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great country joe watkins we thank you very much for speaking to us on the news good on al-jazeera thanks so much for having me let's turn to the online conversation about this shooting and as a social media producer looking at that andrew well before he answered the tree of life congregation synagogue in pittsburgh robber bowers unleashed a stream of. medic rhetoric online as we heard a few moments ago and that was on a social network called gap it champions free speech it's kind of like twitter but it's favored by the far right because it provides a home for those who've been kicked off of twitter or other platforms now this is the message that powers posted just before he attacked the synagogue this comment about the hebrew immigrant aid society which is one of the main agencies the u.s. government uses to resettle refugees in the united states and it had organized what it called a refugee shots across hundreds of its affiliated congregations which was focused on helping or at least talking about helping refugees now bowers had posted
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a lot of it's the jewish conspiracy theories on the platform which are popular on other far right forum saying that jewish backs of groups were somehow launching an invasion through that migrant caravan which we've been covering on al-jazeera the one that's heading towards the u.s. border they also accuse the billionaire philanthropist george soros and the democrats of financing it well gab says it has no blood on its hands in this case neither does the president nor the gun it's called individual responsibility and accountability that's what the company says so that's a big part of this discussion online over the last twenty four hours or so is who exactly is to blame and is there blame to be shared now the author lawrence tribe has accused the president of using anti semitic rhetoric hidden messages like these here to trigger portions of his far right base and the fox business channel has also been caught up in this over a segment that was following the shooting that shared that conspiracy theory that i mentioned earlier. a lot of these folks also have affiliates who are getting money
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from the soros occupied state department and that is a very great concern we want to start cutting money struck money there now josh marshall from talking points memo dot com for one thinks that the shooter may have been triggered by this conspiracy theory that george soros and jews are funding and or directing this migrant caravan that's that's a highly charged part of this conversation about whether or not the president and the media are accepting the role that they may play in stoking anti-semitism and as during mentioned earlier the anti-defamation league has said that there has been a increase in these anti-semitic incidents in every single u.s. states in recent years so let us know what you think about this angle of the story and who may share responsibility in situations like these you can get in touch with us using the hash tag a.j. newsgroup andrew people are getting in touch with us here on the newsgroup we're getting comments on our facebook feed bank saying only in the u.s. all of western nations do we see this over and over again and that's thanks to guns
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and we have elizabeth telling us we have an administration that has normalized hate hate is not normal the terrorists who did this is not normal anti semitism is not normal guns everywhere all the time is not normal so just a few of the comments that were cut coming to us here at the news grid and let me just so point you in the direction off our website al-jazeera dot com because if you had there and particularly on our front page you will find all the latest updates on this story. now moving on to other news in this ruling can president my fear apollo series sent says he sacked his prime minister after discovering he was involved in a plot to assassinate him one person has died two others wounded meanwhile as that political crisis turned violent over the dismissal of wicker i'm single we're missing the is refusing to leave his official residence and president's sirrah sena
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suspended parliament after reports in the form a strongmen mahinda rajapaksa as the new prime minister hears from mendis with the latest from colombo. in his statement to the nation president my three policy resave has basically provide a dream for his behavior his actions his decisions that basically has plunged this country into a lot of uncertainty over the last forty eight hours presidency the same basically saying it was all about. the former prime minister the prime minister he sat in a nutshell it's all his fault i was left no option but to appoint by him the rajapaksa but to break that down he says victor missing his political conduct was very politically uncivilized sort of belittle the victory of two thousand and fifteen that. was. and stubbornly taking
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not collective decisions that he tended to make individual decisions alluding to a small sort of inner circle that he made decisions with now city center also said and denied categorically that he has violated the country's constitution saying all his decisions had been taken with legal advice and in accordance with the constitution of the country obviously a little earlier in the day the parliamentary speaker just. asking the president in a letter basically to respect and protect the rights of the new vicar missing until such time another person from within parliament is able to demonstrate that they hold the confidence of parliament so basically jayasuriya asking the president to take on board that later saying he thought it was democratic and just and basically also saying that suspending parliament at the sixteenth was a bit too much and asking him to seriously reconsider. all right let's speak to
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char lata hawg she's an associate fellow in the asia pacific program at chatham house is joining us live from london thanks for speaking to us on a zero let's just first get into the legalities of this move by the president him sucking the prime minister is it legal. well i think it would be unfair to really say that this is short of a constitutional coup while constitutional lawyer certainly debating on the exact nuances in which it constitutes a coup let's look at the facts the two main issues here one the dismissal of run wickremasinghe the second appointment of mind the rajapaksa if we look at the way procedures are set in place within the sri lankan constitution on board grounds this is arbitrary and unconstitutional and the third issue here is the manner in which the state security forces have rallied out in support of my hand the
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rajapaksa and the has been and a work clampdown on the media so i think in all you would see that this backs of a certain level of arbitrariness authoritarianism and undemocratic behavior why is it that the president wants rajapaksa back because he's really a controversial figure not only home but abroad as well and he presided over the crossing of a decades long tamil tiger uprising in the country. well see to say that i was minister in rajapaksa cabinet many years ago before two thousand and fifteen elections the alliance between serious enough and the current prime minister run in decreasing gate has been a tenuous one it has been dotted with serious contradiction between the two sides serious disagreements between the two leaders so they knew the unity government has
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not been an easy alliance over the past three years having said that there is certain be a good question mark worldwide rajapaksa now where rajapaksa sparty the s. and p. p. did when did sweep the polls in the local government elections and in february two thousand and fifteen they have been rumblings of a return to power by the rajapaksa government in some form or the other this alliance therefore puts sort of kills two birds with birds with one stone sets citizen are free from a prime minister in a party with whom he been having increasing disagreements and allows him to enter into an alliance with another leader who is seen as one that is gaining support all right we thank you very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera now we previously sat down with sirius in our program talked to al jazeera where he don't please allegations of war crimes similar contradicting key findings from a u.n.
