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documentary on al-jazeera. the u.n. calls for me a top generals to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide. so robert you're watching al-jazeera life one headquarters here in doha also coming up canada is set to return to the bargaining table on tuesday after the u.s. and mexico they could trade deal also iran goes to the international court of justice seeking relief from u.s. sanctions. earlier it's one of europe's biggest street parties we'll take you to london's notting hill carnival.
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welcome to the program united nations investigators say mabel's top military general should be investigated and prosecuted for genocide the recommendation is included in a fact finding mission report it concludes at least ten thousand people were killed after the military launched a crackdown on ring of muslims in august last year hundreds of thousands fled across the border into neighboring bangladesh from. june reports. 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 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
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investigation and prosecution is warranted focusing on the top tatmadaw or 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 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 in ca 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 plight
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reacting to the investigators findings rohinton rights activist says she's cautiously optimistic but wants action that has been a that level it's been a year now since you. say many international organizations have come here but we haven't seen any solution and all of us will handle women have been wondering how much time we'll have to live inside everything. that's one of the reasons same many women went out to demonstrations us today. 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 there were hindu demonstrators called it genocide remembrance day. as chairman of the society for peace and human rights. has been working for months to document crimes against the ranger he's not at all surprised by what the u.n. fact finding mission reported yet. the genocide against his has been going on
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systematically for thirty years and the world didn't know now the u.n. fact finding mission has allowed 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. will less is there a hinge a will continue to demand justice even though justice isn't likely to be delivered soon mohammed. at the critical long refugee camp in cox's bazar bangladesh radhika coomaraswamy is part of the un team that presented its findings she says all the evidence points to a genocidal intent by the me and. we have had overwhelming evidence bag that kind of crime has been committed our recommendation is that they should be investigated and prosecuted for these crimes because in terms of the whole issue of genocidal intent which is a requirement for genocide there needs to be
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a criminal process so we ourselves did not find that it constituted genocide but except that the factors of genocide all seem to be present and that they should be investigated and prosecuted for genocide and these we mean the top military command of the tatmadaw we're happy to note that within the council human rights council there seems to be political will to set up a mechanism to preserve the evidence to collate it to get new evidence and basically function till a court is set up or a prosecutorial body is set up so we are happy to know that we will at least go that step we went to the camps in a cock's bazaar just weeks after what happened in august and i must say what we found was quite horrific and the women actually showed me the scars on their bodies and a whole host of other indicators that showed that sexual violence of the worst kind
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had taken place and it was very very shocking and facebook has taken the pages linked to military officials in me and the company said it removed accounts for twenty individuals and groups that includes pages associated with the armed forces commander in chief it's the first time facebook has taken such action against the country's leadership the social media was criticized in the past for allowing hate speech against throwing the muslims on its. now the united states and mexico greet a new bilateral trade deal that replaces the us mexico terms agreed in the north american free trade agreement known as snuffed or told trump says he hopes canada will join the deal the canadian foreign affairs minister is jew in the u.s. on choose different trade talks a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more. frequently accusing the news media of not reporting on his accomplishments u.s.
