tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera July 10, 2018 5:00am-6:01am +03
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mischievousness like you. in the motor city did you. make when they get moccasins it's from saying of your auntie didn't do as you did you do know when it's. a shock for the city to live or money or the venue in common was ontario no. way i'm wondering you know going in with your measurement the them because the path the design on ordered up in the more than my claim is open on the shop he. she doesn't need loses she minister at the event to sink. and dammit. there's one key vienna i didn't meet susan of but the brewery he's
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a gifted kids in iraq would do this thing that he knew. she was soo granted it discontinued on during. the sounds we can consider certainly made. until recently released speak them all this will combine a standard to be sitting on that vision even if you see but believe. me. and i see nothing. but if. i see no. or nor fair at corps at least what. but how did is an aberration become such a cruel dictator. the story begins in one nine hundred seventy five in chad.
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a former french colony twice the size of france located in northern central africa chad is landlocked and bordered by six other countries. say look what are you doing the good ones as your what if i look at rest of it. it was you know it was what will go your way yes it will but it flows as it will not lead it but in no way believe in it but merely the immunity deal medleys own usual the best breach b. of a no in the maldives this will. form a student at the elite french school of political science. led a rebellion against a government he considered to be overly influenced by fronts from the desert region of two besting he relit support with his nationalistic rhetoric is
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a number they consume devoted the most your requests in a casket to cuban uncooperative and i will be shown just this to you like i'm different. you know that i'm owed an informal x. come on and there you. have a concord. and after he said i'm going to have to get. dad no. trouble i got one or i out and he called it blair yeah he would tell you. that i really. don't have an author i could think this one is on the measure so if a bit it took a lot of engine us on to see evolution there you know also could i guess again you see. how long would you need to see the pool see the amount of money the office closed. let me. sit on of my. ex called you
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know. but. it. was weird. for me please it was. did it in your not. the first french hostage was archaeologist françoise closed who was kept prisoner in the to best the desert for thirty three months. are going to give us it. immediately. after years of chaos and infighting between rebel factions in chad. entered the capital victorious in june one thousand nine hundred two. the revolutionary declared himself president. from the moment he assumed power the young head of
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state had to face the threat of neighboring libya. colonel moammar gadhafi wanted to an exchange. he was an equally ambitious revolutionary but all the more powerful thanks to the money he made from oil. in the name of his pan african dream he okie pie district of landon knows who the neighboring territory of libya and launched a rebellion against is an apple. but then. he kept. a stone in to get it into the ice that. gadhafi threatened western interests. not only in chad but locally. he
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supported revolutionary movements and financed international terrorism. the west extended support to send out way it's absolutely coast. ethan a big reason that it did it was the. right of reagan to sell and i swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us ackland the president reagan came into power we were instructed to do everything possible to stop libyan activities america was like going against gadhafi he was just doing everything to foment revolution so in that context chad became an important
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area for us the americans have the sort of they were going to support dissing the united states didn't care in chad per se but they did have a very strong interest in reigning in the ambitions of of colonel gadhafi. what we did was we assessed were. needed. charlie and soldiers more point and shoot it had to be pretty simple. it was part of my function to coordinate all that. we were to deliver them to the airport in the middle of the day. be delivered rather than over their own who were reporting to the congress and to the press they were engaged to clear this program. the united states is an abberation regime but fronts was hesitant to do so.
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also meet at home a socialist wanted a new african policy with less intervention and more progression. he opens dialogue with gadhafi at the feeders up of new evil if you don't want to show us so there is a. dummy tell all digital. biting buddy less edited usfsa cook at spots ok but he still g.p.'s search me so give me do you think just because the west. you got there she. did you what was a law i'll tell you who in law does she did in fourth year of the live audience just villa in new. scalloped or a child. that you call partition and she was a little glass it again. gadaffi agreed not to cross the sixteenth parallel a symbolic boundary that separated the pro libyan troops from the regime of it sent
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our plane over be a pal of a gloomy and local to show if the sun must be a loss is not a fault among. my colleagues and i in washington were aware of the fact that some elements of the french government were tempted to try to work with. khadafi in our message to the french would have been when you sup with the devil use along. within two years is an arbitrator had taken his place on the international stage. within the country his regime carried out their first massacres in the south. for the requirements of the trial lawyer jacqueline mu dana returned to this region where the armed rebels known as the kodos opposed our brain who tried to secede
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from the regime. that it was. not administered. in this isolated location gray's army plan to ambush the rebel kodos. lap in their fog we need peace on their mean exact amount really you do get to get it ok there are many. when i viewed as a smile. i deserve counseling envy to meet their segment so long they play with their minds on the. sunday.
