tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera December 19, 2019 4:00pm-5:01pm +03
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plentiful and they're calm like this one is when you know that the system is coming back and that they feel no threat. and that's what you're going for rewilding patagonia on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. however i have them i had seen in doha with the al jazeera news are coming up for you in the next 60 minutes violence in india where a poulan solve a controversial new law for government's efforts to crack down on large protests. a president must not be allowed to become a dictator. a fiercely divided us house of representatives votes to impeach
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president donald trump he says it's a disgrace he still. has no crime i'm the 1st person to get. also a guilty verdict in the philippines for those behind the massacre of 58 people 10 years ago and i'm leah harding with all of your day's sports russia is set to appeal its 4 year ban from sports for doping offenses president vladimir putin says the same sions are unfair and politically motivated. we'll have all those stories coming up for you but 1st some breaking news i it's over libya where the u.n. recognize governments has just announced that they have agreed to an offer from turkey for military and logistical supports the government's own national accord g.n.a.t. . he is currently fighting an offensive by warlord hurley for heft or his forces
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are trying to capture the capital tripoli after his army which is backed by russian mercenaries among others has said it will fight its way into the sensor off the capital by the end of the year well just syria's mahmoud is in tripoli for us mahmud what morkie tell us. well we're getting news will from sources with the government of national of course the next tripoli this very important meeting between the government officials along with many kind of command that is developing abroad that many study counter offensive to defend got to censor pretty again it's happened and they say that they now. putting in action the memorandum of understanding that was between
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you and said it could not exist prime minister size and this is because president of the one to tell you many committees and security cooperation we know got the president that they can sprint and. of phone to send troops and weapons to libya. and they can do d.n.a. a government vessel for the mountains and we also know that this comes as a kind of action i mean this video important meeting today as a kindly action to do it the government to name that russian and convention to buy it but have been we know that according to u.s. officials. about a 1000 russian medicine that is. why things have. called them to pretty against the government forces so that a big meeting. now expected that. the turkish president will.
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deliver a on his promise and could most to probably send 1st of all a bunch of weapons because according to the military commanders on the ground what the badly need a need now what the. bag need now is advance of the weapons. to leave little horses and to get into the sense that we understand that have been supported by vance's weapons from russia and the united arab emirates and the whole battle has been run according to military sources by egyptian and russian military experts so after this meeting the government of national called 'd it's the only libyan institution in highfields didn't call to it with and according to the united nations security council regulations because as you know hala that libya is on the
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arm of the 20 in london but the government of national accord says that the government is only libyan institution in title to import weapons so that now whether or not president to run is going to deliver on his promise and send a van and possibly troops to libya it is expected that the coming the coming weeks maybe months. collation in and around tripoli came i heard abdullah was joining us live from tripoli thank you very much russia's president vladimir putin has spoken about the conflict in libya during his yearly wide ranging media conference a school life night a step fastened she's in moscow for us step just give us a sense of what was your piece and has been saying about this. well flooded me put in was asked during his annual press conference or by
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a turkish journalist if russia is backing the troops of star and he basically denied any sad. do you believe everything the western media publishes he sat he is in contact with both sides both hostile and also with the government forces and russia is offering basically to hold a dialogue he said he is against the violence and he is in fact receiving delegation from turkey in the next coming days he has been speaking also on the phone in the recent days with anger merkel and with emmanuel and marco about the situation in libya and he hopes he says that in the coming days also during this meeting some kind of peaceful dialogue will be will start in libya so any bloodshed will be prevented but we have to know of course that our there are hundreds of mercenaries from russia should leave fighting in libya and in recent
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months there were also reports of tens of them dying in libya but this is all unofficial and nothing will be confirmed about this matter here by the russian authorities ever quite what it is quite a complex situation over in libya what woods. russia have to gain either way for taking pour cement he did say that he was keen for the situation to come to an end does that imply ramping up support for these militias putin has been denying or taking part in anything. it's very unclear how much support russia is willing to give and how far they want to go what is also very complicated is that it now goes against the relationship that russia has been establishing with the turkish president earlier one of course we have seen that they are involved in joint patrols in syria also in that club conflict they were
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opposite sides during the war in syria now they can they turn out to be also on opposite sides in the conflict in libya. now it's made by turkey that they want to send troops to libya doesn't go down too well here and britain's press person earlier in the week said that this is something that will definitely be to discuss during the meeting in istanbul between erdogan put in early january ok step us in a life as a moscow thank you very much indeed. police in india have detained hundreds of people across several cities for defining a ban on protests against a new citizenship law nearly a 1000 people were rounded up in the capital the legislation has provoked anger because it offers a path to citizenship for persecuted minorities from free neighboring countries but that's it excludes muslims internet and mobile services have been restricted in
