tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera April 6, 2018 4:00pm-5:01pm +03
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degrees celsius meanwhile we got some very heavy rain pushing into the western side of the u.s. we could see record breaking april rainfall coming into work california as we go on through the next twenty four hours or so we've got snow into central iras and heavy rain the deep south. the weather sponsored by qatar and he's. the scene for us where they're on line which is a very nice sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. zero
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. hello there are kyle this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes israeli security forces killed one palestinian injured at least forty others during protests along the gaza border. the u.s. treasury department announces new sanctions against several russian government officials and companies also ahead. and finally. for dialogue has arrived. president colors project is released from a german prison and called on the spanish government to hold talks. and a sentence of twenty four years in prison for former south korean president park geun hye a convicted of abuse of power bribery and coercion. and in sports
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a disaster at the masters for the defending champion sergio garcia equals the worst ever hole score in augusta history after finding the water five times at the first goal from asia. we begin this news the border between gaza and israel where one person has been killed as the israeli army continues to shoot live fire and to gas protesting palestinians at these forty others have been injured five critically now that brings the total number of those killed over the past week to twenty two and more than one thousand four hundred injured half of them hit by israeli gunfire tens of thousands of palestinians are holding a six week long protest intent incumbent's along the fence border our correspondent
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. how to addle honey joins us from gaza soeharto we've seen the number of protesters growing a new death toll already today what's the scene there now. when did it really does a lot of tension closer to the border fence if you recall earlier in the day the number of people there was much smaller now there's a really a sort of wave of people that keep on arriving arriving we were there just a few moments ago and we did see a lot of injured so i think that number forty that you have mentioned will be increasing in the coming hour we also so some drones are carried dropping gas tear gas canisters on the protesters there that can see them that they've been they've retreated a little bit to the back added moment but that's what has been going on throughout the day they are pushed back by this israeli fire power and tear gas and then once
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it sort of it evaporates in the air then they get closer to that border fence once again i did speak to some people who are at the other encampment and they do describe similar scenes. despite steven's the strong reaction that israel threatened and is carrying out it feels as if there's a very defiant mood. absolutely i think there's a lot of anger for what happened at friday last friday here that huge casualty number more than eight hundred people were hurt hit by live i mean mission maimed i would say from what we have seen at the hospital and you have the and despite that israel has been warning throughout the week that it will not changes back takes all its rules of engagement well people seem to be the fired i mean they're using whether ever they can to protect themselves who seem a lot of these young men's. some are really boys dean ages
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a carrying mirrors that is to blinder snipers that out across the fence stationed all along that border our we've seen them also was sort of makeshift homemade gas masks which will really protect them from anything really seen sleep slingshots are that's basically what the palestinians have on this side of the border now as you mentioned they are met with live ammunition with tear gas we are hearing reports of also concordia being sprayed in our delegation it hasn't happened in this location so certainly. no i think that really the attitude for many gazans is that at this stage life is so miserable for them here in this trip that they have nothing to lose they are saying that they are taking things into own hands and see how it goes next now it has to be said also that yes there is tension and it is growing
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because more and more people are arriving but it seems maybe that israelis are showing some degree or restraint compared to last week they're still loose using live ammunition they're still using these high velocity bullets that basically don't wound up person main them are but i spoke to many people who were here last week at this time and they said that the numbers the gunfire was much more intense here you hear sort of sort of volleys of gunfire and then you have a break and then it starts all over again however the amount of gas a tear gas rather is much more disturbing you know how they were just looking at pictures here of what i think are a young palestinians in some commando crawl on the ground and you can see the fence there are very very close to it this is in direct contradiction isn't it to israel's warning and indeed hamas is warning to stay back from the fence and respect this five hundred meter no go. well
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yes because i mean a lot of people here are also angry with their own leadership simply because they have such a difficult life many young people tell you that they are the point of explosion that they have nothing to lose so yes they are very close to the phones and we went down there and when you were down there where that black smoke is you basically see the other side you can clearly see the soldiers from across that fence just below that berm you know the young people girls and boys stand there defiantly this damn day using these burning these stairs to create these smoke screens to protect them but israel does have a lot of technology and is certainly much more advanced so it can go above the smoke screen and hence they are using all these drones to drop the tear gas canisters ok harder for the moment it will leave that will stay on the pictures for
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a little bit we have been getting some international reaction the united nations office for human rights has released a statement saying there are strong indications that security forces use excessive force and it went on to say we remind israel of its obligations to ensure that excessive force is not employed against protesters and that in the context of a military occupation as is the case in gaza unjustified and unlawful recourse to farms by law enforcement resulting in death may amount to willful killing ok let's get some more analysis on this stuff from beverly milton edwards she's a visiting fellow at the brookings doha center specializing in security sector governance in the middle east joins us here in the studio once again some pretty shocking scenes from the gaza israeli border we heard holder saying there that israel is exercising a degree of restraint compared to this time last week but it's still firing live shots still killed one palestinian and ordered an injured forty more why is it.
