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continues. we sing young people to fight these wars put them in the most complex situations you can imagine and have a. rewind on al-jazeera. was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to. around seventy families who lost their homes and still live in this camp so. the government raised our hopes and then abandoned. politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed.
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this is. welcome to the new. pleasantries comes the real test of this u.s. friendship relationship. between presidents micron and trump is the deal with iran it's still. if the u.s. were to pull out we are expecting a joint news conference from the white house. and. the people suffering. raise money for the syria we're looking for your questions directly to the united nations undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs. is joining us shortly and it is the. prime minister was forced to step down in the faces. protests from his own people but it's also
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a significant day when armenians mock what they call the genocide of ninety three things still disputed by trees. and in the hundreds it's been five years since the rana plaza factory tragedy that killed thousands of people in bangladesh we're looking at the online campaign through improve what is right and accountability and passion straight so connect with us throughout the show using hash tag a.j. despite. what the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live in around zero dot com they call it a bilateral meeting the leaders of just two countries involved but at stake is the future of a critical global agreement the presidents of france and the united states emanuel mccrone and donald trump discussing whole host of issues at the white house right now but the iran nuclear deal is expected to dominate in fact iran itself is
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ramping up the pressure on european leaders to ensure trump keeps the accord alive running president hassan rouhani has even warned of quote severe consequences if washington withdraws from that two thousand and fifteen agreement genoa i am telling those in the white house that if they did not live up to their commitments the iranian government will react firmly if anyone betrays the deal they should know that they would face severe consequences his can believe that following events from the white house hi kimberly i'm seeing some lines already from the sort of preamble i guess to these talks when it doesn't sound promising already trump talking about things being even worse if iran were to restart its nuclear program. right i think the real headline of this joint visit between the u.s. and french presidents happened just moments ago in the oval office us they embarked on their bilateral some stant of session of this meeting with the president essentially threatening iran saying that if it restarts its nuclear program it will
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have bigger problems than it's ever had before now what brought the u.s. president to say that well reporters were asking him very specifically as as many have been wondering how this will take place given the fact that the french president we know was working very hard to encourage donald trump in the united states to remain in the agreement to limit iran's nuclear program in exchange for a lifting of sanctions that was no go she said it was six world powers now donald trump made no secret about what he feels about the deal saying in fact criticizing his predecessors particularly the former secretary of state john kerry saying that you know he left all kinds of holes and loopholes which have essentially been exploited by iran saying what kind of a deal is this that a country is allowed to test missiles over what kind of an agreement would allow a country to test missiles and also he feels that there is not an adequate
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addressing of the issue when it comes to what the term administration has repeatedly referred to as iran's destabilizing activity in the wider middle east so again emanuel macross certainly has come to these meetings hoping to urge donald trump in the united states to stay a part of the agreement arguing that there is no plan b. but it appears he has his work cut out for him given the statements just made by donald trump just quickly can believe anything else we should be keeping an eye on contras that we can get too caught up in everything to do with iran is obviously plenty of other stuff to talk about. right it was a little surprising in fact because we've just seen this elaborate display of a military welcome on the south lawn of the white house there where they expected a predictable warm braces kisses on each cheek the greeting of the wives but then emanuel back really hit hard in his opening statements putting all of his cards essentially on the table not just talking about the iran agreement but also talking
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about the importance of the upcoming meeting between donald trump and and the north korean leader kim jong il and almost linking these two nuclear issues and also discussing the sort of topics we expect he's talking to donald trump about right now in their bilateral meeting that is the issue of the united states pulling out of the paris climate accord the fact that there is a need to take leadership when it comes to the concerns about climate change and biodiversity so certainly there are a number of substantive issues donald trump mentioning they may not get to them all but certainly the top priority right now appears to be between the two men the issue of the iran agreement in the future of it with regard to the united states simply honk at the white house keep in touch with her on twitter at kimberly how could thank you we also have nicholas dungan with us senior fellow at the atlantic council who's been with us from paris and is staying with us as we wait for this news conference a little later on because based on your own knowledge based on what you've kimberly's saying justin do you think mr macron can. so i say get through to donald
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trump on this particular issue. first of all this wasn't what it was supposed to be about this is supposed to be a state visit largely ceremonial and largely symbolic and i think that it may be that the media and experts that is you and me have actually attributed more to the potential substance of this meeting as you were saying a minute ago there's a great deal more to talk about the sides iran the problem with iran is twofold number one. donald trump clearly doesn't understand this agreement the main reason he's opposed to this agreement is that barack obama signed it and john kerry negotiated it's more of an internal political vendetta than it is an actual problem with the treaty the second thing is that this is a very complicated complicated situation there's a complicated play with the various allies who signed it and with china and russia
