tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera November 18, 2019 4:00pm-5:01pm +03
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1st time arrested i was 11 years old jason. al-jazeera. and i am of the problem and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes after a day of violence and unrest in hong kong police and protesters along in a tense standoff at a university campus. regional leader goes on trial in barcelona accused of disobedience and the victims of the worst massacre carried out by colombia's far weapons are finally being buried almost 2 decades later. in sport australia's
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foreign minister slammed the rugby star israel folau over his comments on the country's push far as scott morrison calling for old words appalling to hitler in the far goldsworthy of punishing australia for passing. an abortion law. will begin with a 10 standoff in hong kong between riot police and pro-democracy protesters at a university where demonstrators have barricaded themselves inside the polytechnic campus for several days before dawn on monday police entered the grounds they were met with a bag of petrol bombs and arrows they responded with tear gas water cannon laced. they did weapons were used in a poorly attended university which has become a weapon factory as well as
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a refugee for extremely violent viruses that development so rare is has reached a critical level rogers. has so intention murder officer at all costs or later a number of demonstrators fled the university's building several people were arrested it's unknown how many remain inside and there are large groups of people on the streets of the city reportedly making their way towards the university campus let's bring in our correspondent rob mcbride he's joining us live from hong kong it's been a busy day there today rob what's happening now. to say the least lizabeth and an increasingly tense evening is developing here this monday in hong kong and also increasingly troubled as you mentioned there we have a developing situation a group of protesters who seem intent on trying to help the protesters the students who are besieged in this campus now this is
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a. tactic that they have deployed since yesterday sunday as their way of trying to stretch police resources trying to take police away from here away from attacking this campus they have been staging small skirmishes in surrounding streets in this part of the calhoun district of hong kong using cars to create road blocks that cetera it seems to be coming to a head this monday evening we've had in a couple of blocks just over in this direction there is a square where up to a. 1000 students and protesters have gathered maybe even more by now they have tried some of them have tried to move this way get through police lines maybe get through one of the access points to try to get into the campus if they can they have been pushed back there's been tear gas but they do seem to be massing once more so this is a developing situation meanwhile of course the protesters themselves those students are still inside as you mentioned there were groups that came out
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a larger group that came out early on monday and throughout the day we have seen smaller 3 groups emerge a few one a few at a time some of them have been given blankets and given medical treatment it does seem as though they're potentially injured we do know that some have been injured in the in the past few days of attacks. from facing being taken away in ambulances and given medical treatment it's also likely that they are going to be arrested as well because the police are determined that the people inside this campus are guilty of a number of offenses including writing and rob the reports of you know people go into words the university can. as as you mentioned about a 1000 gathered elsewhere these come as protesters are trying to get people out to as many different spots of the city as possible to really stretch police resources after 5 months of these protests. that's right i only think it's fair to
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say that police are definitely strange to me this has been an exhausting time for everybody concerned for protesters for police there has been talk about you know at what point the police the police may buckle under the strain of this they do have thousands of officers as one of the better resourced forces in asia if not the world so they do have thousands of forces but there is talk about possibly maybe bringing back officers who recently retired from service also maybe even bringing in other uniformed disciplinary services such as prison warders those sort of people who may be able to help out but certainly the police are stretched and of course we're now getting into a week normally typically you'll see the the protests there with the most violence the most activity happening at the weekends but now of course it doesn't seem to matter these protests can happen any time of the week of the weekends or the working day and in some respects for hong kong that is the more worrying trend
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because of course it does disrupt the working life of the city there were calls again this monday for protests to take over the central business district of the city that didn't come off but it does seem as though possibly protesters were saving their powder if you like for what's happening here this evening on the cow loom district of hong kong with the fate of these besieged protesting students here hanging in the balance and rob as you report on this we're actually looking at quite extraordinary pictures of i guess they are student protesters. making their way on royal. abseiled down away from i guess where they've been trying to evade police that is no doubt waiting for them as they have other student protest as a number of arrests today. i haven't not quite
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sure what these pictures are that you're seeing there's barry's agency feeds coming through this evening throughout hong kong there has been talk though about ways of the students trying to find their way out of this campus obviously all of them want to get around facing court action and possibly lengthy prison sentences so we've hearing all sorts of speculation about ways that people have been trying to help them provide vehicles or provide ways to get them out what the other protesters who have massed on the streets around here want to do of course is to create distractions to move riot police away from this campus to deal with them and to make it easier for people to try to get out if they can as far as the police are concerned and they have said anybody is welcome to leave this campus if they put down their helmet right shields or if they put down any weapons they might have all of that will go in their favor at their upcoming court trial but they do stress
