tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera January 17, 2020 5:00am-6:01am +03
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life and one for moment. this is al jazeera. i know i'm rob matheson and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and the laws so help you god i do as the impeachment trial against president donald trump officially begins there are new revelations about his alleged efforts to pressure ukraine to investigate a political rival. hundreds of migrants enter guatemala to join a rapidly growing caravan that hopes to reach the united states. the united nations
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considers setting up a monitoring mission in libya to keep an eye on any potential future cease fire. and we want to be the president is going to run why supporters of the gambia is former president want him to rule again despite his controversial cumin rights record. the us senate has launched formal proceedings for the impeachment trial of president donald trump house democrats read the charges and congress which sets in motion the legal process the trial which donald trump has denounced as a condo by the democrats is going to start next week i did joe castro has more from capitol hill. the ceremony laden impeachment trial of president donald trump is now under way very very. all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of
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imprisonment donald j. trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that. using the powers of his high office president trump solicited the interference of a foreign government ukraine in the 2020 united states presidential election john roberts the chief justice of the us supreme court has taken an oath to become presiding officer i do in turn swearing in the members of the senate just to become impartial jurors so help you god. but an impeachment trial under u.s. law is not just a judicial proceeding it is a proceeding that is both legal and political with most of the jurists who will decide the president's guilt or innocence being members of his own political party and in an election year there is little reason to believe that republican senators when a vote to remove their own leader from the white house in the recent polling shows
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most americans expect a fair trial in the senate is not one rigged in the president's favor the democrats say to get that they need to open the proceedings to new witnesses and new evidence that appear to incriminate trump further the president is blocking and again the american people just about all of them are asking the question what is the president hiding this chamber exist pershing eisley for schussler madam president so that we can look past the daily dramas and understand how actions will reverberate for generations so that we can put aside animal reflexes and animosities and coolly consider how to best serve our country now the senate has summoned president trump to answer the impeachment charges it's a hoax it's a hoax everybody knows that but it's unlikely he'll make an appearance it's his attorneys who will plead his innocence in opening arguments scheduled for next week
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heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. well an aide to donald trump's lawyer claims the president knew exactly what was going on with efforts to pressure ukraine into investigating former vice president joe biden and his son our white house correspondent kimberly hall has more on this from washington d.c. really like the explosive allegations came from this man left parness he says he was an associate of donald trump and worked in ukraine with the president's personal attorney rudolph giuliani now he's speaking out i want to get the truth out. in an interview harness who is in court for various financial and corruption charges describe still living messages directly from the u.s. president to the ukrainians it was an effort he claims to dig up dirt on trump's political rival former vice president joe biden who's running to replace him president trump know exactly what was going on he was aware of when movements these
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new allegations come at a sensitive time for the president the u.s. congress begins the trial phase of his impeachment trial was impeached in december on charges of obstruction of congress and abuse of power after reportedly pressuring the ukrainians to investigate biden's son hunter who sat on the board of a ukrainian energy company on thursday a congressional watchdog agency released its report stating the white house violated federal law by withholding military aid to ukraine part of the quid pro quo allegations against trump trump also denies his relationship with parness and his associates even those photos of trump and parness side by side have surfaced but i don't know i have never had a conversation that i remember with the democrats are pushing for witnesses like parness to testify the white house is attempting to block witness testimony in the statement white house press secretary stephanie grisham pushed back on part of his claims these allegations are being made by
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a man who is currently out on bail for fedor. crimes and is desperate to reduce his exposure to prison but part of his claims may be hard for senators to ignore the guy at. this. wire barn wrote never democrats have also released new evidence text messages and e-mails they say proves the president leverage presidential powers for political purposes parness says there was a pressure campaign to remove u.s. ambassador to ukraine marie avan of it from his post even releasing texts which suggested she was being watched and that her life may have been in danger before trump recalled her last year she testified in november she received a warning from a colleague and she said she wasn't sure but there were concerns about my security the ukrainian government has now launched an investigation into possible
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surveillance of the former u.s. ambassador kimberly healthy at al-jazeera washington ron grammars the washington d.c. bureau chief of the intercept it's an online investigative news organization he says it's increasingly likely that more witnesses may be called joining the senate trial . the way that these decisions get made is by a majority vote and democrats have 47 members of the chamber so if they can convince 4 republicans to join them then they they can you know move on these procedural questions it's interesting though that this has become such a focal point and part of that is because a lot of the suspense is drained out of this occasion because everybody kind of egg knowledge is that what the president is accused of he did the question the question is whether or not that is in reachable you know
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a lot of republicans have some publicly will say well there was no pressure but most will say ok yes you know this is what presidents are allowed to do and resolution even if it was wrong it wasn't so wrong that it's an impeachable offense and so because you have the. facts of the matter kind of stipulated to by both sides then you start to have debates about the the process that we're going to undergo to get to get through this trial rather than debating the facts themselves . plenty more ahead on the news hour including. a ceasefire broken attacks resume on syria's problems with at least $21.00 people killed plus. baseball rocked again another manager loses their job as the astros' cheating scandal bites as more.
