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made some serious statement about the struggle as he call it back to the streets and this is quite right more dangerous than actual than them actually being in parliament ok we have to leave it there theophanous loss thank you very much we're . staying in europe the british government says it quotes regrets newspaper leaks of memos from the u.k. ambassador to washington calling the trumpet ministration uniquely dysfunctional clumsy inept kim derrick's reported comments triggered an angry response from president donald trump let's get more from john hall in london so jonah generally deputy heads will roll but quite difficult to find out who's head should be on the chopping block with this one. yes i think externally difficult the prime minister has ordered an inquiry into the leaking of these memos to try and identify the source of course these members are 2 years old some of them they would
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have been sent into the warrens and corridors of whitehall they would have crossed the desks of a number of people in the civil service in the diplomatic corps in the government ministers serving in ministers no longer serving that could be an extremely difficult task but certainly all of this causing exquisite embarrassment for the u.k. government having just a few weeks ago treated donald trump and his family to a full state visit with all the pomp and majesty that goes along with that and in their embarrassment of course trying as well to limit the damage but also to distance themselves the government from these comments by an ambassador who's been in position since before don't trump came to office uniquely therefore position to watch the workings of this administration from its beginning and really some extraordinarily undiplomatic language certainly to a layperson in comments describing the administration is uniquely dysfunctional and inept the president himself is in secure and suggesting that he's korea is likely
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to crash and burn ending in disgrace there's a sort of balance going on here between censure and the need to preserve the integrity of the diplomatic course of you but the prime minister saying look it is his right and his job to provide us with the unvarnished truth even though i don't need to agree with it that put out by her spokesman and the foreign secretary a stance of the boss of the diplomats around the world saying similar things but saying that these are his personal views i don't agree with them but he has the right and it is his job to do this take a listen to what jeremy hunt the foreign secretary had to say. of course i made it clear that i don't share the ambassador's assessment of either the us administration or relations with the u.s. administration but i do defend his right to make that frank assessment and it's very important that our diplomats all over the world continue to be able to do so but i guess journey there is a sense in which despite the so-called special relationship and you've already
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mentioned the state visit the just to be clear the ambassador is paid he's the top ambassador on the circuits of ambassadors but he is paid to sort of distilled down what he thinks the administration is all about and feed that back to london because that then gets boiled down again and then that gets squirted towards 10 downing street so the next time there's a meeting between the british prime minister and the american president they know where they're both coming from yes and i'm sure they expect this sort of candor as you say the british public pays for this sort of candor in order to inform the government and the allow it to make sensible decisions and judgments but of course this is supposed to be top secret stuff it's never meant to be made public this inquiry now there are suggestions that whoever is found to be the leaker if indeed that person is found should face criminal charges for breaching the official secrets act and of course they will hope to try and put a lid on this it comes at an extremely sensitive time of course as treason may
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reaches the end of her premiership in a couple of weeks' time she will be replaced by boris johnson or jeremy hunt they both will make their priority breaks it achieving breaks it and the consequence of that will be the need to maintain the highest order of relations with the united states as a possible future trade partner so while kim dara the ambassador at the moment enjoys the full faith of reason may according to downing street in a couple of weeks time that position may appear less sustainable journal thank you . still to come here on al-jazeera calls for justice in israel after the shooting of a young black man by an off duty police officer. raja tourists are coming for exactly this kind of experience. turbulence on the horizon for georgia as flights between the 2 countries are grounded.
