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this is. a low i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes as strikes hit who feel like his dog and around the airports of the yemeni city of the data as the coalition calls for surrender to save the civilian population. donald trump wades into europe's migration crisis as i'm going to marco gets a two week deadline from the coalition partner for a deal on refugees why filming videos like this in israel could soon land you in prison for up to ten years. and sport while all the latest from the world cup in russia is one of the tournament favorites kick off their campaign
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a rumble in the coppice stars in belgium three no win over panama in their group or . saudi led coalition aircraft. the fight has dug in around the airport of yemen's main port of the data the u.a.e. is demanding the rebels withdraw unconditionally from the strategic area and key a lifeline to save civilian lives losing a dado would deal a serious blow to the rebels it could also mean imports of food costs off the seventy percent of the population bunnet smith reports. the three year war in yemen has reached what could be a crucial turning point the battle for the port city of the outgoing u.n. high commissioner for human rights has issued a warning. for grave warry regarding the.
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coalition's ongoing attacks. which could result in normal civilian casualties and disastrous impact on. your monitor to millions of people which comes through the port. nearly two hundred people have been killed since the offensive for the important red sea port began on wednesday and then the five thousand families forced to flee their homes according to the u.n. . we suffer from the aerial raids in the cruel aggression in the indiscriminate shelling that goes on twenty four seventh's this is led us to leave our areas we don't have food we don't have humanitarian support the organizations concerned do nothing for us we're sick i'm hurt my body suffers a lot shuttle diplomacy by the u.n. special envoy to yemen hasn't succeeded so far martin griffiths has been in the capital sanaa and is due to brief the u.n. security council later on monday the united arab emirates which is leading the
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coalition against who the fight is along with saudi arabia says precautions are being taken to protect civilians. we are careful not to hit surrounding residential areas so as not to hurt the people there the current fight for the airport suits us for two reasons the first is it gives us an opportunity to advance and avoid as much as we can the civilians secondly it gives the international envoy a chance to have his say before leaving sana. on monday the management of her data port said it was operating normally. commercial shipments arriving at the port shipments that are arriving from well known ports the claims made by the coalition that shipment of arms have arrived at the port and avoid the current military campaign aimed at targeting the port the coalition countries know well that the port has no military activities at all and is not involved at all in any arms
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shipment since the intervention of the coalition to back government forces three years ago at least ten thousand yemenis have been killed tens of thousand injured and millions displaced. i'll just. independent yemeni jonathan manalo says the intense bombardment on her data that forces threatening the lives of hundreds in the area before five minutes now we had a very high bumping into town or people encountered sounds very very high you sound very caring people are scared. if they're flying. a lot nicer and always the bomb thinking fire but it did. that and. despite about fourteen kilometers to the window and that don't it's you can always think of chickens but what about you think now the sound is different. but it's
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finally getting to some people who don't believe any side in good for a cause of pride shared in the school and don't forget about the people we. turn to cokie strike it but the people who died all these people sort of moms are coming to the town ninety. coming here nobody in particular state a big bunch coming into town and they walk and they coming in walking in their body they float. by the bus or the base case leaving all saying and what i was coming to my head and. that is that if you question in fifty people but. well allison wood is a senior consultant for control risks providing political and business risk analysis in the middle east and north africa she joins me in the studio and i thank you very much for coming in to speak to us so will the battle full had data prove
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to be is protected and drawn out as the rest of conflict in yemen i think there is a risk of that happening and i think we've seen from the you of that as well in the statement that the minister made just yesterday that they intend to take this slowly and steadily to to really kind of extract the aims that they want to and try to minimize the damage on the ports the extent possible so i think they're going to proceed with precision rather than sort of advancing quickly to to try to take the city but nonetheless there will be a humanitarian crisis cost to all of this i think there's a great deal of concern that that will be the case we've seen reports today that something like twenty five thousand people have already fled the city there's a population of about i think six hundred thousand in the city as well and then of course there's the concerns surrounding the ability of supplies to continue to get into the port because it's quite as important supply chain for the rest of the country as well so these are obviously considerations for the coalition as they try
