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would we need documentaries from around the world. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. or the i'm home i hit it in doha with the al-jazeera news are coming up in the next 60 minutes hundreds more cases in south korea and the corona virus spreads to new countries concerning the world health organization. we are concerned about the number of places with more communicative knowledge you can leave so i'll just travel history to jail or going to come for a. democratic front runner bernie sanders warns russia to stay out of the presidential race as u.s.
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intelligence suggests moscow is trying to help his campaign. voting in togo where the president's expected to extend his family's 53 year long grip on power i'm joined again with your sports heavyweight boxer day and while that anti-civil here have weighed in ahead of their much anticipated title rematch both of them later in the fall it's. the sudden spreads of coronavirus to host of new countries is concerning the world health organization in the last hour or so the w.h.o. chief has ours all countries to invest urgently in preparedness and the number of people have contracted the virus is more than doubled in size korea 229 new cases have been reporting taking the nation while 2. so it's
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a 433 with 2 fatalities the government says urgently sends in medical help to the city of daegu health authorities in iran have also reported another death bringing its total to 5 people killed with nearly 30 infections there largely centered around the muslim holy city of whom were infected travelers from iran have been reported in lebanon and canada meanwhile a 2nd death from the virus has been reported in italy there brick has spread c. in its northern region of low birdsey with 30 confirmed cases we've got 3 correspondents across the developments in the story shortly we'll head see way in haiti in hong kong bari is standing by for us in teheran but 1st we're joined by rob mcbride in daegu south korea rob a very concerning situation in south korea given the sharp rise in numbers of
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confirmed cases. that's right these latest figures do make for very grim reading once more showing a doubling of this basically a pattern now it's been established over the past few days that we have a doubling each day it seems this time last night friday we were talking about just over 200 cases in south korea we're now talking about well over 400 and the focus still is very much on this area daegu and the adjoining chango county where we have a number bout half of all of the cases are now reported to be members of this one church community so that's the focus at the moment is trying to screen and test all of the thousands of members of this church and it has to be said that around a 1000 of them have reported flu like symptoms so we can expect sadly many more
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people from this congregation potentially to test positive for the corona virus around 100 or so of the number are also from a hospital in chiang doe where it seems the there is a link between the cluster here in the day daegu and the neighboring county the somehow there has been a cross infection into that hospital which is spread very rapidly through the patients there and also the staff it is having a profound impact on this corner 'd of south korea it has brought pretty much economic activity in the city of daegu to a standstill you don't see many people out on the streets also has an impact further afield we just heard for example that a samsung electronics factory just outside of this city has decided to close one of its staffers come down with the corona virus so it does have this knock on impact if there was one positive aspect then it is that health officials are reporting that although we are seeing cases now throughout south korea other cases tend to be
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small isolated single individuals who have come down to being taken. sick and somehow had some link with this area of south korea so luckily hopefully what we're not seeing so far is other clusters cropping up in other parts of the country so health officials will be hoping that the measures they've taken have so far prevented that from happening although that's small comfort for the people in this part of south korea who are going through this at the moment rob mcbride there in de go south korea thank you very much. now it's nearly 4 weeks since the province the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak went into locked in al-jazeera scrutiny you spoke to residents living in rouhani. one month after bronze sealed off its borders its roads are empty and construction sites are abandoned the city's millions of residents have been ordered to stay indoors among
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them mark leo and his son craft your hands. your hands oh your feet with schools across china closed until further notice eason is taking classes online through a video call mark told us his family was doing its best to adapt to life under lockdown and how they've been coping with the restrictions and in order to lock that is necessary friends of people i know and some of my colleagues have been affected and some died a few days after they found out the cause of virus so i'm really worried for my family can do is to stay at home residents had been permitted to leave their residential compounds once every 7 days but this week loudspeakers placed on street corners notified households of change. from now on nobody can go out the previous the lawns were going out every 7 days has been
