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more than there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the revenge of all among the most persecuted minority in the world . 4 people were killed as crowds tried to storm a u.n. camp in the democratic republic of congo accusing peacekeepers of failing to stop a wave of attacks. hello i'm maryam namazie and london a very warm welcome to the program also coming up. on our test as in poland after a landslide victory for pro-democracy parties and district council elections. activists marched through georgia's capital and bloc entrances to parliament state
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a mob snap elections and the u.n. says greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new highs last year. our top story this hour the united nations is calling for calm in the democratic republic of congo off to hundreds of protesters in the eastern town of benny stormed un buildings and set fire to the mayor's office at least 4 people were killed by gunfire during the clashes the u.n. denies that its peacekeepers shot at demonstrators though people say they are angry at the government and the u.n. mission for their failure to stop the rise in deadly rebel attacks in the region sara reports. i was this is the moment protesters in beni were shot from inside a united nations compound was people accuse the u.n. mission in the democratic republic of congo of failing to protect them against the
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allied democratic forces rebel groups. determined to kick out one of the biggest peacekeeping missions in the world protesters stormed this u.n. building and a few others. said was suffering a lot because of killing and everyone hearing to leave i've lost my mother and father to the rebels i'm the only survivor the u.n. must syllable the phillips un won't leave them we won't stop we're strong people who lost many of our brothers and sisters to the river killings was on saturday 8 people were killed in an attack and benny was blamed on the rebels that put up with the violence people caught the victims' bodies to the protests it was i think that this is my dad says the right to come from her temple to visit me last week but the rebels killed the protesters set the town hall and maze office on fire there's been a week long shutdown of shops and businesses but. the congolese army wants an
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offensive against the allied democratic forces in october but locals say it's not enough oh with roots in uganda the rebel group has been fighting in the north kivu region for more than a decade. to vowell it's killed more than 1500 people in the area in the last 5 years and it's one of many armed groups fighting for control of the mineral rich border region. in solidarity with those in beni people in the eastern border city of goma also protesting i remember showing us that they can finish up we're blocking the road and we reject all of the un's work here because it remains silent when people are killed or better and other areas the u.n. does now. but the u.n. mission here has defended itself saying it does not shoot at protesters and cannot sing gaijin operations in a war zone without strict coordination with the congolese army but it has also
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warned it will use force when needed to protect its star. meanwhile the violence in belize hampering efforts to contain an ebola outbreak that's killed more than 2000 people since august sort of al-jazeera. hong kong as leaders pledged to listen to public opinion after pro-democracy parties won an overwhelming victory in local council elections results being seen as a major triumph for the anti chinese protest movement voters turned out in record numbers to kick out the probe ageing parties previously dominated the 18 district councils but now only control one of them and this follows months of protests many of which have turned violent times sarah clarke reports now from hong kong. as dawn broke hong kong to a new political landscape more than 70 percent of voters cast their ballots in
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sunday's district council elections the pro-democracy party secured a record number of seats a lot of people actually sacrificed a lot and suffered but they suffer a lot in the last 6 months to to actually get this result and i think people are very. they're so united and there are so or to gather to to actually try to win something joshua one was disqualified for running but his party claimed victory in his electorate unseating the incumbent post councilor remarkable achievement in that this election. as the efforts of all hong callers especially motorists protest for a hotline for lying there's the pray the price span the time or even sacrifice in the protest movement until now the probation parties held the majority in the district councils but anger against the government eroded their support they've apologized to the public for misreading the vote was
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a line to the post camp say it's a nightmarish result and the city's government will need to reassess the people's demands have spoken quite loudly and clearly haven't they so i believe what we now do is subject to look at what it called in 5 major demands and where during that any of them can be dealt with but the most out of step for you then before the district council elections are traditionally and on a vengeful poll but after 6 months of anti-government demonstrations and increasing violence this election was considered a barometer of public support for the protesters this is a win for the protesters that could be a point for them to say we've we've arafat's on the street have converted into a tangible political outcome and this is a good opportunity to step back and take stock and and think about what next for the protest movement so it may see a period of relative calm for hong kong after a very turbulent 6 months the pro-democracy movement celebrated their victory on monday but some protests his rally to show their support to those who are still
