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in the hash tag era when news coverage of looking for an easy solution we delved deeper from on says and challenge the status quo join me mandy and son for a new season of love from at this time of his era. we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea the u.s. president describes kim jong un as a rocket man on a suicide mission as he warns him to back down this despite an earlier call for
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portion. fiery talk can lead to fatal misunderstandings. though there barbara sarah this is al jazeera live from london thank you for joining us also coming up a powerful earthquake hits central mexico bringing down buildings on the anniversary of another devastating earthquake. hurricane maria on course to strike puerto rico after slamming into dominica and why the loop last. really want to find out why this exodus is happening unsound suchi fails to quell the outcry over violence against the road and this says flooding adds to the world of the four hundred and twenty thousand who fled to bangladesh.
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the u.s. president has stepped up his standoff with north korea threatening to totally destroy the country in a highly combative babe you speech to the u.n. general assembly donald trump mocked kim jong un and described pyongyang and said the praised regime are diplomatic editor james bays reports now from the united nations. donald trump is the thirteenth u.s. president to come here to address the u.n. and with the north korea crisis to tear orating he knew the world would be hanging on his every word the message is with us this is a message of coming together but once he headed to the general assembly chamber he's excellent donald trump he had a very different message delivering a speech that astonished many diplomats by including an unprecedented threat to annihilate another u.n. member state the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced
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to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to turn only destroy north korea rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime the words were just the sort of language that earlier the u.n. secretary general had warned against fiery talk can lead to fatal misunderstandings the solution must be political and this is a time for statesmanship. we must not sleepwalk our way into war president trumps foreign policy challenges a growing his critics say it's only of his own making he doesn't now just face possible confrontation with one nuclear power north korea but with a second one too as he continues to suggest he's likely to pull out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal the iran deal was one of the worst and most one sided
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transactions the united states has ever entered into frankly that deal is an embarrassment to the united states and i don't think you've heard the last of it believe me that received strong support from israel's prime minister but only tepid applause in the hall james spays al-jazeera of the united nations let's go live now to our u.n. correspondent roslyn jordan she's at u.n. headquarters in new york cares so i mean obviously we've had quite a lot of speeches in the past hour as a but trance beach is still i guess the one that everyone is talking about of the u.n. . that's right notably the fact that from the rostrum in the u.n. general assembly a sitting u.s. president vowed to was completely destroyed north korea if it poses an imminent and imminent threat to the united states or to any of its allies it's rather
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shocking given that the u.n. was created after world war two when the world was saying with one voice that it should try to prevent war it should try to promote peace wherever possible and that the united nations should be the venue where trying to achieve peace should be the top priority certainly a number of diplomats were highly critical of donald trump's decision to make such a blatant threat to the north korean government at this particular venue it's not unusual that presidents will threaten one country or another for any number of reasons but they typically do it either while giving a speech or while talking to reporters in fact barack obama said a very similar message but through a u.s. television network about two years ago you don't see this sort of thing happening at the united nations which is supposed to be the center of diplomacy not an area
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where people talk about trying to wage war and rosalyn obviously all eyes on the general assembly itself but while those speeches are being given there's a lot of bilateral talks behind the scenes as well president trump we understand is due to meet the emir of qatar at this hour what are we expecting to come out of this. well certainly there's been a lot of back and forth on the us as role in the crisis between qatar and several of its neighbors in the gulf cooperation council or g.c.c. as well as with egypt as our viewers know there's been a blockade carried out by these countries the kingdom of saudi arabia the united arab emirates about heine and egypt since june fifth and this is a created for. government in the qatari people number of political and economic hardships things which the kataria real government has had to try to work around of course the big question would be if you had something of this sort
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happening would the united states be the gotoh mediator well very early on donald trump seemingly took sides with saudi arabia and the other members of the g.c.c. and egypt and that made it tough perhaps more difficult to try to resolve what many have described as a political dispute that said it is noteworthy that trump and the emir would be meeting at this hour to talk about the way forward because there are many within donald trump's own administration who believe that trying to keep the g.c.c. together trying to keep it united is key to the u.s. his own national security strategy which is going after al qaeda going after eisel and trying to in the wars in yemen and in syria if you have gulf countries split on their own issues they're not going to be as inclined to put any energy into resolving these larger regional issues and so from
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a national security standpoint there is a push within the trumpet ministration to try to resolve this dispute as quickly as possible but of course we're now well past one hundred days into this crisis and that the u.n. for now thank you and we're joined now by by our senior political analyst that marwan that bashar am i one we're also waiting to hear from the u.n. from of the c.c. of course the president. of egypt and so and we understand also that netanya our met yesterday said as much in his speech so what do we expect to come out of this meeting between trump and the emir of qatar. you know just as we went on air i so a little piece of news about from bloomberg about trump threatening saudi arabia and the united arab emirates not to go into war against cutter so clearly they have been behind the scene efforts by the trump administration notably by the secretary
