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continue to implement its commitments under the j c p o a in full as it is done until now and to refrain from any escalatory steps we reject all have made him the statement also criticized the us for imposing sanctions on iran and pulling out of the deal one year ago european powers have been battling to save the twenty fifteen deal they want a payment system which allows for some trade between iran and the european union for so far is limited to only humanitarian items things like medicine and food and it's failed to persuade multinationals to resume trade with iran and risk u.s. penalties so unless e.u. leaders come up with some new solutions some say that tehran might decide that the deal is simply not worth saving. what europe needs to do is first approach the remaining. participants russia and china and urge them to take steps commensurate with what europe is doing but also they need to to find solidarity with aliments in
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the united states you can push back on this new conservatism that is hell bent on you know seeing this city or fail and potentially making war more possible fraud says defense ministers said that if iran breaks the deal the e.u. could impose sanctions european powers could be gambling on iran not want to risk more damage to their economy or lose strategic allies as the stakes are raised on all sides the future the twenty fifteen a court looks increasingly fragile. al-jazeera paris and a short while ago president trump said he is open to talks with iran to secure a new deal. their economy is a mess ever since i took away the iran deal they have inflation that's the highest number ever heard. they having riots every weekend and during the week even and what they should be doing is calling me up sitting down we can make a deal a fair deal we just don't want to have nuclear weapons not too much to ask and we would help put them back into great shape they're in bad shape right now i look
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forward today where we can actually help iran we're not looking to her to run i want them to be strong and great and have a great economy. in south africa the governing african national congress is on course to win the general election but with its lowest share of votes since the end of apartheid twenty five years ago the a.n.c. has won fifty six percent of the votes counted so far it's a huge setback for president zuma rama posa who replace jacob zuma after a series of corruption scandals strained to erode support for the n c the main opposition democratic alliance currently has twenty two percent of the vote official results are expected on saturday that speak to al-jazeera as malcolm webb who joins us from a vote counting center in pretoria marcum tell us about how things are going where you are and what the trends are whether they're due to change or in the next few hours. we're watching the results come in on these big
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screens here the blue panels the results for the provincial elections people voted for provincial governments at the same time the panel in the center shows us the results for the national elections so let's go parties are allocated seats in parliament according to their. peers up here the party that gets a majority. is the leader of that party that becomes president parties each of their desks over here including the a.n.c. you as you mentioned at the moment do have a majority it's just over sixty percent of the votes being counted so far and see has about fifty seven percent of the vote. the democratic alliance which is the largest opposition party has about twenty three percent at the moment which is almost the same as the vote share that they got in the last election five years ago in the economic freedom fighters whose desk is here dressed in red their first election was the last election just five years ago then they want about six percent
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of the vote at the moment they're on course to get about ten percent of the vote their leaders were formerly a.n.c. politicians who were pushed out of the a.n.c. about six years ago they have in some ways changed the course of south african polity. by using their handful of seats in parliament to disrupt proceedings and attack the a.n.c. often through corruption scandals and alleged and then these poor delivery of public services on this side we've got. officials from the electoral commission who are compiling the data that's being put up on the screens and distributed and one of the interesting things we learned from the data that they've come out with is that the turnout this time it's only about sixty five percent it's much lower than it's been in some past elections and that number actually doesn't include about a quarter of people who are eligible to vote who didn't even register to vote in this election so as the end sees vote share has steadily decreased over successive elections this time at the moment looking like it could be below sixty percent but
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it's not as if the opposition parties are picking up all of those lost. what we're seeing is less and less people voting particularly young people voting less in each election. and so the a and c. as well as turning. many people to support has become disenfranchised the opposition parties aren't managing to convince those people that they're actually any better thank you have had dates mark and wear black for us in pretoria. plenty more ahead on this news hour including bombings same as strikes in northern syria as government forces continue their push into rebel held areas where in venezuela at a look at the obstacles transplant patients are facing and in sport can novak djokovic be the master of madrid for a third time details coming up later with peter. gammons
