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and or will hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. bangladesh prepares to repatriate ranger refugees but is finding few volunteers we talk to refugees or say they're simply too afraid to go back to myanmar. hello this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up political chaos in lanka as a constitutional crisis brings politicians to blows and the suspension of parliament. sets a breakfast summit for november twenty fifth after two recently and her cabinet agree on a draft. and firefighters in the u.s.
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work to put out a new fire in california the death toll climbs to fifty six as the search for the missing continues. thank you for joining us this confusion over eight united nations deal to repatriate range of muslims from bangladesh to myanmar the first group of around two thousand people was expected to leave the caucasus bazaar refugee camps on thursday but the u.n. and human rights groups say the refugee safety must be verified before they are sent back bangladesh says only those who volunteer will return but many say they're on the transfer list despite not wanting to go mama john jude reports from cox is bizarre. this is the week when for many trauma became terror will hinge on refugees who escaped so much violence were shocked to learn they might be repatriated to me and more recently learned it will only listen i'm
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with you i wouldn't doubt it i've been crying because of how sad i am that we might be sent back our relatives were killed in myanmar we were all persecuted there so much we came here to bangladesh to find peace this is a peaceful country but we're not at peace because we've been told we're on a list. that list is the reason there's so much fear in this place it includes the names of thousands of row him to refugees who've been chosen as candidates to potentially be sent back to iraq and state as part of a deal between the governments of bangladesh and me and more. many are a beggar tells us her camp leader informed her that she and her three children are on the list but she says they'd rather die than return and i would think twice and before we go back to me and if it looks like they will try to move us to my children and i'll buy poison from the market here and didn't think it the government of bangladesh insists repeat relations will be on
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a voluntary basis only but menorah is not convinced the atmosphere here is filled with an increasing sense of dread and several of these huts that used to house refugees now sit empty that's because people are so terrified that in the past few days at least five families have fled this camp the united nations refugee agency which does not believe current conditions in iraq kind state are conducive to a safe and dignified return of refugees from bangladesh says there are approximately four hundred eighty five families on the repatriation list for us it's very important that we first do these assessment of voluntariness and this is really a basic condition for us and the record she is not only have to decide they have to decide based on on knowledge they need to know what's going on the enemy on law they fled from the little more than a year ago before they returned they have to know what's what's going on there but
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many refugees say they're all too aware of the horrors that await them i don't know i love that don't know what not i don't know we don't want to go back to myanmar because the camps they would put us in there are worse than the camps we are in here if we go there we won't be able to pray and our children won't be able to go to school for now members of one of the world's most persecuted minorities continue to worry they may be victimized all over again. yang heelys united nations special rapper toure on the situation of human rights in myanmar she says transfers without consent violate international law it is illegal absolutely illegal and so i'd like to plead to the bullet as she government again to really keep up to their promise of saying the terms will be. under an involuntary conditions but all the returns will have to be voluntary i'm
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not sure that we have the same concept of the bird or the definition of ontarians innes how did the list of names come about were those the people on that list have have they been informed that they are on the list and have you received consent informed consent by those people on that list i have not been able to get a clear answer so far but what i hear it many of the people or if not most of the people on the list of two hundred plus are not aware that they are on the list and they don't want to go back because they understand that this is relations is not conducive it is safe and that to return the agreement on in a reform and will be there you have to go back to the place of origin but if you've seen what happened in our kind is that all of that causes were burnt down and razed
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to the ground bulldozed there are new there are new but suctions built and so it i'm not sure that. the refugees will be going back to their place of origin. some breaking news out of the u.k. now and we're hearing that the brakes it secretary. has resigned from prime minister teresa mayes cabinet this coming just a few hours after megan her cabinets backing for a draft breaks it deal a draft divorce deal with the european union that is she she is now expected to take to the british parliament for prove all before taking it back to the european union but still a very complicated situation for the british prime minister despite getting this approval from her cabinets now once again we're hearing that the breck's it secretary has resigned let's bring in paul brennan who is following this story for us from london poll as we've been saying this clearly is not finished i mean theresa may is not out of the woods yet. oh no oh no i'm just
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scanning down on my phone the letter that dominic robb the bricks that secretary has sent to the prime minister in the last ten minutes his resignation letter he basically says that he cannot support the proposed deal for two reasons firstly because the regulates rearrangement proposed in northern ireland that presents a very real threat to the integrity of the united kingdom and secondly because of the indefinite back stop arrangements in which the e.u. would effectively hold a veto over our ability to exit now this is a bombshell frankly for the prime minister she thought that she got the whole cabinet on board we knew that there were several members of the cabinet who were unhappy but would go along with it and the unity of the cabinet this collective responsibility that the prime minister spoke about when she stood in downing street on wednesday night it's starting to crumble already less than twelve hours after she made that announcement she has to come here to parliament to explain the terms of the deal that the negotiators have done but the e.u. and the u.k.
