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and to civilians it comes as weak soft at present but out he was pulling u.s. troops out of syria because eisel had been defeated bicycle hay in reports from washington d.c. . blood on the streets a popular restaurant blown apart american helicopters rushing to help the wounded and remove the dead in the city of men bitch the u.s. military confirming on twitter that u.s. service members were killed the islamic state of iraq in the levant says they are responsible and that they were targeting the coalition u.s. senator lindsey graham directly blamed the attack on president donald trump's promise to pull u.s. troops out quickly my concern by the statements made by president trump is that you'd set in motion enthusiasm by the enemy we're fighting you make people who are trying to kill wonder about us and as they get older the people we're trying to help are going to going to get more uncertain saw this in iraq and
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i'm now seeing it in syria he urged the president to reconsider but that seems unlikely because just after the attack the vice president made this claim we're bringing our troops all the caliphate has crumbled and isis has been defeated. one of the leaders who most clearly does not want to see the u.s. president change course the president of turkey who weighed in the me. i asked has claimed the responsibility for the attack and this may mean to affect the decision that mr trump has taken but as i know mr trump's determination about this issue i do not think he will step back against this kind of a terrorist attack. donald trump has been criticized by both parties for his decision to withdraw u.s. troops his secretary of defense quit in protest now his claim that i still been defeated will be openly questioned after this attack but he's still not showing any signs he will reconsider political hay al-jazeera washington. santa has had on
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alexandra in keeping up with the rapidly changing world of driverless cars this self driving fifteen as your bus is already on the road here in the united states and at about twenty other countries and when you're done you don't even have to tip the driver. and celebrating one hundred years of baja so radical german movement that's just as relevant today as it was then. hello again a welcome back well here across parts of south asia we're watching a circulation just to the east of the philippines you can see the clouds right there so for the next you days we'll probably see an increase of clouds maybe decrease of rain for parts of the southern philippines so we'll be watching that
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very carefully so here's your forecast map here on friday cloudy conditions down there towards the southern part of the philippines and then as we go towards saturday notice those winds started coming in from parts of the northeast that could bring some gusty conditions and i do think by the end of the weekend we could be seeing some rain in your forecast as well well here across australia we have been dealing with the heat and this has been going on for the last couple of days in some locations we have deftly broken records and we are going to be seeing those very warm conditions continue as we go towards friday so for alice springs forty one degrees for you there over here towards city another day above thirty so about thirty four degrees in your forecast but there is a little bit of improvement as is fun about to make its way towards the north from melbourne up here towards city we do expect those temperatures to start to drop off just a little bit and they stay there for melbourne about twenty three degrees for you as we make away over here towards parts of the north and south island we are looking much better of the next few days auckland is going to see a temper of twenty four in christ church a partly cloudy day with a temperature of twenty one.
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taiwan. a sovereign island state. or a renegade province of china that must soon return to mainland control. as the battle for taiwanese hearts and minds intensifies. people in power investigates the tactics of those to whom reunification is only a matter of time. taiwan spies lawyers and prostrate.
