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the house of the emperor where the emperor don pedro the second of brazil used to live being destroyed i see the history of my country becoming ashes it has no price i am devastated. still to come here at al-jazeera meet the japanese photographer he takes me back in time how he captures the present while preserving the past. and i'm sorry for sit in one of the last places you might expect to find high level showjumping right here in the gaza strip. and it was raining heavily again you'll not be surprised to hear it in the philippines just north of the capital in news on one hundred twenty millimeter or thereabouts in twenty four hours now they heaviest rain seems to been drifting a little bit further south in the last twenty four hours and that same line runs
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through the far south of vietnam and cambodia and bits of thailand where the heaviest rain is it's also been running fairly heavily than near singapore columba this general area in sumatra it's not come much for the sas of course we've still got our favorite showers in seoul away see and obviously to expect more and more the way shots come down through borneo the next day or so and that's by be interesting to cause it looks like it's dry but not far away now from the from the coming showers there australia another i think good news the circulation cloud there it's only grace suggests a few showers running through queens in new south wales where currently their course is a drought certainly is reflected in the forecast a shower or two concentrating on the coast from sydney north up through queensland seventeen in melbourne and adelaide and indeed in person where the breeze is coming out the interior briefly that it turns around the suddenly means down to fifteen degrees the next system is developing in the barge which means it's just warming up a little bit in adelaide but a bright eighteen degrees. love
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struggles. or sores. on the cement into the stone on the surface the bore full of pleasure in our lives to tell that i'm there also doesn't mean the elephants among the system an intimate look at life in cuba today from a clue are at least i mean yeah coming down a long time with graying told me it was a little like the last one of the year my cuba on trial just zero. and so to our top stories there's been widespread widespread condemnation of the
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decision to jail to his journalists while loan and child so who were found guilty of possessing state secrets and sentenced to seven years in prison the journalist say they were framed by the police. saving measures he's been declared by the u.s. backed government in libya after weeks of fighting in the capital at least forty one people have been killed in and around tripoli one hundred others have been injured including civilians brazil's president says hundreds of years of history have been destroyed in a massive fire of the national museum the three hundred year old building in rio de janeiro held some of the region's best preserved human fossils and ancient egyptian artifacts. the china's president xi jinping is currently addressing african leaders at a major summit in beijing which is aimed at deepening ties with the continent president xi earlier promised african business leaders that investment doesn't come with
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political strings attached he says that beijing so-called belzer road initiative could bring both sides common prosperity but there is concern that chinese investment could be saddling poor countries with too much debt. we follow a five no approach in our relations and after no interference in african countries pursue your development path featuring their national conditions. no interference in african countries internal affairs no imposition of our will on african countries no attachment of political strings to assistance to africa and not seeking selfish political gains through investment and financing cooperation with africa. we talked to our correspondent adrian brown who's covering the conference in beijing and there we have from president xi adrian and saying what is pretty much music to the is of many african leaders no political strings attached they
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don't want to interfere in other people's internal affairs they'll just do business . yes except a lot of experts analysts would say that in fact china is doing the exact opposite because a lot of the loans that he gives to africa do come with really strong strings attached and that's one of the reasons why there is now a growing indebtedness among african countries in africa countries who are dependent on china for loans but you can also hear from african leaders who say actually you know china does treat africa as an equal partner and those loans are one of the reasons why prosperity in africa is growing why there are more jobs being created but certainly the issue of debt i think is something that is going to be discussed here at this summit but we should also bear in mind that really this is more a summit that is about symbolism than anything else because it lasted just two days
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martin but what china's leaders can show to their people and to the world is this look we have brought together heads of government political leaders from more than fifty countries on one continent where we china and other growing dominant economic power and this is a relationship martine really that began more than two decades ago china needed africa because africa was of course at that stays rich in the sort of resources and minerals that china needed to pass our to fuel its economy but now in many ways as i say china africa has become a customer for the chinese loans and you know china is encouraging chinese firms to go to africa to do business to build roads bridges etc because there's only a limited number of those projects now in china so chinese companies have to look further afield if you like and given the. trade tensions that exist between
