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of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is in the 21st century jerusalem a rock and a hard place on. india's supreme court considers hearing a petition from university students against the police crackdown during the citizenship law protests. summary of this is the world news from al-jazeera the crisis deepens and boeing is production of the 737 max is suspended starting in january after those 2 fatal crashes also colombians angry over tax reforms they say only benefit the rich.
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and frustration in sudan as people say the civilian government is failing to fulfill the promises it made after taking over from the military. so students at a university in india's capital of taken their case to the supreme court 2 days after they fought with police are accused of being heavy handed the students were protesting against the controversial citizenship law which has caused nationwide anger heads of state governments have now joined the protest against the new lauren monday we have the chief minister of west bengal state marching against the legislation mamata banerjee says she will not implement the law for other state leaders have also rejected the legislation remember this office citizenship to persecuted minorities from neighboring countries but. excludes muslims a live report of the moment it will start with this report on monday's protests.
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the wave of anger is growing across india over the citizenship law. here students at jamia millia islamia university in new delhi are also angry at the police response. that security forces stormed their campus on sunday and beat up protesters more than 100 students were injured images of police beating students has spread across the country and inspired protests on other campuses. a lot of police men. gave them distracted brutally beating all of the students who was dead in the flood as they did they wouldn't like their boys and girls everyone was big and the controversial law fast track citizenship to minorities from 3 neighboring countries hindus sikhs buddhists jains parsis and christians but not muslims india's opposition says it's discriminatory towards the country's $200000000.00 muslims and goes against the secular constitution pressure is mounting on the prime minister to reduce tensions there's been widespread protests since the law was
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passed last wednesday one which the un human rights office has called fundamentally discriminatory in nature what people seem is special after the crackdown that happened. and then followed by the goodwill community with yes i'll be seeing that bit in the uk by bringing the unit with the be all over india. you know i had a call to do in mumbai in the uk know. some of both were both being very symbolic to me why some of those with. you know showing signs of why didn't the been there been instances of stone throwing of describing the demonstrations as unfortunate and deeply distressing prime minister narendra modi assured citizens that the act does not affect them and is intended for those who face years of persecution and have no other place to go also calling for peace unity and brotherhood. if the protests on monday were any indication people are finding unity in opposing the new law many see it as part of the hindu 1st agenda of modi's party
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the b j p n or chapell al-jazeera his. side the supreme court in new delhi with the judges a hearing the petitions of the students just a little more detail if you don't mind so how on these petitions what they are specifically about this is specifically about the heavy handedness of the place or the law itself. it's really about the. the clashes between the police and the students on sunday the 3 man bench of the supreme court is chaired by the chief justice of india has only just been newly appointed last month charge of an bob day he categorically stated before he even sat down here in the last 24 hours that he would only listen to these petitions if the education and the fighting actually stopped and we have had that calm certainly for the last 36 hours now the petitions just started to be heard in the supreme
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court and they are being led by 2 of india's most eminent civil society civil rights lawyers in the. calling gonzalvo as they are representing not just lawyers who support those petitions but also the families of the injured as well the 3 man bench will listen to the evidence presented not just by them but also by delhi police and there may be a conclusion or a decision later in the day those proceedings will take several hours but in the meantime you might say the blame game continues as to exactly what happened one of the biggest culprits in all of this that i think andrew really suggested it in his report was the the founding of false news whatsapp was criticized here in india for saying that people had died during these clashes no one had died but there were scores of injured the main inquiry and the main petition is how did these students get injured and in what manner where they bullets where they pellets where they
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physical objects are just stones and sticks and who actually perpetrated that and what was the motivation of the police to attack it that's the way the scenario unfolded students what was the motivation were they provoked in some way by students from the university or not these are the questions that have to be answered only then perhaps we will have a clear indication as to who will be blamed for this so health 5 state leaders i think it is have said they will not implement the law how significant is that there at that level there is this opposition to it. yes it's opposition not just in students come on up to the right in a civil society politicians are all up in arms about the citizen amendment act just to give you an idea firstly of 'd what the national papers are saying this morning protests spread to all campuses the pm warns against the state interests he's
