meritus and institutional racism that is seen united kingdom fail it. citizens, britons, true colors. part to on al jazeera lou . i'm alamo. he didn't know how with the headline son al jazeera and the former south african president taft of you to clerk has died in the countries last apartheid era president, he shared the 1993 nobel peace prize with nelson mandela for. there were a con reconciliation in south africa. he was 85 for me to miller has more form johannesburg. for many south africans around the role that f w declare played in terms of that transition to democracy in south africa coming from an apartheid past . so of course, celebrated along with people like nelson mandela in terms of that transition.

and that he was the president in 1992 in 1989 to say that political parties would be allowed to operate the unbending of political parties. and then the freeing of nelson mandela, he announced that in 1990 the case permit us devoris johnson has welcomed the us and china deal both countries of declared that they all work together on climate change. countries issued their joint statement separately on wednesday. there and voice said they would corporate suit celebrate emissions reductions and meet the temperature goals. on the 2015 paris agreements, the european union will place more sanctions on the bellow, russian governments early next week. you commission president or sullivan de lion made the announcement as a migrant and refugee crisis and poland border with belarus, escalates with no end in sight. thousands of people are stuck in freezing and dangerous conditions. in an interview with al jazeera,

a member of the ethiopian government has denied allegations of mass arrests and ethnic profiling. that when reports to police winding up high profile to g, ryan's, my bank, see you to priests, at least 70 drivers working for the world food program were taken into custody. the un says they were arrested chewing government rates targeting to grinds. pakistan is hosting senior diplomats from the united states, china, russia, and afghanistan to discuss the situation since the taliban takeover. the worsening humanitarian situation, and the refugee crisis of the focus of the talks. it's the 1st official visit by a member of the taliban cabinets to pakistan. since the previous afghan government fell in august and as you up to date, man, it's back to witness me. oh,

i the stand off over the controversial dakota access pipeline. keeps growing. yesterday, president obama waiting on the fight. right now. the army corps is examining whether there are ways to re route the pipeline. so we're going to let it play out for several more weeks and determine whether or not this can be resolved in a way that i think is properly tennis to the traditions. and 1st

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better believe it. believe it or do i know where i'm going? where's the trader right in here, they just said the federal department to try now that it doesn't i would never gonna believe a new man. i didn't say they did, i thought i heard i got a whisper this morning about possibly some positive news. i don't have any validation or verification of that until i do. i'm not doing jumping jacks around my tv. ah. protestors are celebrating an unexpected victory in their fight to block an oil pipeline. and north dakota shears erupted in tears flowed as news spread throughout the camp. that pipeline construction would not continue under the missouri river.

3 corps of engineers denied to commit to could access my reaction. none yet. you've been through this before for you've been made. tom says, this is like another one out for cautious. so people can celebrate, but i'll wait and see. i know guy got it. we pick 3. yeah. good deal with where you did. we've done there where you long kick in the streaming app that you would have. i think you will have piece of that even though the army corps denied the permit. i do not have full trust that dakota access

school stuff. they have not followed any law code to this point. all that will happen now is the state and the government will pull out and we will be at the mercy of the mercenaries. i know that our president trump will be president here in january, and he says that he will give permission. and so for me, the battle is only just gone. i want to thank you. all of you who have helped us. i am overwhelmed. a tomorrow we're going to have a celebration and we look at a celebrate the black. ah mm.

so today we have done a very historic happening. we have made peace with the united states of america. and we will go forward as good americans and good doctor la costa and not put on behalf of our own country. we will go to the front lines of legislation. we will go to the front lines of litigation. and we will go to the front lines to make changes in the constitution if we have to. we will go forward in the front lines to the by the doctrine of discovery that says, we are not a race that we are wandering beast. and because we are not christian, we are not entitled to the land. the black snake has never stopped. and if they didn't stop desecrating our grave of our ancestors,

they'll stop at nothing. mm i me to, gosh sheila, i for president trump a signing and executive order approving the keystone excel pipeline and the dakota access pipeline. let's listen. yes, this is with respect to the construction of the dakota access. hi black. so pinker has been a dispute and a subject to a renegotiation of terms by us. we'll see if we can get the pipeline. we'll

look in the year. it went down to hell up in flames, worsen trunk and permitted that pipeline to go through it. and it some devastating with what happened. turnips administration and our spirits are all tired, but we don't have a choice. a article count in your refrigerator. it's all done. let's we're, we all became friends. it was worth when it's gonna go out there why they didn't have to do that. you know, and how is washington we feeling grow? was time you saw happen? you know, it works with 23 years ago i

worked for the senior oxy tribe and i testified at this out the quarter public utilities commission that the court access had not been consulting with the tribe. and at that time, i was so resigned that nobody cared, and so for it to take on the life that it has. but with the army corps blessing and dis bulldozed everything. there is nothing left is just heartbreaking. ah, the army corps of engineers told congress tuesday, it will allow the nearly $4000000000.00 oil project across under a missouri river reservoir. in north dakota, the tribe is now promising a legal battle. the army court has issue their intent to approve of the permit. and so they are notifying congress, so between now and the end of the day,

tomorrow we have to file some type of action in dapple has been fined $15000.00 via the north dakota utilities commission, sol. what's $15.00? and for this, creating $26.00 grieves horrible to us, but nothing to them told this had been 10 years that we have been in this fight and struggle against keystone keys from excel. so it's been a long haul and never giving up and not stopping. oh

