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status or t.p.s. . the immigrants trump referred to our young people brought to the u.s. illegally by their parents as children known collectively as the dreamers and non-citizens from countries hit by natural disasters who had been permitted to live in the u.s. both groups were stripped of legal protections by trump but court rulings have so far prevented the government from deporting them it was an offer trump's democratic opposition could and swiftly did refuse house speaker nancy pelosi issued a statement saying quote it is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the house and taken together they are a nonstarter she repeated the democrats' arguments that the wall would be ineffective if the senate senate democratic leader chuck schumer said trump was treating the dreamers a very like hostages trump described hardships faced by migrants and a flood of drugs coming into the us drugs kill seventy eight thousand americans
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a year and car star society in excess of seven hundred billion dollars critics point out that most of those drugs are smuggled through legal points of entry and that a wall would have little effect on stopping traffickers. what happens next the republican controlled senate will take up trumps proposals and almost certainly pass a bill incorporating them and restoring funds to end the shutdown that bill will then go to the democratic controlled house where pressure to pass it may become intense you can just peel away twenty twenty five democrats who want the government open and are not so adamant against the wall to carry the day even if the government even if the democratic leadership remain opposed to the wall a possible grounds for compromise palosi said there needs to be a permanent solution for dreamers and t.p.s.
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recipients not just a three year reprieve if both sides start bargaining again the longest ever government shutdown could be brought to an end rob reynolds al-jazeera washington eric ham as a former national security advisor and a congressional stuff with the armed services committee he says it's up to the democrats to make the next move. what we saw from the president is a willingness to compromise now we've already heard or received a statement from house speaker nancy pelosi basically saying that the what the president is offering will be a but the fact that this president is willing to extend an olive branch not necessarily give on the amount of money he wants for the wall but actually willing to give regarding temporary protected status and for dreamers suggest that the president is willing to make a deal and i think there is some room for negotiation the question becomes now how much are democrats pursuit particularly house democrats willing to give on this
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issue i don't think you're going to see this iteration of what the president is calling for today actually passed in the house but again i think it's room for negotiations and so now it's up to nancy pelosi to come forward with something on the table that actually matches a level of concession and a willingness to negotiate now that the president has already made the extension of an offer today well tom says the border wall is needed to stop the flow of drugs entering the u.s. but most a smuggled through legal points of entry as castro found brooks county texas just a warning you might find some of the images and her report distressing. brooks county texas a collection of branches hugging a highway leading north from the border is a corridor of drug smuggling from mexico. this is where sheriff benny martinez
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tries to hold back the tide this is small so it varies of on compartments in the i'm sure there's a lot of hard drugs going through this corridor this lot is full of vehicles confiscated by the brooks county sheriff's office more than three hundred of them all caught trying to smuggle drugs or people deeper into the united states they all try to pass through this border patrol checkpoint one of the busiest for drug seizures in the country the government acknowledges more than eighty percent of narcotics found near the border entered through legal ports of entry the marijuana was within the walls of this love triangle or one hundred twenty piles but the were created to be small to fit the national cavity of the wall here critics of trans border wall say it's unclear how that would curtail drug smuggling through the ports but what is clear is that for migrants a wall makes an already perilous journey more deadly fifty bodies were found in
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brooks county last year extending a wall in certain areas is going to force people to a more dangerous area and more people are going to the humanitarian say this is the real crisis at the border the people who die in are eaten by animals in an attempt to reach a better life heidi to castro al-jazeera berks county texas. plenty more ahead on this news hour including kenya faces up to the reality of homegrown threats after an attack on a hotel complex in nairobi. but. opponents of hungary's so-called slave law refused to give up their fight with the government . and it's at forty manny pacquiao ways then for his latest fight in las vegas we'll hear from him in school which with peace a. u.s.