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cancelled lining up to collect food at local pick up points is now for many the only outing for the day special teams have been deployed to deliver supplies there are among the few still to me to drive around the city. is one of them here every day i am in contact with those who live in my community i need to know how many people are living one household and check the temperature twice a day see she says food distribution in behind has improved since the beginning of the lockdown and most people seem to support the new measures. by sealing off the community we can isolate the unhealthy people from healthy people our strategy now is early detection and early isolation a makeshift hospital nick. named the ruhani living room has become home for thousands infected by the virus. those who don't come voluntarily approved by force
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mark leo knows the coronavirus crisis will eventually pass but worries about the stigma 100 students may need. to repin the virus originated. but people didn't create it i hope they don't leap a bias against us this shouldn't blame everything people so far 7 year old essent isn't too worried his wish for now is being allowed again to play outside. al-jazeera beijing. a glimpse inside life in the city of one let's get more now from wayne hay he's in hong kong for us when the chinese are striking a much more cautious tone than they were a few days ago just tell us more about how this brick is developing. yes well obviously a lot of concern expressed from the wolf world health organization and that lady at latest
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a media conference led by the director general one of the concerns he says is that they window to contain this fire is his closing quickly now what he's referring to is the fact that up until now as we know most of the confirmed cases of corona virus are happening in mainland china in fact mainly in who province where the outbreak began but the concern is that that is changing and changing quickly as we see more and more cases pop up in different countries around the world as we heard a few minutes ago concerning cases occurring in south korea the cases popping up in the middle east and beyond so the concern from the w.h.o. is that that possibly is going to get worse in the days and weeks ahead and therefore as the director general put it the window to contain this fire is going to get more and more difficult if not impossible and we could then see a situation where the w.h.o. comes under pressure to declare this a pandemic certainly there is no sign of that happening at the moment the other
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concern the w.h.o. has raised is exactly how this virus is being transmitted from person to person with more and more cases according to the director general popping up of people contract in the virus who have not knowingly gone to an affected area mainly of course who bay province in china or they haven't knowingly come into direct contact with someone who is already infected with the virus so in other words more cases of people being infected with corona virus but not knowing exactly where or how they contract it so that is one of the other areas that the w.h.o. is getting increasingly increasingly concerned by another interesting line that's come out of the province from the local government there they are saying that they have found a 70 year old men who contract it corona virus but showed no symptoms until $27.00 days. yes later so that throws all sorts of questions about the period which up until now is presumed to have been around 14 days at the maximum so if this is
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confirmed obviously that raises another series of questions about the incubation period. for us live in hong kong thank you let's go live now to dorset jabari in teheran where there's also cause for concern there door saw another fatality reports it's not too long ago how is the government corbin with the. well i think they're taking it one day at a time as it appears the health ministry is trying to caution people from traveling to the holy city of home which is about 130 kilometers south of the capital tehran they believe that the virus originated there from a chinese national who's working in that city and that city is now under heavy security watch because the officials there have said that people should restrict their movements they have said that all holy visits to the sites there should be
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limited for the time being we've also heard from the health ministry officials here in the capital who say that there is a mayor in district 13 of terror on that's in the east of the city who has been tested positive for the virus and he is now in the hospital and that has resulted in the city council shutting down for the next week or so the officials have also said that all pilgrimage trips to iraq have been canceled they only resumed late last week after 4 months of a stop in those trips as a result of the ongoing protests in iraq so that is also continuing in the officials have said that they've closed all land crossings with iraq as well there's 5 of them between iran and iraq for now officials are saying people need to exercise caution in their movements and also we've heard that the number of cases that have been infected that have been confirmed has gone up to 282 of those are in teheran and the other rates in the city of qom ok dosage of are there life from the