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to press them military advantage you mention the u.n. a foreign affairs minister. said the handover of the port needed to be part of a broader agreement could change political calculations in some way perhaps break the stalemate that we've seen in the conflict i think that's absolutely the saudi coalition intends with this campaign i think they see that this conflict is very much been a stalemate for some time now and that it needed a new sort of impetus towards a solution whether this is it i think is still up for debate i think who thinks no that this is their sort of strategic crown jewel and what they hold in the country right now and they're going to be reluctant to let that go. if the u.n. on was able to negotiate some sort of compromise though i think you're going to contain. to see fighting in the country it's still a very fractured political environment even if you're able to come to terms with the who these it's we've seen a great deal of focus on the airport around the city of the day dare it looks as
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though there's a great deal of military activity concentrated in that area how quickly might they the the emraan take the airport i think the clear aim is to take their airport and then subsequently the port using air support as much as possible i think the coalition forces want to avoid a sort of street to street type urban battle that's something they're not particularly experienced in and indeed this is the largest urban area the coalition has tried to take over the course of the conflict so i think they'll focus on the airport for now it seems based on reports on the ground they've made some progress in that but is still and hold the airport so i think that's what we'll be watching over the coming days but how much more destruction could we see if the strikes are going to be key pont of the strategy presumably much more difficult for there to be to avoid civilian casualties i think there's always a risk when you're dealing with air strikes there and there's also concern that the who these have set mines throughout the port back and damaged infrastructure and
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then cause problems when it comes to reconstruction rebuilding as well so i think these are all concerns and whenever you're dealing with a conflict in an urban environment it's very difficult for that to proceed without any civilian casualties so unfortunately i think that's something that the coalition will have to have to sort of address over the course of the conflict well thank you very much allison wood from control risk thank you. well now u.s. president donald trump has waded into germany's migration route claiming government is losing support to to its liberal immigration policy as anger grows in the u.s. over his own administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents trying to we said the people of germany a turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous but when coalition crime in germany is way up big mistake made all over a year ago in allowing millions of people in who are so strongly in violently change that culture then added we don't want what is happening with immigration in
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a europe to happen without us all crime is actually foreign in germany but his car in the midst of a political crisis over immigration policy interior minister horst c. hoffa threatened to bring down the government but he's now said he will give the chancellor two weeks to find an e.u. deal that will reduce migration into germany before deciding his next steps and is planning to use an upcoming summit to negotiate an agreement. that we are off the zero pin yet the c.d.u. and c.s.u. have the joint goal to better direct migration into our country and we do so number of people arriving in the country so that we do not have a situation like we had in two thousand and fifteen we have correspondents monitoring events in washington and. let's start with our white house correspondent kimberly how kit and so trauma keen to attack the german government right now but he himself is under fire home from members of his own party.
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evers of his own party members of the opposition party the democratic party over his policy that has long been on the books but rarely enforced and that is the policy of separating children along the southern border with mexico from their parents when they have been accused of entering the united states illegally and are awaiting an appearance before a judge this is certainly something that has been enforced in the past but not to this degree not until recent weeks under donald trump the administration imaging that this is essentially a deterrent policy and one that they are defending not only has the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions been defending it but also the homeland security secretary kerrison nielson and also in the last couple of hours the u.s. president himself in the united states deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for the parents actions in the past
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six weeks nearly two thousand children have been forcibly separated from the parents the american association of pediatrics has called this cruel practice government sanctioned child abuse which may cause repairable with my floor in consequences the united states will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility won't be you look at what's happening in europe you look at what's happening in other places we can't allow that to happen to the united states not on my watch. so that was the u.s. president defending his policies just before that it was the u.n. commissioner for human rights criticizing the policies deeply concerned about the actions taken by the trumpet administration given the fact that there have been thousands of children now affected but this is something that the u.s.