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you're watching out there it is a reminder of our top stories this hour. on a deal for the u.k.'s withdrawal from the e.u. . just hours after the government survived a no confidence vote called by the opposition. i saw has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack that killed nineteen people in northern syria for americans to soldiers and two civilians are among the dead. the armed group behind she says attack in kenya says it was in retaliation for the u.s. presence decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital at least twenty one people died in the assault about five says on the robie hotel complex the red cross says fifty people are still unaccounted for after the soil has more from nairobi. outside this mall in nairobi and she's family members and quickly this week for news some that that. now the. details of what happened inside
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the dusit complex are beginning to march surveillance cameras caught up to the beginnings of the talk when hate. the armed men walked into the upmarket complex shooting 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 a service place to hide. for hours afterwards terrified workers and clients barricaded themselves in as gunfire and explosives rang out. some people are still missing hundreds of others were taken to safety you know peroration that lasted through tuesday night we go out to say for the evacuation but say make a big mistake because it was not secure we go and leave the ship to us kenya's president has about to bring those responsible to justice we are a country governed by laws rules and regulations
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a country that embraces peaceful coexistence we believe in these principles and values even in the face of adversity and i must also state that we are also a nation that never forgets those who hurt our children police have started investigating they want to find out how the attack was planned how the gunman got hero who was a canyon's of a foreign is who are their friends who helped them where was their attack plan and all this are questions that many kenyans want to quit consistent. al-shabaab has in the past the attacks are in response to kenya sending troops to somalia as part of a un backed international force this comes of the third only vaziri of the killing
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. of more than one hundred kenyan soldiers on a military base in thousand somalia. this must have been a. park. sleep in. in the country and was just activated for two reasons one of course al shabaab was commemorating the. verse and secondly it was announcing that it is still there it is still irreverent and it's too. late for the hotel is now a crime scene and the city is mourning once more. catherine soy oil to syria and iraq. the u.s. special envoy on afghan reconciliation has just arrived in pakistan to try to revive talks with the taliban. meeting pakistani leaders to try to make the taliban back to the table last week taliban leaders canceled a meeting with him accusing the u.s. of deflecting from the issue of withdrawing forces from afghanistan they've also rejected the involvement of the afghan government in the dialogue. he joins us now
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from islamabad and wasn't girls adds agenda in pakistan. well as you mentioned the priority will be to get those talks back on around. the u.s. on. another. hoping that the pakistani government going to be able to do. to come back to the negotiating table and head in islamabad but that seems difficult. dog dog and if the taliban want to fight then the u.s. . forces in that fight so conflicting messages coming from both sides but it seems hardening of positioning particularly also from the dollar bond
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who. it is dead to be able to. hold those dogs and of course they are sticking to their. dogs should. draw. from of one has done a lot that needs to be before we can see any meeting between their two for the moment it seems. deadlocked on trying to convince the dollars one american is eager to do that but at the same time we also know there will be meeting the pakistani civilian and military leadership ok many thanks for the update from. doctors in zimbabwe say sixteen people have been treated for gunshot wounds after protests this week seventeen of the victims have had to have. been days of violence demonstrations and security forces many angry rise in fuel prices in the rest of hundreds of people including prominence rights activists. when seattle criminal
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court has blocked the release of former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo after a new appeal by prosecutors earlier the court at the hague had said bad vote was free to go a day after his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity he was tried over post-election violence eight years ago in which three thousand people were killed there is a court of law and a court of course credibility is measured by its respect of its rules of its legal rules its efficient and effective respect of the rights of the defense of the fairness of the proceedings and maybe you have heard or not the defense yesterday they were explaining that. exactly this point the legitimacy and the credibility of the court is measured by the full respect that is given to the rights of the difference to the rights of the victims and in general to the fairness of the proceedings and i think that one important thing that the decision there will straight is the independence of the judges and their impartiality. here and
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security council has voted unanimously to deploy up to seventy five observers to yemen's port city of data the monitors will be sent for six months to supervise a cease fire and the withdrawal of rival forces following the signing of a truce still in stockholm last month by says allied with the saudis led coalition have been battling hoofy rebels for control of the city most of yemen's food aid and medicine passes through daters ports. in libya five people have been killed in fighting between devival armed groups on the outskirts of tripoli the violence fractures a four month old u.n. brokered cease fire factional conflicts have played at libya since the two thousand and eleven uprising that toppled moammar gadhafi here and back government in tripoli as we were human new security plan there's little without a police national police force or army. greek prime minister alexis c. press has won the parliamentary support by just one vote table to confidence motion
