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let me come back and finish my term but livia's former president makes an appeal from exile as more die in the chaos following his resignation. this is al jazeera live from doha i'm fully back to paul also ahead iran's leaders stand by their decision to increase fuel prices and rationing despite a furious response a car bomb kills at least 1000 people in a northern syrian town controlled by turkey backed fighters splash. of violence mars otherwise peaceful protests marking a years since the birth of france's yellow vests more.
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the united nations is warning of violence in bolivia could spin out of control and prevent new elections on friday 8 supporters of former president evo morales were shot dead during fighting with security forces rallies fled to mexico after resigning last week following weeks of unrest opponents accused him of rigging october's elections to stay in power now on saturday spoke to al jazeera as john home and outlined his next miles. into sunday if moral is was left in a word to his longest standing currently now pressured to resign by the military of direct his ations of electoral fraud he's suddenly bolivia's feeble president and the next old in mexico but off the less than a week he told 00 he's already planning to go home. as a place i can't be outside of the country i'm used to be. in with the people as
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a union leader president doing work i miss it a lot i'm looking for a legal way to go back and be with the people as they resist the dictatorship of the coup he says if allowed back he wouldn't seek to run in fresh elections that's a bone of contention between him and the opposition the still wants to complete the last 2 months of his term. i don't know why they're so scared of evoking they don't want me to participate that's ok everything for life for democracy our time my candidacy but they should let me finish my term is that understood not understood by now interim president to mean an years she said he could face charges if he goes but it's the culmination of discontent that started back in 2016 when moralists to change the constitution to rome for a full time there was a referendum the majority voted against you having a 4th. and afterwards you did it you did running again. and that seemed to
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go against the spirit of democracy in the country you could interpret it like that but so you know on the 21st of february 2016 the lie won enough lies to beat us with $70000.00 votes more or less the right united and beat us based on a lie you and c.n.n. were in on it the u.s. embassy prepared that lie he's on repentant the letter and he also insists that there wasn't fraud in the elections a month ago this by investigators from the organization of american states saying that they too was diverted to a secret service that there were clear manipulations he says that organizations politically motivated. i had a lot of trust or some trust but now i don't have any in the oas i should be called the organization of the states of north america not america. he did call fresh elections after b.o.'s preliminary report but by then it was too late many c.f.l.
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morale is as a good leader who simply stayed too long you managed almost half of poverty the economy grew under you and you brought stability. no given what's happened if you could go back in time would you have run again for this 4th term would you have gone against that referendum or if you could have your time again would you have bowed out gracefully a look out and walk you don't look for the post of presidency at 6 you out that's my experience in the unions in my experience in the presidency and i want to tell you that after the 1st mandate i was happy content to go back to cochabamba is that when you win people stress you go again and. that in the end may have been his undoing and in his wake bolivia is in crisis with police killing protesters and violence on both sides meanwhile he can only look on from
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a 4 john home and. mexico city meanwhile venezuela's opposition leader is using the situation in bolivia to make a fresh push for president nicolas maduro to step down thousands of people took to the streets of caracas in support of my door's main rival. why don't made a speech outside the bolivian embassy telling his supporters to keep protesting entail free elections are held in venezuela. hundreds of cuban doctors living in bolivia flying back home after cuba said they were slandered and mistreated by bolivia's interim government cuba says 10 doctors including the board nato of its medical mission in bolivia were detained this week the communist country was a key ally of former leftist president ever more rallies cuba has also backed his claim that he was toppled in a cold. in other world news iran's leaders say they won't back down from their decision to increase your prices despite protests across the country one person has
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been killed and several others injured as they try to enter an oil refinery in the southern city officer john doe such a barrier reports from tehran. anger frustration and growing concern in tehran as people protested against a 200 percent increase in fuel prices the many simply turned off their engines on major highways across the city to show their disappointment at the sudden decision to raise petrol prices overnight. as heavy snow blanketed the capital people still lined up at the gas stations to fill up before the full remarks this is not a wise decision considering our horrible economy and sanctions we are under it's a cruel decision because it won't affect the wealthy people only the poor people will pay the price. this will 100 percent impact everything else it's not just about the press of gas all commodities will be impacted for. this was only her low