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of state to contain the crisis and what started as trump taking an aggressive position against cutter has basically mellowed over the last few years up until president trump called the emir of qatar and talk with him about resolving the author because i think this conversation now will continue in person i think the mayor of qatar is going to have the chance to explain exactly what happened and why this cow this crisis came about and why as we've heard him talk to the united nations qatar is more than happy to engage in a dialogue that doesn't include dictation one nation to another about its sovereignty and so on and so forth and by the way trump made a big hoopla about nation sovereignties and but there it is a month or so for the i think that has to come through in his conversation with amir but i think now it's clear for us that both trump and his secular state would like to see this crisis contained and i think they will probably push the emir of
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qatar further in to maybe be more responsive to some of the demands made by the bloc of the countries what's interesting right now i mean in this period in time and also just seeing this u.n. general assembly meeting there are so many different crises going on i mean we're not even really talking about syria which obviously is one of the the biggest crisis in the middle east and in the world right now we've heard quite a few speeches in the past few hours now what picture are you seeing emerge of the various alliances brought actually syria is a very good example to try to contrast some of the speeches overheard so nothing really serious from. netanyahu for example on that question and nothing from trump really about that question except mentioning about the use of chemical weapons but from the emir of qatar the turkish president as well as the french president we've heard a lot of us syria and clearly the issue of terrorism combating terrorism while it's
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very important according to all leaders work on this far some emphasize punitive measures many combating terrorism through security measures war combat and so on so forth while others like the french president but also more importantly the turkish president and the emir of qatar talk about restorative measures restorative justice meaning. that killing the roots of terrorism this is no longer in session by the way talking about the roots of terrorism now everyone would like to combat terrorism through war and the like but to talk about the roots of terrorism about the military occupation about aggression about the issues of refugees and so on so forth of course all of the important another issue it was a very important it was the emir of qatar saying that we tend to define terrorists by their identity and religion not terrorism as an act and let me just stop you there because we are getting some lines coming out of this bilateral meeting between the m e r of catherine and president trump so the emir says the
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relationship with the u.s. is very strong he said that during the meeting and we're also hearing the president trying said that he thinks the problem in the middle east will be solved quickly so i guess conciliatory tone from both leaders well you know if you remember that's what the president said a few days ago he said i can was over quickly during a press conference with the emir of kuwait in washington but of course after his initial attempts at getting the emir of qatar and the crown prince decided to talk nothing really transpired from that but about the country american relations yes it is important to emphasize that of course. qatar hosts the biggest american base in the middle east in qatar and second the qataris have huge investments in the united states something like thirty billion dollars worth of investments of the united states they've also just purchased some advanced weapons from the united states there's apparently they've signed
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a memorandum of understanding about combating terrorism and so on so forth so yes we could one could say that the qatari american relations are strong they went through harsh times in the initial period of the crisis because trump apparently was misinformed about the reason for the crisis but clearly secretary of state rex there are certain have set him straight if you will where he has a lot of experience in the region and now it's clear for everyone that a diplomatic solution is a must and that any resort to military solutions would be catastrophic for the really be very interesting to hear. the president of egypt will say in his speech egypt of course one of the countries blockading cata and also due to speak next to at the u.n. general assembly for the moment my one bashar thank you. take a look at some of the day's other news now in local media in mexico is reporting
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several deaths after a seven point one magnitude earthquake hit the central state of puebla the quake was registered near the town of at this seventy kilometers to the southeast of mexico city the main airport in the capital has suspended operations for the moment to review any possible damage it comes on the anniversary of a nine hundred eighty five earthquake in mexico city which killed five thousand people. get more now on this developing story from david mercer who joins us live on the phone from neighboring guatemala david what else are you leon. well that's right i think it's time to really because i mean to access the damage now i was in mexico about a week after all covering a large earthquake and a two magnitude quake that hit the so western part of the country as part of that which left more than ninety people dead and a part of the report that we did look into as well with the preparedness
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particularly in mexico city towards any future quakes and so building standards since a big earthquake in one thousand and five to kill you know up to ten thousand people or even more building codes of really being reinforced and that's what will you know that will be one of the reasons why you haven't seen more damage after the seven point one quake and mexico city building codes are much more rigid and are and they're more highly enforced at this stage there are also a series of alerts that give people time to get to their house when there's an imminent quake coming you know anywhere between say fifteen seconds and a couple of minutes depending on where the center of the quake is a lot that can give people the time of course people also have a plan now people beings have that drilled into them at school and into their workplace on what to do if there is an earthquake the places to look for and what steps to take so that's certainly going to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities in mexico city but you know mexico city was built on top of an ancient
