tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera June 5, 2019 12:00am-1:01am +03
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this is al-jazeera. taylor this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. protest is fired on in sudan's capital less than a day off to dozens of demonstrators were killed in a crackdown. by u.s. president tells prime minister to resign may he's committed to a post trade deal as thousands protest against his visit. keeping the memory alive thousands gathered to remember 10 men square in the only chinese place where
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memorials of the massacre are allowed. and if you can't beat it legalize it a bold new proposal by mexico's president which he hopes will end the war with drug cartels. and i'm we are hearty mendo how would the sport old rivalries die hard at the french open as rafael nadal and roger federer prepare to go head to head for a place in the final at roland garros. we begin in sudan where woman and child have been killed in the capital khartoum as security forces trying to contain protests demanding a civilian government well this comes a day after at least 40 protesters were killed in a crackdown by a paramilitary group there are reports that the group known as the rapid support forces has surrounded a major hospital tory gave me reports. members
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of the sudanese paramilitary group known as the rapid support force shoot a protest as in the capital khartoum the military john to has been in charge since longtime president al bashir was deposed in april military leaders have apologized for the killing and injuring of dozens of demonstrators on monday. on the 1st day of the ija festival following ramadan the crackdown appears to be continuing on the was some siege unease attended prayers but many stayed at home too scared to go outside. activists say the record support force has surrounded mosques and a body representing sudanese pharmacists says r.s.s. soldiers a provoking fights with medical staff outside hospitals. the military leadership says elections will be held within 9 months for protesters day trust that john to
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they want an immediate transfer of power to civilian will and across that i mean we dissidents people hold the security forces accountable for the dispersal of the sit in the security forces a bit trite the sudanese people. hundreds of protesters have been arrested and the internet is cut despite that analysts say demonstrators can keep a mental change going but they do have the ability to mobilize civilians not only in protest but in not just in the 3 towns in the capital but others cities in the sudan and they also have the ability to cause a general strike which would severely. sudan's economy the justice says it's investigating why forces shot unarmed civilians at the long running sitting at a military headquarters in khartoum the killings are being condemned worldwide but pleas for restraint are apparently being ignored by members of the rapid support force and protesters are paying the price victoria gay to be out there. as the
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military is a member of the alliance of sudanese political forces an opposition group here in london he says a new government needs to be formed free from foreign interference we want freedom we want a spot of tea we want to have free and fair election and want to see that there are self-government sauce to. get to sudan. that developing countries we've got off resources which as been squandered in the last number of years i would like to have a government of our own with complete independence without interference from egypt saudi arabia or united arab emirate. the united states britain and norway have criticized the plan by sudan's military genter to hold elections calling instead for an orderly transition to civilian rule the crackdown in sudan is also on the agenda at a closed door session at the united nations security council a diplomatic editor james bass joins me now from u.n. headquarters in new york so james what we expect from from that meeting will
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certainly we've got growing calls condemning what has gone on so far in terms of this crackdown as you say the so-called 3 troika countries which tend to lead the diplomacy for the west the u.s. the u.k. and norway have condemned things one of those countries the u.k. has joined with another security council member germany to call for this meeting of the u.n. security council i can tell you for some hours there had been a question marco whether there would be a security council meeting because some council members weren't sure whether it would be useful at this stage but certainly that council meeting jus to start any minute in fact the council was in open session discussing central africa they've now gone into closed session is joining that closed meeting going to discuss the situation in sudan as i say the u.k. and germany called for that meeting and at the start of the meeting the german ambassador spoke to reporters. we need urgently
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a return to the negotiating table legitimacy cannot come from the barrel of a gun but has to be achieved again in the process it's a long one maybe sometimes a painful one but there is no eternity but to this transition to a civilian let is to civilian let government so in so far we do. we do support what to secretary general what also the african union has asked for and again we want this in the security council to want to race attention on the situation we find quite worrying. the german ambassador speaking in his national capacity now clearly the security council have to decide whether it can issue a statement what was agreed on one position it's not clear at this stage whether we're going to hear any statement after this closed door meeting they're being
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briefed behind closed doors by nicholas hasen who is the u.n. special advisor who has been given the task of looking at the issue of sudar for some weeks now we don't think he will be speaking to the press either and what's not clear is the dynamics around the security council table as i say it took some time for the security council after news of the crackdown on monday to have this meeting that i think is for several reasons one is because the african countries wanted the african union really to take the lead on this but now it's clear that the transitional military council is not anymore sticking with the plan the disagreed with the a you so that of course is a reason i think for the security council now to get involved it's also clear that some of the council members the russian diplomat for example on his way in said that he felt that the new plan for an election was
