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that is claimed so many lives searching for sanctuary two people in power on al-jazeera. talks between u.s. congressional leaders and the president failed to break the government shutdown deadlock as donald trump insists a border wall will be built. hello i'm maryanne demasi in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up on the program . we as you know have been pressing for justice in the shoji case for months now. the u.n. human rights body calls for an independent investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi thailand's first tropical storm in three decades hits the south east
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coast causing destruction and flooding. and unconvinced by their government's assurances sudanese protest is a rally off to friday prayers the country's second largest city. welcome to the program our top story president donald trump says the partial u.s. government shutdown could last for more than a year if he doesn't get funding for a wall along the u.s. border with mexico the shutdown is now in its fourteenth day and has meant hundreds of thousands of government employees are working without pay or lost a toll but trump insists he'll call a national emergency in order to build the wall and he's also pointed out that his policies have led to the u.s. economy adding some three hundred twenty thousand jobs since december we're very proud of the jobs and the job numbers it was incredible. and i think i'll be even
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more proud if we can have great border security for the first time in really the history of our country the southern border is a dangerous horrible disaster we've done a great job but you can't really do the kind of job we have to do on less you have a major powerful barrier and that's what we're going to have to have we can call a national emergency because of the security of our country absolutely you know we can do it i haven't done it i may do it i may do it but we could call a national emergency and build it very quickly and some other way of doing it but if we can do it through a negotiated process we're giving that a shot well trump made those comments following emergency talks with democratic congressional leaders at the white house they can use trump of holding the american people hostage senate minority leader chuck schumer insist the issue border security has to be separated from government funding we told the president we
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needed the government open he resisted in fact he said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time months or even years. the discussion then despite we discussed a bunch of issues as the leader said that was somewhat contentious and we'll continue discussing of course but. it's very hard to see how progress will be made unless they open up the government. we really cannot resolve this until we open up government and we've made that very clear to the president services are being withheld from the american people paychecks are being held with help from people who serve the needs of the american people and our border security will suffer if we do not resolve this issue we are committed to keeping our borders safe. that has always been our principle to honor the oath of office that we take
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to protect and defend our country and our constitution. we can do that best when government is open we've made that clear to the president. well and he joins us live now from washington so i'm just listening to president trump and leading democrats there it looks as if that talks today ended in failure both sides are digging their heels in with this battle of wills is there any room then over the weekend. i mean it looks at the moment like neither party is blinking that's the simple truth of the matter president truck views this is a national security issue he talked there about declaring emergency powers of it actually build the wall himself something that it's far more complicated than he presented it on the other side the democrats are pretty clear as well they want the government to reopen they spent yesterday putting forward bills that would have done that they didn't even reach the president's desk so nobody is moving in this argument we're entering the third week of the government partial shutdown it
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departments plus the department of homeland security eight hundred thousand federal workers some voluntarily working but not getting paid yet we're already hearing that transport security agents are not reporting into work because they're not being paid so the standoff is entering its third week this weekend of course president trump did say that they will be teams from both sides meeting once again but if you look at the situation as it stands you've got two sides taking a firm stance and neither at this moment in time budging. because one thing we have seen with president trump so far is that he relishes uncertainty he thrives on conflict this. he sort of seems to be quite adept at dealing with these types of situations how sustainable though is the position of the democrats the party that has long prided itself on being anti shutdown. i mean
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really it depends how this narrative plays out over the next few weeks it depends on who the american public begin to blame for this partial shutdown this argument over funding for a physical border a physical fence along the us mexico border that may be very well where the some leeway where there's some wriggle room but i don't think either side wants to keep this going there eight hundred thousand people not getting paid but when you look at the situation at the moment neither side is moving remember this was president trump's signature promise when he was campaigning to become president it's very popular among his base they like this fight they like the fact that their president is fighting so hard for a physical barrier along the border but at the same time there are many people in the american population that disagree with this remember also the democrats already offering president trump over a billion dollars to enhance security along about border not a physical fence but this impasse just looks like it's going nowhere at the moment we are almost in week three now all these people not being paid neither side
