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why you have to. pay for what you have now a fishing pole and people go on to the highways to fish and. ride. people who are trying to catch as much as they can for them is an opportunity but again it's a major disaster when it comes to the larger picture which is of the production of grains of cereals in this part of the country this is of course one of the biggest or largest c.d.o. grains production bells in nigeria and would be closure of border to rice imports are lot of people are afraid that there will be a hunger next year unless the government open up open the borders to allow rice to come in. thank you at least thirty people have been killed in a landslide near the border with kenya a river burst its banks on thursday break down a hillside in the district were. killed in a market which is bury the government has sent rescue teams to the area landslide
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killed more than one hundred people in two thousand and two thousand government efforts to move people to neighboring areas resistance still had on al-jazeera. join me. traditionally conservative state is being transformed by the politics of the coming election. hello the rains are still moving slowly sighs through malaysia and indonesia showing themselves very keen on breaking out in java but not quite succeeding silly ways he still is getting daily showers but the heaviest ones and they have been for a couple of weeks are still further west and increasingly service sumatra southern
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thailand peninsular malaysia and from that you get some pretty good daily downpours and there obviously in the forecast is the green is dark the shop attention is quite heavy so there are a few in the philippines you can't see much of borneo and sadly you can see a lot of sort of ways he says showers are getting heavier here on a daily basis has done some excellent storms recently for me tropical point of view not so good has been on the ground this lot in queens and then towards sydney have been destructive in places sunder storms on the edge of a cold front so the big temperature contrast forecast was redone twenty nineteen in brisbane about twenty in sydney and more showers are still to come along the queensland coast such that it's not a short breeze or chartreuse possible as far maybe as victoria but warming up otherwise twenty twenty five you doing better than perth note the rain edging into western australian person running through maybe the week feels a little bit later in the same time which is sunday is still twenty one sherry in
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brisbane. in the lead up to the u.s. midterm elections we'll be talking to the american people looking at key issues for voters from immigration to economic struggles to the health care system to greece's and women's rights join us throughout oktober for special coverage and analysis of the u.s. midterms on al-jazeera china used to take half the world's recyclable rubbish but not anymore with garbage generated by one point four billion people they've got enough of their own but where does it go when he slips the lid on china's war on waste and how to zero.
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watching out to zero let's recap the top stories for you media is reporting that the turkish government says it has audioboo and video recordings proving the journalist was killed in the saudi consulate and istanbul he was last seen ten days ago walking into the building to get documentation for his upcoming marriage. and here is agriculture minister is warning there could be a shortage of rice and that's the country's staple food that's after devastating floods hit several states just one crops just as farmers were getting ready for harvest more than one hundred people were killed. and at least thirty people have been killed in a landslide in eastern new gonda near the border with kenya where for burst its banks on thursday sending mud and debris down a hillside and the district for duda many of those killed were at a market and the market was very. turning to our top story there has been some backlash against saudi arabia or the allegations of murder a number of companies are halting plans with the saudi government to appear in
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a state sponsored conference called the future investment initiative or some of them new york times journalist we did that they're pulling investment from the conference and they will no longer participate and the founder of virgin group richard branson says if proved true it would be difficult for the west to do business with the saudi government he is suspending two tourism projects with the kingdom and discussions about investment in space companies and the co-founder of a.o.l. and chairman of case foundation steve case tweeted that he's putting plans on hold to speak at that conference amnesty international says saudi arabia must be transparent about what happened to. this is a crime the reason it is a crime that it is during one of his appearances is that twenty. killings. and one of his appearance i don't know. if it's true that he was assassinated inside the embassy and they would also be responsible for extradition execution so
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there is a possibility it's clear for the kingdom of saudi arabia it is for them to review his fate is where this time during that press conference amnesty international also spoke about the conflict in syria saying any talk of reconstruction there is premature organization says human rights abuses continue with thousands of people and detention and many more missing that says the situation in iraq is critical the city was once held by eisel. thirty thousand houses in iraq or have been completely destroyed and twenty five thousand are partially destroyed. it's a city where it appears there are more bodies and do need the ground and living souls. to be more specific on that. there are multiple places where thousands of people have been buried. we spoke with the early recovery team it's a tiny unit that currently digs out and buries the bodies as of two days ago
