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the clerk class. the. destruction so severe hospitals are not safe the makeshift medical help after another huge earthquake in indonesia. and we shall carry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up tear gas is fired a docking over city of students refused to back down a road safety protests. punishment for iran the u.s. set to reimpose sanctions and coming hours we have reaction out of iran and saudi arabia expels canada's ambassador and praises investment african aid in criticism of the arrests of human rights activists.
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rescue teams are struggling to get to many parts of the indonesian island of lombok after its second earthquake in a week the extent of the destruction is still emerging but a disaster agency spokesman is now talking of huge damage in the north hit by a magnitude six point nine quake on sunday night the latest death toll is ninety one people thousands of people are out on the streets after their homes were destroyed or badly damaged even hospitals are having to treat the many injured people outside residents and tourists are also being taken off a smaller island nearby set bos'n has more from long island. dramatic scenes here at this mosque in the neighborhood of one of the worst hit areas of the earthquake in long there's an unknown number of people still trapped beneath the rubble of this mosque and the only thing we know is that some voices have been heard last
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night for three hours and then they were quiet and actually there are some witnesses now saying that there are voices heard again the main problem here and this is an example of how this whole aftermath of the earthquake is developing there is a huge shortage of heavy equipment to make sure that these buildings these kinds of heavy debris can be lifted and make sure that people can still be rescued as you can see in our report. it's tranquil beaches usually draw holiday makers from around the world but the indonesian island of number one has been hit by its second badly quake in a week. it collapsed buildings and triggered mass power cuts sending people on to the streets. and i was watching t.v. when i felt a huge shake the land was shaking and people were shouting get out get out i ran out from the house in the dark because electricity was down much of the damage has
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hit long books west and north where many homes were poorly built i mean with the. help we need food water and medicine and right now there are many people injured and some of them died for whoever watches this video please share they may be able to help us here. at tsunami warning was issued in its aftermath but it was lifted several hours later on the neighboring island of bali the city hospital was a factory waited for doctors set up a makeshift clinic in the street. but quake was extremely big i was on the third floor my mother who was being treated here when it happened everyone was really shocked. paramedics were gardens they've been evacuated us. and patients are now here on the ground floor many of the injured at three the pier outside because the hospital to freely damage still happening patients with broken limbs and out of serious injuries from fallen the briefs are being brought in. still trying to
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assess the extent of the damage of this powerful earthquake. aftershocks have been as strong as magnitude five point four indonesia is prone to earthquakes due to its location on the pacific ring of fire those on the island hoping the worst is over. while doors are still being evacuated at this moment from the famous. islands where they were stranded last night when the earthquake struck and a lot of panic happened the people really was scrambling for safety dear a lot of rescue workers are now looking into the auto parts of this area of course to see we have more victims are being buried under the rubble it's a white area of devastation and more and more rescue workers are coming in right now students are protesting for a ninth day in bangladesh despite government promises to look at the road safety concerns groups armed with wooden baton to attack students at east west university
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in dhaka the say the groups are linked to the government and police riot police used tear gas to disperse crowds in the capital security laws being imposed so police can arrest people who are in groups of more than four or test began last week after the deaths of two students who were hit by a speeding bus the committee to protect journalists is calling for the release of anyone held because of their coverage of these protests for talking for an activist who was detained soon after his interview on al-jazeera on sunday at least five journalists were attacked during the protest including a photographer from the associated press. in the capital dhaka. the city is back to a somewhat normal the public service buses are on you can see every movement of traffic in the city but i got to mention it's still very volatile and tense in the city there's been clashes in two parts of the city there was even clash within the university campus where the police dispersed the demonstrators that was trying to
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come out and protest suppression by and large is normal we also know the journalist community in bangladesh are very concerned because dozens of journalists red hot within the last one week into splashes they were targeted by a group of people and journalists and by and large not very intimidated to cover any kind of protest because the police are not helping them out they've been threatened and targeted by certain elements in front of the police this is a major concern on the right behind me the journalists are going to gather together for a silent protest because this is becoming a major concern and if you're not able to cover a political situation and feel threatened this is obviously a major concern for the media community in bangladesh by and large the political situation in bangladesh is also very trying to the election is coming in the end of this year and both the political party the main opposition and the government party are in a very hostile environment towards each other blaming each other for manipulating
