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tv   Chasing Asylum  Al Jazeera  May 23, 2020 9:00am-10:01am +03

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order work al-jazeera has teens on the ground to bring you more rewards winning documentary score to feel like and live nice it's a party that dulls do what it says on the tune on air and online. hello adrian figure here are the top stories on al-jazeera a tape released by brazil's supreme court appears to show president triable sato threatening to fire senior police officers the release comes amid claims of boss a lot of was meddling in a criminal inquiry into his son a latin america at a center say in human reports. this videotape is what those accusing president jade bosso not all of interference in brazil's justice system consider it the smoking gun a cabinet meeting in which the president explains his motives for wanting to sack
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rio de janeiro's police commissioner and the federal police chief. i tried to change the security official in rio and i couldn't that's that i'm not going to stand by let them my family or my friends because i can't change someone in charge of security who was part of the structure i'm going to change him and if i can change him i'll change his boss and if i can change his boss i'll change the minister full stop the minister sitting at the meeting was none other than said to mortal brazil's most popular and corruptions are who resigned shortly thereafter refusing to fire the country's top policeman who is now leading the charge against bullets or not all through an impeachable offense the president dismissed the recording saying he was talking about his son's personal security detail not about getting rid of top police officials in charge of sensitive investigations but it's no secret that also national has long wanted to control police in real when members of his family are under investigation. for those who don't know rio has militias
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made up of the violent former security forces who control the slums protection money and operate like the mafia they're also interested in obtaining political power in the bolton our family especially eldest son flavio has very close ties to them we've presented the evidence. in the videotape also speaks and linked repeatedly using foul language of the need to arm brazilians suggesting that governors and mayors who defy his handling of grown virus poses a threat to brazil. why do i want brazilians to be armed because i don't want a dictatorship we can't hold back any more whoever doesn't accept my creed family god brazil weapon freedom of expression and free market is in the wrong government . all this may be music to the ears of the president followers but for the growing
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number of brazilians who see him as increasingly of the terror in the video is proof that brazil's biggest threat me people still not know himself you see in human al-jazeera a search for bodies is resuming after a plane crash in pakistan at least 97 people were killed when the plane went down in a crowded crowded neighborhood in the city of karachi on friday 2 passengers are reported to have survived it's not yet known how many people on the ground were killed or injured there's been international condemnation of china's plans to introduce a new security law in hong kong the u.s. says that it would sound the death bell for the territories autonomy the proposed legislation would ban activity that beijing considers subversive china has reported no new coronavirus cases in the 1st time for the 1st time since the pandemic began but health authorities a form that there are still some suspected infections car rental giant hertz is filed for bankruptcy protection in the u.s.
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as the pandemic has all but wiped out demand for its services hertz was struggling before covert 19 led to most of the world's airlines being grounded the company's international operations in europe australia and new zealand however are not included in the u.s. bankruptcy proceedings. u.s. president donald trump has approved the sale of arms to the united arab emirates that's despite evidence that the gulf state violated the terms of the last deal the u.a.e. as been accused of transferring weapons provided by the u.s. to libya yemen and somalia without washington's approval former us vice president joe biden has apologized after telling a black radio host that african-americans who backed president donald trump quote aged black he later said that he should not have been so cavalier wife and is the presumptive democratic nominee for them as election what do you feel after witness next.
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they look at this monster the noble of them. the same. would have been insanity and the nature. of a lot of money you have to let them know you. can see and if you know. we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they found . you just. continues sending a signal to the rest of the world that this is
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a nation will be easy just a nice. this has to die i can see and i very clear message to a solemn seekers who are contemplating risking a voyage. and that message very clearly is diet risk it don't give your money to a people smuggler because you will not be better off. i make absolutely no apology whatsoever for taking a hard line on illegal immigration to australia. what the australian people elected us to do was to stop the fags. this is a national emergency we've got to treat it as such.
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i was so yes i am. i mean it was intentional and. i is and i have been so i mean i think. that people can focus in.
