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six continents across the deep. into serious corresponding sleeping brain stories that. have a lot. of people. were at the mercy of the camp for palestinian children syria food news. senior trumpet ministration figures are accused of rushing to sell nuclear technology to saudi arabia ignoring legal objections. have them seeking this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the time limit runs out for corridors that were supposed to allow syrians to escape the remote camp. five years after nigeria's president promised to clean up this oil mess we'll
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look at whether failures will hurt his reelection. standing by their man venezuela's military reaffirms its loyalty to president nicolas maduro. following the united states in investigations binns launched into whether the trumpet ministration is rushing to sell sensitive nuclear technology to saudi arabia a committee in the house of representatives led by the rival democratic party says whistleblowers of war and corporate interests are being put ahead of the law mike hanna reports from washington. the twenty four page report is extensive and reach in detail providing names dates and specific communications relating to u.s. nuclear technology in saudi arabia the oversight committee under representative elijah cummings based the report on what it calls whistleblower accounts evidence
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provided by career officials within the administration deeply concerned about what would appear to be a deeply corrupt process circumventing congress what is surprising us is the scope of u.s. government officials. directly involved and denise business to business talks. the way out this close and potential economic interest in the work that they were doing and that is certainly what is new among those named in the report to president trump's son in law and adviser jared cushion or who refinanced a deeply indebted new york building with a company called brookfield business partners which had just acquired a nuclear services company westinghouse electric under scrutiny as well question his ongoing relationship with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. and central to the report longtime trump supporter and one time national security
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advisor michael flynn who the report says was deeply involved in pushing a nuclear plan for saudi arabia that included the construction of as many as forty saudi nuclear plants the report says michael flynn was a paid advisor to a company known as i p three international during the presidential campaign through the transition period and even while serving as national security advisor the report ends on february the twelfth that is last week president trump participated in a white house meeting with private nuclear power developers initiated by i p three international and as a democrat led oversight committee commences a large scale investigation the question is whether house republicans will commit to it as well mike hanna al-jazeera washington earlier we spoke to rodger shanahan who is
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a research fellow at the lowy institute for international policy he says the allegations give an indication of where the trumpet ministrations priorities lie. it's indicative of chris and trump's white house's view of u.s. foreign policy in the region it's really a transactional round iraq less about the nature of governance in the regime and really about commercial opportunities not think this is just further extension or would have been a further extension of that trump foreign policy for the middle east and the gulf in particular the fact that there are too many tensions conflicts of interest here in sydney a lot of flynn for a period of time the national security advisor had been also an advisor to one of the corporations that was looking to advance this nuclear power plant construction project so he certainly would have being conflicted because he hadn't yet as far as we're aware relinquished his relationship if he's consultancy company and this
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number of the former city military officers who appear to be involved as well so while the report is not. good everybody about the degree of responsibility this certainly some saying if he is who would have benefited financially from this is if it is going to get a twenty four hour window open by syria's government in russia to allow people to relieve remote refugee camp has now closed but no one has been able to get out one camp is in the syrian desert near the border with jordan and iraq forty thousand people mostly women and children have been living there some of them for years they've been suffering with little food or medicine imraan khan is lifeless there in gaziantep on techie's border with syria so iran what more are we hearing about this. well the window came to an end as you say just a couple of hours ago it finished it was first finish at nine am local time we haven't
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heard from the russians all the syrians about an extension now in the past when cardo is like this have been opened they've been open for twenty four hours but they have been extended to allow people to leave but this is a very old situation because it feels like it looks like that the russians the syrians open this chorizo on their own devices they don't actually speak to the f.s.a. the free syrian army who control that paul's of our town where the camp is and they didn't negotiate. to allow people to actually leave the camp reach the car we don't know there is a no man's land of about fifty five kilometers between the camp and where the corrido actually begins and so it's a lot of people now also questions whether this was for show by the russians and the syrians for them to be able to say look we do care about humanitarian issues we do care about the people within a red line camp and we do want to provide them with a way of leaving actually it feels like
