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and live from. al-jazeera headquarters in doha and welcome to the news grid an explosion disrupts a rally in ethiopia where tens of thousands of people came out to cheer on the new prime minister will examine what this attack means for the unprecedented change. has been implemented rallying support in turkey last minute efforts by the major candidates to win over voters ahead of sunday's elections and whoever wins the presidency will have more powers than ever will be live in ankara plus more mixed messages about u.s. immigration from the trump administration some undocumented migrants and their
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children are we united but it's unclear what's next for those who are still separated. miller the news live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and. we start with out of zimbabwe that's where the vice president kemba hadi has been injured in a bomb blast at a campaign rally for president emerson. as you'll see right there the blast happened just as the dignitaries were walking off the stage in the city. and there are conflicting reports at least two deaths there it is other ministers were injured in that attack. but the president's office say he wasn't hurt next month's
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elections will be the first since robert mugabe was forced out of power. joining us from johannesburg and neighboring south africa you're following the story from south africa what are you hearing about this attack carol we're told that the explosion happened just as prison and guard was leaving the rally we told several v.i.p.'s have been injured and supporters have also been injured speaking to people on the ground they say that people had to carry some of the injured in their cars to the local hospital in below zero some of the injuries are in the legs and in the stomach some of quite critical people they are saying they are now several roadblocks in the city of the way of being manned by police mainly a flight which is meant to take off to go to harare the capital has been canceled passengers been told to return back to beloit and wait for further notice we're told that the us does not have the security at the airport employee and that's all we know so far but we can confirm according to the presidency that the prison is
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safe and sound at the state house in below zero and do we know who might be behind this attack. well bill away is an opposition stronghold so it could be maybe some opposition supporters who aren't happy with the rulings are in thier party are having were present or it could be internal issues within zanu p.f. when robert mugabe was forced out of power by the army in november we know there are some people who are still allied to mugabe who still support him and they're still in zanu p.f. so it could be maybe some elements who support the former president who may not one god were in power for example but all of this i'm verified nothing it is confirmed a lot of speculation official is just saying to people on state media that the president is safe people should be calm wait for updates the menu's will it'll be at eight pm local time in zimbabwe and that's when i think more information was talking out officially from people on the ground all right so her we'll leave it
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there for now we'll cross back to you when you have more information thank you for the time being well this was the second bomb blast targeting an african leader in a single day tens of thousands of ethiopians attended a large rally in the capital addis ababa in support of their prime minister modes and that's where someone threw a grenade killing at least one person and injuring more than one hundred people victoria again b. has the latest. this was the moment the grenade exploded close to where prime minister abbey atma it was sitting. for a few moments there was confusion before members of the security forces came onto the stage and led abby atma to safety. witnesses say they saw the man who targeted the prime minister the prime minister were just concluded his speech and that moment there was a grenade. but i think the guy was just trying to stroll the stage.
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with the guys beside him just took him so they just went off and on sunday it was a bloody end to a day that is started with say much optimism hundreds of thousands of ethiopians had gathered in the capital addis ababa mescal square to support the new prime minister since taking office in april the forty two year old has announced a series of reforms including the release of tens of thousands of prisoners the opening of state owned companies to private investment and to propose peace deal with eritrea in an address to the nation after the attack could be said that those trying to divide ethiopia would not succeed in your my fellow why not but that i'm not certain groups planned and coordinated to destroy this large gathering to kill innocent people and to spill blood on our streets they have tried very hard but their entire plot has failed the questions are being raised about whether the
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security operation for such a large rally was adequate some of the officers have been saying that this is an attempt on the life of the prime minister and the definitely the supporting the rally was a great demonstration that there is a solid support for the reformist by the prime minister but at the same time the the great attack have revealed that the reforms are still fragile prime minister abbey says he is determined to bring change to ethiopia but this attack highlights the lengths some will go to to try and stop him victoria gate and be al-jazeera. has the fastest growing economy in africa but that. it's been hampered by almost three years of anti-government protests they started in the aroma region in late twenty fifteen initially over land use but quickly spread to other areas and took in issues like the release of political prisoners and greater involvement in the
