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i don't think i've seen enough to what. that was funny. that's. just like the never do anything the officiating no. see if you're any serious like c.d.'s and they're going to get a cd. off to passing by the egyptian embassy to protest as of now ended up outside the embassy of saudi arabia another country that they calling on to stop supporting those in power and hold to a while back home there's a crackdown on protests these people see it as their responsibility to carry on what they're calling the revolution still ahead on the philippines president to moms on says after fishermen were left stranded at sea when a chinese ship ran their boat plus. the big reasons well. you don't have to count the cash you don't have to reconcile the cash a new trend in the us to make some using cash obsolete not everyone has
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a deadly dull credit card. how often a record breaking the hot day in corsica its little mind and. it's pleasingly much cooler on sensing stay that way on sunday but the warmth is still in europe it's more in eastern europe now where it's been actually for a couple of weeks almost break by that cold front as it pushes into the thirty's when not temperatures back and of course in hans's the random thunderstorms have been drifting through germany and poland just recently so orders them into a proper line temperatures therefore on sunday will be about 10 degrees lower some places and this line of green here well this massive great is potentially very big thunderstorms again with hail even a small chance of a tornado. certainly wind damage is on the cards has already happened after all
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behind it all things are warming up actually from a low base 20 in london 22 in tires and the sun is out in madrid rather cloudy picture is true for all of spain extends into north africa too we're left with a warming scene there with some trees as it should be for us all over europe for the middle the end of june as we nearly all our way as the north africa were free of showers the onshore breezes brought tempers down little bit of benghazi so that 28 in tunisia 29 and robot 21. we're making millions per month off for nothing taxes i was losing. more than 10 years after the global financial crisis millions of dollars and it's like the greatest job you could ever imagine gabby without putting any of your own crap it would be us who will still be on the story and drove millions of workers into
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unemployment i said. we need to be able to claim the interest in the man who stole the world coming soon. and again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour protesters are filling hong kong streets despite the chief executive decision to suspend a controversial extradition bill demonstrators say they want to permanently scrapped. crew members of one of the vessels hit by an explosion in the gulf of oman on thursday have now arrived in dubai saudi arabia has joined the u.s. and u.k. and blaming iran for the explosions iran denies any involvement. saudi jets have
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hit targets in the yemeni capital sana'a after hooty rebels attacked 2 saudi airports who the spokesman says drones carrying explosives targeted saudi u.a.e. coalition military hangars and control rooms an airport and the airport was attacked for the 3rd time in a week. bab says it was behind 2 attacks that have killed at least 11 people and injured 25 others in somalia as captain car bomb 1st exploded close to the presidential palace in mogadishu causing most of the deaths a parliamentary session which was being held in the area ended early in a separate incident a car bomb near a checkpoint leading to the airport killed the driver and his accomplice. at least 6 kenyan police officers have been killed after a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in what jihad county near the border with somalia gunfire was reported in the attack no group has claimed responsibility but
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al-shabaab has carried out several attacks in the area and kidnapped 3 reserve policemen in north eastern kenya on friday. the u.s. has granted iraq a 3 month extension to buy electricity from iran but after that sanctions against countries doing business with iran will go into effect iraqis rely on iran for vital supplies but in the summer months even that is not enough as charles strafford reports now from buster. hussein roddy starts the generator he helped build using an old engine. it's a porous electricity to families in this pool neighborhood a bus or so. there are hundreds of generators like this one across the city because daily power cuts often last for hours. we provide to city to the poor it comes on for an hour then it's all for 5 the children really suffer in the summer heat we are so tired inside i have nothing joyful in my life
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it's all been misery the government has forgotten us. iraq cannot meet its own electricity needs even a city like basra which because of its huge oil wealth could be one of the richest cities in the world of aust amounts of the electricity comes from close by across the border in neighboring iran the us has increased sanctions on iran in recent months and this could seriously affect neighboring iraq which depends on iran for its policy apply when. iraq relies hugely on iran for this vital resource and a decrease in that power supply could cripple the local economy further we saw angry demonstrations over the lack of services in bus for last year the situation hasn't improved since then. america's just extended a sanction waiver for iraq so it can keep buying iranian electricity and gas for another 3 months the us is trying to help iraq be less dependent on its neighbor
