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with every. way of desperation twin boy tragedies in the mediterranean claimed the lives of at least sixty refugees trying to reach europe. but the european tide of anti immigrant sentiment reaches stern vidia nationals are to emerge as the largest group of the general election. and i welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters and with me at the soprano also ahead. the protests against tax rises in jordan breach boiling point the king is ready to demand the resignation of the prime minister. they do you know that we are somehow
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a national security threat to the united states is quite frankly insulting except for the canadian prime minister head south and donald trump the latest fallout of the u.s. president's trade policies plus. we'll take a look at how second pause gehring up to host one of the biggest diplomatic events and decades. at least fifty five people including six children have been killed in two boat tragedies in the mediterranean sea both boats were carrying migrants trying to enter europe illegally the speed boat sank while crossing from turkey to the greek islands at the tennessee and coast guard is searching for survivors from a refugee boat which saw fossick sixty eight people along with nearly fifty bodies have been brought to the port of facts about those reports. on the safety of land
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and back where they began after the nine meter boat sank leaving tuna zia bound for europe she knew a lizard a citizen a boat had a capacity for seventy five to ninety people maximum but we were between one hundred eighty and one hundred ninety on board. nearly seventy people were rescued by the two new zealand coast guard and brought to the city is farkas it's unclear exactly how many people are missing it's the most deadly ship break in the mediterranean since people very. ill educated go live had a bout of water was coming into the boat those could escape or fled others drowned we stayed there until almost five am then fisherman came to help us and the coast guard arrived. it was a dark night on the mediterranean some two thousand kilometers away three adults and six children drowned off the coast of turkey the turkish coast guard pulled five people out alive. the toll of dead all missing in these waters is up to
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six hundred fifty people since january and yet it's a far cry from twenty fifteen when this was the main route to europe more than a million people crossed and there were three times as many deaths most migrants now come through northern africa search and rescue n.g.o.s have diverted to deploy from italy all motor. says the north the army and we are witnessing a decrease in arrivals in recent months the figure of the decrease does not stop us running with people who come are in terrible physical and psychological condition. these were the latest arrivals more than one hundred fifty people reach south in sicily on friday we are here and we will perform. as long as we will be able to perform we are performing rescue and we would be performing in the future that is possible. and sometimes there is good news ten days ago a baby was born on risky ship the aquarius at two point take kilograms. she was named
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miracle the mother was found stranded off the coast of libya the now insistently. life or death the two outcomes migrants must consider before they board a boat to europe charlotte dallas. well those deaths occurred as the tide of anti immigrant sentiment continues to swirl across europe slovenia is the latest country to elect a populist party results from the parliamentary elections show the rightwing anti immigration party led by former promise iana c l sure has won more than a quarter of the votes and that puts his party in the lead but he's unlikely to secure an outright majority tanya novak has more from libya. is a former prime minister ones disgraced by a corruption scandal but now you and his slovenian democratic party are back on the political map. his hardline on immigration secured his party victory in this
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election immigration has been at the top of the political agenda since two thousand and fifteen when half a million people fleeing book pass through slovenia on their way to the east and europe. follows a playful pose almost foreign challenges that are part of the domestic challenges include the modern crisis so it's a challenge for the whole of the e.u. during a biggest wave of mass migrations we told our european partners that a better large should be in short supply back in their countries and not in europe the strong. his nearest challenger was comedian turned politician marion charles leader of the new center left party who see more trussell trust the more relative first it is impossible to bias he said publicly before the elections that we will not enter a youngish onsides coalition let's give time to the relatively no let's give him the chance to form a government and then we will see what happens if we have this opportunity they will form the government. the snap election was called after the sudden resignation
