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the five year. plan china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera. the u.n. calls for top generals in me and mark to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide . i'm not matheson and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up back to the bargaining table the u.s. and mexico make a deal on trade now canada enters the talks. iran goes to the international court of justice to try to get some relief from u.s. sanctions. and france's president says it's time for europe to stop depending on
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america for its security. soldiers and me and ma have committed the greatest crimes under international law by attacking revenge on muslims according to the united nations its investigators say at least ten thousand people have been killed during military attacks last august the u.n. representative says his government doesn't recognize the u.n. mission which produced the report and has no relationship with it whatsoever well how much on job reports. the u.n. says military commanders in me and more should be prosecuted for genocide against the room into 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
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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 ten 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 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
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persecuted minorities in the world have faced decades of persecution and sadly they've grown accustomed to the international community ignoring their plight. reacting to the investigators findings rohinton rights activist says she's cautiously optimistic but wants action. that i love it it's been a year now since you. say many international organizations have come here but we haven't seen any solution it's all of us for him to women have been wondering how much time we'll have to live inside and i think. that's one of the reasons say many women went out to demonstrations 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 there were hindu 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
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against the roof. he's not at all surprised by what the u.n. fact finding mission reported yet. 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 are working for justice. he will less as there were him joe will continue to demand justice even though justice isn't likely to be delivered soon mohammed atta at the critical long refugee camp in cox's bazar bangladesh i saw unethical as a human rights lawyer for the bomb a task force he told my colleague rahman that the u.n. report is an important step. the first important thing to keep in mind is that the united nations they don't use the word genocide lately genocide under international law is a term of art and it actually triggers protections under the genocide convention
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another treaties which now the un security council must take forward to decide whether or not they recommend the international criminal court the i.c.c. it to issue genocide indictments against the military but is a good first step in the right direction going to go to the u.n. security again because this tax finding mission to find that i mean when i was committing genocide and now the security council is going to have to decide whether or not you are referred to the i.c.c. the problem here. is the fact that shot both china and russia which are bulls permanent members of the u.n. security council have been tested this reporting to me and my government and they will be told and so again there's going to need to be more international market pressure you're going to start to see many security council member countries issue sanctions against madam our travel freezes so to the united states and our u.s. treasury department has recently done so then we're going to start to see the ratcheting up of pressure against man as government with this genocide. facebook
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has taken down pages linked to military officials and me whom are some of them are connected with the commander in chief of the armed forces in total accounts for twenty individuals and groups are to be removed it's the first time facebook has done something like this involving our country's leadership the social media giants been criticized in the past for allowing hate speech against two hundred muslims on that flight. the japanese government says north korea is still a serious threat and it hasn't started to remove its nuclear programs for weapons and research japan's been carrying out its annual review of its own military capability the report says japan needs to boost its domestic missile defense systems until changes are made by north korea u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un had agreed to work towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula during a summit in june the united states and mexico have a new deal on trade that will replace the original agreement which is set out in
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the north american free trade agreement known as nafta on tom says he hopes canada will be part of it the canadian foreign affairs minister is due in the u.s. on tuesday for trade talks white house correspondent kelly holcomb reports. frequently accusing the news media of not reporting on his accomplishments u.s. president donald trump rockliffe orders into the oval office. oh to listen in real time to a phone call with mexico's president. where you good morning thank you and congratulations together the two leaders jointly announce their breakthrough by lateral 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. 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 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 canada relatively 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. well bosko is a director of the california trade justice coalition he says canada needs to step up its demands as it enters renegotiation talks i think something that canada talks about a lot but they haven't been doing enough has been pushing for progress and issues in renegotiation so a lot of what we see kind of on both sides right now is rhetoric rather than. policy and a lot of positioning rather than. meaningful kind of proposals so one of the things that we'd like to see them do and that they get a lot of support on would be to push very strong labor and environmental standards
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with swift and certain enforcement not something that we've been calling for our whole international coalitions been calling for since the beginning of the start and you know she ations so i think if canada works you push for those kinds of things they would get more support and they'd have more weight behind their kinds of demands the u.s. says it's putting pressure on saudi arabia to reduce the number of civilians being killed in the war in yemen the pentagon says a senior u.s. military general delivered a message of concern to saudi leaders last week the u.s. provides intelligence and logistical support to the saudi led coalition which is fighting hussein's battle rebels backed by iran c.n.n. is reporting that the pentagon is threatening to cut that support if things don't change this month a school bus was bombed and dozens of children were killed. the reuters news agency is reporting that saudi arabia's king solomon has stepped in to prevent the national oil company from issuing shares to the public his son crown prince mohamed
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bin salomon wants to sell five percent of the company which is known as ram coal one of the requirements of a deal like that is that regulators would be able to examine iran cause finances but the reuters report says the king doesn't want to do that officially the saudi government says the offer has been for spawned not canceled. nicky's a senior analyst at the siebel group it's a consultancy which specializes in the middle east and he says saudi arabia is economic outlook is improving. we have to remember back when this pos 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 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.