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there's a cut the complications of understanding the iranian regime and this agreement was only ever supposed to be about the ability of iran to actually obtain nuclear weaponry not anything else that iran is doing nothing else with the relationships the different people have with iran so trump is to is enlarging this he's taking it out of context and he has nothing because the united states has not actually come out and said what it really doesn't like about the treaty it also hasn't proposed any alternatives so essentially he's using an administrative mechanism the need to recertify compliance which iran clearly is complying is it is using that administrative mechanism for political purposes the situation with kim jong il own for example is totally different that's going to be two guys sitting at the table mano a mano man to men from skin to feel comfortable with that but he's out of his depth on this and so i think that we are out of our depth as the media and as experts in trying to attribute to mccomb the need to be able to to save the iran agreement
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there's nothing that says that when the united states. if the united states pulls out that the agreement collapses you know many states will be pulling out like it pulled out of g p p let's talk a bit more broad brush than about the two presidents they tell me about i mean as you pointed out they seem very powerfully very buddy buddy tell me more about how president trump and this relationship is viewed in france you know if you look at britain for example there's a lot of public sort of anger towards president trump and the way that the government their prime minister made deals with president trump is it similar in france. not atoll not at all because the difference between the french american relationship and the british american nation ship is that the british american relationship since the war the second world war has been side by side and in that side by side relationship britain has always been a bit shorter the junior partner somewhat subordinate the french american
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relationship since the goal and i don't mean since the goal in one nine hundred fifty eight i mean since to go to one thousand nine hundred forty four in the liberation of fronts the french american relationship is one in one face to face so the french people who completely dislike donald trump for all the reasons that everybody else likes just dislikes done from are perfectly content that their president who said on fox news in the united the american people elected this president of the united states and i'm dealing with the president of the united states that makes total sense to the french because the last thing they would want to do would be to be marginalized and what we see and there was a time at the time of the iraq war in two thousand and three the iraq invasion by the united states and britain when france was feeling marginalized in the united states now it's the shoes on the other foot because in fact britain doesn't have the capability until it puts its own breck's in house in order to actually propose
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any international initiatives this leaves a wide open space for fronts to do what even the united states under trial can't do and in fact what i think he's doing and this is why i actually don't believe that the recertification of the iran agreement is as big a deal as everybody thinks it is i think what mike was doing is he's buying himself in an immense amount of room for maneuver because so long as he has trump to put it a little bit brutally neutralized so long as trump doesn't get in his way stands aside or even on certain things supports him then he can live with the disagreements right the interesting thing about his speech on the south lawn. was that he actually started to underline some of the philosophical differences whereas up till now he's been very good at keeping the differences as disagreements on one policy at a time not our overall relationship ok nicholas dungan it's a pleasure talking to you and we'll talk to you again later when hopefully we hear
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from the two presidents in washington just on the iran issue we do say the words iran deal pretty casually don't know that there's obviously a lot more to it if you don't get up to speed with the details for example that it is actually called the j c p a the joint comprehensive plan of action they had to understeer dot com and look up what you need to know about iran and the trump trump and the iran deal all the background there plain and simple links to all the latest stories concerning fronts and the deal as well get in touch with us as well content details are coming up on screen for you now hashtag a.j. news good twitter facebook whatsapp i do want to let you know that actually in just a few moments we're going to be speaking to mr local crew is the united nations undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs at the united nations very high up in the organization we're talking humanitarian issues to do with syria if you've got any questions send them directly into us that number you can use plus one seven four five or one trip or one four nine you can tweet me directly at to come out a j with the hash tag a.j. news grid so let's get on to syria this war in syria likely to find its way you
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would think into those talks at the white house as well syrian government forces and their allies on the ground of intensified their operation in south damascus with the army trying to regain all ground near the capital this military focus on the area where i still hold its last pocket next to one held by rebel factions it all began last week after the army took back east in the ghouta rebels in two other enclaves northeast of damascus surrendered in recent days and buses transferring fighters and their families from one of those on planes have started arriving in northern syria they were moved from the color moon region to opposition territory under safe passage from the government's. but the gains by the syrian government and its allies in recent weeks won't bring the country in a closer to pace at least that is what stefan to mr a says he is the u.n. special envoy to syria speaking at an e.u. donor conference we have seen in the last few weeks days.
