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technology transfer now one analyst i spoke to said that you know any outcome that involves a pause that leads to more talking will be interpreted as a victory for president xi jinping certainly the tone in china's official media is that this is very much a diplomatic victory for president xi and some media reports making the point that it was indeed president donald trump who invited xi jinping to the dinner in one of saris the suggestion there being that of course president from want to distin a much more than president xi jinping we've been seeing a bit of financial reaction here on monday the chinese currency is up significantly against the u.s. dollar it has been suffering big drops during the past few months and also the main shanghai index was up more than two percent on monday morning also the hang seng index in hong kong has also recovered so the stock markets here in china and indeed
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in the rest of the asia pacific region seem encouraged by the outcome of these talks even though as of now we still have precious few details on what was actually agreed adrian brown in beijing thanks for that adrian israeli police say they have enough evidence to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife on bribery charges they're accused of fraud and breach of trust in dealings with israel's largest telecoms operator netanyahu denies any wrongdoing police have already recommended charging netanyahu over allegations he accepted gifts from billionaire friends is accused of offering to promote new laws to benefit them in exchange for positive media coverage. weather up next but still ahead on al-jazeera french president. talks with protests. violent demonstrations. discrimination discrimination and genocide. a story of
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survival. with refugee children. had i was about two or three days between bites of right in the levant moment was we got nothing much happening in iran apart from the showers it looked likely in the caspian sea we have got incoming from the eastern med the next developing system so cloud first of all probably nothing more than that stretching from northern saudis through iraq and up towards to run temperatures in the low twenty's if you're lucky and then the rain comes in so it'll probably rain on tuesday from lebanon right up through syria and sudden to the sheraton is fast and as you know in saudi east the sun is still it's quite was limited and he should be quieter the
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arabian peninsula is where it certainly looks as it will be the full cost yet again brings the grain this in and shot to seems quite likely from medina knows what'll be sunstone and they stretch of into jordan south of that those quite warm actually twenty eight there has pretty good figures same is true of abu dhabi that we have seen significant rain recently in madagascar one or two potentially heavy showers have been threatening in zimbabwe and this rain just scraping through the western cape through cape town itself and nothing much to it it's still quite warm in in botswana up to thirty six once again in the capital bass fish i was right to say there are still a rarity. over one hundred years ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw in the second episode we explore the new phase of this agreement that there is
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a regional center to sikes because it's at those borders were drawn with consulting the people who have to live with the. song speak. in the sun. welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour the saudi u.a.e. coalition and yemen has confounded will allow fifty injured three key fighters to be evacuated on monday for treatment and i months capital muscat un envoy martin griffiths requested the arrangement as a goodwill gesture for peace talks and sweet and that's not. an exchange of
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electronic messages appears to show the extent of jamal khashoggi his fear about saudi crown prince mohammed bin. c.n.n. gained access to more than four hundred watts up texts by the saudi journalist and activist omar abdel aziz planned an online movement that would hold the saudi state to account. u.s. president donald trump says china has agreed to reduce tariffs on american cars he made the announcement on twitter two days after meeting china's president xi jinping and went as aries the two leaders agreed to a ninety day hold on the escalating trade war. the world bank says it's doubling its funding for poorer countries to deal with climate change to two hundred billion dollars the announcement comes as leaders gather in poland for un talks aimed at tackling global warming delegates from nearly two hundred nations have two weeks to agree on details of the twenty fifteen
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paris climate accord presidents of previous summits issued a joint statement calling for immediate decisive action as the crucial climate talks proceed in poland most scientists now agree that we've entered a new segment of geological time the anthropocene where human impact is the most significant force in nature in the way greenhouse gases urban sprawl consumerism and technology are altering the planet just as big glasses or meets your strikes have done but when did this manmade change begin well as daniel like now reports the answer may lie beneath a small body of water just outside toronto. protected by strict conservation laws crawford lake is relatively pristine it's deep low in oxygen waters produce sediments that can be accurately dated year by year like the rings of a tree these scientists are gathering and freezing centuries old layers of mud and
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material to try to find out when the anthropocene began this is an annual natural archive of all of the impact on the lake so it preserves chemical biological physical things on an annual basis on a reliable annual basis this is the mouth part of a fly back at the lab professor mccarthy examines mud layers looking for fossilized plants and animals other researchers find radioactivity from nuclear bomb tests six decades ago plastic particles and other changes that can only have been introduced by humans the work that's going on here at crawford lake is more than just science it's also about focusing the minds of governments policymakers and the public on how to curb some of the things we're doing to this planet. earth scientists who specialize in dating geological time are watching closely and finding compelling proof that we are in the early years of the anthropocene what's important here all
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the critical feedback mechanisms that kick in the earth really operating as a system and saying that's it i can't cope with this anymore and then that is it then starts to respond. at this toronto art gallery the evidence of human impact on display is in startling imagery of mining farming industry and urbanization it's art aimed at forcing us to think about how much impact we've already had through pollution climate change and population growth i think the artists ultimately want us to think about how we've built what we've built and how we can build something different how we can build perhaps perhaps solve the problem or change mitigate some of the impacts we've had it'll be at least two years before a final decision on the start of the anthropocene and this small body of water near canada's largest city will a played a crucial part in determining the march of geological time and what might be done
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about human impact on the planet daniel lak al jazeera crawford lake near toronto well ban-ki moon is the former secretary general of the united nations and is now the co-chair of the global commission on adaptation he told al jazeera it's more important than ever before to try to deal with the effects of climate change. i urge that we need to do much much more much more and faster in implementing this this is already three years we do not have time the climate change is happening much much faster than one may expect the most recent report by i.p.c.c. intergovernmental panel on climate change has made it clear that we must make sure that the global temperature rise she did contain the below one point five degrees celsius this is a very important announcement which we have to do i sincerely hope that