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after his government lost its majority on sunday but his main coalition partner walked out as the result of a controversial deal to rename leases neighbor macedonia northern mastic. two thousand and nineteen marks the one hundredth anniversary of the design movement it's a german concept that's come to define a form of expression involving mass production and simplicity the last of the schools was in the german capital where events are being held this week to mark the movement when it came reports from the. it's very name is a watchword for daring design this was where the bar house movement found its expression a school of art that energized a generation of designers who threw out old fashioned frameworks and ushered in simplicity and mass production looking through those invisible war through the glass walls you get an idea of how an open society can be one hundred years on
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it's dean tells me the school is teaching the designers of tomorrow with an emphasis on the lessons of yesteryear remains of the past the legacy was really important is that our ass was a school all designed schools all over the world implementing the curriculum off the path i think that why the really is in every design decision in the world. from its inception this school had designs on more than architecture furniture was fashioned with mass produced steel as frames and supports there by creating simple streamlined forms that seem to define a changing world and now as the concept enters its second century germany is paying tribute to its first with a festival in berlin where furniture and architecture share center stage with the performing arts providing an experience its curator hopes will wire all who see it
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a lot of people approach contemporary art with this idea i don't understand it you know i don't know what these people are doing and i think this festival gives you a possibility to understand process is how art develops how it's emerges from certain ideas some of the exhibits at this festival concentrate on the synergy between man and machine robotics if you will and emancipator a form of expression that's helping to bring some parts about house out of the shadows and that's the aim of the entire festival to shed light on a movement whose essence was to abandon ostentatious outmoded ideas and embrace the modern world dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. now the car industry is changing and changing quickly and technology is redesigning vehicles at every level from how they're made how that driven to what's the even used foam john hendren has mall. this self driving car truly is a ride these boxy four wheelers at the north american international auto show are
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autonomy's vehicles not of the future they're here now rin speed snap car let you snap a passenger pod or a delivery pod onto what is sensually is a skateboard most are from small manufacturers but major manufacturers including ford plan to sell fully autonomy's vehicles in the next two years these fords are already being tested delivering pizzas groceries and people it's been more of an evolution than a revolution twenty one thousand cars are already packed with lane assist auto braking and other driver is cystic knology the autonomy that's available today is the autonomy that you see in your cars that assist you with the driving task you're going to see that today and tomorrow and the the the year after that you're going to see those technologies get better and better and better we're putting into our vehicles now the ability to stop on an emergency without you having any action on
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your own in a few years all of the vehicles ford sales will be connected able to communicate with other vehicles and objects on the road to help guide travelers and autonomy as cars this self driving fifteen passenger bus is already on the road here in the united states in about twenty other countries and when you're done you don't even have to tip the driver of this three hundred thirty five thousand dollars vehicle operates here on a waiver from the government because u.s. safety laws which require a steering wheel and pedals trail behind the technology. it's all electric self driving shuttle bus designed for shared use and last year in november nobby also debuted our six passenger on taxi cab that's a six passenger vehicle which can operate within about a five square mile area and have all of your mobility. for carmakers the ever evolving automotive future means more risk what all of that all of that translates to is additional risk and uncertainty for an industry they have to make
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these big investments to future for their business and at the same time we're looking at business model changes where people may not actually buy the car but just by the amount of transportation or mobility needs that brain that they need. that likely means more partnerships to share the financial risk among the latest this week ford said it will team up with folks working to build electric vehicles in standard vehicles and of course some of them will drive themselves john hendren al-jazeera detroit. is also there are these are stories bush prime minister has reached out across the political divide urging them to work together on a deal to the withdrawal from the european union she made the playoff the government survived a no confidence vote called by opposition. to u.s.
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soldiers are among at least nineteen people killed by a bomb and northern syria department of defense civilian and supporting contractor were also killed i still has claimed responsibility for the blast in. the first funerals for people killed and she says attack in nairobi hotel have been held by the two men who worked for a somali based charity at least twenty one people died and the assault but with dozens of people still unaccounted for and off is that death toll could rise. special envoy on afghan reconciliation has just arrived in pakistan to try to revive talks with the taliban zalmay khalilzad is meeting pakistani leaders to try to bring the taliban back to the table. taliban leaders canceled a meeting with him accusing the u.s. of deflecting from the issue of withdrawing forces from afghanistan they've also rejected the involvement of the afghan government in the dialogue. doctors in zimbabwe say at least sixty eight people have been treated for gunshot wounds after
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mass protests this week or than a dozen had to have emergency surgery have been days of demonstrations across the country in protest against the doubling of fuel prices police arrested hundreds of people including a prominent activists the former president of ivory coast remains in jail in the hague despite his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity prosecutors have petitioned the international criminal court to keep him detained as they appeal against his acquittal he was tried over post-election violence eight years ago in which three thousand people were killed were still faces a twenty year jail term back home for financial crimes. and greek prime minster alexis tsipras has won the parliamentary support by just one vote supressed table to confidence motion of his government lost its majority on sunday when his main coalition partner walked out with results of a controversial deal to rename greece's neighbor macedonia northern macedonia.
