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what the fault was. jakarta coming up this news hour from london jewish leaders in pittsburgh tell president trump he isn't welcome there after the synagogue shooting unless he stops targeting minorities mexico's incoming president promises to listen to referendum voters and scrap a new airport for the capital that's already part built and lester's footballers pay an emotional tribute to their late owner who was killed in a helicopter crash at the ground. the f.b.i. says it's intercepted another suspicious package addressed to the us news broadcast network c.n.n. a bomb squad responded to the discovery at a postal service center in atlanta the f.b.i. said it was similar to parcel bomb sent last week to prominent people organization who oppose president trump the man accused of sending the explosive devices has
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been held without bail in miami he will reappear in court on friday well meanwhile the man accused of killing eleven people in a shooting at a pittsburgh synagogue has been held in prison without bail robert powers faces twenty three charges which could see him face the death penalty members of the jewish community meanwhile have written an open letter to u.s. president trump saying he's not welcome in pittsburgh unless he fully denounces white nationalism and the gallagher reports. at the tree of life synagogue in squirrel hill people from across the city continue to lay tributes for the eleven victims that were killed on saturday morning the attorney general called the shooting an attack on all people of faith one survivor described the moments after the first shots rang out i tried to see if i could go back to get the eight remaining people who were in the back of the congregation but i could tell the gun it was gunfire was getting louder it was coming up the stairs and i couldn't
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a can save those eight people the suspected shooter robert bowers appeared in court on monday the forty six year old faces twenty nine separate charges and could face the death penalty in another development a group of jewish leaders has published an open letter to president trump telling him he should stay away the one exit reads president trump you are not welcome in pittsburgh until you fully denounce the white nationalism the president is jew in pittsburgh on tuesday we have no use for him. he's calling himself a nationalist the last of the medical group that i heard of the call themselves nationalists were nazis and the white house briefing the president's press secretary told reporters don't trump has made his feelings on hate crimes clear the president has denounced racism hatred and bigotry in all forms on a number of occasions will continue to do that i'm doing it here today and i would also say at the same time that some individuals they're grieving they're hurting
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the president wants to be there to show the support of this administration for the jewish community the rabbi said that he is welcome as well as this community continues to mourn the eleven people that were killed on saturday morning the first funerals a jew to take place on tuesday two brothers who were killed in what's described as the worst attack on the jewish community in u.s. history will take place meanwhile the phrase hate has no home here is springing up all across the city and gallacher al-jazeera pittsburgh pennsylvania. the u.s. military says it will deploy more than five thousand two hundred troops to quote harden the mexico border the soldiers will be there by the end of the week and are expected to stay there through the center as a caravan of migrants seeking asylum from central america works its way to the u.s. border thousands of central american migrants are continuing to make their way toward the u.s. most of them from honduras. talked to people in something
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a little about poverty and violence forcing people to flee. in one of some most impoverished areas says her living conditions have become unbearable. how can someone live like this look at the doors on him i asked god to let me live in a decent home and not live here anymore. bella says rats are eating away at her bed and she struggles to feed her young children she says she's planning to do with thousands of other hundred nationals have done migrate to the united states. the situation in this country is awful that's why people are migrating i'd like to migrate to i tell my two daughters were going to leave they say yes mom let's leave . across the street runs a small motorcycle repair shop but he says business is bad and people are out of work several of his neighbors have already left the country. many people from this
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area have migrated friends of mine have left too and for the same reason because there's no work. for us we're told a c.p. can't make ends meet soon he may also leave the country hunger is ranks among the poorest nations in the world were six in ten homes are subject to extreme poverty a majority of families that live in this shanty town in the city of some don't have access to medical attention or clean water or even electricity one of the biggest obstacle. to addressing this level of under-development is violence. many of the thousands of hundred migrants making their way to the u.s. southern border say they are fleeing violence from gangs and criminal groups with forty four homicides per one hundred thousand people under a suffers one of the highest murder rates anywhere in the world. but most hundreds looking to leave the country blame poverty and a lack of opportunities for wanting to fleet at the bonaparte field the decision to
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leave honduras comes down to doing what's best for her youngest children and breaking the cycle of poverty let it happen on a disease down some pivotal sooner. brazil's new president jay yet a bull so narrow has announced his first foreign trip abroad will be to chile and followed by the u.s. and israel. with a former army officer beat his left wing rival for an on the had died with more than fifty five percent of the vote in a bitterly fought presidential runnels the right wing populist advocates a shoot to kill policy against criminals and is openly nostalgic for brazil's previous military dictatorship he promised to install several retired army officers in this government has more now from rio de janeiro. also not a will be brazil's next president some there's a lot of excitement among those who voted for him there's a lot of despair amongst the workers party because they fear they're going to be politically persecuted and there's also
