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Troops from Northern Syria that is where ankara has been fighting against kurdish backed fighters says he never agreed to protect syrian kurds forever turkey has given the Syrian Democratic forces a tuesday deadline to leave the area bolivias electoral board has finally updated its provisional elections after a delay which sparked protests more than 95 percent of the votes counted in president evo morales appears to have a 10 percent lead over his main rival Carlos Messer which would be enough to avoid a runoff mess as accused of manipulating the results over chinas government and forcing a curfew for a 3rd consecutive nights after another day of violence in Santiago Police used tear gas and Water Cannons to disperse thousands of protesters in the capital at least 11 people have been killed in the demonstrations which started 2 weeks ago over an increase in trying to get prices that has since been scrapped. Number has more from santiago. Its still past curfew in the chilean capital and what you hear around me that banging noise this is whats known as he said these are people that have come out of their of their windows out of their balconies from their apartments and theyre banging on pots and plant and pans this is a way for them to show their protest to continue to demonstrate without having to go outside and risk arrest there was another day of unrest as this curfew now persists into the 3rd night in a row as the state of emergency remains in effect in chile earlier on monday there were thousands of people were protesting in an area known as part of this its last athalia this is an area thats historically been the center of a Political Movement here in protesters once again met by tear gas Water Cannons as well as smoke bombs from from police want to read a few statistics from the National Human Rights Institute since the unrest began here and there have been 1333 people that have been arrested 88 injured by firearms and at least 11 people who have died within the context of this unrest which is one of the biggest angers that people say that they have here not only are they upset about generalized bill inequality in the country pension reform below minimum wage theyre upset because of this heavy handed response that is that continues to play out on the streets of the chile Capital Results coming in from Eastern Canada where polls of now closed in the general election so far the ruling there will parties in the lead but voting still underway in other parts of the country in what is likely to be a tight race Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing strong competition from the opposition conservatives the preelection polls showed both parties neck and neck hold trudeaus campaign was rocked by several scandals including old photographs of him in blackface emerging. Remember the headlines are down to 0 dot com whenever you want them out we are back with an update in half an hour the boy who started the syrian war documentary is up next. Another day another hit and run mission for the Free Syrian Army in the Southern City of. Najaf. Yes. Its classic urban guerrilla warfare and no one knows the streets better than those who played here as children. Coming up these men all grew up in but this is no game and if the Government Troops pinpoint them theyre dead. And we just. Should have a little play. Such that. We just come to enjoy the company. It is here in this city that the uprising against Bashar Al Assad began. Among these fighters is a young man who bears a unique and unintended responsibility his name is malawi see a snake. On the lot of other modern annulling but what. Was it. Was just 14 when he sprayed antigovernment slogans on this school. Walled in that. It was february 2011 and he could never have imagined the consequences. Well over half a 1000000 people have been killed in syria since the start of the war. Malawi as home city has been ravaged by street fighting shelling barrel bombing the war has created scars that may never heal. The socalled arab spring at roused popular sentiment across the middle east tunisia egypt libya yemen and many more so millions of people take to the streets. People protesting dictatorship and demanding democratic freedoms. But malawi is graffiti was more amused active youthful defiance. Oh i thought it was all muscle force. Amana. Ordering all of them with. Them and i dont know what i thought. Of them with us. About you know managed to shut the door and im not so much on the most. Awful. When i look at the toys. Are allowed. In the mall for the following him about. His fathers fears. Well founded. Malawi has 3 accomplices were rounded up by the Police Together with a dozen other suspects. Before the. Dragged out of bed in a dawn raid he was driven away in handcuffs his family had no idea where he was being taken but knew of the syrian authorities reputation for brutality. Madhu for abboud was an accountant for 20 years until the uprising. But when jani you took them condemned you know a lot of that in that as our other did that come to us and it is thought that of the new land. That i thought i knew it. Some oxygen because they have somebody. That theyve got a. Problem which one out of one of the public to hear it are going to be going on a little slow head kind of going to a lot of the little. Need to be there to help us live or not i want to. Plug in the molecule. Themselves my thinking of how many. More