the people of the saloniki were asked to take part in a non-binding referendum on whether they were in favor of the government's proposed privatisation of the water company but they were faced with a last minute problem. october if you. thought about it a bit those a little bit is lovely it's a good idea that there's a. they say that they did it and that if they didn't receive it got it they said they could not book the enter into a school and the people who were making a little bit of this one of the minister of the interior here yeah like east sent out a letter to the minister polities to declare the referendum illegal then then it got to topeka mcgonagle not what i've said in the christmas numbers a lot of my the couples are cheaper but they will save as much go. and i mean that if we can i believe use the moment of course making sort of a physical is going to become some of it as well or better it will because when they get to the general of the day they will likely become one of your new single

you know the government is a little bit of nation locally we're going to be like what am i going to last i'm going to have the same ailment. the phone might make me feel. but our goal is to get to cope with that as much about this if you tickle basis to say office i don't need to eat but i've been up officer to somebody needs to pick it up this chemical none of them has unsteady support if it be given still if he has a couple they did a sting next year because the whole should be equally serious even if he's got a man and proceeded to cook b.c. to put them on all sort of them on a push to build up some of the border for. the

french president emmanuel mccall is on an official trip to athens he is accompanied by forty. the french businessmen who are interested in the greek privatized program . they will have the opportunity to receive answers directly from the prime minister of greece alexis tsipras. amongst them is shown luis assad's c.e.o. officer west. of any part of hell of trouble. because he got it while on the back of a brick or. been this is the amount of us the god but now look you know but it will grow robber had more years now and the left bell brought a. butterfly

most focused don't give up over the beautiful peace of the stock of the washington there was a message that if there is to be a stuck up at me if i'm with you haven't already have me kill the good ones that you just give up in the future that ought. to not make it middle of the apples to go that's very difficult. after you get into tradition. in portugal fernandez became minister of the environment in the newly formed left wing government in the twenty fifteen elections water policy would soon change. oculus let a small deal first that was the vs what the leave it. up at that yeah it was local

ms in this movie c.b.s. did they call sawyer. the bash. no but it is sort of the that was and we see this is that we will see that. unfortunately the government washes its hands of privatization cases according to portugal's constitution municipalities are autonomous and the state is forbidden from intervening by syllabus and passions defended i have to get high on their own . the mayor of bar stalest has been left to deal with the compensation charge of one hundred seventy two million euros to the group of private water companies the municipality also realize it had lost all technical know how regarding water was released on my return started.

just before. the fact not by sparky if that's where. the mayor of passion is the ferrera brito witnessed the troubles in barstow and tried to negotiate with the company new good. no seems new is that a big out of the mill. mr vehicle goes into good or pretty uses a phone. calls. the bus freedom at the leaf of a. bison wasn't going to see. every of nowhere. oh you know me. activists against water charges often patrol this neighborhood of cork when they

find an irish water crew installing meters they do what they can to stop the. you know what we need when we know. nothing has been set in stone yet but the commission keeps pushing ireland to comply with the community directive in order to impose meters and water charges on its citizens there is this principle which is. framed in the water directive that the polluters should be so there should be a direct responsibility of this cannot be done with a general exception obviously faced with unprecedented public disobedience the government is trying to maneuver through public discontent and the demands to impose water charges from brussels what are trying to do you know in a small way they would say has to happen because the european union told us it has to happen because detroit get all those that's what it does but they can tunnel

logic on its head very very quickly because when the european commission offers a different opinion something else for example the apple corporation older citizens of this country talked to bill talked in billion euro suddenly the ideology walks in there and suddenly the new liberal say the european commission it's only an opinion we're part of europe but it doesn't it doesn't take away our ability to make our own decisions in relation to how we tax how can the european commission take away our ability to make our own decisions in relation to water. for an opinion of the very same body and the very same people allows us to be wrong decisions in relation to give an apple a thirteen billion year old gift well all you have to do is look at who profits to explain those contradictions where asking people to stick with the comp to the company over five dollars

a gallon the demonstration isn't done and it's apparently friendly demonstration like it's about money money is the bottom line you're going to be date without water it's not it's not an option and it's too important it's much too important everything everything left in the hands of for profit companies. i. do google. how. he was i was how to cook. was you was all of these situations and all of the peoples of europe need to start having an honest conversation with each other. like to cuba. russia europe people are saying you know. enough is enough.

