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israel's prime minister says that he has evidence that the iran nuclear deal is based on lies. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a court in australia orders one of the vatican's most senior officials to stand trial on sex abuse charges plus. russian american migrants stuck at the mexican border celebrate as the u.s. allows in the first group of asylum seekers. and thousands take to the streets of moscow to demand internet freedom. the united states says that it believes israel's accusations that iran lied to.
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international observers about its nuclear program at a press conference in tel aviv benjamin netanyahu displayed what he called conclusive proof that the weapons program existed before twenty fifteen iran has rejected the accusations particle hain reports. it was an inauspicious start a technical glitch with the audio meant a brief delay describing a highly sophisticated intelligence operation this was an innocent looking compound it looks like a dilapidated warehouse but from the inside israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu says his intelligence agents tracked the paperwork from an iranian nuclear weapons program to this building and that they were able to take this. proudly displaying paperwork and disks he says were from iran according to his own visuals the program ended in two thousand and three but he alleged it continued in secret using these visuals and television performance to send the message the iran
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deal the nuclear do is based on lies it's based on the reunion lies any reunion deception one hundred thousand files right here. prove that their log at the white house it was clear the u.s. president was impressed by what he saw i think of anything what's happening today and what's happened over the last little while and what we've learned has really shown that i've been one hundred percent right that matters because by may twelfth the president will decide if the u.s. sanctions will continue to be waved under the iran nuclear deal negotiated between the u.s. iran and five other countries around foreign minister dismissed the new allegations tweeting breaking the boy you can't stop crying wolf is at it again undeterred by cartoon fiasco at unga you can only fool some of the people so many times the president has said nobody knows what he's going to do perhaps trying to build
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suspense but there seems a lot less of that after what he saw on his t.v. political hain al-jazeera washington jonathan crystal is a fellow at the world policy institute he says that you know his presentation doesn't prove that iran has breached the agreement. netanyahu has not shown any evidence that iran has violated its agreement or anything that you know comes after july two thousand and fifteen at all so i'm a little bit confused as to what the whole performance was about beyond really just trying to confuse president trump and provide ammunition for him to be able to withdraw from the deal on may twelfth we're talking about technology that is decades old it's really the ability to do it and to actually have the centrifuges to. enrich the uranium to actually carry out the process that's the actual very hard part and so you know even iran retaining what it seems like they have retained
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i don't think really gives them it's sort of to be expected and it doesn't really mean there's any sort of secret program if you think about it logically right iran has no particular reason to violate the deal you know when they were developing their nuclear weapons in the two thousand went on for a long time but if you look at the two thousand and one two three four five years you had over one hundred thousand u.s. troops on one side you had over one hundred thousand u.s. troops on the other side and you had a country the united states that had invaded one of its neighbors for one of iran's neighbors for no particular reason the invasion of iraq and so they had a serious concern about what could protect them from the u.s. now i'm not a fan of iran getting nuclear weapons i hope that they never do. but that sort of change there's no reason why now when the u.s. is sort of war weary when our presence on their borders is minimal why they would
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break this deal. it makes no sense. mike pompei o has concluded his first trip as u.s. secretary of state he spent much of it urging israel and palestine to restart the peace process but there was in jordan on monday on the final leg of his three day middle east tour. of the honeyed has more now from amman. if you go out his trip the israeli palestinian conflict didn't seem a priority in our. secretary of state was reminded it remains the main stumbling block to was achieving regional. solution remains the. pieces we believe in it is the solution that would allow for the emergence of an independent palestine states. also worried about the even in. the from tel aviv to jerusalem but maintained that final boundaries with the in jerusalem are for negotiations with respect to the two state solution the parties will ultimately
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make the decision about what the right resolution is we certainly open to a two two party solution that's a likely outcome we certainly believe that the israelis and palestinians need to need to have political engagement there was no come to nation however of the recent demonstrations along the gaza border fence. shot on protest killing dozens and injuring hundreds limited himself to saying that israel had the right to defend itself the u.s. secretary of state didn't seem to share the. conflict is the main source of instability in the middle east instead he pointed to other conflicts in the region but throughout his trip it was clear that iran and the uncertain future of the nuclear deal where the immediate priority for the u.s. administration in riyadh and tel aviv wrapped up the rhetoric on iran threats to middle east ability to the delight of his hosts iran destabilize the entire region
