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since many are seeing this as the attorney general drawing a line in the sand between himself and the president and it remains to be seen what action if any the president will take finally on this day of much intrigue and breaking news surrounding the white house the wall street journal was reporting that david packer a longtime friend of donald trump and the publisher of the national enquirer has made a deal with federal prosecutors that implicates trump in the pay off of two women who claim that they had sexual relationships with trump to buy their silence. break here in al-jazeera when we come back the u.n. urges south american countries to ease travel restrictions for venezuelans fleeing a worsening economic crisis and a day to sit court for ugandan musician turned politician but he won some charge of the goat but the case against him is far from a state. from
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briskness and fuel. to the war in trying cool to this of southeast asia. hello there it's mostly dry and fine force across the middle east at the moment in the northern part of our map though we do still have a little bit more in the way of clouds we've seen a few showers recently from the black sea across towards the caspian sea we can expect a few more showers here over the next few days as well another place where we're likely to see one or two showers on friday is around marty but i think as we head into saturday a better chance of a dry one for the south is just hot for most of us now including for us in baghdad where our temperatures will be getting to around forty six degrees before the towards the south and here in doha the temperatures will be slowly creeping up as we head through the next few days so a maximum temperature of around forty but feeling a bit sticky as we head through friday saturday perhaps a little bit dry so the temperatures will be allowed to get higher but then they'll drop again as we head into sunday because sunday will be very humid and that
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humidity is going to stick with us over the next few days at least for the south more cloud here around parts of oman and that could just give us one or two showers around the coast as we head down towards the southern parts of africa plenty of sunshine here for most of us but there is a bit more cloud around the east coast that could just give us one or two showers and if we head into saturday that is away but we do have some rain working towards cape town. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. and nine hundred seventy eight. disappeared after boarding a plane to libya. for over thirty s. his disappearance remain trapped deep in mystery. but after colonel gadhafi his downfall in two thousand and eleven new evidence came to light. al-jazeera world investigates the case of the vanished.
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part of a quick recap of the top stories here the south australia's treasurer scott morrison has been chosen to be the next prime minister after a vote of m.p.'s in the ruling liberal party he's replaced malcolm turnbull with in the job for less than three years turnbull had survived a leadership challenge as recently as tuesday. iranian backed the rebels in yemen say twenty six people including women and children have been killed in an air strike say saudi and erotic coalition jets struck a camp for internally displaced people in her data province the u.a.e. has accused rebels of knowledge of missiles from the area. and the us president
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says there would be an economic meltdown but he was removed from office trump was responding to speculation about his potential impeachment following the prosecution of two former top aides his longtime personal lawyer michael cohen has implicated a break in campaign finance rules. that the u.n. has called on latin american countries to ease travel restrictions on thousands of people fleeing venezuela's deepening economic and political crisis comes up the neighboring. in peru announced time to enter requirements with on its way and need to show a valid passport of border crossings marianna sanchez has more from the peru ecuador border. but there are many venice wells arriving much more than the days before of course because of this restriction that will be in place on saturday were they will need a passport to get into thousands of venezuelans do not have passports it's very difficult a very costly to get them in venezuela so they are rushing to this border of the video has had an open border policy for venice will and there are nearly or nearly
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four hundred thousand in israel and already living in pay too. many are also coming the number has increased because the ecuadorian authorities are as transporting many buses for free so they can get across it well or staring tory all the way to this border crossing in pay to the question will be what will happen to two thousands of innocents who do not have a passport when they get here they won't be able to go back to as well because it will have the same restrictions the benefit of having to hold a passport to be able to go in so there is a big question for a peruvian authorities and for international organizations as to what will they be able to do to help these business will love who are on their way to do right now police in argentina have carried out raids of homes owned by the former president cristina it's part of an investigation into widespread corruption involving former
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government ministers and top businessmen corruption offices all following leads from a notebook alleged to contain details of bribes the notes were taken by ministers show. ugandan musician turned politician bobby weiner has been charged with treason one was rearrested just minutes after being freed by a military court where he'd been accused of inciting his supporters to attack a convoy carrying the president you were in a seventy catherine sawyer reports from kampala. this is the man many ugandans had been wanting to see you wind up popular musician and member of parliament appeared as a military court in the north end town of looking weak and in pain he had been in military cassidy's since last wednesday he was arrested following violence in local election campaigns in the north after president yoweri in the seventies mottaki it was attacked the state withdrew the military related charges of possession of firearms and ammunition. set free i live on how to judge just.
