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the court orders the united arab emirates to allow qatari families separated by the gulf crisis to be reunited. hello i'm devika paul and you're watching all desire live from london also coming out. the u.s. presidents in the middle of an escalating war of words with iran on twitter. after a five hour standoff kurdish security forces killed three gunmen who is trying to get them in building an air bill. and syria's government condemns the evacuation of white helmets rescuers and their families as criminal.
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so the antis court has issued an order in favor of qatar in the case it brought against the united arab emirates the international court of justice says the measures taken by the u.a.e. amount to racial discrimination and qatari families should be reunited of the u.a.e. is one of four countries that imposed an air land and sea blockade against qatar more than a year ago they parker has more details from the hague. qatar's legal battle with the united arab emirates has dealt a defining blow the international court of justice says the measures taken by the u.a.e. after the blockade of qatar amount to racial discrimination according to. the u.a.e. has failed to respect the obligation is the i.c. j.s ordered the u.a.e. immediately to allow qatari families expelled from the country to be reunited students to finish their studies and those qatari affected access to courts and
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tribunals the order said the i.c.j. president is compulsory the core of three of them. that this all of that is on provisional measure is that article four to one of these. in effect and there's a international legal obligation is for any part to her the provisional measure is added that it's last june the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt severed diplomatic ties with qatar and imposed a land sea and air blockade accusing catarrh of funding extremism accusations it denies qatar says its citizens were either illegally expelled or denied access to the u.a.e. separating families and denying people access to health care education their properties and assets of course the u.a.e. is the only one of the four countries to have imposed
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a blockade on cattle but it's the only one out of the four to be brought here before the international court of justice why because it's the only country out of the four that signed up to the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination but bahrain egypt and saudi arabia will be watching this case closely and drawing their own conclusions this is a statement that there is a likelihood of discrimination so one would think that the other states in the region would say that means something again likely that this is a violation in earlier hearings the u.a.e. denied any policy of expulsion saying it's measures were designed to have the least possible impact on ordinary citizens it said his argument was with the qatari government not the qatari people but the u.a.e. must comply with the court or face further legal action qatar could go to the u.n. security council and demand an informant order this is one of a string of legal challenges mounted by qatar to try and end the blockade
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a ruling the country will welcome but whether it will help end the blockade now in its fourteenth month is less certain. the hague their own foreign minister is added to the escalating war of words between the u.s. and iranian leaders telling president obama to be cautious mohamed java does a reef was responding to trump's earlier tweet and which he warned iran never to threaten the united states again or risk consequences which quote few throughout history have ever suffered before using the same mediums area for responded color us unimpressed continuing we've been around for millennia and seen the fall of them parsing getting our own all the times exchanges come amid increased economic pressures and sanctions on iran following the us withdrawal from the twenty fifty new clear deal last may and say it was robbie has this report from terror on a late night tweet from the american commander in chief to the iranian president
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was a textbook example of donald trump's twitter diplomacy a warning in all caps the u.s. president is greed never threaten america again he said or else. now given husseini is a senior iranian national security official and says trump is really angry at himself. americans have been trying for two to three years now to convince other countries to confront iran instead of cooperating with iran but they haven't succeeded even that commercial partners like europeans and china they clearly announce they won't go with the sanctions naturally russia won't cooperate nor will other countries in our opinion america is angry because it is isolated itself and it feels that it remains alone against iran. at the center of this latest escalation in the war of words is trump's vow to block the sale of iranian oil the country's biggest money maker earlier this month rouhani threatened to
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respond by disrupting international shipping lanes in the strait of hormuz an important part of the region's oil supply chain in or. is it wise that while we have these shores under our control we will not be able to export oil and other countries will this is not smart. in a speech on sunday u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o took aim at iran's leaders the level of corruption wealth among or a leader shows that iran is run by something that resembles the mafia more than a government it has to be said that many iranians would be just as critical of their own government the wealth gap is getting bigger and complaints of corruption are common but for every anti-government protest by nature or by design there have been bigger pro-government routes some people specifically mention general qassam so the money a senior revolutionary guard commander who many here consider a national hero he's been part of iran's campaign against immortalized in this