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or than 2700 people have entered guatemala in a fast growing u.s. bound caravan that originated in honduras mexico's government is bracing for the arrival of hundreds of migrants in its southern border with guatemala most people are escaping chronic poverty or gang violence u.s. president donald trump is pressuring mexico and central american nations to accept more migrants his administration is also beginning the process of sending asylum seekers from the u.s. border with mexico to rot amala john homans in guatemala city at a shelter where migrants of arrived more than 2700 people so far have left and end to guatemala on a new caravan that is trying to get many of them to the southern border of the united states now a lot of them just arriving in guatemala city this is the biggest migrant shelter in guatemala city let me just show you
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a little bit what's going on this some people here that are charging their phones to try and keep in touch on the way through if we go a little bit further in we can see that also food and drinks been handed out to a lot of people coming through here a lot of them have been traveling for a couple of days already to make it here from honduras some people here trying on some fresh clothes on the way. and you can see people just starting to settle down to sleep here now we've been talking to. some of the people that are coming through and basically what they're telling us is that there's a variety of reasons for leaving honduras the 2 main ones poverty this is a poor country a lot of people or an economic problems a lot of people are unemployed and also violence from doris's all also a country that for years now has been in the grip of gangs that have been exporting people from that country and i was talking to you just a little bit earlier said he had to leave his moto taxi business when the gang just
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cut asking him for what they called a war tax and in the end they threatened him and he just had to get out so these people hoping to get through mexico and to the united states that might be the problem for them the mexican government under a lot of pressure for president donald trump has said that they will be sealing off their border that they're not going to let these people get through into mexico and go through to the united states so that's going to happen probably a couple of days more ahead of them for now they're taking a rest and just getting ready to spend the night here in guatemala city. more than 100 migrants landed on the shores of the greek island of luz boss on thursday camps there are already overcrowded with conditions being described as catastrophic the government says they reestablished a migrant ministry aimed at dealing with an increase in arrivals and bad living conditions the un's humanitarian wing estimates there are more than 100000 migrants
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and refugees in greece. let me and warlord khalifa haftar has flown to greece after its government criticizes exclusion from a un backed peace conference athan says it should have been included in the talks because tripoli signed a maritime and military deal with its regional wyvil turkey a conference in berlin is the latest international effort to end 9 months of fighting between half the us forces based in the east of libya and the un recognized government in tripoli. after setting is committed to a cease fire even though he's yet to sign a deal and one that started on sunday has failed al-jazeera has learned that the u.n. is considering a monitoring mission in libya to keep watch in the event of another cease fire diplomatic editor james baines reports the german foreign minister heiko mass in the eastern libyan city of benghazi meeting general khalifa haftar the man who brought fresh conflict to libya 9 months ago when he launched an offensive on the
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capital tripoli the general is still not fully signed up to a cease fire just days before an international summit is due to be held in berlin. earlier this week russia and turkey which are on different sides of this conflict could summon general haftar and fi is al suraj the prime minister of the un recognized government to moscow for talks seraph signed a cease fire agreement after did not. al-jazeera has obtained a copy of the latest report by the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists to the security council it's critical of what it calls the unrecognised government in the east and says that the territory controlled by general have to has become a hub of illicit activity including the sale of drugs and arms this month's president of the un security council is hopeful about what could come out of this weekend's berlin summit we're waiting for that wooden news from the conference
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al-jazeera has learned from a number of security council members that there are plans for a mission to monitor a cease fire in libya one model will be the u.n. mission in the port of a dater in yemen which has been observing a shaky cease fire for about a year as in her data a joint commission will be set up with 5 members nominated by prime minister saraj and 5 by general haftar one can look at her data as a model of observer you know people monitoring cease fires in civilian clothes in a small area libya is rather larger than the municipality of her data the actual monitors could be supplied as in yemen by the united nations but a number of different options are under consideration including using teams from the african union the european union or the arab league or a combination of those i'm told by one diplomat that the security council could authorize a mission very quickly but we're not there yet. one man who has shown he can be
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both defiant and fickle stands in the way and that general haftar james weighs al-jazeera at the united nations. russia has denied bombing civilians in the deescalation zone in syria as it led province attacks on the country's last remaining rebel held area resumed on whedon's day despite a cease fire at least 21 people have been killed in recent days. as more. the damage caused by one of several airstrikes in the northwest province of ethnic survivors trying to salvage what's left i emergency crews combed the rubble to recover the body of a child was other civilians were among the casualties and it lip city. did it give us your point that in the afternoon it lapses he was targeted by stick