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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 you saw growth nonoy of 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 we're very hungry for to be part of this i.p.o. there will certainly be disappointment from some policy makers within saudi arabia that hope that they could generate approximately one hundred billion dollars from this i.p.o. that would then feed into the public investment fund. still ahead an al jazeera ugandan opposition m.p. bobi wine is released on bail but his legal troubles are far from over. and czech
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republic battles against a heat wave that's dried up one of his most important rivers and wiped out crops. hello the weather is looking quiets but hot across much of the middle east as per usual well it's a clear skies pretty much wall to wall sunshine maybe just catching wanted to showers just around the black sea just around i mean about elsewhere as he can see temperatures typically getting up into the thirty's or thirty there for beirut forty four celsius for baghdad also still in kuwait city and maybe even touching forty seven as we go on into wednesday but it's a little bit of cloud there into karate southern possibly could see a little bit of wet weather a little more humid and sunny things a little more humid just around the u.a.e. for tuesday light winds here in doha temperatures around forty two celsius now fall
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back to around forty degrees a wednesday again with a lot winds tending to feehan from the gulf it might just be a little more humid here by this date just want to see showers around the southern end of the red sea into the gulf of aden but nothing much to speak of and nothing much to speak of in terms of any wet weather across the foss out of south africa so the southern cape generates dry a fair bit of cloud here fifteen celsius for cape town might just see want to two showers into central areas of mozambique for a time as we go on into way to stay showers not a little further north which much just seven africa looking fine and dry jo'burg with a high of eighteen. on counting the cost crippled by its currency crisis will rich venezuela take desperate measures to deal with its struggling economy it has a market value of billions but is yet to turn a profit we delve deeper into what's going on at tesla. and i just need
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a. new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they're very interested in that global perspective. you're watching all just here a reminder of our top stories this hour are you under port says some of me and most top military generals should be prosecuted for genocide it says at least ten thousand people were killed in a crackdown on the hinge of muslims last oldest as u.n. representative says his government does not recognize the u.n. fact finding mission which produced the report. united states and mexico have
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agreed a new trade deal that replaces parts of the north american free trade agreement known as nafta canada is expected to return to negotiations tuesday. the u.s. says it's putting pressure on saudi arabia to reduce the number of civilians being killed in the war in yemen the pentagon says a senior u.s. military general delivered a message of concern to saudi leaders last week c.n.n. is reporting that the pentagon is threatening to cut that support if things don't change here this month a school bus was bombed and dozens of children were killed. iran's president haasan rouhani says iran will overcome renewed u.s. sanctions against his country is. made the comments within the last few hours during a televised speech in iran wants the international court of justice to suspend the u.s. sanctions imposed three weeks ago they were put in place after the u.s. pulled out of a twenty fifteen nuclear deal the united states says it will vigorously defend
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itself at the un's highest court laurence lee has been following the proceedings in 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 agreements sixty three years ago signs between the u.s. and iran a treaty of amity of friendship and the friendly behavior beside between the two countries and the iranians saying 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
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choice but to come to this court because all of the political and diplomatic avenues it simply fails trace the moment to a corner make greater. sense to settle for this view through the party means they've not succeeded. here or i have no other choice but to seize the international court of justice with the present request on sixty two lar 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 sanctions the flirting fifty five days of embassy seem to doesn't mean anything and anyway the americans have the biggest thing in their favor which is that even if in
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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. u.s. president donald trump and kenya's leader have been talking about trade and security during your herd kenyatta his visit to the white house and as i once more access to u.s. markets for kenyan businesses trump's been wanting to discuss security and china's significant investment in african countries it's the second time since he took office the chums met a leader from sub-saharan africa. very good to excellent cooperation especially in our fight against terrorism because of the neighborhood women. face which are the united states have been very strong and solid partner but more importantly we're here to pursue and to strengthen trade and investment ties uganda's high court
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has granted bail to opposition leader bobby wine the thirty six year old musician turned politician was charged with treason ottery was detained two weeks ago is accused of inciting supporters to attack a convoy carrying president yoweri museveni catherine sawyer has more from the capital kampala. freedom for the wind twelve days after his arrest locked up by both the military and the police he accuses of torture wine is charged with treason in london thank you to our after presidential where in the seventy's want to kate during their recent election campaign what do you want to listen to during the course of the show well let us not many ugandan such as radio presenters. have to say watched developing. dedicated and now off to bobby wine and his music it's been a big hit the young people are there my duty 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 in wanting to get involved in the future of this country ugandan politics
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have been controlled by a presidential. who has ruled for thirty two years and that divided opposition led by. who was arrested recently for young people how but they were. just stake and the responsibility to reclaim with out on. and that's why you did the young people are standing up in many townships such as this one in the capital kampala you know why and 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 while 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 he's popularity has transcended tribal differences and a lot of people in different parts of the country i'm talking about i why no posed
