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Reports the United States has canceled three
hundred million dollars A military aid

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to the country saying Washington owed the
money to Islamabad for expenses incurred

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in fighting terrorism the controversy
is the latest to hit Islam

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a bods troubled relationship
with Washington coming

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a few days before Secretary of State Mike
POMPEI O is scheduled to visit pocky ston

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at least six people were killed
including two children after

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a suicide bomber detonated
his vehicle outside

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a district headquarters in
Somalia's capital Mogadishu.

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Bomber tried to speed through

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a checkpoint but was stopped by security
forces Shabaab claimed responsibility they

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often target the capital
with bombings including

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a truck bombing in October that left
five hundred twelve dead this is V.O.A.

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News the United Nations refugee agency
warning asylum seekers the migrants from

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Africa who have come ashore on Greek
islands are living in conditions unfit for

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human habitation U.N.H.C.R. Spokesman
Charles YAXLEY tells V.O.A.

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These conditions are having

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a devastating impact on people's well
being be off seeing increasing numbers of

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people including children presenting with
mental health problems facing rising

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levels of sexual assaults because that
is insufficient security in place and

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sanitary facilities as well U.N.H.C.R.

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Is urging the Greek government to speed
up the process of transferring these

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individuals to the mainland so they can
receive proper care there is a new U.S.

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NATO commander in Afghanistan U.S.

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Army General Scott Miller has taken
over commander from Gen John world

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recognizes that Afghanistan cannot be

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a safe haven for terrorism we're right in
her eyes we're going to feel I know this

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is not

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a long fight. For us
we have Orgon. General

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Miller is a former commander of the U.S.

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Joint Special Operations Command and said
he is key to the success in the seventeen

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year Afghan conflict in Iraq rival
political factions say they each of

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formed alliances cable bola bleeding the
country's next government following

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a May election one by action is led by
Shiite cleric mocked at all Saud or the

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other headed by militia commander Audie
elementary government and permission

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process is expected to get
underway later today the late U.S.

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Senator and war hero John McCain was
buried it happened on Sunday at his alma

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Mahler is where he went
to college the U.S.

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Naval Academy after

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a week of remembrances like what his
daughter Meghan said at his memorial service

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when she spoke of the country her father
proudly served in America John McCain is

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generous and welcoming and bold she
is resourceful country to secure.

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She meets her responsibilities she speaks
quietly because she is strong America

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does not boast because she has no need to.
Be American John McCain has no need to

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be made great again because America was
always great and his eulogy former US

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President George W.

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Bush said McCain was honorable always
recognizing that his opponents were still

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patriots and human beings the world is
smaller for his departure and we will

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remember him as he was
unwavering on down on equal Mr

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McCain died on August twenty
fifth age eighty one after

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a year long battle with brain
cancer and Steve Gorman to be

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a new. Good

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morning Africa Welcome to DAYBREAK Africa
from the Voice of America politic in

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Washington today is Monday September third
and here are some of the stories we're

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covering some analysts see opportunities
and risks as the China Africa summit gets

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underway in Beijing today Monday. March.

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Our. G.D.P.

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To foam is vice president of the alan
take counsel and director of its Africa

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Program Rwandans I vote in today in
parliamentary elections some called

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a rubber stamp. All of the oppositions and
government forces continue to violate

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its cease fire and Ugandan protest at the
White House as lawmaker Bobby was Rives

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in the United States to seek medical treatment
we are protesting here at the White

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House and that you've been seeing in at
the plate they are everywhere. They have.

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Lunch stop until you can
then you're going. Is

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a human rights activist I'm one of the
organizers of Sunday's protest at the White

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House and we'll get analysis of Liberia's
new Len Rights Law Those stories plus

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something O'Malley's suppose in our listener
of the day are coming up on DAYBREAK

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Africa.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping
will today Monday opening

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a two day China Africa Cooperation summit
with more than fifty African leaders in

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attendance trade between China and Africa
was one hundred seventy billion dollars

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a forty percent job during the last summit
in twenty fifty China gave out sixty

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billion dollars in assistance and loans to
Africa bucket. Fossils president market

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Kristin Cavallari told China's net
that Africa has chosen China G.P.

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To farm vice president of the Washington
based Adlon take counsel and the director

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Africa Program says China's commercial
links reinforced with extensive diplomatic

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and military engagements he cautions
African leaders to use whatever commercial

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benefits they accrue to advance the interests
of their respective countries while I

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do sometimes be mindful of the
debt. Africa has. Pushed it in

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terms of infrastructure it's
particularly acute. Or.

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Injured to think that if Africa could just
own wives couldn't meet again the rest

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of the world we would feel the board almost
ten percent per year greater economic

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growth China is one of the few concrete
in the world but getting together to

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funding for good for structure it outta
you talk about risk what are the risks

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because it seems to me all the African
countries all the leaders that are going

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there see this as an opportunity yet hated
shuttling it up for trade but it's only

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an opportunity if those leaders
negotiate. For equitable and also.