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the heavy downpours continue across a good parts of southern china seeing some a huge thunderheads draped across the region pushing over tools that eastern side of china in tipping down for days for some here and that wet weather will stay in place they will tend to not a little further south was so the main thrust of that wetter weather will just ease its way down towards hong kong as we go on through wednesday to the increasingly wet here temperatures getting up to around 29 celsius as we lose a degree of 2 off the top temperatures in the heat of the day plenty wet weather to into south asia the monsoon rains accosts doing quite nicely still a little behind up towards the northwest if the truth be see plenty of shower clout there into myanmar into the northeast of india pushing up across bangladesh and off cloud just not the edge of the temperatures in new delhi but was
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a high of around 35 celsius say over the next day or so western debts staying a very aware they more of the same as we go on through wednesday a very similar picture from the central and eastern parts have got red warnings in force for the amount of flooding rain that we are expecting to see here in the coming days meanwhile across the right information hot and dry sums it up temperatures in the 45. can the unrest in mali be stopped the situation is not easy out there is not a magical one has the united nations failed to protect the people and help end the violence special representative of the un security general from ali mohamed salah and to al-jazeera. new yorkers are very receptive to al-jazeera because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al
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jazeera provides. top stories so far this. international criminal court has convicted a former warlords of war crimes and crimes against humanity. was found guilty on all 18 counts connected to the killing of thousands of civilians in the tury region between 20022003. greece's new prime minister mr tucker has been sworn in his new democracy party won an outright majority in sunday's general election defeating the left wing there is a party the far right golden dawn was knocked out of the parliament. u.k.
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government has ordered an inquiry into the leaked emails from its ambassador in washington they described the trumpet ministration as uniquely dysfunctional and inept it triggered an angry response from president trump. amnesty international is calling the philippines president has cracked down on drugs a quote systematic campaign of killing human rights organization claims the police have killed thousands of poor filipinos suspected of using or selling drugs it wants the u.n. to investigate what it says are unlawful deaths. from manila. more than 2 years ago in manila the net cost to your son was killed by armed men but she believes they were linked to the police monette blames president or diego doctor to so-called mourn drugs for her son's death and she's become an activist speaking out against the campaign. killings should and the
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government should instead serve the filipinos according to government data more than 6000 people have been killed over the past 3 years an average of 6 every day but the rights groups believe the actual number is nearly 5 times higher for the last 3 years killings related to the war on drugs have mainly been in areas of the capital manila but amnesty international says in its latest report they're now concentrated in the province of bullock on in northern philippines in every police operation documented by amnesty international over the last few months the group says police claim the use of deadly force was justified as the suspect officers but in many cases witnesses contradict that it also says it's down to another disturbing pattern police commanders who previously held posts in what was once considered the deadliest region for drug war killings metro manila have been
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promoted to senior roles in an extrajudicial killings there over amnesty international calls e.g. case have since risen sharply. investigation into human rights violations of the war on drugs including in the commission of crimes under international law. the fact. that the big. we're going to. deter just government has this is amnesty with port and he says police operations will continue to be relentless and deadly amnesty international is politicizing the so-called extrajudicial killings in this country amnesty international is not the only group to investigate on the government's so-called drug war but almost all are
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gun is asians have the same appeal human rights investigators are calling on the government to revise its anti-drug policy and make those responsible accountable they also say the international community has not acted swiftly enough we just embolden many members in government * to impose a wider crackdown on independent media rights investigators and political activists . bogen al jazeera. a double decker bus has crashed in northern india killing at least 29 passengers on 20 others survived from the bus plunged off a fly over in the state of utah the police suspect the driver fell asleep during the night on the way to the capital new delhi. the bank has started sending stuff home as part of measures to cut $18000.00 jobs germany's biggest bank expects to make a $3000000000.00 quarterly loss because of a restructuring bank based in frankfurt with its rival comet's bank in april and
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it's been struggling for years with the decline of its investment operations. the parents of an ethiopian israeli teenager shot and killed by an off duty policeman according to widespread police reforms solomon teaches death in haifa last sunday led to riots in several israeli cities has been it's met. these people are in law as jewish as anyone else who has the right to move to israel and claim citizenship but many of them will tell you that their skin color means they don't get equal treatment in this country. had solomon ticket been white his family and friends believe he would not have been shot dead by an off duty police officer during a confrontation in a part of the load people have empathized and supported me but it's not going to help what will help is if the police in israel change and go in a new direction we need a new understanding from the roots all the way i. saw a man's death prompted nationwide demonstrations led by ethiopian israelis who say
