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hey, good polymers, ah, earth rise, re imagining plastic on al jazeera ah has protest spread against the qu, in sudan international pressure is mounting on its military leaders. ah, hello there, i'm is darcy at hand. this is out is here at live from doha. also coming up tension and pakistan as a band group threatened to march to the capitol after police officers are killed in a day of violence. farmers entree lanka, whole protest against a government ban on chemical fertilizers has the cultivation season gets underway.
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plus, i'm charlotte bellis and the maternity ward of dusty but she state hospital in cobble were dr. so the suspension of foreign aid is putting these woman's lives in jupiter . ah now sedans military has been increasing its crackdown on the opposition 3 days now after it seized power, and a qu general abdel fat albert han has now dismissed at least 6 ambassadors from their posts. they were part of a group of diplomats abroad who announced their rejection of the military takeover . and now more protesters had been arrested during street demonstrations bats after state oil company workers and doctors that joined a growing strike there. the african union, meanwhile, has suspended cartoon until civilian rule is restored, and the while bank has put a deliveries on hold. and voice from several countries have visited depaul,
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prime minister, abdullah honda at his residence where he is being kept under heavy security. you are secretary of state antony lincoln is also spoken to honda and is calling for all civilian leaders to be released. heber morgan has the latest now from the sudanese capital these road blocks on the streets and neighborhoods around to dance capital 2 are now a common sight once used to keep out security forces during anti government protests against then president obama will be here in 2019 they've become a symbol of rejection of monday's military coup. and on the 3rd day of the military takeover in the city weather revolution that overthrew this year thought that people were back on the street the out in hard to protest. those have called for a general strike and civil disobedience, state oil workers, doctors, businesses and other sectors have responded to that call. i'm going to move banks, government institutions and private companies are all closed. this is
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a full civil strike and people are preparing for the main event on october 30th. and i know these people were elected because we saw that they had to know how, but the military didn't give them the space to do their jobs right now. because the military has power, they have halted the past and taken us back to square one. but that doesn't work for us. this is why it's better than we're hungry versus his decisions. the who has already had an economic and political impact onto them. the u. s. has an hour it will hold back at $700000000.00 assistance package that was meant for the transitional government that has been deposed. the african union suspended to dance membership on wednesday. and the world bank, which provided financial assistance, has withheld back to the tenant general i've been put, the hon said he took power and dissolved the cabinet to avoid sliding into civil war. his promise, a cabinet of professionals. but some analysts say forming a government accepted by all will not be easy if they manage to come up with
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acceptable government government that is formed with real exhibit, one independent from political affiliations. who can be trusted to take the country into election in 2020 city or 24. as it was the stipulated before. i think that would be the key. these demonstrators, fayetteville continued to build their momentum for more protests calling for an end to the military rule. several people have been killed since the crew on monday, and many more injured, but protest as they, they'll go on until their aims are achieved. he bow, morgan al jazeera harpoon home in the united nations has reiterated cause for all detained government officials to be released. the situation ensued on was discussed at the security council for a 2nd day in a row. kristin, 3 me, asthma. several council members took the opportunity to day to i condemn what's happened, the u. s. called the military takeover,
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completely unacceptable. kenya, african member of the council before the meeting, i called on the security council to follow the lead of the african union, which is suspended. sudan temporarily. i and speak with one voice, but so far the counsel has been unable to speak with one voice. negotiations on a statement are ongoing that we did also here today from sue dan's representative at the united nations. and he did not speak directly about the takeover, but he did call on the international community to help a little baba, new food bankrupt, some delegations have expressed their concerns as to what is currently happening in sudan. and while understanding their concerns, we would reiterate the need for the international community and the security council. more specifically, to continue providing that support to the people of sudan at this very important moment, which is a crossroads in order to bring together the positions of the different sudanese parties, civilian or military so that the country can continue with its transition office,
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which is in keeping with the sacrifice of the women and the sudanese young people and what has been achieved in the last 2 years in order to preserve the stability as expressed by the sudanese people and in keeping with the juba agreement for peace and the constitutional document. at this time, it's very important to bring the different points of view of the parties and sudan together and ask for that security council statements. we are told by diplomatic sources that 3 draft statements have been put forward by the united kingdom. the 1st 2 were objected to by russia over language condemning the militaries takeover were told that that language has been softened to express serious concern. we may on thursday at last have the council way in on this issue. now moving on and pakistan's government is threatening to crack down on a band groove after 4 police officers were killed at a rally near the hall to protesters were also reportedly killed. dozens more
