tv NEWS LIVE - 30 Al Jazeera December 14, 2017 5:00pm-5:34pm +03
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resumes. i'm sam. this is al jazeera coming up thousands rally in gaza city tomorrow thirty years since hamas was formed. the killing of children doctors without borders says more than six thousand seven hundred ringle muslims were killed in a month. plus more entertainment in disneyland in what could be one of the biggest media deals. un brokered talks on syria resuming in geneva after a short break the opposition delegation has already met with the u.n. special envoy staff and i'm a store a government representatives are also due to hold talks with them a story he's urging russia's president to convince the syrian government to hold
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new elections our correspondent david chase is in geneva and joins us live from there how did those talks go. sammy north well it's expected this is a round of negotiations will end will end in failure and we're expecting at any moment now the head of the syrian government delegation bashar al jaafari to give a short statement to the waiting journalists behind me it seems though that as far as the united nations mediator is concerned that it will take pressure from russia from vladimir putin to try and get some concessions from the syrian government and from bashar assad to to get a new review of the fire the peace process because at the moment the whole process is going nowhere the delegation the syrian government delegation will leave geneva tomorrow morning and the opposition group will give
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a press conference tonight at eight thirty but it does seem that once again these talks have ended in failure will get more details as the day goes on hopefully from bashar al jaafari who is the the leader of the syrian government delegation but i've also been talking to insiders involved in this process and they say that sami an alternative set of talks is actually going on and has been going on for the last year and is picking up pace now this has the approval or at least the knowledge of the russians and of the regime in damascus and these talks are taking place with people who are senior loyalists to the bashar assad government and also people outside the scope of the syrian opposition delegation they're trying to come up with new ideas and the whole process according to my source needs much more effort from both moscow and from washington as well as the european capitals to try and
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get a new approach because this one is proving sterile and impotent it's not changing facts on the ground now de mistura has already said that if there is no. a real peace process no signs of approval on either side and it could lead to the fragmentation of syria now russia has said that their mission was accomplished their mission was essentially to fight the terror group's sensually i saw the so-called islamic state that has that has succeeded russia has got an expanding naval base now and the heartland of the alawite kingdom and also a military base so you can see what the russians are gaining from it but europe has said to me putin that he must fight to win the peace now and there's no sign of that happening the casualties are still mounting seven years almost of this civil war more than three hundred thousand civilians killed and the bombs are still
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falling the russian bombs are still falling the syrian regime is still attacking small enclaves and children are starving now this is a situation that the international community cannot let continue and that is why these so-called alternative talks are taking place now sammy or right we'll leave it there for now david chaytor russia's president vladimir putin is warning the united states is ignoring information on syrian fighters traveling to iraq the russian leader says the u.s. may be sparing some armed forces in the hope they'll join the fight against syria's president bashar al assad's government putin held these annual press conference in moscow where he's answering questions on a wide range of international and domestic issues so you're going to go joins us live from moscow so first or start a lot of his speech at least in the early part seemed to be about domestic issues
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the economy what sort of message was he trying to get across to the russian people . well so i mean i think you also have to see this in the context that it is only a few months away from the presidential elections a few days ago he officially threw his name into the race as well saying that he would be running as an independent but was would welcome any kind of political support those who would want to support him anyway whatever backing that they could offer so mainly today's conference really focused on issues concerning russia health care education the economy as well forget of course that russia has had a double blow to its economy first of all because of the lower in oil prices russia the russian economy is deeply dependent on oil production and also of course because of the sanctions that it has faced following its involvement in cry media
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and in the ukraine but really this has been something which the president putin himself has said that russia seems to have weathered those two blows although the economy itself seems to have had a slight recovery it still seems to be going to want to stagnation this is what a lot of economists are worried about and of course this is having an effect on the rest of russian society namely of course another preoccupation of putin's is the is the demography of russia itself russia shrinking population and the fact that aren't going to be enough people in itself to power some kind of economic revolution to try and maintain a standard in russia and not something which has been an issue with a lot of people here so i mean all these comments come after the announcement of mission accomplished by the russians when it comes to syria and wondering sort of clues to give as to how russia's policy towards syria will proceed going forward now after the mission accomplished so-called phase.
