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anyone who dares to remember. and intimate tale of repression chechnya war without trace at this time and how to zero. in this is different whether someone is going for someone who's very rich this is going to be an eternal thing it's how you approach an individual enough that it is a certain way of doing it you can't just. get a story in fly out. this is al-jazeera. eleanor and taylor this is the news hour live from london coming up. steel is steel you don't have skewed you don't have a country president trump defies warnings of
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a trade war and imposes tariffs on steel and aluminum imports in the u.s. . in chile eleven countries signed a new transpacific trade deal without the united states. the syrian government is accused of extreme tactics in its own bargain to eastern ghouta it claims its care its carrying out chlorine and force respond attacks. five million women join a twenty four hour strike in spain as international women's day is marked around the world. i'm joined. by the day's top sports stories south korea gets ready to host the biggest ever winter paralympics but they won't be joining up with their north korean neighbors at the opening ceremony. in the last hour president donald trump has officially imposed controversial tariffs on steel and aluminum imports into the united states imports of steel will
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now be charged at twenty five percent and then uranium at ten percent comes into force in fifteen days' time but there are exemptions at least initially for neighbors canada and mexico on thursday the trans-pacific partnership trade deal was also signed in chile without the us trying to pull us out of the t.p. just three days after becoming president. well don drum gave the trade sanctions final travel at a ceremony at the white house while surrounded by steel workers said it was his duty to address the aggressive foreign trade which amounted to an assault on the united states but he said the u.s. would show flexibility and cooperation with friendly countries possibly removing tariffs individual nations we have to protect and build our steel and aluminum industries while at the same time showing great flexibility and cooperation toward those that are really friends of ours both on
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a trade basis at a military versus a strong steel little momentum industry are vital to our national security absolutely vital steel is steel you don't have steel you don't have a country our industries have been targeted for years and years and decades in fact by unfair foreign trade practices leading to the shuttered plants and mills the laying off of millions of workers and the decimation of entire communities and that's going to stop what's been an outpouring of global disapproval of the tariffs announced by the white house but in the u.s. industrial heartland as you might expect there's jubilation this is what steel workers and those on the left of us politics have been wanting as the country's industrial base as with it she had a chance he has this report. when we when we had burning in steel
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back that message hope donald trump become the first republican presidential candidate since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight to take pennsylvania but just a few weeks ago at this school in the state's mohmed valley steelworkers told us trump's lack of action suggested he was no different to all the other politicians who promised them protection were still flatline like not to mean since the election a most orderly believes in another day and you know money. but money for all money for now for the top four us ian now trump has delivered and there's widespread opposition to the tariffs in washington on wall street and among the u.s. is trading partners there is relief elsewhere unions and progressives have long said the u.s. needs to decide whether to fight unfair international trading practices and save the u.s. industrial base and the service industries that supply it from extinction you've
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got to start someplace if we allow our manufacturing industries to be just stolen by other countries we're going to at the end of the beach day be left with an economy of hamburger flippers. when george w. bush imposed steel tariffs in two thousand and two the economic cost was negligible according to a government study a loss of some thirty million dollars and thousands of steel jobs did return but there were also drug losses in other industries those calling for a rebalancing of international trade now except this but all due tariffs are just a starting point in negotiations which will have wider benefits over time these trade balances or are threatening to destabilize not just steal momentum but in fact broad sectors of the economy not just in the us but in our countries as well areas like the moment valley risk becoming yet another us industrial waste land without support and no one really knows why don't all trump decided to ignore his corporate backers who up until now have been very satisfied with their huge tax
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windfalls and the scaling back of regulation or whether he's truly committed to fighting for manufacturing workers and has a comprehensive plan to do sir but for now the president has kept a key campaign promise that helped him secure the white house she habitants the al-jazeera john hendren joins me live from washington d.c. said john tell us a bit more about the reaction in the u.s. . well one democrat just called it like dropping a bomb on a flea most republicans who are free traders here in the u.s. are against this plan most democrats are against it as well and so are a number of people in the trump administration but the president promised that he would protect american steel only promise that he would protect american jobs and this was something he said on the campaign trail he has been very consistent about that and he is following through with a promise he made then despite the advice of a lot of republicans and despite the advice of people in his own administration he
