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kabal while others said improvised devices exploded. britain's prime minister to resign may will defend her request for a breck's a delay in front of e.u. leaders in brussels may once the european union to extend britain's departure date from next week to the end of june but any decision to delay the exit must be taken by all e.u. member states unanimously it's unlikely they'll be a decision as e.u. leaders are expected to wait until a third attempt by may to get her parliament's backing on her proposal i passionately hope m.p.'s will find a way to back the deal i've negotiated with the e.u. a deal that delivers on the result of the referendum and is the very best deal negotiable and i will continue to work night and day to secure the support of my colleagues the do you p.c. and others for this deal but i am not prepared to delay brics it any further than
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the thirtieth of june out of there as lawrence lee has more from brussels. when sarees m a has to address the e.u. twenty seven the other members of the european union the stuff of that silks on thursday afternoon the woman question the guns of yachting harry's what happens if you'll deal fails again for the third time of the start of next week because they're only prepared at the moment to countenance an extension to back seats if a deal policies and there's every likelihood that it won't that will sights on her i'm sure what happens if it fails are you actually prepared at the end of next week for the u.k. to leave the european union with no deal little despite the fact the u.k. pollens voted against it now twice despite all the economic damage that would pose to the u.k. the republic of ireland the netherlands and other bordering countries to the u.k. despite the fact that it would be mean the reimposition of the hall border. on the island of islands and all the violence so that could lead to their going to say the
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reason why is that actually what your intention is and they going to have to try to get some sort of straits also from a because it's based on that's on so that they don't have to consider whether or not to have another emergency summit literally in the two days will direct it supposed to happen and potentially protect alan from a no deal by proposing an even longer extension and for some reason mr pitts to go for that so many unanswered questions for the european points of view at the moment they're trying to get some clarity from some reason might but at the moment this seems still to be no plan b. for what she proposed is proposing to do if she loses the deal for a third time whether it's next but still ahead on al-jazeera we'll tell you how millions of young first time voters can make a difference in thailand selection. we've
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got plenty of warm spring sunshine across much of europe now certainly into those central parts there are some areas where it's and we do weather streaming in across the found northwest northern areas of olives pushing into scotland but for the most part you can see high pressure dominating we have got some disturbed weather around central parts of the mediterranean says that denia pushing across towards malta will see some rather wet and windy weather over the next couple of days. whether the lovely sunshine thirteen celsius in vienna it's warmest still the london in paris sixteen seventeen degrees the last couple of days piles of england got up to ninety degrees celsius sixty six and found how to keep that warmth for many as we go on through the next day or so scotland will see small cloud pushing into the good part of allah does well so somewhat weather in the mix here that wet weather continues just around but it's ready but now to some wintry weather in the ace
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three celsius there for moscow there will be some snow around here now that disturbed weather we have around central parts of the mediterranean will bring outbreaks of very heavy rain over the next couple of days is already been particularly wet northern areas of seventy five millimeters of rain here in just twenty four hours thursday more rain to come a little drier by friday. good weather sponsored by countdown and when this. isn't a problem for your candidate that you may not have a health question mark over him but he does have a corruption question mark hurd really doesn't look good for the image to live up to are not going to do it he will probably not knowing about it what do you say when he read you get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the u.n. across the globe his father is called for and then breaks doesn't build confidence it breaks will join me mad the hot sun on the front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and think issues here on al-jazeera.
