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al-jazeera. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage every day but the message is simplistic you have the brain good logical rational people crazy 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 narrative of this time on al-jazeera. president trumps former national security adviser pleads guilty to lying to the
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f.b.i. about his contacts with the russian ambassador. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming on. refugees in bangladesh for forgiveness for the world's indifference to their plight. the u.n. launches a record annual aid appeal for twenty two billion dollars to help victims of war and crises around the world. and the biggest back is turned on in australia herald a new era in renewable energy. u.s. president donald trump's former national security advisers pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with the russian ambassador michael flynn was charged as part of the investigation allegations into. ations the drunk campaign colluded with russia
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during the twenty sixteen elections i want house correspondent can really help it reports. arriving at a federal court in washington michael flynn ignored shouted questions by reporters . inside moments later the former national security adviser to president donald trump pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. court documents show the charges against flynn stem from his lying about efforts to obtain advance knowledge of how foreign governments might vote on a u.n. security council resolution about israel as well as phone conversations flynn had before tribe was even sworn in as president with the former russian ambassador to the united states surrogate kiss li ak. flynn is said to have suggested to kiss leon sanctions put in place against russia by the obama white house may be dropped once trump was sworn in and they did not discuss anything having to do with the
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united states decision to expel diplomats or or impose a censure against russia flynn's lies to the vice president about that phone call led to his dismissal after just three weeks in office in a statement trumps lawyer said flynt false claims mirror the false statements to white house officials which resulted in his resignation in february of this year nothing about the guilty plea or the charge implicates anyone other than mr flynn but his plea in fact may directly tie the oval office to the investigation by special counsel robert muller and whether or not the trump campaign worked with russia this suggests that mr flynt has more information to provide about other things the white house has lied about other things the president himself may have lied about and whether or not the white house including the president himself colluded with russia when is the fourth trump associate to be charged but without
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question the highest profile according to the former f.b.i. director james comey trump once asked him to drop the case against flynn and despite claims by the president's lawyer flynn's cooperation with the f.b.i. probe shows that most investigation is escalating and could lead to charges against an even bigger target including the president of the united states kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington so let's get more now from roslyn jordan in washington d.c. and picking up the point picking up on the point that can really was making at the end of a report that what could this potentially mean for president trump and sells. well we do know that the administration has been trying to. downplay the importance of the special investigation led by the former f.b.i.
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director robert muller but the president does have his personal lawyer ty cobb who was says that he has been working with the special investigation trying to provide as much cooperation as possible even though mr cobb insists that there is nothing that the u.s. president has done wrong in this case in a sense essentially calling this nothing more than a fishing expedition but the fact that this investigation is still underway the fact that in recent months the president has. been intimidated that perhaps there should be a need to get rid of mr moller as the lead of this investigation has raised a lot of speculation not just here in washington but across the country that perhaps the administration has something to be worried about and in fact is trying to make this investigation go away however there has been considerable pushback
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from players on capitol hill suggesting that if the administration pushed to get rid of robert muller at the head of this investigation that there would be severe political backlash against president donald trump so this is a matter that is very much worrisome for the white house the president was supposed to have had what's known as a pool spray with the visiting libyan foreign minister mr also rush but that event was canceled in large part because when the reporters are let into the room with the president they usually ask questions he usually responds and it may be assumed that the judgment was made that this is not a day for the president to be engaging directly with the process and what do we know about why michael said. made this plea deal now. well if you read between the lines of the statement that was released by his lawyers as well as taking a look at the documentation that has now been released by robert muller's office