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president donald trump brought reporters into the oval office well to listen in real time to a phone call with mexico's president. where you good morning thank you enrique 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 worker 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. the now after agreement was signed twenty four years ago between the 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
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auto sector the new deal will require seventy five percent of an american car to be made in mexico or the united states up 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 canon 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 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. mexico's
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president and rekey plan and yet who has said he hopes canada will return to talks with mexico and the us should hold on a small for mexico city. just like the united states on monday makes her brand new book could be a new trade deal between the two countries as a triumph it's something that the current administration has been working towards for more than a year and desperately wanted to get done before they leave office it's something also that the incoming administration which takes over in december who so desperately wanted to get out of the way they don't want the economic uncertainty that it brings clouding their first few months in office but there is a problem here and that's canada canada is a member of the trading block with the united states and mexico that's covered by nafta and that was what was meant to be renegotiated here a deal between the three countries now the united states has suggested that it could just do this deal bilaterally with mexico mexico first said that canada
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really needs to be part of this pact but then later on on monday the mexican foreign minister came out and said although be preferable to have canada than the united states and mexico could do a deal on their own. what mexicans now know is that in either of those scenarios there will be trade agreement between mexico and the united states independently on what happens with the negotiations with canada we now have to see if mexico's incoming administration will hold the same view they described canada as indispensable to the deal but it does reflect the fact that about eighty percent of mexico's exports go to the united states the deal on the table at the moment might not be as beneficial to the country as before it might not have canada at the moment as mexico would like but at least it is a deal after an extended period of uncertainty with what is by far mexico's biggest
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trading partner robert scott is a senior international economist at the economic policy institute he says the deal is still in its very early stages. i view this as a press release in search of an agreement it's a handshake deal but i think without seeing the details without the inclusion of canada in the agreement we really don't know whether or not this is going to work and be acceptable to the u.s. congress and to the governments of mexico and canada so far this is really just a. revamp a restructuring of the existing deal they have tweaked some of the built in agreements concerning the levels of what are called domestic content that is to share a vehicle that must be built in north america they've added a new requirement that certain share of the workers must be paid a minimum of sixteen dollars an hour if they're going to get the benefits of this agreement they've also expanded protections for intellectual property rights they
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made some changes to agricultural provisions some of this is just updating some of it is refinement of the terms in the original agreement the u.s. says it will block the reappointment of a judgement they will trade organization the appeals court holds hearings on international trade disputes the move would reduce the number of judges on the body to three which is the minimum number needed for the coal to function diplomats will have impending crisis if they need judges added to the bench. the u.s. is urging saudi arabia to cut the number of civilian deaths in the war in yemen the pentagon says the senior u.s. general met with saudi leaders last week to deliver a message of concern c.n.n. is reporting that the pentagon is threatening to reduce supportive these civilian deaths continue at the current level earlier this month the coalition bombed a school bus killing dozens of children the u.s. is providing intelligence and logistical support to the coalition in its fight
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against iranian backed who the rebels. the reuters news agency is reporting that saudi arabia's king saul man has stepped in to prevent the national oil company from issuing shares to the public his son crowe principle had been sold man wants to sell five percent of the company known as around officially the saudi government says the i.p.o. has been disposed not cancelled but according to the report the king doesn't want to disclose company details to regulators something that any listing on the western stock exchange would require robert to move nikias a senior analyst at the sea world group a consultancy an advocacy organization he says saudi arabia's economic outlook is improving. we have to remember back when this i.p.o. was announced it was early two thousand and sixteen the economic context was very different than it is now saudi arabia was coming off of a year where their budget deficit reached close to one hundred billion dollars the
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price of oil was still low there were a lot of reforms that were on the agenda but had yet to be implemented and i think we have to remember that that's the context within which the i.p.o. idea came about now. after the enthusiasm around that i.p.o. has subsided we see a very different economic context in saudi arabia the i.m.f. issued relatively positive consultation that they concluded in july we saw growth non oil growth reaching about two point three percent a decrease in the but year on year budget deficit from about nine to four point five percent expected in two thousand and eighteen and also the introduction of various other economic measures like the value added tax and reducing fuel subsidies so of course there's going to be some disappointment from global investors that were very hungry for it to be part of this i.p.o. there will certainly be disappointment from some policy makers within saudi arabia