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iranian capital thank you very much indeed well as we've been reporting there is a growing number of people outside of china getting sick this is a virus tracker from johns hopkins university in the u.s. it gives a good picture of the spread or break there are almost 7 seeing fires and cases a runs the globe. we know that more than 80 percent of patients have mild disease and will recover but the other 20 percent of patients have severe or critical this is ranging from shortness of breath is to septic shock and multi-organ failure this station city where intensive care using a kit meant such as risk you know tony support missions that are that are as you know we short supply in many african countries. well for more on this i'm joined on
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sent by dr promptly tonnage of vision a division chief rather of pathology sciences and sidra medicine cat so good to have you with us or on the program dr is it so i know it's a cold this a pandemic we are seeing alarming statements coming from the w.h.o. those viruses cases are spreading beyond china what's the next step with this i mean whether we call this a pandemic or not is basically a technicality the fact that it has spread to many different countries in some countries that have less resources to handle this outbreak is very concerning so that so in many of many of us don't feel that whether they call it pandemic or not is going to make a difference in how we approach this outbreak well how should we be approaching this outbreak then because many people worldwide is a very very concerned by this this does this virus which is killing large numbers of people so how should we be preparing in tackling this virus i think in the
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developed countries there they've done all the right things and you've seen in lebanon in canada in british columbia canada they were able to detect rapidly cases that came from iran a place that was not expected to have high numbers of coronavirus as opposed to people from china which were everybody is wary of travelers from that region so so i think there is that heightened level of awareness all around the globe in the more developed countries so now it's time to it's time to focus on the other regions of the country that may be less prepared and this is a sign that everyone has to step up but we're aware of this fire is but just in practical terms for viewers who watch in this who are concerns about you know how do i protect myself personally against this virus do we need to look to an entire city is the way has been done in china or is there very little risk to. for example
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a healthy active 35 year old male just give us some tangible concrete steps that viewers can use to protect themselves from this so they're certain the things are done at the public health level are important for containing the 0 break in those have to do with the extent of the outbreak in that region so different regions may impose different measures such as quarantines or even lockdown of entire cities to contain the outbreak if it's warranted based on what they're finding in that region for the regular person that's not in one of those affected regions i think we have to keep in mind that 99 percent of the cases are confined to china and if you other places in the places that have very few cases your chance of contracting that virus is close to 0 and in terms of what happens if someone contracts this virus because we're hearing a lot of technical language coming out it's a. mortality rates of such and such
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a percentage going up and we still in reality know very little about how deadly is this should people be very very worried or are we overreacting well i wouldn't call this virus as deadly as the sars virus or the mers virus but definitely it is of concern because the estimates of the case fatality is somewhere between 0 point one percent and 2 percent that's actually quite a wide range but all of those numbers are more than what would expect from seasonal influenza so seasonal influenza has a case fatality rate of around 0 point one percent so so this is at least as bad as flu so we should have at least as much concern about this as we have for the influenza virus that we're still playing catch up a little bit but how would you rate the response thus far because we've seen a cruise ship coming on being quarantined for 14 days and yet people have come off the ship and have still managed to be incubating this virus and passing it on to others. do you think we've underestimated the core and see the amount of time
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people should or should not be in coron scene or even think that this there's little chance of corn seed in a virus that we affect if we don't know anything about it 27 days we're hearing about that case and move on how effective this is quarantine in a rapid the revolving outbreak it's very easy to criticize actions in hindsight we absolutely happens afterwards. and if they had taken stronger measures they might have also been criticized for that as well too if nothing actually happened after that so that there were things that many of us regard as missteps in this outbreak that allowed it to spread and to get to the point where we are right now hindsight as they say is 2020 so it's about time thank you so much for joining us and sharing your expertise. now the w.h.o. says it has identifies 13 priority countries in africa because of their direct
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links to china right now african union health ministers are meeting in ethiopia to discuss how to contain a potential coronavirus breaks ethiopia has stepped up prevention measures with its national airline continuing daily flights to china bomb involved reports from addis ababa. there's a constant state of alert at addis ababa international airport and it peaks when a flight arrives from china after the 1st screening the passengers pass through a so-called 360 degree x. ray machine which detects body temperature passengers are also asked to fill the health status forms and disclose where they have been during the past 14 days at the time of landing we would check the temperature you thing the 3rd term was coming and again we have master more scanner commuting in their own international airport and finally we check again we leave it there most commonly when they are
