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legend that there is an escalated threat so members of congress not happy what they see is part of a larger package that will now add to the stockpiles of tens of thousands of weapons already available to saudi arabia from a standpoint of congress not only is there discomfort over this being potentially falling into the wrong hands but also the coziness of the trump administration with saudi arabia particularly given the fact that the cia has concluded that saudi arabia was responsible the highest levels of the saudi government specifically the crown prince of ordering the murder of show she the washington post journalist and they believe for this reason as well as other human rights violations this is not a government that the united states should be supporting. the us says china has 2 more weeks before increased tariffs kick in 25 percent tariff was meant to begin at the start of the month but will not be implemented on june 15th chinese leaders say
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a trade war with the u.s. could lead to a global economic downturn and concern shared by the u.n. secretary general who warns that the 2 world powers are at risk of sliding into an economic cold war. global challenges require global solutions don't come to be an organization can do it alone. and we need politically that is the business world science the scholars philanthropist and civil society to join hands in advancing shared threats and pursuing common opportunities still to come here on al-jazeera. thousands of liberians turn to protest against rising prices and their football turn president george weah. also ahead after more than 180 years athens finally gets an official mosque in the middle of a naval base. the
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wedding sponsored by cattle and ways. hello there we're seeing lots of wet weather over the southeastern parts of china actually this system runs all the way up towards japan but it's still dragging its feet across us and it's going to stick around as we head through the next few days of yet more very heavy downpours and the threat of seeing more flooding out of this to even further south of think we'll see some fairly sharp showers particularly over the northern parts of vietnam hanoi again is looking like we're going to see a few showers as they have the towards the south and there's plenty of downpours here as well many of them have a pulse of borneo stretching their way towards the west we're also see some through parts of thailand and cambodia as well in the south there own says many showers say for us over parts of job that should be more dry weather as that should be over
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bali as well in this region gets a little bit cloudy as we head through sunday so the chance of seeing one or 2 more showers towards the west and here for many of us we're seeing some pretty monsoon showers particularly over the southern parts of india and in the northeast in through bangladesh as well these bright white areas of climate really are giving us of heavy heavy downpours there's still the risk of seeing some more downpours here as we head through the next few days but to the north of all of that it's dry and it's certainly hot new delhi while 45 degrees will be on maximum on saturday. when sponsors. always after decades of being programmed with instructions data from greek computers can only on their own identifying targets and predicting human behavior. artificial intelligence could monitor ombudsman. and decide on. the big picture because the world according to a.r.u.
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exposes the bias inside the machine parts one on al-jazeera. welcome back let's just take a quick look at our headlines so far ethiopia's prime minister has called for a speedy democratic transition and sudan's tries to mediate the political crisis in khartoum. the ruling military junta and protest leaders 2 days after the military crackdown left more than $100.00 protesters dead. the mexican president says he wants friendship with the u.s. not confrontation as the 2 countries hold talks on migration mr trump has threatened to impose tariffs on all mexican goods from monday if its neighbor doesn't stop migrants crossing over into the u.s.
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. america says china has 2 more weeks before increased tariffs kick in a 25 percent tariff was meant to begin at the start of the month but will now be implemented on june the 15th beijing says a trade war with the u.s. could lead to a global economic downturn. the u.s. is raising the stakes in a standoff with turkey over ankara's plans to purchase russian air defenses the 2 nato allies have sparred for months now over turkey's order for russia's s. $400.00 defense system washington will reportedly give ankara until the end of july to backtrack on the deal if not the u.s. will start taking steps to remove turkey from the f. $35.00 fighter jet program brunell's has more now from washington. turkey plans to buy from russia the sophisticated s 400 anti aircraft system and at the same time it has put in orders for 100 of the advanced u.s. made fighter jet the f.