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it was auntie could have fed me on the let me get over. baku the head of i think the p.c. the cab driver is only there and to see. some m.q. would do to clapham say could take that. she got most. part of that he took c. on the d. last the loss it just was a loss and i mean those if put on a show not going to turn don't know who got this done this. or us and second daughter say. no ever. seen it go. it will not do it. out of all the last a bit of. the night and has no idea may. set
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fairly soon then the same board they must factor just should be if you had a pretty september. october in september while. on take it they barely limited their will to with visual done this kind to play he is a christian bruce is on the road please i'm going to play you sit a very couple of my fuckin cups one cup. thirty years later the south of child has not forgotten the bloody violence of the army against the civilian population. people were killed on the slightest suspicion of supporting the rebels blame you. if you could to. show your real self on be more.
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a bit where men done for political cause. really when you know you not. remember what. was on fire. then with everyone with. while it. was killing and wiping out dissent in the south the world's attention was turned to the north. gadhafi had violated the pact he'd made with france and the pro libyan troops across the sixteenth parallel and were advancing on chad's capital city. a secular regime that if only and fair as i want to monday. from the.
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syllabus you experience. i think was anxious to avoid. commitment in chad but he couldn't escape it. he and his government could not escape it in reality. he admits he didn't all suitable. to be going to his unit for you know who it. is and i break i got what he wanted the support of the french. gadhafi gives in and signs an agreement with false with me to whom he promises to pull his troops out of china. to pick up his wrist and.
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they will moan. shifts those up be get this. on are told also say the show that i had soviet at the multiple orders false it. the brush that he does he should also be about him already. on a beach fish we can well knew he. was. in two thousand and fourteen israel inflicted a devastating attack on gaza. filmmaker mohammad jabaliya captures the destruction
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of his home city through the struggle of those he saved lives for a living. i witnessed ambulance on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. and. every. i had a briefing today from a man named steele who has been out there working with the security forces a veteran of el salvador's diety board sent to iraq you seem to be without portfolio doing whatever it is that he wanted to take interest in the next about
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him counterinsurgency even while this interview was going on with jim steele there were these terrible screams about pain and terror but what was his mission and what legacy did he leave searching for steel on out his iraq. oh i maryam namazie and on the now top story this hour u.k. prime minister to resign may's government has been thrown into some crisis by the resignation of two key ministers within the last hour may has named jeremy hunt as the foreign secretary replacing boris johnson is to down early on monday declaring that the brics it dream was dying that followed the resignation late on sunday of persons chief bracks it negotiates both ministers were unhappy with mace proposal to keep the closest possible trading ties with the e.u.
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this is not a trial we will end free movement we will end the jurisdiction of the european court of justice we will stop sending exhaust sums of money to the european union every year we will come of the common agricultural policy we will come out of the common fisheries policy i believe though that is what people they set for when they go to leave and we will to live in faith with the british people. eight schoolboys have now been rescued from a thai cave where they were stranded for more than two weeks all the children have been sent to hospital after two days of rescue operations for more boys and their football coach remain in the cabin in china right ahead of the rescue mission says he needs three more days to get them out. israel has shut down a key economic lifeline into the gaza strip a move hamas has branded a war crime carom abu salim crossing is a vital access point for supplies in the besieged territory israel's prime minister says it's in response to palestinian protests is sending incendiary kites over the
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border to burn fields rescue workers in japan is searching for dozens of people still missing off to tarantula rain on the east floods and landslides in southwestern areas of the country one hundred twenty six people have died and millions for been forced from their homes more than eleven thousand homes are without power and hundreds of thousands of people have no access to running water and syrian rebels in daraa say government forces have surrounded the opposition stronghold this is despite a russian brokered cease fire that we too on friday the united nations is calling for unrestricted access to the area to deliver aid to tens of thousands of people the fighting has displaced more than three hundred thousand civilians in the past two weeks. well those are the top stories i'm going to bring you much more in everything we're covering in the news out that's coming up in twenty five minutes time so do join me then.
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it's an upgrade was known as the lion of un iowa his political party. thousands of child deals with victim to the cruelty of his regime. who don't know that good news of only said something to do being can diminish. the love. please don't be seen. please on that i believe special b.c. you. you know this is also. a shame that many in the country must. and . can come to its own. name with mustard. seed motif. and.
