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tea with the queen dinner with the prime minister claims of fake news and huge protests on a fantasy visit to england rolls to a close next stop scotland. hello i'm maryam namazie this is al jazeera live from london also following two big stories out of pakistan this hour former prime minister nawaz sharif is back in the country he's been arrested on corruption charges and faces ten years in jail. while in the country's southwest a suicide bomber has targeted an election rally eighty five people have been killed
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and dozens more wounded also ahead the international monetary fund defends the fuel price hikes in haiti that triggered days of violent protests we'll have the latest from puerto prince. we begin with the latest on donald trump's visit to the u.k. the u.s. president has just had tea with britain's queen elizabeth in the last hour donald trump and first lady will welcome to windsor castle he was given a royal salute before inspecting the guard of honor alongside the ninety two year old man jonah hall is live for us in windsor and jono we know that this was the meeting the president trump was wasting full what do we know about how it went. yes he's often spoken with great admiration about the role from about the queen we know he was to have this meeting and it is now over his left wing. castle behind me
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after enjoying tea with the queen and prince philip i think i can hear the helicopters just beginning marine one and its twin taking off shortly to take the trumps off to glasgow's prestwick airport for the rest of the trip which will involve basically a golfing and some time that he's turned three golf course in scotland before going off to meet that emir putin in finland on monday of course we don't know too much detail about the visit with the queen he would have had tea inside windsor castle one of her favorite her favorite it said in fact of her number of homes about an hour outside london this she's previously entertained the likes of george w. bush barack obama ronald reagan to the same sort of hospitality here at windsor palace and perhaps the most sedate if you like engagement on this trip where one would hope they would have been less than usual opportunity for controversy although of course a protocol minefield it can be anything to do with the royal family but one hopes
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now that that's passed without incident which i don't suppose you can say about all of chance chance because it was a very awkward strange joint press conference alongside the british prime minister a little bit earlier on with president trump apparently backtracking on some blistering comments he made about the british prime minister and her practice strategy. absolutely well it's been an extraordinary day mariyam of diplomacy or at least some version of that word beginning of course and the cloud of a newspaper article interview that he gave on the record to the sun newspaper that's a right wing pro breaks it newspaper that interview was published as they were sitting down to dinner last night he and to resume a plenum palace and then in the into an interview in which he was after the exile reacting in his criticism of to resume a her approach to break city said he would have done it better he didn't vised her how to do it better but she had listened to him he said that the past she was taking now meant that the trade deal with the u.s.
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was basically off the table and he went a step further saying that he admired boris johnson her political nemesis in the conservative party who resigned as foreign minister just this week saying he thought trump that boris johnson would make a fine prime minister that's how the day began but then suddenly in comments between the two and at that press conference it was as if none of that had really happened he wrote back on the entire thing saying that he said nothing to criticize her they were the very best of friends and never had a better relationship he admired and respected her suddenly and i hear now the helicopters just taking off suddenly a trade deal was of paramount importance and he wrote off the sun interview as fake news you know you can look at things like this and say well you just can't make it up can you what it does rather seem in this visit but they're making it up every step of the way all right thank you very much and all the latest from windsor jonah how you can't make this up a giant blame depicting the u.s. president has a baby has been flying above london as part of
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a massive protest against his visit tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the capital on friday one of more than a hundred organized protests train chants for day visit charlie angela has been at the demonstrations in central london. this is london's gift to president trump a baby blimp with a phone that presided over the start of protests i crowds in the capital have swelled into the tens of thousands as different groups joined together to send the message to the president he's not welcome his everything that's wrong turn to t.v. now he's going to hold back very soon to see i'm still big he said before he's disgusting to me stop. i'm here to make a stand against trunks policies on his racist policies his policies about building a wall to keep the fact of his country his all his policies bordering on fascism and definitely his policies against women in the comments he's made about women and i this diverse group of people say they believe trump is
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a wrecking ball for race relations women's rights climate change solutions and prosperity to handle the crowds the biggest police security operation on london streets since the riots in two thousand and eleven when the u.s. embassy has told americans to keep a low profile and exercise caution despite many americans joining the demonstrations but president trump's visit has been carefully choreographed to avoid the protests rates he's traveling by helicopter to venues outside london the president trying to be traveling mostly by a protesters have had to get creative and are hoping this all shy and bullying depicting trump as an angry baby will catch his eyes he flies over like the organizers say the stunt was an attempt to show the president's club like politics it was a preview a london smuggled city called president trump is reportedly unhappy about the blame and in an interview attacked london's mayor for his handling of terrorism and crime in the capital this was his response one of the things that americans love our city
