tv NEWS LIVE - 30 Al Jazeera August 6, 2018 5:00pm-5:34pm +03
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harbison on al-jazeera. street after street broken homes evidence of the ship out of a second place in a week on the indonesian. has i'm sick of this is a live from dakar also coming up to gas as five at a university as students refuse to back down on road safety protests donald trump prepares to punish iran new sanctions could be revealed soon. and as people get thirsty of the piles of throw away bottles keep mounting what london's doing about the world's plastic problem.
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well rescuers are still struggling to get to parts of an indonesian island to assess the full extent of damage from an earthquake night has fallen on lombok island and many arms lie in ruins after sunday's six point nine earthquake the second in a week the death toll is officially ninety eight but that's expected to rise step vasant is there with the latest. from under the rubble of a mosque women's voices could still be heard three hours after the earthquake struck the disaster happened during prayer and the mosque was full neighbors but women screaming but had no equipment to rescue them when rescue workers arrived twenty hours later this creaming had stopped. i'm sure people are still trapped here some of them we managed to pull out but they died a few hours later. islanders on loan book the still recovering from last week's
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powerful earthquake and the even bigger trauma happened many were too late to make it to safety as buildings collapsed around them the mother i'm hospital was also severely damaged so the injured had to be treated outdoors so we got nine was going to pray and the mosque gate collapsed on top of him. and what we need us tens we have received some help from the government but we need more tense to be able to treat our patients. it's peak to a season and nearly three thousand visitors were regulated from the gillie islands near lombok tourist panicked on the three small flat islands when a tsunami warning was issued some were injured trying to reach safety concluding a spanish tourist who fell from a tree most tourists want to leave as soon as possible we decided to leave the island but either in iran or don't know or same with others what you should do or not say there and i just want to get away from lombok and get out of indonesia
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really. did tsunami warning was quickly lifted but the quake damage will take a lot longer to repair in just a few minutes this two story mosque collapsed into rubble people in long block remain in shock after the second earthquake in a week left many homeless while help is on the way search and rescue workers are struggling with the extent of the damage. have you quitman needed to rescue or recover trapped worshippers has yet to arrive at the mosque some say they've heard weak cries from under the rubble but it may be too late step fasten al-jazeera. number. of students have been protesting for a ninth day in bangladesh despite government promises to look at their road safety concerns buses were running again around the capital but at east west university and the police and groups armed with wooden battens attacked students activists say the groups are linked to the government riot police also use tear gas to disperse
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crowds in the capital security laws been imposed so police can arrest people in a group of more than four protests began last week after the deaths of two students who were hit by a speeding bus tanveer choudhry is lifeless in the capital so terry what is the latest there. the city is quite normal but very very tense we have reports from. where this two major private university students tried to come out in the early evening to protest against the other students who were attacked on university in another part of the city there were. the protesters were stopped by the police there were fired by tear gas as well and rubber bullets at least can from forty students or injured in that attack and this has been come from by local media as well as our source this is
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another development and also in the dhaka university later in the often are earlier in the afternoon rather students tried to come out of the university to protest they were dispersed by the riot police that want incident on east west university was quite violent because it was not only the police who chased them there were unknown elements within the police ranks who had stakes and other machetes and weapons who chased the student into the campus we don't know who these people are but it was quite a violent event which is why the other student and other university wanted to protest obviously this situation is getting quite out of control in this university because they're likely to be more protests and then other news dr shah either lalanne who gave an interview with al jazeera i was a prominent photo journalist he's been produced and doctored code and he's been charged under section fifty seven of information communication. spreading propaganda and fabricated story against the government he's been taken on a seven day remand which means he'll be under detective custody on the internet
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geisha and now we saw some video of him taken to the court he was visibly limping two people had to hold him we don't know why it's not the case but that's what the video we saw in different parts of the place that was posted in social media the debate is taken into the social media because the mainstream media aren't able to cover the protests because they're filled frightened to go into this protest because they're targeted by certain elements within those ranks in front of the police so most of the people are looking for news in the social media as well as videos and other items in the social media things looks to become but it is quite volatile and tense superficially commie five to put it that way tanveer thank you. donald trump's economic squeeze on iran is about to be stepped up we're expecting details from the u.s. president in the next few hours of new sanctions and those being reimposed a u.s.
