tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera April 2, 2019 5:00am-6:01am +03
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coming up phew i thought thirty one degrees on wednesday. this is al jazeera. and they're on the clock this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes algeria's alien president up to lizzie's p.t. flicka says he'll quit within weeks says mass protests forced kid establishment figures to turn against him. venezuela's supreme court recommends that opposition leader one guy goes immunity from prosecution should be removed. time is ticking away on breaks it but there's no end to the deadlock because m.p.'s once
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again reject alternative plans. and a new report reveals the arab media targets of a crack back into the news by the way he. said algeria as president of them has agreed to step down by the end of this month bowing to weeks of mass protests and pressure from the army his office says he will resign before his fourth term expires on april the twenty eighth but it's unclear whether this will satisfy protesters soon took to the streets six weeks ago when he announced his bid for a fifth term reversing that decision was far enough from enough for algerians who want the entire political elite replaced on friday millions that joined rallies across the country in the biggest show of force in xian rest began and that triggered a major cabinet reshuffle under a caretaker government headed by the new prime minister he was appointed last month
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the army and key figures in the routing policy joining the calls for a constitutional removal of beauty flicka the eighty two year old has been in power for twenty years but he's rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke six years ago. that's an hour from victoria gate. after being abandoned by algerian military leaders it was perhaps only a matter of time before president abdelaziz bouteflika was forced to name a date for his departure it came in the form of a statement read on state television confirming beautifully will resign before his twenty year rule runs out on april the twenty eight the eighty two year old has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke six years ago critics say he's become little more than a front man the military and business leaders who really run the country. weeks of growing protests force beautifully and his backers to reverse his decision to stand for a fifth term but neither that nor
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a cabinet reshuffle the satisfy protesters who are demanding the entire political elite be replaced. taken a long time already he should have resigned a long time ago in two thousand and fourteen he shouldn't even have thought of running again everyone must go nobody should stay. but people are asking for everyone to leave the government meaning put a freak out on his clan to stop announcing every time the departure of somebody and the return of somebody else no they must all go and let the people decide as. deputy defense minister and army chief of staff guide salah has repeatedly called for the president to step down or be declared unfit for office but he's been locked in a power struggle with beautifully because influential brother saeed analysts say there's been confusion among ruling elite about how to respond to the protests. people are against a transitional period that is run by the regime because due will be
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a transitional period after april twenty eighth when the official time the president with the older but the question is who will want to transition period in the current regime runs the people to transition period then the revolution or the demands are definitely not met the protesters. the government is saying it will listen but nothing will change in algeria victoria gayton be there are fed as well as high as quotas calling for the opposition leader want to go ahead as parliamentary immunity to be taken away the chief justice says it quite a disobey a court order that bolland him from leaving the country the opposition leader has traveled to several latin american countries that support his claim to be president he's denounced the court's decision nor are you going people who know you best you know there is no disqualification they have no competence for that he didn't care and every day that we are free every day that we move forward is a victory for the people of venezuela it brings us closer to freedom and to the
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return of our people and to truly solve our problems that's enough for a latin america to see a new man has more from caracas. after declaring opposition leader why daughter in contempt of the court the president of the supreme court went a step further he ordered the constituent assembly which is now the most powerful institution in the country to start proceedings to strip him of his parliamentary immunity what does this mean it means that the government is moving closer and closer to perhaps issuing an arrest warrant against why dall now remember the national assembly has really no power it has been stripped of this by the my little government but it is recognized by most governments in north and south america as well as europe and japan and australia just to name some so until now the united states had threatened that if he touched or tried to arrest wide law there would be quote dire consequences but apparently this is no longer going to protect him or at least that is the impression now as the opposition leader who has been acting as it
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is though he were protected somehow by the united states is beginning to feel the heat in fact the first time he said that he knows that the government wants to arrest him a week ago he had said that they couldn't arrest him so this is happening precisely at the time when the opposition is trying to keep the heat on the government by bringing more and more people out onto the streets by asking them to go out and protest against the shortages of what of power and of water and as they plan what is being described as operation freedom a major assault as they describe it against the government bringing everybody out onto the streets this coming saturday to call for the end of the model to government rule that is when president nicolas maduro has announced that he's replaced the electricity minister the series of nationwide blackouts of led to protests demanding a restoration of power and water services electrical engineer. will step into the role of venezuelans who fled to bolivia say they now fear being sent home dozens