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budging neither side being blamed necessarily at the moment but if the narrative begins to emerge that one side is blamed more than the other that may be when lawmakers are tested most and perhaps where they will begin to budge in one direction or the other but at the moment i can't see that happening on either side as things stand right thank you andy gallagher with the latest from washington well earlier we spoke to bruce fein former u.s. associate deputy attorney general he says that president trump is most likely to be held responsible for the government shutdown but not many americans are feeling the impact yet on the one hand because three quarters of the government remains fully funded and of the remaining quarter half of those are essential personnel that shows up at the pinch on the american people is not pronounced if you look at it as a nationwide phenomenon obviously particular individuals may lack wages they may not be contracted but that. tiny percentage in general i think that the
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president is held accountable for things that happened on his watch and probably there's a greater risk to trump then to congress which is more of an opaque institution and it's more difficult to pin accountability on the house or on even the democrats as opposed to individual who occupies the white house the net is mr trump. u.s. secretary of state has to seek an update on saudi arabia's investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi next week during a trip to riyadh was last seen entering the saudi calls to listen istanbul in october said oh has said there's no direct evidence connecting saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond to the mudda seven a middle east visit to the united arab emirates egypt and castle jordan has more on the story now from washington. he is going to be holding
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a couple of strategic dialogues while he is in kuwait and qatar he's going to be talking about security issues namely syria iraq the situation regarding iran and the ongoing efforts to try to broker peace between the israelis and the palestinians and he is going to be looking at more local issues and as well areas where are the u.s. and like able to up provide some help we know for example that he will be raising the question of the ongoing rift within the gulf cooperation council or g.c.c. while he is meeting with officials in qatar during his trip eight days eight countries a lot of work is facing the secretary of state on this his first full fledged trip to the middle east he has visited saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan before in his first year but this is first full trip to the region certainly the
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secretary is going to find himself answering a lot of questions about what kind of posture the u.s. is going to have in the region once the president's desire to pull u.s. forces out of syria takes place he's also going to have to answer questions about the u.s. plans to withdraw half of its troops from afghanistan country leaders in the region have a lot of questions about whether this means that the u.s. is going to be changing its security relationship with them relationships that have been built up over the better part of forty in some cases fifty years and so he will be having a lot of discussions with regional leaders about how the military draw downs are going to affect the security posture and really affect what the expectations can be not just from the united states but from countries in the region as well very much a key part of his travels the discussions about syria and afghanistan.
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we now seem to thump. trip came as saudi arabia held its first hearing on casualties case with the death penalty being sought for five of the eleven suspects but the trial has already been criticised by the u.n. human rights office describing it as not sufficient mike hanna has more now from the united nations headquarters in new york. well the un making very clear that it once an independent international investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi a spokesperson for the high commissioner for human rights insisting that it's impossible to adjudicate on the partiality of the process underway in riyadh the trial there of the leaven the suspects in the murder beginning this week the spokes person had this to say we are not present in saudi arabia to be able to assess these trials and we can't give an assessment of the trials ourselves we as you know have been pressing for justice in the case for months now. and we've been calling
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for an investigation independent investigation with international involvement and this has not happened yet now while we are aware that a trial has taken place in saudi arabia this is not sufficient first of all and second of all we are against the imposition of the death penalty in all circumstances a number of human rights organizations have also cost out some of the legality or impartiality of that process in riyadh also calling for some kind of international independent investigation into the murder but the situation is that the u.n. is quite capable of michigan such an investigation by itself all it requires is one of the legislative bodies of the united nations the security council or the general assembly or to give a mandate to the secretary general to start such an investigation however it would appear that u.n. members are looking for some kind of political cover they want one of the
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interested parties in the situation to approach the security council or the general assembly and make such a request the interested parties turkey and saudi arabia it's unlikely it would appear that saudi arabia would make the request turkey has insisted that it does one some kind of independent international investigation headed by the united nations but as yet has not made an official request to any of the united nations bodies. well in all the stories we're following closely eleven people from the same family have been killed in as strikes carried out by the u.s. led coalition against i still in syria local sources say the attack happened at the village of. province it's close to iraq's border and is in an area controlled by it comes as a joint investigation by al jazeera and the intercept reveals the u.s. military's intensified its bombing campaign against i still in the region since president trumps announcement of the withdrawal of america's troops reports say the fiercest attack in the past week happened in. the village only afraid he's river is
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held by i still fight as meanwhile in the northwestern provinces of aleppo and in syria fighting is escalating between rebel groups that clashes have been reported throughout the area between the al qaeda linked sham and the turkish backed national front for liberation dozens of people have now been killed in the worst rebel infighting in three months you have al jazeera live from london more still ahead for you pakistan's prime minister begins his first official visit to ankara we'll bring you the latest on those talks also coming up on the program america's disappearing drug stores why health care experts is sounding the alarm over so-called pharmacy deserts in low income areas.