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income families they were supposed to increase subsidies 1st then raise the price of fuel they will find another excuse to cut their subsidies later. the protests have not been limited to the capital this was the scene in the southern city of abidjan enclose a sun province overnight here state t.v. announced a number of individuals it described as unknown elements fired into crowds of people injuring some. the shock of this news has yet to sink in here with the new prices motorists now pay about $0.13 a liter that's a 3 fold increase the government expects to earn nearly $2500000000.00 from the price increase and says that it will help millions of families in need had that sort of out of the 1st payments will be handled within the next week or $10.00 days and transferred to the families in model year a strong president believes that if there is going to be paid to process reform all of the new revenues will be paid back in full to the people. that many people here
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fear that this decision could have far reaching consequences it stems from a number of issues while iran has huge energy reserves its refining capability is limited and that makes it difficult to get fuel to the pumps. the government is also fighting fuel smuggling to neighboring countries that's because iran has some of the cheapest prices in the world due to its heavy subsidies and a weak currency the economy here has been struggling for years but since the united states withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal last year and reimpose a series of new sanctions on iran things have been getting much worse inflation is just over 40 percent with unemployment rates at over 14 percent officials here say that this fuel price increase will help people but it's proving very difficult to convince ordinary iranians door so to pary al-jazeera town. military sources in the democratic republic of congo say rebels on the allied democratic
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forces will bear attacking the eastern city of beni at least 14 people were killed in the attacks in the same area on friday night the i.d.f. rebels are retaliate after the army and u.n. peacekeepers launch a major new offensive against a group last month it's mainly based in dense forest near the border with uganda. in syria at least 1000 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in the northeast the techies defense ministry says the attack was carried out by syrian kurdish fighters but there's been no claim of responsibility it or a gate and b. as details. was the car bomb exploded in a busy residential area in the turkish controlled syrian town of al-bab this was the chaotic scene moments afterwards residents who've enjoyed more than 8 years of war have had enough was enough that i met him and we were walking and suddenly we heard an explosion haven't you had enough of this for
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a decade isn't it enough that you've made us homeless you've attacked our dignity isn't it enough that you slaughtered us you've made us go hungry why do you want us to go where do you want us to migrate to. the lead up to the attack was captured on this office security camera people going about their everyday lives until this. we were over there when the car exploded i came to check on my father and i shot we saw people burning on the floor and others were blown away. the turkish defense ministry blames kurdish y p g fighters who it regards as terrorists but the has been no claim of responsibility from any group turkey and its syrian rebel allies have mounted 3 separate offensives in northern syria against kurdish militia what we will see is more of these incidents. as the confusion over who controls
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walt who is responsible for what and who is saying was becomes more increased over time. the injured are being treated in hospital civil defense workers say they're trying to identify the bodies of those killed. victoria gay to be al-jazeera. there's been violence impact. on the 1st anniversary of the yellow vest protest movement police fired tear gas and water cannon at hundreds of demonstrators after they built barricades and set fire to cars and rubbish bins the movement began over rising fuel prices and the high cost of living and quickly grew into a wider revolt against president michel. it was meant to have been a moment for the yellow vests movement to shine again after a dramatic drop in support at weekly rallies for the movement's 1st anniversary brought a violent fringe on to the streets of paris with protesters building barricades against police. after firing tear gas at as they started to target the crowd
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directly at a car is to hit me in the head we are strong and determined even though this isn't really representative of the whole movement across the country this is the side of yellow verse protesters alienated much of from this movement it's trying to achieve these people hard core group of individuals who are themselves members of yellow dress prevent were clearly bent on vandalism. but it didn't start like this it began as a leaderless revolt against the rising cost of living and the planned tax on diesel an attempt by president to manual mccrum to reduce carbon emissions it morphed into a movement against mccrone himself drawing many tens of thousands of people from the far right far left and everything in between microbus forced to scrap the green tax and do more to help the poor but the yellow vests confused identity has led to its slow decline it has failed to transform into
