tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera November 2, 2018 12:00am-1:01am +03
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join us for special coverage of the u.s. big travel lecture on al jazeera. this is al jazeera. and on our intended this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. president talks tough on migration saying illegal immigrants will be caught and kept while their claims are investigated. sri lanka's new prime minister tells on jazeera his appointment is legitimate amid a mounting political crisis. turkey's justice minister demands that saudi arabia cooperate fully in the investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi saying the whole world's attention is on them. and protecting what lies beneath the push to
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turn a remote part of the planet into the world's largest century. paul reese and daughter all with all the sport coming up on bottles has tumbled my way into history as the first woman to win for all around the world titles and gymnastics. president trump has been talking tough on migration he says his country is facing what he termed an invasion and illegal migrants will be stopped at the border he added that those caught crossing the border illegally would be held while their solemn claims were investigated and not released pending the hearings asylum is not a program for those living in poverty there are billions of people in the world living at the poverty level. the united states cannot possibly
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absorb them all asylum is a very special protection intended only for those fleeing government persecution based on race religion and other protected status his comments come as the us president also announced tough new sanctions against venezuela cuba and nicaragua which is administration branded a troika of tyranny they include sanctions on venezuela's gold sector which the u.s. says has been used to finance illicit activities and support criminal groups the measure prevents people in the u.s. from dealing with individuals and networks involved in transactions and exports new sanctions on more than two dozen entities owned or controlled by the cuban military and intelligence services and sanctions against the nicaraguan government of president daniel ortega which is accused of cracking down on protesters and completely eroding democratic institutions are speaking out to castro he's in washington d.c. . to go back to the immigration issue long on rhetoric and rather short term policy
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. that's right lauren in fact the president himself said that no action will be really announced until a week from now when we expect to see the details of an executive action rather he used this opportunity really to deliver a campaign speech from the white house in which he ranted for quite some time about what he perceives as the threat posed by the caravans of migrants making their way north now still more than a thousand kilometers south of the u.s. border but trump really used that word invasion over and over again it's the same word we've heard on the campaign trail he said that the u.s. had no choice but to defend its borders and that the very control of the country in the defense of the country's border itself is at stake he painted a picture of these caravans very different from what our colleagues have been reporting who have been on the trail with these families trump says that these are
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many criminals here there are people breaking through barriers and that once they arrive at the u.s. borders if they attempt to throw rocks or sticks at the u.s. military which has now been deployed to that area that those rocks and sticks would be considered to be firearms so again very little in action he did say that he is likely going to limit asylum to only people who cross at the ports of entry that's long been already the policy in the u.s. and also that he was going to build these tent cities in which to hold the people while their cases wind through the court system not allowing them free chance to go deeper into the country or one hundred the timing of. coincidences. no absolutely not in five days u.s. citizens will take to the polls and decide whether trump's republican party retains
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control of congress and as the polls have shown a surge of money to see as a democrat's trump has again fallen back on this favorite topic of his of immigration he saw this as what drove him to take over the white house in two thousand and sixteen and he's falling back on this again using that same rhetoric in fact this morning he tweeted a very controversial political ad let's listen. that out of all of. you for. the first. week. in that campaign ad with racial overtones attempting to connect
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a line directly from illegal immigrants to crimes when the statistics show that immigrants are actually less likely to be perpetrators of crimes than native born americans liberal groups and democrats are trying that political ad as racist and with the clock ticking toward tuesday when americans will vote in the midterm elections it only ratchets up further attention lauren i did your question thank you very much indeed. there is john home and joined a family of four from honduras folks just one day of their epic trick through mexico. when alexander starts his day's journey at three am he's not even awake his sister maria is and every step is a small tool it's not just legs a little used to walking a marathon every day she's developed to call. them on half whether it's because we're sleeping rough the winds get to her that's why she's sick this is
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a day in the life that the re is a lie a family on durance traveling in a caravan trying to reach the us today's route forty kilometers to the mexican town of weeks they've left early to avoid the midday sun but dad alvin is struggling through and can push a stroller in a dorm break he explains why it's that this is that all this is the legs it's bad it's this one with all the it's been seven months. early in his sophie's eight months pregnant but she didn't want to have her baby back code that bennett said out oh he would have suffered like the other children they're born into poverty off to for i was she struggling then the family gets a break a ride from a passing truck it revives the flagging children it's set some down before a migration checkpoint one of several in the south from its commercial without papers their only hope to get through is by sheer force of numbers they have to
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wait for the others at least erling compressed two hours later the caravan catches up and passes together the type things worked. but as mid day approaches the race allies have other problems the food. no spare clothes a man pulls up out of nowhere and helps with the first two and then the third. that becomes he said look this is what makes conserve been divided over the caravan but today help is ever present this lady simply sweeps up the family and pays the bus tickets just in time at the end of their strength. and i'm going to give you makes you wonder what's going to happen to them i just had to help and i saw the baby they finally made it two weeks ago here they can rest but there's no shelter so that we just have these blankets for the children don't sleep on the pier pavement as the rain phones they try and work out their next move so everyone is just
