tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera September 14, 2018 2:00am-3:01am +03
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sorum again the french military said to her that he had escaped but she never believed them she believed that he had been tortured and that he'd died in captivity what is only now more than sixty years later though the french president has admitted that morris or died did die that he was tortured at the hands of the french military and it's a very significant statement indeed closes a chapter for her and it also perhaps opens one one another one for other people because he has said that the french state archives on that period of time will be open so other people other relatives of people who disappeared at the time we have to find out what happened to their loved ones and whether or not the french military was involved in their deaths. still ahead on al-jazeera britain's government office business advice on how to handle a no deal. hello
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we've got more warm sunshine across a good part of the middle east a chance of want to see showers still spinning their way across turkey maybe the odd shower there into syria lebanon jordan over the next day or so but essentially for the most part doesn't look lousy dry the showers will be a bit further north pushing up towards the black sea maybe towards the caucuses as well but so warm sunshine for by roche at twenty nine celsius warm sunshine two for karate again at twenty nine degrees but we are going to see temperatures again getting up into the forty's for a good part of iraq and also into kuwait into the forty's here in dakar as well with a high of forty two celsius on friday looking at temperatures around thirty eight in abu dhabi a little more on the humid side here similar conditions as we go on through stay but it is pretty much wall to wall sunshine and bunny is on side to into our
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southern africa but a bit of cloud right now making its way away from the southern cape brightening skies coming back behind we'll see temperatures in capetown getting up to around sixteen degrees celsius ten degrees warmer than that four to hannah's or pleasant sunshine coming through a little more cloud spilling its way into the western cape as we go on through sas day but i suspect it will be largely fine and dry.
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welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera russia's president has inspected troops taking part in the largest war game since the fall of the soviet union that important says the armed forces will continue to be strengthened but russia is a peace loving states which doesn't have aggressive plan it's the saudi iraqi coalition at war in yemen says it continues to control the main routes supplying the important port of who data the fighters are under playing the reports saying they have repelled the government forces the u.n. envoy to yemen is set to visit to revive ceasefire talks and the un humanitarian
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coordinator for syria says nearly forty thousand people have fled it made since government and russian air strikes intensified last week this is calling for all parties involved in it to hold off tossed and express the need for further humanitarian aid to be brought into the rebel held and prayed. british prime minister teresa mayes holding a cabinet meeting to discuss scenarios for a no deal breck's it the british government is about to publish guidance in case the e.u. and the u.k. will not reach an agreement but the e.u.'s chief negotiator michel bania said on monday he thinks a deal could be struck in the next two months meanwhile some conservative m.p.'s have been meeting to discuss how and when they could force me to stand down as prime minister sonia go has the latest from london. office day morning's meeting was looking at pushing out more of those technical notes that are there to provide some kind of alter in the eventuality of a new deal brics it for example looking at how we. environmental standards would
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fare in this scenario as well as looking at issues like mobile phone roaming charges but also ahead of that meeting as well with comments from the brics it secretary dominic robb stating that if that would be the case and that no deal would be the scenario that the country went down then it would not be obliged to pay the fifty one billion dollar divorce settlement of this run counter to what the chance of the exchequer had said earlier that british finance minister saying that britain would fulfill its financial obligations meanwhile all of this is taking place against a background of potential leadership challenge mrs may the prime minister is facing off some serious contenders some ministers within her government even calling for her ouster whether she will face them off in time ahead of the party's conference
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in a few weeks time will be another matter altogether. now france spends more government money on social benefits and any other european country and yet millions live under the official poverty line present emanuel has unveiled a new mom two billion dollars plan to change that. if we don't want poverty to be a did in forever we need to get people back to work because having a job gives them an income which allows them to be proud and to have a normal social life i want to plan for poor people to live better i want to give them a choice so they don't feel like they're relying on welfare because that brings humiliation . well not cause announcement follows a new report by the n.g.o.s french popular every leave one of the one thousand people surveyed twenty one percent say they can't afford to have three meals a day more than a quarter say they don't have the money to buy fruits and vegetables every day for those who and less than fourteen hundred dollars a month more than half say they have difficulty paying for their children's meals
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in schools and eighty percent i can send their children will be even more vulnerable to poverty in the future yes and watch he is a chair of the justice and liberties for all committee he says a new multibillion dollar plan mccraw unveiled to tackle poverty is far from enough to help those in the eight when we help the reorient our economic policies you know the french economy is looked areas of for favoring of major corporations which in turn engage in tax evasion for example and that represents about sixty to eighty billion euros a year but also how to address our fiscal what is using which was a brutal sum for the lower income of families and then of course of the lore you make money the less you are being taxed by the government then you are added to it the structure later is zero for discrimination targeting forest a poor people as a whole but also on this information as communities you know to the standard some people who work in a very burdensome conditions the people who get their health is a through work their career as well as opposed to do continue working there as
