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zero argentina china the european union and i'm sure the mexican you know. government has already signaled as much that they would likely do that the us president says negotiations with north korea are going very well the head of his high stakes summit with kim jong un in singapore but washington says it will continue to maintain maximum pressure on north korea i think it's scraps its nuclear weapons. a lot of the relationship being built a lot of negotiation going on even before the trip but it looks like it's coming along fine we'll see what happens but. very important it will be a very important couple of days well trumps comments come as the white house on veiled the venue where the historic summit between him and kim will take place the leaders will meet at the capella hotel that's a luxury resort on singapore sentosa island the summit will begin at exactly nine am local time on tuesday the u.s. president had previously cancelled a meeting with kim but backtracked within a few days. to it's only now where the alliance of the anti establishment five star
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movement in the right wing likud party has won a confidence vote in the upper chamber of parliament the government led by a political unknown giuseppe conti was sworn in on friday it followed three months of political turmoil some of the good reports from. the votes were cast and a government now approved by the senate headed to vote in the lower house. new prime minister outlined his government's vision for the country. to do not simply shouldn't be this is not a simple novelty the truth is that we have bought radical change of which we are proud. this is the new anti establishment force an unconventional union between the more left leaning five star movement and the far right anti immigration leg up party the aim is to do away with the politics of the previous government with a promise to provide
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a basic income for poor italians and redefining its immigration policy and we will stop the business of immigration which has been growing disproportionately under the munto of fake solidarity and this is the issue that's going to put more pressure on the european union the refugee crisis has placed enormous burden on italy and people here are resentful that brussels hasn't done enough to help what's essentially a country that's the major landing point people arriving from north africa. the new interior minister from the leg a party is known for his anti immigrant rhetoric but they are salvini wasted no time in letting the e.u. know that he wants quotas for new arrivals changed putting him on the same footing as hungary and poland he is reaching forward very much in these days and it seems that he really wants to put in action what he has always proposed that means a very hardline a very tough line on the immigration issue prime minister said that italy would
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remain a close ally of the united states he also called for the opening of relations with moscow and an end to sanctions and that could lead to more friction with the e.u. . while both main parties of the coalition have to tough in the lead up to the election they will now be confronted by the realities of governing change may not happen as fast as they would like and there is an obvious dilemma can a coalition made up of such disparate forces hold up to deliver its promises sunny diagonal al-jazeera rome if the opiate has agreed to end the two decade long feud with every trial stemming from a deadly border conflict the two countries have remained odd since the war in one thousand nine hundred eight of a disputed area that includes the town of bad me a un backed ruling in two thousand and two granted the contested territories to eritrea and ethiopia had refused to withdraw its troops but on tuesday ethiopia's ruling party announced it will fully accept and implement the decision also in
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ethiopia parliament has approved the lifting of a state of emergency was imposed in february after months of anti-government protests thousands of political prisoners have been released since the new prime minister. took office in a. tough break your knowledge is there when we come back a crackdown on immigration or an attack on human rights the latest on a new bill being debated in hungary. by bikini the miss america competition as a drastic make over or not stay with us. i have. sponsored by. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across central and southern parts of china we've got a night to tropical system developing and moving across southern parts of china
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welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here israel's prime minister says iran's announcement that it's increasing its capacity to enrich uranium proves the nuclear agreement as done nothing to moderate its behavior binyamin netanyahu things the economic sanctions will eventually collapse the deal made the comments in paris after meeting the french president. new evacuations are taking place as a volcano after fresh lava started flowing down the mountainside at least seventy two people are known to have died so far and many more are missing following sunday's explosions in mexico says they were living fifteen to twenty five percent tariffs on u.s. steel an agricultural goods in response to donald trump decision to remove due to exemptions on its allies the white house also says it may pull out of talks to renegotiate the north american free trade agreement. that protesters in jordan are back on the streets of the capital amman despite the king's efforts to try to end days of unrest his call for a view of a proposed tax hike that sparked
