دعا الرئيس التركي في اتصالين هاتفيين، نظيره الفرنسي إيمانويل ماكرون والمستشارة الألمانية أنجيلا ميركل، إلى اتخاذ خطوات ملموسة للتخفيف من معاناة النازحين في إدلب، كما جرى الحديث عن إمكان عقد قمة تجمع القادة الثلاثة بالرئيس الروسي فلاديمير بوتين.
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تاريخ البث: 2020/2/21

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit reveals more explosive evidence of corruption in cricket after Cricket’s Match-Fixers rocked the sport in May 2018. The Munawar Files reveal that the match-fixer featured in the earlier documentary is part of a powerful criminal syndicate and has been fixing international matches since 2010. Al Jazeera’s investigators have obtained telephone recordings that show Aneel Munawar ringing in details of fixes in 15 international matches to a notorious Indian bookmaker. The fixed sessions involve some of the world’s best-known players. The teams include England, Australia and Pakistan. Many of the matches include multiple fixes and two involve both teams, making a total of 25 fixes in 15 matches at the highest levels of international cricket. The investigation also discovers that the sport’s governing body, the International Cricket Council, knew about Munawar as long ago as 2010.

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard was established in the wake of the Islamic Revolution 40 years ago to protect its ideals.
Since then, its role has expanded making it a powerful institution with influence both within Iran's political leadership and beyond the country’s borders.
The Guard's efforts in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and elsewhere have given Iran a place in Middle Eastern political affairs.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Tehran.


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Hospitals are still struggling to cope with the number of people infected.
And a growing number of countries are closing their borders to Chinese travellers.
Al Jazeera's Adrian Brown reports from Hong Kong, which says it will quarantine all new arrivals from the mainland.

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A rare glimpse at people's daily lives in western Algeria as we go behind the scenes at three different weddings.

Summer in Algeria - the largest Arab country in the world and the biggest in the African continent - is a popular time of year for traditional, elaborate weddings, particularly in the lead-up to Ramadan.

At the heart of these celebrations are the brides with their hand-made outfits, their jewellery and the henna parties; as well as the delicious food that accompanies every step of the marriage process. Plus the music and armed horsemen in tribal war dress.

This colourful film takes us through the rituals and significance of Algerian traditions by following three different wedding ceremonies.

We speak to heritage researchers about Algeria's marriage traditions and see how engagements and arrangements are formalised. This film is an intimate look at the preparations and rituals of these rich and sumptuous family celebrations.

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Every year, thousands of Japanese men and women vanish without a trace.

They are known as the "johatsu", or evaporated people, and they engineer their own disappearances.

Without warning, they leave behind loved ones who are left searching for answers.

Tsuyoshi Miyamoto's brother Naoki was 24 when he disappeared after boarding a ferry in the Port of Tokyo 17 years ago. He has never been seen since.

"We all thought he went to work. Then we found out that he had actually quit his job," says Tsuyoshi.

The desire to disappear has become so common in Japan that there are now specialised businesses, known as "night-moving agents", which help people vanish.

We follow Miho Saita, who owns a night-moving company, as she helps a woman who is desperate to escape her abusive husband.

In less than two hours, workers help pack up the wife and her children's belongings, taking them to a new house in a new city.

Others decide to vanish for different reasons.

Sugimoto describes how he engineered his own disappearance with the help of a night-moving agent after his family business began experiencing money problems. He left his house one morning as if he was going to work.

"I got tired of human relationships and I just escaped this place," he says.

Sugimoto left behind a wife and three children.

"I was very worried about my children. It was hard leaving them behind."

101 East investigates Japan's evaporated people.

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Barely a year after his entry into politics, Robert Kyagulanyi - a pop star-turned-politician who also goes by the stage name Bobi Wine - is being hailed as the new face of Uganda’s opposition.

Kyagulanyi has built a large youth following through his criticism of Uganda’s long-time leader President Yoweri Museveni - who has been in power for 32 years - both in parliament and through his music.

The 36-year-old’s message of freedom and inclusivity, encourages young people to “stand up” and take over the East African country from what he calls the government’s failed leadership.

But Kyagulanyi’s rise to prominence has not been without difficulties.

His appeal is considered a threat to Museveni’s hold on power, which is waning because of public anger over deteriorating public services, corruption and human rights abuses.

On August 14, Kyagulanyi was arrested and charged with treason for allegedly throwing stones at Museveni’s presidential motorcade during a by-election campaign in August.

"In my opinion, it was more persecution than prosecution," says Kyagulanyi, who claims he was tortured by Ugandan security forces while in detention.

"I feel humbled that my brutalisation attracted attention of friends across the world, but at the same time I feel indebted to the men and women who have endured similar torture over the years, in particular the people that were arrested together with me," he says.

After being released on bail nearly two weeks later, Kyagulanyi was rearrested last week while trying to leave the country to seek medical treatment in the United States for his injuries.

Eventually Kyagulanyi was released and allowed to travel to Washington, DC to be treated in hospital.

In an exclusive interview - his first for television since leaving hospital - Kyagulanyi discusses his detention, alleged torture by Ugandan security forces and what's next for Uganda with Al Jazeera.

"We've always wanted a free Uganda, but that Uganda should not come at the cost of torture, it should not come at the cost of m urder or illegal executions, it should be got freely because our generation feels like the price has already been paid," he says.

"I believe what can be done is not just to be done by me. What I have is the voice to raise the plight of Ugandans but I continue to call upon Ugandans, especially the young Ugandans to speak up. The more we unite, the stronger we become.

"Today the regime seems to be shaking, simply because Ugandans are more united and I continue to call upon Ugandans to stand, to be resilient and to continuously demand for the dignity that they deserve".

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is on a five-day trip to four countries in West Africa. Ankara has invested heavily in the African continent.

Turkey's interests in Africa rival the ones of former colonial powers like France and the UK, as well as China.

One of the countries Erdogan is visiting is Senegal, where Turkey has a huge influence.

Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque reports from Senegal's capital, Dakar.

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Al Jazeera investigates the secretive world of doping in sports and raises questions about whether medical professionals are linked to some of the greatest sports heroes.

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Passengers from a cruise ship turned away by four countries because of coronavirus fears have finally been allowed off in Cambodia.

The ship had been at sea for two weeks, and the 2,000 passengers and crew had been tested to see if they were carrying the virus when it arrived on Wednesday.

Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay reports from Sihanoukville where the ship arrived.

He says the Cambodian government is prepared to let passengers into the country, even if they were found to be infected with the virus.

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Haiti was the first black republic in the 19th century, created by a revolution that overthrew slavery maintained by French colonial rule.

But independence came at a cost, and Haiti had to pay billions in compensation which left the country bankrupt since its creation.

Added to the nation's bankruptcy, high levels of inequality and poverty have persisted over the years, and political attempts to fight corruption have not ended well.

Jean Bertrand Aristide, the country's first democratically-elected president in 1994, was removed from office twice when he confronted the country's elite.

In 2010, a powerful 7.0 earthquake left the country destroyed and killed between 200,000 and 300,000 people. The earthquake left over 1.5 million people displaced and the international community saw the disaster as an opportunity to rethink foreign aid.

But little has changed in Haiti, a decade after the devastating earthquake.

Haiti's President Jovenel Moise talks to Al Jazeera about reconstruction efforts and what is next for the country.

"We must not confuse the post-earthquake crisis with the socio-economic crisis that we are currently going through in Haiti. The socio-economic crisis is a permanent crisis.The state we have today is a predatory state that is governed by a few corrupt oligarchs who seek to control the key areas of development," Moise explains.

Over $13bn were pledged to help Haiti recover from the earthquake. But only half of that money was released, according to the UN, and Haitians only received half of the money they were promised by donors led by the United States. Much of the funds were spent on short-term programmes to assist people with food, water and healthcare.

"This money should have been spent on building villages around Port-au-Prince, villages which would provide homes for I would say, tens of thousands of families. In terms of results, no reconstruction has actually taken place and I am someone who believes in lasting structural development," says Moise.

Last year thousands took to the streets to protest against corruption, demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moise.

"Today it is as if I am being crucified, people are shouting: 'Crucify him! Crucify him! Crucify him!'," Moise says arguing that he has been fighting against corruption despite the accusations from protesters.

Moise was mentioned in a corruption scandal involving the PetroCaribe fund, a strategic oil alliance signed with Venezuela where Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, bought subsidised oil from Venezuela. The Haitian government was supposed to use the extra money for social programmes and to advance the economy.

But billions from the fund were embezzled by those in charge and President Moise was mentioned in a 600-page investigation.

"I was placed on a cross and I descended from it to talk to the people to tell them that is was not my aim to work against them and now the people are beginning to understand," he says.

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Our mission has been to tell the stories of people you don't see very often in the news… These stories have affected our world, changed lives, and shaped our future. Al Jazeera America's closing, April 12, 2016, created a vacuum in the American media landscape. We hope we've lived up to our promise to be the voice of the voiceless and to speak truth to power.

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Forces loyal to Libya’s UN-recognised government have fought back against renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar's fighters and appear to be holding their ground.
But as the fighting continues it's killed many civilians and made tens of thousands of people homeless.
And with regional and international players backing the rival factions, the battle seems set to continue.

Al Jazeera's Mahmoud Abdelwahed reports from Tripoli.

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The 2011 Arab Spring had seen the end of President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule and within 18 months, Mohamed Morsi had become Egypt's first democratically elected president. But after one year in office, almost weekly street protests and riots appeared to reach a climax with calls for Morsi to resign and even for the military to intervene. In July 2013, Morsi was overthrown.

Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal reported on events in Egypt at the time - and now reveals new exclusive evidence of top-level conspiracy, power-broking and betrayal in the turmoil that led to Morsi's last days in office.

Until now, much of what took place in the final days of the Morsi presidency was known only to those who witnessed the events first hand. Of the nine men with Morsi at the time, only one is no longer in jail.

In this film, Egypt's former foreign relations assistant, Khaled al-Qazzaz among others, tells the behind-the-scenes story of the Morsi presidency's final hours.

Throughout 2012 and into 2013, the streets of Egypt were rocked by almost weekly protests and riots, as well as an anger and frustration that divided the nation. The people who had risen up in 2011 had seen little improvement economically and they felt that the freedom they had gained was being misused by some to create chaos.

Continuous power cuts, fuel shortage and petrol queues that later were proven to have been orchestrated by the deep state, lead to a toxic mix of anger and despair among the public.

But the crisis in Egypt was not limited to fuel shortages and wages, nor were they limited to the big cities. In Sinai, attacks took place against security forces by groups that few had heard of before.

‎‎"President Morsi complained about interference from a certain Gulf state and told me that they had detected weapons shipments from this country to armed groups in Sinai, as well as money being sent to them," says Khalid al-Attiyah, Qatari minister of defence and former foreign minister. "But he also told me he was able to negotiate with this state."

As protests continued and events unfolded, concern was expressed by world leaders. But it seemed Morsi's fate had already been sealed.

"‎‎From what I know, senior US government officials by that juncture June 25, 2013, were aware of the possibility of a military coup against Morsi,"‎‎ ‎‎according to Andrew Miller, US National Security Council (2014-2017).

Days after Morsi's June 26 speech, in which he attempted to pacify the population and offered several concessions to the opposition, his minister of defence General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi issued him with an ultimatum either to step down or face military intervention.

"‎‎By the time that the military issued a 48-hour ultimatum, I think the overwhelming view in the US government was that it was too late. ‎‎That the die had already been cast, and no matter what happened short of Morsi resigning preemptively, that the military was going to forcibly remove him from the position of the presidency," explains Miller.‎‎

President Morsi was overthrown on July 3, 2013, and initially placed under house arrest where he was held incommunicado.

Khalid al-Qazzaz, the presidential secretary for foreign affairs, recounts his last meetings with Morsi: "On the morning of July 4, we were allowed to have breakfast with the president. We found him to be surprisingly calm. He said it was the first time he'd been able to sleep for consecutive hours since he'd assumed responsibility."

"It was clear he'd done his utmost to preserve the gains of the revolution and protect the Egyptian people. It was now up to the people either to choose to return to a police state or try to restore their revolution."

Mohamed Morsi's one-year presidency was troubled from the start by a country still divided after the 2011 revolution and by forces at work within the so-called "deep state" - which combined to bring about his "final hours".


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Opposition rebel groups in Syria have been trying to overthrow the President for the past eight years.
Now, Idlib could become the final battle between his forces and rebels.
The region is the last rebel-held stronghold, dominated by the armed group Hayaat Tahrir al Sham.
The government - with Russian help- launched a new offensive to retake Idlib last week.
Dozens of people have been killed in the past few days and tens of thousands more displaced.
Aid agencies have repeatedly warned that attacking Idlib could trigger the worst humanitarian crisis of the Syrian conflict.
Government forces are now making steady gains as they advance towards the town of Maarat al Numan
They want to capture the crucial M5 highway, which links the capital Damascus with Aleppo.
But do they stand a chance this time around?
And what will be the human cost?


Presenter: Sami Zeidan


Guests:

Yahya Al Aridi - Spokesman for the Syrian High Negotiations Committee.

Mehmet Celik - Managing Editor at the Daily Sabah newspaper.

Pavel Felgenhauer - Defence and Military Analyst.

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Tariq Ramadan is recognised by many as the most prominent Islamic studies academic in the Western world.

But at the height of the #MeToo movement in 2017, Ramadan was forced to take leave from his post as Oxford University's Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies over sexual assault allegations.

He denied the accusations, but as the cases against him increased, he was eventually detained by French authorities in February, 2018.

A Paris Court of Appeal released him on bail 10 months later.

Ramadan still rejects the allegations, but the investigation into the case continues.

Is justice in France being served or has this case been politicised?

In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, Ramadan says he faced what was "almost a media lynching" and says the evidence speaks for itself.

"I kept silent ... saying I'm not going to talk to journalists, I'm going to talk to judges. The problem that I had is that the judges were not even listening to me and not even looking at all the evidences that are just proving that I was innocent."

He says the odds were stacked against him from the beginning.

"At that point I would say that my take on the whole issue is I knew I was targeted. I knew that for the last 30 years I was demonised because of who I represent in the French political and public scene and the way I was treated here was quite clear. 'We are going to get him and he will end in jail.' This was my feeling from day one when I entered the police station."

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Peace talks between the United States and the Taliban began last October in Qatar, with the aim of ending the almost 18-year-old war in Afghanistan.

On Monday, US President Donald Trump announced that negotiations were over.

"They are dead. They are dead. As far as I’m concerned, they are dead," Trump told reporters, blaming a Taliban attack last week in which an American soldier was among the 12 people killed.

"They thought that they had to kill people in order to put themselves in a little better negotiating position ... You can't do that with me, so they [the talks] are dead as far as I'm concerned," Trump said.

The president's move surprised the Taliban's leaders.

"It was astonishing for us because we had already concluded the peace agreement with the American negotiating team," Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban spokesperson in Qatar's capital Doha, told Al Jazeera.

After nine rounds of negotiations in Doha, it seemed that most of the differences between the US and the Taliban had been resolved. The US special representative for Afghan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, also said a peace agreement was finalised in principle.

Since talks began, discussions focused on four key issues: a Taliban guarantee it will not allow foreign armed groups and fighters to use Afghanistan as a launchpad to conduct attacks outside the country; the complete withdrawal of US and NATO forces; an intra-Afghan dialogue; and a permanent ceasefire.

Shaheen said a ceasefire inside the country was never part of the negotiations but rather an intra-Afghan matter that would form part of future discussions with the country's government - but only after foreign forces withdraw.

"About the other Afghans, we are ready to talk with them. If there is a ceasefire with them, there will be no attack [on] them. But this is another aspect of the Afghan issue. We want to end the occupation of Afghanistan first," he said.

He said the Taliban's agreement with the US was to offer them safe passage in the withdrawal of troops - something they would stand by if a deal is signed.

"If we sign an agreement with them, we have the obligation not to attack them and provide them a safe passage. If they withdraw without any peace agreement signing with us, it is up to our consent or willing[ness] whether to attack or not to attack them," Shaheen said.

"It is then up to us, because there is no agreement. So we will attack them if we see it is in our interest, our national interest, our Islamic interest. If we see it in our interest not to attack, we will not attack them."