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that they definitely want to see them face a court action and prosecution for a number of crimes up to of course the crime of rioting but. it does not seem to be that much of an attraction for the students themselves many of course are still determined to hold out if they can evade capture they will interestingly earlier on today we did see 3 students make a run for it running along this overhead walkway here chased by police firing tear gas and also rubber bullets they seemed determined to capture them and there is of course the still standing this warning that if any of the protesters think that they are going to try to break out of this campus using the weapons that they have such as molotov cocktails which the police say lethal weapons then they are quite within their rights they say to use live ammunition well thank you very much for that for now that is rob went by and joining us. live from hong kong we are going to stay with the story we're joined now by joseph chang political activist and
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member of the pro-democracy group alliance for true democracy and he's also joining us live from hong kong mr chang always good to have you with us on al-jazeera so as we've been reporting we are looking at pictures now of protesters you know abseiled in their way down onto the road to escape arrest by police we've had a number of arrests today after days of these students being holed up at a university and as we've been reporting you know throwing petrol bombs arrows at police have been responding with tear gas water cannon it's been 5 months of protests how do you see the events of the last few days in the context of the 5 month movement. it's approaching that in gains so to speak to government probably believes that now it has a rest more than 4000 dr stirs and with the surrounding of the parties can't you
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it may well be the last batch of arrests and and if these that you can break the hard core of the radical protesters the police around the b.c. of them protestants if you will says to allow them to leave peacefully and it demands either surrender or phrase future arrest and serbia prosecution certainly if it's not itself the bowl and that is why you still have. rather than confrontation going on there some of these are you practices supporters are coming from the other side the parents say they want to break the r r c of the police so as to allow the children potus thirds full have been so rounded and kept in captivity in the polytechnic you have to be able to escape to to freedom and get is exactly why he expects it said the actions perhaps in the
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coming star as a sole lead of course and violent action is the last thing that's needed in hong kong off to 5 months of these protests with every thought violent incident to action how much further do we get from any kind of reconciliation between protesters and hong kong authorities. this is exactly the problem i think in general people are pessimistic people do not see the light at the end of the kind of get this also why people are still very much on the government because the government has the tools that you need the balls any process of reconciliation simply emphasizing. the or not resolve the crisis you. will not bring hong kong back to normal life again it doesn't mean has suffered the fields even do set up and independent commission of inquiry and this is the very 1st
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demanded by over 80 percent of the hong kong people. mr chang thank you as always for your time we do appreciate it that is joseph chang live in hong kong thank you . we're going to move on to other news now cause no one has laid a computer is on trial in barcelona for an edge disobedience is accused of ignoring orders from the spanish electoral authority to remove a symbol of support for the separatist movement from a government building where tensions have been high in the region since the jailing of a number of leaders last month. now a spokesman for the iranian government says protests over and creates and petrol prices are karma around the country but says they have been more riots the government has confirmed that 3 people have died since demonstrations began iran's president hassan rouhani says 28000000 people start receiving financial assistance
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on monday generated by the proceeds from the fuel increases the bar has more from ted on. nearly 20000000 iranians will receive the subsidies that the government has promised later on monday evening into their bank accounts following that the government has announced the next batch will be released into the people's bank accounts on thursday and the last group will receive their subsidies on sunday so nearly 16000000 iranians will get some kind of assistance from the government but it's not clear how that will help them with this increase that they've seen over the past few days in fuel prices they woke up on friday morning to find that the price of petrol had gone up 3 fourths in the country that's when broke out in various cities across the country and there have been a number of arrests and the government has said that although it is the people's rights to protest it is not their right to riot the supreme leader has also made his position clear backing the government's decision to increase the fuel prices
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saying that it was a necessary step to ensure that ordinary iranians can make ends meet all this is as a result of united states sanctions on iran and the president has said that they tried everything to avoid doing this but in the end it was the only option they had now iranians are still angry and they're worried that that increase will also affect other aspect of their lives for now we are waiting to see what kind of assistance they will be getting later on monday and whether or not that will actually have any kind of major impact on their daily life. but plenty more ahead on the new zeland occluding 3 naval ships captured by russia a return to ukraine and a sign of a good book we'll look at the makeshift lobby that is helping iraq you protesters to use words as weapons and. so what's the it's a. bad day for hollywood a biology brazilian bond for you that's coming up with a hole in support.