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hello again i'm just. a reminder of the news this hour aid workers in mozambique say fifteen thousand people remain stranded waiting for help more than three hundred people have died. struck mozambique zimbabwe and malawi. new zealand's prime minister has announced sweeping gun control measures following last week's attack on two mosques in christchurch that killed fifty people just in draw dunn says there will be an immediate ban on military style semi automatic weapons. britain's prime minister to resign may will defend her request for bret's that delay in front of european leaders and brussels may is hoping the european union
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will agree to a three month extension to britain's departure from the e.u. . well the international criminal court is considering whether the persecution of the rich by myanmar's government warrants an investigation a group of young refugees say they've been fighting for justice ever since they fled along with hundreds of thousands in august twenty seventeen and coaxes bazaar in bangladesh stephanie deca meets the volunteers piecing together the stories of survivors or meeting place may not look like much but what this young man has achieved is extraordinary. every day i list three month nonstop three month continue to walk through that dr can mount fled me in march one thousand months ago along with hundreds of thousands of other rangar he and other volunteers immediately took the initiative to document what happened speaking to survivors one by one they wrote down their stories of dead that we are thinking we lost
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everything. we are thinking we need to collect and calculate a lot to tell lost but we need to prove what had gone through to my community for example in my belly all money horse was bond on on many people we are all mean we are really all michoud and we are in the fire we need reasonable information all in the international community and so they documented it all now the testimonies of been divided by the legend they have the villages here and then it's also been sub categorized by things like burnt houses looted houses raped and gang raped for example this village here three hundred homes burned two hundred sixty looted hundred and twenty seven women or young girls raped and then they were also documented where they believe was behind it. one of the testimonies is from
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a woman a mother but she could not explain what happened to her he says her ten year old daughter could saying she was raped by letarte truman it. ought with me i see everything what i have done my model and. danny our doctor. in the space of just a few weeks almost seven hundred thousand people fled me and marjorie a military crackdown. international criminal court is now looking into whether this warrants best a geisha can says they have in the past given this document to the i.c.c. and other international organizations everyone thinking far fewer than his food and back to live what do you think to live in the u.k. we lost everything to be his hope and just like everyone else here is for
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justice to be done and to be able to go back home until then he says he will continue to speak up and fight on behalf of his community stephanie decker zero in the refugee camps of cox's bazaar voters in thailand head to the polls on sunday for the country's much till a general election after five years of military rule millions of young people will be voting for the first time and as scott highly reports from bangkok many of them say a desire for change has made them politically active. for decades thailand's youth has been politically active like in this parade held before the end you will rival football match between thailand's top two universities it satirizes politics here and one of this year's targets the general election to be held sunday many taking part have become old enough to vote since the last election eight years ago . and with nearly seven million voting for the first time
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a forum was held in bangkok to teach them how the process works. and why it's important for thailand i. found an importance that not lost on a new political party launched last year. future forward headed by forty year old billionaire tana torn do not get an heir to an auto parts company he resigned ahead of the polls and put most of his wealth into a blind trust. that's why we think the approach to the election is different we're not trying to say oh you can do polices we are trying to say to change structural change as a whole. future ford says it's an alternative to the entrenched political parties and will cut the military budget messages that ring true with younger voters but most of these young voters live in thailand's urban areas that means the party lacks the support in rural areas that it needs to have for
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a chance at election victory and most opinion polls show it trailing the other major parties but that's not something deterring some first time voters who want a free and fair election. not an not just an election that led you to make someone to say that ok i become a government because i'm elected i think it doesn't matter. what people believe in the dictatorship we want to. live. with voters under thirty five making up about a third of all the registered voters the other parties have also reached out to the youth and it's a well informed voting bloc partially thanks to social media providing greater access to the issues and the people to debate them with very different some feel from older voters who are likely to have deep rooted political ideas people in each who aside. they already have. a waterfall but
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for the young what those they fed up with these. conflicts. future forward is a new player on thailand's political stage there's little chance of it leading a government. yet it is energizing young voters in providing an alternative to parties which have dominated this country for nearly two decades al-jazeera. nine u.s. democratic senators are calling for the release of detained human rights activists in saudi arabia and puting a u.s. citizen in a letter to king solomon senators denounced what they called a systematic discrimination against women religious minorities and mistreatment of migrant workers they asked for the pardon of human rights activists including dr will lead for to hey a u.s. citizen held without charge since november twenty seventh team well saudi arabia has hired a public relations firm to rebuild its image following the murder of jon lester marcus shockey riyadh's public investment fund signed one hundred twenty thousand
