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in the low interest rates over here is that what was the behind it originally or i mean interest rates is one aspect but also strong growth for equity investors interest rates for fixed income investors so yes in emerging markets tend to prefer it when times are good they tend to perform better than developed markets but when things turn more challenging us as they are at the moment because of global liquidity conditions then then it becomes more difficult and those markets suffer so tell me about the threats from the one two to boycott us are trying to where do you see this for to into what's looking like a kind of global trade war and then with various terrorist being levied at various points for two different countries yes and it won't be and present one has characterized the situation as a economic war in terms of the global trade war really. is very much a sideshow the big thing to worry about is the trade tensions between the u.s. and china that's not to say that turkey couldn't have knock on effects on say for
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example the european banking sector which is quite exposed to to to turkey and so on the on the going to regional thing that sparked off the problem with with turkey between the spat between the u.s. and turkey if they're not a result of the the andrew brunson past issue and and the sanctions are then removed do you think that's. to a degree will solve the problems with turkey or do you think turkey is in and more more difficulty than that would suggest i mean the degree yes i mean the big risk for investors at the moment it is that they could be much more severe u.s. sanctions perhaps threatening the entire turkish banking sector so this is what investors are concerned about so if they were to resolve the situation by for example releasing andrew bronson then that would take that threat off the table and that would resolve the immediate problem but there are still risks from they and they and they do need to to address the week earlier and the current account deficit that they have that is making the economy very vulnerable to external conditions generally and. you mentioned in passing the exposure of some of the
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european countries to the to the turkey problem what kind of things can europe do if it does want to shore up turkey and does it want to. not at that stage yet. if we if we do get a situation where the turkish banking sector is sanctioned by the us and we get failures of turkish banks then it may be in the extreme case that he goes to the european union to ask for financial help but i would stress absolutely that we're not at that point yet and we fully expect expect the u.s. and turkey to come to some arrangement that will take the threat of sanctions off the table john harrison thank you very much indeed for your expertise and so we thank you thank you for watching the news hour from london still ahead. story. anger outside an australian court as the highest ranking catholic priest to be convicted of covering up sex abuse avoids jail. flash flooding in the northern
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philippines forces fifty thousand people from their homes. tyson here is enjoying the spotlight again and has some choice words for the heavyweight boxing champion of the world details in sport. a roadside bomb attack is targeted a provincial governor in yemen ties governor mahmood survived the blast in aden province several others were injured attacks and shootings have been escalating in the province in recent days ramadan has more from djibouti. gov i mean muhammad was a tunning from a citizen of mit things with official source president of the roman suhag this government which has base itself in the other and since two thousand and fifteen he escaped with minor injuries but some of his security guards aids was said to have been killed in the us hog losses rushed to the scene and security forces were
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quickly deployed to that in my neighborhood of them where the talk or car group claimed responsibility for the local officials are blaming. there's been an increase in the number of roadside bombings and drive by shootings in of them in percent month something official say signifies an uptick you know. in the city. five year opinion countries have agreed to take in one hundred forty one migrants on board the mediterranean rescue ship the aquarius as a result malta has agreed to allow the ship to dock it ends a four day standoff in which spain tunisia and malta at all refused to ship entry arguing that it should instead be taken to libya tunisia all the nearby island of lampedusa migrants will go to france germany luxemburg portugal and spain the course in turkey has freed two greek soldiers detained on spying charges turkey has held them since march alleging they entered the country illegally and attempted
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military espionage gree says the soldiers crossed into turkey by mistake or following the trail of suspected illegal migrants the cases fuel tensions between the two neighbors nato allies. lawyers for u.s. president donald trump's former campaign manager a finished their case in his fraud trial without calling any witnesses pomona forty is accused of tax evasion and lying to obtain bank loans the charges aren't related to his time with the trump campaign the case was brought by special counsel robert miller who is investigating possible collusion with russia during trump's presidential run. police in london are treating a car crash outside the british parliament as a terror incident three people were injured when a man drove through a group of cyclists and pedestrians before crashing into security barriers a security minister says the suspect is a twenty nine year old foreign born british citizen but he says searching three properties in central england mostly reports. the palace of westminster is