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you're up to up to date with all the headlines more news here on al-jazeera after people and power. al jazeera. where ever you are. talking one suffering garden state or a breakaway province of the people's republic of china the bust inevitably return to mainland control as the battle intensifies to influence talk of a nice house minds on this question we've been to investigate the tactics opposed to reunification is any
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a matter of tufts. asia's most vibrant democracy is feeling the heat from an increasingly powerful neighbor that claims it has a renegade province opened up once again we have a. president that i think in the democratic way of one element in it and. the two sides share a complicated history of civil war in china drove the fleeing nationalist army to taiwan in one nine hundred forty nine. it's had its own government since its own
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law was signed. and lately off freedoms not seen in many parts of asia and yet formally taiwan is not a country i love it's all very well wouldn't you go for a good. school i do wish. you luck because literally go. the supporters of unification between china and taiwan insist both sides agreed in one nine hundred ninety two that there is only one china. but within taiwan the so-called one nine hundred ninety two consensus is the subject of much debate woman's and will enjoy them playing because it's home. tensions have escalated since president chai of the independence leaning democratic progressive party took office both sides ramped up military activity in the taiwan
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straits off to beijing cut diplomatic contact in two thousand and sixteen. china also forced a string of airlines and companies to amend references to taiwan on their websites i want to make us out to be on the way out on the all these recently. was young oh young guy goes on water we're hearing another. frosty relations with china come amid a strengthening of ties with the united states officially washington agrees with beijing that taiwan is a part of china but on officially it's one of the island's main allies. this year the us open the new two hundred fifty five million dollar complex in the capital taipei it also committed to stronger military support for taiwan and passed a bill encouraging visits between officials from both sides as one dedicated his
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feeling i don't think my president wanted to choose sides between china and the united states but the situation needs to be at least countrol manageable so all we are walking on a thai roll. for the chinese communist party a campaign to win the hearts and minds of the taiwanese people continues. here this year beijing announced its so-called thirty one measures placing such an taiwanese businesses and individuals on an equal footing with their chinese counterparts. within taiwan china is also making its presence felt. people in power investigates the fringe political groups working with beijing not to get eaten for nothing i think it's. really nice. we find out some of the ways china gathers information inside
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taiwan all to juggle their boots would you want to have a proposal social to go. ahead of local elections at the end of the year there were fears things could get even more intense almost sold else it was just a. little no eat. what's happening here. they showed up just after six in the morning for their job and out of hiding pro unification politician one being drunk says he was completely unprepared by now he was it will hold it or two. after they go to tradition that he underling higher than any child with him and no children. what followed was live streamed on his facebook page the video here. of our grandchildren for.
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the standoff which lasted forty minutes ended when police broke the lock i mean even when i was either on or helping a man. and the myth of a good sounded. just listening to. the raid might not have happened were it not for this man joe home shoe a chinese citizen and former student at one of taiwan's best universities. he spent fourteen months in jail for attempting to recruit spies for beijing a charge he continues to deny today so long so that once will that be it among alleged collaborators being shown when we meet again it's at a hastily called press conference. his father and two members of his political party have just been indicted and are awaiting trial we'll let you see what the
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reason for that. one should be or why. you know it's also the wisdom of god i don't think you go that. wasn't quite what i did. but prosecutors insist the three politicians took money from the chinese communist party with former student joe home shoes acting as a middleman. the national chain she university is where he caught his postgraduate degree. joe declined our request for an interview but we managed to speak to a former exchange student at one of taiwan's other universities she's asked that we hide her identity. joe you'll run home courses ball don't go go social hashimoto four. hundred one. coming out schools are going maples on hold the real. amy says she quickly suspected something was wrong but government officials
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wouldn't leave her alone to hunt for the washing machines and so if you want to sell the hobo joke you know who's on the one hundred dollars you. wait until you get home and joe says she will hold you to say. three pm on a weekday afternoon outside the presidential palace in taipei and this is a regular site. members of the concentric patrick as i'm alliance are on their way to one of the city's best known van mocks taipei one o one. here they broadcast their message on unification to tourists from mainland china but they cannot tell you. that. and that is not what i want to let you do the carolina when ever there is the fencing and they take on
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followers of the following spiritual movement who are publicizing the plight of their fellow practitioners in mainland china where the group is outlawed in. here but are you buying at the. and i had done this for you i knew that. today's exchange ends peacefully. but that hasn't always been the case. the concentric patriotism alliance has members regularly feature in online videos like these. their targets include pro independent supporters. democracy activists. as well as the following any kind several of their members have been convicted of assault. within taiwan questions over the methods and funding sources of the concentric patrick ism alliance have swirled for some time. people in power has been investigating.