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all the rights we have here the right to protest the right to free speech the right to freedom of assembly and the idea that we were told those rights because it may cause offense to president. well somebody else i think americans would find objectionable one because the road calls to chew should have been trying to do the rights of freedom of speech freedom to protest freedom to assemble that right to protest would be exercised across the u.k. throughout the president's visit bad optics for president for whom image is everything charlie and al jazeera. and after that was erected in the skies over london this has been the scene over the past few hours in you you can see some of the many thousands of people who have been gathering in trafalgar square in central london but we have seen protests as in other parts of london and in other cities in the u.k. also expecting protests to take place in scotland which is the next stop on president
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tom trump's tour of the u.k. his visit here to the u.k. and the haywood joins us live now from trafalgar square in central london emma what's happening there. well merriam turner talked about it being a date at checkers than it has been anything but today in london from the morning when when those protests go from the way they have to protest by passion and i know but they have been peaceful despite the noise throughout the day we have people banging pots and pans to try to make their message very clear that donald trump is not welcome here in the u.k. trafalgar square the police have tweeted say that they are compared to twenty thousand people here we know who go through or many more people who've taken part in the protests but not here only from filling up a stop where it took a good hour for people to go past us all. but also here in the square it is very much a party atmosphere defy despite the banners many people here wanting to promote
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a message of peace something that they say donald trump toughens in his politics. and i'm a what do we know about the groups involved in the organization of these protests because they're happening in appling in multiple places and it involves a great deal of people yet if a lot of people from estimates put it at two hundred fifty thousand mark which would be a huge number of us say a hundred thousand people we don't know yet the official figure for lots of different people who are protesting here i've seen oxfam people come up from amnesty international many many different groups but many individuals tell you on this night typical protest the who've been taking parts that come from all over the u.k. and beyond man and women children to so many many voices being heard all just trying to get out the message that donald trump's promises and his politics they oppose use them and they won't be tolerated well thank you very much i'm here with
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their interest to square in central london where we see people gathering to voice their opposition to president trump's visit to the u k. elephant focused on prime minister nawaz sharif has arrived in the hole and has been arrested on corruption charges he was sentenced to ten years in jail on charges last week when they tied to the purchase of luxury apartments in the u.k. kemal hai day is in the hole for us and joins us now is no washer east now where villagers knew day. of mr charity vanity. site for a mob of dobby at the hall international for the nationally accountability bureau prison mr sharif and his daughter and the president of lady police it read
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because it. is warranted and bhagavan mr sharon eve had warned that he would make a huge political to show out of dollars to all his supporters to congregate at the hard international airport however in our capital had been able to go get it if people were continuing to protest in the hall but we're told that mr shit even a doctor will put on a chartered flight from bali international border to the hall and are already. on route to islamabad from where they are likely to be taken for a medical examination before all taken to jail kemal why did sharif return to pakistan if he was going to face the wrath. but mr sharif paid telling the people there in bugger. being wiktor my age politically of course everybody is
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not buying days but he fears that if he can get a large number of supporters to rally behind him he had of course also been using the sympathy card easy and the idea had left his wife in london with great dignity for the people of august on board he is facing serious charges these are not the first charges there are there are cases pending against him and he definitely be sent to jail but he wants to use days to get political mileage according to political analysts and also because he wants to groom it daughter my dear and i was to play a leading role in the future of politicos in audio head and bloggers on her medicine i was trying to use this all but you're an idiot despite the fact that it can rick get criminal to use theirs to appeal to his supporters and of course support pressure on the government but that the same time it should be
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a member that the country is supposed to hold elections on the grant the fifth and the security situation isn't vapor shaped we have lost over almost eighty five people in baluchistan today with a deadly air tag and also and a high booked on a province or the government quite know very this is a critical situation indeed and we should see how this all plays out but in the next few days developments indeed how much concern is that for the security situation head of elections. and indeed a huge problem because just a few days ago a prominent leader harun below or was catered to and the five a book to inquire province today said roger a sonnie the brother of the former chief minister was targeted by a suicide bomber and much doom district eighty five. day to day another tag on the former chief minister of the high book to him. did i think go to dear lord we had
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all sort doored we have just received this information that islam makes stage has taken responsibility for the kids they're also closely allied to the buckets on a dollar bond and of course there are objective will be to try and separate dodge the buckets on the elections and create a row and order situation well thank you very much with all the latest from the whole kemal hi donna. we're with al jazeera live from london much more still ahead twelve russian hackers are the latest to be indicted in the ongoing probe into potential collusion between the trunk campaign in russia in the twenty sixteen elections and the shocking video that appears to show soldiers in cameroon shooting dead women and children president promises to investigate.
