tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera February 18, 2019 4:00pm-5:01pm +03
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but he did not get enough credit for it in the book you want to be the big historical figure but he was mandela the biggest god called in the world the prisoner and the president who came together to end apartheid in south africa nelson mandela and f.w. de klerk face to face on. this is al-jazeera. and i'm fully back to go this is a news our live from i had which is in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes new fighting in the disputed kashmir region adds to soloing tension between india and pakistan also this hour an exclusive report from northern nigeria where fighting between christian samas and muslim has left at least sixty six people dead as
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spanish warship accused of ordering commercial vessels to leave waters near your bra it's challenge by the british navy and ip to stay with schools and there's no bid for manchester united saudi arabia the noise it's make a routine to be in premier league club. thank you for joining us pakistan has called back at some basset or a from new delhi as tensions in indian administered kashmir continue to escalate at least four indian soldiers into rebels have been killed in a gun battle in the northern pole juana districts a twenty four hour curfew is currently in force after forty one security personnel died in a suicide bombing on thursday pakistan based hama had claimed responsibility for the attack now we have correspondents covering this story from both islamabad and new delhi will speak to come out in just a moment but first
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a phase john mail in new delhi face diplomatic tensions and more violence i understand in indian administered kashmir bring us up to speed for a with what's been happening on the ground. fawley in the last couple of hours there's been more injuries among security personnel several soldiers as well as one of the deputy inspector generals of the police have been taken to hospital with injuries the police officer we have learned has a bullet injury in the leg so this is a continuation of the counter we speak again late on sunday when security forces encountered in a gun battle with rebels holed up in a house now four soldiers and one civilian the owner of the house were killed and a pursuit ensued from that another gun battle and then the two gunmen were killed in that but the fact that there was even more injuries hours later shows that this is an ongoing ongoing battle and it just highlights the tension that has already
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escalated in the region right stand by a faceless kossovo to come out hide in is not about come off how's the pakistani government responding to these increased tensions and also the pressure on prime minister of india to punish pakistan for last week's attack. here no one had been preoccupied with their way their own friends however august on has. already said categorically that india had pointed fingers. trying to go ahead that problem from the eyes of the international community because. if you had been simmering for decades and particularly in the last. fall it's being used by the indian figure to forge that and don fitted one of them and the more militant i read. that part of the war very important.
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that it had rendered all. that. however the indian that they do nor want to draw. august on had opened a quarter door for the community. there are gestures from august on but it appears most analysts are now saying that. they are two words political advantage because the indian election to do within the next few months and he wants to capitalize on the anti progress done for. to the right wing right wing extremist groups within india as you say come on these tensions coming as pakistan has been hosting a very high profile visit or the saudi crown prince who will also be traveling to india in fact he's on his way to india now what has come out of mohammed bin salman's visit to pakistan what's been achieved.
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correction because we. wanted to wait to saudi arabia and possibly going to be going to delhi tomorrow but one thing that has come out of the. foreign minister. he were tried to do the india and tried to diffuse. the tension but as noted the trip it's concerned. trip in florida pakistani government is concerned the economy wouldn't bad. at all. to the tune of twenty billion dollars the crown prince saying that progress don had a great. day wanted to invest in gets done any thought that country among. largest economy in the next. favorably
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because we're the largest economy and india were to have the third largest economy . win win situation it will be important to see where they. do daily and tried to reduce tensions between india and pakistan thank you for that come on. let's go back to phase john in new delhi now face as you heard there the saudi crown prince expected in india perhaps more as we heard there from come out first on his way back to saudi arabia what kind of race of a reception will he be getting in india. well before he's even arrived here in new delhi there was a protest by sunni muslim students group they were protesting and saying that they can't welcome a man who they say is responsible for the war in yemen and the deaths of thousands of people and thousands of children they also said these protesters that the saudi
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family is responsible for extremism and terrorism and this is just a protest that happened before mohamed bin samana is even arrived in the country now as we heard from kabul hi there had been some on the saudis are investing twenty billion dollars in pakistan now this comes at a time where india is trying to isolate pakistan economically and diplomatically so there's going to be some hard diplomacy between saudi arabia and india india will have to walk a line pleasing the saudis but also make it known that they're not pleased with pakistan or their investments now as for the saudi foreign minister trying to. deescalate the situation india for decades has rejected any third party getting involved in the kashmir conflict while pockets on his try to get third parties and the un involved india has always insisted that this is a bilateral issue is something to be resolved strictly between india and pakistan thank you for that phase john mayer live for us in new delhi and other world news
