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an israeli soldier enters a plea deal to get just nine months in prison for the twenty fourteen killing of a palestinian teenager. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up calls for a snap election in armenia and sweeping changes to its government the resignation of the prime minister plus. the french president prepares to address a joint session of congress as pressure mounts to keep the u.s. in the iran nuclear deal. that the body of a hamas engineer killed in kuala lumpur on saturday is on its way to gaza. and
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israeli court has sentenced a soldier to nine months in prison for the twenty fourteen killing of a palestinian teenager the team in the water was shot during a lull in confrontations marking the day that israel came into existence in one nine hundred forty eight the soldier was offered a plea bargain for admitting to negligence he says he didn't know that his magazine contained live rounds and thought that he was firing rubber coated steel bullets let's go live now to ramallah as harry forces can tell us more give us some background to this harry. well this took place on may the fifteenth in two thousand and fourteen near an israeli military checkpoint near the israeli military prison of. by the palestinian town of beit two near this was the sixty sixth anniversary of the creation of the state of israel the day that palestinians mark as not by the catastrophe and now the nora was among a group of young palestinian men and boys who were out to protest and he was one of
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them who was throwing stones at least one stone he was filmed throwing towards israeli positions and just four minutes after that action was caught he was walking and closed circuit television footage shows him walking towards another group of young men and suddenly he collapses forwards onto his front he's taken to hospital and pronounced dead in hospital his family had been working to prove since that he was the victim of a live round fired by a member of the israeli border police security forces a known and his body was exuma and it was shown that he was killed by a live round initially the police force member in question mr benn darry he said that he did not realize that this was a live round that was in his magazine he and his colleagues had been told to use
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tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets he was accused of deliberately putting that round in and accused of manslaughter but as you say there was a plea deal and he admitted only to negligent behavior that's what he's been convicted of negligent homicide a nine month prison term very very sextape her a force of their life in ramallah. armenia's acting prime minister has called for fresh parliamentary elections to ease tension but opposition supporters are protesting again in the capital yerevan after a call from their leader they called me and has promised to keep the pressure on the government to meet all the demonstrators to mons al-jazeera as robin for us to walk reports reality. the people of bike on the streets of yerevan he could see them doing that. would say it's tickets. they're actually set talking about. this movement think that this movement is the best of the street still talks of the
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post take. a look at how they got to try this representing the form of government it is bizarre and he says i can see i want to go ahead circulate where i don't think it's a teaching by the opposition so he's just released a statement saying that all media is on the verge of economic collapse unless both sides could agree to negotiate peacefully the opposition is saying look they have the ball you know well behind them and they're the ones who are going to cool the song they go to basically school the road as an acting in swim head of an interim government and then free and fair elections at the time of their choosing they really sense that they've got the momentum they need to keep this going with that resignation of the prime minister. that the second largest city in palo is
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held by. the opposition to be speaking. german nazis to prevent or say. give a sense of this. this movement in its day to try to make amends and. iran's president hassan rouhani has questioned the legitimacy of demands for a for a new nuclear deal he's personally criticized the u.s. president donald trump for his plans to pull out of the existing agreement. dawg he says these deal is a very bad deal well if it's a very bad deal then why did you sign it he says this is a very dangerous deal if that's the case then did your predecessors not understanding you don't have any background in politics you don't have any background in law you don't have any background in international treaties how can a tradesman a merchant a building constructor a tower constructor make judgments about international affairs. france's president
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emanuel not wrong proposed negotiating a new agreement with tehran he made the offer to president trump during his three day visit to the u.s. can really help reports. u.s. president donald trump welcomed french president emmanuel back to the white house with a state dinner to celebrate the bond between the two nations. what appears to be a warm friendship was on full display earlier in the day trump even somewhat oddly decided to white dandruff off mccrossin shoulders we have to make them perfect he is perfect but as the parent barked on the substance of their bilateral meeting from had a stern warning for iran they restart their nuclear program they will have bigger problems than they have ever had before his statement underscores the leader's key foreign policy differences truck favors was drawing from the iran nuclear deal as
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one of the signatories to it mccraw and wants to preserve the twenty fifteen agreement to limit tehran's nuclear powers before may deadline on whether to pull the u.s. out or not trump wants his concerns addressed those include a plan to stop iran's ballistic missile testing and limit iran's influence in iraq yemen levet on and syria a chronic agreed they may need to address those issues to keep the deal alive. on iran we disagree on the j.c. but i believe we can come up with something that can deal with the fundamental issue of the j.c. which is the nuclear issue but also deal with these other three issues that are included. trump again suggested gulf nations need to make a larger financial investment in syria's future stability as security following the defeat of eisel the countries that. are there that you all know very
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well are immensely wealthy they're going to have to pay for this but the meeting appeared to do little to ease fears of a looming trade war with no sign trump agreed to exempt the european union from tariffs on steel live aluminum imports set to take effect on may first we have the very first issue on trade which is overcapacity instill in him and him it doesn't come from europe and not even from friends the meeting between u.s. president donald trump and french president emanuel mccraw has highlighted key policy differences between the two leaders their divisions mccraw may address on wednesday before a joint session of the us congress can really help that al-jazeera at the white house well not joint session to speak without assistant estabrook who is live for us in washington d.c. any idea what president micron is due to say in that joint address which is due to get underway fairly shortly. right adrian well we don't know what he's going to
