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if you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so plentiful tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sound walls at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. and. where every. a day of rage around the world after donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem
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as israel's capital. of adrian finnegan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. i believe we have no major good food we need the e.u. and the u.k. reach a deal on the terms of the upcoming divorce. north korea's leader calls for direct talks with the united states by sending a message via russia. to breathe the smoke the latest warning in southern california where some wildfires could but for another two weeks. palestinians in the occupied territories are protesting on what they're calling a day of rage. the angry at u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital in bethlehem
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israeli soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters at the gaza dozens of protesters were injured after confrontations with security forces the masses called for an uprising. palestinian protesters have been pelting stones and burning tires in ramallah in the occupied west bank hundreds of demonstrators marched through the streets right after friday prayers. and it occupied east jerusalem israeli soldiers arrested several palestinian protesters at least ninety five people were injured after tear gas was used let's go live now to occupy the shuras limousine a scary forces there harry tension running pretty high earlier you were caught up in scuffles where you are just before we came to where i saw you caught up and then again. that's right yes and that's been the pattern of the protests here outside damascus gate outside the old city in occupied east jerusalem other
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protests have been largely peaceful and a few hundred people gathered in the square behind us but every now and again these scuffles do break out it doesn't take much to spark them in one instance it was a young child who required medical attention a security forces made a cordon around where that was happening and that seemed to to aggravate some of the protesters and there were objects thrown just now there was another breaking out of scuffles and again as israeli military just cleared this entire square again pushing us the media back out of the way what it does show i think is even those these protests aren't huge in scale at least so far in jerusalem today it does show just how tense the situation is just how deeply felt the insult that they feel that they've been given by donald trump in the way that he recognized jerusalem as israel's capital and not having that the same kind of connotation for palestinians
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that it doesn't take much to to really spark things off so far it's been relatively contained compared to what we've seen it from protests in the occupied west bank and in gaza but nonetheless it does show the feelings are running very high here right harry many thanks to harry force there live in occupied east jerusalem. he is a palestinian poet columnist and political scientist he says that trump's decision has made palestinian leadership the palestinian leadership position untenable i think it's the end of the peace process and i think that it ends the political future of the current formal palestinian leadership they have bet their political future on this peace process and they very logical the peace process was that the palestinians would recognize israel that is they would give up their claim on seventy eight percent of historical palestine in the return of american broken ship
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of american pressure on israel to give them the land occupied in one nine hundred sixty seven twenty two percent of historical palestine including east jerusalem now that the americans have made known what everybody else had been saying for the past two decades that their position is identical to that of israel that peace process is over there is nothing the palestinian leadership can sell to their own constituency they cannot tell them that this peace process is going to bring them anything of what they had promised them so they are really running out of options either mr mahmoud our best will have to resign or he will have to declare unilaterally the nominee of all peace accords signed with israel all the protests all over the world this friday. people in jordan have demanded that the u.s. embassy in amman be closed they want the government cut ties with israel jordan's king abdullah is the custodian of holy sites in jerusalem.
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this was the scene in egypt's capital cairo hundreds of people there of them protesting in front of the. mosque. and in malaysia hundreds of people marched towards the u.s. embassy in kuala lumpur prime minister najib razak says that he's opposed to trump's decision he's called on all muslims to protest russia's foreign minister says that north korea wants direct talks with the united states so gay lover off passed on the message to u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson in vienna on thursday it follows that office latest launch of a missile which it says can hit anywhere in america and threats of nuclear retaliation by donald trump the u.s. and south korea wrapping up a week of military exercises pyongyang has long called for an end to the joint drills. that is something that foreign minister lavrov said took place as
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a part of a conversation i don't have anything on that particular part of the conversation and i cannot confirm if that came up in the secretary's conversation with mr lavrov i will say though as a general matter the issue of direct talks with north korea is not on the table in till they're willing to denuclearize it is something that russia has said it agrees with it is something that china has that it is it agrees with and many other nations around the world as well the d.p. r. k. is not showing any interest in sitting down and having any kind of serious conversations when they continue to fire off ballistic missiles here and more from observers kathy novak in seoul. this apparent message from north korea relayed through the russian foreign minister to the united states follows two high level visits to north korea the first by a chinese and boy and the second just this week by the u.n. political affairs chief that was the first visit to north korea of a senior u.n.
