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i lay still saying some of that wet ad at times, wintry weather over the next couple of days or more to come across the caribbean. well, what sunshine to come here, lousy fine had dry. for the most part, you might catch the odd shire or 2, but nothing much to speak of. some heavier showers there. it's a parts of central america. awe inspiring stories from around the world. ah, groundbreaking fumes from award winning filmmakers. ah witness. one or just either. ah. ready ready ah, unrest grows and fans with protests for
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a 10th day against president matthew mac cons unpopular pension reforms. he remains defiant. ah, and armand is of a problem, and this is al jazeera alive from dog. ha. also coming up. i. mexicans presidents as migrant fearing deportations that mattresses on fire at an immigration detention center near the u. s. border. at least 40 people account. the shooter who killed 6 people that a school were the u. s. city of nashville was under care for an emotional disorder and legally bought the weapons used. and as wells government and opposition began tools following weeks of protests, while the u. s. president says he hoped speech additional forms and dropped ah,
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has been another day of protests on the streets of france. tens of thousands of people have again marched against deeply unpopular pension reforms. he is how things looked in the cities are in cities from the north to the self of the country . the demonstrations were mostly peaceful, but there was some confrontations between protests and police unions and work as an angry at the president for raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 without a vault in parliament. latasha butler reports from paris. some protesters burn bins and clash with police in paris during a demonstration that was otherwise peaceful. thousands of students and public sector workers once again, the in the st. angry with french president emmanuel, my calls pension reform, and his government's decision to force it through parliament by decree was critical down among maybe the government is finally starting to hear that many french people are against this reform and against makram for not listening. as the reform raises
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the retirement age from 62 to 64, which we don't want enforcing it through parliament proves that there is no more democracy in france. protests as wanted government to scrap the refill my house as the changes on necessary to sustain the country's pension system for future generations. this head nationwide strikes is the beginning of the year with the trade unions were needing to pay. and the french government will end. when a francis main trade union leaders says it's time up to mediation, he form it when they need to suspend, raising the retirement age to 64. thanks. what angers people most wanted over the next month or so we should appoint mediators, what so everyone can say what they want to a plan swiftly rejected by the government office by the director more we can talk to each other directly. president has already said is ready to resume the union's
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once the constitutional court approved the new lo, macro could signed the building to law within weeks reforming the pension system was one of his campaign promises. but the changes have come at a cost as anger against them. is he subsiding natasha butler, al jazeera paris. gabriella, tom 0 is an associate professor at the university of paris. he says, the scalar, the protest show that mack on has lost the support french people. we do have a couple 1000 people who are there to disturb, to hope that you know, they'll make the news by, you know, destroying mcdonalds and the like. that is an issue of course. but what i think is the real news is that for such a sustainable. c movement to exist, you need lots and lots of people to demonstrate time and time again as we have yet again today. and it doesn't feel like such a single issue movement. we care about the pension issue because in truth, in france, we have an unemployment problem for people past their past 60. once or 60,
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it's really hard to find a job, an employment for a 6 year old and up is 3565 percent true. so that's, that's the 1st issue and also we feel like we've been contributing, we've done our port. inflation is, you know, complicated. 15 percent. politics is all about doing the right thing of the right time. this is, this is a horrible time and this is yet again, a reform that will distribute wealth in the way that doesn't feel fair to french folk who as you know, we care about equality. the method that the president has employed over the past few weeks is one of not paying attention to the situation. i myself, i have voted for him during the presidential election because i did not want a phobic far right leader to win. but i did so knowing that he would not exactly redistributes well no way that i would see fit. now i don't think he cares. he was supported by many people like i. and he just goes on thinking that using the right thing. and i think that's a mistake was politics is all about, you know, balancing power to other news now. and at least 40 people have been killed after
