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truck drivers in danger of their lives. just to make a living if you crash they might break your mirror or even kill you because a cold is known for it's the front of his ears to just carry on al-jazeera. the british parliament has just hours to decide on whether to back prime minister to resign made spreads a deal. i'm not mad this and this is all just a lie from doha also coming up more airlines ground their fleet of boeing seven three seven eight after sunday's crash in b.c. opiate that killed a hundred and fifty seven people. protests in algeria showing no sign of easing up to the president our bond and his bid for the fifth but postpones next month's
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election. the world wide web is turning thirty but amid the celebrations comes a word of warning from its inventor. ok in a few hours' time the members of parliament in the u.k. are going to hold a second vote on whether or not to accept the prime minister's brags that plan to rescind may says she secured where she's calling legally binding changes after a last minute talks with the european commission president on monday within the past few hours ukraine's attorney general has been speaking to parliament he says britain may be tied legally to the e.u. regardless of what happens let's go back to john hall is live for us in london john to give us some more information about what the attorney general jeff inconsistencies and. well the scene said now i
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think for a pretty bruising encounter for treason maybe. because not just the attorney general but all the different factions in front of it would be consulting their own lawyers to determine what they make of this these illegally by. i didn't change the circles of trees of nice a few of the european union and the findings are not good the european research group so cold that all the on the right of the conservative party take a very small can of this said that a consequence of deal because those changes are not in trying to they would rule agreement as they wanted the democratic unionists and that's the key constituency. nor the knowledge reportedly saying they constitute it because it doesn't adequately protect and safeguard golden island's place for being hived off from the rest of the united kingdom and the economic arrangements can tell you the facts up and then there's geoffrey props to tell you general himself key in the lobbying for the changes that we received but giving advice that was not at all helpful to
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reason by saying that the root risk that he had identified the u.k. being caught in definitely in everyone else so it's an economic track bound to be you economic rules with no say over that he said that race had not changed at all take a listen to what he had to say. the legal risk. on . the question for the hunt is whether in the minds of these improvements as a political judgment. and. well he raises a very important point because this now does become a political question rather than a legal one defeat is old but certain but the real question here is the margin of defeat because they'll be m.p.'s quite possibly
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a significant number who i think the legal advice would get them to come back and support the deal they haven't got that covered but they will now be thinking what happens next if they don't support this deal possibly a soft version of rex's possibly no directed at. many will think that tonight could be the last chance to vote for any sort of meaningful breaks it at all the question is how many change their minds because it treason may loses by a largely large margin back to the three figures not the one hundred well then the thinking is that not just big deal goes down because quite possibly the premiership as well if the margin is less in the single or double figures well then no one can count out with any certainty at all that this field won't return to the house of commons in the next couple of weeks or a third meaningful like jonah thanks very much indeed for the u.k. amman and malaysia have become the latest countries to ban the boeing seven hundred seven max aircraft from their air space the precautionary measure comes after an
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ethiopian airliner crashed on sunday killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board it was the second accident involving the boeing seven three seven in five months the u.s. aviation regulators asked the company to modify its software or china was the first country to suspend operations of the seven three seven max eight more than eight other countries have followed suit including indonesia and ethiopia both singapore and australia have temporarily banned the passenger jet from their airlines families of some of those killed have visited the site for the first time the boeing seven three seven max eight came down in shortly after takeoff on sunday it was bound for nairobi in kenya from address abah a team from boeing have not arrived at the crash site to help investigators victims in for more than thirty countries all in the last year it will have been we came
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here to pay our respects to our friend even if we cannot see him look at his body we came to drop our tears. when he lost his life and bid him farewell he was a humble guy who was god fearing everyone knew him as a positive humble and good person. may god rest his soul in a heavenly peace. what i am now demanding is that i get the body of my child would have a happened has happened i now need to lay had to rest i came here to see when my daughter lost her life and to make peace she was a high status on their mind or homicidal is at the crash site and he spoke to witnesses who saw the plane moments before the crash i am in jail he's a farming home unity exactly the way that ill fated flight right now villages who witnessed the plane all down have been telling us how they were hot by trained banging noises coming from