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nigeria's president has called for an investigation into why the presidential election less postponed by a week mamadou biharis ruling party had any majesty meeting in the capital on the election commission surprise decision to move the vote to saturday and i gerry anita criticized the commission saying it needed to explain its called incompetence he also called for the reasons behind the delay to be made public but only after honing takes place. definitely there either why such incompetence many of his sons. has to be explained to the nation after the election we have to know exactly what happened and. i'm employed to. make sure that this is still we willing to accept. is that making progress. except incompetence. some of the leading
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presidential candidates other candidates have condemned the decision to postpone the elections by a week and many have blamed each other for the delay which was announced by the election commission just hours before the polls were due to open last saturday and there's also growing concern about the economic impact of the delay as i'm a dangerous reports now from the northeast and city of my degree. these days the only thing that would work are muhammad does is it a cool or the children. he wants to work but no one is hiring because of the uncertainty around the elections gratis problems is all the children have been sent back from boarding school until the vote has taken place. the struggle to feed the families tough enough for someone who depends on daily it's been made had now because no one is sure of what will happen the disruption doesn't stop with people like you. trade in borno state had been picking up over the last two years
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following attacks by book fighters on the security clampdown to stop the violence. centuries old trade routes between neighboring countries had reopened but if you want to do business during election season this is a major reminder market its work for goes from cameroon chad is here to public and beyond come to find bargains but in the past few days not much transactions after you can place here those we talked to say most of the buyers from across the border i keep the wait until after the elections. most of ali has seen his weekly earnings grow from eight thousand to a few hundred dollars mostly because the local of that illusion. will just be done . a lot less we know about the hope now is for a quick and peaceful conclusion of the vote. when income is affected can limit and
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it distributes your no income it's going to be just and as a result of the particular use them of i think it will impact on the house the election commission as richard will national elections for saturday with state elections coming two weeks later the cost of the delay and the insight associated with it is difficult to estimate but businesses expect to be todd and any recovery will depend on who gets elected. al-jazeera made to nigeria while religious violence between christians and muslims is also a concern ahead of saturday's vote in nigeria officials in the northwest have discovered the bodies of sixty six people killed by what they're calling criminal elements and speak to mohammed abdul about this he joins us live from nigeria's capital abuja mohammed you have met some of the survivors some of the victims of this latest violence in northwestern nigeria what have they told you what happened . well follow the violence affected up to eight
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villages eight remote villages in that could you local government could do no more worse than nigeria one hundred four armed men armed with guns and other crew weapons are obvious and that on the villages dall they were said to be in this could emulate in their killing spree targeting anyone who came their way and officials are now saying they know that it was the attackers were from the kadar community our farming christian community not far away from the flooding huts meant they targeted now the survivors who survived the attack up and taken to hospitals and can do now where we met them and this is what they had to say. is one of the survivors of the door not by hundreds of men armed with guns and machetes. with
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a bullet wound to the butt twenty two members of his family including his wife four children and there's a limit on further what killed him younger imagine going on like that you know where will they go back to now. or anyone left what ron did we commit to deserve this brutality several villages in any in could do no state of north and no judio are tucked amongst the rules of bodies found what list twenty two children under the age of ten these. at the hospital in could do nothing to mcu days to two grandsons four year old. and two and a half year old bashir. both were injured in the attack they're the only some vibing members of my extended family. doctors operated only brahim to remove at least thirty pellets in these interest bags in between tears she talks about the moment her life changed forever. regarded as
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a community square her husband and the first to be beheaded anybody who tried to escape was shot it came to finish a. government official say at least sixty six people were killed in the tuc it's a figure disputed by community leaders the county is still on but aside yesterday it's over sixty seven and the counting is still on because over one hundred something and something are still missing yeah i mean most of the cows are not deposition our wedding is not known. we met some of those who survived huddled together in the open they're still in shock. by what they witnessed the killings beheadings and torching of houses the pain of seeing their loved ones getting killed by the attackers is still vivid in the minds of these people there i have here after a three day strike and now say they need help with food cruel thing and shelter
