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measures. well one of the reasons why argentine people are so much against this agreement with the i.m.f. is because they remember of course the austerity measures that you know so much so damaged the country seventeen years ago now however this time the i.m.f. in argentina especially the argentine government has said that this is going to be based on whatever the argentine government decides is not the i.m.f. imposing what to do but the government of the argentine government and the maghreb ministration deciding how to impose those much needed cuts that the country needs so i assume that this broad somewhat of a relief to the population but it's still to be seen we're still don't know what exactly is going to have been in the next few months in terms of strikes civil disobedience or just general disruption across the country it certainly puts investors off trying to want to help argentina out of the crisis that it's in but
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do you think we will see more incidents like this as time progresses if president machree can't get his house in order. well that was the big question today was this a strike that could begin a wave of new more while there are strikes a bigger strikes in the country or was this just somewhat of a move designed by a few union leaders to sort of like let out the pressure and leave the more mockery sectors satisfied let's not forget that while this was a very strong strike and most most transportation unions participated in it there was no final statement and that usually happens when there's a big strike union leaders they get together in front of the presidential palace and issue a joint statement criticizing the government this didn't happen today so what the government is trying to see now is whether in the coming months they manage to
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defuse the situation because if not this is probably going to keep happening more and more often so right now what everyone is guessing is over what everyone is trying to guess is whether this is going to be the last general strike that we see this year's or if there are more coming down the road we'll just have to wait and see but for the but i think very much for your insight thank you. well mexicans vote in our presidential election next sunday with a new leader guaranteed current president enrique pena nieto is in illegible for a second term and a mexico's constitution and in a turbulent time domestically a political veteran is riding a wave of popular support on his third attempt at the presidency john holeman has more. the sixty four year old and that is manuel lopez obrador it's looking like third time lucky in his quest with a mix can president say this time he's the overwhelming front runner by his in
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issues i'm loath 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 at the liberal 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 the point where he's treated the story party the party more enter maybe new but are 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
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that to rely on his flagship campaign promise. not to lose me. i he says completely eradicating myths 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. for them yes the rest is just an adornment what's important is that the president does the right thing. critics say that another plans and naive unlike the term 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 tarion 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
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the capitol in protest. 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 mixed courage waiting to see which version it gets moderate radical populist will progressive if that is who wins the presidency john holdren. to europe now italy's interior minister materials salvina has paid a surprise visit to libya as part of efforts to try and stop migrants from reaching italy shores in tripoli's salvini called for the creation of un and e.u. backed centers to screen asylum applicants in nations the border libya also failed to help the libyan government patrol its territorial waters italy's new government has closed its ports to charity ships operating in the mediterranean drawing
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criticism from rights groups and other e.u. countries. well the backlash against president trumps administration's hardline rhetoric on migration continues to intensify across the us protesters are demanding answers for the delays and reuniting my grandchildren with their parents gabriel is on to report. mccallan texas the u.s. border with mexico was standing up against injustice that is why they say they're here protesting outside a detention center holding undocumented migrants when a government bus tries to leave they block it demanding answers two thousand migrant children still separated from their detained parents inside the bus are some children a haunting image a reminder they are humans and not numbers and they're the most innocent these are all expressions of. our response our human response the image was taken by leo
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lopez a doctor from texas who joined the protests to say it was a moving experience was really doesn't do justice to to the emotional response of i've seen these kids we we've heard of we've heard their their situation their story we've read about them but to actually see these children pressed up against the glass. with these kids was expression of emotion as a crisis on the southern border of the u.s. intensifies and government agencies scramble to undo a family separation policy put into place and then reverse by trump protests grow in america a digital at the san diego border a protest at a tent city for migrants near el paso a sit in in seattle and protests in new york and some are trying to take their message straight to trump but there have been protests in several cities across america they're particularly potent and small and medium sized cities along the