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a new report from human. rights watch says a violent crackdown on protesters in sadar in june could amount to crimes against humanity the rights group says sudanese forces opened fire on protesters they also committed crimes of sexual violence what this is say members of the forces were seen throwing bodies into the river nile a paramilitary unit commanded by the deputy head of saddam's transitional government is accused of leading the attacks activists are demanding an independent inquiry and that those responsible are held to account for more than reports now from khartoum. walking down the street bring spin full memories for idea eric he says he was here on june 3rd one of the founders part to be to sit in but had been going on for 2 months when soldiers raided it he gets in the current issue is the scar left by the bullets that blow them out. the soldiers came from all directions
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and started firing at the protesters they burnt the tents where some of the protestors were we ran and hid inside a nearby building but they raided that and started beating us when i saw them beating the girls who were also hiding i told them to let the girls go and beat the men instead that's when one of the soldiers took an aim and told them to shoot. the sit in started in april after a month of anti-government protests against former president ahmed bashir the demonstrators demanded bashir step down accusing him of corruption and mismanaging the country which he ruled for 30 years these after this if in fact that the military council forced him from power and took over but it continued even after he was gone i saw this between protest leaders and the military council dragged on the argued over who should run the country during its transitional period protesters demanded a civilian rule. after nearly 2 months the system came to a deadly end. medical groups aligned to the protest movement say 120 people were
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killed and over 400 were injured during the raid by soldiers dozens were reported missing. the june 3rd attack did not just involve putting it on are protesters women and men reports of being raped as if i was reported witnessing protestors some still alive being tied to a block and thrown into the river nile a few feet away. the rights group human rights watch says what happened bad day could amount to crimes against humanity the evidence points to a clear pattern that is widespread and systematic and points to a policy that the government had adopted of using live ammunition against peaceful and unarmed protesters when crimes like this of the serious nature are committed as part of a systematic pattern of attack. back they can qualify as crimes against
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humanity a committee to investigate better cause that's a by the transitional government sworn in in september it includes members from the military and the police sides protesters accused of being involved in the attack. of fences. that took place on that day. of fences or always not or always committed by individuals not even even if it is executed by force protesters say they want justice for the lives lost badly and they won't rest until it's delivered people morgan al-jazeera hundreds of russia has returned 3 captured naval ships to ukraine ahead of a planned peace summit next month the vessels had been moved to a handover location in the black sea russia sees the ships off the coast of crimea a year ago more than 13000 people have been killed in eastern ukraine over the past
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5 years in fighting between pro russian separatists and ukrainian forces well alex are just out of a god for it is joining us live from moscow now so 1st the release of the ukrainian sailors and now the ships alexandra. yes exactly after a year of being in the russian cursed of these ships have been released today they were released and handed over to the ukrainians in a neutral waters of the black sea some 30 kilometers off the crimean peninsula there at this moment being the words the ukrainian the black sea ports offer there so this is a journey that will last hours the 3 ukrainian ships have been shot at by a year ago by russians that claim that they violated their territorial waters off the coast of crimea peninsula but the crimean peninsula has been enix by russia in 2014. kiev denies that if they violate any territorial waters and they
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are suing ukraine in front of a un merrick tame tribe you know who has a preliminary measure of actually ordered russia to release the boat men and boats russia claims they are not acting on this order of the u.n. court but they're saying that with their finish their investigation and that they can return this boats and sailors as you said as a bit have been returned to ukraine as a part of a but is no exchange program so this comes actually ahead of a 4 way summits a summit between ukraine russia germany and france which is scheduled for the beginning of december well where the future of east ukraine conflict will be discussed and alexander whatever russia's reasons for releasing the ship it is a positive step before that summit to try to resolve the wider conflict between the countries. yes exactly and it is not alone it is actually last in a line of positive steps that he we have witnessed in past months we had the
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exchange of prisoners thing that was discussed for a very long period and then we had this engagement in 3 points on the line between the ukrainian army and the russian supported separatists in east ukraine and now there is a summit coming in which a lot of other things have to be discussed very sensitive issues off the elections in this area that are held by separatists but also about a certain special status for those there it does are not going to be easy dogs and they're probably going to last last for quite a while but they're important and they're also important for a new ukrainian president for the middle selenski who want the elections amongst other things by promising that he will bring of greece to east ukraine to a conflict that for the last 5 years have taken 13000 lives and xander thank you for that for now that is alexandra steele and of god forward live in moscow thank