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quickly or at least get some spirit time for their families and the education of their kids those eight billion dollars that emanuel mccoll is promising that the war isn't just the notes in comparison to the huge problem of the origin of friends and especially inequalities. diplomats and dignitaries from around the world have celebrated the life of kofi annan two thousand guests were invited to his state funeral in gaza the united nations secretary general for almost ten years and nobel peace prize laureate passed away last month on a dress reports from ghana's capital accra. a seventeen gun salute for the world's former top diplomat. and a state funeral for coffee and then laid to rest with full military honors. this far the works and dignitaries paid homage to the former u.n. secretary general the credited with helping to form the worldwide organization from
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the current secretary general since the shock of coffees that. i've been reflecting on what maybe i'm so special. to his family my love. back home where you started your long journey may you rest in peace may your wisdom and compassion continue to inspire and guide us that way because we are coming in and was awarded the nobel peace prize voice efforts at global peace in two thousand and one he is recognized for his contributions and reforms in the united nations to struggle i guess global terrorism and also divergent globalization a result of what's called general the spread of aids in africa also presided some of the biggest scandals and ten years in the united nations joining us. in one thousand nine hundred thirty s. under secretary general in charge of peacekeeping he and his team or criticized for it gloating warnings and failing to stop the war in the genocide he later
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apologized and fellow diplomats defended his record as they said goodbye there were one hundred genocide it was a failure of the world. community let down the people of rwanda but what is significant is that one school field wasn't position. you know for for a team he took initiatives to ensure that such a catastrophe would never be repeated and. was also criticised for failing to prevent supreme mr europe's wasc massacre since the second world war that didn't stop him becoming the first black african secretary-general of the united nations on the second african after book. from egypt. kofi annan died in sits alone last month after shortlists us eighty years old is remembered by colleagues and contemporaries as a soft spoken man of strong character and humility gunness president said he was
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the quintessential deplored the trees al-jazeera across. to the u.s. now and hurricane florence has been downgraded to a category two storm as it heads towards the east coast but weather forecasters is still warning of a disaster this is the latest satellite images now about two hundred kilometers off shore it's expected to make man four on the coast of north and south carolina and bring a life threatening storm say ten million people are now under hurricane warnings andy gallagher is live for us in north carolina he joins us from wilmington andy after orange is weaker but still very very dangerous tell us about the latest the situation where you are right now. you were starting to feel the winds pick up here we're starting to get those first schools as he said it's about two hundred kilometers off shore we're about ten and a half hours away from the eye of this storm slamming into wilmington north carolina where we are now and there are two major concerns that forecasters are here one is that storm surge you were talking about as high as four meters that
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would basically swallow up the first floor of all the buildings you see behind me some of them which are boarded up the second big concern the forecast is obvious how this storm will linger once it comes to the coastline here most storms just move inland the line sucks the power away from them this one is forecast to hang around for at least two days that means sixty hours potentially a very heavy rainfalls plus that storm surge of four meters one point six million people are under mandatory evacuation order many have left places like wilmington other we've seen lots of locals here who know once this storm hits there will be no help there are no emergency services if they get stuck in their buildings and their businesses or homes they are on their own and they know that so people are stocking up on things like water which is in very. scarce supply at the moment but this storm has the potential to cause about one hundred eighty billion dollars worth of damage there is a threat to life of course and although it's been downgraded to a category two storm it's got bigger as it's drawn closer to the coastline so this
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is a huge storm with potential for massive rainfall and of course that storm surge which is causing the most concern what areas are more or more at risk right now there's north carolina and south carolina of course and as you say they've been mandatory evacuation orders anyway for those areas what sort of dangers are people who've chosen to remain facing. i mean there are about five to six states under a state of emergency now even georgia which is way south of us virginia which is in london because they're all under a state of emergency because of that rainfall the storm surge could go well inland so those people that choose to stay there the authorities are saying this is simple this is a storm of a lifetime if you choose to stay you are risking your life most people we've spoken to seem to have heeded that warning as we came in yesterday the traffic was all heading in one direction out away from the coastline but nonetheless this is a huge storm with potential for massive damage so those people that do stay are
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really putting their lives at risk so they will be as i said completely on their own and the biggest threat here potentially is the fact that this storm will linger and just keep churning away in this area around north and south carolina with all that rain and again that massive storm surge of four meters which is more than twice my height now so all those buildings first floor they will be under water if you're in a building at that point you can have no electricity potentially no water potentially you'll be in a lot of trouble thank you for that and the gallagher live for us in wilmington north carolina meanwhile typhoon barrett is causing chaos in southern china the twenty third typhoon there this year has for sounds and from their homes to rental rain in tanjung force work force work to at many construction some force work to stop at many construction sites another super typhoon is gathering strength near the northern philippines mangold is expected to make landfall on saturday with wind speeds of two hundred forty kilometers per hour. i mean in my eyes the toronto
