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danger by you know leaking information to the media. it could even lose its value evidence so. you should share all this evidence with international investigators when the un has the authority to carry about the investigation in addition with the investigation going on in turkey. turkish authorities have said the murder was ordered by senior saudi officials and accused to salvage the charade of not cooperating with their investigation the process has stalled the turks have said it is time for an international investigation. this was followed by the u.n. special reporter agnes color mars a visit to turkey for a possible independent inquiry her initial statement back to turkish position but she says her request to get a copy of the crime scene investigation and an order recording of the killing have not been met in our legal system recordings can be counted as evidence only if they are obtained by court order we don't know the source of the recordings though is it
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turkish intelligence or the police or some of the country's intelligence who passed it on to turkey i believe the stumble chief prosecutor will soon present an indictment what's important is whether this indictment will mention the crown prince or not if yes this may be followed by issuing a warrant for the suspects months so now past and the ship to murder remains unsolved despite the leaks of information and the efforts of legal and crime experts those seeking justice expected to move the case forward at stake is the country's judicial reputation seen i'm go solo elders era a stumble. still to come on i'll just zero they faced criminal charges in the u.s. and canada so how did these saudi students manage to escape from the country protesters in haiti remain defiant and say they won't stop demonstrating told the president steps down.
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however the weather remains our news really disturbed across a good part of the middle east at the moment said across those northern areas lots of cladogram spilling out of the eastern side of the mediterranean spread see some rain pushing across cyprus into the levant syria lebanon jordan all saying some or all the disappointing weather over the next fifteen celsius for beirut aleppo and shrews. and struggles to get any when they double figures may well we're just about into double figures therefore to robbie's and places of rightness now into northern and western pas all the rom process guys come back into iraq the sas today this was a weather willy the race was obese and snow into afghanistan temperatures starting to recover for the central areas but still want to see showers just around that eastern side of the med i'm hopeful for by rate it will be dry and fine for good
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parts of lebanon sixteen celsius here dry and fine for good parts of the arabian peninsula so no surprises here twenty six celsius in doha might just see a few spots of rain as we make our way through sunday having said that little more cloud just rolling in twenty two celsius the top temperature for us should stay largely drought is it a few spots of right plenty of rain may well continue on that eastern side of south africa much of mozambique and pushing into zimbabwe. with most people in the world production is under increasing strain to keep pace with the growing global population algeciras environmental solutions program discovers new ways of feeding the world sustainably. just on this. and see there's the vegetable of the scene right there.
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for thought on al-jazeera. welcome back time to recap our headlines now nigeria's presidential elections have been postponed until next week and voters were set to go to the polls this saturday it's believed there were difficulties in transporting electoral materials some areas a group of texas landowners is filed the first lawsuit challenging the u.s. president's declaration of a national emergency donald trump made the announcement after approving a spending bill to avert another government shutdown. british arms exports to saudi
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arabia violate international humanitarian law that's the conclusion of a u.k. parliamentary committee that says the justification for supplying weapons to the saudi coalition is flawed. u.s. authorities are looking into several cases where saudi students american and canadian colleges who are facing criminal charges managed to escape from the country it's alleged the government in riyadh may have helped them flee from ronald's reports. fugitives from justice believed to have been helped to escape from prosecution in the united states there are alarmed indications that thought he government has helped thought the nationals accused of serious crimes flee the country federal law enforcement authorities have launched an investigation into how saudi students attending colleges in at least eight u.s.