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acting so strongly. i think third is rarely is seeking to communicate a really clear message here to garson and in particular obviously to those who they consider responsible for governing the gaza strip in other words a mass and that message is that it doesn't really matter what the context or the conditions are in gaza you are not to come anywhere near the borders. we have security concerns we have security interests and they are first and foremost they are first and foremost for israel and that's the way it will remain and therefore they're prepared to take these steps to to manage protests but there have to be questions about the way in which israel is managing protests i mean for decades now israel has faced forms of palestinian nonviolent and violent protest and a number of international organizations and security experts have raised questions over the the ability in particular of the i.d.f.
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the military intelligence to use that intelligence to use there as you've noted the most sophisticated military almost in the world and yet somehow it doesn't seem to be able to manage palestinian protest. use of the targeting protest because they're concerned that the fence is going to be penetrated but is that the aim of these protests which is that what hamas for example has been calling for the protesters have been threatening what i think we need to be clear here that it's not just hamas is organizing or calling for this for this campaign in fact this campaign is about gaston's the majority of whom are refugees or the descendants of refugees people who seventy years ago either fled or were forced to flee their home and who have stayed in gaza dispossessed and stayed so you know the people organizing this protest are political factions civil servants civil society and also. all sorts of other societal actors so i mean that they're calling for
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restraint the campaign is to raise the issue of palestinian state of refugee hurt and also of course what's happened is the protest has gathered international attention it's really brought the spotlight on the effects the humanitarian crisis and the effects of israel's blockade on the gaza strip in terms of its crossings from gaza into israel for the past decade we have gardens living with maximum four to six hours of electricity a day seventy percent of the population dependent on humanitarian assistance ninety percent of the water drinkable sixty percent of young people in gaza unemployed which is the highest unemployment rate in the region these in and of themselves become very compelling reasons for protest irrespective of who is or isn't organizing or marshalling people now the fifteenth of may is going to be a very important day for palestinians and israelis and also perhaps for america as
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it's likely that the americans will open their embassy injury some on the fifteenth of may which is independent state but is commemorated as not the day for the most indians this day of the catastrophe so i say i think these are really rather compelling reasons than they really help us have an insight and then understanding as to why this protest is taking place and how uncomfortable do you think israel is feeling once again under the international spotlight for its treatment of palestinians well i think that we need to understand that the israeli government looks first and foremost to its domestic constituency as any government would would do and in terms of israeli opinion israeli opinion is firmly behind its government and its government actions in terms of what's presented as the security threat the threat that emanates from from god particularly in terms of the role that hamas is or isn't playing so i think the other noise the other noises that israelis would
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see. obviously the israeli government will put its case forward to the rest of the international community and in particular human rights organizations that have said you really need to think about the way in which you're using force to manage these these protests but by and large i think that israel will content itself in terms of its domestic constituency that's the most important for it ok every milton i was a member can be speaking to again throughout the coming hours thanks very much for joining us here on set. we'll have more on the situation along the israel gaza border and also plenty more ahead on this news hour including long. long. south africa's former president jacob zuma remaining defiant after appearing in court on corruption charges over a multi-billion dollar on this deal. and the party of brazil's former president saying he can still run for office again even though he's been ordered to go to jail. and mixed martial arts star qana mcgregor is charged with assault by police
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in new york joe we'll have all these details in sports. a united states has announced more sanctions on russia for what it calls russia's malign activity around the world that includes seven on their dogs and seventeen senior government officials and twelve companies a total of thirty eight individuals and entities have been sanctioned can be held at joins us now live from washington d.c. security says more about these new sanctions being announced against russians who's being targeted here. well as you just mentioned there are a total of thirty eight different targets from this latest round of sanctions by the trumpet ministration essentially targeting russian companies officials tycoons laura you remember the president always said no one has been tougher on russia than i have but many people question that statement because for months the president has
