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the shared history. what makes this moment. this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion of what free speech is supposed to be about the context is hugely important. to be offensive will provoke people to setting the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. this in fact is our new american moment there has never been a better time to start living the american dream. donald trump in his first state of the union address boasts of economic success and renewed optimism.
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i'm sam is a dan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up after a chaotic start interruptions and delays the russian sponsored talks on the war in syria finally wrap up. with. two days of fighting in yemen and southern secessionist say they've taken control of the port city of aden plus. any one and a half million afghan refugees living in pakistan face an uncertain future. the u.s. president has delivered a wide ranging speech to a joint sitting of congress it was donald trump's first state of the union address
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he spoke mainly about domestic policy trump highlighted his successes in tax reform and the need to change immigration laws to protect u.s. interests oh i thousand correspondent kimberly halkett was following the address from capitol hill. most of donald trump speech certainly focused on domestic policies and what he sees as achievements on that front that he has scored in the last year in office there were certainly some very pronounced foreign policy messages as well that will be a controversy all outside the united states donald trump projected as he house in the campaign trail and in his first office this need to continue policies and keep believe projects american greatness by this he was to call in congress for additional funding and rebuilding of america's military in his view the best way to bring about peace is for jack and straight and that this will deter aggression
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particularly when it comes to north korea as well donald trump talked about what he sees a significant achievement and that is the near radek ation in both syria and iraq of eisel within that announcement donald trump also making a very controversal announcement and that is his decision to keep open one tata mobile bay cuba prison or what many refer to as get both in the united states this is very controversial because of course many who have been held there for more than a decade have not been afforded due process of process something that is counter to the u.s. justice system now donald trump suggested not only that this prison should remain open but that there should be more enemy combatants in his view that should be detained there that is certainly going to be something that will not be received well outside the united states and another point to note is this claim by donald trump that those who do not stand in support of american interests particularly
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when it comes to the recent votes of the united nation with respect to his decision to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem but those nations who do not stand with the united states. not receive american funding these are certainly policies which many outside the united states will feel are not part of the american pool whopper ration that they have seen in the past from the united states and as kimberly mentioned that trump spoke about the condemnation he had received from other countries in deciding to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital blessed month they also took an action indorsed unanimously by the u.s. senate just months before i recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel thanks
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. to syria senior political analyst model on the shadow says the reaction to trump state of the union comments on jerusalem shows just how divided the country is on that subject it's really a dark a dark moment in american history an american presidency if you will once america starts viewing those who disagree with it over its illegal action as the enemies need to be punished but what got my attention most in terms of the politics of the source of speeches. i think this is the first time in the history of the state the . month of the union addresses that i've seen where israel is involved and democrats don't stand up and prop. sure imagine how far president trump has
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gone on the question of jerusalem and basically undoing the entire basis of the peace process that america worked on for twenty five years so much so that democrats who are you know the staunchest supporters of israel would not stand up and clap when he invoked the question of jerusalem capital of israel that is news. russian sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution to that war in syria have ended with a call for elections in the country but the syrian opposition boycotted the event saying key demands were ignored rory chalons reports from the conference in sochi which was marred by squabbles and heckling the russian foreign minister. for several hours it seemed like the syria congress in sochi would collapse before it began turkish backed opposition figures refused to participate after arriving at saatchi's airport overnight offended by the presence of syrian government flags. we
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were surprised to see that none of the promises were kept needed a brutal bombardment stopped nor were the syrian regime flags and slogans removed from the conference banners and we have seen a lack of diplomatic manners from the host country which. two hours late spring seedings finally got underway. but the chaos continues during russian foreign minister sergey lavrov opening remarks in the conference hall. in the room one thousand three hundred ninety three international observers and delegates from many walks of syrian life political religious ethnic cultural and business they pushed ahead with dialogue agreeing in the ends to embrace twelve principles developed in the un the stalled geneva process and to form a constitutional committee comprising syrian government and opposition figures but
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there was no disguising the absence of the main rebel organizations among them the syrian negotiations committee the key concern that many in the opposition have had about sochi and what's kept plenty of figures away is that this would turn into a way for russia to sidestep the official un track to peace well that's something the russians have denied strenuously here saying this was never meant to compete with geneva and now they said. they are handing the baton on to stefan de mistura it's a task the u.n. special envoy has chosen to accept their constitutional committee eve to be formed comprising the government of the syrian republic delegation along with the why represented opposition delegation for drafting a constitutional reform and the main tests for the ultimate success of sochi whether the opposition factions who stayed away can be persuaded to endorse its decisions and whether it does as russia says was always the intention reinvigorate