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were arrested off the lead and during protests last month not pounds but litter is one of the few lots of american countries that still supports venezuela's president . in minnesota. in venezuela i am a civil engineer i worked for many years the boston gondola driver in my country but there is no work food security medicine and now every day the situation in my country becomes worse it is more difficult i had the option to come here or die of hunger literally in venezuela i decided with my wife and daughter to leave the country i do not regret it. the parliament in the united kingdom has failed again to agree on an alternative to the government's breaks a deal presented with a list of four options m.p.'s were unable to find a majority for any of the u.k. is now just ten days away from eckstein the european union without any deal will
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britain reports from london. on any given day the majority view outside parliament fluctuates with the changing numbers of pro and anti bracks it protest this and as m.p.'s inside debated the for alternatives to teresa mayes brix a deal on monday it was an exit choir from yorkshire in the north of england who held sway. of the referendum based on the facts after a cooling off period subject to a lot more scrutiny than the previous one is is perhaps the best way is having a dramatic overshadowing effect the prime minister has to the knife crime summit on monday to discuss a serious recent uptick in fatal stabbing theresa may insists it's a priority but there is a sense that her main focus lies elsewhere and during the debate itself climate change protesters stripped off in the public gallery of the parliamentary chamber to draw attention away from it and on to what they said was the most important
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issue facing the world right now but all eyes were on the speaker john bercow as he announced the result none of the four alternatives had secured a majority the government parliament's latest failure to agree on a way forward on this is now the second. time the house is considered a wide variety of options for a way forward he says once again fail to find a clear majority for any of the options three the opposition isn't giving up if it's good enough for the prime minister to have three chances at her deal i then i suggest that possibly the house should have a chance to consider again the all the options that we had before us today in a debate on wednesday the prime minister is in a very tight corner here being presented with options by m.p.'s which either go against her negotiating redlines or contravene her own party's manifesto pledges she can ignore the indicative votes of course because they're non-binding but
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m.p.'s are already gearing up to pass new legislation which would force the government to comply for their teresa mayes options really do start to dwindle but many believe the prime minister will now try to win over pro leave bricks or tears with a final ultimatum. this is now the stark reality of what we are facing what you are facing and the project that you want is very easy so you either the will of the house is this a much softer slower breaks it or there is still mine deal i know you've rejected it several times but in this situation which is now the least worst option although the prime minister and cabinet meet on tuesday morning to decide their next move paul brennan al-jazeera westminster. now the children of the murdered zombie journalist american soldier understood to have received millions of dollars worth of compensation from the kingdom u.s. newspaper the washington post says his four children have been given expensive homes in saudi arabia on top of that getting loans monthly payments you know it's
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cool also says that the soldiers two sons and two daughters may soon get payouts with tens of millions of dollars each is so-called blood money g was killed six months ago after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul but we can speak now to georgia his chief executive of gulf state analytics a political risk consulting firm joins us live from washington d.c. how do you assess what's going on here i think it's pretty clear that the saudi state wants to use its financial resources in order to give the shoji children strong incentive to not criticize the crown prince mohammed bin selim on whom the cia concluded was behind their father's killing i think it's very possible that these financial incentives along with straight up
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coercion on the part of the saudi state can achieve this goal but there is no way that these payments to the four children are going to close the case internationally because there is a traditional and cultural element to the concepts of blood monies and. yes there definitely is this is a part of saudi culture this is also addressed under islamic law again this may very well settle the case domestically within the kingdom of saudi arabia but once again this is going to do absolutely nothing to decrease the pressure that saudi arabia is facing from some governments and civil society organizations throughout the world and what's your sense of whether or not some points the children have might be critical of the regime has it been fairly quiet up until now well out of the four children one of them is still in saudi arabia and i think his
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safety is obviously one of the key factors here one of the main reasons why none of these slain journalists for children have really said anything critical of the saudi leadership since this heinous acts was committed six months ago tomorrow meanwhile. fiance is determined to find out who actually gave the order do you think she'll have a that'll ever be revealed you know it's tough to tell how things are going to move forward there is obviously no reason to think that lawmakers in the united states or officials in europe are going to drop the issue any time soon this was a very heinous act as i said that. angered so many people in washington so many
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people throughout the european continent and elsewhere in the world i think the saudi leadership is going to remain under a a lot of pressure because of this case. it was but it's would you prefer thanks a lot. thank you. for the most elaborate on the news hour including fake it till you make it the idea who will now face the real president there right off ukraine. to look to the future we miss not from the public just more in ethiopia is a prime ministers of first year in charge. and in school the kings bounce back from their playoff disappointments in the n.b.a. as emotions run high on the sidelines. are often significant setbacks in takis local elections president recip top two