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35 now since the s 400 is designed in part to shoot down the f. 35 the u.s. says turkey can't have it both ways so in a letter to his turkish counterpart the acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan wrote quite bluntly in this letter which was made public that while we seek to maintain our valued relationship turkey will not receive the f. $35.00 if turkey takes delivery of the f. $400.00 u.s. officials say that they've made this position clear to their turkish counterparts for some time the u.s. would all offer turkey chance to buy instead the u.s. made it missile anti aircraft system made by the raytheon corporation but the turkish president heir to one says there is no question of backing out of the deal
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for the any aircraft system from moscow so the u.s. says that turkey has until the 31st of july to change its mind about buying the russian system or else the. turks will be barred from purchasing any f. 35 and the turkish personnel pilots who are currently in the u.s. training to fly that aircraft will have to leave the country this is yet another rift between the 2 nato allies who have had their differences over syria. over a sanction over. the presence in the united states of a muslim cleric who aired a want says fomented a coup against him an unsuccessful coup in 2016 and other issues including tariffs the president trump imposed on turkish steel so now we have the situation
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where the 2 nato allies are bickering over these russian weapons systems and a situation that is probably giving moscow a certain amount of pleasure. the u.n. says at least 4000000 people have left venezuela because of his worsening economic and political situation it describes the figure as alarming and says help is still required to host them in other countries less in america addison to see a new man reports from santiago in chile. the overview of the numbers are staggering and unprecedented every day thousands of more than his wayland's join the exodus the vast majority by 1st crossing over into neighboring colombia which has already received more than 1300000 economic refugees and. is one of the newcomers at this un refugee camp. my children went 3 days without eating anything it's very difficult as a mother my mom isn't here she's over there suffering from hunger and that's why i
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was eager to leave and work to send her something. like. that do you in predicts that before the end of the year the venezuelan exodus will surpass $6000000.00 the vast majority of whom are coming here to latin america. from colombia millions of impoverished venezuelans are moving further south especially to ecuador who rule and chile these countries social services are already strained to the limit this week bruce president announced he was following neighboring chiles lead by requiring the news whalen's to enter the country with humanitarian visa. 15 unevenness whalen's for the possible and the corresponding visa to enter the country. it will be a requirement to enter blue with a humanitarian visa which will be processed over there in venezuela in the peruvian consulate. this may slow down but not stop the stampede
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fueled by increasingly dire economic and political crisis which is why latin american governments are raising the alarm and asking the rest of the international community to share the burden of the biggest refugee crisis ever seen in the americas. demonstrators in liberia's capital have protested against rising prices and corruption they're angry of a president george we as handling of the economy accusing him of poor leadership the former football star came to 18 months ago promising to create jobs and tackle corruption the government has blocked access to social media to maintain public safety. in the capital monrovia. well it looks like the horny morning between the liberian people and their president is over across the country thousands of people took to the streets to demand action from a government they said has ignored them for quite some time by the way liberia's
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president george whereas only been an office for 18 months out of the 6 years it's supposed to be in that office and a lot of problems like creeping up rising inflation high unemployment rates the devaluation of the currency and according to protesters rampant corruption in his government they accuse the government of siphoning millions of dollars from state coffers that are still and accounted for and they're also talking about 25000000 u.s. dollars now went missing from government coffers and billions of liberia and dollars that also are not and are not accounted for the liberian government said there is no course there is no sand that is not accounted for nothing has been stolen whatsoever and what is surprising now is that the demonstrators not only after i not only from the opposition but also from within the coalition that put george we are into office so that's a very big problem for george weir and by fire this is the biggest challenge he's
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ever faced since coming to power 18 months ago. britain's prime minister is a may has formally stepped down as the leader of the governing conservative party mrs may handed in her resignation letter 2 weeks after announcing her intention to leave at the time she said she regretted not being able to deliver breaks it should continue to serve as a caretaker prime minister party chooses her replacement 11 m.p.'s are expected to be nominated in a succession contest that could last for several weeks. well one of those tipped to succeed her is her former foreign secretary boris johnson is campaign go to boost on friday that was because judges in the u.k. has high court threw out an attempt to cross. acute him for allegedly lying during the 2016 bricks at referendum campaign last month johnson was told to appear in court for saying that britain would be about $400000000.00 per week better off outside the european union. the chief prosecutor of the international criminal
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court wants to appeal against the decision by judges not to investigate possible war crimes in afghanistan in april the court refused to burn souter's request to investigate alleged atrocities carried out by afghan and u.s. forces judges cited a lack of evidence and cooperation from kabul and washington as well as the taliban last month the us secretary of state mike pompei o said america would revoke or deny visas to i.c.c. staff investigating such allegations. athens has inaugurated its 1st official mosque the greek capital hasn't had a recognized place of worship for muslims for at least a century it's expected to open in september is johnson. the education minister's arrival to open the athens mosque is a moment a quarter of a century in the making and we are trying to about soln in many years some in about
