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bubut not in the cape flflats.f there were something like that, the people would be scared to kill someone. >> suddenly the police pull up outside. but the self-proclaimed "lord" sees no reason to call off the meeting. maybe he knew that they'd drive off again just a few minutes later. ♪ >> local people have been calling on the police to finally clamp down on gang violence. levi and his grandmother are taking part in an anti-gang warfare demonstration that takes them right through downtown cape town. and here, the police are present in numbers. they'd prefer it if the protesters had stayed in their own neighbhood. but the police force is reportedly understaffed, leading some to suggest deploying other means of control. >> army persons standing on something, and looking over a crowd, and the crowd can see there's s a man watching. the big eye is watching. it gives the public a sense of comfort, a sense of safety. >> the kind of safety that some locals can only find here, in an isolated spot just outside the city. th

twice e as mhh as in t the unitd states bubut not everyoyone is benefit. 18% of thehe population lives in poverty. mostly members of t the orthodox and arab israi communities and resosources aren't evenly didistributed.. ththe kiss of little comommunity it's systetematic d discriminatn governmement is allocating t toa villages and cities creaeated he gap.. in the service is the look in the educational services. meanwhile the bank of israel is concncerned about an economic slowdown. noting growing competion fromm abroad and a w widenining govert deficit. now let's have a look at thehe day'ss trading actioion madee european markets closed lower well while investors wait for results season to start in earnest before the end of the week. over in the us so stocks will make throughout the day's trading with the dow jones seen the biggesest losses ending down but almost a third o of a perce. the s. and p. five hundred pulled up again often initial dip following sevenen straight days of gains the nasdaq lifted it just before the close increasing by almomost a fifth f a percent. investorss are

there will be challenges, bubut the oppotionon has won the t the biggest cities.s unquestionably a heavy blow to president erdogan. andhese were just local mayoral races. they became almost a referendum on his leadership as presideden. >> he knew they were a v vote on him. he campaigned feverishlhly for e past f five weeks, addressing rallies in towns, different parts of the bigig cities, two r three rallies a day. he made annan norma's effort becacause he did n not wanant te huhumiliated. he d does have reason to be pro. his party gained 44.4% of the national vote. thahan itabout 2% more costst him inn the june electios last year.r. the oppositition has r rson to e proud. it got 3 30% nationally andnd it gaineded control of f the three wonest cities, but it also control of three othther cities. one e last feature i must give u the eastetern proroblems went o a partrty we do not hearar of, e turkish communist party, who won control of that. turkey cost democracy is reasserting itself. >> thank you very much. has a new government, but the president remains in the t

he said they would all the sit ins to go on, bubut the transitional council will not tolerate chaos from the protesters and called on them mo unblock key roads andnd bridgesn the capital, as well as to allow trains too comome into the capil again. there is frurustration herere on both sides. >> tell usus about this joint military-civilian counsesel they want to setet up. why arere they having trouble agrereeing on the compmposition? t the sticking poinint is the level of representation on both sisides. the military wants a c council f 10 people with seveven military representatives and three civilian. protesters have been pushing for civilian rule, so thehey are ununlikely to accept that ratio. on theivivilian side, , they wat eight civivilian representatives and seven on the mililitary side toto govern n until the election be held. the other point is how long the councicil will be in pcece. the e military says s they needr yearars. theyey think twowo years is sufficicient to o do that wororn the civilian side. the military is puttingg pressue to w wrap up in t the next few . we have e n

we will be able toto rebuild it bubut there is a sense o of irreparable -- loss. the world is feeling, not just france. of -- are the president this is holy week. the week that runs up to easter celebration. a crown of thorns is usually shown. that is going to be taking place , tell us more about the effect this devastation on the cathedral is having for catholics. >> this is a week associated withth chrhristians and catholis coming together sharing the key messssages. i think we already had a feeling our church had been badly shaken with scandals and affairs and this is in a way, it feeeels lie the final stroke. , i was struckand at how much this had become a symbol of national unity of the faithful and as a nation. timeg this holy week,k, a when the nation n comes together and the faithfhful come togethe, this is a very big symbol that is ads us our community community, not just a building. we wilill be feeling the loss of the tradition associated with notre damee. perhaps it is a to look at what are the roots of our f faith and t theye if building this, not eve