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a good thing suggesting he might be supporting the military council and remember also some complicated regional dynamics the military council quite possibly getting support we believe from the united arab emirates and saudi arabia a complicated picture hopefully we'll come a little bit clearer in the next couple of hours james bays thank you very much indeed order nyang is the director of afghanistan he is at drexel university and joins me now from scott on skype from philadelphia thanks for being with us just one of the pick up on what james was talking about there the possibility of interference from or or influence perhaps from countries like egypt saudi arabia in the u.a.e. is that there's been a it's been noted that the crackdown came shortly after meetings between the military leaders in sudan and these various countries what kind of connection do you see between the 2. and there we have to assume are we not reason to suspect that there are serious connections and perhaps some of those countries out of the u.a.e. and perhaps saudi arabia as well as egypt maybe even had prior knowledge of what
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seems of a no plan after bomb on the part of the security forces. and given given what's happened i mean what do you think the strategy should be for the protest movement because now those talks have broken down and they have said that they want to escalate the protest movement did you think that's the right strategy i mean we're going to hear mary's carry babies and in some manner at this moment. previously it seemed possible for us to imagine that there could be a military government i mean a shared civilian military sovereign council but now i think in many ways the military itself has no need illegitimately i was of sudanese protesters and so the possibilities of negotiating i think are greatly diminished. but i think moving forward i think we have to hope we would have the estimates now that that their elections i mean in into the normal situations people welcome the possibility of elections but actually if you don't it's different because the opposition of said
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that i want to rush to elections because i think that the regime of bashar is so entrenched that it would take several years perhaps to get to a point where they could have a fair elections do you think that interpretation is correct or do you think that they should actually look at the the offer of elections in 9 months from the transitional council with a bit more when it wouldn't shouldn't perhaps dismiss it that quickly. the problem in sudan is the question of whether or not you can have free and fair elections under a 1000000 served by the military and security services and so are you perhaps to be a solution in which the military and security services relinquish power in terms of their parents and create a government of technocrats they can then this starts the most. execution is way of having elections perhaps the elections could be held in my months perhaps you need a longer period of transition but actually both and sometimes can only happen once the military regime in sudan surrender stop what i want to make of the possibility of a kind of intervention from the un or the or the end u.n.
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security council members as james is suggesting it's perhaps a nuke war effort that would it would it help if the un got involved i think there aren't any that the united nations and the international community and particularly european states can do to make or positive impact on the situation in sudan from one of them actually use the african union for instance refusing to recognize the military got home and i think the united nations the european union should follow suit. in refusing to grant recognition for the military government and most likely also will let you know what further isolate the military government if the pursues i'm a strategy or conduct of the school and that means doing things like cutting off assistance that europeans are currently providing or providing earlier to the wrapper support forces for things like migration from strong number happy to even raise the issue of the war in yemen and cutting off the supply of some troops or those come old and
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young thank you very much indeed to feel thoughts like you when you. still ahead on the honors there are news hour we'll report from a camp in northern syria where thousands of displaced people are facing eviction plus. it is 30 years since the violent suppression of the student led pro-democracy protests here in tiananmen square i've been speaking to one of the leaders of that movement now in exile still defiant his reflections on 2 young women 30 years on here on al-jazeera. and the highest of accolades for france's football world cup winners clear has the details in sport. the u.s. president has promised a phenomenal trade deal for a post brics it britain donald trump held talks with outgoing prime minister to resign may in the british capital during the 2nd day of his state visit but trump
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seemed to ignore potential friction over dealings with chinese telecoms giant huawei even that from a's replacement turner who has more from london. what in other circumstances would be a significant meeting was on this occasion far more low key the u.s. president alongside a british prime minister on the verge of stepping down for the past 2 and a half the president and i have had the privilege of being the latest guardians of this precious and profound friendship between our countries there was no avoiding breaks it and opposed breaks a trade deal between the 2 countries donald trump is a big fan of both i would say i would think that it will happen and it probably should happen this is a great great country and it wants its own identity it wants to have its own borders it wants to run its own affairs is a very very special place and i think it deserves