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the have the ability to take such action but has not and till recent weeks now this latest round these new rounds of sanctions target seven all of arks including one of lattimer putin's personal friends a man by the name of oleg darragh pasta is apparently a billionaire who is a very powerful energy company that runs out of siberia operates out of siberia and also made headlines last year for being linked to donald trump's former campaign chair paul man a fourth so certainly that is interesting of note but there's also a former son in law of lot of putin that is in this long list of people that are targeted in all there are also seventeen senior russian government officials and one state owned trading company and you mentioned in your intro there that this was about targeting what the united states sees as russia's malign activities just very quickly what they are sort of categorizing that is the cyber hacking or malicious activity that interference in not just the u.s. election but in western democracies as well as the assistance of the government in
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syria bashar assad saying in fact that this is a concern over the material and weaponry that has been supplied as well as the bombing of their own civilians so all in all this is very broad but certainly seems to be targeting one individual in particular and that is the russian president vladimir putin ok the u.s. administration is meanwhile saying that the door to dialogue remains open but do expect russia simply to hit back as it perhaps feels more and more isolated by the international community of late. we're really getting mixed messages laura because you'll remember just in the last week or so that the white house said that there was a telephone call between bladder putin and the president u.s. president donald trump where they actually had discussed a potential meeting even to take place at the white house then you have these actions so on the one hand the president has said repeatedly that he hopes that he
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could have a positive relationship with russia doesn't know if it will happen maybe it will maybe it won't were his exact words but certainly we've seen a stepping up of actions by the trumpet ministration that were somewhat reluctant you have to remember last summer the u.s. congress mandated these types of actions the president signed this into law reluctantly and then didn't act for many months now we've seen in recent weeks an escalation of this we've seen the supplying the sale of anti-tank weapons to ukraine that could be used against russian forces of course we've also seen the closure of the u.s. or rather the russian consulate in seattle and the acts of a number dozens of diplomats in fact so certainly there is action that is taking place but it certainly took the administration a little time to do it ok many thanks for that update from washington d.c. meanwhile the trade standoff between the world's two largest economies is also escalating u.s. president donald trump has ordered his ministration to consider imposing an extra one hundred billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese goods beijing has responded
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by saying it would pay the cost and hinted a new measures to safeguard itself if the u.s. didn't back as jim brown has more from beijing. well within hours of president trump effectively threatening a third round of tariffs against china the response from beijing was angry and swift president trump said he'd asked his trade representative to determine whether one hundred billion dollars worth of further tyrus were warranted and if so where those tariffs should be applied well a few hours later a statement appeared on the website of china's commerce ministry and it warned that china was ready to pay any cost in any trade war with the united states and its spokesman went even further google me far if the insist on unilateral reason and the truth of protectionism against the wishes of china and the international community we will fight to the death at any cost we will resolutely fight back and
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take new measures and protect the interests of our country and the people well just a day ago of course the united states had sought to try to lower the temperature with china saying the threat of more tariffs was simply the next step in the negotiating process now we are back to the brinkmanship on friday china's state media which of course is controlled by the communist party sought to portray china as the victim saying trump was simply trying to stop china's rise and the media had another blunt message china doesn't do surrender. colonias former leader colors push him on has been released on bail from the german president has called for talks with spain a court rejected spanish extradition request judges rule the valley in charge that putin will face as in spain is not a criminal offense in germany he could still be actually i said on the lesser charge of misusing public funds however he's wanted over his role in the illegal referendum for catalonia succession from spain right now john mccain standing by
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for us in new minster so don't make a pigeon want daintily appeared out of that prison a couple of hours after posting bail what they have to say. well the point was that we were expecting him to come out much earlier than he did there was this this is ambiguity about what was keeping him inside because remember the conditions of the bail that that he now has at liberty as it were controlled sense of liberty pretty stringent seventy five thousand euros has to be passed and posted in bail he also had to agree to announce all his his movements as a world where he would be going who he would be seeing in germany to the old forest make a commitment that he wouldn't leave this country is not allowed to leave germany and as i say that took several several hours more than we expected but eventually when the time came for him to emerge from this prison this was the message he had for the waiting media. the time for dialogue has arrived we are
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demanding that daily from the last that she hears and we only received a violent and representative response now seeing the form of that response it's time to do politics there is no excuse for the spanish authorities to start the police to go dialogue with the catalan political leaders in order to find a political solution of power the immense not by creamy now. but i want to get still not over as you mentioned he can still be extradited over the alleged use of misuse of funds when we hear more about that. well remember here laura the most important time frame as it were is the one the european arrest warrant time from the one which saw him being picked up by the law