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25 years we had many dangle misstating even try to give me and we so much meetings for much trying pretty hard and you tried to convince kind men can mentor and 10 god we are now is. in mission is complete muslim immigrants have gradually acquired official community organizations green cards and even citizenship but their religion has been kept quiet by opening this mosque weeks before a general election the city's a government is actively courting the muslim vote yet the plan and. athens now has a dignified place of worship for muslims whether they are citizens or migrants refugees or visitors the right to pray to the god you believe in like the right of a child to go to school does not depend on the circumstances under which someone arrived here everyone has these rights they are non-negotiable human rights only the dignity of the afghans mosque is a far cry from what muslims have been used to makeshift places of worship in
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basements like this one which filled the overcrowding. is careful to maintain that low profile here there are no loudspeakers to call the faithful to prayer and no minarets to form landmarks the building barely resembles a religious structure and the compound itself is part of a navy facility surrounded by a high wall and barbed wire and with a round the clock police good citizen understands that although greeks agree to a mosque in principle there are also sensitivities greeks remember that the ottoman empire ruled greece for 4 centuries until the early 18th hundreds the saudi government offered to build a huge cultural center and mosque in 2001 and libya's moammar gadhafi made a similar offer a few years later but both sank under a popular. disapproval and pressure from the church and local government then in 2006 parliament decided that the athens mosque would be built at public expense and
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13 years later it is ready the mosque isn't big enough to absorb all of these underground worshippers and such unofficial places of prayer may will continue but it's a 1st step towards religious acceptance in this overwhelmingly orthodox christian society john psaropoulos al-jazeera africans. space will soon be open for tourism more specifically the international space station nasa announced the plans which could see tourist spending as long as a month up there starting as early as next year is kristen salumi. and we. want to travel in space soon it will be possible to buy time on the international space station nasa announced plans on friday to host 2 commercial missions a year starting as soon as 2020 for those who can afford it. private companies will arrange the trips allowing space tourists to spend up to 30 days aboard the space station so if you look at the pricing and you add it up back that happen you'll be
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roughly about 35 $1000.00 a night per astronaut but it won't come with any points. and 1st you have to get there boeing is one company planning to provide transportation at a cost estimated to be around $58000000.00 per private astronaut starliner is the new space ship but now that boeing is building to take astronauts in from earth right to the space station initially and with the private destinations or other destinations in the future that could appeal not only to space tourists but also companies looking to manufacture products in microgravity like tech shot which makes 3 d. printers that manufacture human tissue. nasa came here to the nasdaq to make the announcement the space agency worked with a dozen companies to chart the course to a robust low earth orbit economy but to make the plan work they'll need even more
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companies willing to invest in space they also want to reach out to the non-typical space companies that we think there's entrepreneurs out there we think there start out there when they see the benefits of what could be done in space they recognize it's now not impossible for them to do research in space they can take their creativity and go forward now so hopes more private investment will mean the dawn of a new day in space travel freeing up more money to fund the agency's goal of returning to the moon by 2024. christensen al-jazeera new york. you're watching al-jazeera live from your top stories breaking story just happening in the past 90 seconds or so the u.s. president donald trump has just announced on twitter that his government and mexico have signed an agreement over migration trade donald trump saying the plan tariffs
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against mexico have been in definitely on twitter he's saying i'm pleased to inform you that the u.s. of america has reached a signed agreement mexico the tariff jewel to be implemented by the u.s. on monday this june the 10th against mexico are hereby indefinitely suspended mexico in turn has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of migration through mexico and to our southern border it will get more on that for you just as soon as we can that developing story here on al-jazeera in other news ethiopia's prime minister has called for a speedy democratic transition in sudan as he tries to mediate a political crisis in the country. where he met the ruling military jointer and protest leaders days after a military crackdown left more than 100 protesters dead the opposition says it's open to talks but only if certain conditions are met. first the military council needs to recognize that a crime was committed secondly there needs to be an international investigation
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into the dispersal of the sit in fairly all political detainees and all political prisoners held by the previous regime need to be released there needs to be freedom of speech and the media the military needs to be pulled from the streets and the internet ban needs to be lifted until all the demands are met we will not hold talks on a future political process the us is raise the stakes in a standoff with turkey over ankara's plans to purchase russian air defenses washington is giving incur until the end of july to backtrack on the deal or remove turkey from the f. 35 fighter jet program. demonstrators in the liberian capital have protested against rising prices and corruption they're angry of a president george we as handling of the economy are using him with poor leadership the former football star came to power 18 months ago promising to create jobs and tackle corruption the government has blocked access to social media it says to maintain public safety you are right up to speed with all the top stories up next
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it's inside story on more news in about 30 minutes. sudan under pressure the african union suspends khartoum over its violent crackdown on protesters and ethiopian prime minister is in the country to try and diffuse the tension but with us old word and how much power is the military ready to give up this is inside story.
