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the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al jazeera. gasping for breath new video emerges of the suspected use of chlorine gas on rebel held areas in serious in the province.
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in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. we simply cannot allow to stand hardly bar to see the total destruction of democracy in venezuela the u.s. secretary of state calls argentina's support as he tries to rally regional leaders against the venezuelan president. thousands of greeks protest over the use of the name macedonia by a neighboring country. and in sport a dramatic ending gives the philadelphia eagles their first super bowl crown. of these nine people have been injured in a suspected chlorine gas attack in syria as northwestern province activists video shows people being treated in the town of salad camp there reported a foul smell following a raid by syrian guy. montag craft it follows another suspected chlorine attack by
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president assad's forces on duma in rebel held eastern ghouta that was the third reported chlorine gas attack there in fifteen days. international aid agencies are warning hundreds of thousands of displaced syrians are risk of being forced to return to their homes despite the ongoing violence the warning comes in a new joint report by six leading humanitarian groups it says neighboring countries as well as european and u.s. governments are putting pressure on refugees to go back the syrian government is taking back control of more territory the report says it's giving the impression that many areas are stable enough to return but for every syrian who went home last year three more become displaced u.n. predicts another one point five million will be displaced in twenty fifteen. and at least eleven people have been killed in russian and syrian government asterix and it leaves southern countryside this was a scene at a hospital in the city of my heart and a month after it was hit during a raid babies undergoing treatment were rushed out of the building. while khalid al
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malachi is a syrian doctor in two thousand and eleven he was jailed and tortured for six months by the assad regime he says the targeting of hospitals by the syrian government has become commonplace. the attack on the hospital. if they're not you know hospital it recognized national hospital supported by international humanitarian injury or that everybody know all the material in medical ward here full of baby use women elderly in the hospital with this. big star around the patients then when the ambulance crews and civil defense they were trying to evacuate patients from. the evacuation routes are targeted by drugs it's horrible like someone says they're not even turn on the lights to take those critical here you susan. we don't ask because they are using the farms
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the very difficult road between the towns to get to another like clinics and now patients evacuated ended up in forms and houses where they didn't like any. movement to take them out or to backward them to a new problem medical facility you're a section of state rex tillerson is in argentina seeking support for tough action against venezuela the u.s. blames venezuelan president nicolas maduro for economic and political crime scenes and led to violent protests and shortages of food medicines down osama reports desirous. washington regards latin america as its backyard that's why secretary of state rex tillerson is here with the u.s. believes it should have an influence but it's a region that often feels neglected by or is in conflict with the superpower to the north. a few years ago argentina like many of its neighbors was governed by left
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of center leaders of dollars with washington and sympathetic to venice whalers them president chavez not anymore who wants an end of the crisis in venezuela the question is how one of the aspects of considering sanctioning or is what effect will it have on of it as well and people. it is is it a step that might bring this to an end to a more rapid and in a more rapid close because not doing anything to bring this to an end is also asking the venezuelan people to shop for a much longer time the venezuelan president nicolas maduro blames the united states and its allies for trying to undermine his socialist government and then another lot of it was they have inherited the arrogance the imperial arrogance of believing that with a button an order a plan in english the bolivarian revolution is finished with a declaration from the head of the empire calling me
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a dictator it's over the dictatorship has already fallen as they call it with a statement by secretary of state to tell us and we are going to surrender they do not know us they do not know our strength. the argentine president. is now one of those in the region most critical of the venezuelan government mr tillerson wants to work with him all of us in the region want to see readers will return to his constitution we just this is heart wrenching to watch what is happening to people this way there is suffering food and medicine shortages inflation is rampant crime is rising and thousands cross the borders every day in search of provisions for a better life mr tillerson visit to argentina is to show that washington cares about latin america but the region's long term interests lie with the united states and not with china or russia he praised the arjun tying government's austerity driven investor friendly economic model much like that of the current us