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for fuel as a means of increasing its pressure on iran energy giant exxon mobil recently signed a $53000000000.00 deal with the iraqi government to develop 2 southern oil fields it's hoped that project will also help iraq be more self-sufficient in gas needed to few electricity power plants considering the potential boil wealth of basra the poverty and lack of general services is shocking piles of rubbish lined the streets there are open drains buildings long ago fell into disrepair even with the help of iran there isn't enough electricity being distributed here. to a city that people like hussein say has suffered use of government it looked. at al-jazeera basra. u.s. president donald trump has accused the new york times of treason after reported that the united states is increasing cyber attacks on russia the article quotes
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former and serving government officials who say the u.s. hacked the russian power grid report says all this is part of an aggressive cyber campaign partly in retaliation for what they say is interference in the 28 teen midterm elections. the hit movie of this week's sydney film festival is provoking debate in australia about racism the final quarter tells the story of a champion sportsman who was booed by crowds andrew thomas reports from sydney. listened to the blues. for more than 3 years at the end of his playing career australian rules football star adam goodes was booed every time he touched the ball he's doing. he's watching. a new film is explicit about why racism and so on the steroids. continue to stay in sydney swans player
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adam goodes was an aussie rules legend but at the match in 2013 the indigenous australian did something that upsets many fans a 13 year old girl in the crowd shouted something racist at him and he pointed her out here he preferred any. comment. as of the 1st time i referred to as a monk you and i. it was it was shattering goods became a vocal anti-racism campaigner australia's government awarded him the title of australian of the year but the abuse and booing just got worse good his treatment from the sports pages to the front pages many accused him of being overly sensitive that others said that not recognising the bullying was in reaction to kids is anti racism activism was itself racist in a country with a history of white supremacy where aboriginal people were only recognised as citizens in the late 1960 s.
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the final quarter makes uncomfortable viewing i think a strike has always had a difficulty talking about rice and when this happened it really highlighted how challenging this was we came up with every excuse we possibly could as to why adam goodes was being booed but we weren't. to actually on the fact that. was involved the film has become the hit this week sydney film festival and another film which includes new interviews with goods is due to premiere at the melbourne film festival in august it wasn't just that. the angry average. through one man and 2 films australians are confronting what many call the country's casual racism andrew thomas al jazeera sydney. of philippine president regurgitator is demanding an investigation into the sinking of a boat by a chinese fishing vessel that left $22.00 filipino fishermen stranded at sea before
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they were rescued by a vietnamese boat it is the latest incident between manila and beijing over the disputed south china sea jamil arlindo going reports from the home of fishermen doro in central philippines. for many years this boat has provided a livelihood for more than 20 filipino families but not anymore. this is all that is left of it it was wrecked in the reback a filipino maritime territory in the spratly group of islands in the south china sea. the fishermen say they'd anchored overnight and were asleep when a chinese vessel rammed the rear of their boat. according to them the chinese vessel turned flashed its lights and sped away leaving them clinging to wreckage on the open sea. we were
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a group for several hours some of us got on the small boat and for several hours to look for help were bird grateful fisherman there or we would died but no vendor siento through a sketch of the chinese vessel he says it was a 3 times bigger than their own boat in 2016 the philippine government won a landmark case against china at the international tribunals in the hague china's so-called 9 dash territorial claim has been declared invalid. the philippines president to go to terre to considers china his government's closest ally and is refusing to implement the court's ruling the chinese foreign ministry says what happened at the reed bank was a maritime accident and according to its embassy in manila a group of filipino boats prevented the chinese vessel from helping the fisherman boat owner. says he feels devastated.
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that the boat. being treated. by china. it took 4 days at sea $22.00 traumatized fisherman to tractors and a determined community for a damaged fishing vessel to be returned to where it 1st came from and fishermen here they will rebuild this boat and they will have out to sea again. the philippine foreign ministry says it's filed a diplomatic protest against china but filipino fishermen say they've been reporting harris' men to sea for years and that's not enough they say what they want is the philippine government to act with dignity and defend the country sovereignty. dog and occidental mentor or central philippines.