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investigation at the time into the country's civil war so you can watch that episode with the president on talk to al-jazeera that's on our website al-jazeera dot com. meanwhile saudi arabia's public prosecutor is heading to istanbul to discuss the murder of journalist. so turkish prosecutors want the eighteen suspects to be extradited but saudi arabia says they'll be prosecuted in the kingdom the u.s. defense secretary james mattis is the latest top american diplomat to be sent to saudi arabia and what he did over there is he met with the foreign minister. on saturday in fact he met him in my momma and behaved on saturday where he called for a full and complete investigation charles stratford live outside the saudi consulates in istanbul what do we expect to happen in that turkish saudi meeting of public prosecutors. well certainly what the turkish
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government hope is going to happen is that the saudi prosecutor chief prosecutor is going to be candid and he's going to be giving them all the information that they're asking for the real focus so one of the main focuses of these meeting is these eighteen men that the saudis have arrested that the turks have os to be extradited in the saudis have refused. refused a extradition and certainly if you were listening to the talk the speech that president gave last week he was saying that he's convinced that at least somebody a member of this eighteen member group must know where she's body is so there's going to be pressure from the turks they're trying to get all of this with respect to the body there's also going to be precious chasing these this idea of who who who ordered this killing the saudis have said that it had absolutely nothing to do with the crown prince mohammed bin solomon he has no role in this and the turks i
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think are still reserving judgment on that there's also going to be able to focus on this so-called collaborator. do we understand someone who's believed to be. who may well have handled the body cushions she's body. was going to be interesting though is are we going to see a continuation of the kind of choreographed very well executed strategy that we've seen from the in recent weeks since this crisis started which is this drip feeding all the leaks. the turkish president in that speech last week said that the turks have more information and they will leak more when they see fit what's going to be interesting is whether they're going to take this opportunity once the saudi sheik prosecutor is here to leak more information to the us putting even more pressure on the saudis for more answers all right we'll leave it there we thank you charles for
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giving us the update from istanbul now it was only last week when donald trump for the first time hinted at the possible involvement of off the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salim and in these murder experts believe the trumpet ministrations hesitance and directly implicating the crown prince and the saudi royal family has a lot to do with his administration's strategy on iran our diplomatic editor james space explains. many of the faces of the trumpet ministration have changed the first national security adviser michael flynn lasted less than a month and will be sentenced for lying to the f.b.i. later this year but one item of trump's foreign policy has been very consistent as of today we are officially putting iran on notice the iran nuclear deal was one of the main achievements of president obama's eight years in office it took years of negotiation led in the final stages by his secretary of state john kerry officials
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from three e.u. countries as well as china and russia. the earlier this year president trump made good on his campaign promises and pulled out of the deal most of the u.s. is closest allies continue to back the iran deal the only support for trump's move came from israel and from saudi arabia mohamed bin salmon became saudi crown prince in june last year strongly backed by the u.s. he's tried to portray himself as a reformer in the region while highlighting iran's involvement in conflicts in syria and in yemen however it's actually saudis air war that has cost the majority of lives in yemen and experts say the murder of jamal khashoggi goes a long way to destroy the carefully constructed saudi narrative test exposes the fact that the united states does have a very glaring double standard that it because of its ties to saudi arabia which
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are partly based on the hopes of working with the saudis and the israelis in the amur audience and others against iran that the administration is willing to allow a mohammedan psalm on to get away literally with murder the decision to pull out of the nuclear deal and the tightening of sanctions which is continuing are hurting iran but the truck plan to isolate the country will only work with the help of key allies particularly. in europe for now they haven't been one of james but. at the united nations while we were towards figuring out what happened to him there is growing concern about what is yet to happen to dozens of other dissidents who've been detained in saudi arabia or what are people saying about that well there are six reformists and activists who are set to go on trial this week in saudi arabia's counter-terrorism cork courts rather and i'll shake out is one of them and one of