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a special place on the topline point of contention between the 2 sides the role of huawei the chinese telecoms giant in building the u.k.'s 5 g. network president trump seemed to brush the issue aside there will be an agreement he said not to worry he seemed to imply leave it to mrs may's successor on which point the president has made his views very public indorsing top contenders boris johnson the former foreign secretary and the current foreign secretary jeremy hunt . environment minister michael gove also a front runner he said he didn't know very well there was talk of a one on one meeting it was as if the former reality t.v. star was back candidates this time for the job of british prime minister. at the business end of this state visit donald trump was most at home around the table talking deals that come. later today even the national health service he said later should be part of future trade talks look i think everything
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with a trade deal is on the table when you when you're dealing in trade everything's on the table so n.h.s. or anything else besides the glamour of a state visit or lavish attention of royalty great britain once a valued ally and strategic partner is to this president it seems a deal waiting to be done. al-jazeera london. earlier several 1000 demonstrators marched through central london in protest against the u.s. president's visit but trump dismissed the demonstrations as a small protest and claimed he'd seen cheering crowds full britain's there. it was billed as a con a ball of resistance and the demonstrations certainly included elements of performance as well as protest the costumes and fancy dress one group dressed as characters from the hung maid's tale some blackouts were simple of this subtle many
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simply too profane to show on television or even trump impersonators we have reached a deal. with. the 6 metre tall trump baby blimp was back after 1st appearing in 2018 and the republican effigy titles dumped trump made its debut this year i do respect and not proceed but i'm ashamed of this country for inviting him and treating him with pump and dignity i think that the british government is about that kind of thing to be able to welcome somebody who's kind of a new go fascist a short distance from where the president was meeting the prime minister the stage had been set up to host several high profile speakers look around. look at each other. we are young we are old we're. way to say movement. where the whole wonderful mosaic of diversity and inclusion that we
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represent on this demonstrations of i. don't know there were isolated confrontations between protesters and some vocal pro trump individuals but they were quickly contained. protest organizers had anticipated the degree of outrage for teagan certainly the numbers on this protest are a fraction of the 250000 the president last 20 on the last visit to the us president has succeeded in uniting a kaleidoscope of different courses from pro-feminist the fascists. when he was asked by journalists about the protests outside president trump claimed to have seen only cheering supporters the demonstration he said was a small protest in the media attention obvious fake news i don't see any protests i did see a small protest today when i came very small so a lot of it is fake news i hate to say but you saw the the people waving the american flag waving your flag it was tremendous spirit and love for the most part
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the public is being kept well back from the president and his entourage but if president trump was really oblivious to the chorus or during his motorcade left downing street it can only have been because of the remarkable sound proofing of his official limousine. brennan al-jazeera central london steve clemons is the editor at large of u.s. political publication the hill he says it's highly inappropriate for president trying to weigh in on british politics. this relationship which used to be close joined at the hip and completely reliable is now a fake relationship where there's so much distrust and you can see it in the posture in the body language of theresa may the outgoing prime minister i think i think donald trump's comments about british domestic politics both about bracks it about the mayor of london and about boris johnson are completely inappropriate they
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are they they are he is meddling in british domestic politics in very inappropriate ways and i think a lot of people are trying to gloss over it and say it's really not that significant it is created a breach of trust between the united states in the united kingdom and i think it's it's embarrassing for this country but i think the implications are that he does not yet understand the significance of a nation meddling in the domestic political affairs of another it's ok to talk about views and perspectives but to basically weigh in on whom he wants to handicap as the winner or loser theresa may is a leaving and the british need to sort out who would be next but that insensitivity reminds me of the insensitivity he has about the russians meddling in the american election which he continues to downplay and not take anywhere near as significantly as most every political leader in the united states so he seems to not worry about either him crossing those lines or other nations crossing those lines inside the
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united states and i and i think it's a significant problem and people should begin calling out the white house for an incredibly irresponsible behavior with one of our closest allies. well hussein was a special advisor to the former u.k. home secretary and he also worked as a staffer for u.k. prime minister david cameron and to his may joins me in the studio so just to go back to that point i mean it was it is unusual to say the least to have a president of sort of weighing in on on who might run the country do you think it's just as damaging as steve clemons was suggesting i don't think it's as damaging is that to me is unusually breaks diplomatic protocol but then this president trump so i think people expect the unusual and the expected with him but equally you know he has his views he's made his views clear on boris johnson or no deal breaker but. but he will not have a costing vote in any of this and i'm not really sure of the impact it will have i
