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people who look down on them as a skilled migrant now say they're essential to control the virus and receive messages on the scene that we all you know so i was a nurse back home what i'm doing is not all that different from i'm actually helping others. your child is there with me so raman in doha a reminder of our top news stories mollies president abraham people god has resigned after being detained by soldiers in a coup he said that he had no choice but to step down as he didn't want any bloodshed speaking on state television the coup leaders said that they would oversee a political transition leading to new elections. in my view people of mali we are not holding on to power but we are holding on to the stability of the country which will allow us to organize within an agreed reasonable timeframe general elections
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to equip mali with strong institutions which are able to better manage our everyday lives and restore confidence between the government and the government show the palaces more. the bamako residence of president abraham. secure and heavily guarded but instead of keeping people out the soldiers were keeping him in he and prime minister abu says say we detained here on tuesday confusion prevailed today with no explanation by the military or government until president cases appeared on state television announcing his resignation god knows what i want no blood to be spilled to keep me in power and that's why i would like to thank the 1000000 people for their warmth i am telling you now that i'm resigning from my position as the president and all my other positions and i announced the dissolution of the assembly and the governor. african bloc eco us responded forceful into the coup isolating mali through border closures suspending financial
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flows and called for sanctions against who organizes and this opposes the many millions welcomes the coup as would spirit of the mutiny crowds frustrated with the president and his government spurred the soldiers on some ransacked and burns government offices. we have come out today to call for total resignation of president cater because we heard there were shots fired by the military and we come out to help us all just get rid of the president or for you kerry we are tired the country is paralyzed and i do not want this government. added up on the eve of the soldiers began using native base on the outskirts of bamako the same base that sore 2012 uprising that opened the way to case his presidency. troops were laces cena schools in a vehicle believed to be carrying the president. we're very happy because this is a liberation for the people of mali all of these people were waiting for this day
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all of mali's people were waiting for the president and his men to allow us to breathe president kasia has faced weeks of opposition protests calling for. his departure after disputed parliamentary elections earlier this year swaths of the country are already outside the control of the government its struggle to contain an armed insurgency it's claimed thousands of lives now the military has forced president cater to step down it's unclear what their plan is for mali and its leadership shown at dallas and jazeera south korea is reporting its highest number of crow to virus infections since march close to $300.00 new cases were detected on wednesday taking the total number per $16000.00 new cancer in place on gatherings out draw a week of 3 digit daily rises in cases where at least $450.00 infections have been linked to the char line and check church whose members took part in a mass rally against restrictions on the weekend. latin america is one of the worst
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hit regions in the world by the coronavirus it was recorded over 6000000 cases and more than 200000 deaths that's about a quarter of global doubts. the us democratic party has formally nominated joe biden as a 2020 presidential candidate it happened on the 2nd night of its national convention which is being virtually held because of the coronavirus by the support of some big names with former u.s. president bill clinton and the former secretary of state john kerry addressing party supporters the governor of california has declared a state of wide emergency because of hundreds of wildfires evacuation orders are in effect in the napa county wine region north of some francisco those were the headlines about with more news in half an hour next on al-jazeera is world war one through our advise to stay with us.
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world war 1. 4 years of bitter conflict. known as the great war. all the war 2 and all. its grim new trains warfare. with europe the main feature of all. but this was
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a war fought on many fronts. so there's another story rarely told. of huge importance during the war. and of lasting significance. the story of troops who fault and died but who are often forgotten. and driven outcomes that shape the middle east of today. this is gold more one through our oh i see.
