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all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion this is a dialogue we are talking about a legal front and you have seen what it can do to somebody to people using multiple drugs including a funnel and some people or secretly well everyone has a voice and does your boss your twitter and you could be on the street and join the colobus conversation on mountains iraq. this is al jazeera. eleanor and taylor this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. israel implement a new law that will penalize the palestinian authority for supporting the families of jailed palestinian prisoners. iran's foreign minister warns israeli and american
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policies towards tehran are increasing the risk of war in the region. saudi arabia's crown prince signs deals worth twenty billion dollars with pakistan on the first stop on an asian tour. and a region on high alert a twenty four hour curfew is imposed in indian administered kashmir. and i'm peter salmon in doha level with latest board including austrian ski chain marcel hirsch clinches victory in the slalom with a record equalling seventh gold medal at the world championships. israel's government has implemented a law that will take away millions of dollars of tax revenue from the palestinian authority the palestinian government pays compensation to the families of people convicted by israel on charges of carrying out attacks israel will deduct an amount
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equal to that compensation from tax funds it raises on behalf of the palestinian authority well that will cut the revenue to the p.a. by one hundred thirty eight million dollars a year before so it has more from west jerusalem. benjamin netanyahu began his weekly cabinet meeting insisting that he would follow through on the course he said we could go to start with holding money from the palestinian authority. today i will submit to the cabinet for approval reduction of the salaries of terrorists from the palestinian authority money the cabinet will have a detailed. port regarding the money from security officials this is important legislation that we've advanced and today we're going to implement it as i promised the money in question is taxes raised by israel on behalf of the palestinians and sent to them every month for years netanyahu and his allies have attacked the palestinian policy of paying prisoners families calling it incitement to terror pointing to the fact that the longer the sentence the more serious the conviction the higher the payment last july those criticisms were translated into israeli
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legislation now in the midst of an election campaign in which the right wing vote could prove crucial netanyahu is implementing the law withholding one hundred thirty eight million dollars in palestinian taxes in the face of widely reported warnings from his own security establishment suggesting such a move could in fact increase instability and violence. the palestinian prisoners club says about ten percent of the nearly six thousand inmates in israeli jails have been involved in deadly attacks the rest jailed for lesser offenses their families all deserving of support its president says the israeli move won't change a necessary policy. that that aid money that we give to the palestinian families is not for the prisoner or for the martyr who is dead we give the money to the family israel wants to practice collective punishment for most palestinians the system is a consequence of life under occupation abandoning it under israeli pressure is politically all but unthinkable the palestinian authority has condemned the israeli
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decision as piracy saying it's part of an effort to increase the pressure on the head of the publication of the trumpet ministrations peace plan expected some time after israel's april election are a force that al-jazeera westerners. a three day security conference in munich has wrapped up with iran's foreign minister warning world leaders that there's a heightened risk of war with israel jeffords or if says israel's actions and those of the u.s. are increasing the chances of a new conflict in the region tomorrow chad has more from munich on the third and final day of the munich security conference it was iran's turn to talk about the challenges facing peace and stability around the world its foreign minister david zarif telling leaders it was american and israeli policies that threatened international security and not those of his government we have long been the target of an unhealthy fixation let's say an obsession which
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continues to this very day the demonisation of my country has been a convenient cross for seven consecutive american presidents to bed yesterday right here in munich mr pence repeated the sparse when he added against the demand that europe must join the united states in undermining its own security and breaking its obligations. one of the main discussions at the conference was about the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal and even though the u.s. on the president donald trump has withdrawn from it senior american politicians continue to stand by the agreement as when you as a strong supporter of the. nuclear agreement with iran have we want to stick with supporting that their reign in foreign minister however fail to address to her policies in syria and its support for president bashar assad both or accused of
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killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and now that's iran and said seems to have won the war it seems that syria is being welcomed back into the international fold but not everyone is happy about that we are seeing countries are running that to normalize with the syrian regime inviting this year jim to come back to the arab league and we raise the question what of. what the syrian regime has done in order to be rewarded by normalization rewarded by coming back to their leader for ups's another edition of the munich security conference has concluded yet many of the reasons for insecurity around the wall remain critics say those include some of the leaders who themselves were present at this conference now new challenges were also discussed such as cyber security but it is new solutions to old problems that many are looking to world leaders for. munich iranian president