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hello again or welcome back where across queens last over the next few days we're going to be seeing the possibility of the same cyclon that you've been dealing with now making its way back so that is plenty out there in the coral sea right now it's basically stationary but we've through thing to happen is that this storm is going to be making its way back towards the west and could be a threat by the time we get to early next week so that is something we'll be watching as we go towards sunday out here towards the southwest it is going to be those temperatures purse a high temperature few of thirty seven degrees well as you make your way over here towards new zealand well things not looking too bad for most of the areas particularly here towards north island we're looking at some better conditions down here toward the south though we are seeing some clouds in your forecast things get a little bit better as we go towards the weekend maybe some clouds exposure down here towards the southern part of the south island but auckland a very nice day at about twenty five on saturday making its way to twenty four on sunday for chris church more rain in your forecast by the time we get to the
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afternoon and then here across parts of japan we are looking at still a combination of rain and snow for much of the area to simply snow in the higher elevations up towards sapporo your high temperature only minus one here on saturday and by the time we get to sunday we are going to be seeing some less snow but a temperature still a minus two. on counting the cost it was the worst performing stock market of twenty eighteen find out where china is headed in twenty nineteen brazil's new president has an economic challenge plus taxing times for technology giants and france at a profit warning from apple counting the cost on al-jazeera.
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quick update of the top stories this hour for you now president donald trump is saying the partial u.s. government shutdown could last for more than a year if he doesn't get funding for a wall along the u.s. border with mexico trump insists he will call a national emergency to get the five billion dollars of funding he needs while trump has been holding emergency talks with democratic congressional leaders at the white house they have accused the president of holding the american people hostage and in other developments u.s. secretary of state might is to seek an update on saudi arabia's investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi next week when he makes a trip to riyadh he's seven day middle east or will also take in visits to united arab emirates egypt and cattle. well in other news thailand's first tropical storm
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in three decades has killed one person as it made landfall on the southern coast on friday storm public has not downed trees and utility poles but is fast losing speed though the risk of flooding is still a possibility because of being advised to avoid the tourism hotspot with ferries and flights suspended on the popular island of coasts a movie from left florence louis reports. tropical storm public unleashes its fury on southern thailand meteorologists say the timing is unusual as it's well outside of the monsoon season. made landfall in the province of new concept on friday hours earlier than expected the government issued a maximum alert warning for the area officials had given orders days ago to start releasing water from some reservoirs in the southern provinces to lower the levels and reduce the potential for flash floods. thousands of people living in low lying
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coastal villages have been moved to higher ground schools are shut with some buildings turned into emergency shelters the oil and gas industry has also been affected more than two thousand workers have been evacuated from offshore rigs on coast an island north of new concepts both ferries and flights have been suspended yesterday we went back from the morning. because we planned to come back from somewhere. today that. said stop. yesterday afternoon power supplies have been disrupted in some areas the eye of the storm was initially forecast to pass through coast that it's changed but we're still feeling the effects of tropical storm it hasn't stopped raining and
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the waves are much stronger than usual and people have been told to stay out of the water. the storm is losing strength as it crosses southern thailand and heads into the undermanned sea but the amount of rain it dumps in the region still means a better threat of severe flooding lawrence louis al-jazeera. pakistan's prime minister has told the president of turkey he wants to strengthen the relationship between the two countries ahead of his two day visit to unca and ron cowen had already agreed to transfer school set up by foot to to lend to a turkish charity blames gooden's followers for an attempted coup in two thousand and sixteen. explains turkish president john and pakistan's prime minister imaan hama arrived at the presidential complex and after friday prayers this is holmes first visit to turkey since taking office and there were many issues to discuss the law of. the connection between
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turkey and pakistan has always been there. and i want to stress that we want to dig this relationship to a much higher level. a level that so far has not been reached trade relations between turkey and pakistan have gained for mentum in recent years with agreements reached on the weapon sales worth billions of dollars this meeting between add-on and hun comes just weeks after pakistan handed management of schools associated with the turkish businessman tried to look in to turkey's mari foundation tricky because this good man who's been in the united states since one thousand nine hundred ninety off a massive binding a failed coup attempt in two thousand and sixteen and his supporters of attempting to overthrow or john's government. we've expressed our satisfaction with the decision of the supreme court of pakistan regarding the terrorist organization the
