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truckloads of women and children leave isis last remaining syrian stronghold ahead of the imminent. hello and welcome to al-jazeera life from my headquarters in doha with me elizabeth bron and also ahead seemed trumper ministration officials are accused of trying to sell nuclear technology to saudi arabia an investigation is under way. the president of pakistan administered kashmir tells al-jazeera that there's a real conflict with india after last week's bombing and the disputed region and a split and britain's governing party three m.p.'s defect to
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a new independent were. dozens of trucks carrying women and children leaving the last remaining i somehow pocket and eastern syria the us backed syrian democratic forces say they expect to recapture the village of boggles from the armed group within days it's believed there are about three hundred eyes and watches there who are using civilians as human shields and holding them hostage in iran khan has the latest from ghazi on tape near the turkish syrian border. at least ten trucks have left the alba who's village carrying women and children now the civilians have been a real concern for both the united nations and the syrian democratic forces in effect both the united nations on the center and democratic forces say i saw using those civilians as human shields now it's in ice was interesting keep the civilians there because it stops the s.t.'s from coming inside the village now the village
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most of it has actually been completely destroyed and the civilians and living in what is effectively tented camps in the outskirts of that village now given that they've now been able to leave yes the f a very confident they'll be able to go in and deal with isis fighters now that the i suffice had a very long time to prepare for this fight they knew it was going to come at some point and they've asked to dig tunnels and what we're hearing is a lot of those are suffices in those tunnels so there's still be a very tough fight for the syrian democratic forces now as i say whilst all this goes on we still have the situation in iraq upon camp now our camp is controlled by the f.s.a. there is a no man's land effectively about fifty five kilometers before you get to these russian and syrian opened kori doors now these corridors so-called humanitarian corridors are allegedly going to allow syrians in the camp mostly women and
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children to be able to go north however there's a real suspicion that's what few people have sight to see the crossings opened by the regime and the russian military police are claimed to be safe but the people here are not feeling any safety or stability people here feel as if they are drowning and looking for anything at all to rescue themselves the road to the camp has become my original i am for me personally if i leave it would be army to go from one death trap to another and if i found a safe place from a my kids and my family i would guard finishing the game on the shot by pulling the crossing is a good step but we wanted to be our the same by the un because i'm. lies we've been told before nobody believes these crossings are safe so despite the fact that there is a very desperate situation in the camp people are running low on food on oil on accommodation on water and they are living effectively on top of each other this is a very real suspicion of the russian and syrian motives and this corridor although
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the window came to an end nine am this morning open for twenty four hours it's unclear whether the russians and the syrians will keep the corridors open for only longer. let's move on to other news now and investigations being launched into whether senior officials in the trumpet ministration have been trying to sell sensitive nuclear technology to saudi arabia a committee in the house of representatives led by the democrats says whistleblowers warned business interests are being pushed ahead of the law mike hanna reports from washington d.c. the twenty four page report is extensive in reaching detail providing names dates and specific communications relating to u.s. nuclear technology in saudi arabia the oversight committee under representative elijah cummings base the report on what it calls whistleblower accounts evidence provided by career officials within the administration deeply concerned about what would appear to be a deeply corrupt process circumventing congress what is surprising is the scope
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of u.s. government officials. directly involved and business to business talks. with out this close and potential economic interest in the work that they were doing and that is certainly on 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 are 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 onetime national security 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
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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 now this is the latest example of how the u.s. president sees his relationship with saudi arabia it is the first country donald trump visited after becoming president he's often talked about the importance of arms sales to saudi and says they're worth more than one hundred billion dollars
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despite growing anger over the war in yemen suppose congressional efforts to stop u.s. involvement of the conflict and despite international calls for an investigation and to crown prince muhammad bin salon's role in the murder of journalist jamal kushal the us president says relations with saudi arabia must not be undermined and trump has ignored a one hundred twenty day deadline for a report on kushal murder requested by the senate the iranian foreign minister referred to tweeting first to dismember journalists now illicit sale of nuclear technology to saudi arabia fully expose u.s. hypocrisy the president of pakistan administered kashmir has told al jazeera that there's a risk of war with india after last week's bombing in the disputed region forty one indian paramilitary soldiers were killed in the civil side attack pakistan based group jaish e mohammed has claimed responsibility well earlier we sat down with muscles can. we
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reject the allegations that the indian government has made and we all saw denounced the kind of frenzy that indian ruling party and the extremist groups have victor up there in india he will and the kind of anti pakistan and ticklish mute sentiment that they are weeping up there is a very very negative and this is pushing the two countries to the brink of war and we are against this kind of warmongering the other reaction that i want to give is that there is a bigger reality there is this incident of course and pakistan has denied any responsibility. but at the same time i would like to say that there is a bigger reality there and the bigger reality is that for the past seventy one jeers midis have been brutalized and about half a million views have been killed in the past. seventy one hears i think that the
