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you know there is pressure on both sides as pressure on trump's supporters to fill their homes with so many you know chinese products who who buy chinese bicycles chinese electronics modems all these sorts of things but also china is worried as well because all this is happening of course as its economy is continuing to slow and president xi jinping is also aware that trump on this issue has the support of the democrats so there's pressure on both sides to do a deal what is going to be done but it's just not going to happen now is the view that you're getting from most experts you talk to here in china what has happened is that the president from her has raised the brinkmanship to to another level adrian thank you very much for that for now that is china correspondent adrian valen live in beijing thank you. now president trump says he doesn't consider north korea's latest missile tests a breach of trust pyongyang has conducted 2 drills than a week trump said that the missiles are short range and very standard stuff or
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tensions have arisen following the failed hanoi summit between trump and kim jong il in february we have plenty more ahead on the news hour including a humanitarian catastrophe in the making fears of a fire in the sense of by syrian government forces and probably. the u.s. dispatches more warships to waters near iran as tension continues to rise. and peter has the clue to how roger federer's run in madrid was stopped by dominic. the united states has imposed sanctions on 2 shipping companies involved in trade with venezuela the u.s. treasury department's as the restrictions are in direct response to the arrest of a senior opposition politician the vice president of venezuela's opposition control national assembly and his umbrella has been put in a military prison and
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a court says he's suspected of supporting an alleged attempt by opposition leader why the last month was in brown as one of 12 politicians stripped of their parliamentary immunity after why doe's failed bid to topple president. in the last 2 days and 3 others have taken refuge in foreign embassies where should blanco isn't argentina's embassy in caracas. and a medical degree are in the italian embassy and another legislator said on social media that he's left for colombia and form a national assembly vice president freddy guevara also from party has been inside the chilean embassy since november 27th team when he was stripped of his immunity our correspondent trays a boat has more from. earlier in january the u.s. announced a very harsh sanctions on venezuela that effect of venezuela theatre company believes that its subsidy area in the united states citgo which involves billions
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of dollars so most definitely this strategic the strategy here by the united states is to choke the government of nicolas maduro many say that over the fear is that it will affect even more the venezuelan people who are already struggling with a crisis an economic crisis here and not get modo out of office nicolas maduro responded to the united states saying that he trusts completely trusts he's for it he's defense minister and the president of the supreme court and he's also spoke about what happened on april the 30 years during what the government calls appalled by the opposition that's been led by the united states he referred to an intelligence chief who's currently in hiding who's been very very critical of the governmental nicolas maduro and he called him a traitor we also know that one way though is asking venezuelans to take to the streets this saturday in spite of what's been happening here which is basically the government going after some deputies from the national assembly their vice
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president was imprisoned 2 others in has sick refuge of the italian embassy another one in the argentinean embassy in spite of this the way law is remaining continues to challenge the government. asking people to take to the streets the big question is how many will actually respond to his call because people here are getting tired many are suffering from enormous for an enormous economic crisis and many have lost interest of actually taking to the streets because they're saying that change is not happening fast enough. to syria now where more than 100 people have been killed in the last week as government forces continue their push into rebel held areas in hama an ad lib and some u.n. security council members are concerned that a full scale military operation and the province may lead to a humanitarian catastrophe diplomatic editor james bangs has more from the united nations. there have long been fears of
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a final offensive in it it is one of the last strongholds of the opposition to a sad aid workers have been concerned about an all out attack the population of the province has swelled to more than 3000000 people after many fled here from other parts of syria. russia is strongly suspected of carrying out some of the recent bombing the targets of included medical facilities attacks that some experts believe could amount to war crimes as the security council gathered european ambassadors expressed deep alarming we are extremely concerned about the violent escalation in the region a new alipore must at all costs be prevented you need lip there is only a political solution and the military solution that apparently is being sought now is not a it's not
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a viable or the meeting didn't take place in the main chamber of the council where open sessions are held but instead in the smaller room near it where meetings are conducted away from the cameras there was deep division and it was on display at the end of the meeting when 11 of the 15 members made a joint statement 4 countries south africa indonesia china and russia did not sign up to these words we express or deep concern. of a potential humanitarian catastrophe in the event of a full scale military operation in italy so the statement did not mention the assad government or russia can you be clear which countries are carrying out the bombing thank you for now even some of russia's harshest critics on syria who are not prepared to condemn the country in public medical facilities have been attacked
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in it who do you think is responsible. will make medical facilities appear to have been targeted from the air so very many options for who can target from the air in this part of syria many security council members want to stop the bombardment but they're also aware of russia's record of intransigence on syria it's used its veto 12 times in the security council that's why they're doing things behind closed doors at the moment the next step of course is likely to be an open meeting calling russia out in public jamesburg out his era at the united nations. now venezuela's economic was a giving us ally cuba a reminder of the troubles that face from the soviet union collapsed in the $1990.00 s. now it's been forced to ration food and other basic goods to cope with shortages it blames partly on expanded u.s.
