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protesters complained about the under reporting of police violence the sensationalizing of the demonstrations with the listening post on al-jazeera. level uranium and sells the u.s. it will only talk when the time is right. when you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up the u.n. says it may need to cut back on aid to parts of yemen and it's blaming the who see rebel. commanders where the president calls for early elections in the opposition lead the national assembly. and the formula one elections has died at the age of $73.00.
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iran's president hassan rouhani has come out saying he favors diplomacy but the current situation isn't suitable for talks with the u.s. on monday iran announced its quadrupled the rates of production of low enriched uranium this comes a week after it said it was ending some of its commitments under the 2050 nuclear deal particle hain reports. leaving the white house president donald trump says he's willing to talk to iran's leaders when they are ready while seemingly downplaying a potential threat iran would be making a very big mistake if they did anything if they do something it will be met with great force but we have no indication that they will. but his administration just weeks earlier had said it had intelligence that he ran could attack u.s. forces or its allies sending in an aircraft carrier to the gulf earlier than planned along with bombers and missiles even evacuating some of its diplomats.
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attic personnel from iraq perhaps in response iran announced monday it's quadrupled its production of enriched uranium still at a much lower level that could be used for a weapon the capacity of the country's enriched productive through some technical modifications has been increased by nearly 4 times without i've been any new chains or centrifuges the design information related to this has been submitted to the international atomic energy agency and still some analysts say there are signs of a potential diplomatic breakthrough and there is an urgency for diplomacy and may be the signs in terms of the new foreign minister travelling today to iran and discussing some regional issues and oman has played a kind of a mediating role between the u.s. and iran in the past so maybe this is a good sign the u.s. president has sent mixed messages on iran but this is a man who prides himself on making deals and so far he's been able to find one in
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his foreign policy now saying he's ready to talk if you runs leaders only ask patty calling al-jazeera washington iran's urging the u.n. secretary general to help facilitate a diplomatic dialogue to ease what it's called the alarming security situation in the gulf region diplomatic editor james bays is following those developments from the united nations. the letter which has been sent to the current president of the un security council indonesia and to the un secretary general antonio good terrorists talks about the alarming security situation in the gulf it doesn't mention the u.s. by name but it says currently in action is creating a lose lose situation instead it's proposing using a un security council resolution for more than 30 years ago to create a new mechanism for talks between the gulf states and iran the proposal by iranian ambassador tart proviron she is one that shows iran is pursuing
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diplomacy is trying to be reasonable at the same time though coming up with a procedure that would cut the u.s. out of any negotiations it has already been welcomed by the russian ambassador but we fully support the need to do. something good version of regional security architecture which would eventually wolf with the larger for months but the immediate need to have a venue for months where to discuss good regional issues ambassador added he thought it was likely the security council would talk about the current tension between iran and the u.s. in the near future. talks continue on tuesday between sudan's military and protest leaders after breaking up for a 2nd day the issue of who should lead the new governing body remains
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a key sticking point protesters say they will keep demonstrating on the streets of khartoum until a civilian led government been installed talks between the 2 sides were halted for 3 days while demonstrates is removed the roadblocks they put up in the capitol hill morgan has more now from khartoum. people in front of the army headquarters in sudan's capital hard terms say that they're disappointed that the opposition coalition and the declaration of freedom. and change and the transitional military council could not reach a deal yet again now the 2 sides could not agree on the sovereign presidential council the military council has been saying that it wants to be the one chairing that body and it wants either equal representation or military majority and that presidential council but the opposition coalition are saying that if that happens and if they agree to it then the transitional period will be led by the military and that's not something that they or the protesters in front of the army headquarters are asking for they're saying that it should be led by civilians and should have a civilian majority so that's one thing to do sides could not agree on there's also
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the issue of the rule now the opposition coalition wants it to have a ceremonial role with oversight from the legislative assembly which it will have 2 thirds of the seat but the military council is saying that it wanted to be the one that presidential council to be the one having oversight over the transitional period so that point of contention and the fact that the 2 sides could not reach a deal shows that a once again they have a lot of things to talk about as thousands in front of the army headquarters to continue with this that and they say they've already listened to the military council and that they remove the roadblocks and they've offered some concessions so they want to see what comes next and they also say they're waiting for the opposition coalition to decide what comes next as well and if there should be a next escalation to try to put pressure on the military council or whether they should wait for further talks which may produce results or may not present produce results. the u.n. says it may be forced to scale back the delivery of humanitarian aid to some parts of yemen under control now it blames the rebels for blocking aid convoys and harnessing stuff but it says the suspension of aid would be