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settling down now after what's been an exhausting day but they still go about two thousand kilometers to get to the border and at their car right that's going to take them at least a month and a half but first there's a lawyer a his family has to try and get through the noise john home and how does it or weeks or sri lanka's president has climbed down his decision to suspend parliament calling for a meeting of lawmakers next week the sacking of prime minister running from a singer and his replacement with former strongman leader. has caused a political crisis with critics warning it's an unconstitutional move that could lead to a bloodbath was speaking to al-jazeera rajapaksa defended his appointment as legitimate but it's missed reports from the capital colombo. he has all the trappings of prime minister including access to the office but the new prime minister mahinda rajapaksa is acting unconstitutionally his critics say because he was appointed by
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president by three policy we say to a not elected by the embers of parliament on a mr rajapaksa you know yourself i must see you as your of a loved one legitimately think services of the institution of this budget the argument is that parliament should be deciding who is the prime minister not the normal norm as i read that institution in your reply and so your immediate one sir for i know you are assuming the prime minister's position i have logged the ignore the birth of his daughter who rajapaksa needs the backing of one hundred thirteen m.p.'s to solidify his return to power but the president suspended parliament some suspect he did that to give rajapaksa time to get enough support how will you get enough support from parliament how do you get the n.p.c. what we have got the i'm going to be short and so why the delay in recalling pollen and what are we hanging on for norm because we want to. get ready for the i did
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rajapakse that was at the prime minister's office to meet academics telling them there's no crisis as far as he's concerned it certainly is a crisis for the ousted prime minister rudd no wickramasinghe or he's refusing to leave the official residence of the pm he says he remains prime minister because the power to sack him was stripped from the president two years ago by an amendment to the constitution the whole structure of government in the country is still very strong in the executive. and the presumption is that the presidency is the strongest office. it when though the nineteenth amendment has made changes to that and therefore what the president seems to say go yes rajapaksa serve two terms as president defeated thomas separatists in a twenty six year long civil war but was accused of human rights abuses in the process his family and inner circle is under investigation for corruption and you're looking forward to your new positions are you looking forward to being prime
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minister really much who had to wait hard to get behind the rajapaksa is presenting an image of business as usual but we run away from a single still claiming to be the legitimate prime minister things are far from usual parliament will though now get to have the final say it seems when it's soon recalled and m.p.'s get to vote bernard al-jazeera colombo. joining me in the studio is alan keenan who's the sri lanka project director for international crisis group thanks very much for coming in so this is a suspension of the parliament was apparently lifted in their power it is going to be a meeting of parliament on the fifth of november how likely is that to go ahead you think in the current climate well it's quite confused there was first it was it was prorogue suspended until the sixteenth and they said will be open on the fifth and it was the seventh most recent thing i've heard is the government's now saying oh no it's still the sixteenth what that tells me is that roger parks in syria saying they don't yet have the votes lined up in parliament despite what we just heard the
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former president and would be prime minister say i mean is it is it just about the votes and if if they get a vote will that resolve the matter well that's the trick so no it won't in a constitutional or the question of legitimacy will always hang over rajapaksa because the way he got the time necessary to to win people over was through this illegal appointment and the reason that's important is because as prime minister he gets to appoint people to as as his you know as his colleagues as ministers and with a ministerial appointment comes perks it comes jobs for your family it becomes money and also there's allegations that both sides are buying are offering actual cash to people to either stay with them or to go so i mean at the moment we've got this situation where. missing is refusing to leave the premises residence how will they persuade him to accept a list. well it's a good question i don't know i mean i think if you actually do i mean when you do actually have a parliamentary vote and if mahinda wins it i think rondo will probably have to
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give up his actually have to move out of temple trees as it's called but i don't think the question will be settled it will not be settled in the minds of many un peace supporters it won't be settled in the minds of the international community won't be settled in the minds of many so that that's one of the problems is then what are the effects of that uncertainty and illegitimacy for the future of sri lankan politics and when you say the effects of it you suggesting it could be a dangerous situation yes because already elections are quite often have a violent undertone to them there's you know clashes between rival supporters and if one side thinks the other is illegitimate and the other side thinks you know is is gloating and thinking ha ha we've got one over you that's not a good situation and to people who have kind of followed that recently what how does this all come about and how did it get to a situation where you suddenly have one promise to replace with another it seems kind of bizarre in a way doesn't it yeah well i think it's you have this it i mean that the president serious cena used to be allied with amanda rajapaksa he left his his government and