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border because here it's an issue that's urgent and it's real i think this is an expression of of compassion and take it taking to the streets in the name of justice in the name of these these children is just that a silhouette begging so many questions who are they where are they going will they ever see their parents again questions nobody can seem to answer gabriel is on doe al-jazeera macallan texas well president trump a slam to motorcycle make a harley davidson full planning to move some of its production out of the u.s. the i calling us to avoid paying tire it's all american export six imposed by the e.u. as part of an escalating trade dispute rob runnels has more from washington d.c. . the growing global trade war is claiming some of its first victims in the u.s. motorcycle maker harley davidson announced it was moving some of its production overseas
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to avoid steep tariffs imposed by the european union. the e.u. action came after president donald trump slapped tariffs on european steel and aluminum harley davidson says it sold forty thousand motorcycles in europe last year it's not yet clear how many workers will lose their jobs trump tweeted surprised that harley davidson of all companies would be the first to wave the white flag asked about the wisconsin based manufacturers decision white house spokesperson sarah sanders defended trump's trade policy the european union is attempting to punish u.s. workers with unfair and discriminatory trade policies and president trump will continue to push for free fair and reciprocal trade and hopes that the e.u. will join us in the meanwhile soybean farmers in the midwest are dreading the prospect of china taxing their product in retaliation for trump's tariffs on chinese goods so we'd be futures are already at their lowest in nearly
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a decade to export twenty five percent of your products any time your stock start talking training go she is going to be a big impact on your business. tariffs have gone into effect on u.s. cranberries peanut butter orange juice and levi's jeans also in a blow to european liquor aficionados and american distillers bourbon whiskey has become costlier from lisbon to warsaw thanks to eat you retaliate tory terrorists twenty five percent price increase is going to put us really expensive compared to other products that are already available in europe made by either european producers or indian or even japanese producers the kentucky distillers association urged trade negotiators to quote sit down over a glass of our signature spirit and resolve their differences rob riddles al jazeera washington. well still ahead here on the old as the reviews are all we
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count from mexico it's election day political veteran surges in the polls as he makes his drug for president. there's a growing tribalism in american politics is present trumps divisive rhetoric to blame. i didn't support a long awaited with some of the very touchy on the other details later in the program. are you just sold. me the weather sponsored by qatar airways hello there we've seen a huge amount of rain in the southern parts of china recently most of the cloud in the southern parts has given us some very heavy rain particularly out of the you now in provence and that's where these pictures of from certainly shows the terrible conditions that we've been seeing there and a lot of disruption that that wet weather has caused it's not the only place though where we've seen a lot of heavy rain we've also seen some of the further towards the east as well
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but a lot of this is gradually going to clear away and so there's a more in the way of dry weather as we head through chews day and wednesday wednesday also looking dry up towards the north as well further west there is a head down towards parts of viet nam it's looking pretty wet and head there have been mudslides in the north just over the last day or say before this was the south plenty of showers there over the philippines and also some very active rains just to the west and the southern parts of borneo this region again looking very wet as we head through cheeze day and you can see from the dark blue colors there we're expecting some of those downpours to be very very heavy some of them might just skirt the coast of borneo there towards the west also one or two showers here but generally here they're a little bit more broken up so this should be more in the way of sunshine coming through in between those showers everything was india too hot spots here one in the west and the other one in the northeast and in bangladesh to. the weather. where were you when this idea popped into it when they're online it's undoubtedly
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chief cool. over the inequality in our society today or if you join the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like to go back for the first time everyone has a voice of allow refugees to flee the speakers for change join the conversation on our until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was a cover included todd's tragedies of quakes and that was it but not how people feel how they how they think and that's what we do we go in with five and a half months of demanding it through an educational system that was introduced to . latin america as europe has come to fill a void that needed to be filled.