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twenty seventeen animated film it depicts a military victory against u.s. naval forces with leading the charge. for many iranians this is the inevitable conclusion of american hostility towards their country and even peace makers here agree the closer these two sides come to open conflict. the harder it will be to walk. the old a zero different. so as you have i believe many people will be watching this exchange on twitter with a sense of bemused meant from the outside but this does underpin a very serious issue give us the view from washington well just of the last few hours donald trump was off do you have any concerns about provoking heightened tensions with iran and he replied not at all said result the white house press secretary was also you know what's going on here and she attempted to argue everything is all consistent with the don't trump position since day one she said
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that is trying to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon and keeping americans safe but they're all differences now there for a few months ago nerds who believe the ascension of figures like. bolton donald trump's national security adviser who've advocated ever so for years a decade at least and beyond the bombing of iran for whatever reason that might be very close to the any k. that dissident group that was once on the u.s. list of terrorist and so on but these are figures now around very close to the old trump who replaced other figures who were against military confrontation with iran so that's why there is that concern that you know the kind of the the vague gallows humor of the twitter back and forth this could be very serious that could be an escalation but it's still very difficult in there as always with this presidency whether there is a drawing dop policy now being being unfolded in front of us or whether this is
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just old trump having a late night tweet moment ok and this is seem like this could go much further with regards to all the hawks that are watching and washington is this trump's way of shoring up more support giving giving this kind of a stance against iran why now. well our support we don't know i mean he's had a rough week donald trump so there was some speculation initially that maybe he's trying to divert attention from his troubles in the rush or investigation and he has performance in helsinki but that seems to have been discredited because don't trump has continued to tweet all day. and he's back on the russian vest occasion and his trip to russia doesn't seem like he was trying to get people to forget about any of that look i think often with donald trump when it comes to his tweets the simplest explanation might be the most plausible if that's what a lot of people who cover him every day actually talk to him you know get the leaks from him personally they say look he's just acting because in the way that old acts
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you don't necessarily have to immediately reach for some big conspiracy or russian compromise or whatever like donald trump and it's perhaps giving i mean it's but we're to say but it might be giving iran a bit too much credit to suggest this is all part of a joined up foreign policy. approach himself but what we do know is that voters around all trump definitely have a foreign policy agenda and that's what's so worrying when it comes to iran thanks for that she had rattansi live for us in washington d.c. . kurdish security forces have killed three suspected i sell fighters who attacked the governor's building in erbil. the gunmen fired at guards before entering the building and taking hostages later security forces around the building were targeted by a suicide bomber government employee he was killed during the clashes and two
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policemen were wounded erbil which is the seat of the kurdish regional government has largely been spared isolette tax. and has more from baghdad. the attack began around seven am local time when a gunman burst into the governor a building injuring two security forces soldiers that were on duty that they then moved to the third floor and started to open fire from a third floor window on security forces outside it was at that stage that the kurdish security forces cordoned off the area and mounted their attack they went into the building moving up to the third floor about three hours in four hours into the into the situation a suicide bomber blew himself up and then snipers killed one of the attackers and then injured another that person then later succumbed to as injuries in the hospital now the attack was all over in about five hours but there are still plenty of questions to be asked who was responsible and how were they able to get
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into that building will clue dish politicians blaming eisel for this certainly bears the hallmarks of an islip tack multiple gunmen a suicide bomb so. politicians are very definitely blaming eisel eisel of claim of responsibility as of yet however questions are being off of the kurdish authorities themselves how would the gunman able to get into one of the most secure buildings in the city of erbil. the syrian government has condemned israel's evacuation a white helmet rescue workers as a criminal smuggling operation they evacuated which also have the backing of the united nations u.s. britain so more than four hundred members of the organization ferry that overnight through the israeli occupied golan heights and to jordan the assad government has repeatedly accused the white helmets of being a front for rebel fighters. meanwhile the syrian government and its ally russia have stepped up their offensive against eisel controlled areas and the southwest of the country suffering decker has more. we've been witnessing an
