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tv   NEWSHOUR  Al Jazeera  July 3, 2019 4:00pm-5:01pm +03

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al-jazeera live from coming up in the latest verbal battle between the u.s. and iran and iran's president responds to donald trump's warning about its nuclear program more in time what we will put aside this commitment and will enrich as much as we want and as much as we need. russia investigates a fire on a navy submarine which killed 14 sailors moving senior officers. out of the garbage that heard of it and i'll tell you how these trailblazing women are changing their communities by driving trucks. the united nations and african union have condemned an airstrike on a migrant camp in libya's capital that's killed at least 40 people dozens more were injured in the attack in tripoli libya has become a springboard for african migrants trying to reach europe brian reports.
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traumatized and scared they wait outside the migrant camp that was their temporary home and they're among the hundreds of thousands who've come to libya in search of a better life across the sea in europe. for some here their dream is now over victims of a conflict that has nothing to do with them. this is the center just a few months ago fullest people have spent days a week straddling through the desert often and brutally hot temperatures and at the hands of smugglers it's those about 600 people living here the path that was hit in an airstrike late on tuesday night held about 150 main refugees and migrants many from west africa. the un recognized government in tripoli is blaming rival forces for the attack saying it was deliberate. the situation in libya.
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increasingly volatile since april when forces loyal to wall old khalifa haftar launched an offensive to control the capital hundreds of people have been killed and tains of thousands displaced in the fighting. have to us forces have carried out several air raids on tripoli in recent days after losing the town of nearby eleanor head the area before the area has. probably. but this is a very. densely populated area. the violence has worsened the suffering in migrant attention centers some close to the front lines which housed those pushed back by the european funded libyan coast guard the un's describe the conditions in the same as appalling with little food and water repeatedly calling for them to be closed it's condemn tuesday's attack saying civilians should never
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be targeted brian al jazeera. all right our diplomatic editor james maes joins us here on set at al-jazeera world headquarters good to have you back with us in the studio for a change james any indication of who did this well we know who the internationally backed u.n. backed governments did it and that is general huffed are certainly it would make some sense because he's been on the back foot since he last gary on last week he has an air force although it's pretty obsolete and pretty small he has in the past been backed in these air operations by the u.s. a and egypt i remember general haftar in a very old dacia smoove in april moved on tripoli but with 2 pincers either side of the capital never got any further he's been since that time he's been on the back foot and certainly has lost ground in the last week or so what kind of international reaction are we hearing over this will clearly you're going to get
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condemnation from the u.n. u.n.h.c.r. is already condemned what has happened in terms of what happened what happens in new york at the u.n. security council and there's the possibility of a meeting they're supposed to meet on libya towards the end of the month normally you'd expect an intern like this the europeans to lead the condemnation it's actually the u.k. who is the what's called the penholder in the security council on libya this though is rather an embarrassing issue for europe because you remember all those migrants that used to go from the libyan coast and make their way to europe and try and contain them in libya and that's what's been happening is some suspicion going to fall on some of the allies the states who are allied with khalifa haftar because well what kind of real airstrike infrastructure or force does have to have he doesn't have much of an air force and certainly he's relying on other nations like egypt like the u.s. he for resupply of the limited. number to air. infrastructure that he
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does have. any hope of accountability. happening here is there any hope of accountability in libya for everything that is happened since 2011 certainly. the the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court looks at libya it's a file that she has opened and certainly she could look a general haftar she already has some of his commanders some of those serving under him under examination for possible war crimes thanks scott was good to have you back here thanks so much james face let's go to he's in nigeria's capital abuja and this is going to have no doubt some impact on that subsaharan migrant route right. well basically it's going to