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hi jim the al-jazeera news arab cell raman a reminder of our top news stories the one agency for palestinian refugees is warning it's just weeks away from cutting emergency assistance because of critically low funding and says its struggle to since the u.s. cut contributions earlier in the year also who the rebels in yemen say the saudi ember r.t. coalition has carried out five air strikes near the strategic for data port the coalition launched an offensive to retake the city almost two weeks ago the u.n. has urged all warring parties to work with the international community on a peace plan and the general strike has power lies d'argent tina with unions
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blocking road rail and and transport workers are protesting that the government's latest deal with the international monetary fund. they say also is he measures unfairly target the port. first get more on our top story now on a roll face a funding crisis the organization supports more than five million palestinians hurry force at times of war from the jalazone 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. protest as well on the streets of gaza on monday to
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condemn the recent budget cut before donors make their latest pledges at the u.n. in new york that we're going to get that we've got so many problems now there are no services no money in our work everything depends on annorah. assists five point four million palestine refugees in what it calls five fields of operation lebanon 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 for 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 but 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
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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 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 budget some may be wary of stepping too readily into the breach left by the u.s. for fear of letting the trumpet ministration 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 while to take
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you know world leaders are congratulating the turkish president recipe for his sweeping victory in sunday's elections the u.s. says it respects the decision made by the voters and joined the e.u. in encouraging turkey to strengthen its democracy that's after international monitors that ruling ak party had unfair advantages during the campaign jamal shell has more from ankara. there were stark differences in the messages from red to type out around the victor of sunday's election and his closest contender his closest rival muharram in jr to one repeatedly said that he planned on being a presidents for all of eternity he said that he would not allow for any person to be discriminated against in this new turkey under this new system regardless of their political views their gender or their ethnic origin obviously this is seen as maybe an attempt by the president to reassure those who are concerned that on the
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this new system a lot of the power is concentrated in the presidency in one person contrast and compare that to the statements from her injuries said that this election was unfair as far his he was concerned he thought that it's like he was now going into a dangerous. new phase where all of that power was concentrated under what she called one person rule and said the president must show that he was going to be a presidents for all people obviously had enjoyed himself when he would have shared the same power however he had promised that he would reverse what was a popular demand by the people to change the system from a parliamentary one to a presidential one as manifested in the. vote referendum to change the system into a presidential one a few months ago no international observers said that they had some concerns over the sunday's election it wasn't over the outcome press a it was the media coverage
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in the build up to that they said that no one in the act party had a lot more airtime than their opponents that the coverage was slanted in their favor it's important to note here that the vast majority of turkish media is privately owned the act party and i don't will say it's not their fault that those who own those institutions supports them however the reality is even with state owned. institutions like the there was a clear imbalance in favor of the line and the party in terms of time that was there albeit stuck to the opposition did have a platform to represent themselves but having said that the vast majority of the consensus is that sunday's election was generally a free and fair one with the highest record of turnout you're talking about more than eighty six percent taking part in the ballots on sunday. the south sudan's president says he hopes renewed talks with his rival will bring in immediate end to
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the forward a half year civil war salva kiir is attending the latest round of talks with his forward deputy right shar this time in the sudanese capital khartoum negotiations hosted by ethiopia last week failed to achieve a breakthrough the un has given both sides the end of the month to reach a peace deal or face sanctions. twenty suspects have appeared in court over a great attorney get a rally held by ethiopia's new prime minister three people were killed and one hundred wounded in saturday's explosion which caused it to flee the scene he's promised to press on with reforms including releasing jailed dissidents and improving relations with neighboring eritrea have a dow has more of the capital. for six and a half years. remained in prison for simply calling for an opposition political rally convicted of terrorism came for was serving a twenty five year jail term when the reformist prime minister pardoned him and
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thousands of other political prisoners. i was tortured day and night the beating was constant i lost hearing in my right ear the doctors say there is no hope of recovery. weeks of the been freed from prison along with other former detainees and activists confessed organizer valid to support the new prime minister's reform plan tens of thousands filled miscall square in the heart of the capital last saturday the size of the crowd alone underlining the deep desire for change after decades of war the italian group in this country a one hundred million people. the prime minister had just finished speaking at the political rally in the square one what is thought to have been a grenade was thrown killing three people and injuring more than one hundred others . the prime minister. he needs to step up a security and also if not internationally and police. are beyond that came out of
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the box full force in his first few weeks in office few believed he could maintain the pace if anything the forty two year old former army officer has only stepped it up in the two months or so he's been in office since the release of thousands of political prisoners the lifting of a state of the magnitude up was important to. deal with anti government protests some also announced an economic reform plan that includes the sale of state companies. not everyone is happy with these changes though analysts say the content within the ruling coalition has one hundred eighty council members fall from unanimously behind. you have a very young population and this young population is must spattering lights and more educated in better connected than their parents and this young people are demanding you know to take part in the political decision making process is very difficult to govern this young people with with the same way their parents were