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a wave of demonstrations that led to the prime minister's resignation trade unions have called for a general strike on wednesday june reports. after days of anti austerity protests and the resignation of the prime minister jordan's king abdullah has spoken out on the unrest and what it means for the region it had good you'll wish what today's blame cannot be just on the kingdom or its citizens our political position in the region played a big role there are many who do not like the jordanian role in the region so this is part of the challenges that we are now facing today but we have confidence in the world and there is a hope the countries will help us in order to move forward we must rely on ourselves and we need to better explain to our citizens these real challenges ahead of us so they can see everything clearly. for most of these protesters it's. not about politics or ideology i guess that would have been enough alienation we need
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not to travel looking for a job to feed our families we need not to get our education overseas this is our country and it is their right time to feel stable here. the protests in the capital on monday have been directed towards the government's plans for tax hikes and austerity measures many of those who have come out are young. while the atmosphere at this peaceful protest appeared almost festive a times the frustration is clear that five usma is an actress she says anyone ignoring corruption in society means they are part of the problem had been welcomed i shan't be here to see this country so that people in the right many jordanian say the message this crowd is sending must be heard lemme see dman policy there are lead in the country to more death and imposing more taxes will take the country to an unknown town we decided to go to the streets people and youth to put an end to these policies on tuesday king abdullah appointed education minister on what i did as us to be the
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new prime minister and form a government a former world bank official is considered a leading reformer and his appointment comes after his predecessor and adamantly quit amid the growing anger. the protests began after a mostly announced his plans to raise income taxes by as much as five percent taxes aimed at shrinking jordan's thirty seven billion dollar debt the a dependent economy has been struggling with a dramatic cut in donations by the u.a.e. the u.s. and saudi arabia protesters say they want to make it clear to the government that simply replacing the prime minister will not go far enough and how much does either . zimbabwe's main opposition is demanding voting reforms ahead of elections next month the first since robert mugabe was ousted from power. the leader of the movement for democratic change and thousands of his supporters marched to the president's office and electoral commission with
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a list of demands nelson chamisa says they want the name of the company printing ballot papers publicized he's also demanding an independent audit of the new voter register equal coverage of parties in public media. hungary's parliament is debating a bill that would make it a criminal offense to help asylum seekers it's part of a broader crackdown on immigration by the prime minister viktor orban is right wing government anyone convicted under the new law could face up to a year in prison journal reports from budapest. where once there was an open border of the european union now there's an electrified fence migrants and refugees still trying to enter europe on welcome in hungary. a learned slide when in parliamentary elections in april as encourage prime minister viktor orban and his party to go further fulfilling an election promise to protect hungary and its christian values despite protests by the e.u. and local activist groups planned new legislation will criminalize any supporting
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commuting legal advice given to the mainly muslim asylum seekers who do make it through access to justice and due process their fundamental values and this legislation specifically targets that and there are real concerns that the government will not stop there we are afraid of anybody who dares to criticize the government. for any reason. maybe a tag may face serious threats like we do now those who work with refugees who are promoting the rights of refugees and equal human rights for all. the advance of viktor or ban has been unstoppable in three successive elections the advance meanwhile of illegal migration of fear much promoted during the election campaign has been pretty comprehensively stopped there are more than a few hundred successful asylum seekers in hungary it is as if these new measures being debated are aimed less at migration itself and more civil society.
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which brings us to the other great fear that stalks hungary's prime minister the billionaire financier george soros and the network of liberal minded n.g.o.s he supports the government spokesman explained he made it clear what kind of future he thinks of europe he's pro democracy he's probably. right the kind of democracy in the form of democracy he promotes and his organizations are promoting are very far from real democracy because they rely or would like to relight so-called n.g.o.s that have been founded and financed by the church and the like minded people. the new measures are collectively known as the stop soros bill in response to soros funded open society foundations announced last week it was pulling out of hungary that's a loss to free thinking society but when one of europe's most illiberal governments slipped looks increasingly unassailable jonah holds al-jazeera placed in the u.s.