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until she says in hindsight her government could have handled the ranger crisis better seven hundred thousand range of muslims fed a military crackdown in rakhine state a year ago u.n. investigators say they were mass killings and gang graves but so achieve speaking at an international meeting in vietnam defended security forces from charges of civilian deaths atrocities when he has more from their. own sons who g.'s appearance at the world economic forum on southeast asia in hanoi was the first international speaking engagement since a united nations report was released last month that called for genocide charges to be laid against me and military leaders for attacks on rigging your communities in rakhine state that report was also very critical of aung san suu kyi and her government for their failure to condemn the violence something she also refused to do here in hanoi there are of cause. we simply to we with hindsight might think that the situation could have been handled better but we believe that
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for the sake of long term stability and security we have to be fair to all sides that rule of law must apply to everybody we cannot choose and pick who should be protected by the rule of law and have to keep repeating because people are very few are interested in that aspect of the situation that in the rakhine there are many many small groups ethnic groups and religious groups and there don't just the muslims and the commonwealth and seems to be at the section of much of the world for example we are very small ethnic groups which are fast disappearing but nobody seems to be interested in them and yet they are the ones who could disappear altogether because someone down to four figures she was also asked about the case of the two reuters journalists who last week were jailed for seven years true or so and while lone were arrested last year while investigating a massacre in rakhine state and there was growing international pressure on sun
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suchi and two governments to grant them pardons it's not a matter of lou they were not jailed because. they would deal with jail because the court as well sentence has been awesome then because the court has decided that they had broken the official secrets act so if we believe in the rule of law they have every right to appeal the judgment and to point out why the gesture in this room if they consider it wrong me and my is expected to come under even more scrutiny at the united nations general assembly next week but on sun sujit will now not be attending. the russian protest group pussy riot says one of them members has been poisoned pietro verisign off has been in emergency care since losing his eyesight in speech on tuesday he was one of four protesters jailed for disrupting the world cup final in moscow two months ago they ran on to the pitch demand the release of political prisoners and more choice for voters they briefly interrupted
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the match between france and co way shop now pope francis is inviting bishops from around the world to discuss sex abuse by catholic clergy the church is in boiled in scandals in many countries including the u.s. where it's a late show sheet is overlooked allegations against a former cardinal to allow his promotion. much more news as always on our web site al-jazeera dot com all the very latest on all of the top stories on their al-jazeera dot com. well again for the battle with the headlines on al-jazeera russia's president has inspected troops taking part in the largest war games since the fall of the soviet union brought to me putin says the armed forces will continue to be strengthened but russia is a peace loving state he says which doesn't have aggressive plans the saudi emirati coalition at war in yemen says it continues to control the main routes supplying
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the important port city of who data who the fight is a underplaying the reforms saying they have repelled government forces. the un humanitarian coordinator for syria says nearly forty thousand people have fled it live since government and russian air strikes intensified last week finals montes is calling for all parties involved in it live to hold hostilities and express the need for further humanitarian aid to be brought into the rebel held and. the most congested in syria more than three million people living about one point four million displaced. the situation in libya is really very different to any other area given the compositional including all the fighters and extremist groups that are there and that really brings the need for humanitarian diplomacy for diplomacy for conflict prevention key element too of course is that at the moment as humanitarians well we hope for the best we're preparing for the worst british prime
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minister theresa may has been holding a cabinet meeting to discuss in areas for no breakfast that deal the british government is about to publish guidance in case the e.u. and u.k. do not reach an agreement but the e.u.'s chief negotiator michel barnier said on monday he thinks a deal could be struck in the next two months hurricane florence has been downgraded to a category two storm as it heads towards the u.s. east coast but weather forecasters are still warning of a disaster these are live pictures from the south carolina coast the storm is now about two hundred kilometers offshore it's expected to make landfall on the coast of north carolina and south carolina and bring a life threatening storm surge ten million people live in the areas that are now under hurricane warnings. and diplomats and dignitaries from around the world have attended the state funeral for kofi annan in ghana two thousand guests were invited to the capital a crock to celebrate the life of the former united nations secretary general the
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nobel peace prize laureate passed away last month at the age of eighty those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next yes inside story i hope you do stay with us thanks for watching. it's unprecedented in the history of the european parliament the vote to polish a member state congress flouting rules on democracy civil rights and corruption the government's attacks on courts and media is seen as a threat so what's next for hungary and indeed europe this is inside story.