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senator lindsey graham has again one saudi arabia over the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi during a visit to turkey the republican congressman said saudi ties with washington can't progress until the matter is properly dealt with he also hopes president ronald trump will slow the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria osama bin dovey it has more from ghazi untapped near the tacky syria border. the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was very much on lindsey graham's mind he said relations between washington and riyadh couldn't be normalized and the crown prince mohammed bin sole man widely believed to have been behind the murder has been dealt with we will. start sanctioning those involved with the killing of mr shogi will make a definitive statement that n.b.s. will that it is responsible for it and come up with a series of sanctions. she was last seen at the saudi consulate in istanbul on
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october the second after initial denials the kingdom eventually admitted that saudi agents killed the journalist who criticized the crown prince of saudi leaders say eleven saudis have been indicted while the us government has imposed sanctions on seventeen saudis for their suspected drawled in the murder lindsey graham is an influential u.s. senator who is a member of the foreign relations defense an appropriation committees he's been both an ally and a critic of president donald trump although he's not known for mincing his words but his outspoken stance cannot be confused the deficient u.s. policy he said a little more than a month ago that marvin summer was a wrecking ball and that it was very clear that he was responsible for the murder. and now he's talking about handling the situation i think it's a bit of a bit of a walk back and also i think it's worth pointing out that this is actually useful for dog try because to have someone who is an ally of probably very close ally and a very powerful senator coming out and in effect demanding something be done with
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them are bizarre man takes some of the pressure off donald trump friends of the united states the republican senator has previously visited the area in northern syria before americans put him in one thousand people killed on wednesday the suicide attack by isis fighters in member beach followed the u.s. president announcing the draw of u.s. troops and declaring the defeat divisive sparking get into the fall out between the americans and the turks. it's a delicate balance on the border between syria and turkey the so-called safe zone is in a region sandwiched between syrian government forces backed by iran and russia in turkish troops on the opposite side u.s. forces and kurdish allies are squeezed in the middle turkey's leaders view kurdish by p.g. as terrorists the us is trying to tone down that hostility towards the kurds the roadmap to member is the most important thing to be accomplished in the near term so i would hope that president trump would slow the withdraw all until we truly
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destroy isis and see if we can implement the roadmap to mend bitch is a complex building measure that were removed by b.g. elements from a bitch working with turkey allow the people i'm a bitch to come up with a governing structure acceptable to turkey in the region if we do not do this. i was drawl is going to create holy hill for turkey so is the threat of an ice and resurgence as well as warming ties between kurdish fighters in iran backed forces all unacceptable for both turkey and the united states some of those as they are. the us military says it's killed fifty two. in an airstrike in somalia the strike in the middle juba region was in response to an attack by the armed group on a somali military base the al qaeda linked group has carried out high profile attacks in mogadishu and al-shabaab was also behind the attack on
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a shopping center in kenya's capital police have confirmed that at least four of the five men where kenyan nationals until now it was widely thought that violence in the name of al shabaab was carried out by foreigners mohamed today reports from nairobi. this sprawling informal settlement of my jane go in near it down central canyon life here may seem us ordinary as in any other slum but the residence of. our lord. one of the gunmen in last tuesday's al shabaab a talk in the capital nairobi was born and grew up here salim ali get. out in this photograph during the night will be a tuck and he grew up in this house he's neighbors those shocked i'm not surprised they say al-shabaab has over the years recruited many young men including salim from. rotty percent is one of magickal community leaders we generate through harlem
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a car our children have no jobs they need to eat most of them have dropped out of school and their parents are too poor to help them continue with education the parents have no idea when and how al-shabaab recruiters get hold of their children older or a heavy hundred government response hasn't helped either he says residents of my general blame the ease with which al shabab can recruit on law literacy joblessness and drug abuse among the youth here it is a situation that is far more compounded by feelings of state elimination by residents of this neighborhood kenyans in the past have blamed the violence carried out by al-shabaab on fighters coming from beyond their national borders but last tuesday's assault on a shopping complex in the capital is forcing kenyans to consider the threats posed by those near the home police of confirmed most of the five attackers were conditions. in nairobi somali majority suburb obviously residents up
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come out to show their anger about the tague. unified in grief their message was one of love in the face of such. businesses in the business leave markets remain closed. to all of the dead a remarkable moment of defiance by a community long blameful of talks in kenya no longer do people feel that it's just a problem for one particular community and that community should be vilified. repressed. and driven out to. the rest of kenya now that is settling in we're happy to have that but we're also ready to help share our experiences security officials say there's no quick fix to the threat of domestic terrorism the only conceivable solution they say might lie you know combination of education gun control and internet regulation mahomedan to all just now it will be
