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well brand it resonates very well with his political base and all of his talk and rhetoric about building a wall on the border about the dangers of migrants coming to the united states are just basically the part and parcel of his political appeal such as it is however there's a downside to this for the president in so far as the tariffs are opposed by business groups by politicians and economists including a political. and economic consulting group based in texas called the perry group said that the tariffs if imposed could shave more than $40000000000.00 off of the u.s. g.n.p. gross to g.d.p. gross domestic product and cost up to 400000 jobs so that's not going to be politically advantageous from the president and not to mention the fact that the u.s. supermarket customers may find their of a cot owes and tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables grown in mexico sharply
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increased in price if these tariffs go forward rob thanks very much more now from john holeman in mexico city. mexico's foreign minister marcello abroad has just confirmed that the country is willing to send members of its national guard this is a new quite militarized force to its southern border as part of any deal with the united states on trying to reduce migration and try to avoid the tariffs the president trump is planning with threatening to bring into effect on monday the 10th of june the negotiations between the 2 countries continue what's at stake here and what is the problem really large amounts of central americans mainly from from tourists and salvador guatemala coming through mexico often without documents and many of them trying to get into the united states there's been a real surge about mexico has had some success in detaining them in recent months
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but for the united states that's not enough they're demanding more action now mexico has been sending signs all through thursday that it's trying to do more it's arrested for example a prominent migrant right migrant rights activists that was guiding caravans large groups of people through mexico and it also froze the bank accounts of 26 people that have been suspected of people smuggling now come to the point where certain proposals are obviously on the table with the united states and it's up to that government and to president trump to decide whether this is enough as negotiations continue laura carlsen is director of the americas program at the center for international policy she was recently in tijuana to research the crisis on the us mexico border and she says mexico is offering a long term plan the could be very effective. instead knuckly not dared to the
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threat of tariffs of donald trump it will cherry out this regional development plan in central america in order to try to stop the roots of the migration that is a plan that would focus on development and would focus on creating jobs and better conditions in the countries of origin it's a longer term plan but it's it has much greater chances of success enduring success in the short term crackdown that donald trump is ordering largely for electoral reasons win win for donald trump on immigration issues is a lose lose not only for immigrants themselves but for the other governments what's interesting merican countries have to do is change their social policies so people don't feel like they're forced to flee because of the high rates of violence what we're seeing from my talks at migrants and from the studies that have been carried out is that people are literally fleeing for their lives as such they have to they have a right to request asylum wherever they're going to feel that the safest and we're
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talking here about more than 2 thirds families and unaccompanied children international law dictates that every nation on earth has a responsibility to protect children if we go to this crackdown. will be basically ignoring that responsibility. another boat with migrants on board has been rescued by a merchant ship in the mediterranean a day after nearly 400 people were saved by the board tease military footage released by sea watch international of weapon states rescues shows several dinghies overloaded with people trying to reach europe the migrant rescue n.g.o.s says at least one of those dinghies deflated and sank it's not clear if there were any survivors. plenty more still to come for you here on the news including the man nicknamed the resuscitation rambo is going to prison for life. and
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emergency measures in south korea as it battles to stop the biggest animal disease outbreak ever. in the sports news the head of african football has been questioned by the police in france paul is here with that story in 30 minutes. an attack on for oil tankers off the coast of the u.a.e. last month was quote a sophisticated and coordinated operation likely carried out by a state actor that's what the u.n. security council has been told by the u.a.e. saudi arabia and norway who ships were targeted but they didn't blame anyone specifically they said the attacks required fast boats and train divers who likely placed limpet mines on the vessels the u.s. has previously blamed iran tehran has denied any involvement russia's deputy ambassador to the u.n. played on the evidence that was presented. usually jump to conclusions there was no
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no. no no. no no. no no no no. way. to get children to continue that that's what eventually told you to believe in the. believe you panel. algeria's interim leader wants the government to prepare legislation to finalize a date for a presidential election. called for political dialogue protesting in the streets for months now despite the resignation of the longtime leader abdelaziz bouteflika 2 months ago protesters want all those associated with him to go before a fresh election can be held and demanding that the interim president should step down as well a poll shows will to happen on july the 4th was cancelled after the only 2 candidates in the fray were rejected. this situation is
