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al jazeera where ever you. this is al-jazeera. and iran are untainted this is down to their news on live from london coming up. saudi arabia seeks the death penalty the five suspects charged with the murder of jamal khashoggi. as the u.s. treasury announces sanctions against seventeen saudis for their alleged roles in
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the journalists claiming. i believe with every fiber of my be that the cool side of says out is the right one for our country and our people u.k. prime minister to resume a stands firm on her draft picks a deal despite a famous backlash within her own administration. by their suspend plans to repatriate britain to refugees after failing to find any volunteers some say they'd rather die than return to me and my. own poll recent doha with all your sports bron james moves up to fifth in the n.b.a.'s all time scoring list and gets michael jordan and his sights. saudi arabia is seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged with the murder
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of journalist. as the kingdom tries to contain its biggest political crisis in a generation but their announcement was almost immediately dismissed as inadequate by turkish officials and a short time later united states moved ahead with sanctions on some of the saudis involved in the case we begin our coverage with andrew symonds in istanbul. saudi arabia's prosecution spokesman announcing the death penalty is being sought for five out of twenty one male now indicted for the killing of jamal khashoggi they're not named and the account of what happened once again differs from what turkish prosecutors say they found so far. also leaders who were jedi in the war in iraq what it was a brawl fighting and injecting him with a large dose of a citizen of substance that caused his death the person who ordered this crime was arrested with another four operatives and it was a total of five the body our through his death was dismembered and transported outside the consulate building those five people took the remains out the person
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who delivered the body to the contractor was a single person a sketch of the contractor was drafted based on the description given by the person who handed over the remains the new saudi version of events repeats the assertion that it was some sort of extraction operation ordered by akhmed our sciri the former deputy intelligence chief no one higher than that there was a clear denial that crown prince mohammed bin sound man was in any way involved in the saudi prosecution say the team was tasked to bring kushal ji back to saudi arabia willingly or by force and they say the leader of the team took it upon himself to actually carry out the murder the turkish ruling party says the whole account of events is a cover up turkey's foreign minister is more diplomatic but also dismissive. yeah it's we have said before this was
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a premeditated murder and also as we know the remains of the person were kept to pieces and the prosecutor has meets in the us we already knew this but the dismemberment of the body was not a spontaneous event certain individuals and devices were brought here to this country in advance of fifteen people who came to turkey should be tried in accordance with. because according to the you know convention the two additional as epochal boy in this case even if the murder took place in the saudi consulate in istanbul the saudi foreign minister. says criticisms of his country's investigation are unfair there's a presumption of innocence until proven guilty this presumption for a strange reason has been turned upside down in this case if people don't think that we are serious about taking steps legal steps against people implicated in this matter then they should wait until the legal process plays out before rushing to judgment but. on friday there are up to significant events absentee
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funeral prayers will be held around the world because georgie and for the first time his family will receive condolences at their home in jeddah and acknowledgement of not only his death but the body will never be returned and drew simmons al-jazeera is tumble dryer shadows outside the saudi consulate in istanbul what first let's go to mike hanna with the reaction in washington at today's events so mike what more can you tell us about those latest sanctions imposed by the u.s. treasury. well the sanctions have been imposed in terms of the global magnitsky act which provides for accountability for human rights violations anywhere in the world now in terms of this act and the list of seventeen names that is now being mentioned by treasury they have all their financial press. any financial with
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things they have in the u.s. are completely frozen u.s. citizens are forbidden from doing any form of business with them now that list of seventeen names include a very close aide to the crown prince saud al qahtani as well as the consul general from in stumble of muhammad out of tabor so these names of similar or identical to the seventeen names that the saudis initially listed as being responsible for this killing certainly the state department has just had a briefing describing this as a very important first step the supposition being that they are going to be further steps to come possibly is this likely to satisfy congress or will they still want more well already there's been much rings from congress set this does not go far enough you have had several senators saying that imposing sanctions against people who are already in custody does not really fully convey the u.s.
