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moving on plastic waste. on al-jazeera out to you. tube this new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they are very interested in global perspective. it's. the british parliament just hours from deciding whether to back prime minister teresa mayes breaks a deal. this is the world news from al-jazeera more evidence of their fleets of boeing seven three seven max a sunday's crash in ethiopia that killed one hundred fifty seven people. live pictures here as u.s. backed kurdish forces resumed their offensive on the last stronghold in eastern
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syria. and protests in algeria show no sign of easing off to the president abandons his bid for a fifth term. as the elections. so it has been a real roller coaster twenty four hours for the british prime minister to resign may and just hours now until a big vote coming up in the british parliament earlier it looks like brags that plan might actually pay off she announced quote legally binding changes from the european union to the deal that was after a visit to book well just a few hours ago britain's top lawyer gave some advice that would have the prime minister worried the attorney general geoffrey cox said despite the changes the legal risk of the u.k. remaining locked in the custom you need remained the same and more right wing members of teresa mayes own conservative party said the changes weren't enough to
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sway them so let's talk to lawrence lee in london as we count down to this vote which feels like it will probably go the way of the last one. yeah exactly and if you cast your mind back she lost the last one by two hundred thirty which is a record in british parliamentary history and so to change that she would have to get one hundred sixteen people and pisa changed their minds hundred sixteen times to a z's is two three two there are people who do add up whose job it is not up how many people change their mind and so far the largest tally i've seen of switches is seventeen so that would mean. that that she'd lose by just under two hundred which is frankly catastrophic and the question then is is what does she say next because as soon as the the vote tally is announced she has to stand up and say where it is that she goes from here clearly there is supposed to be this plan for
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another vote on wednesday to rule out no deal and another one on thursday for an opinion for an extension but the thing that struck me come a last night when she was going through that rigmarole in strasburg was that as well as meeting. from the european commission she olsen met antonio johnny who's the presidents of the european parliament and i can only assume that must have been to ask him what sorts of extension the a you would be prepared to countenance and there is now a rumor going around this of to noon that instead of going through these votes on wednesday and thursday and yet more humiliation she might actually stand up to losing the vote tonight and simply say look i'm just gonna watch the european union for an extension ok and that state and that would allow her to make it look as if she's still in charge of the process even though plainly she's not and she could stagger on without necessarily having to resign so wouldn't necessarily rule that out as an option at this point but that would kick the whole thing in some might.
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be extension. i mean what would. be the it's a hard to see her hanging on much longer. yeah i mean remember it it's up to the european union to decide how long the extension would be there are some e.u. countries that say a year to year is start all over again the french and others don't about it when the councils and all twenty seven have to agree on the terms of the extension so the most likely d.n.r. is that it will be until about may the twenty third which the dates of european elections which the british wouldn't take part in if they want to leave but that would then often i think the opportunity to say look it's not a straight choice it's either my deal even if you don't like it or it's leaving without any deal it's all or it's no bret's isn't revoking offical fifty and so she would then in fact simply bounce parliament in to exception it's even if they don't
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like it but it's just a terrible thing to choices because plainly parliament doesn't like what she's got plainly they don't want no deal and there's no appetite for a second referendum either and so it's just a a load of poor choices all round it's that the country as i've been saying it feels like the last is a sort of existential crisis they just don't know the direction that they want to head in and he will. still be talking to. two other news in a growing list of countries are now banning the boeing seven three seven max eight jets from using their air space that now includes austria france ireland germany the u.k. oman and malaysia as the investigation is underway to find out what happened to the ethiopian airlines plane cause it to crash on sunday meanwhile more than thirty airlines from norway turkey india south korea mexico brazil they've all suspended using that boeing model the precautionary measure comes after the ethiopian crash on sunday all one hundred fifty seven people were killed the second accident
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involving the boeing seven three seven max in five months the u.s. aviation regulator has also asked the company to modify its software john hendren with us from chicago to talk through this one i mean modifying software it seems would be the the bare minimum at the moment boeing's in a lot of trouble here. this is a an awful time for boeing they were hoping that this plane would help them recover help them win market share from air bus and in fact just the opposite seems to be happening the company's stock is being amort it is losing billions of dollars in market value and now it's just struggling to recover but u.s. aviation authorities the federal aviation administration in the u.s. he's not asking for those planes to be grounded and major carriers here in north america we're talking about american airlines southwest airlines canada air are all