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president could turn off with a single phone call his critics say but that is something the president says he will not do what appears to be happening is that democrats republicans are once again setting up what is the period to be an election issue for congressional elections in november and this is been the problem area of immigration for decades now in the united states the policies have not been reformed in any way it's become a political football one top democratic congresswoman nancy pelosi saying that what she believes is going on right now is essentially this is a stain on american values that it's a dark stain on our nation an atrocity that debases american values so the democrats strongly encouraging the u.s. president to stop the policy of separating children from their parents but one that the u.s. president is doubling down on for now. i thanks very much for the latest from washington kimberly let's get more on the view from germany now where dominic came
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in ballin and we were just looking at president trump's tweet a little bit earlier on an attack on the german government has there been any response. officially no because i'm going to merkel has been busy all day as it were with meetings of different kinds first of all it was a meeting with her own party executive and then latterly in the last hour or so behind me in the chancery here with the italian prime minister. but if there hasn't been an official response here in germany on social media platforms there has been a considerable response with people choosing to points out in their words the fact that as you were reporting that the crime rate here in germany is at its lowest in twenty five years the last year it dropped by five percent that's despite the influx of many people who came to this country in the past few years claiming refuge one other thing to say the media being weighing in two different use papers saying that pointing to the fact that the facts asserted by the president seem to
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be at variance with the reality here in germany one specific magazine the respected magazine. saying in their words that mr trump embarrassed himself with a tweet full of untruths so that gives you a sense of perspective as i say officially no real response from the government here but many people outside of the political classes have been casting their opinion. but of course is also under fire from her own coalition partners she's managed to keep her head above water so far but that could still be a crisis down the line. very much the let's be clear about this that this time last week everything seemed to be in order in the coalition government and then all of a sudden this route over immigration seemed to blow up as if from nowhere but the reality is it came from the. various from her party's historical allies the christie and social union their de facto leader is horst is
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a whore for the interior minister he has a master plan which he calls the way to resolve the immigration crisis what does he want to do he wants to change the rules back to what they were before the summer of twenty fifteen before the mass influx of refugees because he says that the regulations in the e.u. should bind countries in other words the dublin three regulations that means if you claimed asylum in a year in another e.u. country you should not then claim asylum in germany and if you try to you should be sent back he hasn't got that in this compromise what he has instead is anger merkel agreeing that people who've claimed asylum in germany but who have a travel ban in their name against them should not be allowed in that's how it stands right now and america has been meeting the italian prime minister she says bilateral deals with other countries of the way ahead and she's got a few weeks until the e.u. summit to try to achieve them. all right thank you very much john mccain with all the latest from berlin. and watching the news hour live from london still ahead.
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the battle for libya is oil warlord khalifa haftar attempts to reclaim the terminals from armed groups. columbia elects its youngest ever president why he wants to rewrite the historic peace deal with the fox group and brooks makes history by winning the u.s. open our will have a much more in the sports. turkish forces of and to the outskirts of the syrian city of man beach is part of an agreement with the us earlier this month turkish and u.s. military officials agreed to withdraw all of the kurdish y p g from the city man beach has been under white b.g. control since driving i sell out in two thousand and sixteen with the help of us as support. the wife e g a terrorist group and a strongly criticized washington for using them as an ally on the ground in syria.
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what did we say to. leave members they've begun leaving right now patrolling has also begun why my brothers those who know how to do business properly are entitled to do it. who has more from istanbul. this is seen as a reflection of a success in diplomatic talks by the turkish authorities turks that americans have been negotiating over members for for a while and finally last week top military officials said that they have agreed on a roll map that why p.g. would leave the tunnel for memberships and of course to that is certain side of the euphrates river which is a red line for turkey according to open sources there are about five to seven thousand y p g fighters inside the city inside the city of bitch and there are about seventy thousand y.p. jet fighters that is to decide to flee free to his favor so what is in turkish
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authorities mind is that the turkish military should get incitement bish clear the town provide stability and security to give the town back to its real owners who are out and then turkey wants to move to the instance side though for members to be out. and actually called bonna to do the same plan like a member but no one knows for sure whether the you not to this will give a green light for turkey to cross to that side but turkey believes that having a six hundred kilometer border their own that is to decide if you freeze his river it is still a potential risk and just to remind present has wall to clear his borders his country's borders from wife e.g. from syria up on to the iraqi border and all the developments washington has denied a claim by the syrian regime that the u.s. led coalition bombed military positions in the east of the country on sunday this video posted online allegedly shows the often month of the strikes only become law