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has become the latest city in the us to stop stores from refusing payments in cash . the shifter only accepting digital payment is good for business but some say refusing carriage is discriminatory. explains. this coffee shop in new jersey might have a distinctly retro vibe. but when owner travis clifton grew tired of the daily grind of dealing with cash he decided it was one blast from the past that needed a modern solution going cashless the big reasons well. you don't have to count the cash you don't have to reconcile the cash i don't have to put pressure on library system a show that the tables match up which means they can focus on given the customer the best service he became one of a growing number of store owners across the u.s. reeks of using to accept cash customers instead paying by cards or through their cell phones but the move to digitize payments ended up being as short lived as
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a morning express so this year new jersey state legislature banned stores from refusing cash and over the state line new york city's council is also considering banning cashless stores following the footsteps of philadelphia and san francisco but critics say digital only payments discriminate against the poor listen to this statistic the us government says there are 8000000 families in the u.s. they don't even have a bank account or a credit card and another 24000000 families that are under banked which means they might have a checking or savings account but rely on cash to survive people like barbara vasquez who has a learning disability and closed her bank account after getting hit with high fees she experienced 1st hand the humiliation of being refused service when trying to buy a $4.00 ice cream with cash it was. absolutely modifying.
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especially since there was i am in the line behind me one of the groups pushing to stop no cash stores is the retail action project its director rachel of forrest says that with out action the move to ditch dollar bills could spread to half of all stores in the u.s. in the next 10 years the key word there is access that yes this is all part of the expansion of the digital age but there's a huge population of people who don't have access to digitizing their lives in that way the battle over cashless stores is not over until then your dollars are still good just not everywhere. gabriels on al-jazeera new york are not not to dom has held its 1st mass since a huge fire ravaged the roof of the cathedral 2 months ago the small service took
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place in a preserve part of the building has more from paris. the sound of prayers filled not for the 1st time since the fire ravaged the cathedral 2 months ago the archbishop of paris no small congregation will protective hats for a mass in a part of the church that hadn't been damaged. this is a message of hope and sayings for all those who are moved by what happened to. the red glimpse inside notre dame has revealed its fragile state the roof inspired go on charred debris littering the floor. in april flames engulfed the almost 900 year old cathedral a site the shocked and saddened people in france and around the world the service was an open to the public because of concerns over safety but it was broadcast internationally on television and online and for catholics and admire is of notre
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dame it was an emotional moment. here to sign your is visiting from senegal he says he's always wanted to see not true damn. it's a small ray of hope even a big want to see a mass celebrated day at the cathedral in any case we want this cathedral to be rebuilt with all our hearts we want to see mass celebrated here as it used to be. majestic an elegant notre dame isn't during symbol of french culture the french president wants the cathedral rebuilt in 5 years many experts say it'll take longer but what is certain is that it's restoration is already seen by many as a powerful symbol of renewal natasha butler al-jazeera paris. this is al-jazeera it's going to round up a lot top stories protesters are filling hong kong streets on sunday despite the
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chief executive decision to suspend the controversial extradition the demonstrators say they want to permanently scrapped the proposed law would allow suspects to be taken from hong kong to mainland china for trial crew members one of the vessels that suffered an explosion in the gulf of oman on thursday have now arrived in dubai saudi arabia has joined the u.s. and u.k. in blaming iran for the blast iran denies involvement saudi jets have hit targets in the yemeni capital sana'a after the rebels attacked 2 saudi airports who the spokesman says drones carrying explosives targeted saudi u.a.e. coalition military hangars and control rooms at airports and the airports. sudan's former president almighty bashir could be brought before a court as early as next week the chief prosecutor says bashir will be referred for trial unless he files an appeal in the next few days the former leader is facing
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corruption charges he was deposed by the military in april after weeks of protests against his 30 year rule and his government. the deputy head of sudan's military council denies reports military leaders are not willing to talk to the opposition that's pushing for a civilian run government an economy that there are good luck in doubt it was you know who on anyone who tells you that we did threat zisha all military council are refusing to negotiate is line we are the ones who want to resume the talks but bees on your conditions you know we get our power from you and you only there's no other one we can count on but you let me say it again we're not rejecting the resumption of negotiations is the other side. u.s. president donald trump has accused the new york times of treason after it reported that the united states is increasing cyber attacks on russia the article quotes former and serving government officials who say the u.s. hacked the russian power grid those are the headlines we're back with
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more in half an hour right now it's inside story here on al-jazeera and as always there's lots more on our website al-jazeera dot com. al jazeera where and for your. hunger on the rise in south sudan the u.n. warns that millions of the country face a critical lack of food this despite a peace deal following the country's civil war so what should be done to stop the disaster and who or what is the play this is inside story.