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political process in october twenty sixth in the government declared a six month state of emergency it would later extend that by four months but it did little to dampen the violence in april last year the government said at least six hundred sixty nine people were killed in the protests almost a year later a prime minister. resigned and a second state of emergency was brought in and then in april a new prime minister for if you are a former leader from the aroma ethnic group there he is and as we mentioned it was a mass rally in the supports that this grenade attack happens well his short time in office has already been marked by significant reforms including the release of prisoners a dialogue with the opposition and peace talks with longtime rival eritrea now we're going back to our top story and that is the attack that took place at
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a rally in zimbabwe we understand that the vice president has been hurt but the president himself is safe we can now speak to george who is the presidential spokesman thank you for talking to us on al-jazeera you speak to us from by the way aware that attack took place can you tell us what happened. well where are we we have had a very good gun rally before. afternoon and as you have been i was just about to conclude our into in the present tense about to lose their parents that's when we had this explosion. the good thing is that there's going to save. maybe take a lot more you know safely and. it was a. vice president. campbell more hardly was
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frustrated from my leg injury just now has been admitted at a local office which of course might have a why are you even in good spirits you have just beautifully with him and we are hoping that he will be on the mend and will do so if people who haven't come behind us said hi i'm sorry who do you think was behind this attack and why would such a rally and the president be targeted over the festus a party thing we are still trying to investigate who really would have been behind such an attack but i as you are aware there's been some big guns to be seasoned of today that the current president reflect. some time last year and. ever since that time there's been some kind of tension in the country not so much. involved in the broader part of the country but i was in
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certain elements within the fifteen who'll may not have accepted that there's been a new dispensation but i really don't want to run ahead of obliquely that particular should be able to get some of those if you think we should in the market we know that this happened just a short time ago so clearly there is the investigation is underway but what can you tell us about the investigation going forward and what the next steps are going to be over the next couple of hours. well i think that your feeling is that there's this gives you a. pretty good. look tell you that you must recognize that these days them elections that marked gholam in goal evolving don't. mean after all what you've got to if you poll you've got to mark because they're really the bull. outcome but i will bet you have two approaches you could stop knocking on. a country you have to
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go up so much that when the event of mitchell happened is dr oz but i'm sure that the ability to call people is they believe there should be political a right to george surround a presidential spokesman we thank you very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera giving us an update on the situation in zimbabwe now to weather news and turkey is headed into an election that will reshape its entire political system and solidify president russia play a birdo and grip on power or restraint as ambitions sunday's vote will bring into effect constitutional changes creating an executive presidency with sweeping new powers as you can see presidents are two on addressing supporters of one of his last campaign rallies in istanbul while his rival know how to address hundreds of thousands of fist supporters as you can see right there calling on turkish voters to reject or to won and his reform we will talk about both early one on the
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opposition with him i'll show you how he's joining us from and to run first on earth to on what are we hearing from the president on this last day of campaigning jamal. well there in his message has been consistent throughout the turkey is now on the brink of embracing a new era in the country in terms of going forward with this new political system one that was voted upon through the referendum a few months ago and that is going to transform it into a presidential system as you mentioned there for him he believes that his party under his leadership has managed to transform the country economically politically socially over the past fifteen years or so they point to the economic successes in terms of increase in g.d.p. the. advancements in terms of technology and infrastructure as well as on terms of the military front and for buyers turkey is concerned she's saying if the people
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would like to continue on this journey towards a modern turkey then they should get out and vote for him he has been trying to appease some of those who've been critical of him saying that this is going to be a turkey for all turks pointing to the fact that even though there have been maybe tensions between turks and the kurdish minority over the past couple of years it was under the party's rule the kurds were given many of their rights in terms of allowing to set up broadcast channels in their language in terms of time to organize politically properly and so forth so he's trying to underline those achievements his role during and the opposition leader mohamed i mentioned has also been asked and we have seen many many people come out to those rallies what is the message that he's putting forward. of course i mean there in harlem is one of several people who are contesting this presidential election but he is by far may be the most serious contender to oppose president for the tape
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around amongst the other five other four rather who are putting their name forward he is the candidate for the c.h.p. the secularist party that is essentially been the major opponents of the party in parliament over the past years and his message has been that he believes there are two on one has been trying to drag the country towards a more authoritarian system and he believes that the policies that have been pursued by zero to one in terms of foreign policies have also been destructive but he's also had some very alarming promises in his rallies for example during his promise that if you was to be made president that he would essentially expel the millions of syrian refugees that are continent sarky within his first one hundred days so those are things that haven't really resonated with sections of society although as with many societies around the world the right wing elements of them do