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against the cold nights. the killings in could do not shocked the nation within hours prison muhammadu buhari called the talk vile and the body was an attempt to say to stock religious conflict between christians and muslims in. this region where no g.d.s. muslim north meets nigeria so this prone to religious tension how does a nick flynn the a muslim muslim well the farmers a muslim christian where there is breakdown into community relations this are the kind of things that society so far from for the past twenty years. has been neglect of you deny and architecture for harmonious existence a moral rule communities of nigeria. respect them brazil lucian's how about a rare and with the demand for land growing by the day their fears the violence may only intensify. now the killings in could
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you very mean. home one because of the killings between farmers and the true learned a hard but this this isn't once have shock than the ships but it coming at that time the country is just beneath away from elections and what many people are fearing is that they could be politicized that now increasing calls for the government of thailand it's a pleasure to these far flung part of the judea which has been much in lies for saul law and once and for all deal with the good impulses between the farmers and the huntsman thank you for that mohammed al douri fourteen a lie from a bridge or nigeria. plenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including venezuela's crisis we talk to people who have fled to neighboring brazil in search of food medical care and jobs ross corruption in paradise amaldi scored on
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a zero solving president who's on trial for money laundering and coming up in sport the best basketball players in the world show off their skills in the n.b.a. own star game will be here with the best of the action. a spanish warship has been accused of ordering commercial vessels to leave disputed waters near gibraltar before being challenged by the british navy the government of the british overseas territory says a spanish ship sailed away after the brief confrontation the status of gibran todd tiny piece of land jutting out of spain southern cole says long been disputed between spain and the u.k. let's take a listen to an excerpt of the radio conversation that took place between the ships on gibran waters dishes. forty four to our side spanish tutorial orders lighting conditions you know safe passage i
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suggest to you to tourists earlier study studio yourself. do you explain. his challenge with this update from london. so the government of gibraltar says that a spanish warship radioed commercial vessels anchored at gibraltar and told them to leave spanish waters now according to the governments of gibraltar these are foolish games only of nuisance value played by those who don't accept unimpeachable british sovereignty over the waters around gibraltar as recognized by the whole world in the united nations convention on the law of the sea now gibraltar is a british overseas territory and it was ceded by the spanish to the united kingdom
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in seventeen thirteen in perpetuity so the british say it's ours now and it will be forever more but of course with the u.k. trying to leave the european union at the moment relations with spain are important and gibraltar becomes a pressure point essentially that the british fear the spanish are going to use because they've always wanted gibraltar back against the u.k. in its negotiations with the european union and century what it becomes is another example like northern ireland of britain's complicated colonial history and its territorial legacy coming back to bite it basically in the here and now and making things very complicated as brics it unfolds and the u.k. tries to leave the european union seven members of brains opposition labor party have resigned in protest against jeremy corbin's leadership the politicians say
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corbin staley is a bracks said anti-semitism and a culture of mourning had left them no choice they're split off into an independent coup but will not be forming a new party jameco been says is disappointed by the decision. a court in the maltese has ordered the arrest of former president abdoulaye yet mean he's to stay in custody at least for the duration of his corruption trial after the prosecution accused him of attempting to bribe a witness has also been charged with laundering a one million dollars while in office authorities in the island nation are trying to track down millions more believed to have been stashed abroad i mean lost his bid for reelection last year in a surprise upset by president either a mom it's solely who promised to investigate corruption allegations during a means tenure or let's speak to junaid muhammed who is a journalist at the modise independent and joins us from the capital thank you so much for your time so what evidence is there against former president yeah i mean
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what is he accused of exactly what to look. forward to hearing prosecutors told good serves on they have the rebels on your green card counter to the grave there were we also reduced thirty i mean contrary to many converts from a lot but also going there to be. very little into the sunni who is. really longer and also. try to you. know the police force to all the latest figures who seem to be the location so mohammed sony the current leader campaigned of course on a promise to investigate allegations of corruption is just campaign just talk getting former officials has any of the money believed to have been stashed abroad been recovered. none of the moment.