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well that mission accomplished phase as it were it certainly has played out well here among russians that it has. kind of added to a sort of sense of purpose that russia has in the world and that even though russia faced enormous amount of criticism from the u.s. when going into syria. seems to have come back with a message that it went out there to do what it said it was going to do which was to defeat eisel even though it's come under an incredible amount of criticism from other countries of having decimated other members of the syrian opposition as well but even though. putin in addressing russian troops on the surprise visit a few days ago said that they could go home as victors there is still a sort of situation that needs to do and of course he acknowledged that today in
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the press conference saying that it's not a cut and dried effort that there needs to be an international coordination on this and this has to focus also on refugees as well that russia needs help to to try and handle that situation one point he made was also that it had to also get international partners to work together to try and educate young syrians as well those stranded in camps to try and prevent a generation from becoming. drawn into some kind of militant activities but for that he may have acknowledged one phase of it but certainly the work is not over. hamas one of the main palestinian factions is marking further. stablish with the palestinian political army and its. response to israel's illegal occupation of the west bank and gaza. rally in gaza city to mark the occasion. as the latest from. tens of thousands of people in it celebrating this i am
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a senior leadership of been appearing on the stage just to my right hand in front of a giant poster with a picture of jerusalem anomaly that jerusalem is the capital of palestine because all this week in the week the dog from sit in a week since dawn from recognized the capital of israel hamas leadership has been reminding palestinians that it was always opposed to the also accords those accords between the palestinian liberation organization and israel that led to the setting up of the palestinian or forty has been remember reminding people it was against them and it has been critical of buckman abbas the palestinian president and the p.a. leadership for blaming them for allowing the situation to get this far also worth pointing out that this is the only place in the palestinian territories where hamas is able to hold a rally of this side of this size overnight in the occupied west bank there were a series of arrests of hamas leadership over there it's much harder for hamas to
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operate although they are of course a political presence there as they are here yes there are also increasing tensions in the last week we've had rockets go over every night from gaza into israel is the first time they've been consistent since really the last war in twenty fourteen just a few rockets and no indication that there's a desire to see that escalate into all out conflict certainly no desire from the people we've been speaking to also israel has been launching air strikes on some hamas targets in here as well. the medical aid group doctors without borders estimates at least six thousand seven hundred in the muslims were killed in may in mon the month following the military crackdown in august that seen contrast to figures released by the main one government which says only four hundred were killed the aid groups estimate is based on the accounts of some six hundred forty six thousand survivors there sheltering in refugee camp. in bangladesh it says
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seven hundred thirteen children one among those killed a calming client is an emergency coordinator of doctors without borders she says these surveys are the clearest indication of ongoing widespread violence. we have published the most conservative figure we had its. and if you look at the surf avi did be interviewed more than twelve thousand people which were randomly sampled from a population of six hundred thousand we could not into. adult we could not into futa families in totally didn't make it to bangladesh because we have heard stories of complete families which were killed so we believe that yes this number is about the belief is the lower range and our think it's actually higher in reality we hear from the from the people who talk to us from be had from the patients retreated from their injuries is that it's a culmination some of these atrocities according to the refugees we talked to by
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military by police. forces and that's all and we still talk to people who have just arrived in the last few weeks who are still abouts. affected them in the last two weeks so this is not maybe the same scale but we still hear reports a file and still ahead on al-jazeera a test of popularity of india's prime minister we have the latest on election day. and facing long lines for basic necessities a cash strapped venezuelan government turns to cryptocurrency who's. hello the cloud is building once again over a good part of china and we're feeling
