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very close. but the mission of liberating the holy city was soon to pass to his kurdish deputy in egypt salam. he has a fatah myth that can i say you do only gain lamone. and and to play like you are a. killer as has seen in over russia would have been. bad that o'mara. as. she emotional had was too much who are harming them on the tennis on how we are of only needs one. or the thought of his mind. that i would. see what the whole of. the news was carried for so long
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i did. fell into deep mourning for the death of the great warrior king. but what saddened him even more. was the in-fighting over new dean's heritage. and their neglect of his mission to liberate jerusalem. salama dean became determined to realize his master's dream. and then iowa. when i mean it's red. let me. and i bought. a fat morning that won't let me up one yet a lot of the palace masala being in the salaheddine. is let me and let you
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house the lightning and the enemy. is all i didn't set out from egypt heading for the live arms. he would bring those ingots under his command by force of arms. then. the whole. didn't anyone can l.a. a dealership. and they have a definite. no more they feel. no deal at the emmys. eleven seventy four both neurontin and the king of jerusalem died while for the christians the death of
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america first a very very powerful military important king meant that the throne went to boulder and a fourth with a mere boy suffering from leprosy now on the throne of jerusalem a struggle broke out among the nobility over who should be the regent. of loosing york. or remelt of shuttle york. but it was raymond the third count of tripoli who took the prize he quickly signed a truce with saliva dean. i had in another author let me go home. and selling being. one to troubles when disastrous and i washed ashore washing of em come another till i left. him in between and that.
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accumulate in a day. at the summit of the rufus yes the. young and went on after a few then you got here in atlanta in the summer had given me a home. and went to an intriguing new. dell a teen shot. and. north dene. yesterday. the. teddy kennedy. you know walked and. sad at ted. salama dean marched his army to a level elite siege to the city. visiting gets though
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refused to surrender i'm touched the plan to get rid of some la di but not on the battlefield. they call on the. would be assassin. a secret she. framed for its many political killing. monologue on a wish to the soul of being woman on the mean. that could be given them an immense we have to do in all my we are now to fill the air heavy system the most of how to watch the live truck. one night in may eleven seventy five. the assassins infiltrated salado dean's camper around aleppo and reached his tent.
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so no it was on that how to cook the eggs i was on the bed is in and is a. health kennel did the and yes we're headed like. this are near and no one can know what the sun will be. for another eighty years so law and dean would continue his efforts to reunite the territories of the levant and must pertain year under his command. and when aleppo finally surrendered to dean became the mighty used ruler of the muslim world the salt of the you bit state a dinnerstein that would rule for another seven decades solid then. they are
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not in nearly beaten kennedy he above. one hundred also were learned then someone had fought where they'd left one month because they were forty year maybe and i don't let the kind of math is going on the young black man. and for me that sullivan's great achievement is persuading the group of people to work with him and once he's got those resources then he can fight the crusaders effectively and really try to recover terrorists no. one thought of killing at the gaddafi can be met then you or they don't get near a muslim in. what do i ask. most of all of them is that me out here i don't know much the omen of the.
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as the muslim front was uniting. the leprous king of jerusalem. old when the force. faced problems controlling his vessels. were in danger in his troops some of the. we're talking about the man let the boom out of the trough oh yeah and for the whole mystery know this i thought he and carter. and you know the shuttle again yes i thought i love that i will tell it here. many of. the and hush. out of their nests if you'd been here the most their lead
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but was the mean were. going out allied with the knights templar. the most powerful and extreme of the crusaders military orders. their goal was to lay waste to islamist most sacred sites. iraq and army and then even in the. era in what you want in the macabre when most of us were artists of asylum and guess. what if that isn't a mormon then for some solid meaning we every male soul in mecca for part of the world a muslim hell told early on when to get home we. little stool you know. we are doing home. on it ideally. in the whole world of course i will let the cannon
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able for parra. and in fish and threw it to them and i didn't in ours the simple good looks around so i had been a solid any a demand. i will post some clue in the message and i mean now aware that. we were listening of your action as he came up with corrosion was quite alone. i got a good job with as you know how to look and there it is better than most they really are in the media. and the. other than the well they get less than good their record but i guess. this will be added.
