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i will have gone to hear burial of the mission of the national army is the entire complex and i'll just your stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. hello i'm the saucer tape and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. nigerian president extends his lead and to supporters are claiming victory. the u.n. security council meets on the venezuela crisis with world powers divided again. we're just hours away from the vietnam summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korea's leader kim jong un while back in
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washington trump's former personal lawyer is expected to give explosive testimony. hari is heading for a second term as nigeria's president based on results so far from the electoral commission a.p.c. party officials say they are preparing to celebrate as bihari leads by nearly two million votes the electoral commission has announced results from more than half the country the main opposition p.d.p. accuses the ruling party of trying to rig the polls well al jazeera joins us now live from the capital of harry when can we expect the final official results. well if. you get. one. when that knowledge is going to be made it was already happened when the
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election if it was at this late all there is now i made sure they have the right. announcement who has won this election for president bodies which is not very competent he has one and can hit the mean that is the period or the key to write it with if they would take place and want to name local time last night g.m.t. but again if they want to have that rally if the election commission has gone finished with the counting and the numbers to kids has been increased. in and around the area we see level police along the whole just we've been told that prison bihari planned to come to being the party headquarters on to be announced on the final result is a way to the nigerians still don't know when that is going to be found and how to tell us more about these allegations of vote rigging just what is the opposition claiming happened. well they claim.
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this full well we're going to get the all went in together with prison behind a year and biharis he says deal the election there have been told they want to what they should do if they lose but they did leave a statement saying that they wanted it to commission to stop any more results until they hear that investigation election officials have not read or respond to it is carried on what they would release think the results as they come in my bed but they have warned politicians that nigerians that await the official announcement don't squids pygmies don't incite violence but they have a concern that if the election result is disputed i'm not unions why that could be by this is basically a belief of just make that. out as. a bridge at thank you for that update. well the next test of relations between the united states and north korea will happen in the coming hours donald trump and kim jong un are in vietnam for a second summits almost a year off today his star. at first missing in singapore the big question is
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whether they can reach a concrete agreement on. the korean peninsula to get to james bay as begins our coverage from hanoi. kim jong il arriving in hanoi after a long journey by train from north korea all the way across china he's here for the latest stage of one of the most unusual diplomatic process has ever in two years it's ranged from the threat of imminent war made in the u.n. general assembly we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea to ten months later a face to face summit the first time the leaders of these two countries technically still at war had ever met and there was an instant bond. and then we fell in love ok no really he wrote me beautiful letters and they're great let us. we fell in
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love even a former state department official from the obama administration was impressed i have a dozen criticisms of the trumpet ministration foreign policy from presidential impulsiveness to disrespect and misuse of dedicated public servants in the u.s. government on this particular issue i am willing to give president trump credit for trying something new he's not correct when he says that the plumber c. has never worked with north korea in fact it has produce positive results in the past but he is correct when he says it's never gotten us to the solution that we really want in the seven months since the singapore summit the diplomacy between the two sides has stalled they've now decided to get the two leaders back together to try and reenergize things. president donald trump is believed to assess foreign affairs by how it will be viewed domestically for now north korea is seen as one of
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his few policy successes turning the threat of imminent war into a fragile peace it's unlikely he'll want to jeopardize that by pressing the north koreans too hard in case the whole process collapses james bays out zero hanoi michael pembroke is the author of career where the american century began and he joins us now live from sydney michael the last summit in singapore clearly ended without any concrete commitments what can we expect from this one. well it's not in the nature of these large summit's that they provide concrete agreements it's usual for the for a summit to provide broad statements of principle the statements of principle in singapore were very encouraging it's worthwhile pointing out that denuclearization was only the third of the four points jointly agreed by the two leaders the first