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that that was these. 10. that people have already seen if i. $4500.00 days. i didn't know they'd be so many security personnel. it feels militarized. a friend of mine called me and told me hey that hiring people to read. you're interested in the sausages and i thought yeah yeah i guess i am so i don't she gave me this number and she got the number of
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a facebook ad believe it or not and i called this number and said i'd like to go to my room and the woman said sure when to leave. i was a student at mcrae any in sydney and i joined the salvation army society on facebook and they posted an ad about good to have a nursery at the time they made it sound like really nice thanks but they made it sound like it was just a 2 week kind of holiday you could bring our friends along. and 2 to 3 days i had as an area with 2 of my best friends from school a wide range of people and though you know 18 year old university students retiree's and anything that we had in common was that none of us had experience working with refugees before. i can't stress enough the remoteness of the location and. it's in the middle of the pacific ocean . it's an island of 10000 people. and takes 20 minutes to drive around the island
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it's extremely hot. humid and. it is how poor the island is. in the strength of what comes the non-government and says we're going to a few $1000000000.00 over the next 70 years to has a few 1000 asylum seekers for a failing economy like never i can imagine it would seem like a very. good option. on my 1st day we went up to the town. the salvation army gave us a very small briefing and said go out and help them and. and and be their friends.
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a lot of people were really confused when they 1st arrived in that. i remember one particular intake a lot of the members saying to me where are we i thought this was part of this trial here. so it was up to us to tell them that no you know didn't hear me not really. but if my very vivid memories was a sign being on the wall of that said stuff would have to be trained how to use a hoffman's knife. when asked what a hoffman's knife was it was the knife used to cut people down when they found hanging. quite quickly i started to realize that i had sent myself to a place which i never would have gone. the
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day the prime minister of public gave me and i are announcing a major in. to combat the scourge of people smuggling. and now all the asylum seekers who arrived in australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in australia as refugees if they're found to be genuine refugees they'll be resettled in papa new guinea. the christmas i. want all or only one. she told us briefly you came after 95 to look so you never come to australia you have to go to papa new guinea.
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alone up and we were on. the yacht and. there were 2 guards they grab your hands. they put you in the airplane. he put us on and speakers in chairs and in the 1st they put one guard.
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but then. my fishing. in the morning radio. on the night when. she forest management approach me to go up there in a training role. to try and expect stuff in the position of safety and security officer. i've known users of prison officer. the only people that i had experience with was criminal world.
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one of the worst accommodation. a world war 2 heart made of team on a concrete floor. 122 double banks in this shade it was discussed in. the odo was disgusting. a disk couldn't believe i was looking at some icing. letters about it yet. the man loved had loved him behind gates. faces open faces on the ground. men didn't have enough clothes. men didn't have shoes they didn't have enough drinking water those malaria those sickness disease infection.
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the message is simple. if you come to australia illegally by bugs there is no way you will ever make is trying to hire. the act of seeking asylum is not illegal because it's a rock. it's a rock that rises under the universe to the russians in the us and it's also our rock that iran sunda a range of international human rights treaties such as the refugees convention. it was an understanding between countries that when people was seeking protection from persecution that they could cross a border i could see protection. and destroy this on up towards the strait he said. yes we decide who comes into this country and we decide by signing this convention that we'll let refugees come here. and
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we'll let them come as they come everywhere else in the world we'll let him come i see. it's quite obvious that you can't so i set out to send you the one. i know it's not supposed to be a holiday. but it took about 6 weeks i think for them to start to degrade mentally. my. 8 years. for. these minute smear.
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marks around. here for. no. one serious. i am sure you might bring. the whole concept of indefinite detention is this idea that there is no progress. if you have a criminal in australia you say you've committed a crime your punishment is 2 years in jail. when you've got this 3 sentences prison and you can count down the days. for these men they didn't have them.
