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russian school of how to divvy you find out asia seems on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for getting this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes police in front looking for a man suspected of a shooting that left four people dead in strasbourg. time magazine takes its person of the gear murdered saudi jamal khashoggi is among a group of journalists who are on it. not threaten to shut down the government is going to show just any place you can take your car you shut it down getting say something is the right thing a showdown between the u.s.
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president and top democratic politicians of a funding for a wall at the mexican border. and in the hot seat google's chief executive faces questioning by congress over allegations of political bias and privacy concerns. police in france are looking for a gunman who killed at least four people in the eastern city of strasbourg. eleven other people were injured when the attack opened fire near a christmas market in the city center reports say the suspect has now been cornered initially managing to flee the scene police have asked the living in the area to stay indoors let's go live now to paris al-jazeera as natasha is that is how she was the latest. well as you say police may have cornered the suspect in one part of the city of stress but it is not
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entirely clear if that's the case they've certainly cordoned off an area of the city they believe the suspect may be there whether he is or not though we have no confirmation but we are getting more details as to who this suspect is a twenty nine year old man we're told by local authorities who comes from the city of or he was or an intelligence services what list he was already then on the police radar in fact what's emerge is that police actually went to his home this morning on tuesday morning i should say now they actually went to his home they raided it and they found grenades and weapons however he was not in the house at the time so it seems he managed in some way to slip away or he was merely absent but the police officer lee was on his trail for something and then it was around eight o'clock local time on tuesday when this man opened fire at this christmas
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market in the center of stress board where we're told by local authorities at least four people have been killed there are others who are injured and you can only imagine the scenes of pandemonium there in the markets i witnesses describing how they've just gone out for an evening of christmas shopping and socializing and suddenly they heard a gunshot some people were fleeing in all directions police barricading them inside they've been told to stay indoors because of course that shooter has not yet been caught so this man was known to police they raided his home earlier in the day. how did events unfold across the course of the evening then how busy would that area have been at the time of the shooting. well this christmas market in size bora near the german border is a very famous market in france millions of tourists visiting its all the time it is a real tourist highlights if you might say of the year in styles for and it's
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interesting because the christmas markets have become certainly deemed to be a target by french or thought sees because of course france has suffered a series of attacks over the years that is why at this particular market in fact there were there was a heavy police presence of the deeper and police forces they called military as well and what the police say is in fact some of those soldiers that were patrolling the market because security is heightened at the moment in france and has been since twenty fifteen attacks two army officers actually exchanged fire with the shooter before the shooter was able to escape so you know these are scenes that unfortunately people have seen before in france and each time something like this happens it brings back terrible memories and a sense of foreboding and sadness and right now i guess the focus is really on trying to find the shooter and make sure that there will be no more victims natasha
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many thanks indeed i was there as the tasha butler there live in paris being called the guardian's time magazine has named several journalists as its person of the year among them the murdered journalist jamal shank cheap shot he's been on a speaking out against the brutality of his country's regime he was killed in the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul in october. reuters journalists were alone and who were also on they've been detained in myanmar for their coverage of the hinge of crisis the cover shows their wives holding their pictures also on the lists the journalist at the u.s. navy newspaper capital gazette they vowed to continue their work after five of their colleagues were shot dead in the newsroom in june this year and rounding off the group is maria ressa the editor of the rappler news agency in the philippines the government accuses its spreading misinformation roselyn jordan reports.
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two months after his murder at the saudi consulate in istanbul jamal has been honored for the very reason he was killed for questioning how the saudi regime rules every year the time editors spend months debating and talking about who they think who we think should best represent the trends of the year who had the greatest impact on the news and on the world and this year we've chosen the guardians and the war against truth. introduction and headdress graces one of four covers put out by the magazine we didn't do anything wrong the others feature the two reuters reporters jailed in me in march for reporting on atrocities against the revenge of the staff of a local us newspaper who survived a deadly attack by a gunman angry with their coverage of his criminal case and a former t.v. reporter turned online website editor in the philippines targeted by a president who doesn't want his behavior covered we are not against the government
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we are not against president detective but we do want to hold him and his government accountable for the tens of thousands of people who have been killed in the drug war for the impunity that we see online you are creating you had also a lot of the reporters recreating violence by not writing. the fake news is creating violence analysts say press freedom is more vulnerable than ever because politicians on six continents are attacking the public's trust in the media but they add that in washington jamal khashoggi is murder on orders of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has congress and the public taking a very close look at the trumpet ministrations priorities alliances and values this is a moment where one understands that from a foreign policy perspective the us has to demonstrate what it stands for and because show she killing in the fallout has opened up. much of the subtle debates
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we've had behind the scenes in the for public view and that's why it's become so contentious time editors say and the other honorees symbolize the journalists around the world who try to hold their leaders accountable a tribute to those who question even at catastrophic risk to themselves while still in jordan al-jazeera washington some u.s. congressmen are planning to launch a full review of foreign policy with saudi arabia they want to assess the trumpet ministrations response to the murder of jamal khashoggi. turkey's government is in talks with the un about opening an investigation into the murder of jamal shanxi and president to one has again called for the murder suspects to be tried under international law the saudis have rejected his request to extradite eighteen people to stand trial. in condition that we have requests from state leaders from the united nations and the chairman of the human rights committee said that a u.n.
