tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera September 2, 2018 4:00pm-5:01pm +03
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kinds of weapons shipments or weapons storage is syrian state television quoting military sources saying it wasn't israel it was an electrical fault but there is a lot of skepticism about that there's other syrian military sources being quoted saying that israel was behind the syrian observatory which monitors the war saying that israel was behind the work we do know there were reports of ambulances racing to the scene last night multiple explosions so again these things are very difficult to confirm independently always of course a lot of skepticism when it comes to a particular attack like this or an explosion in a weapons depot in a very important military base whether that was a form of an electrical hook up or whether that was israel turkey won't be able to confirm but certain a lot of skepticism about that denial from syrian state television indeed and feeding into the already fee brothel. atmosphere at the moment given the fact that everybody is expecting there to be a huge showdown in a province which is very close to where you are now we've got the newly appointed
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syria every voice in the region what is the very latest with regard to that imminent imminent operation. yes well james jeffrey is used as you mentioned there the new special envoy to syria from the united states he's in israel today he'll be going to jordan he'll be coming here to turkey to discuss exactly that i think a lot of discussions will happen around as well there's a lot of diplomacy behind the scenes martín between the turks the russians groups on the ground inside it to try and manage what seems to be a certainty which is that the syrian government is going to take the provinces back the main group in charge. of course formerly known as the mr front these are the fighters that russia and syria says are terrorists and this is why not only they're going to target them but they're going to take back the whole of the province because the syrian government says that it is going to fight for the integrity of syria the main issue martine is of course the civilians almost three million people
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inside help of those displaced during years of fighting from other sides inside syria turkey's borders are closed and the difference is that this time because the syrian government has been taking back so much territory in syria through these so-called reconciliation deals a lot of people and fighters and their families didn't agree with that when to adlib it was sort of like a gathering point where there's now nowhere else to go no major opposition held territories turkey says it's not going to open the border so this is a real challenge no one wants this confrontation but the syrians say they're going to do it everyone else at the moment trying to see if a limited confrontation can be managed rather than a full on one stephanie thanks for that certainly deck of bringing us the very latest from montauk here in southern turkey. loss was a common here at al-jazeera including the us political elite pays tribute to senator john mccain. warnings of catastrophe after the u.s. pulled funding from the un agency which supports palestinian refugee.
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how we got the temperatures recovering across western parts of here and now fair amounts of sunshine into the eastern side of the continent clearer skies here we can see this law and of cloud which is running its way all the way up towards the baltic states big area thunder a shallow as the just around the alps northern parts of the balkans then coming in behind will have a say area of high pressure just nestled over the north sea well that is a blocking feature set will keep the weather front set by you can see a little cloud just coming into western nolens pushing across towards cotton but twenty four celsius for london paris not so bad at seoul the go on into monday does make inroads but the clouds will start to thin and break so the rain band does filter out a little bit so it'll start to weaken twenty four celsius once again
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a little more cloud but plenty of sunshine as well south clay will continue. to slide the way down towards the balkans as well but for solomon it was if you well the heat continues thirty three in athens that he three there for much rain as well a lot of warm sunshine here across northern parts of africa as per usual thirty celsius there for algiers we're getting up to thirty one inches maybe a touch warmer as we go on through monday and still hasa nothing karo with a top temperature of thirty eight degrees celsius. at night in a stock. patrolled streets. in . gang violence the use the maternal approach to prevent crime.
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the stories we don't often hear told by the people who lived mothers of rincon this is europe on al-jazeera. a reminder now over the top stories here at al-jazeera human rights watch is calling for an end to all weapons sales in saudi arabia over the bombing of a school bus last month on saturday the saudi a morality coalition admitted a bus attack was unjustified fifty one people including forty children were killed the u.s. is planning to cancel three hundred million dollars in military aid to pakistan saying islamabad has failed to take action against armed groups.