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student protests the public some demands on the crackdown on the children has not been taken very lightly it's been taken very negatively because most of these kids are very very young between thirteen to twenty one years old but we'll have to see how things unfold in few days down the road the philippines president has held a ceremonial signing for a new law aimed at ending forty years of conflict with the country's largest muslim rebel group or bigger the territory is calling me to morrow organic law a fund foundation that is of lasting peace in mindanao island it will establish a regional government arm groups in the area had been fighting for autonomy in a conflict that killed more than one hundred thousand people. their opinion says it is sticking to the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal with the wrong despite the u.s. withdraw all in a statement it says it deeply regrets the empty reimposition that is of american sanctions which are due to happen in coming hours iran's foreign minister says his country will overcome the economic measures and won't be changing its regional
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policies amos probably twenty live now from tehran so we don't yet know exactly what the with the new sanctions will be but what's the idea that we have about. well president hassan rouhani is going to be addressing the iranian public on television live later tonight head of that we've seen his foreign minister zarif who was a key component of negotiating this nuclear deal addressing journalists repeating much of what he said about the u.s. pull out from the deal in the past it takes on a significance now because it is easy it is the eve of u.s. sanctions going back into effect let's take a look at some of what mohammad javad zarif said he said that trumps invitation for talks with iran cannot be trusted because he's the man that pulled out of the nuclear deal in the first place he also said to a message to fellow iranians that we will overcome these u.s. sanctions and as far as the foreign minister is concerned the crisis stage iran has
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passed the crisis stage of dealing with those sanctions now there are many people in this country who will disagree with him especially on the economic front that has to be said and he said that iran is not isolated on the world stage when it comes to the nuclear deal now that is true since the united states pulled out of this twenty fifteen nuclear agreement iran has turned to other signatories and has reminded the world that there were five other countries that signed this nuclear deal let's take a look at how they got there. on july fourteenth two thousand and fifteen america and iran made history with the help of germany france china and russia the decades long pose signed the joint comprehensive plan of action the agreement years in the making used economic sanctions in return for curbs on iran's development of nuclear technology. signed in vienna it was celebrated and. many iranians thought the lifting of sanctions which had crippled the economy for years was the beginning of the end of their struggle for their leaders it was the fulfillment of their
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election campaign promise. today is the day that marked the starting point for a new move a new dynamism and exuberance the first day for a new hope. a better future for our young people and a starting point for the more rapid development and progress of our great nation of iran. but iran's relief from economic isolation was to be short lived any hopes iranians had of normal trade links with the outside world unfettered access to the global banking system and foreign investment to help develop their country were dashed by this man powerful. three years after it was signed the u.s. president fulfilled a campaign promise of his own to dismantle the nuclear deal america will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail we will not allow american cities to be threatened with destruction and we will not allow a regime that chance death to america to gain access to the most deadly weapons on
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earth. iran maintains it never intended to build a nuclear weapon only civilian nuclear power projects and the international atomic energy agency the un watchdog tasked to monitor iran's nuclear capabilities has repeatedly confirmed iranian compliance many iranians say trump's desire to undo president barack obama's most significant foreign policy achievement is out of personal animosity and an effort by the troubled ministration to reaffirm america's traditional relationship with saudi arabia if the europeans present iran with the mccann ism the that to ensure iran's continued merits on the way and they ensure that iran would have its free flow of crude still flies and the money will be sent back home. respective of the us sanctions then the nuclear deal will work and not see tensions escalate
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a ball in the specific level technically the deal is not dead other signatories are standing by it and iran continues to comply with u.s. threats of secondary sanctions against anyone who trades with iran and american influence over global banking has denied iran the ability to pursue meaningful economic development. many iranians blame the rouhani administration for failing to see this coming almost as much as they blame. donald trump says he's america's man to negotiate a better deal with iran but iranian leaders say it is ridiculous to expect them to sit down with someone who's already broken one deal and proven he cannot be trusted . on al-jazeera. a president. and the president can't.