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. this is a government. service i don't see that it's an honor to suss this so that wasn't the cause effect would be my concern. as checking the shows go with the obvious that you know he said i might. disappear you want to see the public. is going to check the business i. was on before the seriously. he took it up ice. could be good he said you know also for a school that had any what to look decision should yes he would love it for me i do sir. he said by the club are where it was you know i don't want. supine going to bus resumption he said we want to be them because of the month of june.
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anybody knows or dualism that a can of fancy new proof but good to be in this all one hundred did they look at it it all sort of a lot is done. to lump us i did enough fast did this was a vinous fuck you say did he and it's very nice to to this american either you move away or nick or that i am goes on to go on as by the corps long to meet their fans sake of it have a disease that are. media you could both go to the clinic in is. one of the ferry first documents we picked up was the report of a training course in the united states for a number of d.d.'s agents. including some who were listed later as the most feared torturers in chad we see from the entry logs
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of the d.d.'s the liaison from the us to the d.d.'s was coming in and out of the d.d.'s it would be really hard to say that the us did not know what was going on. yet when it got. shocked like the wind does all up. and answer can i find out from the fisherman. of course we knew about human rights violations. in chad. it was not an issue for us as i said before our main focus was libya. of course we frequently have to help people we who are not very nice to to do our things
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but we do not regret anything there it is real politic yes. savvy to put it together sure let's advance suv all of sulphide up and cease. by the mid one nine hundred eighty s. gadhafi had still not withdrawn his troops from northern chad he did not fulfill the agreements that he made with force one meter. tensions were rising between france and libya by the flash is it unfair which are always be to see the girl ilar your door you are to elevate the force don't ya don't go she is
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bitter the girl below. is showing respect to build a bar. near the city of what he doom the libyans built a two mile long runway to channel weapons and initiate a fresh attack on the country alone met gadhafi once again to try to persuade him to see reason. get their feet or sua sucked off the saucer and then up that this is . and then. it is. all. she. did she i. think is something.
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what do you do when you. love yourself or says a lot of this image and they hold all the will not sit on it at this moment and then get it fronts reiterated their support for it. with operation apell being. the french and the americans were now in the same position they had to clamp down on the libyan advance to threaten stability in the region. libyan army was very well outfitted because libya had a lot of oil wealth and the soviet union the top to provide them with a lot of equipment. so at the same harbor was going to go after that you know he had a good case to make we provided ten stinger missiles under very strict controls
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. and they were he wanted. a new reality. this modern equipment allowed. to launch an assault on the probe libyan forces a battle known as the toyota war took place in the vast desert of chant. had bigger than any. other do you see and. setting on. every. new level of the year. is a big deal for the men. the toyota war ended with the taking of what the doom gadhafi stronghold in china. is and how bray in the end destroyed the libyan
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armored corps. and killed thousands of libyan troops that would not have happened if there had not been effective french or american cooperation. is very happy he came we had lunch with president reagan and we had a long talk president are convinced. that the relationship between our countries will continue to be strong and productive it was an honor and a great pleasure to have had him here as our guest. this is the president. liz it does unique. sherry.
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this. this in harbor a is the fourth dictator charged with crimes against humanity who was supported by the reagan administration you have a gusto pinochet in chile you have his in harbor in chad you have in haiti you know every oh smaug in guatemala after seven years in power he became obsessed with those he considered internal enemies in chad in one thousand nine hundred nine is an obvious former chief of state interest they'd be led a rebellion against him and his paranoia knew no limits. dns from the same ethnic background as he treats day be there's a guy became targets in an jim ina they were held in a prison called the peace ina swimming pool it became
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a symbol of oppression as the country was plunged into fear. or left the p.c. prosecutor in a to be seen sank as m s does if you see it on the records that you. left the scene i did cause for me when i was three in shock we just. said come into they are by. the sea do with. and they. were with. the. long girth from it that thread is that a ship from a through to or cut the madness on these i've accepted you and that. need don't see for some wonder that you didn't.