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holed up inside the polytechnic university for more than a week the district council vote comes ahead of the midst of council election next year sunday's record turnout is considered a message from voters to reopen the discussion on the city's political reform the government now has 10 months to make changes before voters go to the polls once again. al jazeera hong kong. well after those results came out in hong kong hundreds of people marched on the city's polytechnic university web between $10.50 pro-democracy protesters all still thought to be trapped inside the marches included many of the winning candidates in the local elections university which has been a center for the protests has been surrounded by a police cordon for more than a week and students inside say conditions are deteriorating. the are extremely frightening and the so the do with want to. leave libya here they are hiding themselves to search for food so the life has really been depending
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. on. dr who live biscuit or snacks. not come for them to come out to research for food. thousands have marched through georgia's capital them on the government resign and cold snap elections also blocked entrances to parliament to stop tuesday morning session from got a new head follows more than a week of angry demonstrations on the government's failure to introduce a promised election reform bill and that would have made the country's electoral system proportional but was blocked by members of the holding georgian train party the opposition is saying the current nick system favors the ruling party open for still being at the protest today and says no opposition is united by a sense of grievance. once again georgians are gathering in the cup the 2 largest crowds now outside the blocking them may not be here it's a big police presence up there too this is the 2nd week now of the political crisis
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in georgia resurfaced ever since the governing party with legs on the probably is to deliver electoral reform this is it would have introduced a 30 put social system of representatives into the elections yet next year that would have given other political chauncy parties a better chance of getting seats and they say they would diminish the power. of the country's richest only go they accused of how do you talk shoot the georgian state that they say that this there is an issue to control silage you shoot your executive arms even the justice system the government came out today and said place it's closed there will be you know further reforms but if the opposition believes there has yet been heard that it shouldn't be afraid to be sitting next to the election they should get off the streets and start to tell their you know everybody i speak to here all this issue 3 parts in city society they are going to fight it
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since you 3 things that they would release something like 23 and they cheated because it didn't go in and so they are probably sticky sitting to disrupt the political process and looting they see another attempt to do what they call it what it means to turn back here what she's doing. a business group in lebanon is calling for a 3 day general strike from fuzz day to push the country's politicians to end the crisis that protest has forced a major highway to close near the northern city of tripoli on monday there's also been heavy clashes between anti-government protests and supporters of to share movements hezbollah and amal country has seen 5 weeks of anti-government protests fueled by anger or perceived corruption among the ruling elite meanwhile protests have been back out in southern iraq as well a day after 13 people were killed by live fire from security forces demonstrators in the cities of basra and nasiriyah blocked main roads and bridges and set fire to time has to stop government employees from reaching their offices hundreds of
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university students also marched calling for government leaders to resign protesters blame them from widespread corruption high unemployment and poor public services. a politician from the chilean president party has sparked outrage online by saying that the country copy normalised without violating human rights summit under a controversial remarks came hours before another scheduled protest march and amnesty international report says security forces have deliberately injured protest as in more than a month of protests of a social inequality. well there's also been a 5th day of demonstrations getting started in colombia protests is that anger of the women economic reforms and corruption alexandra petri joins me now from all the time and this seems to be. protests that we see this in the wake of unrest in all the parts of south america tell us why people are taking to the streets why you are . well this is the 50 days that
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thousands of people as you can see behind me are taking to the streets here in colombia and they have a large series of demands truly a lot of house to do with the reforms that the government is proposing both to the pension system education system the labor system the way people are being paving columbia the very large economic inequality that exists here and also has to do a lot i believe with the fact that there has been a piece. of your income in 2060 putting to him and the civil conflict that was continuing in colombia for almost 50 years and this as in many ways open the door to the possibility of the birds of a larger a social movement like the one we're seeing now to demand social change in the
