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it was always telling him how famous he was going to make it that's how he presented hello my name and body but. northwest representatives kind of. teachers who. i said you were a member of that we had this special meeting about the nail and he said no. that's not the topic i knew immediately this is a common you know piece on the mainland city al-jazeera investigation. of silence this time. you can take back with you a message to the tyrants of her own. do not. use rules resolve israel's prime minister calls iran the greatest threat to the world as he addresses a security conference in munich. hello
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i'm adrian for get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up two palestinians shot dead by israeli forces following an explosion that injured israeli soldiers. sixty six people feared dead in an iranian passenger plane crash in the mountainous profits. some of the strain is an unwanted refugees have now been sent to the u.s. . israel and iran have exchanged stinging criticism of the growing tension in the middle east israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu told delegates of the munich security conference that iran is the greatest threat to the world he vowed to prevent terror on its nuclear ambitions and warned it not to test israel's result. israel will not allow iran's regime to put
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a noose of terror around our neck. we will act without hesitation to defend ourselves and we will act if necessary not just against iran's proxies that are attacking us but against iran itself what iran's foreign minister hit back saying that terror and wants to forge closer ties with its neighbors and that israel is the aggressor in the region from israel's invasion and subsequent aggressions under been on its eagle occupation of palestine and it's almost they'd be eagle incursions into syrian air space to attempt to create cartoonish images to blame others for his own strategic blunders or maybe to evade the domestic crisis that treaty there is hashem is at that conference in munich
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what are we to make of that this extraordinary scenes we saw at the conference today. an indication of what we might see in the near future in the region basically further escalation and the iranian foreign minister. was that if these harsh words against the israelis the saudis are describing them as clients of the analysis of america saying that basically what has happened in the region over the last three decades is a succession of mishaps missteps and blunders by the americas and. in the region blaming them for everything that has been happening here and what we've been hearing today with really extraordinary that way or another because when the israeli prime minister spoke we got a quick reaction from the lebanese defense minister saying that if the israelis decide to attack us then we are ready to respond and then window odds are you've
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made his remarks about saudi arabia the measure was there we were critical of iran blaming the iranians for working for over the last four decades to destabilize the region this is want. to say. we cannot afford to put up with the when the revolution penetrance of course the reason iran a sanction for terrorism is because it supports terrorism. we didn't sanction them the international community did the reason you promised to action for violating ballistic missiles accords is because it does and the recently are going to sanction. on human rights violations just because it does so there has to be a fundamental change in the iranian regime in order for iran to be treated like a normal country. where does this leave that we are most likely to see further regional interference in places like yemen and syria the
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potential for confrontation between the key players there is a growing of the united nations has expressed concern about this potential of the. united nations all voters serious to fundable stoller said a while ago that his biggest concern is that with the biggest players in the region interfering inside syria and cross syria it is worrisome calling for the international community to come together and encourage all the parties to try to negotiate a settlement but that does not look to be the case any time soon given what we've been hearing or exchanges over the last few hours here in munich ashleigh many thanks indeed better their live in munich will address creek is an assistant professor at the defense studies department at king's college london he says that israel is trying to drum up support against iran along with its allies. well what we see here is a clash over narratives that has been unfolding over the last couple of years particularly two u.s.