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a chance to mobilize our national forces to deal with the country's legislative and organizational issues and therefore i call upon the political establishment the civil society and the citizens who care for this country and its future i call upon all of you to find the comprehensive dialogue in order to organize the forthcoming presidential elections this is in order to have coherence and consistency the country is in need of reforms in all political fears and this is what our people have expressed in a very clear and peaceful manner. britain's labor party has held on to its seats in a by election in the city of peterborough the election was held after the incumbent labor m.p. was forced to give up her seat for lying about a traffic offense the result is a blow to the newly formed bricks it party which was expected to win its 1st parliamentary seat to london during the 2016 easy referendum 60 percent of the peterborough voters backed leaving the european union. spain's acting prime
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minister says he will meet leaders of rival parties in a bid to form a new government is socialist party won last april the national election but did not get enough votes to secure a majority will now hold talks with spain's biggest 3 parties to form a new government it's likely the far left padilla party will form a coalition with the socialists. the french president emanuel mccraw is calling for global unity while praising multilateral organizations such as nato and the e.u. it's your microphones been speaking at ceremonies to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the detail landings on the beaches of normandy the largest marine and land invasion in history is natascha. as they met american d.-day veterans emmanuel markov and donald trump put aside their political differences the presidents of france the united states paid tribute to american troops same to 5 years after allied soldiers landed in normandy to help liberate france in europe
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from nazi powers trump often inject personal politics into diplomatic occasions this time he avoided controversy on this day 75 years ago 10000 men shed their blood and thousands sacrificed their lives for their brothers for their countries and for the survival of liberty. on june 6th $944.00 american canadian british and french troops would joined by those from other nations including poland and south africa and in during symbol of international cooperation in the face of nationalism mccraw praised international alliances his multilateralism has put him at all does with trump and his america 1st policy. diversion me says in the film viva we must never allow the alliance of free peoples to die that's what the victors did as soon as germany and japan capitulated when they created the united nations it's what the united states
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did when they created nato and it's what european leaders did a few years later when they created the european union we must refine the meaning of the promise of normandy 75 years ago the franco american alliance was so strong that the united states and allows us of young soldiers to fight and die for our exactly relationship today. as disagreements between one might call trump mounts at talks after the ceremony the gulf between the 2 leaders was apparent with a little common ground on iran trade or climate change. some veterans who fought for peace so long ago say they worry about the future. so funny oh we live in today. something you did good and others wrong. we count truman pick and choose exactly what's happening in the world after world war 2 nations pledge never to allow political divisions to lead to conflict again
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a promise been tested by growing diplomatic differences natasha butler al jazeera normandy france. demonstrations have been taking place in buenos iris where the brazilian president jaya balls an hour it was on his 1st official visit to watch in tina protesters a critical of his conservative policies with many accusing him of homophobia and fascism. brazil's need to hold talks with the all engine time president motors c.e.o. mark crane on regional trade on the crisis in venezuela has more now from the protests in the argentine capital. many of the social groups in argentina behind me have joined with residents brazilian residents in one of cyrus to protest against what they say are the messages of hate portrayed by president also an hour ago also brazil then making reference to his attitude towards the environment. his attitude towards the l g b t community towards afro brazilians they're saying that those
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messages have crossed the borders in a resonating across latin america where they are joining with other groups to oppose his use earlier in the day job also now to met with president 3 of argentina in the presidential palace let's talk about a number of issues and she cross border cooperation on the environment but the the main issue the main issue that resonated between them was their opposition to the government of nicolas maduro in venezuela those countries are hosting the 10s of thousands of venezuelans who have fled the economic and political difficulties in their home country the 2 presidents of was in argentina don't want to see more of that they support the self declared interim president one white all and trying to get nicolas maduro removed from office. i said that he doesn't want to see all the venezuela's spread across argentina the 2 men with
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a great deal in common but facing increasing opposition across. brazil. thousands of teachers are on strike in the chilean capital calling for better working conditions on deployment rights they're also protesting against a government decision to eliminate compulsory school subjects in america at its mercy and human with more. than.
