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forced on al-jazeera. with its. armored vehicles returned to the streets of may and ma western governments urge the military to refrain from violence against civilians. oh i marry a mozzie in london you're watching al-jazeera olds are coming up on the program authorities in guinea are on high alert after an outbreak of ebola in the southeast and 3 people have died. a day since donald trump
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a question though in the senate questions now turn to his future and that of the republican party. and carlos menem the formal argentinean president who embraced free market reforms and closer ties with the united states has died at the age of 90. welcome to the program our top story fears are growing in me and more after a convoy of military tanks was seen in the commercial capital young gone the u.s. is warning its citizens that to stay at home sought to be the 1st time on the vehicles of patrol the city since a military coup 2 weeks ago they have been large demonstrations taking place across the country u.s. embassy staff also warned that the internet and phone lines could be cut during the night as the army tries to prevent more gatherings from taking place while
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a statement from western embassies security forces to refrain from violence or behavior of the. further north in catchin state security forces there are fired shots to disperse the crowds hundreds of protesters were outside a power plant in the city of may it kina it's not clear from video streamed on social media whether the offices used rubber bullets or live ammunition or the country's generals are giving themselves new powers to monitor such and detain protesters many people though continue to defy the orders with crowd spending a 9th day demonstrating against the military coup farts brings us this report now i causes of people gather in different parts of yemen god but all with the same demands they wanted leader aung san suu kyi and others detained since the coup to be released and for the military to hand back control. was me. out there
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i. was working out some of the was that. i was i was like oh my god in mandalay students on it a young protester shot by police during a protest in a dorm last week she remains in critical condition this is the 9th consecutive day of mass demonstrations across the country. some protesters held signs that read stop kidnapping people at night a reference to nighttime raids by police when activists and protesters are arrested in some neighborhoods people have banded together to form watch groups to warn each other when security forces are coming but also to look out for criminals in this neighborhood of yangon residents say they court 4 men they suspect of planning to carry out an attack. they believe the men are recently released prisoners freed
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under an amnesty announced by the military on friday. we think the military intends to cause violence with these excrement by getting them to infiltrate the peaceful protests in the military will have a reason to extend their power to crackdown on violence. his claim cannot be independently verified a group that advocates for political prisoners in myanmar has expressed concerns that the pardon for more than $23000.00 prisoners is too clear space for the detention of detainees during the current to protest the military is also bringing back repressive laws used by the previous military giunta including a requirement for people to report overnight guests in their homes to authorities around 360 people detained since the coup are still being held but neither the risk of arrest no fear of a crackdown are enough to deter these protesters from taking to the streets
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florence li al jazeera. or the health organization is planning a rapid response to an outbreak in guinea the 1st resurgence of the disease there in 5 years 8 people have tested positive for the virus in the country's southeast 3 people have died in neighboring liberia health authorities they're on high heightened alert with the government ordering increased surveillance and preventative activities at least 11000 people died during a bubble epidemic in west africa between 20132016 because haq has this update now from the car and. there is an outbreak of ebola in guinea following test made on one individual these tests were made in blood test. machines that we usually use for the current outbreak were used to confirm that person had died from. that all started that person is a nurse that fell ill in january and she was taken to hospital and zurich or
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a she was suffering from vomiting bleeding diarrhea and a week later she was buried nearby in a town nearby and it is jury that funeral that 8 other were infected with the virus now the minister of health says that it has dispatched at least 30 health workers to investigate and to try to find contact cases to trace and try to contain this outbreak meanwhile neighboring liberia has put its health authorities on a higher alert because that funeral happened just very close to the border of liberia and worth remembering during the 201320158 bold outbreak in the region well it all started in that very region and and these funerals that were super spread were 60 percent of all infections came from funerals and that's because of the practices that happened during those burials of people washing their hands in
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common basins and then touch the body of the deceased and then there is the washing of the body itself which favors the transmission of the virus. yet boom as the regional representative at the sent to africa research project doctors without borders he says it's not clear how the outbreak started. it's important to highlight dr the same cause we produce the same effect we know ordered indoors forest in 0 korea are on their behalf there was a new model most likely the past work during those viruses so we never will have contact between the human and the animal due for these very are broken don't know yet how it happened whenever it would be contact there would be a transfer between the anymore and a human being so that might explain why we have that resistance of the our what is happening in india see we are trying to figure our if there is a link between the latest outbreak in with them all because the lady the 1st one
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who how who was the accused was the wife of a survival also nor doctor but rather is can stay for a long period of time in the simmons so is it the reason why it's happening we don't know yet but we have something that we'll be able to figure out. on a day after the united states senate acquitted donald trump in his 2nd impeachment trial the debate has turned to the future for the former president and of the party represents a senate voted 578 to 43 to convict trump of inciting to storming of the capitol on january 6th failed to get the 2 thirds majority it needed to for a conviction republicans including their senate leader mitch mcconnell condemned but most did not vote against him citing constitutional reasons i did hear castro is following events for us and washington and of course it's the
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sunday shows taking place today and senators from both parties have been speaking out. that's right many of the questions centered around mitch mcconnell the republican leader in the senate who voted to acquit trump yesterday and then followed that up with a fiery speech saying that he thought trump was responsible both morally impractically for provoking the violence of january 6th you may wonder how can you explain that while his easy answer is that he thought the process was unconstitutional but really it's an indicator of the greater war that is raging likely within mcconnell's own mind as well as the greater. republican party and we saw that of course i hatched out even further on the sunday political talk shows with julie interviews from republican senators we had bill cassidy a republican who voted to convict among those 7 who did so speaking to a.b.c.