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a sleepy place in august as the politicians are on holiday here during rush hour this was the scene as heavily armed police swooped on a car which had apparently been driven deliberately into the crash barriers surrounding the parliament the force of the collision clearly seemed to have crumpled the whole front of the small it's only occupant showing no resistance as officers calmly took him out and led him away the question is who is he and what was his motivation in my life and it was deliberate it was and it was no over you know for sure if he if it was a direct hit this video taken from on high some distance away shows the car seeming to drive normally before swerving violently across the road and then veering again through the security barriers and coming to a stop to police officers had to jump clear to avoid being his. as he crossed lanes an accelerated to point his car parliament the driver plowed through
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a group of cyclists at least one was injured though not seriously. by now the full security apparatus agree there were no weapons in the car but the incident was soon treated as a terrorist related the driver's refusing to answer questions from the police and they didn't know anything about him a priority now is to formally establish the identity of the suspect and establish his motivation if we can. he is not currently cooperating with the morning wore on it became clear there was no further threats though the government's full counterterrorism unit met to discuss what they didn't know about the man if the aim of this was to repeat last year's attack on westminster bridge that it was more or less a complete failure but if the point was to prove that it is still possible to hit an emblematic targets by the houses of parliament then clearly it succeeded space was of the same time not a major incident but something that the security services are taking very serious.
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the indeed. of course through strong reasons for the security services to be worried last year a car attack on westminster killed six people including a police officer and injured fifty what this was isn't yet clear but it is at least a reminder the no security can protect everything lawrence lee al-jazeera london around one hundred cars have been set alight in sweden in what police say was an organized night of vandalism masked gangs torched the cars in towns and cities across the country police in gothenburg were the most and that highest number of cars were burnt say they've arrested several you know arrests have been made but sweden's prime minister has vowed to punish those responsible. so they're also a beef about mug i am furious that the question has to be asked of those people what the heck you doing who do you think you are you destroy the whole area for the neighbors for the children on their way to preschool that have to see these cars
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burned this is completely unacceptable. a ceremony has been taking place in sierra leone to remember the victims of a devastating mudslide that killed more than a thousand people a year ago today the victims died after torrential rains sent modern rocks hurtling down a mountain on the outskirts of the capital freetown surrounding villages were crushed with more than three thousand people losing their homes the government has been criticized for not doing enough to rehabs them and idris was at the ceremony in freetown. a few hundred. to commemorate the. more than one thousand two hundred. just a few hundred metres from where we. are now the situation is such that the emotions are still people cry for. people who
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don't see the problem of not giving the problem was a decent burial actually calling out for the government to at least move the debris and examine those bodies to be given a decent burial as soon as they can now we've met a lady who was married only seven months before the disaster struck she lost her husband and sixteen members of one speak to including the u.n. special representative one issue that came out is that. of the environment that you see the sensitivity of these disasters we've also spoken to environmental is to say that the way the environment and resources i've been. there is another disaster waiting to happen so for the time being the focus now of these people is how to move on in life which is very difficult some have not have the closure they needed and so they are looking up to the government to give them the
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chance to grow and move on with their lives thirty nine people have died in flooding in the southern indian state of care and the region is bracing for more rain during one of its worst monsoon seasons in a century more than half of the fourteen districts in the state are on high alert and thirty four thousand people have been moved to a nice camps. i mean rains and flash floods in the philippines have forced more than fifty thousand people from their homes at least three people have died in the country's northern islands imran khan reports. slowly picking through the rubble to recover what's left of their lives the mary keenan river burst its banks at the weekend leaving behind huge mounds of garbage and sludge. disaster management officials that in just eight hours the river rose from sixteen to twenty one meters . just shy of the record of twenty three meters nine years ago when seven hundred people were killed this car mechanic is trying to rescue his tools. all our
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belongings were washed away including the supplies and everything is destroyed now all that is left are good for nothing just scrap metal and here we are trying to clean them up his case is typical of the region's poorest who are living day to day before the floods and their struggle even more officials are asking the international community for help they want to strengthen and build up their flood control infrastructure. or waltz in we are in our. networks and as the typhoon season continues america in the city and other low lying parts of the philippines are bracing for more flooding in wrong card which is of. the most senior catholic priest to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse has avoided jail australian former archbishop phillip wilson will serve as twelve month sentence at his sister's house which is angered abuse victims. reports from sydney. side story williams i thought not only did he dodge jail time but
