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and live from studio four. a headquarters in. the news great victory for president to urge a one armed with new executive powers he's elected to lead turkey again as the opposition concedes defeat and calls on him to be a president for all look at the challenges will be facing for the next five years. with italy on the frontline of europe's migrant crisis the interior minister travels to libya. just refugee identification set up in libya not europe libya says that's not an option and gang warfare in mexico and the murders
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of dozens of politicians have marred campaigning for the biggest ever elections yet there is no shortage of candidates who want to be the next president we profile the leading contender in the run up to polling day. iran found. sleepless nights as christian or announcer and. the last sixty. year the news live on air were streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com there were throngs of people lined up at election rallies in turkey for the incumbent on the opposition but it was the votes that counted. will remain the president of turkey it's a new day for him and the country as he gains a new presidential powers. reports. from ankara.
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yet again reject taber erdogan is victorious this success however will taste a lot sweeter for the man who's now won more than ten successive national polls since his ak party came to power in two thousand and two sunday's vote was a gamble by two one who hold for the early elections at a time when turkey's currency was at the weakest it's been in years but it seems to have paid off for the man whose name has now become almost synonymous with that of his country addressing his supporters undescribed sunday as a victory for all of us hark he will say see me go only be the winners of this election are the eighty one million turkish citizens of this country each and everyone is a winner in this election everybody exercised their rights by going to the ballot boxes and casting their votes and i want to thank everybody you are writing history going into the vote it seemed that's a galvanized opposition could prevent iran from winning in the first round forcing
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a runoff that could possibly pose a bigger threat to his quest to become the first president under the new constitution the main content democratic i'm in jail of the c.h.p. had tried to garner support from all sections of society he would the religious basis by thuppakki joining prayers in some cities and attempted to reach out to the right wing blocs by promising to expel millions of syrian refugees if elected but as large as injuries crowds were or those of erdogan in the end what mattered were the numbers of ballots cost in their favor turks will have a proud tradition of high voter turnout did not disappoint our early indications were that more than eighty six percent of them participated while our two ones our party were buoyant with the presidential victory there will be disappointment over their parliamentary performance with the a.k.p. losing the two thirds supermajority they once held only managing to secure a simple majority with the help of their nationalist m h p ally. yes the big
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winners in the parliamentary votes were the kurdish h d p winning over fifty seats making this new legislative body more diverse than the previous one and it's that prove it isn't that many in turkey will hope can help bridge the political divide that continues to affect turkish society speaking to the nation i don't seem to understand those concerns were his jim sinegal that no one should be discriminated against in this country because of their belief because of their gender or because of their origins we will not allow this. the opposition will be disappointed that they were unable to at least force a second round of voting they will take heart however from their improved performance in the parliament and the fact that a relatively unknown person like n.g. was able to secure a thirty percent in such an important election let's cross over now to jamal he's joining us from ankara now that the opposition has conceded defeat what happens next. well i mean it's
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a process of trying to figure out how this new charkhi will look like obviously in terms of theory rule no now it is a presidential system we know now there is a larger parliaments there is no longer the role of prime minister but what that will mean in terms of the economy in terms of the daily lives of truckers citizens will they improve the currency get stronger will there be more jobs sort of that they will so the bread and butter questions that people will be looking out sometimes of an international perspective obviously people are looking at turkey's role in the region but also there's always been that criticism particularly after the failed coup attempt a couple of years ago of how the governments and i do want to have been trying to eliminate those who they claim were trying to overturn psychist democracy but their critics say were actually just opposition figures that the government was using it was using the coup is an excuse to get rid of the opposition's main candidates modem injury although he finally did concede defeat soft initially refusing to do