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parts of new delhi after a government soldier many train and metro stations are cool's not have been launched process elsewhere in india soon including this one in luck know when it's a pradesh which turned violence let's get more now from al-jazeera sahara raman he is a new delhi and joins us now live salable lucky tell us about the government reaction to these mass protests. well the government's reaction was based in reaction to plans for these protests they didn't know that this national day of anger was going to happen and in fact it has to be said that the interior minister and it shar would have instructed the police nationwide to put in appropriate plans and this is what they did in delhi protesters came closer to the road for which was one of the many locations that protesters were going to congregate in they were allowed to get you might say to the outer perimeter wall
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there were police barriers there the protesters were then allowed to go through those barriers because they were in directly being arrested and they knew they were going to be i rested and they did it all very peacefully you might say they were then you don't have a sense of those buses were then taken we thought to the local police stations for those individuals in civil society there are politicians and analysts or what have you to be processed in charge but what happened was that the buses actually went to the out just out to limits of the city where they then released or most of the people they to rest it having already cut the internet and mobile services these individuals really couldn't get in touch with each other and with that sort of organizational groups as to what to do next it was a way of dispersing the crowd without causing too many injuries and that sort of policy seemed to have transpired across the city add to that the police
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and instigated a penal code more forceful which basically banned all gatherings of more than 40 people and also the only location that was allowed to be used was a location called just that month and it's very close to parliament despite all the official demonstrations occur but there used to have to gave police permission they refused police they refused permission to all of the groups last night so in fact any demonstration of more than 4 would have been deemed illegal and the law. groups that we saw gathering baton charged people look hate but they were sort of dispersed our it was sales process are showing no signs of dying don't offend to bring luck no running seem to be growing increasingly violent so what happens next . well indeed i mean you're talking about pictures that for looked a list just give us an idea of the demonstrations happened on wednesday that happened in her yard or up in the north along with new delhi which is just south of
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those 2 states in the middle of india we saw conduct and telling garner as well as hyderabad as well as a city all of those areas had demonstrations in mumbai to the west called cutter to the east all of these a major urban areas where civil society and politicians opposition politicians mainly have managed to garner the crowd to come out and they didn't really have much to do to actually go out of the crowd because the public has set itself it's so incensed by this new law which discriminates not just against muslims but against as far as indians are concerned everyone because inevitably along with the citizenship amendment bill and the census that's ongoing call the n.r.c. the national registration of citizens which is already alienated nearly 4000000 people in this psalm those 2 pieces of legislation themselves are making indians across the board having to identify themselves having to state to all thora t.e.'s
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what their cultural heritage is a war where their ancestry comes from and if you haven't got the right pieces of paper that haven't been verified or ratified by the courts you could be deemed an illegal immigrant regardless of what we've seen are hindus themselves being incarcerated into detention camps i met just a family not just a few days ago we had that report on al jazeera yesterday that they have been incarcerated for 3 years if any of the supreme court that made the government release these people after 3 years on bail but they still have a status this is a shore a no and it's that very scenario that indians are facing that is making so many come out onto the streets they will continue to come out onto the streets until january 22nd when the supreme court since after the christmas new year holiday. to read the government's rules on this law other than the old petitioners and the government lawyers to fight it out of the supreme court to see whether this law
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stays or goes ok so he'll run and then life as a new delhi thank you very much indeed well still to come on this news are so more clear who will be lebanon's next prime minister but after a major party to coins to put forward a nominee. to heat records are broken a 2 days industry leo will have the latest on the response. and liverpool believe it relates in the carb world cup where has the action from. now the u.s. house of representatives has impeached president storm will trump the democratic party controlled house charged with abusing his power as well as obstructing congress in its investigation of those 2 articles of impeachment now go to the republican controlled senate for trial however house speaker nancy pelosi has
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thrown uncertainty into these next steps by refusing to say when she'll send those articles we always we would make our decision as to when was and is and when we see whether bill is on the senate side but that's a decision that we will make yes. i'm not heard. that would have been our intention but will he like what happens over there that i said we're going to say tonight because it's difficult to determine who the managers would be until we see the arena in which we will be protests attaining. well she has written same reports now on the errors of highly charged debates on the votes the result was never in doubt don't trump is the 3rd u.s.