some of the my 101 who said you understood you had that either you home. Or you couldnt be out of play at that even and that will help and i would not wonder. About that garbo. Link kind of got a lot of that photo how. My you can the way you are if i think i live it goes with the whole. Fellow. Well met either will say that when my feet are in the i. Dont feel. A little it would have. Come with. Your. Numbers a lot of buzz was established on the south along with the more you were looking all your men that that. When their fathers tried to find out what had become of the boys they were told forget those children go home and make some more if you cant manage send us your women and well make more for you. How you do or much money can in this that are. Well documented in the. Plan that is there carol has shaken her. Fearing for the boys safety after a month in Police Custody thousands began taking to the streets demanding their return. And im going to be there the no one who nicely shot of a lot. Stronger than other know how to. Clean a serial confronted with out a slew canonical. Criminal cannot know just you know. The night he had no idea she was not going to understand that no just needed. To 30. The police began treating the demonstration as a right. To form the barricades fire tear gas and Water Cannons. The crowd filled back but didnt disperse. Soon after that special forces were helicoptered in from damascus with orders to quell the riot at all costs. Just after 4 pm that friday they opened fire on the crowd. Got a lot of brought. Along couldnt have been mens in then the lot of lot of jamaah as nana salt block of cost if you. Dont. See just how cool she had a function here that she should have been away all. The. Things that i. 2 can thousands of the photos. The one left at the kid out of the us and not the man to get us up on it so lets follow cynical on it would to head it off on. The bottom and then. So how can i have had enough fun. Next day with feelings running high the burial of the 2 men Security Forces again opened fire. Did several mourners killed a child. Anyone with gunshot wounds would be arrested if they went to the hospital so the a lamar the mosque the oldest in the city became a 1st aid station. Was. Told. Law was put in the early hours of 23rd march Security Forces stormed the mosque 7 were shot dead including a doctor i did go to with meals and would leave them i mean how do you do you live i mean i was outraged by all the killing thousands more flooded into the city from the outlying districts. Sensing things were getting beyond their control the authorities released the boys from custody. But the sight of their battered faces incensed the crowd again. Of. The law or was that they knew what it. Was all of those are much lower levels of manifold the fire. Of love of the. Game more with the more than a shun the game will follow the rules as much on the island or now holds the walls hold us a lot of it. A noisy throng of thousands the crowd assumed safety in numbers but the Security Forces declared a breach of public order and opened fire on the demonstrators. Her earlier i am i was when i. Left my mobile phones and the internet meant the entire nation saw what was happening. Syrians were dying online. I was talking. To the most of. The shells whole blowhole. That is out there. The. Protest spread from the south to latakia damascus homes bunya us hama. North to aleppo and east. This was no longer a protest over the arrest of some young boys did become an uprising and i am going to learn their common to see and to see. When not im not. Going to see a muslim. Iraq and iran can come stosh us i want to scream and. Models 1st recruits was his brother more tough doing it that his shots. The one. A while wanted to have a gun and then move on then youre gone or you have a heavy in gun cabinet. The brothers village of nyima on the eastern outskirts of data had a reputation for defiance and a show of force the Government Troops blasted their way in. That old song boss show also audiobooks bullock on the look also of. The how many jewish men 9 of them on the job also r. J. Im not a but im a block not a thief in this with a canard that like im not allowed. To jacking men as an op off by. Calling up a slug. American gun paving the guy up and the knock on the. Well its not fun or 1st of all welcome. The accountant became a roof the warrior. Like most of his men hed completed National Service as a young man hed been trained as a fighter pilot. In the moon more dishes 3 and i thought i said. But i wanted just a story here. So are the money. But he would now be using his military experience to fight for what became the Free Syrian Army against his own government. Oh i saw good the good morning im going to the not going to do i dont get here is a good. Well small militias will confronting a military goliath the demonstrations went on. Bigger angrier crowds took to the streets. And women soon joined the protests. Around clinton and then the place told our own instead of clinton hala foreign had now the mole that were going to war. So it on the bus. But he warned us. That the whole community. Sell his weapon was the internet she called attention to the struggle raising awareness across syria and beyond. Now syrians who live abroad could see events taking place in their homeland. I said yes i was. I mean i can wander and im going to. Come. Out of im going to work out of. Like many others syrians returning