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in syria citizens are collecting evidence. of crimes committed against civilians moved out of syria about six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the assad regime to justice it puts a human face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's a human face syria witnesses for the prosecution at this time on al-jazeera. that agreement to cut the flow of migrants from africa to europe but questions remain about how it will be enforced.
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adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up in geneva the u.n. tries yet again to end syria's civil war. zimbabwe's new president announces his team picking loyalists who help to end robert mugabe's long reign. at argentina's navy says that it will continue searching for a missing submarine but the rescue efforts have come to an end. libya has agreed to the emergency evacuation of refugees and migrants facing abuse in its detention camps the plan's been drawn up at a joint e.u. african union summit in ivory coast it's not clear yet how the deal will be enforced but migrants are expected to be sent back to their home countries the
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reports from. the theme of this summit was huge but there is no doubt the from the outset it was dominated by the issue of the refugee slave trade in libya and by migration we heard from the host of the summit the president of the ivory coast in the beginning who said that everyone had a collective responsibility to do something well at the end of the summit what leaders decided is that they would try and repatch reate those migrants and refugees that are trapped in libya and want a task force to try and crack down on people smuggling and we spoke to many people here who said that that is just a case of firefighting and what is really needed is a long term strategy to deal with migration. african and european union leaders condemned the refugee slave trade in libya in their final statement they promised a task force to tackle traffickers and urgently repaginate anyone who's trapped.
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there are women and children living in inhuman conditions we have agreed along with the e.u. and the un to set up a task force for repatriating at least three thousand eight hundred people. leaders say there are more than forty refugee camps in libya where people are bought and sold by those with little respect for human life. well the leaders here have committed to helping refugees in libya there were very few details us exactly how and when they were repaired create them and they were also very very bad the new task force they say they were put in place to combat people smuggling. there was also no mention of the french president's remarks to reporters that military action against traffickers is a possibility the u.n. secretary general told summit leaders on wednesday that new ideas a needed to deal with migration including more legal ways to into europe is that something that you discussed in some things the practical things to do is you know
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of telling us in the declaration that yes we are going to people but how are we going to. hear that ending the slave trade is an urgent priority but unless last thing solutions are found to persuade people to stop leaving home in the first place human rights abuses will continue to affect africa's most vulnerable this was the first summit between these two organizations there were more than eighty leaders here from the african and european union's and what they said was that this is really an opportunity for a new era in relations one that was equal in a sense it was a an attempt to try to redress the balance of the past but one more many experts have told us is that for as long as the european union continues to pour aid money into africa it is going to be very difficult to do that the u.n. says syria mediator staffan de mistura has held separate meetings with government and opposition delegations in geneva it's the eighth round of u.n.
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sponsored talks to end the civil war the opposition is still demanding the departure of syria's president bashar al assad but that's not yet been discussed as a diplomatic editor james bays reports from geneva. the syria talks of reached a new phase at u.n. headquarters in geneva opposition negotiators arriving just minutes before the government delegation u.n. special envoy stefan de mistura met both sides separately and explained how things would work. what would call. me that means the two sides in separate but adjacent rooms with mr de mistura quite literally the go between i've been shuttling with make leak between the two rooms which basically were five metres away while we were actually reading and it's got thing with both issues which we got very important it is though far from