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talk about but i think you could probably guess that what is going to be front and center is just exactly what kimberly talked about in the piece that ran just a few minutes ago and that is front and center iran. is expected to talk about the importance of the u.s. staying in that deal although potentially broadening it out or fixing some of the problems that are in it and how staying in that deal might affect the u.s. negotiations with north korea going forward also trade you know the european union has been exempted from those tariffs on steel and aluminum and those tariffs are the exemption will expire may first which is less than a week away so he's expected to probably talk about the importance of avoiding a trade war with the european union and i think probably the overarching theme that we're going to hear this morning is the long relationship between the u.s. and france in the european union and how important it is in these very uncertain
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times to preserve that relationship but how can one or perhaps nor is it for world leaders to address. what happens but it's not all that common we have not seen a foreign leader go before congress in a couple of years this is a around the fifty eighth anniversary of when charles de gaulle went before congress so it is significant in was invited to appear before congress the invitation was extended by house speaker paul ryan so it is significant don many thanks deep. in washington. kuwait state media reporting that the philippine ambassador has been ordered to leave the country rental villa us has a week to get out it's all of a controversy related to the death of the filipino maid who was working in kuwait who was found dead in a freezer
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a court found her employer guilty in absentia philippine embassy workers then tried to remove other domestic workers after reports of abuse. there are nationwide strikes in cities across south africa today the federation of trade unions is staging the shutdown to protest against changes to the minimum wage it's demanding action to end what the union kohls a crisis of unemployment poverty and inequality more now from serious malcolm webb in johannesburg. found in the gun at him on the insistence that sound singing songs and chanting. plenty of the films from the struggle against the market i don't think i think the freedom the one that people with three rule episode the dish go to the office. let me add that is like government of the. free definitely taking the position that it means that the month of may. have been away forever didn't think the price minimum wage just on
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the three hundred dollars a month the other unions in the government who to greet the people here say. by them not only fail to recognise that and so i don't mind seeing. a weather update thanks to when i was there at then a religious leader in india who said to have millions of followers is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of rape we'll tell you more plus journalists in peril a new report looks at the most dangerous places in the world to cover the news. welcome back weather conditions across much of eastern china fine away from shanghai down to hong kong about twenty five degrees celsius also fine across
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taiwan but across more central and western parts of china and down across indochina it is looking like a generally wetter picture at the moment and as you move into friday we'll see further brace of rain developing across the region that should become warm and dry in chengdu but certainly for annoy in vietnam it is going to be sharia times as you head across into south asia obviously we're waiting for the monsoon rain to arrive and the heat continues to build in many areas and temperatures a few degrees above average at the moment since some of the southern cities spangler is one channel here is another the issues are like of water a combination of drought ongoing drought expanding populations and increase urbanization but there is a significant shortage in many of the cities reservoirs so if you look at the forecast of the nothing really suggest an improvement there we've got to draw a fine conditions across the whole of india pakistan some showers across parts in the pool but you notice new delhi the highs of forty one degrees again staying
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about forty degrees ahead through friday and that warm weather continues to the weekend and indeed beyond. the scene for us when they're on line once is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but number happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating bass is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.
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well again the top stories this hour out of syria is ready course of sentence to a soldier to nine months in prison for the twenty fourteen killing of a palestinian teenager but in the water was shot during a lull in confrontations marking the day that israel was created in one nine hundred forty eight obvious acting prime minister has called for new parliamentary elections to ease and rest opposition supporters are again protesting at the capitol got a ban after a call from the leader of the cult and his promise to keep pressure on the government of the nationwide strike is on the way in cities across south africa the federation of trade unions of staging the shutdown to protest against changes to the bit of a wage it's about to get action and what the union calls the crisis of unemployment poverty and inequality. police in malaysia say they believe the two suspects in the killing of an academic and hamas member still in the country but they don't know
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who they are thought he was shot fourteen times in the back while heading to a mosque in the city where he worked his body is now on its way to gaza flora's louis has more from kuala lumpur. oh a final farewell for. a low mourners carry his body to a mosque near his home in kuala lumpur. the engineering lecturer who taught at a university in the city was shot dead by two men on saturday. i feel that their whoever assassinated looked at the has carried out he must find it for this despicable act when you fail to compete with palestinians in academia and in the time to take excellence. don't go and eliminate the scientists don't go and eliminate the distinguished scholars who know. it was a member of hamas the palestinian group that controls gaza his family and how must
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accuse israel's intelligence agency of ordering the killing a claim the israeli government denies it's not the first time mossad has been accused of killing hamas members in other countries from other limbo al botches body will be taken to its final resting place in gaza his family has only recently obtained a book called a chance on the body via the prophet offering which has been told by egypt. while boche and his family leave malaysia his killers are thought to still be in the country police in malaysia have released a photo of one of the suspects. with an example of one with the following the recovery of the motorcycle we were able to trace the original image of the suspect on tuesday police found the motorbike used by the gunman abandoned not far from where al boche was shot dead. the identities of the two men are still not known.
