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Clashes on the streets of georgias capital tbilisi as fountains of protesters attempt to blockade the Parliament Building. And im leah harding with sports australias Prime Minister slams rugby star israel folau for his comments on the countrys bushfires claim the fires are gods way of punishing australia for passing same sex marriage and abortion laws. Saudi arabia says yemens whos these have hijacked a ship towing a south korean drilling rig in the red sea but the rebels theyve captured military vessels the official has told aljazeera they will release the drilling rig once they can confirm that belongs to south korea the saudi government is called the incident a terrorist operation who these have in the past targeted vessels off yemen at the southern mouth of the red sea. Joins us from yemens capital sana take us through this and try to clarify exactly whats happened here is this the hijacking of a saudi ship and a south korean oil rig or are we still trying to ascertain. Yes accordi
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