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a breakthrough they're still discussing the way this round of talks will be conducted the situation is very much as we've seen many times in many rounds of these talks no discernible sign of progress but inside syria the people continue to suffer. the un has revealed that last month four hundred thousand people were displaced from their homes in syria that's the highest number of people on the move for eighteen months getting food and medicine to those in need may soon get even harder in new york the russian ambassador to the u.n. vaseline a benzema says he's opposed to extending its current form a security council resolution that allows aid across international borders into syria mr de mistura humanitarian adviser is calling on all of those on the council to support aid access something he says they failed to do in the past i would rate
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the success of the security council and the great powers as very low in terms of helping us to reach women children wounded the most vulnerable in this in this conflict they have not succeeded the diplomacy continues to move at a glacial pace while the agony for the people of syria is far from over james bays al-jazeera at the united nations in geneva we heard in that report from the un's humanitarian advisor for syria who says that humanitarian supplies are being allowed to reach a perceived suburb of damascus here illegally and is calling on world powers to help arrange the evacuation of five hundred people including one hundred sixty seven children from eastern it's been under siege since twenty thirteen nine children have died in the past few weeks while waiting for permission from the government to be moved to hospitals just forty five minutes away. the saudi led
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coalition says that it intercepted another palestinian missile fired by hooty rebels in yemen it was reportedly shot down near the southwestern saudi city of qom isthmus shade earlier who thinks it said that they'd had a military target it's the second missile fired from yemen in a month one was destroyed near riyadh since to. tional airport on the vendor twenty number november fourth i'm sorry the coalition's been fighting with these in yemen since twenty fifteen well inside yemen itself medical sources say at least fourteen people have been killed in fighting in the capital sana'a forces loyal to the former president ali abdullah saleh force with hooty rebels near the al salam mosque salah loyalists have accused of carrying out a coup russia has accused the us of doing everything it can to provoke north korea on wednesday the u.s. warned pyongyang that it will be utterly destroyed if war breaks out earlier this week north korea tested its latest international intercontinental ballistic missile
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moscow says that cutting diplomatic and trade ties is not the answer to the standoff of a pyongyang's missile program. one gets the impression that everything has been done on purpose to make snap and carry out further inadvisable actions it is regrettable the americans should explain to us what they're after so despite that the white house says that the u.s. has only one goal in dealing with the growing nuclear threat from north korea. this is mr asian is focused on one big thing when it comes to north korea and that's denuclearization of the korean peninsula that's our number one priority that's what we're focused on anything beyond. the priority at this point president donald trump's diplomatic with britain's prime minister to resume a refuses to die down may has once again condemned trump for sharing anti muslim videos with his forty six million twitter followers to be phillips reports from
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london. on a tour of the middle east forging a post breck's it role for britain in the world this is not what the prime minister wanted to be talking about the fact that we work together does not mean that we're afraid to say when we think united states wrong and to be very clear with them and i'm very clear that retreating from britain first was the wrong thing to do. back home in london the government argues that britain's ties with america military cultural diplomatic make the special relationship and this will endure long after the current president has gone and the prime minister will always have regular calls with the president and she has been explicit in criticizing this tweet and i know that she will always make sure she calls it out where she sees it and that's what she's done here. but a tweet from another minister who is
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a muslim made it clear the president had hit a raw nerve donald trump has upset a lot of people here in westminster in fearing he still invited to london on a state visit that would involve the queen in practice it's very hard to see that visit happening any time soon the president has provided a huge publicity boost to a fringe right movement britain first which has never come remotely close to success in any form of election here in the u.k. . britain first wants to end immigration and ban is lime in the u.k. anti-fascist groups believe it has about one thousand members. it's deputy leader jaida franson whose tweets were retreated by the president is facing charges of using threatening and abusive language she's thanked the president for retreating her messages to his more than forty three million followers saying god bless you
