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so that we know as businesses where to our investment i want to leave and that's what should happen that's what the people voted for and it should have been shorter. darby's history is rooted in industry the cotton mills of the eighteenth century have been replaced by big manufacturers like rolls royce and toyota. that a.s.g. workers are making and designing car parts nearly a fifth the jobs in this area are in manufacturing mostly in the aerospace automotive and rail industry all have strong economic ties to. what's been produced here will go into the supply chain for the u.k. the automotive industry and some of it will end up in your. bruce ohman owns a.s.g. and voted to leave the e.u. and would do so again disorderly breaks it will create chaos for hours if you can't
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plan properly. i do believe we need to leave with a managed no deal on the w t o rules they were better off for it give us some short term pain the longer term will be it will be a lot better off you could have predicted that the divisions exposed by the twenty sixteen referendum would still be so deeply across british society the only certainty now is uncertainty about what the future might hold and he would al-jazeera in darby on this people in power documentary their team investigates questions surrounding the referendum like was their original vote to leave the e.u. tainted you can watch who paid for bracks it on al-jazeera dot com. you can also get in touch with us we'd like to hear from you on these stories you can send your comments to any one of her online platforms were on twitter use the hash tag a.j. news grid our handle is a.j. english we're also on facebook at facebook dot com slash al jazeera and you can
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send us a message on whatsapp or telegram plus nine seven four five zero triple one one four nine now in kenya the president there who are kenyatta is promising to find all those responsible for a nineteen hours siege at a nairobi hotel at least fourteen people were killed when attackers detonated a bomb in the lobby and opened fire police say fifty people remain unaccounted for alexy o'brien reports. outside this morgue in nairobi anxious family members and colleagues white for news. now the siege is over details of what happened inside the dusit hotel a beginning to emerge surveillance cameras captured the beginning of the attack when heavily armed men walked into the upmarket complex collection from all over the place employees are running all over the place he was screaming for up on to realize that the best thing to do is to find examples places to hide.
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for hours afterward terrified workers barricaded themselves in as gunfire and explosives rang out. the others jumped from the windows of the do sixty two which includes offices and restaurants frequented by some of nairobi's many ex-pat workers survivors spoke of chaos and confusion we go out to say for they make it work or some but they make a big mistake because it was not secure we go and move the ship subhashree plus hundreds of others were taken to safety in an operation that lasted through the night they go to them in the strongest terms possible this dust of the actual contents of a trojan enemies of the of a human civilization. him as a joke divisions scum all sorts she says divisions are or terrorists a one zero sum family depend on standing together against these agents of. the
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somali based on group al shabaab says it was behind the attack it's often targeted nairobi in response to kenya sending troops to help protect the human backed government and neighboring somalia kenya's president is vowing justice we will seek out every person that was involved in the for funding planning. an execution of this hideous. we will relentlessly wherever they will be until they are held to account pictures circulated online appears to show the attackers bodies the hotel is now a crime scene and i robi's in mourning once more. an exam brian al jazeera. let's make the most of ali is a security expert focusing on the horn of africa is joining us from nairobi thanks
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for speaking to us on the news grid what do you think the motivation is behind this attack what's the message that's being sent out well i. had to motives in carrying out these terrorist attack one was to mark the anniversary of the attack where the basically ran of a kenyan calm in somalia the second motive i think was to basically announce that they are still there they are relevant this is a group that has been on its back foot. been awful while md and has been losing ground in somalia and basically they just wanted to make a point by stating that the best you relevant is the fact is they were able to carry out this attack in a hotel went into the lobby they've killed fourteen people so what does this really tell us about the strength of al shabaab and their ability to carry out these
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attacks. well the i was about went through went into deuces hotel and the you know within a very short time the security agency the multi-agency approach was able to move means swiftly efficiently and effectively managed to pin them down so they were not able to carry out or achieve their goals as much as they did in twenty thirteen when they carried out a similar attack at westgate and the security agencies have been on high alert al-shabaab has not been able to carry out attacks in the last three or four years in the city of nairobi because of the high levels of a lot that the security agencies have been i've been having but is this going to force the government in any way to rethink the effectiveness of their current counterterrorism strategy and their possible involvement of keeping their troops in somalia as part of the african union mission there but i think if