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two related to peace and security on the korean peninsula. that's the key to what will happen at this summit there needs to be reciprocity i think president trump understands that he's well advised it would seem by his new north korean advisor steve begin they know that the art of negotiation is the art of compromise and they also know i'm sure that there will never be you know natural denuclearization there has to be reciprocity i expect that there might be a another statement about the possible end to the state of warfare that has continued since nine hundred fifty president from referred to that in his press conference in singapore after the joint declaration that's
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a key matter for the north koreans they have embarked on a course under kim jong un of building the country's economy seeking to achieve prosperity but they can't do that without security and they've made clear a number of times and i think they're justified in saying that the nuclear arsenal is a deterrent against what they perceive to be a threat from the united states and that if they get security would guarantee they would not need a nuclear arsenal so. i. i don't see a concrete agreement to denuclearize happening today or tomorrow i don't see a peace treaty being agreed today or tomorrow but what we will see is. a large step i suspect towards those two objectives michael what's happened since the last summit in terms of north korea actually demonstrating its commitment to
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denuclearization on the ground what have they done. well they have a clear commitment is real and they have done some things but they are holding back because they're waiting for the reciprocal commitment from the united states what's really happened in the last nine months or so is that there's been a great deal of negotiation between the advisers to both the ministrations and mr bigan has been at the forefront of those along with secretary of state might . and i think john bolton has been. left to one side which is probably a good thing because he's not one for making concessions at all so. it's not really to the point that the north koreans have not yet fully denuclearized they have taken steps towards that goal but it is only
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a commitment it is not yet and agreed fact michael how influential is significant is the choice of vietnam as the venue for the summit it's a communist country with previous tensions with the united states as well. well those tensions are historical of course i mean the the americans left vs left vietnam in nineteen seventy five vietnam as a united country has come a long way since then it's a good example of an authoritarian communist state which has made a success of itself and is like like china and like some other countries. able to succeed without following the liberal democratic model that would appeal to kim jong il. it's a nice concession on the part of washington to allow the so much to take place and annoy michael pembroke the career expert speaking to us live from sydney thank you
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for your insights michael plenty more ahead on this news hour including. leave with a deal leave with no deal or have no bricks. maybe and maybe not britain's prime minister outlines the state of play on the bricks that. the danger of speaking hours and human rights group lists the most volatile countries in the middle east. and in sports twenty sixteen english premier league champions in leicester city have a new manager. will have that story and spores. the u.n. security council has been discussing the venezuela crisis the u.s. special envoy to venezuela is calling for other members to sanction nicolas maduro government for destroying aid shipments at the border we asked the others join us
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in sanctioning those who've been involved in the violence over the last weekend and who are frightened. by the spoils of the manure all regimes corruption we ask that member states contribute to addressing the humanitarian situation in venezuela as dozens of nations already have generally have generously done. and we ask you to recognize the nature of the manure of regime and question question the purpose and likely outcome of so-called dialogue with someone who would rather block and burn donated medicine and bread than see it in the hands of venezuelan children but russia's representative to the un has accused the us of trying to back in the border crossings into venezuela while avoiding official routes for humanitarian support thanks to you but he's the guy who wants to be going in the world on february twenty third we witnessed an attempt at legal state border crossing of unknown cargo is colleagues at the security council which of your countries would
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have acted any different one even wants to build a big wall of the border of another country to prevent illegal crossings how is this any different to nine hundred eighty six when humanitarian assistance to nicaragua turned out to be an arms consignment to the contras the units let's call a spade a spade it's not humanitarian assistance if the u.s. wanted to help the venezuelan people they would have operated through any of the u.n. agencies are credited in that country as has been done by other countries let's get out of there as mike hanna who's at the u.n. mike the venezuelan ambassador also spoke recently and gave a rather impassioned statement. indeed yes indeed a vitriolic statement as regards the united states in particular and a very lengthy statement to the venezuelan foreign minister making very clear his belief that the united states was set on what he called regime change or within bene's you are seeing the humanitarian supplies as the u.s.
