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rendition inside libya's christian fundamentalists came to tripoli they ransacked all sorts of feelings associated with gaddafi regime it was in the office of spy chief and i found a stash of documents which may feel the collaboration between british and libyan intelligence services on al jazeera. t.v. and present day bids for a controversial 3rd term amid simmering tensions. this is. also coming up a cry for peace in the middle of the room says another cease fire falters fears of an escalation in fighting between us by john and on media.
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not backing down protesters to 5 police threats to shut down days of anti-government demonstrations. of thousands of indigenous colombians headed for the capital to raise their voice against violence affecting their community. so after months of on the rest of the campaign marred by violence people in guinea of voting to elect their next president incumbent leader of the khan be voted in the capital cannot create on sunday morning he's running against 11 kind of it's but his main rival is the former prime minister the ilo this is the 3rd match up between the 2 men 82 year old condé insists his bid for a 3rd term is legal but the opposition says it violates the constitution well the united nations has expressed alarm at what it calls ethically challenged hate speech rising in the lead up to the polls in guinea it's called the situation extremely dangerous. says. one blow and down
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for a cuppa sorry these are lyrics to a catchy campaign tune for guinea's president alpha condé for his opponents it's a call for violence a song lawful something we're not here to fight we're here to have fun we're not here to go after anyone. but opposition candidates believes otherwise in an interview with al jazeera he accused condi who's running for a 3rd term of fomenting ethnic divisions. if you last given the ethnic undertones of today's speeches there is a real risk of post electoral violence he's trying to mobilize people against those that have the same ethnic origin as use main challenger. the president's skin in people party is largely backed by the linkage ethnic group while those opposition party is mostly supported by the people before the polls even open on sunday gideon's came out in large numbers to cast their vote seemingly undeterred by what
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has been a divisive and often violent campaign you know people looking to proposal but i have no worries everything will be fine i'm sure it will you have seen look we are all here in peace and it will continue. to do jello has a full on he was unable to campaign in eastern guinea home to ethnic blinky after the president's supporters blocked the road and homes and businesses owned by ethnic philosophies and can con were attacked the police failed to stop the violence anyone but a felony has been a rallying call among many of his supporters to lead a campaign something rights groups have condemned. you know resorting to resorting to. it's a good way to get people mobilized it's not a good way to go away but it's certainly effective on the ground and that's. after violence during marches constitutional referendum the un's office for prevention of genocide expressed alarm and criticize. the security forces for their use of force
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against protesters more than 50 people were killed or injured many of them. a new vote now underway. is worried that falana may seek revenge. i wish that even if giallo wins the elections that we can walk hand in hand unite as a people politics shouldn't terrorists apart while some hope for change others for continuities many 1st time voters say they want to a culture of politics that is pitting gideon's against each other nicholas hawke al-jazeera. the latest attempt to pose a fighting between. appears to be faltering just after both sides accuse each other of violating a 2nd russian mediated ceasefire in the space of a week it was established a day after the azeri said 13 people were killed in a missile attack in the city of gunja more than 700 people arrested to have died so
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far in the disputed region of not going to. well the remote mountainous areas officially part of france but it's been controlled by ethnic armenians since the end of a 6 year war in 1904. in the with a reaction from the. isn't that was fair bit of popular anger here all fingers pointing out. there's also very little faith in this renewed ceasefire that was announced on sunday people here obviously saying that they could not trust the armenian side to hold their part of the deal even though i feel there's a bit of confusion over what exactly that humanitarian ceasefire is about people here think that it's about an end therefore still a tease when in fact it's really about bringing some calm in. a calm period enough to swap bodies and did. now the moment we
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don't know where that is heading we just heard from their budget and he said that they are ready to return some bodies to armenia through this prearranged kori door. as a budget and said that it has informed the international red cross about it but this statement did not say anything about do soldiers definitely. on the battlefield specially in the areas in these occupied regions around no go no care about the azerbaijani army is pushing forward it has popular support there is a feel that as they are by gen ad the moment because of the do every tory again has the upper hand and you have a lot of people here who do support that many would tell you actually that maybe a ceasefire is not what should happen now and that the army should keep on pressing . smith is in news capital here of iran and has more from the. the armenians say