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posing as a mainlander who has recently moved to taiwan are under cover researcher has been getting to know the group. among the first things we learn is that co-founder jang su year is running in this year's local elections. the whole. thing. this conversation with a supporter confirms what many have long suspected that the group pays people to attend it's events right. here you can try at one. of the concentric patry tism alliance is headed by seventy five year old child. originally from mainland china chao hosts of both hong kong and taiwanese identity
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cards. in this video he's in central taiwan marking the anniversary of the founding of the chinese communist party. but chow was not always a believer. in one thousand nine hundred eighty four he wrote a letter to the then british prime minister margaret thatcher objecting to hong kong being handed back to china his letter began it is known to all that communist rule is characterized by suppression that leads only to bloodshed deprivation and dire poverty clearly chow has since had a change of heart but are chinese authorities funding his political activities. here's what chuang siri year co-founder and manager of the concentric patriotism alliance has to say the only. thing i think.
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that i can't remember. and. i didn't witness and. i'm. in the. league now i'm good. at the offices of the taiwanese government spokesperson last year tucker says more can be done to regulate all political groups one may stand as a xian towards shore. when he. says you're going to see this time. but even before changes to legislation police have started to act in early august they raid the offices of another fringe party the china unification promotion party
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and the home of its chairman chang on suspicion the group was receiving funding from the chinese government. there were loads of incentives on winners and you. may have gone down the mail man don't. know what are. two days later a crowd greets chang as he arrives for questioning at taipei's district court. he's arguably one of taiwan's most controversial politicians also known as the white wolf chang is a former mob boss who spent ten years in prison in america and seventeen years on the run in mainland china he was arrested on returning to taiwan in two thousand. one thirteen and released on bail hours later and the hurdlers chang has since remade himself as a pro unification politician and while his party has no seats in the legislature
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chang's controversial past has kept it in the media spotlight. up chiang sohn chang way shows up a little later a travel agency managed by his wife has also been raided he denies it was receiving money from the chinese communist party but confesses to something else instead was the guy use those who knows who are against it and we go through again from the roof over who flew for me old him through the can feel two of those years ago. when for both of them all goes as i thought it was under our association you and your. group will be voted the awful way the phone for the wall is showing how do you think i can find all. the interrogations last supper out for hours chang says he was mainly aust about relief efforts organized by his posse following an
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earthquake in eastern taiwan earlier this year you want to use the way kids inside your house for a high shock. these are the core knowledge i was unsure of what you didn't eat e.g. you were the only one mouse was a challenge and the woman to chant zerg meet women will be involved was there again was a much. incidence of the whole island just. as chiang leaves the district court challenging the head of the concentric patridge is among lions. and jancsi yes. shout slogans in support of him. was. but in the privacy of their office some alliance regulars paint a far murkier picture of chang and his party. in the u.k.