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still flying the plane boeing in cysts that this plane is still safe to fly and the f.a.a. and boeing have negotiated and the f.a.a. will now come out with this regulation requiring a software fix there's some speculation that the problem that occurred in both of these rashes was that the plane was flying steadily but that the sensors told it it was tipped up and that in correcting for that it may have sent the plane to the ground investigators are still looking into that as a potential cause but meanwhile there is to be this software fix new training new manuals and meanwhile boeing insists the plane is safe to fly but it's getting hammered on wall street and many nations aren't waiting for the federal aviation administration here in the u.s. as you mentioned one after another they are grounding this plane around the world what do you think of boeing's response john obviously they don't want to jump too quickly and take responsibility for something which may or may not be bear fault as
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it were but they seem to been very well haven't been met forthcoming so far. that's right it's been a pretty tepid response so far from all there is precedent to shutting down these planes boeing had this problem in twenty thirteen with its massive dreamliner plane they were having a problem with battery fires and while that didn't cause any planes to fly out of the sky as they have in this case. that boeing shut down production i believe that was at the request of the u.s. federal aviation administration and they retooled and again managed to recover that's what they're hoping to do this time in a much quicker way but you're right so far they're not voluntarily grounding all of those planes and they're insisting that they're safe to fly but there is a core is on capitol hill of u.s. senators that are asking the government to please ground those planes and those voices are growing in number and we'll just have to see how the only response.
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thank you john hendren in chicago will families of some of those killed have not visited the site for the first time where the boeing seven three seven max came town be shifted shortly after take off. season it was bound for nairobi kenya from out of. a team from boeing have now arrived at the crash site to help investigate his victims came from more than thirty. families of some of those killed have also visited the science mohammad a doctor has been this speaking to witnesses who saw the plane moments before the crash. i am in jail he's our farming home unity exactly where that ill fated flight crashed now villagers who witnessed the plane go down have been telling us how they will prosper trucked in by train to banging noises coming from a low 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
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before it came crashing into the ground with a huge bang and then they. mungle wreckage of the aircraft and the possible effect or the possible just who were on board including the thing and all kinds of stuff was around about this the size of two five football fields talks between the u.s. and taliban negotiations in qatar have ended with agreement on some key issues our diplomatic editor. is there with a meeting in atlanta james talk this through. yeah well we've been having talks here in doha for some sixteen days now the talks are now over ended no breakthrough but no breakdown of a say they have been making progress quite extraordinary in the last few minutes since your program started since the top of the hour we seem to have coordinated
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tweets coming from the u.s. and the taliban both releasing their tweets it seems at the same time that seems to me to be have been lightly and two have been agreed so let me just read some of this to you the u.s. special representative zalmay her heart who is a u.s. veteran diplomat of afghan origin has been leading the talks has said we've just finished a marathon round of talks with the taliban in doha his conclusion is the conditions for peace have improved it's clear all sides want an end to war now he says there are four key issues in discussion in these talks counterterrorism assurances number one troop withdrawal number two an interim afghan dialogue number three and a comprehensive cease fire he says on number one and that is counterterrorism assurances and number two troop withdrawal they have a draft agreement that they're going to take away to their various parties the
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taliban back to the taliban leadership. back to washington d.c. to get their views on it his tweet came just seconds after one from the taliban and the taliban are saying this round of talks or extensive and detailed discussions taking place the two issues were the draw of all foreign forces from afghanistan and preventing anyone from harming others from afghan soil again the taliban reporting the same thing on those two issues progress was agreed it was achieved regarding those two issues so as a state no huge agreement signed no. as here but the fact that this process and these talks which are the biggest in scale there has been any time in the last eighteen years in what is now the longest war in u.s. history i think means this is certainly a diplomatic process that is proceeding absolute trysting contrast given that the