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hassan rouhani is unveiled a new domestically produced submarine that which they say is capable of firing cruise missiles a new submarine which is called the fatter a or conqueror was unveiled in the southern province of homo's gun it's equipped with torpedoes a naval mines and is specially designed to operate in iran's shallow coastal waters unlike its previous russian built submarines submarine can stay submerged for five weeks. the u.s. special envoy for syria has reassured world leaders that the withdrawal of american troops from the country would be abrupt james jeffrey insists it will be an orderly process and carried out in close consultation with allies and one can has more. in words designed to reassure european allies the u.s. special envoy for syria said this on the planned withdrawal of troops from syria first of all this is not going to be an abrupt or a rapid withdrawal it's going to be an orderly step by step withdrawal and each
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point we're going to look at our underlying goals that i just laid out ensure that we have means capability and partners that can carry them out for us this still no plan at least one that is public on the details of the withdrawal however there did seem to be differences with turkey on what to do about the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces led by the kurdish group white b.g. . at the same conference in munich the turkish defense minister reiterated his country's view that the y.p. g. is a terrorist group the main body main issue of the. security so the to get rid of the . terrorists. regardless of who. they are the syrian democratic forces will be concerned the u.s. has plans and some of the groups that the u.s. may abandon them once the fight against isis last enclave in by those in southeast
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and syria is over with one of the syrian democratic forces most from bali has. he says there are about a thousand civilians that are trapped in the village also says fighters have dug tunnels underneath the village and a vast majority of their fighters are hiding in those tunnels the u.s. president donald trump says is pull u.s. forces out of syria when the eisel caliphate is defeated with a battle limburg was approaching a stalemate he may have to wait a few more days before making the victory declaration he's promised iran doesn't it . yes president donald trump is demanding that european nations take back hundreds of arsal fighters captured in syria is urged britain france germany and other european allies to bring home more than eight hundred of their citizens to join deisel and put them on trial trump says he will soon announce the defeat of the arsal caliphate tom brooks is the dean and professor of law and government university of their own law school he says it might not be as easy as trump thinks
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european countries to take in arsal prisoners and prosecute them. he certainly wants other countries to pick up the tab i mean is this claim fat the fight is one hundred percent over yet there was all this other work to be done by others suggests that it isn't one hundred percent over and that and that there's this fundamental tension in what he was trying to communicate on that point but in terms of getting europe to to somehow do more it's not exactly clear what the expectation will be so for example for most european countries for most countries they will have laws about their citizens or people who reside in their territory that relate to activity in those countries so british citizens or people who live in britain in the things they do in the u.k. are what would normally be the subject of parliament and not so much what things
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what activities people will be involved with outside but it's very different in the united states where they have prosecuted successfully under very wide powers not americans who've never been to america who've been engaged in terrorist related offenses elsewhere this happened who was extradited from britain to the united states where he is currently in prison and so this call for the europeans to be doing things it seems the americans are able to do it the americans are probably better able to prosecute they want to win or choosing not to which is seems to be very high. coming up when i was there in this news hour. nine saudi soldiers are killed as fighting flares along the border with yemen. politicians lose that purpose in haiti but will the concessions be enough to quell anti-government armrest. and things are not going to plan for real madrid we have news of
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a stunning comeback at the bet about teachers here in the sport. saudi arabia's crown prince has signed several investment deals with pakistan worth twenty billion dollars mohammed bin sound man made the agreements on his first trip to the country since becoming add to the throne the crown prince says pakistan is an important ally for riyadh. we believe that pakistan going to be very very important country in the coming future and we want to be sure that we are part of that so. we are waiting for that kind of leadership to partner with and to build a lot of things together today we signed him or use we believe it's that kind of investment is twenty billion dollars it's big for phase one. and definitely. every month to be in the bigger numbers and it will be beneficial for both
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countries. sammy hamdi is editor in chief of international interest a current affair as magazine with a focus on the middle east he says the crown prince is attempting to gain political leverage over u.s. president donald trump. donald trump deeply resents the opec institution which is technically run by the saudis and in part by the russians and indeed there is a law being passed now by congress that is being that is going to allow the us to prosecute opec states if they try to play with the price this is a big thing for saudi arabia which its whole foreign policy is built on oil it's built on iran co it's built on this ability to manhandle countries through its oil mohamed bisan man once essentially to rebuke trump to essentially say trump you can't do this to us i have other allies i can go to china i can go to india i can go to pakistan the reason why i believe that this visit is a reaction and it's not something that mohamed bin sentiment is proactively seeking other investors is because mohamed bin so man the affair is still rife everybody's