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this flynn has made a decision to cooperate that does not mean that he couldn't face other more serious criminal charges beyond the charge to which he pled guilty on friday which is lying to the f.b.i. but certainly additional charges could be brought against him according to legal analysts if he is not fully cooperative with this investigation but clearly there's something serious enough afoot for him to have decided to go into an open court room on friday and to say that he did lie to the f.b.i. which is in itself a federal offense in order to basically avoid more serious charges but the notice that mr flynn's lawyer also put out also indicates that he is cooperating that he is providing information to this special investigation and so the widespread
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speculation here in washington on friday is that people inside the west wing of the white house are worried they very well should be. all right rosen join in washington d.c. thanks very much and one other piece of news that we're focusing on in the coming hour as the u.s. senate is expected to pass a bill making way for a controversial tax overhaul that would slash corporate tax rates president donald trump says a much disputed move obese economic growth but critics are concerned about a one and a half trillion dollar cost and the impact it will have on working families democrats have been united in opposing the bill. pope francis has used the word to refer to the muslim minority fleeing neon mall following a security crackdown in organise a point of use the politically sensitive time while meeting with refugees seeking sanctuary and finally the bangladeshi capital dhaka he apologized for the world's
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indifference to their plight and also for forgiveness traffic reports from good to pollen count. and i stated hundred thousand bangladeshis crowded into this already park in dhaka as pope francis helped mass but it was later in the day after the pontiff met reinjure refugees that he finally publicly mentioned the ethnic group by name. and will continue to recognize their rights we want close our hearts to them we won't look in another direction the presence of god today is also cold every one of us needs to respond in the right way mohammed idris was among the small group who spoke with the pope along with his ten brothers and sisters he fled the military crackdown on the ranger three months ago he says soldiers burnt their family home in rakhine state and shot his cousin dead. we have very happy to be in pain but we thought that time much pain and
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agony and that's what we want to tell the pope. this is only the second time the head of the catholic churches visited bangladesh the last was pope john paul the second in one thousand nine hundred six this time it hasn't been easy the pope's visit to bangladesh comes as this country the united nations and international aid organizations struggle to cope with more than six hundred twenty five thousand range of refugees that have arrived here since the twenty fifth it's a visit that is proving a huge diplomatic challenge to the head of the catholic church. rights groups criticized the roman catholic leader for failing to say the name of angel during his three day visit to myanmar the wall since arriving in bangladesh on thursday it's believed he refrained in myanmar to prevent a potential pact clash against christians that the region had been persecuted for decades by the myanmar government which doesn't recognize the ethnic group range of
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citizenship in what was then burma was drawn in one thousand nine hundred eighty two. the pope's blessings of just a few of the hundreds of thousands of refugees here in bangladesh will draw greater international attention to their plight they are often described as the world's largest group of stateless people. strive for al-jazeera coaxes bazaar bangladesh. the united nations is not a record of pale for more than twenty two billion dollars to help victims of conflict and humanitarian crises around the world the u.n. says more than one hundred thirty five million people across the world aid and diplomatic as a james bays reports from geneva. the u.n. says it's the worst humanitarian disaster on earth in yemen the people are suffering from conflict and a continuing cholera epidemic the situation only made worse by a saudi blockade stopping much of the food and medicine from getting to those who
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so desperately need it the u.n. appeal for twenty eighteen estimates there are in the country twenty two million people in need the situation in yemen is atrocious the number of people in need of population in twenty of twenty million is approaching twenty million seven or eight million of those people are right on the verge of famine and starvation we need to get their ports fully opened so that the fields around the water systems can get in the fuel to get the food around the country can get in more commercial food as well as the aid food can get in until those things happen the situation will continue to deteriorate and the risk of millions of lives being lost will grow yemen is just one of many civil taney assume urgence is making this a time of unprecedented need in its appeal for twenty eighteen the u.n.
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says it believes there are almost one hundred thirty six million people in need they come up with a plan to help almost ninety one million people and that will cost twenty two point five billion dollars but i have to say i don't think we're going to get all that money you just have to look at this year twenty seventeen their appeal was fifty two point five percent fund it. from south sudan to syria from afghanistan to the refugees from myanmar conflict is the main cause of the human suffering and in most cases these are conflicts with no end in sight james pais al-jazeera at the united nations in geneva you know watching out is there more to come disappointment in zimbabwe cabinet filled with military figures and familiar faces from the guardian here and. also why activists are concerned that lebanon's rubbish disposal methods could lead to an environmental crisis.
