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and live from studio fourteen ahead al-jazeera headquarters in doha jane dothan well coming to the news grid they took it to the courts and failed ten years opposition wanted the presidential election rerun delayed but not enough judges could stop to hear the case so kenyans will be voting again for a new president in exactly twelve hours time and many are not happy about it protesting on the streets we'll get the temperature there from our correspondent. keeping the neighbors on board and on the same page iraq's president is in iran and turkey talking about the crisis that's erupted from the kurdish secession votes the kurds now say they'll freeze the results and hold talks will be enough to diffuse the growing tensions realized in iran also turkey begins its trial of eleven human rights activists a case that's become a flashpoint in tensions with its european allies they face up to fifteen years in
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prison if found guilty of being part of all helping what prosecutors say is a terrorist organization and local heads of amnesty international all among the accused have a live interview with the organization. and swedish financial giants ikea it's also pull a commercial in china off to causing a sexism storm online and here at home it's suddenly all false throughout the show using the hash tag a.j. news grid. you with the news good live on and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al jazeera dot com now a no show by the supreme court judges has plunged kenya into an even deeper political crisis that was supposed to hear a last minute petition to delay thursday's presidential election rerun which will now go ahead as planned the opposition leader is boycotting the vote he's being
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rallying supporters in the capital nairobi urging them to tell others to stay home and avoid the ballot box too he also added that the opposition movement is now becoming a resistance movement. and this. really does it. look. like that is very different. because the. president will. make you feel that if. they don't respect him for this. oh it's a tough. business. so how did we get here well on august
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eleventh who was declared the winner of the initial presidential election held three days earlier but his rival denver was quick to cry foul saying the result was hacked and manipulated it took these four allegations to the supreme court and on the first of september the judges declared the elections invalid and ordered a rerun within sixty days more than a month later they suddenly withdrew his candidacy from the rerun saying he still didn't believe the election commission could ensure a fair race let's go over two hundred and he's live in nairobi mohammed rather inflammatory language from a little bit earlier on and a warning from the head of the election commission what are we expecting here. well jane it's getting messy and we're going deploy into crisis every other day
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position hard hinged all the hopes on lot called case but because of the war and crisis of the supreme court something that the main opposition party the nasr are describing. it to to be a result of the intimidation by the government of independent government is a touche and now we're back to square one and the opposition don't have what they wanted a postponement of the elections on the elections are going to go forward saying he's going to brace form with he's full electrode just as what he calls a free fair and credible elections at the same time the man who is in charge of this process called to the chairman of the independent commission says he's in a position where he cannot guarantee the safety of these workers who were big boys some of them into no opposition strongholds where people have been told to by
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called elections and who are hostile to them so we have a situation where even if the elections are held tomorrow on present would have been others declared the winner. everybody now is predicting then you would see a. many many court cases coming up again and a lot of questions being raised and we are here because of what happened or rather what didn't happen. yes. it's been a very long process the electoral process in kenya this is the longest we've had we've been talking about this election since june this year this is something that has had a tremendous effect on the economy which is suffering right now many many people are out of jobs tourism one of the biggest foreign exchange honest.
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people are closing shop there's a lot of flight of capital now this doesn't seem to be ending the border when people go to cast their votes and again the constitution is very clear the president of kenya the elections for president of kenya will be done in two hundred ninety. three if for example some of the opposition. areas heed the call from these other principles of then we will have a situation where elections my not take place now what the government is saying on its side is. it can prove that there's been a temp to take ballot papers which is a heavy security to opposition strongholds that it will have fulfilled its mandate and there will be no questions asked but again it's. up to interpretation and you would see many lawyers watching this process very close all right thanks for that mohammed and we are waiting for her kenyatta kenyatta to make an address we
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expected it in about fifteen minutes time obviously we'll go to that as soon as it comes up a couple of comments before. raina to your other esoteric. natan from uganda boycotting the election is a good move by nasa a facebook question from tanya all the electoral offices they conducted are they the same ones who conducted the previous election. right that's the view from the capital let's hear now from catherine sawyer who's in the western port city of kisumu an opposition stronghold and it's protesters have been out on the streets all morning they've blocked the road using stalls and goldeyes been lighting gunfire those well they said they're very angry and particularly after the supreme court. this is the first straight tomorrow they're not going to go to the world they will not recognize all working out and
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when they will not even wrap up night here. they said they also angry with the police. brutality these are cast during protests thousands of people who have been killed including children and people who. are saying that police have killed my. people people very angry saying that will not release me it's very difficult even to see how things like pulling material will get a. lot of people would want to bolt to see how that would happen because i love and a lot of tension which i promise you we're here and she's been monitoring the conversation what's been said about it so it's very mixed right now a lot of different trends reflecting just a huge number of sides in angles on the story so there's a lot of hashtags elections k.-e.