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or 23 jets they hit the industrial area and a hallmark it sloshes most of those hurt have serious injuries. in a nearby hospital france console a father grieving his son was a ceasefire which started on sunday was shattered on one so. 6 just attack it that city as well as several rebel held town. the ceasefire was brokered by turkey which supports the rebels and russia which backed the syrian government's 9 month offensive. fighters linked to al qaeda are the strongest forces in the serious home to around 3000000 civilians according to the u.n. close 240-0000 syrians have been forced from their homes and it lives in the past 10 weeks no time no shelter no food people are starving to death in this governor
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and they're not being bombed they're dying because they're hungry russia and turkey are reported to have been to go she to be a sample isman of a secure zone for the displaced during the winter and russia has announced humanitarian corridors have already been established to allow people in its lips to cross over into government held territory. it's unclear how many have chosen to go . use of the young al-jazeera more than 5000000 children have been displaced since the conflict began one nears ago that's according to the u.n. which says young people are subjected to alarming rates of abuse a report by the un commission of inquiry for syria says warring parties in both sides have killed maimed and subjected children to serious violations pro-government forces used cluster munitions and chemical weapons sexual violence and torture were used against men women and children thousands of schools have been destroyed or used for military purposes and more than 2000000 boys and girls are
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not attending classes regularly honey magali as a member of the u.n. commission of inquiry and syria he says the majority of children dying in syria could have been saved. we're seeing children who have been dying not just because of the bombings and the sieges but today as we speak children are dying because of the lack of humanitarian access and the lack of medical care and poor conditions but i guess for me what's been shocking is to look at what hope there is for children in syria today going forward we're still as i said seeing preventable deaths education is now devastated and you know in what way will they be able to catch up to we're talking a generation that has lost schooling you know $5000000.00 displaced internally and externally right now obviously the 1st thing that could be done is everybody stops bombing schools and facilities that children need that's partly going forward and
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what we've said in the report is we need. to start rebuilding these places so children can be back at school rather than be out about out on the streets or involve them in the conflict etc and we need to be looking at the medical facilities and and the humanitarian assistance that children need desperately because they're dying you know which is quite remarkable that at this stage we're still reporting we were reporting on children dying when they were sieges when nobody could get in and out but you know why should children die in it liberally jhon. when you know there's nothing really that should be preventing international humanitarian assistance other than bureaucracies in u.n. resolutions and lack of cooperation on the part of of states. authorities in the philippines are urging those who haven't evacuated near the taal volcano to leave
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their homes immediately seismologists say there are signs a 2nd eruption may be coming towns near the volcano have seen buildings collapse under the weight of falling ash since it 1st erupted on sunday and around 54000 people are in evacuation centers across bottom just problems well let's take a closer look at the dangers this volcano poses to holds on the main island of luzon it's 70 kilometers south of the capital manila and it's part of what's known as the pacific ring of fire the volcano is on another island in the middle of lake to haul and it's a complete complex series of overlapping cones and craters with the surrounding area designated as a permanent danger zone. the lower house of russia's parliament has overwhelmingly approved. as the nation's new prime minister he succeeds dmitri medvedev who resigned along with the entire government on wednesday after president vladimir
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putin announced major constitutional changes but it forms could see putin retain considerable influence over policy even after the end of his final term as president in 2024. china's president xi jinping is making his 1st visit to me in march where is expected to sign several multibillion dollar infrastructure deals made in ma has struggled to attract foreign investment since a military crackdown on the country's muslim or a hinge of population the 2017 campaign forced at least 730000 ranger to flee to neighboring bangladesh she's shuttle to meet a leader aung san suu kyi the country's army chief. phil robertson is the deputy director of the asia division of human rights watch he's joining us now live from bangkok and thailand we appreciate your time so thank you very much indeed if i understand it correctly human rights watch issued a report back in april 2919 in which it was calling at that point for china to
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respect rights when it's carrying out belton roads projects in the intervening time have you seen china change its attitude. we have not at all in fact i think that one of the major things that thing is going to want to talk to aung sang suu kyi in the army chief about is the jock pew special economic zone in southern rakhine state this is a big part of the road initiative and it's a project that will displace you know as many as 20000 people and cause major dislocation than that already very troubled state. what kind of significant impact do you think this is going to have on the country as a whole because the is not necessarily a wealthy country it has to look after its own economic structure as well it's a difficult thing to balance isn't it the economic sanction against human rights.