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of prime minister. he stepped down in much due to a failed railway a project he's credited with boosting slovenia's economy up to recession but it wasn't enough for voters here. slovenia once a part of former yugoslavia joined the european union in two thousand and four a government led by. slovenia to the right and an anti migrant voice to the analysts a youngster has a big challenges ahead the electorate is hearing the voices are angry are all and it's true you know go after go after and immigration policies. that you will drown you know jane this. is a leader who has had the chance as and done it so far will he do it this time around it's a big question but the bigger question is can he win for the government even though young is young says martin won't most votes in this election we find himself in
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a difficult position it will be very hard for him to find willing partners in the other partition want a coalition most of them don't share his political beliefs. while in neighboring italy the new interior minister says the island of sicily will no longer be what he calls europe's refugee camp matteo silva and his visit to the city on sunday says his plans to deport illegal immigrants aren't hardline but common sense the area is one of the main arrival points for migrants who make the dangerous a crossing from north africa we're going to these are emergency centers my interest is to work in order to reduce the number of people arriving and increase the number of deportations this isn't easy to do nor is it possible to do in a quarter of an hour but in the coming weeks we want to give new signals to cut costs and cut my good attention generations so i want to all the news value jordan's prime minister maybe on his way out sources have told al jazeera the king abdullah scania lucky to reside in the meeting at the royal palace on monday there
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are been days of protests in the kingdom of the government proposed raising income tax by at least five percent mohamed el baradei save a ports. thousands marched in the streets of amman towards the prime minister's residence chanting we are coming. it's the fourth night of protests there demanding the resignation of hand over his plans to increase taxes. the government must step down the tax law must be withdrawn these are our demands and we don't want the next government to implement the same policies either. if the government doesn't respond to at monza level be a general strike on wednesday just like the one last week we will be calling for the government to step down because we do not want a government pressured by external involvement we need a government that represents the nation government sources now say king abdullah will meet the prime minister on monday where he and other members of jordan's
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government are expected to submit their resignation. jordan's been under international pressure to cut spending to deal with its thirty seven billion dollars debt that's equivalent to ninety five percent of the country's annual output it borrowed seven hundred twenty three million dollars from the international monetary fund two years ago to cope with its economic slump. jordan is also struggling to housing support two point seven million refugees from neighboring conflicts more than a third of the entire population oh these jordanians understand their country is in financial difficulties what they don't understand is why they're being asked to pay the bill some of the d.c. al-jazeera. and there's a middle east analyst and former journalist and he says there is no solution to the crisis. the protests only began on wednesday and we've been moving very quickly to the point where on friday the king canceled the fuel tax and already according to
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many reports monday the prime minister will resign this has been one of the key demands of the protesters in addition to the canceling of the tax law you have unemployment rising to about eighteen percent amman is one of the most expensive cities in the arab region you have deep seated economic issues with twenty one percent of jordanians below the poverty level into the country observing over six hundred fifty five thousand syrian refugees so many jordanians feel deeply unhappy with the current economic situation and that has caused them to go to the streets and say that enough is enough so while unemployment has risen the reason for these tax hikes was because only about five percent of jordanians are paying income tax so you have very few jordanians contributing so jordan the government has said that we need to have more money coming into the budget the debt has by to about forty billion dollars the debt to g.d.p. ratio is at ninety five percent so the reason that the jordanian government backed by the international monetary fund has increased taxes because this current
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situation is unstable if jordan removes the prime minister this deep seated economic wars are going to continue therefore there are no easy fixes and this situation is going to be very dangerous in the coming days if not weeks. to take you now a president of the law has held a massive election campaign valley and the predominantly kurdish city of the he's trying to win support from an ethnic community that the government has been at odds with as he said the turkish state also belongs to could see them closely on his reports from the out of pocket she threw out a very good or turkey's present address is an election rally in the south the sin city known to be as a kurdish heartland he made it clear that no one should see an independent state. all citizens including kurds are assured by the ticket for public other demands should be legitimate and within the rule of law the spite the kurds disappointment