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administration that's not something you would have heard a few years ago the secretary of state is emphasizing where the two countries can cooperate trade defense fighting terrorism and drug trafficking not so much on immigration they'll be similar bridge building when he moves on to peru and colombia. when osiris ecuadorians of voted to stop their presidents holding more than two terms in office sixty four percent of the voters supported changing the constitution the move was backed by ecuador's current president lenin marino his predecessor. lifted the restrictions and twenty fifteen was on a comeback in twenty twenty one but the vote now means he'll the longer be able to run again for the top job. costa rica looks all set for a presidential run off the no candidate got enough votes to win outright in sunday's election the campaign's been dominated by the issue of same sex marriage the candidate who at the moment is leading with the most votes is a christian evangelist who campaigned against same sex marriage. cyprus's president
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has won a runoff election with fifty six percent of the votes nicos anastasiades comfortably beat his challenger stab us he's vowed to improve the economy and push ahead with reunification attempts on the island a un administered demilitarized zone running through the capital nicosia has divided turkish controlled north and greek dominated south side press since one nine hundred seventy four. hundreds of thousands of greeks have rallied in the capital athens in the government not to compromise in a long running name route with neighboring macedonia greece has blocked the former yugoslav republic from joining nato and the e.u. it says the name implies a claim on a greek province also called macedonia in this report from athens. her the message was clear macedonians are greeks and no one other than the greeks should be allowed to use the name macedonia greeks refer to their neighbor by the name of its capital city skopje their opinion is important because they hold the
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power of veto over its entry to nato and the european union you might get on your enemy again as anyone macedonian is greek greek people will not accept the fact of a name we determined to show that we went out to history under the terms that can be no european prospects copia this was greece's official position until about a decade ago it has since accepted the use of the composites name such as northern also love macedonia and a new government in scope is willing to die you to the countries constitutional name republic of macedonia so the basis for a compromise in theory exists the question is can the two societies accept it the greeks have been through an eight year economic depression they have lost one hundred over their national finances and budgets very humiliating has been compounded by the fact that many european media have denied even that ancient provenance they have now said with one voice that their identity and history are
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not up for negotiation most greeks agree that the use of the name by known greeks employs a fictitious ethnicity and a first as part of their own ancient history there but it might be the new person as well it's not just this no message are any a nation alexander the great was educated doing great by aristotle whenever he won a battle he put up a monument saying this victory was won by all the greats he didn't differentiate between method on instagram. a generation of kids in skopje has grown up with this myth but that's their problem some observers say inflated expectations are a greek problem as well many people in greece felt that at some point there would be some kind of ideal solution without the the word macedonia and everything would be solved that way the fact that diplomacy means eventually some painful decisions. in the methods that message was not passed through greek society
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by the government in athens is to send its proposals to scope here in the next two weeks the crowds here warn against diplomacy without the people jump zero plus al-jazeera athens well and as a lecturer in european politics at king's college london he says the dispute is down to ownership of national identity i think there are two parameters two mentions on stopping one diplomatic and geopolitical one which says that a lot of greece see it is a matter of national interest to have a strong position on the so-called macedonian name issue on the other hand of course it's of issue of motional popular national identity so a lot of people consider that the ancient legacy of the ancients donia is part of greek identity and part of the greek narrative of continuous greek nationalism so it's a matter both of geopolitical disagreement the question of national interest in the question a very emotional national identity when the two gets together it's actually very
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difficult to conduct diplomacy isolated from the sentiment on the street. a key republican congressman is pushing back against the u.s. president donald trump's claim that he's been cleared of any accusation his twenty sixteen campaign colluded with russia trump tweeted the remark on saturday after release of a controversial memo claiming the f.b.i. abused its power by spying on a trump aide but speaking on u.s. television on sunday one of the republicans who helped write the memo said trump's claim of vindication goes too far. you still have a russian investigation even without it so. i don't know how many of the republican field. and on record of saying i support bob muller one hundred percent i think you would have a russia and russia trying to interfere with our election in twenty sixteen with or without a dossier and a gallica has more now from washington d.c. where the key date to watch here is monday evening when the democrats vote whether