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welcome back let's look at weather conditions across asia now in northeastern parts of asia here you can see edging on to your screen is typhoon shown shann it is going to hit honshu only as a category one equivalent hurrican but it's still going to cause a lot of problems because it looks as though it's going to go right over metropolitan tokyo so put the track on and you can see it goes straight and then there's a very sharp right turn of his critical exactly where it turns right there many computer forecasts actually take a little bit further towards the southwest sort of taking it right across tokyo bay it is going to cause problems right about zero on thursday so if you visiting tokyo to bear that in mind housewives had some heavy rain reported across the korean peninsula but the forecasts suggest dry conditions here some heavy rain for beijing and extending across other northeastern parts of china into the far east of russia
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with a wet one likely in flood of all stop so the heat wave across parts of japan is going as a result of a frontal system which is gradually sunk further southwards but we're placing a heat wave with a typhoon so not a great situation to be in across central southern parts of china and taiwan mixed bag really central areas seeing some heavy rain but from shanghai towards hong kong gerri looking draw and fine but still got a guttering the showers in vietnam with highs of thirty two an annoying. every armed attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens with stories of loss no one tone. is sweeping association of islam with the violence. in muslims facing the stock reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life. troy civic
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on al-jazeera. is there and these are the top stories this hour there is widespread destruction on the indonesian island of lombok after a powerful earthquake on sunday and rescuers still have areas to reach at least ninety one people have died but that number is expected to rise since protests are continuing for a ninth day in bangladesh despite government promises to address the road safety concerns police and groups armed with wooden batons have attacked students at east question of ur city in dhaka as trivial laws being imposed so police can arrest a gathering of more than four people. or on foreign minister says u.s.
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sanctions which are expected to be reimposed in the coming hours will be overcome and regional policies will stay unchanged the european union says it deeply regrets the sanctions and will stick to the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal despite the u.s. withdrawal. saudi arabia has expelled canada's ambassador and frozen all new trade and investment the saudis accuse the canadian government of interference for expressing concern about the arrest of human rights activists bahrain says it backs saudi arabia and rejects canada's enter ferrets. prominent among those arrests is some are seen here with former u.s. first lady michelle obama and hillary clinton. is the sister of right but who has been in a jail in saudi since two thousand and twelve for criticizing the government his wife and children have lived in canada since two thousand and thirteen and just became citizens the canadian embassy in saudi arabia has tweeted its worries about the detentions saying this canada is deeply concerned about the additional arrests
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of civil society activists and women's rights activists in saudi arabia including some markets we urge the saudi authorities to release them immediately and all other peaceful human rights activists the saudi foreign ministry says the canadian statement on twitter is blatant interference in the kingdoms domestic affairs against basic international norms in all international protocols but also says that is a major unacceptable affront to the kingdom's laws and judicial process as well as a violation of the kingdom's sovereignty. as one of two prominent women's rights activists detained in saudi arabia recently she was arrested at the same time isbell activist. amnesty international says both have been repeatedly targeted and harassed for their campaigning says it's part of an unprecedented level of persecution implemented by crown prince mohammed bin solomon and describes his faded spaded detentions rather as an unrelenting crackdown despite reports saying
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the crown prince this liberal liberalizing the country at least five women's rights activists have been arrested recently some have been held without explanation or known charges and other human rights defenders held in the kingdom could face up to twenty years in prison in a bag and say women's rights researcher for the middle east and north africa region human rights watch says the saudi leadership is even detaining people for past rather than recent activism. it is absolutely ridiculous that the saudi authorities can in the one hand come through with some some limited reforms like the lifting of the driving bad but on the other hand orest of very same women who helped to bring about this reform since may we've seen more than a dozen women's rights activists arrested in what is an unprecedented crackdown we have never seen women's rights activists over rested in this manner in which there's been a smear campaign against them and which has been unrelenting in that the campaign
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up for arrest has continued only last week we have seen the most prominent women's rights defender summer by the we being arrested despite the fact that she is international and also despite the fact that she herself has been fairly quiet in the last few months so it is not just about whether or not you have been considered to be active in the moment but your calls to women's rights activism is in itself something that the assad your thought is that going off the fires in portugal have been raging on during a heat wave in europe that has reached record temperatures the fire began on saturday in the hilly munchie queue area of the. regional region rather that is popular tourists hundreds of firefighters are also battling flames in an area near portugal's border with spain. has appeared to change his story about a two thousand and sixteen meeting between his son and a russian boy are connected to the kremlin the meeting is part of the muller investigation into possible links between trump's campaign and moscow he now says the meeting was to collect information about his rival hillary clinton instead of