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they have enjoyed decades of racism from the government and police. tens of thousands of ethiopians emigrated here in the eighty's and ninety's encouraged by successive governments 3 years ago a ministerial commission made a series of recommendations after widespread discrimination against ethiopian jews was exposed a coordination unit to prevent racism was set up critics say what has been done on paper isn't being put into practice the police are supposed to work thought it comes to film every interaction. not there also supposed to be stiffer penalties for violent police officers and a reduction in the use of tasers but there's no evidence of any of this. according to the justice ministry the police have not published yearly reports on how officers who acted in a racist manner have been disciplined we don't want no one to hug us or say that
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they understand our war our feelings feelings won't make me feel safe in the streets what made well will make me feel safe is police officers being indicted over killing young black people and it's not only young black men it's also. a. community we have the orthodox we have. and here they're suffering from police brutality this is an issue of civil rights. the police officer who shot solomon is under house arrest solomon's name is 11 on a list of people who've been shot by the police in the last 5 years according to official records no police officers have been charged over any of those deaths bernard smith al-jazeera haifa. the police in haiti have opened fire on mourners and protesters at the funeral of a journalist shot dead last month. was investigating government corruption his
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killing by a gunman in port-au prince street sparked street protests demanding the resignation of the president of an el noisy. the only functioning airport in the libyan capital has reopened following missile strikes on sunday airport has been repeatedly targeted by forces loyal to the warlord after in his 3 month campaign to capture tripoli and depose the un recognized government. russian airlines no longer flying to georgia spells problems for the tourism industry that the russian president banned flights following anti russian riots last month state media says it's no longer safe to fly there for a holiday robin for a stay walker reports now from the mountain resort which is popular with russian tourists at least up until now. russians will no longer be able to fly direct to georgia from july the 8th. that could take the wind
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out of the sails of georgia's tourism industry. who guides like a trying to stay upbeat fiercely. or. if the number of russian tourists go down there are a lot of other visitors from other countries so we're going to just adopt. the flight ban is moscow's response to anti russian demonstrations in the capital tbilisi protesters were infuriated by georgia's parliament inviting russian politicians to visit demonstrators accuse their government of collaborating with the enemy russian troops continue to occupy 20 percent of georgian territory it's breakaway region and south ossetia. now we're hearing with our georgia man this place called the arch of modern make up out of friendship between georgia and russia so in reality colonialism communism and conflicts have all too often
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defined relations between the 2 countries though georgia has a special place in the hearts of many russians more people because we love georgia with so happy to be here. nearly one and a half 1000000 russians who are ists came to georgia last year that's around 20 percent of the total number of visits has georgia's national bank estimates that few russian tourists could cost the economy as much as 3. a 100000000 dollars this year and there may be worse to come russian tourists are coming for exactly this kind of experience. during. the beauty of the place. but georgian wine exports may be next on russia's banned list russian officials talk of tightening controls on georgian food and beverages russia is a major market it's very difficult to quantify the impact of the tourism ban or
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even the ban on flights and potentially the ban on wine and vegetables and fruits that's going to be difficult to quantify in terms of g.d.p. impact but what i think we can't quantify is the number of people who are going to be affected the number of people is going to be tremendously high it's going to be at least a half the population of the. rest. but that's because more than half of georgia's population works in tourism and agriculture fewer russian roubles they force georgia to find new markets but until then the country could be in for a rough ride robyn 1st year walker al-jazeera good dowry. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories the international criminal court has
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convicted a former war lord of war crimes and crimes against humanity and to conduct was found guilty on all 18 counts connected to the killing of thousands of civilians in the region of a tour a between 20022003 malcolm webb has more. there are still some people who support for gander their political party that his militia was connected to the p.c. well some of their members told us that their they believe that these are the evidence rather fabricated in the i.c.c. quite simply have the wrong people but many others who've been affected by the prophecies of connected to the rebel groups that once again there was a commander in which isn't only there the you can see battle for late there the c.n.d. piero on the back rebel group of the m 23 with a back half i wonder in subsequent conflict the new greek prime minister korean coarseness the tarkus has been sworn in today his new democracy party won an outright majority in the snap election on sunday defeating the left wing sitters
