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trudeau in the absence of detailed analysis his officials insist canada didn't have to give up as much as it feared to an overtly protectionist us president it took more than a year of often acrimonious talks to get here canada u.s. relations once closer than almost any other bilateral ties in the world sunk to new lows mexico made its own deal with the u.s. in august and it took canadian and u.s. negotiators another month to reach agreement just two hours before a deadline that could have excluded canada a key sticking point was canada's protected dairy industry under the new deal canadian farmers will face competition from u.s. milk imports there are a powerful lobby group and can be expected to push back canada's automakers will be relieved that the deal means they're not facing the tariffs on car exports that president trump threatened as recently as last week cross border u.s. duties on steel and aluminum also looks set to be lifted which will relieve
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canadian indeed mexican industries this is a pact covering more than a trillion dollars in trade every year more than half of it between the u.s. and canada it still needs to be ratified by legislators in all three countries and there could still be some resistance the ratification is likely by early two thousand and nineteen daniel ak al jazeera toronto. still ahead on al-jazeera u.s. senators accuse the white house of micromanaging an investigation of the president's supreme court pick. and brazil's unemployment rate is falling but it hides an uncountable truth about the safety column e. . how the weather remains a lot. dry across indonesia then we got
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a scattering of showers into malaysia some showers also pushing their way towards the philippines and out in the open waters we have our next typhoon which is heading towards the eastern side of china this is calm ray some showers just drifting across the philippines and as we go on through the next day or two northern parts of malaysia are also seeing some of that wet weather more in cash into the north of indonesia as we go on into the middle part of the week but dry to the south and that dry weather there standing across much of australia little area cloud rolling through the bites will see a little area of low pressure just pushing in here bits and pieces of cloud possibly one of two showers down towards victoria by the time we come to choose the twenty celsius there for melbourne but twenty nine in adelaide a northerly wind coming in here getting up to twenty one in perth hunches day similar values as we go on into wednesday and by wednesday i mean that twenty not in that light that will be gone eighty degrees slowly busta coming in so the temperatures really falling away quite sharply wanted to showers
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a possibility is parts of new south wales that southern parts of new zealand could see wanted to showers chance of the arch out to towards the north temperatures over the next couple of days getting up to around sixteen degrees. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. other stories . providing a glimpse into someone else's world. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. with mace documentaries to open your eyes. on al-jazeera.
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welcome back you're watching out the syria time to recap our headlines now the official death toll from the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia has risen to eight hundred forty four but that figure is expected to go into the thousands mass graves are being dug in indonesia's president says he's ready to welcome international. brands military says it's his positions in syria linked to a group that suspects was behind last week's attack on a military parade several most sounds struck the able come out region of eastern syria last week twenty five people were killed when gunmen opened fire in a parade in the city. canada the u.s. and mexico have reached a new trade deal to replace the north america free trade agreement on nafta donald
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trump had dismissed nafta as a disaster the deal was agreed after countless prime minister held a late night cabinet meeting ahead of a u.s. imposed monday deadline. israeli forces have ordered palestinians in a martyr to destroy their own village leave by midnight on monday say the deadline is not met go in and do it themselves month the israeli supreme court approved the demolition to make way for more settlements protests are expected across the west bank later on monday. is in harlem. it's early morning in the palestinian bedouin village of han which is under threat of israeli demolition now the israeli army issued a notice to the village on last week saying that it had until the end of october first the villages to actually sell for demolish all of the structures that you see
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here the school is just over there the palestinian bedouins haven't done that and they're just waiting to see what happens next now there is a general strike that's been called across the west bank we're expecting lots of people to come here to show solidarity with the palestinian bedouin villages however in the past particularly during friday prayer these rallies haven't allowed people to come in they've stopped them from reaching this village where they are allowed them to come in today will see in the next few hours. by the former yugoslav republic of macedonia to change its name has failed sunday's referendum had strong support but the turnout didn't reach the fifty percent threshold just over a third of voters cast ballots with ninety percent of them supporting the new name third public of north macedonia government wanted the name changed to help end a decades old dispute with greece. the country's leader says the low turnout doesn't mean he should step down he's pledging