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hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan a record 7000000 people in south sudan a facing severe hunger according to reports by its government and 3 u.n. agencies that's more than the hof of the population a lack of rain an ongoing economic crisis and years of civil war are being blamed for the worsening situation here's how one of the authors of the reports. from the world food program described the extent of the crisis every year hunger reaches higher levels in south sudan with millions of people unsure when they'll next be able to eat food shortages usually peak between may and july when the reports stop short of declaring a famine but says nearly 2000000 people go without meals for long periods and suffer acute malnutrition and that's leading to many deaths over the past 2 years
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the number of people needing food aid increased by 2000000 and if the lack of rain and poor harvests continue 21000 people could suffer famine. on top of natural disasters years of political unrest and civil wars of pushed south sudan into crisis the country became the world's youngest in 2011 when it gained independence from neighboring sudan that followed a peace deal that ended africa's longest running conflict but the country descended into war 2 years later when president salva kiir accused his former deputy and former rebel leader of plotting a coup the violence left 3 180000 people dead and displaced about $4000000.00 it wasn't until september last year that president kier agreed to set up a unity government with mashal but that's been delayed because the government says it's unable to disarm and integrate rival forces.
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so let's bring in our panel for today's discussion joining us now from juba in south sudan pia voted who's the deputy representative of the un's food and agricultural organization in south sudan from nairobi we're joined by alan boswell who's a senior analyst at the international crisis group and from sarah hughes in upstate new york joke joke who's the co-founder of the institute which is a think tank focusing on south sudan gentlemen welcome to you all pierre let's start with you the u.n. has stopped short of declaring a famine in south sudan how far away from that the way could it become a famine. then you're a father mandatory but we have to see with the recent analysis we provided. yesterday after it's we had the impression of the situation is more they were known it was one year ago. this is due to the fight about it despite the fact that these
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mortgage board according to the a.b.c. the analysis has been done recently there is less people who are needy assistance so we have the impression that the situation is getting better of course we are in wait with conditions for the months there is it's due mainly according to the united states again if you manage the fact that there is a massive humanitarian assistance with schools with r.c. stands season disillusions a number or the activity also always starting to develop in they're going to need them of activity for resilience and budget glory and i'm sure your bid the production the crop production has met and or saw a bit of access in the country so the movement of the british and is better than it was one notable this is also arguing with the disagreement effect that it's true the man is improving ok. there is refresh not stable or that the situation is stable slightly better but it is as you say still dire what
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happened to bring about this current situation ok well then what decisions in fact what we are going through and what we did since the ins and outs before you are suited to walk and is a conjunction of different of different different effects the 1st one is that once again there is a massive humanitarian assistance and that is to still going on still very massive . there is food distributions dornan though a very large scale still in the country it's improved in term of access just yet he says last year out but also it's complemented by a number of options middle the regime but there's been. lot by the u.n. any engineers in the ground in order to provide us dance quicker and more efficiently in denmark rapid response but also in terms of complementarity was different axis or so emoting this us with those in the response by increasing the pollution and increasing. the culture of the fish except they are the 2nd immodest
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of course it's the beasts of the movement to destroy but there is this time it is asians and they're going to various lists fight but we have to be very cautious about what because we also arise on got the rusty recently in but another one with the what it does are and more so in a barn one jungle so this is the situation but despite if either is a beast there is still a large number of people is going to because it's us with our witches or source but in the threat on the on the civil predation there so this is a bit where we are the month suggestions is that is that is getting slightly better it's true but we have to keep in mind that the number of the board in anger is still expanding so while there we are we have is that it is asian the action has to be completed with more durable actions but a ground we need 2 of the peace agreement ordering and progressing and reaching to a concrete actions in the should in order for us national of or in on the other side we need to why we continue absolutely need going to new of the dimension
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assistance dissolution of foods but also to pass through on activities more aerated resilience so trying to build the capacity of the south sudanese to produce a for themself to sell the food they producing in the market in the to benefit all the other nice ok alan boswell in nairobi how did south sudan a country rich in mineral resources come to this who or what is to blame is it all about climate. yeah i mean this is obviously not a climate related drought this is one that is incredibly manmade and honestly is one that you know the fingers can be pointed in and many and all directions on i mean south sudan was was born in 2011 i was there at the time from 2010 living in the country and there was a lot of hopes for this country but in 2013 basically the leaders of the countries started squabbling over who would lead the country and then it fell into this
