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seems to be one of particular populations to dismantle the sound bites. there are lots and lots of women who are likely agenda a kind of anti feminist agenda and demand the truth. those the size of fascism. we have to really recognize what we're up here. we are determining what is the future of democracy. miss patrick, join me markham, on hill for up front on al jazeera. ah, tennessee as president votes and parliamentary elections bernoulli if free opposition party is boy coughing the polls. ah, until mccrae, this is l 0 alive from doha also coming up, hoping to ins. they a world cup run on a high morocco taken croatia. the 3rd place had cut off 2022. south
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africa's governing party is meeting to choose its new leaders with president cyril remo parsa tips to win a 2nd term and peruse. political turmoil deepens to ministers resign as protest is called for the new president to step down. ah, it's just past 14 g m t, that's 3 pm and 2 nicea, we are voting as on to why in parliamentary elections turn out has been low so far with opposition parties boycotting the vars. it's the 1st pole being held under to misuse. controversial new constitution. opposition supporters that demanding president chi side stepped down. they said the election is illegitimate after he expanded his presidential powers last year. a dollars? yes, i address all tune as in some voters to say the on the revolution anniversary. this
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is your historic charms. you are great people in tune as urine everywhere in the world, so do not lose this chance and listen to your conscience in order to regain your legitimate rights. allows count, 270000 people had cast their votes. hush him on the bar a has more from tunis that really low compared to past elections. intern is yeah. particularly over the last 12 years. not good indication that people are really willing to move forward with the series of political changes, introduced by a say it. this explains why, perhaps, in the statement he made a while ago when he cast his vote, saying that this is an historic moment for the tin his years. and they have to understand, thus the only way for them to be able to bring about an everlasting justice and political freedom to their own country. i say it believes that the political establishment that came after the revolution of 2011 just banished 2 in
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which itself, by hijacking the very spirit of the 2011 uprising in tennessee. and this explains why he said those reforms were, those changes to the constitution to the election law were quite necessary to prevent a descent into a civil war. we have to wait and see what happens to night with the preliminary results and the, and the voter turnout. those would be standing clear messages to the president above the next steps he would have to take in the near future. and the concerns we'll have to listen to the election is happening against the backdrop of a power grab by the president said sacked his government and suspended parliament in july last year. opponents accused him of staging a qu, but sight argued, he acted legally. he went on to award himself powers to rule by decree in september 2021 and june this year. so you'd fired dozens of judges. the rest of the judiciary
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went on strike. a month later, members of parliament tried to reverse the president's decisions. so you'd responded by dissolving parliament. and in july, people voted in a referendum on a new constitution that strengthened the presidency and weakens the powers of parliament. the referendum passed, but to now was lo, it was boycotted by many parties. monica marx's, an assistant professor of arab crossroads studies at new york university of dubby. she says many tennesseans a jaded by politics turn out in today's election if it's reported accurately, and not artificially inflated is likely to be minuscule, much, much lower than in any election. we've seen since can easiest democratic revolution in 2011. and one of the big reasons i, besides voter awareness is, is apathy. and also people feeling like this is a sham and they've lost complete control of the process. but they don't have enough
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energy. they are so focused on getting basic necessities at the grocery store and paying their bills. they don't have the energy to really go out and make another revolution. a lot of canadians are jaded about the, the fruits from the revolutionary tree that most of them were able to eat. i'm over the past decade. they, they are so proud of their revolution in 2011. but there are concerned about going out on the streets again, is not going to actually improve their situation. meanwhile, at the lot of canadians have been waiting and seeing what highest might do to solve their problems. he has been systematically consolidating his new system of one man rule into media. he's been ruling by theater since summer 20th. 2021 and 2 media has essentially returned to decatur shop. ah, but they say spend an hour to go until croatia takes on morocco for 3rd place at the world cup. the matches at her house khalifa international stadium. and it's
