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behind it is something that's not so plentiful tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sound walls on al-jazeera. showing a united front u.s. senators introducing a resolution to hold the saudi crown prince to account for jamal khashoggi is killing. them fully back to go this is out there live from doha also coming up along the way to talks and the war in yemen due to begin in sweden the chief financial officer of chinese telecom giant huawei is detained in canada beijing wants her immediate release cross despite tough talk from president trump the caravan of central
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american asylum seekers say they're not giving up. thank you for joining as a group of six senior u.s. senators from both parties has introduced a senate resolution that whole saga arabia's crown prince accountable for the murder of jamal the resolution says mom had been saddam and was complicit in the killing it urges the u.s. government and the international community to hold him and all of the parties involved to account but it doesn't and they also say has been solomon is liable for chaucer's committed during the war in yemen which starred arabia ended in twenty fifteen the saudi has launched more than eighteen thousand strikes in yemen the resolution also calls on the kingdom to end the blockade imposed by three other ab straits on qatar in june last year and the senators want to release
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a saudi braga rights but women's rights activists and other detained political prisoners john hendren has a report from washington. it's an extraordinary rebuke from the u.s. senate to a long time american ally the diverse group of senate leaders from both parties introduced a resolution that definitively blames the crown prince of saudi arabia for the murder of jamal. the measure which could be scheduled for a vote as soon as monday condemns kesho g.'s murder demands that the saudi arabian government negotiate an end to the war in yemen and an end to the political dispute with could talk and release saudi blogger rife by dawi and other political prisoners they have now linked old at least that belies ng actions that m b s says they starting with yemen passing by the sharks even harder on to come on any other level it is the latest bipartisan rebuke of the saudi crown prince and president trump support for him we are with saudi arabia we're staying with saudi arabia no
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not look at the kingdom the same way senators erupted in anger on tuesday after a long awaited briefing from cia director gina haskell it's sort of hard to call this a cover up given the fact that everybody in that briefing last week knew that tom peo and madison were misleading us knew there was no way this murder happened without the consent and direction of m.v.s. of the senate is already considering an unprecedented bill to invoke the never before used one thousand nine hundred seventy three war powers act to force an end to u.s. aid to saudi war efforts in yemen. this six page measure would record the view of the senate that mohammed bin solomon is responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi and it urges the u.s. and the international community to hold him and anyone else involved in the killing responsible and a joint statement democratic senator ed markey calls the crown prince a fuck up and republican senator lindsey graham calls him a wrecking ball rare harsh words for the leader of an allied nation the resolution
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falls short of calling for regime change in saudi arabia but whether president trump likes it or not the rift between the u.s. government and its ally of eighty five years has rarely been wider john hendren al-jazeera washington. in other world news has been a bomb attack on a police building in the some any iranian port city of chad bahar gunfire followed an explosion local reports say four people have been killed in nearly twenty injured the city is in the province of baluchistan near the border with pakistan no one has claimed responsibility yet for the attack and separatist group has been active in the region in the past. the lawyer of the family of an italian student tortured and killed in egypt is urging five egyptian suspects to come forward italian prosecutors say they are members of the secret service and police and believe they have to have done in twenty sixteen to twenty eight year old was researching egyptian trade unions at the time his body was dumped by the side of
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a highway near cairo. i find it very unlikely that president i'll see she was not aware of what was happening the nine days between genius kidnapping to chad and finding his body was too long for him to be unaware we have twenty names but many more people are involved we estimate up to forty because in order to follow for months kidnap him and do what they've done to him many people were needed those are the people we discovered by our own means those people should now be afraid. who the rebels and yemen's government representatives are said to meet in sweden the talks are aimed at bringing the four year war to an end the united nations says the conflict has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis and speak to her covering the talks for us in a rainbow north of sweden's capital stockholm so hashim day one of the long awaited talks what is on the agenda what are the expectations. and
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it's day one of the tension is already building what sitting the chalk's in a way or another but to also this statement on twitter by assyria who the official saying that is. the international community and the u.n. do not meet some of the demands of the who these when it comes to having full control and also allowing free flights into free movement into yemen that was shut down the. port of sana and this is one of the issues which is going to be debated here today the u.n. is hoping to bring the two parties to negotiate an agreement about the ceasefire to be extended across yemen and the prisoner swap and then they would move to tackle crucial issues particularly about the ports of her day which is a vital lifeline for yemen imports yemen imports about ninety percent of its food comes from from imports and it comes from the support of her data and they have