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that supports proxy militias and terrorist groups. it is an arms dealer to the. and iran conducts cyber hacking campaigns. supports the murderous assad regime as well iranian missiles are also a concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu of his focus on the risk of being fired from iranian bases in syria. from lebanon. need to now apparently couldn't be more pleased with the appointment grinning and warmly congratulating him their language at times interchangeable we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east remains the people thought that he was aggression would be moderated as a result of signing to do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up
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one country after the other has flown back to washington but if tough talk on iran please some their lack of significant commitment. middle eastern conflict would worry others but at that had. a course in australia has ruled that one of the catholic churches top officials will face charges relating to multiple accusations of sexual abuse cardinal george pell served as a priest in victoria in the one nine hundred seventy s. rising to become of melbourne in the one nine hundred ninety s. he's accused of acts of sexual misconduct during. his most senior catholic cleric and serves serves in treasurer he's pleaded not guilty after thomas reports now from outside the court in melbourne. the magistrate. was not to decide whether the jury should convict on any of them but whether they could convict the plate ability of
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a witness so. as to completely collapse in front of the jury and if not. should go to trial physically possible was being alleged to have occurred again if that. was paul. then again the accusation should go through to a jury trial in the end she decided that about paul the allegations against called no palp should go to a jury trial on when state called new pal will face a criminal court's the directions hearing to find out more details about when and where his trial will take place in the meantime he's been allowed out on bail but he is not allowed to leave australia this will have big implications for the catholic church once they've called it was the most senior catholic at the vatican managing all its finances this is an incredible fall from grace from him although it is yet to be to me whether he's guilty and he says he is not of any of the
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accusations that will now go to trial eight asylum seekers from the so-called migrant caravan and been allowed to cross over from mexico into u.s. territory. the last american migrants celebrated the news as they wait their turn to enter the united states it took them a month to travel from honduras el salvador and guatemala they work for us tonight entry as u.s. president from fulton a threat to american security when a visit to a u.s. border patrol station in california u.s. vice president mike pence stressed the administration's commitment to border security. and one hundred fifty men women and many small children that are being processed at our border not far from here will be completely reviewed by our postings officials under our asylum laws and that will take place that's why we we've got to build a wall not just for the physical barrier that prevents but also because of a wall sends a very clear message that we're a nation with borders and we intend to uphold those borders and defend those
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borders let's hear now from the other side of the border manuel what apollo reports from the mexican city of tijuana. it's been two days of confusion and exile for a group of over one hundred fifty central american migrants who were denied entry into the u.s. inspections. at the u.s. border crossing here in mexican officials had asked many of these individuals to leave yesterday after they were denied entry but a group of fifty stayed overnight braving the cold braving the elements saying that they will do anything to to have that opportunity to leave their asylum cases to u.s. border officials you can see that there is quite a few children behind me today happened to be children's day in mexico so we saw plenty of activists and charity volunteers handing out clothes handing out blankets and toys as a distraction from the confusion a distraction from the stress for many of these kids we have to remember that these folks have been traveling for a month now across mexico many of them most of them from central america countries like solved or and guatemala where they're fleeing violence related to gangs
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violence related to organize crime because so many of these folks have been actually traveling for longer than a month what many of these folks are telling us is that regardless of the rain you can see the tarps being set up behind me sort of preempting rain showers that are expected later this evening they say that regardless of the weather regardless of how long it takes to be out here they're committed to having their opportunity to plead their cases to to authorities on the other side of the border we're also hearing overwhelmingly from individuals saying that they don't want to do anything illegal they want to use the existing asylum laws in the united states to go about this the legal way which of course they do have the right to do so under international law whether up to. at the last but it the u.s. puts posing widespread trade tariffs. and a visit by europe's chief. solutions.
