against any outside aggression this as members of the 28 nation venezuela contact group prepared to arrive in caracas this week to attempt the seemingly impossible a negotiated settlement to the increasingly explosive political conflict you see in human i just got access. to the u.s. state of alabama has passed a bill outlawing almost all abortions including in cases of rape the measure which is the nation's most restrictive was approved by the state senate the bill contains an exemption for when the pregnancy creates a serious health risk for the woman it will not go to the governor to be signs in some law and she's expected to give her approval as part of a broader effort to have the supreme courts reconsider the can constitutional rights to abortion. the mayor of mexico city has declared an emergency over its air quality the city is among the 10 most populated is in the

world and people blame wildfires for the toxic mix of smoke and car fumes all to see it is money well republic has more. of a nightmarish haze has taken over the skies above mexico city authorities say the dense cloud of toxic air is the result of dozens of wildfires burning in southern mexico and central america is it's the season for high temperatures and this year has been especially hot on the other hand we've all seen periods of prolonged drought. the air quality in the city has gotten so bad the local government has urged people to stay indoors as the air outside is unsafe to breathe apart from breathing it really stings your eyes it's very annoying see isn't that a light it's incredible you can see it in the air the air looks cloudy the amount of pollution you can see is amazing for. the mask because of the smart it's painful

to inhale it i re days i have stark levels of pollution. more than 20000000 people live in this metropolitan area making it the most densely populated space in north america. exhaust from the nearly 6000000 vehicles that regularly transit the city isn't making things better. but some people are taking matters into their own hands been out of the world recently won a lawsuit against the city after proving air pollution from hydrocarbons is causing medical problems among residents we don't know the workers want to see something that there's no doubt this is an environmental crisis by any standard there are so many pollution particles in some parts of the city that this would be considered a high contamination of fine particles. mexico's capital was once known as the most contaminated city in the world and although improvements have been made the city appear. to be struggling to curb back pollution this lookout would normally guarantee a beautiful view of the mexico city skyline instead what we can see today is little

more than a smoky haze you can even smell it and it could still be several days before the air quality begins to improve. the smoky air has turned the sunsets over the city blood red and with wildfires continuing to burn in surrounding states the problem appears to be far from over. al-jazeera mexico city. protestors in israel are calling on people to boycott this year's your aversions song contest in tel aviv is where the scenes in the city earlier on choose day the demonstrators say israel is using the events to mask rights abuses against palestinians in the occupied west bank and gaza artists and broadcasters have no come under pressure to withdraw from the competition. now its cursor not in the french riviera where the cannes film festival is underway 2 very different types of comedy films are opening this year's events they mr actors will compete with

promising new comers for the big prize the palme d'or challenge there are reports now from cannes. film stars flashbulbs festival magic. can is a celebration of cinema like no other and in its 72nd year it is still surprising audiences. this year its opening with a zombie comedy. packed with stars directed by jim the dead don't die seems an unlikely choice for the prestigious festival but the american director has used the genre to sneak in big ideas that they sometimes get buried under all the bodies the festivals directed explained his choice. general cinema is important for cinema for many artists especially in the era of big studios it was a way for them to express themselves within a defined framework and today john are cinema continues. a man of many genres is

director quentin tarantino to rush to finish his new film screening. once upon a time in hollywood is a black comedy set in 1960 s. los angeles bobby and fight to go to jail is called manslaughter many more heavyweight directors will walk this red carpet over the next 11 days including ken loach. terrence malick and. but they'll also be flanked by newcomers that critics anxious to see i want to see what massive. i mean it's kind of ridiculous that this is the 1st black woman to ever be composition as a director ok when trying to say what women. more than the men because i feel like ken loach parenting the daughter we kind of know their work and we know that film is going to solve it but are they really going to surprise us can is dedicated to cinema survival but in doing so it lost out to new films for martin scorsese and

steven soderbergh this year that's because they were produced by netflix who refuse . it's to screen in cinemas before going online but netflix now attract the biggest names spent $12000000000.00 of content and it's unclear how long can will be able to hold back is changing tide charlie rangel added there can. and staying with the arts a painting by the french are says claude monet has sold for more than $110000000.00 money's a most is one of $25.00 celebrated paintings depicts in his neighbor's haystacks in shiva on the in northern france and he was completed in $8090.00 and is the 1st by the grace of our systems to impressionists to sell for more than $100000000.00. this is all to syria and these other top stories the u.s.