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hello and welcome to the program i'm adopted hamid for the first time ever do european parliament has voted to sanction a member state hungary's accused of a voting the principles of democracy and civil rights the allegations are so serious it triggered a vote on article seven of the e.u. treaty which means hungary it could be stripped of its voting rights viktor orban government says it will challenge a decision that has more from sizable. there was applause as members of the european parliament voted to punish hungry for breaching values for the first time they agreed to move towards article seven a procedure that could lead to put a past losing its voting rights it was nice dodge lawmakers report on hungary then led to the decision we've seen democrat. since two thousand and ten.
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press freedom. is guaranteed. in the academic freedom. is falling down the vote is unlikely to surprise hungary's far right anti immigration prime minister he and the e.u. have clashed repeatedly over the years. victor brand has accused the european parliament of trying to blackmail him to change his ways and in budapest his foreign minister has dismissed the vote saying hungary is being unfairly targeted who like you. today should appear in parliament decision was nothing else but pet revenge of pro immigration politicians against hungary outside put a press parliament anti government campaigners protested. all by mean there are open talks about everything on tuesday but not the reality here in hungary
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everything is always about migration it's to full heard gary ns and they swallow it by going through their own fears is true it's not a distortion the government has been trying to the last step by step i think because they want to hold on to power. the e.u. will issue hungry with a formal warning before deciding whether to strip it of its voting rights such a move would damage hungary's international reputation but this supporter says it could actually bolster leadership in the long term mr obama be a winner of this procedure because he can establish a new platform video in the european peoples but the can make new alliances in europe and through that it can increase its influence on the european domestic politics for now pro european politicians are celebrating but their victory may be short lived the vote has highlighted the growing divisions in the e.u. that threaten the bloke's very existence and its future natasha butler al-jazeera
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strasberg france. ok so let's introduce our panel in brussels peter klepper head of the brussels office for the think that open europe in berlin martin michel ski director of public affairs at the polish based open dialogue foundation and in revenue in france but is all jellicoe the co-founder of. group of geopolitical studies welcome to you all but please let me start with you when when the e.u. says that there was a serious breach of european values what does it mean exactly. but there are two to be sure it's quite hard to interpret it's it's a very wide concept the e.u. law used to sign and an article in the second article of the treaty of lisbon and they cover a wide ranch of values which are human dignity the human rights the rule of law
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and when you look at the board that was written by this dodge lawmaker you there was interview you can see that there are actually quite a bunch of those values that have been breached at one point or another by the hungry in government and so but the main problem being that those that are using their white and white on the find it's also pretty hard to know exactly pinpoint where the issues are so it's mostly a question i think of political willingness rather than strictly like a strategic issue approach ok so martin on the contrary viktor orban says that actually he is the offending european values and i'm going to quote him here he says that this is the first case in the history of europe where a community can then it's own border guards so what what does he mean by that of course i'm looking from the polish perspective and yet to really think how you
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define european values there are four different viktor orban there are different for that change but if you look at the treaty. through upload democracy. human rights that are being violated violated by those states by hungary by by poland of course far from the rubble perspective from the youth of perspective they are in violation of what we all agreed on and of course poland was also had by article seven but this time it was a european commission who voted for that now let me just bring in peter. you know all this obviously at the core of it is the e.u. . it's something that was created several decades ago do you think brussels has also maybe have to change a bit adapted it. didn't use the reality in europe. well if you look at the criticism on hungry i think you can agree with
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a lot that is being criticised in danger in the rule of law corruption with you fronts the fact that the government tried to politicize the process to point to judges so all of this is pretty justified but it's these are problems that you have in many other member states for example in romania there has been there have been mass protests against corruption in spain the treatment of the catalan movement think there you can also point at some some problems and put the zation of should issue appointment is i think in many countries a problem so the question is is the european union really the right forum to deal with that and frankly i have my doubts i think the core business of the e.u. is to scrap of barriers to trade to open up trait from the moment it starts
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meddling in these more sensitive issues it always opens the door for criticism that it is it is using two different standards there are other international organizations as for example the council of europe that is based in straws burke that for decades now has been criticizing all countries for many of the problems that exists in hungary. ok. do you agree or what's your reaction to what was just said that maybe the european union has double standards. to be fair i i. i i mean i could have done the fact that there is some sort of double standard in the sense that no measure of this sort i think it would have been more complicated for spain or italy or france to be.