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about russian adoption as he first said this is what he tweeted the news supporting a complete fabrication that i am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son donald held in trump tower this is a meeting to get information on an opponent totally the legal and all the time in politics and it went nowhere i didn't know about it from washington d.c. mike hanna has more now. well the tweet which came at eight thirty five sunday morning completely changed the dynamic of the ongoing milian to best a geisha and into russian collusion essentially president trump has reversed the story concerning the meeting that took place in trump tower back in june twenty sixth with a russian banker known to have ties to the kremlin the official version of that story given by both president trump and his son donald trump jr was at the meeting was held to discuss the issue of russian adoptions however now president trump says
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what he has not admitted before that the meeting was in fact to obtain dirt from the russians on political opponents in particular hillary clinton president trump essentially admitting that there was discussion by members of his staff with a known russian agent concerning involvement in the outcome of the u.s. election now it goes even further than this because donald trump jr has told congress that the original version of the meeting he also purportedly wrote a little which would subsequently transpired was written by his father donald trump which gave the or turned the reason for that meeting saying it was about russian adoption now we are hearing as well from trump's lawyers one of his many lawyers jay sekulow that discussion is ongoing about whether or not president trump will sit down for an interview with the special counsel robert miller an interview that the council is likely to press for even harder given the news of this latest tweet
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by president trump however jay sekulow also insisted that idea of a subpoena of a sitting president was absolutely unheard of saying that should such a subpoena be served it would go all the way to the supreme court and would most likely fail to bring president to the interview table but incidentally as well that . same lawyer jay sekulow admitted during that interview that he also lied last year when he said that that trump tower meeting involved russian adoption not russian collusion and a presidential plans fame proposed in mexico to stop the notorious drug gang wars president elect andres manuel lopez obrador think shang mexicans can be persuaded to avoid a life of crime aiming to help him as a former cocaine addict and drug gang member who's been elected to congress on home and went to san luis potosi potosi rafter to meet him. the new local congressman
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from san luis mexico to meet his constituents is unlike any politician they've seen before a child will burn the street kids just like them make good. for some pedophile nicknamed the me he's is a blueprint for the incoming government on how they can rescue young people drawn to crime he's bodies a patchwork of tattoos and knife cuts product of a life of violence and drug addiction until he hit bottom and i know. my mother was sick with kidney failure they called me and i was drinking with my crew thinking tomorrow. and she died and i didn't get to say goodbye and to kill the pain i jumped in front of cars i tried to hang myself from a tree in my garden i was taking cocaine all the time i was twenty four years old that was the turning point he sought help a christian mentor who gave him his first job he in turn says he gained a faith and a mission to help san luis is young and marginalized but when i realized there
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aren't public policies for the young and there are lots of them like me who didn't get to choose where they live children with dreams stops just like me i wanted to be an actor so i started to campaign for space for them to try and reduce the fights between gangs. formed an association an organized football tournament stances work programs hundreds of gang members turned up to broker peace deals between them. i see him as an example to follow that you can come from the barrio and still manage to become someone. now he's heading to the local congress not everyone's pleased many criticize his criminal past and doubt he's reformed he says he's received threats and was even briefly kidnapped but he says he can't let down those in the city's going's know his approach chimes with the incoming president and that his mother will look at those nationwide plans boylan cements closer
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record levels in the incoming administration says the strategy has to change rather than just confronting those drawn to organized crime they say that young people need to be offered of the russians controversially that includes an amnesty for some low level going members only he supports and so far his base seems to follow him but they have a warning they're not. doing news yet moment and just don't lose sight of who you are remember it's better to be remembered as a good person than to have a street named after you and i think that's the test for me he's and the rest of the incoming government who they bring the social change they promise will succumb to their newfound political power john home and. so on luis potosi haiti's new prime minister has been chosen by the president of an alloy say pick john henri say on after two days of negotiations with both houses of parliament the former president presidential candidate still needs to be approved by all the m.p.'s his
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predecessor resigned after violent demonstrations against government plans to raise fuel prices opposition parties in cambodia are contesting last month's landslide election away the ruling party led by veteran prime minister who in san juan all one hundred twenty five seats one party is demanding a new election and the other has filed a complaint with the constitutional council the main opposition party was dissolved by the government last year thousands of voters spoil their ballot papers in protest at what many countries condemned as a sham. three main opposition candidates who allege voter fraud and malice presidential election are taking legal action in the constitutional court they say ballot boxes were stuffed with votes and a look torah law broken president abraham who kharkiv ten led the first round of voting last month with forty one percent he is due to face rival some ala c.c. in the second round that's on sunday and there christopher robin movie will not be released in china many say because leader xi jinping is prickly about comparisons
