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and for you. it's an incredible deal it's an incredible deals of both parties most the u.s. and mexico agree to overhaul the nafta trade deal but canada is yet to sign off on that. and you're watching all of these are live from london also coming up. genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes the u.n. says me and my military chief should be prosecuted for genocide against their will and rakhine state. thousands of far right protesters teenager rally in germany
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opted deadly knife attack allegedly by syria and then iraq. high level talks are taking place in ethiopia on the multi-billion dollar grad renaissance dam project that's upsetting egypt. so the united states and mexico have agreed to overhaul the north american free trade agreements known as snuff. discussions focus on new rules for the automotive industry that was a central issue for president bush described not as a disaster for american workers canadian prime minister justin trudeau is now under pressure to agree to new terms so made part of the three nation pact and he has assured mexico's president of his commitment to the agreement. well negotiations have dragged on for more than a year threats by trying to ditch the one nine hundred ninety four accord of cost
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turbulence on the financial markets putting pressure on the mexican paso and the canadian dollar speaking from the oval office the us president praised the new deal our white house correspondent kimberly haokip has the details. frequently accusing the news media of not reporting on his accomplishments u.s. president donald trump brought reporters into the oval office oh to listen in real time to a phone call with mexico's president. where you morning thank you and congratulations together the two leaders jointly announce their breakthrough bilateral deal changing parts of the north american free trade agreement that trump says hurts us workers i like to call this deal the united states mexico trade agreement i think it's an elegant name i think nafta has a lot of bad connotations for the united states because it was a rip off by the now after agreement was signed twenty four years ago between the
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united states mexico and canada it saw many manufacturing jobs move south to mexico as a result where labor was cheaper one of the worst trade deals ever on the campaign trail trump promised to renegotiate nafta and bring back jobs particularly in the auto sector the new deal will require seventy five percent of an american car to be made in the united states from sixty two percent workers making those vehicles must also be paid a minimum sixteen dollars an hour but missing from this latest agreement is canada will start negotiating with canada irrevocably soon they want to start they want to negotiate very badly. relations between the two countries have been frosty since trump slapped tariffs on canadian steel and aluminum canada's foreign minister will travel to the u.s. this week to restart negotiations but it's not clear canada will agree to the
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changes the nafta changes still need to be approved by the u.s. congress follows weeks of negotiations between the united states and mexico their agreement now puts pressure on canada to remain a part of the pact kimberly helped at al-jazeera the white house rob reynolds is following events in washington d.c. so rob how much of a political win is this for president. well the president as you saw in kimberly's report there was it was calling it an incredible achievement and his allies in the conservative and right wing media including fox news or also heralding this of course again as hillary excuse me as as kimberly pointed out the campaign that trump launched in two thousand and sixteen was based in large part on the idea that the u.s. was being ripped off by various international multilateral trade deals he cancelled
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the. the the trans asia partnership shortly after coming into office and the in this sense he has fulfilled a major campaign promise and that's going to make his die hard supporters very happy on the other hand it's not clear whether they're going to be a flood of new jobs as a result of these of these these changes revisions in the terms with mexico because this is although jobs may return to parts of the manufacturing industry including the automotive industry that sector is much much smaller in the united states that it was in the one nine hundred ninety s. so in a return to the kind of glory days when there were millions and millions of people employed in making automobiles this is unlikely not only because the jobs fled the
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country but because those auto plants are largely automated now and that's robots doing the the work nevertheless. does have something to crow about something to celebrate and for the past several weeks he's had very little of that very little to celebrate indeed as we've been saying canada has yet to sign off on this if they don't well this work is a two way deal without them. well you know the mexicans would like to have canada very badly in the deal because mexico in the united states is a very lopsided power equation but mexico canada and the united states gives the other smaller countries more leverage against the industrial colossus of the united states the congress including members of trump's own republican party also very much want to get canada on board in that could create trouble big for