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investigation must be started we have spoken to our counterparts at the u.n. and others about this topic and we continue to consult each other. it will be necessary for this to go through to the u.n. security council however a commission can be set up by the secretary general to investigate the human rights aspects of this matter this is the news hour from of zero still to come on the program more problems for britain's prime minister brings it deal with reports that she could soon face a confidence vote by have parties and people's. yemen's warring sides reach a breakthrough in peace talks in sweden. and it's forced the english premier league leaders to do just enough to stay alive in europe's top competition. us president donald trump and democratic leaders of spod in front of the media of
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the plans to build a wall on the mexican border president trump has threatened a government shutdown if the new budget doesn't include money for the war which he's repeatedly promised to build. in the house majority vote for a war no matter. if i needed the votes for the wall in the house i would have them in one session and it will be done it doesn't help because we did ten democrats. on a negotiation we have this just and we're doing this in a very friendly manner it doesn't help for me to take a vote in the house where i will win easily with the republicans it doesn't help to take out because i'm not going to get the vote of the senate i need ten senators that's the price of. a white house correspondent kimberly how could has more now on what led to that argument. well it was supposed to be a meeting to try and work out differences and avert a government shutdown but it was an apparent very quickly that the conversation and
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the issues were not going to be resolved the democratic leaders in the senate and the house of representatives in the oval office offering donald trump one point three billion in funding as part of a bill to fund the government this would be funding for his border wall but donald trump was looking for five billion in funding and as a result the two sides quickly began sparring arguing over the facts in combative conversation you would call twenty turns to shutdown the government you say i want to shut down the government we don't we want to come to an agreement if we can't come to an agreement we have solutions that will piss the house and senate right no it will not shut down the government and that's what we're urging you to do not threaten to shut down the government it was one of the you know just there never was you can't get to where you shut it down you know it really six of the fighting occurred in full view of reporters cameras and carried on for many minutes nancy
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pelosi repeatedly urging the conversation to be taken behind closed doors saying that this is a climate of destruction in the public view but it does appear that this combative conversation will continue for some time given the fact that both sides seem very far apart and there isn't much time to resolve the differences if the two sides cannot come to an agreement over the border wall funding and funding the government by december twenty first a partial shutdown will start to occur in the u.s. government essentially twenty five percent of federal agencies including the department of homeland security on a short term spending bill will begin to shut down. richard goodstein is a democratic political consultant who was an advisor to president clinton he joins us now live from washington richard good to have you with us what do you make of that exchange have you seen anything like that before at the white house well i
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regret to say that we have there were a couple of meetings the president had last year one about gun control one about immigration and in both cases he demonstrated frankly rank ignorance said yes to everybody about everything. look we've never had a government shutdown the united states when one party controlled the white house the house and the senate there's usually been everybody's been trying to say it's the other person's fault of the government shuts down from saying i own it great i mean i don't think anybody on the republican side thinks that's a very good idea before christmas to have the government shutdown and it's dentally you didn't show that in your tape but in this discussion with palosi and schumer he took credit for how immigration. was being reduced radically ninety some percent in certain areas of the u.s. mexican border on one hand and then he saying he needs the five billion dollars for
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this wall which remember he said mexico was going to pay for hundreds of times during the campaign he's now saying u.s. taxpayers have to pay for it so and honestly i think the fundamental problem with it is it was bad faith to bring in schumer and palosi and put it on camera that's not how the goshi ations work is certainly not productive ones think maybe good t.v. but it's not going to presume yeah do you think that was deliberate him keeping the cameras there was that was that was that a strategy on his part of was there no strategy he was making this up on the fly. well it's it's hard to know to what extent we want to give donald trump the benefit of the doubt of having a strategy or not i think that he thinks what's good t.v. look as long as he's in the picture frame he thinks that's good t.v. if it's live t.v. and he's in it he thinks that's good t.v. no matter what kind of fool with all due respect he's made to seem it's you plus he went outside in the driveway the white house and said i wanted to not say in front
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of the cameras you don't know what you're talking about but that was the case and everybody who watched who knows the facts knows there is no wall there's he kept saying we're building the wall or making headway we're not. so i but still i think for him if there's a lot of people watching on t.v. and he's in the center it's good no matter who's saying what and i think it's a liberal but really bad faith for the start of a series of negotiations over the next two years with this you ploesti is going to be speaker of the house ok so what was the reaction i mean i'm on both sides of the political divide here particularly from republicans with the who they are uncomfortable embarrassed you think by this. you know that's the problem i think republicans if you look at the polls in the united states donald trump's base thinks he should hold firm and if the governor has a shutdown so be it but they want this wall built everybody else which is to say
