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thousands e-mails what happened to hillary clinton's e-mails thirty three thousand e-mails gone just gone i think in russia they wouldn't be gone so easily twenty two months off to the election he still seems determined to reaffirm the legitimacy of his win i beat hillary clinton easily the electoral college is much more advantageous for democrats as you know than it is to republicans we won the electoral college by a lot one last question was simple yes important. president putin did you want president trump to win the election. yes i did because he talked about bringing the right us russia relationship back to normal i've lost count of the number of times over the last eighteen months that i've described comments by president trump as extraordinary but this what was supposed to be a summit between the two most powerful leaders in the world was taking things to a new level the president may have been trying to robustly make his case about the
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twenty sixteen election but there seems little doubt that he's only made matters worse for himself james al-jazeera helsinki now it's been a century since south african anti-apartheid icon nelson mandela was born in a ceremony is taking place in johannesburg to honor his vision for democracy and social inclusion back obama america's first african-american president has delivered the annual lecture to mark the occasion it's his most high profile speech since leaving office cross over to our correspondent there i'm a tacit of course it's not just president obama but presidents and leaders past and present turn many civil society leaders to also in attendance i mean what has president obama been saying. well he is still speaking and he started by giving a history lesson basically telling people what the world was like a hundred years ago compared to now and his main issue was that human rights and he
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said that nelson mandela is a one man in history who'd be remembered for fighting so that everyone has equal access equal opportunities and he encouraged people today that don't give up even even when things are tough people may still care and fight like nelson mandela did to their father has come a long way since one thousand nine hundred four when a potato in it for example the races are co-existing more than they did before apartheid ended the economy has had its ups and downs but a lot more people are getting jobs they saw high unemployment but more. people are in employment now than before so there are some positives and there's been some infrastructural development in poor areas for example but there are still huge huge huge challenges and high unemployment rising poverty levels are a big concern especially for the young and some of them are now asking did mandela do enough to improve the lives of the poor black majority. i know my share when i say attended the truth and reconciliation commission hearings in south africa
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shortly after apartheid ended she wanted to find out why government soldiers shot her brother at a train station in one thousand nine hundred three she was unable really told the truth about why he died and says she can't forgive and forget she's now part of a group with people like me to try and find a way to heal there were three bodies that lay on the side of the tracks they had been shot a week later we were told his remains were at a mortuary i had to go through body bags looking for him. nelson mandela so that for his first black democratically elected leader made reconciliation a priority of his presidency one of his biggest achievements was his role in city of the truth and reconciliation commission it investigated crimes committed during apartheid on both sides to try and unify a racially divided nation political analysts say it worked to a certain extent at that time there was uncertainty by the country's future and whether the different races could live together but more than twenty years later
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south africa still struggles with the race and other challenges factions in the ruling african national congress threaten to defy the continent's oldest liberation movement millions of black south africans continue to live in shanty towns with little access to running water electricity or quality health care nelson mandela's legacy of protheroe and and reconciliation as mean threatened or will be years by social conflict in south africa this country has one of the highest rates of inequality in the world the poor black majority said they want jobs and lands some sort africans feel the promises of a better. all made in one thousand nine hundred four haven't materialized in many areas of the country fifty percent. and are they going to see employment in their lifetime it's a question that needs to be all strategically some young people born after apartheid a starting to ask questions about whether mandela spent too much time focusing on reconciliation instead of improving conditions for the poor. and others
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in her group say they admire mandela's willingness to forgive people even those who refuse to apologize for the crimes they committed during apartheid she says she still trying to find that strength and hopes today's didas work harder to build a more racially and economically inclusive south africa the kind of country some say mandela would have wanted to see. poor black south africans are demanding and like we saw in neighboring zimbabwe people here are saying that it's not right i'm angry that a white minority still own most of the land the ruling african national congress is trying to propose expropriation without compensation basically taking away land from owners and giving it to black people without paying for it a move some people say could be a bad movie could hurt the economy really badly but some people say maybe that is the way to go what is clear is that the ruling party is under a lot of pressure many celebrities who are around in one thousand nine hundred four
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when they saw and also mandela being made president and they heard all those big promises being made about a better life for say they're frustrated they still waiting for those promises to be delivered and they're hoping this current leadership takes up the mantle deals with corruption move this country forward and try to make the poor black majority have a decent life for themselves and for their children still for momentarily then of course a follow vents for. the day progresses thank you. still ahead here on documents reveal the united arab emirates is attempts to tighten its grip over debate. it at home and abroad plus twenty years after the right statute that established the international criminal court we look at its legacy and sutured.