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ends at ruling party is challenging the results in the capital ankara and in the biggest city of istanbul saying there were mistakes the party has been defeated and maced of the ten major metropolitan areas as well as shell has this report. after almost two decades of constant losses turkey's opposition finally has reason to celebrate. the people's republican party or c.h.p. won the mayoral position in the capital ankara it would seem is on course to capture is stumble turkey's largest and most populous city. turkey be happy now let's establish be happy and get back to normal we had seven elections in five years let's get back to work now and serve the people just as we start today we will run the season a transparent fashion at every moment i'm doing this happily and i know that every part of the city belongs to sixteen million people. the our party has won every mayoral election in istanbul since one nine hundred ninety four it was the first
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major position held by roger tabor who used it to launch his political career nationally losing it is a personal blow to the president as act every victory and every loss is the will of our nation and we have to accept this fact as a necessity of democracy we were. i admit that we want people's hearts in cities we won but we were not successful enough in cities we lost and we will act accordingly . despite the losses in some of the big cities like entirely and still managed to win more than half the votes counted the process the country and nationally its retained largest number of mayors true but the turkish people appear to have directed their frustration with the faltering economy and the ruling party which has led the country uninterrupted for seventeen years. what was promised on june twenty fourth was if you don't want the country to have economic problems vote
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for the presidential coalition led by the president. president are the ones that the people have spoken i'm not he has to listen to you know things a new trick change and that he and his party must come up with solutions to fix the country's economy and address the concerns of those who didn't vote for the out party the opposition will not be tested to see if it can deliver better governance and the positions it won from k.p. at a time when i'd once been accused of being autocratic sunday's elections are a demonstration that democracy is still very much alive and talking. the victory comedian of low to me is alinsky in the first round of ukraine's presidential election will now be followed by close scrutiny of his plans for the country his rivals warn that selenski lacks experience the experience and strength to deal with russia's president vladimir putin general has more. ukraine's comic actor volodymyr zelinsky owes his success in the first round of the presidential
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election to t.v. fame and a protest vote by young people frustrated by corruption and the slow pace of reform in one of europe's poorest countries living in. the people are more important to me more than political ambition the people are both everything the ukrainian people are waiting for us but who will get the last laugh linsky will now face far more forensic scrutiny of his so far rather vague plans for the country for us. to do is actually clean up corruption institutions make them independent ensure that they deliver second judiciary system what there was before by president bush and that was a fake plea if you want those sorts of broad brushstrokes may not be enough against the incumbent president petro poroshenko the chocolate billionaire with a taste for a second term yeah. i will understand the signal that society sending
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to us in power is a harsh lesson for me and for our whole team and they lead us to correct past mistakes. poroshenko has been quick to seize the initiative telling young voters that he's heard their protest promising quicker reforms and questioning the ability of political novice zelinsky to represent ukraine on the world stage he's warned that an inexperienced leader would be a gift to russia's vladimir putin scuppering hopes of ending ukraine's war with russian backed separatists in the east what matters for us and what matters is the sense of transfer excellent excellent there it is a combination of political pressure sanctions to very just support your create against the russian aggression so experience matters into livery in that message of experience matters trust matters that voters will be faced with an extraordinary
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choice in a second round runoff in three weeks time a t.v. comic charming charismatic but with no political background whatsoever or the incumbent president who's failed to rid this country of corruption or to end the war but who many may feel has the strength and experience that ukraine can't do without you and a whole algis iraqi. prime minister. says due to arrive in newly named north of macedonia as capital structure it's the first ever visit by a greek leader to the fore you can still have a problem comes ten months after both countries signed a historic agreement to end a decades long dispute over the name macedonia north of macedonia as prime minister . says he's looking forward to increased cooperation between the two countries. the poor because. the republic of north macedonia will have huge economic benefit from the deal i think they will be perceived in every sector of the economy and i hope
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that since will also feel these benefits government leaders in mali a warning of even greater turmoil if the united nations reduces its peacekeeping force to the mission is jewish and mandate is jus for renewal in june but canadian and dutch peacekeepers who formed part of the sixteen thousand strong force already going hey nicholas hytner joined one of the final deployments. they call this operation desert falcon on board this royal canadian air force helicopter or the dutch long range reconnaissance team they're about to be dropped close to the border with burkina faso in an area controlled by armed groups while i still in syria is on the defensive here the slow mixtape in the greater the local ice a lot shoot is on the offensive it's highly active in this border area and has claimed any number of attacks. too dangerous and sensitive the u.n. would not allow us to film this infiltration operation with both canadians and
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dutch forces removing some of the footage we shot to protect their troops they say . while this is a peacekeeping mission in looks and feels like an exercise in counterinsurgency what makes this mission dangerous is that we have a lot of different layers of. drivers that's there that actually feeds. the danger in mali as we have a lot of smugglers smuggling activity illegal trafficking criminality we have this ethnic tension between different groups we have the influx of terrorists from from the border region and from inside mali and also we have this tension between the armed groups that are sort of fighting for political power and all these things add up to one big dangerous melting pot. as the mission in mali is known costs a billion dollars a year and is can see. the un's most perilous it's already cost the lives of two hundred peacekeepers that's more than any previous mission and some of them were