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sees it as a weaponized attempts to alter the political power in venezuela itself but the last emergency meeting on ben as well know was exactly a month ago when the dynamic in the council has not changed at all on the one side a group led by the united states said is intent on recognizing the legitimacy of the claim by young gal go to the leadership often as well or on the other side led by the russians and insistence that any attempt to recognize a new leader in venezuela would amount to interference in that country's internal affairs against the un's protocol so there is this division within the council no a resolution will be discussed today although both the united states and russia say that they are drawing up a resolution attempting to get some form of agreement on it in coming days so mike and given the escalating tensions at the border that have been going on for some
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time is there a sense of urgency at this meeting. there is very much a sense of urgency or one that is expressed by all the members of the council and those who are allowed to speak all expressing concern about the outbreak of violence all expressing concern about the humanitarian situation within venezuela but the point of disagreement is how to go about addressing those issues and certainly there's no agreement among security council members as to exactly how to do that once again the group by the united states insists that the the former head of the national assembly must be recognized as the leader that there must be new elections held within venezuela but once again the russian group absolutely adamant that it's up to venezuelan sense selves to resolve the issue be a political or be a two man a tyrian it is up to the outside countries to help where they can but not to interfere in any way this is the division within the council which clearly is not
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going to help address that situation that you referred to at the country's border in particular mike hanna there for us at the un thank you mike well at least twenty five people are believed to have been killed in violent confrontations along venezuela's border with brazil nigeria's forces were trying to stop opposition supporters from bringing foreign aid into the country manage engine spoke with some of the survivors. alexa's there is no uncertainty having survived the violence that erupted saturday in an area along venezuela's border with brazil he says it's clear to him the lethal force used by venezuelan security forces was deliberate no nonito whatever they came to militarily take this community they didn't arrive peacefully they were shooting to kill i can say that because i was shot and another man who helped me he was also shot him. videos like this one purport to show what happened in and around the venezuelan town of santa ana when
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security forces attempted to stop opposition supporters from bringing foreign aid into the country. while the number of dead has not been confirmed at least one official from the area now estimates it could be as high as twenty five among the wounded are members of indigenous groups dozens of those injured in the confrontations were transported across the border for treatment. to gain exclusive access to this hospital in the brazilian city a bowl of east where many of the wounded corroborated the amateur footage alfredo perot's tells me he and his children who are also recovering in this hospital were guarding their indigenous community when security forces showed up that i say let me enter at six am there arrived and then started shooting they started shooting everybody that was in front of them it was a massacre they start of the massacre. doctors say
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it wasn't simply the injuries these people sustained that were life threatening. they didn't receive appropriate first aid because of the lack of emergency medical supplies in venezuela after the first patient showed up here we sent some materials back with the venezuelan ambulances to help them treat patients better all around pain is apparent and shock is palpable many of the patients we're speaking with her today say that even though things in venezuela have been bad for quite some time they never expected it would come to this. sixteen year old carlos set out toward the border with brazil on saturday so he could help get aid into his country he says that's when the shooting began and. when i fell down there were two people dead next to me that took me to the hospital and the hospital was full of people there was no space to put the injured people there were several people dead in the hospital. carlos is one day shy of turning seventeen his mother adriana is both
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worried for and proud of her boy she says she understands why he took the risk in the horn of. the youth are the ones who are looking for a better future there was democracy during my childhood things that the children of today did not experience and that's what the youth of venezuela looking for these days. demands that will no doubt be hard to achieve at a time when threat may be growing but resolve is also deepening mohammed atta boy in what i'm a state brazil now opposition leader who is expected to return to venezuela this week and as an american at the reports there are questions about what will happen to him once he's back in caracas. there was certainly a degree of demoralization among opponents of president. this moment following the failed attempt to bring in food and medical supplies into venezuela from colombia
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and brazil over the weekend now opposition leaders are arguing that in any battle in any political conflict you never win in the first battle they say that supporters have to keep up the momentum of the last six weeks that they should maintain their optimism but there is a key element missing in that is their leader. he violated a supreme court order that banned him from leaving the country and now president says that he will face justice if he returns to the country however political analysts. are told that there is no question that has to return to venezuela. one thing is clear if it isn't. because he's fighting because he represents the hope of to people because you feel the vacuum of your position which had become weak. that vacuum. in fact one of those closest aides tells al-jazeera that his return to the country is imminent although he would not
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say exactly how or where he would return to venezuela now it is a high stakes bet to say the very very least but if he is arrested that would unleash a whole do series of problems for the embattled president if he decides to go through with it. there have been more casualties and cross border fighting between indian and pakistani troops in kashmir pakistan says four of its civilians including two children were killed and another ten injured india's state media says five of its soldiers were injured the fighting follows indian as strikes near the border with pakistan administered kashmir reports from new delhi. these pictures released by the pakistani military show the damage it says was done by the indian air force near the town of balakot inside pakistan on a hillside in a forced did uninhabited area a spokesman said there were no casualties but india says the airstrike hit a training camp of jaish e mohammad the armed group that claimed responsibility for this month's suicide