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malick to rekey the 2 new zealand writer and broadcaster is taking is on a personal journey across a dozen countries. his grandfather's generation force in the war. so far he's explored how thousands of arabs were conscripted by the british and french colonial powers in north africa. and how arabs were forced to fight on both sides for the european allies and the central powers setting muslim against muslim. and the vital role played by arab troops in the ottoman army again literally. in this episode he looks at the roots of why the ultimate is joined the war at home
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. how the european powers viewed the ottoman empire as ripe for division and exploitation. and the suffering when the also man government of young turks cracked down on the arab provinces. and the little known story of a future zionist leader in the ultimate world. bullish jewish students walked along here 911 his name david had been guardian or would become the 1st prime minister of israel. cannot live there how to go after half a year live there. we must say to him you mr benny him by the don't have a funny a horrible irony of the way oh well i'm proud of our daughter. i'll be there i'll
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be as yellow be another one of the as silent. without her judgment and. business with the edges monarchial in so cal. is it cuz. i let the can at that even when i do. have the ability one at the about how the ill be out in a courage when he there like a spotted been nabbed as my to study how dare. you have the weather you don. how the hell how to land at the unhappy how when our german name than a poor new mayor the color and it to how do you. a very good question and one with roots deep in autumn in history. before reading 30 the ottoman empire stretched from mesopotamia in the east to the red sea and most of the north african
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coast. but over the next 80 or so here's the ottomans last algeria tunisia egypt and in 1912 libya. then they lost territories much closer to home and the balkan wars of 912913. so britain france and russia began plotting how to exploit the potential collapse of salt on our docket needs empire for their own individual benefit. not to have made the 2nd will rule the empire from 87629000 or 8 or 9000 or 9 felt that western european powers were playing dirty games. in his mind and the minds of the advisers around him and many other knobs are near appealed powers were supporting nationalist independence movement within the ottoman empire he thought
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that the great powers were using religion especially christianity to mobilize those nationalist movement in an effort to undermine the ottoman empire. the sultan's view was not wrong. the european powers and so on rest in the arab world after nearly 400 years of ultimate rule as an opportunity. but there was a stumbling block provincial arab leaders and intellectuals were thinking about gaining independence from the ultimate. but for ordinary arabs the sultan in istanbul was the kaleb of islam the leader of the muslim world. whichever side you were on there was a close bond with the calle of respect and loyalty for him across the arab world. and incident later in the war illustrated this clearly. the british captured 700 iraqi soldiers in 1970 and sent them to egypt. the british offer to free the
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prisoners if they'd support an arab revolt against the ultimate led by saudi for the saying of mecca but few iraqis accepted most were uneasy at the idea of challenging the caylus. books such as the 1938 work by george antonius the arab revolt exaggerated the support of shoddy preuss ains 1916 revolt against the ottomans and exaggerated and painted a very negative image of on him in a rule of 400 years of ottoman rule and even many european colonialists tended to denigrate the ottoman past and to the point of referring to it as so despotic and backward that it almost welcomed the arrival of european colonialism. they also manami was also diverse in november 914 up 230-0000 of their troops were
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arabs from greater syria. of the army's 9 most senior commanders 2 were all bamiyan 2 from the caucasus and 2 arabs. and in politics saeed halim pasha the grand vizier all prime minister was from egypt. the british had to find a way to challenge this holy bond between the kaleb in istanbul and his loyal arab muslim citizens. they approached hussein bin ali the sheriff of mecca he was a descendant of the prophet muhammad leader of the hush of my people and ruler of islam's most holy place. the british thought he alone could challenge the kayleigh from istanbul. but he would not be straightforward. on the eve of world war one most arabs were largely supportive of the ottoman empire. they regarded it
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as a protector of the an islamic identity in an era of expanding european colonialism even many arab christians and jews especially after $1008.00 welcomed the liberal reforms and wrote glowingly hand out the of these reforms and have these iraq and rarely ever call for independence for the arab people. tonight you know it was a significant here in this unfolding story that was when the new leaders of the committee of union and progress the young turks staged a coup removing sultan of those from me the 2nd from power. they started out in 1000 eat with a project of trying to hold that empire get there on the basis of question. but it is same time they found themselves in the position of
