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but rare thunderstorms in turkey in greece and gin and france and italy all their daily but they are becoming fewer and fewer gerry the picture of all of europe is settle the pressure is high which usually means good summer weather don't see a difference in the north frontal system strong across the u.k. in scandinavia beijing is cooler and windy and in fact for a while it's going to be but not for long so this is the picture then for the longest day of the year in london dein thousand degrees in northerly praise that extends the cooling trend into france as well at the same time it's thirty three in vienna but that's not going to last until tomorrow now the caress spreads and you've got eighteen degrees as a result and i mean hans from the likelihood of thunderstorms once again in remain your bug area and slovenia just us three examples. that's all happening over land still over trainees fairly quiet as breezy weather every now and again and occasional showers but attempted to affect the coast of morocco to think will
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succeed about such a twenty three degrees the breeze becomes out of the interior it's still pretty hot the east cars up to forty herndon the valley the kings hotter still and of course there a big show still forming over the ethiopian highlands the weather sponsored by cattle . on package price what were you hearing what were you saying whether on line horrendous things you know it's all just there's absolutely no doubt about that or if you join us on sacked a lot of the major countries in the commonwealth have far bigger fish to fry and chips to eat bass is a dialogue talk to us about some of this except if perhaps everyone has a voice what happens when the robots themselves are making the decision to join the colobus conversation amount is iraq.
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watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories for you right now after mounting pressure from both democrats and republicans president signed an executive order to end his controversial policy of splitting up migrant families at the southern border children will now be able to stay with their parents for up to twenty days. a coalition and yemen says it has taken full control of the airport and new data the streets of the port city are deserted as fighting nears the army is now blocking the road between two data province in the capital sana and an effort to cut rebel supply lines. there's growing concern in libya on the impact of fighting around the country's oil producing region and its impact on the economy the u.s. state department has condemned the recent violence between armed groups calling on rival leaders to immediately withdraw from the area. european union says it's ready
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to engage with the u.s. to resolve a trade dispute a day before the beginning it be retaliatory tariffs kick kick in against washington starting on friday the e.u. will impose a twenty five percent duty tax on three point two billion dollars worth of u.s. goods the list ranges from agricultural products such as rice and orange juice to jeans whiskey motorbikes and various steel products the counter-terrorist were triggered by donald trump's decision to impose a ten to twenty five percent tariff on steel and aluminum imports the e.u. has called that illegal. it could is not yet but it could escalate. to full trade war which would be bad for the whole world because we are so new zealand is a new opinion we are so interlinked in the global economy also in the chinese and in the us with the global value chains so it will affect us as well it will affect our companies it will affect our consumers and we are also worried that countries
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are acting outside the rules that we have created jointly in the w. n r t is an international economist at lancaster university he joins us on skype from lancaster we appreciate your time so are the terrorists that donald trump wants to impose are they either legal or well as an economist macit he's the it depends it depends who you listen to who you ask you advice donald trump is introducing these measure because of national security the european union and other countries to think of it does that nothing else then safeguards safeguards are measures rethought allowed by they were treated in a way of our when nick country imposes as safeguards of the trade partners can impose measures up to the same level on other products therefore be you argument that these measures are nothing else then safeguards as such we are authorized by the w to your tween peoples are measures of our own so this three point two billion dollars actually relatively speaking doesn't really seem like
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a very big number is this a negotiating tactic and i say that because the e.u. trade commissioner says we're always open to talk with the us the whole is based on the idea that we talk is this a way to trigger some sort of negotiation. it is a way to leave the door pane three point two in the numbers he says so small that we should not worry too much for the direct effect of these types of what these in more of a concern as the commissioner was saying easy first a step or two more measures and also on much of these adoption we will serve now what a trade flows because of global value chains or so that you target one products and their fates every pull through the economy to places where you do not expect it so the european union is a standing firm a needs commitment that they want to follow did rules of the trading system and that's why they imposed these measures but it is same time they say let's told but the lead story of franklin we doubt keep changing our mind or are trumps
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administration minds on what to do on which the mountain against which countries we use the term trade war if this does continue to escalate what does what does that look like well a trade war is basically a situation where you do something bad to me i return it to you you are even more upset then you do something worse to me which is what the now donald trump has done announcing a possible measures on trying to be going to trade from china and that's why then once you start summing up of three point two plus another three point two and so on that thought that amount of trading moved easily larger that is that options are huge and then that is the political concern of the day international system breaking down and not only necessary breaking down on trade make theirs but on other issues economic and political as well ok. thank you very much joining us from lancaster appreciate it. listen france are being accused of abusing the rights of migrants and refugees as they wait to cross the border from italy international
