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protests to stall near reign in. the corruption and poor public services. and i mean this is al jazeera live from london also coming up in the program. civilians protest in italy while turkey's president warns of a bloodbath as he discusses the fates of the syrian province with the leaders of russia and iran. donald trump for my campaign advisor george papadopoulos is jailed for fourteen days for lying to the f.b.i. . this is not normal. these are extraordinary times and they're dangerous times.
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and speaking his truth trumps british as it makes his feelings known as americans to get out and vote in the midterm elections. so iran has reportedly closed its border crossing with iraq off to protest to storm the iranian consulate in the southern iraqi city of setting it alight demonstrators also entered a water treatment facility briefly taking two employees hostage before leaving peacefully that angry at what they see is iranian influence in the region as well as a lack of basic services deep this is dissatisfaction with the government one protested died on friday taking the death toll since monday to twelve m. heywood has more. it'd been a day of tension culminating in the iranian consulate. after being stormed by
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a group of protesters they tried to set it alight the day before but were pushed back this time though it was left. demonstrators bent in their anger about iran's alleged involvement in iraqi politics and its failure as i say to deliver key services to the city people here believe the politicians have turned their backs on that neglecting government corruption has caused a systematic decay of its infrastructure yes yes i don't know why i'm living comfortably at parliament and inside the green zone and while we're out here dying of hunger and thirst why are young people in graduate school in the market selling onions all the government jobs are restricted to the parties. at least fifteen buildings connected to politics in the oath or it is have been targeted in the past few days this is the shell of the provincial government offices. some iraqis
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have been killed him what's regarded as iraq's shia muslim heartland in northern bass were hundreds of people were attending a funeral and. these are protesters. they are protesting unemployment the water crisis the bad services how dad how dad i kill them god would never allow this. during friday prayers the representative of a rexx leading shia cleric condemned the violence against both the protesters and security forces guarding the buildings he also criticised politicians for being too interested in buying the power to shop at sab miller the patient people cannot afford more lack of interest from the officials in solving their increasing problems and the crisis they're competing between themselves for political gain and gaining governmental posts along foreigners to intervene in the country's affairs.
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iraq's parliament is expected to hold an emergency session to discuss the crisis on saturday and he would al-jazeera. well. it's your policy analysis at the institute and he says the demonstrators have been angry for a long time i think people are just but this thing against iranian interference in their own and don't know if it was after fifteen years of the us invasion of iraq and iran has influence in the conflict because as you know all those who are running the country those have been running the country for the boss fifteen years are actually iranian allies and those people are protesting against these elites which are backed by iran on the one hand and also they are protesting against iranian policies in the south of iraq because as you know is that the iranians i mean there has been some accusations against iran that dumping its nuclear waste and what are we i mean is the mean. for
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the most people drink from this what i did has been. incidents reported recently that people have iran has cut the electricity supply in the recent weeks claiming that the iraqi government has not been able to be for that electricity and that is another reason actually why people have directed there against iran so so the corrupt it which has been the willing which is backed by iran i think we have seen i mean to be the sort of got that is actually expressed by iraqi against those people. turkey has warned that it cannot take in any more syrian refugees if the government and russian forces push ahead with a planned offensive in libya president typer one expressed fears of a bloodbath as he met the leaders of iran and russia to discuss the fate of the
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rebel held province the leaders agreed that the conflicts can only end through a negotiated political process and they said they will meet again in russia to try and seek a joint solution. surrounded by syrian forces from the west from the south and from the east with almost three million people trapped and thought full scale fighting could cause a humanitarian disaster so far as strikes have focused on the western town of just a few go which is a stronghold for the al qaeda linked group. turkey is trying to prevent an all out conflict ferrying tens of thousands more refugees would flee across its border or take as president reza toploader one call for an urgency in syria and i was serious to me there are different methods required in the struggle against terrorism which involve patience and sensitivity as turkey we have shown these qualities and we are determined to continue in this way we do not want a bloodbath in italy and we expect you to support us in this regard we have shared