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a lot of uncertainty among many of those here. are some of the newspapers that we're seeing today wolf and i don't know where it's for god to respect resilient democracy promise of a government that's constitutional and democratic and democracy said. this is important because democracy has been issue big issue in this election. has been a mire of brazil's military dictatorship his son at a point said he was very sick to shut down the supreme court with a soldier and a corporal the markets have responded officer believes to his victory it's on the rise because he's been martyred market friendly both out of his promise to liberalize economy reduce the deficit and privatized some companies tamar the president of brazil has said that the transition begins right now i'm bored when i was planning a trip to brazil later this week the new president has already spoken to the united
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states president donald trump and he has said that the first trip he's going to make are to the united states and to israel because that enormous change in brazil's foreign policy. well in electing jay it will soon not obra zille has swung wildly to the right after four elections won by the left and there are fears his victory is just part of a global turn away from liberalism also not only is the latest strongman to capture the imagination of voters eager to change he's promised to come down hard on crime and corruption but many are worried by his praise of brazil's the tater ship and who still if he towards black gay and indigenous people some of them the trump of the tropics and the us president was among the first to congratulate also not zero dollars from some presidency has been clouded by his stance on immigration and the methods to control it but his supporters stand by his slogan of making america great again before trump's unexpected victory
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a rise in violent street crime in the philippines helped elect that day on a promise to wipe out the drugs trade with his own brand of justice to date human rights watch says more than twelve thousand people have been killed but that there is this popular now as he was when he was elected in two thousand and sixteen far right candidates have also swept to power across europe but they all said vinie leader of italy's league party is in a coalition with the anti establishment five star movement he quickly made his mark his interior minister by turning away boatloads of refugees and migrants and viktor orban became hungary's prime minister in two thousand and ten with a promise to defend europe against muslim migrants the e.u. is being or to take action against his feet as government over reports of press freedom violations and anti semitism. scam more on this now joining us from san marcos in texas is valencia garcia he's a senior fellow at the center for analysis of the radical right thank you so much
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for joining us here on al-jazeera i mean we just read there are some examples in the past few years of men who certainly seem to have a lot of in common by the way that they present themselves in the way they speak to the media but how alike are they really are. thank you for having me on i think that there's a lot of things that you can see that are alike in that you have a sort of tendency to have a strong man which goes back to just not just that they were carians but the legacy of the far right more generally so we can see a culture pronounced personality that comes up around them and also sort of the tendencies toward racism towards sexism towards other types of discrimination that becomes part of. sort of the repertoire they're all of them are drawing from i mean we've been talking about a global turn away from liberalism but what's interesting is that a lot of these parties sort of obviously cater for their audiences so in europe
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perhaps they have more social assistance more focus on health care and pensions in the u.s. we almost step see the opposition so a lot of that can we talk about a global you know rise of the right or the far right or is it more about a turn away from liberalism. i think they're very connected so what we can say is that a lot of the far right groups or what we can say groups that have fascistic candidacies really are built on this idea that there is an ideal way that the nation should be or way that the people should be and that impose the idea of purity comes from these ideas there are what do we want our country to be and oftentimes it's because they feelings ideas from really ships and demographics over the last fifty to one hundred years that they started billions as anxiety about their own place and their own power and that's where we started to get the tendency to oppress these groups
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that previously would have been marginalized. coming back into sort of places of power. i mean we talk about the far right the radical right i mean often we use the word fascism how would you define a party that was far right so i like to start off for just kind of differentiating fascism from the far right and whenever i talk about that isn't in my undergraduate classes or graduate classes for that matter i try to specifically say the passions in was an idea that came out of italy in the early twentieth century and it's finite thing what we can say after the fact is that fascist tendencies have continued to fester and oftentimes when we talk about the far right it's the legacy of those fascist movements from the earliest early twentieth century that's where we can say it's none of these gone so today we can say that the far right is