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they have recovered two thousand five hundred twenty one bodies and this number grows every day a detained american pastor at the center of a diplomatic dispute between the u.s. and turkey is back in court for a hearing and your bunsen has been held since two thousand and sixteen it was initially accused of being linked to groups involved in that year's failed turkish coup some charges have since been dropped he is now accused of espionage the white house impose sanctions and tariffs on turkish entities earlier the share demanding brunson's release and her bronze and they says up to thirty five years in prison if convicted reports. american event pastor andrew brunson remains under house arrest in turkey despite the doubling of u.s. tariffs on turkish imports and pressure from the u.s. government u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe says his release would be the right thing for turkey to do it's an important step but make no mistake about it they shouldn't
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have held them for all of this time. but. it's a good thing it's the right thing for them to do it's the humanitarian thing for turkey to do. brunson was among the thousands arrested two years ago after the failed coup to overthrow turkey's president. recip type eddo on accuses front tool of google and of orchestrating the attempted overthrow one is demanding extradition from the united states donald trump refuses and the u.s. has double turkish import tariffs in retaliation for turkey's refusal to release the pastor. the fifty year old pastor led a small congregation in the city of izmir and has called turkey home for more than twenty years he faces thirty five years in prison if convicted prosecutors say brunson used his religious work as cover for being a spy he's accused of trying to convert kurds to christianity to divide the country other charges were dropped including membership of the outlawed kurdistan workers'
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party or p k k n of supporting the golan movement. the one maintains brunson has what it calls dark ties to terror groups. on the one side you calling the united states a strategic partner and an ally on the other side you're defending a poster who has relations with the p k k in the. air to one says he wants to see an improvement in turkey's relationship with the us and insists he has no influence over the judiciary and that the courts will decide the pastor's fate. gian al-jazeera. a funeral is underway for a bulgarian journalist victoria marin nova who was murdered last week the thirty year old was raped and killed in the northern town of ruse on her last t.v. show she interviewed two journalists and best to getting suspected corruption involving businessmen politicians and e.u. phones a man has been arrested in germany in connection with the attack. at least six
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people have died in one of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the united states and the coastal towns in florida are still cut off the day after michael made landfall as a category four storm or the nine hundred thousand homes are without power the state's governor rick scott says a storm is left a trail of unimaginable destruction and the search for survivors from an earthquake and tsunami in indonesia is due to end in the coming hours firefighters and soldiers are conducting their final searches in the city opposed to the rescue effort was extended until friday at the request of the families and in asia says it could take up to two years to rebuild earthquake devastated the island more than two thousand people have been confirmed dead it's after general has praised the indonesian government for its quick response to the disaster and turning to terrorism arrived in the island of celibacy were thousands are feared buried under the rubble. i must say that i have a lot of admiration for what has been an extremely effective response of the
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indonesian government of course when we see is the of a station we are broken in there are still probably one thousand bodies movies rubble in front of us but the resilience of the indonesian people and the quick response and effective response of the indonesian government deserve the admiration of international community and i hope they'll be a lot of support for the reconstruction for these people to be able to see again life we hope that and redemption government seems to be reluctance in taking international aid in a way that you know there is said that ok well the u.n. is already working with the russian government with we are embedded in the effort that is being done on the ground we have launched already an appeal we are working fully with the usual government but one single must be clear it's important that the leadership must be the local leadership its indonesian government that can lead these efforts the international community should be here to support not to complicate see sometimes too many people try to get involved in sings and then of
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course the support of the populations is not as effective as it should be indonesian government is doing a very good job and we are seeing to support them in line with their own sense of south africa's foreign minister during the apartheid era has died at the age of eighty six he was a staunch defender of racial segregation but later conceded that change was inevitable and two thousand both announced that he would join the a.n.c. the party of his former enemies he served as minister of mineral and energy affairs under nelson mandela in south africa's first post apartheid government. the very act as one of germany's richest states and also one of its most socially conservative and governed by sister party the christian social union for much of the past sixty years but on sunday voters will elect a new parliament one of the main issues has been immigration a mccain report from bavaria where the subject has polarized opinion on an early autumnal day looks like a scene from a postcard in this placid place the thought of an intense election battle seems
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distant and yet these are the voters all parties must convince which subjects are most important to them it's not like it was two years ago it's calmed down a lot when the big refugee wave happened it was a bit weird but now the topic as i see it is no longer currently seen sting critical of closing borders i don't think it works i think controls yes but closing borders is nonsense i don't need to talk about europe and then close borders and that's the issue which propelled the politics of this state into national into european prominence over the course of this past year with the governing christie and social union here threatening to topple the national coalition if it didn't get its way and yet right now in this campaign it finds itself on the defensive over this issue. in news conferences c.s.u. ministers admit the effect immigration has had you have military we have had many