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we have seen it with. that made it three games to the total gauge military escalation that's not green a political solution not build any change on the political will on the contrary we are going through a very difficult moment the truth is that everyone in the joint political solution and that is what we need to work on and is trying to hide diplomacy on. so stephanie mr were there speaking at a conference in belgium that is dubbed brussels to it is an international conference on the future of syria hosted by the e.u. and the un there are groups and governments from eighty five countries involved and as i said earlier the head of one of those groups is with us now mark local on that secretary general for humanitarian affairs at the united nations heading up the group known as the office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs and it's a pleasure to have you with us on al-jazeera i notice your if i look at this from
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a social media point of view as we like to do the hash tag for your conference is invest in humanity what do you what do you mean by that what's the point you're trying to get across to people after seven years of war. well as a staff and in mr a just told you in your view is what we found out through all the killing in the shelling in the bombing in the shooting is that does not ring a solution what we need is pace and in the meantime we need to relief the atrocious suffering the people of syria of going through tomorrow in brussels we will be seeking pledges nine billion dollars for humanitarian appeal inside syria and for help for the neighboring countries who are staying millions and millions of syrians have had to flee their country and investing in humanity means giving those people suffering through this crisis food and shelter and health services and education and protection and the other things that they like everyone else are
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entitled to for normal life go to question here as you heard i was asking for for instance from a viewer could sue has written in on twitter and asked what's has your group done to engage different players in the conflict to end the conflict now is that your job as part of the humanitarian side of things do you have to try to stay out of the politics of the politics affects everything well my job is the m.h.z. relief coordinator is to support all of the aid agencies the united nations the red cross the n.g.o.s all of it is trying to relieve the humanitarian suffering of the people of syria my colleague staff and who you just had on they just now his job is a difficult job to try and bring the parties together to negotiate to paste in a political solution difficult for him and by extension that becomes difficult for you as well because you want to supply this humanitarian aid but i suspect the the the to and fro the power controls of a different areas of syria that must make your job pretty difficult. three things
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make the job the first is the fighting in the bombing in the shooting the second is we don't have enough money to meet the needs of all the syrians who are suffering from this crisis we're reaching as the united nations and our partners seven and a half million people a month inside syria with food and health services and other essential support last year our appeal for help inside syria was not much more than half fine and so a lot of people had their suffering prolonged unnecessarily and then thirdly we need better access across the whole of the country so that they ate agencies and their heroic workers who take enormous risks themselves in bringing relief to the suffering involved is can see where the most acute needs are and we can plan the programs that need to take place to relieve the suffering so how do you bring those funding levels up with the local because there is and i hate using
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a phrase like this but there is there is fatigue i think amongst people have heard about syria for so long there is so much of the suffering that goes on in the world as well places like yemen and fighting for that that dollar basically that humanitarian dollar i mean how do you how do you change that how do you meet those needs. well last year a previous column friends which took place also here in brussels generous donors did pledge six billion dollars towards the needs that we're trying to me and we need to tell the story of the syrian people the children and women and men who are suffering through this crisis that just like you and me in every material respect except their i'm lucky enough to be caught up in this war and when people around the world see this suffering they want to do something about and they want reassurance which we try to provide for them and if they and their governments provide help it will reach people in need and we are able to do that if the
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fighting dies down a base in the place we need to reach people if we get the resources we need and if we get the access mark local united nations under secretary general for humanitarian affairs a pleasure talking to you thank you. his for he didn't really know we talked about yarmouk a little bit earlier we saw some of the pictures there can you take us back to that story and how it's still. exactly on social media yes so ask will mention the yarmouk refugee camp has been under government siege and been bodman for several years now and you may remember this image which has been getting a lot of global attention it went viral in twenty fourteen it shows palestinian refugees in the armagh refugee camp lining up for aid as far as the eye can see the image was released by the united nations during the same year that a cease fire agreement took place but not much has changed since then we continue to see similar pictures today with syrian and russian asterix continuing to talk at