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area which killed a number of fighters the syrian observatory for human rights says the attack killed at least forty eight people on the deval has more from gaza on the turkey syria border. there are so far conflicting reports about what exactly happened the syrian official media talk about a strike against their forces near and become a close to the occupied but also the city observatory for human rights talks about a strike against rocket militias which work with the syrian government in that area and the killing of about forty members of those militia the syrian government usually doesn't show its casualties and apparently there could be two strikes and the city government has accused the american americans of being behind these strikes americans of course have tonight possibility for them so that victory is not could be a so far and the videos that are being circulated are not seen on any of the official sites either of the militias or hezbollah or also the syrian government as
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we had earlier the united states has drastically reduced the number of refugees allowed into the country only about a dozen syrian refugees have been granted entry despite the conflict displacing millions but some americans are finding other ways to help those trying to flee the war torn country algiers christian salumi has more from new york. so a lot of these people carry very little with them and when they arrived at these camps they had very little margret shell may be retired but after thirty four years teaching he is right at home in front of a classroom these days the lesson is empathy could be you could live here or you can live here where you can live and there maybe that's as he attempts to help refugees from a country in a conflict these six graders know little about syria but after some photos of the bombed out city of aleppo and a video about life in a refugee camp in jordan they're ready to help in whatever way they can i don't
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think anyone should go through it they went through especially a kid it makes me really grateful for everything that i have actually earned this boy and some friends raised one hundred sixty eight dollars and donations are actually sing really really happy because. it's so great that somebody here wanted to help trash out has been collecting extra books and school supplies from new york city schools for years we're doing great guys and shipping them to underprivileged ones in africa but this year he decided the syrian refugee crisis was too big to ignore and teamed up with the united muslim relief organization for what could be his largest single relief drive yet so you want kids to be empowered to be global citizens you want them to understand the world's problems and so act and also gets americans to understand what the refugee crisis is all about and identify with which i think is critically important also. students parents and teachers answered
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the call lining up one saturday morning to deliver what they collected. nearly fifty schools took part in the drive each one responsible for collecting a different i had school supplies clothing or blanket the goal was to fill a trailer they've done that and more i want to do with the overflow at one point the cars stretch down the street yeah i know we're going to have a good painter just where we're going to put the stuff before we get another good thing the campaign was such a success they're trying to replicate it in city school districts nationwide christian salumi al jazeera new york well now to libya where fighters loyal to war general honey five to have carried out as strikes in the country's so-called oil crescent the strikes targeted fighters who've been trying to retake control of oil terminals in the east of the country since thursday the fighting is said to have caused significant damage to the country's oil infrastructure mom would head has
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more from tripoli. security sources in the oil christian to say that have to his forces are mobilizing. trying to recapture the two measured oil terminals. and rice a new move that have been taken control of by forces loyal to the former leader of the petroleum facilities guards ebrahim. on thursday now. that is the national oil corporation here in tripoli has been warning against any escalation in the oil christian to specially after two major tanks have been set on fire because of the military confrontations in the area and now the red crescent members in the area say that they have received twenty six but is of fighters. that were killed and in the attacks since thursday and most of them belong to
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a warlord khalifa haftar now yesterday two civilians namely two girls were killed in an airstrike in the city in an area strikes law should buy any for have there's forces and now the area is very strategic because whoever controls. the oil christian soon can control libya's income because it's very strategic and it includes for the major the oil terminal a city that are just north liberal eager and. oil port so these are the major the major oil ports in the country and whoever controls them can control libya's income which is the oil production is the backbone of libya's income well oil is central to libya's economy so hearing that has played a major role in recent conflicts between rival governments and armed groups but only does livy have libya have africa's largest proven crude oil reserves. but the
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ninth largest globally these reserves make up ninety seven percent of the government's revenue majority can be found in northeastern libya in the so-called or oil crescent which includes the ruslan hoof and a central terminals these terminals have been under the control of the warlord haifa after and his self-styled libyan national army since two thousand and sixteen the l.n. a controls most of eastern libya and is opposed to the internationally recognized government in tripoli since thursday an alliance of armed groups led by the petroleum facilities god has been trying to retake control of the terminals p.f.g. is led by abraham judge drawn who is hostile to the tripoli government and control the oil facilities from two thousand and thirteen to twenty sixteen when have to so let's get more of if this with. libya analyst and founder of the chip based think tank the sadic institute thanks very much for coming in to speak to us so ruslan a physical shell oil port facility given the vast amount of destruction that we've