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irritations in the past few years the higher number of refugees that came into our country the question of integration and the big controversy about that berlin but the most important factor is we are concentrating on a strong campaign. in recent months the c.s.u. has sought to move further to the right to prevent the populist anti immigrant a.f.d. from encroaching on to its grand but analysts say ministers in berlin have resisted c.s.u. plans for the sea as you could always promise and proposed but in fact they couldn't bring home anything they promised they over promised and under the liver it this is why conservatives now turn their back on them and flock to the afghans that which explains why that party is heading to sunday's election with confidence i think it's important for the country to get the fifty into the year in parliament. to make it very also one of the states
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that. support opposition against merkel. and yet in this deeply conservative state there are signs not everyone likes the right would trend in politics many here in keams a say they want their politicians to concentrate on schools health and mainstream issues the local green candidate says he thinks his party could spring a surprise in this election we'll know if he's right on sunday evening dominic cain al-jazeera in bavaria at least half a million people in kenya are blind or visually impaired treatment is expensive so many kenyans turn to traditional healers as katherine so i reports on how much there. uni's one boy has been waiting for this cornea transplant for the last five years she was going blind cornea the transparent out of most part of the eye
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has over the years been badly damaged the doctors can only operate on one eye and put her on another waiting list because a shot of the needed t. shoes for the other eye she has a condition known as conus a leading cause of blindness in kenya. to good of my studies completely. half a million kenyans are partially or totally blind twenty percent of them because of cornell problems these hospitals i beg gets fewer than two hundred a year. makes nations difficult here majority of the cornea we've been getting is for us. between five hundred to one thousand dollars. very very good. because. that means people like in a village in western kenya can hardly afford the thousands of dollars needed for the
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procedure she to surface from your condition she has been seeing a traditional. cough for three months now this confident that i. had once a week will help the patient get her sight back. she's had this problem for five years she's visited the hospital but the problem will go away my harms will clear the loneliness and how i. swear by the leaves shoots and traps she's been using for decades after inheriting the healing practice from her mother and grandmother of course says she gets her plants in her neighborhood after they are revealed too hot in dreams she also tells us that what she's boiling now treats most ailments and this is specifically for the eyes. to dish are recognized in the country's health care system they're important mostly in drought areas. with few hospitals all people who cannot afford medical care.
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clinic. by. the less so they come when their eyes that are now in the late stages. less than ten dollars for the treatment she gets but without the cornea transplant. catherine saw. western kenya. i was carrying these are the headlines for you right now on al-jazeera the u.s. media reporting that the turkish government says it has video and audio recordings proving that. he was killed in the saudi consulate and istanbul he was last seen ten days ago walking into the building to get documentation for his upcoming marriage amnesty international says saudi arabia must be transparent about what
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happened to. this is a crime the reason it is a crime is that it is your influences if you insist that the entire killings. at minimum and in one of his appearance i know you if it's true he was assassinated inside the embassy and they would also be responsible for extradition. so the responsibility is clear for the kingdom of saudi arabia to send them to his fate and his word since time and there has been some backlash against saudi arabia over the murder allegations and number of companies are halting plans for the saudi government to appear at a state sponsored conference called the future and vestment and misha to the founder of virgin group richard branson says of prove true it would be difficult for the west to do business with the saudi government he is suspending two tourism projects with the kingdom and also discussions about investment in his space companies i jarius agriculture minister is warning there could be
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a shortage of rice and that's the country staple food that's after devastating floods hit several states destroying crops just as farmers are getting ready for harvest more than one hundred people were killed at least thirty people have been killed in a landslide in eastern uganda near the border with kenya a river burst its banks on thursday sending mud and debris down a hillside in the district. many of those killed were at a market and that market was buried. a detained american pastor at the center of a diplomatic dispute between the u.s. and turkey and has arrived in court for a hearing and here bunsen is accused of being linked to groups involved in the failed turkish coup back in two thousand and sixteen at least six people have died after a major earthquake hit the east coast of the united states after hurricane michel made landfall many coastal towns in florida are still cut off the state's governor rick scott says the storm has left a trail of what he described as an imagined of all the destruction. those are the
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headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more to come one on one east is next. previously where the average person couldn't touch and tell if a post had been said or why does this updated nafta have the kind of support that he needs for we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. china used to take half the world's recyclable rubbish not if. they've got nothing but. the government has now declared. what do you do with the garbage generated by one point four billion people. on this episode of one used to live on china's rubbish crisis.
