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an official federal holiday. people see it as a great opportunity to take to the streets to continue to let their message be her . anger on the streets of bangkok police move to disperse protesters are calling for the prime minister's resignation. or the i'm out of my he and into ohio and this is al jazeera also coming up the u.k. prime minister warns the nation to prepare for a no deal breaks it says negotiations with the e.u. stole. up. more than a 1000 prisoners are exchanged a deal that could revive peace talks to end the emmons civil war. to end scenes i
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said a court in south africa 2 black men appear in court charged with killing a white foam worker. we begin with a clash between police and anti-government protesters in thailand water cannon was used to break through a barricade set up by protesters in the center of bangkok i will show you live pictures now of the scene as you can see thousands of anti-government protesters have been on the streets defying a government ban on gatherings for a 2nd night in a row and those protesters have been calling for the prime minister's resignation and calling for reforms to the monarchy but spread minister preludes is refusing to stand down scott heiler reports from bangkok. there was that major confrontation
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at. a barrier that the protesters makeshift ferry the protesters had used even using police barricades and that's resell the water cannon use there was another a secondary barrier built by the protesters just here again these water cannon but there were barely any protesters on the other side so they broke through that what's interesting now what we're seeing a little little bit of it this is definitely the mop up operation right now is that some of the protesters have blended into the side streets so there's a little bit of a cleanup a small operation riot police going into the side streets to clear people i would see in a couple of detentions no mass arrests or anything like that but the protest organizers saying it isn't officially over for the evening what we can also say definitively and that is that the gloves have come off approach has made the decision to go hard against the protesters they have not done that until this evening and what we're hearing from officials too is that they're going to use as they said and this came just after we saw that 1st main confrontation the use all means at their disposal
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and we saw what that means that means riot police and that means water cannons but again as they as that the leadership that still exists now saying the protest is over tonight we know that a nearby university has allowed their campus to be a safe haven for any the protesters that want to leave no protesting on the campus but a safe haven but it seems as though right now it's pretty much dissipated that most of those protesters have fled. u.k. prime minister boris johnson says be prepared shruti do with the e.u. and his office says. effect simply over. they will continue to the disease control just. fisheries it away he's completely unacceptable to that country. and since we have been 10 weeks until the end of the transition period on jan to the us i have to make a judgment about the likely outcome and to get us all written. and given that they refused to negotiate seriously for much of the last few months and given that this
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summit appears explicitly to rule out a canada style deal i concluded that we should get ready for january the 1st with the rangelands the more like australia is based on simple principles of global free trade. lifetimes paul brennan and london paul this all sounds like it's getting a bit more serious what is the status of these talks between the u.k. and the e.u. . well it's certainly on the brink there's no doubt about it we've seen some stark language used in previous months in previous years frankly as they reach a particularly critical juncture in the passage of the past 5 years but with now just 10 weeks to go before the end of the transition period where there has to be some kind of agreement either to go with no deal or no deal brax it all with some kind of trade deal the language getting particularly stark it was brought to
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a head at thursday's session of the european union summit the european council the leaders' summit in brussels where they said that frankly it was for britain to bring something to the table in order to allow a deal to be possible the reaction from downing street was pretty stark and pretty angry and this statement from boris johnson the prime minister on friday it is what he is what his reaction is an essential saying look we're prepared to walk away we will go for an australian type deal which is code for w t o terms unless there can be some movement by the european union and what's wore the promises official spokesman who doesn't speak on camera he briefs journalists behind the scenes come out with even more strong quotes in the last hour he's saying as far as we're concerned the trade talks are over the e.u. have effectively ended the one and only if the e.u. fundamentally shifts its position will it be worth talking to some talk of michel
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barnier the e.u.'s chief negotiator coming to london on monday to resume talks and intensify talks with the verdict of the promises spokesman on this e.u. negotiators should only come to london next week if they're prepared to intensify talks and compromise otherwise don't bother ok paul brennan that live from london thank you. more than a 1000 prisoners sippin on the front lines of yemen civil war have returned home over the past 2 days the last 2 planes carrying he finds you see been held by the saudi u.a.e. coalition arrived in the capital sana'a a short while ago another plane carrying coalition fighters right in southern port city of aden after leaving santa the the scene is a trust building measures aimed at reviving peace talks mohamed atta has been at sinai airports with read his he says have been arriving. this plane has just touched down on the runway outside the national post carrying on board this 100
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fighters just returned from the prison tonight nice government also just been backed by the saudi arabia owners now this is a moment of joy joy and also hardness. and also for the government of some. been waiting for this moment the long time you can imagine that those. just released inside the presence for all go 5 years both parties have faced many setbacks in order to score such detail the. result already received over 672 presidents president before while they are nice i recognized government have received 400 to the presence of 4 among them 15 saudis
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and also 2 or so the knees so substance could tilt pave the way for post office to resolve their differences peacefully as they released. the. bizarre turn once of the. many suffering their many. difficulties. i've also thought. gates for 90 or 80 percent of the country's course. security forces in guinea have barred the entrance you can i create a city censor heads of sunday's presidential election earlier armed men attacked a military base in western guinea killing the camp's commander colonel deacon the president alpha condé is seeking a 3rd term in a campaign that's been marred by violence and ethnic divisions in the course hark
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is life or is in senegal's capital network eternal as. well hala this attack took place in the early hours of the morning or late at night about 300 kilometers away from the capital of crete candia which is a major military base that that cannot create to the rest of the country this is where soldiers get in soldiers that prepare for you in peacekeeping missions are trained before being deployed most of the somali this is where most officers also had been training clued in former president. say what we know is that this attack on these military camp that came from the soldiers themselves happened hours after opposition leaders said jello really held a rally to a rousing crowd in his address to the crowd. the military to join him to vote.