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the camp and the ongoing seas is just making life even more under the bill for the people there and this means some strong reaction online to this human rights activists and of the su call of says that the regime is preventing rescues she got up or you know i don't think it is far we've got for you and says she says that so the attack on the biggest refugee hospital in the camp is is really preventing rescues there and it's now impacted many of the people that have been buried under that rubble then there was another from julie then she's on the arm of camp she says that jeremy corbin is to blame for remaining silent over the past seventy is and then there's another from assad he's a journalist he says that's a serious president and russia is bombing the arm account to destroy our soul without constraint without considering the civilian population while we will
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some one thousand migrants are being picked off in the mediterranean and the past few days good weather and calm seas has made it easier for the migrant boats to depart according to the u.n.h.c.r. ninety eight thousand people living right by sea and it's new since the start of twenty eighteen shop drop in previous years. the first statue of a woman in london's parliament square has been unveiled a statue as of medicine force it campaign for six decades for women to have the right to vote for that died in one nine hundred twenty nine one year after voting rights were extended to all women the u.k. prime minister to resign may pay tribute to force it at downgrading ceremony. i would not be standing here today as prime minister no female m.p.'s would have taken their seats in parliament none of us would have had the rights and protections we now enjoy where it's not for one truly great woman day millicent
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garrett forsett. are just as in nicaragua refusing to back down and are now calling for the resignation of president daniel ortega human rights groups say at least twenty six people are being killed in a violent crackdown by police on protests that erupted last week after taking launched a plan to overhaul the country's welfare system to home and report. people continue to come out in the streets of nicaragua despite president daniel ortega the reforms to the social security system that is first sparked protests last week. to the thousands who marched through the campus woman there were monday this is now become about something more they are protesting against the president himself the money is going to those other markets to their final seconds this protest is bigger than all the rest because people have grown tired people are worn out from the violation of rights rights of the people the violation of the constitution this was
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the vote that knocked over the glass of this. president all take is now on his third consecutive term and has been accused of nepotism his wife is the vice president and for undermining democratic institutions to tighten his grip on power . his critics will now add to that list repression. police have used heavy handed tactics in dealing with protesters close to thirty people have been killed among them officers themselves. others have been detained these relatives saying outside a police station as they called for their loved ones to be released. what the president originally bullish in his response to the protesters had on sunday struck a slightly more conciliatory tone let me turn the simple to the incidents of violence that have happened i regret about we express solidarity with all the families whose loved ones have died from the violence. and this is you know i saw
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nothing but after that address police rushed to university campus that has become the bastion of the protests the students occupying it flew back at least one was killed when i am alerting the army afterwards they promise to carry on what they need is the backing of the country's powerful business community and the rest of the population. are going to. think that the president will be hoping his concessions are enough to dampen the anger john home and. police in china have arrested a thirty two year old man they believe deliberately started a fire that killed eighteen people five other people were injured in the blaze in the southern city of ching you run a fire spread through a three story building that state media says is being used as a karaoke lounge i mean mass elephant populations facing a new threat poachers are killing them not for ivory but for their skin
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conservationists say an emerging online marketplace largely in china is putting animals at further risk skinner ground often used in medicine or sold as jewelry environmental groups are warning the asian elephant could become extinct in half the areas where it lives if the problem escalates they say the threat is bigger than ivory poaching as well elephants are targeted not just those with tusks. police in the u.s. city of nashville are still attempting to work out the motive for sunday's gun attack on a waffle house all night restaurant which four people were killed the suspect travis ryan king who was arrested on monday and so far refused to answer questions or make a statement the twenty nine year old who has a history of mental health issues had a semiautomatic rifle in his backpack when he surrendered in woods close to his home as well for me for a moment back to command in doha lauren thank you for that i'm also told the facebook live stream is up and running again so if he watching there hello and welcome now this time on monday yesterday we were bringing you the breaking news
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from armenia that prime minister had stepped down now i mean his opposition leaders say they want parliamentary elections as soon as possible to prevent him from running the country from behind the scenes there were some scenes of celebration in the capital yet a vote on monday after the sixty three year old resigned as prime minister after nearly two weeks of protests the new interim prime minister has promised to release everyone who was detained during the rallies his role in far as they walk and yet of a now gosh last night robin we could barely well you could barely hear us i think such was the levels of celebrations what's it been like today. very very different feeling today was certainly very different in appearance but i think the feelings amongst ordinary armenians remains the same. relief. their actions their popular protest brought about the result that they so badly wanted his resignation. but i should point out that today is. a very