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a political movement it has. been unorganized it has destroyed every spokesperson that has emerged and it has failed to go into election so on one side it's it has a huge impact on 'd the political landscape and on the other side has failed to put its mark on. that landscape. has dampened tensions by holding town hall debate up and down the country half a 1000000 people have taken part allowing mccrum to win back some support in opinion polls but activists have accused the government of excessive force against demonstrators 24 people have been blinded 5 have lost homes the victims blaming a liberal use of stun grenades and rubber bullets. the french economy is among the fastest growing in europe but poverty is growing to its powerful trade unions are calling for strikes and protests in december over pension reforms the yellow vests
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say they would join them may face a turbulent winter ahead. paris still ahead on. some present. britain's friends and tries to explain his friendship with. one of the protests this. hour can finally say winter is coming a long ways through china you can't see any change in the class so coming out from the plateau and moving eastwards and there's nothing really much in the scar and here is a forecast for sunday 23 in one hand keep your eye on that and 27 in hong kong
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almost universal sunshine i want to shout down the south was no big surprise there and then coming in from the north was some repairs a t. a big drop in temperature down to 11 and on this line is the winter front if you like it's rain or snow at hearts and it will make things change i think probably for the winter months. now for the sas the rainy season is showing rather lack of interest in indonesia very few shows you notice here but a circulation and it's a tropical site or on his way to northern philippines luzon but it will be a good rain thing not a wincing and maybe not as severe to be honest showers elsewhere well it's hard to pick them up one or 2 in k.l. or sumatra but i would like to see them i'm sure you would that in java jakarta the next couple days they're not really doing very much at all but the dry spell for the rainy season i think obviously the monsoon rain has now gone from india apart from bit of good stuff in sri lanka in the far south as the temperatures well this slowly coming down as well. who was it sponsored by qatar and.
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they're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me fully back to book a reminder of our top stories the united nations is warning violence in bolivia could spin out of control and prevent new elections on friday at nice size supporters of deposed president morales were shot dead during fighting with security forces. turkey is blaming kurdish y p g fighters for a car bombing in northern syria at least 19 people were killed and dozens injured in the explosion it happened in the city of bobby in aleppo is countryside and iran's government to standing by its decision to increase fuel prices despite protests across the country one person was killed and several others injured as they tried to enter an oil refinery the interior minister is warning security forces will act to restore calm if needed. now u.s. impeachment investigators have questioned a white house official directly connected to president decision to block military aid to ukraine mock sandys the 1st person from the office of management and budget
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to speak at the inquiry champus fresh on ukraine is at the heart of the democrat led probe the president is accused of using the aid as a bonding chip to encourage ukraine's government to investigate tom's political rival joe biden and impeachment investigators have released transcripts from the testimony of 2 more officials who appeared earlier sheva tansey has the details from washington. both depositions released late afternoon on a saturday here in washington by and large help rather than hinder the trumpet ministration rather than the democrats timothy maher soon the national security council's top expert on europe and russia says he listened to that famous july 25th call between donald trump and the ukrainian president didn't think anything illegal was going on didn't think that there was anything wrong with that if it were to leak out in the polarized atmosphere washington's there may be trouble he also says that the reason that it is being put on a secret service which is a big part of the conspiracy narrative are the democrats are trying to trying to
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create and say that was just a simple mistake this isn't good for the democratic narrative he also seems to suggests that he didn't know anything about any kind of quid pro quos anyone informed of any sort of quid pro quo aides in return for dirt on the bidens until early september he had no reason to suspect that there was any quid pro quo he just assumed it was all part of troubles general antipathy to giving out foreign aid and his concerns about corruption in ukraine that all helps donald trump and he says that as far as he's concerned the ukrainians possibly didn't know about any any freeze on the military aid until late august when the story was broken in politico magazine here in washington again hoping that republican narrative as far as jennifer williams is concerned she's the adviser to vice president mike pence on russia and the you know she does say she had concerns about that july 25th which she also listened to you she did think it was inappropriate it was too political it
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wasn't diplomatic enough but she has no light to shed on whether there was any quid pro quo she could only speculate and in addition she says that but vice president mike pence never mentioned to her any any investigations in to into joe biden's about effectively helps mike pence his case in saying that he had nothing to do with it who does come out in all this is once again golden solon's the e.u. ambassador to ukraine who will be testifying next week once again it seems like he'll be in a certain amount of trouble on wednesday when he does testify. friends friends andrew has spoken publicly about his relationship with an 8 sex offender geoffrey epstein the duke of york admitted to letting down there while family by staying at epstein's home after he was convicted some critics say the interview could backfire as katherine stansell reports but at the time an unprecedented interview with a senior member of the british royal family and his connections with the convicted sex offender prince andrew spoke to u.k. media about american billionaire jeffrey epstein you were staying at the house and