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a bit more more sure it might have been use a little bit of rain not a huge amount a bit of the same humidity will come up the temps are hovering around the twenty mark for hong kong where in the brighter weather and the colder weather in shanghai about nine degrees and this most wind will come down to the coast of vietnam and produce yet another spell of rain persistent not especially heavy so if you significant showers in the far tip of india recently it's not much running around to be honest thirty five in which isn't a lot but it's going to be the tip of india talent out to sri lanka possibly or southern karen they will see rain in the next day or so first of india it's dry quiet and still and the problem holidays here is the very poor very unhealthy air quality in delhi don't just the northern indian plate ins no real likely to change in the immediate future whereas there are changes afoot in the arabian peninsula the change in wind direction which hints of the circulation and cloud and the green suggests rain maybe on the iranian side of the gulf but after that that rain will
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spread further science maybe catching cattle certainly in u.a.e. and to be honest i'm not agreeing that's quite significant potential rain. you are making very pointed remarks there on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been the criminal 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 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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they're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now u.s. brokered talks in syria have ended without any agreement in geneva the opposition delegation has already met with the u.n. special envoy stuff and. the most stories urging russia's president to convince the syrian government your actions need to be held. medical volunteer group doctors without borders says more than six thousand seven hundred running demotions were killed in the first month after violence broke out and near the group's number is based on a survey done among survivors of the violence as in contrast to official figures government says four hundred alone killed. thousands of gathers a rally in gaza city to mark the thirty years since the formation of. the palestinian political army and its armed groups will form did nine hundred eighty
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seven. the walt disney company says it's reached a deal to value most of the assets of the twenty first century fox a transaction valued at fifty two point four billion dollars the merger still requires approval by regulators and the u.s. justice department if the deal goes through the directors but say that is they could become a new contender in the realm of streaming online video complete how could joins us live from washington d.c. so how big a deal would that be well it's a big deal because really this is a riff asking of the media landscape as we know it will allow disney as well as fox to become more competitive and essentially this is a response to changing viewing patterns by consumers we've seen a really large growth in recent years by companies like amazon and google who have built up their online cart video viewing availabilities for consumers and it's made
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these traditional film companies. less competitive and so as a result we've seen now the siphoning off of the the film division by twenty first century fox is going to the disney company it's a company that's known for historic films like the sound of music also marilyn monroe and even the first star wars that is all going to now be part if approved the disney company and this would allow fox then to focus more tightly on its news and sports broadcaster visions. to this deal to say disney and fox the. right well as often is the case with these mega mergers and this certainly is being called a historic deal that as you pointed out still needs to be approved by antitrust regulators but it creates a lot of uncertainty because in any type of acquisition like this you're going to
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see job losses in these companies certainly have a large number of employees here in the united states but from a consumer standpoint this could certainly have some benefit because what this means if this pushes ahead is this this could mean increased video traffic in sort of the global markets that have yet to be touched and offer these types of services for the consumer so this could be good news for the consumer but again it has to be finalized and certainly it does create some uncertainty because certainly the future still looks a little bit unclear of how this is going to shape out all right when we beat them for now thanks so much can really how. well south korea's president jamie is making his first state visit to china for a bilateral summit with president xi jinping the nuclear missile threat from north korea will be high on the agenda during the visit is also looking to improve the patches relationship with china was angered by the u.s. and begin to sell defenses to south korea adrian brown reports from beijing.