state department has ordered all non-emergency governments employees to leave iraq immediately last week the u.s. deployed warships to the gulf in a move it said was a response to threats from iran matheson has more from baghdad we're talking about contractors we're talking about oil workers we're talking about government employees for example working in the embassies the state department is put out as part of that statement saying that the embassy services are in iraq are likely to be closed busy temporarily they will be in france being reopened at some point in the future but nonessential non-emergency staff and citizens being asked to leave iraq by commercial means the moment. saddam's military council has agreed with opposition groups to a 3 year transitional period civilians will no have a 2 thirds majority in parliament it's the sides have yet to decide who will guide

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arrested after a wave of attacks against muslims in sri lanka the police chief has warned that officers will respond with maximum force to what he called writing moves that have killed one person tension has been high since the easter sunday bombings well those are the headlines the news continues here and i'll just see or after this stream. an army of volunteers has come together to help with the influx of tens of thousands of evacuees. but their retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems. smoke from the massive wildfires now blankets much of northern california leading to some of the worst air quality in the world but with more than 12000 structures lost in the wildfires concerns remain about long term accommodations jobs and medical care. local officials say there isn't enough housing stock available.

hi i'm femi oke a and this is the strain today to the united kingdom still the chuckle silence we discuss britain's occupation of the indian ocean territory so if you want to join the conversation tweet us and i will do my best to include you in the. british prime minister tourism a is defined the united nations ruling that britain illegally obtained the choco side and i should return the archipelago to misha's this is out today is the dean baba explain why we're telling the islands is not that easy. months in 1965 britain split the remote islands from riches 3 years before riches gained independence the new ruling says that was illegal under international law then in the late sixty's and early seventy's britain evicted almost 2000 chicle sian's to marisa's in the seychelles that was to make way for

construction of a us military base on the largest island diego garcia. decades on many live in poverty in marriages where the largest across in communities based but several files are now live here in southern england following a decision in the 1980 s. to grant some cigar sian's british citizenship and they've been campaigning consistently for the right to return we heard from one of their living living in the united kingdom he talks about what it's like to be in exile physically and psychologically it is. torture it is revolting and humiliating to know that you are being made because of what ledge to make us we are being taken advantage of just because you are a small black community without any network to seek help. so it took us eons are anxious to return home russia's once

a territory back now but britain has extended the u.s. lease of diego garcia until 2036 what is next discuss engram bank robber madam you tube is a lawyer representing the uk o.c.n. refugees here in our studio we have david vine he's a professor at american university author of island ashamed of the secret history of the u.s. military base in diego garcia and what rosen is a retired u.s. navy captain and senior vice president as c.n.n. that's a nonprofit research and analysis organization gentlemen good to have you here let's start with lawson's in black and white photographs wrapping thank you for sending them to us and to go back 50 years to see what life was like before diego garcia was the agassi and it was a little archipelago where people actually lived who were involved in the military this picture here talk us through well then why did you send us these pages. i

think it shows. a totally normal life which they had their. military base game in you will you will know that. this was an early night in the sixty's when one of the states wanted an island in the indian ocean for foreign military base and the u.k. said well be be our guest go and look for your island. so so the american navy why don't look for an island for the base to found out that bra and 1st. but the bra of was not convenient to them because another brother was a unique total population and they did not want to disturb the pollution so they went to their 2nd best shows which was there last year. they did not is they to forcefully is the indigenous people on the go last year and on their us by most and

we know the rest. this is quite a vicious story in terms of how the brits decided to get people off the island they stop them from coming back if they went off to have hospital treatment they rounded up animals and pets and gas them and they starved them in order to get this prime piece of real estate you're looking at what happens with military bases around the world is an unusual story and sadly in the case of the u.s. military it's not i've been able to document around 20 cases just in the past roughly 10120 years. where the u.s. military has forcibly removed local populations usually indigenous populations as part of the construction or the expansion of u.s. military bases so let you go see him story is is sadly not unique some people know about the people of the marshall islands who were displaced during nuclear testing