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concerns in relation to it and we must find a solution with this in mind. the russian president vladimir putin rejected calls for a ceasefire saying the syrian government has the right to regain its territory. mr upon which. we should think over all aspects of this complicated issue and solve the problem together while understanding that the legitimate syrian government has the right and should have the end but the whole national territory under its control when you might the un security council has also been discussing the fate of in the province diplomatic editor james bays reports from un headquarters in new york. there was a solemn mood in the security council chamber many diplomats believe it's no longer a question of if the it liber fence it will take place but instead when what will probably be the last and biggest battle of the syrian war will begin the un special
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envoy stefan de mistura offered to share a plan to end the bloodshed with security council members in private since they've been asked to do we have at the un any ideas we do there may be a big deliberate reading then when we meet. but the current president of the council us ambassador nikki haley urged him to reveal it in the open session and he did ideally all militant fighters should be asked with a deadline to move their own military presence bait is a way. away from populated think that. at the same time and here comes that message and image i've got from the population. i mean. indicating that this is what they've been after from door to to move out don't they may how does dame a city creamy don't people get to be mobilized on that the special envoys also
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hoping that turkey will put pressure on the armed groups to leave the built up areas but there is a big question mark about this plan if you've been fighting for more than seven years in syria why would you leave the villages the towns and the cities and go into the countryside where you know it's likely you'll be bombed by the syrian or russian air force james pays out zira of the united nations where they have been demonstrations across syria against the planned offensive in it led thousands of people to the streets after friday prayers calling for a halt to any military operation many have been preparing shelters and stockpiling food more than half of it lives population already displaced people who've fled other parts of the country. the u.s. president's former campaign foreign policy adviser has been given a fourteen day jail sentence for lying to federal agents george papadopoulos
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pleaded guilty last year to lying to investigators about his a contact with russians during the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign pedicle hayne was at the sentencing. so in this courtroom george papadopoulos learned that he will spend at least fourteen days in prison coming up in the next couple of months he's also going to have to serve two hundred hours of community service pay a nine thousand five hundred dollars fine and he will be on supervised release for an entire year now who is george papadopoulos but he's really one of the key reasons why the f.b.i. began looking into the potential of collusion between russia and the trump campaign potential russian interference in the twenty six thousand election how is that well he was drinking in a london bar while talking to a diplomat from australia and he told them that some russian officials had told him that they had dirt on hillary clinton well after her d.n.c. the democratic national committee e-mails were released they notified the f.b.i. and that is what the investigation so the sense of fourteen days that's because
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george papadopoulos admits he lied to the f.b.i. when they tried to question him about it he said it took about six months when they came back at the arrested him then he offered a career cooperate but they say he did so begrudgingly and didn't give them a whole lot of helpful information still the judge did say that it was a very serious crime and so he said he was going to sentence him to fourteen. well former u.s. president barack obama has strongly criticized his successor donald trump in the republican party in a rare political speech about what will people to get out of vote in the midterm congressional elections which could have a major impact on trump's presidency white house correspondent can be how could. accusing current president donald trump of capitalizing on resentment former u.s. president barack obama delivered a blistering attack on trump's time in the white house this is not normal these are extraordinary times and they're dangerous drug. obama is back on the campaign trail
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advocating for democrats in advance of a november vote that will determine control of the u.s. congress and offer what he believes is a much needed check on his successor the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the republican party obama's fiery speech took aim at some of trump's most controversial moments as president clued in his response to white nationalist protests in charlottesville when trump claimed both sides of the trouble were supposed to stand up to discrimination and was sure as heck supposed to stand up clearly and unequivocally to nazi sympathizers eighty. how hard can that be saying that nazis are bad. obama's attack comes as trump is also campaigning for republicans in north dakota trump responded i'm sorry i
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watched it but i fell asleep i. shot back at obama who said the economic recovery started under his presidency if the democrats got in with their agenda in november of almost two years ago and said of having four point two up i believe honestly you'd have four point two down you'd be negative you'd be a negative numbers thank you illinois but still obama's speech is a stinging rebuke of a sitting president with a distinctly different vision of democracy kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington. so i had this off. the starting of a far right presidential candidate phrase brazil's election deeper into chaos. and the shadows in the car make it tesla for as much as ten percent of the more bizarre behavior from chief executive.
