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not if you're to talk about the solutions amount to 00000 this is the opportunity to understand the very different way where there. is and we don't believe the. protesters of hong kong refuse to back down as the government debates allowing police to enter universities. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a new interim president takes control in bolivia but there's a strong show of support for exiled president evo morales. israel continues its assault on gaza striking targets across the territory bringing the death toll so far to 12. and ignoring fears of a potential environmental catastrophe the controversial keystone oil pipeline in
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the u.s. gets pumping again. according on kong is deciding whether police can enter university campuses after fierce battles with student protesters overnight demonstrators are blocking streets in the city center for a 3rd day authorities have warned hong kong is on the verge of a total breakdown of the rule of law but anger at the use of force by police is fueling young rest and the city is braced for more chaos to apologize us now from from hong kong did what we're should we start you want to talk about this this court situation 1st for get us up to speed on what's happening where you are. if it's all right with you all to start with where i am right now and that's hong kong's financial district to the left is the stock exchange i'm surrounded by
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luxury shopping malls big bags important to offices that. get the wheels turning in hong kong's financial this does this and it's come to standstill as you can see here is the protesters have simply ripped up bricks from the sidewalks scattered them along the roads in this major intersection which should be teeming with traffic carson trams and instead it's empty except for a few people and protesters milling around this is just one of many of the disruption actions that protesters are causing across the city this is part of their new strategy the weekday disruptions to daily life in hong kong and other parts of the city the protesters have also set up barricades at major junctions blocked off roads police have come in to clear them out they have been tear gas fired in several other districts but protesters just come back again and set up other barricades in other areas trying to stop traffic trying to float stop the
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flow of the commuter flow but like here where you can just see a scattering of protesters you're not seeing a large number of people gathering you're just seeing a few people a few protesters in mosques and hard hats it's just more groups of them moving around the city richelle ok so 'd the latest legal battle is whether or not police can enter universities tell us tell us about. that's right this is coming after overnight clashes that went into the early mornings between police and students at the chinese university of hong kong that's one of hong kong's biggest and most brits it just universities police people the students had set up barricades trying to stop police from entering following some clashes and police trying to arrest today and. since then the university authorities have called on the police are the authorities not to allow to police to enter the halls of education but the government has said in
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a press conference this morning police are allowed to be on university campuses and schools so the university heads have gone to the courts there are asking for an injunction to make it illegal for police to enter we will get the proceedings on that at around 9 g.m.t. but for now what's happening is the education bureau has announced that they're closing all schools tomorrow due to the commute commuter chaos that we have seen throughout the day and also because of the skirmishes that we're seeing between students the police and protesters ok to vehicle column with the latest from hong kong to thank you. at least 7 people have died in the explosion in afghanistan's capital a car bomb went off during rush hour and kabul the interior ministry says another 7 people were injured there's been no claim of responsibility so far. there's been a suspected suicide bombing outside a police station in the nation city of mid-on only the bomber was killed in that
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attack at least 6 people were injured. the opposition leader in bolivia's senate has declared herself interim president after weeks of political turmoil janan as was sworn in despite lacking a majority in the congress she's taken over from ousted former leader of a morale issue is now in mexico after being granted asylum alice resigned after weeks of protests over his disputed reelection marianna sanchez as more from bolivia's capital of pas. tensions are growing here in the center of the capital where the presidential palace and the national assembly is here at the plus somebody yield an area that is completely surrounded and sealed by police riot police and another ring of protection by the army this was. and is has been named interim president. after
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a long debate about whether they would be if the legislators would be able to swear her in with without the members of the mouse party the party that don't do it will morales and he's political allies now and is has said. she would immediately call for elections there needs to be that they need to name a new electoral tribunal and hold elections around. december the 20th to be able to have a new president. by january 22nd. in the meantime a lot of frustration and a lot of people followers of him. who are not happy with this decision who are not happy with this naming of the interim president and there's people protesting in the area with police repressing this with water cannons water trucks and and riot police all around this area now supporters of ousted bolivian president