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last day of democracy supreme court decides this isn't twenty twelve and also poll preparedness and as we see tensions spill over the streets things are also heating up online like this clip about to show you which has a lot of says i think you can hear it does a lot of yelling and sounds of panic. a soldiers are filled in and coming into the town of gori they can be heard firing shots into the air as they came in to apparently deliver an election to terry. now kenyan society is historically divided along tribal lines and elections just simply is as a bait this chris or wash at this clip in which he describes seeing a fight almost broke out between rival supporters on board a public minibus and many say that they're just disgusted by politicians whipping up that toxic climates with angry rhetoric now those refusing to vote have been sharing this image where they have urged people to boycott as much as possible and
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there's also those who are voting as you can see in this picture all come painting for peaceful polls and these women in the opposition supporting areas are using the hash tag i stand with cuts heba in swahili means constitution but people like are preparing for the worst they getting into stalls and grabbing what they can to stock up for what could be a period of violence and uncertainty as you can see long lines of being forming in the supermarkets in some of the major cities across the country but kenyans should also be careful about what they're posting online the government has put out a public notice if you can get it out for you. urging social media users to exercise discretion throughout the election period and it says that the government has noticed i quote misuse of electronic communication networks and particular social media platforms to propagate hate speech and other undesirable content hate
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messages have the potential to polarize the country along tribal lines and to perpetuate feeling and hate among kenyans. there was as you can expect a strong reaction to this attack no nelson calls it empty rhetoric you have failed to deliver a united kenya and dig day says that kenya is one big comedy show the ones with social media accounts are experts in all fields of law plumbing aviation medicine and forensics and frederick adds that they should first read the constitution and understand what free speech is now i heard from dennis a we know he's a political analyst and this is what he had to say about the government's public notice that the freedom of speech and information flow seems there needs to be. under siege in this state social media has become this. for us elaine.
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so are you in kenya are you watching the selection closely sending your thoughts using the hash tag don't use gird or you can simply just message me directly i met him hard. and you can do that get in touch with her here you can also type kenya in the search page if you want to find out more you've got the latest news updates programs and features and before we wrap this up i just want to quickly throw a comment to you from facebook durrani said the elections will go ahead as planned but peace is in doubt as a danger just declared opposition movement will turn into resistance movements yeah agreed interesting choice of words there now the iraqi prime minister haidar our body is on a two nation regional tour to drum up support for his government's actions against the kurds he's flying to the iranian capital tehran having already sat down for talks in ankara with the turkish president. both leaders rejected last month's secession referendum describing it as illegitimate.