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convicted sex offender at the end of the day. with the benefit of hindsight that one could have. it was definitely the wrong thing to do. but at the time i felt it was the people stick on the right thing to do and i kick myself for the day . because it was not something that was becoming a member off only american billionaire jeffrey epstein hung himself in his jail cell in august while awaiting trial he was accused of sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of underage girls in 2008 epstein was convicted of soliciting sex from underage girls despite this prince andrew remained friends with epstein he went before the cameras to try to rescue his reputation but royal watchers believe his interview may make matters worse that's that's i think that this interview will be a trainwreck i think that it will have the effect of putting far more
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pressure than his already experienced on prince andrew while aided to visit a convicted sex offender why did he find it convenient to stay with him and why on earth should the queen's 2nd some think that this was all on rable way to behave which it wouldn't be for any human being virginia roberts giuffre says she was one of geoffrey epstein's under-age victor. and she says she was forced to have sex with prince andrew 3 times she says she met you in 2001 she says she dined with you danced with you at night club in london she went on to have sex with you in a house in belgravia a longing to go and marks on your friend your response i have no recollection of ever me she slowed. down so i don't remember meeting her this is
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prince andrew with the woman he says he can't remember meeting his lack of recollection is a departure from the denials issued in the past from the investigations that we've done you can't prove whether or not that photograph is faked or not because it is a photograph of a photograph of a photograph so it's very difficult to be able to to to to prove it but. i don't remember of ever being told from buckingham palace has always denied the allegations against prince andrew calling them false and without foundation this was a very carefully orchestrated interview that took place here and it was sanctioned by the queen herself this is the 1st time prince andrew has spoken so directly about his relationship with epstein but the way he handled the interview may well lead to more questions than answers catherine stansell al jazeera london. lebanon's former finance minister has withdrawn his name from contention for the role of
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prime minister mahmoud safadi said it would have been difficult to form a harmonious cabinet in a statement he added that he hoped outgoing prime minister saad hariri would be renominated for the position where protesters in lebanon have been on the streets for almost a month among their long list of demands is electricity stephanie decker has a report from beirut. there making a point of being here around the clock the 24 hour protest calling for 24 hours of electricity the problem is we don't have 24 hours electricity provided by the government this is you took. you to this fact we have each person has to have it house we have to have a generator to fill the gap where we don't have electricity. so we will end up being. extra city so the electricity is 6 hours of
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electricity the government electricity and we have provided for that electricity for our eating our money literally the reform of the electricity sector is part of caretaker prime minister saad how do these reform plan but with the ongoing political stalemate those reforms are as abstract as the idea of an interrupted electricity let alone has had functioning 24 hour electricity since before the civil war that's before 900 $75.00 that's why everyone has to rely on alternative sources and that translates to a mass crisscrossed electricity cables running streets and it's like this across most parts of the country this couple tells us the situation is unbearable. your government doesn't provide enough electricity to your house why we have to use generators but if you go to the areas with politicians leave electricity is of 24 seventh's so they. don't feel our problems as they don't leave in
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a blackout the demand of those on the streets government supplied uninterrupted 24 hour electricity for all it's a demand that isn't new my parents have been asking the same you know it's insane that my parents 3040 years ago have the same. things that they need the same things i would asking right now you know we pay taxes what we get nothing in return our roads aren't functioning well the government the ministries on functioning well and yet the people are surviving and yet the people are still here still working imagine how much more productive they can be when the government gives them just their basic living standards electricity is just one of a long list of grievances including water infrastructure and waste management we're told that decades of widespread corruption and mismanagement means that hardly anything works here the way it should stephanie decker al-jazeera beirut. polling
