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looking through the building, trying to see if there's anybody else chopped inside when people need to be hurt. and the story told, i feel like i wasn't really awake until i went to morocco. it definitely changed my life in a good way with exclusive interviews and in depth report. so not 100. what he's after because al jazeera has teens on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news ah, ah, vine and sprague out of the assembles compound dean, occupy these juice, them very ports of more than 50 people in chicks. ah, you're watching al jazeera live from doha with me for the battle. also ahead rushes
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flagship miss al cruiser sing soft being damage sheen, an explosion. ukraine says it hit the vessel, but moscow blames a fi on boards. somalia sways in its new parliament after a long delayed electro processment by violence and a power struggle. and the world's richest man set his sights on twitter, launching a hostile takeover to turn the social media platform into what he says will be in every now of free speech. ah, thank you for joining as we begin with breaking used to palestinian red cress and says at least 59 people have been injured during confrontations with israeli security forces in ox, some mosque compound. it started why muslims were gathering for morning prayers during the holy month. of ramadan, this spring in john holman,
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was my 1st it occupied east jerusalem. tell us about what's been happening at the allah from ox compound job what we do have now is something from the israeli government, from the foreign ministry. and what they're saying is that early this morning, mass men marched into the alex, so compound with flags of hamas and the p a. and that the situation then got tense that they were carrying brought so by recurring stones and b as railey government. then says that they had to send security forces in to, to remove the robes, to remove the stones, and to remove the tent, it remove the tension there. they're saying that they didn't actually enter the alexa mosque and that they did obviously fro stung grenades and you see those in the pictures of this. so that's what happened early in the morning. and now we're just waiting really to see what happens next. because usually when there are
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tensions and there are clashes and alex a mosque, it doesn't stay there. usually that means that there's at least tension throughout this area afterwards. yeah. and of course, this is a side that's revered by both muslims and jews, reminders of the significance of our last family compound and why it's such a flash point. yeah, definitely that, that some muslim, since the 3rd holy site in the world, jews also believe that this was where the original temple was bill and they call it the temple mouth. so for both of those religions, this is an extremely holy site that's in one even just in one place. so hence the tensions there. and those have been tensions that have obviously been around for a long, long time. what has happened in the last couple of days is as they do every year, a small extremist jewish group has said that they want to go up there and offer
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a sacrifice for the star of passover, which is beginning to day. and that the israeli government, as it also does every year, i said that that is absolutely not going to happen. but because of the tension that's already around at the moment you're dealing with a moment in which just in the last 3 weeks there have been 20 palestinians killed in israeli raisins the occupied west bank. and on the other hand, you've got 14 people dead in israel after attack. so there's a lot of tension right now. and that has just added to the tension. yes indeed. and we're looking at some live pictures now. of are the compound the mass compound in we see a few people milling around earlier. we saw pictures of, of flash banks going inside the mosque compound, as he said, john. and we also saw mask young men who were clashing with israeli security forces . are the numbers now seemed to be growing, number of people on the site out of the compound seemed to be growing. give us
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a sense of, of, you know, who these people are, the young men, especially the masked, masked young men that we've seen. do we know who they are or and whether they're affiliated to any palestinian group? i guess the only thing that we know about that so far is what is really government . the foreign ministry has put out which says that they were carrying flags with hamas and the p a on them. so at the moment that's the only information that we have on these young, the young men, it seems so we don't have any more on that. the moment we can say is that at the moment we're dealing with not just friday press in the muslim holy month of ramadan, russo dealing, as i said, with the stop paul survey to so good friday for the christian safe. so this is a moment in which the old city occupied east jerusalem, which can see behind me is going to start to fill up with people as
