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to get out of the. land. the boat . this is 11 years live from bali the pro-democracy rallies in hong kong drew the largest crowds in months organizers say 800000 people took part in what they called a last chance for the city's pro beijing government a correspondent has the details also coming off a major foreign gulfs a factory in india's capital delhi the early morning blaze least 40 people dead 1st to the workers who were sleeping inside the building and people in a better raised take to the streets is a monster that country stays independent as russia pushes for
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a close if you do. i am. the best. i'm having a home for if you could join me pro-democracy demonstrators in hong kong have been staging their biggest anti-government rally in months the march was the 1st large scale gathering to be approved by city authorities since who gets off the whole fear of protests activists say that they want to show the world and not giving was hundreds or thousands of voices with the same rallying cry 5 demands not one less those demands of the hong kong chief executive carry lamb to resign the police actions during the protests to be investigated for an amnesty for those arrested. they also want the
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government to stop calling protesters riots homes and they want the now shelved extradition bill that started the protests to be totally withdrawn the marches hope the size of this rally will drive home to the government that it is lost broad public support for the guy and see that he got me going for him is. the main openers through arkansas government and our government did not listen to her heart does it as a. 53 month and i'm actually proud of the open country people we never defined we know we did not run in the face of the police violence. a lot of our people were imprisoned they were injured and. a lot of people just die was going to reset us. and then makes us angry was 2 was there wasn't the violence that had mob previous protests but a bank of china building was vandalized by demonstrators and some activists spray
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painted slogans on public property. i i. nearly 6000 people have been arrested in the last 6 months during 900 demonstrations processions and public meetings on sunday amongst the marches a woman crawling to highlight the difficulty of preserving hong kong's freedoms. we have too much for down. her half we have enough cold chain make us feel 30. to protest to say their long struggle for democracy is far from over. and our correspondent. has been following those protests in hong kong and she sent us this update the pro-democracy movements previous day it can still attracts huge numbers of people onto the street. there had been alone in protests like this since
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the district council election results last month where pro-democracy candidates won by a landslide shattering government claims that a silent majority was against protests like this since then authorities here have promised to listen and reflect on those results but have offered no further concessions now the protesters back a sea of people of all ages marching in what's been a peaceful protest today this protest also marks 6 months since the 1st major rally of this movement since then thousands of people have been arrested some 10000 rounds of take gas fired making the numbers back on the streets today all the more striking it's also a clear sign that these protests aren't coming to an end anytime soon. while a fire has killed at least $43.00 people in the capital delhi is believed an electrical
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fault caused the blaze which swept through a factory while walker was sleeping. the fire erupted in the early hours of the morning turning the 6 torrie building into a death trap for laborers who lay sleeping inside. emergency services rushed to the scene but in a neighborhood where electrical wires dangling over narrow lanes lined with small manufacturing units their progress was slow this is a congested traffic densham area authorities have already set that fire plummets when not issued to these workshops and locals believe that morphed of these operations are largely illegal. workshop produced bags and wallets and draw flammable materials evidently fueled the fire as it swept through the building. local residents were quick to blame authorities for failing to enforce fire safety standards there's any way that i get what the authorities are clearly not doing their job they're still exposed wires here highly flammable materials but no safety
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measures are implemented these incidents are bound to happen if. you've already because this is the biggest problem here nobody listens to us we have complained many times but none of the authorities pay any attention. my. side a hospital morgue desperate relatives wait to identify the victims many were poor migrant workers who had nowhere else to sleep between long shifts some relatives said they'd received phone calls from their loved ones trapped by flames and crying for help before the line went dead. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world several 1000 people have gathered in the ukrainian capital kiev to urge president for them is the lenski to resist pressure from russia right it comes on the eve of the summit between zelinsky and russian leader that he knew polluted the talks aimed to end the 5 year russian backed insurgency in eastern ukraine. polls are growing
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from multiple prime ministers to quit immediately protesters marched to the capital the letter demanding that jason muscat not wait until january to leave office as he has promised moscow faces pressure over alleged links to the murder of a prominent investigative. i tended just to get its youngest prime minister 34 year old son irene has been nominated by the social democrats who need the 5 party coalition government parliaments likely to confirm her as the new head of government next week. a top out repeated to be hit those is among a rebellion handed over to israel's main holocaust museum by a lebanese businessman he hit the headlines buying up a large collection of nazi era items he had originally intended to destroy them to stop them forging into the hands of mere nazis. well hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the better russian capital minsk to protest against closer ties with russia sunday marks 20 years since the 2 countries signed
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a union agreement that in this is a close political economic and military relationship which stopped short of a single nation but a recent push by russia towards the so-called union state has sparked anger in but every. passions are running high here as plain clothes police try to keep this rally under control it's unusually large for bella ruse several 100 people are demonstrating against a closer union between moscow and minsk. 6 protesters shout long live bellow groups and some report photos of russian president vladimir putin. the demonstrators appear are closer union could mean a loss of independence some point to the war in ukraine and russia's annexation of crimea as a cautionary tale. russia. russia means evil russia means war russia means poverty we have to move towards
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a civilized world of course we should have some sort of trade relations with russia would only at a minimum level in your model this new char's countries around the whole world are respectful towards each other via russia act. as a thug and as an aggressor. you agree to set up the board union we don't want to union let's be friends but live in separate apartments. on saturday bello russian president alexander look at shankar and his russian counterpart vladimir putin met to discuss deepening an existing union treaty between their countries fishley became a union state 20 years ago but so far the agreement has mainly existed on paper moscow has recently been pushing towards further integration both governments insist the negotiations are purely economic but the protesters in minsk. don't believe the rallies organizers say the demonstrators are defending their country they chant for independence. that.
