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text yourself and your family from diseases in the home by plying the five keys to see for food use that you also have a role to play. this is the news live from berlin there are no survivors in the crash of an ethiopian airlines jet and authorities are combing the side near how does a bit about where the plane it went down shortly after takeoff killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board ethiopia has declared monday a day of mourning also coming up. algeria's president fabulous he's beautifully get
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is back home after receiving medical treatment in switzerland but a tense political situation awaits with thousands of algerians protesting his plans to run for the fifth term. to buttons around the world mark sixty years since a failed uprising against chinese rule forced their spiritual leader into exile. a monk spicer thanks for joining us ethiopia has declared monday a national day of mourning after a passenger jet leading at us a bit about crashed killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board the ethiopian airlines boeing seven thirty seven max jet lost contact with air traffic control just six minutes after takeoff passengers from thirty five countries were on the plane heading to nairobi with the largest group coming from kenya. why it
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was fine flying weather but still the boeing seven three seven crashed tiny pieces of debris left behind the pilot sent out a distress signal and then just six minutes after takeoff the plane hit the ground in nairobi kenya people gathered to wait for flight three zero to survival but it never landed. at first there was confusion. and complaints about the lack of information. everyone was just. giving it was not his company but normal saying you're just going up until twenty one of the bus and just on display leave the bus he just brushed. the d. seven by as the afternoon wore on a sickening realize i should sit in for passengers loved ones. those who departed there on sunday morning were never coming home today is
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a very sad and tragic day for all of us. who are on board. atheist be a civil aviation authorities now ta squid leading the prog investigators hope to find clues amid the mangled wreckage explaining how this new boeing plane could crash site fost answers to this tragedy which can't come fast enough for ethiopians they've been gathering at the crash site the shock and grief this is caused is writ large on the faces of people there. our east africa correspondent melanie corridor ball sent us this update from the kenyan capital nairobi where the plane was supposed to arrive this morning. hundreds of people gathered today outside the airport here in nairobi where the plane was supposed to arrive at ten thirty in the morning family friends and colleagues had been waiting for their loved ones and would then attended to in emergency centers at the airport there's also been an
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outpouring of messages of condolence on social media and you can really tell that the entire country is mourning kenya has in fact the highest number of casualties thirty two kenyans one board of the plane and now everyone here is of course asking what happened a lot of things still very unclear but we do know that the plane crashed just six minutes after takeoff we know that the pilot had sent out a distress signal that he asked for permission to return to the capital which he was granted but the plane never made it back. is regarded as a very reliable and safe not only in africa but across the globe but a lot of people are now wondering if in fact something could have been wrong with the model itself the boeing seven thirty seven eight max it's a brand new model that the airline had just board four months ago it's only been delivered three hundred times weld wide but still it's the second time that
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a plane of this type of this model has crashed the last crash happened last year in indonesia but of course there is no way of telling yet who or what is to claim for the tragedy. christophe kober is here for more on the plane involved in the crash the boeing seven thirty seven max five and a half months ago in tunisia and now in ethiopia is there any linkage we can certainly expect investigators to look at discourse and rather there's a link there because there are similarities like the the plane in october this too was a very new brand new aircraft that went down. in a similar phase of flight when it ultimately crashed and there's some indicator that the cause of sunday's crash might be similar because there's a flight tracking website claiming that the ethiopian airlines flight was as it
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says in an unstable vertical speed after takeoff may meaning it went up then it dipped down again and it went up again and ultimately disappeared from the radar and that could point to a similar problem that the lion air flight had in october when a male function of an automated software forced the nose of the plane down with the pilots trying to pull the plane up ultimately not being successful and ultimately killing one hundred eighty nine people in the crash and how is the manufacturer of this plane boeing responding well boeing issued a statement saying that the company was deeply saddened by the tragedy obviously boeing extended sympathies to the relatives and friends of the victims and the company also said that it was sending a crew of technicians to help investigators trying to clear what ultimately was the cause of the crash of the seven thirty seven has been fly a lot of them for decades what was new about this one of the seven thirty seven has
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been around since nine hundred sixty eight so over fifty years it is boeing's best seller virtually any decently sized airline will have one of these work horses in their fleet so either boeing seven hundred seven or airbus is a three twenty these are mid-range jets that are flown all around the world now the seven three seven max is a new generation of aircraft it's going to fastest selling plane we have to remember that because it's supposed to be more fuel efficient it has wider and bigger turbines which as we found out from the lion air crash apparently changes the balance of the plane how it's flown along with automated software that's being put in the plane apparently boeing didn't tell pilots and air lines about that and that new software requires new training as you were telling me earlier because of cober thank you for that insight. and now to some of the other stories from around the world u.s.