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lake it's a drain to the lake that and it's built on top of this clay lake that and this can actually allow for the reverberations under the soil to be magnified so you can actually get actually still stronger particularly in some parts of mexico city which is where we've seen a lot of the down and share so early days will be waiting to see how things how things come together now we will indeed will be following all the developments on this is we get them but even obviously you've spent time in mexico and as we've been discussing mexico is no stranger to these kinds of no earthquakes so how prepared are they do you think for example are the buildings built following regulations to make them able to sustain insofar as is possible response of this magnitude. yeah i think i think they really have developed quite a rigid system that's place both in terms of making sure that structures will withstand you know quite strong earthquakes and then making sure that those plans
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are actually here to as well that there was certainly back and i can be five it was very little preparedness and and all the corruption that was involved in building code regulations came to the surface of that point in time on and citizens which really rose up at that point in the mid eighty's. and mexico has made a lot of progress since then so certainly not like it was back then that said you know it's a very it's on very unstable ground in or around mexico city and while there are already stringent regulations for the buildings and many parts of mexico. city i should say there are other areas riding areas in mexico city where the buildings are just as tall but it's more people who labs and not as many resources were building them and so they will not necessarily bad any building codes whatsoever so you might have a lot of buildings that don't have any iron in them whatsoever and those of course will be the ones which are basically just whisk in any kind of tremor houses that
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are just simply made out of out of the last you know concrete block or or even mud brick or things like that so that's that's probably where they're going to be looking looking at the stage for any kind of damage even more so with the latest on that thank you and let me just remind you what the breaking news story is that we're getting the local media in mexico is reporting several people have died after a seven point one magnitude earthquake hit the central state of pueblo we will of course be getting more developments on the story here on al-jazeera. one person has been killed on the island of what a loop after hurricane maria battered it the category five storm also lashed the neighboring dominican ripping the roof off even the prime minister's residence but nearby martinique was spared the worst of the damage it's now started lashing the virgin islands and puerto rico where the governor says it threatens to do catastrophic damage let me take you back now to the united nations and
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we are hearing from of course of various leader and leaders next to speak is abdel fattah el-sisi the president of egypt egypt of course one of the country being kept. because. mr president let you. president of the general assembly. to congratulate you for assuming the presidency of the seventy second session coming up of the united nations general assembly which i mean it's looking good i wish you all the success in carrying out your duties and also seize this opportunity to express the utmost appreciation to mr peter tomsen the president of the seventy first session of the u.n. general assembly who has most able to oversee all the work of the session. mr president every time we meet this august body we rekindle the hopes and aspirations
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of the peoples whom we are honored to represent and serve. to provide them with peace and development of a lot of new generations look to us to realize their dreams for a decent life within a fair international order long haul order that can face challenges. i thought by such as climate change natural disasters of diseases and epidemics as well as other manmade crises such as wars terrorism and the huge discrepancy in the distribution of resources and development opportunities. it is evident that the purposes and principles of the united nations are still valid as a basis for a world that offers everyone an opportunity to benefit from the great strides in scientifically that the advancement economic development. as well as the data revolution which has brought societies ever more closer in an unprecedented manner
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. these developments offer a great potential for establishing a fair and secure international order that is based on the right to development freedom and progress and open interactions between people. in egypt. the mentally believe in the values of the united nations and the purposes of its charter that we have great confidence that realizing it is very use is not only possible but rather an obligation and a necessity. long standing involvement with the un both as a founding member of the united nations that has been elected to the security council six times and the seventh largest contributor to peacekeeping operations worldwide and this involvement bears witness. to our constant strive to build a world that is worthy of the aspirations of our children and grandchildren to live
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in freedom. to live in freedom and dignity security and prosperity that you. however the responsibility that we bear in assessing tate's that we be frank in saying that this world that we seek. which is possible still remains on foreign and fortunately far from reality we are still unable to prevent our armed conflicts or confront to confront terrorism. or disarm nuclear weapons and address the structural imbalances in the international economic order which have widened the gap between the developed and developing world. based on the experiences of the african arab regions i can state with a clear conscience that these experiences summarize the current crisis of the international order and its inability to deliver on the goals of this organization
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. among the arab region egypt civilizational and cultural milieu has today become an ip center for some of the most vicious civil conflicts in recent human history. it is the most vulnerable reason to the dangers posed by terrorism. and one out of every three refugees in the world today is an arab in the mediterranean sea has become a conduit for irregular migrants from asian and african states who are fleeing the scourge of civil strife as well as the despair of economic and social hardships. this is reflected in the arab region a report on multi dimensional poverty couldn't ducted by the league of arab states in collaboration with the united nations. that the report will be issued tomorrow.