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well i think what we're going to be seeing here is with the belt road initiative significant amounts of debt questionable projects coming on major infrastructure. improvements being made but the larger question is how the people themselves are going to benefit from that and if they're displaced as we've seen in other parts of myanmar often the package they get is nowhere near what they had before land displacement you know worse livelihoods worse situations for the people i mean that's something that the burmese government shouldn't want to welcome but unfortunately through their projects and working with the chinese government on some of these things they haven't really presented the people with a better alternative it is a very poor country but you know development has to be done right it has to be rights respecting do you have any examples where the people in any particular area have been able to protest against the plans of the belgium road initiative and have
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had some success. certainly not to me and mar i mean those projects are just getting started. in other countries you know again you know what you have is a a lot of closed door nontransparent proceedings going on with governments that are not consulting with local people local people basically get the notice that there is going to be a dam built or a road built railway had made and that they just need to get out of the way and unfortunately you know these these governments are not providing the kind of compensation or even the the basic consultation to allow people to plan their lives in a way that is respectful of the people's lives and the way they've existed in previously i saw it from raising awareness of the issue itself what do you think would work as a successful pressure on china to be more to take more consideration of human
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rights but also cultural awareness in projects like this well i mean we said that there should be similar to other major international financial institution some sort of package where there is rights incorporated into the project design that there is consultation process sees you know these things are something that various different groups have fought for for years with the world bank and the asian development bank with china coming on board with these major amounts of money we were sort of back to ground 0 you know we're starting over again fighting those same battles except with with a new group of major international donors led by an autocratic leader who has shown complete disdain for human rights so it's going to be a major struggle and it's going to take a number of years good to get your thoughts phil robertson is deputy director of the asia division of human rights watch thank you very much. still ahead an
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al-jazeera chase in the u.s. dollar venezuelans are increasingly turning away from the bottle of vodka now the world's most devalued currency. and we look at the lives claimed by on the groups in the asia and the mounting toll on the people left behind. and in sports the competitors of the dakar rally have the finish line in sight far as all the action . hello air quality in northeastern china the most part isn't bad just south of beijing it's been quite bad recently but the air is moving the other released the cloud is moving is not producing very much good daytime temperatures at or of just above where the average would suggest but the coast of japan is certain the
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southern islands it's rather a different story that's rain developing even a hint of a proper circulation here you might sing wrong time of the year for that and you'd be right but of course the waters are all woman or when they were so they are capable of doing this sort of thing might bring significant rain other to tokyo or just to the coast the east of tokyo doesn't change temperature much but 9 degrees is where it should be but the rain the heavy rain for sun would be a bit disappointing to the south of that and of course it's the rainy season in indonesia and that's reflected by the satellite picture it's not wall to wall thunderstorms of course not and we have seen a bit of an easing recently even in sudden sumatra maybe in java western java we'll see them start to build again on friday or saturday they're obviously there and kind of on time further north so much of northern borneo there's also a hint of the drifting east which is sort of and eastwards looks pretty wet come saturday jakarta maybe lesser.