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primary elections the taking place in several states voters choosing candidates to run for ranger positions in the vendors mid-term elections democrats are hoping to retake the house of representatives from the republicans so that they can block donald trump's agenda sabotage the reform. new jersey alabama mississippi iowa south dakota montana new mexico and california are holding primaries on june the fifth in november's mid-term congressional elections the democrats hope to take at least twenty three districts from the republicans and retake the house of representatives in washington these primaries will decide who their candidates will be california is key the democrats hope to flip seven districts here and democrats in hollywood and with the california primary rules may scupper the democrats' chances for slice the because of the museum the challenge republican candidates
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because of california system of top two primaries all candidates compete against each other in each district no matter their party affiliation with the top two moving on to november's election so many democrats are running the party's vote will be split so two republicans in several districts may get the most votes and end up facing each other in november elsewhere in states such as new jersey for example tuesday's primaries reveal the battle within the democratic party the bernie sanders left argues the democrats need to prove they're with the ninety nine percent and not the one percent or they will lose again but the hillary clinton party establishment is overtly pushing democrats with wealthy corporate donors over grassroots activists in the primaries hello my name is peter jacob in a new jersey district progressive activist pete and jacob only narrowly lost to the incumbent republican congressman two years ago even before democratic rage with donald trump it set in and yet to the democratic party leadership is supporting
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former clinton and obama official told melanau ski who only recently moved to this ethnically diverse area of the democratic party it's in shambles because they're not listening to the people they're listening to their donors i'm cindy asked me and i approve this message a record number of democratic women candidates are running and those with big donors are receiving. official party support but even if they win that vote may not lead to a gender revolution in november's midterm there are thirteen women who are incumbents right now who are not running for reelection so we're down to thirteen women in the house alone just as we as we begin this task of increasing the number of women in congress and as the democratic leadership sticks to its formula of big money and caution its lead over the republicans is fallen from thirteen percent six months ago to just four percent now several times the al-jazeera washington. people in qatar have been out on the streets of the capital doha to signal their support for
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the country one year into a blockade imposed by neighboring countries members of a local bikers community undertook this rally earlier on tuesday the blockade on the gun exactly a year ago when saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt cut diplomatic ties with the accuse the gulf nation of supporting terrorism a plane that strongly denies. now an artistic image of me a shock to me been hammered out thirty has become an enduring symbol of this past year the black and white drawing of dawn's buildings walls and cars around doha it's even been seen on rickshaws in london but it's not the only artwork to be inspired by the blockade explains. this convective by a station here in doha was transformed several years ago into an odd gallery and workshop space it's become a hub for the artistic community here. and in the last twelve months it's taken on a life of its own. the walls have been turned in some massive campuses so casing
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young local talent and their take on the gulf crisis five also from ten days that's all it took to create these logs graffiti images all inspired by the blockades and ball garion artists in the cheaper grass created this piece covered in words of positivity like forwards and love. away he says to convey the unity that countries have been feeling since the pave started last june the continuing blockade has energized on says in different ways. the series blockade energy drink has been to paris and by and the artists who describes himself as a political tunis the she found humor in the irrationality of the situation and just down the road and along the way b. and c. cultural that it's because it's molten to. our bacon spy it's all good texture is
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reflected in the type of vault displayed whether it's by cat series or expert autists this project called beyond appearances was born out of the situation people living in qatar found themselves and. it's about perception and exchange of ideas and views changes even on the journey itself this huge neon sign by matson create is hard to miss hair at the museum of islamic gods it's minimalistic with a big impact and it was newly created especially for the blockades one year anniversary but its message is simple. that everything is going to be all right thought of al-jazeera. but it's long been a key element for the miss america competition but from now contestants will no longer have to wear a swimsuit organizers of the event say the woman taking part would judged on other tributes and not just physical appearance kristen salumi as more. by my bikini with
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a tweet miss america scrapped its iconic swimsuit competition the judges must keep mine strictly on the job. pageant that started almost one hundred years ago as a tourist attraction in atlantic city new jersey evolved into what organizers now describe as a competition to see. miss america nine hundred eighty nine and former newscaster gretchen carlson became the first female chairwoman of the organizations board after derogatory in show monistic e-mails from a former c.e.o. became public we will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance that's huge the idea is to make the competition more inclusive to women of all shapes and sizes given the organization is the largest provider of scholarship assistance to young women in the united states and its stated purpose is to promote their education. while some applauded the decision not everyone is on