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trying to defend their maintain their time against all reporting for actions and it is a new nationalist a presence for within. when the young turks reconvened parliament they created optimism in the arab world but this soon turned to disillusionment. all the may not have intended it that they found themselves fighting to me in n.p.p. treat. from 9. 11 years from italy's in the nation only on once then came the balkan wars and then there came to create. this change this transformed issue actually. promising and bringing freedom to not peoples into one meeting in. defeat in the balkans hard in the young turks and they tighten their grip on their arab
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possessions the market of 191213 catastrophic defeat and finally the action from what had become of all kinds brought about and enormous fun to jump in the development and education of turkish nationalists and also they became more and more dictatorial. the young turks had hoped to stay out of the war and ally themselves with britain and france but neither of these 2 countries would go against russia so they were not an option. besides the ottomans and germany had a history of friendship. geyserville him the 2nd 1st visited istanbul in 889 to befriend sultan. 9 years later he landed at haifa on a state visit to the ultimate east 2
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. they made a ceremonial entry into jerusalem. and visited the tomb in damascus of salahuddin the famous mediæval muslim oriya who defeated the crusaders. there was mass celebration when he announced the germany would pay for the renovation of his grave. the kaiser also declared his friendship of the world's 300000000 muslims and gained the nickname. vilhelm so germany was a natural ally. but the young turks were also gambling that the european war might be over quickly . at the time there were series and. prospect of voice in europe that in fact the civilized european powers would not
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fight each other for very long that this was a crisis but a cry for that might. come to an end funeral rather than later ultimately that there would be able to favor the alliance with germany which they had signed for 7 years not necessarily protection but an alliance with germany that would help the ottoman state to consolidate its. its borders its institution and to restrain finn and this period under which there would have germany as an ally. however germany needed this deal as much as the ultimate. they were outnumbered on the ground in europe and could open a new eastern front against russia and the british. the german general era gluten doff wrote that ultimate entry into the war enabled
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the central powers to soldier on for another 2 years otherwise the war might well have been over by 916. this is the house in istanbul of anwar pasha he led the secret negotiations with germany on behalf of the young turk or unionist government. here on the night of the 1st of august 1914 he secured his treaty of alliance. unwarped was a fan of everything german he spoke the language trained in military college there and admire the way chancellor autobahn bismarck had modernized the state. they had enormous admiration for passion as for b. spark an isp and for the germans on that rick germany had to follow its own special
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path and it was envisioned as and it became a path in which the german military the german army played god to the nation and the state it was perceived and it really was true to a large extent that the german nation and the german state were called forth in a very strong sense by prussia and the pression army and this is what the spark in his was all about the union ists perceive themselves as poor shewing a kind of pressure path in the context of thought to manpower. and it wasn't just the young turks who admired germany some arabs were impressed by its achievements national unity military expansion scientific research and economic development. the
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lebanese white a slave and that he wrote a poem called a 20th century we. will allow money fee and more he said to. me and to me and to sit. down and feed him a few games. 11 feet believe that in the. blue one look this. was a boom. in august 114. treaty was still a secret. but in the 2nd week of november came the formal ultimate entry into the war. and the grand mufti has called for muslims to join a jihad against the own powers fatah mosque in istanbul.
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it was a call for a holy war to old listenings including arabs who supported the canaan. the germans believed that this cold could undermine their enemies war efforts. there were millions of muslims in the british and french colonies where the germans hoped for mass uprisings. they launched a campaign to influence muslims fighting for the allies. it was led by german lawyer diplomat and ancient historian max von. it was obviously very dear to his heart because of his german picture tourism and so on. and his interest in the middle east but in a very specific way by 899. was it no one had a reputation as an experienced and really very well informed travel are.