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dutch. the canadian forces have brought back their helicopter to get it. three hundred kilometers away the dutch forces continue their ground patrol. international effort to try to bring back peace to mali in a country that spiraling out of control although their mandate is to protect all of the european forces limit their operation just as far as this canadian medivac team can carry them and bring them back in march the un forces did not intervene when hundreds of the villagers were attacked by government backed militia groups in the region of mctee while the violence continues to spread in canada and the netherlands are pulling out of this operation saying their mission is done we are leaving but the un still stays behind with another thirteen thousand troops so i'm not afraid mali will completely collapse now that's why we leave they might lose a specific us. troops can do
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a job just as well. they come back hours later after having seen thousands of people uprooted by the increasing violence in need of help but in the hands of armed groups they bear witness to what seems to be an expanding war thoughts out of sight deep in the nicholas hawk al-jazeera. it's only a year since the cavers ethiopia's prime minister but the forty two year old has already made great strides he's won approval at home and abroad for sweeping government reforms and improving long strained ties with knavery eritrea that would have. it's been a good frosty for prime minister from the time forty two the ethiopian leader is the youngest on the african continent when the ruling with european peoples of pollution it in makati. coalition elected him prime minister last april him bucked on a decisive shift away from decades of tight government control as i think prime minister
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abhisit arrival on the african stage is commensurate with the arrival of president mandela he is a breath of fresh his outlook is amazing he's tapped into the mood not any of ethiopians but of people all across the continent so far obvious such events include freeing thousands of political prisoners and closing the country's infamous torture chambers in the capital addis ababa ethiopia had long been known as one of the world's wast jailers of journalists within months of taking office released them all. he has appointed women to half the cabinet posts parliament has also accepted his female nominees for president and head of the supreme court but it's the speed with which he ended a twenty year conflict with neighboring at a trade and established ties with its leaders from wiki that has astounded so many he's also signed peace deals with the rebels that have been designated terrorist by
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the former administration and appears to have persuaded them to disarm if that's not enough he invited its european dissidents exiled abroad to return home but how negative a leading opposition leader remain in exile for years have been sentenced to death in absentee now he says he's back to rebuild a position politics in ethiopia with the full support of the premier he is very committed and. you know i don't remember. in any of our conversations where we had a significant difference we have discussions very openly we you know we we don't see each other as threats in terms of political power it's almost like observing that different country when you look at the pace with which reforms only need field soul for that if you expect that things to will sell fust yet the analysts are quick to point out that the prime minister still faces some talent
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just threatening the very existence of ethiopia. has more than eighty different ethnic groups the divisions are all and deported and have been flaring up with a new intensity in the past here we're having millions of people displaced from their homes and being in a different comps throughout the country and i think has to be stopped the sooner really that's one of the better for the moment i.b.m. it seems to have the momentum and no shortage of energy to do with the challenges that lie ahead mohamed at all just. still ahead here a non-zero how thousands of palestinian civil servants new york applied west bank to trying to survive following tough salary cuts. more money and single use plastic bags are said to be banned in new york state. and we go to school coming up what is there is turns blue and white says a rustling in their way to the argentine football team.
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hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast where we have seen quite a bit of rain across much of china and for sure the rain is going to continue and we're going to see more of it across the central regions over the next few days hong kong though you're getting better you did. see some low ceilings as well as a lot of rain but here on tuesday we do expect to see some better conditions there it's really up here towards the north as we go from tuesday to wednesday we see quite a bit more rain across much of this area and where you see that dark green we do expect to see some localized flooding over here towards shanghai you'll be on the north side you think will be a little bit better there but over here towards to han you could be seeing some a shower activity with a temperature of one thousand degrees was make way down here across south asia
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a lot of rain across much of the region the rainy season is now pushing up towards the north and that is going to continue across the philippines over towards vietnam as well as into cambodia over the next few days so for a whole german city maybe a temperature there about thirty four degrees and manila staying about thirty two to maybe thirty four degrees by the time we get towards wednesday and then very quickly across parts of india we're still dealing with a significant heat wave across much of that region across the central areas we could be seen temperatures anywhere between forty to forty four degrees hyderabad we expect to see forty degrees as well. the weather sponsored by catherine is. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. other stories. provided attempts into someone else's work. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers and at the frontlines i feel
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that i know it i have the data to prove. witness on al-jazeera. a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror one said that close guantanamo bay and its detainees in no way have identified as a priority is the construction of an e-mail high value detention center i'm afraid that we're setting the conditions to return back to practice to retaliate in state sponsored torture as we did have done in the past rendition revisited to on al-jazeera.