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you now a 15 year old girl has been killed after a suspension bridge in southwest france collapsed a car and a truck fell into the water 4 people are rescued from the river and to lose but several others are still missing on the local fire service chief said that the bridge which was built in the 19th thirty's was regularly checked. now protesters in iraq's provinces have road blocks leading to the country's main port and the fossil for the close a hole to traffic making it difficult for port employees to get to work demonstrations began last mom for a lack of jobs and public services have gone into calls for a complete change in government now a makeshift library at the center of protests in iraq's capital is becoming a hub of learning that's all by demonstrations protesting against an appointment poverty government corruption and failing public services including the education system and as the popularity of the building as well so to dozens range of titles
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reports from baghdad. there's a saying here the egyptians write the lebanese publish and the iraqis read they're doing just that in tahrir square the epicenter of the protests in baghdad iraqis are stopping by a library opened last month it's in an abandoned building that has become a landmark during weeks of anti-government demonstrations are meant to mean that i said to him there are people who didn't finish their studies or they have a low educational level this will motivate them when they see people reading here their educated people encouraging them to succeed and return to school. this library is a gift to protestor is operated by the well known institute which publishes a daily newspaper thousands of books in arabic and english ranging in topics from
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cinema from science have been donated. past and use of is an injured veteran of the iran iraq war in the 1980 s. he says it's clear someone doesn't like this library in the building nicknamed the turkish restaurant which used to be on the top floor where you know so it's sort of the side being attacked most here in the turkish restaurant is the library it upsets our enemies and the officials that attack the protesters it's not about using weapons we can fight using knowledge and culture. one of the protestors main complaints is what they say is the deterioration of the educational system such as 50 students often packed into one classroom illiteracy is also a concern the iraqi human rights commission says around 8000015 to 25 year olds can't read or write including a high proportion of young women unless of course what happened with the deterioration of the educational system in iraq its own purpose for the iraqi
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people 200-1000 we have schools made from mont it's a catastrophe. news of the library has spread more books are on the way the ministry of culture is planning to set up a tent in tahrir square filled with reading material for war veteran has the news if hopes the government understands these young people are creating what he calls a revolution of culture and ideas intended to transform iraq natasha going to aim al-jazeera baghdad. the inauguration ceremony has been held for 3 long as new president got a biologic pocs a claimed victory after a campaign marked by nationalists rhetoric and promises of better security he now has the task of left in the country out of an economic slump that was made worse by the east of bombings that killed more than $260.00 people. now with bush fires still burning in queensland australia a major hailstorm has added to the damage when his rob
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a morris trainee as weather all year never rains it pours as it is just developing north of prisons around the gold coast and just up in the mountains significant hail this is just that one light chief. is no stranger habits full of hail of at least marble size some reported tennis size closer to the city center there was some damage from that now on a cold front so it changes the weather type which is also changed the wind direction all know probably good news so that's left the shores now of australia in the big picture of the whole of the continent knows there are no significant fronts apart from just brushing through tasmania and catching victoria so we can almost forget about a significant violent hail so even going on shore breeze which for the far as ought to be helpful the next story will come up is one of temperature with that sort of circulation the wards of the interior which of course is when we got rafferty's time of the year comes down to the sas just watch adelaide adelaide's up at $42.00
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degrees and this is the hot bit here per cent of it has co down have had a brief heat wave that adelaide's up to $42.00 so $30.00 to $42.00 with quite a strong all the wind then it drops down to $23.00 but the heat hasn't gone away just moved to somewhere else melbourne not cause extreme but melbourne should see 34 on wednesday staying on thursday with increasingly strong wind in a small chance of thunderstorms but water ones lizbeth's. thank you rob still ahead on the news hour why the price of onions and bond of the issue has many people crying foul plus i'm from it i'm alone i'm in the kalahari desert in south africa with the world's fastest cars been tested to break the land speed record. and japanese schoolchildren take a look at what a remote controlled and picks one look like that's coming up for the whole and for .