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condemned like this by the e.u. parliament however. i do think that given the number of features from the home going government this particular act of particular activation of article seven was actually made sense and more than that i do think that the you should not only be concerned with the opening of free trade but also with defending its core values and if i might say so you pointed that. you has has existed for many decades now it is true and in this maybe you were so surprised by the fact that article seven was used only for the first time right now because it should have been used many times before the fact is that the corvette has been in power for many years right now and that he's been slowly building his own doctrine his own approach not only to hungary that also to europe
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which i consider completely contradicts the core values on which the has been found equivalents which are defined or at least identified in article two and i think it was about time that you or at least those who believe in. the liberal construction of european union did something about it the question is now what are going to be that the political consequences of such a rash action because no one is actually used to the european parliament acting so swiftly and actually making such a strong statement why it's a strictly about their pay and parliament. position is that it has actually sort of discussed with hungry several times. their concerns and that nothing happened some actually say that the and i'm putting that question to peter some
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actually say that the european union let it go for so long to probably with hungry thinking that by keeping viktor orban within the fold they could influence him more . i think it's a wise decision not to rush into action here and actually article seven or the whole procedure is sort of designed to encourage that is so. it's possible for any country to ultimately veto any sanctions poland has already said that it will and also politically it looks like many governments or quite wary to go to go there ok and. martin of course viktor orban and i think the case is more or less similar in poland the government there also say that it has nothing to do with sibylla civil liberties or core values it has to do with being punished for the anti migration policies of hungry. but there is also
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a fear i think that viktor orban talked about it during his electoral campaign about spreading this kind of in liberal democracies around europe which would basically could have a huge impact on the european union wouldn't it. i think that just on. some point the way that they're trying to frame it or be so they knew that the authoritarian. dictator want to be the new europe they want to state that they are actually. giving back their position of their country that they should be all big within the e.u. remember all and there's a very. pro european country you have seventy five percent of all people who are pro european so they're walking a very thin line and that they that actually europe of course shouldn't be centralized and shouldn't be governed from brussels from or from berlin but they're
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saying that this is actually the true europe it's with all of holding a strong position while telling the people that until now well and was in ruin that the narrative of what they're using so they believe that if they hold more power they take more power that the country will be actually stronger within the e.u. well in practice of course they are basically ellie and they think there are that they are ok but is it not at the end of the day the e.u. has been quite upset with viktor orban for a few years now but you do get the impression that it was standing by watching things unfold. hungry gets nearly five point five billion dollars per year about four more than four percent of his g.d.p. comes from the e.u. so why did it take any steps before because i mean you can't have the cake and eat it at the same time right the thing is that it's extremely complicated to act in society you the fact that it is both
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a set of institutions which are independent and function with their own rules or laws etc and then a certain number of member states who have their own diplomatic and political agendas makes it complicated to find consensus and actually act when one of the state goes so to say rogue so i think that explains that that's one of the explanations the other one might be because viktor orban actually show i mean he's been reaching use albums for a long time but he evolved slowly from those congress liberal in the one thousand nine hundred to what you see there which is probably way closer to the far right authoritarian leader and i think this. at the lucian and the fact that he is than either of a country that was part of the eastern bloc countries that the u. has tried to enter great and not alienate since their integration into new extremes
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why. do you have king institutions and. especially in parliament the conservative groups of which they tore a van and his party to a few bash is still quiet. didn't act sooner i think it's a conjunction a convergence of a lot of different factors which is often the problem with you being that you have to not only do you have to. accord twenty eight states together but you also have to balance this with different institutions which might have different agendas end of never moving situation. ok and martin i see that you wanted to comment on something earlier just yes exactly i was just going to add to that i've heard the term double standard already several times. and i believe that's the problem with then the european people's party and i think they reached a point when the pression pressure on them is too strong but until now that was the
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reason for the double standard the reason why it took them so long to act because of course organ and those are part of the fifty so. when i compare poland and hungary i always say that poland is really following the same path but only because poland governing party the law and justice party isn't part of the let's say governing party of the e.u. even be that's why they could initiate article seven procedures much much earlier than hungary on the other looking at the fact that it was the european parliament that article seven this time i think this sends a much stronger message because european parliament that's the people it's not some institution. you're going to parliament has is a democratic representation of the citizen so i think it's actually much stronger and of course very late but still is and they are ok but he says he want to say something but i want to bring peace or first into the conversation and i'm trying