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they've been pushing for several days now to get this humanitarian ceasefire agreed on and it's taken 2 weeks to get this far it was russia that got the 2 sides to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire to hand over the bodies of killed soldiers i don't change prisoners of war wounded soldiers it was never quiet enough along the line of contact never peaceful enough for them to be able to pull both sides to be able to agree to do this there was an attempt last week on one local attempt to do it on one part of the line of contact but even that failed after a few hours because firing started again so this decision by the air is to hand over the dead bodies of the armenians had already earlier on agreed to some sort of handover of bodies and prisoners of war is a step forward armenia needs the cease fire to carry on its suffered now 675 armenian ethnic armenian fighters have been killed in the fighting and armenia
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has lost control of the territory it has held since the end of the war in 1994 this territory between nagorno-karabakh karabakh in azerbaijan is considered the security or buffer zone that the armenians say that's what it is to protect nagorno-karabakh for the last 26 plus years they're supposed to be discussing the status of this territory plus nagorno-karabakh with. nothing's happened in that time has wires about john says it is now moving militarily with the support of turkey to take some of this territory. i mean alexander and his deputy foreign minister of the republic of which is the armenian name of the corner of her back and says that there was hope the 2nd ceasefire would hold and maintains that army near instapundit kurds are committed to the peace process. wasn't biogen when it started this offensive on the 27th of september also said that armenia was the one
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launching it but everyone knows that it is not in armenia's or in our socks interest to launch anything because as you can see the war is going on on our territory and it is our people that are suffering from this mostly so it's in our best interest to stop the war for the car of armenians this is a mosque that we want to secure our civilians to ensure their safety because for the last day. there were about 31 casualties among the civilians there certainly one that and more than 100 people were injured so. you know we have no reason to come to peace there needs to be of political will from all sides of the conflict for armenia and they have openly stated that they are ready to solve this issue exclusively by peaceful means and they both agree to interview saying
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a mechanism investigate investigative mechanisms that would allow to say who has violated the cease fire it was as though by john that does not agree with the introduction of this mechanism and does not agree to it today so it is obvious that both armenian sides want peace and are ready to sit at the table of negotiations to discuss the possibility of peace but for this we need those mechanisms to exclude the use of force all the strengths of the use of force. thousands of people in chile are marking one year since the beginning of a protest movement calling for social change them as traitors in the capital santiago are demanding a new constitution and a more equal society chile has been a group by protests against a living cost inequality political exclusion at least 31 people died and around 30000 have been detained in the past year. thousands of protesters have gathered in the thai capital of bangkok for a 5th day they've been rallying in defiance of
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a government ban and dozens have been arrested calling for the prime minister to stand down a molecule to be reformed and the new constitution police warn they will respond to any acts of violence tony chang has more from bangkok on the protesters and their demands. but once again for the 5th day in a row protesters have come out onto the streets of bangkok to show their displeasure the government and again the earth orators have tried to starve them and failed earlier in the day the police had warned that anyone attending would be charged and arrested they even said that those people who turned up and posted selfies on social media could be liable for 2 years in jail or 2000 dollars fines but clearly that hasn't deterred anyone people are still here and they're still determined that their demands be met quite a lot here. i think we need to change we need to demand an end to the unfairness that has happened the 1st thing that i want to see is that they stop ignoring our
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voices we should be able to gather and protest peacefully and i want to see more freedom not arrests at this stage we don't know how long these protests are going to continue to a certain extent some of the fears has gone out of this because the protest leaders have been detained that said these protests have now spread they're taking place in different sites across bangkok and tonight even in different places across the country the protesters are shown that after the crackdown on friday night they're still prepared to come out they're still to come out prepared to come out in numbers and they're not scared and now the ball is very much in the government's court. efforts to normalize relations between israel and bahrain are taking another step forward a joint u.s. israeli delegation has arrived in the gulf state to sign several bilateral agreements it includes u.s. treasury secretary steve nixon and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu the decision to normalize ties has outraged palestinians who want to achieve an