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a party to the far right golden door and lost all 18 of its seats. the british government has ordered an inquiry into leaked emails from the ambassador to washington that criticize the us president donald trump's achim derek wrote that the administration was quote uniquely dysfunctional and divided under donald trump that triggered an angry response from mr trump who said direct quotes that not serve the u.k. well. amnesty international is urging the u.n. to investigate the so-called war on drugs in the philippines describing it as murderous the human rights group says extra judicial killings are still ongoing 3 years after the president brought record to 30 launched his crackdown amnesties report goes on to say it's impossible to know exactly how many people have died but the victims are overwhelmingly from poor and marginalized communities such a bank has started sending staff home as part of measures to cut 18000 jobs more
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news on the web site the address as about al-jazeera dot com up next it's talk to al-jazeera sami's here from 15 g. i'm back from 10 g. tomorrow so you then. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the wound. so no matter when you call home al-jazeera international bringing the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. you see. this is the headquarters of the u.n. mission in mali also known as. the u.n. security council has called on the mission to change its priority focusing on the peace agreement and helping the states reestablish its control over the center of the country it's a mission facing unprecedented challenges caught in the middle of an unfolding spiral of violence edging closer to the capital it's
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a sequence of violence that took off shortly after the fall of the regime in libya in 2011 since then armed groups and weapons have entered the country from the north intersecting with already existing tensions between groups of different ethnic and religious belongings. today the head of the mission mohammad ali we talked to al jazeera. i. thank you for talking to al-jazeera now you are the special representative of the secretary general the chief of mission of the u.n. stabilizing force and peacekeeping mission here known as. its mandate is expected to run out at the end of this month and it's a mission like no other costing a $1000000000.00 i'm not even talking about the numbers of soldiers that are here but also because of the number of deaths the number of peacekeepers that have died
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it's the deadliest so far in u.n. peacekeeping history not only that there's also a lot of death from the civilian side why is there so many people dying in mali. for the last richard russell next. to deploy. or look at postural do you normally monday probably 2 years or so you know. to deploy you. put a boot. on this study just won't do monday particularly monday. a day. or more. or is the truth going to deploy it doesn't it will pollute literally just the number on the market activities of the board by little buddhist practices it will see
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little afrikander doc character is it will see bodily traffic on block would vision the part of the very little that i was hit by lou might be a lesion livestream on studies liz i share buddhism in a vettel american voice don't let me show also true very good image on the up at amazon dot delete quantum a little to clean up but and one that didn't want to let topic under the rope get him on that distributed us feel it of course you just wrote when you would be mildly like to see been there too little beast if he will do you elect to conduct it easy or miss you on a leper you met 3 years for the last you lost on contexta unum is your dyment in the lap it shot of the last i believe it the logical serious moment do you think that this mission has succeeded in bringing stability to molly.
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no. on the fella scene if it but it were not a. comet it killer molly and damage that is. it's true to learn nor learn not if you. was a. good ass and i mean you know close to home. a lot of the money suki it dawned. on you would you know. see nuki don't. let me distrust your own piece that even needed. it gone a stickler for said they're prosecuted he said it deploy you when you would do it. on the. grass on the walls of luck or put it up. in results you don't list u.v. . it's true that you've managed to bring back some form of stability in the north
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of the country and there are many european peacekeeping forces or european soldiers involved in the north notably the french with their operation but also the dutch the germans the dutch to the leaving soon is the security of europe contingent on the stability of mali in the sahara as a whole is that why there are so many european soldiers here or from their vote in a more men are. the. difference here to you are the terrorists going to be little restored or d.v.m. . was not to be. mourned the loss of our sicko on d. . day to mean it. meek iraq on cd this collision supposed. cision if you wanted to defend you were to
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do more and more yeah yeah. then i had. key you diffuse the local rep me. in for. a mess you're not supposed to solve work. or support do you. suppose for one or you're on the. on to secure pursuit to only be. able to do we can get duffy more lists ahead then they divvy need and not send meet their. head. liz altarpiece us. to freak out when you would decide hell. if you don't mark want. to do
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more. for side you. love and i'm not up. to start. pretty darned you may be due diligence. said side it's been done by the rest of the. government you mention these groups like the group the islamic state in the greater sahara and. the mean groups that didn't exist when the algiers accord was signed don't you think that these records are a little bit obsolete. of the agenda pulps of the. war visits to belittle or money. if.