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un recognized government has accused the united arab emirates of sending nearly a hundred separatist fighters to every moat many island. is a unesco world heritage site in the arabian sea the u.a.e. which is fighting with the rebels along with saudi arabia has denied the accusations they've been reports the u.a.e. has been trying to take the take over the islands last year it was accused of seizing the island what it sent time to send troops saying well let's speak to africa nasir about this she's a had many journalist and editor in chief of the online magazine some mary view she is via skype from gothenburg in sweden thank you so much for being with us why so important to the united arab emirates. because it's one of the radiator one of the readers ireland and the word and lot of yemenis do you understand that. they won actually even before the war began and yemen
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they have like really economy interest and yemen we yemenis usually speak about how the united out of it and i want to have bad then cut that out and transform it into another device so they kind of had this conflict as a pretext to we serve their own economy control so a lot of yemenis. what do you a he was in yemen the same time it's very clear that the economy is and their top priority so how exactly have have they been trying to paint a trial and and it's not the first time that we've heard such reports last year there was a similar report have they been trying to. make came to the island. well it's like why the war the war began. few months afterward to start to have some disputes between the enemy government and how
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they you was not clear and their involvement in the war and yemen so even two years ago there was some kind of dispute between the president i've got a book but i had the and one of the leaders the new and. how do you think that you are acting like a no q petion and yemen so they started to have some divergent. goals and strategy from what the fellow did that clinicians led by so is it a be a. what trying to do and the conflicts so to having military. involvement separated from the origin of the strategy whether training you know the military force the name to buy. them and i mean that is the security and all of the training women and i that there are many reports so police women
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being treated trained by united arab emirates and flying them back to southern to yemen so i have to the t. they are trying to have that all in military practice away from what the saudi like what it is doing and the yemeni government and you know the let me start speaking about the you know the u.a.e. owns the militia and armed groups and is secret. secret prisons and sub undocument so they have a little list of violations that they have committed and the only bring war but of course they've denied these violations and they have denied wanting to claim such a trial and thank you so much for speaking to us on a ferry in many journalist joining us avocat from sweden. the head of the roman catholic church has issued a new law to try and crackdown on sexual abuse let's go to barbara starr in our
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london new center for more on this barbara. probably thank you yes but france's issued the korea which makes it compulsory to report cases or cover ups of sexual abuse priests and nuns will be required to the clear any abuse to their superiors but not to civilian authority reports. as head of the catholic church pope francis is a guide for one point two billion people in an institution that governs among many things morality but how to lead in an age where the moral compass of the church appears to have been broken by the torrent of sex abuse scandals perpetrated by clerics in positions of power it has cast a devastating shadow over the papacy and with the church in deep crisis the latest lord to create by francis shined more light on how clerics should deal with cases of sexual abuse but the vatican's top sexual crimes investigator gave little
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indication on the penalties that could be faced a universal law passed refactoring diversity of cultures can you know give. strict because otherwise it will be inoperative you need something to be flexible enough to work there all one billion priests and nuns in the roman catholic church all of the must now report any cases of sexual abuse to church to paris and any cover ups even in countries where the law does not oblige them to do so it follows this year's summit on the issue as well as several high profile scandals such as the conviction of george pell the straight years highest ranking catholic now serving a six year sentence for sexually abusing two quiet boys in a melbourne cathedral with a chilling cardinals accused and discreet as they covered up reports of child sexual. abuse going back decades the victims of abuse that it can justice still has