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bombing that killed forty indian troops in india to minister to. indian officials say they chose to attack after pakistan failed to take action. has taken no concrete action to dismantle the infrastructure on its soil. deceived the gentian moment was attempting other suicide at attacks in various parts of the country india has not provided any proof it hit its intended target and analysts say the reason for that may partly be not to further antagonize pakistan but on the streets of new delhi use of the strike was welcome. india has given a perfect reply to pakistan and this reply was a much needed one. and vs countrymen are extremely happy and we want to tank in the forces. it won finished istead it isn't but to give them an answer if they keep it up and be able to finish them. but the government is trying to keep the
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situation because indian officials are calling the air strike preemptive because their intelligence showed jaish e mohammad was planning another suicide attack there also describing it as nonmilitary because no pakistani military was targeted their explanation is being seen as a way to deescalate tensions between the countries but since then there have been raids and clashes in indian administered kashmir. indian security forces conducted morning raids against separatist leaders in srinagar imposing a curfew on the city and shutting off the internet. but a number of protesters defied the curfew and clashed with security forces. people living here say they've been on edge since the suicide bombing the deployment of ten thousand paramilitary troops at the weekend sparked rumors a major incident was going to take place and locals tell us they feel caught in the middle. of the box that is i don't know what will happen. to the
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both of the countries and all the neighboring countries to do shooters are no discussion moot issue to the other but resolution seems a long way off baucus on asserts its right to retaliate and india put its forces on the border on high alert that leaves the people have indeed and minister to me are fearing that whatever happens they will be caught in the middle as camille al jazeera new delhi. and. to has more on the tension from the capital of pakistan administered kashmir. ended after mad dog indian tag inside bugger so i need to get it to the weights buggers don said they did not kill anybody on the ground and i did india and had to drop the payload altered a cog so i challenge my buggers on the interceptors the indians of course saying that they have killed hundreds of paper that the military spokesman on the other hand saying that their dad was true there would be funerals bollock ordered
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a populated area and people would come out and body their dead if they're dead the indians had already tried to spring a surprise and he said earlier that he did not expect the indians to get away with that separate thing that buggers down right now bring their sobriety of its own the buggers on the prime minister had already called a national security committee of the cabinet he's met the military leadership and also on the people of pakistan should be ready for any eventuality the buggers on the foreign minister also ahead emergency meetings in forming their own roy who did its lamo bod about go what had happened buggers down rubbishing their claim and ignored the buggers any foreign minister had to say i got pakistan captured and if there is aggression against pakistan we have the right to defend our country this equation is unfolding at a political level a diplomatic level at a military level that just is plumbing and pakistan will respond. the us
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president's form of passing a lawyer is testifying to congress about donald trump's contacts with russia and his alleged criminal conduct michael cohen met the senate intelligence committee behind closed doors he said to have time in prison for lying to the committee and twenty seventeen on wednesday he'll be giving public testimony on sensitive and potentially explosive topics she has a chance he has more from washington d.c. . or getting a lot of leaks already now from those who claim to have seen michael cohen's testimony or claim to be close to michael cohen that he will document the quote lies racism and cheating of donald trump with a personal behind the scenes anecdotes of trump and his conduct how donald trump inflated his wealth his net worth in order to get onto the forbes richest list and deflated his wealth with all of the pay as little tax as possible and also how donald trump directed michael cohen who was his long time lawyer to make those
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payments to the two women during the presidential campaign who would claim to have an affair with donald trump the hush money payments which were in violation of campaign finance law according to the prosecutors and michael cohen himself. who prosecuted charge michael cohen in new york now we did already know all this stuff donald trump was named by prosecutors in legal filings as individual one as the person who directed michael cohen to make those payments so i think in the end what we're going to get is much more and quite granular detail on donald trump's conduct and how he how he ran his business also michael cohen's own cooper about how he now decides he can no longer give loyalty to donald trump but not much more than i mean but as far as specific bombshell information it doesn't look likely we're going to get that unless and that's where wrong so far i mean we do know that don't that he does have other information about how the trump organization works but
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a lot of this has been spelled out by various journalists over the years still ahead on al-jazeera. and entering. any. one of the youngest orchestras marks its past decade on the global stage. and in sports a formula one legend watches his former team set the pace in pre-season testing is here with that story. hello has been another damaging winter storm in upstate new york which is brought ice off the lakes and downed trees and power lines and that's going out of the way to be honest but the addition to that the real cold weather gave wouldn't you that's temporarily stuck in here now i think you'll find temperatures rise biasing
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up to ten degrees between tuesday wednesday in minneapolis and chicago as snow goes through you got snow than forming again in the northeast corner the real cold talked often when if they could be zero and might try and get back again it's not going very far it's arctic air still west of all this huge amount of snow again falling in oregon maybe gets among tyler then coming down to northern california was rain on the coast and san francisco disappointing dismal couple days for you the temperature regime one is on the way down a bit in chicago but the real cold hasn't returned just yet obviously it's still winter in this part of north america in the side of the rain that have been causing such a plague in places like tennessee giving flooding that's not come back but the cold is trying to infiltrate the far south if you are in the caribbean that's a greater likelihood of showers the next day or so but they're all but many of them unless you're in costa rica.