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president's not been involved in this process at all with the one he directly involved himself two weeks ago in hanoi with north korea which has hit a bit of a roadblock thank you for all of that information james bays that the u.s. sullivan talks there and. still ahead on al-jazeera a new development in the case of the possible bomb center locations in london and scotland a week ago we'll bring you an update on that. hello again and welcome back well this i do want to start here across the levant we are watching one weather system make its way across parts of the west you can see the clouds right there now with this weather system we're going to be seeing more clouds across parts of iraq as well as iran here on wednesday mostly cloudy
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conditions across much of the area as well as windy conditions particularly up here across parts of the saudi and also the iraq border so that's going to cause a lot of dusty conditions there as we go towards thursday while that system starts to drop down more down here towards the southeast we do expect to see even some rain across parts of kuwait well that same weather system will be a player in what's going to be happening here in doha by the time we get towards thursday night and into friday morning really not looking too bad here on wednesday winds are coming out of the south attempted there of about twenty six dropping to about twenty three but as i said by the time we get towards thursday evening it will become quite dusty across the region and here across the mozambique channel we are still watching our cycle and brings a very heavy rain not only to madagascar over the next few days that storm is expected to make a turn towards the southwest and we could be seeing another landfall by the time we get to either late thursday or friday morning across parts of mozambique and that is going to bring some very heavy rain and flooding across much of the area.
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the ultranationalist marks connected with one of the world's worst humanitarian crises as we doe as any migrant joining with the military to impose a deadly political agenda we have to protect our nation what has happened to the engine that's one of the biggest stains on the country as a whole. is it not religion this is the politics being an unholy alliance on al-jazeera.
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right into the headlines on al-jazeera this hour a roller coaster twenty four hours for the british prime minister to resign may with just a few hours now until the crunch vote in parliament earlier it looked like her break the plan might pay off as she announced legally binding changes from the e.u. but britain's top lawyer has advised. her that he has no legal change in changing his legal position to the british exit. an investigative team from boeing has arrived at the crash site of ethiopian airlines is the u.s. aircraft manufacturer is now under growing pressure over safety concerns of its seven three seven max eight jet france britain and norway are among the latest countries to ban the plane from their air space. and here are some of the families visiting the site for the first time the boeing seven three seven came down in the shift to shortly after takeoff on sunday bound for nairobi kenya from at us oppa. kurdish forces in syria so they've killed thirty eight deisel find is in their
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final assault on the armed groups. syrian democratic forces have been bombarding the village of bugaboos for an estimated five hundred i still find his remains the operation intensified after a brief pause to allow civilians to leave since three of its finest killed during the operation let's get an update from the media we're actually looking at the live pictures from the area and really does look like an extraordinary fine fight there . well yes because earlier during the day a spokesman for the syrian democratic forces the kurdish forces on the ground actually hinted that the a battle for was will be coming and very soon now for that to happen you need to have an intense bombing campaign to really sort of defeat a number of i still fighters who are still in there it's estimated five hundred it
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could be more it could be less nobody really knows the airstrikes and the bad extremely important not simply because they paved the way for the kurdish forces to advance during the day and that advance has been quite low the kurds try to minimize the losses in their rags because they come under sniper fire and then there's the fact that there's a lot of land mines and booby traps left behind by fighters i think what we're going to be seeing not only tonight but in the coming days too is that intensity all out all at the remaining positions in the route was that the fighters inside practically be seized not only by the kurdish forces to the north and the east but also gil graphically to the west for example by the euphrates river delta the south. cliffs so it's a very difficult. battle for that one that they were more certainly knew that
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the question is at this point way. and when that happens what it what the the fines again stands at least a territorial fight against eisel is pretty much declared. well the territorial fight against israel is declared overt in the sense that by whose is really the last wave of the so-called caliphate that was still in their hands but the fight against iceland itself is not over many of the fighters who came out was saying that actually this of the first cells that have already snuck out i'm about to lose. you know there is the fear that they will be added surges not only syria but also in iraq a bit like what we have been seeing before this so-called caliphate and then there's the issue about what to do with all these fighters who surrendered two thousand to date many more thousands earlier this week or last week so what do you