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you can see it is and to have the bracks it secretary the man basically in charge of negotiating room the negotiations do this just a couple of hours before she goes to parliament frankly it really does put the cats amongst the pigeons for so one resignation so far dominic crabb the bracks said secretary what does this mean for me and her position and prime minister to do to ok to resignations now i don't know two resignations we've had a junior northern ireland minister ok he's not a member of the cabinet but but two resignations this morning as a result of the deal that to recently has come said the dominoes are starting to fall on there's no guarantee the dominic rub will be the last and so what does it mean then for theresa may can she hold onto opposition. it's well it's looking shaky i have to say there are already rumors that moves to unseat her as as the prime minister already afoot the conservative party of which she is
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the leader as well as being the prime minister of a country. has a process whereby they can remove the leader if forty eight members of parliament from the conservative party write a letter to a backbench committee called the one nine hundred twenty two committee there are rumors that those forty eight letters have already been submitted now they need to be activated via a phone call from the person who's actually written that letter that hasn't happened yes but her position is looking extremely doubtful and what was curious if we're going to move on to what donald tusk was talking about he when he spoke this morning about the fact that the deal it been done said look we'll have a summit on november the twenty fifth and that's something really extraordinary hundreds and it's entirely possible that something really extraordinary could happen here in the u.k. between now and the proposed summit date and i imagine the europeans and looking at all of this with a lot of dismay i mean come november twenty fifth they might not even be a prime prime minister to negotiate with. that is the real
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that is the a distinct possibility at this stage one of the things about bret's it is that it seems to have united almost everybody in opposition to it certainly in the form of directed that appears to be kept going through at the moment not the prime minister when she stood in down the street yesterday said that this is the best deal that we could possibly get that doesn't make it a good deal says everybody else it's his basically united opposition the scottish national party are dead set against a scotland remember voted overwhelmingly in favor of remaining within the european union the scottish conservative party is unhappy about certain measures regarding the fisheries arrangements post directed the democratic unionist party which is a northern ireland minority party upon which the prime minister relies because she only has a minority government there on the happy because of the backstop arrangements in relation to how the northern island arrangements relate to the rest of the u.k. and of course there are hardline brought to tears within the government within the
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prime minister's own conservative party who's would prefer a no deal it's all to the kind of compromise that the prime minister has arrived at with with the negotiating team so she's getting it from all sides if you're just joining us on al-jazeera some breaking news out of london where the u.k. is break said secretary dominic has resigned paul brennan following that story for us he's outside parliament in london paula just again remind our viewers who are just joining us now on the significance of this resignation and what it means for the next phase of bricks and negotiations. yeah it will what made what's significant about this is the fact that dominic robb is the breakfast secretary he's not some junior minister we have had a junior minister resigned to northern ireland has to resign this morning because of the way that the bracks a deal has been processed this is the secretary though the secretary of state he's . it's possible he won't be the only want to go the room is for
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a couple of other ministers who are unhappy with the way that. the budget deal has materialized has taken shape over the past days and weeks but the fact that dominic robb the man who is effectively in charge of pushing through brics it's an on the go see thing on behalf of the u.k. government the fact that he can't stomach the bricks it deal that the prime minister. is pushing that's big big deal and it really does on the mind the position of the prime minister here in the u.k. and that makes it very difficult for her when she stands in front of parliament in a couple of hours time trying to persuade the white house of commons the rest of the parliament the over all parliamentary members that it's a good deal thank you for that paul brennan live for us in london with debates breaking news and the resignation of the bronx it secretary dominic robb we'll continue to follow all the developments with you of course throughout the day here on al-jazeera thank you very much paul has now returned to our top story and every