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to to broaden it out to the rest of europe i mean to orban did run his election campaign on a very strong anti migration platform that's happened in other countries in italy and in other countries around europe so is it the case that the continent is going through a transformation a society transformation and the e.u. is not able to adapt to that. well as the fleet cleared that if you want to create political trouble you need to have mass migration that's proven in any country in the world and indeed this is of course the main driver now behind all these populist movements the migration crisis was of course not caused by the e.u. i would argue that it's mainly the governments of italy and greece greece no longer
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but definitely italy till very recently that have been failing to guard their their borders but still that what the e.u. did was to use the migration crisis to sensor allies powers so you basically out food at a number of countries central eastern european countries and decided that within the schengen zone. asylum seekers had to be redistributed it's very hard to do that because it's a passport free zone the shing in zone but still they decided it so of course in reality it's impossible to do it but this created a lot of euro skepticism. what can the e.u. do not make matters worse not try to have these grand plans which can be executed anyway. maybe more than back to the former point what can the e.u. do when countries or corrupt or sliding into authoritarian altera terrorism i think
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the number one thing is not to send any resources to these governments we see a lot of waste we see a lot of mismanagement with these european funds and these countries and sense from eastern europe it's a great thing for them that they are a member of the e.u. but this is thanks to the single market the single market is economically enormously beneficial for them and for western europe by the way but these big transfers half have no. really contribute much to closing the gap almost any economic study has concluded ok so but east. i mean all this is certainly also having not an impact not only on hungry but are on the p. a new unit south on the european people's party and its future how do you see that unfold you think if you need viktor orban any further he could split and maybe as many fear form another party which would be made essentially of these far
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right groups that are becoming more and more popular in many countries. actually i think she might get expelled of the p.p.p. for being able to to leave the party i think it's very interesting that it happened that this article seven vote happened a few months before the two thousand and nineteen actions and it's even more interesting to see that inside the p.p. manford very who will probably be the candidate of the new head of the commission in a few months actually decided to vote in favor of article seven even though a few weeks up to a few weeks ago he was actually one of the defenders of viktor orban inside the party meaning that he's actually trying to reset or himself and find his balance more at the center of the people by dropping all of them and trying to basically find a larger platform on which he can be elected in
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a few months so i think that or being expelled or leaving. he is going to be a major player if occasion inside the party it's interesting to see as well that sebastian kurtz even though he's allied who is the austrian chancellor even though he's allowed to the far right and his own country actually does about the torben a few weeks ago as well showing that there is a form of distance nation from between and so he probably is going to build a new alliance probably with material salvini maybe more independent france however the p.p. is centering itself where east has started to block its evolution towards the far right which is probably good news for months or vapor it's very bad news for many on the trunk was trying to rebuild his national and european image over the european elections by destroying the p.p. or at least sex sectioning it in half and with this move from man to favor and the
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fact that they too are bent seems. that it seems that the program has lost a lot. allies inside his political family it seems that if you're actually not going to be so easy to crack and meth was actually going to have a harder time. getting the momentum he wanted to gain insight to to gain your connections that martin so viktor orban lost a lot of his allies within the but at home he is very popular he won the elections with quite a landslide if with all these problems with the e.u. and with the uncertainty about how things will unfold in the coming weeks and months just think he will still have such a strong support i think so i think it's the same situation that we have in poland that's the way the works. whatever happens to or been right now so either it is
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held from from the b.p. or it is safe for them as to when and also i've heard mention before a solution a possible solution the cutting funds for those countries again this is actually probably make them stronger internally but i know that both orbán and dutch change ski they will present and the sanctions basically the e.u. and acting revenge because of the countries becoming stronger becoming more independent self-sufficient so i really don't think. neither orban or kaczynski will lose support despite of any action you can take against them quite the opposite and feature my last word dear and very briefly because we're reaching the end of the program but i mean it is all quite ironic for the e.u. this institution i wanted to promote civil liberties and human rights is now facing within its own. territory i would say strongman like viktor
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orban you then flaunt civil liberties who did attack academia who did try to interfere with in the justice system fill that you're going back a bit in europe somehow. well the price of liberty is eternal vigilance and so that's what we see we see even in western europe and the rule of law is not always perfect so this is a permanent process and i think the best that the european union as an institution can do is not financially prop up countries that are in danger the rule of law but then don't engage in double standards be fair for everyone that. doesn't the respect the rule of law and eventually alternately at the end of the day this is the job of the hungarian and polish civil society this is the job of international
