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we can understand what it's like to have a different perspective but i think that is a strength for al jazeera. tree lanka's ruling coalition candidate concedes defeat an election overshadowed by the easter sunday bombings. there are missed on the attack and this is al jazeera live from coming up tear gas and petrol bombs protesters and police clash as a university campus in hong kong. for a legal way to go back and be with the people of plea from exile evo morales tells al-jazeera he wants to return to believe and finish his presidential term. and the
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study questioning whether century is really necessary for many people with heart disease. now goes up by rajapaksa has declared victory in sri lanka's presidential election his rival subject premadasa conceded as early results put rajapaksa over the 50 percent needed to avoid a secondary count rajapaksa is the brother former president mahinda rajapaksa and was defense chief on the tamil tigers were defeated 10 years ago the election was dominated by rising religious tensions and a slowing economy in a statement such as president said he will stand down as deputy leader of the united national party he went on to say like we've just witnessed the most peaceful presidential election in the history of out independent republic this was a results of the democratic gains and institutional reforms that have taken place over the last 5 years that empowered an independent elections commission and
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restored the rule of law my pail to the incoming president is that he take this process. forward and strengthen and protect the democratic institutions and values that enabled his peaceful election as the 7th president of sri lanka for more let's bring in bennett smith he's live for us in columbia bennett a return of the rajapaksa political plan to power. yeah the rajapaksa brothers are back in the stars and it's not without controversy these were men the right to rajapaksa was sensationally kicked out of power in the last presidential elections in 2015 and that was when got to by rajapaksa today was defense minister it was in the dying weeks and months of the civil war against the tamil tigers but got a pyre oversaw brutal crackdown on tamil tight tiger fighters the un estimates some 40000 people died in that crackdown in the dying months of the civil war so
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a controversial winner of this election but they lost in 2015 because the voters it appeared had enough of allegations of corruption concerns over that crackdown they made no mistakes this time they got out the vote from the sinner buddhist majority about 75 percent of this island is similar buddhist and most of them it seemed voted for the rajapaksa. burn and after the easter sunday bombings and hundreds dead there just how big a factor was security issues in deciding this election that was the centerpiece of rajapakse as campaign. indeed $263.00 people killed when 8 suicide bombers targeted churches and hotels on easter sunday and in the wake of that attack rajapaksa said he would run for presidency to restore run for the presidency to restore national security and in the months since the bombings we heard this damning parliamentary report revealed that intelligence
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sources had told the government that an attack was imminent but because of the dysfunction the enmity between the president and the prime minister at the time nobody told each other nobody decided to act on those warnings and the attacks went ahead rajapaksa was able to play on that failure of the current government to launch its campaign and it seems that that argument has won the day and people have voted for his promise of increased or over to improve security and stability than it's method of watching events for some time and i thank you panel. well police in hong kong have used tear gas and water cannons on protesters as a university campus has been throwing petrol bombs large fires have been lit around the hong kong polytechnic university in some of the most dramatic scenes of the 5 months of on the west all schools have been told to stay closed on monday because of the violence correspondent david compiling joins us now live from hong kong to talk us through the situation then i see the police are now saying one of their
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media offices has been hit in the leg with an arrow is the violence there on going . look it's hard to tell what's happening and you know you suddenly have a major confrontation and then a law like this but let me set the scene 1st for you here i am standing right in front of the universe the this is the major crossroads that the protesters have taken over to my left you will see here are the riot police that covered all ends of the junction they have water cannon the far far and blue dye also into the university and also the protesters trying to move them behind the also been firing tear gas periodically trying to push them back behind the each time they do that the protesters retreats a little bit so let me walk towards where the protesters are a little bit further as you can see in front of me there are they are there the barricaded themselves with whatever they can get their hands on pretty much and
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which has always been the symbol of these protests the umbrellas are to run them off for a friend of any police tear gas or any water cannon so they move back they retreat slightly and then the police move back themselves and. white next to where those are brought us our is the university though so we could just pan over there paul a little bit and you can see a brick building so that made that a fortress i.e. it was here over the weekend and inside it's like a little military barracks a village with everyone having their own their tasks to carry out to help with these protests from there there have been farming molotov cocktails which haven't been very effective really particularly because the water cannon immediately puts them out they've been far east tones and the busy throwing things or trying to throw things at the police armored vehicles and the police riot police themselves and as you mentioned there yes a media officer was hit by an arrow when i was here on friday i saw students with
