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see. the afghan government says it has made no commitment to release thousands of taliban prisoners despite a deal between the group in the us. i'm committed al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up thousands of refugees and migrants trying to enter europe is turkey opens its borders. donald trump calls for calm as the u.s. reports its 1st day links to the corona virus outbreak. an emphatic victory for joe biden in south carolina giving his bid to be the
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democratic presidential candidate the vital boost it needed. a deal signed between the u.s. and the afghan taliban may have already hit a major stumbling block afghanistan's president to assure afghan he says the government did not commit to releasing 5000 taliban prisoners and it cannot be a precondition for talks with the group a prisoner swap was part of the accord signed in qatar on saturday the agreement is meant to pave the way for the withdrawal of all american and nato troops from afghanistan and a long lasting peace how does the maid is in kabul for us hot how major an issue is this likely to be. i think it's going to be a very big issue because we've heard yesterday from the taliban saying that they expecting that release of prisoners or rather than exchange of prisoners to happen sooner rather than later and then this morning quite early. holding
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a press conference was saying well that deal is between the americans and the taliban and we have nothing to do with it and we did not commit release of prisoners he said that any kind of concession has to be done around the detail during negotiations with those interim afghan this negotiations happened to happen on to start on march 10th but there's still many days ahead and that development is the question about what kind of the allegation will be sent that to the afghan government did not form that delegation yet so yes it will be a stumbling but there are many other stumbling blocks as well what are i wonder what's the mood there just among ordinary afghans the day after this deal was signed well those i spoke to said that they were
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quite bewildered actually to see the taliban in such a setting many people did watch the signing ceremony unfolding in doha and it's been repeated in a loop on the local televisions here i think they were surprised to see the taliban standing there being you know being welcomed by the international community shaking hands with us senior officials. they sort of a bit hesitant in this says that everyone wants peace everyone dreams of these as one told me but everyone doesn't dare to believe that it will come sooner rather than later simply because they know to a country very well day know the deep problems that existed before lies that exist within all the political. different parties in this country a sort of doubt that everyone would go to
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a log stand in the room and so people are hopeful but the extremely cautious as well thank you for that that's what i've done have read there live in kabul. turkey has carried out attacks against the syrian army in the northwestern province of idlib targeting several government posts it comes as turkey's deadline passed for the russian backed syrian army to retreat from the region russia and turkey agreed to reduce tension on the ground on saturday weeks 34 turkish troops were killed in a bombardment in syria's last rebel held region well as hundreds of thousands of people try to escape the fighting turkey's president says borders will remain open for syrian refugees and migrants thousands have already attempted to cross into europe as they seek to start new lives i thin says it has blocked thousands of migrants at its border with the crossings the number is expected to get up to 30000 in the coming days there's going to aim isn't it bernie on turkey's border with
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greece's half of the turkish government says 75000 people are heading to where you are what are you seeing. we're not seeing quite those numbers cam what we're seeing is families and groups of single people walking along this road behind me which leads to the checkpoint with greece we're seeing groups of men congregated on the side of the road and families taking a rest it was a miserable night for them the international organization for migration or i.o.m. says 13000 refugees spent the night in the elements here in a the temperature dropped below freezing i spoke to an afghan man who says it was miserable he was freezing he spent the night in the woods he had no food to eat and he's feeling very disheartened this morning the turkish ministry of interior is
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saying that since turkey opened its borders on friday more than 47000 people have left the country via its northwest border with greece and turkey migrants are telling us they dispute those numbers given the sheer difficulty they've had in crossing but they say that they plan at least some of them that we've spoken to they plan to try to return to the border area today in the hopes of being able to cross we're expecting for a 3rd day bus loads packed with refugees to arrive from istanbul here at the border these are free bus rides that people are being given on city buses but again i'd be curious to see if we're going to see the sheer numbers of people that have arrived in the previous 2 days let us know what it's going to happen to these people because obviously as we've been saying turkey is letting these people through but greece is using tear gas and stopping them from crossing what's going to happen.
