tv Up Front 2018 Ep 26 Al Jazeera December 17, 2018 11:32am-12:02pm +03
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in the clear blue sky of the doha morning. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city of atlanta. how are you to welcome back to you in the national weather forecasts we're here across europe watching two particular areas over the next few days going to cause a lot of weather across several sections first of all out here towards the atlantic notice a storm system that's making its way towards ireland and the u.k. that is going to bring some windy conditions as well some very heavy rain over the next few days as well as that system is down here towards the central part of the mediterranean the serve low pressure right now across parts of italy is going to bring quite a bit of rain across the region today over towards croatia as well now as we go towards tomorrow we're going to be seeing that area of low pressure really begin to develop and it's going to get windy across much of the area across greece crete as well as into parts of turkey also dealing with hail tomorrow that's going to be one of the big things and they can't rule out a possibility of a tornado or two coming out of these very very strong storms up towards the north
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is still quite cold from many locations stockholm minus one moscow is looking at about minus nine degrees there and very quickly across northern parts of africa that same storm system watch in the mediterranean is going to bring windy conditions across much of the area over the next few days particularly libya as well as into egypt rain showers across the northern part of egypt could be seen as well and as we go towards tuesday cairo a twenty one. the waiver sponsored by qatar and reese. there's nowhere to hide do you think we're going to see some kind of change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy up from al jazeera. on counting the cost we'll assess the state of the u.k. economy is it continues to broker its way out of the. world look at a major milestone for the internet and underwater economy in kenya counting the
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cost. to take a look at the top stories here of al-jazeera this morning saudi arabia has denounced what it calls blatant interference by u.s. senators who are blaming the crown prince for ordering the murder of jamal khashoggi the saudi foreign ministry says the senate's decision could affect relations. the latest fighting name yemen's main course of data has killed at least twelve people and injured twenty five the weekend clashes between saudi backed government forces and hoofy rebels happened two days before u.n. break could ceasefire is due to begin. so dance president omar al bashir has become
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the first arab leader to visit syria since the beginning of the war nearly eight years ago he met the syrian president bashar al assad in damascus both leaders stand accused of war crimes linked to the conflicts in their countries. at least sixty percent of all refugees live in just ten countries all of them are in the global south the u.n. says. there is a need for greater international cooperation when it comes to sharing responsibility needed to support them because cripples from one such camp at the mauritania in mali in border that's in dire need of help the people of timbuktu are on the move escaping while they can mohamed. as you know war played out away from the public his family survived rebel occupations drone strikes and bombings. deep in the desert rebel groups and armed forces
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a cliff the seven nations including the united states the u.k. and france are fighting the battle field is spreading across the region as big as the european union. but it is the continuous attack by the million soldiers meant to protect us that pushed us to flee our homeland we don't feel safe they attack us and pillaged through our villagers like invaders. for the moment this is their home the embarrass you gee camp in mauritania fifty seven thousand people live here refugees from mali came here in the early one nine hundred ninety s. escaping rebel attacks settlements turn to homes refugees turned to citizens or to new country most live on less than two dollars a day has opened its borders and welcomed the refugees this is a weekly market in embarrassed few gee camp here you can find all sorts of goods cabbages fruits vegetables fish spices all of it comes from neighboring mali there are now more people from to look to living inside this county than timbuktu
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itself and so this temporary shelter has become the fourth largest town in mauritania. reeducation in the six primary schools registration in maternity centers water points and food distribution attracts both refugees and locals but the u.n. says this is unsustainable we're bringing disengagement of the international community into a different way of working. and sharing recognizing where the burden is and the very is on the host countries neighboring this refugee crisis situations and that needs to be. acknowledged and those countries need to be supported. so far more junior has received only a fraction of the money it needs to help communities in this region with nowhere
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else to go and still. is the survival of the people to book to. nicholas hawke al-jazeera and barrow along the mauritanian money in order. canada's ambassador to china has met a second canadian citizen who's been detained on suspicion of threatening national security business consultant michael spade vaal was detained just days after a fellow canadian and former diplomat michael coverage was held their detention came after among one jews a senior executive from the chinese tech who are way was arrested in vancouver at the behest of the united states she's accused of violating u.s. sanctions on iran north korea has condemned the latest u.s. sanctions saying they could block the path to denuclearization on the korean peninsula forever the announcement was made on state television as the country marks the seventh anniversary of leader kim jong il's death washington has placed
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sanctions on three top north korean officials over human rights abuses. the u.s. state department says is planning to renegotiate a deal which is prevented the repatriation of vietnamese citizens who arrived in north america before nine hundred ninety five now most are refugees who fled after the vietnam war al-jazeera as hijo castro has a story of one man now facing deportation. number two when was seven when his mother put him on a boat with his eight year old brother and pushed them off the shores of vietnam in one thousand nine hundred eighty three says that son going this boat going to go to a place with a lot of toys. it was eight years after the vietnam war and as the son of an imprisoned self the enemy's military officer knew wins life was in danger he and his brother drifted for days survived pirates who raped women and pushed men overboard eventually landing at
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a refugee camp in indonesia two years later the united nations resettled the boys in the united states knew when entered foster care and lost contact with his brother abandoned in angry by seventeen he had been convicted of assault and a probation violation got him sixteen months in prison i make bad choices and myself in this situation a judge ordered his deportation and un went straight from prison to immigration detention for four more years in the decade since noon when now forty three became a christian pastor married and started his own family but his deportation order remains the only thing preventing the u.s. government from carrying it out is vietnam's refusal to repatriate anyone who arrived in the us prior to the two countries establishing diplomatic ties in one thousand nine hundred five i feel very sad for my kids you know chances are if i do
