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about political tribalism in the us after the president's press secretary was asked to leave the restaurant of virginia because of trump's policies the incident involving sarah saunders comes just days after a cabinet secretary was forced out of a mexican restaurant by protesters alan fischer has more from washington d.c. . good afternoon she's the public face of the trumpet ministration the press secretary an almost daily presence on the nation's t.v. screens when souter sanders turned up to eat at this restaurant in virginia she was politely asked to leave eunice said she did it because staff were uncomfortable with trump policies and i believe his briefing she touched on the issue and appealed for greater tolerance and understanding healthy debate on ideas and political philosophy is important but the calls for harassment in place for any trump supporter to avoid the public is unacceptable america is a great country and our ability to find solutions despite those disagreements is what makes us unique. elitist incident comes just days after homeland
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security secretary kissed the nielson was forced to leave a mexican restaurant in washington d.c. because of protesters angry at the administration's border immigration policy. and a prominent trump supporter florida attorney general pam bondi had to be given a police escort from a movie theater a day after noting plans to withdraw health care protections for people with preexisting conditions one prominent democratic congresswoman provoked controller c. saying trump administration officials should continue to be confronted whatever they are but these members of his cabinet who remain and tried to defend him they're not going to be able to go to a restaurant they're not going to be able to stop at a gas station then that going to be able to shop at a department store that people are going to turn on them so we're actually more fearful and more angry and one political expert says the trump era has brought. a
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new tribalism to u.s. politics i don't think there's any way in which the president's rhetoric and his behavior isn't a part of what we're seeing in american politics he. really is the one kind of charge with name calling on twitter with labeling his opponents with derogatory nicknames there are those who will tell you there have been times when america has been more divided when the splits are been more angry and more dangerous in a modern age social media has highlighted the divisions and amplified them and that in turn creates even more harsh exchanges and exposes more divisions politically alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the u.s. military is preparing to house illegal migrants on two bases in texas officials have confirmed temp recounts will be built at fort bliss goodfellow for space it's believed one of the camps will hold migrant families together while the other will house other companies children it comes after president trump signed an executive
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order to see migrant families detained together. to europe italy's newly appointed deputy prime minister was to set up camps in northern africa to stop people smuggling into the european union but a salvini has been in libya to present his plan to reduce the numbers of asylum seekers reaching italy mahmoud abbas where he'd has more from the libyan capital. multi-use salvini are arrived in libya determined to stop what he calls illegal migration from the efik and continent to italy leaders of the european union are meeting this week to avert a political crisis is over the way immigrants are treated across the bloc salvini says italy and libya need help. over the on thursday in brussels we at the european council the taliban government will uphold the need to protect the frontiers to the south of libya because neither libya not you to me can be alone in
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shouldering the burden of illegal immigration. salvini called for the setting up of camps in neighboring countries only be as southern borders such as kneejerk chad and sudan to prevent the influx of migrants libyan leaders into police say they don't want any camps only b.n. sawyer now. we reassured italy and europe that libya is ready in its plan to deal with migration we agree in many areas when it comes to illegal migration however we refuse completely and categorically the creation of and in camps inside libya for the legal migrants this issue is forbidden under living in law and it does not apply any of. the number of migrants crossing them a trainee into italy from libya ensures has fallen dramatically during the last year thanks partly to italian support for libya's coast guard but italian navy
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ships docked at a navy base in tripoli has raised concerns here. eternia navy vessels have been providing libya's close to gold patrols with technical support training and logistics since last august it's part of a memorandum of understanding signed by libya's prime minister face arrived and former italian prime minister paolo into loney in february last year. the arrival libyan administration in the eastern city of tobruk sand the agreement violates libya's sovereignty. the telly and government has around sixteen thousand migrants reach it italy this year compared to about seventy thousand the previous year. the fall is attributed to patrols by libya's coast guard backed by new boats and better equipment funded by the european union and
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trained by italian experts. despite that people smuggling continues and the temptation remains for desperate people to risk their lives crossing the mediterranean. in what up to a head. tripoli well still ahead here on al-jazeera and the rest buy for rebel fighters in the syrian city of daraa as government helicopters resume their bombing campaign. also a week out from mexico as a lecturer a political veteran surges in the polls as he makes his third run for the presidency. and in sport a long awaited win for andy murray tatiana will have its details later in the program to stay with us.