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the most prominent names on the list if you've been following the gulf crisis you might remember this guy he's massively popular on saudi twitter especially before he was arrested obviously fourteen million followers there now he was arrested after he posted a tweet that encouraged cats are in saudi arabia to simply settle their differences amid a diplomatic dispute out as campaigns for democratic and social reforms have repeatedly led to his arrest or had him banned from traveling in the past in a public prosecutor is now calling for his execution. could also face the death penalty we only have this photo of her as a child but if this sentence is carried out she would be the first saudi female activists to be executed now she has campaigned for greater rights and reforms in the shia majority eastern province. just like many other people as you see here in the region who protested regularly
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since february of two thousand and eleven complaining of economic and political marginalization and demanding social and religious reforms and some activists still in detention were arrested for attending these protests or even the funerals of those who were killed during violence with police so we've seen quite a few people over the last few months change their social media profile pictures to this in solidarity with. gum and a twitter account using her name has launched a campaign to help the twenty nine year old and what it's doing is encouraging people to send pictures of themselves holding signs with her name or videos explaining why they choose to support her but as we've mentioned she's only one of six being tried this week and there are dozens of activists who are being held in jail right now in saudi arabia many women's rights defenders were arrested this past may even as the world celebrated saudi arabia's women being given this right to drive in saudi arabia already has keep in mind a very sobering history when it comes to using the death penalty it was the world's
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third top executioner last year i believe and as a show g. case continues to make headlines we'll continue watching and see how saudi arabia reacts to these activists you must know what you think how all of this will unfold using the hash tag it's a newsgroup thank you and you can also have to al-jazeera to keep up to dates with the. case all the latest updates are on al-jazeera dot com. and if you have any comments or questions about the story or anything else you've seen on the news grid we'd like to hear from you so you can send those through to any one of our online platforms we are on twitter just use the hash tag news grid our handle is a.j. inglis we're also on facebook at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or send us a message on whatsapp or telegram plus nine seven four five zero triple one one four nine we'll take a short break but if you're watching us on facebook we have a story coming up for you about a type of so that's helping fight malaria in uganda and ahead on the news grid it's
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a two man race for who becomes the next president off brazil we're back in a moment. hello there we're still got a fair amount of rain that's pushing its way across the middle east at the moment it's working its way away from the east coast of the mediterranean though so for us in turkey and all the way down southwards it looks fine and dry and settled however the rain that gave us all the very wet weather recently is now here making its way up through into parts of kazakstan for the very heavy downpours out of that and eventually as we head through the day on monday should begin to fade so more in the way of dry weather here having a maximum temperature just of twelve degrees so generally i think if we had three monday it does look a good deal dry up for the south though this still a fair amount of rain here still lots of cloud at the moment and you can see that
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clouds still with us for monday and still giving us one or two rather heavy showers looks like most of those showers will be over parts of saudi intruding riyadh some of the very very heavy crude to give us some flooding as well i mean further towards the south and for many of us in the southern parts of africa it's fine and dry you see the cloud though this huge area of cloud in the phone northern parts where i'm up that's just sinking its way southwards and some of us in angola likely to see a few shop showers to the south of that though it looks fine to dry still very warm even talk about thirty one cape town hall that will fit twenty three and the movie quite it brief. a journey of personal discovery by a great grandfather he was a slave of the leave property al-jazeera as james gannon explores his family's legacy of slave owners shut down like my family's status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave people and america's debt to black people today some
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of us old skull we even scared to speak out because it's a product of. al-jazeera correspondent a moral debt and the reported wealth on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered for even those who managed to escape their countries haven't truly been able to escape the war.