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enforcement agents on the danish german border on the twenty fifth of march there are sixty days that must unfold with tween that they say that arrest in the culmination of a process if the defender. and in this case with the push mark goes against the idea of being extradited and so far at least he has done so so that suggests that some time in the in late may perhaps the twenty fourth of may might be the culmination point of this process it's interesting they're looking at what he had to say talking about time for a political resolution today the german government in a press briefing is it worth this morning spoke about the need for a new government to be formed in catalonia as almost like a precondition to trying to bring a resolution to the political crisis will they you have mr pushing on saying pretty much the same thing it's an interesting development given the fact that until now the german government officials angela merkel and others have tried to remain studiously not part of this this case as it were but ultimately the question now is
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for mr putin or is he going to contest this this smaller charge as it were which might still here see him sent to madrid there's the suggestion that he's now moving to berlin away from time to the german capital and we will monitor developments obviously we certainly well the big question still remains dominic thanks very much now the diplomatic crisis between the u.k. and russia of the poisoning of a former spy has now moved to the united nations and the security council moscow's ambassador warned london that it was playing with fire and in the past half hour the hospital taking care of sergei scrapple says he's no longer in a critical condition but that mask has that damn space reports from the u.n. a greeting between the british and russian ambassadors but it was clear when the meeting started that is where the cold all relations ended russia called for the security council meeting to strongly reject u.k. allegations that russia carried out the nerve agent attack. because monday
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a dozen news no good to come in theaters ladies and gentlemen i don't even know what to say about this it's some sort of theater of the absurd could you come up with a better fake story we all know what the worth of british intelligence information is based on the experience of tony blair we have told our british colleagues that you're playing with fire and you will be sorry diplomats tell me they see this council meeting as part of a pattern when russia has backed into the corner it goes on the diplomatic offensive we've seen fresh comments in recent hours on the soles prick case from foreign minister sergei lavrov and from russia's ambassador in london on wednesday russia called a meeting of the international body that oversees chemical weapons the o.p.c. w and brazenly suggested a joint investigation by the u.k. and russia the idea was quickly voted down but the british ambassador at the u.n. again referred to it using
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a very british literary reference the villain in the sherlock holmes books allowing russian scientists into an investigation when they are the most likely perpetrators of the crime insoles be would be like scotland yard in fighting game professor moriarty so i don't think that's a tenable way forward instead i fear that the russian motive in calling for a security council meeting today is another step in the pattern of obfuscation and contempt for international institutions it was at the beginning of march in the british city is seoul's pre that the former spies surrogate script and his daughter were incapacitated by a nerve agent known to have been developed by russia yulia is getting better an hours before the security council met british police released a statement from her it reads i woke up over a week ago now i'm glad to say my strength is growing daily. i'm grateful for the
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interest in me and for the many messages of goodwill that i've received rusher in the u.k. of painting very different pictures of who was behind the attack or miss cripple and her father the investigations by the u.k. authorities and by the o.p.c. w a likely to be long and detailed but even when they report their final conclusions i think there's a strong chance russia will reject them james al-jazeera at the united nations south korea's former president park geun has been sentenced to twenty four years in jail and ordered to pay millions of dollars in fines was found guilty on sixteen of eighteen charges of abuse of power bribery and coersion for her part in a massive corruption scandal got a novak has more from seoul. this is a scandal that has gripped south korea since twenty sixteen and the nation watched the climax live on television but park in haiti boycotted the trial and wasn't in
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court to learn her fate but the court sentences the defendant puck and head to twenty four years in prison and fines her sixteen point eight million u.s. dollars. fark was found guilty of sixteen of the eighteen charges including abuse of power coercion and of bribery and said to have taken millions of dollars from the country's vegas conglomerates in exchange for favors the corruption scandal sparked months of protests in central seoul culminating in parks impeachment was also found guilty of leaking sensitive information to her longtime friend jason shill as president park allowed to dictate policy even though she had no official government role the pair was found to have conspired to extort millions of dollars from major companies including samsung in february chair was sentenced to twenty years in prison samsung's air and group leader jay wiley was tried separately and