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hello and welcome to the program i'm hala my he had seen with more than a 100 protesters killed in the past week international pressure is growing on sudan's military jointer to compromise with its opponents ethiopia is leading mediation efforts to end the standoff prime minister abu ahmed says in khartoum where he's juta me both sides the goal is for the military to hand over power to civilians but after this week's violent cracks are in the process leaders see little reason to trust the army they have refused further talks and say they'll continue their demonstrations. while the african union has suspended sit on over the cracks and it won't be allowed to take part in the regional bloc unless civilians are put in charge they use says this is the only way out of the crisis
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but the military has been sending mixed messages on wednesday it said it was open to negotiations with the processors. when a 100000000 as we in the transitional military council open our hands to negotiation with no purpose but the interest of the nation through which we can complete the establishment of a legitimate authority that expresses the ambitions of the sudanese revolution in all its varieties but this came just one day after they rule dates any further talks and states calling for elections within 9 months in the service are either a legitimate mandate can only made through the ballot box as a result the military council is to tight the following counseling what has been agreed and ending negotiation with the declaration of freedom and change forces secondly a call to general elections within a period that does not exceed 9 months from now with international and regional monitoring creating a necessary environment for this. well let's introduce our panel joining us from london adama ghai author all to morrow
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the new africa and former information director for eco us and florence we have a hearty tele maru you robert schumann fellow and former african union official and back in london john a professor all of anthropology at bard college and phones or over rift valley institutes a research body operating in east africa welcome to you all if i could start with you adama guy how significant would you say ethiopia's intervention in this crisis is. at least we see africans trying to help other african countries in need so this is a welcome development that the prime minister be mohammed. precise the attempts to mediate as he is tried to do between kenya and somalia
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and between djibouti and i think that's something that is to be looked at but defunct also is that utopia is a frog in the country and it cannot be the one that will be fixing the old problem of gun you know that there are other big players behind the scene for instance a saudi other bia immunity it's. egypt egypt too that is ordering at the moment the chairmanship of the african union so those are important players and beyond them you have the african union you have the united nations and the of western countries that are in korea of course china that me have a seat because it has been a major player in supporting the regime of president bashir there collapsed on april 11th so i think that is an attempt which is good dissolute but you need to expand it and ensure that there is students behind the diplomacy that is undertaken
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by mr ok it is another danger though that we do have too many cooks in the kitchen at this point says atomic i was mentioning we did have this you to promote sic turkish from the african union as certainly ethiopia has has got in there straight off the bat but there are other countries who have an interest and a very significant stake in here given this situation today tomorrow do you think that. the african union's intervention at this point is not going to be enough given there are so many other regional powers up play. yes hello i think the point you're making is correct for the fact that the horn of africa now is the proxy battlefield for many are too many artists too big ones to be easily heeding to unified voice from
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africa or the horn of africa or mediation by one country clearly the 1st one. with the last. unified voice unified all vision from the un from out there after the european union united states and so on which is playing actually a different kind of role this will be. less likely the. elites seeing this country initiative will work generally speaking to so welcome. the african union has. voiced its polish him and he is attempting to get hired but this country would be after they are forces you don't want to ask too big too many and they ask you his attorney are not going to he says i've
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done to sorry to cut you off my heart john royal if i could turn to you now would you agree with this assessment there are good intentions from the african union that essentially this problem is not too large until it's a national in scope well i think you would look at the afternoon is record i mean it's it's obviously correct that they should have suspended saddam for membership and they've done this before to other countries with mixed results but not a mouse quite right in saying there's an awful lot unpack in terms of the national interest both of the neighbor countries and member countries of a you and international players. and i think that. the ahmed is one leader in the region who has credibility because of the astonishing transformation under his leadership in ethiopia but whether he can do the same thing in sudan i think it's symbolically important that he's gone and we await to see what he said both to
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the leaders of the transitional council and to the leaders of the civilian movement a response to me with well interestingly that you've raised that point joined while there has been much made of the situation particularly on social media that's be ahmed's has indeed met with leaders of the transitional council but one key leader of the transitional council was not there we are of course talking about mohammed's drug lord or head as he's known the. individual he's deemed to be the real person in charge she certainly has these rapid support forces under his command general what would you say this signifies in terms of. a realistic way forward through dialogue if this individual was not at present at these talks. well i suppose the hope is that the other members
