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he used to heckling in national assemblies often. but imran khan really wanted to state what he's going to do in two salient points that i think he wants to bring out a for transparency is to have a twice monthly prime minister's question time which rarely happens in the national assembly and he's also throwing the gauntlet down to the opposition groups saying if you think we rigged the election we'll actually cooperate with you in any inquiry. out. but he also had a very stern warning saying that they will be very strict and punitive accountability and he said that there would be no national reconciliation ordinance or role now on that can be remembered. was in charge of that dictator he made a deal with the pakistan people's party. on muslim league now watch whereby
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these people had all their corruption. taken away and they were allowed to contest the elections there were rumors that by have this time around again there would be some sort of a settlement embryon brushing that aside all the opposition that he had stayed there for months in front of parliament and their opposition had an appetite for that even support them and it worked for them if they were able to do that for a month so emraan khan very strong on accountability he was caring for it to allow for bringing him to this pollution i knew thirty would deliver on the promise that this country has been waiting for for the past seventy. of course he's also been very clear on the funny that he has no history he or his family in politics and yet he said that the only man that he ever looked up to in politics was the founder of
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pakistan muhammad ali jinnah the independence leader but that he has taken a shot across the bows in the speech as well kemal by saying that he would bring back every penny that's been stolen from the country and he will bring those that have stolen it to book this is a shot across the bow is a big warning call for those leaders and politicians who might be wondering whether the national accountability bureau will be knocking on the door on monday morning. absolutely in fact today they were going interesting development. a court order the rest of. the husband of. the needed prime minister to the important party leader of the pakistan people's party today they were. water. money. to the tune of thirty five billion rupees so there are indeed very important cases there are estimates there
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are hundreds of billions of dollars have been stolen from pakistan and invested in property. thing that they will bring every penny bag but it is going to be a difficult. other challenge. he has to get the economy to improve relations with afghanistan which he would do he always. said that he would improve relations with india so many challenges then of course to him promising unity. that many of the political party heads from the opposition parties would now be watered about for. you know probes by the national income debility as you mentioned. certainly his inauguration on saturday pakistan's twenty second prime minister thank you carol. now the indian state of
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carola faces an extremely grave crisis that's according to its chief minister as monsoon rains battered the region more than three hundred people have been killed this month the damage has been described as the worst enormous a century but it smith has the latest. hundreds of soldiers have been sent to caroline to lead the rescue effort. thousands of people are stranded across the southern indian state at least two hundred twenty thousand people have sought refuge in relief camps. hundreds of homes have been swallowed by floodwater. north and central carola have been worst hit by the floods but the entire state is on red alert as heavy rain is predicted for several days in view of a fresh spell of flood inundating and there are vast areas. we have deployed our forces over there in seven districts. the government says ten thousand kilometers
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of perilous roads have been destroyed. the international airport is flooded and have been temporarily closed. monsoon rains are a fact of life in india but these are the heaviest since one hundred twenty four millions of dollars worth of crops have been washed away. indian prime minister narendra modi says he's praying for the safety and well being of the people of calorie burn it's made. the region run is editor in chief of the news minute dot com she joins us via skype from three saw in the state of good to have you with us just tell us what you've seen right now and how bad the situation is when i'm actually. pretty which is one of the past if they could in here like. there are hundreds of standard across not so. much a part of me as such that there are. in many places maybe lines night even.
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well we seem to have lost or. not. yes we do seem to have lost richard or you can imagine that with the to wrench will reign of the club and whether their communications also. will try to get in touch with you again later in the day let's. cross over to turkey now where a talk which occurred has rejected an appeal from the u.s. past the center of a dispute with washington's anchor is refusing to release andrew bronson who is being accused of espionage and terror related activities not a spat with the u.s. has been accompanied by a weakening of turkey's currency although the lira has a steadied itself in recent days the u.s. has suggested further sanctions could be placed on its nato let's get the very latest from guy hugo who's this of course these ongoing arguments are continuing it's deteriorating the relationship between washington d.c.