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What more to give all too often what
happened is leaders additional What can be

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gained it do not cooperate on what should
work for structure that helps one to

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realize all those things and then the cost.
What else is responsible and there's

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already going to be

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a question of whether that is sustainable
to give you just want to. Have in the

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last few years one point four billion
dollars seventy five percent I think.

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We're going to. I was reading an interview
with the president. Book you know he

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says that God has chosen China were
those I mean well I think that

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a good question what does
that mean rhetoric is

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a very nice but at the end of the day how
is this put into practice China and of

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auditing getting back on to Africa and so
far as you can get in terms of trade in

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terms of willingness to build infrastructure
but question in many of our work is

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what apps are being run up to call procured
work many African countries have relief

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from their long term look at me and I'm
sure former colonial rulers but it's going

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to lead to that and don't take my word for
the word of an African leader like me or

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not let me do some use the former governor
of the Central Bank of Nigeria who

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actually had to squash some of the terms
of trade with China some of the financing

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and imperialism look you know all the
measures almost all about the guy has

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relations with China. What
does that do to the United

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States in the past the. United States was
the leading player Africa to the extent

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that you know it's great you know how
much more embassies across Africa can any

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country in the world do you want to steal
Africa's largest gold of aid as opposed

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to letting or I've got an important
distinction also the U.S.

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Position remains also open for developing
at local levels of Craig So I think

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America offer something different ankle
Africa I think the most strategic thing to

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do is to our and the various offers to
come forth not just from United States not

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just from China but also your OP and
all the other partners are not merging

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economies that can actually work in each
and every country its leaders need to be

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statesmen and they need to balance that
and achieve what it is in the long term

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interests of their people not just short.
Corners deputy from his vice president of

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the Washington based along take

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a council and director of its Africa
program he was speaking with me from

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Washington D.C.

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Rwandans I voted today in parliamentary
elections some critics are calling it

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a rubber stamp election since they say
President Paul Kagame is really Rwanda

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Patriotic Front Party is likely to win the
majority of the eighty seats they had

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three of his Asian parties
field in kind it is supported

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a constitutional amendment last year that
took away term limits making it possible

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for president gamin to remain in power until
twenty thirty for President Kagame he

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voted in China yesterday Sunday along
with about fourteen thousand diaspora

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Rwandans Charles. Is executive secretary
of the National Electoral Commission of

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Rwanda he says his
commission is read it to

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a minister vote to over seven million
Rwandans across the country he says they want

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thousand three hundred international and
domestic observers will prove that the

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Poles were free and fair here and
there we had one and. Two There we.

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Go but. When I'm coming. Across the
country I think you've got to remember

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that I meant that many to complement
political parties. Well you know we. Did

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invite your addition but.
Oh it's really. Andrea.

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You say you had

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a diet. How was the turnout how independent
was that he was from the room with.

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Orders from underground and. Come up with.
Any quickie reports initially be on one

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thing that really got me thinking you
should be on the truck. And that should be

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today after three pm Charles your critics
are saying these elections are not truly

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independent there. It's window dressing
because President Kagame me of the ruling

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party controls everything I think
we are getting to this. But I wish

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those. People to be on the
ground and put you. On. One

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side on the under direction to. See what
you both get mystic and international

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but I thought you had grown thank
you I'm going to have to. Get to.

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Five hundred twenty one candidates to value
for eight fifteen am in both political

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parties independent candidates. Could
be anywhere for example and some pretty

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political parties the criticism is that
they allies around the ruling party of

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President Kagame is spotty if you do I
cannot today we're going to be feeling

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a kind of want to

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a degree that I'm feeling kind and friendly
I like of course you have got to go but

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. The question is that appear. To
come to. See that the candidates I

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don't think that that meeting so you truly
believe are your commission believes

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that this column intelligence are going
to be truly independent they have been

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independent. In the kind of talk to the
side even though you say that that

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number of people compete. To be depended
close to money by an independent

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body which is

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a national security commission underway
as inefficient as an independent. I think

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even more independent and that's. What
the level of female participation now in

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these parliamentary elections is in
about close to five hundred one.

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Hundred three hundred twenty six hundred
so you're kind of critical question on

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that and thank you very much

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a good chance for speaking with us thank
you very much Charles million incised

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executive secretary. The National Electoral
Commission of Rwanda speaking with me

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from the capital Kigali You're listening
to daybreak Africa on the Voice of America

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I'm James Butty in Washington today is
Monday September thirtieth and please send

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Africa time is now fifteen minutes past the
hour will your gun then see many cities

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across the world held protests yesterday's
Sunday to demand that two lawmakers who

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were badly beaten and allegedly torture by
security forces two weeks ago be allowed

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to leave the country for medical treatment
abroad one of those lawmakers rubble

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Chichi she gulag popularly known above the
wine arrived in the United States over

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the weekend and is now receiving specialized
treatment in Boston human rights

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activist Kareem. Is one of the organizers
of Sunday's protest here at the White

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House he says their long term demand is
for President Hu seventy in power for

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thirty three years to leave power peacefully
right now we have you done some all

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across the United States joining us in
solidarity to protest the race saying human

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right well ation by the government of Uganda
we can't even say to the race and only

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go wink human rights. Right
now what we want to know.