. puerto rico okinawa japan and just a few of the many cases in which similar acts of taking place. so i'm just thinking you've been to diego garcia did you have any sense that this was the speech you tell when you were there when you were in the navy no i mean the u.s. has had a long term 50. well you were generally strong which for 50 years and that was recently extended for 20 years through 2036 i mean the u.s. is basically i don't want to say exclusively a tenet we are the we are the major occupant of diego garcia however we relied upon the british government in order to provide us access to the base and in so far as some of the meant items that were mentioned by david in all my time working on base issues for the department of defense we always tried to. ensure

that there were adequate opportunities for the local population respect for environmental laws and things of that and we spent a lot of money on it now you obviously the standards that were back in the 1960 s. were probably different than those today and so in the case of diego garcia i think we need to rethink exactly terms of the u.s. relationship with with more riches and that is the displaced people and their descendants we need to rethink on how we're going to deal with that really what occurred to me was that pain with which i thought that sentence will actually people who still remember living on the chaco side as the pain with which they remember where they came from that it was such a beautiful place for them i want you to have a listen to. here and he puts that into was every time i hear something his from the chuckles islands about what they missing why they want to go back and have a listen to him. you're going to. release the film.

cox's. come here on to my laptop this is a tweet from marie sabrina john murray with sabrina always going to join us today unfortunately had to work so i'm going to bring in some of her social media she says she goes is not for the u.k. it's not for the usa chuckles it's for sure gosia nz it's time for the u.k. to give us our power island well when you've been trying to do that how much ground are you making right now how close is it to being. to go since. well i think it's pretty simple but it's just made complicated by by by the shameful refusal of of the united kingdom and the united states of america to

comply with the rule of law. before the pretty february 2019 that is before the ruling of the international court of justice well richard had claims that changeless islanders have claims but no more these are normal claims there is the highest court of law in this world that has ruled that the u.k. is continuing occupation is unlawful that u.k. the most bring an end to its occupation and must return the indigenous people there and that you know this right is an earth got a list right every state every country must help in putting an end in this so this is not a claim this is not an allegation this is the rule of law this is a declare it should of law i mean i still remember when when catalonia. claim

independence at terrorism in a way it online and said that the lower house through. with the rule of law well are sorry this is great it's your turn now to comply with the rule of law or rob and this is mark i too am an international lawyer and a couple of points and i and i i want to reinforce what i said earlier that the united states needs to perhaps take a leading role in trying to address the concerns of the displaced charger sands and work with them russian government to try to come up with a reasonable accommodation and i would agree with you that there was a lancaster agreement that was a negotiated in 1900. 5 that granted rights to riches to fisheries to mineral rights and a variety of other things and i don't believe that agreement has been fully honored and in fact the there was an arbitration over the u.k.'s designation of

a marine protected area that so much as reinforced that point that all terms in the lancaster agreement were not met however an important point is that is an international legal tribunal that did not say that the you not that the u.k.'s. continued occupation of the of the child ghost was illegal and now we have an advisory opinion that says that that it is that the detachment was improper so i mean yeah that so at the so i would say that the united states and the u.k. have acted in good faith up to now and now you knew you were that good faith in terms of their legal meeting their legal obligation is laughing at you well that's fine but you know terms of meeting their legal obligations now there is moral and ethical things that i said in the lancaster agreement that i think that need to be addressed but again one of the mark on a story that's

a new definition of good fair i have to tell you i mean we are all here to state our boy but i mean this it's very well as documented that there were that us going to restlessly sled everybody was misled into into making the world believe that those islands what unpopulated i mean the circumstances of the removal of the wheel at the end of the 1960 s. yes i mean these people were treated like animals i didn't i will send you the whole document and you will tell me well if these were americans these would have been accepted full stop no there is no good for it you know it cannot be good faith when such honorable states like you know us mistreat people like this so. i do grok you the fact that now we have a new situation and i am sure that the u.s. government will take the lead and we'll come to

