tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera June 7, 2018 2:00am-3:01am +03
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used to be highly active you can see it here behind me and this morning we've seen columns of smoke rising from the cone now on tuesday there was a large explosion that sent gas and hot rocks down the side of the volcano and that caused a large evacuation to be ordered i'm urgency workers racing away from the disaster site and it was also the evacuation of more villages surrounding the volcano as well as some communities within the city of the city of about a million people major highways were closed as well this morning on wednesday there have been more a few more bodies that have been holed out and they think that there are still a few hundred people who are missing but it's very hard to get accurate figures and there aren't census takers who are going door to door so it's unclear exactly how many people are still accounted for but what we do know is that conditions for rescuers are very challenging there as there's continued activity there's also chances of rain falling down which could cause mudslides and further hinder these an effort to try to remove as many people from this is as
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a sight as possible and get a true sense of the size of this calamity. and slow moving lava from hawaii. to oceanfront communities in the big island southeast officials say at least eighty buildings were destroyed overnight on top of the one hundred seventeen already damaged. spilling love last month. of people to be evacuated the lava flow measures around eighty meters wide and the tool. still to come this half hour shops closing join us capital as unions press on with a strike over tax hikes despite the prime minister it placed on the anti harassment act developed in australia which allows women to share information about areas but i don't feel sorry.
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another place where it's abnormally hot at the moment is iraq now there's not much cloud in the sky what there is has produced some decent showers recently in iraq more especially in the levant but there's precious little left for cost wise saying we're looking at sunshine thirty in beirut a ridiculous forty five in baghdad it will be forty five of course this summer but it's a little early in the year for that to happen this true dancer q.h. as well and beyond to the gulf states nothing much to relieve it the green is where the showers are normally around the caucuses still and we sent some pretty big hail storms up in georgia not so much i mean even as a possibility in the next down so as drops as i say it is pretty hot around the gulf states diehards for crossed forty five a little cool in abu dhabi forty but we're into the forty's easily is obviously could around the coast the monsoon starts influence the cloudiness the amman coasts
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allow or in particular whether he thought some point will kick in history months of cool drizzly weather it looks like it's trying to come in. south of all this should be quite a moment in southern africa for the most part the skies are in the clear that's what the satellite picture shows and the forecast simply confirms it. sorry.
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welcome back reminder of the top stories sarah knowledge is iraq's parliament has ordered a manual recount of every vote cast in last month's election after prime minister are they are all about the warned of serious violations in the polls the president of argentina football association has apologized for counseling a friendly match with israel saying the players' safety was at stake i have been where widespread palestinian protests after the match was moved to jerusalem over fears it would normalise israel's claim to the contested city and new evacuations have been ordered in guatemala as amount for a go continues just
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a few more lava at least seventy five people have been killed and around two hundred are missing after sunday's eruption. fighters loyal to renegade libyan general khalifa haftar have reportedly captured the seaports of the eastern city of the city is held by an i select group of the libyan national army has besieged it for two years the u.n. says the fighting has reached unprecedented levels and there are severe shortages of electricity food water and medical supplies. has more from the libyan capital tripoli. the war in the eastern libyan city of that has become a guerrilla warfare between hefted his forces that his forces loyal to leave his libya's litigate general khalifa have to and forces loyal to the protection force now that no protection force is there the new name of the. council of illusion reis that is the arm of the group defying have to and refusing to join his military
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brigades in the east of libya now eyewitnesses in durban say that any moving vehicle can be targeted from the air and the hefted forces have been opening according to order for civilians to leave the city bieber they say there is a huge traffic of evacuees leaving the city fleeing the war that has been now going on in the inside the streets of the now have to his forces have been taken control of a strategic locations in the city including the sea port now because hefted forces have been very well trained and equipped and they have been supported by egypt and the united arab emirates though they have advanced it quickly and they have taken control of many locations inside the city even switch operation little military operation room to the city and it's now based inside the city of the net
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now the city of that has been short of everything including basic needs food water medical equipment medical stuff and medications and people there say that literally say that anyone who who get gets wanted in this war could die because there is no way to treat them there is no medical aid the city is literally isolated from the whole world. trained unions in jordan are staging a nationwide strike against a controversial plan to raise income tax the proposed reforms driven by the international monetary fund have spent the conscious largest protests and he is king abdullah to the review on even replace his prime minister to diffuse public anger and such again i reports. the protesters demands have been clear they want the government to scrap plans to raise income tax by as much as five percent some say until that happens they need to keep applying pressure in the hole