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a day goes on. john, thank you very much for the moment, john, home and the need to hear from occupied east jerusalem, where there's been clashes at the last compound. early this friday morning, we'll keep close eye on the situation as the d and foes and friday. prayers begin to thank you, john the the war in ukraine now, and it's being seen as a major blow to russia. the biggest war ship in its black sea fleet has sunk after being damaged by a blast. the satellite images were captured on wednesday before the incident on the mosque of the russian defense ministry says i munition exploded on board, but the ukrainian military says it hate the vessel with cause may science. i'll us national security advisor j sullivan says whatever the cause losing the ship isn't good for russia. so we've been in touch with the craniums overnight, who had said that they struck the ship with anti ship missiles. we don't have the
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capacity at this point to independently verify that, but certainly the way that this unfolded, it's a big blow to russia. they, this is their flagship, the moscow. and they have now been forced to admit it has been badly damaged and they've had to kind of choose between 2 stories. one story is that it was just in competence. and the other was that they came under attack. and neither is a particular good outcome for them out there as they have that has more not from keith early. and they have told to a senior army official in your, in your going official here. and he told me that they have a hit. there's this washer, despite russia, russian delegation that it was caused by an explosion. she said that they have, he did the worship by a neptune cruise missiles. so he asked him,
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how is that possible? while this most worship is having a very advanced defense systems, he said that at 1st by the drones, we have diverted its radar system. and then later we strike to strike this there, the worship. so in any way, we will, we will know that russia, a few, 2014 of the dentist vision of crimea was increasing the naval forces in the black sea. and so far, the russian black sea fleet had remained intact. but now after the ukraine, particularly receiving the weapons more and more from the nato countries, we can see that now the watches are coming under range of the weapons that are being used by you frame. meanwhile, ukraine's foreign minister seeking more military assistance to break the rush and siege on mary paul. more than 100000 people have been trapped there for weeks and
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they're running out of basic supplies. my opposed mare says at least 90 percent of the city has been destroyed and tens of thousands of civilians have been killed. the criminal claims its force, his own control of the port city, but ukraine saved with sammy, is fighting to push russia back in avenue c. u n says its firmly opposed to a british plan to send some migraines in asylum. seekers to wander for processing is part of a multi $1000000.00 deal between the 2 countries. rise of say, the agreement is inhumane. and dean barbara has the d test. so we're, we're on the white cliffs of dover looking out across the english channel, which separates britain from france. 600 people crossed this narrow stretch of water by boat on wednesday. not a huge figure in the scheme of things, but under prussia, boris johnson is determined to be seen to be doing something to stop the dangerous journey's position. and so more than 6000 kilometers away gully,
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his home secretary, you now said ambitious deal with the rwandan government. in theory, any one who enters the u. k. by or a so called illegal root may be center a wonder to have a claim for asylum processed. those who are recess old will be given the support, including up to 5 years of training with the help of integration accommodation, healthcare. so that they can, we settle and thrive. the rwandan government is getting the initial payment of roughly a $156000000.00. it says it's a lot of people, protection and a chance to rebuild their life, even if they're asylum. claim is unsuccessful. many ones have experienced what it means to be displaced. this has shipped how we approach migration and asylum. one day already provided a huge for almost 130000 if you use from multiple countries, including neighbors like the earth. and devonte is as african eastern and migrants
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is created from libya. despite the words about ruined is often maurice johnson says the scheme should act as a deterrent to people thinking of crossing the channel. whatever the case he's accepted, there will be legal challenges. in many ways. it's a clear breach of the 1951 united nations refugee convention. beyond that opposition politicians and some conservative. some johnson's a party have caught the whole idea, immoral, unworkable, and a huge waste of money. this government needs to create more, say fruits. it needs to be looking at creating an attorney visa system, for example, where people can claim, assigned them in a country, such as france in an embassy. and so that they don't have to put their money and their lives in the hands of people from others. there are many of the options to this to this issue. it's far from clear how much this scheme will cost beyond practicalities. many have expressed amazement at the choice of rwanda last year. britain itself, code for independent investigation into allegations of extra digital killings,