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as egypt's two graphical home africa lies at the heart of egypt's foreign policy for it is in africa that our historic roots lie and it is from africa that we derive pride in our identity and our deep sense of belonging to this continent has also become subject to the same security threats facing the arab region and constitutes a major example of the crisis in the current international economic order which perpetuates poverty and economic disparity in. this global order bears a major responsibility in the economic political and social crises that's threaten international peace and stability rendering any discussion on sustainable development goals are just words without evidence from reality. mr president egypt is therefore encircled by the most dangerous crises in the world
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but it is our destiny to navigate confidently through these unprecedented dangers relying on an ambitious development strategy based on radical and economic reforms. and reforms a game before anything at empowering the youth the youth who represent the majority of the population not only in egypt but also in most of the societies of the arab countries and in the developing world. in a world that is interconnected complex and full of challenges that cannot be confronted by any country alone regardless of its capabilities. let him with it is natural for egypt's development plans to correlate with an active foreign policy. such a strategy of foreign policy is guided by the long established moral principles ingrained in our heritage and culture and abides by the legal principles of the international system which egypt has actively participated in formulating. it is
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based on a vision to address the shortcomings but shortcomings that have prevented the realization of the objectives of the united nations our vision is based on the following five main principles and priorities first the only possible solution to the crises afflicting the arab region is through holding persistently the notion of the modern nation state which is based on the principles of citizenship equality rule of law and human rights and thereby defeating any attempt of relapse ing into doctrine of sectarian ethnic or tribal loyalties. the path towards reform you know have to be passes through the realization of the new nation state and cannot be built on its demise this principle and summary lies at the core of egypt's foreign policy and it is the foundation on which we base our positions in
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addressing the crises in our region with regards to syria we believe there would be no salvation for syria except through a consensual political solution amongst all syrians at the core of which is the president preserving the unity of the syrian state the maintenance of its institutions and broadening the political and social base to include all factions of society and to decisively confront terrorism until it is defeated and the way to this solution is through the un led negotiation process which enjoys strong support from egypt. as strong as the rejection with which we face any attempt to manipulate the tragedy in syria to establish international or regional zones of influence or to carry out the subversive policies of some regional parties. parties was practices have caused great suffering to our region over the past few years it is now high time for a final and decisive confrontation with these practices. soon. similarly we believe
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that a political settlement is the only viable solution to the crisis in libya libya continues to face attempts to dismantle the state and turn it into an open field for terrible conflict a field of operations for terrorist organizations here i clearly emphasize that egypt will not allow the continuation of attempts to tamper with the unity and integrity of the libyan state or to undermine the capabilities of the libyan people we will continue to work diligently with the united nations to achieve a political settlement based on the agreement which is inspired by the recommendations agreed upon by the libyans. mandation that came out of their consecutive meetings in cairo during the last month the aim is to end the political stalemate and to revive the settlement process in the country. the same aforementioned logic applies to egypt strategy in iraq and yemen a the only way to
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overcome the crises is a unified capable and just modern nation state and it's the way to realize the aspirations of the arab people second that it is time for a comprehensive and final settlement to the longest standing crisis in the arab region namely the question of palestine which is a clear depiction on the of the international community's inability to implement a long series of united nations and security council resolutions the closure of this chapter through a fair settlement based on established international norms and establishing an independent palestinian state along the one nine hundred sixty seven borders borders with east jerusalem as its capital is a necessary precondition for the entire region to in transit into a phase of the stability and development this is also necessary to restore the credibility of the united nations and the international order without
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a doubt that choosing peace would eliminate one. of the main excuses that terrorism has been manipulated to justify its proliferation in the region a but when i wasn't and it will guarantee a dignified life for the peoples of the region it is time to permanently overcome that barrier of hatred for ever. i would like to underscore here that the arabs still extended their hands in peace you tips experience proves that peace is possible and is indeed a realistic objective that we should all continue to pursue with all seriousness. allow me mr president here let me before i continue with my statement. to steer off so except for a moment and direct a call to everyone who is concerned by this issue my first audience is the palestinian people i tell the person people it's important to extremely important
