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Former French President Jacques Chirac, who led France from 1995 to 2007, has died at the age of 86, his family and Agence France Presse news agency reported on Thursday.

Energetic, engaging and passionate for power, Chirac has been at the centre of French politics for nearly half a century and has had dealings with every world leader since Leonid Brezhnev ruled the Soviet Union.

Chirac was twice president, twice prime minister and spent 18 years as mayor of Paris.

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To some, they are heroes, while others called them outlaws.

Even their name - the Fellagha - had different meanings for different people. While the word literally translates to "bandits", in 20th century Tunisia, they were known as those who resisted the French presence in North Africa's smallest country.

In Tunisia, they were the separatist resistance fighters who launched a campaign against French colonial rule which, together with political negotiations, culminated in independence in 1956.

Drawn mainly from the mountainous rural south of the country, the Fellagha drew inspiration from their ancestors - rebels who had opposed the French immediately after colonial rule began in the 1880s.

By the 1920s, resistance to the French presence was growing, and by World War Two the Fellagha were launching regular attacks on French military installations in the country. In 1952, the armed resistance was officially launched and by 1954, Fellagha ranks had swollen to several thousand fighters.

Although the Fellagha faced a military opposition that was better equipped, better funded, more experienced, and had much greater numbers, they were determined. While on paper, the French army was a far superior force than the Fellagha, the Tunisians had local knowledge and public support on their side.

Like other North African independence movements, Tunisia's decades-long fight against colonial rule also began as a mainly political one - but was not ultimately achieved without a violent struggle.

In this two-part documentary, we take a look at the Fellagha mainly through the eyes of its old fighters: men who fought the French, and then continued to take issue with the country's new government even after independence.

In Episode 1, Rebels: When the French colonised Tunisia in the late 19th century they cemented their rule, but also triggered the founding of an armed rebel movement. As the independence movement grew, so did their armed struggle. This episode is built around the first-hand testimony of these Fellagha fighters, now old men but still vividly recalling how they were recruited, farmers by day and fighters by night; the details of their anti-French paramilitary activity and the toll the conflict took on their communities.

Episode Two will be available from October 2, 2019.

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Extra-marital relations outlawed in Indonesia. And jail sentences for insulting the president
They're some of the controversial proposals causing an outcry in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, Which are considered disastrous by rights groups.
Thousands of students vented their anger. Coming under pressure, President Joko Widodo postponed the vote on changes to the draft criminal code.
But Indonesians still fear it could be passed by parliament
They're also angry over the passing of another law that weakens Indonesia's anti-corruption organisation.
The protests have been dismissed by the Indonesian government.
So, can the outrage stop the government's plans?

Presenter: Mohammed Jamjoom

Guests
Greg Barton, expert on terrorism at Deakin University
Calvin Dark, former Indonesian Government Campaign Adviser
Damien Kings, conflict resolution specialist.

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British parliamentarians returned to work on Wednesday, a day after the nation's highest court decreed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's controversial five-week suspension of parliament was unlawful.
In a unanimous verdict, the 11 justices at the United Kingdom's Supreme Court ruled that Parliament had effectively not been prorogued, upholding the decision by the Scottish court of appeal in Edinburgh on September 11, paving the way for the House of Commons to resume at 11:30am ( 10:30 GMT) on Wednesday.
Al Jazeera's Paul Brennan reports.

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Seventy four years ago, two nuclear bombs were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing tens of thousands of people.
Since then, wherever conflict between major powers rises, so does the threat of nuclear war.
Various treaties have attempted to suppress that threat, yet today there are nearly 14,000 nuclear weapons based around the world.
Thursday marks the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, but it's a goal that looks increasingly less likely.
So is there the political will to abolish these weapons?


Presenter: Mohammed Jamjoom

Guests
Paul Schulte, former director of Proliferation and Arms Control in the British Defence Ministry
Andrew Smith, director and spokesperson for Campaign Against Arms Trade
Lawrence Korb, defence analyst and senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress.

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Details emerge of the White House's efforts to lock down records of a Presidential phone call.

Leveraging the office of the U.S. President, to interfere in the 2020 election.
That's the accusation facing Donald Trump in a whistleblower complaint that's set him on course for an impeachment investigation.
Donald Trump has been accused of trying to persuade the Ukranian leader to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden.
So, will the impeachment effort against Donald Trump intensify?
Or will it back fire on the President's opponents?

Presenter: Sami Zeidan

Guests
Greg Swenson, Spokesman for Republicans Abroad UK
Rina Shah, Republican Strategist
Arshad Hasan, Democratic Political Strategist.

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday that the US House of Representatives will launch a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, acquiescing to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nation into an election year clash between Congress and the president.

The announcement comes amid reports that Trump may have abused his presidential powers and sought help from a foreign government to undermine former Vice President Joe Biden, the current Democratic frontrunner, and help his own reelection.

In a summer phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Trump is said to have asked for help investigating Biden and his son Hunter. In the days before the call Trump ordered advisers to freeze $400m in military aid for Ukraine - prompting speculation that he was holding out the money as leverage for information on the Bidens. Trump has denied that charge, but acknowledged he blocked the funds, later released.

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They risk their lives, jumping from high-rise buildings, playing with fire, driving at breakneck speeds.

Their dangerous antics are on the big screen for all to see but most movie viewers will never learn their real identities.

India's stunt performers put their bodies on the line for the country's biggest film stars, for a meagre wage.

"If action films are a hit, the main reason is the stuntman but no one knows him," says Javid Gauri, a stuntman from Saharanpur in India's north.

Stunt work has given Gauri a pathway out of poverty, but he says being a stunt double for big action stars can be bittersweet.

"We don't even get a credit … In a scene, when the character takes off their helmet and shows their face to the audience, the hero gets all the glory and we feel bad."

Sometimes, stunt work can be a matter of life and death. Accidents are common, and some are fatal.

Balaji Raghav's brother Uday jumped to his death in an incident at a lake outside Bengaluru in 2016.

Uday and another stuntman had to jump 60 feet (18 metres) from a helicopter into the lake, but instead of a spectacular action scene, the camera recorded the two men drowning.

"It was far from the shore. Uday tried to swim but he couldn't," says Balaji. "He was yelling for help but nobody came."

101 East explores why so many young Indian stunt performers are drawn to the bright lights of Bollywood for little reward.

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Israel's president has asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try and form a new government.
But Netanyahu still has no clear path to a fifth term after emerging from the September 17th ballot.
Netanyahu now has 28 days to put together a coalition.
But with a corruption hearing looming, his political future now seems increasingly shaky.
Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett reports from West Jerusalem.

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