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think the people you can make of it what you will the people who are supportive for example boris will think this is a great thing because he is the president of our most powerful ally the people who are unsure will pull the other way so you think i mean the end apart from some good photo opportunities for president trump what's actually been achieved from this because. as we've noted trees amazing a way out so perhaps realistically no discussions were ever going to be a really great significance given that she's no longer going to be in charge shortly you know i mean the timing is certainly a bit awkward however i think it actually makes the point that this is about the relationship between the 2 countries and the relationship we have trade wise security wise we're live whoever is in the white house or whoever is in downing street i think is the key thing and particularly now when we are faced with the brics it can drum and what happens next the need to have our friends with the need to talk about trade in the future is important so i agree maybe the conversation
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with the prime minister was a bit kind of process the. not so forward looking but he has also met and spoken to people who could potentially be the next prime minister as world so i think is going on about how much political capital will trump got from this music started off with a visit where he was he was kind of firing of tweets and then after that it seems to have kind of the seems to perhaps rein that in a bit do you think in the end it was a good visit for him to p.r. all i think knowing it exactly one more day left i think it was i think he has remained relatively calm. certain is true to feed and i think being with the war family and the pictures in the optics about really matter and they will have played really well back home to him in the u.s. and being states person lie being seen. at the bottom quit or dressed up the right occasions i think all will certainly have helped with that image as well on the it
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was interesting that just the ceiling you know that he did originally said that the health service was perhaps could be considered as part of the any trade futures trade deals and then this evening there's a done an interview where he seemed to have the road back from that and said i don't see prince health service being involved in a post breaks a trade deal that's not trade getting that someone whispering is it in his ear looked don't talk about the n.h.s. the health service because it's really it's politically bad news for if for anybody for any anybody any outside of britain is that when you know what or how advisers work is that what happened here's a year certainly as an advisor for those most of that stuff that would be the role that would be the job that you would have to do you would make sure that your principal is not making kind of missteps that can be avoided but i do also think he did say in the press conference with the prime minister the prime minister is very quick to say that would all have to be negotiated and then since then you see many of the kind of conservative leadership i hope falls tweeting or saying on camera the whole service is not for sale so i think that has happened in the intervening
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period as well thank you very much indeed and then he same feel thoughts like. tens of thousands of people across the world have commemorated the 30th anniversary of china's brutal crackdown on student protesters in chatham and square but the chinese capital itself has fallen silent as with orgies impose an information lockdown several dissidents are thought to have been taken away by security agents to silence them at a time when the world remembers one of the darkest chapters in chinese history officials have banned any mention of the events in june one $1809.00 in which hundreds if not thousands of pro-democracy protesters were killed by the military under there is a dream brown was there in $189.00 and now reports on how that young man square massacre is remembered in china 30 years on. in the spring of 1989 student leader work i she was in the thick of it confronting authority on the streets arguing with china's leaders in the great hall of the people dressed in
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hospital but the hunger striking workers she had been rated the prime minister lee passage when students began occupying tiananmen square they were demanding more accountability in government and tougher measures against corruption they were joined by doctors teachers judges and journalists from state media the growing movement posing the greatest threat to 40 years of communist rule. work-i she says he never thought it would end the way that it did with the people's liberation army firing on the people. expect that some bloodshed. will be hit by the police but. that's what we have expected life. today he lives in exile in taiwan the self-governing island republic the china wants back and he's had a lot of time to reflect on whether it was all worth it i think politically or
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legally or rationally speaking we are blameless. but. morally i don't know that's there's another saying like. what if there's this one person or shot and dead. in that place because he heard a speech that given. the army quickly regained control of the streets but no one was quite sure who was really in charge as i reported from beijing at the time meanwhile the men who control the army and perhaps now the government have issued another ominous warning stay off the streets all face the consequences one man certainly didn't seem to care about the consequences. yesterday in an extraordinary single act of defiance this young unarmed protester brought a column of tanks to a standstill we still don't know his name or if he survived after he was bundled
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away unclear by whom june the 4th is just another day in china they'll be no public displays of dissent or remembrance china's vast security and surveillance network will see to that even mothers of students killed in the bloodshed have been told to remain silent as part of the continuing official cover up the chinese leadership still refuses to acknowledge how many people were killed or to express remorse adrian brown al jazeera beijing. hong kong is the only place under chinese rule that holds massive public commemorations the chen and square massacre organizers say nearly 200000 people attended a night vigil to get a pattern report. the songs in chance are repeated every year in hong kong the story is told again and again to remember the time when people in china rose up calling for more democracy only to be brutally put down by the chinese