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two thirds of independent voters believe that compromise is what's called for that to have the government hostage in the interests of building this wall is inappropriate they don't want that but if you ask deborah if you ask republicans his people it's like keep going mr president that's what you elected you for they forget the fact that fifty four percent of the people united states in the twenty sixteen presidential election voted for somebody else and the other three candidates none of them support of the wall so that's the problem his base sees the world through once lens the rest of the country sees the wall through a different lens that there are quite different lenses which it was great to talk to many thanks indeed richard goodstein there in washington thank you adrian. there are reports that some back bench ruling conservative m.p.'s in the u.k. are getting ready to bring a no confidence motion against their prime minister to resign may on wednesday may spend tuesday meeting with e.u. leaders in a large dust ditch attempt to rescue her briggs deal the e.u. has told me the talks cannot be reopened paul brennan reports.
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she's trying to save not just her bracks it deal but also her credibility and her career teresa mayes whistle stop tour of e.u. leaders started in the hague for breakfast with her dutch counterpart mark router the outcome productive according to her spokesman. in the german capital berlin to meet angela merkel the prime minister found herself momentarily trapped in her car . before the e.u.'s open door policy was finally restored. and then finally to brussels to explain british concerns about the irish back stop whatever outcome you want whatever relationship you want with europe in the future there's no deal available it doesn't have that sort within it but we don't want the backstop to be used and if it is we want to be certain that it is only temporary but do you leaders point out that mrs may signed up to the withdrawal agreement
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backstop and all just three weeks ago and assured the other e.u. twenty seven leaders that she would be able to carry it through parliament now she's back for more facing certain defeat at home and an uncertain reception in brussels there is no room. for negotiation but of course to this room if used intelligently is enough to give further clarification and further interpretations we vote open you do with all the sentiment here exasperated at the british political chaos and grim preparedness now for the worst case scenario would be even. the only possible agreement and we've done a lot of concessions to reach it so we sincerely hope that there can be a majority. to or ratify the was the world agreement but they have fewer than ready for a new deal and we are preparing for it downing street says the vote perspective and
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from choose day may now not take place until mid january but the prime minister is going to see things through a number ten until at least christmas which in modern politics constitutes long term planning here at westminster the prime minister's decision to postpone choose day's crucial votes and head off around europe seeking reassurances clarifications drawn howls of protest from the opposition parties for party leaders have written to the main opposition leader jeremy corbett asking him to join them in trying to force a vote of no confidence in theresa may these are grim times for the british prime minister and her room for maneuver is dwindling but so are the options facing the u.k. paul brennan al-jazeera london. breaking news now at al-jazeera the chief financial officer of the chinese tech giant way has been granted bail in canada among one joe was arrested ten days ago she's agreed to put up a ten million dollar guarantee and surrender her passport her release comes just
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hours after beijing detained a former canadian diplomat who was working in china let's go live now to vancouver al-jazeera as rob reynolds is outside the court there rob what happened in court. well when the judge announced his decision that his men could be freed. the court room which was packed with her supporters burst into applause according to journalists who were inside at the time ms monk herself looked relieved her husband also looked relieved and she will now be allowed to go free under a series of stringent conditions which include wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet to determine where she is at all times she will also have to surrender her passports shall have to stay within a prescribed the area of the city and environs of vancouver and of course she will have to put up ten million dollars canadian this comes after three long days of
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testimony and legal wrangling between the crown. attorneys here in vancouver the judge and ms bungs legal team but it's definitely a victory for obviously for the huawei executive and kim could. potentially lead to some easing of the tensions which have cropped up in the u.s. canadian and chinese multilateral relationships now adrian the judge also noted that the united states which wants to put money on trial for alleged sanctions busting with regard to iran has until the eighth of january to make its formal request for extradition if it does not do so the judge said then mung must
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be allowed to go free as we reported this release comes just hours off to china detained a former canadian diplomat who was working in china as a senior advisor for a non governmental organization of these two the that the release and the rest in china. well certainly the timing looks quite. suspicious or. perhaps more than coincidence but no one including the canadian government is saying that there is a direct tit for tat or linkage between the arrest of michael cole rig and the and the tension of ms monk but the canadian government has said it is gravely concerned about this it has communicated with the. chinese counterparts about its concern about coverage detention and the canadian government has said that it is
