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promises. they're tied up promises promises promises so what they want now is give us something specific way how where what don't just say that yes we will put up some kind of thing and i think that's what's causing the sticking point in the negotiations do you think china will be prepared to address the criticisms that its faced over its currency manipulation. actually on that i do not agree i do not believe that china is currently manipulating its currency if you look back there has been a lot of pressure on the chinese currency money inside china has been trying to get out the economy has stopped me doing well everything speaks for a lot of the currency getting downward pressure and you know forget when people talk about china but the niceties remain to be china i cannot say that the
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government b. will be cheap only when we are trading with the americans because the us dollar is used to trade with japan with as with the e.u. so other markets are affected and other markets are not to be happy if suddenly chinese goods have become extremely cheap so the chinese government's got to balance that as well so i think the current weakening of the currency actually this market falls let me ask you just very briefly ma'am if you don't mind if china does go into talks as a result of the pressure that the u.s. has put on it because of the trade tariffs isn't there a risk for china that this is setting a dangerous precedent that all it takes is for another country to essentially flex its economic muscle for china to more towards the table and open up to negotiations . no not really because there are very few with.
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america's financial muscle and also this happens to be a good time for me. it just so happens to me. jobs. so it just turns me so not every other mark has this sort of. setting the right time. can be. very interesting to get your point of view in this polling knowing thank you very much indeed for joining us on all jazeera u.s. president donald trump has renewed his calls for an end to the investigation into alleged collusion between his election campaign and the russian government special counsel robert muller recently indicted twelve russian intelligence officers and trump's former campaign chairman is currently on trial trauma's tweeted this is a terrible situation and attorney general jeff sessions should stop this rig which
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hunt right now before it continues to stain our country any further bob miller is totally conflicted and his seventeen angry democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to usa democratic republic of congo's health ministry has confirmed four cases of a ball in the northeastern city of goma the ministry says there's no evidence linking these cases to the recent outbreak that killed thirty three people that outbreak was officially declared over last week now to ali khan is dean of the university of nebraska medical center college of public health he says better education is needed for rural communities to understand how able is transmitted. what we saw in the last outbreak we hope to see in this outbreak which is a really active response backs a nation of contacts and hopefully hopefully shut the outbreak down very quickly
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unfortunately this outbreak is in an active conflict zone on the border rwanda and uganda which is very different from the location of the last outbreak and that's going to pose a challenge itself in the response so there's no lack of information from a scientific standpoint we know exactly what happens the disease is natural in bats and people get infected directly from bats or from eating infected bushmeat and then if there is can be a large amount of person to person spread during a funeral or potentially during a how kids are in a health care setting so we know the science of ebola but what's missing is the education of communities to help them understand that sometimes in the midst of all these people who have fever and getting sick and dying there's potentially cases of a bowl of that are very contagious and can infect others within the community so that's where the education needs to happen and to make sure that such individuals are quickly moved to health care centers to ensure that there are these funerals
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where you keep touching people and infecting others and within how care settings to ensure there's good infection control practices. opposition leader and former rebel commander john pierre bemba has returned to democratic republic of congo to a hero's welcome after ten years in prison for war crimes bamba flew back from the netherlands after a successful appeal of the international criminal court in the hague is already said he was a run in december's presidential elections catherine sawyer was with the cheering crowds in the capital kinshasa. when john pierre bemba in march from the airport in the democratic republic of congo's capital kinshasa thousands of his supporters went into a frenzy i know you was the last many of them say they never thought they'd be back home any time soon. i have a contingent of police escorted his convoy who was not allowed to make any stops to address the many people who lined the streets to catch
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a glimpse of him his first order of business was a meeting at his party headquarters he's expected to submit his documents to the electoral commission in the coming days so he can run for the presidency john cabin back in august we know all that is what he had what he's been waving i bet and raise the kids here and they have been seeing is praising and saying that he all you want you can provide a change of the leadership of the country or even bring the opposition together to support one candidate. was arrested in belgium for crimes against humanity a decade ago he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison by the international criminal court in twenty sixteen the judges held him criminally responsible for militias of his former rebel group convicting him of political killing raping and pillaging in the neighboring central african republic between two thousand and two and two thousand and three he appealed and in june the conviction was overturned he
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supporters say the trial was politically instigated it was unhappy because ben has been vindicated. by the same court that convicted him now he's here and we're just glad to see him. we're suffering in this country children and not going to school things are not moving his return gives us hope then but faces some had told him his bid for presidency the low ses a candidate has to be in the country. before contesting an election the fact that there has been away for ten years and still has a pending witness tampering case at the international criminal court could hottest chances catherine saw an al-jazeera kinshasa. plenty more ahead on the news hour including i'm saying best rugby in the south of tehran where iran's water crisis is making it more difficult to beat the summer heat. and in sport angle and maybe playing their one thousand ft test match but india's own top and bombing of.