from abroad a book aside brought back skills in short supply at home. Using his engineering knowledge he turned a remote Farm Building outside into a factory making bombs mines and rockets. Theres no Sophisticated Technology here just the kind of industrial plant that any small Engineering Company might use. And. This is t. N. T. Reclaim from government bombs that dropped them but failed to explode. Making bombs is dangerous work. Its all highly toxic and the side effects can be painful i. Just think time in a war that is seen Government Forces massively outgunned the opposition the rebels and have had to improvise to survive. The. Very life seems. Somehow alongside the rockets and bombs. There is a living breathing community where ordinary people do ordinary things. Come to. Mind yourself. Yeah sure myself and then i remembered im your man but above you down on this thats a lot of it knocked out of the vienna my fist and im a size and im of the novels about mo. But sometimes its worse than a missile or even a barrel bomb. A shipping container loaded with explosives and dropped from a helicopter creates carnage in a residential area. And how you set us up in a. Im totally that i know. Where that is where a lot of. One night at one my that up but. From the 700 odd. How you can even. Look at it. As youre. Going to get these things and saying oh my love that. Turns out. On beat i got a dog. A judge on the cell phone call them with a with our shout i want you know about. That im going to have that dont let anybody but no doubt the young man. In rebel held areas children longer among the ruins to selvedge anything that might be useful. State schools like the one mall we attended had been closed for years but small underground schools have risen from the ashes. And sand i mean i thought i would have been there for the had some of that as yet i did not. Miss not hot in the not the kind of them in a hole nothing from the bonaduce. Level stuff and i went in there were not the fun we found in my humble but i said that a some of the stuff. Doesnt come on often that one of them noticed how they thought they were mad everyone nothing. All. 6. 100 and of a 100. But that. Was said to be nice. To see you focus your 100. And has some a sharmas father and the good woman. Shall never know i love you how do you. Know im from the nothing i said. A man believes passionately in the role of women in the revolution. And im one who both the. Numbers and the product im a bottom on it is to. Sally the internet activist also took on a practical role with children she became a Civil Defense trainer teaching survival techniques. At least 50000 children have been killed in syria since the uprising began. A limited court i want to go to others live a shadow. Of the death but a fairly at the one in the job shift and i dont. Well the couple. Well mr didnt. Sound like them but. They were it was sort of caustic oarfish mike im going to couple for you. Theyre probably ok. Oh really. You know so how do you know and be handled in the flat and i didnt come in. This admittedly off. The sauce of course a friend then never thought. Of that as much they did at this and took out his last trip there met a young teacher of the sasha martin physician edition of the next one and. I have been getting. This overlay you think that if they do not move up to the lesson the children make their way home with a leaflet and a little more awareness in truth though theres little defense against a barrel or container by. The military often talk about smart weapons and surgical strikes. Thats not whats being used here. But. Bombs dropped on killed women children old people anyone. But you know. Where. They are that. Even the boy whose actions started it all would lose his own father. They say to really know someone he must walk a mile in their shoes. Follow in their footsteps as they forge their way in the was. Aljazeera shares these personal journeys. Inspiring stories of people persevering on their chosen path. Witnessed documentaries on aljazeera. The environment doesnt know any boundaries what goes out into the environment goes around the world. And trends that its a very modern way to define and weve made poisons the measure of progress. The domestic population has become organized enough an active enough to believe that your assuming there is a good will kill people are more vulnerable circle of poison on aljazeera. Time for another check of the headlines for you on aljazeera maria protesters in lebanon say Economic Reforms approved by the government are not enough and many want the entire cabinet to step down Prime Minister saad hariri announced the measures on monday as he tries to defuse the countrys biggest demonstrations in years now the headlines President Donald Trump has defended his decision to withdraw some u. S. Troops from Northern Syria as well anchor has been fighting against kurdish backed fighters trump says he never agreed to protect syrian kurds forever turkey has given the Syrian Democratic forces a tuesday deadline to leave the area. And the u. S. Secretary of state has given an interview indicating washington is prepared to take military action in the region if required where we see american interests take or fundamental norms around the world that need to be enforced will use all the powers that we have you suggested the economic powers that weve used will certainly use them or use our diplomatic powers as well those are our preference we