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Is to have some of our noble members. Out
of the country to receive. Medical care

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when needed and when we need them to step
out of power peacefully we are protesting

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here at the White House and I know you've
been seeing in other places you felt

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strongly in London in France in Hong
Kong Uganda and everywhere across

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a. VOICE It is hard and we shall not
stop until recently has gone Karim

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tell me there is news that the honorable
Bobby Wian is in the United States is that

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true yes right now by the way is
your state. Medical attention.

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Right now is. Medication that's one thing
that I'm not going to. Be able to come

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and lecture know what exactly I
had during our Leo also how. In

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the background everybody is charging. So
all we need is to have one item was that

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area of the country and receive medical
attention. You know follow Ugandan politics

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there have been several political
people would have been

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a wrist and sent to jail for example
to doctor. How do you see this Bobbie

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wind situation and the other members of
parliament there now becoming the rallying

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cry for your movement I think what's the
one other Bumblebee helping the population

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try to let them see the situation in their
own lands and he gave how much of that

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people. Will realize that what you're
going to go on cannot be an extra.

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Movement should be

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a movement. By all the people everybody
should be responsible and have their voices

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had that's why so many young people for

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a country have been able to Larry behind
him I've been able to I behind what she

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stands for is standing for unity peace and
justice and equality for all so on that

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we are going to have it in the ministration
I was reading in your piece from Uganda

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. Historical political wrists change history
do you all believe that the rest of

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the army remove all the while and honorable
is not these events that changed the

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history of Uganda I mean you could never
tell what changes but we see what happened

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. When I would probably one hundred but
back everybody. Most of the time that I've

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been lying to why they arrest people or
they kill them for example they say the

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little Irish stayed for. Trying to attack

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a presidential motorcade they say they
targeted Strongs so much the vehicle of the

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president but this is

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a president who was killed by the ones
driving they told us that's trouble it

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killed the driver of the whole Marvel of
the line so we need to need to know if it

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was a stray bullet who was the
target Why would just such

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a bullet kill Dr always just to check
waiting for the most to go. Congressman Jim

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Bates

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a human rights activist and one of the
organizers of Sunday's protest at the White

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House speaking with me
from Washington D.C.

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a Week ago the Liberia's Senate passed

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a law which the long awaited law which
expands land rights to rural Liberian to own

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their customary land it prevents the
government from leasing out lentil concession

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is without the involvement of rural
people into negotiation alley combat from

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Liberia sustainable development is to to
talk to reconstruct about the details of

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the new law so this actually is

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a big deal for Liberia because it have got

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a first time now president of an opportunity
because communities. Across the Mari

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then write this present optimism for
commanders to be able to protect their learn

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their cost more than again external
encroachments and also in combating Christmas

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so this is the big deal can you give me the
specifics of how this is different from

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the current. Man rights law and
what that means for Liberia I know

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a lot of the conflict in the past has come
from land rights in the past and I want

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to. Do now have to talk to our community
people that live on his leg even before

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the that press but of college to become
common to the central government and the

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central government gave you an access
to them and you just wanted and removed

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people to start to do will be going to do
that what it meant is that communities

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for being displaced it work affected
Wigner groups businesses are created

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a conflict between both the community and
the government but also the term The

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common is the next on the actors so that
now is saying for the first time that

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wherever you live but it costs fifty years
and you tell customers right and you can

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prove to the negotiation which of neighbors
but you have access to this right this

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right. Then you can have
new ownership. And.

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Given. The challenges do you think
that night because this concept of

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private ownership can with additional
people how to access rights that is.

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True now all. Right.

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Coming up in the. Created

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a condition that you have two types of you
have people about how to profit by doing

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them in which the government hires absolute
peak of the. People you have from and

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that will not be the. Public. In which the
government has absolute rights over all

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and I have news to concession
company. And dilation and so these

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companies now have been told
that. It. Came on contracts with

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the government but they have not realized
why when you tried to access people

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injured people have been living on them and
long before this did so that mean that

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the created here is going to put

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a new law. That customer rights
protect but it's also going. To be

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those we confound can have got it right
but the bench. That was Alex Cobb of

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Liberia's Sustainable Development Institute
he was speaking would break the strike

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from Monrovia is spokesman for the military
wing of South Sudan's rebel as B L E

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all says the group has as the days
cease fire and transitional security

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arrangements monitoring mechanism to
investigate continue attacks by government

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forces on rebel positions in year reverse
that kind of lump all Gabriel says the

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attacks which began August twenty ninth
continue into Saturday he says the rebels

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are respecting the cease fire signed earlier
this year but how to respond to the

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attacks in self-defense. I think I've been
on the one is great nine hundred eighty

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the government in waiting on the opposition
and government are about in mind I

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would have community they
came from you it was

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a lot of behaviors that. They had people
would then have on point and then they had

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to a P.C.