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during our meeting we rejected the unilateral measure taken by the kurds with regards to the referendum we regret such a measure we share the same views on the measure from the outset we agreed iraq's territorial integrity must be maintained and we are still keen on that this is why we cannot accept this referendum or the union lateral measure taken by the kurds how and if a list of. we tried to stop the referendum which took place unilaterally and with no respect for others or the iraqi people the referendum was held without any consultations and was forced upon the people against their will. seventy decades more from the iraq turkey border. it's coming down to the detail of the language but important language the k r g kurdistan regional government offering to freeze the results of that controversial referendum calling for an immediate cease fire and dialogue between baghdad and erbil now baghdad has made it very clear that there will be no dialogue until the results of that referendum are
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a null meaning making it void it's a complicated situation it all has to do with disputed territories land issues who controls what that stretches back years and years and years now one man we've been speaking to owns his family owns this lad and says that nothing none of this can be resolved through military means the stability of the new we want happiness we want brotherhood there has been enough killing among us war solves nothing this needs to be resolved through dialogue and killings need to stop all of the killings of kurdish turkish arabs it doesn't matter everyone just needs to be happy these are hugely challenging times for the kurds of northern iraq anyone you speak to here will tell you that it was completely unexpected what's happened over the last week or so the iraqi forces together with shia militia taking areas of territory that had previously been held by the kurds disputed territory of course but certainly it's just one of the challenges this region also faces huge economic issues mounting debt at the moment and i think more specifically when it comes to the
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international community people here will tell you whether it's civilians whether it's special magic or whether it's politicians that they feel abandoned by the international community that they were embraced when they were fighting iceland now they feel that they've been completely left alone. well it seems like a good idea has failed dramatically you can read more about what is being done to resolve it on a website. but in this region qatar has imposed sanctions that its government says target leaders and finances of eisel in iraq yemen and syria the joint action with the us and gulf countries also hits in the arabian peninsula in all sanctions have been imposed on eleven individuals and two entities will have more in this camp later on the great a german human rights activist has proclaimed his innocence as he and ten others face terrorism terrorism related charges in turkey amnesty international's turkey director and chair also among the activists on trial they
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were arrested in july accused of helping kurdish and other groups as well as the two and a good a movement blamed for orchestrating last year's failed coup they face up to fifteen years in prison if found guilty gary from going to his deputy director europe directed amnesty international covering turkey she joins us live from london very good to have you with us tell us what's going on what's happened and the charges well you do as there are and history international turkey director actually said it best herself just now at the hearing in the courthouse she said look i have nothing to regret i was simply doing my job as a human rights defender and what we're seeing here is a trial of epic proportions can lead to serious consequences for these individuals simply because these are people speaking up for others defending human rights and yes being critical of the government at times now this trial is really
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a test to see is it now a crime to be a human rights defender in turkey and that's why you're seeing this amount of attention around the world eyes are on turkey right now in this courthouse in istanbul oh yes i'm sure and i'm just wondering what sort of action you will take now. i mean we have been of course incredibly worried about our own cases but also the thousands of others this is not the only case that is happening that is blatantly unfair but to stick to this one today we're looking at a situation where people including our turkey director are being accused of being a member of three different unrelated in fact opposing terrorist organizations and some of the grounds are incredible bread and butter human rights work for example to sion ing to stop the export of tear gas helping teachers who are on hunger strike these kind of basic things that we do as i just international all over the
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world and now our people are paying a very steep price in to ricky at the moment so we have raised this with governments around the world we are campaigning around the world millions of people have risen up and out of their voices to say these people have to be released it is absolutely unacceptable that what do you stand for human rights should now be imprisoned what do you think this says about the big picture and the human rights abuses that are being committed. well this is part of basically an escalation in what was already a very serious crackdown particularly after de coeur attempt that took place that is why we saw suddenly an escalation or lots of arrests tens of thousands of people arrested for quite vague crimes like association with terrorist groups we also saw hundreds of thousands of people simply fired from their jobs blacklisted and many more things happened but this is really specific and serious because this
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is now really directly going after those who defend human rights and that is very important not just because these are people of course that we work with who are friends but because these are people who raised the concerns raised issues for those who can speak for themselves and if you don't have those people anymore in society it becomes incredibly difficult to do any work whatsoever on oppression and the kind of rule we see now in turkey going from going to thanks very much for talking to us on this day if you want more on those swats being described as absurd terror charges on the main use page that's where you'll find it will be keeping up and store it on the ground human rights problem in turkey. palestinian teenagers grabbed from their beds in the middle of the night and hauled in for long interrogations without a lawyer or knowledge of their basic rights those are the top lines of