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our planet as warming as never before with profound consequences for all life on earth but the world's leading scientists say there is still time to act planet the west sets out the facts on the science behind the issues affecting our planet. and brings you what people across the globe doing to the crisis around planet earth away on al-jazeera. the oppression of an ethnic minority and man my bag many tangs the intention was to make sure their rule injures we're no longer entitled to either basic rights or citizenship brunch in a new documentary al-jazeera explores the history and motives behind the systematic persecution of the ranger and me and my. exile on not just iraq.
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one of the problem in doha with the top stories this news hour a tense standoff is continuing in hong kong between raja police and pro-democracy protesters at a university demonstrators have barricaded themselves inside the campus for days there are large groups of people on the streets of the city reportedly making their way towards the building. now a spokesman for the iranian government says protests of an increase in petrol prices are common around the country but says they have been more frauds the government has confirmed that 3 people have died since the demonstrations began. and catalonia is president kim thought a court for
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a trial of disobedience is accused of defying orders from the spanish electoral authority by not for moving a symbol of support for caution on independence from a government building well let's get more on the spawns on your guy hugo is joining us live from boston it seems like a minor offense on you but it could have major implications for thought a lot in the movement. well certainly for thought of in the immediate future because the ending of this trial if he is found guilty of disobedience then he would be suspended from his role as president and barred 2 years from public office or up to 2 years public office that depends where a pending result like that he could still take it to the supreme court's the spanish supreme court and contest that. but judging from how the
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prosecutor the certainly the electoral board have pitched this they have said that what he did was really tantamount to using tools of public propaganda in order it during this whole time course this goes back to the electoral period of the 28th of april where really there has to be there are laws governing the new trial of this time period and of course this was a very deliberate very obvious are so of showing support for the pro separatist movement as well nevertheless thought has said that of course he realized that there was the risk of him going to trial over this but essentially he says he says that he couldn't really go against will be a constitutionally legality on on censorship so he's arguing really that in effect it is really going against censorship where this where is the election board are
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saying you know there are very clear laws that govern this course whether this does really impact the movement as a whole certainly it won't but of this is still yet another east side of the puzzle that sort of makes up this crisis in catalonia and all the sort of shows of force that are being made by one side and the other which keep this crisis dragging on and of course of against this background is the fact that the spanish. former prime min. a better structure than. the socialist party who were voted in effect with the most votes in the last election are trying to form a government they will need the support of the catalan parties in order to be able to form a fully functioning government to be able to pass several things in and in to try and find a way to evolve its way out of this current crisis with sonia thank you for that for now that a sign you're going over the latest live and bustle and i we are staying with the story we're joined now by my guest professor of constitutional law at barcelona
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university and she is also joining us live from barcelona very good to have you with us on al-jazeera today so i thought i said that he disobey the order because it was illegal i mean what do you make of the case against him and his defense where yes he has said. he was the friend. to them and their rights and the idea of political who he calls prison in this case is about the the electoral commission he had to challenge the electoral commission on an all small the court that is judging him so this is a trial on the draw because you are neutral in our electoral not the electoral commission. moves all the skin. bends and political prisoners. but on the one hand he's challenging the court and the electoral commission on the
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electoral not being neutral and not a trial on neutrality could we see a fallout like we did last month when there were mass protests after a different trial after the jailing of 9 separatist leaders. yes here many cattle and independent this people belonging to this movement they think that all the time presidents are being taken into court saw day seeing that this is again the year. the this political movement because they're the 1000000000 is that many a couple of presidents have been taken to court and some are even jailed saw the cuttle of movement they see in this this is against their movement ringback as a such a such as
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a local it is so maybe yes they will be again. they have memories dog but the difference here now i think is that this trial is taking its taking part in barcelona which is already much better because the previous the one against the catalan independent this slithers where was taking part in madrid then you might read they were not able to talk in catalonia or to them fend themselves properly and. this fact is how what where would you say that the movement is now with the former president persian mart still in exile as we've been covering separatist leaders jailed and now kim thought on trial here is. the question sure how would you assess the cache line independence movement now especially with so many of the movements leaders either in exile in jail or on trial here the thing is it's
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a pity because everything has. surely to jews there should be some negotiations or she was sort of saucy we should go back to politics and instead we see or threatening core. courts are deciding things that should be this cast. politically of course the board of elections the electoral commission authority they have the authority to tell the president of catalonia or the president of asperin to tell them you have to be neutral buildings to be neutral during the elections these are internationalists time all over the war when we have elections all. public buildings have to remain neutral the problem we start we see another catalan president in front of a court and this is this has never stopped the the customer movement the couple of protests they are still there all the time but of course having political leaders