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pakistan denies it's giving taliban linked fighters a place to regroup after launching offensives in neighboring afghanistan. syrian state media denies there was an israeli attack on an air base near the capital loud blasts were heard near them as a base close to the capital damascus syria media says they were caused by an electrical fault. range of children who were banned from school by me and miles army are now struggling to get a formal education in the country they've managed. to three hundred eighty thousand ranjit kids moved to bangladesh within the past year and many of them still aren't in school but one charity is trying to give them a chance to learn as mohammed gentry reports. in this child friendly space in bangladesh young real hinge a refugee are getting
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a chance they were never afforded back home in me and more. and they're in a happy mood as they proudly show off their reading and reciting skills. save the children's daphne cook tells me how the informal program aims to teach more than just letters and numbers these are kids that haven't had any kind of education at all what that means is they might not know how to cross the road safely they might not know how to wash their hands so it's really basic stuff like that to keep kids safe and healthy in their day to day lives outside the learning center though a grim reality confronts you at almost every turn like these children who should be in school instead they're selling vegetables to help support their families or these teenagers who should be having fun with their friends instead discussing what little they have to look forward to before fleeing to bangladesh sixteen year olds
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used to dream of becoming a doctor. if i can continue to study i would be able to do anything with my life i wouldn't have any skills i'm very worried that this could mean i might end up a thief one day just so i can survive i want to study z. obl completed the seventh grade in me and more but he hasn't been back in a classroom since he and his family fled the violence there. go to almost any camp for the displaced practically anywhere in the world and you find more often than not that in those settings it's extremely difficult for children to get access to a proper education but when you speak to are hindu refugees who fled me and more over the course of the past year you find out that their education crisis started long before they arrived here it's estimated that upwards of sixty percent of the or hindu are illiterate when you hear how these boys were often barred by soldiers from attending school in myanmar as rak kind state it's easy to understand why and
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at it when we were on our way to class the army used to stop us and ask where are you going with said we were going to school. what are you doing going to school unicef simon ingram explains how dire the situation has become so i'm over the past year we've had something like three hundred eighty thousand school aged children arriving here from across the border so trying to get them into some kind of learning activities gives them some sort of shape to their lives give them some sort of hope for in terms of learning and the education for the future that has had to be one of the biggest priorities while aid workers are cautiously optimistic that consultations with the government of bangladesh will result in a formal curriculum that's ready to roll out by october most of the refugee children don't hold out much hope for a while they may not be in school they learn each and every day just how cruel the
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world can be. at the could you belong refugee camp in cox's bazaar bangladesh. palestinians have reacted angrily to president trump's incision to end funding to a un agency that helps millions of refugees palestinian officials described the move as cruel and irresponsible while jordan says it could have dangerous consequences the announcement to cut funds on raw comes a week after the u.s. cut two hundred million dollars in separate aid to the palestinians how it feels it has more from the occupied west bank. just this week in the face of its funding crisis on row was celebrating the start of the academic year at the reopening of its schools girls' arriving for class in a jealous zone refugee camp in the occupied west bank welcomed by the agency's chief an ra has been scrambling all year to drum up the money to maintain its services after the us withheld more than three hundred million dollars in funding.
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now comes confirmation that those cuts permanent the u.s. state department saying the fundamental business model in fiscal practices that have marked on rough for years tied to a rise and this leant exponentially expanding community of entitled beneficiaries is simply unsustainable the united states will no longer commit further funding to this irredeemably flawed operation for the palestinian leadership the decision is not about the specifics of a u.n. agency rather an attack on the palestinian cause the u.s. may argue that it's taxpayers' money and there are free to do whatever they want to do with it yes but it will give them the right garber of the stealing of my land my future my spirit and my hopes my capital maxim was my holy subject our church they have no right whatsoever. for palestinians the final status of the more than five million refugees who assert a right of return to present day israel is like the status of jerusalem an issue to