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those are the headlines on our visit the most read articles right now on our web site al jazeera dot com this story just coming in at the top. two u.n. peacekeepers have been killed in attacks in mali so read more about that story as well as the day's other top stories by heading to our web site al-jazeera dot com. and in the film what's happening there is that brazilians are voting in a presidential runoff that could see the country's first far right candidates
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coming to power that man is. there you see him right there he's cast his ballot just a couple of hours ago the former army captain is leading in polls despite accusations of being racist and sexist is leftist challenger fernando had dogs from the workers' party has narrowed the lead on the eve of the election so let's take a closer look at where the two candidates stand on key issues on crime right wing candidate joe you're both so narrow so just a more hardline approach to tackle brazil's record homicide rates he's open to police using lethal force and he wants to relax gun laws meanwhile fernanda had that on the other hand is against mass incarceration also narrow has promised to jail corrupt politicians high dad says corruption needs to be tackled but the rule of law must be respected. once the lift farming restrictions in the amazon the world's largest rain forest adult is pushing for more environmentally friendly
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alternatives promoting the use of bicycles and by commuters let's now bring in a terrorism boat she's covering the election for us joining us from rio de janeiro so polls are suggesting that bill so narrow is ahead of his leftist challenger to raise up there's a look at how that can turn things around. well what people are saying is that only a tsunami can turn this election around where we are right now is that the largest favela. in rio they join nato thousands of people are just coming here to vote and in a way it shows what's been happening in this country and how support for one out o. has increased in recent years how he has managed to get the votes of people he insulted in the past many of them are black and women the people here for example are saying that they will vote for votes without because of crime they're saying that they're tired of criminals taking on controlling slums like this one they're
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also saying that they're charged extra for gas for water among other things that they need that to change the other reason that most and i know has gained support in places like this one is every ivan gently come movements many of the people in places like this one are evan jellicoe if they've been told that to but i don't is the man to vote with moral values among other things and that's the other response so election has been ongoing as you just said both candidates have already voted in jail when i don't told his followers not to give up to continue not to take this election for granted and that this day is crucial for so to change so just talk us through the next couple of hours what should be we be watching out for and when do we expect to get any sort of indication of how this runoff has gone. well polling stations opened about four hours ago people started going in we were in a polling station earlier today people were talking to us about what's important to
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them in the selection and overall it's are the same issues the economy with iran thirteen million people that are currently and employed they're hoping that the economy will pick up also security is a major gunstar not only influx of a laugh but also in middle class neighborhoods where people say that shootings happen three or four times every week but the other major issue that has emerged is democracy and to democracy people we have spoken to say that this elections are crucial because what's at stake in democracy they're saying that it was when i was a person that supports that dictatorship that he's hoping to put military men in crucial positions in this government and they're saying that they're voting to defend president but a vote things will continue for at least five other hours and we can start hearing the reports later the results later today ok it's a risible for the time being thank you to resume reporting from rio de janeiro well hearing directly from brazilians is always the best way to for us to tell this
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election story but there's also value in letting them do it themselves and that's what our team from contrast b.r. did there the three sixty degree video right here at al-jazeera what they did is they trained filmmakers from brazil's favelas the slums to go out and deliver a series of three sixty videos in the run up to the selection.
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ok so that was a little behind this the scenes peek at how the filmmakers got to grips with the technology back here and. spoke to our producer maria fernanda lorad about what they came up with listen. so many times we hear stories from the favelas banana sara lee told by people who come from this places so we saw that as an opportunity to bring them the knowledge of physics of video for them to be able to tell their own stories from their own perspective and so how difficult is it to actually train someone up with three sixty's technology because it's a different world it's not just pointing a camera. so they were all filmmakers were trained and we equipped ten young filmmakers from the favelas in real and well they are already used to producing linear videos but not necessarily it was the very first video that the ever filmed in three sixty so it was kind of telling for them to understand at the beginning
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that not every story works in this format and were you happy with the results yes after watching the videos you can really tell that you understood not only they started telling part of the technical side of their sixty video production but they also were able to portrayed you know the shows that people from this committee is really care about and what they want politicians should be so for example one of the teams that talked about the under-representation of women in politics and sold they had two characters both of them were black women that come from the favelas and they were candidates for disease election and it's very interesting because i'm from brazil i was born in raising brazil but i never had this kind of access to the favelas and to the people tell me about some of the challenges involved in so many because again we have this view of the surveillance as being dangerous places what was it like that for you has so security was absolutely one of the biggest issues for the candidates offered of her disappearance very specially because when while
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we were brainstorming the ideas in the stories that he wanted to tell what they brought up many minute signs of the security because you know when you were filming three sixty you fired a camera and then you have to hide otherwise would be in the frame so for them to feel comfortable taking the camera just like anywhere so for sure we had to adjust you know when we were planning these two. is that they want to culver in order for them to feel safe in and you know confident and actually we had one case of one of the participants who had her camera taken by the gangs because they felt uncomfortable being you know in the scene and not being able to check if the are actually covering something that they shouldn't be covering what did you learn about the election because you could take you could take these cameras to defend it at any time and get all sorts of amazing stories but it was all about the election and what it would you know about it what i learned most was the kind of issues that really matter to these people so they talked about not only the story that i told you about the candidates and how do you think it's important for them to have