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been pretty much concerned about the escalation of the violence over the area in the last few months and they would like to have a say in running in the area so they still are trying to convince all the parties to some sort of an agreement then they will tackle the issue of the future of yemen and who should have a bigger say in running the country but that's where they are definitely going to have some problems right and will they be direct talks between the two sides in sweden and tell us more about the sticking points and how hopeful the u.n. is that they will reach an agreement on those issues. it's quite interesting this is the start of the talks in two thousand and sixteen it has been almost impossible to have the whole things and the government talk face to face and it's going to be the same case here today so what we're going to see is basically a photo opportunity will all the parties will come together with the u.n. envoy but then it will have its own. consultations in
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a separate room in the area where you can see behind me with the united nations. moving back and forth trying to convince all the parties to make some concessions they had breakfast today all together. some people who were randomly said that they were hoping to see the leaders of both delegations shake hands smile to each other that was not the case however they are trying to work out the details of a political agreement the healthy say the president had he has a lot of legitimacy and therefore he must go and be replaced by a presidential council with many people representing different parts of the country this is something which has been resisted by the government which says that had it remains the only legitimate president of yemen but the aid agencies operating in yemen are pretty much concerned about the ongoing fighting this saying that fourteen million yemenis are on the brink of famine and expect that number to
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further climb a while ago when i was talking to the spokesperson of the world food program he said that because of the fighting in her data area many vessels many ships have decided not to deliver much needed food to the whole day and this for the united nations world food program is an indication that they could face more cases of severe shortages of food and they are talking about family like cases in different pockets particularly northern parts of the country and areas surrounding the seaport of her data which has become the focal point of the fight in yemen and this explains why the international community is now hoping to push all the parties to negotiate a settlement forty if there is a deal today or tomorrow in stockholm that would send a positive in signal to the international community and to the yemenis if the talks collapse like they did in the past is going to be bad news for the millions of yemenis and we'll keep an eye on everything that's happening there in sweden with
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you hashem thank you very much at the moment. live for us in rainbow. china has condemned the arrest of the chief financial officer of holly technologies and is demanding her release main ones who was detained in vancouver on saturday at the request of us police she is facing extradition to the united states on suspicion of violating sanctions against iran mang is a deputy chair of hallways ford and the daughter of the founder is saying faye the company says it is not aware of any wrongdoing by may now a is the second but knowledge is telecommunications equipment maker in the world. it's partnered with almost eighty percent of the world's telecom companies but a shadow of controversy hangs over it the u.s. has accused it of working with the chinese government to spy on american citizens and violating sanctions imposed against iran the u.k. new zealand and australia have a the bronx part of all of the company's operations because of security concerns
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adrian brown has more reaction from beijing. well the response from china's government has been swift and angry a statement issued via china's embassy in ottawa or has demanded mung immediate release saying her arrest was violating her human rights the company meanwhile has said it's not aware that she has broken any laws now holway has been under close scrutiny by governments not just in the united states but also new zealand australia britain and canada they're worried about its close ties to china's government and believe that those ties pose national security questions for various governments around the world now the way is not just any telecommunications company it's the biggest private company in china and the world's second largest maker of smartphones it's worth about twenty seven billion dollars and mung is not just any
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chief financial officer she's also the daughter of the founder a very powerful businesswoman in china and of course all this is happening at a very sensitive time in sino u.s. relations on saturday the leaders of china and the united states agreed to a ninety day truce in their tariff war the question is this was president from pole where as he sat down face to face with president xi jinping the mung was about to be arrested and whether he was aware of the implications that arrest would have. just ahead on al-jazeera gambling on a future at shovelled region in myanmar stakes its helps for peace on this class was. off the table the french government council stands for high fuel taxes after a six month suspension failed to stop bought in protests. and