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did say that he would exempt canada and mexico that was to be expected. we had hints that he was going to do that but he also said something unusual we don't know the mechanism for this but he said that he wanted to be able to adjust those tariffs as time went on as if there were some kind of sliding scale that he would be able to do to adjust depending on conditions which he did not name so i think there's a lot more information to come out on this and we should know that in about fifteen days when the administration comes out with its plan and john what are the perils associated with this move. well the big peril is a trade war and that is the concern of the republicans in the president's own party the free traders and already the european union has threatened to tax things like bourbon like levi's jeans and they've done so in states that matter a lot to president trump there have been items targeted in florida in wisconsin not
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coincidentally states that trump use to win the election and of course there is a mid-term congressional election coming up later on this year and the republicans are very concerned about losing the house of representatives and trump should be very concerned about that because that is where investigations would likely continue outside of the molar investigation that we've all been talking about into whether there was collusion between the trumpet ministration and people in russia so that's a big concern for president trump and the other countries that he's talking to those that would be targeted by those tariffs they are planning to respond and to respond where it hurts john hundred thank you very much indeed or the u.s. is pursuing a more protectionist approach eleven asia pacific nations have signed a trade deal in chile the trans-pacific partnership deal will spawn a market of nearly five hundred million people and amount to thirteen percent of the global economy japan's economic minister hailed the deal. keep. is
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a historic achievement create. i was a twenty first century asia grieve. over the many seuss i read today to make the most effort to expand the use exposures and dream to force and to sue's implementation of this agreement if. it was sexist we could attract a number of countries and economies to this high standard and we're monster remember the ears are here. not america editor lucy newman has more from santiago well nobody believed it could happen but the comprehensive and progressive transpacific partnership is now signed a very very long name for a much shorter trade deal which now brings together three asian pacific nations
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minus the united states it was going to be twelve countries but the united states as we know pulled out three days after president donald trump took office now for a commerce and foreign ministers gathered here say that this is an antidote to washington's increased protectionist policies and in fact the timing of this deal that was signed just one day after the european union and the i.m.f. one president donald trump that he is on the verge of unleashing a trade war if he insists on making good on his promise to impose duties on steel and on aluminum imports into the united states. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour the state warns african nations against surrendering their sovereignty to china in return for loans. or attacks against the muslim community in sri lanka the government is forced to reimpose the curfew. and serene his return to his legend has to take to the court for her professional comeback to be.
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chilling new video has emerged from inside syria showing what appear to be phosphorous bombs being dropped on the rebel held enclave of eastern ghouta activists say they were dropped on a residential area in the town of how maria the bombs start fires where they land and cause excruciating burns if contact is made with the skin activists have also posted video showing what looks like a chlorine gas attack syrian government forces i mean pursuing a relentless offensive against the rebel stronghold they're now on the verge of cutting the territory into two isolated pockets and a honda is following developments from neighboring lebanon. the assault on eastern who is intensifying pro-government forces have pushed deep inside the besieged enclave rebels are finding it increasingly difficult to hold their ground there has
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been heavy shelling extreme levels of bombardment to help ground troops. even civilians are not. over nine hundred people have been killed in nearly three weeks of what many describe as one if not the fiercest military campaigns of the syrian. medical workers reported yet another chlorine gas attack the government denied the claims and blamed what it called desperate rebels for distorting facts but videos appear to show victims struggling to. use the force not just the bombs. but because it's like two thousand and thirteen when. the remaining aid supplies that were not are floated on monday because of the
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shelling were supposed to reach the besieged population on thursday but according to the international committee of the red cross the conditions on the ground did not allow that sources have told us that the russian government and the rebel factions in eastern who are holding the gauche ations over a withdrawal it may involve them one of the main rebel factions leaving two rebel controlled territories in the southern province of daraa the other main faction failing men will leave to areas under the control of turkey backed rebels in the north of the country. elicia zero also understands that international humanitarian organizations are meeting to prepare for what could be a mass evacuation even though that is not what the hundreds of thousands of people in peace say they want. i swear by god i will never leave our country i'll stay here till death look at the structure around you we are asking for in countries to help them get rid of us this is inhumane and you are
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killing children and displacing people you are displacing the people of your own country. that has been part of the ceasefire deals reached in the past an effective surrender rebels their families and civilians who are either afraid of arrest or who don't want to return to government areas have little choice but to leave bussed out to other rebel controlled areas that is what the pro-government alliance wants to happen in eastern huta it's the deal on the table if it's not accepted it has made it clear it will push for an all out military victory that. anti muslim violence is continuing in central sri lanka despite the government imposing a curfew and deploy hundreds of soldiers to candy riots there have killed at least three people and damaged more than two hundred muslim owned businesses they say they've now arrested ten people connected to the violence including