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injured when gunfire broke out there on wednesday, members of the 2 week, la bake party have been blocking a busy highway since last week. they are demanding the release of their leader and the expulsion of the french ambassador for the 2017 charlie abdur cartoon. controversy come, i'll hide a joins us now from the capital as i'm about to come out. these protestors had vowed to march to the capital and i see there still some ways off. so could we potentially see these clashes continue for some time yet? absolutely. in fact, those classes have been den, confide for policemen located in the last 24 hours. we saw images on the social media of some of dave protest. i read a saw dr. first day of cause i still demand marching toward the flood my bod. the police have gotten bedding the brunt of days where doors. hundreds of policemen have been injured. some of them had to be in critical condition at the government
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of gosh, decided to clam down hard on the outfit yesterday when debugging on the prime minister called a cabinet meeting, he of god said that these people will be dealt with, deny are in hand, that nobody has a right to come and dictate foreign policy or take madge into their own hands. now, that protested on the other hand, continued to say that there is a peaceful protest. they are continuing to march and added up god, applying to stop them at the river. jail m. tens of thousands of policemen have been requisition from the nearby providence. it's 30000 police men head and islam abad law and have been guard in from the province, said the situation of god very tense. and it will be important to see how the government will be able to day read this waller dire situation and read the really be able to stop the more judge at the river. jayla come out. how did that with the
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latest for us from atlanta, that thank you so much come on. also another set of protests now on farmers and sri lanka, demonstrating men against a lack of fertilizer as the cultivation season gets underway. the shortage follows a government decision to ban all agro chemicals. it's part of a government clamped down on what it calls non essential imports. during a foreign currency crisis, president got to buy a roger boxer announced that move in may saying he wanted to make farming 100 percent organic. michelle fernandez has more now from the town of humbug tutor. the angry slogans being chanted by hundreds of angry farmers, basically demanding what they say is vital to their next planting season. the mar season here in shall anchor. they said that chemical fertilizers, which they're not getting is something that they've been used to for 50 or 60 years . the soil is used to it. the crop lines are used to it and they cannot get
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a proper harvest unless and until they are given these chemical fertilizers and agro chemicals. now, as you can see, there are hundreds of farmers taking part in this protest today. it's, and part of a series of protests, the chill anchor has seen right across the country in all the districts over the last few weeks. the main thing is that the government has imposed an input band on chemical fertilizers, an agro chemicals, and this, the pharmacy is really destroying their potential livelihoods, like boast of the protests, around the country. and here today in hm banter to most of these matchers end up outside the administrative centers of these areas here too. they're calling on the government administrators who are in charge of water distribution in terms of distributing whatever organic organic fertilizer that is available to ensure that they're fairly distributed and things like that. the anger is palpable among the
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people here who i essentially are really feeling the pinch. they say whatever products that are available in the market have. now i started being sold at black market prices. they're really desperate because things that they've been used to for such a long time. they cannot get on with the government has accused these protest of being instigated by politicians. but what the pharmacy is, the anger is real and it is because of the situation they've been reduced to are still ahead here on out. how gangs and hazy are affecting the countries health care system. and report from 12 africa where many haven't been compensated to land that they were forced to be removed from my 3 decades ago. ah
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hi there, good to be with you. we can pick out 2 areas of disturbed weather across europe. the 1st toward the west, and then we've got this weather makers spinning around in central mediterranean. first, let's go to the west, the northwest, and we do have a run of some atlantic rain here through the united kingdom. it's going to be heavy at times. so the potential of seen some flash flooding, it's still tapping into that south facing when so many spots, temperatures above average. the same band of rain is also going to play northern areas of portugal into the northwest of spain. and by friday it's going to envelop more of the peninsula. ok, here we go to the central mediterranean now. and this disturbance pretty much stalled out. we've got some heavy falls over malta, and still red weather alerts in play for southern sections of italy to see more flash flooding. further toward the states that settled toward this part of the mediterranean on tale at 25 degrees, but some showers over a cypress and a la van, but it will stay dry in bay root with
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a high of 26 degrees on thursday. when this weather report right now in africa, we've got some heavy bouts of what weather across, western africa and some thunder downpours can be expected. legos, abby, john rate into free town, free towns got a high of 28 on thursday. that's it, sir soon. ah, the question, the narrative, you don't have ways to shake weight or disinformation is real or not. you don't have any way to verify, identify who is telling the story their motivation. these are multi national corporations that are interested in profit, anticipate the consequences. the media was complicit in perpetuating this myth. i'm going to tell you that i think that many people die because of the listening pace deconstruct the media. on al jazeera lou.