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his displeasure now there are moves in congress for a number of sanctions against saudi arabia among them a very importantly is a call on president trump to suspend to go see a sions for a civilian nuclear agreement which has been ongoing between saudi arabia and the u.s. now this call is come from both republicans and democrats just another sign of how angry the house is about the situation and how intense it is on getting full sentients imposed not just against individuals but against saudi arabia itself. thank you very much indeed mike hanna. has followed the story for since it broke in october he joins us from outside the saudi consulate in istanbul what is that turkish response going to be to the saudi prosecutor's office his comments. well the initial remarks that have come out from turkish officials lauren have been ones of rejection and he said that whiles finally the saudis have maybe admits it's hard for the truth their comments are just that off truths they do not fully admit
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to who was responsible who or who did this assassination and they do not give details of for example what's happened to the remains of his body and therefore they are still very much anger them frustrated at the lack of transparency that they have. been given by the saudi officials now the question is what to do about that so far the turkish approach has been one of slowly releasing information slowly leaking evidences that they've been able to gather through their investigation to prove that's what the saudi narrative has been so far has been nothing short of complete lies obviously now that they've established much of those facts in the wald is very much aware of the details behind of these assassination it would appear that the next level for the turks has been considering that they've seem to fail to maybe get a stronger response as they would have liked to from western countries is to maybe
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seek some sort of international investigation as the foreign minister. spoke of in the past twenty four hours so far they say there is a need for such investigation probably that to need will turn into a direct request and they are being supported by rights groups and organizations i missed the international for example say not only should turkey seek one but it is to turkey's duty to seek one in order to ensure that justice prevails so that would most likely be the next move that the turkish authorities will be pursuing in the coming few days c'mon i shan't thank you very much indeed. well more their son joined in this year by an dress creagh who works at the defense studies department at kings college in london thanks so much for coming in so first of all just how credible is this version of events from the saudis that somehow the crown prince was not involved in the decision given that it happened right there in
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a consulate is that is that a credible the action of events you think no but i mean what is remarkable is that over the last six weeks we see an increasingly merger of these two stories in the initially we see the saudis denying everything saying we're nothing to do with it he would never came or you left and now we're at a point where saying actually he came he was he was killed and he was even dismembered was also significant is that someone exotic attorney was now somewhat incriminated in the prosecutor's statement but obviously what they're trying to do is they're trying to build a case that is somewhat detached from the crown prince himself and i think that's very problematic anybody who understands the system have been so man that has been built up over the last year and a half at least is one which is very centralized very much centralized revolving directly but around have been ceremonies a man who doesn't sleep more than five hours a night who has directly micromanagement decision making capabilities in all aspects of foreign policy and and also defense policy economic policy but definitely when it comes to something as significant as taking someone out killing
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someone who is actually a resident the united states that's something that would not happen without the knowledge of mama been some on and that has to be made clear so i mean what about this the fact that saudi arabia some be reported out that it's not first time saudi arabia be involved in a rendition. if that's if that's what it was supposed to be and it is now i think the rendition story is somewhat true it doesn't make it any better i mean to say is the defense well it's a rendition gone wrong we just wanted to kill him and make him disappear is not really something that will go down well with western policymakers and journalists but i think this is what was actually intended as they wanted to get him and take him back home what they would have done to him in saudi arabia is a completely different story we have two particular cases of princes. disappeared over the last six years one is to sort of time been turkey who was the bastard to switzerland who was at that time was a prince who was intoxicated in the embassy was flown on a metal work plane unconscious metalwork plane to saudi arabia disappeared nobody's ever heard from him since another story we have is of tookie been been bunder who
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was somewhat of a dissident who went into self-imposed exile in paris and they kind of tried to lure him back and kidnapped him he also disappeared so we are there is a somewhat of a long list of stories and there are a lot of other princes who live overseas who have been somewhat dissidents also living under fear and pressure not fearing every step they're taking outside the door that possibly something could happen to them so that we have that story we have this history of saudi arabia doing this and i think in this case it seemed that they wanted to intoxicate him and prosody also do the same thing that they did to so turned into a key putting him on a medivac flight under the there's somewhat the coverage of diplomatic immunity and flying to saudi arabia make him disappear so i mean the saudis adding clearly having to draw a line under this whole affair with these arrests and then announcing now is going to the death penalty for some of those involved will what they've announced now be enough to take the heat off the saudi leadership the heat from where is the question so i mean if we look at the media coverage the media coverage has been