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find a lot of solace when they hear that's kind of rhetoric aside from that those promises he's also promised to return the system to a parliamentary system if you was to be elected it's important to note practically speaking the reason these elections are taking place there historic was they're not just the presidential ones they're also for the parliament as well so when voters take to the ballot boxes tomorrow sunday turkish time will have two papers one for the presidency one for the parliament if nobody from the presidential candidates reaches fifty percent or above then it will go to a second round the second round will take place roughly around ten days later and that's where things are uncharted in terms of turkey and turkish experience because before that the importance given to a presidential election wasn't that signify. because it was not really a sort of multi-role but here most of the power will be concentrated in the presidency and that's why everybody is watching. to see how this will unfold all
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right jim reporting from ankara thank you well from how the role of the president will change to the parliamentary breakdown this interactive online has everything you need to know about the upcoming election it's on al-jazeera dot com home page. the mexico texas border is where thousands of undocumented migrants try to enter the u.s. while president trump has signed an executive order to stop the separation of families their message from the white house remains unclear since it maintains its policy to prevent any so-called illegal aliens from entering the united states but in a town that's become synonymous with the immigration issue that's macallan texas some migrants were released on friday one report said imports they are charged a ten dollars fee after pleading guilty to sneaking across the border and then released their bellies on the following this story for us has more in it what are
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you hearing about the latest efforts to reunite all the families with their children. there's a lot of confusion and that's a word we've been saying a lot lately down here because there is just so much confusion let's first talk about those migrants from mccallan texas that you just mentioned there they were counts about a couple dozen of them that were released however released by who these were migrants that we believe were in the court system being criminally charged for crossing the border into the united states illegally and asking for asylum so what's happened is you've got multiple groups of migrants here let's run down the list you've got migrants that are currently in the court system in the justice system here in the united states being charged criminally for crossing the border illegally. and asking for asylum you've got children that are held at detention
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centers some at detention centers like this one here behind me that's run by the u.s. border patrol and you've got another roughly twenty three hundred children that are being held in shelters as well here in the united states as well as well as adults that are some are in detention centers as well so there are so many government agencies that have their hand in this right now it is absolute utter confusion on how to reunite some of the parents with their children parents that a lot of them are not free some of these that you just mentioned these parents from macallan texas that were released they are still facing criminal charges many of them have to wear ankle bracelets elec tronic monitoring devices around their ankle because they cannot necessarily be deported because they're going through the asylum system here in the u.s. but they have to be monitored by u.s. officials here so it's a confusing mess quite frankly but the bottom line is is there does not seem to be
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any coherent plan in place to reunite the children with their parents but i will say we just did hear from the department of home. and security about an hour ago and they said they now have a task force in place to try to get a plan in place to get this reunification started but boy it is going to be a long process and one that's very difficult and what about those families who are trying to illegally cross into the united states now across the border what's happening to them. by all accounts under this new trump executive order there is still a zero tolerance policy in place so families that cross into the u.s. illegally at not a regular port of entry and seek asylum they are still a mediately detained by all accounts the only difference is is that their families are kept together where they brought to they're brought to places like this that
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i'm standing outside of right now this is a border patrol detention facility this is about as close as we can get and it's it's a detention facility where families are together so. the good news is families potentially are now staying together the bad news is they are still very much detained and very much going through the criminal justice system here in the united states and one caviar to this is according to the laws right now families can only be kept together in a detained situation like this for twenty days so after twenty days what happens likely potentially at least they could be separated again and that's why the u.s. government has now asked the department and start looking in to building more permanent shelter. tree at military bases throughout the country because there simply might be too many people that they need to detain are raney's asylum seeker and seekers and migrants that they have to detain in the coming days and weeks