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from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. how are the weather starting to quieten down now across the middle east though some bits and pieces of sherry rain in the forecast this area clouds making its way towards afghanistan took minister was because that will produce some showers and they will be wintry a time clearer weather does come back in behind little bit of cloud there on the southern end of caspian ninety celsius in tehran perhaps your chad just creeping in here so it's also want to see showers there into turkey but we're going to want to buy route thirty celsius on tuesday afternoon similar values you go on and see where the stat channels want to showers at this stage into eastern areas of syria pushing back across central parts of iraq further east it should be dry twenty three celsius in couple clouds and the showers still
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a possibility here but sadly some sunshine in between plenty of sunshine into the very been potential bits and pieces the cloud you will notice and wait to see the clouds with the possibility of the old spot of rain what we often don't have it around thirty five celsius maybe thirty six as we go on through whedon's dice and we'll start to see that heat picking up now destroyed by the meanwhile across southern africa one to two showers into the eastern cape a little more cloud into the western cape we have got showers into mozambique and the low rates continue for tanzania. the weather sponsored by cattle and peace. disillusioned with life in their own countries since the arab spring and looking desperately for a new sense of identity freedom and self worth let me in any way i don't feel like system my own country the country dreamed about demonstrated for and sought to achieve many things to al-jazeera world here's the stories of those deciding to
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emigrate in search of a new life and nationality passport to freedom at this time. a lot of the top stories on al-jazeera this hour the u.s. is backing israeli accusations which say that iran lied to international observers about its nuclear weapons program benjamin netanyahu says that there is now conclusive proof that the weapons program existed prior to twenty fifteen iran's foreign minister called it a rehash of old claims. a court of australia has ruled that one of the catholic church's most senior officials will face charges relating to multiple accusations of sexual offenses cardinal george pell is accused of acts of sexual misconduct
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dating back to bite hundred seventy s. he denies the allegations. the last american migrants struck stuck at the mexican border celebrating as the first group of asylum seekers is allowed into the united states eight women and children from the so-called my current caravan of crossed to begin their application process. u.s. president donald trump is delaying his proposed new steel and many of tariffs on canada the european union and mexico until june he's. reportedly reached an agreement in principle with argentina australia and brazil the us announced worldwide tariffs of twenty five percent on steel imports and ten percent on aluminum in march as part of trump's america first policy white house officials say they're already in effect to china russia and japan one hour from al-jazeera returns in washington. the discussions with the europeans in particular have been
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described as for europe holding firm that they will not impose voluntary quotas on their steel and aluminum exports to the united states as the white house is requiring and in fact the e.u. saying that they will impose tariffs on u.s. goods like bourbon and jeans and harley davidson motorcycles if the u.s. does go ahead with tariffs on their goods wilbur ross the commerce secretary was pushing for some sort of delay he's convinced donald trump as for the other countries we knew actually about the u.s. and canada that was announced over the weekend the negotiations there lumped in with the negotiations over the north american free trade agreement lots of positive noises but some sort of agreements maybe maybe in the works from mid may and then the three other countries that were mentioned in this proclamation were argentina australia and brazil they are out of the danger of tyrus as long as the agreement that's going to that has been put into into play in principle is followed through within the next thirty days south korea already had agreed to putting
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a quarter on its steel and aluminum exports so they are also no longer in danger of tariffs nigeria's president mohammed who bihari has become the first sub-saharan african leader to meet donald trump at the white house on the agenda was security trade and the economy but one infamous topic was not discussed talented reports from the white house. saying of tension instead warm handshake for the first sub-saharan african leader to visit the trump white house the president of nigeria made no mention of comments attributed to donald trump several months ago when he questioned letting nigerians visit america it's claimed that president donald trump made derogatory comments about several countries during a discussion on immigration the white house several months ago and when talking about nigeria in particular it was claimed that he said why would the other although nigerians into the u.s. because they wouldn't want to go back to their quote mud huts there the white house has pushed back. that saying that conversation never happened but we do know that
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the us ambassador to was called in for consultations with nigerian government officials. their talks covered trade security and the battle against corruption the . u.s. has recently sold military helicopters to nigeria that is military trainers in the country and is supporting the push against boko haram fighters the white house is also wary of the increasing economic presence of china across africa donald trump hopes africa and nigeria will turn to the u.s. as a trading partner i think maybe more than anything else what we discussed today was our agricultural products going into nigeria which nigeria wants but we have certain barriers that don't allow that to happen so for the good of our farmers u.s. farmers and for the good of nigeria and all of africa it's very important that we are able to sell our great agricultural products products. the nigerian president thank the u.s. for its military support and please the surgeons in the u.s. economy and ask for their help in recovering funds siphoned out of nigerian
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government accounts to government help with the machinery in place for their district attorney generals to collaborate in. their turn to nigeria or five hundred million now to save their lives over looted funds the two presidents walked out of the rose garden and back to the white house partly the warmth of the sun also warming relations between the two men alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house in the philippines capital manila thousands of workers a marking labor day with protests angry over president were to go to failure to honor one of his main campaign promises union groups expected to take to sign an executive to create a head of labor day to strengthen the employment rights of temporary workers. some of the demonstrations are also under way in indonesia's capital to casa people that are protesting outside the presidential palace. calling for an increase to the minimum wage of the stronger protections the taxi drivers who use online services.