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they will release their own ten page memo of course the democrats released a four page memo on friday which is proved to be very controversial it will then go to the president who has five days to approve it or not approve it one of the key issues for the democrats is they fear that it will be censored it will be made useless by the president and they're also extremely concerned about that original memo from the republicans they say they hand-picked certain information to undermine the robert mueller investigation and they're worried the president will use it all as a pretext to fire special counsel robert mueller which they say will lead to a constitutional crisis of course the president himself has been tweeting out on saturday morning that this whole thing is a witch hunt and a hoax of course it isn't that's not true the investigation will carry on at full steam and he's been seriously advised not to fire special counsel robert mueller which has been widely reported he wanted to do back in the summer so what's to
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watch for in the next few hours is that vote among the democrats to see whether that ten page memo will be released and whether president trump ultimately will allow that to happen. lots of also to come here and al-jazeera including sixteen bodies are recovered off the coast of morocco the latest in a number of deadly attempts at crossing the mediterranean more in a state. ally we've got a little bit of a wintry weather in the forecast for the middle east over the next couple of days but some places a cloud rolling across the mediterranean into the levant traffic enough at times for a few spots of prime but not too much i suspect the west the weather will be up towards maybe into. baquba it's eleven degrees celsius which is forty better about myself he says we go on through to stay here but mostly dry and bright bright skies also
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coming back in across syria lebanon jordan but some think of clout there just across israel northern parts of saudi arabia twenty three celsius in baghdad twenty one degrees there in kuwait city we're getting up into the low twenty's once again even down to twenty three celsius there as we go on through monday it should be largely dry winds falling light so it will feel somewhat warmer and it will be warmer as we go on through tuesday picking up to around twenty four celsius by this date that with a cloud to the north of us stay dry to this here in doha will just not jump as we go on towards the weekend may touch twenty five or twenty six degrees so that's something to look forward to still looking forward to some rainy cape town no sign of that in the forecast the showers continue across the eastern side of south africa heavy downpours once again into was in bob way more heavy showers into mozambique and also zambia. twenty years of china's transformation. told through one young girl's
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journey from birth to adult hood if. two decades following the development of a life and nation. five years on rewind returns to the story of k k the girl from wang joe. at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick recap the top stories here the south lisa levon people have been injured in a suspected chlorine gas attack in syria's northwestern in the province activists
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video shows people being treated in the town of. the reported a foul smell following a raid by syrian government. you said just take rex tillerson has been meeting his argentinean counterpart in buenos aires to listen seeking argentina's support against venezuelan leader nicolas maduro in the form of increased economic sanctions and further export restrictions. and hundreds of thousands of people have been demonstrating in athens against the use of the name macedonia a small balkan state the borders greece two countries agreed to stop talks. about china is accusing the u.s. of having a cold war mentality response to washington's plans to diversify its nuclear weapons policy the pentagon says its current nuclear bombs are too big a loss to develop smaller weapons the u.s. says the policy revamp is largely in response to russian actions in recent years on a tongan as a political analyst and advisor to the chinese government he says the u.s. announcement signals the beginning of another nuclear arms race. we know the
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tensions that exist between iran north korea and united states and also china russia a matter the idea that you can have a battlefield nuclear weapon is very attractive the generals who are want to win battles but they're not going to win a war you have massive new parents lower the world many hundred times over existing stockpile so the danger here is that somebody thinks that they can start aid limited their war against an object for instance iran and that somehow this will not. go into a fully average nuclear posture. problem right at this moment is that the u.s. is fighting everybody at the same time both in terms of trade now after china europe in terms of strategy and nuclear ambitions china russia iran north korea it's not clear how long. this kind of battle on
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all part not just a few hours' time in the un special rapporteur on human rights will reveal his first conclusions about the conditions faced by nepal's migrant workers about a third of the country's economy comes from money and abroad but many workers are exploited a subpoena stressed in our reports. that cuts what is it national airport this is what happens every day sixteen hundred people mostly young men leave the policy work and gulf countries in malaysia with an unemployment rate hovering around forty percent many of the police say they have no choice but to leave the country and many fall into the traps of unscrupulous middlemen but in the time i went to qatar to work in the food and beverage industry he failed a medical test in nepal but the local agents told him that they would fix it the cost of his trip including flights and bribes added up to twenty five hundred dollars but when he reached qatar he had to do the test again it should read after