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And they got a year's worth of had

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a similar cock and they were going it
alone did. It for the seven and that they

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continue with that track on the exactly one
hundred that got better the main aim of

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that plan is to install it Commission on
building better they're brought in from

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the days after the all in gone in then you
become they have been sent out on the

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commission about anyone we have something
piece I mean thing and it came into being

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that that's not giving

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a problem to thinking that it was good but
the big area. And the one thing in them

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one day I wanted to settle that
until that had been played

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a little billion Colonel Paul your
forces and the government forces signed

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a cease fire which raised their hopes of
many people that finally peace is Cami So

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what would to say to those South Sudanese
will mind the feeling discouraged because

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of this latest fighting we want them to
take that call because it will we are

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multi-screen aisle we will. End the
game so we comply we only go to put

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in the one that we don't want to move the
government will not and that person but

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we are entitled to an awesome what is right
importantly we want that doesn't mean

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also and then this is. This we don't really
need both in today's At that time to be

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. Kind of Gabriel is the deputy
military spokesman for the F.B.I.

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They are all speaking with me
from Uganda's capital Kampala.

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Tonight for daybreak Africa and here is
something. Good Monday morning to you

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something. To morning to you
James we begin with the U.S.

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Open South Africa's Kevin
understand crushed out of the U.S.

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Open tennis competition on Sunday
afternoons into Dominic C.M.

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And the round of sixteen the ninety one
in straight sets of seven five six two

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seven six. And thirty six minutes fifty
Anderson who reached last year's final

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headed into the encounter with

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a six one win record against. Struck on
this occasion money has won the first ever

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Federation of International Basketball
Association. African championship title

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after

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a scene of cynical seventy eight percent
to six in the money instead of by Michael

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for Sanny Dromi came up with game

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a high of one thousand points and six
rebounds in their winning efforts of

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qualifying for the final. And Senegal
have five for the feeble in one thousand

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basketball World Cup in two thousand one
thousand and two athletics news for

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mocking in Marzano Wesley as well as in
record holder MIRIKITANI have called an

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athletics Kenya to step up their fight
against the one hundred fourteen Kenyan

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outlets have tested positive to performance
and hasn't substances among all the

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religion duping offenses and the past
three years with fifty four of them being

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sanctioned. To study
really under. Eighteen and

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a biting. I've taken seriously and
kicked out of this country with.

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Keep.

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State. Run as the men and women titles
at the seventh International Martin

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of. On Sunday and the. Northwest China

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keep to the men's crown in twenty six
minutes and six seconds while the career

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snatched the women's title into forty six
minutes one thousand seconds to the local

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organizers the event. Has. Attracted
some twenty thousand runners including

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fourteen foreign runners and now. Egypt
and Rwanda will represent Africa at the

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women of the twenty World Championships
to be held in Mexico in twenty nine

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thousand in Egypt the finals to emerge
champions after the scene of Rwanda in

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straight sets of twenty five to eighteen
twenty five ten twenty five thirteen in

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the final. Indoor Arena on Sunday Cameron
over three one in the third place March

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to clinch the bronze medal and that's
it for Africa sports I am Sampson.

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It's back to you James
in Washington. They have

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a good day and that's it for this Monday
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be always international edition good to

00:29:04
have you here coming up
US stops funding U.N.

00:29:08
Help for Palestinian refugees in the longer
run the implication of this is to call

00:29:14
into question the whole idea. That if

00:29:17
a Palestinian refugee seventy years later
nine year old American helping the poor

00:29:24
in Bangladesh rubble. Oh. Well

00:29:30
rather how you are wrong we
were. Also ahead scalloped

00:29:37
fights and tracking animals feces plus
something from the world of music. Hello

00:29:43
everyone I'm Steve Norman the U.S. Is
stopping its funding of a key U.N.

00:29:48
Agency at story now from a P.B.S.

00:29:51
My Grassi I'm the trumpet ministration is
ending decades of United States funding

00:29:56
for the United Nations agency that
helps Palestinian refugees in

00:30:00
a written statement the State Department
announced Friday that the U.S.

00:30:03
Will no longer commit further funding to
this irredeemably flawed operation the

00:30:07
decision cuts nearly three hundred million
dollars of planned support and it came

00:30:11
a week after the U.S.

00:30:12
Slashed bilateral aid for projects on the
West Bank and Gaza the UN agency provides

00:30:17
health care education and social services
to Palestinians in the West Bank Gaza

00:30:21
Strip Jordan Syria and Lebanon like Rossiya
Washington and for some perspective on

00:30:27
all of this via always vigor bts spoke
with Russell stone American University

00:30:32
professor emeritus and former director of
the Center for Israel's studies Well it's

00:30:38
a decision by President Trump and it was
done apparently without much consultation

00:30:43
with his foreign affairs and Middle
East experts most observers. Point

00:30:49
out that there is both a short run and

00:30:52
a long run implication of this in the short
run. Cutting the funding so drastically

00:30:56
up to forty percent of the total support
for Iraq could lead to unrest that could

00:31:02
result in anti israel demonstrations
that could could result in even

00:31:09
simulating terrorist actions in the longer
run the implication of this is to call

00:31:14
into question the whole idea of the status
of Palestinian refugees seventy years

00:31:21
later that refugee status has existed
more than seventy years which means the

00:31:26
actual refugees many of them
are seventy or over there was

00:31:30
a second wave of refugees after the sixty
seven war but even that is more than

00:31:36
fifty years and the. Question is

00:31:42
a how many generations can.
Consider themselves to the refugees

00:31:49
and to have

00:31:50
a right to international support for
their refugee status and secondly.

