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this is al jazeera and live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha. welcome to the news grid is it deal or no deal the world continues to react to donald trump's decision to remove the u.s. from the iran nuclear deal there has been anger in the parliament in teheran the remaining signatories of trying to make sure the deal doesn't fall apart. after showing his support for the u.s. israel's prime minister is popped up in moscow to take part in a russian military parade we have got all the angles covered on a still fast moving story also on the grid three american citizens in north korea heading back to the states their release finalized by the new secretary of state might bump a oh there's been visiting the north again this is a big diplomatic win for donald trump as he prepares for his one meeting with kim
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u.k. france and germany say they're sticking to the agreement which still sanctions lifted in exchange for iran curbing its nuclear program and yet iranian leaders say they have doubts about whether to trust them took years to negotiate but we wonder is this the beginning of the end we're going to be live at the white house and also in moscow we can have reaction from western. as well first though plus to take you through the current state of play. the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. nuclear deal with iran is crucial for the security of the region of europe and of the entire world as long as the non continues to implement its nuclear related commitments as it is doing so far the european union will remain committed.
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i will sign a presidential memorandum to begin reinstating u.s. nuclear sanctions on the iranian regime. the fact is this was a horrible one sided deal that should have never ever been made.
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off to the white house we go here as a white house correspondent kimberly how can i can relate any word or any idea or even about the plan to come from the white house now. hasn't been very clear the white house has certainly been on the television networks across the united states trying to argue that there is a plan in place but it certainly is a murky what at best it's certainly clear that european allies of the united states are working hard now pursuing to wreck hawks with tehran to try and keep the nuclear limits in place but with the united states leaving come out this really leaves a gaping hole in the deal we know with regard to sanctions that some are immediate the ones that existed prior to the signing of the twenty fifteen those snap back into place but in some cases there is sort of
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a winding down period as the national security advisor told reporters on tuesday that could be between ninety to one hundred eighty days so in essence the plan is complex intricate and is leaving many people scratching their heads. so what will happen then kimberly if you are a business that wants to continue doing business with iran put it that way. yeah that's that's a big problem that's what a lot of european businesses are asking especially right now because what this is sensually done is it's exposed a rift between the united states and some of its best allies particularly when it comes to those business ties because a lot of those companies that are operating and working in the united states are also doing business with iran for example we've got air bus it has a big contract with iran to iran air for one hundred airplanes that contract could now be in question germany has more than one hundred twenty companies operating inside iran so what this is essentially doing is this is leaving
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a big question mark it's hard to downplay the economic impact of that in fact we've already seen or oil prices rising some three percent as the european countries try to take the steps to mitigate all of this but at the same time the united states not offering any clarity as they attempt to do so ok thank you kimberly hawkins of the white house for us now some of the irony in this current u.s. position is that it was actually american would go to iran started down the nuclear power over sixty years ago and you go back to nine hundred fifty seven when iran and the united states signed an agreement on the civil use of atomic energy and two years later mohammad reza pahlavi who is seen here with president eisenhower in teheran established the test run nuclear research center and in one thousand sixty seven the u.s. gave iran its first research nuclear reactor which is actually still operating today now this is all from as you see a timeline a down to zero dot com marking some of the major milestones of iran's nuclear program you can have
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a look at that for yourself if you lied just to get the full picture which takes us right up to present day that was the deal being signed there in twenty fifteen right so let's look at what the reaction is like in iran this report from them just ravi. was the day after the united states tore up the nuclear deal iran set it on fire members of parliament into one burned a printout of the international pact and the american flag a show of anger and disappointment over what they say is a mistake by washington i doubt a little. more him miss nettled if europe an important countries like russia and china fill this international vacuum perhaps that will be a way to continue otherwise the islamic republic of iran will bring the us to its senses with its nuclear actions they have to know that under such circumstances iran has no commitment to remain in the nuclear position it was in before. iranians woke up to headlines that highlight the country's internal divisions moderates who
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are currently in government want the deal to go on without trouble hardliners stress the united states cannot be trusted and the agreement should be completely scrapped but both sides are bracing for an economic impact this is a lot of missionary a lot of the withdrawal means more pressure will be exerted on the people and the country will go back to the days of resorting to smuggling to bring in goods and bypass sanctions i on wednesday iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei drew a line in the sand show need beaut. days sure go hard for you all heard last night the cheap and impudent remarks of the us president there were maybe more than ten lies mostly see it a threesome both the establishment and the iranian nation that he will do this and that and i will tell him on behalf of the iranian people mr trump you don't like hell you will. while there is a sliver of hope for the deal to survive the company said he knows iran is asking the remaining signatories for the impossible to stand by iran and ignore the global