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government and those people just. forget. this point it's. for us to tell the next generation to leave and otherwise it will be forgotten 30 years ago democracy activists leach akiane was given the job of delivering money donated by supporters in hong kong to the protesters in tiananmen square on june 4th i was in the square i remember the people told me that the army is coming in go away go away tell the world the truth we have to go and brought the army and yes they did and what happened is that tanks rolling in you know the army shooting is people indiscriminately we don't know how many people die it's an account that's will not be retold in mainland china and few will be aware of the latest annual vigil in hong kong. censors in china have stepped up their policing of social media and police detained activists as
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a precaution. but in hong kong it's a very different atmosphere and in recent years there was a sense that this vigil had lost momentum many people felt that it had become a tradition lighting the candles to mark a point in history but this year many here say there is a new sense of urgency with china tightening its grip on the city like never before people say they want to speak out before it's too late and the latest threat to freedoms in hong kong a proposed extradition law if passed it will allow people here to be tried by judges in mainland china takes your attention to the right or has the trust or for that matter confidence and the chinese generation the right china where does. this. treatment of the suspect this is the only chinese territory where such a massive demonstration against the communist leadership in beijing takes place but amid the singing chanting and calls for democracy
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a major question on many people's minds how much longer will the people of hong kong be allowed to express their dissent so openly they've got hollande al-jazeera hong kong. live from london still ahead fears for cuba's tourism industry after the u.s. stops holiday cruises to the island. the crisis facing south africa's public hospitals where patients dying of neglect. and in the case but what a striking veteran helps to survive a scare at the pit world cup. hello delhi summer showers all thunderstorms are raging in good part of central europe this circulations very obvious we've had some significant damp poles in the last few days actually in both gary and serbia this general area fresh that was flooding
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in serbia if not $64.00 millimeters did fall in just 6 hours it's probably more like an hour and a half but the 6 hour total comes out $64.00 there's been more significant rain further west it's a frontal system come from the atlantic change things complete the temperatures down in london paris for wednesday to the teens to 290 that suggest sundry weather in switzerland and northern italy and madrid stand by a good 10 degrees and about 23 degrees as cool change in western europe still showery in the war bits here but rather less so i think on thursday but of a change though through power in western russia more significant rain is still there on the warm side as it is in germany all this happening over a lot of prompted by the sunshine over north africa the temperatures still hovering on the high side in tunisia 36 in tunis and 35 in kara but in red backed with the on shore breeze again a loss of about 10 degrees in the last couple of days wednesdays at 21 and thursday
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is about the same. a horrific crime that shocked the world 51 people killed at mosques in christchurch new zealand why want to investigate the full force could have done more to prevent this massacre on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every. 5 to read so that i could read every minute of a creator of twitter returns to activism with a new mission i sell him with my job right build software for. but can't digital dissidents work within the technological free market it's
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a race to get security in occasions when there steal from the capitalists part of the rebel geek series on al-jazeera. among the top stories here now jazeera protest organizers in the sudanese capital say a woman and child are being killed by gunfire from security forces at least 40 people were killed in a crackdown by paramilitary group on monday. donald trump has promised a phenomenal trade deal for a post brics it britain the us president has held talks with the u.k.'s prime minister on the 2nd day of his state visit. thousands of people have demonstrated
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against trump in london but the president himself dismissed the protest a small calling the scale of the rally fake news. united nations has fighters in syria and now using food supply as a weapon of war after large areas of wheat and other crops were set alight fields orchards and all of grows burning in northwestern syria it's a region where the army backed by russia is battling rebels in their last major stronghold both sides are blaming the other for the arson attack thousands of internally displaced people at a camp in northern syria have been threatened with eviction sin and cos new reports from province the country's last rebel stronghold. this is one of the many camps that the syrian internally displaced people could find refuge after the syrian regime intensified its bombardments in the forest problems mainly in the southern cities and towns and there are nearly 1000 $500.00 civilians residing in this camp
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and that most of them look at this camp in the month of ramadan when their charest son and his allies begin airstrikes and the civilians here are taking refuge under these all of trees and they they have covered the coward around the trees with the blankets they have and some other materials that they can have they are telling us that when their city was bombarded it was only their clothes and a few blankets that they could hardly take with them and they ran away from their homes to the turkish border here to find refuge the situation is very dire in the camps their supplies are cut the hygiene is a huge problem here as you can see here they have water problem as well this water for instance is being used for washing purposes and they are they are short in drinking water as well they're telling us that the telling us that they were delivered aid during only during the month of ramadan one meal