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with and for you. hello again i'm not. a mind of the news this hour. hari is heading for a second time as nigeria's president the electoral commission has yet to confirm the results hari's a.p.c. party is preparing to celebrate victory. the us president and north korea's leader will need and vietnam's capital in the coming hours and for a second summit the talks between donald trump and kim jong un are expected to focus on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. the u.s. has used a u.n. security council meeting to call for the sanctions on venezuelan president nicolas
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maduro to destroying aid supplies to the country the u.s. special envoy for venezuela says washington will impose its own sanctions on caracas later this week. well britain's prime minister has offered parliament the chance to decide whether to delay breaks it or to go for a potentially disastrous no deal departure here's how her latest plan is expected to play out to reason may well put her existing e.u. withdrawal agreement to a second parliamentary vote by march the twelfth m.p.'s decisively rejected it last month if it's vetoed again then parliament will be asked if the u.k. should depart with no deal and if they turn that option down then a vote will be held on march fourteenth on delaying the departure date which is currently march twenty ninth ultimately the choices we face would remain changed leave with a deal leave with no deal or have no bricks it so when it comes to that
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motion tomorrow the house needs to come together as we did on the twenty ninth of january and send a clear message that there is a stable majority in favor of leaving the e.u. with the deal we believe in getting the terms of our right that's why we believe in our alternative plan the prime minister's bought deal provides no certainty or guarantees for the future and was comprehensively rejected by this house we cannot risk our country's industry and people's livelihoods and so if somehow if it somehow does pass in some form at a later stage we believe there must be a consummate republic vote deceive people feel that's what they voted for al jazeera as lawrence lee has the latest from outside parliament in london. three's
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a may was ramadhan parliament that she had promised m.p.'s no fewer than one hundred and eight times over the course of the last few months that the u.k. would be leaving the european union on march twenty ninth and so you can imagine the fury from those who do want to leave on that date when she's now acknowledged that there is so much concern about the u.k. leaving without any sort of trade deal or plan an economic catastrophe that people fear that that would lead to that she's not offering the chance to extend equally her opponents even sure that she's going to be true to her word because she keeps going back on promises and has done over and over again but if you assume for a second that she is true to what then the logic almost certainly now will be that on march the twelfth m.p.'s will yes again vote down her plan on march the thirteenth they will vote down no deal because there's so little appetite for that and amongst the fourteenth they will vote for an extension potentially for a couple of months and no more than that to give her that's amount of time to try
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to come to an arrangement but the big question is what happens after that because after that period if there's no arrangements that is the prime and supported out no deal will still happen and the only alternative to that is revoking article fifty and not leaving the european union at all unless the your opinion grants yet another extension and so that's that many m.p.'s to accuse they say she's running out of road and they're now saying she's trying to build more roads all the time and it's very very uncertain still what's going to happen but the chance i think they have an extension is almost inevitable. iran's president hassan rouhani has held back from accepting the surprise resignation of his foreign minister mohammad job and zarif announced he was quitting on instagram apologizing for any shortcomings during his seven s. and ally has suggested his decision was motivated by criticism of the nuclear deal he helped to negotiate in twenty fifteen which the u.s. withdrew from last year many hardliners in iran were opposed to the deal. has more
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on what this means for the reef future well as far as we understand mamma will be returning to his position as foreign minister tomorrow morning there is nothing to indicate otherwise we've heard from various officials both within the president's office as well as the foreign ministry saying that this resignation is not acceptable the president has not accepted this attempt by the foreign minister to leave his position and the instagram posts is not an official way for a minister to ask the government to leave office so of course has an iranian has not accepted this as an official resignation attempt by the foreign minister and of course this is not the first time we're hearing that the foreign minister has tried to leave his job he said. in the past he's come under very very heavy criticism about the nuclear agreement iran signed with the p five plus one in two thousand
