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tv   News  Al Jazeera  January 23, 2015 3:00am-3:31am EST

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>> start with one issue ad guests on all sides of the debate. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story next only on al jazeera america
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open up the saudi political system. to crea some create some sort of
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inclusiveness, he will be, in a time of great turmoil in the region, he will be a figure that will be missed. he was anen authority it will that will mrs. be missed. >> saudi arabia's ties with the united states has been through military equipment. patty culhane has more on that. >> president george w. bush did this. president barack obama was seen as bowing. >> he was almost subservient to the muslim world. >> u.s. foreign policy too dependent osaudi arabia mostly because of oil fption.
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after the september 11th attacks 15 of the 19 hijackers wereiwere saudi. >> no doubt that saudi thinking changed at that point from one that had been shall we say have a policy of feeling comfortable of just exporting the problem to one of a problem that they felt they had to tackle themselves. >> the arab spring tested the relationship. urged to back hoz hosne mubarak. as the spotlight faded the two
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leaders cemented their relationship brokering the sale of arms to the country. attack helicopters and am mission to the kingdom. but the second term of barack obama's presidency led to more complaints from saudi arabia, when he decided to launch secret negotiation et cetera with iran, nobody told them. the saudis were then caught off guard. that led the president to visitor to shore up the relationship facing an uncertain future, more so, now. >> thailand's parliament has voted bhoamgly to raism peachment vote was 119 in favor
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18 against and there were three abstentions. that means shiel be sheem she'll be banned from politics for next five years. scott heidler has more. >> former prime minister yingluck shinawatra. mainly because she hasn't held this position for months well back before the coup took place back in may. also the attorney general says he will pursue criminal charges based on the same reasons she was impeached on friday, now if if she's convicted in that criminal case she could be
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banned or the life from politics but more so she could spend ten years. a preliminary of ten years behind bars. obviously moving forward her legal team is going to battle. but what does that mean in the mill mill 30 government's promise to get back to a democratic society. >> the mother of one of two japanese men held hostage has asked for assistance, demanded a ransom for knowledge him and the deadline has already passed. >> john kerry is in london for
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talks with leaders of 21 other countries, pledging more support to the iraqi government including training for sol soldiers. are are iraqi prime minister haider al-abadi welcomes assistance. >> i'm glad, this is quite important for the iraqi people and very important for our military. we have in the last month i have seen an increase in the air campaign against these position he in terms of number and effectiveness and many countries take part in this program and in this campaign in reconnaissance and the actual bombing of dash targets. >> the u.n. has condemned the killing of the government and
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pro-russian separatists are blaming each other for deaths. saudi arabia's government has again postponed a flogging of a free speech activist. as al jazeera's daniel lack reports from iraqi. >> instead he got this. 50 lashes. the first of a thousand to be administered over 20 weeks. now for the second time doctors postponed the flogging citing health concerns. it is a small mercy at best for his wife, refugee in canada
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since 2013. she hopes to keep her husband's case in the public eye and raise the family alone. >> translator: i need to be a positive person, think positive thoughts. if i start crying and do flog that will not happen him or my kids. i have to be strong, and tell the world about him to get him out of jail. >> stop the flogging! >> reporter: so far there has been a lot of public support organized by am amnesty international. the canadian government has criticized raif badawi's predicament. a canadian based arm of the u.s. general dynamics company will sell nearly $15 billion worth of
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armed vehicles to riad, so far ottawa isn't saying whether it asked for and got such assurances. >> what is the point of setting certain human rights thresholds if this the end the decision is going to be driven and dictated by other interests? >> reporter: bigger questions can wait. >> all i can do is raise my voice and make countries listen and help raif. he is a peaceful person, he is a great dad and husband and i call for the release and freedom of raif. >> daniel lak, al jazeera quebec.
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knowledge. >> al jazeera continues to demand release of our colleagues, peter greste, mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed. in prison for over 370 days. l this remain in jail in cairo. over the past few days, malcolm webb met the family of one man who died in the capital cin shas ah. kinshahasa. >> thousands have been demonstrating here in congo's capital kinshasa. watching police arresting
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protesters from this upstairs window. >> translator: we heard boom. we both went down. and i got up but he didn't. i tried to wake him. then i saw he was injured in the neck poop lot of blood was coming out of the wound. >> reporter: he died here on the floor. luke thinks the shot must be aimed at mumba. here at the high court the government says police arrested more than 300 mostly young men who will be tried here in the coming days and says prosecutors will seek the harshest possible punishment. this man says he's innocent, didn't do anything. then lawyers arrive and the first trial begins. the first suspects are charged
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with looting. the political opposition who called for the protest call for arrests and say the detainees should be released. intended to extent president kabila's rule. >> translator: it's disorder. the demonstrations calling on people to call civil disobedience are acts of barbarism. i think our opposition is not responsible. we're in a legal process of improving electoral law. how can that lead the opposition to send youth to destroy people's property? >> reporter: back at the house where ma'amba lived meanwhile the government still wants to change laws laws and the opposition plan more protest. malcolm webb, al jazeera in the
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democratic republic of con go. >> the rm news of the death of king abdalla of saudi arabia. arabia. yemen is teetering on the brink of security, economic, and political collapse. it's inside story. >> hello, i am ray suarez. a collapsing economy, and it's