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out of power of course they are grievances in the military themselves we've seen a campaign a political campaign ahead of sunday's vote marred by divisive politics and few candidates feeling ethnic tensions we know that there are certain of these tensions that have been mirrored within the military themselves a lot of. those that have been killed the commander of this camp is a close ally. and it seems that the divisive retore that has been used. in the campaign has spilled over. with this latest attack including a cream cone day supposed to hold his final rally in just in an hour's time we're told that he's not going to attend this rally himself he'll operate through a video a video conference. but the capital of conakry it's tense it's dead silence the stores are shut and people are anxious and worried ahead of these
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polls 'd that will take place on sunday hala. thank you. still to come here on al-jazeera. he went from prison to prime minister and president of kyrgyzstan all within a few days plus find out why israel's government has banned the palestinians hope stars from returning to the occupied territory. welcomes other look at the international forecast a little more clout into central parts of china at the moment that's going to sink its way further south where space and places of cloud and rain on that one but the proper rate that is across east china sea pushing into japan pretty miserable state temperatures no higher than around 15 degrees celsius with some heavy downpours for
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a time by where it shows up as we go into sunday the sun comes back 3 and temperatures pick up to around 20 degrees by that time we should see some dry weather coming into the far south of china a little bit of wet weather there into some of those a central areas having said that far away and they're making their way down into a good parts of vietnam further flooding concerns here i'm afraid on a cloud there across india china pushing over towards that eastern side of the by a single some very wet weather really as well which was eastern side of the arabian sea and this is a mumbai 108 millimeters of rain in 24 hours maybe 200 millimeters of rain in just 2 days here the average for october is $81.00 millimeters it should be quietly down so this is unusually wet weather for mumbai there is a disturbance here that's pushing back out into the arabian sea it also also going to make its way into southeastern parts of pakistan.
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to break through a barricade sasso antigovernment protesters in the center of bangkok thousands of protesters have been defying a ban on here gatherings for a 2nd night. u.k. prime minister boris johnson says it's time for his country to prepare for a new deal breaks it's his office says talks with the european union are over unless there's a compromise from brussels. and hundreds of prisoners to be on the front lines of yemen civil war continuing to return home to planes carrying the 2 fighters in hells by saturday you mean the coalition for arrived on. either approach and says that a court has since unocal south africa over the killing of a white farm worker is a public stand off between thousands of supporters of the south african opposition party the economic freedom fighters and white forests in the free state of cynical 2 black men are june courts accused of killing
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a 22 year old white farm worker of brandon horner's body was found tied to a pole 2 weeks ago a farm manager had injuries to his face and neck for me to miller has more. the concern around racial tense and certainly does possess and that's because we've seen these confrontations between the economic freedom fighters and white farmers and supporters of pharmacy a and c. in a pub and the soul goes back to some of the events in recent weeks where a white from work home was killed by allegedly by 2 black men who are in court at the moment applying hopedale we still waiting for better profiles to finalize their feelings of continuing to mention. the day to day. levels of really a very clear that they're here in cynical ever constitutional rights and they say
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to defend public institutions from who they called white terrorists this goes back to when homer's stormed the same courts ahead the 2 suspects appeared last week and they had turned out to try and get access through those suspects white farmers here say that they are fed up with the lack of justice with the way in which suspects informers a prosecuted they're fed up with a number of phone murders and attacks are taking place in the last year alone that in about 37 people killed them foams about 259 attacks on farms and all of vs lives to tensions that between between these 2 can say cynical and so skirmishes earlier we saw stones been thrown and then speaking to people on both sides of this divide we've spoken to people who've said that they preferred it to fight they're prepared to do whatever's necessary to defend themselves and make
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their point and of course it happened to be along racial lines. in afghanistan a spokesman for the governor of helmand province is accusing the taliban of working with al qaeda and other foreign fighters. the armed groups are supporting taliban attacks against government forces the taliban denies this fighting escalates you don't listen these raising concerns stalled peace talks may collapse a few. reports from kabul with more on those allegations since that this is another war of words between the government and and the taliban like we've seen happening in the past because if it turns out to be true it will be a violation of the agreement that the taliban have signed the peace agreement with the u.s. where they hope for just to cut all ties with al qaeda now the whole governor's spokesman while he did support the governor's claims that al-qaeda has been