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united nations secretary general and the united nations security council both must get involved and broker some sort of us deal between the two countries if you don't call it a deal in deed at least it should try to deescalate the situation because this is the responsibility of the united nations to remove any threats to international peace and security and there is a very serious threat to international and regional peace and security in the region now with a basket as a security analyst and director of the society for policy studies and he says world powers can apply pressure on pakistan to take action against those responsible for the s. hack. i think what india would expect from the global community is that the united nations security council would prevail upon pakistan to do whatever is
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expected in relation to the mamma and the leader of the group as i said. used to be listed by the un france is likely to move a proposal to the un security council very sore but we are aware that china has played a negative role in not allowing the listing of. so this is the indian expectation from the global community and if the un is able to i would a consensus i think that would help definitely in ensuring that pakistan complies with what the global community expects from eight. three politicians have resigned from the u.k.'s reading conservative particular what they describe as the prime minister as disastrous handling of brick says the woman said joining a new independent group made up of labor politicians who left their party over breakfast and the anti-semitism and that piled the pressure on terrorism and she struggles to get polman to approve her easy withdrawal deal before the break for
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the deadline on march twenty ninth and a sobering as among the conservative m.p.'s who was on the party to join the independent. the right wing the hardline and t.e.u. awkward squad that if destroyed every leader for the last forty years are now running the conservative party from top to toe they of the conservative party. dear friends and they are dear friends now former colleagues who share those one nation values and principles will of course today deny it but i believe in their heads and in their hearts they know it. and the reason they know it's over is because we lost the referendum and breck's it now defines and shapes the conservative party and i correspondent paul brennan has more from london the question now is just what impact it's going to have politically as far as
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persuading the prime minister to change her political negotiating stance with brussels i think that's unlikely to recent may as proof a cell to be absolutely adamant that her way is the right way and her belief it may have a significant impact on the labor side with jeremy corbyn under significant pressure to start advocating now a people's vote another referendum on bracks it's the dissidents who've joined this independent group are certainly firmly pressing for that the question is though whether they can then take it on and become a fully fledged independent political party and i think at the moment that looks unlikely they haven't registered as a party it's an independent group and it's difficult to see how they could reconcile the left and right leaning politics in ordinaries in ordinary life and the conservatives have said they are still prepared to vote for example with the conservatives on matters of the economy on security things like that so they're not totally dispensing with their concern conservative ideology just yet nonetheless
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the timing of this is extremely interesting and as we enter as i say the last four five weeks of the bracks of process before this march twenty ninth deadline there is no coincidence that these m.p.'s believe that the timing of their decision to go independent is going to have the maximum impact on the political debate. still ahead on the bulletin and new app which is literally providing life blood and war on yemen we'll meet the man created it and it's being held as europe's most ambitious engineering project but at some of the heightening tensions between france and italy. and i was a weather warning out throughout afghanistan the moment for rain and snow and it's rainy in pakistan this entire system is going to be active for the next twenty four
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hours but west of that things are improving i suppose is the best argument for so that rain and snow fades and stay shows itself the sun's out as far back as the coast of lebanon there are occasional showers possible here otherwise it's looking pretty good twenty one in baghdad fifty in aleppo and to around slowly warming as well the sun is in the sky apart from occasional bit of cloud nothing much is going on and that's true saudi arabia produces a wind still blowing a northerly in the gulf and then more of a suddenly out through western society riyadh's up to twenty one to house twenty three doesn't feel as warm as it could because he is dry but is that normally breeze dies it warms up in qatar and the u.a.e. has about twenty four didn't feel right to be good i suspect south of all this and the active rain in africa has been through madagascar and through central mozambique and southern tanzania that's still where it is with the biggest rainfall in the last twenty four hours being in madagascar and nearly one hundred
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millimeters overseas a risk of landslides because of that but the right if anything is going to slowly ease in madagascar maybe not so in tanzania. donald trump has talked of a special bone with kim jong un. now the u.s. president and north korean leader ought to meet again this time in vietnam were both very honored to eight months after making history in singapore and they strike a deal on nuclear weapons. and finally end the korean war follow us on the twenty seventh of february for special coverage on al-jazeera.
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good to have you with us on the al-jazeera these are our top stories the trucks carrying women and children and leaving the last remaining held territory in eastern syria the u.s. backed syrian democratic expect to recapture the village of. the group with. senior aides in the trump ministration have been accused of rushing to sell nuclear technology to saudi arabia ignoring the legal objections the committee and congress is investigating the allegations iran's foreign minister has denounced as quote u.s. hypocrisy and the leader of pakistan administered kashmir has told al jazeera that he fears. after last week's attack of the disputed region. killed in the car bombing. has claimed responsibility.