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country and definitely this also comes into the larger picture of what's been happening across south america and then finally this strange. has said it's happening in the context of the international day against violence against women which is a major hit issue here in colombia and across south america people are saying that gender issues are high and that the demands that the protestors are putting forth. tell us about the government's response. to this whether there are any concessions that might be made and of course how how police and security forces are responding to the protests as well. when this started last week on thursday and friday there have been many clashes with the police violence 3 people were dead killed in different parts of the country
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a 17 year old was hit by a stun grenade launched by anti-riot police so people are angry at what they see as the violent response from part of their of the police and they reached an agreement ok with the city that the city will not the lawyer and the riot police and only regular police will be here to control every event show issues of vandalism throughout the march the president of colombia on friday eve am due care and mounts to be the start of a national dialogue but the problem is that so far he hasn't called the leaders of the strike to talk to him yes met with the newly elected mayors and governors of the country today he was meeting with intrapreneur and other social leaders but not the leaders of the strike and the people here are saying that unless he starts
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a serious conversation with them people will remain on the streets day after day. all right thank you very much for the latest from those protests which are continuing their in bogota thank you very much alexandra. there's much more still to bring you on the program. the israeli government has failed to muzzle human rights watch over the human rights while we look at why this human rights watch director has been expelled from israel. break into museum in germany stealing priceless jewels from one of europe's biggest treasure collections . how it was seen some hidden mashal is across australia recently but some useful right just to the north of sydney you can see the shower cloud just cropping up
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here wanted to the spot say 20 to 30 maybe $35.00 millimeters of rain the heaviest rainfall for around 7 or 8 months not some of the system would make its way through the southeast and cold over the next couple days will be this cold front that will drive some cooler air into the southeast cold enough for a touch of snow a flake or 2 snow over the mountains and set a cold after a frosty one of 2 spots 18 celsius there for melbourne and for adelaide further west it's a good deal warmer than that we're getting up to around 26 and will see a few showers into northern parts of the way as we go through wednesday wanted to say i was easing into northern territory as well and by that stays eastern half of the country the slushy dry temps just recovering down towards the southeast at $22.00 or $23.00 there for melbourne and for adelaide we will see temperatures creep into the twenty's across these even over the next diodes or increasing cloud just piling its way in to the south obvious what's the weather just making its way through here as a result of that popping up as we go on through the next day or so further north we
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do have what remains all tropical rates heading towards a van what's the. the brazilian journalist investigating a politically stark should land grab all the farmers help other elected and he's reprieve them that's empowering everyday people to profit from the destruction of the rain forest people are almost willing to give their life away to guarantee the occupation knowledge of the land is journalism the last hope in the fight for sleep there on the phone this is not only land conflict but a conflict of narrative brazil the ages both in our role whose truth is it anyway on al-jazeera.
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welcome back to you with al-jazeera live from london a look at the headlines 4 people have been killed in the eastern d.l.c. cheering clashes between police and protesters who are angry at the government and the un's failure to stop the recent wave of deadly rebel attacks hong kong's leaders say she will seriously reflect after a landslide weighted local elections and 2 chinese parties after months of on last and protests as in georgia a keeping up lead in walls for a snap election off the government failed to introduce a promised electoral reform. here as president donald trump ordered the pentagon to let a member of the navy who was convicted of misconduct keep his elite status in the case which led him to fire as navy secretary navy seal edward gallagher was convicted of posing for photographs with the body of a teenage eisel captive but cleared of mud the navy wanted to oust him from the
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commando unit defense secretary mark s. but said trump intervened repeatedly in this case before he gave the order to fire which at spencer on sunday. there's never been a president that's going to stick up for them and has like i have including the fact that we spent 2 and a half trillion dollars on rebuilding or. some very unfair things were happening you let sergeant bergdahl go you let others go looting a young gentleman now a person who president obama who still has tremendous amounts of classified information anticorruption authorities in pakistan a filed a case against the former president asif zardari and his sister for alleged involvement in money laundering scandal what $300000000.00 u.s. dollars. has more on the story now from islamabad. imran khan the prime minister of pakistan came into power with the promise that he would come down hard