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a. race. riot after the. march to. the police in malawi fired tear gas at hundreds of opposition supporters in the capital on the story of protests that demonstrates the calling for the president peter without rica to resign after what they say was a rigged election last month protesters say bullets were fired at them they police spokesman said the child had been quote accidentally shot the u.s.
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ambassador to malawi was also of course in the rest of the opposition had horses. still to come for you here on the news hour the blame game begins in st lanka as officials testified about the easter sunday attacks that killed more than 200 people. i'm john hendren in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming up. in the sport find out which team was able to hold the nerve of the cricket world cup. the weather sponsored by cateye always. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast all across china we have seen plenty of rain leading to a lot of accumulations and many areas those thunderstorms are continuing to pop up
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and then those temperatures are into the low thirty's for many areas there for joe we're going to be saying about $32.00 degrees there but as you can see notice the area of dark green that is where we expect to see some of the highest rain totals over the next few days here on saturday the rain continues there but down towards hong kong we're going to not see the rain but we're going to be seeing a lot of humidity coming into play and that means it's going to be hot and sticky feeling more like $35.00 to $36.00 as the heat index across that area well for the northern part of the philippines not looking too bad over the next few days getting a break from the rain in manila we're going to be seeing partly cloudy conditions there at 35 degrees as a forecasted high staying quite dry over the next few days most of the rain down here towards the south but here across the way see it is going to be quite heavy we could see localized flooding across that area as we go through the rest of the weekend and then here across india we're still dealing with a heat wave across much of the central areas over here towards bangladesh though the rain continues localized flooding is still a big problem as you can see on the forecast map it is going to continue across
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much of that region and across colombo the southwest monsoon isn't affects. the west sponsored by cattle alley. in 2008 traveled across the united states discovering what it was like to be both a patriotic american and a devout muslim can you be more civil and american you have to be american 1st i didn't have much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that i'm listening to be a link to the united states congress. rewind islam in america on al-jazeera. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for very. liberally particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are the people we live to
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tell the real stories are just mandate is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. welcome back here with the al-jazeera news line from our headquarters here in doha these are your headlines the african union has suspended sudan over the military chances brutal crackdown on protesters the health ministry has denied reports that 108 people were killed claiming a figure of 61. mexico says it will send up to 6000 troops to its border with guatemala in order to control the flow of migrants into the u.s. the u.s.
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vice president mike pence however says it's up to president trump to decide if the steps are enough to avoid tariffs that go into force on monday. demonstrations have been taking place in argentina against the brazilian president. he's on his 1st official visit to the country for just as a critical of hours conservative policies with many accusing him of homophobia and fascism. the russian leader vladimir putin has used a meeting with his chinese counterpart to accuse the u.s. of backtracking on a key nuclear deal speaking at an economic forum in some petersburg let me put in one of the strategic arms reduction treaty with the us is at risk of breaking down again. to limit the number of nuclear weapons we also want washington against military intervention in venezuela mistress cause. we have said a 100 times that we are ready for talks on extending the new start nuclear arms reduction treaty but no one is holding any talks with us in the goetia process
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hasn't been arranged at all and in 2021 it will be over should we draw your attention to the fact that we will no longer be any instruments limiting the arms race step pass and has more now from st petersburg. president putin has used this forum here in st petersburg to lash out again against the united states and the breakdown of nuclear forces treaties there were 2 major treaty still in place but the one the intermediate forces treaty has collapsed earlier this year because the u.s. is. accusing russia of violating the treaty then there's one other treaty still in place which is the new start treaty and that's the one last standing treaty to protect people against a nuclear war in the world so it's very crucial that this is going to be really negotiated and britain has been asking the united states to open these negotiations for a while now and he said there was a little room when he talked to president trump on the phone earlier and it was also some discussion about it when my visit to russia
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a few weeks ago but now he says nobody is talking to me meaning that no negotiation no negotiations have started basically that. graph to global security he sat at this forum of course there's a lot of topics being discussed but he also talked about venezuela still supporting my dual saying that the of this opposition leader would be a disaster for the country as start up on so many topics but of course the main guest here is the president teaching ping from china he brought a huge delegation of a 1000 delegates to the meeting here lots of deals have also been signed and will be signed between russia and china here at the forum in libya strikes targeted the runway of the only operational airport in the capital city tripoli al-jazeera has been told that the warlords. ordered the. airport no casualties will his forces have been fighting for weeks now to oust the u.n.