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thank you gabriel reporting for us from texas just outside a border patrol detention facility well there have been protest rallies right around the u.s. against the separation of immigrant families and saturday a different kind of demonstration is taking place in the nation's capital that is where rob reynolds is joining us from from the national mall to tell us what that's about rob. this is a. whole the poor people's campaign is what activists. and ordinary people from all around the country to rally here at the mall and demand change for all and underprivileged people in this because they want to take a look around the get a sense of the crowd here the person you can hear preaching and spreading behind me right now is reverend william harbor he is really one of the lead spans of this new anti-poverty movement and you can see that this is
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a very diverse crowd of people of all races creeds of color there is a strong religious element here with the faith leaders speaking from law all sorts of range and it is a bible of a movement that gained fifteen years ago with reverend martin luther king the poor people's campaign they are demanding like a living wage for a low income workers from student debt a repeal of the tax cuts for the wealthy that were passed by congress last year and many other things and i'm going to bring in one of the what jessica zero right now a letter. this is a letter riley letter i want to come right over here leonard is from thank you. charleston south carolina what now what brings you out here today i'm i haven't been frozen all my organization almost union member i owe
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a lot of trauma. there are a good benefits is educate but we want working families all across the country thanks to that all across. the same benefits that. we are doing with this campaign with the five thousand our workers have health good pay. well all of all what. i visited charleston south carolina and it's a very beautiful school for. where tourists go to ride around on a horse drawn carriage is also a surrounding that is a very very poor city where people live in poor housing night tell me about the tone poverty in your hometown is what i mean i know he's actually that's done all of the difficulties of healthcare they probably am inclusions down additional time for america i'm somebody that's probably because she is so i knew him by the
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deadline to come in the region as you know where the not rich and rich are not above all our squad not a good living with my goodness maybe they're going to get hit by me i don't know slight this fake america's thing with this company until we anywhere if you go outside the class want to hear it were crimes and then the day my life doesn't seem money i'll agree that at some point though it remembers them as the beneficiary memories good courage of doctor patient good and all ages could hear you the first for any words the letter with the congress or the people capitol building is in the background there behind the day to hell what is a message in just a few words true the members of congress and the administration see the it's you know the compassionate congress the senate is the ministration right they do we can do we want this nation to be a nation that either is or limited yesterday on everyone or just to be a nation having a race is a good man we gone won't become a regular load is earned if they don't do it today we're going to move the war in
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and we believe that's american where injustice is leonard thank you very much that's leonard right riley he journeyed here from the in the charles in south carolina for this rally and that is another yard as leonard mentioned that all of this campaign which has been going on now for forty days in part a voter drives to register people to vote on people who might not otherwise me as register also to fight against awesome laws that some here are showered voting by minority groups already impoverished and people might so it is a political as well it's a social movement no longer our rights our rob reynolds morning from washington thank you. if you have any comments or questions to us here at the news grid you can send them through or on facebook at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera we're also on twitter our handle is a.j. inglis you can use the has tag a.j. news great and also you can send us a word or a telegram
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a plus nine seven four five zero triple one one four nine we'll take a short break and we'll be back in just a moment stay tuned to the news grid. hello again look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia we've got some showers across some eastern areas further wise fine around the caspian sea a woman in tehran a thirty seven meanwhile across the eastern side of the mediterranean weather conditions a general looking fine we have some showers on the southern side of the black sea also some showers extending into parts of the caucasus so for georgia and armenia through monday we could well see one or two big storms now here in the arabian peninsula it's pretty fine temperatures there in the low to mid forty's for many still a fairly brisk mild blowing down through the gulf region so some places that have lifted dust bush doesn't automatically mean visibility and not too bad highs of
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forty one degrees celsius and rising to forty seven degree can see in parts of the emirates and unsure in the course of monday now across into southern portions of africa here we've got some fine weather conditions for everyone not particularly the stone ages fifteen or so high in cape town to his post struggling to my sort of eighteen degrees celsius but once you get into central parts of africa then there are some really big storm systems coming through in those east cities so sit down towards the gulf of guinea reaching some heavy showers across west africa but it could be some dry weather across encounter. a land on its indigenous people. plundered for its resources. now long held resentment it's a turn in violent with deadly consequences you cannot use that as an
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excuse to go over human rights people empowered travels to south america to discover the crimes of the mcconnachie and. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as i would that's what his job. on counting the cost of a stronger dollar spells trouble ahead for developing market economies digits so i big swear look at how the tech industry uses human psychology plus the fight for control of libya's oil present. counting the cost.