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be settled by the go see a sion not by a preemptive u.s. position that position is referred to at least in the language used in the us statement when it talks about the exponentially expanding number of people who rely on that suggest this isn't just a move against one specific agency but also against the continued refugee status of millions of people. with a sufi family home is the village of bacon a balance now in israel not the jealous own refugee camp where most of them were born and raised. well a human what can i did if i came back on my own and a cot tend to land i want my children there before me we want them that the future is less and their children. user a sufi has seventy grandchildren and great grandchildren among israeli jews there is all but political consensus that allowing all such families to return would destroy the jewish character of the state but there's also concern not least reported within the israeli security establishment about the effects of killing off their main provider of aid in order to disrupt the
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politics but i think people are asking whether what we're seeing is the political instrumental isolation or aid and what you say is that the amount of minutes and the needs of the people are simply two grades in the short term un role will continue to seek ways to plug its funding gap germany among the first donor nations to promise extra money warning of an uncontrollable chain reaction if we're forced to shutdown herefore sit out zero gemma's on refugee camp in the occupied west bank . egypt's president and to foster l.c.c. has ratified laws which allow the oath or it is to block social media accounts online accounts or blogs with more than five thousand followers will be monitored as media outlets journalists accused of publishing so-called fake news can be fined or face jail time rights groups say it's part of an almost going crackdown on press freedom president trump has warned congress against interfering with negotiations
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on a new north american free trade agreement on nafta the president says there's no need to keep canada in the path to day after both countries missed a deadline to revamp the deal talks are set to resume next week on bondi president trump on veiled a new trade deal with mexico which added pressure to canada to speed up negotiations. the late senator john mccain is to be buried on sunday a day after america's political elite attended his memorial service leaders from across the political divide remember the late arizona senator and vietnam prisoner of war who died last week of the age of eighty one former presidents barack obama and george w. bush were among those who paid tribute there was no invitation though for the current president donald trump the american john mccain is generous and welcoming and bald she is resourceful confident secure. she meets her
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responsibilities she speaks quietly because she is strong america does not boast because she has no need to the america john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. back in the day he could frustrate me. and i know each day the same thing about me but he also made me better. in recent years we sometimes talk of that intense period like football players remembering a big game in the process rivalry melted away. in the end i got to enjoy i want to life's great gifts the friendship of john mccain. the muscovites is celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of one of their most beloved places gorky park where a challenge takes
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a look back at this lad mark's role in shaping the city and its history. ninety years old and looking pretty good for its age gorky park has firmly reclaimed its position as one of moscow's most popular attractions but the city is part of gorky has been reinvented numerous times through communism and post soviet decay to its current sleeker more modern face but it is. the park appeared and nine hundred twenty eight it was designed for their proletariat the new and young state need in a new and young place where their protests could relax there was an idea to create a park of culture and leisure where people could get educated and take a rest. was. its energetic director betty glam invited the u.s.s.r. most talented artists and architects to shake the park even during world war two the park stayed open but when the soviet union collapsed in the early nineties
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corkey park's crown slipped to it hosted some of russia's first raves and metal concerts but its fairground rides became shabby he developed a reputation for crime that's all been swept away now beginning in twenty eleven a radical overhaul brought wife i she cafe's labyrinth playgrounds and more these days gorky park is alive with visitors who he parks modern reef it was the shape of things to come for moscow it was the first major project of a huge and regeneration program that has been rolled out across the russian capital at a cost of billions of dollars. now much of modern moscow gleams to with riverside viewing platforms roadside swings and cycle paths the capital needed to revamp. but some of those who've watched moscow's transformation say it's no coincidence
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this all followed the anti-government protests of twenty eleven and twelve analyst alexander bound of things or thirty's chose to ignore calls for political freedoms but grants the up in class is a more livable city they try to isolate and. their protest activists bugbee made a lot of we can call it concessions we can call it improvements eliminated almost completely low level corruption and in the improvement of the city environment and there was the first project and the first step to this direction down or says the opposition is now split about whether to accept such gifts from the authorities everyone else meanwhile is down in the park will reach alan's al-jazeera moscow.