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it was an emotional moment for wine but he was not really free in the chair that i use to enter and they're arresting him now he was immediately taken to a magistrate's court where he was charged with treason with intent to move harm to the passing of the president of the republic or uganda i don't know fully. understand moved towards them. and smile she. the real when screwed over the prison. in kampala the government deployed police and soldiers in some parts of the city that i've seen as hot spots including where we are right now trying to prevent people from gathering or trying to get to their town fantastic you forces also blocked several opposition politicians from leaving them. opposition leader who has been
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arrested and detained often over the years was a game taken by police he had talked to the media cutting off their new people cutting off forty million people. so people whatever the they must rule what can we do what the heart of the magistrate in order to that wind gets argent medical care and that doctors be allowed and he needed access to him he will remain in cassidy until the end of the month when he appears in court the thirty two others are also charged with treason. although why would he support his in. the winter and tell us from katherine sawyer. zimbabwe's highest court is set to rule on an appeal taken by the opposition against the result of last month's presidential election m.d.c. alliance leader nelson chamisa says the vote was rigged in favor of the president
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the zanu p.f. leader's inauguration has been postponed until the court delivers its verdict. south africa has rejected a tweet by the u.s. president on land reform calling it narrow and divisive on twitter donald trump said the land is being seized from white farmers and that he doest his secretary of state to examine the policy well the south african government some of the most senior american diplomat in the country to discuss the controversy in washington reporters pressed trump administration officials on the issue. the president asked the secretary to look closely at the current state of action in south africa related to land reform this is something that has been going on for many decades the conversation and debate about land reform there i should mention that the expropriation of land without compensation our position is that that would risk sending south africa down the wrong path we continue to encourage a peaceful and transparent public debate about what we consider to be a very important issue in south africa and certainly do as well for me that has
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more. the debate around landed spoke relation without compensation is a very emotive one here in south africa the government says it supports the exploitation of land without paying for it as part of its land reform program but white farmers in particular say it will kill the agricultural sector and harm the country's economy and the economy now they say they are better ways of including landless black people in the agricultural sector and in that way empowering them and we spoke to a farmer earlier who's attending this land summit in bella bella in the limpopo province who says while farmers understand that injustices of the past have led to the vast majority of farming land being in the hands of the white minority the government has to reconsider its stance i think at the moment the uncertainty that that's in this whole discussion really really makes us feel threatened because you don't know we we're going to be in the year star so we certainly creates
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uncertainty i think in the past two weeks we've got some clarity from government government government surely come out also to this learned by to go and give some assurance on what they planning to do how they are farmers who say this is an opportunity for the government to boost the economy and give rural communities a chance to participate i think but the issue of land expropriation is an issue that's been coming a long way in the struggle for liberation in south africa it's therefore an emotive issue and an economic issue is really a struggle about economic freedom in the liberties of people to live and work where they wish to as the government grapples with details of just how it will go about expropriating land for the fuse been added to the fire following a tweet by us president donald trump saying learned is being seized from white farmers now the government says trump's tweet is offensive and crude and it will
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deal with this through diplomatic channels and its relationship with the us remains intact despite some in accuracies in that tweet as of african governments now has to do some damage control. meanwhile the leader of the south africa's influential far left economic freedom fighters party has warned donald trump to stay out of the country's domestic affairs julius malema has a controversial history of arguing for land seizures from white farmers one we remain and say good actually we are not deter mind after the donald but i'm trying . to explore prieto island without compensation there is no why did you know this idea is an absolute rubbish. to say that is why it is you know there is blood you know side in the usa they're killing black people in the us. there is blood you know third year in south africa black people are being killed all the time
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government have killed six soldiers the checkpoint east of the libyan capital tripoli two others were seriously wounded in the attack between the towns of lieutenant homs reports say one of the gunman was killed so ten security chief has been die so now in london there's been demonstrations outside saudi arabia's embassy it's marking one hundred days since women's rights defenders were detained in the country three of them are to be tried in a counterterrorism court they were at the forefront of the campaign for the right to drive. a british iranian woman who's been to jail in iran for two years has been temporarily released garri ratcliffe supporters publish photos of her being reunited with her daughter she's been given three days of freedom the charity worker was arrested in april twenty sixth teen accused of plotting to overthrow iran's government. frankly every day that she is in prison is a reminder to the whole world of a gross injustice so we call on the iranian authorities to capsulize on the good