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see em. we're live book why did the never let them go to be a couple of enough. in one minute it was curiously. wanted to. release some. duty of course i think on a terrorist event like this one. only the. listed fit only the sheer wonder the more. i think your model would have done. it all in wa. more with a bit of it is all there is in the whole world declared as you know exactly what i'm. going to come up with on the. left we don't really don't
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see i'm one of the sons and am ability to understand. during the same period two terror attacks find their targets a pan am flight explodes mid flight over lockerbie in scotland the second a french u.t.a. plane explodes in the middle of the sahara desert both attacks bore the hallmarks of colonel gadhafi the united states decided that the libyan leader needed to be eliminated. it's an opened his country to u.s. forces allowing them to pursue their objectives just a few kilometers from and jim ina the cia had secret camps where they trained former libyan prisoners. an issue that i forgot i will juggle on that with real down watch the media are barly us right there with. the. or what. if you were in. deep sea salt or
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call pocket or say. i mean i don't know no no no no no yeah i'm so pleased along the journey and we did it on a ball player it's on t. shirt be on the else. is any idea. any images we. have it is and i would only be permitted. to this. was a cia operation. a covert operation. the purpose was to infiltrate libya with libyan people who could attack libyan facilities she got access to her city this is. a book a.f.e. the prison year and i guess get us sit it. on either me.
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because you do news america he fit in a fox. me book highly food or a hotly i get a few is a make an example but come up with. our simplest gonna do montgomery man. france did not appreciate united states inviting themselves into their african domain the head of the french foreign intelligence went to chad to meet if santa brings the she's. in the rear of the over to. let them sue him. it costs just to put it on disha. sucked. eleven. when do. you present a false where you think you have a not
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a good day some delicious midi. fizzy he precipitated. a moment laziness on of a. list he sent a fair sympathy shoot to sir no saying get metal or fur and i think also for too short to show to death i think. france had already selected the man to replace him. the former chief of state under it's an upgrade. he had taken refuge in sadam. when his troops entered and janina the french military did not intervene. michel compatible. lizzie a must go to a combatant if not but it did not work on three year i live close to god only if
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you share this very. sick i don't. sell our liberty. i said to him i guess i mean the suck up of induce. you to for a bigger in up the deputies on politics. who often live south of the sure say look i'm a pretty left having me so to speak yet you got a problem you can get a skeptic you grew up in must be your best. on it it is clip of you vote i penned up in oh ma chère a comma city like you that i show. them by do come and go is us live it to live my ship it it will happily uncle she was said more to consider.
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it to less or to the people. who didn't look. inside it but look at the each just to see if the said just said g.-d. lack of if it is a. here at the ship but they're here. cecille issue please get. it to be stead be appointed magistrate mamata has signed a card as the head of a commission to investigate crimes committed by the regime of the sent up thing. the commission collected statements from victims and discovered a number of mass graves. by me that a woman does here comes of it for. says out of the city after
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a pause he she. on the third cannot pleasure. did you do this you. eaters debbie's relationship this case has always been very complex on the one hand he was his and harbor his military chief during one of the bloodiest periods of the government on the other hand after he broke from his and harbor a many of his best friends and many family members were killed by his son harbury. when you're the authoritarian president of a country. and simple citizens have brought to justice the previous president it's very it's an uncomfortable situation it's a democratic victory that you don't. necessarily want to be encouraging.
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to did notice when somebody. says what a false this is one is it doesn't. end soon month and is a pretty easy to keep it. up at the gym indeed. the news often i suppose it's a scoop isn't going to be a. human must. be tied to a kid is a freaky. little point of their lives that. even more on consumer issues.
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however that whether i set fabric cross australia clear skies lots of sunshine not particularly warm sunshine having said that basin peace is a cloud down towards the southeast and cold of a high pressure in china says ok thing settle the high as a lid on the atmosphere suppress in the clout then so we can see plenty of sunshine for many that sunshine extends its way over towards the western side of the country perth at around twenty one celsius on the seventeenth and alice in the great springs but they're getting up into the into double figures that is in the southeast and cold in melbourne in around twelve degrees celsius on choose to
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a way to stay it's a type cola southerly winds maybe a little bit damp weather just pushing its way through support from the for example could see some tout and rain as is the case today and tasmania this move across the tasman and they have we have seen some very lively showers across a good part nice into office a cloud playing through the country to central areas in particular have been iraq the stormy they should be bad over the next couple of days but the shot was never too far away from north on in full choose day thirteen celsius in oakland brightening up the way to stay. a bit wet weather coming into south followed by wednesday and notice the possibilities of snow over the high crime a while for japan a place to say things are drawing up is clearing up now after a recent spell of floods. on counting the cost car wars the world's biggest exporters attempt to steer away from a damaging trade war with the u.s.