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considering raising the threat level or risk level i should say for canadian citizens who want to travel to china it's a selling considering that telling them that that might not be a great idea at this time so that certainly the monk case did such off. a series of events which perhaps now things will be quieting down but we'll have to see what happens with mr coverage in china al-jazeera as well brunell's reporting live from vancouver rippon a thanks tax concessions made to so-called yellow vests protesters will cost the french government more than eleven billion u.s. dollars that's according to the bunch of ministers but it's not clear if the government's done enough to take the steam out of the protest movements demonstrations began will them four weeks ago and finally forced the president to back down on a fuel tax hike but it's myth reports. the yellow bus protesters are getting ready
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for christmas on the roundabout camps that have sprung up across france president emanuel micron's decision to increase the minimum wage and cut taxes for most pensioners hasn't persuaded the people here to abandon their protests that's an emotional speech i'm not at all convenes because he has an address what the people are expecting these are only small meals and they won't be paid for by bankers in financials did you find the president sincere not really i don't forget a pity it is who i think is a. teacher of theatre. so has long experience of what we've gone four weeks ago as a protest over an increase in diesel taxes has developed into a wider campaign by people from france's towns and villages who struggle to make ends meet in one of europe's most highly taxed countries yellow vest protests across central paris to a standstill while violent elements have smashed up shops and monuments in those
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few weeks the movement has radicalized and these these announcements are not enough to stop the movement overnight specially as its roots go back in they kase off policy in the qualities between their eateries and regions in france the prime minister told parliament he understood where the frustration came from. behind the anger expressed on the way people are paid your way we are all aware that there is something else that there is anger of being left behind on the lack of perspective that there was the choice conscious or not to lead the public that sleep that there was the choice conscious or not for years certain questions as they were arranged for example the question of massive unemployment. the government says it's concessions including scrapping fuel tax rises will cost more than eleven billion dollars that risks pushing the budget deficit to three point four percent past the
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e.u. three percent limit there's no official leadership or the yellow best protesters so it's difficult to gauge a majority opinion on what present mark on had to say all the concessions he made for but we may have to wait until saturday and what's being called act five to see how many people turn out and protest bernard smith al-jazeera on the outskirts of paris thousands of students in albania have blocked a major highway in the capital tehran to protest against a hike in university fees i know. they're angry at the government for what they see. it is its failure to improve the education system and they want the increase in tuition fees to be reversed protests have been taking place outside the education ministry for a week now prime minister at a rama is on the pressure to act after the protesters rejected an offer of talks. we're going to weather update next year on al-jazeera then thailand's military backed government lifts a ban on political activities ahead of new elections. the bells are back the story
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behind treasures taken from the philippines more than a hundred years ago. that is small we'll hear what magic city's manager has to say about football's fights against racism. that are that significant storm is over but the consequences of what left behind are still on the ground so we must have a couple of fine days well as the last storm disappears the should be a couple of fine days this is what's happening overnight so wednesday daytime hours cloudy certainly through the southern states because snow across the great lakes more coming in to the northwest orders a particular cross the rockies not significant but right for winter nothing there really for california so that's gone dry for
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a time and the whole lot keep marching eastward so you end up with a little bit of snow not very much temp is still hovering around those single figures not dramatic but this is one to watch a feed of motion again this is largely for texas but we had a lover right just over the weekend so the potential for further flooding is this extends is definitely there. to the south the last winter system is just a trading frontal zone here now it often generates some pretty big but localized areas of rain cuban bahamas could do the same again but the focus seems more in honduras than anywhere else the next day or so again you wouldn't rule out a shower two in jamaica or cuba otherwise they're pretty well scattered this is a nice time the breezy dry. i've had this conviction that everyone has a deep reservoir of ton of ability and if you can give them the opportunity
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wonderful things start to happen sometimes the simplest seditions often missed and packed from. the main things that sets out zero apart from other news organizations is that a lot of our reporting is about real people but about ideas or politicians and what they may want to do but how policy and how events affect real people it's ok it's ok it's ok for a little complicated offer to happen if this is not an act of creation i mean i remember walking. down like my family's status and wealth has benefited from my choice to enslave. some of us so scott risky to speak out as a surprise that. this job isn't just about what's on a script or a piece of paper it's about what is happening right now.