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convicted of bribing pock through payments to foundations check controlled he was sentenced in august to five years in prison then released on appeal. some of these protesters pointed to that ruling asking if lee was released why was parked found guilty and been an angry reaction from outside the court from these supporters of talkin hey there are conservatives who dislike the current liberal president moon j n and they're demanding parks release. they represent a generation a style just for the time when pox father park chung hee was president he was a military general who came to power in a coup and was eventually killed by an aide a traumatizing event for a young poc and hey. we will keep fighting until there is a new government in power men jane will not let her out. we need to fight injustice but the number of park supporters paled in comparison to the hundreds of thousands
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who regularly turned out for the candlelight protests president came to office on a liberal agenda promising to stamp out corruption in a statement his spokesman said they say history not remembered repeats itself we will not forget today kathy novak al jazeera soul the corruption case against south africa's formulated jacob zuma has been adjourned the money laundering fraud and racketeering charges relate to a multi-billion dollar arms deal from almost two decades ago zuma denies any wrongdoing and is challenging the decision to prosecute the case after an sawyer has more from the former president stronghold the city of durban. jacob zuma has addressed his supporters outside hype for this region is called quote. and zuma stronghold so people have been bought from across the region to comment supports and hold him and ask old them that this is all about politics he says that at the time of the on steele he was not in
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a position of that kind of you fanciful to say that this case has been around for such a long time and it hasn't moved forward he says in a sense and he's going to approve that now the quad has postponed the beginning of the try all to. june eighth it was very much expected that this would happen this was apparently preliminary seating and zuma was not even expected to take a piece of these positions to postpone the case is so that to give lawyers time to prepare and zuma as lawyers have already said that they are going to challenge the decision of the state to reopen the case already they're reviewing that position and a lot of legal experts have been talking to us saying that this is the one case this is one. that is going to take very long to resolve it's very complicated and they're going to be very many witnesses i'm sure a lot of to ing and fro ing from some of the best lawyers in the country but many
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south africans including those who are here jacob zuma support as i say they have waited so long for answers and they hope that it's not going to take another many yes to get this on says a to get a body to get justice whichever way to goes. these live pictures that you're seeing from those protests and guards of the numbers have been growing throughout the day especially off to friday prayers we have. sporadic reports of live shot from the israeli side will bring you more on that story later in the program and also ahead no deal why sudan egypt and ethiopia have failed to reach an agreement over the controversial when they sold down. on stuff last reporting from inside an immigration detention center in the east of cali month on when one hundred fifty refugees have been protesting for more than seventeen days crying out for freedom. past child abuse allegations made against two of the
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past week at these twenty four people have been killed with more than one thousand four hundred injured half of them hit by israeli gunfire the protesters are responding by burning tires to create a smoke screen and gathering near the fence. the united states has announced more sanctions on russia for what it calls russia's malign activity around the world includes seven oligarchs and seventeen senior government officials and twelve companies. on the diplomatic crisis between the u.k. and russia over the poisoning of former spy sergei script paul has now moved to the united nations security council moscow is on basa to warn london that it was playing with fire taking care of script says he's no longer in a critical condition. has bringing more now on our top story those tensions along the gaza israel border and the protesters are gathering for the annual lands day
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last week that's an act of resistance against israeli occupation and land seizures challenge ballots has this report. only palestinian words meet israeli bullets in gaza. from behind the border fence israeli snipers have palestinians in these sites they shoot tear gas in life fire and rubber bullets. but still reeling from their bloodiest day in years this was the area where last friday israeli snipers shot seven hundred palestinians twenty one would die a week later they're back with a smokescreen and straight shoots the casualty numbers quickly climb one two three before noon forty by three pm but. the stars they are seeing we're not bringing them for war anything we've brought them to protect ourselves from israeli snipers . the last friday's killings happened on what the palestinians call lend it's an
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annual protest an act of resistance to israeli occupation and the seizure of land for illegal jewish settlements. this year israel warned that opened fire if anyone approached the border fence and then they followed through out the fourteen hundred people were injured many shot by more than one hundred israeli snipers some in the back as they ran away another is he price. israel has ruled out any investigation by the united nations over the european union and to disproportionate use of force it blames him us for inciting its people is a travesty for the palestinian people that the hamas government is encouraging its people to attack israel is encouraging its people to commit acts of violence and encouraging them to actually storm into israel to to try. destroy israel and kill as many people as possible it's outrageous and it needs to stop now. commemorations