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ah, hello again. i miss darcy attainder. ha. that's remind you about top stories here in the south. as you don's military leader has sacked at least 6 ambassadors as international pressure grows against monday's crew. the african union has suspended call to man. the world bank has put aide on hold. pakistan's government is threatening to crack down on a band group after 4 police officers was killed at a rally. nearly all members of the 2 week in a baker party are demanding the release of their leader. farmers in sri lanka are protesting against a lack of fertilizer after a government ban on all agro chemicals demand as part of a crackdown on so called non essential imports during
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a foreign currency crisis. when our india has successfully testified, one of its intercontinental ballistic missiles, the agony 5 has a range of 5000 kilometers and is also capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. it's believe to be able to strike nearly all of china long running tensions with beijing about a disputed border have escalated after troops were killed and a stand off in april last year. elizabeth braun has worn out from new delhi and the defense ministry says it carried out successfully has launch of the me 5 and the continental ballistic missile off. and d as eastern course on wednesday night from now. the 50 tom miss all was carrying a 1.5 ton warhead and flew at 24 times the speed of sound before the flashing down in the bay of bang gold. now the army 5 has been successfully tested at least 5 times since 2012 by the engineers who designed it. but this is the 1st time that
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it's being tested by the indian army team as part of its induction into the armed forces. it's also the 1st time that such a test has been carried out at night. the army 5 is india, the longest range surface to surface for the stick muscle. it has the range of 5000 kilometers, meaning that it can hit any target in china. this is also the 1st soft shot test launch since the military standoff between india and china began in april last year . the tensions resulted in the 1st deaths and fighting between the 2 countries in 50 years and multiple rounds of tool since then have failed to result in the complete disengagement of soldiers on both sides of the border. now and the defense ministry has said that the successful tests of me 5 is in line with stated policy of credible minimum deterrence, which on the pins its commitment to no 1st use. now this launch was actually
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supposed to happen last month. and when the chinese government found out about it, they weren't happy. and they said that all parties should be committed to maintaining peace, security, and stability in south asia. all these moves by india come as the u. s. military, most senior officer wander the very concerning hot, the sonic missile test by china general, not merely as the 1st pentagon official to confirm that test. earlier this year, the hypersonic weapon launched into all that has the potential to evade america missiles offenses the u. s. meanwhile, is working on its own hypersonic technology, but is behind both china and russia and leaving all and the lives of thousands of pregnant women in afghanistan are increasingly at risk. the wild health organization says the country is health system is on the brink of collapse. infant mortality rates had been dropping for decades. but now an economic crisis is putting mothers and their babies at father risk charlotte bellis reports from cobble. i mean you seem coolest. 20 years old and this is her 1st
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baby. she's just 3 hours old. will be named by the family when she goes home. likely later tonight. in this maternity ward and western cobble, there are 4 new mothers, all younger than 25. to midwives and a doctor deliver an average of 15 babies here each day. last year they delivered 5 times that with 10 times more stuff thanks to support from the humanitarian organization, doctors without borders. but i still attached the hospital in may 2020 bombing installing the compound 24 people were killed including 2 newborns soon after doctors without borders, lived with its staff, medicine and funding. the afghan government never filled the void. these rooms used to be full with sometimes her women to were bed,
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but after doctors without borders left, they couldn't provide for the dozens of pregnant woman showing up here every day. now they refer them to other clinics for the few women they can accommodate. they offer love advice and tabs of piracy to mo, they say, even that will run out next month. and the remaining staff have become volunteers as the taliban struggles with cash flow. lusty marsden, telephone cow, yet no salary and no money. and just to be wor, kia are free, there are $37.00 public maternity clinics in afghanistan. many say they let funding and support long before the taliban came to power. i was him and came, we need a 100 bed children's hospital and professional medical staff to significantly reduce maternal and new born deaths 2 months into his new job as deputy health