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and ankara there's just no letter present at the moment so you. that's right somehow it also seems that both sides are firmly entrenched in their own views and certainly that is causing this worsening of this crisis and initially starting out as a diplomatic one and certainly spiralling into a financial one as well but the heart of it is really for the us is the detention under house arrest of the american past. and he's been in house arrest for nearly two years at his home in is near his lawyer had said on friday that although the upper court the high court in is mere had in effect held up the decision of the lower court not to release him from house arrest they will try to appeal again and perhaps consider another appeal to the constitutional court as well and of course with mr trump having championing this cause as well it also really does appeal to
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his own base within the evangelical movement in the states as well so in a sense it is paying off without and for turkey it is also a reminder that they also have other allies in the world as well and has said that if the u.s. says commenting on remarks made by mr trump that turkey had not been a very good friend the turkish foreign minister said this week that perhaps the u.s. does not know who its friends are in the world. and of course speculation over the currency has been put down it's studied for the moment so we the major markets will be looking forward to the week and certainly those in turkey. well indeed and of course not forgetting that it's the start of the holiday as well so there has been very much a drive to try and get as much stability into the markets as possible but already on friday there has been a wavering in the value of the lira has devalued by some five percent just on
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friday as as well an indication that really there is still jitters surrounding this issue was well that certainly many observers wanted to see a resolution to the diplomatic issue as well but also wanted to see some more concrete measures taken by the turkish government the turkish financial ministers said that the banks could withstand this current crisis a but all the saying that perhaps what is needed is a rare is a rise in interest rates and certainly there is another bit of news perhaps that turkey is bracing itself for at the end of the day at the credit ratings agency standard and poor's will deliver a review on rating and there is a fear that it may be downgraded today. let's take you straight over to guards there were hundreds of palestinians have gathered again at the guards at israel's border demanding the right to return and
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the lifting of the israeli siege of the guards and we've seen similar scenes like this since march every friday gazans going to that border to confront israeli security personnel and to demand their rights to return to their traditional homelands that they were expelled from over six decades ago generations of gazans many injured many thousands also injured over this past four five months charles stratford is following events for us at that garza israel border area what are the size of the crowds charles the pictures we're seeing is there's quite a large number of people who've gathered for yet another friday of demonstrations. that's right sale this is one of what we understand of five locations along the border where there are ongoing protests the latest figures we're hearing from the
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ministry of health is at least thirty people injured we heard earlier today the mosques calling people to come and attend and participate in these protests as you say is the twenty first week that these protests have happened along this border how my says this is very much a legitimate what it describes as a peaceful means of protesting interestingly in the weeks or in the days in the run up to today we have seen far less of those incendiary kites and incendiary balloons that israel says has destroyed thousands of hectares of private land and crops across the border we've seen a couple of cards here launched today but as i say the build up to today has been relatively speaking very quiet and of course we saw on wednesday that israel reopened the only commercial crossing with israel a car. crossing and also extended to the area of the restricted the very restricted area in which a fisherman can operate so there are hopes that certainly despite these protests
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going on that neither side see this or or anything that could happen in the hours ahead as being a provocation one hopes that we don't see another escalation of violence i'm sure you have to concede the pictures that we can at the moment charles you just saw one individual being taken on a stretcher lots more smoke. certainly at the fence of course ambulances that are as well in great numbers to take any of the injured to hospital of course there has been a huge amount of behind the scenes diplomatic activity to try and make sure that well maybe fewer people get injured and as you say there are less old no kites burning kites being launched from the guards inside of that border this is what's creating not tension between the palestinians and the israelis. that's right i can hear now what sounds to be live fire aiming at
