Türkiye’de yılda 80 binden fazla yangın vakası oluyor. En büyük kent İstanbul’daki yangın sayısı, diğer büyük şehirlerden iki kat daha fazla. Yangınlarla mücadele eden itfaiyeciler asılsız ihbarlardan şikayet ederken, sokak aralarına usulsüz park edilmiş araçlar müdaheleyi geciktiriyor. Al Jazeera belgeseli ‘İtfaiyeci’, zaman zaman ölümü göze alarak yangınlara müdahale eden itfaiyecilerin çalışma hayatını anlatıyor.

Romania's 50-year dictatorship caused social problems, poverty, and political and economic instability.

A young Romanian journalist uncovers the continuing legacy of Nicolae Ceausescu's tyranny that still casts an enduring influence over people's lives today.

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Syria's government and Russian forces are intensifying air attacks and a ground offensive in the cities of Idlib and Aleppo. The bombardment is forcing many to flee towards the Turkish border.
Al Jazeera's Raheela Mahomed reports.

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Twenty-five years on, survivors of the Omarska concentration camp tell chilling personal stories of their incarceration and shocking treatment at the start of the Bosnian War.

By 1992, the Yugoslav Federation was disintegrating. Slovenia and Croatia had already broken away, sparking a conflict with Serbia. Further violence then broke out in Bosnia-Herzegovina which had also declared independence.

The Serbs there wanted to remain within Yugoslavia and build a greater Serbia - and received backing from extremists in Belgrade. Bosnian Muslims, known as Bosniaks, were driven from their homes in what soon became known as 'ethnic cleansing'.

The first outbreaks were in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina in and around the municipality of Prijedor, where Bosnian Serb military and police unlawfully segregated, detained and confined several thousand of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats.

Over four thousand people were killed between May and August 1992. While Serb forces set up hundreds of concentration camps throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina, Omarska was the most notorious and where a relatively few survived.

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A year after the US pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, Iran announced it may no longer stick to some parts of the agreement. But what is Iran’s nuclear programme exactly? And should we be worried?

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Each year, childhood ends for an estimated 15 million girls around the world who marry before the age of 18, according to the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW). South Asia has the largest concentration of child brides, but early marriage is a global phenomenon.

Girls living in poverty are more susceptible, and by marrying so young, research shows, girls perpetuate the cycle of poverty. UNICEF says they typically drop out of school and as a result, face poor job prospects.

The Syrian war has created a vortex of conditions, such as displacement and poverty as well as fears about the so-called honour and safety of girls that have prompted families to marry off their daughters.


From the onset of the Syrian war in 2011 to the present, child marriage has spiked from 15 to 36 percent in the kingdom. European countries such as Sweden and Germany, that have welcomed large numbers of Syrian refugees, are also grappling with a dilemma: permit child marriage or separate families.

Child brides commonly face domestic violence, restricted movement and are often not given a voice when it comes to making decisions in the family. No matter the justifications families give, the ICRW says, child marriage is "a violation of human rights and a form of violence against girls".

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As the British mandate in Palestine drew to a close in the late 1940s, clashes intensified between Palestinian and Jewish militias. When the British left and the new state of Israel was announced in May 1948, the first Arab-Israeli War was fought.

In the 1950s and 60s, tension continued and armed Palestinian 'fedayeen', many of them now refugees, mounted attacks into Israel which were met with equal force. Palestinian nationalists, including Yasser Arafat, formed the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (PLO) in 1959 - and the party became the dominant force in Palestinian politics after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.

Ali Hassan Salameh rose to the top of the Fatah Party in the 1960s and 1970s to become one of Arafat's most trusted men. He also founded the Black September armed group which killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972.

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"The Munich operation was meant to protest against the Palestinians' exclusion from the Olympic Games," explains Saqr Abu Fakhr, assistant editor at the Journal for Palestine Studies. "Why should Israel alone be represented at this event? It was also aimed at drawing attention to the Palestinian cause and the issue of prisoners inside Israel. However, its operations were not intended to kill but to take hostages and exchange them."

Unfortunately, the operation went badly wrong.

Black September killed two Israeli athletes in the Olympic village and abducted nine others. They demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners within Israel and planned to leave Germany with the hostages whom they later intended to exchange. But Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir would not negotiate with the Palestinians and left the operation in the hands of inexperienced Germans authorities.

The Germans laid on helicopters at a military airbase but secretly planned to foil Black September's getaway. German snipers killed all but two of the Black September group - who in turn killed the nine Israeli hostages waiting in the helicopters with grenades and machine guns.

After the event, the Western media and Israel painted Ali Salameh as the mastermind of the Munich operation. As a leader of Black September, he must have been involved, according to former Fatah official Ghazi Al Husseini: "He helped in different ways, like training, but he wasn't the ringleader. He didn't plan the Munich operation."

Munich put Ali Salameh at the top of intelligence agency Mossad's hit list and they launched a series of missions to retaliate against the PLO, including an assault on its leadership in Lebanon.

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There’s a social media site whose glitzy videos populate your newsfeed. Its content overflows with typical leftist tropes. No, it’s not CNN or MSNBC. You should know what it is and the nefarious people backing it. Raheem Kassam, author of No Go Zones, explains why, when you come across these videos, you should swipe left.

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They are turning social media against us. Using it to influence our elections. Spreading propaganda. Disguising it as news. Pretty scary stuff.

I’m not talking about Russia. That’s amateur hour. The media organization I’m talking about operates right here, in the USA. Out in the open. Legally.

It has a large staff of on-air personalities, reporters, cameramen and editors. It operates out of state-of-the art studios in Washington DC, London, Rio, and half a dozen other major cities. It produces videos, news reports, and documentaries. It has tens of millions of social media followers. Their content is viewed and shared by countless young people across the western world. In short, they’re targeting us.

CNN, right? Wrong.

Fox News? Wrong again.

The answer is… AJ+.

If you’ve spent time on social media, you’ve seen their stuff, I promise you. This is isn’t the work of a scrappy start-up in Silicon Valley. AJ+ is bankrolled by the government of Qatar.

Never heard of Qatar? Most people haven’t.

It’s a tiny Persian Gulf state with lots of oil money; billions of dollars they’re not afraid to spend on causes they believe in—causes like the terror group Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip.

Without billions from Qatar and its ally, Iran, Hamas would blow away in the next desert sandstorm. But Hamas is only part of Qatar’s terror portfolio. The Qatar government bankrolls the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda in Yemen and Syria, radical extremists in Libya, and Hezbollah in Lebanon—in other words, a rogues gallery of murderous Islamist terror groups.

Qatar’s propaganda arm is the Arab news service Al Jazeera—which it owns lock, stock and America-hating, Israel-hating, barrels. Al Jazeera made a splashy attempt to break into the US media market in 2013. They bought a cable franchise for $400 million dollars from former Vice President Al Gore. They signed up some major American TV journalists and opened up shop in New York and Washington. But the effort failed. Americans just couldn’t cozy up to the idea that a news network that they had rightly associated with Osama bin Laden could be trusted.

But Al Jazeera didn’t disappear. They just re-branded into the much nicer sounding “AJPlus” and they concentrated their efforts on the internet and a market that didn’t have a bin Laden fixation—or much connection to 9/11 at all: young people. And they’ve been amazingly successful.

Their productions are well-produced, slick and left. In fact, they are so left that they make videos railing against leftist white women for being insufficiently sympathetic to leftist women of color, especially women of color who are gay or transgendered.

It’s hard to ignore the irony that a media operation fully funded by a country that oppresses women and gays makes this kind of content for an American audience.

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In a flash, it was all taken away.

Two years ago, X-year-old Farzan Sheikh was struck in the face - on two separate occasions – by lead pellets fired by Indian government forces in Sinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir.

He lost all vision in his right eye, and 75 percent of the vision in his left eye.

Since then, he has been unable to partake in the activities nearest to his heart, watching from the sidelines as other young people play the games he loves.

Since 2016, thousands of young Kashmiris have been injured by pellets.

In addition to the physical injuries, many find themselves struggling with psychological issues.

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Zvuk Gaigerova brojača koji upozorava na nivo radijacije najslušaniji je u Zoni isključenja Černobil, i 30 godina nakon najveće nuklearne katastrofe.
Gradi se velika konstrukcija od željeza i gume da spriječi novu opasnost iz rekatora četiri nuklearke jer je betonskom sarkofagu istekao rok i prijeti popuštanjem.
Grad Pripjat uz nuklearku stoji potpuno napušten i zabranjen za život ljudi.
U gradiću Černobilu, koji je manje kontraminiran, smjenjuje se 2500 radnika svakih 15 dana.
U nekim selima, pak, žive stariji mještani.
Čak se i hrane onim što drugi smaraju potencijalno kontaminiranim i životno opasnim.
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The leaders of Turkey and Russia hold talks on Wednesday against the backdrop of the planned withdrawal of US troops from Syria, a proposed security zone in the north and the security situation in a rebel-held stronghold.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in Moscow to meet President Vladimir Putin to discuss the complex situation in Syria, as the nearly eight-year conflict winds down and various players - including numerous armed groups - seek advantage.


Al Jazeera's senior political analyst Marwan Bishara talks about the power dynamics between the two countries in Syria.

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The life and struggles of King Hussein of Jordan, from the assassination of his grandfather to the rise of the PLO.

This two-part series is the story of Jordan's king from 1952 to 1999, a major political figure in the cauldron of the Middle East and one whose life and career were never far from a crisis, at home and abroad. Hussein was still only fifteen when his grandfather, King Abdullah I, was shot dead by a Palestinian gunman in July 1951 with the boy by his side at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Hussein’s father, Talal, became king but was forced to abdicate for health reasons after only a year in power, in August 1952; and the sixteen-year-old Crown Prince acceded to the throne, under a Regency Council until he came of age. He then faced a series of political crises, domestically and in his dealings with Israel. As King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, he took over the country at a time of huge uncertainty. He inherited the Anglo-Jordanian treaty with the British from his grandfather - but also had to deal with the fall-out from the 1948 war and foundation of Israel when the West Bank and East Jerusalem were annexed to Jordan, along with their Palestinian populations. Hussein’s supporters regarded him as the father of modern Jordan, the man who guided his country through dangerous times and kept the Hashemite dynasty in power at a time when the Egyptian, Iraqi and Libyan monarchies had all fallen. But Jordanian opposition parties, particularly the Communists, were against the monarchy. The communist party won a parliamentary majority in 1956 but a year later Hussein dismissed the Prime Minister, ended multi-party rule and imprisoned or exiled his opponents. During his 46-year reign, the country’s industry and infrastructure certainly grew and were modernised – and living standards and literacy among ordinary Jordanians steadily improved.

But internationally he polarises opinion. In parts of the Arab world, he’s accused of selling out to the British, Americans and Israeli Zionists. His highest profile critic was arguably Egypt’s nationalist President Nasser who had himself overthrown King Faroukh. The two were often at loggerheads. Jordan joined Egypt and Syria in the Six Day War with Israel in 1967 in which Hussein lost the whole of the West Bank and saw his military decimated. He then refused to join Syria and Egypt in the retaliatory October War in 1973, even tipping off Golda Meir that an Arab attack was imminent. Hussein’s relationship with the Palestinians was also difficult. After the 1967 loss of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, they never felt he was able to protect them; and in 1970 he expelled the PLO from Jordan.

Hussein is thought to have conducted secret talks with Israel over a thirty year period, resulting in the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace in 1994; and his relationship with Yitzhak Rabin was so close, he spoke at Rabin's funeral. His relationship with the West was also extremely close - and in 1977 the Washington Post alleged he had such strong ties with the CIA that even received a monthly salary from the agency.
In February 1999, Hussein lost his seven-year battle against cancer. He was a colourful and controversial personality, a trained and daring pilot, with an eventful personal life. He had four marriages, the latter to the American-born Lisa Hallaby, Queen Noor, his wife for 21 years until his death. His critics described him as an artful opportunist, cynically shifting alliances with the sole aim of staying in power. An Israeli intelligence report once described him as a man trapped on a bridge burning at both ends, spanning a crocodile-infested river. He was certainly an arch politician who navigated the minefield of the Middle East all his political life but never lost faith in the peace process. In his last major TV interview he said he believed that peace would eventually be reached in the Arab-Israeli conflict although, of course, almost two decades later, that peace is still proving as elusive as ever.





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Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul was a military commander in Pakistan's army in the 1980s, and served as the head of the country's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from 1987 to 1989.

Gul's rise to fame came during the Pakistan-Saudi-US effort to keep funds and logistical support flowing to the Afghanistan mujahidin, who were eventually credited with defeating Soviet military and political forces. He talks to Al Jazeera's Kamahl Santamaria.

Editor's note: This interview was first broadcast on Al Jazeera English in 2010.

Gaddafi: The Endgame - State of Denial

State of Denial is the story of the fall of the Gaddafi regime as told by the insiders, defectors and military advisors who helped to bring it about.

Written and directed by Anne Reevell of Moonbeam Films, the film offers a revealing behind-the-scenes account of a revolution, a slice of history in which people took back power.

"The disintegration of the Gaddafi regime in Libya surprised and confused the world - not because it happened in the first place, but because Gaddafi's government remained convinced it could prevail - despite defections, NATO airstrikes and a popular mass uprising," says Reevell.

As the rebels continue to advance towards Tripoli, the Libyan authorities there are in a state of denial, convinced they can still talk to the British government, denouncing the foreign media, burning the homes of Libyan exiles and organising anti-NATO demonstrations in London. The message they relay says there is 'no compromise on leadership,' but do they mean it or are hairline fractures beginning to emerge?

Using the oral diary of a Tripoli-based insider, as well as interviews with the UK prime minister's senior advisor on Libya and leading figures in Benghazi and Tripoli, State of Denial explores the demise of Gaddafi's powerbase and charts the twists and turns of a regime in denial.

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Ethiopia, Africa's oldest independent country, is one of the West's closest allies in the Horn of Africa.

Bordering Kenya, South Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia, this vast nation is home to about 80 different ethnic groups, many with their own languages and customs.

Despite Ethiopia's demographic diversity, the country's power structure in mainly centralised in its capital Addis Ababa, located in the heart of the country.

And this is resented by some of Ethiopia's many different ethnic groups.

To the far east of the country lies Ethiopia's Somali region. The people there have Ethiopian nationality but identify as Somalis. Many there say that their desperately poor region is starved of resources.

This has led some to rise up and challenge the government.

Self-determination struggle
A movement for self-determination for Ogaden, which is officially known as the Somali region, led by the Ogaden National Liberation Force (ONLF), began in the mid-1980s. ONLF took up arms a decade later.

Their attacks led the Ethiopian government to send in troops and to carry out what many describe as a brutal crackdown on the some five million ethnic Somalis who live in this arid region.

Thousands of people have died in a struggle that few outsiders are allowed to witness. It's an invisible conflict that has cost lives and livelihoods, and despite several rounds of talks in recent years, has no end in sight.

After decades of conflict with little or no progress, should ONLF give up their fight?

Madhi says ONLF is an Africanist movement, the struggle is expanding and the group is now working with other ethnic groups in the country by staging "peaceful mass demonstrations".

"Our alliance is now expanding," he says. "Like the Arab Spring, we are going to start insurrection all over the place. Ethiopia is now boiling ... The regime is now in disarray; they're divided. The people of Ethiopia have now risen up. They want their rights. We are tired of one clique dominating the rest of Ethiopia."

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As the Philippines grapples with its first death in the country from coronavirus, some in the Chinese-Filipino community say they fear they are being discriminated against.
This follows reports of anti-Chinese comments on social media and officials issuing memos to isolate the community.
But others say these moves are necessary to stop the spread of the virus.

Al Jazeera's Barnaby Lo reports from Manila.

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"Before I die, I want to go back to where I was born." Krishan Kumar Khanna grew up just outside Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city. After a childhood he remembers fondly, his life changed dramatically in August 1947.

As Britain left the Indian subcontinent, colonial planners hastily split it into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.

Khanna was forced to join one of the largest migrations in human history, as sectarian violence erupted and millions fled in both directions to save their lives.

He has dreamed of going back ever since and, after trying for several years, Khanna finally obtained a visa to return to Pakistan.

Despite deep tensions, he's determined to show that people in the neighbouring nations still have much more in common than that which divides them.

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According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy.

Follow #MediaTheorised, an online project by Al Jazeera English’s media analysis show The Listening Post

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Designed and animated by Pierangelo Pirak

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Today's Deb Knight challenges Pauline Hanson over remarks she made in an exclusive sit-down with the One Nation leader.

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When Shula Cohen was arrested for espionage in 1961, Beirut society was shocked.

How could such an elegant, classy high society woman turn out to be an Israeli spy?

Shulami 'Shula' Cohen was born of Jewish parents in Argentina and grew up in Israel. At 16, she was married off to a wealthy Lebanese Jewish businessman, Josef Kishik, and moved to Beirut.
It's not entirely clear how Cohen, codenamed 'The Pearl' became a spy for the Jewish Agency and then for the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, when it was formed in December 1949.

One theory is she'd always wanted to be involved in the building of Israel. Another is that she was recruited in Jerusalem and her marriage to Kishik was a "front".

Either way, Cohen carved out a prominent place in the higher echelons of Beirut society and hosted salons where she entertained and cultivated politicians, influential businessmen and senior army officers.

She used these parties, her cafes, casinos and her husband's Beirut shop to make contacts who'd enable her to provide intelligence to Israel and build a spy network.