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in the room where he is because the citizens cannot take any more this is too much this was the straw that broke the camel's back for a number of shops pharmacies and hospitals went on strike but the protests were smaller than in previous days some said they wanted to see what the jordanian government's next move would be. on tuesday king abdullah appointed a former economist as the new prime minister would know it was don't you think this new government will take action therefore we have a different opinion about the strike and we will not participate but the anger is still simmering and there are fears the government won't give people relief from a tax law protesters believe will unfairly burden the poor and the middle class jordanians are struggling with rising prices and an official unemployment rate of more than eighteen percent. committed to the protests were given a chance to a new government give them
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a chance but people are not optimistic as they think this is same as a previous government but with new faces and not with new policies. an influx of refugees from syria and iraq has strained resources in a small country that has always been heavily reliant upon foreign aid the proposed tax hike is part of a number of reforms requested by the international monetary fund jordan is thirty seven billion dollars in debt digging itself out of that debt and reviving the economy may mean things get worse before they get better natasha going to al-jazeera. the united nations has warned of a significant escalation in a rests interrogations and detentions in egypt is part of an ongoing crackdown against activist bloggers and journalists critical of president abdul fattah el-sisi sisi was reelected as president in a poll in march winning ninety seven percent of the vote egypt's general prosecutor
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ordered the authorities to monitor social media sites it says spread lies and fake news ahead of the election. as originally sma would hussein is one of those still in detention imprisonment has yet again been huge so far he has been jailed without charge for over five hundred days as saying was detained in december twenty sixth seen and subsequently accused of disseminating false news both he and i'll just deny the charge. at least three migrants have been hospitalized on hundreds trying to jump the border fence separating morocco from the spanish terrorists of ceuta in north africa spanish authorities said they stopped the early morning attempts to cross fire on one hundred fifty people most of them sub-saharan africans rock'n officials also said they stopped an additional two hundred fifty from approaching the double fence is the first mass attempt to jump a fence in at least seven months. so downs president omar al bashir has offered to
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host peace talks between south sudan's worrying sides to trying to end five years of conflict it comes days after a year and resolution gave president president rather president salva kiir and rebel leader react by cha an ultimatum reach a peace agreement in one month or face possible sanctions more than half the population in south sudan remains dependent on aid haber morgan reports from my own country in south sudan. simon has been sick for days and says she would have liked to stay at home but that's not an option for her because there's no food there so she had to come here to an aid distribution center to register and get food all of that law and the love of the mill and the like i've had a fever and headache for days and then came the car but it had to come here to get food if not the only thing i can have is porridge so i came to get aid.
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simon is one of more than one hundred thousand people in my own county who rely on aid so who are in south sudan has forced seven million people more than half of the country's population to depend on aid the war started in twenty thirteen when president salva kiir accused his former deputy rick machar of attempting a coup tens of thousands have been killed and a third of the twelve million population displaced. i had to walk for two days to come to my own for eight she often says she's not feeling well. my back hurt my kidneys hurt we get to space to go to the bush suffer from hunger and get sick i've seen people die in the bush due to hunger and diseases like diarrhea hundreds of thousands of hunger related deaths were reported last year when famine was declared in south sudan and while the famine is over there are fears that the figures will rise. millions of thousands are suffering from for shortages and as
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a result many are getting sick with violence and the rainy season slowing down aid operations they are concerned that preventable diseases will instead become fatal the un has recently threatened to extend sanctions on south sudan if the fighting continues there is fighting all over this state and these are farmers who have led to this place and not being killed at the moment and that totally dependent on this crude date that had to be brought here by air drops is a desperate measure times in this. south sudan the area where we've seen food drops now for twenty nine years what is needed here is peace it's reconsider peace that may seem calm and many others like her not get sick simply because they can't get enough food to remain healthy people morgan al-jazeera my own county in south sudan. the japanese prime minister is headed to
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washington to make sure tokyo's concerns are not forgotten the historic us north korea summit next week since there are a will have two hours to put his points to president trump before they both leave for a g. seven summit in canada japan a u.s. ally has been absent from recent dealings with north korea and it's worried trump could make concessions like agreeing to reduce the american military presence in the region. preparations in singapore ahead of the summit. with the date set the starting time confirmed we now know the location for donald trump and kim jong un's first meeting the ultra exclusive capella hotel singapore's sentosa island a colonial era building transformed into a six star hotel by renowned british architect norman foster the decision has amounted to being the choice has not just been about security to see but on top of the hard security considerations it's also been about the aesthetics the optics of