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sanctions will shop shelves have been increasingly empty with customers waiting in queues for hours whenever products a back and stock officials say the measures will prevent hoarding by people who sometimes resell goods on the black market but cuba has been under a u.s. economic embargo for the past 6 decades and sanctions have been tightened under donald trump. now online many cubans have been sharing their own functions of the cues that they've been standing in they've been tweeting their dissatisfaction using the hash tag the q. challenge. and cuba's comus minister says the government is now looking at other options to mitigate the crisis. though in the. product regulation involves selling limited quantities so that there's equity in distribution of it so more people can purchase and therefore access the product as well also avoid hoarding which is the scourge which we're now experiencing as there are limited quantities of product and we're depending on imports that come from the
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united states and that means that we have to look for alternatives to ensure that the product will arrive in the market. let's get more on this we're joined by charles shapiro the president of the world affairs council of atlanta and a former u.s. principal deputy assistant secretary of state for the western hemisphere and he's joining us live from atlanta very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so we've heard from cuba's comus minister blaming the hardening of the u.s. trade embargo by this current u.s. administration but what about the drop the massive drop and aid from cuba's ally venezuela how much has that effect of the country. i do apologize if we don't have a connection with that guest and atlanta said that move on finale the united states
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has assigned a warship in the middle east and a mess hall would join an egg cost carrier elsewhere in the region washington has repeatedly claimed that they were and occasions of iranian mother lies ation against u.s. interests in the middle east without providing details on wednesday president donald trump announced sanctions against iran then join in as this update from washington d.c. . earlier this week the trumpet ministration ordered the commander of the abraham lincoln and its kompany and vessels to basically be on standby for any sort of provocative actions by the iranian military now on friday the u.s. says arlington has been ordered to join the abraham lincoln and the other ships is part of its convoy as well as the deployment of a patriot missile battery in order to make certain that if there were any sort of attack on the lincoln carrier strike group that the military would be able to
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defend itself what this is according to u.s. officials is a show of force to tear on that the u.s. is very closely watching its military and economic and diplomatic activities around the middle east and the u.s. military is they're essentially to safeguard the u.s. as national security interests as well as those of the u.s. as partners and allies in the region but this is raising concern particularly here in the united states that the u.s. may be engaged in a game of chicken that it may be actually adding to tensions rather than trying to find a way to discuss with terror on its concerns about terror hons policies and trying to figure out a way. to ultimately negotiate a deal that would address iran's nuclear and other security issues well donald trump says new sanctions on iran will only turn card dialogue on
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a potential new nuclear deal but iran's leaders continue to reject that idea and says that they will be no talks between the 2 science is aimed at stopping reports from. for a friday sermon and a chance for people to catch up on the latest developments in what has been a busy week for iran more u.s. sanctions a growing diplomatic divide with europe and an announcement by president hassan rouhani to start scaling back iraq's cooperation with a 2015 nuclear deal the cleric speaking for iran's supreme leader said president rouhani should not have waited so long to do it as the ending of the game we support and appreciate the appropriate of russian reaction and we are sure it will be successful the united nations international community and european union face a big test as iranians took to the streets to protest against u.s. aggression a fleet of american warships that across the swiss canal a day earlier sailed closer to iranian waters protesters say the so-called pressure
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campaign by the united states is going too far this is my 1st time taking part in such war cheating actually. just because. because of what the president trying to did going to fix the end america's not patient enough if they could achieve something militarily they won't go for economic psychological and mediocre fear but if america could do something it would have done it by now or is impossible we've been to a protests like these before it's all fairly standard people walk out of the prayer hall about a city block to the next square and chant their slogans to iran's enemies along the way at the end they burn a few american flags but right now iranians have a few more reasons to be angry or of. few more reasons to be a little more worried some are audience find there's no better way to express their anger towards the united states than setting a flag on fire. yet it's become