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a target i can't see exactly where but yes we have and you say i mean only ten fifteen minutes ago there was a man standing on a couple hundred yards away from here who seem to think was shot in the leg was taken away by an ambulance but certainly this week there has he say been a flurry of diplomatic activity both the u.n. and egypt very much at the forefront of trying to mediate between israel and hamas to try and forge some sort of lasting truce we understand there's a hamas delegation along with other faction delegations in cairo at the moment and interestingly there has been some leaks certainly being reported in the israeli media that some sort of agreement seems to have been put together this hasn't been confirmed by hamas it certainly hasn't been confirmed by israel but those he's writing reports pertaining to a potential cease fire a long term cease fire and as i say reported that it may also involve a cease fire holds the rebuilding of some of gaza destroyed infrastructure using
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foreign funding and a focus on the talks all potentially a prisoner exchange but as i say it's very difficult to at the moment and hamas in israel denying that any such agreement exists also which was reported in the arab media earlier this week which certainly seems to be fairly solid multiple sources saying that the egyptian head of security came over to israel for talks here in israel as well so yeah all evidence suggesting that there is this big push these big efforts to try and get some lasting cease fire some last intrusive between hamas and israel believe it charles and allow you to monitor the day as it progresses from gaza thank you. well still ahead here on out sarah concerns grow over its knees aging infrastructure following the general bridge collapse and. it's time to get tangled in an international festival celebrating the south
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american towns in france and argentina. hello again we're here cross parts of central asia we did watch a lot of trouble activity over the last couple days with the binka really kind of stationary and erratic as we began the week but now the system has moved over here towards vietnam we are going to sing that system weekend but still some very heavy rain could be expected as it makes its way across parts of thailand and then back over into the bamberg also we're going to watch that very carefully but also we're going to see those temperatures here across hong kong starting to warm up a little bit thirty three degrees for you and more rain is going to be in your forecast and speaking of rain unfortunately here across southwestern parts of india down towards carroll estate it has been quite excessive over the last couple of
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days well over five hundred millimeters of rain have fallen in some of those locations in just forty eight hours and the forecast looks like we're going to be seeing more rain anywhere from carola all have to go that is going to be the trend from saturday as well as into sunday and then over here towards parts of the middle east we are looking at some very warm conditions across doha but we are looking at drier conditions winds are coming out of the northwest we do expect to see a temperature on saturday of about forty four degrees those temperatures coming down to about forty two degrees as we go towards sunday but a little bit more still be here towards that thirty nine. travel often. by tranquil boards and local forests may provide global. folks if only. by icons landmarks valleys and scotland's. live for adventure. discover good jobs
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because faraway places close to the fish going places together with cats i always. ok mike you're watching al-jazeera i was the whole rabbit a reminder of our top stories more than three hundred people have been killed in the southern indian state of carola as monsoon rains battered the region the state chief minister says the situation is extremely grave the damage has been described as the worst in almost a century and pakistan's parliament has endorsed him run karna as the next prime
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minister his three kids are party became the largest in the national assembly after an election last month but some of the opposition disputed card is expected to be officially sworn in on saturday. palestinians are protesting at the gaza israel fence as part of the march of return weekly mass demonstrations now they're demanding to return to their ancestral homes at least one hundred fifty nine palestinians have been killed in border protests in past months while israeli military have used live ammunition. russian and turkish defense ministers are meeting in moscow to discuss the plight of syria's refugees now millions have been forced from their homes since the war began many in our flee one of the last opposition strongholds ahead of a planned offensive by government forces there taking refuge camps near the turkish border. has more from at inside syria near the border with turkey.