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we've traveled about an hour outside by james where the problems china faces managing its weist are on the stock displayed by. the stock pile here is the results of share bikes games and gone wrong. the bicycles were dumped here because they were quote being off by aging straights. this is just one all too many bicycle dumping grounds daughter the cross china there are a symbol of a culture of birth for juices and throws a y. on massive skyll and whether it's bicycles plastics or industrial waste it's a problem that's getting bigger and bigger bigger and
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. china's government has now that. the question is of. no way illustrates the scale of the problems china faces and. the scale. of the population much the same as a strong h. died a city produces twenty five thousand tonnes of flyest than double what it was twenty years ago.
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food delivery is known here. in china's big cities you can order pretty much anything from a. single cup of coffee the next to nothing. the . food. is father and grandfather. but a disability possible now all the twenty two year old is serving his country in a different why.
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every day he prices against the clock. getting good reviews. well you know my. outcomes. are. trying. to have some. sort. of. valve. job for you so. my idea. these newly
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popular online delivery services helping to generate vast amounts of plastic wifes from across the country about twenty million dollars of my h.d. i finally from two major companies producing around sixteen million plastic containers. you know that. i was to reach you need to be traveling by sixty. rubbish right chimley when knows all too well the challenges faced by a country where more people are getting wealthy fast he's some mages they don't have the basic infrastructure for first amendment they just she's one of china's
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most energetic environmental campaigners i did i change the winners taking us to see where a good crop of baiji. the rubbish ends up. on the city's outskirts. historically china city is also sends their waste to the countryside but gradually the farmers from the fields because we have more and more not all staff. we've come to one of beijing's biggest and oldest dumpsites homes of both a landfill and an incinerator of these is about as close as we can get this is it. the first time i came here it was almost ten years ago now so be it is going like a beauty. in the past this landfill contaminated the
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groundwater as far as four kilometers away locals also worry about emissions from the incinerator. over the years i have visited over thirty four senate here including a man feel as anything major trying to. see how this facility is heavy impacts the people. and people are suffering from pollution. with all it's sustainable waste my time and we don't have theatre. in its war to reduce weist china has one of my advantage. a boss network of rubbish because you take much of the recyclable weist out of landfill and incineration. verilog.
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and there's already enough. one gene dong. one of one hundred seventy thousand a rubbish scavenge is part of the informal recycling industry that currently handles about a third of the city's garbage. and live and work a lefty's home province and years ago wang lives on the fringes of the capital in a brick shack with no electricity or running water. wang and his wife took in their nephew eleven year old monk and after the child's father. now a mattress with others i'm a man. by
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. wang is committed to giving his nephew and education. barrett who was here. last a lot when you're. a one is taking me with him to collect volatiles on a demolition site covered with plastic mesh to keep down the dust it's worth. the real money in rubbish comes from controlling turf. well connected collectors cut deals with the big residential compounds prying for exclusive rights to handle
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their wife's. julie. i don't want to know so you don't know as i why not go to war with just a white man. is no the easiest way to make a living at the best of times but it's not even ten i am it's already getting up towards thirty five degrees. and then there. is a little to go to war. so we're doing a little here and sure. that . there's a window higher than what. we know is in a wash sure as you saw your. what. they don't know what was the deal with them. the rubbish because
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a highly effective according to chen lee when who's studied them closely became a psycho whatever the market can deal with we weed through the word and found out they recycle like almost a ninety percent of the recycle. various food much much higher in any of the of our countries. they rely on recycling through this family. egg mung and attends a local school set up for the children of the city's migrant workers it costs around two hundred dollars a year in phase. but even in this marginalized community the rubbish because nephew is at the bottom of the pack.