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fact that the supreme court of pakistan has declared a terrorist organization and the transfer of girl in the schools to the armory foundation or welcome burgers. truck you want school and extradited from the us i request that has so far been turned down straining relations between washington and ancora but us president donald trump has promised to study the case at the legation from the u.s. including f.b.i. a present it is has been in turkey and been briefed by tradition persecutors about goodman and his supporters involvement in the failed coup attempt the u.s. delegation spent two days in the turkish capital they attended trials of the coup suspects and were given recordings of elegy discussions between fact a lucky man and his followers in the army on the night of the attempted coup the spike a recent softening by the u.s. some turkish officials doubt washington has any intention of extraditing good men but is just trying to gain time and possible leverage with turkey over policy
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towards syria and elsewhere in the middle east so now because solo al-jazeera unca . to sudan now a police a fired tear gas to disperse dozens of protesters chanting anti-government slogans as they left a major mosque following friday prayers the incident in german was smaller than all the demonstrations we've seen in the country over the past two weeks. the protesters want president omar al bashir to step down they are blaming him for rising food prices and government corruption at least nineteen people have died since the unrest began last month people morgan brings us more now from khartoum. once again it seems people coming out today to protest against president obama to bashir and demand that he step down and his twenty one year rule and i would all thought of three weeks ago when people started complaining in the city of hadera about the rising price of bread and other commodities they say that inflation which is that about seventy percent is quite high and very and bearable for many of them that quickly escalated into protests demanding that the government step down
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president obama but here has been very defiant since the protests started he said he was going to try to improve the economy and yesterday he spoke to civil servants saying that he's going to increase their salary so that living conditions become better for them but people have been saying that they've heard these promises over and over again now let's step back and see what three weeks of protests have done to sudan. educational institutes have been closed down social media platforms like twitter facebook and whatsapp have been blocked by the government so the people cannot call for protest that is still happening despite the government shutdown of social media so people are saying that they will continue to protest amnesty international says at least thirty seven people have been killed but the government is the beating that figure and says only nineteen have been killed and several have been injured in the protest but people have been very defiant they say they will continue to protest this if they will continue to demand that the president step down and the president says he's also going to be very determined to stay in power until elections in twenty twenty so it's not clear where this would end and how long it would go on for but what what is the fact is that president bashir has never had to face like the protests this long before he has faced protests during
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his rule yes but never for this long and he seems to be very confused about how to handle it because people have not given him much of an option besides stepping down something he said he's not going to do so this may be going on for a while before solutions are found if ever there is one else thirteen latin america governments in canada a not going to recognize nicolas maduro is venezuela's president when he's due to start his second term next thursday urging him not to take the oath of office proper democratic standards were not followed during his reelection bid now i understand chess has the story now from lima. the foreign ministers of the fourteen countries and members of the group decided not to recognize. the next president to take over office again on january the ten. election didn't comply with international standards it was not transparent it didn't have any opponents and it didn't have any international observers group decided
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today higher ranking officials from the ministry of government will not be allowed to enter any of the member countries it was expected to in the last few weeks that at least peru would break diplomatic relations with ministers foreign minister said that they are increasingly worried about the humanitarian and political situation in venezuela foreign minister said that the countries urge president little to step aside and do not take office again and generally the. u.s. television network c.b.s. has refused a request by egypt to stop the broadcast of an interview with president abdel fatah sisi in the interview with current affairs show sixty minutes sisi says the egyptian army is working alongside israel against eisel fighters in north sinai he also denies egypt is holding tens of thousands of political prisoners. private data
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belonging to hundreds of german politicians including chancellor angela merkel has been published online the information leaked includes home addresses mobile phone numbers credit card details and invoices it's not clear whether the officials were targeted by a hack or victims of an internal leak the only political party not to be affected was the right wing a f t the stolen data was published on twitter in december but only recently came to light. u.s. health care experts are warning about so-called pharmacy deserts from oregon on the west coast of baltimore in the east low income and minority neighborhoods left without local drugstores and with the widening scope of services pharmacies offer in the u.s. an increasingly important part of the national health care system john hendren reports from chicago. for miles around every pharmacy has abandoned rita johnson's neighborhood on a summer day i really could walk to the one. too far from here.