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a presentation in politics but also let's say the increasing number of homeless people on the streets of real. religious intolerance they also talk about the lack of investment you know the lack of funding in culture and etc and you can have a look at those three sixty degree films in full. dot com just click the creator initiatives link at the top there you'll find the my people are story section on brazil so ideally you'd watch it using a viewer headset for the full immersive experience but it does work just fine on smartphones tablets as well as desk it's all the leaders of france germany turkey and russia have made little progress during talks on syria in istanbul they emerged with a joint statement saying they're committed to finding a political solution to the seven year war as in one hundred reports from istanbul . it is a fresh effort in diplomacy it is also a new approach for the first time the main power brokers in syria's war russia and
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turkey have brought european countries to their table the host turkey's president or the gun held one on one meetings on the sidelines of the summit with german chancellor angela merkel russian president vladimir putin and french president manuel mccall but who was not present was just as significant mccraw however did discuss with putin the possibility of arranging a high level meeting between russian and american officials in paris. the more countries to join the process the quick ivory if we will reach a permanent solution. but even among these players there was little consensus russia continuing to undercut the u.n. and emphasizing the role of the syrian government in any future decisions putin was clearly angry about his inability to legitimize president bashar assad's hold on power and those from within i will. to make this process successful it must be
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carried out in a peaceful way with respect to the bottom of the government of the syrian republic people use the expression syrian regime but we must remember the un resolution refers to the government of the syrian arab republic the west wants damascus and its allies to cooperate with the un led political process that calls for reforming the constitution and holding elections. ten months after the meeting it's all to use the constitutional committee has yet to take up its work that's why we want the list of interested parties to be finalized by the end of the year so that a meeting can take place europe worried about a new wave of refugees wanted a commitment from russia and turkey for a permanent ceasefire in blip they didn't get that. i hope this gives the political process a set momentum and will continue to do everything in our power to ensure that is lead to a peaceful solution and doesn't end up in another humanitarian disaster. france's u.n. ambassador summed up the situation syria he says is at
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a crossroads there can either be an escalation or there can be political momentum starting with an agreement on a un committee to rewrite syria's constitution but syria's government is refusing to cooperate and russia which has a crucial role is urging patience while there's still a long way from reaching an internationally backed political deal there is hope the summit could pave the way for a new diplomatic track one that would bring more players on board but that would mean even more agendas and interests would need to be considered so. istanbul fishermen in kenya have hung up their nets and are instead trying to conserve marine life now known as refrain jurors they've been trained to monitor fish stocks as well as their habitats it's all part of efforts by the government and conservation groups to involve local communities and protecting their environments have been soil has more. meet the island's refrain
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just there were one fisherman in lima county's largest island on the kenyan coast depleted fish stocks pushed them to swap roles and become protectors of the ocean most islanders depend on for their livelihood they've learned the science of counting fish species and other sea creatures in protected areas and also telling if the ocean floor is in good shape they then take the information back to their villages and decide collectively what to do next. as fisherman who sat down and realized that we have to protect our resources we saw the destruction of the environment of the normal fish producing the community has now put in place laws like place in certain important areas in the ocean fish and zones some people blame the problem on those who fish in breeding areas using equipment that is destructive to the environment. abdullah mohammed
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a fish trader sees ongoing dredging of the ocean for the construction of a port is also driving fish away from marking the hard limits of what. they are digging out for fish fishermen have to go far into the deep sea and have. to do that. back on the shore the ranges patrol a mongrel forest and regulated felling of the trees for commercial purposes is a big concern on this mission their record signs of reason. for more than sixty percent of the country's mangrove cover these are important breeding grounds for fish but logging is rampant and trying to convince communities to stop has been difficult for the people who live here are allowed to use some of the trees for construction and their fuel needs but they are also encouraged to report any large scale logging specifically using power. communities in this area highly depend on
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marine resources over eighty percent of the communities in this region depend for example on fisheries and mongul in terms of livelihood saw convincing them to start deciding on how to sustainably utilize their resources has taken some time the rangers hope their contribution to conservation will help keep the marine eco system healthy which also means keeping their communities alive catherine sorry al-jazeera patta island on the kenyan coast or coming up for a facebook viewers a story about an italian street artist using his skill to stop fascism and burn policy over the sport and he'll have the latest on the helicopter crash involving the owners of english football club leicester city that story is coming up in a moment. eighty percent of the visually impaired could be cured without access to treatment
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hello again paul is here to update us on the helicopter crash poll yes very much dominated by the events in the english city of west of the sports headlines today the owner of the football club less the city is fit to have been killed in a helicopter crash outside the team's stadium donna probs helicopter had taken off from the pitch not long after lester had played a match in the english premier league helen gleason reports. leicester city fans have got used to celebrating success on the pitch in recent years but they've now begun to fear the worst following saturday night's crash