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states and canada managed to get away after being charged with crimes including manslaughter rape and possession of child pornography investigative reporter shane dixon kavanaugh has found multiple cases of saudi diplomats spiriting suspects out of the u.s. in many cases the saudi government has no money and legal. defense prosecutors law enforcement some of these cases the saudi government directly escaped the united states five of the accused saudi men fled the state of oregon the state's senior senator wants answers from the state and justice departments the notion that thought eurabia can basically fade is above the law and that's what it looks like to the people of my home state is just unacceptable in two thousand and sixteen up to rahm on neural was charged with the hit and run killing of fifteen
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year old fallon smart sea was. pathetic his intelligence two weeks after numerous trial he broke off his ankle monitoring device was driven to the portland airport in a black s.u.v. and was flown out of the country in a private jet authorities believe he was provided with a false passport he like the other man accused is believed to be back in saudi arabia say at least as are. a legal system that. in all seventeen saudi men in the u.s. and canada have reportedly disappeared while awaiting prosecution the u.s. does not have an extradition treaty with saudi arabia making it unlikely they will ever face justice robert oulds al jazeera. we have an update
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on our top story the for spend election in nigeria. from may the good understand the opposition has something to say what's the line. well basically sunny it's quite a huge disappointment not only for the opposition but many nigerians who are eager to have this behind them a lot of people who are expected to come out this morning to vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections and unfortunately the news came in last night that this vote has been postponed it means for another week now the opposition are saying that it's a ploy by the current president nigerian president mohamed harder to cling to power but the a.p.c. ruling party is responding by saying that look we've done everything we can and it's not our fault that some of these things came up so basically it's a tit for tat although even before this day they've been the rumors about. the opposition actually attacking the ruling party that possibly the party wants to
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postpone this elections until a later date however some nigerians we spoke to earlier this morning are saying that what this one week make what difference the one we need in terms of the elections when we were here about an hour ago election officials were actually getting ready for the vote but they overnight they got the news that this vote has been postponed by another week so they parked and leave. thanks so much misery. antigovernment protests of broken out again in haiti demonstrators say they won't stop until the president resigns morey's is refusing to step down despite more than a week of rallies at least eight people have been killed when you are part of a force from the capital port au prince. dozens of people wait anxiously for a chance to fill containers with clean water. it's
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a scene playing out across much of port au prince as a nationwide political crisis continues to wreak havoc on the economy and day to day life then a family but people come from all over from very fast searching for water i'm very badly affected by what's going on i can't see my children to school i can't get anything done much of the city is virtually shut down and commerce has been brought to a slow grind at a local market frederico manya says people don't have money to buy food and she's worried that violence will start up again said that if everything is more expensive now the country is on lockdown you can't go uptown or downtown to buy anything. in other parts of town protesters continue to march on the streets demanding the resignation of president should no more u.s. . president was fitting the flames which is speech just today it's going to pull haitians that lives in the ghetto need to rise up against the president. demonstrators use burning debris to block the roads this street leads to
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a hospital but even doctors have been afraid to return to work we're just outside the presidential palace in port au prince which has been targeted by anti-government protesters for more than a week and while a calm has returned to parts of the city this is an area where tensions remain high even now there are fires burning behind me blocking road access and the expectation that the unrest will continue while violent clashes between police and demonstrators have mostly dissipated the anger and despair over worsening living conditions in the country persist. port au prince. u.s. special counsel robert muller says donald trump's former campaign manager deserves up to twenty four years in prison for man a ford was convicted in august on eight counts of bank and tax fraud he's been investigated as part of the program to russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election prosecutors are also urging
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a federal judge to find manna for more than twenty million dollars for as well as acute economic crisis has seen soaring inflation levels which are expected to hit ten million percent this year and it's not just hurting those in urban areas rural voters and traditionally loyal supporters of the madeira government are also struggling farmers have been hit by shortages of everything from fertilizer so fuel our latin america editor lucy newman discovered all this in a car. the fertile hills and mountains of venezuela are home to one of the world's most sought after delicacies workers in corn the garcia family makes its living from subsistence farming and their main source of income are these cow beings the raw material of venezuela's prestigious chocolate city. but times are hard says luis garcia there's no money for fertilizer
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a pesticides any more and water is scarce so the cow trees aren't producing as they should. president chavez used to give us credit but he died and that was it now we have no help. the communities land used to produce enough to buy supplies and clothe their families but now they say they're barely surviving on another carbohydrates that they can grow here but at least they have fruit despite the lack of water and fertilizer the orange grove has been generous the problem is they have no way to get these oranges to market transportation to is at an all time premium and the few cargo trucks that are available are charging a fortune and so they say it's very likely that these oranges will stay here and rot. luis garcia is a card carrying member of the ruling socialist party and tells me he wouldn't betray the revolution but he's losing patience with president nicolas muddle in