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the summit as well this is a hotel that sits right smack in the asia pacific right by the same time it has cost more politan western story to it so east and west if you like it's been reported that the north korean delegation favored the hotel and sentosa when they were in town last week negotiating with just about something singapore's resort island of sentosa is known for its beaches casinos theme parks and golf course with the personal interest of these two leaders a perfect setting for the summit or even a joint family holiday the city state has set up two special event areas that will start just before the leaders arrive sentosa island will be one as well as the waters off its southwestern beaches where the capella hotel sids. and another one about nine kilometers away in the tangling area of singapore this is where the shangri-la and the st regis hotels are thought to be where the two leaders and their delegations will be staying in the run up we're going to see an increased signature of security personnel security equipment but also good income but it
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commensurate with that we're going to see an increase in the chill of the public know that we know what a location is everyone's curious and i think the security operations will have to be. have to be brought to bear already in managing the crowd managing vehicles there will also be a clampdown in the sky parts of singapore's airspace will be restricted during the summit the area building uses the pits for singapore's formula one race is being transformed into a huge media center more than three thousand accredited media will use the center but thousands more are expected in singapore over the next few days to cover the summit it's got other al-jazeera singapore. young women worldwide are being encouraged to use technology to reporter arrests meant an effort to make streets safer and international charity has developed an app which women can use to highlight areas that make them feel unsafe hundred thomas has no. for young women the city streets can be or seem
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a hostile environment one way to improve that thinks an international charity is to highlight which areas are best and which worst for the last month women in sydney have been encouraged to use a website to mark where they felt particularly safe or unsafe when and why more than three thousand incidents have been uploaded so far there is so powerful and it tells a story three numbers which a lot of the time is one of three ways that decision makers can be swayed these women from the charity plan international and now visiting the hot spots taking photographs for an art project to publicize the initiative among them is a woman with almost a million followers on the social media platform instagram my i suppose following an audience on social media. seventy percent women aged eighteen to twenty four which is basically the demographic that way for for this particular project although thousands of women are providing that data it's not them but the data is
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necessarily for this initiative it isn't about warning women off visiting certain areas but rather about providing a cache of the city planners to improve infrastructure where women told them they feel unsafe sexual harassment on the streets is a worldwide problem plan international has rolled out its website to four other cities as well as sydney maps are being created in kampala lima madrid and new delhi. everyone should be made aware about where we feel safe from where we don't perhaps this will help us and making unsafe place is safe to those behind this initiative hope information will provoke change the more people know whether issues that need to be addressed the more likely they'll address them under thomas al-jazeera sydney. let's have a look at the top stories on al-jazeera iraq's parliament has ordered
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a manual recount of every vote cast in last month's election and sacked the commission that oversaw the poll it comes a day after promise to hide the said the had been serious violations parliament also approved the consolation of overseas votes and those of displaced people in some provinces china struck for it has more from baghdad. the the whole process of putting a coalition government together has now been further delayed and we've been speaking to analysts who don't mince their words so far that there are a lot of guns in this country there are a lot of people with big interests in this election and there are fears that during this recount but most especially fear is that after this manual recount if there is a big disparity between the electronic vote and that manual recount that we could indeed potentially see violence and instability across the country. the president of argentina is full association has apologized for canceling
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a from the match with israel saying the players' safety was at stake there had been widespread palestinian protest against the match which has moved to jerusalem over fears it will normalize israel's claim to the contested city but israeli say the palestinians are crossing a red line by politicizing the issue palestine's health ministry says israeli troops have shot dead a twenty one year old he was throwing stones at them in the occupied west bank is a day in my time amin was shot during clashes with israeli forces in the village of nabi salah near ramallah israeli troops reportedly came under attack from stone throwers when they entered the village. and israel's prime minister says he is doing everything he can to avoid palestinian casualties in gaza and human netanyahu made the comments and head of talks with u.k. prime ministers to reason may express her concern over the shooting of protesters at the border between israel and. new evacuations have been ordered in guatemala.