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we should be pretty what's in the loop but that she the heaviest rain has still been further north yes it's certainly of a borneo but but instead malaysia has been particularly went further south to just off to to singapore and in the southern philippines these figures come out the last twenty four hours and the heaviest has been in the newsletter lazy and that is certainly weather tried streaming in where the forecast of writing the green is showing at its most intense there are showers for the sas in jakarta for example but much of java looks pretty dry most assume the ways he looks pretty dry has well whereas it's not entirely true the sumatra cloudy and we're quite often and still the showers are far from singapore or indeed for the north reaching even up into bangkok not surprisingly went so it's been quite wet around queen's nose increase and again partly i think
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a result of what fell apart from soccer in the carl c's given heavy rain to vanuatu too but in queens and not far away from this heavy rain hundred sixty received forty all degrees has got hot chick we will see more showers in this part of queensland there's another the trough running through the barge as well but hasn't made much progress yet so ahead of it and larsen warm possibly holds life events are in adelaide to study for melbourne at thirty five whereas perth is a b. a twenty. a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror one set for close guantanamo bay and its detainees going nowhere we have identified as a priority is the construction of a nail high value detention center i'm afraid that we're setting the conditions to return to cracking. in state sponsored torture as we did have done in the past rendition revisited part two on al jazeera.
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you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour sixteen u.s. senators have introduced a resolution that holds prince mohammed bin salman accountable for the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi also calls on saudi arabia and its brocade qatar. the rebels and yemen's government representatives are set to meet in sweden the talks are aimed at bringing the four year war to an end the healthy rebels threatening to shut down or to the u.n.
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and message demand some met and to the family of an italian student killed in egypt is urging five egyptian suspects to come forward prosecutors say they are members of the secret service and police and believe they have two adults to be a rich any in twenty sixty. and the french government is abandoning a fuel tax hike which led to weeks of violent protests which have now spread into wider demonstrations against president in one year might cause economic policies and become his biggest challenge in office so far david chase a has our report from paris. the prime minister edward phillipe announced the complete abolition of the fuel tax hikes at the end of an address to m.p.'s in the national assembly he was speaking against a no confidence vote from the opposition is parties majority meant it was never going to succeed but he realised the real no confidence vote was being lost in the streets. to the yellow vests to all french people to you numbers of parliament i say that the government is opened with in support of
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a majority. of the students have now joined the growing fray of protest against president and their demonstrations us spreading rights across france been set on fire blocking a road in ma say the same tactics into lose a high school set on fire. in a suburb of paris another school shrouded by cheer gas and smoke in the city's a pantheon so bomb professors were blocked from entering the campus as hundreds of undergraduates voted to join the live s. revolt with a march this weekend. mooted that. there is a rising of the people since race and it's caused by a single recent government policies that only look to take from the poor people to the rich on the more just. the anger doesn't stop at the case of the university we're facing a problem that touches everybody in society the hell of
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a supporting us and we're supporting them. and it was that these spontaneous demonstrations by groups of students are now breaking out in paris think through the streets all to rise and waving at the work of the sicko by getting support from passing bands. even ambulances so this is now what. president macro is facing the protest is pretty wait for the confessional season already given and the pressure on him and he's a bit astray she was only growing. present macron though got a very different kind of reception on a visit to the old law would you tell the people gathered by the side of the road to swear at his presidential convoy and shout resign. david chase to
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al-jazeera paris. the cascade of former u.s. president george h.w. bush has arrived in texas where he'll be buried on thursday he died on friday at the age of ninety four politicians past and present were among the mourners at a state funeral for the forty first us president in washington d.c. . police across year carried out coordinated arrests on members of the thailand mafia a european unit fighting cross border organized crime conducted raids in italy germany belgium and the netherlands has more. i am duesberg in western germany and police carry out a raid as part of a coordinated action in four countries here they search an italian cafe in a shopping mall as well as in this region north rhine-westphalia there were raids in bavaria in the south later euro just the agency that fights cross border crime
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held an exceptional news conference in the dutch capital the hague why we have decided to do it to him for a new about and i'm president an extraordinary result that we have reached today we did joint judicial action that has been carried out in different member states you know that to fight then rank no one know the most powerful organization given to station in the world as well as raids here in the netherlands and in belgium there were arrests in calabria the southern italian heartland of the in drawing gets the operation involved nearly ninety european and domestic arrest warrants and the various police forces involved seized around two point three million dollars in criminal proceeds as well as drugs including ecstasy and cocaine this episode result. it's been achieved thanks to the rupee and approach that all the concern of this site to confer took leave to do so.