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secretary of state my plan payors says they're part of their efforts against what he calls iran's malign activity it's been ninety days since trump formally withdrew from the iran nuclear deal the sanctions are likely to weaken the iranian reale they will also block iran from getting u.s. dollars the u.s. will seize imports from iran including food cars and carpets sanctions will also limit iran's ability to buy raw materials like steel coal along with precious metals and then in another ninety days that's the start of november more sanctions will kick in they'll include measures specifically targeting the oil sector as well as foreign banks that do business with iran and the european union says it is sticking to the twenty fifteen a nuclear deal with iran it says it deeply regrets the u.s. re imposing sanctions iran's foreign minister says it will overcome the economic
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measures and won't change its regional policies from tehran zain basra the reports . on july fourteenth two thousand and fifteen america and iran made history with the help of germany france china and russia the decades long signed a 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 election campaign promise. today is the day that marked a starting point for a new mood 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
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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 chanced death to america to gain access to the most deadly weapons on 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
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personal animosity and an effort by the trumpet ministration to reaffirm america's traditional relationship with saudi arabia if the europeans present iran with the mccann isn't needed 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. in respect of the u.s. sanctions then the nuclear deal will work and not see tensions escalate and 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 trump himself donald trump says he's
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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 . a saudi arabia has kicked canada's ambassador after the country in a roué of human rights it's also frozen all new trade investment and educational ties with the saudis are accusing canada's government of interference for urging the release from prison of civil society and women's rights activists the united arab emirates and behind have backed the saudi stand whole cheder jan has more. candid is a bastard saudi arabia is on his way home to saudi say dennis for act is no longer welcome and they're accusing the canadian government of interfering in the kingdom's internal affairs as well as spreading misinformation at. the
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saudi ministry of foreign affairs has expressed disbelief by this negative a phone dot com which was not based on any accurate or true information the diplomatic dispute was triggered by the canadian embassy in riyadh tweeting its concern about the arrest of civil society and women's rights activists including some are with the tweets urges saudi authorities to release them women's suffrage political activists some are but he was honored in two thousand and twelve by then u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and first lady michelle obama but though he was jailed after suing the kingdom for the right to choose her own husband. her third. brother rice but we was sentenced to ten years and one thousand lashes in two thousand and fourteen for insulting islam through a blogging website for public debate others arrested by saudi police have pressed for the rights of women and the rights of shia muslim minority another woman was taken into custody because she's married to an islamic law scholar is absolutely
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ridiculous that the saudi authorities can and the one hand come through with some some limited reforms like the left and the driving bad but on the other hand arrest a very same woman who helped to bring about this reform since may. ok we've seen more than a dozen women's rights activists of arrested in what is an unprecedented black crackdown the kingdom has just allowed women to drive for the first time and to attend sporting events and cinemas have opened after being banned saudi arabia is a major trading partner supplying ten percent of canadian crude oil imports canada listed saudi arabia as the second largest buyer of canadian arms after the us the two countries signed a twelve billion dollar arms deal four years ago china that was through. or can't stand on their army and also the f.b.i. is the source of revenue for a number of universities thousands of. comments and
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universities are very educational critics say canada's allies must help in taking a stand to pressure the kingdom to stop its crackdown on activists calling for change paul chunder ji on al-jazeera said ahead on al-jazeera how mexico's new president is proposing to deal with the drug gangs. more on call to improve the lives of range of muslims stuck in huge camps. welcome back as we look at the weather across central southern parts of china and across towards taiwan we've got some rain across some central areas and that's likely to develop during the course of choose day but really for the east coast from shanghai down to hong kong history looking fine still plenty of showers across
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northern parts of vietnam into laos miramar looks very wet yangon once again seeing a lot of heavy rain and then as we head on through into wednesday not a great deal of change still very wet all around the bay of bengal region and those heavy showers pushing across eastern states of india and bangladesh across the rest of the region well we've got a lot of heavy rain across northern areas at the moment monsoon is looking pretty active at the moment so getting some pretty decent showers across some of the eastern states of india and i say more northern areas too so as you look at the forecast that's where the bulk of the brain is this circulation close to kolkata we've got some rain down through the western ghats further north we could well see some storms effect in delhi on choose day and those expect to continue into wednesday with a chance of some flooding over in pakistan some showers likely in northern areas here in the arabian peninsula feral amounts of cloud but otherwise fine conditions forty three as a high in doha and then as you head on through into wednesday still temperatures
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here expect to be reaching forty two. once considered a war criminal now an aspiring presidential candidate in the democratic republic of congo. after his conviction was overturned by the international criminal court in the hague john pierre bemba told challenges they're. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's world. witness on al-jazeera.