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in their ruling party in the failed peace process and on still has strong support among some of them. he values people the previous leaders didn't treat us well especially kurds. the ruling out party launched a peace process in the two thousand tends to find a way to end turkey's decades long conflict with the altgeld kurdistan workers' party or the p.k. k. a conflict that claimed one of them forty thousand lives but the fridge or peace was short lived it effectively ended in two thousand and fifteen when both sides resume talks style lety the situation got more complicated when a state of emergency was declared following a failed coup in two thousand and sixteen. each one of which i first the government promised to lift the state of emergency in three months but then it was used as a tool to design politics in opposition and now it stands as the biggest obstacle against democratic channels peoples the macwas to party h d p is the large sprawl
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kodesh bloc and could be a game changer if it wins more than ten percent of the vote this would likely wrap the ruling party off its majority in parliament over the last three years he has taken a very hawkish a very militaristic a very aggressive very masculine take on the kurdish issue and this is it because he's trying to survive herds in southeastern turkey has suffered almost because of the government's security policies prisons are dong is promising lengthways democracy and more embracing policies towards all citizens of trickle down but the kurds who have supported air john during the peace process i'm sure is how this will all be proved that if the state of emergency is not lifted. the major question now is how to lose the photo of the kurds again in the squishy legislative and presidential elections elections that will mark turkey's transition to
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a new government system headed by a very strong president seen on kosovo al jazeera. but small still ahead on the button hacking the country music agency new information about how big of all saudi arabia played in the cyber crime that led to the gulf crisis and government workers face a backlash nicaragua as weeks of protests showed no signs of letting up. hello there we've got lots of wet weather over parts of north america at the moment plenty of showers for the southeast and then we've also got this weather system here that slowly trucking its way eastwards that will still be clinging on to the east impalas as we head through the day on monday so for many of us in the eastern parts of canada over to whether it's looking pretty wet and it will still be
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looking fairly soggy as we head through the day on tuesday that system also bends background and still gives us a few showers over the southern parts of florida there during the day meanwhile further west largely quiet force here and for seattle will be getting to around eighteen degrees and this should be some sunshine around as well on tuesday before the towards the south and lots of what weather from parts of mexico all the way down into panama lots of heavy rain here and further east there's a good deal of cloud a few showers around as well and that's really how things are going to be as we head through the next few days still lots of cloud across this region one or two showers but the majority all of the outbreaks of rain off of the towards the west little bit further south and forth in south america it's getting cool now for many of us one is already there a bit of a cloudy day maybe a few outbreaks of rain twelve degrees will be our maximum even further north in asuncion all maximums only thirty there's also the risk of seeing the ork shower here as well.
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children have died in two boats carrying migrants trying to enter europe illegally . from turkey to the greek islands in a separate incident to defense ministry says it's recovered forty six bodies after a boat capsized near the port city of facts. and sylvania rise when opposition party led by former prime minister has won the most votes about twenty five percent of the parliamentary election and anti-establishment party is trading behind in second place with twelve percent. secure the majority that have to be a coalition government and jordan's prime minister may be on his way out sources have told al-jazeera making up the last. meeting on monday there are been days of protests in the market the government proposed raising income tax by five percent. now ongoing violence in nicaragua has claimed more lives after another attack on
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anti-government demonstrators more than one hundred people have been killed since the start of a political crisis the begad of the proposed cuts to the country's social security system but have grown into calls for the resignation of president daniel ortega. has more from the capital managua. confrontations between anti-government protesters and paramilitary forces have left more dead in the site following the killings tensions remain high as mass demonstrators managed barricades to block access into the city making our way to the scene of the violence we encountered several checkpoints demonstrators here are suspicious of anyone trying to pass the barricades ok moving slingshots and homemade mortar weapons opposition supporters say attacks by paramilitary groups loyal to president daniel ortega happen almost every day. more than a collector is youth i'm up to death they used and against us the weapons of war.