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that hoped that they could generate approximately one hundred billion dollars from this i.p.o. that would then feed into the public investment fund will still have held al-jazeera you can develop position lead of all we want is released on bail but it's. also the czech republic battles against a heat wave that supplied. the point with scroll. from cool brisk knows in few words. to the woman trying to move to this of southeast asia. how afraid the flooding rains continue for taiwan we've got some more heavy downpours coming in across the southeast of china and that wet weather still in place now it's been raining here for the last eight or nine days and we are going to see the flooding rains continuing through choose dake i wanted
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to wettest day yep i'm afraid those heavy downpours will continue for the still shop showers probably on the other side of the wall to say just coming into the southeast of china hong kong it is but see more live a sad little bit of localized flooding said the possibility that when there was bad as taiwan of course but the showers they extend all the way to northern parts of vietnam joining up in the show is that we have across the northern areas of thailand as well some rather wet weather is still here come further south it is generally of a shabby nature as we would expect and i shall as well because i want to see showers there into northern parts of borneo into some odd. heavy downpours continuing there for a todd again some localized flooding certainly a possibility the showers that we have in thailand the wet weather well that shows that with a very heavy rain that we have now pushing back into me i'm on central and northeastern parts of india also say some lively showers tending to nuzzle little further north was but do you notice i was never too far from kerala. the way the sponsored by
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a reminder of our top stories u.n. investigators say me the world's top military general should be prosecuted for genocide recommendation is included in the front finding mission it concludes at least ten thousand people were killed after the military launched a crackdown on the brink of muslims in august last year. the united states and mexico have agreed to a new bilateral trade deal it replaces the us mexico terms in the north american free trade agreement there is nafta donald trump says he hopes canada will join the deal. and the reuters news agency is reporting that saudi arabia's king saul maher has stepped in to prevent the national oil company from issuing shares to the public his son crown prince mohammed bin still man wants to sell five percent of the company though aramco officially the saudi government says the i.p.o. has been perceived and not canceled. the united states says it will vigorously defend and iranian legal challenge the un's highest court iran wants the international court of justice to suspend the unilateral u.s.
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sanctions imposed three weeks ago they were put in place after u.s. pulled out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal to hand accuses the u.s. of plotting economic strangulation lawrence lee has been following the 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 saying that
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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 of the political and diplomatic avenues that simply fails trace the moment to economic pressure. sans to settle the dispute through diplomatic means did not succeed. here or had no other choice but to seize the international court of justice with the president's request on sixty two lark 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 ability of fifty five simply doesn't mean anything and anyway the americans have 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 u.s. president donald trump and his kenyan counterpart who can yet or hold trade talks at the white house it's the second time trump has meant the leader of the sub-saharan africa since taking office he to discuss trade and investment as well as sprinkling security tellus. very good example for asian especially in our fight against terrorism because of the neighborhood we're in. the face which are the united states have been very strong and a solid partner but more importantly we're here to push schulich to strengthen
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our trade and investment time yes. uganda's high court has granted bail to opposition leader bobby wine the thirty six year old musician turned politician was detained two weeks ago and charged with treason he's accused of inciting supporters to attack a convoy carrying president yarima seventy catherine so we has more 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 thirty two august after presidential werriwa seven his motorcade was stones during their recent local election campaign what do you want to listen to during the course of the show well let us not many ugandan such as radio presenter james peterson have closely watched developments. he dedicated an hour off the show to bobby white and his music it's been a big hit for young people oddly my jury to and most times they have sat back and
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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. who has ruled for thirty two years and that divided opposition led by keyes a betty who was arrested recently for young people harbor the greatest stake and the responsibility for acclaim of their country 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 recently produced by other musicians calling for his food on many ugandans who are struggling to make ends meet that paul b.-y. understands their problems he was raised in poverty in this township and he has worked in music and politics to get to where families say that his popularity has transcended tribal differences and