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again you're watching a minder of our top stories rescue teams are struggling to get to many parts of the indonesian island of lombok that's after the second earthquake in a week destroyed homes and buildings lombok was hit by a magnitude six point nine quake on sunday night at least ninety eight people have been killed. she lives in bangladesh are protesting for a ninth day despite a government promise to improve road safety police and groups armed with wooden battens attack students in the capital dhaka protests began last week when two students were hit by a speeding bus. donald trump squeeze on iran is about to be intensified new sanctions are due to be announced by the white house the european union says it deeply regrets the reimposition of u.s. sanctions and is sticking to the twenty fifteen nuclear deal. since the saudi led coalition backed by the us started fighting in yemen twenty fifteen it's claimed
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a number of victories an a.p. exclusive investigation says they managed to drive from their strongholds without firing a shot and that's because the coalition made secret deals with al qaida report also says some were paid to leave key cities and towns others left with their weapons a large sums of seized money the a.p. report says hundreds of al qaeda fighters were invited to join the coalition the backs government forces fighting the iran allied who tease the report was written with help from a grant from the pulitzer center on crisis reporting based on reporting in yemen in interviews with security officers military commanders and four members of al qaeda we spoke to about our shabana yemen political analyst he says there's more to what's happening in yemen with al qaeda than we understand. one of the issues is that the pieces overt simplify it is a little bit of a more complicated more complicated situation. for tribal communities and local
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communities it is not a bad idea to reach local deal because that prevents the town city from from being destroyed or you know a living in a living in and you know kill or kill conflicts so wherever whenever there are that's possible they will try to encourage actually reaching these kind of these kind of but it's not. as simple as just there were. happening behind closed doors and they're happening all over the all over the country outside itself have assassinated and committed suicide attacks against government officials and the military officials who are backed by the south in an audition so it's a little bit more complicated than that and i would just add that the associated press mentioned a sermon has been held to celebrate a new law aimed at ending forty years of fighting in the southern philippines
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president reagan to tear to a house in new regional government leads to lasting peace on mindanao island where he's from fighting killed at least one hundred thousand filipinos government troops battled muslim rebels demanding autonomy the bangladeshi government is being urged to quickly improve conditions for a hinge a muslim is in what's become the world's biggest refugee camp human rights watch is warning of disease violence flooding and landslides in hugely of crowded camps in cox's bazar around three quarters of a million ranger are in temporary shelters there after escaping the m.r.i. and last year's military offensive against them. but the bangladeshi government says it is struggling to handle the influx influx of refugees it's preparing to relocate one hundred thousand of them to an uninhabited island which only formed twenty years ago fortification and housing is being built on a bus and charter in the bay of bengal but human rights watch says the island regularly floods and would also become
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a de facto detention center instead it is calling for the government to register people as refugees and move them to areas near the current camps the researchers highlight six areas in cox's bazar which is says a less vulnerable to landslides flooding and storms there people could get better access to shelter and education they say or will frolic is director of the refugee rights division of human rights watch he says pressure needs to continue to force me and ma to carry out reforms and give rights to the ranger. here and now i mean there is a real risk of people dying in landslides there's a real risk of cyclonic and certain simply the monsoon rains and selves on this the topography that we're talking about these these steep inclines people that i've spoken to living in huts that that their neighbors have already washed away and they're sitting there right on the precipice people do need to be evacuated
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they need to be brought even within the mega camp itself to safer locations and they certainly their work environment there's actually valiant efforts to try to shore up the conditions in the camp but the bangladesh authorities have insisted that the campus temporary and that the solution is repatriation to my own mar while we agree in principle and the refugees themselves also on the right of return the immediate concern is preventing people from suffering and preventing loss of life here and now let's worry about repatriation as time goes on putting pressure on my own mar to fundamentally reform to allow refugees to go home but in the meantime. there even though it may have the look of permanency to build proper schools and have proper education on the children shouldn't be left with no education and essentially that's what's happening now and the flimsy dwellings that they're
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living in that that can be washed away if by high winds and storms need to be shored up as well they need hard sheltered areas that can protect them and cyclons as well. presidential plans being proposed in mexico to stop the drugs gang war president elect. adore thinks young mexicans can be persuaded to avoid a life of crime aiming to help me as a former cocaine addict and drugs gang member who's been elected to congress john heilemann went to san luis potosi to meet him the new local congressman from san luis mexico to meet his constituents he's unlike any politician they've seen before a child will burn the street kids just like them make good. for some petty nicknamed the me he's is a blueprint for the incoming government on how they can rescue young people drawn to crime he's bullies a patchwork of tattoos and knife cuts product of
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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 should be ok 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 saw 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 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 a dream start just like i wanted to be and 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