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a long way to go it's the church once again saying that they are going to investigate these allegations in these crimes but they are going to investigate themselves and i'm afraid that isn't good enough that's what the virus and victims have been shouting for for years is that we cannot trust the church we cannot trust the officials to police themselves and even with a new system in place there is still no requirement to report these crimes to civil authorities a gaping hole in a system that has already failed so many victims of clerical sex abuse. al-jazeera . a muslim of a jolly is a professor of theology and religious studies at villanova university and he joins us live now from philadelphia sir thank you so much for joining us here on out the church obviously for decades has been accused of effectively lacking accountability when it comes to dealing with this what do you make of these new laws do you think
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that they go a serious way towards solving the problem. i think they do because they make a significant step in the compelling legally all the or they and the religious in the coverage to report those cases to church authorities and there's a reason why they're not compelled to report to all the secular authorities it creates a mechanism for the protection of whistleblowers in the cottage church it creates an automatic mechanisms. to create the policing of bishops who failed in their job to report and investigate so i believe it's a significant and important step forward but just explain this issue to us all of the obligation for anyone within the church so as i understand it you know from from a cardinal an archbishop to ordinary religious people this obligation for everyone
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to report as one would have assumed that in a sense i guess one's more ality would have forced on to do they would have for someone to do that anyway. sure i mean the moral obligation was there already there was not a universe of legal obligation you had to be gay sions in some cases in some countries. even if they were read the legally required to report that was not the universal law of the catholic church these step universalize is the requirement that is legal with with legal consequences to report every case in a short period of time and there's a very clear chain of command and in the procedures with this law at the criticism is that even with this law that it's still a bit vague about reporting to civil authorities bearing in mind of course as we
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discussed some countries you know the law countries law doesn't sort of make up for that but do you think that this kind of addresses that reluctance perhaps in parts of the church of dealing with abuse as a criminal offense. so in many cases the clergy are already required to report to civil authorities in many many states this law doesn't do that for the entire covered church because imagine a case of the church that is persecuted by the regime in north korea or vietnam so that we could put that church in significant danger as a collective entity and as individuals that's why this law doesn't do that but there is the. implicit recognition that in countries where the judicial system the rule of law can be trusted the conflict is invited to report
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to civil authorities like in many many countries happens already i mean a lot of the examples of abuse of obviously not come out of countries like north korea ultimately the question is do you think that this is a step in the right direction and do you see more of this evolution coming from the church in coming months and years is a significant step because we don't want to talk about north korea let's talk about africa so there the problem was not a lack of civil law enforcement but of also of church law enforcement so that adds one more layer of the judicial system that as of now it was lacking in many countries massive of a jolly professor of theology and religious studies at villanova university sir thank you for sharing your thoughts with us thank you. thirteen people including
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a two alleged russian spies have been jailed for plotting to overthrow montenegro's government in two thousand and sixteen a court concluded that the attempt to kill the then prime minister djukanovic was part of a bid to stop the country joining nato. has the latest now. two russian secret service agents. in the middle of are sentenced to fifteen and twelve years of prison for creating criminal organization and attempt of terrorism in montenegro in two thousand and sixteen from a montenegrin prosecutor they pointed out as main organizers and finance services of a group of serbia and montenegro citizens two of them leaders of opposition democratic front strongest opposition qualification in montenegro parliament which mainly represents ethnic serbs in this country according to a very direct they were planning to a second one to negron parliament in denying elections with weapons take to
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building capture and kill prime minister immunological kind of each and pro russian and until nato leadership in order to prevent clinton eggroll from joining nato even though these were strong accusations against russia moscow denied any involvement in these events. that is it from london let's go back to falling and oh barbara thank you very much for that seat ahead on this news hour attention has remained high after attacks on muslim homes and shops in sri lanka we look at how religious leaders how religious leaders are responding. i'm charlie rangel at the venice biennale ali where ninety countries are making that. they've been for one new arrival already leading the pack and backing their way into the next round of the n.b.a. playoffs we don't have the details of who's a man who's out coming up in sports these things.