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a day and which is not enough for $300.00 families living in this camp. the problems are that little look at the conditions we will change we will surprise richard to get all of grae's we are waiting for help from the international community. saying it's very bad there's garbage or outburst there in sex a lot of disease children to seek some women gave birth here are better at the front line so we don't have them with us as this lives we cut our prayers properly here the majority of those 1500 people deciding in this camp are mainly women and children and children are suffering because of hot weather they're suffering from. iraq diarrhea and their mothers tell us that they have no access to the hospitals and some people die because the ambulances aren't fast enough to pick them up but the worst thing is that here the owner of this land is telling those 300 families in this camp to move out as soon as it's feast and they tell us that they have
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no idea where to go but we are hearing that the local government here the local administration is doing is some preparations for them and some n.g.o.s are trying to. trying to do what they are 10 send their supplies for those people in case an attack happens there but in short these people are left vulnerable here in it that. an attack by hoofy rebels has killed a child and wounded 6 others in southern yemen rebels launched rocket attacks on areas around thais there's also been fighting between yemeni government forces and who sees east of the city millions of people around the world are celebrating aid marking the end of the holy month of ramadan but in yemen families living in the middle of a civil war have little to celebrate ramadan lot of reports from. her
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that stands hope was actually it was only a last option to make ends meet for his big family he has no idea how they will celebrate their little french holiday mark you the end of the holy month of ramadan . but. i bought this taxi which help me meet my family's needs now it's broken down i can hardly afford daily meals let alone eat essential so my family. is used to a better life he was a military pilot before the war devastated yemen's air force the relocation of the central bank from sun how to aden was another blog not only to her load but to thousands of public employees. the war has pushed 13000000 yemenis to the brink of famine while another 7000000 have become dependent on foreign aid that's according to the u.n. but despite all this many here in the capital sanaa are buying whatever they can
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for the aid holiday and to put a smile on their children's faces. most of the people you see here shopping for aid after they received half a payment from aiden's bank months after nonpayment. borrowing money from relatives has been the only way for me and many others to make ends meet we receive half a salary every year that's not even enough to buy sweets this devastating war has to be brought 20 and as we've had enough close to the saudi border life is even more difficult this is a slum 50 kilometers to the south of saudi arabia its monthly just whom after being forced from 2 other. i guess. i have fled my region and lived everything behind as it's on the constant in tillery bombardment we have
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marched for 2 days in the long journey i've lost my 4 month old child now i'm here facing another challenge to survive famine. her mother most of the internally displaced people are forced to eat leaves outside yemen i'd leans presents truths and sweets for her mother and thousands like him the dream this holiday is for a decent meal or. barb. sonar the trumpet ministration is imposing new restrictions on u.s. travel to cuba including a ban on cruises it's also group educational travel one of the most popular forms of tourism from the u.s. washington says it's in response to cuba's destabilizing role in the region our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more. these are major travel restrictions put in place by the trumpet ministration effectively blocking what was considered to be the most popular form of travel to cuba and that is travel that
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took place through a loophole in existing travel restrictions allowing for those to transit to cuba through organized tour groups as well as on cruise ships not only has this been blocked but the state department with its announcement has also ended travel by private citizens u.s. citizens who were perhaps going to cuba on a yacht or even a private aircraft now the reason for this punitive action we're told is that the united states continues to believe as it has said many times before that cuba is responsible for what it sees as destabilizing activity within the western hemisphere that is propping up governments that the united states does not support particularly in but as well as well as in the now this is a major departure from the actions of the obama white house that of course had eased travel restrictions to cuba not only are tighter restrictions in place but
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now as well the only form of travel that really seems to still be allowed under the trumpet ministration is that of commercial airline flight to support what the united states is calling lawful forms of family travel. china has warned citizens against traveling to and working in the u.s. the chinese foreign ministry says companies run the risk of being harassed by american law enforcement officials it is warning that tourists are at risk of being robbed or shot on monday beijing also issued a warning to students who want to study in the u.s. both have been locked in a trade war since last year. and a burner outbreak in eastern democratic republic of congo has surpassed 2000 cases and is picking up speed the world health organization has called it a sad and frustrating milestone in birds killed more than 1300 people in the region the outbreak which was declared in august is the 2nd deadliest in history attacks
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by rebels and mistrust from local communities it made it difficult for aid agencies to combat the disease 2 doctors and a nurse in south africa have been suspended for allegedly tying up an elderly patient a video showing the 76 year old woman on the floor went viral and critics say it's the latest example of the crisis facing public hospitals which are chronically underfunded and poorly staffed hermite us or ports in pretoria. when martha marie became so sick she couldn't eat her family took her to a public health hospital philip the 76 year old would start for a few hours when a daughter stephanie returned she was appalled found the mother of the on the floor cold floor in the middle of winter nobbling that they instead we are in the back. to a still a still buildings the legs of a still be and how do you even start doing that.
