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when i met daisy it was the best day of my life and. i wish that day could have gone on forever. but my past caught up with me. and made us all pay the price daisy and max at this time on al-jazeera. european powers urge the u.s. not to abandon the iran nuclear deal. in this is al jazeera live from coming up the chin is an army is deployed to help
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put an end to violence as anti-government protesters are urged to get back out on to the streets outrage in pakistan over the rape and murder of a six year old girl plus. one hundred thomas floating through a jungle in papua new guinea but i'll be explaining how rainforests like this have been decimated i would just the last seven years on the profits from. have been somewhat from the broad. u.s. president donald trump is expected to reluctantly extend the sanctions relief to iran late on friday under the new kid deal with world powers the agreement that trumps described as the worst ever was the result of more than a decade of diplomatic efforts to cattail iran's nuclear ambitions in two thousand and two a secret uranium enrichment facility was discovered in eastern iran prompting
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britain france and germany to begin talks with the rainy and negotiate as a year later in two thousand and six the us russia and china joined the talks forming the so-called p five plus one group things took a bad turn six years later when it was revealed that iran was enriching uranium close to weapons grade levels the e.u. imposed asset freezes on iran's central bank and stopped importing the country's oil. then house and ronnie defeated conservative opponents to become iran's president he declared his country was ready for serious nuclear talks and after years of negotiations a long term nuclear agreement was reached in june of twenty fifteen but the u.s. congress stipulates it needs to be reaffirmed every ninety days so while trump is expected to sign off on the sanction waivers under that deal he may impose separate u.s. sanctions as a d.m. barbara porter and brussels european leaders are urging trump not to do anything
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that risks derailing an agreement they think is working just fine a last minute attempt to keep the nuclear deal with iran on track the meeting between the foreign ministers of the three european union nations which signed it there are rainy and counterpart comes ahead of a decision in washington on reapplying sanctions the deal is working it is the living on its main goal which means keeping the iranian nuclear program in check and i'm going to close the survey against the i.a.e.a. has confirmed in more to see that iran is fully complying with the commitments made under the agreement u.s. president donald trump has repeatedly threatened to tear up the agreement which he's called the worst deal ever it was signed at a time of heightened tensions across the region some of iran's neighbors have been talking about a possible military strike against the country. runs made no secret of its arsenal of ballistic missiles but some countries including israel claimed it also had an
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active nuclear weapons program iran insisted its nuclear agenda was purely civilian but under the deal it agreed to end research in return for the partial lifting of sanctions allowing it to access global financial markets and crucially sell its oil . last summer president trump agreed to waive sanctions on iran's oil industry but things could be about to change in october he announced a new iran policy iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal i am announcing a new strategy to address the full range of iran's destructive actions trump's called for sanctions on iran's revolutionary guard and he also wants to extend time limits on the country's nuclear research and curtail its missile program he's refusing to recertify the deal unless congress passes legislation amending it but democrats say they won't back any changes not supported by european allies who
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insist any alterations would be in breach of the international agreement it leaves donald trump with two choices rectify the deal and keep it alive or reject it and trigger an international crisis we are discussing with the american american allies and friends that we should separate two things from each other first we want to preserve the jessop usa the nuclear deal with iran because it's in our all in our interest not to develop to see that nuclear weapons are developed in the iran given the strength of feeling here in europe and warnings in the us itself it's likely president trunk will in fact refrain from reapplying those oil sanctions on iran but that certainly doesn't mean he's going to give up trying to change the terms of the nuclear deal. and so the un certainty over the future of iran's nuclear program goes on. al-jazeera brussels. president trump has confirmed he's cancelled his
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state visit to london there were calls from some politicians for his invitation to be withdrawn and opponents were planning protests if the visit went ahead but on twitter chum put it down to this not wanting to officially open the new u.s. embassy in london next month he tweeted reason i cancel my trip to london is that i'm not a big fan of the obama administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in london for peanuts only to build a new one in the off location for one point two billion dollars bad deal wanted me to cut ribbon no dinners in demonstrators have burned down a security base near the algerian boarded follows days of violent protests against planned price and tax hikes the government has deployed troops across the country more than three hundred twenty people have been arrested since the unrest began on sunday demonstrations have now spread to several cities david mack is a scholar from the middle east institute in washington he says europe needs to do