00:31:57
What they know what the nature of that
support needs to be the dependent population

00:32:04
has grown from perhaps six hundred to
seven hundred thousand to over two and

00:32:09
a half million the total refuge of people
claiming to be refused G.'s is between

00:32:14
five and six million the discrepancy is
that many resettled elsewhere and whether

00:32:19
they still qualify for refugee status
revolves around the question of the right of

00:32:24
return where no Palestinian refugees. Are
willing to give up the principle of the

00:32:30
right to return to their homes the agency's
commissioner rejected the notion that

00:32:35
the agency is perpetuating the crisis of
refugees saying that what is needed is

00:32:42
a political solution which is the political
leaders in the region A failed to do

00:32:46
well that they're both true. Dependency is
being fostered the leaders are refusing

00:32:52
to to. Move toward

00:32:55
a solution and it does perpetuate
the situation what about the U.S.

00:33:01
Contention that the agency is
irredeemably flawed Well the nature of

00:33:08
the support needs to be called into question
it's the only separate refugee agency

00:33:14
supported by the United Nations there is
the United Nations High Commission for

00:33:18
Refugees that deals with all refugee
questions around the world except for

00:33:23
Palestinian refugees that have their own
agency the honor so whether this is

00:33:28
a valid and viable arrangement or or one
that needs to be called into question is

00:33:34
what is being highlighted by the current
crisis Well Israeli Prime Minister

00:33:37
Netanyahu on Sunday welcomed the U.S.

00:33:40
Decision he said the funding that's being
withheld now by the US should be used to

00:33:43
generally help rehabilitate refugees he
says while Israel has brought in Jews from

00:33:47
all over the world
Palestinians have yet to find

00:33:49
a final home yet well that's that's very
true how it could be used and if I knew

00:33:55
and I know that you is to somehow a limb
and ate the right to return and have

00:34:01
a global effort to resettle Palestinian
refugees elsewhere is the real issue of the

00:34:05
right of return for hundreds of thousands
of Palestinians displaced since forty

00:34:09
eight sixty seven in terms of their
with their bargaining position

00:34:13
a political position absolutely
in terms of whether it's

00:34:18
a realistic hope that something that
would need to be there would need to be

00:34:22
negotiated so this obviously complicates
what is already an extremely difficult

00:34:26
Mideast peace process well if it shakes it
up just as they recognition Jerusalem is

00:34:31
the capital by the United States has shaken
it up in the past month this strategy

00:34:36
of shaking things up and seeing
what will come loose as apparently

00:34:41
a diplomatic strategy of Trump's. Doing

00:34:46
a. Wild card he's doing it on his own
Dr Russell stone American University

00:34:52
professor emeritus former director. The
Center for Israel studies he was speaking

00:34:57
with the always Victor BT This is V.O.A.

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always international edition in Bangladesh
two thirds of all girls are married

00:36:10
before the age of eighteen depriving many
of them of their childhood and others the

00:36:15
right to education a U.S.

00:36:17
Based nonprofit organization is trying
to change that by providing educational

00:36:22
support through

00:36:22
a program called girls' education program
but as we move to the reports the support

00:36:29
is also coming from everyday citizens like

00:36:32
a mother and her nine year old daughter
when Forbes heard an interview with the

00:36:37
founder of speak up for the poor she was
moved and inspired by their mission I'm

00:36:43
very passionate about empowering
girls an empowering women the U.S.

00:36:47
Based nonprofit does

00:36:49
a lot of work in Bangladesh one of the
poorest countries in the world Troy Anderson

00:36:54
is. The founder and international
director of speak up so in Bangladesh

00:37:00
a major problem there is child marriage
where so two thirds of the girls are

00:37:04
married before the age
of eighteen and quite

00:37:07
a lot of those are getting married when
they're thirteen or fourteen years old so

00:37:11
we're working on the preventative side to
keep girl in school so that they won't be

00:37:16
forced into legal marriage when they're
young the girls education program provides

00:37:21
extra curricular support such as daily
to touring books schools applies and

00:37:27
educational seminars about one thousand
three hundred girls from thirty villages in

00:37:33
rural bungler dash are currently enrolled
in the program with hundreds more on the

00:37:38
waiting list they rely on sponsors to like
the Forbes family to help them finish

00:37:44
school but after a year's sponsoring

00:37:47
a twelve year old girl in Khulna the third
largest city in Bangladesh the thirty

00:37:52
nine year old mother decided to go the extra
mile and took along her nine year old

00:37:57
daughter Maya to visit the young girl they
were helping I wanted her to be able to

00:38:03
relate with

00:38:04
a young girl on the other side of the world
and to get that perspective and know

00:38:08
that not everybody lives the type of life
or experience that we have and then also

00:38:14
I wanted her to know that if she felt
passionate about something and she wanted to

00:38:18
make

00:38:18
a difference or volunteer it's very possible
for two weeks the peer volunteer their

00:38:25
time to work in various villages in Khulna
they spend time with their sponsored