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president in history to be impeached article one is adopting article 2 is adopted and the research gentleman from new york over several hours the democrats repeated arguments that have now become very familiar the president needs to be held to account many speaker the house of representatives has now considered 2 articles of impeachment against president trump the 1st article charges that the president used his public office to coerce a foreign government into attacking his political rival. the 2nd article charges that the president took extreme in unprecedented steps to obstruct our investigation into his kind of taken together the 2 articles charge that president trump placed his private political interests above our national security above our elections and above our system of checks and balances what we are discussing today is the established fact that the president violated the constitution is
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a matter of fact that the president is an ongoing threat to our national security and the integrity of our elections the basis of our democracy a central charge against the president is that he was demanding the ukrainian government announce an investigation into joe biden and his son hunter in return for an official white house visit with a tree any over the republicans argue that the democrats have failed conclusively to prove that case they say president trump was right to be concerned about corruption in ukraine in addition they argue that home to biden's position on the board of a ukrainian energy company while his father was taking the lead in ukrainian policy as a vice president does warrant further examination and they argue that impeachment is simply the attempt to overturn the results of a 2016 election we on the republican side have no problem taking our case to the majority and to the people of this country because they elected donald trump and it is a matter for the voters not this not in this way not in the way this is being done it is trampled everything this house believes in our democrat colleagues have
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weaponized the impeachment provision of the constitution to nullify the votes of 63000000 americans who elected president donald j. trump this is not about a phone call or your crane or even his use of the executive privilege you have to remember that 95 of the democrats on this floor today voted to impeach donald trump before the july 25th phone call ever happened between president trump and president selenski a trial is expected to be held in the senate in january the republican leadership is hoping. for a relatively quick process of perhaps 2 weeks the president is almost certain to be acquitted the poll suggests the us public is really split on impeachment in fact doldrums approval ratings have increased since impeachment proceedings began in the autumn she ever turns the al-jazeera washington well as all that played out in washington donald trump was rallying supporters in a city called battle creek he slams democrats impeachment efforts as illegal and
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a disgrace and pointed out so there's little chance he'll be convicted and removed from office by the senate. there. the brave garches. grazing land sea polo says house them. sounds with an eternal market share and it really is it's a disgrace. and it's all trump has been tweeting in the past a half hour or so referring to unity in his republican party in the impeachment vote 100 percent republican votes he tweeted that sport people are talking about it's the republicans are united like never before let's say cross to our white house correspondent kimberly hall karats campbell we will speak about president trump's latest reaction shortly but 1st let's focus on nancy pelosi and what that is next steps then in this impeachment process. you know we heard her
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talking there in that sound bite that you played at the start of the segment it's not so much uncertainty about what's going to happen in the senate and definitely that is the case what we're seeing there is a very savvy politician nancy pelosi using her leverage as the most powerful woman in the house of representatives to try and shape and control the trial in the senate we do know that we are going to hear from the top republican in the senate mitch mcconnell at $1430.00 g.m.t. he's going to map out the process of the trial in the senate he's going to say that it is the most rushed least thorough most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history so he's trying to take control from her but what we're seeing is these 2 bodies jostling back and forth with nancy pelosi using the leverage that she has to hold those articles of impeachment until she says she sees the shape of the trial
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and how it will look in terms of fairness we know that she's going to put pressure on mitch mcconnell and this is relatively reasonable given the fact that this is essentially the last day of business before the holiday break she's got that argument that she can do that so that there can be this time of reflection so this is not so much uncertainty about what happens next as it is both sides using their political muscle and i should point out of the midst of all of this we've always seen the house of representatives as being the more rockets body in the u.s. congress the senate being the more somber sober tone sort of the statesman like approach to kind of finishing things off when it comes to maybe some of the more lively bits of legislation in the house of representatives i don't expect that that's going to be the case this time when it comes to the trial involving the impeachment of donald trump more court we're expecting far works for both houses
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really speaking old farmer works the president himself used for muted reaction to a figure told. us about how he's been reacting to this process and certainly the impeachment itself. well since you read out that tweet by donald trump he has tweeted one more in the last few moments and he speaks directly to the process that's going to move forward now in the senate he's responding directly to nancy pelosi and her desire to withhold those articles until she can see that the trial that will take place is one that the democrats believe is consistent with their inquiry the president saying now the do nothing party wants to do nothing with the articles and not deliver them to the senate but it's the senate's call actually no it's not the senate call it is nancy pelosi is call when she sends up those articles it's the senate's call was there there how that trial will look and that's what we're watching for 1430 g.m.t. from mitch mcconnell but in the midst of all of this the president has been talking