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financial threat posed by the united states has. now said that the agreement will stay in place with participation of the three european countries i do not trust these three countries. while the full impact of renewed sanctions have yet to materialize on iranian streets traditional chants of death to america are getting louder once again perhaps the clearest sign of iran's anger was a message from the supreme leader to the american president in it he said that many u.s. presidents have died in their bones had decomposed and they're trying to will return to dust and become food for worms but the islamic republic company said will remain standing the same bus rob the old is here at the wrong. has they had a status or online reaction how much were you actually able to glean from inside the country and it's all different all right that's really difficult to do it's easy to tell what the world thinks about this because it's the largest conversation
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at the moment but inside of iran it's quite difficult mainly because twitter telegram and other social sites are blocked now while it's hard to gauge what people inside the country think of the u.s. scrapping the iran deal we did speak to one journalist who had this to say. of course. look you deal had a positive impact on this long. but it had no effect on the livelihoods of people and their food the cancelation not have a negative effect on the rainiest people. me as a jury seem to run the show really dive these developments with ultimate benefits people of wrong and with hard. prissy slow public. and like we just saw from same bus ravi outside of iran this is one of the
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top shared videos online of politicians tearing up and lighting a u.s. flag on fire online there's a divided opinion on whether the u.s. breaking the iran deal was a good idea or not republicans are celebrating saying it's about time trump got rid of one more a former president barack obama's deals but the most popular tweet about this online comes from obama himself calling the scrap plan a serious mistake the tweet so far has one hundred thirteen thousand retreats and counting the other top conversation though is about israel iran large big time many are drawing a comparison between netanyahu is comments about the iran nuclear deal last week and what he said about iraq's nuclear program in two thousand and two a program that did not exist but did push the u.s. to invade the country one man on twitter said it felt like deja vu and one other person said that this is just an interesting thing that's playing out here's what
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netanyahu though had to say. there is no question whatsoever that saddam is seeking and is working and is advancing towards the development of nuclear weapons no question whatsoever and there is no question that once he acquires it history shifts immediately and today the united states must destroy the same regime because a nuclear arms. will place the security of our entire world at risk. and make no mistake about it if and once saddam has nuclear weapons the turd network will have nuclear weapons we want to know what you think if you think this is deja vu or a whole different ball game you can get in touch with us with the hash tag a good news good thanks. speaking of prime minister netanyahu he was in moscow today he was the guest of honor at the military parade celebrating russia's
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victory of a nazi germany in world war two moscow military might was on display including the latest weapon systems and remote controlled tanks the russian president vladimir putin also announced plans for a new missile defense system but it's believed it was the iran deal which top the agenda when the two actually sat down for a discussion let's have our own discussion with for a challenge now is covering this from moscow today what's going on riyadh was i was certainly surprised to see prime minister netanyahu pop up there today. there is a pretty clever move a thing from netanyahu to come on this particular day this is hugely important to vladimir putin may the ninth is the national holiday where russians set upright their role in the defeat of nazi ism in the second world war but image putin feels that this sacrifice of the russians made in the middle of the last
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century is not being properly appreciated by the rest of the world and so you know for netanyahu to come here and stand side by side with putin in red square that was a smart thing now of course netanyahu comes to moscow with very very acute concerns ease concerns that the russians are about su supply the syrian government's with interceptor missiles called the s. three hundred fence system israel does not like that at all but also of course netanyahu is worried about the wider role that iran is playing in the region and its increasing foothold in syria. israel does not think that russia is taking its concerns seriously enough and so that's why netanyahu came in it's day to basically talk about what's is going to be done about iran next and you know who likened it to the holocaust in the second world war and basically said you know
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it's it's amazing to think that seventy three eat three years after that so place that there is a country that is talking about wiping israel off the map that country is iran and it wants russia to do more to constrain iran inside syria. boots and went as far as to say that yes the problem the middle east is acute it doesn't want a conflagration in the region it doesn't want israel and iran to escalate their conflict there but it's because of scrapping of the nuclear deal or it's you know the u.s. participation in the nuclear deal it may be that events aspiring anyway and there might not be of much the russia can do to prevent israel and iran coming to blows all right roy chance thank you very much for the vats how's it all playing out at home though for mr netanyahu here is more from alan fischer and west or isn't.