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a fire swept through a migrant detention center and mexico. the president says the blaze broke out when my guns and asylum seekers set fire to mattresses after discovering they were being deported. that happened in the northern city of c with ad wires near the border with the united states. john holman reports filing of ambulances. they came too late for minute the fire at a migration detention facility in the mexican border city of what is had already claimed dozens, many of them guatemalans, some venezuelans, o desperate relatives had nothing to do but moon awake for news. okay, your mother said, now you can have a relative die and they don't tell you he's dead. nothing. immediately there were questions. chiefly, how did the 5 star in his early morning press conference, mexico's president arrived with answers. it was the migrants themselves. he said
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that a storm to will give it this had to do with a protest that they started. when they found out they will be deported. they put mattresses of the shelters, dorsey, and set fire to them. they didn't think it would cause his terrible tragedy. protests have happened before mid career state migration centers. those have stepped through the doors often described, the missouri crowded closing. but this time around there were more questions. how did authorities allow this to happen to those under their care? dangly? venezuela? migrant says she was outside when it happened that i've been waiting for their father since 1 pm. it told me they were going to hand him over to me. then at 10 pm, we started to see smoke billowing from everywhere. everybody ran away, but they left the men locked in. everybody was removed from the area, but they left men locked and they never opened the door to the bodies where the
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detention center is located. has become a pressure cooker in recent months with large numbers of migrants and asylum seekers staying there before a push to get to the us shelter heads and activists of accused authorities of criminalizing them monday night, the pressure cooker blew over. now, amid the grief the inquest will begin, john hohmann al jazeera mexico city. i sawyer as a us border research, if a human rights watch, she says that conditions in the margaret detention facilities are often dire. these deaths and injuries are the direct result of the trends. policy is right carried out by us in mexico. i focus on criminalizing migrants and phone seekers instead of legal process. so we've documented that human rights watch the abusive conditions of the needs facilities. and we understand that the migrants were protesting. 4 conditions there, there were protesting, lack of water,
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hadn't given any water. video that i've just seen shows that show appears to show immigration official meeting, locked inside of the fireplace on so completely inexcusable. also, those doors are, they don't have an easy release. there's no electronic release that need the key. and we know that there are physical abuse inside the attention facilities are often overcrowded and understand that that particular attention facility is you know, in the mexican government. right. so that they're called shelters, they call them shelters, but they are detention facilities. people are locked up and they were overcrowded in that particular room to the us. now where police say the person who opened fire at a school in the city of nashville on monday, legally bull 7, firearms in recent years, 28 year old audrey have a former student at the school, killed 3 children, and 3 adults. police have least body cam footage showing the moment. hale was
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killed by offices. john henry reports, audrey hale slowly pulls into the parking lot of covenant school. the shooter fires through a locked glass door to gain entry in combat gear armed with one assault rifle and toting, another hail wanders the halls of the christian school looking for victims. it's a tale of horror told through the surveillance footage released by nashville police officers badge cameras capture the response. please get the call at 1013 shot fire . they're out there. learning the lessons of the 2022. you've all the texas school shooting where police wasted, precious minutes is a gunman, fired on children. let go. these officers act fast. ah, no boy, room by room is fire. alarm sound off the officers clear the 1st floor. a. they rushed toward the sound of gunfire. and
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close it was now with the attacker, a former student down soon to be declared dead. it's over at 10, 27 am. 14 minutes after police received the call in that time hail his gun down 39 year old students in 3 staffers in their sixties police. a hail had amassed an arsenal. we determine that our grade, bald 7 on from 5 different local gunther. ready 0 legally, to will result weapons. president joe biden who fought for a federal assault weapons ban that congress passed in 1994, only to watch it expire 10 years later. once again, calls for another ban of the weapons, hail used to kill resignation with these families. more than our prayers. we owe
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them action. you know, we have to do more to stop this going violence. everything communities apart ripping apart the soul of this nation, protect our children so they learn how to read right. that a duck covering the classroom. but there is almost no chance of passing another ban . this is the 2021 christmas card picture of the congressmen who represents the nashville district, where it all happened. andy ogles, posing with his family bearing assault weapons, a portrait of intransigence, and the effort to change gun laws in america. john henry and al jazeera and b. c. news, as wendy woolfolk has more from nashville. this an all too familiar scene as the memorial is growing outside covenant school and presbyterian church campus. it's a small community of about $200.00 students losing 6 of their own, including the pastor's daughter and the head of school. over night police releasing theory surveillance video showing the suspect shoot through