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patry ation of muslim refugees from bangladesh to myanmar which was supposed to begin today as bring in mohammed john jonas following the story for us from conses in bangladesh so what is the latest as far as the repacholi nation of the refugee is when it indeed sought today as expected. willfully the last time we spoke just about an hour ago we were expecting a press conference to be held at the airport on refugee camp and all indications were that government officials were going to announce that this repatriation that was supposed to start today was going to be delayed now what ended up happening instead is that some of those officials that were present in the camp left and as they were leaving they said that they had spoken to refugees on the list at that camp who were potentially going to be repatriated that all of those refugees told them that they did not want to. go back to me and mark and because then that means
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that it was a non-voluntary return and they say that they will not force refugees to be repatriated they say those refugees will not go what they are doing now is heading to another camp just north of us called john tolly also in khaki and bizarre they are going to be speaking we are told to refugees that are on the list in that camp trying to assess if those refugees actually would like to return to to me and more now i can tell you with a fairly high degree of certainty that it would be very surprising if any of the refugees that these officials speak with say that they want to return we've spoken to numerous refugees in the past two days who say they are on those lists to possibly be repatriated they do not want to return we have spoken to you and h.c.r. officials here the past two days they say that an assessment is being made and that none of the refugees that have been spoken to the so far have said that they want to return and just a short while ago we witnessed a huge demonstration in the long refugee camp thousands of pro him coming out
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saying that they do not want to return they see here for their lives and they say that the only way they would even consider returning to iraq kind of thing is if they were guaranteed full citizenship rights freedom of movement and some degree of safety that they've never gotten before although as you say mohamed even the united nations which broken this deal is very skeptical and has reservations about returning these refugees now because it's really not clear what they will find one say return to myanmar. you're absolutely right callie this really speaks to the complexities surrounding this issue one of the problems is the fact that while the e.u. women has indeed been trying to make inroads with me and more with the government of myanmar to try to set up some kind of mechanism that would get. apologies we seem to have lost our connection there with mohammed and we will
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hopefully bring him back later on today when we reestablish that connection with him thank you very much for the moment mohammed still ahead on al-jazeera an exclusive we meet the most wanted man in what the u.n. calls the forgotten conflict in central african republic. they say is no showers now making good progress across southeast asia or in indonesia you see the big down poles coming through here hundred ninety eight millimeters of rain in twenty four hour as the heavy showers of course continue through much of malaysia and they are tending to drift away further wes with some potential all seeing some lively showers in the heat of the day that's going to be the case as we go on into friday so the positon seeing more wet weather well in
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thailand generally try bangkok at around thirty four degrees you got some wet weather into southern parts of india china over the next few days if anything the rains here will pass but the usual splash of showers right across southeast asia a little bit of wet weather to making its way into piles of australia fair but a cloud of rain across the fall north just around the top and further south you got the usual drifting of the waves across the bite down towards a southeastern corner where temperatures have fought in the way significantly well been struggling to get to around eighty degrees pushing labby getting up to thirty three chances of showers in sioux alice springs twenty eight celsius there for person temperatures bouncing off a little bit forty back to twenty three for sas day saturday down towards the southeast temperatures starting to rise. as migrants seek sanctuary on its shows the e.u.