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n.g.o.s to race awareness i don't think it's a healthy situation were other governments are often as guilty about some of the since alleged take drastic action wrote certain an interesting point the european people's party will meet soon to decide on the fate of. viktor orban and whether he stays within that party or not but that will be the conversation for another show because we have rick reese the end of this one third thanks to all our guests be very clear pay martin michelle ski and betty supposed to let go and thank you do for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. in that story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. into story from the lead up to her meat and the whole team here in the hot by for
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now. what makes this moment it's giving winifred's the he's so unique. we haven't seen the president this unpredictable freedom of speech is a valid watley constant that is a perfect formula for authoritarianism and here in the early years the lights are long and there's nowhere to hide let me ask you straight up here is the two state solution no upfront retellings on al-jazeera overthrown and exiled they appoint
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a government saying if you all call this race meeting you an intimate film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency you know is that the true church and we know today you think it is the body along with nutrition change the return of the president on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. and i'm fully back to go this is the news hour live from i had courses in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the man accused by britain of trying to poison
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a former russian spy appiah on t.v. insisting there in a sense. the u.n. warns of yet many lives hanging in the balance as fighting again intensifies in iran her data also this hour of the u.s. sees calls feel the first bite of hurricane florence as it bears down weekend but still dangerous and united in several well leaders come to ghana and pay their last respects to former u.n. secretary general kofi annan. and i'm paul reese with the sports u.s. open champion now you may osaka returns to a big payday in japan and the canadian youth hockey club that lost sixteen players and staff in a bus crash made a return to the ice. thank you for joining us britain's prime minister is ready curing two russians who are professing their innocence in the novi chalk nerve agent poisoning tourism a says
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their lies and blatant fabrications on insult to people's intelligence the men told russian t.v. they weren't assassins but tourists who visit souls very to see is famous cathedral neve rockery for some london the two men certainly look like the u.k.'s prime suspects in the poisoning of sergei a newly escapology we are indeed those who were shown on surveillance videos from the full. extent of the man also confirmed their names all the same as those revealed by british police thought to be aliases and that it is them all the c.c.t.v. footage but they deny they were in seoul's bria they sacked time of the poisoning for anything more than a holiday. there is no. they have the famous or usually the source because it is famous not only in europe or over the world i think it's famous for its one hundred twenty three metre spire it's famous for its clock the first clock that was
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invented in the world and which still works prosecutors say the men visited solsbury on consecutive days the first day only for a few hours before returning to london the two russians say it was because of the snowy weather british investigators say they were planning a murder the interviews failed to change official opinions in the u.k. a government spokesman said they clear the main or russian military intelligence offices the m.p. for soulsby dismissed the interview as propaganda delighted that alexander patrol oven was slow and very sharp were able to see the world class attractions the soulsby has to offer tweeted john glenn but very strange to come all this way for just two days while carrying not the chalk in their luggage the interview came a day after the russian president vladimir putin said the men had been found and that there was nothing unusual about them british officials suspect the interview is a carefully staged managed attempt to turn the u.k.'s version of event on its head
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neve barker al-jazeera russian process group pussy riot says one of its members has been poisoned. of has been in emergency care since losing his eyesight and speech on tuesday he was one of four protesters jailed for disrupting the world cup final in moscow two months ago they ran onto the pitch to demand the release of political prisoners meanwhile in eastern russia vladimir putin has watched an army of more than a quarter of a million russian soldiers on their largest military exercises since the fall of the soviet union russia's president says he wants to beef up the military but says has no aggressive plans for the first time chinese troops are also part of the war games rory chalons reports from very fast talk. three hundred thousand personnel thirty six thousand tanks and other vehicles one thousand aircraft eighty ships and supply vessels that's the size of voss stock two thousand and eighteen according to russia's defense ministry even if there might be some exaggeration there these
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drills are still huge the largest since one thousand nine hundred one bloody near putin flew into watch of the super bowl firing range of near where the russian chinese and one goalie and borders meet soldiers and hardware from all three countries are taking part. that is not in this way i want to express special gratitude to the soldiers of the people's republic of china and mongolia our duty to russia i am referring now to russian servicemen our duty to the homeland as did ready to defend the sovereignty of the security and the national interests of our country. it's a huge show of force from the modernized russian military boosted by increased funding and the crucial battle experience it's gained in syria the chinese involvement in russia's drills has raised particular concerns in the west it's a sign the two eurasian powers are overcoming historical animosities to forge a strengthening partnership they want to show that if the united states asserts itself in the korean peninsula if they move against iran that they're likely to