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carlo welcomes another look at the international forecast michael some useful showers pushing into the eastern side of australia little bit of cloud here showing up quite nicely into much of new south while sandy for central and eastern parts of new south wales and they'll be some much needed rainfall coming in as we go on through the next few days maybe even pushing up towards the gold coast by the skies come back in behind thirty one celsius for darwin were to nineteen degrees but plenty of sunshine in that sunshine continuing into sunday twenty celsius a path that stays central possibles looking fine and dry as is the case to buy this state across the eastern side of the country maybe just one or two coastal showers there up toward. brisbane the west to weather the windy weather it's making its way towards new zealand not too bad for the now we're in between weather systems so you
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can see the areas of cloud either side of new zealand we see terms getting up to around ten celsius in the sunshine crisp sunshine for christchurch then on saturday afternoon a sixteen there for clint as we go on into sunday little cooler some wet weather making as went east in parts of new zealand a little area of rain just making its way into western parts of news even meanwhile the rain continues to make its way across japan over the next couple of days looking very wet on saturday and sunday. counting the cost of austerity in argentina but will medicine fix the economy and what about before out for emerging markets plus the good the bad and the ugly the corporate in fact society and the environment and why but let me also paying attention. counting the cost on al-jazeera. new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global
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perspective. but again a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera iraqi protesters have set fire to iran's consulate in the southern city of pads or they're angry at alleged iranian involvement in iraqi politics and the government's failure to provide basic services jobs. the leaders of turkey russia and iran have mentioned tehran to discuss the leaving fight for the syrian province of idlib turkey's president warned of a bloodbath and said his country cannot afford to take in more refugees if civilians are forced to flee syrian assault on rebel fighters. and donald trump's former
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campaign advisor george papadopoulos has been jailed for fourteen days for lying to investigators about his contact with russians during the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign. un mediated peace talks on yemen on hold. and failed to arrive in geneva they say they will attend of certain demands including allowing the delegation to return to the rebel held capital sana meanwhile yemenis been protesting against the fighting as well as rising living costs and future projects from neighboring djibouti is andrew symonds. another protest over a shattered economy much bigger than previous demonstrations this is the booty rebel held capital city of sana'a what. he may want to starve our people to death shame on them we will triumph no matter what the saudi and american enemies to the devil may be in the detail of preconditions for talking in geneva but with the
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hoody delegation still here the motivations of both sides seem unclear and the hopes of many people for dialogue are diminishing. in government held areas in aden and southern yemen here the aftermath of a six day of protests with shops all closed down but central to whichever side people are on isn't so much the cost of living it's the cost of survival demonstrations continue for and against the saudi a coalition backed government and different reasoning for some of the unrest there's anger shown by those joining the fighting this man says fighting for the u.a.e. earns a fraction of the money paid to those fighting for the saudis and with the currency worth so little now it isn't enough. we want our burning tires because our people are exhausted compared to those in
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a saudi salary we find prices extremely high hunger and everything else is here we are protesting against what we call corruption and the situation's way to yemeni people have to suffer they store fuel from the petrol stations and fell on the black market people keep the days to get people back in santa suit is united with their enemies in one interest getting by here in the old market plenty of produce but it can only be afforded by a minority with enough cash this is a country in deeper crisis than ever before in yemen it's the unspoken thoughts of of such. last number of civilians the hungry the bereaved the injured the destitute that could speak so much louder than all the protest slogans one n.g.o.s tried to convey some of the thoughts of those people by saying this it's time to put aside strategic and political ambitions and consider the future of yemen and the children
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all of those children who have been so recklessly treated under symons al-jazeera djibouti a palestinian teenager has been shot dead by israeli forces it's renewed clashes broke out during protests on the gaza border seventeen year old be allowed to fudge it was shot in the chest east of rougher according to the palestinian health ministry ninety four others were injured thirty with life bullets thousands attended friday's protest part of a weekly movement calling for the right of return for palestinian refugees to them . well israel has banned palestinian activists i had to meet me from traveling abroad to the seventeen year old and her family were supposed to travel to europe on friday where she was due to talk about the palestinian resistance movement and her experience in prison to me was arrested for slapping an israeli soldier last december and jailed for eight months she was released from prison in july. the son of a brazilian presidential candidate stabbed as
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a rally on thursday says he is unlikely to return to campaigning before the first round of voting on october the seventh doctors say the jab olson order is in a serious but stable condition despite making racist and homophobic comments the far right candidates is the front runner since for president due to silva was forced to pull out a latin america to use in human reports. just when it seemed brazil's presidential election campaign couldn't get more unpredictable the time to push a leading candidate was stabbed in the stomach during a street rally. or two conservative angelical j'ai. the device of law and order candidate sent this message to hospital. to woo his men can sew evil of never home anyone. but many brazilians disagree also natalie is facing a supreme court trial charged with making inflammatory anti gay and t.