"If the Americans want to not attack us, and they want to withdraw, and they sign the agreement, yes we will not attack them ... But if they attack us, they continue their bombardment, their night raids, [then] that will continue from our side what has been continuing for the last 18 years."

So with the US quitting the negotiating table, can peace be achieved in Afghanistan? And if so, what would it take?

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blames Iran for drone attacks on Saudi
Arabian oil installations.
Pompeo says Iran has been practicing fake diplomacy white attacking Saudi Arabia.
The attack has slashed Saudi oil production by around 5.7 million barrels per day.

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Ugandan pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine says he will keep fighting the government or "die trying".

He was speaking to large crowds of supporters outside his home near the capital Kampala after returning from the United States where he received medical treatment.

Wine has been charged with treason, but thus far, it appears that government efforts to stop his political activism have only made him more popular.

Al Jazeera's Malcolm Webb reports from Kampala.


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Canada has granted asylum to the 18-year-old Saudi woman, Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, who drew the world's attention on social media in her desperate attempt to flee her abusive family after escaping to Thailand.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would accept Alqunun as a refugee days after she was stopped at the Bangkok airport. While the Thai police had denied her entry and seized her passport, Alqunun's brother and father had reached there to take her back to Saudi Arabia.

Al Jazeera's John Hendren has more.

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Nigeria has the biggest oil reserves in Africa but who’s cashing in?
Nigeria is Africa’s top oil producer and has its biggest economy.
But it’s also coping with crushing levels of poverty.
So where does all that oil money go?

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"A Somali in America" documents the experience of Ali Warsame, a Somali refugee who gained residency in the United States in 2015, but is re-assessing his new life now that Donald Trump is president.

While in a detention camp in Ukraine, Ali was told he'd be moving to the US through the United Nations refugee resettlement programme. Ali remembers getting the official notification on Eid Day in 2013: "In my life, I never thought that I will be in the USA," he says, because many others before him had been rejected.

He moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2013 and began a new life with his housemates, Prince and Sadik, who had had their own difficult and dangerous journeys getting there.

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First, do no harm. The main tenet of the Hippocratic Oath doctors take when beginning their career to care for patients. But what happens when they have to navigate roadblocks that prevent them from putting patients first? Issues of insurance, electronic medical record-keeping, litigation, and budgets mean many doctors face as much time filling out forms as they do at the bedside.

According to Dr Wendy Dean, “every time medical professionals have to choose anything other than their patient, it can be indicative of moral injury, or it predisposes them to moral injury.” Dr Dean and Dr Simon Talbot first used this term in a 2018 opinion piece that resonated with many.

The term 'moral injury' has its roots in war. It was first used to explain why military veterans were not responding to standard treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Moral injury, as defined by researchers from veterans' hospitals, refers to the emotional, physical and spiritual harm people feel after "perpetrating, failing to prevent, or bearing witness to acts that transgress deeply held moral beliefs and expectations." Talbot and Dean concluded that moral injury describes the conundrum of today’s medical professionals: They know how best to care for their patients but are blocked from doing so by systemic barriers related to the business side of healthcare.

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CORRECTION: At timecode 25:16 of this programme, the phrase "range of shareholders" appears with respect to We Believe in Israel and who it works with. The correct wording is "range of stakeholders."

In the first of a four-part series, Al Jazeera goes undercover inside the Israel Lobby in Britain. We expose a campaign to infiltrate and influence youth groups, including the National Union of Students, whose president faces a smear campaign coordinated by her own deputy and supported by the Israel Embassy.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has called it the "project of the century".

The new Silk Road is China's ambitious plan to boost its worldwide reach through new train and shipping lines, roads and ports.

Following the old Silk Road, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) crisscrosses from Asia to Africa and Europe.

China insists the massive development will benefit all countries along the route, but locals tell a different story.

Along a railway that stretches from Djibouti to landlocked Ethiopia, local worker Mohamed says he feels frustrated.

"The Chinese don't do anything! It's not right. They just hang around drinking water and eating ... All of the work is being done over there, and it's us, the Djiboutians, who are doing it," he says.

101 East travels to Pakistan, where China is investing $62bn over the next 15 years to transform the small fishing port of Gwadar.

But local fisherman Ghani says he has not seen the benefits of this project. He lives with 36 relatives in a house that has no water or electricity.

Since the deep-sea port was built, he says fishermen have been finding it increasingly difficult to find fish.

"We no longer have access to certain areas at sea, where we always used to go fishing because there were lots of fish. The port has taken them over. Now we have to go much further out."

101 East examines the human cost of China's new Silk Road.

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At the annual "Tinku" festival, Herman fights on the streets of Macha, Bolivia, in a ritual where the shedding of blood is believed to honour Mother Earth, "Pachamama", and to bring about a good harvest in the year to come.

His daughter, Mirta, is worried about her father and tries to stop him from fighting.

Close Up's first episode, Bolivia's Fight Club, follows Herman, a miner who lives in Colquechaca with his family, to present this ritual and explore the concepts of masculinity that underpin the practice.

"Even if you beat me, I’m going to fight back, I won’t say 'no' to a fight," says Herman.

Hundreds of individuals from indigenous communities take part in Tinku, a Bolivian Quechua tradition that dates back 600 years to the Incan empire.

The celebrations start with dancing, followed by street wars that break out spontaneously and likewise quickly wind down.


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At first, they denied their existence.
But now, China’s government is vigorously defending a detention programme in the far western province of Xinjiang.
It's facing mounting international criticism over reports that up to a million Muslim men and women are being held in so-called re-education camps.

Al Jazeera's Adrian Brown reports from Kashgar.

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A series of air attacks in northern Yemen has killed at least 30 civilians. They came after Houthi rebels said they shot down a Saudi warplane.
The UN humanitarian chief for Yemen expressed shock at the attacks by the Saudi-led coalition.
Al Jazeera's Mohammed Al Attab reports from the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

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Al Jazeera World follows the everyday lives of Aleppo residents living amid the ongoing conflict and destruction.

The historic city of Aleppo, Syria's oldest and largest, dates back to the sixth century BC.

It was a major trading hub during the Ottoman Empire, its architecture impressive and its culture vibrant and diverse. The old city, with its medieval mansions, alleyways and souqs, was classified as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1986.

But the "Battle of Aleppo" that began in July 2012 between Syrian government forces and rebel factions and the ongoing conflict have devastated the once beautiful city.
For the people of Aleppo who continue to live in the city's opposition-held areas, attacks and bombardment are a daily reality.

In late 2014 and early 2015, a group of Syrian filmmakers (whose names cannot be revealed for safety reasons) travelled to Aleppo amid the continued bombing, to meet rebel fighters, ordinary citizens, families and children who struggle to survive as their city crumbles around them.

As Syria's civil war enters its fifth year, this poignant and vivid film captures the personal stories of those living in the prolonged conflict.

The filmmakers shot in several locations in the city and sometimes used drone footage to show the destruction from above. We meet residents of Aleppo who take us through empty, rubble-filled lanes and the decimated and burnt-out buildings that once housed families and businesses, as they compare life before the war with the present.

"The government has systematically ruined this city," Mohammad Mahmoud, a researcher, says in the film. "It wants to destroy the revolution and erase everything. It's the same as what happened in the city of Hama in 1982. It wants to kill the spirit of Aleppo's people."

We also meet Karam al-Masri, a photographer who was captured by ISIL, tortured and held for six months at the start of the war. Al-Masri has used his camera to chronicle the destruction of Aleppo and plight of the people who continue to live there.

"A camera's role is greater than a weapon's," says al-Masri. "When the regime arrests someone who works in the media, they torture them more than they would an FSA (Free Syrian Army) member."

There is Michel Abou Yousef who is the supervisor at a Christian home for the elderly where he has lived since losing his own home. "I'm 53 years old and have seen enough," he says. "I don't want to reach 60 and see worse than this."

Ismail is a civil defense volunteer who works with others to protect Aleppo's women and children. "For me this is not a job," he says. "It's how I take part in the revolution."

Shihab Al Din Abou Baker is a school teacher who works in a makeshift classroom, teaching dozens of local children who have been traumised by the violence.

There is Muhammad Hubbo, a schoolboy who has lost his friends and his house. He often has to do without electricity and water - and his favourite game is playing street skittles with his friends using spent gun cartridges.

Mohammed al-Goul is an FSA member who takes us to the deserted neighbourhood where he grew up. It was "one of the oldest and most beautiful in Aleppo," he says. Stopping by the house where he was born, he reminisces about what it was like when he was a child but says he cannot step into the courtyard. "I can't go inside because of the pain and anger I feel," he says.

Death of Aleppo is a film that captures the scale of human suffering and destruction in the historic city; but also the resilience of its citizens who battle daily as their city falls apart all around them.

Update: After this film was made, Michel Abou Yousef died in an attack on the city on April 11, 2015.

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Indian Prime Minister has defended his controversial citizenship law and angry protests are sweeping the country

A secular state where all religions are welcome and equal before the law. That idea is at the core of India's constitution.
But many believe it's under threat. Hindu nationalism has been emboldened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he was elected in 2014.
His government has taken measures that have raised fears among muslims in particular.
A new citizenship law offers illegal migrants of religious minorities from three neighbouring countries the right to become citizens of India.
But it excludes muslims. That's sparked anger and protests nationwide.
But will that make Modi change his mind?

Presenter: Stan Grant

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Desh Ratan Nigam, Member of the Legal Wing of the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Tarun Khaitan, Professor in Public Law and Legal Theory and Hackney Fellow in Law at Wadham College, Oxford University.
Eviane Leidig, Researcher at the Center for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo.




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Iraq's barely year old government is being forced to deal with the largest nationwide protests since taking over.
Riot police contained demonstrators in Baghdad on Wednesday, 24 hours after bullets and tear gas were fired.
At least three people died and hundreds of others were injured in Baghdad as well as other cities.
The mostly young protesters are angry at high levels of corruption, unemployment, and poor public services.
Are Iraq’s leaders listening? And why isn't the government able to deliver?

Presenter: Folly Bah Thibault

Guests:

Ali Al-Nashmi - Political analyst and specialist on the modern history of Iraq

Judit Neurink - Political Analyst and founder of the Independent Media Centre in Kurdistan

Yusuf Alabarda - Middle East analyst

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Shakira, the Colombian-born international pop star, is due to sing her World Cup anthem 'Waka Waka' at closing ceremonies in Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium on Sunday, ahead of the 2010 final between Spain and the Netherlands.

Al Jazeera's David Foster spoke to the singer who told him that even a non-football connoisseur like her has been caught up in the fever of the games.

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In this episode of UpFront, we challenge Lencho Bati, an adviser to the office of the Ethiopian prime minister about Abiy Ahmed's controversial handling of protests and ask why the Nobel laureate is so media-shy.

And we talk to two Bollywood legends about why so many celebrities in India are not speaking out against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's hardline brand of Hindu nationalism.



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Every year on April 24, Armenians around the world commemorate the anniversary of what they claim to be genocide.

But 100 years after the events of 1915, the use of the word "genocide" to describe what happened to the Armenians at the hands of the Turks remains a contentious political issue.

Turkey vehemently rejects genocide claims. It admits that atrocities were committed but argues that there was no systematic attempt to destroy the Armenian people. It claims the Armenians were casualties of World War I and that many people died amid the chaos of a war in which all sides suffered.

The true number of Armenians that were killed or died in 1915 and 1916 remains a topic of heated debate. The Armenians say the number stands at 1.5 million. Turkey says that is grossly inflated and estimates the total to be about 300,000.

'A history of co-existence'

For many, this issue has come to overshadow what Stepan Grigoryan from the Analytical Centre on Globalisation and Regional Cooperation describes as "a history of co-existence between Turks and Armenians".

After conquering Constantinople in 1453, the young Ottoman sultan Mehmet the Second brought in large numbers of Armenians from Anatolia to settle in the newly-won city.

Over the centuries, they came to hold positions at all levels of the Ottoman state apparatus - as state ministers, advisers, tax collectors and even doctors in the sultan's palace. They excelled in trade and the crafts and helped construct many of the buildings and monuments that came to symbolise the splendour of Ottoman architecture. The Armenians became an important and recognised community within the Ottoman Empire.

But by the 1880s, a growing nationalist sentiment had emerged among Armenians, particularly intellectuals, with calls for the creation of a free, independent and united Armenia. The first Armenian political organisations were born.

Shortly after, Sultan Abdul Hamid the Second created an armed band of Kurdish tribal warriors, the Hamidiya Brigade, who raided and looted Armenian towns and villages.

"Because of the hopeless situation Sultan Abdul Hamid became a despot. He used innovative measures but he also lived with great paranoia," explains Pakrat Estukyan, the editor of Agos, an Armenian weekly newspaper published in Istanbul. "In 1895 the Hamidiya Brigades were established and Kurds were used in suppressing Armenians. Armenians suffered great trauma because of this."

A splintering empire

The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire accelerated during the early 20th century. In 1911, it lost Libya to Italy and in 1912, it lost the Balkans War - and with it most of its Balkan territories. The empire was splintering apart. And then - in 1914 - World War I started.

In October 1914, Ottoman Turkey entered on the side of Germany.

The Turks were concerned that the Armenians - pursuing their goal of establishing an Armenian homeland - would help the Russians. On November 1, 1914 the Russian army began a multi-pronged invasion of the Ottoman Empire from the Caucasus. Many Armenian volunteers joined the ranks of the Russian army. The Caucasus - the eastern front of the Ottoman Empire - became a key strategic war zone.

To eliminate the threat of Armenians allying with the Russians, the government decided to transfer the Armenian population to other parts of the empire.

"It was a time of war. And we know what happens in wars," says Melih Aktas from Gazi University in Ankara. "… I think it would be wrong to judge these events as harsh or inhumane without a full knowledge of all the surrounding circumstances and the way war developed."

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According to the United Nations, 26,000 unaccompanied minors crossed the Mediterranean to Europe last year, most of those coming from sub-Saharan Africa were Gambians.

In the past three years, almost 15,000 people lost their lives trying to reach European shores.

Undeterred, young men and women continue to take this route in what the UN's describes as the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of our times.

The UN estimates the illegal trade of smuggling people to be worth more than $35bn, and it is booming.

Despite joint efforts by police forces from Europe and Africa, few smugglers have been arrested or prosecuted.

Mohammed Lamine Jammeh, also known as L-Boy, help many execute this journey. For many, he is a hero. Families save up for years and take loans in order to send one of their children on this journey.

But who profits from this? Do these young men and women know the risks they are taking? How much do they pay for this journey?

L-Boy, guides us through the business of human trafficking, and explain why travelling to Europe through Libya or the "backway" as it is known here is an open secret.

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This is a an episode from a season we directed and produced for The Traveler, a new travel series broadcasted on Al Jazeera Arabic.

originally launched and broadcasted in June 2018

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This time: Albania!

“Hidden gem” is an overused word, but when talking about Albania both words have their true sense. Being closed off from the world for decades, ruled by despote forces, Albania opened it’s doors only a quarter of a century ago. After the fall of Communism, Albania was at once revealed to the world. Rugged mountain scapes, immensely rich of deep turquoise blue water flowing through it’s rivers, hot springs, a Mediterranean vibe, the friendliest people and last but not least the highly fascinating history and heritage; castles, ruins from the big empires to the bunkers left in the past century.

In this episode the 1oo windows city of Berat, it's castle and is Etnographic museum, byzantine architecture, Tirana and the moslim culture, The Marubi Museum of photography, Gjirokaster and it's ford, The hotsprings of Benja, The amazing Blue eye spring, Wild water rafting in the Vjosa river

Storytravelers team:
Caspar Daniël Diederik: director
Mark Hofmeyr: cinematography, editing
Nicholas Libersalle: cinematography
Pablo Apiolazza: editing, colorist
Simone Campobasso: editing
Reid Willis: music composition
Charles Darnaud: sound recording
Cesar Mamoud: sound mixing and design
Eustachio Palumbo: Graphics design
Pablo Apiolazza: Motion Graph
Laura Payne: production manager

Forces loyal to Libya's renegade General Khalifa Haftar are marching in the capital, Tripoli, igniting fears of renewed war in the chaos-wracked country.
Militias loyal to the UN-backed government in Tripoli say they captured more than 100 of Haftar's self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) fighters west of the capital on Friday.
Fighting was reported on Friday night into Saturday morning near Tripoli's international airport about 30km south of the city.
Al Jazeera's Mahmoud Abdelwahed reports from Tripoli.