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a good result he's got to fix this because the same way that people put him in the palace we can take him out we're the ones who decide how great. his neighbor's fifty five year old son i that fixing all this is a matter of life or death she had a msec to me six months ago and explains that she needs radiotherapy to stop the spread of her cancer so. i've asked the government for help but there's nothing at the public hospitals they turn me away i'm sick but we. can i do to get my treatment when there is none available. people here boast that they're proud of their simple life but they say they've never had to struggle like this while waiting and hoping that in this way life will get back on its feet the sea in human . power in israel or. the us is pledging support to india in finding those responsible for thursday's suicide bombing in india and ministered kashmir at
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least forty four security personnel were killed india is blaming pakistan for the attack and summoned its envoy in new delhi august on denies supporting the group for to be behind the attack or than five hundred leaders from around the world have been meeting in new nick germany to discuss a host of issues including the throat from i saw the last few weeks the armed group has lost almost all of its territory in syria and iraq. spain's prime minister. has called the general election after losing an important budget vote people will now head to the polls on the twenty eighth of april this will be the third election in four years. schoolchildren across the world are opting to skip class to protest against climate change governments around the world to declare a climate emergency to tackle global warming needs bakara for.
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the next generation is finding its voice. some voices are smaller than others. but together they form a chorus. demanding urgent action on climate change it's a day of cotton ated strikes by children across the u.k. . with people skipping school to protest are you worried about the state of the climate the anyone. else keep trying to bring the children and we love having you let's try and we live without the light was running out of things we needed and so i think that somewhere else and one would use the school think about you not being in school i don't. think there's anything i was saying was. in the demonstration is part of
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a much wider global movement schools for climate action is growing quickly on social media. in the past few months tens of thousands of children in belgium germany scandinavia and australia have taken to the streets. it began with a fifteen year old swede tom burke who skipped class to protest outside government buildings in september accusing her country of not following the powers climate agreement she even took a protest to the world economic forum in davos which. according to the un intergovernmental panel on climate change there are only twelve years left to bring global warming under control before the damage is irreversible. unprecedented systemic change is needed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by at least fifty percent. the perceived lack of action when it comes to government dealing with climate change i don't know if led to this guy throwing gets me but this taking its
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future into the limelight to the people who try to size what we're doing it today i want to say how else are we meant to participate we don't have to vote none of us have a voice other than making a hot outside parliament here if we want to actually be able to survive rather than out of this impending sense of doom that global warming brings. a larger global mobilization of children is planned for next month many of these demonstrators know it isn't enough to be young articulate and informed there's a sense of urgency a feeling that if they don't do something who will. and let's take you through some of the headlines here and i'll just say there are now nigeria's presidential elections have been postponed until next weekend voters were said to go to the polls this saturday it's believed there were difficulties in
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transporting electoral materials in some areas the opposition and the ruling party have both condemned the decision by the electoral commission. a careful review of the implementation is not just an operational plan on the determination to conduct free fair and credible elections the commission came to the conclusion but proceeded in with the election of a should do. it's no longer he's. currently the commission has decided. the presidential and national assembly elections saturday sunday february twenty nine thousand. meanwhile at least sixty six people have been killed in northern nigeria police discovered the bodies in eight villages in kaduna state twenty two of them were children
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a group of texas landowners has filed the first lawsuit challenging the us president's declaration of a national emergency donald trump made the announcement after approving a spending bill to avert another government shutdown british arms exports to saudi arabia contravene international humanitarian law that's the conclusion of a u.k. parliamentary committee it says the justification for supplying weapons to the saudi u.a.e. coalition is flawed turkey's president says the united states isn't putting its full weight into the investigation behind the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. urge washington not to set the matter aside in favor of ties to riyadh u.s. threshold counsel robert muller says donald trump's former campaign manager deserves up to twenty four years in prison for man a fourth was convicted in august on eight counts of bank and tax floored he's been
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investigated as after the probe into russian meddling in the twenty sixteenth presidential election. the two thousand mile trip across europe seems impossible. as the balkans route begins to close for refugee it has become a race against time for one syrian family. it's a perilous journey from greece to germany but there's no turning back to the ravages of war left at home. sky and ground a witness documentary on al-jazeera.