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will from today's announcement by going the whole way and releasing nason and allowing her to go back to family come back to you k. which is home is and then they started calling it justice but these two hundred fifty migrants are stuck on a coast guard ship after being refused entry to italy the country's far right interior minister says those onboard are illegal immigrants. being he has sworn he won't allow them to set foot on italian soil he wants other e.u. countries to take them and. nearly a million people remain displaced in the indian state of carol they're struggling with the aftermath of the worst floods in a century many are now questioning whether the disaster could have been avoided down to tom's reports from the beach town of cover lump sum up blaming overdevelopment and the mismanagement of reservoirs. hundreds of people have died more than a million fled their homes but how that troll was carolyn's disaster the quantity
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of rain it was unprecedented two and a half times the normal figure for office so far but environmentalists say properly managed its land and rivers would have absorbed it and channeled it to the sea over development in flood plains is to blame left but. claiming that even as an wetlands for other uses that is one of them a good thing which i agree we did this to do it another way the flood plains in the form of paddy was on about plants what are they going to accommodate on morsels of water. the floods were made worse a environmentalist by quantities of plastic rubbish clocking rivers stopping them flowing faster instead the rivers burst their banks but even with those issues the floods say some could have been avoided aside from the long term impact of environmental mismanagement and pollution there is another way that some here are seeing this as a manmade disaster they're blaming those who manage the dams and reservoirs carola
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has fifty three large reservoirs where the collective capacity of nearly seven trillion liters of water they are managed primarily for hydro electricity production and irrigation for farmers many operators are reluctant to let the water go when it's not needed so they were near capacity before the worst of the rain fell when it did the water had to be suddenly released to stop dam walls breaking people think infrastructure is a security against flood but more of the flood waters did not come from the rain they come from the release of their dams never happened before if we know too much rain is coming dams should releasing water as gently and not impounding the last drop and then flooding people's out of their homes it's likely no one factor caused carolus flooding but human activity and inactivity see. to have made it worse andrew thomas al-jazeera kabul m. a south korean appeals court has lengthen the prison sentence to be served by the former president park geun hye after
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prosecution appealed a sentence has been increased by twelve months to twenty five years in april souls' high court found her guilty of several corruption charges including bribery. now hundreds of young people in chicago are taking part in the annual basketball tournament known as hoops in the hood the event aims to get young people to come together and promote peace in one of the most violent cities in the u.s. john henry went to take a look. this is hoops in the hood it's a basketball tournament but it's also a statement about safe neighborhoods in america's most violent major cities each year about five thousand children participate they get together and with the help of the city they block off streets in violence hotspots across chicago and they play and these are violent streets last year thirty five hundred people were shot and more than six hundred of them killed in the city of chicago many of strada was a member of one of chicago's violent gangs now he's a coach we do have an issue of violence in our neighborhood and i think basketball
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and sports is just one way we can get kids to kind of do something other than look like i'm forcing this happening with someone in some of our neighborhoods this is the end of the morning rush hour so normally the streets would be choked with cars but instead four hundred kids from twenty different neighborhoods are here to determine who are the champions of chicago and they come from neighborhoods with names like englewood austin and back of the yards the most violent neighborhoods in chicago and they've come together for a championship but they've also come together to find common ground and when it comes to finding that common ground those we've talked to say. they're nailing it. our time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera australia's treasurer scott morrison has been chosen to be the next prime minister offer a vote of m.p.'s in the ruling liberal party he's replaced malcolm turnbull has been in the job for less than three years turnbull had survived leadership
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challenge as recently as tuesday. it is been a challenging time to be prime minister but i'm very proud of our record i'm very proud of my government ministers record in achievement so i want to thank them i want to thank all my colleagues i want to thank my stuff. a saudi led coalition air strike in yemen so data province has killed at least twenty six civilians including women and children who the media says they were killed near a camp for internally displaced people the united arab emirates says rebels were launching missiles from the area. the us president says there would be an economic meltdown if he was removed from office trump was responding to speculation about his potential impeachment for the prosecution of two former top aides his longtime personal lawyer michael cohen has implicated him in breaking campaign finance laws . i don't know how you can impeach somebody who's done
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a great job. i'll tell you what if i ever got impeached i think the market would crash i think everybody would be very poor. because without this thinking you would see if you would see numbers that you wouldn't believe the u.n. has urged latin american countries to ease travel restrictions on thousands of people fleeing venezuela's deepening economic and political crisis comes off to neighboring ecuador and peru announce tighter entry requirements of venezuelans they'll now need to show a valid passport and border crossings in ecuador alone more than four thousand venezuelans are arriving each day south africa has rejected a tweet by donald trump on land reform calling it narrow and divisive the us president ordered a study into farm sieges and what he called the large scale killing of farmers citing a report on fox news and ugandan opposition leader bobby wyman has been charged with treason he was rearrested moments after a military court threw out weapons charges against him wines initial detention last
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week spot widespread protests well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after my cuba station thanks for watching. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current events that matter to al-jazeera. missing.
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