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a actually negotiate with the free syrian army and what are conditions like full the people living in camps. they're absolutely desperate they are very dire there's been very few aid deliveries to karen but there was no delivery just a few days ago by the united nations that was the first time that it happened in the least three months so a lot of people there and we've been speaking to people inside the camp are telling us that they're completely there where they want to get out but they're very suspicious of leaving because i because of the free syrian army to control the camp as i say were backed by the united states but they're also very wary about going through a russian syrian led corrido because they say it needs to be monitored by the international community and the u.n. and actually said that they are not involved in this corridor so lots of people desperate to leave but they also they want to leave knowing that the secure lots of
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questions but inside the camp itself the situation is incredibly desperate and people are suffering in iran thanks very much m.r. carney in gaziantep. british teenager who joined i saw in syria when she was fifteen years old could be about to lose her right to live in the u.k. shamima begum was one of three london three girls from east london who went to syria in two thousand and fifteen it's reported the u.k. home office as issued an order to remove her citizenship just days ago she gave birth to a son in a syrian refugee camp a lawyer says they'll fight the decision a saudi state media says four soldiers have been killed while fighting with hooty rebels on the border with yemen who say they're continuing their offensive at the border taking saudi positions south of jazz and a large number of weapons. elsewhere five civilians including two young brothers sabine killed and mortar shelling by hooty rebels in her data that's despite the
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un's an ounce none of a breakthrough on the withdrawal of troops from the port city. and the u.s. special envoy to yemen says the pullout will provide an opportunity to end the four year war martin griffith says it will begin with two smaller ports before moving to head daters main terminal our diplomatic editor james bass has more now from u.n. headquarters in new york the u.n. security council was told by the special envoy for yemen mohsin gryphus that the redeployment of forces around today this stage one would start in the next twenty four hours of course the redeployment was supposed to start after the stock called peace deal and that two months ago and all the while the humanitarian situation on the ground in yemen has been getting worse the u.n. was briefed by the undersecretary general mark local ensure mr president things are very band and unfortunately aid agencies are running out of money
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among the many challenges the eight eight eight operation faces funding is quickly becoming the biggest we expect current resources to be used up by the end of march just six weeks from now the special envoy martin griffiths also told the security council there's been progress in talks on trying to get a prisoner exchange between the various parties fighting in yemen again talk of progress but like redeployment no actual progress yet another death toll from an attack on civilians in northern nigeria has doubled to more than one hundred thirty people the governor of could do in a state where it happened as the motive appears to be linked to a long running violence between christian farmers and muslim herdsman one hundred at all has more from the capital of. an increase in the number of the dead what was
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expected from the beginning more than one hundred people have been marked missing in the aftermath of that autopsy and now security forces holding a haunting that area looking for survivors as well as bodies say they found more bodies out of the most of them they say well beyond beyond recognition. in the roles of bodies not what is covered. in the villages he told them in that could you local government area there were twenty two children under the age of ten years and tall women we met survivors who told us that hundreds of men armed with guns and other crude weapons hot descended on the villages of dorm killing and beheading anyone they saw some of the survivors we've met had killed their families and tire families killed in the tux and these area of nigeria is prone to such
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toxic is where the mainly muslim north meets the mainly. all right still ahead on i just you know when we come back a show of unity thousands rally across france to denounce attacks against jewish people plus. i'm wayne hay in phnom penh where one of the strongest economies in the world is expected to continue its growth this year but we'll tell you why this concern about a particularly vulnerable section of society. mainland europe with the exception of scandinavia are still warm and should be everywhere it's been a bit of a diff in the weather a time when the temperature regime the big surprise surprise. more is coming from the atlantic cloud and eventually rains the temperature best in warsaw was about
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seven a wednesday and ten but it was still talking about teens for the most part to the west of that the rain is going to cross scandinavia and has brought some snow with i think introduced that snow to the north of poland maybe the baltic states chances and stockholm's maximised who is more like it should be very unlike berlin's tent over and as thirty as i said for most parts it's still remarkably warm considering the time of year that's true throughout the quiet mediterraneans not much going on except this cloud in the middle about jiri it'll probably amount to that she nothing at all just tried i think cause it take the sun away but otherwise you've got nine hundred twenty further south in algeria and of course you get to the warm tropics after that or at least the ones in the middle of north africa and in fact if you drop down there you can pick up any showers until you get i suppose to sierra leone possibly liberia and gone by to share that otherwise the focus