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dollar a month contract but the new york based firm the cia has concluded that crown prince mohammed bin salam ordered the killing of khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul last year well the latest call for algeria as president to step down is coming from his own party the national liberation front says it fully supports the ongoing protests calling for political change. the members of the national liberation fully support the popular movement it will defend with all sincerity in order to achieve the objectives according to a clear roadmap. the latest united nations report on gaza suggests that the deaths of one hundred eighty nine palestinian protesters killed by israeli forces could be considered war crimes our diplomatic editor james space sat down with one of the u.n. commission as of that report. there are reasonable grounds to believe that. crimes
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may have been committed and we think based on what we have found further investigations are required and do need to be taken up by the relevant bodies in the international justice system you don't know all of this work you come up with some very hard hitting findings are you concerned that no one's going to take any notice of this and this report is just going to fall away obviously that is a concern and we really hope that will be the case because what we've tried to do is we've not only brought. on to the record findings about what we think has happened over the last nine months over six thousand people injured. you know one hundred need to be booked by life i including children. the review also made a call for urgent preventive action the events that you determine your report now almost a year ago coming up to the anniversary of the start of these demonstrations how worried are you about one hundred three and big demonstrations because of that
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anniversary and the possible response from the israeli military well we were very worried i think about what may happen next week on the anniversary of the protests on the thirtieth of march there's every indication that there will be a large turnout a massive turnout of protest and there's every reason to fear that there may be terrible violence on them again so we think it's essential that this point that restraint is exercised by everyone concerned in terms of the international community in the security council the quartet they seem to have allowed the u.s. to take the lead politically for now on this file that makes the u.s. response important are you happy with the u.s. response to your report. we haven't received a concrete response they're not spoken out on this and we just have to hope that they will that's why we're trying to communicate this is the message of our report as widely as we can. the biggest block in the european parliament has suspended the
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ruling party of hungary and prime minister viktor orban the european people's party says or bans few days party has a violation of principles need has more from brussels. effective immediately to finish party a victor or ben has been suspended from the european people's party that's the biggest party within the e.u. parliament now the head of the e.p. p. manfred verba came out and said of the hundred and ninety out of one hundred ninety four members voted in favor of this move now what does it mean it means that defeat this party has lost any voting powers within the p.p. cannot field any candidates and cannot attend any meetings of the it's not clear for how long that will last but in the meantime a committee has been formed and that committee is in charge of monitoring the future moves of the few dish party at the end of that it will write
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a report and after that. made it very clear. we will reevaluate and decide where expulsion is in order or not he made it very clear that that was still on the table after months of vivir we heard from viktor orban himself and he seemed to have a more conciliatory tone he said that actually he didn't denounced a move this is actually what he said last i want us to all of. the solution we chose is that until these three men prepared a report we ourselves unilaterally suspend the use of our rights and then we will sit down with the e p p again we made another decision that we ourselves for desk will establish our own council of three people viktor orban also said that for him the most important is that the unity of d e p p o was kept together now this is
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spent and is more likely to last until after the upcoming european elections in may . nicaraguan government says it will free all jailed protesters within ninety days more than seven hundred opposition protesters were arrested during unrest last year freeing them was the main demand of the opposition for continuing talks with the government in return the government is asking the u.s. to lift sanctions imposed against fuel taker at ministration at least three hundred twenty five people died in the protests since they began last april. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines rescue workers in mozambique are struggling to rescue victims of cycling in die nearly fifteen thousand remain stranded something into trees and roofs surrounded by floodwaters the storms killed at least two hundred seventeen people in that country so far side tony di has left
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a trail of destruction across southern africa including neighboring zimbabwe and malawi new zealand's prime minister has moved swiftly to make changes to gun laws just days after a mass shooting at two mosques today i'm announcing that new zealand will bring in all military style sumi order medical reasons we will also have been all assault rifles we will ban on all current capacity magazines we will brand all parents with the ability to convert sumi automatic or any other type of firearm into a military style seamy automatic weapon we will ban pouts that cause a firearm to generate seamy or a medic automatic or close to automatic gunfire and short every see me automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on friday will be banned in