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a law flying aircraft and then they said that they watched as the pilot tried to lift off several times without fail and every time they would bring the norse down before it came crashing into the ground with a huge bang and then the. mongol wreckage or. the possible effect of the possum just who were on board including a wall thing and all kinds of stuff was around in an area about this the size of up to five football fields well asian primus and the hotel mahomet's considering selling malaysia airlines or even shutting it down their line faces increased pressure to improve its performance after it received a one point five billion dollars injection it suffered major losses after incidents involving one of its planes disappearing over the indian ocean and another being
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shot down over ukraine the prime minister's told reporters his government would have to decide soon whether to refinance it or ground itself aeration. protesters in algeria are back on the streets despite president abdelaziz bouteflika his decision to abandon his bid for a fifth term thousands of march to the capital algiers demanding immediate political change beautifully has delayed next month's elections a national conference which will oversee a new constitution and the poll has been put in place to jerusalem from where we're getting news that a fire has broken out inside the mosque compound our teams tell us israeli police have closed all entrances to the compound one hundred false it is joining us now live from occupied east jerusalem harry first of all what more do we know about this fire. well what the israeli police are saying is that a motel cocktail was thrown at a police post inside the locks
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a mosque compound known to jews as the temple mount and that as a result of that they chased in trying to find those who threw it that there were scuffles that broke out at the site itself and that there were several arrests we heard as well from inside the compound from another source suggesting that it might have been a firework nonetheless it does seem that that indeed there was a fire that took place at this police post and that as a result of all this the entire compound has been shut down police say they are searching for potential weapons but of course the islamic walks the trustees on the trust which runs the compound under the aegis of the jordanian government they are protesting against this the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has called it a dangerous escalation of what is already he says a tense situation around the al aqsa mosque if my colleagues some you can just zoom in a bit you can also see that police are standing guard outside lion's gate there it
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seems that they're only letting people in with i.d.'s proving their residency inside jerusalem's old city we saw some minor scuffles breaking out when a group of mourners trying to take a body in for a funeral at the al aqsa mosque compound they were allowed in but it seems they weren't allowed into the mosque site itself all of this is coming on the back of already three very tense weeks at the site because the islamic walk first decided to reopen an area around what's known as the mercy gate that was shut down by the israeli authorities it was closed off by the israeli authorities in two thousand and three because they said that had been used by a group that was linked to hamas the israeli courts put forward a deadline for yesterday monday for this area to be closed again that has expired the work does not recognize israel jurisdiction there have been talks between jordan and the. but they have yet to reach a breakthrough so what was already a pretty tense situation over this now three week old battle over this area
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within the luxor mosque compound has now come to something more of a head with this latest incident the entire site remains closed thanks gary. still ahead and al jazeera will report from malawi where flooding has killed dozens of people and left hundreds of thousands homeless a fall from grace for the most senior member of the catholic church to be convicted of child abuse how long will he be jailed for. hello again welcome back well here across parts of china we have seen a drier day than what we have seen last week but unfortunate that is not going to be lasting very long at all here on wednesday we're going to be seeing some more rain up there towards the north for shanghai down to food shows hong kong it is
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going to be a partly cloudy day for you but enjoy it on wednesday because by the time we get towards thursday the heavy rain continues across much of that southeastern coast in taipei it is going to be a rainy day few attempts are there into the low twenty's where here across parts of india not looking too bad across much of the area temperatures are still into the mid thirty's low thirty's for many locations there take a look at what we expect to see here neck per at about thirty eight degrees now we are going to be seeing a fun pushing through the north that's going to be some clouds to new delhi here on wednesday and as we go towards thursday the temperature goes a few but over here towards katmandu about twenty six degrees but in the higher elevations that is going to turn to snow here across parts of the gulf we're going to be seeing the when increased second happen on wednesday but by the time we get towards thursday evening maybe even to the overnight hours we are going to see some dusty conditions coming in with these clouds as well we do expect to see a temperature here in doha of about twenty three degrees on friday that dust will linger over towards abu dhabi it is going to be a hot day for you with
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a temperature of thirty one degrees there. unction when they're on line like tina taught us it's to be able to be concise being expressing exactly what is happening in the moment and what it means. or if you joined us on saturday israel is an apartheid state engaged in the ethnic cleansing of the palestinian people this is a dialogue everyone has a voice and we want to hear from you join a colobus conversation amount is iraq. you're