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board i think it's a good thing yeah i mean it should be based on their you know personality their answer what they want to do to help the world be better i think it's ridiculous that they're not doing this and see a badge and why is that because it's part of it always has been as it's been in existence. i'm supposed to say i'm in favor of such a. such thing but i probably realize the evening gown competition will also change to allow contestants to focus on personal style whatever they choose to do it's going to be what comes out of their mouth that we're interested in when they talk about their social impact initiative changes will take effect in the next competition which is scheduled for september kristensen me out just zero. recap of the top stories here israel's prime minister says iran's announcement that
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it's increasing its capacity to enrich uranium proves the nuclear agreement has done nothing to moderate his behavior but even netanyahu thinks economic sanctions will eventually collapse the deal i didn't ask france to withdraw from the j.c.b. because i think the jews who is basically going to be dissolved by the way do have economic forces but i think that there are two possibilities either you iran dismantles its nuclear activities or unilaterally under this pressure or there may be in the future in negotiations for a better. a better deal new evacuations are taking place near guatemala's volcano after a fresh lava started flowing down the mountainside at least seventy two people are known to have died so far and many more are missing following sunday's explosions more now from david mosul. there's a couple of metres of ash that have covered this entire town and it's very hot you
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feel it coming up through the soles of your feet if you don't have proper boots on it can really it can really lead to a lot of heat blisters and things like that so they've got these hot conditions we're down near the coast of guatemala or in the tropics of course there's the sun in the general heat they're having to contend with and then there are these other explosions so you know you just start getting work working on getting a house dug out and suddenly you hear well so and you have to run out and hop in a car and drive down to the highway so that's certainly hampering issues and then mexico says it will levy fifteen to twenty five percent tariffs on u.s. steel and agricultural goods in response to donald trump's decision to remove duty exemptions on its allies. the mexican government's also filed a complaint with the world trade organization the white house also says it may put out of talks to renegotiate the north american free trade agreement choosing to deal instead separately with mexico and canada. the alliance of the anti establishment five star movement on the right wing likud party in italy has won
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a confidence vote in the upper chamber of parliament a government led by political unknown come to was sworn in on friday that followed three months of political turmoil. well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story and so much of. collateral damage or indiscriminate bombing the u.s. led coalition was fighting i still in the syrian city of raka but it's accused of killing hundreds of civilians and it's international says that could amount to war crimes so can the coalition be held accountable this is inside story.
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hello and welcome to the program. i reports by amnesty international says there's strong evidence the u.s. led coalition fighting violated international law and may have committed war crimes here are the reports main findings hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands wounded by coalition asked why it's this crime disproportionate and indiscriminate i still use civilians as human shields by the coalition didn't take enough precautionary to avoid casualties british and french forces were also involved by the us was a responsible for more than ninety percent of. more attacks were launched on that
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and where since the vietnam war called on the coalition to investigate claims of violations publicly acknowledged the scale of devastation and compensate victims coalition spokesman said persistent efforts were made to minimize harm to civilians . the u.s. led a four month campaign dubbed a war of annihilation by defense secretary james mattis to flush ice a lot of raka coalition warplanes and special troops supported an offensive launched by mainly kurdish syrian democratic forces as d.f. to take the city rocker lies in the north of syria and i still declared it the capital of its caliphate into a thousand and fourteen i still controlled large territories of iraq and syria rocka was a main stronghold the planning center for attacks around the world especially after mosul fell to iraqi forces but in
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a toll it's also lost iraq part of the much of the city is in growing and many of its three hundred thousand population fled during the fighting let's bring in our guests joining us from london and hide syria consulting research fellow of the chatham house from bollywood. military analyst and retired general in the lebanese army and by skype from a writer in italy is just well and this director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma thank you all for joining us. can the outcome of the report illegal action against the u.s. led coalition well basically that the scale of. casualties on the ground among civilians is what the report i thing