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arriving in the town of like concepcion we find a community divided local residents who support the government faced off with opponents daughter will be and everything was fine until the morning when the government's paramilitaries began to attack us for no reason that it. was demonstrators detained a local government worker beating him with clubs and nearly severing his ear with a machete he was carried into a nearby church where protesters accuse the thirty one year old who works for the office of the mayor of financing hit men who are targeting opposition supporters see what i mean for me. they told me they are going to kill my family i said they're going to send a box to my family filled with my body parts. a great. deal of it when i'm not in the balance from the political unrest has become common in this part of the country father and i went to the address says the church has assumed the responsibility of keeping the peace. our commitments to our fates means
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that we cannot be indifferent to the needs of the people especially those who are being repressed and suffer injustice. i mean tempers flared during talks between local residents over who's to blame for starting to unrest argument at times because you physically. got i was capital my catholic bishops are hosting a third week of peace talks between civil society groups and representatives of president ministration but progress stalled the catholic church remains the main mediators in the ongoing political crisis but the archdiocese says they will no longer facilitate a national dialogue until the nicaraguan government can commit to putting an end to the violence. at least seven people have been killed and twenty and during a volcanic eruption and guatemala the flake of al-qaeda has been spewing black smoke and ash into the sky lava flows reportedly struck at least one vantage many
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of the nearby forced to evacuate and the capital's airport was shut down. residents of the libyan town will be allowed to return home for the first time in nearly seven years after reconciliation chattel isaan between the town of and the city of misrata with a lot of there has been a ghost town since two thousand and eleven when misrata officials expelled its residents for allegedly committing atrocities against rebels during the uprising that toppled gaddafi will that then why have has more from misrata. here in this room right behind me a representative from both cities the city of misrata and the city of have just finished signing a reconciliation deal that has called their reconciliation a charter and that allows the people of the river to return back home after almost six years of this placement the people of the whatever accused by misrata rebels of
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committing atrocities against rebels and yet twenty eleven during the revolution that toppled of moammar gadhafi also the people of there were they have been living in camps all over libya for almost six years now and they are accused of killing civilians of shelling of targeting civilian areas during the seventy's of revolution and twenty eleven that toppled the regime of moammar gadhafi now after signing this deal today the people of the whatever who are stuck on the way back home to to whatever and those who are living in camps all over libya the can finally return home both sides here blame the government the government of national called for not delivering on its promises.
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an al-jazeera investigation has found that saudi arabia played a bigger role in causing the gulf crisis than previously thought the report shows the cell that hacked the website of the cutter news agency in may two thousand and seventeen words from a saudi government ministry in regard to the phones and computers were all connected to a saudi communication company the hacking of the cover news agency led to the fort up between catherine its gulf neighbors saudi arabia bahrain and the u.a.e. last june now a second french newspaper is reporting that saudi arabia is threatening military action against the if it acquires russian weapons go newspapers as the saudi crown prince has written to u.s. president donald trump and british prime minister trees in may to warn that it's ready to retaliate of cover requires the s four hundred anti aircraft defense system it was revealed he had russian a similar letter to french president emanuel on friday because as ambassador to moscow said in january that his country intended to acquire the missile system law
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as a journalist and and list with gulf matters and he doesn't think the saudi threat that serious. to begins with going to macron and then to washington then we're told to london why would you go to the russians this is a question that i don't understand which is that simply if you're upset about the russians selling this s. four hundred very sophisticated missile defense system to the countries why don't you go to the russian and say look because the russians are already in a deal with the saudis on selling this system to the saudis they've already sold it to the turks for two point five billion they're in the process of doing a deal with the egyptians and the saudis can simply say if you go ahead with this. you don't have to deal with us i don't think the threat is that serious i think it's all part of the posturing that's going on and clearly whereas the outside world the u.k. the europeans we hear the americans rather want to see this dispute settled.
