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the wet weather along with botswana and that's not going out into mozambique. or. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the line certainly timely taking the news and current affairs that matter to you. we are in need all american support for offensive operations in the war in yemen including relevant arms sales u.s. president joe biden calls for an end to the war in yemen in his 1st foreign policy speech. hello i'm adrian fit again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up how protesters in manama are resisting the military rule now one of the posed leader
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aung san suu kyi his close aides has been arrested. sweeping new guidelines bring beijing's controversial national security law into hong kong schools. and we speak to guatemalan families who are struggling to make sense of a mass killing of migrants in northern mexico. u.s. president joe biden says that he's ending america's support for the saudi led war in yemen including a ban on the sale of specific weapons the conflict has killed tens of thousands of people including civilians and created the world's worst humanitarian crisis survivors of some last strikes have shown bob frank bomb fragments that they say are american made saudi arabia has responded by saying that it supports a political solution the kingdom also welcomed biden's commitment to defending its territorial integrity is coming. draw
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a tax from missiles fired across the border from yemen saudis form a coalition partner the u.a.e. says that it's eager to see an end to the war from which it's already withdrawn while the who thiis said that they won't be deceived by statements of real peace will only come when the aggression ends well that announcement was made during biden's 1st foreign policy speech since taking office his promise to restore u.s. leadership and repair alliances our state department correspondent jordan reports. u.s. president joe biden delivered his 1st foreign policy speech at the state department and made news on the long running war in yemen where saudi and m. rotty forces have allegedly targeted civilians with u.s. made weapons this war has to end. and to underscore our commitment we are ending all american support for offensive operations in the war in yemen including relevant arms sales. and the coup in me and mark the mermaid's military should
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relinquish power they have seized release the advocates and activists and officials they have detained lift the restrictions on telecommunications and refrain from violence. and on russia's imprisonment of the political activist alexei novelli he should be released immediately and without condition biden's speech which also touched on china and on reversing the trumpet ministrations dismantling of u.s. refugee policy was short but specific a reflection of the years he spent leading the senate foreign relations committee a former u.s. diplomat says he supports biden's action on yemen the u.s. going to be considerably to that war now the u.s. is saying i will no longer can simply add to this war i will not she will and with weapons shipments year i would like you all the big followers and the regional
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powers to do the same and that was something new the other part of biden's foreign policy agenda repairing an agency that lost hundreds of experienced employees and suffered considerable budget cuts during the previous administration morale had crashed especially during the tenure of former secretary of state mike pompei o who many diplomats believed used the agency to boost his political ambitions in a separate speech to state employees biden said things will be different america is back diplomacy is back. you are the center of all that i tend to do you are the heart of it we're going to rebuild our alliances we're going to reengage the world and take on the enormous challenges we face the
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new administration's promise to try to restore the u.s. his reputation both at home and around the world rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington. in myanmar one of deposed leader aung san suu cheese close aides has been arrested when 10 is a seen it and they'll figure a former political prisoner who spent decades campaigning against military rule you know only a call for people to carry out acts of civil disobedience following monday's coup but all sense or cheese and policy remains defiant it won a landslide election in november elected representatives were supposed to start work on monday instead many remain under house arrest. reports. prevented from taking their seats in the new parliament democratically elected politicians from the national league for democracy have met anyway a symbolic session surrounded by armed guards at a government guest house i hear that. since representatives from the end of the
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party are all elected civilian representatives weak and called the parliament anywhere parliamentarians are present so we called for a session and signed our oath and we're going to stand as parliament representatives people voted for us to be in office for 5 years and the result cannot be erased no matter what. around 70 gathered on thursday and signed their oaths of office hundreds of lawmakers were detained for a period after monday's military coup. this violates the human rights of the whole population this is not a coup this is treason against the government i have to say that this is state treason. symbolic acts of defiance by politicians and the public against a military known to put down by like protests that history in mind people are sticking to red ribbons and 3 finger salutes originally from the hunger games film franchise it was popularized by pro-democracy protests in neighboring thailand all
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calling to end the dictatorship. then at 8 pm the sound. her drowning gone for a 3rd night in a row and local culture it said that banging pots and pans can drive evil from a home. in a lot of people who we are. most people across the country out banging pots to drive out the military coup leaders who are no for the seize power will keep driving out these evils until power is a return to our government. and al-jazeera. outside of the homeland more people from live in thailand than anywhere else in the world now as it was called highly has been speaking to some experts in the city of chiang mai who are worried about their families back home. praying for peace and serenity in the thai city long known as a hub for me and mars diaspora through decades of conflict and military coups