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a last resort meanwhile markets of reopened in the port city of who data is a fragile cease fire holds lower burden many with more. life is trickling back into this market place the yemen's port city of hard data as people buy goods without fear of snipers and aerial bombardment residents are hopeful as a fragile cease fire between saudi forces and who the rebels hold at least for now at the nominal value of their own money we hope the un and boys will continue working until the roads and ports are open in her data to let aid and supplies enter they need to be delivered to the people so they have enough to live. this month with the forces withdrew fighters from the ports of her data sally from rough underage deal brokered by a un led committee the start calm agreement was established between rival combatants in december but after 2 similar agreements failed the ceasefire with
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fragile and sporadic fighting continued. for now it's holding but both sides of the ramping up rhetoric after saudi led coalition warplanes bombed the rebel held capital sama killing 6 people including 4 children this is after hooty drone strikes on a key oil pipeline to the west of the saudi capital riyadh can tell you that we are following with great concern recent incidents and hardening rhetoric in yemen over the past days recalling the initial positive steps taken in the implementation of the dado agreement we are encouraged by the firm commitment reiterated by president hadi and the government to implement the agreement. the world food program may also suspend aid deliveries to rebel controlled yemen because of harassment from hooty fighters. in a statement the u.n.
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agency said humanitarian workers in yemen a being tonight access to the hungry aid convoys being blocked and local authorities have interfered with food distribution who day to port is the entry point for the bulk of imported goods and humanitarian aid to the war torn nation. but with aid organizations responsible for distributing food to millions of people across yemen the task of reaching yemenis on the brink of starvation appears to be getting a lot harder laura browder manley al-jazeera even as well and president nicolas maduro has proposed holding early elections for the opposition controlled national assembly now the next isn't due until 82020 at least a dozen assembly members from the opposition have been stripped of their legislative immunity in recent weeks and face charges of treason and subversion it coincides with talks held in the u.s. between pentagon officials and representatives of the opposition leader. in america
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at the scene human from caracas. president. had said many many times over the last few months. that he wants to bring forward for the national assembly the only institution that he does not control so that in the new what's new is that. there have been exploratory talks between the government and the opposition. in norway nothing's. come of this but now. they. will bring peace now the devil of course. is. to talk to him at least because he has 3. demands. for. resign for there to be a transition government and for elections to be held but not just for the national
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assembly but all of the. country starting with the president it's not clear whether this. is really going to fly whether it will work at all to try to unlock. the election commission has announced the president is the winner of last month's elections with 55 percent of the vote who won more than 85000000 of the 154000000 votes cast in the world's biggest democracy and election claims by opposition parties of systematic cheating due to a lack of evidence. of u.s. politicians. ministration to pull out of syria the bipartisan. the u.s. should remain engaged in the conflict so deep concerns and threats to regional allies democrats and republicans worried about the administration's foreign policy after president decided to pull u.s. forces out of syria last december. and have cut off
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a key water pipeline supplying the libyan capital tripoli the you. that could amount to a war crime water supplies to the city and the surrounding areas and suspended and residents are relying on private deliveries tripoli's home to at least a 1000000 people it's been under siege since early april when the warlords. launched a military campaign to take the city at least 500 people have been killed. still to come for you here on al-jazeera concerns over the future of the chinese phone maker huawei after google decides to pull support for the plant for. ford announces major job cuts will take a look at what's behind. the web. hello again it's good to have you back well we are seeing
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some off and on showers here across parts of iran and you can see the clouds here on the satellite image that will continue through the mid week but we don't expect any of them to be too intense at times plenty of clouds across much of the area also a lot of humidity is starting to come up so the temperatures you see here the heat index actually feels a little bit warmer than that over here towards baghdad though $38.00 degrees and warm and dry conditions there and as we go towards mid week we do expect to see the winds continue out of the northwest where the temps there of about 39 degrees where here across the gulf we are seeing our relative humidity in doha quite high for this time of year making it uncomfortable with the temple here of 36 degrees but the big problem across the region is actually the thunderstorms that we have been seeing across parts of oman yemen as well causing some localized flooding across the region we do expect that continue as we go towards wednesday and then very quickly across parts of southern africa we did have one from about a push through durban that brought some rain as well as some clouds but by the time
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we get towards wednesday things are going to be approving across much of the area more sun time just coming up to about $23.00 degrees in capetown we are looking much better there at 18 and johannesburg a temperature of $21.00 degrees for you. the weather is sponsored by cattle and always i really want to get down to the reality where on line. with. it is really hard to get. or if you join at sunset. their mind this is a dialogue everyone has a voice to talk to us there live you tube chat and you too can be a mystery join the conversation on how to 0.