Cohen was part of a huge operation called "Aliya Bet" to bring Jews from Arab countries through Lebanon into Palestine. Arabs were opposed to the settlement of Jews in pre-1948 Palestine so their transit had to be secret. Jewish emigration from Arab countries to Israel remained highly contentious post-1948 and so this smuggling continued for many years.

Cohen's trial began on October 27, 1961 and received huge media attention. But, interestingly, nothing came out during the trial about the many Lebanese and other Arab politicians who had been caught in her clandestine web.

On July 25, 1962 Cohen was sentenced to death. But due to international pressure, including from Israel, her sentence was commuted to 20 years.

Cohen only served six years of her sentence imprisoned in Beirut.

Israel took a large number of Arab prisoners during the second Arab-Israeli war in 1967 - and Cohen, among others, was exchanged for a number of Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian soldiers in the summer of 1967.

Shula Cohen died in Jerusalem on May 21, 2017, aged 100. Also in 2017, the Lebanese authorities claimed to have made several arrests in connection with the passing of information to Mossad. Shula Cohen has passed away but her legacy lives on.

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Shaimaa al-Sayyid grew up watching her mother and grandmother sell vegetables in the streets of Manshiyat al-Qanatir, a tourist town in Egypt. Every morning, they'd get up very early and travel to small village markets to buy vegetables which they'd sell at a higher price in the city.

Now a commerce student, Shaimaa comes straight to the market after college to help her mother Muna.

"I raised all my children here," said Muna, "I like trading. I inherited it from my mother. She has been doing this for more than 50 years. My mother is the one who started a market in this street."

"Around 17 years ago, I told my husband I wanted to sell vegetables in the street market with my mother. He first said 'no' but I then convinced him ... He knows I'm doing this for a good reason. He also works hard so we can both raise our children well."

While Muna and her husband don't have college degrees, they're motivated to work hard so their children can have a more comfortable life.

"I want my children to study, get university degrees and have good jobs," said Muna.

'Life is expensive'

Travelling outside her village, Aida Muhammad sells vegetables in Cairo's streets in the morning but goes home to look after her children in the afternoon.

"I'm trying to earn a living to buy some stuff for my children. Life is expensive and my husband doesn't make much. So I help him," said Aida.

Similarly, sisters Sanaa Sayyid Ahmed and Nanaa Sayyid Ahmed spend four days a week selling cheese, eggs and garlic in Cairo and only two days a week at home with their families. Their village is more than a day's travel away, so they've managed to rent an unfurnished apartment just to sleep in.

Finding the perfect location on the street to sell her vegetables used to be a problem - until one day other vendors came to her rescue.

"The butcher told us not to sit next to his shop," Sanaa said. The butcher was worried that her products would attract flies. Then, the other vendors shouted back, "Let her stay. She's trying to earn a living. She sells great cheese and eggs. It's your meat that attracts flies."

Besides the hustle, Sanaa isn't bothered by haggling customers. "When we state the price, the customer starts to barter. This is business. Bargaining and headaches," said Sanaa. "I have no fears as long as the scales I weigh the cheese on are working well and aren't broken."

Cheese and ghee (clarified butter) seller Ilham Abdul Aziz is a childless widow who selflessly provides for her impoverished sister, unemployed brother-in-law and the rest of their family.

She's had many opportunities to remarry, but she's steadfastly refused. Instead, said Ilham, "I wanted to dedicate my life to these children and support them until they all get married. People praise me, saying I'll be rewarded for dedicating my life to these children."

"I love my job. It's how we earn our living," she added. "I would never hate it because it's how we earn our living so we don't beg or borrow money from others. It's a blessing from God."

This film focuses on the daily lives of five Egyptian village women who are driven by the need to provide for their children and families by selling local produce in the street markets across the country. It provides an insight into the women's daily struggle to survive and the sacrifices each of them makes to sustain their livelihoods, just above the poverty line.

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In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Gowher Rizvi, the International Affairs advisor to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, on the state of the country’s democracy and whether it is heading towards authoritarianism.

Once one of the poorest countries in the region, Bangladesh’s economy has been booming over the last decade, with economic growth faster than its neighbours, India and Pakistan. It also boasts lower infant mortality and longer life expectancy than its peers.

However, human rights groups warn that the country is becoming increasingly autocratic, accusing the government of clamping down on any form of dissent and hounding and locking up its political rivals.

In recent elections Bangladesh’s ruling party, the Awami League, reasserted its power following a landslide general election victory. The opposition rejected the results, amid violence which saw 17 killed and allegations of vote-rigging and intimidation.

Our guest on Head to Head is Gowher Rizvi, close ally of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and advisor on international affairs. Mr Rizvi is also a renowned historian and former Oxford University scholar.

We challenge Mr Rizvi on Sheikh Hasina’s government’s record in office and whether it is increasingly trying to silence its critics. We also ask him about the ongoing Rohingya crisis, where over 1 million refugees have fled Myanmar and are living in camps in Bangladesh. Is Bangladesh doing enough to help?

We are joined by a panel of three experts:

Saida Muna Tasneem, Bangladesh's High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland.

Abbas Faiz, South Asia analyst at Essex University, previously worked for Amnesty International for more than 30 years.

Tasneem Khalil, Swedish Bangladeshi journalist, author of Jallad: Death Squads and State Terror in South Asia.

Is Bangladesh a one-party state? with Gohwer Rizvi will be broadcast on March 1 at 20:00 GMT and will be repeated on March 2nd at 12:00 GMT, March 3rd at 01:00 GMT and March 4th at 06:00 GMT.

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South Sudan's president talks about the ongoing violence, internal rivalries, and the future of his country. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check out our website:http://www.aljazeera.com/

Hundreds of women's police stations have been set up across India to combat domestic abuse and sexual violence, following the Delhi rape case in December 2012.

Parmila Dalal is second-in-command at the women's police station in Sonipat, in the northern state of Haryana. Every day she has to deal with the cases the public bring to her.

She encounters family members at war over such contentious matters as caste, dowry payment and relations with abusive in-laws. India's Ladycops reveals how women's lives are changing in India today, and how they often struggle to reconcile the conflicting demands made upon them.

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The former Moro National Liberation Front leader discusses the crisis in Sabah and peace in the southern Philippines.

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Obesity in America has reached a crisis point. Two out of every three Americans are overweight, one out of every three is obese. One in three are expected to have diabetes by 2050.

Minorities have been even more profoundly affected. African-Americans have a 50 per cent higher prevalence of obesity and Hispanics 25 per cent higher when compared with whites.

How did the situation get so out of hand?

On this week's episode of Fault Lines, Josh Rushing explores the world of cheap food for Americans living at the margins.

What opportunities do people have to eat healthy? Who is responsible for food deserts and processed food in American schools?

Fault Lines finds food revolutions taking place and speaks with the people that are fighting back.

People featured in this film: Marion Nestle, Marlene Schwartz, John Bode, Nelson Eusebio, J. Justin Wilson, Dr. Olajide Williams, Lauren Von Der Pool, Julie Paradis, Cathal Armstrong, Ed Bruske,

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Gang rape hit the headlines last year after the brutal attack of a woman on a bus in India’s capital, Delhi.

But new research suggests that gang rape is a wider problem across Asia - with some of the highest recorded levels of violence against women in the world to be found within the Asia-Pacific region.

Despite years of attention and millions spent on preventing it, there has been little or no measured decrease in its occurrence. And simply responding to the outcomes of violence has not been enough to end it.

For the first time, researchers have compiled cross-country data from men - those who admit to using violence against women, and those who do not. It is hoped that understanding men’s own experiences will help to target the causes of violence against women and prevent it from happening at all.

Four UN agencies interviewed 10,000 men across seven countries in the Asia-Pacific, with startling results.

One in four said they had raped a woman or girl, while one in 25 admitted to taking part in gang rape.

Men say they start raping early, often in their teenage years and are frequently motivated by sexual entitlement. While the rates of violence are shocking, the variations between countries is giving hope to those working on programmes to prevent violence and rape, because it demonstrates that early intervention can make a difference.

The research confirmed that there is no single cause of violence, but a complex interplay of factors related to individual experiences, community norms, and societal elements.

101 East travels to Cambodia, a country representing some of the highest levels of rape in the region, to speak with men themselves about why they commit these crimes and to find out if the perpetrators can trigger new ideas for prevention.
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In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Ram Madhav, National General Secretary of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and former spokesman of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the right-wing Hindu nationalist organisation and ideological wing of the BJP.

Last year, the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi signalled a new era in India politics: promises of extraordinary transformation and economic development, but also a turn to right-wing Hindu nationalism, which has been accused of anti-Muslim, anti-minority rhetoric.

We explore whether Hindu nationalism is inherently exclusionary and if it is compatible with secularism and democracy, and probe violence against minorities. We also discuss human rights abuses in Indian-administered Kashmir, and how to bring peace to the region.

Joining the discussion are:

Dr Nitasha Kaul, a Kashmiri novelist, academic, economist and poet, and Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster in London;

Dr Gautam Sen, a former Advisor to the Prime Minister's Office in Bharat and previously a lecturer in political economy at the London School of Economics;

Mehboob Khan, a British Indian presenter at UN Radio, and former BBC journalist and Indian-administered Kashmir correspondent.

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Nayib Bukele became Latin America's youngest leader after he comfortably won El Salvador's general election in February.

The 38-year-old president of El Salvador enjoys a nearly 90 percent approval rating, but there are challenges ahead.

With one of the highest murder rates in the world, perhaps the main challenge for Central America's smallest country is gang-related violence.

Slow growth has kept El Salvador's social and economic development stagnant, and corruption cost the government millions of dollars.

And ever since a 12-year civil war ended in 1992, hundreds of thousands of Salvadorians have been fleeing the country every year seeking a safe place to live and better opportunities.

"We are dealing with a lot of crises. El Salvador has changed a lot in the last six month. W For example crime, which is probably our worst crisis, we have lowered crime by 60 percent. The homicide rate has dropped by 60 percent ... October was the safest month since the war ... and we've been fighting corruption very very strongly. And hope in the country is very high," Bukele said in an interview it Al Jazeera.

He explained that a new international body to fight corruption has already been set up and will start investigating cases soon.

"This commission will investigate anyone, including me ... it's a real commission ... it's not a joke.
It's going to be an example for the region," he said.

Bukele seems determined to turn things around. With just a few months in office, he has travelled extensively from North America to the Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

In Mexico, he secured investments on social programmes that aim to reduce migration to North America.

In China, he signed deals that will improve roads and facilities across El Salvador. And in Qatar, Bukele looked for opportunities in the energy sector and attended meetings with other world leaders at the Doha Forum.

Asked about his approach towards China, he says: "You cannot ignore China ... I don't want to get at odds with any superpower, I just want the best for our country. That's a pragmatic foreign policy.

"For us, foreign policy is not a matter of changing the world as it is, but more about how well can we serve our country in this huge economy so we can help our people."

President Nayib Bukele talks to Al Jazeera about corruption, the relationship with China and Venezuela, and how young leaders are now changing the way things are being done.

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The rising death toll and increasingly rapid spread of the new coronavirus has prompted China's President Xi Jinping to declare the outbreak a "grave" situation.
He has also said public safety is the government's top priority.
This comes as more cities lock down public transportation.
Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler reports from Beijing.

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Saadane Benbabaali is an Algerian academic whose ancestors came from what is now the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. He has retired from teaching literature and Arabic at Paris University III. But for 15 years, Benbabaali has led groups of students on annual trips to Andalusia to share his passion and knowledge about the region and its rich history.

He believes that the period of Arab Muslim rule over the Iberian peninsula was arguably the only time in European history when Muslims, Jews and Christians lived relatively peacefully together, producing a common culture and harmonious society.

He also thinks that the period and place have powerful lessons for what he sees as today's fractured world.

"There were beautiful periods of co-existence in Andalusia. So why not today? We need to cultivate the spirit of optimism in people ... Today, the difference is that everyone thinks they own the truth and will confront others. They're even prepared to kill for this," Benbabaali says.

In 711, Muslim forces entered the Iberian peninsula from North Africa. They eventually occupied most of present-day Portugal, Spain and parts of southern France, which became known as al-Andalus as it joined the expanding Umayyad Empire

During the Islamic 'golden age' between the 8th and 14th century, al-Andalus became a hub for social and cultural exchange, while the arts, science, architecture, agriculture, medicine and mathemathics flourished.

Many attribute these achievements to religious tolerance and collaboration between Muslims, Christians and Jews, which is why that period of history is also sometimes referred to as La Convivencia, or co-existence.

The era also produced some of the most significant scholars, poets, musicians, philosophers, historians and thinkers of the medieval age - such as Ibn Arabi, Ibn Rushd (also known as Averroes), al-Zarqali (Arzachel in Latin), al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis in Latin) and Ibn Firnas, among others.

"Today we need all those [Andalusian] philosophers, thinkers and Sufis, who like Ibn Arabi made love the basis of human relationships," says Benbabaali.

The retired university teacher subscribes to a school of thought that considers Andalusia's golden age to have been a beacon of enlightenment for Europe and the lands around the Mediterranean Sea.

"Andalusia is a world that belongs to the past but this past had a reputation and an impact on the people who experienced it and left behind a culture, music and ideas that still exist today," says Benbabaali.

The 'Reconquista' of al-Andalus

As time passed, however, internal conflict resulted in the emergence of competing city-states and led to a gradual weakening of central power and influence.

Muslim rule over al-Andalus came to an end in 1492 with the conclusion of the "Reconquista," a centuries-long campaign by Christian states aimed at recapturing the territories that had previously been taken by Muslim forces.

Queen Isabella I of Castille and King Ferdinand II of Aragon initiated the Spanish Inquisition, aimed at re-establishing Catholic orthodoxy across their kingdoms. After royal decrees in 1492 and 1502, Jews and Muslims were ordered to convert to Christianity or leave Spain.

An era of tolerance, peace and co-existence had come to an end - and even the descendants of those Muslims who did convert to Christianity, known as "Moriscos", were expelled from the country by King Philip in 1609.

But, for some, the golden age of Islam still remains in the collective Muslim memory.

A video of Mouaz al-Nass, a young Syrian Islamic musician, went viral after he gave the adhan [the Muslim call to prayer] in Spain's Alhambra Palace, which was built by the Muslim rulers of Granada in the 1330s. It's believed to have been be the first adhan heard there for 500 years and has been viewed over a million times on social media. Nass reportedly said he felt the walls of the palace missed 'hearing the call to Allah'.

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Typically associated in international media with political instability, disease, poverty, corruption, dictatorships, and a lack of human rights and democracy, African countries struggle to deconstruct the stereotypes.

One of the few exceptions seems to be the Republic of Ghana.

Ghana today - at least on the surface - is enjoying political stability, with a multi-ethnic polulation coming together in peaceful democratic elections.

President Nana Akufo-Addo speaks with Al Jazeera's Jane Dutton on why his country is so different from its neighbours in this respect - and what work still remains to be done in Ghana and in the rest of the continent.

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On September 25, 1997, the Israeli secret service tried to kill Khaled Meshaal, the Palestinian political leader of the Hamas movement.

A six-member team had arrived in the Jordanian capital, Amman, a week before the date set for the assassination of the head of the Hamas political bureau who was living in exile.

The Israeli agents had entered through Jordan's Queen Alia International airport from Amsterdam, Toronto and Paris using false Canadian passports.

Interviewed in the film, Meshaal says: "The Israeli threats started that summer. Israel had tried but failed to prevent Palestinian operations. So it escalated its threats especially against Hamas leaders abroad. With hindsight, those threats reveal what the Israelis were planning. But at the same time we felt relatively at ease since Israel had never carried out an operation in Jordan."

Mossad's move to assassinate Meshaal came in the wake of a series of suicide bombings Hamas carried out in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The attacks had left over 20 Israelis dead and hundreds injured.

Israel was enraged and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, called for an urgent meeting with his security services, including Mossad. He wanted a significant and telling strike against Hamas.

The objective was clear: retaliation.

At the same time there was a growing sense of mutual irritation at the heart of the Jordanian-Israeli relations. With this backdrop, Netanyahu gave the green light for the Mossad covert operation against Meshaal.

It was to involve a slow-acting but lethal poison that would gradually shut down the brain's respiratory centre, leading to death. The plan was to spray the toxin into Meshaal's ears, leaving no apparent trace of any weapon, and leading to death within 48 hours.

One of Meshaal's bodyguards, Muhammad Abu Saif, had chased the two Mossad agents who had carried out the operation and, with the help of a passing Palestinian Liberation Army officer, later captured them.

The failed assassination proved to be one of the greatest fiascos in the history of special operations, and a pivotal moment in the rise of Hamas.

This two-part film features exclusive interviews with Meshaal himself as well as with Danny Yatom, the then head of the Mossad, who masterminded the attempt to kill the Hamas leader, and who later fled to Jordan with the antidote that saved Meshaal's life.


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Kurdish fighters in Syria's northwestern Afrin region have vowed to fight on after the main town was taken by Turkish forces and their allies.

Turkey launched its operation to clear the enclave of Kurdish YPG forces in January.

Those fighters say they will now use guerrilla tactics against the Turkish army.

Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons reports from Turkey's southern border with Syria.

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In 1948, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced to leave their country during the ‘Nakba’, the ‘catastrophe’, the founding of the state of Israel.

The majority of Palestinians in Lebanon retain the hope of one day returning home - known internationally as ‘the right of return’ - but almost seven decades later, refugee camps have become part of the urban landscape of Lebanon.

Over a quarter-of-a-million Palestinians still live in the 12 UN-registered camps and 42 other so-called ‘gatherings’ across Lebanon. Lebanon is their home but any chance of becoming a genuine part of the communities they live in is constantly undermined by strict laws ‘protecting’ Lebanese citizens’ rights, general safety and well-being.