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well this is a very difficult visit for president moon his first to china since becoming head of state and the strains in the relationship between china and south korea were i think very evident on thursday afternoon now after the bilateral between president xi jinping and mr moon there was to be no joint statement apparently the two sides are going to wish you separate statements that points to an existing diplomatic impasse over of course china's continued opposition to the anti missile defense system that south korea deployed earlier this year in response to all that north korea has been doing however there was one area of agreement the two sides did sign a memorandum of understanding to expand trade between the two countries this ceremony was watched over by some of the business executives who are accompanying president moon on his trip to china there was no one discordant moment a south korean photographer was badly beaten up by security guards as he was
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attending a trade function and now south korean government officials have lodged a formal protest with china that is a reminder in the sense that relations between these two countries remain very strained indeed the tone of this visit is very different to the one for president donald trump who was here of course exactly five weeks ago there's been none of the fanfare that we saw in china is doing just enough to ensure that south korea doesn't lose face while the president is here in china voting is under way in india's good state for the second phase of local elections a slowing economy as well as the introduction of a new tax structure and some of the issues on the minds of voters vote is seen as a test of popularity for the prime minister narendra modi who spent weeks campaigning in the home state good geralt has been controlled by modi's party the b.g. he for twenty two years is facing a surprisingly strong challenge from the opposition congress party led by raul
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gandhi difficult parliament has more from adamant about. the b j p has been in charge of this state for over two decades uninterrupted so many thought a win for them would be a foregone conclusion but analysts say they got a wake up call in the first face of these elections on december ninth when turnout among the b j p's committed voters was less than expected over the past year there have been rumblings of discontent particularly amongst the rural areas which make up half of the voting bloc many here say that the congress party has managed to launch a campaign that's resonated among those who feel like they've been marginalized by the government and its economic policies this phase of voting today will be for hoth of the hundred eighty two seats in the legislative assembly we spoke to some of the voters to find out what issues will be influencing the way they vote. as a businessman economic conditions are very important. and looking to the market condition
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right now it's very slow for us live this is my first world so i am definitely excited and those issues are like love meant economic the rest of the country's watching these elections closely as the stakes are particularly high for the country's leader narendra modi he was chief minister of goods or out state for thirteen years before he became prime minister and used his governance here and the economic model he set up here at the heart of his campaign to win over the country in the elections now a loss here for him would be seen as a loss of face for him and a lack of confidence in his policies as for all gandhi he recently was crowned the leader of the congress party i went for him would validate his position also make him a credible opponent for narendra modi in the twenty nineteen national elections britain's brags that negotiations are expected to be further complicated by a rebellion within the prime minister's party in
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a vote in parliament eleven pro european conservative m.p.'s sided with the opposition to defeat by four votes means a parliamentary vote will be needed to approve britain's final deal to leave you. ever since the results of britain's brags that referendum france has been competing with other european countries to welcome companies that plan to relocate from london so of our paris is lagging behind germany in attracting big banks france has become our main destination from trouble looking to leave britain a fashion partly explains at this new center for tech startups in paris shout cardoso gets down to business with his team your nine entrepreneur plan to base his latest venture in london but after britain voted to leave the european union he moved to france when we went to oman and could really feel on our skin the brags that environment then sort of here on the rules it became obvious to us that it
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could not be that tries we need to be pretty simple here are called station f. this is the biggest tech startup in the world it's part of france's drive for paris to replace london as europe's business and financial capital after breaks it the government's already cut taxes for high income earners and loosened the rigid work laws and in july paris officials also stepped up their campaign was over to investors disappointed by a break said i'd like to say to you that we are ready to roll out the ridge white and blue cap it welcome back to europe welcome back to the paris region the french push for paris seems to be working more than thirty companies have already relocated from london to the french capital and there was celebrations in november when the european banking or thorazine announced that it would place its headquarters here but some experts warn their friends could have more to lose than to gain from britain leaving the e.u. . those here say briggs it will have
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a negative impact on france's economy i'm afraid it is a bad thing our first customer for france is the u.k. we actually have a twelve billion pounds positive balance between the two countries. so anything which would impact the economy in the u.k. would impact our economy. is a new france for many bosses choosing paris isn't only about breaks it it's also about france's new president who sees innovation as the key to economic growth mark or has done a revolution and it's a soft revolution but he's clearly engaged in a very very crude way for false it's still more than one year until britain officially exits the e.u. but the uncertainty of what will happen after is likely to see more businesses like this across the english channel natasha butler al-jazeera paris it's