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israel itself there is a consensus that iran is a threat to israel but with the dive there just how to deal with that threat that benjamin netanyahu in his right wing government very much of the view that the iran nuclear deal should be scrapped so they're very pleased that those on the other side believe a couple of things first of all that there are other ways to deal with iran you've heard that as well from senior military figures senior intelligence figures to see that while iran is in compliance everyone should just follow the deal but also opposition politicians believe that when benjamin netanyahu is talking about the iran nuclear deal he isn't talking about his own personal political problems remember there is an ongoing corruption investigation and so when he is talking about the threat that iran poses or saying that the u.s. president has done a great thing by pulling out of the deal then he is not talking about his own personal problems bit of a parallel there with donald trump when he's talking about the iran deal he's not
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talking about the russian investigators or the difficulties that he is facing as well how do the people on the street three out or those who support benjamin netanyahu have listened to him over the last ten years of always supported his stance on this so they will be very pleased most people in israel will feel that iran is a threat to israel but they may not be entirely convinced that what the united states is doing what they've been pushed into some believe by benjamin netanyahu of israel is not the best way forward for the safety and security of the country. we've been all around the world already so far haven't we on the story but i want to go back to the deal itself because it's not good and that got us to thinking about whether u.s. involvement in such deals is still an absolute necessity now kimberly was telling us before that yes it does leave a gaping hole but there are plenty of other countries and when you think about it we seem to have a sort of trump doctrine here which appears to be one of withdrawal just about was
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only a few days after he took office he pulled the u.s. out of the t p p the trans-pacific partnership which involved eleven other countries including china on a straight a no t.v. in its original form was scrapped as a result but the others have since set up a similar agreement so that's carrying on trump of course took us the u.s. out of the paris climate accord that was almost a year ago his belief was that the agreement was hurting american businesses and industry but given pretty much every other country in the world remains a signatory that deal is still very much alive as well then you've got nafta to think about the north american free trade agreement mexico and canada part of that as well the u.s. is still in but trump has made it clear he wants out he has called it the single worst trade deal ever approved by the united states so we've got james boys to talk to about this a political historian who specializes in u.s. politics and it's always nice to see you james. is this it the trump i call it the trump doctrine almost one of withdrawal and also one that relates to well anything
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that his predecessor did he's got to get out of. well good afternoon kemal it's great to speak to you again i think you're absolutely right i particularly like the graph you put on your twitter feed to to demonstrate this to those of you who follow you on that platform. yeah i think it does quite nicely layout exactly the way in which donald trump seems to be trying to dismantle whatever success is barack obama managed to achieve during his time in office i would point out however that what don't want from seem to be doing is twofold first of all talking very much about trying to renegotiate many of the multilateral deals along bilateral deals potentially and then secondly of course is bringing together both foreign and domestic policy because whilst we on the outside see these deals as foreign. entities and negotiations what donald trump's talking about is how they're
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impacting the domestic constituency which was so responsible for getting him elected in the first place talking about basically being the the enemy of globalization which he feels of course is squeezed middle americans and the nafta deal which of course america is still part of is a quintessential example of that so if it's all this big domestic thing then can we and i'm using a very broad way there we the international maybe we looking in start looking at these sorts of deals without the united states and actually say you know what if russia and china and. brazil and germany and france and all these other major powers are on board then it's still a deal. well i think it's two things here i think first of all let's be honest about it getting all five members of the u.n. security council to agree on anything proven to be virtually impossible since it's formation you know you can was count on one hand the amount of times that they have come to full agreement so reneging upon a deal that had that buy in is is not unimportant but i think that what we need to
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consider is the idea that if we're going to try and convince this president to do things moving forward it's a waste of try i'm trying to talk about appealing to his international responsibility and pitching this very much upon the lines of well what's in it for america what's in it for america's voters why should donald trump stay in these deals and what's in it for his constituency i think trying to put this into a broader context for this president seems to be not working especially when he's surrounded himself quite deliberately by the likes of john bolton for example and secretary of state pompei all of whom i think continue to exacerbate this quite introverted introspective view of president trump donald trump steps in front of a podium he says and taking us out of the deal he signs in order after that it's all sort of quite dramatic and this is all happening right now in front of us the truth is something like the jay c.p.o. i took you know seven years really of of constant work to actually make it happen