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can more protests are expected in sudan in the next few days demonstrators are planning to hold a march to the parliament villages have chanted slogans calling on president omar al bashir to step down what began as an outcry over the rising cost of bread has turned into the biggest challenge to bush's twenty nine year rule several people have been killed and the government crackdown over the past few weeks. at least one hundred seventeen refugees are believed to be missing after their overloaded boat capsized in the mediterranean sea three people have been rescued so far the refugees from nigeria ivory coast gambia answer don we're in a rubber dinghy that sailed off the libyan coast antigovernment protests in serbia have continued for the seventh day in a row thousands marched in the capital belgrade in protest against president alexandrovitch and his ruling serbian progressive policy they're demanding more
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freedom for the media and opposition parties. and there's been another day of nationwide protests in hungary opposition parties and civil society groups challenging the government's recent labor law that allows employers to demand up to four hundred hours of overtime from workers' pay yeah it sparked weeks of demonstrations against nationalists prime minister viktor orban rather than for us to walk a reports from budapest. i'm hungry zoë position has vowed to continue to protest new rules that require more over time from hungary and workers while they wages remain below the e.u. average not ok i was seventy and we don't want to live in a country where salaries aside lower that you can't have a dasent life without having to live with your parents. the new rules of victor open this solution to
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a labor shortage hungary's population is aging and many of its citizens have gone to work abroad the prime minister believes history is on his side he has no plans to reverse hungary's policy of zero immigration and he has big plans for europe. and greece a miss that in all e.u. institutions the n.t. and gratian forces should become the majority first in the european parliament a few months later in the commission and then after the national parliament three elections we would like to become the majority and the european council to speak more than a month now since opposition protests marked the start of a new political awakening for those who oppose victor obeidi his government it is not just one political party it's many parties from the left and the right civil society trade unions and students say they're angry not just about the label but by hungry slide from democracy the government's control of the media judiciary
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and universities we are just pushing this we have an opposition that has started we are supporting the whole cause in their struggle against the regime for this name and we see that the struggles to suborn because that's what we are tending with time being free university free academia and feet on for this man. on saturday evening protesters tried a new tactic and closed a key. bridge in the capital it's called a lot of cultural difficulties and the reason for it is that it is going to be that's everything. the opposition has spelled a new voice but so far the government's easy to listen first to welcome al-jazeera but a pest still ahead on al-jazeera. the death toll rises from the fuel pipeline explosion in mexico plus. i'm wayne hay reporting from
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cambodia where we'll tell you why china is transforming skylines here and backing a government that's becoming increasingly isolated by the west and toying with the wild number one never just have it as opponents says are some tricks of his owen at the australian open. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello it's back to rain again in china it shouldn't rain very much in the winter but it's doing so once more and it's not the first time we've seen it the clouds doesn't look particularly dangerous and think of the scale of things china is giant geographically so this is rain doffing around in the middle of southern china the winter is to the north it's only showing itself as giving eight degrees in shanghai as a pretty warm twenty four and hong kong but a cult penetration means you will feel cold a few on monday and that allows
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a bit of snow to fall we're not just in the heights in your non but rather more centrally so you wouldn't think so temperatures still of eighteen shanghai and ten will happen but a little wet snow or the same and actually weather in the philippines to be marching the clouds gather them moving west with the not going to fall into a tropical low or tropical cyclone but the effect will be in hearts in the amount of rain and the wind to some degree so a wet spell to start your week i suspect in most of the filipino and certainly central some philippines the other dark green area with the breeze is here west of borneo catching singapore moving down towards western java expect some potential for flooding from this but really probably the place to watch is the philippines having seen a dry couple of weeks really this will be rather more than just a shock to the system. the weather sponsored by cattle and always. rewind returns i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry we've run you updates
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on the best of al-jazeera documentaries in liberal i was the job of the class and now i'm like any other student rewind continues with children of conflict. we'd love some peace in this war especially. children do not have any rights here rewind on al-jazeera. russian filmmaker under a new crew solve continues his journey across his homeland to discover wood lives like on duty during his travels he meets christians and muslims beetroots and separatists i told the locals in the saltiest room. rug and on to something completely different someone to leave putin's russia but the russian passport means hope and the challenge of weapons in search of putin's russia almost zero.