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traverses take a look at the top stories here it out there and some breaking news being reported by the reuters news agency there's been a huge blast heard in somalia's capital mogadishu clouds of smoke have been seen in the city according to witnesses and that's all we have that's the only line we have at the moment to bring you more on that but a big blast being reported in the somali capital mogadishu that human rights watch is calling for an end to all weapons sales to saudi arabia over the bombing of a school bus last month the rights group is accusing the saudi immorality military coalition of committing war crimes in yemen on saturday the alliance admitted the bus attack more unjustified fifty one people including fourteen children were killed and official has more from neighboring djibouti. human rights watch see that even if the saudis were. the leaders and that the saudis are insisting going to
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carry out an attack in a marketplace when so many civilians were nearby then that is the possibility that the saudis created in committed a war crime certainly human rights watch are seeing the devastation from the bombing was so great that many of those who lost their children were not able to bury even one single part of them. the u.s. is planning to cancel three hundred million dollars in military aid to pakistan saying it's failing to take action against armed groups but pakistan denies giving taliban fighters safe haven after they have launched offensives in afghanistan u.s. sections say it might compare is travelling to islamabad to meet the newly elected prime minister when say. syrian state media denies there was an israeli attack on an air base near the capital damascus loud blasts were heard close to the meds a base but syrian media says they were caused by an electrical for all right sure
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today there is of the latest headlines here at al-jazeera are they back in about thirty minutes or so that's after inside story instantly shifting news cycle the listening post takes and questions the world's media exposing how the press operates and why certain stories take precedence others are ignored the listening post on al-jazeera. a show strength by germany is angry protests after the killing of a young man. accused of his death is anti migrant sentiment growing in germany and how much of a threat that is posed this is inside story. hello
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and welcome to the program. the city of kennett's in the east german state of saxony has seen a series of violent and to buy growing protests they began last sunday after the fatal stabbing of a thirty five year old german man and the arrest of two suspects asylum seekers from iraq and syria the streets were briefly owned by a far right protesters who chant to germany for germans reportedly gave hitler salutes and chased anyone who looked foreign police struggle to keep control and fights continue the following day between far white and left wing demonstrators the violence has raised concerns about in the city's near nazi stronghold exposing divisions in german society about immigration chancellor angela merkel allowed more than a million migrants into the country of the height of the refugee crisis in two thousand and fifteen the biggest opposition party the far white alternative for germany sees
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or what it saw as an open door policy one in ninety two a parliamentary seats in last year's elections and the f.t. organize another protest on saturday dominic cain has been in it and filed this report. they see. their message is loud and it is clear they are the people whom their country has forgotten neglected so they say by a government that encourages tolerance and integration on thursday they took to the streets of chemists to oppose a meeting of solidarity between the main parties taking place nearby was to highlight their distrust of mainstream media perhaps around a thousand people were here protesting against the numbers of migrants in the cam that's in fact official figures show only around one and a half percent of the population here is from syria and afghanistan. this
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demonstration was peaceful in stark contrast to the scenes on sunday and monday when thousands of far right and far left protesters threw rocks bottles and fireworks at each other and at the police the violence flowed from the events on sunday morning german nationalists fatally stands during an altar cation with two migrants in the wake of that many people wondered if there'd be collusion between elements of the far right and someone in the judicial system on thursday an official admitted to having leaked the details of the suspects he has been suspended on a wider level this week many germans have been wondering at the strength of the far right in saxony one local analyst explained how their approach has shifted they use facebook and twitter and if this would not suffice to telephone calls and they say well something ugly has been happening here we have to show that we do not agree
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with that and we have to make clear that there is many of us. the people here speak with a loud voice and seemingly a united voice but their numbers across germany remain very small but the. message certainly is being heard across this country to. the challenge for the political elite is what they will do about it dominic kane al-jazeera commits. the. let's bring in our panelists in berlin philip salter student activist and anti fascism campaigner in washington cynthia miller it too is professor of education sociology of the american university and also in bullying. political activist and community educator welcome to the program philip quite interesting to
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see what's happening in kenya it's so a young german was killed and then the streets were almost taken over by the far right is this a genuine act of anger over what people think is lack of security or is it an act of political opportunism by the german far right well by the far right it's of course an act of opportunity they got the opportunity of that one person was killed on the street and yes. we don't know anything about x. event itself we know that one person was killed we know don't we have to suspect and yeah that's it and at the same time right wing extremists use this opportunity to get on the street to overwhelm the police. to be the majority for a short time cynthia we have people in kenya saying basically that no longer fear protected by the state what does this tale tell us about germany.