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morales they are expressing outrage and condemning what they're calling a coup to pre-suppose more. the past few days have not been easy for people in. olivia's 1st indigenous leader in what alice was forced to resign when the organization of american states or always yes and now fraud had been committed in the presidential election. the military requested that he step down he supporters denounce it is a cool. down in wonka morales was the man that gave them dignity after years of discrimination. in these years we have seen change we have seen our lives get better i'm young but i've seen how indigenous people have suffered in this country now these racists the ones that burn our flag want to shut us down people around gree because everyone else opponents burned the woodpile
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a flag which represents indigenous communities here there are roadblocks everywhere these days as morally supporters vow to continue the push for his return from mexico there's been chaos since he stepped down forcing the police to request the help of the army to restore order in the city the site of fighter jets flying overhead is making people even more furious. people are. writing down. all of them are. back i'm not going to. be i'm more sensitive. and interim president as anyone yes was sworn in by bolivia's opposition on tuesday in an attempt to fill the power vacuum her supporters celebrated her designation. the winner who we are facing a presidential succession brought on by the vacancy of the presidency and the absence of the president according to the constitution as president of the senate i
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immediately assume the presidency of the state and i promise to take all of the measures necessary to pacify the country. but the assembly meeting happened without the presence of ever more or less movement towards socialism party congresswoman assume that. they will not cooperate with those who carried out a call does anyone i'm a little. we are not of that assembly because we are not giving cardroom and we want to recognize her as a president the florist our own senators to escape and step down. even though more or less is accused of fraud and violating the constitution people will see him as the man who changed bolivia for good many are dreading their return of the racism they faced in the past and that's why many say he's resignation hurts them even more. and.
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forced out by his country out of his country rather by the military morales's hoping to make a political comeback from mexico atheros arrival he called for peace back at home on home and has more on that. level morale as woke up on sunday he was still the president of bolivia. by midday tuesday he was out of power and the mic so touching down in mexico he said things could have been worse. i want to tell you we're extremely grateful because the mix can president has solved my life. it wasn't easy getting him here the mets can foreign minister described the tense standoff before he could work out a route for him to leave the country we're going to see he wanted to see but there were even the supporters surrounding the airport and the armed forces within it and there was a period of real tension for evo morales was already on board the plane it was the worst moment as. president morales said that
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a coup pushed him out on sunday the army had asked him to resign he was blameless he indicated. to the world my only crime is that evil is indigenous the only sin we've committed as social programs for the poor and always searching for equality and justice. he would denied that humans hard to extreme poverty brought economic prosperity and stability to the country during his time in power. but his opponents point to a growing authoritarianism and then serious irregularities in the last election he went against the constitution to run in the 1st place so it's a complex situation here for a president over nearly 40 years due to a lot especially for the poor and vulnerable in bolivia before he disappeared from view he made a coup for peace in his homeland. finally i'd like to say for the not to
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be any more bloodshed more confrontations we have decided to resign for the people and let me get to the scene as it meant to him and while i have life we will stay in politics while i have life the fight will continue and we sure that the people of the world have all the right to free themselves. that wish is going on and sit in bolivia where despite his absence his supporters and the opposition continue to clash join homan now does it or make scarcity. israeli air strikes in gaza have killed 2 palestinians and injured 2 others palestinians have died since tuesday when israel killed a senior commander of the armed group islamic jihad biters in gaza have responded by sending almost 200 rockets towards israel egypt and other international officials are working to mediate a ceasefire between israel hamas and islamic jihad matheson is live in west jerusalem covering all of this for us so what is the latest. well as of about 6
