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a decision on the iranian nuclear deal the u.s. president donald trump says he'll announce if the u.s. will leave the deal on choose day. watching all just zero life from a headquarters and. also a heads a major upset in lebanon's parliamentary elections for the prime minister's future movements. the party and its allies dominates at the polls plus it's a signal to the rest of the world that we do not value human rights a woman who ran a secret prison known for torturing inmates prepares for her confirmation hearing to become the next cia director. escaping the burning lava more evacuations as a volcano killer. wales sends off dangerous toxic gas in hawaii.
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following a group of us democrats have just sent donald trump a letter urging him to let america remain a part of the iran nuclear deal president is expected to announce his decision on whether to withdraw inchers date america's allies have also been trying to convince trying to preserve the international agreement which has limited iran's nuclear capabilities to really help it has more from the white house. after months of diplomacy and high level meetings at the white house between the u.s. president and his counterparts in france germany and a monday the foreign secretary of the u.k. donald trump announced he had finally made his decision trump tweeted he would make his decision public on tuesday or whether to withdraw the united states from the iran nuclear agreement. with the announcement follows a last minute effort by u.k.
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foreign secretary boris johnson to persuade try to keep the u.s. within the deal even with top trump administrators including secretary of state mike pump aoe but not donald trump in the absence of a presidential meeting johnson penned an editorial in the new york times newspaper and has been appearing on multiple u.s. t.v. networks urging trump to remain in the agreement you can be tough. on iran but not throw away that the the heart of the deal which is all about stopping them getting a nuclear weapon the deal was negotiated in twenty fifty and under the administration of u.s. president barack obama and included other european countries as well as russia and china it's designed to contain iran's nuclear program for civilian use only. trouble was to get out of the deal unless it's fixed to address iran's missile.
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programa tehran's other military activities in the region on monday on twitter he called the deal a mess and criticized the man who helped negotiate it former secretary of state john kerry along with the president trump advisor rudolph giuliani is also criticizing kerry and what they call his shadow diplomacy this follows media reports kerry recently met with the iranian foreign minister job as a wreath at the united nations i don't think that we would take advice from somebody who created what the president sees to be one of the worst deals ever made is the latest signal us president donald trump is preparing to withdraw from the iran deal still france britain and germany have indicated they'll remain in the agreement regardless of the u.s. decision kimberly health at al-jazeera at the white house or the iranian president says he's committed to the zero as long as iran's interests are protected in your own chim our doubt about it. regarding the nuclear agreement if our interests and
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objectives are protected by all the parties to the agreement except america and we will be committed to it if america leaves the agreement it will not mean anything actually it will mean that the agreement got rid of evil that used to live inside it however if our objectives and interests are not protected we will choose our way if america's goal is to weaken iran we confirm that we will face that forcefully and with no hesitation or going back any american mistake or miscalculation will be met with a strong response that will make it regret it and feel like it is committed a strategic mistake for the french and german foreign ministers have also made a last ditch plea to the u.s. president. we are fully committed to saving this agreement because it protects us from nuclear proliferation and is the right way to prevent iran from getting access to nuclear weapons. first. the fear that are facing the end of the lead. and there still lesions you must avoid return to the view you had
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before two thousand and thirteen it's in the nobody's interest and the gallagher has more on some us democrats urging trying to stay in the deal. well this is the letter from some of the democratic party's leading lights it is essentially an eleventh hour appeal to president donald trump for him not to pull out of this a run nuclear deal they say it's perhaps not a perfect agreement but it is working in their views and they're not the only ones that are appealing to president trump over the last few weeks he's met with people like angela merkel from germany president maicon of france and britain's foreign secretary boris johnson who is in washington d.c. on monday all of them telling him look this is not a perfect deal but it's the best we can do at the moment boris johnson didn't actually meet with president trump but he wrote an op ed in one of the big newspapers here went on all the news channels to make sure he got his message across which was basically mr president please don't throw out the baby with the