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to unite behind a goal and to overcome the differences and not to lose opportunities to be ready to accept coexistence with the other with israelis in safety and security and to achieve stability and security for all and i say and direct my cause to the israeli people we have an excellent experience in egypt in peace with you for longer than forty years we can repeat this experience and this excellent step once again. through peace and the security of the israeli citizens together with the peace and security of the palestinian citizen. the day in a common. my call is for talk stand behind your political leadership and support
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and to not hesitate do not hesitate i am addressing israeli public opinion do not hesitate. we are all with you for the success of this attempt and this opportunity might not repeat itself. my other. cause is to all peace loving nations and stability loving nations. and arab states support this excellent endeavor. and to all of the nations of the world stand behind this time to that if successful will change the face of history and to address the american leadership the american president we have an opportunity to write a new page in humanity's history to achieve peace in this region.
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furred we can it is impossible to visit a future for the regional or international order without a definitive and comprehensive confrontation with terrorism this should be approached in a manner that eradicates terrorism and eliminate its roots and causes in addition to open it challenging any party that supports or finances terrorism or offers it political or media channels or safe havens in all candidness there is no room for any serious discussion on the credibility of a system that applies a double standard a system that fights terrorism while tolerating its supporters and engaging them in discussions on how to eliminate a threat that they created in the first place. in order to be. truthful and faithful to our people members of different international law and says you must answer pertinent questions that we are raising out of devotion to our people answers are usually avoided by those who prefer duplicity to attain political
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interests narrow interests at the demise of states and the expense of bloodshed we will not allow our people sacrifices to be lost in vain under any circumstance we in the muslim world must face our reality and work together to rectify misconstrued notions which have become an ideological pretext for terrorism and its destructive discourse and as you may recall egypt has launched an initiative to rectify religious discourse in order to revive the true and tolerant values of islam. egypt's religious institutions are currently engaged in this process. in coordination with the relevant international entities worldwide egypt which is currently engaged in an unrelenting battle to eradicate terrorism from its territory is committed to attract couldn't front and eliminate terrorism decisively wherever it exists it is evident that confront confronting terrorism has been at
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the forefront of egypt's priorities during its membership of the security council in twenty sixteen twenty seventeen. it was also our priority during our chairmanship of the counter-terrorism committee this was not only in defense of egypt's future but in defense of the future of the international community as a whole for the elimination of the root causes of international crises and sources of threat to international stability necessitates the operationalization of the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities between members of the international community. this will allow narrowing the economic and social gaps between developed and developing nations how can the united nations the agenda twenty thirty and a sustainable development to go have any credibility when the international economic order is in itself responsible for our augmentin disparities in
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a manner inconsistent with the values of justice and equality how can there be an opportunity for less developed countries. no matter how determined they are to implement fundamental economic reforms to address the mismanagement of their resources without addressing the imbalances in the international economic or the top and this requires involving developing their countries more money in the structure of international economic governance and facilitating their access to easier find financing as well as markets and technology transfer fifth. settling disputes in our world today can only be achieved through respect for the principles of international law and the goshi ation on the basis of legal historic and moral principles as well as respect to the sovereignty of states and the principle of nonintervention in internal affairs after more than seven decades have elapsed since the establishment of the united nations force and zero sum games cannot be
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the means to realize the interests of today's world is based on mutual in dependence among nations where significant horizons for cooperation and understanding exist to achieve common into. based on the aforementioned principles egypt has been at the forefront of countries that have been keen on initiating the nile basin initiative in one thousand nine hundred ninety we pursued the conclusion of a trilateral agreement between egypt today and in a field here to address the renaissance dam issue from a co-operative perspective in a manner that establishes a pretty clear legal framework to manage the issue in accordance with international law and established norms. and based on the well established rules governing relations between states sharing the basis of transponder rivers all over the world this agreement remains the legal framework that can be a reflection of the logic of cooperation and sharing between the three parties as