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in jail for really on and after then they were not condemned for who they really are but this was the theory that took them 4 to jail in brevard preventive jail for 2 years these ones who have took them to madrid to defend themselves that these didn't allow them to the defend themselves well because since they were accused from verbally on they were taken to madrid and then they could not express them talking back to when the trial was not in qatar and they're all the language yeah and plus they were in jail so they could not prepare well they're there the friends saw him say that moment that they were taken into jail they were taken into jail movements are brought this never stopped here are the lawyers so i think we need some network. show but. i get it iraq as we thank you for your time on this
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today. now the international community is calling for the immediate release of libyan m.p. said again where she was abducted from her home in benghazi in july the family says she was kept that kidnapped by forces loyal to libyan warlord haly for half the after condemning him and his army during an interview with in egyptian television station that the wire has more from tripoli. see her libya lawmakers from the eastern city of was abducted and. her family members were brutally beaten by masked men in military uniform in july now the 12 european countries along with the european union delegation to libya have issued a stronger statement expressing concern over abduction and disappearance and also calling for her immediate release the statement is also calling for an
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investigation into the abduction of sergei and also to uncover her we're about what we know that according to his family members who told him or it's watch months ago that musket men in military uniform belonging to the brigade number one was 6 headed by have to disarm saddam the son of the warlord khalifa haftar they just broke into her home in july her family members were brutally beaten and they kidnapped now we know that this statement is also calling for the concerted authorities in the east of the country to uncover her word about what's the statement is also confirming that this attack on the lawmakers again is not going to be unnoticed and we know that since the abduction of sigil in july many international institutions including the united nations support the mission in libya have been calling for her immediate release we know that the attack against
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politicians lawmakers and political activists in the east of the country has been very common since their operation dignity was launched by have to the forces in the east of the country in 2014. now a cooking staple in most south asian countries but they've become needy and affordable for most families and. that's because prices have soared to record levels off neighboring india made the decision to ban exports in late september on the child reports from the capital. one of the most states. in bangladesh cooking it is also the hottest topic right now in bangladesh media it has also taken over the social media by way of. what used to sell for $0.36 per kilogram selling for 3 dollars part kilogram government started providing
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subsidized right for the marginalised poor by way of special delivery vehicles but the people here can say that the onions here are rotten. these are not of good quality some of them are rotten but what can we do the prince the too high and we have no choice as poor people. some of the reason why price skyrocketed in recent months is because of buying of the government's failure to import on me and in timely fashion india's ban on export of army and to bangladesh and some unscrupulous trader holding on to manipulate market price. you can't get onions because there's a lack of important india is banning exposure which is also why an in prices have gone up and in prices too hot for cooking most poor people and even the middle class stop using onion as a cooking ingredient. we have stopped buying because the prime minister has forced us to cook or dishes without it is not possible for us ordinary people to buy
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onions such a high price. as a symbolic gesture the prime minister herself. not to use our name is an ingredient in our good dishes although the prices of slightly going down because the government started early spring or early importing are the ones from middle east europe and even central asia but prices remain still high in the market for most people. now to georgia where riot police moving in on protesters outside parliament police use water cannon to disperse the demonstrators earlier protesters set up barricades around parliament to prevent m.p.'s from entering their calling for early elections after parliament failed to pass a promised electoral reform bill. now the for so far the nation of sol more has closed all schools and canceled exams as it struggles to contain amazing as epidemic the disease has spread in part due to low immunization rates health officials say only 2 thirds of the population of vaccinated against it there are
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716 reported cases nearly 100 people currently hospitalized. now to colombia with proper burials or at last being given to dozens of people 17 years after they were killed when a church was bombed or survivors of the far cry of the taf are finally able to mourn the 74 victims. the reports. these miners have waited a very long time for this day the remains of the victims of the worst massacre committed by 5 rebels during the country's civil conflict are finally back where they belong almost 2 decades later oh oh white coffins for children brown for adults thank god there's a 1000000 upon last year my father i'm necessarily and my mother and i mean also he's my brother many of us while i was waiting for 6 of them were for you for the 1st time i feel some peace because we got our family back it's an important step because they will receive a commission that will never forget the pain and time they've left behind
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a may 2nd 2002 confrontations between 5 gravels and paramilitary forces erupted in the riverside town of book in the western jungle province of choko a cylinder bombed launched by the rebels fell on the church where the community took refuge at least 74 died in what became known as the bohai your massacre nearly everyone here was affected there's not much left of the old city of. the bodies mutilated by the bomb and get up in communal graves and the community fled to the closest city more than 3 hours that river when they came back they found their town that been razed to the ground. eventually a new town was built not far from the old one but the community remained in a state of suspended grief until the signing of a peace deal with 5 gravels in 2016. then a 2 and a half year long process to identify the remains started with the help of the
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united nations park leaders have since asked the community for forgiveness but while the rebels are gone many of the factors that led to the massacre remain in new york you know groups or reorganized or we don't know exactly who they are but certainly criminal groups they are there. going to he's does not need just they needed a 1000000000 about development social development and he says the most difficult. residents say fear persists as a remaining rebel group the land and paramilitary gangs buy for control of a region where the legal mining and cocaine trafficking dominates and feel more free account i think explosives in our work and that all the people that supported us through it all makes sense only if we make sure it will never happen again for now the community is finally able to begin the process is a for healing a wound that had remained open for far too long i listen to them.