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hello there we're seeing quite a bit of rain over georgia recently the satellite picture is showing that area of cloud also affecting us in azerbaijan and in the far eastern parts of turkey and it's all drifting its way towards the east but it hasn't released us and just yet as we head through the next few days this area of cloud is still going to be with us and turning heavier as we head through sunday just pushing a little bit further towards the west we could see a few outbreaks of rain in ankara as well to the south of all of that is dry and hot for us in beirut thirty degrees and even hotter for us in baghdad and here in doha the temperatures will be rising as we head through the next few days at this time of year it all depends on the humidity that's what dictates the temperature so forty four degrees and still with a fair amount of humidity in the air as we head through saturday but on sunday it's a very dry air and so the temperatures will get that bit higher so forty eight degrees hot but a dry heat for us that in towards the southern parts of africa we've got a fair amount of cloud in the south you can see it all drifting its way eastwards as bored as a fair amount of rain and it's going to continue to do so is it just nudges its way
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eastwards there on saturday then it's going to be durban where we see some of the heaviest outbreaks of rain nineteen degrees will be our maximum temperature but as that system pulls away things will turn a bit cooler behind it and then our maximum will be limited just to fifteen degrees . it's a long journey from home in haiti to school in the dominican republic. national border some cultural barriers to turn asylum but the determined. discovering filmmaking talent from around the globe viewfinder latin america follows a young man who will stop at nothing to secure an education. the crossing. is iraq .
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and back a quick look at the top stories now u.s. president donald trump has met person's queen elizabeth but wins a causeless part of his four day working trip to the u.k. tens of thousands of protesters have been rallying in the capital london to show that opposition to trump's policies. former pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif and his daughter of been arrested after flying back into pakistan he was sentenced to ten years in jail on charges last week related to the purchase of luxury apartments in the u.k. and at least eighty five people have been killed and more than one hundred fifty injured in a suicide attack on an election campaign rally in southwest pakistan i.c.l. of claim responsibility. well in all the stories we're following twelve russian
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hackers have been indicted as pos in the ongoing probe into potential collusion between the chung campaign and russia during the twenty sixteen presidential elections the russian intelligence offices are accused of hacking the computer networks of the democrats and their candidates hillary clinton. is outside the department of justice in washington she have tell us more about these allegations. right and i think it actually says the the hackers or alleges the hackers attacked the democratic campaign and congressional committees the nobs hillary clinton's own service which is a whole different matter of course. this was breaking while donald trump as you were reporting earlier was having tea with the queen although apparently according to the deputy attorney general it were to come to you as a surprise to him because he was briefed on these forthcoming indictments earlier in the week twelve russian military officers alleged to have hacked into the
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service of the if they printed campaign and disseminating it with a view to get to fearing in the elections using google techniques we've heard off before spearfishing that is something e-mails with web links which encourage people to type in their passwords or to straight down the line hacking into into computers installing software the convention keep an eye on. keystrokes interesting we also allege it's also that to the russian military intelligence officers hacked into state electoral votes and took the information of five hundred thousand voters motivation as to how any of this information might have affected the election or what effect it might have about isn't what this indictment is about it is simply legend but these officials were involved the key issue day for many in washington certainly is collusion was really conclusion with that from campaign people certainly in washington many of them desperate to see so many things about not yet having been brought up or and none mentioning any indictments of the mole or the
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boulder investigation. no luck for them here i'm afraid there is evidence that one member of the truck campaign communicated with the only push so you know that these russian military officials are alleged to have created to submit to point in order to disseminate the information but no evidence that that person knew he was communicating with a member of russian intelligence. the timing of these indictments very interesting just days before president chimes meeting with his russian counterpart in helsinki . right donald trump in the press conference outside czech is results are you going to talk about the latest collusion with the to be putin in helsinki and he said yes i will but although he added he didn't expect any perry mason moment he said well don't worry about it putin said all right you know you got me having said that his own d.o.j. has got what it feels of the allegations to go to a grand jury to suggest the russians were very deeply involved in hacking to try