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accusing groups other than students of being behind this the hindu also students erupt in nationwide protests we've seen those protests from student groups across india you know what north bengal carola head regard which is the center of the country moon by has a protest planned in 2 days' time but the main focus is on west bengal all that panditji is really attacking the government in 2. 2 from 2 angles firstly she's obviously supporting the students who have protested against citizenship and also she feels that within her state the act itself like many other states in punjab and carola are also saying their state leaders saying they will not cooperate with the way that the act has to try and identify illegal immigrants because of the way that it is proportionally seen as being against the muslim minority here
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or muslim speaking migrants that have come into bangladesh now that agitation is ongoing and what the bam and she has done in west bengal which is obviously the state next to bangladesh she's also said that she's not going to cooperate in the national registration of citizens this is like a new censorship of the public that hasn't really been done since 951 and it's a nationwide project purpose initiated by central government in delhi to try and find out who is living where in a general sense this campaign is that so by not cooperating one of the most populous states said a huge message and. it's not really a big fan of the b j p government and we can expect that sort of agitation on the political level to continue we saw also that priyanka gandhi the daughter the granddaughter of former prime ministers a very prominent politician in the congress party she held the peaceful protests there india gate the war memorial to the war dead here on sunday night high profile
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politicians also coming to the forefront they're not happy with this new law and it's certainly not going away in terms of the protests either. ok we'll talk to again later then as we get something from the courts romans in new delhi to other news and french transport workers are staging demonstrations nationwide for the 13th day against government plans to reform pensions transport and flights have been disrupted and that could continue through christmas work that would need to work 2 extra years before getting a full pension under the proposals the government says they'll create a fair a system but the official behind the plans has actually had to quit over a scandal involving undeclared income. it's been called the biggest crisis to hit in 2 decades for boeing the aircraft mat manufacturer is suspending production of what was once its best selling plane the 737 max and remember it was grounded world
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wide in march off to 2 fatal crashes in 5 months which killed $346.00 people the groundings already cost the company $9000000000.00 john hendren but the support now from boeing headquarters in chicago. after slowing production of its most lucrative plane boeing is now hitting the brakes the aircraft maker says it is temporarily halting production of its controversial 737 max aircraft following crashes in indonesia and ethiopia killing 346 people the model was grounded worldwide now with that flight ban set to last well into 2020 boeing's rare freeze on production is expected to ripple across the global economy suspending production of a commercial aircraft is something that has been very rarely done it truly is an unprecedented decision and it 'd is one that has massive impact to boeing and its suppliers and the airlines the airlines that have maxed jets on order are
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eager to get them the ones that have them in their fleets are eager to get them flying again the company says there will be no layoffs among the $12000.00 workers at its renton washington plant but the decision could affect workers at this 600 companies that are part of the 737 max supply chain the impact of the announcement is so great that boeing's woes could expand the u.s. trade deficit with other nations what makes this such a huge economic decision for boeing and for the global economy is that boeing is the largest manufacturing export are in the u.s. and it's also the largest component of the dow jones industrial average boeing says it has fixed the planes problems through software upgrades in pilot training but with each delay the future of company president dennis mulan berry has come increasingly under question we've been challenged and changed by these accidents we've made mistakes and we've learned and we are still learning. and we're
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improving in april boeing cut production of the $737.00 max from $52.00 a month to $42.00 is that production line grinds to a halt boeing customers passengers shareholders and suppliers are all left to wonder when it will finally start up again john hendren chicago. this is breaking news out of pakistan to bring you the former president. musharraf has been sentenced to death this is in connection with a treason case kemal hyde is on the line now from istanbul sorry about that with more details come all tell us more yes a big word big from this picture caught records constitute back in green do keep. trying and i see been for an ag communicating 2007 which worked and saved