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and i'll get over it for they going to here in doha with the news out from out zero the headlines this hour. police in france are looking for a gunman who killed at least four people in the eastern city of strasbourg eleven others were injured when the attack opened fire on the christmas markets in the city center. the chief financial officer of the chinese tech giant huawei has been granted bail in canada on one joe was arrested on the first of december in baquba suspicion of breaking u.s. sanctions on iran washington wants extradited. and there are reports that some back bench conservative m.p.'s in the u.k.
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are getting ready to bring a no confidence motion against prime minister to reason. spent tuesday meeting with e.u. leaders in a last ditch attempt to rescue have brigs a deal the e.u. has told me that will be no new negotiations. delegations from yemen's warring sides have agreed to swap fifteen thousand prisoners of war the exchange will be carried out with the help of amman and the international red cross talks being held in sweden to try to end the near four year college conflicts paul reports on the outskirts of yemen's capital sana'a the prisoner swap agreement between the government and who the rebels is good news for the family of khaled the high. we call upon our brothers who are negotiating in sweden to consider and understand the feelings of the citizens and the detainees and to understand how vulnerable and weak the prisoners are the exchange of prisoners is just one of many issues on the
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agenda at the talks outside the swedish capital stockholm. the parties have agreed to prepare a mechanism for the exchange of prisoners with the participation of the international red cross which will offer diligence tickle support. janet in sandy what we dealt with this matter from a humanitarian viewpoint and made some concessions because our list of prisoners included politicians activists media and geo workers. another issue on the agenda is the port city of hard data controlled by the who these and under attack for months by saudi and u.a.e. coalition forces a large portion of humanitarian aid is shipped to ho data the fruity say they are willing to let the un oversee port operations but the yemeni government backed by the saudis and the moralities is threatening to resume its offensive to capture her data if the talks in sweden fail. eighty thousand yemenis are estimated to have
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been killed by fighting or airstrikes as well as a cholera epidemic and lack of food during the four years of war amnesty international and human rights watch say coalition forces have committed war crimes by bombing and indiscriminately killing and injuring civilians and the city also accuses the u.a.e. of illegally detaining yemenis in nearly two dozen secret prisons as well as forced disappearances and torture u.a.e. denies all allegations that the families of p.o.w. say the swap agreement is a chance to end their ordeal. and enough. we've been suffering for three years we've been hurt a lot my kids and my family are suffering only god almighty knows the volume of suffering and pain we are facing. the united nations humanitarian chief says living conditions in yemen are catastrophic where twenty million people are on the brink of famine making it the world's worst humanitarian
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crisis. on al jazeera. in libya rebel groups loyal to the warlords mobilizing after announcing an offensive to recapture major oil ports that are currently under the control of another militia the so-called oil crescent includes four terminals on the mediterranean coast they've been fighting for control of the oil rich region and it's a. the overthrow of longtime ruler muammar gadhafi seven years ago the area's changed hands between several rival militias since then. oil workers in the bourne have begun a three day strike to protest against the sacking of six colleagues walk out at the french company total another strike in july by workers to modern higher pay and better working conditions disrupted production of one produces around two hundred thousand barrels of crude oil a day but thousands of workers have been laid off as oil prices fell
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google c.e.o. says the company hasn't ruled out plans to relaunch a censored search engine in china summed up which i tested before us congressman at the house judiciary committee politicians and some of google's own employees have raised concerns about china's censorship laws which i says that google isn't moving ahead with its plans yet but that one hundred people are still working on the project it's. anytime we look to operate in a country i mean we would you know we would look at what what the conditions are to operate there are times in the past we debated the conditions to operate then and we explore a wide range of possibilities current leaders and their furred only internally for us that we are doing this in china and so you know but happy to come back and be transparent election be planned something they're. free is a reporter for ricotta technology news website she joins us now live from new york
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so he says that they have no plans to launch this sense the search engine on the other hand he refused to rule it out what do you make of that. that's right well it raises a lot of questions and doesn't give the kind of answer that human rights organizations and critics of the project were hoping for which is they would hope that he would back down and publicly drop plans to work on the project so what should we what else do we need to know about project dragon fly well it's. a plan to create a centrally censored version of google search that would blacklist terms that essentially the chinese government doesn't like such as human rights nobel prize and student protest so as you can imagine it's received a lot of criticism from groups who are worried that this will essentially be used to empower the chinese government to surveil and censor its citizens what google's