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more to make sure things don't spiral out of control. the international community and various ways has provided some assistance to the tunisians actually tunisia gets a rather substantial portion of the us a id budget. but. the reality is that tunisia a long way is away from the united states there's not much we can do immediately to impact that we can try to encourage the europeans to do more what i would like to see frankly is for the europeans to consider letting to meason agricultural projects products into european markets and be treated as european origin because when you have a deep over eighty percent of your trade with europe in effect you're tied to those economies. but the europeans have not stepped up to those kind of challenges in a way that i think would be most helpful and if you think about it the real danger
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to. the situation in tunisia continuing to be so unsettled is that if you have waves of tunisian immigrants coming across the mediterranean they're going to enter these european countries and the europeans just look they should look at a map tunisia's even closer than libya is and you consider the kind of problems they've had in african migration coming from libya. there's growing outrage in pakistan over the rape and murder of a six year old girl zainab unsorry authorities are being accused of not doing enough to keep children safe after a series of similar killings and there's a push for more awareness about the prevalence of sexual abuse in pakistani society the ana karim reports. that. they're calling for justice for zainab a girl whose body was found in a dump on tuesday four days after she went missing in a district south of the horn the. protests have since broke out in several cities
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in pakistan some of them turning violent the there were funerals on thursday for two men killed in the city of pursuer an enraged crowd stormed a police station. officers responded by firing live rounds on demonstrators law enforcement is being blamed here zain ups father says the police did not act fast enough when his daughter went missing last week the local police chief has been sacked for negligence related to the case. if the culprits in earlier cases had been caught and punished than this incident would never have happened if they had been given exemplary punishments people's daughters would have been safe today eleven other child murders have been reported in the area in recent months and in two thousand and fifteen sewer district was at the center of a child sexual abuse scandal a number of suspects were arrested accused of blackmailing scores of children into
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making sex videos the figure of child sexual abuse child rape sodomy child murder has board in the past three to four years in the district of the store and it seems to me that there is an element of. gangs and ring police say they're still investigating leads in zena murder and have interrogated two hundred twenty seven people in connection with the case the number one suspect the man seen here on the security camera with zainab it's the last time she was seen alive diana kerim al-jazeera. staying in pakistan where crowds are gathering in the city a fison about for a rally organized by a charity group linked to the main suspect in the two thousand and eight bombing it's part of a series of protests sparked by the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital the demonstrations are angry about violence in the disputed kashmir region. is in faisalabad say it's not just
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one issue that they protesting of is a talk us through what's going on there. well first of all the target on defense. is a grouping of about fourteen religious and religious right to bring political parties there of course have been protecting the u.s. moved to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem there also a border supporter general. support for the crush me to cause and of course the indian kashmir where atrocities that have been committed against the ordinary people but this is a very large gathering tens of thousands of people have been mobilized kate in the city of. as you can see behind me the leader that addressing the large rally head of god there condemning the government for not doing enough to stand up to the
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international community especially after tear through on that it also anger over the palestinian issue these people are thinking that their struggle will continue until the last man and that they will not give up the rights of the people of kashmir all for that matter the people in palestine i can tell us more about the coalition that's organized this rally. well i did a budget on defense council. mentioned. a grouping all for at least forty political and religious parties including. me retired tremendous support on the street also had how faith. has come under scrutiny treat and maybe going to government and now threatening to dry up their fund then make it an illegal friend part of it aided being found in it then buy it up i get donnie