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because it was about an hour after last as one one draw with west ham that the owners helicopter pad as usual to take off from the king palace stadium. but shortly after it did it crashed in the stadium copper and bust into flames. by sunday morning the club or yet to confirm any casualties or whether the billionaire owner treated on a proper was on board but he had been at the match. the type businessman has become a hugely popular figure at less the since he bought the club in twenty ten he helped them return to the premier league in twenty fourteen and win the title against all the odds in twenty sixteen a year later they also reached the quarter finals of the champions league and i've committed night rescue because of the titan is what we are now there's. every species tree was not conducive to start with because they are so enormous people really genuine humble people that care for the community for them in the formless
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river first thing. i know or so the players are they were going to have to come to terms with this as well because the whole family just such a pall of leicester city that might this football team dream the impossible. a police investigation into the incident is on going. to play at home again in the english league cup on cheese day but it's unlikely that will go ahead helen grayson al-jazeera. well donna probably arguably the biggest impact on english football of any of the foreign owners to have taken over clubs in recent years the thai billionaire bought less to fifty million dollars in two thousand and ten on bankrolled their rise to the premier league four years later he was then widely mocked for appointing clarity around the area as manager in twenty fifteen but when the italian led less to the english title probably the biggest shock in modern football it gave leicester a huge following in street donna problems home country of thailand on the on it was
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loved in leicester it with fans celebrating his sixtieth birthday this year we're joined now by our correspondent paul brennan who is in leicester told one of the latest lines coming from the club and the police and what's been happening there outside the stadium. well the latest lines from the police some afraid are just a succession of holding statements saying nothing in relation to the exact circumstances or details of the crash but appealing for patience the most recent statement saying look as soon as we're able to confirm any details at all we will in the interim we ask you to be patient and to resist any speculation on the details or the circumstances here outside the king power stadium a steady stream of people have been coming in laying tributes flags shirts flowers and messages messages including things like you made our dreams come true we are heartbroken words cannot express how we feel a little earlier we saw
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a schoolboy team from thailand who have been here visiting the club and i understand using some of the training facilities as well they came down here and paid tributes gave a press which once they finished there was a warm round of applause from the people gathered here to pay their respects this is a very somber mood here i think the reality though is that people here understand that the owner is not coming back despite the fact that so far official confirmation of that fact has not been forthcoming from the club or the police now modern football chairman on a particularly popular group but it's reviewed on a problem seems to have been genuinely loved by less the fans beyond the success he brought on the pitch. well i think the work in the community is what many people here talk about and his generosity as a man and as an owner you know when he turned sixty back in april he gave sixty lucky fans season tickets sixty season tickets were issued he worked with the local
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community he gave two million pounds in the region of just less than three million dollars to local hospitals so you know it was far more than just the owner of a football club we've seen other foreign owners as you saw in the introduction of the so the piece but the debts on their clubs for example and just use them as a kind of cash cow that wasn't what mr vichy did here in leicester and for that he is deeply appreciated now whether what unless they go from hey that you to play a match in the cup on choose they the player is very close to the owner they really want to play that fixture well the women's team was due to play this afternoon against manchester united on a spoke with natalie johnson the midfielder who was down here paying her respects a little earlier she found out from a group text message which went round late last night that the game was was being called off at short notice as you say the men's team to the main first team is due to play in the carabao cup join the reach
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a decision has not get been made as to whether that match will go away that's still under review yeah the impact of this on the field is yet to be yet to be assessed and whole brennen life for us and lester thank you very much for that. the women's tennis season reached its conclusion in the past couple of hours at the w.t. eight finals in singapore alina spitz alina of the ukraine was crowned champion the twenty four year old fought back from a set down to beat american sloane stephens three six six two six two this is the biggest titles for italy one has won in her career the question now whether she'll be able to build on it and get her first grand slam title next season. this is a very special moment for me and this tournaments actually it's going to i'm going to bring lots of confidence and you know it's unfinished season the high notes so you know i'm very very pleased with the performance. and as well as receiving the
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trophy named after w t i found a billie jean came from the woman herself so it's alina all said by the over two million u.s. dollars in prize money for a week's work. well peter will have more sports out eight hundred g.m.t. but for now back to during call thank you very much while the clocks have gone back by one hour in a ritual that's observed by many countries every year and this year where rocco has decided to scrap winter time and will instead keep its clocks at summertime g.m.t. plus one all year round it joins many other nations mainly in africa and asia which do not use daylight savings greenwich mean time or g.m.t. is the time measured on the earth zero degree line of long tube or meridian and this runs from the north pole to the south pole passing through the old royal observatory in london in the london suburb of greenwich g.m.t. stays the same throughout the year but a number of countries around the world move their clocks forward by one hour in
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march until the end of october so take advantage of earlier sunrises and the not notes we will end here that will do it for the news grid we'll see you back here in studio fourteen fifteen g.m.t. on monday thanks for watching. wish the world innovation summit to help one community of two thousand health care experts in of ages and policymakers from one hundred countries. one experience sharing best practices and innovative ideas. in one go hopefully a world through global collaboration. apply now to attend the twenty eighteen wish summit.