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that yesterday when those results came in did do so whilst also warning of the dangers of what's called the one person states that turkey is now embarking on let's listen in to one of those statements he made bludgeoned each of us there is a huge threat facing turkey the powers of the state legislative judiciary and executive in the hands of one person is a huge danger turkey has severed its traditional link with a parliamentary system there are factors which threaten our social peace we are now going into one man's regime there is no systemic mechanism of rules in this state. the thing is i mean but obviously there has been a lot of that criticism with regards to the inclusion of all different sex sections within tucker society but the government will and their supporters will be keen to point out the reason that you've had. roughly eighty six over eighty six percent of people participating in elections so as much as many would like to try and demonize
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maybe the way in which security forces of crack down on those they claim to be part of the group in its movements with the those who are behind the who the fact of the matter is even according to international observers these elections were largely free and fair albeit they were critical of how the media maybe was skewed in favor of one side over the other the parliament's now has over one hundred or one hundred more new seats and then i have now a much more diverse makeup so there will be a lot of positives in terms of the pluralism the turkish democracy has does this come out from this having said that there is a lot of power now concentrated within the presidency and are the one maybe understands that there is a lot of that concern that is being shared by a lot of people here in turkey and that's why he was very keen to bill sunday's vote as a victory for everybody but obviously words are very easily said it is the actions that matter and that's why the coming few months will be indicative of how turkey
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will be moving forward where there will just be a strong centralized government or also a strong sense of lies government that is trying to appease all sections of society as it moves forward on this new era in the turkish republics history all right to say oh thank you jamal is also on twitter and jamal's news if you'd like to send him any comments or questions let's now speak to sally ozil he's a professor of international relations at qatar has university and a columnist that have returned daily joining us on skype from istanbul thanks for coming in again on the news were it so just twenty four hours ago you were expecting there to be a second around in the elections clearly now we know that there isn't what went wrong for the opposition. well frankly i think i said it was my base case but some whole read the bill also says this that first that he was not off the table so i guess on the side of. let's say my
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expectations but there was no longer. presidents in the first round and it just happened what was going to be a real struggle over the elections was not that mr that go on the presidency first that was the best of the spices be but leadership rather was that image which almost everybody in the polls and say that for this came back and the. eleven percent of the vote and therefore. in a very powerful position the argument is that it's the. airlines and it is mr but she did the city speech yes they didn't need the balance of new wave. legislation the execute but since and i'm not a turkey is moving into this presidential system to what extent is this really
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unchartered territory for the country. it is very much. the country first of all ministers. chosen from parliament from the party that's when that was done the only are exceptional circumstances. and the second the bureaucracy is filled with appointments at the top by the executive rather than. bones of the credibility that there has been spent in the big. and. complicated. mess that they were never before that and it was president. clinton handle the president constitutionally so let me not try the waters and probably some way i cannot be more specific is we don't yet have holes to sions and the mechanical
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system explain to us suppose they are not getting this the whole i want is asian laws that was force that past six months of the referendum have not been as most of them and we only have been an illusion to the. organisation the system but we haven't yet. and a final question to you and in fact this is coming from one of our viewers on facebook elizabeth wants to know what our earth wants plans for turkey going forward. weather like this is a first for. the economy and the economic circumstances. that it drew investment. to the present or the going to you wish. them all the simpler version is today when one mean this is just the extended and that is the case of.
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all the. stations. and second it also. raises the economy. never to. get to speak with you again thank you for joining us on al-jazeera. now on this update on this page rather is where you'll find all the latest updates and developments as well as a live update to update around the clocks ahead to al-jazeera dot com for that we're also on facebook at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera we're on twitter handle is our ageing gliss use the hash tag the news grid and you can send us a whatsapp or a telegram a plus nine seven four five zero one four nine for any comments or questions you may have about any of the stories on the news grid this evening while the italian into interior minister matteo salvini has been to libya for talks on the e.u. migration crisis the visit by the leader of the far right league party comes