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still talking about it it's still affecting his image if you notice the india indonesia and malaysia visits have been postponed because he's worried about this backlash that might take place so why risk this p.r. only if you are desperate that's why you would do it saudi arabia is in desperate need of diversification it continues to rely on oil it is looking for political leverage from pakistan it is looking to india in order india one billion big economy it is looking to encourage the indians to come and invest in saudi arabia i'm not sure china will take too kindly to saudi arabia neither will the indians but this is a desperate plan by mohammed bin cement to save salvage whatever he has of the crown prince arrives in pakistan at a time of high regional tension a twenty four hour curfew is in force in indian administered kashmir after a suicide bomber killed at least forty security personnel thursday india's government issued a safety warning following reports of people being targeted in response to the incident it will be retorts. mohammed month. worried
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that muslims from indian administered kashmir who study in a deli they're watching a video shared on social media of a group in the eastern indian state of bihar attacking a shop owned by kashmiri since thursday suicide bombing on a security convoy in indian administered kashmir attacks on kashmir is in other parts of india appear to have increased its outrageous in reaching because kind of this kind of violence is normalised back home but here. the weeds been joined out by whatsapp the propaganda primetime news channels chip just a thumping nationalists you know being for people's blood it gets really scary the students blame prime minister and around remote is hindu nationalist b j p the stoking anti kashmiri and anti muslim sentiment ahead of elections in a couple of months government is what government wants you to stay in place they
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want to stay and they want to stay put so how do you get the words about how you do it you get up particularly in all sort of class you give them ideas people should actually do a laser not you're going to censor that what allows been happening to them and you know. but in english media by beating them up it won't get them anywhere in indian administered kashmir they have been calls for a shut down to protest against the so-called revenge attacks. political leaders a calling for calm. with helpless procession so the communal harmony is maintained the monks hindus and muslims we also appeal to the indian government to protect kashmiri students who are studying on the new. government in an attempt to bring calm the indian government has imposed a twenty four hour curfew but it's also stripped five separatist leaders of the government security protection one of those affected called it irrelevant or
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drastic i enjoyed this recruited to go out of guard. are allowed a day before not a day later i don't need as a good. with a gun of a police van the pakistan based on group gesture a mohammed has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing the was in the disputed himalayan region in three decades the attack is worsened relations between india and pakistan which both claimed the entire kashmir region and left many kashmiris including these students fearing for their safety victoria gates and be algis their russian lender gazprom bankers prison bank accounts linked to the venezuela state oil firm but investor all transactions between the bank and the oil company have also been halted the vote is news agency says gazprom bank is trying
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to reduce the risk of falling on the u.s. sanctions imposed last month you are venezuela's president nicolas maduro continues to block food and medical supplies from the united states but has been allowing in aid from cuba and china responded this truckloads of goods are still crossing the border every day as i understand or i'm getting reports from kuta. the image of oil tankers in shipping containers blocking this bridge on the colombian border has become the symbol of the standoff for control of venezuela. president nicolas maduro remains firm in his opposition to allowing the food and medical supplies from the united states into his country but the reality of the border is more complex than the blocking of a single bridge. every night at eight o'clock the last venezuelans hastily make their way home over two other bridges in the city of. their open to foot traffic during the day and as they shut down at night trucks filled with projects appear
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what do you carry i think that sugar is the answer. that september venezuela halted experts to colombia they kept importing much needed goods shipping agents say they've been a swale and government to use its corporate thieves to buy food from colombia and then distribute it in food boxes for the four. weeks count to ten trucks lining up on this bridge they carry madison so chemicals among other things and exporters tell us that. if they're mainly as well as they being blocked hearing cope with that. and some of the products being brought or being used in the same way that aid might be used at this warehouse we found food kits being prepared to be shipped to an independent organization quietly providing aid inside venezuela export to just seeds that immune to says that the
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u.s. aid could also be imported legally just like any import but there's a reason it isn't being allowed in but i know it sounds paradoxical to talk about a blockade and the media shows that bridge but on the other two bridges merchandise goes through the issue with the political we could find a foundation willing to import it and we could do it legally if they force it in the venezuelan government could argue that it's contraband and confiscate that columbia's foreign ministry says trade with been this way last fall in more than ninety. percent in a decade in the us the age should simply be let in for years working at this border i've seen the tragedy of thousands and thousands of kids and sick people in terrible conditions i'm convinced that there is no other option but helping the people in need humanity should be above any political and diplomatic tensions but with neither side in business well appearing willing to negotiate the aid shipment on the border will remain the flashpoint of the growing political struggle alison