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spews more lava at least seventy five people have been killed two hundred are missing after sunday's eruption. so your headlines next stop is inside story. stop separating migrant children from their parents that want to come to the u.s. government that says entering the country without proper documents should not be a crime what will that mean for a president who wants to build a border this is inside story.
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and welcome to the program the pride of the u.n. has the trumpet ministration to immediately stop separating migrant children from their families at its border with mexico it said on tuesday that the practice was a serious violation of international law but the us is the only country in the world that has not ratified the un convention on the rights of the child and has recently adopted a tolerance policy with on documented migrants hundreds of children who cross the southern border have been held in custody since october and followed an executive order issued by the president the u.s. defends its policy by saying it's a way to stop illegal immigration most of the people who arrive at southern border . el salvador and honduras the violence and drug trafficking a common well this is what the un's human rights office had to say. there is nothing normal about detaining children as
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a detention is never in the best interest of the child. and always constitutes a child rights violation. on this being a criminal offense as i said this should be you know it entry into a country without the right peepers should at most be an administrative offense and it certainly does not warrant jailing children or washington has reacted strongly it's un on war nikki haley said once again the united nations shows its hypocrisy by calling out the united states while it ignores the reprehensible human rights records of several members of its own human rights council while the high commission his office ignorantly attacks the united states with words the united states leads the world with its actions like providing more humanitarian assistance to global conflict than any other nation neither the united nations nor anyone else will dictate how the united states up holds its borders well let's look at some of the more controversial points and president trumps immigration policy is pledge to
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build a wall along the mexican border to prevent illegal crossings and drug smuggling he rolled back and the gratian program introduced by former president barack obama known as dhaka or deferred action for childhood arrivals that protects around eight hundred thousand young undocumented immigrants from deportation and provides them work permits trampas bans nationals of six muslim majority countries from entering the united states of a what he said was security concerns he also increased the arrests of undocumented immigrants and the president has signed an executive order for a review of the so-called h. one b. visa program that brings highly skilled workers to the u.s. . well let's bring in our guests now in new york is and you know civil rights lawyer of the center for constitutional rights and washington d.c. catron film a spokeswoman for the u.s. department of homeland security under the obama administration and joining us by scott from fort worth texas is jennifer the managing attorney at the refugee and
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immigrant center for education and legal services thank you all for joining us mr attorney general jeff sessions has said if you'll smuggling a child we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law is separating these children from their parents legal no it's not. under the due process cause the supreme court has said many times that there is a fundamental liberty interest in keeping the family integrity of float i think that under the law there is only a few instances in which a child can be separated from the parent the government has to show that the parent is either on fit that the child is endangered or that it's absolutely necessary and the government can't show anything any of those here mr howard do you think the law is being upheld and if it's not how far she's getting away with breaking it.
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you know it doesn't appear that. being. it's just it's the law hasn't required that you must be separated as you know that trended ministration previously wasn't separating. decree it was going on but now it's been ramped understeer tolerance. and. it's cruel and in here humane and. we should and this is just. miss katherine president trump has said put pressure on the democrats to end the horrible door that separates children from their parents and that the democrats are actually responsible for this policy you worked for the department of homeland security under the obama led democratic administration what do you make of that well there is no law that that's just
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false it's a lie and they have and they meaning the trumpet ministration has instituted this new policy which seems like a knee jerk reaction to make their base happy but it absolutely was not well thought out and it's going to have serious repercussions what we did in the obama administration was focus our resources on the worst of the worst felons not families this policy that the obama administration has and acted on their own is their own fault and is really not well thought out it's it's horrible this is a new low in border policy well the obama administration did deport many more people and it's a few years than the trump administration has how is what's happening now different to what happened to president obama. that's right what is happening now is they are going after the lowest hanging fruit they are just rounding up
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everybody they can get their hands on and that's not the way to do things what we did under the previous administration was go after the worst of the worst murderers rapists you know the people who have actually committed a felony and that does take a time on resources and but what they're doing now is just like throwing out our net and catching whoever and that's not the way to do things it's actually public safety threat to do it this way when we focus on the the criminals you get the criminals out of the country and i think that everybody can agree on that line but when you go after the dreamers those who are serving in our militaries those who are going to school and going through the immigration process the right way that's that's just not the way to do things it's inhumane and it's not in line with our american values mr how are you and texas who is arriving at the border are they
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asylum seeker economic migrants or is that a more sort of complex mix of social and economic effect is what are you seeing. we're overwhelmingly saying that these are asylum seekers our families playing that makes your mind violent countries these we have clients who are being threatened daily by gang members teenage boys threatening to be chilled if they don't join. games family members being kidnapped eaten and sheltered and we have people playing domestic violence in their countries cannot justice systems aren't eclipse to protect them from domestic violence and so they really have no return they are really in life or death situations and they're seeking our protection here in the united states and this policy cast is individuals as criminals that united states use protection from but really if the reverse is a sam's out and the sickest out of what are the u.s.
