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tv   Dambisa Moyo  Al Jazeera  August 6, 2018 9:00am-9:30am +03

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canada was through. portent. trikes san are there are. many if your purpose is through to save the area and also this over the f.b.i. is a source of revenue for a number of canadian universities since thousands out so these are coming to the canadian universities for data as you cation so already on. their auction in that election is significant for canada and obviously for dissociative yet. this is primarily about canada voicing concern of a saudi arabia arresting human rights activists but how sensitive an issue is this inside the kingdom. i.e. it seeks to be sensitive as you know this so you try so on one entrees through to fort meade sat on the other there are all kind of the issues related to it you might arise from the international perspective in soviet evra
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a canadian government on the other has made it human rights to woman issues out so for the one up to be components of foreign policy and consequently it is under a lot of pressure the canadian government from a you side up kind of international humanitarian organisation is true for you got it too and to. meet your cooperation beat it. despite all of that the canadian labor our government said the current government tried to justify its babysitter days and can't get out so. it seems that from the so deep space they didn't go out meant he's great to fart makes it so easy to do he says pay for it remember i said. ok sequence be it in the sense that he should i'm going to get a final thought from you i mean we know that saudi arabia has given the canadian ambassador just twenty four hours to leave but what's likely to be the canadian
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response is it likely to be more measured do you think. i think it should be very measured as as i mentioned the canadian government doesn't want three d. to see these kind of. on the other pressures are growing so i got kind of very day . mr but there were as you mentioned in your report but also other issues related to iraq right so the canadian government tries to minimize. private. parts because you so young best from our allies. but i don't expect you do the canadian government to go too far in this regard so we depend really depend on the behavior of this go to government. professor hassani ari thank you for talking to us a pleasure thank you for having me on plenty more ahead here on the news hour including turkey faces that deadline on the deal that could have a significant impact on the war in syria plus. rock
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music isn't the only heavy metal on show at this music festival in russia and in sports manchester city lit the first trophy of the new english football six that's also to come. right the leaders in south sudan have signed a new power sharing agreement aimed at ending five years of war the deal gives president salva kiir and his former deputy rick michel eight months to form a transitional government even more than a small. another agreement signed between south sudan's government and opposition groups and renewed hopes of ending five years of war this time regional countries brokered more than a month of direct discussions into sydney's capital khartoum between the leaders of the worrying sign. that agreement settled if i want a journey for democracy and
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a level. political ground. for south sudanese to freely express their views without fear the civil war started less than three years after south sudan gained independence from sudan in twenty eleven president salva kiir accused his former vice president riek machar of attempting a coup since then tens of thousands have been killed and a third of the twelve million population forced from their homes the latest agreement gives an eight month pretend period after which a rake my chair is due to return as vice president the deal stipulates thirty five ministers in a transitional government twenty from curious party and nine from much r.'s the rest represent of the party's parliament will have five hundred fifty legislators including three hundred thirty two from peers group and one hundred twenty eight from my chars opposition leader rick machar says the latest deal will bring peace
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if there is no political will even me with beautiful agreements and they're not implemented. we would have done nothing a power sharing deal science three years ago so much i returned his position months later only for fighting to soon restart some such as florio are who saw what happened then are cautiously optimistic now. i am not as game when the two thousand and sixteen fighting happened we were trapped so much has changed since the war my sister lost a husband and we also lost another relative we couldn't do anything we just stayed at home now we just one piece. around six million south sudanese rely on foreign aid to survive with a commie devastated by were many are hanging their hopes on the sick room and people morgan al-jazeera will pull on talia's from the national defense university
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is africa center he says the agreement still keeps the power in the hands of the ruling elite. this time around they have a much broader tent a much bigger tent so it's not just a power sharing accord between the two principal parties namely react much and salva kiir but you have other opposition groups both armed and unarmed that have been brought on board so you have a structure where you're going to have you know five vice presidents including react much or the government has been expanded to thirty five ministries and has been expanded to five hundred fifty seats so it's a much bigger deal however critics still say that it is an elite pact it is still a power sharing agree it is still a power sharing accord between politicians that largely have the means to cause violence in the country tension between a rehab much or under president salva kiir it dates back to the one nine hundred
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ninety one civil war when i react much i attempted to take over the movement from the later dr jones around and the tension within the s.p.l. m. has really been a tension between who takes over the movement between these two powerful leaders so it's anyone's guess as to whether the current deal will actually resolve those tensions. russia has given turkey just over a month to unite syrian rebels an adlib province under one banner excluding the former al-qaeda affiliate. the deals meant to stop the syrian government from carrying out a military offensive on it lip renewed fighting could trigger a humanitarian crisis and jeopardize an effort by russia turkey and iran to end the war so hot it has more. president bashar assad says it is the syrian army's next target the opposition controlled northwestern province is home to almost three million people at least half displaced from other rebel areas after so-called surrender deals. but the syrian government's ally russia appears to be giving
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turkey a chance to what it called stabilize the province turkey is being asked to fulfill agreed commitments in the so-called fast enough process jakey has been accepting responsibility for the situation. expected to fight terrorists. russia says turkey was supposed to expel or dissolve the heat a sham the group formerly known as al nasra as well as what our city in the syrian branch of al qaida those fighters are designated as terrorists by the international community they are powerful and they have in the past rejected ultimatums to disband. lenders all turkey wants to avoid military action so it's using the threat of military action to force will start to disband the