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that i'm just. u.s. senator marco rubio has led delegation to the city of who could tell the border between colombia and venezuela will be described nicolas maduro as an integer to mitt and calm constitutional made in the visit comes twenty four hours up to two u.s. midship planes arrived in colombia where they destined for venezuela. what is happening here today what is happening in venezuela is a manmade crisis of epic proportions not modify a natural disaster but by a manmade a criminal regime that's going to start to kill its own people before it gets the power we are inspired by the people of venezuela they remind us how valuable liberty and freedom in. their mind the south park is always preserving and why we are still in the fight for no matter how long it takes. jhoom is live for us now in packer i'm a on the border between brazil and venezuela so what's the situation where you are
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. florence day alone officials here tell us that over six hundred venezuelans crossed from israel up here into pocket on the edges right on the border now this is a processing center where out this run by the federal government from by the army and it's supported by the un refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. you spoken to many of the migrants that are here many of them are seeking asylum many of them are waiting for medical care so pregnant woman that we spoke with one thousand years old or so while ago and she's waiting to be transported from here to a city about two hundred kilometers south of here couple of years to reach the capital of what i'm a state so that she can get proper medical care and this is the cinema that we've heard echoed from many of those that are here who are seeking medical care i also spoke to a twenty three year old student earlier in the day named jackson and he was saying that at the state even as well and he would have to choose between either continuing his studies or continuing to be able to eat and so that's why he left the family friends and is now here trying to build a better future for himself and his family and his friends these are the kind of
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stories that you hear when you are in this facility it is very well we're going to . as this is the facility that was set up this past june to handle the influx of the hundreds of influx for they on average from venezuela into brazil and many of the people that are here you know they don't really know what the future's going to hold they really have no idea what's going to happen in these whaleboat they say the humanitarian crisis was deepening to the extent of it as well as that everything seemed to be spiraling out of control and they just really had to leave during the movie hearing about when any tip from brazil could be delivered. it's a very good question we're trying to get to the bottom of it as well we know that the brazilian government has said repeatedly over the past three weeks that they are committed to attempting to deliver aid from brazil into venezuela there have been numerous reports over the course of the past and days in brazilian media outlets that there was an opposition delegation from israel that came here in the
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past week that they were in brazil mia that they were speaking about this very issue than they were back in israel or now there are reports that another delegation is going to be here in the running a state in the north of brazil in the coming days to try to scout locations for an aid delivery facility some people believe that is going to be in ball vista which is the capital of a rhyme a state just south of here about two hundred kilometers two hours away some people believe it will be here in phuket i'm much of the city which is right on the border nobody really knows for sure the brazilian government has not given final confirmation but there has been enough indications from the brazilian government from officials that we've spoken with that you could assume that it looks as though this facility is going to be set up at some point in the next week to two weeks and they really are going to attempt to try to start getting aid we don't know yet what form that aid is but they are going to try to start getting some aid into brazil into venezuela from this point to brazil quite soon laurent manage engine thank you
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very much indeed. haiti's government says politicians will lose their pads. economic and anti corruption measures if one has days of mass demonstrations demanding the president driven emery's step down actions of accused moyes and his administration of corruption and mismanaging the economy in the poorest nation in the western hemisphere at least seven people have died since the his precious began this month at say i mean as an economist and professor he says that government concessions have brought some calm. we think that was well received by a lot of people. and we feel there's a little bit more calm right now it's more stable from the past three days so we hope this step b.d. cannot continue but it coming be for the past three four years we didn't have you
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know support from the international community you know sort of picture guy response from the venezuelan government it's ended so it's very hard to put government to keep up and i was so bad. economic decisions look bad management and also carson so those things actually make the people in. the situation even poorer every day because we can't create new wealth as the demography a population that is worrying every day so it's become more difficult now to get access to services get access to goods while they can to meet is not a growing and was so coded a government. still to come on al-jazeera why a spat between the amazon and saudi arabia threatens the tech giant investment plans in the kingdom. festivities in libya to mark eight years since the revolution