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this country. britain's prime minister to resign may is preparing to defend her request for a delay in front of european leaders and brussels may is hoping the european union one agrees to a three month extension for britain's departure from the e.u. i passionately hope and peace will find a way to back the deal i've negotiated with the e.u. a deal that delivers on the result of the referendum and is the very best deal negotiable and i will continue to work night and day to secure the support of my colleagues the day you p.c. and others for this deal but i am not prepared to delay brix it any further than the she is of jews at least six people have been killed in bomb attacks in afghanistan's capital kabul the health ministry says at least twenty three others were injured those are the headlines and i'll be back with more news here after the strain to stay with us on march twenty fourth thailand or for its first
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general election since the two thousand and fourteen military coup most thais are hoping for political stability but after years of military rule will this election year join us for live coverage as thailand vote on al-jazeera. and i'm one hundred seventeen in from a legal battle or psychedelics the new wonder drugs there's only about the benefits of hallucinogenics and twitters and you can leave a comment. and you can. learn the story. what people want to. understand better be on the way we are
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inside the brain. even based. in recent years researchers have been studying the potential benefits of micro dosing psychedelic drugs such as l.s.d. and m.d.m.a. also known as ecstasy as treatments for p.t.s.d. schizophrenia and depression associated with cancer treatments last year the u.s. food and drug administration approved the use of an ingredient found in magic mushrooms for a drug trial and treating depression opponents say the research on psychedelics is too new and limited to be reliable. well joining us to discuss all this in new york dr will see you he's a psychiatrist trained in m.d.m.a. assisted psychotherapy and provides ketamine facilitated psychotherapy as part of his private practice in brooklyn new york journalist well not new york journalist in brooklyn new york eyes its list and author nicholas powers his book the ground below zero details his own personal experiences with psychedelics and in davis
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california davis olsen he's an assistant professor of chemistry biochemistry and molecular medicine at the university of california davis and in santa cruz california barrios are close in ski she's the director of research development and regulatory affairs at the multidisciplinary association for psychedelic studies or maps lots of acronyms lots of words there but very welcome to all of you good to have you here everybody asked do you have a psychedelic feel to it but. i did. take recreational drugs you have taken really synthetics pick one of your choice and can you describe the experience of that does it feel like this also my house. well it's a huge compliment. so yes. taking. drugs that i will choose. the experience of taking it is. feeling your thoughts in your ego dissolves
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in feeling emotionally open to the people around you and also to the sensory input around you soup in front of a speaker party feel the vibrations of the soon seem to reach your bones and even into your soul you look at people's faces in you and those dive into the emotions like a swimmer going into a pool. and you are going through an emotionally hard time you can experience those emotions very vividly and possibly work through them and at the end of the trip feel a little much more integrated hurling compassionate person because you can through that so this is just you know one personal example and i'm sure there's you know many others that people could talk to well i ask the right questions about the experience of taking a hidden synthetic what else to know would it be the same as in time well you know we use this term set and setting depending where
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a person is when they take something internally and where they are. physically outside of themselves you know so i think of you know psychedelics as they've been coming into the mainstream i've really been looking at the medical use of them right so it's a little different than saying you know are we focusing on the imagery and what we're seeing around us as opposed to if we're sitting in a therapist's office with an eye mask in music it's going to be a very different experience and i'm just i'm just curious when you talk about that i mean you know we've we've seen this before in history we have a comment from the mayor saying if i recall correctly research on psychedelics was once hip in the mid twentieth century then uncool and supposedly now moving back into the mainstream what's behind the fluctuation in popularity i mean here we are having this conversation but dr you just mentioned you know that it's now in the mainstream sort of what attribute that to i attribute that to us being really end up in a place and time especially in the western or. world where we are suffering tremendously
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personally from mental illness from depression from anxiety and we don't have solutions even though pharmacology meaning medications promised psychiatry in a way in the ninety's that this is going to be a revolution and that's been a failing us and that and then i think that is reflected you know the unhealthy mental health state of the western world is reflected in our politics we're seeing things get more violent both nationally and abroad and i think because we're hungry for real solutions that's why we really see psychedelics being as popular and getting as much attention as they are getting because we have not seen results in psychiatry that have shown anything near what psychedelics are helping people with that i should a little bit of light on yet that has been shed a little bit of light on that actually so i think that hunger for a better world was present in the sixty's as well but really what changed was in one thousand nine hundred two there was a really critical meeting. where they agreed to treat psychedelics just like any