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long as good faith persists but this is particularly important to implement the agreement in light of the pressing time we must not lose the opportunity of presenting a successful model for the management of relations between three sisterly countries in the nile basin mr president in conclusion our meeting today in this august body is an opportunity for truthful self reflection where we should admit the shortcomings of the international system to deliver the noble objectives and aspirations it was set up to realize it has to miti to renew our commitment to establishing a more equitable international order given that the attainment of justice globally remains a necessary condition to confront the immense challenges that impact our world today and that threat to the credibility of our international system. the humanitarian tragedy facing the minority in myanmar represents another reason that
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reminds the international community of its moral obligations let alone its legal responsibilities as reflected in the un charter we must promptly work towards a lasting solution that. the plight of palestinians and addresses the root causes of the crisis which has become a threat to regional security and the stability of neighboring countries let us move together to empower the people of this world to regain control of their destinies and to explore new horizons of cooperation between members of the international community that is transcend the vicious circle of narrow interests and the few tight logic of power politics to the broader horizons of common human interests cooperation among all that has to be true to ourselves and end all polarizing policies the world today is in dire need of upholding our common human interests it is incumbent upon all states to strive to further relations with all partners without offending anyone. this mr president.
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was is. that i have conveyed to you explicitly and clearly i am full of hope that our joint efforts during the upcoming period will succeed in realizing a better world which is more secure stable and prosperous for q. long live egypt long live egypt live egypt may the peace of god be upon you. that was after father r.c.c. the president of egypt in a sort of outlined the five points that he had for a vision of the of the future he loaded the idea of a modern a nation state based on equality human rights and the rule of law one of his points was also crucially about the palestinian territories he said better the issue of palestine the i'm resolved the issue of a palestinian state has been used as
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a pretext by terrorists in the region and during it it was very interesting that he seemed to speak directly to palestinians and israelis that he also mentioned more widely confronting terrorism and those who finance it some oblique references but nothing directed really directed to the current crisis of the g.c.c. countries egypt of course with u.a.e. bahrain and saudi arabia the countries that have imposed a blockade on qatar which has been going on for a couple of months now so let's. we're trying to speak to a correspondent at the united nations roslyn jordan but before that let me just go straight to our chief political analyst my one bashar is very interesting isn't it marwan that her here we have the president of egypt has been incredibly vocal in his opposition to qatar being part of this a blockade that then effectively yes he mentions egypt bleakly but not directly.
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when he's got a global platform that's right and clearly this is part of maybe why president trump has been saying that the gulf crisis is going to be resolved and it's going to be resolved quickly he says so he must know something that we don't know and this is probably the reason why it's gyptian president who has. so much hostility towards carter. and so much projection of his own problems on carter not to mention the gulf crisis or not to really run some sort of campaign against it so they simply this is an interesting thing and i think before the end of the evening we'll probably have a better idea of what's going on behind the scene so much so that he's so restraint in his speech but on the other hand let me just if i can just hold you there i guess i think that we can go to our u.n. correspondent rosalyn jordan u.n. headquarters for us and roslyn because of course this speech by president sisi was
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going on as a bilateral meeting was also taking place in new york between donald trump and the any of her. that's right and we're just getting a readout from the pool reporter who was at that meeting with the emir of qatar they met out of the palace hotel the president welcome to the emir and i'm reading now from the pool report called him a friend renewed his vow donald trump that is to help solve qatar's dispute with its neighbors but he made no mention of his past assertion again i'm quoting here that qatar is quote a funder of terrorism so very conciliatory words and certainly that dovetails with what the emir said during his u.n. address earlier on tuesday that even though the qatari government in the cut a repeat will were very very unhappy and upset with the establishment of the
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blockade on june fifth that he was still very much willing to negotiate with saudi arabia with the way with bahrain and with egypt on a way to resolve this crisis because of the ongoing economic political and social concerns the very real impact the emir noted during his remarks on the cutter but as marwan and you were both describing barbara no direct reference by. sisi during his remarks and it might possibly be because it's not egypt that is leading the blockade it is saudi arabia it's it'll be very interesting to hear what comes from the foreign minister and what comes from other leaders of the kingdom of saudi arabia when they have their address before the u.n. general assembly a little later this week absolutely rosen we will obviously be carrying that live here on al-jazeera for the moment moment rosalind jordan thank you and back tomorrow and bashar here was with me in the studio now president c.c.