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government's obligations to protect asylum seekers how should they be going about doing it. the united states has long required and had an obligation to process asylum seekers at the border. the congress passed the immigration and nationality act which codified at length the statutory rights that the government has to take when someone asks for asylum stating a well founded fear of persecution moreover under international law the united states has a duty not to turn people away into a country that they fear the united states' policy here of turning people away is really unfortunate it's a human rights violation and instantiates the racial animus that is so prevalent within the administration must catch on to all those crossing that us mexico border
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genuine asylum seeker is is this administration determining giving them a chance to put their case for would as asylum seekers as it determine and you know what cash agree they fall into before dealing with them. we don't know but we do know that there are push factors in central america that are causing the arrival of these immigrants and they do deserve to be heard if they are in fear of returning to their home country they should be provided asylum and go through the judicial process what i'm hearing now that it's happening at the border is everyone is going through these mass proceedings before the courts so they don't really have the opportunity to present their case that the way that the sessions policy has been enacted just doesn't actually allow them to be heard and what we do need to do is provide asylum to those who are seeking and have
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a product of fear and and that is in line with our american values. we've seen videos all of you know mass trials taking place with people in shackles children or their parents made aware of the legal protections and options in the language is that something that's happening and i certainly hope so. i'm not. can be confident that that is happening but i should hope that the public defenders are giving a guy's ols to immigrants and their native language. you know we have not only stand speakers but also indigenous languages and so those needs should be met as well. but it does seem that there is a lot of confusion and people don't understand what is going on what's happening to their children whether they're going to be able to apply for us and we're hearing
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reports that c.b.p. customs and border patrol are just purging immigrants for vocalized their fear and saying you're not going to win your case or yeah. you know this is it possible you can apply for that so we don't think that there is good access to justice and peace situations and it would be a very confusing picture especially for children mistake this out of as of april of the seven hundred children seized from their parents and the six months previous to that more than one hundred were under the age of four what happens to them where the under four was being sent. first i'd like to highlight the psychological damage that the government is causing these children as you correctly noted many of them are toward learners wrestled away from the arms of their parents and i mean them literally. customs and border protection will separate parents from children per policy whether they come with
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their parents at the port of entry or if they cross by foot these children are then sent to our custody in the interim fair put in basically glorified dog kennels which have inadequate bedding showers pediatricians anything a child who had survived one of the most horrific journeys imaginable could need from there they're sent to waiting facilities i don't know if you saw recently senator jeff merkel from oregon tried to visit one it was in an abandoned wal-mart in brownsville texas customs and border protection didn't let him in because they don't want to see what's in there a picture of the inhumanity would really undermine what the administration is doing here which again has no penal logical or child welfare purpose but again is only meant to be punitive yes absolutely terrible conditions at least the children once
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they're separated from their parents must be also head last month from a government official that the this is from the department of health and human services that has agency had quote lost track of nearly fifteen hundred immigrant children who had been seized after crossing that border and some of them had it was feared had been turned over to human trafficking is how do you lose track of fifteen hundred children do we know what's happened to them. we don't but let me go back a second just to what that gentleman just said to be clear c.b.p. or border patrol they do not hold children in their facilities we don't have those facilities that's not what they're intended for when a child crosses the border the first thing they do is go through an immunization check and identification and then they are turned over to health and human services or h.h.s. which has the capacity to to take care of the children and place them in the hands
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of a relative or a sponsor now h.h.s. asked should be keeping track of all of these children and doing their best to be in touch with the sponsors or the relatives that they've put them in in their care right be the welfare of the child should be their number one priority so i do understand that those who have been entrusted with a child's care may not want to talk to the government right now because they are so scared that this administration if they are you know in any way here illegally that they will be deported as well so they may not be answering the phone they may not be answering the door when these representatives comes to call because this administration has shown we can't believe what they're saying and we can't be trusted we just don't know what they're going to do to us they maybe taking their child away when they call so i think you know it's horrible all the way around