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and fifteen a lot of the conservative voices in the islamic republic were very much opposed to this agreement saying that iran did not get everything you could have and that somehow zarif and the rouhani government were tricked into signing this agreement that is not the best deal for iran but of course the foreign minister being adamant that he did the best that he could in this deal was better than no with the deal at all under the circumstances that they were working in. the taliban and the u.s. special envoy are close to reaching an agreement on american troop withdrawal from afghanistan taliban spokesman said house shaheen said the deal will include guarantees that afghanistan will not be used again as a staging area for anti-american attacks his remarks followed a second day of negotiations to end afghanistan's seventeen year war senior taliban leaders are holding talks with u.s. special envoy south in qatar stephanie deca has more from doha. it is the
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second day of talks between the high level delegation of the taleban and the americans trying to find some kind of solution to the seventeen year war between them and also the larger forty year conflict inside that country now we mentioned track down the taliban spokesperson here in doha i was at the hotel where the talks are taking place he said that basically there were two main issues being discussed one the u.s. troop withdrawal from the country the occupation is he called it a timetable for that and also what the americans really wanted was to have the taliban ensure that groups like al qaida and i still would not use the country to stage further attacks now there is of course an important issue that the afghan people want to know about which is security and that is something i pushed him on and one guarantees you giving if you do find an agreement that the military aspect of your group will cease to operate. yes food drop water groups from the onslaught. of money consistently good name the
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country i think there is no need to order. to. sort the we have sustainable peace in the country and not only a million people with a lot of people they will be included in the national guard i also mother the taliban would be talking to the afghan government he said that that was an internal issue and that would only be addressed once the external ones like the troop withdrawal would have been confirmed certainly they are complicated issues being discussed the timetable again we're going to have to wait and see what is achieved here over the next coming days we were all skiing him whether he's optimistic he said well if we don't achieve something this round of talks there will be more. new figures suggest thousands of immigrant children have been sexually abused while in government custody in the united states the department of health and human services say there have been more than four and
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a half thousand complaints in the past four years from unaccompanied minors on top of that the chairman of the u.s. ethics committee hearing a case on the trumpet ministration and its immigration policy says the department of justice has received more than a thousand complaints that figure includes one hundred seventy eight accusations of sexual abuse by staff at refugee and resettlement sentance. international community is being blamed for allowing governments in the middle east and africa to get away with human rights violations and the stance national says there's too much complacency which allows offending countries to think they'll never face justice center what it reports. their crime was to speak out against those in power and what they consider as injustice activists across the middle east and north africa are behind bars for peacefully protesting that their plight is being highlighted by amnesty international which says the crackdown on freedom of speech and political opponents increased significantly in two thousand and eighteen particularly in
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three of the region's most powerful states iran saudi arabia and egypt which the human rights organization says is now a more dangerous place for critics that at any time in the past. these three countries are an emblem on take off the general situation of human rights across the region so in the run this past year alone over seventy thousand people were put in prison just for participating in protest in egypt you have over a hundred people who were put in prison only for expressing their opinions in saudi arabia to this women activists we've been campaigning for women's rights have been put in jail since may two thousand and eighteen and tortured so subject to sexual harassment and are still arbitrary it's. the list goes on researchers have documented abuses of the united arab emirates algeria yemen syria libya lebanon.
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amnesty international believes the lack of accountability and the lack of international pressure is what encourages governments in the middle east and north africa to continue committing human rights violations there is no fear of punishment accountability it says is essential not just to ensure justice for the victims but to prevent further violations. one of those victims saudi journalist she who was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul last year in two national calls it a cold blooded murder and an example of global in action to ensure those responsible are brought to justice the reason the case is so incredibly important for us on this international is that finally finally it's brought some scrutiny to saudi arabia's human rights record and finally a number of western states started making responsible decisions with regards to their weapons sales to saudi arabia. but countries like the u.s. the u.k.