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anything the way the security agencies responded both time. and is is rather demonstrates the effectiveness of the counterterrorism strategy and the national account of violent acts to mean extrusion strategy that has been in place for a number of years now with regard to whether the kenyan government will think of moving out of somalia i don't think this particular time will make any headway or will convince or will influence any decision from the cañon government to leave somalia ok mr fairlie we thank you very much for speaking to us from nairobi let's now bring in al jazeera has joined tonight she's at the scene of this latest attack the attack is overjoyed the scenes clearly over but what is the mood like now. the mood right now it's
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a permit to be coming back to normal around here even inside we haven't had any blasts oh indeed bombs been deterred needed for the last two and a half hours it's quiet the police are not saying anything so we're. just waiting to hear what mean what next but as you can see the traffic is flowing normally this road was actually closed for the better part of yesterday and today morning but now traffic is allowed to flow normally so it's like everything is slowly coming back to normal but let's not forget that there are people who are still still missing because red cross released a report that said fifty people are still missing and there was also confirmation from the police saying that there are people who are still trapped inside and the only be released once they make sure that the bomb experts have cleared the area and able to be with no more harm. and join one of our viewers who were just
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mentioning this a moment ago but worth talking about a little bit more because several are for you as in france are asking about those fifty people that are still unaccounted for and what's being done to account for them. well we can only wait the only thing that you can wait and the family members can do is only wait to hear from the little police and the more politics the more ping out of the area is done by the forensics and also the bomb experts because that's all that they're waiting for that's there's nothing they can do and nobody can talk to anybody inside still nobody knows the situation inside but as i stated no more explosions that have been had for the last two and a half hours so we can only wait and see whether they will come out and the fifty that are missing those people that are still trapped inside all right joy thank you
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very much for that update from the scene of the attack in nairobi now a writer and political cartoonist patrick has penned this opinion piece which you can read on al jazeera dot com and in a while lessons have not been learnt in the wake of years of attacks by al shabaab it's an interesting piece which you can find by heading to al jazeera dot com. now sops and schools are closed in zimbabwe with a national strike in its third day so the internet has been restored in much of the country after a two day blackout was in bob ways main provider econet blames the government but the government says it didn't order an internet shutdown the army and police were deployed after at least three people were killed in violent protests over fuel prices regulars here with much more on that story what are you seeing online and start daryn while we have been told that the internet is officially back up but net blocks of org has said that facebook twitter and other social media apps were blocked for the past two days and this comes off of the ongoing protests triggered
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by a shop increase in the price of fuel on sunday and while much of the country has been offline activists are reporting that police have arrested individuals from the opposition including prominent activist and pastor evan merry way who led a nationwide anti-government protest back in twenty sixteen according to his lawyers police arrested him on charges of inciting public violence through social media we also heard from some zimbabweans who are currently there this is what they told us as we speak the internet is still shut down citizens have no way of communicating with each other over the internet or we know where this is wearing because the people who have done these people have picture eight hundred serious and social science against the people before we know what the government in crisis does we know what good leadership is when we see it and we also know what corrupt thieving blind disappears when we see it. well you would also continue to see
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the hash tag keep it on said w. as a side of the country protests in solidarity against the crackdown this group marched out ways embassy in her toria south africa and also in the embassy in london where protest was seen taking down the president's portrait is all we don't have those pictures that we will update that little a little bit later meanwhile rights groups have to be condemning the crackdown and zimbabwe's president who is currently in moscow has posted this message on facebook and also twitter addressing his offline nation saying that he is deeply saddened by the recent events which has witnessed violence and vandalism instead of peaceful and legal protests and he's now calling for calm but if you are currently in zimbabwe to connect with us if you can use the hash tag aging is good that really think you well you are the news group and if you're with us on facebook live you'll see a video in a moment from our colleagues at a.j. pos on how the u.s.