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politics or video. or song elicit cleek. support for. community international dance formal samba and uk or. us are not support i'm in a lap. or just get a shot for a little duties to. set the record. but. of course did you. let me start your bus to deploy you only would do sample. of one part of. the. secure bar you know. to shift the lip of what i wanted to shouted billeted into our existing bar in authorities to vent. the enormous alarm. from our. mum
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and i'm placidly down so. i can yell is it in me. or sunday to be. our. minister as your own was it deployed not to let it work. in this that it deploy. when you set up. just to be dumped on the. year or. certainly daddy's if but then also do you see. the time you need to listen the.
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loonies. here. in. the conflict is changing and we've seen an increase in into communal violence don't go on fighting for lonnie's and for. targeting doggoned villages now the villagers that we spoke to say they've called for help. from they called for help for the 1000000 security forces but also to the main news for forces they say that only 24 hours after the attack did they see peacekeeping forces on the ground have you failed your mission to protect the civilian population there. and the law protection doocy or civil or civil way lamond meanest mom. put illinois. if you want i mean any prosecutor passed on or was subject to far and yet come to. a palace you have to deny or it don't do you could depart and i
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mean respond of it by munda when you would you sample set apart to do a party and they're. going to solve all in wonder some deploy you when you would you do something. wrong are federal but i buy it would be. food said deploy some event get her by the dessert was a week. before connect look contacts for cornet to memorize you'll get a few dollars on back before. a movie to deploy. innocent by the. it was on so you're more sooky you so fully. are wonderful what a fair bit i still. am articulate on these. infocom
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m.d. . or force the difference in my lens. for somalians up your love for somalia and your. desert dip where you. enter community. is your proxy for pluto. from your look around them. for a home and try and for far when you would you solve did you know that there was chances or risk of intercommunal violence before it took place in the village of the go in the early month of march or late february were you aware that there could be some violence there. in new war you need to drop the law keep our own kitty. only deposal
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one you would do guatemala. city will look. up to the existing to distil city or. you have dealership blue shifted the show in a key city too poor a big circle for the little bit to solve. to clipless on this one it will be modular did this. the shift. done to ground. it is opium not does community social decay did the lodge on. their community their . savior give easy. we've seen drone footage from the un peacekeeping mission so you knew that these attacks were going to take place or that there was tension and you say that the minister forces did intervene how did they intervene you are doing an example. put
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a lot facts of the so born into i mean. you know part of it and what does individually out of me on the corner parlor and council lives at the deeply. unfair to manifest as your arm of the foot of the law meanest mom need the potty decision. look closely at the community look awfully and he bumped it partly to just nip back at the show's distress she's come full so level of populist on the idea if it does individual resource center to supplement just gossip or prove that the w.t. no wonder if i've got a day or not it doesn't cut that out on a lot if you're one of them was a deal you had to manifest as your arm of the crystal did was i don't know just settled the dugong well as i did there would have only been to see them if you added don't fall into some a cold brand or semiconscious kalia you know a crisp well formed when you were this is this is. really excellent important d.c.