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how quickly can you even unravel something like that and then i think again about if there's another administration in two years time how quickly they might want to put it back in place. well this is the great problem isn't there and i thought one of the most interesting things that kimberly said when she was reporting from the white house at the top of the hour was the idea that these protests prince a real void now for those international companies and entities which have stepped up and said right we can now do business with iran because the americans have basically opened the gates they've now come in are they now going to feel squeezed and as part of the you know the new sanctions regime that come in from washington are they going to continue to going to do business there and moving forward if there is a change in regime at the white house in just over two years time where do they stand because one of the great problems you know all too often we see people campaigning for the presidency promising change they arrive in the white house and have a policy of continuity and this is one of the reasons why because the the the voice
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and the respect united states around the world is dependent upon a degree of continuity from administration to administration and as soon as you have a radical shift like this from one administration to the next it raises all these questions about well what will happen in two years' time will we just go back to a sort of a status quo approach or will the trump doctrine as you nicely describe it prevail james boy is it is always a pleasure talking to you i don't think i've ever had a guest plug my twitter account so thank you very much for the bad times both of them in london so welcome and actually what james was referring to is this so if we have a little look at my i pad here this was as you say obama policies over ten of the tribes are we not just talking about big international deals we're talking about things like transgender military service net neutrality national monuments cuba so that there is a lot which donald trump is chosen to reverse in the last eighteen months or so there is a lot of content online but i want to draw your attention particularly to this one
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it's from late last year actually but this is the background you need if there's anything about the iran deal which still puzzles you or isn't clear this is. so you go it also includes as a talk to others here interview i think right down at the bottom there it is with iran's foreign minister mohammad and sorry for he says among other things that the u.s. is addicted to sanctions what you need to know about trump and the iran deal it's all there it's all in one place it's at al-jazeera dot com. maybe you'd like to get in touch with us as well live on myself a summer's watching the hashtag tonight at. news grid on twitter at a.j. english if you'd like to reply to our thread there which goes out just at the top of the hour you can do that you can watch us on facebook as well facebook dot com slash al-jazeera for the live stream and there is this number plus one seven four five or one triple one four nine whatsapp and telegram if you want to and not just send us and questions or comments but if you've got any material video or photos
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which you could please feel free now. where are we going next well this is in the lead up to potentially another nuclear deal this would be the one with north korea of course donald trump has just scored a big diplomatic win earlier on wednesday he tweeted this i'm pleased to inform you that secretary of state might bump i was in the air and on his way back from north korea with the three wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting they seem to be in good health now these are the three american citizens held by north korea being released it seems as a goodwill gesture ahead of the planned trump kim summit in the next few weeks kathy novak with more on this from seoul the release of the americans is another sign of the thawing relationship between pyongyang and washington and improves the climate for the proposed summit between donald trump and kim jong un the u.s. president has pushed the case for months saying there's been constant pressure like was fighting very diligently to get the three american citizens back. reports that
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the three had been moved from a labor camp to a hotel in the capital was followed closely in south korea there they received better food and medical treatment this is what we know about the three men kim jong il is a south korean born u.s. citizen who worked as a religious minister in his early sixty's he was detained in twenty fifteen on spying charges a year later he was sentenced to ten years hard labor at a government arranged news conference he apparently confessed to stealing military secrets while working with south korea a claim rejected by seoul two of the men have been detained since donald trump became president kim hawke song was detained on suspicion of hostile acts in may twenty seventeen believed to be an ethnic korean born in china he emigrated to the us in the one nine hundred ninety s. he worked at pyongyang university of science and technology. who goes by tony kim was arrested in april twenty seventeen he also worked at the university and was
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accused of hostile acts trumper had been suggesting that unless the north koreans take real denuclearization steps that he wouldn't go to the summit well the north koreans have given him something else very easy for them to give and now the summit will absolutely go ahead donald trump used to call the north korean leader little rocket men and warned of a hostile reaction to further threats of attack from their western we're best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen but in march there was a dramatic turnaround when president trump announced summit plans after a visit by a south korean delegation to the white house the man who is now u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o followed up with visits to north korea to lay the groundwork for talks with president trump as three americans celebrate their release the family of student auto war india will be thinking of what could have been arrested in north korea and held for seventeen months he returned to the u.s.