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hello there are some of us insulin china and northern vietnam is going to be incredibly wet over the next three or four days we've got lots of cloud with us at the moment that's already given us heavy downpours over the last couple of days and now we've got another system that's working its way towards us this is tropical storm now so he's going to cross high now and then eventually work its way into the northern parts of viet nam so this region has already seen to reach the heavy rain the grounds already sold in and now we're going to see plenty more wet weather and we are likely to hear reports of flooding here as we head through the next few days there's already been some flooding over parts of india the mom seems being particularly heavy in the north of our map there it looks like new delhi will see yet more rain over the next few days and that's not what we need because this is what it looks like there at the moment very high water levels that many of the roads have become almost impossible thanks to the amount of water that's fallen recently and more showers still in the region as we head through wednesday and thursday for the south though we're looking at some wetter weather those more persistent rain looks like here that rain will be particularly heavy on wednesday
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and thursday so i think this is where there's a greater risk of seeing some flooding towards the west and here in doha just staying hot but a dry heat at the moment our temperatures of forty four. in the. about fifty thousand people were arrested under a policing strategy known as stop and frisk the car got about here was a guy come up behind me and kicked me in my back and many of your children gotten caught in this trap i have seven sons and six of them have been arrested for drug charges tell me against a war maybe take off last week is what we've now created the atmosphere the policemen the bad guys exploring the dark side of american justice the system with job on al-jazeera.
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book about to al-jazeera your following our main news stories i was the whole robin a group of displaced syrians approach the border fence between syria and the israeli occupied golan heights waving white flags and they retreated when israeli soldiers told them to move back is thought many were seeking help or century following asteroids in the area. back obama america's first african-american president has delivered the annual lecture in honor of anti apartheid icon nelson mandela it's been a century since madonna was born it's a bomber's most high profile speech since leaving office. and president donald trump has arrived home to criticism after signing with russian president vladimir putin on accusations of election meddling speaking after the summit in finland
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stars on his own intelligence agencies which found evidence of interference. well his victoria gay can be with more of the us media's reaction. ever since president trump stood side by side with russian president vladimir putin on monday and announced he was taking patients word over that of his own intelligence community he's faced strong criticism from the u.s. media even resent his own trumps favorite network fox news reacted with outrage his folks business presenter trish ragan this was clearly not his best performance he's done a whole lot better than if he should have defended us he should have defended his own intelligence community her colleague at the network neil cavuto was equally outspoken he called out trump's refusal to condemn russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election and that you need to discuss that that's what meat is before and it's disgusting i'm sorry just another word feel so i write
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a letter to be just a u.s. president on foreign soil. our biggest enemy or adversary or competitor right i don't know how we define them these days is essentially letting the guy get away with this fox news has been a big supporter of the trumpet ministration and this is the first time so many hosts have publicly question the president's judgment abby huntsman is a presenter on fox and friends and is also the daughter of the u.s. ambassador to russia she tweeted no negotiation is worth throwing your own people and country under the bus away from fox news cnn's anderson cooper opened his panel discussion by strongly criticizing the president's behavior trump regularly refers to c.n.n. as fake news you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president is summit in front of a russian leader. surely that i've ever seen but if trump is facing
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a storm of criticism in the u.s. that amir putin is fairing rather better the b.b.c. steve rosenberg wrote back home in russia political figures have been lining up to praise the results of the health inky summit. the international criminal court is celebrating twenty years since the signing of the treaty that led to its creation and ceremony has been taking place at the hague in the netherlands to mark the anniversary the rome statute established the world's first permanent court for war crimes genocide and hue crimes against humanity the i.c.c. has had some notable successes but it's also faces many obstacles one hundred twenty three countries are members but china the united states and russia are being the nations that haven't signed up since its founding the i.c.c. has issued fourteen indictments and secured just four convictions but all of these were for suspects in african countries those found guilty include three from the democratic republic of congo and malaya and rebel leader some cases have collapsed
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when states refuse to cooperate and referrals from the un security council are subject to states that aren't even members of the court well earlier we spoke. to the president of the i.c.c. he says the court isn't perfect but it still made a significant contribution. of course like every other human institution there will always be ongoing need for reform especially when this comes in the manner of an institution trying to get together the assemblage of human thinking from all over the world. naturally they created something they wanted to get going but it is now for us to after so many years to reflect and see how can we improve that legacy that was left for us this is still a new institution it is a little states when people think for instance it think about the united states what is it part of this thing when you look at it. the u.s.