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allies here we have israel and saudi most of the most important argue the most important allies for the united states in the region are trying to build a narrative of tarnishing iran's reputation somewhat rightly so is somewhat obviously exaggerating of what iran is actually doing they're trying to convince the trauma administration that iran is really the biggest menace in this part of the world they're trying to build consensus around it showing in a metal you know waving a piece of drones showing how dangerous iran actually is and it's not operating far away from israel's border but it's operating right very closely to israel's border with lebanon and syria and the saudis jumping on board so what we see here is a particular aim at the neo conservatives and the republicans in america who see iran already for a very long time as a threat to the not just to try ministration but the core supporters of the trump administrations of people in the white house as well as you know these thirty five percent of americans who see the region in a very much in a black and white picture good versus evil and they completely disregard you know
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what saudi might have to do with terrorism or how israel is actually exacerbating terrorism in palestine and so on is just a very much a black and white view and i think that you know has been using that narrative for the last couple of years iran's president hassan rouhani has ordered an investigation into a plane crash which has left sixty six people feared dead the passenger aircraft disappeared from radar fifty minutes after leaving the capital tehran the assman airlines flight was traveling to yes rule yes suzhou rather in the southwest of the country emergency services have struggled to reach the crash site which is in the mountainous province to the town of senate on serious felonies has more now from. some details are known about the plane that crashed today in iran which had sixty six people on board and investigate. into the crash as shown the plane left to toronto airport in the southwest it flew through the gross
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mountain range but due to bad weather and lack of vision the plane collided with mt dina officials believe all sixty six passengers have died rescue teams haven't yet managed to reach the crash site because the area is rugged and difficult to reach but while the cause of the crash hasn't yet been identified international sanctions have hampered iran's ability to maintain a modern fleet and accidents of occurred frequently in recent years thirty nine people were killed in twenty fourteen after a separate passenger plane crashed after taking off from tehran seventy seven people were killed when an iran air plane crashed in bad weather in two thousand and eleven on a list so that iran has relied on smuggled or improvised parts to keep its fleets operational before sanctions were lifted iran hadn't directly bought a western built aircraft in nearly forty years iran awarded more than two hundred planes after sanctions were lifted in return for curbs on its nuclear activities
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the first delivery of an airbus a three twenty one arrived in iran in january last here aviation analyst terry tozer says that it's unlikely the age of the aircraft was the cause of this crash. it's a very old aircraft i think i've read something in the region twenty four years. it's it's natural that for everyone to focus on this point it has to be said that when a truck crashes americans usually is a result of some kind of air out rather than an aircraft failure although obviously it out be ruled out i don't think that necessarily the age of an aircraft will be a problem ice line extremely low and unreliable one but we never had any incident so i think it is he's more probable in this case that some kind of navigational era the funerals of two palestinian teenagers shot and killed
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by israeli forces in gaza have taken place their deaths have added to tension on the god of israel border following an explosion that injured four israeli soldiers in the area israel's military blames hamas for saturday's explosion it launched a series of ground and air strikes on a number of sites in the southern gaza strip in response several palestinians were injured during the raids israel says the dead palestinians were shot trying to cross the border under serious hairy force that has more now from those funerals in rafa. over here for the funerals of two young palestinian men two seventeen year olds one is selling. the other a dollar shaker and hundreds of people have turned out to commemorate their lives they were shot by israeli fire at the border between gaza and israel last night israel says its value to the group of people who are trying to breach the border fence of course it came during the course of some of the largest scale attacks by israel on gaza in several years it is just the context notable that many young
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palestinians have been trying to cross the border into israeli territory looking for work there been tens of arrests in recent years so there's been no claim of any fighting group on these young individuals who are being laid to rest here today overnight or last night israel attacked eighteen separate hamas links sites tunnel being dug towards israeli territory they said weapons manufacturing site they said military compounds there was a rocket fired from gaza territory towards israel it struck a civilian house no injuries and that all of this of course following the explosion on the border in which four israeli soldiers were injured two of them seriously this is some of the heaviest fighting that we've seen since the twenty fourteen war it does represent the tense situation here in the light both of the donald trump declaration on the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital and also the worsening humanitarian situation here in gaza which many in israel as well as here talk about being having a potential for renewed conflict we're going to weather update next here on syria
