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global open doors there live from doha i'm martin dennis also coming up. the bells ring out while americans honor the memory of martin luther king jr fifty years after his assassination. an arab victory in sierra leone's presidential election for the former general who led a military coup in the one nine hundred ninety s. . facebook reveals millions more people are caught up in its purpose the scandal than first thought. the first within the past hour or so we've discovered that brazil's supreme court has ruled the former president luiz inacio lula da silva must start serving a twelve year prison sentence for corruption the judges voted six to five to deny
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his plea to remain free while he exults all possible appeals so he could be theoretically at least arrested within days now the case has divided the country and has cast a shadow over this yes presidential election which lula is favorite to win let's go live to our latin america editor lucien human who is in brasilia the capital and theoretically is that the case then that lula could be arrested and could be in a jail cell within days. well martin you know it was a nail biter until the very very end there was a last desperate bid by one of lula's former lawyers saying that when the vote was tied five to five the president of the supreme court could not cast the deciding tiebreaker because this would be unconstitutional in the case of a.b.s. corpus this was voted down and eventually as we now know former president lula lost
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his plea to remain free this after a marathon eleven hour session. the die is cast demonstrators for and against brazil charismatic former president. gathered outside . the supreme court narrowly voted against his petition to remain free while he appeals a twelve year corruption conviction this means brazil's most popular politician and the frontrunner for october's presidential election must go to jail it's a victory for brazilians to accept any other verdict more i represent the death of the supreme court and less it puts the pressure on the supreme court justices has been an intense and not just out here on the streets shortly. the head of the army came out publicly and said that he was u.t.a. to impunity this is seen as
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a number president unveiled threat from an institution that is not supposed to weigh in on politics at least not since the end of the military in brazil back in one thousand nine hundred eighty five. for the escalating tensions was this banner in front of the court openly calling for military intervention. the court decision was a blow not just to lula's political future. hundreds of other politicians under investigation or suspicion of crimes including two thirds of congress were anxious for the court to set a precedent that many argue would have been the death of a nationwide corruption probe the investigation has even implicated current president michel tamar. meanwhile supporters of lula da silva who lifted tens of millions of brazilians from poverty during his presidency insist he's a victim of political intrigue started coming soon historically every time you have a president who cares about the working class here she becomes
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a parget of this kind of. promoted by ideally. lula was found guilty of accepting a seaside apartment in this building in exchange for helping a construction company obtain government contracts he insists he's innocent but the seventy one year old politician who's ignited political passions like no other in brazil has lost what maybe his most important battle. and listen here from listening to your report it sounds very much as though brazil is very much on a knife edge there are tensions there and divisions there that have not been seen in recent years. no that's absolutely true and certainly lula supporters are not going to take this defeat lightly there is a presidential campaign that is going to move ahead regardless just how this will play into it is not certain at this hour what i can tell you about this state
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however is that there are still a small number of procedural disputes that have to be ironed out that involved his last appeal to a lower court which he lost just a couple of weeks ago after that's ironed out it's expected the judge said he'll moral who proceeded over his trial will sign the arrest warrant that would be arrest order which means that he would then have to serve his sentence in the city of almost immediately so that's had about a week to ten days we calculate one thousand ok thank you very much lucien human a latin america editor reporting live there from the zillion thank you. now americans across the country have been honoring the memory of martin luther king jr fifty years to the day after he was assassinated. bells rang out near dr king's gravesite in atlanta georgia and in memphis tennessee
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where he was shot dead on a motel balcony in one nine hundred sixty eight civil rights leaders reflected on dr king's legacy and urged that his vision of a normal racial egalitarian society be applied to today's america. in. the clinton white house as for the years in the wilderness the friends today the hope is in the resurrection. when the campaign in two thousand and eight twelve he's alive. children march last week saying ban on assault weapons. use a law. and we walked in mosque in freedom mandela he is alive my friend let nothing break your spirit today he would allow domes by the phone turned on violate it and yet somehow someway he would not give up. more now