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about and it certainly is shown in the numbers that he did have incredible unity he did not lose any republicans to the democrats case that was not the case in a generation ago when bill clinton was also facing impeachment he did have some from his party abandoning him so that certainly speaks to the president's ability to maintain control over his party and also one more thing that seems to be getting some traction in washington right now is the fact that will now see pelosi tried very hard to keep her train chamber somber and solemn and to really respect and reflect the gravity of the moment of impeaching a president there were many of her members she was not able to kind of corral who went on social media cheering and jubilant about what was happening and that's not going to play well in fact it helps donald trump once again in terms of his unity stirring up his base to support him in 2020 so both sides of both chambers have some challenges in managing those that they oversee and certainly donald trump is
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as he's a master of the message is maximizing the events in his favor even as we speak ok kimberly holcomb live for us in washington d.c. thank you very much indeed let's stay with this senior political. bashar is here in doha we came across a moron we know that trump is not the 1st president to be in pain of course the impeachment has has taken place before but it always leaves a lasting staying does it not how do you think this is going to impact the trump presidency well in previous cases say for example nixon or clinton there was a relative capacity to compartmentalize. to separate between the impeachment process and their preoccupation with that and then the running of the country which is very important both for america and for the world since american foreign policy is also you know quite important to stick your one of your earlier news site in
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libya is it imaginable that the united states has no say in libya when turkey russia france italy egypt in the united arab emirates everyone seems to have a 6 of the united states while the president is preoccupied and the president has taken on itself to be the decision maker on foreign policy the same thing on domestic affairs he seems incapable of separating the personal from the political the trump factor from the presidential fact that an end i think for several months we're going to see him even more preoccupied the question is how far will that drive him or drive certain number of his policies that will once again suit his personal interests a question did he or did he not rush for example the 1st phase of the trade with china. in order to claim certain quick when while the impeachment
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is going on the question of withdrawal from afghanistan is the timing of a partial withdrawal from afghanistan is that a foreign policy decision based on national security or is that more tied to his impeachment it's going to be very difficult to separate the person from the president and the occupation of both in the coming months and let's focus on the picture itself and the next stage is no more what we've seen we heard from kimberly she was trying to make nancy pelosi was trying to make this a somber affair and it. became farcical certainly with people flinging bananas and from the from the side and certainly if when it eventually does go to the senate we hear the republicans saying look this this is this process is compromise the the trial is unfair and that defense is already start saying is that trial
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compromised before it's even begun and if so who is going to ultimately adjudicate on the charges laid 8 by the house of representatives what compromise it is not only in the senate of course the republicans argue that it's been a compromise since it started in the hospital representative so the recrimination on both sides have been going on now for several months and will continue for several years who is responsible and who is not for this being taken group court or trial or is not clearly the senate is saying we're going to apply the same rules that the democrats applied in the house of representatives and hence we're going to really push back on any demands by the democrats but look i mean behind all of that there's something more fundamental and that is the following both a democratic party and the republican party leader. ship and cad have been
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basically in a civil war of sorts. major implosion after obama was elected in us for the republicans concerned and since trump was elected for the democrats and they're trying to vie a 4 answered a united answer and for the time being thus far each party has adopted a policy an approach of projecting their differences on the other party so they have you been uniting against obama and the republican party and then when you are writing among the democrats against strom uniting against an external court unquote enemy of the party domestically has been very helpful to mend fences and bring the ranks together behind if not something positive or a program certainly a certain hatred towards a person the very very public and succeeded and that especially trump in really
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coalescing all the negative and positive energy against obama and clinton and now we're seeing the democrats coming together to some degree against trump the question is what does that mean to the national. union the state of the union as it were it doesn't bode well because we have this total polarization total breakdown with the president saying i don't care about the institutions in the country i care about the american people who voted me and and from now on until the elections are i could consider everything i said destruction until the 2020 election and really it realistically speaking hala i think everything is going to be up to the american people come november 2020 with a reelect. donald trump knowing everything they knew would just like they knew everything they knew back in 2016 or not ok. their senior political
