Awarding billions for a gas plant that wasnt even good. Counting the cost on al jazeera. Hello and welcome again to everyone im come on santa maria youre on rewind were revisiting some of the best the most influential programs for more than a decade of documentaries in the aljazeera archive as well as bringing you news of how the story has moved on since. I can 979. 00 the world woke up to news that the russian army had swept across the border into afghanistan in an attempt to prop up the communist government there it followed 18 months of civil unrest after the Peoples Democratic party seized power in 1978 however the p. D. P. Is radical plans including land reforms and equality of the sexes as well as modernizing traditional islamic civil and marriage laws that all spawned the guerrilla Resistance Movement known as the mujahedeen what followed was a decade of bloody civil war with pakistan in the United States covertly supporting the islamic rebels against russian backed Government F
Israeli Prime Minister to resign over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and corruption charges. Dybul dot com youre going by everyone should have the courage to talk about the watergate. Breaking taboos in finding their voice the mass antigovernment rally planned in thailand on sunday. Hello welcome to the program our top story has been a 7th consecutive day of mass protest in belarus calling for a long time leader Alexander Lukashenko to step down after last weeks disputed election tens of thousands of people gathered in the capital minsk but the mood was also subdued in places as people laid flowers and lit candles at the site where a protester was killed in clashes with police but russian Authorities Say the 44 year old died when an explosive blew up in his hand but opposition supporters say he was shot by the police one of the protesters also known to have died while in custody the demonstrations are the biggest challenge faced to his nearly 3 decades in power initially trig
Deep into the aljazeera documentary archive to bring you some of the best and most influential programs of the past decade as well as news of whats happened since well sometimes the story behind the making of the program. Off a century ago as war raged in vietnam and isolated community in the jungles of northern laos was recruited by the cia to help fight the viet cong over 50000 of the hmong tribe became part of americas secret army disrupting communist supply lines along the whole human trail thousands of monk died in the war but their problems didnt end when the americans pulled out fearing a crackdown by laos communist Government Forces many fled the country but some 7000 stayed behind then continued to fight what they called red laos from deep within the jungle where they lived in hiding in 2008 ounces there is tony burke they tracked uphill for more than 2 days through dense forests in search of the hmong who were left behind he found a settlement of fewer than 200 people most of
Are now unprecedented scenes here in the capital of mens up to a 100000. 00 people are here at the Independence Square angry about the torture and abuse what happened to these detainees but also very angry at the elections that are a. Day they say history is in the making were not going to leave until the president asks. The u. S. House of representatives will vote on legislation to protect the Postal Service made claims President Donald Trump is using it to suppress mail in voting u. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has confirmed shell recall the chamber later this week the postmaster general ally has also been summoned to testify before a Congressional Committee demonstrators have gathered outside louis to joys homes for a 2nd day accusing of trying to sabotage the mail network Postal Service has warned that millions of mail in votes may not arrive in time to be counted by canada has more from washington d. C. Legislation has been drawn up by the chairperson of the House Oversight commi
A court to be signed by the United Arab Emirates and israel at the white house in the coming weeks this deal is a significant step towards building a more peaceful secure and prosperous middle east i decided the u. S. Ambassador to israel and his son in law a Senior Advisor jerry kush know his middle east peace plan was released in january and he played a key role in this new a court i would like to say to the people of the region muslims Jews Christians and this does give hope that the problems of the past do not condemn you to a future with conflict there is a lot of hope and a lot of potential and this will benefit you and this will also benefit people here in america as part of the accord israel will suspend but not cancel plans to an exporter of the occupied west bank speaking to aljazeera Mustafa Barghouti said if there was a peace deal it should have been with the palestinians this. Is nothing but a stab in the back. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier cheered