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between him and one of the lead characters china's censorship at the cartoon pair winning the pooh started last year with images blocked on social media and blogs turned brown as more from beijing. well winnie the pooh of course means different things to different people to many children around the world he's the adorable pudgy bear with a partial for honey but it seems here in china he has become an enemy of the state that's because a new film made by disney christopher robin in which winnie the pooh of course has a starring role will not now be shown in china no reason has been given china imports about forty foreign films a year and while that quota hasn't been reached yet no reason has been given as to why christopher robin will not now be shown in china now winnie the pooh's sort of got in the crosshairs of chinese censors more than
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a year ago that's when images started appearing online contrast ing winnie the pooh with president xi jinping there was apparently a physical resemblance the most popular meme photograph of all is one which pairs a picture of xi jinping and then president barack obama with another picture of winnie the pooh and his good mate tigger winnie the pooh has in many ways become a symbol and unlikely symbol of dissent that's because loucheux bo who won the nobel peace prize and of course died in hospital more than a year ago was pictured holding a mug with an image of winnie the pooh on it shortly before he died it was a final defiant stance by a man who had been a thorn in the side of china's government for so long now while it's fair to say that censorship under president xi jinping has been getting worse during the past
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few years you know as a journalist you encounter it every day here in china there has never the less been some pushback during the past few weeks just last week there was a protest by parents. side the health ministry here in beijing they believe the government is covering up the true extent of a vaccine scandal vaccines substandard vaccines that emerged were given to children for things like tetanus typhoid and also hooping cough as well as rabies but as we know no those vaccines were sub standard and then just a few days ago there was a curious as a that was published online it was written by a prominent chinese academic and he criticized president xi jinping and said it was time for the communist party to look again at what happened in one nine hundred eighty time when those protests ended in so many people dying he said it was chime
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for the chinese government to re-evaluate what happened in one thousand nine hundred nine and he also said it was time for the party to reverse its decision to end two term limits for president xi jinping president xi at the moment of course arguably the most powerful chinese leader since chairman mao. took out the headlines on al-jazeera now rescue teams are struggling to get to many parts of the end a nation island of lombok after its second earthquake in a week the extent of the destruction is still emerging that a disaster agency spokesman is now talking of huge damage and the north was hit by a magnitude six point nine quake on sunday night the latest death toll is ninety one people alison's of people are out on the streets after their homes were destroyed or badly damaged even the hospitals are having to treat the many injured
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people outside residents and tourists are also being taken off a smaller nearby island. in the few seconds this is the result of this earthquake it just completely destroyed this house and this is the picture that i've been seeing along this road. oh lots of shops like this one there's a shop as well a lot of houses people are homeless but they're not more concerned about their own safety because they're so worried that there could still be a tsunami you can actually see still people on their motorbikes fleeing to safer areas right now students are protesting for a ninth day in bangladesh despite government promises to look at their road safety concerns groups armed wouldn't baton to students at least question of versity in dhaka activists say those groups are linked to the government and police protests began last week after the deaths of two students who were hit by a speeding. philippines president has held a ceremonial signing for a new law aimed at ending forty years of conflict with the country's largest muslim
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rebel group or bigger territory is calling the organic law a foundation of lasting peace in mindanao island well established a regional government iran's foreign minister says u.s. sanctions which are expected to be reimposed in coming hours will be overcome and regional policies will stay unchanged the european union says it deeply regrets the sanctions and will stick to the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal despite u.s. withdraw all said arabia's expelling canada's ambassador and freezing all new trade and investment the saudis accuse the canadian government interference for urging the release from prison of civil society and women's rights activists. so the headlines the news continues keep it here on al-jazeera much more to come inside story is next.
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will the druze remain loyal to the state of israel the arab speaking minority long thought they're part of israel but the new nation state law says israel is a homeland for jewish people only the druze and other minorities are outraged and they fight the discrimination this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. the new law declares israel is a homeland solely for jewish people non jewish minorities are understandably outraged including the druze minority tens of thousands rallied in tel aviv for one of their largest protests in recent history they say the new nation state law passed last month makes them second class citizens and after decades of loyalty to
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