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In late December 1988 a terrorist bomb destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie and killed 270 people.

Only one man, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, a Libyan citizen, was tried and found guilty of causing the explosion. But he protested his innocence at the time of his trial in Camp Zeist in Holland in May 2000, and continued to do so up until his death in Tripoli in May 2012.

For three years filmmakers working for Al Jazeera have been investigating the prosecution of al-Megrahi.

Probe identifies suspects over Lockerbie bombing
Two award-winning documentaries, screened on Al Jazeera in 2011 and 2012, demonstrated that the case against him was deeply flawed and argued that a serious miscarriage of justice may have taken place.

Now, in our third and most disturbing investigation, we answer the question left hanging at the end of our last programme: if al-Megrahi was not guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, then who was?

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A Ukrainian airliner with 176 passengers and crew on board crashed near Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport early on Wednesday. Iran's state television said all those on board, majority of them Iranians, were killed.
According to the Iranian media, the Boeing 737-800 jet crashed near Parand, a suburb southwest of capital Tehran shortly after the takeoff.
The plane had taken off from Imam Khomeini International Airport when a fire struck one of its engines, said Qassem Biniaz, a spokesman for Iran's Road and Transportation Ministry.
The pilot of the aircraft then lost control of the plane, sending it crashing into the ground, Biniaz said, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
Al Jazeera's Laura Burdon-Manley has more.

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We haven’t been posting much over the past year. Because we were busy with these ones.
This is the first episode from a season we directed and produced for The Traveler, a new travel series broadcasted on Al Jazeera Arabic.
What do you think should we publish all 15 episodes?
Make sure to activate the subtitles while watching.

All episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playli....st?list=PL-ohs0RLEeN
originally launched and broadcasted in June 2018

This time: Albania!

“Hidden gem” is an overused word, but when talking about Albania both words have their true sense. Being closed off from the world for decades, ruled by despot forces, Albania opened it’s doors only a quarter of a century ago. After the fall of Communism, Albania was at once revealed to the world. Rugged mountain scapes, immensely rich of deep turquoise blue water flowing through it’s rivers, hot springs, a Mediterranean vibe, the friendliest people and last but not least the highly fascinating history and heritage; castles, ruins from the big empires to the bunkers left in the past century.

In this episode the remote and rugged Albanian Alps, the Krüje bazaar, The Skanderbeg museum, amazing Lake Koma, Lake Shkoder, Rozafa Castle, climbing and zip lining in Kosovo

Twenty years after the liberation from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Africa's youngest nation, has emerged as strategically vital to the stability of the region and the wider global agenda.

Eritrea is struggling to balance the needs of its people with the perceived threats to the nation.

Al Jazeera's Jane Dutton conducts a rare interview with Isaisas Afewerki, the president of Eritrea.

Al Jazeera confronted him with the allegations about Eritrea's ties with Iran, Hamas, al Shabab in Somalia and rebel groups in Sudan and Houthis in Yemen.

"This is a deliberate distortion of facts, where is the evidence, these are fabrications, where is your evidence?", he said.

"How possibly could one blame Eritrea for sympathising or supporting one group over another in Somalia we have never done that." he said.

When asked about Eritrea's relation with Ethiopia today and the border dispute he said: "This border issue war was a senseless conflict instigated by the US.

"It is a cover up for the failures of the misguided policies of the United States in the horn of Africa for the last 20 years.

"It is not a problem with Ethiopia we have worked with these people for almost two decades to remove a government in Ethiopia, and we want to see a relationship between Eritrea and Ethiopia based on mutual respect and common interest," he said.

"There is no presence for Iran in this region, Eritrea is not for sale, not for Iran, Israel, the United States or anybody," he said.

Talk to Al Jazeera can be seen from Saturday, February 20 at the following times GMT: 1130, 2230; Sunday: 0130 and 1900.


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Syrian government forces have killed five Turkish soldiers in an attack in northwestern Syria - the first significant clash between the two sides.

Turkey's military says it has killed more than 100 Syrian government soldiers in Idlib province in retaliation for the deaths of its troops.

Syrian soldiers are trying to recapture the last rebel-held province but Turkey is trying to counter this advance as the attacks are sending more Syrian refugees fleeing towards its borders.

Meanwhile Syria's ally, Russia has met Turkish officials to find a diplomatic solution to this crisis.

Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra reports from Istanbul, Turkey.

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Mike Pompeo has arrived in Senegal on his first trip to Africa as US secretary of state.
He is expected to discuss security and economic cooperation with President Macky Sall.
Ahead of his visit, he warned African states against China's influence in the continent, saying Chinese investment “feeds corruption and undermines the rule of law”.
There has been a recent spike in investment in African manufacturing by Chinese businesses looking to escape US tariffs on Chinese goods.
And, as Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque explains from Dakar, Senegal, not everyone agrees with Pompeo.

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The World Health Organization says it does not recommend trade and travel restrictions in the wake of the new coronavirus outbreak.
But that has not stopped at least 22 countries from imposing some form of travel restrictions on people coming from China.
That includes the United States, Israel, the Philippines, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand and North Korea; Indonesia and Iraq have issued temporary travel bans on people travelling or transiting from the mainland.
China's neighbours like Russia, Mongolia and Nepal are closing their borders and checkpoints, while others are introducing stricter controls.
Singapore, Vietnam, Russia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan and Mozambique have temporarily stopped issuing visas to Chinese nationals.
And nearly 40 airlines from across the world have stopped or partially suspending operations to and from China.
Something else appears to be spreading fast to communities big and small, due to ignorance and misinformation.
Al Jazeera's Andrew Chappelle has more.

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Iranian missiles have hit two Iraqi bases hosting US troops following Tehran's pledge to get revenge for the US killing of Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's elite foreign operations force. He died on Friday when rockets fired from a US Reaper drone hit his car as it was leaving Baghdad's international airport.

The missile attacks on Tuesday came a day after the US Defense Secretary Mark Esper refuted a military letter that appeared to say US troops were getting ready to leave Iraq. But Iraqi parliamentarians are angry at the deadly drone raid that targeted Soleimani, and have called for the expulsion of foreign forces from the country.

The killing of Soleimani, along with Iraqi paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, marked a dramatic escalation of conflict between Washington and Tehran. Relations had already been spiralling downwards amid US sanctions, tit-for-tat killings and a recent siege of the US embassy in Baghdad by hundreds of people loyal to the Popular Mobilisation Forces, an umbrella group of pro-Iranian militia forces under the authority of al-Muhandis.

All the while, Iraq faces a host of internal problems. It has been riven by protest for years and thousands of people have led regular anti-government demonstrations across the country. People have camped in Baghdad's Tahrir Square since October, as part of their effort to get systemic political change and electoral reform - and protesters have urged both Iran and the US to stop exerting control over Iraqi affairs.

With Iraq the site of Iran's biggest single security loss in years, is there any prospect of Iraq plotting its own independent course? We put that question to a panel of experts.

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For years the Muslim Brotherhood was officially banned by Egypt's government, but following the 2011 revolution, the fall of Hosni Mubarak and the country's first free parliamentary elections, the Brotherhood - with its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party - has emerged as Egypt's most powerful political force.

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Hong Kong has reported its first death from the coronavirus - the second one from the illness outside of mainland China.
On Monday, Hong Kong closed 10 of its 13 borders with mainland China, in a bid to stop the spread.
But medical workers have been demanding that the border be completely shut.
So far, Hong Kong has confirmed 14 cases of the virus.

Al Jazeera's Adrian Brown joins us live from Hong Kong for the latest updates.

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Syria’s conflict has been leaking out of its borders, but in few places are risks higher than in Lebanon.

Divided at birth by French colonial design after World War I, both states were destined to be bound by a common fate, but over the years their relationship was to prove uneasy - like that of rival siblings.

Only in 2008 did the two countries formalise diplomatic ties for the first time since both gained independence from France in the 1940s.

Recounting their history, this film helps explain how Syria and Lebanon are inextricably tied together - the fate of one defining that of the other.

"Lebanon has always been the entry point for any intervention in Syria’s internal affairs. During the past 40 years, we got used to hearing people rejecting the Syrian intervention in Lebanese affairs. But the truth is all the coups that took place in Syria between 1949 and 1970 had been planned in Beirut. Beirut was the starting point for the planning and the logistic support for every coup in Syria," says Jamal Wakim, a history professor at the Lebanese International University.

This historical journey helps explain how ongoing sectarian conflict in Syria risks setting off the powder keg of Lebanon.

"For the first time since 1970, when Hafez al-Assad came to power, up until now, Lebanon misses the spirit of the ‘big brother’. The oppressive spirit that also brings our people together. We can’t just wonder how the current situation in Syria would affect life in Lebanon. This is a serious issue. And we need to think more about it," says Nahla Chahal, a researcher and journalist."

This film looks at the history of the turbulent relationship between Syria and Lebanon - a history of sibling nations that bodes ill for the future.

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On The Listening Post this week: For a moment, China saw public anger and real news reporting about the coronavirus go uncensored. How come? Plus, the sound and fury of India's news anchors.

Speaking up about the coronavirus – but at what cost?
The death of Li Wenliang, a doctor in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, has caused collective outrage online.

Li was amongst the first to raise the alarm. He was then taken into custody and forced to confess to wrongdoing - spreading rumours - essentially for doing his job.

It is rare for the Chinese to openly criticise the government; rarer still when those criticisms on social media are not instantly deleted by censors.

And for Chinese journalists, there was a temporary window that opened for some hard-hitting investigative reporting. It appears that that window has since been closed - replaced by what Beijing calls "managed transparency".

Contributors:

Jane Li -Tech reporter, Quartz

Maria Repnikova - Assistant professor, Georgia State University

Muyi Xiao - Visuals editor, ChinaFile

Liu Xin - Host and journalist, CGTN

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Richard Gizbert speaks to Filipina journalist Maria Ressa, head of the news website Rappler, about President Rodrigo Duterte's move to shut down ABS-CBN, the country's leading broadcaster.

Arnab Goswami and the newsification of hate in India
Over the past decade, Indians have witnessed the rise of a new breed of news anchor: brash, aggressive, unapologetically nationalistic.

They trade in conflict, fear and spectacle - it is a formula that tends to pay off in the ratings and online.

The Listening Post's Meenakshi Ravi looks closely at a prime practitioner of this news style: Arnab Goswami of Republic TV.

Contributors:

Pragya Tiwari - Delhi-based writer

Kunal Kamra - Comedian

Aditya Raj Kaul - Former senior editor, Republic TV

Manisha Pande - Executive editor, Newslaundry

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It's been about 100 days into the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte.

Since he took power, the Philippine president has overseen the killing of more than 3,500 people in his war on drugs, offended world leaders and strained relations with the US.

In an exclusive first interview since he was sworn in, we talk to Duterte about his controversial war on drugs and foreign policy - including deteriorating relations with the United States and potentially warming relations with China.
In this second part of the interview, he discusses relations with the US.
In response to why the Philippines is "pursuing a different paradigm" in its relationship with the United States, Duterte explains that his disaffection with the American leadership is related to US criticism of his war on drugs.

"Had America just followed the normal procedure of calling the attention of a country to a certain violation, that would affect the laws of humanity, it could have just followed the due process, which is normally - according to everybody - going to the United Nations, airing a grievance and demanding an investigation. It should begin in the internal body of the United Nations because we are, or the Philippines is, a member of the United Nations."

Conflicting reports about the military ties between the United States and the Philippines have also plagued the media of late. Without finality, Duterte confirms the potential cease of several long withstanding agreements between the two countries, including military exercises, the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, and even the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty.

As controversy continues to follow the Philippine president, be it whilst publicly cursing US President Barack Obama, branding former Philippine president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos as "the best" the country has ever seen, or being in favour of "emergency" shortcuts to execute "democratic" decisions, only one thing seems certain: in Duterte's view, none of his decisions thus far warrant any unfavourable comparisons.

"For the life of me, I have yet to remember a thing that I did that would indicate that I have the traces of being dictatorial. From day one."

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Clayton Swisher from Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit explores the corrupt deals that plunged Egypt into an energy crisis and now leave it facing dependency on Israel.


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What would an election victory for Ruto and running mate Uhuru Kenyatta mean for the future of Kenya?

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Our impartial, fact-based reporting wins worldwide praise and respect. It is our unique brand of journalism that the world has come to rely on.
We are reshaping global media and constantly working to strengthen our reputation as one of the world's most respected news and current affairs channels.

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In this episode of UpFront we challenge Aung San Suu Kyi's former spokesperson on allegations of genocide in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

And we debate the police response to protests in France against President Emmanuel Macron's government with La Republique En Marche MP Roland Lescure.

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The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak is rising in China with the National Health Commission confirming 46 more deaths, bringing the total to 259.
The government is trying to address the shortage of medical personnel by sending thousands of extra doctors and nurses, both civilian and military, to the areas most affected by the outbreak.
Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay reports from Hong Kong.

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MPs in Somalia have voted to declare a contract with the United Arab Emirates null and void – endangering plans to develop a port in the Horn of Africa.

Dubai-based shipping giant DP World wants to enlarge the port of Berberra in the breakaway state of Somaliland.

Somalia's parliament has voted to ban the Emiratis.

But representatives of Somalia's six federal states in the Senate can’t agree on what to do next.

Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow reports from Mogadishu.

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US President Donald Trump has issued a statement on Iran from the White House, where he reiterated that "no Americans were killed" in the Iranian strikes against two military bases in Iraq.
He also said that Iran appears to be "standing down", a sign that Washington may not seek a response.
"As long as I am leader, Iran will never have nuclear weapons," he said.
Tensions between the United States and Iran have escalated dramatically after Iranian missiles hit two Iraqi bases hosting US troops in retaliation for the US assassination of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq.

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The Rohingya: Silent Abuse

Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has a population of around 51 million people. The Burman ethnic group constitutes around two-thirds of this figure and controls the military and the government. But there are also more than 135 ethnic groups in the country, each with their own culture.

Many of them have become internally displaced by government moves to exploit land, provoking long-standing friction.

In fact, the conflict between Myanmar's ethnic minorities and the ruling Burmese majority represent one of the world's longest ongoing conflicts.

One group, the Muslim Rohingya, are not recognised as an ethnic nationality of Myanmar, so they suffer from arguably the worst discrimination and human rights abuses of all. The Rohingya population is somewhere between one and two million and they are living mainly in Rakhine State in the north of the country.

In this film, Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Salam Hindawi goes to Myanmar to investigate the situation surrounding the Rohingya.

Myanmar has been tightly controlled for decades and Hindawi has enormous difficulties gaining access to certain areas of the country that the government simply doesn't want anyone from outside to see.

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The death toll in mainland China from the new coronavirus has surged to 811, the National Health Commission said on Sunday, as deaths in China surpassed those recorded during the 2002-2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak.
In China, a total of 37,198 infections have been confirmed, most of which are in Hubei province and its capital, Wuhan, where the virus originated.
Al Jazeera's Katrina Yu reports from Beijing.


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In this major investigation, Al Jazeera reveals new evidence suggesting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned.

This documentary centres on scientific analysis of Arafat’s personal effects, which he wore and kept close to him in his final days.

Scientists from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland discover elevated levels of polonium on Arafat’s effects.

Polonium is a radioactive element that can be used as a poison.

This project also releases, for the first time, Yasser Arafat’s full medical records.

It includes a one-hour film, interactive features and exclusive documents and articles.

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Writer and journalist Aatish Taseer returns to India, his mother country, to explore the changes in this deeply religious yet secular nation.

He takes an in-depth look at tensions between Hindus and Muslims, and how the hardline government of the country's prime minister, Narendra Modi, has fueled anger between Indians of different faiths.

Cows are a sensitive topic in India - holy to Hindus and a commodity to Muslims. Taseer meets the families of cow traders and herders who have become targets of Hindu nationalist anger.

Aatish also meets Hindus who believe Muslim men are forcing Hindu women to convert to Islam as some form of "Love Jihad" - and discovers the dangerous lengths they are prepared to go to stop Hindu women marrying Muslim men.

He also examines the country's history of religious rule, stretching back to the Mughal Empire and beyond. He searches for answers as to why India finds itself in this position today, and what lies ahead for this religiously diverse nation founded on secular principles.

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Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) have always considered "the West" - and the United States in particular - the ultimate enemy.