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must choose rescue or deterrence. and immigration government has allied with the libyan coast guard in an operation often at loggerheads with n.g.o.s trying to save lives. of people in power is on board with both sides rescue at sea announces iraq. passed. welcome back our top stories on our breaking news out of the u.k. in the bronx it secretary dominic has quit saying he cannot in good conscience support the brakes it dropped to the opposition labor party now says theresa may
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has no authority left may is to take her proposal to parliament also expected to face backlash. there is confusion over a united nations range of muslims from bangladesh to myanmar the first group of around two thousand people was expected to leave the talk to refugee camps on thursday but the u.n. team and rights groups say the refugee safety must be guaranteed before they're sent back and the speaker of sri lanka spot him and says the country does not have a legitimate prime minister or cabinet these were the scenes in parliament on thursday following the announcement on it has now been suspended until friday president much of. the current political crisis by sucking. prime minister and installing my him right mind the rajapaksa when it has more from colombo. well paul is going to sit again tomorrow speaker's met with the leaders of various parties in the greek city going tomorrow quite well. we don't know what we're going to day in
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the record says his prime minister giving a speech in holland essentially trying to peel over the heads of government and try and. election including not doing this because roger punches people of a century for you and me time to become prime minister presidential three they tried to stop all of them poaching. the fifty percent parliament vote. no confidence vote they said it was a she should be accurate whatever the reasons are there now a new tactic is to go that has an appeal to the people at large in trying to get an early. hold on the streets of toronto for the time being remain calm people be watching this from the news but there isn't a great while we're on the streets for action is being telling the now in all of that. in the united states at least fifty six people have now been confirmed dead in the wildfires burning in the state of california the majority were killed in the
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town of paradise but more than one hundred people a still missing reports a new fire developed on tuesday night in southern california it's been called the sierra fire and broke out to the east of los angeles authorities say vegetation ignited and other reminder that president trump's contention that the fires could be prevented with better forest management is wrong the fires burning through california did not begin forests but in brush near development those flames are then encouraged by the effects of climate change there was some relatively good news in southern california by wednesday morning the woosley wildfire which spread to malibu on the pacific was said to be almost fifty percent contained but that still left the other fifty percent you can see the wind is still blowing we're not out of the woods yet there's a lot of open fire line out there so of course it's a great deal of anxiety to the north one hundred people are reported missing many
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of them elderly national guard troops are helping search for remains new technology means portable devices take hours and not days to identify genetic material we're going to do everything we possibly can to diligently search for those remains but this isn't a very difficult task more questions are being raised as to the cause of the fires with attention turning to local utility companies if this is their fault they need to be held accountable and they need to do more than just jack up their rates. and they need to they need to help more or they need to go and we both all are. we do something out a lawsuit has been filed in northern california accusing one utility company of not maintaining its infrastructure more are expected to be filed hi joe castro al-jazeera thirty police officers have been killed in an attack by the taliban in eastern afghanistan the district police commander was among those who died in
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wednesday night's raid on a police outpost in fire a province at least seventeen taliban fighters were killed in the tally atory as science says they're fed with large amounts of weapons and ammunition israel's far right education minister naftali bennett has threatened to withdraw his party from prime minister benjamin netanyahu coalition government unless his given the defense portfolio that's now we're now holds a one seat majority in parliament and is looking to stab allies his government after having to leave them and quit as defense missed on wednesday over the ceasefire with the palestinian factions in gaza like lieberman now tony bennett has also called for a hausherr israeli military action against palestinian. elections are likely to be triggered if he pulls his support of the support of his aides and. turkey's foreign minister says the time is right to move the investigation into the killing of saadi journalist to the international stage. told parliament his
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government is committed to solving the murder and has shown the evidence it has to all interests of audi's taking previously said it would call great in an international investigation and call for a un prole. the u.n. security council is due to vote on thursday about extending a specie peacekeeping mission in central african republic there's rarely been a moment of peace since the conflict began there five years ago and alliance of muslim rebels known as the seleka overthrew president was eases government in twenty fifteen a few months later rebel leader michel djotodia i was sworn in as interim president but he was forced to resign after fighting between the celica and christian fighters known as the antibiotic that continued the un sent a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces already there since then cease fires have been signed in violated and all sides have been accused of war crimes now one man wanted by both the un and c.r.s.