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saying that he thought that trump's influence on the republican party is waning that this is a party not just about one individual but a party of ideas but then you have senator lindsey graham who was among the 43 the mass the vast majority of senate republicans who voted to acquit and he said that trump is here to stay spoke to him last night he was grateful to those lawyers he appreciated the help that all of us provided you know he's ready to move on and rebuild the republican party he's excited about 2022 this maggot movement needs to continue we need to unite the party trunkless is the way back in 2022 he's mad at some folks but i understand that my goal is to win 2022 to stop the most radical agenda seen coming out of the democratic presidency of joe biden we can't do that without donald trump so he's ready to hit the trail
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a number of need to work with him. and this is a moment of soul searching for the republican party the question being those 7 votes from republicans to convict trump were those the 1st steps for this party to move past the former president or were they the last gasps of what the republican party was before trump thanks very much from washington. you have al jazeera live from london still ahead. coming up rising on high level palgrave foreign minister tells us what he thinks is behind countries and it's a crisis. and we'll explain how an economic catastrophe and the pandemic is in mom ways industry in the mind.
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of. how we've got signs of an end to europe's long cold winter tumbling in from the atlantic is because through the next couple of days the pale face it will turn increasingly wet and windy we've got plenty of cold at the moment course central pass nasty little slowing down towards that eastern side of the mediterranean just running across greece and into turkey a fair bit of snow on this one here's that moller a started to push in as we go through the course of sunday and on into monday the yellows continue to strive their way further east was just one increase to code it has to be said of course at least the sort if you have moscow minus 15 min to 16 as we go on through cheese day and into way to stay that cold air still in place but many western and central parts should be a good deal mild by the time we come to the middle of next week ahead of that there's that snow moving across the achaean easing across
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a good part of turkey we've seen some heavy snowfall in the east and bowl recently plenty of snow it's west and central parts of turkey as we go through the next couple of days and that will continue just push his way further east was so very wet weather windy weather the weather really across that eastern side of the medicine go through tuesday but milder wetter and windy towards the west. a song. a father. a mutual love of the arts. the stage is set to immortalize fading memories. in a magical race against time. witness our time machine. on a. welcome
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back a look at the headlines now there are growing fears in myanmar after a convoy of military tanks was seen on the streets of long gone local people have told the reuters news agency the internet has been shut down lost much of the country while in catchin state security forces fired shots to disperse protesters the world health organization is planning a rapid response to an ebola outbreak in guinea the 1st resurgence of the disease there in 5 years 8 people have tested positive for the virus while 3 people have died. and a day after the united states senate acquitted donald trump in his 2nd impeachment trial the debate has turned to the future of the former president and the party
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represents republicans including senate leader mitch mcconnell condemned tromp but most did not vote against him citing constitutional reasons. now dozens of people have been killed in fighting in northern yemen who feel rebels have increased attacks against forces from the internationally recognized government who fees are trying to seize the city of mara but the government the government's last stronghold in the north yemen's been locked in a power struggle ever since the movies captured the capital sanaa in 2014 at least 9 people have died in the democratic republic of congo 2nd largest city off to rebels attacked security forces there's been heavy gunfire in the city of lubumbashi military says separatist fighters stole weapons off the storming both a military base and a presidential guard unit they say the city is now back under their control i'm a new york county has more now from can chaucer. situation still very tense in some
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areas you know. a big city a very big town reported from soldiers saying these militia and then most of them are right now trying to hide and watch the population so soldiers are trying to follow them they report is also saying that some soldiers of the well were killed in one of the presidential bodyguard because 2 business where and one of them we have to mention that it's a worse. position. than i am of dissolution will still pick we're told of the 4 heavy guns which is protected in this military business. so we have some soldiers have been killed also according to sources from military but oarfish ali we have 4 militia those who were killed during the opposition and of course soldiers are still following them in different cities the big challenge
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to the military is also the militia the civilian to is the i'm not in the military so it's very difficult to detect them when they are hiding themselves some of them have in the city so decided current situation going on in the town of. now only exit polls and the cost of elections suggest there will be a major political change in the country with a victory for the anti establishment that then does see a party polls close just over an hour ago and the indications are that the left wing party led by former prime minister alvin cutty should win just under 42 percent of the vote because he's promising to fight corruption but also take a hard line in relations with neighboring serbia which doesn't recognize kosovo's independence. well now to spain exit polls there are showing the 3 main separatist parties a jointly winning a majority of seats in an election in the catalonia region election that could reshape the political landscape of the region is pointing currently polls of