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have to some extent but looking at how desperate these migrants are taking that route a lot of traffic still close to us to the libyan side despite the issues at stake despite the fighting in libya. some months ago we were in but me share after the fighting flared up and we so a lot of migrants and the jerry ends another west africans were returning from libya talking about tough conditions there but we also met people on the ground west africans and sub-saharan africans by the way generally who are trying to go to the bia expecting the conditions to improve and then they wouldn't make their move now talking about the situation in after this attack the nigerian authorities were still experts a statement from the office of the foreign ministry or the presidency right now there is no foreign minister on the ground but an official i spoke to earlier said nigeria's going to condemn this situation we were there last year by the way in
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january trying to evacuate an estimated 35025000 migrants in libya and that center that was hit in the air strike was one of the areas that we visited along with nigerian officials including the foreign affairs minister including senior government officials who went to a city in the situation and repatriate some of these migrants back home and that might greet the started and by the by the by the time but at this moment there is an estimated 45000 that have been brought back but why we were in libya the situation the thing we understood sami is that there are people in the libyan government all of the libyan transitional government all people who are securing these migrants or don't even one of the situation to end it because that was a statement given to me by the problem in stuff hoarding affairs he said some of the. these shows benefit from the system because they use the migrant labor and
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when we went to that center in particular we were told that there are $150.00 now units being detained there eventually when the minister got to meet some of these migrant it was clear that there were thousands of them in that in that detention facility and nigeria estimated then there were $5000.00 refugees or migrants in libya but generally what we've learnt on the ground there could be tens of thousands of nigerians in libya who have no way of getting home and the situation is even worse in areas controlled by khalifa haftar in areas that the libyan authorities or the international recognized government cannot access or admittedly it's there from a booter iran's president says if its partners in the 2015 nuclear deal do not fulfill their promises iran's nuclear reactor will return to its previous activities as a rowhani says after july the 7th they will go to whatever level is needed european
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foreign ministers say they're extremely concerned iran has exceeded limits on its low uranium stockpile despite this britain france and germany say they won't try to reimpose u.n. sanctions. joins us now from tehran and the stands and so visuals have been explaining why they feel the european workaround system to try and get around those u.s. sanctions simply isn't working. yes semi that's exactly correct we're talking about a system known as in stacks the instrument in support of trade exchanges and what that very long acronym really means is it's essentially a banking bypass to bypass u.s. economic sanctions u.s. banking sanctions and to help iran to be able to continue to mitigate those sanctions to get some financial benefits that it has signed up for again we have to remember that the 25th the nuclear deal was all about iran compromising the pace
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and scope of its nuclear program in the country in exchange for returning to the international marketplace in exchange for economic benefits to develop its economy now what iran's leaders are saying is that the european attempt which is which is essentially an oil for goods trading project they say that that hasn't gone far enough that european countries have not been able to do enough to mitigate the impact of u.s. economic sanctions that iranian leaders have said is akin to economic warfare and they have called it iran's president hassan rouhani speaking today calling in stacks essentially a bank with no money in it characterizing it as europe showing off to illustrate that it is trying to do something but all of its efforts are essentially tokenism now iran's president also had anger rebuke for the u.s. government responding to a comment by president donald trump when donald trump heard about the fact that iran as part of its roll back from cooperation with the nuclear deal the i.a.e.a.