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open haim was an adventurer and archaeologist but was also involved in planning the route of the battle into baghdad railway. the german government wanted to build the line to compete with the british to give them access to oil and bring the region under stronger influence. nothing unusual about the fact that siemens who was then the director of the dogshit bank which was largely in charge of the financing of the border into baghdad really should contact him about the extension of the line from a low. to muzzle has fought that particular strange and he asked him if he would do some prospecting and advise them on what was the best route and he wrote about all the advantages that the best and most efficient relying to follow for the railroad and all the advantages that would accrue from following this route rather than that
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route and so. after troubleshooting for siemens at deutsche bank he'd made a historic archaeological discovery in northern syria in 1909. it was in a certain sense by accident that he made the greatest discovery of his career that she discovered tell her laugh. because really what he was trying to do was do this prospecting on his own. an officially for the village of baghdad really and she did write he did write a brief to report and devoted many more pages of that they're poor to boot from a lip which was all then he did. to that he had discovered to tell her laugh. open heim returns to excavate tell her laugh in 1007 and discovered a city built in 6000 b.c. . the bell into baghdad
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will be took 37 years to complete by which time europe would be at war again. still to come the devastating impact of the war on greater syria and its people. we think about world war one we think about the british and french and the germans but really the ottoman empire suffered far more than any of the continental powers . the tariff. the facts of the ultimate repression of our of nationalists. and a modern greek city and 8 story of one of the funders of israel. and judah essentially is a plot to me that all of this was mainly the jewish city it was called the gentle
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muslim of the baltic. sea. and the disease because 50 percent of all deaths of children and. all that. much. was. likely to receive a child didn't. you just leave us to. try. to. cease fire.
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jump into the story and julian on global community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on and online be part of the debate let me put some you tube comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic violence that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way he keeps human way to get business if we're going to adapt to climate breakout this street on out is they're up. against it is on the cusp of a new chapter in its history. as to the u.s. and the taliban signed an agreement to pave the way to the withdrawal of the mission troops. the high cost was paid to get to this point though. over the past few years the u.s.
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has increasingly conducted its part of the war from the sky was more bombs dropped last year than any other year in the past decade. but with that came a rise in civilian casualties. this is all accidents to happen at mistakes do happen and that this is about owning your mistakes is about saying sorry and this is about accountability in the in a largely unaccountable war the families we interviewed not receiving adult humans from the us left them without closure. they told us that they so like what happened to their loved ones was a crime. and they want justice mansur's something war too often denied.
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you're watching al-jazeera with me so robin and remind of our top news stories molly's president abraham because curator has resigned after being detained by soldiers in a coup he said that he had no choice but to step down as he didn't want any bloodshed speaking on state television the coup leaders said they would oversee a political transition leading to new elections money and money and people of mali we are not holding on to power but we are holding on to the stability of the country which will allow us to organize with an agreed reasonable timeframe general
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elections to equip mali with strong institutions which are able to better manage our everyday lives and restore confidence between the government and the governed. south korea is reporting its highest number of crow virus infections since march close to $300.00 new cases were detected on wednesday taking the total number per $16000.00 well new camps are in place on gatherings after a week of 3 digit daily rises in cases at least 450 infections have been linked to the char lying cheat church whose members took part in a mass rally against restrictions at the weekend latin america is one of the worst hit regions in the world by the corona virus it's recorded over 6000000 cases and more than 200000 deaths that's about a quarter of global deaths but half of those who've died in the area are from brazil the u.s. democratic party has formally nominated joe biden as its 2020 presidential candidate it happened on the 2nd night of its national convention which is being
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held virtually because of the coronavirus biden the support of some big names with former u.s. president bill clinton and former secretary of state john kerry addressing party supporters the governor of california has declared a statewide emergency because of hundreds of wildfires evacuation orders are in effect in the napa county wine region north of san francisco residents are being asked to conserve energy to avoid rolling blackouts and another round of peace negotiations underway between the government and armed groups in me and violence has flared for decades with more than 20 groups demanding independence is resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being forced to flee from their homes those were the headlines a terrific it will be here with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera we return to world war one.