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called kid loved by the people across bog it down for its contribution particularly when did our national did dr and read it to note a golf large people out of born though they are able to gather large crowd attended third large rally by far the largest so far they also plan to continue with the rally a cross. get done over the next few weeks thank you for that. still ahead on the al-jazeera trumpet lashes have immigration reform making vulgar a mocks about some of us neighbors and countries in africa. its fate for any survive his days off to california's devastating mudslide. from dusky sunsets if you disproving savannah. to sunrise
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the top and in metropolis how i was still got some rather lively down poles affecting parts of southern europe in the central med we've had this area cloud of rain swirling away across a fleet for suddenly a pushing a little further race was ahead of that was saved some rather wet weather the increase seventy two millimeters of rain in twenty four hours and there is more where that came from so that wessel weather that we have across the central med will bring further down pools. cross the southern half of italy and the showers as you can see just east on the way towards that western side of it brighten up as we go through friday afternoon fifteen self's the top temperature here but across many western parts of the bible but the next day a cloud of gray waiting in the atlantic will slide this way and for saturday in temperatures really struggling in madrid just seven degrees celsius notice a little bit of snow there a possibility over the high ground so the cloud of rain that makes its way up across the british isles we'll see what weather eventually pushing into england as we go on through the week campuses day six celsius the top temperature here what's
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the weather will clear away from italy still that damp weather the heavy downpours the thundery sal's so you a possibility there for greece as we go on through the next few days same area of disturbed weather is already bringing rain into northern area into it will scrape its way across the far north of libya. there with sponsored by qatar and he's. you are making very pointedly mounts where on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been decriminalized or if you join us on saturday no evil person just makes up of it in the morning and says i want to scour the world in darkness this is a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion on line 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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and again you watching out of their mind of our top stories be u.s. president is expected to reluctantly extend sanctions relief to iran late on friday . under the new kid deal with world powers but don't trump may impose separate u.s. sanctions. to new zealand demonstrators have been down the security base near the algerian border but as days of violent protests against planned price and tax increases. crowds are gathering in the pakistani city of pfizer the blood for a rally organized by a charity group linked to the main suspect in the two thousand and eight mom by bombing it's part of a series of protests against the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. a small group of u.s.
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senators say they have reached a compromise on immigration reform but they yet to win the support of donald trump and according to several reports the president made vulgar remarks about haiti el salvador and african countries during the discussions kristensen him has a story days after president trump called on lawmakers to find a compromise on immigration reforms a small bipartisan group of six senators say they've done just that the agreement was expected to include funding for border security protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children and changes to the way the state department approves visas but in a private meeting a proposal to restore protections to immigrants from he salvador and certain african countries who were until recently protected from deportation reportedly prompted the president to question why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here. he then suggested that the united states should instead bring
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more people from countries like norway whose prime minister he met on wednesday that's the races that women norwegians are white they're northern europeans he was referring earlier in his vulgar comment to africans and haitians who are mostly of african descent this is these are racist comments he said things like this before when he talked about nigerians who won't go back to live in huts and he talked about the haitians who bring aids to the united states these are all confirmations of war a lot of people have long suspected that he harbors racism republican representative mia love a haitian american responded on twitter saying the president's comments are unkind divisive elitist and fly in the face of our nation's values this behavior is unacceptable from the leader of our nation they are bringing drugs they're bringing crime they're rapists it's not the first time the president has spoken disparagingly of immigrants and his spokesperson didn't deny the comments certain
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washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries president trump will always fight for the american people he said president trump is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation the president says he wants a marriage based immigration system not one based on family connections or a lottery and his comments suggest he's not yet ready to accept the compromise reached by senators kristen salumi al jazeera new york take his government has dismissed and have a child in the sixty's civil servants and military personnel under its latest state of emergency decree president brigitte type at a one extend of the state of emergency earlier this week it was imposed after the failed coup in twenty sixteen thousands of people suspected of involvement have been arrested and tens of thousands sacked. so in course who is following the story