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analyst great to get your thoughts thank you very much. well to lebanon now where the policy of community her prime minister saad hariri is refusing to nominate any other candidates to be his successor the president is holding formal consultations with politicians to decide the next leader of the country well harry resigned in october after weeks of anti-government demonstrations and says he is not in the running no people have been protesting against corruption and sectarian politicians dominating the lebanese government let's get more on this and bring in tony berkeley his life as imperious air tony it's not just harry reid's future movement party refusing to name a prime minister there's a few blocks are not naming anyone either why is this. what they could be a number of reasons it could be because of political strategy they want the
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tensions on the streets to die down they don't want to be seen to be supporting somebody that the major population doesn't agree with or it could be just waiting to see what happens if they didn't nominate only what we just had the lebanese forces block who came out they didn't nominate anyone either in fact there's only 2 candidates that have been nominated one was by the hezbollah alliance the shi'ite hezbollah and amal they nominated has sandia who used to be an education minister in the government between 20072014 now he's one of a professor at the american university of beirut but already on social media people are starting to say that maybe there are question marks about how we handled his time in office perhaps there was corruption allegations none of this corroborated but that's the way things work in lebanon so people are very unhappy with that choice already on social media they're calling for more demonstrations outside of the pilot building this evening the other can do that is
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a man called no one who is being based in the in america he was in international court he has been a lebanese ambassador to the u.s. but hezbollah already described him as being sponsored by america so there are also concerns here but it seems that mr di will get the vote now what effect that will have on the streets we'll have to see in the next few days. ok tony vella there live in beirut thank you there was a similar story in iraq or a deadline is looming for the nomination of a new prime minister abdul mattis stepped down from the post last month after weeks of violent protests in which more than 400 people were killed but the demonstrations have continued people say they want a complete overhaul of the political system they're angry about widespread corruption high unemployment and poor public services let's cross to similar fortune she's baghdad for us similar to how likely are we to see an announcement
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and who could it be well it's increasingly uncertain at this point whether we actually have a name by the end of the day the president's office keeps insisting that today is in te indeed the end of the 15 day constitutional period but we're hearing from some members of parliament that in fact the deadline is sunday because it's not 15 days but 15 working days so we have to wait for an official announcement to actually know whether there will be a name put forth today or not but in any case it seems to be that the political parties are trying to buy more time in what is a very confusing and complicated process the main issue here is that we don't actually know who is the biggest bloc in parliament supposed to be nominating the new prime minister and so we have many different groups who are actually putting forth a name to the president the other problem is that the political elites are caught in a very difficult situation on the one hand they know that they have to choose a candidate who will be accepted by the demonstrators but at the same time they
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don't really want to choose somebody president a change to the status quo earlier i spoke to ali are. the by and center and this is what he had to say on the situation. what we have is. a system whereby there are multiple political actors who are very well entrenched within the state. they are really fighting for their political survival right now and they're really looking to find a way out of this current crisis through consensus i believe through finding some sort of an agreement between them that can push forward a new government that can pap's in the future address some of the demands of protesters. and some want to what would happen if this if there's no prime minister named tonight well other than the mufti has remained very adamant that he will remain in power as a caretaker prime minister it's unclear whether this is actually constitutional because the constitution does say that the president is supposed to take up the
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office of the prime minister if that falls vacant for any reason whatsoever to question is also how will the streets react to any further delays and what we have seen over the past week or so is that the crowds have gradually thinned it appears that there is a lot of disenchantment a lot of discouragement among the protesters who feel that they will not really be able to achieve the major changes that they're really asking for disorder might be a growing feeling on the part of the elite that they can maybe weather to storm and just remain in power and sort it out ok simona fulton live in baghdad thank you philippine courts has found top members of a political climate guilty or multiple counts of murder over a mass killing in 2958 people 32 of them journalists were shot dead when their convoy was attacked in the southern province of maguindanao the jury gave me has this report. the accused dressed in yellow
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a prison plates was sitting in the back of the supreme court in manila as the guilty verdicts were read out by the club they are hereby convicted and sentenced to suffer the penalty of imprisonment 1000 kilometers south of the philippine capital in general cental city some of the relatives of those killed 10 years ago watched a live stream of the court ruling not quit but only i finally received justice from my mum but there were those who were acquitted so i will keep on fighting for justice to make in the now massacre as it's become known happened on the morning of november the 23rd 2009 journalists and members of a local political family were travelling in a convoy of vehicles when a gang of armed men shot them and buried that bodies in a mass grave 32 a journalists others were members of the mangudadatu family political rivals to the powerful and patch one clan witnesses say the armed men who working for the late