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sure. the rubbish collectors might be efficient but their future is uncertain. most like one jean don't come from outside the city. in recent crackdowns beijing has tried to force them out. recently wang has heard that the buildings around his home a slighted for demolition and the fees he's could be next. in the military and anyone. that's a must wonder. is it. really says or further the idea here they're. really doing. the rubbish because of facing another threat. it comes from entrepreneurs
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like you who's at the forefront of a government push to solve the crisis with high tech solutions. and. who shouldn't be but the national. mood. that. most impact. the ows company imes to cut out the rubbish collectors by encouraging individuals to recycle each bottle credits just under one cent to your bank account to get them to fast enough. to. develop. their company has placed five thousand of these machines around by jane.
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there's a daily limit of twenty to thirty bottles per user. designed to stop the rubbish because from cashing in. the company even transports the bottles to a plastic processing factory and ultimately turns them into consumer goods so imagine that is if you know this without eating it you can imagine that now you know. as if that's. not talking into. the city into the bank. it hasn't been to the home or to them that you know. it's on the sea. i. is still recycling the old fashioned why he peddles his
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wares to a market more than an hour across town another small cog in the informal recycling shine. out there are. clear what about hell if you know that companies you know not personally. could offer. higher than lloyd do you. do you don't want to be in the list this week sound we should. turn turn up. they don't. want to or don't. hear the city's trash turns into treasure any item useful for manufacturing plastic cardboard metal as a value here. it's been
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a good day mr wang's made about thirty dollars from a week's garbage enough to support his family for another wake. from here the plastic bottles cardboard and other packaging and collected on the streets of beijing begin the long journey why from the capital. the question is where does it all go from here. when the government announced its ban on foreign advice last year it also cracked down on backyard recycling centers like these. seem to be seeking to be found she's it seems. to me this piece. as this recent state media documentary reveals saris in my. in a show with closing down the senses because there are a danger to workers health and the environment.
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but have all these backyard operate is a really shutdown. and if they have where is china's domestic waste recycled. we decide to visit once was the biggest center for plastic recycling in northern china the wind and district an hour from beijing. processing was officially shut down here some years ago i've heard there's still some going on and there are indications recycling is happening at nearby is another truck with. plastic pellets have gone through the recycling process already in the ready to be taken away and used for manufacturing issue with it. but if it is still happening it's well he had to. say dave off on
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a. no name face on the outside showing them are. you going to go. yeah you know it will load up. then though. i call one of the numbers on the shop fronts and a man tells me he's moved his business to in a mongolia in china's north. when the center closed people were shipped to more remote area to continue their. because we still have so much flat plastic we do have a problem is just the shift of the promotion from one war concentrating same card to a more like dispersed. he went on there are cameras everywhere
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. about half an hour after our arrival local officials turn up whatever he's going on here they don't want us to say yes. so you know i get along. on this so they want us to come down to have a word with them before supposedly show us one of these local factories here we see . after an hour at the station the police tyke us to lunch and send us on our why by site plastic processing has all been shot down and went on and moved to other parts of china. back in beijing if there is some aspects to the rubbish system the government ease came to showcase. city officials have told me last year to up to show us how they
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dealing by change what. fighting is one of forty six cities across the country trying a new rubbish sorting system. to hide you. from the. help. of government if it's so far to convince city dwellers to sort their weist haven't gone well. for their. own. eric leo is the laid plastics campaigner for grain pace you also may hall to me and from there. to show you go to guy meaning to.
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once collected beijing's rubbish is compacted been trucked on to one of the world's largest incinerators. and that's the next stop on out to up. the loot an incinerator in the hills west of the aging burns about a night from the city's garbage transforming the hate into energy. according to john yoo a shang from the city government h.-e. this plan produces the same amount of electricity as one hundred forty three. tons of coal. should you go in there for a woman or for. your. jungle and to go to. china once it's big cities to burn more than half the household waste by
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the end of this decade but if the rubbish isn't properly stored there are problems . with the facility so you will as the soon to go but you for trying. to no be told. basically you sell her you. don't know how. from what we see heed to that i this still a lot of plastics in the mix. it's clear china has a long way to go. for food korea role jan it's been another long day on the streets of beijing it's the central government is now considering restrictions on packaging including tiger away food containers. rajon hasn't heard about these plans but he agrees there
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needs to be china. and less on. the idea. i've come back to see the rubbish pico. and his nephew. six weeks earlier he told us he was worried the local government would try to force him out of his home. well this is a bit of a surprise since we were here last on the completely break the flying where they're
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healthy. even though if they are many more. than are. you know. whether they're not on the whole. it's. an unknown a lot of you know. it doesn't know how much longer their house will remain standing body says whatever happens try to stay in beijing. so much i don't want to show you you know a neon and brown was there but you still when you're. with these rubbish rick dean wang is trying to support his family by picking up casual labor jobs it's not the future he dreams of for his nephew.