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well again you're watching idea of mind of our top stories this hour members of the trumpet ministration are accused of rushing to sell nuclear technology to saudi arabia ignoring legal objections the committee in congress led by the democratic party is investing in to get investigating the allegations. a car door set up to allow syrians stuck in a remote refugee camp to return home has closed but none of the forty thousand people living in the rock band camp were able to use the passages set up by russian forces and death toll from an attack on civilians in northern nigeria has doubled to more than one hundred thirty people governor could do in a state where it happened says the motive appears to be linked to a long running violence between christian farmers and muslim herds. a new york times correspondent who wanted to report in egypt has been denied entry david kirkpatrick says he was held on arrival in cairo without food or water for several hours former cairo bureau chief was eventually sent back to london earlier this
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month local media accused him of biased reporting in favor of muslim brotherhood members living in london new york times blames kirkpatrick's denial of entry on egypt's media crackdown or saw her as easy as a professor of law a rocker's university in the us she says donald trump's attacks on the us media are partly to blame for what's happening in egypt. it's in bold and by the trumpet ministration pompei o. was just there in january in egypt and claimed that america was doing good in the middle east and last july of two thousand and eighteen the white house and congress released two hundred ninety five million dollars that had been withheld from military aid to egypt on account of their human rights violations so clearly what's happened is that the u.s. has caved on its commitments to human rights which is consistent with the trumpet ministration and that emboldened president sisi of egypt to do things that had never been done in the past it's one thing to oppress your own journalists which
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unfortunately has been the case in egypt over multiple decades but it's very unusual for the egyptian regime to exclude journalists of the stature of david kirkpatrick from an international mainstream newspaper based on no grounds whatsoever david kirkpatrick is known for being quite independent particularly in so far as his willingness to critique the egyptian regime and even the sisi regime and he recently published a book called into the hands of the soldiers which was at least viewed by many in the egyptian government to be critical and to identify what happened in two thousand and thirteen as a coup which is and that them how to the current sisi regime so it's actually no coincidence but still even previous journalists were critical even david kirkpatrick when he was in cairo up to two thousand and fifteen he didn't experience expulsion so what we're seeing is a ratcheting up of press repression that is both within the country of twenty five
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journalists in egypt at least twenty five that are imprisoned in egypt trading as one hundred sixty one out of one hundred eighty at the world press freedom index so egypt is not even in a good situation with regards to its press freedom of venezuela's minutes he has reaffirmed this loyalty to president nicolas maduro despite calls from opposition leader one wideout and the u.s. president to switch allegiance defense. minister vladimir padrino says the armed forces will remain in position along the border with colombia despite threats from washington soldiers are deployed at several places to block u.s. aid from crossing into the contrary why don't has promised to force the shipments to reach venezuelans on saturday or latin america at its embassy in yemen spoke to some venezuelans who despite their economic hardships are still supporting maduro. a tiny primary health care center in caracas has picked that area latin america's largest slum. inside his sixty three year old son said they knew she has bronco
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pneumonia and needs an x. ray medication and much more but there's none to be had she complains that the center is falling apart and that there's no medicine in stock yet she's still a firm supporter of the news wales government. those of us who support the government carry it in our veins we can't be so ungrateful i had a son who had three open heart surgeries thanks to our government not everyone thinks the same but i remained faithful. years of shortages rising crime a social welfare state in disarray and the world's worst hyperinflation has seen millions of venezuelans calling for president nicolas maduro ouster. for twenty years after deceased president hugo chavez introduced venezuelans to the concept of twenty first century socialism there are still some true believers. at the stake gnostic clinic doctors are desperate because they haven't received medicine for two
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months but the community council representatives have an explanation the same one as president model. it's all the fault of the us empire they blocked the entry of food and medicine into venezuela we have money to import what we need but now the empire wants to appropriate venezuela's oil wealth. in actual fact the sale of food and medicine to venezuela isn't blocked all. oh in the last two months the trumpet administration has applied even tighter economic sanctions aimed to hasten mother's ouster. that makes it even more difficult to import all these food boxes called clapp which mcdougall has been distributing over the last two years a welcome sight of poor residents of all political colors boxes are heavily subsidized they sell for one hundred twenty that isn't everything that's in here costs more than twenty thousand that is in fact many families depend on this to survive. although critics accuse the government of using hunger as
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a tool for political control the majority of those on the distribution list like. oppose the government anyway. but not. there among the minority who remain faithful to the promise of the bolivarian revolution at the end we have to give this government time we just have to wait for the situation to. be need is that it's a dream and nobody said it would be easy especially since we are confronting not just an opposition but the world's most powerful. there was a time when the majority of it is wayland shared that dream but after six years of political strife corruption and economic hardships their numbers have dwindled but not their stubborn determination to remain loyal to chavez's legacy you see in human i'll just see. in his way that.