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motivation was why is it so desperate to get into china that it would launch a sense for all of its search engine well it china is the world's most populous country so of course it presents an unparalleled market of users for google to reach from a business perspective additionally google c.e.o. today cited the company's mission to bring information to the world and make them from ation accessible he said he views you know google's mission is being lived out by reaching the google mark the china market is what he has said in previous interviews what else stood out from today's testimony for you shareen and why. sure there are two main other areas of focus coming from congress members today the first was around allegations of anti-republican anti-conservative bias built into
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google search algorithms so you heard congress members saying that when they search their own names they're seeing negative articles coming up more often or higher than positive ones and that was exclusively coming from the republican side of the house and while those allegations were made they really have not yet been verified and from the other side you have democrats saying that essentially these kinds of allegations are a waste of time so what could the government what should the government do to ensure more transparency from google as to to what their intentions all is the organize the world's information i mean one other area of concern you saw coming out from both democrats and republicans today was around data privacy and that's not just with google but we've heard worries about data privacy. from coming from companies like facebook and twitter as well so
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one thing that has been suggested by policy experts is more oversight into the data privacy practices of each company however there is no immediate plan to do anything as comprehensive as say g.d.p. are in europe which has the right you laid it data sharing practices in europe goods to the sixty for being with us re going through the. two former ford motor executives have been convicted for their part in the torturing of workers in argentina during the military rule the case dates back to the one nine hundred seventy six then twenty four floor ford employees were abducted in chico north of when assad has led ramallah and hector syberia a fount of provided the victims possible data to military agents and allowing for the set up of the detention center on the factories premises both were sentenced to ten and twelve years respectively the plaintiffs are also considering suing ford in
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a us federal court. india's ruling party the b j p has lost regional elections in three of two states and in two or three states i'm sorry it's the biggest defeat since taking power in twenty fourteen. supporters of the opposition congress party have been celebrating its all it's all set to form a government in the states of chad has got and register the final results in the state of media pradesh still not in indians will vote in the general election in april. the thai government's lifting its ban on opposition parties for a general election next year february twenty fourth is the date set for the vote which has been postponed five times it'll be the first since the military coup four years ago despite the lifting of the ban rights groups doubt whether the election will be fair to sirus can't hide the reports from bangkok. the countdown to
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thailand's election continues the announcement on tuesday coming lifting the ban on political activity this imposed by the military government when they staged their coup back in twenty fourteen in september they lifted the ban on political parties organizing now on tuesday they say that they can go a step further and that is the fundraise and also to hold gatherings before this announcement on tuesday any gathering of a political party. more than five people was illegal that now is being allowed now the next step we're expecting in this process going toward the election that's supposed to take place on february twenty fourth and that is on january second the lifting of campaigning that is when these political parties can really start to reach out to the people and start to send their messages of why they should be elected also around that time in the beginning of the year two thousand and nineteen we will also see these political parties and now to who they want to put forward as prime ministerial candidate each party will have three and that will
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move forward also it's going to be interesting when that starts that happens what's going to be the political future of the current prime minister protests which are now he led the coup back in twenty fourteen he has said he wants to remain a politics but he hasn't really said exactly what so those next steps are going to be coming in just the next couple of weeks protesters have held a rally in new york in support of a woman whose one year old baby was yanked from by police officers a video of the incident was posted on facebook and it's led to a barrel of criticism towards the n.y.p.d. officer as cable is on the reports from new york. at the moment what should have been a routine call out turn to controversy a mother screams for help as new york police department officers try to pull her one year old baby from her arms at a government assistance center in brooklyn. as the officers became more aggressive the outrage from onlookers. this is say the chaos
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unfolded on friday after twenty three year old jasmine he'd lease sat on the floor of a crowded waiting room with her son as she waited for a child care about sure it escalated when security staff called the police and she refused to get up jasmine was eventually arrested and held without bail charged with offenses including resisting arrest and endanger a child her son was taking place grandmother's care. the outrage on social media was swift and widespread and on tuesday demonstrators held a rally at new york city hall to call for justice for jasmine and protest what they see as yet another example of police brutality by the n.y.p.d. against african-americans you know she's a young african-american woman single mother who's looking for support and to watch this woman be demoralized and disrespected by a system that is supposed to help her it's sat in the just speaks to