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ok let's recap your top stories for you so far this hour the iranian president hassan rouhani has said he favors diplomacy with the u.s. but the current situation is not suitable for talks on monday iran and states quadrupled the rate of production of enriched uranium. discussions of jute continue on tuesday between sudan's military and protesters are breaking up for a 2nd day of the question of who should lead the new governing body does remain a king sticking point one of the top story the u.n. says it may be forced to scale back the delivery of humanitarian aid to some parts of yemen areas under control the rebels for blocking aid convoys and harrison staff but says the suspension of aid would be a last resort. for us judge has ruled that congress should have access to president
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trump's financial records the judge has ruled democrats have the right to investigate the president without opening formal impeachment proceedings kristen salumi from a rally in pennsylvania. that's a good job. stressed that country's economic growth. and so we are at his brownie but on the way here he said he was disappointed in the federal judge's decision not to. request from the house oversight. and his children. the. democrats of pursuing his family because they're upset about the report and they say. this is a wrong decision on the part and obama point to talk about. something . that i think will take place in washington d.c.
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it's hard. not to testify has been lost it. is not. the president's structure earlier the president that publicly that they. want to test if he got what he wanted the president's. response from sharing that with the chairman of the house judiciary committee he said that the president has shown a shot of obstruction of justice in the mall or at work the president returns to d.c. with these controversies swirling around. major redundancies stood the u.s. called make afford it shutting $7000.00 workers at offices will 10 percent of its salaried stuff ford is looking to save $600000000.00 every year as he gets up to
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build more electric drive vehicles. from chicago. ford motor company is laying off $7000.00 white collar workers worldwide that's about 10 percent of its salaried work force deep cuts at ford and those might just be the beginning that's part of an $11000000000.00 restructuring from the company why their sales actually went up in the united states in the past year but they've gone down in europe asia and latin america and as they're competing in the standard car market they are also competing with technology companies like tesla and way mo which are making self driving electric cars and this follows on the heels of cuts by general motors even deeper cuts of $8000.00 workers or about 15 percent of its salaried workforce they're facing similar industry pressures and those companies are regearing for an era in which perhaps people aren't buying so many cars but perhaps hiring self driving cars to take them where they want to go on
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a regular basis and all of this happens is those companies have been hit by tariffs the trumpet ministration has said on steel and other metals that has cost ford alone about a $1000000000.00 over the past year and to put that in perspective the company is saving about $600000000.00 with the cuts that it is announced on monday that doesn't get you quite to the $1000000000.00 the company has paid in terrorist for importing the metals it needs to make those cars so the tariffs have been bad news on top of a rough year for the automakers. the u.s. government says the 16 year old guatemalan boy has died at a border patrol station in the south of texas he's the 5th smuggler child to die in custody since december hi joe castro has more now from washington. the government has not released details on what contributed to the death of this 16 year old boy from guatemala but what we do know is that he was apprehended while crossing the border 7 days ago since that time he spent days in 2 border patrol
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facilities and we suspect that he was either traveling alone or had been separated from his parents because the government said they were in the process of transferring him to another government agency that's in charge of the more longer term shelters for unaccompanied minors but before they were able to do that this morning he was discovered unresponsive and later pronounced dead now this will have been the 5th child to have died in u.s. government custody along the border in just 6 months this 16 year old boy had been staying in facilities that were intended to hold children for no longer than 72 hours these are the places where we've seen those images of children sleeping in what looks like cages without beds laying on the concrete floor although it's too early to say what contributed to his death we know that last week a toddler died due to our pneumonia as well as other children who are is kept south
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of the border in mexico under trump's weighed in mexico policy last week as well a 10 year old girl perished in a mexico city shelter their chinese tech giant huawei says the u.s. has quote underestimated the company came in response to people's parent company health a bit yesterday suspending some of its business with well wait to comply with u.s. government orders new wild ways smartphones won't have access to google's play store where users dun load popular including g. mail and you tube it will maintain use of the android operating system via open source licensing however google won't provide while boy with any tech support the us is trying to blacklist the company. worldwide several countries are banned or way from development of their 5 g. mobile network citing security concerns the chinese tech giant says it will continue providing updates and after sale services to its existing smartphones and