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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 his reform he says he's received threats and was even briefly kidnapped but he says he can't let down those in the city's goings now his approach chimes with the incoming president and those men will look good or good tools they should why plans beilenson mexico's 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 other options controversially that includes an amnesty for some low level going members only he supports that and so far his base seems to follow him but they have a warning. when you see
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a 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 luis potosi opposition parties in cambodia are contesting last month's landslide election when the ruling party led by veteran prime minister hun sen won all twenty one hundred twenty five seats one party is demanding a new election another's father complaint with the constitutional council the main opposition party was dissolved by the government last year thousands of voters spoiled their ballot papers in protest of what many countries condemned as a sham two trucks have collided on a motorway near balon your airport in northern italy causing a bridge to collapse and injuring dozens an explosion from the accident caused
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a fire to spread to a car park below local media says several other vehicles caught fire police say they've closed off the road and the surrounding area. a forest fires are the new threat in a part of portugal popular with tourists it began on saturday in the hilly area of the southern algar which is already facing a heat wave hundreds of firefighters are also battling flames in an area near portugal's border with spain a less than half of all plastic bottles used in the united kingdom get recycled the mare of london has decided to try to tackle the issue by introducing a fountains and refill stations around the capital catherine stansell reports. london may have been the city that pioneered the public drinking fountain but its popularity has dried up since this one was built in eight hundred fifty nine. only
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a handful of water fountains exist in the capital today as more people reach for bottled water to quench their thirst now with the growing threat of plastics to the environment london wants to bring a new generation of water fountain to the british public. earlier this year mayor sidique khan announced a pilot scheme of twenty water stations to be built it's part of a nearly one million dollar project to reduce plastic waste in london over the next three years they're being installed in shopping districts and commuter hubs and if they prove successful the project may expand the scope for expanding the extent of a ability of water for londoners is huge we need to make sure that people have access to water and then not having to pay for it but the of the of the benefit that would come would actually be in reducing congestion if you move water in pipes then rather than in plastic bottles that have to be transported by lorry you reduce the
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number of lorries on the road you reduce the road danger and you make your city streets into healthier and better places to be every minute one million plastic drinking bottles are bought around the world in britain more than seven and a half billion single use water bottles are used every year london is the biggest consumer and the worst for recycling the average adult buys one hundred seventy five plastic water bottles a year less than half are recycled many of them end up here in britain's waterways the small team of volunteers is working with the charity thames twenty one they're part of thousands of people who help clean and monitor the rubbish that flows through the river each year thames twenty one says about ten percent of the rubbish they collect here is plastic half of that a single use plastic bottles like this one and just a few months ago volunteers here in london collected more than four thousand single use bottles in just one day. the charity hopes the new fountains will make
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a difference one of the reasons that people choose because their access to drinking water on their own about the drinking fountain fund is going to fund twenty new fountains that's a great start we certainly want to move but we're very hopeful that people will start to use them and hopeful that more people will think of the environment and turn on the taps instead of turning to the bottle cap and. london. this is going to round up of our top stories indonesian rescue teams are struggling to reach many parts of damaged by a second major earthquake in a week at least ninety eight people are known to have been killed on the island as homes and buildings collapsed heavy equipment being rushed in to help anyone trapped under the rubble hospital was severely damaged forcing doctors to treat the injured outside it's peak season for tourists many are queuing to catch ferries to
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nearby bali step vasant has more in a 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. a lot of shops like this one there's a shop as well a lot of houses people are homeless but they're now 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 have been protesting for a nice day in bangladesh despite government promises to look at their road safety concerns buses were running again around the capital but east west university police and groups armed with wooden battens attack students a security laws been imposed so police can arrest people in a group of more than four. donald trump's economic squeeze on iran is about to be stepped up with expecting details from the u.s.
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president in the next few hours new sanctions and those being reimposed u.s. secretary of state mike pompei all says they're part of efforts against what he calls iran's malign activity ceremonies being held to celebrate a new law aimed at ending forty years of fighting in the southern philippines president rodriguez hopes the new regional government leads to lasting peace on mindanao island where he is from two trucks have collided on a motorway nearby airport in northern italy causing a bridge to collapse and injuring dozens the blast from the accident caused the fire to spread to a car parked below does the headlines talk next. 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 who's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. the only limit here is to do. you know hope
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of finally laying the past to rest and giving peace to the victims' families if i could just find if i could bury him bone hunter on al-jazeera. you. will. see. the landmark conviction of. crimes and crimes against humanity by the international criminal court in the hague has now been overturned and mr bevan can not criminally responsible under article twenty eight for the crimes committed by storing the car operation. the former rebel leader and vice president of the democratic republic of congo has spent nearly a decade behind.
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