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that toppled moammar gadhafi his demise reshaped the north african nation. and its sport will show you one of the closest finishes to ever soumitra sport is coming up with. more lovely weather across the capacity of the skies are clear little more cloud rolling in from the atlantic as we go through the coming hours the specter of south cloud there rolling into oland and a rather more persistent band of rain which will make its way across wells england and scotland as because through monday so a little more clout there but starting all eleven celsius for london thirty celsius there for paris the sunshine hangs on a little more cloud just rolling into madrid you notice there will be some right into portugal western parts of spain meanwhile central areas are looking good
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fifteen celsius in rome sixteen celsius in athens the sun's rebus through here quite nicely still seeing some wintry weather over towards the east of year minus two the top temperature in moscow picking up to freezing as we go on into cheese a crisp sunshine i think will coalesce not just the central areas on choose a little more clout once again but the sun comes back out in london and that wet weather claiming rights away from spain and portugal so western passings and fine weather by the states monday in morocco say some cloud and right some heavy person possibility with a risk of some flooding but that will clear through as we go on into tuesday by them with a top temperature of seventy. at the time it was the worst environmental disaster in brazil's history but it was also a tragic for paste of what was to follow. people in power investigates claims of
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warnings ignored. i'm good disturbing ties between lawmakers and the mining industry that let. you go on trial for dozens and dozens of corruption charges brazil river of mud on a zero zero. zero zero you an atheist for all practical purposes yes i support science and truth one of the figureheads for the new atheist movement if you believe something without evidence then that justifies anything to do except that religion has done good things despite all of ahmad's police and americans who believe that science holds only on says that the world be a better place if religion disappeared tomorrow yes mehdi has nine guys head to head with richard dawkins on al-jazeera.
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logan are among the top stories. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has implemented a law that will take away millions of dollars of tax revenue from the past in. a three day security conference in munich has wrapped up with iran's foreign minister warning world leaders there's a heightened risk of conflict with israel. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin assigned several investment deals with pakistan with twenty billion dollars during his first trip to the country since becoming add to the throne. in yemen who see rebels in the government have agreed to begin the first phase of withdrawal from the data area both sides have said they would evacuate forces from her day to city and the ports of sunday and russ. the u.n. brokered agreement is to now desperately needed aid into the country but both sides
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are yet to agree when to withdraw. meanwhile saudi state media has reported that the fighters have killed at least nine saudi soldiers in a renewed cross border offensive it has happened in the southern provinces of asir just another on track a group to report. fierce fighting in the northern front lines of yemen who the rebels say they have launched major attacks on saudi u.a.e. backed forces across the border in saudi arabia over the past three days a number of saudi soldiers were killed and the military positions captured according to who the media sources saudi media is also reporting the deaths of soldiers who they say the attacks will not stop and yet mr miller are watching our operations will continue and in the coming days the lord vaness further as the war on yemen continues and the coalition continues to violate their obligations and
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promises under the hood data agreement the army and resistance fighters have no alternative but to continue to fight and intensify their tactical operations. this is the first significant escalation in violence since the u.n. brokered cease fire deal was signed in sweden last december the head of the u.n. mission tasked with implementing that deal in the port city of hadera that is trying to stop the conflict from getting any worse but the realities on the ground are a sobering reminder of the challenges this agreement was sort of blown upside down by focusing on sunday the. bourses a major humanitarian access and that's fine but if you say a ceasefire in her day and it's ok to have. ongoing war and the rest of the country that's not a good thing and this is the consequence of the fighting for millions of families
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and her family were forced to live under a tree after escaping bombardment of the saudi border style. vision has weakened us so much that this twelve year old now weighs just ten kilos for twenty two million yemenis who desperately need aid to survive while fighting even more suffering it looks like both sides are not very serious about ending the war and it seems that yemen the u.n. envoy to yemen mr martin griffiths is going to have to haul a lot more weight on putting pressure on to these parties meaning that he's going to have to rely on the british government and the american government and to saying that hey the international community here wants peace and therefore that's what's going to happen politicians in the u.k. and the u.s. are stepping up pressure to stop exporting arms to saudi arabia with the hope of preventing the world's worst humanitarian crisis from get even worse priyanka gupta is here. saudi arabia which leads the military coalition fighting hooty rebels in