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ارتفع عدد الوفيات الناجمة عن الإصابة بفيروس كورونا في الصين إلى أكثر من 1868 حالة، بينما تخطى عدد الإصابات المؤكدة 72 ألف شخص. وقد شهدت الأيام القليلة الماضية انخفاضا نسبيا في عدد المصابين.
تقرير: شيماء جو إي إي
تاريخ البث: 2020/2/18

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Vote for me: Elections in Manila

During election season in Manila, politicians are out fishing for votes, but the locals are not all convinced.

Politics is at the heart of any city and no more so than in the slums of Manila. Every three years, over 300,000 local councilors and chairmen and women are voted into their barangays, or districts, right across the country.

At the end of the typhoon season, with local election fever sweeping through Manila, politicians out in force fishing for votes.

Erlinda squats in the Happyland slum amongst the mountains of rubbish, where she has lived without electricity and running water for years. She is a little sceptical when local politician, Leny Reyes, comes knocking. Promises have been made before and as far as she as she is concerned, nothing changes.

Across the road, Vicky Reyes is fighting for another three-year term as chairman of her barangay.

While politicians fish for votes, local pastor and former businessman Ramil Mateo fishes for souls from his tiny church at the base of now abandoned rubbish tip. His biggest challenge however is whether he can keep his marriage together.

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In Cambodia, it was all smiles as passengers disembarked from a cruise ship that had been turned away by four Asian governments over fears of an outbreak of the coronavirus.
There have been no confirmed cases among the more than 2,000 people on board the MS Westerdam.
Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay reports from the Sihanoukville port where the ship is docked.

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Fifty years from now, one in three people worldwide will live in slums like Tondo in the sprawling megacity of Manila- built without proper sanitation, lacking medical facilities, and packed to capacity.

Ricky Fuertes makes his living sorting through rubbish- tonnes of it, every day. He earns $2.50 a day scavenging so he can feed his family of five. But he faces his biggest challenge when his slum is burnt to the ground.

Nearby, Chito Barquin dives for his money. He normally makes a living working salvage jobs, but times are tough so he now dives in polluted waters for old tyres he can sell to feed his wife and children.

This six-part series follows residents of Manila's Tondo slum as they live, love, survive and aspire in some of the world's toughest living conditions.

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أبدت السلطات الصينية تفاؤلا واضحا بإمكانية القضاء على فيروس كورونا الذي حصد حياة أكثر من 2100 شخص حتى الآن، وذلك بعد تراجع عدد الإصابات الجديدة بالمرض، وكذلك شفاء عشرة آلاف شخص كانوا قد أصيبوا به.
تقرير: شيما جو إي أي
تاريخ البث: 2020/2/20

Several anti-government movements are determined to get noticed between now and February 2019, when Thailand will hold its much-delayed first general election since the military coup four years ago.
The YouTube video, made by a group called Rap Against Dictatorship, has become hugely popular, and the Thai military government doesn't want anyone to see it.

Al Jazeera’s Scott Heidler has the story from the capital Bangkok.

Credit:
0-:44 Music Video, Courtesy 'Rap Against Dictatorship'
:45 Set up Pratchayaa 'Jacoboi' Surakamchonrot, Rap Against Dictatorship,


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حلب بريفيها الغربي والشمالي الغربي تحت سيطرة النظام السوري، وبتأمين كامل حلب والسيطرة على الطريق الدولي أم 5 تحقق روسيا ومعها النظام السوري أهدافهما من العملية العسكرية التي انطلقت بداية ديسمبر/كانون الأول الماضي.
تقرير: نسيبة موسى
تاريخ البث: 2020/2/17

Filmmaker: Khalid Zairi

Morocco's key natural resources include phosphates, zinc, manganese and iron ore. The mining industry is important to the national economy and its products highly sought abroad.

Moroccan truck drivers Ibrahim Tabii and Abdelkabir Ainan risk their lives on dangerous roads and through disputed terrain to bring mineral material from Agadir to Dakar, a 3,000-kilometre journey that can take around two weeks.

This is not like truck driving across the United States where long distances are common and hours are controlled by the federal law. It's not like driving in Europe with its tight regulation and vehicle monitoring systems measuring driver-time at the wheel.

This is driving in Saharan Africa. There are no motorway service stations, no 24-hour SOS vehicle recovery and no spare parts at the end of a mobile phone. Driving hours are not obviously regulated and there are hardly any rest areas.

The two drivers also have to pass through an area known as the Western Sahara. It has been a disputed territory between Morocco and what's called the Polisario Front since 1975. The UN has maintained a peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, a territory about the size of New Zealand, for 27 years.

UN efforts have repeatedly failed to broker a settlement over the disputed territory, which the Sahrawi people, led by the PF says belongs to them. The Polisario Front, a formerly armed nationalist group signed a cease-fire with Morocco in 1991; but since the conflict has made this leg of the journey risky.

When the two drivers reach the border with Mauritania, they're heavily delayed and by customs and immigration formalities and have no alternative but to wait in a makeshift bedroom until vehicle checks and done and visas issued.

In the US, a driver can be at the wheel for up to 11 hours out of 14. In Europe, the rules are tighter, the daily maximum is normally nine hours but breaks have to be taken every four-and-a-half hours. Daily rest should be eleven hours.

But this is the Moroccan Sahara. Laws setting out the working hours and conditions for freight drivers are hard to identify at the present time, although the Moroccan government does recognise the importance of road safety and is currently devising a national road safety strategy.

"I'm sleepy because we haven't rested. We're always under pressure from phone calls," says Ibrahim. "Even though we're entitled to rest for an hour after a four-hour drive, the manager doesn't allow it. We're forced to drive day and night. If you get the chance to sleep, it's for a maximum of two hours."

Unlike travelling in other regions of the world with better infrastructure, road conditions in Mauritania are generally poor, making travel difficult. Roadside assistance is non-existent and the country's size (larger than Texas and New Mexico combined) and harsh climate make road maintenance and repair especially problematic.

Mauritania has only about 2,070 km (1,286 miles) of surfaced roads, 710 km (441 miles) of unsurfaced roads, and 5,140 km (3,194 miles) of unimproved tracks, according to countryreports.org.

Drivers are advised to check the tide times, travel in convoy if possible and ensure adequate supplies of water and fuel are available. Local drivers tend to drive without regard to traffic signs or rules.

"Roadway obstructions and hazards caused by drifting sand, animals, and poor roads often plague motorists", according to Nasser Weddady, a Middle East and North Africa consultant based in Boston, Massachusetts.

The two drivers also get seriously delayed at the border into Senegal, waiting for papers, getting information from their shipping agent, talking to their boss back in Agadir, and waiting for their passports. All the while, they're missing their families.

Finally, after 3,000 kilometers and over two weeks on the road, the men reach Dakar and unload their trucks. But the return journey with a load of fresh mangoes also has its problems and Ibrahim has to travel back to Morocco empty because of the refrigeration on his vehicle isn't working.

Meanwhile, Ibrahim's reconsidering his career options: "The only thing I've been thinking about is going home and returning the truck to its owner and quitting. You can't turn down a job in Africa when you're unemployed. I have to provide for my family so I try to put up with it but it's difficult. I'd rather go home, rest and find another job."

As for Abdelkabir, a "steady salary is better than a big occasional one."

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The worst locust plague in 25 years is wiping out East Africa's crops, further straining food supplies in an area that is already at risk from bad weather and conflicts.
Authorities say unseasonal rains have caused the outbreak and they have now started spraying insecticide on the harvests.

Al Jazeera's Malcolm Webb reports from Samburu County, Kenya.

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نددت المستشارة الألمانية أنجيلا ميركل بالهجوم المسلح الذي شهدته مدينة هاناو وأسفر عن مقتل تسعة أشخاص، ورجحت أن تكون العملية بدافع من "سم" العنصرية المسؤول عن "جرائم كثيرة جدا".
تقرير: مصطفى ازريد
تاريخ البث: 2020/2/20

The current crisis in Yemen, a country crippled by war, took a dramatic turn on December 4 with the assassination of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh by Houthi rebels. But the political and sectarian divisions that dominate Yemen today - and which ultimately led to Saleh's death - go back hundreds of years.

When Islam came to Yemen, the Zaidis, a Shia Islamic sect, became dominant in the north, and its imams were in full control there by the 9th century. The Shia presence would remain in the north for the next thousand years.

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the northern kingdom of Yemen was ruled by a Shia imam while the south of Yemen remained divided, run by different local sultanates - until the British eventually established their own southern state, the Federation of South Arabia.

North Yemen became a republic in 1962 but it was not until 1967 that the British colonial rule ended in the south and The People's Republic of South Yemen was formed, with Qahtan al-Shaabi as its president.

Independence did not stop the southern infighting. The National Liberation Front took power in 1969 and formed a Marxist republic, leaning heavily on support from the Soviet Union. The push-pull between north and south also continued.

Some analysts now see this as tension part of the slow process towards the eventual unification of the two halves of Yemen.

"The conflict between the north and south has always been about Yemen's unity, the 1972 and 1979 wars," explains journalist and historian Abd al-Bari Taher. "Those two wars between the north and south were all about achieving Yemeni unity."


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A Thai soldier has killed several people in a mass shooting across several locations in Nakhon Ratchasima in northeast Thailand, police said.
"The gunman used a machinegun and shot innocent victims resulting in many injured and dead," a police spokesperson told AFP, with local media reporting as many as 12 deaths.
"I cannot confirm the death toll right now, police sealed off the area."
The gunman, identified by police as Sergeant Major Jakapanth Thomma, stole an army vehicle and also posted photos and video of himself in full tactical gear as the attack in Korat was carried out.
Video and photos circulating online showed panicked scenes, with people fleeing and what appeared to be the sound of automatic gunfire filling the air.

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Doctors in Thailand are testing medication normally used to treat HIV and influenza against the novel coronavirus, which has become a global, deadly epidemic.

Al Jazeera's Alexi O'Brien reports from Bangkok.

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With the headlines covering fanaticism, fundamentalism, superstition and ignorance, religion is getting a bad press these days. And much of the conflict in the world, from the Middle East to Nigeria and Myanmar, is often blamed on religion.

But how are things from a different perspective? Some defenders of religion claim Adolf Hitler was an atheist. Communism under Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot or Mao Zedong banned religion, but also massacred millions. And science brought incredible and amazing advances, but also pollution and the atomic bomb.

A critic of religious dogmatism, Professor Richard Dawkins revolutionised genetics in 1976 with the publication of The Selfish Gene. He has since written 12 more bestsellers, including The God Delusion which sold millions of copies, was translated into more than 30 languages, and catapulted him to the position of the world's foremost atheist.

Mehdi Hasan challenges evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins at the Oxford Union in front of a varied and lively audience.

In a frank and at times heated exchange, they discuss: Is religion a force for good or evil? Can it co-exist with science? Is science the new religion? And why if god does not exist, is religion so persistent?

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ترافقت التطورات الميدانية في الملف اليمني مع شكوى المملكة من عدم جدية الحوثيين في السعي نحو الحل.
تقرير: زياد بركات
تاريخ البث: 2020/2/21

Vote comes after PM Abdul Mahdi recommended that parliament take urgent measures to expel foreign troops from Iraq.
Iraq's Parliament has passed a resolution calling on the government to expel foreign troops from the country as tensions escalate between the United States and Iran on Iraqi soil following the killing of Qassem Soleimani.


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With the headlines covering fanaticism, fundamentalism, superstition and ignorance, religion is getting a bad press these days. And much of the conflict in the world, from the Middle East to Nigeria and Myanmar, is often blamed on religion.

But how are things from a different perspective? Some defenders of religion claim Adolf Hitler was an atheist. Communism under Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot or Mao Zedong banned religion, but also massacred millions. And science brought incredible and amazing advances, but also pollution and the atomic bomb.

A critic of religious dogmatism, Professor Richard Dawkins revolutionised genetics in 1976 with the publication of The Selfish Gene. He has since written 12 more bestsellers, including The God Delusion which sold millions of copies, was translated into more than 30 languages, and catapulted him to the position of the world's foremost atheist.

Mehdi Hasan challenges evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins at the Oxford Union in front of a varied and lively audience.

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ترافقت التطورات الميدانية في الملف اليمني مع شكوى المملكة من عدم جدية الحوثيين في السعي نحو الحل.
تقرير: زياد بركات
تاريخ البث: 2020/2/21

Vote comes after PM Abdul Mahdi recommended that parliament take urgent measures to expel foreign troops from Iraq.
Iraq's Parliament has passed a resolution calling on the government to expel foreign troops from the country as tensions escalate between the United States and Iran on Iraqi soil following the killing of Qassem Soleimani.


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There was a huge police presence on the streets of Melbourne in Australia as officers moved to break up competing rallies.
Far-right nationalists faced off against pro-immigrant demonstrators.
They were protesting against Melbourne's youth crime problem, which they blame on people of African descent.
Al Jazeera's Kathy Novak reports.

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Mahathir Mohamad served as Malaysia's prime minister for 22 years from 1981 to 2003. But the 94-year-old veteran politician returned to politics a few years back to oppose the political force he was once a part of, the Barisan Nasional coalition, which had ruled Malaysia since its independence from Britain in 1957.

During Mahathir's first tenure as Malaysia's prime minister, the country experienced a period of rapid modernisation and economic growth for the country's diverse population. Millions of Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Christians now live side by side in the country.

"In order to grow a country, to develop a country the first need is for stability. Ours is a multiracial nation and normally multiracial nations are not stable. So the first job that I had to do was to make sure that all the races were together for the country. That means, of course, that all the different races are represented in the government and they can speak for their own race and also for the nation," he told Al Jazeera.

"Because everybody has a fair share in the governance of the country, they feel satisfied that their problems will be taken care of and that leads to stability where development becomes possible."

His life achievements were recognised at the opening session of Doha Forum 2019. During his acceptance speech, he did not hold back from expressing his views on the modern world.

"Today's world is confronted with increased concern over the sustainability of global economic growth in the face of rising political, social, and environmental challenges," Mahathir said.

And he initiated a talk about his country's foreign policy and need for global markets, noting that Malaysia lost out on a big market when the United States applied sanctions against Iran.

"We don't believe in applying sanctions to force countries to accept certain ideologies and to change governments. It is not only the particular country that will suffer, but all the trading partners also will suffer economically. In a way, it is a form of dictatorship. A dictatorship that is worse than that in a country, it is international," he said.

The Malaysian prime minister also discussed the state of the global economy and its interconnectedness. He argued the US is leading the world in the wrong direction when it comes to multilateralism.

Commenting on the US-China trade war, Mahathir said, "Trade wars do not solve anything. They only antagonise people and other people not related to the war. There is too much politics involved ... if you follow economic rules ... perhaps you can solve the problem in a much much better way than confrontation and trying to destroy each other."

"Becoming very nationalist is good. But not at the expense of other people. Every country should care about itself but that needing to be protective or secure doesn't mean confronting others. It's better if we learn to work together," he told Al Jazeera. "We were going a long way towards multilateralism. But now nationalism seems to affect many countries."

For any leader no matter how great a run they have had in the office, one of the issues is when they will leave the political stage and what will happen next.

The Malaysian leader suggested he may seek to stay in power beyond 2020 and said he could not guarantee who would succeed him as prime minister. Asked if he would step down in 2020, he said he wanted to fix problems created by the previous government before resigning - with a new economic plan slated to be achieved between 2025 and 2030.

"This time around we want everybody to benefit, and not any particular group only," he said.

Could the modernisation of Malaysia have happened without Mahathir? Is the Malaysian prime minister going to step down in 2020? And who would he endorse to be his successor?

In this special edition of Talk to Al Jazeera at the Doha Forum 2019, Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad discusses his achievements, his vision for Malaysia, and the challenges the country faces.

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As the United States maintains its "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran, tension is on the rise in the Gulf, raising concerns over a full-blown military escalation.

While the US has beefed up its military presence in the region, the administration of President Donald Trump has been seeking allies for an international naval coalition to "combat Iranian aggression" in the Strait of Hormuz - one of the world's busiest and most important shipping routes.

Iran's government meanwhile says the naval build-up could destabilise the entire region and has called for US vessels to leave the area.

"We believe that the best the US can do for the protection of maritime navigation is to just leave people alone; don't interfere," Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tells Al Jazeera.

"This is basically a hostile act against Iran and I do not believe it will have any impact other than insecurity."

He also warns against US weapons sales in the Middle East, saying, "if you are talking about threats coming from the region, the threats are coming from the US and its allies who are pouring weapons in the region, making it a tinderbox ready to blow up".

The crisis between the two powers escalated last year when Trump pulled out of a landmark nuclear agreement signed between world powers and Iran in 2015, saying it was a bad deal. He has since reinstated sanctions targeting Tehran and countries trading with it - a move Zarif calls "economic warfare".

"The Americans are not in a position to draw red lines for what we do for our defence," he says.

"I think the United States is the source of instability in this region. I think US allies, unfortunately, have been the source of instability," he says, referring to countries including Israel and Saudi Arabia.

"What is very clear - extremely clear - is that we are not seeking war, we do not want confrontation, we want development for our people, we want development for our region," he says.

"We need stability here, but stability should be for everybody. We cannot have stability for some and instability for others. We need to have stability for all countries in the region and we are prepared to protect stability for all countries in the region, and for those who depend on our region."

On Iran's continued commitment to the nuclear pact and its viability, Zarif says he believes "it is the best deal that was possible", even though he admits that it encountered opposition.