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do with all these people and what to do also with all these wives and children of ice alou are now in a camp that they share with the civilians when you when you see the pictures coming out of those guys when you listen to what they say it's clear that the ideology of isis is not going anywhere it's still there and it's still very strong among the supporters i think yes you got rid of the territorial rule of isis but you certainly didn't get rid of the group itself definitely ok thank you for the update hoda abdel-hamid engulf the untapped. protesters in algeria are back on the streets despite president abdullah seize but think his decision to abandon his bid for a fifth term but the think has delayed next month's elections a national conference which will oversee a new constitution and a poll has been put in place mohammed judge him as the details. of the book when i
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am president i. abandoned his bid for a fifth term in office there were celebrations but they were short lived. on monday evening the demonstrators were euphoric then the reality set and. outlined a series of steps which he hopes would shape algeria's future he announced that next month's elections would be delayed but politically it would remain in power until further notice. on tuesday protesters were still out on the streets. the former prime minister ali bin flee says the government needs to listen to the people well sort of me so we're different to our way to our throttling the president's attempt to run for a fifth term is an achievement made by the algerian people not a favorable grant by email body the people lived up to the expirations lived up to their responsibility especially that the constitution was violated where
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a president's term runs for five years only the current term has been extended without the people's approval or endorsement and the constitution. would have leaked up postpone the elections without consulting parliament as it is mandated by the constitution this video broadcast by algerian state television appears to show but after his return to the country. among the other announcements made by beautifully that a national conference would be held by the end of the year in order to schedule an election and draft a new constitution according to the reuters news agency algerian diplomat law but brahimi will lead the national conference which is also expected to include representatives of demonstrators as well as war veterans beautifully to has reshuffled the government appointed his interior minister noted dean by the way as prime minister and his advisor rahm tom mamma as his deputy the army chief general ahmed gave saddam retained his post but it's unlikely with a few close decisions will contain the anger of the anti-government movement some
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opposition figures were either banned by the constitutional council from running against the president or pulled out describing the april election as a farce the protesters insist they will continue their rallies and till their demands are met they want a new president now along with democratic reforms and a government capable of tackling the rising unemployment poverty and corruption homage and doom disease. israeli security forces have placed the mosque on lockdown following clashes with worship has. sparked a fire at a police station inside the compound or force that has more from occupied east jerusalem. it was really felice say that this all started with a molotov cocktail being thrown at a security forces post inside the luxor mosque compound known to jews as the temple mount that it caught fire that one policeman was mildly injured by smoke inhalation after that they tried to find those responsible there were scuffles within the compound itself several arrests took place
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a spokesperson for the islamic walk the trust that runs the ox a mosque compound under the aegis of the jordanian government protests against that saying that senior clerics were beaten during the course of those scuffles the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has released a statement calling this a dangerous escalation by israeli authorities to what has already been a tense situation in recent days as well as closing off the entire compound police of also barred access to gates entering the old city only those it seems with id papers proving their residency within jerusalem's old city are being allowed in we witnessed here at lion's gate a group of people trying to get in with a body a group of mourners and there were some scuffles and some chance against the police during the course of that eventually they were allowed in at least into the courtyard outside the luxor mosque compound not into the compound itself all of
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this comes after what's been an extremely tense few weeks three weeks ago was when the works decided to reopen an area around what's known as the mercy gate which had been closed since two thousand and three by the israeli authorities they said that was that closure was because a group linked to hamas had been using the area the walks now argues that that group has long been disbanded and that it is under their all thora t. should be under their authority to reopen this area a court deadline expired on monday for it to be closed off the work does not recognize the jurisdiction of the israeli courts over the compound there have been talks to. on between the israeli authorities and the jordanians so far without any resolution there is the prospect that people are being worried about of some kind of escalation along the lines of what we saw in twenty seventeen when the israelis imposed metal detectors at the gates of the luxor mosque compound after a deadly attack on israeli security forces so far no resolution and it remains