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many here carry european flights and the banned red and white flag of the 1st independent russian state. in the past 25 years the russification of the rose has gone so far that it's hard to say where our independence begins or ends we don't want to roadmap for integration with this card game of the fate of penrose's unacceptable we want independence the most. unauthorized rallies like this one are rare in belarus and can be dangerous but the protesters say they will keep taking to the streets to fight for their country's future. you know if nations climate conference wraps up next weekend the event was moved from madrid because of civil unrest now one reason people in chile are protesting is water which is becoming ever more scarce and expensive sheets of climate change wind and water skiing used to be popular sports at judy's lake. until a few years ago the lake was
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a much loved attraction for tourists and locals alike now all they have are memories. it's making me feel nostalgic. just imagine what the water used to come up to here look at it now. after decades of drought the lake has now completely dried up experts agree this is largely due to climate change more than half of chile's population lives in areas hit by drought and that barrier is expanding ever further south one meter per day. constitution declares groundwater to be private property big companies have bought up their scarce resource forcing people to pay high prices for water delivery. but that's been met with massive protests in chile's capital santiago. for 7 weeks now people have been taking to the streets to demonstrate against want to
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proselytize ation even the richest country in south america confiscate the effects of climate change. now to non usual battle in the art world over a banana an artwork featuring the fruit by the italian artist catalan has been sold for more than $100000.00 in miami but then another artist ate it. for us whiting has the story she joins me now alex this does sound a little bit like a joke but what do you tell him or it doesn't like a joke but it's true it's about a phenomena like this for from a local grocery store that was stuck to a wall using duct tape just like this is all part of an installation for a miami art fair called art basel then another artist came along his name is david tuna who refer to himself as the hungry artist there he is he decided it looked too good to eat good enough to eat so he caught it from the wall peeled it and in front of a crowd that was gathering before him he decided to start eating it and people were
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gathering around him taking photos and then a rather hassled member of staff turned up and said come with me please which he judy did i mean i saw the pretty strange guy i think the strangest part of the stories that someone has just paid $120000.00 for this piece of art right not just $13.00 people have paid one $120000.00 at least minimum for limited editions of this the person who bought this particular one was a french collector you think he would be furious about the fact that his artwork has now been eaten but apparently it's not about the binondo itself it's about the idea and every person has got a certificate of authenticity which means that they are told if when the banana gets over right they can replace it or when this case when it is eaten it can be replaced but obviously the stuff in the gallery we're not happy about what happened . he was not arrested but he has came to leave the room and to leave the fair and
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we have this contact and everything so we can go we can go further but i don't think i don't think we will we're talking about the artist and i cut it and i have seen some of his work and it is i mean it's quite unusual anyway isn't it it is and you've probably seen the 18 karat gold glue that was in place that blend in palace that's a stately home in oxford in england unfortunately it was stolen and all those 6 people have been arrested in connection with that the new itself has never been found now back to the banal it was replaced on the wall using duct tape pretty quickly after this happened there are now stuff daunting at it but you have to say this is fantastic publicist for the artist and it does make you wonder whether there's perhaps a little bit more to the story i have to say i did want to say it sounds like an expensive been on a bit i mean essentially it works out for a lifetime supply of banal investigation is
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a good to see if you know for sure alex forrest whiting thank you so much for bringing us that story. we're watching the news from by n. coming up next report to own location with a look at high fashion in some of colombia's most dangerous neighborhoods i'm headed home frame by then thanks for your company i'll see you again at the top of the alibi for now for. 6 months and now kentucky affectionately but as affectionately as you can blame. him in the middle of his election campaign in 2000 the documentary was filmed for russian television. to turn the camera back on of course the film secretly chronicled a power grab actually everything was precisely played instruction. featuring a top supporting role.
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