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goofy yes and many commissioner here because you can also. but i just. thought a lot of the. wealth to the cell was if i had moved from the scene either using your letter us before you can. get there using your. polish on my fusion on the mayor booker many. the new king could not control is fossil nobles. who finally succeeded in destroying the kingdoms truce so a lot. of talk of a romp very much for him to have sorry i mean why i had to. confess to many a community that walking in a can feel so i mean in
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a moment kind of them against the house and yet. now only one of my feet up that's leafy has had a woman has. some rough bills of a collar she says you met when he was a kid and he had to. do you. know his of a father. and say it's. so i need to get lucky and get lee countries much more national and do a lot from a can and into. a good and no house for the day who or what it was over the. scaredy and what as it was more a day i had the sun to be in. and not that how.
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messengers gallop to every corner of the state and mobilizing orders. and in damascus saladino his commanders drew up the final plans of yourself. as soon as the army was assembled. it crossed the river jordan into the heart of the kingdom of jerusalem. had been followed the amount of kali in mecca and was in many. ways that the much of the monopolists iraq in the fall of the in. what we thirty home about has. come under your thumb in his that and the army are going to suffer on the top lend them look at making mountains hash of the ugly but a basic human has indeed moved on called the mood among the senate and for the many
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of them. what i've done my father to france a forty. one woman can hear me out not all but often we have to meet. word means how to move that would normally. well that's why i look a lot of fun to be nuns have been like i mean you know you. have heard of planes all of the deal was so easy and that's all he was so he. had the tools while milling life was just us the unity and. nothing else to do with. genital about so i had this to derogate slowly being in the whole. world can. feel shall surely be unreal koori morning is when you will
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be in the hell is a lagging in. with a wide of the mantle lost to the lower wrong feel that one can. well i live in the heart and i'm home and so for a. few modicum of two out there you. and dust out of iraq and in the whole. while subtle in a field of what if that deadliness you know a whole lot more lockouts aligned in a. fit. at that because it is certainly a lot of fun even when you come on have caught the tony how any a shrink you don't because that of hundred shops you're the cipher well let that go off on me after they went on you i'm in a hole. in
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his camp around type period. someone had dean was waiting for the crusaders next. and when the news arrived. he sets victory. the crusaders had walked into the trumps alive but such. a move that would cost them the biggest ever defeat. in the history of the crusades .
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water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put. its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very. water privatization on anybody the american. people who see everything as something to invest a profit of a one dollar up to the last drop on al-jazeera the most memorable moments of al-jazeera was when i was on air as hosni mubarak fell with the crowds in tahrir square talking. as. if something happens anywhere in the world al jazeera is in place we're able to cover news like no other news organizations. were able to do it properly. and that is our strength
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. the week began with views of a ninety day truce in the tip for tat u.s. china trade all the world's largest supplier of liquefied natural gas is leaving the biggest oil cartel we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. hello again i'm out in dennis in doha with the top stories here. for the first time in several decades two women have entered a hindu temple in india defying religious hardliners women between ten and fifty
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while barred from entering the temple in the southern state of carola bath in september india's supreme court overturned the ban. british politicians and international lawyers are saudi arabia permission to visit detained activists they want to investigate allegations that they're being tortured and denied legal access chinese president xi jinping is not ruling out using military force against supporters of independence in taiwan in his first major speech addressing the self rule with island she said taiwan's reunification with china is inevitable taiwan's leader rejected the say winters of beijing and face reality. we are firmly against any plans to create two china or one china one taiwan or taiwan independence we've achieved a major victory in a part against taiwan independence or separatist activities nobody and no party can
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change the historical and legal fact that taiwan is part of china and both sides of the strait belong to china in the philippines rescue workers are struggling to reach areas cut off by floods and landslides that have killed at least eighty five people storm hit just days after christmas displacing around twenty five thousand people a state of calamities been declared in three provinces and in indonesia a rescue this is searching for people feared buried beneath landslides that have killed fifteen people in west java at least twenty people are missing the fighting between a buddhist armed group and me amal security forces is false hundreds of people out of their own in the west and record in state the un says around two and a half thousand people are displaced after clashes between security forces and the other can army a military crackdown on ethnic. people there drove more than seven hundred thirty people into neighboring bangladesh in twenty seventeen. a train crash in denmark
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has killed at least six people and injured sixteen others it happened on the great belt bridge which links the central danish island of zealand and finn all right those are the latest headlines let's go back now to the crusades an arab perspective. july eleventh eighty seven. crusader armies under the command of god of loosing your the king of jerusalem. are marching towards a decisive battle with the muslim. on their saliva deem. the
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salt on that set the trap for the crusaders. and they were carelessly walking into it. under the hot july sun. when the thirsty army finally come to teen. some off and dean had already blocked the way to the only water source. asa kind of nation is named dean and a negation selenium was met. and somebody. well for him to ask utterly viciously me. that and so do.
