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tv   50 Feet From Syria  Al Jazeera  March 13, 2019 7:32pm-8:01pm +03

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to go to the e.u. and us for an extension is likely both of those big votes those big motions will pos the k. the detail that will come in the amendments that accompany those folks tabled by m.p.'s pushing for their own version of how they want things to turn out from an even harder version of them to resolve may's deal now of course twice failed to a much softer version of breaks it across party compromise a sort of norway plus type deal and one of the big questions will be whether the government has lost so much of its author a teacher recently the prime minister teetering on the brink of the end of the premiership whether they will allow ministers a free vote on all of those to go whichever way individual ministers want or whether she will try to control her ministers keep them in line to vote with the government and risk a range and a ray of resignations that could end the premiership altogether it's absolutely an open playing field at the moment no option is off the table and no one knows which
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way any of this is going to go so at the moment the most likely agreement or. concession could be extra time is that you're likely to give that and under what conditions that it seemed like you would accept extending you know the process far back to the deal. well that's you know that's the big question that looms hasta these two days of the votes depending where we are at that point but yes it's likely at that point that they will have been a majority vote to go back to the e.u. and say give us more time the u.s. consistently said we're willing to give you more time but it has absolutely hardened its view in the last few days and in the last couple of hours in a big debate in the e.u. parliament has just taken place that they will only do that if and only if there is a clear idea of what great britain intends to do with that time i'll read you what michel barnier the bracks of negotiators said we are at a critical point the risk of no deal has never be higher that is the risk of an
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exit even by accident by the u.k. from with you in a disorderly fashion i urge you he said to m.p.'s in the european parliament any piece please do not underestimate the risk of its consequences the e.u. therefore saying we are gearing up for a no deal outcome why because even if you ask us for more time we don't see any evidence of you being able to tell us what that time is for and therefore the e.u. may have to refuse. that for us from london thank you. in other news a fair korean airlines executive is calling on boeing to ground all of its seven three seven max eight jets until their safety is established the sit on months announcement comes as the list of countries and airlines suspending the use of those boeing aircraft continue to grow a boeing and the u.s. government insists that the planes are safe to fly meanwhile in a few families of the victims have been allowed to visit the crash site for the
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first time mom and other reports from their. doesn't so forensic investigators and ethiopian airlines employees assisting them home through the crash site. they're trying to find any of it is that so far good and moved. such a risk you workers continue with a difficult mission to find the remains of the passengers and crew of ethiopian airlines flight three hundred two. trailing smoke on sparks the boeing seven three seven mox eight plunged into this filled minutes of the to cope on sunday from the capital addis ababa killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board had to hide all from a witness the moment the plane went down or what out of a guy. we had just taken noise coming from the aircraft before it's got close to us then it suddenly nosedived there was a big explosion we had rushed to the scene and we saw nothing but destruction.
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so let's give all those who perished help them flocking to the crash site. to build a guess. an airline crew member. here to tell me some finally got wind of a highland what i'm now demanding is that i get the body of my child whatever happened has happened i now need to lay her to rest i came here to see where my daughter lost her life and to make peace. moshe be told came all the way from israel to find the remains of his brother as she mom a security contractor has not been lucky either for us is the jewish israelis we have a very important point in this case we need to find some identified and did a d.n.a. that we can bury some reminders that we can make this sort of money otherwise if we do not find the person we stay missing for the rest of their life officials
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obviously open alliance or relatives of the deceased to wait for at least five more days before they can receive some of the remains of their loved ones exports of the crash site have a say due to the impact and in suing fire after the crash it could take weeks maybe even months for some of the remains to be identified possibly through d.n.a. or dental records. the process might be father complicated by the fact that the person just came from more than thirty countries and ethiopia has limited forensic capabilities. and israeli for a sick team currently in the contests ace it wants to help. other cry site the mall teams have joined if you have been a vision experts investigating the incident on tuesday teams from the u.s. federal aviation administration f.a.a. and the national transportation safety board arrived he. blowing house also sent
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the team to the site of a crush in the confidence of the global industry mohamed atta well just. in the. kurdish led forces in syria say thousands of feisal fighters have surrendered and by goods syrian democratic forces have been bombarding the armed groups final play for several days now the operation intensified after a brief pause to a lot of civilians to leave. our correspondent hard that abdel-hamid joins us live from gaza on top that's near the turkish syrian border are there what more can you tell us about what's happening in vogue. but certainly the fighting has been intensifying every day move forward. since sunday i would say at night being they have years bombardment strikes but also during the day the kurdish forces on the ground the syrian democratic forces are keeping the pressure now as
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you said about three thousand five hundred people have come out of over the last twenty four hours that according just folks president of the and among them there would be about two thousand fighters that surrendered and we are told that also a good chunk of these two thousand foreign fighters you do get really the impression that. the caliphates. last throes good news is tightening certainly the pressure is very high on the i still in the. confident that that battle will come very soon right like much of the focus has been on buy goods because it's seen as the last bastion for the caliphate but there has been fighting around syria in other parts too can you tell us more about that. yes certainly the tensions are escalating in the province province as you know is
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the last sort of opposition held territory in syria it's home to about three million civilians and that's where a lot of the armed groups have been evacuated it is under the security control of the church but there has been a lot of over the past few weeks certainly there has been an increase in shelling and strikes on behalf of the regime targeting villages are along the demarkation line that separates the province from the rest of syria now the white house minutes say that overnight there were. news white phosphorus targeting. some villages along that demarcation line we spoke to health authorities in it live they did confirm that was phosphorus were used but they did say that most of the villages had been evacuated because of shelling in the prior days and so there had
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been no reports of casualties there but that said not very far from there in the displaced camp of actually these villages deeper into the progress and they had been there have been three dead and twelve injuries following shelling by regime forces near it live is a very complicated situation actually and some of them really refer to it as a ticking bomb and the u.n. said that setting of the ticking bomb could cause one of the worst humanitarian crisis of the twenty first century security and its future really depends on coordination at this stage between the turks and the russians. have made monitoring the situation in syria for us thank you. right plenty more ahead and there. will tell you about the multi-million dollar drug haul that's been seen.