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the french national assembly has approved a new immigration law that gives refugees only six months to claim asylum instead of the current eleven months it's aimed at speeding up the deportation of those denied asylum the processing of those who were accepted they were cheated has more from powers the number of refugees in the suburbs of paris maybe as high as four hundred thousand according to a parliamentary report city authorities are struggling to cope the conditions in the parks and streets are becoming intolerable in the middle of the heat wave. raids by riot police have cleared the large tented camps where many of them found temporary refuge but the tough new laws just passed by the national assembly will cut the time period during which they can claim asylum the claim is rejected that only have fifteen days to lodge an appeal and the time they can be kept in
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detention waiting for deportation has been doubled to ninety days now via a sale voted against the bill she believes fran should take in more refugees and be less scared influx but once people have left their home there it's a whole deal and we cannot just send them back i believe we have to look at the situation differently you can't just say we don't want that it's a way of closing your eyes that is meaningless it's a way to deny reality their original here for charity workers have described the situation as explosive the refugees are being forced to share the streets with drug addicts and dealers in crack cocaine public bars are being closed and fights are breaking out to find supplies of water it's been estimated a total of five hundred refugees are arriving in paris every week the government say the new reforms i meant to make a much more efficient system for asylum seekers through to actually try and sift
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out those who are genuine refugees and those who are economic migrants. we found william and his wife baking for food they have a four year old child they escaped violence in ivory coast but never applied for asylum here they now face deportation the police are constantly moving them on. zeph to follow them you must understand them attribute an arche for everybody start sleep on the streets everywhere sometimes i don't know where to sleep i sit on the bench i chip my little wife by my side i hope we pray and we keep. the deputies of the national assembly will not have heard of william he has a master of arts and philosophy. he's passionate about french culture and literature but it's no life for him on the streets and he's already lost everything in his homeland there are tens of thousands more like him t.v. changer al jazeera house. nicaragua's largest private sector organization is
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accusing the ruling party of organizing the land seizures all over the country and says the government tactic is to pressure and punish suspected opponents they've been three months of anti-government on the rest up to four hundred fifty people a day and landowners appear to be the largest target this in human reports the nicaraguan city of must say at. squatters' settlements like this one are sprouting up over much of nicaragua. arrived with his family just last week when he heard that this prime property on the outskirts of managua was pretty for the taking. but . we've been told it belongs to the government of a commander. at least one part of what he says is faults it's private property owners say that they were thrown out by the squatters when they showed up with their land title. with the then we have reported this to the police the
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public prosecutor the mayor but nothing so far. camera one of the squatters told me they're being rewarded by the government for their loyalty to president. honor the settlement has been named. also a way to pressure and punish those who are viewed as adversaries such as the cohen group one of nicaragua's largest at least three of their properties in northwest have been invaded but not by poor land the squatters and. these are heavily armed masked ropes of thirty forty or fifty people who are organized with clearly just to go preparation. security rings on the outlying roads to control anyone who approaches. the police he says refused to intervene the invasions came after executive manager and had publicly stated that nicaragua needed democratic reforms the largest business council accuses the government of organizing lang grabs to keep the private sector in line. some landowners are setting up flimsy quarrels to
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try to keep invaders out signs like this one reading private property are turning up everywhere opposition leaders point out that no one has invaded the property so far of people known to be allies of the governments so far at least thirty major agricultural proper. he said been occupied many owned by foreigners it may help keep these homeless people happy but it's adding yet another land political and economic instability to a country that can ill afford to see a new one i just see that my novel. of origin ministers says he's being detained by police in italy and fears he'll be deported to egypt mohamed says on twitter that he's being detained based on a request from egypt he was the minister of parliamentary affairs under former president mohamed morsy his government is unknown opposition figure and he's been living in exile in europe since july twenty third team military coups qatar's main