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a glass door to get into the elementary school. and then, walking through the hallways, stalking offices, armed with 2 assault style weapons and a pistol responding officers confronted and killed. audrey hale, just minutes after arriving on scene investigator say, the 28 year old transgender person was a former covenant student, and resentment for having to attend may have play a role in what she did here. they have found a detailed manifesto and maps as well as other evidence at her home, just a few miles from here. we were hoping to get more details about the motive as the investigation continues to day. that while 6 families plan funerals and an entire community try to cope with what happened here. to woman have been killed and a knife attack had a muslim center and the portuguese capital lisben police shot and arrested the
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assailant after he ignored their warnings. at least one person was injured authority say the suspect is an afghan refugee and has victims worked at the center . prime minister antonio. acosta says the evidence suggests the attack was an isolated incident. israel's government and opposition has the con, talks on controversial plans to either hold the judiciary on monday. if on benjamin netanyahu put the legislation on hold, following the biggest protest from the nation's history. nathan, yahoo said he wanted to avoid what he called a civil war. the proposed changes include given politicians great powers to choose judges. opponents say that give the governing coalition unchecked to 40 wrong campaigns. as a journalist for the jewish telegraphic agency says the delay to the judicial reforms might be tactical. one thing that natania might be looking out for it by agreeing to this delay of a month is a hope that perhaps the arc and the protests will die down and then they won't pick
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up steam again after a month. and that, you know, the only people who will be protesting will be people who are further to the left. and there won't be as much into identification with them among israelis. i think that might, unless there is real progress in these negotiations and they do come up with a compromises or they, you know, or even come up with the constitution. who knows? i don't think that's the case. i think that the sticks are too high for the protesters have come out. and if the, if there's no progress other the, the protests will resume this has been such a show of force among the opposition. it's like, you know, the effect of coming together and realizing that there are more people who are like you think this way, but in this case it's like there are hundreds of thousands who are like you who think this way. i think he hopes to put it back in the bottle is keep kick it keeps on talking as if he can put it back in the bottle. on the one hand, he says there are patriots among the protesters. on the other hand, he said like in the same speech, he that they're bought and paid for that this is a, you know, somehow a grass tops instead of a grass roots movement. if he doesn't see this is a grass roots movement. i don't the key. he's grasping it yet and until he does
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grasp lee, the breadth of the opposition to his the proposed performs. ah, he's not going to even think about putting the genie back into the bottle. israel's ally, the united states has been weighing in on the controversy president joe biden is urging nathan yahoo to abandon plans for the judiciary. i will, nathan, yahoo has responded to biden's comments. he said, israel makes his own decisions based on the will of the people. method. yahoo said domestic matters wouldn't be influenced by pressure from abroad, including from allies like the united states. still ahead on al jazeera, the u. n. debates the creation of an international mechanism to find thousands of syrians gone missing since the start of the civil war. and hums the use of wants and independence scotland but the country is new. first minister is facing many
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more immediate challenges. ah ah that i welcome to have a look at the international forecast cuz i'm good whether across northern parts of china and my largely clear skies right, the way across into the korean peninsula. i pressure in charge further south a little more on the wire clout here. that's where we're going to see the, the wet weather. that'll slip its way a little further south would still, as we go through when stay far south, china could see some local ice flooding from some rather thundering heavy burst of rain. here as we go through wet and stay, still rumbling away as we go on into thursday that wet weather, just pulling across a tie, one north of that it is fine and dry, warm sunshine there for tokyo, around 19 celsius for some very pleasant sunshine. sunshine being into purse
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interspersed with showers across sir se asia some heavier showers there in the philippines. rash of showers there, around borneo, malaysia. seen the od shower to notice more the way of showers just started. show the hand now across indo china is slipping down across central areas of vietnam showers or longest bells. dufrane yet is a westerly disturbance that's making its way out of pakistan and run across central and northern parts of pakistan as we go through our wedding day cooling things off into hall. see that where to where the creeping into the far north west of india. much of india catching the ot shower over the next few days. ah, the examining the impact of today's headlines. this was probably one of the deadliest disasters that you story of setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions . this is the one that's been hitting 50 sharing customer stories for