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what's the odds are a reminder of our top stories this hour the algerian president's office says of the leds he's pretty flicka will step down before his term ends on a pull it's wednesday eight millions of people have been protesting for several weeks calling for the eighty two year old to step down. venezuela's supreme court is calling for opposition leader one guy goes parliamentary immunity to be taken away the chief justice is quite a dissipated court order that bought him from leaving the country. and the u.k. is exit from the european union remains deadlocked off the parliament failed once again to approve an alternative prigs a plan none of the four proposed alternatives to prime minister treason made briggs a deal got a majority. a cholera outbreak in mozambique in the wake of cycling that day has claimed its first victim more than one thousand cases have been recorded so far the world health organization says a massive vaccination program will start on wednesday in the mozambique city of bear a site in a day has contaminated water supplies creating the conditions for cholera to spread
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more than eight hundred people were killed by the storm in three countries the figure rescuers say is likely to rise. a group of former u.s. intelligence agents helped the united arab emirates spy on prominent media figures that's according to a special report by reuters targets for the hikers included the chairman of al-jazeera and the host of a b.b.c. arabic television show the hike was part of a u.a.e. intelligence program exposed by reuters earlier this year is their report. i am hoping that cooler heads will prevail when the united arab emirates and its allies broke with neighboring could tore over a host of grievances in june twenty seventh a group of american hackers working for a secret u.a.e. spy program sprang into action as first revealed by reuters those american operatives had once worked for the n.s.a. and other u.s. spy agencies but they now worked as part of a u.a.e.
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cyber squad called project raven using skills they learned in the u.s. to spy on opponents of the u.a.e. monarchy the team of americans now turn those skills an american ally qatar as the u.a.e. joined by saudi arabia egypt and baccarin imposed a blockade accusing qatar of by announcing extremist groups in the region reuters correspondents joel shechtman and christopher being uncovered the story so what we found was that after the blockade took effect project or a van ramped up its monitoring of. you know of qatar in general and surveillance of qatar and specifically ramped up its you know its surveillance of media figures according to documents the u.s. mercenary hackers begin targeting a number of journalists especially those at the could tor funded al-jazeera network both countries viewed the networks expanse of coverage of the arab spring uprisings as a deliberate attempt by qatar to fuel opposition to their monarchs al-jazeera says
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it's an independent news service giving a voice to everyone in the region former operative say their goal is they hacked their targets was to find material showing that could tours royal family was pulling strings in the local media since the emirate is believe that these journalists have such a close ties to the qatari government they believe that by hacking that i phones out of these reporters. you know that it would give them access to like emails or messages or intelligence about the qatari government it so. elph the u.a.s. ministry of foreign affairs did not respond to requests for comment and the n.s.a. declined to comment according to program documents by its all customers one target he is the host of a popular debate show on al-jazeera cult opposite directions the network's chairman was also hacked the u.s. ambassador to qatar during the gulf crisis danish l. smith said she found it alarming that american intelligence veterans were able to
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work for another government in targeting in america now ari well bill lore is a journalist in the middle east analyst at the web site the gulf matters dot com and he says the latest revelations willing to bring few the g.c.c. members any closer to a resolution i think it's probably is the measure of how convoluted this whole situation the feud in the gulf has become. america and initially backed the m.r.i. it is in the saudis against qatar and then one dollar it was pointed out to tell trump well actually you did air bases in qatar this is very important in terms of security and the war in iraq and afghanistan but hopes and america started to to back off and indeed now america probably is more supportive of qatar than they are of them are these there were some signs that there was some softening of of the few that we saw some some things happening and in meetings and think well perhaps we're going to see a break to this fear which actually benefits nobody facebook has removed hundreds
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of fake accounts and spam pages linked to political parties in india and pakistan military facebook says the accounts were created to manipulate social media users pages supporting india's main opposition congress party as well as the ruling b j p where removed in the run up to national elections was jamil has born new delhi. out of the seven hundred or so counts that have been taken down most were seen as supporting the opposition congress party now facebook denies that they're targeting them specifically but only fifteen or so belong to or were rather supporting the governing b j p now if you look in a different way the number of followers it does paint a little bit of a different picture those seven hundred or so counts of pouring the governing b j p added up to about two hundred thousand followers in total those fifteen pages or so that support of the governing b j p had two and a half million followers now the inauthentic behavior you spoke about facebook says
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that that's the reason that those fake accounts were taken down not the content they posted per se but that could mean that these were fake accounts or that they were bots ones that automatically post pages or links now the congress party says that none of the party pages taken down actually belong to them but that could just mean that they belong to supporters the b j p on the other hand hasn't commented on the pages supporting them this issue of fake news has been spreading on social media and messaging applications particularly whatsapp which is owned by facebook some of the more recent and biggest fake news stories have been the ones on calvin july auntie's stories about the slaughtering of cows an animal considered sacred by too many here in india which has led to attacks on minorities as well has been the targeting of marys in february and march following the suicide bombing of indian troops here back in february. this is storm has swept the path of destruction
