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al-jazeera. that is a perfect formula for authoritarianism and let me ask you straight up close is the two state solution now that the lights are on and there's no way up front which hands on which is iraq. also coming up.
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more. on the way in the. killed by typhoon monkhood. into landslides triggered by heavy rains in the area. still missing. there are looking for survivors. and more than two days after that fateful instruct basically the big tent of the damage and damage just slowly being revealed that is because so many of these areas were cut off and also because of the extent and the enormity of the impact of.
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order in the president in the region he were both a cold night of what happened in that area what you're seeing now and even information coming in trickling in we're all. we're also getting reports. that actually have occurred. by rescue officials of actually finding survivors. slim this is even what local officials are seeing now one of the major issues really is also facility infrastructure getting to these areas bringing all the machinery see needed to dig as you can see in the pictures manual digging has to be done simply because all of these machines the structures genex gets through these small growth so yes there is that challenge there's also the immediate challenge also of people who are going hungry those who have been evacuated those are gloucester homes and their livelihood but all of these being compounded and
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it's putting pressure on the government to act swiftly and at least two people are dead and hundreds of thousands of homes have been evacuated as monkhood makes its way through southern china two million people have been displaced and about fifty thousand fishing boats have been recalled to port forecasters are warning of widespread flooding the time soon as brought with it winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour and torrential rains. the strongest storm of the year also lashed hong kong bringing the port city to a standstill hong kong was put on the highest storm alert for only the fourth time in twenty years so reports. the eye of the typhoon hurtle towards hong kong bringing with it down force winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour roofs were blown off and windows in some high rise buildings were blown out trees were sent flying this crime was ripped from the building and collapsed this is amazing never seen the like this it's it's eerie to see nobody walking around roads were
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closed and businesses locked up hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes in low lying areas with nine hundred flights were canceled interrupting travel plans for thousands of passengers most people bunkered down and stayed indoors some of those who braved the weather was swept off their feet the city was paralyzed and forced into lockdown by the worst storm in hong kong for more than a decade. he's prone to still events and things but this one has caught many by surprise the strength of the winds history could shoot swells across the harbor in an aries in the central parts of the city. these waterfront hotels were flooded as waves pounded the coastline the only movement on the harbor was this ship adrift schools will be closed on monday. the province directly in its path. al-jazeera hong kong the latest saudi emer r.t. coalition air strikes in yemen so data province have killed eleven people comes as the u.n.
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envoy stepped up efforts to revive talks to end the three year old civil war who threw rebels say the saudi erotic coalition has carried out more than thirty five s. strikes in the past twenty four hours targeting a main road out of the port city which is a key supply route to the rebel held capital of sana'a government troops backed by the coalition every taken a number of towns across the data province but have not yet breached the city under symons i've been following the story from nearby djibouti a warning you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. it's an airstrike by the saudi u.s. led coalition. whatever the target may have been this is the result of civilians searching for missing children it isn't a rescue they find one child and. i don't know where i am. what's his guilt why is he being killed says one of the men who really are rescued
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the child's mother the father wasn't in his home when the bomb the girl's name is moot she's carried away by one of the helpers he knows it doesn't end here. the searching continues and some moods brother no appeal is recovered and i have all of this what everyone had dreaded two dead children. who were very proud of. these are civilians the little kids are the only words this man can manage. it happened on saturday in modern inside a province which shares a border with saudi arabia these people are internally displaced having fled the fighting. yemen's turmoil is a lethal mix of the tactics of warfare the tactics of diplomacy from negotiations that could be a touch with that and a humanitarian crisis the fighting isn't just on the battlefield the suffering goes
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right across yemen and it's getting worse. in the stillness of a remote village and province they're eating the leaves of trees to survive they're cooked and mashed into a paste. i personally i don't you believe this is my cellar has been cut is a main meal for my children even though this was an m h n s n drowsiness why what can we do. now. we cook tree leaves we have no nutrition we will die here we have no one but god this is the nearest medical center to the village where they had to resort to eating leaves my nutrition could end up being the biggest killer in this conflict anyone trying to bring peace to yemen may not need reminding of what's at stake nevertheless those without a voice of influence a crying out for help now more than ever before andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti