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official in six years now as far as south korea is concerned the government here says it wants to maintain sanctions and pressure against north korea to bring the government to the negotiating table south korea says the offer for intercourse talks remains open but that north korea has not been responding to that invitation one south korean government minister has suggested that could be because north korea only wants to speak directly to the united states but we heard from the u.s. state department spokeswoman that the u.s. believes that north korea is showing no signs of being willing to sit down and have a serious conversation as long as it continues to fire off a list of missiles before the most recent launch of an i.c.b.m. it had been more than two months since north korea had tested a missile or a nuclear bomb now in the wake of this latest launch it seems the timing is tricky and the united states is refusing to have any talks directly with north korea the
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u.k. and the e.u. have reached a deal on the first stage of brigs that the following months of deadlock it allows the talks to move on to the next phase on trade negotiations that stalled of a citizen's rights of brigs at the u.k.'s so-called divorce payment on the border between northern island and the republic of ireland these barca reports. the storm broke in brussels it broke with its a breakthrough breaks it british prime minister to reserve bank of brics it secretary david davis negotiated through the militants to finalize the beginning of the divorce deal with the e.u. the commission has just formally decided to recommend to the concert that sufficient progress is. being made on the street terms of the divorce getting to this point has required give and take on both sides friday was the last possible day for a deal to be done so the european council could prepare and then vote next week
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both sides admitted they made last minute compromises to meet the deadline we've been working extremely hard this week and as you've all seen it hasn't been easy for either side. that meeting on monday ended in deadlock the sticking point was what will become of the only land border between the northern ireland and the republic of ireland which is in the e.u. the republic wanted guarantees it will remain open with no return to a so-called hard border with border guards the government coalition partners in northern ireland the democratic unionist party vetoed an earlier version of the deal and forced her back to the drawing board the result in northern ireland we will guarantee there will be no hard border and we will uphold the belfast agreement and in doing so we will continue to pursue the constitutional and economic integrity of the united kingdom even though it's only stage one of negotiations e.u.
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citizens living in britain and british citizens residing in europe did get some certainty about their future the deal we've struck will guarantee the rights of more than three million e.u. citizens living in the u.k. and of a million u.k. citizens living in the they will be able to go on living their lives as before it's been eight months since may signed article fifty which triggered britain's departure from the european union fifteen months remain to decide the details of the divorce i read over his piece that boat is the vote but no we must start looking for the future good future in rich united kingdom untreated we move to close friends and go. talks now enter the second phase to focus on trade and security with many jobs potentially at risk people on both sides of the english channel hoping the breakup is amicable. barca al-jazeera london
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the e's chief negotiator says the withdrawal deal must be ready by october next year. these decrement could be the basis for their wish their all agreement. let me be clear. there is still work to be done. a negotiation on a number of issues such as the governance of our agreement or for instance. they are more d'oeuvres to take a look at a weather update next year on zero zero then that the people who keep beijing running but many of these migrant workers now find themselves homeless we'll tell you why at accusations of treason and political persecution of former argentinean president says that she won't be silenced.
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however the weather is fine and dry across a good part of china over the next couple days warm sunshine they want to hong kong twenty degrees celsius there are a few showers just around taiwan over towards the philippines but not bad here as well manila thirty three degrees twenty three celsius there phone call on sunday and getting up to around twelve degrees there in shanghai they think a cloud the west the weather as you can see that flies towards the west to me have got some really big down poles now pushing into the back and go into that eastern side of india possibility of a tropical cyclone developing out of this one we have been keeping a close eye on it over the past few days and we are looking at some very heavy rain either way and some lively waves just pushing up into the far north east of india just around the west bengal behind pushing up towards bangladesh and in the fall northeastern states over the next few days gradually fizzling out as we go on into
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sunday just as mashal is to into southern possible pakistan and maybe the fall northwest of india meanwhile ice on any right across the arabian peninsula little more cloud just into the gulf of aden so might see a little bit of unsettled weather just drifting its way and further north it stays fine and dry place the sunshine just slight nip in the so highs in doha of twenty four. you are making very pointed remarks where on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been criminalized or if you join us on say no evil person just wakes up the over the morning in the sense i want to cover the world in darkness and this is a dialogue that could be worth leading to some of the confusion a lie about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera.