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bathwater of course donald trump has never hidden his hatred for this deal as candidate trump and he said it was a horrible deal he says the same thing as president and it's one of his central promises that he will do away with this deal president micron told reporters that he thinks that for domestic reasons the president will pull out of the iran nuclear deal but the big question is where does that leave his european allies because it seems they are going to stay in this deal does that mean the united states will penalize them somehow but it certainly seems clear that president trump knows what the other world leaders involved in this want to do but ultimately president trump will do what he wants to do for himself and ultimately for his base south of how did it is set to continue as lebanon's prime minister under the sectarian power sharing system that's despite his party's poor showing in sunday's polls. as his future movement appears to have lost a third of the seats preliminary results so the see our part. the hezbollah and its
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allies winning more than half the seats in parliament has more from beirut. there was a clear winner and lebanon's election. hezbollah and its political allies won the majority of seats in parliament it's being seen by some as a victory for iran the shiite group is backed by iran it's the only lebanese party that has an armed wing and its electoral gains further empowers it politically hezbollah's leader called for cooperation. and. for the poli stressed that there is a reality in lebanon and that is that no one can eliminate the other even if we have disagreements we want political stability we need to cooperate. the general elections was a loss for lebanon's prime minister saddle had no longer heads the largest block in the legislature but he still retains the majority of seats allocated to seventy muslims how did he faced opposition from within his own community have accused him
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of being too lenient with hezbollah which is fighting in neighboring syria when asked if he plans to change that approach the prime minister said the focus should be on development and improving the lebanese economy. i disagree with them on many issues and will continue to disagree with them but what do i told the lebanese people. working on services like electricity water roads and instead focus on political challenge lebanon can handle political crises . how did he clearly indicating his willingness to continue working with his political rivals he has led a national unity government since late two thousand and sixteen a cabinet that includes members of hezbollah. and the last election in two thousand and nine it was the pro western approach saudi alliance headed by saddle that won the majority of seats in parliament since then iran's influence has been growing
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not just here in lebanon but across the region and it has been at the expense of saudi arabia. saudi arabia used to play a role in lebanese politics. for the better. i would be arabia was busy with other conflicts in the region like yemen the war there is a priority for riyadh. saudi arabia was aware that there are laws in lebanon where nor longer united and they couldn't be a force to confront hezbollah but. the ground for iran. for now however there is little indication that lebanon is heading towards political instability lebanese politicians are talking about putting their differences aside and uniting now that the election is over. beirut the united nations says an afghan military raid targeting a religious ceremony last month killed at least thirty six people including children in the beginning of april villagers in current use claim dozens of people
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died in a government air attack prompting the un to launch an investigation more than seventy others were also wounded after the government's use rockets and heavy machine gunfire. fighters loyal to libya's renegade general twenty five have to have been killed near the eastern city of derna this comes as hostile launches a military campaign to take over that all which had been under siege for more than two years why do you find no no if you have a one as i announced that the victory hour for liberation has been reached and that your forces are not targeting the hideouts of their terrorists and during or this is after we gave instructions to avoid civilian casualties and to protect civilians while securing their safety and respecting the rules of engagement and international humanitarian law still ahead on al jazeera more on the war in yemen as the saudi led coalition airstrikes kill at least six people and we examine the pressure is behind argentina as much needed economic reforms.