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racist it is sexist it's. in some way classes are against the left in a way that is anti-democratic there's a tendency to try to. really squash other ideologies that are part of this imagined way that a nation should be and just on a final point are you worried about what we're seeing globally about this flies of the far right. i think that what we should be worried about is when we see democratic institutions fail or when we see the tendency for corruption to seep in and what mostly we've been seeing is often attacks on groups. otherwise we're starting to really get traction and having equality whenever we see that equality should the way whether it's for l.g.b. t.q. communities or for women or for people of color that's when we start to see this
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new idea of what fascism is or far right ideologies could be really come into play louis deane valencia garcia from the center for analysis of the radical right thank you and here mexico's president elect and the rest when you end up as over the author says he scrapping a new airport for mexico city construction has already started on the thirteen billion dollar project and the announcement calls the country's currency and starts to tumble sharply it follows a referendum where voters rejected the airport he said a military air base north of the capital would be converted for commercial use overcrowding at the current. issue of on league bus beast us two runs will be built in the sun to see a military airport the contact point in mexico city will be improved and the two look at apple it will be reactivated. the ones in the us than biggest airport
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meanwhile has officially opened in turkey istanbul airport as it's to be named the very original but there you go will take over from the old ataturk airport which is due to close president trichet a third of the hand says development will continue until twenty twenty eight by which time it's expected to be serving more than one hundred fifty million passengers a year alan fischer reports. they held the official opening of an airport that isn't yet open when completed this multibillion dollar complex will take up space equal to almost all of manhattan and will be the biggest airport in the world the first flight into this airport brought present at the one to the city back in june the first commercial flight will take off on wednesday but it could well be the end of the year before this year port is fully operational. it was the turkish president who performed the opening ceremony insisting the new airport forty kilometers from the center of istanbul is vital for economic growth some of the one
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of the he says. with the opening of the airport turkey has become the most important transit point between north to south east to west our ports is connecting sixty countries in this wide region and connecting economies worth twenty three trillion dollars. new destinations. for many except the need for a new airport question the locations the cost and the number of workers killed to build opposition groups say there have been a large number of deaths the government rejects that idea human rights watch has also criticised the government's approach to safety during the build claiming those who complain have been jailed. behind the glamour of the opening ceremony a much sadder reality which is that thirty one workers are currently in prison just for protesting against poor working conditions and fatalities accidents. the work site. one wanted to mark turkey's republic day with
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a grand gesture which is why hundreds of guests attended what is really a ceremonial start through wooden subway service to the new airport will be finished soon but the project itself isn't expected to be complete until twenty twenty eight alan fischer al-jazeera at istanbul's new airport. that's more to come on this news hour after yet another election blow angela merkel confirms she will not seek reelection as german chancellor in twenty twenty one the face of modern warfare may tell wargamers focus on the role of robots and sweeping printing and then sport a scathing report is released into australian cricket ball tampering scandal.
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going to welcome back to international weather forecasts we're here across europe we have seen plenty of wet weather across much of central and western europe that's all due to several areas a low pressure now italy got plenty of weather especially northern parts of italy and the good news is as we move towards tuesday things across that area are going to begin to improve but unfortunate for other locations we could be seeing some messy weather appear towards parts of the u.k. into northern france as well as across the appeared peninsula we do expect to see some wet weather as well here across much of the west it is going to stay where you can see zurich is going to be a cloudy and cool day of fourteen degrees madrid is going to be seeing rain with the temperature there of about eleven but if you want a good weather have to go here towards the east we're looking at plenty of sun from warsaw down towards vienna bucharest a twenty four degrees and even going to be a nice day at about twenty two degrees there well across the northern part of africa we could be seeing plenty of rain there as well particularly here towards morocco with clouds in the forecast extending all the way over here towards algiers
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twenty degrees there we do have a front that extends across much of northern africa it's a little bit cooler towards the north but down here towards the south and the east it is much warmer there but for algiers it's going to be a day of twenty degrees in for tunis partly cloudy at twenty two. he was made as prime minister of the nine years until his government was drawn out of the scandals and allegations of corruption in an exclusive interview one o one e speaks with knowledge of resigning on al-jazeera the most memorable moments with al-jazeera was when i was on air as hosni mubarak fell with the crowds in tahrir square down to a few. hours ago. if something happens anywhere in the world al-jazeera is in place we're able to cover news like no other news organizations. were able to do it properly. and that is our strength.