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intense air campaign throughout the day also heavy shelling on this area behind us which is essentially the only opposition held area left in southwestern syria it's controlled by a group affiliated with ice so there is no negotiations on the table for them certainly at the moment we've seen small groups of people trying to seek shelter close to rocks close to the fence the fence that demarcates these really occupied golan heights with the syrian side the war is very close here and it really does look like the syrians together with the russians are really pushing this campaign forward now trying to retake the entire area of southwest syria the israeli army here more on more alert certain that we've seen in the past couple of weeks more soldiers monitoring the area taking pictures earlier on monday morning rockets sirens were heard here is that gives you an indication of just how close the
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fighting is. israel has reportedly rejected an offer by russia to keep iranian military forces at least one hundred kilometers away from the golan heights now the offer was made by russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov during a visit to jerusalem israel has been concerned about recent advances into the area by forces loyal to the syrian government ahead of the meeting israel's prime minister warned that he wouldn't accept an iranian military buildup in southern syria. funeral has been held for a palestinian teenager who was shot dead by israeli soldiers in the occupied west bank the fifteen year old was shot in the chest at a refugee camp near bethlehem during an israeli raid these really military says its troops fired after being attacked with rocks and grenades at least twenty five children have been killed by israeli forces in the first half of this year. others plenty want still to come on this program including philippine president to agree
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get to territory pledges to continue its war on drugs saying the fight will be as relentless and killing. and how he grows while shares in chinese pharmaceutical companies fall over fake vaccines given to babies. hello there we're still seeing quite a bit of rain over the southern parts of australia at the moment this just be one system after another recently and here's the latest one as it works its way across the southeast so for us then on choose day there's going to be a good deal of cloud around a few outbreaks of rain as well but as we head through tuesday and into wednesday it will dry up here so more in the way of bright weather to be found for us in melbourne as we have through wednesday though we are going to see more cloud and rain make its way into the southwestern parts of australia so this time it's perth
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where we're going to have some pretty heavy rains and some rather keen winds with that as well over towards new zealand and there's plenty of fine weather to be found here but not quite all of us are enjoying it there's a little bit wall cloud here just across the central belt of a some of us that's going to be giving some shop downpours and some snow there as we head through the day on tuesday for wednesday even that should begin to break up and so most of us will get away with a dry day but a cool one as we head further north we've had all storm here that made its way across the shanghai and it's now disintegrating over beijing there as we head through tuesday it then joins forces with another system and works his way eastwards is still going to give us some very heavy rains during the day on wednesday but ahead of it is staying hot in japan. a new perspective can change your world. to one chin is even good began as a hobby has grown into a passion
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a way of life. teaching the next generation to strive for a higher level. and in so installing in his country and sense of freedom and strength. new heights mind. on al-jazeera. hello again his reminder of our top stories on al-jazeera the un's highest court says or did the u.a.e. to realize qatari families separated by a blockade imposed on the gulf country last year. iran's foreign minister warns
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u.s. president donald trump to be cautious after the threats and they're on with severe consequences on twitter. and after five hours sounds off kurdish security forces have killed three suspected isel fighters in the governor's building in the edit. returning now to our top story about the ongoing crisis in the gulf the ever of qatar is in london where he is seeking to build international support in the face of an air land and sea blockade has some of us with a leader at his first top at a top university in london. qatar's leader began his u.k. visit at a robotics lab at london's imperial college set i mean been hammered than eve dan had a meeting with business leaders in the city it's all part of a push by qatar to rally international support the countries under a land sea and air blockade imposed by saudi arabia u.a.e. and egypt the operation relationship between us is quite extensive across