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a ritual that seems mostly for the benefit of the cameras. nearly 2 years of what they see a psychological and economic abuse by the trumpet ministration has made iranians more angry than afraid. speech no dialogue with trump because no choice because trump is not good. while u.s. president donald trump continues to tell his own people that sanctions are designed to get iranian leaders to start a dialogue with him that he does not want to hurt anyone the iranian experience of trump's time in office suggests otherwise zain basrah the old jazeera. still ahead on the news hour a new hospital offers hope to palestinians who've lost their lens in the israeli crackdown in gaza how a revamped school system an end is kept on the show on the way for education reform as long and next in the process continues and
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a day to forget behind the wheel has had the action from the practice of the spanish palm pre. hello welcome to look at the international forecast dry across china but a cloud into those central areas there will be somewhat of weather coming in here for a target the southern areas is generally settled in sunny 29 celsius in hong kong 20 eight's in taipei warming up to $31.00 as we go on through sunday sunday the sea cloud and bright pushing over towards will. be dry shanghai. at around 29 degrees probably a sunshine tearing through southeast asia or a rash of showers into the philippines a lot of sunshine in between this heat of the day showers of course the afternoon
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downpours and they stretch their way across southern vietnam cambodia it to thailand it was a chance of the are coming through here some showers too with kuala lumpur into west singapore some other weather raced into northern parts of java jakarta still seeing a little bit of that weather as we go through sunday but should be largely dry dry across much of south asia as it should be the free monsoon hate really starting to ramp up once again so we're getting into the forty's pretty shabby right perhaps some snow over the high ground pool pushing a bit the northern parts of bangladesh could see some weather and notice want to showers a possibility into the fosse out west of india. whether sponsored by qatar or. as u.s. sanctions i levied against iran we'll ask want them to like this one on iraq's relations with its key trading partner or not be part of the alliance against.
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iraq's deputy prime minister and will minister. said al-jazeera. it's a climb to one of the holiest sites in bhutan tiger's nest ball astri seems to defy gravity every beauties is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness when it became a democracy in 2008 the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow betimes example but how do you measure it brittany's happiness is what we ensure it's if it is quantifiable but by simply turning its pursuit into policy time has done what no other country has.
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got to have and without on al-jazeera these are our top stories the u.n. says what the rebels in yemen have agreed to withdraw their forces from 3 k. ports over the next 4 days but the yemeni government says the offer is inaccurate and misleading. president donald trump has escalated america's trade war with china with the end position of the new tariffs and washington now says that it's prepared to raise tariffs on an additional $300000000000.00 worth of chinese imports. and cuba has been forced to ration. on the base of guns to call it what shortages it blames hotly on expanded u.s. sanctions shop shelves have been increasingly empty with customers waiting in queues for hours when our products have back in stock. so let's get more on this joined by charles and shapiro president of the world affairs council of atlanta and
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a former u.s. principal deputy assistant secretary of state for the western hemisphere and he's joining us live from atlanta very good to have you with us mr shapiro so the comma's minister who we've heard from is blaming the hardening of the u.s. trade embargo which is of course been in place for some 6 decades but hardening of it by this current trump administration but what about the massive drop and aid from cuba's ally venezuela how much has that affected the country. as that's exactly what the cubans are suffering from right now president trumped announce that he's going to ramp book same ctions and certainly in fargo but in fact the regulations. so far as i can. really impact. of what has. ready been providing ready cuba is drop from one point is a 100 40000 ready barrels
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a day now i've heard estimates anywhere 82 is low is. suspect some of the money they're using to buy. oil. and so what then is only set to get is worse and venezuela can we expect them to become worse than cuba to oh absolutely. venezuela's oil to cuba since really for free in return for cuban. doctors trainers ready ready military advisors who work in venezuela but not in return for any money. as the situation got worse ms whalen their ready oil production dropped and they'd stopped the export went to 0 including 2 to cuba in my suspicion is that their production will drop even more they'll have it at that or will be soon that you will be in a cuba is dealing with the situation by. having more rational food and basic goods