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for people to come forward to assist in the investigation lawrence lee al jazeera kuala lumpur. in man mark two reuters journalists accused of violating state secrecy laws by acquiring official documents have appeared in course loan and shore so who were arrested in december one investigating abuses in rakhine state if convicted they could face a prison sentence of up to fourteen years last week a policeman who was appearing as a witness told the court that one of his senior officers gave the documents to the journalists to entrap them a palestinian journalist covering the protests at gaza's border with israel has died. ahmed aboul hussein was injured in demonstrations thirteen days ago when israeli forces used live fire against unarmed palestinians reporters without borders is releasing its annual review on press freedom it
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assesses one hundred eighty countries and their relationship with the media and the results aren't very uplifting syria remains the most dangerous country to report from but in the past year journalists have been deliberately killed in nicaragua india mexico brazil and slovakia north korea and eritrea and took many stand of the worst offenders when it comes to freedom of speech as they were last year turkey has changed dramatically for journalists since the attempted coup in twenty sixteen it's described as the world's biggest prison for professional journalists christophe the law is the secretary-general for reporters without borders he joins us now live from paris good to have you with us would you say things are run a getting better or worse for journalists worldwide. worldwide unfortunately the situation is not improving but what he clearly to not is is that there he's an increase of
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a treat against germany and even in democracies even in western democracies. i could quote a few countries where not only parts of the sake of the people but also heads of states of governments insult others or really express their hatred it happened in the philippines with the president said that the fact that johnny saw john this would not prevent them from being killed as a sneak did in india there are armies of trolls that work on b. of political parties to try to intimidate journalists in the united states the prison tramp uses the words that in an informal times. used against germany and even in europe now the heads of states will insult
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journey's end for ten years in slovakia the prime minister it's so said that this where like prust accuse prostitutes just when they were really exist sizing their role their show up and what happened on these has been killed in fact too john they said been killed in europe on the continent that he's the best one for press for them but where the situation is now worsening regarding press freedom because of a i just want to show. a map that we've got here showing places that are difficult and very difficult to operate as as far as journalism is concerned syria of course falling under the very difficult category that's the most dangerous place according to your report in the world for genocide i'm assuming that that that's because the country is is still at war there it's good to document these developments but how do we force tangible results christophe in terms of securing
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a better standard of of press freedom at a global level. first there's international law regarding the protection of journalists that we have to encourage and even to force governments member states of the un to comply with international law but in fact at the end this is a political fight if we have a look we have countries even democracies sometimes in the us how something is fair where the situation is improving in the door nick what there are for instance in south korea or in gambia out where press freedom predator as been defeated and there is a new president and you can see you cannot is that when you have new heads of states and when they really take concrete measures where when there is a political will there is a spur possibility to improve press freedom but journalists are we can now adays by
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. the take the dictatorships of course the fact that some dictators wants to export their models by technology call it delusions it weakens journalism when journalists suffer for. sort of competition with fake news false information remoras propaganda etc. journey so we can because of economic reasons because the funding of journalism is weakened in many countries so we have to fight especially in democracies to defend the democratic models and to reverse the object to really exist high pressure on countries and governments so that the open so doors to journalism because really journalists in the societies there are certain trusted parties societies need journalists ok and today's
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unfortunately we are in a world where bad information drives out good we have to reverse its logic crystal good to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with the script of the law that the secretary general for reporters without borders. a self-styled religious leader in india who claims to have millions of followers has been sentenced to life in prison for rape isilon bup who was convicted of sexually assaulting a sixteen year old girl at one of his spiritual retreats and twenty thirteen indian security forces have been put on high alert in the golden state of russia stop. reports. known for its extravagant and sometimes different costumes also known bapu or bapuji a season known has disciples around the world and in hundreds of hindu religious retreats known as a shrimp. whose such as a psalm say they meet people spiritual needs but some are accused of exploiting
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their followers for money property and sex by offering them a one stop shop for everything you have being you have you have spiritual family problem this man has all the. security has been tightened across the northern state of raw just on that's after court convicted for the rape of a sixteen year old girl and sentenced him to life in prison. the allegations made against completely false and there is no truth in it is not alone he has millions of followers who support him and will continue to do so us arm supporters say the guru practices black magic and can instantly transform fortunes but the guru has also been linked to the mutilation of four young boys in an alleged sacrifice ritual. many in india have called for tough legal action against him and other self professed god men we demand his ashram his religious center be