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for us from antakya. turkey has dismissed more than two hundred sixty public personnel already new governmental decree that was published friday morning at this government so they create is also another extension of the state of emergency that has been underway since the failed coup attempt and in july two thousand and sixteen but in the latest decree there are more than one thousand eight hundred people who have been reinstated for their jobs those people were dismissed from their jobs due to their religious. links with the fed to lacuna an organization who's accused of being behind the failed coup attempt in july two thousand and sixteen. the primary evidence for being a member of the good an organization was immobile encrypted mobile application called by luck but the prosecutor's office decided on a different way and they said those people had no links it turkey it will be
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extending the state of emergency rule for three more months this is what the turkish parliament decided. this week but as the election is coming up in two thousand and nineteen in tricky everybody's curious whether the government is willing to continue to implement state of emergency until then improve thousands are rallying against the pardon of former president alberto fujimori he was released from prison in december because of poor health pretty reserved twelve years of a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights abuses including mass killings and kidnappings. a reporter at the u.k. warns that nuclear weapon systems around the world are becoming more vulnerable to hacking attacks by rival states or hostile groups the chatham house think tank says the spread of digital technology makes it more likely that hackers could just sable or even launch nuclear missiles the report calls on governments to work with the
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private sector to stay on top of technological developments. there's a large cleanup effort underway in southern california after a devastating mudslide but local police say it's unlikely they'll find any more survivors seventeen people were killed when storms sent a wall of mud crashing through homes and washing away cars rob reynolds has the latest from los angeles. deliverance from above a coast guard helicopter hovered low to rescue a man a child and their dog from the roof of a house surrounded by mud roads in the area have been washed out or are impassable because of mud and debris another coast guard crew landed on a golf course and shepherded eight people and five dogs aboard their jayhawk helicopter officials say five hundred rescuers are combing the hills and canyons using search dogs and thermal imaging equipment crews have to work their way
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through waist deep mud fallen trees and boulders oh my god mark marco farrel was recording at the moment a torrent of mud and debris came rushing down the street where his parents live where wildfires last month stripped the hillsides of vegetation that usually holds back so will and rock making the mudslides more powerful i've been a firefighter for twenty six years and yeah for most people that are here on this incident we've never seen in a band like this work crews are struggling to clear roads and restore services like electricity telephone gas and water some residents shoveled out their own houses and driveways about one hundred houses were destroyed in tuesday's mudslides it's just my everywhere and completely across six lanes of freeway. and to people's homes down there driveways grateful for the nonstop efforts of rescuers and work
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crews residents of the area face a long road to full recovery rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. has been a mass burial in nigeria for seventy three people killed in fighting between the headsman and they've been locked in conflict for decades over the use of land to graze cattle i mean it just reports. a solemn ceremony for victims of recent violence between herdsman and farmers as a dead brought in coffins on open trucks emotions run high. survivors say the attacks were carried out by herdsman stevens i am a member of a local militia formed to confront the nomad says it was left for dead when the camp was rated. in a new promise we were in a camp around five am without warning without information we started to hear
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gunshots they were shooting we didn't have any rifle ammunition mary is a mother of two she's alive but suffered a deep machete cut to the phrase attacks and counterattacks between farmers and cattle herders have grown worse in nigeria over the past five years last year alone at least one thousand five hundred have died and more than one hundred thousand displaced as the seventy three victims of the recent violence are buried here the nigerian government is sending soldiers to stop the killings and the problem is access to land a changing climate is forcing the migration of moment from the north to the south in spite of past existing lands reserved for grazing have been overtaken my family and some from frankfurt cross a population drops and this is created a conflict between families and credit cards. security forces have announced arrests on both sides and some states have enforced a ban on openly grazing i know. the size of my state.