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other novel medicine that was being developed and through clinical trials and they allowed these trials to happen through their pilot programs. and say it was the international viewers that's the food and drug administration in the united states right and just to be clear like the u.s. has a huge and globally on the drummer and drive policies and you know had been enforcing that route for globally you know up until that point and so it only makes sense that the ability to do this research would have to come from the you asked and be allowed within the u.s. and in our it actually happens david you're the chemist in our conversation and really i'll see if you would help us out the lies what is happening in your brain so he sent us a couple of pictures about what's happened to our brain when taking a hallucinogenic picture number one always seems to see on skype and then you can tell us what is happening here and then what is happening here. sure so what you're
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looking at are tracings of neurons that were either treated with the controlled substance which is the h. and neurons treat it with the psychedelic compound known is and i'm not for tryptamine appreciate it d.m.t. and what our research group has found is that psychedelic compounds tend to promote the growth of neurons in a very important part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex the prefrontal cortex has a critical role in regulating fear and mood and and reward so more nuance. of the brain in the well being than feeling. so it's not actually the number of neurons the it's really the ability of these neurons to connect to each other and to communicate with other regions of the brain you know we have a lot of comments about this people talking about their personal experiences with
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some of these substances but also some questions for me barbara smith saying in the right setting with a non-intrusive guide for safety the psychedelic drugs are useful for anxiety depression p.t.s.d. in terminally ill patients and even those who are just stuck and you know nicholas when you spoke earlier you know you talked about dissolving the ego we hear barbara talk about being stuck a lot of people who've battled mental illness who are writing us talk about this this idea of being stuck is it true has horace's is the just thing that shrooms has the potential of permanently altering one's brain chemistry and is that why you get unstuck if you will. i can i just a question of being stuck more than the chemistry question but just to give you one example from my life. the most powerful psychedelic experience that i had was in two thousand and two and it was the year after nine eleven so i was in new york
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had i was going to new york i came back in a month later the towers fell so then i went to an art has the ball and my body was very traumatized the anger the fear even the guilt and the rage all of it was cleared up inside and when i went in to the festival i met someone also from new york who gave me some psychedelics and when i took them i felt all of that anger all of that rage all of that fear. getting unstuck from my body can flowing out and when it came back to the city i could feel how much more lose open i was compared to the other new yorkers who are still living in the in the shadow of the toads so that's just one experience out of many others but yeah so for me i do want to be like ok go ahead sorry i'm going to say that what happened there is that you're not you're having the subjective experience of something is changing in your brain
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you'd say that feeling of sadness is essentially are your neurons tend to signal a specific circuits certain regions of your brand communicate with other regions preferentially and. it can lead to this feeling of being stuck or in a rut and with psychedelics you know it's also as described in michael pollan book it's almost like you have this powdery look to ski down and meet you have made for a few connections between your neurons and this is particularly why dr olsen's work out a hole because it is the first time we've seen direct evidence of this so data why do we know it is so i think. is that you know because when you ask the question about shroom do shrooms get you on stock what one thing that i try to emphasize to people whether it's my colleagues or patients is that you know it's not just the shrooms it's not just the substance people have been taking these alone and it's also not just the psychotherapy right psychotherapy has also been around for a long time it's psychedelic assisted psychotherapy or m.d.m.a.
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assisted so that they're both things combined that are really being helpful to people because you know i think it's an important thing and it's a it's an approach of combining a medicine during psychotherapy that is new and novel to psychiatry i want to say what i want to know is what do we know. so the uncertain that happens to the brain and in terms of connect those two things david i know you in your lap and working on this tell us about one of the research and studies that. give way to psychedelics helping also all maybe went away from that. so you know i wish i could tell you that we know exactly how these substances work but we simply do not we need a lot more research i can tell you about i think one of the prevailing hypotheses in the field and if you look at the structure of the brain for people who are depressed or have a related to a psychiatric disease you see this atrophy of neurons in the prefrontal cortex now
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pretty much every antidepressant that we know of tends to be grow these neurons they just do it on a time scale that correlates with their efficacy in the clinic so slow acting antidepressants and the regrow the neurons more slowly something like ketamine rapidly grows beef connections and what we found lately is that classic certain urgent psychedelics like l.s.d. are done of the tryptamines or produced a very similar effect of ketamine and this is the normal just kind of tell me that it discusses that is a medication that. is put into anesthesiologists it kind of dampen your feelings was it was a better description of thomas. i'm sorry i couldn't get it right you are don't give us a name and say a description of a terrible day that's the ketamine is. the dissociative anesthetic it's used in that mary medicine and in and in people as well but recently you can do is it is that is that too heavy handed some say it's a tranquilizer.
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