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recognize government and seize control of tripoli. sri lankan officials investigating the easter sunday bombing say repeated warnings were ignored including one just before the attacks took place more than 250 people were killed in the coordinated blasts which have been blamed on a local group linked to an elf and has more now from colombo. trying to make sense of the easter sunday carnage that killed more than 250 people a 12 man special parliamentary select committee heard from police chief budget just in the or who is on compulsory leave for refusing to take the blame and resign. little bit even though there is no practice anywhere with regards to intelligence information that the inspector general of the police should share with the president a suicide bombers from a local muslim group attack christian churches on easter sunday as well as 5 star. more than 250 people were killed and hundreds injured. claimed responsibility for
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the coordinated attack. the police chief said the state intelligence service received repeated warnings of possible attack and detailed a series of delays by all security agencies to act. i got a phone call about an imminent threat that something trying to risk could happen when you are being told repeatedly something happened something and i wonder war or been do you ask what steps have been taken because it's not possible for you just. what i. heard that the police chief told the committee that president city center asked him to resign after the attacks he says he was offered an embassadors job if he agreed to resign and he was told that any investigation would find him responsible for failing to stop the attacks the other big name to appear at the select committee was former defense secretary came
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a serious finance. he highlighted the restrictions imposed on him by the president was not an independent. instruction from the but the going for every little thing fernanda told the committee that it was difficult for him to contact the president and said the strain between the president and prime minister affected governance after the incident when the prime minister called for a meeting you said to the president we're told by the president himself not to go for the meeting going where the prime minister. was answer with words yes yes yes yes. the committee is due to reconvene next tuesday minerva nandy as. colombo. hungary and prosecutors say the captain of the ship that was involved in a deadly collision on the danube river was in another accident in april at least 16 south korean tourists died when the cruise ship crashed into a tour boat last week 12 people are still missing prosecutors say the captain there
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is data from his mobile telephone just after the accident his lawyers than i did anything wrong. the german male nurse who murdered dozens of his patients with lethal injections is said to spend the rest of his life behind bars needles hurdle is thought to be one of the most prolific serial killers in germany since the end of the 2nd world war the judge described his killing spree as in comprehensible dominic kane now from berlin. this is one of the worst serial killers since the 2nd world war a relatively nondescript man to look at nears her goals crimes are anything but investigators believe he may have killed hundreds on thursday he was convicted of 85 murders a shortfall several in court deplored as this is a bitter and this is the it's very very bitter we've gone through i'd say 2 and a half years really through her it's hard to bear at the moment that's what it is
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that her goal 1st began killing patients after starting work at this hospital in the book in 1909 here he would inject patients with drugs to make their hearts stop and then try to resuscitate them colleagues called him the resuscitation rambo because he would manhandled them out of the way so he could get to the sick but a high death rate among his patients made colleagues suspicious and he was forced to leave so in 2003 he moved to work at this hospital in delman haast 2 years later a colleague saw him administer a fatal dose of a drug to a patient who died within hours arrested soon after he's been in custody ever since during this trial it emerged hurdle induced cardiac arrest in the 90 delman host patients so he could enjoy trying to bring them back to some relatives thursday's judgment is not enough they believe the hospital thora he's failed in their duties it's not conscious not true. of the original i hope the connection of the deal was
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but it is made clear i believe it's very important for all of us to bring those just wanted to just as well logic to become a series of murders her goal is already serving a life sentence for the murder of 2 patients during his time at the 2 hospitals in handing down the verdict on thursday the judge told her goal the scale of his crimes made the mind boggle meaning that one of germany's most prolific mass murderers is unlikely ever to be released dominick kane al-jazeera. thailand's prime minister has called for national unity after the parliament voted for him to stay on. the boat completes prove charges transition to head of a civilian government 5 years after he seized power in the military coup there but as when he explains from bangkok the opposition says the military is still in charge. after more than 11 hours of debating and voting thailand's parliament finally elected a prime minister for the next 4 years. general prayuth chan
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a chair receives more than half the vote from the house of representatives which means he has been chosen as the new prime minister. but he's not new at all. is the army general who led a coup to remove a democratically elected government in 2014 and has been prime minister ever since . much of his support in the parliamentary vote came from senators in the upper house who were handpicked by the military it wasn't surprising therefore that they all voted for prior to continue as thailand's leader. the only other contender was a man seen as the new face of thai politics talent on june room wrong kit led his young future forward party to 3rd place in march's election the 1st since the coup he's now vowing to be a strong opposition voice continuing to fight for democracy and human rights.