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the dominican republic has announced that it establishing diplomatic relations with china and breaking ties with taiwan last year panama also dropped its longtime ties with taipei more from al-jazeera saverin brown in beijing well the domine can republic may be a small country but its decision to sever ties with taipei and recognize beijing still amounts nevertheless to a major diplomatic loss for taiwan it's just ten months since another small country panama also sever ties with taipei just nineteen countries now have diplomatic relations with taiwan and it seems that china's strategy is simply wants to isolate taiwan as much as possible and also to exclude it to prevent its participation in a number of international organizations well in the past taipei has accused beijing
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of playing a diplomatic money game and says it's a game it's no longer prepared to pay now beijing of course regards taiwan as part of its territory and is deeply suspicious and occasionally very antagonistic towards taiwan's independence leaning president zaya in when and they have warned in the past that have any time when he's leader were to declare independence then china would seize back the island republic by force its elevation from the u.n. security council is in myanmar to assess the range of crisis fifteen delegates met me on mars leader aung san suu kyi in the capital before traveling to reclaim state some seven hundred thousand range of muslims fled to neighboring bangladesh after a military crackdown last year the un is putting pressure on me to allow the refugees to return safely. funerals have been held for a fourteen year old and two senior rebel commanders from indian administered kashmir is largest group. they were killed in the
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indian government siege in the southern village of. several soldiers were also injured during a gun battle which went off for hours police are called the killing of the rebels a major success but separatist leaders a call for protests by the government shutdown on tuesday. the e.u. is chief breaks at the go cac is calling for a deal to preserve the invisible border between northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland michel barnier was in the irish republic on monday and as long as leader reports he took a hard line on the issue of the soft border. if anyone needed proof of how the european union's chief breaks in negotiating is viewed in ireland and the welcome from the irish prime minister said it's all done dork's technology college was occupied by the leadership of the entire political class and everyone else with an interest in making bricks it worked ireland and by extension the european union i
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have the honor of introducing someone who has become a household name in our mr bania they all said we will have no closer friend in us and he in turn promised to defend our island to the end. there is no added value to break the consequences of gregg's he could not and must not lead to the return of book our border naser and maps or in mine dundalk itself is only a few kilometers over the border with the u.k. and virtually everyone here crosses as a matter of daily routine the man from the city's chamber of trade is raging at what he sees as the u.k.'s planned betrayal of people here by the proposal to leave the customs union with europe. i have somebody that works for me that lives in my home which is thirty miles away about fifty kilometers so she crossed the border
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twice on the way to walk across the border twice in the way home she said to me i don't mind being left in the morning but i do have a worry over picking the kids up before six o'clock in the evening the hills around the border have in the past seen fighting between irish republicans and the british army they were also smugglers routes for contraband the peace dividend open the border and encourage trade so what next so we're just crossing the border from the republic of ireland into the north and therefore the u.k. more or less the only reason why you have no is because the road signs changed and that's true in dozens and dozens of other border crossings between the two countries and communities in all of those places are desperately worried but the u.k.'s lack of clarity about what breaks it really means will end up with physical roadblocks all over the border. mr bunny then went to newry the british city just over the border in the north where he offered his support to people who fear
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exactly the same things as the people like he had met in dundalk the business community in northern ireland wants to remain in the customs union the cost of union and also wants to retain access to the single market so if those are to your comes from the end of this process just for northern ireland it's a very positive thing that would make northern ireland one of the most attractive investment kitchens in the world but there is one party here which doesn't like mr barnier sticking his nose into northern ireland at all and it props up the british government keeping stories amaze conservatives in power he is here to represent the views of the european union twenty seven so he's not an honest broker he's here to represent their views and the u.k. government will represent the views for the people of northern ireland given that the british government is in disarray anyway and split in half over its bricks it strategy it isn't difficult for mr to look like he knows what he's doing he and his supporters must hope they can use this tour and the u.k.'s weakness to press home their results each gloriously al-jazeera on the island hugh cable. armenia's