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welcome back. a reminder of our top stories this hour the constitutional court in the democratic republic of congo has declared felix just a kerry the winner of last month's disputed presidential election and thrown out all opposition challenges to his victory opposition candidate must in favor new has declared himself the weather and is calling for a nationwide protests. the u.s. president has offered what he calls a compromise to break the political impasse over his controversial border wall donald trump's offering temporary protections to some immigrants the democrats have rejected his offer as one sided. u.s. senator lindsey graham says he hopes donald trump will slow the withdrawal of
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troops from syria until i saw it is destroyed during a trip to taki graham warned a southern clouseau forces could create what he called an iraq on steroids. well sunday marks two years since donald trump came to power so far his time in the oval office has been rather extraordinary he's pulled out of a global climate accord he wants to trade war with china built bridges with russia and declared jerusalem as israel's capital and as our diplomatic editor james bay is explains there are concerns over what his next move will be. on his very first stay in office president trump made his international agenda very clear his actions abroad would be guided by his view of the interests of the people at home in the u.s. from this day forward it's going to be only america first american first have. this policy made him the
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disrupter in chief on the world stage freaking out the u.s. is closest friends are pending international treaties like the paris climate deal which the u.s. had signed and threatening to completely change the international rules based multilateral order that had existed for seventy years. after two years of trump u.s. allies are worried about what could come next there are nerved by his attitude to russia since world war two nato has been the u.s. is most important defense alliance but each year when trump has attended the annual summit he's questioned not only how much others a spending on defense but also the basic premise of the organization a mutual defense pact alliance leaders are so nervous they haven't even set a date for this year's summit. they're walking on eggshells right i mean it is.
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a bit like a borderline personality the central right leg you're always you're guarding yourself what is the thing that i might say or do that could set this person off that's not it you don't know how to manage a relationship like that and some of that he can't help himself and some of that is actual strategy it is actually who he is it's how he thinks he gets is successful the u.n. is also deeply worried trump pulled out of the cultural body unesco cut funding to the part of the u.n. that helps palestinians annorah and in a move that may have been bold in the world's dictators gave up the u.s. a seat on the un human rights council now the white house is turning its attention to the un's budget as the u.s. funds twenty two percent of the regular budget and almost a third of the cost of peacekeeping such cuts could be devastating in other parts of the world they fear a u.s. pullout to the government in afghanistan has been propped up by u.s.
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troops and cash for nearly eighteen years and there's confusion over the u.s. involvement in the middle east trampled an immediate pullout of u.s. troops from syria but other senior officials have suggested the u.s. will make sure i sall is defeated first there are many questions for the next two years will this administration take further steps to confront iran will dialogue with north korea continue all or be a return to threats of nuclear conflict with this most unscripted of presidents there is only one certainty and that is that things will remain unpredictable james al-jazeera at the united nations. well tens of thousands of women have taken part in rallies around the wilds to mark the second anniversary of the fast women's march the movement of all of in response to the election of donald trump and calls for more gender equality the main event was held in the u.s. capitol. is that. thousands of women here in central washington
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d.c. all of them with a very big big message that they want to move forward with a new agenda for america i want to step out so you get a sense of the thousands of people that are here on this women's day march here in washington d.c. but we've marching towards donald trump's hotel here as well to make a statement towards the president but i want to bring in one person it's your right now it's katie would hedberg katie thanks for joining us how are you i'm great thank you came all the way from new hampshire why did you come here today i came to resent represent all women and the deep feeling we need to protect our democracy why is that so important right now right now we're seeing our congress fail where our employees are working our environments failing there's a big agenda here it's talking about moving forward towards twenty twenty or talk
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about immigrant rights violence against women climate justice civil rights big big agenda you're taking on here it's hard to decide which is most important in every day changes and we need to really look at all of these were in danger why use is so important though right now it's two years into the trunk presidency i see a lot of signs antitrust science here what is it about his presidency that's really galvanized so many women. well he's anti women we're now instead of two years from the last election or two years in front of the next one and we really need to get motivated and mobilize thank you very much appreciate your joining us so there's a view there of one no. thousands of people here this is just one of several more happening all over the country on this cold saturday people you're definitely want to get their voices heard. a six point seven magnitude earthquake has hit the coast
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of central chile it struck about ten thirty pm local time kimber four hundred fifty kilometers north of santiago the shallow quake rattled buildings in the capital there have been no reports of damage so far at least seventy three people are now known to have died in an oil pipeline explosion in central mexico local residents were gathering fuel from an illegal tap when the blast happened dozens of people are still missing and some of being treated in hospital for severe burns a warning you may find some of the images and john holmes report distressing. it looked like a village celebration dozens gathered under a fountain of gas and it had erupted from what next crew state oil company said it was an illegally tapped pipeline. they took their fill the soldiers sent to guard the pipeline looks on seemingly powerless then this happened.