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of the transitional military council are attempting to militarize him and possibly to blame the rapid sport forces for the violence which they were indeed the main perpetrators of but it may just be seen as tact he may have refused to meet them i think we really can't possibly know but what is undoubtedly true is he is the leader of the r.s.s. the rebels forces they were not the only but the main perpetrators of the massacre earlier this week which was an act of really unusual violence i mean a lot of people were killed we know at least a 100 people were killed many women raped people with one of the nile this is actually a body count higher than that of many of the insurgencies elsewhere in the region although of course it's eclipsed by the history of this regime or it's because the regime in darfur itself where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed over
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the last 20 years down a guy what are your thoughts of the likelihood of. sitting down to dialogue do you think this is likely perhaps behind the scenes he may turn back to mediators such as the theory of prime minister. i 3rd spec that. this person who has been behind atrocitus t.t.'s not just in death food but this past week on monday when almost over 100 people it has been said have been killed after a peaceful demonstration in the name of democracy that this person is out of the game because sudan is a country that is known for in a meeting in a minute imported to leaders who are problematic and you'll recall that mr bashir
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has been ousted after. 30 years in power and nobody is talking about him anymore i think that the dissolution would come from balls were not dented by blood and the busy fact that. it busy has met the person with no means of the. do one leaving the country. is not to be is not something that should be considered as busy secondary i do believe that you need to have a partner with whom you can talk and discuss which solution and. a way forward that will be agreeable by the international community many will not want to talk to this criminal who have killed the people so being a rough person even though you may have the support of egypt and other alternative religion is not the way forward and last one to do this i do believe mr ahmed as a lot of stake in this mediation that is doing because with what he has achieved in
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the id court i have met him 2 years ago who during the turn a forum we have seen the thought formation of egypt yeah if he pulls this crisis out and fix it and appears as the one with given a chance for the military to exit which is the right way forward i do believe we may be considered as a party. sure winner this year of the nobel prize it could at least vote for it because it is middle lot of inroads in democracy and opening up is country and in playing regional road i think that that does perhaps somewhat far away to talk of nobel prizes given that certainly we're still waiting on hearing what's come of these efforts but i mean realistically where's the incentive for b. or me to step back and say ok we'll hand over power i guess we've heard there have been these atrocities committed certainly a very violent crackdown by various factions of the military where is their
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incentive to turn around and say ok hands up or just hand over power. yeah but the military they realized that they have really a small window of opportunity here because the longer they try to cling to power even with the support of those alternatives in regime of. egypt saudi arabia and minutes evidence that we are committed to be against them they have learned their juvenile she didn't know the job put it seems of africa they have seen many leaders we have been in power and we have been ousted and we have exerted peacefully the likes of mugabi zuma and others there to be considered so if they want to insist i think they will create the condition of a civil war and i suspect also once again we have to look far ahead if i mention
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this noble peace friends that's something that one has to analyze in the long run it's a possibility but also the who was it isn't it may be the some of these asian of zimbabwe of this country of sudan because recall in 99 to one when the mamma said but it was in power in. somalia it was almost the same situation but because he tried to get into power that created what domestically that we still witness in some somalia sensing may happen in 2 shouldn't if ever do military people who are in charge at the moment in a further condition under sun that their time is over they have not managed properties the economy they have not mothers politically the situation and the war against them at this stage they have to exit and allow others to take over the reins of power ok my heart attack that would you agree with this assessment that it is time for the military to stand down and they have an incentive to do so. let me
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say this 1st they sure have sense for mission and nobel to be satisfied for now. that i have to point to that i've received in my opinion in the c.m.c. special you have the key then he's a nice isolation that the saddam you added me is similar to take your shot which is not. they give me enjoy a lot of interest from western and middle eastern forces so it's not going to be support to life or to the sudanese army to gauge the kind of support base your i've gained so far and sustain yourself. now in sudan i think that is a tendency to look at this as an example egyptian army as example and you know before is that he's a confrontation and a confrontation continues the way it's now the people we see i mean we have serious
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problems and i would miss the i want to see any element of the t.n.c. we do with others the public in general because the protests are going to continue that i'm an element of this in different process rebuys and. ok and this will not come to her like that and let me add another point. with regard to the forces that are supportive of this and see me not see the sense of look at g.m. and now yemen either didn't it's a disaster and the reason we have forgotten it is it was instigated by you expect similar situation could happen in sudan of course for big bucks i think that is the need for instance by this element within the m.c.c. only if it comes from policy that i've highly polished and also house.