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joined his rival then rival un p. run over missing it and ran against mahendra because there was a widespread sense that mahinda rajapakse and his government had grown too authoritarian too brutal suppress the media a attacked human rights defenders as well as their conduct during the end of the war with the tamil tigers so there's a widespread sense that he had he had overplayed his hand time was up for his authoritarian ways but but now having brought these two very different parties together the problem former prime minister the current prime minister the chorusing and syria saying they didn't actually end up getting along very well they were from different parties different traditions different ideologies and it proved too difficult ultimately to really last ok well listen to what see what plays out the next if you think you very much indeed have come to a welcome. coming up on al-jazeera in this news hour google employees walk out in protest at the company's handling of sexual misconduct allegations. more on how
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straight his government is quietly relocating refugee children from offshore detention centers to the australian mainland. and what is are is awaits the return of one of the world's fiercest football rivalries it's because radios set up a showdown with river plate in the final of a couple of years their doors. to his justice minister has demanded that saudi arabia cooperate fully with the investigation into the murder of saudi journalist. it comes after turkey revealed he was strangled to death a soon as he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second saudi arabia has yet to respond to the revelations. with. the whole world's attention is on this matter so it cannot be kept a secret it's
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a concern for everyone for the conscience of everyone the world is calling for an answer we're asking for the saudi side to cooperate closely they need to cooperate and support the inquiry so the matter can be resolved. without an international hub are outside the saudi consulate in istanbul. turkey seems to be continuing to keep up the pressure of the political pressure on on saudi arabia. they are of the beginning of the crisis they were drip feeding leaks to the international media to put more pressure on the saudi government and then they started saying that we need full cooperation from the saudi prosecutor otherwise we would go on our own way from yesterday we've seen a new pattern which is basically the turkish government saying that this these are not genuine about any cooperation and that they are stalling the investigation for political reasons today the turkish government is saying that santa rabia needs to face political isolation and that there will be
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a political price for the saudis to pay against the backdrop of the killing of the metal house of the however the biggest concern is the u.s. influence in this particular case the general sentiment among the turkish political establishment and the people here is that president trump could use his leverage in the region to try to pave the way for cover up for the saudi crown prince mohamed bin said man but. the consensus here it is about time to rally international support against saudi arabia for the saudis to be able to come out openly and say who gave the order of killings of the and at the same time help the turkish investigators identify the whereabouts of the remains of the saudi journalist. thank you very much. the washington post is reporting that egyptian president of the end is ready prime minister benjamin netanyahu reached out to senior officials
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in the trumpet ministration to express support from have been so none arguing he's an important strategic partner in the region officials also revealed more information about a phone call that the saudi crown prince made to washington a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more the washington post is reporting that a telephone call between the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon and the president's son in law jared cushion or as well as national security adviser john bolton took place in the days after the disappearance and was notable is what the crown prince said in terms of describing the missing journalist he described him as a dangerous islamist this is important to note that the timing of this happened before the kingdom publicly acknowledged that he had in fact been murdered inside their consulate in turkey that in fact he had been killed in their custody now the family of jim on his shows he has made public
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a statement in which they say that the characterizations made about jim are dangerous inaccurate and ridiculous and they deny that he was ever a member of the muslim brotherhood now it's important to know that what we understand from an administration official that has spoken to the washington post is that it doesn't appear that the administration any way embrace the claims that were being made or the accusations that were being made by the saudi crown prince but this certainly does look like a bit of a an effort at damage control somewhat two faced if you will given the fact that very publicly the saudi kingdom has in fact called the death of jim on his show she a terrible mistake and a tragedy now of course as the u.s. begins to consider further response it already has taken. some action it has revoked the visas of twenty one saudi nationals connected to this case and it is
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complex contemplating a more robust response that is in addition to the sort of condemnation or critical concern that's been expressed by u.s. allies including germany britain and france meanwhile in paris the lights of the eiffel tower have been turned off to mark the upcoming international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists the aim is to highlight the rights and freedoms of the press it comes nearly one month after the killing of jake and a time when threats against journalists are more widespread than ever. u.s. but he service to getting the mysterious deaths of two saudi arabian sisters in new york the bodies which were bound together by tape washed up on the manhattan waterfront last week or thirty say it appears they were alive when they entered the water kristen salumi reports. new york city police searching the banks of the hudson river looking for clues to help them solve the mystery surrounding the
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deaths of two sisters from saudi arabia their bodies discovered by a passer by here last week taped together at the waist facing each other wearing black leggings and cords. the young women were identified as twenty two year old rotunda and sixteen year old tala for a police say they went missing from their home in virginia in late august publicly their first priority was identifying the girl's. young ladies and once that was done i think that we've made significant progress see you piecing together pieces of this puzzle to find out what happened the mother of the two young women told police that she had received a call from the saudi arabian embassy the day before the bodies were discovered she says the family was ordered to leave the united states because the daughters had applied for political asylum no comment on that from saudi officials here in new york but the consulate has put out a statement saying that an attorney has been appointed to closely follow the case.