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hello and welcome back it's cold and snowy across many parts of europe at the moment seven across more eastern areas temperatures really struggling frontal system is going to be quite slow moving further south through some storms across parts of turkey and into greece some snow over the balkans some snow in the southern alps and cold air across central parts of europe with a risk of some fall further towards the west it's also looking cold and shallow with snow extending down through into parts that period potentially should die out during the course of sunday but otherwise temperatures definitely low for this time of year the snow still in evidence there was a move through into sunday so let's head into north africa where we still have some pretty chilly wet and windy air across coastal parts of old syria and tunis here tunis with a nice sort of just ten degrees celsius further along the coast where the conditions
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are much they should be current fight is looking very pleasantly warm there with the maximum temperature of twenty seven degrees celsius and indeed late on sunday we should find the temperatures to just begin to recover and shoot us as we start to see the wind ease down move into central parts of africa the weather here is generally looking pretty good for most areas one of two showers across the congo kabban and congo much of west africa dry and fine should be a nice day in accra in ghana with highs of thirty one. overthrown and exiled reappoint again saying if you'll. let me tell you i mean too much film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency you know you see the troops from play and a moment again if you think she is speaking maybe again we need to change the
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return of a president at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back here without jazeera let's update you on the stories making headlines u.s. president donald trump's former national security adviser speeded guilty to charges of lying to the f.b.i. about the extent of his contacts with russian officials michael flynn says a senior representative directed him to get in touch with the russian ambassador and some the twenty six states and he's now cooperating fully with the f.b.i. . pope francis has used the word to refer to myanmar's muslim minority who made the comments while meeting a group of refugees in dhaka. and the u.n.
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has launched a record appeal for more than twenty two billion dollars to help victims of conflict in crises around the world yemen is the worst crisis with more than twenty two million people in need. at least nine people have been killed and thirty six injured after gunman stormed the college in pakistan ace three men dressed in women's but has arrived in a rickshaw or an end to the agriculture training institute in the northwestern city of pasha all the attackers were killed after two hours of fighting with the army and police a pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility saying it was targeting a safe house used by the i assign agency commodified to has more from is on the front and order gathered out by that very good dollar bond don they are of course claimed responsibility immediately after their deadly in. the agricultural. if you are doctor and according to officials they did not yet clear
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their toward war. dog ate all of the reports about their remains but a number of people are dead and many more are room day it all happening at a time when the u.s. and pakistan are due to meet at a high level read the u.s. security of defense we're doing it. and ridge progress down repeated in concern about the group operating from across the border and of wanted on and who are now carrying out a deadly attack in flight bucket gone. police in germany have defused an explosive device that was found at a christmas market it happened in the city of basra near the capital bolin police evacuates the market in cordoned it off when special forces were sent in to investigate a suspicious package delivered to a pharmacy in the area germany is on high alert for potential attacks after last year's deadly attack on a christmas market in berlin. well now tacky is to seize the assets of a turkish iranian gold trader and his close relatives is
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a key witness in the trial of a turkish banker who me allegedly worked with to help iran launder money he's pleaded guilty to those charges and is now cooperating with american prosecutors darkish prime minister banally older and says he hopes will turn back from his mistake reiterating his belief that the trial is a nd putting pressure on turkey and its economy european council president because one person it will reject talks on a post breaks a transition and future unless a proper border plan is agreed with ireland. it is the u.k. that started a great. responsibility to propose a credible commitment to do. to avoid a hardboiled let me say very clearly. if the u.k. offer a firm acceptable for i won't it will be unacceptable for the. lebanon
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is struggling with another rubbish problem. the last one on the control but this time it's the way the waste is being disposed of using incinerate says as public health activists very worried. from beirut. lebanon is rubbish is being collected but it's what happens next which is causing concern activists are warning of a new garbage crisis in the making and a serious health risks. two years ago the streets of the capital beirut and surrounding areas were clogged with uncollected trash and the stench filled the air the main landfill was full and there was nowhere else to go it took months before government leaders found a temporary solution since then the mountain of voice produced every day in the lebanese capital is taken to two new coastal landfills but they are quickly becoming close to overflowing. leaders are considering enlarging landfills and importing incinerators but environmentalists accuse them of not wanting to solve