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i'm friends with. friends or scene was just said the presidential commission we can investigating. corruption as well and also trying to recall what it says that was stolen including the nineteen million dollars it's genetic to the ongoing the current charges against the president as well and then the figure should someone going to be the first judges that we're seeing not only i mean his. lawyers and also his legal affairs minister i think should clear has also meetings charged by the prosecutors ok thank you so much for speaking to us about this that was. denied mohamed joining us there from mali multi-use capital. our roving passive spectators that's how i know international aid agency has described un peacekeepers deployed during days of violence last year in the central
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african republic doctors without borders says the force did not protect civilians in the city of baton fall at least fifteen people were killed in the violence al-jazeera has asked the u.n. mission for a response but so far we haven't received any priyanka gupta has more on the allegations. of. these homes unbutton go food were meant to shelter people displaced by conflict in central african republic but now these houses stand as a reminder of six days of murder arson and looting that began last october. there was six days that brought what the un described as an unacceptable humanitarian tragedy it began as isolated attacks by the mainly christian group and mostly muslim fighters the aid agency doctors without borders says the four were celica fighters leashed a wave of violence civilians at aid workers caught the middle it says peacekeepers
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deployed to protect civilians at the time didn't do much. because what initially did since if the un battalion which is supposed to protect the civilians has been inefficient when confronted with this violence we assumed a tear in workers had to open the gate of our hospital so the population could take shelter because they found no other shelter. allegation group petered by the city's mayor and witnesses a lot over a year. so we were watching these elements they were at the gate and they were just filming and they were smiling it's not serious it's. the blue helmets were in their vehicle and they were following the xcel like a fighters they were on the roads and they were watching the rebels burning down the i.d.p.'s site. the un peacekeeping operation in central africa public has had more than twelve thousand members from several nations says twenty fourteen it's
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aimed at protecting civilians who are obtuse control eighty percent of the area earlier this month the government side peace deal with forty rebel groups after holding direct talks for the first time it's the eighth attempt to begin to end the six year conflict. dizzier. town after a check of the world weather with robin roberts spring already strong in europe you might think if you look at the pictures behind me look at those temperatures and what do you think the months was april there was i thinking very much because this is just that in the last couple of days that's not really surprising down in spain to see twenty one and particularly in southwestern hundred seer it's always you know they have is going up every year but the rest you know it just doesn't look right for febrile that's correct if you compare it with the average we've got a sways for a good part of the heart of europe is about ten degrees ten degrees above the norm and surprisingly people are enjoying that somewhat i mean not far as mostly but you
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want to go to the beach that's a beer it's around the atlantic coast and very lovely on the baltic coast likewise yes a bit more dressed up you see some. and there's no snow on the grass no ice on the ground and this is the encapsulated war where it's high pressure effect and bit of a cold didn't hear believe the moscow temperature above freezing and coming from the atlantic another area of cloud but behind the air is not that cold so the full cost of the actual weather now when there is that all the many months to moscow maybe impress foreign kippah for the rest barely a change and even that cloud and rain that warm dizziness of the next twenty four hours say the air behind it's not particularly cold not particularly different so we end up for example tomorrow yeah i've done a little bit eleven in london the rain just spots in germany otherwise it's still surprisingly warm. thank you very much for that robson ahead on this hour why migrants have abandoned any time in town that was once a model of integration bus horsing around we'll look at the ancient sport of tent
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in iraq and in sport we'll have the latest action from the first day of formula one testing pete i'll be here with the details to stay with us we're back after this very short of. the week began with news of ninety day truce in the tit for tat us china trade war the world's largest supplier of liquefied natural gas is leaving the biggest one call to we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. an army of volunteers has come together to help with the influx of tens of thousands of evacuees. but their retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems. smoke from the massive wildfires now blankets much of
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northern california leading to some of the worst air quality in the world but with more than twelve thousand structures lost in the wildfires concerns remain about long term accommodations jobs and medical care. local officials say there isn't enough housing stock available. welcome back you're watching the news out on al-jazeera with me fully back to remind. of our top stories pakistan and india have both called their top diplomats back home for discussions as tensions escalate across indian administrate kashmir at least four indian soldiers have been killed in the latest fighting between