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pressure and the leverage on the middle eastern forces that are active in sudan not . only incentive i was mislead the transition will have to be a big tent where civilians and many will come together to discuss the future of saddam and the armed forces should go back to product its place in the box and it has 2 men saying on meet the. national security of the country beyond let the army come north all consider itself are the goddamn of unity of saddam while the people are already about in the highest level up in the spanish and the distance to control the the future of saddam ok tell me how can i get your reaction to that. well i mean that's that's the optimistic scenario very much to be hoped for i think one point about the army is as dr murray correctly says it's not really comparable
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with the egyptian army. it's reflective of become an alliance between the regular armed forces the armed forces of n'est the national intelligence organization and the rabid support forces and the rebels of all forces are sort of monster created by the government over the last 20 years as a counter-insurgency force in darfur which has now come home to roost if you like and i think the question is who is best armed can they actually assert their authority over amity i mean it's said that there's pressure on him to resign that he's resisting it and i think the the the somali scenario of the truly disaster scenario in sudan will be a war between different factions of the armed forces in the center of the country because of course his or 2 war in sudan has been on the periphery in darfur which has spawned this terrible violence and in other parts on the borders of south sudan
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sometimes in eastern sudan this is the 1st time that the center has seen this these levels of violence and there's now a real conversation for the for the state which is not simply the army versus civilians there are interests on both sides i think we also have to weigh are the real importance of the support for the. let's say for the time being for the transitional military council from egypt saudi arabia. these this involvement is is very deep these are all military regimes of course and there are even there are some of those stories sudanese proxy forces fighting in yemen on behalf of saudi arabia so there's a sort of intimate relation between the armed forces of this these 3 countries which will be hard to disassemble under sustained civil campaign
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events. let us hope so i mean. he was one of the leaders of the civilian movement has said about the sit in a thought to me is that you can in the city and in khartoum but the whole country is now sits in ok now that may be true because the current movement started out psychotrauma started up roads and old industrial city in sudan and spread to other cities in the central area so it's not something confined courtroom we don't really know what's happening in these other places because another thing to members concentration is there's a news blackout but a serious suppression of news media including of course. this isn't deeds and everything is if i was not clear where i'm sorry to cut you off we are in the time moments of this debate i am interested in exploring this aspect of the supports of the t.n.c. the transitional military council and the various factions majority to tell him are
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you had said that it's unlike the egyptian army because there is no support from the west that we are seeing significant amounts of support from the united arab emirates and saudi arabia estimated the tune of $3000000000.00. it is as i have the axes changed because the west does not appear to want any part of this fight it's the united states the u.k. the european union these countries organizations are very quick to condemn but very reluctant to play any part in this is the new dynamic 9 knots bringing in supports or condemnation from the west but certainly the new axis of support lies very much in the gulf in the middle east well as i think the main question is what is the interest of the west and middle eastern
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country in sudan of course the western slap in the interest on egypt is much much longer and it has complicated history which i don't want to don't now but it isn't much longer deep in terms of in the cement and so on and so on on the armed forces and we are now is it's not. done in my opinion will not be stable. continue the fragmentation will continue to has already fragment. down school and other places in how they. have been claiming for a little at least some on me and in the eastern conference to don as we speak for most additionally but all together to the touch of agreement. on this part just keep calm and fartman vision police now the armed forces is not as
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monolithic as you are you seeing in egypt or else and i such it's come upon the money for your violence through the d.n.c. in the 1st place against you was a takeover of civilian power if it was a city on aboriginals to the corn institution the vice president should have stayed there all this should i be the civilian government a condition to use national unity where everyone weak and no bullshit now the army is doing. on this additional money that is now looting and flying the government which is not your strong ip ok where in the dying seconds of this debate adama guy if he was in $1.00 sentence do you think any media creation mediation that sense can succeed or is it over for the protesters. i think the magician is useful at least it gives
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a window of opportunity for the parties to sort out politically the crises otherwise that will lead to military violence with the consequences that would be bad for everybody i do believe also that the african union as an institution not under mr el-sisi the president of egypt who has a side in this conflict should as an institution under the peace and security council come up with a solution to help the sudanese get out of this. crisis that is may affect the whole region of eastern and even northern africa the whole of the continent after the because this kind of crisis we cannot allow them to fester ok and 4 say that will have to be the final words thank you very much indeed see all our panelists adamah guy margarita there in morrow and john royal and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by this is