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charities and activists say detention is routine asylum procedures aren't properly explained in the rights of refugee children are just being ignored as a tosh about reports police commanders refute the allegations saying they're just trying to stop illegal immigration. french border police search a train in malta are the first stop from the border with italy migrants try to cross into france on this line every day but few make it the government's crackdown on illegal immigration and police checks asara pressure on police to turn back migrants says this n.e.p. is leading to rights abuses isn't silent the police said there was no one inside here but when we asked to go in we saw young people lying on the floor there was no interpreter no lawyer given no possibility to file an asylum request last year french officers on this border stop fifty thousand migrants many walked from italy taking dangerous mountain routes like this man who didn't wish to be identified but
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described being detained by french officers and we don't have a blanket we don't have growth as we didn't have shoes. with. some boy he's used to be due to do or because he's what he called me and he's hungry. enough to dad's old money to police my knees. started to beat. the boys. there were only a few hundred meters between the french and italian border posts which face the mediterranean sea all along this road we have spoken to migrants who say that they were detained overnight by the french border police in a police station down there they all say the same thing they were locked inside with no food no access to information and activists in this region say that is extremely common what's more they say the french police are falsifying documents. in order to turn away michael and one hundred eighty. under french law child
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refugees a guaranteed state protection but charity workers here say french police often ignore the rules it's unfortunately it's so common so we have that day where you see that somebody has written the regional state and the police change because in that way they don't have the responsibility to taking charge of the model yet again and good police. i repeat these accusations because every day my colleagues face migrants who pretend to be minus. on all sides the lack of trust is clear there's also frustration that the european union isn't doing more to deal with the migration crisis leaving individual countries to cope and leaving the most vulnerable people lost in uncertainty natasha butler al jazeera. the un and the enter american commission on human rights say they were saved and detentions trend best to get the political crisis and at least one hundred seventy
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people have been killed in protests and a government crackdown since april security forces have been accused of using excessive force and upload reports from the capital managua. these desperate mothers cry old to prison guards for the release of their children . has been camped outside these gates for more than a week her son wielded was arrested after attending an anti-government demonstration at one point she change her self to the fence begging for her son's release me or given to me when my son is innocent his only crime was holding up the flag of my country i believe this is why they're keeping him here. we'll that his wife hazel has also stayed by the prison gates she goes home several times a day to take care of the family business a cybercafe in a residential neighborhood of need that i was capital managua hazel says she has a court order for her husband's release adding that he has been held illegally and
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without charge for more than a week this document is for the release of my husband but he has a big a trust in god that i have been back some. like many others who have gone missing we'll that was taken to the a famous torture center from the days of the samosa rule more than forty years ago today it houses young men and women who have protested against president daniel ortega. a human rights attorney says that arrests of peaceful demonstrators is just one of dozens of human rights violations being committed by the government and. we have recorded two hundred cases nationwide of illegal detention and forced disappearances and also kidnappings. the political conflict in the guy one has killed at least one hundred eighty six people and injured more than a thousand activists say they have recorded at least sixty disappearances although the actual number is difficult to know human rights observers continue to call on president ordered to end the violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrators and
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are asking for the release of an unknown number of individuals who have been detained without charge since the start of the political crisis every day hazel prepares meals for we did and head back to that you put it to hand food over to prison guards together with with its mother they repeat this exhausting ritual three times a day each time hoping we'll that it will finally be released when i get up in a. month i will. malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has been has denied rather accusations that he stole billions of dollars during his nine years in office he's accused of taking money from a state fund he set up while in office the new prime minister my chair mohammed reopened the corruption investigation after winning last month's election florence louis has more from kuala lumpur. the form of malaysian prime minister najib razak has once again defended his role in the country's largest financial scandal where four and a half billion dollars is alleged to have been misappropriated from the state