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governor and. 80 suspects have never been arrested rights groups say those who campaigned for justice a still in danger and one of the things we're calling for is for the government to move very quickly to apprehend them because as long as those people are still at large witnesses and the families of the victims are not safe we're always concerned about retaliation against witnesses and this is been a big issue the fight for justice has been difficult and painful and for the families it's not a viet victoria. al-jazeera algeria rather their newly elected president abdul majeed to born has no been sworn in mo he was confirmed as presidents for the next 5 years despite widespread on happiness at his election to boon will no have to appoint a new prime minister but many opponents see him as parts of a long grueling corrupt establishment. sudan is marking one year since the start
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of your pricing that ultimately removed president omar al bashir from power celebrations are underway in her and at barrow where the demonstrations started but many are still demanding justice for protesters who were killed in clashes with government forces rights groups say more than 200 people died though the government disputes those numbers. well i have a morgan joins us now from cartoonist sudan's capital. a landmark day to day has been marked. well hello protesters started the day with by commemorating the one year anniversary of the protest they said goodbye to the train that took off here from here the capital hundreds into the city of which they basically nicknamed the city of fire and steel where the revolution started but throughout the day we've seen people coming here nearby the
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army had credit cards where there was a 2 month long sit in before it was attacked by the military people are saying that they're demanding justice not just for the june 3rd attack when they were attacked by the military and eventually their city and brought to an end they're saying that crimes have been committed by the former regime since 1989 when it came to power in this thing that this government has been very slow to address the issue of justice and accountability so people are coming out there saying that as much as some steps has been taken by the transitional government by dismantling the former ruling party by sentencing former president army bashir to 2 year prison sentence although he will be spending it and we have a station center there saying that that is not enough and that those steps are too slow and they want to see change quite fast otherwise there will be continued the protests as we see. it here but it is a it is a day of celebration for many in sudan they did of course get rid of all share as a result of protest movement but it is there's still an appetite to continue those
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protests i mean do they feel that the battle has not been won and how far are the protesters likely to go. well we've seen despite the fact that most of the roads leading to the army headquarters which is about 100 meters away from me being blocked by the army we've seen people marching to make it to the families of the martyrs organization which is just about 100 meters down and they've been they've not been intimated by the presence of the army there's thing that they want to make sure that the army hears that they still have the voice to demand justice that despite a transitional government in place despite some members of the military sharing seats in the transitional government in the sovereign council specifically then this still not satisfied they want to make sure that each and every member of the army of the former regime of the former ruling party are held to account and they think that this revolution came it as it's a loss of life that the achievement they made so far came with many people losing
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their lives and the always to those people to try to make sure that change is brought in so we see a lot of energy still from protesters to hundreds and hundreds of them making their way to the army headquarters and they're saying that they will still continue the celebrations and with their revolution if their demands are not met of for justice and accountability. morgan there live in the sudanese capital thank you. outlined the agenda of boris johnson's new conservative government addressing the houses of parliament she said leaving the e.u. by the end of january is at the top of the agenda events marks the official state opening of parliament and it comes just a week after johnson's conservative party secured a landslide win. my government's priority is to deliver the united kingdom's departure from the european union on the 31st of january my ministers will bring forward the jewish nation to ensure the united kingdom's exit on that date and to
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make the most of the opportunities this brings for all the people of the united kingdom. there after my ministers will seek a future relationship with the european union based on a free trade agreement well lifeboats and leave me parker he's in westminster for a slave this was an ambitious government's agenda laid out in the queen's speech at tell us more. it was a day of deep political symbolism and pageantry but also a tremendous amount of seriousness because this is the chance that the government has to set forward its policy agenda for the coming year and we always knew that breaks it was going to be very high on that list that the conservative government has put forward the government has made it very clear that leaving on the gentry
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the 31st is going to be a priority it was a huge montra a central mantra for boris johnson throughout the election campaign also we knew that the national health service in protecting the national health service was going to figure highly to the government has promised investment to 44000000000 dollars over the next few years a promise to build new hospitals and to employ a large number of nurses to this given the fact of the opposition joining the entire election campaign has been repeatedly accusing the government of planning to sell off the national health service and some sort of trump style trade agreement so trying to restore confidence and faith in the public who are going to be scrutinizing the government closely isn't falling sold for boisterous and going forward we all know that well we heard also about the plan to introduce an australian style point system when it comes to immigration by 2021 plans to improve levels of communication when it comes to foster internet and so on and so forth but