a reasonable conclusion to this matter of fact you know block out i'll finish by this. that there's not much difference between position and the us position on this has never asked the military base to go over to go away. very open and the prime minister has made that clear isn't officially we are ready to grant at least to the us government for the military base i mean how how close can we get and how ridiculous in its turn indeed this is an international dispute that could be solved very easily that you go seems most of them are also not calling for the removal of the base many of them would like to work on the base given the deep poverty that many of them are living in and of course we have u.s. military bases around the world that have civilian populations living right next door even one time a bad way where the supposed enemy is living on the other side of the fence line.

tomorrow she goes since could go home there's housing where current civilian employees are working on the base they can also go back to live on the islands other than diego garcia which are more than 100 miles from diego garcia were many of them were born where their ancestors are buried where many of them want to go back and of course you know they've been suffering in exile for now more than 50 years that just a little bit because you've already talked about how they see it you can see as well rounded up because it was a very lucrative lease to be happy with the united states so the brits least to the united states they rally people up and they don't them. around malicious that dumping explaining the consequences of that and when you go and find you go seems today what you have how are they living so on the whole the scenes have since they were as you said dumped in exile and just in the seychelles they've been living

generally speaking is the poorest of the poor in both islands these are you know they're living far removed from the tourist beaches that some people might associate with in the seychelles they were dumped with no resettlement assistance they received very small amounts of compensation 5 and then 10 years after the last removal so by which point many of them are living in profound poverty and what many of them talk about as profound sorrow for being separated and torn from their their native lands the land of their their ancestors and their birthplace and some are in the u.k. some of managed to be in the u.k. as well only since 2002. many of now upwards of one to 3000 have moved to the u.k. in search of a better life because their lives in the seychelles for most of them have been so painful i just want to emphasize what it is that is so important so special

about diego garcia that the states knowing what has happened in the past few years possibly decades in the u.k. continue to hold control of that island this is called the howling that he is a journalist an analyst for foreign policy and he just explained in a nutshell beautifully the loo of the you have a listen. here is its location in the indian ocean. it's able to dominate the east coast of africa the west coast of pakistan and india as well as the 3rd largest body of water on the planet it also is able to control access and entrance to the persian gulf and to the red sea it played an enormously important role in the us invasion of iraq and currently plays an important role in the war in syria and somalia and if there is some kind of confrontation between the united states and iran diego garcia with its deep part or large airfields will be

ground 0 for any kind of military confrontation with iran are a that's just sums it up why would america want to give up the lease why would the u.k. want to give up i mean is it ever going to go back well but but i don't know what it is talking about giving of the lease i mean this is a misconception where america is going to stay there liberty of the other cases it has to do is say that that's it thanks for the that so that that's the importance of of why the americans are that yes then what do you think because we still in the same situation we were over 50 years ago we have nothing seem pretty well in my opinion i generally agree with the individual just spoke about the strategic importance and if you look at some of my prior articles i mean it's got 210010 or $12000.00 foot runway in the middle of the indian ocean which if you have long range like b. $52.00 and other laundering aircraft you can you can launch strikes you know

thousands of miles in addition what's very important is that it's an area which doesn't have a large population and so that if there was ever an attack on the u.s. base there or the british base as well or the u.s. the ships that are there for our current part of the marine prepositioning force there would not be any real significant. civilian casualties so it gives the us a certain amount of freedom of operational action and then last but certainly not least the location is so critical because it is relatively isolated and and somewhat here a place when i do have a point of order the u.s. does not actually pay a cash payment to the british government in arms no they counts no they don't but i mean how there have been a there was an agreement called the tried and sales agreement in which the united states waive certain cost of development of trident missiles many many years ago