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who who. who. hello again and welcome back we're here across the united states we are looking at a weather system down here towards the southeast it is making its way up the east coast and got a cousin problem here for parts of new york as we get to the beginning of the weekend heavy rain is going to be a problem there also probably affecting parts of boston so if you have

international travel into any of these cities you could expect some delays there well the west coast rain all the way down from british columbia basically down towards san francisco we're going to be seeing some clouds down towards l.a. fourteen degrees there but as we go towards sunday a lot of that rain makes its way towards the east but it's going to turn to snow expression the higher elevations but it's going to be a rainy day with a term for their fifteen degrees here across much of the caribbean we're going to see a frontal boundary that came in from the united states that system is going to continue to make its way down here towards the southeast and bring rain or anywhere from cuba down over towards parts of jamaica over here towards the bahamas will see rain as well as we go towards sunday the rain continues for much of that area down towards santa domingo though it is going to be a nice day for you at about twenty eight degrees down here towards panama a lot of rain in the forecast over the next few days with a temperature there of thirty to managua a partly cloudy day at thirty three and up here towards guatemala about twenty four

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shall carry this is the news hour live from tokyo coming up in the next six minutes . joe cole millions of americans hundreds of thousands of workers hostage another meeting between leading democrats and president donald trump and the government shutdown fails to reach a resolution. calls for an independent investigation into the debt that you mock criticizing the suspects trial underway in saudi arabia. thailand is set by its first tropical storm in three decades bringing flooding and fear of landslides we're live from one of the hardest hit areas plus. robot pride on the south korean island just twelve kilometers from north korea's guns where people are hoping talk of peace a silence them for good. looks like there's no end in sight for the partial u.s.

government shutdown which is now into its third week president says it could last for years but he says he hopes it it doesn't. now there are hundreds of thousands of government employees out there working without pay or not working at all trump has been holding emergency talks with congressional leaders at the white house to try to end the stalemate the democrats accuse trump of holding the american people hostage the sticking point is trump's demand for five billion dollars to fund a wall along the border with mexico the democrats will give him that money so the president says he may use emergency powers to get it built atika hand reports. the two sides emerged from both sides of the white house with very different impressions of how their meeting went and they had a very very productive meeting a lengthy and sometimes contentious conversation with the president. with democrats now in charge of one chamber of congress they came to the white house to try and find a compromise to reopen the government the president says he won't sign

a bill that doesn't spend five billion dollars on a wall the democrats say they simply will not spend a penny to build it they only seem to agree on one thing in fact he said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time months or even years absolutely i said that i don't think it will but i am prepared and i think i can speak for republicans in the house and republicans in the senate they feel very strongly about having a safe country but that is the key question can he keep senate republicans on his side if enough vote to fund the government it could override any potential veto reopening the government without a wall without that it could go on it for much longer both sides refusing to budge the president threatened to declare a national emergency to build his wall on his own but it seems unlikely he actually has the power to do that under the constitution political scientist eric campbell doesn't think the new house speaker nancy pelosi will cave i think the question

becomes next week when they are when they are government employees who are not getting paychecks i think that's when we really good. so how do people are on both sides of an open question about who will win the political fight hundreds of thousands of government workers and contractors are not being paid and for many not paying their bills for them it is a question of how much more they'll have to lose before this political fight is over. al-jazeera washington. around us the director of the graduate school of political management of george washington university is the campaign promise has an ravelled this president did run on building a wall across the southern border the reality is during the campaign he said mexico would pay for this wall mexico said they would not pay for the wall in two thousand and seventeen he came back and essentially said well we need to advance mexico the

money to pay for this wall and then in twenty eighteen he is essentially said that his new renegotiation of nafta the north american free trade agreement which now is just a u.s. canada mexico agreement is purportedly paying for this wall but none of that is in fact true and most democrats are saying look we do have one point three billion in border security funds in the package that the house passed last night and it is the same package that the senate passed three weeks ago and the president is still not accepting it. heads to the middle east next week the investigation into the murder of john. is expected to be on the agenda when he meets saudi leaders will also be seeking help from allies to make more of an effort to maintain security in the region davis that will include the united arab emirates egypt and qatar also in

jordan as well from washington. eight countries eight days not much time for sleep a lot has been packed into the secretary's agenda not only is he going to be putting pressure on riyadh to elevate its credibility about the story that it has been telling about the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi it's also going to be putting pressure on all eight countries that he is visiting to was do more to try to withstand the influence of iran in their internal affairs the u.s. considers iran perhaps one of its top two or three foreign policy objectives and it feels that if by drilling this face to face being that they might be able to get a little further along in their ham pain to isolate iran on the global stage the secretary is also going to be holding a couple of strategic dialogues with officials in doha and officials in kuwait city

and he is going to be looking at a number of other key issues that really have been on the u.s. his foreign policy agenda for the past year especially the ongoing war in syria the ongoing war in afghanistan the ongoing war in yemen a lot to pack and a lot to discuss but whether they're way to come up with anything concrete at the end of this eight day trip is really what remains to be seen. as you heard there pompei a will also be seeking to reassure allies after president trumps announcement to withdraw u.s. troops from syria a state he's a former u.s. state department official who acted as a foreign policy adviser for a obama and hillary clinton presidential campaigns he says sudden decision on syria is this worst foreign policy decision so far. the priority will obviously be walking back president trump's announcement of a withdrawal from syria we basically are seeing something between either a considerable slowdown of this so-called withdrawal or

a complete cancellation of it without an official announcement to follow them by all appearances the israelis have been even more effective than people like senator graham persuading the president that he was making a mistake with this and already the cost to u.s. credibility has been.