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these are a model to follow also in the future the drunk became italy's most powerful organized crime group from the one nine hundred ninety s. onwards it's involved in drug trafficking extortion and money laundering internationally operating independently from the better known sicilian mafia causa nostra this police handout shows a nighttime operation in sicily's capital palermo one tuesday it reportedly dismantled the cause and nostrils rebuilt leadership with forty six people arrested but the latest international operation is a reminder of the reach of their counterparts on the mainland the drunk at the dean barber al-jazeera. as spanish court has confirmed a controversial ruling which cleared five men of gang rape and sentenced them on a lesser crime of sexual assault people protested outside the justice ministry after the decision the five men have been jailed for nine years for assaulting an
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eighteen year old woman two years ago spanish all requires proof of physical violence for a rape conviction. thousands of people from central america are not giving up hope of seeking asylum in the united states us despite increasing efforts from the tribe administration to keep them out how dr hamid reports from the us mexico border. is the morning scramble at the border asylum seekers hopeful their turn will come to cross into the united states. but these days only a trickle get through every day based on a number system others like bart up with that then have to come back tomorrow or the day after or maybe for many more to follow it but i will have when i was being forced to sell drugs when i refused that beat me up i had to flee here they told me to come back into. he weeks from i ten not far from the official crossing some are trying to sneak in the u.s.
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on their own but nestle of guatemala with her two children about three weeks ago she wants to go to the u.s. at any cost despite knowing that attitudes towards people wanting to reach there are changing and i. want to get one it's still better than at home because there is work it makes me sad to see the other side because you want to be there but i can't it's not easy to climb the wall but i won't lose hope. for her next stop is the official crossing in a nearby town of take kathy. but there quickly turned away the disappointment is immense when a cell like many others will continue roaming along the border wall to try to find their way in the biggest hurdle is this war but even if you get past it illegally once you're on the underside you're officially on american soil and so migrants usually if they make it will sit and wait for border patrol to show up surrender and claim asylum. the border on the american side has been fortified recently
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at any weak spot along the metal bars reinforced and it's closely monitored round the clock. is still not enough to deter sicilia and his friends they decided to take their chance after sunset they walk several thousand kilometers from honduras to reach this point his wife and daughter are already in the u.s. they took the same route he hasn't seen them in three years when i was just too difficult to get a visa i want financial guarantees that i don't have a hope not to get caught if it happens i will seek a song. it's almost like her moment there but i can dream seem so close cecilia looked hopeful as one of the group reach the top of the wall. they were quickly spotted it's game over but only for now as going back home is not an option anymore . but of that hamid al-jazeera the one. health ministers from uganda and
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neighboring democratic republic of congo have met to discuss the latest ebola outbreak health workers in uganda are being vaccinated after concerns were raised that the disease could spread an outbreak of ebola in various parts of the d.r. sea has killed at least two hundred sixty eight people since scientists. heads of state from the five countries in western africa are meeting international donors in mauritania it's an attempt to raise billions of dollars for a region that has seen years of violence nicholas hoch reports from the chart the fight against the insurgency this one house starts here. a un funded to radicalization program in a suburb of new york shot. these teenagers will not be attending the g. five the whole conference and so as an exercise they play out the meeting. president mccall from france sets the agenda the west will give two billion dollars to its former colonies if africans stop coming to europe. the judge a leader agrees always happy to send its troops to war as long as friends keeps
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them in power. money stays silent on the insurgency the north and others in mauritania are happy to use the money to fight terrorism to buy more s.u.v.s for bigger presidential motorcades the g five said helen for these youngsters is a tragic comedy with an absence of the voices of ordinary people. sure we want human rights and more gender equality but for now we'll do with electricity and jobs and perhaps more leisure centers but we don't get to decide what started as a temporary french deployment in mali to stop armed groups and drink two thousand and twelve has turned into a counterinsurgency operation involving un peacekeepers and the armed forces of five nations across a stretch of land as big as the united states six years on intensive military operations may be preventing the insurgency from spreading but it's failing to bring peace and stability to the. now the leaders of the sale countries are meeting