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there are a couple things at work here 1st off for those who decide to go the traditional route which is via an official checkpoint you're correct what happens is they'll pass over the turkey official turkey border and then end up in a what's called a no man's land between that border and the great border be sickly tracked the last few days they've encountered heavy tear gas from greek police greek police saying that refugees were throwing stones at them but also the greek government saying that it has thwarted attempts in the thousands of people attempting to cross but there are other ways to get to the border of greece alone it's a 200 kilometer border with turkey smugglers are now working to help ferry people river the agency and by land but the picture has started to shift today some people are turning back i spoke to
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a nigerian man who says that turkey is using us we're not getting any help for the international community and all we want is to improve our lives he spent the night here he is headed back to istanbul and we've actually seen many taxi drivers or local taxi drivers negotiating with refugees to take them the 3 and a half hours back to istanbul one group of people paid $165.00 for that ride back giving up on their attempt to leave the country at least for now i think that sometimes you could name them live from and then a thank you. u.s. has tracked tyson's travel restrictions for countries most affected by corona virus after recording its 1st death from the infection president donald trump called for calm after confirming a man died in washington state the u.s. is banning all travel to iran and blocking entry to any foreign citizens who have visited iran in the past 2 weeks also issue do not travel warnings to parts of
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italy and south korea trump is considering closing the border with mexico despite the southern neighbor having only 4 confirmed cases additional cases in the united states are likely but healthy individuals should be able to fully recover and we think that will be saved and that we can make with great surety now that we've gotten for you with this problem they should be able to recover should they contract a virus so healthy people if you're healthy. you will probably . go through a process and you'll be fine as rosalynn joining reports now the 1st death in the u.s. is raising questions about how corona virus is being transmitted is. we don't know how old this person was infected but washington state officials did say that the man who was in his fifty's did have preexisting health conditions and infectious
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disease experts say those are the people who are most at risk of contracting the virus and having an adverse effect from it from becoming very very sick or possibly dying from corona virus for everyone else people who are generally considered healthy they might develop worst a bad cold or a moderate cold but their immune systems are supposedly strong enough to withstand the virus now we don't know anything more about where this man had been before he was exposed to the virus and that is something which infectious disease experts are now trying to determine they're particularly concerned because there have been at least 3 or 4 counties it's now on the u.s. west coast where there wasn't any prior travel to a country where the disease has infected hundreds of people notably china or south korea or italy those are the 3 countries that have the largest numbers of cases
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right now. joe biden has won the south carolina democratic primary securing almost half the vote but then the sound is coming a distant 2nd with about 20 percent i don't victory may give him the momentum he needs going into super tuesday when people in 14 states head to the polls and akaka reports from the state capital columbia. he spent weeks fighting to keep his campaign alive but on saturday former vice president joe biden was back in the race a few months ago victory in south carolina was a foregone conclusion but both bernie sanders and billionaire tom steyer made inroads that threatened barden's bid for the democratic ticket now though joe biden's campaign is alive and kicking thank you thank you thank you south carolina . was our thanks to all of your heart of the
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democratic right we just won and we won big because you. biden's victory ends bernie sanders winning streak after he emerged as the front runner in the 1st 3 contests the senator from vermont finished 2nd and he's now looking to super tuesday when 14 states in american samoa hold their primaries they'll account for a 3rd of the delegates a potentially game changing day in u.s. politics tonight we did not win in south carolina. last review only defeat there are a lot of states in this country nobody wins them all joe biden downplayed his early losses instead focusing on more diverse states his campaign received a crucial endorsement when congressman james clyburn the most powerful democratic politician in south carolina endorsed him just 3 days before the vote that seal of approval pushed undecided african-american voters
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a crucial voting bloc here to back biden let's get back to our. i am right here pay for when i can but i ain't again one that i am is probably proud of this president so get our take back our country this is the united states of america there's nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together elizabeth warren and pete but a judge trailed the pack with disappointing results joe biden's referred to south carolina and its large population of black democratic voters as his final goal and it's held steadfast for a campaign now renewed to say this was a boost for joe biden's campaign would be an understatement the 1st diverse states in the democratic primaries has given the former vice president the kind of legitimacy and the manson he needs many establishment figures in the democratic party have been looking for a moderate to take on bernie sanders now they may have found him on the gallacher of his era columbia south carolina. still ahead on al jazeera we look at the