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government shutdown is affecting air travelers and later in the program the u.n. security council votes to extend the truce in one day the details coming up in a moment. hello get a welcome back to international weather forecast or you're going to see a system coming out of the med in this system is going to bring a lot of rain as well as snow across much of the divide over the next few days so here on thursday we do have quite a bit of snow here across parts of iraq as well as some rain coming into parts of iran that system is going to be moving quite quickly over here towards the east as we go from thursday to friday for you're going to be getting out of those clouds in snow terms are there about six degrees and then as we go towards friday that is going to be making its way towards the east down towards quite city we do expect to see a part of gravity for you with
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a temperature of fifteen degrees well here and don't. expect to see a drop in temperature as we go through the weekend so here on thursday twenty seven degrees winds are going to be coming out of the south but as we go towards friday well twenty degrees is going to be the high there temperatures are going to be dropping the winds are going to be coming out of the north same for abu dhabi good temperatures are going to be dropping as well with winds coming out of the north at twenty two degrees over towards miska a nice day for you at twenty six and then very quickly over here towards the sun part of africa we are looking at fairly nice conditions across much of the area over here towards durban we are going to see temperatures at about twenty eight degrees there up towards johannesburg at about twenty nine in capetown partly cloudy twenty four. it could be the biggest land grab in history. as powerful nations lay claim to territories under the ocean twenty one geologists are secretly plotting new borders
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fifteen people some of the members of the u.s. military have been killed in an explosion in the northern syrian city of another nineteen were injured the area is under the control of the kurdish people's protection units also known as the y.p. gene american troops are also based in the region and they've been arming and training. why p.g. in their fight against i so there has been increased tension along the turkish syrian border since president donald trump announced last month that u.s. troops will withdraw from syria well this latest development comes as kurdish forces in the north of the country rejected a safe zone proposed by the u.s. and turkey so trump of the turkish president. have both floated the idea of a safe zone as a way to prevent a turkish military offensive against kurdish forces ankara says the y.p. gene is a terrorist organization and a threat to turkey a kurdish representative say the only accept the proposal if the u.n. has a role. that we can accept safe zones if there is
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a decision by the united nations to send international forces under their supervision to these areas and if these forces are neutral to preserve peace and security alternatively if we agree with damascus according to the principles for dialogue that we put forth the syrian forces can enter the area to protect the borders from any external attacks which is considered one of the duties of the syrian army and meanwhile russia's foreign minister that sort of says syria's government must be in charge of the north. in the we are convinced that the best and only solution is the transfer of these territories under the control of the syrian government and of syrian security forces and administrative structures. meanwhile freezing weather in lebanon is being blamed for the deaths of fifteen children and syrian refugee camps the area has been battered by winter storms in recent days with more rain and snow coming down at least a million syrians are living in tents in makeshift shelters in lebanon then i heard
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reports from one of the camps in the northeastern town of. harsh weather conditions syria's refugees the the most vulnerable in times like this heavy snow fall rain strong winds as you can see we are at one of the informal refugee camps or close to the border with syria conditions are bad and refugees live in tents like this one plastic sheeting is only what protects them from heavy snowfall and rain of course and this is the second storm to hit lebanon in less than a week according to the united nations in the first storm twenty two thousand refugees were affected a lot of tents dozens of tents needed to be repaired so people are bracing for the worst it is a tough winter a lot of children here with respiratory problems they're falling ill because of the cold temperatures are below zero one hundred seventy thousand syrian refugees live in informal settlements like this one just under
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a million are registered with the united nations so the united nations doing its best but it doesn't have enough for it enough funds to provide the assistance needed a lot of people here say that they were not given any money to buy fuel for heating so they're bracing for even more harsher conditions in the days to come according to their knighted nation seventy thousand people are at risk because of the weather conditions forty thousand of them are children and that is because they live in shelters and sites that are prone to flooding and in sites that are in danger of collapse because of heavy snowfall. ok let's shift gears and those of you or who are active on social media have probably already seen a new trend that's been going around with the hash tag ten your challenge it's been all over my timeline regular what can you tell us about that i'm blowing up on mine as well diary or people have been posting photos of themselves to compare how they looked ten years ago to this year and you might think that it's just
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a harmless memory well sure but with the fun aside some are questioning whether they could be more to this campaign like in this article in wired magazine that's being shed on twitter tech expert kate o'neill says data from this mean trend could be used to train facebook's facial recognition algorithm but of course there's been a lot of reaction to the call and also tweet where instead of calling it the ten year challenge kate describes this as a picture aging me him and many are agreeing with her like this person who asked what if facebook is tricking me to be part of a mass experiment now facebook was criticized last year for being involved in a data breach case involving the now defunct political consulting firm cambridge analytical and this to use the references that scandal saying that sometimes things trending on facebook aren't always innocent though isn't convinced he tweeted not everyone shares your self admitted cause i paranoia now it's not clear why the ten
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year challenge started now some believe that it actually has something to do with facebook's memories feature or simply mocking two thousand and nine the year that social media really took off well let us know what you think of this and if you are doing this ten year challenge use the hash tag aging is great ok well let's find out why facebook started this challenge and speak to a chorus of relief she's a researcher are you heroes center for practical ethics at oxford university that is where she is joining us from via skype thanks for speaking to us so why do you think facebook launched this challenge. we don't know and that is part of the problem but last year facebook showed without a shadow of a doubt that they are not interested in protecting our privacy so i think a donia was perfectly right in doubting facebook we have to does facebook every time we post something online we should ask ourselves how could this information be misused who might be interested in it and how could be used against me but people