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so fifteen something like fifteen hundred children who can't be traced shows that the system that is in place might not be working and as well as that mr howard the american civil liberties union and the human rights clinic at the university of chicago north school have also said that u.s. border guards have been beating and abusing my current children and have threatened them with sexual violence i mean have you heard these reports. so we know. the service will certainly take liberties and interviews immigrants and we are not satisfied that. children or adults are being treated fairly at the border we have heard about minors being abused. and we screen our our children clients thoroughly to
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see what is happening and what rights are being violated and when you have a challenge here hersel without an adult it's a scary confusing process after this long journey trying to get to safety and then just and have the government officials treat your child that way i just don't see how that is happening in our country right now that's because how do i believe that you are working on a class action north of the moment and the american civil liberties union has father class action suit challenging this policy of separating children from their families what are its chances of challenging the practice do you think. one clarification our lawsuit alleges that c.b.p. customs and border protection is unlawfully denying individuals the right to actually access the asylum process one of the ways in which they do that and did do that even indeed before this april policy was threatening parents that we will take
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your child away if you try and access the asylum process and now that's a threat or an intimidation they still use a lawsuit more directly challenges to child separation policy i think it stands a very good chance and i'll tell you why the government has a very weighty burden to show justification to separate parents from children again under due process under cases such as some tosti and troxel the government needs to show that there is either child endangerment or an unfitness of the parent they can't show that here the government has actually changed its position on a number of times and actually other government has never taken the position that the law says that you need to separate children from families actually for the past five to ten years children have been sent with their parents to family detention now that in and of itself is a whole nother heinous set of circumstances but it's still prefer rable to the
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utterly unnecessary and frankly inhumane holocene of tearing children away from their parents miss katherine will the government be able to show that this policy is working in deterring migrants because before being implemented it was piloted in new mexico and according to immigration officials in the last half of the last year the number of families attempting to cross without documents decreased by sixty four percent so if the government if this is ministration can show to the country to its supporters that this is working will it be able to continue with it. absolutely not you need to address illegal migration two for one is the deterrence factor and the other is actually addressing the push factors which are causing people to migrate here in the first place under the obama administration you know they requested a billion dollars to be sent to central america to help address those problems we established programs within those countries and we worked with those those
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countries directly i think that you will see a decrease for a little while and then the numbers will spike back up again because of those push factors you know the conditions as mentioned previously are so horrible that they are willing to make this track through the united states and and to try to get her to seek asylum and to seek a better life for themselves and their children but the address of those push back does is along to game is going to take a lot of time but in the meantime what's happening at the border is not is not legal in america what can these families do now you know who's fighting for their cause. so cleverly there are a lot of amazing organizations that are fighting for these families and it went down raised as we've made a commitment to accepting representation pro bono who are the parents who are
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detained at to facilities and text is why i'm here is close to or were not granted texas about forty miles away because we know that that being detained is a huge barrier to accessing legal services these are places in remote locations and it's hard for her attorneys to get there it's hard to schedule twenty minutes to see and it's hard to you know get documents signed to evidence go rank so we we're putting that you know as one of our top or earnest is providing legal representation and we also call on others if you see if this is happening in your fresh traded reign kurdish people to contact their luggage in a fish just to get them to share their story and don't just accept this as one more thing that trump is joining up. you know stand up and do something and mr this out on the so that's on the national level what about internationally because of this
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is illegal on the international norm like various organizations a saying what can the international community actually do here. i think the un was right to condemn the conduct the united states has taken a deplorable approach to migration which is indeed a fundamental human right the united states should recognize that it installing right wing governments and central american countries in the eighty's and ninety's is actually responsible for the root cause of this the united nations and other international organizations would be correct in joining a chorus of condemnation for this utterly asinine policy but as we've seen from the u.n. representative the u.s. representative to the u n nikki haley the condemnation has been met with equal condemnation from miss haiti miss catron what did the democratic control of congress if they are successful in the upcoming midterm elections change this policy do you think i hope so we should do whatever we can to put pressure on the