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that is a perfect formula for authoritarianism and any here any let me ask you straight up close is the two state solution now that the lights are on and there's nowhere to hide up front for times on al-jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the fiance of murdered journalist has called on the saudi authorities to reveal where his body he was killed on october the second shortly after entering the consulate in istanbul nine people have been
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wounded after a woman blew herself up in central tunis with the country's interior ministry describing it as a terrorist explosion and one hundred eighty nine year to date after officials confirm they don't expect to find any survivors from a plane that crashed off the coast of india. sri lanka's new prime minister has officially started work after his sudden appointment triggered a political crisis for the president mahinda rajapaksa is replacing one need become a single who is refusing to leave the official residence he says he still has a majority support but is unable to prove it as the current president by three policy center suspended parliament meanwhile the ousted oil minister i don't john. has been released on bail over a shooting on sunday by his bodyguard which killed one person well the current president saying it was part of russia government during his tenure presidency from
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two thousand and five serving as a minister excuse me. but in a surprise move he left his ministerial post joined the opposition and announced he would run against the rajapaksa in two thousand and fifteen going on to win the closely fought presidential election in his new role citizen a made the leader of the opposition ranil wickremasinghe his prime minister after he helped him win the election that many thought the move would mark the end of russia praxis political career but analysts say city said his new alliance with the former president is his best chance of remaining in power for the space sent us this update from colombo. in the presidency's offices behind me presidents are saying the swearing in the new members of the cabinet who were going to serve and now prime minister mahinda rajapaksa but not so far away sitting in the prime minister's official residence is running away from the single and says i'm still
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prime minister i still have the parliamentary majority to prove it the problem is the president has suspended parliament until november sixteenth so witnessing a contest claim and the suggestion is the president has let suspended because he wants to give the newly appointed prime minister rajapaksa enough time to pull in support to give him the parliamentary majority of the chinese for the first to call in on rajapaksa an offer that congratulations he of course when president of sri lanka brought in millions of dollars of chinese. at the end of the country's civil war was converse to the united states the european union and the indians of that will hang on a minute presence or cena should be respecting the constitution india of course very worried about spreading chinese influence in the strategically important parts of the indian ocean. well joining me live now is alan keenan who's senior sri lanka project director at the international crisis group sir thank you so much for
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joining us here to be on al-jazeera i mean first of all let's just try to explain the story which is getting quite complicated and all happened in the space of a few days so the former president mahinda rajapaksa is now sort of backing government why do you think that happened it would seem counter-intuitive but i guess not well it's especially counter-intuitive given that the current president policy or cena left. rajapakse as a government to run against him and said very publicly that he feared that if he lost that election in two thousand and fifteen he would be killed so he has publicly stated that he does not trust men to rajapaksa so for him to bring him back i think was really a sign of the depth of distrust that had built up between president serious aina and his more recent prime minister run overcommit singer but he could still have sacked or sidelined this current prime minister without necessarily bringing bringing mahinda rajapaksa back so there must be something behind bringing him specifically well i think there's no question parks is the most popular politician
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in sri lanka has been for a long time it was really sort of a blip in some sense when he when he lost in twenty fifteen it caught everyone by surprise and i think the last two years of dysfunction increase in dysfunctional government public fights between serious cena and his prime minister ronald reagan the singer made rajapaksa even more popular because he was seen as you seen as stable as strong as tough as nationalist so i think syria's saying they thought his only hope really to preserve his own political popularity and political future was to go with rajapaksa i mean it's not just popularity here in this future i guess it's all about stability in the country as well what do you think the chances are that this kind of political instability especially when it's quite complicated a lot of a legion says as well that actually spillover into the. drian calls violence there were already there's been some small bit of violence a very unfortunate when a crowd blocked one of the recently deposed ministers attempt to return to his
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ministry his bodyguard shot someone i think you just had a report about it so one person has died already but the the fear is that that i think first of all just let's begin from the fact that this is the first ever time where there's been a transfer of power in sri lanka through extra constitutional means outside of the constitution so. did not have the power according to the current constitution to sack his prime minister and bring in someone new so i think that something that simple fact raises the tensions it's going to be all of the supporters of run of the committing and his party are going to see. rajapakse as illegitimate that that kind of situation has never as never happened and i think that's a recipe for tension and possible and of course when he suspended his prime minister suspended parliament what are we waiting for now for parliament to come back towards an organ to be called until it's resolved one way or another what do