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a journey of discovery. which is the cope. of a letter germany addressed by ground. 0. traces of family links to the regime. and on speech is fascism returned to italian poetry fresh in the family it makes me sick of this letter. i found coming through on al-jazeera. a searching investigation into gun culture in the philippines. and the new laws that were put in place to control it in this country it is not yet right. so if you restrict the rights of latest got orders you're not solving the problem of criminality of the philippines because these are not the people who are committing the crime. or your customers a lot of people but has the violence actually caught was rewind stray bullets on
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al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. senate has launched the formal impeachment trial of president donald trump the chief justice of the u.s. supreme court has been sworn in as the presiding judge along with 99 senators as the jury. more than 2700 people have entered guatemala in a fast growing caravan bound for the united states the migrants many of whom are on do and will 1st have to enter mexico. russia has denied bombing civilians in cities
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it lives colvin's attacks on the area resumed on why the state breaking a cease fire agreed to by russia and turkey that came into effect on sunday at least 21 people have been killed there in recent days. ok let me take you back to one of our top stories the new migrant caravan that's forming in central america and u.s. efforts to send asylum seekers along the border with mexico to guatemala elizabeth all will be is those babies joining us now live from tucson arizona she's an associate professor of latin american studies at the university of arizona thank you very much indeed for giving us your time. going to be able to cope with this influx of migrants. if you're talking about the asylum seekers no definitely not the trump administration is sending vulnerable people to guatemala to a place where they will not find safety and they will not find due process to be
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able to have a fair asylum process in fact many high ranking government officials in guatemala are opposed to this accord because they know that the country does not have safe conditions to receive people sent by the u.s. and does not have the infrastructure to receive them can you explain to me how this is possible because if i understand it correctly under i believe the u.s. designation a 3rd country has to provide security and jus process for asylum seekers but from what you're saying that's simply not possible or certainly very unlikely in guatemala how do you think the u.s. is kind of squaring that with this decision to send people there they're not squaring it they're just doing it anyway in the accord has not been ratified by the guatemalan congress either and they have not released any sort of
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operational plan that they're supposed to release under this accord so the basis of this accord are very very shaky where is it legally then then guatemala stands in this is there any opportunity for the government of guatemala to to push back to try to if not return the asylum seekers then at least discouraged the u.s. from sending more. the trump administration strong armed quota malo last summer by threatening to impose a travel ban and economic repercussions if the guatemalan government didn't go along with this accord so the the president of guatemala the foreign minister of guatemala the minister of interior. went along with the accord but there's a lot of opposition within the country the congress has not ratified it because everyone knows in guatemala that guatemala cannot offer safe conditions for these
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asylum seekers quite a mall is the country that generates asylum seekers it's one of the countries that has generated the highest number of asylum seekers to the united states and so guatemala cannot get off for safety or due process for those people who might be sent back to guatemala can you tell me for the distinction is between the asylum seekers that are being sent by the u.s. and the margarets that are coming that we're hearing about that are coming from honduras what is the difference between the 2 groups in the way that guatemala can deal with them ok so the honduras can enter guatemala because as central americans they have the right to go to church travels through any other central american country now the question will be what happens when they get to mexico but here's the larger point. the champion
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ministrations dismantling of asylum in its policies on the border this is not about stopping migration this is about stopping people from being able to my great safely and being able to seek asylum safely it's not going to stop people from leaving their countries because the conditions that they are fleeing have not changed conditions of violence of persecution of poverty but this is about stopping people from being able to migrate safely that's why people join these caravans because the journey through mexico is very dangerous for central american migrants so if they can travel together then they can avoid having to go through the criminal networks that control them the migrant journey in mexico by stopping all the possibilities that central americans have to migrate safely to all
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these thing that the trump administration is going to achieve is to push people further and further into the criminal networks in mexico that strengthens organized crime in mexico and it creates terribly dangerous conditions for really vulnerable people who are leaving central america elizabeth ogles we thank you very much. but as it is a ball of all is now the world's most devalued currency although it's in bottled populist government is banned from using u.s. dollars venezuelans themselves are increasingly turning to it as lucy in newman reports from caracas. there's something very unusual in this retail store in got access prices are all in u.s. dollars the same goes for this shoe shop in the country with the world's highest hyperinflation rate more than 50 percent of transactions are now being carried out