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a violation of the constitution really expanded the constitution and then forward in feet russo a good thing and so maybe deliberation and he of course were declared the next going back and going to be 16 but much of has been deteriorating if they could be in critical condition in the hospital and go by god challenge that he was not able to represent them because of the condition of the core of. the roi they. made that announcement come out and so what does it actually amount to then if he is eventually essentially been been tried in absentia and he's able as well is this just a court ruling which nothing may actually happen on it. actually a big. what a lot of pressure because. action in the 2007 event as
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unconstitutional and therefore constituted a. treason charges against him he got fact that he'd go but he got the ball. and now the country is ready and because it doesn't give your aching head god did he seem concern you even for shape so i don't think that the court going to be able to do you didn't bring to bring him back into pakistan and then to try him or hang him or whatever and tried i thought hang if they're going to have any bearing on that market just remind us quick his office i remember you doing plenty of reporting on this at the time the suspension of the constitution the the emergency rule why did he do that at the time. when at that time he would save 3 girls for position for assisting the chief justice if they come on what charge the . most of the judge hears the read their moves they will get your pictures
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commission that work formed and the. date turned against much of the board that they were quite popular by gave move to. deport the judge. did it dies. there 'd gave them that gave them thing that did not go down. that the. second part of the action that they did it again it didn't. ok come on how to thank you for that update that's coming out of pakistan former president pervez musharraf sentenced to death in connection with a treason case has come all the saying that goes back to 2007 when he suspended the constitution and imposed a bit it's you know but former president musharraf is in dubai at the moment and apparently in ill health and was tried in absentia ok more on that later and so we will be looking at burundi has moved its capital city ok with this ambitious
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transition will actually benefit residents or. hello there a very unsettled weather patient across much of western europe plenty of castree me an hour without we have got some rain and also some snow now we have of course had more rain across northern areas of so once again we've got pictures like this coming out of venice pedestrians of course taking to the walkways just to avoid the water in some modest way this also coincided with high tide now bit of a break they really when it comes to. the rain but not elsewhere as we go through tuesday is a very unsettled patten much cloud really covering much of northern europe right there down to the west and even again across into areas of italy the snow really confined to the mountain tops. but the rain certainly is that coming in and study
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by wednesday that rain will work its way across towards the central med some heavy rains at times putting into western areas of italy and look at this another system just waiting in the wings and that could bring some very heavy rain into portugal and spain unsettled to the north through scandinavia but really the bulk of europe not too bad in these time much as for example in bucharest that's about 10 degrees above the average for this time of year now down into northern africa we've got plenty of castrating it's all from the same systems pushing through europe and it does mean is it through choose say some rain some snow to the mountains that will clear that by wednesday so clear about at 18. investigative journalism you are. a. global experts in discussion 3 times you've got a deal and you disagree with that deal because of the terrible twos it was still it was brought to us when we listen to stories from out there and. open your eyes to
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an alternative view of the world today we have to rethink pretty much everything thank you for talking to al-jazeera the programs to inspire you on al-jazeera. the breaking news this hour on al-jazeera comes from pakistan with former president pervez musharraf has been sentenced to death in a treason tell you. this goes back to 2007 when he suspended the constitution and declared a nationwide emergency however the former president is now living in exile in to by students in india police violated their human rights during protests against
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a controversial new citizenship law over the weekend taking their case to the country's supreme court. their craft manufacturer boeing is suspending production of the 737 max jet which has been grounded worldwide since march 2 crashes in 5 months involving the same jet left 346 people dead the company had until now continued banking the planes. its $100.00 days now since sudan's transitional government was sworn in after months of political turmoil that led to the ousting of former president omar bashir the man who took over as prime minister had promised a government of technocrats to fulfill the slogans of the revolution that started last december when morgan looks now at how the transitional government is actually fared in its 1st 3 months. when sudan's new cabinet took the ministerial earth $100.00 days ago many hoped it would usher in a new era and months of turmoil. mass protests led to the fall of longtime president. and now civilians who are back in charge alongside the former ruling