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o'clock this morning local time that's right about 4 g.m.t. we understand the rockets started to be fired from gaza into areas in israel which run along the border with gaza but 2 of those areas were also in the general direction of jerusalem up towards the north of though they're not particularly close to jerusalem we also understand that islamic jihad is saying that it's attempted to fire an anti-tank rocket at an israeli tank to the east of gaza as well all of this is happening as the israeli military has been carrying on what it's describing as a 4th wave of air strikes targeting it says islamic jihad rocket launch sites and undercut underground facilities but we've heard from sources inside gaza that that also includes empty fields and a house income units which is to the south of does and as you say the gaza health ministry reporting that 2 palestinians have been killed bringing as you said the death toll to 12 but the interesting thing is this follows
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a much quieter night than people were expecting particularly in comparison to the over the over 12 hours of almost constant bombardment from both sides that the area saw on tuesday tuesday night has been significantly different but the questions were now going to be asking on wednesday morning are 2 things 1st of all is the bombardment from islamic jihad in gaza going to increase to the same level that we saw on tuesday and secondly what is going to be the role in hamas in all of this hamas is the controlling group in gaza and is it issued a statement last night saying that armed groups in gaza would continue to retaliate to the killing of the islamic jihad leader with however wisdom understanding and comprehension of the resistances ability to manage this battle no i don't read too
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much into this but it is. same time that seems to be something to be seems to be a more cautious approach to to getting involved than perhaps one might have expected in the past but we do know that the un peace envoy a nickel a muslim not know it has been travelling to egypt in a bid to try to get some sort of solution to this crisis at the moment there doesn't seem to be any options on the table and islamic jihad has promised that more violence is yet to come ok at the latest lustrous on thank you. so ahead on al-jazeera and protesters killed gatherings banned calls for his government to address human rights violations ahead of next year's election. evacuation orders given to parts of australia as the bush fires range out of control.
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hello get a welcome back we're here across parts of the central mediterranean we are looking at a storm system that is moving very slowly but it is getting stronger across the region a lot of clouds across this area and the biggest problem with the storm is going to be the very strong winds we're going to be seeing across parts of the adriatic so also heavy rain is going to cause some localized flooding into the region power lines structural damage could be an issue with this storm as we go into wednesday now as we go towards thursday the storm system moves slowly over here towards the east for rome though it is still going to be rainy few there 14 degrees is expected high to the north though we do look at some cool conditions there for berlin with a temperature of 6 and rome the rain is going to continue wednesday thursday as well as friday 16 degrees expected high that is about normal for this time of year where we are going to see some active weather along the coast of africa as well with that same storm system but a lot of heavy rain towards parts of algeria as well as tunisia now we're going to
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be seeing the coastal areas of libya some clouds as well as some rain windy conditions could be a problem as well for cairo though we are looking at a nice day if you maybe some clouds pushing through at 32 degrees there on wednesday a little bit better by the time we get towards thursday but for algiers it is going to be a windy day with attempt a few of 21 degrees. watching
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al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you right now in hong kong demonstrators are blocking streets and transport for a 3rd day police have borne the city is on the verge of a total breakdown of the rule of law but protesters say its police actions fueling much of the anger bolivia's center an opposition leader has declared herself interim president after weeks of turmoil. has taken over from alstead president evo morales who is now in mexico after being granted asylum paralysis resigned after weeks of protests over his disputed reelection israeli air strikes in gaza have killed 2 palestinians taking the total killed since tuesday to 12 egypt and other
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international officials are trying to mediate a ceasefire between israel hamas and islamic jihad. 11 a man has been shot dead just south of beirut marking the 1st death and $27.00 days of nationwide protests the army said one soldier had been detained after they opened fire on protesters who were blocking a road demonstrators have been blocking traffic with burning tires after president michel on told them on tuesday to go home and spend more than 2 weeks as the prime minister saad hariri resigned following weeks of protests. and banks in lebanon have had been shot and will stay shut for another day as the impact of the ongoing protests is felt banks were supposed to reopen on tuesday but were kept closed by striking employees 70 jacker as more. the closed doors a sign of a deep unresolved economic crisis. and now they don't but.