prefer peace to war but in the event that kinetic action or military action is needed you should know the present trump is fully prepared to undertake that action bolivias electoral board is finally updated its provisional Election Results after a delay which sparked protests or the 95 percent of the vote has been counted in president evo morales appears to have a 10 percent lead over his main rival Carlos Messer that would be enough to avoid a runoff has accused morales though of manipulating the results. Closed in the general election. In the lead but. The boy. The boy who was unwitting action sparked the civil war lost the most important person in his life i was the shot of the office from the law on in the hollow of the. Elbow about. A little while dot on a whim than in the shallow end of the reality often a good deal of the quintile but we did it. Especially the middle of the us at the dinner and a lot to be. Out of it and i learned a long long way to. Come home to my earth in the isle of tampa. But his dreams were shattered by the war. And when his father was killed the family was plunged into poverty. Solemnly one option open to. A social movement is used up the wall pocket. For that the no schieffer well. Talk about additions. This one news. Just 4 weeks after joining the f. S. A. While he was shot and wounded in the leg. Treated initially by rebel field medics he didnt meet the impulsive and dangerous decision to sneak into government territory to recover in the home of an old school friend. Marry the one who are just a lot of. Dollar bills and thought that. The dylan. Deal with the. File it you know when youre with them as a kid the. 1000000000 dollar. The lotto what the. Well the future seems lost for so many families here find comfort in bracing the past. And the past is so rich that even the romans can be considered late comers. But the more recent history of syria is one of silence a viable for the majority sunni population. In the years leading up to the revolution even small children would fice to hold their tongues. And im sure the thought. Of it by. The synod that asked them and 14 what had it today you can. Shout out has been badly thought has been about who has been the. Death. Of the hotter than a serb. In the mud this is the formula of one hind that had the challenge as i. Said. I think it was something about a certain. Time i must say in our country to buy a ticket on the mend. We have short so. Youre going to sit on sat. Nothing for me and that gentleman has in the car. That hit with a hit tell us. About of people to talk about. But these freedoms have come at a terrible cost. For your view doesnt work. So why do you know what i need your. Computer. How will the fulfillment i wouldnt have a commission sure yeah. And no. Just fought a. War it is right on their doorstep the engineer flanked by a guard detail came a long way from the body where hed lived most of his life. Now back in daraa where he was born his home city has become a concrete skeleton. So for the outlaw look of all the marbles and the teeth which often seek an animal or jules got upset with us which. Theyre not all but he didnt just open up the lets move all. Of us up to speed into the getting home by. Their subtle to help us walk the probably end of the hall bottle. And not too often the one minute male can also hear. Snipers lurk on the rooftops of broken buildings. Movement on the streets or even indoors near a window often means instant death. To cut us off. The top one im not on a she stopped. The moment but one of the subjects of all the shots. Badly done much as we head back to the top of the ever saw going on down. Up up up the beautiful done the job. Done a good step and go to keep on going to. Bloody when a doctor showed up a. Couple. Born and asked to write. A book a site dreams of building a disneyland type fun park for children in the future. At a time he prays when rockets are no longer needed but the now the reservoir that you buy them a bottle of all. I can tell you been on the roof of a nest with it. But. Its a nominal. And apparently casual encounter turns out to be a security checkpoint. That a lot of. Fun a father would actually choose to so upset market if then theres a sort of not a soul to go in for that will put it up at once was it that theres you know about it and enough of an impulse theres a lot of that theres some of. Them to make an offering you know blame them on this and it was laden with im going to going to say look. Youre going into about them but i want it. Known they want. It to show us. A little bit. Of a number to set up a sort of how did it become public to the. Bottom of the you know for a lot of books that he had off and other. Come to set up. The development of them off of it to get whatever the content of what the odds of. A event with one. Of them appeared to feel mr up nothing. Well what the possible or the. This is one of many arms dumps a small arsenal not known all but the us now on a pick up anonymous not going to have him to share the office and. Theyre making weapons from old scrap metal. That are going to. Come back in town. And his men take a moment to consider the meaning of the struggle. Just. Why that should tell you that any serious enough to do that exemption on. A number thats not going to change lives long i did in the book that jews are going to live and are going to yell. Holy shit another day be a softening. Of it he said. That would be about a story if you