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a reason he passed you know ending the seventy five years old age limit for presidents to seventy to seventy four years old such a media event that the first one also led protests against tax on social media uses what has it been used on as politics is that the face images. it's the best instrument so it's visit israel russia. for fifteen years then comes but being one . of them. 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 the. popularity perhaps highlights how that election will shape up by winning the hearts and minds of young frustrated ugandans desperate for political change catchy song al jazeera kampala. french president
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emmanuel mccrone says the european union needs to stop relying on the united states for its security in a speech setting out his diplomatic agenda has said europe needs to have an integrated defense policy with a common budget is also called for the development of trade and financial tools which he says needed to fend off u.s. sanctions. simply called the who didn't she think you will have been gritter solidarity means we will have to look again at the structure of european defense and security by initiating a renewed dialogue on cyber security chemical weapons conventional weapon right the territorial conflicts based security the protection of the polar zones in particular with russia i want to launch an exhaustive reflection if with all of our european partners and that 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
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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 michael's vision of a strengthened and reformed european union and 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 that britain he hopes can come to an agreement with you by the end of the year. but he said. not
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compromise the integrity of the so personally the perfidious lee pro european president really making his message very clear indeed that he intends to continue on his part to try and revive the blocks. and you can bet it's been sworn in and australia prime minister malcolm turnbull was forced to step down last week has been replaced by scott morrison from those expected to resign from parliament on friday and that's going to put more pressure on the government's already slim majority. czech republic is the latest european country to be suffering from a long running summer heatwave one of its most important rivers has dried up and that's been exposing landmarks which haven't been seen for hundreds of years some of interviewed reports. an ominous message from the year sixteen sixty the inscription reads when you see this weep the boulders have reappeared in the river
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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 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. continental europe record temperatures have also been recorded in both north
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and south america as well as the middle east and drought in australia means 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 that these families that these communities that these towns get from now until the end. 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 the job he'd held as there are hundreds of thousands of people are in west london in the u.k. for europe's biggest street party the notting hill carnival event celebrates afro caribbean culture and aims to promote racial tolerance but he reports. it's noisy colorful and exuberant and hugely popular but as well as bringing visitors
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from around the world onto the streets of west london the nazi 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 wind 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 children performed a song remembering past and present struggles in trying to celebrate the pioneers
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upon the food. we would have conical carnival we see a unique and this is come about by the contribution of many people over many years so it's important to be recognized as being. one of the is matthew's father clive who came to the u.k. from trinidad in one nine 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 that because you won't get the good media and did talk well my. school started it and then gradually people put on course to. be different. for years now carnival has been britain's main showcase for carrying culture not just music but everything from lots and 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 policy that everyone's invited to but it's determined to hold on to its identity . getting bob al-jazeera. this is our jazeera these are the top stories a un report says some of me and most top military generals should be prosecuted for genocide it says at least ten thousand people were killed in a crackdown on revenge of muslims last august when mas un representative says his government does not recognize the un mission which produced the report. the united states and mexico have agreed to a new trade deal that replaces parts of the north american free trade agreement known as nafta canada is expected to return to negotiations on tuesday well let's call it the director of a california trade justice coalition he says canada needs to step up its demands i
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said and as the talks i think something that canada talked about a lot but they haven't been doing enough has been pushing for progress and issues in renegotiation so a lot of what we see kind of on both sides right now is rhetoric rather than. policy and a lot of positioning rather than. meaningful proposals so one of the things that we'd like to see them do and that they get a lot of support on would be to push for strong labor and environmental standards with swift and certain enforcement not something that we've been calling for our whole international coalitions been calling for since the beginning of the start of these negotiations so i think if canada works you push for those kinds of things they would get more support and they'd have more weight behind their kinds of demands the u.s. says it's putting pressure on the side to arabia to reduce the number of civilians being killed in the war in yemen the pentagon says a senior u.s.
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military general delivered a message of concern to saudi leaders last week the u.s. provides intelligence and logistical support to the side of that coalition which is fighting whose the rebels were backed by iran earlier this month a school bus was bombed and dozens of children were killed. iran's president haasan rouhani says iran will overcome renewed the u.s. sanctions against his country he's been speaking in a televised speech to parliament in teheran these are live pictures from there about the country's economic issues iran has asked the international court of justice to suspend the u.s. sanctions imposed three weeks ago. the new cabinets being sworn in in a strain that follows the ousting of malcolm turnbull as prime minister last week is a place by scott morrison is expected to resign from parliament on friday coming up next it's counting the cost by phone. and nine hundred seventy eight. disappeared after boarding a plane to libya. for over thirty his disappearance remain stranded
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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. hello i'm has i'm seeking this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week crippled by its currency crisis venezuela's economy is in freefall out did it get to this. also we talk tesla and ask when the fledgling carmaker might start delivering on expectations. as greece emerges from years of bailout smear look at how austerity.
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