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according to the saudi consulate general embassy officials in washington have contacted the family and extended its support and aid in this trying time it said the sisters were students accompanying their brother in washington investigators have also visited the fairfax condominium where the family had lived for the last three years as well as george mason university where the older sister had been studying until last spring trying to determine where they were in the two months since they'd been missing i think intactness work has filled in many of the pieces but there's still some gaps that we would like to. really get i'm going to clear picture of what happened in the last two miles but there has been. somewhat significant progress trying to get to the picture of what ultimately led to the two young ladies being discovered reports suggest the girls were alive when their bodies under the water police are appealing to the public for any information in their quest to determine just what led to the deaths kristen salumi al jazeera new
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york. the sound it coalition in yemen has deployed thousands of troops to the main port city of her data that's despite growing calls to end the fighting un says it's backing the u.s. demand for a political solution a special envoy to yemen is relaunching talks with the saudi coalition and who he revels in sweden in november. deep sea divers have found one of the two flight recorders from monday's jet crash off the coast of indonesia the search continues for the main fuse large weather one hundred eighty nine people on board the plane were sitting american crash experts who arrived to escape why the brand new boeing airliner went down shortly after takeoff from jakarta firstly has this report. three days after indonesia's second west added zoster a vital potential clue to the course divers have recovered the flight data recorder buried in the sea bed they had to dig to get it out it logs everything the lion air
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boeing seven three seven was doing including its speed altitude and heading. we will let the dust dish and safety committee do their job and we have requested willing to help it amended need it for inspection to find out because of the crash . still missing is the flight deck voice recorder of the two pilots investigators will be hoping both black boxes survived the impact intact search teams are also trying to locate the fuselage where the passengers were. investigators from the u.s. national transportation safety board and boeing experts have arrived in jakarta their preliminary report is not expected for weeks the final crash report could take years but pressure is on boeing to pinpoint what happened to two month old boeing seven three seven max. lion air is the launch customer of the latest variant of the best selling airline at the twin jet had technical problems the day before lyon
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executives' say they were resolved and the plane flew from bali to jakarta hours before its fateful flight at least four employees of the low cost carrier have been suspended pending the investigation. for the families the agonizing wait goes on. but we hope the government can find all victims as soon as possible i do hope my husband is still alive that's a wish of mine of our families he is a strong willed person and. forensic experts have taken d.n.a. samples from the next of kin to begin matching passenger remains ready for the many funerals to come florence. still to come one hours or in this news hour we meet to the london mother who says her daughter was killed by the city's toxic have pollution and she wants it officially recognized. as scientists in switzerland are using an electronic implant to help paralyzed patients walk again.