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a lot of people in different parts of the country i'm 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 that was the first one also led protests against attacks on social media uses what as a politics is that a face images. it's the best instrument so it's visit israel reform. for fifteen years then comes bubbling. of the. but what about me many ugandans say the treason charge is trumped up by the government to suppress dissent government officials say the politician incited people to violence uganda's next election is due in twenty twenty one. popularity perhaps highlight how that election will shape up by winning the hearts and minds of young
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frustrated ugandans they're desperate for political change catherine saif al jazeera kampala. nearly one hundred venezuela migrants have accepted free flights home from the peruvian government it's part of an effort to cut down the number of migrants entering peru after it impose tougher entry requirements of venezuelans an estimated two point three million venezuelans have fled their countries crippling economic and humanitarian crisis. now the czech republic is the latest european country to face the fallout from a lengthy summer heat wave the major river has dried up exposing hydrological landmarks which have been seen for hundreds of years as a suburb inch of his 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 the drying river has revealed dozens of them before you know what they said was
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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 in poland are all having their fruit and vegetable production affected with prices expected to rise gunge religious figure does 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 see families that face 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 temperature is expected to rise by two degrees or more by the end of the century some fear there's worse to come some of the job i'll do there. hundreds of thousands of people are in west london for europe's biggest street party the notting hill carnival the event celebrates africa carrying culture and aims to promote racial tolerance its take on special significance to share following the british government's windrush deportation scandal as nadine barber reports. it's noisy colorful and exuberant and hugely popular
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but as well as bringing visitors from around the world onto the streets of west london the notting hill carnival is a chance to celebrate the history of britain's caribbean population. this year 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 up 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. 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 in trying to celebrate the pioneers
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upon the food without them we wouldn't have conical carnival we see a unique a baby and this is come about by the contribution of many people over many years so it's important that we recognize as. well one of them is matthew's father clive who came to the u.k. from trinidad in one hundred sixty 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. know all the. more or less. good media and did talk well model something about his school started it and then gradually people put on course tools and it escalates. and a different game. for years now carnival it's been britain's main showcase for carrying coach not just music but everything from watching troughs to food and it's taken a sustained fight to keep it in this area but for now it remains rooted in
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a particular place and a particular community. of course it's now a party that everyone is invited to but is determined to hold on to its identity. getting bob al-jazeera. as their arms to hold these are all top news stories un investigators say mia moles top military generals should be prosecuted for genocide the recommendation is included in a fact finding mission report it concludes at least ten thousand people were killed after the military goal is to crack down on wrangel stems in all this last year. the united states and mexico have agreed a new bilateral trade deal replaces the us mexico terms in the north american free trade agreement known as nafta canada is set to return to negotiations on tuesday. the u.s. says it will block the reappointment of
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a judge the world trade organization the w t o appeals court holds hearings on international trade disputes the move would reduce the number of judges on the body to three which is the minimum them but needed for the court to function diplomats warn of an impending crisis if no new judges are added to the bench the u.s. is urging saudi arabia to cut the number of civilian deaths in the war with yemen the pentagon says the senior u.s. generals met with saudi leaders last week to deliver a message of concern c.n.n. is reporting that the pentagon is threatening to reduce support of civilian deaths continue at the current level earlier this month the coalition bombed a school bus killing dozens of children the reuters news agency is reporting that saudi arabia's king saul martyrs stepped in to prevent the national oil company from issuing shares to the public his son prince mohammed bin silverman wants to sell five percent of the company known as around officially the saudi government says the i.p.o. has been perspire and not canceled in washington d.c. the u.s.
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flag is. at the white house has been lowered once again to half mast to honor the late senator john mccain the flag had initially been lowered on news of mccain's death then raised together monday which goes against a long standing tradition typically the flag should stay lowered until the senators burial this led to criticism against president trump who later all of the flag to be lowered again became was a longtime critic of the president and had requested the trouble not attend his funeral those were the headlines back with more news in half an hour next its inside story to stay with us.
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damming the river nile ethiopia's prominence to questions whether the largest hydroelectric project in africa will ever see the light of day as years away from opening because of controversy and construction delays and what about water shortages fear the neighboring egypt this is a story. i don't welcome to the program. the grand renaissance stand being built in ethiopia is planned to be the largest hydroelectric power plant in africa with a multi-billion.
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