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and interfere with the election interesting the a reporter did shout at double trouble he was walking away from a press conference but are you going to tell the russians to stop interfering in our elections and donald trump said yes as he took and he turned around and answered that already calls that washington from the political process probably shouldn't have the summit meeting but it would occasions other that still going ahead thank you very much with all the latest from washington shihab rattansi. the international monetary fund has defended the haitian government's plan to raise fuel prices by fifty percent the proposal has had triggered four days of violent protests the government agreed to eliminate fuel subsidies in return for more i.m.f. assistance but scrapped the plan after the unrest haiti's prime minister is under pressure to resign now with a vote of no confidence scheduled for the weekend gabriel is in the capital port au prince. esperance jacqueline cleans rice before selling it this is her main source of income when she is at home and wants to cook rice
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herself she uses kerosene to light her stove like millions of other haitians lacking the money for electricity kerosene is one of the main fuels of choice for the poor. it's cheap a leader costs about fifty cents but last week the government announced a price increase of fifty percent on the fuel it is sitting which would have had a devastating impact on the poor in a country where half the population or about five million people live on less than two dollars a day. to have to price of to guess put. on. the proposed price hike lead to widespread and violent street protests it forced the prime minister jack. to suspend the move in spite of that more protests are scheduled for friday in february the international monetary fund agreed to give
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haiti ninety six million dollars in much needed funds but only if the government agreed to several measures one of which was raising the price of government subsidized fuel the government complied chaos ensued this haitian economist says his country has been receiving loans from the i.m.f. for more than thirty years and the conditions to borrow carry a steep price. we know the i.m.f. is playing the worst negative role and is permitting our ability to develop our local economy the i.m.f. fundamental role is development for the global markets but before we open up our economy to the world we need to develop and to make structural changes in our local economy. the majority of haitians want the prime minister gone but they don't trust anybody in government and they want to change in the entire system a system that for many years here has benefited the very few that are rich but hurt
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the majority of those that are poor in the case of the fuel price increases those who would have benefited are the few that are will be who owned the distribution networks gas stations kerosene companies everyone else esperance jacqueline have lost gabriels on to al-jazeera port au prince. british police investigating the murder of a woman in amesbury a found the source of a nerve agent she was exposed to and which subsequently killed her own stud just died in hospital on sunday and her partner charlie rowley remains in a serious but stable condition tests have confirmed a small bottle recovered from rowley's house contained the nerve agent norma chalk and are working to establish if it was from the same batch that contaminated former russian double agent sergei scriptural and his daughter yulia in march a fifteen year old palestinian has been shot dead by israeli soldiers at the border
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between gaza and israel with thirty more injured in the latest friday protests the teenager named as a man how as was killed in clashes east of gaza city according to the palestinian health ministry it means one hundred thirty seven palestinians have now been killed in more than one hundred days since the weekly protest began but it's myth is that the gaza israel border. so the broader protests continue despite israel's decision to close the carom abu salim crossing of the main crossing core industrial goods into gaza israel did it he said because it wanted the protesters to stop sending over in same three burning balloons they float over the border and they end up in some israeli feel some them setting fire to israeli crops israeli snipers have been trying to shoot them out of the skies of the balloons are still going over today but they've not been having much success in israeli snipers and in the meanwhile officials from hamas and other groups in gaza have been in cairo for talks with egyptian security officials hamas said those talks are some of the most successful
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they've had with the egyptians addressing the humanitarian concerns in gaza didn't give any more details than that though another group islamic jihad it says that egypt has agreed to increase electricity supply into gaza and that egypt will also keep the rougher crossing open for the super foreseeable future that's the main crossing between egypt and gaza a vital lifeline really for people in gaza who are trying to leave. some news from syria now where at least fifty four people including dozens of civilians have died in as strikes in the eastern part of the country the u.s. led coalition admits it or it's part of forces carried out the raids in their eyes or province saying they were targeting i still fight as well wanted to say the strikes hit an ice factory that dozens of families were using as a shelter close to the iraqi border the u.s. coalition says it's investigating the civilian death. eritrea will reopen its embassy in ethiopia's capital on sunday in the latest sign of improving relations