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a suspected leader from candy bennett smith reports. the muslim business owners here don't need to take tips to tell them who's destroying their shops and. nationalist groups have again been exploiting long simmering resentment among some ethnic sinhalese who think muslims dominate the economy i am seeing this is my country i want here and i going to die here i don't know i am free long time after that i don't know that this is nothing but simple isn't it but i am. proud of my three month. using social media rumors of alleged muslim wrongdoing spread fast and regroup quickly for an hour before the mob came through the military and the police told the muslims living here to get out so they did when they came home and it was all over i came back to this and many of the people living here have told us that they have been left with the impression however right
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or wrong the security forces weren't interested in looking after their property the local police chief tells us they did everything they could. the government to send troops imposed a curfew and cut access to social media with the coalition administration led by prime minister rana wickramasinghe is politically weak and some have accused it of not doing enough to tackle rising nationalism it's very difficult these are going to be a question to answer because of the emotions involved it's very easy to for somebody to give me that. that idea and something in me and then and get my emotions to run riot in me maybe in the future there may be things that we can do better so. it's a topic that we have to discuss in the future of the three quarters of sri lanka's population sinhalese and overwhelmingly booklist but nationalist promoted long held fears that the character of the island is under threat first from british colonialism then there was
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a twenty six year civil war with tamils now it's the muslims and they are destroying up all the sites and we definitely cannot stand by sinhalese as both this and watch as that is happening. one or two temples have been targeted but most victims of the violence are muslim the region of candy is vital to sri lanka's multibillion dollar tourist industry but is under curfew once again bernard smith al-jazeera can be my top story now reaction is coming in all the time to those terrorists announced by president trunk john holdren is in cancun he was the first reporter to speak to the mexican president about the news john what did he say. i spoke briefly to enrique pena nieto the president of mexico just shortly ago and he said that the countries look forward to working in harmony with the united states and canada the three of them make up nafta the north american free trade
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agreement region and that was one of the reasons reasons why the exception was made in those two in these two cases these two countries do make up this trading bloc with the united states he also said they looked forward to building together with those two countries in the future he did look quite leave pleased about this but remember as well that this isn't an exception that's necessarily going to last forever negotiations on nafta are continuing right now they're going very slowly there's not a lot of progress being made in canada or mexico saying that's because the united states is wanting to get a lot of things out this deal that don't necessarily benefit them so president trump has already indicated that he's using this as a bargaining chip in those negotiations that keeping those countries exempt from these tariffs means that he thinks he'll be able to get a better deal on nafta and now are much of a problem with these tires before from mexico. well mexico is at times the fourth biggest provider of still to the united states so it
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is definitely going to have an impact amidst curry steel industry is calling for mexico it was cooling from its curve the united states has gone through with these tariffs to introduce all sorts of measures retaliate torrie measures like the rest of the world a part of the rest of the world are talking about those calls are going to go down now now the key question is this for the future is maintaining a relationship without those tariffs important enough that mexico will accept the deal or nafta the not really in its interests and the country's politicians are really going to have to weigh that up in terms of the nafta negotiations if they walk away from it knowing that that might mean that they get slapped with these are on an island medium terrace. gentlemen thank you very much indeed the your sexual state has warned african nations against surrendering their sovereignty to china in return for loans and rex tillerson has been meeting the chairman of the african union in the capital at
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a suburb or as part of his first official visit to africa united states is the leading aid donor to africa that china supported as a trade partner in two thousand and nine. we are not in any way attempting to keep chinese investment dollars out of africa they're badly needed however we think it's important that african countries carefully consider the terms of those investments and we witness the model that the chinese follow follow. very they do not bring significant job creation locally they don't bring significant training programs that enable african citizens to participate more fully in the future and often times the financing models are structured in a way that the country when it gets into trouble financially loses control of its own infrastructure or its own resources through default as
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a segue lever office criticize tennyson's comments as inappropriate or off is on his own african tour i think to strengthen ties on the continent is countries competing with china the e.u. and the u.s. for influence of rolf met zimbabwe's president and is in one god in harare i would just reports. the last time sergei lavrov visited zimbabwe was in twenty fourteen when robert mugabe was still president the plan was to build a platinum plant worth an estimated four billion dollars but the deal stalled the country's new leader is under pressure to create jobs his administration needs to attract foreign direct investment to turn around the struggling economy it is the desire of zimbabweans that we can. benefit our only technology was the russians are quite competent in that we can also develop in terms of upgrading through the. example we asked for that we can industrialised.