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dozens of people were taken to hospital with burns many less food were burnt to death the tragedy comes just as the government is trying to crack down the route that i. might. we want to offer our deepest condolences to the victims' families and to tell the victims' families that the entire government is with them and that we are sincerely saddened by what has happened i would also like to tell the family members of those who were injured that we are keeping special attention at the hospitals and that we are trying to save lives. gangs and corrupt officials have been siphoning off petrol from the country's pipelines few years in two thousand and eighteen the army found more than six thousand illegal taps vulnerable pipelines have been shut down while the secured it's left many communities with shortages thank the government's trying to make up those shortfalls by delivering petrol in heavily guarded tankers
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in the capital the system is beginning to work but elsewhere emits crew second city . and several states there are still queues operations costing serious money not just the tankers but the full thousand troops deployed to guard them pipelines and fuel death pose experts say it can't go on indefinitely the president essentially made this a game of chicken let's see who gets tied first he said though stealing the country's oil for his government with its mounting costs the pipeline security and distribution. polls have shown the majority of mates can support the president's stand. but. if it's to fire people who are stealing the fuel it's good we just have to put up with it for a bit if it's to make the country better vet final friday ended with another pipeline explosion in create this time with no casualties but the clock's running for the president to come up with a long term solution to fuel thirst and all that comes with it john home and out
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zero mexico city and at least twenty two people have died in southern bolivia after a head on collision between two buses the accident happened on a highway connecting the cities of all row and the tennessee police say speeding is to blame. rescuers are trying to reach a two year old boy fell into a well nearly a week ago in the southern spanish town of tuttle and they say they're working under the assumption the toddler survived and is trapped dozens of me says below ground reports. a difficult and complex mission two year old julian is trapped inside a well that's one hundred meters deep he was playing on a relative's property on sunday when he fell in the hole is just twenty five centimeters wide making it a delicate operation to reach him rescuers having to bring equipment in giant pipes
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up steep access roads they've begun drilling the first of two turns to reach the boy once the first tunnel is completed rescuers will begin working by hand on a second shorter turn to get to where the boys trapped. and all the colleagues and people working here have as their only goal reaching as soon as possible we are incredibly motivated incredibly and we don't feel the hours we don't feel the fatigue and we don't feel the lack of sleep we have the hope of being able to get there as soon as possible and take him to his parents. as rescuers race against time public displays of support have been pouring in on site and on social media in spain under the hash tag me man what julian or i give my hand to julian thousands have shared photos of their hands hoping jewel and soon within arm's reach of his family on the silver al-jazeera. thousands of people have gathered in the polish city of done it for the funeral of their murdered man have a lid on the vets for
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a stab at a charity fundraiser last weekend he served as the mayor of the twenty years and was a vocal critic of poland's ruling party that reports. saying goodbye to power and damaged the popular america danske outside the city some mary's basilica a huge crowd followed events on a big screen. as the catholic archbishop of could dance candid family members rosaries and gifts sent by pope francis among the congregation inside european council president donald tusk a personal friend of a dime of it so too were poland's president and prime minister a demo of it she'd been married for twenty years died after being stabbed on stage during a charity event he was fifty three but said nine years now. today we all need silence but silence can not mean all of us because me just is similar to you in different powell has never been indifferent or an opportunist personally giving you. the
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attack or accuse the previous government led by them as former party of wrongly jailing him police have arrested a twenty seven year old suspect. to share with the many what happened on sunday evening was seen as a violent constant sound of warning bell it's invited us to examine our conscience to change our lifestyles our style of politics our society and our media. back in twenty seventeen a polish far right group issued a dam of each and ten other mayors fake death certificates. they'd signed a declaration welcoming refugees in protest against the government's anti migration policies. i hope his death will help to remove or at least limit the language of hatred but it's sad it takes a tragedy to bring us together. vigils have been taking place in polish cities all week long a sign of how power a dime of it is killing has left the country shaken. al-jazeera.
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cambodia's prime minister's beginning a four day visit to china where he'll meet president xi jinping beijing provides an economic safety net to phnom penh.

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