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in the united states the religious right is on the monch we were always hunting for the guy who would take our script and read it their goal was to take control of one of the political parties and they perfected league on that full lines examines the trumpet ministrations special relationship with the religious right what do you get out of it the presidency and asks what evangelical support means for the future of the country. announces their. i know you see our lives in fear constantly looking over his shoulder she says she was threatened by armed men as they ransacked the home she knows who ordered the attack and why they want to develop on the communities land as you know we can't let the men to imitate us we
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need to continue they can kill me i'm not afraid of being killed i need to defend my people who've been here since fifteen sixty nine without any help from the government and now they want to destroy the forest that is part of our land ownership in brazil is among the most concentrated and unequal in the world those who ordered the intimidation the murders are rarely brought to justice. as the us rails from the deadliest ever attack on the jewish community more detail is revealed about the suspect and his eleven victims bauer's made statements regarding genocide and his desire to kill jewish people. hello i'm in london you know with al jazeera also coming up this hour tensions run
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high in sri lanka need a deepening political crisis sax prime minister randall wickramasinghe demands an emergency session of parliament. brazilian voters have their say in the final stage of a divisive election that could see a far right candidate in merge the victor. and tributes at leicester city football club as its feared the club's billionaire thai owner has been killed in a helicopter crash. the suspect behind saturday's mass shooting at a pittsburgh synagogue that expressed a hatred of jews during the rampage saying he wanted them all to die the forty six year old gunman who has been named. has been charged with murder and federal hate crimes which carry the death penalty eleven people were killed during the twenty
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minute attack on the tree of life synagogue the victims include a husband and wife a pair of brothers and a ninety seven year old woman mayor described the incident as the darkest day in pittsburgh's history we'll bring you that clip a bit later let's now join andy gallica he is live for us from pittsburgh and sadly this has also been described as the deadliest attack on the jewish community in the united states andy how are people coming to terms with what does happen there. well i mean an extremely difficult time for this very small and tight knit jewish community here in squirrel hill pittsburgh one of the oldest jewish communities in the united states you can't think that anyone's lives within that community hasn't been touched by this event we know eleven victims here eight of whom were men three
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women as you said a married couple two brothers and the ninety seven year old victim of this horrendous act was actually a holocaust survivor which really brings home the horror of what happened here on saturday morning i we're getting a little bit more detail from investigators about what happened on that fateful day was the phone calls began to come in around ten am on saturday morning the police got there fairly quickly but by that point that was a bit inside the synagogue shooting indiscriminately for about twenty minutes the police saying they found shell casings throughout the three story building and actually when they arrived on the scene bowers was exiting the synagogue he went back inside retreated to the third floor where he then engaged with police four police officers were injured two of the congregants were also injured but baez has now been charged with twenty nine different charges around thirteen of those are related to religious hate crimes and he now faces the potential of facing the death
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penalty he will appear in court on monday which suggested the injuries he sustained on saturday morning wouldn't too severe for him to appear in court but the authorities moving very quickly in this case and they say they will be in the synagogue for about a week coming through all the evidence but let's listen to what scott brady from the district attorney's office had to say bowers was armed with multiple weapons he had three glock three fifty seven handguns and an a ar fifteen assault rifle. inside the synagogue our shot and killed eleven individuals and wounded two others police officers and swat teams responded quickly to the scene and our shot at them ultimately four police officers were injured and three of them were shot by bowers during the course of his deadly assault on the people the synagogue bowers made statements regarding genocide and his desire to kill jewish people after a standoff with police powers eventually surrendered and remains in federal custody
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today and he we also understand that the authorities treating this as a hate crime and not domestic terrorism what's been the response to that. well i mean ultimately bowers will face the death penalty whatever happens if he's convicted of this crime there has been some discussion that there may be further charges pending so that charge of domestic terrorism may come into play but certainly i think it's something the people here would like to see that is a good definition of what happened here on saturday morning no question about it we've had similar cases in the past remember when dylan roof walked into that church in charleston a couple of years ago and killed at nine worship is that the same question came up then but clearly with the midterm elections just days away this may be something that plays as people go to the voting booth then because these hate crimes have been on the rise these mass shootings are on the rise so that the subject of gun