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bows and arrows practicing their shots so that is one of their tactics too but since we've been here today we haven't seen arrows here at this junction. here where do we go from hansen months now do you think this is just another iteration of the protests that we've been seeing will or does this represent an escalation of sorts. you know every time you think that the situation can get worse or can escalate any more it does and so this week what we've seen is the protesters with this whole new tactic of taking over universities that's mainly because earlier in the week police that part here got the ass went to campus party i guess at one of the main universities here so that's when the movement moved towards the universities the other thing that been doing also is setting up barricades on roads during rush hour during commuter time trying to disrupt the whole city and then manage to do that so their tactics have changed
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that what that's done instead is not only inconvenience certain pockets of the city it's basically brought many huge districts to a standstill with schools being shut universities ending their semester early show . wops retailers business in general coming to a standstill so it seems but it seems like the protesters are not standing down they say they're going to continue with the protest they're now throwing some stones and other projectiles so we're going to just move out of the way here. yes so it seems that they say that they're not going to be standing down but the government is trying to find a solution not necessarily through dialogue because it's hard to tell who to have the dialogue with but a solution almost physically by trying to remove these blockades i also want to point out one of the main reasons that this university is the last stronghold for the universities several universities have been taken over earlier in the week this
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is the last stronghold because they have also occupied a major tunnel that goes into hong kong 5 so that's one of the last major highways that the protesters are holding for the reason they're not standing down the one they give up that tunnel their movement here is pretty much not effective anymore to go paul in there live for us in hong kong stay safe on to other news and bolivia's former president evo morales has told al-jazeera he should be allowed to return and complete his final term in office that comes as the united nations warns that violence there could spin out of control and prevention new elections on friday 8 of his supporters were shot dead during fighting with security forces and there were further clashes between security forces and supporters of corollas on saturday people have been launching from the region of 2 pari to the central city of cochabamba even rather spoke to al jazeera as john holmes and outlined his next moves. up until sunday if more rallies was latin america's longest
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standing current leader now pressured to resign by the military after accusations of electoral fraud he's suddenly bolivia's former president and in exile in mexico but after less than a week here he told our dizzier he's already planning to go 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 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 but he still wants to complete the last 2 months of his term. i don't know why they're so scared of evo they don't want me to participate that's ok everything for life and for democracy i retire my candidacy but they should let me finish my term is that understood not understood
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by now interim president jimmy and yes 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 program for a full time there was a referendum the majority voted against you having a 4th term and afterwards you did it you did run again and that seemed to 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 flies to beat us with 70000 votes moral lesson the right united and beat us based on the 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. diverted to a secret service that there were clear manipulations he says that organizations
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politically motivated. i had a lot of trust some trust but now i don't have any in the o s i should be called the organization of the states of north america not america he did call fresh elections off to be oas preliminary report but by then it was too late many c.f.l. moralities is a good leader who simply stayed too long you managed to almost have poverty the economy grew under you and you brought stability now. 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 of war was a was you don't look for the post of presidency that seeks you out that's my experience in the unions in my experience in the presidency and i want to tell you
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that after the 1st mandate i was happy content to go back to cochabamba is that when you win people say trust and go again and. that in the end may have been his undoing and then his way libya is in crisis with police killing protesters and violence from both sides meanwhile you can only look on from afar john home and out is it a mexico city. while the weather is an expert still and well had to google to find out why so many people are in despair and want to protest despite the recent violence. how much of western and southern europe has been suffering from flooding a big change in temperature even star this is in england this is almost assured now of miss lee we're talking about