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looking their bags in between again we have a positive thing which is again strict nowadays the border international airport in addis ababa is one of the busiest travel hubs in africa resource of the continent's main gateway to china while many countries have to distributed air services to china after the corner virus outbreak ethiopian airlines continues to operate 35 flights a week to 5 chinese destinations the airline has ignored please both form if you open the public and some african countries to suspend its flights to china we base our decision based on the what the heads of shall still us the. cysts ok minister has a few places it's ok now when they say that it's no more health issues so it becomes a business decision and a business decision is that for us it is. long term the operation and we have 40 percent market share for travel between africa and china even though no case of
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infection has been detected in ethiopia until now novel coronavirus medically known as covert 19 is a major concern here 18 suspected cases were tested and found negative 11 of them were sent to south africa while 7 were tested within ethiopia in a new laboratory specially equipped with a purpose with the help of the world health organization an emergency center has been set up were dozens of doctors and medical trainees artwork every day of the week collecting data studying ways to confront the virus and this is perhaps one of the most vital services set up by the national institute of public health these hotlines manned 24 hour 7 they receive alerts and information related to suspects is cases of coronavirus they also provide information and advice for people in need doctors say they receive at least 5 infections rumors of a less every day one of the tasks of these men is to make sure no unwanted panic
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spreads among the population how much fun our disease are. let's bring you some other news now the u.s. president is denouncing what he calls forney accusations that russia is interfering to boost his reelection campaign and democratic party front runner bernie sanders is warning russia to stay out and stop sabotaging american democracy so the hideouts reports. accusations of russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election in 2016 have resurfaced this time for the upcoming 2020 election last week senior u.s. intelligence officials briefed congress and the latest security threats to the u.s. government and warns of russian interference to try to boost president donald trump's campaign we've already won the state trump has always denied kremlin
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interference and continued to do so in friday's last pit stop probably in western u.s. you see. i see these phoneys these the do nothing democrats they said today that gordon wants to be sure that trump gets elected here we go. here we go again did you see it still are people born i was told that was happening as i was told a week ago they said you know they're trying to start a rumor it's just information that's the only thing they're good at you know pretty sure of all. parts it seems russia isn't only targeting trump on friday the washington post paper reported russian efforts to help the new saunders with his presidential campaign to the democratic front runner later confirmed through ports is that he had been briefed on this and announced any efforts to sabotage american democracy it was like clear what role they're going to play we were told it was should they be other countries are going to get involved in this
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campaign. and look here is the message to russia stay out of american elections and what they are doing by the way the ugly thing that they are doing. and i've seen some of the you know the tweets and stuff is they try to divide us up one it remains unclear if and how russia is attempting to manipulate us presidential race moscow has denied the allegations. more paranoid announcements which to our great will multiply as we get closer to the election naturally they have nothing to do with the truth these developments come just ahead of a crucial democratic caucus votes in the u.s. state of nevada i think all elected officials regardless of party should be concerned about this because this is a threat to our democracy and who we are as americans intelligence officials warn russia could be wanting to throw the integrity of the 2020 lection in doubt and be strong chances of winning
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a 2nd term so to hide at al jazeera. the race for the democratic presidential nomination has shifted to nevada caucuses will be held in the states in the coming hours as the 1st racially diverse and urban areas region to take parts when in the fanta could show which candidate is best able to appeal to minority voters who make up a key belongs in the democratic coalition reynolds reports from las vegas. students at eldorado high school in east los vegas are getting a lesson in political power in my knee so i'll community organizer jasmine via gomez asks the diverse group of teenagers to stand if you are oh well i mean can you please sit down if you are african-american down every you are latino can you please sit down at the end there is only one boy left standing.