00:38:30
girl visits at the classrooms right presents
and school supplies and taught English

00:38:36
lessons to dozens of young girls
for my yacht the experience was

00:38:41
a valuable lesson in
compassion I think. You

00:38:48
are. You are. Right everyone. I. After

00:38:54
returning to the US The mother daughter
duo continued to speak up for the poor

00:39:00
raising money through yard sales benefits
workouts even lemonade stands they hope

00:39:05
to bring the donations back to Bangladesh
in November their Afghans have inspired

00:39:11
others like Wendy Zander's to support their
cause not everybody can go out into the

00:39:16
mission field or we can support people that
you know I mean not be able to you know

00:39:21
pick up my back big time off work and go
to bed but that but because she got that

00:39:26
passion you know we get the Puerto financially
or whatever it is actually we can

00:39:30
help it to help with the fund raising it
back but whatever it is that she needs

00:39:35
with the help of groups like speak up for
the poor Forbes and her daughter Maya are

00:39:40
making

00:39:40
a difference in the lives of many through
their efforts many more young girls are

00:39:45
getting the chance to learn so they can
follow their own paths to success from

00:39:52
Washington D.C. The V.O.A.

00:39:55
News. In the English Channel French

00:40:01
and British fishing vessels have clashed
in the dispute over scalloped fishing

00:40:07
rights we always Laurie London talks with
it all about all of that with Paris based

00:40:12
journalist Catherine feel the area in
the north of France right home that the

00:40:17
English Channel is going to just really
some of the riches go up but in the world

00:40:23
of these kind of really

00:40:24
a delicacy in France there are restrictions
on how much can be fished the Shia and

00:40:30
there are restrictions on the length of
time each year when French Tishman can go

00:40:35
out and get these very precious dollars
So French Fischman are only allowed to be

00:40:40
in the water fishing promote Toba through
tonight the idea is that this period from

00:40:44
May to the first October alone the the
stilts to be put through to give it all

00:40:49
a rest so you on that aspect the French say
we're helping to provide. Very precious

00:40:56
dogs and on top of that they say that these
are almost family fishermen that go out

00:41:00
there they say that in this fleet they're
around three hundred fishing boats and

00:41:05
that's about one thousand two hundred
families depend all on these fish so it's

00:41:10
a really very small industry
however British boats

00:41:14
a lot of fisherman they're not constrained
by these French laws they can go and

00:41:19
fish any time of year they want and what
the French are saying is that they're not

00:41:24
just fishing they are plundering these
stocks they are using huge ridging nets and

00:41:31
that they are drifting along the bottom all
of the English Channel and they're just

00:41:36
churning it up and they're taking away far
more stop so they really need to take

00:41:40
away so that's

00:41:42
a problem now only this week one French
fishing communities have started to hear

00:41:47
that these big boats vision British boats
were out there in the channel and they

00:41:50
were fishing they decided to go and tell
them what they thought of as and once they

00:41:54
got there these very very small French boats
out thirty five of them surrounded the

00:41:59
English vessel through stows that was through
flares and even ran some of the boat

00:42:04
while everyone thought that was going to
be it but apparently local authorities

00:42:08
there fear that if there was more of these
clashes to come and that the thirty's up

00:42:12
there particularly married or thirty's in
northern France have put of all of their

00:42:16
police and and Coast Guard all of it you
know are there limits there on how much

00:42:20
they are allowed to to fish or
haul for the things they're on is

00:42:25
a very is an event depending on the size
of the boat now the French vessel that

00:42:29
generally between fifteen and twenty meters
on the one of the coming from Britain

00:42:33
thirty meters all these cities of not
bigger vessels and then also constrained at

00:42:38
all by any of the laws on how much they
can fish so they go any time value to get

00:42:42
out and they just literally as the French
would say they are hoovering up this

00:42:46
precious catch the British say no the laws
were obeying the law and they are now

00:42:51
accusing the French fisherman of just being
pirates. And treating that part of the

00:42:56
English Channel as it was their own and
they say it's not are the main concerns

00:43:00
that they feel this is an issue of greed
or there are environmental concerns mostly

00:43:05
it is to do with greed greed and also the
fact that they feel that the British

00:43:10
vessels are coming in and just when the
French can't go they're saying look yes

00:43:14
there is this period between men October
the French aren't allowed to fish and the

00:43:18
British vessels should respect that as
well when it comes to the environment yes

00:43:22
there is this question of size and the
message that these British fishermen are

00:43:28
using with

00:43:28
a fish bridging these huge big vessels
with these dredging tackle and the fishing

00:43:34
and freezing equipment so they can in some
cases take out enough scholarships in

00:43:39
perhaps a Monday that a local
fisherman would bring in over

00:43:42
a month so the environmental side is
essentially that his is unsustainable fishing

00:43:47
however that having been said the skull
of unknowns and any danger than not being

00:43:51
of the fish that really
the French say just for

00:43:54
a couple of months each year they should
be just allowed to disclose and just

00:43:58
because a stall now has been a problem for

00:44:00
a while why are we just hearing about it
now it hadn't been an issue for decades

00:44:06
really even back in two thousand prone they
were similar clashes like this and the