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you want to send me meaninglessly mean a shot of you had been paying. wasc of saline. to hold of me but i'm not fit you know i'm with him and fed says. kenny and the little how did well yeah i did it. was so you could have a fat. i don't know i shut what i mean but as someone shouted folks here am i need to move i'm going to hit. some as someone. can and i'm a kind of you know. what i'm assuming you don't let me know that i had a pony. not mine it's only possible to know. while going to see it.
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because what the one time when i never. saw one must test the open folks. all over. the uk but. often. talk about a. problem aka truth that it's something i i i. i. i. by the end of the battlefield. the vast majority of crusader forces had been either captured or killed. the list of
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prisoners included king guy of jerusalem. and the cream of christian nobility. principle among whom was a rhino a shock to your. quote i. fulfilled his oath. the kill reynold. he smashes the frankish on me he catches the king of jerusalem he sees is the true cross and this is the great military victory that will open the way to recapturing jerusalem itself. night. saladino his commanders celebrated their victory. and began laying plans for their next move. a lot to do and i don't know what that is set in the shed
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and. i think that must. and then another. at me when he has a. body. within two months of victory at toppling. someone had dean's forces had liberated most of the live on time coast. it turned this all me towards the biggest prize of all. jerusalem.
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the lazy again at the land they found close. behind in the cellar being. closer than even the more than anthony weiner. a man and. i'm not at all sure that even if a lot of all of that was shorted i shan't try to you know move. the line dean. so i can on them so long. rolling left behind of course. you know what i'm safe look i am talking live i got an idea yeah i'm one of those and manson was i mean i am. after a ten day assault on the city. of a billion came out to meet solid deal to offer unconditional surrender.
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on the second of october eleventh eighty seven. the muslims and through jerusalem. unmeasured. you'll knock
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a man many mission months out of. let you got to feel you after. so many little silly being and all my one. well how to. let you know but it'll. seem to me let me i had mean and mostly mean. all the you can send me if you get a well done evil kook. that does the well i want honesty. and any of course libya different because amongst. other near me no more are slowly being ruffled though and yet fouled feed the idea how that. negativity and the both of the earth could breath involved is. in a wood to carry so couldn't deal with the halt while hollow variable have made our
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last moment dead. could did that homer go ahead then you could figure out who gives year next year with this head of unit who initially have a slot and he. said that them in manly and haas. and and there's even a limiter mecca knew mindef a mate there was a by lame the fukushima no kids has and says you don't use the law handy so he says that i would have it in. adèle still ahead dean says you'll have a. million women and that to him an amount of. men nicosia than men of color that any less what that in thought of the army and their earth of how. fair to go with. what and to come washy. in the hasn't a good some of it is famous throughout history for his generosity his justice and
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his ability to inspire his people. this is a earned him respect on the christian side on the muslim side and there's many stories to illustrate this is one story when a frankish woman has had her baby taken and kidnapped and it's taken to the was the markets and sold and she's obviously devastated by this and some of her friends who will go to see some of it i'm sure he'll help you. a little yet are we yeah. i'm secondary i didn't matter. what. sort of an all out of one wish i had inaugural let me add that level battle at. the finish. father not almost. late that fell a lot of cool norn i misled duffy as and. some
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of. the kurdish officers. now the greatest muslims will call him. had liberated jerusalem after eighty eight years of crusader occupation. fulfilling a dream he inherited from his monster new dean zinged. and as the muslim places of worship were stored. the pope at that noted dean had altered built two decades earlier was finally carried into an ox almost.
