A looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Hello and welcome to rewind im come on sons of maria over the last 10 or so years here at aljazeera english weve built up an Incredible Library all of your winning documentaries and on rewind were taking another look at some of the best of them and seeing whats happened in the years since they were 1st shown this week were going back to 2012 and a remarkable film from africas oldest republic the west african country of liberia and its capital monrovia where less than half the population can read and write and 64 percent live below the poverty line so with many of those people cut off from normal news sources one man decided to tackle the problem using just a bit of chalk and a large blackboard called the daily toll his blackboard lists all the latest news in a simple language. Used by monrovias disadvantage poor from the witness se
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Actions of the police during the protests over the past 3 months not only these protesters for the wider hong kong public accuse hong kongs police of using Excessive Force on the protesters and also on people who were on the vicinity of the protests thank you very much for that to get upon live for us in on kong and of course well be coming back to you throughout the day today to get an update on those protests there in hong kong this sunday and still ahead on aljazeera aid workers warm conditions are quickly deteriorating for hurricane survivors in the bahamas even as imagined to surprise a rush to pass u. S. And turkey shows begin joint patrols in northeastern syria as they prepare to set up a socalled safe zone in the region. Color we are still probably in the dry season in indonesia a gritty in malaysia i have said to people reporting preparation for messing around really on the satellite sort of confirm. That we might see the increase in showers in northern sumatra something thail
Hello and welcome again to rewind im elizabeth purana here on the wall and were drawing on a decade of Award Winning documentaries and finding out how the story has moved on today we revisiting a moving series which followed doctors working against the odds in the south african township of soweto and once home to Nelson Mandela so wet it was at the forefront of the countrys antiapartheid struggle back in the 1970 s. Hundreds died when student protests were put down with tear gas and live ammunition yet more than 25 years after the end of apartheid so what over maines a dangerous and disadvantaged place at chris hani but ive been at hospital one of the largest in the world and known locally as bata maybe 70 percent of all admissions are emergencies many of them gunshot wounds about as Ophthalmology Department the st john i hospital treats around 50000 patients every year many of them victims of Domestic Violence Bullet Wounds and car hijackings back in 2009 al jazeera aired a series of