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by his reminds them of the long struggle by women and people of color to win the right to vote so many people were. not eligible to participate in our what impact that it's an apt lesson in nevada the most diverse of the early voting states its demographic makeup now for tells what the us will look like in the future so if you project forward and you look at the share of african-american latino and asian pacific islanders and you project out to you know mid 21st century the profile actually matches very closely tens of thousands of nevada residents have already cast ballots in early voting to get out and vote get out no matter how long the wait the lines are just do it i'm here just to vote the trauma this diverse electorate is the key to victory in the caucuses all of the democratic candidates
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are working hard to harvest votes from the vet as diverse communities some are doing better than others. who to judge and amy close which are have so far attracted little interest among voters of color elizabeth warren is done somewhat better future president as states of america abide much courted the large asian american voting bloc with a campaign event in las vegas's chinatown we choose compassion over cruelty bernie sanders has made major inroads among latinos helped by a small army of enthusiastic volunteers. sanders is leading in the polls my prediction is like quivers doing a better job on making sure that they latinos are engaged that's what's going to win their vote back at eldorado high students are handing in completed voter
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registration forms an act of civil engagement and perhaps a commitment that may last a lifetime robert oulds al-jazeera las vegas. it's time for the weather i hear is rob yeah we're in turkey yet more by snow now it has so far been a harsh winter in turkey from the point of use snow and it continues that way we're talking about the far eastern side more or less the border with iran but to wake up to these images affectively 3 days with a visit of blizzard is looking fine now but this buried a village quite obviously they have something like 6 beaches all told so i'm digging out is just the minor problem together with him now that the state hasn't finished yet because we've had these storms settle in the east inside the med including turkey so our winters is a bit more to come the blue here is rain is the forecast and the whitest as a little bit more to come but not a lot of you'll see behind me still activity in this system in fact if we look at
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the active weather the rain wise we're down levantine coast it beirut today and tomorrow the window slowly die and the railton to showers but you still got more of the same issues the height that gives the snow however rather than it going into iran this forecast just physics act so it's it's stopped effectively turkey animal event but you come back to see the effect elsewhere coming down to north africa that northerly breeze has cooled things down by 2 or 3 degrees above the average and the effects because right into the heart of north africa. thank you very much indeed lots more still to come here on al-jazeera. women rally against violence in mexico after a 7 year old girl is murdered. and then sports a lose world cup events in germany continues despite some of the sport's biggest names with joy over safety concerns.
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science from the lab to the field on al-jazeera. the all. this is al-jazeera reminds of the headlines this hour the number of corona virus cases in south korea has more than doubled taking its nationwide top to 433 the government says restricts in movements in big cities like seoul and daegu the world health organization is concerned of a surge in corona virus cases with no clear link to china iran has just reported another death bringing its source all to 5. and a 2nd person has died in italy from the infection there are no 30 confirmed cases
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there 10 times have been locked and thousands have been asked to stay at home. now earlier results from iran's parliamentary election reportedly show candidates affiliated with the revolutionary guards look on course to win a parliamentary majority so it is a moderate sound reformist candidates were barred from taking part so the final result was expected to favor conservatives more than $7000.00 candidates campaigned for $290.00 seats in that column and let's get more on this now from us as loni is a senior research fellow at the center for middle east strategic studies and joins us live from our studios in teheran good to have you with us on the news or would you say it's safe to assume at this stage the conservatives will do very well in this election given that so many reformers were barred from taking parts.
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the official results for the parliamentary election have not been an ounce yet but it seems that the conservatives are more likely to get a majority in the parliament and it seems that it's going to be a can of that's a landslide victory for them and i think this will be very important in demands to come because your brand is going to have another election in future and that's the presidential election and we have all the ready the judiciary branch which is with the conservatives and if the parliament goes mark and so the conservative i think will be having the executive branch versus the presidency remains to be let's say a conservative and that's why they haven't been working very hard to get that one as well i've just explained says what this this means in terms of policy if there is this landslide for the conservatives how will that translate in suppose sees
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that affect the iranian people and in particular i'm thinking of the economic situation the dire economic situation many find themselves in what will change for the conservative majority. well i think a more conservative parliament mean more pressure against rouhani administration and in terms of domestic politics as well as maybe on some foreign policy related issues as the country is suffering from it cannot make sanctions as well as. economic hardship i think the conservative member parliaments they will try to pass some legislation is in relation with corruption they have been talking with the relation the let's say whistle blowing laws in order to say that they are fighting against the corruption and this is seen a factor that can increase their chance for presidency as well in future but in
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terms of foreign policy i think they will support iran's care and an existing policies in the region but when it comes to the united states i think a more conservative parliament will oppose the rake and they go with the united states after these for some time but when it comes to other parts of the wall like europe asia or africa i think they will not bring that much of change the policies because that area of their establishment as as well as moderates and reformists see eye to eye when it comes to do diplomacy with europe or other parts of the wall but i think if this can bring more of these some kind of that's a change which is a position toward the talks with the united states directly and. that what there is another fact that the parliament doesn't have on this lead that much of an impact or let's say rolling the random foreign policy similar to other countries it's
