tear gas used on occupy protesters in oakland
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police in riot gear have clashed with more than 1000 protesters attempting to march on to oakland039s city hall to condemn arrests made at an quotoccupy wall streetquot campwitnesses say the police used stun grenades and tear gas to disperse the crowds away from a plaza in oakland039s business districtmeanwhile an iraq war veteran is in a critical condition as he was hit on the head with a projectile fired by the policeal jazeera039s kimberly halkett reports

bush vs shoe
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who throws a shoe honestly play the game at http:duckbushduckcom

riz khan - tariq ramadan and slavoj zizek on the future of egyptian politics
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the revolutionary chants on the streets of egypt have resonated around the world but with a popular uprising without a clear direction and an unpopular leader refusing to concede egypt039s future hangs in the balance riz khan talks to muslim scholar tariq ramadan and slovenian philosopher slavoj zizek about the power of popular dissent the limits of peaceful protest and the future of egyptian politics

people amp power - bolivia039s thirst for change
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a look at evo morales039 struggle to reconcile environmental goals with economic development

: riots and revolutions: my arab journey - bahrain
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: quot quot quot : quot - -----riots and revolutions: my arab journey - bahrainat a protest in bahrain039s capital manama nel meets dr nada dhaif who helped to treat injured protesters during the failed uprising at the pearl roundabout last year she tells nel that as they tried to cope with hundreds of casualties the police came into salmaniya hospital took control of it and prevented doctors from continuing their work a month later she was arrested in her home and later convicted in a military court of aiding the protesters in their rebellion she was one of 20 medics who were sentenced to jail terms of 5 to 15 years the government maintains the doctors were taking over the hospital and using it as a rebel base they have been granted a retrial in a civilian court which is still in processby: imanamaa

soldier in afghan shooting to face us court
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the lawyer defending a us soldier accused of killing 16 afghans says that there is little hard evidence against his clientjohn henry browne says that staff sergeant robert bales cannot remember much about the night of the shooting and that there is little evidence that could stand up in court against himal jazeera039s alan fisher reports from washington dc the us capital

inside story americas - forced sterlisation: time for compensation
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tens of thousands were forcibly sterilised throughout the 20th century across the us as they were deemed quotfeeble mindedquot and quotinappropriate candidatesquot for reproductionin 1927 the supreme court upheld state statues permitting compulsory sterilisation in the quotbuck versus bellquot decisionthe supreme court ruling which nazis at the nuremberg trials cited in their defence has never been expressly overturned

working man039s death - brothers
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pakistani men use little more than their bare hands to dismantle an abandoned oil tanker for scrap metal

gaddafi039s body by aljazeera live
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short video of gaddafi039s body after he was captured

fault lines - occupy wall street: surviving the winter
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fault lines follows key occupy organisers through the winter as they continue to build a movement even after violent evictions across the country

update: anger in syria
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there is anger in syria on saturday as protesters regroup following a huge crackdown by security forces the so-called quotday of dignityquot demonstrations were held across the country on friday hundreds of thousands of people turned out on both sides including in the capital damascus where pro- and anti-government supporters clashed in the old townand there are reports of at least dozen more people being shot dead by security forces in as many as six towns and villagesone person is reported killed by police in a damascus suburbin latakia doctors say four people were killed when forces opened fire on a crowd of a thousandthe highest toll was reported in the village of sanamin there locals say troops killed 20 civilians while trying to prevent a march to nearby daraaal jazeera039s correspondent zeina khodr defied a media ban to enter daraa and bring us this story

inside story - who is fuelling somalia conflict
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somalia039s spiralling instability has reached the capital mogadishu as at least 17 people were killed and 61 injured in fighting between government forces and opposition fighters but just who is fuelling the conflict this time around and is the country becoming a battleground in the fight against al-qaeda inside story investigates

working man039s death - lions
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we take a glimpse inside the bloody and frenetic activity of the port harcourt meat market in nigeria

listening post - bahrain: below the radar
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on this week039s show: bahrain - a small kingdom cracking down on the media in a big way plus a look at state media in post-revolution egypt

nuns on the bus cause a fuss
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a group of roman catholic nuns that have been travelling across the us in a bus have been preaching a message of social justice and campaigning against spending cuts for the poor arriving at their final destination washington dc they have targetting mostly republican members of congress who are in favour of deep cuts in social programs to balance the debt-laden us budget but the drive has been accused of being too politically partisan and has also raised the ire of the vatican al jazeera039s john terrett explains