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a tense situation with the mosque compound entirely closed off british police say they are aware of a group calling itself the irish republican army or ira claiming responsibility for sending five parcel bombs last week northern irish media is reporting the ira sent explosive packages to addresses in london and scotland the parcel deliveries were found at heathrow airport london city airport waterloo station and glasgow university causing major disruptions one of the powerful hasn't been found there is no confirmation though that the ira is actually behind the incidents it has been thirty years since the creation of the first web page the internet is of course developed rapidly since the idea was first suggested by the british scientist and inventor tim berners lee but so many people now develop benefiting from his development he is stressing the use the importance of enabling where web access to all of the world's population thirty years ago i submitted a vague but exciting proposal for a free open permission
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a 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 alive feel that our rights and freedoms are not fully protected and respected well china has the world's largest number of internet users around eight hundred twenty nine million according to the chinese government that is twice the population of the united states but there are concerns that having unfettered access to the web would lead to social unrest catrina your experience now how china has implemented the world's most advanced system of internet controls beijing based activist spent almost ten years growing the online presence of her organization feminist voices it was for many women
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a primary resource for news and information on gender issues as well as china's burgeoning need to movement but last march there articles and way broke out china's twitter was suddenly taken offline 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 still shaw says the group growing influence made it a target of government senses china has more internet users than any other country more than eight hundred 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
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s. and with it came the first of beijing's many internet laws the criminalising of posts considered a threat to national security. today websites such as google facebook and many foreign news sites are blocked any content criticizing the government or deemed inappropriate or vodka is routinely censored. i am going to be good 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 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 own message. but regulations haven't stopped chinese citizens from embracing the
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internet and as government controls grow increasingly sophisticated programming i think the internet environment will stay the same common people cannot have access to everything all internet but the people have tools camp so do savvy users in finding ways to get around it katrina new al-jazeera beating. the headlines this hour on al-jazeera in a few hours' time the members of parliament in the u.k. i'll be holding a second vote on whether or not to accept the prime minister's brags that plan to resume a says she's secured legally binding changes after last minute talks with the european commission president on monday of the u.k.'s attorney general said britain may be tied legally to the e.u. regardless of what happens. the legal risk as i simply don't in my letter of the thirteenth of november remains changed the question for the house
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is whether in the light of these improvements as a political judgment the house should not enter in to those arrangements. and now the news an investigative 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 of its seven three seven max eight jet france britain and norway are among the latest countries to ban the plane from space. and the families of some of those killed have visited the site for the first time the boeing seven three seven came down in shortly after take off on sunday it was bound for nairobi in kenya flying out of. live pictures here as u.s. backed kurdish forces resume their campaign on the last ice along in eastern syria earlier the syrian democratic forces said they killed thirty eight fighters but
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there are an estimated five hundred left in the village of. the operation intensified after a brief pause which was to allow civilians to leave. protesters in algeria back on the streets despite president out the lizzie's with his decision to not run for reelection but also delayed next month's vote and announced a national conference to oversee a new constitution and british police say they are aware a group calling itself the irish republican army of the ira is claiming responsibility for five parcel bombs last week media in northern ireland are reporting the ira sent explosive packages to addresses in london and scotland heathrow and london city airports waterloo station and glasgow university all causing major disruptions we're back with your news hour in about twenty five minutes time next it's inside story.
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algeria's president. down is this a crucial turning point in the country or a ploy by those who hold the real power to protect their interests this is inside still. the algerian president abdulla sees beautifully says he's abandoned his bid for a fifth term but the man who's led to twenty years doesn't seem to be leaving his post.

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