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already seen what could this mean for libya's ability to export oil would have certainly given that the. national corporation libya's government on that was responsible for market who has already declared force majeure i think we've lost somewhere in the region of four hundred thousand barrels by the in an export of us in which roughly translates to a hundred million a month so i think it's a substantial loss in terms of libya's economic ability for the political actors that are involved in this it's certainly a song for them that they're something they're losing traction they're able to lose leverage and control the market themselves or they used to market themselves as the custodian for you know for the libyan government or the next person of the. charge of the libyan state so for who live off the political bickering this is a big loss for him to lose for ibrahim to draw on who sees himself as a politician we should remind us of that he saw that the silicon political bureau is a socialist government in two thousand and thirteen and for the market will many many
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. years ago so for those actors it's a massive massive loss or also a massive massive gain politically speaking for the actors and the alliances that they use the actors underneath seem beyond the public narrative or at least to see the stories that underpin why many of the four it was already the forces were going to fight we should look at the p.s.g. is a larger coalition of local groups that don't necessarily just want to control the all present but they see it as a chip or a move in a larger journey when the first group is there bill has a difference for good and they see themselves as one to return i think you have thousand people in the know it's important that you have even explained it you have many different militias involved beyond the two main militia leaders abraham gendron and faffed at and this is a strategic prize. neither side will likely give up could we end up seeing a complete halt to exports altogether well it certainly puts off trying to procure oil on the on the international markets and doesn't show a long line of stability where there had been so there's quite
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a lot of after had explored and hadn't blocked the terminals for two years but underneath what underpins his his own forces a tribal horse that is all trouble motivations to control the area and the very forces that and they're fighting in the region namely the p.f.g. the british general had once corporate who collaborated with cliff after the taboo forces a transnational ethnic group that is both at home in libya and at home in libya's bordering countries then measure in chad who don't have libyan citizenship trying to fight for libyan citizenship the but what prompted abraham judge ron to step in and stage this offensive now he's a master of masquerading grievances masquerading greed as grievance so he's someone has done this for many many years initially played on the sensitivities of libyans that fell in the east that they've been neglected for many years and sort of a government for them a hostile reception a separatist government in two thousand and thirteen he's now looking at the local forces in the area the marble tribe which he's from and saying would you like with the four on your bodies just briefly if he's got the support of the local tribal
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groups it's going to be difficult for. after to regain control over those local tribal groups already going to have the control doesn't sixteen and we should remember that this has been lost in twenty four hours and a thousand sixteen children lost in twenty four hours but the prospect for a prolonged conflict here requires someone to underscore requires an understanding of what is really happening in that region beyond the control of all installations of the economy people see themselves as that's them to return to their homes whether it's the p.t.b. the forts where their dreams are on whether it's the type of forces that sense of a home in libya but don't have citizenship for many of the four in far off that they see themselves as being also marginalized and so in the respect what needs to happen here is a boy you're going to think the national corporation who today or for calling for force majeure could play that role in bringing people towards the stable peace because what tells me is that the larger the largest picture of the story about losing all can losing control or even losing exporting for them it doesn't really matter you have a for them as to how they can go and how they can try and get along thank you very much and i appreciate your analysis in that the news hour live from london much more still ahead we meet a palestinian survivors of war and violence who found
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a new goal in life and then later in sport we take a closer look at the last group to kick off their world cup campaign h. welcome back to your weather conditions across the levant turn to western parts of asia we've still got a few showers across parts of stan and through into did becky stan otherwise run the sun aside the caspian sea chance of the odd show i think for tehran will probably stay dry we've got showers through the caucasus and on the southern side of the black sea there for turkey otherwise these aside the mediterranean not looking too bad cyprus may be seeing the odd show as a head on through into wednesday where the conditions expect to be dry and fine looks like being a warm one in baghdad there with highs of forty one here in the arabian peninsula
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weather conditions pretty quiet at the moment forty two the high in doha on the other side of the pincher medina expected to come in at forty four degrees rising to forty five now as we head across into southern portions of africa it's looking largely fine here some clouds for southern parts of south africa cape town there probably staying dry during the course of shoes day fine conditions across much of the rest of the region and not a great deal of change expect his head on through into wednesday so let's head up into central parts of africa and big storm systems here moving across in the flow all the way from sosa down towards the gulf of guinea and serene quite a long way towards the west too with some showers as far west as skinny and deeper south. on october the sixth one thousand nine hundred seventy three when muslims were observing ramadan and jews were celebrating young people. egypt and syria known to
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surprise war against israel. or murder so to get into the situation there's us now in the first of the three part series al-jazeera explores what really happened during the first week of the war in october on al-jazeera. the twenty three unions has collected objects he finds along the coast. enough to fill his museum enough to break a guinness world record. with a story for every object he's become an environmental activist uninspired. voice for the part to countless markets. marching music. al-jazeera.