but the history of the united states in the u.k. in terms of basing has not been where the u.s. has ever paid them a lease payment they haven't but effectively they they transferred $14000000.00 to the british government it was one of the ways as robin said that the u.s. government the u.s. military evaded congress and parliamentary oversight by rather than asking for for an appropriation of $14000000.00 they simply wiped away the death that was owed i don't know how that's $965.00 i don't have those kind of records but ok but but but that's not just the general i'm going to tell you because you know with the shocking at the end of the program very same they're always to resolve. is also listening to give up give up the nice can juggle scenes go back 30 i'm sort of all over the all over the world that american bases right next to the relation of all of america all of the hawaii all of the south korea all of it just all over europe

why cannot the shoggoth islanders be reste in the lives i mean let's forget about the google stuff for a minute there respond this is the overall island which is above 150 miles away from sort of to go so there's a good question because if there is a military our naval mine why can't i but i have to i would actually have to. look at it but in principle i agree with you there are probably areas where there might be some limited resettlement candidly most of the people when they were evicted from the base were working on a large coconut plantation and you know and also they were just living their normal lives so if there is offered if there's opportunities for them perhaps to engage in agriculture that's fine but i think frankly the thing that's the real riches there is the water and the and the fisheries and so trying to involve those people in some of the economic activities involve them in employment at the base i think

that's the path to success for those that want to come back there markham's can feel about you but i'm confused about one thing. if i may is that even if you can't go back to the chuckle signs where you left your ancestors. and where the burial grounds are the cemeteries you can even go back and think oh i don't know that but i think that some accommodation that would allow people to go and visit those sites could be reached i don't i just stop unless that's going on haiti yeah i think you know mark said that word freedom moment ago and i think sadly the u.s. military in the u.s. government have prioritized their freedom of operation as mark put it over the freedom of the to go see and to live where they want to and sadly i think you know racism is clearly a major part of this story of this is a population of we didn't even mention that we just just just assumed they was happening because of how colonialism this is this is clearly ism in the 21st

century this is this is a colony it is britain's last created colony that the united states military has benefited from at the expense of that you go see ensues interests and lives have been trampled upon for now more than half a century when indeed this entire problem could be solved and goes to be paid reparations for what they have suffered at a small fraction of the total. the billions that have been invested in the various t.j. says here on twitter since mirages is a sovereign nation and it has always maintained that it has sovereignty over the tigris archipelago so any u.k. need to handle control over to militias had control over to meshes that is one scenario that might happen constantine us has another one have a listen to what he has to say earlier this year the principal judicial organ of the united nations told the u.k. government to return the chickens and to marry shoes as soon as possible the u.k.

government have participated fully unit court proceedings presented its case but its arguments were rejected now that you can government rejects the findings of the court and says that it will return at some point in the future when they're no longer need it so what's next now to turn on the un general assembly to make it move and act on the advice it has been given by the i.c.j. here on twitter abdul hobson as they will be consequences the u.k. is already struggling internationally and this will leave it floundering and isolated robin are you hopeful that the un can can fix this well well of course i am in the beautiful advisory ruling paragraph $179.00 the judges the court the onerous under un general assembly to fix the muddle it is over which the islands are going to be returned and the fabulous islanders

are going to be resettled in the leftover of one of the 80 the quote says this is the obligation on all the states to do sure that's over it is return to returns i got to tell you where very into the show how long is that going to take iraq but the us or the u.k. this year who. big big very good decision to put to this barbaric amazing extraordinary but that's really being optimistic day under 30 i'm sorry i mean every. sailor's camping where is the security front there i mean we see a lot of. barbecues and a villa both parties what is go back there one last fall in a sentence if i may god well i mean i yes an accommodation needs to be reached yeah weather can be done it's going to be

a little tricky for the u.s. because remember its rights are derivative of those of the u.k. . day that this problem could be solved tomorrow our governments and people around the world need to continue to put pressure on the british and u.s. governments who are increasingly isolated internationally and are becoming international pariah as and have really trampled on the human rights of the there's not every international situation where you can see such an easy solution we feel that there's certainly an easy solution in this case. maybe you'll be right we should thank you gentlemen we continue online always at twitter thanks for your company.

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