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fighting alongside the taliban in homeland he also told us that the evidence that they have cannot be publicly released at the moment because it is sensitive on the other hand the taliban spokesman here in afghanistan not only he denied those claims but he said that all the taliban fighters that are fighting in the home on today are local fighters and they haven't even come from other provinces but what's really pressing and urgent right now and what everybody has been calling for here in afghanistan is for a significant reduction of violence just because too many afghans die every single day and if it's any indication of the seriousness of the situation is what are u.s. envoys and my holiday tweeted yesterday when he said that after several meetings with general miller and the taliban it seems that they will have to go back to the table and reset options and i quote here by strickly i'd hurrying to the implementation of the you as taliban agreement and what has this agreement has been
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calling for is for a significant reduction of violence from all sides in order for the peace talks to progress and this is simply something that we have not been able to see happening on the ground. the afghan government says 6 civilians have been killed by a roadside bomb that happens in the city of fitters co in goa province interior ministry says there's been a surge in taliban attacks in the past 24 hours. a kyrgyzstan politician freed from prison by protesters just days ago has been appointed as the country's interim president so they are to par officemate prime minister on wednesday but has that i assume the presidency after the resignation of surround by back of parliament says ended states of emergency in the capital bishkek had been declared to end days of unrest triggered by disputed elections a new vote has to be held within 90 days well the power of his opposed by some may
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say he's 1st his way undemocratically into power but he also enjoys massive supporters here's charles stratford to travel to japan as birthplace in rural northern kyrgyzstan which is the village of can sue and it is a cool region of northern kyrgyzstan it is the birthplace of the man who so his critics say has forced his way into power chaos since apollo metry electional knocks over the 4th was cancelled because of vote rigging allegations so there is a part of israel prime minister on until new elections are held acting president 3 weeks ago he was serving 11 year jail term for kidnapping. but here in the much of the vast rule regions of kyrgyzstan he is loved by many southern i believe in soldered to par off because he's faced many difficulties in his life he recognizes the problems that worry ordinary people like us things like corruption and land
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that was sold to neighboring countries some politicians support him and some do not but it's meaningless because we support him. to power of supporters freedom from during post-election protests his party leaders scramble to influence him or to period to be a power vacuum to power supporters charged a peaceful demonstration bishkek. many supporters of other opposition groups fled. in rural towns there are memorials dedicated to kill guess who died fighting for the soviets in world war 2 and statues of historical figures who was a member of parliament 10 years ago is known for his nationalist views not much has changed in the village where he was born since kyrgyzstan's independence up to the breakup of the soviet union 30 years ago the men ride horses to herd cattle and sheep most of the young have left for the capital bishkek will join the estimated
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800000 carriages forced to find work abroad. but i believe everything will be ok i'm very proud of study or japan or of he came from us ordinary people i saw him once and i asked him to be good not to bring shame on us a man should only leave good things and memories behind him. his critics describe him as a fog somebody who should still be in jail or fruit for the democratic progress this country is made. with a factual matter remains but the new prime minister saw their power of has huge respect in the rural areas of kyrgyzstan areas that experts say have repeatedly been ignored by governments in the path. you see cool kyrgyzstan. there are calls again for syria's president bashar al assad to step down people have been protesting it did lead province against his rule and attacks on the area is the last rebel held pockets in syria. the un says israel has stopped
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dancing visas for human rights workers it cut ties with the united nations human rights agency in february after it published a list of companies working in illegal israeli settlements in the west bank 9 out of 12 foreign staff of not been forced to leave the remaining 3 have visas that are ji to expire in the coming months israel controls all access to palestine and has frequently used that power to stop write scripts from to their work israel is also restricting a palestinian popstar from returning home mohammed us afros to fame after winning the arab idol competition 2013 his previous permits was based on his status as a u.n. ambassador and israeli politicians as answer has been blogs because a video is he made calling for resistance against the occupation palestine. omar sheikh year is the israel and palestine director for human rights watch he's based