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a river overflowing its banks but you know don't build on the would be the the message from that nevertheless the rain is not just in this part of a new it's got to science yorkshire cross to wales as well as the whole of this circulation here and to give it more rain to is not welcome now it's all gone south the air involved is quite cold we've had snow in spain we always got snow in france and a high temperature in 0 of only 4 degrees on sunday to the south where it's warm rain and the amount of it is a big problem particularly in croatia but i think it's going to be involved obviously stretches back into north africa snow's been falling. to doha off to one of the housemaids is quite likely and not just on the high ground but temporary get on low ground as well in contrast to that is warming up again in the east not everywhere but book 20 and should be about 8 out of warsaw about 14 so this part of europe has got the calm trusting weather as the west again for you just a quick look at how far it goes it drags its heels in the atlas mountains on both
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a reminder of our top stories this hour. he has declared victory in sri lanka's presidential election his rivals conceded as early results put rajapakse up over the 50 percent mark needed to avoid a 2nd recount. police in hong kong have used tear gas and water cannon on protesters as a university campus has been throwing petrol bombs all schools have been told to stay on monday because of the violence and bolivia's former president evo morales has told al-jazeera he should be allowed to return and complete his final time in office the united nations warned that violence in the country could spin out of control and prevent new elections. iran the supreme leader ayatollah ali come in a has voiced support for a fuel price increase that sparked
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a nationwide protests he denounced what he calls hooligans for taking part in sabotage riot police and security forces again fought with demonstrators across dozens of cities on saturday protesters are unhappy with petrol being rationed and prices rising by as much as 200 percent. i'm not an expert on this issue but i said if heads of government make a decision i would support it and i will the heads of 3 branches have made a decision based on expert study so it should be implemented. at least 19 people have been killed in a car bomb attack analyst in syria the turkish defense ministry says the attack was carried out by syrian kurdish fighters but there's been no claim of responsibility . reports. 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
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war have had enough. and. we were walking and suddenly we heard an explosion haven't you had enough of this for 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 syrian rebel allies have mounted 3 separate offensives in northern syria against kurdish militia what we
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will see is more of these incidents. as the confusion over who controls what who is responsible for what and who is saying was becomes ever 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 gate and be al-jazeera. military sources in democratic republic of congo say rebels from the allied democratic forces are attacking the eastern region of benny at least 15 people were killed in attacks in the same area on friday night the i.d.f. rebels are retaliating after the army and u.n. peacekeepers launched a major new offensive against the group last month it's mainly based in dense forests near the ugandan border now protests over proposed constitutional amendments have left at least 20 people dead in guinea thousands had been against
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that draft that would allow president alpha condé to run for a 3rd term demonstrations against the move in the west african nation began last month out of there as reports. from. devastated they say he was sure the government focused on the guinean capital conakry on fears that his wife was left to bring up your 3 month old baby on her she says she tried to prevent him from going note to join the protest. when you look over the word my husband did not come home and after his friend called my sister and said they had killed him i said it's a joke we're just parted before he left i told him don't go out when i tried to call him and ask him to return but he was not picking up my calls and he never came back. earlier police killed 2 other people as opposition supporters wearing a red jacket stoop to the streets to voice their anger at the president of
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accounting and to reject his plan to change the constitution so he could run for the new lives in a. really good name in youth protesting in order to prevent the foundations of the republic from being destroyed in order to keep a man in power we are not against him in person but we are against him remaining in power beyond his term in office. the latest demonstrations were called for by the national front for the defense of the constitution miles leading the protests young protesters back tires in the streets of the capital and torched a bus police said they used force after protesters threw stones at them the public anger against constitutional reforms began several weeks ago and there have been many violent confrontations with security forces since then arthur least 20 people have been killed i'm listening to national has condemned what he describes as a human rights abuses in guinea including the deaths of protesters at
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a huge number of arbitrary arrests hama divide a disease. while lebanon's former finance minister has withdrawn his name from contention to be the next prime minister raman safadi said it would have been difficult to form a harmonious cabinet and a statement he added that he hoped outgoing prime minister saad hariri would be renominated. all that news will be welcomed by these crowds you've been protesting outside safaris house in beirut they consider the billionaire to be part of the same elite establishment they want to slant old. now the united states and south korea postponing military drills for this month in an effort to bolster a stalled peace talks with north korea the u.s. has denied to the move amounted to another confessional to pyongyang. now the phone call between u.s. president donald trump and his ukrainian counterpart at the center of the congress impeachment investigation has been described as inappropriate that's according to