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a new website al-jazeera dot com and the conversation continues online just had to facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story to take part or have your say on twitter our handle is at stage a inside story or tweet me directly at our my he looked forward to hearing from you until then for me and the scene and i. a horrific crime that shocked the world 51 people killed at mosques in christchurch new zealand why i want to investigate the full force could have done more to
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prevent this massacre on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. and. a journey of puzzling discovery my great grandfather he was a slave of the only property al-jazeera is james gannon expose his family's legacy of slave ownership down like my family's status and wealth has benefited from their choice to slave and america's debt to the black people today some of us so scar we even scared to speak out because a soprano. al-jazeera correspondent a moral debt. driven by outrage and spanning generations the rohinton demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticised repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh
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and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was palpable if you don't like we're so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back 10 and the day after tomorrow they'll send back 20 idea if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the rancho among the most persecuted minorities in the world. peter will be here in doha with the top stories from al-jazeera in the last half hour the u.s. president donald trump has announced that his government and mexico have reached an agreement over migration and trade he said the tariffs should jeweled to come into force on monday against mexico are hereby indefinitely suspended rob reynolds as
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our correspondent joining us live from washington what's mr trump been saying and what does it mean. well peter the president made this announcement as he said just about 30 minutes ago after an intense week of negotiations that have now apparently resulted in a last minute deal trump said on twitter in part the united states of america has a reached its signed agreement with mexico the tariff schedule to be implemented by the u.s. on monday against mexico are hereby indefinitely suspended and mexico in turn has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of migration through mexico and to our southern border this is to being done to greatly reduce or eliminate illegal immigration coming from mexico into the united states a big political win for president trump after members of his own party and legions of economists had warned him against the tariff saying date hurt both the u.s. and mexican economies and hurt us consumers of course trump has made the issue of
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immigration the sort of central pillar of his entire political brand and identity and this will certainly bolster him in the eyes of his. of his base and his supporters it remains to be seen however whether mexico can make good on its. plan or effort to completely eliminate all migration from central american countries through mexico a very difficult task and one that we'll have to see whether mexico can accomplish without resorting to any sort of human rights violations peter brought many things and we're seeing it on a screen as rob was talking to us makes me ambassador to the united states now saying we're being told cooperation over development of something mexico and central america will be strengthened but certainly looks like it's totally in line
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with what we've been reporting on in the past couple of hours on the mexican guatemalan border on al jazeera. if he appears prime minister has called for a speedy democratic transition in sudan as he tries to mediate a political crisis in the country in khartoum where he met the ruling military jointer and protest leaders days after a military crackdown left more than 100 protesters dead the opposition says it's open to talks but only if certain conditions are met. first the military council needs to recognize that the crime was committed secondly there needs to be an international investigation into the dispersal of the sit in fairly all political detainees and all political prisoners held by the previous regime need to be released there needs to be freedom of speech and the media the military needs to be pulled from the streets and the internet ban needs to be lifted until all the demands are met we will not hold talks on a future political process the us is raise the stakes in
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a standoff with turkey over ankara's plans to purchase russian air defenses washington is giving ankara until the end of july to backtrack on the deal if that does not happen is threatening to expel turkey from its f. $35.00 fighter jet program. the us china has 2 more weeks before increased her of a 25 percent tariff was meant to begin at the start of the month it will now be implemented on june 15th beijing's as a trade war with the u.s. could lead to a global economic downturn demonstrators in liberia's capital have protested against rising prices and corruption they're angry over president george wein his handling of the economy accusing him of poor leadership the government has blocked access to social media britain's prime minister series m a has formally stepped down as the leader of the governing conservative party this is me and in a resignation letter 2 weeks after announcing her intention to leave she will continue to serve as a caretaker prime minister while her party chooses
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a replacement those are the headlines up next is the big picture more news in 25 minutes see that. over the next kind of length of a pint or so i will talk to you i guess about ai and whether. this is also bullying this is a dollar. they are subsistence farmers and they live in a village in yemen al bayda province.