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likely the last time croatia star midfielder luca motor to play at a world comp. morocco want to finish this surprise, run with a bronze middle bullets. get to so hail malik, who's outside caliph a stadium and i guess despite the disappointment of the semi final sale, both sides will typically will be finishing on the high tonight. right? ah, absolutely welcome to khalifa international stadium. well, if i, there was some depression, there was some fatness that to be shocked by both sides of the real festive atmosphere. usually is for a 3rd place because there's a level of pressure on a lot of times with this much, you know, the team let themselves go a bit. and we've seen some really attacking much of a lot of those in the flow. in the past, not rocco, of course, they wouldn't be, wouldn't be disappointed a few nights ago, but then definitely want to finish up the article run with a win. also let's not forget even though it's going to be like a morocco match it,
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and i have to have done it menu there matches that. there is a special night as you just mentioned, this super duper mortgage you played for teams like talking them hot and also some great team like around the grid and also you've been the best player for creation. forgot to tell me at the one that golden ball was a great play and serve and he'd be into his country. now, i've had a chance to speak to someone who loved the team and it's been pretty much all their matches. and with all that, fans cheering the team on the dorm. i'm talking to none other than before. my mistress, aisha yvonne, i know now she told me about how she believes that he will do. and also more importantly what this means. lucas drew contributions information from all over the years. he's the best player. he was the best player in the world, the gold ball and everything. and it's, it's huge because we are so small country, even in other court. and as they, they don't even know of it. it's crazy because they're so small. but after the woke
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up, i'll come orders and everything. everybody knows now from crecia. and when i'm telling someone i'm pro crucial, they don't understand me. and i say look more that they always know you know, then how huge it is. and it's very important for us because the really our country and it's it's a huge thing. well you've heard that just the phone, the former miss tricia big night for all creations and also lou camacho. let's see how. ready the forms, hopefully for him and his fans, he can go out and hide both course morocco standing in the way a, in a stage employee to say, well, we've seen some shocked results into student. but morocco when things they beat them. it's tom, it isn't really a shock. any more rough for a really, really interesting match. now, hopefully, a celebration of 2 fantastic runs and 2 fantastic team. i do fantastic. great. that was supportive i. this woke up here in guitar and hopefully it'll be full of
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fantastic goals. thank you so much. that is somehow malec for us at kelly, for stadium. la correspondence of following all the action in the lead up to the match. we have natasha to name inter hauser quack if nicholas hoc in casablanca. but 1st, let's speak to marin village in zachary. and can you give us an idea of the interests there, especially as i, you know, could be lou camacho, which is last world comp. absolutely the gratian l m. then i mean he wants to be at the best of his performance. his this is probably his last match on a world cup. we know he's 37 as let's good al each gratian manager. he said that he's gonna be spilled for some time around for a couple of months, up until the end of june to play the final silva nations league. fans here are gathering little by little. we know that the lots of them are very
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anxious. just to see this game to start, but the ones who want to be in the 1st straw are already there, covered with flags wearing jerseys. and while this is a rather bizarre thing to have a christmas tree and also a world cup in the town. but as i'm saying this on the other part of this is a square in zagreb, the stage is already set. if your eyes can gratian fans, gratian fame, already bid, it's best, whether they can come 3rd or 4th. or we might say, it's going to be the same thing, but it's not going to be the same thing because back in 1998, there was a huge thing. the 1st time ever gratian that seemed to qualify in a world's cup. and that this time, if they come back as a winning team from this game, it's going to be a huge welcoming party once again. you will, it's hope a mortgage can deliver crow. i sure an early christmas present. thank you so much. that is m r and vis a chin. zachary, for us,
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let's bring in nicholas hoc who's with morocco, fans and casablanca. and i guess at the beginning of this will cut, no one would have thought morocco would be playing for 3rd place. has it sunk in what this team has achieved already? i mean, there's a sense here and casablanca, that history is in the making. we've seen a steady stream of family come to the found zone where, where i stand right now to grandparents where there granddaughters are grand children so that they can witness this historic moment. so there's so much pride to for the team of morocco and in this tree where i stood just a couple of days ago, there was just this road was packed. it was a sea of red and green to the colors of the moroccan flag and people are still can still hear the movers. l as there are like balloon in the shape of a hard so much love for this team. i want to show you the headlines of the