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tablets and a tango as a political analyst who advises the chinese government on economics and development he says the u.s. is trying to cripple the competition. basically this is a very clear attempt to cripple hallway it's kind of like in the old days the u.s. when confronted by russia over sputnik going to the moon they said we're going to outcompete you we're going to show you the best and the brightest and what we can do but today it seems more about tripping up the competition we don't have to compete against you if we can cripple you this is going to be a long term situation in terms of what beijing can do hopefully it won't but it could quite possibly say that for security reasons they will be banning broadcom qualcomm who have also joined on the train with google and keep all of those out make it almost impossible from the do that then this is what i would call a hard fork where you're really going to see
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a real change in basically 2 camps going ahead with their respective technologies you could see apple's sales plummet this is one of the other realities of this trade war is that these types of international stories are going to impact more and more nationalist china and they will shy away from buying apple and other u.s. products remember this is a over $350000000000.00 a year market where u.s. companies are selling in china and that that would have disastrous consequences for american businesses especially on the profit lines. kathlyn politicians have been briefly released from prison to pick up the parliamentary credentials the temporary release comes ahead of the parliament opening session on tuesday old 5 of facing charges over their involvement in the 27000 cattle and independence referendum. politicians from europe's mainstream policies are calling on bosis to stand against
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the far right set of the european parliamentary elections among them is the french president emmanuel macro he's met with the european council president to discuss the vote which starts on thursday from my home was broken with tradition and joined the campaign trail. south africa's former president jacob zuma has appeared in court to get corruption charges against him thrown out the charges go back to the late 1990 s. when zuma is alleged to have received payments from a french company for a warship contracts from either miller explains. jacob zuma is message is a familiar one he continues to insist he's not corrupt he was spoke to supporters outside quote all talk at 1st day of the legal arguments to have corruption charges against him dismissed. that government it's been many years since this case began i think there have been 5 judges who have decided to drop these charges against me but those who think i am guilty stating the charges they don't want me to be free
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from. these corruption allegations one of several zuma is implicated in go back more than a decade well zuma was a senior member of the consumer tell provincial government the french weapon supply aton this one a 180000000 dollars government contract to supply for free gets to south africa's navy state prosecutors say tal is agreed to pay summa half a $1000000.00 rand that's around $34000.00 along with zuma the company denies bribery is a far the seriousness of the crime some of the payment was allegedly brokered by his former financial adviser should be a shake he was jailed in 2006 for 15 years but was released 4 years later on a medical parole. in 2007 as he prepared for the elections when he would become president of the african national congress zuma was charged with corruption record tearing money laundering and forward the charges were dropped 2 years later because
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judges said that being political interference but last year prosecutors had another change of mind and the charges were reinstated that was just weeks after zuma was forced to resign as president because of links to numerous other corruption allegations j consumers lawyers have begun their arguments against him standing trial they say the charges were laid more than a decade ago and he should have been tried back then according to them the case is politically driven something the for the president supports is outside agree well in or out of the service we know what that is you know to. us is as it was that of the local just the time than sorry. not that we are but if i did he was a little bit of justice. for all the presidents all along it just. if zuma loses this beard and stands trial later this year he could face 25 years in prison
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but if he succeeds in getting these charges thrown out this may not be the last court appearance was zuma he remains linked to of a corruption scandal still under investigation for me to milan al-jazeera pietermaritzburg south africa 3 time formula one world champion has died at the age of 70 the austrian driver passed away on monday 8 months after having a lung transplant me welling's looks back at his life in his prime minister lauder was one of the most famous and fastest people in sport formula one world champion 3 times 2 of these titles came after an astonishing with coverage from a crash that almost killed him. and dressmakers lauder was born in vienna in 1949 by the age of 22 built up enough racing car experience to be part of f 1. $174.00 he'd been asked to drive for italian culture and spring. he finished 4th