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the headlines on al-jazeera and that these are the most read articles right now on our web site al jazeera dot com the top story that broke just about an hour ago zimbabwe's unfertile after blast rocks a rally that he was speaking out so you can read more about that story on al-jazeera dot com. the syrians have been living under a crippling siege imposed by israel and egypt for the past decades and now gazans
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are facing additional pressure from the palestinian authority over an ongoing dispute between hamas and fatah so protesters are rallying and they're calling on the government to end sanctions on gaza intended to weaken hamas the sanctions include cutting government employees salaries sacking others and reducing amounts paid for electricity all intended as are saying to weaken hamas joining us from to talk us through this tell us how big this rally is expected to get and who's organizing its. well the organizers going to be very disappointed in the size of the crowd the rally was taking place just behind me here in menorahs square the protesters have moved on they're going around the square and going to come back here but there's only about a couple of hundred of them now they might be very low in number but they are all getting their voice heard and they have one very simple message and that's to lift
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the sanctions that the palestinian authority has on the palestinians in gaza and to give those palestinians some sort of relief as really a one issue demonstration that's taking place a but we've seen these demos take place in bethlehem and also in ramallah where the palestinian authority police have been very heavy handed with the protesters they've cracked down on them used to take us in fact one palestinian protesters said we've never seen take gas in menorah square before this is unusual for us so they were heavily criticize the palestinian authority it's likely that they've listened to those criticisms or allowing these protests to go ahead and the protest protest is already have one simple message as i say they want sanctions lifted against the palestinians in gaza all right imran khan thank you will have a look at this article with a yet to be announced u.s. plan for israeli palestinian peace much of which remain strout it in secrecy and u.s. officials have in part embarked on
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a middle east tour to shore up support but can it actually deliver peace so this article puts it all in context you can find it on our home page al-jazeera dot com . joining us from london with more of the international news. either a thousands of protesters opposed to bret's it's all marching through central london on the second on the syria vote to leave the european union demanding a second referendum on britain's e.u. membership once the terms of the country's withdrawal become clear it comes a senior figures in the british government say they remain willing to walk away from e.u. negotiations without a deal the ball is in central london. it's two years since the u.k. surprise decision to leave the e.u. in that referendum back in two thousand and six same two years old the country appears more divided than ever over the future of britain's relationship with the european union pretty here in london capital that voted overwhelmingly in support
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of remaining in the e.u. vos crowds have gathered here on parliament square to make their voices heard it may be for many a little bit too late to contest the results of the referendum but it's not too late to cool it for a new vote on the final deal people here say there is most more information available to them now the back to the referendum in two thousand and sixteen so it should be now put to the people once more to decide what should happen post breaks it a little bit earlier on i spoke to some key figures from the remain campaign the countries from the big three divide in the fight those divisions how to deal of the reason for that i think is that since the referendum we lost the referendum will suffice but since the reason why is governed as if all of these people kind of don't exist and so what this is about is basically saying that we have to at least hold open the option when she does come up with
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a deal with the people who are to say yeah that's what we voted for we want a people's vote deal or no deal and i think that's right it can't be right that six hundred fifty politicians sitting in parliament who are amongst themselves as indeed our government and cabinet is divided on this question i think sixty five million people in our country should have a vote on the final deal. so no great surprise perhaps about the size of this demonstration here in london but what is surprising to me is that after the referendum took place here are two crucial goshi ations began between the e.u. and the u.k. there is still quite so much. confusion about what. sort of things. french president to cross says he favors financial sanctions on european countries that refused to take migrants with proven asylum status micron has held a working lunch with new spanish prime minister pedre sanchez in paris is the
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spanish league his first official visit of board since taking office three weeks ago their meeting comes ahead of an emergency summit between sixteen e.u. leaders on sunday to address recent tensions over the migration let's get more on this from the tasha butler who's in paris for a so what came out of that meeting today natasha. well the main message from these two leaders are was really that the european union needs to have a coordinated strategy when it comes to the migration crisis it needs to be simply more united now eman or mark or praised the spanish new spanish socialist prime minister petra sanchez for sanchez's gesture in taking in the migrants refugees from the aquarius charity ship after it was blocked from italy mike ross said it was an act of solidarity but he did say that's not the right approach to migration you can't just have a case by case basis there needs to be