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and find out why basketball's former m.v.p. derrick rose was brought to tears just n.b.a. action coming up with cool. probably the latest storm system in the western med isn't as violent as the last one is producing a lot of rain you get no idea from the magic cloud that shot back at you always suggest is heavy rain once again he's over italy but the winds aren't as strong so well the something for you anyway we end up with the rain still persisting over italy for another twenty four hours at least and it runs out for the agency to slovenia again southern austria parts of switzerland to the west of it things are rather better is not looking anything like it's cloudy stormy or weds about tension which it could reach eighteen degrees and in london in sunshine only eleven the warmth of eastern europe has disappeared to some degree of two or twenty one in
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bucharest not convinced that will last for much longer would typically teens or below elsewhere and yes it's still raining in western italy come saturday maybe not quite as heavily now that circles having the western med and the extension that means rain in tunisia and algeria seems quite likely less so and you to iraq are nineteen in the sunshine in about the day after saturday we still got rain running into argyria in tunisia but again morocco is in the sunshine that most north africa now is calm down over a capella last two or three days is to pretty woman places still thirty one for example in cairo. at sixteen cush who is living her dream of being a journalist but her father has his own dream for her to follow tradition and be merrett as her investigations bring her face to face with the ill fated some of
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india's young women far the search for suitable husband continues and both their dreams come true almost one overcome the other. deadline and part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. history has called it the great war in the first episode conscription draws hundreds of thousands of our route troops into both sides of the conflict their story is rarely told but had a huge impact on the course of the war world war through our own but my own knowledge is it. was. like.
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living among the top stories. u.s. president donald trump has again stressed the need to curtail illegal immigration into the united states which is likened to an invasion he says those caught caught crossing the border illegally would be held while their asylum claims were investigated. sri lanka's new prime minister mahinda rajapaksa has defended the legitimacy of his appointment amid a growing political crisis because president has lifted his suspension of parliament and called for a meeting of law makers next week. turkey's justice minister has called for saudi arabia to cooperate fully with the investigation into the murder of saudi journalists. the washington post is reporting that egyptian and israeli leaders have reached out to the trumpet ministration to express support for the saudi crown prince for in the crisis. a pakistani christian woman who had her
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death sentence for blasphemy overturned is now planning to leave the country as your baby spent eight years on death row before the supreme court decision on wednesday protest by conservative islam groups against the decision on now into a second day with many major roads blocked prime minister iran can condemn demonstrators you've issued death threats to the judges you have attend her sentence. is that they are inciting you for their political gain you should not get trapped by them for the sake of the country they are doing no service to islam jani you are trying to say that if the supreme court doesn't decide according to they wish they will not accept that judgment that means they would come on roads and stop the country can any country be run like this. come out hiders holding events in the capital islamabad. relative calm across pakistan although the situation is still tense and the protesters blocking key points in the city of karachi the whole
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region the provincial capital of the bun job and head in islamabad the security forces have called on golf their rage zone ridge how. that. government installations and the diplomatic all clear now we are told that the protesters are not as violent as they were yesterday however to morrow it's friday and it will be important to see where this protest gains momentum but the prime minister had a road ready spoken saying that the protest and renard be allowed to challenge to rid of this he stands behind the decision of the supreme court and the situation and progress on the moment it appears to be calming down a violent day yesterday and rage a number of people who were injured by a private institution schools colleges and even the stock exchange in the southern port city of karachi are closed today and that people are watching to see if this
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situation returns back to normal or if did it an escalation and fifteen people have been killed in a suspected because attack in northeast nigeria it happened in a group of ridges close to my degree the capital of borno state witnesses say a muslim religious leader and his family were among those killed. google employees around the world have walked out in protest against the company's handling of sexual misconduct tensions have been building in the week since a new york times article alleged former senior google executive andy rubin received a ninety million dollars severance pay out despite being accused of sexual misconduct stuff in london tokyo and new york are among those taking part. i want to go to enforce the provisions that they already have and to take seriously claims of people who are harassed and respond to them appropriately and it's not sweep
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them under the rug google is a company that's recognized for having really strong values and it's very true of the culture at all and so to hear something like this in a space where most employees will tell you they don't really see it just like hugely disappointing the u.s. department of justice has charged two former goldman sachs investment bankers with crimes in relation to corruption at malaysia's state development fund one m d b one banker has admitted to conspiring to launder money and violating a us anti bribery law fortress a public official stole billions from fund to buy property art and fine jewelry from a malaysian prime minister najib razak is facing thirty eight charges related to the one and to be corruptions found u.k. police have begun a criminal investigation into a prominent bricks it campaigner for suspected illegal campaign funding during the twenty sixteen referendum aaron banks is suspected of concealing the true sources