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may not have mentioned cateye directly but he did mention confronting terrorism and the financing of terrorism which is of course one of the things that the country's blockading cateye are accused. of and that's one of the main disagreements if you will and reason for conflict in the region is that presidents sisi considers each and every islamist to be a terrorist he considered the muslim brotherhood who won elections in egypt before he led the could it against them to be terrorists and that's why it is rather discomforting if not to say hypocritical to hear cheap words about law justice and modern states while in cc's egypt there are something like forty up to seventy thousand political prisoners today where justice is completely politicized where the country is in the midst of terror more oil because of the credit because
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they try to. color any opposition to their regime as terrorists and that's the worst way to combat terrorism the way to combat terrorism is to really focus on the terrorists and make sure you are lie with everyone against the terrorists while in the case of mr sisi he eat the tens along with saudi arabia the united arab emirates to basically. paint brush everyone that they don't dislike to be terrorists and that's a terrible way to combat terrorism here in this sense we would have millions upon millions of people who are sympathizers of muslim brotherhood who in this case would be considered terrorists or supporter of terrorism so really there's a lot of the standard here you talk one way about about justice and the rule of law and on the other hand egypt is truly. in trouble in terms of the hundred the tens of thousands of political prisoners there's another line that he said he
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said that often in the region terrorists use the state of palestine or in a sense the lack thereof as a pretext for further attacks and here he really chose to speak both to the palace thing. and these really spoke to them directly which perhaps was in when in keeping with the rest of the style of his of his speech really seemed like he was trying to make himself an honest broker in the whole in the whole situation and it made me think of anatomy out had very warm words for president in the speech just a few a half an hour before you know i mean it's a bit sad right after twenty five years of peace process that failed and after the world has been trying every possible way to reach an agreement for the president of the largest country instead of expressing solidarity with the palestinian people who live on the occupation sort of expressing solidarity and support to the president people three point seven million of them who live in dispossession as refugees in lebanon syria and jordan and egypt sort of doing that he delivers those
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cheap words of palestinian people make peace with israel or israeli people or make peace with the palestinians really really is that it is that all he has got to say is big people make peace with each other instead of tackling the real root causes of this issue which is the occupation of palestine and it is this possession of a speech he didn't hint at political unity within the palestinians yes and that is something that egypt is championing today because it's sort of hamas and fatah and the two main fettucine factions to talk but only after have accepted the egyptian conditions about dissolving itself away from the muslim brotherhood dissolving its administration in gaza and so on so forth so egypt has put a lot of pressure on hamas in gaza put a lot of pressure on the palestinians let's all remember that egypt blockaded the one point seven million palestinians in gaza for
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a good number of years now for at least a decade or so so under sisi the policies have suffered and you would accept expected them to side with justice instead. he wanted to as you exactly as you said you wanted to play the sponsor and the israelis and palestinians the need to make peace with each other the everyone knows that boss is the very least need to make the switch other what is required here and now like what the president of the on did what they made of qatar did what even president. of france say there is justice in this in this issue israel needs to occupy palestine there has to be a fair resolution to the palestinian question and so on so forth one bashar for the moment thank you thank you well in the last hour a ministers from the organization of islamic cooperation met at the u.n. the scuffs the plight of me and mars rover hinge a muslim minority many leaders have raised the crisis in their speeches turkey's president said it may go down as
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a dark stain in human history so look. you know if this strategy in myanmar is not stopped the history of humanity will face the embarrassment of another dark stain what is most important is to ensure that they are growing up people who have taken refuge outside their country especially in bangladesh maintain their lives in safety peace and welfare on their own land where they have lived for centuries. well me and lars leader and son suchi decided not to attend the un general assembly but earlier she gave a much anticipated anticipated televised speech on the violence over the past three weeks more than four hundred thousand range i have escaped unrest which was sparked by a military crackdown in iraq and state scott holly reports now from the capital of me and my. after intense pressure on song suchi finally