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in the currency of what the government calls the evil empire it will be a loss of dollar although the government accepted its defeat against the dollar and has allowed it to emerge from the grassroots level in a spontaneous dollar as asian process it's the venezuelans themselves have come up with this new payment system that's going on. everywhere prices are being calculated in dollars but it's complicated i'm negotiating to see if they can give me one avocado for $1.00 all right so we have it below because there's no change it asked us. i mean you don't arise ation is a term that describes the u.s. dollar as a substitute for a country's local currency when it becomes almost worthless as is the case in venezuela but salaries and pensions equivalent to around $5.00 are still paid him believe it is which by very little so for a great many venezuelans like the dunya elisa it means more famine than feast all
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of them said i'm a senior citizen i'm never handle dollars and so i'm in the clouds when they quote me prices in foreign currency in a movie only 7 of them are not all going to go in december somebody gave me a dollar and i said oh my how exciting a dollar and what can i buy with it. 2 pieces of bread that's all. her children help her try to understand the increasingly complicated system for using the government's crypto currency alternative the petro which requires just some practice. but it's not widely accepted and has in fact spiked inflation those who can race to electronically transfer their believe that is which depreciate by the hour and by dollars on the black market. meanwhile dollars are pouring in not just from remittances sent by an estimated $4500000.00 venezuelan migrants but also illegal gold mining drug trafficking and money laundering it's
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a hard currency free for all but a formal dollarization of the economy is out of the question since american sanctions by venezuela's government from using the u.s. banking system you see in human al-jazeera got access. but it was government has declared a health emergency over an outbreak of dengue fever all spittles in the capital is struggling to cope with at least $700.00 suspected cases in the area since october 1 infected patient has been confirmed dead with authorities investigating another 9 deaths that could be linked to the disease kills around $22000.00 people around the world every year there are any and president says dialogue over his country's nuclear program is still possible in the televised speech haasan rouhani said he wants to prevent war but he also revealed iran is now enriching more uranium per day than before signing the nuclear deal in 2015 runs accusing europe of yielding
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to u.s. bullying triggered a dispute mechanism that could really impose u.n. sanctions on iran. the taliban says it's over the united states a temporary ceasefire in afghanistan of up to 10 days it's being seen as an opportunity to restart talks in doha president trump called them dead in september the taliban wants foreign troops to withdraw all the u.s. has said a reduction in violence would see forces pull out in return for security guarantees pakistan's foreign minister says the taliban offer is a positive step. because the taliban have shown their willingness to reduce the violence which was a demand and i believe that this is a step towards an agreement towards a peace agreement. thousands of supporters of the gambia as formally to ya jama have been demonstrating in the capital demanding his return john has been living in exile in equitorial guinea since that was in the presidential election to the
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current data on the bottle and 2016 reports on the growing calls for his return. they want him back. maybe loathed by many gambians for his repressive 22 year long rule in which human rights organizations believe thousands were tortured and killed but this crowd loves him calling him the builder of bridges they're members of his political party the alliance for patriotic reorientation and construction also known as the a p.r.c. he can come as a private citizen understands full. time to president but most and we want him in fact to be the president of this country we see what you've done to this country and in town hall one we've seen it is a busy month. 3 years ago he said he would rule the gambia for a 1000000000 years he was forced out of power into exile when west african forces
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intervened when he refused to concede defeat after losing the 2016 presidential election it is from the comfort of his farm in equitorial guinea that the 54 year old former president is watching events unfold in his country with many disappointed with current president adam a barrow's leadership you are no supreme leader you want to be myanmar supporters are nostalgic for the stability that came with his regime and so in a recorded phone conversation to party leaders he says he wants to come home. jummy believes he has an agreement to with the african union and west african leaders allowing him to return to the gambia while he may get a hero's welcome from his party supporters victims of torture and those that lost loved ones at the hands of job security forces want to see him back in the country as well but to face justice nicholas hawke al-jazeera there have been protests in
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malawi after it emerged that judges overseeing a legal challenge to last year's disputed election what allegedly offered bribes as many as 50000 people joined demonstrations in the capital a long way president putin with the not only one reelection in 2019 but opposition leaders are challenging the results which they say was marred by fraud. activists in asia are calling 'd for action against attacks by armed groups in the sun held at least 160 soldiers have been killed in less than 2 months and thousands of people have been displaced and as i did just reports from the capital of the army mounting casualties have left many families struggling you know. the images on edu motos mobile phone are the only memories left of 21 the lizzie's was drafted into the nature of me. he was one of the casualties of the latest attack on me just