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we do still have the chance of some but some places afraid to the middle east over the next couple of days a little bit of clout there showing up around iraq pushing across into iran start to some wonder whether the us if it is where across northern parts of saudi arabia for the time being the wettest weather is up around the caucasus still gerami azerbaijan could see some showers longer spells of right charles to some rainfall also pushing its way back into that western side of iran over the next day i would say could even see some showers into pakistan but the into afghanistan for a time issue quite enough as we go one is that is that cloud just drives its way across iran the be a few showers as we go on through the weekend over towards iraq over towards the levant is lossy father drug little of the cool side for beirut
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temp just picked back to around twenty one degrees celsius meanwhile it'll be a little cooler across northern parts of the arabian peninsula here in kata thirty six celsius winds coming in from the from the se from the gulf so that's just picking those temperatures back it'll feel a little more humid but it should be largely dry over the next day or so you can see it should also wanted to show was there into central areas of saudi arabia i was towards the red sea you much just catch here which possibly put it down into that western side of yemen. the subject of more than half a dozen investigations around blocks. of dogs stone from major sovereign wealth one o one east investigate how the nation's coffers grew up on al-jazeera and this was different not said whether someone is going for someone of a red spot but that's not a weenie trick i think it's how you approach an individual and as it is
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a certain way of doing it you can't just barge in and get a story and fly out. world goes on an incredible journey through firsthand accounts and the extraordinary archive footage to the cities of palestine as they were before nine hundred forty eight and the impact the creation of israel had on the. witness the vibrant commercial and cultural problems of america and pray for a close and the heritage that many of today's palestinians have never known lost cities of palestine on al-jazeera. you're watching the news on al-jazeera with me for the back to blow our reminder of
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our top stories u.s. president donald trump says he believes he can reach a deal with china this week as negotiators from the two sides prepared to meet for trade talks in the coming hours the world's two biggest economies have been locked in a trade war for the past year. european union leaders have rejected iran sixty day all to may tend to protect it from u.s. sanctions and save the twenty fifty nuclear deal from collapse but they say they are fully committed to the agreement and have cautioned the u.s. against taking any action that were on their efforts and vote counting continues in south africa's general election and the ruling african national congress body looks set to retain power but with its smallest ever vote chair since the end of apartheid twenty five years ago. now some breaking news from iraq where we're hearing that there's been a suicide attack in the capital this is according to the iraqi military the blast happened a short time ago inside
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a city that's in north east baghdad it appears that several people have been killed and injured in this attack we'll have more information for you when we speak to our correspondent rob matheson in just a few minutes that's move on to syria in the meantime and government forces there are continuing to push into rebel held areas in hama provinces that captured the town of decon the north west and as in a harder reports from beirut it says fred fee is all the larger offensive. another day of air strikes. and more civilian casualties. as rescue workers move the wounded and take away the dead oh was it was it's been almost two weeks of relentless bombing in northwest syria denied it nation says at least fifty opposition controlled villages have been targeted in northern hama north
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a lot and southern provinces. we want to see these people running away from country who want to help these families with food with my choices people are under the rubble until now. rebels have lost what opposition activists call the first line of defense of it lip syrian government forces have taken ground in the northern countryside of hama the last of the towns of foreign a buddha and are seen as strategic wins rebel supply lines are now vulnerable and the m five international highway linking government controlled cities is a few kilometers east the government wants that road to revive trade and help the economy in nearby aleppo syria's commercial capital remains cut off from most of the countryside and poorly connected to the rest of syria russia which is backing the campaign says its military is implementing the sochi deal that was agreed with turkey in september foreign minister sergei lavrov said that memorandum is not
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about protecting what he called terrorists and yet another verbal attack against turkey for not creating a demilitarized zone around. love rugs statements indicate the scope of the military operation implementing the sochi deal does not mean a full scale assault to retake the entire province of idlib moscow knows that would threaten its alliance with turkey which wants to prevent a humanitarian crisis along its border and prevent a new wave of refugees crossing into its territory. turkey which has military positions around it live under its agreement with russia has not responded to the latest escalation but it too has criticised russia for failing to remove the syrian kurdish group the y. p.g. from tel rafah in northern aleppo turkey considers the y. peachey a terrorist organization. trying to find. if russia will give them more. but again. which is on the table to rush into.