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the usual jang sin is a former member of taiwan's main opposition party the corpsman dung and an independent candidate in upcoming elections you know this so this is regions in the it appears he also knows chang and pretty well personally the slogan is going nowhere is this really a few hundred you know you. are not. going into the arms and hugged me the whole black dziedzic of the way compound out home cheese you have listened your heroes are going down to come home sometimes you meet us when that's an option just a missile shot a new down close and how long you mean a small bomb by going out with them why don't you know you're going to be done so you're going to show them what you get angry about the bomb on the gumball house is a message for them now all of them on mars you money cause it to come up with the
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red bar they know you mean margaret. despite differences in their beliefs some parties within the pro humor for cation camp have started coming together. on a saturday afternoon in august hundreds of tender banquets in taipei if you want being junks colleagues and members of chang analysts china unification promotion party are also here was. was. it's three months to the elections and campaigning has clearly started. the host is the hong man association sometimes referred to as the freemasons of china all monotony some i was born in the nice. thing is on the board even those in the south will tell you how when young jamieson answers to her home and not even some fancy guy what is the confines of rooming house cars in that i would say jeans all. of
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them are. for now that means bringing about peace for unification between taiwan and china. believes this can happen if both sides adopt the one country two systems model most often associated with hong kong taiwan you'll utahns enough to hold influence of an illusion so you're learning as you know how good your was jamba juice you know was a militant i wonder if she would argue that one account position there are still interested in finding young and out. for twenty six year old lynn geeing that's not a workable system. a politician from the pro independence new power party she's been observing developments in hong kong and believes beijing is not up holding its side of the bargain this is all town criers and all ten are then here her had hot
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dinners and downing that high one on by the elite and so how oman see them ethan's on home from is until. it heads in with dad that's it not until now sold out and called the council going to yap. yes. lynne is running in local elections in the southern city of tire none traditionally a stronghold of president chuy's democratic progressive party now on e bay ching it seems has been reaching out to young people here too as a student lynne and her classmates go to visit china on a highly subsidized tour tired. so fundamental of the thought city of have a whole the heart of and how it goes through nelson all the harm done that i dassent hard on potter nation only you should it's done it's into us now with the name where you go i want you to find out if beijing has been trying to influence politics at the grassroots level we've come to see challenging true he's
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a pro independence village chief in an area that has traditionally been pro unification this afternoon he's busy showing some primary school children his offices chan says mainland chinese academics have asked for similar tourists come and go home and being. soon fade so all the endings are i'm just wrong here i don't . know them how did i. cheering his first year in office chan was invited to visit china with a group of other village chiefs. it's a lot these are the. leaders of the bang bang with one arm and all that for them is one thing joe doesn't mind our city. taiwan's mainland affairs council says these sorts of exchanges have been happening for some time for many years. in this
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gentile media opus's or behavior that sends itto somehow and they mean that in the city for any. real wouldn't they be aware that incident home. back at the offices of the concentric patra to some alliance in taipei chief. has decided to offer our undercover a such a job. but first he wants to see some id and. that are going on as a reviewer. although i don't know how to give it wasn't much of a couple. more a little later we find out why. probably not in the world because you're. probably going to die you. can. only get them going when the only one you're going to go on we're going to see if you know why we didn't budge from your point of the young girl you to. believe also not believe. it's
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clearly time to end the undercover assignment but just before she leaves child receives a call what were you i would be leaving me even if you come here because i was going to be here you can't. give up he's entitled in the medical info. hole he's working. on hold on you know. really telling them. yeah. yeah ok i have a new. type of the light to guide you on eagle. on type. ultimately one of. the concentric patridge is i'm a lions china's taiwan affairs office and the taipei police don't respond to our
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requests for comment. beijing's attempts to simple tenuously intimidate and charm the taiwanese public have drawn mixed results and annual poll by the taiwanese public opinion foundation found more respondents viewing china favorably than unfavorably for the first time since the survey started but in a separate survey conducted by the mainland affairs council sixty four point seven percent of respondents agreed that the taiwanese government should take stronger steps to prevent infiltration by the chinese government during cross straits exchanges. for most taiwanese historical ties to china are hard to ignore. culturally the two sides have much in common like this traditional lion dance these teenagers are learning in a village outside the capital taipei. their teacher is