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poncy what a lot is will the end state of a new order to be that of a needed them and not. solely so global what truly mechanics of it i just want to sell it at that or put it on it and the g.c.'s limpid you to force program limpy to post problem illogically that what i've been able to prove or got different color gone defeat when you were there i mean just i'm a loser of all citizens because i want to live it on the slogan among you just carla on the promo side of it of the liberal philosophy up some middle look at their own lives and then the fed did was put to what. forced to do process is. a long. complex and seed. in a proper indicative complete d.c.d. . problem. it was obvious to succumb to some of their
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fat and close up astrological and i understand you're investigating these cases but i also investigating the municipal itself for its failure to protect the population but also to ensure that you're able to respond more quickly if there is another attack like this because of it is will lose adoptee a loved one or kenya prophesied kiam won't count on d.d. . but example. before she supposed. keep it focused on a difficult concept. to me i thought at that. point you. are there not a couple city which would you fit the part to. be that door in your. picture was supposed to put. the nationals in the list out. and force you to
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lose you money damn. particular credit to provide so let me just. let that i'm going to proceed to sample. the. human document your copy of the carter center has been very critical towards the government and the armed groups saying there's a backsliding of this accord but also of the international community because there's been a 6 peace agreements that have been signed and in this one the international community has a role to implement to ensure that this peace deal goes through has the international community failed mali. or your duty. corps to do it. i mean. you're get asked us to talk or. exist you just keep.
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to. it for. us. put it to put your soul come back upon the bar with a. lot of your crocker see them in the 1st ocean remember something out of their. to was. if posed to you for local dodgy men in food you can see a lot on the. blues. how can we find peace in mali and in this a hell. lot of these are. met with you but i'm in a bar staff many. police do something to my leave it lit. up by the. result ill or force a difference of security and will she be in shock. disorganisation someone
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there's been unprecedented protests in the streets of bamako. earlier this year against the government saying that if they're not doing enough to protect the population is the government failing its population is president. failing the population as the situation deteriorates. daughter. into your distance. mom i do not i'm a difficult. your problem a complex does your fault you're prepared to defend magic rock a deceptive to tie literally. will dig up the said duck body with 2 and one of them are they allowed to do camping and if and but i buy extra more important your proctor look what i'm on all thought useful look to see after the failure looks you want to sit up a few selected is key a complex subject a bit one of them
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a new fadia reluctance to complexity for couple minutes at the most or not but i'll quote we spoke into dogan leaders in full on leaders they say that they called for help for the 1000000 soldiers to come and help them when these attacks took place but they never did they never came and then we spoke to them ali in security forces that they they see some of the soldiers are are afraid to go on the ground they call for the men use math for help but the minister never shows up how do you explain that a lot of imagine a c.b.s. show the produce goods. on tend to cement and be silenced be full of food for lunch the margin issue by disick is generally not them to jaclyn attempts with a lot of omega. numbers and missiles and if they didn't david out a 1000000 to 4 of them enough to keep out a meme fed lapid on the continent of africa. for the past year a companion might get up was sitting up for what sodomy up what if you keep it
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locked down like that send it by lot i'm focused. on ned lamont acidic most of you on ned lamont what fastpass seems to be sticking a soapbox. over half of the u.n. peacekeeping mission are in former french colonies notably some of them in french speaking africa the central african republic or here in mali is that just a coincidence. no need for comment but a lucky visitor shows. the palace here early on when. we leave the area not the thought of. kill a moderately to miss on the pitch so i'm not ready pull off a bus killer lead there after bus shot be. known poppy to
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we're looking. for a faceted. problem. and problem to develop and problem is democratic you support. or. do. you not say. that if you. want to enjoy the work without the. lot of this that. if there was no meanness no no g 5 cell no bark on with these governments in this hell or even here in mali be able to hold power. money.
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you could be spot on the. lot of distance the work. will do you. remember. yeah. yeah. yeah yeah. then i suppose you. socialists are. the journalistic. deal. or. can you produce our own quote of bizarre and industrials you need only one core business i did miss 1000000. for. big do you. feel now in the security council there are some
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disagreements with the mandate of this un mission the americans want you to. do more for less it's a $1000000000.00 mission and the french say stay the course what does this mission need. let me show up with more. on the team thank you very much for talking to in the early area.