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a day after libya's coast guard picked up nearly a thousand migrants and refugees in the mediterranean sea the western coast of libya is the main departure point for thousands of migrants fleeing wars and poverty and trying to reach europe but salvini has recently vowed to stop the influx into italy anderson palace here to tell us more. thanks train well italy's new populist government has prevented humanitarian organizations from rescuing refugees and has turned them away from the country's ports this is all in recent weeks and the tale salvini has thanks libyan authorities for saving the migrants but rights groups say that those rescues have led to horrific conditions including torture and extortion in libya's detention centers now during his meeting in tripoli a short time ago so vini proposed that libya set up migration riffs reception centers in the south of the country he also said it would be a problem to have such reception centers in italy as that would not stop the flows
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of death across the mediterranean. you know to tell you because we believe that it should only be the libyan authorities who control libyan waters. government organizations from these borders who want to replace goats and help illegal immigrants on sunday salvini also ordered foreign charities to stop rescuing migrants off the libyan coast even as reports emerged that hundreds of people were on boats in distress in the mediterranean sea and he was quoted as saying the only sea italy on a postcard and twenty seventeen italy agreed to train equip and finance the libyan coast guard to help it into sept and turn back vessels carrying refugees and migrants to europe now salvini it is a big topic of discussion on italian social media partially because of some of the very colorful things he said in the past promising to deport a half million irregular migrants he's also called islam threats and incompatible with the italian constitution and was filmed saying that italy needed
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a quote mass cleansing of migrants from the country is far right party had a strong performance in local elections on sunday and he's become one of europe's most followed politicians on social media with around two point seven million facebook followers the last time we checked that's more than german chancellor angela merkel now he's the first member of italy's new populist government to visit the north african country any took his followers along the trip with him posting this selfie on twitter saying mission libya we've left and while some have welcomed his visit like this user here saying that's we hope this visit will serve both countries there's others like nicholas here who say that he is playing chicken with france and spain he's less optimistic he says albini is using human lives forcing ships to wait days without supply with supplies dwindling he will have blood on his hands so let us know what you think about italy's new interior minister and his
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policies you can tweet us your views using the hash tag me directly i mean or ship . andrew thank you let's not speak to pierre amended harassing the deputy head of operations of months on cell phones yet international he's joining us live from paris in france via skype thanks for speaking to us away from the politics of the politicking for just a moment you've been to libya you've seen migrants there tell us about the conditions they're facing well what we see in libya through our programs we are in governing and she put the me. but he will lead mainly and it will be show that in terms of detention center. well we collect a lot of testimonies. grants what we understand these ads are leave out of violence against those immigrants by his us models and by his a traffic goes one of the ways a same is extremely high extremely high and the problem of the.
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looting is there live young goes go out into sept and bringing a box of me grounds to leave. libya is not a safe hobble it's not a safe place where to reach. people in distress so what is it that you would like to see then. i think it's a responsibility as is american code once it is a responsibility of those ships in the honey on sea and the countries that on n.c. to rescue any any boat any vessel and who is in distress and at risk of getting droned and once this is their own people have to be brought to a safe hobble and once again this place cannot be again libya. is
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a place of extreme violence against immigrants in discriminate killings indeed communicate detention. rocketing almost systematic rape for what we know what to come just by the testimonies is happening in libya so what must you think then when you hear the news this week obviously that you know all that both in the in malta have blocked rescuing sepsis carrying migrants in the mediterranean it's it's all around us it's all run those because besides a few goals that we are talking about one hundred not very high opposite to what mr salvini. people say they are not very high we are talking about to a few thousands maybe ten thousand twenty thousand people who have been able. to cross as a middy done in seeds as
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a beginning of say yeah to reach europe plays off almost three hundred million enough beaton's the figures are very small is not true that it is an invasion and we could receive these people and we could receive it with dignity receive them with dignity best that's not the case for political reasons mainly. all right we will leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from paris thank you well you can watch this very personal story off a young girl iberian manage josephs journey takes him out of his native liberia to the sahara desert where he had north towards europe by crossing borders illegally eventually ending up in new york city it's a part of our rewind series it's on al jazeera dot com under the documentaries tab it's on our home page let's show you the scene right here this is the u.k.