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newspapers this morning. this one finish in beauty and says the other one is the world has been applauding morocco. and i particularly like this one, which is a thank you. and in the middle of it, you can see the coach while the regarding who is from this town. it has a blank coaches way down to local teams here. and he's really been the unsung hero of this national squad. not only had the united that team, but he has united this country needs a word has his words has resonated throughout africa and the arab world. he says he's not going to come back home, empty handed jokes to come back with a metal that this team. so, so deserves you, tom. thank you so much. this nicholas hard for us and casablanca. well, natasha name isn't sequoia keith and i mentioned the excitement and nerves a building there ahead of this match. well the suki
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started to empty out when it comes to moroccan fans, the mass starts in less than an hour. so if people haven't made their way to the stadium already, many are likely getting themselves situated in front of a television to watch the match. we've been speaking to moroccan fans all day. i spoke to a father and his 8 year old son who arrived from saudi arabia this morning. he says they got their tickets a few days ago, they paid $3500.00 to come for the day. they'll return to saudi arabia at the end of the match. and he said it was very important as an arab for him to be here to live this historic moment to have this bonding experience with his son. he's actually egyptian, and he said he is supporting morocco as a kind of an era of unity. there is a lot of pan arab pride over the fact that morocco is the 1st arab. it's also the 1st african country to ever come this far. heading to the 3rd place match. we also
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spoke to a moroccan man who brought a giant flag that his mother made. he's been bringing it here to the soup for the last several days, inviting people to sign the flag. the hope is that eventually the moroccan team will sign the flag and he can present it to the king of rocco, as the ultimate cuts are 2022 memento. and finally we spoke with a moroccan american who just arrived from new york earlier today. he does not have a ticket, he says he was hoping to work the local angle to get himself into the stadium. but he said, even if he doesn't make it into the stadium tonight, just the experience of being in the suit. so he, in the moroccan pride in the festive atmosphere, he said it was kind of giving him a high, he had an american flag that he is weary as a kind of tape. and he said, i'm also here as kind of an ambassador to welcome people to the next world cup
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that's in 2026. when the united states, canada and mexico will host not 32, but 48 teams for the 1st time. and he says it's an opportunity for morocco to perhaps go even farther. he believes that this team in the next 4 years will be even better regardless of the results or not. i'm sure there will be a very large party down there. thanks so much this natasha can i'm answer quite case i'll still here to on al jazeera is so my layer as multiple crisis bliss as true caught between humidity korean insecurity. crises. somali is prison tells al jazeera how he plans to rebuild the fractured country and putting the brakes on a mess, drivers, protestant jordan against the rising cost of fuel. ah,
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anticipation is rising. and so with the a you ready to with wanted my cattle aways. hello. when to really had kicked him for japan, i'm afraid we will say more, very heavy snow fall into hunt. you went to her carter as we go through the next couple of days as a see effect. snow winds coming in from a north west, the direction across the relatively warm waters of the see if japan and dumping a good deal of snow cross western areas of hon. she and also into hawkeye darwin, if anything it goes on and on. and on monday, more of the same coming through taco temperatures, around 10 celsius, should be largely dry here, sheltered by the mountains and on the other side of the sea of japan. credentialer generally dry minus 2 celsius therefore. so a 2 degree there for beijing, temperature started to warm up across china if we can call it that. but you can see it's largely dry and fi being while it's sunshine and showers across much of southeast asia. some very heavy ones been pushed in from the northeast. the winds
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back down towards the malay peninsula. perfect to parts of them lay plenty there and we will see further spells of heavy rain coming through here as we go through sunday and the day on into monday. follow showers into the urban goal. fairbetter wet weather coming through hair shall anchor. see increasingly wet weather on sunday, and wet weather setting it per se, an india by monday. the weather sponsored by kat on aways from take until the final whistle will bring you expensive coverage through out the world cup action from all of the games. the joy of the hall experts and match analysis from our studios, info and excitement from around the city and across the globe. join us the cast of 2022. on out to 0.