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challenges facing your allies new center i made it. and a film on the death penalty and iran will be the end festivals top awards will tell you why the directive can join the celebrations. however it's still the rainy season in indonesia but the concentration of big shots the next day or so is going to be a bit further north is going to be just in here. that's where they'll be you see developing on the forecast so for something for us the philippines but sassoon away see in borneo the orange tops are all the more frequent and they are at the moment to see the good spread throughout job this is going to be the generally wet areas flash flood risk sumatra is much drier something to look strong on and peninsula malaysia likewise in the mainland of southeast asia is generally dry space just
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a scattering shot of these orange tops his suggests something rather more significant including the capital sort of ways in itself. and dropping south also unusual weather balls melbourne enjoys continued disappointment at the end of summer with another frontal system coming in so very warm we've got this thing here that's s. to the remains of esther was a tropical cyclone still says be quite active inland there are many people here but flash floods or quite widespread flooding seems likely because the generally dry barren land temperature wise 36 in sydney will still only change well probably fairly rapidly changed at the 23 on tuesday and in melbourne you have a strange green rise to a sunny 21. in 2011 al-jazeera reported from tanzania on the sinister trade in the body parts of
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albion as this is where the food and arms feet of the port is right and shops all the spot rewind revisits a survivor. mutilated to service the rituals of witchcraft. rewind spell of the albion on al-jazeera. or war oh oh oh. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the deal signed between the u.s. and the afghan taliban may have already hit a major stumbling block kind of songs president ashraf ghani says the government did not commit to releasing 5000 taliban prisoners and that it cannot be
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a precondition for talks with the group of prisoner swap was part of the old signed in qatar today. turkey's president says borders will remain open for syrian refugees and migrants fleeing fighting thousands of refugees have crossed into europe but greece as it has blocked thousands of migrants at its border crossings. joe biden has secured an emphatic win in the south carolina democratic primary with bernie sanders a distant 2nd thomas came 3rd but has since dropped out the right spot in this hoping that the wind can boost his campaign ahead of the upcoming super tuesday primaries. your guy will swear in a new center right leader later on sunday salacious latin american country to turn back on its leftist role as a hope in a new conservative government led by louis alberta will boost the economy cut crime and realign its foreign policy too with the u.s.
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there is a ball reports from the capital montevideo. the political tide is turning in europe why. and we get a little sun tossed once the new government to tackle some of the country's biggest challenges you know. the economy is a problem they tell you you can live on the minimum wage but it's not enough i receive a pension but i'm still working because you have to pay for electricity water and food and it's difficult to pay for it all we need to have at least $2.00 jobs to make enough and it's tough. to lead a center right coalition and. 15 year reign of the leftist broad front party that implemented reforms that turned your a-y. into one of the most progressive nations in the region. while in office the broad front legalized marijuana abortion and same sex marriage social policies helped reduce poverty and increased access to health care. but i mean rising
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unemployment and crime those reforms were not enough to win november's elections. says he has been robbed at least 4 times in the past 2 years he hopes the new government will improve the situation. but i am not sure why because poverty has dropped but we have the robbed over and over again i hope will take measures that will allow the police to take actions everyone in this neighborhood has been robbed at least once. promises to mediately pass and our money will spill that will try to address social and economic issues. of always taking office in our country that in spite of economic difficulties and rising crime is largely perceived a fable in a region that in the past year has been filled with social unrest and economic troubles his biggest challenge will be to carry out reforms without courting this country's stability and with. that ball did not invite leftist president to his
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inauguration from countries like venezuela cuba. and only 60 percent of parliament in favor of new elections in venezuela and even the outgoing government had conflicting views about what is happening there but the new government that comes in we're tougher than israel and it will increase the pressure. in the past 15 years has managed to broaden people's rights now many here are hoping for further reforms to improve their lives. as they really are. the promise of swift to anticorruption measures has helped push slovakia's center right opposition to victory in parliament 3 elections the ordinary people group security around a quarter of the vote enough to beat the ruling center left party which is controlled slovak in politics for more than a decade the murder of a journalist who was looking into widespread corruption dominated much of the