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nigeria's president mohamed hardie came to power with a promise to clean up the needed delta but as he attempts reelection it is still a mess of oil spills calling sickness causing sickness for surrounding villages and destroying their livelihoods i don't want us to report. people living in this part of the niger delta say they contra member when the sign was put up all they know is that the water and soil in the area is not safe after decades of oil spills and criminal groups sabotaging all pipelines millions of nigerians are unemployed fishing is how some family survive and despite the danger to their health many men venture into the creeks are people. having something to eat that is well. into the water to catch fish. it. in here there is no option environmentalist say the niger delta is an
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ecological disaster zone scarred by decades of oil spills that have polluted the water killing animals trees and plants village elders say the last time this area was clean was more than ten years ago you can smell the crude oil and it's not pleasant people here say they feel forgotten by the government and exploited by oil companies over the years some communities have taken all companies to court and were financially compensated blessing nor do has taken her case to a district court at the hague her husband was one of the nine only activists killed with cancer we were in one thousand nine hundred five by nigeria's then military government she believes the oil company shell was complicit shell has always maintained the allegations. are no not at all i want is justice every time i go to the netherlands embassy for a visa they say no i think some people don't want me to tell the truth about what
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they did to my husband. others who remember what the place used to look like just want the pollution of the region's air water and soil to stop i was very little green i used to go with my uncle to fish to us and this place used to be called violent look like a desert used to be. mongrel forest i mean a very deep mongrel forest does how it was then we have critics are we going to do scripts to get a different species of. the oil companies nigeria's government the united nations and other agencies are sponsoring a cleanup campaign clearing dead foliage spilled oil and planting new mangroves but the work will take decades to complete if at all meanwhile amongst all the poverty all companies will keep pumping out as much as they can people in the community say they are not benefiting from the some of the things they're demanding are jobs some of the money and better infrastructure how to al-jazeera in the niger delta. for
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the last twenty years cambodia's been one of the world's fastest growing economies and that's expected to continue this year but as well in a reports from plum pen there are some serious threats to its progress. the story of cambodia's rise is a remarkable one from the ashes of genocide and civil war this country has been for decades rebuilt and transforms on the back of foreign investment and strong exports this year cambodia is to have the sixth fastest growing economy in the world ranking its head for twenty years the wealthy have become very wealthy although exactly how much money they have is in many cases impossible to know given that cambodia results are regarded by some as one of the most corrupt countries in the world in the last few years a small middle class has also begun to emerge thanks partly to a surge of foreign investment in real estate led by china.