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lou. ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories. the sour voting is underwent and this is parliamentary elections turn out has been low so far with opposition. parties, boy, causing the vows that demanding president chi sidestepped down. morocco is sits take on croatia for 3rd place at the world cup as the tournament into its final days. it's expected to be the last world cup for croatia. star midfield. a luca mortgage, or south africa's governing african national congress party is preparing to elect its leadership on sunday. delegates have gathered for the vote in johannesburg. president sewell rema posey is running for reelection as the parties leader protest
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is disrupted his opening speech on friday. rema poser has come under fire recently after an independent panel found he may have violated his oath of office. of for mr . miller is in johannesburg for us and we are a things up to then now. well they are behind schedule um at least several hours. and so it's not certain when exactly voting will take place. and one of the key issues around that is the, the verification of at least $4500.00 delegates attending at this elect of conference, or at least perhaps 10 percent of those delegates who are due to vote. i haven't been verified. we've heard from some of them who have complained about this verification process, which we've seen every elective conference, but for some reason there seems to be administrative issues. this time around which of course has delayed proceedings. there are a number of our policy documents,
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as well as various committees that have to get under way ahead of this vote. so because of all of their seats uncertain when that vote will take place. but ultimately for this conference, it's the vote of not only the president of the agencies, but also 5 of the top officials that is most important given that it will direct the future of the a and c. ultimately, especially at a time when the party and the leadership are facing a number of challenges, including the allegations of either ford and corruption of the governance running of south africa, south africans experiencing rolling blackouts. the economy is also performing slightly better than it did during cold, but 19, but many would say there's a lot of room to improve and of course, high level of unemployed people. so these are some of the issues a conference like this would have to talk at some point,
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aside from dealing with the voting top membership. okay, thank you so much for that up, that it's from that mila for us. and johannesburg will to peacekeepers with you in mission. and molly, you have been killed and attack on a police police patrol. it happened in the city of tim buck, 2 on friday, one of the a silence. and the 1000000 soldiers were also killed in the exchange of fire. the un security council has condemned the attack. molly has been struggling to contain violence by armed groups, which has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. or somali as president has warned, against complacency about the threat of famine as his country face is one of the worst droughts and decades. hassan chic, mohan moods told al jazeera, it's one of several crises he's been dealing with since taking office in may. the saw my there as multiple crisis bliss that's true regarding the drought that are in there to see this that out. now that should fix them. but with this effort to,
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of the somali government and with the support of international community right now, i can say temporarily we are budget, have mean, that is not fair. mean right now. but still that it risk is looming. look, we went through a civil war, glance fighting against glam goober functions and instructions. we want all through this, but we are out of now. now the only conflict that we had is with the terrace to good. yes. as society in everywhere that are local level conflicts here and there, but not do killing a lot of people are buying a lot of people violent conflict it now in somalia is the extent of mr. groups violence, you can see the full exclusive interview with somali as president on upfront at 1450 g m t and also online at al jazeera dot com, forward slash up front. and wrist is growing in jordan because of high fuel prices
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. a police officer was killed at a protest in the southern region of man, adding to tension about the rising cost of living fencing. monahan has more these drivers are on strike. fuel prices in jordan have doubled in the past year. for many, it's making life a daily struggle. this banner shows one word to sum up their demands, dignity, and the manner early. we joined the strike when we felt the effect to be extremely high fuel prices, high fuel prices mean higher transportation costs, which in turn when a spike and prices of goods used by jordanians. but while most rallies are peaceful, anger is growing ah, more and more people are joining the protest. often resulting in confrontations with the police. on thursday, a senior police officer was killed in my province, shot in the head during a demonstration. the king attended the funeral. a show of support for security
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forces. dozens of officers have been injured in recent unwrap. yeah, the government has promised a 0 tolerance approach to violence, and the 100 lug we're dealing with the situation and we won't pay any effort to crack down on whoever destabilizes public order. we are required by law to uphold all responsibilities and duties to preserve public security. protesters, one taxes on fuel cancelled, but with global energy prices soaring since russia's invasion of ukraine. the government says it's doing all that camp. it's spent around $700000000000.00 capping fuel prices this year. it's also promised financial aid to vulnerable families. but these protests are say, that made very little difference. and if conditions don't improve, the unrest is likely to grow. vent. monahan al jazeera, hundreds of people have gathered for the funerals of to palestinians in the occupied west bank. both were killed by israeli forces near that yellowstone