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in september of 2012 an american drone hit a shuttle of shoppers going to market killing 12 civilians and absolutely 0 militants. you're. mrs fine job or during the celebrations for the wedding of his eldest son is brother in law salim give sermon. his sermon denounced al qaeda denounce militancy he said it was spreading a cancer of violence across yemeni society and he said that everything that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is doing was totally contrary to islam. couple of days later a couple of young men unknown to the villagers come and ask to speak to silent selling goes down with a local policeman speaks of the men in america trying to kill. you or when best to
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get tons of strikes like this very well documented case. attacks on innocence and we started to ask ourselves. why did these kinds of mistakes keep getting made. my name is corey kreiter i'm a human rights lawyer. faisal but not a job or was my client in 2013 i set out to understand how members of faisal's family could be killed by mistake by the united states. but what i found goes far beyond drone strikes in yemen targeting by data analysis by what's called machine learning is just one small part of how computers order the world. from the way we work to health care to how we're police part official intelligence is raising urgent questions about the balance of power and our power to challenge it.
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this is the world according to ai. there's a lot of debate and a lot of hype about ai these days but we're not talking about just self-aware computers are a way it's not just being used as a kind of when it chess or when it go or translate a document as that it's being used to kind of predict things about all of us. the way we talk about now is the way people talked about patent medicines at the end of the 19th century there were things that were actually medicines but at the same time people were pressing the oil out of snakes mixing it with opium and buffalo dung and selling it as medicine. communities particularly vulnerable communities children people of color women are often characterized by these systems and quite
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misrepresented of ways. marginalized communities are experimented upon. and there on the frontlines sees technological systems the frontlines of harm they're also on the front lines of rebellion and refusal. in 1041 the world was at war. you're. germany and the axis powers looked to have the upper hand against allied forces. one of the advantages they gave the nazis a crucial edge was secret communications. the germans use an encryption device
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called the enigma machine to encode their messages. cracking enigma was difficult and time consuming but if encrypted messages could be decoded quickly it could lead to a decisive shift in the war. the allies desperately needed a faster decryption machine. spearheading the drive to build one was british mathematician alan turing. the origins of of ai as we know it today was during the 2nd world war was chairing this work on the and make my machine. was the 1st one really to think about it the idea of the computer as a full machine a machine that could think like a human. cheering built a device using new electro mechanical technology that increase the rate at which intercepted messages could be decoded. it was a huge breakthrough accelerating the allied victory bringing forward the end of the 2nd world war. and marking the beginning of machine intelligence.
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artificial intelligence really was growing in britain under the name machine intelligence and in the us there were starting to be a small number of people who were really getting involved in this seeing this as an important thing for the future. in 1956 in the summer at dartmouth a workshop was held was run by people like marvin minsky john mccarthy and that event really was sort of the american birth of artificial intelligence and in fact the term artificial intelligence was used in their proposal so that's really where the shift from calling it machine intelligence to artificial intelligence happened . marvin minsky was an american mathematician and cognitive scientist his friend john mccarthy was a professor of mathematics at dartmouth college in the us. it was at dartmouth in
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1956 that mccarthy organized a summer long research project focusing on machine intelligence. it would become part of a i folklore and the place where the term artificial intelligence was 1st coined it would also bring it to the attention of the u.s. military. in those days the military which was the principal source of funding for computer science research and if you went into the funders he said you know we're going to make these machines smarter than people some day and whoever isn't on that ride is going to get left behind and big time so we have to stay ahead of this and boy you got funding like crazy as the defense department took over more of the funding the question started to being asked you know but walking we do with it now . the u.s. department of defense had its own research arm called the advanced research projects agency arpa the push for developing a i was driven by the logic of the cold.
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