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who was young and when i saw you call a whole. new world on a cold war i want to go on a little the shulchan. day on how to use a new one or find. one of those here on annoy you know you have the use of. the new normal. so if you're one of the one who. wants to make i clean a future for eleven year old monk i am out of the rubbish because disappear it could be growing up in a country that recycles less than it does now. as the big cities modernize the lives of those who have done the most to keep them clean will be more precarious than ever.
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for a journalist who was raped and murdered. the pastor at the center of a diplomatic dispute between the u.s. and turkey returns to court for a closely watched hearing. with the goal. of the next sixty minutes. turkey's state run news agency says a saudi delegation has arrived in the capital ankara to investigate the disappearance of the journalist jamal. and this comes amid media reports that turkey has proof that showed she was killed inside the consulate in istanbul he was last seen walking into the building on october the second to get documentation for
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his then forthcoming marriage correspondent stephanie decker joins us live from istanbul first off this saudi delegation what do we do with that information what happens next. well they've just landed an anchor and they're going to be meeting with counterparts from the foreign and justice ministry they're currently working on setting up this working group group or as we've been talking about it was announced last night by the presidential spokesperson but will let's wait and see what they're going to discuss because you've been mentioning these are explosive allegations i think it explains why turkey has been so quickly within less than twenty four hours of service to our shores he did not appear from that building behind us to turkey say that they believe he has been murdered inside the building and many people have been questioning how do they know this is the steady stream of leaks web being fed into the media and now they're saying how why did they know it how did they know it why are they so adamant it's because they have or joe and video recordings of peter you're reading it was in the washington post quoting us
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and turkish officials saying that some of the sources quoting saying could actually hear mr bush being beaten that says you can hear men speaking arabic it basically says that he was detained right after he walked into that building by those saudi nationals hadn't flown into the country and that he was questioned tortured and murdered they are and chilling and i think on your precedents and allegations of how this seems to have unfolded but if those recordings are genuine stuff does that mean that the turks have a problem here because it means that either somebody who was in the room at the time recorded it and gave that information to the turkish authorities or they'd already bugs the buildings. well i think questions will definitely be honest about how the turks have video access to a diplomatic mission there are a few theories out there one would be to exactly that that that the building is bugged another one is that they have someone inside
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a third one some people are talking about is of these previous reports against unconfirmed of the apple watch that mr harvey was wearing when he went into that building it was a link to his mobile phone which he left with his fiance outside again it's all theory speculation but i think we really have uncovered this you know listening to the leaks that the turks have been giving to the media over the last ten days they see adamant and certain and confident about what they know how far they've shared it now with the americans they're sharing it with our allies and i think also looking at this from a step back peter politically it's extremely sensitive when you're talking about relations in saudi arabia turkey and the united states because of course this is a man he's not just simply a journalist he's very extremely long acted to washington extremely well connected internationally to the diplomatic circles extremely well connected to the saudi royal family so you know many people will tell you that the saudis tried to silence
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mr hersh if these reports turn out to be true and what they have done is exactly the opposite but overall i guess this because this story does move by the hour stephanie overall do you get the feeling where you are that the pressure is continuing to build when it comes to wanting something from the saudi authorities. absolutely and again there's various leaks in various media reports about what may be happening behind the scenes and they typically politically they're trying to protect the crown prince mohammed bin so mad of course there's been leaks in the american media saying that the u.s. has intelligence that this was on the orders of the crown prince these are extremely damning allegations if you look at what we're talking about this is a man who walked into that consulate his own consulate in a foreign country wanting to pick up papers that prove that he was divorced so that he could get married and that they had a team lying in wait for him who interrogated him who tortured him and who ended up killing him and dismembering him these are almost unbelievable allegations they
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need facts they need evidence but if you read between the lines the turks seem convinced but i think also politically there will be trying to be some kind of crisis management between turkey between the saudis in particular between the united states about how to manage this and i think this is why turkey has accepted the saudi delegation to come here to talk you will also be sure the americans are very much involved at these levels about how to move forward but again they you know as you said it moves by the hour but i think looking at the leaks day by day they have been escalating nothing as damning as hearing that turkey has video and audio evidence of what exactly happened there and of course that raises other questions about how turkey actually got those stephanie thank you very much well t.v. presenter a mole known journalist to mimi dedicated his show on the arab satellite channel. to his missing friend who was supposed to be a guest on the program instead it featured his photograph to me so his friend just days before he disappeared in social shoji walked into