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soldiers. a retired military officer was the last member of the family to speak with him it would have. been his last call to us he requested us to pray for him when you lose someone and see the corpse that's gives you closure what was it like not for us. we've not seen his body for us that's like given to us is not among those whose bodies were found c. he wants the government to investigate the circumstances of the attack and why his body has not been found. recently lost at least $160.00 soldiers into attacks carried out by fighters linked to the group has claimed it killed more than $100.00 soldiers in the attack on cino could at allone the continuing violence has left many families struggling with the emotional and economic impact. who's husband was killed in the conflict runs
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a support organization working with affected families. but. we don't need to say oh it's hard to explain to you how it feels to lose a husband you have to experience it to know what i mean and that's the reality of all families affected by this conflict she fears more hurts will be broken as this conflict rages on. as well as the increasing number of killings in the here and the rest of us how more than half a 1000000 people have been forced from their homes in the past few words they are in addition to more than 2000000 people displaced by the war fighters in the electorate regions like countries like. nigeria international aid agencies are saying that the situation is becoming increasingly desperate. and action from the government to gain traction in asia has a wide impact of the violence. when bread winners are
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killed for one reason or the other obviously you will have unprecedented suffering in a country those who have been killed to cure of not only the immediate but extended family in the army today we fear a situation of demoralization and if that happens it will embolden the terrorists the government is he sure that moral amongst his troops is high and that it's doing everything it can to support them but with the security situation in the so how are you reaching frost that is growing concern in the region that i'm groups may be preparing to launch more attacks how many trees al-jazeera near me more people in southern african countries are facing severe food shortages than ever before with 45000000 people now in the grip of a hunger crisis the u.n. world food program says the crisis is on an unprecedented scale it's blaming the emergency in years of drought flooding and economic turmoil 16 countries in the region have only had one normal crop season in the past 5 years zimbabwe is the
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worst hit with half the population suffering from severe food shortages and 20 percent of people in zambia a struggling to feed themselves gel booker's the world food program spokesman the southern africa he says it's a dramatic proportions and it's going to get worse. time is running out as a say because it can take weeks if not months to procure and ship the food we really do need those commitments very urgently people are struggling they are destitute families are down to one meal a day if even that they're taking their children out of school they're selling off what little they have by way of precious belongings their borrowing money and going into debt so it's a crisis of many dimensions and it is getting worse i should also say that the region has had one normal rainy season in the last 5 years the weather forecasts
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are telling us that in the run up to the next harvest it is going to continue to be exceptionally hot exceptionally dry so the prospects are for yet another poor harvest in southern africa this year avalanches extensive snow fall and harsh winter weather have killed more than $100.00 people across pakistan in the past few days a weather emergency has been declared in many areas has more from the north west of the country. the while in snow is strong and heavy rain had left a trail of destruction particularly in pakistan's northern area and pakistani administered kashmir most of the problem is because 'd of the boy infrastructure which could not take the weight of the recent drawings as you can see he didn't rule there not stand a chance against the heavy snow that were dumped over that area by digressive them
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buckets on house to concentrate on improving infrastructure because most of the ball people indeed the regions are already living on the slope which are wild every driver laundered and landslides and the fact that most of the poor cannot afford properly accommodation and although the government keep promising new homes it would be better to concentrate on how to improve the standard of construction even in the rural areas of progress on to mitigate the effects of climate change and $2000000.00 might casually play a film on the sun less on the front of coffee either due to heavy snow the roof of this building collapse causing a lot of damage and losses despite the toll claims from the government we haven't received any help and are at the mercy of gaunt government should fold back a common should immediately are symmetry to send big helicopters for rescue and relief operations are small helicopters are not able to cope with visit conditions
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cannot help but rescue off lots of people who are in dire need of. a cording to the bugs on made here logical department this was an unusual bomb that emanated from the air a b. and c. and because it picked up moisture from the sea where surface temperature not already warming a bonded area norgaard great a heavy rain but expected no we're just blog logistic and rescue and relief. if efforts have been hampered most to relieve operations are now being carried out by pakistani military helicopters but the warning signs are quite clear for fog it's on air already seen devastating floods and now makes even roll catastrophes every issue of climate change is not settled globally august on also had very poor infrastructure what we have been able to see is damage to the infrastructure caused
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by heavy snow and also the fact that because of deforestation most of the landslides are now happening in the mountainous region and sometimes even avalon trays which has claimed a number of lives and progress on the administered kashmir this may be a warning sign for a country like progress on richard one of the most well notable country than the world when it comes to the effects of global climate change. still ahead an al-jazeera in sports catch of the day all perhaps not alone but to forget for this goalkeeper the aging championships.