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who have participated in this challenge are saying well the data is already available facebook's already got all the profile picture so what is the big deal with posting well it's a way of organizing the data so you might have a profile picture of yourself ten years ago that is actually of yourself it might be of your friend of yours that dog or of occurred to me you saw until facebook hasn't doesn't have an easy way of. differentiating between these whereas if you carefully curated your profile from ten years ago then they can be absolutely sure what what what kind of information they have ok so now that facebook basically has a very large collection of data of photos of people from ten years ago up until now what does it do with it. well we don't know but there are two options that wouldn't look good for one is that those pictures could be linked to other databases so your photograph is in various databases so think about driver's
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license passports of. all to mug shots and so the more photographs are of you online the easier it is to link and to identify you as one and the same person a second option is that this is material too that is used to train facial recognition software and facial expressions a very dangerous tool and it's a tool that it can can be used for many purposes and can be sold and anyone could potentially use it and if you're a dangerous because your face is a very sensitive kind of personal data you kind of change your face so it's not like a password that if it gets stolen then you might do something where might be bad but you can change it and then protect your privacy after after that that last so how much or if it was done for people i hear what you're saying that how important is it for people to become savvy or about the data that we're sharing on social media about and even about the access that we're granting. i think it's very
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important and we have more and more our stories and more and more examples of how they took can be used so i was thinking today that you know when people get arrested in the united states police officers have to warn them that they have a right a right to remain silent and that anything they say can you think and then and maybe we shouldn't have that kind of warning through social media anything you post can be used against you know all right so we thank you very much for joining us from oxford good to get your thoughts a corrosive and thank you. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news right around the world and the united nations security council has voted to expand a truce monitoring mission in yemen so headed by the former dutch general patrick carrots a group of twenty observers arrived in yemen last month after the warring parties agreed to a cease fire in the port city of how days for more on this our diplomatic editor james bays is joining us from the united nations this just happening in the last hour or so james talk to us about what this resolution actually entails and what it means. well it is an extension and expansion of
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that monitoring mission on the ground in who dado is as you say came out of the deal in stockholm last month they now have the authorization from the un security council have up to seventy five peace monitors in her data along with support staff to try and keep that very fragile cease fire going and the resolution is in place now for the next six months to allow the u.n. to run this operation because clearly the security council needs to authorize something of this scale and of this cost it's very expensive having those monitors there on the ground not just having the monitors but having the backup for them for example emergency evacuation and medical facilities if one of those monitors was to be injured the insurance for the monitoring team so all of that now has been agreed unanimously by the u.n.
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security council that's the good bit the bad bit is the situation on the ground in her day because the ceasefire is still very very shaky you speak to diplomats and they say they really are treating this day by day they still feel there's a risk that there could be an incident which completely collapses this cease fire that's the worry from members of the security council they're doing everything they can to support the cease fire and in fact in the last few minutes we've been hearing from the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorist speaking to the general assembly of the united nations about his priority for the year and he says one of his priorities is yemen and trying to keep that ceasefire on course and then trying to build on that and as for the in the end the special envoy martin griffiths what are his next steps in the way of pushing forward the peace talks. well that is the building on it but the first phase of that is supposed to happen in the coming
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hours in amman jordan and that is a prisoner exchange deal now it's worth me telling you that that is something they've talked about for many months it's quite an ambitious plan with a lot of prisoners being exchanged by the two sides it was supposed to happen before the stockholm talks in december they never quite got there so far it's supposed to be a confidence building measure again in the last few hours as the who things have been complaining saying that there's not good faith on the other side particularly not just the government of yemen but saudi arabia and the united arab emirates they say that those countries have some of the prisoners they've been transferred from yemen to those two countries and the who's the delegation is certainly saying there's bad faith from the u.s. on this particular issue so that prisoner exchange in some doubt supposed to take place in the coming hours the next phase is political talks the real hard bit of
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trying to work out how to go forward in yemen how to have some sort of power sharing deal that has been pushed back now to february it was supposed to take place in january there was talk of talks taking place in kuwait. don't like the idea of talks in kuwait i'm told because they see kuwait has to close to saudi arabia one other idea that's come up is the possibility of those talks taking place in germany germany currently sits on the u.n. security council my understanding is that they have offered a possible venue for talks in february james bass thank you now a british academic who was jailed for allegations of spying in the united arab emirates and speaking out saying he was psychologically tortured matthew hedges was arrested in may while researching a ph d. on the u.a.e. security strategy he was later pardoned had just says his treatment was inhumane. they said that they would illegally rendition me they would send me overseas to
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a military base where they'll tie me up that would be me though touch me that if i didn't tell the truth i would go to jail for the rest of my life and i'm there by myself that's a lawyer in solitary confinement the pressure that i saw it on was i couldn't bear it the international criminal court will release former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo after rejecting a prosecution bid to extend his detention the court in the netherlands ruled by both is free to go a day after his shock acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity they related to post-election violence eight years ago in which three thousand people were killed the prosecution had planned to appeal the taliban's threatening to walk away from peace talks with the united states accusing it of deflecting from the issue of would drawing forces from afghanistan last week the armed group canceled plan negotiations with zalmay khalilzad he's the u.s.