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military junta and. what we've achieved in the 1st 3 months isn't much and our people had high expectations but in some issues we've gone well the peace process which is a priority is ongoing it's not an ocelot but we've started on it seriously we're moving well on the issue of democratic transformation there is more freedom with it in terms of media freedom or political freedom the government pledged to put sadam back on the international scene the prime minister. visited several countries including south sudan where he hoped talks could help bring peace to many conflict ridden parts of sudan he's also attempted to get sudan removed of a u.s. list of countries sponsoring terrorism. while the government has been focusing on the regional and international community to support its home challenges are piling up it's a former legislative assembly for the transitional period and just in the last few weeks there's been sporadic fuel shortages
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a lack of public transport and the economy is still in freefall that's what triggered last year's protests that brought this government to power. the economy is a concern for many inflation continues to rise in a country where more than half of the 14000000 population live below the poverty line. there's no improvement in the economy and are getting more and more expensive every day the ministers haven't been focusing on the internal issue of the economy which is hurting us citizens and those who wants chanted for freedom peace and justice feel the government's shortcomings elsewhere. the government has yet to hold to account any member of the former regime to deliver justice for those who have been killed during the demonstrations not just on june 3rd when the military right are certain in front of me he'd courters but since the protests started. however the transitional government has disbanded the former ruling party and. its also scraped the public order act which human rights groups targeted to
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women and street vendors cabinets members were nominated by the forces of freedom and change coalition which led the protest movement against. but some analysts say those chosen are not experienced enough. when we look at the ministries individually which realize that the performance so far has been quite weak because most of the ministers don't have experience the health situation is worsening with several epidemics the economy is still suffering and the biggest challenge it's facing is d.c. of the deep state members of the former ruling party that are at every level in the government there trying to undo the work of a regime that has been in place for decades and with little experience that may take a long time. after 30 years of bashir is through sudan is undergoing monumental change and it appears to many of the countries challenges will take time to be resolved he will morgan al-jazeera. in the 3rd consecutive night of protests
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in lebanon's capital supporters of the 2 main shia groups hezbollah and amal have fought with security forces police report repeatedly fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters in beirut it was hours after lebanon's president michel aoun delayed consultations with political parties to name the next possible prime minister major christian parties refused to support the only candidate the caretaker prime minister saad hariri the u.n. special envoy to yemen is insanity to meet her at the rebel leaders as there is a renewed push for peace his visit comes ahead of expected talks on the port city of her data later this week a government in the hope the sign the u.n. brokered peace accord in sweden last december but that deal was never fully implemented the conflict in yemen started in 2014 after the rebels overthrew the internationally recognized government's. china and russia are calling for an end to some of the un sanctions on north korea they've proposed
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a draft security council resolution which would see some penalties lifted to court in hans the livelihood of the civilian population would allow north koreans to work abroad would lift bans on some exports but the u.s. says now is not the time to consider lifting sanctions u.s. defense secretary marcus for effect says the only way forward is going to the negotiating table with pyongyang it is a concern their rhetoric we have seen talk of casts. i think that they will be likely if they don't feel satisfied i think as i said before i've been watching . the korean peninsula for maybe a quarter of a quarter. of a century now and so i'm familiar with their tactics with their bluster and. i think we need to get we need to get serious and sit down and have discussions about a political braman that even rises to the potential that is the best way forward and arguably the only way. thousands of colombians have turned out in the capital
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bogota to protest against tax reforms demonstrators say the measures being debated in congress should be scrapped because the only benefit businesses and the rich. from around the in bogota. a few 1000 people here in the capital protesting against the president. and his government once again as part of the ongoing national strike that started now almost a month ago on november 21st the crowds are smaller than what we see in past weeks but the people who are out say they remain motivated to keep putting pressure on president to can topple poverty and social problems are huge in this country and we need to be hurt and will continue until we are hand in this case the demonstrations are focusing on the ongoing discussions on tax reform that's being