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across southern in the pool at least thirty one people are confirmed dead and hundreds injured but rescue and recovery crews have yet to reach some remote areas . from posset district. telephone polls snapped like toothpicks collapsed homes vehicles overturned sunday night storm left a trail of destruction in the districts of so there are no power. as well as the dead and injured government ministers say at least one hundred thousand the pallies are affected. the doctor in charge of this hospital and says he's lucky to have survived my be here for you know i was on the road in the bus in front of me flipped i had to do c.p.r. on people on the road many people here have hating jews and many have broken their arms and legs doctors here have been working around the clock and patients who sustained more serious injuries were taken to other hospitals some to the capital katmandu. the storm hit around seven thirty in the evening just around dinner time
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the fierce winds brought down many of the wood and mud houses some almost like matchsticks crushing people and trapping them in detail about its prime minister has visited some patients. was sick set up an interview said if the second victory because the doctors said there was not going to take i would think that they should . have a live in the beds and i didn't think that being a party was your mother said security forces have been mobilized to help rescue operations and local groups have started to distribute aid including food and medicine many here are still recovering from the shock and the force of a storm never seen in their lifetimes speed is fresh out of the district and power for the second month in a row the palestinian government will only pay civil servants hoffa's salaries this
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comes after the israelis said that it would withhold taxes it collects on behalf of the palestinian authority if it were to him reports from the occupied west bank. how the pay cuts are the palestinian economy. choosing what's for lunch has become a more difficult decision for schoolteachers. oranges you can afford this time but . she only received five hundred dollars of her salary the minimum paid to public employees in the west bank last month i mean because we cut down on meat and the expensive vegetables and fruit we stopped any extra expenses as we need to adapt we might be able to survive this month and the next one because we have some savings but we won't be able to take it much longer this is what worries many people here not only has the international in the past few years the united states has got hundreds of millions of dollars paid each year to the palestinians those cuts. his salary and his job fifty percent of my previous salary went to pay my mortgage well
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thirty percent was covering my kids' school tuition now that i've lost my income i'm looking for jobs abroad to guarantee that my family lives a decent life palestinian leaders are looking for more support from a very limited is obviously going to be betterment it will be temporary and. money you us money obviously it is part of the political block me in that united states is trying to push what they call the ultimate deal that's not something that's going to happen at all and the president has been very explicit in his position to reject all of this and we don't talk trade politics for food why the palestinian authority tries to manage the financial crisis by cutting costs and taking loans from banks many fear that this is not a long term solution and it's already affecting all palestinian walks of life. even getting here has become a luxury for some people. a five dollars is not a priority on the butt of the whole economy depends on the employee salaries even
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the expensive cars you see paid by loans and the cash flow is limited for now these people lining up to get that reduced salaries have no choice but to manage with. they have a need that. they'll keep i just back the trumpet ministration has directed customs and border protection to speed up the deployment of seven hundred fifty officers to the southern u.s. border they'll be moved to handle an influx of central american migrants of the border with mexico and stop them from trying to enter the u.s. illegally washington says it will ramp up its efforts to return asylum seekers to make hijack castro reports now from washington d.c. . this memo from u.s. homeland security secretary here's to nielsen says as many as seven hundred fifty u.s. border patrol agents may be reallocated from where they're currently position which maybe interior checkpoints are processing commercial trade to these hot spots right on the border where they're seeing an influx of central american families and
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unaccompanied minors crossing without authorization into the u.s. that number is that it is at an eleven year high in march and expected one hundred thousand people who are entering the u.s. in that manner to seek asylum from poverty and gangs in their home countries now because of this the border patrol has been complaining that they are overwhelmed that they're putting people under bridges processing them at a breakneck speed and having to free them at bus stops and other places just on the border streets of the u.s. in texas and in arizona and in california and nielsen is saying that this is going to redeploy those assets so that more border patrol agents are available to process this mass influx of people seeking asylum in the u.s. the second part of this announcement would be to expand the remain in mexico program which is very controversial because rather than allowing asylum seekers to