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a wider plan and these two leaders are both going to be in brussels on sunday there is a mini migration summit taking place so this meeting in paris is really an opportunity for them to try and come up with some ideas talk through some plans and it seems very much that they are on the same page they are both of very much pro e.u. they want closely e.u. integration and what they both said after this meeting was that it was very important to find solutions for the migration crisis because otherwise the divisions over the issue could threaten the future of the european union and a man of mark or said even mean the rise of populism and nationalism across the block i'll just say that having this many migration on sunday and a larger one later on do you think there will be any firm new strategies that we'll hear coming out of either of these. a lot really is the question one plan that was discussed today and mentioned by the french president was the
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idea of these regional platforms basically it sounds a bit like the whole sports idea that these leaders were talking about some months ago the idea of putting a base outside the european union possibly in a country of transit a country on the african continent somewhere they said where people would be taken migrants refugees would be taken either after being rescued in the mediterranean sea or before they even reach the coast the north african coast i should say they'll be taken there be processed now if they were eligible for asylum then they'd be redistributed among e.u. member states now the problem with that of course is that you have many member states who simply don't want to take in more asylum seekers or refugees they say that the doors are closed i'm thinking of countries like hungry and poland who are in fact boycotting this mini migration summit on sunday and that is why we heard the french president say the maybe the european union's going to have to think of sanctions or penalties against those countries that don't want to take in any more
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refugees. like france in paris. and u.s. president donald trump has a new sanctions on north korea for a year over the extraordinary threat posed by its nuclear weapons this despite his tweet ten days ago that pyongyang no longer posed a new clear threat the u.s. is sticking with its decision to suspend some minute she training exercises with south korea on the wing the pledge made by chump at a summit with north korean leader kim jong il and he this moment he promised to end joint drills in return for pyongyang taking steps toward. set for me that back to door in doha so thank you all syria's war is edging closer to the jordanian border and the israeli occupied golan heights following government's attacks on a deescalation zone in defiance of u.s. warnings thousands of people have been moving to safety as syrian forces target rebel held areas in the southern province of that government planes dropped
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leaflets earlier this week urging people to cooperate in driving out fighters and armed groups well it comes almost three months after the syrian army recaptured the rebel holds enclave of eastern huta east of damascus and now it's focused on the southwestern province of debt off where some areas are still held by armed groups parts of that off come under a so-called deescalation zone agreed to last year by the united states russia and jordan syrian activists have reported heavy shelling in several locations and the most intense they say was in two towns thousands of people have been displaced in this latest round of fighting many are now trying to leave the war zone for jordan well the director of the levant institute for strategic affairs sami narrative says the offensive in that clearly violates the deescalation zone agreements. i think behind d.c.
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development that is tedious at them from the city and the regime and backed by a russia to test how much the united states is committed to defend this agreement how much that fs aid to police in army is ready. on the ground and a decor of this deescalation agreement is that you get a new and present and say in the south since he on and this was dragged in is that i add into the picture. is that i is keen to keep. to keep the iranian forces far from its borders its north and bordered at this was that key issue for the last three or four months home much iran would be closed today is that i.e.d. border and that is that our talks russia has a gift from
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a commitment that it would have had. to do push the iranian forces far from that is that i.e.d. borders but it won't surprise against this so the question here is russia backing this development trying to strike a deal to confirm its a presence in thousands t.d.r. in exchange of pushing the iranian forces far from that is that i.e.d. aboard this is to be seen while the iraqi force air force that is says it's killed forty five eisel fighters in a strike across the border in neighboring syria their targets were three houses in the town of haji in local isolators were reportedly holding a meeting there iraq says several high ranking figures are among the dead. well still in syria let me just show you this right there residents of the israeli
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occupied golan heights are expected to boycott october's municipal elections imposed by israel on the area they're calling them a red line so journalist noticed rights this year is golan heights municipal elections come as israel renews its push for international recognition if it's an exception and solve the clear its sovereignty over the syrian territory focusing primarily on recognition from the trump administration it's an interesting read which you'll find on the home page of al-jazeera dot com five women working for an anti trafficking charity have been gang raped in a rural area in the eastern indian state of jharkhand the attack has drawn strong condemnation from several political and social leaders sarah highrise is here with the details sarah well the woman was performing a street pay at school to raise awareness against human trafficking but they were then kid not writes in