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the u.n. nuclear watchdog agency just days ago saying iran had breached a 300 kilogram stockpile limit that was agreed to as part of the 2050 nuclear deal mr trump said that iran was playing with fire earlier this morning president hassan rouhani had this response to that comment. has over the past year it is them who started the fire we will extinguish it if you say it is dangerous to play with fire so why did you start it you can control it return to your commitments return to what the u.n. security council has ratified so then take us through july 7th was likely to happen then if iran doesn't feel that the us has come back to its commitments under the nuclear deal. is that is that is an important deadline we're just 3 or 4 days away from that now and how that deadline came about is 2 months ago iran's president rouhani said that since the united states unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear deal in 2018 since other
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signatories to the deal have been unable or many iranians say unwilling to filter their side of the bargain saying that iran has been patient enough mr rouhani said that iran will begin rolling back parts of its commitments to the nuclear deal because it can't be the only country fulfilling its commitments because it wasn't the only country that signed the deal now this breach of the 300 kilogram stockpile limit was the 1st step on july 7th iran's government said it will take yet another step and it's all designed to retake control of the nuclear program really expand the scope of its nuclear activity here inside the country what iran's president said this morning was again this was during a weekly cabinet meeting to members of his government he said that iran will be able to possibly enrich uranium beyond the purity level agreed to in the nuclear deal more highly enriched uranium as well as expand the work of nuclear activity nuclear facilities including iraq and ford though now we're what world leaders are
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hoping is that iran decides not to do so iranian leaders have said over and over again they've been patient enough and it's now time for them to do what they think is best for their country all right we'll leave it there thanks so much and same bus ravi. still ahead on al-jazeera china's government urges hong kong to find those responsible for damaging the legislature building in monday's protests. hello we've got the usual rash of showers across southeast asia still some really heavy ones there for time across the philippines are tending to drift further west with big massive cloud across india china thailand will see some rather heavy downpours for a time not too far far bangkok 29 celsius is taking the temperatures back a good 2 will 3 degrees want to showers there just around militia singapore column
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for seeing some lively showers further south it should be generally dry chance of roche out in northern parts of indonesia not too much right across australia at the moment want to see showers just clinging on to the coastal fringes of the east coast but i think essentially it does look settled and sunny high pressure in charge so that is keeping things quiet this weather system will make its way towards doubly way as we go on through the next day or so so pulling the temperatures back to around 17 souses in person rather heavy rain for a time as it makes its way in the beginning with a little more cloud just around the coastal fringes new south wales pushing up towards the gold coast towards brisbane we'll see temperatures around 1415 celsius for melbourne and for adelaide meanwhile in new zealand is turning dry to the south set on the cold side. the venezuela colombia border has become
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a stomping ground for trespassing. as desperate people transgress an illegal passage. to feed an emerging field trafficking markets. we follow that perilous journey unguarded through the line of. risking it all. venezuela and colombia. on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap. at least 40 people have been killed and dozens injured in their strike on
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a migrant camp in libya's capital the u.n. recognize government has blamed the strike on forces loyal to warlords. iran's president says if its partners in the 2015 nuclear deal do not fulfill their promises iran's nuclear reactor will return to previous activities honeys says after july the 7th it will go to whatever level is needed. returning to our top story now an airstrike on a migrant camp in libya which is killed 40 people well for more on this. is a human rights lawyer she joins us by skype from london good to have you with us 1st of all your reaction to this kind of strike. good money. reaction is that of extreme sorrow and. outrage at year in that where 40 people have died in contact with fugitives were detained
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can't read it actions they are mentioning over a 100 people injured and killed. obviously it's very hard to have numbers at the moment but i would just i like the fact that the last of the refugees were and detained in july and been caught at sea and unlawfully depart and back to libya but it didn't cause god with the assistance and the funding out the european union . is there any hope of accountability if. you know if there is to be any kind of process for this how might it begin. i'm sorry al how could there be any accountability yes. that is going to be a really. challenging current political contest in libya d.c. it's not the 1st time that what appears to our mums who are crying. killed migrants
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are refugees. at the moment. so there are. parents of serious crimes. against thousands of migrants that if you just are being documented and exposed by the united nations but yes and been possible to. to bring accountability for these crimes also in light of the current conflict in libya. and the fact that europe has been fully complicit. in. did the management of detention centers. deportation of refugees or c.s. so accountability would be difficult we know that the international criminal court is investigating. their use crimes and issues to do with trafficking or. ill treatment systematic torture of migrants and refugees the thing