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and they're seeing daily so. for a day. i saw men cut their stomach open with glass. and one man take a fluorescent light tube and beatty himself across the head and stabbed himself. men suffocating them so men stitching the. men one man stitches islet they incredibly traumatized from where they are coming from what they seeking asylum from and they're being really traumatized. by their current situation. their families are
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separated and they stay noyo prospect of them ever being reunited. they see no hope for the future. looms are very. close but. i'm sure. we're going to close. one. of the. towers. how would he do that as he thought that the little you know what i mean and.
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you need to know that this is going to feel. it will add it in a way to. the deterioration amongst all the asylum seekers no matter what their age is probably what hardest. children have to be in detention according to the government's policies because terrence. in the tension of the time. they develop a ranch or a disorder. as a book. they are not you know open charities terror and enormous and activities that children require for development. and then i have parents who are made sick as well even though nothing i want to parent them.
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and there's some very young babies in detention who are not feeding properly who are not going why failing to strive is a medical. so all of it is really harmful for children. but it's considered the process required to stop but. what you and i. have. the use of but id as names is rampant children will sign up works that they've drawn with their voter id children we'll. refer to their friends by their vote id. it's like they've forgotten their own names it's like the forgotten who they were.
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that they're actually human beings that. you feel any guilt or the any good to about one of them been told in danger none whatsoever and they'll be the root 13 year old. male the most compassionate thing you can do is stop the bad we have to stop the bad. for some time that there are things persistent and we get a shot of serious physical and sexual abuse of children and women cost right in the word. after a very long time this led to the government setting up an inquiry. which ultimately ended up with what's called the must report.
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if a sexual as behavior is among the. kids touching themselves. or touching other kids in a sexualized then. they are. under 5. now replace force trying to investigate a way. to intervene into round. the nari place forthwith very slowly and. you often see results.
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yeah so there's been there are repercussions but i know. those a room train one afternoon. one of the transferees was outside. it started to rain. the room change has taken hours and his possessions were getting wet. i was standing at the door of his room. he walks in briskly and i wasn't afraid i wasn't worried i didn't think anything of it but to expert new zealand under strain
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security guards will go over to where he was in the room and bade him against the wall and twisted his back over a metal bed frame and punched him to unconsciousness. eventually i was interviewed by p. and j. police. they shut the door behind me and they threatened to me and told me that i should change my statement. they gave me all of the other witness statements that were by g. fresh and salvation army manager who saw exactly what i saw and had written something completely different. so i changed my statement to say that jennifer actually pushed him. didn't know what to do at that time. to get out of that situation.
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we recognize that alpha water protection policy is top. we recognize many would see it as hot but it has been proven to be the only why to stop those deaths that say. the argument is that we've got a right to. put refugees through hell on their children through hail because it will stop people dying better that they be mashed up in the roof and mama silent than died see. and the deaths are cool. but i think it is profoundly hypocritical profoundly hypocritical to claim that the
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policies that are being pursued to the money by these trends in government. fundamentally humanitarian because they stop these deaths. isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise you've been looking at another side of this story now for more information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact look it's reality and you have to eat a lot exposing 6 triathlon if the rhetoric and shit but they cannot manipulate the listening post your it's like going to the media on al-jazeera. the story of blackmail. heresy. and. you'll
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have killed i have strangled i have a story of courage a lot of the fear is real. passion. and a very sicilian just. coveted beyond well. taken without hesitation. for 10 died for. power defines our well we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas we leave here we make the rules people in power investigates exposes and questions they use and abuse of power around the globe on al-jazeera. tool to use their own. let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen we listen this is the moment to stop all the 30
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action this is the moment to concentrate on fighting we meet with the global news makers and talk about the stories them on the edges their own. hello again adrian for the going to hear in doha the top stories on al-jazeera a tape released by brazil's supreme court appears to show president jaya balls on auto threatening to fire senior police officers to protect his family it was released as part of an investigation into allegations that balsam out it was meddling in a criminal inquiry into his son also not a denies the accusations. i will not white for them to my entire family just for fun or friend of mine because i can't change someone from the security because it belongs to the structure it will change if i can't change