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they did the tests they sent me back i ended up with no job and debts but other lurches the middle been paid off in a party officials including airport authorities the commerce department of foreign imports and receive more than two thousand complaints from neighbors doing the last fiscal year these include everything from nonpayment of salaries for all its illegal ways actions exorbitant fees on the recall and sexual abuses by foreign employment agency and middleman and according to government figures seven hundred fifty five parties died while working abroad. each worker has to deposit fifty dollars to the government for an employment before they leave but even employment agencies say that the money has not been spent on those who need it whereas. with this process the recruitment agencies have deposited more than fifty million dollars in the fund we can do so much for the workers but the government is not
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using this pond properly but government officials say it's up to the ministry of labor to decide who gets compensated and. we can use the funds for compensating workers who've gone through legal channels with the recruiting agencies registered with us we can't hold many other workers even if we wanted to the ministry of labor has to make the right policy and decide on how to use that money. the pulse of foreign workers said back six billion dollars this past year alone which amounts to almost a third of the country's g.d.p. experts say the government has to have better regulations of the sector to ensure that the laborers are safe instead many have accused politicians and bureaucrats with close ties to the industry of collusion with agents and middlemen to defraud workers swedish russia al-jazeera government. the bodies of sixteen migrants have been recovered off the coast of morocco is the latest in a number of deadly attempts to reach europe so far this year according to the
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international organization for migration more than two hundred forty people have died or gone missing in the mediterranean since the new year began catherine stansell reports. this is becoming the new routes to europe for would be migrants more than a dozen bodies were pulled out of these waters near malea a spanish enclave bordering morocco most of them were from north africa trying to get to europe fired the so-called western mediterranean route as opposed to arriving in greece or italy. twenty eighteen may have only just begun but it's already proving to be a deadly year for those trying to seek a better life in europe on wednesday more than one hundred migrants were rescued from rubber boats off the coast of tripoli. and on friday it's believed ninety people were on a boat that sank off the coast of libya the sole survivor told authorities that many were from pakistan he along with the other pakistanis were brought.
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there in the sea off the course of. these people were being illegally transported. in the ridge was in a bad shape this was being done by human smugglers. the international organization for migration has issued another warning about the dangers of trying to reach europe we think is about two hundred sixty have died so far this year alone so here you're adding another ninety to that so it's a really significant episode at a time when people continue to try to get to europe they're lured there by social media they get onto a phone they promised the rato they think life is going to be great and before they know it they're getting into the hands of awful criminal extorting people the migrants that do survive usually end up in detention centers many of which are already filled to capacity. protests were held last week by hundreds of north
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african migrants at this facility in libya many of them saying they've been held for months in living conditions which are quickly deteriorating catherine stansell al jazeera. troops in the moldy is surrounded parliament following days of unrest opposition m.p.'s of filed a motion to impeach for senior government figures including the defense minister and the attorney general it's connected to a supreme court ruling over the release and retrial of political prisoners bellus. opposition politicians use their phones to record troops messing around parliamentary grounds in the moldavian capital mali. the opposition met at parliament and decided to file impeachment motions against the defense minister home minister attorney general and secretary general they blame the government officials for failing to recognize a supreme court ruling that called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians
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including exiled former president mohammed machine. by hundreds of police officers in riot gear but a movie managed to warn you some of those. those two supreme court judges also reinstated twelve pace who were expelled for siding with the opposition opposition politicians say once parliament returns they will have the majority and can legally impeach president you mean. police raided the house of the administrative head of the supreme court on sunday they say they want him for corruption if that is an indication of how things will proceed if for example the phone president returns i think that means that he will be arrested and taken back to prison as well. what was a celebration for the release of political prisoners has morphed into protests the
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chief of police said he would implement the tax court decision the government fired him on saturday his replacement was also fired the opposition says it will continue protests as long as politicians remain in prison or in excel no. if you're going to be disfigured if you don't. really want to be a spokesman for the president has told zero zero they have nothing to fear and the president has every intention of releasing and retrying the nine political prisoners as men dated but it cannot happen immediately because of what the government calls procedural issues. to come protest as president in maine says he is willing to hold early elections his rival former president as she called it ludicrous tweeting from excel president you mean a mass release and leave now but politics in the tourism hot spot is it