"It wasn't the best deal for everybody because you cannot have the perfect deal. There is no perfect deal," he says. "And if President Trump is given correct advice, he will be able to basically accept the reality that this is the best deal possible and we can move forward."

However, Zarif feels the deal can proceed even without US involvement, as long as the remaining participants agree to fulfil their own commitments.

"What we want them to do and what we expect them to do is stay committed. And we will stay committed as long as they are," he says.

So far the European Union is still sticking to the deal, offering a mechanism to bypass US sanctions.

"I think it's an important signal that the United States is getting more and more isolated - not because of anything we have done but because of what they are doing," Zarif says.

"They are violating the law, they are breaking the law, they are breaking every international treaty they have been a member of. They have broken not only the nuclear deal with Iran, but the Paris convention, the Trans Pacific Partnership - basically everything they could break they are breaking. So they are the source of instability globally and this type of behaviour will lead to further global disorder. And I think that is dangerous for everybody and everybody is realising that."

On Iran's ties with its neighbours in the Gulf, Zarif says the country hopes to achieve normalisation of relations.

"What we have called for, and repeat, is that our neighbours - all of us - belong to this region, we cannot leave this region. Others will leave this region; others will not secure us; others will not provide us with the security umbrella that we need. We can provide each other with that security umbrella. We extend our hand, and our hand remains extended, to all our neighbours."

Zarif admits he is "certainly concerned" about the potential for a war in the region. "But as a diplomat, I always need to look for a peaceful way out. And that's what we are trying," he says.


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They have survived rape and the slaughter of their families. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya girls and women fled Myanmar to escape a military crackdown.

In Bangladesh's refugee camps they thought they would be safe. But inside the tents that house almost a million Rohingya refugees, women and girls are being bought, sold and given away.

Girls are being forced into marriage because relatives can't afford to feed them, or are being lured to brothels with the promise of good jobs. We investigate the dangers still facing Rohingya women, and meet the people seeking to exploit them.

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US President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, on the eve of his likely impeachment acquittal and in the aftermath of the chaotic first votes of the Iowa caucus to replace him.

Al Jazeera's Kimberly Halkett reports live from Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on the main takeaways of that speech.
Derrick Plummer is a Democratic strategist and joins us live from Washington, DC for his reaction to Trump's speech.

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Earlier this year a Buddhist woman was raped and murdered in western Myanmar. The authorities charged three Muslim men.

A week later, 10 Muslims were murdered in a revenge attack. What happened next was hidden from the outside world.

Bloodshed pitted Buddhists against minority Rohingya Muslims. Many Rohingya fled their homes, which were burned down in what they said was a deliberate attempt by the predominantly Buddhist government to drive them out of the country.

"They were shooting and we were also fighting. The fields were filled with bodies and soaked with blood," says Mohammed Islam, who fled with his family to Bangladesh.

There are 400,000 Rohingya languishing in Bangladesh. For more than three decades, waves of refugees have fled Myanmar. But the government of Bangladesh considers the Rohingya to be illegal immigrants, as does the government of Myanmar. They have no legal rights and nowhere to go.

This is a story of a people fleeing the land where they were born, of a people deprived of citizenship in their homeland. It is the story of the Rohingya of western Myanmar, whose very existence as a people is denied.

Professor William Schabas, the former president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says: "When you see measures preventing births, trying to deny the identity of the people, hoping to see that they really are eventually, that they no longer exist; denying their history, denying the legitimacy of their right to live where they live, these are all warning signs that mean it's not frivolous to envisage the use of the term genocide."


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The death toll from the outbreak of a rare virus in southern India has risen to 14.

The Nipah virus, which can cause flu-like symptoms and brain damage, emerged in the state of Kerala this month.

Al Jazeera's Charlotte Bellis reports.

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"The time for change has come" - that was the message from Malaysia's new leader Mahathir Mohamad after his stunning victory over the ruling coalition in May.

The 92-year-old veteran politician, who served as Malaysia's prime minister for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, returned to politics two years ago. He opposed the political force he was once a part of - the Barisan Nasional coalition, which had ruled Malaysia since its independence from Britain in 1957.

The law must take its course and if the attorney general finds sufficient evidence of acts that are criminal then the attorney general takes the decision. One of our [election] promises was that we would honour the separation of powers between the legislative, executive and judiciary, so I cannot interfere with what the attorney general wants to do.

Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia PM

Malaysia is a diverse nation with millions of Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Christians living side by side.
But in recent years, many Malaysians have been frustrated with high-level government corruption and a rising cost of living.

Prime Minister Mahathir accused his predecessor Najib Razak of stealing millions of dollars, and this may have led to Najib's defeat at the polls.

Najib has denied corruption charges over the disappearance of millions of dollars from the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) state investment fund, as part of a graft probe while he was in office.

The new government led by Mahathir has reopened investigations that were stifled while Najib was in office, setting up a special task force to deal with the allegations.

So what are the implications of the 1MDB investigation? And what's next for Malaysian politics?

In an exclusive interview, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, talks to Al Jazeera about his fight against corruption and for more transparency in government.

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Philippines: The Slum | Episode 1: Deliverance

As a birth attendant advocating for family planning, Remy is on the frontline of Tondo's battle with overcrowding.

Tondo in northern Manila is home to the city's largest collection of slums. It is also one of the most densely populated areas on the planet.

Paradise Heights, home to former squatters, is in the heart of Tondo. There, self-taught midwife, Remy Permites is delivering new life in the slums. Remy does her work with only the most basic equipment: a stethoscope, a pair of gloves and little else. Though she has little formal training, she plays a crucial role in an area where few can afford to pay for medical care.

The slums of Manila are undergoing a population explosion. But Remy has managed to escape the shacks and lives in a small government-built apartment, with 14 members of her family. Her home also doubles as a makeshift clinic.

Along with delivering babies, Remy is responsible for delivering paperwork. She continues her training, takes classes on birth control, helps a young girl bury her stillborn baby, and along with family planning advocate Jane, educates women to have smaller families.

Meanwhile, a few kilometers to the south of Remy's clinic is Beseco slum with a population of about 45,000. There, fisherman and father of nine, Gener Pagtabunan struggles to feed his family by trying - mostly unsuccessfully - to catch fish in the polluted harbour.

His wife Lorna tries to supplement their income by selling fruit and vegetables from the front of their tiny shack. But it is a struggle for the growing family to make ends meet. Lorna, who wants to ensure her 21-year-old daughter and mother of three does not make the same mistakes she did, takes her to get a contraceptive injection.

About the series: This six-part series follows residents of Manila's Tondo slum as they live, love, survive and aspire in some of the world's toughest living conditions.

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"I learned that discrimination wasn’t going to weaken me, it was going to make me stronger."

’Dzoel decided not to let anything stand in the way of his dreams. In 2017, Al Jazeera met Achmad Zulkarnain, an extraordinary young man who was determined to become a professional photographer.

Now, Al Jazeera returns to meet Dzoel once more and learn more about the obstacles he had to overcome, including depression that could have led to him taking his own life.Born with no legs and only stumps for arms, Zulkarnain, whose nickname is Dzoel, refused to let physical limitations stop him from pursuing his goal.

Since the 2017 Al Jazeera documentary about his life and work, he has cultivated a burgeoning Instagram following and studied with renowned photographer Darwis Triadi.

Today, in addition to teaching photography and managing his studio, Dzoel is studying criminal law and wants to start a legal firm that will help people with disabilities.

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High in the Atlas Mountains in central Morocco are remote villages almost entirely dominated by Amazigh women, a result of the geographical divide between the urban and rural poor, the volatility of Moroccan agriculture and lack of regional development. Their menfolk migrate for long periods to do agricultural or city work in other parts of the country.

While the absentee men send money back home, the women are left to care for the children, tend to crops and farm animals without any outside support. "Wives can't accompany their husbands," says Fatma Kadjik, from Tiklit village, so married women have to learn to survive on their own.

In 2005, Morocco began its National Human Development Initiative Support Project with a million dollar budget aimed at improving people's living conditions and reducing poverty. By 2014, the overall poverty rate had been cut by about half, but there's still a large gap between urban and rural poverty. Literacy is also low, especially among girls, who are often unable to continue their education beyond primary school.

While life expectancy is not much lower than in Europe, harsh living conditions and poor access to healthcare affect longevity. It's a tough life for these resilient women, especially if as young girls they've been married off early.

"Imagine a girl married at the age of 13 or 14 having three or four children. At 19, she already looks 50. She's no longer beautiful and healthy," points out Saida Oukhali, from Oum Rabia.

She and her friend Aicha Jadda were both married at 16 but have since divorced, carrying a stigma in this conservative Amazigh society. "We weren't mature enough for the responsibility of marriage," says Saida. "Divorce is a big problem. You're exploited and no longer respected."

Ignoring village gossip, these young women now express themselves through music and song, where separation, hardship and women's suffering are recurring themes.

Village women with children have a heavier burden to bear. "We never rest. We keep running all day until night falls," says Fatima Kadjik, who lives with her sister-in-law, Hafida. She describes a typical day: "Hafida and I wake up at 6am to make bread and get the girls ready for school. After, I take the cow to the field to graze. Then we wash the wheat, lay it to dry and prepare lunch. By then the kids are back from school. I give the cow water and take it to graze."

Her husband, Abdellah Hasbi, acknowledges that this is difficult existence and hopes things will change for the next generation. "I'm worried about the younger generation ... Projects should be launched in this region, to create jobs for young people."

Men like Abdellah get seasonal work in farming but Moroccan agriculture is volatile and only 18 percent of the country is arable, adding to these people's vulnerability and insecurity.

While NGOs have stepped in to try and up-skill young people in of these communities - and this is the key to breaking the cycle that locks these women into such an unforgiving way of life. It might ultimately affect traditional Amazigh culture but it would more of the people of the Atlas the chance of becoming more valued members of Moroccan society as a whole.

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ISIL and the Taliban - Featured Documentary

Raising its black flag over the rugged mountainous regions of Afghanistan, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has emerged as a new threat to the war-ravaged country as it battles the Taliban for supremacy.

Raising its black flag over the rugged mountainous regions of Afghanistan, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has emerged as a new threat to the war-ravaged country as it battles the Taliban for supremacy.

The Taliban are worried about the influx of foreign fighters who are believed to make up as many as half of ISIL's fighters [Al Jazeera]
Employing violence and brutality to impose its will , Wilayat Khorasan, (the ancient name ISIL has chosen for the region made up of Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of neighbouring countries), has emerged in seven different areas and vowed to step up operations, where the veteran fighters - the Taliban - once held sway.

Fighting to reconstitute the historical Khorasan into the so-called "caliphate" of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group says it has grand plans for the region, starting with uprooting the Taliban and the government of President Ashraf Ghani.

Causing friction with the regional and overall leadership of the Taliban, armed battles have increased over the past few months with dozens of Taliban fighters killed in clashes, most notably in the Taliban stronghold of Nangarhar province.

ISIL's local chapter has also managed to attract dozens of fighters from the Taliban's ranks into its fold, while foreign fighters unable to make it to Syria and Iraq have thronged to the group's territory.

In ISIL and the Taliban, we look at the group's growing popularity, how it made steady inroads into the country, and the threat it poses for the future of Afghanistan .

We gain unprecedented access to ISIL's central leadership and meet children as young as five years old being trained to fight and dedicate their lives to the 'caliphate'.

Employing violence and brutality used by the group in Syria and Iraq, Wilayat Khorasan, (the ancient name ISIL has chosen for the region made up of Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of neighbouring countries), has emerged in seven different areas and vowed to step up operations, where the veteran fighters, the Taliban, once held sway.

Fighting to reconstitute the historical Khorasan into the so-called 'Caliphate' of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group says it has grand plans for the region, starting with uprooting the Taliban and the government of President Ashraf Ghani.

Causing friction with the regional and overall leadership of the Taliban, armed battles have increased over the past few months with dozens of Taliban fighters killed in the clashes, most notably in the Taliban stronghold of Nangarhar province.

ISIL's local chapter has also managed to attract dozens of fighters from the Taliban's ranks into its fold, while foreign fighters unable to make it to Syria and Iraq have thronged to the group's territory.

In ISIL and the Taliban we look at the group's growing popularity, how it made steady inroads into the country and the threat it poses for the future of Afghanistan.

We gain exclusive access to ISIL's central leadership, and meet children as young as 5-years-old being trained to fight and dedicate their lives to the 'Caliphate'.


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King Hussein of Jordan: On A Knife Edge is the second of a two-part series telling the story of Jordan's King from 1952 to his death in 1999.

The second half of King Hussein’s career, his relationship with Israel, the Palestinians, the Arab world and the West.

This two-part series is the story of Jordan's king from 1952 to 1999, a major political figure in the cauldron of the Middle East and one whose life and career were never far from a crisis, at home and abroad. Hussein was still only fifteen when his grandfather, King Abdullah I, was shot dead by a Palestinian gunman in July 1951 with the boy by his side at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

His critics described him as an artful opportunist, cynically shifting alliances with the sole aim of staying in power. An Israeli intelligence report once described him as a man trapped on a bridge-burning at both ends, spanning a crocodile-infested river.

He was certainly an arch politician who navigated the minefield of the Middle East all his political life but never lost faith in the peace process. In his last major TV interview he said he believed that peace would eventually be reached in the Arab-Israeli conflict although, of course, almost two decades later, that peace is still proving as elusive as ever.

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Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his government have resigned. Medvedev has agreed to take a new role in overseeing defence and security.
This comes after President Vladimir Putin used his annual address to announce a shakeup of the political system.
He said Parliament should have the power to choose the country's prime minister - but that the president should still have wide-ranging powers.
Protests calling for political reform erupted last year after opposition politicians were barred from running in local elections.
Putin said he would hold a referendum on any changes to the constitution.

Viktor Olevich, lead analyst for the Center for Actual Politics, talks to Al Jazeera.

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Shot, then blown to smithereens with military-grade explosives, the 2006 killing of Altantuya Shaariibuu was one of Malaysia’s most sensational murder cases. Even though years have passed since the young Mongolian woman’s death, it is one case that has refused to disappear. If anything, the mystery has deepened.

101 East investigates those who were involved in the case and asks whether the two men convicted of her murder are “fall guys” for others who ordered the killing of Shaariibuu.

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The Isle of Man TT is described as the world's most dangerous race, a complicated and unforgiving course. Yet every year more and more motorcycle enthusiasts come to this tiny British island to race in the event. Is it some kind of fatal attraction?


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As hundreds of passengers leave the Diamond Princess cruise ship after a two-week quarantine, some are awaiting the results of a test to determine whether they have the coronavirus COVID-19 that has infected more than 540 on the vessel.
It is a nail-biting situation for many, not least for some of the ship's Filipino crew members who say they are working under duress.
Al Jazeera's Jamela Alindogan reports about one Filipino worker on board the Diamond Princess.


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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had launched ballistic missiles into eastern Syria, targeting fighters it blamed for a recent attack on a military parade in southwestern Iran.

At least six missiles were fired into Syria at 2am (00:00 GMT), targeting the bases of "takfiri terrorists" in eastern Syria, the IRGC statement said.

Iranian officials use the word "takfiri" to describe Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters.


Al Jazeera's Zein Basravi reports from Tehran.

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For the past 16 years, Huseyin Gunduz has dreamt of building a mosque in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam.

Having had to perform congregational prayers in factories, community centres and people's basements; he has spent years campaigning and fundraising to build a place of worship and make his dream a reality.

In The Mosque of West Amsterdam, we follow Huseyin as work finally nears completion on the Western Mosque.

"The thought of the outcome and success leaves me speechless," he says. "I believe we'll be rewarded in the afterlife for our contribution and efforts."

Known locally as Westermoskee, the structure - modeled on Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia - is in urgent need of funds to be completed.

From its conception, in the early 1990s, to the present day - construction has been fraught with controversy, as well as political and financial difficulties.

Planning problems, corruption scandals, local opposition and anti-Islamic prejudice have plagued the project, halting development for nearly a decade.

The extreme-right leader Geert Wilders, whose Freedom Party is riding high in the opinion polls, has also been an outspoken critic, leading to growing local opposition.

This film looks at how Huseyin tries to raise the capital necessary for development while trying to bridge relations with residents who are growing increasingly weary of the mosque.

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In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Charles Liu, Senior Fellow at Peking University, seasoned Chinese entrepreneur and informal adviser to the Chinese government, on Xi Jinping’s record in power so far, the government’s crackdown on the Uighur Muslim minority, and what role for China if it becomes the 21st century’s military and economic superpower.

With the presidential term limit abolished in 2018, critics say that Chinese President Xi Jinping appears to be paving the way to being able to stay in power for life, but Charles Liu, founder of Hao Capital, disputes this. Separately, despite lower-than-predicted growth, China is still growing substantially and is set to become the world’s biggest economy.

But the economic boom has been paired with an increase in state surveillance and crackdowns on dissent, as well as the repression of the Muslim Uighur minority. So at what cost has China’s economic miracle come? And what’s the future for civil liberties of the Chinese people?

In recent years China has also increased its military spending while some Chinese officials have been ratcheting up their militaristic rhetoric, raising fears of direct military confrontation with the United States.

On this Head to Head episode filmed at the Oxford Union, we challenge Charles Liu on all these topics, ask him whether the Chinese economy has hit a wall, and whether China’s neighbours should dismiss their fears as his country builds up its military and extends its global reach.

We are joined by a panel of three experts:

Andreas Fulda - China Specialist at Asia Research Institute and Assistant Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham.

Victor Gao - Vice President of the Beijing based Center for China and Globalization and former interpreter for the late President Deng Xiaoping.