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a report that accuses israel of abusing young detainees in occupied east jerusalem independent israeli rights group it's a limb examined the cases of sixty palestinians aged twelve to seventeen who were taken into custody for allegedly throwing stones a quarter of the youngsters reported that some form of violence had been used against them during their interrogation most that seventy percent well out to speak to a lawyer prior to interrogation but it's a limb found that those conversations were largely inadequate and failed to help the miners understand their rights in fact the report says that most of the boys didn't even understand their right to remain silent and feared consequences if they didn't answer i guess is better ems executive director he says there have been obvious abuses of power here the special laws that protects the rights of minors of teenagers out there especially because of the understanding that this is
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an age in which people. are more vulnerable can actually be scarred for life traumatized for life through such experiences and so you want to have special protections in place we have a system in which on one side. police officers prosecutors judges the jailers will all and always be israeli in this case you have you know palestinian teenagers who are always on the receiving end of this of this reality of course even though the laws have formal protections that need to be upheld we end up in a reality that is consistently demonstrates that palestinian teenagers do not receive the protections that they deserve. israel has approved the construction of one hundred seventy six new settlement units in occupied east jerusalem this move aims to add to already existing illegal settlement structures in the palestinian
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neighborhood of jabal macabre approval would pave way for the largest jewish settlement in the heart of arab neighborhoods in the occupied east jerusalem it's take a look at the multi view and now we are as you can see there waiting for her kenyatta to make a press briefing that was after spoke in the last hour or so and as soon as that happens this is ahead of the elections on thursday in kenya we will go to that but in the meantime let's go over to london and felicity barr standing by. hi there jan thanks so much we're going to begin in bangladesh that's where aid groups helping rekindle refugees say conditions that makeshift camps are deteriorating and they need more international help we're now in bangladesh have agreed to repatriate hundreds of thousands of for him he said the violence in northern rakhine state or than six hundred thousand have crossed into find ash in the last two months as it was to have
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a child reports from cox is bizarre. just try and imagine you're trying to take care of the health care facilities for the population of the city of washington d.c. that is about the size of a population of refugees who crossed over to bangladesh in recent days from me on my plus those who arrived there in recent years that would make up close to one million the size of the population we're living in squarely refugee camps all across not there just isn't and i in this part of cox about there's one government on hospital with about two hundred bats and now they're in ok about about sixty bads and a field hospital recently opened by red cross and red cross together which has a sixty bad hospital there needs to be a lot of in-house patients center where patients would be actually admitted most of the clinics we see are mobile clinics now here we can see woman friendly space which supports gender based violence as well as maternity issues health related
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problem for woman lactating problem mothers how to take care of their children etc in the long run the government needs to find a solution to provide hospital care facilities for a lot of these people in romania refugees who are staying in various camps and major challenge and good for local and international aid agencies as well as for bangladesh government in coming days south sudan's president says the u.s. must stay involved in efforts to end his country's civil war the kid was speaking off the holding talks with the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley in the capital haley's calling for greater international efforts to support a resolution calling the breakdown of last year's peace deal more than two million people have fled the country since fighting erupted in twenty said to the president accused his former deputy rick michel of plotting a clue. the discussions revolve basically around three main themes. be
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revitalised vision problems of the of the guard. the issue of the permanent ceasefire of this essential still it is. an issue of humanitarian access now a large following companies are making big profits in zambia but human rights watch report says rural communities all paying the price many are being forced to give up their land with women in particular being the worst affected. reports this community has been farming for years it depends on the land to survive but recently many have been forced out by foreign companies. the workers drive into bulldozers came to the house and said you have to move from here . it's a situation that's becoming more common in zambia hoping to improve the economy the government allowed commercial enterprises to expand in areas including the sarong
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district which is known for its good soil and water these satellite images show just how quickly domestic and foreign foreign companies moved in to produce corn wheat and soy some of which is sold abroad but families say they're being pushed from the land they've worked on for generations felicia says now her children don't have a problem home. we were told we only had two weeks and we had to leave that's how we ended up here my children they sleep in that taint human rights watch released a report forced to leave commercial farming and displacement insomnia that examines the impact these businesses are having or rule families it says a woman in particularly are being blindsided by the problem. we women used to grow plenty of crops and keep it in our storage bins it's a big difference the river was close and we could draw water we grow a lot of savvy and sweet potatoes. rules to protect farming communities and sabia
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already exist including having families decide whether they want to leave proper resettled and options and compensation but the people here say they're not being enforced. you know i was taken to court because these companies want the land where we live this community says forming is about much more than crops it's about tradition land family and their very livelihood katia local civilian al-jazeera. that is it for me in london now thank you felicity right now on facebook live everything you need to know about the secret j.f.k. files as we wait for their release and ahead on the grid all the president's men china's leader unveils his top team for the head putting himself front and center but in china there's only one man at the top.
