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tv   NEWS LIVE - 30  Al Jazeera  July 23, 2018 7:00am-7:17am +03

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still ahead for you on the program iraqi security forces admit to secretly detaining prisoners accused of terrorism offenses and leaders of the world's largest economies want to trade tensions pose a huge risk to global crisis. and. hello there is staying rather unsettled for some of us in australia at the moment in the south there's been quite a bit of cloud over the past few weeks and that's given us a few outbreaks of rain and we're still seeing plenty of cloud there at the moment so for perth and the still the risk of sea want to showers as we head through the next few days i think that we more rain though a bit further east you can see this here working its way through parts of south australia into victoria and tasmania and it looks like some of us are going to have a pretty wet and windy time of it on monday and tuesday to choose do they should
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just become dry force in adelaide as we head across towards new zealand it's certainly been stormy here we've had winds gusting over one hundred twenty kilometers per hour and also some very very heavy rain the system is working your way towards the east though and for many of us it will be a lot quieter as we head through the next few days still going to be quite cool though so was a maximum temperature we're just looking at around nine or ten in christchurch and force in oakland we should be around twelve or thirteen further towards the north and shanghai is just been hit by some very strong winds and very heavy rain all thanks to a storm system that's now waking its way towards the west now it's over land it is disintegrating but this whole region can expect to see some flooding. in in the. capturing a moment in time snapshots of how the lives of the stories. provide
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an eclipse into someone else's work. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers everybody's going to. circle for me. own. witness on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick look at the top stories at least fourteen people have been killed in a suicide bombing outside cobbles app port it was intended to kill the vice president of afghanistan general abdul rashid dostum who is returning from exile.
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rescue workers known as the white helmets have been evacuated from syria in response to threats from advancing government forces and a candidate from front on the iran contra political party in pakistan has been mudded as tension mounts ahead of wednesday's general election. well in all the stories we're following the iraqi national security services admitted delving hundreds of people for months on suspicion of terrorism related crimes despite denying the same allegations in april. according to human rights watch the agency has been keeping them at a facility east of mosul a city that was retaken from my soul just over a year ago thousands of people were arrested during that three year old peroration and their concerns many innocent people were among those detained in rights watch visited one crowded facility where hundreds of men and boys were held some for more than a year a former detainees described how people were tortured to death while in southern iraq meanwhile hundreds of protesters have been arrested in a crackdown and demonstrations the protests erupted over unemployment and poor
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public services and ron kahn has more now on the day's events from baghdad. tough words directed at the iraqi government the iraqi observatory for human rights says iraq has arrested hundreds of protesters in a bid to crack down on demonstrations in the south. there is a wide scale security company and search of the activists who took part in the demonstrations in baghdad and the other governorates well human rights watch says it's uncovered evidence of iraq's national security service has been holding detainees from the war against eisel something it previously denied human rights watch discovered four hundred twenty seven detainees in a facility in mosul run by the national security service the security service then issued contradictory statements first saying it didn't hold detainees and then insisting that it had the rights to do so to which human rights watch said baghdad needs to publicly clarify which will floridians have the right to hold and
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interrogate detainees human rights organizations here say that abuse is a commonplace and i don't know what all of these detainees are held on evidence from informants and detention centers on the outskirts of cities aren't allowed to be visited by n.g.o.s and therefore i believe it's not detention it's state sponsored kidnapping with protests ongoing there is concern from human rights groups that more people will be detained illegally and held without charge the government here says the anybody detained is entitled to due process under the law imran khan al-jazeera baghdad. a standoff at the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem is over for now off to jewish settlers left the compound with an a thousand jews were there to mount the holiday which commemorates the destruction of the ancient jewish temples in jerusalem several arrests were made after confrontations with muslim militias the al aqsa mosque its content considered to be islam's third holiest site jews believe the compound is where its biblical temples
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once stood there is mohammad jim is outside the compound. behind me you see one of the gates leading into the enough so a mosque compound also behind me you'll notice that there are jewish settlers who are wearing that's because today is a jewish holiday known as to shop that is a holiday that commemorates disasters throughout jewish history now earlier in the day there was tension here in the old city you had at one point a thousand jewish settlers that had gone into the end of some mosque compound they are allowed to do so twice a day and then later in the day you had about three hundred fifty settlers that went in now whenever a jewish settlers go into the end of the mosque compound or gather around it many of the palestinians that are here many of the muslims they see that as a provocation because of that this is one of those days where there were clashes there was tension because there has been so much tension that's been escalating lately because so many different things well there was worry that it could become even worse now it's in the afternoon things have really calmed down these are
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subsided things are back to normal the way they would be any other day here but the fact of the matter is really goes to show that here at any time something that happens could lead to something much more significant. g twenty finance ministers and central bankers meeting in argentina a warning that might geopolitical tensions of putting global growth at serious risk the leaders from the world's largest economies a calling for greater dialogue and structural reforms to counter potential economic shocks meeting comes in the wake of as collating trade tensions between the u.s. china and europe following a wave of tariffs introduced by president donald trump well the u.s. treasury secretary is saying that his country remains open to china negotiating meaningful changes to its trade practices. i'm not going to get into any comments about what private conversations we may or may not be having but what i have said publicly are repeat any time that they want to sit down and negotiate meaningful changes and our team are available the issue is