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and then create value in what we do russia's platinum project is one of the biggest investments in the country since one nine hundred eighty zimbabwe has a second largest known deposits of platinum after south africa president gives his support to prison or zimbabwe in force to stop the lies the internet political situation in the country in a consolidating society as well is developing a comprehensive in multi-faceted cooperation with countries that are willing to help zimbabwe in addressing its problems. but russia is the galimore traded economic interaction with countries in africa is less than other trading partners the cooling of russia's relations with the waste and sanctions against moscow has forced it to look for new partners in africa is competing with china the e.u. and some arab gulf states after sanctions were imposed nearly twenty years ago to be says some western countries stop supplying military equipment technical and
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agricultural support to zimbabwe russia says it doesn't interfere in domestic politics russia's politicians and investors seem eager to strengthen their interests as the battle for africa's resources intensifies. u.k. police say twenty one people are being treated as a result of a poison attack on a former russian double agent sixty six year old sergei st paul and his daughter remain in a critical but stable condition after being found unconscious on sunday a police officer also harmed by the rare nerve agent is still in a serious condition britain's home secretary has vowed to pursue whoever is responsible for the use of a nerve agent on the u.k. sorrow is a brazen and reckless act. this was attempted murder in the most cruel and public way people are right to want to know who to hold to account but if we are to be rigorous in this investigation we must avoid speculation we are
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committed to doing all we can to bring the perpetrators to justice whoever they are and wherever they may be investigation is moving at pace and this government more act without hesitation as the facts become clear. a london court has been shown security footage of the moment a huge fireball exploded in a packed train carriage panicked commuters can be seen fleeing from the flames at parson's green tube station in west london in september last year eighteen year old ahmed hassan is on trial accused of planting the bomb which was thought to say didn't fully detonate security footage shows him buying matches and batteries allegedly used to make the device her son has pleaded not guilty votes are being counted in sierra leone's presidential election sixteen candidates are vying for the top job but none is expected to receive the fifty five percent needed to win outright managers has more from freetown. vote tallying at this data center for the
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national election commission has been going on smoothly according to officials at the what you see here the results of the vote counted in polling stations across that in the old they'll be brought here and sorted and immediately they are sorted then they'll be passed on to certain members of staff to individual members who will be looking at those and of course cross checking whether that advice about the detail they correlate here will be passed on to another set of election commission workers. and there are two staff actually who would be assigned to different computers and each one will be imputing the results or the data from each of the polling stations so that the reason for doing that is that if there is any midday i don't fly will come up and then what they do here finally at the end of
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the day well before our big our database that will be analyzed by election officials finally before the results announced by the national election commission . the mood on the streets of freetown another major television set is in sierra leone is that of expectations they're not someone's ideas by the way when politicians started asking their supporters to go out on the streets and start celebrating even before the announcement by the national electoral commission how about people are very cautious of what is coming out and for the next one or two days their attention will be on the national election commission to hear what was the outcome of this court having a president after the first round or they should be prepared for a second round of voting. still to come on out of their news hour why don't trump's new import tariffs could hit the european union the worst making it a dumping ground for cheap steel. joining forces turkish to. and their free syrian
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army allies capture a strategic aim town in northern syria. and the football world is mourning the death of italian international footballer media story. hello and welcome to our international weather forecast as we take a look at conditions across europe you see we got some snow across some of the baltic states on friday with some fairly brisk winds it's generally milder air though further towards the west indeed across these western there are some very heavy rain pushing we will see some snow on the northern edge one system pushing through the u.k. presume you on through into the weekend heavy rain milder conditions pushing up from the south so stormy picture really without rain extending down through into the iberian peninsula more snow across the alps southeastern parts who have been joining quieter weather fine enough ins there at one thousand degrees but still the