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that as a new but they're doing even more of it what it was solve cuba's fundamental problems than that and does end point so much of what it means but cuba imports 80 percent of the food that it gives them but this is an agricultural country which used to export and now imports if you can imagine import sugar from friends. they can't support themselves and foreigners in the industry. tourists come from abroad obvious they want to eat well and so they're getting top priority on the suit and they're eating fancier food cubans than ordered. the only thing in economic terms tourism is an export right now the ready thing that worries. this is shapiro thank you very much for your time your analysis on this we do appreciate it charles shapiro live in atlanta thank you
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. now the relatives of thousands of people who have disappeared as a result of mexico's drug war took to the streets of mexico city on mother's day they're demanding information about the whereabouts of their loved ones really 40000 people have gone lessens since 2006 mass graves can be found in mexico's countryside human remains systematically identified leaving victims' families to wonder about their fate. south africa's ruling african national congress is on course to stay in power but with a smaller majority than ever before they have also been allegations of voting irregularities in wednesday's general election not the web reports from the national results center and pretoria. since the 1st results were displayed the ruling african national congress has had more than 50 percent of the vote it's one
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every election since apartheid ended and democracy began in 1904 but this time has a smaller majority than ever before. this is. dated we now have good. ideas that are participating in these elections and sees decline in popularity followed a series of corruption scandals especially under former president jacob zuma an ongoing protest over puerto livery of public services presidency will run a poser who's been credited with halting the party's decline since he took over just over a year ago he's been promising to tackle corruption the largest opposition party the democratic alliance has just over a 5th of the vote as it did in the last election it's one of a number of opposition parties who have complained to the. commission that some people voted more than once the parties and the electoral commission of agreed to
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all the result before they were officially announced for scrutiny do not is the extent of the problem and we hoping that that or that will show the extent of the problem if we have a nationwide phenomenon or whether it's just localized in 3rd place is the economic freedom fighters whose leaders promise radical economic reforms exposure has increased to about 10 percent it's also complained about double voting but observers say it's not on a scale that could affect the national election result agents from all of the political parties been sitting here at desks monitoring the results as they've come in they're waiting for the official results to be announced and on this side of the room officials from the electoral commission to be in processing some of the data one of the most interesting things that they've reported is a lower voter turnout than ever before amount 2 thirds of registered voters voted in wednesday's poll about a quarter of eligible voters didn't even register but i think there's
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a general present with them about the political system or about political parties. the rampant nature of corruption and so captured really saying we haven't heard a message this is the electorate so we have got a message that convinces us to go out and vote south africans are waiting for the official announcement of results expected on saturday so far there are no great surprises but signs of a steadily shifting political landscape malcolm webb al-jazeera pretoria south africa. israeli forces have killed one palestinian and entered at least 30 others during weekly protest garza after more than a year of mass demonstrations hundreds of palestinians have been killed many more left maint for life by the name reports from the gaza strip some have lost limbs now have new heart. jaime's food you is what you might call a wounded veteran of the march of return protests in gaza on
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a friday last august he was shot in the left leg he came one of the growing number of protest amputees i was out there i'm not disabled being disabled is a state of mind i believe if my mind is disabled i'm disabled but if i lose a part of my body i'm not disabled and i'm at the. food you is one of 20 people who will soon be fitted for a state of the art prosthetic leg at the newly opened how mad hospital for rehabilitation and artificial limbs there are already 40 people on the waiting list the executive director of the hospital says there are 6800 amputees living in gaza since the march of return protests began last year 136 people mostly young men have lost their limbs. patients can now get free treatment at the country
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funded hospital it's the 1st public rehabilitation facility in the gaza strip. the aim is to provide more it vance prosthetics and treatment programs that are currently available but given the land sea and air blockade it posed by israel and egypt since 2007 there are many obstacles to overcome. sometimes. because of some but it's a good on some security issues that's why it'll take time for the 100 bed hospital to be fully operational. but is hoping by the one year anniversary of his education he'll have a 2nd leg again. my life will change after i get a prosthetic leg and i can walk up and down the stairs to my 4th floor apartment
