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we are creators we are to this sweet. spot power greater than 0. i stand before you to officially launch my campaign for a 2nd term. donald trump kicks off his reelection campaign at a rally in florida. has him speak of this is as you see it out live from doha also coming up. the u.n. calls for an investigation into the death of egypt's former president mohamed morsy in court as mourners pay their respects in his hometown. young with guns the u.s. secretary of state stop saudi arabia from being added to
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a list of countries that recruit child soldiers. and set to soar again engineers outlined plans for a new generation of supersonic passenger jets. a lot of the script has barely changed as donald trump launched his campaign to be reelected the us president he attacked his political opponents and doubled down on his 2016 promises white house correspondent kimberly how kate has more from the rally in florida. some started lighting up the braided feet more than a dated band just to attend donald trump's official 2020 campaign kickoff most for exactly what you'd expect to find a trump rally white conservative voters but there were a lot of exceptions like jessica newberry i'm 100 percent strong supporter and yes i'm a lesbian and yes i have biracial kids. it's conducive to making money
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the people want to live all pose all the books for free i think. that the problem of support between democrats and republicans is almost an even split florida state will be critical of top helps to recapture the white house and 2020 i stand before you to officially launch my campaign for a 2nd term as president. of the campaign's efforts to register independent voters are more sophisticated than a $26.00 t. he's also counting on his advantage as the incumbent we've really done it we've rebuilt our military are still in the process we take the germ of our vets we've cut the hell out of regulations you know i've cut more regulations than any president in the history of our country regardless of the leg of their to. the
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polls show worrying signs like if the election were held today against former democratic vice president joe biden trump would lose despite a strong economy trumps approval rating who is just 44 percent much of the country low of his policies and continues to protest at his rally that is a la the fakirs back there that's a. fact this is also under investigation by democrats energized by their takeover of the house of. additives last year were still was much harder none of that seems to matter donald trump is counting on support was. like some day is still more than 16 months away it's like donald trump is traveling to miami for our high dollar fundraiser the minimum price of admission 1st
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$100000.00 can really help its house this year on orlando one well as he launches bid for another term he's under pressure on several fronts including growing calls from within trump's own party for his impeachment i've decided to support an impeachment investigation of the president i have not come to this easily i come to this decision after much deliberation and i know deeply what this means for our democracy i cannot with a clean conscience ignore my duty to defend the constitution i can't claim to be committed to rooting out corruption and putting people over politics and then not apply those same principles and standards in all of the work i do the u.n. has demanded authority independent investigation into the death of egypt's only democratically elected president mohamed morsy security as high as he was buried at a cemetery in a car rather than in his own town as his family had requested journalists were kept
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away from the burial service a day after he collapsed and died in court age 67 rights groups say morsi was tortured after being held in prolonged solitary confinement and having restricted access to medicine and want to still gathered in morsi is home province of shock to pay their respects hundreds of people prayed and the tight security in the. village . a morsi had been in jail since he was forced from power in a military coup in 2013 the un human rights office says any inquiry into his death should examine how he was treated while in prison the statement went on to say as former president mohamed morsy was in custody of the egyptian authorities at the time of his death the state is responsible for ensuring he was treated humanely and that his right to life and health were respected any sudden change and his sudden death in custody must be followed by a prompt impartial thorough and transparent investigation carried out by an
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independent body to clarify the cause of death are thousands of people throughout the middle east have been remembering morsi with funeral prayers politicians in tunisia held a prayer for him despite concerns he could be seen as a political gesture elections are being held there later this year hundreds of people also gathered to remember him in libya's capital tripoli and in turkey president richard tired when attending prayers at in istanbul mosque where he raised concerns about how morsi died simcoe soul who has more from his stand. oh so this is a special funeral service for egypt's former president mohamed morsy hundreds of people gathered in a stumbles far to moscow to honor his life and struck a. lonely. future versions here already agree. i was something changed in egypt after he died and we are going to get him because
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he was a good leader show us oh people here believe despite the loss of the leader the revolution will continue history shows that i am not a leader this is a group created their leaders is borgen other leaders will continue or muslim brotherhoods of the world are millions. in the capital ankara hundreds gathered outside the egyptian embassy in protest. talkies opposition leader criticized the charges morsi had faced and said the former leader should have been buried with presidential honors earlier to say mosques like this one held prayers for deposed president mohamed morsi tricky soft religious body had called for the nationwide special service many people here to part to remember the tips in leaders and protest against his treatment while in prison former politicians and most his cabinet believe the egyptian government's neglect of more so while in prison led to his death they had their mind their course with the words of the surrender and
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acknowledge the regime otherwise they would kill us so they waited for years you know killing him through a slow process of medical negligence where their words right again basic healthcare having dependents international transparent investigation of the circumstances of these that. this is the least the international community should do after a very year or so many years of negligence yeah of the good deed you schools for taking care of him he. took his present treasure typepad john attended one of the special prayers in istanbul he said there are doubts about this case and blamed egyptian president dr fattah hull city for moshe's death and that of other dissidents. when i'm sure i do not believe that morsi is death is a natural one such cowards that they are they did not hand over mohammed morsi is body to his family that iran has spoken out strongly against each of stupid 1013