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back a quick look at the top stories now saudi led as strikes have targeted who see rebels in this yemeni port city of a data coalition is demanding the rebels withdraw unconditionally from the area in order to save the civilian population the u.s. president has waded into germany's migration route claiming under mughals government is losing support because of its liberal immigration policy this is strong faces pressure at home of his own administration separating him and immigrant children from that parents. i'm tucker says have entered the outskirts of the syrian city of man beach as part of an agreement with the us but still the withdrawal of b.g. fight as earlier this month. well now in all the stories we're following police in munich of arrested the chief executive of common factor ality in relation to
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germany's emissions cheating scandal prosecutors say rupa sadler has been detained on suspicion of fraud and his arrest warrant is based on concealment of evidence relevant to their investigations audi is accused of selling more than two hundred thousand diesel engine cars fitted with software that hides their carbon emissions just days ago parent company volkswagen was hit with a fine of over a billion dollars for cheating the emissions tests the israeli government has endorsed a bill that seeks to outlaw all the filming of his raise soldiers with the intent of shaming them it follows the release of a number of videos which the government has deemed harmful to the army's image by its group say the bill is a stain on democracy and an attempt to conceal the reality of israel's occupation ari feels that reports from west jerusalem. the killing of abdel fattah sheriff in hebron in twenty sixteen became one of the most controversial incidents involving israel's army in recent years the reason the existence of this video showing soldier. shoot our shareef in the head as he lay on the ground which military court
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said happened more than ten minutes after the palestinian was first shot and disarmed while attempting a knife attack as our it was released last month after spending nine months in jail a new bill awaiting consideration by israel's parliament the knesset proposes a maximum ten years sentence for anyone recording similar videos the defense minister avigdor lieberman tweeted his support saying i.d.f. soldiers are subjected to attacks from those who act against the israeli people and tara supporters who try to humiliate the shame and harm them we will put an end to this. proposed law comes in response to a series of videos recently seen as harmful to the israeli military's image the bills wording though has been questioned it refers to the intent of the person recording a soldier's behavior being to injure their spirit or harm national security israel's attorney general has called the bill in its current form illegal if and when the bill does become lords understood it would be in
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a very different form the maximum sentence reduced from ten to three years the offense changed from filming or distributing images of soldiers to impeding them from carrying out their duty the head of the human rights group that circulated the hebron video says that doesn't mean the bill is being watered down rather that it's being incorporated into existing law now that can actually shift the norm and create this gray area in which it would be under the capacity of you know random soldiers or commanders to just claim that almost any photography struction of soldiers ability to carry out their duties. at selham says the eventual law could be used against media organizations as well as activists and send a message to soldiers that they can treat those recordings. more aggressively it wouldn't however apply in the case of this video of an israeli sniper shooting unarmed man near the gaza border fence of the celebrations that followed it was taken by a fellow israeli soldier the defense minister called for him to be punished under
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military law and for the sniper who fired the bullet to be awarded a medal are a force that al-jazeera west jerusalem. four people have been killed and hundreds more injured after a powerful earthquake hit japan second city of sarka a magnitude six point one quake struck at the height of rush hour causing buildings to sway walls to collapse and pipes to burst one of those killed was a nine year old girl who was crushed when a concrete wall collapsed at her school dozens of domestic flights in and out of the city have been grounded and train services have been suspended. because. we are doing our best to respond to this disaster urgently as some areas still cannot access gas or water as of now there is no damage at nuclear power facilities such as talk to hama and nuclear power plants to come in now where the new president evander kane has called a unity after winning a divisive runoff against the far left candidate gustavo petra decays promise to rewrite the peace deal which the government signed with the front group in two
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thousand and sixteen at forty two years old the conservative politician is colombia's youngest as a leader and gallagher reports from the capital. he may be a fresh face in colombian politics but is of undue k. took to the stage his supporters were ecstatic to gaze young untested at his promise to tackle some of colombia's biggest issues going on with. it going in order with humility and on her i tell the colombian people that i will give all my energies to unite our country no more divisions let's think about a country for all and everyone for me it's very important to tell you and the whole of colombia that today there are no defeated citizens because i want to be the president that gives the same love to those who voted for me and those who didn't the polls closed across colombia at four pm but it soon became clear that duke a had a commanding lead handpicked by former president alvaro uribe has promised to modify the peace accords with falk rebels they ended fifty years of conflict but it's not