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is that prince william he has just arrived in israel just stepped off the plane and is being welcomed as you can see we'll have more on the story in a sort while with. right here on the news grid of her now willow cross over to london and bring in joe knowhow he's with us for more of the international news hi jonah hyder in thanks for that we begin in yemen where who say rebels say the saudi and emirate he led coalition has carried out five strikes in her data provinces part of an offensive to recapture the strategic port city they've also released images of another sound led coalition air strike in the city of i'm running north of the capital sana who thinks main news agency says twenty four civilians most of them women and children were killed in that attack but it comes as the warring sides have exchanged prisoners in the southern province of dalia the spokesman says seventy four of their fighters were released in exchange for forty
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fighters from the code of. syrian government helicopters have dropped barrel bombs on city extending an assault in southwest syria which has driven thousands from their homes along with the barrels crammed with explosives the helicopters of dropped leaflets urging people to leave before an upcoming government offensive it's one of the last two areas still held by rebels who are promising to keep fighting mohammed jump jhoom as this. endeavor on the bombs kept falling villages struck from the sky as government forces continued their advance attempting to take over the city known as the cradle of the syrian uprising. in violation of a truce that was brokered by russia and the united states in efforts to bring an end to the seven year war for its part the free syrian army remains defiant announcing the establishment of a central operations room in the south of syria. more notes are to let them know
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that this is the hour of decisiveness and the victory of truth of a falsehood the hysterical bombing with all kinds of heavy weapons supported with will play it is only confirmation of that desperation the world should know that the south today is united under one word and one army carrying our slogan proudly in the sky of truth we will not betray the blood of our brothers and we will not give up an inch of our land. the united states has reportedly told syrian rebels not to expect military support in southern syria near jordan and the israeli occupied golan heights a deescalation zone was established there last year which includes parts of the provinces of that and. rebels there are now facing a syrian government offensive. for years the free syrian army was trained and armed by the u.s. europe and gulf countries but rebels have been in retreat in the past few years they now control one neighborhood in the city and
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a few areas on the border with jordan and while the valley to continue their fight many wonder how much longer that fight can go on. to argentina where labor unions are leading a national strike against the government to create their anger about his economic policies which have caused the local currency to drop in value and inflation to skyrocket in thirty five percent let's get more from tourists of both is in one is for us good to see you to rest so this is an economy already in deep trouble not helped now by strikes how long are they likely to go on for. while this strike is expected to last for about twenty four hours however when a site is his company paralyzed there's no train buses subways all flights have been cancelled them banks have been closed for doing the day it's been called by the largest workers confident ration in the contrary as their negotiating salary
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increases due to the. never ending inflation that arjan times have gotten used to dealing with over the years that it's called next survey ted because of the recent devaluation of the peso currency also this monday all of one aside is woke up to being surrounded by left wing groups that were blocking the main entrances to the capital many of them are protesting right in the sense. let's not forget that argentina was forced to request an emergency loan to the international monetary fund the president. says that this does not help the country financially at this point are the things stand right now however on the streets are saying that this is the only way they have to fight for their rights the course of. emergency. other countries know too well with this conditions they will be austerity off the back of. course themselves know that very well from their own past experience.
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well that's right the i.m.f. found austerity measures it's a very bad word here in argentina because it brings back memories of the two thousand and one cry he says when argentina defaulted on its sovereign rate and poverty rates were as high as around sixty percent so of course this is something that worries many people in argentina the government says that it is planning austerity measures but i bet you won't touch those programs that exist today to help this country most vulnerable in fact when the agreements with the i.m.f. was announced it was that specific dimension that it wouldn't touch the social programs that are helping argentina's poorest in spite of that people on the streets are afraid of what's happening with argentina's economy they're dealing with inflation every day and they're afraid that the government won't recognize
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that a major economic crisis might be right around the corner. for us and one of. the really. thank you very much for those of you watching us on facebook live coming up for you is the story of the french teenager who went out for a jog and ended up in a u.s. immigration detention center still ahead on the newsgroup in a moment the u.n. . body tasked with protecting palestinian refugees is reportedly just days away from slashing emergency aid after the u.s. pulled its funding. hello once again welcomes another look at the international full cost sad things looked pretty standard across the middle east at the moment clear skies pretty much all the way one of two showers up towards caspian towards the caucasus raising over
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towards. through georgia and forty five celsius there in baghdad want to see showers as you can see just continuing across the far north east of greece is seeing some very heavy rain recently cities as we go on into wednesday much of the reason as you can see at this stage just hot and dry sums it up twenty celsius a pirate's a nice a fine weather on the eastern side of the bed but we're into the mid forty's for many graci thirty four celsius the chances of a lot of the showers here a little bit of cloud meanwhile across the southern end of the arabian peninsula but elsewhere dry sunset up a gamer into the mid forty's here in cost. around forty four forty five degrees over the next so you might see one of two spots of rain just around the gulf of aden mussy want to spots of right into the fall south of south africa as well this latest band of cloud just sliding in the cross the western cape the southern capital continues to drive its way a swiss were getting up to sixteen celsius in capetown by wednesday tad warming job