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is asking for because we don't know the scale exactly what we know so far is that their report confirms what locals have been saying for months during and after that that they have been saying that a big number of civilians have been has been killed they also mentioned civilians in other parts of syria not only iraq. was killed by u.s. led coalition strikes but so far we don't see serious efforts from the coalition in order first to investigate and to be transparent about the results of those. investigations so unless that is basically clear and transparent we cannot really assess what the scale of the vacation that we are talking about here in the. syrup or talks about the sport or disproportionate and indiscriminate attacks that could . be described as potential war crimes how significant is this report from
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a military perspective. yes. it is a war crime when you kill hundreds of civilians to say that this is collateral damage is not an excuse the u.s. led coalition should resort to other means in order to. win the battle for example if they impose a seizure on iraq and try to negotiate with the people inside and try to. reach a settlement with them and the other solution better than one being if with. thousands of air sorties or thousands of. artillery rounds and killing the innocent with the. men together instead of that they should have resorted to
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peaceful means in order to to minimize the damage and to save as much as they can civilly and from the damages of this war we understand that the us led coalition is fighting isis which is an. organization. with great terrorist actions the way all over the world but that doesn't mean that they include civilians with them and harm the civilians and kill them. so i think that the center for international airport should. the base of for an inquiry mission in order to make all of these people said all right around double what they have done just what the coalition says that it has it took extraordinary measures to minimize civilian casualties but i mean you
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see the amnesty international report. testimonies from activists on the ground basically saying that areas were completely wiped out during the campaign to evict eisel from iraq. yes we've seen this over and over again if we look at ramadi we look at photoshop we look at it with a look at russia that's of course on the coalition side all those cities eighty eighty five percent of the house and completely destroyed lots of firepower many civilians will undoubtedly killed. but if we look on the syrian and russian side of course we saw the same thing we saw a tremendous condemnation on the part of the west towards the bombing in aleppo homs many other places and most recently of course the suburbs of damascus and odorless and all of these places very similar situation it just underlines how
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difficult it in warfare is and how brutal all war for it becomes we look at this in reflection of the second world war for example where the war was ended in japan of course by first fire bombing tokyo the single largest day of deaths in the second world war and then the japanese did not surrender after one hundred thirty thousand were killed in one day hiroshima nagasaki two hundred thousand mostly women and children incinerator not because they were a strategic importance neither city was but because they had been unbent and they could be a demonstration effect and this of course caused the japanese to surrender and this you know in a sense this lesson of using overwhelming brutal force breaking the morale of the people. is in a sense a lesson it lives on and every army tries to do it use overwhelming force we see
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there to end up many wars and it leads to this kind of all out brutality and we see it here again and of course the coalition tried to cover up their tracks to a certain degree by saying the smart bombs were being extra careful we haven't killed civilians and being duplicitous lying about the numbers of so they killed and yet we can't escape the fact just has wrecked tremendous human damage and we're seeing the same thing in yemen where we keep on getting reports of ten thousand people killed because nobody's counting anymore and all newspaper journalists are complicit in it keep on using the word two thousand and we know because insane is it's massively more than now you know if there's just one is there some of those areas journalists are restricted from going to those areas to independently verify exactly what's going on hides following up with with what mr just was saying do you think that this could pave the way for activists operating on the ground different
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organizations to come together to try to uncover exactly what happened in iraq well definitely since the fighting stopped i think we have a great opportunity for people to be able to verify what happened there but for that to happen there are a few issues that need to be taken into consideration the first one is that those groups and individuals should be allowed to enter their area and be protected in that area and they should be given access to different different people in different areas meaning whether some people were displaced to other cities or where the thin or their they're living in despair scans outside the fact that's one initial the other issue is that they should be allowed to given access to military or for a mission. and stand up some of this information might be a classifier but there are those without access to those information people will
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not be able to verify if what happened what they were basically ammunition was yours what the number the official number that was reported in order to compare it to that the number on the ground so few issues need to be taken into consideration in order for people to do that so far we don't see that happening that. basically did a geisha when there was given access to people on the ground but i think they were not given access to military information and this is why they were not able to compare notes and they were not able to come out was basically concrete. figures as the. u.s. led coalition in its attempt to try indisposed to defeat i said has been using overwhelming force particularly. in syria and also in mosul in iraq the find is now of amnesty international to what extent could the change the voice of engagement in the near future if the coalition meets similar