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china and the world's largest economy the united states presumably at the market place it is africare is ink. missing the important china now more so than before. absolutely right i mean china is ducking around but you countries to do business with in the light of the deepening trade war with the united states and in fact just a few minutes ago president xi jinping has now been speaking for more than thirty minutes spoke out against protectionism he warned against protectionism and said that countries who try and isolate themselves like an island have no future and that i think was probably a jibe ainda squarely at president donald trump all right agent take you very much indeed adrian brown there live in beijing well i've been speaking to alec on saturday has a financial analyst and c.e.o. of rich management he says there are growing concerns of africa about the costs of
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chinese infrastructure project. real worries now about truck diplomacy we've seen what's happened to the hambantota port in sri lanka where the chinese have taken it for ninety nine years because the sri lankans couldn't make that infrastructure pay and there's a worry on the continent that this infrastructure has been inflated in price and is highly unlikely to make a return on investment that is necessary for these countries to get in order to pay back the debt and the african citizens increasingly queering some of these projects and increasingly it's becoming becoming very obvious that many of them are white elephants and i think a lot of folks are now beginning to worry i think there is the future of senior african relations is going to depend entirely on how china manages this situation a debt situation which is spiraling out of control and this is why western powers
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that be have been nosing around we've had to raise the main town merkel in town last week who revisited president trump not to long ago it's because they can sense the opportunity and they can sense the problems yemen's government has ordered a temporary halt to imports of luxury goods in an effort to prop up the struggling local currency even in the southern city of aden i think banning tires and blocking roads in protest at the deteriorating economic situation the yemeni reality is lost more than half its value it is a saudi you a coalition began its offensive in twenty fifteen's. now one of every eighteen migrants who tries to cross the mediterranean this year have died that's according to the u.n. refugee agency and with people smugglers now taking greater risks the agency says european leaders the steam or to try to save their lives victoria case in the reports. these images of three year old alan curry's body shocked people around the
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world it was a reminder of the human cost of the syrian war and the refugee crisis three years on the dangers faced by other refugees trying to get to europe have increased a report by u.n.h.c.r. shows more than sixteen hundred people have died or gone missing while attempting to reach europe so far this year well the total number of people arriving in europe has fallen the rate of deaths has risen sharply particularly for those crossing by the mediterranean sea in the central mediterranean one person died or went missing for every eighteen people who crossed to europe in the first half of twenty eighteen compared to one death for every forty two people he crossed in the same period last year there isn't the traffic has become more deadly he's the traffickers are taking more risk because there is more surveillance exists. cause god's on the air trying to get the coast it does cost them more to keep those
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people longer in their warehouse and their captivity the drivers of forced migration remain unchanged conflicts in africa and the middle east are forcing people to leave their homes the solution should not just be new up to europe to sort of lead us to be exemplary in its response but it's quite clear that it's already too late when the people are in need we need to work downstream in country first in country of origin and that takes time despite information campaigns the more warnings through social media about the dangers they may face refugees feel they have no choice but to risk their lives crossing the mediterranean victoria gate and be out there. israel's navy has fired warning shots towards boats that are attempting to breach the naval blockade of gaza the palestinian vessels plan to
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sail off the girls a strip as part of an international campaign against the siege on board were students activists and several people who can't get the agent medical care they need because of the blockade by israel and egypt they were forced but support by the israeli military by the spies of the blockade there are still some recreational singles or that offer an escape from living on the scenes are a facet of forth it has been to find one of them. is the fierce heat of the day starts to it's time to get ready last minute grooming final checks on saddles and stirrups. and then out into the arena here in northern gaza given the territories recent history of conflict blockade and economic crisis it's perhaps a surprise to find young people here competing in what around the world is viewed as an elitist sport. is aiming himself to be an elite showjumper taking
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advantage of the recent opening of gaza's southern crossing with egypt he traveled to jordan and then germany excelling in two five nation tournaments and i struggled for all of my ambition is to compete internationally in the recent tournaments i won first and second places some competitions allow us to qualify for the world cup but we've missed out on so many because of the siege and the closure of the crossings. this is final training for a gaza wide competition unlike many sports in this conservative society here girls and boys train and compete together the contests a split according to the heights of the jumps not the competitors gender if event. there's no difference we like brothers and sisters and i'm ready to compete in society does ban women from doing a few things that contradict additions but i didn't catch all continue. but the egalitarian ism only goes so far this is an activity reserved for the very few in gaza who can afford it stabling cost about two hundred dollars a month some of the horses imported from israel even europe are worth thousands.