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discussion leading up to the election. their main protest and guineas capitol following president calling this decision to find a vote on changes to the constitution the moves would extend presidential term limits and could allow 81 year old condé to rule for about 12 years reports. this was supposed to be a day of voting instead it's another day of fighting and get his capital security forces in downtown fired tear gas at protesters who responded with rocks president called his address to the nation failed to quell their anger over a move that could keep him in power on national television guinea's president announced a delay in local elections and a referendum on a change to the constitution it would allow the 81 year old to run for another term and potentially be in power until the age of $92.00 love you don't want to nevermind those who think it's a said banks to your future will show that we will come out of this stronger the
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people of guinea will freely express their choice. and freely choose their members of parliament the vote was counseled after the bloc of west african nations and an organization of french speaking government refused to send observers citing 2400000 irregular entries in the electoral roll in addition many people have not received their voter cards the opposition accuse the government of electoral fraud and then called for a boycott. we are open to dialogue so that we can discuss our differences this crisis is not our choice our choice would have been that laws were respected in the rule of law it was applied but this is not the case. since alpha condé announced his plans to change the constitution and stay in power human rights organizations say hundreds have been arrested and at least 30 protesters have died in clashes with security forces most are ethnic for lonnie's they make of the majority of guinea and but never has a full only been elected to power many of them feel unrepresented in politics when
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you have the dimensional in politics. to that exclusion in the political process you increase the potential because no you make part of your population feeling like they are completely excluded from the. political process. the postponed vote is now expected to be held in 2 weeks and while the opposition is preparing for protest allies of condé resigning among the ministers and to your members of the armed forces the president is increasingly isolated and it seems unable to bring back stability to his country because hawke al-jazeera. if you are here says a deal on its project to build a dam on the nile could still be a long way off after boycotting talks in washington its government says they're in a song stand project is essential for the country's development but its cause a major dispute with sudan and egypt who depend on the river for water supplies the
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3 countries were expected to sign a deal after the u.s. brokered talks this week but egypt was the only want to do so and that is a professor of knowledge management 10 sustainable development at the university of east london he thinks transparency has been an issue. the main issue here is that if we go back when this whole project is stopped it many people have asked for transparency on this particular project the technical reporting about the risk and all of this stuff and also have not been very clear many have said go where they started this in terms of their really their neighbors which is particularly your president so i think that retreat from a suit for example they're going to start filling in july that's not helpful the 2nd seeing a very have been continuously not giving much to the public domain which is quite important but we have to be wise of the fact that given quite heavily on the value and on the water of that river for food for security for lots of stuff although if
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you claim 90 percent of that of the debris in the 90 percent from that water but even some statistics say you're 78 it doesn't matter but imagine someone is going to say for all this water in a very short time as according to say you've shown all technical advisers is quite serious it could be cause see there even if you like national risk for the country we're hearing yes and has been sworn in as malaysia's prime minister by the king follows a week of political chaos sparked by the resignation of veteran leader my thermometer he says the move is illegal and is calling for an urgent session of parliament saying his allies have a majority tory gave him the reports a changing of the guard in malaysia that critics are calling the death of democracy leading yasin swearing in his prime minister capping it this week in the country's politics the king announcement eugene's appointment on saturday in a move that sidelined former leader mohammed whose ruling coalition collapsed last
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week the man had to resign this premier after his bizarre tea party which is led by signaled it could work with the united malays national organization. that party government for more than 60 years until it was forced from power by might is coalition in 2018. is the party of disgraced former leader. who's on trial for corruption accused of looting millions of dollars from the state fund won m.v.p. . was kicked out of no in 2015 but it rallied behind him this week he was sacked for raising the issues of corruption when m.t.b. but now in the sort of wrangling that's happened in the last week or so in malaysia he's joined forces with the same person in the same party that he was sacked from and issues he stood up for grip or now he seems to be making alliances with many believe the latest crisis was also part of