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minister, doctor abdullah berry. omar says everything comes down to money. he is asking for the united states to unfreeze afghan funds held and banks there and for aid organizations to return your habit of other i see, i am calling upon the international aid organizations. natalie, the afghan people alone. they should fulfill their promises. the afghan people need their health and the taliban has a very open policy in that regard to law. we don't want the health sector to be political though. shortly after our interview, the room went dark. a power cut the hospital is also plagued by them. there's not enough money to fuel the generators. the barren hallways still welcome new life, but doctors wonder how much longer they can last model will mean if the lights go out for good. charlotte bellis al jazeera kabul and france a has seized a british boat fishing and its waters without
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a license. a 2nd vessel was given a verbal warning at the latest escalation and a dispute between the 2 nations linked to a post wrecks and fishing agreement. paris is threatening sanctions if progress isn't made. run more licenses to french fishermen in british waters. and i propose sanctions would come into effect on monday and include increased checks on british goods. lee up in court of justice has ordered poland to pay a daily fine, have more than a $1000000.00 in a dispute about judicial reforms. the ear is angry about a chamber within the parlor supreme court, which is meant discipline, judges, aaliyah, punish court ruling challenge the supremacy of the ease law in the country. anderson intervals from the calmness of the european union's court of justice in luxembourg comes, would amount to a bombshell in this crisis involving poland and the you. the text is brief. he c, j, vice president, orders, poland to pay a fine of 1000000 euros a day. because it's failed to suspend
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a disciplinary chamber of its supreme court that order was made in july to be in a country where the vast majority of people support membership of the european union. it's government has been defying legal reforms ordered by the u. poland stands accused by brussels of political interference with a new disciplinary system for judges. polish judges have declared that some e u laws clash with their constitution. even before the latest action, the governing party of poland, accused the e. u. of blackmail. the $1200000.00 fine from brussels coincided with a harsh warning from belgium's prime minister, aimed at polish leaders. you're playing with fire when waging war with our european colleagues for internal political reasons. this is about overwhelming majority of member states from the baltic supported a girl who agree our union is a union of values, not a cash machine. you cannot pocket all the money,
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but refused the values. that attack contrasted with the diplomatic approach, the french president emanuel micron had been taking with the polish leader andre duda. however, micron had said, well ahead of this meeting that poland needed to make concrete proposals. the question now is whether poland will be compliant or defiant. what's next? it's hard to say you could expect. now the ball is government to say, well, sorry, we're not able to pay this fine because it or own boldest constitutional court has said that this would not be in line with the policy constitution. can the polish government afford to keep going against the majority view of polish people who value e. u. membership that is unclear. andrew simmons al jazeera
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allen hazy, providing health care is difficult even in the best of times. these are times of crisis. gangs have blockaded ports, creating a fuel shortage, and it's now a life or death situation for hospital patients. for balance reports now from the capital, puerto prince. of all the places that are suffering in haiti to day this may be one of the deepest wells of misery. port princes, general hospital, where patients receive bare bones treatment for chronic diseases, cove infections and traumatic injuries. this man says he was attacked by bandits with machetes, not by them when they tried to kill me, and i don't even know he was ship compounding conditions and haitian health care. a severe fuel shortage is crippling. many hospitals, the public electrical grid is unreliable, so hospitals are powered by generators without fuel for the generators. hospitals can't operate, kidney, dialysis machines, ventilators, incubators,