oh yeah, we had been meeting about what is our next step, what you were going to do. and so we decided to have another prayer camp and we were singing our ceremonies songs or sundance songs and and as we were having ceremony, they called a cold read for law enforcement, all officers to respond within a 100 mile radius. and they surrounded us. there was 76 of us that got arrested. they loaded up 2 vans and headed to cas county jail. they write our names and they take a picture of us. then they put us in like big dog kennels. so then the men were on one side, the females were on another side and there is a tarp separating us. but some of the national guardsmen and police were going behind the men in front of the men and taking sophie's air like really laughing at

posing with the men in the cages behind them. but as i was standing there, i looked at some of the men in the van. and um, they were yelling in osteo strong sister. ah, lilian, allah, things like that spring us. closer together on me and when off you know, you get booked, you have to am, you have to get naked and on. the jailer told me to. mm hm. give them my underwear and i i just, you know, act like it not. it was nothing because if you act like it something they're just

gonna play games with even worn. they want to reaction for every fan, you're never going to break are spirit. you're never, if anything you're gonna involved in m empower us to even stand up more so far. our children don't ever have to go through things like that. hulu, with now i've experienced this whole new, different life with the camp in this movement that i'm always going to want to strive for that. now i'm always going to want that for my children.

so despite what anybody says, this was, it will come out of love with some protesters began ceremonially setting fire to parts of their camp for him to burn. rather than have it seized into straw. many of the protesters bowed to persist to keep standing rock in this spotlight. oh, oh. oh mm. oh. oh oh.

oh. oh i. oh, she gets my her birthday here. they're saying i'm getting out a birthday wish. yeah. a lot of people wish me happy birthday and i paid my late st . them. we're going to come on in, arrive in one minute. wait. like if you go to lunch at charges? i know it's cool because to red lights up on top because i was i. 0 0 i

this is what america believes in like all these flags, only a building big architecture for monica presidents that kill native but i don't respect our grandparents all thought there was for them to that in respect to try to be positive here at the washington monument on using the flag song, which is our luck with the national anthem, because there is flags all the way around, the washington monument. and i felt angry thinking of so our camp is all displaced yet. we came together today a

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the experiences that i went through along side hundreds or thousands of other people affected me so much that i have an obligation to honor the journey that we've been through. and the collective movement that happened to keep it moving forward. we're still going to pursue the legal avenues. we have 56 actions, pursue at all levels. mm. but we also going to the united nations and we're going to create footprints in the world court. if nothing else, i have to leave a footprint with

i helped to coordinate the conference in geneva the 1st time that indeed people had gone to the un since 1926. and so it's been an endeavor of generations and intergenerational work. madam chair, i have had the honor and privilege to be at the heart of the 2 largest american indian gatherings today. both holsted and standing rock, the homeland of sitting, both people to whom papa laquata and o. chatty shock only we,

the 1st nation representatives share the same intent as the original colonists, who left the government and homelands to form a new government because they could no longer support a nation that oppressed them. they had no voice and were slaves to the elite, which led them to take their family to escape the tyranny and live as free men so ordained by their crueler setting on the path to reclaim everything and make them responsible and accountable. when the big pushes has been to divest from financial institutions, and when we went to norway, we met with d and b. and they announced that they were pulling a $250000000.00 credit line from dapple. i don't know if you guys seen it, but dapple already lead. we're going to do a divestment tour. we're meeting with the beeps and paris and brussels and amsterdam than we're and the and that the united nations in geneva. our

community does not support or want or never consented to devote access pipeline well, should not come at the expense of indigenous people. it should not come at the expense of marginalized communities. so tell us, what do you think of my favorite having been in europe doing the type of work used to do? well, i'm glad she went and she went in my stead. i'm confident that she can now hold her own. she comes from a circle. oh ciocca, and that's just the way we are. i asked that the swiss people stand with us. how have you seen washed a we change since all of this began a year ago. i watched her go through some pains because she was the national voice . so i'm very proud of her, and i know all the efforts that she made on behalf of all of our people. and i

would never ask for anything more than what she did. ah i'm not sad, which i thought i would definitely be, but i'm not. we took a stand for our water, like we lived here and stood her ground. so nobody can ever take that from us. no matter how the local media tries to portray us or tarnish our names or paint us as violent, lazy. ready bad. ready ready ready

where just people from here that stood up and asked everybody to come and stand with us and they did with mm ah ah,

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a weather system stretching all the way from the amazon basin down to coastal areas of brazil bring some really wet and windy weather to the likes of rio and sa, paula, we've got thunderstorms here through to saturday. that wet weather is going to linger on friday. we have had some flood warnings around this area. we could see some cutting as that heavy rain continues. and further south of this, we got a smattering of showers across northern areas of argentina, but the sun comes through for when as there is the temperature sitting in the mid twenties. it's further north that we are seeing the wet. so whether we're going to see those showers pick up across bolivia and columbia in the days to come some heavy showers across coastal regions, we could see some flooding with that. some storms expected to roll. and now as we move to central america, the wet weather can be found in panama, costa rica, edging into nicaragua. but we are seeing intense showers as well, edge into western areas of cuba. thunderstorms for have been all the way through the weekend. it's dryer in most, most mexico, those central areas, seeing

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