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a transcript released on saturday from earlier testimony by the us vice president's foreign aide foreign policy and jennifer williams congress also released a transcript from tim morrison he's a former white house national security council official morrison told the hearing u.s. ambassador to the e.u. gordon sutherland claimed to be acting on trump's orders and was regularly in touch with him she have a chance he has more from washington d.c. . wednesday's public testimony of the current u.s. ambassador to the good in someone is now turning out to be the one of the key moments in this investigation he already raised eyebrows because in his initial deposition to congress he said he knew nothing about any kind of quid pro quo and then subsequently a few weeks later he submitted written test of it said oh you know i said i didn't know anything about a quick break or in fact it was me who told you question officials that if they did some digging on the bidens then maybe the military aid that we promised you might
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be released quite a change he didn't tell congress that at the time now on friday we had information from a stall for the ukrainian embassy that he was present at a lunch with holborn trump on his cell phone and from said so are they going to do the investigation words about effect and someone said well we're going to do it i love you though they're living anything you want again something he didn't tell congress during his initial deposition or the subsequent written written deposition and then on saturday we have information from the national security council's expert on russia and europe and by and large they was a very good day for donald donald trump this deposition does support many of the old trumps assertions that i was nothing wrong with the july 21st call that it was only classified into a secret because of a new. state and so on but are in fact as he was concerned no one really knew about any quid for planning the ukrainians themselves weren't necessarily aware of an
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arms freeze until late august until september the 1st when gordon some of them told them that maybe a quid pro quo might work them all of this information hasn't been to us and been shared with congress by some grand himself on the key question now will be when gordon some of them told the ukrainians give us the burden and rather the arms the arms will be released was he acting on his own initiative was he acting under the orders of donald trump that's going to be key it's interesting that morrison be the person who from the n.s.c. you seem to think that somebody might might be acting on his own initiative perhaps but that's not going to be a key question saudi arabia has put a preliminary evaluation on its state owned oil company around between $6.01 trillion dollars that's still short of crown prince mohammed bin sounds target of 2 trillion the kingdom says it's working to raise more than $25000000000.00 by selling a 1.5 percent stake of the state owned oil company it's taking bids from investors
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and the final price will be set after that phase which ends on december 5th. all to a stranger now where wildfires burning in the east are expected to flare up again over the next few days at least 4 people have already been killed and more than 300 homes destroyed just during the past week 5 fighters are preparing for more hot and windy weather in the states of new south wales and queensland. so many patients with severe heart disease could benefit from medication and lifestyle changes rather than surgery that's the finding of a major 7 year study in the u.s. it's the biggest yet to compare invasive options like stents with conservative treatments like cholesterol lowering drugs or aspirin the study says the findings could save hundreds of millions of dollars in health care costs well ali khan is dean of the university of nebraska is medical center college of public health and he says the study backs up the findings of earlier such i absolutely would
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represent recommend the more conservative there be and so this is now the 2nd time in over a dozen years that i think we've really for once and all answered the fundamental question that if you have stable heart disease should you use medical therapy and lifestyle modifications or should you go on and include invasive treatment such as dance or or a cardiac bypass and the data is pretty clear $5000.00 people $37.00 countries $100000000.00 to do this study stick with the drugs in the conservative there are be the findings apply to people with stable cardiac disease so if you have if you're having a heart attack then yes you should go on and get some other invasive therapy but if you have stable disease then you will do just fine with conservatives there however people who have severe stable heart disease so you know if they're walking and they have severe chest pain then the studies suggest that they'll have
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a better improvement in their quality of life however they're not more likely to live longer or not have a heart attack or not require hospitalization. this year's pair prize which honors outstanding work to promote democracy has been awarded to an afghan journalist now actually me works with the 1st all female television station in afghanistan the country is regarded as one of the most dangerous in the world for journalists speaking to al-jazeera illini describes the dangers that she and others face now while me and my name is not dry let me i've been a journalist with zine t.v. for the past 3 years in a host of them i go off to my home i remember the day i realized i wanted to be a journalist i decided i would study to become one but my family was against it they said i could never become a journalist you just by are caught in this and them i would like to believe i'm a feminist and want to be able to work for women so i decided to join zhan t.v.