But following President Vladimir Putin's policy of military involvement in Syria, Russia may have taken its place as ISIL's main target.

Thousands of ISIL fighters from Syria, Iraq and elsewhere are regrouping in the virtually impregnable mountains of Afghanistan, plotting revenge against the Kremlin.

ISIL's high command have given orders to target Russian cities, with thousands of trained fighters ready to act at any time.

Most recently, a lone terrorist on the metro in St Petersburg demonstrated the vulnerability of any modern city. On a moving train, in the middle of the day, a young Uzbek man with Russian citizenship detonated a bomb made with TNT and packed with shrapnel. Dozens were hurt and 15 killed. The bomber was later reported in the Russian media to have been in Syria with ISIL in 2014.

The Russians maintain that they are monitoring ISIL's movements closely, claiming lack of concern regarding threats from the group.

The Russia-Afghanistan connection is nothing new, with a decades-old history laced in conflict.

The Soviet-Afghan war, led by Leonid Brezhnev first and then Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-80s, was waged against insurgent groups known as the "mujahideen" and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. After almost a decade of war, they were driven out by a coalition of Afghan tribesmen led by the charismatic Ahmad Shah Masoud, who became known as the Lion of Panjshir.

When the Soviet army eventually withdrew in 1989, the power vacuum made way for the rise of different armed factions which would slowly tear the nation apart - allowing the Taliban, al-Qaeda and ISIL to take root in Afghanistan.

Zubair Massoud, the nephew of Ahmed Shah Massoud, is the adviser to the Afghan National Security Council. He sees the recent influx of ISIL fighters as a major threat to Afghanistan and its neighbouring countries.

As well as attacking isolated villages, ISIL has brought terror to the capital, Kabul. In one incident alone, 80 people were killed in a suicide bombing. So if they manage to infiltrate Russia with the number of trained sleeper cells they speak of, then the carnage they currently create in Afghanistan is merely a precursor to their plans for Moscow, St Petersburg, and other target cities.

Zamir Kabulov, President Putin's special envoy to Afghanistan, appears dismissive of the growing threats across the borders from Russia. He says that the worst-case scenario would only be realised if ISIL were able to create instability across Central Asia, flooding Russia with refugees that could cause a security issue.

Massoud fears that the Russians and other neighbouring countries to the north of Afghanistan may not understand the extent of the situation, with numbers of fighters in the region growing at an exponential rate.

With unprecedented access, ISIL: Target Russia looks at how ISIL and its splinter groups are training and organising to move fighter units north, through the Caucuses, with the intent of attacking Russia. We profile some of ISIL's women fighters and meet commanders and fighters in the remote mountains of northern Afghanistan who explain that their plan to hit Russia is already well underway.

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تناولت حلقة (2020/2/21) من برنامج "فوق السلطة" مواضيعها بالعناوين التالية: بعد المنشار المنشور وأغبى تزوير في التاريخ. مهاتير محمد يرقص في الخامسة والتسعين. الصواريخ السورية تبكي الأطفال وتضحكهم. عمران.. لو ترشح أردوغان بباكستان سيفوز. ومن المبالغة ما قتل من الضحك على الهواء.
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The number of coronavirus infection cases has reached nearly 64,000 in China.
Almost all of the cases are in China's Hubei province.
It has also seen more than 95 percent of the 1,380 deaths so far.
Nearly 500 cases have been confirmed in 24 other countries.
The Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan have each reported one death from the virus.
Victor Gao, the vice president at the Center for China and Globalization, discusses the outcome with Al Jazeera.

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned the offensive in northeast Syria will resume "within minutes" if Kurdish rebels do not abide by the terms of the five-day ceasefire.
The truce is largely holding, despite both sides accusing each other of violations.

Al Jazeera's Sinem Koseoglu reports from Istanbul.

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What is China? Where is it going? What is it going to do?

The world's most populous country, an economy set to become the biggest in the world, a communist state, a developing nation, the world's oldest surviving civilisation at the cutting edge of a technological revolution.

An authoritarian regime brutally suppressing its minority groups - China is many things to many people, but running through its core, like a continuous silk thread, is one central principle: order.

The China Complex examines how they have been applied by ruling dynasties, nationalist republicans, communist revolutionaries all the way through to today's Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping. And at the heart of any leader's authority, we find a higher ideal: the Mandate of Heaven (tianming), legitimising the rule of emperors and paramount leaders alike.

The suppression of Tibetan Buddhists and majority-Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang have been uncompromising. Viewed through the prism of order, new light is shed on how such oppression serves the greater Chinese interest.

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Ties between Israel and Turkey - who were once good friends - have deteriorated in recent years due to a dispute over gas reserves and diplomatic priorities.

Recent changes in geopolitics have not only soured relations but also led to new tensions.

What does this falling out mean for the region? This film assesses the state of affairs between the two Mediterranean countries.

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China's military is sending hundreds of doctors and nurses to Wuhan - the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak as the country grapples with new cases and more deaths.
Nearly 2,000 more infections were reported on Sunday, bringing the total on the mainland to more than 71,000.
More than 1,770 people have died so far.
The World Health Organization is also sending its own team of experts to Beijing and two provinces.
And for the first time in recent history, China is considering delaying its annual congress - the year's biggest political meeting.
Al Jazeera's Sarah Clarke reports from Hong Kong on how China is trying to mitigate the economic impact of the epidemic.

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What if you were kidnapped? Would your family negotiate with hostages? Would they pay a ransom? Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit takes you inside the hidden world of hostage taking, negotiations and ransom payments.

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Tens of thousands of Algerians have been taking part in nationwide protests since February.

They’re opposed to 82-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s decision to run for a fifth term.

He’s been been ruling the country for 20 years, and for the past six, he’s struggled to speak or walk.

So what do these protests mean for the country’s future?

Algeria gained independence from France in 1962.

The push for self-rule was led by the so-called Army of National Liberation -- which later became the country’s formal military force.

It has played a major part in Algeria’s political system for more than five decades.

Young Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who had joined the Army of National Liberation during the revolution, quickly became involved in political life as well.

He became the minister of foreign affairs at the age of 26.

Corruption charges eventually forced him into self-imposed exile in 1981, first to Switzerland and then the United Arab Emirates.

Bouteflika returned to Algeria in 1987, and was readmitted into the country’s ruling party.

The following year, a protest movement led mostly by young people, and fueled by a major recession, swept across the country.

It was met with a government crackdown.

120 people died according to official figures.

But activists put the number around 500.

The demonstrations managed to force the government to end the single-party system and grant wider media freedom.

It also led to the country's first democratic elections.

The gradual political liberalisation that followed allowed the Islamic Salvation Front party to gain a foothold in domestic politics.

In response, the military cancelled the country's legislative vote in 1991, which historians say would have certainly brought the Islamic Salvation Front to power in Africa's biggest country.

What followed was a 10-year civil war, which left as many as 200,000 Algerians dead and approximately 15,000 forcibly disappeared.

In 1999, in the midst of the war, Bouteflika agreed to run for president.

His opponents complained the vote was rigged and dropped out.

Bouteflika won with 74% of the vote.

He spent his first years as president trying to end the civil war.

He pushed forward with the 2005 Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation, which granted amnesty to armed groups.

He then set out to get the country out of diplomatic isolation and kick-start its stagnant economy.

In 2008, the president changed the constitution to allow him to run for a third term.

The Arab uprisings of 2011 toppled regional leaders, including those of neighbouring Tunisia and Libya.

But Bouteflika was able to use Algeria’s vast oil wealth, and the threat of instability, to remain in power.

But by 2012, it appeared Bouteflika was ready to step down.

"My generation is finished," " Our time is over. Our time is over. Our time is over”

But it wasn't.

A year later, he suffered a debilitating stroke, which confined him to a wheelchair.

But Bouteflika stood for elections again in 2014 and won his 4th term.

Public sentiment began shifting in large part due to a global drop in oil prices.

It forced his government to cut state subsidies.

Youth unemployment is now estimated at about 29%, an alarming statistic in a country where 70% of the population is believed to be under the age of 30.


Ruling party’s executives had been signaling that Boutifika would once again be their candidate for the April 18th election.

But it wasn’t until he officially announced his candidacy on February 10th that people decided they’d had enough.

Protests spread across different cities, and have been growing ever since.

Journalists, students, lawyers and politicians have all joined in.

Even 83-year-old Djamila Bouhired, an iconic figure of the independence war against France, was seen among the protesters.

Since his stroke in 2013, Bouteflika has rarely appeared in public.

He’s been in Switzerland since February 24th for what the government calls "routine medical checks."

Despite the protests, Bouteflika formalised his candidacy on March 4th.

But he announced that if elected, he’ll help set a date for new polls in which he will not run.

That has done nothing to stop the protests.

The military insists it will not allow the country to fall back into violence, and will ensure stable and smooth conditions for the elections.

But it’s still unclear how it plans to do that.

For now, protesters continue to flood the streets of Algeria, pushing for change and hoping their efforts will bring their country together.

Turkey has launched a major military operation in northeastern Syria aimed at removing the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from the border area and creating a "safe zone" so millions of Syrian refugees can be returned.
The SDF is an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias that was instrumental in driving out ISIL over the past four years, backed by air strikes of a US-led coalition.
But Turkey considers the Kurdish-led alliance a “terrorist” group because it says its main fighting force is The People's Protection Units, or YPG.
Turkey views the YPG as an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey for more than three decades.

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Senior Communist Party officials - including four from Hubei province - have been fired as the political fallout from the outbreak continue.

Analysts say the sackings are the government's bid to salvage the situation.

Al Jazeera's Adrian Brown reports.

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For years, private armies have provided services to governments around the world. They are often secretive and operate in the shadows.

Blackwater - now known as Academi - is one of the most well-known private armies. It has provided troops and other services to the US government in different conflicts, including the Iraq war.

But it is not always clear how these private armies are formed, where they operate, or even what their missions consist of.

Eeben Barlow is chairman of 'Specialised Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection International' - a private army that - according to Barlow - has operated throughout Africa and beyond. He was also behind another similar company that shut down in 1998 - called Executive Outcomes.

And while many argue private armies are mercenaries doing the jobs governments do not want to do - Barlow insists his operations are legitimate and follow international law.

"We don't see ourselves as mercenaries. We are first of all contracted by a national government. We become part of their armed forces, we wear their uniforms, we follow their procedures and guidelines, we fall under the legal regulations of that country. So, in other words, we serve the country that contracts us. And yes, we get paid for it, but we certainly don't get paid to run around and cause chaos," says Barlow.

Some private military contractors have been accused of prolonging conflicts instead of ending them, but Barlow believes that "there is a fine line between moral and immoral".

"But that really goes back to the people that are involved ... We've never prolonged a conflict, in fact, we've ended them despite them carrying on for decades and decades. We've ended them in a very short space of time. But I am aware of companies that do not mind if the conflict continues because that's the goose that lays the golden egg, and they certainly don't want to stop it," says Barlow.

He stresses the importance of cultural understanding and expertise needed to end conflicts across Africa.

"We are after all Africans that work in Africa. But I do think there is a major concern that Africans can actually end African conflicts," says Barlow.

"We look at all these private military companies going into Africa, they are just charging, they don't understand the environment they are in, they don't understand the area of operation, they don't understand the people and very quickly, they offend people ... If they are not going to add value and bring about ... stability and peace, then they shouldn't be there. But unfortunately, this has been allowed to drag on."

So who makes sure these armies are indeed following international law? How do they operate? And is there accountability?

Eeben Barlow provides an insight into the world of private military contractors as he talks to Al Jazeera about his company's role in fighting Boko Haram in Nigeria, the LRA in Uganda and other conflicts across Africa.

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Hero or war criminal? A profile of Jovan Divjak, an ethnic Serb who defended Sarajevo against attack from Serb forces during the Bosnian war. A film by Eylem Kaftan

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What will become of families stranded in Vietnam since their Moroccan fathers defected from the French army in 1953?

In the 1940s, young Moroccans joined the French army to earn a living and support their families.

In 1953, many were serving in Indo-China when they learned of the exile of King Mohamed V and deserted to join the forces of Ho Chi Minh.

Some soldiers moved to Huang Houn in northern Vietnam, and continued to live in the region for years, marrying local women and starting families there.

Unusual in that they were half-Vietnamese and half-Moroccan, these families nevertheless made lives for themselves in the region.

After a lengthy absence abroad, most of the soldiers eventually returned to Morocco in 1972. But three families remained stranded in Vietnam.

They are unable to return to Morocco because their fathers have died and their mothers are unable to prove Moroccan parentage.

Now all many of them can do is wait for the Moroccan government to decide their fate, as they remain forgotten victims of a war that ended decades ago.


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There’s an intense battle for Libya’s capital Tripoli that’s killed more than 200 civilians and displaced thousands of people.
The offensive is being led by a renegade general named Khalifa Haftar who’s fighting militias loyal to the UN-recognised Government of National Accord.
But who is Haftar, which countries support him and which world powers back the GNA?
Start Here explains what’s behind the fight for Libya and why the international community has struggled to stop it.

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On The Listening Post this week: The coronavirus outbreak in China - a public health disaster and a messaging nightmare. Also on the show, the saga of Hong Kong's kidnapped bookseller.

Covering the Coronavirus Contagion
On January 23, Chinese authorities shut down the city of Wuhan. In short order, 17 more cities were quarantined, affecting nearly 60 million people.

The orders issued by Beijing were significant, but late in coming: the first official case of the virus was confirmed almost two months ago. That was how long it took for China's state-controlled media to stop downplaying the seriousness of the outbreak and start providing the kind of information that can save lives.

By that stage, however, millions of Chinese citizens had passed through the affected region - unaware of the risks involved.

With the death toll now in the hundreds, the number of infected in the thousands, the coronavirus - like the coverage of this story - has gone global.

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Luwei Rose Luqiu - assistant professor, Hong Kong Baptist University; former executive news editor, Phoenix TV

Katrina Yu - China correspondent, Al Jazeera English

Mary Hui - reporter, Quartz

Huiling Ding - associate professor, North Carolina State University; author of Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic: Transcultural Communication about Sars

On our radar:
Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Meenakshi Ravi about the Washington Post reporter who was suspended from her job over a controversial tweet, and The Guardian's decision to ban advertising from fossil fuel firms.

The Saga of the Kidnapped Bookseller of Hong Kong
For more than 20 years, Lam Wing-kee owned Causeway Bay Books, a store that not only specialised in literature critical of the Chinese Communist Party and the private lives of Beijing's ruling elite, but perfected the art of smuggling those books - which are banned in China - onto the mainland.

His work turned him into a target. In 2015, Lam disappeared along with four of his colleagues, only to resurface months later on Chinese state television, "confessing" to the crime of smuggling contraband.

The Listening Post's Johanna Hoes travelled to Lam's new home, Taiwan, to speak to him about his time in a secret Chinese prison, the bizarre circumstances of his release, and his stated wish to finish what he started - running a bookstore with a mission.

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Lam Wing-kee - former owner and manager, Causeway Bay Books

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The current crisis in Yemen is a very complex one.

This film focuses on one aspect of it: how the Houthis were able to move south from their northern base and take the capital, Sanaa, quite so easily, and whether former President Ali Abdullah Saleh may have played a role in this move.

Founded in the early 1990s by Hussein Badr Eddin al-Houthi, the Houthis grew into a strong military force.

As Zaidi Shia, they were convinced of their right to participate in the national government and fought a series of six wars against the Saleh regime between 2004 and 2010. Here, we look at the rise of the Houthis and their move south from their northern stronghold of Saada Province, and explore the possibility that there was more to former President Saleh's role in this than was apparent at the time.

Some who had been closely associated with Saleh and served in the army during battles against the Houthis testify here about what they saw as double dealing.

Fahad al-Sharafi was a leading member of Saleh's General People's Congress Party during the third Houthi war.

"I was part of the presidential committee when the president ordered the First Armoured Division and the 17th Infantry to withdraw. These honourable men had to leave behind the sacrifices they'd made," he says. "They even had to leave the bodies of their comrades without covering or burying them."

Abdullah al-Hadhari is a Brigadier-General in the Yemeni Army and has a PhD in international law. He took part in the six wars against the Houthis and was surprised at some of the orders coming out of Sanaa.

"I think the ceasefire was the biggest crime," he says. "Tribes supporting us were being annihilated and killed, but the government turned a blind eye on the pretext of the ceasefire."