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hello there we're seeing some severe weather over parts of north america at the moment most of it's out of this weather system here that's gradually edging its way eastwards and as it does say it might bring us some flooding rains and some very large damaging hail as well so there's that system there making its way towards the northeast and then ahead of it we're still seeing plenty of showers across parts of florida although it does look like these should eventually begin to clear as we head through the day on wednesday meanwhile towards the west generally fine unsettled for many of us here seattle as a maximum getting to around twenty degrees a bit further towards the south and there's lots of showers here particularly over parts of cuba those of those showers that we saw earlier over florida this whole area staying wet then as we head through the day on choose day but by wednesday the showers over florida have cleared as have many of those that were over cuba towards the west more wet weather here though that stretches all the way down towards panama panama again looking pretty wet for south america is pretty cold for some of us in fact as ari's got to around one degree as a minimum that was pretty chilly as
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a maximum i think we'll get to thirteen degrees on you choose day so gradually the temperatures beginning to recover a force in santiago it's not that warm either as we head through into wednesday will jump up this time getting to seventy. an estimated one hundred thousand lives cruelly ended over a century ago. a distant past not to the descendants of the slaughtered. a tale of colonialism and racial supremacy unravels in the quest for justice and recognition of the sacrifices of tribal people to maybe. skulls of my people i witnessed documentaries on al-jazeera.
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al-jazeera. where ever you are. welcome back you're watching the al-jazeera news hour with me so whole rob with a reminder of all top news stories the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees is warning it's weeks away from cutting a budget see assistance because of low funding unroll is asking for more than two
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hundred fifty million dollars at a donor's conference in new york saying its struggle since the u.s. cut contributions earlier this year more than five million refugees in the middle east rely on the agency world leaders are congratulating turkish president recipe for his sweeping victory in sunday's elections the u.s. joined the e.u. in encouraging turkey to strengthen its two. that's after international monitors said once a ruling a k party had unfair advantages during the campaign. also nationwide industrial action power lies d'argent teener on monday as public service unions blocked road rail and ad transport workers are protesting the government's latest deal with the international monetary fund is the third national strike faced by president since he took office in twenty fifty. let's get more now on our top story and unrolls facing a funding crisis the organization supports more than five million palestinians
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curry force that has more from the refugee camp in the occupied west bank. over the course of sixty nine years the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees has become an essential part of life for millions of people palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes in historic palestine and their descendants this year services such as emergency food provision and education have come under intense pressure at the united states delivered only sixty million of its pledged three hundred sixty five million dollars in funding about half the agency's budget protesters were on the streets of gaza on monday to condemn the recent budget cut before donors make their latest pledges at the u.n. in new york that let me add that we've got so many problems now there are no services no money you know where everything depends on andhra. assists five point four million palestine refugees in what it calls five fields of operation lebanon
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syria jordan the occupied west bank including east jerusalem and gaza it spends more than half of its near seven hundred million dollars annual budget on education more than half a million palestinian children attended schools more than three million people use health clinics and the agency provides food security but one point seven million people across the region feeding a million refugees in gaza alone the last donor conference in rome in march managed to raise around one hundred million dollars for the agency they left and major funding gap for the second half of this year is undergoing an unprecedented financial crisis a deficit of two hundred fifty six million dollars and make no mistake that means that our merchant services for some of the most desperate people in the middle east are very much in question and it's certainly a big question mark over our over our schools we don't have enough money in the bank as things currently stand to open schools for half a million kids across the middle east the u.s. decision to cut its contribution was accompanied by