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military coup that toppled morsi especially after turkey's own failed military coup nearly 3 years ago seen m.p.'s all of al-jazeera. the u.s. sectors they might pompei or has stopped saudi arabia from being added to a list of. countries that recruit child soldiers from payors decision goes against the state department recommendation based on news reports and rights groups assessments they say the kingdom hired sudanese children to fight for the u.s. backed coalition in yemen foreign militaries on the list are banned from receiving u.s. aid training and weapons are going karl is the former deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats of the cia he says pompei as move reflects washington's changing alliances in the middle east in recent years. there is a long tradition in the united states that the standard position for many years of u.s. policy has to side in these sunni shia tensions the saudi iranian tensions in the
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middle east with the sunni president obama change that policy it was an historic shift it's debatable whether it was wise or not i personally think that it was but that's certainly legitimately debatable and trump has gone back and then some to aligning with the sunni and the saudis now there's an added fillip for a twist to this which is that it's less on principle and policy by trump as it is apparently for a personal enrichment jarrad his son in law who's handling the issues has clearly been seduced by the saudis and the alignment is is with saudi is another reason to that that's happened and that is the u.s. policy is closely aligned with the release mimics that of the likud party in israel which. is very hostile to around i think there will be pushback from the
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democratic majority in the house of representatives and the democratic minority in the senate but the senate is remains controlled by the republican party and the republicans have almost literally to a person sold their souls and align themselves with donald trump so congress cannot do too much of a man president don't trump wanted as his pentagon chief is dropping out of contention acting defense secretary patrick shanahan is abandoning the confirmation process because of new reports about his family's history of domestic violence goes on in jordan reports from washington. u.s. president donald trump had wanted to give acting defense secretary patrick shanahan the job permanently but after nearly 6 months on the job shanahan quit tuesday newspapers have published his family's history of domestic violence leaving shanahan with what he called no other choice i believe my continuing in the
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confirmation process would force my 3 children to relive a traumatic chapter in our family's life and reopen wounds we have worked years to heal ultimately their safety and well being is my highest priority. according to the washington post police arrested shanahan's wife for punching him in the face in 20102011 shanahan's son was arrested and charged for fracturing his mother's skull with a baseball bat the president long criticized for not vetting his top advisers called shanahan's departure regrettable i had heard about it yesterday for the 1st time i did know about it i had heard about it yesterday and it is. very unfortunate but senators didn't know any of this when they confirmed shanahan for deputy defense secretary in 27 teens and in light of the military's ongoing problems with sexual assault and domestic violence some congressional staffers say giving
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shanahan the top job permanently would have been difficult the new acting secretary current army secretary mark asper whom analysts consider very capable we'll have to see if the senate is in the mood to confirm just a very rock solid businesslike workman like person even so at a time of growing tensions with the wrong russia and china experts say don't trump can no longer rely on temporary help this is no way to run a railroad you don't go 6 months without cabinet officials we need people who are senate vetted who are well known who have permanent jobs for the positions they've been asked to fulfill and the trump administration should not feel proud of its record of taking 6 months to finish this to fit to fill this post the last thing patrick shanahan did before quitting deploy an extra 1000 u.s. troops to the middle east to send a message to iran his focus now dealing with his own family rosalynn jordan
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al-jazeera washington. still ahead on aljazeera ethnic violence on the rise in mali as gunmen killed dozens of 2 separate villages. from social media to digital money we take a look at facebook's plans to launch a new currency. hello again across united states we're still dealing with a flood threat anywhere across parts of pennsylvania all the way back down here across parts of tennessee now the big problem is is the standard storms that keep trailing in the same locations day by day and because of that we see a lot of rain the same location so as you can see here on our forecast map plenty of rain across much of the east as well as the southeast coming back towards the central plains we're also going to be seeing
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a lot of thunderstorms in this area not as severe as what we saw just a few weeks ago but still going to be a problem across much of the area and some of those showers are going to be quite heavy so not really seeing a break as we go towards the end of the week all here towards the west though it's going to be dry a little bit cooler and san francisco with attempt a few of about 18 degrees where we're going to see plenty of rain across much of central and southern parts of that area we're going to be seeing a lot of rain across panama as well up towards the north though the problem has been a lot of rain across the bahamas and things are going to be getting better by the time we get towards thursday a beautiful day and a van out with a temper them about 31 and then very quickly across parts of argentina things are getting better over the next few days that one system that was bringing the rain is making its way towards the atlantic we are going to be a little bit cooler here in born as out as with a temperature of 40. bottles
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at a rally in florida the u.s. president blasted democrats the media and investigation into russian meddling. the u.n. has demanded authority and dependent investigation into the death of egypt's only democratically elected president mohamed morsi he was buried in car rather than in his hometown as his family had requested a day after he collapsed and died in court. u.s. secretary of state might pump a 0 has stop saudi arabia from being added to a list of countries that recruit child soldiers it goes against the state department recommendation based on reports the kingdom hired sudanese children to fight in yemen. a medical facilities in syria's last major rebel stronghold are no longer sharing their coordinates with the u.n. for fear of being targeted by russian backed government forces the u.n. secretary general has appealed to russia and turkey to stabilize the situation in the our diplomatic answer jane's base has more from the united nations. the u.n.