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is where. there is no. two helped us of land. that you can put as brazil is that so it cannot work here the rule land is occupied . but the herdsman say the law was in bad faith mantras to english their way of life don't get in is there grazing is the philosophies legal right is nigerians that's the way they were brought up when they insist on ranching they should be provided with wrenches if there is no provision for ranches how do you want them to live efforts by the central government to demarcate areas exclusively for grazing is being resisted in some states. this conflict has been going on for half a century or the rising casualties on the scramble for land and water many nigerians say they believe the violence will get worse before it gets better i mean to greece al-jazeera mccourty nigeria environmental groups are accusing papua new
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guinea's government of sitting back while the country's rain forests are destroyed the pacific nation has just overtaken malaysia to become the world's biggest exporter of tropical hardwood andrew thomas went to pommy ark to see the impact that. the extremely remote location of this rain forest used to operates protection but recently that changed i. the forests around palmy zero are disappearing fast as they have been right around papua new guinea we have lost everything. we've been here two years ago we would be standing under a new go to be tree or maybe looking at the birds flying out all the troops but no look at this so we would have been in the middle of the forest yes we would be in the middle of course. school. papua new guinea has more
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of asia pacific remaining rainforest than any other country but special agricultural business leases or a.b.l. threaten them they were supposed to be issued to agricultural companies to clear land they intended to farm on but most s.a.b. else which now cover more than ten percent of papua new guinea's in thailand mass were issued often corruptly to logging companies the timber is processed in china and sold on around the world as kitchen flooring palm oil plantations are eventually planted but there are reports substitute. is supposed to avoid a motion in reports like this but this scene is just profoundly depressing when i first took my breath away i mean just look at it this is a landscape that's being scarred logging companies say they brought jobs services and roads to poor parts of papua new guinea and paid landowners but this satellite
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imagery with pictures taken in twenty thirteen and again this year shows in just one area the extent of what's been lost. john powell rear helped a malaysian company to negotiate its access but he quickly felt locals were being pressured into sunny onesided agreements i feel embarrassed i say i must tell you we were looking for. reasons why without considering all the simplifications we offered to bring him and we were even in places looking companies have subsidized the local police those trying to stop the loggers say they've been beaten by them held in shipping containers and threatened with arrest hours given. some on my farm and by a policeman in uniform carrying a gun and in the night. in papua new guinea's capital two politicians and officials
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have been accused of being too close to the logging companies and of taking bribes to help the yields go through the country's new lands minister doesn't annoy that but says he is part of the solution deals is a disaster it's a disgrace there's definitely some that are illegal there's no question about it and they will be cancel they will be cancelled and all logging will stall but it's not stopping we've just been in these new britain the logging is devastating you're right it is not stopping because of the fact that we still have to go through the process there's a legal process lot of the east but it's going to stop it will stop in many places logging companies are appealing the cancellation of their licenses but while court cases drag on the trees keep falling under thomas al-jazeera pommy or proper new guinea. and again the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s.
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president is expected to reluctantly extend sanctions relief to iran later on friday under the new kid deal with world powers the u.s. needs to reaffirm the deal every ninety days but donald trump may impose separate u.s. sanctions tonight in demonstrators a burned down a security base near the algerian border it follows days of violent protests against planned price and tax increases the government has deployed troops across the country more than three hundred twenty people have been arrested since the unrest began on sunday. there's growing outrage in pakistan over the rape and murder of six year old girl then i've been sorry her death has led to days of protest with authorities accused of not doing enough to keep children safe is also a push for more awareness about the prevalence of sexual abuse in pakistani society . crowds are gathering in the pakistani city of fison about for a rally organized by a charity group linked to the main suspect in the two thousand and eight mom by
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bombing it's part of a series of protests against the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. turkey's government has dismissed another two hundred sixty civil servants and military personnel and its latest state of emergency decree president. one extended the state of emergency earlier this week it was imposed after the failed coup in twenty sixteen. u.s. president has caused a stir of a comments he's reported to have made during an oval office meeting speaking about proposed protections for immigrants donald trump used a swear word while referring to haiti el salvador and some african nations thousands of people have rallied to improve against the pardon of former president alberto fujimori he was released from prison in december because of poor health. mori served twelve years of a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights abuses. i
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reports out of the u.k. warns that nuclear weapon systems around the world are becoming more vulnerable to hacking attacks by rival states or hostile groups those are the headlines the street as thousands of seek refuge in bangladesh a new armed group is taking shape fighting the government and me and. them because they refuse to give us our basic rights as citizens for the first time a member of the arab just salvation army talks to al-jazeera at this time. ok and you're in the street we are live on al-jazeera i'm willing to be today why are so many palestinian minors in prison in israel and how are they treated take a look at this video from our colleagues and.
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