thought you know of the other one. 0 but other than that say. Oh hell no fuel for me but hes in the dark about those little bits none the. Way for you to have done a little bit on the fly. Before not. Only just putting up. For now a book size a great present work to do so he said intelligence reports of an imminent attack from a nearby government garrison. He decides to strike 1st. Will be the most good i think the. Leap. From the moment they take to the road theyre at risk. The Syrian Air Force has total control of the skies. But the rebels see a window of opportunity. How to do. That at. A book site calculates they have 19 minutes between surveillance flights to travel set up fire the rocket and get out of the area before the spotted from the air. But. No g. P. S. Guidance here they use protractor spirit level and fuel to light. Accuracy is a matter of life and death when firing a 500 to low ball almost 2 kilometers. Manhandling the missile into position the whole team makes the final push taking care not to disturb the trajectory. Were not gonna. Have no idea is that a good video monitor as the. Vietnam for the for now you know has done since when are you the one did it should be. After a swift final checks the order is given to stand well clear. 17 minutes have elapsed since the last aircraft passed overhead. The rebels have 2 minutes to get clear and hide their truck i i. Even through the worst days of war people insist that life must go on. The mother tongue. They still fall in love and marry. They dream of the future but the present is never far away. As it turns out model of abode has very little future to look forward to. In a desperate irony with the death and destruction of war all around him he has terminal cancer. Hes leading a force 300 strong but the men know nothing of more of condition. For this former accountant his 1st duty of the day is surveillance. And. Awful stuff. About. How they have. To model. It and. Government forces are just 500 meters away there are snipers concealed from sight amongst the building still standing. And that could see. The slightest glint of sunlight off binoculars could alert one of those snipers or even an artillery unit he seen enough time to brief his men. Back at base maarouf meets with a handful of his men including more of his brother and 2nd in command. Here they take delivery of communications equipment. Its as vital as bullets. Small bands of guerrilla fighters can only result. Just in on me through coordination. Led. The city and. The explosion is only one block away the start of a battle that will continue for 3 months. Not all that good. Does a lot of what. The alarm is raised in vehicles brought under cover and forces ready for combat. Cut. Up. When the signal is given that men are pitched into battle. Fighting rages in our camera captures just a little of the intense. Love. Life. In the heat of battle a regime sniper appears in a doorway just long enough to give himself away. Hes been spotted by a rebel commander and a captured syrian army tank. 3 months of intensive fighting so little Territorial Movement but both sides suffered heavy casualties. Over 100. 00 f. A c. Fighters were killed 7 of them from our of suit no doubt on that feel such. My roof and self died in the closing stages. From cancer. Hed always refused to go abroad for medical care prefer him to remain with his men until the very last days when he was taken to jordan. And i think i just got on a model. Doesnt know when to walk. Or for the mail from home. Now when one of our dogs had. A lot of i and where we are when he just got off of. To thailand a lot of clout and been a good hunter though. As for. Whose unwitting actions ignited this war he suffered another loss. His best friend a monarch who joined the f. S. A. On the same day he did is buried at the edge of town. But will know what a lot. Of the little. Populations in the course of the war killed indeed slaves i am proud to hannity get unleashed on the continent itself. So it. Doesnt actually show that. Ringback far im on our demand on the show for our man the follow on up here. Ringback out of biker cop and i thought can you not see why our car or not surprised us a look now at them on the 2nd on the very claim can. Look into who they dont like the character and. The common noncountry having mass rally number even as we interview the one off for. An hour of what are known as invalid enough. In charmed life ringback. And while we are. Inevitably he now questions his own actions. No longer walk around with a hose that will never. Under the rug. Down the hall from now i think and i know and love loves all and all of. A maid all the fighting and dying the street protests in daraa continued. In towns and cities all across the country on both sides of the divide the only dreamt of peace. The one certainty is that syria is changed forever. 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Hello once again from doha everyone im come out santamaria this is the news hour from aljazeera lebanons Prime Minister unveils emergency Economic Reforms hoping to diffuse antigovernment protests but demonstrators though are skeptical also the polls are closing in canadas parliamentary election Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is fighting to stay in power after a series of scandals protests and confusion in bolivia the country waits for president ial Election Results the government is accused of manipulating the outcome and for