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stock benchmark has recovered all losses since a blockade was imposed in the gulf state by four arab nations almost fourteen months ago the q.e. index rose one point five percent at the close of trading on wednesday reaching levels not seen since may twenty seventeen saudi arabia the united arab emirates back rein and egypt seventy can all make in diplomatic ties with qatar in june twenty seventeen accusing it of funding terrorism qatar has rejected the allegations syrian government forces have regained control of all the land along the border with the israeli occupied golan heights isolating fighters gave up their last pocket of territory in the area after a six week military campaign according to russian media pro iranian forces withdrew to eighty five kilometers from israeli held territory israel had us from moscow supports to help keep back pro iranian troops. as the syrian government continues
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to reclaim territory the road to the border crossing with jordan is ready for use it's something that damascus is hoping to capitalize on the closure of the naseem crossing in twenty eleven has weighed on the economy of syria and neighboring states in the heart of reports from amman. jordan wanted exports to flow through what was once a lucrative trade route the syrian government's recapture than a sea crossing from the opposition in early july was welcomed by officials here damascus says the road is now ready for use and is waiting for jordan to officially request the resumption of commercial activity it may be using this as leverage to define a new relationship. a syrian regime they have their own political agenda they will make demands and impose conditions on jordan the opening of the border won't happen right away from my experience with the regime jordan for something in return that could be an official recognition of syrian president bashar assad's legitimacy
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officially jordan was one of the few arab states that didn't cut diplomatic relations with damascus and kept the channel for military cooperation and intelligence sharing open but ties were affected in the early days of the conflict jordan's king abdullah called on assad to step down that approach later changed with the priority being the protection of national security interests it has been a difficult balancing act for jordan it likes to describe its policy toward the syrian crisis as it called for a political solution and it didn't call for regime change as a condition to end the crisis the kingdom to a certain extent followed an independent course from its allies who were supporting the opposition despite its cautious approach jordan along with the u.s. and saudi arabia did back the opposition in southern syria but when damascus was close to victory it convinced many rebels to surrender it is enough for them to
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reopen its embassy in damascus and this would be tantamount to acknowledge them until they did. bashar to stick but not the player. or definitely clearly in favor of the regime so russia is going to want there's no question about that. with that you have a neighbor like this you need to deal with that many jordanians accuse the assad government of crimes against humanity but public opinion seems ready to accept the reality because of the benefits to the struggling economy now it's a fact that assad would stay in syria and everybody wants him. not to see them but i shan't everybody and when the see it's very good for our economy and our people report the water boards will go there the neighboring countries are on the road toward restoring relations but jordan will first have to pay a political price for their ashes into a man. still ahead on al-jazeera. oh and calls for
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land reform in south africa the president indicates he will push ahead with plans to take property from white farmers. franklin turns fifty we take a look at the first african american character from the popular peanuts comic. and in sports some poets and writers check help asshole beat london rivals chelsea and their latest pre-season game. binny's ping skies by the time my heart. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. welcome back days of heavy rain and resulted in flooding issues for hanoi in vietnam we still have showers showing on our chart is a general area of low pressure here at the moment probably having less direct impact on vietnam than it is in laos and miramar we're still seeing
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a lot of showers coming into coastal regions meanwhile you can see behind me that circulation that low pressure center is in fact john dari which has been around for a long time but it's moving into shanghai giving some heavy rain here so flooding is certainly possible for the south expect heavy showers in food and hong kong moving down into southeastern parts of asia and here for the philippines you see the sufferer images you've got a scattering of showers not a close shop across borneo at the moment so it does look as though it's going to be fairly wet here at times the philippines could scattered showers particularly heavy showers across northern areas. likely to stay largely dry same goes for lombok and then up through them late pincher germany good conditions for singapore and kuala lumpur but once you get into thailand say more central northern areas that looks as though it's going to be fairly wet at times across into south asia now and we've got some rain down through the western ghats but northeastern parts of india looking particularly wet the circulation of low pressure will give some very heavy rain for calcutta the weather sponsored by cat time release. the
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