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special envoy for peace in afghanistan he's been touring the region in pursuit of a negotiated end to the years long conflicts come out hyder has more from the capital islamabad. confusion still persisting over there. with the taliban. still plays in abu dhabi and in their state. now the us special representative for peace and reconciliation four of one is done ambassador. was due to come to islamabad for dogs with the budget on the government on how to bring the of one taliban to the negotiating table to bug is done saying that it had little control over the of our own taliban the taliban also issuing a statement saying that any air dam to outmaneuver dollar bond would be unacceptable and that the us would now boarding conditionalities which were unacceptable to the avalon taleban according to diplomats are still sticking to their guns saying that
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they will not drop to the puppet regime in kabul and warn nothing short of a foreign drawing from of honest on their four day is a complicated issue at hand and it is going to be difficult to see how do you have one taliban will come to the negotiating table of the united states of insincerity when the bank of china is offering sri lanka three hundred million dollar loan to help meet repayments to in the coming months a series of credit rating downgrades and political instability has made it harder for sri lanka to bore internationally nearly a quarter of total foreign debt is owed to beijing which has lent billions for infrastructure projects me now fernandez has more from the colombo port city project development sites. the area of the expanse to see behind me is part of that salvaged land the total extent of two hundred sixty nine heck dess and it's taken something like sixty nine million cubic feet of sand to create this new lead
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reclaimed area now the project not without controversy obviously critics talking about china muscling in pulling sri lanka paid to a death trap in fact this project was suspended by the current government when it first came to power pending investigations that all proper procedures had been followed they subsequently got the green light and basically continue working now there is basically completion date of almost another twenty years twenty forty one is the time where this entire project will be up and running the talk about basically a city to rival hong kong dubai that is the sort of ultimate goal in terms of china china remains very closely associated with. taking on a criticism of dominance there was a number of need on tuesday for another loan that three hundred billion u.s. dollars the government confirmed they are in negotiations to take from china which
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can go up to a billion dollars if the need arises so all of these issues that should lankan government would have to basically juggle its debt as it is it is facing a huge amount of debt repayments this year marking one of the highest that repayment it has in recent times he was president all trump is expected to authorize back pay for nearly eight hundred thousand workers affected by the longest federal government shutdown in america's history it's now the twenty sixth day since trump and democrats reached an impasse on funding for building a wall along the us mexico border leading to that stance though in washington about forty six thousand staff at the intro revenue services are due to be called back to work to handle tax returns without pay. hundreds of hundreds making their way to the united states on foot have crossed into guatemala dozens of asylum seekers plan to eventually join the caravan that's heading for the mexican border news of this
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group recently prompted the u.s. president to rally more support to build a wall on the border as part of his anti immigration drive zero's menu out up on who has the story from san pedro sula. i think it's the middle of the night in one of the most dangerous cities in the world and hundreds of hundred citizens are walking out of town. most of them say they're fleeing the country and are headed for the guatemalan border fair i'm here with my daughter and we've already suffered enough what can i say they say the path is dangerous but i've never experienced it and now i've come to experience it never mind if i have to suffer so will my daughter what can you do about it. there are many women and children in the group and human rights observers are keeping a close on. when people make the decision to leave it's our obligation to respect it and to accompany them we have insisted that if the national government will not
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guarantee the rights of people so they can stay in the country they must at least respect their right to migrate. as dawn breaks the caravan begins to spread out. there's no jobs the hospitals don't have mates and there are many things wrong in this country and the government doesn't do anything energy costs are high they are no jobs or opportunities for young people. those trying to leave by foot know the journey is long it's also difficult to keep up with the pace of the larger group that. for many their best bet is to rely on the kindness of passing motorists. as many as one thousand one hundred nationals have joined this latest caravan that departed from some pivotal sudha their logic is that it's safer to make the journey traveling as a group migrant caravans from central america remain a focal point of b. immigration debate in the united states but it isn't the number of people fleeing the region that has increased but rather their visibility and without addressing
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the issue of widespread violence and poverty there's no slowing down the cycle of migration. something that. for a from here is on facebook stay tuned for a short video on. older models coming up for you just a moment. but critics of the saudi government say the match should be moved coming up on the world weather.