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in a vegetative state and died days later one because parents have lodged a wrongful death suit against the north korean government kathy novak al jazeera soul his james bay is at the united nations is of course been reporting from the korean peninsula recently as well so we'll talk about the significance of all this in a moment james first just seeing the end of cathy's cathy's report there and the ill health which alter was in when he left is there any word on the health of these prisoners. obviously this is important given what happened just under a year ago with auto warm beer as you say dying a month after he returned to the us because of the severe injuries it's good news what we're getting from the white house in a statement they say they all seem to be in a good condition the three men all walked to the aircraft that being confirmed from the white house and the state department and actually by the two reporters just two reporters were allowed to travel to north korea with secretary of state might
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pompei o one from washington post and one from the associated press they are also confirming that and also saying that the three americans were actually in the air less than one hour after they were released by north korea ok james so pull it all together for me here on a scale of one to ten of importance how important are we talking about when these three citizens are released and the entire climate where in the talks so close just how important is it. it's important i cannot see the question maybe in two ways one way i think this was really a conditional that the white house never stated it to have this summit and now the summit can go ahead so very very important indeed that these men are released the summit we're told the place has been chosen we're told that the timing has been chosen and it's now for president trump to announce it we know he's been on the phone with president moon of south korea
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a short time ago so this was the one thing that was needed for the summit to take place having said that certain a different way and say this is the only one thing that north korea has done and it's going to get a summit diplomacy at the highest level with kim and trump meeting face to face compare that with what you've just been talking about iran iran agreed to a deal that was negotiated painstakingly over a very many years it gave up its nuclear weapons capability it handed over thirteen thousand centrifuges it signed a deal saying never to pursue a nuclear weapon all of that was done and yet president trump says that's not enough he's ripped up the deal with north korea and now he set himself an extremely high bar for the deal he's got to reach with that hoover so much to come isn't it james bays at the united nations thank you for that we're here at the live war just
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having a look at the ladies in the middle of your screen there jane has all that is donald trump's pick his nominee for cia director she's in front of the senate committee confirmation hearings going on at the moment i'm going to be talking to she had pretend the about that a little later on in the grid in fact i can see she had preparing up there meanwhile off we go to london and here is barbara starr with more international news for us i'm barbara. hello there come on let's start in afghanistan where suicide bombers have struck two police stations in the capital kabul killing at least five people and wounding seventeen others. two police officers were killed and three others were injured in the first incident in western kabul the second attack also targeted a police station located in the city center the government says at least eight suicide bombers took part in the attacks overall one of the attacks has been claimed by eisold the other by the taliban. japan and china have agreed to work
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together to put north korea on what they say is the right pass japanese prime minister shinzo they made the comments at a trilateral summit with the chinese premier chung and the south korean president when he has more now from tokyo. it's supposed to be an annual trilateral summit with the leaders of japan south korea and china hadn't come together since two thousand and fifteen the relationship between the three countries has been difficult because of several issues including north korea but it's north korea that's largely responsible for bringing them together again after last month's into korean summit young yang's newfound diplomacy was top of the agenda. he welcomed and expressed our congratulations to the success of the third into korean summit and i hope that the leaders meeting between the d.p. r. k. and the united states who are materialise and we support the dialogue between japan and the d.p. r. k.
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in two costs the timing of the summer's couldn't have been better for japan's prime minister shinzo are there amid plummeting approval ratings at home he hosted south korean president in and china's premier league chang and thrust japan back into discussions around north korea. we must take the recent momentum up and work towards insecurity in northeast asia and we must cooperate even though with international society making sure this is leading to a concrete action by north korea it ever after so much focus on meetings between north korean leader kim jong un and his counterparts from south korea china and possibly the united states this summer gave shinzo a bear a chance to lay out what his country wants from negotiations on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula among them the return of japanese abducted by north korea in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's the prime minister said he asked the other leaders for this support in
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trying to bring them home despite the general unity on display there are differences in how best to approach the dealing in their eyes they should if you and the apparent change in attitude from pyongyang china and south korea want more engagement and more aid for north korea japan. wants to maintain maximum pressure it feels that it's sanctions that have brought north korea into the open and that keeping and making sure everyone and forces them is the only way to ensure a promise is a kept wayne hey al jazeera tokyo. the united states is promising to isolate venezuela until president nicolas maduro leaves power urging its allies to follow suit the u.s. ambassador to the un nikki haley says the systematic oppression of the venezuelan people has become an active threat to the entire region it comes as venezuela prepares to hold elections on may twentieth which my daughter looks likely to win in the absence of any real challenge due to one opposition cult we cannot allow to
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patrol his quote unquote victory on may twentieth as a validation of his role it will be nothing of the sort as long as mr o. stops a credible independent observer mission we know the results will be fraudulent the systematic oppression of the venezuelan people has become an active threat to the entire region for the safety and the security of all peoples in latin america it is time for mentor to go. at least six people have died in a riot had a high security prison for eisel suspects in indonesia al jazeera is being told that several guards are being held hostage. south of the capital jakarta security forces are trying to restore calm the unrest follows the rest of three suspected eisel gunmen accused of planning to attack jakarta as police headquarters. has more