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yet clear what any changes he makes will mean for an already fragile process despite losing gustavo put through his colombia's most successful leftist candidate the former rebel secured more than forty percent of the vote and has pledged to continue his fight for a fairer society and less dependence on fossil fuels. governs with those who helped him win government suffers a fatal injury hopefully he is able to hopefully i am able to trick myself about his personality and the one elected has sufficient strength to separate himself from those who helped him become a lawyer. yes because they are the worst associations for colombia this was one of the safest elections in colombia's recent history there were no reports of violence across the country a sign say analysts the democracy here is maturing these are elections that have been peaceful has been polarizing because citizens are. not
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used to have a left option and the right option with very different programs but i do think that this is the first time in colombia's history that we are discussing politics. in other democracies in the world if he has a lot to prove his critics say he's nothing more than a puppet of. a hardline of that's both popular and polarizing but it's what he might do with those peace accords with far more people watch most closely because may have lost but the less voice here has never been stronger and agalloch al-jazeera bogota colombia u.s. civilians more than forty percent of the world's guns this according to the small arms survey research group found that out of a billion firearms around the world eighty five percent help by civilians militaries and law enforcement agencies hold the rest the biggest force pulled pushing up gun ownership around the world is civilian ownership in the united
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states. ordinary american people by approximately fourteen million new imported guns every year that number varies a little bit but if you average for the previous five years that are fully documented for a little over fourteen million new and imported firearms. more than a thousand doctors in australia have signed a petition calling for a refugee who's dying of lung cancer to be allowed into the country for palliative care the man known as i me is being held as an offshore detention center on the tiny pacific island of now he wants to come to australia to be with members of his ethnic group as he dies andrew thomas has more on this from brisbane. the refugee at the center of this is a sixty three year old has tsar a man originally from afghanistan but he tried to come to australia by boat instead under australia's government's never australia policy he was deported straight to
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the tiny bits of the god of the route where he's been for nearly five years he's got lung cancer he's dying everybody accepts that he wants to be brought to australia for palliative care and because he knows that members of his community are here to support him in his final days now australia's government has accepted that the medical operations on the road and not adequate for his needs and offer to transfer him to taiwan he doesn't want to go there he says he knows nobody he fears people won't speak his language now doctors here more than a thousand of them now have signed a petition calling for him to be brought to australia i spoke to one of them about why she'd signed want to die amongst people who speak their language. and with good medical death happens to everyone but how you die matters in a sense this one man this one it situation has become representative of the way australia's government is treating all those with medical conditions on mannus
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island and in the roof and doctors in australia putting themselves at the forefront of calls for change still ahead for you this hour how sport could a warming of relations between the two koreas and sweden gets its wild card campaign underway with a win or have the details for fire in sport. now
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north and south korea will hold a joint bosket bowl game next month and into korean team will also be sent to the asian games in august and as craig leeson reports from sports is helping heal the
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wounds between the two koreas. as the cold war relationship between the koreas begin to break apart in one thousand nine hundred one a young south korean table tennis champion was thrust together with her rival from the north for the world championships in japan the two koreas within and still are technically at war. i was twenty one then i was young i really didn't know politics why are they doing this was my thought then. and north korean leader when he became the first athletes from the koreas to be teamed in international competition and in what is one of sports greatest upsets the pair defeated nine times world champion china briefly uniting the careers with a rush of patriotism. the things that were thought shone felt they touched the heart that's how it was then and i believe that's how it will be in the future too