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a lot of racism that's that's perpetuating with throughout our country what mother wouldn't hold onto their child in in a situation like that for us we need to make sure that this never happens again the n.y.p.d. commissioner's reaction has been more cautious james o'neal tweeting the video is very disturbing to me but also saying we were called to a chaotic situation and we're looking at all available video to determine why certain decisions were made on tuesday the charges against jasmine heatley were dropped but in a statement by the district attorney of brooklyn he said he was outraged by the violence that was depicted in the video for those who were upset at her arrest in the first place this is an issue that's far from dying down gabriel's and oh i'll just sit there your times and as president is insisting that a law that bans teenage mothers from returning to public schools be strictly and
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force around seventy thousand teenage pregnancies were reported last year meaning the plenty of those girls may be forced to abandon their education as catherine sawyer reports now from the northern region of shin young which has the country's highest teen pregnancy rate. i history lesson on a hot dusty afternoon in a garbage open knowledge school the nonprofit sentencing younger rescues girls from and shelters pregnant teenagers it's even more important now after the government enforced a policy banning teenage mothers from going back to public schools when their baby's born sixteen year old sophia has a twelve month old baby she says she was raped by a brother in law a teacher who has since gone into hiding after she went to the police. after the incident i told my sister his wife or she would not believe me she started mistreating me beating me saying i must have been promised your jacqueline is
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seventeen years old and six months pregnant she says she was attracted to the baby's father by his generosity. he give me money and gifts. i could not bring myself to ask my parents because they don't have much money and they are bad and with taking care of my other five siblings government statistics estimates there were nearly seventy thousand teenage pregnancies in twenty sixteen she younger has the highest rate in the country president cream not to allow pregnant girls to return to school highlights the skill not only of teen pregnancies but also child marriages they account for more than thirty five percent of all weddings nationally this is not a new policy there is an existing law on expelling teenage girls who get pregnant and school and up to thirty years for those who get them pregnant but that low is not strictly enforced human rights campaign as we talked to said the president's
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directive rolled back the gains that have been made in ensuring that girls remain in school. girls are allowed to go to vocational centers or private schools after birth but there is few nonprofit one such as a gap pay and others are too expensive for many. we had made good progress with the ministry officials toward working out of a more middle and out such girls to go back to school the presidential degree means those plans are now or. some human rights campaigners say women's rights laws in tanzania are vague conflicting and discriminatory we have gartrell have a tradition we have practices and we have laws what is the best foot and. girls. in terms of education i think that is an area we have to see should we say and revise our.
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sophia tells us if she could have a chat to the president she'd tell him that she didn't want to become pregnant. and she deserves a second chance. she. still to come here on the. most famous friendships and rivalries has its final stretch.
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again more than a century after u.s. troops troops took three bells from the philippines this war trophies they've returned home repair tradition ceremony will be held at ballan go on saturday that's where the u.s. military took the bells from a counterattack after the killing of dozens of its soldiers john allen dogood reports. the united states considers the massacre of the thing the worst defeat for the americans during the philippine american war between one thousand nine hundred nine to one thousand nine hundred two at the time in retaliation for a raid that filipino gear guerrillas conducted that more than forty us soldiers killed american john the road jacobs declared that this part of samar be considered a howling wilderness according to his historians that raid led by the americans left more than two thousand five hundred filipinos dead many of them women and children but filipino historians say more than ten thousand civilians were killed
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since then the belts were brought to the united states as war trophies and for over half a century filipino president there have been efforts basically and lobbying from the philippine government to ask basically the u.s. to return these bells now on their president through the good that they're to and during his state of the nation speech where he emphasized it's return and the americans have brought it back and according to the u.s. ambassador a symbol of restored trust and respect for the country's independence time now for his far. thanks very much it's been a nervous night for last season's champions league final list liverpool they did just enough to stay alive in the tournament the english premier league leaders beat napoli one nil it and feel most solid scoring for the home team that result means the italians go out and liverpool move into the last sixteen atletico madrid and dortmund were already through to the knockout rounds from group a top enjoying barcelona in qualifying from group p.s.g.