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now from outside the prison. it's a serious blow to the highly trained anti terror police brigade after several of their members have been killed during a hostage situation at one of the best protected prisons in the country it all happened after a group of inmates managed to break out of their cell block and get hold of weapons and ammunition one of the demands of the inmates is to be released as soon as possible and also to meet with among. the self-proclaimed leader. who's currently on trial for an attack in two thousand and sixteen prosecutors say he planned this attack from behind bars the situation at the highly protected prison raises a lot of questions about the notoriously overcrowded detention centers. were often mobile phones and laptops can still be found a similar raju took place in november last year and after the riot police found myself. we're going to have more news from london right after the news grid now
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let's go back to come out in the lovely thank you for that barbara this is the news grid zan later on we have gods we saw her a little bit earlier but the live all a closer look at jena high school donald trump's top pick to head the cia a controversial choice given accusations of her being perhaps too tough on terror that more to come. how it is still raining in western iran and iraq in syria the big swirl in the system is pretty obvious because the head of it all is stuff right now between the caspian and the black sea so it's over the caucasus doesn't feed any more moisture in so the thing will slowly fall apart but the immediate future the still significant rain to come out of it now media possibly georgia certainly turkey in the fall north of syria south of it sounds come out again twenty seven in beirut
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bit of a breeze really across egypt and the showers extend down towards cuba and having gone through baghdad there will be further rain in the northern portion of this place i think it's back down south which is more cloud by this time given this is still here not to be about the day the but one hundred millimeters of rain come out of the sky from the old syria northern iraq and bits of turkey that will produce some rather unpleasant conditions flooding in particular and of course you can see shasta east of that still there in iraq to the sides apart from the kasia thunderstorms showing up in the saudi arabia you just watch a change of wind direction as this thing goes through i think briefly what history's bit of a showering down through bahrain but that will be cut off by the time you get to friday though that massive cloud suggests thunderstorms in north and saturday.
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the headlines out there about what's trending as well. that closely fought election we're going to be shortly to get the latest on that plenty more of course on the
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situation with the iran deal understanding the iran. that sort of complementary to the one which i. told you about a little bit earlier. what's trending see what's said what else is looking at this. and i've been getting plenty of messages on facebook live from you watching a home rosa has said the question we're all asking israel has nuclear weapons why can't i have them too that is a question which i've had many many times on this program remember officially israel doesn't have nuclear weapons outs believed to have anything from forty up to many hundred nuclear warheads said as long as iran remains in contact with all the other seventy countries and doesn't isolate itself then it should be ok and mustn't he said i'm sure the next president of the united states will undo most of the policies trump is putting in place we were talking to james boys about that little bit earlier do keep your thoughts and questions coming in hashtag cheney's grid.
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something a little bit peculiar the story i mean people die every day. someone who. wants to die and then flies fifteen hours to go and yeah i'm not doing a good job. really i just think you just get to a point your life when you're done with life and you want to die such is the case with this man here david goodall he is a hundred and four years old but he says he is ready to die he's from australia but is currently in switzerland and is just hours away from undergoing assisted suicide he says he regrets living this long and is ready to keep that here he is at his final press conference. by a and b. that. my. one wants to be free to choose the game's over i way when they're dead it is no appropriate dive.
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i visit here have i had a year of to go out and i. know that i would say yes and i know don't want to hear you die. at the. us who would do the head of the town tomorrow who. know if you noticed the writing on mr goodall sweatshirt in that video simply saved agene disgracefully so this is all a big story because in victoria australia it's been actually the first stay in australia to legalise assisted dying but because goodall is not terminally ill he's not eligible to have this procedure done so he had to go to europe if he wanted to have it euthanasia now people online have mixed reactions about him choosing to die pez on twitter called him a wonderfully inspiring man while another woman said it's a shame he doesn't share his life with the younger generations he's leaving behind
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twelve grandchildren and this is what his daughter had to say. he's lived. a really good one hundred four years and. you know whatever happens whatever choices a made there up to him good all said he hopes after his death that it will encourage the australian government to change its laws and allow assisted suicide for anyone who wants us let us know what you think about this you can connect with us as always with our hash tag a.j. news critically hundred four years old wow now it is around a quarter to midnight in kuala lumpur right now in the results of malaysia's close run election are expected to be so good they prime minister najib razak coalition obviously looking for another win but it is being pushed hard by his former mentor the leader of the opposition alliance and ninety two year old former prime minister himself mahathir mohamad here is florence though he has been reporting on this all
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day long day for you florence we getting any closer to this result or perhaps a comment from one of the two main players. well no i mean the results that we're getting this still on official results we have had a press conference from mahathir mohamad the ninety two year old former prime minister that the man who could possibly be the next prime minister of malaysia he's leading the opposition challenge he has just held a press conference to say they believe they've captured one hundred and twelve seats that's enough for them to form the next government there are two hundred twenty two seats up for grabs in the nation's parliament but he thing what he said is that these results have not been officially endorsed yet by the election commission and he's suggesting that there is some hanky panky going on we believe is what is happening and these unofficial results of hound to when the ballots are taken when ballots cost and when and when that when voting has closed the ballots