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turkey is seeing some very heavy downpours at the moment so parents of this weather system it's also affecting the southeastern parts of europe and the north eastern parts of africa and turkey has seen some very heavy downpours lots of hail as well lots of thunder and lightning to this system is gradually going to break up as we head through the next few days so on thursday still expect some cloud a few outbreaks of rain along the north coast of turkey but elsewhere it's breaking up it's drawing up and for most of us in turkey it doesn't dry by friday but a very stays dry throughout the time and twenty eight degrees will be our maximum that eighty two in fahrenheit but the towards the east largely fine for many of us here temperatures rebounding back up there we know motti this time around eighteen degrees that's for friday to further towards the south and here in doha no massive change for us the temperatures hovering around thirty four degrees dropping down to around twenty six during the night at the moment for so long not that hot where it
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around twenty nine but of course here it's always a little bit more humid and this cloud around as well as we head down towards the southern parts of africa plenty of cloud here is stretching through angola down through namibia and into botswana down into the eastern parts of south africa more showers are expected here as we head into friday. with. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera.
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news has never been more available it's a constant barrage of it with every day but the message is a simplistic you have the brain a good logical rational crazy monster and misinformation is rife dismissal and denial of well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives at this time on al-jazeera.
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for your attention to what's trending on our website in the top spot is the saudi crown prince promises a return to moderate islam the way he's going to do that is to his words eradicate promoters of extremists thoughts an interesting read i guess on how saudi arabia's trying to reposition itself we've dealt with the the kurds and freezing the referendum results to try and locate the situation and i want to draw your attention to the story in number four because in the fourth position the lion cubs of ice was a very difficult read i have to say about what the children went through and i
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saw in iraq in syria having to cut people's throats and but it's an important read and i think you should have a look at it in this exposition of the cats are gulf crisis all the latest updates it's always in the top spot then we're going to be talking a little bit more on that later on in the program now if you've got something to say about the story is it in. english or on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. news but you can also send us a whatsapp message at plus nine seven four five zero one trip or one four nine and as usual you can always use the hash tag. returning now to one of our earlier stories that catalyze impose sanctions targeting leaders and finances of eisel in iraq yemen and syria this joint action with the u.s. and gulf countries also hits al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula let's go live to roslyn jordan in washington d.c. to talk us through this rosin how did this happen what isn't me. well
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jane this goes back to may when the u.s. and countries around the gulf set up a joint terrorism a counter financing center and they at the time the announcement was that this was going to be a concerted multinational effort to try to cut down on the financing of groups that are trying to overturn governments that are trying to claim territory and in essence terrorize people today in their first significant action the united states qatar saudi arabia the united arab emirates oman and behind have all come together to take action against these groups in particular against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula which is headquartered in yemen as well as against eisold inside yemen a love enough people and two organizations have been cited by the qatari national
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government the united states has cited just slightly fewer eight individuals and one organization but the sanctions which include asset freezes and travel bans work ordinated by all of these countries in an effort to try to get rid of these groups from the gulf region this is something that is considered quite significant the u.s. treasury secretary steven menuhin was speaking in riyadh earlier on wednesday about the importance of a joint effort to try to stop this kind of financing because in his words this poses a direct national security threat to the united states and to its allies it's also noteworthy because this comes just about three months after the united states and count on our side and expanded memorandum of understanding or ammo you really an effort to try to shore up qatar's efforts to cut down on terrorist drug groups and
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those who are financing their operations rather than jordan i'm going to let you go and bring in al-jazeera senior political analyst. who is in london now and i'm just wondering how much this has to do with that memorandum of understanding that rosen and was talking about. all with the g.c.c. crisis or does this all work together now well i mean we could be precise and say it does have to do with this counter terror task force or center that president trump initiated during his may visit to saudi arabia it was a month or so after the gulf crisis began of course many people trace the roots of the gulf crisis to whatever the saudi and immorality leaders have told. the american president behind qatar's back but be that as it may look at this has been going on since nine eleven the treasury department counterterrorism task force has