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a standstill parliament is in recess and was scheduled to reconvene on monday that has been postponed indefinitely. shallop ballasts. talks about forming a government in germany are expected to continue into monday chancellor angela merkel's conservatives are in negotiations with the opposition social democrats merkel's been unable to form a coalition since an election in september when both the main parties lost seats to the far right but the two sides remain optimistic about the deal. north korea plans to send its highest ranking official to the south during the winter olympics a planned visit by kim yong nam the ceremonial head of state will lead a twenty two member delegation beginning on friday the two koreas athletes will march under one flag at the opening ceremony north korea currently faces growing international pressure and sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs. the huge crowds are celebrating in the u.s. city of philadelphia after the philadelphia eagles won the super bowl the biggest
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prize in american sports that beat the defending champions the new england patriots in a game that had drama from start to finish even the halftime entertainment show caused controversy philadelphia's mayor says details of the cheaper it will be announced later on monday leasehold the reports. warrants. it's the short piece of vent on the american sporting calendar and one that the new england patriots knew only too well forty year old star quarterback tom brady leaving out the team to get his eye to super bowl appearance they were the defending champions against the philadelphia eagles who had never won a title before but the eagles got the first touchdown of the game that was the one thing that. american football has been plagued by debate over the dangers of concussion in recent years
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and this has on the patriots brandon cooks in the second quarter doing nothing to a lie certain fee is never he wouldn't return to the game while a remarkable trick played by eagles quarterback nick foles and george tiller dosia woodley twenty two twelve at halftime he scored the touchdown from his own play cheers be remembered as one of the all time greats just going for it. justin timberlake headed the famous halftime show but it was the appearance of the my friends who was born in my city minneapolis that stirred controversy. that overnight as it's been forced to scrap a hologram of the singer after pre-game criticism he appeared as a projection instead. tom brady is used to being the star of this. and he started to drag new england back into the game. that.
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gets up the patriots hit the front for the first time with just are the ninety minutes remaining but the eagles reclaimed their advantage with ten minutes twenty two on the clock for. boston new england had come back from twenty five points down just on the atlanta falcons but there would be norm there a good comeback on base occasion as the eagles secured their first time so that was the one of those two three through the group of. the vince lombardi trophy it's finally heading to philadelphia home and al jazeera . stuff a quick recap of the headlines here on al-jazeera at least eleven people have been injured in a suspected proline gas attack in syria's north western in the province. activists
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video showed people being treated in the town of a sack him. that reported a foul smell following a raid by syrian government craft that follows another suspected careen gas attack by president assad's forces on duma and rebel held eastern buthe was third reported throwing it out there in fifteen days. and at least eleven people have been killed in the russian and syrian government and strikes in southern countryside. this was the scene at a hospital in the city of mud out a new model after it was hit during a raid baby is undergoing treatment were rushed out of the building. u.s. search of state rex tillerson has been meeting as argentinean counterpart and when as i was to listen seeking argentina's support against the venezuelan leader nicolas maduro in the form of increased economic sanctions and further export restrictions. argentina has reemerged is
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a strong advocate for democracy and the rule of law and we have particular welcome argentina's leadership to promote democracy including in particular in venezuela we must continue to work to fulfill the requirements of the if you're american democratic chairman we simply cannot allow in stand idly by to see a total destruction of a democracy in venezuela the videos why don't people deserve better ecuadorians have voted to stop their president serving more than two terms in office sixty four percent of the voters supported changing the constitution the move was backed by echoes current president lenin moreno is pretty says that i failed lifted their instructions in twenty fifteen and was eyeing a comeback in twenty twenty one well the vote now means he will no longer be able to run again for the top job. at costa rica looks all set for a presidential run off the no candidate got enough votes to win not write in
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sunday's election the campaign's been dominated by the issue of same sex marriage the candidate at the moment is leading with the most votes the christian evangelist who campaigned against same sex marriage those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after one don't want to stay tuned that's a watch that. this is really an attack on it itself is about this understanding of what free speech is supposed to be about the context of hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. there the children with nowhere to go and no one to care for them. in china the sons and daughters of jailed criminals are often left shunned and alone for some a shelter in beijing is the closest they'll get to a place they can call home.
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