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in the u.k. has prime minister boris johnson's conservative party up to 16 points ahead of the opposition labor politicians are now fighting for undecided voters in the lead up to next month's general election and they're increasingly turning to online platforms but as reports out of creating amateurish means designed to go viral. we will leave the e.u. on the 29th of march 2000. it's made to raise a lot but it also makes a serious point about the conservatives failing to deliver bricks it when they said they would this online video is the work of momentum the grassroots movement that supports labor leader jeremy corbett one example of how political parties are using eye catching digital content in the battle for undecided voters and boris johnson's conservatives are firing back with a series of memes all with a similar message but with different treatments depending on whom they're aimed at showing top and ben gearin the young new zealand is behind many of them were hired
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off to helping australia's center right liberal party score an unexpected election victory this year we're posting 30 posts a day and more than 20250 a week that means you have to generate and publish a new piece of content every 20 minutes. they're saying what we call the boomer means because you have to create stuff out quickly i love this one here this sort of horrible mix of neal being a very bold canary yellow this advertising professional who runs his own blog on the latest political means says this deliberately garish content is often counter-intuitively popular with older voters we have seen some of the advertising in the conservative party. under 30 five's and i actually it's got more of a sort of retro cool eighty's vibe to it where it's actually quite polished and well crafted in the way that your city uses. the visual language of the internet in quite a quite nice way for the digital team momentum the emphasis is on spreading content
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with real people talking about their lived experience of issues like health care but they say they'll continue to put out satirical videos too you can talk very seriously about the things this government has done you can talk seriously about things like grand fell into it seriously about things you know like excess deaths as a result of austerity but then you can also talk reverently because i think you know people are just always communicating one time in their communicating and so many in this campaign we're seeing online content that's generating lots of laughs and then we're seeing content that's getting laughed at now some experts say what really matters is simply that people are engaging with the outputs but are those sounding alarm bells. i think the important thing is that in trying to get those simple catchy messages across they don't lose sight of the importance of being honest with the electorate because sometimes the simple message isn't necessary the most accurate message well i can't hide it from you i've been thinking
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a bit about this general election campaign what's clear is more than ever before the search for hearts and minds is happening online as much as it is on doorsteps the al-jazeera london. slogan i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera at the united nations is warning violence in bolivia could spin out of control and prevent new elections on friday at least 5 supporters of former president ever more honest were shot dead during fighting with security forces are speaking to al jazeera in mexico city morale is said he is not looking at how he can return home. i can't be outside of the country i'm used to being with the people as a union leader president doing work i miss it a lot i'm looking for a legal way to go back and be with the people as they resist the dictatorship the coup. turkey is blaming kurdish why b.g.
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fighters for a car bombing in northern syria but no one has claimed responsibility for the attack at least 19 people were killed and dozens injured in the explosion it happened near a busy bus station in the city of bob and nepalese countryside iran's government is standing by its decision to increase your prices despite protests across the country one person was killed and several others injured as they try to enter an oil refinery. there's been a violent scenes in paris where police and demonstrators have clashed on the 1st anniversary of the yellow vest protest movement to gas and water cannon were used against hundreds of protesters after they built barricades across the capital setting fire to cars and rubbish bins military sources in the democratic republic of congo say rebels from the allied democratic forces on the group are attacking the eastern city of beni at least 14 people were killed in the attacks in the same area on friday night the a.d.f. rebels are retaliating after the army and u.n.
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peacekeepers launched a major new offensive against the group u.s. impeachment process investigators have questioned a white house official directly connected to president donald trump's decision to block military aid to ukraine mock sandys the 1st person from the office of management and budget to speak at the inquiry special on ukraine is at the heart of the democrat led probe the president is accused of using the aid as a bargaining chip to encourage ukraine's government to investigate his but its goal rival joe biden. those are the headlines on al-jazeera plenty more on al-jazeera dot com inside story is next stay with us.
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inhumane and dangerous our rights groups describe conditions in a positive migrant camp bosnia struggling to cope with the influx of thousands of people fleeing war and policy taking the new bulk of the route to europe so who should be tackling this crisis and how this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan no running water or electricity portable toilets that are rotting flimsy leaking tents and rubbish everywhere built on an old landfill site next to a mine field.
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