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of more than ten million dollars of campaign funding investigators are examining whether some of it came from abroad which would break u.k. election rules banks says the allegations against him are politically motivated. it's the final day of the first ever world health organization global conference on air pollution and health taking place in geneva discussing ways of reducing the estimated seven million deaths a year caused by polluted air the problem is particularly acute in the world's major cities jessica baldwin has been to meet one mother in london who's campaigning for change. ella kisi deborah was super sporty besides swimming she played football and loved to downs but age seven she developed severe asthma two years later she was dead alice mother rosamond is convinced london's unlawfully high pollution killed her daughter and she's campaigning to have the cause of death
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recognised as air pollution and the suffer greatly makes no bones about this from. just over annoyed she wasn't in a coma three to four times and she was lucky to survive those. and i have since learned. how good that is. this is the area where ella grew up the traffic on this road that circles the city is relevant less and there's a slightly sweet oily smell to the air out which one has heard about you feel it's only when you leave the city and then return the you notice how bad the air really is beth gardner is the author of choked she says london's pollution is particularly bad due to the diesel taxis buses and delivery trucks clogging the city streets the more closely that scientists study air pollution the more that they are finding it
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really affects our health in me shocking friday of ways and when you think about it it really makes sense that the air we breathe permeates every part of our bodies the mayor's office says it's working to reduce the city's pollution they've introduced a twenty seven dollars a day charge for the worst polluters coming into the city center but the numbers are graham of the city's nearly thirty thousand black taxis just seven hundred are electric london has six hundred seventy five bus routes but only to use electric buses a couple of hours drive south from london buses in the city of southampton have been fitted with air filters on the route the system cleans particles out of the air blowing clean air behind as it moves through the streets tinkering here and there with filters the odd electric bus congestion charging is not going to bring the radical change needed. to save the many lives
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like alice that are lost each year jessica baldwin al-jazeera london. devant campbell lender meza scientists at the world health organization he says governments are not doing enough to tackle pollution despite clear evidence of its impact on health we lose seven million lawyers every year due to air pollution inside and outside the home pollution increases the risk of respect for illness it increases the risk of heart attack an increased risk of stroke it increases the risk of a cancer that is as big a death toll as we have from any other killer that we have it's comparable to two to that from from tobacco but i think the real reason that we're having that this conference is the one that you've you've just heard it really brings it down to the level of the individual when you picture a child who has suffered from asthma throughout their life it has been provoked by
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air pollution to that eventually takes their life if this was anything else that was killing children in that way i have to say we would we would have acted years ago russian space agency engineers are blaming a faulty sensor for last month's soyuz rocket failure a russian cosmonaut an american astronaut were forced to abandon their mission to the international space station after booster rocket failed to separate properly they landed safely in kazakhstan after an emergency descent officials say the sensor was damaged during assembly and the checking for similar issues into more soaring is rockets the first democratically elected president of maldives has returned to the country after two years in exile mohamed nasheed was welcomed home by his supporters and president elect mohammed certainly he was sentenced to thirteen years in jail in twenty fifteen on terrorism charges ordering the arrest of a top judge as happened during april a former leader i mean at the gun moon at the trial was criticized as being
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politically motivated and suffered a surprise election defeat last month paving the way for the sheets for ten. australia is the new home for dozens of child asylum seekers they're being quietly moved from controversial so called prisoner islands in the pacific ocean doctors are concerned for their mental health after the children spent up to five years with thousands of adult refugees on the islands of mary and minus father thomas has more now been the consistent message of australia's government is that all refugees who tried to come to its shores by boat would instead be sent to man asylum to papua new guinea or to number who they would never be settled here but we now know that quietly australian government has been bringing refugees here but securely in recent days and weeks children who were on the road the pressure has really been growing on the government from all thoughts of politics and peace in their own governing liberal party m.p.'s in the opposition labor party and public opinion