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well mama chicago is a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university he says a tougher approach to diplomacy is needed going forward. what so far three years of heavy confrontations have not given us a winner decisive when they're in favor of the only one in favor of the coalition so sometimes when realism political realism over that it's the use of powers use of force and then there is this. no win win situation for anybody the question becomes who can sit down and find a formula where the use of force can lead to something that's not good for the sake of fighting each other and i think now mr griffith it is articulating a strong we don't have all of the international community and we need to bring this
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conflict to and somehow and i think we need a more progressive or a more aggressive diplomatic for mayor and i hope that we'll give him that now and also we have seen some reports coming from the human rights organizations from the united nations criticizing the performance of the saudis and the immoderate is so you have to sort of course so that the hotels are coming to the table but the arab coalition has also to consider an alternative. the united states as out of the palestinian mission in washington to close staff bank accounts and clear their offices the trumpet ministration had announced the closure of the palestine liberation organization office in the us capital last week palestinian leaders are calling it a declaration of war on peace efforts for the p.l.o. executive committee member had a national army has condemned the latest move saying the us has taken its attempts to pressure and blackmail the palestinians to a new level the us administration has gone from cruel punishment to revenge against
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the palestinians and their leadership when rabbani is a senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies he says the trumpet ministration has shown that it cannot bring about a peace deal i think that rabbit ministration is dealing with the past sitting as if their talents and one of their slogan all they do what we say or or will look the rational well that and that seems to be what we're seeing here i mean these people genuinely seem to believe that by exercising sure of their treasure and undertaking more any measures against our citizens and american presentation family members and so on now one day they're going to wake up and the palestinians will have capitulated fully to the israelis on every item out of substance i think it just shows through
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a lot of experience of these people and how they're only out of their depth trumps local peace. a u.s. professor detained during protests of a palestinian village slated for demolition says israel's now trying to deport him from ramallah was detained on friday after he and others tried to block bulldozers sent to the village of harlem our last week the israeli supreme court gave its go ahead to the demolition ramana was later freed and he's been speaking to al-jazeera . i was convinced if i were to be deported i wouldn't be able to come back for ten years and i would not seek out on account of my anymore or any of the people and not not biased indians i will still work with palestinians if i go to log on i want to have none but i was very upset over that fact so you know here i am not illegally here but the police told me i can't come here and that's they'd make that decision they have no right to make these decisions the they do these
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things i don't trust them and here i am the palestinian activist i had to meet me has attended a political event in france after earlier being banned from traveling abroad by the israeli government israel stop the seventeen year old from traveling to europe to this country to talk about her experience in jail and the palestinian resistance movement to me was freed in july up to spending eight months in prison for slapping an israeli soldier. to come here an al-jazeera including helping refugees instead of buying a new car the story of a peruvian businessman who sheltering venezuelans plus. they call themselves the gypsies of power they've lived in this neighborhood for centuries and now they say local authorities want to throw them out from the fashion popular reporting from southern france.
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had other shows in turkey fading away the shadows in afghanistan are fading away both disappointments i think and elsewhere you don't see a cloud in the skies so pretty hot throughout iran and especially down the plains very rock back towards the eastern side of the mediterranean these temps haven't really changed much it seems for a couple of months so we will see a dramatic change at some point in the next two or three weeks just not yet still has not to be forty five forty seven in kuwait is not much of a driving breeze so we've seen the committee's come up around qatar bahrain the u.a.e. the stench is dropping below forty the hint is it's still quite humid here now is still blowing the onshore breeze full of humidity lot of moisture there for drizzle day and night and overcast conditions that the really for this part of the world dropping south so we have seen a change in the weather type it was in angola no longer is and then more showers here in fact the cloud it around the cape it's pushing hard to seraing we won't get
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much out of it so it's basically a dryish picture we've seen the rain come in still though we had some pretty big showers in tropical africa over nigeria but more especially ghana and to the west. millions of dollars is being stolen in a scam that starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe one of the nice caves exclusive access to this country underworld to a criminal turned whistleblower on al-jazeera.