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hello there we're seeing lots of wet weather across the middle east at the moment the next system is already working its way across us here it is making its way in from the mediterranean op through parts of syria and into iraq and we're going to see some very very heavy downpours out of this during the day on tuesday there is likely to be some flooding through parts of eastern syria southern turkey and into iraq as well that system gradually dishpans as it works its way eastwards but still a few lively outbreaks of rain as we head through the day on wednesday the system is also somewhat responsible for the hot weather that we're seeing in doha at the moment because it's making the winds will feed up from the south so thirty eight or thirty nine will be the top temperature head to the north of us there that's where the cloud will be and there's the outside chance of a shower from this to the south of all of that inflow no problems for us we're
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looking at a top temperature of around thirty two degrees now down towards the southern parts of africa it's largely fine and dry for us at the moment dry durban right up but twenty eight. griese it's a bit different forcing cape town more in the way of clouds here than they could be a few outbreaks of rain seventeen degrees were just be the maximum temperature here further north in the showers are generally becoming a bit more subdued for many of us now so more in the way of dry weather to be found here as they will be over parts of madagascar. of all my friends and pulled one of the troops were detained i am the only one who survived they were in the way too for news of the men for coming was only one word a miniature much just saw a boy killed in his father's all but saw my film. i have only once in my life seen men who are scared to death a bitch
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a civil war was darkest secret bosnia to come on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour the u.s. president will announce his decision on whether to wed said the iran nuclear deal on tuesday america's allies have been trying to convince donald trump to preserve the agreement twelve democratic senators have written to the president warning him that withdrawing could put national security at risk saddam how do you set to continue as lebanon's prime minister under the sectarian power sharing system despite his party losing
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a third if it seats preliminary results from sunday's elections show this party of hezbollah and its allies winning more than half the seats in parliament the united nations says an afghan military raid targeting a religious ceremony last month killed at least thirty six people including children in april villagers in clues claimed dozens of people died in a government airstrike prompting the un to launch an investigation more than seventy others were wounded. nigeria's army has confirmed it has rescued more than a thousand bokeh hard on captives the hostages were rescued from several villages in borno state there are mainly women and children and some young men who were forced to become fighters for the armed groups the operation involves twenty two brigades in the multinational joint task force my disease has more from the state capital my zachary the one thousand people who have been rescued by the military
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actually rescued what actually rescued along the i don't the by my area which is on the fringes of the some of the so for us we've known and have heard of boko out on a flight is trying to infiltrate that particular area and they've extended actually they reach into neighboring atom of state wow some book or i'm suicide bombers deter native bombs last weekend killing at least fifty people in the town of movie they've also from that particular area extended their reach into cameroon so the fighters actually members of the multi-national joint task force that comprises soldiers from cameroon nigeria ninja chad republic as well as the new republic which is not directly affected by blackwater yet it's contributing forces to the fight against boko haram now that operation is called named operation deep point it's holding simultaneously as the army or regional forces launch another operation called operation last fall all on the shores of the lake chad targeting particular islands why they suspect that book was on fighters are holed up and are carrying
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from where they're carrying attacks now with that particular faction of the koran is actually a like through the islamic state in west africa a group that the military in the region is trying to see that they've been denied access to arms and ammunition and freedom to operate in that part of the lake chad region. at least six people have been killed in saudi led coalition air strikes in yemen the raids targeted the president's office and son are which is controlled by houthi rebels who've been fighting the saudi led coalition since twenty fifteen victoria gate and he reports. witnesses say they heard warplanes overhead before two loud explosions as bones hit the presidential office in the center of the controlled santa the strikes damaged not only the intended target but all say businesses and houses nearby. a jet target at the presidential office the neighborhood is full of people unemployed youths were at work we rushed to
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rescue people who were there who were trying to rescue a man from underneath a car and a child on the air strike targeted us with no mercy for human beings. citizens have nothing to do with what is going on we are not leaders no leaders work in these offices we are doing our routine daily work. a spokesman for the saudi led coalition defended the airstrikes say they targeted a high level meeting of who the leader is. targeting the presidential palace was targeting first and second rate leadership there was confirmed intelligence information they were monitored through intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance systems oh saudi arabia and its allies have been fighting against the since twenty fifty when they intervened to support yemen's internationally recognized government led by president abbott robbie mansell heidi after three years of fighting and no end to the war in sight analysts say the saudi led
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coalition has changed tactics and is concentrating on targeting. but it's a risky strategy the fight is in the supporters say they're more determined than ever to continue their fight for control of yemen victoria gate and be out there. the first road signs have been unveiled in jerusalem for the new u.s. embassy opening on monday it's moving from tel aviv as part of president donald trump's contentious recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital trump says he might attend the official opening it coincides with the seventh seventieth anniversary off well with the palestinians called the catastrophe as well as israel's creation. wednesday as confirmation hearing for a donald trump's pick to head the central intelligence agency is expected to be confrontational gina hospital would be the first woman to run the u.s.