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this is the marketplace of a refugee camp in northern syria by syria turkey border the camp which is one of the oldest in the al bing began in syria post more than eight hundred fifty thousand syrian refugees those refugees this place maybe once maybe a couple of times says the sunni are rising and the bashar assad regime's assaults began and many people here feel stuck because as the first as the syrian regime president bashar assad's threatens to touch it these people say i'm nowhere else to go because this was the ultimate point by the border that they could reach and now you see the stars you see the shops and people are trying to make a living to these friday the shops are falling apart but when you speak with them all they are those because they made up any of the sold out by the syrian
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regime. the rescue workers are still digging through the rubble in general and have to tuesday's bridge collapse at least thirty eight people were killed and hundreds more injured now the government is now focusing its attention on its aging bridges and tunnels some of them more than forty years old. let's be now to economise gustavo. robot via skype he's a professor at the university of rome door fed a cotton excuse my italian pronunciation. i could tell you with al-jazeera let's just begin with the fact that the announcement that thousands of bridges and infrastructure projects are now going to be investigated what does that actually tell us about the way that italy has handled the policing of its infrastructure. i don't see any basically tells us that it took an accident of this dimension so many unfortunate victims to reorganise been opened at least ten years ago both the quality of public investment and of quantity of public investment in one
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of the most important western countries in the. last word so let it go now let's discuss and let's see what kind of issues we need to deal with to take care of our infrastructure of course italy like many other countries across europe has gone through a pretty severe all stalwart austerity. this bridge collapse must be ringing bells with capital cities not just maybe in europe but other parts of the world thinking you know we've been cost cutting and trying to save money is it affecting our infrastructure. well there's two issues here it's like you know it's like a fine know. how much water comes out of the fun no difference on how much water you put into it i.e. no resources you do it but also the dimension of the stern you know the capacity to use this money properly so there is no doubt there is no doubt that since two thousand and eight the contours that have suffered from austerity policies have
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decided where the cuts was to be public investment and this is because obviously the lobby and the lobbyist for investment for future generations now are not there to be represented in parliament and so if you look at the data everything has to be put in it will thousand and two thousand and fifteen i'm just make the case for publicly investment for one client degree's the racially g.d.p. from three percent to two percent having said this it's true that now you refute paraded on public investment size and one of the key issue you made is does he have sufficient capacity in terms of procurement skills of its workforce in the public i mean especially to use that money quickly and well and that is another open to be sure that it says that you don't only need the money to look public investment you need the money to pay very well spent e.g.
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people that have some sort of these are you're going to past fifteen years into it and probably got a nice vision of both. procurement vendors and to check. during the life of the contractor you're in contact management i'm sure they will be some of the many questions that will be a will have to be answered in any future inquiry for the moment just of a piece of the forest thanks very much for joining us. from rome. thousands of people have been paying tribute to the former indian prime minister. he's been cremated in new delhi he was the first prime minister from the hindu nationalists b.g.p. launched by was considered a consensus builder and successfully lead a coalition with multiple smaller parties to try to improve relations with pakistan but at the same time asserted india's nuclear power status by ordering tests and china for senior officials including a provincial deputy governor have been dismissed over a defective vaccines program one hundred eighty eight thousand children in shandong
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province are being given the injections which contained what the government called substandard medicine adrian brown has more from beijing. of the four officials who've been dismissed one is the deputy head of the organization responsible for regulating the drug industry here in china as well as the deputy governor of jilin province these dismissals were confirmed in a report in the people's daily overnight the people's daily is the newspaper of record here in china it said that the state council which is a body headed by president xi jinping had met to discuss the case and this was the result president xi jinping it seems has been playing an active role in the fallout of the scandal which appears to be widening now this all began back in july when it was revealed that the chunk chunk biotechnology company had been falsifying production records it produced vaccines which were then given to children these are vaccines which are not dangerous they simply ineffective in effect useless so now
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you have thousands upon thousands of parents in china still not sure still not convinced they can trust the industry which provides vaccines for their children there really is a trust deficit in this area at the moment and a lot of anger in the streets when you speak to people about the scandal they say how can we trust our vaccine industry and of course foreign vaccines simply aren't available in china so people here in china have no option but to use the locally produced ones now we know also that some five hundred thousand ineffective vaccines were produced that's double the figure the government gave a month ago and that one hundred eighty eight thousand of these vaccines were administered to children we know also that fifteen officials from the company at the center of the scandal are still under investigation including its chairwoman.