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a nearby forest the activists were among several others abducted including men and a couple of nuns who also kid not but they released safely early later on they always for a charity that runs a shelter for girls and young women who leave their homes in search for elsewhere but police a questioning several suspects who they filmed who filmed rather the attack on them of all fines to blackmail the activists not to report them. if it was the superintendent of police is there himself at the site of the incident a few people have identified those who have been involved in this crime rates have been conducting business. but it's been said there were four to five boys but three have committed the offense not everything is clear as of now we are investigating every aspect sir says the sounds of a grassroots organization that works to end sex trafficking of women in india and she says it's likely the women was talkative just for raising awareness. there is
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a growing culture of impunity on rape and sexual violence in india women are getting increasingly devalued and targeted for sexual violence if they go out in public places and these women were obviously activists would go on to do a plea against sex trafficking in a village in an area from where girls are being trafficked for in the huge in huge numbers this really of course is to target activists who are working against sexual violence against sex trafficking or report profit as i call it to and but increasingly in the last few years in india what's been happening is that creep has been going up the numbers have been going up the ages have been coming down very recently there was the rape of an eight year old girl in kashmir age by the caretaker of her temple along with four police officers who raped her and just before that a you're a few months before that there was a rape of another girl
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a little girl by an elected official of the ruling party in u.b. and when the girl decided to go and complained her father was arrested and murdered in a police station so along with comments which devalue women in public places there has also been target rapes of muslims and their lifts and also more than indian women now india has been in the global spotlight since twenty two when the gang rape and murder of a woman on a new new delhi bust sparked angry protests across the country now according to india's national crime records were around one hundred sexual source reports it's a place every single day that many more do go on reported in fact recent statistics show that the highest incidence of rape happened south africa while the u.s. and u.k. make up the top ten but not india united nations says it's very difficult to verify numbers not because of the way data is collected from one country to another but we do know is that around thirty five percent of women around the walls have been
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physically or sexually abused most likely by someone they actually know now according to and figures around one hundred and twenty million girls worldwide that's a little more than one in ten have been forced to have sex or other sexual acts at some point in their lives. so the indian government has introduced measures to expand the definition of sex crimes and even speed up the prosecution of right cases and survive as those sexual violence still faces significant baria to justice and support services such as the hash tag a.j. news grid sarah thank you all still to come a story from our colleagues at a.j. plus about some ancient trees that are dying fast likely because off climate change that's coming up for you on facebook and in just a moment it's political football at the world cup peter we'll tell you how a goal celebration threatened to inflame tensions in the balkans first a check on the world weather.
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here's peter to update us on the sports news peter three that is exactly what we will do the world cup of course it's a huge day in russia so far we've had belgium go through after we know it soon is he absolved time between mexico and south korea with one mil to the mexicans but it's also crunch time for germany the world champions face the very real prospect of x. the thing the tournament if they lose to sweden this goes straight to andy richardson who's in moscow for us andy how much trouble of germany actually am. yeah it's almost unthinkable isn't it pete to be talking about germany going out of this world cup after two games let's put their position into some sort of context of the last world cup for the entire tournament they were only behind in a game for eight minutes so this is not exactly a position they're used to being in if we were looking for warning signs that perhaps we should have been looking a bit harder before the tournament began some of their friendly performances were
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well less than impressive they really struggled with c one win against saudi arabia just before these finals prior to that they lost to austria lost to brazil and the same problems we saw against mexico were on show there they looked slow in midfield and very vulnerable on the counter-attack and the core of the team that won four years ago is still here but historically it's been shown that it is very difficult to house the some kind of psychological element to it in terms of raising yourself to those sorts of levels again not since one thousand nine hundred sixty two in brazil as it seems successfully defended this title and maybe it was a bit of overconfidence i remember a press conference with the coach yogi lover a few weeks ago when he was asked about why he'd based a team in moscow only one of their group games is in moscow he had a choice of various cities he could have gone to and he said well moscow geographically makes a bit more sense when we get to the quarter final stage and beyond and at the time no one really thought anything of it because let's face it germany have made it to the semifinals of their last six major storms but perhaps there's an element of of
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taking these group stages for granted we will see tonight against a very determined sweden side just what their powers of recovery are you mentioned a very powerful swedish side just house strong. well i think in some ways swedish football is still defined by the player who was inside this world cup slats and abraham of each that the player who scored goals for clubs all over the world he retired after the last european championships which sweden exited with only one points in the slot and didn't score a goal i think some of us expected the national team's performance to dip off as a consequence instead they qualified for their first world cup in twelve years and if you look at the qualification process they came through it's hugely impressive they finished above the netherlands they beat france during qualifying a lot finished in the runners up spot and then knocked out it's silly don't forget in a playoff the one thing you would say about them is that they do struggle to score goals and their three friendlies before the world cup they didn't manage