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migrants dissidents and ethnic fighters have found their way to chiang mai. so when myanmar's elected leadership was ousted in monday's coup it cut deep into the community here. funk wang was there in 1962 when the military 1st took power away from his civilian government he later became a soldier in a kitchen ethnic army for 10 years he fought the military for autonomy with his experience he thinks violence is not the solution now and political pressure should come from people like him. i am worried about my country men back in myanmar not just my relatives the military may be in power for many years to come. i do not support violent protests in the cities then these people abroad should play a big role they don't have to live in fear from the bemused military. chiangmai has unique history and culture different from the rest of thailand and that's possibly why so many ethnic groups that have crossed the western border have decided to
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settle here but it's difficult for them to stay connected to their communities in myanmar and. so on long among gone runs a migrant radio network it was formed 25 years ago in chiang mai to keep the many migrants from myanmar informed the network has been reporting on the coup since the 1st hours of the takeover a lot of the listeners were shocked and worried. i have to keep my listeners updated on the situation they need information to make decisions people are awarded the are concerned about the future. a show of solidarity in front of the chiang mai myanmar consulate a night time gathering of anti kook protesters thais and migrants making themselves heard this in support of those who put themselves in danger by going out on the streets of myanmar to denounce the coup and scott joins us now live from chiang mai in neighboring thailand scott's the more arrests and detentions bring us up to
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speed with the latest. yes there are and as you alluded to earlier age when there are you know some of the top lieutenants top leadership of the national league for democracy that's on songs to cheese party they have been arrested we know the top advisor for her for decades was just arrested early early on friday morning so they're casting they the military and the police casting their net wider bringing in more people we know that at least 140 or so have been detained and it clearly seems as though that's going to continue and has been throughout the day as far as the protests the civil disobedience movement that is definitely increasing as well so you have more detentions but you're also seeing more people getting out on the streets around the world as we're seeing here in thailand but also in myanmar risking safety in freedom and going out to the streets it's interesting because initially one of the biggest civil disobedience movement started from a union of health care workers 70 hospitals across me in where they came out
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a couple of days ago now we're hearing teachers have joined the teachers unions have joined and students have joined that so throughout the day here on friday we're seeing more people coming out and again you know we need to remember the history of of the crackdowns that the military has has carried out over the years 88 generation is a pro-democracy group that was born out of a bloody bloody crackdown in 1988 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations they are an organizing body now too and they have come out with this statement very encouraging statement to all the groups who are out there protesting civil disobedience encouraging them to continue but something that's interesting they've taken the step to say we need to organize they're saying that this these protest movements the civil disobedience programs need to be working together so it's interesting that they're taking that step to try to organize this budding civil disobedience we've seen that ranges from banging on pots and pans to people standing in protesting and flying the 3 finger salute and banners in front of
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facilities around me m.r. . hyla the live in chiang mai in thailand many thanks dude comes. hong kong has issued sweeping go of lions to schools children as young as 6 weeks was about the controversial national security law imposed by mainland china students will also learn about tough penalties for antigovernment offenses will be tools or how to sing china's national anthem and it will soon learn about the police and people's liberation army books that claim to endanger national security are to be removed from libraries let's go live to hong kong and zeros divvy of the pollen is there for us david what does all of this mean for hong kong's previously open education system. absolutely that is the question now just to set the scene here i'm about the hong kong university campus this is one of the main campuses or particularly
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institutions which had pushed the ideals of democracy many of the students here were approached him ocracy activists at one point the umbrella movement of 24000 started here and they and suing pro-democracy and protest movements also was very much supported by students from here there not questions about what happens now to institutions such as these these open learning centers where which ones where discourse was encouraged and people were allowed to discuss any topic of gardiner's of how sensitive they were to china are to the hong kong government particularly now then that children as young from primary school onwards will be subject to this national security education so what does that mean for students here well from the age of 6 years will be forced to warn students about sedition secession collusion with foreign powers students and teachers will be encouraged to report anything that they deem us encouraging national security books will be removed reading
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material 6 material a notice board seen as an danger in national security and once again that's a very very way vague. big and very which has a very wide remit so it's not exactly clear exactly what could endanger that national security but also if you are sinatra on the teachers union here the spokesperson had said they had expected some kind of reform in hong kong but not this drastic reform of the education system this basically allows the government to micromanage what happens in the classroom policing what happens during this questions in the classroom during children studies and big breaks that in line with the communist control classrooms of mainland china. i was there is to be a good public reporting live from hong kong to get many thanks to the weather next here on a 0 then conspiracy theorist marjorie taylor green is given