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important day in the armenian calendar it's a day in which they remember those who died in the mass killings of one hundred fifteen at the hands of the ottoman turkish empire which they call the genocide and so thousands again gathered here behind me outside just on the hill above year of and to commemorate this event but i suspect that the symbolism really isn't lost amongst them how really they always a unified on this day in particular every year but they have shown how unified they have been in the last few weeks to be able to bring about this political change that they so badly wanted in having now recognized that they had the popular will. to be able to affect that change in terms of what's happening politically you know where next for armenians i think it's it's more about
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a day of reflection we have seen the opposition leader is led by nicole passion and he came up here earlier as just about every armenian does to pay his respects to lay flowers at the memorial behind me there was certainly a big scrum of reporters police trying to keep you know. here a recognition i think given his importance now he's been ejected. you know thrown into this spotlight has somebody who could potentially be. a leader the next leader of the media a nation that is of course. all to come i think certainly that is what the opposition movement. wants to do they now want to have a transitional government before they have elections and i think that he is the man that they would like to be leading this country but we have of course to contend with the prime minister the former prime minister says psyche party his own party
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and all of those interest groups those oligarchs who have vested interests in the status quo remaining as it is the hope now i think for all the medians is that some agreements can be reached about a way forward for this country but it is nothing short of historic what has happened here in the past twenty four hours certainly as far as armenians are concerned with this resignation yet twenty five thousand yerevan quite extraordinary isn't it robin forrester walker thank you for that update. this is the news grid from al-jazeera and if you're watching us on facebook live alone we have got a story right now about what the indigenous people of alaska want you to know and dispel misconceptions and stereotypes about this from a friend that i did once and then that lays at the rana plaza disaster you might remember this one five years ago a garment factory collapse in bangladesh and may have been one hundred people killed but shine a light on the working conditions in the housing industry we wonder though has it
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had any lasting impact that and me to come. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia see this frontal system which is rain sweeping through giving some snow up in the hindu kush some rain at lower levels and certainly cooler in the house being four times cantona's becky stan are marty in kazakhstan but temperatures still not too bad fine around the caspian sea of los the cloud some clouds further south across iran but it should be dry and tear on thirty one your high in baghdad and larry of low pressure around the eastern side of the mediterranean bringing in some lift a dust perhaps and so it's threat of some showers across parts of the region and certainly for saudi arabian sea quite a few showers for beirut in lebanon as a chance of a shower highs of twenty three degrees across the radian pincher generally weather conditions not looking too bad but we have got this slight disturbance resulting
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the threat of the across saudi here in doha it may be rather cloudy at times though i think for much of the time it should stay dry and the same goes for thursday now heading down into southern portions of africa is a largely fine picture here should expect at this time the fact the showers are way way way north that all the way across angola zombie zimbabwe and south which is all a draw and find when to maybe that twenty seven degrees celsius having said that there is a frontal system which will be pushing in towards cape town later on thursday highs then of just seventeen. inmates learning from other inmates acquiring knowledge that can set them free. through legal education classes and mock tribunals vegetation has led to staggering results even in prison for fifteen yards is all loose in that they was safe.
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a student from a suburb north of the city and we're still getting a bit of a picture of him it's really not clear who he is or why he may have done this but what we did get was this charge sheet which has ten first degree murder charges as you said on it each one relating to the murder of a person of unknown origin that means they haven't yet identified many of the victims there are also thirteen attempted murder charges those are the wounded people but very little other detail was made available the appearance was a couple of minutes long and he basically acknowledged his name and that he that he heard the charges against him he had no lawyer and he'll appear in court again next month but many people here are asking why did this happen what is going on in a normally quiet or you know fairly call city without a lot of violent crime and officials have been quick to assure canadians in toronto nian that there is absolutely or at least not fought to be any connection whatsoever to national security just take
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a listen to prime minister justin trudeau of the see all canadians continue and will continue to have questions about why this happened what could possibly be the motives behind it as was indicated last night by our public security minister. at this time we have no reason to suspect that there is any national security element to this attack but obviously the investigations continue. so the prime minister basically saying much the same as he said last night when he spoke to canadians and his public safety minister who is actually one of the leads on this investigation saying that it's one of the largest criminal investigations in modern times here and it's going to take a long time but right now this is a city in mourning and a city that says it's durham determined to recover from what's been the worst mass attack it's ever seen down your lack thank you for that update much appreciated.