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a single goal and there was no win over south korea in the opening game came about by the consequence of of our old friend on the they scored that penalty so don't expect a goal extravaganza against germany but do expect germany to come up against a team who will give them absolutely nothing only richardson will leave a beer thank you so much as always now only twelve countries of ever reached a world cup final sweden is one of them the retirement of the latter neber him of each has the pride them of their most dangerous weapon but as paul reasonable to i'm still going is plenty more talent to come. this generation's grandparents were children when sweden had their finest hour reaching the world cup final in one thousand nine hundred fifty eight only to lose to pele's brazil. a third place finish in one nine hundred ninety four is the best they've achieved since then but they have come to a pretty solid organized football. the kind that saw four time champions italy surprisingly knocked out by the sweets in
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a qualifying playoff for russia twenty eight team and woman has a very scandinavian emphasis on collective happiness is when you get a perspective of workers what's the most important let you work together you become a working group on the squad. you fight for someone and then they fight for you and that's that's what brings you also have them as enjoy if you succeed as a strength and i think that's something you can have with you on the pitch but also off the pitch as a person and as a human means it's important the swedish resident. swedish where i sweden also has a thriving domestic competition the al spence county it's not nearly as prestigious as the english premier league or spain's little league but it does allow standing areas for fans and that gives it's games and atmosphere that's among the best in europe but what is lacking for the first time at a world cup is an else fans come play in the swedish squad the fact that all of
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sweden's players are based in strong foreign leagues can be seen as a sign of the system's health as can the success of this team brahma whose giants academy has seen them become the traditional faded team of the swedish league and who are now mixing it with the big boys of all swans gone after two successive promotions. the academy here house full of thousand boys and girls in two hundred sixty teams a huge pool of talent for the senior squad and beyond to have the most talented players in the the club. everybody wants to be. if you're good enough as a young player you're going to play for the first team no matter how old you are we are so good at feeding the senior teams with academy players there are four players who started a six year old in playing in the world cup swedes learn perhaps more than anyone that there is no i in team but with a genuine star like zlatan it prohibits no longer available their fans in russia
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might find they miss a bit of ego to raise them above the average pole race al-jazeera stockholm to switzerland players are under the spotlight for their controversial goal celebrations against serbia granted. both have ethnic albanian heritage and made a gesture with their hands in front of a fan signifying the eagle on the albanian flag the serbian f.a. says it will complain to fever over what many are seen as a political symbol which could inflame tensions in the balkans to send has more on the reaction in the capital belgrade. there are some reactions who show that the serbian media and public are appealing short by what they did and how they celebrated the goal and that they see that as a provocation but nothing more and that even last night i was in the found zone in downtown belgrade where fans gather around to watch the games on the big screens
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and during those celebrations there was a lot of booing and discomfort but nothing more than that in two thousand and fourteen among three players in the streets national team those there was an agreement that they will not be celebrating goals the way they did last night and last night that the remark was obviously broken plenty of reaction to this on twitter as well on the show you this one from feisal saying granted shirkers father was put in prison by the serbs recently fled their village his uncle's house was burned down they arrive in switzerland as refugees for cost of an albania this was more than for police also includes a picture of shaquille reis boots which had the cost of them and swiss flags on them you can see it there and i want to show you this one as well some misunderstood the hand gesture a journalist based in sao paolo said one of the brazilian commentators complimented the celebration they were so much tension around the sticks just celebrating by making a piece dubbed symbol is beautiful to see apparently said much to everyone thought
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it was a piece of symbol now just time to bring you one more clip that's been going viral on social media an argentine sports show reacted to the team's stunning three know the feat to croatia by holding a moment of silence for argentina's world cup take a look. that's what arjan time football journalists think of their team's chance of progressing their bottom of group d. with just a point and still have nigeria to play on tuesday. sunnah we'll have most of all for you in the eighteen hundred g.m.t. oh but for now i'm going to hand you back to do peter thank you for a vast and that'll do it for this news grid you can keep in touch with us on social media use the hash tag a.j. news where the ways to connect with us are right there we'll see you back here in studio four two on sunday thanks for watching.
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