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a rebuke by her colleagues in the u.s. congress thomas. i'm nicholas hawk on the edge of senegal city selim delta find out next why this mangrove rich and wildlife is at risk from climate change. however we got some mall there across parts of southern year but a very different story further north and in between we go to areas of cloud rain sleet and snow this weather system here this double front passes dividing line between the wars that we have across southern most parts and that cold air that we have across the northern areas and it's the northern areas the cold air is going to win over the next couple of days for the south of that temperatures hovering around the 20 degree mark were around 6 or 7 celsius above the seasonal normal there is that colder air coming in across northern most parts and becoming more expansive as
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we go through the course of the weekend by the end of the way can temperatures struggling to get to just 2 celsius there in london and early next week a similar picture loss of cold air minus 12 the top 10 for moscow a 10 degree drop in temperatures coming in here and cold air well that's making its way across the north say significant snowfall across central parts of scotland at present digging its way down into western parts into france where we have seen flooding rains wet weather there for spain and portugal over the next couple of days more that cloud right as we go on through saturday than a line a snow wore the way across to ward see blacks say north of that there's that cold weather in place further south warm sunshine athens 21 degrees. but. what should americans be thinking and doing right now it should be a bad idea they don't care about their work is all they care about is making money fine it is not going to be left out of the colleagues who are going to go to
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defense. try the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies and their effect on the world while jazeera play an important role in checking it would. ringback face. a larger this is 0 let's remind you of the main news this hour u.s. president joe biden says that he's ending american support for the saudi led war in yemen including a ban on the sale of specific weapons saudi arabia has responded by saying that it supports a political solution. that the protests across myanmar of neighboring countries
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this demonstrates his continued to push back against a military coup early i want to pose the to aung san suu kyi is close aides was arrested at home conversation would sweeping new rules for schools on how to teach children as young as 6 to obey the national security law opposed by mainland china the cute little b.-o. education about tough penalties for anti government offenses. indonesia has started to roll out a new breathalyzer test in order to detect traces of covert 19 among travelers at train stations but scientists are concerned the test may not be reliable jessica washington reports from jakarta. i'm here plus our son in the station one of chicago's main train stations it's day one of the rollout of the general's breathalyzer test the scientists behind this codeine team test say that it works just like the simple graph allies are this this passenger here will demonstrate how
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it work. basically he just has to breathe into this bag and the breathalyzer should be able to detect traces of codeine change in his breath the scientists say that all of this process should just take a matter of minutes the device that they used to assess the breath of this passenger takes only 2 minutes to detect traces of the virus there are concerns about the accuracy of this device but the sun just has developed to say that it is not intended to replace p.c.r. testing but can be useful in screening passengers if this device will be rolled out at stations and other public sides in coming weeks and it's intended to stop passengers who may have traces of corona virus from boarding public transport this is where passengers can come to collect the data from the sample to see whether they're there how traces of coded 19 detected in their breath but there are
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concerns among scientists that this method of testing is inaccurate and not suitable for indonesia at this stage in the pandemic some health experts have been very critical of the government and say at this stage in the pandemic indonesia should have increased its p.c.r. testing well beyond what it is now currently indonesia tests around $50000.00 people each day that is an increase from previous months but health experts say and the health minister himself has admitted that one of the problems with p.c.r. testing in indonesia is that the same people are getting tested not for me a logical reasons but because they have meetings or want to take holidays health experts say that p.c.r. testing must be scaled up the government must invest in increasing lab capacity they also say that public health messaging is lacking you can see the station behind me is quite busy and they say the government has really failed to communicate to people that they shouldn't be taking non-essential journeys and
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shouldn't be going on holidays and if. they should be working from home. the u.s. house of representatives has punished a repub punished a republican member from georgia who supported conspiracy theories and for most of violence against politicians taylor green has been removed from 2 committees. have the town see reports down the measures taken by a divided house. at the debate on whether to remove her from a committee positions at the house of representatives taylor green argued that all she was guilty of was querying established narratives i was allowed to believe things that weren't true and i would ask questions and questions about them and talk about them and that is absolutely what i regret because if it weren't for the face book post and comments that i liked in 2018 i wouldn't be standing here today among the viewpoints that she's expressed support for all of the q and on conspiracy theory and the belief that school shootings i learned 11 were hoaxes
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these were words of the path but she's also approved of exhortations to kill house speaker nancy pelosi as well as racist and anti-semitic tropes i did not hear a disavowal meant or an apology for those things. i did not hear an apology or denouncement for the. the claim the insinuation that political opponents. should be. violently dealt with the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the democrats are setting a precedent which privately some fear may be used against them if the republicans regain the house effectively demoting someone in the other party for comments made before he or she joined congress but in the case of marjorie taylor green they say they had no choice i remain concerned about house republicans leadership except of