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the headline here on this is what's trending right now on our web site al jazeera dot com the top spot is the story on the turkey elections and on winning a new term with executive power so head to al jazeera dot com to read more on that as well as the day's other top stories. on dollar has arrived in the u.s. and will meet president donald trump in a few hours and a last ditch attempt to influence the stalled israeli palestinian peace process now the royal has urged the u.s. to endorse a two state solution as a way to settle the conflicts last week trump son in law and senior adviser went on a tour of the middle east after being tasked last year with creating a new peace plan and in a published interview geriatrician or accuse the palestinian president mahmoud abbas of trying to advance his own political interests kirschner said his proposal
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will go ahead with or without the support of us who has refused to meet with the trump administration the chief palestinian negotiator there he is says the u.s. wants to dictate not negotiates our white house correspondent kelly hocket following the story of jordan's king abdullah in washington now he is in a tough position can really isn't he because he has a large palestinian population in jordan to appease yet heavily dependent on u.s. financial aid so we know what the king will be telling trump. well as you point out the big topic on the agenda is the mideast peace plan but he has been holding meetings the king that is with other trump administration officials in fact we know that he has met with the u.s. secretary of state pompei oh and also the treasury secretary steve minutiae in talking about the economic and political situation given the wave of demonstrations that has occurred in georgia but there's no question what is primary for this visit
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is the question of the release of the upcoming peace plan because of course as you point out he is in a delicate position and that's why this visit is so important to underscore an urge for the two state solution to be clearly defined within this plan with the nine hundred sixty seven borders being the only viable option at a very clearly defined palestinian independent state so this is the concern as well there needs to be an issue we understand in these discussions with regard to the palestinian refugee issue the question is whether or not the trumpet ministration is listening so how does this meeting play i'll just talk us through the next couple of hours and what we expect to see. yeah it's only going to be about one hour daryn so there's not a lot of time to discuss issues that have gone back years decades so this is to be
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of strategics of importance in terms of trying to get this message across the president leaves to go to a political rally later to south carolina what we think the crux of the discussion is going to be from the king's standpoint is that he's going to underscore his the jordanian value in terms of the fight against eisel the fact that the united states has acknowledged it is a strategic and critical partner but you also have to remember this is the first time that we've seen this king come at the eleventh hour and try to persuade donald trump somewhat unsuccessfully you remember he did this is well just before the united states declared that it would move its u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem he urged the president not to do that the terms of ministration went ahead with it so certainly a lot of people concerned perhaps that the influence of the king is waning with this administration all right kelly thank you for the time being well you just heard kimberly referring to how this thing in a refugees and the united nations relief agency for palestinians is now warning
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that essential services for them are under grave threat is facing the worst funding crisis in its sixty eight year history it has a two hundred fifty million dollars gap to fill for the rest of this year off to the united states with your supports from the agency james ray is live for us from the united nations headquarters in new york what more is owner were saying about this funding gap and what will it do. well you got to remember that is the main humanitarian lifeline for palestinians five point three million palestinians rely on its services it runs seven hundred schools in the west bank gaza and also in neighboring countries for palestinian refugees and it provides health care for palestinians and food supplies or money for food for people in those areas so it really is an important service that they provide and they are running out of money because of the u.s.
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dropping that amount that they were expecting to receive three hundred million short there now after some other countries have donated money two hundred fifty million dollars short of money for and they've come now to new york to ask countries to come forward earlier i spoke to pierre crown bull he's the commissioner general of aanr and he said the place he's most worried about is gaza i was really deeply marked by my last visit to the gaza strip because i went to the hospitals i went to health care centers and i saw the number of young people injured through the use of live ammunition. many of the injuries very severe to the lower limbs ankles knees and others you know really shattered with real risks for many many young people to live with lifelong disabilities and potations and others the fact that there were more injured in gaza following
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a few days of demonstrations and throughout the entire two thousand and fourteen war is a message the world should wake up to. two hundred fifty million dollars is what they need a meeting here at the u.n. in just under four hours time will try and raise that money but some countries have already given more money since the u.s. pulled out and i can tell you u.n. inside is aware of and not going to get all of that money and that may well mean that they're going to have to start cutting services from a list all right said james bays thank you well seventeen years after british troops left palestine prince william is becoming the first british royal to make an official visit to the occupied palestinian territories and israel and is back to tell us why this trip is important and what's the conversation online andrew during at this visit and what's often been described as an unofficial boycott which has been in place for the last seventy years the british government has avoided sending
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royals there on an official visit until the palestinian israeli conflict is resolved because they didn't want to drag a political palace into an intensely political situation. prince william's does it to israel today is a historic and i think another example of how the young royals pushing the boundaries and breaking the tradition that the palace says that this visit will be nonpolitical i think he'll be on to intense scrutiny because it's very difficult to have a nonpolitical boiled visit to you. religion is. controversial is israel . so that was dr sarah richard sennett british historian at the university of warwick can to give you a sense of the scrutiny that she's talking about here before the trip began an israeli cabinet minister lashed out at kensington palace for labeling east jerusalem as occupied cabinet ministers even elkan posted on his facebook page that