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intense are somewhat unprecedented on saudi arabia. and we've seen in the last force for five weeks this is somewhat died down there's still a lot of coverage particular night it states but i think that's not really significant what is significant is what our policymakers in the west going to do with that information how are they going to react so there is a tape i know people who have listened to the tape and you know it seems to be authentic the turks have released this to a couple of decision makers in the west that they deemed to be allies so despite all this evidence that there and there is still a significant gap between the version of truth that the saudis are telling and the truth that comes out of this tape despite all this. it seems like nobody wants to get my heart and soul man somewhat on the you know if you were removed the whole system would break down so that's the big fear in the west and i think the truck ministration is key i think the trauma instruction is the one that would probably want to find a way to basically take the heat of him and say look they're doing what they were told to do they're holding people accountable and let's move forward and so on that
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is that i mean how much difference will those u.s. sanctions make they've picked up the seventeen people sanctions is that going to be the end of it you think if indeed this is asian is to to leave had been some analysts a trial and error here i mean the u.s. administration is trying to find a way to take the heat off congress said some congressmen bipartisan said today that's not going to be enough what we will not see is mama been summoned been indicted but we were not seized more have been some on being removed so the next step in terms of sanctions is to sanction saudi arabia as a country rather than seventeen individuals and that might be the next step forward when we're looking at arms deals and also the civilian nuclear deal that was supposed to be signed so that could be a next step for the drum in his direction but i don't think at this point this is what trump wants to do because after all the entire u.s. strategy in the middle east is build around the kingdom of saudi arabia is not going to be they don't want to remove saudi arabia or weaken saudi arabia any further i mean you know you mention the trump angle we had people like jeremy hunt the u.k. foreign secretary going there and what do we think that he said was just going to
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quiet chat don't do this again chaps or what was the kind of the messaging coming from the u.k. the u.k. is similar i mean the u.k. has opposed brix it i mean we were you know in this kind of state of uncertainty the united kingdom needs kind of allies or all of the world outside of europe and saudi arabia is very much an ally particularly in the as a means to make money and i think britain can do without the potential of billions of dollars of arms deals and they again are maneuvering around trying to find a way out of this crisis to sell it tell the public say look action has been taken saudi arabia let's move on because after all we need saudi arabia and discreet thank you very much for coming to thank you you thank. coming up on this news hour from london. the saudi led coalition orders a pause in fighting around yemen's port city of the data as the u.n. warns it could cause a humanitarian disaster. critical chaos in sri lanka as the constitutional crisis brings politicians to blows on the suspension of parliament. and sport austria's
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dominant team gives itself a chance to reach the semifinals of the a.t.p. world tour finals and number four will be here with details. to reason may is standing firm as politicians from her conservative party want to bid to remove her as british prime minister it's in response to her draft divorce deal to withdraw britain from the european union breaks that hardliners say the deal makes too many concessions to the e.u. and violates sovereignty by treaty northern ireland differently from the rest of the u.k. joined a whole report. a prime minister in battled on multiple fronts but one determined to keep fighting i believe with every fiber of my being that the course i have set out is the right one for our country and all our people by the media she was asked if she was in denial about the chances of her breaks
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a deal success you're in office but not in power said one journalist if there is a leadership contest will you contest it asked another swing and there was little support to be found in parliament broken promises failed to go see asians and abject capitulation to the e.u. it is therefore mathematically impossible to get this deal through the house of commons the choice is like clear we stand up for the united kingdom the whole of the united kingdom the integrity of the united kingdom or we vote for our vassal state with the breakup of the united are your right to try to reason may says she's doing her job and she believes she's doing the right thing for the country draft brags a deal she insists protects jobs and gives the nation back control of its north of its money and of its borders the alternative she warned leaving the e.u. with no deal is a part of deep and grave uncertainty but among those who resigned on thursday
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including two cabinet ministers and those who oppose the prime minister and her deal on the right of the conservative party there may soon be sufficient numbers to launch a leadership contest. will go in but i'm not tired from what we as a leader. of the european union it is impossible to divide up the united kingdom it is impossible to agree to a situation where we have a perpetual customs union it is impossible to pay thirty nine billion pounds of taxpayers' money for a few promises for now to resume a carries on and her briggs's deal in theory at least moves to brussels next week for the approval of e.u. leaders like its survival though and indeed hers are not assured. and you know how joins us now from london so what chance of the deal being approved by parliament well it's got to get through the