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watching all jazeera reminder of our top stories and this in your case that turn in general is history's a maze revised briggs's deal risks the country being stuck in e.u. trade arrangements jeffrey talks this statement is a blow to the prime minister whose bribes it deal will face a vote in a matter of hours. and of a cigarette a team from boeing has arrived at the crash site of the ethiopian airlines plane the u.s. aircraft manufacturer is under growing pressure over safety concerns about its seven thirty seven max eight jet the u.k. and malaysia are among the latest countries to ban the plane from their air space particle hain is joining us live from washington d.c. patty i'm just saying also that there's a low cost airline called no region air shuttle it's now suspended flights of of that type of plane what's the reaction from boeing in all of this. boeing is standing firm they say they're not planning on issuing any new guidance
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meanwhile. and they say that their plane is perfectly safe even though to now have crashed in a very similar circumstances we've also seen american companies refusing to their planes two very big ones southwest being one of them and they are facing pushback from their customers because they're not allowing them to change their flights if they're going to try and avoid flying this seven thirty seven max eight. change fees which you see in their customers take to twitter demanding that they ground these planes so far boeing says no signs of saying that they believe there is a problem with this very popular plane at the same time their stock continues to tumble and that one of the key things for any aircraft manufacturer is of course trust in their products and yet i'm just seeing and correct me if i'm wrong on this that donald trump himself has just tweeted saying airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly pilots no longer needed rather computer scientists from mit often
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older and simpler is far better that's exactly the kind of thing that boeing does not need to hear from the u.s. president right now i would have thought. exactly and i have to admit that i've somehow lost my phone i'm sure it's somewhere in the newsroom so i wasn't able to see that tweet but this is kind of a common theme for this president let's go back to when aircraft carrier new aircraft carrier was being built he went on a tear about the fact that that was going to be electromagnetic and he said steam was better it didn't matter how many people in the military told him no sir this is the next generation he continued to say it was too expensive they should just be powered by steam not this new technology so the president's tweets although i think many times we feel like we've become accustomed to them this is highly unusual this will not help boeing which wants to send the message that it's a stable company that this plane is safe i mean this is the most popular plane boeing has their five thousand on order and we're starting to see those orders
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being canceled this could be devastating for this american company the major employer to have the president weigh in well that's probably not going to help given the fact that the u.s. is of course in the midst of trade negotiations with china it's very important that the u.s. industry is seen to be very strong at the moment and this is coming at a very bad time when you're in the midst of negotiations like that it may not affect the negotiations directly but it doesn't do a lot to help the trust and security that people so want to see. well and that's one of the things that american companies sell where it is sell that they're very safe that it's the best engineering in the world and this is a major employer in the country so this is going to be a hit for boeing now boeing keeps saying you can't lose and yet but it is incredibly airily similar if you think about what happened to these both of these planes when they went down so soon after takeoff how they went down you know it first this boeing said well we put in the safety system we didn't tell the pilots
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about it but now we're going to tell them about it we're going to train them on it they've put out a directive that every airline had to follow so boeing is potentially facing a lot of liability here because this system was put in because it wasn't in the training manual and because it's happened again so you can expect that more countries and more companies are going to follow suit because you can just imagine the liability not only the trust that their customers will possibly lose and then it was what we're seeing on twitter with the american companies but the liability if they put these plus another one of these planes in the air and it crashes you can imagine that would leave them very vulnerable so expect this list is only going to continue grow as the investigation continues how do thanks very much indeed kurdish led forces in syria say they've killed thirty eight eisel fighters and the final assault on the on groups lost on klav syrian democratic forces have been bombarding the eastern village for an estimated five hundred fighters remain the operation intensified after
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a brief pause to allow civilians to leave yesterday if says three of its fighters were killed during the latest operation at least twenty eight people have died hundreds have in been injured and more than six thousand have been displaced by floods in southern malawi following days of heavy rains as malkan web reports from an evacuation center in the sunday a district. it was the middle of the night when agnes easy says she woke to find floodwater rising through her. she ran now she and her five children have this evacuation center and stuff in malawi. and there was no that so well that the floods have destroyed our crops in the fields we don't have anything to harvest even all arcades and belongings are gone we've had to come here with nothing our homes have been destroyed. chiles and more tell similar stories hundreds have been injured dozens of died survivors have no choice but