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ok rights groups saying that thousands of factories in bangladesh still say five years after the country's worst industrial disaster i'm sure you remember this one more than eleven hundred people mostly female garment workers crushed to death in the rana plaza collapse of twenty thirteen charles traffic reports now on what has changed but importantly what hasn't as well. it's been described as the worst industrial disaster in bangladesh's history when i pull a twenty fourth two thousand and thirteen more than eleven hundred people were crushed to death and two thousand injured when an eight story building collapsed in an industrial suburb of the capital dhaka. the majority of the victims were women working in garment factories in the rana plaza building and. they were making clothes for the well known brands including bennett's and and primal an
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investigation found the workers had complained about the cracks in the walls despite warnings the building was unsafe survivors say they were forced to work regardless of their five years on and family members of some of the victims gathered at that is off the site demanding justice hannah began says her daughter's body was never found it wasn't like let my daughter never return from work i keep looking for her but i have no idea where her body is she used to be the main earner in the family i don't have a son to this day there is no justice. no around eighty percent of the seventy five million garment workers willed white women rights groups say they often have no chance of negotiation wages are abused exploited and forced to work in safe conditions. the tragedy in dhaka led to an agreement between some clothing brands and unions designed to better protect the bungled as she workers since then
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around two thousand factories have been inspected in nearly three million workers trained in fire safety but the monthly minimum wage of around sixty five dollars remains well below the world bank's global poverty line of eighty five dollars a report by u.s. based rights organization concludes that thousands of garment factories in bangladesh remain a dangerous places to work at the n.y.u. stern center for business and human rights says one point two billion dollars is needed to make all government factories in bangladesh safe. it's popular brands retailers and governments all have to do more to improve government workers' rights and safety in some of the there are some progress but as a wholly consider this progress is not and that they do not people there and that they are not organized that they do not need ceiling deal now one like this this is
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actually especially for the government sector it is not what it does friendly rather then it is friendly for the business people. it seems fashion changes faster than human rights involved in the garment industry so many of the women who make the clothes we wear remain vulnerable to exploitation working in factories that are far from city centers shopping malls and bomb from safe trial started out as there were on the plaza housed five clothing factories all up high street brands luxury brands that sort of thing and red flags were raised then about cracks in the walls whether the building was safe and yet workers were still forced to go to work that morning and look what happened but really you were telling us a little earlier in our meeting today about the effect that all of this is had on the the fashion industry and how it became actually a wider part of the story yeah a lot of efforts now to try to improve that situation but right now there's a hash tag being shed coal brought up never again where people are urging retailers
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really push for change and the global labor organization are calling for various brands that are made in bangladesh to sign a twenty eight hundred transition accord on fire and building safety in factories so far one hundred forty two factories have completed the safety inspections now under pressure the government of bangladesh has been forced to also act they are now reports of the increase in the minimum wage by seventy seven percent to sixty eight dollars per month for garment workers but a research project called the garment workers diaries has found that workers in bangladesh cambodia and india are not being paid a legal minimum wage let alone a living wage they say that it makes the minimum wage increase meaningless to millions of workers now in an effort to make brands more accountable a movement called fashion revolution week is demanding more transparency in supply
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chain and better conditions for garment workers around the world they saw a hash tag called who made my clothes. it's consumers to question what they make and this is being shared very widely on twitter and instagram at the moment last year there were over one thousand posts from people asking brands this very question and around over two thousand brands responded now as part of the wider campaign they have created this interactive map to locate various events around the world from open studio workshops where the public can have access to design as work spaces so a film screening scout talks and panel discussions and they must be mindful of the environment and also resources there's also a ten points manifesto calling for democracy in fashion and for success to be measured beyond just profits and the release of the twenty eight hundred fashion transparency index maybe proof that some of the efforts being made here the report
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tracked one hundred fifty brands on their social policies and practices i've asked and reebok top that list by giving details on supplies and manufacturers but no information on the number of workers who are union members then you have the luxury brands like dior and chanel they gave very little to no information about the supply chains or how workers are treated a report says that this means that brands have not really created better work practices in fact no brand or retailer in the survey scored more than sixty percent we heard from the organizer as well and how much brand transparency has helped the industry. at the moment none of us has enough mation about where and how close she made and we have to fight to know when we buy new clothes that the money we're spending isn't supporting exploitation human rights abuses and internment she