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yemen assad a deal with the french company never group to build warships in the kingdom state defense companies saudi arabian military industries they did not spend as an arms fair and i would agree it will see warships including frigates and submarines built in a joint venture with the french firm saudis are among the top five for defense spending in the world. now meanwhile it plans at an amazon expansion into saudi arabia are under threat because of a dispute between the company's chief executive and the saudi crown prince in twenty seventeen the tech giant announced it was planning to build data centers in the kingdom as part of its expansion in the middle east last year crown prince mohammed bin sandman met amazon boss jeff bezos during a trip to the u.s. analysts say plans are now on hold after bezos hinted the saudis were involved in the leaking of his private phone messages and photos and if you felt has been
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covering the story and his role as senior u.s. technology reporter at the telegraph newspaper she joins us now from san francisco so is it your understanding the amazon's plans in saudi a definitely off. well what we believe is that the plans are effectively on hold also says tell us that the data centers which have long been planned or as part of as you said a middle east flight expansion by amazon and this is under its amazon data the amazon web services umbrella services its data centers that allow people to effectively use the cloud as there. are sources tell us that those plans are effectively on hold following this ongoing feud between the between mr bales and the saudi crown prince talked a bit of a background about him as he was suggesting that there were links between the saudi government and the kind of information that came out about it to tell us what how he was making his conclusion draw in those confessions absolutely will the news is
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really part of the. ongoing long saga between the two most recently a couple of weeks ago mr bates asked the billionaire founder and owner of amazon pennington publish a blog post on a website called medium in which he claims that he was being attacked to be blackmailed by the owners of the national enquirer magazine who earlier this year published photographs into that text messages between himself and a woman he's been seeing called lauren sanchez in the blog post he alluded to several times connections between the owners of the national enquirer who were called american media headed up by a gentleman called mr david ppaca you alluded to connections between mr peck and the salaries he didn't go into details into what those connections exactly where he seemed to lose that perhaps the saudis were behind the hacking of his phone that
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led to the publication of those photographs and text messages i should add that the saudis have denied any involvement in that yes indeed that so that was a dinar from saudi embassy for. foreign affairs minister saying the spatters a kind of a soap operas he put it just on the matter of how it will play out in in saudi arabia does the fact that amazon and. puts these plans on hold deter other tech companies or do you think it is just a personal issue between this one tech company and saudi arabia. well that's of that's a really great question and obviously we can't just look at this news today in isolation back has been an ongoing international uproar following the assassination of the washington post columnist mr jim out shortly. to jeff bezos to owns imus and also is the owner of the washington post newspaper and although he himself personally has been very quiet about the assassination of mr story even
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though the american cia has deemed that the crown prince of saudi arabia personally approved the assassination of mystic actually this is clearly just the latest development in those ongoing relations between both the u.s. and the saudi government whether we'll see other tech giants pull out of pull out of the region and specifically saudi arabia we'll have to see saudi arabia is a major investor in a number of very significant tech companies based in san francisco. so far we haven't heard of any of those changing or freezing their plans but we'll have to see what unfolds in the coming days and weeks and what about their their expansion if it if it isn't in saudi arabia do they still have big plans for the middle east in general that could be put into place elsewhere. yeah well this is this push into the middle east which has been several years in the making for amazon and. what
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they've said is that they plan to to head up that middle east amazon web services region out of bahrain saudi arabia is just one of several countries that they're looking at to put these data centers in so that they can have coverage across the entire middle east and they haven't said any as to how their plans have changed or evolves they affectively declined to comment by not responding either confirming or denying the story that we published today and of your fellow thank you very much indeed hurting that are talk to us thank you. people in libya marking the eighth anniversary of the revolution that led to the toppling of longtime leader moammar gadhafi in the city of benghazi libyans celebrated being free of a leadership that spanned four decades but not too were marking the anniversary with festivities since the revolution libya has become a divided country with rival armed groups and administrations all vying for control
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that would have been well had has moved from tripoli. many people families are heading out driving around heading up to the square where they're going to celebrate and mark the anniversary this anniversary comes amid political rivalries division and military conflict but you can. as we have spoken to people. there are kind of three categories of people in libya these days the first category of the seventeenth of february volution riis there are celebrating the anniversary no matter what despite all their consequence is that people have suffered from during the past eight years despite all the internal conflicts the second category is those who are supporting the warlords and many of those people are now would a great thing the fact that they have rose up against gadhafi because they say that