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thank . you thank you thank you so italian football fans are preparing for one of the biggest games of the season but there is a catch joe you're here to tell us more about yes there is during league leaders eventis face ac milan in the super cup with an eighth title beckoning for the winner but the location of the game is proving controversial that's because it's being played in the saudi arabian city of jeddah last seen the italian football league agreed a twenty two million dollars deal to play three of the next five italian super cups in the country but since the murder of saudi journalist jamal the league has faced
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a backlash from those at home including the country's deputy prime minister and the former sports minister luca lotty he's a member of the opposition said italian football should be prevented from striking a blow against values and rights in the demba the city our president got in touch with the italian ambassador in riyadh to discuss moving the game but was strongly advised not to because the two countries have a good different relationship now they control the sea over the much died down until the league released tickets this month which showed that we were only going to be allowed in some parts of the stadium the country that only started allowing women into stadiums last year that's a.s.l. vini who's the deputy prime minister and a milan fan called it disgusting but eventis is head coach he's trying to put us positive spin on things. but the league has sealed a contract and therefore we have to play that moreover a step forward has been made allowing women to come to the stadium to see the much and therefore this is
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a small step forward let's see the positive side of this and not always the negative one and i believe that italy have international bonds with saudi arabia therefore we were told to go and we go and female fans in saudi arabia also say a game like the super cup is a positive step forward. with ac milan it was a similar line and you ventus are now in jeddah but if we go back one year we were not even dreaming of seeing them we only watched international matches on television from home but now it's a woman's right to watch international matches and as you can see it's not a big issue. nicola spare t. is an italian sports historian at the university of belonging and he joins us now live on skype nicolo the match kicks off in a few hours and considering this decision was made in june is the outrage in italy a little bit too little too late. yeah first of all the deepening to anyone yet the outrage is arrived late june where when the news
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of the super gap a late. came at almost no one. to that end even after big subject. the outage was quite a lot we can say that the outage as kept up with the news that we men where the space for women in the stadium was limited in no just one area of the stadium and as that has proven a bit of altered immediately but i say yet as as you are already well. the present day should not of the match if. we are in a situation where. in the end the public opinion that is not head be that the game has been in saudi arabia out but the problems are not that big today just morning
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there was a broad just in front of the embassy of saudi arabia but was a quite a small one yes several rights group in italy has asked fans not to watch the game live on television do you think there's any indication that people feel strongly enough not to watch it i think there will be some people that want watch the match some because of this. that the fact that the for example amnesty international it was a grad ever like claim to do so but in the end also because is a match between and melana sort of found that they're not of this team generally want what's the game also because their team is not is not there. what they think is relevant to say is that. breast of the public green. as i understand the political implication of the game quite late and just really
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really brief briefly nicola this game is going to be happening again three times in saudi arabia in the next five years so what is saudi arabia getting out of this. so there it is using the. sporting event to to walk promote soft power to give to the warden to eat only particularly a better image of said for an actor lee's work to work if we see for example if we listen for example the word of the mass and generally. shown today to the spectators so i think for saudi arabia these is a good strategy so there it is not the first one that is using distracted china as a record of already done. and with goodwill in general and i think we can we should
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also consider for example east rain and the fact that the. generally done your bit and. starting from israel yes nicholas thank you very much nicholas betty there to talk about that game in saudi arabia and aside from the talon fans are met with the game in saudi arabia sports for cars to be in sport also called on the italian league to change the venue accusing saudi arabia of supporting what it calls a plague of piracy since the start of the blockade against qatar where bin sport is based the network has had its foot is stolen by an illegal streaming site based in saudi arabia called be out kid to be in sports has now launched a website with evidence showing the scale of the at king's theft of sports and entertainment rights saying it's on an industrial scale it includes a timeline as you can see of pirated coverage and evidence of who is behind the legal outlet be at king. all right well peter will be back with more eight hundred . during the thank you for that sports update and that'll do it for. you can keep