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spy agency but there is growing concern about her role in the cia's use of torture against prisoners. are reports. who is gina housefull the intelligence veteran endorsed by six former cia heads to become the agency's next director she is not only a highly respected nominee but she is among the most qualified that will ever serve in that role or as critics have called her the head cheerleader for waterboarding it sends a signal to the rest of the world that we do not value human rights and the people who engage in even the worst acts of torture or supervise people who do so can end up becoming cia director and serve at the highest levels of government house who ran a secret cia prison in thailand after the nine eleven attack under her watch at least one terrorism suspect was water boarded and has pulled later ordered videotapes
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showing enhanced interrogation sessions to be destroyed a senate report labeled those techniques torture it's very concerning because those of us that worked on the torture report know some things that are classified and. this is an important part of this woman's career the cia has selectively declassified some details on how schools thirty three years working for the agency from an undercover agent in africa and eurasia the chief of station in several overseas postings to deputy director but last week haskell reportedly offered to withdraw her nomination to lead the agency telling the white house she didn't want to have a confirmation hearing that may potentially damage the cia's reputation president trump pushed back monday tweeting my highly respected nominee for cia director gina haskell has come under fire because she was too tough on terrorists haskell's test
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before the senate is scheduled on wednesday where tough questions will surely await hydro castro al-jazeera washington. the national rifle association in the u.s. has named its new president all over north a conservative commentator best known for his central role in the one nine hundred eighty s. iran contra scandal is the new chief north already serves on the n.r.a. is a board of directors he was chosen after the weekend annual meeting in dallas where president donald trump valued he would not tighten firearms laws. new york's attorney general eric schneiderman has resigned following accusations he physically abused four women snyderman had positioned himself as a voice for me to victims of sexual harassment he had used his authority as new york's chief law enforcement officer to sue film producer harvey weinstein who faces multiple allegations of sexual misconduct snyderman denies the allegations
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against him a seventeen year old girl is in critical condition after allegedly being gang raped on set on fire in india a man has been arrested in connection with the attack that happened to the eastern state of georgia on the same day as a sixteen year old girl was murdered there she was also raped and burned alive the latest victim suffered first degree burns to seventy percent of her body saying with the trial of eight men accused of raping and murdering an eight year old girl in indian administered kashmir has been moved to a neighboring states the supreme court made the decision after the victim's family and lawyer said they were facing death threats the incident led to protests across the country priyanka gupta reports. they look at peace but this family is in pain prosecutors say that on january and eight year old girl was kidnapped gang raped by
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at least three men over the course of four days and then killed her body was dumped in a forest the indian supreme court has banned media from using the girl's real name her family is part of a nomadic community of muslim shepherds a muddy but bob a tatty they killed our daughter she was very pretty we remember her every time we miss her a lot during migration wherever i transit i miss her a mess or in the days and nights whenever i am alone i miss her after the incident we are very scared we want justice and the culprits to be hanged. tension between the muslim and hindu communities has often been high but the eight year old girl's case has shocked many on both sides a retired government official and four policemen have been charged through a tired official sons iran is alleged to have ordered his nephew and a policeman to kidnap the go to harass members of a community into leaving qatar district which is little more than indian
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administered kashmir area. it's mainly him though activists say the religious divide here is fueled deliberately this government form last three years this government brand in this community has learned about this forest. guard those who are or for the last three years the brand of this community is a criminal and now they are attacking by the governmental institution activists say those accusations have created the atmosphere which led to the gold staff. according to police reports d.n.a. tests have proved the girl's presence in this temple a post-mortem cited in the police report has indicated injuries to her genitals as a result of sexual assault lawyers for the accused disagree the biblical report you don't know the theory and the lived from a building where the gang rape is not established and the medical reports that is
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what the standing is the. supporters of the accused are demanding that the federal police take over the case supporters of the family just want justice gupta al-jazeera. argentina is falling currency and their recent interest rate hike could threaten the much needed economic reforms promised by the government when he came to power two years ago president mark mcrae valid to attract foreign investment after years of isolation but now his plans hang in the balance as to risible explains. came to power in argentina in a suprising victory over two years ago. following eight years of tight currency controls during the government of cristina fernandez occasional he's promised to reconnect the country with the world's financial markets appeal to the majority but for now things are not going as planned argentina has chosen a path of