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secretary general addressed reporters as the security council prepared to meet to discuss the russian and syrian government offensive on adlib which has been going on for over 2 months. tera said the situation on the ground was getting worse i am deeply concerned about the escalation of the fighting in italy and the situation is especially dangerous given the involvement of an increased number of vectors and let me underscore that even in the fight against terrorism there needs to be full compliance with international human rights and humanitarian law however in the council chamber his head of humanitarian affairs explained that is not happening medical facilities and schools are being repeatedly hit creating a facility whose coordinates were shared as part of the un's decon fiction system
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he simply intolerable. a number of partners now feel that supplying geographical coordinates to be given to the warring parties effectively paints a target on their backs european ambassadors are shocked by what's going on many of those in the in the the civilian infrastructure they have stopped giving the coordinates because the. they are concerned that giving the cordon it also means that maybe those people who shouldn't get the coordinates receive them and use them your understanding of international humanitarian law and the rules of war can there ever be any justification for targeting a school or a hospital no no just occasion when so ever. even the fight against terrorism is not a reason to target a school or a not spittle that's very clear for us of course the russian and the syrian ambassador said they were simply fighting terrorism the security council remains
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divided the agony for the people of it looks certain to continue james al-jazeera at the united nations gunmen have killed at least 41 people in separate attacks in central mali it took place in 2 different villages ethnic violence has surged in the area in recent months the victims were mostly ethnic dog and hundreds of people from the dogon and communities have been killed in fighting over land and water malcolm webb has more from central mali. we were in a camp of people from the group fled their villages following attacks and killings and now they're sheltering here basic structures like this made of plastic sheets and dry grass having left behind hearts and homes made of bricks people many of them a nomadic herders but only the lucky ones were able to come with their animals that
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they depend on for their survival because many animals have been killed or so. in the conflict now the conflict is between herders and farmers and the tit for tat killings have continued just on monday more than 3 dozen people from the going to ethnic group were killed in 2 different villages that were attacked by militia and the conflict just seems to grow worse and worse not helped by an influx of arms into the country from the north that followed libya's civil war which began in 2011 and also the government here is accused of having very little presence here providing little security so minor disputes that have existed for generations between the 2 ethnic groups. into a bloody conflict. hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes in the democratic republic of congo by fighting between tribal groups nearly 200 people have been killed in the past week in northeastern province the u.n.