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black and massaging the statements which promote hatred and condone great. all of bull sinatra's rivals strongly condemned the attack against the former army captain even former president rousseff whom he once said deserved to have been tortured during brazil's military dictatorship. is now whoever did this has to pay whoever did it or the equally controversial would be leading candidate lula da silva continues to fight for his right to campaign from his prison cell while he's serving a twelve year sentence for corruption still brazil's most popular politician he's been barred from running but is appealing the court decision but given the likelihood he'll lose he's expected to cede his candidacy to his vice presidential choice that number before wednesday the deadline for registering the former south paolo mer from the left wing workers' party is also now being accused of receiving in direct payments to his two thousand and twelve campaign he did nies any
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wrongdoing. what does the prosecution have in his hands the word of a bandit who lied eight times to the courts. regardless opinion polls show the head that is unlikely to inherit lula's popularity. also not as divisive and pro-gun stance also fracas merely resilience. all of which means that the thirteen candidate race is still wide open unless there is states that attack actually gives a model the edge he needs to win in a first round next month to see in human al-jazeera. mexico's national human rights commission says the number of bodies found in mass graves has reached almost seven hundred since the beginning of last year this follows the discovery of one hundred sixty six bodies in a field in vera cruz state said it is notorious for the illegal drugs war and cult tells smuggling cocaine north to the united states. parts of japan's earthquake hit
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island of hokkaido could be without power for a week according to authorities by the chewed six point seven quake left over five million people without power when it struck early on thursday at least eighteen people have died but in one small town hit by a landslide more than twenty people still unaccounted for more than one thousand far right supporters have rallied in the german city of chemist's it's the latest protest over the fatal stabbing of a man almost two weeks ago to migrants have been arrested and charged with manslaughter over the killing the crowd marched under the motto security for. the german chancellor meanwhile was meeting the french president a memo macro it must say high on the agenda major european issues from breaks it to how to better coordinate policy on migrants i love merkel has faced a political backlash over her response to the mediterranean refugee crisis germany has taken in more than a million refugees since two thousand and fifteen or more and more migrants are
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arriving on the spanish coast hoping to travel on once from there it is natasha but the reports from the french border they too are facing hurdles at the foot of the pier unease in the basque country and street divides northern spain from southwest and france scape and now a new frontline in europe's migration crisis. last year less than ten migrants a day came to the spanish town of iran hoping to reach france now it's near a forty ever hour and gran is part of a growing network of volunteers helping new arrivals there. we are driving around everyone in the last spanish town before the border with france and we're looking for people who've just arrived from the south of spain to give them some information. these men from the camorra silence in the indian ocean have tried to reach france the volunteers offer advice and a place at their shelter it's a bit of comfort far from home most here are from francophone africa sean claude is
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an engineer from cameroon after several attempts to cross the border he's given up his dream of a job in france. i thought it would be in eldorado but then you realize life is tough everywhere your family back home in africa calls you to help them but you can't your relatives put themselves in debt to send you your the big hope but if you can't satisfy their expectations it's hard it weighs on you you're in an empty place and finally you think you should have stayed in africa africa france recently toughened its immigration law and increased police border checks migrants are regularly sent back to spain for many people in this region the situation is an echo of their own past in one nine hundred thirty six during the spanish civil war a battle in iran led hundreds of people to flee their homes across this river to seek refuge in france. sat on a beach in