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on those held accountable for and meant any matter of course option out of really their diary but would also the president of pakistan from 2008 to 2013 the probe over fake bank accounts to raise money was laundered out of the country is now going to be facing more pressure. that initiated against them but it already in a hospital in health is failing is suffering from what their doctors say cardiac condition and also had diabetes that country. one former prime minister a war 3rd being time being allowed to leave the country on compassionate grounds and now everybody of course there will be are going where there are really there darted to will be allowed to leave the country and what reporting there did behind closed doors although the government read tell you that is north pole. now the
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level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has hit a record high and shows no signs of slowing this the finding of the united nations' well meteorological organization is annual reports the concentration of carbon dioxide the main gas driving climate change hit $407.00 parts per 1000000 last year that's a quote slightly above the decade's average this puts at risk the un's own warning that to keep global warming below a tipping point of one in the one and a half degrees where droughts and floods become more likely in the new report scientists say that emissions won't even peak until last year if current climate policies stay the same. as co-director of the climate modeling organization clime interactive in the united states he is still optimistic despite president trump's climate policies the united states has 15 percent of global emissions that's larger than that were 4 percent of the population but there's still another 85 percent
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that is being accounted for by pledges that we hope will get increased in madrid in a week will have to see what happens when we're actually together there in madrid soon but our hope is that many of the countries of the world realize what needs to be done also here in the u.s. states and cities and corporations have really done a lot to pick up the slack and keep those emissions actually heading down so we won't entirely miss our pledges that we've made here in the united states 5 more people are confirmed dead in kenya off to heavy flooding bringing the total number of deaths to 65 but he say they were turning from a wedding in tanzania when that car was washed away well the search is continuing for survivors in west polk county the region west hit with 52 dead several east african nations have been hit by heavy rain and more is now full cost. what you actually want to say there is no evidence of ballot forward in sunday's guinea-bissau election despite allegations from president just say mario vases
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campaign team is counting well underway in the west african nation voz faces a strong challenge from one of his former prime ministers some males domingo era we gentle group a ko us has promised already promised to step in if as any sign of a coup or intervention nicholas stock has more now from the streets of the capital where there is a great deal of uncertainty. there's a sense of fear and apprehension of what is to come because what people fear is that some of the candidates will not accept the outcome of this election already incumbent president josie you can see here on this campaign poster has come out and said that this election has been tainted accusing the ruling party and its candidate domingo she was. exchanging votes for money in bags of rice and that's a claim that they denied now election observers say there has been $30.00 incidences that have happened but nothing to question the outcome of this election
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they say was transparent free and fair keeping a close watch on all of this is the united nations and i spoke to $100.00 it in the special representative to the united nations secretary general. be used as a launching pad for drug traffickers and transnational organized crime and that's why. we're determined to support legit to move government to fight criminality and to focus on addressing the needs of the population of. candidate with his support and bellow could be the surprise in this election because it's none of the candidates get more than 50 percent of the both then they'll be a 2nd round we'll find that out on wednesday when results will be announced by the election commission and also find out whether the outcome of this election will be respected by all candidates. now in other news today israel has deported
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a senior official of the human rights watch this month at supreme court upheld a government decision to expel care is a u.s. citizen he's been accused of supporting a global campaign to boycott israel and services and is writing a law from 2017 people have publicly support that movement. has more now from the occupied west bank. this drive to the airport and the legal battle the drew international attention for a year and a half. there israel palestine director for human rights watch are much sakit see very soon thank you has left israel. this is the 1st deportation since a 2017 law that bars entry for supporters of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement against israel human israeli government says scheck it has been active in the b.d.s. campaign in the past it's not about omar it's about human rights watch there's no point replacing him or because our next research would have the exact same problem
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that omar get in 2016 human rights watch issued a call for businesses to stop operating in illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank a call this israeli supreme court said amounts to a boycott shack and won't be leaving his post and will continue working from abroad he says the human rights watch will double its efforts so that it's not affected by his deportation and ultimately what i'm facing is small but i hope that this is a clear message to the world because alternately if the world is unable to stop israel from deporting somebody documenting rights abuse how is it ever going to stop rights abuse earlier this month israel's interior minister area dairy said all those who work against israel will not be allowed to live or work in the country. after shuckers the british and many here wondering who might be next human rights organizations say the this isn't doesn't target only will advocate