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a whole variety of fields from. its curity defense investments and today of course focusing on health and health issues where we work together so it's a good visit and we encourage all our friends in the gulf to resolve their differences and we hope that can be done but since the start of the g.c.c. crisis qatar has not only ramped up its missile capability is but has also expanded its security and political operation with key allies such as the us france and the u.k. and this is quite crucial for qatar at a time when it continues to face a blockade imposed on it by its neighbors the blockade in countries have dismissed international mediation they say qatar must first stop funding extremism close a turkish military base downgrade its ties with iran and shut down the al jazeera news network qatar has strongly denied the accusations and called the demands
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a violation of its sovereignty despite the crisis it has signed major arms deals including the purchase of twenty four typhoon combat. from the u.k. as part of the deal pilots from the two countries will protect the skies above qatar when the arab nation hosts the twenty twenty two football world cup since the crisis there qatar instead of being cut off from the rest of the world actually engage the world. more than they have done before so why they're being cut off regionally they've actually expanded their reach into the west particular europe and the united states they've built partnerships that are more resilient in many ways than the partnership the saudi arabian the u.a.e. you build in europe the united states the u.s. has called on its allies in the region to set aside their differences washington is a prolonged crisis could lead to more instability possible but i'll just london
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two people have died and wildfires which are raging close to the greek capital athens a state of emergency has been declared in two areas and residents have been told to leave their homes the fire is close to one of greece's busiest motorways and blanketed the capital and smoke and strong winds that keep changing direction are hampering efforts to fight the blaze japan has recorded its highest ever temperature as a deadly heat wave continues to grip the country the temperature rose to forty one points one degree celsius in the city of common gaia which is northwest of turkey later are just say that nearly twelve degrees hotter than the average for this time of the year at least thirty people have died over the past month because of the heat. the philippine president says war on drugs is far from over during his annual state of the nation address roderigo the therapist said as the ministrations offensive will be asked relentless and chilling the day began but
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outside congress protesters called for his resignation so well allan dorgan has this report from. his government promised president really good attorney does third state of the nation address will be his best it was meant to highlight his administration's achievement over the past two years but it ended up becoming one of the most chaotic national events in recent times the president was an hour and a half late that's because of a political drama that played out in congress before his address factions within allies in the house of representatives launched a leadership challenge former president gloria macapagal arroyo was a congresswoman now moved to unseat the house speaker and this prevented the ratification of the peace agreement between the government and the more islamic liberation front the rebel group. planned to sign it into law on monday it was
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supposed to be an important part of the president's state of the nation address still there to manage to deliver his speech the war against illegal drugs is far from over despite public outrage. instead we will be. live. and truly. if you will. every room relationship with turnover must not mean the. men will be. in due west the philippines. has deterred to spoke inside there were protests outside this is the biggest anti-government protests since president rodrigue oded you was sworn in two years ago and there is no shortage of
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anger and frustration here activists say his government is zero press and they want him to resign. these protestors see this deed of division speech is an attempt by the government to could see a grave violations against the for the people these women a bit they do not understand some of the issues mentioned in the speech they say security is a concern but they are more worried about the rising cost of food and other basic goods. i hope that the prices of goods will be lowered especially rice i hope that promise will happen because the poor are getting poorer. the state of the nation address is meant to be a showcase of the government's achievements but the political drama inside congress overshadowed the speech and what it revealed instead are the cracks in detect his leadership. and i'll just serum and. at least two people have died
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thirty more injured after a gunman opened fire on a busy street of restaurants and cafes in the canadian city of toronto. gun far from the attack can be heard in this witness video the twenty nine year old suspect has been identified and is said to have been suffering from mental health challenges canadian prime minister justin trudeau has tweeted his sympathies all the city marathon tory condemned the attack. police in china have launched a criminal investigation after the merge that hundreds of thousands of children may have been given faulty vaccines health and regulators found a drug maker violated safety standards it's the second scandal to head the company in the past week agent brown has more details from beijing. it is a worrying time for parents across china outside beijing's top children's hospital