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him i would change his boss and if i can't change his boss out change the minister a search for bodies has resumed after a plane crashed in pakistan at least 97 people were killed when the aircraft went down in a crowded neighborhood in the city of karachi on friday to pass and just survived it's not yet known how many people on the ground were killed or injured there's been international condemnation of china's plans to introduce a new security law in hong kong the u.s. says that it would sound the death knell for the territories autonomy the proposed legislation would ban activity that beijing considers subversive china has reported no new coronavirus cases for the 1st time since the pandemic began but health authorities of warned that there are still some suspected infections. car rental giant hertz filed for bankruptcy protection in the u.s. as the pandemic has all but wiped out demand for its services it was struggling before covert 19 led to most of the world's airlines being grounded however the
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company's international operations in europe australia and new zealand are not included in the proceedings u.s. president donald trump has approved a sale of arms to the united arab emirates that's despite evidence that the gulf country violated the terms of the last deal the u.a.e. has been accused of transferring weapons provided by the u.s. to libya yemen and somalia without washington's approval a number of members of congress have opposed the sale. former us vice president joe biden has apologized after telling a black radio host that african-americans who backed president donald trump quote and black he later said that he shouldn't have been so cavalier biden is the presumptive democratic nominee in november as u.s. presidential election those are the headlines now let's get you back to witness.
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the dry bush out of the processing said to old route 15 security guards were into this 318 days broke out hold the facility. pumps and yeah they told us the sky copas nobody would think of the people of those various. you know he's most of us along. with a lot. of cops and charlie to the thing they did decide to go we're going to go since the cops interesting people get stuff they do it the charlie to gather a good sense the cops and your peers. the whole group. that's the problem is you're promising. stuff something happens with just the cops and the anyway it away with
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as much been says and as most capacity is because you become an authorized officer yes there's a cop cars and what do i do yeah i want to get in the rules and tell me to have been. pushed to. a good point. and. i. i think. i think. i. i think i think. they're there because. i think. thus the $445.00 and. 50.
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5 to. the full. faith and i haven't found the funniest so far the 4th. of the of the. old $100.00 asylum seekers have been transferred to be into police custody after the bullets which caused $16000000000.00 damage.
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to 2 nights running this thing i also am disorder on nassau and the government says last thoughts on wrist began with demonstrations that had very strong suggestions for refugee advocates that this was an attack from outside that the chinese inside were attacked by paying a place of the assertion and also angry locals with machetes and other weapons that maybe even several was shot their pellets a very difficult to what i went through at the moment i. report law and order. a black out of our group or were during. one of my want to invest in it over the course of the. changeover to the high jump
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a homestead. your home should be here as an exchange of him as a bead on that assigned me out in how we should care starting there you should be sure. child are nonsense. when the roi what's happened defenses was pushed by look inside. to know just for they both you. have to hide the good in which leading. to a faster push to let you. raft himself to face a 1000000 wondering she mused the question in few minutes of the bestial. more be made in a day for to work at that hour of catherwood what
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a day and as you know she. sat down on you when she said i wish leaving that up madam but i don't i want you know that whatever more she shot a ship going on on the time game you don't want to dust on what i mean. what the weather was you. have a task that if you can be me lawrence i'm tired and care all to more than those here when batch or wanted to did more of it yes charlie name you know truth sang in those dangerous are vast for those to have national where they turn those ears to the home of yours in a coach and understand hold a shoe in a pasture that goes out of the horn. doesn't socialista wouldn't
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use the word. little desperation you shan't jump on the horn or. don't want to harm him john don't want go for it if you know that i'm young man. if. you. do not only do lift to haul that. is your monkey man aboard the bus i thought you
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might have additional thought. if you put it into a man in store with. us in your town just don't get pushed 100 both of us and all along he thought it and for some corner man i'm sure yes i mean you trust. inches all men are spawning. while the whole little hold on to turn you on why don't you listen to. us at. the at and i sang which i shot at. you as a chip. mom would appreciate if about a mutual injury chat to them to get. short. to morta. now we don't. know which but i was.