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a revised pact and in fact there could be some lawsuits as well so so can it is key here. rob reynolds live in washington d.c. for us thank you very much now that deal comes on the day that president trump how talks with his kenyan counterpart who are kenyatta the white house it's the second time trump has met a leader from sub-saharan africa since taking office after nigerian president mohamed do book visit in april of the leaders discuss trade and investment as well as strengthening security cooperation. u.n. investigators say he admires top military generals should be investigated and prosecuted for genocide against their were hidden general state and the report describes the targeted killing of thousands of her head as the disintegration of
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a community mohammed jam jim has this report from caucasus bazaar and one of the. the un says military commanders in me and more should be prosecuted for genocide against the real hinge or following their recent fact finding mission on me and more three investigators presented their report in geneva on monday. included among the findings that me and mars armed forces also known as the top of my down took actions that in the words of the un investigators undoubtedly amount to the greatest crimes under international law the mission has concluded that criminal investigation and prosecution is warranted focusing on the top to the door generals in relation to the three categories of crimes under international law genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes after attacks by rohinton gunmen in iraq and state a year ago government forces began
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a crackdown against the rohingya the un says reports of up to ten thousand killed are conservative estimate. around three quarters of a million of the muslim minority fled to neighboring bangladesh many live here include to belong camp the largest refugee settlement in the world. the report from un investigators includes accounts of numerous atrocities including gang rape in slave meant and the killing of children. there are hendra who are among the most persecuted minorities in the world have faced decades of persecution and sadly they've grown accustomed to the international community ignoring their flight reacting to the investigators findings rohinton rights activist who says she's cautiously optimistic but wants action it's been a year now since she fought back on the same international organizations have come here but we haven't seen any solutions all of us are henschel women have been wondering how much time we will have to live inside at refugee camp that's one of
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the reasons say many women went out to demonstration saturday. those large protests show they were him joe are growing tired of waiting for the world to act they mourned the first year anniversary of the beginning of the violence in iraq and state or is the real hinge of demonstrators called it genocide remembrance day as chairman of the hinges society for peace and human rights. has been working for months to document crimes against the rohinton he's not at all surprised by what the u.n. fact finding mission reported. the genocide against his has been going on systematically for thirty years and the world didn't know now the u.n. fact finding mission has a lot of the world to know with their work so we're hoping that this will be a lesson to the world so no other countries go through what we went through this is why we're working for justice he will less says there were hints that will continue to demand justice even though justice isn't likely to be delivered soon mohammed
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atta at the critical long refugee camp in cox's bazar bangladesh. simon adams is the executive director for the global center for the responsibility to protect and he says the u.n. now must follow up with the action i think it now puts a huge onus of responsibility on the un security council all the members of the security council to actually turn words into deeds because one year since those atrocities happened one year since what this report describes as genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes we have still not seen the u.n. security council do anything except issue one tersely worded statement about it so i think there's a huge onus of responsibility on them now to actually do something because something you report didn't mention was that earlier today facebook actually shut down a number of pages of myanmar generals because of incitement to hatred and because
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of their complicity in the genocide but so far facebook has done more than the un security council to actually hold perpetrators of these account of these atrocities accountable and that's just not good enough german chancellor angela merkel has warned vigilante justice will not be tolerated after farai protests broke out in the eastern city of commits hundreds took part in the rally but some reportedly kissing and attacking foreigners it follows the fatal stabbing of a man on sunday which local police have blamed on syria and iraq national tensions have been high since michael's government allowed a million asylum seekers to enter germany and twenty fifteen. egypt's foreign minister is in ethiopia for talks with the prime minister abbey appen this questions are expected to center on if the o.p.'s grand renaissance dam project on the river nile egypt is concerned the multi-billion dollar project could leave it vulnerable to water shortages. interests of egypt an ethiopian the way in which
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they see future projects as well as on going down projects and they are fundamentally different they still not been enough trust the stablished between both parties despite these all these years of talks for these talks actually to yield any meaningful outcome officially gyptian rhetoric has changed significantly over the last five years the stop these this talk of war the possibility of airstrikes against a damn sight which i think is a good thing and egypt is in no position to wage war would accomplish very very little so the only way you could return to negotiating table actually focus on the issues the better the problem as i said is that we've actually made very little progress on those talks themselves and the period it is going to take for the nile to for the reservoir to be to be filled and that remains a crucial issue because for ordinary egyptians farmers they need to know just how much water they will have every year and therefore which crops they can grow what good they can export it. coming out is there on crutches and out on bail pop star turned opposition politician bobby wine is released in uganda. know the reporting