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for the country. and more expensive and some people can get money from selling a piece of land in this. moving around in a country where poverty rates in cambodia have fallen in the last fifteen years with twelve percent of the population now classified as severely poor a lower figure than before but the overwhelming majority of those who have climbed off the bottom are only just above it meaning they could easily slip down again the united nations estimates that more than twenty percent of cambodians are vulnerable to poverty the statistics are heading in the right direction but there's an underlying fragility cambodia's economy has been largely built on agriculture and textile exports to seke business still very much relies on the concern is there hasn't been enough emphasis on diversifying the economy and because of that its vulnerability could be easily exposed. there are
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a number of threats to cambodia's growth including drought that's forecast this year a possible global economic slowdown or tariffs being imposed on its exports by the european union over its human rights record but for many people there are more immediate concerns made worse by the real estate boom. with the constant fear of being forced out when a property developer comes knocking now i need to know that going on even living in this community i'm very concerned every day i don't have a title because authorities haven't bridges to the people so we're always worried about being evicted. cambodia is developing fast but there are many threats emerging that could make for an uncertain economic future and a longer wait for some to climb out of poverty wayne hay al jazeera phnom penh. a thousand people have protested on streets across france against a rise in anti semitic attacks in one of the latest incidents more than one thousand graves in
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a jewish cemetery in eastern france with desecrated french president emanuel mccraw visited the cemetery on tuesday tasha butler reports from powers. it's the latest attack against jewish people in france on saturday in paris french philosopher alan finkel crowd was insulted for being jewish during a yellow fest protest about to get lost france's hours we are the people. reacting to the attack the french president wrote on twitter the anti semitic insults he has been subjected to all the absolute negation of what we are and what makes us a great nation we will not tolerate its last week a memorial tree to a young jewish man who was tortured to death in two thousand and six was vandalized near paris while in the city the german word for jews was sprayed across a popular bagel shop and to portray it was defaced of one of france's most famous women holocaust survivor and feminist minister cmon vai the graffiti on these
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letter boxes may have been a raise but the french government is struggling to make anti jewish sentiment disappear across the country in fact the french interior minister has called it a poison spreading across the country because over the past year attacks against jewish people have risen by more than seventy percent some people say that the yellow vest movement is being used as a platform by some protestors to express anti jewish ideas but the head of france's jewish students union says the recent attacks are a reflection of what he describes as an increasingly intolerant society. we can clearly see the level of violence in society this anti-semitism which takes many forms from islamist movements of the extreme right and the ultra left and what we also see an extremely high level of home. phobia zina phobia and racism against migrants for daniel can all the events of the past week of the focused painful memories his eighty five year old mother was murdered in her home less than
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a year ago police said she was targeted because she was jewish. of course i think that france has fallen very low these people are fools and educated and they have no place amongst the yellow vests during the second world war france is government collaborated with germany's nazi regime and deported tens of thousands of jewish people today france is home to the biggest jewish community in europe but for some the shadow of the past is never far away natasha butler al-jazeera paris. let's get a radical the top stories on al-jazeera senior officials in the trumpet ministration are accused of rushing the sale of nuclear technology to saudi arabia while ignoring legal objections democratic led committee is investigating the allegations the time limit for a card or to allow syrians stuck in a remote refugee camp to leave has ended but none of the forty thousand people
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inside the rope on cafe were able to use the passages set up by russian forces. united nations has offered to broker talks between india and pakistan after last week's car bombing in the disputed kashmir region secretary general antonio good ten days is urging maximum restraint from both sides. venezuela's military says it will remain loyal to president nicolas maduro ignoring calls from opposition leader and the u.s. president to switch allegiance soldiers are deployed to several places to block u.s. aid from crossing into the country. or if you want to search and if you want to blackmail us blackmail us but you want to achieve your mission you want to achieve it we'll take the sanctions will listen to blackmail but will definitely remain with the home with our home but stop the manipulation already and say that this is an issue of a political even personal need to saudi state media says four soldiers have been killed
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while fighting with hooty rebels on the border with yemen who does say they're continuing their military offensive at the border taking saudi positions south of jets and a large number of weapons. a veteran new york times correspondent has been denied entry into egypt to report david kirkpatrick says he was held on arrival in cairo without food or water for several hours for cairo bureau chief was then sent back to london the new york times blames kirkpatrick's denial of entry on the ongoing media crackdown in egypt uganda's ruling party has endorsed president yoweri more seventy two seek another presidential term when the country holds general elections in two years a bill was signed last year scrapping age limits to seventy who turns seventy five this year has been in power since one thousand nine hundred six those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's the strain.
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