00:44:11
English channel boats ramming one another
and rolled so that the problem is that

00:44:15
when it comes to fisheries in the amount
of fishing that can be done this is all

00:44:19
agreed at national level and it's not

00:44:21
a European level decision on how much can
be fish so well over there are national

00:44:26
quotas other boats can come along and

00:44:29
a British boat can go into French waters
and fish was it it thinks it can so well

00:44:33
over that it is just

00:44:34
a national level and not internationally
grievances as narrow as we are going to

00:44:38
have these quota systems only being
adhered to by one side and these types of

00:44:43
disputes alive will to continue
That's Catherine field she is

00:44:46
a Paris based journalist and speaking
with my colleague Laurie London all

00:44:51
scientists are using

00:44:52
a new way to track animal. Species without
having to capture them is through

00:44:57
a process called him Byron middle D.N.A.

00:45:00
And scientists can now obtain the genetic
trail animals leave behind which could

00:45:05
help to protect and save threatened species
more now from the always Deborah block

00:45:11
scientist Mark Stoeckle is throwing

00:45:13
a bucket into New York's East River to
learn more about the fish that live there

00:45:18
but he's not trying to catch fish he's
hoping to gather the tiny bits of D.N.A.

00:45:23
Fish leave behind Oh then
he puts the water in

00:45:27
a plastic bottles the recruits who look in
the lab for what he calls environmental

00:45:32
D.N.A. We can collect the water
sample analyze the D.N.A.

00:45:36
Learn what fish are there Stoeckel and his
students are trying to find out if the

00:45:40
fish are recovering in the East River which
used to be extremely polluted in the

00:45:46
water they find scales in skin cells which
leave behind genetic material cup of

00:45:52
water that what looks like a little bit of
dust. In the water or extract the D.N.A.

00:45:58
And then when analyze it the same way they
do for crimes then on the other side of

00:46:03
the world in a river in Vietnam the hunt
is on for the Yanks the soft shell turtle

00:46:08
a very rare species found only in parts
of Asia and we can be able to use

00:46:14
environmental D.N.A. As

00:46:16
a forensic tool when we can't see animals
or if there are there are very elusive

00:46:22
species we can use capturing
environmental D.N.A.

00:46:25
To be able to determine
if those species live in

00:46:28
a particular area especially in unexplored
waterways so that we could hopefully

00:46:34
find additional undiscovered.
Turtles to be able to help

00:46:41
recover the species from the brink of
extinction knowing the microscopic trail

00:46:46
animals leave behind may someday help
scientists save other endangered animals from

00:46:51
extinction Deborah block feel
way new. And this is V.O.A.

00:46:57
. This is an image. Astronomers

00:47:04
have spotted an image to the brightest
object found so far in the ancient universe

00:47:10
the dazzling object is

00:47:11
a quasar called P three fifty two fifteen
and its nearly thirteen billion light

00:47:16
years from Earth This means the universe
was only about eight hundred million years

00:47:21
old when the light from this object started
heading toward our planet to make their

00:47:25
discovery the astronomers use the
National Science Foundation ZP

00:47:29
a very long baseline

00:47:31
a ray of telescopes the astronomers say
that the aging quasar is split into three

00:47:36
major components which are spread over
an area that's only five thousand light

00:47:41
years wide and quasars formed
when the gravitational pull of

00:47:45
a super massive black hole devours material
so quickly it discharges very bright

00:47:51
and energetic jets of particles traveling
at nearly the speed of light I envy

00:47:55
always work Banta Layo. This is
the video is that our national

00:48:02
edition so good to have you with us
today guess what it's time now for

00:48:06
a little something from
the world of music.

00:48:15
The old.

00:48:32
Gladys Knight known as the emperors of soul
was one of the many who paid tribute to

00:48:37
superstars souls thing you're

00:48:39
a wreath of Franklin known as the queen
of soul whose funeral was held Friday in

00:48:45
the U.S.

00:48:46
City of Detroit Michigan where she died
on August sixteenth from complications

00:48:50
a packed Riyad of cancer Gladys Knight
also spoke fondly of her long time friend

00:48:57
Amy about trying to make it better
that is the world whether it's

00:49:01
a person you know those kinds of things.
I mean and I wish that people could pick

00:49:08
that up from her American singer
songwriter record producer and multi

00:49:12
instrumentalists Stevie Wonder also
honored one of his idols Aretha whom he

00:49:18
described as

00:49:18
a true exponent of love yes we can
talk about all the things that

00:49:25
are wrong and there are many. But
the only thing that can deliver us.

00:49:32
Is love. And if we love then we know truly

00:49:40
it is. That will make
things better when we.

00:49:46
Make great thinking. That
is when I read. Through the

00:49:53
pain. You gave is the joy and. Let's make

00:50:00
critiquing Stevie Wonder also said
he was so proud to have known

00:50:04
a reef and to be mentor by her and it
was an ever so emotional moment at the

00:50:10
funeral when Stevie saying for

00:50:12
a review I'll be loving you always. A

00:51:04
.