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trump god bless america barnaby phillips al-jazeera westminster. zimbabwe's new president. has named his team the new cabinet includes politicians loyal to the ruling party members of the military who asked and former leader robert mugabe no opposition figures been included in the government when i was sworn in a week ago reports from harare. to people who hope that this cabinet inclusive they may be disappointed the cabin has some soldiers and members from the military it has a lot of the old guard it doesn't have anyone from the opposition so some people who hope that prison when and will be a different kind of leader from may be disappointed it could indicate that maybe things may not change on the ground it's more of the same those who are cautiously optimistic hope that the president knows what he's doing he is
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a businessman they hope that he's assembled the right team to resuscitate the ailing economy but there are some people we've spoken to over the past few days who have been very skeptical of prison and are they saying he's part of the old system he's been in government is one hundred eighty he's been a close ally of the former president he's helped he helped keep paul for thirty seven years if you have been asking really what is he going to do to make things change if he was part of the old system he benefited from the old system time will tell what will play out in the next few days few months but i think the initial response from people who hoped to hope that the new president will be more inclusive in his cabinet may be disappointment but that said they still some cautious optimism people waiting hoping for the new president has some kind of plan to resuscitate the ailing economy and weather update next to zero then a call for action francis urges the international community to take decisive
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measures to resolve for hinge a refugee crisis. plus safe to say goodbye the way clear enough for tourists to leave the indonesian islands threatened by a volcano. through tranquil a rave. and if gondola . hello finally the rain has stopped in china now it shouldn't really have been there to be honest we should be seeing a northeast monsoon and that's tucked in by friday shanghai's at twelve calm kongs a twenty five humid is coming down here and the breeze is really focusing on bringing showers the coast of vietnam that's true for the next two days of the sun the obviously prominent thing in the sky but a cloud will fall on the high ground in western china is still actually not that cold in june to fourteen degrees but that's how it's expected to be the more active
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weather should be in malaysia and in the indian easier as the wet season and there are certainly big what top class the most active stuff where just covers up some southern part of thailand in peninsula malaysia a good part sumatra has been some heavy rain here tropical cyclone developed just off the coast of java has been severe flooding rain here and the wind directions changed in all that continues with the showers obviously showing themselves into southern vietnam but the circulation a bit more obvious with the green hart the dark green heart just west of police and heading off into the sun and they have being goal so that's the active weather and here's a little bit of active weather a cycling just off the coast of now more or less carola which is enhanced seeing the rain in tallinn carola and search. the weather sponsored by cat time and place. when the power goes out. there's only one man to turn to. local heroes to many he steals
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enforced migrants are expected to be sent back to the home countries. russia has accused the us of doing everything it can to provoke north korea a wednesday the us warm pyongyang that it will be utterly destroyed if war breaks out after its latest missile test russia says that causing diplomatic trade ties is not the answer. it's a new president anderson but on god what has named his team that you cabinet includes politicians loyal to the ruling party and members of the military who ousted the former leader robert but no opposition figures have been included in the government. the u.s. state department has denied reports that the white house is planning to replace secretary of state rex tillerson but the new york times and the washington post reporting the trump intends to replace to listen with cia chief mike pompei oh in the coming weeks also in jordan reports from washington after yet another round of
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news reports suggesting that the secretary of state rex tillerson is about to be fired and replaced by the current head of the cia mike pale robust pushback here at the u.s. state department on thursday the spokes person heather nauert told reporters that there was unequivocal reassurance coming from the white house indicating that mr tillerson who apparently enjoys his work is going to be staying on in the position that chief of staff kelly called our department this morning and said that the rumors are not true that those reports are not true the white house statement confirmed that there will be no personnel changes it is a fact that secretary tillerson serves at the pleasure of the president as we all do as does every political appointee and cabinet member secretary tellers and enjoys this job he has a lot of work to do the question also came up whether secretary rex tillerson would be believed when he meets with foreign ministers at