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a parliamentary vote on the name change. was easier not to take it again i know the opposition knows all the citizens know there is and there can be no better agreement with greece there is and there can be no alternative to macedonia as membership of nato and the e.u. let's not play games with our unity and our macedonia my personal message to every member of the macedonian parliament is let's put the national interest the interest of the citizens and the strategic interests of the state above politics and party interests. a major party in the kurdish region of northern iraq is giving mixed signals about whether it will accept the results of parliamentary elections the p u k shares power their one member has suggested his party will reject the results votes are still being counted in the first poll since last year's failed bid for secession that independence referendum was rejected by the central government
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plunging the region into turmoil charles stratford has more from a b o. well we understand that this statement was made by a p.t. you k. spokes person i was the saudi peer who said that the p u k was going to reject these election results subsequent to that statement being made the leader of the p u k list qubad talabani has rejected this claim and said that it is far too early to come out with statements like that. rejecting results as they are still being counted meanwhile the k d p the k.t. p.d.t. ship in the towns of sunni and shia which a p u k strongholds of come out and make claims about election violations there also i mean i think these incidents obviously just show just how full these palm tree elections are indeed how the a for the build up to them has been we have seen these increasing divisions between
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the two main political players in this region the k d p and the p u k there's always been a if you like an on an easy. leadership agreement if you like in this region and that is full of partisan subsequent to that referendum the failed referendum that we saw last year and also the fact that the k.t. they blamed the p u k as being complicit with the baghdad government the baghdad army when the peshmerga the kurdish full seasons were forced to withdraw from kirkuk last year. the white house has denied it is trying to restrict the f.b.i. investigation into the president's supreme court nominee the agency is looking into allegations of sexual misconduct against brett kavanaugh but i think from a furred woman and not being considered this pos about investigation a white house correspondent kimberly how could reports. on sunday one day before
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the opening term of the u.s. supreme court justices and government officials like attorney general jeff sessions were spotted heading into a mass designed to invoke god's blessing on those responsible for the administration of justice in the united states. but outside the cathedral protesters gathered showing the divisions that exist around the white house nomination to fill the vacancy on the bench of america's highest court u.s. president donald trump has ordered the f.b.i. investigate the charges against his supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh following a ruckus hearing this past week the failed to advance his nomination of a probe will look at just current credible allegations bret's assault on meter actress sickly altered my life that means the f.b.i. will investigate dr christine blazin ford's claim kavanaugh sexually assaulted her well the two were teenagers and investigators will speak to witnesses at
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a yell university party in the one nine hundred eighty s. where cavanagh allegedly exposed himself in front of deborah ramirez but the f.b.i. probe won't include the allegations of a third woman julie sweat nick who says she was gang raped at a party cavanagh attended i think the allegation that she makes is outrageous not one democrat mentioned it but martin judge his neighbor. as being part of a gang rape and the dragon women will be asked did he ever see this happen or did see kevin are engaged last week cavanagh denied the allegations at a sin. the g.g. cheri committee hearing but i have never done this but given the serious allegations and cavanagh's combative defense that he's the victim of a political smear campaign democrats are questioning kavanagh's temperament for the role of supreme court justice it was clearly a college aren't aggressive angry and he revealed himself as a partisan i would think that if i were a democrat going before him i'd ask him to recuse himself president donald trump
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says he has no backup plan when it comes to the confirmation of judge cavanagh the f.b.i. is currently investigating its report is expected sometime after friday it will be delivered to the white house and then will go on to the senate or senators will then vote whether to confirm the controversy or judge can really help at al-jazeera the white house thousands of people in spain's catalonia region of protesters as they mark one years since a failed bid for secession they rallied in front of a prison where some of the leaders of last october's referendum are held spain central government called the vote illegal prime minister peter sanchez is proposing a referendum on more autonomy for the been rallies in the brazilian city of san paulo in support of far right presidential candidate sonando opinion polls put him as the front runner in next week's election demonstration comes a day after thousands protested across the country against his controversial views
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on gay rights women and minority groups. brazil's outgoing president is confident latin america's largest economy is coming out of recession. has been falling but many people lack faith in the government because of cuts to social programs but on a sanchez reports from in central brazil. they're back in business but buried one of the largest construction steel providers in the city of new is beginning to supply the national market again just over a year ago. he had to file for bankruptcy most of their bankruptcy was the only. it was really sad i thought to feed it we have managed to recover part of our loss but we still have to work hard to pay two million dollars in debts and perhaps he says hire back the seventy workers he had to lay off. in this highly industrialized