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mostly the executive branch the president that has much say on this issue as well as some other governmental institutions and figures so the parliament can have some relative impact on foreign policy and it's going to be most the on domestic politics ok a bus as london creates get your thoughts thank you so much for speaking to us live from to. in so sudan president salva kiir has dissolved his cabinets in preparation for a new unity government opposition leader reassure has been appointed as the 1st vice president let's see former rivals moon with the new government from saturday and then attempts to end years of conflicts which has killed more than 400000 people. the victims over recent attacks by an armed group in the eastern democratic republic of congo have told all to see if their assailants the skies themselves in military uniforms and kill indiscriminately nearly 1000 people have
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been killed since october catherine soy has this reports. 8 month old we've been there has been in this hospital in beni since december her mother was killed while running away from armed men with a baby and had back and he now was shot in the leg. our grandmother says 7 relatives who he didn't have house were killed on the same day. they were wearing congolese military uniform in a boat somewhere speaking in ugandan dialect they were carrying guns and messages. come by these attackers shot him in the head doctors removed the bullet and one of his eyes this. is a victim of the latest rebel attack at least 13 people were killed in his village this week he was brought to the hospital with deep machete cats on his head and neck. this is his village of. a day after the hour bush. was
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still traumatized to talk to us so his friends. the folks. around the top young men to carry what told him from the village on which in the forests they tied them up and started hacking them with machetes pretended he was dead. dozens of people are recovering from serious injuries nearly everyone we talked to blame the allied democratic forces armed group or a.d.f. who just formed in western uganda in the 1990 s. to fight for the creation of an islamic state its rebellion was crushed by ugandan government forces the fighters had crossed the border into neighboring democratic republic of congo where they remained for nearly 20 years you have some recruits that come from other countries without mentioning which countries there are these recruitment network that bring them we are trying to work with different groups
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different countries different capitals to stop such recruitment but also you have to remember that not only they have these recruits coming from outside of kidnapping. the congolese army is conducting an offensive against the a.d.f. using 22000 soldiers by. the group is still able to launch attacks and kill people in the homes 1000 civilians have died since the operation began in october many including those from this village that has been attacked multiple times have fled from their homes this is a highway a trading sent up of one of the busiest just a few months ago government have now been deployed here many people are still afraid to come back. back at the hospital in beni doctors tell us those recovering are lucky to be alive many others brought in with bullet wounds and machete cats did not make it catherine saw. any of the democratic republic of congo.
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presidential election underway in tokyo is expected to extend the president's family's decades long grip on power after 15 years in power for nothing they is likely to secure a 4th term president in the scene they took office in 2005 after being installed by the army is able for from his father in the scene bay area damon and seized power in 1967 and in may the government's passed a law that limits presidents to 25 year terms that means that if nothing they is reelected he is have the right to remain in office until 20 certain age but despite his popularity many have shown anger over the family's hold and parent have held protests to demand change millions of people so live in poverty and world bank sense around half of the population live on under $1.90 per day let's get more on this from others it just says life as in caps alone may add meds
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what are the chances of an end students in beit din a say in this fall's. it's difficult to say this is a government this is the party this is a district that's been in power over half a century so political parties opposing the president or yourself you know they have an uphill task to unseat him and what made big job even harder was because they failed to agree on a single candidate to take up the challenge against question who are here today sort of been throughout the campaign period have been running individual campaigns in covering and coordinated campaigns and they also have their own complacently. base no love it feel plainfield all the political parties they have their own complaints about donors ratio of the of of the elections they said that some of them even said for example one of the opposition figures will be challenging
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president. in your city for more than a decade now is saying that he has complained to the election commission about preparations what the government did you did not listen to them so it is difficult to say whether they will make any particular progress in and city 1st of all your survey has been in power for 15 years now and. also when you talk to ordinary totally there are some who say they don't think their vote will make any difference will be staying at all the will is going to ask you about that and what can we read since the tournaments are people excited by the selection rushing to the ballot box so they feel that their vote will have no or no offense. well early in the morning there were a few 100 voters who lined up all queued up to cast their ballot in this. polling station but if i move out of the fictional you see this is one of the polling centers and there are 5 others in this particular polling station 23 and
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a half i was after the start of voting the crowd has thinned out so there are only hangers on election officials security personnel and probably a few party agents who are monitoring the election so right now 3 hours after the start of voting looks like everybody has voted the election commission is saying that it's because it has improved the system by opening up more. voting booths of holy books in centers like this that allowed more and more people to cast their ballots in a quick succession so that's what they think but again if you also talk to people who are disenchanted with the process they say they're staying home so virtually. looking at both sides of the argument this the turnout is not as much as many would have expected them to be. ready to live for us thank you.