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a tussle for power between him and his longtime rival abraham analysts say the coalition was torn apart by infighting over who should succeed who at 94 was the world's oldest premiers on earlier on saturday and said he'd back i had his return to power but now neither man is leader and the recalls for protests might hear boycotted the swearing in ceremony and is determined to fight back saying he has more support to lead victoria al-jazeera. and montenegro thousands of people have been marching through the capital against a law that if it will be used to target the churches assets and status allows the state to take over property if the church can't prove ownership before 918 that's when the kingdom of montenegro joined the kingdom of serbs croats and soviets wanted to go as president has accused serbia and russia of using the orthodox church to undermine his country's independence. oxenberg has become the 1st country
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to make public transport free abolishing fares for trains transcend buses in a bid to tackle road congestion and pollution annual pass for standard travel used to cost almost $500.00 travelers can still choose to pay for 1st class the government says it hopes the change will help people on low incomes a film critical of the death penalty in iran has won the golden bear award at the berlin film festival but the director of there is no evil mohammad russell laugh was not there to receive his prize he can't travel from iran and faces charges of participating in social and political activities it's the 2nd time in 5 years the top prize has gone to an iranian filmmaker unable to leave their home country dominic kane is at the festival and. there were 2 of them a standing ovation when it was announced that there is no evil was the recipient is the recipient of this year's golden bear the most prestigious prize this festival
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has to offer a film which many of interpreted as a shop critique of the way the government of iran governs in its own country the fact that the direct the director of this film could not be here in person meant that someone else very closely linked to him had to collect the award on his behalf obviously i'm very very overwhelmed and happy but to support and at the same time from very sad because this is for a filmmaker who couldn't be here tonight and i think i can say on behalf of everybody. and it seems that this is for him. the international jury awarding this prize will clearly profoundly affected by the nature of the topic which was examined in this film the taking of life or not by the protagonists inside this film they sign according to the director of the film of the oppressive
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nature of the government in iran and it's clearly another sign of how this particular film festival likes to award prizes to films that question the very nature of society in countries very diverse countries around the world. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories deal signed between the u.s. and the afghan taliban may have already hit a major stumbling block understands president ashraf ghani says the government did not commit to releasing 5000 taliban prisoners and that it cannot be a precondition for talks with the group a prisoner swap was part of the accord signed in qatar on saturday. in kabul for us . he said you know these 5000 prisoners they're not held by the americans they're held by the afghans and have the afghan government did not commit
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to that and it's not going to happen before the interim afghan talks it cannot be a precondition for that and then he went further to say well if the taliban want to be part of the government they should speak to the afghan people and maybe the afghan people should have a referendum to figure out whether they want that or not. i want to bring in pictures that are just coming to us here at al-jazeera this is a syrian regime plane being shot down by rebels rebels other side of which is an province. is of course being fought over by regime forces and rebels and as key as it near the end for an empire of highways in province. turkey's president says borders will remain open for syrian refugees and migrants fleeing the fighting thousands of refugees have crossed into europe but greece says it has blocked thousands of migrants at its border crossings. joe biden has secured and
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emphatic win in the south carolina democratic primary with bernie sanders a distant 2nd tom came 3rd that has since dropped out of the race biden is hoping the win can boost his campaign ahead of the upcoming super tuesday primaries. the u.s. has tightened travel restrictions for countries most affected by coronavirus coronavirus rather after recording its 1st death from the infection president donald trump called for calm after confirming a man died in washington state the u.s. is banning all travel to iran and blocking entry to any foreign citizens who visited iran in the past 2 weeks also issue do not travel warnings to parts of italy and south korea. the news continues here on al-jazeera after 31 stay with us . join us as we turn the cameras on the media states misleads the public the state media reflects the climate change course and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most.
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hello and welcome to rewind the film that you're about to see today is just as relevant now as it was when it 1st back in 2011 that's what africa investigates team went on the cover in tanzania document a sinister trade in body parts from children with albinism for use in witchcraft and later we'll find out how the situation has changed since all cameras left but 1st his spell of the albi you know and i should warn you that you may find some of
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