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then a family that fled north korea to canada and now facing deportation from there plus . i'm going to gallacher exists here to costa rica where one man's lifelong gardening project is to dip into a cultural icon. hello there the clouds are gathering over parts of china we were at the loss of window feeding off from the south that's giving us a fair amount of cloud and then eventually some rain there over the shanxi province and across here now as well that system still intensifying as we head through the day on tuesday so under this we're expecting for very heavy downpours and to the north a little bit of snow mixed in as well meanwhile if we had a bit towards the west the weather is actually quite quiet over many parts of india
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at the moment to have a bit of cloud there over parts of pakistan but it is not giving us particularly heavy downpours things are going to change though as we head through the next twenty four hours or so because this weather system is just galloping its way eastwards and that's the front more intense so we're expecting from snow over parts of afghanistan eventually that will edge its way towards the east over more of pakistan and into the northern parts of india as well here in doha it's been very hot recently really for the temperatures have been a long way above average but now things are changing and that's because all monday the winds are going to be feeding down from the north they're going to be bringing some fall fresh air so it's not going to be as hot as it has been all maximum temperature will be around twenty six degrees but it will be quite windy as well and as we head into choose day the temperatures will drop just that little bit more . news has never been more available it's a constant barrage that they put out every day but the messages simply state you
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have been praying good logical rational person crazy monster 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 narratives at this time on al-jazeera. again the top stories here on al-jazeera at this hour israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has accused iran of being the greatest threats to the world but iran's foreign minister hit back during the summit on security and job at serif
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accused israel of being the aggressor in the region. iran's president hassan rouhani has ordered an investigation into a plane crash in which sixty six people are feared dead a passenger aircraft was traveling from the capital to your sushi in the southwest of the funerals of two palestinian teenagers shot and killed by israeli forces in gaza taken place the deaths of added to tension on the gaza israeli border following an explosion that injured four israeli soldiers in the area. the u.s. president is blaming the f.b.i. for the gullet attack at a florida school which killed seventeen people donald trump has tweeted very sad that the f.b.i. missed all of the many signals sent out by the florida school shooter this is not acceptable spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the trump campaign there is no collusion and then trump parents get back to basics and make us all proud trump's comments come after it was revealed that the f.b.i.
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received a tip off last month that the suspect had a desire to kill and access to guns the agency admitted on friday that agents failed to investigate further the nineteen year old charged with the murders had been expelled from the school he was also known to police trump has been critical of the f.b.i. in the past year because of its investigation into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election tom ackerman reports from washington. in his latest round of tweets the president blames the f.b.i. former president obama hillary clinton and democrats in congress for having failed to pursue the so-called information warfare waged by russian entities he also says that he never ever denied that the russians may have been involved in the twenty sixteen elections but that is the first acknowledgement on his part that in fact there was russian meddling in this of course is the consequence of the
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indictments last week against certain russian figures and cities and in fact the indictment of a an american for financial misconduct related to that the president again. talking about the f.b.i. and saying that the f.b.i. is actually losing its focus on such things as the shooter in the florida massacre and should be attending to that rather than the investigation itself into the russian meddling despite its reputation as a haven for refugees canada has been deporting north korean asylum seekers maybe two thousand of them have been sent away since twenty thirteen because the government says they lied on the application forms to any alack reports. putting a brave face on pending deportation these north koreans came here through south
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korea which canada considers a safe country but on their refugee applications they said they'd fled to china. eleven years ago take him came here with his wife daughter and son now they have two more children canadian citizens deportation would be catastrophic to know them on the move. and all that along and that notice means death to me. i came all the way here for a better life and my family is well adjusted to life in canada and we think we're going to be separated it breaks my heart there was a town on the other day in the. whole of my whole life i live there so i don't have any friends in south korea and all my friends are here. joe family could be broken up to canada carries out its deportation order to children or canadian born the eldest came with his parents in two thousand and ten the joes admit they lied on their application but say they did it to escape