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independent state of their own 1st. chief palestinian negotiator saeb erekat has been taken to an israeli hospital more than a week after contract in covert 19 he's been shifted from his home in the occupied west bank over to west jerusalem the palestinian liberation liberation organization says that erica require special care due to chronic health problems involving his wrist protrudes eastham he had received a lung transplant in the united states 3 years ago still ahead here on al-jazeera find out what the taliban says about the recent rise in attacks in afghanistan the peace talks. and protests are taking place in france as a nation mourns the murder of a teacher in a paris suburb. hello
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the sun's returns to japan this is quite a lot of cloud on the weakening frontal system disappearing now so although you get a light breeze the rain is just catching the south of honshu is not going to affect most people and in china nice dry picture not yet cold for most harbors of 15 goes up to 18 the cows back here in mongolia as you can see but there is rain still in sichuan which on the high ground to the west of course is no snow at all make its way in slowly vietnam has been a place to watch recently huge amounts of rain causing flooding such that every day life goes all like this just accept the water and carry on anyway and there's more rain to come in this part of vietnam laos effect once more laos and cambodia is flooding in from pan as well now there is obviously right now sway the philippines a focus of what is potentially developing circulation her game want to watch and
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the scattered showers malaysia and indonesia in recent flooding in hyderabad as a tropical depression moved across india another one is yet developing in the bay of bengal and the one before isn't towards the coast of oman. vying for the code 19 pandemic asian americans suffering an epidemic of violent attacks and abuse. one a one east meets the new generation who are fighting back on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. last.
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better get you what she had to 0 her mind about top stories just to give you the 10 selection that follows months of unrest incoming president of condi is putting her controversial 3rd term which is main rival the yellow says is unconstitutional. i mean me and azerbaijan are accusing each other of violating a 2nd sees far more than 700 people on both sides have been killed during any 3 weeks of fighting. thousands of protesters have gathered in the thai capital bangkok for a 5th day of rallying in defiance of a government ban calling for the prime minister to stand down for reform of the monarchy for a new constitution. u.s. forces in afghanistan denying allegations that they are violating their agreements
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with the taliban by carrying out test writes in helmand province a taliban spokesman says the u.s. is engaging in provocative actions and bombing non-combat zones the u.s. is categorically rejecting claims that it's violating the agreement a spokesman says the air strikes so early in defense of the afghan security forces are being attacked by the taliban on saturday down to 0 spoke to mohammed naive who is the spokesman for the taliban's political office in qatar and he told us that the taliban has not been attacking us forces with whom. we have not been carrying out any attacks against the coalition forces because we have had an agreement with them we don't attack them and they don't attack us for 14 months now they have been withdrawing from the country this is why we don't attack them but in regards to the minister mission kabul we don't have that agreement with them they attack us their attacks are quite numerous they carry out attacks against us and against the people they shelled the villages they shelled the positions of the
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mujahideen and they even build pushed into areas that were conquered by us their stomach state and they keep crossing their tanks and vehicles in areas that are under our control when it comes to all of this we are in a position of self-defense this is why i say when they carry such acts there will be a reaction that's the only way it is self defense. well malaysia's incidents of violence a car bomb has killed at least 12 people in central afghanistan dozens of others were injured in the city for those co couple of gore province no one has yet claimed responsibility and 8 afghan security officials were killed in a taliban attack and province afghanistan's government has described the taliban's attacks as despicable and that they are continuation of the war against afghan people are you anonymous embargo on iran has expired after 13 years it was lifted as part of the 2015 nuclear deal with world post the us withdrew from the pact in 2080 and its voice strong opposition to any easing of