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they have lost a lot the country have. the country has slipped into chaos economic decline and political division the french president emmanuel mccall has condemned anti semitic abuse after a group of protesters verbal harassed a leading french jewish intellectual during a yellow vests protest in paris police intervened to protect a crowd on saturday when several men began hurling insults at him telling him to go back to tell of eve and we're france. if you go to her show as a political theorist at the university of nottingham he says it's too simplistic to link the yellow vest movement to anti semitic sentiment. i think it's difficult to make that straight amalgamation. event that happened recently was that this chain of bagel restaurants called bagel stein was also had graffiti on it saying juden jews jews out but the owner quickly said well you know you can't think that today
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yet a vest because it was a day before to protest it wasn't even on their. part that they were meant to take so there's a real question as there's clearly elements of within the yellow vest that are anti semitic you mentioned on the if you can call it and reception he got yesterday and also on law and we've also had examples of some of yellow vests doing the infamous canal salute which was popularized by an anti-semitic humorist called judoon in so it does that and he seems to be descendants in europe does been a rise across europe and in france but across europe of populism that as a certain type of language to gain more currency than perhaps it would have done before and i think link that i think there's definitely a question of the real social media has played in this would be naive to think that it's a myth anti-semitism has ever gone away i think there has been an increase of jews going back to israel but then there are no never there's often some who go to israel then come back to france and in many ways if that is really the response
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then you're kind of giving in it's kind of accepting the fact that these countries are meeting you can't live there anymore and then you leave i think that would be a real considered to be a real failure and go for those people who want to find out the semitism for also that states in the public forces response to the jews were to leave i think the environment us to be created again where they feel that they are protected that they're secure in their countries in which they live and that they're fully fledged citizens and they can believe they can participate in their types of life if it was just everybody to go to israel then that would just mean european politicians have failed. abba says it's going to have to make difficult decisions on future investment in the u.k. if person leaves the e.u. without an agreement next month the european aircraft manufacturer says a no deal bricks it would be catastrophic and it's already spent tens of millions of dollars preparing for that event the postponement of elections in nigeria has
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been a major inconvenience for millions of voters especially those who've taken long and expensive journeys to cast their ballots on saturday the election commission decided to delay polls saying it needs more time to ensure a free and fair vote there are also concerns a decision could lead to low turnout in the vote next week how much us are reports from lagos. some nigerians say the postponement of presidential and parliamentary elections by a week is disappointing frustrating and a national embarrassment many people had to travel long distances to vote with the head registered long my family don't produce because of the election. i've been the way you start to come on votes all suddenly we just all died electron news. was in spins from. the election commission announced a delay just hours before polls was due to open on saturday saying delays in transporting election material and sabotage are to blame get in here now to tell me
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the idea let me not do what i can be me tell you that i don't like it or not even you have to postpone why i was to come back to come on my last because it's my civic rights which i said was that but questions are being asked about how much it's going to cost nigeria to reschedule the polls nigeria is africa's the biggest economy but that hasn't translated into jobs it's estimated more than nine hundred million people live in extreme poverty the election delay will mean it will cost more money some nigerians say could have been used elsewhere nigeria has postponed elections before in twenty eleven and twenty fifteen economists say this is already affecting the economy. and the business community that's why he's turned off costs you know and now we have to now see a situation where this really has to be repeated and mystery and unfortunately
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between now and next week we're likely to see a lot. of. some of these first time voters insist despite the delay they are still determined to vote they hope whatever wins will create jobs. or not. i will say the delay caused doubt on the election commission's credibility and competence and that could affect voter turnout how tough. al-jazeera they call us. still to come or not is there in this news hour the high price of high fashion on the environment we meet that too is trying to change the trend. and as for the gopher who has just completed a family start in australia peter is here with details in just a few minutes. leah and her husband gavin were sleeping when four teenagers broke down the back the teenagers described as being of african appearance still on the run before all of
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this happened and i wasn't scared of black people or people of color. whatever the focus on african gang crime began in march twenty sixth seen when violence broke out at the moon the festival at federation square in the center of melbourne to gird so that african young table coming together and no one there was a far cry gathered because of my rolling bowl and feel like some of it was because the place became involved only start of choice and they just play ball and that crowd already been in the media at the top of a lot of political pressure. these people to commit crime can do single race whole human gets blamed for the actions of the few. to people have to base cypher have to feel saif side there's a lot of perception issues i think that we need to deal with this well.