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to raise funds for development projects and then attempt to win the hearts and minds of people and surrounded with young graduates some of them have studied medicine nubile energy to the most modern employment in the name of this coincides i'm supposed to change their perception of the sahara from. that area to a place of more untapped intensional in the opportunities. solar and wind energy new hospitals and schools are some of the projects urgently needing investment funding here really hope that the international community responded positively because the scenarios are very clear. what your regular migration more people. demanded. in security. once again donor countries will make pledges but in the past few have kept them it is these empty promises that many believe alert young people to join
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rebel groups where they say they want most is just to be heard. nicholas hawk al jazeera iraq shot. myanmar is considering a plan to legalize some already operate under special provisions but changes to the law being for poles to encourage more tourism and tax revenues force. it's still under construction but this eight hundred heck decide his already become known as china town the remote region of korean state bordering thailand is being transformed thanks to chinese investment the extension of town will include housing a golf course an airport and perhaps at the center of it all casinos which at the moment are illegal in me and. we have to mission from the me a mark of them to build a chinatown developed economy within. the whole meet that target then we will build hotels the project is being built in an area controlled by
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a group known as border guard forces former ethnic korean rebels who are now aligned with the me and my army fighting continues in some areas between the border guards and other rebel groups vying for influence and control of the region people here hope the new investment will help promote peace in the area which like many in myanmar has been held back by civil war. we want to be secure like other countries that don't need to worry about fighting in conflict the development is providing employment but it could also provide problems casinos operating in the unregulated sometimes lawless border regions of thailand and laos are often suspected of being gateways for drug trafficking the communities are vulnerable to exploitation but leaders here say so far this project has been good for them. it's been two years since the chinese company came to invest in our town in the past we didn't have jobs my family and i had to find work in thailand but now we're back and can
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work here aside from the casinos economic activity is set to increase early next year when a second bridge across the river separating to. i landed me and mine is opened the border crossing will help formalize and regulate travel between the two countries because you know developers hope the bridge will make it easy if a thai tourists to travel across the border even if gambling remains illegal in both countries wayne hay al-jazeera bangkok. again on friday back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera a group of six senior u.s. senators has introduced a resolution that holds the saudi crown prince accountable for the murder of jamal khashoggi it also calls on saudi arabia to end the war in yemen as well as its bill kate on qatar john hendren has more from washington it takes than just six pages to
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save it in their account by account they accuse the crown prince of saudi arabia of being in charge of the security forces at the time jamal khashoggi was murdered and of being complicit that's the word they use for his killing the resolution goes on to demand an end to the war in yemen and to demand and and to the dispute between saudi arabia and qatar un back talks to end the war in yemen are set to begin in sweden ahead of the planned stot off the talks the hoofy delegation the rebel delegation threatened to close or to u.n. planes unless said demands are met the government side has responded by demanding a full rebel withdraw from the city of her data the discussions were due to begin in the last hour last hour but have been delayed. there's been a bomb attack on a police building in the iranian port city of the ha local reports say four people have been killed in nearly twenty injured the city is in the prevent province of
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baluchistan in the border with pakistan no one has claimed responsibility yet for the attack. the lawyer for the family of any talian student who was tortured and killed in egypt is urging five egyptian suspects to come forward italian prosecutors say the men are members of the secret service and police and believe they have to have done any in twenty sixteen to twenty eight year old was researching the egyptian trade unions at the time. china is demanding the release of the chief financial officer of huawei technologies main ones who was arrested in vancouver on saturday at the request of us police she is facing extradition to the u.s. on suspicion of violating sanctions against iran. those are the headlines on al-jazeera the news continues right after people in power to say this.
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