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i think part of what we're seeing is that you know political parties that are closer to the mainstream that are officially in parliament now and rhetoric has officially and successfully been mobilized to to stoke fear in ordinary people and that is far you know exaggerated they're not protesting you know ordinary crimes that germans are doing which are you know are also just as likely to produce the kind of violence that you're seeing from from there we saw in that terrible tragedy on sunday but it's an opportunity for for the far right to mobilize and to come together and use it as an excuse to an act of violence. we've seen a theme across europe tapping into the general anxiety about the influx of immigrants into the country to advance a political agenda is this an isolated to feel mongering in germany or is it an
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event that could build up in the future. i actually do not think that this is an isolated event and i think it is one incident in chain of incident that has been happening and will happen in the future i think we haven't seen the last of it yet i think what has happened over the last decades even is yet another shift of the overall societal discourse to the riots and that entails that things that might not have happened in the frequency that they have now. are finding a climate in which they can happen and the perpetrators of certain acts do not have to fear the same repercussions that maybe they would have had twenty years ago. philip one of the pivotal moments of the of the events that are for doing this is
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basically the investigation into the leaking of the arrest warrant by the police to the far right does it give us any sort of indication about some sort of collaboration or link between the police and the far right in cabinets i would not say that there are school liberation with the police between police and right wing extremists. on our laps what we know is that certain elements in the police are sympathizing with right wing extremists maybe not right wing neo nazi parties but at least with the air of the party and the other point is that the right wing extremists overwhelm the police they claim to be on the one side to be part of german society and bearing the police on the other side they clash with the with the police now we know from the past the bear was recently an event where comer a team was. pushed away from
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a demonstration by police and they were accused by one man one demonstrator of being. people make propaganda he was turns out also a policeman in civil clothes not in service but in an administration position inside the police this of course sold also that there are some connections between police and right wing extremists as least on the. level of not cooperation bought on sympathy. sit cynthia i mean if you see the latest developments year we've basically seen protests like this you land is shouting and to democracy slogans saying if they are opposed to the mainstream media shouting that germany should stay for the for the germans where does it lead germany. i think that one of the things that germany has to reckon with is
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this shift in the tactics of the far right that candidates recommend that chemist's reppert represented in revealed which is that there's a very rapid mobilization that can happen and while yes this is a trajectory that's been happening over a couple of decades a group with that i think there was still something different here and that we saw a kind of a coalition emerge among violent right wing extremists the marsh mixed martial arts the soccer hooligans everyone coming into the street not into small groups combined with a large numbers of kind of ordinary people who were mobilized and that i think is you know new or development to see that many people so quickly activated over social media and i think that's something that certainly in the future the intelligence services in the police have to reckon with that rapid mobilization to be better prepared. this is the first time that the observers the local media still
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can about what should the police do to talk of the whys of the extremism in germany to members of the fifteen years ago of the series of attacks targeting migrants. police service work completely isolated it took us fifteen years of police for the german government to say this is something that is connected to the national social underground which is a neo nazi movement is this is is this are we talking about some sort of lux's and by the security apparatus in germany. yeah i want definitely comment on lack of response by the german police force i think what people have to remember in discussing the role of the police force and also the role of intelligence agencies in germany is the fact that after germany became a state kind of in its own right again after the second world war a lot of former function fingers off the nazi party
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were basically reinstated into their old functions whether it was the negro or forests like nor yours and judges or whether it was the police force or intelligence agencies saw from the moment of they're being brought into existence these institutions have been basically run by a former near nazi party or nazi party members and i'm sure not only me but a lot of people actually fink that these former roles that they played under nazi rule and their convictions were actually traded in two or imbedded into the new institutions as well and there have been a lot of r. and missed in my opinion there have been too many scandals off. right wing. or right meaning or or racist members of the police force to just have them be single incidents or the
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proverbial bad apple in the bunch i actually do think that there are huge and very important. problem off racism we'll look at the german police force and within the german things. we're talking here about different political parties or organizations where different affiliations with the far right like the national social underground to get there which is the patriotic europeans against the islamisation of the west the f.d.a. which is the third largest political party in the one the stag of the national democratic party is this far why it's becoming now a mainstream establishment in germany. well i would say it's not becoming a mainstream establishment's it reached the mainstream or too formulated a little bit different as has been always in the mainstream but it's becoming more openly now. the problem with these organizations is that they have very different