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did could a sion welsh transparency alone doesn't have to and so to structural systemic change we want to see in the fashion industry what it does do is help to heal the structures which place so we can better understand how to change them or get in touch with ask let us know what you think is the hash tag aging is great only directly and at random hamet thank you. there were stunning stories of loss from run a plaza five years ago and my i pad decided to disconnect this just hold on a second we're going to bring it back ten of these technical bugs it is following us today i want to show you this again this was from there it is on the one year anniversary of run a plaza our online team put together this picture gallery it is admittedly pretty harrowing doing and reading but it is a good reminder. i mean the combat dead bodies lined up there of just how much people lost that day and in so many ways how they lost it is called recounting hora
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run applause it is in the pictures section of al-jazeera dot com and that many was right at the top of the page now a cambridge university academic connected to the facebook data misuse scandal has appeared before a british parliamentary committee alexandre kogan is linked to the u.k. based cambridge analytical firm which is of course accused of improperly accessing the information of eighty seven million users through facebook app john has been following that from london. but xander kogan is the sort of missing link if you like the middleman between facebook and the cambridge analytic of the cambridge psychology academic who produced the app that was used to extract all of this data and information from facebook users crucially not just the users who downloaded the app for the exchange of a couple of dollars each but also all of their friends accumulating this vast data set of information which he then passed on in a separate arrangement to cambridge analytical which they use to develop their
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psycho's graphic models allegedly effective in perhaps weighing the u.s. presidential election well alexander kogan insists he did nothing wrong he's being targeted he says scapegoated by both facebook and cambridge and the little guy who claim that they weren't entirely aware of how the information was gathered and b what it use it was eventually going to be put to he denies all of that and the committee probing his motivation and methodology looking at his perhaps commercial interests or motivations he had a couple of companies that he'd set up to use personal data for commercial purposes he was paid indeed for this app not in money but by being allowed to keep the data essentially to be able to use it in future for commercial purposes and then also his methodology the committee suggesting he wasn't entirely honest and open with users of the app that he misrepresented its purpose by not making it specific that
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it was going to have political uses later on he said well looking back i should have perhaps been more critical about the way that the app was presented the way it was all set up but his essential defense here is that for years and years across silicon valley and all the social media platforms it was widely accepted that data was once collected free for use in a variety of spheres be it academic commercial or political that he said was business as usual normal practice which is what he assumed was going on at the time this is back in two thousand and fourteen or so. we're going off the grid now with really once again who's having a birthday today you two is officially thirteen years old the first video to ever be up that it was eighteen seconds long by its co-founder joe it kareem he called the video me at the zoo and ever since the internet has never been the same however a huge ship has been facing many challenges over the is and the most crucial one is
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violent and inappropriate content on its site and it hasn't been easy with three hundred videos or three hundred hours of videos uploaded every minute not just today you should release a report saying that it had deleted more than eight million videos from its site between october and december last year it promised it would increase the number of people working on and forcing its community guidelines however it is interesting to note that more than hoff all of the videos to lease it from the site were reported by algorithms and that means a computer flags the content before it's watched by a human to assess whether there is breaches or any of any of those great or me directly and that remain a homage and. troublesome to troubles and teenager that future of not really sorry. just a quick few quick little updates for you i'm just seeing a few lines coming out of the mccrone trump meeting was to waiting for the actual live news conference he's called the iran deal says president trump insane and
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ridiculous and says it would be so easy for iran to restart its nuclear program president trump has also said he would prefer to do. where was it he would like to do trade deals with from its not the european union. and also talking about north korea saying the meeting will be very soon maybe it'll be wonderful maybe you won't see what's coming as they go to a newsgroup on thank you for the congratulations you've sent through on our p. body award as well much appreciated now a quick break but once again for advice but one of us is a bonus a.j. plus a story for you about the latest music. pulitzer prize winner kendrick lamar and how he might have sounded to me like that. and then and he's here with sports. because it's midnight.