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e.u. first that will happen next sunday if all goes according to plan and broadly speaking that is likely to happen then it comes to parliament where the reason may the government will need three hundred twenty votes to get it through parliament now the conservative party along with the d u p the democratic unionist to prop up her government can deliver those votes if everyone votes for it which of course they are most unlikely to do they'll need help from labor party m.p.'s willing to cross the bench this deal being exposed to parliament and all the division around it has really thrown up just how divided people are in the house of commons not just party from party but on both sides of the argument over to reason may's vision those who want a clean break from the e.u. well they don't get that in fact on paper there's still a rather cozy relationship with the e.u. those who wanted to remain full members they don't get that but they see
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a surrender of sovereignty britain playing by the e.u.'s rules but having no say in how they're made to resume i was asked in that press conference are you in denial prime minister about the chances of this deal getting through parliament she said look i'm doing my job to the best of my ability and in the interests of this country it will be for the m.p.'s to essentially examine their consciences and do then is when they see that this deal is the only deal on offer that meets the interests of the british people she thinks it'll go through it may well be wishful thinking and what's the latest on the possible leadership challenge. well this is another numbers game there's an arcane mechanism within the conservative party by which a certain number fifteen percent of m.p.'s must send letters to the backbench committee chairman in this case forty eight m.p.'s will do it as soon as he receives forty eight letters that leadership challenge or no could a confidence vote is triggered we know that more letters have gone in because some in peace have said so. today on thursday we have no idea how many but the moment
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that number is reached such an event takes place they're taking quite a calculated gamble in doing this because there is no guarantee that there are enough conservative party m.p.'s who want to see to resume a gone they may not like her deal but they don't necessarily like the other personalities on offer if she survives it of course she gets twelve months of immunity no more threat of a challenge but if she loses then there is the prospect of another more ideologically driven pro briggs's conservative party m.p. taking the reins as prime minister that would put paid to this deal altogether and really see the prospect of no deal looming interview. thank you very much involved . bangladesh has suspended plans to start repatriating more than seven hundred thousand refugees to me in march officials say they were unable to find anyone who was willing to go on thursday thousands of rangers protested in refugee camps in
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bangladesh over the deal citing safety fears many also complained that they'd been put on the transfer list despite their opposition to returning here's what some of the refugees told al-jazeera about their fears before bangladesh's announcement was under learned. 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 we'd think twice and before we go back to me and if it looks like they will try to move us my children and i'll buy poison from the market here and we'll drink it i don't love that we don't want to go back to myanmar because the camps they would put us in and there are worse than the camps we are in here if we go there we won't be able to prey on our children won't be able to go to school. as the latest
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from tony refugee camp in cox is bizarre. it looks as though this is simply a temporary suspension because we've heard some somewhat contradictory statements coming from different quarters of the government here on the one hand you have an official announcement that has finally been made after hours of waiting to day confirming what we thought was going to happen all along which is that this repatriation plan which was supposed to begin today with was supposed to see as many as four hundred eighty five families returning to me and mark that that has been delayed but at the same time we are being told that any romans or refugee who wants to return voluntarily can do so there are officials with the rohingya relief and repatriation commission that are saying that in essence a mechanism has now been set up by which the user refugees who would like to return
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to me and more can do so we don't yet know what form that has taken and what steps refugees would have to take in order to do that what i can tell you though is that every hinge refugee we ask you days who has told us that they are on that list to potentially be repatriated they have said that they do not want to return that they are afraid for their safety that their citizenship rights aren't guaranteed and that they would not even consider going back until they thought that they could actually live back in the end more in some form of peace and security. association of southeast asian nations has again failed to criticize me on our progress is committed to go hence the range of minority has a policy of noninterference in each other's internal affairs has come under increased pressure because of the crisis when hail reports from singapore. leader aung san suu kyi has at times appeared
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a full on figure in singapore atrocities committed by the me and my military against the rigging the has been one of the main talking points during two days of meetings between leaders from asia and beyond but at the end of the association of southeast asian nations summit another week statement was issued calling for accountability but offering general support to the me and my government. malaysia's prime minister has been the most vocal critic of me and is unlikely to have been satisfied with the final statement. issued. by the problem it wasn't just the crisis creating tension at the summit it was also trade and instead of me being isolated it was the united states president donald trump didn't come to singapore but his america first policy and the u.s. trade dispute with china overshadowed the summit with the u.s. in a battle with china for influence in asia it was left to mike pence to try to reassure