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now the murder of a 7 year old girl in mexico has increased outrage and violence against women nationwide's john holdren reports live from one of the latest protests among government action for better protection. and chanting no one more women who've taken over this toll booth on the outskirts of mexico city to protest against years of femicide this was an. attack there's so much violence i don't know any woman who hasn't suffered and here on the outskirts be difficult and well here's where they come to free the body of. more than 10 women a killed every day across the country and it's getting worse in 2090 the number was double but 4 years previously. but this month the issue came to a head with to her if it meant as ingrid ischemia was stopped and flayed 7 year old fatima to get was kidnapped outside his school then raped and strangled. after
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ingrid's murder this is what president lopez obrador had to say. i don't want the theme of this press conference to just be about homicides it's very clear that issue has been really manipulated by the media those who don't like us take advantage of any circumstance to generate campaigns of defamation. to play michigan social decay caused by new liberalism it outraged many stepmothers to be a can't even describe it we're talking about a national emergency femicide and we have 2 cases that really blew everything up and then the president says no don't get distracted this isn't important so what is important well his priorities as president women's rights advocates say on paper protocols exist to deal with violence against women but in practice they're often ignored by authorities who can themselves be abusive when they are not there in the film and think i've been sexually assaulted by police and you have to face up to it
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alone that's because the people that show support and solidarity reef you are in mexico city not here. but in the last year women have been coming together more and more to demand change there's a relatively small number of women here but protests like this one have been increasing across the country off the years in which authorities are pretty don't know very much to prevent femicide and abuses against women now the pressure is on . now on the 9th of march on washington strike for women has been proved the movement is only growing john home and. the cut to pick protests is in peru have marched against a proposed ban on both fighting judges in the capital lima juice and decide on tuesday whether bullfighting should be made illegal and 5 year prison sentences imposed for anyone taking part critics say both sides and promotes animal cruelty supporters say it's been an important part of proving culture. centuries.
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canada's prime minister's bookcase which paralyzed parts of the rail network for more than 2 weeks must be removed protesters blocked rail lines in alberta ontario and quebec 2 pools and new gas pipeline across indigenous territory in british columbia. the un has warned fighting in northern syria could end in a bloodbath attacks have been continuing in italy a province with air strikes hit in that i'm sorry mean near the front line government forces assisted by russian aerial cover have been steadily regaining ground in the region which is the last held by the rebels in a phone conversation turkey's president richard tayyip erdogan has urged russia's vladimir putin to brain in syria's moves to avert a humanitarian crisis a palestinian man has been shot dead by israeli forces in or key points east jerusalem and israeli police spokesman says the man had attempted to stab an
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officer witnesses say the man was shot after he refused to allow officers to search him the area has been closed and extra security brought in the launch of a new opposition party in kazakstan has been postponed after police arrested around $100.00 supporters they included. who's led efforts to create the democratic party he was detained on unspecified charges as police dispersed anti-government protests in the largest city of marty a further 18 arrest remains at a rally in the capital there soltan. flash flooding in indonesia has swept at least 8 high school students to their deaths police and soldiers are searching for 2 others who are messing around 250 students were hiking near a river that versus banks following heavy rain. still to come here almost to see over half the sports company time to become the middle east's premier of
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earlier in the week fury 6 foot 9 has both the height and reach advantage is also heavier tipping the scales at 124 kilograms while the is making his 11th defense of his title in the $104.00 kilos will be fighting at his heaviest ever weight. other up always had to fight because guys because they're not you know if he does this is only going to slow him down and i hold no weight on me i'm a robin rock with 3 with a rock with you so it is a little going on you know i'm not worried about his weight all out i'll tell him don't blink. yet i've been holding that weight for the last hour take me to training camp inspired every day with a trainer every day so the weights no problem children 73 times a p.r. british space junk was a study of the day that this was a song called great but i told him that las vegas is mine the sun's up time dive to see the chick she came every time see. let me thank.