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a boycott but it's a warning against any critic of the israeli operation later because it is a palestinian working with amnesty international and. he was denied the right to travel outside of the west bank in october and he says this is because of his work against israeli settlements the ban was imposed a couple of months after we released the campaign against online companies that work in israeli settlements so this is obviously an attack not only against me but against all the critical voices that speak against what the israeli government is doing israel considers the b.b.'s movement a strategic threat while rights activists say it's one of the few is left to fight against there is no documentation. over him al jazeera the occupied west bank. and chairman museum with one of the biggest collections of treasures in europe has been robbed of goods worth up to a $1000000000.00 the thieves broke into the green vaulted dragon's royal palace and
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stole several sets of jewelry described as having immeasurable cultural value priyanka gupta reports a. robbery at dawn in one of europe's oldest museums the whole worth more than a $1000000000.00 included 318th century sets of children made of time and rubies and emeralds the thieves forced to go before smashing glass cabinets in the nearly 300 year old museum there was a power cut in the area during the heist. the culprits as you were able to see got in through a window facing the palace where there they cut through the grating and then smashed the glass before they went straight to one glass cabinet that they destroyed they then left the building and disappeared 1st indications point to a car which was possibly parked outside and with which they could have fled. german
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officials say the stolen treasures would be impossible to sell in the open market because they are so easy to identify. i don't need to tell you how shocked we are also about the brutality of this break and just to put this into context this is of invaluable are historic and cultural historic value and. the museum and dressed in has one of europe's largest collections of treasures the collections survived the bombing that destroyed the city during world war 2 they were later taken by soviet forces finally being returned in 1958 but the people of the german state of saxony the value of the stolen objects goes far beyond the price tag. it's not just about the material value but also the immaterial value which is inestimable for the state of saxony as our state premier has said overnight the whole of saxony was stolen from this is an attack on the cultural
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identity of all saxons and the state of saxony. for the museum there was one piece of good fortune their most valuable treasure a 41 counted cream diamond is on loan at new york's metropolitan museum of art group the odyssey are. just a quick look at the headlines before we leave you at least 4 people have been killed in the eastern part the democratic republic of congo and clashes between police and protesters who are angry at what they see as inaction by the government and the united nations in deadly rebel attacks the demonstrations took place in the town of fannie mae come up to 8 people died in the latest rights violations at least 70 people have been killed in attacks in the past few weeks the mayor's office and several buildings belonging to the u.n. peacekeeping mission was set alight by the protestors. on kong's leader is saying
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she will seriously reflect after a landslide win in local elections for anti chinese parties it was a record turnout in the poll which follows months of often violent protests against rule from beijing candidates including former student protest leader said the result showed the chinese government needs to allow greater democracy. i really impressive but hong kong has come out to vote to show that the man to stop the protests brutality is called the police accountability and the most important thing is we are or not we are not only said this fighting electing that this or consul we need to have direct election to elected office the chief executive hopeful should be both by us. or protesters in georgia are keeping up their demands for a snap election after the government failed to introduce a promised electoral reform bill they've been protesting outside the country's parliament in tbilisi the measure would have made the country's electoral system
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proportional but was blocked by members of the ruling georgian dream posse the opposition says the current system favors the ruling party. or news from kenya now rescuers are continuing to search for survivors there after deadly landslides in the country the total number of deaths now stands at $65.00 the governor of west pocket which in the hardest hit area says up to $120000.00 people have been affected greenhouse gases hit a record level last year with the u.n. warning that there's no sign of a slowdown in global emissions world meteorological organization says gases including carbon dioxide and methane grow at a rate quicker than the average for the past decade and that wraps up our coverage for this evening coming up next who's truth is it anyway an investigation into land use in the amazon stay with us for that. talk to notice their own. radio believe the 2 state solution the do you still believe in the 2 state solution we listen what i said was the pakistan would never start
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