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from our correspondent in memphis restaurant joel. much of wednesday's commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the down the barclay jr was celebrated for a time but for just one minute at six o'clock local time wednesday the crowd still silent while a large church bell was told thirty nine times one time for each of the years that king lived on the earth the idea was to mark the music of someone who had achieved so much during his lifetime ending legal segregation against african-americans in the south as well as achieving the one nine hundred sixty five voting rights act which guaranteed all americans the right to cast ballots in local and national elections this was also a day where activists called on young people in particular but on older people to to do more to fight racism to fight economic inequality and to fight what
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mr king had called militarism the idea that war was the way to solve country's disputes with each other this was also an opportunity for new political leaders to essentially a test of the crowd and to see if their message of civic engagement active civic engagement would go over well with this generation in two thousand and eighteen it seemed that they were getting a positive reaction but the challenge is going to be maintaining the momentum especially going into the midterm elections here in the united states as well as trying to improve the quality of life for tens of millions of americans not just those of one particular ethnic or racial group. president trump has agreed to keep u.s. troops in syria for the time being at least a day after he said he wanted them out the u.s. president is said to have changed his mind after meeting. national security
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advisers here's our white house correspondent kimberly how could. one day after u.s. president donald trump declare the united states will pull out of syria i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home the white house was on wednesday attempting to make sense of the president's statements arguing the u.s. would withdraw but not just yet as this environment has changed because of the success under the president's leadership we're evaluating it as we go the softening of the president's position as the result of a national security meeting trump had with top advisers misinformed there was still work to be done withdrawal of the two thousand military advisors and special forces could allow eisel to regain a foothold in the region we shouldn't go into iraq on the campaign trail trump pushed an america first agenda arguing foreign conflicts have cost taxpayers too much it's
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a point he reiterated on tuesday well meeting with baltic leaders seven trillion dollars over a seventeen year period we have nothing. that's perhaps one reason trump is excel orating withdrawal timeline the other is russia trump has argued nobody has been tougher on russia than i have a withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria would be a win for russian president vladimir putin whose forces have supported the syrian government of bashar al assad throughout the conflict the. how it would also be a victory for iran israeli government believes the iranians are planning to use their forces in syria to attack israel accusation iran denies but one analyst thinks trumps desire to pull the united states out is simply part of a bigger strategy i think it's probably a good idea to put that on the table because it forces people to negotiate with you with a talk with you more seriously in this i think you're always going to. despite the
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president's sense of urgency the white house says the decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria will not be made by the president but instead by the secretary of defense based on conditions on the ground kimberly helped at al-jazeera at the white house the man who once ruled sierra leone as the leader of a military judge has now been sworn in as a civilian president in a peaceful transition of power julius a modern merrily want to run or face at the end of last month. troubled election process has come as a relief for the country of seven million people who in the one nine hundred ninety s. endured a civil war fueled by the diamond trade. has more from the capital freetown. they started first by announcing the official results scored by the ruling party candidate when it was clear to audience outside this hole why the announcement was made by the way that they hope the ruling party candidate got forty eight point one
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one percent people in iraq. and celebrations are still going on across. certainly on in the streets of the capital and nobody cared to listen to what the president elect got actually so jealous mother b.-o. who is president of this country for less than three months in the ninety's is now the new president elect for certainly on a lot of people expecting this results to come out two days after the election but because of protocols because of changes and demands as well as complaints by one of the political parties the results were delayed as that now but for many civil unions are not of them started believing even before this result was announced by the election commission believing that it's the opposition party that is winning this particular vote. still to come here at al-jazeera three of the biggest players
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in syria meet can they find a way to peace. and still a case to rifa global markets as fears grow the trade war between the wildstein taking stick on a means. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. allison spring rain is developing for the middle east and we've had a good blow of sand running up through eastern iran recently in turkmenistan this next band of cattle bring a bit of rain with a temperate change in temperature as it slowly east which is twenty six ahead in. tashkent nineteen behind in tehran but it kills back through northern saudi and towards egypt cloud will be sick enough to do swansea shows and they won't just stay there as we more of development sort might suppress some of the dust for example in the indus valley in iraq baghdad thirty one degrees c.