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welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on the al-jazeera rescue efforts and al and the way in the northern philippines but more than fifty people have been killed by time from thirty four of them died in two landslides triggered by heavy rains in the area it's about dozens are still missing. and the rebels say thirty five airstrikes are the saudi and iran to come on the scene in the past twenty four hours. several children were reportedly killed. by the coalition if the. u.s. professor detained during protests at a palestinian village slated for demolition says israel's now trying to deport ramana was detained on friday after he and others tried to block bulldozers sent to
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the village of hama. in the united states storm florence has been downgraded to a tropical depression that continues to ravage the states of north and south carolina new bern in north carolina was among the worst hit by florence heavy and continuous rain has flooded homes and daybreak strewn across neighborhoods. are reports from you been the cleanup could take weeks. the floodwaters from hurricane florence still surround some homes in new bern but as they recede the extent of the damage is becoming clear. it will be days before the water is pumped from many of the homes and businesses here months before repairs a complete a lot of work it's. just terrible all over flooded people lost. boats destroyed. just crazy in nearby james city many of those living in mobile homes couldn't afford to evacuate others are afraid of looters stealing their
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positions these flood prone areas of north carolina remain among the most fragile many people in this area say they feel lucky to have survived florence despite the extensive damage but when you consider that scientists say global climate change will make these storms more powerful and wetter in the future the prospects for those living in vulnerable and poor communities like this is bleak everything ensures. the forests francisco marlice now faces the financial strain of repairing his family's home without insurance he says and conditioner alone will cost around six thousand dollars i love. my floor and then it's in there and he changed it. to you could build up your office in other parts of new bern power is slowly returning at the local cafe there helping feed the homeless and make up for lost
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time and money for his record for five days any dollars good to support the brain that's all in the business because he lost everything five. hurricane florence left its mark on new bern but its residents are steadily getting back on their feet the storm may have barely passed but the work to repair the damage left in its wake as already begun and gallacher al-jazeera new bern north carolina. new concerns have emerged about u.s. president donald trump's pick for the supreme court but cabinet has been a contentious choice because of his conservative position on many issues but now allegations of past sexual assault have raised questions about whether he should be approved particle hain has more. if brett kavanaugh is confirmed he will change the highest court for a generation he will cement it as solidly conservative it's a high stakes nomination that has been controversial from the beginning with republicans refusing to hand over hundreds of thousands of documents from his long
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legal career this nomination is going to be tainted it will be stain. by a badly broken process that has shattered the norms despite that in just days it was expected he would get past the first vote and be on his way to final confirmation until this the washington post has a story about what one woman alleges kavanah did to her in high school christine bleakley ford going public the post writes well his friend watched she said cavanagh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one piece bathing suit and the clothing she were over it when she tried to scream she said he put his hand over her mouth i thought he might inadvertently kill me said ford she managed to escape and she even passed a lie detector test about the incident which kevin has denied so far frankly your
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answer has been ambiguous there are calls to bring him back before the senate the last time that happened it was clarence thomas absolutely not the senator nominated to the court when anita hill came forward and accused him of sexual harassment he was confirmed anyway many women were angry in the u.s. after the thomas confirmation it's all record number of women run for office since then we've seen the election of u.s. president donald trump the woman's marks the me too movement again another record breaking number of women running for office now the cavanagh confirmation really just stoke the anger that's already out there the politicians are well aware of that with less than two months to go till congressional elections now the republicans who control the senate have just days to decide if they should ignore the allegations and risk a backlash or call for new hearings potentially risking their nominee patty calling al-jazeera washington. south korea has outlined the agenda for
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a three day summit to be held between mungy and kim jong il and from tuesday denuclearization will be a key issue at the third meeting between the two leaders moon and kim will also discuss ways to ease military tensions and sustain improved relations bride has more from seoul there's growing anticipation on both sides of the border ahead of this third summit it will be a packed itinerary spread over three days the most important element of which of course will be the one on one meetings between moon j. and of south korea and kim jong un there will also be more detailed meetings between their various said delegation members as well as official banquets what they will be talking about is trying to improve further into korean relations building on the dialogue that they began way back in the panmunjom declaration in april of this year also finding ways of easing tensions on the korean peninsula