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horrific civil war and even from the beginning of south sudan i mean it was a country which was the basic services were basically all provided by outside n.g.o.s and governments and as this war has continued that it's only increased to the point now where we have really over half the population almost and semi-permanent you know close to starvation and in serious need of food aid at such a state so how much of the blame for what's happened in south sudan and for the suffering of its of its people currently the countries the played a role in helping south sudan gained its independence that. i mean like i said there's lots of blame to go around and i think definitely a lot of blame needs to fall on the u.s. and its allies as well as the regional countries who supported the peace process
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and of course you know the south sudanese elites you know hold the most direct responsibility for what's happened to their country but you know i was i was there when south sudan was leading up to independence and the the sort of optimism and blueprints for this new country were completely out of whack with the reality and i think a lot of the tough conversations that need to be had with the political elite weren't happening at that time and sadly there are you know plenty of people who sort of predicted that a crisis like this might happen although the scale of this has been you know truly atrocious i mean but it's not only bent just the civil war in as much as people fighting rebels i mean several of the areas which are most in need of food are you know areas i don't even have any rebels fighting the government it's just that the government control has completely collapse i was in a place called room back a couple years ago where you know this is a place where there are no rebels at all it's completely government controlled and you had fighting spilling into the town itself to the place where to the point
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where you couldn't leave the hotel and you know because that's how that insecurity was you can imagine trying to plant and you know and raise your your life stuck in such an environment joke not a joke and sort of cues where do you stand on this who's to blame for what's happened in south sudan where the. good things as be upset good the extent that these crises escalates to a point in all. it's got to hit all family in my job that would be true human action or inaction. the fact that this south sudanese this day. has not lived up to its promises to take responsibility for the welfare of its people is primarily the reason why south sudanese are still unable to make their ends meet. but
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also because particularly this year if this if this intuition is going to come to a point where people die of starvation. and to the extent that it can be blamed on nature what is going on now is that the rains have delayed it which means that whatever. remaining harvest from last year will fall short of to concur in the people for the next harvest so that. a bit that can be blamed on the environment climate and the delay of or of rains but overall. the south sudanese a state. as a state won a war and continue to live in war. everything that has happened to deny or deprive the south sudanese of their capacity to continue to
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occur themselves is to be squarely put at the doorstep of the south sudanese leadership if that is so i did think ok what is your knowledge of what about the the the international community that the question that i put to alan a few moments ago about the countries who helped have played a role in helping sudan achieve some standard cheviots independence should the international community have been paying more attention doing more trying to head off this crisis was or was to a certain extent it inevitable because there's a there's a an element of of of whether involved here of climate involved. no there is as alan said i think there has to be recognition of the failure at the outset to. combine state building which a lot of countries like the u.s. the u.k.
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norway were engaging in in 2011. with the nation building which was to try to focus on recounts island south sudanese because again like islands that even when there is a civil war the the war that mocha makes the most damage is they in turn seen the ethnic relationships between the drink and the various communities up into between this and that it is they are they the failure of the south sudanese state to build a sense of collective nationhood that has caused the most damage as well as the international community can be blamed i think. it is only that disconnect between state building and nation building which they have failed to invest in an ack and say that the coming of independence the succession that starts with amateurs we. can only it would if anybody has to be blamed for it and i don't know why we should
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blame anybody because busy the south sudanese themselves who for and achieve that independence the countries that assisted in that process. are now being distracted by their own concerns the united kingdom is dealing with it the bracks it sound the united states is distracted by its own politics of isolationism. and america 1st kinds of politics so will south sudan cannot year after year expect the world to bail it out from its own tail and. and for actions that are attributed to drool believe that country will come back to the points that you have you made there just just a moment but i want to go back to appear. to talk more about the the un's work in south sudan at the pier how many people are you currently aiding in the country.