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are going to top stories this hour on al-jazeera. palestinians in the occupied territories are protesting what they're calling a day of rage they're angry of a u.s. president on all transfer recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. demonstrations being held in other cities around the world hundreds of people marched towards the u.s. embassy in the laziest capital quite a low level civil protest in jakarta cairo and istanbul. and britain of the european union have reached a deal that will allow briggs talks to move on to the next stage on trade they
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agrees with the u.k. so-called divorce payment the border with ireland and maintaining citizens' rights the president. has called on file foreign powers to stop interfering in politics in lebanon he's hosting a meeting on the issue in paris lebanon's prime minister saad hariri the is there he withdrew his resignation on tuesday a month after he made the surprise announcement to step down while he was in saudi arabia. i decided to withdraw my resignation and now the government needs to focus on maintaining the best possible relations with the arab countries and the international community in full respect of the u.n. security council resolution namely resolution seventeen zero one which has ensured the stability of our borders for the past eleven years. in paris. where the french president said that the aim of this meeting is really about
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supporting and strengthening when saudi arabia announced his resignation back in november really threw into political turmoil and it exposed the fact that the tensions between sorry. are really being also played out in stabilizing effect and says that must be stabilized in order to stabilize the region and it's in everybody's interest those were his words not sought careering is here if you will meet foreign ministers from several countries you will meet u.s. secretary of state. as well as a representative from the u.n. and the world bank and say we're looking at ways to. institutions to strengthen its economy and its military the message we are expecting here at the end is that lebanon must stand alone. must be protected. before the president of argentina says she's the victim of political persecution christina kuchta has been indicted
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for covering up an alleged iranian involvement in a bomb attack twenty three years ago to raise about reports. thousands gathered in front of the presidential palace to protest against what they claim is political persecution a federal judge issued deen died men for treason against former argentinean president cristina fernandez and called for her arrest. said the current administration. is trying to stop dissent. my. these measures further degrade the argentine justice branch and indicate that the government and the president is the top and true person who is responsible for a political and judicial organisation to persecute the a position four years ago argentina signed a memorandum with the iranian government that would allow argentina forties to interrogate iranian officials suspected of being part of
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a terrorist attack against a jewish community center in one thousand nine hundred ninety four that killed eighty five people. but prosecutor i read it only one who was investigating the attack named the administration's real motive was to do business with data and in january two thousand and fifteen these men was found dead in his home shot in the head a day before he was scheduled to testify before congress against the former president and what he believed was her commitment to leave the interpol red alerts against iranian officials. congressman while the world says that what is happening now is the result of years of impunity if. the memorandum is a disaster because it has been proved that it was written in secrecy nobody in the foreign ministry participated in the draft we have almost five hundred pages that say that an illicit was committed the only ways to investigated investigate these days you persecute and if you don't there isn't punitive argentina as
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a society will have to find the middle point between the search for the truth through justice. kirschner and some members of her administration have been the focus of several high profile cases with arrests and demands seen center right. defeated her candidate daniels surely even though christina kirshner left office two years ago she continues to be a very popular figure in argentina in fact she was elected senator. coburn's legislative elections would rounds for of the community people here are saying that if we stand up pressure is arrested they will take to the streets until she is released was in tina's legislator has enjoyed a period of judicial recess until march but can be convened for urgent matters cushion a detention would certainly excessive aid that deep divisions that already exist in argentina even more. southern california is battling
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for wildfires around los angeles one person has died others are being treated in hospital the fires have destroyed some five hundred sixty square kilometers. of land and forced all the two hundred thousand people to leave silent shuffle reports from los angeles. southern california where wildfires continue to blaze and with new dangers now north of san diego this fire blew up into a ten square kilometer blaze in a matter of just hours destroying dozens of homes in a retirement community and killing dozens of race horses at a training stables the fire forced thousands of evacuations and closed a state highway it's a two hundred fifty kilometer stretch of bone dry coastal canyons last and by hot dry winds from inland it's amazing to watch the magnitude of the winds and the fire storms and how fast things change step to really have to be alert i