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but obviously this is very hard to course see in the very near future your human rights lawyer tell us some of the human rights challenges the refugees and migrants on this kind of trial will routinely face. they all initially suffered torture for the purpose of exploitation. by traffickers and smugglers who are often kidnapping refugees ins that are who are no longer intending to travel to leave yes or. many at the taint in informally tension camps leave the torture on the phone with the families. to requests huge amounts of money to be paid as around some. also and they are sold on to police officers or other traffickers on several occasions and they are often as
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late and used for forced labor in conditions like into slavery. and this is all documented in so far you have reports over the last few years your partner and subsequently i'm usually forced to board there and save time even yes more boards and. often with the agreement of the coast guard smugglers just make deals to not you fight them that the boards are leaving. just a few hours later called back and taken back to libya on boards that i have been you know and the young girls got but they tell you i'm not sorry that is and. they are being helped through the you trust fund for africa. taking these migrants are actually just back to leave and they're taking them to the official detention centers where they are being. starved to death. and in
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degrading conditions in mountains of litter as comments what no medical treatment many and i'm not a closes and my nutrition. we're. not trying to wean an unfortunate detainees our experience is acts of violence gang rapes and. archer and . all the yup uses the forms are we not. widely documented in many. courts by u.n. agencies as well as international human rights organizations. and on top of that we have all these cases were crying right such as the shooting and had there been and . and the current end at the top last night and ongoing right it's a bleak picture we thank you for highlighting it to our viewers though julia tonkin
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a bet thanks a lot for. politicians in hong kong say it could cost around $1300000.00 to repair the legislature a building which was ransacked by protesters police have declared it a crime scene as the cleanup continues a special task force has been set up to look into the mass protests most of which were actually peaceful they were triggered by a controversial bill which would allow extradition to mainland china let's go to adrian brown now he's in hong kong for us looks like the weather's picked up a little bit behind you adrian however i want to start by asking about those pictures which are being published in beijing state media. of a drill that took place in hong kong a week ago a kind of message are they sending by publishing it now. yes i want to tell you 1st about a drill that's going on behind me this involves hong kong police which are
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continuing to clear away the debris outside the hong kong legislative council building and i guess that this temporary could well form part of the criminal investigation that has now begun but to answer your question about that here les drill yes an army newspaper on the mainland has reported that last week the p l a garrison here in hong kong conducted a military exercise involving all 3 forces the air falls navy and the army that's not unusual because there are 8000 pale a personal based here in hong kong and exercises like this happen all the time but of course the timing of it is very interesting because it came just several weeks after the protests began here in hong kong and just before that major protest on sunday night which ended in this building beside me being vandalized and occupied by students now on that wednesday morning the chief executive kerry was actually
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forced to deny a report that she had consulted beijing on monday night and asked them to send in the troops she said that report was erroneous but nevertheless one of her key legal advisers bonnie tong has said that every time the there is serious protests on the streets of hong kong unrest like we saw on sunday night it raises the risk of the pier lay eventually being called in now of course that hasn't happened in the 22 years since hong kong was handed back to china but the risk the danger i think for many hong kong people is still there as for china's strategy at the moment i think in the in the weeks months and years ahead they are going to encourage more chinese to migrate to hong kong i think what they want to do is in future elections undermine the prospects of produce. ocracy candidates by essentially gerrymandering certain districts they want to have greater integration of hong kong into the
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mainland they're encouraging actually more and more young hong kong is to go to the mainland to live and work but of course that is exactly what the students who protested on sunday have said they do not want the problem we have right now sami is that kerry is basically according to recent opinion polls now the most unpopular chief executive that hong kong has had that means that her credibility is suffering so the students those who support the students say they're simply no point in talking to her because she remains tone deaf to their demands for change because this is not just about you know an extradition bill it's also about now you know one man one vote universal suffrage as it was you know 5 years ago with the occupy movement laura brown there from hong kong. russia's defense ministry says 14 sailors have died in a fire on a navy submarine russia says it was
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a deep sea research vessel based out of several mosque which was doing a survey of the sea floor near the arctic russia's president summoned the defense minister for a briefing on the fire he expressed his condolences to relatives of the sailors heavy rain has prompted an evacuation order for more than 700000 people in japan the meteorological agency is warning of landslides and flooding in are on the southern island of. people in the affected area have been ordered to seek shelter at evacuation centers at least one woman has been killed after a landslide his her house. the united nations special investigator examining the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi wants world powers to reconsider holding the next g. 20 in saudi arabia agnus column are announced her findings last month telling al-jazeera she wants the u.n. to investigate further she was unable to determine who authorized the killing but