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in unified jerusalem has been the capital of israel for over three thousand years no twisted wording of the official press release will change the reality it's regrettable that britain chose to politicize the royal visit and i'm expecting the prince's staff to fix this distortion but easter islam is occupied under international law and no government has recognized israel's annexation of east jerusalem since it was captured in the one nine hundred sixty seven war and while attempting to keep the trip nonpolitical there's just so much history involved here considering britain's colonial legacy in palestine even down to where prince william will be sleeping the king david hotel is where more than ninety people were killed in a bombing by a jewish armed group called the air goon in one thousand nine hundred six twenty eight british nationals died in the blast at the site of britain's administrative headquarters during its rule of palestine so many people are watching to see if prince william comments on so much british history in a place like this and many palestinians are hoping that he'll offer an apology for
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as this user put it giving away their country at least one palestinian official in the u.k. has called this and in direct apology this visit by the prince for the balfour declaration. a century ago it supported the idea of a national home for the jewish people in palestine as long as it didn't tarnish the rights of non jewish communities in palestine now between one nine hundred forty seven and one nine hundred forty nine at least seven hundred fifty thousand palestinians that's a population of around one point nine million at the time they were expelled by zionist militias which were later which later formed the israeli army and they ethnically cleansed and destroyed more than five hundred villages and killed around fifteen thousand native palestinians in a series of massacres so many older palestinians still blame the british for their misfortune and are expecting much from the first official royal visit and. we do not expect much from the united states or from prince william's or anyone else we have fixed acknowledged rights in the united nations and united nations
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resolutions britain is the reason behind the activity and has full responsibility in pursuing the return of the refugees and the choosing the right to return and implementing resolution one thousand four finally there are those like the israeli commentator on shelf or who say this it's by prince william and shared this week have no real effects on the region and on only symbolize the global decline of both the united kingdom and the united states now israel is one of the ten countries that the u.k. is exploring a bilateral trade agreement with as it prepares to leave the european union so let us know what you think this visit means and what it will mean for the israeli palestinian process if anything at all you can tweet us your views is in the hash tag it is great or message me directly i mean or show. now mexicans will cast their ballots next week in presidential and general
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elections but take a look at the number of candidates and politicians murdered in the run up to the votes at least a hundred and twenty one people so far and it must take quite a bit of courage to run for office it's a stark reminder of the violence that has crippled the country for years more than two hundred thousand murders just in the last ten it's an issue that's dominated the campaigns for those looking to become mexico's next presidents of holes are putting the left wing undressed money well lopez obrador well ahead in the race conservative riccardo in iowa of the pan party is trailing in the polls by twenty points followed closely by jose antonio me idea of the governing institutional revolutionary party and independents as a brother or as a veteran politician who's run for the presidency twice before john holeman takes a closer look at how open a dog might fare this time around. the sixty four year old and that is
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manuel lopez obrador it's looking like third time lucky in his quest to win the mix can president say this time he's the overwhelming front runner by his initials unload and he has a simple message. to the clintons will listen to everyone will respect everyone but our priority is the poor for the good of everyone the poor first. that plan has polarized mexico to some he's a danger ready to turn the country into the next venezuela two of those he's a deliver a from a corrupt political class and inequality. when you ask people am those rallies what they expect from him many say the same thing change despite the fact that he's been on the scene for a long time he still feels himself as an outsider to the political establishment to the point where he's treated its own party the party more in
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a maybe new but i'm most often labeled an old school populist who believes in a strong state he wants to provide monthly payments for students double pensions for the old and set price controls to help small scale farmers to pay for all of that to rely on his flagship campaign promise. and not lose any more to make sure. he says completely eradicating mit's because rampant corruption will have more than twenty four billion dollars to his budget his main strategy to achieve that simply by providing an example of his honesty so other politicians follow suit i asked him if that was enough to say there should be seeing them us yes the rest is just an adornment what's important is that the president does the right thing for us. critics say that another plans a naive unlike the toe the country's business leaders are also. spooked by his
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protectionist ideas a view of them as part of what he calls the power matthew day and his political rivals claim i'm no has no authority terry an anti democratic streak eight point two three futile to accept the results of the last two elections in two thousand and six he paralyzed part of the capital in protest over but he does know how to work within the political system as mayor of mexico city he worked with the private sector to regenerate the city center improve transport infrastructure and ended with a more than eighty percent approval rating now that scores waiting to see which version it gets moderates the radical populist to progressive if that is he wins the presidency john home and. i could kill him well mexico has also been in the spotlight recently after around two thousand three hundred children were separated from their families at the us mexico border and that since early may as
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a result of u.s. policy our correspondent gabriel is on there has been filing reports from los fresno's that's on the us mexico border on the impact the separation has had on families had to al-jazeera dot com to watch gabriel's reports. for our facebook viewers we have a story from a. woman in the u.s. who threatened to call the police over. old girl selling water. on the chance to upset the apple cart and they look to pull off a major shock to. the sports in just a moment but first let's get a check on the world weather.