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from the north hill carnival not just europe's largest street but civil but a crucial reminder of the culture of research by people of color appeared origin separatist society. however we've got a lot of dry weather now across much of australia little lively down towards the fos out west mind some cloud and rain starting to push its way and suppose could see a little bit of wet weather see go on through the next. low pressure across central parts of south australia but essentially it's a drying up picture here high pressure in charge over towards the southeast in conus a clearer skies coming in melbourne at around twelve degrees celsius is that right making its way into perth it will be rather heavy at times on shoes day we go on into wednesday starting to push through but the rain never really too far away
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elsewhere across those is fine and dry not see about it so temperatures edging up to fourteen celsius meld with a sixty percent nina twenty four in brisbane in the west or whether the rather more miserable weather is making its way towards new zealand the south and clouding over first course that will make its way across it could pass off south on much of western new zealand on tuesday seeing a fair bit of cloud and rain the winds picking up as well and that will sweep its way through as we go on through where the stay all clinton a northerly praise getting up to sixteen souses but a fair amount of rain around here fair amount of rain still continuing across the south korea whether also making its way into honshu and is still there for a good parts of wednesday. the struggle. between police look at it is pretty much what it's pretty much full of pleasure to look. out of the can listen to the impossible but i mean. it
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was be an intimate look at life in cuba today is what. people thought but the comment that you pay your money on al-jazeera. well again here's their mind our top story. the united states and mexico have agreed to overhaul the north america free trade agreements no that's not a canada has yet to sign off on the. united nations investigators say be in march top military general should be investigated and prosecuted for genocide against
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their will and they were kind state. and german the german chancellor angela merkel has warned vigilante justice will not be tolerated to far right protests broke out in the eastern city of kenya following the death of a german on sunday. high court judges in uganda have granted bail to pop star turned opposition politician bobby wine two weeks after he was detained and charged with treason he's accused of inciting supporters to attack a convoy carrying president you're very much of a me catherine so i has this report from the capital kampala. freedom for bobby wine twelve days after his arrest locked up by both the military and the police he accuses of. wine is charged with treason along with thirty two august after presidential werriwa seven is what a kid was stones during their recent local election campaign what song do you want to listen to during the course of the show well let us not many ugandan such as
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radio presenter james peterson have closely watched developments. he dedicated an hour off show to bobby white and his music it's been a big hit the young people are there my door eaten and most times they have sat back and said well you know politics is for the old for but right now the young people waking up and wanting to get involved in the future of this country ugandan politics have been controlled by presidential seventy who has ruled for thirty two years and that divided opposition led by keyes at best who was arrested recently for young people have with the greatest stake and the responsibility to reclaim with it on. and that's why you did the young people are standing up in many townships such as this one in the capital kampala where wind grew up it's all about his message. this is a song reason he produced by other musicians calling for his food on many gondolas
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who are struggling to make ends meet say that paul b. y. understands their problems he was raised in poverty in this township and he has what he had in his music and politics to get to where the families say that his popularity has transcended tribal differences and a lot of people in different parts of the country are talking about. why no posed a reason he passed you know ending the seventy five years old age limit for presidents the seventy to seventy four years old first america event that was the first one also led protests against attacks on social media. uses what is opinion as politics is that a face in logic and we say it's that person's problem so it's base it is revulsion . for fifteen years then comes behind. to be one of them. but what about me many ugandans say the treason charge is trumped up by the