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exponentially grew over the last decade plus years more than any other branch of the u.s. government i think it also it actually went up from few a few people maybe ten fifteen people to over eight hundred people over over a decade plus years so the united states as president trump said during his riyadh was it was quite focused on the financing of terrorism and things aside from the war on terrorism as it is fought by various arms of the pentagon the cia and the homeland security that treasury is key and hence the coordination with the gulf countries on the issue of counter terror and the financing of terrorism has been key now what i'm surprised about is that it took them six months plus sense made to come up with a list of eleven yemenis my guess is that this is only the first list of money and
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ma and i guess it's a fact that they they can actually do it now that they do know that these people are here these are the accusations that have been made against them i'm wondering what sort of impact that this is likely to have on the region i think it's already been. included if you will in the overall price being paid by either country or either party since the counterterrorism efforts began so i would say a couple of the names i've seen on the lists are quite suspicious to me because some of them are i mean we know that there are so she had for example of the united arab emirates war efforts in yemen some of them we knew that lived in saudi arabia at one point in time so clearly this is a list that includes yemenis with certain association maybe certain bank accounts certain organizational structures or goes into the gulf countries now it's easy for
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the first list include eleven yemenis and not anyone any member of the national from any one of the six gulf states because it'll make it easier for those six countries who didn't come out of saudi arabia and others to really sanction those individuals and those two organizations but all in all i think you could see that we are entering a new phase whereby there's a lot of pressure on governments on banks on various groups associated international groups to cooperate together and some networks for in order to counter the financing of terror so this is important and this is the you know ground breaking in terms of this general coordination among the united states gulf countries and others so we'll probably see more of it moving forward the fact that qatar came out up front and mentioned that it is it is of course because it is part of the center for counterterrorism that was established in may and making sure
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that it saudi arabia and others are all complying with wherever they agreed to in may in the may summit as you say an important development now and thank you. but u.s. president donald trump has been up early firing back after being fiercely criticized by two senators from his own republican party jeff flake lambasted the president as he announced that he wouldn't be rerunning for reelection while trump continues his feud with the other senator bob corker tweeting on wednesday trump said the reason flake and corker dropped out of the senate race is very simple they had zero chance of being elected not act so hurt and wounded exclamation mark an added the meeting with republican senators yesterday outside of play can corker was a love fest was standing ovations and great ideas for usa exclamation mark so let's go live to white house correspondent can really help it shortly right after her
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full report on how all of this start. his promise to repeal obamacare has failed money to build a border wall with mexico remains in question so hoping for a legislative victory donald trump on tuesday went to capitol hill seeking support from fellow republicans for some of the steepest tax cuts in a generation this will be the lowest rate in more than eighty years so this would be just before leaving the white house he spoke to reporters to explain how his tax reform plan will ensure his keeping a campaign promise to get americans back to work our plan can be summarized in three simple words jobs jobs jobs but what was supposed to be a serious day of policy discussion quickly devolved into a bitter fight with the governing republican party itself for months trump has been alienating some of the most senior members of his own party on tuesday it got even
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more personal for two centers. senator bob corker will leave the senate next year went on a blistering attack against trump before the president arrived on capitol hill i was one of those that hope that you know he would rise to the occasion as president and aspire to to lead our nation instead of dividing it the worst of it is going to be a just the whole the basing if you will of our nation's top reacted almost immediately tweeting multiple times lashing out at corker as a senator that couldn't get reelected not even for the position of dog catcher but it didn't end there late tuesday republican senator jeff flake announced he wouldn't run again in twenty eighteen delivering a second attack against romney on the senate floor we were not made great as a country by indulging in or even exulting our worst impulses turning against
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ourselves glorifying in the things that divide us and calling fake things true and true things fake. the white house denied the in-fighting is a distraction from the president's agenda the president he's a fighter we've said it many times before the people of this country didn't elect somebody to be weak they elected somebody to be strong and when he gets hit he's going to hit back and they really are dropping like flies on their company how can i just wondering where this leaves republican efforts on tax reform. well you know it's interesting it depends right now on who you talk to within the republican party there's been a blistering attack again by the senator jeff flake in the washington post reserve written or sort of an op ed if you will where he's encouraging others to stand up and be more forceful but there are many within the party and even some democratic critics who are saying it is really easy to be forceful and stand up and be