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there are seven and a half billion people on earth and they all need to be bad. but producing food requires huge amounts of land water and is one of the major contributors to pollution and climate change. half the planet's habitable surface is cultivated for crops but forests are being cleared for industrial animal farming and commercial fishing is emptying our thieves of marine life. with the worldwide population predicted to grow to ten billion by twenty fifty it's clear our planet's conti part of the pace something has to change. our muscle build on the east coast of the us where a community of scientists fishermen and redefining our relationship with. robbie and hauling our scientists our waste into futureproof our planet against our love of meat. a.
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for centuries. we've been harvesting the oceans without much thought of sustainability and today we whites as much fish as we did fifty years ago the result is the oceans have been depleted to catastrophic lead unsustainable levels ninety percent of the fish stocks we rely on being fully fished overfished. to make matters worse the use of a group chemical stews in the sea and on the land is creating dead soon areas of high acidity and low or exigent which one of the biggest global threats to marine life there are already around five hundred in the world wade the biggest in the gulf of mexico covering twenty three thousand square kilometers. for the seas to thrive far into the future we need to fundamentally rethink our relationship with the oceans and here on the coast of connecticut are doing just that. fishing has
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always been big business on the long island sound in recent decades industrial and agricultural pollutants killed of fish stocks have come here to meet some of the locals tackling the problem. there are some bright yeah graduated thanks so much for having us and our current brain smith is an ocean farmer who's made its mission to reconfigure how we harvest the sea ok welcome aboard. the. rain the good thing about the ocean farming is we don't need to chase fish rice the quick run out right. used to be efficient yeah yeah i was in the bering sea fishing cod and just at the height of industrialized fishing and most the fish i was catching was going to mcdonald's for the first salmon that is the quintessential the epitome of the industrial fashion exactly so then you know i was on the bering sea in the cod stocks rasta new for land backwards from so i went to
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become a farmer on the salmon farms because i was the answer overfishing but it was just as bad you know using. besides antibiotics polluting you know we were essentially running pig farms at sea so i ended up down here to mit remade myself as you know what were called the three d. ocean for what is the what is a three d. ocean farm survey by the imagine an underwater garden where you're using the entire water column means we have a very small footprint vertical right. the entire farm is cultivated off a system of lines and boys which act like scaffolding crews from the horizontal lines closest to the surface then vertically downwards their muscles and then below that clamps on the ocean floor. that. brand has a twenty acre farm which produces fifty three thousand kilos of killed every year
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alone with two hundred those shellfish today i'm going to help check the lines. in the green where tame hills going to come aboard and. learn how to do some help farming a high. alright if you help. there's the vegetable of the sea right there let's attack some muscle soft that you. know it's from a. natural talent. unlike conventional aquaculture britain's ocean farming has no need for group chemicals in fact to be even seems to clean the water of pollution and sequesters carbon thereby helping to tackle climate change. is there a reason why you you've chosen muscles so they're really lean proteins packed full of going to make it serious but also so nitrogen they filter and they use nitrogen
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to grow filter it out of the water column sandusky you know this farm filters to millions of gallons of water we can waste your filters up to fifty gallons a day we just want to easter you if you were to take a number of these farms totaling five percent of u.s. waters you could remove the equivalent carbon output of over a million cars what the kelp does is it reduces the acidification rate it pulls so much carbon nitrogen out it changes the water called the so we've done studies and it's called the halo effect of the kelp actually working together with the oyster companion companion species exactly exactly you know they're meant to be together. with. couldn't so certainly intriguing but can the system really kill coop did soon one throws the seeds. of the seaweed marine biotechnology love at the university of connecticut stem food