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in a month since being expelled from israel over the last year over a claim he's supported calls for boycotts secure says rights activists are being kicked a tz for doing their job. forcing out un human rights monitors are part of a clear strategy that aims to muzzle documentation of israel's systematic repression of palestinians i mean this is part of a larger trend it's not only the denial of thesis of the 2 these un human rights monitors or my deportation we have seen other representatives of the united nations we've seen other human rights advocates we've seen activists palestinians and others from countries across the world denied entry to israel and palestine as a result of israel basically disagreeing with their underlying opinions or criticisms of its human rights record the reality is this is basic mainstream human rights advocacy in fact the u.n. human rights office in ramallah which i had the chance to work very closely with
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when i was based on the ground much of their work actually can constitutes working on arbitrary arrests and tortures by the palestinian authority and in terms of settlements this is basic black letter international law there are war crimes under the 4th geneva convention so documenting those abuses in calling for actors including companies to avoid complicity in that legality is the kind of basic human rights work at human rights watch does and 100 countries across the world and the work of the united nations doesn't virtually every country across the globe. the death of a baby separated from her jailed mother spawn tangere in the philippines human rights worker rayna main the scene oh it's her daughter taken from her soon after birth the cases intensified criticism of president reagan good to tertius treatment of prisoners and political activists in duggan has more now from manila. from a feast full ceremony to our lightning rod which family members and supporters of
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re not and her baby rivers say a show of indignation and outrage told the treatment of raina a mother for the 1st time a political prisoner who was forcibly taken away from her baby elaina was not able to say goodbye she was not given a chance to say goodbye to her sick baby and she was only given 3 hours in total to visit the funeral and say goodbye today the day of the burial for even before the program even before the battle began police learned. good with our lord and stopped people from joining. friends and comrades and even the family members you know vanessa you know from joining. * the program. all i ever wanted was for mother and daughter to meet for my granddaughter to be buried to have a peaceful meeting but it didn't happen i even had my head on the funeral car
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because i was holding onto it. no rights groups say the treatment of rayna is proof of the harsh methods of the philippine government towards political prisoners activists and rights workers who know the plight of political prisoners is included in the latest human rights report by the united nations by amnesty international and volume on rights watch these are again is asians have been calling on the philippine government to improve the living conditions of political prisoners and to ensure that those whose cases should have been dropped should be released immediately they say the philippine government has a responsibility to treat filipinos the matter with their status is and to ensure equal protection under philippine law. for nearly a decade the japanese government has been trying to figure out what to do with more than a 1000000 tons of radioactive water from its fukushima nuclear plants though no formal
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decision has been announced local media reporting it's been decided to gradually release it into the sea the plant was destroyed in an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 tiller's a company that one's fukushima has been storing contaminated water on site but says that one out of space next year represents service from the japanese fishing industry have urged the government knots to do so so korea still has a ban on imported fish from the fukushima region. well sean burney is a senior nuclear specialist with greenpeace and runs the nuclear program in japan he says dumping it see maybe the cheapest option but it's also unnecessary. i think understand is that the government in japan would have everyone believe that it's only one type of radioactivity so called city and it's in the water again that's also not true there are many different people who plights in the water including strontium 90 which is the bone sticking cancer causing isotope. that will be
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released along with all the other radioactivity in the water over about 30 years starting possibly in 2023 if we can't stop them and that water then spreads through option currents but the radioactivity depending on the type of activity concentrates in different marine life and sea weeds and ultimately in the human food chain unfortunately they have just missed the alternatives did not use the best available technology and they have this crisis of over a 1000000 tons of contaminants water. the alternative is very clear which is to continue to store in more robust tanks the japanese government's own committee in february issued a report or egg knowledged that storage on site after 2022 was possible it ruled out because they said to them it would take time to negotiate there's also the land outside the fukushima daiichi site which of course is highly contaminated
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and will not create habited by most people from that era for the foreseeable future so the storage option is clearly the best option other than rather than releasing directly into the environment and that's what we've been telling the guy japanese government and that's what we'll be demanding that they do this is not over the government's making a decision but it doesn't mean it's going to happen. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines place in thailand if he's high pressure water cannon with liquid that stings antigovernment protesters in the center bangkok thousands of demonstrators have been to find a ban on gatherings for a 3rd day.
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