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for those killed last friday have dominated gaza streets it was the highest casualty rate in a single day since the israeli mall on the strip two years ago let of then as. we will never give up on any of our inalienable rights no one here is talking about one thousand nine hundred sixty seven borders no one here is talking except about palestine and all of palestine we will never give up our land palestinians will camp along the border until the fifteenth of may the day israel was created seventy years ago or palestinians refer to it is not in the catastrophe some protesters will age a few hundred meters closer to the border taunting israel security forces and remembering what the lost loved ones and land they hold mirrors to blind the snipers hoping the world can see as they reflects the violence shallop ballasts al-jazeera. through john's foreign minister says talks with egypt and ethiopia on the controversial ground renascence dam have failed the project was slated for
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completion this year but disagreements between egypt and theo p.-a have led to the two years suspension of talks that had been concerns about the impact the dam would have on water sharing from the nile river oddball has more from the sudanese capital khartoum. could drive a c. discord over some sticky points has taken the lead during these talks particularly the one related to the feeling of the reservoir of the dam egypt wanted that feeling to take about eleven years so that it does not reduce the amount of water that flows downstream each year opi on the other hand wanted to fill the reservoir in only three years remember that this reservoir can retain up to seventy four billion cubic meters that's the equivalent of the entire amount of the river flow during one of the highest years in terms of rainfall so that's of deep concern for
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egypt it thinks that this is going to compromise its share of the water it's going to cause scarcity of water along the nile and it's going to cause that as a swath of the us one dam and the other dams even in sudan not to fill up properly and it's it's going to have very damaging consequences to the interests of egypt this has been going on for many years but now time is of the essence both to egypt and to each european each opiah doesn't need these talks it would normally want want this these talks in to take place in the first place they don't think there is something to negotiate they think that this is their own right suffern right to deal with their own resources and to do what they want with those resources egypt and sudan on the other hand particularly egypt they believe that no there are historical ties to this what it is shared between several countries and nobody has to change the course of the civil others the flow of the civil and how much water flows in it without proper consultation with the other countries. more than
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a thousand refugees including children are being held in detention centers in indonesia some of been there for years and assassin reports from balikpapan there's little chance they'll be freed anytime soon. they have been shouting for freedom every day for the past eighty days but no one can hear them except for a few guards. these refugees are mostly ethnic us era who fled persecution in afghanistan now they are locked up on the island of borneo far away from the capital jack after the youngest. was detained when he was twelve now he's forty years old. it's been very difficult not only me but everyone is suffering from depression what once we tried to escape but one man fell from the high wall and broke his leg no one is failing. indonesia has not signed the
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un convention for refugees but the government decided fifteen months ago that refugees should be given proper accommodation while waiting for resettlement was still more than one thousand refugees are locked up without a verdict or a release date most of them for more than four years of course we expected when we scare from the priests accused from the me here to the discrimination from our country we saw a similar come and here we are sifting not a lot behind. what. the un commission for refugees the un h.c.r. has recently told refugees in indonesia their chances of resettlement are close to zero strangely i do united states and europe have all but closed their borders they're not allowed to work or to go to school what's been happening inside this attention center is a cry for freedom far away from the public eye refugees locked up. and treated as
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prisoners with no country willing to accept them there's more and more pressure on them to go back to the country they fled from in the first place. what unfortunate refugees in balloch pop on have taken the offer of two thousand u.s. dollars from i.o.m. the international organization for migration to return to afghanistan money provided by the australian government. those who understand that it's it might be best for them to go home we want to make it easy for them and we also wanted some incentive or whether it's could be seen as a center but it really is for something it's money for them to get started many of them have sold everything before they left the jets will be able to go back to the country that's basically nothing well they they make that determination like most other refugees sixty year old russell that the sas returning to afghanistan is not an option in their order therefore they are the ones that are bomb blasts nearly