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hundreds of environmentalists have blocked roads around london fashion week to protest against the fashion industries effect on climate change activists want industry to do more about the high rate of fashion consumption fueled by the availability of cheap clothing the foka but to some of the demonstrators. london fashion week is one of the most important events in the fashion calendar anywhere in the world a chance to showcase new talent and design but it's also a chance to hold the fashion industry to account when it comes to its record on the protect the environment and sustainability which is what this is all about by direct action group called extinction rebellion that believes very much the fashion industry is a part of the problem as opposed to the sure i think at the moment we're in
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a situation where we're heading towards must extinctions worldwide climate change is kicking in and everyone is still continuing as if it's business as usual politicians are failing us the supply chains and things with the fashion world i know it's incredibly complex but we all have to reappraise the way we're living on this planet link here because london fashion week is just behind us and we look to see what we want to cling to cease to recognise that they could you stand police right now in this meeting today to start a revolution to turn people on to make it so against them it's a good business. because the other side of the street fashionistas are getting ready for another day of shows at this london venue the industry generates thirty five billion dollars for the u.k. economy that employs seven hundred eighty thousand people that's almost as big as the financial sector which is why the campaign is what they say norma's sprawling
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global industry to the pound they have the same carbon footprint as the russian federation to do more. to tackle climate change. the british fashion council says sustainable also called positive fashion has dominated discussions at this year's event more more designers are now talking about going green but it could be some time before these future trends reach the rest of us our to peter in doha for sport . lauren thank you very much austria's marcel her sure picked up a record equalling seventh gold medal in the final day of the world ski championships in order sweden the twenty nine year old coasted through the second leg of the slalom after taking a huge lead in the first round to win by zero point six five seconds it was her she was third world title in slalom matching the record of swedish great in the last in mark it was an austrian sweep of the podium with michael met taking silver and marcos watts getting brands sure who picked up so in thursday's giant slalom said
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this could be he's lost world championships. and he mentioned in the interview after after a state this might be a last world championships. i think so so we would not be retiring after next season or next we can be but. ten more races are waiting for me so see and then take a break and yeah things will be. right no real madrid have suffered a surprise to one spanish league defeat at home to jerome or rail even took the lead through casimir go on sunday but a christie penalty and poor to go with fifteen minutes to go and the home side missed the chance to reclaim second place in the standings to add insult to injury sergio ramos was sent off at the end. what happened comes in as a cup on well it's a shame we missed out on points our rivals barcelona and it led to madrid close one
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this weekend and we have taken a step backwards because we were on a good run we managed to pick up a lot of points in the race to catch barcelona but now we have fallen further back with this defeat english premier league club crystal palace have managed to avoid a potentially embarrassing situation in the f.a. cup first round on sunday palace were away from home against doncaster rovers of the third tier of english football in the bigger scheme of things these two clubs are separated by thirty six league places however the f.a. cup is known for its giant killing victories it was not to be on this occasion though of the geoffrey schlumps opener max miles also scored to ensure a tuna lead at half time that would also be the full time school. tennis now and france's gael moan feeds won the final of the rotterdam open to claim his first title in thirteen months but it was an easy form on fees as he faced a tough challenge from three time grand slam champion stand. the so
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a star who was playing in his first five this and sunday going to nice surgeries won the second set of morphy's came back in the decider winning six three one six six two for what is eight eight hundred career titles. well this is a step you know always on me this is a step where we're working you know to put us in this situation you know it's over .

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