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a very specific issue we've said we want more balanced trade both presidents agreed on the objective to have more balanced trade and we want to have our companies have the same access to their markets that they have to us well and is very algis there is to raise a boat covering that g twenty summit force from. it's been days of intense negotiations and discussions here in the g twenty summit in one of the cited that has been taken over by the trade war the european union has been pushing the united states and criticizing the united states for the tariffs implemented on stayed still and alumium we have heard the french finance minister say that implemented unilateral tariffs is like implementing the law of the jungle in spite of this they do not estates have to continue to repeat that what is doing are not protectionist measures but in a way demanding free and fair trade stephen minutiae the treasury the secretary of
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treasury said that they were hoping to influence a free zone free trade zone between the g seven members and this would be further discussed by a trip by the e.u. commission precedent to the united states next week in spite of the differences the final communique here in one of the site is was that of unity they said that the g twenty since the economic crisis in two thousand and eight has been focusing on controlling the state of the state of the world finding the saying and what was was mostly discussed here also was the impact of financial fallout tell it on emerging economies global infrastructure among other things and that's why most of those who are present here today said that this meeting was a success. well thousands of people gathered in the german city of munich earlier to protest against proposals to close the country's borders to migrants they say at least fifteen thousand people took part in that demonstration against horsy hoffa
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leader of the various christian social union in the country's interior minister he threatened to resign from the government unless i'm glad merkel agrees to turn away refugees who apply for asylum in the european countries. or now to iran where the president has iran is said his country is growing impatient with the united states as a meeting of foreign ministry officials intact ron is that president trump will fail to time iranians against their own government and any external pressure will only bring people closer but if the economy continues to stagnate public sympathy might be running out same from to han iran's business community is bracing for bad news on august sixth more u.s. sanctions kick in worsening economic uncertainty since president donald trump the u.s. out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal the american administration is determined to block iran from the global marketplace would welcome to back after signing the
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international agreement. you know rio of the elite of warre but snug very important for us before dad in some years ago we have a sim problem. as you know you don't have a very lengthy story we saw this so many things same as the sometimes duration is good time to me that i have bad time but. we don't have it a lot of worry about that we can handle it and find a way while european companies have started leaving one chinese entrepreneur said for her startup it's important to maintain a presence in iran and she's holding her ground well for us to make chinese first south country make ice the biggest michael let me say made at least sell we still want to come we have something a out in common as waving from china and it was sammy found these fish and yes and you know well i start our new policies to be open to the way so we have got to kind of experience donald trump his pledge to subject iran to the harshest economic
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sanctions in modern history the stated goal to pressure the government to give in to american demands some here say it's to draw iran into a fight iranian say they don't want to make war they want to make business something that is becoming increasingly difficult as they continue to be caught between trump's foreign policy ambitions and their own government's unwavering defiance of the united states in a speech to his foreign ministry on sunday iranian president hassan rouhani said trump was trying to wear iran down and warned him against trying to stop iran from selling its oil peace with iran he said would be the mother of all peace while war would be the mother of all wars. but the machine was you know don't play with the lines till you will regret it for ever you cannot carry out these measures it is out of your capability you cannot force during ins to act against their own country
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you have clearly shown you are against the iranian people he also said that when it comes to the nuclear deal most countries support iran and the us is increasingly isolated in the international arena but iran's leaders know a moral victory doesn't pay the bills and even if iran is on the right side of history of the nuclear issue as long as america exerts economic influence iranian see they would be prevented from fellow beating themselves on the world stage. to her. now gunmen in south africa of open fire on a minibus carrying members of a taxi drivers association killing eleven people and injuring four others but he say the victims had attended a colleague's funeral and were returning home to galston province when the ambush took place offices and now investigating possible motives but have previously been the sort of tensions between groups of taxi drivers vying for the same routes when at least three thousand villages have been forced to leave their homes after a bulk of iran attack in the late chad region near the border with. eighteen people
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were killed and nine women abducted in the raid effectively controls the lake chad basin a long border between h. and i ceria arsenal and germany midfielder mess it says he won't play football for his country anymore after facing months of criticism from german media and politicians this followed the publication in may of a picture of who has jill german turkish nationality with president of turkey the photograph prompted outrage in germany which is currently suffering strength relations with turkey several german journalists have been detained there and the german government is accused of overseeing human rights abuses. alyque glass is a green and purchased millions of ice bags every year and most eventually fly honestly out see that huge eleven million ton bags recently came aground off the remote and it legit and a sweet prompting fears that it could break up and cause
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a tsunami and it clark has traveled that and sent us this report helicopters in these parts of the lifeline for small inuit communities they provide all services especially in times of crisis. below thousands of icebergs the result of the outflow of nearby glass is draining the greenland ice sheet. then the iceberg in question it is huge one hundred meters by three hundred quite high that you can make out the settlement of it all suit spooled up a hillside. on the ground a community of around one hundred seventy people there are families there are children their bread is on the water as they fish and hunt and they used to icebergs drifting by but never this close and never this big.
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but by me double normally icebergs are not that high they're low wide where this one is very high which made it frightening. this video shows chunks of ice cascading into the water causing life threatening waves to crash into the shoreline several homes had to be evacuated there was concern for the villages project or a tree and fuel tanks and boats were dragged up the hillside. we may try out towards the ice but it has now shifted away from the harbor intrudes not as dangerous as it was but still presenting a threat it could cause at any time fisherman could isn't has never seen it but this big so close. you can get on it actually came pretty fast in front of the village they saw the danger and so they evacuated some houses and prepared for what could happen between now and then there was a big wind and it blew it outside here like it's hope the iceberg will now slowly head out.

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