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debated came side of congress and that is expected to pass at some point this week that will depend on a couple of the center right parties that are still on the side of what they're going to do with opposition parties have come out of congress participating in the protests with the people that know that this is a reform for the rich for the multinationals and the bankers the government is giving away billions taking it from below and look last it has to be stopped as we enter the holiday season here christmas season the largest holiday season in the country it's likely that these demonstrations will end the rallies that. will be suspended for for a time however the leaders of the strike say that they are ready to meet again and january and to start anew demonstrations new growth to continue putting
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pressure on the government. housing. the united states has imposed sanctions on to south sudanese officials it accuses of creation conflict in the country the treasury department's targeted the minister of cabinet affairs and the minister of defense saying they've been blacklisted for obstructing peace a civil war broke out in south sudan and 2013 just 2 years after the country's independence when the burundi has a new political capital it is now in tega instead of bridging bora the government says its central location will make it easier for people to access services some critics though say the move is not justifiable economically and may be politically motivated catherine sawyer reports from that new capital city this is blue and his new political capital the tega is in the middle of the country and was once a copy to all of the more nicky and to the kingdom was abolished in 1966 the reason
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move became official at the beginning of the year president. hold some of his meetings here the senate and some government offices have relocated it will take a least 3 years before the move is complete. new funding the project is the last feast for us an idea is born we are paying for our own election so i'm sure our money will be found to be in the infrastructure of the capital some critics suggest the decision to move the capital from bujumbura which remains the country's commercial center could be linked to it's seen as a stronghold of the opposition i generally lection is scheduled for next year and people still remember riots in the streets. because of a disputed pauline 2015. was a decision taken while even there is no more. the premise is for the offices to be there to be legally located there i think it to may even be very
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clear water happened in. nigeria some decades ago they decide to politically duds. we shift from lagos to a. part of quincy in tanzania. dorie politico city is remaining in. those who live in expect big changes it's heading home to less than 1000000 people both we talked to say they hope there will a patient of the capital will benefit them quickly good job better houses running water and so one economist say it's going to take a while to realize the expectation. these traders believes if more people move to get tega the more money shall make them that they are not that it would be good to get people to help us to build our businesses are already making more sales than before because it's in
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a central location strategy say mob rule indians would be able to access government services easily but implementing this ambitious plan that could cost billions of dollars in a country with limited resources and so many priorities is likely to be a difficult task catherine al-jazeera. breaking news from pakistan the former president pervez musharraf has been sentenced to death in connection with a treason case this goes back to the nationwide emergency. suspending the constitution back in november of 2007. 1909 to 2008 after seizing power in a military coup. in his tribe in the city of lahore in his absence.
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why 3 or in aggregate made. a violation of the constitution really spend 8 to 8 constitution and 4 day merkin ruto. really. created. back in great. critical condition in a hospital in dubai. or. there were only. made that announcement. the other headline students in india. human rights during protests against the controversial. over the weekend the taking of the country's supreme court. as the
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chief minister of west. joined the protest against the new law. and for other. aircraft manufacturer boeing is suspending production of the 737 max jet which has been grounded worldwide since march 2 crashes within just 5 months involve that same jet and left $346.00 people dead the company had until now continued making the 737 max. public transport transit and flights disrupted in france as workers strike against government pension reform plans for the 13th day for a few years disruptions could continue through the holiday period up to date but the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is next and dramatic yet the donald trump ends with impeachment threatening his presidency no one not even the president is
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above the law what next for the man hoping to win a 2nd term an hour and 2020 the impeachment inquiry is a scam join us for the latest developments on al jazeera. the u.n. is again pushing its peace plan for libya but warlord hell if i have to is threatening a final offensive on the capital tripoli and turkey is planning to step up its support for the internationally recognized government so is the situation about to get worse rather than better this is inside story. hello there i'm james bone 8 months ago warlord holy for half his forces defiantly march towards libya's capital tripoli that aimed to unseat the internationally recognized government of.

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