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pretty much. the veil of secrecy over the man asylum detention center was partially lifted today with a report released by the government into the february riots at the p. and g. center immigration minister scott morrison joins us when he read the account of reza berati his death it's very detailed his skull was shattered he was beaten with sticks and kicked in the head by more than 10 officers a strain in some locals did you have even a moment of doubt about the morality of offshore detention centers what occurred that night was criminal there was a terrible tragic and distressing incident that took place that night as as you said in your introduction.
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a chance think sometimes. now as most of your has come. to move on from within. my. time then now you're on a mere $12100.00. can do magic when we don't have one. but who. do you want to push to have. me there. with i'm sure most feel about some other particles will go out on me thank you.
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you know when to quit which is. who. is the go to reach. we're. going to be. a 24 year old iranian asylum seeker who has died in a brisbane hospital tonight after his family agree to have his life support machines which stop. hammad because very i was pronounced branded earlier this week after reportedly suffering blood poisoning from an infected horse the asylum seeker was flown from an asylum to brisbane last week scott morrison says the immigration department we're here for medical treatment for.
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myself in 2 of my colleagues very explicitly about medical concerns. in particular infection starting in the street. then a couple months later harming kids a still died of an infection starting in his foot and we had already told them months before and that's documented day time when everything what we had said is transcribed we had a senate inquiry into the death of reza berati and i don't see anything changing i don't know what can help the man in man a sound. oh the people in mary. we are telling the paper what's happening that nothing's changing. the strain minister for immigration and border protection i've recorded this
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message to provide some important information you will know by now the plans are well underway for the 1st group of refugees to travel and settle in cambodia cambodian settlement presents a great opportunity for refugees to move forward and begin the next phase of their lives in a country that is free from persecution. as truly it is now in a refugee partnership with cambodia. in on pin the deals being done astray is provided a $40000000.00 down payment an additional. refute g.'s from newbury would be voluntarily since here in the month say he's. $33.00 dickov and will be moving to one of southeast asia's poorest nations where the average wage is less than $100.00 a month the cambodia deal shows that
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a strike you can spend any amount of money doing pretty much anything to asylum seekers and the striving people will accept that because we don't want them here. i want to make it very clear to all refugees and transpiration. that you will not under any circumstances be settling in australia. this is not. a carnival she was refugees on the road i raised it to live in the community the temporary early to go to cambodia or to return harm.
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you get a job you get paid. a cost of living is very high . there was an occasion when the markets even had. $20.00 for cotton and. they have no travel documents they have no option of reunifying they. leave. you have to. leave behind high fences. and the. areas by
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security. threat. the women. say when you get out of camp i'm going to write the. proposition for say. a lot of the women are very scared to go into the community.
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and the rule of government has declared that the detention center will become an i didn't stand 24 hours per day 7 days per week from today it is all the solemn sega's and they'll freeze a move around the island and they will look. the ruse promising it will finalize all remaining the refugee claims within the next week hundreds will have to integrate into the tiny islands population. and the astounding government guarantee the safety of these people as they related into the narrow communities particularly given that we men and children 67 allegations of child abuse that he 3 claims of rights and sexual assault can the australian government guarantee these people. government will to coin zonal new south wales victoria government can provide you with a guarantee for people coming out into the shrine saudi. we've provided additional
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support through the strength it requires to mentor those poise. was just a guy she was with prosecutions so much of what we can provide support. people are returning home more now than they ever were returning to their country of origin and then attempting to seek asylum again in a different country nothing's changed for them in their home countries often they'll state that they are returning to extreme danger. it's really hard to hear that they feel that that's their only option. it's hard to feel. proud to be in this trailing citizen it's there's a lot of shame now associated with being in this trial and for myself because of
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the way staley's trading pay paul. i keep going back for clients and for my colleagues. you have clients when you go on your. best but they do you before you're going i claim that place come back please don't forget about us please don't leave us here . so that is really hard to hear and you want to come back for them. you want something to change in me want to advocate for them and fight for them and. that keeps bringing me back but that feeling. gets worn down by the constant blockages you get from immigration and the lack of chains.