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deaths in custody, enforce disappearances and torture in the country. and rights groups have drawn parallels with australia is experience of offshoring. asylum seekers saying, sending them to rwanda, will simply increase the risk to their physical and mental health. nadine barber al jazeera, still ahead on al jazeera south africa, braces for more rain after the voice flags in decade scale. more than 300 people. we're from the family of another unarmed black kids by police in the us. why their chinese calling it magic? ah more cloud is filled, the sky over a good part of the re been peninsula. is this stuff here? it does hint at showers. whenever you see cloud, this bothered hints that shower, there will be a few, i think, in saudi arabia, possibly in iran,
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but they're going to be pretty well scattered. there will be an increase in the amount of dust in the atmosphere, so it'll look rather hazy and the wind might pick up. but it's not that obvious, is it? it's sunny, back to the coast of the eastern med. there are few showers and iran that if you just look over my shoulder. sure. in the beer egypt think of sound storms, but we're not concentrating on that part. the world will carry on where we are move bit further north, where the wall, the last few days is showing up with temperature some accountant tashkent. a good 10 or 11 degrees above the average. well, you share that with iran, but temperatures are on their way back by the end of the week. southern africa has been bit of a sore, as you know, around durban. huge amounts of rain fatal flooding and the rains coming back on thursday, but on friday is up through the eastern cape over quasi. want to tell, eventually add. i think snow for the suit to seems quite likely. durbin forecast is a windy wet. what on friday? less wouldn't he be still wet throughout saturday and sunday. then if you include
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the rest across natal it in. it includes johannesburg, were temperatures drop, and the rains heavy. ah, with miss love with door whitney to live with more and more indians are going undeniable to become told me when i wanna investigate the link. some people are willing to go to reach you on al jazeera lou. ah,
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they're watching al jazeera live from doha reminder of our top stories, at least 59 palestinians have been injured during confrontations with israeli forces at the al arc, some more compound. the moscow mom has played the violence on israel extremists who say he says, control the decisions of these regular government. israel's foreign ministry says dozens of masks men entered the mos comps. the biggest shape been russia's black sea fleet has sunk after a blast. the russian defense ministry says ammunition exploded on board. it's war ship moscow. but the credit military says it struck the vessel with course massage . and britain's foreign minister has announced a plan to send some asylum seekers trying to enter the u. k. to wander for prophecy . price groups and opposition politicians have criticized the plan, calling it inhumane and immoral. in other news,
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somali as new parliament has been sworn in more than a year behind schedule. the navigation moves the country a step closer to completing its electoral process. malcolm lab reports, ah, it's taken more than a year and cost thousands of lives to get to hear the appointment of somali as new parliament, a about $250.00 peas and 50 senators have been sworn in. in a ceremony in the capital, mogadishu rose the great day and we hope that oh yeah. and opportunity also mommy's in terms of a multiple focus of all the this man, the prime minister mohammed hussein roadway had been in charge of the process is support to say he managed to make it happen again, stiff resistance level, who luckily, he's been at odds with the president mohammed abdullah, he for my j seeking another term, didn't attend the swearing in ceremony from azure his critics and opponents say
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he's been stalling the process to try and stay in power by somalis didn't get to vote. plan representative selected m p 's and a series of close door meetings. everyone involved says buying of folks is widespread. the new m p 's due to elect the next president in the coming weeks. for magic had promised to organize elections where molly's get to vote. that he didn't fulfill its pledge. the whole process has been widely criticized in that selection that actually brought it to the bottom selection process. that lack of integrity could ability. so unless there is a strong strong rule of law and election a law. so monday will be in this what we've seen for the past few months and the last year is absolutely unacceptable and not to be repeated again. handful a seat in parliament remain open after electoral official nullified their selection
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processes over irregularities. mortars were fired towards mogadishu, greens and the other m. p 's repairing to before in, inside the armed group out, bob is opposed to the government and said it would target the elections claimed responsibility for this attack in the city of bella green last month. that killed an m p. and another parliamentary candidate, as well as several other attacks factions of the army for the police in mogadishu. last year, when yet another election delay was announced, and president for magic, tried to extend his term in office tamales and now waiting to find out who will be elected the next president. and if there will be more bloodshed before somalia has a new government, malcolm web al jazeera, a former british citizen, has been convicted for his role in an iso sell that kidnapped and murdered for american hostages in syria. a us jury found as sharpie as she guilty of all charges