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rise in the middle of the potential for shows which extend down to the east and south of iran's three kuwait and into saudi arabia kuwait slim to twenty five degrees because of this now the result from the size which should be great crease to be carrying dust and scars are certainly not blue for an increase in the greyness into showers here rather more obvious when you get to friday big ones quite possibly on the western side of saudi in mecca is held back thirty four thirty two and just on the edge of the shah potential dipping down through africa the biggest show should be in the tropics but in fact we still got a potential of some fairly big ones dancer angola and zion and even touching zimbabwe as to south africa well by many. the weather sponsored by qatar and place. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is almost possible in number happens not because the situation is complicated but
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because no one cares or if you join us on sat there people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating they say is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who is an activist and just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. time for sticking up at the top sorry to hear it out there brazil's supreme court has ruled that the former president lewis enough to silver must start serving a twelve year prison sentence for corruption the case has divided the country and cast
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a shadow over this year's presidential election with its favorite to win. commemorations have been held in the city of memphis and across the united states to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader martin luther king jr thousands gathered for a day of speeches and marches to honor his legacy. donald trump is agreed to keep u.s. troops in syria for now at least just a day after he threatened to pull them out the u.s. president reportedly changed his mind after meeting top national security advisers . meanwhile three of the other big foreign players in syria russia iran and turkey they've agreed to speed up efforts to bring calm and to improve the delivery of aid but meeting in ankara the leaders failed to lay out a path forward amid lingering differences over the conflict from the turkish capital of age reports. these are the three men deciding the future of syria the
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turkish president hosted the russian and ukrainian leaders to talk about how to end the conflict that's entered its eighth year. as a guarantor country it's important to attain the territorial integrity of syria these fights have to be ended in the country has to be rebuilt on this we are in agreement the syrian public the civilians are those who are losing as a result of these fights there is a difficult process ahead of us but the light at the end of this tunnel is getting brighter we will not allow the face of syria to be darkened by terrorist organizations. but each one of these three leaders has a different definition of what they called terrorists thirty has influence over opposition fighters who've been fighting bashar al assad's forces iran backs the syrian president and has sent thousands of troops in militia to support him russia supports assad but is also very of growing sectarianism after isis defeat but in
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ankara the focus was on what brings together this diverging alliance. we are looking to take steps towards implementing the decisions made in sochi first of all to form in geneva under the un auspices a constitutional committee which will work towards a framework in which syrians can determine the main parameters of the state structure of their country. the area. that was. the people of syria especially those inside opposition held areas or the tens of thousands forced to flee their homes do not trust the countries who back the regime even if there is recognition of the humanitarian suffering as. we have always emphasized from the perspective of the iran islamic republic that there is no military solution to the syrian problem we need to help stop the war in syria peacefully the three leaders agreed to expedite a political solution but it might be easier said than done. the less successful
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part of this initiative has been the political angle where the three countries are wanted also to push the different actors in syria towards a political solution that efforts has been hindered by the fact that even between moscow and ankara there are still a number of divergences concerning the future of syria the future constitutional syria and even the role of us up as foreign nations declared their support for peace when year ago on this day the syrian air force dropped sarin gas and in the province the un syria commission says it killed dozens of majority of whom were women and children the leaders of turkey iran and russia say their dialogue a spearing way for the un's geneva peace process but people inside syria's rebel held areas say they are pessimistic about a solution when attacks by parties backed by these three countries continue to
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happen some of the job it out of syria and car. the growing trade dispute between the u.s. and china has left global markets reeling the volatile round of trading followed beijing's latest move in a series of tit for tat measures which a push in the world's two biggest economies to the brink of a trade war. reports from new york thanks. to the opening bell and another sharp drop in stocks on wall street caused mostly by worries that these are opening salvos of a trade war between the u.s. and china on wednesday china announced tariffs of up to twenty five percent on u.s. goods ranging from soybeans cars and chemicals it was in retaliation for president donald trump's proposal of tariffs on china considering total trade between the u.s. and china is six hundred fifty billion one hundred billion dollars in tariffs made not constitute a trade war just yet on wednesday larry kudlow trumps newly installed director of