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that's why we need joint sports teams in my opinion it's a sentiment echoed by academics here. non-presence of the year as athletes of the two koreas compete to get or when together and the spectators cheer together and hope for a green that probably has significantly more value than anything physical. the two koreas agree following the latest talks in the d.m.z. it was announced south korea's manes and women's basketball teams will visit north korea on the fourth of july which is american independence day with a reciprocal visit in autumn and athletes from both sides of the border a jew to march in the opening and closing ceremonies at the asian games in indonesia planned for august and they'll have unified teams for some sports both will work on participating in other international events including this year's asian paralympic games global
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a new government will do our best to improve into korean relations endure a cup of national unity through sports exchanges including cooperation in the twenty eighteen asian games sports diplomacy is a world worn path for the north and south koreans providing a platform outside the usual political rhetoric leaders believe it will bring a sense of pride to koreans and extend the feeling of brotherhood reignited by the winter olympics here in february craig leeson al-jazeera near the d.m.z. south korea. it's a long way from a world cup in russia but football is helping amputees in gaza see a life beyond their injuries underage of palestinians have lost their legs in wars and protests against israel and iran contra points now from gaza. the heroes of seal team take to the pitch for an exhibition match in a sort of the refugee camp they've split into two teams for the game designed to
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showcase disabled football. each of these players lost a leg in the last three wars israel has forty goals a full one hundred eighteen at the time but football's given them some hope a charge to take part in a physical activity and give them confidence there's life beyond injury i know if a sentence. by somebody in the sub in two thousand and seven i was walking near my house when there was an explosion and i was fifteen they had to amputate my leg i used to play football at school but to play football like this has been brilliant for me we can play sports like everybody else was heroes f.c. is part of the data rehabilitation society that helps people cope with injury this is a new initiative for them. because i felt. you know i came up with the idea after watching disabled in television i started to research and said to myself we should do this we have more disabled here than anywhere in the world due to the occupation and the siege i talk to people and realize you could do this we started our first training
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session in march twenty seventeen was despite all the challenges the team has ambitions was disabled football is still very new head but the players are very confident they want to be able for me and maybe even one day fight on the international stage. fourteen thousand seven hundred palestinians were injured in recent and he's running protests many have been shot in the leg by israeli snipers and can't get proper treatment because of shortages of painkillers and medical supplies thirty three patients have had to have their leg amputated to stop the disease from spreading doctors could normally treat injuries if it wasn't for the shortages. heroes f.c. hope that one day amputees can find something that will give them hope beyond their injury. the players say despite their life changing injuries a game of football is the new goal in life. the throughout the refugee camp.
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al-jazeera. where every. when the news breaks. on the mailman city and the story builds to be forced to leave it would just be when people need to be heard women and girls are being bought and given away in refugee camps al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring
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new award winning documentaries and live news i'm not out of here i gotta commend you on hearing is good journalism on air and online. the most memorable moments with al-jazeera was when i was on air as hosni mubarak fell with the crowds in tahrir square talking. to us if something happens anywhere in the world al jazeera is in place we're able to cover news like no other news organizations. were able to do it properly. and that is our strength. al-jazeera for me is different because there's a maturity about its views govern their lives really genuinely a ripple says charlotte but the feds say the risk of a story like looks could kill over the family going on in a culture zero is says you know it's
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a good place to do the reality on the ground that other males will grow the only combat the financing of the people and that's what we do nothing else but we do well. with bureaus spawning six continents across the dude. al-jazeera is corresponding sleeping during the story state. of it was done and no one can do is live on the money unless you know. we're at the mercy of the rajinikanth for palestinian refugees to syria through din world news and this is different not said whether someone is paying for some of his favorites but this meddling in mainstream think it's how you approach an official enough that it is a certain way of doing it to congress by ending to story and found out. you know where. my mom my.
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