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possibly one the most important tasks on the south korean government except it will be one of the most difficult tasks and that is trying to restart the stalled negotiations between north korea and the united states over giving up its nuclear arsenal. london's mayor has called for a second referendum to decide if the u.k. should leave the european union city council as the public should have a say on a final deal that's reached between the two guards a member of the opposition labor party has been critical of the government's approach to break as it is due to leave you in march. we've now reached a position where there are two outcomes as a consequence of the government to go shay sions a bad deal and by that i include a sleeve in the e.u. without knowing the terms of the future relationship sort of blindfold bricks or no deal and the independent research and taken for us shows that no deal would leads to five hundred thousand fewer jobs eighty seven thousand fewer jobs in london
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alone and fifty billion pounds less investment in our country that's bad for a country hugely damaging to london three people were detained during protests in russia over planned increases to the retirement age around five hundred people attended the rally in st petersburg the lead to scuffles between rod police and demonstrators president vladimir putin wants to lift the retirement age from sixty to sixty five for men and from fifty five to sixty for women. the leader france's far right national rally party has called them all nationalist parties to unite ahead of next year's election for the european parliament or in the pen told supporters she would campaign alongside allies to defeat what she called the liberal establishment recent polls parties getting support of a president emmanuel. thank you for your connection please you don't share those who believe that the twenty seven thousand presidential election was enough to spark an uprising that the presidential election stopped time and with it france's degradation all of this should be obvious emanuel does not symbolize the start of
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a cycle but rather the end of a cycle. a gypsy community in southern france says its historic neighborhoods being threatened with demolition signs ark is one of the poorest neighborhoods in france and local officials say it's a need of renewal al-jazeera is natascha but last more than the city of perth. the soundtrack neighborhood is a maze of narrow streets and colorful buildings for more than one hundred fifty years it's been home to a unique catalan speaking people who call themselves the gypsies of papua but now they say the city council is demolishing the area and trying to push them out with a brutal rip why destroy our history this is our neighborhood we've always lived here together it's a beautiful district so why not make it like grenada or seville somewhere that tourists could come and not be scared of us instead no one helps it's dismissed as a ghetto. in the past three years local authorities have demolished more than fifty houses part of
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a hundred million dollar urban renewal plan they say many of the buildings are unsafe but people here disagree is that the middle i've lived in this house all my life i was born in it and they want to destroy i'm scared because if this means treats i wouldn't know what to do. camel is part of a group of residents who say the neighborhood needs to be regenerated not demolish he says the councils ignored the area for years providing few services or petunias for people rubbish israeli collected there are no play areas for children three quarters of people are unemployed. what we want is to work with the council we want better family to stay in the neighborhood or a contractor back to whole community wants. some residents say city officials haven't consulted them about the plans but the deputy mayor says they have been dozens of meetings on the projects. of wanted and there's never been a desire to gentrify the area chased out the poor population those who want to stay
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can and we will help those who want to move out we're not getting wise and they're about building homes that are clean and safe people here safe not only about breaking buildings it's also about breaking up our community tearing apart generations of family and friends this woman says local officials i asked her to leave her house she thought she'd be gone a few days when she returned home she'd lived in for forty years was gone and she's not been offered another. they demolished my whole house with all my furniture everything i thought was only living a few days so i'd left all i have inside most here agree that some jack and his people are in need of attention it's one of the poorest neighborhoods in france but what they want is to hold on to their rich past and have a say in their future natasha butler al-jazeera. at least sixty migrants were rescued off the coast of spain on saturday. at
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a spanish maritime rescue ship spotted an overloaded raft with people waving and screaming for help officials say everyone on board the raft was rescued spain has become the latest point of entry for migrants trying to make their way to europe. peru's top immigration official says efforts to repatriate hundreds of thousands of venezuelans who fled to other parts of south america are nowhere near enough every day around thirty one hundred of them are arriving in peru as they flee a severe economic crisis in venezuela marianna sanchez went to meet a peruvian businessman who set up a shelter in the capital lima to help the migrants. on the floor or bunk beds alongside each other more than one hundred seventy minutes williams sharing three bedrooms two bathrooms and every single space there is left in this makeshift shelter on the outskirts of lima. says he feels lucky to be here when i.