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the state media says four soldiers have been killed while fighting what the rebels on the border with yemen hope you say they are continuing their offensive at the border taking solidly position. and a large number of weapons. should intervene and in yemen's war and twenty fifteen fighting against the whole thing in an effort to stall the government and coalition fighter jets have launched two raids on an airbase and that's north of the capital sana'a which is controlled by the. now a new phone app which links patients with blood and. suffering from four years of war but one of the biggest problems now storage hospitals and health centers have few facilities and getting the blood to those who need it and top. as proven a huge challenge and i brought him reports. when a brain cutoff learned his blood type was the right match he rushed to help the patient i know in year old girl. her family called him after he joined
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a new blood donation and called wedding. ring from cancer and diabetes and other diseases call me for help i register my number in the app and people can just call me directly i ask where they're based and go to donate blood. the app connects those in need of blood to the closest dollars. is an engineering student and came up with the idea after his friend was diagnosed with cancer and needed a transfusion. to work offline as the entire database can be downloaded on the users if the person is in need of blood a donor with the same blood group can be easily found in contact at any time. i think this is vital in a country at war where the internet often does not work during food or years of conflict yemen struggle to keep its hospitals and clinics open many have been destroyed and with a growing number of patients the health system continues to deteriorate and. i
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cannot even afford the means of transportation to the hospital as a result of an air strike my wife died and i have shocks of a kidney failure i have seven children to feed and house rent to pay i am helpless only god knows my situation. of not living in a new app is providing much needed help and there are many donors but the real difficulty is finally a way to preserve blood needed for transfusions and get it to the patients before it's out of date. the war has made travel difficult and even if they should seek a clinic there is no guarantee the blood will be available now there are fears that the main transfusion center in the capital sana'a may be forced to close. we have a supply of solutions sufficient for one week only and a little help is provided the center will come to a halt many patients and beneficiaries will be affected including those suffering from cancer kidney failure and fall a senior apart from victims to the war. look transfusion centers across yemen are
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facing familiar conditions leaving the sick and their families with nowhere else to go and bring him out. of ontario now where president came to power with a promise to clean up the mines or delta but as he has attempts reelection it is still a mess of oil spills making surrounding villages circ and destroying their livelihoods ottoman tassel reports people living in this part of the niger delta say they can't remember 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 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 . dying without having something to eat that is well. into these
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polluted water to catch fish selfish gene quarter. in here there's no option environmentalist say the niger delta is an ecological disaster zone scarred by decades of oil spills that are 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 radu has taken her case to a district court at the hague her husband was one of the nine 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 false. all i want is justice every time i go to the
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netherlands embassy very sad they say no i think some people don't want me to tell the truth about what they did to my husband others who remember what the place used to look like just when the pollution of the region's water and soil to stop i was very little green i used to go with my uncle to fish. and this place used to be violent. like a desert used to be. mangrove forests i mean a very deep forest. it was then we have critics are we going to get a different species of fish 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
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they are not benefiting from the oil wealth some of the things are demanding our jobs some of the money and better infrastructure how to al-jazeera in the niger delta. now cost of nearly ten billion dollars the trans alpine will be one of europe's most expensive train lines once finished there violet will reduce travel time between milan and paris from almost seven hours just on the four of the tunnel which has already caused divisions among residents could now for him to quote in relations between france and italy they would change the reports from the french alps. kids europe's most ambitious engineering project a high speed train link being cut beneath the alps separating france and italy but as diplomatic relations continue to unravel it's proving to be a tunnel too far at the heart of the ten billion dollar peroration is this drilling machine two thousand four hundred tons of steel churning to the rock nonstop
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towards italy greece and a version of me is if this is really the project of my life i hope to keep on and finish this tunnel. but emerging from a citizens god house on the italian side of the border it's fulvia as a lifetime ambition to make sure the tunnel never breaks through. for years now thousands of locals here have been taking part in demonstrations against it down the simi lorry that we don't really have so many things to be down or things attributed to the community and let's say for progress what is being done with this tunnel is a waste of frowns we waste a montane of found wasted with and fulvio has some backing in high political circles it leads deputy prime minister luigi demaio head of the populous five star movement he's done most of fray relations with paris by meeting with members of the end of vest rebellion besieging president macron. the five stars deputy mayor of
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children described the project as insanity mr pays enough to pay them at the program you know or con three hundred fewer of them friends with a get a vest is that their recent need for public investments but they must be for what are the united states in its must back in france president emmanuel makkal is struggling to keep the entente code he didn't help when he described new populist movements as a form of political leprosy less than us to do how it will be any transport links between the west and the east and that's why it is creation and strategic once it's finished it will connect all the countries between putsch calling eastern europe it's like a small reconstruction of europe's version of the silk right. that the italians pick up that the other end that will take it on the flight five. dollars a year or if you run a profit they will like that for the whole of europe but at the moment they're.