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polls now suggest that eighty percent of australians want the children brought to australia we now know that they are being brought here there are forty children as of friday still on the road were fifty two a week ago more than a hundred when the current prime minister scott morrison came to office in august and in an interview in london a former minister has said that it is the aim of the australian government to have all the children transferred off the roof by the end of the year so despite the lack of comment by australia's government despite all its talk about needing to maintain the terence for people trying to come to australia chills by boat in fact the children and their families are being brought here. refugee health groups have welcomed the evacuation of the children to australia but government ministers insist their offshore camp photo see is the right one. we certainly under any circumstances don't want to start again that is just unimaginable for a hundred deaths at sea if we are not going to stand for that but we continue to do
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the work to make sure those kids are treated fairly and humanely and of course when they're down to a very small number of money for the thirty eight children who woke up on the road this morning two months is a long time doctors have consistently said that this is a mental health crisis and they have won the government to get these children off urgently. the scientists in switzerland have developed an electronic implant that's not only helping paraplegics walk again but could also repair that damage spinal cord is providing hope for patients years after their accidents aleksey abroad reports. he'd been told he'd never walk again. sebastiaan to was paralyzed from the waist down after a bicycle accident five years ago but now thanks to breakthrough technology he's taking tentative steps forward. as if he had no ability to activate single muscles
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of both legs but we said that the model competes for right. and nor with some training he's able to read. that things are going to extension of his leg so basically you recover a lot of control over the bar lights muscles despite no more than four years of complete paralysis it's all down to a tiny electronic implant placed over the damaged area of the spinal cord it helps boost signals from the brain to his legs giving sebastiaan back some control over his paralyzed limbs and an addict and antibiotics and often it's not easy and has taken months of rehabilitation but it's life changing progress they treat patients involved in the study he idea that you are repairing the injured spine or goals so you might we don't know the mechanism but many many more that is we have clearly seen that with the state of training and nerve fibers stop we growing we are going to zing that's why the brain region called cord over the movement of the
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leg the first such implant was developed in twenty tain and earlier this year two other groups of scientists reported similar success but this research goes one step further targeting the electronic pulses to specific locations yeah yeah disparate it's really like. like red. a marathon i'm holding eggs in your hands and you're trying not to squeeze them and at the same time you're pushing as hard as you can so you really need to find a good balance of pushing hard and trying to get each and every muscle at the right timing in the right place the three main still mostly rely on wheelchairs and the scientists are warning the treatment won't work for the most severe injuries so room for improvement maybe but definitely room for hope alexia brian al-jazeera.
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business updates. going places together. scientists are debating whether to turn one of the most remote parts of the planet into the largest protected area on earth the weddell sea in antarctica could be home to sounds of on this common species conservationists is supporting an e.u. proposal to make it a no go zone for industrial fishing mining and deep sea drilling reports
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then february al-jazeera joined the greenpeace icebreaker the arctic sunrise as she pushed through into the remote board says of the weddell sea collecting evidence to support the bid to turn a huge section into an ocean sanctuary it is a vasan known territory few ships venture here almost year round sea ice making it a challenge to fall for most. looks like the opening of u.t.c. for. yet. after several days of trying we finally broke through and we took a chance in a rare window of weather to take to the air to see what may soon become the largest protected area on a so what we're looking at here is multi-year sea ice and great icebergs to be topped off the glass is sweeping up james ross island at the weddell sea extends way into the distance over the proposed area pretty much all touched by human
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activity almost no scientific research is taking place. it's the realm of the penguin and myriad marine species but it's not the realm of man and many want to keep it that way the sentry proposal would protect an area five times the size of germany. part of the evidence being assessed by the antarctic commission was gathered by the expedition submarine on board with the antarctic specialist suzanne look. it has one hundred percent coverage in the sea floor i'm going to assume it has a great three d. structure which allows other organisms to come in and if there and a really interesting species composition and all these factors make it really difficult for a community to become popular it just to have it such as part of the fishing we call these areas fundable marine ecosystem and hopefully we can get to this and other areas we come across that special protection that we saw firsthand how accessible the outer limits of antarctica have already become and now there's
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a huge effort to protect vaal swathes of this stunning continent the antarctic ocean commission has given itself the mandate to create this law scale network of marine protected areas is given itself a mandate to use the best available science and we believe that the hosel is absolutely fulfilling that scientific consensus around the world is that we need to be protecting roughly a third of the world's oceans by twenty thirty we've got to start down here in the most precious waters that we have the e.u. proposal has to be supported by consensus of the twenty five member commission. while there is a great deal of support it would only take one country to disagree and send the whole effort back to the drawing board. al-jazeera. not to do. with us for. thank you very much simone balls is dominating the world gymnastics championships here in council she's already that the americans to team gold and is starting to rack up as well how small.