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region in the heart of brazil nearly three hundred fifty thousand people have lost their jobs as a result of the economic crisis thirty million more brazilians are unemployed. although the country statistic agency says the unemployment rate has been consistently falling now it's more than twelve percent it warns it's because millions of brazilians gave up looking for jobs and joined the informal market to survive professor dyson is one of them her father i've worked as a teacher for more than twenty years but lost my job four years ago i managed to get temporary positions but that isn't sustainable when you need to pay your bills i have children and grandchildren so i decided to work selling food on the streets . one of the greatest challenges for the next president will be for help you feel young to try to make ends meet. that forty percent of those work for the don't contribute social security and who work without benefit. of the national institute
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of statistics says the pressure on the government is growing. well forty million are underemployed for example street vendors in formality has helped people survive the crisis that began in two thousand and thirteen but in formality is dangerous when people need to use the public services who pays for. this economic crisis is in its fifth year the vice president of the state's industrial federation says recovery will depend on the measures the next president takes is investor me investors will only come back if they trust in the new president we expect a president with strength to negotiate with the congress to put in practice all the promises made during the campaign that is the way investors will return. back at the steel factory the employees say they are counting their blessings for being in work of the political and economic instability continues and that means at any time
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they could don't jumps in the sun just going on here but as you hundreds of swimmers have been taking part in a race in the senegalese capital that's about more than just competition involves swimming to a former slave port africans were once sold and shipped to the americas nicholas hawke has the story. minutes away from the start one final stretch. allows a bit of advice. and a few words of wisdom. you need training devotion and peace of mind it's not easy but it's possible if you give your heart to it first the professional swimmers with . then three hundred amateurs young and old jump into the atlantic ocean for the annual five kilometer open water race today historic island of gori. as the hours go by the gaps between swimmers widens faced with strong currents pain sets in
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the swimmers battle cramps and exhaustion. he says my lungs are hurting. for many it's just about trying to complete it and get to goree island so come on. i mean. it's like a marathon on water the goal is to get to glory which for us is a symbol of our history it's an important event. this stretch of atlantic ocean that separates deckard to korea is a historical importance the island was a major hub for the slave trade where african men women and children were captured boarded on ships to america some in chains tried to escape they were tried to swim to the mainland in what was then shark infested waters. and. this isn't just a swim race it's a tribute to those who remain defiant refusing their fates as slaves instead of swimming for freedom and so this is also a celebration of freedom resistance and the human spirit some ability to overcome
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adversity. here comes the winner. enjoy are a soldier for senegal the navy. and the police no need only no no it's a victory not just to may but for all people here in senegal and throughout the world. then slowly one by one there was come out of the water each pushing beyond their limits to make it to the other side breathless but happy and proud nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car. i'm sam is a van with a look at the headlines here now and now the official death toll from the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia has risen to eight hundred forty four but that figure is expected to go into the thousands mass graves of being dug in indonesia's
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president said he's ready to welcome international help most of the confirmed dead are in the city of only eleven are from the region of don gallo which is still largely cut off under thomas's impossible this city two hundred kilometers to the southeast of palo was as close as we could live there are aid flights going into palo but so far no commercial passenger planes being allowed in threes and they're not the priority that we flew the nearest place that you could fly and then we thought we'd be able to drive for six hours to palo but here the real you shortage means that there are use and abuse of power trying to get petrol from petrol station iran's military says it's hit positions in syria linked to a group it suspects is behind last week's attack on a military parade several missiles struck the become our region of eastern syria last week twenty five people were killed when gunmen opened fire on
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a parade in the vast city. canada the u.s. and mexico have reached a new trade deal to replace the north america free trade agreement or nafta donald trump had dismissed nafta as a disaster the new deal was agreed after calenders prime minister justin trudeau held a late night cabinet meeting ahead of the u.s. imposed monday deadline. a bid by the former yugoslav republic of macedonia to change its name has failed sunday's referendum had strong support but the turnout didn't reach the fifty percent threshold just over a third of voters cast their ballots with ninety percent of them supporting the new name the republic of north macedonia a major party in the kurdish region of northern iraq is giving mixed signals about whether it will accept the results of parliamentary elections the p u k shares power there and one member suggested his party will reject the results votes are still being counted in the first poll since last year's failed bid for the session