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most of gaza's horses are used to heavy labor not sport unemployment stands at forty four percent more than half the population relies on food aid all around the world this is a sport that carries connotations of elite isn't and wealth but here in gaza more than most places the contrast between scenes like this and the realities of daily life for so many is particularly stark. trainer ahmed ramsey says working with horses helps children who no matter their relative wealth have had childhoods marred by conflict and siege but he says the costs are becoming harder to sustain. how. even well off families are now reducing their expenses including on this port many will send their son to get trained but when they reach a certain level with competition and fees and so on then they stop. a few days later and it's competition time relatives friends nervous parents lined the side of
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the arena star rider ahmed is finding his horse car the gold a bit hot to handle he places third. rail you know. i did my best and i trained very well and i hope next time to win a better place it's the kind of attitude required of young athletes around the world but perhaps especially of those growing up in gaza harry forsett al-jazeera gaza. told here celebrates his one hundred fiftieth anniversary this year as the capital of japan and there's one of the world's most modern cities formally known as it was renamed in eighteen sixty eight during the meiji restoration which marks the beginning of rapid modernization but in a country known for its innovative technology we met one photographer who uses a technique older than tokyo itself to capture the present while preserving the past. my name is tyler he no wonder i'm
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a photographer. so i think of my studio as a theme park where you can travel back in time i want to show everyone this is what it looked like back then. coming come here to see the origin of photography others come looking for something different from digital for us. this is the second oldest photographic technique in the world in dates back to the eight hundred fifty s. . it's what people used before film and it came here in the eight hundred sixty s. . i just bought the cameras decoration. but had examined and repaired. that made me want to shoot with it. but luckily it's so exciting and. committed to this is more of a machine than a camera i can actually put it to work. this method uses collodion
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solution which takes a month to prepare. a board on the glass plate soak it in silver nitrate solution in about five minutes the plate becomes the film. the models have to freeze for six seconds using a supporting device to keep your head still. i need to shoot and develop it right away before it dries everything has to be done when the plate is still wet you have to be fast luck is a part of this method too you might get spots on the photo and people prefer the look of imperfection because you can never recreate it. almost japan's wet plate photographs appear more rustic compared to other countries that's the look i'm trying to revive. a lot of young people come here the old method has a fresh appeal to them and many people bring really unique outfits like the ancient armor. others come to celebrate weddings with one of
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a kind photography they're looking for something to treasure. and they say wow that looks like my grandfather that looks like my grandmother my ancestors that's the impression i get is it yourself that you see. this technique existed in the past and i don't want to let it disappear again. traverses take a look at the top stories here about this area there's been widespread condemnation of a mere marcos decision to jail to reuters journalists learn and char so who were found guilty of possessing state secrets and sentenced to seven years in prison and adjourn they say they were framed by the police iraq's first parliamentary session since its a species election in may is underway eleven political groups have agreed to create
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an alliance to make the largest bloc in parliament the coalition is comprised of those who are loyal to the influential shia cleric. and prime minister. between them they have one hundred seventy seven members of parliament giving them an outright majority. a state of emergency has been declared by the u.s. backed government in libya after weeks of fighting in the capital at least forty one people have been killed and one hundred others have been injured including civilians the u.n. is calling on all sides to abide by a previously agreed cease. brazil's president says hundreds of years of history have been destroyed in a massive fire at the national museum the two hundred year old building in rio de janeiro held some of the region's best preserved human fossils and another and ancient egyptian artifacts of orlando might get to hear their advocacy nations it's a loss for the world this can never be recovered to the people of the building
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there is no way to get it back thankfully no one died but the loss can never be recovered. china's president xi jinping has pledged sixty billion dollars in financial support for africa he's speaking at a major summit in beijing aimed at defining ties with the continent earlier president she had promised african business leaders that investment wouldn't come with political strings attached but there is concern that china may be saddling poor countries with too much debt yemen's government has ordered a temporary halt to impulse of luxury goods in an effort to prop up the struggling economy people in the southern city of aden have been burning tires and blocking roads in protest against the worsening economic situation the yemeni reelz lost more than half its value since the saudi u.a.e. coalition began its offensive in twenty fifteen are you have today this is the latest headlines coming up next it's witness the minister of garbage.