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investment fund he set up nearly seven hundred million dollars is alleged to have ended up in his personal bank account but not gyp says that was a gift. i wish north didn't have any knowledge whatsoever of money is coming in i would not have couldn't do it and i loaded if i knew subsequently i believe that the monies from several sources. and this is debatable but this was a concern i'm not privy to bang bang records you know unless you have special clearance from the bank then you would know the source of funding or they knew i accept it at face value would it uses coming from from a saudi from king abdullah and his b.s. you know his instruction the previous investigations conducted by the police and the attorney general had found no evidence of wrongdoing but since the new government came into power following the may ninth election toppling
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a coalition that ruled for more than sixty years the new administration has sought to get to the bottom of this corruption scandal it set up a task force and not long after police raided properties linked to knowledge and his family that seized nearly thirty million dollars in cash and more than four hundred design a handbags as well as bags stuffed with cash and jewelry not tipped and his wife have been banned from leaving the country although no charges have been followed the new prime minister says there's enough evidence to charge not just and his wife . it was a good day for spain and portugal at the world cup and russia after drawing against each other in their opener both picked up their first wins and those russian made it through to the next stage andy richardson reports from moscow. well it's hard to overstate just how low expectations were for russian football fans heading into this world cup that seeing has been in a state of shambles for the best part of two or three decades now and they came into this world cup on the back of
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a seven game winless run but here they are through to the knockout rounds after just two games played and with eight goals scored their progress confirmed by a one zero win by your acquired over saudi arabia that result meaning saudi and egypt go out the only goal scored in that game is by luis suarez a man with an interesting world record in twenty ten he was red carded in the quarterfinals for hunt ball that denied garner a place in the last four and four years ago he took it upon himself to bytes in opponents and received a lengthy international ban as a consequence he'll be hoping to make slightly more conventional headlines this time around in the days of the games the one zero wins for spain against iran and for portugal against morocco portugal's goal scorer cristiana rinaldo he now has four goals in the tournament and is the top score at this world cup side for spain portugal top the group with identical records going into the final round of group games they come up next monday australia plays denmark in the world cup later on thursday
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a team known as the socceroos need to when to stay in the tournament football is not the most popular sport in australia but it is helping migrant children enter great into society enter thomas reports. in western sydney this is an innovative program to get refugee and migrant children involved in sports football united has been running for more than a decade helping newly arrived children to integrate into their local community. these kids would play twenty four seven i mean we can't keep and have programs going to satisfy them i think i've heard thousand times i want to be a soccer when i grow up but love for the national team the socceroos isn't universal on television football competes with two types of rugby rugby union and rugby league cricket and australian rules football which is hugely popular in the cities of melbourne and adelaide. the round ball game is sometimes to ride
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it as a migrant sport. but in participation terms football is number one and this diversity is reflected in the australian national team players who fled wars in the balkans have been at the heart of previous world cup campaigns this world cup in russia a representatives with lebanese samoan iranian and croatian heritage more than half the scored have non english speaking backgrounds reflecting modern australia we're all australians but we have different heritage is and football's been a great bonding tool for that for the country but despite more people playing the game australia's top domestic league has seen poor attendance figures this past season putting the sport's governing body under pressure challenge to turn those grassroots participants people who play the game love the guy and turn them into fans of the professional future is very broad but at the moment it's still in
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a very much a converted to be environment tim cahill who was with everton in english premier league for many years is now it is fourth world cup for australia he began. samoa is a teenager and he's an inspiration to others wanting to be rude it makes me take a big step towards going to see him never made a very good to never did seem to me more and i can be one and be just like him in such a competitive environment in australia you. see of appeal is its greatest assets and al-jazeera city isn't hard and has become a new single it's. the first prime minister to give birth while in office she announced the news by posting a photo on instagram she will be on maternity leave for the next six weeks with the deputy pm stepping up and running the country she is only the second elected leader to give birth while in the top job the first was pakistan's benazir bhutto nearly
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thirty years ago it's a girl. these are the headlines on al-jazeera after mounting pressure from both republicans and democrats the u.s. president on a trump has signed an executive order to end his controversial policy of splitting up migrant families at the southern border children will now be able to stay with their parents for up to twenty days and donald trump says he wants to keep them together even longer the study marathi coalition in yemen says it has taken full control of the airport and who data the streets of the city are deserted as fighting nears the army is now blocking the road between who data province and the capital sana and an effort to cut rebel supply lines seven former detainees in prisons run by the united arab emirates and yemen have described what they call a system of sexual torture they told the associated press they were raped and abused by you many guards under u.s. control the u.a.e.