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a visitation i give my team. even laboratory appreciate what he does contribute to the prevention of such we bring together many said to actually one goal eliminate the rabies island by lifeline the quest for global health on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter darby you're watching the news our live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the full scale of the disaster emerges in indonesia as mass graves are prepared on so that we see island for the dead of the
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tsunami and earthquake. iran launches missiles at sites inside syria it says it's striking back at the attack on a military parade. preparing for the worst the u.k. government says it's getting ready for a new deal bricks it. also ahead the swimming race in senegal that's as much about freedom and history as it is about sport. let's get going more international help is now on its way to indonesia as it struggles in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami a fourteen day state of emergency has been declared at least eight hundred forty four people are now confirmed dead but the death toll is expected to rise into the thousands rescue workers in the said. of palu are preparing mass graves for the
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victims they fear disease could spread quickly dozens of people are thought to be still alive trapped beneath the rubble and there's little word yet on casualties from dongola thirty kilometers north of palm which remains largely cut off there's no road access to the city which is a tour around two hundred seventy thousand people a lack of heavy machinery is hampering rescue efforts roads are blocked the airport is damaged and telecommunications are still but survivors are being pulled from collapsed buildings or such a body as more three days after the massive earthquake and tsunami this is what is left of the city of paulo much of the city of more than three hundred thousand people destroyed rescuers now trying to reach those who might still be alive with hospitals the steroid the injured are being treated in the military has set up a field hospital and has taken over the airport to fly aid in and the injured out
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but the stench of death is everywhere as mass graves are being dubbed the spread of disease a major concern those who did survive are desperately trying to leave. we have not eaten in three days we just want to be safe. we have been here since yesterday we need to fly there are eleven of us we haven't been allowed to board the indonesian president has been trying to reassure the people of pollo that help is on its way. we will send as much food as we can today by hercules aircraft directly from jakarta. these are the problems we're trying to solve as well we're expecting fuel to get to public today because special flights are being sent there one of the main challenges facing rescue workers has been the lack of heavy equipment to dig for survivors. for now they're using whatever tools they can find or their bare hands to try to get to those buried under the rubble dorsett of mari
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al jazeera when he is standing by for us here on the news hour in the capital jakarta we'll get to him in just a moment first let's go live to andrew thomas anderson posts who is trying to make his way to paolo and just take us through what you've been seeing and hearing on this journey. but i'll just give it all snap shots we were trying to get to follow today monday but it's just proving very very tricky as you can imagine the airport as you say has been taken over by the military commercial passenger planes being allowed to land there yet so we fly into the nearest operating airport that is taking passenger planes here and posted about two hundred kilometers to the southeast and here they did feel the earthquake very strongly but there's very limited damage that me that that i have seen well the issue is here though is fuel or rather a lack of it there is feeling the petrol stations but the demand for that petrol
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from people trying to visit family friends find out what's happened to them that is where the queues of traffic trying to get into those petrol stations come from and we have been trying to get cars to higher cost to take us there and all drivers have been killing now for six hours waiting for fuel and you can imagine that those who are very concerned about relatives are having to queue for similar amounts of time so huge queues at petrol stations that's the main thing that we have seen here in post sue and all the roads blocked as well because of those queues and the petrol station so trying to get out of the city is very difficult and then there is a six hour drive all the way to that disaster zone so very tricky getting into that city as well as getting the injured and desperate people out how long do you think until they establish communications with those areas that have been cut off since the tsunami hit. it's very hard to say pizza because of course we don't know where those people are because by definition they can't make contact
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at the moment it was very hard to get messages even out of parliament we are now getting some text messages snippets of conversations as well with redundantly in my case a local journalist there who were telling the situation it does sound very chaotic in that in that city still give you one example at the airfield earlier on monday were things have calmed down now a big hercules plane landed bringing in a it was supposed to take injured people out but so many people flooded over the perimeter of the airport to try and get on that plane that it couldn't take off many people and i've seen some television pictures of this in the last hour or an organ donation television was sat in front of that plane refusing to get out of the way until they or their loved ones were taken on board how long it will take to get messages to get signals mobile signals out some of those small isolated areas to be actually only is anybody's guess in these situations though emergency mobile phone crew towers go in and they try to reestablish connections as a matter of priority is just as important frankly as getting water and food in is