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a global audience. can you talk a little bit about what life is like for african eliminate programs that open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today? which is dara blue? ah, watching al jazeera with me elizabeth for autumn, doha, reminder of our top stories. the sour tens of thousands of people have marched to cities across france or a 10th day of math protests against pension reforms unions, and work as an angry. after the president raised the retirement age without a vote in parliament, at least 40 people have been killed in a fight and fight a migration detention center and mexico. the presidents as the blaze bone count on
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my votes and asylum seekers said fight mattresses are to discover and they were being deported. and police in the us have police to body cam footage showing the moment officers confronted a shooter. the killed 3 children and 3 adults and the christian school in the city of nashville. on monday, they said the attacker had legally bought 7 firearms and present years thousands of civilians have gone missing during the countries that prolonged conflict. now, the united nations is pushing for answers. so he and families have long been calling for a mechanism to find their loved ones. are diplomatic editor james base has the story from un headquarters in new york. after 12 years of war, the united nations estimates there are about a 100000 people missing in syria, detained or abducted. their relatives don't know if they're alive or dead. now, the united nations is preparing to set up a new body to investigate. the cornerstone is the establishment by the general
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assembly of a new internationally solution to clarify the site and about of the missing and to provide support to victims and their families. i urge all member states to act, and i call on the government of cd and all parties to the conflicts to cooperate. it is essential to help cd and healed and remove an obstacle to securing sustainable peace. waffa mustafah welcomes the idea of the new institution. she hopes it could bring her family news about her father alley, who was abducted by armed men in 2013. i spent the past 9 years, been 8 months of my life. talking about the moment i lost my dad and, and, and it's still very, very difficult. i mean, it seems, it seems our life for a very changed it. it shattered us. you know, i, i live alone in germany. i have my mom and my sister in canada. i have another sister in the us. we were 70 and then that moment when my father was frisky,
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this appeared by deb day by the gym in 2013 that somebody and the tory ever so i spent, i spent that i still spent the every day of my life trying to find the answer for one single question is my dad a life? the fact that the syrian government seat in the general assembly meeting was empty is pretty telling huge. the u. n. already has a commission of inquiry on syria, an international impartial, independent mechanism, as well as the teams led by the un special envoy and the u. n. high commission of human rights. and yet, on the issue of the missing the government of syria has not cooperated with any of them. many diplomats fear the aside regime will also ignore the new body which the un hopes to have up and running. in a matter of months, james bayes al jazeera of the united nations centers in authorities and started
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cutting off water at night and parts of the capitol juniors and other cities. the move is an attempt to reduce consumption of the country suffering from a severe drought to near dinners, yet is low on water reserves and crucial dams. a well below a capacity, the shortages are adding to an already 10 situation caused by high inflation and a weak economy. more foreign troops are arriving and democratic republic of congo to help in the fight against the m. 23 armed group calls from regional leaders for the rebels to cease fire and withdraw haven't stopped the violence. as malcolm web reports from the d r. c, government forces facing accusations of using another armed group to fight the m $23.00. just 2 weeks ago, fighters from the m 23 armed group held this hill top than democratic republic of congo. government forces fought them off. it were booming. saki from colonel showed us around. he told us it's from here. the $1023.00 fighters shelled the town of
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sark 8 down below. most of the people here ran away but now a few are coming back to clack crops and take them to town. no colon, we're a new model, but we cannot go further than here because the rebels are not far away. we used to go up into the hills to bring cassava and other foods. but now you cannot go there because you will meet the rebels. copico, who got you con guys. army says it's been fighting rwandan soldiers here under the guise of the m $23.00. and great rwanda deny is backing in 23. the government for say that they're the ones that are holding the c. m 23 is not, they want to show us some of their positions with the recent fly thing near the town of western widely reported to be between m 23 and an armed group. congos armies widely believed to have supported arms, groups in its fight against them. 23. the army deny that they say that withdrawing