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sanctions really and foreign minister javid zarif welcome the development calling it a win for regional peace and security forces jabari has more now from tehran the iranians have said even though they've reduced their commitments gradually over the past year since the u.s. left the agreement they are still very much committed to it and the europeans have said they are in the same position given the restrictions imposed on them by the united states the u.s. has imposed a series of sanctions on iran's oil and banking sector making it very difficult for the european signatories of this deal to do business with iran as they would have under this agreement this is one of the main obstacles that is in place at the moment but they remain ians and the europeans have said this spite all these obstacles they are still committed to this deal and even though it looked like this agreement was very much dead over the past few months this embargo being lifted is going to be seen as a move that this there is still some like in this agreement and there is hope that
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this will last with the u.s. has been trying to reimpose the ban on iran since august but failed to give in other countries including members of the u.n. security council diplomatic editor james bases more from us. the arms embargo against iran was 1st put in place in 2007 the decision to lift it this year came back in 2015 as part of the iran nuclear deal in return for rum giving up its nuclear weapons capability one of the things iran got was a lifting of the arms embargo the ability to sell and buy weapons now the u.s. didn't like that idea at all the trumpet administration which pulled out of the iran deal and that's why the trumpet ministration tried to trigger something called snap back in fact they claim that they did trigger it in september that was a clause in the iran nuclear deal that said that any one of the participants could
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force all international sanctions to snap back in place the problem for the trumpet ministration is the rest of the international community and the vast majority of the security council say snap back has not taken place i can tell you diplomats here tell me that the lifting of the arms embargo they think will not have a great deal of a fact they don't think iran has much money its economy is bad to buy and many weapons anyway they say they're much more important date coming up is the 3rd of november u.s. election day joe biden if he's president says he'll come back into some sort of iran nuclear deal president trump though has made it clear he doesn't want to deal and the future if there is a president trump for a 2nd term is much more uncertain. thousands of protesters have gathered in paris after the killing of a teacher on friday this is the scene in the middle of the capital but similar rallies are taking place across the country to show solidarity the school where the
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teacher taught is believed to have received multiple threats and that's after he showed a controversial image of the prophet mohammed in a lesson about freedom of expression the suspect was shot dead but 9 people are in custody or yes a little ideas the head of the justice and liberty for all committee he says the government overall response to the crime can be seen as problematic. this the 1st to put sick in under of the broad daylight the fairest of our intelligence services the person who committed this horrendous unspeakable unfathomable crime was hard being reported more toward times on social media because he was already displaying sign that he was about to commit something and many of the people who reported him were muslims and to quote someone in the french media or the muslims can report someone who pretends to be one of their isn't so on on the one upmanship on the hype being pumped by the french government tries to steer away public scrutiny from
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how the french intelligence how the french police faded into up making this into making sure that this does not happen nuff chorus the whole culture is shocked i have a kid myself was going to heed to reteach europe and i myself was almost saved during my high school years by a history teacher so all of us feel like if you get kids because you taught something where this country going into now these demonstrations are no of course the out spontaneous but the government is also trying to use them for of their political agenda this is happening be only a few weeks after emanuel macaws discourse on these so-called an islamist separatism switzerland is imposing new coronavirus restrictions to stop a rise in new infections it will be mandates reach where mosques in all public spaces from monday gathering to 15 or more people will be banned and companies are encouraged to let employees work from home so it's been reported more than 3000 cases in the past they take his tally to run about $74000.00. polls have
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now closed for the presidential run off in the self declared republic of northern cyprus the prime minister as in tata who's backed by turkey cast his ballot in nicosia on sunday morning he's running against the incumbent president of the soffit conject who favors reunification with a south side priss been divided since the early 1970 s. the vote could decide if northern cyprus gains control of his own affairs orleans more towards. and voting is underway in bolivia its presidential election last year plunged the country into political turmoil president evo morales won that election but resigned and went into exile shortly afterwards after allegations of electoral fraud a regional leader is across latin america have been calling on the government to ensure a free and fair poll. thousands of indigenous colombians are traveling to bogota to seek