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courageous when you're on your way out when as the president did correctly put it did seem as if the senator would have difficult times trying to get reelected given his poll numbers are low in a state where it is leaning more democratic the u.s. state of arizona so there is a lot of criticism about why they weren't more forceful when many believe it mattered matters prior to the election when both of these senators supported donald trump they didn't say anything then so there's that criticism but also to you have to look at this from the standpoint of the republicans who are in favor of what's occurring right now and that is the removal of establishment republicans within the u.s. congress you have to remember steve benen name we hear an awful lot about former chief strategist inside the white house now working outside the white house speaking in recent days said that this is exactly what they want to see is a stablish meant republicans leaving the party and so there's been a bit of
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a victory dance that's been occurring in washington by many that support the fact that these are republicans that look very much in their view like democrats no daylight between them and they're encouraging others to kind of continue this grassroots effort to see more of these type of republicans unseated what's going to happen next what can we look forward to not. well i think what we're going to continue to see is a number of republicans that are very much supportive of donald trump's efforts and and that of steve bannon as well continuing to mobilize almost a grassroots army there is this view that this is there's a need for kind of an existential threat to the current political system what that's going to look like in terms of tax reform though getting back to your first question is it's going to be a challenge for the president because there are some very narrow numbers in the u.s. senate particularly there was just a two seat majority that's not a lot of comfort when you have. not only these two republican standing out but
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perhaps others who are also a little bit on the fence in terms of the president's actions how it's affecting americans standing internationally the president the bottom line needs a legislative victories were ten months into his presidency he hasn't got one yet tax reform is usually something republicans don't disagree on and the fact that there is this divide is certainly going to make those legislative goals even more difficult live in washington d.c. kimberly thank you china's communist party has revealed its new leadership team headed by president xi jinping the premier league china was the only other member to retain his spot in the seven man lineup but is adrian brown explains there is no clear successor to she. the guessing game over who would be china's new top decision makers is finally over. the line up includes five new faces all over sixty the men they've replaced to
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retrieve time today as expected president xi jinping and premier league retain their post but once again a new woman was selected for the past week president she has been stamping his authority on the party a party he still warns is threatened by the virus of corruption. you know you have a young as the world's largest political party the c.p.c. must behave in a way commensurate with the status. this is as close as foreign journalists get to chinese leaders the president said he welcomed objective reporting but not apparently from some of the world's biggest news organizations who were not invited to witness the leadership stab you in theory one of these new leaders will replace huge in ping as president in five years time but the presidency is not the most powerful political position in chinese politics party secretary is she jinping
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holds that title and is expected to keep it for many years to come analysts say that she can manage that because he's surrounded himself with yes men. so this is dangerous for naaman because. china is a closed system so if the official now being promoted to congress do not have a track record of efficient governance a track record of reform and everybody is just telling what he wants to hear than this becomes just one big echo chamber once more the president spoke of his dream to make china great again and for the party to align itself more with the people people like wang play why who until a few years ago was a farmer but now sells fruit and vegetables in a beijing market she earns around twelve hundred dollars a month much more than she did working the land and says she's already achieved one
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of her dream. when i was a kid my dream was to be able to have a steam bun with every meal but today i can eat whatever i want. it has been a defining few days for chinese politics giving xi jinping the authority to push his vision of what china should look like by the middle of this century adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. we're going to stay in china because we're here has a story about sexism controversies surrounding act here oh it's whatever. every night is controversial let's break it down for you so the first a giant has found itself in some seriously hot water on chinese social media after this thirty second advert hit t.v. screens it features a family dinner with a mother snaps of her daughter saying don't call me mom until you have a boyfriend and all of a sudden a boyfriend ip is in the shape of a very handsome man the parents are overjoyed and then.