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the penultimate luge world cup event is going ahead in germany despite a number of top flight as including current olympic champions pulling out of safety concerns the bumpy track at winter book has been significantly shortens because of worries about the build up of ice in some corners making it more like he compares to say crash the entire austrian and u.s. teams with true ahead of the event as did some germans. you know messi has spoken out about his dispute with barcelona as technical director eric but if it's one that seems to be set to continue during the club's troubled season messi trained on friday headed their home game against anybody it has been 2 weeks since he posted on social media criticizing abdel for claiming it was the players that got coach a nest of where they sat and it's still on his mind the girls didn't go oh well i felt like he was attacking the players too many things are said that we control
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everything that the players put in and throw away coaches and they talk especially about me that i have a lot of power i was angry that it was said by a member of the club putting the players in the middle of the decision of sacking the coach seemed crazy to me that's his responsibility i couldn't let him attack us that way when we're in champions simona halep is moving on from her semifinal defeat at the australian open she reached the final of the de by tennis championships on friday with victory over american jennifer brady the remain at the top of the screen punishing any loose shots from her opponent. brady unable to deal with power or precision the world number 2 winning 626 love to go through to a final against stands and they know that if i came. over in rio top seed dominic teen was trailing jen luka magnotta 7621 and next and final when heavy rain stops play the match will resume on saturday if team wins he'll overtake roger federer for the world number 3 spots. ferrari avast formula one's governing body to
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rule on a new steering system being used by a sadie's they say gives their rivals a crucial advantage to say he's a confident that you access steering system is within regulations it was hamilton valtteri bottas have both used it during testing it also learned this week in sync bought us moving the steering wheel backwards and forwards to realign those wheels the f.i.a. race director has confirmed that the system would be legal under you to come into effect next year. pricing to shambo leeds by a stroke at the halfway stage of the w g c event in mexico the american charge the top of the standings after he sunk $7.00 birdies in an 8 hole stretch to finish a 11 under par. meanwhile overnight later and while no one rory mcilroy certainly had a friend in the crowd he's still 3 shots back this birdie part on the 17th one of the highlights from his round i while wrestling entertainment dominates global
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professional wrestling some of the former champions and now performing for cattle progress lang as the organizer looks to become the middle east's leading wrestling promotion sale malik was at the latest event. you do not want to mess with these guys they fight for a living and they're in qatar the super slam to. the biggest event by one of the middle east only wrestling promotions qatar progress and. a host of legends performed at the show none bigger than rubber band down he's been a main event for the biggest companies that cross the globe it's very nice to be able to come to places in the world where people grew up watching you know you've been even affected their culture in a way sometimes you never get to go to those places ever. been running since 2013 they've only had a few events so far the town can have many
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a chance to see an. the snoring very often but the company has big plans. they want to stage events like super slam multiple times a year and they're aiming to start regular t.v. shows. the qatar based enterprise has also opened up an academy to groom local talent. coming through the film that this very show vision we have is behind after the world cup 2022 further 12030 we've become contributed you know that to this market and the region. but becoming a regional force won't be easy. the middle east is a key market for the industry's biggest name world wrestling entertainment which is backed by billionaire owner vincent mon it's owning a reported $50000000.00 per show for the stage events and sound eurabia to 2027 the
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w w e has also expressed an interest in north korea mideast specific brand. one of the greatest minds in wrestling thinks qatar pro wrestling shouldn't feel too daunted eric bishop has manage some of his biggest rivals russia fans. tend to be very loyal but if you don't you can continue to assure the local when i mean by locals middle east and a shall wish themselves as a hometown team so to speak i think that's an advantage you can work in your favor and they can be very competitive. there are plenty of hard knocks to head for q.b. w. and now however they're putting smiles on the faces of people that progress and needs the most the fans still feel maalik al-jazeera to say. all right that's a yes but for now hala thanks very much joe that brings us. to stay with us here and i'll just watching tennis for just a moment. frank
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