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government. hopeful that nothing can stop their own going changes opposition politicians are says in the moment by setting up political parties in anticipation for what they hope will be a free and fair elections in two thousand and twenty mohammed at all just a discipline. well several civilians are being killed the syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the southwestern city of daraa the air raids are part of the government's assault on the region which is one of the last two areas still held by rebels thirty people have been killed since last tuesday the helicopters also dropped leaflets warning of an imminent offensive any attack would violate a truce brokered by russia and the united states to try and reduce the violence. in other worlds chemical weapons watchdog has called a special conference to reaffirm and defend the ban on such tools of war the u.k. requested the meeting after the nerve agent was used in souls to attack former
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russian spy service cripple and his daughter but the increasing use of chemical attacks in syria will also be addressed so you go you go reports. young children being treated after an apparent nerve agent attack in syria the devastating effects all too obvious as the deadly compound was reportedly dropped over the perceived city of duma in april just one of a number of times that poisonous gases were used in syria as bashar al assad's forces sought to take control of rebel held areas. nearly a year and a half ago there was this attack in kuala lumpur international airport the half brother of north korean leader kim jong un targeted in full view of an unsuspecting public by v.x. nerve agent he later died in hospital over in the u.k. another targeted attack a full russian military officer and
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a double agent said basically powell and his daughter yulia poisoned the substance in question by investigators to be navi chuck a nerve agent developed by the soviet union while such weapons have been widely banned since the end of the first world war when it was used to devastating effect routine condemnations by international leaders have done little to stop them and the attacks in syria have invariably been met with routine denials by bashar assad and his sponsor the russian government and they've been seen as a provocation to the international chemical weapons watchdog eleven member countries of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons called for an emergency meeting at its headquarters in the hague to defend and strengthen the global ban on such nerve agents. currently the organization only determines whether such attacks have taken place not who carried them out they want to use the session to set up a new mechanism so the a.p.c. w.
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is able to assign blame for attacks carried out with banned munitions proposal would need a two thirds majority to pass and would likely face challenges from iran and russia which has previously criticized the o.p.c. w. in light of its findings in syria as well as souls. but there is an urgency to tackle the troubling spate of such dangerous and indiscriminate attacks attacks that have already cost the lives of too many civilians so yeah go. all of the world's largest rain forest in the democratic republic of congo is under threat due to a rampant illegal logging now the latest report published. the ngo global witness condemns countries that import illegally harvested timber the group calls on france to cancel a multi million dollar project that supports companies involved in the trade illegal logging is common in developing countries such as the sea british politicians a voted to approve a third runway at london's heathrow airport after debating the issue in parliament
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prime minister trees in may says the eighteen billion dollar project will ease congestion and create one hundred thousand jobs but opponents object to the expansion on environmental noise and financial grounds heathrow is europe's busiest airport in terms of passenger numbers. well it's growing concern about political tribalism in the us after the president's press secretary was asked to leave a restaurant in 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 fisher 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 serious 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
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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 security secretary cures 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 announcing 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 this cabinet who remain and tried to defend him they're
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not going to be able to go to a restaurant they're not going to be able to stop at a gas station they're not 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 true. has brought a 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 part of what we're seeing in american politics he. really is the kind of charge with name calling with labeling his opponents with derogatory names. tell you there have been times when america has been more divided. and more dangerous. highlighted the divisions and. even more. divisions.
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in the news. story on the other side of the break.
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ninety percent of the wild special dogs are being fished battle beyond best stay in a pool limits growing demand an industrial fishing techniques are pushing some populations of cod and china to the brink of collapse while millions of tons of other less marketable species are being used to fast allies or fish food or simply discard it i'm so we are rightly in london u.k. where marine scientists are working together with local fisherman to get consumers hooked on sustainable seafood. based in east london a tiny startup by the name of sol shah is hoping to change london his relationship we fish. to fish for their journey. order. and come and get it from well it's a bit like a budget box but let's say. we work with a couple of ensure fisherman we bother him and then handed out to us it's
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a really good way of just getting a home for the maze of fish trying things that maybe you haven't tried before and also supporting the got a cool thing martin fuller is one of the three and a half thousand small scale fishermen working in english waters but unlike many others whose families have been in the business because. nations used to come to the trade a decade to get the last of my fish and most of the boys out of the ones that were got such a skill set for the start and for a very. very rough stone so that parts of the next on the trip they send slides. here on the common is nothing that they have a hard for you know to tell you are there are. fish touches the bigger fish. ya know so sorry big fish but some actual small fishes where a witch or troll on the only thing you know kind of thing. is that the day that the
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sun told you could avoid every. unlike industrial bottom two minutes which tried to long to see flu and can kill a wide array of marine life. stay still in the winter and the notch holes means he's not undermining feature fish stocks by catching up some juveniles.

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