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announcement that see a rebel groups are united on the one command is an example. part of a glib lies on the border with turkey which wants to avoid any military offensive that would cause human suffering further displacement and the collapse of the ass and a process there. for three years especially in the sunni area. started . for months now members of the so-called radical groups have been targeted in unclaimed attacks that some link to a campaign to eliminate the province from foreign fighters disagreements over at liberty turkey and russia were evident during talks on syria and saudi the province was not mentioned in the final statement was mentioned in a separate statement issued by turkey's foreign ministry emphasizing that the provinces status as a deescalation zone must be preserved turkey's military presence won't deter
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campaigns on the fringes of its lip that are aimed at opening highways linking government controlled cities and preventing attacks on the russian and syrian military in nearby latakia province that is likely what russia syria and void meant when he said there are no plans for a large scale assault on for now russia and turkey still need each other but this time around government leaders in ankara may be given limited time to deliver. beirut. priyanka gupta explains why this strategically important. a military offensive in a blip would be a pivotal moment in the seven year conflict one that may have grave humanitarian and regional consequences the syrian opposition stronghold is one of the four deescalation zones which included eastern ghouta parts of homes and areas in the southwestern provinces of there are and. the deed was negotiated last year to stop
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violence and protect civilians but since january this year the syrian regime in plate in violation of that agreement has captured three of them but no leaves this last significant enclave of armed opposition that goes up against president bashar assad's regime capturing it live would put almost seventy five percent of the country under government control but government forces would have to fight a coalition of key rebel factions with reportedly an estimated seventy thousand fighters in order to achieve that goal it live is also strategically important it shares a border with the government stronghold like archaea home to the biggest russian military airbase in the country and the m five highway which is the country's main north south artery collecting turkey syria and jordan runs flight through the province it look also shares a border with turkey which is called any offensive that a red line turkey has encircled the province what twelve points along the front
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lines a military escalation it live would be catastrophic for its population within half of which are internally displaced making the biggest cluster of the statement counts in the world. the white house will announce what sanctions it will be re imposing on iran on monday secretary of state mike pompei oh say the sanctions are part of u.s. efforts to push back against what he calls iran's malign activity president trump pull the us out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal which lifted sanctions in exchange for iran curbing its nuclear program european countries and iran say they're still committed to the agreement iranian police have detained the deputy chief of the central bank a committed are and she was arrested with several others as part of a crackdown on financial fraud zambia's robbi has more from tehran. the detention of ahmed iraq iran central bank's top official in charge of foreign exchange comes
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just twenty four hours after he was fired and replaced now less than two weeks ago the head of the central bank was fired and replaced and all of this comes on the eve of u.s. sanctions going back into effect against iran also foreign minister jobs reef is expected to address parliamentarians in the morning about the country's foreign policy matters specifically about u.s. sanctions and later that day president hassan rouhani is expected to make a televised address to the nation this government no doubt wants to be seen to be doing something about the allegations the perception of corruption amongst top officials and especially in light of the fact that the result has fallen so drastically the iranian currency has lost more than half its value in less than a year just to give you a sense of the public mood in the country at the moment during the friday sermon this week the cleric delivering the sermon said that public officials who were
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involved in corrupt practices were traitors now all of this high political drama comes in the backdrop of a six night of protests demonstrations have been ongoing a sporadically throughout the country and police personnel as well as protesters are out on the streets in various cities across the country once more to demonstrate against. the country's failing economy so a most protesters as well as opposition politicians there's a desire to see more than just personnel changes at the mid level what people are calling for is a change at the federal cabinet level which is something that we aren't seeing as yet. lots also to come here or not is there including donald trump appears to change his story about his son's contentious meeting with a russian oil plus. this is what helps me survive. health care costs are set to rise in the u.s. despite promises to keep them down and support the moto g.p. season resumes of the three way through the czech republic and you see with that
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story in the stay with us. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. little to the first snowfall on a winter's day. hello the rain in china has recently been more the west anywhere else but i think you'll see from the forecast is dotted around. it so is north of you now and then east towards telling off into hong kong maybe giving a shower too along the yangtze basin but really it's all coming slowly size so she may do thirty five in one hand the same in hong kong bugs probably threatened by a share or two but maybe not prolong right which seems rather more intent on showing itself in the philippines there's been this line that runs from the central philippines down towards sumatra for about a week now and we see it there are still potential developments it'll circulations
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one very close to the philippines or i think where the sea quite likely from central is on science which including manila same is true back through some vietnam cambodia and towards thailand but then as a cutoff roughly speaking borneo southwards you'd be unlikely to find showers or there but there are all that many of them although if you're in sumatra or screen singapore the chance is a little bit high to be honest and the monsoon rains which are still going has showed themselves be very active in of the protests behind and down towards west bengal that's still where they're likely to be to be honest the next day or so. the weather sponsored by cats are always. a survivor of the genocide there are people who beg me to kill them when they're suffering but it wouldn't have been hard to do and he's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. holding them here is that all. you know
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