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extreme conspiracy theorists but green received a standing ovation from republican colleagues at a meeting on wednesday night underscoring republican leader kevin mccarthy insistence that his party wants what he calls a big tent that includes the courtroom base the number one thing that happened in conference was unity donald trump remains the most popular figure in the republican party able to draw out grassroots turnout and draw in grassroots campaign contributions but ever since the storming of the capital more and more mainstream republican voters are growing easy with the viewpoints of that core base plus the republican leadership is well aware that donald trump's most vocal supporters are loyal to him and not of them shihab rattansi al-jazeera capitol hill. michael isikoff is the chief investigative correspondent at gal who news and thinks that action against green is a significant moment in american politics. there really isn't much precedent for
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what the house did today but on the other hand there's not much precedent for a congresswoman like marjorie taylor green who has espoused the most bizarre conspiracy theories and more significantly. made comments that seem to threaten the lives of heart fellow members in the house and i think that's really what pushed the democrats to do this at the very end stanny hoyer who is the house majority leader that's the number 2 democrat in the house held up a poster of marjorie that something that marjorie taylor green had posted on social media carrying an assault rifle aimed at 3 democratic members of the house alexandria cacio cortez to tell ye. omar the squad saying that she would be their worst nightmare and the image of that assault rifle
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aimed at democratic members of the house of representatives i think was so powerful and is what moved not just all democrats but 11 republicans to vote to strip her of her committee assignments just over a week ago 19 people were found dead in northern mexico they've been shot and that body has been and it's not believe that at least 12 of the own police officers were involved in the killings john holeman reports. this tallies of the weight of the small house elf ago it was building for his wife 3 children it was a safe way but as thousands but on me that's why we went to the u.s. to try for a better life for them because when you work the land here you can make it pay but they you get paid. you won't see it finished now. on the way to the u.s. ofa go was shot one of the guatemalans that makes completes killed and then burned
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in tom. if talley still doesn't understand what you are missing a persona i ask myself how it's possible that the authorities take justice into their own hands it's the impunity it's beyond measure. if you want to take over go was a farm worker pianist in a christian music group you have another child on the way. this municipality comic con c.e.o. is submerged in shock and sadness they think they've lost 13 heechul in the attack in another house. can't forgive herself for letting her son rebel singo she hasn't heard from him and believes he's dead to. publicly thank you for him why did he go why didn't he listen to me he just don't know you see everyone else getting to the other side and now i regret it it's as if i sent him i should have said to him no and that's it. but rebel some wanted to get his family a kitchen and he couldn't do it with the $3.00 a day he had on
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a nearby coffee plantation was 15 difficult to imagine the probable terror of these final moments or his mother's distress now that opened the lid on her thought of when i found out that my son was dead i died a sudden stew he was the only son i had to a school not who helped me whatever he owned he would give it to be who's going to help me now. this is happened before and that 72 migrants were killed a decade ago in the same state they were easy prey for gangs who killed kidnap and extort them. but this time around it was the police those meant protect the schools dangar on both sides of the border. a misery here but the people of commit town see your rely on migration there's so little for them where they lived. the likelihood is that in the future more of them will be running the same race as
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rebels and though for go. home and how does it have. with more than 35 percent of the world's mangroves already destroyed a study by the journal of american science found that if a missions continue unabated forests could disappear in 30 years nicholas hock reports from senegal was seen solemn delta where one such ecosystem is on the threat. with the rising ocean comes a tide of human waste suffocating senegal's coastline tangled plastic bottles the remains of an old t.v. set a shoe and diapers mangled in fishing nets everyday items brought by the atlantic choking the sea selling mangrove susser who are cleaning up who will to get out of the mangrove in the burning in when there is just so much to do. joining this cleanup effort is the minister of petroleum and energy in what some may see as a public relations stunt senegal has just started the construction of a commercial port and steps are underway to start offshore extraction of oil and
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gas already a quarter of the mangrove has been destroyed from the existing pollution part of it was turned into the capital's dump site and the block when the periodic leach monthly in young people come to take the waste and the plastic to the factories nearby that today in senegal process it to produce power. seeped in brackish water the trees store salt in their leaves trapped carbon emissions like no other plants filtering out pollutants bearing them instead emits this rain forest by the ocean acts as a natural embankment deep in this maze live the endangered atlantic humpback dolphin and the western reef heron the stagnant murky water is filled with malaria transmitting mosquitoes and snakes to make it dangerous for human habitation. up until now plants and rare species of animals thrived in this environment because it is so inhospitable to humans but climate change is changing all of that rising
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temperatures and the rising ocean is altering this precious ecosystem slowly killing the animals and the mangrove itself. this is what is to come environmentalist if we don't do enough to stop the pollution and clean up our oceans. nicholas hawk al-jazeera the delta senegal. hello this is adrian sitting in with you here in doha the headlines this hour u.s. president joe biden says that he's ending american support for the saudi led war any yemen including a ban on the sale of specific weapons saudi arabia has responded by saying that it supports a political solution while the hooty say that they won't be deceived by statements and real peaceful only come when the aggression ends.

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