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and france are being asked to do the same amnesty international is not just criticizing what it calls authoritarian regimes for cracking down on any form of dissent it is blaming western governments who have been and are willing to look the other way when their interests are at stake so. breaking news the u.s. house of representatives has voted to block the national emergency declaration issued by president donald trump over the situation on the border with mexico it will now progress on to the senate and we'll bring you more on that as it happens hundreds of students in algeria have rallied again to protest against president. for a fifth term in office they're demanding a change in leadership the four days of demonstrations are the biggest the country has seen and more than a decade has been in power for more than twenty years but has rarely seen and public after suffering
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a stroke in twenty fourteen. thanks
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very much two thousand and sixteen english premier league champions les to city have a new manager they've confirmed brendan rodgers will take charge rodgers spent the day at les's king palace stadium finalizing
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a deal to leave scottish champions celtic he signed a three year contract or just watched his new team from the stands they beat brighton two one he'll be in the dugout for sunday's match at watford i was certainly no hurry to leave celtic celtic is a plug that's a huge club you know worldwide and i'm club and love working with the players there we were on a journey of create success of this last three years. but when the opportunity came to talk to leicester and i was able to analyze it. allowed me to to probably think maybe he probably achieved and taken the club members of his father could at this moment than there were children eighty two to speak with lester and find their own visions and more we can grow the club the training facility and of course the big attraction for me is the as welcome of the players. so young scored
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a very dynamic score the huge potential and i can say that some of the pleasures was real good experience also so we're so there's a number of factors of being here and like i say absolutely right become will be hoping the rajah's can bring some much needed stability cloudier ronny ery managed leicester to the biggest title in the history in two thousand and sixteen the club won the premier league having started the season five thousand to one outside is maintaining those standards hasn't been easy ranieri was fired in two thousand and seventeen and two manages been gone since then claude was sacked on sunday in tragedy is also hit the club late last year lest his own of the shine seated on a problem was one of five people killed in a helicopter crash sports correspondent leigh welling says there have been plenty of highs and lows for the club leicester has been an incredible story of triumph and tragedy over the past few years in fact i'd start the story back in twenty
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fifth day when they were very nearly relegated from the premier league which is a powerful around the globe but their managers are not to play some recklessly kept them in the league he was citing come cardio over and yairi i won that league title in twenty six state i've never seen a sports story like. value himself was sacked his replacement was psychotic shakespear and then we had something to put over this incident spectator which was the tragic helicopter crash the i don't know of course was one of five people who died which i shivered at a problem. this was months ago. this season and this wasn't just about the football club this was about the city the city so proud of its club were in mourning and still are so in extent the quickly football moves on now we have the man who covered himself with such dignity campolo sacked and in comes a new man brendan rodgers which causes its own turbulence brendan rodgers has won all eight of scotland's domestic trophies that were available since he came in to
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grant's going in the summer of twenty six stay in for him leaving shows how scottish football itself has problems these days with its status and standing aside from sosa usually and it's the premier league and the lure of the premier league and the money as well that the premier league can offer as well as the glory meanwhile scottish champions celtic have moved quickly to fill the void left by rodgers they've brought back neil lennon who helped them to three league titles and two scottish cups when he was manager between two thousand and ten and two thousand and fourteen as a celtic captain lennon made three hundred four parents says he'll take charge until the end of the season chelsea manager emirates your side he has made it clear he's a man you just don't cross goalkeeper kept at it is learning that the hard way the italian says he's undecided about whether his headstrong player will start against tottenham on wednesday sorry was left fuming when his team's ninety three million
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dollars signing refused to be substituted during sunday's league cup final match against manchester city kept at has since apologized and been fined a week's wages by the club he said sorry to the technical staff about was not enough. he said the story to the team mates the club we don't want to to kill him he made a mistake big mistake there are some consequence. if there calls it worse it is to blame he has to be ready to play youth because it is the bench he has to be the to do to go to the bench where madrid coach santiago claims there is no rift between him and his forward gareth bale bale has been on the bench for rails last two league games and refused to celebrate after scoring the decisive goal in his side's two one victory over live on tape on sunday mail take on barcelona in the
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semi final of the spanish couple wednesday tie is poised at one one after the first leg before they got a demo solo out of we've done a lot of talking about doris our thinking is now set on our next game we've got a huge match coming up we fought hard to get this far so we have to be one hundred percent focused on the return leg as are all the players are all united and share the clear objective of winning. fernando alonso may have quit formula one but he couldn't resist a visit to pre-season testing in barcelona the two time f one world champion is now focused on trying to win the indianapolis five hundred takes place in may his former team mclaren had a good day in spain the nineteen year old british what he learned on norris setting the fastest lap time the new season gets underway in melbourne next month. no matter how hard humans try animals just tend to be better athletes like this dog named his handler jute threw him a frisbee as part of the halftime show at