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and i think also part of the trying to test the limits of each other to see how far they can go. but serious power brokers are unlikely to push far enough to break an alliance they both benefit from neither side wants a large scale assault on it lip but even a limited operation is enough to destroy the lives of many. beirut. a sixth round of talks between the u.s. and taliban aimed at ending the war in afghanistan has concluded in qatar negotiators say some progress was made on a draft agreement for when foreign troops mites withdraw the u.s. has been pushing the taliban to agree to a cease fire and talk with the afghan government south korea's military says north korea has fired two missiles on the launch happened include song in the north province south korea says the missiles were directed towards the east rob mcbride has more from seoul. south korean defense officials confirming that two projectiles
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were fired within half an hour of each other on thursday afternoon local time and assuming that these were short range missiles one of them travel just over four hundred kilometers the other just under three hundred kilometers landing in the sea separating the korean peninsula with japan it comes as the u.s. special representative on north korea stephen began is here in seoul meeting with his counterpart looking at ways of trying to restart the dialogue between north korea and the united states this obviously makes that a lot harder for the south korean government has said it's very concerned saying that this does nothing to help ease tensions on the korean peninsula when it comes of course five days after similar provocative firing of rockets and a missile off north korea's east coast taken together this does look as though it's
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a ratcheting up of the pressure and seems to indicate the growing frustration of north korea the way that negotiations between itself and the u.s. have stalled but as observers will point out if it continues with these tests then it risks derailing that process altogether sri lanka's president has vowed to crush the armed groups responsible for the easter sunday bombing smatter palace or siena says safe houses and bank accounts used find the attackers have been identified as follows calls by the army chief of people to resume their daily lives now for nine days in cabin i in eastern and she explains why one community is finding this difficult. flouted us a geezer is a muslim wife and mother she says she hasn't left her mother in law's house in cullman a since the easter sunday bombings. we feel deep regret that people think all muslims took part in this we are also grieving why did they do it we think it's
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wrong but extremists are using it to their advantage we are free to go out. it's a common fear among her community a fear that's keeping many people off the streets and shops empty the president of the gym a mosque in cullman is says he's seeing these concerns among many members. in a family if the wife and kids are afraid the whole family is afraid they can't sleep or wives and children a scared now because of these developments. sporadic attacks on muslim houses and shops have increased those fears i'll just be robbed in this mobile phone footage of a group of people on the prowl attacking houses in the cellar and the area. this house was surrounded and set on fire while people were inside luckily for them the police arrived to get them out in time violence between christians and muslims
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earlier in the week brought archbishop cardinal malcolm ranjit and muslim leader reason we've moved the together in the gumball the situation has to be controlled through. not through emotions people sometimes are in a become emotional they don't understand what is really happening big get lost by foolishness that's a situation the chairman of the human rights commission says she wants to avoid she has appealed to the public not only be restrained when it comes to that i mean using violence but also to look at fin or city sense as fellow citizens and as human beings who have feelings and emotions and sensitivity in this country really needs to you know and we've had very be to learn lessons in the past and i would hope as a human rights commission is that what we've learned from that was beaten essence would now really be put to good you would a governor says in the immediate aftermath of the attacks the commission has
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focused on ensuring the muslim community is not targeted does not face hate crimes and has worked to prevent calm you know violence while acknowledging the grief and anger created by the easter sunday bombings subject says it's important people realise the attackers have destroyed so many lives are few and do not represent most muslims when a man does al-jazeera culminating essential lanka. still ahead on al-jazeera they. are now moment to savor for the boston red sox peter asked one sports news. wow wow. wow. wow.
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wow wow wow. welcome back and a reminder of our breaking news from iraq where the military says there's been a suicide attack in baghdad the blast happened a short time ago in saddest city that's in the northeast of the iraqi capital and several people have been. speak to our correspondent in baghdad rob mattson rob what more can you tell us about this attack. for the moment the information as you can imagine. but according to operations command center that's a mixture of the military and police here in baghdad we are hearing as you said a number of injured and killed in this explosion we don't yet know the exact details it's still very early but what we're being told so far is that upon clearly a suicide bomber with an explosive type belt has upon clee.

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