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a number of european capitals next week the message from the state department as long as the secretary is representing the president and is serving at his pleasure he will be advancing and speaking for the u.s. when it comes to its foreign policy a turkish iranian goal trader has pleaded guilty to money laundering and helping iran evade to u.s. sanctions reza told a new york call to turkey's president rich uptight but the one who was prime minister at the time approved the transactions kristen salumi reports. iranian turkish trader reza zurab is the prosecution's star witness he's testifying against a turkish banker after pleading guilty to his role in a labyrinth scheme to wander billions of dollars in iranian money through turkish banks and avoid u.s. sanctions on thursday zurab testified that president tayyip erdogan then the prime minister of turkey not only knew about the scheme but authorized it it's just
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one of the explosive allegations made by zurab during the proceedings he's also testified that he paid the former economy minister tens of millions of dollars in what prosecutors described as bribes everyone has denied turkey violated u.s. sanctions saying his government has legitimate business dealings with iran he and other members of the government have described the trial as an attempt to discredit turkey. there is a big campaign of slander against turkey what kind of justice can you expect from such a judiciary i don't expect any justice. so rob is expected to continue testifying on friday in a trial that's expected to last three to four weeks and is putting the already tense relationship between turkey and the united states under further strain. tina's navy says it's ended for the crew of
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a missing submarine contact with the san juan was lost on nov thirteenth the crew a message to say that an electrical failure to see water had got into a battery aircraft and ships from eighteen countries have been looking for the submarine forty four people will board. the ministry of defense and the argentine armed force in applying the international conventions regarding the search for merry time vessels. today we declare finalized the search and rescue case of this son one submarine and change it to this search phase for the submarine . opposition demonstrators and police clashed in honduras capital supporters of the main opposition candidates. threw rocks and barricades on fire outside the electoral center that's where the final votes from sunday's presidential election are being tallied the opposition is accusing the government of trying to steal the election final results are expected in the coming out. from.
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these people say they are gathering in the capital to defend their vote. we are challenging the results. but the electoral tribunal is corrupt and is defending the interests of the president and betraying the people we won't allow these elections to be stolen like happened in the past. both president. and his t.v. star opponents. claim victory after sunday's election initially the result of. this after hold up in the count. remote municipalities that have not been tallied and their votes have not been counted as the victory of our party because rural areas vote in favor of the nationalist party. has one of the highest murder rates
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in the world and there are fears that the current political crisis will increase the violence that already exists in this central american nation. i don't even want to think about it but i fear this could get worse during the two thousand and nine. i'm afraid for my children my family and my wife respect the results. of american states managed to have both candidates signed a statement where they vow to respect the final results once the disputed votes are checked. but nothing later rejected the agreement saying the government is trying to steal the election and urged the supporters to take to the streets protesters set up barricades and clash with the police used tear gas to disperse them. the next president whoever wins is going to be in a weak position because of the thin margin and the suspicion around the election will be accused of winning three four and being illegitimate and will have the
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institutions against them. on the road as is already battling poverty and crime political instability. the situation here even further. pope francis is demanding that the international community take decisive measures to resolve the causes of the mass exodus of ranger from being embarrassed comments in bangladesh shortly after arriving from me and he praised bangladesh for taking in the refugees but once again of voided using the word. pope francis had been urged not to use it in may and to avoid provoking a hardline buddhists. in recent months the spirit of generosity and solidarity which is a distinguishing. has been seen most vividly in its humanitarian to a massive influx of refugees from morocco and state.