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man i know female gymnast in history has ever done this simone biles winning the world all around gold for the fourth time even so miles was not at her best. she fell twice on vault and balance beam and stepped out of bounds on floor exercise she wasn't even able to stick the landing on the move named after her. after slipping on the vault table mistakes this big usually cost gymnast the meat but it was the difficulty of her routines that saved her. even with the falls she top japan's my merc cami by nearly two points something unheard of in the gymnastics world. twenty seventeen world champion and american teammate
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morgan herd came in third when she won the title last year was taking a year off. instead of wearing red white or blue opted for teal the color representing sexual abuse survivors biles was one of the more than three hundred gemma sexually assaulted by former team doctor larry nascar but she says the dark past is behind them the newly crowned best gymnast in the world has four more shots at gold in the event finals but she's been fighting to compete even often that. the day before the competition started she was hospitalized because of kidney stones her slips and her health concerns have reminded the crowd in doha that she's only human since everything else she does makes one of the hardest individual sports look so easy. harding al-jazeera. novak djokovic has reached the quarter finals of the paris masters r.c. awaits his coronation as the world number one bosnia's dumb izumo was his opponent in the last sixteen on thursday to serve on the first set six man but similar
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showed plenty of fight in the second one of the fifty two winning this rally but still going to one down but it turned out to be his back that got the better of him at the arena bessie the bosnian having to retire hurt not long afterwards rafael the dollars also withdrawn from paris with an abdominal injury so jock which will take its place as number one next week. reflecting on what i've been through in the last year it's. quite quite phenomenal achievement and i you know of course i'm very very happy and proud about it. five you know five months ago if you told me that it would be i always believe in myself but it was highly improbable at that time considering my ranking in the way i played in front on the courts which will play myron church in the quarter as bulgaria's grigor dimitrov took him to a tie break in the first set but the world number seven croatian came through after
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that on the second set as well to set up another old ball from tight power. defending champion jacks are also sealed his place in the quarter finals he beat out john is he's moloch just eerie in straight sets and dominated in the open forcing three successive breaks on the way soccer on six love six for. south american football's cup at liberty dora's trophy will be contested for the first time by fierce buenos aires rivals baka genius and river plate pocketbook their spot in the final on wednesday knocking out power medicine of brazil helmick as the action. a spot in the biggest match in south american top football the copper liberty tourist final was on the line in south paolo louis scolari's power as we're looking to make a comeback against argentina's baka genius who despite leading to none from the first leg well without suspended coach. on the touchline. that didn't seem to matter early on i would want to serious side struck first round want to put in
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three nil ahead and get leaving their brazilian opponents with an uphill task. how mirrors didn't give up though they want scored just after half time to come because the dandruff i and there was real hope when they were awarded a penalty soon after i was just doing the necessary on the hour i had all of a sudden the comeback was gone it was short lived though dario bene ditto dashing the hopes of the home side his long range of seeding a four to aggregate win and a place for the argentinians in the final. we know the value goals have when you're a visitor it's a big marriage of the players to have taken control in bonn as our eyes and even here in sao paolo a very difficult rival. when we scored the first goal then the second goal that
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motivated us we had the chance of the third goal but it didn't happen we. can now look forward to a showdown with vs one if there is drive through the plate in the final so we'll malik al-jazeera. now south korea's jang human so who has been banned from his national team for life for exaggerating his record of community service john he played at the world cup in the summer had been exempt from korean military service after winning the asian games in two thousand and fourteen but he still had to do community work and he's now been found to have falsified photographs of having done so john won't now get to add his fifty eight senior caps for south korea he can still play for his club side. now as if facing le bron james on court isn't scary enough he took things to another level ahead of the l.a. lakers halloween showdown with the dallas mavericks on wednesday erupt at staples center dressed as a body from a hollywood horror movie ironically it was dallas though that gave l.a.
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a fright they overturned a thirteen point final quarter deficit and nearly came away with a win but braun who scored twenty nine on the night reverted to his role as hero sinking a free throw to say a one hundred forty two hundred thirty when. derrick rose put some of the pain of his injury hit past few seasons behind him for minnesota he scored a career high fifty points in eight hundred twenty eight hundred twenty five win over the utah jazz rose was the twenty eleven m.v.p. with the chicago bulls but injuries up the rails his career since then he walked off the floor in tears after a stunning performance put a lot of his demons to rest. now new zealand cricket has the black caps haven't got quite the record of the road because of the all blacks but they took pakistan down to the wire in a twenty twenty thriller in abu dhabi the tourists did better than most against the best t twenty side in cricket at the moment pakistan made one hundred forty eight for six in the first of this three match series new zealand got within three runs
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a victory for pakistan to close it out in the final over. the boston red sox have been celebrating their world series title back home in massachusetts although their fans haven't been very careful with the trophy the sox clinched the world series a few days ago with a four one win over the los angeles dodgers in l.a. but back in boston someone threw a beer can at the bus hitting the trophy and bending its famous flag poles the city is perhaps getting careless of championship titles their baseball basketball ice hockey under american football teams have racked up eleven of them since two thousand and one story sports now back to lauren in london. well thank you very much and a great monday can always catch up with all the stories were reporting on but check out our website address for that is al-jazeera dot com and you can watch us live back here in the lobby i can say from if this news hour more in a moment i. hate
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