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a demand for what the americans called a fundamental reexamination of the agency's funding and operations and critics israel foremost among them accuse it of promoting the refugees right of return and allowing anti israel content to be taught in palestinian schools in new york the donors will be juggling considerations about national aid budgets some may be wary of stepping too readily into the breach left by the u.s. for fear of letting the trump administration too easily off the hook in the meantime the poorest palestinians in places like this will continue to bear the brunt of the political battling their daily hardships getting steadily worse sorry for said al jazeera jalazone refugee camp in the occupied west bank. mexicans vote in the presidential election next sunday with a new leader guaranteed current president enrique pena nieto is in their illegible illegible ineligible for. second time under mexico's calls to chew sion and in a turbulent time domestically a political veteran is riding a wave of popular support on his third attempt at the presidency john home and his
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will. for sixty four year old and that is 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 from the i'm told by his initials i'm low he has a simple message i. 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 deliberate from a corrupt political class inequality when you ask people i 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
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the point where he's treated the story party the party more in 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 smooth scale farmers to pay for all of that to rely on his flagship campaign promise. not to leave me or. i 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 is simply by providing an example of his honesty so other politicians follow suit i asked him if that was enough c b c n roll them yes the rest is just an adornment what's. important is that the president does the right thing. critics say that another plans
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a naive unlike the country's business leaders are also spooked by his protectionist ideas and view of them as part of what he calls the power matthew day and his political rivals claim i'm no has a north florida terry an anti democratic streak they point to his refusal to accept the results of the last two elections in two thousand and six he paralyzed part of the capitol in protest of what 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 mixed courage waiting to see which version it gets moderates the radical populist all progressive if that is who wins the presidency john holdren. i could. burials have begun in central line geria for about one hundred people killed in recent days
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now the deaths are a result of an escalation in the conflict between farmers and sending their magic herders in plateau state president mohammed who bihari has warned against reprisal attacks and deployed extra forces to the area to contain the violence and it just has more from the capital a big. part of state has always been a flashpoint in central nigeria but the for the last one decade or so the state has been relatively calm compared to neighboring states like. and ben what states this crisis the latest crisis is an escalation which the state has never seen before in a very very long time and a lot of people believe that this crisis may escalate before it gets any better the government is trying to come nerves but the underlying problems are already there and they've been there for a very long time conflict on land between farmers and cattle herders as more and
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more cattle herders move from the aboriginals down south largest it is in central parts of nigeria more than more like the link between the north and the cells where. migratory men move to graze their cattle and get more water now in neighboring states of ben we've seen from the start of this year hundreds of people have been killed in tit for tat clashes or some of these clashes of late have been identified by security forces to be not associated with land issues or farmers and cattle herders crisis it's more like politics being played on a wider scale and a lot of people believe that situation may be maybe a bit messy as nigeria goes into the campaign season a lot of politicians are just in for positions and this has brought president mohammad wadi who promised to bring most security to the country and
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a lot of pressure. the syrian government helicopters have bombed rebel positions in the city of data it's one of the last two major areas still held by rebels who promise to keep fighting and how much of june has more. in debt 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. to let them know that this is the hour of decisiveness in the victory of truth of a falsehood the hysterical bombing with all kinds of heavy weapons supported with warplanes is only confirmation of that desperation the world should know that the
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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 a few areas on the border with jordan and while they validate continue their fight many wonder how much longer that fight can go on. and. well a state of emergency has been declared in the syrian city of raka away u.s.