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actually are not always keen and fast to sign to international treaties so what is going on here is not unusual. generally speaking so i think we need to focus on those who are in the air for making to see that yes the unity gap has closed it. may not be perfect it is not perfect by any means but we'd rather get going than focus on what happened when there was none at all. at least three people are being killed and six others injured in shelling by hitting rebels in southwestern yemen locals say the iranian backed fighters fired a missile targeting a residential area and there's he's control the outskirts of the city. elsewhere in yemen the battle around the full city of the data is intensifying relentless as strikes the lack of aid make it already dying humanitarian crisis even the worst of people across the region mohammed june reports as the humanitarian situation
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worsens for people in yemen so does the displacement crisis at this makeshift camp between the southern port city of our then and the has the misery is apparent most of these people fled the violence in her day the province and as bad as the conditions are here things back home are even worse because i dare not michelle's going raining down on us god only knows how we manage to survive. the united nations says tens of thousands of families have been displaced from her date as a result of the fierce fighting there while the saudi u.a.e. coalition attempts to take control of the area from who the rebels analysts say little progress has thus far been made in this military campaign. here the young try to play even as the old are constantly confronted with how dire things remain and no matter how terrible the sanitary conditions parents will do what they can to make meals for their children and to provide them with comfort. and. we
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try to take shelter in one of the tents but he would denied we were told that there were no more tense available now what are we supposed to do especially young children we have no shelter we call on the government to consider our situation we did not leave our homes out of luxury we were forced out. but most of the displaced people now residing here don't believe those calls will be answered any time soon. and. the u.k. based investigative agency has obtained documents revealing an expensive lobbying effort by the united arab emirates and britain and the us the spin watch reporting emails from an m r r t lobbying group to influence the b.b.c.'s coverage of the arab spring some journalists and managers were targeted for sacking the report says it has proof of secret meetings between abu dhabi's crown prince mohammed bin ziad and former british prime minister david cameron desired apparently threatened to pull billions in deals if the u.k. failed to designate the muslim brotherhood as
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a terrorist organization and morality minister of state for foreign affairs and war garage is accused of pushing the journalist to create narratives that were pro u.a.e. and on team muslim brotherhood and to iran and anti cattle and it's alleged that u.s. law lobbying company offered twenty six thousand dollars a month to king's college london to focus research linking cancer with terrorism paul brennan has been following the developments in the u.k. parliament where that report has been tabled. here is is that report that's been issued today it's entitled the u.a.e. lobby subverting british democracy and with a question mark at the end that really is the thrust of this report why the u.a.e. will basically spin watch says it was leaked documents relevant to the u.a.e. as activity it could indeed have been any one of several countries that tries to get favor with british journalist and with the with the british government but the
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operation that the u.a.e. underwent and on the talk in those years particular between twenty ten and twenty sixteen was described by the report's authors as being slick a well oiled machine sophisticated and quite clever in many ways and it appears to have been motivated by the fear in the united arab emirates of the rise of political islam now what did it entail according to the reported entails speaking to journalists and persuading them of the particular sense of an anti muslim brotherhood line it also extended to threatening the british government according to the reports to withdraw a multi-billion pound contract for a typhoon fighters a threat which the report's authors say was actually successful in persuading david cameron to launch an inquiry into the bonafide days of the muslim brotherhood in this country the european union and japan have signed
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a free trade deal little limon a nearly all terrorists presenting a united front trumpet ministration puts a trade barriers is the e.u.'s biggest deal to date creating a trading zone covering six hundred million people and only a third of the global economy a day after warning the u.s. china and russia again starting a trade war the european council chief says this agreement sends a very clear message politically. ally in the increasing darkness of international politics. we are sending a clear message. that you can count on us we are predictable both japan and the you. read.

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