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this saudis and the iraqis keep upping the ante i think the qataris have said look we'll sit down we'll have a conversation let's have a dialogue and they had a keeps getting pushed up by the saudis and the amorality so i think what we're seeing here is a bit of gamesmanship to put more pressure on qatar using this as weapons dealers as part of the bulk of his defense minister has want to go to any confrontation with every he says the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal should be worked on despite the u.s. pulling out of it in my. own judgment i think the united states this was. the in a war with. maybe more pressure. maybe it will get to a result but i think the five plus one is a good outcome everyone should keep holding this. advance with its
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know with any third party. is trying to push the region or some country in the region to start a war with iran this is will be very dangerous because i am sure no one from the worst and hummus fear all countries were you know protected by the western hemisphere will go down to the iran maybe they will try to push a lot of neighbors to go against iran and this is dangerous but tuesday will mark one year since the blockade began we have a special program looking at the political economic and human impact of the crisis that said eighteen g.m.t. on tuesday on al-jazeera. the united nations has called for calm in mali after dozens of people were hurt during band anti-government protests security forces have been accused by opposition figures of firing live ammunition at protesters the
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government has rejected the claims many are calling for transparency in next month's presidential poll which will see president at a home. run for reelection. hundreds of supporters of a right old party in spain have held demonstrations calling for new elections there on happy that socialist leader pedro sanchez has become prime minister was given the job after m.p.'s approved a no confidence vote against his predecessor money on a horse over corruption scandal sanchez is expected to seek out the remaining two years of the parliamentary term. now in just eight days the eyes of the world will be on singapore the city state will host a historic summit between donald trump and kim jong owner and while excitement is building the high stakes nature of the event secrecy surrounds much of the planning scott hardly has been checking the progress. one of the smallest countries in the world is about to host a summit that could very well be the biggest diplomatic event in decades. u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un are due to meet at last
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and potentially diffuse one of the world's most dangerous flashpoints versing. because of the dramatic back and forth mystery over the location and the personalities involved the summit is in gauging people who previously had scant interest in geopolitics. singapore has a history of hosting top level high security events including two critical taiwan chinese meetings and the annual shangri-la security and defense summit the whole security apparatus is very robust there's a lot of surveillance around the island there's significant control of dissent does control of the media such that any events that may be deemed unhappy unhelpful can be quite tightly controlled and put down trump meets kim is a big story in japan to cotter's network has had teams in singapore since it was first named as the summit venue a great deal of the time playing cat and mouse with the north korean delegation to
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do could we have covered news in singapore a lot before this time though the security is strict and more difficult for us to work with the police presence is heavy news underlying the interest and excitement for the summit singapore newspaper the straits times conducted a readers' poll asking singapore and where they felt the summit would take place most thought it would be at one of the large hotels here that can be locked down for security singapore will reportedly pay some of the expenses of the north korean delegation people here are proud to host the summit but maybe not to pay for some of it we had mutual we just make to be peaceful to thank that i'm posing to eat but i don't think we have to be free to be doing is singapore is good for us because. being a small of the country but we are able to host such a big event it's good for us the government says so much preparations are moving forward smoothly but with it intricate maze of protocol to. navigate from the
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proper amount of doors and meeting rooms to making the delegations from one of the richest nations in the world appear equal to one of the poorest singapore certainly has a tough eight days ahead a task they say that was happily taken on it's got harder al-jazeera singapore. how to get out of the problem and the headlines on al-jazeera at least fifty five people including six children have died in two boats carrying migrants trying to enter europe illegally a speed boat sank while crossing from turkey to the greek islands and in a separate incident to disease defense ministry says it's recovered forty six bodies after a boat capsized near the port city of facts while those deaths occurred as the tide of anti immigrant sentiment continues to swell across europe slovenia is the latest country to elect a populist party a right wing group led by former prime minister sharon has won the most votes about
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twenty five percent of the parliamentary election and an anti-establishment party came in second place with twelve percent but since most groups secured a majority there have to be a coalition government and they bring italy the new interior minister says the island of sicily will no longer be what he calls europe's refugee camp matteo salvia who visit a city on sunday says his plans to deport illegal immigrants are not hardline but common sense the area is one of the main arrival points for migrants who make the dangerous sea crossing from north africa are going to these are emergency centers my interest is to work in order to reduce the number of people arriving increase the number of deportations this isn't easy to do nor is it possible to do in a quarter of an hour but in the coming weeks we want to give new signals to cut costs and cut my good attention durations. jordan's prime minister may be on his way out sources have told al-jazeera that king abdullah bill asked prominence to honiara mohit of a zine at a meeting on monday there have been days of protests in the kingdom after the
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government proposed raising and contacts by at least five percent. and al-jazeera investigation has found that saudi arabia played a bigger role in causing the gulf crisis than previously thought the report shows the cell that hacked the website of the kutha news agency in may two thousand and seventeen worked from a saudi government ministry in riyadh and the phones and computers were all connected to a cell the communication company the hacking led to the fallout between catherine and its gulf neighbors saudi arabia buffering and the united arab emirates last june well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us the cure revisited is coming up next. once welcome now fear. dividing a nation. al-jazeera explores germany's long term economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world. and syria and the.
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