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oh i maryam namazie in london with al jazeera also coming up on the program a new test for the british prime minister as the government faces a confidence vote after her crushing defeat in parliament. kenya's president declares the assault on a nairobi hotel over with at least fourteen dead and all the attackers killed and i.c.c. judges say former ivory coast president should now be released following his acquittal . u.s. service members are among at least fifteen people who have been killed by a bomb in northern syria nineteen people were injured by the blast in man city near the turkish border it's in the hands of u.s. backed kurdish forces are still says one of its fighters carried out the attack
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detonating a suicide vest in the patrol of the u.s. led coalition the area is currently controlled by the kurdish peoples protection units also known as the white b.g. u.s. troops on did train the white peachy in the fight against i still but now preparing to withdraw has been massing troops ready for an assault on man beach welcome billy halkett has been following events for us in washington so we have multiple casualties here in this attack including u.s. troops how is it playing out there to try claims that i still was defeated. yes certainly a problematic headline for a president that claims there has been defeat of i so for the most part the fact that among those killed at least four are reported to be u.s. soldiers now the white house press secretary sarah sander sending out a statement to the white house press corps saying the president has been fully briefed but not answering any questions instead referring those questions from reporters to the department of defense but certainly this only compounds the
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criticism about the president's surprise announcement the withdrawal of the two thousand troops from syria u.s. troops that withdrawal and that pullout beginning as of last week of course it has rattled not only many here in the united states and u.s. allies but led to be. defense secretary james mattis. leaving the administration so certainly this is going to be difficult for the president given the fact that he has said that there is no reason for u.s. troops to be there the fact that not only have there been at least fifteen killed but four of them are u.s. soldiers what do we know about the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria the last we heard was that the process itself was on the way but of course no specific information on troops that are being withdrawn or indeed a timeline for a complete withdrawal. right what we know is that the chair of the joint chiefs
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general dunford is in brussels this week he is meeting with his turkish counterpart we know at one of the meetings as a sidelight meeting as we understand where they continue to negotiate this as you point out at the start of our program you know one of the critical issues for the united states and points of differences with regard to this pullout is between the united states and its ally turkey turkey of course sees those kurdish forces that supported the united states in its effort to defeat eisel in syria as being in the view of turkey a terrorist group so the united states is looking for those assurances and trying to negotiate with turkey just how to make sure that the kurds are protected we do know that the secretary of state pump aoe is also discussing with his counterpart something the president has highlighted on twitter in recent days this idea of a what the u.s. calls a twenty mile safe zone in metric terms that's about thirty two kilometers in order
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to make sure that the kurds are safe but at the same time we've also seen threats in recent days by donald trump the u.s. president if there is any harm to the kurds the president tweeting in the last few days that he would ruin turkey economically and certainly this is confrontational we've had a phone call we know with just the last forty eight hours with the u.s. president and the turkish president with regard to this but certainly we've seen donald trump carry out these threats before that lead to sort of a plummeting of the lira over the detention of a u.s. pastor in turkey we saw sanctions put in place over the summer and ultimately that pastor was released so the president has certainly made these threats and carried them out before he's continuing to let those threats loom as we have these for many families devastating headlines coming out of syria with the news of at least fifteen dead including four u.s. soldiers again a problematic headline for president says that i saw has been defeated in syria and
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there is a need to pull out u.s. troops thank you very much with the latest from washington kimberly hulk it. u.k. is in chaos over how it will exit the european union with the prime minister facing a vote of no confidence in just a few alice time this comes exactly twenty four hours after three's a maze breaks that deal was voted down in the biggest parliamentary defeat for a sitting government in british history paul brennan has the latest developments. she's not just clinging on she's fighting on far from quitting ever choose to night's historic defeat theresa may return to parliament on wednesday in competent mood the opposition labor party is accusing her of being in denial and this triggered a vote of no confidence for wednesday evening this government has failed our country it cannot govern cannot come on the support of most people facing the most
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important issue at the moment which is brics if they failed again i'm lost to vote last night isn't it the case mr speaker that with every other previous prime minister faced with this kind of defeat last night they would have resigned. but the prime minister seems to taken heart from the knowledge that the rebels who voted against her deal have mostly promised to vote with her in the confidence motion so the chances of her being ousted on whedon's they are very slim this is a we would have waited to have the no confidence debate he has been calling for weeks for a general election in this country and yet on sunday when he was asked in a general election would he campaign to leave the european union he refused to sa i know i was not twice not three times but five times. europe has reacted with some alarm to the scale of tuesday's extraordinary result