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drive a car ride a motorcycle and go outside without crutches. losing his leg hasn't deterred food from attending the protests each friday he goes he says all palestinians must make sacrifices in their fight for a return to the land they once called home and for a life better than the one they have now under siege natasha to name. the gaza strip. at least $65.00 refugees and migrants have drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of to nazir the boat sank off the to an asean city of the sailing from libya as one of the deadliest shipwrecks and while the refugees and migrants trying to reach europe this year. now hundreds of thousands of algerians have returned to the streets for yet another day of protest against what they call the voting and they want to kick figures connected to oust
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a president toppling of his beautifully cut to see how presidential elections have expected in july protesters say they want a complete regime change the pressure from demonstrators. and the military forced been defeated to step down last month protesters in savannah braving scorching hot weather to continue their 5 weeks that at the army headquarters and card protest leaders are threatening a civil disobedience campaign as they grow increasingly frustrated with the military's delays and handing over power military rulers say elections will be held in 6 months if an agreement can't be reached with the opposition. 4 foreign hostages have been freed by french soldiers and booking a fossil 2 soldiers were killed during the rescue operation in the northern region off the west african nation the french government says the hostages included 2 french citizens an american and a south korean has the latest from paris. where the french defense minister and the chief of frogs milicz military said that this was an extremely cold flex and risky
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operation and it actually began last week on may the 1st when these 2 french tourists went missing in that being on holiday they were on their way to wildlife they didn't return and at that point the alarm was raised that school guides and was later found dead well it seems that the french military began tracking these hostages right then they managed to find them being held by a group of kidnappers in picking a fast so north of spain and it seems that over the past few days they were watching them waiting for a moment where they could move in and release and that moment almost thursday night they were worried at that point that those will see jews would be transferred to another home to or across the border in mali and at that point it might be too difficult to try and retrieve them some 20 special french forces moved into an incumbent in beni on thursday night in the dark and we are told it was a very difficult i risk operation with 4 hostages were in the end freed those 2
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french tourists along with an american and a south korean but in the process these 2 french soldiers sadly lost their lives they were killed by some of the kidnappers we're told now in terms of who was behind this kidnapping in the 1st place we don't know the french defense minister saying only that 2 armed groups operate in this area one affiliated to islamic state the other 2. they suspect that the kidnappers may have been linked to one of them well the hostages. returned to france at the weekend so their families they'll be extremely relieved they are apparently in good condition but it will be a much sadder moments of the beginning of next week when the bodies of those 2 french soldiers those 2 special 4 soldiers returned for a ceremony attended by the french president well let's take a closer look at the french military presence and and across the region and 2013
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the former colonial power and to veined militarily in northern mali after rebel forces took control of the area and has since kept about 4500 troops operating across the sahara region france and other western powers have provided funding and weapons to a regional force made up of soldiers from mali. chad and march pena to fight groups. democrats in the u.s. house have stepped up their fight for president trance tax records by issuing a subpoena the legal requests were issued to the and turner revenue service and treasury after they refused an early of a quest to release the president's tax returns for the past 6 years both trump and the democrats say they're willing to take the battle to course. now along the election process continues across india education has the calm a key issue for voters the common man's party took control of new delhi in the last
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local elections and it's now hoping the improvements it's made and state education will help put women more support so i had raman reports from new delhi. like many homes across india. is helping his children with their reading writing and arithmetic mahomedan are sent to horror worlds taught in a private school their parents believe that state schools were not up to the job until now the father is a local politician the aam aadmi party which is probably is to improve state education in india's capital region the measure but it was a bush stung me when i asked my children about the change they say government school teachers are teaching us better than the private schools private school teachers are very qualified they are paid less our teachers are more qualified and i get to know this from the children many. many government run schools in other states look like this badly in need of repair very little furniture and no support materials it's not easy to get a good education in conditions.
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