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. >> we are waiting for our humanitarian visas, bubut we hae not received a response of what wewe are not being given these papers. are organizing a peaceful hunger strikike. we have been here for eight days . there is been no violence over here and we are being igngnored. just s silence, which is like torture. it is like a psychological war. i feel i it is a topic of racism with migration. i feel they are trampling over our human rights. amy: meanwhile, immigration and customs enforcement officers raided a technology repair company in allen, texas on thursday, arresting 280 people in the largest immigration raid in the u.s. over the last decade. president trump is traveling to california today to tour a recently-rebuilt 30-foot-tall sectction of steelel-slatted bor wall. the united nations security council has called an emergency meeting on libya after a renegade army commander ordered his forces to advance on the capital tripoli. the advance by the benghazi-based libya national army threatens to topple the u.n.-backed government in tripoli. the rebel force is reportedly better armed

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bubut there is also sosome mease of relief.f. despite the destruction, much of the cathedral could be saved. that includes its organ from the 1730's. >> the instrument has been saved. obviously, for me you just can't imagine the evening and night that i had when i watched this, because i thought that if the organ was destroyed, a part of me would be destroyed. this instrument is a part of my life. rereporter: but it could be yeas befofore the organ is heard aga. for now, the church is being secured. >> thye lead which cover the entirety of this of all melted completely. we have to continue to monitor the building and its hotspots, as well as a third area, the scaffolding. it surrounded the spire before it collapsed inside the cathedral. reporter: the planned reconstruction will bring huge expense, but about a billion euros have already been donated. french officials are vowing that the money is in good hands. >> we will present draft legislation next week that will ensure transparency and proper oversight of the donations. every

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bubut as part of the packakage, argentina's government pledgdge to cut govnmenentpending anand raise e utilitiess priris. unpopular measures have sparked egular p protests. reporter: thousands of marchers took to e streets of b buenos aires on thursday, protesting high unemployment and government austerityy measures. a year ofof economicc turmoil pushed the president to secure a record $ $56 billion b bailout the i.m.f. last fall. as part of the d deal, the gogovernment promimised to tigh economic policy, cutting spending and raisising utilitie prices. but some alysts sasay the plan, combined with sky-high interest rates, will perpetuate the recessn.n. th annual inflationate climbed rapidly from 2 25% in april of last year to over 50% this february. hitting individuals' spending power hard. around 1/3/3 of the population livingng below the poverty lini. thee highest rate in eight year. and homelessness is on the rise. >> we'e've b been living othe streets for ththree yeaears. my h husband worked as a a buil and we renteted o our home.e. and then from one moment to tht ne, the jojob e

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bubut work is still a littlee h. question i and this to me. confronted with an aging population and then a q. labor shortage. the government is now implementing a system to help close the gap. it's new visa ski more allow more than three hundred and forty thousand four and blue collar workers to enter japan fought to five years. of fill labor shortages in fourteen sexes i in clean nototg ra construruction and agriculture. the government also annouounced measures to provide more support for foreign workers. especially with administrative procedures on learning japanese. of the five years workers in construction and shipbuilding can n apply for a second visa ad bring the families overr. but only if they've attained a certain level of japanese. the scheme will provide a welcome injection of workers japan particularly as a country races to finish construction work. in the run up to the twenty twenty olympic games. so could be japapan is opening p even further to business and see okay thank you very much to do nothing with the business. james truma

pence made it difficult for erdogan to step back bubut erdon is known to change his position very rapidly if he thinks he is and he canragmatist change his position because the last time when he tried to blackmail american government with a -- sending a pastor to jail and then home arrest, he lost it and had to send it back leduse american sanctions to a deepening of the recession and crumbling of the dollar, against the dollar. amy: we will continue to follow turkish politics. a faculty fellow at the heilbroner center for capitalism studies at the new school here in new york. when we come back, massive algerian protests toppled president. stay with us. ♪ [music break] this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: we turn now to algeria, where after two decades in power, longtime president abdelaziz bouteflika resigned on tuesday. the move came shortly after military leaders called for him to step down.. the 82-year-old president has been in power for two decades and has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke

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night republicans are developing a really great health care plan to replace the affordable care actt bubut that it won't be introducd until after the 2020 elections. the tweets come after the justice department last week said courts should overturn the entire affordable care act, not just the individual mandate provision, which is being challenged in a federal appeals court. some republicans have publicly opposed the justice department move. last week, senator susan collins sent a letter to attorney general bill barr asking him to reconsider the decision, writing, "the administration should not attempt to use the courts to bypass congress." republican state attorneys from ohio and montana filed amicus briefs with the appeals court monday, arguing striking down the aca would cause major disruptions for patients, medical providers, insurance companies, and employers. trump's push to repeal and replace the aca failed in the republican-controlled senate in 2017 and many republican lawmakers said the move hurtrt incumbents and candidates in last november's elections. leading to a democratic vic

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