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control once again raises its ugly head the subject of hate crimes also comes into play but you can't see in this event that anything will change when it comes to gun laws especially with the current administration but certainly i think it will galvanize people on both the left and the right to turn up to these all important midterm elections and make their voices heard meanwhile here in squirrel hill this is a community in deep mourning this is the anti-defamation league the worst attack on the jewish community in this country and its entire history. well thank you very much for giving us a sense of the mood there thank you andy gallagher in pittsburgh. one person has been killed and several others wounded in sri lanka as the country's political crisis turns violent but he civil rested a ministerial security guard who opened fire on a crowd of presidential loyalists this after the president serious saying
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a site the prime minister run will vik rama singer and replace him with the former president and the rajapaksa the singer is accused of enabling corruption and mismanaging the economy he insists his dismissal was illegal and he's refusing to leave his official residence series saying it has suspended parliament for three weeks when often and as has the latest from colombia. in his statement to the nation president my three policy has basically provided reasons for his behavior his actions his decisions that basically has plunged this country into a lot of uncertainty over the last forty eight hours presidency the same basically saying it was all about. the former prime minister the prime minister he sat in a nutshell it's all his fault i was left no option but to appoint him the rajapaksa but to break that down he says victor missing his political conduct was very
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politically uncivilized sort of belittle the victory of two thousand and fifteen that. was clearly and stubbornly taking not collective decisions that he tended to me individual decisions alluding to a small sort of inner circle that he made decisions with now city center also said and denied categorically that he has violated the country's constitution saying all his decisions had been taken with legal advice and in accordance with the constitution of the country obviously a little earlier in the day the parliamentary speaker was just. asking the president in a letter basically to respect and protect the rights of the new vicar missing until such time another person from within parliament able to demonstrate that they hold the confidence of parliament so basically cardew jayasuriya asking the president to
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take on board that later saying he thought it was democratic and just and basically also saying that suspending parliament at the sixteenth was a bit too much and asking him to seriously reconsider wellman actually the spokesman for human rights watch she says rajapakse appointment raises questions about sri lanka's commitment to bring justice to the victims of the civil war. the government of presidents that is there now made an international committee in two thousand and you know and sensitive and she to be able to counsel to address the issues of accountability and the allegations that have been found to be to be found by u.n. investigation so at this point daryn this is this government going to have to abide by the thumbs. and some of those that the cases are going against went against the problem and so it's and isn't this going to be very difficult for victims who have any faith that they will be justice in front of the d.p.
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if these if that approach is to not. saudi arabia's public prosecutor is heading to a stand bowl to discuss the killing of jamal khashoggi texas authorities want the eighteen suspects to be extradited that saudi arabia says they'll be prosecuted inside the kingdom meanwhile the u.s. defense secretary james mattis says he's held talks with saudi arabia's foreign minister and demanded a transparent investigation into the journalist's mudda we discussed it. you know the same thing we talked about i think very few we gave. it would remain from the very. base because we need to know what happened. you know very collaborative.
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child strafford has known now for us from istanbul. saudi chief prosecutor is due in istanbul in the coming hours for vitally important meetings with these turkeys counterpart is going to be very interesting to see what comes out of this conversation between the two prosecutors there's been a lot of pressure from the turkish president in recent days demanding to know more from the saudi side demanding the extradition of those eighteen men that the saudis have arrested the saudis saying no that's not going to happen they are going to try them in saudi arabia certainly according to mr erdogan he is very skeptical and basically asking the saudis surely at least one member of this eighteen member group must know where to show us he's body is he's also demanding to know more information about what the saudis say was this local turkish collaborator who. certainly was being reported may well have handled. body that is of course if
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indeed this local collaborator exists what we do know though is that the president ordered a while and said in a speech last week that the turks have more information they have more evidence on this case that they are holding back and destroy the one said that some of this information would be leaked to would be given to the media at a time when the the turkish government see fit was going to be very interesting is whether indeed the turks think that they're getting a nuff information from this saudi chief prosecutor who's coming in and if not whether we're going to see more leaks more evidence from the government in the coming days when all the stories are following the thai billionaire owner of leicester city football club is feared dead after a.

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