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you like to for well i think all those who want there to be stability and want democratic principles and norms to be respected are calling on syria's cena to change his mind and allow parliament to convene and have a fair vote which is what the constitution requires for the two the two main blocs led by. run of the committee saying up you know those prime minister and parks of the newly brought in prime minister to test their strength to see who actually has the majority support within the parliament because that's how prime minister supposed to be supposed to be chosen it's unlikely that serious cena is going to change his mind unless he come to under substantial international pressure to match the what i think is substantial domestic discomfort with this move how worried are you that things might escalate well i'm certainly hoping they don't but i think if . if syria cena pushes this through and if as has happened under his former when he was president rajapaksa is allows his people to use use coercion and force to
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maintain his power i think there's a high risk of violence alan keenan senior project director of the international crisis group thank you israeli forces have showed that a palestinian man during protests at the gaza border fence gaza's health ministry says another fifteen people were injured by live gunfire israeli forces have killed at least two hundred ten palestinians and injured thousands more since protests began in march meanwhile hundreds of people have attended funerals for three palestinian teenage boys killed in israeli drone strikes in gaza on sunday their families say they had no ties with armed groups and of called of hamas to retaliate against the attack herefore said reports from gaza. mourners gather at a hospital morgue in southern gaza inside like the bodies of three boys killed the night before it is really a strike israeli military said it had targeted a cell that was laying explosives along the border fence the father of one of the
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boys denied they were doing any such thing while i look at. these were young boys i think they are planting explosives i wished i had brain so a lot of going to get. a deal hamid in the middle was thirteen as was mohammed el sartori here on the right on the left khaled abu side was fourteen their bodies were brought briefly to the family homes in the village of what. locals here suggested they might have been trying to set nets for the birds in the nearby fields when they were targeted as the convoy carried on to the mosque it passed the village school where classmates looked on human family on the us top of the ham it was in my class even now that he's dead he will always be my friend he was a good student i will keep him in my heart attending the funeral hamas is most senior leader ismail haniya the faction which controls the gaza strip is now facing calls for retaliate it follows friday's exchange of rockets launched by the
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palestinian group islamic jihad and israeli air strikes the israeli government itself on the domestic political pressure has promised toughened military responses to rocket fire incendiary balloons and breaches of the border fence such measures though heighten the chances of airstrikes like this one it's instructive to get a sense of the geography here this is the cemetery where the boys are now being buried just a little distance down this road of the homes in which they lived in if we cross the road and have a look over here we can see just how close all of this is to the israeli border these boys lived and died within a few hundred meters of where they're now being buried. later on came the weekly protested she came with the israeli border extends into the mediterranean sea the hamas leadership has signaled it doesn't want an escalation towards war if you said to be shared by the israeli government despite the bellicose language of its defense minister but every few days it seems dangerous forces are being let slip
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only to be reined in again no one can say how long that can last. it's the beginning of the end for one of europe's most influential leaders german chancellor angela merkel has announced that she leave politics at the end of her current term in twelve to twenty one she's also standing down as chair of her center right party where the new leader due to be elected in the center that reports from berlin. i'm going to make calls message to leaders of her party the christie democrats all the c.d.u. is clear it's time to begin a new chapter on monday she announced a nobody's great surprise that this would be her last term as germany's chancellor but she also plans to quit as party leader by the end of the year very nice three of us i think i will not put myself forward again as candidate for the c.d.u. chair secondly this fourth term is my last as german chancellor at the federal election in twenty twenty one i will not stand again as the child a candidate you know as a candidate for the bundestag and for the sake of protocol i won't seek any further
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political offices. i'm going to merkel's been chancellor for thirteen years stepping down as leader of her party a position she's held for nearly two decades means the race will soon be old to find a replacement allowing a new figure to build a profile ahead of the next election the announcement came after merkel's c.d.u. experienced big losses in a regional vote in the western state has said the party came first and will still be in charge along with the greens but it saw an eleven percent drop in support it was the second electoral setback in as many weeks for merkel's conservative alliance and nationally her partners in government the social democrats have threatened to end what's known as the grand coalition if the downward trend continues her party has tolerated her because she was able to negotiate coalitions where they would be the strongest partner that's been less tense the last elections the social democrats would only join the government if they got the post of foreign
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minister and finance minister and many in the party say well you sold us through cheaply of course any period of political uncertainty here in germany will also be a worry for the european union at a time when the blocks dealing with a budget crisis in italy breaks it and not least rising populism across the continent that's why they'll be paying close attention to whom the c.d.u. lines up as merkel successor and where the main challenges come from the barber al-jazeera believe. a judge in ecuador has rejected a lawsuit brought brought by julian assange challenging the conditions of his asylum and so she says new rules imposed for his stay in the ecuadorian embassy in london are designed to force him out include paying for medical bills phone calls and cleaning up after his pet cat our son of the founder of wiki leaks who published thousands of u.s. diplomatic and military secrets claimed asylum in the embassy to escape extra this .
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