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his father with the sports. thanks very much major league baseball sign stealing scandal has seen another big name lose their job carlos beltran stepped down as manager of the new york mets on thursday a belgian played for the houston astros during their 2017 world series winning season which was under investigation the team were punished by the m.l. b. for using an on field camera to detect pitch or signs from opponents which is against the rules a report claimed beltran played a pivotal role in the deception he'd only been the mets manager for 3 months and hasn't yet taken charge of a game the new orleans police department has issued an arrest warrant for n.f.l. football star odell back in junior for allegedly slapping a security officer 2nd junior was involved in this incident in the louisiana state
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team's locker room after this week's us college football championship footage posted on social media appears to show him hitting the officer on the backside the 27 year old is a former louisiana state university player back in junior is wanted on a simple battery warrants there's one day to go up the 1st dakar rally to be staged in the middle east with carlos sainz and ricky brodbeck poised to take the main titles barring a surprise saints looks set to claim his 3rd success in the car category the spaniard holds a 10 minute lead on the field after the 11th stage in the bytes race american brodrick has an advantage of nearly 14 minutes as the looks for his 1st dakar title the drivers and riders have just 447 kilometers left to negotiate before the final stage and on friday. founder storms have helped clear the air in melbourne ahead of tennis its 1st grand slam of the year which starts on monday smoke from bushfires
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that badly affected some players taking part in the australian open qualifiers earlier this week defending men's champion novak djokovic has been drawn against germany xian leonard stross trans am is the reigning women's champion the 22 year old admitting she still gets nervous at the sight of serena williams before work to talk to serena she talks to me and i get surprised that she talks to me and that i don't talk that. this is a serious thing. no i just see. her. and she is i don't know i don't like playing when she talks to be honest. but you're also delivered another opening round match up between 15 year old coco golf and venus williams the teenager caused a sensation by knocking the 7 time grand slam champion out of wimbledon last year world number one ash barty will face lisa's soaring create in her 1st match barty
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finding form as well on thursday she eased into the semifinals of the adelaide international beating mark vonder of soviet in straight sets the draw for next year's rugby league world cup received a lot of extra attention on thursday with prince harry hosting the event buckingham palace is a patron of england's rugby football league who are hosting the tournament in october and november 2021 this was harry's 1st public engagement since he announced he's stepping back from his royal duties. goals for steere a peon tour event of the year is underway in abu dhabi world number one brooks cap guy is making his 1st appearance since re-injuring his need back in october american shot a $66.00 and is tied for 2nd with australian jason scrivener here's italy's ronaldo protests or a on the 18th the world number 273 fired a round of 64 to sherry 2 shot lead shaun norris of south africa.
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england's cricketers produced a strong finish to the opening day of the 3rd test with south africa in port elizabeth the doors closed on 224 for 4 after choosing to bat 1st. with 2 wickets for south africa. former barcelona star chavis says he turned down the chance to be their new coach as he knew it wasn't the right time for him to accept the job he's currently in charge cattery club sad and very good full of. holes got to go for the proposal but these are not the right time for me of course is my dream to go. but he's not the right time and of course because it be a nice piece of ready to go to barcelona i love him as a goal john i wish him all the best of course my 100 days before but alona on now is for us at the end i wish him all the best for the group stages of the asian under 23 championships were completed on thursday with the finalists from 2 years ago vietnam knocked out and no things to their goalkeeper they were leaving and
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north korea when a howler from retail level the march on a pretty replay for him or the vietnam fans they go on to lose 21 and exit the competition after finishing bottom of their group. all 3 medals were up for grabs on day 7 of the competition at the winter youth olympics and it was an japan's man in china as women took the titles in the mass start speed skating events but the drama came on the curling rink this was the last stone of the mixed team final between norway and japan which was level up for all the no agent team with the perfect attempts knocking out their opponents in clinching the decisive point to win the match it's always 2nd gold medal of the games so far. and that's all your sport for now more later and can also deliver is going to be here in a couple of minutes some about the sun but for now. across
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europe immigration is high on the agenda and in hungary it's presented as a pressing issue we didn't have immigrants at 0 immigration but this is the one political topic anybody and everybody is discussing the far right is preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudice some pride in hungary on al-jazeera. when put on in society that opened up the space for the immigrant race is the european problem and it's not accountable and it's impossible for the people to build it is for link up our people trying to take more of a lead i do focus on a stronger man our song woman while getting the growth projection is in this world
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oh. oh. oh. you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and the laws so help you god i do as the impatient trial against president trouble officially begins new revelations about his alleged efforts to pressure ukraine to investigate a political rival. santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera hundreds of migrants guatemala joining a rapidly growing caravan hoping to reach the united states also the united nations considers setting up a monitoring it mission in libya to keep an eye on any potential future
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