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philip wilson evaded pleas for an apology to abuse survivors one word of contrition philip will you cite story somebody in the catholic church so i sorry to put what million others we is the contrition from archbishop former archbishop wilson he's grace as somebody just sit ups these has shown no grice on the sword in a sylph about this the former archbishop of adelaide was convicted in may of failing to report a child sex abuse by a priest of two altar boys in the one nine hundred seventy s. he's the highest ranking roman catholic official convicted of such a crime but resigned from his post last month following intense pressure from political leaders including the prime minister feeling actually quite happy it's a custody since it has been handed down. and he begins the sentence today. in world news he's the most senior cleric to have been found guilty sentenced and
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start the sense of the court decided wilson will serve out his sentence at his sister's house due to a range of health issues including heart disease victims and campaign is say the law needs to be tougher on those who conceal child sex abuse head of falls get to do their highnesses act because people are the can sail or ignore what they do this is totally unacceptable it's a betrayal of the victims of the trial of the community and it's of the trial about children of the future because if the lackluster laws of the present are going to be used again in the future then the results of the past are going to be the results of the future wilson intends to appeal his conviction but this case is being seen as a landmark decision with broad ramifications for the church it sends a message that the church is accountable and can hide behind canon all the confessional seal to escape reporting crimes like this yarber mohammed al jazeera
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sydney. five days into. the treasure. hunt. hello again we began our forecast in the levant and western parts of asia where the weather picture is looking pretty settled at the moment much as you'd expect fine conditions for toronto thirty six back that up at forty three so a bit of a fairly brisk wind given the risk of some lifted dust otherwise we've got fine conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean and as we head on through
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into thursday is also fine across the caucasus recent days we've seen the threat of showers there but they've all gone so fine conditions across the bulk of this region so let's move on to the rhodian potential here weather conditions looking fairly quite low forty's across the western side of the peninsula for medina and mecca but a hot one here in doha with the wind still fairly brisk in the humidity nice and low so forty four degrees is better than you might think so head on through into thursday again a forty four degree max from here in qatar elsewhere the risk of a few shows down through the mountains of saudi arabia into yemen something to watch out for that could be some flooding in santa heading down into southern portions of africa weather conditions here are looking much as expected a bit of cloud around from a weak frontal system but basically it's sunshine all the way across the region we're looking at temperatures of fifteen there in cape town was ahead on through into thursday not much change expected it should be a fine one in johannesburg with a high of twenty three. they
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world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. your mind at the top stories. dozens have been killed in a highway bridge collapse in the italian city of genoa many others were injured when the bridge came down during heavy rain sending vehicles plunging around one hundred meters to the ground. president. has announced a boycott of american and tronic products in retaliation for what he says is an economic attack on his country the turkish lira has for more than forty five percent against the u.s. dollar this year. police in london a cheating a crash outside the british parliament as
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a terror incident the twenty nine year old man. speeds into barriers outside the houses of parliament injuring three people. afghans living in the embattled city of girls nia running out of food and water after five days of fierce fighting between the taliban and government forces at least four hundred people have died in the fighting charlotte better supports. residents of gaza a flee from afghanistan's new frontline in the war between the taliban and the military. and the taliban was stationed at the building inside gaza in the city near the office of the provincial reconstruction team and government forces were firing mortars towards the end of the mortars were hitting the residential houses. the assault started with a taliban attack on the police headquarters early friday morning over five days it is morphed into a city under siege a well stocked taliban against the afghan military which has us is support two
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hundred seventy thousand people shelter in their homes running out of food and water without power or communications. rather significant the government is not able to transfer the dead bodies some of them have swollen up i want the government to transfer the dead and move the injured to a safer place. the people of gaza me a largely on there are in the un has no presence in the city the main hospital is overwhelmed and running out of supplies the red cross is ferrying fuel body bags and bandages to its doctors our focus have been the local hospital as well as as of today we had also trying to help to to get their view to our colleagues strong via the constant red crescent to collect. bodies and to transport them back to their families the taliban post victories on the twitter account of chick points of iran and soldiers killed on monday the military deployed one thousand more troops to gaza and. the government is defiant that it's still under their control with every