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wait the months or years that it takes for these. cases to be decided by a u.s. immigration judge they've been staying in the united states during this wait but now the trouble ministration is sending them to mexico a place that could be dangerous according to advocates for immigrants as well as possibly illegal international asylum laws says that these asylum seekers must be protected as their process continues. new york will become the second state in the united states to stop shops from providing plastic bags for most purchases the ban which was passed as part of the state's budget negotiations signals a growing concern nationwide christine salumi has more. right now they argue because it is in supermarkets and on city streets the department of environmental conservation says new yorkers currently use twenty three billion of these plastic
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bags annually but their convenience has given way to concern about the environment as more and more plastic ends up in our oceans waterways and waste streams new york joined california and dozens of municipalities this week when the state legislature passed a ban on most single use plastic bags but there's a good idea why is that because it hurts environment plastic bags to degrade. so i think we should we should move ahead it's good for them aren't good for everybody the legislation allows local governments to impose a five cent fee for paper bags three cents will go to the states environmental protection fund two cents will be kept by the municipality some shoppers think the state is taking things a bit too far imposing more cost on the consumer and if they want to inspire people to carry their groceries clothing ship their drinks and something different maybe have a discussion about it. there will be some exceptions to the ban on plastic will still
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be ok for takeout food from restaurants for example but the goal is to get people to bring reusable bags with them every time they go to the grocery store the ban will go into effect in one year kristen salumi al jazeera new york. china's president has a new zealand did not to discriminate against chinese companies during prime minister just in the ardennes visit to beijing she's paying spoke of the importance of mutual trust after new zealand rejected a bid by the chinese telecom giant weiwei to build the country's five g. mobile network here's our china correspondent a jim brown. the international profile of new zealand's prime minister has risen since the christ church mosque killings just over two weeks ago. just cinderalla dearness said the fact she'd come to beijing so soon after that was a reflection of the importance she places on her country's relationship with china
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there are strains in that relationship though especially over the chinese telecoms company while away which is been stopped from supplying five g. equipment to new zealand's mobile phone network on national security grounds that has upset china's leaders who regard weiwei as a symbol of all that this country has achieved in the past thirty years and if a place like new zealand refuses to purchase and employ technology this is going to become a big problem not just in terms of business but in terms of the self image of the chinese leadership it's going to be a big fail before the cameras on monday premier league didn't mention walk away by name but said he wanted improved relations with new zealand added later insisted there'd be no final decision on war way and there is a view for instance that power has been banned it's simply not true so it is an opportunity i think to sit out what has happened and the way that takes i would say new zealand generally china is new zealand's most important trading partner but new
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zealand is also an ally of the united states and analysts argue that for new zealand's government juggling the relationship between the two superpowers is becoming increasingly difficult. the they. are done. one promise to raise another sensitive issue in beijing the mass detention of chinese muslims in the western province of shin jan human rights groups say more than a million people are being held in reeducation camps china's leaders dispute that figure calling these facilities vocational training centers in the aftermath of the christ church attacks are durn strong defense of muslim rights in her own country impress many there's now pressure on her to be vocal in her defense of muslim and minority rights abroad it is not clear whether human rights in shin jang came up in her brief meeting with president xi jinping before this visit she said new
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zealand's relations with china were mature and resilient a resilience that's now being tested adrian brown al-jazeera beijing the woman accused of murdering the hoff brother of north korea's leader will be freed from a malaysian prison next month to unthaw admitted to a lesser charge of causing her she was sentenced to three years and four months this will be released soon due to the time already served that's louis reports now for quite a long. i don't just over a month will be freed the vietnamese charged with killing kim jong nam the half brother of north korean leader kim jong un in february two thousand and seventeen has accepted a plea deal she pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of causing harm and has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison she would have faced a mandatory death sentence had she been found guilty of murder. in the i hope that my daughter will be released in
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a month i'll be very happy or once case is similar to city i shas her indonesian kohak used prosecutors dropped charges against city last month without saying why the indonesian government later revealed that its officials had lobbied malaysian authorities believing city had been used as a tool by north korean intelligence for north korean men who fled the country hours after the killing have also been charged but their whereabouts remains a mystery you know mediation earlier on we see that justice must be done and he also said before it's not ships that are really assistance in fact koreans are just one part of the emphasise that they must be brought to justice north korea has denied any involvement in the murder lawyers for the two women have always maintained they was indeed scapegoats it's very likely that no one else will ever stand trial for the murder of kim jong un the four north korean men are still at large despite an interpol red notice equivalent to an international arrest warrant