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did find credible evidence pointing to crown prince mohammed bin son man's involvement germany's defense minister. has become the 1st woman to be nominated as head of the european commission that's the body that oversees the affairs of the european union the decision comes after days of wrangling the discovery of a large coal reserve in southern pakistan is changing the way families of live for generations were made in poor rural communities mostly worked in the home or in the fields now a new coal plant in a car is offering these women an opportunity to earn money so i binge of aid reports. until last year list with says she did not even know how to ride a bike now she's among a dozen women who drive 60 times trucks in pakistan's largest open pit coal mine. i
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was afraid when i saw the truck at 1st but now i am not it's a source of livelihood for a family she still begins her day by heading to the will because there is little running water in her village traditional what's called children have been their homes for centuries extended families live in clusters of these structures. throat lord has increased she says her new job has given her confidence and a lot more money. finally it was about love i find that i bring water from the wells wash clothes cook food for the family look after the children as well. 80 percent of pakistan's poor live in rural areas people here in the southwestern region of the parker face poverty illiteracy and a lack of basic services. many of the districts one and a half 1000000 people struggle to find jobs the recent call extraction project has created opportunities for many locals here most of the women are from conservative hindu families they get married young look after their children tend to the field
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in cattle so becoming a truck driver is not just a job they see it as empowerment but just changing the way they are functioned for generations. those traditions involve hindu and muslim communities mean male guardians decide if women can work you know. it's the tradition of thought that we don't allow our females to go out for work except to bring water and to work in the fields sometimes they do embroidery at home but i told my daughter she could drive very much proud of how. many husbands had to be invited to see the work environment before they allowed their wives to become drivers the trainers believe these types of jobs will help future generations as well problems i will take all of what he has gone up by the women of many problems with this training we want to create awareness on how to look after themselves and their children and how to interact with the people around them the women of the parker have thrived despite the hardships they face 73 percent turned up to both last year even the 1st hindu woman
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to contest elections on a non minority seat came from this region. social workers see economic opportunities help women in many ways including the chance to earn an independent livelihood. there parker said in pakistan. and let's take you through the headlines here now to syria now at least 40 people have been killed and dozens injured in an air strike on a migrant camp in libya's capital the u.n. recognize government has blamed the strike on forces loyal to the warlords khalifa haftar iran's president says if its partners in the 2015 nuclear deal do not fulfill their promises iran's nuclear reactor will return to previous activities has the rouhani says after july the 7th it will go to whatever level is needed.
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over the past year it is them who started the fire we will extinguish it if you see it is dangerous to play with fire so why did you start it you can control it return to your commitments return to what the un security council has ratified russia's defense ministry says 14 sailors have died in a fire on a navy submarine russia says it was a deep sea research vessel based out of several mosque which was doing a survey of the sea floor near the arctic russia's president summoned the defense minister for a briefing on the fire expressed his condolences to relatives of the sailors united nations special investigator examining the murder of journalist. once world powers to reconsider holding the next g 20 meeting in saudi arabia agnes cullum are wasn't able to determine who authorized the killing archie did find credible evidence pointing to crown prince mohammed bin sultan man's responsibility although as i had
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venezuela a country in crisis. hyper inflation political instability said their debt and chronic food and medicine shortages. once the wealthiest country in the region venezuela is mired in the worst economic crisis
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and its history. almost exclusively dependent on oil revenues and this way an affront to the severe economic recession of 2 oil prices dropped and 20. 14. the economy contracted by over a 3rd between 2002017. inflation increased by more than 1000000 percent the cost of basic commodities like flour and milk skyrocketed some venezuelans turn to the trafficking of fuel to make a living. they found a good source of accomplices and buy is here in neighboring colombia. fuel costs $1.00 cent per liter and venezuela it's resold for more than 30 times its original price in colombia a real opportunity for traffic as. the colombian village of one freo lies near the venezuelan colombian border here smuggling of the trade passed from
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generation to generation. carlos and his cousin 20 years old. every day they take the same route through paddy fields just a few kilometers away by crossing cap they can reach the venezuelan border while evading police.

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