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a trap and i was horrified because he assured me when we were in london that there was nothing to be concerned about. he said on friday he had been to the consulate there to see them very well although they were initially surprised to see him. promised them if he came back again a few days later they would issue him with the papers he was after so he felt. it was ok but apparently they're preparing a trap for him well meanwhile there's been some backlash against saudi arabia over those murder allegations a number of companies are stopping plans with the saudi government for a state sponsored conference called the future investment initiative here's just a taste of some of them new york times journalists on twitter saying they're pulling investment from the conference and that they will no longer take part
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a journalist from the daily beast tweeted that he had been told by the l.a. times that its owner patrick soon shong will no longer be attending the event either and the founder of the virgin group richard branson says if proved true it would be difficult for the west to do business with the saudi government suspended to tourism projects with the kingdom and discussions about investment in his space companies and the co-founder of a.o.l. and chairman of the case foundation steve case tweeted that he's putting plans on hold to speak at the conference as well. moneths who was former president barack obama's energy secretary is suspending his work advisor in saudi arabia on a mega city project. saying in the states president on the trump is appearing reluctant to take punitive measures against saudi arabia if it's found to be responsible for her short she's disappearance despite pressure from senators from both parties he is opposing stopping
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a multi-billion dollar arms deal with riyadh alan fisher has that aspect of the story from washington. the u.s. president has repeatedly stopped short of blaming saudi arabia for the disappearance of jamal khashoggi what happened is a terrible thing assuming that happened i mean maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised but somehow i tend to doubt it and we take it very seriously and don't trump says he opposed any move by u.s. senators to block arms sales to sochi in retaliation i don't like the concept of stopping an investment of one hundred ten billion dollars into the united states. because you know they're going to do they're going to take that money and spend it or russia or china or someplace else so i think there are other ways if it turns out to be as bad as it might be there are certainly other ways of handling the situation but the president says u.s. investigators are now helping inquiries abroad with a report jew in his words very soon but turkey's foreign minister on
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a trip to iraq says that's not the case a leading republican senator with access to the latest intelligence says he believes jamal khashoggi has been moderate everything points to saudi arabia and it would appear that he's not a lot about what one democrat says the white house can't talk about what it wouldn't do to punish the president trumps unwillingness to set out any consequences or even the threat of consequences essentially tells the saudis that were ok with this kind of conduct and behavior last year saudi arabia spent more than twenty seven million dollars to more be in washington a process of seeking to influence politicians and cheap policy in its favor one washington more church says their money can't help them with this saudi arabia is one of the most influential lobbying and p.r. machines in washington d.c. but in this case the facts just speak louder than any lobbyist campaign contributions or any p.r. spokespersons talking points possibly could so what good does that do us no donald
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trump says he's expecting a report in the khashoggi case he will come under pressure from center. just to make it public when he receives it molly seems reluctant to take action against the country he's built up as a friend in an ally who might be left with no choice but to act. how does either washington. ok let's bring in our he's a professor of conflict resolution at the george mason university he joins us here in the studio in doha what's your reading of how the turkish authorities have handled this and what are their options going forward to me it seems there are two parter layer approaches to the crisis or to what happened to mr hersh nereus the security legal process that has been suppressed by the diploma to be politically correctness between one car and the rear and i think a lot of the gun has been and the pressure not to reveal what the investigation showed him so far so i think there is
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a missing link here in terms of what the total cost no and what the total bush don't like to show it to the public so the story remains as an inside stonewall and more than any other spot at the same time it seems to me that we are now moving away from what happened to hush up here because of this complex diplomatic exchange hotlines between bitter capitals and then at the same time you look at europe and the united states they are bringing more. or complexity to what happened to him on the idea of complexity do you get the sense that that the tectonic plates of the relationship between washington and ankara are shifting if only because for example we're also being told and this is just one report saying that the united states has had explained to it the contents of these audio and videotapes of mr hersh being killed.

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