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suspected separatist gunmen and security forces in the disputed region this coming after a suicide bombing on thursday that killed forty one indian security personnel as spanish warship has been accused of ordering commercial vessels to leave disputed waters near gibran before being challenged by the british navy the government of the british overseas territories says the spanish ship sailed away after the breach of confidence confrontation. and saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman has left after signing twenty billion dollars in investment deals with pakistan is a much needed relief for pakistan's economy which is currently facing a debt crisis well let's speak some more about this now to marvie sara met who is a journalist at the daily times and executive council at the human rights commission in pakistan she joins us from islamabad thank you very much for being with us so the pakistani government i understand has given its highest civilian honor to the saudi crown prince
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a day after all these investment deals were greeted twenty billion dollars worth what do you make of this is a saudi crown prince deserving of this honor. thank you very much there did get me feeling that by a large majority. this visit is. a very very important moment in history in pakistan's gotten political situation there but it is in the danger of being democratic. diplomatically isolated into the big of the recent do a significant dent an attack on its borders. against the. soldiers of god and other. indian soldiers they were all died in a day and all the countries have pointed fingers on pakistan because. groups who
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have claimed their responsibility on these gag in pakistan and india so let me let me come that is my question i'm sorry let me just come back to my question is saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin samana mind known for his questionable human rights record a country known for its questionable human rights record is it is he deserving of this highest civilian honor. where there is. as i said mixed feelings and like many people. including the human x. defenders with peeing that this is not. a study done and should have behaved sensibly however. you cannot make financial. do in right now that there should have been because right now i'm not a cause and you would see on that region that you have to. be sure
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because we want good in mind and the governments of the world that guys. sending weiss's and generally the ones that are important and free media pressure is a basic human rights that all the states however but what will be our right should respect that since there is that concern in pakistan about the kind of peterman. on a box any government is giving to the prince who is accused of. many white acts noting democracy in his luggage indeed saudi financial support is not of course a new feature of pakistan saudi relations but is coming as you've said yourself at an especially crucial time for the pakistani government this help may avoid a financial crisis for pakistan but as we know this support is not granted unconditionally so what imran khan's government have to offer in exchange at what
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cost has pakistan willing to pay for saudi money when it is unclear to what extent pakistan's government. will be ready to go. although it is very clear that whatever decisions of time he is making are lead it meant of bikes and pakistan's. military establishment i know this is also very important in the sense that it. is not getting hard cash from from a matter from saudi arabia these are just twenty billion dollars investment plans. are signed in the fall mark and not the agreements so we are not sure if this comes back as ok or not feel like my commercial indeed thank you so much for speaking to us from the daily times of pakistan thank you for your time. thank you. venezuela
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as government has brought members of the european parliament from entering the country the group had been invited by opposition leader one guy doe to meet the national assembly white who is also trying to enlist a million volunteers to head to the border with colombia on saturday to receive foreign aid being stored in neighboring countries including colombia and brazil. and italy those numbers. were being expelled from venezuela our passports have been withheld we've not been informed of the reason nor do we have any document that justifies it because they have just thrown us out we came to venezuela with an official invitation from the national assembly a body that is recognized internationally and even recognized by the venezuelan president we are the first international delegation that was visiting the interim president one guy do when in a country a dictator closes the windows and turns off the lights that is when he goes from words to actions long live a free venezuela now as a standoff intensifies between and president nicolas maduro venezuelans continue to
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leave the country and drolls a crumbling economy has already forced more than three million people to seek a new life abroad and spoke to some of them in the brazilian border town of parker i'ma where hundreds across saying every day. on brazil's border with venezuela the migrants continue to arrive many of them relieved at least for the moment to have seemingly put their desperation behind them back home jackson maria just twenty three years old had quit school to work in a bakery and a little organization awesome with young people like us can achieve our goals of it as well i had to stop my occurred in mexico just because it became a choice between studying and eating. but even that choice difficult as it may have been didn't make things much easier they left another idea the money i made from one week before it was only enough to buy me one kilo price. his friend i modified