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fighting to keep it in every day telling you know what. each slide. inserted into the tunnel was meant to cement relationships between france and italy instead a fiasco is in the making in the heart of europe david chase down under the french alps. provinces has failed to appear at a planned mazen with survivors of sex abuse by priests the meeting was supposed to be a prelude to a four day summit of church leaders on the issue which starts on for this day the catholic church has been hit by a series of abuse scandals and recent years and critics say the pope has been slow to act or a challenge has more from the vatican. well a group of survivors of abuse in the catholic church have been in the vatican having a meeting for at least two hours now they have just come out they thought they were going in to meet the pope himself we can speak with one of the group that was in
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there this is dr denise buchanan. it was on the point was it you know the pope was in there was just the four of members of the steering committee and they basically wanted us to speak about whatever we wanted to speak about one carlos cruz arranged the meeting and he did say the pope wasn't going to be there but we as survivors of representing the global movement of survivors around the world this is like why would the pope be there times on israel do you think you're missing the message disappointed i'm discouraged frustrated because the fact is who who is the one that can actually implement the policies in the world is the pope the pope this is a one that is a decision maker that can put into law right now zero tolerance for any precept abuses children he can put into law zero tolerance for any priest that covers up these crimes he can put it into law right now so you would have sex we want to i would have said what's the hold up why are you not doing this right now to remove
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from the priesthood any priest that covers up these crimes it is a crime against humanity it's a crime against children i'm here so that no other child can go through what i went through as a child yes i mean i was sexually abused by everybody so i was impregnated by a priest he actually paid for the oppression cover i did all that said i was his girl and continued to abuse me for years right as a matter of he's still in practice in jamaica still doing what he's doing got a medal four years ago for outstanding abuse i wish it was a medal it was a medal for you know doing good in the past and ship and so i know. i have for this. conference and i was going to do research more. for me i have faith in the survivors i don't have any faith in the stereo committee in the polls to do anything i think we're survivors need to keep the pressure run keep expectations
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high i really keep pushing that we're the ones here speak to us we're the ones that have the solutions we know what will work we are the ones willing to work with them to create a solution so it's like here we are sure we're going to keep on being president keep on demonstrating keep on being vocal and with that we are really really wanting at the end of it for this to be a solution that will work to do these becoming thanks very much frankly is really that thing here so that is the least we can and there is going to be this unprecedented four day conference ready to starting on thursday finishing on sunday this is the part basically getting all of a great many people from the catholic church together to try to find some way of moving forward on the issue of abuse in the coffee church which has been such a scandal for so many years. i mean while there are conservative factions within the church that disagree with how the polypus have been the abuse scandals. have
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issued an open letter saying the problem isn't with catholic institutions but with growing tolerance on the sexuality they're demanding immediate action on what they call the plague on the whole the sexual agenda in the church which. is a problem and don't help with the headlines on al-jazeera dolls of trucks carrying women and children and leaving the last remaining territory in eastern syria the us back so we went on a credit for they expect to recapture the village of bubbles from the within days. meanwhile in southern syria a twenty four hour window to allow people to leave a remote refugee camp has now passed but no one used the corridors set up by russian forces look beyond campus in the syrian desert near the border with jordan and iraq forty thousand people mostly women and children have been enduring
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terrible conditions with little food or medicine senior aides in the trump ministration have been accused of trying to sell nuclear technology to saudi arabia ignoring the legal objections a committee in congress led by the democratic party is investing investigating back is ations iran's foreign minister has denounced the alleged attempt as quote u.s. hypocrisy. while mohamad job and zarif referred to jamal kushal ji tweeting first a dismembered journalist and now that sale of nuclear technology to saudi arabia fully expose us have pock recy. the leader of pakistan administered kashmir has told al jazeera that he fears there's a risk of war with india after last week's attack in the disputed region forty one indian paramilitary soldiers were killed in the car bombing the pakistan based group jaish e mohammad has claimed responsibility three politicians have resigned from the government conservative party in the u.k.
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over what they describe as the prime minister's disastrous handling of bricks that the woman said are joining a new independent group made up of labor politicians who left their party over bricks that anti semitism that piles up the pressure on to resume as she struggles to get parliament to approve the e.u. withdraw deal before the break that deadline on march twenty ninth the right wing the hard line and she knew it would squad the diff destroyed every leader for the last forty years are now running the conservative party from top to toe they are the conservative party. and those are the headlines on. the inside story is coming up next thank you very much for watching.
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