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to come to centers like this and wait for help and most of the people here are subsistence farmers they don't own much and they carried with them whatever they could this used farm warehouse will be their shelter for tonight for a bed to sleep on not much more than that. this is what happened to their homes and their farms after four days of heavy rain the river sheer a past its banks hundreds of thousands of people live on the surrounding lowlands their fertile for farming but dangerous too it's not the first time this has happened broken bridges and washed away roads have made it hard for the government trucks to bring food and supplies it'll take long for the people here to rebuild their lives. back at the center people gather to hear what the local chief has to
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say he told us the government's bringing food and tents and will build much needed toilets for lose not only the crops they lose their belongings they do lose live you know more dead. so people become just. and so the weight goes on some assistance here will make things a little easier. floodwaters are still high and more heavy rain the forecast in the coming days people don't even know when they might be able to start to rebuild their lives our senior catholic figure ever convicted of child abuse will learn on wednesday how long he will spend in jail in december cardinal george pell this convicted of five counts of sexually abusing two choir boys in the
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australian city of melbourne under thomas reports cardinal george pal's was a graceful life this is what his fall from grace looked like health conviction guilty of having sexually assaulted two choir boys in a melbourne cathedral in one thousand nine hundred six sent shock waves through the catholic church on wednesday hell will learn how long he'll go to prison for his crimes hell always denied the accusations against him i am innocent of these charges. they are false our whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me but during his trial pelle chose to stay silent his defense lawyer thought the case against him was weak just one victim gave evidence there were no direct witnesses to support his story the first trial ended without a verdict the jury was split but a second jury twelve men and women found him guilty unanimously that was in
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december but at the time the verdict was kept secret that was because pelle was due to face a second trial accused of abusing other children in the one nine hundred seventy s. australian law allows for suppression orders banning the reporting of trials to prevent jurors in future trials being influenced by what they hear that second trial vote was dropped so it was in february that news of pelts conviction was made public pell is appealing his conviction that appeal will be held in june. you almost certainly spend the time between now and then in jail and possibly a lot longer andrew thomas al jazeera sydney two former police officers in brazil have been arrested and charged over the murder of a popular politician almost exactly a year ago the pair were arrested in rio de janeiro and police say one of the moment fired the shots that killed mario franco and her driver or the other drove the getaway car franco was
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a prominent councillor who campaigned against police abuse and fought for women's rights. it's thirty years since the creation of the first web page the internet has developed rapidly since the idea was first suggested by british scientist and inventor tim berners lee with so many people now benefiting from its use he stresses the importance of enabling web access to all of the world's population thirty years ago i submitted a vague but exciting proposal for a free open permission with space for all of humanity to share knowledge and ideas today half the world's population is still unconnected and those of us who are in line feel that our rights and freedoms are not fully protected and respected china has the world's largest number of
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internet users in the government puts it at eight hundred and twenty nine million that's twice the population of the us but it's concerned that having unfettered access to the web will lead to social unrest so the government has implemented the world's most advanced system of internet controls that interview reports from beijing beijing based activist spent almost ten years growing the online presence of her organization feminist voices it was for many women a primary resource for news and information on gender issues as well as china's burgeoning me to movement. but last march their articles and way broke out chinese twitter was suddenly taken offline if they don't tell you what's the city. we don't know and we go to the courts you know we want them to want to assume to come things but we just don't take it and don't tell you why until now i don't know why i still sean says the group's growing influence made it
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a target of government senses china has more internet users than any other country more than eight hundred nine million each living under one of the most restrictive internet environments in the world china is a one party system and. to. preserve the legitimacy of that system. the authorities here seek always to manage the message that's getting sent out to the masses china's first internet cafe appeared in the late one nine hundred ninety s. and with it came the first of beijing's many internet laws the criminalizing of protests considered a threat to national security. today web sites such as google facebook and many foreign news sites are blocked any content criticizing the government or deemed inappropriate or is routinely censored. last year a woman was jailed for five days after live streaming a comedic performance of china's national anthem internet users in china are able