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also twenty three tells me things were unbearable well before the current political crisis and can't help but laugh when describing the dark absurdity of the past few weeks ok even the so in the say it made those so he said no ok so people are now saying we have two presidents one issues in order the other refuses it one last for eight the other says the eight one pos it's public disorder in politics and neither of them is looking out for the welfare of the people but at this processing center in the town of pocket i'ma run by brazil's federal government and supported by the united nations refugee agency exhaustion is also palpable officials tell us that today alone over six hundred venezuelans cross from venezuela into brazil and many of those migrants will be applying for asylum and many of them will be seeking medical care but now we see more people arriving in very bad conditions arriving with the urgent need of medical attention so
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a lot of people who are right here because you need to immediately transport to board these different care some people arrive here we actually do nothing but you will still be wearing stefania i decided to leave when she realized it would be too expensive to have another baby in venezuela philip went to get them at a certain amount of surveillance and my sister said she couldn't believe i was leaving i said yes i'm going i took my child and left time i got here by getting rides and travelling for two days and. like many others here she's happy for a brief respite in this very temporary setting where children play with soldiers and things do albeit fleetingly seem a little bit better. and parker dima on brazil's border with venezuela. yemen's government and hoofy rebels have struck a deal over the withdrawal of troops from who date the warring sides have agreed on
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the first phase of a pullout from the port city it comes after two days of u.n. talks aimed at ending the four year conflict represents to some both sides have not given a date for the redeployment meanwhile anti-government demonstrations have been taking place in yemen's capital sanaa who these have been protesting against what they believe is the normalization of relations between yemen's government and israel this is in response to yemen's foreign minister hunted out of your money sitting next to israel's prime minister binyamin it's now during the recent war so summits . in iran israel has implemented a new law that will take away millions of dollars of tax revenue from the palestinian authority and move penalizes the authority for supporting the families of jails palestinian prisoners are ethos it has more from. 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
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authority you have usual today i will submit to the cabinet for approval the deduction of the salaries of terrorists from the palestinian authority money the cabinet will hear a detailed report 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 vote that the longer the sentence the more serious the conviction the higher the payment last july those criticisms were translated into israeli legislation now in the midst of an election campaign in which the right wing vote could prove crucial netanyahu is implementing 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
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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. but on thinkable the palestinian authority has condemned the israeli decision as piracy saying it's part of an effort to increase the pressure on them ahead of the publication of the trumpet ministrations peace plan expected some time after israel's april election are a force that al-jazeera west jerusalem some breaking news out of syria and syrian opposition activists say two bomb blasts in the northwestern city of have killed at
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least nine people this is according to the associated press news is in agency so two bomb blasts in it live killing nine people will have more on this breaking news story as and when information becomes available it was once a model of integration in italy but the small town of reaction came under attack last year when its latest far right interior minister ahmed tales out of any ordered hundreds of refugees to be moved out the suspended mare is now waiting trial for aiding illegal immigration many residents say the area had been revived by the arrival of the migrants from e.i. chase sonia gago has our report these quiet streets will once bustling with activity people and purpose but reaction has become a shadow of its former self. raffia has been living here for four years she came from pakistan her family made this place their home and they are one of the few migrant families that remain here because before the project is through
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everything's good they give us everything's they help us. finish project is finished crumbling buildings were turned into shops restaurants and homes now lie empty again the occupants left after pressure from the old thirties those that live here say riyadh she had once been full of optimism now no more. this playground used to be full of children now nothing no one's left here. last year the mayor the when he was arrested for allegedly encouraging illegal immigration the main accusation that he arranged a marriage between an italian man and a nigerian woman who had been forced into prostitution so that she could remain in the country. reaction is integration model breathed new life into this village but it became