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the fall of jerusalem to solid in eleven eighty seven caused a seismic shock in western europe the pope is said to have died when he heard the news this is something that rises christendom in a way that's not happened before. the source who seemed to imply a sort of collective nervous breakdown. because during slim they thought to get back to christian run providentially is part of god's purpose and scheme so they question if god can allow this to. however newly liberated jerusalem was not to be so long had dealings find a target. in november eleven eighty seven he commanded his army to march towards tire and put it under siege. but for two months the heavily fortified city.
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that. he will cut. them up to has. been in. place of. where that how about you can be as mean dean and. three month. old little that you know about how the medina. where assess. a sollie we bought to help the. small going to mean a few a dissolute being. the means for iraq. of one of his hottest a lot of the time and i mean iraq. if he has it they'll keep going to get blood out of the book or will be at the public is that
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yes it will still be you not shut up. though i can bubble we can we have one of us walk when i mention that i'm on on our home sure lose him if you have fairies muslim allah has song. i reckon he said the fam. without action is the visible shot in as in the fountain as i'm kinda said. so i mean i'm not an epic. luckly will be. funny if i knew on. either. a.b. three or zero but also rules to. the let you can at the mustn't come on the men ad litem when i'm lost only be a good deal. all the great kings and rulers of the west have to take the cross they have to go to try to recover jerusalem from the muslims this is what's known as the
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sir crusade arguably the greatest crusading expedition of the true saving age. europe mobilized its armies. and its three greatest monarchs set off towards the east. frederick the first the holy roman emperor known as barbarossa. philip the second the front's known as philip augustus. and last but not least richard the lionhearted king of england. the emperor barbarossa died the asia minor on his way to the holy land. but philip augustus and richard the lionheart arrived safely i see.
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their armies immediately joining the crusaders who had been besieging acre for two solid years. the nation salimi a long mood when we got a lot of where the hell middle hasa. made them and she added communion and men and o'meara. shock can we can. one year so i had means your market had cleaned up the and sort of why even a debility would start off by innate ability and why them is to get them on long lead out so i had no reward who would lead the gallows alive again i give them the truck as a soft so susan in the devon is a bad little celine kind of market. i would want a model of. the assault on this to be the set up with a mic and a memo in the it does the let's move. and see me what's.
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said to me when i let a man neka say reach out to be on a man face that be. the less and less bad them how do the men. and woman don't know going to. any missed that he flat out if. someone at the inn unless he was a walk off hello with a new thought and i got it wrong morrow not that has even.
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philip augustus soon returned to france leaving richard the lionhearted in seoul command of the third to say. it was the spur that rekindled his dream of glory through the recapture of the holy city of jerusalem. but of a gift the food to get love into mother to let the almost a lot in the scene at the scene and get you know. about it he can supply it they now call it a month but that sort of eat. in a vital months. or a look in me should be a wish i had you want to quit acting and just stare in the lobby look at how.
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philistine was sacked along that and then a half in the how little warm at the point and you had little nominees of the hot summer behind. you. it was country. and the home had that fiacha he feel it. but he said it you read be a you some men are. in have to do a last. on that issue god bless and no lenya to make it be a hole in the hole at the little ones. would seem inconceivable don't. what kind of fly had been. allowed in
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a bucket of. popcorn. well so. mamma a sleeping. what are the one family in the fall that i was ill and i want to know what was the what the diplomacy if you will be. around love it had a condom hourly let me start early church and you lay your. flask. full of lead let each at the hassle of dealing that well i meant country house itself to being with him out of troubles. would a monk and she and how some how to how aliyah. where i can let you know i had a way she started. after more than
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a year in the east. richard the lionhearted returned to europe. but without the keys to jerusalem. the third crusade had ended in free. so i mean. my daughter hilda church stockily and. let in the run you can. model. one of the how are you. were for the one of. them young and i got a bot. well few for gary oldman are bought out of our medicines north of the same office so i didn't bother to. give about the notional has it to have total have a while to see a good. as
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a commander of the random or are you questioning instead of mr ten little policy unless you own four camaro was a how father gets. thirty co one a sewer xenia thirty the letters all ties by. how architect he had been is lenny but he had so i had seen mega had she was aren't usually letting me. what history did beatle nupkins wrongs the surat that can and will. and the whole affair salaheddine them your cool while he do feel again and celine be hourly at sun oh. i am for a century to come the struggle would continue. but the storm was gathering in the east. threat to the muslim world. far greater than the