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intended to try and redecorate the apartment with ikea products to welcome the new son in will now to describe the ad as extremely disgusting and aust of women don't get married they should be despised by others even if it's their own families and most of the outrage actually circulated on the giant chinese social media platform way bo which is where i hear posted it's apology i'll read some of it for you it said we understand that the concern caused by this t.v. adverts and sincerely apologize for giving the wrong impression they are not intended to pull the ad off air. so why is this cause such a know all the notion that women should marry young is deeply ingrained in chinese culture and has been made much more difficult this is really by the gender imbalance created by china's decades long one child policy and women who confines
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a man early in life a cold leftovers and their plight was explored by an al-jazeera documentary witness where they look at fake boyfriends and here they've hired the so-called left of a women to meet their family and this is all really try and ease the pressure they can find a documentary on our website on al-jazeera dot com. and as always if you want to send in your thoughts on the story can get in touch with us use nash tag news grid or just simply tweet me i'm at regina mohammed. thanks for that rihanna and peta is just ahead with the sports head on news graduate baseball's world series is on the way but we'll be looking at how much global interest it's really have.
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alleged granted what people are talking about and fourth day has peter j. that's baseball it so one of those sports that you're either really into it or you're not but i'm pretty sure regardless of how you feel about the sport you know about the world series the annual contest between the two best teams in major league baseball and the twenty seventeen edition has just started we're going to look at the moment and how much global interest actually is there but first he's home and going to fill you in on how the l.a. dodgers beat the used to the astros in game one. if jeans and he's got is at thirty nine degrees celsius the world series began with the warmest on record clayton kushal was in hot form two. strokes his first fast in a series lifted in the air they do it in contrast the stoppages opposite dallas
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cockle was hit for a hard run off his opening pitch. stocks that chris tyler the fourth player to hit a laid off card in game one of the world series. well by spalls most expensive player continue to rack up the strikeouts only time she appears on here only to away games away and then the set kushal made a race slip in the fourth inning to allow the astros to level the game just like that it's now down to the floor. just in tunnel put the doj is back in control in the sixth inning. and it's going. to be shipped back to jersey. kushal struck out eleven bad as a seven innings and allowed just the ray hits as the dodges went on for three want
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a victory. still camera. was really good hitting team you know they had a lot of homers and all strikeout and so there's a lot of. there's a little room for error so you know it was important for me to establish pitches be able to throw multiple thanks for strikes and. thankful is able to do not tonight and the made a few mistakes obviously bregman got me in and threw one pretty much down in all the care that he popped up that could've gone a long way to so. you know for the most part though it was it was you know i'll take it the contents dropped into wow isn't twenty eight minutes the shortest won't series game since ninety ninety two go back up again on wednesday with gang two of the best of seven series home and al jazeera. ok here's a bit of a background in the world series for you dates back to nineteen zero three when the first contest was held between the champion sides from the two different divisions of teams in the united states the name is said to come from the new york world
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newspaper which sponsored the series that's the world series even though it was an all american contest speaking of which only one team not based in the u.s. has won it that was canada's toronto blue jays victors in one thousand nine hundred two and again in one thousand nine hundred three. so just how worldly is the world series in terms of interest will eighty six percent of tweets for game one of that series came out of the united states naturally as you would expect los angeles and use and lighting up on that heat map it also been of interest in mexico and canada you can see a little bit of heat from countries like colombia venezuela and you also see the united kingdom and japan. now we've been asking today for non us baseball fans to tell us how and why they got into the sport the hash tag as a.j. news would look here at allister hard he's an australian and he actually visited the united states with his dad back in ninety ninety three went to a dodgers game and that began a lifelong love affair with the team but the dodgers have been using the hash tag
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this team along with their own emoji they've got one point eight million followers on twitter that makes them the third biggest online brand in world or major league baseball behind the boston red sox and the new york yankees the yankees have got more than a million followers more than the dodgers as for the used to the astros well they're around eight hundred thousand less followers then the dodgers during game one some online were focused on some of the impressive beards being worn by both sides all of them superstitious have a look at this one all of them superstitious that the worse it looks the better they play that one from derek pathet particular tweet and our colleague. has put this montage together you can take a closer look by searching with the hash tag a.j. news we'll have a look at some of those beards i'm not about to grow one of those myself but i will be back in the eight hundred g.m.t. with more sports and we look forward to that peter thank you very much now before we go some sad news to report rock n roll legend fats domino one of the most
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influential performers of the nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's has died he was eighty nine. american singer fat dumb and i was best known for his songs ain't that a shame blueberry hill and blue monday born in new orleans he sold more than sixty five million records more than every other rock'n'roll act of the time except presley. remember to keep in touch with us one of the same again same time next day .
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