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kind of agendas but in the end they are all right wing and very much not extreme and radical and. they have different kind of shared bills regarding that you know some of them try to get more into the public some of them tried to be more extreme or more why or lend some of them are even terrorist organizations like you mentioned it to turn nationalist nationalist socialist underground what i like to call themselves and yes so it's not becoming mainstream the mainstream. majority of people in my opinion still is not. very much affected by especially the extreme but they get into this populism of course especially if the and this of course keeps people also the other people are otherwise would join other extreme parties after that so all of them get of course more people
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cynthia with the deal which is the alternative for germany becoming the third biggest political party in the country has a platform is sets the edge and it's all the time linking the problems of germany to the the coming of the immigrants is this a party of that you think could in the near future thorough deep in the the quizes in the in in germany. i absolutely think that part of the problem is the political rhetoric that comes from political parties like the f.t. but also globally from other far right and populist leaders that is anti immigrant anti slum and when ordinary people who might kind of privately hold racist opinions start to see that validation and legitimation of anti immigrant and to islam islamophobia can racist sentiments coming from political leaders they feel
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empowered and i think that gets amplified then over social media and the way in which people can kind of share share racist thoughts that they might not have shared prior to this kind of online space so i think that's part of what we're seeing here is that back and forth of legitimation and activation how do you respond to those who would say that this is not something which is a particular germany because the those who came a woman the election is against a backdrop of xenophobia to migrants not of one elections in broad trump to the u.s. a lot for the brigs it to happen behind the spectacular rise of the populist movement in europe. yes i am i wouldn't say that. let's put it that way i would agree with those who say that the developments are not particular for germany not for europe and maybe not even from the north
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america because. from from from my own point of view from that point of analysis one has to say that racism in itself is a constitutive element of on nation state building of how our societies our. as in the western world our of how our societies run so racism asked part and parcel of you know cap and to list nationalist societies our nation states. has to be addressed in order to be able to address all those more extreme more violent and consequences that we see from these kinds of societal structures still being at play and. i think that the solutions that need to be found age should lie in listening to the people who have been warning against re strengthening off the far right for years and years which
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is mostly people of color organizations black german organizations jewish organizations all the l.g.b. deep you are going to as asians all those groups of people and groups in society that have been minorities for such a long time have been experiencing violence on a personal and institutional level way before ken it's happened way before. the horse talk additional hardware happened way before mearns warning and i swear to happened so i think. what needs to happen would have to be. a basically a very yes let's say a radical shift in how our society is structured and philip. word does this leave the governing coalition in germany. well the ruling coalition it. yes. the problem is the president brought this to
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the right wing extremists they have one. picture of an enemy and this is anglo-american. of course c. is in a position now that she has to reject that then she has to react on it as well and this is exactly what they want they want america to be a person in public they want to have for making remarks that nobody likes actually . making a head of state and yes and in the end they don't really care about that they want to establish all their things and population and i think. right now the politics it's not happening so much these events were already used by one against her who appeared there who was talking publicly and yes that's it pretty much otherwise many populist party politicians in germany of course call yes or
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counter-demonstrations for showing the real society and right wing the real face of germany cynthia i mean this was the daily limit for four and going to merkel the governing coalition knows that it's poor ratings are declining and therefore you can easily detect that they are moving too was the white and this could explain why they are not really being aggressive when it comes to what's happening low income it's. i think that part of what's happening is that you know the governing coalition have to continue to assert german values germany stands for and continue to fight against it and speak out more strongly rather than have a muted response i think that there is still a majority of germans obviously who stand very strongly against this but i think you know one of the things i want to add is that i think while yes i totally agree
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with mona that it's important to to listen to people of color and to people who are being victimized i also think we have to from within the governing coalition and within the leadership of education systems listen to people who are being activated on the streets what is it that they're responding to because i think this anti immigrant sentiment is activating some other kind of deeper emotional ideas about who belongs in the nation and those conversations have to start happening at the highest level if we're going to actually address why people are interested in dissipating. with the far right building momentum and there is some parts of the county which has become some sort of a stronghold. could we say the fall is likely to undermine the basic tenets of what has been a liberal inclusive society for more than five decades. why i mean here is the thing when we can germany