"All these tribes were served up to the Houthis on a golden platter," Sharafi says. "Many tribes fought alongside the government and achieved victory, but the government gave them up during the truce."

Al-Sharafi also spotted what he felt was double-dealing between Saleh and the businessman, politician and arms dealer, Fares Manaa, while he was negotiating peace deals with the Houthis.

"The Houthis had four trucks loaded with weapons that were used against the people of Ghamar while Fares was part of a mediation committee," Sharafi says. "He was on a mediation committee and supplied weapons to the Houthis at the same time."

In February 2011, Yemenis protested against President Saleh and his government on the streets of Sanaa. Houthis took part in the Youth Revolution which led to Saleh handing over power to Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. But some Yemenis thought that their commitment to their own cause was greater than to the general good. The revolution seemed also to galvanise the Houthis and give them both the opportunity and encouragement they needed to initiate their move south. They duly made their gradual way towards the capital, attacking the cities and villages in their path.

At the same time, Saleh began plotting how to take revenge on those who had opposed him during the revolution, including leading military figures like Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and Hamid al-Qushaibi. It's possible that Saleh manipulated the Houthis to serve his interests in a proxy war against his own political enemies, including President Hadi.

As the Houthi rebellion gained momentum in 2014, forces in the Yemeni Army and Republican Guard who had remained loyal to Saleh, may have colluded with the Houthis to help pave their way to the capital. When they arrived there, they were able to take the city with unusual ease, explained by interviewees in the film, by the lack of resistance by army groups involved in this double dealing.

"I believe the Minister of Defence betrayed Yemen, the nation and his military honour. He betrayed the Arab nation because he handed over Sanaa to the Houthis instead of defending it as a national and constitutional duty," Hadhari laments.

Peace talks are planned in Kuwait in the coming days, involving the three main players: the internationally-recognised government of President Hadi with the Sunni tribes, the Houthis and Saleh's General People's Congress Party.

The film concludes that if factional in-fighting and Machiavellian plans had not been hatched by Saleh, the Houthis and all the other parties involved, Yemen might have been spared such a prolonged and damaging civil conflict.

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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi has accused some countries of over-reacting and causing panic over the COVID-19 outbreak.
He says China is confident and determined to defeat the virus.
But, as Al Jazeera's Adrian Brown reports, there are growing concerns over a shortage of protective gear for frontline medical workers.

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The Trump administration has finally lifted the curtains on the final act of its Middle East diplomacy by revealing the long-awaited, ahem, "peace plan" in a surrealistic White House celebration.
I will admit from the outset that I cannot write about it with a straight face, considering the absurdity of the last three years of Trump policies towards Israel and Palestine.
To call it a "peace plan" is to do injustice to the infamous "peace process" and its many failed "peace plans". It is so much worse, that a better term for it would be an "assault on peace".
Everything about the plan is farcical.
Al Jazeera's senior political analyst Marwan Bishara discusses the outcome of the deal.


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Iraqi women are defying a call by a leading Shia Muslim leader to stop protesting alongside men.
Muqtada al-Sadr is calling for the segregation of men and women because of nudity, alcohol drinking and illegal drug-taking at mixed-sex anti-government rallies.
Al Jazeera's Rob Matheson reports from Baghdad, Iraq.


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Hundreds of thousands are marching in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka to demand the government start policing the blogosphere. The marchers want a blasphemy law - requiring the death penalty for people who insult Islam online. At least four bloggers were arrested this week for criticising the country's religious parties. The government accused them of inciting violence, but critics say it's stifling free speech. An Al Jazeera correspondent reports from Dhaka.

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For 25 years just one man has occupied the Ugandan seat of power - President Yoweri Museveni. Today he has joined the league of African leaders whose only wish seems to be to remain in power forever. He is now seeking another five years in power and Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow asks him what he hopes to achieve in the next five years that he was unable to in the past quarter of a century.

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More than 300 American cruise ship passengers who volunteered to be repatriated are now being quarantined in military bases in California and Texas after flying on charter flights from Japan.

The total amount of passengers include the 14 who tested positive for COVID-19. Japanese authorities released the news of their infection as they were waiting to board the planes.

This meant that the infected passengers were in close proximity to the rest of the other apparently healthy passengers on the planes.

Al Jazeera's Heidi Zhou-Castro reports.
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Turkish forces and their allies say they have seized control of the centre of Ras al-Ain, a key Syrian border town, after four days of heavy fighting. Kurdish forces are disputing the claim.
But advances on the ground have meant a setback in relations with some countries especially the United States.
And Iran, which had urged Turkey to pull its troops, is now offering to mediate between Turkey and the Kurds.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from the Turkey-Syria border.

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Could you imagine a country being run by three presidents? This is how the political system works in Bosnia and Herzegovina. And it is one of the most complicated systems in the world.

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Donald Trump's Middle East plan is the last chance for the Palestinians to have a state, Jared Kushner, the US president's son-in-law and special adviser, has said.
In his first interview to Al Jazeera after Trump unveiled his long-awaited plan for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, crafted by Kushner, he called it a historic opportunity for the Palestinians to achieve an independent state of their own.
He said the Trump administration's plan will make the Middle East safer and more prosperous.
However, Palestinians have already rejected it saying it only favours Israel.

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Aljazeera’s Investigative Unit unravels a high-stakes international plot hatched by powerful Eastern European oligarchs to make millions of dollars from a crooked deal. According to one Ukrainian analyst: “It sounds like an agreement between criminal bosses. You can sign it with your blood.”

The scheme involves using a web of offshore companies and international lawyers to raid US$160 million dollars under the noses of the authorities.

The money is effectively being stolen for a second time… the funds were initially frozen by Ukraine’s courts after its former president, Viktor Yanukovych, was discovered to have emptied the country’s treasury.

The Oligarchs include an exiled gas billionaire guarded by Russian special forces, a Moscow property magnate and an Olympic show jumper on the run from Ukrainian authorities.

The investigation shines light on the ever shifting battle between the oligarchs and global financial regulators.

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This film goes behind the scenes with Palestinian icon and musical virtuoso, Simon Shaheen, one of the most significant and celebrated Arab musicians of his generation.

Born into a large musical family from a village in northern Galilee, Shaheen was inspired by his father.

“He introduced me to the secrets of classical Arab music,” Simon Shaheen says of his father Hikmat Shaheen, who was an oud player, teacher and composer.

Since childhood, Simon Shaheen's artistic hunger and dynamic personality have helped him move from his native Palestine to cross cultural boundaries. He won a music scholarship from Columbia University in New York and later settled in the United States.

But he looked to Palestine, the land of his birth, and to other parts of the Middle East, for the next generation of Arab musical talent. This film shows a series of Skype auditions with Shaheen in the US and his potential students in Ramallah.

Shaheen has specialised in combining traditional Arabic music with Western classical and jazz; and his unique style has drawn followers from across the globe.

For more than 20 years, Shaheen has also been leading a week-long Arabic musical retreat at a centre in rural Massachusetts.

“Part of this retreat is to introduce Arabic music theory in a new, innovative way and from a different viewpoint,” Shaheen says.

For successful young musicians, the retreat is an opportunity to study under one of the most significant musical teachers of a generation whose continuing desire to adapt and change is one of his greatest gifts.

“I like to use the ideas of different music from different countries like Egyptian, Syrian, and Palestinian music, Lebanese, Moroccan, Tunisian and Iraqi music,” Shaheen says.

He adds: “For sure, many of these musical styles have a lot in common but there are differences as well.”

Violinist Layth Sidiq serves as an educator at Shaheen’s retreats. “I went deeper into Arabic music with Simon which made me appreciate my musical roots,” he says. “This encouraged me first to expand my understanding of Arabic music within me before I can share it with others. At the same time I can learn about other music and cultures and if possible merge the two together."

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Think of Cyprus and what comes to mind are sun-kissed beaches and breath-taking scenery.

But there is another reason that draws people to the Mediterrranean island - mixed-faith Middle Eastern, mainly Lebanese, couples seeking a civil union.

Al Jazeera World looks at what happens when romance cuts across religious lines.

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Documents and testimony obtained by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit expose the inner workings of the Myanmar regime, providing “strong evidence” of genocide against the Rohingya minority.

Exclusive evidence reveals the government has been triggering communal violence for political gain by inciting anti-Muslim riots, using hate speech to stoke fear among the Myanmarese about Muslims, and offering money to hardline Buddhist groups who threw their support behind the leadership.

This eight-month investigation draws on a range of interviews with former and current military and intelligence officials, internally displaced people and advocacy groups.

The 48-minute documentary draws on documents from the Myanmar military, an unpublished United Nations report and other government paperwork, all presented here.

Assessed by Yale University Law School and the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London, they constitute “strong evidence” of a state-led genocide.

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China's President is admitting shortfalls in the response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Xi Jinping is promising to fix problems and loopholes in the health system.
The epicentre of the outbreak, Hubei province, reported a sharp increase in new cases.
But the World Health Organization says that's because doctors are using a broader definition to diagnose the infected.
Hubei's communist party chief is among four local leaders to be sacked for mismanaging the response.
Is a change of strategy needed?

Presenter: Nick Clark
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John Nicholls - Professor in pathology, University of Hong Kong & flu expert
Peter Drobac - Director of the University of Oxford's Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Xun Zhou - Reader in Modern History at the University of Essex who researches China's health system

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In northwestern Syria, rebels have launched a counterattack against pro-government forces.
Fighting has been intensifying in Idlib and Hama provinces since last month despite a Turkish and Russian-brokered ceasefire.
At least 200 civilians have been killed.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports.

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The Nile's delta and waters nourish 11 North African countries and the river has long inspired ancient myths, poetry and the curiosity of travellers.

This film takes an intimate look at the everyday lives of two families living on the Nile. Salama Saeed left school when he was 12 years old to become a fisherman. Back then, fishing was a profitable job; now, it is a hand-to-mouth existence, as fish stocks have steadily depleted. Saeed, his wife and three children live on a boat near Giza.

Every day, he takes his two young sons to the shore so they can go to school. Saeed is now trying to save money for his younger daughter's dowry.

Sayed al-Sayed was born on the Nile and lives on a boat with his wife and two little daughters. His parents also live on a boat. Unlike Saeed, Sayed does not have an identity card. Being unregistered means it is difficult for him to seek medical treatment for him and his family.

The families are sometimes questioned by the river police who monitor the illegal use of electrofishing, a method of catching fish by stunning them, and must avoid the territorial gangs who control some parts of the Nile.

For Saeed and Sayed's families who live, eat, work and sleep on small boats, life is a daily struggle and the families dream of a better life on dry land.

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People in Lebanon have refused to end their protests even though a new government has been announced.
Many say they’re tired of the corruption and a never-ending economic crisis.
Prime Minister Hassan Diab put together a new cabinet that he says is made up of technocrats with no political affiliations.
But many protesters say that’s not the case and are demanding an overhaul of Lebanon’s political system.

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China is turning to the European Union for assistance as it struggles to contain the outbreak of coronavirus.
The country's prime minister has asked the EU to help find urgently-needed medical supplies.

Australia has joined the United States in banning the entry of foreign nationals who have recently been to China - due to the coronavirus outbreak.
It has been reported that 259 people have now died from the virus. On Saturday, China announced 46 new deaths.
Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler reports from Beijing.
Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay reports from Hong Kong.
Al Jazeera's Alexi O'Brien reports from Bankok.


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Karaoke. Chemistry. Killing. This is the story of a brazen chemical attack at daytime in a busy airport. It claimed the life of the North Korean leader’s eldest brother within two hours. The men who planned and executed the attack escaped, leaving two young women to face the consequences. The man suspected of cooking up the chemical concoction that killed Kim Jong Nam got away after two weeks under arrest.
Despite the evidence, Al Jazeera finds he is free and happy.
Meet the Karaoke Chemist believed to be behind the most high-profile assassinations of recent times.

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Immediately after 9/11, the US announced that 'the gloves were coming off' in the fight against al-Qaeda. A unique Presidential Finding gave the CIA greater powers than it had enjoyed at any point in its history.

Electronic eavesdropping, kidnap, rendition and water-boarding were the results.

The film explores how the CIA fought al-Qaeda in the shadows, focusing on the monitoring of its communications, the group's escape from Tora Bora and the problems this raised.

We examine the highs and lows of the intelligence war, revealing how the US nearly lost outright in 2003 and how al-Qaeda negated its own advances through a bloody campaign to eliminate Iraq's Shias.

This is the story of the secret war behind the 'war on terror'.

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Standing beside a grateful Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump unveiled his Middle East plan, which is referred to as the "Deal of the Century", on January 28.
The plan promises a better life for the Palestinians if they give up their hopes for freedom.
The Palestinians were not involved in the making of the 80-page brochure and were not invited to the launch party.
So, what are the prospects for Trump's "ultimate deal" for the Middle East?

Join Steve Clemons and his panel in a discussion of the timing and content of the plan.

Guests:

- Noura Erakat - Human rights lawyer, co-founder of Jadaliyya, assistant professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University

- Dan Arbell - Former Israeli diplomat and negotiator, scholar at Center for Israeli Studies at American University

- Shibley Telhami - Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland

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There has been another air raid on a convoy in Iraq, reportedly targeting fighters from the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF).
The attack took place on a convoy along the Taji road, north of Baghdad.

Al Jazeera's Osama Bin Javaid said the PMF is saying the convoy hit was full of medics, not fighters.

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The coronavirus outbreak, which has killed 170 people and infected thousands across mainland China, has now spread to every one of the country's 31 provinces.
The World Health Organization is preparing to hold another urgent meeting later on Thursday, to decide whether the outbreak should be considered a global emergency.
Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay from Hong Kong and Scott Heidler from Beijing have more on the story.

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In the US, reaction to Soleimani's assassination is split between the major parties.
Donald Trump's Republicans are praising his actions, while Democrats are questioning why the President did not consult Congress before approving the attack.

Al Jazeera's Heidi Zhou-Castro reports from Washington, DC, in the US.

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He’s ruled Uganda for 31 years.
With five presidential terms in office, Yoweri Museveni is surrounded by controversies related to freedom of speech, human rights, allegations of nepotism, and even the killing of Ugandan citizens.
But President Museveni claims Uganda is the most democratic country in the world and that he is leading his people out of poverty and to an even better future.
At 72, though, he’s three years away from the constitutional age limit to serve as President. But there is already speculation he will try to change that limit so he can get around it.
We'll discuss all of this in an exclusive interview as he visited the State of Qatar.

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Human Rights Watch, in its latest report, criticised Uganda's government's dealings in terms of human rights. Suppression of free speech, putting dissidents in jail … we have the case of Stella Nyanzi who is still in jail just because she expressed herself. We also have the opposition leader who has been in jail several times. We have the government cracking down on opponents and preventing people from rallying freely. By law, more than five people should have the consent and agreement of the police before they can express themselves in the street.

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Oman is mourning the death of a man who transformed the nation.
Sultan Qaboos bin Said was 79 and had been ill for some time.
Over the course of 50 years, he turned a poor country on the Arabian Peninsula into a modern state, which stayed diplomatically neutral in a region divided by conflict.
Sultan Qaboos' successor was sworn in just a few hours after the death was announced.
How will Haitham bin Tariq build on his cousin's legacy?

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The targeted killing of Major General Qassam Soleimani, who led the elite Al-Quds force in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, was ordered by US President Trump.
An American air strike hit his convoy, near the airport in Baghdad.
The assassination marks a dangerous escalation in tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned there would be ‘harsh revenge.’
A senior Iraqi official also died in the attack, and all Americans have now been advised to leave Iraq, because of the threat of reprisal attacks.

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Darren Jordon
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Hamed Mousavi, Professor of Political Science at the University of Tehran.
Ellie Geranmayeh, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Marwan Kabalan, Director of Policy Analysis at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies at the Doha Institute.

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The Chines government has announced another 94 deaths from coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths worldwide to more than 1,100 people. These cases are mostly in mainland China.
Earlier, the head of the World Health Organization said the virus should be viewed as "public enemy number 1" given the grave threat it poses to the world.
But China's key epidemiologist says the number of infections in the country could now be on the decline.
Al Jazeera's Andrew Chappelle reports.

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The Nigerian musician - son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti - on what inspires and frustrates him about his country today.

