This is shaping the United States its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on aljazeera. Alone welcome again to remind im elizabeth purana since we launched aljazeera english over a decade ago we havent been afraid of tackling difficult and sensitive stories through powerful Award Winning documentary us to day we rewind into 2010 and a film that examines an unintended consequence of the continuing israeli blockade of gaza is growing opioid problem the gaza strip at points just 10 kilometers wide is an hour piece of land along the Eastern Mediterranean coast thats palestinian population a sealed behind a separation barrier and tightly controlled checkpoints gaza is home to more than 1500000 palestinians maybe half of them under 15 unemployment is among the highest in the world and every day is a struggle to survive. Its not surprising therefore the thousands of young people risk their lives by protesting against the occupation by israel
Call attention to chinas alleged abuse of its weak muslim minority. And a provocative new piece by banksy is unveiled the Office Creates a new city scene that draws attention to israels barrier is around the occupied west bank. Im on you tube mackinnon thanks so much for joining us. Australias Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been forced to apologize for taking a holiday at the height of the devastating a bushfire crisis emergency crews are struggling to contain hundreds of blazes around sydney a combination of record temperatures drought and powerful weapons is few leg. At least 9 people have been killed since the fires began but there is now hope at last of a break in the weather. The air is acrid the pall of smoke dense the impact on Peoples Health can be serious smoldering ruins in the town of lythgoe in the Blue Mountains. Theres a. Lot of. Logs last year last year and i think. You. Know. The village of balmoral has been almost entirely destroyed the fire came so fast Steve Harri
Search for narcotics. And this is all they find this time around roughly a gram of hash which will result in a charge of possession rather than distribution. But its clear that such tactics can pay dividends the Police Showed us some of the drugs they have seized on previous raids. Pills of ecstasy. And. Tramadol. Unfortunately there is a big difference between the number of arrests in 2009 compared to 2008 drug cases have gone up in the last year in 2009 we had close to 1200 then 4 cases of which 500 the new. 91 what tramadol relate my ocado been ill from within we ceased close to 2 and a half 1000000 trauma pills compared 2550000 in 2000 and. 10 says gaza stunnel are the key conduit for illegal substances into district. The drugs are mostly supplied by israel and directly via egypt and the tunnels some drugs also come directly from egypt the profits to young people who want to get rich quick. We have called those between the ages range from 20. 00 to 23. 00 with huge quantities of dr
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How the rain is pretty well scattered throughout Southeast Asia at the moment the rain band should be moving south and i would the sun the sun the evidence of that but equally just look at the satellite picture showers all over the place some concentration recently in thailand and that could intensify the evening cambodia you could well see by tuesday a green cent which means heavy rain but shasta larkins no well have to sumatra mention lazy down towards singapore and particularly in borneo as yet java looks fairly dry and still a ways hes got a couple of days off as well having seen some pretty wet weather in the last few days in australia and a change of seasons become very apparent reason to temper his almost record high now on their way down again once more this is a fairly typical scene of a front this got on top to care mix it so the cold potential is there its not that bad on monday 80 degrees in the sunshine in melbourne adelaide bit less in hobart and its larger rain or tasman