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six months since one of the worst fires in modern british history a memorial service is being held in london to mark the deadly fire in grenfell tower which killed seventy one people members of the royal family the prime minister and emergency service personnel who work the night of june fourteenth are attending the service hundreds of families were left homeless after a fire engulfed a twenty four story building where they are still living in temporary accommodation . hundreds of people have demonstrated in brussels calling for a new e.u. migration policy protesters and human rights groups are accusing the bloc of aggravating the suffering of refugees in the southern shores of the mediterranean they want members to open doors for migrants for them try and seek asylum in europe . or many of us have heard of new cryptocurrency such as bit call ins comes the petro it's been launched by the president of venezuela to try and alleviate
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economic crises and food shortages stanley reports from calicos venezuelan suffer one of the world's highest inflation rates banknotes are almost worthless now. some of these people have been queuing since three am not always sure what is available or what it will cost they're hoping to find basics like rice powdered milk and toilet paper to get a look at where you take what you can but there's not much for righty one day they might have any b. flour or rice oil or toothpaste. prices rise almost daily inflation in the vendor was nearly fifty seven percent the accumulated rise this year is one thousand three hundred seventy percent this coffee cost fifteen thousand body about is four and a half dollars at the official exchange rate which almost no venezuelans can afford to use or about fifteen cents on the black market which almost everybody is forced
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to use if they can find enough of these almost worthless banknotes. they're in short supply russian by the bank machines which emits only enough the small purchases those venice whalers with bank accounts use plastic cards but the fragile infrastructure means the system is often down some use because then there's this weekend on the geonim the petro i'm going to call it the petro venezuela's own cryptocurrency been as well as economic sovereignty and helped defeat the economic blockade against us to the streets of venice wailin because the president said it will be backed by his country's ample oil gas gold and diamond but the column is say such a system is the confidence of investors and even on the streets there's not much of that about it the day. it's very sad it's even more sad when you live to well and reach my age and you've got nothing and no way of solving anything. thousands have
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left the country and thousands more planning to blaming president but dawdle for mismanaging the economy for straight to the country with abundant natural resources such economic. history see minister if in this weather is lucky or with the power of good citizens it can change things soon then venezuela could recharge its economy and limit the damage in the next few years but if this crisis continues it's going to leave deep scars be generations to come we're not there yet but we risk being there soon but. meanwhile many venezuelans a simply occupied with finding enough to eat and if and when they do a way of paying for it. they're all just caracas. oh it's back to work for three astronauts after nearly six months on board the international space station a russian soyuz capsule with a crew from the united states russia and italy safely landed in a remote town in cassocks that all three are reported to be in good health.
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and let's take you through some of the headlines here now the u.n. brokered talks in syria have ended without any agreement in geneva the opposition delegation has already met the u.n. special envoy staff and i'm a story that our story is urging russia's president vladimir putin to convince the syrian government elections need to be held. russia's president vladimir putin meanwhile is warning the united states is ignoring information on syrian fighters traveling to iraq the russian leaders says the u.s. may be sparing some armed forces in the hope they will join the fight against syria's president bashar al assad hoot in hell these annual press conference in moscow weighs in on soaring questions on a wide range of international and domestic issues. medical volunteer group doctors
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without borders says more than six thousand seven hundred rohingya muslims were killed in the first month after violence broke out in me and the group's number is based on a survey done among the survivors of the violence in mass government official figure is four hundred. thousands of gathered at a rally in gaza city to mark thirty years since the formation of. the palestinian political party and its armed wing formed in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven the war this new company says it's reached a deal to buy most of the assets of the twenty first century fox company a transaction valued at fifty two point four billion dollars the merger is still requires approval by regulators and the u.s. justice department south korea's president moon j.m. is making his first state visit to china for a bilateral summit with president xi jinping the nuclear missile threat from north
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korea will be high on the agenda during the visit when jay is also looking to improve the really the pair's relationship after china was angered by the u.s. in the missile defense system to south korea and the stream leg stay with us here on our. jews are. swear every since. hi i'm femi oke a and i'm really could be hurricanes are my house a anne-marie are long gone but the past of destruction they.
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