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talks in geneva rory chalons al-jazeera sochi. heavy explosions have rocked the yemeni capital some on wednesday after arab coalition planes targeted the secret weapon stores of the militia meanwhile secessionist forces in yemen say they've taken control of the southern port city of aden that's where the saudi backed government of president. has been based in two thousand and fourteen who was pushed out of the capital by hoofy rebels forte's. the seat of power for yemen's government is no longer under its control this is the sudden port city of aden where secessionist said they are now in charge fighters from the southern transitional council have seized areas around the presidential palace and military bases. the prime minister's call to cease fire has not worked the government of president who had the is based out of saudi arabia and
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the man he appointed as governor of aden now heads the separatist movement secessionist said given how the made him to change his government and when the deadline expired on sunday thousands of their supporters took to the streets of aden. we demand this corrupt gang in the liberated southern areas be expelled our youth have sacrificed for the school these sacrifices cannot go down the drain and see this corrupt gang in power to them we say enough is enough. many people in the south of the accused the government in the north of discrimination since jim and was united in one thousand nine hundred the situation has worsened since the war against the who these began three years ago. we aspire to form a state the coalition must consider our cause if not they will be the losers as we were store our country and our state not only on us on the golan they are here today holding our ground we will remain in the streets we will topple the field
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government we will topple bin doctor and his government as they've humiliated our people the people of the south. the saudi led coalition was supposed to fight the iran backed with the rebels you could call much of the north including the capital sanaa and the united arab emirates which is part of that coalition has been supporting the separatists in the south where you a partner saudi arabia backs the internationally recognized government which no longer has any control in the north or the south but despite that the saudis insist the coalition has been splinted. the position of the u.a.e. remains deeply consistent with other members of the coalition concerning the yemen crisis the foreign ministers meeting last week was good evidence that members of the coalition are united and will take the liberation of yemen as their ultimate goal but instead of liberating and uniting yemen the war seems to have pushed the country to the brink of breaking up some of the job how does there. still to come
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an al-jazeera. god. can his main opposition leader. the people's president plus drumming up business we'll look at what's in store for britain's prime minister helle way to china. welcome back well after a few days of snow we've seen dry conditions affecting tehran in iran we've got little bit of snow further towards the east of afghanistan and moving up towards the hindu kush otherwise weather conditions across the region not too bad you see some snow across northern parts of turkey and into the caucuses but around the eastern side of the military not looking too bad with temperatures there into the upper teens for beirut as we head through to thursday here in the arabian peninsula
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the weather is also looking fairly quiet at the moment little bit cooler than it has been but twenty two degrees is not something to complain about here in tow riyad temperatures coming up a little bit as well so eighteen degrees the high during wednesday and on thursday we should see that topping out about nineteen degrees across the rest the clincher jerry looking fine meco should see plenty of sunshine and highs of thirty degrees into southern parts of africa has seen some showers affecting eastern parts of south africa that continues through wednesday but cape town should be dry and fine heavy rain affecting the parts of angola through some beer towards zimbabwe and mozambique and still some heavy rain affecting the east coast of madagascar not much change expect as we head on through into thursday we're looking at fine weather conditions across much of central africa and it should be fine and liberal in the bonn highs thirty one. news has never been more available it's
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a constant barrage that they put out every day but the message is a simplistic you have been trained good logical rational person crazy months and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. you're watching out to see a time to recap our headlines now donald trump has delivered his first state of the union address with joint session of congress the us president began with
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a call to seek out common ground on some and unity among fellow lawmakers the economy trade health care immigration and the military as well as protecting america's interests or on his legislative agenda for the year a. russian sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution to the war in syria have ended with a call for elections in the country the syrian opposition to boycott of the event saji says key demands were ignored. secessionists forces in yemen have taken control of the southern port city of aden reports say the government of president abdurrahman sword had he has been confined to the presidential palace in the city. let's return to our top story and transfer state of the union address elizabeth anchor is in washington d.c. for us she's an associate professor in american studies and political science at george washington university so welcome back is this the speech that's left the
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country and obviously congress going forward more united. well i think the hope and certainly trumps hope was that this country was going to be more united after his speech and you could see in his more conciliatory and calm demeanor that he was hoping that might do some of the uniting work but this speech in fact was actually a list of many of trump's positions that are quite hard right and i don't think that there are many democrats and even moderate republicans who are going to be behind many of these policies the one policy that he was really hoping would unite the country around infrastructure was basically something that he was not even promising to find in a serious way and he wanted to mostly be done by private companies rather than the federal government so even that particular issue which could have been unifying really left a lot of the democrats stone faced and not interested in joining over with him he painted a much rosier picture of the country in the wrong compared to his inauguration