Steve Tsang - Professor and Director of the China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London.

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Kuala Lumpur Summit: Five major issues facing Muslim world

Leaders from some of the world's most populous Muslim-majority nations set to address issues like Islamophobia, poverty.
Leaders from some of the world's most populous Muslim-majority countries are set to meet in Malaysia's capital on Thursday to address issues such as Islamophobia and poverty, with the organisers insisting the event is not meant to rival the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
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Every year two million people die from unsafe food and water around the world. Food safety experts warn these deaths may be caused by human design, and nowhere is this trend more prevalent than in China.

Tracing the making of a bowl of wonton noodle soup, a 101 East investigation exposes the toxic stew this iconic dish has become.

From tainted additives in noodles to growth hormones in pork, to industrial filler posing as meat, presenter Steve Chao finds that anything is possible for producers looking to cut corners and make a fast buck.

Do you have a story about Chinese food you consumed? @AJ101East goes undercover to expose the hidden harm in China's Food Industry.

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Extreme surveillance, accounts of torture and the detention of up to a million Uighur is all part of what seems to be China’s attempt at eradicating the Uighur identity from its borders.

On the first day of 2019, Jair Bolsonaro will be sworn in as the president of Brazil.

The incoming leader of South America’s biggest economy is a hard-right populist with an affinity for the military dictatorships of the country’s past.

But what does his taking office mean for the rest of the world?


Al Jazeera's John Holman has more.

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Al Jazeera has gained exclusive access to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's Logar province.

Embedded with a group of self-proclaimed Taliban fighters as they attacked an Afghan National Army garrison, it's a rare insight into the security challenge facing government forces.

Journalist Nagieb Khaja reports.


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The government of Austria wants refugees to register in the country they are coming from, meaning a refugee would need permission from the country they are fleeing.

Migration will be high on the agenda at the European Union leaders' meeting in Salzburg.


Al Jazeera’s Laurence Lee reports from Freilassing.


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European nations criticised for weak responses to Qassam Soleimani's assassination

Europe appears caught in the middle following the targeted killing of Iran's most powerful general by the U.S.
Many countries are urging restraint as they try to balance relations with both sides.
European leaders have warned against further escalation in the region.
But U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says their responses haven't been "helpful".
In the past, Tehran has accused Europe of not doing enough to revive the 2015 nuclear deal that the U.S. withdrew from two years ago.
Should the EU rethink its Iran policies?

Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra
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Hassan Ahmadian - Assistant professor of political science at the University of Tehran
Rouzbeh Parsi - Head of the Middle East and North Africa programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Matthew Bryza - Former US diplomat



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The Middle East's longest-ruling monarch, Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said, has died aged 79.
Three days of mourning have been declared - and the process has begun to choose who will take over; Qaboos had no children and never publicly named a successor.
He was credited with modernising the Gulf country and mediating between rivals in a volatile region.

Al Jazeera's Rob Matheson looks back at his life.

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In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Erik Prince, the founder and former CEO of Blackwater, on his security firm’s performance during the Iraq w ar, the “exit strategy” he’s proposing for the w ar in Afghanistan, and his support for US President Donald Trump.
During the early years of the Bush administration’s so-called ‘War on Terror’, Blackwater grew into one of the most profitable private military contractors in the US.

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With a black mother of Bantu ethnicity and a white father of Swiss and German descent, raised in apartheid South Africa, Trevor Noah began his life whilst considered a crime by his own government. Born in 1984, when interracial unions were still forbidden, the comedian has come a long way from his humble upbringing in Johannesburg.

He began his career at the age of 18, starring in a soap opera and then went on to host his own radio show, "Noah's Ark", and eventually quit to focus on comedy.

Noah made a name for himself, attracting the attention of some of the world's most renowned comedians, like Jon Stewart. After moving to America in 2011, Noah would go on to become the first South African comedian to appear on "The Tonight Show" hosted by fellow comedian and actor Jimmy Fallon. After becoming a regular contributor to "The Daily Show", with over 200 writing credits under his belt, Jon Stewart handpicked him to be his successor, as host of "The Daily Show" - one of America's top political satire programs.

But as a foreigner in Trump's America, how does Noah's voice resonate? And can political satire be a force for change?

This week, comedian and TV host Trevor Noah talks to Al Jazeera.

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More than 62,000 Brazilians have died as a result of violent crimes in the last year, breaking a record of homicides in the country.

The increase is largely caused by rival drug gangs battling for territory.


Al Jazeera’s Mariana Sanchez reports from Rio de Janeiro.


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A former Pakistan cricket star has confessed to his role in a spot-fixing scandal in England - after denying it for six years.

In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit, Danish Kaneria admits he induced a teammate at Essex County Cricket Club to underperform for money paid by a notorious bookmaker.


Al Jazeera's David Harrison reports from London.

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Turkey says its military has hit several Syrian government targets, killing dozens of troops in the rebel-held Idlib province in Syria.
The raids were launched in response to a Syrian government attack which killed five Turkish soldiers and three civilians.
This has put the Syrian and Turkish governments in direct confrontation for the first time and risks irking Russia, which backs Syrian forces.
Turkey has now sent more reinforcements to Idlib and is threatening further action.

Al Jazeera's Priyanka Gupta reports.

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The Turkish defence ministry has said four Turkish soldiers have been killed and nine wounded by Syrian government shelling.
The Turkish military sent reinforcements to Northern Syria on Sunday after warning that it may intervene against the government's offensive in Aleppo and Idlib.
Last week, the UN said almost 390,000 people - mostly women and children - had fled their homes since the start of December.

Al Jazeera's Sinem Koseoglu joins us live from Istanbul, Turkey, for the latest updates.

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Julius Malema is never far from the spotlight. In 2012, his aggressive and divisive brand of rhetoric led to expulsion from South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC).

As head of the influential ANC youth league he had earlier helped Jacob Zuma become president.

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In part three of The Lobby, our undercover reporter travels to the Labour Party Conference, revealing how accusations of anti-Semitism by group within Labour targeted Israel critics and saw some investigated.


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U novom izdanju Al Jazeera Svijeta gledajte: u Karakasu se tokom prošle godine dogodilo gotovo 4.000 ubistava. Virginia Lopez otkriva šta je to što pojedine mlade ljude tjera na takve zločine. Omar Al-Saleh istraživao je zašto je gotovo 2 miliona djece širom Afganistana prisiljeno na teške poslove. Kako je grupa avanturista prešla pustinju dugu 1300 kilometara u priči Caroline Malone.



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طالب الرئيس التركي رجب طيب أردوغان في محادثة هاتفية مع نظيره الروسي فلاديمير بوتين، بالسيطرة على قوات النظام السوري، وقال إن الحل ممكن عبر التنفيذ الكامل لمقررات قمة سوتشي.
تقرير: أزهار الجربوعي
تاريخ البث: 2020/2/21

The downfall of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi last year was greeted with great hopes for the rebirth of a nation.

But there was another hope felt by many inside and outside of the country - that the end of his 42-year rule would allow some light to be shed on the fate of a charismatic Lebanese cleric.

Imam Musa al-Sadr, the leader of Lebanon's Shia Muslims, disappeared, along with two companions, in the summer of 1978 during a visit to Libya to meet Gaddafi.

As in the Shia myth of the 'hidden imam', this modern-day cleric left his followers upholding his legacy and awaiting his return.

The enigmatic cleric's popularity had transcended religions. Calling for social justice and development, in 1974 al-Sadr founded the Movement of the Deprived - aiming to unite people across communal lines.

Archbishop Youssef Mounes of Lebanon's Catholic Information Centre remembers a sermon al-Sadr delivered in a church, in which he warned of an imminent sectarian war.

"It was a surreal scene," Mounes says. "Seeing the turban of a Muslim imam under the cross in a Christian church. He delivered a sermon at a very significant time."

When civil war erupted in Lebanon in 1975, al-Sadr led anti-war protests. And as the war intensified, so too did al-Sadr's efforts to end it. As part of this, he toured the Arab world to plead the case for south Lebanon.

In 1978, this took him to Libya where he was due to meet Gaddafi.

He was never seen again.

In the years since conflicting stories have emerged about what happened to al-Sadr and his two companions. Now hopes have been raised that new evidence and witnesses will emerge to help solve the mystery of the missing imam.

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In West Papua, what began as protests over alleged racism towards Papuan students has now turned into renewed calls for an independent state.

Since late August, protesters have marched with the banned Morning Star flag - a symbol of the West Papuan independence movement - and across the province, government buildings have been set on fire. Witnesses say at least six demonstrators and one soldier were killed last week.

The protests began after the spread of a video showing Papuan students being called "monkeys" and other racist taunts by Indonesian security forces. On Thursday, Indonesia partially lifted an internet blackout in the region that began on August 21, but services are still blocked in regions where the worst violence occurred. Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Information said the measure is meant to stop the spread of fake news and hoaxes.

This year marks 50 years since West Papua became a part of Indonesia following a controversial 1969 vote supervised by the UN. In 2017, 1.8 million Papuans unsuccessfully petitioned the UN to recognise a self-determination vote.

Most Papuans are Christian Melanesians and see themselves as a group that is separate and distinct from Muslim-majority Indonesia. In the past, Jakarta has not been open to a new referendum on resource-rich West Papua.

In this episode, we'll look at the current unrest in West Papua and hear more about the Papuan push for independence.

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Storm Rising: Manila's slum dwellers under threat

Sandwiched between a polluted harbor and a busy highway is the charcoal- making a community of Ulingan- in Manila, with a population of 40,000.

Husband and wife team Judy and Babes Barines have operated a charcoal pit for the last nine years. They invested all their savings in charcoal-making but have to make some difficult decisions when their investment is wiped out by a tropical storm that hits the south of the country.

A few kilometers east of the Barines' charcoal pits, corn seller and mother of nine, Bebe, is starting work. But she has not managed to escape the storm either. She has to repair her makeshift home under a bridge and work out how to make a living as her supply of corn dries up.

Meanwhile, Pilipinas Got Talent superstar, Frankendal, is also feeling the effects of the typhoon. He has not heard from his mother and grandmother since the storm, so he heads to the region to look for them. As a former slum dweller, he knows just how precarious life can be.

The six part-series follows residents of Manila's Tondo slums as they live, love, survive and aspire in some of the world's toughest living conditions.

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Al Jazeera releases Pakistan’s suppressed report into the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
On the night of May 1, 2011, US Special Forces launched a raid deep into Pakistani territory to capture or kill al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
Pakistan’s military and political leaders were furious, and set up a Commission to examine both “how the US was able to execute a hostile military mission which lasted around three hours deep inside Pakistan”.
Later, the Pakistani government blocked the release of the report they had commissioned.
But our exclusive project reveals the full report for the first time, includes exclusive videos, and in-depth coverage.

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يواصل الألمان على المستوى الرسمي والشعبي التعبير عن استيائهم من الهجوم المزدوج الذي نفذه ألماني متطرف في هاناو، وأسفر عن مقتل تسعة أشخاص، بينما تواصل الأجهزة الأمنية تحقيقاتها لمعرفة ما إذا كان منفذ الهجومين استعان بآخرين.

تقرير: نور الدين بوزيان
تاريخ البث: 2020/2/21

Russia says its new hypersonic weapon is a technological breakthrough on the scale of Sputnik - the first satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. The Avangard is launched on top of an intercontinental ballistic missile. But unlike a regular missile warhead it can sverve sharply, making it much harder to intercept.
That's worrying the U.S. - that's also having to contend with China's development of hypersonic arms.
Beijing displayed the Dong Feng 17 at a military parade in October.
The U.S. defence secretary has said developing the technology is a priority.
So will the Avangard, which Russia says can fly at 27 times the speed of sound, change the balance of power?

Presenter: Dareen Abughaida

Guests:

Pavel Felgenhauer - Defence and Military Analyst

Tariq Rauf - Nuclear Arms Control Specialist

Paul Schulte - Former Director of Proliferation and Arms Control at the British Ministry of Defence

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Fatou Mandiang Diatta, also known as Sister Fa, is an award-winning Senegalese urban soul and hip-hop star who uses her music to campaign for human rights and for an end to female genital mutilation (FGM). She herself is a survivor of the painful, dangerous practice.

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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.

"We have three million drug addicts, and it's growing. So if we do not interdict this problem, the next generation will be having a serious problem ... You destroy my country, I'll kill you. And it's a legitimate thing. If you destroy our young children, I will kill you. That is a very correct statement. There is nothing wrong in trying to preserve the interest of the next generation."

But Duterte admits that children and innocent people have also been killed in the bloody crackdown, and promises to investigate these extrajudicial killings, but he also says calls them "collateral damage".

When asked about the contested South China Sea, Duterte says:

"We will not give up anything there; it's an entitlement ... You can only negotiate to prevent a war ... They invited me for talks, and I will go."

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Leaked documents suggest that Isabel dos Santos, Africa's richest woman and daughter of Angola's former president, siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars of Angolan government money.
However, dos Santos has dismissed the so-called Luanda Leaks, obtained by journalists' organisation ICIJ and released on Sunday, as "witch-hunt" meant to discredit her and her father.

Al Jazeera's Alexi O'Brien explains.

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The civil rights activist and comedian reflects on race relations in America and the situation in Ferguson

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Turkey's parliament has approved a bill to deploy troops to Libya in support of the embattled United Nations-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), paving the way for increased military cooperation despite criticism from opposition legislators.

Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop said on Thursday that the legislation passed with a 325-184 vote.


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Israel has announced that it signed a directive officially allowing Israeli citizens to visit Saudi Arabia for religious or business trips. Saudi Arabia does not have diplomatic relations with Israel and does not allow Israeli passport holders to visit except for Muslim pilgrimage.
The announcement comes just days before United States President Donald Trump said he would release his much-touted Middle East peace plan.
Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett has more from West Jerusalem.



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Drone attacks claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels have caused fires at two major facilities run by Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil giant.

Citing an interior ministry spokesperson, the official Saudi Press Agency said on Saturday the blazes at the facilities in Abqaiq - home to the company's largest oil processing plant - and Khurais were under control.

The ministry did not identify the source of the attack and said investigations were ongoing. It did not specify if there were any casualties or whether operations at the two facilities had been affected.

Al Jazeera's Osama Bin Javaid explains.

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Singapore’s education system is renowned for creating the world’s smartest students.

It’s the envy of nations around the world, but what is the secret to its students’ success?

Supporters point to a culture that values education and holds teachers in high esteem.

But it’s a high-stakes game – only the top students make it into the best schools.

Twelve-year-old Xuan is preparing for a national exam that will determine which secondary school he attends.

He starts his day before sunrise, and spends his days shuttling between school, tuition centres and extra classes, followed by homework late into the night.


He says he feels the pressure from multiple sources.
“I think it comes from our teachers, friends, family and it can get very stressful when everyone is looking at you thinking that you can score really well,” Xuan says.

Now some are asking if this culture of competition puts too much pressure on kids.

In 2018, there was a 56 per cent rise in the number of young people asking for mental health help, according to the country’s leading mental health NGO.

Charmaine, 17, was diagnosed with depression after struggling during and after the exams.

“I think it’s just the kind of environment that you're in, it’s too much pressure,” she says. "I kind of developed a fear of failure. Like a really, really intense one.”

101 East goes back to school to find out why Singapore’s students are top of the class, and the price they’re willing to pay for success.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the UN General Assembly nuclear power should either be free for all states or banned completely. He also warned that the "inequality" between states which have nuclear power and those which do not undermines global balances.

Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra reports on Erdogan's speech from the United Nations.
Sultan Barakat, Director of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, also analyses the speech.

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Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit exposes the global scale of match-fixing in cricket.

Our undercover investigation reveals how criminal gangs bribe players and officials to fix matches and parts of matches – and make millions from betting on guaranteed outcomes.

In secretly filmed meetings, we expose criminals who target the fast-growing Twenty20 tournaments and Test matches, the highest level of the international game.

We film international players agreeing to fix matches and show how spot-fixes appear to have been carried out at Test matches involving some of the world's leading teams.

The 18-month investigation also reveals how a head groundsman was paid by criminals to doctor the pitch for two Test matches, allowing them to control and bet heavily on the result.

And we expose detailed plans to set up a Twenty20 cricket tournament, involving former international players, purely for the purpose of match-fixing.

Since this documentary was completed, Jeevantha Kulatunga has contacted Al Jazeera.

He denies any involvement in match-fixing and says Al Jazeera's allegations are "false" and had been "deliberately used to tarnish my image and reputation as a cricketer and coach".

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In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges businessman-turned-politician Richard Tice, the chair of the United Kingdom's Brexit Party, on his campaign for a "no deal" or "clean" exit from the European Union.

Editor's note: Since the recording of this show on September 30, 2019, Rachel Warby has been deselected and is no longer the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Brexit Party.

In addition to being elected as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) in May 2019, Tice cofounded the successful pro-Brexit campaign Leave.EU before the June 2016 referendum. He went on to fund the Leave Means Leave campaign immediately after the vote.

Tice dismisses official warnings about the impact of a "no-deal" Brexit on the UK's economy and believes that sovereignty is paramount, adding: "We get back our sovereignty from the European Union, back to Parliament, and back to the people. So that is, you know, that is something that is absolutely priceless, we must achieve that."