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a video posted by a family on social media has gone viral 2 doctors a nurse and a security guard have been put on special leaves why investigators find out what exactly happened at the hospital in pretoria. we put up the polls in my tweet a lot of people is responded saying but there's a been to my date and he died a couple of days later and there's a bunch of my mom and we wanted to take pictures in and the nurses screamed if we break out of our phones they will like it so people are intimidated when they want to do the right thing to expose their. experts say health facilities often don't get enough funding they blame government budget cuts for many public hospitals being poorly equipped and says some health workers aren't properly trained to handle difficult situations. last year a judge ordered a provincial government to pay $15000000.00 in damages to families of the least
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$144.00 psychiatric patients he said died of negligence after being moved out of registered facilities the government's been successfully sued for negligence it other cases government officials say they're trying to fix problems in the health care system. response and in terms of look at him intervention is to make sure that we increase the number of stuff but really doctors and nurses in that area and also to look at stuff. to try it because i think it's a. problem in our system with our stuff with. stuff relatives of martha my races she's been traumatized by experience and one justice for what happened how to al-jazeera. no t.v. no coffee and no alcohol or the warning by india's government to people living in the desert state of registers on a heat wave sweeps across the region the 1st temperatures have led to
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a surge in heat strokes people have been also been told to avoid going out during midday hours when it can be as hot as 50 degrees celsius india's monsoon is running a week behind and meteorologists fear there will be less rain than usual this year . president is proposing to decriminalize all illegal narcotics in an effort to stop what has so far proved impossible ending the war with drug cartels in the final part of our special coverage marking 6 months since. or took over our correspondent money examines the president's plan. this indoor garden consists of about a dozen marijuana plants. they're being grown in a spare bedroom of an apartment near downtown mexico city because the grower will call him carlos has asked us to hide his identity but he is happy to show off his plants which he says are only for personal consumption. the main reason i grow my
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own plants is because i don't want to be involved in a game of violence and drug trafficking or not really knowing what i'm smoking. mexico city has some of the most relaxed marijuana laws in the country but it is still illegal to buy or sell the drug part of president and that is his over others national development plan a strategy that includes reducing violence over the next 6 years seeks to legalize marijuana use the plan calls for an end to prohibition but not just of marijuana all drugs loath to lend them money those who say that simply legalizing drugs will reduce violence in the country but have no idea what they're talking about. clearly not everyone is on board with the idea in fact even experts who agree that a drastic change in drug war policy is needed often say the same thing that lopez a brother was proposed strategy lacks any sort of strategy at all there are no specific plan the problem is when you have to do something like this you have to be
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really clear about what you try to. how you want to legalize weed who you try to address the problem how much will cost the problem or if you try to explain or you try to address by the hell out system. another controversial aspect of the legalization idea is ending the maybe the initiative a partnership between the u.s. and mexico that has directed some $3000000000.00 to fund the drug war since 2008 the united states has approved $145000000.00 into. 1900 to be directed toward mexico under the may day initiative money that's expected to be used in counternarcotics operations president love is over the hopes that the united states will redirect those funds toward development and drug rehabilitation programs and said. it remains unclear whether the u.s. would agree to the mexican president's offer to end the drug war but it's also not
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the type of policy that could be applied overnight to new music private growers like carlos say legalization is inevitable for now he's trying to perfect the growing process so he can launch a legitimate marijuana business if and when the mexican government makes it legal none of the. mexico city. program or sport including. women's football. the a our. business updates. going places together. the our. world to our.