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refugee camp, north of ramallah and october, the israeli army held their bodies for more than 2 months. more than 212 palestinians had been killed by israeli forces. this year, the rescue efforts are underway in malaysia after a landslide had a campsite killing at least 21 people had happened in gin thing. highlands near a popular tourist resort, outside the capital call. and per, the torrent came down from a height of 30 misses, burying people, sleeping in their tents or 30. so the search for several people will continue over the next few days. when we have conducted a search for 24 hours after that it will be extended for up to 7 days. and from there who will discuss with the police, whether it is operation will seize or continue for a few more days. the u. s. news st. politico as reporting to pennell investigating the 2021 capital attack will vote on criminal charges against old trump including
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insurrection. the congressional committee cannot itself file a case against the former president, but if the vote passes, it would urge the justice department to do so. a spokesman for trump dismissed the panel as a kangaroo court. to cabinet members in peru have resigned after widespread demonstrations. a curfew is in place across 15 regions, as authorities try to curb anti government protests. at least 20 people have been killed since former president pedro castillo was detained 9 days ago. marianna sanchez reports from lima soldiers preventing protesters from taking over an airport using deadly force. several people were killed on thursday and more than 50 wounded in the southern and the city of i eco, till human rights groups say soldiers shot at demonstrators with light rounds. oh i what happens when ever people were walking with stones or other objects in their
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hands, but they were only stones or a sign. and in response to the soldiers, shut them. this is extra judicial killings. this is murder revonika. the army says the soldiers came under attack and responded. the conflict is escalating, who is in a state of emergency. the ministers of education and culture have resigned. and protesters are demanding new elections. what are they? malaria going group, but on friday, lawmakers failed to reach 87 votes needed to bring the elections forward. the protesters main demand, the mayor of agriculture is angry or did not want, but immediately we cannot allow the congress to be out of tune with its own population in the midst of a crisis who we are bleeding to death and, ah, the capital. lima has been fortified and thousands of police have been deployed. not all the protesters have been violent on friday. police didn't fight these
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demonstrators, instead escorted them as they marched peacefully after 9 days of social unrest, while their mendoza remembers how his indigenous ash i knew the community, suffered during the armed conflict more than 30 years ago. on friday he marched for peace of what we are here because our i should inca brothers died and now we don't want violence. peruvians who say they're fed up with a violence not only from now and from a history of a non conflict in the eighty's and ninety's that left more than 60000 people. young said, that's why these millions are saying they want these now i a quote was one of the 15 regions under curfew. it was at the center of the violence during the eighty's and again now president dina will not be has called on governors and church leaders to join government officials and begin dialogue with leaders of the most conflicted
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areas. but below, the has also said she supports the police and the armed forces. but in a suck, to sell to cedar lima biddle. long lines have been forming, had crematorium in china's capital beijing after surgeon corona virus cases, workers, a funeral homes have been calling and sick after testing positive, leaving the facilities overwhelmed by demand authorities warm. a new wave of infections could spread to rural areas during upcoming public holidays. on north korea is marking the 11th anniversary since the death of its former leader kim jong il residents and soldiers in the capital. pyongyang offered flowers at the foot of bronze statues of the former later, earlier this week, his son and leader, kim jong. ern supervised the testing of high thrust fuel engines, which experts i could increase ballistic missile capabilities. twitter has restored the accounts of several high profile journalists that were suspended by new boss
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ellen mask. he made the announcement after an online poll on friday. we're a majority voted for immediate reinstatement. mosque said the reporters. she had private information about him endangering his family as the thief, a world cap draws to a close preparations that being made for this he has cut our national day. the country's amir chic tom and been hammered. al fanny joined other members of the royal family to take part in a traditional sword dance called the art her. this year's celebrations coincide with the world cup final, which we'll see argentina take on france on sunday. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. the sour voting is underway in tennessee as parliamentary elections turn out has been low so far with the opposition parties.
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