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US President Donald Trump says his proposed plan for the Middle East will more than double Palestinian territory and provide a Palestinian capital in eastern Jerusalem.
But the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) says it is unthinkable that its capital would be on the outskirts of Jerusalem, behind Israeli checkpoints and the concrete separation wall.
And it says the plan would give Palestinians control over just 15 percent of what it called "historic Palestine".

Alexi O'Brien takes a look at how we got here.

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Saudi state media say Yemen's Houthi rebels have killed at least nine Saudi soldiers in a renewed military offensive.
The attacks happened in the southern Saudi provinces of Aseer, Jazan, and Najran.
It is the worst spate of violence since a UN-brokered peace deal was signed in December.

Al Jazeera's Priyanka Gupta reports.

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The new coronavirus discovered in the Chinese city of Wuhan has been declared a global health emergency. But what is the virus? How contagious is it? What are the experts doing to contain it? And how do we keep safe?

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AJ’s Investigative Unit has uncovered corruption in the Maldives. Secretly filmed interviews describe how men on mopeds carried millions in cash to the Maldives’ political elite. President Abdulla Yameen and his former deputy, Ahmed Adeeb, are accused of receiving cash in bags filled with up to $1m, so much that it was “difficult to carry,” according to one of the men who delivered it.

In a statement following its release, the Government of the Maldives said: “There is no evidence in this report connecting President Yameen or current members of his Government to any wrongdoing.” It noted that these claims already form part of a wider investigation initiated by President Yameen in February 2016: “We have asked Al Jazeera to provide any evidence they have which is relevant to this investigation.”

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The United Kingdom, France and Germany will trigger the dispute resolution mechanism in the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, two European diplomats said on Tuesday, the biggest step the Europeans have taken in response as Tehran has backed off nuclear commitments.
In one of the strongest calls yet from Europe for a new agreement to replace the 2015 deal that Washington abandoned two years ago, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the way forward was to agree a new "Trump deal".
Al Jazeera's Dorsa Jabbari has more.

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Beijing surpassed Washington as Africa's largest trading partner more than a decade ago.
Beijing is also financing power plants, roads and other infrastructure, handing out billions in loans each year to governments and state-owned entities across the continent.
China is now Africa's largest debt holder.
The US has warned of Chinese “debt traps” that could see countries give up oil, minerals and land rights if they do not pay off their loans on time.
Political analyst and commentator on African affairs Joseph Ochieno talks to Al Jazeera.

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US President Donald Trump has issued a stark warning to Iran threatening to hit 52 sites inside the Islamic Republic "very hard" if it retaliates for the assassination of top commander Qassem Soleimani

Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports live from Washington, DC, in the US.

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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the United States are mapping the spread of the virus.
The majority of cases are in Hubei province, where the first outbreak was reported.
Millions of people in China now face travel restrictions.
There have also been confirmed cases in several other countries.
Joining us at the Al Jazeera English studio is Dr Patrick Tang, the division chief of pathology sciences at Sidra Medicine in Qatar.

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Last week, we shared the story of Otis as he tried to navigate the world after serving a 44-year sentence in prison. Now, we join him on his journey to find his family and reconnect with them to reunite with remnants of his past.

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Turkey will strike Syrian government forces "anywhere" if one more Turkish soldier is hurt and could use airpower if need be, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
Addressing the country's parliament in Ankara on Wednesday, Erdogan said Turkey is determined to push Syrian government forces beyond Turkish observation posts in the northwestern Idlib region by the end of February.
"We will do this by any means necessary, by air or ground," he said.
Turkey has set up 12 observation posts in the last rebel-held stronghold in Syria as part of a 2018 deal with Russia, which backs Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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The latest coronavirus, COVID-19, has now been detected in more than two dozen countries, but one of Asia's most populous nations is yet to report a single case.
Indonesians who were evacuated from Wuhan have been released from quarantine with a clean bill of health.
But as Al Jazeera's Jessica Washington reports from Bali, concerns are growing over high-transit areas in the country.

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China is deploying its mass surveillance system in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
As millions return to major cities and resume work, they will be subject to unprecedented monitoring.
New facial recognition and temperature scanning technology have been installed in public transport systems.
The government says it is being used to keep everyone safe.
But concerns are growing over the "big brother" use of data, giving police the power to create a digital authoritarian state.
Al Jazeera's Katrina Yu reports from Zhengzhou, China.

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A world exclusive investigation tells the inside story of the fight for the facts behind Yasser Arafat's death.

Following What killed Arafat? which led French prosecutors to open a murder inquiry, this documentary follows the struggle to convince the Palestinian Authority to allow an exhumation of Arafat’s body to test for radioactive poison.

Al Jazeera’s Clayton Swisher reports on the tests that led to the Swiss scientists reporting high levels of polonium Yasser Arafat's bones.

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The assassination of Iranian Major General Soleimani by the US military has relations between Washington and Tehran hitting a new low. US President Donald Trump says the assassination was necessary to prevent an imminent threat but Iran’s leaders and allies say the killing represents an act of war. Was the attack legal? And how will Iran respond? “Start Here” tackles the big questions.

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Questions are being raised about whether the quarantine on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan actually worked.
The number of infections on the ship has climbed to 621 and two elderly passengers have died.
Al Jazeera's Rob McBride reports.

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After more than three years of political wrangling, two general elections and angry protests across the United Kingdom - Brexit is here.
23-hundred GMT on Friday, the time that goes down in history. The hour the UK became the first country to leave the European Union, ending its 47-year membership of the bloc.
Britain has until the end of the year to reach a deal with the EU on their future relationship.
But many fear it will take much longer to reach a comprehensive agreement.
What does the UK stand to gain, or lose, from quitting the bloc?
And does it signal the beginning of the break-up of the UK itself?

Presenter: Nick Clark

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David Phinnemore, professor of European Politics at Queen’s University Belfast
Catherine McBride, Senior Economist at the International Trade and Competition Unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs.
Carl Bildt, Former Swedish Prime Minister and is now a co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations



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Namibia is a country that rarely makes the international headlines. It is also one of the most sparsely-populated places on earth.

Named after the vast Namib desert the country is a place that has been controlled by two different foreign powers in the last century.

Until World War I it was a German colony, a period marked by repression and the genocide of thousands of tribesmen who were driven into the desert where they starved. Then neighbouring South Africa took control and imposed its apartheid system.

Namibia is now a post-colonial, post-conflict nation facing many of the same problems as its neighbours.

So far it has maintained the domestic peace and many things are going well. On the global corruption index, Namibia ranks lower than many other countries in Africa. Tourism is growing, but balancing the environmental impact is a challenge.

But in a country that is extremely rich in mineral resources there is great inequality. Many of the big landowners are white, and the black population is increasingly angry about this situation. So the president says the white population must give up land or possibly face a revolution.

In the 22 years since independence Namibia has been run by just one party, SWAPO, the same organisation that led the guerrilla war for independence.

Its leader, Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba, who is also the Namibian president, discussed with Talk to Al Jazeera how the country has managed to remain so peaceful, and how he intends to deal with the underlying anger and growing discontent in his country.

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Al Jazeera World - Balochistan: Pakistan's other war

The ongoing conflict in the remote province of Balochistan is often called Pakistan's "dirty war". Ethnic Balochi politicians and leaders share their vision of self-determination and freedom from Pakistani rule.

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In 1947 when the UN General Assembly voted for the partition of the region between Jews and Palestinian Arabs the land was divided on a relatively equal measure.

But after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War only 22 percent of Palestinian land remained. When Israel was founded in 1948 it divided Palestinians between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, creating separate territories with very little freedom of movement between the two.

In the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel occupied both territories, began building settlements and appeared to implement separate policies on each.

"The aim has always been to create different atmospheres and cultures; here and there," says Dr. Nashat al-Aqtash, a political analyst and academic.

The decades of separation have distanced the Palestinian communities living in the two territories who have developed distinct social and cultural identities.

None of the conflicts or peace talks over the decades, including the Oslo Accords of 1993, has succeeded in changing the map or this divide.

Filmmaker Asraf Mashhrawi examines the political, social and economic history of the split, analysing major events such as the Oslo Accords, the Fatah-Hamas conflict, the Israeli blockade of Gaza and the attacks of recent years - with interviews from Israeli experts like Haaretz journalist Amira Hass and lawyer Sari Bashi.


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Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit goes undercover to reveal the true scale of modern slavery in suburban Britain. We expose the slave masters and the people smugglers and talk to victims about their ordeals.

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Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said Europe could play a useful role in defusing tensions with the United States “by informing the US of the serious error in their analysis, and that they should stop listening to clowns”.
Zarif said that Iran's next steps will depend on the US reaction, after Iran fired missiles at two Iraqi bases hosting US troops in retaliation for the US assassination of military commander Qassem Soleimani.
Al Jazeera's Dorsa Jabbari reports from Tehran.
Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from Washington, DC.


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Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to defend her military against allegations of genocide at the International Court of Justice.
The army is accused of targeting the country's Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017.
A documentary being aired on Al Jazeera sheds new light on the abuses.

Al Jazeera's Osama Bin Javaid reports.

Warning, this report contains some disturbing images.

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The UK has now declared the coronavirus a “serious and imminent threat to public health”.
A medical centre in England has been temporarily closed after at least one staff member tested positive for the virus on Monday.
The British government has introduced new powers to deal with the outbreak.
Under new measures, people with coronavirus can be forcibly quarantined and will not be free to leave, while scientists in London work on a possible vaccine.
Testing on animals is set to begin, with testing on humans possible in a few months.
For more on this we speak to Dr Richard Dawood, a specialist in travel medicine who joins us live via Skype.

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Shutting down the Al Jazeera network was one of the main demands of the blockading countries when they cut off diplomatic relations with Qatar more than two years ago.
Now, the United Arab Emirates is reportedly running a lobbying campaign in Washington, to get the US government to force the network to register as a foreign agent.
That would effectively brand it a government 'tool' - a claim Al Jazeera strongly denies, and could restrict its operations in the US.
The news agency Bloomberg says a prominent law firm was employed by the UAE to achieve this goal.
This includes meeting congressional staff, White House officials, journalists and academics.
It also involves UAE-controlled digital accounts and websites.
Twitter suspended thousands of those accounts in September.

What are there limits to political lobbying?

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Ravi Prasad, Director of Advocacy at the International Press Institute

Mahjoob Zweiri, Director of the Gulf Studies Center at Qatar University

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Robert Kyagulanyi, a musician-turned-MP whose arrest prompted protests in Uganda, has been charged with treason.

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The U.S. President has long said he'd pull American troops out of what he called the 'endless wars' in the Middle East.
But there are fears Donald Trump may have just laid the groundwork for a new conflict.
He ordered the assassination of Qassem Soleimani who led an elite force in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.
A U.S. air strike near Baghdad airport on Friday killed Soleimani and also the deputy commander of an Iraqi paramilitary group, backed by Iran.
Now there are vows from armed groups to avenge the deaths and all Americans are being urged to leave Iraq immediately.
The Pentagon is sending an extra 3,000 troops to the Middle East in case of reprisal attacks.

Presenter:
Halla Mohieddeen.

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Hillary Mann Leverett, CEO of the political risk consultancy Stratega and a former U.S. diplomat.
Andreas Krieg, Assistant Professor in Defence Studies at King's College London and co-author of "Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-First Century".
Adolfo Franco, Republican strategist and former Advisor to Senator John McCain.


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China has announced 97 more deaths from coronavirus.
That brings the total number of dead to at least 1,115 people, with more than 44,000 others infected.
Al Jazeera's Katrina Yu reports from Beijing on how efforts to contain the outbreak have brought parts of the country to a standstill.

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On October 2, 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist working in the US for the Washington Post, entered his country's consulate in Istanbul to process paperwork - and was never seen again.

On the same day, a 15-man Saudi hit squad had allegedly flown to Istanbul. All the evidence points to Khashoggi's murder, suggesting that his body was first dismembered and then disposed of.

The killing of the well-known journalist and critic of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has resonated around the world, both as an attack on media freedom and as a shocking insight into the workings of a secretive and repressive regime.

The horrific story has been well documented in the media but there are still pieces missing and serious questions remaining unanswered: What happened to the body? Why did two weeks pass before Turkish investigators were allowed into the consulate to examine forensic evidence? And who was ultimately responsible for the killing?

Al Jazeera Arabic's Tamer Almisshal goes to Istanbul to try and find answers. He has pieced together the chronology of events - and examined the theories as to what may have happened to Khashoggi's body.

In mid-March, Saudi Arabia announced it had started court proceedings against those it believes were involved. The Kingdom still refuses to agree to a UN-led investigation, and despite the volume of powerful evidence, we still don't know whether those ultimately responsible for Khashoggi's death will ever be openly held to account.

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Nationwide demonstrations, a state of emergency, dozens of protesters killed, allegations of police brutality and a president clinging to power.

This is the scene in Sudan today.

For months, thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets to demand that President Omar al-Bashir step down.

The protests began in December 2018 in the city of Atbara.

The sudden tripling of the cost of bread sparked the initial protests, but they quickly turned into anti gov’t rallies calling for the resignation of al-Bashir.

The uprisings serve as a continuation of the 2013 anti-gov’t protests in which dozens were killed.

In recent demonstrations, unarmed protesters have been met with live ammunition and tear gas by gov’t forces. According to rights groups, at least 51 people have been killed, hundreds injured, and thousands jailed.

“Tasgut bas” is what they’re chanting, which means “just fall”. They’re also calling for “freedom, peace and justice”.

Opposition groups have urged the gov’t to step down and allow a four-year transitional period followed by elections. But the government is refusing to budge.

So the protests continue.

Produced and edited by Seena Khalil.

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Many of us interact every day with Siri, Apple's voice-activated digital personal assistant.
Siri can find information, gives us directions, send messages, play music, one example of how AI is becoming a bigger part of everyday life.
Chances are it's on all your devices, can mimic areas of human behaviour and could soon learn about our feelings and emotions. The key word there is mimic.
The machines are getting smarter, but experts are divided as to when we'll move from basic AI to the scarey stuff of science fiction, if at all.
But there are real, and relatively immediate threats.
Almost 50% of American jobs are under threat over the next 15 years, and health care will probably get more expensive as AI increasingly gets involved in keeping us alive.
But besides the benefits, what are the risks?

Presenter: Peter Dobbie

Guests
Caroline Sinders, Machine-learning Designer and Fellow at Mozilla Foundation and Harvard Kennedy School.
Eddy Borges-Rey, Associate Professor-in-residence at Northwestern University in Qatar and Author of 'Automated Journalism: Algorithms, Bots and Computational Cognition'.
Catalina Goanta, Assistant Professor in Private Law at Maastricht University and co-manager of the Maastricht Law and Tech Lab.

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There's been much speculation about the scale and target of Iran's retaliation to the assasination of its top military commander, Qassem Soleimani.
And there's also speculation about whether the killing of the head of Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force could bring all-out war to the Middle East.
Iran fired more than a dozen missiles at two air bases hosting American forces in Iraq early on Wednesday.
It's the most direct attack on the U.S. by Iran in decades. Initial statements by both countries seem to say they don't want further escalation.
The Iranian foreign minister's exact words were Iran 'took and concluded proportionate measures in self-defence'.
Tehran's made it clear it will strike again IF Washington responds.
As for U.S. President Donald Trump, he tweeted 'All is well!' after Iran struck.
Well, is all really well?
And will this 'revenge operation' stop there?

Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra

Guests
Ali Al Nashmi, professor at Mustansiriya University.
Ali Akbar Dareini, Researcher at the Center For Strategic Studies, an Iranian government affiliated think-tank.
Douglas Ollivant, Director for Iraq at the U.S. National Security Council under both President George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

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Yemen’s five-year war isn’t slowing down. 24 million people - the population of Australia - are in need of aid. Confused about Yemen’s war? We explain the conflict that's sparked the world's biggest humanitarian crisis.


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Did the Bahraini government collude with al-Qaeda members to target Shia opposition figures during the 2011 unrest?

In February 2011, following unrest in Tunisia and Egypt in the early days of the so-called Arab Spring, opposition demonstrators took to the streets of the Bahraini capital, Manama.

The protests quickly gathered momentum, with demonstrators demanding greater democracy and an end to discrimination against the majority Shia Muslim community by the Sunni regime.

But in March, the protests were quelled. The king declared a state of emergency and brought in the Peninsula Shield Force, the military wing of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

The government called the unarmed protesters and activists "terrorists". Civilian demonstrators were teargassed, beaten and shot.