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you laura no roughly on the doll and roger federer will go head to head for a place in the final of the french open but they had very different matches on tuesday to get there federer came through in 4 sets after a hard fought encounter with fellow swiss player stan wawrinka which lasted for more than 3 and a half hours federer who's playing at roland garros for the 1st time in 3 years is looking to add to his one title at this grand slam which came in 2000. was a much easier ride for the 11 time champion adult he cruised through his quarter final against a 7 seed. dropping just 5 games in straight sets when nidal leads the head to head it with federer having won 23 of their 38 matches but they haven't met on clay for over 6 years. on the woman side is through to the semifinals for the 1st time she
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being world number 7 sloane stephens in straight sets is the 1st british woman to make the last 4 in paris in 36 years. she'll play marquez of on the rest of the czech republic in the semifinals late in the day she came through in straight sets against petra martic it's the 1st time in 1000 year old has reached the last 4 and a grand slam tournament. sri lanka's cricketers have survived a scare to beat afghanistan at the world cup sri lanka's any means was interrupted by rain and cardiff and they only managed to post a total of $201.00 pereira top scored with $78.00 but how would not be taking 4 wickets. the delays left afghanistan chasing a revised target of $187.00 read the drawn lead the way with $43.00 but they lost wickets at regular intervals and the end they fell $34.00 runs short on the
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duckworth lewis stern method new on pred deep taking 4 wickets for sure to give them their 1st victory. the tournament. a year after winning the world cup france's football team have received the country's highest accolade the legion of honor the squad were presented with their medals by president menu macro in a ceremony at is this a palace on tuesday france won the tournament for the 2nd time in russia last july . it was a busy day for president macro with france getting ready to host the women's world cup he also visited the squad at their training base to wish them luck for the tournament they play south korea in the opening match that's on friday. our sports correspondent lee wellings met up with the jamaican women's football team at their training camp they're the 1st caribbean country to qualify for the tournament with a little help from bob marley's daughter to help get them to get up and.
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some teams at the women's football world cup failure to win the trophy will be a disappointment for jamaica's team who call themselves the wreck of a galaxy just being here is a miracle. before and after the last world cup 4 years ago the jamaican football federation decided to concentrate their limited resources on the men's take but every detail was going to be all right said denham ali daughter of reggae leger bob stepped to 1 the right used mommy raised awareness and kick started a property 7 no to pick we still don't know your story where did this thing come from and what do you. know i mean obviously we kind of put this thing together over the last 4 years you know i mean obviously you know of some of the worse it is the sort of more of. us are killers in the results from our father that she has worked for and look where they've got to now mike is somehow qualified
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for the world cup the team celebrations after beijing part of all helping make the football well take notice. i think yet. to my career of being drawn in a tough world cup group after the opening game against brazil by then it's a story i bought 6 there you know the 24th so you've raised the knockout stage so one good result and i can continue their journey here in france most of their goals come from khadija shaw who's played in the american league but is on a touch now and i hope in the world cup secures her a lucrative move to european football 3 of her brothers have died in gang violence in jamaica. but this is a team full of spirit and. what makes our team so great is that we're the perfect example of our country's motto which is out of many one people social media is writing the word which really helps and getting our message across what we're doing
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is a really big deal definitely an attacking. physicality. and hopefully we can kind of bring a more organization and a discipline to i play but all i'm thinking about is that we're going there for 9 points and that's it this is not the end of our journey it's always been so you know. it's been going on in. the break i hope it would prove that there's more than sprinters in jamaica this is serious whether it's for. al-jazeera or that you might can trying to accompany. african football officials have been meeting in paris to discuss whether the result of their champions league final should stand supporters of both esperance and we were protesting outside players walked off the pitch and eventually forfeited the match in protest at having a goal disallowed they wanted the referee to check the v.a.r. system which wasn't working esperance were awarded the trophy and believe the
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result should stick at. anthony joshua will get the chance to regain his world heavyweight titles from andy rose jr later on this year the pair of agree to a rematch in either november or december rule has caused a sensational upset to become world champion after stopping joshua in the 7th round in saturday's fight in new york. now to the american footballer who lied to get a job damon is she a high against seppi ticked tricked his way into an n.f.l. tryout with the cleveland browns claiming that he'd been invited by a member of the team's backroom staff that simply wasn't true but the wide receiver impressed with his speed and they've now offered him a place on their offseason roster. back to lauren in london. thank you very much and quite a monday you can catch up almost bought and of course the news we're covering but check out our website address that is al-jazeera dot com and many of you by kicking on the line if i can that's it for me this news up i'll be back in
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