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a village chief chin jong way he's a supporter of chiding when but has also been criticized for leading other villages chiefs on exchange visits to china was engines are you tired in your jeans you bring your c.e.o. that are within your own for them been there were judged on it's the economy obama forgot she. makes it a point to show us this creature a lion unique to taiwan. he says he supports democracy but sidestepped the issue when we asked for his views on unification of the eating good in orders from widgets and control in the world more than union bargain dollars good friends and sit ins on thoughts of the whys of the power and. saluki disability insider single i know i'm i'm doing know you did all your homes all for move or did you go out
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a no confidence motion in the u.k. prime minister asks rivals to push her out for compromise. also eisel claims responsibility for a suicide attack in syria's kurdish controlled month beach for americans amongst nineteen people killed. and garza is once again starved of fuel and electricity putting vulnerable young lives at risk plus. also singing for support u.s. workers relying on handouts as the partial government shutdown takes its toll. for the sport including some epic encounters at the australian open in melbourne as players battle into round for a. fight back the take. welcome to the news of the united kingdom's prime minister treason may is having talks with
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rival party leaders trying to find a way forward on brics it she's reaching out after now really surviving a no confidence vote sparked by the crushing defeat of her e.u. withdrawal deal the prime minister has until monday to present her plan b. to parliament and if she fails to get it approved and britain faces the real prospect of breaking away from the e.u. on march twenty ninth without a deal well to avoid this the british government could him or propose to negotiate an entirely new agreement and this could mean a skinny. new for an extension to the departure deadline other options include calling for another referendum a snap election or counselling breaks it all together all of which the prime minister has flatly ruled out in a moment we'll go live to the house of parliament in london first paul brennan reports on developments from wednesday night. she's not just clinging on she's fighting on this evening the government has won the confidence of parliament. this now gives us all the opportunity to focus on finding
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a way forward on brics it i believe it is my duty to deliver on the british people's instruction to leave the european union and i intend to do so far from quitting of accused and i to start defeat to resign may return to parliament on wednesday incompetent moot. the prime minister knew that the rebels who voted against her breasts a deal would vote with her this time the ice of the rights three hundred six the no use of the last three hundred twenty five. it gives her the breathing room to start talking to opposition leaders about her plan b. i would like to invite the leaders of parliamentary parties to meet with me individually and i would like to start these meetings tonight mr speaker ah the government approaches these meetings in a constructive spirit and i urge others to do the same in response to the
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opposition labor party urged have to take no deal off the table. the government must remove must remove clearly once and for all the prospect of the catastrophe of a no deal breaker to me and all the chaos that would come as a result of that europe has reacted with some alarm to the turmoil at westminster the u. nations have started accelerating their preparations for a no deal breck's it on march twenty ninth the commission regrets the rejection of the words withdrawal agreement as representative of the council said because we do believe this was the best possible outcome yes we are making preparations for no deal scenario we have to do that now doesn't check the ports and airports and but we're not making preparations for checks on border but having said that. the only way they can avoid a hard border long term isn't through goodwill isn't through. the right words it has to be through an agreement but suspicion is growing that the prime minister's
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plan b. will look remarkably similar to the deal so emphatically rejected already the u.k. is really now in the realms of the unprecedented many m.p.'s are so skeptical of teresa mayes chances of finding a workable plan before brics it but one group is actively seeking to strip her of power and hand that instead to the powerful parliamentary liaison committee for across party solution and the government will be legally obliged to follow its recommendations it could advocate a new general election another referendum perhaps on the m.p.'s would effectively be in charge of the executive these are indeed extraordinary times paul brennan al-jazeera westminster. hall who is at westminster and gentlemen what do you make of that sort of this invitation to talk over across party lines and whether the prime minister really has the ability to create the change that parliamentarians want to see in the house. well we're told this is
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a process which is underway if it hasn't got off to a flying start to be fair to resume a did meet the leader of the liberal democrats late on wednesday nights of its cable said he feels she may be in listening mode but labor jeremy corbyn the opposition leader says he won't meet her nor will any of his senior m.p.'s until she takes the no deal scenario off the table the scottish national party and others say they won't talk to her until she contemplates the possibility of an extension to the deadline an article fifty extension and includes in discussions the possibility of a second referendum of treason may says she's open to compromise but she has all these red lines that she's not willing to compromise on she's not a woman a politician famous for the search for compromise and to be fair all of them create massive problems for the government unless it is actually willing to change its own position article fifty extension would take no deal off the table but they've used