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every day only recently many people were killed in soccer we have nowhere else to go we sought shelter with the international organization for migration and u.n.h.c.r. we have nowhere else to go. the indonesian government says it's urging the local government to provide accommodation sort of refugees can be released from detention but several groups and i looked up on with a sunni muslim population are free fused to accept the mostly shia refugees citing a fear for religious conflict even the refugees to wonder who is willing to receive them and when their shells for freedom over finally be heart. stop fastened al-jazeera balikpapan. oil prices on the philippine island of baraka i asked scrambling to manage after president announce his plans to close the island for six months hundreds of thousands of tourists will not be allowed on the island to island again reports. boruc i may be just one of the more than one thousand
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islands in the philippines but revenues here make up more than twenty percent of the total tourism industry in the country with spoken to tourists here many say the room even noticed the political turmoil that the island is facing with the government but local workers here feel differently obviously then a president deter what's going to happen to us i hope you can help us thousands of us will consider going to be jobless for six months. i hope we don't totally close down the island because so many of us employees will go hungry along with our families president of the good that there does the scribed boracay and they quote a cesspool has ordered his government to close the island for the next six months for rehabilitation that means thirty five thousand workers are expected to lose their jobs and we've spoken to workers who say who would like to know what sort of
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assistance will they get from the national government or whether they will even have a job to return to they also criticized the government for granting two licenses to two chinese mega casinos they say that medical simos like this one have no place in a small island like boracay they demand a plan they say from the government was made drastic measures they say without a long clear policy as to how it wants to end it. broken out outside a building in sao paolo where brazil's former president he's an asshole all of the silver has retreated to after a judge ordered has arrest supporters camped outside the metal workers union fort with journalists accusing them of being behind a plot against those top court has ruled a must begin a twelve year jail sentence for corruption a judge giving him until five pm on friday local time the hands and cell phone to police the last america as they say in yemen has more from the capital brasilia.
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barack obama described lisi nasser lula da silva as the world's most popular president the left wing little worker rose to become a global example for others who dream of lifting tens of millions of people from poverty. to lula's two presidencies were haunted by corruption allegations they never stuck hence his reputation for having a teflon shield but with the supreme court's decision to send him to prison while he appeals a twelve year corruption sentence it's clear the shield has crumbled the message is you all are equal all the big piece of legislation that you have in brazil you won the law so now we are talking about the former president to morrow we can be talking about the cure and president paymah or even the future president luiz legal team said it would request a series of injunctions to block his arrest warrant hoping to buy more time but
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judd said you would know was quicker on the draw he said that out of respect for lula as a former president he would allow him twenty four hours to present himself voluntarily to federal police in the city of where he is supposed to serve his sentence if he does not go then he says federal police will go out to arrest him given brazil's complex legal system anything could happen in that time remains the most popular would be. and it is ahead of october's presidential elections. will be in with the best president in brazil's recent history it's not fair to end things like this. with lula apparently out of the race the new frontrunner is an ultra right wing former military officer. and admirer of chile's former dictator pinochet. but the senator from new lives where chris party insists remains a political force. this verdict has amended leadership look at.
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daniel was born now and has laura thank you american jordan speak leads the masses by two strikes going into day two at last is when a. unwanted piece of history at. home and reports. defending champions always carry an extra amount of pressure at the masters but it only time crashing down for sergio garcia during his opening round little gusto. the spaniard arrived at the par five fifteenth hole to one of the through the day but shot after shot he kept finding the water garcia called his newborn daughter azalea after the name of the thirteenth hole little gusta it might be safe to assume that his next child would be called firestone he's down the water there on five occasions fifteen minutes and
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thirteen shots after starting to equal the worst score for a hole in the tournament history. with four time champion tiger woods return to the masters for the first time since twenty fifteen he's had multiple back surgeries in recent years and recovered from a slow start birdies on the fourteenth and sixteenth holes helping him to a one zero is a round of seventy three. felt great to be back out there again. and i have always come up here last couple years as a food so it's nice to get out there and play and and know that i have this golf course and follow me. woods as school places him seven shots behind leader jordan speace the twenty fifth day when i had five consecutive birdies on the back nine and toss the leaderboard at six under par this golf course specifically brings out a lot of feel in my game and i think that that's advantageous i don't do well when