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the national economic council trying to calm the markets i mean i would take the president seriously. tariff issue. you know there are carrots and sticks. but he is ultimately a free trader said that to me he said it publicly so he wants to solve this with the least amount of pain president trying maybe trying to drive a hard bargain but china appears to see this in starker terms. ted that this is not the smoke before the fire this is the real fight here the real trick the war the war is ongoing you don't necessarily need to you post the tariff or the ban importers to start a trade war. proposed tariffs against china are just that a proposal they're still subject to public comment there will likely be hearings on them but if it goes through the tariffs could take effect as early as mid may and
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it will hit middle america. farmers for free trade released this ad imploring trump for help soybeans imported from the us are targeted for tariffs and could cripple farmers and we're very optimistic about the economy under president robert however we're very concerned about the trade policies from washington we depend on free trade policies that maintain our export market on wall street by closing bell the markets had recovered at least for a day everyone knowing however this terrorist fight could not only damage the u.s. and china but have repercussions around the world gabriel's andro algis e to new york. but let's get the view from beijing now with that china correspondent a james brown. well as the united states appears to be trying to lower the temperature in this dispute chinese officials continue to insist that china is open to further dialogue to try to prevent a full scale trade war happening so far we've been hearing mostly from officials at
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the commerce and finance ministries so far no comment from president xi jinping but he is jus to deliver an important speech at the bar economic forum on the island of heine and on choose day and i think analysts economists around the world will be studying the text of that speech very carefully indeed to see if it offers any further clues as the state media intriguingly this story is not on the front page of the people's daily the most authoritative newspaper in china that may be a sign that the media has been told to play down this dispute but the story is on the front page of the china daily that's the main english language newspaper here and the message there seems to be one of defiance china doesn't do surrender china doesn't bow before threats from foreign leaders and china is quite prepared to fight fire with fire also if you look at the list that was released by china on wednesday it's interesting to note the china only lists one hundred six items that
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it's prepared to place tariffs on whereas the u.s. list ran to thirteen hundred items so potentially there china is also sending another message we could have hit you much harder than we did again this could be part of china's negotiating strategy the ministers from egypt sudan and ethiopia are holding talks on who controls the world's largest river of the longest river i should say egypt which depends on the novel water is worried about a dan being built up stream by here here then it smith explains that help from a graphic design team. in the northeast of africa the waters of the nile irrigate crops that feed millions of people the white nile flows from uganda through south sudan and into sudan and the blue nile from ethiopia into saddam and in the capital khartoum they converge on the world's longest river heads to egypt and not far from
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the border with sudan ethiopia is building what will be the largest down in africa a one thousand six hundred eighty square kilometer area is being flooded to create the dams lake how quickly this is done is one of egypt's main concerns. have to believe us to believe he too poor to believes in you could have a little of his inability of resources we approach. into a corporation at a cost of almost five billion dollars the great ethiopian renee's on stand or harness the power of the waters of the blue nile ethiopia wants to bring electricity to the seventy percent of its population that doesn't have it on the world bank estimates ethiopia could export a billion dollars worth of electricity every year. the down will regulate the flow of the blue nile as it heads into sudan and the sudanese are very happy about that
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at the moment depending on the season the river floods or it's too low a steady year around the flow of water will significantly boost harvests but downstream on the nile in egypt is where there's potential for conflict over ethiopia's plans from above you can see how much egypt depends on the nile the country's pretty much all deserts the only strip of color is the blue of the nile and the green of its cultivated banks ninety percent of egypt's water comes from it one study suggests that if the dams lake in ethiopia is filled quickly which means over three years then that would divert enough water to kill off fifty one percent of egypt's farmland and when you consider that egypt's population is expected to hit one hundred seventeen million in twenty thirty or thirty percent increase from now you can see why it's government is so worried about ethiopia's down. now the size of facebook's privacy scandal is bigger than at first thought the social media
