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trade practices so this is something that has to be overcome it's not clear whether or not this afternoon meeting with president xi will be donald trump will be able to accomplish it all right thank you very much can really help it in one desire as well also we have to raise a at the summit center in buenos aires for us and we were just hearing committee there speaking about meeting between china and the u.s. we know that trade has been a crucial issue at this summit particularly in the wake of protectionist measures that have been taken we understand there has been some consensus on reform of the world trade organization what are you hearing about that. well most definitely and first let me explain you this is the conclusion of a year long process were representative of different countries of the members of the g twenty met during a full year to try to agree on sort of turned terms and certain issues well at this point there's still lots of debate about crucial issues like the world trade
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organizations and climate change we do know however that a final communique six-pack to that the world trade that includes a reform of the world trade organization business been a demand by the united states who says that the world trade organization has failed to hold raging accountable for what they say are unfair trade practices but the other major issue is climate change and that's a big issue because donald trump is very quite skeptical about the existence of global warming and we do know that they're being extremely kerfoot on wording they do not want for example the paris climate accords mentioned in this however european members of the european union's are saying that the agreement is not going to back track so this is a very very important what we're being told is that this year this summit has been much more challenging than previous year because there was a lot of focus for example on trying to prevent donald trump for giving like thumb it like it happened in the past but also because of the. and of other issues that
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happened during this summer's the trade war between the united states and china tensions between the united states and russia between russia and ukraine amongst the presence of mohammed bin salamander and the killing of. many many different issues were a big big challenge for this summit and what many are wondering is whether the rise of nationalism in different countries poses a major threat for an organization that it raises the question of whether it is capable of dealing with attentions and your live geopolitical problems that exist today. thank you very much will the latest from one is ours to raise about there the g. twenty summit. now german chancellor angela merkel and let him a present of also been meeting on the sidelines of the g twenty four way talks with the leaders of france and ukraine on the current flare up of tension around crimea while sco has released pictures of its s. four hundred ad defense system being deployed on the peninsula crimea was an
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expired russia in two thousand and fourteen last week russia captured three ukrainian ships and twenty four crew members in the neighboring city of oz of its prompted kiev to introduce martial law and ban russian men from entering the country. you and al jazeera live from london more silat for you academic freedom threatened as hungary's government becomes the first year in country to force the closure of a university since the second well born. and reports in the us media suggest that the saudi crown prince is directly linked to the latter john mr mock changi. out of the been a few small showers just recently as you even pickable on the satellite because the little white tops a running into this far west of china i think they'll increase the still in the
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same line that run ups runs up the northeast through have keeping shanghaied dry he's still not particularly co was still talking about the teens from one back toward sichuan and then hong kong enjoy about twenty seven yellowish humidity as well as nice time the year likewise apart from the stubborn terror around the valley from new delhi sarce woods with a few quiet ish weather across india a few showers arrived they should be concentrating in the south but even here in the forecasts are very few of them so it's a dry time but the grey cloud always hints at an occasional light showers but i wouldn't put too much on to that likewise in the arabian peninsula there's a an old trough the broad sun still means to north and sadie is on its way south and for sunday could well be a cloudy picture as it was a risk for shower to in bahrain east and south even the empty quarter or counter from that is gone by monday lightish north of the breeze here high twenty's high thirty's on the west side of saturday night in fact most of the rain is still falling in iraq and iran but by sunday it's gone far from occasional showers.
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they said what do you think of waterboarding i said i think we absolutely need it we should have it out of the tack which of the worst people in power investigates the private companies in rural us towns allegedly complicit in the illegal use of torture under interrogation the sun will rise once a day and then sets not a few are in the hands of the cia who can make the sun shine or not rendition movies or to cock one on out is iraq.
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just put look at top stories for you now sixty five people have been injured and dozens of cars set on fire during protests against the high cost of living that is taking place in france is capital paris the demonstrations have been led by the so-called yellow vests movement which sprang up online in response to a spike in fuel prices. u.s. president will drop his council of prime press conference ahead of leaving the g twenty summit in argentina while he praised his great success in dealings with various countries he also said that he would be delaying any announcements and till wednesday's funeral for former president george bush sr. and the german chancellor angela merkel has held talks with russian president vladimir putin on rising tensions with ukraine the leaders agreed to four way talks with france and ukraine on the current flare up around crimea. now the wall street journal says the saudi
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crown prince sent eleven messages to his closest adviser in the hours before and after. the newspaper says it seen excerpts of the highly classified cia assessment including alleged comments from the crown prince that seem to foreshadow the operation will have been some months top aides tommy oversaw the team which killed . u.s. president donald trump says there's no direct evidence linking the crown prince to the jonas killing. now it's the thirtieth year of world aids day which commemorates the more than thirty five million people killed in a global epidemic since the early one nine hundred eighty s. some of the west affected countries are in eastern and southern africa where almost twenty million people are living with hiv but many countries are taking action with better treatment and education namibia has reduced its cases of new h.i.v. infections by fifty percent over the past three is as for timi has forty four percent less new hiv infections south africa's hiv infection rate has also gone
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down by forty four percent and botswana is doing more testing which has led to a thirty percent reduction there in new hiv infections in the past two and a half years well for me to miller reports now from cape town on how the government plans to tackle the epidemic. on the fiftieth anniversary of world aids day this small church to raise awareness of the disease while people here are celebrating a decline in new infections they say it's not enough government statistics show that about seven point five million south africans living with hiv that's one of the highest rates in the world everyone should be able to know there's a bus it's their health including bags. in the last year more than one million people in cape town have tested for hiv that's the highest level of testing ever for the city in that period of government is working to mean that by winning the