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government is the man he was once a celica rebel but is now in charge of a neighborhood known as p k five in the capital bangui and in this exclusive interview with al jazeera it sounds nicholas hockey a stay and defend its people in hiding but still in charge surrounded by young heavily armed teenage boys is. otherwise known as general force . accused of war crimes including a murder torture rape and extortion the government wants his arrest. but he's not ready to give himself up and if. he said we are nine thousand in this neighborhood ready to defend our people even to pick a fight a neighborhood because of us they are under threat from the christian militias the government forces and u.n. soldiers. in april soldiers belonging to the un stabilizing force in car backed by the central african army stormed forces hideout in an attempt to arrest him but
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despite being better equipped they were outnumbered and retreated the raid was a spectacular failure and one thousand died and hundreds were injured in the battle . don't be fooled by these bustling streets when you and soldier describe the current state the calm this work the stores there are doing no foot patrol and some of them are taking fighting positions as a preventative measure. the threat comes in forces foot soldiers fourteen year old was his house was burnt his parents killed by a christian militia group now he wants revenge waldemar let me just go even the un are afraid of me because i have a weapon it is the country that has made me this way with this i can become anything a general or even a president of this country one day. the government is calling for peace and reconciliation. but even inside the parliament politicians use guns to get their voices heard despite twelve thousand un peacekeepers central african republic is
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descending into a spiral of sectarian violence caught in the middle are children seeking justice any way they can. the guards that protect you are our children are young how do you explain that they'd be rather then be bearing arms was you more i am their boss commander and their father how do you want them to go to school us muslims are not free to move will have no hospitals we have no schools this is not safe for us force is a wanted man for the moment too powerful to be arrested into well protected by determined young men who have lost everything and have nothing to lose nicholas hawk al jazeera donkey p.k. five. cuba is withdrawing thousands of his doctors from brazil to president abbas and question their training and demanded changes to their contracts while the main thousand doctors work in poor and remote parts of brazil it has
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a story. brazil's biggest health challenge isn't chronic disease it's a chronic shortage of doctors especially in poor neighborhoods and remote rural areas. five years ago brazil began importing foreign doctors mostly from cuba but that arrangement is abruptly ending an official statement read on cuban television blamed president elect. the elected president of brazil with direct derogatory and threatening references questioned our doctors education and their presence in the more doctors program. unacceptable conditions make it impossible to maintain the presence of cuban professionals in a program. the more doctors program was started in twenty thirteen by former president dilma rousseff since then twenty thousand keeping doctors have worked in brazil including in seven hundred districts that had never had
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a resident doctor but the program is controversial human doctors are paid less than that brazilian colleagues brazil pays cuba around three thousand one hundred dollars a month through the pan american health organization pay each doctor the doctors themselves receive only about a quarter of that the rest back to the cuban government. blamed the collapse of the program on the keeping government's intransigence tweeting we condition the continuation of the program doctors on the completion of skill tests full salary payments to keep in doctors much of which now goes to the dictatorship and the possibility for doctors to reunite with their families unfortunately cuba refused. both sonora says brazil will offer asylum to cuban how. co-workers who want to stay in brazil even if some take up the offer the sudden departure of all the resilience in pool and remote areas without access to
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a joke to victoria gate and be zero. zero again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera the british government minister in charge of directed negotiations has resigned dominic rob says he cannot in good conscience support the draft deal to leave the european union the u.k.'s labor party says prime minister recently has no authority left following the minister's resignation the prime minister's you to address parliament soon and faces a backlash from other m.p.'s who opposed the divorce agreement the bangladeshi government has suspended its repatriation of ranger muslims a program was supposed to start on thursday but it had no volunteers some refugees have fled the un's camps in caucasus bazaar because they were afraid of being returned forcefully to myanmar the speaker shrank a spot him and says the country does not have a legitimate prime minister or cabinet these are the scenes in parliament on thursday following the announcement the parliament has not been suspended until
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friday president not to spot the current political crisis by sacking missing as prime minister and installing my hand the rajapaksa is or as far as education minister naftali bennett has threatened to withdraw his party from prime minister benjamin is now as coalition government unless his given the defense what foleo it's now we're now holds a one seat majority in parliament and is looking to stab allies his government after i believe him and quit his defense minutes on one say over the ceasefire in gaza like lieberman naftali bennett has also called for hausherr israeli military action against palestinian armed groups snap elections are likely to be triggered if he pulls his support. turkey's foreign minister says the time is right to move the investigation into the killing of saudi journalists to the international stage kushal glue told parliament his government is committed to solving the murder and had shown the evidence it had to all interested parties to keep previously said it
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would fall prey to an international investigation and had called for a un prole. hundreds of central american migrants travelling in a caravan have reached the us border the group of asylum seekers gathered at the wall near the mexican city of t. juana they were closely watched by several border agents who were supported by u.s. marines the u.s. defense secretary jim mattis met some of the six thousand troops president donald trump sent to the border before the midterm elections and the remains of eight small people of been found in northern california bringing the death toll to fifty six in the state's worst wildfires ever more than one hundred people are still missing as firefighters battle to contain the blaze your upset with headlines on al-jazeera coming up next year its people and power. across china millions of cameras are watching citizens every move and scoring their behavior one
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east investigates china's surveillance crackdown. on al jazeera. thousands of migrants have died trying to reach europe by crossing the mediterranean from libya many thousands more have been saved from certain death by n.g.o.s search and rescue vessels so why do you countries want to stop those ships from giving aid to troops in maritime law when the alternative is a libyan coast guard with a record of arresting shooting at those it's supposed to be hoping we've been to see to find out.
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