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pointing to the separatist party e.r.c. coming in 1st on the far right party rocks will likely gain representatives in the catalan parliament for the 1st time elsewhere in barcelona families activists have been protesting against the far right vox party projected to win seats for the 1st time the former president of argentina carlos menem has died at the age of 90 he won 2 elections and that the country from 199-1909 looks now at the life of a flamboyant and often controversial figure moving. the polls many wars to many argentines a man from another time another place he was born in the remote mountainous northwestern province of larry aka to syrian immigrant parents. many became governor of his home province in 1973 representing the peronist party
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founded by the former president one better on he took to the stall with his geltrude dress and white sideburns of 19th century rule heroes and brutal one osiris flamboyance and penn makes him a show business sporting celebrities and driving fast cars. he came to power in 1909 as argentina was suffering hyperinflation see. with his influential economics minister. he implemented the plan credited with ending the economic crisis along with large scale privatization of state industry is his 2nd term in office however still rising unemployment and increasing social discontent. a prisoner during military rule to help steer argentina from brutal repression although some criticized him for making too many concessions to those same represses you'll see in iraq he failed to change the argentine constitution limiting him to 2 consecutive terms in office that ran for the presidency again in 2003 standing down before the 2nd round of voting when it became clear he'd lose to
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the eventual president mr kitchener men was no stranger to controversy convicted of smuggling weapons to crew a show in ecuador and investigated the various corruption charges that we remember with mixed emotions biology and science who lived through the 99 to is one thing that all agree on however life with carlos menem as president was never dull. united kingdom is ready to extend its coverage $1000.00 vaccine rolled out after reaching $15000000.00 vaccinations that's more than 20 percent of its population and now targeting everybody over the age of 50 by the end of april but there are concerns from london's heathrow airport at the moment of the new carnitine skiing which comes into force on monday travelers arriving from 33 high risk nations will have to isolate an airport hotel for 10 days but he throw facials are saying there's been no guidance about passengers and staff mingling together when they get
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off the planes. lebanon's coven 1000 vaccination drive a started after it received its 1st shipment of the pfizer vaccine on saturday caretaker prime minister has visited the hospital where the 1st jobs were administered about 28000 doses arrive from firing the initial batch more than $2700000.00 in total have been ordered helped by the global kovacs scheme for the world's less wealthy nations now sudan's border conflict with ethiopia has had a major impact on farmers and gondor if state conflict has reduced the number of workers coming from ethiopia so farmers have been forced to hire workers from south sudan instead of a morgan reports from the sudan ethiopia border which i had mohamed says this is the 1st harvest his supervisor with workers from south sudan in the past his work force has come from nearby ethiopia but this year that is not possible with a little earlier that the truth of the fighting on the border between us and them
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is affecting the workers and their economic crisis is also turning workers the way they used to work in good money but now our pound is constantly losing value his father who owns more than 4000 hectares of farmland here in sudan's eastern got out of state says the harvest has been slow this year mark a very bitter medicine again we're south sudanese workers cover up to 70 percent of the shortage of ethiopian workers this year so normally we'd have covered more in terms of harvest but this year is different we're slightly back in harvesting schedule much of a lot of is covered with for thailand but sudan's eastern border has been witnessing the consequences of ethiopia's domestic issues. fighting in ethiopia is not an integral region has resulted in people some who once came in as farm workers now coming into sudan as refugees and since december so dan's military has moved to take over for a towel 3000 square kilometer region in the state known as and for pushing back if
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european farmers the government uses a mind to colonial agreement to claim the area but ethnic on her farmers from ethiopia say the area is part of their region and they have been farming it for nearly 5 decades without any objection from sudan's previous government the coronavirus pandemic has also reduced the number of if you p.m.'s coming in so that is authorities say hundreds of thousands of if europeans looking for work used to come annually through the 2 border crossings in a lot of states their search for work sometimes they get them all the way to the capital how to this is now the only official crossing that is functioning and it's strictly only open to allowing if the open workers to work in farms hearing about of state or only $100000.00 are allowed this year a great reduction from previous years many workers who cross the border don't venture past this area but look aleksy it's a stretch of land where no paperwork is needed for ethiopians to enter my home i work here and return to ethiopia every evening whenever border tensions between our