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a horrible situation that. i feel so desperate. it's our fault what he thought what they haven't done anything wrong they have to go through this separation because of us. the north korean refugees say south korea is definitely not safe for them north korea's spies can track them down they say yet canada has been deporting people like them since two thousand and thirteen those who remain have only begun to fight back. if we are fallen by the north korean government they are our family in the in those korea they were executed or de rozan to the labor camp the korean community in toronto is rallied behind the refugees their lawyer has met canadian officials in what she says is their last chance to stay here an appeal on compassionate grounds to the minister of immigration there's been no response yet internationally recognized as
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a humanitarian and compassionate country at that thing refugees from syria and all over the world and why my question should and the hundred fifty be many people be bach an answer to that question is anxiously awaited by refugees who fled one of the most repressive violent regimes in the world than your lack. of. thirty five refugees are heading for the u.s. after leaving a stray and run prison camp on the pacific island nation of no roof it's part of a controversial resettlement deal reached between australia is government and the a bomb a ministration the matter mostly afghan pakistani or hinge and that's prompted rights groups to ask questions about where the somali and iranian refugees are being excluded from the rue prison camp is part of australia's hardline policy on blocking refugees from entering the country by boat david manne is the executive
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director of refugee legal which provides assistance to refugees in nauru and on mount a silent he says the resettlement process has been too slow. but look the reality is under this bilateral deal it reminds that you know the us are still talking refugees and the question really is what i've got what how quickly will that happen so that refugees beveridge the race to. regulate their lives even the suffering in the terrible ordeal for over five years that they have enjoyed it but the other question is what will a strategy to do it because ultimately they even if this deal bridged the full number of twelve hundred fifty there will be still be many people left marooned and suffering i mean we are directing our energies in race horses together with others to work on. race or ministry happen but it is fundamental because what we know is these refugees cannot stay on and i'm an assignment you differently what we also
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know is that the profound suffering in humanity that people have been subject to and we now are at that is destroyed alternately as dr his label and more responsibility to ensure that those refugees are brought to safety and the fact is that is trying to reunite and they are only option for most if not all of those people eleven somali refugees held captive in libya for years have returned home many of them were tortured and some sold as slaves as ports. livin is relieved to be back home in somalia three years ago he tried to migrate to europe he never made it instead he was kidnapped by smugglers in libya and sold as a slave. like an animal i was sold four times in open markets in libya the last time i was sold for ten thousand dollars i was tortured every day. story
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isn't unique and this international released a report recently describing how somali refugees were being tortured in libyan detention camps it said they were held against their will by armed groups in exchange for money. hundreds were reportedly sold for as little as four hundred dollars of far cry from the journey these migrants had hoped for. for two years i was in a libyan prison i spent fifteen thousand dollars and i still wasn't able to reach europe now i'm just happy to be back in country and see my family human rights groups say the european union's strategy to stop refugees from traveling across the mediterranean has led to more people being stranded in libya the somali government has been successful in returning small groups of refugees home by how much the government of somalia is committed to bring back its people who are in prisons around the globe we've been able to repatriate some somalis who were in libyan prison a month ago we released migrants from india and ethiopia prisons and brought them back to the country we will continue to do so but it's not going to be easy it took
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more than two years of negotiations to release libya and many more just like him are waiting to be given the opportunity to get back home. with a young now dizzier zimbabwe's president as paid his respects to opposition leader morgan chiang rai who died on wednesday and a sin god visited chakras family home in the capital where a small service was held sixty five year old died after fighting colon cancer support has also packed a church service which i will form the movement for democratic change his funeral is to take place on monday and will had a southeast of the capital. have been celebrations in kosovo as capital to mark ten years of independence from serbia security forces marched through pristina as part of a weekend the festivities cost of achieved autonomy in two thousand and eight following years of conflict but it's now confronting increasing lawlessness and dominated
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regional political leader was killed last month in the town of matric al-jazeera sanderson's spoken to journalists and politicians there who say they now face constant intimidation. it's a daily ritual lighting candles and paying respect to a politician murdered a month ago in this lawless city all of the event of a leader of a minority cause of a party spoke albanian and have been trying to foster better relations with the government in pristina he was shot dead and no one seems to know who did it organized crime is rampant here and there are suspicions there could have been a political motivation he pulled out in the movie you can see in people how unsafe they fail and they are if you talk about it but work says me the most is that many of all of his friends and my friends have left me. a more considering at. this journalist whose office still bears the evidence of intimidation nearly three years