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in indonesia palm oil is a billion dollar business want to investigate the price the country's paying. to feed the world's oil addiction. zero. this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes today is a sad day for me and mark reuters journalists well known and trust and the press everywhere international condemnation after of course in mere man sentences to
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journalists to seven years in prison. china's president pledges sixty billion dollars in financial assistance to africa. a fire as a two hundred year old museum in brazil destroys one of the last america's most important collection of treasures. on paul reese all of sports coming up. show how you know tani returns to the mound and equals a record set by babe ruth ninety nine years ago. two reuters journalists found guilty of illegally obtaining state secrets have been sentenced to seven that is in prison. who were arrested whilst investigating the killing of ten men by security forces the case has been seen as a test of min miles approach to press freedom and journalists say they were framed
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by police but hey joins us now live from bangkok and neighboring thailand plenty of international reaction to this but what are we hearing from inside. well silence laura nothing yet from the government of me and my in response to this verdict probably not surprising given that this case has reflected so badly on it and not expecting either that. the state councilor of me and my will be in a rush to give her reaction to it given she's been largely silent throughout this case and has also been silent on many other freedom of speech and human rights issues since her government came to power but the pressure will certainly come on her again now that a verdict in this case has been handed down. instead of walking free while alone inch or so who were taken from court and back to prison throughout this ordeal the reuters journalists had remained defiant and positive and that continued even after
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hearing they'd been sentenced to seven years in jail you know knowing this is directly challenging the democracy and media freedom of our country we will calmly face the situation with our best efforts in the appeal since we do not do anything we have no fear we are going to do our best to face it. the verdict was widely condemned reuters says it will not give up and is considering what steps to take next today is a sad day for me and maher reuters journalist while loan and choice of who and the press everywhere these two admirable reporters have already spent more than eight months in prison on false charges designed to silence their reporting and intimidate the press. the journalists were arrested in december last year as they were investigating an arbitrary execution of ten reading in men by soldiers and militia the prosecution's case centered on secret documents the reuters writer's head at the time of their arrest but while lone inch or so to say they were framed
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testifying that those papers were given to them by the police who moments later arrested them it seems that in doing their job they had gone too far in the minds of the military that still the most powerful force in myanmar will have been unfairly accused we have been convicted of breaching the official secrets act we performed according to media ethics we didn't do anything harmful towards our nation and we didn't commit any crime however they decided to convict us anyway. the verdict will heap more international pressure on me and my own son sujit once a campaigner for freedom of speech and human rights she remained largely silent throughout the trial the government now has the ability to issue pardons for while alone and sure so two journalists imprisoned for investigating a crime signaling the end of media freedom in myanmar so way now for these two journalists planning to a pale. well they certainly can appeal and judging by the comments from while
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alone outside the court gone after the verdict was handed down it seems that's what they plan to do we've heard from reuters management as well they say that they're going to talk to the family members of while alone and sure so obviously to the lawyers as well before deciding what their next move may be no doubt they'll be plenty of lobbying international law being going on behind the scenes as well to try to get this verdict overturned to try to get this pier freed but most attention loral probably focus on the pardon and the ability of this government to pardon this pier pretty much immediately but that may be contingent on an appeal process and any pardon may have to wait until that appeal process plays out which unfortunately if they do decide to appeal may mean that they could be in jail for quite some time yet but as a say presumably that pardon can be granted pretty quickly if there is the desire to do that within this government ok when hey bring us the latest from bangkok on
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the situation in myanmar thanks very much. and al jazeera journalist mahmoud hussein has spent more than six hundred days behind bars in egypt without charge the same is accused of broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame egypt's state institutions and al-jazeera strongly deny the allegations in the network is demanding his release. china's president xi jinping has pledged sixty billion dollars in financial support to africa she told leaders his country will also increase imports from africa he's been speaking at a major summit aimed at deepening time she says beijing's so-called built in road initiative could bring both sides common prosperity parity but there's concern chinese investment might be saddling poor countries with too much debt. janet johnson i don't think. we follow a five point approach with africa no interference with african countries pursuit of