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the problem. propose all souls' the garbage problem in six months and the e.u. is ready to offer the twenty five million dollars needed the problem is environmentalist's looking for sustainable solutions for the politicians with landfills so they can reclaim land for development purposes. the situation is worse outside the capital where there are no waste management facilities this is one of hundreds of open waste dumps and they are being burnt environmentalist say lebannon has never had a comprehensive waste management strategy. human rights watch is sounding the alarm with a report called as if you are inhaling your doubts the open burning of waste is dangerous say activists lebanese who live near the dumps complain about health problems. when they burn the trash i lose my breath and i can't breathe i use this inhaler because i can't take a breath. i mean my kids are growing up here and you know there is no way of
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protecting them what will happen to them ten to twenty years from now they will get diseases. activists are blaming the government for failing in its obligations staff at the environment ministry weren't available for comment there's actually very simple solutions to this problem and we're fortunate that the vast majority of solid waste could actually be either recycled or composted but at the moment around eighty percent of it is either being landfilled or dumped and some of that is being burned. the garbage crisis did spark several weeks of protests demonstrators accusing politicians of corruption not much has changed since then except that morning's about a public health emergency are growing louder. zimbabwe's new president has disappointed many by selling his first cabinet with senior military figures and ruling party loyalist no opposition politicians soldier who announced the military takeover on the national broadcaster has now been named as foreign minister the head of the war veterans chris that's of anger has been handed
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the ministry of information and patrick chinamasa returns to run the ministry of finance arm a task has been gauging reaction in the town of chinoy. the announcement by president of who is in the new government is dividing opinion zimbabweans who know the new leader is a businessman a cautiously optimistic he's picked the right team others say they are disappointed at how many military commanders and politicians in the new cabinet have strong links to robert mugabe and the former government. disappointed that. the expectation of the people of zimbabwe we were hoping that. beginning would have also a cabinet that is responsive to what the expectations of the people expect a new policy. expected.
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these university graduates hope the new cabinet will deliver on the president's promise to create jobs many graduates can't find a. twenty three year old innocent has a bachelor's degree and is known as a graduate on a good day he makes about ten dollars selling secondhand mobile phones on the streets for me is a disappointment. because this is what is the current situation i'm just. i was frightened with because this . was a this is what. economists say the new cabinet has to rework or scrap some of robert mugabe's policies such as indigenization a controversial policy of black empowerment. and. because.
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when i recently made british and chinese envoys the european union and the united states say they are keen to re-engage with zimbabwe again after years of isolation . is. struggling zimbabweans hope president knows what he's doing and that his policies don't scare away investors at the seal nothing will change the reality for now is that thousands of these graduates will likely join other degree holders on the street if economy doesn't drastically improve. chinoy zimbabwe. the date has been set for the official abdication of japan's and hito which will take place on april first two thousand and nineteen will be the first japanese monic to step down in about two hundred years the eighty three year old his heart
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surgery and cancer treatment he says that he feared his age might make it difficult to fulfill his duties. he's going to be succeeded by his fifty seven year old air crown prince not a key to. a court in malaysia as a mud hof brother of north korea's leader was carrying an antidote to the talks in that was used to poison him kim jong nam died after the nerve agent v.x. was smeared on his face at kuala lumpur airport in february two women have been charged with his murder trial has said that kim had a dozen vials of the antidote in his bag but it's not clear why he didn't use it kyung yang has been accused of orchestrating the killing let's take a look at this new video showing that only scene is rising current from an erupting volcano on the indonesian island of bali thought experts are saying this doesn't mean that the threat from the volcano is over indonesia's vulcanology agency says
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mount of guns behavior is actually similar to events which took place in one thousand nine hundred sixty three when it experienced a major eruption which killed more than one and a half thousand residents a ten kilometer exclusion zone remains in place around the volcano and anyone who uses a laptop computer or smartphone should know how important a lithium ion battery is to keep them connected but what if that battery was big enough to power thirty thousand homes that's what's happening in the state of south australia where the world's largest batteries been switched on the latest headline making project from the us electric car company tesla and hawkes one has more this seemingly innocuous rural area and south australia has suddenly become home to one of the biggest sources of renewable energy in the world built in sixty days the us technology company tesla has built the largest lithium ion battery which is plugged into the power grid in the state of south australia the state's premier on build