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they have only one use the money to them somebody. before me through military go for. it is often roughly 170 out we can't transfer money abroad businessmen com pay their supplies so they can't provide for their customers nor their families at home things are getting worse by the day lebanon's banks have shut down again after briefly opening their doors last week informal capital controls remain in place cash points are giving out money but limited amounts pre-date and only lebanese pounds not u.s. dollars which is essentially a 2nd currency here foreign transfers are practically impossible affecting imports the bank remains close in order to avoid 'd bank wrong i mean many depositors' coming all of a sudden and asking to withdraw their deposits because of the panic caused by the appeal of people taking place in the street and the absence of
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a solution the governor of the central bank is try to calm people by saying that the stability of the lebanese pound is guaranteed a small groups of protesters a state of the streets and what this argument is so what i mean hard economic crosses been here long before the revolution this is not know what we are doing we are doing for the future generations parents failed to achieve we will give to our children we don't want our children to live with the way we had too many people say lebanon is on the verge of collapse because of ingrained corruption and decades of missed man. economic policies the protesters want a new government made up of independent political and nonsectarian technocrats but they say they're stuck with the same old elite bickering over its next step there is still no agreement among the political elite a new government would look like a map political stalemate means no action what is false becoming a paralyzed economy in the meantime the banks remain closed and people's access to
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their cash severely restricted it's almost a month since the protest movement began and lebanon's economy was in decline way before that people here say they've had enough and they're waiting to see what the new government will look like the question is will it satisfy the street and can it save lebanon from a full economic collapse stephanie decker beirut chile's president sebastian pinera says his country is facing a grave crisis as a national strike brought many regions to a standstill thousands of people have been marching in the capital santiago as the country's currency the peso hit a historic low protests began in mid october over an increase in metro fares but have since grown into a wider anger over social inequality has called place for service to help security forces try and manage the often violent demonstrations and the report is raising concern over guinea's human rights situation ahead of next year's presidential
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election amnesty international has details several red flags including rising political tension and the killing of anti-government protesters opposition groups have been protesting for weeks against proposed changes to the constitution a fear of the changes could allow the president a condé to stand for a 3rd presidential term well as west africa researcher amnesty international he joins us from skype via skype from canakkale in guinea thank you very much so these red flags when did you all start noticing what you're calling red flags. well the report covers the period from generally 2062 to the temperature better than 19 and we're seeing that over the period despite the many programs that have been naming some areas including the evolution of the death penalty still facing major averages that is ahead of the 20 twentieth's presidential election one is been cited that.
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and in particular the typical croquet line and with your friends and the 2nd a bad people who experience these times including journalists there's also a program of base based. men and only it is happening in a climate of mainstream that has been filled by the adults in a way to which we take that security forces. as we just said there are people that are concerned that the president has actually wanting to stand for a 3rd term what are being indications that that is the case well so far as the president said in the cases that they are considering the sign because the situation and the president has refused 'd or has not ruled out that he would panic or. because lead people to take to the streets in the particular and there is a coalition you should that have been created in may and they go in many protests many of which were banned by the authorities and beyond that during those
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days including making security forces so where where is there accountability work can there be accountability to stop the stoppings from going in this direction. well unfortunately the bills aren't even and including the you know the moochers that they spoke ringback to over the last 3 days are not really willing to recognize the behavior in the fact that from that start are arbitrary is bad or that people 'd are killed in the street so you know they blame for any. protesters for throwing tear gas into mosques during a period of all march last monday they say that the girl that has that crew back the the jury getting the mark and then in the cemetery he basically that people who are killed during protests are killed by members of the of the vision who dressed up at the creepy members of the security forces and shoot other protests that
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believe this so they would read it and unwilling to recognize you know the fact that people pray who take up to the streets are getting their next step up to the street in the last 5 years of documented only one kate in the doesn't mean that we're kowtowing with the prosecution we're going to need more than we have money as we go to the one case of a good with the republic there with been sentenced to 14 years in prison for killing a demonstrator and injured haven't seen one case i would have 7 he would recorded of or 2 between jennings has been 15 and up to over 2019 all right there's an election coming up next year we will continue to cover this the toilet and center national thank you thank you. a u.s. energy regulator is allowing oil to flow again through a major pipeline just weeks after it leaked 9000 barrels were environmentalist say the damage should be cause for alarm from then bargain north dakota al jazeera alan