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day comes a new declaration of victory but. it the other with the measures that have been taken by the government i can say with courage that within twenty four hours there will be a remarkable change to the situation in gaza a province of the horrible. but another day has come in gaza nice people report nor change others. in diminishing russians of food and water both sides are entrenched disparate to are in the city. is just one hundred fifty kilometers from kabul lies on the motorway connecting the capital to southern afghanistan it's a high value assets with thousands of afghans trucked in size dallas. it's five years today since hundreds of people were killed by security forces in egypt's capital cairo the group was protesting in rubber square against the military coup which deposed the democratically elected president mohamed morsi human rights watch describes it as one of the world's largest killings of
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demonstrators in a single day in recent history but has spent three ports. wizened and your city and warms the voice from egypt's ministry of interior. everyone wants to avoid any bloodshed. but by now hundreds of people had already been killed by the country's security forces as they moved in and the last of the major protests by supporters of president mohamed morsi he'd been deposed in a military coup. for forty seven days they'd occupied a square outside rob. rob someone from can kill us just secured ours just to kill our president is more soup. for legitimacy this is only going to fuel that's why not healing because. this is this is moot. this is mostly
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you know are they out and they are not in the war. most of the protesters had little to defend themselves with the security forces said that some of them were probably big trouble yes yes look look. everyone in the square including journalists covering the protest came under a hail of apparently indiscriminate gun find this was a team from al-jazeera was five years later more than seven hundred people arrested at rabaa a standing trial together the cases of seventy five of them have been referred to egypt's top religious authority to decide whether they should be sentenced to death . among those on trial as photo journalist mahmoud known a shower he was arrested for taking pictures of the security forces as they broke up the protest. god willing the trial is fair with no injustice he's
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a man who's been wronged at the end of the day journalism isn't an insult or a crime. more than a thousand people were likely killed on august fourteenth two thousand and thirteen that's according to human rights watch. no one from the egyptian security forces has ever been charged with any offenses relating to the massacre. al-jazeera . the palestinian postal service is sorting through ten tons of letters and packages that have been released by israel are to be held back for eighteen years and apostles have been prevented from entering the occupied west bank from jordan but have now been released by israeli officials palestine signed a postal delivery deal with jordan and israel two years ago but israel haven't yet implemented the dream and the chinese and hong kong governments have criticised a leading media club for hosting a speech by an independent activist and the chan who's the leader of
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a political party that's now under threat of being banned says he's chasing the dream of democracy bride as more. protest by probe aging supporters outside hong kong's foreign correspondents club the tough you know their anger aimed at the man speaking inside and de chan leads a small political party advocating independence from china leading to accusations that he's threatening national security due to the nature of how the chinese propaganda machine works the national party was instantly demonized as some sort of extremist group due to the single word independence in reality what the national party is chasing now is no different from what many homeowners wish for the dream of democracy. although he says he's not guilty of any crime the police have recommended his party be banned if that happens he says it sets
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a precedent for stifling all debate about independence of those a very dangerous idea because they came accuse of you people in a restaurant to discuss about independence they say you have the potential to form a party and you have the potential to threaten their national security so we're going to arrest you right now to take preventive measures. chan is from a new generation of activists which has grown out of the so-called umbrella movement four years ago that occupied the streets of hong kong demanding greater autonomy hong kong's then leaders see why learn with the target for their anger and his attacks on the foreign correspondents club along with other probe aging figures for allowing chan's lunchtime appearance has stirred up the protests i mean you know you might you ask me the f.c.c. should leave hong kong of course maybe even arrest them. which chinese would love