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regional leaders we said very early on that america first doesn't mean america along the united states is also a vocal critic of china's actions in the south china sea where the chinese are involved in territorial disputes with several countries including the philippines the us navy patrols the area as part of its push for freedom of navigation to be maintained at the philippines president believes that's dangerous so. it's. a. strong. response from. other claimants to the rich resources in the south china sea such as vietnam disagree and welcome u.s. military support whether it's trade or territorial disputes southeast asia is the potential flashpoint between the americans and an expanding chinese presence wayne
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hay al jazeera singapore. much more to come on the program including in the grounds of a ruined jungle palace outers are against exclusive access as most russians train the next generation of central african republic troops. thousands of sudanese refugees head home more than fifteen years after war broke out in darfur. and it's a night to forget in the n.h.l. the defending champions over here with that story in sport. hello there has been a fair amount of snow for some of us in europe recently mostly out of this area of clouds here and this is what it covered looks like in kiev you can see quite a bit of snow has landed there and i think they'll be a little bit more as we head through the next few days there has that wintery
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weather then out of this system here this still pushing further southwards and so more of us will see that rather cool air the temperatures in bucharest will be dropping say five degrees as a maximum on friday and then down to just three as we head into saturday and then on saturday for many of us across europe the should be a good deal a fine draw a weather with temperatures this low that we can expect a fair amount of mist and fog towards the west more in the way of clouds just rolling its way into parts of spain and portugal some strong winds as well so things here will turn pretty wet and windy during the day now for the northern parts of africa we've got a few areas of showery weather around one that stretching in through parts of southern italy that's also affecting us in tunisia and the other one that's hit over parts of morocco and all of that is edging its way eastwards already picking up as well so for some of us now geria and into nitze on saturday is going to be rather gray and at times a little bit wet as well for a bat's will see the clouds gradually begin to stay they can up but i don't think
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we're going to see any what weather on saturday. there's nowhere to hide isn't the easiest way to solve this to allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish the job i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy. do you think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation. to end this case it was betrayed told only up from its own. fresh perspective. possibilities. in this. debates in discussions how can you trust them how can we work again with a man like she seems to be saying it affects all of us and we just don't know or care enough. winning programs take you on
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a journey around the. only. one of the top stories. saudi arabia is seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged with the murder of journalist. riyadh insists crown prince mohammed bin had no knowledge of the operation. u.s. treasury has imposed sanctions against seventeen saudis for their role in the murder bomb a top aide to the crown prince. and saudi consul general. are among those targeted . to resume a stands firm as politicians from the conservative party launch
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a bit to remove her as british prime minister in response to her draft agreement hardliners say the. makes too many concessions to the e.u. and violates u.k. sovereignty. the saudi led coalition has ordered a pause in the offensive against the rebels and yemen's main port city of data but the iran backed rebels have denied that hostilities are vended saying airstrikes in a duran the city are continuing u.n. has warned of a humanitarian catastrophe if the port sustains heavy damage as it's the main entry point for the majority of food and aid into yemen western allies including the united states are pushing for a cease fire ahead of another round of un led talks to end the conflict from another has more from. the clock just happened in the suburbs off to help solve what they were about a few kilometers away from that portable said to be a whole few offensive on the positions of pro-government fighters who have been
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receiving reinforcements overnight in these shelters of forty eight hour lull in the fighting in the polls most of bottles you saw in the past twelve days and people have been given a rest for about forty eight hours before these recent clashes and this happens there are talks of peace talks resuming this is in the so the coalition has confirmed that they have told their allies in yemen to stop targeting all the positions on the fighting and as we go forward in the preparations of these talks will see more clashes like least. of both sides there to try to take more territory and come to the talks on a position of strength chaos has broken out in sri lanka's parliament after the speaker declared the country has no functioning prime minister all cabinet insults and objects were thrown around the house deepening the political crisis the
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recently appointed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa is not calling for a general election bennett smith reports from colombo. the battle for control of sri lanka has turned visited a little been thrown at the speaker of parliament along with many insults. karo jayasuriya provoked the fury of some m.p.'s by saying sri lanka has no prime minister or cabinet following wednesday's vote of no confidence in mahinda rajapaksa on thursday former president appointed three weeks ago defied the speaker by giving a speech anyway. is it time to easily assume office after bypassing polman to being sworn in by his successor president my three policy resign or is failing so there's a new tactic. he won the election general election two years before one is june as soon as it was built we had to go about election or something like that i