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a two know when you know emery's men have moved up to third in the standings in the english premier league or manchester united can overtake them if they beat wolves on tuesday united manager. says french star paul pogba is happy at the club despite hence that he's lining up a move to rail madrid the world cup winners said last week that playing for sin against the down outs rail would be the dream for any player port up here is going to be a big big parties i've always said it that you like to build your team around him. that hasn't changed at all. manchester city's manager pep guardiola says his team need to play like a machine if that's when a quadruple this season they've already clinched the league cup and are still in the hunt for the f.a. cup champions league and premier league is nothing to mind in the title is woods next would leave proper world in
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a machine to do we need to be in in-tray doing it one day interviews are going to happen the reality is that is worried some of the few mentally the people who are really. christiane although it has lifted the european champions league trophy in each of the last three seasons but he could be absent as his new club event is trying to reach the semifinals the portuguese is battling to recover from a fire injury sustained on international duty in time for next week's quarter final against i.x. . the love to suss. is working hard and let's hope we can have him with us for the match against i.x. it's difficult but we still hope to have him he's working well every day so we are hopeful there's a lot on abraham of it was immediately in goal scoring form for the l.a. galaxy on his return from injury the thirty seven year old hadn't played since the start of march and went close with this partial overhead kick in the game against the portland timbers the swedish strike it did go on to score two penalties in
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a two one win the galaxy sit fifth in the western conference and a free kick from former england captain wayne rooney helped d.c. united to a two one win over orlando city rooney's team are top in the east. resting have won the argentine football league title for the first time in five years a one one draw at t. great for the bonus ari's team was the cue for the celebrations to begin it's the eighteenth league title in the club's history another horse has died at santa anita taking the number to twenty three in three months at the california racetrack arms around or injured his leg during a race on sunday and was put down it comes two days after the track reopened following a month long investigation into the deaths. well in the emirates the opening day of the abu dhabi does it challenge had several winners among the pacesetters frenchmen circled they pray on the dakar five times on his bike but
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a switch to four wheels these days he won a very windy turn hundred sixty two k yes marina circuit stage to the bikes on the stage when went to twenty seventeen some sunderland of great britain. two of california's finest went head to head in major league baseball when the san diego padres faced the san francisco giants it was a low scoring game thanks to chris product making an impressive major league debut the padres rookie pitcher striking out seven of the giants batters san diego winning this one three to one. in the n.h.l. the calgary flames have won their division for the first time in thirteen years and with it the western conference title they were up against the san jose sharks who took a chunk out of their hopes early on through team omega but the flames have been on a streak of seven wins in ten heading towards the stanley cup playoffs and they were too hot for san jose a five two win sealing home advantage in the western conference knockouts. the
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sacramento kings failure to reach the n.b.a. playoffs this weekend worked out in favor of the sun and tonio spurs who qualified for the postseason for the twenty second year in a row a day later sacramento got the chance to take out their frustration as they came up against the spurs santonio as motivation seeming to have deserted them as they see out the regular season the kings winning one hundred thirteen two hundred six spurs coach gregg popovich was objected for protesting the referee's calls just a bit too strongly now to an invention that could have come in handy in that game this robots has been developed in japan it's called q three an iron giant designed not to miss three pointers although occasionally it does other very minor drawbacks include an inability to dribble or jump or are sorriest ball for now we'll have more later on. there is a poll that is very much and that is it for this new. me will be here just now with more of the day's news maybe.
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the brazilian economy is booming but deep divisions still exist between the haves and the have nots in a country where smartphones have become a part of everyday life technology help bridge the gap. the series that challenges developers to design apps for a better world travels to rio de janeiro and meets the young people test with making a different life set for vela farm on al-jazeera. april on al-jazeera nato leaders will gather to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the alliance in washington d.c. madam husain engages in rigorous debate cutting through the headlines on up front twenty five years on from the genocide that killed nearly a million people rwanda has rebuilt but how far of its people have been reconciled
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the emmy award winning show phone lines is back with more investigative journalism and in-depth stories israel is to hold an early election on the ninth of april but with a corruption scandal looming will benjamin netanyahu extend his ten years as prime minister april on al-jazeera. across europe immigration is high on the agenda and in hungary it's presented as a pressing issue we didn't have immigrants' at all zero immigration but this is the one political topic anybody and everybody is discussing the far right is preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudice some pride in hungary on al-jazeera.
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al-jazeera. where every. algeria is eighty three year old president to quit within weeks but will it be enough to appease protesters. i'm sam is a down this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up he. seems to be. drumming up support defiance from venezuela's opposition leaders who confronts call to action. knows they have it yet another step back for to resume a and brags that clients.
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