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ago also believes things are getting worse that they are. i've been a victim of theft and burglary i've been attacked but those are things that happen to people he every day in savannah beaches made up people species have definitely increased it's because he was so well respected. on the south side of me the majority culture of our albanian population has been celebrating ten years of independence it's in contrast to the north where the serbian flag flies kosovo's government ministers accuse their serbian counterparts in belgrade of meddling in the affairs of this city making its dysfunctional. this bridge taking you are from the southern side has been renovated it feels new but ten years after independence was announced there is still division here this is a gesture of defiance before we even get into the north building work comes to an end here because of disputes with the kosovar serb local authorities that have
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caused months of delays because of those prime minister knowledge is there are big difficulties but he says the crime problem is being tackled we are in process of integrating north of role of law we respect the special effects of the community and we integrate the community in this is my approach but that approach is met with cynicism there's no mention here of independence or integration andrew simmons out zero a little of its course of dog areas foreign ministry has condemned a march by hundreds of far right supporters and a pro nazi a world war two general the rally went ahead despite calls from the government the us embassy and several jewish organizations for it to be scrapped the foreign ministry says that anything glorifying a nazi way of thinking is absolutely unacceptable. i'm sure least of blanco
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sculpted cypress trees in his home city got the sun now considered to be have on the finest examples of topiary in the world and he gallacher reports from. at the foot of the church of st raphael in costa rica central mountain range stands a testament to one man's vision over the decades the gardens of said i have been sculpted into birds and beasts by evangelist to blanco a man known locally as don lister all senor scissorhands. he began work here in one thousand nine hundred sixty four and never stopped. but one of the parties like my family is like my children my wife and my mistress and i love it and i care for it i come here at five in the morning to star wiring and i do this little love and it cation. is the gardens matures so has its reputation there are now more than one hundred figures here each beginning life as saplings planted by
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a gardener determined to create something unique many great works of art of being created by individuals but few require the maintenance or dedication that all of this does eventually through spent the best part of his entire adult life on this one project but it hasn't gone unnoticed these gardens are now a symbol for the city they attract thousands of tourists every year and in two thousand and four they named the entire place after him. the city of socio was grown along with its gardens every day the park is full of visitors from around the world it's like a country house in england with the taipei and everything and i was thinking when i went round it's really good for the children because it's got elephants and soldiers and bulls and carts and stuff and they can kind of identify and stuff you have that sense of you are in a bit less in the end all be less of many time ago it's still the same is very naive i love it. in recognition of his work eventually still was given a national cultural. ward and continues to inspire those around him as. he's an
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icon for the people he's inspired the youth to follow his passion to decorate and shape trees he has a lot of patience and passion for doing this he retired a few years ago but he's continued to give us new shapes in our park. at the age of seventy nine evangelist isn't quite ready to hang up his sheers he's looking for someone with the same dedication to take over and ensure his legacy lasts and he gallacher al-jazeera pseudo costa rica. it is good to have you with us avery and filling in here and over the top stories on al-jazeera israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has accused iran of being the greatest threat to the world but iran's foreign minister hit back during the summit on security in germany mohamad jabba dhaif says that israel is the aggressor in the region from israel's invasion and subsequent
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aggressions on the been on its eagle occupation of palestine and it's almost they'd be illegal incursions into syrian airspace to attempt to create cartoonish images to blame others for his own strategic blunders or maybe to evade the domestic crisis the. two palestinians have been shot and killed by israeli forces in gaza after an escalation and tension on the border it follows an explosion that injured four israeli soldiers in the area the palestinian authority is calling israel's actions a serious escalation that israel is blaming the armed group hamas. iran's president hassan rouhani has ordered an investigation into a plane crash in which sixty six people are feared dead a passenger aircraft was traveling from the capital to in the southwest. airlines
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plane went down in a mountainous area near the town of. emergency services have struggled to reach the crash site thirty five refugees are heading for the u.s. after leaving australian run prison camp on the pacific island nation of nauru it's part of a controversial resettlement deal that was reached between australia's government and the obama administration zimbabwe's president has paid his respects to opposition leader morgan tsvangirai who died on wednesday and. visited family home in the capital where a small service was held the sixty five year old died following a long battle with colon cancer. live in celebrations in kosovo's capital to mark ten years of independence from serbia security forces march through pristina as part of a weekend festivities and there's the headlines with a little over twenty five minutes right after the listening post next.
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