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government to suppress dissent government officials say the politician incited people to violence uganda's next election is due in twenty twenty one the. popularity perhaps highlights how that election will shape up by winning the hearts and minds of young frustrated ugandans they're desperate for political change catching some of the al-jazeera kampala. french president emmanuel background says the european union must stop depending on the united states for its security in a speech setting out his diplomatic agenda across europe needed to have and to created a defense policy with a common budget it was a call for the to develop the trade and financial tools needed to fend off potential u.s. sanctions. for simply called the who visited a shitty cuba had been greater solidarity means we will have to look again at the structure of european defense and security by initiating a renewed dialogue on cyber security the chemical weapons conventional weapon race
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the territorial conflict space security the protection of the polar zones in particular with russia i want us to launch an exhaustive reflection if with all of our european partners i think that tasha butler has more from paris. him out omar can use this speech to the ambassadors to in a way promote his multilateral vision of the world and politics in the face of what he sees as rising nationalism and populism in terms of the european union he said that the union must try and strengthen its abilities in terms of security and defense and not be so reliant on the united states and the french president said he's going to come up with some plans and some proposals on this issue in the coming months months which will include things like consultations with other e.u. members and partners like russia he didn't give any more details but there is no doubt that perhaps this fits into our calls vision of the strengthened and reformed
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european union we know in the past you've spoken about the possibility of an e.u. military force it also comes at a time when donald trump a certain distance himself from his nato allies well the french president also had some words for him brags that he said the britain he hopes can come to an agreement with you can you by the end of the year. but he said any agreement must not compromise the integrity of the so personally the perfidious the pro european president really making his message very clear indeed that he intends to continue on his part to try and revive the blocks for. the united states it will vigorously defend itself against iran's legal challenge at the un's high court iran wants the international court of justice to suspend unilateral u.s. sanctions that were imposed three weeks ago following its withdrawal from the
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twenty fifteen new deal terror on accuses the u.s. of plotting its economic strangulation and says it may even take military action in the gulf to block other country's oil exports lauren flu has been following those proceedings from the hague. the iranian side spends its three hours of court time here on monday trying to do two things in front of the judges first of all to explain how very damaging the american sanctions were everything from issues to do with renewable energy projects aircraft parts car manufacturers who now couldn't invest in iran. sports going down the debasing of the iranian economy all of these things a direct result of the american sanctions program their lawyers said but at the same time trying to link that back to a nine hundred fifty five very obscure trade agreement sixty three years ago signed between the u.s. and iran a treaty of amity of friendship and a friendly behavior beside between the two countries and the iranians are saying
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that the sanctions regime has broken the treaty of amity the lead lawyer for the iranian side made it very clear that they had no choice but to come to this court because all other political and diplomatic avenues that simply fails trace the moment to a point to make greater. sense to settle for this view through the party demands did not succeed. iraq had no other choice but to seize the international court of justice with the present request. sixty two large because of the american side of course contest this entirely their legal team left without comment and they'll have their three hours here on tuesday their main argument is likely to be that the treaty that was signed when the u.s. and iran with friends sixty three years ago doesn't apply anymore because in the after nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution all the different sets american
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sanctions the floaty fifty five some it doesn't mean anything and anyway the americans are the biggest thing in their favor which is that even if in the end this court agrees with iran that decision might be binding but the u.s. doesn't actually have to go by what the court says so it's a good attempt i think by iran to try to get somewhere with this but ultimately likely to not be very successful the czech republic is the latest european country to face the fallout from an enduring drought and heat wave major river has dried up exposing hydrological landmarks which haven't been seen for hundreds of years but this comes as farmers and other european countries have their crops affected causing some to raise prices as i'm a big job and reports. an ominous message from the year sixteen sixteen the inscription reads when you see this. the boulders have reappeared in the river elbe which flows through the czech republic the czechs call them the hunger storms and
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the drying river has revealed dozens of them before you know what they said was in recent years some of them have been appearing every year that since two thousand and fifteen when we've had the dry conditions that we've had recently. some scientists are linking one of the hottest summers in europe and an extraordinary heat wave to climate change but the hunger storms are also remind of the drought isn't a new phenomenon. the german government is promising to compensate thousands of drop hit farmers either farmers in belgium britain france the netherlands hungary and poland are all having their fruit and vegetable production affected with prices expected to rise gunge religious figure does the one zero regarding a vegetation we've had a very difficult year severe conditions below average harvests in a lot of regions and failed harvests and to describe the situation at best we use this word given the fact the crop yield this year is fifty sixty seventy percent lower beyond continental europe record temperatures have also been recorded in both north and south america as well as the middle east and drought in australia means