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one that how they arrived from the west. and was known in history. as the crusades. culturally i believe that the muslims had a far greater effect on europe that europe on the middle east. the crusaders fought for all this was because they failed to recognize the moment. it was in. that exploded in the name of the cross the crusades an arab perspective the find at
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the so. this time. from flowing on in winds to an enchanting desert breeze. hello again to welcome back to international weather forecasts we're still seeing some rain showers down here across one is that as noted here on the satellite image as the storms are making their way towards the east and fortune here on wednesday more rain across the region also affecting montevideo tempter there of about twenty nine degrees but as we go towards thursday things are going to get a little bit better most of that rain starts to make its way towards the north
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hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martine denis coming up in the next sixty minutes two women take an historic step inside a hindu temple after india's supremum court lifted a contentious by. we hope to be in saudi arabia all forces will cooperate with us british politicians and lawyers i'll still visit detained saudi activists to investigate allegations they've been tortured. a message of peace with the threat of force xi jinping says the unification of china and taiwan must happen sooner rather than later. and why the sport of kings relies on genetics to produce champions in argentina and is it sad. and i really hard in here with all your sport world number one novak djokovic makes a winning start at twenty one thousand nine hundred ten at the qatar open.
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first two women in india have defied the sentry's old ban on entering a hindu temple the means is that the coals for protests and also a backlash from conservative in do groups those has the latest. the under the cover of darkness and escorted by police these two women defied religious hardliners by entering one of hinduism holiest shrines the shop a remodel temple in the southern state of carola which attracts millions of worshippers ear their historic move is backed by india's supreme court which in september ordered the authorities to lift a ban on women or girls between the ages of ten and fifty from entering the temple . but the temples authorities refused so by by the court's ruling and subsequent attempts by women to visit had been blocked by thousands of the booties supporting the ban conservative hindu groups say they believe women of menstruating age would
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defile the temples and her shrine local media is reporting the chief priest briefly shut the temple for purification rituals it is simply ne ne she offered politics and elected in politics by am saying days after these two women ended up being a shine day by bemba a bad day at a baby atmosphere and that they replayed my sins so peacefully that it would be too bad there had been these three men bad and getting bad it not object there did not barris is there very many air base police island yeah lao industry meant to go and watch it before that border. the care of a state president of the hindu nationalist party claims that these events are politically motivated. the b. did b. the bin thing the local government orchestrated and planned what happened there declared a missile destruction but i'm allowed temple to achieve this the commune is going to the thought of any devious means advantage debated this. on tuesday millions of
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women from across the state formed a six hundred twenty kilometer human chain and called it the woman's wall. it's an issue that's become increasingly contentious in the run up to india's general elections scheduled for may on the door such a party al jazeera. british politicians and international lawyers have also visit detained that davis in saudi arabia to investigate allegations they're being tortured and denied legal representation rights groups say at least ten women were arrested it may including some who campaign for the right to drive the group says seven men are also being held in connection with their human rights work crispin blunt is a member of parliament he says the murder of john this jamal khashoggi has added urgency to their demands the crucial the tragedy it was obviously a total disaster for saudi arabia and it would seem that the responsible people
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who are responsible for the operation were also responsible for the detention of these saudi arabian women's rights activists at exactly the same time that saudi arabian women were getting the right to drive a major step for their own personal freedom and freedom from the so-called guardian lords in a way that was a was a huge step internationally and rightly paraded to such and then in parallel these people being locked up for jury die kids are human rights campaigner he says recent events including that is putting pressure on saudi arabia. the friends and allies of saudi arabia are taking the humorous situation in the country increasingly seriously and they're starting to take action and it would be in saudi arabia's interest to really to work with them and to engage with them to to advance the the human rights situation in the country we have to work with the facts that are given to us that are that are evidence that the research shows in the research
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shows that indeed the evidence indicates that that there are very serious human rights. allegations. in the country the murder of some of her shoji in a stumble or was or was that was a marker for what wider wider catastrophes pretty to put a no no greater word on it in respect to the detention of the of the women activists and indeed the women the men who support their cause there are credible allegations that these people have been have been tortured the people as crispin blunt said the evidence suggests that people involved in the murder of jamal showed ji are involved in the in the torture and ill treatment of the of the women and men's men men as well in the in the in their situation something has to be done in this initiative is is a very clever clever one and one which we certainly welcome and saudi arabia