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we found many still absorbing the fact the china second largest pharmaceutical company has been producing vaccines for babies that are fake you know your god you know the people who made this fabricated vaccine should be executed right away without any hesitation they did it to babies not adults he added this mother is especially concerned her one year old son was inoculated for rabies last month he has a fever and the scandal has heightened her anxiety my son was born very weak he always has fevers now his dad and i don't know if it's related to the fake vaccines in china or vaccinations to prevent diseases like tetanus hooping cough and rabies are free but now some parents no longer trust the made in china versions. the medium or even the street chinese vaccines cannot meet correct safety standards i would have to think about buying imported vaccine so far there have been no reports of children harmed by the vaccine or having contracted rabies. the trunk shroom
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biotechnology company in northeast china produced the fake vaccines executives have now admitted falsifying test results for its rabies vaccine production is halted all vaccines are being recalled were still just last thursday this same company was fined over its substandard production of other vaccines so a tiny she at the end after we found out that the company forged the records of production and production inspections and modified technical parameters and equipment at will the actions seriously violated their relevance to belay sions of chinese law this scandal broke four days ago but it wasn't until sunday night the china's premier league chang spoke out urging severe punishment but all those responsible now the government says that all companies are produced vaccines in china will be subject to unannounced inspections. this industry was already in
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trouble just two years ago another pharmaceutical company was found to have improperly stored tens of millions of dollars worth of vaccines many of them had expired but in unusually open coverage china's state controlled media have called for an overhaul of the industry which one newspaper editorial said had been contaminated by scandals adrian brown al jazeera beijing. campaigning has wrapped up in pakistan's most unpredictable election yet over one hundred million people will be voting on wednesday in a poll which has been dogged by claims of rigging and corruption former cricketer m.p.t. i.t.v. emraan khan is widely seen as the powerful militaries choice for next leader and he'll be facing a challenge from a shareef he's the brother of the former prime minister now washer we've recently returned to pakistan. to get our ten people have been arrested over the allegedly
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rape of these sixteen girls by staff at a government funded shelter police in missouri far poor city are also searching for a body after one of the victims said another girl was beaten to death and buried within the complex she was reportedly killed after having a disagreement with staff twenty one girls are thought to have been rescued from the home in total scientists in argentina believe they have discovered the remains of what could be known as the earliest giant dinosaur experts say the dinosaur named in genteel means that the fur meaning the first giant would have weighed about ten tons and stood up at. it up to thirty three feet tall in gentle lived during the triassic period about two hundred ten million years ago that's about thirty millions before million years before the jurassic period when the giant dinosaurs were previously thought to have emerged ok you can get more on
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all our stories on our website and to find that go to al-jazeera dot com but stay with us we'll have headlines next. well again here's a reminder for our top stories and al-jazeera the un's highest court has issued an order in favor of qatar in the case it brought against the united arab emirates the international court of justice says the measures taken by the u.a.e. amount to gratiot discrimination and they should allow qatari families to be reunited the u.a.e. is one of four countries that imposed an air land and sea blockade against qatar more than a year ago by eat voters to serve in the united arab immunities must ensure that one film released that includes qatar.
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separated by the measure is adopted by the united arab emirate on five june twenty seventh. unite their own foreign ministers added to the escalating war of words between the u.s. and iranian leaders telling president donald trump to be cautious lama job ads are a force responding to trump earlier tweets in which he warned iran never to threaten the united states again or risk consequences which quote few throughout history have ever suffered before the tense exchanges come amid increased economic pressures and sanctions on iran. security forces have killed three suspected fighters who attacked the governor's building and. the gunman guards before entering the building and taking hostages later security forces around the building were targeted by a suicide bomber a government employee was killed during the clashes and. irbil which is the seat of
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the kurdish regional government has largely been spared. a state of emergency has been declared. and residents have been told to. the capital and smoke strong winds that keep changing direction are hampering the efforts to fight the. well those are the headlines but do stay with us plenty more news still ahead but right the coming right up. next.
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