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was going to have a lot i mean is the best way to sort all of this out just to have an election yes definitely there's going either way the man the president fired says he's still prime minister he's in charge of running away from a single supporters say it's time to take to the streets we are organizing mass protest and people's movement against these undemocratic unconstitutional and illegal missions by president might be by the c.d.c. and the puppet prime minister either with the speaker losing control of parliament and government paralyzed some civil servants are privately saying they don't know who's in charge and who can sign off on deals and projects always political instability is hitting your line because economy there are more than four billion u.s. dollars in foreign loans due to be repaid next year the shoreline because rupee if it is lowest level ever against the dollar as investors withdraw foreign exchange
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burnitz made on his era and trying because parliament. the german chancellor angela merkel will visit the eastern city of kenneth's on friday was sure violent far right protest in august after the killing of a local man two migrants who were blamed for his death john mccain went to gauge the atmosphere in the city as far right parties and groups continued to gain prominence. this city was once called karl marx start but on a sunny autumn day for most chemists as communism is a fading memory many people's minds are on the looming christmas market season not angle americal or mass migration and yet those two themes are what many associate with this city when the chancellor comes here on friday the memory of violent scenes will be vivid with their reaction to the fatal stabbing of a man during an altercation with two migrants at the end of august here is where thousands of far right supporters gathered to proclaim their slogan medical must
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vec medical must go soon they'll have their wish after she announced she won't run again for chancellor for reelection as party leader i asked a local analyst what merkel hopes to achieve by coming to chemists will not be. the firing range that people are starting as of a policy making it is meant to show presence. patient with people who perhaps they're not like me people such as irma he has long been a supporter of the far right in germany and since last year a member of the federal parliament despite being investigated for what he called an inadvertent use of an old nazi slogan injuring the general election campaign. even with her departure if she goes that nothing will really change there needs to be a fundamental change in this country and we are ready to take the responsibility to bring about that change. and yet many people in germany consider the air fifty to
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be repellent supporters of the mainstream parties believe it has an ulterior anti democratic motive. some analysts believe the far right is prospering here because many east german still feel dislocated by capitalism unsure if their jobs are safe long term and looking for someone. to blame everything gets more insecure and the authority. that you lived on or before and that you took part in is gone all of a sudden. this causes a lot of anger and resentment this city has a social democrat mayor this state has a christian democrat prime minister and yet when the chancellor comes through his form a far left city should face fierce far right opposition dominic cain al-jazeera chemist's u.s. president donald trump will travel to california on saturday to meet victims of the wildfires that have killed at least fifty nine people it comes as firefighters are
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battling a new blaze in ventura county forty kilometers northwest of the was the fire that devastated malibu and the surrounding areas further north rescuers are searching for one hundred thirty people still missing in and around the city of paradise which was almost totally burned to the ground. cuba is with joy of thousands of its world renowned doctors from brazil to president elect john abell sonora question their training and demanded changes to their contracts with an eight thousand cuban doctors work in poor and remote parts of brazil communities which may now be left without access to health care rhetorical reports. 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
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that arrangement is the broccoli and become 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 keep in doctors have worked in brazil including in seven hundred districts that had never had a resident doctor but the program is controversial he even doctors are paid less than that brazilian colleagues brazil paid 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 both blamed the collapse of
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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 health care workers who want to stay in brazil even if some take up the offer the sudden departure of other brazilians and pull and remote areas without access to a doctor a big tour a gate and be out there. was a years since an argentine navy submarine with forty four crewmembers on board went missing in the south atlantic ocean and air and sea search of overing thirteen countries turned up nothing ceremonies are being held to one of the sailors but relatives of those who died are protesting demanding the government provide answers
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. fifteen years after being forced to flee the conflict in darfur some three hundred thousand sudanese refugees are returning home the sudanese government says they're coming back because security has improved but aid agencies are blaming food shortages in chad's refugee camps even morgan has met some of the returning refugees in west awful when it's the first harvest. since he returned to his farm five months ago he left fourteen years ago to escape the darfur conflict in western sudan but he says life in refugee camps in chad became unbearable again and there they died my wife is a refugee in chad was hard there wasn't enough food and there wasn't enough water there was no way to earn a living we couldn't bear it so we came back to our studies abdulrahim is one of nearly three hundred thousand refugees who have returned from chad in the past three years the were started in two thousand and three when ethnic tribes in darfur accused the sudanese government of marginalizing them the united nations estimates
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more than three hundred thousand people have been killed and three million displaced for those now returning home things are not the same. in the niger. the farms have been destroyed by cattle we have farms where the cattle eat everything we plant and nothing is being done.

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