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their reinforcing in other areas. m. 23 playing a game and misleading regional leaders and the international community. regional leaders ascending troops under the banner of an east african force. rooney and soldiers arrived earlier this month. it hasn't stopped the fighting. more than a 100000 people have been forced from their homes as m 23 advanced over the last year. some of the people in this camp from the town of new shockey, which is one of the places the n 23 says it's handed over to the burgundy and troops, men see it unless we know the east african forces are there and move shockey. but we also know that collaborating with them $23.00 is fighters on nearby. this is why we refusing to go back was kick off without a shot. back up in the hills, the colonel took us to the armies most forward position. a few 100 burundi and
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troops meant to control the territory beyond here. but he says m 23 fighters is still hiding in houses across the valley. many people here question why the government hasn't done more to enable its own forces to stop him? 23. now they're wondering if more foreign forces will actually help malcolm web al jazeera la pango, democratic republic of congo. hi, ritz have bordered a danish on ship and the girls of guinea off the west african coast. all communication channels with the or than chemical tanker down. but the 16 man crew had reportedly taken refuge in a safe room. the ship was attacked on saturday while at anchor 250 kilometers off point. why in the democratic in the republic of congo, a regent notorious for pirate activity. one day after being elected scottish national party leader, honda usa has been officially confirmed to scotland 1st minister,
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he leave the country semi autonomous parliament following the shock resignation of his predecessor nicholas sturgeon last month. but has nothing. barber reports from edinburgh, the s and p still has a long way to go to achieve its aim of full independence from the u. k. he's got the backing of the scottish parliament. that's the easy part. but it's holmes. the usage settles in scotlands, 1st minister, selling his vision for the nation may be tougher at all. i've always believed that leadership is about running towards and embracing challenges. rather than shying away from them. we might not be able to achieve everything we want all the time and all at once. but every day an office has an opportunity to make things a bit better than they were yesterday. just down the road from parliament, john carlo de soto runs a fudge making business with his brother. the firms been in the family for 3 generations. john carlo would rather scotland stay in the family, noticed the united kingdom, and he wants the scottish government to focus on countering the hom,
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done by bricks. it trying to make it easier for people even just to come over to make it easier for businesses. it should be like less sanctions on things like 20 important goods of businesses. i think we suffer from these things, yusef said he's going to concentrate on things like improving charles care and public health services. this couple are expecting their 3rd child as supporters of the scottish national party. they agree, independence can wait. the hero of the western star scene there. are there same peek here about as independence and you know, they're let another thing slate. so i think maybe if we get other things and police 1st, they're making belton and for independence, step away from picturesque parts of the capital like this. and you'll get an idea of the challenges facing hums the use. for example, a recent survey showed 4 percent of scottish households use the food bank in the year to march 2022. that's more than anywhere else in britain. apart from northern
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england. not surprising then that the 1st minister has said the cost of living crisis is his top priority. but even here in working class, leave, some people say independence should not be relegated to the bottom of the pio chopper class chapter the car. yes, nicholas urgent, couldn't do it. my dog are done, prisoner burger trying again. as i angrily stops us, yusef says he'll need to convince many more people in dependence is a good idea. some may be beyond convincing. i'm happy with any of them that are just professional liason. of course nobody's predicting scotland will break away any time soon, but the government hopes improving the economy could prepare the ground for another go at a referendum. the dean barber al jazeera edinburgh, the political party of former myanmar liter uncensored she has ceased to exist after being dissolved by the election commission. the national league, the democracy party won elections in 199020152020, but was removed from power in
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a cool and heavy 2021. it fell to register under strict you. electra laws brought him by the hunter, said she herself, has been detained since the cook. the international olympic committee has recommended that russians and bell russians be allowed to compete international competitions under neutral flags. they were banned after russia's invasion of ukraine last year. but the ios, he stopped short of giving a decision on their participation in next year's paris gains. russians and bell russians have been competing as neutral, and some sports spec. a damage russian space capsule is safely back on earth after returning without a crew from the international space station. the so you spacecraft are part of the i ss under remote control for months after suffering. a major coolant lea, a touch down close to the russian space center in kazakhstan officials blamed the league on a tiny meteor roy that punctured the cat.
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