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this is being done. it has also been done the whole world. is in cox's bazaar in bangladesh near the border with me to where most of the injured have fled. on the first day of his three day visit here to bangladesh the pope again not using the word that the entire region national community uses to describe the refugees here in bangladesh that were being ranger the pope said that it was time to take decisive measures to resolve the cause of the refugee crisis he referred to the refugees from rakhine state and said immediate material assistance was needed to help bangladesh deal with the refugees now we understand that the decision by the pope notes to use the word religious early during his four day visit to myanmar came from advice from the vatican over concerns for the christian
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community inside me and concerns of the potential backlash against them but certainly here on the first day of his visit to bangladesh it seems as if he is trying to avoid the politics as much as he can while the same time trying to draw attention to the plight of what is now around one point two million refugees sheltering in this country germany's president has held talks with chancellor angela merkel and the leader of the opposition social democrats trying to break a deadlock over the formation of a new government germany's been without a government since the election in september no cause alliance emerged as the biggest block but lost seats to the far right as the social democrats of previously said that they wouldn't enter into any coalition government with michael. the world's major oil producers have agreed to extend production cuts until the end of
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twenty eighteen to finish global clearing a global glut of crude oil opec and its partners have been meeting in austria under the current deal that cutting supply by around one point eight million barrels a day in an effort to boost oil prices but this was due to expire in march. cats are a mere shake to me bin hamad ultimately has received an invitation from kuwait samir to attend next week's gulf cooperation council summit the big dance about whether the meeting would go ahead because of strained relations between g.c.c. members saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt to cut ties and impose an economic blockade on cattle in june kuwait severe shake. has been acting as a mediator in the standoff scientists are warning people not to underestimate the danger posed by the amount volcano on the into these united the bali tens of
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thousands of people were moved to safety after it began spewing ash last week stephan step boston reports. unlike other evacuees none at taba has no plans to go home she's been in the evacuation shelter for two months and knows exactly how dangerous mt agam can be during the last eruption in one thousand nine hundred sixty three four family members were killed a scorching gas clouds and rocks rained down i'm very scared after what happened to us in and in sixty three now that ask clouds have reached our village i'm sure a much bigger eruption will happen the only thing i hope is that it will happen fast because i'm bored here there was no warning system fifty four years ago and she barely survived villages decided to run only after eruptions have lasted for weeks five hundred of them didn't survive. being nearly two people didn't know what was happening they stayed to watch the eruptions until debris killed
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a person standing behind my mother that was when she decided to leave mt agnes one of the seven most explosive worldwide vulcanologists say because it geological pattern is different to any other volcano in indonesia it's difficult to issue adequate warnings the experts have taken no chances this time and i've advised government leaders to order an evacuation of villages in danger yet they duck a copy of the summit of this volcano is very dynamic it can change behavior any time it even has a history of erupting when seismic activity is very low so we're learning a lot from this mountain and we're going to. scientists are warning of the continuing threat even though the volcano sometimes appears calm every movement on long island is being registered and analyzed scientists are tracking the increase full candidate devotee and a warning for a major eruption but when and if remains a mystery which the mountain will only reveal when it happens. that could be at any
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moment but community leaders are struggling to persuade villagers to stay in evacuation shelters many believe they could get to safety in time if there's a major eruption but based on the nine hundred sixty three disaster scientists say that clouds of dr gas can travel time kilometers and less than three minutes making it virtually impossible for anyone to survive steps last an al-jazeera at mount agel in bali. because heavy weather say very unforgiving here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera libya has agreed to the emergency evacuation of refugees and migrants facing abuse in its detention camps the plan's been drawn up at a joint e.u. african union summit in ivory coast it's not clear how the deal will be enforced but migrants are expected to be sent back to their home countries the saudi led coalition says that it intercepted another ballistic missile fired by hooty rebels
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in yemen it was reportedly shot down near the southwestern saudi city of colorful shades earlier the huth is it said that they'd hit a military target is the second missile fired from yemen in a month one was destroyed near riyadh's international airport on the vendor fourth the coalition's been fighting the hoodies in yemen since twenty fifteen. russia has accused the us of doing everything it can to provoke north korea on wednesday the us war in pyongyang that it would be utterly destroyed if war breaks out after its latest missile test russia says that cutting diplomatic and trade ties is not the answer. just one gets the impression that everything has been done on purpose to make snap and carry out further inadvisable actions it is regrettable the americans should explain to us what they're after zimbabwe's new president anderson but on god has named his team the new cabinet includes politicians loyal to the ruling
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party and members of the military who ousted former leader robert mugabe no opposition figures have been included in the government the u.s. state department has denied reports that the white house is planning to replace secretary of state rex tillerson but the new york times and the washington post are reporting that trump intends to replace to listen with cia chief mike pompei oh in the coming weeks argentina's navy says it's ended its for the crew of a missing submarine contact with the air race on one was lost on nov thirteenth aircraft and ships from eighteen countries have been looking for the submarine forty four people on board as the headlines more news for you on al-jazeera after today's inside story next.
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