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because i think if you were for example we are seeing it. in moscow just for the from coming in but just for this reduces into these 450000 our force you need to basics you have the number so it's all a masterful to put on the little british and we can do that and millions will for i'm just a routine around $280.00 warning us johnston of of $80000.00 tons of food so it's in these millions of people and we are sitting at the moment together with unicef to and the other organizations i want us to source on the fact that we are walking a lot with the asia yours and international n.g.o.s all n.g.o.s managed by this us one is in the fields and is covering for their country if you look at them up of the months. their critics who are expanding before ever any area where there is no war and i was a little bit or saw in 2 and 5 and 6 just after the disagreements and then we were already having the for the security in this area it's almost everybody that it was
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affected by this by the by the by the by the starving so the program off of us would understand the why our is a program that absence of infrastructure is incapacity to connect the cities between them so if you sort of measure issues the fact that the control for speeds there between the north and the sun or sort handed a lot of treats between the north and the sultan budget gaza most of traits from the sas in origin already the south one is where the stock will sort after later on and got to him and then the sword was a big part of the big big markets of the system this is finished now because of all this is these groups and there is an immense other hans there is a. of action that you can't imagine him enough for us or us but also what we're trying to do is to reduce for the reason yes it sure ain't to use the suite of peace in order to be able to as much as we guns like them for us to join a little improved food storage super lucian's an exchange between the 2 in between
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we want a. joke but a joke was was making the point that the rains this year have been delayed that that's prevented. people planting so you know we may get the same as we had last year with with a poor harvest does the situation improve or worse that the fact that people are angry does it improve or worsen in the rainy season in south sudan. yes so much of what we have to understand is. still dated but none from the rain in the crop production in the coalition is a main source of food of course in south sudan to be there was a lot of stock in the and shish end the problem is with bartering it's a look at the stroke because everybody is depending so at the moment to destroy but there is a delay and when he set an area us surety to make an assessment on the final production in the final hours he goes again are
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a phenomena of up out meaning that the plant is going to take although or so on plantings we just finishing the 1st season in what the way out so in the southern part of south sudan widescreen end. of the plantations are starting right now but it's true there is a delay and it is an issue you know already about we have some impacts some are some jobs starting at midnight eastern the all of our of africa so usually star sudan is only affected in the stomach what the us or on the extreme on the very bottom not pot goes to which your p.r. and and and again you are the seri are usually the rest of the countries not directly affected but this year we have to watch and it's a risk that we can now we will have to fix of alan going back to what jock not a joke was was was saying if a few minutes ago about sudan's problems ultimately being a failure of leadership you've met both president salva kiir and.
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what did you make of them. well as you know they signed a peace deal in september 2800 so some 9 months ago. and they had agreed to form a unity government is the 2nd time they had agreed to do this but they agreed to form a unity government that was supposed to form and may. last month they were reaching up to that deadline and they decided to extend it another 6 months after some to go she asians an atlas of about. i had a chance to speak with both of them separately of course in may last month and i'd say the calculus on president kiir side is very much in terms of a delay that you know this preserves the status quo for him so it's kind of an easy thing to agree upon for reactor machar the rebel leader who's supposed to come back in form the vice president you know he faces a more difficult difficult set of calculations really because 1st of all the sudan
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was sort of his backer and interlocutor in the regional peace process that was president obama bashir and of course he's fallen from power recently so he faces a lot of regional uncertainty and you get a strong sense from him that he's really waiting for things to sort of settle out the other thing is the way that the peace deal was structured machar basically had to produce all of his opposition fighters which are then to be integrated into the national army before this unity government is informed the truth is a lot of the rebel army at this point has actually been demobilized and has gone home or to refugee camps so he's also just facing an issue of actually be mobilizing this army so the way the peace deal sequenced has become a problem but overall i just say from from both leaders there is not a strong urgency to sort of implement this peace deal and the real question is how long can the ceasefire that we currently have between those 2 sides continue to hold if we don't start to see some form momentum on this peace deal joked as the
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old got into the south sudan need to to make way for younger leaders if this is a failure of leadership people who are less bogged down by the past. or more certainly ice in that has that is that is has there's a lot to be said about the change of guard but that is not for anyone to say but the south sudanese themselves the young people or the people who are outside government has to articulate this to themselves so that they can organize a rally around the need for a drastic shift in the way the country has been governed. saw it is up to the south sudanese to find ways to navigate this is a delicate situation because right now the fact is that there is a very restricted civil environment. that makes it extremely difficult for any kind of civil the committee to be organized around this idea of the need for change. and so then again i think it's now going now going back