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afghanistan's 1st all female t.v. station. i would like to dedicate this prize to all the women of afghanistan. those big king bred. those getting beaten by their husbands those raising their children and facing abuse and to those nameless women who are yet to discover their own identity and the purpose of their life let me get this it takes a lot of courage to be a woman in the afghan society in a place where the most common answer you get is no and you're told that your rightful place is your home and you do not have the right to raise your voice to ask for your rights it's as if we're lesser humans with another sonja but i will continue being a journalist until the last breath of my life which means that i have chosen my red line if the terrorist groups including the taliban return we fear that the few rights we have achieved would be taken back rights like me bravely introducing myself in front of the camera or other rights that afghan women have today they
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would aim to take those back from us and throw us back to all those dark days but i will stand against them this is my responsibility to defend myself and all the women around me we will defend all our rights and achievements. and again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines gaza by rajapakse says party has declared victory in sri lanka's presidential election with his rival subject teledesic conceded as any results put rajapaksa over the 50 percent mark needed to avoid a 2nd recount rajapaksa is the brother of former president mahinda rajapaksa and his defense chief and the tamil tigers were defeated 10 years ago. police in hong kong have used tear gas and water cannon on protesters at a university campus we've been throwing petrol bombs all schools have been told to
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stay shut stay shut on monday because of the violence. bolivia's former president evo morales has has told al-jazeera he should be allowed to return and complete his final term in office that's as the united nations warns that violence in the country could spin out of control and prevention new elections speaking to al jazeera in mexico city said he is now looking at how he can return home. i can't be outside of the country are 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 of the. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has voiced support for a fuel price increase that sparked a nationwide protests he denounced what he calls hooligans for taking part in sabotage that's as riot police and security forces again fought with demonstrators across dozens of cities on saturday military sources in democratic republic of
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congo say rebels from the allied democratic forces armed groups are attacking the eastern region of benny at least 15 people were killed in the attacks in the same area on friday night the i.d.f. rebels are retaliating after the army and u.n. peacekeepers launched a major new offensive against the group last month it's mainly based in dense forests near the ugandan border and lebanon's former finance minister mohammad safadi has withdrawn his name from contention to be the next prime minister so far he said it would have been difficult to form a harmonious cabinet 3 major lebanese parties had supported his nomination in a statement he added that he hoped outgoing prime minister saad hariri would be renominated. well those are the headlines to join me for more news here on al-jazeera after inside story stay with us.
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inhumane and dangerous our rights groups describe conditions in a paucity of migrant camp bosnia struggling to cope with the influx of thousands of people fleeing the war in policy taking the new balkan 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 migrants and refugees at the jack camp so that it's a nightmare conditions are appalling and are about to get even worse with the onset of the balkan winter the.
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