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situation in different places amnesty and its. report said that they had that if you had dozens of people each one of them told what. was with them and their families many people from their families were killed and the one being of the. coalition and the cats still in front of these witnesses who saw their families. been killed so there are people killed there are someone who killed them the u.s. led coalition so to do what verification do we need now other and then this witness and this proof from the u.s. led. war planes or artillery or missiles or other things so
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i mean there is a necessity for an inquiry mission in order to put an end of this bad conduct during the war. thought that the syrian army is not to do. what they're called for to amende and the conservation and some of the fight the shores to leave the area to another safer area for them and others chose to stay. saved. you know a lot of the. really and we contest that a through and that means you know going to affiliation why did they don't garnish and did not know this now you know it is that we cannot see is syria government as an example they have used barrel bombs in different areas killing thousands of people more than half a million people according to different as it is so that i don't think there should be as a as a next example but let me go to just this is
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a totally different well just well what can you expect the international community to react how what should be the appropriate reaction to the finding of obviously international a united nations inquiry a judicial disarray kayser what should be the case well first of all you know we can talk about what should happen and what will happen what will happen is that this report will probably disappear with many other amnesty ports in the war part of the coalition is france great britain united states all members of the security council. the u.n. will not be able to investigate this in any meaningful way i imagine and and it only underscores the brutality as you were just mentioning of this entire war and it if if an investigation is brought into iraq of course the americans and the
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coalition will say well then you have to investigate isis you have to investigate the brutality of the syrian regime or the russians that everybody will want to investigate everybody else and they're all guilty of course of killing many people this is going in extremely brutal war and. you know in many ways this this underlines. also the control of the media in a place like rocko where there was almost no media coverage of anywhere we didn't have anybody inside iraq getting information out there were very few groups there was this one rucka group that that was reporting and it have information from inside but it didn't have good coverage and it's also the demonization of the enemy which is part of modern warfare it's much more effective than it used to be and because isis was demonized and one can say well rightfully it was demons but it allowed the coalition to carry out this war of total destruction and with the with
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the insistence that all isis members should be killed on the battlefield and captured and this meant that there was a great hesitancy to negotiate and this is what we've just been hearing from your other commentator here in beirut is that negotiations are crucial you cannot demonize the other side to the point where it becomes ok to kill large numbers of civilians in order to and we've seen in this war on every side civilians have been tracked and they've been used as hostages because air power is so devastating the only place for groups like isis or other militias to harvest in urban areas and they have to maintain the population with them in order to try to scare you know the coalition or the syrian and russian air force not to bomb because they'll be
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right about the collateral damage and this leads to an escalation and in a in a sense or parousia point where yet i mean we've seen the media has spoken about the moment it was taken over by the butt of a sense there's not much about about the city it's what's the situation like over there now. well i spoke to many people over the past weeks who are either a luck or in the countryside and they said basically more than ninety percent of the city is completely destroyed people have not been able to basically go about their small number of locals were able to was able to go back there but the problem is that they're facing many issues there the first one is that isis before it left the city it left many mines and booby traps and this is why people cannot do that themselves many people try to demonize in their homes and they were killed in the
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process or this is one of the biggest challenges so far so unlike unfortunately not much is being done in order to have been on the front the second one is that basically there's no services to people if they're willing to go back there there's no water there is no can get to cities or they're basically suffering on so many different levels on top of that many people question that is to misuse of there is the if and the groups affiliated with the ruling the city so you have many challenges that are basically preventing locals from going back there and we don't see much basically a force in order to change that change and basically allow people and encourage them to go back to if yes the city itself could you know well another be symptomatic of the overall picture of syria that is an ethnic divide the as the and the factions there the tribes in that the regional interference turkey is concerned
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and accuse a saudi arabia and other countries of interfering their syrian military is willing to move forward to take over the city how do you see the future of stability of those areas. i mean the future of the area should be in the hands of the coalition. if there is an intention to have deleted alaca under the construct from homes or from and for affection of the city then we will see that some people or most of the people will be back to their homes but so far there is no intention nor any movement on the ground that indicates that they want to. bring back the people to their home so if they want to wait for the interest of turkey or the kurds or the government or saudi arabia or any other new it the caves and. their