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line racing car ever built its aim to break the world land speed record at a speed of 800 kilometers an hour the bloodhound ellis saw is one of the world's top 10 fosters cars but it aims to double that speed next year it's been both to break the record see it to more than 20 years ago at 1227.9 kilometers an hour it is very difficult to describe because it's a bit like flying a jet fighter but it's a little bit drop like driving a high performance racing car but since most people haven't done either of those things that probably doesn't help in very simple terms it's very hot the cockpit is very noisy there's a lot of acceleration there's a lot of g.'s slowing down again and. the simplest thing i can say is the ground goes past very very quickly despite the sweltering heat the hugs and reagent deep in the killer hairy desert provides the ideal testing ground the open flat surface
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has been carefully prepared by hundreds of local community members who have removed tons of rock for a smooth ride organizers say it's the largest area of land ever cleared for a motor sport event and at full design speed the car covers 1.6 kilometers in just 3.6 seconds it's powered by a rolls royce e.j. $208.00 engine normally found in a euro fighter typhoon jet the thrust produced is equal to $360.00 family cause the 90 kilogram solid aluminum wheels have been specially designed for the desert surface they're built to spin at up to 10200 revolutions a minute more than 4 times faster than the wheels on a formula one car at top speed but our project has been going for 10 years. and it's done an amazing job or inspiring people to get involved engineering over the
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years it almost was too good at doing that and it means there are probably shelf almost fell by the wayside because it was too good at doing their job creation charge of it and the project both went bust last year and into ministration that's when i got involved once testing is complete the car will return to the united kingdom for any modifications before it attempts to break the world record the bloodhound l.s.r. is a combination of fast jet f one car and space ship the engineering team says it's bolt the world's fastest car to inspire people everywhere from either miller al-jazeera skin band in the northern cape. all right it is time for sports now has a hole they thank you very much the australian prime minister scott morrison has condemned comments made by controversial rugby star israel folau about the country's bushfires a conservative christian and suggested it was god punishing australia for passing same sex marriage and abortion laws for law is currently in
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a legal battle with rugby australia after being sacked for making anti-gay remarks on social media i thought these were appallingly insensitive comments. that are reporting comments and he's a free citizen he can say whatever he likes but that doesn't mean he can't have regard to the to the grievous offense this would have caused to people whose homes have been burnt down and i'm sure to many christians around australia for him that is not their view at all our common forward eric grade says the quarterback has proven that he's still capable of playing in the n.f.l. the private workout on sunday to attract a new team it was originally organized by the n.f.l. captain it change the venue at the last minute after independent media denied entry the league said they were disappointed and rapper jay z. has partnered with the n.f.l. accused of turning a legitimate opportunity into a p.r.