Hasan and Tice are joined by a panel of three experts:

- Graham Gudgin - a pro-Brexit economist at Cambridge University and chief economic adviser at the conservative think-tank, Policy Exchange
- Jonathan Lis - the deputy director for the pro-Europe think-tank, British Influence
- Ash Sarkar - a senior editor at the progressive online media outlet, Novara Media

After the recording at the Oxford Union, Tice said: "The ultimate challenge is both to survive and enjoy an hour of intense Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan. It sharpens you up and keeps you on your toes. I loved it!" (October 1, 2019)

No-deal Brexit: Destiny or disaster? with Richard Tice first broadcast on October 11, 2019, at 20:00 GMT and repeat telecasts on October 12 at 12:00GMT, October 13 at 01:00 GMT, and October 14 at 06:00 GMT.

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Tensions between the United States and Iran escalated in early January after US President Donald Trump ordered the killing of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.

The attack also killed Iraq's Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF).

In response, Iran fired more than a dozen missiles at two US bases.

All of that was happening on Iraqi soil, a nation once again caught up between a regional giant and a military superpower.

Trump is adamant that the attack was "self-defence" and that Soleimani posed an imminent threat - which was contradicted by Iran and the Iraqi prime minister.

And Iran says it's delivered "a slap in the face" with a missile strike which will usher in the end of US presence in the Middle East.

So is the latest US-Iran crisis really over? Will the US heed calls for its forces to leave Iraq?

Al Jazeera was given rare access to the sprawling Ain al-Assad base after the Iranian strike. We asked the US-led coalition if the threats from Iran-backed militias still loom. And in a rare TV appearance, Mohammad Mohie, spokesman of the Iran-backed Shia paramilitary group Kataib Hezbollah, talks to Al Jazeera.

Asked about the US government calling Kataib Hezbollah a threat to Iraq's peace and security, Mohie says: "We are Iraqis and from Iraqi soil. We have confronted US troops; they were occupation troops according to the UN. After 2003, the US troops were occupation troops so it was the right of the Iraqi people to resist. And with our joint efforts we expelled US troops. So the return of the US troops to this area is stirring problems by inciting violence and supporting terrorist groups and Takfiris. Those groups threaten the security of the region, this is the main reason for instability in the Middle East and it is the main threat to everyone’s security. We are the sons of this area, we have the right to defend it, to live in it peacefully."
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Yehia Mohamed Elias, a former Comoran minister for education, married his wife Zakiya 20 years ago. He married his 'new' wife Zuleikha just two years ago.

But now Elias and his wives have decided to take part in the great Comoran tradition of the 'grand marriage'.

The 'grand marriage' is an age-old institution which has been passed from generation to generation on the islands of Grande Comore, Moheli and Anjouan.

It's a symbol of social status on the islands and a must for any self-respecting Comoran, a commitment not even the President of the Republic can avoid embracing.

A Comoran man can only wear certain elemens of the national dress or stand in the first line at the mosque if he's had a grand marriage.

There are two types of legal unions in the Comoros - the small marriage and the grand one.

The ordinary wedding is an intimate gathering and one which has to satisfy the appetite for celebration until the married couple decide it’s time for - or they can afford - the grand marriage.

This is normally at least a year after the smaller ceremony and involves a major series of parties, processions and gatherings that can last up to two weeks and take over the whole village.

The grand marriage is as important for the bride as it is for the groom, with some beauty preparations starting as long as six months before the event. Other women might only take a week of pre-nuptial make-up preparations, depending on the couple's social and financial status.

The grand marriage certainly doesn't come cheap and Elias claims to have spent all his money, over €20,000, on the wedding - not much by modern international standards but a small fortune on the Comoros.

These festivities are a huge extravagance, particularly on these islands which are among the 20 poorest nations in the world.

But while half the population continues to live beneath the poverty line, the grand marriage remains an important beacon of Comoran social standing.

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An Al Jazeera undercover team penetrated the network of dealers, agents and traffickers who profit from the multi-million dollar trade in Rhino horn. An illegal business that is decimating the Rhino population close to the point of extinction.

Our reporters discovered that members of the Chinese President’s delegation went on an illegal spending spree in South Africa to buy ivory and rhino horn and smuggled the products back to China, according to revelations to be broadcast by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit.

In a six-month long investigation the Al Jazeera team also filmed a Chinese businessman, based in South Africa, describing his dealings in rhino horn and how he escapes prosecution. “Everything in Africa is based on money”, he says.
Al Jazeera shows exclusive footage shot secretly in a village near the Vietnamese capitol, Hanoi, which is a hub of wildlife trafficking. Despite a massive dossier of evidence on over fifty dealers in the village selling horn, ivory, tiger skins and lion bones, to the Vietnamese Government, no official action has been taken to close down the trade.

About twenty five thousand rhino are left in Africa. Six thousand have been killed in the last decade. The largest concentration of rhino is in South Africa and the Kruger National Park has become the major killing field, with two or three animals shot every night by local poachers.

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The second part of the film shows events following the failed assassination attempt, including behind-the-scenes discussions during the diplomatic struggle involving Jordan, Israel and the US.

Retired Major-General Ali Shukri, who was the manager of the office of Jordan's King Hussein back in 1997, played a key role in managing the crisis that ensued following the Israeli attack on Meshaal.

"King Hussein called President Clinton and informed him of what had happened. Clinton listened with astonishment. He couldn't believe that could happen in Jordan. By the end of the conversation Clinton was angry and said: "That man is impossible!", referring to Netanyahu.

"King Hussein informed Clinton of his demands – the antidote and the nature of the [toxins] used against Meshaal. He told him the peace treaty between Jordan and Israel would be over if Meshaal died."

At the same time, Danny Yatom, then chief of the Mossad, immediately travelled to Amman to meet King Hussein, who was reportedly furious with Yatom.

The aim of Yatom's trip: To contain the situation.

With tensions running high, King Hussein ordered his security forces to surround the Israeli embassy in Amman, where other members of the Mossad assassination squad were believed to be hiding.

Meanwhile doctors at the Hussein Medical City hospital were struggling to diagnose Meshaal, who already lay in a coma.

After expert consultation the doctors concluded that a large amount of an opiate-like drug had been administered to Meshaal. Tests showed it was a drug similar to morphine, which if administered in high doses, would have the effect of disabling the body's respiratory system.

On September 27, Meshaal came out of the coma, appearing to return from the dead.

The media knew nothing of the secret negotiations between Jordan and Israel, or King Hussein's demand for the antidote, until later.

The Israeli government and the secret service came under Israeli media fire for a double humiliation – of failing to kill the Hamas leader without being caught and of being forced to release the founder of Hamas from jail in a prisoner exchange deal.

Kill Him Silently is the story behind Mossad's bungled bid to assassinate Meshaal and the part the operation played in the Palestinian group's rise to power.

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The story of Somalis fleeing the civil war at home for over 20 years, only to be confronted by poverty, kidnapping and torture as they seek refuge in Yemen.

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Thousands of pro-democracy protesters marched in cities across Egypt on Friday, demanding the resignation of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Videos posted on social media showed demonstrators chanting "rise up, fear not, Sisi must go" and "the people demand the regime's fall" late on Friday.

Protests were reported in the capital Cairo, the second-biggest city of Alexandria and Suez.

Officers in civilian uniforms confronted the demonstrators who tried approaching Cairo's Tahrir Square, where mass protests started in 2011 which toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Al Jazeera is banned from reporting from inside Egypt, but there were several reports of arrests made in the capital, and tear gas being used on demonstrators.

The demonstrations came after self-exiled Egyptian businessman and actor Mohamed Ali accused President el-Sisi of corruption and called on people to take to the streets and demand the leader be removed. El-Sisi has dismissed the allegations as "lies".

"If el-Sisi does not announce his resignation by Thursday, then the Egyptian people will come out to the squares on Friday in protest," Ali said in a video posted on Tuesday.

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Predsjednik Stranke demokratske akcije i dopredsjedavajući Doma naroda Parlamentarne Skupštine Bosne i Hercegovine Bakir Izetbegović poručio je Miloradu Dodiku da neće uspjeti da pocijepa BIH. Kaže da je došlo krajnje vrijeme da se pokrene međunarodna zajednica.  


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Tanzanian President John Magufuli has brought radical changes to the country since he came to power three years ago.
He has introduced ways to save money, waged a war on corruption, and got rid of so-called government 'ghost workers'.
But a clampdown on other areas, from politics to media and even sexual morality, is leading to his criticism.

Al Jazeera Catherine Soi reports from Dar es Salaam.

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Turkey has sent reinforcements to its forces in the Idlib province of Syria, the last rebel-held region in the country.
The armoured vehicles and tanks were headed for the observation posts that Turkey has already set up in the province, following an advance by Syrian government forces that could pave the way for them to mount an offensive on the provincial capital.
But as Al Jazeera's Sinem Koseoglu reports, Turkey is determined to stop that.

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A look at how Soviet rule has shaped present-day Georgia while exploring if it was a union of equals or a military and cultural occupation by Russia.

Journalist Tamila Varshalomidze grew up in Georgia after the downfall of the Soviet Union, but she is very aware of how the USSR's influence has affected her life, her family and community and her country.

In 1937, during Stalin's "Great Terror," her great great grandfather, a wealthy peasant, was purged. In the middle of the night, someone knocked on his door; he was told to get dressed and leave with the authorities.

His family never saw him again.

"It has been 80 years ... but I think that finding the truth still matters. I feel it helps us to understand why and how we were controlled as a country," says Tamila. "After almost 30 years of independence, the USSR is still with us and I believe we cannot have a future before we have dealt with this past."

Tamila sets out to explore her family's history and how Soviet rule has shaped present-day Georgia. Was it a union of equals or a military and cultural occupation by Russia? And how does the existence of Soviet-era monuments and buildings continue to dominate life in the former Soviet republic? She also examines the impact of this legacy on the psyche of those who live in their shadows, and asks why her fellow Georgians actively avoid dealing with their Soviet past?

"One of the means to show the power of the state has always been architecture, be it pyramids or baroque palaces," Georgian architect and urban planner, Irakli Zhvania says. "It was always the means to show your own people how powerful you are, to show them that they are small, they are little and they should be afraid of the state."

These structures, which Tamila refers to as the "Soviet scar", are a constant reminder of Georgia's long, painful struggle for independence.

For others, they are simply a fact of daily life. While some buildings reveal a kind of Soviet grandeur, many, like the "Khrushchev" residence blocks, named after the Soviet leader's promise of housing for the masses, are an outward symbol of hard times and oppression.

Poorly made, limited in functionality and lacking in design, the buildings are nonetheless home to many Georgians, including Tamila's parents.

"I think we actively avoid dealing with our past," she says. "This has always been the mindset of my parents' generation. They were born into a Soviet Union which was against people asking questions and curiosity got you into trouble."

In The Soviet Scar, Tamila looks into Georgia's complex past to find out if there might be a way to heal the collective memory of pain.

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Funeral processions to honour Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military commander who was assassinated last week in a United States air raid in Baghdad, are underway in Iran's capital Tehran.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Hassan Rouhani and Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani led prayers in the funeral of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.
His remains will be buried in his home town on Tuesday.
Hundreds of thousands of people are out on the streets of Tehran.

Al Jazeera's Dorsa Jabbari reports live from Tehran.

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Syrian rebels have abandoned strategic areas in Aleppo and Idlib as Syrian government troops, backed by Russian air power, tighten their grip in the northwest.

But with Turkey sending in more reinforcements to Idlib, the Ankara-backed rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad's forces are hoping they can regain ground.

Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra reports from Hatay on Turkey's border with Syria.


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In May, after more than 60 years in government, Malaysia’s ruling party were kicked out, plagued by growing corruption allegations, financial scandals and even claims of m urder. Now fighting for his legacy and freedom, former Prime Minister Najib Razak faces charges of money laundering, abuse of power and criminal breach of trust.

In this exclusive episode of 101 East, Mary Ann Jolley interviews former Prime Minister Najib Razak and asks, what went wrong.

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It is time to change our image of Africa. Critics say that for too long now, aid organisations, foreign diplomats, politicians and journalists have been stuck looking at this vast continent as a convenient photo-opportunity to illustrate victimhood and desperation. And few men are more forceful in advocating a change in how we perceive Africa than Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina. Talk to Al Jazeera sat down with one of the continent's most influential young authors to explore why the world is still not understanding Africa, and how to break the lens of media distortion.

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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.
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Seven years of war in Syria have created a complex battlefield that has drawn in global and regional powers.

Russia and Iran are allied to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but the heavy troop involvement by both countries has created tension between them.

Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr explains from Beirut.

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Former youth football coach Barry Bennell, one of the top talent spotters in Britain with ties to major clubs like Manchester City and Crewe Alexandra, spent his days coaching children and his nights abusing them.

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit profiles six men, all victims of Bennell, and explores the long-term impact of his serial abuse.

Deborah Davies first reported on Barry Bennell’s crimes 20 years ago. She has befriended his victims and has a rare insight into their plight.

In a powerful and heartbreaking documentary, she describes how some have turned to substance abuse and even attempted suicide. More than a few have not survived, one likely victim being his most famous player, former Wales international and manager Gary Speed.

The investigation uncovers new evidence that, according to teammates, Speed was abused by Bennell.

The programme also reveals that high-profile clubs, as well as Britain’s Football Association, failed to protect children and in some cases failed to act on warnings.

After this film was made, Crewe Alexandra said that the Club was not aware of any sexual abuse by Bennell nor received any complaints about sexual abuse by him.

They say the police investigated the Club's knowledge, including interviewing Hamilton Smith and found no evidence to corroborate that it was aware of Bennell’s offending.

Crewe's statement can be found here:

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Iran has faced economic sanctions from the US for over 40 years.
They target Iran’s big industries - oil, steel and coal - and anyone affiliated with the government. This could include banks, insurance and construction companies, ships and aircraft.
So why is the US doing this and does it make any difference? Find out with Start Here.

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A Chinese casino empire to rival Macau is investing big in Cambodia, transforming a once-sleepy seaside town into a hub for gangsters and shady operators.
Tens of thousands of Chinese workers have moved to Sihanoukville, many working in the backrooms of hastily built casinos or labouring night and day on construction sites.
As soaring skyscrapers fill the horizon, the Cambodian government is welcoming the massive cash injection with open arms.
But as homes are demolished and roads collapse under the weight of construction, resentment among locals is growing.
101 East investigates the underworld figures cashing in on Cambodia’s casino boom.

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Determined to carry their fight into the new year, protesters kicked 2020 off with a march from the city's central park.

Thousands of demonstrators, mostly dressed in signature black attire, started out peacefully along the six-lane main road from Victoria Park to the downtown business district.

Al Jazeera's Simona Foltyn has more from Baghdad.

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Tens of thousands of Indian Americans packed into a Texas stadium for an unusual joint rally addressed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Donald Trump.
The event in Houston, dubbed "Howdy Modi!", was a rare mass show of support for a foreign leader on US soil.

As Al Jazeera cameraman Gilbert De La Rosa attempted to film placard-carrying protesters, a handful of men, wearing "Volunteer" shirts and official credentials for the Modi event, attempted to yank his camera from him. After a brief scuffle, police intervened and threatened to arrest one of the men.

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Malaysia’s Anti-Corruption Commission has released a series of audio recordings featuring former Prime Minister Najib Razak seeking help from Abu Dhabi’s crown prince in concealing a deal linked to the 1MDB corruption scandal.
In one recording, Najib asks the crown prince to help clear his son on money-laundering accusations.
Michael Hershman is President and CEO at the Fairfax Group, which specialises in corporate risk management.
He joins us by Skype from the US state of Florida.

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In part two of The Lobby, our undercover reporter joins a delegation from the Israeli Embassy at last year’s Labour Party Conference. The programme reveals how accusations of anti-Semitism were made against key Labour Party members – and how a former official at the Israeli Embassy was upset when her background was revealed.

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In December 2019, the first case of the coronavirus was discovered in Wuhan, China. Since then, it has spread to dozens of other countries and resulted in tens of thousands of people being infected and hundreds of deaths.

When the virus began to spread, Chinese citizens who tried to warn others about the illness were accused of lying and told by police to stop their "illegal activity". Since then, China's top officials have admitted there were shortcomings in response to the virus and recognised they must improve their national emergency management system.

"There's no denying that there should have been more information, more transparency, and a better emergency response system in place," China Global Television Network anchor Wang Guan said.

In Xinjiang province, where at least one million Uighur Muslims are being held in camps, multiple cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed raising fears it could spread rapidly in the region.

"There have been very few cases in Xinjiang. Actually, Xinjiang ranks number six from the bottom in terms of the confirmed cases. There has not been a single death in Xinjiang so far. The situation is well under control over there," Wang said.

Dozens of commercial airlines have imposed travel restrictions on flights to China. There have also been several reports of business and individuals inciting racism against people of Chinese descent in response to the outbreak.

"These are really concerning issues because now some westerners are calling China, calling the Coronavirus the China Virus, but I didn't remember people calling Zika, the Brazil Virus, or Ebola the Congo Virus," Wang said.

Wang argues that China is fighting the virus to the best of their ability.

The ongoing civil war has caused serious damage to Somalia's infrastructure and economy. Thousands of Somalis have either left as economic migrants or fled as refugees. Most spent months, if not years, in refugee camps aboard. Around 200,000 Somalis refugees have fled to Yemen and roughly 50,000 to the UAE. There are around 150,000 Somalis living in Canada, 100,000 in the UK and 85,000 in the US.

Within Somali, more than a million people are internally displaced.

"There are more than 1.1 million people displaced from their homes and their original places of living. 1.1 million people. There's certainly nearly that same number who are reliant upon food assistance from the United Nations agency and other donors, nearly a million people who can't meet their own food needs," says Nicholas Kay, United Nations special representative for Somalia.

Somalia receives aid from both the UN and the Arab League - of which it is a member - how it's allocated and where it goes can sometimes appear inconsistent.