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a target immigration politicians including the deputy prime minister met any who frequently voiced his antagonism towards this project so now once again the actualized practically deserted and all the effort that went into rejuvenated this place is now wasted while the mayor was praised for pioneering a model of integration that benefited the area matteo salvini led a campaign to stop the movement of humanitarian rescue ships out of italy's ports and revelled on social media what mr mcconnell was arrested. no longer allowed to set foot in riyadh mr lucado is awaiting trial and says he is being used as an example for those who do not meet the new immigration policies. the message that came from here was that for once it was possible to create a diverse multi-ethnic society and that wasn't allowed. instead they created political success and propaganda which turned the least people against each other
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the quietness here a reflection of the new normal immigration is no longer an issue of assistance but of control those who remain say it is a sad place hope of new life has been abandoned and the welcome it once promised no longer allowed sunny diagonal al-jazeera reaction southern italy. australia's government says political parties have been targeted in a cyber attack carried out by a foreign states andrew thomas has more from sydney. the prime minister scott morrison didn't name any particular country when he talked about a sophisticated state actor being behind this cyber attack but most people think the security service is most suspect china although russia is another possibility as is indeed the united states or even israel now this all started ten days ago when the prime minister said the security services detected
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a cyber attack on the parliamentary computer system including the email account of some m.p.'s and it's been joining the investigation into that cyber attack ten days ago that has revealed that political parties computer systems have also been attacked not significant because the major political parties here hold huge amounts of personal information about voters they use that of course when it comes to targeting votes is in the run up to elections and there's a national election here jew probably in may now the prime minister said there's no evidence yet that there's been any electoral interference by a foreign state but the concern of course is that that could come. war and political instability in iraq has held back its economic development for decades unsurprisingly investment in sport has also suffered one discipline in particular has great cultural significance for iraqis and the wider region tent a chance rochford went to baghdad to find out what. it's called tent to
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taking an ancient horse riding skill believed to be practised by oh mees around the world over two thousand years ago and some of these iraqi reuters a rather good at it. he's a member of the iraqi equestrian team he writes an eight year old arabian far abroad called show. this is the fall of saddam hussein two thousand and three until now i have one around forty five medals and four of them were gold but the equestrian sports here are no longer taken seriously they suffered lack of government support and of private investment iraq's equestrian federation used to be a sporting institution that the country was proud of his club was a favorite hangout for saddam hussein's sons to show off their wealth both owned horses worth millions of dollars which they kept at the stables years of war
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political instability means the club's facilities for for the long haul times. iraq's a question federation was set up in one thousand nine hundred twenty two during the year is over all its short lived more to keep the six thousand forces here at the time were raby and sorrow breeds the envy of the questions and breeders around the world now during the war that toppled saddam hussein all the horses here was stolen and even today the federation still struggles to survive. but a few of iraq's elite who didn't flee the country still come to ride secondary school students in shell assad harmeet rides an eleven year old horse called nivo in show low represented iraq could be used to limp pigs held in argentina last year she came twenty fourth out of thirty participants in the horse jumping event i feel comfortable i feel i am or i am going to heaven when i am writing courses because
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a four point nine billion dollars offer was expected from saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salomon but the country's information minister has called the reports completely false to an art tweeted that the kingdom sovereign wealth fund did hold sponsorship talks with the team but did not come to a deal colin kaepernick slow is predicting he'll return to the n.f.l. soon and named two teams who might sign him up attorney mark garagos believes he'd fit well let's super bowl champions the new england patriots all the carolina panthers the thirty one year old quarterback settled a long running dispute with the n.f.l. on friday details of which are confidential he and teammate eric reid claimed they'd been excluded from the sport for kneeling during the national anthem to protest against social injustice in the united states reid's just signed a three year deal with the panthers but kappa nick hasn't played since leaving the san francisco forty nine is in twenty sixteen. olympic eight hundred metre champion
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garces emanuel is at the court of arbitration for sport in switzerland she's attempting to overturn a rule which would force her to take drugs to lower her to star levels if she wants to defend her title the south african is challenging athletics governing body the i.w. have to last year introduce rules circulating female athletes with naturally high testosterone levels would have to race against men change events or take medication to reduce it the decision is expected at the end of march. to question raise goes far beyond mere judicial considerations but i think that everybody knows that the very nature of this. rule raises ethical and for those difficult questions this may not be considered straight away during witnesses or expert hearings but it will certainly be part of the discussions had during the deliberations it's now get ready for some spectacular basketball action from the n.b.a. all star game the bron james team produced a stunning second or fight back to get the better of these rival cats and. david