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study just the school district. this is proper science what's going on in here so we have a lot of the talent might not be any really right here to. talk to simona is leading research in some calls so estuaries like long island sound we have a lot of nutrient runoff so from fertilizer or from wastewater treatment plants a lot of those nutrients get concentrated into the water and then they can cause problems like harmful algal blooms or you know hypoxic conditions and so by growing seaweed us in addition to shellfish we can take some of those nutrients and clean up the waters and the hypoxic that's like. so right yes exactly which is not good right for for for for exactly. simone is going to show me how they use
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killed to both monitor and clean the waters in the sand and the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take some of those harvested cows that we pulled off the long lines they were going to grind it up in the in this little machine. once cobra is simona can calculate that little nitrogen in the kilt which in turn helps it learn how much needs to be grown to clean the waters of pollutants. based on that then we can say you know based on that percentage if we grow this much seaweed on this long of a line then we're taking up that much nitrogen from the water. information like this is vital for brenda who uses it to determine how much cope you have to cultivate in order to improve the water in his patch of the sun. three d. farming proposes a close collaboration between fishermen and scientists but that's not all but yet
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another important partnership is happening on dry land toby fisher is a farmer who recently started working with brant used to use conventional fertilizer until six months ago when he switched to kill. the. fertilizer has a nice nice smell to it ok you know it's so you know it's the good stuff so i was actually going on here like way why do you not just put it straight on the fields the nutrients from the kelp. will transfer over to the water and you see the kelp just turns it into. like oh. yeah and so all the nutrients leeches out into the liquid and then we can have a way to fertilize not going to get like some crab. you never know. tobie's farm grows over twenty five different kinds of fruit and vege
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supplying the local community and it's this organic plant based fertilizer that you know uses on all these crops. this is calculated trail that we're going to screw in kale through your never to scale attacks are going to. do you feel a kind of connection to the sea because of this operation most land based farmers don't think about their actions and how they affect the sea the nature of runoff from the way and they got into the ocean the kalpa uses it to grow and then it comes back here to really close a sea seed away and loop. closing this land to see loop is a huge part of three d. farming's appeal but in the center of new haven there is another collaboration which is putting sustainability on the menu. i'm off to meet the shapiro head chef at royal to find out more. brand came to me with the help and it's like here it is
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you that once you started telling me the story once we started dialogue benefit more than anything sustainability perspective i started playing around i started using a number idea of different ways that i can feel like man is has like and so i just go ahead and yeah go ahead and and as you would regular pasta he smells fantastic right you go. there's very good we're going to actually see this kind of ocean farming have a significant impact on ocean cleanup on climate change you need we need our we need to eat most of the stuff we need to get you know what i mean you've got to do is a customer if i suppose a customer or way that people start asking for it then let brand figure out. how to mask. those are bumps around my arms around my apartment my role is if they like it. i've done my bit. or changes of food here in new haven and three d.
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farming is a hard. i mean we've got to tell a story and i'm hopeful story about the future right you know it's all bad news about climate change and foods again security stuff like that but i think out here we can say arrow things are a blank slate in the search chance to really build something new and build some from the bottom up that is sustainable restorative and doesn't make all the mistakes of industrial agriculture and thus industrial article. it's estimated that each week we lose an area the size of manhattan as a result of intensive over farming. nearly one third of the planet's land is severely degraded and agriculture is largely to blame. if we don't act fast the un projects the world has only sixty years of harvests left but there are glimmers of hope.
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