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a foreign country spanish refugees watched their town burn either how the communist party and the love they gave thinking at that. fortunately there are some people here who are aware that some people have to leave their countries for safety or to have a better life in this region we have our past in our history and they have left their mark on us. so far european leaders have failed to agree on a common approach to migration but most countries want tighter borders while doors a closing across the bloke here in iran there are some people trying to keep them in the tasha buckler al-jazeera iran spain the other mosque is an american billionaire credited with pushing the boundaries of innovation but now some are wondering if he's gone too far on friday the stock price of his company has lost as much as ten percent after his film smoking marijuana during an interview the latest in a series of awkward moments that. explains. it stuart whether
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a media stunt gone bad or an ill made decision probably can't because stockholders right. i mean it's legal right so they go ok the video of billionaire entrepreneur musk smoking marijuana during a live interview thursday has translated to a financial hit on his company the stock value of electric car manufacturer tesla tumbled nine percent friday morning continuing a downward trend fueled by a string of corporate resignations and its founders erratic behavior i'm going to text messages for for a manager and saying what the hell are you doing smoking weed musk in early august announced with a controversial tweet he was considering taking tesla private only to take back the idea weeks later before that he had bizarrely interjected himself into the rescue effort of twelve tibe boys trapped in a flooded cave when his offer to build
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a mini submarine was refused must turn his angsty toward a british rescue diver accusing him without giving evidence of being a pedophile tesla has also struggled with recent production delays of its latest model. but space x. and other evil must brainchild continues its groundbreaking success its reusable rockets and plans to return human spaceflight capability to the u.s. have upheld space x.'s status as one of the world's most valuable privately held companies asked thursday to explain his innovative genius musk said even as a child he knew he was different i think when i was five or six or something i thought i was insane why do you think you're insane because it's clear that our people do not want their mind wasn't exploding with ideas all the time the question
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is whether what makes musk so different is also driving him toward recklessness and how much patience investors wish to expend. hi joe castro al-jazeera washington. sir let's a recap of headlines here and i was there and iran has reportedly closed its border crossing with iraq after protests to storm the arraigning consulate in the southern iraqi city of light demonstrators are angry at what they see is iranian influence in the region it is the latest escalation following weeks of deadly protests triggered by a lack of basic services and thinks it is such dissatisfaction with the government on friday one more protests to die taking the death toll since monday to twelve turkey has warned it cannot take in any more syrian refugees if government forces push ahead with the planned offensive in italy the leaders of turkey iran and
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russia met in tehran to discuss the fates of the rebel held province it's fair that full scale fighting in egypt could cause a humanitarian disaster in almost three million people trapped the leaders agreed to meet again to seek a joint solution meanwhile thousands of people across syria protested against the planned offensive more than half of it lives population already displaced people who fled other parts of the country the u.n. says the syrian government's plan to retake it could trigger the worst humanitarian crisis of the war. the humanitarian impact on civilians of any increase in fighting will therefore be most severe and the worst case scenario and it lip where millions would flee would overwhelm all capacity to respond regardless of plans or funding made available. it has the potential to create a humanitarian emergency at a scale not just seen through this crisis the son of a brazilian presidential candidate stand during
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a rally says he is unlikely to return to campaigning before the first round of voting on the seventh jeb also nara has been transferred from a hospital in juist a photo where he was attacked to power is in a serious but stable condition is popular in opinion polls despite making divisive comments on several issues the us president's former campaign foreign policy adviser has been given a fourteen day jail sentence for lying to federal agents george peppard uplifts pleaded guilty last year to lying to investigators about his contacts with the russians during the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign all right you have stated all the stories here and i'll stay with this kind of the cost is coming up. as india was updating its citizenship records around four million people in the state are at risk of becoming stateless to the. infantry these are the majority of both. bead how does it michael both sides of this issue
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