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i. which will be smaller than the you've just rehashed this from last night and you guys are down. on it so it's all new the first champions league semifinalists season three hours away from kickoff now it's funny inside romo are in liverpool for their most important european game in more than thirty years it's been
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a decade since little paul made it this far in the competition their striker mohamed salah has just been named the premier league player of the year last year the egyptian was around the player he scored fifteen goals in syria and the italian cups last season but he's now sensual to liverpool's push for a sixth european cup because we credit to all the staff and and the players that room. because they are all part of his development so yes it's great but in the end we all professionals now and then it's going on a good thing is in football oh pretty sure. it's defenders are famous for. not having friendly games so i think the mobile will feel pretty early in the game that they are not his teammates anymore and then he can strike back in a football way well the last time around we got this far in the competition was in
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nineteen eighty-four but yeah liverpool beat them in the final on penalties the team will be high on confidence after their quarterfinal win are over barcelona roma recovering from a four one first like deficit to go through or let us talk now to our correspondent lee wellings who is in a rather wet and wild liverpool forest marseille as a statistic this season have been incredible just how important has he been for the same. but he came here with a reputation as a very good folk because of largely what he did with in italy where he really both himself up for that but now he is on the outside lay a superstar he statistics are incredible you just nobody possibly not even him could have predicted at the start of the season that you have thirty one premier league goals which is a record. in a joint record and that the fact he's got forty one goals in all competitions i
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need for a live opposed devil of forty seven this is a player who didn't come as a now to now strike out he said developed into that role and it's the style in which he's playing a few months a god. of little messy but that that's how he reminds of a solve one of the the greats messing with the style and grace in which he's playing and it's really cold solemn but the actual statistics that he's providing are something we could never have imagined done and he seems to become a cult figure around the world not just in liverpool. he would of course he's a figure we live appalled because i love to hear i say that plays in recent years like suarez and torres who have really stood out when you go back so the man called the king here kenny dalglish. it's not she started to get reminiscent of stuff that people are turning up a little pose ground on fields expecting much ik from marcella but i get your vote it goes far beyond live
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a poll it goes to supporters of other viable cobbs marvin what he's doing on the humility that he shows off the pitch what about what he's achieved with a good place in the world cup i haven't been there since ninety ninety it's knology down to hannity because they get the goals he scored in qualifying more than anybody else for a cup of nations last year largely thanks to him and also it's things like the culture of most you know he's joining in with the humor of the change religion for him there's so many charts around him and i don't think that he just has this incredible starts like this now one of the things been difficult i have said we do want to see what he does next season but i think that he should just be lauded of what he's achieved this season and late tell us about rome they must be on a massive high and very confident after their performance against barcelona. you have a few friends here saying so far nobody play and say you know around the ground lights off by cannot believe what i achieved against false alarm that they need to
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win for you know against to during a tour in such a dramatic why i never thought i'd get this fall i never thought that european champions league and european cup victories i now i will find you that chance of getting something against liverpool of course by well i can keep going now but i haven't played in this position as you sizes nineteen eighty-four that famous time when it was staged in their own grounds by a quirk against liverpool i lost against little bad revenge on this occasion. they were going to move up to the stadium hopefully the sun that will be out at anfield you never know you're likely more from a throughout the throughout the night that's wait me directly at and they are under school sports they'll be more from eight in the eight hundred g.m.c. news out more from lee as well as we get towards kickoff for that champions league semifinal for now though i will hand you back to come all. of a poland day just so you know the latest we've heard is that the joint news
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conference from presidents micron and trump is due for sixteen fifteen g.m.t. so that's about twenty minutes from now and our team from london will bring you that live coverage from those podiums at the white house presidents micron and trying to speak thanks for joining us for the newsgroup if you want to get in touch with us the more than welcome the hash tag use grid be it on twitter facebook or what sat and telegram as well if you use that messaging app and in the meantime we will see you back here in studio fourteen and out as you are there is fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. tomorrow brings. part
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of. that morales was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to this tin shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp say i'm going to wake up that because of the government raised our hopes and then abandon us politicians have promised that they won't allow
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a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed. stories of life. and inspiration. as a series of short documentaries from around the wilds. that celebrate the human spirit . against the odds. out is there a set of acts palestinians.

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