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be red star belgrade for one that result sees the french champions topping group c. four to one shock are into the last sixteen from group d. gala test will drop into the europa league manchester city manager pep guardiola has given in passion support his striker regime sterling certainly allegedly suffered racist abuse during city's loss at chelsea on saturday chelsea have suspended for people from attending games while a police investigation takes place put out a statement saying some media coverage of young black players was also helping to fuel racism and aggressive behavior. just. to be safe. in the everywhere would happen today an immigrant and refugee is. how we treat them when ones you know are like refugees our grandfathers and grandfathers a mother who refuses. to society is unfortunate in every work the twenty have to
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fight in every day tim wellington new zealand are getting ready to make their debut in the club world cup the oceana champions play out and from host nation the united arab emirates and a playoff round on wednesday river plate of argentina and title holders raul madrid will enter the tournament at the semifinal stage the underdogs coming into this and i think for us that she's got a good thing. you know as you see it more of the pressure's on them form and you know it's really express. you know be free and and what we do on the pitch vietnam will take a slight advantage into the second leg of the south east asian championship final score two way goals in the first leg of this title decider in malaysia vietnam are in the final for the first time in ten years twenty ten champions malaysia differ cover to ensure the game finished in a two to trawl the return like will take place in hanoi on saturday. former bahrain
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international football or hockey mile ib has been denied bail by a court in bangkok as he fights his deportation back to the gulf state. has political asylum as a refugee in australia but was arrested when iraq and thailand on vacation last month. has lived in melbourne since two thousand and fourteen he says he was tortured in bahrain two years earlier the court has now granted the thai government permission to prepare extradition to bahrain. what a basketball's greatest partnerships and rivalries is entering its final stretch after joining the n.b.a. together in two thousand and three le bron. james and dwayne wade a share the same court and the last time in a regular season game any richardson reports. they can see le bron james is at the start of what may well be his last major challenges apply it with the l.a. lakers his former teammates and now rival dwyane wade has said this will be his
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final season the parents of the league together back in two thousand and three and wade is now returned to the miami hates a franchise where he wants to championships with le bron. that was one trotted after winning the n.b.a. title with the cleveland cavaliers in twenty sixteen le bron is now aiming to bring back the championship to the lakers for the first time since two thousand and ten the like is haven't even made the playoffs since twenty thirteen but le bron has brought about a turnaround in full on the lakers are sitting fifth in the western conference and look to be on target for the postseason james outscored weighed in this game with twenty eight points and twelve assists but wade's fifteen point second half performance run him close. the braun on the lakers eventual holding on for the want to wait to one of five when. the guy said i you know we we always compete against each other thirty one times that we played against we pushed other book you know
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we're not the bulls and brock type no type friendship type brotherhood. you know there are. other guys out. just been thankful i'm back to where the person me and vice versa you know i don't like us that what it was a bonus that we put these other what we would see mays and we want the final four years in a row and we want to examine years ago we made each other better that's all you guys for the end game for this pairing of to sixteen seasons of stardom and achievements on the richardson al-jazeera. so the bron james gets all the headlines while dwayne wade is more low key but when it comes down to a tissue was a bass player earlier we asked brandon robinson a writer at basketball society to compare it to here's the thing le bron james has won championships with two different teams he makes teammates around him better i don't think it's fair to compare the two of them i think le bron is more osgood robertson and magic johnson than he is michael jordan. in comparison this doll of play when i look at the clutch guys i look at weight i look at i look at kobe
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bryant i look at michael jordan if i want to get a last second shot given it's a wage but if i want to build a team around me. and the successful tina brown is like a magnet i'm putting i'm picking the brown first so it depends on the scenario i definitely think that way to bring something to the table an iconic guy won multiple championships but you can't. i think le bron's star was still being written wade story he's retiring at season's and. grand opening grand clothes and brazilian footballer mark has become the first woman to be inducted into the hall of fame at our country's most famous stadiums the six time world player of the year had her feet frozen in time at the americana in rio. compete in her fifth women's world cup tournaments brazil is yet to win. and that's all your sport for now more later. many thanks the latest on the strides book shooting
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and underfoot it was on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed tonight face one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the war. my name's philip. and i and i think i'm on my phone all day every day on my tablet is never really more than a few feet or why the use of the internet elevates don't mean just like gambling does and just like cocaine does i will experience my own unusual digital detox i feel like i don't want to how this thing is that old timer anymore mind to addiction on al-jazeera.
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police in france are looking for a gunman in the city of straw's pulled off for a shooting which left at least two people dead at a christmas market. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up u.k. prime minister of tourism a pleads for a rethink from e.u. leaders on the brakes that deal she agreed less than three weeks ago because of widespread parliamentary opposition back home. because of widespread parliamentary opposition back home. time magazine picks its person of the year.

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