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. he was part of us fell known as the beatles, which was responsible for beheading journalist james foley, and stevens thought love as well as aid workers. al share faces life in prison. when his sentence, in august to south africa now where more rain is, forecasts and fighting has already killed more than 300 people, homes, bridges, and roads have been washed away. and as i meet a military force, many survivors are struggling without running water and electricity. life is slowly returning to normal in an under outside of durbin, 3 days after torrential, rain, and flooding caused wide spread damage. this is the 1st day of 20 piney park. a money has been able to operate his food business, which he relies on for a daily income is corckalone has been up. i and owen is this cause of the floods of really affected us. the people who used to support us could not coming by law because they were not going to work and i or even the little money they had mice,
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they had to use also with the water and electricity supply still cut off plenty. bonnie does not have any way to keep his star city officials a year to begin clearing and rebuilding some of the roads and bridges which collapsed to were destroyed by mudslides. at a home to la, kill him, swami's cleaning up. she says as the flood level reached as high as the roof top of 5 children just managed to make it out safely. bless elinor cornwall is. if it is, i've lost everything. my kids birth certificate, school books and clothes, my fridge, my television, nothing's working. as you can see around here, and i've not received any help, i only managed to get blankets for my neighbor, alcorda resident, no tando, zebra ye las has some food has been distributed, but people in this ward have not received any. and they have to make use of whatever they can to get by 5. most of our community members are using the stream where the water, we don't even know we're coming from. so to wash our laundry and also drink from
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the contaminated water. while people try to recover, it could be short lived. more rain is expected in the coming days. many people living in informal settlements like this one ready struggle to make ends meet the destruction caused by the flooding system back even further in many say they've not received help from the government. that's the fight. it's promises to assist those affected me. the miller also is there a dove in south africa. a number of flood victims in the philippines has risen. 138 people have died in more than 100. others are missing. tropical storm meggy dumped heavy rain over the central native province for days. devastating entire communities emergency workers in one municipalities spent wednesday, retrieving bodies from coastal village destroyed by a landslide. maggie's as strong as soared to hit the philippines. this year. the man accused of an attack on new york city subway will remain behind by after his
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bail was denied. 63 old frank james made his 1st quote, appear in today after his arrest. it also have to undergo a psychiatric evaluation change, shooting inside a subway on tuesday. more than a dozen passengers were injured. staying in the u. s. the family of a black man killed by police in the state of michigan. earlier this month, they seek injustice. the victims father has hired a prominent civil rights lawyer and is speaking out. john hendern has a story. the father of an unarmed michigan man killed by police is demanding prosecution of the officer who shot his son. peter lawyer who emigrated with his son from the democratic republic of the congo, spoke to reporters through a translator. i police video released on wednesday captures an unnamed officer pulling over 26 year old patrick lawyer on april 4th,
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saying his license plate did not match the car car saying the car, that is the officer tries to arrest him. he run that was on it. then a scuffle. the officer climes on lawyers back captured on video by lewis passenger in the car. the officers taser goes off. missing lawyer. there is an apparent struggle for control of the taser. hey, then the officer reaches for his gun and fires. civil rights lawyer, ben crump, hired by the family, calls it murder. you see a police officer? no, no. well, you gotta escalate. i believe she go a minor traffic. stop it, go going. you know, i don't get into a deadly execution. ah, grand rapids police have turned over the investigation to michigan state police
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woke up in the mirror. did you eat by the time when i saw his video? royal look, obviously live. when did my heart was really broken? now the family who sought safety in the us after fleeing war in their homeland, we'll have to go on without him. john henderson, al jazeera, the well switches man wants to buy twitter in on moscow recently increase his taken the social media platform to 9 percent has made a hostile bid for the company. twitter says, kelley view, the $43000000000.00 offer. cable is under a for 70 oak. ah, ellen musk likes being center stage in everything he does. you guys are going to die. and now must attempt to take over. twitter has certainly got every one talking about him. illness confirming in his 1st interview since the news broke, that he wants to buy twitter, saying it's not about making money,