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feel blessed because a lot of people have to sleep on the street i don't have any food and what these people here are doing is great to. walk when it's all free says clinical reigne a peruvian businessman who says he spent nearly thirty thousand dollars to rent and set up this shelter. or use the money to buy the stove mattresses everything i was about to buy a car but decided to invest it here because in exchange you get happiness. in a few months giving us is nearly two thousand venus williams who learned of the shelter through social media have come and gone the only way to make it work with so many is with discipline he says supervisor hall simona. the space is already too small it's a challenge because people keep on coming on our motto is to never say no we open our doors to any woman. the shelter is now run with the help of private donations to be a big who has absorbed the largest number of the newest will and migrants and refugees more than four hundred twenty thousand says the government seventy thousand already
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have work permits but most are taking underpaid jobs such as street bending for many venezuelans starting a new life here has been much more difficult than they imagined so if you have taken up residence offer to be flown back home for free right there were nearly two hundred venice williams have been airlifted in israel and precedent to just have been a swims were living and working in slave like conditions propaganda replied the peruvian government was the majority of in his will as at the embassy are here to request document renewals to be able to. apply for work permits nearly two million venezuelans are living abroad straining relations in the region and leading some countries to impose travel restrictions that's a shame says going in but. hunger in the city don't have borders countries shouldn't impose restrictions to these people. you're going to have american
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states says no country can face this wave of migrants and refugees on their own governments and international organizations get together to think of a regional plan people like. are already making a difference in a sentence. or a time for a quick check of the headlines here and al-jazeera rescue efforts are now underway in the northern philippines where more than fifty people have been killed by typhoon monk thirty four of them have died in to landslides triggered by heavy rains in the area of it's a gone dozens of people are still missing. at least two people are dead and hundreds of thousands of homes have been evacuated as monk makes its way through southern china two million people have been displaced and about fifty thousand fishing boats have been recalled to port forecasters are
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warning of widespread flooding the typhoon has brought with it winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour and to racial rain fighting in yemen's or data city has intensified who the rebels say they have been more than thirty five as drives by the saudi erotic coalition in the past twenty four hours they've been targeting a main highway out of the port city which is a key supply route to the rebel held capital of sana'a on saturday several children reportedly killed when bombing by the coalition hit their homes. united states has ordered the palestinian mission in washington to close staff bank accounts and clear their offices the trumpet ministration had announced the closure of the palestine liberation organization as office in the us capital last week palestinian leaders are calling it a declaration of war on peace efforts a u.s. professor detained during protests at a palestinian village slated for demolition says israel's now trying to deport him
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from ramana was detained on friday after he and others tried to block bulldozers sent to the village of harlem on our last week the israeli supreme court gave its go ahead to the demolition south korea has outlined the agenda for a three day summit to be held between moon j. and then kim jong loon from tuesday denuclearization will be a key issue at the third meeting between the two leaders and kimball also discussed ways to ease military tensions and sustain improved relations and u.s. president donald trump's nominee for the supreme court brett kavanaugh is now facing allegations of sexual assault a woman told the washington post she was assaulted by him when she was in high school some members of the senate judiciary committee that are supposed to vote on a cabinet appointment on thursday and are calling for a delay for those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after what i want to sort of. overthrow and exiled they
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