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you know. what the. way. we thought. we. were. but for now he has to work outside parliament clearly seen as a threat to the military he has several legal cases against him which he says are politically motivated and the court has suspended his m.p. status 5 years after staging a coup the military says it is now returned democracy to thailand but the process was anything but democratic and the end result is an unstable government and the prospect of more political turmoil for the past 5 years the military has been able to rule with impunity many of the same people are still in charge of the new
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civilian government but the now answerable to coalition partners and constituents and after being largely silenced since the coup the opposition parties can now speak freely one of their 1st jobs may be to table a vote of no confidence in the prime minister who they view as illegitimate wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. world health organization says it estimates that around a quarter of it bowler infections in eastern democratic republic of congo are going undetected they have been more than 2000 confirmed cases since the epidemic broke out in august and nearly 1400 deaths you know health agency says these teens have been unable to reach some areas because of violence by rebel groups we are definitely missing cases because when you have can community deaths like that and probable cases then you are definitely missing transmission and there the the 1000000000 dollar question is how big is that number we believe at this point i'm
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and let me be let me be very cautious here or we believe. we were probably. detecting in excess of 75 percent of cases we may be missing up to a quarter of cases pig farmers in south korea are taking emergency measures to stop an outbreak of swine fever in north korea from crossing the border farmers in the south are concerned the north is ignoring calls for joint quarantine efforts forms louis is there. well here on gungho island one of several places designated by the south korean government as a special surveillance area following an outbreak of african swine fever in north korea were really close to the border with the north it lies just beyond the river where about 2 kilometers away an endless island there about $35.00 pig farms african swine fever is harmless to humans but it's fatal to pigs to prevent the
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disease from spreading south korea's agriculture ministry is taking several measures access to and from pig farms is known tightly controlled farm workers have been told to carry out disinfection and then fences and traps have been set up to prevent infected wild boars from coming into contact with domestic pigs not many wild boars will be able to cross the barbed wire fences or make it across the heavily mined border area but that's a possibility that some of them may be able to swim across the river and get into south korea and that's why the south has proposed to the north that they work together to prevent the spread of the disease and that is the political dimension to this story relations between the 2 countries have cooled considerably since a february summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il and ended without agreement on the outbreak of the disease cannot come at a worse time for north korea which is already experiencing a severe food shortage following its worst harvest in
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a decade but while some analysts say the promise of aid may not be enough to lure north korea back to talks there are others who say that humanitarian assistance may lead to other exchanges perhaps even in the political arena and that could possibly be what south korea's strategy is palestinians are accusing israeli settlers of certain financial hundreds of olive trees in the occupied west bank you to abraham reports now from the time. all of trees that have been here for the past 60 years have turned into ashes after recent arson and jiggled village north of the occupied west bank. israeli settlers were seen attacking the school in the village ahead of the fires locals say they started it they will submit the surveillance camera footage to the israeli police but they don't expect a fair trial has some thought it could be in the u.k. it's difficult to imagine that they would hold so the lose accounts.

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