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but something bigger. having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important. so the future of civilization. a week ago he bought a 9 percent stake in the social media platform, making him it's a biggest shareholder, but he wasn't done. musk broke the news appropriately on twitter, making an offer for 100 percent of the company at $54.20 a share. a total purchase of a little over $40000000000.00 in a letter to the company's board of directors. musk said twitter has extra ordinary potential. i will unlock it. it almost got very strong opinions on, on free speech, you know, on his what he believes twitter needs to do to fix the platform. i think that there's not necessarily aligned with the majority of old. there's 2 treaties and so from that respect, i think this could be a bad day for because he uses eye mosque as
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a love hate relationship or twitter with 81000000 followers. he is an adept user of the platform and boasts it's potential, but he's also been critical of twitters aggressive stance at canceling accounts of users. it feels promot misinformation, even if that user is a president. last year twitter permanently suspended the account of donald trump. critics say a twitter take over by musk would be dangerous. ellen musk ought to stick to cars in the twitter board on a rejected offer. and we've seen ellen musk timing again, spread vaccine. just information. use the platform to build his own wealth at the expense of others and call on his troll army to attack and harass people who disagree with the u. s. government charged mosque with securities fraud in 2018 for misleading tweets that he sent out about his car company tesla. he agreed to settle
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and pay nearly $40000000.00 in fines, but must knows that his attempt to buy twitter could bring similar government scrutiny. people should discount this is the world's richest man. and he is having a lot of fun here and he's enjoying it and he could well turn out to be the biggest private that we had. a lot of that was seen. will the little bird have a new owner? it very well could. if musk is serious and gets his way, which is far from a sure thing, gabriel's ando al jazeera new york, florida has become the latest usa to restricts abortion access. the governor has signed a law banning terminations after 15 weeks gestation. there are some exceptions on health grounds, but no exception for rape or incest, abortion white's act of his say. the law disproportionately affects him most vulnerable. and his effect on the way to a total abortion ban. as salvatore's legislature has approved harsh reforms to the penal code that also target freedom or expression and the media,
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the association of journalist says the new restrictions are being accompanied by a dangerous hate campaign against the press. a latin america james, genuine reports. because these are just some of the latest alleged gang members captured by salvadoran special forces. nearly 11000 arrests in less than 3 weeks. anyone over the age of 12 suspected of belonging to a gang is brought here before being sent off to a high security prison, where they are being denied legal representation mattresses and sufficient food. we are deeply concerned by the series of measures recent, introduced in el salvador in response to the rise in gan killings. with a new amendment to the penal code. people like erica villanueva are also being targeted on this day. she made the mistake of posting a tick tock video suggesting the chip along to a gang, thus,
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according to when you law, inciting young people to become terrorists. villanueva faces up to a 15 year prison sentence. but the government's declaration of war against el salvador is 70000 gang members. targets not just suspected gang members and sympathizers, but also the media, which has often been a harsh critic of president naive bouquet les mother, i seem to have salvatore's journalist association, close it, open censorship. over for them we, i'm be, was, it was, i read the book is liter homes, a very ambiguous and violate the law and constitution because the aim is to control the narrative. the government already has the control of our institution. so the only thing that remains to control the media and freedom of expression. 4 the penal code reform contemplates criminal charges against media outlets that we produce, or transmit messages or statements, allegedly created by gangs that quote, could generate a state of anxiety and panic,
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and g o say they can also be targeted letter for their or forms a dangerous because they block all communications with the gangs except by the government, not just a general escort, but also organizations that work in the community yet many ordinary each other door and support the presidents, hard line measures to reduce crime report effort for murder. my only hope is that there will be perma measures that so that we feel more secure going to market and elsewhere. her mom is done by some very n decker. it's good. we are less afraid. those who are criminals have nothing to fear. according to official data in the last week, there hasn't been a single gang killing compared to $62.00 murders and just one day last month. and the president is wanting, gangs honestly, don't behave, you'll take it out on their imprisoned colleagues by reducing their meals from to a day to none at all. to see newman al jazeera
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