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between the two countries the embassy has been closed since one thousand nine hundred eight over a border dispute but will open in time for a three day visit by the eritrean president isaiah staff working for the first time in twenty years ethiopian airlines will resume daily passenger flights to eritrea as capital s. lar on tuesday a reconciliation could transform the economies politics and security of the horn of africa region elsewhere cameron's president has ordered an investigation after a video emerged that appears to show government forces killing two women and two children they were reportedly accused of being members of the armed group. and then were shot dead a warning that some of the images in this report are disturbing barbara and brings a smile. to. two women and the go marched along the path by men in uniform said to be similar to those worn by some serving in cameroons military one of the women is carrying a baby on her back then in
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a clearing the group is blindfolded and forced to sit down a man can be heard saying you are book in her room you are going to die before the men point their weapons at the group then gunshots are heard. cameron's governments dismissive video as being what it described as fake news it said the release of the video was a desperate attempt by its enemies to discredit the government's efforts to combat book or her. instance of groups receive information were by. far. have. noting to do all of the work over the difference in security forces within the framework of the mission in trust to do that it's not the first time cameron has been forced to defend soldiers
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against accusations of human rights violations earlier this year amnesty international said government forces had tortured people it suspected of belonging to baka herat it went on to say that security forces continued to aba therea arrest individuals accused of supporting book or her arm often with little or no evidence and sometimes using unnecessary or excessive force there's arrested were frequently detained in inhumane life threatening conditions the military rejected the findings and said its members respected human rights cameron streep's are fighting groups on two fronts for the last two years they've been battling english speaking separatists operating in the west of the country. and the north dhaka her armed fighters have in the last four years mounted suicide attacks and kidnappings the emergence of the video isn't going to help the government flight or improve its
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reputation and or outside cameroon barbara and al-jazeera where you can find much more on or all of the stories in this bulletin al jazeera dot com is the address. it's quite look at the top stories now u.s. president donald trump has met britain's queen elizabeth as part of his working trip to the k. but it wasn't a full state visit as originally planned trump was given a royal salute for inspecting the guard of honor alongside the queen he and first lady melanie i will now fly to scotland for a private trip. tens of thousands of protesters meanwhile have been rallying in the capital london to show that opposition to trump's policies is one of more than one hundred different protests planned to coincide with the president's trip and included a giant blimp depicting him as
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a baby well trump backtracked from the blistering comments he made about the british needed to resume his brakes it strategy putting it all down to fake news. they didn't criticize the prime minister have a lot of respect for the prime minister and unfortunately there was a story that was done which was you know generally fine but it didn't put in what i said about the prime minister and said tremendous things and fortunately we tend to record the stories now so we have it for your enjoyment of you like it but we record when we deal with reporters it's called fake news. and our other top stories at least eighty five people have been killed and more than one hundred twenty injured in a suicide attack on an election campaign rally in pakistan a candidate for a provincial seat was among those killed in the blast in the village of must only of the afghan border i still have claimed responsibility for the attack meanwhile the former pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif has arrived in lahore and has been
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arrested on corruption charges he was sentenced to ten years in jail last week on charges relating to the purchase of luxury apartments in the u.k. is return could shake up an election race which some accuse of being which some say is rigged by the pakistani military. and that twelve russian hackers have been indicted as part of the ongoing probe into potential collusion between the trump campaign and russia during the two thousand and sixteen presidential polls intelligence officers are accused of hacking the computer networks of the democrats. those are the top stories but i'll have warn everything for you in the news hour in twenty five minutes time do join me then inside story is next.
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what the so-called special relationship donald trump visits britain for the first time as president and insults prime minister. he says her arrival will make a better leader and she ignored his advice on brad's it and migration how damaging is all that for the transatlantic this is inside story. welcome to the program. in the respect which is prime minister terrace i may wonder whether this was really the best week for a visit from done all traum right after a contentious nato summit and greeted by massive protests his first trip to london
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as u.s. president was all.

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