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our country why are you separating us from china. it's led to fears of this issue being used in a why do attack on press freedom they seem to be signaling the people to have the air beijing that they really would like to be much more like the chinese mainland where there are controls and more journalists can do what journalists can say and indeed where they can operate for beijing and its supporters the word independence has become a red line that shouldn't be crossed the fear for pro-democracy groups here is that a future the war may officially banned even mention of it and so rolling back ever further the freedoms enjoyed by hong kong people rob mcbride al-jazeera uncaught. well in response johnny chan's speech hong kong's government says press freedom is not under threat but no discussion of the city's independence should be allowed. it's a constitutional responsibility to protect so you've got the national sovereignty
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territory integrity and national security of the people. in hong kong it's a failure. of the people's republic of china so the. independence of. any discussion. can paintings. of pushing forward the nationalism it depends on. the u.s. state of nebraska has carried out its first execution in more than twenty years using a controversial combination of drugs with a lethal injection kerry d.-ma convicted of killing two men in nine hundred seventy nine the opioid fenton it was part of a four drug combination that's never been used in executions in the u.s. a german company that makes two of the drugs tried to sue nebraska saying it lied to get the drugs because the company doesn't sell to prisons but israel and
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prosecutors say they've arrested two high ranking military officers for an alleged attack on president nicolas maduro he was addressing a rally in caracas last week when two explosive laden drones blew up overhead dura has blamed opposition politicians and the u.s. and neighboring colombia for the attack fourteen others have already been arrested . ten women have been killed by a fire in a nursing home in chile and the three women were rescued from the women's dormitory where the fire broke out in the middle of the night witnesses reported hearing an explosion the regional governor said stafford checked the home ten minutes before and found nothing unusual. and these twenty four people have died and another nineteen were injured in a bus crash near the ecuadorian capital quito the colombian registered bus was traveling along a road known as the dead man's curve when it hit another vehicle at high speed most of the passengers were colombian but
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a few that israel is were also i'm bored. cuba is planning its most significant political change in more than forty years and the government says it wants as many members of the public to be involved as possible thousands of community meetings being held people to share their thoughts on a new draft constitution. reports. their work day is done at this hospital and have an hour but the staff can't go home yet. they're staying on to discuss the proposed changes to the cuban constitution thousands of these government organized meetings are taking place across the island over the next three months. it's the most comprehensive change to the country's constitution in over forty years we're going to look at me i'm here to fulfill my revolutionary duty i haven't read the full project but i think it's all great. last month cuba's national assembly approved the draft constitution after several days of televised
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debate. the main changes proposed establishing term limits on the presidency was lamenting the communist party as the sole governing body on the island benefiting. the process will help strengthen the unity of all cubans around the revolution. but cuba's legislators had to make concessions to reflect an evolving society and to try to ensure a more sustainable economy for the first time since the castro led revolution to power the proposed magna carta recognizes private property long considered an enemy of a socialist society. same sex marriage has also been proposed perhaps the most visible of social issues to feature in the constitutional draft the government is encouraging cubans to repossess document in detail it's made available for sale at newsstands all across the island and to take part in the public meetings about it the leadership here says these meetings are emblematic of the country's democratic
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process while critics of course dismiss the entire exercise. that's the point. the problem they say is that the government is only affecting changes to benefit themselves not ordinary people but for a society that has barely experienced any constitutional change since the soviet era many analysts argue that even small changes matter. cuba is changing and the constitution is part of that change it won't make the change go faster. the constitution is not about the change it won't project everything people want to know will it give everything that they expect. the process from here is a painstaking one officials are expected to take down the british commons and send them back to the assembly. cuban's will then vote on a final document in a referendum early next year julia galliano al jazeera. colombia's government is blocking treasure hunters from salvaging what they're calling the
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holy grail of shipwrecks the spanish san jose site more than three hundred years ago and is said to be carrying billions of dollars in gold and precious stones. reports. stories of ship wrecks and sunken treasure have long captivated the imagination. but perhaps no wreck has fascinated underwater archaeologists treasure hunters quite like the sun who say. attacked by britain's royal navy in seventeen zero weight during a battle off the coast of gaza hanna colombia all but seven members of her crew went down with the ship. unfortunately the san jose was too heavy to maneuver itself against the attack and was sunk by the british where. three years ago former colombian president juan manuel santos announced his government had found the fabled galleon. with the aid of an manned submersibles three d. man.
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