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also a plan to to kind of turn the united kingdom into an outward facing nation when it does its does leave the european union 7 taining a presence on the global stage was central in this speech to possibly alone sleigh any indication of where the government might intend to take things going forward a suggestion that they may plan to shape up the way in which parliament functions given the the back and forth the political stalemate that we've seen here over the past few years a suggestion that the. well visits the so-called fixed term parliament act of 2011 that dictates that there should be then election every 5 years unless there's a 2 thirds majority of m.p.'s to decide to push for one in the past governments were able to call elections basically whatever they wanted usually when they knew they were going to win the question is is there an attempt now to try and change things to allow the conservative party to consolidate power and to lengthen the number of years that they are in power here ok well need her triumphant boris
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johnson asking his again that into action finally that the scottish 1st minister is also playing her cards on the table and at 17. speaking just ahead of the queen's speech she was reminding very much that boris johnson may have a mandate here in england but he most certainly doesn't seem to have a mandate north of the border in scotland where the s.n.p. on 80 percent of the seats there they are from it will force now in the new parliament and they will continue to hold boards johnson's feet to the fire going forward the s.n.p. are firmly pro e.u. policy they do not want to see the united kingdom dragged out of the european union on january 31st so they didn't notice or has noted that people may not have necessarily voted for the s.n.p. because they want to see
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a referendum to become an independent country that is really central to her agenda going forward and she set forth her plan to try and push for a 2nd independence referendum wherever that may be we simply don't know but it's an issue that boris johnson is going to be uncomfortably challenged with most certainly in the months possibly even years to come. live from london thank you. i believe he is attorney general has ordered the arrest of former president evel morale assess on charges of sedition and terrorism morale is resigned and left the livia in the van after protests and allegations of irregularities in the presidential election where he fights in mexico but a sense forms argentina where he's been granted political asylum he says the process which forced him from office after nearly 14 years for parts of a bright when coup. conflicts and crisis and places like iraq are topping the
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agenda for muslim leaders meeting in kuala lumpur and lation prime minister mahathir mohamad to welcome them with a message of unity saying islamic nations must resolve differences to better serve their people the leaders of saudi arabia and pakistan are among those whom snopt the meeting because it was in the house under the saudi based organization of islamic cooperation yes it is the muslims and they their countries are in this state of crisis help helpless an unworthy of this religion which is men to be good for men crime it is for these reasons that the summit meeting is organized at the very least through our discussions really mean fine but when wrong we may even find solutions if not to end these get this of the these
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2 a week in the islamic world the omar of the need to recognize the problems and their causes. psalter through its hottest day ever just 24 hours after breaking the previous records the average temperature across the country on thursday reached $41.00 degrees celsius the heat wave is expected to worsen bushfires especially in new south wales where an emergency has been declared jesica washington reports from sydney. a crisis that has been raging for months millions of acres of land destroyed as hundreds of fires burned around the country bushfires are a normal part of the israelian summer but not like this the ferocity of this year's is prompting authorities to take extreme measures in history as most populous states new south wales will be in
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a state of emergency from today for the next 7 days as you are away this is the 2nd state of emergency we've declared since the far as commenced in july was to die is going to be very bad. here in new south wales the forecast says that sort of i will be even worse so we're talking about some very serious and dangerous conditions over the coming days the state of emergency means the fire service will have authority to shut down utilities like water and electricity close roads demolish buildings and evacuate residents sydney's famous harbor views have been completely transformed by the disaster was. and frustrations are growing the combination of the push by a crisis drought heatwaves also locking criticism of the government's climate policies a group of protesters most of them high school students gathered outside the prime minister's house braving the smoky and uncomfortable heat to stage
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a sit in i'm just really sick of what's been happening just being ignored by the government for weeks and weeks. there's almost a festival atmosphere at the plate and just outside the prime minister's residence . it's music and games but the protesters here say that they're serious about their message that the government isn't doing enough to stop what they're calling a climate emergency. across the country across the country and they're not doing anything about it we've seen a 25 percent increase in response presentations to hospitals across sydney because of this crisis in the air pollution that's resulting from that we're seeing deepening health inequalities because of government in action on climate change and it's negligent and it's actually killing people prime minister morrison wasn't home to hear their message he's on holiday and he's due to return later this week to face the heat of the volatile situation will grow even more dangerous in the coming
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welcome back it's time for the sport here's lia thank you hala well russia is to appeal its 4 year ban from sporting events by the world anti-doping agency president vladimir putin describing the same sions as unfair and politically motivated who was speaking after the russian anti-doping agency voted to file their