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domes are driving rain shots and you don't have many of those out here but the lesson reiterated by sergio garcia on thursday is that you take nothing for granted costa elease home and al jazeera. what makes martial arts biggest stars khana mcgregor has been charged with three counts of assault and one of criminal mischief after attacking a bus carrying u.f.c. fighters in new york mcgregor lost his cool as the bus turned up at brooklyn's barclays center carrying fighters to an event he wasn't even attending a metal trolley smashing one of the windows of the boss and injuring two fighters who remain in custody until hearing later u.f.c. president dana whites who has backed his biggest stops now was shocked by mccartney's behavior. you know he's on drugs or what is deal is you know the coming to this. end up like this you know you're talking about a guy that's a baby just
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a kid. just this is how you're acting you have a son and this is my game i mean things are sad people get each other's faces people grab each other and do stuff like that it's completely normal and it's we always you know containing him but it's part of the business but what happened today. is criminal. disgusting despicable makes me sick and. we have an organization to make sure that this never happens again. sexual abuse scandals are increasingly becoming uncovered in sports some of them dating back decades in the last few months gymnastics and football have been rocked by high profile cases in february former u.s. gymnastics team doctor laurie nasa was sentenced to more than one hundred seventy five years in prison for abusing over two hundred fifty women and children in his care the same month british football coach and youth scout barry knell was found
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guilty of forty three charges of sexual abuse dating back to the one nine hundred seventy s. he molested boys and promised to further their football career is now argentina is facing a similar scandal surrounding two of its biggest clubs former players from the youth divisions of river plate and independent so. they were victims of a child prostitution ring today reports from one osiris i football is much more than a sporting argentina it's a national passion that in the last week has been shaken to the core. a seventeen year old player within the indian there told the club psychologist that he and another young player had been encouraged to sell themselves for sex at least seven miners were prostituted and ten others are relieved to have been potential victims prosecutors say there could be more. if we don't know many children were contacted but did not fall into the trap and we are also
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investigating the potential of the crime known as grooming in many cases they were not successful in carrying out their attempted activities but we are going to ensure that these people no longer have the chance to approach children. but the sex abuse investigations have spread to other clubs. runs a rape victim association and filed a complaint against river plate when she received information that young players were also abused between two thousand and four and two thousand and eleven. a doctor that worked at the club wrote to us she had proved that children are also part of a ring she had to take time off because she was told not to get involved we also received a letter where a former player says that children are forced to prostitute themselves to be allowed to move forward in their careers. lucy has been receiving threats since she can talk to the authorities and is now using what is known as a panic cream. river plate is one of the most famous clubs in the country it is a sports club that operates whole stealth for young players recruited from other
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parts of argentina or abroad the sexual abuse can both involve young players that live here because they do not have any relatives in one of us. has been investigating the abuses. and says there is a common pattern. could be in there are two cases where we see a similar situation we see individual cases but they happen inside the club with children that have a very vulnerable economic situation who are not from when osiris for example a thirteen year old that is from shaka who has no money transfer to i was a day and pedophiles try to take advantage of that. the dream of becoming a big a star as your name may seem has left hundreds of children exposed in argentina and even though the argentine food will association says it will now look at conditions in the hostess where the young players live that won't prepare the damage that has already been done. it is how will one a side. host australia enjoyed
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a golden day at the pool at the commonwealth games on friday they won six swimming gold medals and set a new world record in the women's four by one hundred meters relay it was also one to finish in the men's two hundred metres freestyle final as coach thomas edged out match routes into the title australia now top of the medal table with a total of fourteen goals meanwhile south africa's chudleigh closer moved a step closer to becoming the most successful commonwealth games our fleet of all time as he won his thirteenth title in the fifty metres butterfly the coas now just five shy of the record medal. the most successful winter olympian in history says she's retiring from cross-country skiing and won fifteen olympic medals including eight gold five winter games but she says she doesn't have the motivation for another season and will quit at the age of thirty eight. the playoffs are just around the corner in the national hockey league at the national predators clinch
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the central division and western conference titles on thursday with victory over the washington capitals meanwhile the new jersey devils clinched their first playoff berth since two thousand and twelve the devils beat the toronto maple leafs two two one miles wood and puddles sucka each school office ace from patrick marie . and that is useful for now work more with peter later laura great p.p. later thanks very much to you. and i set for this news hour but do stay with us i'll be back in just a moment with special extended coverage of all the day's news here on ars as it. officially the terror champion of nine hundred two teams two reflections of the electricity that are there the phones read the qur'an and outcome of france abroad
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