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owners will stay when there should be a decision from the us that coalition in order of first the mine and too big of the traps and then to bring from you know a contract of that will be conferred something. to allow the people back to the country if. yes joshua d. . i said has been evicted from more salt from iraq but is still that in different parts of the of syria and iraq. does that leave room for eisel to sage any come back any time in the future. i don't think it is going to make a big comeback isis bread because of the collapse of governments both in iraq
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and of course in syria with the civil war there and the uprising. there though that situation has changed the iraqi army is much stronger than it used to be it's much better armed the syrian army in fact it's also stronger than it used to be in many ways even though it's a few in number and it's exhausted and it doesn't have money i don't see you know the united states is also there i don't see a big comeback you know the best outcome of course would be if this report could spur the united states to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more money and hasten the process as your last commentator the us has sent they need bulldozers in order to clear the area to d. mine they need big. bulldozers that can quickly be mine areas without hurting people these have not been released the government the american government does not want to spend a lot of money and it's not doing it with any great and that needs to be you know
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that would be the one in a sense salvation if this report could serve the coalition into spending hundreds of millions more dollars and really putting you know putting some fire in their attempts to rebuild because otherwise the underlying point you made in your last question which is things are going to go wrong it may not be isis it comes back but we're going to see a lot of trouble in this region this is in the poorest region us for decades it's troubled as you say between kurds and arabs there's tribal violence there a lot of other minorities and of course the geostrategic situation is terrible with america turkey. the russians all at daggers drawn it's at tend to box and reason bad things will. the reason why i asked you about i sort of a reliever same question to hide is basically we've seen eisel given a chance to leave just
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a few days before he was captured by the but there are pockets of resistance in the south of the country on the border with jordan and also in deals all also in libya where i still emerges from from from from time to time the issue here i totally agree was what you're saying and i think the possibility of isis reemerging mostly as an insurgency is big because if you look at that basically the circumstances that allowed the group to flourish in the first place it's just a symptom of the conflict in syria and basically the grievances in syria and iraq so it's not a cause it's a sentiment this is why we need to look at the causes that allowed this group to florence and emerge in the first day so far what we have been seeing is that there has been orally a military strategy in order to defeat that group and capture that directories that was under its control but there has not been any comprehensive strategy in order
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first to deal with the grievances and deal with the root causes that allowed this to take place i love the group of america for example that the large scale killing that the rejean russians and the iranians are doing in syria that will basically allow isis and other groups who use that as a grouping tour or for four years to come so all those issues should be addressed and the needs of the people on the ground should be addressed in order to prevent the group once and for from reemerging i don't wise unfortunately we will most likely see it's hide in the us for a while and this is always good to have you on the program thank you very much indeed. thank you two four so you can see the program again and its time by visiting our website. dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page facebook dot com a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter there is
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netanyahu is in a fraud in his attempt to convince european countries to drop support for the iran nuclear deal but has not touched a bottle reports from paris the french president was not convinced. benyamin netanyahu i arrived at the lease say for talks with a man who will not call just a few hours off iran had announced it was increasing its uranium enrichment capacity the israeli prime minister said the move was proof that tehran wants nuclear weapons netanyahu is in europe to urge either leaders to stop supporting the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal. and a cool that he's convinced will collapse i didn't ask france to a draw from the j.c.b. because i think the jews who is basically going to. be dissolved. by the way the economic forces but i think that there are two possibilities either iran dismantles its nuclear activities unilaterally under this pressure or there may be
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in the future negotiations for better. a better deal the french president said the iran nuclear deal wasn't perfect but should remain the basis for a wider agreement with it isn't it if we think it's not enough it's a useful building block better than what we have a full of the best things to keep it because as we say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush with you so i agree with you c.p.o. isn't enough but it's better than what we had before. iran says it's boosting its uranium enrichment in case the twenty fifteen deal collapses the head of iran's atomic agency said it informed the united nations that book had begun a home court rule of austerity right now the electrical infrastructure and utilities and the towns are ready for hundreds of thousands of asked w. years. the deal limited iran's nuclear activities in return for lifting sanctions