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trumpet ministration that this is just this is abhorrent this is not what we will stand for as americans you don't separate a child from his or her parents especially in their most traumatic moment so whether it's from the public or from these up and coming members of congress or other countries i really hope that everyone lancer voice to this and mrs haddo i'd just like to give you the last would as well as you know the condemnation and everybody lending their voice what needs to happen to stop this and soon. well one i'd like to acknowledge the amazing work that individuals and organizations are doing on the border the keno born in addition of a lot of our law though in the women's refugee commission are fighting for the rights of migrants every single day i think people rightly are joining and becoming louder and louder to condemn the united states policy that being said the united states has had a long policy of separating children from their families going back to the slave
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trade and going forward to native americans who were taken away from their parents on tribal land and sent to american christian schools i think this is nothing new i think the administration's animus is now instantiating itself into an unlawful policy and i think people should take to the representatives and rightfully condemn this practice or to thank you very much for that and thank you to guests that is. in new york marsha catron and washington d.c. and jennifer and forth with texas and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our web site www dot com and to further discussion to go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter at a.j. inside story for me it is a problem and the entire team here. it's
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orders a manual recount of all votes cast in may's election and socks the commission that oversaw it's. palestinians say thank you to argentina for canceling a pre world cup friendly in jerusalem israel is dismayed and the scramble for safety in guatemala as a volcano for a go erupts again seventy five people are now confirmed dead nearly two hundred of those missing. and i'm just limited doha with all the day's sports news with more on the implications of that friendly match between argentina and israel in jerusalem being cancelled later in the news that. we begin any or all quite the parliament has ordered a manual recount of every vote cast in last month's elections it comes a day after prime minister the said there had been serious violations parliament
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also approved the cancellation of overseas votes and those of displaced people in some provinces and that sack the election commission well let's get more on the some chance stuff and who is for in baghdad charles very interesting that we have this partial recount but now almost a new story a year story a month after the election a full week on why is this. well the warning signs have been building up towards this vote in parliament today for this full manual recount across the country for some time now we first started hearing out a geisha is a vote for fairly soon after the election on on may the twelfth from areas in the kurdish region of northern iraq as well as certain areas of the the sunni areas of northern iraq places like nineveh salaam who dayan and diyala province we've also seen protests in the oil rich city of kirkuk but things really started to
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escalate yesterday when we had this indorsement by the iraqi prime minister hydrilla body basically supporting the recommendations in the findings of this ministerial committee that that recommended that the election commission was frozen and that there would be a partial recount in certain areas of the country but it's today this vote in parliament it's fair to say has taken everybody by surprise it's expected that the recount could take at least two to three weeks and of course it jeopardizes the formation of a new coalition government prime minister a body only last week said that if these allegations continued then we could be looking at what he described as a constitutional vacuum here in this country because of course the current parliament session constitutionally is juju and on the thirtieth of june all about he also yesterday his threatened anybody found proven to have been involved in
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violations during this election could actually face criminal charges but there's no there's there's no two words about it it's come as a great surprise this vote in parliament today and tell us what's going to be actually some of the major players especially the likes not to know a father who is the surprise of victor and if the election have a come out and said whether they accept that this recount should happen. there's been no word from other as yet we are expecting probably some sort of comment from him in the next sort of twenty four hours or so he's rather keen on tweeting but he has been certainly it's all indications are that he will support potentially this this recount as we saw the incumbent prime minister is very much behind it and so it's fair to say that we will be expecting more reaction in the coming hours
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other politicians have been very vocal though as i say politicians in those areas in the north of the country so logged in nineveh province have been very keen on getting all that says about these allegations of voter fraud but of course there are security concerns as well in this country it's fair to say there are a lot of guns here and we've been speaking to analysts after this vote today in parliament and they're saying that there are concerns that because there are so many very many powerful interested parties that if indeed this the results of this manual recount show that there is a big disparity between those results and those of the electronic system then it wouldn't be surprising if we could see you know increasing instability across iraq a chance tough and that's going to fly from baghdad well i'm joined in a studio by roxana famine from i am she that lecturer in politics and international studies at the university of cambridge famous for coming in town jazeera to discuss