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case with the court of arbitration for sport within the next 10 to 15 days what it is punishing russia for manipulating laboratory data and covering up past doping offenses the country would be disqualified from next year's olympics and the 2022 world cup if the ban is upheld. i think it's normally unfair the decision to say lacks common sense and justice water now has no complaints against our national in pick committee therefore the national team should compete flag. liverpool needed injury time to score ringback a winner and reach the final of the fifo club world cup here in doha the european champions were up against monterrey in their semi final and took an early lead there and not be tired but the mexican side weren't behind for a long as a real food is morry counts to level things up and that's the way it started or stayed rather until injury time herbert though for me no had only just come on as
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a sub but grabbed the winner to make the final score $21.00 liverpool will face for me knows brazil fellow brazilians of the south american champions flamengo in saturday's final. will 46 people were injured and 5 arrested in protest outside the new camp in state a new camp stadium as a 1st classico of the season between barcelona and real madrid ended in a stalemate on the pitch barcelona remain top of the table above real madrid after the sides played out a nil nil draw it's the 1st time in 17 years that this fixture has been goalless. the protests outside the new camp came as catalan separatists continued to demand independence from spain david chaytor was there at a time i know now the clashes between the police and demonstrators came even before the match started and the violence and anger grew as the evening progressed the protests was coordinated by an organization calling itself democratic tsunami
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demanding independence for catalonia. they estimated 25000 demonstrators answered the call on social media to stage a rally at the el classico match your original game was canceled in october following violent clashes in the jailing of catalan leaders. barricades have now been set alight around the stadium as the match and to its final few minutes the police been trying to avoid confrontations but the the pace of the ride the pace of the trouble is now picking up. the game between barcelona and real madrid was watched by a worldwide audience was an audience the demonstrators were also trying to reach to publicize their call. the catalan question is still causing turmoil in spanish politics the socialist prime minister petro sanchez is talking to the m.p.'s in the new parliament hoping to gain their support to form
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a coalition government. but the way these clashes played out around the stadium of a night shows the crisis is still stubbornly refusing to be diffused casualties of growth. david chase the al-jazeera. former real madrid star christian or a naldo brought you ventus back to the top spot in the middle east syria his goal just before half time gave the champions a 21 win away at sampdoria moves 3 points clear of inner milan in the table but their rivals do have a game in hand well in germany champions byron munich avoided failing of falling behind rather the leaders thinks to too late strikes their match at afraid bird was heading for a draw before dutch teenager joshua found himself with the goal of his mercy baron ended up winning 31 and go 3rd. and in the n.b.a. the boston celtics and dallas mavericks had to make do with some of their key
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players benched for injury was one of them out for his 2nd game with an ankle sprain while boston was without gordon hayward and marcus smart the celtics held the mavs 15 points below their season average with shots like this from kemba walker celtics took the win 109103. 3 months after the rugby world cup in japan was hit by a typhoon organizers of the tokyo 2021 pigs are taking no chances especially when it comes to natural disasters authorities have been carrying out earthquake rescue drills at the new area gymnastic theater where stars like small bottles are set to compete next summer this one simulated a $7.00 magnitude quake organizers are also preparing for the effect of summer heat with the marathon already moved from tokyo to the cooler climate of sapporo. well that's lawyers for from a drag over to hala thank you very much indeed sir lear world stay with us the news hour may be over but i'm back with you on the other side of the break with more on
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the very latest including that breaking news out of libya stay with us. from the al-jazeera london for will cost center 2 special guests in conversation this is the chance to start the revolution unprompted uninterrupted we need to do away with the way evil because that stops conversation where should we get our land to pull its own meat can be this is the beginning of friendship this is the beginning of love growth we're getting somewhere we can really break through the barriers studio unscripted on al-jazeera i thought this conviction that everyone has a deep reservoir of thomas realty and if you can give them the opportunity wonderful things start to happen sometimes the simplest situations are the most impactful yet it is yeah yeah ok so. the main thing is that sense of 0 apart
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from other news organizations is that a lot of our reporting is about real people not about ideas or politicians or what they may want to do but how policy and how events affect real people it's ok it's ok it's ok. a little more complicated operations probably if this is not an act of creation i'm going to move toward piece of the work you're doing here is amazing but there are so many fossils and it feels like this is just a day and what was your relationship with jodan were ok but certainly. this job isn't just about what's on a script or a piece of paper it's about what's happening right now. a football tournament like no other in the at the beginning. we used to play football in the street using a soccer al-jazeera world meets a group of sudanese boy is determined to win against a backdrop of conflict and uncertainty and as well. when i walk in the street
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people stop me. it's because of the. door for football for peace on al-jazeera. libya's government in tripoli accepts a turkish offer for military support as it battles warlords forces. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up violence in india where opponents of a controversial new law will defy government efforts to crackdown large protests. president must not be allowed to become a dictator. a fiercely divided.
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