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in westminster you nations have started accelerating their preparations for a no deal bracks it on march twenty ninth junko warned that time is running out his deputy expressed the use regret. the vote last night in the house of commons was crystal clear the withdrawal agreement has been rejected. and now we will have to look for a way forward. the commission regrets the rejection of the word withdrawal agreement as representative of the council said because we do believe this was the best possible outcome of the e.u.'s chief negotiator did hold out the possibility of some compromise with the british position he said first had to evolve and several m.p.'s in london are preparing to force parliament to put the brakes it question back to the british people jeremy corbett is going to decide do i now start to countenance a referendum which he quite obviously doesn't want to have and his backbenchers
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many of whom of hidden behind this slogan i want an election for the election taken off the table they've got a difficult decision to make do they want to leave the european union with no deal with this deal or do they want to referendum as theresa may formulates her plan b. on bracks itches offer to immediately start talks with any senior parliamentarians who are prepared to work as she put it in a constructive spirit but she specifically refused to reach out across the divide to jeremy corbin accusing him of being more interested in forcing an election than in forging a compromise the bracks it's deadline is looming and there is little sign of a breakthrough solution paul brennan al-jazeera lawrence lee joins us now outside the u.k. parliament in westminster and theories in may it has pledged to reach across the party divide but she's already laying down red lines and ruling out things like a customs union which is exactly what the people that she needs to talk to want to talk about. well yes and have been saying this is the problem with with not having
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coalition politics in this country there's a tradition here of trying to talk to political opponents in a time of crisis it's a funny situation and atmosphere down here as they say but anticlimactic to be on itself all the fireworks last night in the disaster whose name is to reason may. have been no one really thinks that jeremy colvin is going to win the no confidence vote against the government tonight's and of the same time as you said and paul brennan said in that report there's no sign of treason may having the appetite suit to speak to jeremy colvin even though he's the opposition leader so it's like putting a boulder up a hill really let's take a sounding from the place we jettison bennett thanks so much for fifth time i'm just just on the labor party to to to begin with an intriguing room again on the self in the unit all the other opposition parties the scottish nationalists and the liberals and so on have said they won't support it if it keeps trying to hold votes no confidence in the governments and that's fair enough isn't it because a some point labor's got to get off the fence and say what it supports what it
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doesn't support absolutely remember these other parties are going to early agendas to do with democrats they want a second referendums they want to push labor into the s.n.p. want to second referendum not just to stay in the if they can win the no more were the case here for a second my friend breaks it but they can make it look easy to get a second referendum on scottish independence supporter going to give labor a go on this one but labor's conference motion was if you can get a general election go for second referendum and that's what they're trying to push labor to now with but the point being this could be the last time the labor is able to hold a vote in the conference if none of the opposition parties have support it so the pressure gets very very great then when jeremy called in to actually say if he's prepared to do what they have will enjoy his membership once which is told in the referendum he's got to say at some point doesn't leave yes and jamie called his big thing about me being labor leaders were given the party practice members and this is the first time on the committee the labor leadership and the focus members have the opposite views on the issue and now we're going to see jamie colby going to really get the party back to the members are you going to get a bit more blairite in his ways and decide that he. he knows best because he's the
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party leader would that be it's one of the books if if he did to that and back a second referendum would that command a majority in the house of commons would it be the thing that unlocks the stalemate at the moment you think i think there was a potential majority vote in the house of commons yes i think there are some tory m.p.'s who perhaps i mean there's not that many who have publicly come out and said it i think if people thought it was a choice between a second referendum and a general election they would choose a second referendum because the tories what unites them i mean seeing that in the chamber now in this no confidence vote is not wanting jeremy called winning downing street and general election could lead to that another referendum wouldn't necessarily lead to that you know and meanwhile theresa may made a promise last night that she would reach out and yet she won't speak to cool things because she can't stand stand him as all i mean do you think she's ever going to do that will she go to the s.n.p. instead of this beattie well this is a thing i don't know what numbers she's going to fail but she certainly isn't at the moment and mccolgan doesn't really want to be spoke to his own in the tories he's not going to help them out in any way to be kind of pretty do you know because thank you thank you very much it really is like pushing a boulder up
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a hill which is a very very large one that's you know right thank you very much laurie.

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