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united since the u.s. withdrawal last month european leaders have been trying to salvage it and find ways to block looming u.s. sanctions european leaders all struggling to save the iran deal and some analysts say the tehran's decision to increase the pressure on the man out may only make it harder iranian officials are not seeing much rush in the. decision making process that's what they want to keep all options available and at strategic levels that means also a threat to the europeans not to you know hit with iran not to joke with iran the french president has called for a deescalation of tensions on all sides but unless european leaders come up with a plan to save the deal soon and keep u.s. sanctions a baby iran's patients with his allies may soon run out and sasha bottler al jazeera paris. new evacuations are taking place near guatemala's volcano after fresh lava started flowing down the mountainside at least seventy two people are
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known to have died so far and many more are missing following sunday's explosions and tar villages and communities in the shadow of mt where go have been destroyed. mexico says it will levy fifteen to twenty five percent tariffs on u.s. steel and agricultural goods in response to donald trump's decision to remove judge exemptions on its allies the white house also says it may pull out of talks to renegotiate the north american free trade deal. zimbabwe's main opposition is demanding voting reforms ahead of elections next month the first since robert mugabe was ousted from power. thousands marched to the president's office and the electoral commission with a list of demands they want the name of the company pointing ballot papers publicized an independent audit of the you voted register an equal coverage of parties in public media the hollywood movie producer harvey weinstein has pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges a sixty six year old appeared in
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a new york court on tuesday morning after a grand jury indicted him last week on charges involving two women weinstein whose actions helped spot the international need to movement he insists he only had consensual sex well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the gulf crisis stage and thanks for watching. this was the moment the g.c.c. crisis was born coordinated in multi-platform attack on cancer state media outlets . so i do have a view about training egypt and the u.a.e. say there are several diplomatic relations with qatar who have taken this step.
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with great pain no one has give them the right to look at my country no one is giving them their voice to separate families and displaced people. nations came together and spoke to me about confronting. they are trying to intimidate a small country which has the closest relationship with the united states. this is the long awaited list the list of demands including cutting ties with the muslim brotherhood the closure of the odyssey our media network. admitted to one and let the public and the saddam judge at the top of the focus should be an adult that. our children feel is a red line. we don't accept anybody interfering in our sovereignty.
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it's just past nine pm here in doha the sun is down people around enjoying ramadan celebrations having broken their faults to a little over two hours ago but it was one year ago celebrations had been unexpectedly interrupted in a way no one could quite believe was suddenly on the blockade by land sea and air and its relationship with its gulf neighbors had changed perhaps permanently. hello everyone i'm come on santa maria welcome to the special broadcast here on al-jazeera for the next hour as we mark exactly one year since the start of the gulf crisis now it's not the kind of anniversary which is exactly welcomed celebrated here because as residents have been marking the day it's generally a quieter time of year given it's the holy month of ramadan but even so this procession happened a few hours ago led by members of the local bikers community with flags and pictures of support on display now just
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a reminder before we get going that this broadcast is going to be streamed live on twitter at a.j. english also at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera so if you want to get involved and send us your comments and your questions then please do so on those platforms. right so let's begin how did we get to this point it needs some explaining it needs some context and with that here's a i'm going to take you through a timeline of events now but we have to go back to before the severing of diplomatic ties because they were already signed something that was up may twentieth the u.s. president donald trump lands and saudi arabia to meet king solomon and other arab leaders trump later took credit for saudis move against in a series of tweets linking it to the summit just three days later may twenty third and the car so news agency is hacked it attributes false statements to the emir of caster their broadcast on saudi an iraqi media despite the qatari government saying
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its fake news then on june fourth leaked e-mails from the u.a.e. and best that the u.s. reveal what appears to be a long running effort to discredit kata and that brings us to june fifth when diplomatic ties are cut and an economic embargo is imposed now to understand the impact of the gulf crisis it helps if you can see how the region's laid out the four blockading nations that egypt saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates they accuse qatar on this peninsula here of spreading instability and supporting terrorism claims don't strongly denies on june fifth saudi arabia causes causes only land border causing a run on the supermarkets and forcing alternative suppliers to be found excess to the say is restricted as well to bypass the blockade has had to ship directly through ports and i'm on air routes were also closed pushing to make major detours
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