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backed forces of impose a three day curfew commanders say they have information that i still find is inside the city planning a bombing campaign the syrian democratic forces took rucka from my celeste october with american support locals have complained about discrimination from the s.d.f. which is dominated by kurdish fighters. geria is being accused of abandoning more than thirteen thousand refugees and migrants in the sahara desert the u.n. says they include pregnant women and children who've been left without food or water. denies the allegations which it says a part of a malicious campaign victoria gate will be ripples. disorientated and dehydrated these migrants have just been deported by algerian border guards and dumped in neighboring. the nearest villages a fifteen kilometer walk in the sahara desert and they have no food or water. the un migration agency says algeria has expelled an estimated thirteen thousand
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migrants in this way in the last forty months janet camara whose liberian was pregnant when she was deported last month she suffered a miscarriage while walking in the desert she buried her baby in a shallow grave in the sand and also a baby appeared he was killed when he was lying dead man because there is no one. starvation cheer when kids are all. all of. them in another librarian jew dennis filmed his deportation from a detention center in algeria. you can see some together with a group of other migrants they were loaded on to trucks and driven across the border tunisia reporting live from the desert to train
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a cheerier in their fish. in a second see this is going over there and is a massive massive lead to pull in blood. and it think i happened to get women and children into this into destruction. some migrants are rescued by a team like this one from the un migration agency others died trying to make it across the desert. they come by the thousands i've never seen anything like it there are even babies they even expel pregnant women women who give birth one or two weeks later it's a catastrophe. the algerian government denies committing human rights abuses it's ratified international treaties on human rights and this was the algerian red crescent last year helping to transfer the migrants to their home countries. the european union has asked north african countries to do. more to stop migrants
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headed north to europe the e.u. says it is aware of the mass deportations and says algeria needs to comply with international law many of these migrants say their experience proves otherwise victoria gayton be al jazeera. rescuers are looking for a dozen members of a youth soccer team fared trapped in a cave in northern thailand the boys and their coach are believed to have entered the cave in chiang rai province on saturday it's understood they got trapped when a heavy rain storm flooded their only way out video shows their bicycles and belongings left at the caves entrance environmental groups are calling on the un to investigate what they describe as australia's failure to protect the great barrier reef they submitted their request to unesco's world heritage committee which is meeting in bahrain global warming is seen as a major factor in the death of large parts of the reef but environmentalist say
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australia as i recall children mining policies make the problem even worse.
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one of the biggest problems facing our oceans and the loss of seagrass meadows one check rule for roughly fifteen percent of the ocean's total carbon storage perhaps or they hope to wife as much carbon dioxide as rain forests and they're also question marine habitats for many endangered ocean species. but here on al corn slew in central california the tide could be turning for seagrass thanks to some unexpected allies. trying to meet their. this nine hundred hectare as she wary is where rivers throughout this region meet the pacific ocean this is the agricultural powerhouse of the united states and
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fertilizer and pesticide runoff threaten the balance of this delicate ecosystem so having farmers so close to the ocean on what what impact does that have on the water quality well i mean where were you coastal environments close to urban centers coastal environments close. you get problems like this. it grows with touches the rocks it eventually. start composing over half of the world's seagrass meadows are in decline but here in al corn slew they're making a surprising comeback. oh wow. at one time there were thousands of sea otters in california but in the eighteen hundreds they were hunted to near extinction for their soft fur pelts. there are
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now more than one hundred in this as consuming a staggering one hundred thousand crabs per year. this federation's appetite has helped restore the balance of this ecosystem by triggering a chain reaction known as a trophic cascade. sea otters the crabs lower crop numbers allows smaller invertebrates like sea slugs to thrive and these creatures are crucial for the health of seagrass eating builds up on the leaves they allow sunlight to reach the plants. because sea otters are so crucial to the ecosystem scientists are carefully monitoring their slow and steady come back. they capture them and tag them with radio devices. firing their work really well. she was probably very close. what's the
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purpose of proper we go out seven days a week is to go out and find individuals see where they are what they're doing. other part of it is a star so we can understand the distribution of orders in this area what are they eating and how are they doing health wise there is one right there that's three four nine six so that beeping is an arm that peeping is from the radio transmitter that's surgically implanted in her. system ok. why don't you take a look yet you're out in there. along the west coast of north america researchers have noticed that the return of top level predators is having an impact on restoring all kinds of underwater life and the entire ocean system. what the sea otters do it's kind of it turns the tables against. groupings of facts of sea otters living
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crabs essentially the same grass an advantage again so if we introduce top predators like sea otters to ecosystems around the world will it have a knock on effect it's actually in the prediction is yes so if you re store food webs which means a lot of times bringing back a top predator to a system that we wiped out we have the great potential for restoring the health of that system. eat.
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its only takes a tougher line of migrants organized crime is making vast profits of the misery. people in power investigates the state funded deception centers where the helpless are regions to commodities ripe for exploitation. of
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migrants. after last. july on al-jazeera in a new series of had to had maddie hasson tackle the big issues with hard hitting questions mexico is getting ready for a general election of direct.

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