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that successively as a threat to get people to vote for her deal which she may well try to do again either her deal or no deal a customs union for instance would split her party into potentially a second referendum she says is a betrayal of democracy so if this is a genuine search for compromise so while there is no indication of what compromise the government at this point is willing to make and therefore in the all seeing. one might say she might have won this particular battle be she hasn't won the war because of all yet more battles to face not just within parliament and behind you but also when she goes to europe next week as well. if she goes to europe next week indeed i mean there are all of these options on the table no and there are factions within parliament that favor any number of different possibilities here her deal has been comprehensively defeated and yet it is conceivable she may try to as you say seek further concessions from brussels and
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try to vote on that again it is real deadlock and in the end a government in this country the government of this country has very little power to influence events other than to simply stay where it is and not allow the possibility of any other options to get there i think next week will be very telling in all of this she's got to come back on monday with some idea of what she wants to do next at that point m.p.'s will be met are mandated because they want a previous vote against her to be able to put forward their preferred versions and they will in all likelihood at least some if not all of them be voted upon until next week i think we'll see how quickly down of some of these possibilities but it is by no means clear at this point that there is a majority for any of them for the moment we'll leave it there jennifer thank you. now the prime minister of prime is to follow e.u. states france held a camp meeting to discuss ways to prepare for
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a no deal. phillipe says more than fifty million dollars will be invested in french quarter airports to alleviate the impact of so-called hard hit the contingency plan focuses on cross for trade and transport friends and the rest of the e.u. insists the brics a deal agreed with the prime minister is the best it can also but it might be flexible on the departure date as david chaytor explains from brussels. one european lawmaker kindly described the scenes in the house of commons of the last few days as a theater of the absurd but make no mistake the tall european leaders are taking very seriously the prospect of a no deal breaks it approaching on march the twenty ninth all european capitals now making sure that contingency plans are in place they'll be reviewing those over the next few hours and few days because at the moment that prospect means that it's not
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only the united kingdom's economy that could be badly damaged but also the european union's there are talk all this talk of the recession looming here in europe there's been a downturn in the german economy the main engine of the european union and also worries over spain italy and of course france in the middle of the euro on the yellow vest crisis so they're all looking to their own plans at the moment but hoping some sort of resolution can come forward now the main concentration is of course on trying to push back that cliff edge brags that which appears on march the twenty ninth now if reason may can come up with some solid new strategy with across party talks then i think you'll find a good reception in the european union to the idea of moving back to that cliff edge to later in the to give more time for
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a new strategy and new ideas to evolve. still has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed nineteen people in northern syria amongst the dead all four americans to soldiers and two civilians and it comes just weeks after president trump announced that he was pulling u.s. troops out of the country because i still have been defeated political hay reports now from washington d.c. . blood on the streets a popular restaurant blown apart american helicopters rushing to help the wounded and remove the do. in the city of men bitch the u.s. military confirming on twitter that u.s. service members were killed the islamic state of iraq in the levant says they are responsible and that they were targeting the coalition u.s. senator lindsey graham directly blamed the attack on president donald trump's promise to pull u.s. troops out quickly my concern by the statements made by president trump is that you'd set in motion enthusiasm by the enemy we're fighting you
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make people who are trying to kill wonder about us and as they get older the people we're trying to help are going to going to get more uncertain saw this in iraq and now seeing it in syria he urged the president to reconsider but that seems unlikely because just after the attack the vice president made this claim we're bringing our troops all the caliphate has crumbled and isis has been defeated. one of the leaders who most clearly does not want to see the u.s. president change course the president of turkey who weighed in the me. i asked has claimed the responsibility for the attack and this may mean to affect the decision that mr trump has taken but as i know mr trump's determination about this issue i do not think he will step back against this kind of a terrorist attack. donald trump has been.

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