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think everybody's done a great job the largest and most destructive fire in the region remains this one in ventura county now measuring more than four hundred square kilometers and growing with no sign of full containment at least four hundred thirty homes and buildings have been lost here that number certain to grow when the flames finally die out and people can fully assess the damage the air quality in l.a. rarely good is so bad now that schools across the region have closed until the skies clear and people in many areas have been warned to stay inside to avoid breathing the spreading smoke fire chief say shifting winds will be a threat in coming days as the hot santa ana winds continue to torment californians our biggest nightmare has been palm tree farm back there and you know there's. you know prone to lighting on fire there just to. which is basically so. we you
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know why ching now very closely and then this morning of course the wind and sparks got together and burned them all up and a touch of good news here in the hills above los angeles and in the decay sion of the extremely good work that fire crews have done over the last couple of days the skirball fire in the bel-air neighborhood the one that had threatened the world famous getty art museum is now lying down and we've seen crews leaving this area evacuation orders still in place but at least for now the skirball fire if i would have blown into l.a. city limits is appearing to be laying down and not causing much of a threat at this point however high wind warnings are still up through the weekend alex offer al-jazeera los angeles a heinous abuse of human rights that may constitute crimes against humanity that's how the u.n. security council has described the sale of african refugees into slavery in libya
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all fifteen council members asked for an investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice but emergency meeting was called off the u.s. media showed africans being sold at a slave market in libya the u.n. arrest member states and libya to respect the rights of migrants a former usa gymnastics team doctor will likely spend the rest of his life in jail larry nasa has been a has been sentenced to sixty years in prison on child pornography charges the fifty four year old was given the maximum sentence in july he admitted to charges of obtaining and possessing child pornography that of attempting to destroy evidence he's also pleaded guilty to charges of criminal sexual conduct as accuses include members of the united states of the big gymnastics team. china's government is defending a campaign that has seen thousands of poor migrant workers victims from their homes
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in beijing houses were demolished because they were unstable or built illegally many people are now homeless and wonder how they can afford to stay in the city china correspondent adrian brown reports. a few weeks ago this shinji a neighborhood of southern beijing was home to thousands of poor workers they came here from other parts of china in search of a better life their homes were demolished after government officials decided they were dangerous or illegal the sign is blunt go away quickly this food vendor one of those given just a few hours' notice to pack up and leave. them for a year and i had my breakfast all here business was a bad then the fire happened and we all had to move out we had no choice everything is demolished you know. for low wages migrant workers do the menial jobs that help to keep this city running many are delivery workers footsoldiers of china's booming
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e-commerce economy but the government's cleanout is now putting pressure on the industry for us in another condemned neighborhood we met honking she he spends most days caring for his granddaughter while his son and daughter in law work. he's been paying one hundred thirty five dollars a month for a room measuring around six square meters he's accepting of his fate but says the government has behaved in a heavy handed way. when beijing was developing it definitely need it in micro work it's now beijing has been developed and the have this policy of even people people from other places are now they consider evolve and to the c.d.c. development this was. minutes later a demolition crew appears backed up by security guards here to enforce the
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evictions not something they want the cameras to capture we were ordered away. the sudden if action of tens of thousands of migrant workers is part of a wider operation that the government says will continue for several more weeks and when all this rubble has been cleared away this land this valuable land because we're still in beijing will be ripe for development. the narrative on state t.v. paints a very different picture here the local party chief is thanking migrant workers for their contribution he visited what appeared to be a refurbished apartment complex telling residents that the security of the people was paramount but conceding the government must carry out of victuals with care now it's clear that many of the homes being demolished were dangerous on many levels but they were cheap convenient and often the only option. now those that lived here misty the return to their home provinces or find somewhere else to live in