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country and saddam for us we get affected we're neighbors we consider ourselves brothers so we have issues between ethiopia and sit down as settled so we can live and work in peace. hundreds of kilometers away in the farms which are his father's state the hope things work out for the better so their farms and many others like it's in the state and continue to produce crops he will morgan al-jazeera and on the sudan ethiopia border now haiti's foreign minister has alleged that politicians and oligarchs a using illegal means to try to claim power in the country al-jazeera spoke with crowds joseph after weeks of protests demanding the resignation of president john elway's to raise a book reports. clashes between protesters and the police have been ongoing in haiti for the past weeks. your position in the country says presidency of an illinois mandate ended on february 7th while the government says it has one more
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year left. the discussion is over when he's time began and maurice took office in 2017 because of the political instability in the country but protesters say the constitution says something else a deceiver spoke to foreign minister. over the political crisis in the caribbean nation the large sectors in the country that say that what's happening now is illegal and the president said that there was an attempt on his life that are cool it was being set up in haiti 3 judges from the supreme court were removed one of them was detained so is haiti's democracy at risk here is not a democracy at risk what the government is trying to do and we are doing our utmost to keep it is to preserve the marcos in haiti. we have seen over and over how of us some politicians in some
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oligarchs are 'd trying to lose all illegal means to actually claim power in haiti so this is exactly what is going on now but foreign minister you're talking about oligarchs and about how they handle power in haiti but when you look at the streets of haiti the people of that are on the streets demanding change demanding action criticizing the president are actually demanding that their lives improve i mean they're not oligarchy so i mean what do you say to them no they are not oligarch and all democracy it's not only here in the united states of great democracy how you can call it you have people of. testing and some of them are not i should say use of violent means but the entrusting thing here is that the government is paying
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attention to what the people asking they are asking for they lived to be improved those are legitimate concerns and we agree and the government is a walking on the president says he will call for a referendum that would lead to the reform of haiti's constitution and says legislative and presidential elections will happen this year the international community including the oh yes and the us seem to support the president's move on the streets discontent is on the rise and people say they will make sure they won't be annoyed. to see. now if you've ever seen flowers on valentine's valentine's day there's a good chance they would once have come from zimbabwe 20 years ago the country was the 2nd biggest exporter of flowers on the african continent but years of economic decline has hit the industry hard and now it's having to deal with a collapse in demand because of the curve in 1000 pandemic chasseur reports.
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overseas demand for fresh cut flowers plummeted last year because of cope at 19 and that affected zimbabwe's biggest rose export company. managers say orders dropped to about 50 percent but this year they say demand is picking up. zimbabwe has high levels of unemployment and orders mean more jobs on an average day on a summer's day rather riccarton area between 100230000 stems a day we have 700 labor force. working from 62113235700 people on cutting so yeah it's a nonstop operation more than 20 years ago flower exports brought in a lot of foreign currency for the country but under then president robert mugabe's land reform program the government seized thousands of white owned commercial farms since then the industry hasn't been what it used to be back in 2001 the bali was
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the biggest exporter of flowers to the european union then came years of economic decline and now called 19 many girls left but others are still here carrying on. kenya and ethiopia africa's top exporters explain how they have managed to stay in business we were dealing with auction system ok we're looking in and if you're in markets or didn't primarily with auction system we deal directly with customers ok and our our main customer base is the supermarkets and supermarkets in europe was the open because it was part of the essential and that allowed us that. they're there for its ability of supplying those markets. of it has batted businesses and economies globally is no different on this farm workers here receive food parcels every month in addition to the salaries to help them push on and they know the job
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security depends on being able to export roses to more global markets. al-jazeera concision zimbabwe. the united arab emirates has released the 1st image of lawns taken from its hope probe which arrived in the red planet's orbit on choose day it's a busy time around mas hope was the 1st of 3 missions to arrive in quick succession china's town when one rover arrived the next day and then the u.s. nasa rover perseverance will touchdown on thursday. quick look at the main stories this hour now are growing fears in me and after a convoy of military tanks was seen on the streets of young gone so it be the 1st time an armored vehicle has been seen in the city since a military coup 2 weeks ago locals have told roy the reuters news agency that the internet has gone down across much of the country in catchin state security for.

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