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a meeting with president even duca they're angry about increasing violence affecting their communities. and is. fed up and on the road these native colombians a traveling to confront the president about rising violence in their home state of kouka fighting there is increased since the government signed a peace deal with far crevice in 2060 armed groups and drug gangs filth in syrian power vacuum and indigenous communities a struggling to defend their land and their culture when we believe that the president's fears to 1st indigenous people and the different social suitors in the country about the civil necessities and the weevil violence experience in our country according to the watchdog in depass 1000 community leaders have been killed since 2016 and this year alone there have been 65 mass killings the violence affected indigenous communities disproportionately and some want to tanami in their homelands to protect themselves. the caravan leaders say they will rally all
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colombians to join their course if the president refuses to meet them through the numbers if the president doesn't receive us in but will try to debate and address to the country and come back to our own regions to prepare more mobilizations and markets but this time all nationwide the buses are expected to reach back on monday where they have been protests of a police patrol at a since september the group plans to take part in a nationwide protest on wednesday whether it meets a president or not. barbara al jazeera. there's been violence in haiti as people commemorate the death of a revolutionary leader more than 200 years ago and to government protesters but roads and tires in the capital port au prince police responded with tear gas so hard. they marked the 240th anniversary of the assassination of
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haiti's pursed independent ruler to celine by protesting once again against a government. who started off with a carnival like atmosphere. turned violent. police used rubber bullets and tear gas against demonstrators calling for president to step down. protesters blocked roads and set fire to toys in the capital port au prince and started protesting last year against corruption mismanagement of aid money and a rise in inflation majority of haitians live in poverty. the president has been criticized for his handling of the current virus pandemic and denies allegations of corruption i know that you know i'm in the street to demand justice for the underprivileged masses that is my demand we are from the poorer suburbs we are saying that we can no longer live like this we're out on the streets to demand justice. in response to the un rest moyes called for unity as he marks the anniversary. today or battles for peace we ask for union i tell everyone in the
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opposition or in the government today the future generation expects something from us they expect a change those changes can come in reform. has been in political crisis as well. as been in power since 2017 but because nations nativity elections not held not to be last year there's been no parliament temba announced the formation of a new provisional electoral council opposition refused to participate and rejected its legitimacy so with no parliament sitting wise's been gone. ning by presidential decree since january giving him in homes powers. for the respect of the law and the respect of the constitution february 7th 2021 this is the end of the constitutional mandate. we were removed from power before then today is the day for the national mobilization we ask the international community to help
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us in this battle for the last transition. the international community has called for an end to the political impasse and for a parliamentary election to be held as soon as possible the government's blames violence and the pandemic for delays to the election that was meant to be held near the un is accused of failing to protect people against human rights violations with gangs controlling around a 3rd of the country in june the president announced a legislative election in december but the opposition has called for a transitional government instead failure to hold elections before means his term officially ends could leave hate scene without a leader or parliament. rescuers in vietnam are searching for at least $22.00 soldiers who've been buried by a landslide believed to be trapped under the rubble of the base heavy rain in the region has caused several landslides in recent weeks along with widespread flooding
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so at a rate that has allowed was supposed to perform present one of the holiest islamic sites for the 1st time in 7 months. mosque in mecca has been closed since march due to the threat of us pandemic around 4000 workers just in fact to sanitise the most throughout the day. so a clown in venezuela who was forced out of his job due to the pandemic is trying to inject some fun into the lives of people with a serious message george a felix money mill has started riding buses in venezuela's capital caracas performing magic tricks to make a living it's also been passengers to wear mosques and giving them advice on how to protect themselves from the farce. for a quick check of the headlines here in al-jazeera and give me a venting in a tense election that follows months of unrest incumbent president alpha condé.

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