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though denies managing or running any prisons in that country. european union says it's ready to engage with the u.s. to resolve a trade dispute triggered by washington's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. impose a twenty five percent today on three billion dollars worth. of bourbon and motorbikes it will start on friday it could yet but it could escalate. a trade war which would be bad for the whole world because we are so you zealanders and you we are so interlinked in the global economy also in the chinese and in the u.s. with the global value chains so it will affect us as well it will affect our companies it will affect our consumers and we are also worried that countries are acting outside the rules that we have created jointly in the. former prime minister knowledge of rasik has been denied accusations that he stole billions of dollars
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and office is accused of taking money from a state while an office of the headlines keep it here the strain is next on june twenty fourth turkish citizens vote in one of their most significant elections in recent years the. new sweeping president. approved in a referendum. will have full coverage of the vote and its impact. on. i really could be and here in the stream thousands of immigrants to the united states the american dream has turned into a nightmare and more than two thousand children have been separated from their parents as the government of president donald trump enforces a zero tolerance policy undocumented immigrants and i'm not one to have a dream today we'll hear stories from the detention centers and ask immigration
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experts to weigh in and of course we want to hear from all of you join us in our you tube. democrat force that. nation i just use. and show. pictures of children and minors in cages and heart wrenching stories that the families torn apart continue to emerge and provoked outrage protests are growing louder and cross party lines but despite the outcry and recent polls show that the policy is supported by many in trump's core republican base the president has
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signed an executive order to stop separation of families but how are the lives of immigrants from mexico guatemala honduras and el salvador being affected we spoke to some people on the streets of washington d.c. to get their thoughts i just think our politicians should get together and stop this administration for example rating families and doing things that are completely against the values of the united states and i definitely also hope that this conversation it's there. extrinsic their policy expects to sell most often it's gotten a lot of people's attention and well i'm continue to hold people's attention and the larger public so that they can start thinking about like other pieces of education policy rather than kind of how to make that intentions and that's dedicated to this very emotional issue that involves children like gets the conversation going about policy that i personally feel like i was in a position of leadership pertaining to immigration i would never lets them like
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this happen you know families i love them with the dogs because very important and if i to be separated it's terrible now i'm from texas and so i can only imagine how hard it would be. just just the natural conditions of what it be like spain and places like that so that is no i'm not very well versed about but i can only imagine the conditions are terrible and so whatever's being done in these separation areas where the place of the kids are stained i hope that they're having access to water to cool temperatures are things that out man. but joining us to talk about this holly cooper co-director of the immigration law clinic at the university of california davis eric opinio is policy and litigation director at. and bridget cambria is an immigration attorney in oakland california at people's justice the people's justice center and i want to start with a clip and welcome to you all i want to give our viewers
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a glimpse of what the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance policy has meant for one family in particular meet one year old. separated from its father who was legally seeking asylum in the u.s. it took three months before the boy was allowed to reignite with his mother shown here in a video captured by filmmaker but doubt have a look. from the one you. turned himself in at the border to ask for asylum he presented his identification and a son's birth certificate. immigration officials claimed he was not the father and kept him in detention. but to us in fifteen hundred miles away to the officer for resettlement.