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cold air hanging on across parts of russia minus seven has a high in moscow now on the other side of the military for the most part is looking dry and far we have got some showers like to push in across coastal parts of morocco in the course of friday and on into saturday but the southwest the flow it should be warm for algiers there at twenty five and pretty warm for tunis at twenty nine fine for cairo also for central parts of africa we have still some heavy showers across parts of kenya tanzania uganda seen wanted to showers also liberals in some downpours but across much of west africa weather conditions are looking fine a current gallopin seen sunshine highs a thirty two for southern areas it's fine across much of south africa twenty in capetown. as poverty and despair. just settlement women and girls are being bought sold and given away you know refugee camps one on one east investigates yet another dark
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of the top stories. in the last hour president. into the united states. a new version of the pacific partnership agreement. has been signed in chile after languishing for more than a year when the u.s. withdrew it will connect five hundred million people in economies with ten trillion dollars. new videos emerge from inside syria showing what appeared to be phosphorous problems being dropped on the rebel held enclave of. more now on our top story the import tariffs imposed by president trump have been heavily criticized in europe paul brennan joins us live from brussels so what will be the impact on the european union. it's important to establish just exactly the
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impact of these tariffs changes it's not so much about the lost market share the european union still produces exports to america somewhere around five million tons of steel every year but they produce overall here in europe one hundred seventy seven million tons of steel a year so you can see the five million versus a hundred seventy seven the actual overall share is actually quite small the real concern that the european union has in the society amounts drawn the e.u. trade commissioner is a thing called deflection now that's where global still producers who have previously exported into the u.s. no longer can because the prices are too high as a result of the tariffs they hunt around for alternative markets and frankly the european union is the most logical place that they're now going to want to try to send their steel that could cause a collapse in the steel price here and with the resulting crisis still produces within the european union that's really the crux of why the european union is so
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concerned about this and will what is it likely that they will take retaliatory action. or they've they've they've flagged it up and floated to the potential and facts a silly amount strong gave a news conference on wednesday almost as an eleventh hour intervention plead to say to president trump please don't go through with this because if you do there will be retaliation yes this could be three main things that otherwise ten thirty at night here in brussels there will be no news conferences the c evening the european union doesn't doesn't work like that wait until friday morning before we get an official response but you flagged it up in advance and she said look the three things they're going to go to the world trade organization going to try and get these tariffs is that means they're going to put their own tariffs in place to prevent those other global steel producers from dumping steel into the european marketplace and thirdly the one that's been grabbing the headlines is they're going to retaliate against the united states by putting tariffs on other u.s.
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products such as peanut butter florida orange juice all of these clinton said jack daniels whiskey for a bourbon for example so that's the one that's been grabbing all the headlines a three pronged attack from the united states from the european union and it's going to really have the potential to be a full blown trade war thank you very much indeed turkish soldiers working with the free syrian army have captured a strategically important town in northern syria the town of gender it was held by the u.s. backed y p g fighters you know promising to fight off the turkish assault an official report from the turkish syrian border. the final assault began just before nightfall on wednesday. thank less than twelve hours later the free syrian army backed by the turks entered the city of genderless. doctors treated those caught up in the fighting some too young to fully understand why they were in pain.