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to implementation of the peace agreement which will then have an interim period after which there would be elections as in that that's the only way that change can come at the moment but it is up to the south sudanese themselves to decide there's no question that the state has failed to uphold its responsibilities to the extent that there is any kind of health. food security to the extent that there is education much of it up to 90 percent of it is being paid for through international action so all the countries that are contributing money u.s. u.k. norway european union and all these other countries that are paying for their humanitarian action. also have to try to figure out if they should follow that financial support of to the south sudanese with
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a kind of political action by way of diplomatic and other kinds of pressures so that the south sudanese that begins to do one had knowledge that there is a problem. 2nd begin to show how the south sudanese a state itself is going to take over what is essentially a responsibility of the state but has been completely neglected call the last 10 years island will south sudan ever become a viable state. eventually i think it probably will be but that path might be very long i think you know no one should underestimate the degree of the structural challenges that south sudan faces it's a it's a place which essentially geographically exist as a bunch of ethnic enclaves the few towns which really were mixed in a sort of south sudanese nationhood sense of certain way if these are the places where actually the violence has been most intense and you've seen you know what we
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could be fairly characterized as that and cleansing in several of those towns at the beginning of the war so you're starting now from a place in terms of building a south of these identity that's even further back than than where you were when this when the country was born and the other thing is just this is a place which where there's almost no roads leading outside the capital which are all weather roads so for half the year huge portion of the country is basically out of reach except by helicopter that includes for the government itself so you can imagine the challenge of forming a state on a place where it where the government's not even able to access a huge portion of its country over time so so i do think there's some larger questions. of how we move forward in south sudan given the level of the challenges there and there is like several chicken and egg problems where it's difficult to move forward on state building for instance until you have a political settlement that looks viable in the country and we've had a hard time getting that political settlement gentlemen that i'm afraid we missed
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this protest. started about an hour and a half ago either we're getting the 1st few 100 people. true now they've just started arriving now they've said that much from our point. which is about trade kilometers in front of me around the period we call one china this area this part was and i have a fly in the m.t.r. stations around this area they were trying to pull so at this stage we're seeing huge numbers now this time last week we saw around 1000000 people marched in the streets of hong kong at that stage there are using the expression bill they want to do withdraw and of course yesterday we saw kerry having not the suspension of the 2nd reading and writing about this extradition bill but they now want the still want the bill withdrawn altogether now the key demands are as i said it's addition will be told and i also want i carry lamb to resign so as you can see the person has started but when it comes to numbers we're looking could be could be as big as
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last week which again we saw more than a 1000000 people on the streets and what type of police presence is there and could could this is there a danger this could end in the violent clashes that we saw earlier this week. well at this stage we kind of huge police presence on the streets here in hong kong and also from government house where compounds chief executive terry lamb lives last week we saw would seem to be big rallies bombs on sunday the big one wins that was when we saw these violent confrontations between the police and the protesters now this protest today is as much about the withdrawal of the home problems. as well as criticism against the police for what some people describe as excessive force used to own those protesters we had 150 rounds of tear gas fired on these protesters and we had 80 people injured 2 people but in moscow when they were hit by rubber bullets it's been a lot of criticism about the way the police dealt with this and a lot of course perelandra apologize about the way they dealt with this but so far
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that request has been refused but as for where we are now it could take hours before all of these protesters arrive and as you mentioned often these confrontations that i'm up until well into the night and at the moment we have families we have children we have a huge range of people arriving but as i mentioned it's like a house before this rally comes to the pay the highest number of people arriving the last question which is where we are now which is government. all right for the moment live for us in hong kong thanks here i know tang is a political analyst who advises the chinese government on economic and development issues he joins us now via skype from beijing thanks very much for being with us. so let me let me ask you 1st of all. how do you see all of this unfolding now in hong kong we had the chief executive kerry lamb announcing the day before that this extradition law would be suspended but people there are clearly not satisfied with that and they're making it very clear in the numbers that we're seeing on the
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streets again so has she backed herself into a corner here i mean how do you see this playing out. well there are different perspectives on this from beijing's side i don't know that they're terribly impressed with kerry lamb's handling of things and the one cardinal sin in china is not to be able to handle the situation correctly so it could be difficult for her they have expressed unconditional. support for her but with this newest round of concessions and and protests i think it will go very difficult on the other hand it seems that i'm calling to tear it england's kind of mob rule despite having elderly and people and children joining the march you cannot simply every day get out there and demand that the government be changed the idea of