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farmers are struggling to keep their cattle alive what i challenge is is to ensure that until it comes back that we do everything we can to ensure they families that these communities that these towns get from now until then. a recent study concluded that twenty first century droughts are the most extreme and severe with global average temperatures expected to rise by two degrees or more by the end of the century some fear there's worse to come some of a job out as there. hundreds of thousands of people have filled the streets in west london for europe's biggest cheat party that's the notting hill carnival now this event celebrates africa and culture and aims to promote tolerance that has taken on a special significance this year following the british government's wind rushed deportation scandal that in baba explains. it's no easy
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colorful and exuberant and hugely popular but as well as bringing visitors from around the world on to the streets of west london the nazi who come of all is a chance to celebrate the history of britain's caribbean population. this is seen a political scandal over how badly some of the so-called windrush generation and their descendants have been and are being treated seventy years on from the first arrivals arrival of more than four hundred headed to make them because of a hardening of home office rules hundreds have been deported or threatened with deportation others lost their jobs and their right to health care despite being longstanding british citizens but this year is also the sixtieth anniversary of the so-called race riots in notting hill when white youths went on the rampage attacking west indian immigrants and their property. and at this year's opening ceremony local children performed a song remembering past and present struggles and trying to celebrate the pioneers
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upon the food without him he would have conical carnival wheezy a unique a baby and his it's come about by the contribution of many people over many years so it's important we recognize as. well one of them is matthew's father clive who came to the u.k. from trinidad in one thousand nine hundred eighty one five years before carnival as we know it got going he says even some in his community was skeptical at the start i don't doubt people in london don't know that i was more or less it will trinidad get a good media and did talk well we model seventeen and he stayed about his school started it and then gradually people that put on course tools and it escalated from d.m. with the sound systems. and the different game. for years now carnival has been britain's main showcase for carrying culture not just music but everything from arts and crafts to food and it's taken
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a sustained fight to keep it in this area but for now it remains rooted in a particular place and a particular community. of course it's now a party that everyone is invited to but it's determined to hold on to its identity . we didn't go about al-jazeera going. away again here's another look at the main stories making news on al-jazeera the united states and mexico have agreed to overhaul the north american free trade agreement known as u.s. president donald trump says he's open to revising and renaming the deal the potential new united states mexico trade agreement excludes the third nafta partner canada this is something that's very special for our manufacturers and for our farmers from both countries for all of the people that work for justice it's also great trade it makes it
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a much more fair bill and do we are very very excited about it. u.n. investigators say me and marse top military general should be investigated and prosecuted for genocide against the ranger in rakhine state several army commanders are being named or are named as being responsible for the atrocities the u.n. says their cases should be referred to the international criminal court or tribunal german chancellor angela merkel has warned vigilante justice will not be tolerated after farai protests broke out in the eastern city of cabinet's scuffles broke out in the city after a german man was killed on sunday a syrian and an iraqi have been arrested on suspicion of murder egypt's foreign minister is in ethiopia for talks with their prime minister i'd be ahmed over he appears grad ben is on his dam project on the river nile egypt is concerned the project could leave it vulnerable to water shortages high court judges in uganda
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have granted bail to the pop star turned office ition politician bobby wine two weeks after he was arrested and charged with treason while left court on crutches and has accused security forces of beating him. french president seventy one micron says the european union must top depending on the united states for its security in a speech setting out his diplomatic agenda across said europe needs to have an antiquated defense policy with a common budget and iran is launching a challenge of the un's highest court to suspend u.s. sanctions imposed three weeks ago following the withdrawal of the twenty fifteen new clear deal the united states says it will vigorously defend its positions. those are headlines but they with us now for my cuba. are on line this isn't some abstract. or if you join us on sand while the stopping terrorism is
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