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this what sort of evidence do you know that they've managed to amass that is the reason for this full recount we knew there were concerns but this is a massive undertaking and basically is parliament pressing the reset button. yes it is a call by a number of the smaller parties rather than the larger parties and this has been building up over the period since the actual election certainly in the north around particularly kirkuk which it was the beginning of the big demonstrations on this but it has spread and there have been calls across the country to have this looked at but it has been a slow build up we've gone from five percent which was recommended by the u.n. to ten and now we're we're on a full manual recount to have set aside the diaspora and international ones which is quite shocking i think though if they were very surprised how much. was the vix
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. is there. some sort of suggestion here that they're not happy with the sort of result so there's this is a way of having another go if you like while that has been the accusation levied against the smaller parties that have been the backbone of this call. very much the accusation that they've wanted to do better and that they didn't do as well as they thought this might be a way of getting around it however the main parties seem to be that one the majority of large blocks of votes seem quite at ease with the way it came out and they are continuing to work with their smaller party associates to try to develop coalitions to prepare themselves for the time when the actual governance can be the focus rather than the number of votes just feel like a critical junction especially in terms of stability there's tons of correspondent just said there is concern that this could escalate it could start to unravel what
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she'll tell you while i think that's very likely as well there has been already quite a bit of uprising activity in various parts. that there's clearly been fraud. activities that have not been. except a bill it was the first time there were electronic voting machines that were used and those have been problematic everywhere when they've started so i think there's good reason to feel a sense of. disquiet on the other hand least this is a step against a fall new election and i think no one wants chaos and this seems to be the compromise perhaps it will be able to hold it long enough to to get to the next step going forward very interesting get your thoughts on from on a million thank you very much for having to be here thank you now the president of argentina's football association has apologized for counseling or from the match with israel saying the players' safety was at stake there have been widespread
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palestinian protests against the match being held in jerusalem of the fee is it will normalize israel's claim to the contested city but israelis say the palestinians are crossing a red line by politicizing the issue they're finding a complaint with bennett smith reports from west jerusalem. moving a friendly with argentina from the port city of haifa to the stadium in west jerusalem has turned into something of an own goal for israeli football now israeli fans won't get to see leon all messy in the rest of the squad in a pre world cup warm up under palestinian pressure argentina has pulled out the palestinian football association accused israel of politicizing the game because it ignored the anger there is over the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital is a government that interferes moved from haifa to you so you start talking that this
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is on this of into it and it is this is a state of israel fifty one and it said he or they brought it into also the boundaries of suzhou i'm visiting the government exists to ensure israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is reported to have phoned argentina's president to try to get him to persuade the team to change its mind or it's here wishing the squad luck said it wasn't up to him in the knesset israel's sports and culture minister said threats against messi had we force the argentinians to cancel the friendly she lashed out at the israeli left who blamed her for moving the game so one of my lead the bill. how much do we have to take how much nonsense do we have to deal with how much effort do we have to make to make ourselves undistorted why do people have to be side bad and loyal and have no national pride. argentinian f.a. said security concerns that force them to cancel the game. the actions on the threats
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that have been made of blood us to the decision not to trouble my responsibility as president of the is to look after the health and safety of the entire delegation and in my role i made this decision i simply want to apologize to the israeli community it's not against the israeli community or the jewish community i want to ever. i want to know this decision was made for world peace israel wants to normalize the idea of jerusalem as its capital in the minds of the international community trying to host an international football game fits with that strategy but this time the plan backfired because instead everybody has been reminded of the final status of jerusalem is far from settled but it's an al-jazeera question whose . answer is about the reaction from well as errors. the president of the argentine food but i still see and said that the reason why the match was suspended in argentina and use well was due to security concerns and for world peace however
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for several weeks there's been concerns about the place where the match was going to happen initially it was scheduled to happen in the city of haifa and it was later on move to do neither the argentine food while association or the argentinean government wanted that match to happen in jerusalem because of the diplomatic impact it could have you know on the streets of one side if the news generated mixed reactions when they should have thought about it before were not organized to much given the conditions in the area because you know believe it's a dangerous area and if the players are afraid you can't do much more it was a risk but it was also a commitment israel has already invested around nine million dollars on this much a million and a half has already been paid to the argentine football association so this obviously generates some conflict for now the argentine food while association here in want to cite it is trying to control the damage meanwhile palestine's health ministry says israeli troops have shot dead a twenty one year old who was throwing stones at them in the occupied west bank is
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