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some too late to help the taking of a strategically important for the free syrian army and also the tarts it gives them control of the higher ground and also give them control of one of the main roads towards afrin city itself the final target speaking in vienna turkey's foreign minister said the operation against the kudus militia the y.p. g. called all of branch should end by me the question whether now that we have passed the critical stage use mountainous areas or captured the border control is sustained we are moving towards africa of course when we get to a friend we have to be even more careful to avoid civilian casualties our aim our target is the terrorists we are more sensitive compared to anyone else when it comes to humanitarian aid and civilians dinda this is the biggest turn that has fallen to the f.s.a. backed by the turks since this operation was launched in january but before they
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can even consider moving on from here they have to take complete control of genderless first. today first we targeted the town of ginger us by artillery shells and took full control of the town from y p g fighters we've captured and killed a few of their members and one of their fighters blew himself up despite the bravado they may not have complete control yet sporadic fighting is reported to be continuing in the tyrant the battle for free in may not be as quick or the straightforward the cards are moving seven hundred fighters across the country away from the battle against eisel on to the front lines for the coming assault alan fischer al jazeera on the turkey syria border. women have been rallying across the world to mark international women's day these of the scenes in madrid they have been unprecedented demonstrations across spain thousands of women taking to the streets to defend their rights and in for gender equality. it's estimated that more
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than five million people have observed the twenty four hour strike. hundreds of women are gathering at turkey's border with syria to raise the plight of syrian women after years of civil war organizers of the protest say more than six thousand women are currently being held in prisons in syria and someone being subjected to torture and rape so i'm caution to reports from istanbul. it's an all women can annoy dozens of buses carrying women activists have been under rules for two days from istanbul to hot site on the turkish syrian border the organizers of the so-called comes to school in war want to remind the world of syria's forgotten women who have suffered dire conditions and syrian regime prisons and been tortured since the war began in two thousand and eleven lawyer demand musar sees the conditions violate not only international law but also syrian law
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absolutely no rights and a lot of times the families have some sort of idea where they are but for the most part they don't know which security branch they are imprisoned in or which prison and for many they are forcibly disappeared which means we don't even know if they're actually detained in the prison or they have been taken hostage according to the organizers of the convoy more than six thousand seven hundred women are currently in jail at these five hundred thousand people have lost their lives in syria during the seven year conflict the british based syrian observatory for human rights says more than nine thousand were women and at least ten thousand were children thirty one year old nurul who jersey was tortured for several weeks the police and the massacres arrested her because she was an activist in two thousand and twelve she is one of the convoys leaders for thought of the.
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rule i haven't repeatedly beaten during interrogations they did everything including in. they also humiliated us and tortured us the worst moment was when an officer ordered other soldiers to rape me if i don't talk for me there was always the threat before some other girls they weren't so lucky. women in this convoy are from different religious and ethnic groups they aim to create international awareness about the violations and crimes committed against women in syrian prisons it is the least they can do on an international women's day for them and for their children no one here is expecting president bashar assad to be watching but what they are demanding is that the international community puts more pressure on his government to act at the doorstep of syria these women call out to those in prison beyond the border we are coming to save you see them to solo al-jazeera stumble
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upon a number nuka is executive director of u.n. women she joins me live from the nations in new york thank you very much indeed for being with us so a lot of initiatives around the world on on the women's day do you think a date at this makes any practical difference. yes definitely it isn't a mobilizing in a. we able to highlight the issues that concern women all over the world and as you can see there's a lot in common a lot has to do with the violence against women even the main observation event which was here at the united nations the theme of violence against women has been very strong this the air for highlights the privileges of violence against women for us this is how we engage with member states about the steps that need to need in order to be taken to address this issue and so if you had to pick a couple of the main things that you had to be
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a country has to do to improve the situation for women on particular on that issue of violence as you mentioned what would you highlight. well the laws are important because it gives women recourse effect that they still forty two countries that do not have laws that address violence against women the figure to still have countries that require it girl to marry rapists is and that amounts to forgiveness. to the rapist so the issue of legislation is important but legislation and lawn does not work you actually need to address the underlying norms and cultural practices that. is the violations against women so loss norms a critical is when is the economic empowerment of women because being economically