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cool. cool. that eunice yoon went on broadcast is looking at the ottomans role in the 1st world war. when istanbul entered the war in mid november 914 arab troops were forced to fight on both sides. for the ultimate means and as conscripts for the european allies occupying egypt
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morocco algeria and gymnasia. hundreds of thousands died. egypt was still technically part of the ottoman empire but had been under british occupation since $882.00. when the ultimate center of the war britain declared a protective over egypt. the most populous arab country offered britain 1000000 200000 recruits in different rooms during the war across 3 continents. 500000 all of them died. ordinary arab people knew this war had little to do with them but were caught up in
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it. the jordanian capital amman was then in greater syria. malik went in search of what happened there. or show any of us a battle but they hear and already look at how to move out of that you know so that an album yet a jew or a new way the novel of an old war well unless you are a land and the heart of me and the house at the corner where barren island been out there are you have to give me an old out there of the many are well and there in the hall at the end how to cut out on could be a. sane was proved right the young to a government appointed pasha as governor of great to syria he acted ruthlessly against anyone suspected of arab nationalist sympathies. his nickname was. the blood shed.
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from a general basher. what can i feel like they don't see you as little barry what kind of. come in that kind are scary. really must mean. in late january 950. marched alterman troops from greater syria into the sinai peninsula. in february they tried to cross the suez canal east to west. but the british troops guarding the canal good pal the attack and the ottomans withdrew but just water. just doesn't appear how ari shapiro joined the. well. as jamal pasha and the ultimate face
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defeat it's who is seems revolt was gaining momentum. the british are promising him and his family feud to control over the greater arab state in present day syria lebanon palestine and jordan. and the edge of the sea. yes but how do you walk. in with a cup would not be a smart really only a 3 and a bit there i. don't know what the money and of that well. i'd be. at the game. and with a lot of men. who could move a one would you be going to. have been without a fight every morning masonic was going to. come home and the motor perry yeah
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i do assure you show a van or do more. during 115. condemned dozens to death in beirut and damascus he sentenced hundreds to long jail times and sent thousands more into exile. a lot of liberal think that it. son. much enemies less will settle magazine who said shraddha be better off but as i don't behind fall come in visit blood yanni. catalog loses a lot of weight. but the war did not just affect arab nationalists
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thousands of men were conscripted crops and livestock were requisitioned arabs suffered disaster asli in egypt iraq and bill of russia greater syria. you know when we think about world war one we think about the western front in the trenches in the british the french and the germans but really the ottoman empire suffered far more than any of the continental powers got 9 percent of the german population died about 11 percent of the french population died but anywhere from between 40 percent and 25 percent of the arctic population guy. then they'll disappear in mid to them as well. we're told.
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that a lot now general yani as well negev is a doubling of the yolland of them that it. became 1000000 to the guardian when i became the bad one and. now had a lot of well to be done. no my you mean give me about. the i live huge about a good decade about you willie didn't kill a lot of. people saw. and then clearly believed as there are a hell of a lot. but. it was hell and not a lot i'm not. been imagining cuba doing to me. that that there's. yet any. lead.
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in said to be. near as i know i'll be home but how to. have. a deal so says i would definitely like. that militia or diane more able. to answer that physical algebra yes. my moon under me is lebanese she's over 100 years old. the war also left its mark on her she still remembers how men used to hide or even dress up as women to avoid conscription. but her most painful memory is of the terrible famine. or hang in there.