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for a team that had been struggling and his input to improve the car proved invaluable because in 1985 he became world champion. using a more dominant in $76.00 and so horrific an infamous crash at the no grade in germany now that had urged his fellow drivers to boycott the rice and the safety concerns but it went ahead and on the 2nd lot of the truck and burst into flames he was trapped in the wreckage suffering severe burns damage to his lungs and was left in a coma he survived severely scarred but incredibly missed just 2 rices he returned to do with english dr james hunt with physical and psychological scars their story after the accident i couldn't take any of it is it all because it was too bad right after i was feeling good i wanted to raise again a lot of retired from the foreign advice of the season after just 2 laps concerned with it's a wrench riding hunt completed the rice in 3rd place to win the 76 drivers' title by a single point. louder did manage to reassert himself dominating the 77 season to regain
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his title. when he left ferrari there was a lame period including too short a time it's. 1902 he was back winning races with mclaren and part of another famous rivalry this time with tonight alan crossed the frenchman to the 84 will drive his title by just half a point when he finally retired as a driver at the end of the 85 season there is still plenty to keep him busy he won his own airline and yes there were times he was back in the cockpit as a pilot. and had 5 children by the time the 2nd wife gave birth to twins in 2009 management positions included the return to ferrari in the ninety's and he was non-executive chairman of messiter when they signed lewis hamilton in 2012 and understandably popular figure he's left the taming moaning all of. you. part of his legacy wouldn't be his
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dedication to drive to safety. the damage from the 76 crash was always there but the talent trophies and powers of recovery i want to define make you louder. this is al jazeera these are the top stories the iranian president hassan rouhani has said he favors diplomacy with the u.s. but the current situation is not suitable for talks on monday iran announced its core group pulled the rate of production of low enriched uranium talks are due to continue on tuesday between sudan's military and protest leaders after breaking up for a 2nd day the question of who should lead the new governing body remains a key sticking point. the united nations says it may be forced to scale back the delivery of humanitarian aid to some parts of yemen under which you control it blames hoofy rebels for blocking aid convoys and harrison staff but suspending aid
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would be a last resort. the agency will do everything within its powers to ensure that the weakest and most vulnerable especially the children do not suffer he still hopes the good sense will prevail and the suspension will not happen the ultimate responsibility for the welfare of their people lies with the yemeni leadership. hundreds of u.s. politicians have sent a letter to the white house urging the trumpet ministration not to pull out of syria democrats and republicans have been concerned about the administration's foreign policy after the us president donald trump decided to pull american troops out of syria as of december last year. and uneasy as election commission has announced president has won last month's elections with 55 percent of the votes election board ruled claims by opposition parties of systematic cheating due to a lack of evidence the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has proposed holding early elections for the opposition controlled national assembly the next shed jewel
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vote isn't due until late 2020 at least a dozen assembly members from the opposition have been stripped of their legislative immunity in recent weeks and face charges of treason and subversion the proposal coincides with talks held in the u.s. between pentagon officials and representatives of the opposition leader on why. gunman have cut off a key water pipeline supply in the libyan capital tripoli the u.n. says it could amount to a war crime supplies in the city and surrounding areas and suspended and people there are relying on private deliveries for police been under siege since early april when the after launched a military campaign to take the city up next it's the stream i will see you very soon. i was born in the same year as this one is always i feel as though the state is my mother should be a cause of celebration for some a catastrophe the nakba is still going on they put my sons in jail so every day i
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feel this catastrophe twice over. tells the stories of palestinian and israeli women born in the same but on opposite sides of this divide born in 48 on al-jazeera world. and here in the street and i have a dream how are young people forcing the world leaders to act on climate change today we dive into a new al-jazeera documentary highlighting the social justice movements pushing for reform. un secretary general antonio gates yet as the world is facing a climate emergency and with political will to respond to the problem there is a growing movement of young people fighting to address the inaction and its rise explores the impact.

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