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development fitting the national condition is no different with african countries internal affairs no imposition of our will on african countries no attachment of political strings to assistance and no seeking selfish political gains in investment and finance corporation. of wallace let's go live to asian brown he's an beijing of that conference right here when the key messages from she is that there's no strings attached to loans but of course when the big criticisms is that many african countries can't pay this money back did she address that as well. yes in his speech towards the end he did address the issue of the debt he said that those countries poor countries that were unable to pay off what they owe china by the end of the year would not have to he said that this offer was a country's he said you have diplomatic relations with china of course there is just one country left in africa that doesn't have diplomatic relations with china
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and that is this was the land so clearly that was an overture are being made by president xi jinping because they would desperately like to get that one last country in of course in a many ways this demonstrates once more the growing isolation of taiwan this is a diplomatic event laura where china is able to demonstrate to its people and to the world that it's able to bring together fifty leaders more than fifty leaders prime ministers and heads of state from one continent where china is now the dominant investor and president xi reminded his audience that in fact he's made four visits to africa during the past five years and in fact chinese leaders have made a total of seventy nine visits to africa in the past decade and that really does underscore in many ways china's deepening engagement with africa so china as expected has offered more money to africa but there will be those economists the international monetary fund in particular who will worry that more and more african
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countries are becoming hooked on chinese aid that they're going to become indebted to china over a prolonged period and the i.m.f. actually has said that it believes a third of african countries are now having difficulties paying off their loans but the president has gone some way today towards addressing those concerns these two dozen because african trade is more necessary to china than perhaps ever before is it increasingly embroiled in this trade war with the u.s. . yes the chinese president said that china will import more from africa china of course would like to export more to africa as well and in a way it is exporting to africa what it's exporting at the moment is is loans you know these countries are borrowing money from china and they do come with strings attached china is encouraging its companies to invest in africa because there's only so many you know bridges railway lines and road you can build in china and
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these firms have to look elsewhere for work and also to keep their workers because when china goes to africa and it's hard to think of any country in africa that has not been touched by chinese investment this all helps china's growth figures it helps to maintain economic growth in china and that is very important asian brown joins there from that conference in beijing thanks very much agent. is a financial analyst and c.e.o. of which management has a financial and political advisor and he says there are growing concerns in africa about the costs of chinese infrastructure projects. real worries now about that track diplomacy we've seen what's happened to the hambantota port in st lanka where the chinese have taken it for ninety nine years because the sri lankan couldn't make that infrastructure pay and there's a worry on the continent that this infrastructure has been inflated in price and is
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highly unlikely to make a return on investment that is necessary for these countries to get in order to pay back the debt and the african citizens increasingly queering some of these projects and increasingly it's becoming becoming very obvious that many of them are white elephants and i think a lot of folks are now beginning to worry i think that is the future of siena african relations is going to depend entirely on how china manages this debt situation a debt situation which is spiraling out of control and this is why western powers have been has been nosing around we've had to raise a main town merkel in town last week who revisited president front not too long ago it's because they can sense the opportunity and they can sense the problem. as part of more still ahead on this news hour including four months on from controversial elections a coalition comes together in iraq. and more refugees and migrants dying in the
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mediterranean whilst trying to reach europe we'll give you details of a u.n. report. in sports the former african player of the year who isn't quite managing to relive his former glories and cast. iraq's first parliamentary session since a disputed election in may is under way eleven groups have agreed to create an alliance that includes those loyal to shiite cleric. whose bloc won the most votes . bodies group is also part of that coalition between them they have one hundred seventy seven members of parliament that gives them an outright majority and then opposition looks set to be high. alliance which includes many pro iranian former paramilitary fighters.

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