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that you could do it. you have not yet. but famine was not the only hold on the war inflicted on the arab world's. let's start with my supper table or iraq with the arrival of 600000 colonial soldiers so these soldiers coming in from for example to other port cities they're all carrying to see typhus cholera dysentery something called a wasting fever which was devastating for you to seizures and coma what a lot of people suffered without ever having gone front was contagious and casualty
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rate from epidemic is much higher than the casualty rate for at the front of the front page it played a role especially as refugees fled from the front and mesopotamia and the caucasus in particular they brought with. us and the fleas on life's a course carry typhus and malaria was also a concern. on the battlefield however and to the surprise of the european powers the ultimate has proved a valuable german. they'd attack the british if this is can all. defeated the good little league in 1950. the force the same. render of the indian expeditionary force in mesopotamia in 1916 . they contain challis fostanes arab revolt along the his as railway
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line. and they force the british to fight every step of the way in palestine in 1918. but ultimate military commanders also committed catastrophic errors. minister for war and government leader and what pasha sent tens of thousands of soldiers to fight the russians at sonic amish in eastern anatolia during the winter of 1914 and early 1950. he wanted to regain territory lost to russia in 878. few of his troops had proper weapons or even boots to march him. as many as 60000 alterman troops died of whom 2 thirds are likely to have perished
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from frostbite and typhus rather than fighting the russians. the disaster outside accommodation is still marked by local people. prayers are said every friday for the 3rd autumn an army. some of the older members of the community like this village elders recall a popular poem from the time it accuses anwar pasha of betraying his own men a betrayal they say that bordered on treason. wishing in your salgado i've said all along dot. gov lateran shuttle to seek out the. elder bush on the last mile up not to be gay subject. unwater pasha blamed the defeat on armenians who he claimed had sided with the russians. in april 19th
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15 the government rounded up 250 armenian intellectuals and community leaders in istanbul. armenia men were killed and army conscripts put into labor battalions. women children and the elderly were deported and forced on to law marches into the syrian desert. the facts are still hard to agree on but some historians believe that the young turk government the unionists forced up to a 1000000 and a half armenians from their homes and that as many as 800000 died. already at the time of the senate commission and. we have and that can't link and that's step it's just it's 2nd charge interest
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the russians are pushing out all these blows in populations from caucasian towards our minds and they're causing destruction or if it do you think we should in turn we should be exiled and armenians into russia intended g.'s us troops in revenge and in not going to cause a similar degree of economic and incentive destruction and that says on let's let's think about this it's in time this germinal it will be converted into a mass of patients towards that at 10 years close then it may be an sux. and armenian soldiers in october uniform are separated into forced labor. but the idea has firmly and is that the armenians have become totally undeniable hostile population it seems that and that and cuts
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mortgages. he's an eminence. treacherous nation and let's not week for it to happen this time let's act 1st and then undertake a massive preemptive. 100 years on these events are still a matter of debate. but one of the lasting effects of the armenian exodus to the arabian suffering has been the racial diversity it brought to the region. in the 21st century their descendants are now part of the advance rich social fabric in areas like bush the moon in beirut. the measure was throughout the whole. team.
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you would want to hire them and what was the. link i had been on or how book but but you know how did with him him. i thought i was a kid i had an idea before so what a whole most of. them some of us might us were a month. early has it all make. an economy. bob thought about the certain. ethnic diversity has also characterized this city and the northeast of the ottoman empire and the early $900.00 s. . thessaloniki salonica in modern greece. after very expulsion along with the muslims from and then you see here the southern spain in 1492 as a father to jews found refuge here in salonika they do. in the center is an ottoman
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all of this was mainly the jewish city it was called the jerusalem of the balkans. salonica was one of the cities that benefited from a series of autumn reforms in the mid 19th century these included equality with muslims for both jews and christians. the nationalist leader of modern turkey most of our kamaal was born and raised in this house it's now a turkish museum. the story of utter talk as the founder of modern turkey is often told. less well known is salonica spot in the life of another nationalist leader. one who would change the map of the middle east.
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or polish jewish students there walked along here 1911 he wore affairs like any other ottoman citizen he was here to learn ottoman turkish before going on to study law at the university or istanbul his name david been guardian all would become the 1st prime minister over there are. a. good and was a student in salonica and istanbul he actively supported the ottoman army and encouraged around 40 jews to join a pro-government militia in jerusalem. he visited america to drum up support for the ottoman empire travelling via egypt and gori and toured 35 u.s. cities and hope to recruit some 10000 men in support of the ottoman cause.