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to overcome restrictions by using tools such as virtual private networks. but during politically sensitive periods such as this week's national people's congress bypassing china's great firewall becomes even more difficult. it's also a time for the communist party to intensify the use of online tools to spread its message. but regulations haven't stopped chinese citizens from embracing the internet and his government controls grow increasingly sophisticated. i think the internet environment will stay the same common people cannot have access to everything over the internet but if people have tools camp so do savvy users in finding ways to get around it. you al-jazeera paging twitter has dropped unverified political ads in india ahead of next month's national elections comes a day after the election commission said it would scrutinise social media posts by
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candidates and parties has more from new delhi. as hundreds of millions of indians prepare to elect a new government fake or misleading information has become a regular feature on social media now for the first time india's election commission is trying to crack down. old provisions of model code of conduct a clutch of the content being posted on social media by candidates and political parties. political parties here say they welcome the move to regulate social media something they see as crucial for the democratic process political system in this country is becoming more unstable because there are more question coming on our social media that how important is a social media and that's how it's going to influence our electoral politics coming even in this election but not everyone is as optimistic indians' a new one for the tenacity and the capacity to bypass rules and to come across with
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innovative approaches of bypassing policies and standards twitter has also begun cracking down on unverified political ads but some legal experts don't believe it's enough we're going to see not dramatic results we could see some encouraging results but this policy to be really successful i think. we've done a social media have alerts in india's politics so have the online attacks those in the public eye are often the main targets but it's not always coming from established parties the victims of online attacks a individual spreading fake news get their orders from higher ups in different political parties it's a malays that that kind of flows right from the top to the bottom this journalist says he and others are regularly attacked online in several cases social media companies have failed to crack down as was the situation with one of his female colleagues people who were sending. pictures now she put those pictures plus the phone numbers of the individuals who were sending. so
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twitter. account as political parties push their social media campaign to selection new rules meant to crackdown on misuse will be put to the test as jamil al jazeera new delhi. this is al jazeera these are the top stories in a few hours' time the members of parliament in the u.k. are going to hold a second vote on whether or not to accept the prime minister's brags that plan to resume says she has secured what she calls legally binding changes after last minute talks with the european commission president on monday a short while ago the u.k.'s attorney general said britain may be tied illegally to the e.u. regardless of what happens the legal risk as i simply don't in my letter of the thirty of november remain. changed the question.
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is whether in the light should these improvements and very politically judgment. should not enter in to those arrangements. an investigative team from boeing has arrived at the crash site of the ethiopian airlines plane a u.s. aircraft manufacturer is under growing pressure over safety concerns of its seven three seven eight jet the u.k. oman and malaysia and among the latest countries to ban the plane from the air space a short while ago on the region low cost airline announced its grounding its planes . protesters in algeria are back on the streets despite president i've done as he's both a flake his decision not to run for reelection but a flicker also delayed next month's vote and announced a national conference that will oversee the new constitution kurdish led forces in syria say they've killed thirty eight eisel fighters in their final assault in the
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on the group's loss and clave seven democratic forces have been bombarding the eastern village where an estimated five hundred iso fighters remain an operation intensified after a brief pause to allow civilians to leave us t.f. says three of its fighters were killed during the latest operation. british police say there are aware of a group calling itself the irish republican army or ira has been claiming responsibility for sending five possible was last week the media in northern ireland are reporting that the ira sent explosive packages to addresses in london and scoff and it was found at heathrow london city airport waterloo station and glasgow university causing major disruptions one of the policy hasn't been found there's no confirmation that the ira is behind the incidents these are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream from the.
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we understand the different scenes. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to al-jazeera. in this training today how. to make the next generation a fake news but. this week at the south by southwest conference in austin texas. with mock. the annual conference festival celebrates the latest film music an interactive technology innovative with be irreverent in the latter category a hands on exhibit showcasing the president of the united states preferred medium for addressing the nation and the world.

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