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getting messages out and that is going on as we speak when he is in the indonesian capital jakarta wayne how long until the rescue operation being filtered through where you are is up and running. well we've heard from the national disaster agency here in jakarta in the last few hours on monday afternoon giving one of the latest briefings and they really highlighted the fact that this is very slow going simply because as andrew mentioned it's just so difficult if not impossible to get into some of the areas that have been so badly affected by the earthquake and disaster you mentioned the official death toll has climbed slightly to eight hundred forty four they also confirmed that the official number of missing is now nineteen now that is a fairly low number in the grand scheme of things given that the government has warned that the final death toll could be in the thousands but that number of ninety is the number of people who are officially registered as missing the actual
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number of people missing in the wake of this disaster is sure to be a lot higher than that given that in that same media briefing peter they highlighted the fact that in one particular housing development one area one suburb of polish city there were some nine hundred thousand years that have all but disappeared beneath the mud in the earthquake and they simply can't get to that area to see if there are any survivors that area where they are most people were able to get out of that housing area before the before the houses disappeared into that mud some as deep as five meters so it's slow going but at the same time there's an acknowledgement that they that there is some urgency here as well because as you mentioned there are still quite possibly many people still alive buried beneath the rubble the need will clearly be in days in weeks perhaps in the months to come in all these agencies because it's a multi agency operation can make carry on resourcing this for those weeks and
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months to come. well we have an acknowledgement from the indonesian government in the last few hours from the president himself that he would like to see international aid international assistance and is given the green light for that to begin so that we'll be able to be on the ground any moment now logistically we know as andrew mentioned that the airport is able to operate to accept those aid flights in the even though it's a very difficult situation in terms of security and other issues so we expect given that the usual a donors in this situation in southeast asia come in come mainly from the neighboring countries we know that thailand is ready to go in terms of delivering aid in search and rescue personnel so getting those supplies getting that personnel to the actual area to polish city is one thing making sure that those supplies and
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the experts assistance gets out to the people who need it most in a coordinated fashion is another question altogether and that's something that we have seen as being a big problem in this region in natural disasters in the past as coordination often we see hundreds if not thousands of aid organizations their personnel flooding the affected areas but it's the coordination that is sadly lacking and it seems perhaps given that the president of indonesia has already said that he's not going to let just any aid in any personalities going to be selecting exactly what they need the most that perhaps they have learnt from the past they have learnt that they can't just let everyone in that they have to coordinate this very closely when thank you let's go back to thomas who's still with us here on the news and we're just looking at those aerial shots it looks like the coastline has been kind of shunted inland by three or four hundred meters which is not a big distance per se but if you're one of the people whose house was lost on the
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news the water was lost to the earthquake you've got no place to go back to so where are these people going to live for the coming few days. well they're not just been lost to the water hole shoved aside but in some cases they have literally sunk down into the mud into the ground there's no trace we've seen a very eerie pictures that people tell us used to show villages and now it just seems to show is a pristine expanse of mud through is nothing there and as you say those were people's homes in the short we're told there are something approximate to a refugee camp a sort of emergency sheltering in that city but in the longer term obviously they can't stay in those places for very long periods of time many are trying to get out that's partly what all these queues of cars that we have seen here impossible trying to do that trying to drive to that city and bring people out with them this is also a ways either i've got friends and family here they're trying to get people out and
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the government would like that they'd like as many people as possible to leave the city so that they are left with as few as possible to deal with there but certainly one of the priorities as well as getting food and water and is getting tents in tarpaulin basic shelter really not that many people want to go back into buildings that are still off the shocks it's quite possible it could be a very powerful aftershock no one really wants to be two or three stories up if something about that what's happened so we're hearing from many people including i should say as we've taken tents with us when we get to the city most people want to stay under the tarp all in rather than under what could become rubble so those who stay will stay at ground level as far as they can but those who can leave well andrew thank you both very much iran's military says it hit positions in syria linked to a group it suspects was behind last week's attack on a military parade in the city of of us several missiles struck the region of eastern syria last week twenty five people were killed when.

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