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boss how online streaming services are taking on hollywood bollywood and beyond. counting the cost on al-jazeera. juline on al-jazeera in a new series of head to head maddy has been talk of the big issues with hard hitting questions pakistanis going to the polls to elect a new government what pump will the country take people in power continues to examine the use and abuse of power around the world a generation of voters in zimbabwe grew up knowing only the leadership of robert mugabe now they're electing a new president and for the first time since independence his name's not on the ballot on television and online the stream continues to tap into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news. july on al-jazeera. getting to the heart of the matter if not stuff i can see the turkish cypriot
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leader calls you today says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification of look like there are two people think the peace corps unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. zero. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes or is johnson quits as u.k. foreign secretary saying the brakes it dream is dying and plunging to resume his government into crisis. another four boys are rescued from
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a flooded cave in thailand and taken to hospital eight are now out. israel shuts the main cargo crossing into gaza and till further notice of incendiary kites flown across the border. with all the day's sports including roger federer storms these were the wimbledon quarter finals centers which were most total at the all england club later in the program. we begin with the political crisis in the u.k. why prime minister to resign may's bracks it strategy is lead to two major resignations which threaten to tear the ruling conservative party apart first to go was david davis who as bracks it secretary was leading negotiations with the e.u. he quit in protest at the plan for brics it which may agreed with a cap and it on friday hours later foreign secretary bars johnson and alst he was
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resigning as well saying the government self-doubt was killing the brakes it dream is being replaced by health minister jeremy hunt a prime minister's strategy is to match the regulations on goods and strike a new deal to establish a free trade area with zero tariffs bought hardline m.p.'s like davis and johnson as saying that this plan prevents the u.k. from following its own laws that it will still need to bow to the rules john hull now reports. british government unity barely made it through the weekend by monday afternoon two senior ministers had resigned in protest of prime minister to resign may's new business friendly breaks it strategy pointing to closer ties with the e.u. some called it a sellout among them now former foreign secretary boris johnson who resigned on monday and david davis who went on sunday night the man tasked with negotiating breaks it with the e.u.
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johnson figurehead in the twenty sixteen campaign and widely thought to covet the top job wrote this in his resignation letter brags it should be about opportunity and hope it should be a chance to do things differently he said that dream is dying suffocated by needless self-doubt former health secretary jeremy hunt steps into johnson's shoes top level cabinet resignations usually spell trouble for a government and boris johnson's resignation might well have led to a leadership challenge but to resume a appears to have emerged unscathed from a meeting of her party for now she may yet be around to continue negotiations with the european union even if the e.u. has had yet another demonstration of just how vulnerable she is. he'd parliament earlier misses many faced laughter and derision from the opposition and stony faces from the roadside in the two years since the referendum we have had
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a spirited national debate i went through past you coming around the cabinet table as they have on breakfast tables up and down the country how can anyone have praise in the prime minister get a good good deal with twenty seven european union governments when she can't even broker a deal with the end of her own cabinet. the internal divisions of the conservative party over the european union were among the reasons the previous prime minister david cameron called the twenty sixteen briggs's referendum those divisions once more on display but one prominent supporter of a so-called heartbreaks it says it's not yet time for this prime minister to quit this is about policy. the individual in charge of the policy needs to go back to what it was before the status quo and that's not likely to happen so while to
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resume a virgin stronger than many expected a plot against her may yet be in preparation to thank the prime and jonah joins us live now so even if terry's in a survives this situation now how much of a threat are david davis and johnson now that they're outside of the cabinet well one can only assume that they're not going to sit silently by and watch the death of the dream unfold there was of course the possibility and many people thought a very stark possibility that there would be a leadership challenge launched this afternoon at a meeting of the party of the the m.p.'s of the party that treason may attended they needed a number of signatures forty eight only fifteen percent of the party to launch a vote of no confidence and of course when boris johnson went that was seen by many as a trigger. a leadership challenge would likely be a lot didn't happen for whatever reason she does appear to have ended the day in a stronger position than she began it does that mean that there isn't
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a plot yet to unfold certainly not does it mean that there are more more resignations on the way or one senior conservative today said as long as that friday plan remains on the table they'll be an over and then another and then another so she's not out of the woods yet and then more broadly what about the reaction in europe presumably this political chaos at home doesn't help her negotiating position with brussels no i mean one can only assume again that it deeply weakens this government's negotiating position she was supposed to have accomplished show of great unity on friday with that deal and that cabinet away day in checkers collective responsibility restored to the cabinet no more sniping or leaking. so it was said to resignations leave later that doesn't look like the case the e.u. will look at that and realize once again the big many examples over the last two years wrote once again just how vulnerable and fragile government is and the worry will be that they use that against her in negotiations to come thank you very much