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says the mass movement of people is complicating the tracing and treatment of patients at risk from ebola and warning brian's report contains disturbing images. ringback the killing was indiscriminate babies and young children from the group among the hundreds of victims hacked to death with machetes in the eastern province of attorney and democratic republic of congo survivors say the attackers were from the tribe renewed fighting between him a casual herders and lendu families has forced thousands of people to leave their homes over the past week and move to camps like this. came during the day on monday we were in the fields we started to run towards our homes which. some people were burned alive and. they killed people with machetes and we don't even know what they did with the bodies that's why we fled here. the
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lendu and he may have been fighting each other for generations tains of thousands died between 19092003 they communities a separated from each other it's the latest violence was sparked by an attack on 4 lendu merchants in the area. i didn't come here voluntarily but a group of people from the hills massacred and burned their villages we had no weapons so we couldn't do anything but watch our villages burn and our people die i lost a lot of members of my family survivors of last week's attack on the village of being protected by soldiers from the congolese army still i say they're terrified and want to leave the area if they can find a way around the linda rebels who have blocked the surrounding roads brian al jazeera. a court in kenya has postponed. the 2015 attack on university college the 4 spot suspects face life in prison for the killing of 148
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people most of them students they should learn their fate on wednesday the group claimed responsibility for the attack which christian students targeted and killed a 5th suspect was acquitted for lack of evidence. canada has approved a plan to expand a controversial oil pipeline $7000000000.00 project will link canada's landlocked oil fields to a major port indigenous communities and environmentalists have opposed the plan and it's expected to be hit with several legal challenges construction is due to start next year the trans mountain pipeline has been in operation for more than 65 years we approved the twinning of that pipeline so running a single additional pipe alongside the one that's already there this project has the potential to create thousands of solid middle class jobs for canadians people in b.c. alberta and right across the country would have more opportunities to earn
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a good living u.s. police have seized over $1000000000.00 in cocaine from a ship at the port of philadelphia it is the latest drug seizure in a series of cocaine busts in the u.s. east coast the drugs were stored inside a cargo ship that sailed from chile to the u.s. via panama and the bahamas members of the crew were arrested and face federal charges of 15 years after the last concorde flight there are plans to build new supersonic passenger jets engineers say they could be cheaper and cleaner thanks to new technology and tessa butler report from the paris air show. blake shoal is preparing to bring back supersonic flight to the aviation world at the paris air show his company launched a project for a plane that could fly twice the speed of sound 50 years after concorde was designed with wind tunnels flight rules and drafting paper we now have carbon fiber
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composite vacherot and amex and new engines that allow supersonic flight to be accessible to tens of millions of people and their way that's economically and environmentally sustainable the company's raised more than $100000000.00 to build a $55.00 seats a plane that aide says would be affordable and produced ciro carbon emissions they hope to have a prototype flying by 2020 it's not the only supersonic aircraft project a number of u.s. startups airlines and even nasa are in the race but commercial aviation has been hit before it's been more than 15 years since the british french concorde stopped flying it was a feat of engineering it could only fly over the sea it supersonic speeds though because of the very noisy sonic boom and despite his popularity it never broke even financially challenges on their commute to world has changed his concorde. environmental restrictions noise thing around airports have
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a much stricter so how does that fit in on the other hand compensate structures materials see if the modeling engine technology they've all improved. it could be interesting to see how it turns out if supersonic travel becomes a reality again the 7 and a half hour flight between paris new york would be hard and a new generation of people could experience travelling through the sky at breathtaking speed the al-jazeera paris. or germany has plant has been forced to rethink plans for a new highway toll after the chalk court ruled it would discriminate against foreign drivers a token charge for motorists an annual fee of us 145 dollars to use motorways those cars registered in germany would receive a corresponding tax reduction european court of justice ruled toll would have breached the laws. our facebook is a step closer to launching
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a payment system next year powered by a new digital currency it is partnered with $30.00 companies to manage libra geneva based association that includes visa master card and pay pal will run the currency users will be able to buy products to rec league from platforms like instagram m h stultz is an attorney at the electronic frontier foundation he says facebook's currency will be less like bitcoin and more like regular payment systems this book is under more scrutiny from national regulators than probably at any time in its history and its kind of hard to imagine field that they could go into that would attract more scrutiny for regulators than payments particularly crypto currency is no way to tell whether it will be more or less secure than payment systems that already exist what's interesting is that the defining feature of a crypto currency is that they are decentralized what facebook is announcing today
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it sounds quite centralized although possibly in the hands of a consortium of companies my guess is this is going to end up looking a lot like existing systems and it's really just going to be a matter of who. takes the transaction fee in the middle or who can use this to leverage other parts of their business such as messaging and advertising and so on the former head of european football has been questioned by french anti corruption investigators it's part of an ongoing choir into the awarding of the 2022 world cup michel platini was head of he for 8 years and voted for qatar to host the tournament his legal team say he's done nothing wrong 63 year old was banned from football following the 2015 fifa corruption scandal. it's also that it's going to come in was it a listen it was long but given the number of questions that could only be long they
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ask me questions on euro 2016 that the russians will count east of the council world cup perry st germaine the for so lots and lots and lots of things so i reply to all of that as my lawyer said that i don't know why i'm here but hey i replied to all the questions. he says as you see let's get a round up of the top stories donald trump has officially launched his campaign to be reelected president of the united states at a rally in the key state of florida trump attacked his political opponents and doubled down on his campaign promises from 2016. we're going to keep it better than ever before i and that is why tonight i stand before you to officially launch my campaign for a 2nd term. the u.n. has demanded a thorough independent investigation into the death of egypt's only democratically
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elected president mohamed morsy security as high as he was buried cemetery in cairo or rather than his hometown as his family had requested journalists were kept away from the burial service a day after he collapsed and died in court age 67 rights groups say morsy was tortured after being held in prolonged solitary confinement and having restricted access to medicine.
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