Now, allegations have surfaced suggesting that the Bahraini government made attempts to coerce members of al-Qaeda in Bahrain to target key figures in the Shia Muslim community during the unrest.

In leaked secret video recordings, former members of al-Qaeda say that the Bahraini government and intelligence officials cracked down on and tried to assassinate key Shia opposition figures.

The recordings say that Bahraini intelligence officers recruited al-Qaeda members to form a cell to murder Bahraini opposition activists, on orders from the king.

In one recording, former al-Qaeda member Mohammad Saleh says: "A state security officer and another officer ... paid me a visit. They said they'd come on behalf of His Majesty the King of Bahrain at a time when the country was having a difficult time. He said that we, as fighters and members of al-Qaeda could help quell the Shia."

In a different recording made at the same time, Hisham Hilal al-Balushi - who was later a known leader of a Sunni armed group in Iran, before being killed in 2015 - talks about being detained by Bahraini security services and then recruited to infiltrate another group in Iran.


The Bahraini government has strenuously denied the allegations made in this film. The foreign minister called them "lies and fallacies against the state of Bahrain".

The minister of information said there were "attempts made by Al Jazeera channel to contact him and other officials, through unidentified telephone numbers, to record their conversations without their knowledge or official consent and to provoke them by using despicable methods".

Al Jazeera also wrote to the office of the royal family, the Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ask them to respond to the allegations but has not yet received any replies.

After an Arabic version of the film aired on Al Jazeera Arabic, Mohammad Saleh and Jamal al-Balushi (the brother of now-deceased Hilal) appeared on Bahraini television, saying that although they did make the recordings in 2011, what they said was false.

Mohammad Saleh said "they all agreed to make the recordings and to include several false allegations in order to give them weight that would help international human rights groups build pressure on Bahrain's government and security agencies", the state Bahrain News Agency reported.

According to John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer, Bahrain "thought they could divide their own opponents by having their opponents attack each other".

"The Bahraini government believed it could pit Sunni fundamentalists against the Shia population and keep both sides divided that way, and that is not what happened," he tells Al Jazeera. "What happened was it further angered the Shia population and at the same time encouraged fundamentalism among the Sunni."
In this film, Al Jazeera Arabic reporter Tamer Almisshal examines the video testimonies and speaks to former intelligence officers, diplomats, human rights activists and security experts about the allegations.

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In this News Special, Al Jazeera will examine why this moment - when Donald Trump unilaterally recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital - pitted America against some of its own allies. And why the Palestinians now say the US can no longer have a role in the peace process.

It's a move that has made millions of people demand the US reverse its decision. From Asia to Europe, Africa to the Middle East, a feeling of unity and resistance.

And on the ground in the occupied territories, Palestinian resilience meets Israel's disproportionate force.

We look into why Jerusalem is central to the history of Israel's illegal occupation.

From north to south, east to west, the land is considered holy to billions; more than half of the world's population. We'll take you on a tour across the country - through the holy sites, past the checkpoints, and over the wall that separates families.

And, on this sacred eve when many people believe Jesus Christ was born, we find out the hopes and dreams of people living in the Holy Land, and explore what the future holds for a conflict that touches millions across the world.

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The United Nations human rights chief is calling on the Syrian government and its allies to open humanitarian corridors for civilians to leave areas of fighting.
Michelle Bachelet put out a statement via her spokesman, who said government and Russian forces appear to be targeting civilians and hospitals deliberately.
Nearly 900,000 people have been forced from their homes by fighting in northwest Syria over the last three months.
The Syrian government offensive to capture the last rebel-held areas has created the biggest single civilian displacement since the war began nine years ago.
Half of the three million civilians living in Idlib province have been displaced multiple times in the course of the conflict.
Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra reports on the crisis in Syria from Cilvegozu in Turkey.

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Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit enters the secretive world of the surveillance industry. Spy Merchants reveals for the first time how highly-invasive spyware, which can capture the electronic communications of a town, can be purchased in a 'grey market’ where regulations are ignored or bypassed. Mass surveillance equipment can then be sold onto authoritarian governments, criminals or even terrorists.

During a four-month undercover operation, an industry insider working for Al Jazeera filmed the negotiation of several illegal, multi-million dollar deals that breach international sanctions. The proposed deals include the supply of highly restricted surveillance equipment to Iran. The undercover operative also secured an extraordinary agreement to purchase powerful spyware with a company who said they didn’t care who was the end-user.

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The coronavirus has so far killed more than 300 people - with at least 14,000 infected in over 20 countries.
It's been just over a month since the disease was first detected in China's Wuhan city.
A global health emergency has since been declared, and countries are racing to stop it spreading.
But the ability of poorer countries to handle any outbreak is causing concern.
So, how difficult is it to control the virus?

Presenter: Darren Jordon

Guests
Nicholas Thomas, associate professor at the City University of Hong Kong.
Sanjaya Senanayake, professor of infectious diseases at the Australian National University.
Mark Parrish, regional medical director for Northern Europe at International SOS.

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Iraqi parliament votes to remove foreign troops, drawing sanctions threat from US president

The Middle East is grappling with the United States' assassination of Qassem Soleimani.
In an extraordinary session on Sunday, Iraq's parliament voted to remove foreign troops.
U.S. president President threatened what he calls 'very big sanctions' on Iraq if American troops are forced to leave.
The military alliance NATO has suspended its training mission in Iraq, fearing soldiers could be attacked in reprisal for the killing of Iran's top military commander.
What are the consequences for Iraq and the Middle East if all foreign soldiers leave?

Presenter: Folly Bah Thibaut

Guests:
Richard Weitz - Security Analyst with Wikistrat, a global risk consultancy

Jean-Marc Rickli - Head of Global Risk, Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Zeidon Alkinani - Independent researcher on identity politics in Iraq and the Middle East

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The number of people killed by the coronavirus has risen to 811.
That is more than the death toll during the SARS epidemic 17 years ago.
All but two of the deaths are in China, where criticism is growing over a shortage of medical supplies and the leadership’s handling of the crisis.
Al Jazeera's Adrian Brown is in Hong Kong with more on the political repercussions.


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In 2014, their rivalry resulted in a US-brokered deal to share power, which was punctuated by 5 years of bickering.
And now Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah are again disputing an election result.
Ghani is officially the winner - but only just, and that's rejected by Abdullah, who shares power with the president as a chief executive.
He's now threatening to form his own parallel government.
This political showdown couldn't come at a more critical time for Afghanistan.
The U.S and the Taliban appear close to an agreement that could lead to a planned reduction in violence, and if that posture is largely maintained it COULD be a pre-cursor to Afghan politicians sitting opposite the Taliban.
How can any of that happen, until we know: who runs Afghanistan?

Presenter: Peter Dobbie

Guests:
Tamim Asey, Former Deputy Minister of Defense and the Executive Chairman of The Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Simbal Khan, Political and Security Analyst.

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Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit takes you inside the shadowy world of FBI informants and counterterrorism sting operations.

Following the 9/11 attacks, the FBI set about to recruit a network of more than 15,000 informants.

Al Jazeera's investigative film tells the stories of three paid FBI informants who posed as Muslims as they searched for people interested in joining violent plots concocted by the FBI.

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Somalia's modern history is a tale of independence, prosperity and democracy in the 1960s, military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s - followed by a desperate decline into civil war and chaos almost ever since.

The effect of the war has been to scatter the Somali people in their millions to refugee camps and neighbouring countries - and in their hundreds of thousands to the UK, Canada and the United States.

Somalia gained independence from Britain and Italy in 1960. It held free and fair elections and was ruled democratically from 1960 to 1969.

Once labelled the "Switzerland of Africa", Somalia enjoyed almost a decade of democracy. The first elected president of Somalia, uniting the former British and Italian territories, was Adam Abdullah Osman who reigned for seven years. He was succeeded, freely and peacefully, by Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke.

Sharmarke, however, was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in 1969.

Speaker of the Somali Parliament Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein took over, but his brief, six-day tenure was cut short by a military coup led by General Siad Barre, ending Somalia's period of democratic government.

Whatever its faults - and there were many - Barre's 22-year rule effectively created modern Somalia, building one of Africa's strongest armies and massively improving the literacy of the population.

Yet Barre, who gained the support of the US and the Soviet Union, the superpowers of the day, also dissolved parliament, suspended the constitution, banned political parties, arrested politicians and curbed press freedom.

"From then, there was a downward trend. In everything. A disintegration. And every time things were going down, the military regime was becoming more brutal and more dictatorial," says Jama Mohamed Ghalib, a former Somali government minister.

But when Barre launched the Ogaden war in 1977 to take the Somali majority region from Ethiopia, it provoked serious international opposition, including that of the Soviet Union which had once supported Barre but now sided with Ethiopia. The Somali army was forced to withdraw.

But the other long-lasting outcome was civil war, with myriad competing factions and frequent intervention by foreign powers and neighbouring countries.

In 2006, the Islamic Courts Union split into several factions, one of which was Al Shabab. The radical group still controls large parts of the south of the country today.

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Violent clashes continued in Bangladesh as authorities fired tear gas and shut down mobile internet connections after a week of student protests that brought tens of thousands to the streets.

By 1pm (07:00 GMT) on Sunday, thousands of students from various schools and colleges started controlling traffic in the capital, Dhaka, for the eighth consecutive day. Bangladeshi police fired tear gas at students occupying an intersection in central Dhaka.

Shahidul Alam, a photographer and social activist, talks to Al Jazeera about the protest movement.

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Filmmaker: Sameh Mejri

The Shame of my Name is the story of how some Algerians during the colonial period were forced to change their names by French colonial authorities at the time. Many of the names these Algerians were forced to carry hold demeaning and even vulgar meanings.

The burden of these forced names is still carried by some Algerians to this day.

The names were in the local Algerian Arabic dialect and cover a range of vulgar words, including descriptions of bodily functions and genitalia.

In this film, we meet several of these individuals whose families were forced to carry names which translate as "Arse," "Runny Nose" and even more offensive monikers. One contributor finds her name so offensive that she cannot bring herself to utter it. She has since changed her name.

“I go home and rest my head on the pillow. I pray to God to rid me of that ugly name which had become a curse in my everyday life,” Messaoud Bakhti tells Al Jazeera.

Bakhti’s forefathers were forcibly called "Gahroum" which in the Algerian dialect means "Arse" - a name having nothing to do with the heritage of his ancestors.

In 1882, 50 years after the French colonisation of Algeria, the French introduced the Civil Status Law. This allowed the authorities to impose approved names on Algerians arbitrarily. The decree stated that names would be in the “European style”, with a first name followed by the family name, which was quite different from traditional Muslim names.

But beyond this, the law was frequently interpreted by some officials in ways that demeaned and insulted Algerians. And assigning European-style names to Algerians, whether offensive or not, had another important side effect. It muddied the waters of land ownership, making it difficult for some Algerians to prove their rightful title to their land.

All of which means that now the spotlight is on France, with many Algerians saying that it is the responsibility of the French government and theirs alone, to pick up the pieces of this particular French colonial policy.

Some say a full apology is long overdue and that reparations should be paid.

“Yes, the French colonisers are responsible for this. But I also believe post-independent Algeria is responsible too,” Amel Ali Lhadfi, a former victim of obscene naming, says.

She believes Algerian authorities could make it easy to settle this problem if they wanted to or at least the process should not take such a long time.

"Whoever decides to change their name has to realise it may take 10 years.”

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The word Fascism is often used to describe the extreme nationalist and anti-immigrant sentiments that seem to be on the rise across the world. But what are the similarities between today’s far-right movements and the brutal ideology that was born in Italy a century ago? In this film, Italian-born journalist and Al Jazeera senior presenter, Barbara Serra, examines her own family’s links to Benito Mussolini’s regime to see if Fascism really is resurfacing in Italy today. Barbara’s grandfather was the fascist mayor of a key mining town in Sardinia which was used as a place of exile and punishment for political dissidents and Prisoners of War. While tracing back her family’s involvement in the regime, Barbara also discovers a direct link between her grandfather and Germany’s Nazi leadership - a revelation made even more poignant by the fact that Barbara’s young son is half Jewish. How much does its fascist past influence Italy’s current political situation? By speaking to Far-Right leader Matteo Salvini and Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre among others, this film examines the current anti-immigration sentiment, rising intolerance and the attacks on a free media to see if these are warnings that the country where the word Fascism was coined is indeed bound to repeat its history.

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Filmmaker: Sameh Mejri

The Shame of my Name is the story of how some Algerians during the colonial period were forced to change their names by French colonial authorities at the time. Many of the names these Algerians were forced to carry hold demeaning and even vulgar meanings.

The burden of these forced names is still carried by some Algerians to this day.

The names were in the local Algerian Arabic dialect and cover a range of vulgar words, including descriptions of bodily functions and genitalia.

In this film, we meet several of these individuals whose families were forced to carry names which translate as "Arse," "Runny Nose" and even more offensive monikers. One contributor finds her name so offensive that she cannot bring herself to utter it. She has since changed her name.

“I go home and rest my head on the pillow. I pray to God to rid me of that ugly name which had become a curse in my everyday life,” Messaoud Bakhti tells Al Jazeera.

Bakhti’s forefathers were forcibly called "Gahroum" which in the Algerian dialect means "Arse" - a name having nothing to do with the heritage of his ancestors.

In 1882, 50 years after the French colonisation of Algeria, the French introduced the Civil Status Law. This allowed the authorities to impose approved names on Algerians arbitrarily. The decree stated that names would be in the “European style”, with a first name followed by the family name, which was quite different from traditional Muslim names.

But beyond this, the law was frequently interpreted by some officials in ways that demeaned and insulted Algerians. And assigning European-style names to Algerians, whether offensive or not, had another important side effect. It muddied the waters of land ownership, making it difficult for some Algerians to prove their rightful title to their land.

All of which means that now the spotlight is on France, with many Algerians saying that it is the responsibility of the French government and theirs alone, to pick up the pieces of this particular French colonial policy.

Some say a full apology is long overdue and that reparations should be paid.

“Yes, the French colonisers are responsible for this. But I also believe post-independent Algeria is responsible too,” Amel Ali Lhadfi, a former victim of obscene naming, says.

She believes Algerian authorities could make it easy to settle this problem if they wanted to or at least the process should not take such a long time.

"Whoever decides to change their name has to realise it may take 10 years.”

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An Al Jazeera team travelled to the Chinese region just north of Hubei province, where the virus originated.
But with the threat of quarantine, they were forced to leave.
Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler reports from Changyuan.

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It has been a year since the former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan became Pakistan's Prime Minister.
Khan's campaign slogan was "Naya Pakistan" or "New Pakistan", a reflection of his promises to turn the country's economy around and end corruption.

But the first year of his premiership has not gone as smoothly as he may have hoped or even expected, especially in terms of the economy. The Pakistani rupee has lost 35 percent of its value during his time in office.

Khan's critics call him the prime minister of the U-turns, as he has been forced to go back on many of his campaign pledges in an attempt to rescue the situation.

"I'm glad they say I'm a prime minister of U-turns. Only an idiot doesn't do any u-turns," Khan tells Al Jazeera. "Only a moron, when he's on a course and he comes across a brick wall, only that stupid idiot keeps banging his head against a brick wall. An intelligent person immediately revises his strategy and goes around it."

But have any of these 'U-turns' had a positive impact on the country?

In terms of foreign affairs, Pakistan is closer than ever to its neighbour, China. But relations with its other neighbour, India, are at a new low.

Asked whether these two nuclear countries are at risk of another major conflict, or even war, Khan tells Al Jazeera he "absolutely" believes war with India could be a possibility.

"Eight million Muslims in Kashmir are under siege for almost now six weeks. And why this can become a flashpoint between India and Pakistan is because what we already know India is trying to do is divert attention from their illegal annexation and their impending genocide on Kashmir," he says. "They are taking the attention away by blaming Pakistan for terrorism."

"Pakistan would never start a war, and I am clear: I am a pacifist, I am anti-war, I believe that wars do not solve any problems," he clarifies.

But, he adds: "When two nuclear armed countries fight, if they fight a conventional war, there is every possibility that it is going to end up into nuclear war. The unthinkable."

"If say Pakistan, God forbid, we are fighting a conventional war, we are losing, and if a country is stuck between the choice: either you surrender or you fight til death for your freedom, I know Pakistanis will fight to death for their freedom. So when a nuclear armed country fights to the end, to the death, it has consequences."