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morning or. you know. a heart breaking video there think the saddest part is seeing the look in his mother's eyes and also her younger son when he realizes that his little brother doesn't recognize him how are my tale and his family doing today. well still having a lot of emotional and behavioral issues resulting from the separation of his family and i actually when he was returned to his mother he was infested with lice and filthy is mother tells me about it looked like he hadn't been be used with soap in months and so now he's just now starting to trust his mother again unfortunately his father is still detained at the time it's
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a detention facility in san diego we've tried to arrange for a visit twice and both times the children were not let into the detective facility the first time we tried was actually andrea's birthday he was so excited to see his father and then had to open his birthday presents in the parking lot of the facility the second time they told us the children had not been cleared i'm not really sure what kind of clearance process i need for a two year old and i are old but the fact is they have not been allowed to see their father since they were separated from him in november of twenty seventeen you know and you hearing you describe you know the condition of the family the shock but also the physical condition and the torture essentially or you know the effect on the boy i should say drawn the most well done and like many people on twitter saying from the articles i've read on the issue all of the reports coming in from medical professionals agree that this experience is incredibly traumatic and could potentially cause lifelong harm on the child of course i meant trauma not torture earlier but we have a clinical psychologist who's weighing in sent us
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a video comment really outlining her concerns and what she's doing about it i'd love to get your thoughts are bridget let's let's take a listen i wrote a letter which has now been signed by over ninety thousand mental health professionals asking their present ministration to remember when you can fly to the child to not only talk about the separation policy ask policy but to actually think about the children who are being ripped apart from their parents something where we are deeply concerned about the fact that the separation has on the standards. on their general wellbeing and on the entire trajectory of their lives in regards to see stocks immediately. richard of course the executive order was signed but hearing the psychologist there what comes to mind. well comes to mind to me is that i'm a practitioner in family detention i was brought into a family separation because we heard of vulnerable cases and started to take them.
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we know that family detention even together causes severe trauma. to minors. it causes thoughts of suicide it causes thoughts helplessness so we see that in family detention and that's when we have a family together so imagine i mean it's hard to even imagine what the psychological effects would be with a child torn from a parent and the instantaneous psychological damage that's done by that i don't think that psychologists are going to know until we see what happens to these two to three thousand children taken what the exact effects are but i'm sure that it's going to be startling and i'm sure that it's going to be lifelong brigid i'm want to share with you to have learned so with our audience of course because i know you're already familiar with this one from the new york times inside the former wal-mart that is now a shelter for almost fifteen hundred migrant children and this is in brownsville
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texas here's another headline this from the a.p. in this just came out recently overnight late last night on tuesday night break at least three shelters set up for child migrants and their what's being called tender age shelters can you explain to us what you know about these shelters what kind of provisions are there for children what's happening inside and what do they look like. well to be honest these new pop up detention centers for children i don't believe that there have been cameras inside of them yet i think that the idea of something called a tender age shelter which is really a tender age baby jail is is absolutely horrific and probably against any kind of values that we hold as human beings or us americans. i don't understand how any facility could possibly be licensed that contains minors as young as an infant. i
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would pretty much guarantee that they probably are not licensed for that purpose additionally if you have a tent city for minors i have absolutely no idea how any state could possibly license the syllabi like that and that is a requirement if you're going to detain children and something that i'm very terrified about today with an executive order from the trumpet ministration is are they going to remove those very simple protections for minors protections that include avoiding prolonged attention and avoiding being placed into facilities that are not made to care for children at all ali you know a lot of people talking about how this amounts to child abuse maybe that's why i used the word torture earlier just trying to imagine what that would be like really tough to know because so few people have been been inside but people are trying to make sense of why this happened bringing politics into this on twitter families belong together saying trump and sessions are using immigration as an issue to agitate their base for midterm elections while the same time trying to wash their
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hands of this as they lied to the american people but maybe you know the the main question that remains that is being discussed on twitter right here by it's the floor as is what happens to the families who are separated under the previous policy now that the order has been signed what can you tell us about that holly. well i've been inside i've inspected least twenty different children's detention facilities and they range all the way from shelter care to juvenile jails or the office of refugee resettlement the entity that detain minors and uses juvenile jails where the conditions can include pepper spray can include putting children into psychiatric treatment facilities we're seeing a huge amount of trauma even before this executive order because there's trauma not only a family some break in but there's the trauma that detention brings upon a child some children are locked in cells for the majority of the day without.
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