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thank you thank you. thank you joe is here to give us an update on world cup news joe thank you yes you're a choir on the verge of beating hosts russia in samoa right now it's two no and that win would confirm your quite as win as a group they both teams are going through to the next round anyway and later on they'll know who face then from group b. where three teams can so progress iran face portugal later and can become the first
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asian team to advance the iranians need to win to guarantee a place in the next round as for announcer and co they just need a draw in that match to add funds and it's the same story for spain who need just a point against morocco to secure their place even if they lose they could go three provided portugal beat iran. well sports correspondent andy richardson joins us live now from moscow and hosts russia comfortably through despite looking like a loss for them in that game how important is their success to the growth of the game in the country. yeah it's crucial i mean some of the feel good factor might just be seeping out of the russian national team in a moment about you just gone three nailed down against europe what it will sound a player sense off the bigger picture is as an independent russia through to the knockout rounds the first time they were terribly low expectations are coming into
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this tournament so the fact they won two games scored eight goals became the first team to qualify for the knockout rounds was a was a bit of a surprise i was talking to the head of youth development at lokomotiv moscow yesterday and he said that the performance could have a massive impact on russian football for the next five to ten years he said had it been an embarrassments it would have put off investors and corporate sponsors getting involved in russian football and putting money into a youth infrastructure in coaching which is very badly needed and he also said for young players now that don't necessarily just have to identify with the likes of lena messi and christian around now by they can now identify with players on their own national team who come from similar backgrounds have had similar opportunities and are competing. power from today relatively speaking on a level playing field with the best players in the world so he said it as a as
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a moment in time for russian football this is really really important yeah andy let's move on now to the portugal and iran game that's happening litel paper you know it looks like it's a bit one sided for portugal but iran capable of pulling off an upset. well at the outset you look at it and think about what's going to run for in the world by the european champions they should be the clay favorites iran and it's been pretty impressive so far in this forum and they came into the fun of having not won a game in a world cup for twenty years they put that right against morocco albeit through a late late goal and then they were really unlucky against spain the i go across the school the only goal of the game to spain he knew next to nothing about it bouncing in off his knee iran until they had scored an equaliser and for it to be ruled out thanks to the i.r. you also have to call us to respect is that she also happens to be portuguese and
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he knows all about christian right now but he was part of the manchester united coaching staff that brought an elder over to the english premier league also i worked with him in a lot of the other players still involved in the political scene when he was the national coach of portugal took him to the twenty ten world cup but an entirely happy experience in iran all the how to a bit of a falling out were now there when asked what had gone wrong without formants said we'll just ask hiro but they do talk now of the mutual respect they have for each other i'm not inside knowledge may just be affected but iran have to win to go through portugal just need a drill and of course morocco spain in the other game in that group andy thanks very much for now what just on the subject of iran and a bit of a gamesmanship of on the part of the fans actually hundreds of them spent several hours outside portugal's team hotel and said i ask last night playing music and making plenty of noise to try to disrupt their opponent's sleep before the big game
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so much so that a portuguese t.v. channel managed to film superstar christiana rinaldo coming to his window and gesturing for the fans to be quiet apparently didn't work maddy have him kept the portuguese team up until the early hours of this morning now from so already into the last sixteen. there are high hopes in the country very team can repeat their achievement of nine hundred ninety eight and win it again a number of the top players grew up in some of the most deprived suburbs of paris has a story. he's one of the stars of france's world cup team nineteen year old striker killing him back pays already schooled in the tournament in russia he's carrying the hopes of a nation but he's also inspiring young people back home. and back they grew up in the paris suburb of bondi and children of his first club are bursting with pride. i'm so happy that becomes from here when people ask me where i play i said. and