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opposition leader has been formally nominated for the post of prime minister and is leading a march towards the central square a day ahead of the parliamentary vote of the country's new leader it's the culmination of two weeks of protests that saw former prime minister. ousted. some ten thousand people took to the streets of moscow on monday to protest against recent restrictions to internet freedom in russia authorities this month began blocking that messaging app telegram over its refusal to hand over the keys to its data encryption join a whole reports. in moscow they demanded the government and block the popular instant messaging app telegram the company had refused an official order to hand over the data encryption keys that keep messages sent on telegrams private. russia's federal security service the f.s.b. says that privacy is
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a shelter for criminal and terrorist groups but telegram users see it as an attack on free speech it's right to step up our to freedom within russia and it's the beginning that's the way to. see even though. it is because we have internet in the world telegrams logo depicts a paper plane and hundreds were launched as demonstrators shouted anti putin slogans opposition leader alexina valmy was there ensuring the old torah jews would not overlook this demonstration i'm sure you can't you know i have my rights and i don't care about these bands i do what i want what i need to do whatever i'm allowed to do under the constitution russia is not the only country in which telegram has fallen foul of the all florida keys on monday iran's judiciary sidelined the reformist government by announcing a ban on the app also citing threats to national security the clerics said telegram
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had been used to organize antiques. protests that swept the country in january it's a combination of something like what twitter about you might have here in the united kingdom so it's platforms combined for iranians. so it's very important and if you look back to previous elections kind of correlate the victories of those that why in the most part of the mint or your own honey very kind of see how they were so yes especially very well it ramps and all that was already so telegram be seen as a threat by those opposed to reform in iran and protesters in russia would say the same thing the apps found russian entrepreneur pavel bure of his fighting back he's promised to fund anyone developing proxy platforms online able to dodge the ban al-jazeera i.
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could have you with us a very unforgiving here in doha the top stories this hour on al-jazeera iran is rejecting claims by israel's prime minister that to have run a secretly pursued a nuclear weapons program and lied to international observers about it in breach of the twenty fifty nuclear deal benjamin netanyahu says that he has conclusive proof of the program the comments come as u.s. president donald trump considers withdrawing from the landmark iran nuclear deal by compare has concluded his first overseas trip as u.s. secretary of state by urging israel and palestine to restart the peace process it was also the topic and players meeting with jordan's king abdullah a player has also said he supports israel's actions in gaza where more than forty palestinians have been killed. a study in court has ruled that one of the catholic church's top officials will face charges relating to multiple accusations of sexual abuse george pell who denies the allegations served as
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a priest in victoria during the one nine hundred seventy s. rising to become archbishop of melbourne in the one nine hundred ninety s. eight asylum seekers from the so-called migrant caravan of been allowed to cross from mexico into u.s. territory. the latin american migrants celebrated the news as they waited to enter the united states took them a month to travel from honduras el salvador guatemala u.s. vice president mike pence stressed the administration's commitment to border security. and one hundred fifty men women and many small children that are being processed at our border not far from here will be completely reviewed by our post seems officials under our asylum laws and that will take place that's why we we've got to build a wall not just for the physical barrier that prevents but also because of a wall sends a very clear message that we're a nation with borders and we intend to uphold those borders and defend those borders president trump has delayed his proposed steel and alley many in tariffs on
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the european union canada and mexico until june he's also reportedly reached an agreement in principle with argentina astray and brazil the us announced worldwide tariffs of twenty five percent old steel imports and ten percent on aluminum in march as poss of president trumps america first policy and those are the headlines . after the stream next. and. british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas but what to do with these resources is already a source of heated debate nothing has changed they still spend most of the days looking for. five years on the syrians still feel her.

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