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giant has revealed that the personal data of eighty seven million users was improperly shared and that's thirty seven million more than initially reported and as it grapples with the fallout the company has unveiled a new privacy policy with extra rules for third party applications or apps the changes include cracking down on apps that can get information about events that people are hosting or attending facebook also says it will better protect conversations between people that take place in closed all secret groups and it's tightening the review process for all apps that request users information about things like photos videos status updates and posts on monday facebook users will receive a notification telling them what they use what information has been shared and how to delete apps that they no longer want but the company's chief executive mark zuckerberg says he's committed to restoring facebook's reputation as an official
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now reports facebook has come in for heavy criticism after it was revealed the data of millions of users had been shared with outside parties initially it was thought by media sources the breach took in fifty million users now it's been revealed by facebook itself after an internal review the figure is much higher eighty seven million facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg told reporters on a conference call he plans to step down and the company would change the way it handled users' data in the future now we have to go through every part of our relationship with people and make sure that we're taking a broad enough you have our responsibility it's not enough to just connect people we have to make sure that those connections are positive another brand people closer together. it's not enough to just give people a voice we have to make sure that people are not using our voice to hurt people or to spread misinformation and it's not enough to give people trolls decided. we have
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to ensure that all those developers protect people's information to. us facebook didn't tell any of its users back in twenty fifteen that information had been accessed by the firm cambridge analytical which was contracted by the trump presidential campaign to help election targeting it know faces questions about the number of fake news stories posted during the election and the presence of russian operatives on the service the company also had links to another firm which provided analysis for the vote leave campaign in the british e.u. referendum of the eighty seven million potentially affected users more than seventy million are in the u.s. mark zuckerberg will face a u.s. house committee next week to discuss the scandal and several states are investigating what happened and if any laws were broken alan fischer al-jazeera washington.
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tavis take a look at the top stories here it out is here in brazil says supreme court has ruled that former president luiz inacio lula da silva must start serving a twelve year prison sentence for corruption cases dividing the country and causes shadow over this year's presidential election please lula is the favorite to win a latin america editor lucy anyone has more from brasilia. there are still a small number of procedural disputes that have to be ironed out that involved his last appeal to a lower court which he lost just a couple of weeks ago after that's ironed out it's expected the judge said he'll moral who preceded over his trial will sign the arrest warrant that would be arrest order which means that he would then have to serve his sentence in the city of almost immediately so that's at about a week to ten days we calculate americans across the country have been honoring the memory of martin luther king jr fifty years to the day after he was assassinated bells rang out near dr king's grave in atlanta georgia and in memphis tennessee
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that's where the civil rights leader was shot dead on a motel balcony in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight. donald trump has agreed to keep u.s. troops in syria for now just a day after he threatened to pull them out the u.s. president reportedly changed his mind after meeting national security advisers. the man who once ruled sierra leone as a military leader has been sworn in as president julius narrowly won a runoff vote with fifty one point eight percent of the vote but hopes for a smooth transition have been thrown into doubt with the ruling party candidate saying he's rejecting the result facebook says the personal data of eighty seven million users was improperly shared that's thirty seven million more than first reported last month it emerged that users information was obtained by a political consultancy in the u.k. which worked for the u.s.
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president's election campaign mark zuckerberg of facebook will soon testify before a u.s. congressional committee the stream is next. the differences. and the similarities of cultures a clash that. al-jazeera. you're in the stream we are live on al-jazeera i don't you tube today is india and on safe place for journalists who discuss how the recent attacks on reporters are highlighting a growing trend of hostility towards the media.
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