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but he failed and a major british military advance changed his loyalties. in august 1960 the british went on the offensive against the autumn of his in suez under general edmund alamy. by early 1917 they'd remove the autumn ones from the sinai peninsula and continued their march towards palestine. in december allonby entered jerusalem on food out of respect for the holy city. as i'm all patia the bloodshed of greater syria was forced out ellaby pressed on to take the whole of the levant and force a complete ottoman retreat. the signing of the armistice of madrassas took place on the 30th of october $980.00 a month later the whole war was over. once jerusalem
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fell david ben-gurion joined a jewish regiment of the british army in london before returning to palestine to pursue his political career. ben-gurion story typifies how the war presented opportunity it wasn't so much the speed at which he transferred his allegiance it was more that he recognized that a time of radical and far reaching change was dawning in the region. a new world order was about to take shape and he wanted to be one of its architects . the 1st world war gave birth to 3 nationalist movements turkish zionist and i.
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and the relationship between the turks and arabs changed forever as for centuries of autumn rule one ended by 4 years of conflict and. the awakening of consciousness that grew out of this shift in power was a foretaste of the arab nationalism that was to come. in the next episode of. britain's contradictory promises that proved impossible to deliver. the secret agreements between britain and france that carved up the middle east for generations they assumed that these peoples couldn't
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possibly believe that when the british and the french talked of national freedom that it actually meant political independence. the hopes of that independence that were ignited by the war. and the crushing disappointment as these hopes were dashed by colonial self interest in lots of fear and it was in the. in their minds that. in the final episode of world war one through our open. history has called it the great war in the final episode the 2 sides fight
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themselves to a standstill while britain and france conspire behind closed doors to produce a secret agreement that will shape the middle east for the century to come world war one through our bodies on al-jazeera the latest news as it breaks there is increasing pressure to turn its back on beijing and the u.k. is finding itself corp's between 2 superpowers with detailed coverage israel's missed opportunities and tracing is now being seen as part of a wider political failure. from around the world human rights groups say that at least 12 people have been either killed or disappeared by argentina's security forces. hella there is still more sure and enough to just back either her insulin otherwise clouds are producing very much in the way of showers you know man or yemen or even
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southwest saudi but there's still a possibility what is fairly obvious still is the sheer miles from blowing strongly for a couple days from iraq full of dust down towards qatar and beyond that a place like you wait in bahrain in qatar that's a dry wind recently good feeling this time of year but as the weekend and it will be the next couple days the motion picture should be humid in qatar we are seeing an increase in the amount of rain that's falling nice you appear to some degree in somalia and around the coast of kenya has increased to say the whole of africa is rather worse than it was but not extensively so there's still flood threat sudan and south sudan the rains are carrying on so that's if anything go to top them up and every day like victoria produces thunderstorms in the morning which are slowly west still doing that to the south we're still looking at wintry weather really it's all relative i know but if you look at what's coming in across the cape that is wet and windy temporarily the wettest and windy as well probably through the
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eastern cape and disappearing on wednesday leaving sunshine behind which of course is pretty universal but not to zimbabwe. the 21st century began with extraordinary economic growth across much of latin america. but since this halted in 2008 there's been a political shift to the right on a continent to west socialism once thrived. and politician goes on a journey to meet leading leftwing figures to understand why that politics have lost ground so dramatically. latin america a giant in time oil on al-jazeera. there's a wave of sentiment around the world people actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often people's voices are not heard because they're just not part of the mainstream news narrative. obviously we cover big stories and we report on the big events that are going on but we also
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tell the stories of people who generally don't have a voice i mean when i was a child my that's never be afraid to put your hand up not a question and i think that's what our syria really does we ask the questions to people who should be accountable and also we get people to give their view of what's going on. military leaders and not say that they will prepare for new elections so after forcing president ibrahim bluebook ok to out of power. hello i'm adrian for the good this is al jazeera live from doha also coming. all this mind elections where neither fair nor transparent better russa's for opposition candidates appeals to european leaders of election fraud. thank you
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very very much.

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