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speech but you know the fact checkers are already calling him out on things like his statement that car plants are being built for the first time that overseen the biggest tax reform in the u.s. history. that the country is exporting energy what do you make of some of his the economic aspects of his speech. well one of the things that trump was really hoping to to ride in on was his tax cuts and his claim to have and you know enacted the biggest tax cut in u.s. history it is not the biggest tax cut in u.s. history is the fact checkers have noted and it also only benefits some of the population even though he says that it will benefit everybody this is a tax plan that nonpartisan in bipartisan groups all know it will benefit. vastly the wealthiest people of our country and will benefit corporations but will actually do very little to many of the americans who are working two or three jobs
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and who you know there is low unemployment which is great but whose jobs still are not able to allow them to live a flourishing light and even to pay their bills. internationally presenting a moment of trying to face of america to the world when you look at what he said about he's going to keep going to open new rules of engagement in afghanistan confronting north korea and iran and so on his decision to keep guantanamo open is a surprise it's certainly not something that is going to attract a lot of democrats and a lot of the country alongside him because many people want it closed. and that was just one piece of this very militarized approach to dealing with the world he had very loud and bombastic rhetoric about north korea and i think there is a majority of the u.s. is scared that he is going to through his words and rhetoric and his his in tag a nice thing of the north korean leader take the united states into war with north
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korea something that could be vastly catastrophic so there was militancy in many different places across the globe in his approach there were very few specific policy proposals about how to engage different countries but his tone was certainly a militaristic one all right thanks so much for your analysis on elizabeth. more than one point four million afghans are expected to lose the right to stay in pakistan on wednesday after the government said it will no longer extend refugee status their legal status officially expired on december thirty first when the pakistani federal cabinet extended the stay by a month some of spent the last thirty five years living in pakistan. is live for us at the refugee camp in the showers so what happens today then to these afghans who will no longer have their registration cards renewed
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where there's been a killer in question because as you mentioned in the posh the pakistanis have been allowing extensions up to a year and they did go. but. they've been given only one that did because the government of bogard on that include that security forces as well and the foreign oil faith that they. know a grave there that could get done just a few days ago there was a u.s. drone strike. close to the aviv on board a. refugee so the warn. back although it is going to be a difficult because as you mentioned it includes the one point four million registered refugee and equal number of underage you're. saying that they cannot compromise their security that these people have to go back and the afghan
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government and the international community including the united states after do more to help with that bad creation of the refugee you mentioned security there has the security establishment basically concluded that the afghans now is more of a threat and they must be sent out the country soon as possible is that what's happening behind the scenes. absolutely because as i mentioned earlier. all maybe crashing into of one is don normally. hiding places from where they can operate and plan their attack. putting their foot down and for the first time the bugs on the security forces are also demanding from the government that solution much be found decades after all a poor country that can order for the burden of gold many refugees the largest
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number of one refugee. so indeed a change of heart from that security force that read the government seems to be determined to ensure that did a few bad and send back to their country all right thanks so much to my high that. twenty seven year old man in india has been arrested over the rape of these eight month old baby cousin the girl is being treated for serious internal injuries he's on the gone three hour operation in the capital new delhi where around thirty six thousand recorded cases of rape sexual assault and similar offenses against children in india in two thousand and sixteen. kenya's government has declared the opposition movement their criminal group the ows after its leader i loathe swore himself in as a mock inauguration thousands of his supporters attended the ceremony insisting he
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is the legitimate leader when they argue the presidential power that returned the whole of kenya to power was neither free nor fair catherine sawyer reports from nairobi. i. cry a loading they're taking an oath of office that is not officially recognized he swears to serve and protect the country as what he calls himself the people's president he's basing his oath of the august eighth general election and she says he won the election was invalidated by the supreme court which ordered a new one to be held in october last year and his opposition national coalition quoted that paul. was. tuesday's rally in nairobi was largely peaceful and there was no police presence despite the government declaring that catherine and willful and shutting down live signals of the country's main television stations for most
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of the day. the ceremony itself took less than fifteen minutes and left mixed feelings on what today was sort of anticlimactic for the many many supporters of the opposition i saw when lisa new came to witness the symbolic swearing in of rye loading that and his deputy long gone with your car and the reason why people went home so disappointed is because the other three main leaders including. this deputy did not show up to this event. they later issued a statement saying the absence was beyond their control but supporters here say does not look good for opposition unity or what. we thought were the other leaders will be here to support it would have shown us how strong the open. yes. i other people we talked to told us that the important thing is that. i did not
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claim i'm a sponsor of the cuts. and that's the kind of. relief that the state of this country this is from the stuff some of the most fertile sperm classified i know exactly when i was born in. any. case he is a so-called people to simply a forum established by the opposition to operate to the county governments to push for an electoral reforms and other issues last year the opposition also each accused the national resistance movement the government has just declared that an organized criminal group. these are the supporters say it does not matter if put all their hopes on him to deliver electoral justice even as they understand that the oath is largely ceremonial and. catherine sorry al-jazeera arabic.