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a football game in orlando florida and yuri ended up stealing the show with this seventy five to catch. his impressive betting set a new world record for the longest frisbee catch during a live sporting events. and that's always but for now more later. returning now to our breaking news the u.s. house of representatives has voted to block the national emergency declaration issued by president donald trump over the situation on the border with mexico and it will now go to the senate for more on this let's go to patty culhane in washington d.c. actually this was a bipartisan vote in the house and it was exactly but the question everyone is watching is how many republicans would basically defect the white house has been pushing them hard to stick with the president on that that is something republicans have done well they controlled congress entirely for the first two years of this president's term the number that people are going to focus on is
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thirteen thirteen republicans broke ranks and said no there is not a national emergency and this is a bad precedent so thirteen the number not likely to override a potential presidential veto but it does send a message that even a small portion of the republicans in congress are starting to fracture with the president and patty how likely is it to pass in the senate. well that's the big question the way d.n.c. pelosi did this is speaker of the house what the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has been doing basically with any of legislation he doesn't like as he simply doesn't call it for a vote she put this through a vehicle that he doesn't have that option he has eighteen days where he has to put it to the floor so republicans the president's party controlled the senate as of right now they would need democrats we need for republicans to break with the president so this is the high stakes question right now three have said they will nobody wants to be the fourth they're going to get all the blame and all the tweets from president donald trump but their hands are going to be forced
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a lot of republicans have come out and said this isn't about a border wall this is about setting a precedent of a national emergency isn't called plenty of times dozens of times by past presidents but never in an attempt to go around congress that the constitution says has the sole discretion to spend the government's money they're worried that if a democrat is elected next they could declare a national emergency now after the next school shooting trying to take away i mean ition or they could clear national emergency and climate change and try and clear shut down coal fired power power plants so for many in the senate this isn't just about the wall it's not about the southern border it's about precedent now they know that they will get the ire of the president if they vote against him so we have to wait and see if anyone's willing to do that even though privately many say they disagree with it but the big question is also not what happens in congress but the courts the court seem highly likely to take this up and possibly issue an injunction against the president winding its way all the way to the supreme court which could take a lot of time. and washington d.c.
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staying across all these developments thank you patty. peru's center for national emergency operations says at least fifty people have been killed in flooding since the monsoon season began in december in september i'm sorry prolonged heavy rain in the north of the country has also led to landslides in mountainous regions increasing the death toll meteorologists blamed the increased rainfall on the el nino effect a warming of surface waters in the pacific ocean which has a dramatic effect on weather patterns around the world one of the world's youngest orchestras the castle felt how monic is celebrating its tenth anniversary it was formed to promote western and arabic music to audiences at home and abroad victoria gave reports. please. leaking the name it's a concert to celebrate a musical milestone. the cattle for the money plays in the qatari capital doha
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to mark ten years since it's a new group of former lunar. x. says so emotional for me especially because i spend a third of my life in qatar it's it became my home and cut off and i want to orchestra is one of the biggest experience i've made in my life it is really a place where everyone belongs to everyone on we respect each other and you know even though if you have if you are not true in harmony with your colleague you have to be how many in your state and you have to do things together. made up of ninety five musicians from twenty eight countries a third of its members all women. hold a job is to from scratch really from zero and when i think ten years and today to the best we have for the toss to go because. we have achieved a lot of really does exceeds the cats also monocoque
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a strip of forms constant such as this all over the world and in cattle it plays a prominent role in promoting weston and arabic music i think it's fantastic we've only been here in doha for about six months but we've already come here three or four times and it's always great quality and the musicians it's just great to be here i mean it's just refreshing to see an orchestra that's performing as novel and not struggling to find new stuff which is the case in most cities in the world to have a party come on americans try to spend all their time scraping together the funds to keep operating. the cats open the morning coke istra has a busy year hangs with performances in doha and to prove that this concert is a chance to celebrate all that's been achieved. it's first decade on the world stan victoria gates and the al-jazeera. well you can find more on our top stories including escalating tensions over kashmir on our web site the address al-jazeera
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dot com that's it for me to this news that i'll be back in just a few minutes. to . the carter center.
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