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a gradual approach towards solving very deep economic problems that it has for many decades this gradual approach has its shortcomings that solutions are not easy solutions are not fast the results are coming out slow so some people that have you know very fast expectations that this would be a quick solve really they were wrong. and that he has been reluctant to implement shock austerity measures that we heard the country's most fond of and that's why inflation and deficits continue to be the main economic problems and that's why workers have been taken to the streets on a regular basis to fight for salary increases until now the team has relied on foreign debt to cover the fiscal deficits. they are for every place of deficit there is a place of date the dip that is growing is that of the international markets the problem is when you try to cover your dificid with dish and the type of crisis that
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can bring about last week the economy seemed to be out of control when policymakers had to raise the benchmark interest rate to forty percent in an attempt to stop investors. from taking their money out of the country. was the central bank's governor for almost six years he says the government made a mistake i think it was a mistake from the government to allow foreigners to buy notes from the central bank the notes of the central bank are used to absorb excess liquidity but excess local liquidity so it should be allowed to absorb not to bring in dollars as you do with other bonds and that's one of the reasons why argentina is on the edge once again argentina has had a history of hyperinflation and the economic crisis and that's why people do you worry when the u.s. dollar starts going up on the central banks start selling billions of dollars worth of research the government of greece says it has taken the necessary measures to
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control the situation but many here are wondering whether it will be enough the government has vowed to cut back on government spending even more to reduce the deficit the impact is likely to be seen on the streets in the weeks ahead. when a situs there have been more evacuations in hawaii as lava continues to pour in neighborhoods a volcano killer whale has also been releasing toxic gas for bernal's has more. earlier today we were able to enter les lani a states that's an area not far from here where a dozen active volcanic rifts or vents have opened up over the past several days we got as close as we could to some of the fresh lava which was covering a road at a depth of maybe two meters and standing. next to that about as far away from
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where i'm standing to that sign over there the heat was so intense was barely able to get very much closer than that now specialists accompanying us from the hawaii national guard were carrying. air quality monitors. especially on the lookout for sulfur dioxide that is a toxic gas which in the right concentrations in heavy concentrations can cause people to lose consciousness and it can cause death now people are being allowed to go back into the affected area by car they're being checked at the checkpoints by police and there are a lot to go back in and retrieve personal belongings and we talked to a number of those people and they said they were happy to be able to do that but they were very fearful of what would happen next in terms of where the new vents would open up what killer whale will do next the governor of hawaii david he said
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earlier that the it appears the intensity of the eruptions the seismic activity has gone down there's a slight pause in the intensity but the governor said whether that means that this episode is coming to an end or merely pausing or how long things will last and when people can return to their homes if ever is something that only kill a way and those. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera a group of us democrats are sent donald trump a letter urging him to let america remain a part of the iran nuclear deal the us president is expected to announce his decision on whether to withdraw on tuesday america's allies have also been trying to convince them to preserve the international agreement which has limited iran's nuclear capabilities and the iranian president says he's committed to the deal as
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long as iran's interests are protected it's your own chim or doubt about it. regarding the nuclear agreement if our interests and objectives are protected by other parties to the agreement except america and we will be committed to it if america leaves the agreement it will not mean anything actually it will mean that the agreement got rid of evil that used to live inside it however if our objectives and interests are not protected we will choose our way if america's goal is to weaken iran we confirm that we will face that forcefully and with no hesitation or going back any american mistake or miscalculation will be met with a strong response that will make it regret it and feel like he is committed a strategic mistake. saad how do you continue as lebanon's prime minister under the sectarian power sharing system despite his party losing a third of its seats the preliminary results from sunday's elections show the party of hezbollah and its allies winning more than half the seats in parliament the
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united nations says an afghan military raid targeting a religious ceremony last month killed at least thirty six people many of them children villagers and claimed dozens of people died in a government prompting the un to launch that investigation the national rifle association in the us has named its new president oliver north a conservative commentator best known for his central role in the one nine hundred eighty s. iran contra scandal is the new chief of the n.r.a. those are the headlines counting the cost is coming up next on al-jazeera stay with us. here is a very important source of information for many people around the world. have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and story to the forefront.
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