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kylee empowered enable women to make choices about their lives and economically empowered what's the what's the kind of root for that i mean would you say that emphasis on education is the key to that. it education is critical because a the highest number of people in any society is it. able to hold and to access dissent jobs are educated. in countries where education is inaccessible or difficult for women that is where you are likely to have the largest majority of women who are not empowered in every way so these a link between economic empowerment any education and what do you i mean you talked about the business of needing to effect of cultural change where does that come from doing the thing is the younger generation is going to make that happen or does it need to be the parents are realizing that their children you know as well as the
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older generation. yeah you need them because they the custodians of these cultural practices that are harmful to gals is with the older people and you cannot wait until those who are young today must must grow because he actually don't want them to experience is the harm that comes with these practices so our work is with traditional authorities is with religious leaders and we are seeing some pretty close for instance for the last decade is unicef has highlighted that they were seeing the decrease in child marriage this is a lot to do with the fact that countries have got loss that different institutions that are important in society being a gates and also the interests of women especially at a local government level who are also in in leadership position in malawi for
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instance is one traditional chief. who has followed up after the law was passed that increase the age of marriage. she has gone around ensuring that not only does she stop girls from being made it illegal in the future the ones that are already married she has gone to four months to finally to approach it those families in those communities so that the marriage is an out and has made it possible for those school girls to go back to school in zambia in zambia we've seen the same with the chief again it has taken an active role to implement the law and has even raised the the age of marriage in his jurisdiction even higher than whites the government in korea so you do need those leaders at a very grassroots level thank you very much indeed to it from the front thank you
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very much indeed eponym number nuka are joining us richard your time thank you. workers at foreign embassies in qatar say they've been left to fend for themselves after the nine month blockade by neighboring countries some staff haven't been able to work since their embassies were closed and they're also unable to leave the country rob matheson reports. we seem to have lost that is not to hitch there with that report bring that to you now in fact. for five years ashraf has been a driver for the saudi arabian embassy nine months ago he lost his job the embassy is one of several would shut their doors in doha when countries cut diplomatic relations and imposed a blockade on qatar last june ashraf like many other embassy staff who aren't diplomats is sponsored by his employer that means he can't leave qatar or work for
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anyone else unless his employer agrees and his employer has left the country. and tonight it's been very tense i spent all my savings on my daughter's wedding in india and then i came back and lost my job i can't earn money i need to get my sponsor changed so i can work but i don't know how. saudi arabia and other countries including the united arab emirates and egypt cut ties with qatar accusing it of supporting terrorism which qatari leaders vehemently deny this man also used to work at an embassy which is now shut he didn't want to be identified with. the closing of the embassy affect me i can't change work because the embassy has closed there are no officials to sign my papers and now i want to work somewhere else but i can't i don't know what the future will be. for the last nine months embassy staff are being coming to qatar as human rights department they've made statements
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hoping that the qatari government will help to release them from sponsorship agreements with their embassies most of the people we've spoken to said they only came here for help today because they thought the blockade was going to be over by now but it's been nine months some of them haven't been paid since june of last year others we're told are living in the embassies where they used to work and the cattery government says it is willing to help them but there's a limit to what it can do if it doesn't have permission from the embassies or the people here the most important thing is to win their freedom. and these people who belong to countries which are blockading us they've come to try to get justice good we're able to protect them and we're trying to solve their problems. some like these monetary means have been getting support from qatari charities and blame their own governments. on whom the mauritanian government has taken an incorrect step that has harmed its people this is a gulf spill and we have nothing to do with it. the stranded embassy staff
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including usher after wait to see if they'll be allowed to restart their lives rob matheson. three members of a more deaves main opposition party have been arrested they were taken into custody after police raided the mall devean democratic party's office police reportedly refused to disclose their charges and said the arrests were made under the state of emergency declared last month. so. the. football world the. business of.
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business of.