"So that's why we have approached the United Nations, we are approaching every international forum, that they must act right now, because this is a potential disaster that would go way beyond the Indian subcontinent."

Until recently, Pakistan had made attempts to open dialogue with India "to live as civilised neighbours, to resolve our difference [over Kashmir] ... through a political settlement", but according to Khan, this is no longer the case.

"We discovered that while we were trying to have dialogue, they were trying to push us in the black list in FATF ... If Pakistan is pushed into the black list of FATF that means there will be sanctions on Pakistan. So they were trying to bankrupt us economically, so that's when we pulled back. And that's when we realised that this government is on an agenda. The agenda is to push Pakistan to disaster," says Khan.

"There is no question of talking to the Indian government right now after they revoked this article 370 of their own constitution and they annexed Kashmir illegally against the UN security council resolution which had guaranteed the people that they would be able to hold a referendum, a plebiscite, to decide their destiny. So they have unilaterally not only broken international laws, but also their own constitution."

Asked about his government's achievements after the first year in office, Khan says: "We are already in a new Pakistan ... This government has done things which no government has done before. But, as they say, Rome was not built in a day. When you start making these massive changes, reforms, it takes time. The time to judge a government is five years ... The first year was the most difficult period, but from now onwards people will start seeing the difference ... the direction of the country is now right."

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Did the Bahraini government collude with al-Qaeda members to target Shia opposition figures during the 2011 unrest?

In February 2011, following unrest in Tunisia and Egypt in the early days of the so-called Arab Spring, opposition demonstrators took to the streets of the Bahraini capital, Manama.

The protests quickly gathered momentum, with demonstrators demanding greater democracy and an end to discrimination against the majority Shia Muslim community by the Sunni regime.

But in March, the protests were quelled. The king declared a state of emergency and brought in the Peninsula Shield Force, the military wing of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

The government called the unarmed protesters and activists "terrorists". Civilian demonstrators were teargassed, beaten and shot.

Now, allegations have surfaced suggesting that the Bahraini government made attempts to coerce members of al-Qaeda in Bahrain to target key figures in the Shia Muslim community during the unrest.

In leaked secret video recordings, former members of al-Qaeda say that the Bahraini government and intelligence officials cracked down on and tried to assassinate key Shia opposition figures.

The recordings say that Bahraini intelligence officers recruited al-Qaeda members to form a cell to murder Bahraini opposition activists, on orders from the king.

In one recording, former al-Qaeda member Mohammad Saleh says: "A state security officer and another officer ... paid me a visit. They said they'd come on behalf of His Majesty the King of Bahrain at a time when the country was having a difficult time. He said that we, as fighters and members of al-Qaeda could help quell the Shia."

In a different recording made at the same time, Hisham Hilal al-Balushi - who was later a known leader of a Sunni armed group in Iran, before being killed in 2015 - talks about being detained by Bahraini security services and then recruited to infiltrate another group in Iran.


The Bahraini government has strenuously denied the allegations made in this film. The foreign minister called them "lies and fallacies against the state of Bahrain".

The minister of information said there were "attempts made by Al Jazeera channel to contact him and other officials, through unidentified telephone numbers, to record their conversations without their knowledge or official consent and to provoke them by using despicable methods".

Al Jazeera also wrote to the office of the royal family, the Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ask them to respond to the allegations but has not yet received any replies.

After an Arabic version of the film aired on Al Jazeera Arabic, Mohammad Saleh and Jamal al-Balushi (the brother of now-deceased Hilal) appeared on Bahraini television, saying that although they did make the recordings in 2011, what they said was false.

Mohammad Saleh said "they all agreed to make the recordings and to include several false allegations in order to give them weight that would help international human rights groups build pressure on Bahrain's government and security agencies", the state Bahrain News Agency reported.

According to John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer, Bahrain "thought they could divide their own opponents by having their opponents attack each other".

"The Bahraini government believed it could pit Sunni fundamentalists against the Shia population and keep both sides divided that way, and that is not what happened," he tells Al Jazeera. "What happened was it further angered the Shia population and at the same time encouraged fundamentalism among the Sunni."
In this film, Al Jazeera Arabic reporter Tamer Almisshal examines the video testimonies and speaks to former intelligence officers, diplomats, human rights activists and security experts about the allegations.

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In China, controversy has erupted over a speech by President Xi Jinping that indicates he and other leaders knew about the threat of the coronavirus outbreak weeks before it was revealed to the public.
Al Jazeera's Adrian Brown is following the story from Hong Kong.

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Kenya's ethnic Somalis have faced massacres and systematic intimidation, but can they now survive al-Shabab?

Kenya's North Eastern Province, the country's third-largest region, borders Somalia and is exclusively inhabited by ethnic Somalis. Following Kenya's independence 50 years ago, it emerged as a distinctive administrative entity.

Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow is from this part of Kenya and has lived through the massacres and systematic intimidation by the Kenyan authorities.

For Not Yet Kenyan he goes back to see how the region and his people have come through the pogroms and started to prosper only to find that al-Shabab has established a stronghold in the region and is now throwing it into a new chapter of turmoil.

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to launch an operation in Syria's Idlib region by the end of the month if Damascus fails to withdraw behind Turkish military positions.
"An operation in Idlib is imminent," Erdogan told his party's legislators in Parliament on Wednesday. "We are counting down, we are making our final warnings."
Russia - the Syrian government's main ally in the nearly nine-year war - responded by saying any Turkish offensive against Syrian forces in Idlib would be the "worst scenario".
"If we are talking about an operation against the legitimate authorities of the Syrian Republic and armed forces of the Syrian republic this would, of course, be the worst scenario," said Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, adding Russia and Turkey were staying in contact to prevent tensions escalating further.
Ankara, which backs several rebel groups in northwest Syria, has been outraged since recent Syrian government attacks in Idlib province killed 13 Turkish military personnel in two weeks.

Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra has more from Hatay.

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Violent clashes continued in Bangladesh as authorities fired tear gas and shut down mobile internet connections after a week of student protests that brought tens of thousands to the streets.

By 1pm (07:00 GMT) on Sunday, thousands of students from various schools and colleges started controlling traffic in the capital, Dhaka, for the eighth consecutive day. Bangladeshi police fired tear gas at students occupying an intersection in central Dhaka.

Shahidul Alam, a photographer and social activist, talks to Al Jazeera about the protest movement.

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Details surrounding the political assassination of Ibrahim al-Hamdi, president of North Yemen, in 1977 are stranger than fiction.
Al-Hamdi, viewed by many as a reformer and modernist, came to power in a bloodless coup in June 1974 at a time when Yemen was divided into two countries: North Yemen, where al-Hamdi was president and Marxist South Yemen. As a moderniser, al-Hamdi pushed for Yemeni unification and was due to travel to Aden to meet with his southern counterpart in October 1977.
Two days before that meeting was due to take place, al-Hamdi was invited to lunch at the home of his army commander Ahmed al-Ghashmi. On arrival, al-Hamdi was taken past the dignitaries and brought to a room where on the floor lay the body of his brother. According to an eyewitness, al-Hamdi was then murdered at the scene.

The exact details of his death remain a mystery. Some claim he was shot dead in a drive-by shooting. A more lurid account places al-Hamdi's body and that of his brother alongside those of two young French women, who some speculate may have been spies, high class escorts, or both. While nobody was ever charged with the murder, the list of suspects included two future Yemeni presidents, tribal enemies opposed to al-Hamdi's erosion of their power and forces loyal to neighbouring Saudi Arabia, who vigorously denied involvement in the murder.

The assassination of al-Hamdi still resonates today. More than 40 years on, his family and supporters still search for answers. And with few witnesses left alive, calls for accountability and closure are more pressing than ever.

Yemen: The Last Lunch traces the events leading up to Ibrahim al-Hamdi's murder and how his death steered the course of a country deeply divided.

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Over the past 10 years, viewers in India have witnessed the rise of a new breed of news anchor: brash, aggressive and unapologetically nationalistic.

They trade in conflict, fear and spectacle - a formula that tends to pay off in the ratings and online.

The Listening Post's Meenakshi Ravi looks closely at a prime practitioner of this news style: Arnab Goswami of Republic TV.

Contributors:

Pragya Tiwari - Delhi-based writer

Kunal Kamra - Comedian

Aditya Raj Kaul - Former senior editor, Republic TV

Manisha Pande - Executive editor, Newslaundry

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This is an episode from a season we directed and produced for The Traveler, a new travel series broadcasted on Al Jazeera Arabic.

originally launched and broadcasted in June 2018

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This time: Albania!

“Hidden gem” is an overused word, but when talking about Albania both words have their true sense. Being closed off from the world for decades, ruled by despote forces, Albania opened it’s doors only a quarter of a century ago. After the fall of Communism, Albania was at once revealed to the world. Rugged mountain scapes, immensely rich of deep turquoise blue water flowing through it’s rivers, hot springs, a Mediterranean vibe, the friendliest people and last but not least the highly fascinating history and heritage; castles, ruins from the big empires to the bunkers left in the past century.

In this episode the emerald sea, pristine beaches of Albania's south coast, Saranda, Albania's great great food culture, it's communist past, canoeing at Porto Palermo, the ancient city of Butrint and some action.

Storytravelers team:
Caspar Daniël Diederik: director
Mark Hofmeyr: cinematography, editing
Nicholas Libersalle: cinematography
Pablo Apiolazza: editing, colorist
Simone Campobasso: editing
Reid Willis: music composition
Charles Darnaud: sound recording
Cesar Mamoud: sound mixing and design
Eustachio Palumbo: Graphics design
Pablo Apiolazza: Motion Graph
Laura Payne: production manager

How much would you pay for diplomatic immunity? The trade in Caribbean diplomatic passports has become a magnet for wealthy foreigners, corrupt businessmen and criminals from around the world. Al Jazeera exposes two prime ministers who are complicit in the deals. The investigation reveals details of how an oil smuggler, turned ambassador, turned international fugitive bought his way into the diplomatic class. Investigators go undercover to reveal the inner-workings of a secret system: to find out how much it costs and what it takes to purchase what’s become the ultimate luxury item; a diplomatic passport.

40:18 - [Correction] Syrian businessman Moudar Al Assad is the cousin of current Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and not his nephew.


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Russia says it will stop Chinese citizens from entering the country, in an effort to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.
The move comes as China's government maintains a close focus on fighting the virus in Hubei province.
But staff and resources are short, and restrictions on movement are being tightened.
Al Jazeera's Katrina Yu reports from Beijing.

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The word Fascism is often used to describe the extreme nationalist and anti-immigrant sentiments that seem to be on the rise across the world. But what are the similarities between today’s far-right movements and the brutal ideology that was born in Italy a century ago? In this film, Italian-born journalist and Al Jazeera senior presenter, Barbara Serra, examines her own family’s links to Benito Mussolini’s regime to see if Fascism really is resurfacing in Italy today. Barbara’s grandfather was the fascist mayor of a key mining town in Sardinia which was used as a place of exile and punishment for political dissidents and Prisoners of War. While tracing back her family’s involvement in the regime, Barbara also discovers a direct link between her grandfather and Germany’s Nazi leadership - a revelation made even more poignant by the fact that Barbara’s young son is half Jewish. How much does its fascist past influence Italy’s current political situation? By speaking to Far-Right leader Matteo Salvini and Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre among others, this film examines the current anti-immigration sentiment, rising intolerance and the attacks on a free media to see if these are warnings that the country where the word Fascism was coined is indeed bound to repeat its history.

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A former Al Qaeda operative and informant steps out of the shadows. He reveals a sinister double game played by Al Qaeda and the former Yemen government of Ali Abdullah Saleh.

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It has been only a year since Abiy Ahmed took over as Ethiopia's prime minister, but the 42-year-old has already made big changes.
He has won approval at home and abroad for sweeping government reforms and improving long-strained ties with neighbouring Eritrea.

Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow reports from Addis Ababa.

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The United Kingdom has set out plans to stop relying on "cheap labour from Europe" with a post-Brexit immigration points-based system that prioritises access for highly skilled workers from across the world.
Workers will need to meet criteria including specific skills and the ability to speak English, the government said, and those applying will need to have a job offer.
The plans have led to outrage, with critics, members of the opposition and some business groups condemning them as unrealistic.
Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports from London, UK.

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Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit secretly films officials in Namibia demanding cash in exchange for political favours. It’s a story of how foreign companies plunder Africa’s natural resources. Using confidential documents provided to Al Jazeera by Wikileaks, . “Anatomy of a Bribe” exposes the government ministers and public officials willing to sell off Namibia’s assets in return for millions of dollars in bribes. Al Jazeera journalists spent three months undercover posing as foreign investors looking to exploit the lucrative Namibian fishing Industry. The country’s Minister of Fisheries is shown willing to use a front company to accept a $200,000 ‘donation’. Exclusive testimony from a whistleblower who worked for Iceland’s largest fishing company reveals that his employers instructed him to bribe ministers and even the president in return for fishing rights worth hundreds of millions of dollars.


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Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has warned the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani by the United States was a grave mistake.
Speaking in Tehran on Tuesday, Zarif said the US had miscalculated by targeting the top military leader in a drone attack on Friday.
He called it an act one of "cowardice" and described Soleimani as a freedom seeker of the Middle East region.
Al Jazeera's Assed Baig reports from Tehran.



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On November 1, 1996, Al Jazeera went live and launched its first broadcast.

Now standing as one of the largest news organisations today, Hashem Ahelbarra looks back at the stories that were covered and the lives that have been changed.

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5G sounds promising. This new, super-fast internet connection will let us download an HD movie in seconds. Doctors will be able to perform remote surgery with virtually no lag time. And it’ll make self-driving cars smarter and safer.
But there are also suspicions that 5G will expose us to more security breaches, privacy issues and even health problems.
So what exactly is 5G? And how much of the excitement or fear is just hype?
Start Here explains.

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Former New York mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg has come under attack from rival Democrats in their debate just days ahead of the caucus in the state of Nevada.
The NBC News debate was the first by the media mogul, a late entry to the race to take on Donald Trump.
Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports.

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Thailand's constitutional court has decided to dissolve the third-largest political bloc in the country.
The ruling came after the Future Forward Party and its leader were accused of breaking election finance laws.
Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit had reportedly loaned nearly $6 million to his party while campaigning last year.

Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay reports from the party's headquarters in Bangkok.

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To save the 2015 nuclear deal, European leaders may look for concessions on Iran's ballistic missile programme.

Its strategy in Syria, Lebanon and Yemen could also be questioned.

But Iran insists it has the right to self-defence and an independent foreign policy.

Al Jazeera's Zein Basravi reports from Tehran, Iran.

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Across the United States, there has been a growth in organizations that portray Islam as a threat.

Over two years, the number of groups that make up what’s become known as the Islamophobia industry has more than tripled.

This investigation reveals the tactics these groups use to instigate a fear of Islam, including how they manipulate social media to create a false narrative that Muslims are trying to take over the country.

Anti-Muslim messages proliferate social media with bought-in followers, fake accounts and robotic amplifiers.

The investigation also shows how these organizations try to suppress the rise of a Muslim political voice in America. It uncovers the “dark money” that has fuelled the rapid growth of Islamophobia Inc. - tens of millions of dollars which is funnelled through secretive, anonymous donor funds.

We unveil the donors of the dark money and ask; what do they ultimately hope to achieve?

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Behind the coronavirus outbreak of China, there are thousands of nurses, mainly women, who are paying a very heavy price.
Al Jazeera's Leah Harding explains.

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China has announced tough new measures to test all citizens living in Wuhan as the government struggles to keep up with the rising number of coronavirus infections.
More than 3,000 health workers have also been infected and on Tuesday the government confirmed the death of one of Wuhan's most senior doctors.
Al Jazeera's Sarah Clarke reports.

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A series of air raids in northern Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition has killed at least 31 civilians.
The attacks brought a rebuke from the UN humanitarian chief for Yemen, who called it "shocking".
The raids took place after Saudi Arabia confirmed one of its planes had crashed in the same region.
Houthi rebels claim to have shot the plane down.
Al Jazeera's Nicola Gage reports.

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South Korea has reported its first death from the coronavirus outbreak, as the number of cases globally approaches 75,000.
China insists its containment measures are working, but people are still worried about returning to public areas.
Al Jazeera's Adrian Brown reports from Hong Kong.

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