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a cut twenty four in cutler ridge pole and i will make much much more detailed action oriented programs we have already a wasted three years and with all this of some countries like the united states be drawing from paris climate agreement it has given lot of damages to our critical real but at the same time i am very much encouraged that the values of what some other countries are skeptical about this we are moving on particularly in the united states even there is a ground australian support from the mayor and sent governors and businesses societies and also civil societies there is no way this is unstoppable we have to move on for our succeeding generation and thousands of people have marched in brussels calling for governments around the wild to do more to tackle
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climate change the rally past european commission headquarters and belgian prime minister charles michel called it a phonetic both excess and its promise to defend ambitious climate target. french president has ordered his prime minister to hold talks with political leaders and yellow vests demonstrators this comes after more than one hundred people were injured in violent clashes over rising fuel taxes at the weekend david chase has more from paris. as soon as his plane touched down twenty summit in argentina present a manual went directly to inspect the damage at the op to trail after which he walked over to greet police and firefighters who were on the front line of the writing for so many hours on the because shouted macro resigned the. ripples well the problem is michael loves the poor fool the buses the bankers he
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loves the rich people. come and talk to the people stopped talking about the violence and said with tears then it was to lease a palace for an emergency cabinet session on the crisis a spokesman said reintroducing the state of emergency from earlier this year was not discussed the president called on his prime minister edward felipe to invite party members in parliament and representatives of the demonstrators for talks. the real damage was caused by what's being described by police as a handful of extremists determined to confront them and cause as much trouble as they could the yellow vests rebellion is of course not just confined to the streets of paris one hundred thirty six thousand demonstrators turned out across the whole of france and there was a third of the tower to see early on sunday morning outside the southern city of of when a white van drove into the back of a heavy goods vehicle that was blocked at a yellow vests roadblock it was then hit by another car coming up behind it the
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revolt against president macro's policies and proposed fuel tax rises is not going away polls show protests as have the support of more than seventy percent of the french people support for the president is languishing below thirty percent david chaytor al-jazeera paris ukraine has accused russia of blockading its ports in the sea of as of kiev the minister of infrastructure says russia has blocked all ships heading to or from the ports of mary a pole and but ganske it's the most recent fallout in a series of escalating events between the nations ukraine has imposed martial nor after the russian navy captured three ukrainian boats and twenty four crew members a week ago. they imagine the measures have unsettled many people there and raised political tensions far right militias are trying to capitalize on it to gain more support but they've also been accused of vigilante violence and extremism andrew
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simmons has more from hockey of in ukraine. it's a rule for soldiers killed in the war between pro russian separatists and ukrainian forces in the east and those present here a message addressed to anyone thinking of fighting it comes from a woman whose son was killed in the war. in the don't come back to your loved ones with victory so that you mothers don't suffer glory to ukraine. the gun salute and the sentiment may be in order of the dead however there is a random a big theme alongside the purchases of instant faces it's political and it's seen by the mainstream parties as far right extremism the organization that arranged what's happening here is one of several that have slick promotional videos and to
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trying to attract followers. that calls itself the national corpus a vigilante movement of the gradient uprising more than four years ago fighters from the voluntary as of battalion were a mainstay in the battle against russian separatists but now there's a regular army and while the state takes on conscripts and volunteers the militias look for people to join their groups this man is a former as of soldier who's now we're going to visit the national corpus in hockey for he says his organizations trying to reassure people about martial. arts are but i'm with what are we reach out to them on the streets in their houses would get their people knock on doors and tell them that there is going to be no mobilization all of a sudden that nobody's taking away cars taking away houses no one should stockpile food from supermarkets no panic here. but you might question how reassuring
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these because of his organization where they're out looking and in their own way stopping illegal gambling license alcohol in bars drug dealing even stop actors of a film set because it's a movie if ukraine has solved it past. sometimes they're calling in the police other times they're fighting them but word of the security forces stand in all of this that's certainly not stopping the militias from their actions we were invited to a training session in martial arts before members of the militias on the outskirts of the city but the police turned around saying martial law was in force and we couldn't film anywhere in the area. it hakim of ukraine the second city where a third of the population is ethnic russian the far right made not have a major following but nevertheless if the state lets the militias carry on without
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further restrictions it could cause even more insecurity here andrew symonds al-jazeera hockey few create this week marks eighty is since the fast train that save jewish children from the nazis left germany in the months before the second world war britain took in around ten thousand children in an operation known as the kinda transport we spoke to one refugee who made that journey. my name is harry bring i was born in vienna on the twenty six of december nineteenth twenty five i spent exactly twelve months to the day the nazi rule for my father's shop was reduced destroyed and after that it was decided that we would need to emigrate and so this for that reason i came to england on what is now no good as a kid to transport. the us up to another fifty three hundred children boarding to
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strain with parents who probably knew much more than the children as to if or when they would see their kids again and i was relieved to mention those crying and screaming my big barrios most couldn't speak a single word of english refugees who have been given shelter with in the hospital for the bridge never forget when a train pulled in. misty morning you're going to liverpool street station and noses of a. squashed up against the window to see what's going on. you i think is the greatest thing. ever did. sorry that it's not been repeated in other situations my mother was taken for the extermination camp of sobibor everybody arrived in suburb or west and they did two aisles i go around schools with the best search that prejudice leads to discrimination discrimination
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leads to genocide which the holocaust was the most severe in history and that is something that needs to stop in my book there's only one races planet it's called the human race. thousands of people in south africa have been celebrating the life of the country's first black president nelson mandela as a music festival in johannesburg it's part of celebrations marking one hundred years since his mandela was imprisoned for nearly thirty years for fighting against the racist apartheid regime regime .

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