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the term pre-crime comes from this movie minority report in which a prediction is being made about something an individual has not yet done but is
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going to view and a preemptive arrest is made of someone before they perform the act if you would have asked me 37 years ago if we would have gunshot detection or video cameras in neighborhoods or be able to predict what crimes occur i would have said you're crazy pre-crime coming soon on al-jazeera. english. when the news breaks the supposed tensors and the stilling a bill that's. when people need to be have to be against it it must be
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a new making and if you don't have rights in a telephone and the story needs to be told. how does iraq has teens on the ground to bring you news real world when documentaries and lightnings on air and online. this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam he's a than this is the news out live from coming up in the next 60 minutes. count a. guilty of sexual slavery as
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a worker. for more congo lee's war basco integrand convicted by the international criminal court for directing the raping and killing of thousands. of local people those who do the work for the man chosen to take grace in a new direction is sworn in this prime minister. call for an investigation into the philippine president's war on drugs human rights groups dubbed murdering enterprise . a ban on flights from russia to georgia is now in effect threatening the former soviet republics tourism industry. and in sports the wimbledon adventure is over for 15 year old cory goff the american has been knocked out and world number one ashley party is another last 16. england for.
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a former congolese warlord has been found guilty of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the international criminal court nicknamed the terminator bosco and the gander was convicted of overseeing widespread attacks on civilians and recruiting child soldiers but charges relate to an ethnic conflict in the democratic republic of congo nearly 17 years ago malcolm webb reports. moscow into gander has been in armed groups since 1998 when he was 17 years old. prosecutors the international criminal court accused him of committing atrocities during conflict in the democratic republic of congo in 20022003 he's been found guilty of all 18 counts who was crimes and crimes against humanity with which he was charged. counts and. guilty of sexual
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slavery as a war crime and finally as concert. the field of destroying the adverse solace for the as a worker is that a gun and we sit down the charges included murder rape conscripting child soldiers and sexual enslavement during conflict in congo's it turi province judges detail the massacre of at least 49 people in a banana field behind a village and of children who had been december or had their heads crushed on to ganders orders. thousands of civilians were killed by militia connected to the hammer and lendu ethnic groups but the armed groups are widely seen to be partners or proxies of the government of congo uganda and rwanda i don't think that he's there obviously the biggest fish to be buried. and that has been it's the same and
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that has been levied against it's accepted you know what it's supposed to trade those bearing the greatest responsibility. you took 17 years when crimes were committed for the i.c.c. to eventually convict and to go. and violence in it to reprogram it hasn't stopped dozens of being killed and thousands of fled to neighboring uganda following fighting in the last few weeks but other rights activists say the i.c.c. successful conviction is a step forward and that some justice is better than no justice in a region where people are responsible for atrocities rarely held to account malcolm webb al-jazeera nairobi kenya. well let's take a look at the wall or the responsible for mass murder rape and abduction of the d r c then the gander was 1st indicted in 2006 for allegedly recruiting child soldiers at the time he was a leader of the rwandan bank's rebel group then his troops were integrated into the
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congolese army in 2009 and began there was made a general but they all collapsed when he led not prizing in 2012 and for the m 23 rebel group after losing a power struggle in the gander turned himself over to the u.s. embassy in iran the capital in 2013 well. a human rights and transitional justice expert joins us by skype from the road be good to have you with us so is this a good day for the effort to end impunity in africa. yes yes and no it is a good day it's a significant moment of justice for victims who have waited for those last 17 years from the jury district. and. clearly they will see this as a significant victory for their quest for justice however by the thousands stated in your report was going to go to her went on to have
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a long career siding with different forces including their congolese army for another decade since his indignant in 2006 and during that time. forces allied to him committed atrocities especially in the north and south people our province is and those charges have not been included in today's conviction so the victims of those charges were still somewhat left out. when it did other views is going forward do you think. i think it's important important message to warlords and active groups because it's the 2 men's flashpoint now been. have been. significant violence as recently as last month in the tourist and so we hope that today's conviction will send a message to those groups that their wills of justice may turn slowly but that
