divided the city and so people had to think much more creatively about how they could free communism. people like who bed holbein as a young man he swam across a guarded waterway to reach the west and then decided he wanted others to be free to so he helped build a tunnel under the center of the city in all 57 people crawled through this space to freedom including his own mother. it was a tremendous feeling taking part in possibly helping your relatives and friends come over but at the same time it was a strain because i had only just survived the border crossing myself and thought man if something happens to me here then it's twice as bad something did happen to your heintz as a student he volunteered to help people flee the east bringing out dozens of refugees over several months using a car with diplomatic plates and adapted to allow people to hide from view but then
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one day he was caught they had already left saying he had the diplomat they had which they confronted me to. their healthy escapees who didn't make it. they had a car i mean what else is there to learn early in the end to the 2 german governments agreed a prisoner swaps of spent less than a year in custody as time wore on most people grew used to the ugly gray barrier that divided the city but then in november 1989 came the moment many thought might never happen a wave of peaceful protests swept through the city and because the soviet government would not help the armed guard stood powerless as people partied on the wall and then finally tore it down. very little of what the east german government called the anti fascist protection barriers still remains many berliners are too young to know 1st hand what it was like to live in
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a divided city for those like dagmar who do saturday will be a poignant day dominic kane al-jazeera at the berlin wall memorial. now a new exhibit showcasing one of leonardo da vinci's most important works has opened in london sonia went to take a look. the mind that crossed boundaries and apollo math who mastered the worlds of both art and science now not to love him she may have been accused of being a heretic yet he produced some of the most iconic religious paintings masterpieces as mysterious as they are a noun intricate with a pond layer of secrets and symbolism. here the virgin of the rocks wild yet immaculate dark and illuminating with discoveries to be found among the light and shade. the latest way of exploring this work of art
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experiencing the science and the techniques that created this icon what inspired it how it was painted and not least how to preserve it a journey that gradually reveals itself in all its glory the paintings a really important one for leonardo the commission occupied him for 25 years this isn't and it gave people so much rich wonderful material that their experience of looking and engaging with the real leonardo is deeper and more memorable and more meaningful. here is also a chance to play with darkness and light how the master would have seen the subject bright among the somber rocks. eventually described water as the driving force of nature it is the architect of the grotto depicted in the virgin off the rocks
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painting is also a testament to the all felt by the artist the natural world and the desire he had to understand it. the version seen here is one of 2 that exist the other is in the louvre in paris both almost identical but created for different commissions yet what captivates is the mind behind the work and the genius that continues to unveil itself to those who gaze upon it so in a diagonal al-jazeera london. close again i'm fully back to brawl with the headlines on al-jazeera crowds in hong kong are demanding justice after the death of a fellow protester the student fell off a parking garage during demonstrations on monday police were firing tear gas in the area but the cause of his fall isn't clear on grounds for lease have denied responsibility but say
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a full investigation will be conducted there are the queues asians that police officers chased after the man before his fall we must clarify so we must verify that it is certainly falls. lastly we are aware that some that the students call on others to stage protests tonight. and over the weekend. there are also medical call most made online. pew to members of the public to stay calm and rational meanwhile to pro-democracy activists have been in court in hong kong joshua wang and agnes char charged over an unauthorized protests outside the police headquarters in june 1 has called for everyone in the city to wear black t. shirts to show their solidarity with the pro-democracy movement iraqi security forces have shot dead at least 5 protesters in the southern city of basra 6 others were killed in the capital baghdad on thursday demonstrators are angry over
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a lack of public services and want a political overhaul. the 3rd round of joint military patrols between turkey and russia is getting underway near the syrian border with turkey the patrols are part of an agreement between ankara and moscow to remove kurdish fighters from an area turkey wants to establish. state of new south wales say they are in uncharted territory with more than a dozen bushfire. risk authorities say they've received 3 fourths of people being trapped in their homes 16 of the fires are now considered to be. level around $370000.00 have already. had. inside story starts now.
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this week marks 30 years since the berlin wall came down it signaled the end of a decades long cold war that bitterly divided east and west so what sort of legacy did the wall leave behind and did it bring about a new world order this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm daryn jordan it was the single most important moment since the end of the 2nd world war on the night of november 9th 1909 the berlin wall came down it drew to a close one of europe's darkest chapters since $961.00 the wall was
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