Many Somalis have sought refuge in neighbouring countries, hoping to return to Somalia once the civil war dies down. Ethiopia has become home to 4.6 million Somalis and Kenya to over 2 million. After a series of Al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya starting in 2011, the Kenyan government began ordering Somalis back into refugee camps and some to return to Somalia.

Other Somalis have even fled to war-torn Libya, a hub for human traffickers who export them to the full. From there, they must make the often treacherous sea journey to Europe and then by land to onward destinations. Those who survive can encounter a wide range of problems - but sometimes find help from established Somali communities.

With the collapse of government, Somalis have often turned to their tribes, clans and sub-clans to fill the void, and clan allegiances can extend beyond Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya into the diaspora. "The clan is a wonderful form of insurance," says the BBC's Africa Editor, Mary Harper. "Because if I arrive in London and I'm from a particular Somali clan, I'll find my Somali clan brothers and sisters and they'll look after me. If I don’t have any money, they'll give me money to maybe start a business and maybe I’ll pay it back. If I don’t have anywhere to live, they'll help me find somewhere to live. So they really, really look after each other."

"The Somali community in the UK has been in existence long before the state collapsed," says Laura Hammond, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. "As a community the Somali community is suffering quite a lot from a lack of integration which is caused not just by their own difficulties, learning the language or figuring out so-called British life. But it’s also about structural exclusions that are put in place. So it’s very difficult for them to find jobs, it's very difficult for them to solve their immigration status. It can take them years to actually gain citizenship."

Abdi Warsame and Abdirizak Bihi are part of the Somali community in Minneapolis in Minnesota state in the US. Warsame has become an elected member of Minneapolis City Council and has worked hard to ensure that his people are properly and evenly represented at the municipal level. Bihi runs the Somali Education Advocacy Center: "In 1996 I moved here from Washington DC to work with the refugees I’ve seen in camps. So I knew the challenges they’ll face here. I became an interpreter, a counselor, a cultural broker. We’d train them to or help get Somali speaking personnel so they could address the issues that the new Americans were facing. And it’s not really easy to be black, Muslim and immigrant."

When Aboukar Awale came to the UK in 1997, he found mafrishes, cafes where Somali men would drink tea and chew the addictive stimulant khat. He himself became an addict - but the drug is now banned in the UK, thanks to the campaign spearheaded by Awale. However, it's still a big problem among young Somalis and so he's now taken his campaign to the streets of Somalia itself: "I thought if I am lucky, then what about the children of Somalia, and those being raised who think khat is a good thing? And that's how I started this campaign."

Like many Somalis across the diaspora, Awale hopes deeply that one day he’ll be able to return to help re-build his homeland: "It will happen inshallah. It might not happen in ten years; it might not happen in maybe 20 years. But one day… It just breaks my heart. But inshallah, Somalia will come back. Someday Somalia will be back."

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قال مراسل الجزيرة نقلا عن مصادر في المعارضة السورية المسلحة إن العملية العسكرية التي تركزت في بلدة النيرب بريف إدلب يوم أمس قد توقفت، بعد أن أنشأت القوات التركية نقطة عسكرية فيها.
تقرير: ميلاد فضل
تاريخ البث: 2020/2/21

For the past two years, Saudi Arabia has prepared to place its national oil company on the stock market. Officials talked up the Saudi Aramco initial public offering (IPO) with international exchanges and global banks. It seemed like a great idea that the world's largest oil producing company, valued at $2 trillion, would become the world's largest ever traded stock.

There are many companies in the world which move and shake markets but perhaps no other organization essential to running a country. Aramco is unique and it runs no ordinary country. Saudi Arabia plays a key role in moving global oil prices. The oil market affects everyone on the planet directly or indirectly. Oil prices have developed and destroyed economies – Sudan and Venezuela being the most recent examples. So that company shedding its cloak of secrecy and deciding to go public is a huge deal. Specially for Saudi Arabia which is run by a monarchy and its affairs cannot be publicly evaluated or scrutinized.

The proposed listing of the national champion was a central part of the young Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 2030, a reform drive aimed at restructuring the kingdom's economy and reducing its dependence on oil revenue.

"I think there was a strong case for the IPO and there still is for the selling of a stake of Saudi Aramco and there are lots of reasons for it," explains Jim Krane, an energy researcher at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. While Saudi Arabia, like other Gulf states have been trying to move away their economies from oil dependency for years, "the specter of climate action has finally made the Saudis get serious about it. And really the only way to diversify is through Aramco and Aramco is the source of revenues that the Saudi state needs to build other economic sectors."

The Kingdom holds about 16 percent of the world’s oil reserves and is the largest exporter of petroleum among OPEC countries. Nearly half of the country's GDP comes from oil and Aramco itself employs 65,000 people.

The concerns about radical changes in strategy put a spanner in the works for Saudi Aramco's public listing. For the first time in its history, an IPO would bring full public disclosure of Aramco's financial details, a feat that has never been made public.

"Probably the biggest downside is the transparency that would have resulted around Saudi oil reserves," says Krane, a number that doesn't move beyond 260 billion barrels. "If Saudi Aramco would have listed shares on the NYSE or the London stock exchange, the regulators would have forced Saudi Arabia to come clean on all of its reserves, how much of that is proven probable or otherwise."

A lot has changed since Mohammed bin Salman's international public relations drive such as the imprisonment of top Saudi businessmen, the murde r of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the continued wa r on Yemen, and the Saudi-led blockade on neighbouring Qatar. That has resulted in a flight of capital, reduced foreign investment, increased Saudi borrowing and a halt on Saudi Aramco's IPO.

This is not the first time reforms have been promised in Saudi Arabia. "In many ways, Mohammed bin Salman resembles his grandfather Abdul Aziz al-Saud," according to Chas Freeman, former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The late leader united the country "with tribal marriages...conducted a wa r in the Saudi south, which took land from Yemen...suppressed religious uprisings and it worked." Whether his grandson's current ambitions will work is "unknown," says Freeman.

Aramco owns the largest refinery in the US, Motiva, and hundreds of facilities across the globe and funds universities, think-tanks, lobbying firms and controls a vast media empire. That money shapes policy and perceptions while also covering up criticism of the kingdom.

Saudi Aramco's failure to launch and a young leader's stumble from one crisis to another are directly linked. There is an urgency to rush into things but also a lack of experience. "That is really like planning for the growth of a nation, not the exit of an IPO," says Chad Brownstein, a hydrocarbon investment analyst and CEO of Rocky Mountain Resources. "And the growth of a nation takes a lot more planning than a couple of months."

Saudi Aramco: The Company and the State examines the reasons behind the ambitious offering, the politics of Saudi oil, the strategic importance of Aramco, a faulty evaluation, the challenges of transparency and what it means for an ambitious Prince's 'Vision 2030'.

Filmmaker: Osama bin Javaid
Camera: Sherein Emam, Bobby Gunawan
Editor: George Joseph

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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan talked about the importance of the world together combating climate change, saying "a lot of world leaders do not realise the urgency of the situation".
Addressing the issue of Islamophobia, he said Muslims in European countries have been marginalised and warned it would eventually lead to radicalisation.
Khan said since the September 11, 2001 attacks, Islamophobia has rapidly increased in western countries.
He also spoke on the revocation of Article 370 from Indian-administered Kashmir and escalating tensions between India and
Pakistan.

Al Jazeera reports.

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Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen is beginning a four-day visit to China, where he will meet President Xi Jinping.
Beijing provides an economic safety net to Phnom Penh, which has seen souring relations with the West over its human rights record.

Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay reports from Sihanoukville, where Chinese investment is beginning to change the shape of the seaside town.

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The insects are the world's most dangerous migratory pests.
Locusts can swarm in their billions and in January, densely enough to force an Ethiopian Airlines plane off course.
Now they're invading Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Pakistan.
It is the worst outbreak in twenty five years and for Kenya, seventy years.
The insects can spread fast, and other countries are now at risk.
The swarms have already destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of crops.
Millions of people already short of food, could face famine.
Somalia and Pakistan have declared a state of emergency.
The UN says if action isn't taken fast enough, Somalia's infestation could become 'the most devastating plague in living memory'.
And it's asked for $76 million in aid to help control the outbreak.

So can it be contained, or could it get worse?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests:
Stephen Njoka, Director of the Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa.

Cyril Ferrand, Emergency and Resilience Programme Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Crystal Wells, Spokeswoman at the International Committee of the Red Cross, Africa.

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The continent's wealthiest businessman talks about job creation, success and the opportunities Africa provides.

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In part four of The Lobby, the senior political officer at the Israeli Embassy in London discusses a potential plot to 'take down' British politicians – including a Minster of State at the Foreign office who supports Palestinian civil rights.
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In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Baleka Mbete on whether, in the 25 years since apartheid, her party has betrayed Nelson Mandela's legacy and the dreams of South Africa's rainbow nation.

Over the past quarter century, access to education has significantly improved and the rights of all South Africans to free basic healthcare has been guaranteed.

But the ANC's successes have been overshadowed by rising youth unemployment, recent xenophobic attacks on African immigrants and ongoing allegations of systemic corruption, with former President Jacob Zuma currently facing trial.

From fighting apartheid, Mbete rose to become one of South Africa's most powerful women, serving as deputy president, speaker of the National Assembly, and chair of the ANC.

We ask whether the ANC, and Mbete personally, have done enough to hold Zuma to account, and keep Mandela's dream of a united Africa alive.

Hasan and Mbete are joined by a panel of three experts:

- Makhosi Khoza - former South African politician who resigned from the ANC in 2017, after calling for President Zuma to step down
- Xolani Xala - founder of South African Business Abroad and member of the ANC
- Andrew Feinstein - former South African politician and author of 'After the Party: A Personal Journey Inside the ANC'. He is now director of Corruption Watch UK

Has South Africa's ruling party betrayed Mandela's legacy? With Baleka Mbete, first broadcast on October 18, 2019, at 20:00 GMT with repeats on October 19 at 12:00GMT, October 20 at 01:00 GMT, and October 21 at 06:00 GMT.

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شهدت مدينة لاس فيغاس بولاية نيفادا في الولايات المتحدة، المناظرة التلفزيونية التاسعة للمرشحين الطامحين لنيل ترشيح الحزب الديمقراطي في الانتخابات الرئاسية المقبلة.

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Adama Barrow, Gambia’s new president, spoke with Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque in his first interview with international media.
The future of Gambia and the crisis caused by former president Yahya Jammeh, who for weeks refused to step down, were among the topics discussed.

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Slađana Stanković i Jovica Stepić, službenici Ambasade Srbije u Libiji, ubijeni su prije četiri godine nakon otmice u Sabrati. Porodice su za vijest saznale iz medija. Šta je bio motiv otmice i ko je s kim komunicirao tokom tri i po mjeseca njihovog zatočeništva, priča je s nekoliko različitih interpretacija. U emisiji "Libijska veza" o tome govore: Borko Mihajlović, unuk ubijenog Jovice Stepića; novinar Momir Turudić; potpredsjednica Stranke slobode i pravde Marinika Tepić i pukovnik Al-Tahir Al-Gharablie, komandant Vojnog vijeća u Sabrati u vrijeme otmice.

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In part four of The Lobby, the senior political officer at the Israeli Embassy in London discusses a potential plot to 'take down' British politicians – including a Minster of State at the Foreign office who supports Palestinian civil rights.
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In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Baleka Mbete on whether, in the 25 years since apartheid, her party has betrayed Nelson Mandela's legacy and the dreams of South Africa's rainbow nation.

Over the past quarter century, access to education has significantly improved and the rights of all South Africans to free basic healthcare has been guaranteed.

But the ANC's successes have been overshadowed by rising youth unemployment, recent xenophobic attacks on African immigrants and ongoing allegations of systemic corruption, with former President Jacob Zuma currently facing trial.

From fighting apartheid, Mbete rose to become one of South Africa's most powerful women, serving as deputy president, speaker of the National Assembly, and chair of the ANC.

We ask whether the ANC, and Mbete personally, have done enough to hold Zuma to account, and keep Mandela's dream of a united Africa alive.

Hasan and Mbete are joined by a panel of three experts:

- Makhosi Khoza - former South African politician who resigned from the ANC in 2017, after calling for President Zuma to step down
- Xolani Xala - founder of South African Business Abroad and member of the ANC
- Andrew Feinstein - former South African politician and author of 'After the Party: A Personal Journey Inside the ANC'. He is now director of Corruption Watch UK

Has South Africa's ruling party betrayed Mandela's legacy? With Baleka Mbete, first broadcast on October 18, 2019, at 20:00 GMT with repeats on October 19 at 12:00GMT, October 20 at 01:00 GMT, and October 21 at 06:00 GMT.

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Adama Barrow, Gambia’s new president, spoke with Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque in his first interview with international media.
The future of Gambia and the crisis caused by former president Yahya Jammeh, who for weeks refused to step down, were among the topics discussed.

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Slađana Stanković i Jovica Stepić, službenici Ambasade Srbije u Libiji, ubijeni su prije četiri godine nakon otmice u Sabrati. Porodice su za vijest saznale iz medija. Šta je bio motiv otmice i ko je s kim komunicirao tokom tri i po mjeseca njihovog zatočeništva, priča je s nekoliko različitih interpretacija. U emisiji "Libijska veza" o tome govore: Borko Mihajlović, unuk ubijenog Jovice Stepića; novinar Momir Turudić; potpredsjednica Stranke slobode i pravde Marinika Tepić i pukovnik Al-Tahir Al-Gharablie, komandant Vojnog vijeća u Sabrati u vrijeme otmice.

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Syria's army is trying to fully capture the country's last rebel-held territory.
Backed by Russian fighter jets, it has just recaptured the al-Nairab village in Idlib province that Syrian opposition rebels had regained.
This comes as Turkey sends more troops into those areas, after facing direct confrontation with Syrian forces.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned of a swift response if Syrian government forces continue to attack Turkish troops.
Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra reports from Istanbul, Turkey.


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In this episode of UpFront, we ask Polish politician Dominik Tarczynski about his government's immigration policy and anti-Muslim rhetoric.

And in our Arena, Rim-Sarah Alouane and Benjamin Haddad discuss what's behind the ongoing debate over secularism in France.

Polish MP: 'For me, multiculturalism is not a value'
Poland's ultra-conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS) won a second term in office last month, a victory that critics fear will accelerate the country's slide towards authoritarianism.

The PiS rose to power in 2015, following a campaign that focussed on social conservatism, along with a generous social spending programme.

But the party's refusal to take in refugees, along with its attempts to reform the judiciary - critics say at the expense of independence - has put it at loggerheads with the European Union.

Just this week a top EU legal adviser said Warsaw broke the bloc’s law by refusing to take in refugees during Europe's 2015 migrant crisis.

But the PiS's Domink Tarczynski insists his country did nothing wrong, and says Poland stands by its immigration policy.

"We don't want Poland being taken over by Muslims, Buddhists, or someone else ... and no one will ever force us to take Muslims, Buddhists, non-believers in huge numbers," said Tarczynski.

Tarczynski says after living in the UK and the US and experiencing life in a multicultural society, he doesn't see any value in it.

"For me, multicultural society, it's not a value … it's not a virtue," the Polish MP said. "Christian culture, Roman law, Greek philosophers, these are the virtues for us."

This week's Headliner is member of parliament for Poland's governing Law and Justice Party, Dominik Tarczynski.

France, secularism and hijab paranoia
The debate over Muslim women wearing the veil has been reignited in France, after a mother was verbally abused last month by a far-right politican during her son's school trip to a regional assembly. The politician demanded the woman remove her headscarf or leave.

Wearing the veil - known as the hijab - is banned in French schools and government offices.

Politicians are now examining a proposed law that would ban parents from wearing religious symbols by parents on school trips.

The legislation has little chance of passing, but it has put the issue of French secularism, embodied in the principle of 'laicite', firmly back in the spotlight.

Critics see a worrying trend where 'laicite' could enter more areas of French society.

"We are witnessing a transformation of 'laicite' into a legal monster that it was not aimed to be when the law was implemented," said human rights researcher Rim-Sarah Alouane, who focuses on religious freedom and civil liberties.

"We have religious freedom at stake, but also constant harassment and targeting of a part of our population," she added.

Benjamin Haddad, a director at the Atlantic Council, says the law does target Muslims, and agrees it should not be extended, but he says it should be acceptable to have a political debate about what some see as problems with integration.

"You have a lot of secular Muslim women who say that they feel pressured, they feel threatened ... you also have religious leaders going to mayors asking to have separate hours in public swimming pools between men and women. You'll have a lot of young girls who don't want to sit in biology classes in school because they feel pressure from their parents or from their brothers," Haddad said.

"That makes it very complicated for young women and other groups such as LGBTs to express themselves," he added.

In this week's Arena, we discuss secularism in France and its impact on religious freedom.

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In his speech, the Pakistan prime minister talked about the Kashmir issue and the escalating tensions with India.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned the United Nations of a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan and ethnic cleansing in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Al Jazeera reports.

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Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the US defence secretary has made it clear that Washington views China as the biggest threat to the global order.
Mark Esper accused the Chinese government of seeking advantage across the world “by any means and at any cost”.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called the accusations lies.
Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports from Munich, Germany. Our Senior Political Analyst, Marwan Bishara, discusses these developments from Doha.

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India's Supreme Court has given ownership of a disputed religious site in the northern town of Ayodhya to Hindus for the construction of a temple in a landmark verdict announced on Saturday amid heightened security across the country.
The court ruled that Muslims should be given five acres of land for a mosque at an alternate site.

Al Jazeera's Anchal Vohra reports live from New Delhi.