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we've been in the poll are denouncing a bill they say would make them second class citizens if passed the proposal would make it much harder for single mothers abandoned women by the husbands on victims of rape surpass on the nepali citizenship to the children to be the shuster has moved in katmandu. was the man i think that the define the state recognizes them as equal citizens though there is a hill i mean i did they said in the parliament right now which i don't want to start with and. the identity. of the citizen i want to for that should be god how do i do it to say that the woman doesn't rule the identity of the father i know i don't trust the sites i like those. i would have to say that when i don't know it was. not true that the father of the
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child who's on the far side of the law. women should know it was not i that i was like oh yeah i forgot that i was that i was. going to be. possible to stop your child there are now saying why is there child that that we were not. second class was off this cultural shift that i think it was. for the next two weeks a dancing spectacular will color the auction time couple by design raise the tango was born in the city way back in the late nineteenth century now the international tango festival and world cup attracts stones and competitors from around the world treated by reports. it is the dance and music of when a scientist. and for two weeks the festival and world cup energizes the argentine capital.
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traveled from colombia to compete last year they came in third place this time they're hoping to make it to the top of the news in the summer school helps me express what i feel is the most complete dumbs and the most beautiful is the anything obama's best at all us in the it's an arch that helps you express what you're feeling if you're angry or sad happy or in love you can express everything in a stance. this is the world's most important tango competition almost seven hundred couples competing to win the cup it is here in the neighborhood of our tangle was born it is the place where the first born of one a side is was no ok good when thousands of immigrants arrive here in search of a better life and that's why many say that tango is full of sorrel because it expresses the feelings of those who had to leave everything behind in their home countries and the hardships they faced when they arrived. and they won the new one
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is the instrument at the heart of the sound of tangle first crafted for religious services in the one nine hundred century germany it is now in tune with dangle. has been playing it since he was a child and now it helps him make a living. as a coach and how but in the beginning it was persecuted because of the way it was danced or what the songs meant a powerful opponents like the epic lost the catholic church on the military but slowly is what its place and now it is all it. says this time of the year is a period that held argentines pay tribute to the dance. that has come to represent the moment they brought it is a historic moment because it's the time when we see how tango is nurturing itself is opening up mixes with other musical cultures but we always look back to historical references to continue to teach us and to keep us on the right path.
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a path that has come a long way since daniel was born but there continues to amaze arjen times and foreigners alike. it is hell when i say to. your children here i'm still wrong these are our top news stories more than three hundred people are being killed in the southern indian state of carola as monsoon rains batter the region the state chief minister says the situation is extremely grave the damage has been described as the worst in almost a century and pakistan's parliament has endorsed him run karna as the next prime minister his the wrekin staff party became the largest in the national assembly after an election last month that some in the opposition dispute it is expected to be officially sworn in on saturday. and ballast indians are protesting at the garza
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israel fence as part of the march of return a weekly mass demonstration where they're demanding to return to their ancestral homelands at least one hundred fifty nine palestinians have been killed at the border protests in the past few months where israeli military have used live ammunition. a turkish court has rejected an appeal from the u.s. pastor at the center of a dispute with washington ankara is refusing to release andrew broads and he's being accused of espionage and terror related activities the spat with the u.s. has been accompanied by a weakening of turkey's currency or though the lira has steadied in recent days the u.s. has suggested further sanctions could be placed on its nato ally. rescue workers are still digging through the rubble in jeddah work to tuesday's bridge plant surtees thirty eight people were killed and hundreds more injured the government is now focusing its attention on its aging bridges and tunnels some of which are more than forty years old thousands of people have been pain tribute to the former
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indian prime minister atal bihari vajpayee by he has been cremated in new delhi he was the first prime minister from the hindu nationalist b.g.p. by he was considered a consensus builder and successfully lead a coalition with multiple smaller parties the un has invited yemen's warring factions to attend talks in geneva of september the sixth the officially recognized any government has been fighting who the rebels for more than three years tens of thousands of people have been killed in the three year conflict those were the headlines we're back with more news in half an hour stay with us here on al-jazeera is that story is next as protests in nicaragua against the president continue and the number of those killed rises. someone says. they have to question his goal of a reality that usually gets a little blunt. here america's ortega's former vice president told al-jazeera.
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