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come up against a unified front from beijing and russia so it's really about showing solidarity and showing that there's an alignment of interests. putin said russia is a peace loving state that does not and cannot have aggressive plans but nato has condemned the drills as rehearsal for a large scale conflict the north atlantic alliance has also been testing capabilities british french and german jets simulated flight interceptions over western europe on wednesday to deter russian planes from entering nato airspace russia and the west haven't seem quite so hostile since the cold war these military exercises with china coincide with russia hosting the chinese president and other asian leaders at the eastern economic forum here in the pacific port city of light of all stock and taken together these two things show the russia are increasingly seen as its partners in interests in this part of the world more than in the capitals of europe and the united states will reach islands how does era radical
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stuck in other world news e un humanitarian coordinator in yemen says hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance as fighting again picks up between the saudi and erotic coalition who the rebels in the port city of data commanders of the saudi erotic correlation say they remain in control of a main local supply routes called kilo sixteen which links her data to the rebel held capital who the fighters dispute that bill saying they have repelled government forces and their coalition allies and are simmons is following developments from neighboring djibouti. it's now becoming clearer that the fighting is escalating around the red sea port of data and hooty rebels have tried to repel the u.a.e. saudi led attacks but without success it seems there has been a cut in the supply line between the port and the rebel held capital sana'a now that has massive implications because say the children say millions of
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children's lives are at risk because of this with food supplies not getting through and other supplies medicine along with the vital supplies for the hooty rebel fighters as this fighting goes on the attempts at getting some sort of dialogue revived by a lot of gryphus the u.n. special envoy goes on he's in the amount of capital muscat and he's been talking to a delegation of who is the delegation that was meant to go to geneva led by mohammed abdul salam and he has said that some sort of dialogue will continue there is nothing substantive coming out of these talks publicly anyway whether or not he goes on to sign or is unclear but he is destined for riyadh and time is going by at a rapid rate with all this fighting escalating and this critical situation the griffiths himself warned about the economy plummeting and the danger of more deaths
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not through fighting but through famine right there for everyone to see but then what does everyone do it is a very very dangerous situation. spain has decided to go ahead with selling four hundred laser guided bombs to saudi arabia reversing last week's decision to cancel the order the move has angered activists who say the explosives will end up killing civilian people in yemen but the holding of the deal had created concerns about spanish jobs and the future of a more lucrative contract to supply warships to the united states has suggested it may consider visa bans and targeted sanctions against chinese officials over the way beijing is treating ethnic with wars and other muslims inching john province the un human rights panel has accused china of holding up to one million with wars in a secretive system of internment camps where they're subjected to political we educate a senior u.s. state department figure was asked if the magnitsky act could be applied to us human
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rights nor that allows the president target individuals responsible for committing human rights violations is its response china is imprisoning perhaps a million are we going to use magick machine she act against thank you congressman for that question the state department is very concerned about chinese treat treatment of weak years we are encouraging the chinese government through diplomatic channels to ensure that they allow the practice of freedom of religion they respect human dignity but this is a hearing on sanctions are we going to say yes congressman when it comes to sanctions rollouts we are not able to preview what we might do but i can tell you we are looking at the situation and global magnitsky is a tool that we use to curb human rights abuses around the world as ring in rose in jordan in washington d.c. for us was why are the state department's common significant. well following
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monday's testimony before a house subcommittee on thursday it's significant because usually the u.s. government doesn't go as far as she did to even suggest that any particular law that allows for sanctions of a country or of a person or of an entity could actually be in the offing but given that she had already been testifying about repeated sanctions against russia against iran against north korea against turkey among other countries it is not surprising that this particular question came up because there have been a number of news reports about these re-education camps of leaders in western china and there is some real concern here in washington about that human rights situation but of course as she indicated whether or not they're actually going to use magnitsky or perhaps some other law to try to do was sanction the chinese government still has to be determined and i was going to ask you how likely is the
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u.s. to impose sanctions on them. well that is the really hard part because one of the things that we have seen under the trumpet ministration is an effort to try to continue having open relations with beijing and to not let things such as the president's trade war with beijing get in the way of other matters that are important to people within the u.s. government and for americans in general but you don't apply sanctions a less you think that there is going to be more of a payoff as it were then there will be some sort of negative repercussions to the united states' interest in this case but certainly to have people you know standing up for a minority group of people is certainly something that could be popular at least with members of congress and certainly throughout the human rights establishment in this country thank you for that ross dawson jordan my force in washington d.c.
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