00:51:27
Baby wonder was

00:51:28
a child prodigy considered to be one of
the most critically and commercially

00:51:32
successful musical formers of the late
twentieth century wonders signed with Motown

00:51:37
Stam

00:51:38
a label of the age of eleven and he continued
performing and recording promoter out

00:51:43
until not long ago Motown got
its start in Detroit not only

00:51:47
a re those hometown but Stevie's as well
one of Stevie's early hits remote hundred

00:51:54
sixty nine was.

00:53:29
Stevie Wonder when. Shortly
after birth of the.

00:53:36
Riding and performing songs of the
generations of bad he received twenty five

00:53:42
Grammy Awards one of the most awarded.
And more than one hundred million

00:53:49
records worldwide. The birth of
his daughter. Song Isn't She

00:53:55
Lovely is one of his fans favor.

00:54:32
The song it was seventy months ago that
my daughter was born and on that very day

00:54:37
we played the song on my wife's phone for

00:54:40
a week and then on her first birthday
we played his words Love Happy Birthday

00:54:45
haven't heard it you got to check it out
hey listen everyone thanks for joining us

00:54:50
you're on the Voice of America for
international edition always good to have you

00:54:53
here latest world news is straight ahead
we hope you'll stay tuned for our director

00:54:58
Tracy Carter an engineer John Ellis sometimes
the robot in Washington we'll be able

00:55:02
super Monday now some
more from Stevie Wonder.

00:56:18
Next an editorial reflecting American
ideals and institutions on the first Monday

00:56:24
of September every year the United States
pauses to honor its workers and the

00:56:29
contributions they make to our nation's
prosperity on September fifth one thousand

00:56:33
nine hundred two more than ten thousand
men and women paraded through the streets

00:56:37
of Manhattan to celebrate the first
Labor Day New York central labor union

00:56:42
organized the day of celebration in honor
of the workers who fought to secure

00:56:47
higher wages shorter hours and better
working conditions for laborers It was

00:56:52
a day of celebration but also

00:56:53
a day of sacrifice the workers sacrificed
that day's wages to demonstrate their

00:56:58
commitment to gain fair compensation for
hard work American workers transformed the

00:57:04
United States and the world with

00:57:06
a quality of life never seen in history
American farmers export more food than any

00:57:11
country in the world and produce food more
efficiently per capita than China and

00:57:15
India the world's largest food producers
the United States exports more refined

00:57:21
petroleum than any other country in the
world and it exported more than forty

00:57:25
percent of the world's spacecraft and
aircraft and more than eleven percent of the

00:57:30
world's electronics America has the largest
road network of any country in the

00:57:35
world with over six point five million
kilometers of road ninety percent of

00:57:40
American households own at least one
automobile and American workers produced

00:57:44
almost three million cars per year nearly
five percent of cars produced per year

00:57:49
worldwide

00:57:51
a key element in America's economic success
is the freedom that every American

00:57:55
enjoys the freedom to choose their work.
Freedom to innovate and create new

00:58:00
industries and revitalize old ones what we
are witnessing today is the me new will

00:58:05
of the American spirit said President Donald
Trump allies will find that America is

00:58:11
once again ready to lead all the nations
of the world friend or foe will find that

00:58:16
America is strong America is proud and
America is free we do not seek to impose our

00:58:22
way of life on anyone but rather to let it
shine said President Trump we will shine

00:58:27
is an example for everyone to follow.
That was an editorial reflecting American

00:58:34
ideals and institutions.

00:58:57
This is the only view the warm and
friendly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

00:59:03
welcomed the U.S.

00:59:04
Decision to end funding for the UN
Relief and Works Agency for balanced and

00:59:09
refugees he called it

00:59:11
a very important decision adding that
canceled funds should be used to help with

00:59:15
the rehabilitation of refugees. Trump
administration called irredeemably flawed

00:59:22
three hundred million dollars
in canceled funds as close to

00:59:26
a third of the agency's budget onerous
commissioner Pierre Graham bull blame Bill

00:59:31
other leaders for their failure to reach

00:59:34
a peace agreement and rejected the charge
that perpetrates the refugee issue it is

00:59:40
very regrettable that this decision was
taken and I want to make very clear here

00:59:46
that it was taken in my understanding for
reasons that are political in nature and

00:59:51
have nothing to do with wondrous
performance he said the agency had

00:59:55
a strict mandate and has prescribed
from politics Pakistan has dismissed as

01:00:00
incorrect reports the United States has
canceled three hundred million dollars of

01:00:04
military aid to the country saying
Washington owed the money to Islamabad for

01:00:08
expenses incurred fighting terrorism
the controversy is the latest to hit

01:00:13
Islamabad's troubled relationship
with Washington coming

01:00:17
a few days before Secretary
of State Mike Bombay O.

01:00:20
Is scheduled to me

01:00:21
a visit Pakistan this will be Washington's
first high level dialogue with Islam

01:00:27
abad since the new government of Prime
Minister Imran Khan assumed office U.S.

01:00:32
Military plans pulling nearly all U.S.

01:00:35
Commandos from NIS air shutting down
most elite counterterrorism units across

01:00:40
Africa U.S. Military
outpost in Cameroon Kenya.

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