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now hundreds of people have gathered for a procession rally in catalonia just as the regional plan to reappointed south hadley their collars first of all as president for the palm tree vote was suspended the central government warned of a possible extension of direct rule from madrid. explains from basa mona and i can tell you that another large scale demonstration here in barcelona in support of council an independent it comes on the day in which the castle and parliament dominated by those who favor of independence fully suspended the session the would have formally recognized his new leader as close to the only problem is the colors push him on his own self-imposed exile in brussels if you don't attempt to come back here to barcelona he runs the very very real risk of being jailed possibly for thirty years in charge of the. belly and sedition for declaring independence for catalonia the end all for tobar saying that though the constitutional court on saturday said that if he doesn't come here to barcelona for his own investiture in
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person then they would suspend the session completely there is also the possibility that parliament could hold a symbolic session of their own with the possibility of putting on appearing via live or video link up for a speech to be read by somebody else on his behalf but then they run the very real risk of their being a continuation of direct rule over. by central government in madrid but the people here have made it very very clear where their loyalty lies with this man recognize him as carlos pretty. britain's prime minister to resume a has arrived in the chinese city of will hand the head of trade talks with chinese president xi jinping she's on a three day visit and she's there along with fifty business leaders hoping to set up new deals and fresh markets while the u.k. prepares to leave the e.u. finally fillets reports they've been making woollen cloth since seventeen eighty
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three and the expertise built up over centuries by this very british company in its yorkshire factory is now highly valued by the chinese today much of the focus is on markets in the far east and it exports more textiles and fabrics to china than to any other country. they know where else might china in the atlantic they think sank into the stagnant relationship and next thing and to john shanks and actually me and i can you can see them as they can and can't see anything and i can see this company's business is interwoven with china but the wider british and chinese economies are not so tightly bound to trade house grown sharply in recent years but it's still relatively small the united states is the largest destination
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for british exports china is only eight exports to china are worth about one fourteenth of those to the e.u. which britain will soon be leaving but china's growing strength is felt in britain as elsewhere the arrival of the first train from china in london last year a symbol of china's desire to reach across the world to trade more with britain. to resume a has visited china before and met president g g at the g. twenty summit back in twenty sixty but now with the prime minister weak at home and with new government documents saying that breaks it will damage the economy is there a danger the chinese will consider her a little desperate they clearly have the upper hand in many ways because they're bigger economy three times bigger i mean they're important to us in ways that probably weren't before brics it started to happen and so the best outcome really will be that she looks confident she's aware of the strategic importance of this
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visit as many many things that china does want from the u.k. intellectual partnership intellectual property liberty investment environment and so the best outcome will be one where everyone comes away thinking markets when we're in the yorkshire factory they make products the chinese want there's now a lucrative trade in cloth to snooker tables the challenge for tourism a on this visit to convince china and other countries that the brand of global britain still counts for something in a post it world barnaby phillips al-jazeera yorkshire. and you can get much more on all those stories we've been following on our web site al jazeera dot com. let's take you through some of those stories now the u.s. president down trump has delivered his first state of the union address to a joint session of congress his speech began with
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a call to seek out common ground and summon unity among fellow lawmakers the economy trade health care and all of his legislative agenda for the year ahead and the u.s. president pushed for cross party support to solve the issue of so-called dreamers their people who were brought illegally to the u.s. is children my duty and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber is to defend america us to protect their safety their families their communities and their right to the american dream because americans are dreamers too. before his state of the union address told trump signed an executive order to keep the one ton of a bay prison open his move reverses previous administration's efforts to close it down guantanamo was opened after the nine eleven attack to hold and interrogate suspected enemy combatants forty one detainees are still held there most of them
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without charge. russian sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution to the war in syria have ended with a call for elections in the country the syrian opposition boycotted the event in sochi they say key demands were not met no formal agreements from a diva. saudi led coalition planes have carried out air strikes in the yemeni capital of sanaa targeting houthi rebel weapons stores explosions were felt in an area north of the city is coalition forces carried out several raids residents say the strikes resulted in flying shells and explosions session list forces in the taking control of the port city of aden reports say the government of president. has been confined to the presidential palace that's where the saudi backed leaders government has been based since two thousand and fourteen he was pushed out of the capsule by the field rebels. headlines
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the news continues here on al-jazeera after listening post stay with us. current tensions between countries along the river nile have their roots in the colonial past. interview tonight. with the new political realities on the ground are increasing the sense of uncertainty over the rhythm there was a need to do that and how it can feel good neighbors can be in the. struggle going on at this time when all this is. a popular website crazy. security mission people. like. you. more of a true.

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