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their bracketing will come and so hopefully to be a deterrent to those engaged in by a violent attacks currently the wheels of justice may turn slowly but they seem to turn more for africa than any other continent a lot of the cases the i.c.c. looks at involve leaders and figures from africa do you think it unfairly targets the continent. that has suddenly been a concern for a long period of time. has been pointed out that most of those who have been prosecuted including people from countries like the democratic republic of congo those countries referred themselves to the i.c.c. have it cannot be denied that all the cases before the i.c.c. except georgia have been from africa and that does not represent the complex map of the world and therefore the i.c.c. itself needs to relook at its case selection to ensure that it is more
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a present of conflicts around the world during this like this help for the broader goals of peace and stability in the d r c. i think they do when absolute impunity when warlords on the ground know that they can. commit the sort of atrocities of both content and was accused into counts of murder attempted rape sexual slavery conscripting child soldiers when they know that they can do that and get away with it obviously that does not help in bringing peace it is when they accountability for crimes in addition to other. things in terms of reconciliation that's when you have a possibility of groups name down arms and coming to the to the peace table. thank you so much for your thoughts on that john jim way
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iran says it's now past the cap of enrich uranium it's allowed on the 2015 nuclear deal the opinion says it seeks train lee concerned by the development the u.n. xah tomic watchdog is investigating the announcement. u.s. president donald trump said earlier to her on will never be allowed to produce a nuclear weapon or shinton is threatening further sanctions following terrans threats to enrich uranium to higher levels of the 3 was the 3rd now the british government says it regrets newspaper legs of memos from britain's ambassador to the us which called the trumpet ministration uniquely dysfunctional clumsy and inept kinda iraq's reported comments triggered an angry response from president donald trump he said
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the ambassador has not served the u.k. well produced foreign secretary jeremy hunt is defending the president's of course we recommend it clear that i don't share the investors' assessment of either the u.s. administration or relations with the u.s. administration but i do defend his right to make that frank assessment and it's very important that our diplomats all over the world continue to be able to do so. more now from jonah hill in london and jonah the u.s. president is not known for taking very well to people who insult him how damaging is this affair proving to u.s. u.k. relations. well i mean that's right what you say it's clearly causing a great deal of embarrassment and there is a scramble on now to try and limit the damage liam fox the international trade secretary's in washington as it happens meeting ivanka trump the president's daughter he's warned of the possibility of damage and says he's going to make
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a full apology to the president via his daughter so clearly the concern is there i think as you mentioned there the real source of concern in terms of damage is the president's personality his nature in that he is a man who's willing to dish out criticism rather less happy to take criticism of the war he will be that he harbors some sort of deep seated grudge or resentment towards the u.k. in future dealings in future decisions but i think the deeper source of concern sammy will be about damage caused potentially to the diplomatic service and in particular to the candle with which ambassadors are required it's their job to report back to their to their government from their positions unique positions in foreign countries allowing the government to be better informed to be able to make better and more sensible decisions and judgments and if this sort of thing creates fear among ambassadors meaning that they become more circumspect and governments become less informed then that might alter the traditional way in which governments
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do business with one another particular in this case of course the u.k. and how it does business at a crucial time now with the rest of the world or an apology though to the president's daughter ivanka trump doesn't sound like the usual diplomatic process to try and patch things up the next tell us a little bit more about that and what the u.k. plans to do try and mend fences. i'm not sure that they're necessarily planning to do more than apologize the ambassador's position of course may come into question at the moment he said to enjoy the full faith and trust of the promise to tourism a that's according to 10 downing street and she rather like the foreign secretary who you heard speaking there has affirmed ambassadors right and indeed their duty to report candidly what they see and what they hear even though she and her ministers keen to stress they don't agree necessarily with mr derrick's views for the moment he'll stay in position for the moment there is
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a full inquiry underway there is talk of criminal charges if indeed the source of this leak is discovered on the basis of breaches of the official secrecy act but for the moment that's met that may well be where it lies.

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