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addressed the russian general refugee crisis but in her most anticipated speech since becoming myanmar's leader she avoided criticizing the actions of the military something the u.n. calls textbook ethnic cleansing. it is not the intention of the government to apportion blame gauge responsibility we condemn all human rights violations and violence we are committed to the restoration of stability and rule of law throughout the states her address lacked the specifics on how to end or even ease the unfolding revenger refugee crisis on her country's border with bangladesh nor did she offer definitive explanations of what took place in the kind state over the last four weeks. we want to find out why this exodus is happening we would like to talk to those who have fled as well as to
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those who have stayed i think it is very little known that the great majority of muslims in the rakhine state have not joined the exodus but over four hundred ten thousand have fled and two hundred ten muslim villages were burned down according to human rights watch but she chose to focus on the villages that were not attacked . more than fifty percent of the villages of muslims are intact. as they were before the attacks took place. and we would like to know why this is what i think we have to work too much not just looking at the problems but also looking at the areas where they are no problems. she asked for international assistance on the situation and pledged access to some of the areas impacted from the latest violence but the some of the speech fell well short saying it didn't properly address the immediacy of the crisis and that her speech might lead to
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further condemnation of how she's handling the situation when you say the international community n.g.o.s and others and also just the general. individuals i think there's some level of outrage they wanted they wanted a direct. apology some kind of acknowledgement of the enormity of the scale of human misery we've seen. but some diplomats who attended the speech said it was a good start. i think. the speech. message those international community i'm sure. feel the steps will follow. suit she repeated the phrase peace and harmony many times in her speech but if there's no progress of relief for those suffering in refugee camps who fled from her country the situation could get a lot and that idea of peace and harmony might become even farther away. al-jazeera
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. when united nations investigators are demanding full access to me and maher to investigate claims of human rights violations by security forces u.n. staff in bangladesh have started collecting testimonies from range of muslims who have fled the violence. excessive use of force torture and ill treatment sexual and gender based violence and the burning and destruction of entire villages it is important for us to see with our own eyes the sites of these alleged violations and abuses well to make matters worse for him who have escaped to bangladesh are now having to deal with heavy flooding trench of rain over the past few days as flooded fields where some of those fleeing myanmar have set up shelters have your child tree has. hundreds of recent references f.
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taken shelter in this camp you can see the condition of this camp it rained here last night there's a need deep water woman with children stranded here and a lot of this people don't know where to go there is no presence of international n.g.o.s government organization or local n.g.o.s to take them in any other shelter some of them are standing by the roadside asking for help a lot of this kids are actually got a high fever i want of the lady told me how giles got lungs problem which possible is a name only they don't have any relief whatever may have their god is washed away by this water. damage i don't have any money i'm staying here with three little children in need we even took shelter on the right side. the aid agencies are warning the real threat is the starvation spread of disease like cholera dysentery missiles there's already reports of missiles spreading within this community and the local and international n.g.o.s presence on the ground cannot cope with this disaster alone neither can the bangladesh government. syrian government air strikes
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have hit three hospitals in the province activists say they were all struck within an hour a medical center and premises used by a rescue service and rebel held it lives were also targeted killing civilians and emergency workers syrian military sources the night targeting the hospitals saying only rebel convoys and positions have. how mass is calling on palestinian president mahmoud abbas to end his sanctions on the gaza strip after giving up administrative control after reconciliation talks mediated by egypt house announced on sunday they would hand over the administration of gaza to fuck a faction which runs the west bank leading hamas official israeli media says he's spoken to a bass on the phone and the reconciliation process is now underway. national in journey. we took the decision to dissolve the executive committee to enable
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a national consensus government to carry out its duties in garza until we reach a full reconciliation we agreed to a bilateral meeting in egypt with fatah wants a national consensus government starts to carry out its responsibilities in gaza to prepare for presidential and parliamentary elections then there will be a comprehensive meeting in cairo for all palestinian franklins to reach national unity. police in the u.k. have arrested a third man in connection with friday's explosion on a london underground train thirty people were injured when a homemade explosive device detonated in rush hour the latest the suspect a twenty five year old man was taken into custody in the welsh city of new port two hundred kilometers west of london searchers are now.

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