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eighty ninety percent of south africans living with a side note that states and are receiving statements but it also wants to see it haven't done so in the way that it would like that among young women who want that . while the number of young women with hiv has declined by twenty six percent compared to men women are three times more likely to be infected the government is rolling out a treatment called pre-exposure prophylaxis crypt to help curb the spread of hiv it's a way for people who don't have the disease but who are at substantial risk of getting it to prevent infection by taking a cold every day the small ball unit makes trips twice a week to the denuded suburb of cape town to give up the medication staff see about twenty people a week while she has been negative this patient does not want to be identified
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because she's afraid of being stigmatized. to them was this i have to pour friends i have sex with i used condoms but with one not with the other so i want to keep myself safe. the united nations says young women between the ages of fifteen and twenty four account for nearly two thirds of new infections young women are particularly vulnerable for each of infection for several reasons one is just physiologic. the cervix is not fully mature and it's more prone to each of the infection at a younger age but also because of age disparate relationship so young women having sex with older men and not being empowered to make safe decisions caped on plans to roll out hiv self screening soon which the city says will expand easy access to testing this is part of a new initiative to maintain the awareness of a disease that continues to ravage countries like south africa for me al jazeera
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cape town. doctors about borders says one hundred twenty five women and girls were raped and beaten as they made their way to a food distribution center in bennett your south sudan the charity says there's been a dramatic increase in sexual violence in the country which remains locked in civil war according to the u.n. the attacks were carried out by young men in military uniforms and in civilian clothing. hungary's top university says it's being forced to shut down after the deadline for the government to sign off on its permission to operate past midnight critics say the government's refusal to license the universe in a pest that's owned by an american billionaire is part of efforts to silence dissent journal our ports now from the hungary capital central europe was not colonized by for close to thirty years the central european university in budapest has dispensed world class degrees to students from more than one hundred countries
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but it's days in hungary are numbered. the hungaroring government started and all i was campaigning against liberal intellectuals in fact intellectuals of the far of any stripe. and has been limiting economic freedom in state owned and state run universities for a long time see you as a private institution of the government's refusal to renew its legal certification means courses are moving to vienna but first by way of a protest campus outside parliament this is the court it's not quite the hungary an uprising all over again but they want people to know that their government is threatening to close a university on european soil for the first time since world war two once this becomes for miscible here it becomes permissible anywhere anywhere in europe anywhere in the west that it would be a catastrophe for hungary and i just don't see what sort of a government would destroy that provides it's a true threat to them suppose they don't want independent thought they don't want
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the use of hungary to be able to assess critically their propaganda so here is a grand european democracy and academic freedom side by side of course in political science would teach that they are mutually dependent on one another but here in hungary they're in mutual decline. the battle to save c.e.u. looks likely to be lost to vegas defeat for hungary's beleaguered liberal forces a pro. as to prime minister viktor orban and his populist nationalist policies or ban has targeted not just free thought and speech but also immigration and foreign n.g.o.s his most recent election campaign was fronted by posters of hungary and born billionaire george soros with claims that soros plans to flood europe with illegal migrants and refugees the sea was founded and is funded by george soros and one of its alumni is government spokesman zoltan kovacs why i now choose to go
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after this institution that source found and nobody is going after one particular institution as i mentioned to you the higher educational or is that we could do to all universities and institutions operating under but this university is going to find it difficult to function in the future is it probably for the reason that it was privileged and you way that privilege is not going for any other university or higher education institution in this country if not the last nail in the coffin certainly one of many don't know how to zero budapest now former u.s. president george h.w. bush has died at home in texas at the age of ninety four bush sr tenure was defined by the end of the cold war and the beginning of a new war in the gulf party culhane looks back at his life. five months ago started this cruel war against kuwait tonight
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a battle has been joined with those words u.s. president george herbert walker bush staked a place in history his successful campaign to drive saddam hussein from kuwait was the one term president's most significant accomplishment the son of a wealthy republican u.s. senator bush served in the second world war and was elected to two terms in the u.s. congress in the one nine hundred sixty s. president richard nixon became bush's mentor appointing him in bassett or to the united nations in one nine hundred seventy i shall resign the presidency of nixon resigned in disgrace but bush a savvy political survivor became head of the cia in one thousand nine hundred eighty six after eight years as ronald reagan's vice president bush entered the white house in one nine hundred eighty nine after a savagely negative campaign less than a year after taking office bush sent troops to invade panama to overthrow manwell noriega a corrupt military ruler who had turned against the us sat him was worn over and
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over again the defining moment of bush's presidency came in august of one nine hundred ninety when iraqi tanks rolled into kuwait he ordered a massive military buildup consulted with allies and worked closely with the united nations. american forces flooded into saudi arabia and established bases a development that later was cited by osama bin laden to justify attacks against the us. once underway the war did not last long iraqi forces fled kuwait in a panic to retreat but bush refused to order an advance toward baghdad opting not to topple saddam. in the aftermath of the war bush's popularity quickly began to fade one pledged change to define and haunt his reelection read my lips was that pledge broken and his chances hurt by a viable third party candidate he was defeated by bill clinton in one thousand nine
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hundred two. but before leaving office bush ordered one last military adventure invading somalia to end a famine that.

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