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a number zero inclusive society then of course we will find cases and evidence. that indeed germany has certain progressive loss and has certain progressive. opinions that are represented in mainstream society but at the same time on the other hand there are still have been lots of nudges lation and laws and societal opinions that are far less than inclusive and liberal there have been university institutions and universities researchers academics who have been following german society sentiments for decades in longer total studies and there found that a very stable percentage of the german society. either holds or strongly horn's. views that would have to be called. deeply and i never or very traditionalist very reserved have and not in the good ok. right into the
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area are far right philip this is going to be my last question please a less than a minute do you think that with merkel facing problems with a open door policy oh last chance could be improving the economy. well german economy is actually very good and also even in. the economy is not not so bad of course there is a higher percentage of unemployment but in recent years of the. improved quite a lot and. yeah of course and economic at the very important in recent years the. economy got not too bad and of course economic development is very important but on the other hand it is not just the economy. these resentments are in the general population thank you resentments against migrants more in the east
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and less in the west this has to be addressed very much by our politicians and things you know as civil society as a whole every single person is responsible for such kind of thank you behavior in the end and has to fight such kind philippoussis phillips. thank you very much indeed for being called a program and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for was slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter a.j. inside slowly for me hashem above the whole team here by phone now. i. this is life on the streets of l.a. . from the discovery of
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hello i'm sure with al-jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. plans to cut three hundred million dollars in military aid to pakistan citing a lack of action against armed groups. they were once banned from attending school will explain how ranger refugee children now have a child. away from the red carpet movie fans turn their focus to challenging documentaries at the venice film festival. the first news is breaking from the somali capital mogadishu there having been a large explosion this is being reported by the news agencies and they say that witnesses have reported aloud a blast and that clouds of smoke can be seen that somalia has
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been gripped by lawlessness and violence since nineteen ninety one we are hearing that there are reports of casualties some people have been killed we'll bring you more on this developing story as soon as we get it. right now human rights watch has called for an end to all weapons sales to saudi arabia after the bombing of a school bus in yemen last month the group is accusing the saudi immorality coalition of committing war crimes on saturday the coalition admitted the bus attack was unjustified fifty one people including forty children were killed when go live now to our correspondent who is monitoring the war in yemen from neighboring djibouti say human rights watch then adding their voices to the call for much more restraint when it comes to arms sales to saudi arabia and the u.a.e.
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coalition and also the there was some response wasn't there from the department of defense in washington pleased with the outcome of the investigation. well it seems that human rights watch report was put together before this coalition and the team that investigates allegations of war crimes compiled and produced a report on saturday evening in that report they didn't apologize for the death of up to forty children in an attack on a school bus in northern yemen at the beginning of august what they said was they were targeting hooty leaders and perhaps they should have carried out the operation at that time quite simply because the leaders did not pose an immediate threat to the coalition but this adds to the pressure that's been building on this coalition over the last week you'll remember human rights watch already said that when this team goes to investigate incidents like this too often they fail to meet
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international standards particularly in transparency and then experts from the united nations said to that other countries should stop selling weapons to both sides involved in the conflict in yemen they didn't mention any names but clearly they were looking specifically at the united states the u.k. and france are supplying the circulate coalition and also iran who are supplying the site as you say the department of defense in the united states which is come under pressure from a number of people in recent weeks because of u.s. involvement in this coalition and the number of incidents that have been were civilians have been killed welcomed this report by this thirty investigation team will be interesting to see. the say that those. who are involved in this should be held responsible for their actions and should be punished exactly what that means. it was an attack which threw international condemnation and left the parents of
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forty children crying over their graves eleven others are also killed in the attack on a crowded market in who the hell diane in the north of yemen in early august initially the saudi led coalition claimed the attack was a justified military operation it was targeting the leaders know it says it made mistakes. that the joint team of based on the above information gathered is of the opinion that the coalition forces should take legal action to try and penalize those responsible for these mistakes which cause collateral damage in that area these mistakes are as follows first delay in handling down the exaggeration order where the execution squadron should've been waiting for the target to approach a clear area free of civilians to avoid unjustified collateral damage in line with the approved rules of engagement an article fifty seven and fifty eight a political one of the geneva convention and the started norms seventeen and nineteen. the findings came just days after two reports critical of the saudi led