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immediately to know where i come from to train here so when we train here we want to be like in france players plays mattie in the goal or can say are also from paris's suburbs places where unemployment is high and people often feel marginalized these teenagers from on a soup or say the footballers are role models who've kicked away stereotypes. they came from misery and now they are successful people think everyone in the suburbs are scum but that's not true all the big players come from the suburbs. when france last won the world cup in one thousand nine hundred eighty many people saw the team as a symbol of multiculturalism that would help heal divisions today few expect a french victory to change lives but excitement still running high a paris is all the airport children from all need prepared to fly to russia their school raised money for the dream trip. for these teenagers this is a trip of
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a lifetime not only are they going to the world cup but they may even get to meet some of their favorite players. we're really lucky not everyone gets to do this it's unique and we want to make the most of it usual i still remember the trips i went to another child but nothing like the world cup final so they'll never forget it whether or not frogs wins the world cup the players from the suburbs have already won the hearts of these children and encourage them to reach for the stars natasha butler al-jazeera paris well australia as well cup team known as the socceroos play again on tuesday but back home abutting soccer has been causing chaos on the pitch and racing across the field of play scattering players left and right bearing down on goal a red kangaroo or invaded the pitch cheering a match in australia's capital canberra not once but twice for the natives animal
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can be dangerous to humans if it kicks out with its strong back legs and sharp claws the rear delay the second half of the national premier league game as a lounged in goal before making its exit it was probably hoping to get a last minute call up to russia. and i want to know was making sports news in your part of the world you can tweet me at joke at your oscar or use the hash tag a.j. news grid will have more sport for you at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now and you got to do read her job thank you very much for that update for artists from both the muslim and hindu communities in kashmir are collaborating on an exhibit sent for the first time in decades and what they're hoping is that their show will encourage peace efforts to end decades of conflict in that disputed region if worker reports. in a disused silk factory in the city. creations of
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a different kind are on display sixty artists from kashmir as punch work of communities are promoting togetherness through aren't it's the first time in sixty six years works by kashmir as muslims and hindus are on show under one roof each reflecting a different side of this divided society it was a great experience for all of us you know people from different groups getting to know about what it was like. and what. it was a good experience because. on history the former independent state of kashmir has been disputed by india and pakistan since indian independence from britain in one thousand nine hundred forty seven each controls a part of the region both claim the territory in its entirety. the coalition government collapsed a few days ago following months of demonstrations in solidarity with decades of rebellion against indian rule artists. reflecting on their own immediately
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and a lot of works here also a deflection off what do you experience and witness that it is the political crisis the social crisis or the psychological crisis when a lot of conflicting ideas. are good i think. a certain point of contents of the exhibition is aimed at restoring harmony between kashmiris dischord and groups offering a time to reflect on the region's troubled past and hopes for a stable future. thanks for joining us on the news grid you can keep in touch with us on social media just use the hash tag a.j. news grid you can contact us on twitter or also on facebook and that is our what's up number our right there we will see you back here in studio fourteen at fifteen g.m.t. on tuesday thanks for watching. the
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time had come from the p.l.o. to seek a new and peaceful solution. pursuing a path of diplomacy in what was to turn their agreed look strong from lebanon into one of the most mistakes civilian massacres of modern times women children we couldn't believe this chronicling the term moon story and the struggle for a palestinian. history of the revolution on al-jazeera. morale is was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the
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quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp. up at the ballot the government raised our hopes and then abandoned us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed. a new series of rewind can bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues from. these distance rewind continues with alfred's free press. they didn't talk we think of any of the adventure sites. over the years you know
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rewind on al-jazeera. turkish president is reelected with sweeping new powers as the opposition concedes defeat while urging him to be a president for all. welcome to the program jonelle this is al jazeera live coming from london also coming up italy and libya look for common ground to resolve europe and north africa growing migration crisis. the escalating battle over the land in central niger.
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