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are counted at the voting stations so it's the election commission officials who count it as well as counting agents from the party from from from the candidates party now and then these votes are taken to a counting before they take into account sometimes that they have to be signed off by the counting agent from the respective parties as well as the election commission officials now so what's happening in some places is that election commission offices have refused to sign these forms so that's why results are not coming in as official results even though as mahathir is that these votes have already been counted there are also several recounts that are taking place but he believes that you know that the ruling alliance is unlikely to form the next government and they walk out on her up on which is the alliance of hope the opposition alliance which. has captured one hundred twelve seats all right there florence florence lu is live in kuala lumpur on the election so in malaysia. and
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all you need to know on the malaysian elections further to what florence has told us is our desired outcome in fact she's put this together with the online team and includes video from the up front in the inside story teams take us through all these alliances in the rivalries old and new which have made this such an interesting election search for malaysia alexion and al jazeera dot com and have a look for the all you need to know. donald trump's nominee to be the united states top spy is before the senate intelligence committee right now where members are questioning her record at the cia trump wants general hospital to leave the agency because he says she is quote tough on tara but she is a controversial choice back in two thousand and two she ran a secret prison in thailand where a suspected member of al qaeda was tortured and tractors there were given permission to use various methods of interrogation that waterboarding and sleep deprivation which some are saying should disqualify housefull from the job
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if i am confirmed as director you have my solemn commitment that i will position this agency to provide the intelligence support our navy our country needs to meet the challenges of today and those of tomorrow i welcome the opportunity to introduce myself to the american people for the first time it is a new experience for me as i spent over thirty years under cover and in the shadows on capitol hill for us today she habra tansey has been listening in to the hearing anything notable to come out of it so far she has. well plenty i guess what you think of a testament depends on what you think of torture frankly but. that the two main focuses of attention one her opinion of torture given that she oversaw a black sites for the cia in thailand where we know at least one person was
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tortured we don't know about others who may have been tortured there because much of the information remains classified and notably she's in charge of declassifying that full for us to know about before you know she gets confirmed old or doesn't get confirmed which has also been an issue and secondly her off the ship of a memo do this also the destruction of videotape evidence of torture by the us to nine eleven on that first point about torture her main argument is look it was legal at the time but now if i am confirmed i have a moral compass and would hold the cia to stricter standards so there are several questions out of that firstly well in that case then if you were given a legal rationale for torture again would you would you allow torture again for the for the cia then he says no no i have my moral compass i would hold us to a stricter standard so then the question is well where was your moral compass during the torture in thailand that you were missing and then she went back to what
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it was legal at the time so this is a bit of a rather circular argument she also said she didn't believe donald trump would osca to torture prisoners and detainees eva donald trump has been very vocal about his belief in two which is much worse than waterboarding he's often said so that's one argument that's raised eyebrows he also refused refused to argue several questions one did she have a call for the expansion of the torture program she would not answer that question and secondly she was asked several times by one senator what was the enhanced interrogation program the torture program immoral she just would not give a yes or no answer to that question several times she was asked several times she refused to answer she would just say she would hold the cia to the highest standards in the future is the law is not torture secondly those tapes. she says she wanted to destroy those tapes because of security concerns for those who are committing the tortured but not too many concerns about those being tortured but the person the people who are committing the torture so she was asked well why don't they just destroy the tapes and have
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a digital copy and black out the faces of the people on the same still be a wreck or for us to have off the cia in the d.o.d.'s actions after nine eleven she said she wasn't technical she didn't really understand that so it wasn't a big deal so there are all these questions which are raising eyebrows for those who don't think she should be cia nominee the cia director but if you were for her and you believe in torture them i guess you're still for several towns in capitol hill thank you for that the hassle confirmation hearing on going. on torture war crimes and trump's pick for cia director this is an opinion piece by larry beinhart now he actually wrote the book american hero which was turned into a film called wag the dog from the late ninety's which you might remember anyway here he takes a critical look at jane a hospital and suggests quote you put in a member of your tribe is the captive and a chosen enemy is the abuser remind yourself of where the torture is legitimate or not you can just search for jena hospital down to zero dot com you'll find that one pretty easily here is andy to talk sport what you got for us tonight got
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a mysterious hotel booking story say we're going to star in the mini prosecutable one of the gangs biggest name steph curry looks to be getting back to full form and fitness in just the right time his golden state warriors team are into the n.b.a.'s western conference finals and insight into the third a championship in four years is alan gleason. the golden state warriors made it for western conference finals in a row as they wrapped up that playoff series with the new orleans pelicans on cheese day the win was also their fifteenth in a row in the playoffs tying it playing the chicago bulls record straight from one thousand nine hundred ninety nine to one. kyrie who had missed game one of the series due to injuries scoring a team high twenty eight points to help the warriors to a one hundred thirteen to one hundred four victory yet. confident with their.