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at a time for a bit more late season snow the still very cold air at least inside siberia so when you wind something up like this you can imagine drawing that khalidi that's exactly what's happening so for the mountains even from tokyo northwards if you look in land you're going to see a bit of snow just up top but at low levels i think on the card is supposed best temperature two degrees a little bit more in light of all still still woman beijing in the to move now so quality will improve the time being between thursday and friday you'll find one system goes through the next one winds up and that's because waiting for you for the weekend that's an active frontal system rain or snow so far has got the sunshine up to five degrees beijing about the same now that's the system happening
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in the sea of japan the rather more familiar the early spring tide rains exist that is live from shanghai down towards you nine or drifting south again so wet day possibly on thursday in shanghai then it dries up passing rain overnight if you probably a fine day in hong kong but the same temperature all the way up the east coast and also different in chengdu either at sixty nine south of that a dry picture until you pick up the heavy showers once again in the eastern end of indonesia. i remember the first time i walked into the newsroom and it felt like being in the general assembly of the united nations is that so many nationalities. just different places but it's what that gives us gives us the ability to identify with . the world but we can understand what it's like to have
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a different perspective and i think that is a strength for al jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera here's a reminder of our top stories still the right. to have lived. britain's politicians have rejected prime minister terrorism a zero withdrawal deal again m.p.'s will vote on wednesday. on the possibility of the u.k. leaving the european union without a deal. ethiopian airlines says it will send the black boxes from an airplane that
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crashed sunday overseas for further analysis the announcement comes of the list of countries in the airline suspending the use of the boeing seven three seven max aircraft continues to grow. ten saudi women appeared in court and we had for the first time since their detention a year ago the cases against them have drawn international condemnation and outrage over the state of human rights in the kingdom. one of the lead campaigners against the ban on women driving is among those tightening trial while my father has the story. jane is a young guy activist who's been fighting for saudi women aside to the wife among other demands she's a graduate of the university of british columbia in canada and was ranked by arabian business magazine as fed on the list of top most powerful arab women in two thousand and fifteen in recognition of her phyllis activism but routine and other female campaigners paid a hefty price including constant house mint and even detention at the hands of
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saudi authorities. last may she was arrested after releasing a video showing her behind the wheel on a highway between the united arab emirates and saudi arabia in defiance of the ban on women driving. and even though the ban was lifted a month later jane remained in detention without charge or access to a lawyer she only found out the accusations against her via social media she was moved from one jail to another and the times her family couldn't visit her in an article in the new york times her sister alia said jane told her family and rights groups that she was held in solitary confinement and tortured in the presence of saudi kahaani the former advisor to crown prince mohammed bin said. she said bonny attend the torture sessions in person and threatened to rape her and throw her body into the sewage system during
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a you and human rights council session in geneva last week nearly forty countries including member states condemn saudi arabia over the way in which the head lewd and her co-actor wrists are being treated not only because their basic rights have been violated but also because of the way in which they are purely humanitarian activism is being construed as terrorism saudi authorities also said lulu and others were active as foreign agents spying on their own country we joined the high commissioner on this question upper third on the call on this all to authorities to release all into rituals including to share in our household eman our love ya our series our yourself. some are about r.v. abdullah says the tone of us it by at the. hobby and children are an issue to paint for exercising their fundamental freedoms. the saudi authorities deny the allegations of torture and sexual harassment against that have you but
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they've so far failed to agree to demands by the un to release any of the activists mohammed fired. some of her day there's middle east campaigns manager at amnesty international and she says their concern is that the female activists might be given a long prison sentences. today women's rights activists including luzhin and her floral as easily use of and imagine are facing the criminal court for potential charges against them and they've been arrested and held in detention for more both close to a year now where they were first targeted for their women's rights activism and for their peaceful activism and since then they face torture illtreat me.

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