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efforts in yemen the u.n. panel of experts said that both sides in the conflict including the saudi coalition could be guilty of war crimes and human rights watch accused the saudi led coalition of failing to investigate allegations of possible war crimes it said too often their inquiries like transparency credibility and did little to stop strikes hitting civilians. so the investigators see those responsible must be punished. the joint team is also of the opinion that the coalition forces should take necessary measures to immediately review and verify the rules of engagement approved by them to ensure the total compliance in all military operations in yemen . there are suggestions the saudis and the allies have come under u.s. pressure to do more to cut the number of civilian casualties the surprise admission of mistakes may go some way to improving relations and peace talks are still planned to be hosted by the u.n. later this month. and alan it does seem doesn't have very much to say the ninth
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incident in which a school bus was bombed and which led to such a profound loss of life is going to be a seminal moment in terms of the war in yemen particularly as we look forward now to those u.n. sponsored talks in geneva. but i believe that is something that you can only judge it with the passage of time it would be much too soon to suggest that that is going to be significant because we've seen similar incidents over a war which has lasted more than three and a half years what we do know is that countries like germany and others have said that they are no longer going to supply weapons to anyone who is involved in this incident in this war in yemen either side did they simply not going to provide weapons and certainly the united states great britain and france are coming under increasing pressure to stop providing weapons to saudi arabia but you remember when saudi crown prince was in the oval office meeting donald trump donald trump held up
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would essentially was of course the board showing the weapons that had been sold to saudi arabia and we know that there is a contract for laser guided missiles to be sold to the saudis in the coming weeks and months and so it is a it's a seminal moment it's perhaps premature given that any other have been other incidents like this and people thought well this time it's got to change what could be key is just how much pressure is brought to bear before both sides run the table on september the sixth with the united nations trying to broker some sort of peace deal in yemen al official live interview to thank you. for the u.s. is trying to cancel three hundred million dollars in military aid to pakistan accusing islam about of failing to take action against armed groups but pakistan denies giving taliban fighters safe haven u.s. secretary of state mike pompei is due to go to the capital islamabad to meet the newly elected prime minister imran khan on wednesday let's go live now to islamabad
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our correspondent there is kemal hi did come out it seems as though we've been here before over several administrations in washington we've heard threats and words of blame being attached to the pakistani authorities do we think that they mean it this time. well if you really look back the u.s. administration under from the cold war he. and ritchie came down very hard on pakistan pakistan then categorically rejected the u.s. policy and of course as you said this particular where they're coming at a time when pakistan had already sent a signal to the united states that it did willing to be a partner in britain or be a party to any conflict the pakistanis said that they have launched several military operations there and driven out those factions that may have been enrolled
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in crossing the border and targeting u.s. forces or of the armed forces inside of one has done so this particular move by the united states is likely to. just two days ago the foreign minister warned the pakistanis made it clear that they would support iran and its principle to. stand strong on the nuclear issue and also living up to its promise of trying to forge a brand new foreign policy initiate dave and richard will try to improve relations with the neighboring countries and reduce its reliance on the united states but nonetheless if the americans do go ahead with this plan to cut three hundred million dollars worth of military aid i mean that will severely affect pakistan's operations. well it will definitely affect
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the ongoing operations and particularly morning training the. border where pakistan had deployed over one hundred thousand troops however pakistan has forged stronger links with moscow recently there was an important move that the united states recently stopped a program for training progress on the military the russians were quick to offer. danis relations with moscow beijing of course had already been a strong point of the pakistani foreign policy so we are seeing a new. developing to this us age of many in the region as far as the pakistanis see it right thanking. live in islamabad the syrian state media has denied that there was an israeli attack on an air base near damascus on saturday night. blas had
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been had near the missing base on the western outskirts of the capital state media says an electrical fort hood led to the plus i mean nations stephanie deca has more from montauk air near the turkey syria border. the first you know the first thought and the first for a lot of people certainty is that israel would have been behind this it's not the first time that israel has struck this military base outskirts of damascus israel's concern of course is always iran what then shipments to iranian forces particularly hezbollah that can bend threaten israel security israel never comments on these strikes however they do admit that yes they do target these kinds of weapons shipments or weapons storage is syrian state television quoting military sources saying it wasn't israel it was an electrical fault but there is a lot of skepticism about that there's other syrian military sources being quoted saying that israel was behind it the syrian observatory which monitors the war saying that israel was behind the war casualties we do know there were reports of
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