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a city where they no longer feel welcome adrian brown al jazeera beijing. foreign investors are wanted in zimbabwe after years of international isolation and sanctions they are a top priority for the finance minister who's just announced the new government first budget since the fall of robert mugabe at a controversial law which favors black zimbabweans is being changed out of the tasa reports from harare. zimbabwe's finance minister protection ambassador says there's now a new economic order and that the government's policies will be more investor friendly indigenous haitian law a controversial policy that favors black will be amended. to fifty one forty nine percent intrusion assistance. only to minerals normally don't want to plug these. this fifty one forty
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nine concerned should remove to apply. the exact observed normally reserved priority to other sectors of the economy. regardless of national it's the first budget since last month's removal of longtime leader robert mugabe the finance minister estimates an economic growth rate of four point five percent mixture you don't even have to have a local partner you can just coming invest in these scenes that you have a local partner you know you're not limited to the percentage of prescription regarding the percentage participation which is good so we begin to create a free environment for. president emerson and god was new administration promises to tackle corruption cut government spending by closing up privatizing bankrupt state alls and increased developmental projects one optimism and i got was the first at was to order three months amnesty for a return of stolen funds to the country the new leader says zimbabwe is open for
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business and wants to reengage with the international community some in its national community are cautious they want guarantees that the bar is not a safe investment destination before they pour billions of dollars in restoring the country's fortunes and international standing will be a challenge some western countries impose sanctions the early two thousand and four alleged human rights abuses decades of economic isolation litter company closures and job losses independent economists say the unemployment rate is more than ninety percent there is a shortage of foreign currency some people make ends meet selling and buying second hand clothes on the street zimbabwe's first test will be in next year's elections if the polls are seen to be free fair and credible that could show signs of stability and encourage investors to release my shredded funds. al-jazeera harry.
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good to have you with us a very unforgiving here in doha the top stories on our honest opinions of the occupied territories are protesting what they're calling a day of rage they're angry over u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize to receive them as israel's capital israeli soldiers have been firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters outside the al aqsa mosque in occupied east jerusalem and in bethlehem protests are also taking place around the world people in georgia have been demanding that the u.s. embassy in amman be closed they want the government to cut ties with israel and in malaysia hundreds of people march towards the u.s. embassy in the capital kuala lumpur prime minister najib razak called on all muslims to protect the protest rather against trump's decision the president of france emanuel has called on foreign powers to stop interfering in politics in lebanon he's hosting a meeting in paris on the issue lebanon's prime minister saad hariri is there he
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withdrew his resignation on tuesday a month after making the surprise announcement that he was going to step down while he was in saudi arabia u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has called on saudi arabia to be more cautious about regional affairs. i think we would encourage them to be a bit more measured and a bit more thoughtful in those actions to i think fully consider the consequences i think we've been clear when it comes to yemen we have called for and president trump himself called for this week a complete end to the blockade of yemen a reopening of all the porch to not just humanitarian assistance but commercial delivery as well because about eighty percent of the food comes in on commercial shipments we are asking that saudi arabia allow that access i think goes to lebanon things have worked out in a very positive way perhaps even more positive than before because there have been very strong statements of affirmation about the future of lebanon which can only be
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helpful brooke now the european union have reached a deal that would allow briggs it talks to move on to the next stage they've agreed on the u.k. so-called divorce payments the border with all that island and on maintaining citizens' rights there's the have a nice view on al jazeera right after the stream next the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons has been awarded the nobel peace prize in an exclusive interview with the winning delegation from the award ceremony and al-jazeera asks whether banning these devastating weapons could finally lead to complete disarmament on al-jazeera. ok and you're in the stream today why have stories of police brutality gone viral in nigeria and how it's
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