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time we can still get a little bit better with the ball and things like that when you start to get so excited still. i'm out there mr six weeks is still a appreciatively just be another point so. yeah like i said i could see to get better to get much on record saying. you got sonora chases and no minutes i'm out there playing. the warriors will make curry to stay in form against the side that broke their run up three straight years as the top team in the west the rockets advance to the second conference finals in four years after eliminating the utah jazz chris paul scored a playoff career high thought you want points to help them to a one hundred twelve to one hundred to win on she say and seal the series for one hundred thirty three year old will now play in his first conference finals after failing to make it past round two of the playoffs and nine previous appearances
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where you know again obviously super and you know the performance that chris put out there he didn't make it our style this year so something is wrong. you know means a lot but again the not all of them know you know all your careers but all yours being good. i'm just and this guy just for the experience we've had all year road trips the locker room and how they've done it you know if we keep going and keep having success great but these guys you know can take game from they've shown it every step of the way as root problem and what the. game one of the finals will take place in houston on monday telling gleason out is there a. quick reminder of where we are in the playoffs with basketball's biggest prize a state bron james in the cleveland cavaliers are into the eastern conference finals after a series when i was for wrong side of the cavaliers will next face either the
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seventy six is all the boston celtics boston three want in that best of seven series and steph curry's warriors will face the houston rockets for a place in the n.b.a. finals the war is reaching the western conference finals for the fourth straight season now the manager of english premier league team southampton mark hughes has suggested dark arts may have been a play ahead of cheese days crucial game against relegation rivals swarms a swansea one southampton even won the game one nil it's a result that pushes swansea to the brink of relegation but before the game southampton mysteriously had the hotel booking in swarms he cancelled at the last minute meant the same had to stay sixty kilometers away from the stadium and then unexpected police escort to help the journey to the ground well that disappeared as well. i'm not a woman it's suggesting swan's you have anything to do the thing is just maybe your purcell's swanzy firms in positions to respect our hotel booking maybe better know those things you can use to your own benefit and use them as
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a motivating factor and we go held up a little bit outside as well because we were. in the coach and supposed to wait for swansea but we were going to do that we had to focus we got off the person and walked all southampton's official twitter account has that i posted a one star review of the hard sell it cancelled on the club just fade back here they don't have been due to stay here for an extremely important business trip only to have our reservation cancelled twenty four hours before arrival jew to an apparent virus outbreak one of the whole us at the bottom here like fortunately the experience didn't sour our trip business meeting extremely productive not planning to return any time soon south center playing large amount of joining in with the fun i think i might pop into the swanzy merits on the way home just to check they're all ok the hotel did actually issue a statement insisting some guests had been taken ill but admitting it didn't cancel all of the bookings and just to remind of what was at stake this for a mass sports finance specialist rob wilson who will roll the dice on the one
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hundred twenty million pound game poor decision making or around from both seams this season in the league one hundred twenty million pounds one hundred sixty million dollars that's what you get for staying in the league relegated seems likely to lose around two thirds of that income when you get in such a way directly on switzer and they are the school sports they'll be more for me in the eighteen hundred g.m.c. news hour but for now one hundred back to come out of lee thank you for that and let's get in touch with us here it comes in a second to hash tag agent who's got the purple person who asked me on twitter about gina has was confirmation of what happens if she isn't confirmed what do you tweet she had directly at she had to underscore potentially sure to be able to give you an answer to that one meantime we'll see you right back here in studio fourteen at al-jazeera at fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. tomorrow.
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there are seven million lights in this world. each one and they still have. to be seen. to be heard that demonstrably true and. it is time to be a witness. witness to the human children the things that i. was like one of our biggest strengths is that we talk to normal everyday people we get them to tell stories and doing that really reveals the truth people are still gathered outside these gates waiting for any information
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most of them don't know whether that loved ones are alive or dead or miami really is a place where two worlds meet we can get to washington d.c. two hours to get on juries and the rest central america is about the same time but more importantly why those two cultures north and south america beats us to teach it like it's a very important place for all to do it's a big. assault by the pakistani army to do america's going to get a move girl held in guantanamo the number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial without a paper that said they were going to start talks or screamed would be beaten again for a quest for a better life but ended in incarceration. for one tunnel mode twenty two at this time on al-jazeera. how many.

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