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Greece and Turkey are at odds over a host of issues. But the latest has pushed them closer to a military confrontation.
Turkey’s signed a deal with Libya that maps out a boundary in the east of the Mediterranean Sea, but in the middle is the Greek island of Crete.
There are fears the agreement will also further complicate disputes over drilling for yet-untapped oil and gas in waters around the ethnically-divided island nation of Cyprus.
Israel and Egypt are also involved in this increasingly bitter controversy.
The maritime boundary separates what Turkey and Libya have agreed will be their Exclusive Economic Zones.
They say this gives them full rights to exploit natural resources including oil and gas.

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Matthew Bryza, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center and Global Energy Center and a former U.S. diplomat.
Anas El Gomati, General Director of the Sadeq Institute

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While Tibetan Buddhism is squeezed inside of China's borders, there is a place where it still survives intact: Upper Mustang - a once forbidden kingdom high in the Nepalese Himalayas.

Al Jazeera's Steve Chao travels there to document the fight to preserve an ancient culture, as China expands its influence into Nepal, and the modern world slowly creeps in.


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Archaeologists say that the ancient city of Petra dates back to the third century BC. The famous site in the south of Jordan, which was once occupied by the Romans, is today one of the most visited tourist destinations in the world.

Al B'doul, a Bedouin tribe that used to live in Petra, claim to be descended from the Nabataeans who occupied this land at the end of the Roman Empire. They lived among the tombs and caves for over 170 years.

But after Petra became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the mid-1980s, many B'doul were forced to abandon their semi-nomadic life for the nearby, purpose-built settlement of Umm Sayhoun, where they still live today.

The B'doul go to Petra every day to act as tour guides and provide local colour - from music and entertainment to camel and donkey rides. They feel a strong attachment to the site, and some still cling to Bedouin life in the ancient valley.

In this Al Jazeera Documentary film shot in Petra, we explore the history, traditions and daily lives of the B'doul, particularly the challenges they face as Bedouins in a tourism centre in present-day Jordan.

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The Grammy-winning singer talks about Ebola, terrorism and challenging negative media perceptions about Africa.

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Camels were brought to Australia from Pakistan and India by the British to help with exploration and load-carrying in the mid-1800s.

Given the Australian outback's vast, arid landscape, camels were the only animals strong enough for the job.

But by the early 1900s, there were trucks and trains to do this work, and camels were no longer useful. So the South Australian government ruled that they be destroyed.

This was unthinkable for the Asian camel herders. They disobeyed the order, and set the animals loose in the outback.

Today's Australian camels are the great, great grandchildren of the animals that helped explore and establish modern Australia. There are 1.2 million camels in the Australian outback – the largest wild camel population in the world.

The Australian government sees them as an environmental problem and pests to farmers. They say the camels compete with livestock, destroy property and raid small towns looking for water.

Culling camels

In 2009, the government put up AUD$19m ($19.7m) to cull almost one-third of them.

Over the last few years, private contractors and hunters have been shooting the camels from helicopters and leaving the carcasses to rot in the desert.

Some Australians oppose the cull, saying the government is wasting an opportunity to make use of a natural resource.

Qataris and other Arabs are horrified at the YouTube videos and photographs of the camel cull. For the Arabs, camels occupy an important place in culture, history and economics.

Al Jazeera World goes to Australia with Ali Sultan Al Hajri, a Qatari who grew up in the desert, illiterate and raising camels until he was 17.

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Israel is a nation of immigrants, and first-generation Israelis comprise only 32 percent of the population.

Integration into Israeli society has been one of its main political goals and, under the leadership of founding prime minister David Ben-Gurion, Israel was going to be "the great Jewish melting pot", but it has come under severe strain almost since its inception in 1948.

"There's a gap in Israeli society," says Karen Amit, an Israeli of Moroccan origin.

"They support the arrival of immigrants in theory and love them but, in practice, the ordinary Israeli doesn't open his arms to welcome them. Research about Israeli attitude towards immigrants from Ethiopia has shown surprising results. On the one hand, they love them and have no problem with them. But when asked if they'd accept an Ethiopian neighbour or their children being at school with Ethiopians, their reply was negative."

Jewish people living in Israel today are largely divided into three main groups: Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi.

The Ashkenazim are from Germany, France and Eastern Europe. The term "Ashkenazi" comes from the Hebrew word for Germany. Most American Jews today are Ashkenazim, descended from those who arrived from Europe in the mid-1800s and early 1900s.

The Sephardim are from Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East. The term "Sephardi" comes from the Hebrew word for Spain. Many Jews fled Spain after the end of Muslim rule there in 1492.

Sephardic Jews are often subdivided into Sephardim and Mizrahim, from North Africa and the Middle East. The term "Mizrahi" comes from the Hebrew word for eastern.

There are claims of discrimination against the Mizrahi community in Israel.

"Discrimination and inequality were always a common practice. Western [Ashkenazi] Jews look down on others. They don't want to grant the Mizrahis power ... They want to fill their prisons with them rather than offering them education, culture and guidance," says Pinhas Aloshi, an Israeli of Tunisian origin.

David Hetsroni, an Israeli of Polish origin, came to Israel in 1930.

"My father arrived the following year. He didn't get any help from the state but paid for everything out of his own pocket. But as soon as the Mizrahi Jews arrived, they started complaining they were being oppressed. They used to say, 'You send us to live in Dimona, in the south while you live in Tel Aviv and in the centre. You offer us poor jobs while you get all the decent ones.' We didn't make these allegations. That's what I find hard to accept. natural justice, in my view, says [the allegations] are not fair," Hetsroni says.

Yehouda Shenhav, an Israeli of Iraqi origin, believes that the situation of the third-generation Mizrahi Jews compared with Ashkenazis, is worse today than it was 30 years ago.

"In the Seventies, there was one Mizrahi with a baccalaureate diploma to three Ashkenazis. Four percent of Mizrahi got the baccalaureate compared with 16 percent of Ashkenazim. Today, the gap has widened to about 12 percent against 50 percent.

I re-invented myself as Israeli rather than Arab. The more you distance yourself from Arabness, the more chance you have of integrating into Israeli society. It's sad," says Shenhav.

Rabbi Haim Amsalam says personal progress often depends on whether your family name is Mizrahi or not.

"I know many people who've reached high-ranking positions. They had no choice but to adopt Ashkenazi speech and physical appearance and gradually adopt Ashkenazi culture .... The melting pot that Ben-Gurion wanted to create has failed, because he wanted to melt everyone into one culture, the Western, Ashkenazi one. Why should I abandon my culture and heritage?" says Amsalam.

Israel's Great Divide explores the deep-rooted tension between Israel's Ashkenazi Jews and the Sephardi and Mizrahi communities.

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U.S. politicians are sending one of their strongest ever warnings to China over the crackdown on Uighur people.
More than a million of the Muslim ethnic minority have been imprisoned in what leaders describe as 'vocational training' camps.
The government says inmates are there voluntarily to renounce so-called extremist thoughts.
However, rights groups label the 're-education camps' in Xinjiang Province as prisons, saying they're part of a systematic campaign to strip the Muslims of their identity and culture.
China is condemning a U.S. bill demanding the closure of the camps, and sanctions against Communist party leaders.
Will this measure change anything for the Uighurs?

Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra

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Max OIdtmann - Professor of modern Chinese history at Georgetown University in Qatar

Olsi Jazexhi - Lecturer at the University of Durres in Albania who has visited Uighar camps in Xinjiang

Andy Mok - Senior Research Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization


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For the first time members of Kenya’s counter-terrorism police admit to “eliminating” suspected Muslim radicals.

Speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit, officers from four units of Kenya’s counter-terrorism apparatus admitted the police assassinate suspects on government orders.

They claim that the order to assassinate is made by the National Security Council, a body chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The film examines how extra-judicial killings are seemingly becoming normalized, thirteen years after the so-called ‘War on Terror’ was declared.

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In the first of a two part series: A three-year Al Jazeera investigation into the U.S. gun lobby has uncovered an effort by an Australian political party to seek millions of dollars in political funding while offering to soften strict, anti-gun laws in Australia.

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit used concealed cameras to track ‘Pauline Hanson’s One Nation’, a right-wing, anti-immigration party, as representatives travelled to Washington, D.C. to hold meetings with the National Rifle Association and other lobby groups, as well as the energy giant Koch Industries.

One Nation’s Chief of Staff James Ashby was accompanied on the U.S. visit by Steve Dickson, the party’s leader in the Australian state of Queensland and a candidate in upcoming Australian elections.

Ashby and Dickson were recorded seeking up to $US20 million for their election war chest while promising to soften laws, put in place following a massacre in Australia in 1996.

The strict Australian gun laws have often been condemned by the NRA.

Al Jazeera approached all the groups and individuals featured in this programme. None responded to our findings.

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In a two-part investigation, al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit goes undercover to expose France’s far-right and reveals secret links between violent extremists and one of France’s biggest political parties. Marine Le Pen recently changed the name of the National Front as part of efforts to reform the party’s image and make it more acceptable to French voters. However, an al Jazeera reporter uncovers close connections between senior politicians in Le Pen’s party and Generation Identity (GI), a far-right youth movement dedicated to expelling Muslims from Europe. GI militants are secretly filmed carrying out racist beatings and performing Nazi salutes. Aurelien Verhassel, the leader of GI branch in the French city of Lille, has convictions for violence but still recruits far-right activists to work in political posts for Le Pen’s party. Elected members of Le Pen’s party in the European Parliament are also caught declaring their support for Generation Identity and its anti-Muslim policies.

Generation Hate is produced and directed by Lee Sorrell.

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This is a major project by the Al Jazeera Investigative Unit focusing on the 787 “Dreamliner”, the flagship passenger jet of the Boeing Company.

Our journalism reveals the deeply-held safety concerns of current and former Boeing engineers, who in some cases fear to fly on the 787, the plane they build.

We uncover allegations of on-the-job drug use, quality control problems and poor workmanship.

We explore the roots of the battery problems that led to the plane’s grounding due to safety concerns for three months from January 2013.

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Producer: Kevin Hirten
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From satellites to lasers - African innovators are using science and technology to advance their industries.

There is a gloabl race for technology leadership, with the U.S. and China in the lead.
Europe now says it wants to catch up and reinforce its position on the digital scene.
Its leaders are concerned about the reliance on foreign-owned tech companies including Microsoft, Apple and Huawei.
They say they want to develop Europe's own technology sector.
To do that, they've come up with a strategy that aims to find domestic solutions that will improve people's lives and the economy.
The EU outlined its approach for data and artificial intelligence on Wednesday.
The proposals seek tougher regulation of the worlds biggest tech platforms and increased spending for the EU's tech sector.
But opponents say more needs to be done to protect private data.

So, will the EU ensure privacy is protected?

Presenter: Nastasya Tay

Guests:

Katarzyna Szymielewicz - President of Panoptykon Foundation and Board Member of European Digital Rights, an international advocacy group.

Maria Luisa Stasi - Senior Legal Officer at ARTICLE 19, a human organisation focusing on freedom of expression.

Catalina Goanta - Assistant Professor in Private Law at Maastricht University and Co-Manager of Maastricht Law and Tech Lab.

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Iran's top military commander Qassem Soleimani has been killed in US air raids in Iraq's capital Baghdad.
Ramifications are being felt across the region, Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi says the US attack will lead to a devastating war.
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, joins us in the studio to discuss the latest updates.

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Fighters loyal to veteran military commander Khalifa Haftar have entered the eastern city of Derna.

The city has been held by an al-Qaeda linked group, but the self-styled Libyan National Army has besieged it for two years.

The UN says fighting has reached unprecedented levels, and there are severe shortages of basic supplies.

Al Jazeera's Mahmoud Abdelwahed reports from Tripoli.

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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for three days of national mourning after a US attack killed a senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Qassem Soleimani.
Khamenei warned of "harsh revenge" and said the incident would double Iran's resolve to resist the United States.
Al Jazeera's Zein Basravi reports.

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The Turkish defence ministry has said four Turkish soldiers have been killed and nine wounded by Syrian government shelling.
The Turkish military sent reinforcements to Northern Syria on Sunday after warning that it may intervene against the government's offensive in Aleppo and Idlib.
Last week, the UN said almost 390,000 people - mostly women and children - had fled their homes since the start of December.

Al Jazeera's Sinem Koseoglu joins us live from Istanbul, Turkey, for the latest updates.

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South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar agreed on Thursday to form a unity government, a long-delayed step towards ending six years of war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Kiir said the new government will be formed on Saturday and he will appoint Machar as his first vice president, or top deputy, on Friday.
The president said security arrangements, one crucial issue, will be resolved after the government's formation. He said the protection of Machar and others with the opposition will be under his responsibility.


Al Jazeera's Nicola Gage has more.

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Dramatic scenes at the U.S. embassy in Iraq - supporters and members of the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces surrounding the U-S embassy compound in Iraq's capital Baghdad.
Their demand - an end to American intervention in the country.
They threw rocks and set fires outside - security personnel responded with tear gas.
The U.S. then deployed marines to secure the compound, before the protesters' leaders told them to withdraw.
President Donald Trump has blamed Iran for the demonstrations - Tehran's denied being involved.
There's widespread anger over recent U.S. air strikes against the Hezbollah Bridgades in Iraq and in Syria.
The U.S. says they were launched in retaliation to a rocket attack on Friday near Kirkuk.
That killed an American civilian contractor.
So, how can this latest tension be contained?

Presenter: Julie McDonald

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Ahmed Rushdi, Senior Foreign Policy Adviser for the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament.
Mohammad Marandi, Head of North American Studies at the University of Tehran.
Ismael Alsodani, Former Iraqi Defense Attache to the United States and a retired Iraqi Brigadier General.

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Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah said the United States's military across the Middle East was now a fair target for retaliation at a funeral ceremony for Iran's Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani in Beirut.
Soleimani was killed in a US drone attack last week.
Nasrallah also said US President Donald Trump committed a crime by assassinating Soleimani.
He said the killing of Iran's top military strategist would open a new chapter of tensions in the Middle East.

Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Beirut.

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The funeral procession for top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani as well as Iraqi paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces, is under way.

Al-Muhandis will later be buried in Najaf in Iraq while Soleimani's body will be flown back to Iran.

Al Jazeera correspondents Simona Foltyn, from Baghdad, and Dorsa Jabbari, from Tehran, are covering the event.

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The so-called Freedom March is a protest against New Delhi's move in August to scrap the special status of Indian-administered Kashmir.
Indian-administered Kashmir has been under a complete lockdown since New Delhi took away its autonomy, and arrested local politicians.
At least 10 people are reported to have been injured in a grenade attack in Indian-administered Kashmir.
This comes exactly two months after New Delhi revoked the region's special status

Meanwhile, hundreds of people in Pakistan-administered Kashmir are marching towards the unofficial border to protest against India's actions in the territory.


Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder has more from Muzaffarabad - the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir:

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At least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, also known as "cutting".

It's a practice most prevalent in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, but it also happens in Europe, the United States and Latin America. FGM is not linked to any particular religious faith; it's practiced and carried out by members of different religions and cultures.

Considered an essential part of raising a girl and preparing her for womanhood and marriage by millions globally, FGM is typically performed between infancy and the age of 15.

It has no health benefits, but besides causing severe pain, FGM has serious immediate and long-term health consequences, including complications during childbirth. It can even lead to death.

FGM is banned in most countries, but it's still legal in Somaliland, which - together with the rest of Somalia - has the highest rate of female genital mutilation in the world. Over 90 percent of girls in Somaliland are cut by traditional cutters, most of whom have no medical training.

"It was while making a web documentary for Al Jazeera about female genital mutilation that I realised how deeply rooted it is in many cultures, including my own," says Fatma Naib, a journalist whose family are from Eritrea where FGM is common, but who grew up in Sweden where the practice is illegal.

So why does this dangerous, painful and sometimes deadly practice continue in so many countries? And what would it take to stop it?

Fatma Naib went on a personal journey - from Somaliland and Kenya to Sweden - to explore the traditions and controversies inherent to FGM.


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Robert Kyagulanyi - a pop star-turned-politician who is known by the stage name Bobi Wine - is recognised as the new face of Uganda's opposition.

But his rise to prominence has not been without its challenges.

Bobi Wine's popularity is considered a threat to President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in office for more than 30 years.
"I have never realistically experienced a Uganda with another president. And it is more than 80 percent of Ugandans that are in the same situation," Bobi Wine tells Al Jazeera. "That really gets us disturbed. We have been denied an opportunity to contribute to our country. We have been excluded as a new generation. And we desire to contribute to building our country, which we know we are going to live in."

"Certainly, the people making decisions for us are not going to be there to either benefit or suffer from the decisions - which are evidently wrong - that they are making for us."

The Ugandan government has arrested and prosecuted Bobi Wine several times, and the opposition figure has accused security forces of torturing him.

But the 37-year-old is not holding back his ambitions.

In fact, he is now directly challenging President Museveni in elections expected to be held in 2021.

"We know that Museveni is planning to rig the election, he has done it in the past ... But we are banking on overwhelming him because a vote can easily be rigged if it's not overwhelming," says Bobi Wine. "And ultimately, if President Museveni tries to rig the election ... the people of Uganda will rise up and they will stop it ... They are tired of this operation and they are tired and they will not take it any longer."

But Wine stresses that he does not believe in violence and that they are using and will continue to use "all legitimate and legal ways of defending our voice."

"We are looking at breaking a dictatorship and having Uganda under civilian rule, which has never happened before."

So, will his popularity be enough to get him elected? And what are his plans for the way forward?

Bobi Wine talks to Al Jazeera.

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