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having an extradition treaty with china after 20 years is not unreasonable how you get there and what terms are all i think if you anyone was actually looking at was proposed it was quite mild if you were to use of a crime by the u.s. government that was more than a year you could be extradited to the united states but if you were involved in it with china you could only be done we can literally for rape murder very very serious crimes crimes that would take more than 7 years in terms of a sentence of possible sentence. but the people in hong kong and again we can see from the crowds there and you mentioned that it's not just young people it's elderly people or people from all walks of life. they don't they don't feel that reassurance at all they they they fear that this this lull could be very widely interpreted business leaders in hong kong who have come out against this and they
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don't feel there are any guarantees that if someone says a bad word about the beijing government they couldn't be hauled off to a jail in the chinese mainland when you say to that or. simply ridiculous the draft that kerry lamb put forward said no political no tax cases nothing involving any kind of situation like that so it's what you have is a commentary a conversation that's going on in social media that's trying to portray this as some sort of overreach by beijing you know let's turn it around is it reasonable to have a an extradition treaty between my cow taiwan and china it's been 20 years there are 20 other extradition treaties that hong kong has had actually what this is is really a political car that's being played by those who believe that somehow they can
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manage to make whole call a free independent democratic or whatever they are believe it should be and they're using this as a stepping stone but unfortunately it's probably going to backfire i don't think beijing will happen much patience for an ongoing series of marches like this which are devolving into a kind of mom rule and the difference between this last time and the younger one brother is the might mount of violent protesters this is not simply the police just now. going jack routing over these these protesters they were these protesters were it's happening they were going over barriers they were trying to convey a different houses different government houses and offices and this was not going to be permitted by the police so yes there were confrontations but the fact is that
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these are the people who are pushing this from the pro-democracy side are willing to engage in increasingly more and more violence and have to see how that plays out but if it does become violent you can expect beijing to do what is necessary to bring about order some you say do what is necessary what would he mean by that well it would rather whatever it takes you cannot have people if there has to be a curfew and things are going to. suggest somebody who can come in and take control of the situation better they don't have any direct control in hong kong but home kong is part of china despite this narrative that it somehow isn't i don't know when the patience will run out but at some point you cannot have a country where you have in essence mob rule people taking to the streets to change a duly elected government because they don't they've been basically maneuvered into
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believing that something's happening what it is. good to speak with you and italian joint staff from beijing. hong kong has so far enjoyed a d. degree of autonomy since its handover from british rule to china in 1997 the chief executive of functions like a prime minister is chosen by a 1200 member committee that's currently made up of mainly pro beijing politicians and business leaders channel china calls it a one country 2 systems principle hong kong has executive legislative an independent judicial power under what's called the basic law a communist party leaders in beijing have the power to interpret any clause in that law in their own way a crew members of one of the vessels that suffered explosions in the gulf of oman have now arrived in dubai their accounts will help determine what caused the incident one of the ship's own as has said his crew saw flying objects moments
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before contradicting the u.s. version of events iran has denied any involvement and summoned the british ambassador over his support of the u.s. allegations saudi arabia is also blaming iran and has called for swift action to secure oil shipping routes. a saudi jets have hit targets in the yemeni capital sana'a after hoody rebels attacked 2 saudi airports yard says its air defense systems brought down a 50 drone headed for new yemen's border charlotte reports. is a single runway regionally a port despite being in saudi arabia this week it has been at the heart of the war in yemen who the rebels have launched multiple attacks against the 100 kilometers north of the yemeni border on saturday the group claimed drone strikes against military hang is in control rooms a g.'s an airport and then for the 3rd time this week again airport saudi arabia
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media says the strike was forward by security forces will have a. there is a clear contradiction from saudi on immunity media because they're always downplay the significance of these drone strikes but in return they rushed to urge the international community to stand by them in condemning the attacks in a bid to stop us from carrying more strikes this shows the moment a cruise missile hit airport. who things have labeled it a strategic enemy target one of $300.00 they plan to bomb several saudi airports have been targeted in the past year including the king international airport in the capital riyadh it's part of a grand plan by the rebel group it's a skill a ship as tensions have arisen between iran the u.s. and its gulf allies. every day we have a goal and we will not rush to bomb all the targets. we think we must bomb and a specific time we will threaten.

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