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they close with their. to find the medication she takes for cancer in a recent spinal surgery she now makes a winding five mile trek on public transportation some of her neighbors have neither the patience nor the money to make it. welcome to the pharmacy desert the place in major american cities where garbage strewn like urban tumbleweeds before what used to be corner drug stores it's a growing phenomenon in poor minority neighborhoods across the united states it's saying racially motivated to me because they vols mainly. black and latino communities it is in neighborhoods like these that the u.s. opioid epidemic is at its worst addicks suffering opioid overdoses are often left without access to the lifesaving drug narking this man survived because these police officers were nearby with a ready dose you may have a child that's on the money so what if that child does not have
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a local pharmacy in their area and they can't get that rescue inhaler. that patient will end up in the emergency room or the outcome may be worse. chicago's cook county hospital system has tried to fill the gaps with mail order pharmacy but mail order doesn't provide the counseling in-store health clinics flu shots and other services local drugstores offer pharmacy professor deem a cut too says for pharmacies it's simply a business decision to leave areas where more of their clientele used government insurance if an area is not profitable you know they just leave like any other business when when you think about reimbursement rates for pharmacies with public insurance. private insurance it's much lower cities are increasingly becoming a land of drugstore haves and have nots while there are pharmacy deserts on chicago's poor south and west sides the affluent north side is a pharmacy with a drug store on one side often directly across the street from another. rini to
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johnson and her neighbors are left hoping the longer distance they have to travel doesn't mean the difference between life and death john hendren al jazeera chicago . just a quick recap of the top stories before president obama trump says the partial u.s. government shutdown could last for more than a year if he doesn't get funding for his proposed border war with mexico trump has been holding emergency talks with congressional leaders at the white house. they've accused of holding the american people hostage the shutdown is now in its fourteenth day has meant hundreds of thousands of government employees and working without pay or not a toll trump says he might call a emergent a national emergency in order to build the wall we're very proud of the jobs in the jobs numbers that was incredible and i think i'll be even more proud if we could
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have great border security for the first time in really the history of our country the southern border is a dangerous horrible disaster we've done a great job but you can't really do the kind of job we have to do on less you have a major powerful barrier and that's what we're going to have to have but leading democrats insist the issue of the woman be separated from government funding we told the president we needed the government open he resisted in fact he said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time months or even years. the discussion then despite we discussed a bunch of issues as the leader said that was somewhat contentious and we'll continue discussing of course but. it's very hard to see how progress will be made unless they open up the government. well in all the
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developments from washington the u.s. secretary of state might pompei is to seek an update on saudi arabia's investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi next week when he makes a trip to riyadh in october pompei is that there was no direct evidence connecting the saudi crown prince mohammed bin some months the murder of the journalist on by a seven day middle east will also include visits to the united arab emirates egypt and castle. well pump as announced trip comes as the saudi court held its first hearing on casualties case with the death penalty being sought for five of the eleven suspects united nations human rights all face has criticized the trial saying it's not sufficient well that's it for myself and the team here in london there will be more news for you at the top of the next hour in about twenty five minutes time coming up next on al-jazeera is counting the cost for most memorable moments with al-jazeera was when i was on air as hosni mubarak fell with the crowds in tahrir square too often. if
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