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backed fighters in syria have resumed military operations against so-called islamic state in. operations had paused to allow more civilians to be evacuated more than sixty thousand people have been displaced by fighting there as the syrian democratic forces prepare to retake the jihadists a final enclave in the country. tunisia's health minister has resigned over the sudden deaths of eleven newborn babies outrage has been growing since the babies died in a statement turn at the hospital on thursday and friday an investigation is underway but officials say the cause was likely a blood infection. in moscow thousands of people have protested against a draft law that would place much tighter restrictions on the internet in russia lawmakers say it will prevent foreign meddling in russia's affairs but critics have likened the bill to an online iron curtain saying it can be used to stifle dissent . algerian president abdullah sees beautifully has returned home to algiers
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after a two week stay in a swiss hospital the eighty two year old had been receiving medical treatment there for an undisclosed condition but a flicker is returning as protests are growing in algeria over his intention to run for a fifth term. many of those who joined the march through the algerian capital algiers on sunday with students and even school children like these many schools as well as businesses remained closed as part of a general strike called to protest president beautifully his plan to run for a fifth term in office. was since i was born the only president i know is beautifully cut i would like to have another one you do not mention at the last march on friday everyone was protesting young old men women this is because we are all against the fifty five. eighty two year old beautifully has been wheelchair bound since suffering a severe stroke in two thousand and thirteen he's ready with it in public since.
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sunday's protests coincided with the ailing president's return from switzerland where he received medical treatment for an undisclosed condition in a geneva clinic fueling speculation that the ailing president is far from fit for office protests also spread to paris france is the former colonial power in algeria and is home to a large ex-pat algerian population one young biochemist summed up the mood among many of hippias. time sad not to be there to support them but i've come today because my heart is with my fellow citizens in algeria. if i was there i'd be on the streets to say the system has to go we're sick of it. and there were many similar protests in other parts of the francophone world. in venezuela a crippling blackout is entering its fourth day opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president warn why do is hoping the crisis will prompt lawmakers to finally
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allow humanitarian aid into the country he told reporters he's convening an emergency session of the country's national assembly. i am going to ask the national assembly tomorrow to create a national state of emergency we must take care of this catastrophe right now we can't abandon our people until all those in the areas most affected you have the right to protest you have the right to demand you have the right to raise your voice the entity that it was he didn't tell you. meanwhile power is slowly returning to some parts of venezuela but people in many areas including the country's capital caracas are still struggling with a blackout people are having to queue for hours to get basic supplies or to access a power outlet some areas are reporting cases of looting schools and businesses will remain closed on monday at a pro-government rally on saturday the country's president nicolas maduro claimed
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a cyber attack by the united states was responsible for what is the worst power outage in the nation's history. sunday marks sixty years since the spiritual leader of tibet the dalai lama fled his homeland amid a failed uprising against chinese rule he has been living in exile in india ever since for many tibetans today's anniversary is a bitter occasion standing in the rain in delhi this group of activists have free tibet and sing traditional songs and buddhist chants. the gathering was also meant to commemorate the many thousands of tibetans killed during the failed revolt in one nine hundred fifty nine. after that uprising an estimated one hundred thousand tibetans fled the fighting as refugees here's a look at tibet today and into the key events leading up to this sixtieth anniversary. it's known as the roof of the world nestled high in the himalayas today tibet is governed as
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a low tone in this region of china but it's an autonomy in name only the chinese state controls almost every area of life religious observance in the traditionally buddhist territory has been reduced to an absolute minimum. it was nine hundred fifty when china asserted its rule over tibet in the years that followed resentment to beijing grew tibet's then head of state the dalai lama sought to negotiate with chairman mao zedong but marched nine hundred fifty nine sort of full scale uprising in tibet thousands are said to have died during the suppression of the revolt the dalai lama was forced to flee. crossing the himalayas on foot eventually arriving in dharamsala india he set up a government in exile where he has remained ever since for years he has pushed for greater autonomy for tibet or today beijing still views him as an enemy a separatist threat. china says it has liberated tibet and points to modern
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progress and greater prosperity but sixty years after the dalai lama was forced into exile many tibetans still view him as their rightful leader for then this anniversary is a day of mourning. and british lawmakers gear up to vote on tuesday on teresa mayes deal for leaving the e.u. one and group along with their four legged friends gathered outside parliament to stage what they're calling the world's biggest dog's dinner they feel right it is also a mass protesters support the call for a second referendum but one attendee made no bones about what he thought of the whole business. coming up after the break it's the bundesliga with chris harrington and a blizzard in march that's what redid leverkusen when they came to hanover for
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