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for premature babies, and other equipment mastic, your sanitary when the hospital cannot provide properly because of a fuel problem. it could be that affects other things, so if they can't provide the right services for the kids, the pregnant women and cope with patience when evil, many hospitals are now near the end of their supplies. some 40 hospitals have said a method, the units of thing that they may have to close immediately is it is, is through what's the situation their voice exhaust. ah, if it's, if mo hospitals carries anything for it please a little bit. there are a lot of hospitals bubble close because they can't find a fuel escape for the can't function. occasion of the majority of them are publicly at private value. the fuel crisis is largely due to gang said of hijacked tanker trucks and blockaded the port where fuel depots are located. dozens of hospitals have warned that they may have to shut their doors in the coming days as a result of the fuel shortage. and that would leave thousands of people in need of
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medical care with no place to go mill n b n. m a has come to the hospital, bringing food and clothing for her 20 year old nephew who is suffering from severe diabetes. i'm. is it just a club ball game? you have to buy everything for them? garcia, my nephew is a diabetic and so he needs and occasion, but everything is shut down. un agencies and haitian authorities are trying to create a sort of humanitarian corridor to get fuel to hospitals. but unless there's a break through, the consequences may be dire. masses suggest small quantity if the situation continues high of the day recording hello this weekend coming up with hundreds of complications and death last night in a country full of suffering with a government that has virtually ceased to function. the prospects for these patients and many other haitians is bleak. rob reynolds, al jazeera, puerto prince anne s heard by a hazy justice minister to assure the public it's actually safe to go to petrol
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stations. didn't quite go as planned, least could tell, was heading for a photo of when his vehicle was shot at. he seen him speaking just after the incident. it's still not clear who fired those shots. now the south african government is still grappling with how to compensate people who are forcibly removed from their homes and land after the end of a parties. the land claims commission was established more than 25 years ago since then. it settled around $80000.00 claims, but tens of thousands more remains unresolved, as african aim reports, not from causally natal province. this muslim cemetery in durban isn't just hallowed ground for wally shake, and the maku, our community. they say the cemetery and the 18 hector's surrounding it are part of their heritage. their roots in south africa, the apartheid government stole them a cou, a land when shake was 6 years old. you're destroyed, then, you know, coming, coming from all the colonial oppression and coming into apologize. it was just
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unbelievable. 16 years ago the land claims commission declared them a qu, up were the rightful owners, but that ruling has had little effect because of homeowner opposition. a refusal to relocate a lack of government compensation for relocation and not enough money to develop the area. a 3 hour drive away. people living in this impoverished rural area also prevailed in their land claim case. they were forced out of what is now shlou way info. lucy park more than a decade ago. they agreed to collaborate with park officials. given that it's a protected area i was on his class will not, i will wish was to be able to take part in running and developing the bulk of us. we didn't want to take back to land that would not have benefited us. we wanted the park to employ young people in the community earlier this year, amid escalating anger about the lack of jobs vandals set on fire and cut down one
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kilometer of the park. smart fence because of the challenges and the conditions they find themselves in. and that's what creates, you know, and the features that, you know, saw some of the communities which we are working on, which we have communities working on to make sure the lesson good. this park offers hundreds of temporary, seasonal jobs to unskilled workers. each year the community wants full time employment park officials, if they have financial constraints. instead, they want to facilitate economic growth by encouraging other government agencies, non profit organizations, and the private sector to partner with and invest in the community. when the land claims restitution act was passed in 1994, it was supposed to offer hope and justice to the displaced more than 80000 claims
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have been deemed settled. but more than 26000 remain unresolved. it's unclear how many people have actually re settled. od reclaimed land with shakes, suspects tenants on the mac, who are property are stalling in the hopes. the remaining elders who live through the trauma will give up. he says he'll die fighting to reclaim their stolen land. natasha name al jazeera. ca sewland, a tall province, south africa. ah, hello, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. at least 6 sudanese ambassadors have been sacked by the military as international pressure grows against monday's crew. the african union has suspended cartoon, and the while bank has put aide on hold. what's important for the secretary general and for all of.

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