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seized by the government he should be put behind bars and all his property throughout india no matter what it is should be seized a solemn as forty six year old son not only on are also accused of other crimes including the rape of two sisters over a period of ten years in the city of swat. police said saddam's son admitted the sex assaults and fathering a child with one of his victims but nearly all witnesses and the rape case changed their mind about testifying fearing expulsion from the community at least two witnesses were shot and killed that case is continuing these kind of. dying have a lot of political ads. various political in india who. are doing election dying who did become. editing that they are above the law prosecutors are fighting back by using laws passed for the protection of children against sex offenders to stop religious leaders from
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breaking the law paul cho dirge on al-jazeera danish inventor peter madsen has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering and dispense bring a swedish journalist on his submarine came more remains were found at sea after she interviewed mattson on his homemade vessel that's not method to cussing up the body but says she died accidentally while on board prosecutors say that all died either by strangulation or having throats cut. one of the world's biggest car shows is opened in the chinese capital beijing and despite the recent trade dispute between the u.s. and china american automakers have taken center stage correspondent adrian brown reports. amid the specter of a trade war u.s. auto executives are holding their breath in china but they're not holding back on their brands this is a market where their companies have to maintain a high profile general motors now sells more cars in china than at home almost four
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million last year. it's an important market for ford as well their presence illustrated of the deep economic connections between china and the united states but unless beijing and washington can settle their trade differences these cars could eventually cost twenty five percent more we always advocate anywhere around the world the benefits of free trade we feel very welcome in china here is a business we have great chinese partners in spite of strains in the china u.s. trade relationship president xi jinping has been holding out an olive branch he says that four years from now restrictions that have been preventing us car manufacturers from fully owning local companies will come to an end. a promise to end those restrictions could go some way to heading off a trade war china's so important to foreign car manufacturers that some now choose
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this market to launch new models. china has the highest concentration of car ownership in the world more than twenty four million vehicles were sold last year and a growing number of the cars now clogging china's roads are electric powered. their popularity is partly down to generous subsidies available to both buyers and manufacturers the government sees electric cars as both a way to keep. choke cities and to become a market leader in green technology try not to the legal battle you don't want the western countries invented their traditional car that's why the chinese government want to encourage development obviously only electric cars to overtake the west. and the government has another ambitious goal for electric cars to account for a third of all chinese car sales within seven years adrian brown al-jazeera beijing
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. could tell you whether slavery until you get here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera and israeli courses sentence the soldiers and nine months in prison for the twenty fourteen killing of a palestinian teenager that in the water was shot during a lull in confrontations marking the day that israel was created in one nine hundred forty eight armenia's acting prime minister has called for you parliamentary elections to ease the recent unrest there opposition supporters are again protesting in the capital after a call from their leader. iran's president has questioned the legitimacy of demands for a new nuclear deal hassan rouhani has personally criticized u.s. president donald trump for his plans to pull out of the existing agreement. even that old dog he says these deal is a very bad deal well if it's a very bad deal then why did you sign it he says this is
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a very dangerous deal if that's the case then did your predecessors not understanding you don't have any background in politics you don't have any background in law you don't have any background in international treaties how can a tradesman a merchant a building constructor a tower constructor make judgments about international affairs a nationwide strike is under way in cities across south africa the federation of trade unions is staging the shutdown to protest against changes to the minimum wage is demanding action to end what the union calls a crisis of unemployment poverty and inequality. state media is reporting that the philippine ambassador has been ordered to leave the country without a rental the last a week now to get out it's all over a controversy related to the death of a filipino maid who was working in kuwait whose body was found in a freezer a self-styled religious leader in india has been given
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a life sentence in prison for rape assault on bup who was convicted of sexually assaulting a sixteen year old girl at one of his spiritual retreats in twenty thirteen. day mission venter peter madsen has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering and dismembering a swedish journalist on his submarine kim was remains were found at sea after she interviewed manson on his homemade vessel prosecutors say that war died either by strangulation or by having a throat cut. cost him that he's great a little over twenty five minutes right after today's edition of the stream next. in the lead up to the historic twenty eighteen korea's summit al-jazeera looks of life in the north. join me jane space for a series of special reports from north korea. here on al-jazeera.

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