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the john battery which is powered by a nearby wind farm this is an example of south australia leading the world the world's largest lithium battery. it's right here in jamestown in south australia and it's already supplying power to the national electricity market australia is a major exporter of calls and is considered one of the world's worst greenhouse gas polluters the state of south australia is demolishing is coal fired power stations and switching to renewable energy that's imperative after a freak storm last year caused a statewide blackout highlighting the unreliable supply of electricity the billionaire business tycoon mosque offered to build the battery most salient point here is that the system will be three three times more powerful than any system in the on earth. this is a this is not like a sort of short like a minor foray into a frontier it's like you know going three times with anyone going before musk also
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promise that if it wasn't completed on time it would be free lucky for him the forty million dollar project was switched on ahead of schedule it's a sighting development electricity story just kind of been the holy grail for the whole power business for two hundred years now because if we want to move towards variable renewables wind and solar produce their own tricity when they want not necessarily when we want and so some way of storing the excess that they're producing which can then be used when they're not generating has been something we've looked for for many years be renewed by jamestown gave their verdict lifted their spirits because everybody's are happy about it and we have a question marks on that but the result in result will want it because it's never been called into action we really don't know what's coming and it really was so that when it if it does do the job well and good if it doesn't it's just another one of those political. tesla's chief executive wasn't at the unveiling but the
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state's new power backup surprise i'm sure to please climate change and pollution activists and possibly pave the way for other projects worldwide. now the draw is taking place for next summer's football world cup in russia with exciting opponents for the tournament to debut nations events got on the way in moscow after a space countdown from russian cosmonauts iceland discovered they will kick off their first ever finals against two time champions argentina and their star player messi whilst panama second game is against another former winning nation england the tournament gets underway on june fourteenth with host nation russia taking on saudi arabia. well as much more on all the while that story and everything we're covering to be found right here al jazeera dot com is where i need to go.
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so a quick look at the top stories for you now the u.s. president on all trumps x. national security adviser michael flynn has pleaded guilty to charges of making false statements to the f.b.i. michael flynn was forced to resign after misleading the white house in january about meeting the russian ambassador before trump was elected he says he was directed to do so by a senior member of trump's transition team that now realizes his actions were wrong the charges were brought by special counsel robert mueller his investigation into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential poll the white house says flynn statements are false and white house correspondent patty can really help explains this is a significant development in the probe by robert muller into whether there was possible obstruction of justice and also collusion involving the twenty sixteen presidential campaign and of course the white house has been bracing itself for some time now given the fact that we had had three previous trump associates charge
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of course paul manna for the campaign chair as well as an aide and also a foreign policy adviser to the presidential campaign george papadopoulos but there's no question the charges against michael flynn are the most significant because of course michael flynn had a significant part of the early days of the top administration. well in are all the headlines pope francis has for the first time used a wide range of to refer to the muslim minority fleeing myanmar following a security crackdown in august the point of use the politically sensitive time while meeting ranjoor refugees in the bangladeshi capital dhaka he apologized for the world's indifference to their plight and oss them for forgiveness. united nations as a record appeal for more than twenty two billion dollars to help victims of conflict and humanitarian crises around the world yemen is the world's worst humanitarian crisis more than twenty two million people in need severe food shortages. and the spreading of cholera.
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nine people have been killed and thirty six injured after a gunman stormed a college in pakistan at least three men dressed in women's burkas carried out the attack in the city of the shower. it was all of the top stories more news coming up in twenty five minutes time with that soft front which starts now. benjamin netanyahu called it a very bad deal donald trump says it's the worst deal of both leaders would love to tear up the iran nuclear agreement but will doing so lead to a new war in the middle east but south debate but first i'll talk to the former president joyce banda.
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