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displaying their creations at the sky festival in taiwan the event attracts millions of the world celebrations are mix of old traditions and new technology. wising up the night sky this year's sky lantern festival theme is a celebration of the chinese zodiac year of the dog the main display lantern a child from the local sue tribe with a taiwanese dog to wish everyone a prosperous year ahead at home hung the festival dates back to tendin est fourteen hundred years ago back in the tradition marked the end of the lunar new year break
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when students return to school with lanterns to be let out by the teaches as a symbol of a brighter future. the festival features tech inspired elements that allow for more visitor interaction the smartphone app helps with festival navigation and provides display information along with the details of their design concept. digital temple lanterns can be lit for good fortune or digital lanterns can be released into a virtual sky. but the traditional style lantern is still being kept alive first invented by a military strategist in china around eight hundred years ago it was brought to taiwan by immigrants and at one time mine is in ping c. use the lanterns to warn of bandits seventy one year old lingual he wants to attract tourists with his craft following in his father's footsteps he's been making sky lanterns the old fashioned way for almost thirty. tells law if we don't
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pass on our traditions many of those cultural heritage and doubts will be forgotten this is what keeps me going. lynches historical stories and shows visitors how to float the creations written hope how well love and success slowly rise in. the kerosene so rice paper is expected to last a year but as technology changes lin hopes his ancient craft last a lifetime. for al-jazeera. in the little. time for sport his job. loren thank you note in south korea will march separately
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at friday's opening ceremony for the winter paralympics north korea we make his games debut in pyongyang but the respective teams have opted not to replicate the joint precession seen last month a limp aches the north korea is taking bought at all is still being viewed as a major step forward rob mcbride reports. build up events to do support for the paralympics games that often struggle in the shadow of the more popular olympics they follow. but amid the olympic goodwill generated between north and south korea these winter paralympics have an added political dimension. to the north and south are one nation and we should be united one day i see it as a positive move as a korean national. just as we saw a very successful winter olympics i believe we will see another equally successful paralympics. south korea's parent being joined by
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a small team from north korea. a chance to help closer relations while supporting the development of schools for athletes with disabilities. the conditions for paralympics in the north is hard we want to help develop the sports and we hope that these paralympics can play a positive role in reunification with the men's para ice hockey team is one of south korea's medal hopes the subject of a feature length documentary released to coincide with the games. of the nativity lots of people look at us with pity but we hope they just see us as athletes. and also inspirational role models overcoming challenges and adversity. one of the team members is a defector from north korea now wearing south korean colors choi one calc how does
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leg amputated when he fell from the train he'd been clinging to. there are some people who wish for a geisha and some who don't i personally want i wish all those who were hurt because of the division can be healed thought out. the games organizers say ticket sales are beating expectations pointing to increased interest and spite of the hype it took time for south koreans to get behind their winter olympics but once they did no one it seems was more enthusiasm. the hope is that same action carry through to support the paralympics. and if they help north south relations say the game support is koreans will be the winners even before the first medals have been awarded rob mcbride al-jazeera south korea serena williams thinks her returned to competitive singles action later this say six months on from giving birth the
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former world number one is taking part in the indian wells tournament in california williams played in an exhibition event earlier this week in preparation for her first to bta tour event since winning the two thousand and seventeen australian open the thirty six year old will take on zarina d.s. has it start event will also see the comeback of victoria the rank. well it's great to see them back to roost. for different reasons but you know obviously having the best. ever come back and play on tour something very very special some are happy to see serene about going to be exciting to see. you know what she's going to come up with over the next few weeks and months. maria hsia already out of the eventually was beaten in straight sets by near soccer of japan sharpe over was also beaten in the first round at her last tournament appearance indo. the world of football has
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been remembering the life and career of italian player player a story the fury captain died on sunday at the age of thirty one as stories funeral is taking place in florence with representatives of every top level italian club in attendance cap fourteen times by his country he died of a suspected cardiac arrest just hours before your interior was set to play a league match against wood in a. arsenal have ease the pressure on their under fire boss austin banner the gunners beat ac milan away in the first leg of the last sixteen euro police tighe olds from entering tyrion and aaron ramsey sealed the two know when it is a run of four straight losses winning the competition would guarantee champions league qualification of also who are down and six in the e.p.l. the worsley campaign venders twenty two year career elsewhere let's go madrid beat lokomotiv moscow three nil but there was a big upset for bruce who dortmund two lost at home and will face a tough away tie to celts book a good night two for the french teams in action as leon c.s.k.
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moscow and masai looked to have beaten the thirty bilbao its three one to ma say in the dying minutes their defending women's world champions the usa have beaten england in the final game of the she believes cup of the fourteen torment also included france and germany this much in orlando was decided by an own goal from england's believe right is the second time the u.s. have won this title all the size of building up to next year's world cup in france . sebastian vettel and ferrari a gaining momentum ahead of the new f one season which begins with the australian grand prix later this month the four time world champion set an unofficial track record in testing. as circuits of catalonia earlier vettel smashed daniel ricardo's lap time from when say finally a second there's just one day of practice left for the team. for now but to lauren in london thanks very much joe and a quick reminder before we go that has to do more sport and news on our website
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