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give that big portion they're going to end up just like me when i was kids they may end up making wrong decisions just like me. more than forty years after the fall of saigon the enemy's american communities are thriving in much of the country more than two million people form the diaspora to the u.s. and they owe much to the trailblazers those refugees who were the first to flee the after the war those refugees are among the seven thousand vietnamese with criminal convictions that the u.s. wants to deport and the trumpet ministration has upped the pressure on vietnam to take them back what we know is that the vietnamese community our refugee communities our immigrant communities are being targeted for no other reason than this political regime and the priorities of this administration to really attack our communities and attack america is not new when says he'll likely face
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government persecution if he's forced to go back. but what he dreads most he says is abandoning his family how do you castro al-jazeera washington. that's. because it's the poets of the post soviet states in central asia more than a million in russia because they can't get jobs at home but the government is now hoping that a major hydroelectric power project will provide employment and base the economy. from rogan. construction of the rogue and dam started in one thousand nine hundred eighty six when tajikistan was part of the soviet union but the collapse of the communist state a civil war and repeated financial failings meant it was never completed. now the first phase of a project that it's hoped will generate electricity for industries and much needed jobs is complete now to tell me the man who has rules tajikistan for almost twenty
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five years in iraq more on the country's constitution was changed in two thousand and sixteen in a referendum the critics say was rigged on canal potentially be president for life rights groups say he has crushed all political dissent the main opposition party was banned in two thousand and fifteen there is no independent media in tajikistan and the country has suffered decades of economic hardship since román was elected in one nine hundred ninety four but as you can stand government is describing the opening of this dam as the single biggest event in this country's history since its independence almost thirty years ago after the breakup of the soviet union. and is often described as the poorest country in central asia the poorest countries amongst the post soviet states and one of the reasons why development has been so hampered so critics say is because of the lack of regular supply of electricity.
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thank you stans fragile economy relies on the export of cotton money sent home by up to two million tonnes ics working in russia and the export of other medium. this is the largest economy implant in central asia consumes around forty percent of the stance electricity and his government owned plans for expanding the plants depend on the supply of even more power workers here know they are lucky to have a job. i've worked here for twenty seven years i have a family two kids one grandchild this is how i support them this job is important for me and my family. it's in the soviet built neighborhoods of the capital de sean bay where you see how people are living in poverty and how desperately this country needs an economic boost. hasn't heard from her husband since two thousand and five he went to russia to work and never came back she has two children including
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a son who left for russia two months ago also to find a job. i want my kids to have a good life i want my own flat i just want a good life i want my son to come back from russia. at the president rama press the button stands in the first of the plan to six turbines construction workers waved flags and cheered the sign of hope that economically at least they and future generations of time can take better control of their lives. with the rogue and dumb as you can stop. the chinese opera has had. hundreds of years but it's got a highly ripples from bangkok now the. entertainment is taking over and that's prompting concern that this ancient tradition. getting ready to take the stage performers carry out their pre-show transformation before they play their
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role in one of the world's oldest dramatic art forms chinese opera but this stage is not in china and it's not even in a theater it's in an alley in bangkok's a bustling chinatown it's been a tradition here for hundreds of years but the audiences have been getting smaller and older. first put on his make up at the age of seven he remembers when entire families would turn up. at night it's a bit depressing it's not like in the past people used to bring the children and grandchildren and talk in the tradition now they stay home and watch d.v.d.'s but the manager of the sa young troupe does not believe the opera will ever close its curtains for good it's the only life he knows he was sold to the troop by his mother when he was eight. if it was to disappear it would have disappeared a long time ago as long as we have chinese shrines and chinese communities in this world the chinese opera will not disappear it will become smaller but the culture
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will continue. chinese migration to thailand can be traced back to the thirteenth century and now it has one of the world's largest chinese communities outside of china. open air operas have been a cultural cornerstone passing along folklore and tradition. ancient french documents detail chinese opera in thailand as long as five hundred years ago. when the chinese immigrant the go. and they bring their own they've been there on goal it being their own culture and they bring their own chinese up there. he went on to say that chinese communities in thailand came to new to grow but new generations are becoming more westernized and few speak any of the chinese dialects making the opera less appealing to the chinese tell you so the drama is not only on the stage it's also backstage as the organizers struggle to
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keep seats filled got other al-jazeera bangkok. time visiting to look at the top stories here about his era saudi arabia has denounced what it calls blatant into ferrand's by u.s. senate is his claim to the crown prince for ordering the murder jamal khashoggi the republican controlled senate voted on thursday to hold mohammed been responsible for the killing of the saudi jan this second resolution called for an end to u.s. military support for the saudi u.a.e. led war in yemen the saudi foreign ministry says the senate's decision could affect relations canada's prime minister is looking to cancel a weapons deal with saudi arabia just intruder has called the murder of jamal khashoggi unacceptable and is demanding says he's working out how to cancel a contract for trucks it's part of
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a thirteen billion dollars deal made by the previous government relations have been tense since canada's ambassador was expelled earlier this year in a disagreement over human rights in the kingdom. the murder of a journalist is absolutely unacceptable and that's why canada from the very beginning has been demanding answers and solutions on that secondly we inherited actually a fifteen billion dollar contract.
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