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fischer reports. they're working around the clock in subzero temperatures and still the cleanup we take months it's 2 weeks since more than 1000 barrels of oil leaked into a field near edinburg in north dakota it's the 2nd major leak from the keystone pipeline in 2 years the 4th in 10 and environmentalist's see this is exactly what they feared this is as far as we can go the only people are beyond here are employees and regulators and some environmentalists say that stopping them from finding out exactly how bad the leak is the keystone pipeline carries around 590000 barrels a day from canada to refineries in the u.s. operated by t.c. energy the canadian company insists it's doing all it can to minimize disruption and damage our main goal in this is to do it correctly and do it safely in
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a does not matter how long it takes as long as we do it right the energy company wants to build a new pipeline the keystone x.l. it would double the capacity it was blocked on environmental crimes by barack obama but approved by president donald trump and approval most tied up in the courts and i gave them the permits and they got it built and it's been operating down very successfully and a lot of jobs a lot of everything else in a lot of clean environment because that's what it is in the town of edinburg itself there's little concern about the environmental impact of this leak this leak i don't think i have any impact or you know it's all contained in one area of the herd. and all. no problem with. the government regulator has given the all clear to start pumping oil again even though it has not revealed what caused the pipeline feel here in the 1st place alan fischer al-jazeera
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edinburg north dakota. australian officials have ordered more people to evacuate as firefighters struggle to contain an outbreak of bushfires cooler conditions how brought some relief in new south wales but still a leave immediately warning has been issued for several areas in the state of queensland the outbreak of bushfires on australia's east coast has already claimed 3 lives and destroyed about 150 homes firefighters say it will be weeks before they can get all of the fires out. saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates have confirmed they'll now take part in football's arabian gulf cup and qatar will join the likes of defending champions kuwait who won the tournament in 2017 and for other gulf nations i mislaid the 3 countries said they boycott this month's tournaments those countries along with egypt imposed a blockade in 2017. we had some discussion about the ongoing dispute which is lasted for more than 2 years there are american efforts which
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qatar appreciates to preserve the unity of the g.c.c. and to return it back to what it used to be qatar is always open to dialogue and has expressed its readiness to engage in an unconditional dialogue based on mutual respect nonintervention in the international affairs of other states and respecting for their sovereignty over other states. and we shall carry these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera and hong kong demonstrators are blocking streets and transport for a 3rd day police of war in the city is on the verge of a total breakdown of the rule of law but protesters say it's police actions that are fueling much of the anger to go holland has more from hong kong. this is hong kong's financial center to my left is the hong kong stock exchange i'm surrounded by luxury shopping malls multinational headquarters and big banks but as you can
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see this major intersection has been brought to a standstill. by the protesters what they've done is they've ripped up bricks from the sidewalks and placed them along the road so on this relating to a major highway bringing the center of hong kong to a standstill now this is one of just many disruption actions are across the city bolivia senate office later has declared herself an interim president after weeks of political turmoil janina's has taken over from the ousted president even morality is now in mexico after being granted asylum for alice resigned after weeks of protests over his disputed reelection israeli airstrikes and gaza have killed 2 palestinians taking the total killed since tuesday to 12 letters in gaza have responded by sending almost 200 rockets towards israel egypt and other international officials are trying to mediate a cease fire between israel hamas and islamic jihad or at least 7 people have been
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killed in an explosion in afghanistan's capital a car bomb went off during rush hour in kabul interior ministry says another 7 people were injured there has been no claim of responsibility so far there's been a suspected suicide bombing outside a police station in the indonesian city of men don only the bomber was killed in that attack but at least 6 people were injured australian officials have ordered more people to evacuate as firefighters struggle to contain an outbreak of bushfires cooler conditions have brought some really the new south wales but still a leap immediately warning has been issued for several areas in the state of queensland firefighters say it will take weeks to get all of these fires out. of the headlines keep it on al-jazeera orders to go inside story as that next. the other is a tipping point trying to start telling us right now that we have just 12 years as the world's leaders to agree on
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a solution. taking matters into their. own which is actually to get people to understand that it kills people and it kills people now it's critical to both fronts were to the people. on a jazeera. the french president raises eyebrows by describing nato is brain dead is the alliance weakening can europe create an alternative this is inside story. hello welcome to the show i'm sam he's a than nato is experiencing brain death so says french president emanuel might call
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many of his european partners in the alliance agree though they call his words drastic and danger.

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