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stunt or agree disagree the n.f.l. wanted to control the narrative by not letting independent media into the workout to document the work of its callus supposed to trust the organization that. it is not. the whole goal of this is to show everybody that car is ready to play this guy took his workout to a different location he showed that he proved that it was reported that. it's always been that way so. why is jay z. was all these other pundits trying to slander columns for him protecting himself and wanting transparency. now after 119 years the davis cup is introducing a new format starting today in madrid the event is now rebranding itself as the world cup of tennis and it's the brainchild of world cup winning footballer gerrard p.k. this was the official launch in new york last year now originally the davis cup was played with a series of matches between 2 countries held throughout the year with the final
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taking place in the country of one of those far less well that's now been scrapped in favor of the new week long event 11 of the world's top 20 are playing including world number one rafa nadal representing her spine of course and serbia is world number 2 novak djokovic. and obviously the former changes. i think allowed us to share the stage with 18 other teams almost 90 players so it's going to be super exciting because you know there are so many ties it's going to be a lot of matches of the low sculpting. but hopefully as well lot of fun and good success sorry back in october 28th p.k. announce the new format of our one week tournament featuring 18 teams the countries will compete in 6 groups of 3 teams each time will consist of 2 singles or one doubles match or batches best of 3 instead of 5 sets and the 6 group winners plus the 2 best 2nd place teams will qualify for the quarterfinals but not everybody is
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happy with the new format and make no secret. to the biggest points of difference with davis cup and what the competition was about was one home in a why. you couldn't do that in any other format of of tennis in our great down and if you look at the pinnacle of our game the grand slams the best of 5 sets so that was the other point of difference and so for me. this is a new format. well one man who decided not to play in the davis cup with the newly crowned a.t.p. finals champion stefano to keep us the greek captured his biggest career. on sunday having lost the 1st set to dominate the picture back for back to win the next to secure victory the 21 year old everton is the youngest of the qualifiers to play this season and it comes off that victory. is the best feeling right now to be. holding it almost feels almost like i want to
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know. the emotions run tremendous very proud and very happy with the effort i put out there the entire week i feel very hard to give my last. breath out on the court which is very very satisfying. some incredible t. work to show you between le bron james and danny green for the i like is in the n.b.a. now thanks to. the lakers completely dominated the atlanta hawks in the brawn here . the full finishing women are you getting 33 points all together and later in the match she returned the favor sort of the 3 points in turn but green was on hand to make sure they came away with at least they like his winning by 21 and condemning the whole 2nd big loss at the staples center in 24 hours having not. knowing. where the injury hit golden state warriors last 7th time in
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a row this time it was against the new orleans pelicans j.j. redick top scoring for the pelicans with 26 points including 63 points is the warriors this one by points. in formula one for our driver charles leclerc and sebastian vettel have been summoned to the team's headquarters in mariner in italy to explain their crash at the brazilian grand prix on sunday well neither driver managed to finish the race at into law grass after colliding was racing for 4th place with the clerk by breaking his suspension and vettel punctured guitar. on friday well the only ones to struggle the space in a wild ride lewis hamilton collided with red bulls alex algon that he was champion was demoted for that and eventually finished 7th out in front pulses a match for stop and twice past hamilton to clinch victory grassley and science finishing 2nd in the start when it says it's 8 school in 3 way. i mean i was behind
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so i was pushing flat out in my outlook to try and be close i mean it was my only shot so of course because of that i was close into the directness and we knew that we had a great chance for you to hold the whole we can ready so yeah that sort of goes against it was very happy to to get past the organizers of next year's olympics in tokyo are promising the most futuristic games ever and the mascots of how to upgrade as well as schoolchildren in japan have been getting a demonstration of how robots will welcome athletes and guess the mascots developed by toyota remotely controlled by a human in another location these are there to provide a bit of spirits bigger robots have been designed to help some fans find their seats again. but as always but for now more like to thank you our whole and that does it for the news hour but do stay with us we're back in just a couple of minutes with another news bulletin and we'll be back live in hong kong where a standoff between protesters at a university and police is continuing thank you for watching.
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an inspiring quest for knowledge that led to remarkable achievements al-jazeera wells meets the algerian entrepreneur. who helped pioneer computing in the arabic language and the egyptian islamic scholar honored for his contribution to arab culture both building successful lives abroad but never forgetting beverage arabs abroad the translator and the innovator on al-jazeera. and the slaughter of the most incredible stories are often 2. trillion dollars putin says. makes the on from your for me. in this life oh versity makes
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attack me sweaty soyinka people like to think that there's nationalism is not as ugly as someone else's nationalists and studio be unscripted it's on al-jazeera. after a day of violence and arrests and hong kong police and protesters and locked in a tense standoff at a university campus. hello and welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with municipal parata also ahead and georgia's capital tbilisi police move against protesters blockade in the country's part of and. news regional leader goes on trial and accused of disobedience. and iran's president can.
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