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stokes has the story. the stage was set for the n.b.a. all stars in charlotte north carolina t.v. le bron up against steve younis and it was yon issue. in the game the twenty three year old leading from the front was likely to go with steph curry just one but choice here's. how. i cover it turning on the style of his hometown and the spectacular moves which is too much for the opposition to deal with younis were up by twenty points at harper time but then the advent of shifted. i brought reunited with his old pound weight began to fight back the old teammate back to back. the three pointers with dropping two. and it wasn't long before the school's. well level. talks was thirty one points
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with cabbage around him the m.v.p. for the second time in an all-star game and in the end his team le bron ended up running away with it with comfortably by forty points david stokes al-jazeera tennis world number one soccer has opened up about sacking her longtime coach sasha bine since he became her coach she rose in the rankings to the top spot and won back to back grand slams she says the decision had nothing to do with money but more about spending time with people she is happy with. i think my ring. i want to put that on my. plate i think everyone would like to. have my moment i would never. and that's nice. and and not missing anything bad about. a person really grateful for all the things
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that. there's been another delay for the williams formula one team the new car was supposed to be ready for testing on monday but has now been delayed until wednesday at the earliest one team that is ready is all for a mayor to me reichen and then turning. the drivers for the team formally known as the car is already being tested in barcelona the first of testing our you know new cars and nice to see how it is done. and different pain so it's a bit learning learning new things can. print almost or right in left for ari to join al for a may and on the evidence of monday's testing he might regret the decision already this is a four time world champion sebastian vettel in action it was top of the time sheet and his ferrari at lunchtime with seventy two laps completed despite this little spin t.c. . it's been nicknamed the great american race but for many competitors about nascar
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season opening daytona five hundred it ended with ten laps to go after a huge crash. triggered a twenty one car accident that just kept going and going defending daytona five hundred champion austin dillon was among those who were caught in the pileup that brought out a red flag that stopped the race for a clean up luckily no one was hurt in the rake just sixteen cars out of forty finish the race twenty sixteen champion denny hamlin clinching the win on a chaotic day. american golfer jamie. home says security spotted the masters by winning the genesis open it was a mammoth final day of thirty four holes and it took its toll on leader justin thomas but holmes stepped up to claim his first victory in three years and that all important trip to augusto. perhaps no one was more fun to watch than tiger woods he found himself in all sorts of trouble but somehow
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managed to fight his way out. nothing wrong with these work around the greens but he's putting let him down any ended up tied for fifteenth place. it was one the worse weeks i've ever had on the greens you know six three parts as. other of ever done that and so to have that me three parts and you know still shoot six under par and take away those three parts i'm told on a par and if i make a few more possum right in the mix so i was going to clean up my mess on the greens and be ready for thursday normally you need snow for dog sledding but in the u.k. they came up with a different tactic teams at the british siberian husky dog championship sporting on dry land mushing one of the fastest growing dogs sports in the world each team races with two to eight dogs with slates that look like tri sickles these championships in norfolk will in in march with a lot more rain on the course than snow. and that's all the sport will even if.
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they did thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera but do stay with us we've got plenty more wild news coming up after this short break. and whether online through to the answer for them not to be granted or if you join us on sat 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 people are using multiple drugs including a funnel and some people are secular out everyone has a voice from the fury party or twitter and you could be on the street join the global conversation on mt is iraq. if you want to learn about the world might look like very serious regard hundred and hungry is in the extreme example of the predicament the whole world is going through. scenes mass immigration story we had
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paunch questions between the cultures and the problem is that the culture of that is you are should say some reading to us is or is not comfortable with european culture this is not like food fascist. triumphal march. dreams of conquest and of global tried. this is very very uneventful glide towards the precipice without resistance we are past the danger has already happened. it was then just ten years ago. now this is it. a face can tell a story without uttering a single lie. and now england. can go. it's.
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