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a. lot of. everything i was trying to bring to the attention of management nothing's been done better. i got to a personal level move. this is going to stop and i can't stop it. i was becoming emotional and there's a lot of stress is starting to to fall upon me. because i voiced my opinion my only about what we were doing as an account. i found a handwritten note on more bade suggestion that. i should shut up or somehow i would come to myself. and then i would see do a messy which that i continued on that the great possibility that i would be found floating. along so i'm going to miss tools at
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some stage. that scared me but really deep. and not all the people i was in a nice enough. it sat with me for quite a number of months and if i didn't speak again who was going to. get a conscience and i was bored up right why. and i don't understand how we can do this to each other. i felt that it was more turn more time but that was the right thing to do. people need to talk up. we need to tell each other what's going on.
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i think australians are pretty sick of being lectured to i really think australians as sick of being lectured to by the united nations particularly the tick uli given that we have stopped the butts. of. thousands are stranded at sea about the pay m. ses he doesn't follow encourage people to risk their lives on the. way the prime
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minister has rolled down rain fettling anywhere other things are fine i'm afraid to take in a strategy that defines a place for my life and i mean to nation after the life of a shed a mountain range and they not fight for it all for the type of laying of raleigh preserving the profits we can point out how many people are out there and they are trapped thing at face. with god. i want to go in. our.
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a tsunami of mud to bury 16 in d.c. infinitives submerging the homes and livelihoods of 60000 people. years later local inhabitants is still fighting for justice from the fracking company they blame. and the hot sludge continues to flow. great a witness documentary. on al-jazeera. we got the temperatures cooling off nicely now across the eastern side of the mediterranean a little more class starting to just push its way through with some showers here so we'll see some west weather just coming into well lebanon pushing a little further south which may be making its way into the far northwest of syria
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you see the temperatures well to have on recent valleys 23 celsius a by rate of 28 in damascus and 24 therefore to roost slim and maybe even a touch colors to go on through sunday at the showers start to pep up for quite a brisk wind blustery showers here a brisk wind feeding its way down across the red sea into that western side of the arabia much of the arabian peninsula is dry it's hot looking at temperatures not too far from the 40 degree mark and me getting up to the maid forty's that's hot even for baghdad come sunday afternoon we'll see a few showers into the ethiopian highlands rolling towards uganda south sudan when in with a chance of seeing some showers i showers structure right across it to west africa into the gulf of guinea somewhat drier into the good part of somalia as we go on through saturday giles of wanted to show is still there as we go on into sunday having said that the further south the southern africa areas generally find lots of warm sunshine tempest in a $21.00. but.
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when you see big groups of people walking through europe they're all individuals with children the leaves you have to hear all of them and to treat them with something within respect. on counting the cost brazil health of the economic crisis made worse by its president no longer recession proof more than 1000000 health care jobs have been lost in the u.s. but angle of our course 500000000000 euro plan to save the european union. county the cost on al-jazeera. another early morning another ceremony to bed health workers by well. 29000. even doctors and nurses working in 59 countries around the world has confirmed cases of corona virus increase so does demand for cuban medics medical services the on its main export western commentators assume cuba sends doctors mainly to expand influence experts on the
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others health system draw a different conclusion you're making a big why are you willing to go. because there are other people the people that are sick and dying and not isn't right people shouldn't be dying when there are people who can help them. no new cases in china since the coronavirus pandemic began. time sami say this is al jazeera live from also coming up new video emerges showing the moment the pakistani passenger plane goes down in a karachi neighborhood now the tough task of combing through the wreckage. this is the i would not want for them to want to.

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