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jana. or boris johnson supporters consider him a politician with genuine charisma and a popular touch but his critics say he has limitless ambition and would do anything to one day become prime minister but everybody agrees he's one of the most distinctive figures in british politics on a b phillips takes a look back at his colorful political career. even his enemies in these days there are many would concede that boris as everyone knows him is unique for years he defied the laws of political gravity playing the clown didn't hurt him it helped him to win election then reelection his mare of london a conservative in a labor city many said a future prime minister. but then this would be advocating the. liev boris johnson surprised many colleagues by campaigning to leave the e.u. arguably did more than anyone to ensure a victory for. the battle for brics it was ugly it left scars many cannot forgive
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boris johnson for using a full statistics and his enemies say for exploiting divisions in british society what do they know the impact of the immigration places hospital waiting lists. when david cameron resigned after the break to vote boris hope to become prime minister but his colleagues deserted him and he had to settle for foreign secretary he struggled against the perception that he was a diminished man representing a to finish country one thai people would love but not when he's foreign secretary not when he has a serious job to do and that's where i think been the clown playing the joke always . it just doesn't work anymore because politics is a serious business when you've got one of the big posts in a cabinet for he just doesn't like you can hack it anymore and i think he knows that he can see that he's losing control he's been written off many many times
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before not least due to his personal scandals remember he was sacked by michael howard for lying over an affair and everyone forgets that the amazing thing about boris is the sort of teflon is that he has these terrible things often self-inflicted this one is. and he always comes back so i would never write a more. ambitious clever boris will still dream of making it to the very top but he's now a divisive figure both loved and loathed within his party and the country as a whole and barnaby phillips al-jazeera london. european council president donald tusk has taken advantage of the crisis to suggest it's not too late for britain to change its mind on leaving the e.u. he tweeted politicians come and go but the problems they've created for people remain i can only regret that the idea of bracks it was not has not left with davis and johnson but who knows. so joining me now is member of parliament tom brake is
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the liberal democrat party spokesperson for international trade and european affairs thanks very much for coming to speak to us so the prime minister trees may wanted us off the praxis that has resulted in a backlash from her cabinet with two resignations what are your concerns about her plans well i think my concern is that she now has lost a majority in the commons obviously if she's lost a number of senior cabinet ministers junior ministers potentially the last lost the support of the argy headed up by jacob riis small then she doesn't have a majority to get this through so i think what she needs to do new sponsor that is actually start talking to the opposition policies to see if she can find some common ground with us and is she likely to be able to to get that and how receptive are the opposition parties the opposition parties realise that the u.k. government are now in a huge mess and that is very bad news for the country because the european union mr
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barnier is going to be negotiating with a government which doesn't have majority which doesn't yet have an agreed position and therefore the e.u. has the has the advantage has the upper hand in the most critical negotiations the country is facing fifty years so is that mean that the liberal democrats would support the plan i mean obviously we have an hour delay to the release of the white paper but from from what we know is it something that you could get on board with well we offered so the prime minister at the outset so two years ago the opportunities for cross party talks to try and get an agreement on this we are repeating that offer what that would help her do is try to ensure that there was a house a more centrist more better supported proposal coming forward because all that she managed to do with her original proposals when she seemed to be adopting attack which was much more heartbreaks it was perhaps satisfy. half of the people who voted for leave and in the process of dissatisfied everyone who voted to remain and
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probably half of the early voters as well she needs to reposition herself on to the senator brown already trying to do that there was some attempt i think to do that but unfortunately that check that the checkers solution of the checkers agreement which of course has proved to be the checkers disagreement given that many cam cameron a number of cameron ministers have walked out on it did at least try to ensure that for instance from the point of view of goods from the point of view of agriculture that there was common ground with the european union that we were going to maintain similar standards but i think the big look you know the big thing that was missing from it was anything to do with services now the u.k. economy is twenty percent goods eighty percent services to go to have a deal or to have a proposal to put to the european union which had nothing to say about services eighty percent of the u.k. economy that is a problem for governments.
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