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schools controversy in the entertainment world after ordering netflix to remove a satirical episode which is critical of the kingdom's rule is sarah kyra is here now with the story what's the reaction well mazzini online film provide a netflix has removed an episode of the show patriot acts of house and men hatched from its science in saudi arabia and his exactly why do you know what his nickname is. rus asa which means father of the bullet we own ten percent of which makes complete sense saudi arabia and are both places women drivers don't feel safe. they have nine hundred in thirty million dollars that's a lot of money you know it's free though not bombing amah. there are people in saudi arabia fighting for true reform but m.p.'s is not one of them and to those who continue to work with them just know that with every deal you close you were
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simply hoping entrenched and absolute monarch under the guise of progress because ultimately m.p.'s is not modernizing saudi arabia the only thing is modernizing is saudi dictatorship or the saudi government certainly wasn't laughing because netflix received a complaint alleging the episode violated the kingdom's cyber crime law in the episode has some and has criticized as crown prince mohammed bin son man over the killing of journalists. and the saudi concert that happens in istanbul in the kingdom's cozy relationship with the us was criticized as well as the imprisonment of political activists including female drivers and saudis involvement in the war in yemen now the streaming service depend defended its decisions saying we strongly support artistic freedom worldwide and only remove this episode in saudi arabia after he receives a valid legal request and to comply with local law but it's using the artistic freedom card didn't quite go down too well with human rights watch it's middle east
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and africa director sarah leah whitson she tweeted netflix claimed support artistic freedom means nothing if it bows to demands of the government officials who believe in no freedom for their citizens not artistic not political and not comedic and jamal she's editor at the washington post cannot see as she called this is quite outrageous but also some people have been sharing the link to it on you tube which can actually be watched from saudi arabia at least for now with people pointing out that if anything saudi arabia's move has given the show more publicity ironically it's his most viewed patriot act episode on you tube with more than one million views online. so thank you very much the u.s. president says he's ready to negotiate an end to the partial. government shutdown which has been in place for almost two weeks donald trump's invited political leaders from both parties to the white house on thursday the democrats take over as
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the majority party in the house of representatives president john has been refusing to sign off the new spending unless it includes billions of dollars for his much famed border war let's go live now to washington speak to our correspondent there heidi jocasta and heidi what can we expect to should we be preparing for another showdown because he's invited i think it is to run king members from each side of the house from both the lower house and the senate. that's right but what's interesting here is although it's the two parties meeting to discuss the issue the real negotiations that have yet to take place are between the democrats and the only republican who has who is is insistent on this five billion dollar while funding which is donald trump and that is still the big border in that is still the big boulder in the room separating him of the democrats from reaching a compromise and he says that any efforts to reopen this government has to have
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a five billion dollars otherwise he will not sign off on it because it would fund the building of his water wall which he campaigned on and democrats have said the opposite that they will not give one cent to the construction of that wall it will be interesting to see whether today know how the story i wanted to interrupt and just say but he's saying that he's prepared to negotiate do we just simply we believe that he's prepared to give up on the demand for five billion. that's hard to say be he has been so entrenched in on his demands for this five billion they were made to be seen whether he will truly negotiate we know that he was kind of back and forth on that but it seems that every time his conservative colleagues come to criticize him backing down on that campaign promise to build the wall with its five billion but he seems to dig in on his on a stance of not caving so it remains to be seen whether today's meeting will be more of a photo op or if any true progress can be made more to do it she knows with the
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leaders of congress to be new vice you do we have to you know they're going to attend. that's i'm i'm not sure i know that this meeting is planned for this afternoon it was announced in the early morning here in d.c. and it is expected that the leaders of both parties who have been invited. attend at least to show voters that there is some efforts in washington to reopen the government which has been partially shut down now going on twelve days but i also should add that this is interesting timing because as of tomorrow there will be a new congress sworn in in d.c. and there will be a dramatic shift in the political dynamic because democrats will take over the house of representatives and donald trump will have his first taste of governing a divided government democrats are seeing that as an opportunity to to demonstrate .

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