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this week britain's independent economic forecaster said a new deal breaks it would plunge the economy into recession next year and chancellor philip hammond has hinted he'd vote against his own government to stop or no deal scenario was. in some cabinet colleagues rebel going to come of this vote which effectively stops the prime minister suspending parliament to the run up to the brics it deadline at the end of october still the threat remains real for these marches and with an early election a real possibility they want the politicians to listen to the al-jazeera the. plenty more still to come on the news are unclear and i'm wayne hay on the great wall of china built to keep the enemy out we report on some of the challenges facing today's china and what a slowing economy could mean for the communist party. and so we meet some of nicaragua's former sundanese star revolutionaries to find out if they think their country's changed for the better. and in sports the irish machine larry
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hits a course record $63.00 at the open championship but one hands on the famous private jet. the 2 main suspects behind the murder of a turkish diplomat in northern iraq have been arrested on korea accuses the 2 men of killing the region's deputy consul general and see what other people on wednesday it's believed the suspects are members of the armed kurdistan workers party or p k k the group is cost as a terrorist organization by turkey and the u.s. it's going to has more from our bill. kurdish intelligence is confirming that at least 2 members of the team that assassinated a turkish diplomat are in custody they say they have their shooter and he is 27 year old muslim dag and several others or accused of driving to
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a restaurant in erbil on wednesday as turkish diplomat osman corsa and his bodyguard sat inside eating lunch dag is accused of shooting and killing him he also killed allegedly 2 iraqi kurds friends who were sitting at a nearby table kurdish intelligence identified on friday and widely distributed his photo asking the public for assistance according to investigators day had been a member of the p.k. k. and he'd been training at a camp here in northern iraq he allegedly was at this camp 4 times in the last week is also the brother of a member of the turkish parliament representing a pro kurdish party no comment from dag family however the political party released a statement on friday condemning the shootings and saying that this accusation is
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intended to undermine the political parties peaceful agenda. the man who served as libya's prime minister for the last 5 years of dictator moammar gadhafi is rule is being released from prison for medical treatments of broads. was extradited to libya from china zia and 2012 and was sentenced to day and 2015 for crimes against the libyan people authorities say mahmoud needs the care of international specialists but gave no information about his illness. and then so the trade disputes between china and the united states may be a long way off from its concerns china isn't willing to bow to u.s. demands for political and industrial reform talks appeared to stalls despite its the declaration of a truce when the 2 presidents met last month when hey takes a look at china's economic rise and what's at stake for the world's largest country
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. the thousands of years people in china have been gathering around tables trying to outsmart each other in the game of mahjong it's increasingly caught on around other parts of the world to a source of pride for experts in the game teach foreigners visiting the chinese capital beijing this game bring people together you know during this game isn't as to winning but if a player does want to win they need to strategize something china's communist party has done very well to survive and succeed in the late 1970 s. the party changed its strategy of isolation to modernization by opening up to the outside world. by embracing capitalist ideals of business and trade china became the factory of the world with the 2nd largest economy behind its current trade war enemy the united states but economically china is slowing down recording its lowest quarterly growth in 27 years and the world is watching what happens next the great
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wall of china was built primarily to keep invaders out the greatest fear of today's rule is the communist party is of domestic political instability which could lead to their overthrow that's why they know they need to continue to reform and develop the economy to ensure most people have jobs and an opportunity to improve their lives the theory being that as long as it's delivering those things it can run the country largely the way it wants continuing to restrict free speech and stamp out dissent a long the way. if the economy becomes stronger the party has a last incentive to change it will only change we did feel its roots challenged in the opening and the reform process only happened because the economy was collapsing if the economy grows there will think the model is successful with more than one. and it's been able to use that model to become an economic superpower while
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rejecting scrutiny of things like alleged human rights abuses most recently the government denounced 22 nations for signing a letter condemning china for the detention of we give muslims in shin jang province but it embrace to support of letter signed by $37.00 countries including several muslim majority nations that have large economic deals with china. but many chinese believe there's a lack of understanding about this country and its people which leads to what they say is unfair treatment by others particularly the united states they re feel that it'll look at another country the refused to look at another perspective so they only hear what they want to hear china's strategy is to be a modern powerful socialist country it's proved it's a serious player and in some cases is rewriting the rules of the game like wayne hay al jazeera beijing. thousands of supporters of pro china grips have held a rally in hong kong organizers say it was to condemn violent acts steering recent
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process and to show support for hong kong's police but mcbride's reports. in a city more used to protests against its government this day belong to the pro establishment camp thousands turned out for a so-called safeguard hong kong rally calling for unity in a city that's become deeply divided and angered by pro-democracy demonstrators a minority of whom have turned to violence. if you break the law you go to jail they chant. among the government supporters this local business association worried the continuing unrest is hurting hong kong's economy. and we are on people but we've seen on t.v. a lot of people coming out because of the chaos and we need to protect our home we need to create more positive energy but as well as people from hong kong it was
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clear many protesters were being brought in as organized groups from mainland china . still they would argue as a chinese city they have the right to defend it and it's in battled police force accused by protesters of using brutality to break up largely peaceful demonstrations far from using excessive force these people say the police are shown remarkable restraint against hostile demonstrators and have paid a heavy price in terms of officers injured it comes amid reports that morale in the police force is also suffering and on saturday news of a new threat is this standoff continues police show off a cache of weapons they say they seized in a raid on a warehouse unit that included a large quantity of an explosive often used in bomb making along with material linked to the movement opposed to a proposed extradition law that's now been suspended at the moment we're still
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investigating the motive. of that trial fences and whether the explosives what other uses of that explosive we're still investigating with no concrete evidence to prove that it is relating or not relating to the incident the tomorrow he's referring to is sunday which will see another big rally by the pro-democracy groups still angry at what they see is the growing influence from mainland china rob mcbride al jazeera hong kong. japan's governing coalition is on track to win a solid majority in sunday's opera house selection but it's still on clear whether prime minister shinzo will secure the 2 thirds majority needed for a constitutional change that could loosen restrictions on the armed forces of the g 20 last month donald donald trump criticized the u.s. security treaty with japan the u.s. is obliged to go to japan saying it in a crisis but the japanese constitution restricts japan's armed forces from
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insisting it sal eyes a broad's. well joins us now live from tokyo and funny what are based chances of securing that solid victory. most of the balls on the other surveys they're showing that his. partner in the coalition. they are heading for solid majority in this elections they are blessed by the weakness of the opposition and many people are looking for the stability of politics in japan before. power in 2012. was facing something called the revolving door politics. that 6 foreign ministers came to power within 3 years now i've been promising people with the stability this
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is the most important thing here is almost certain to be the. long lasting serving prime minister in japan and another important point is that many of the opposition parties are very weak. literally. in the coalition that you've got a democratic party and his partner they're. almost facing none of the strong parties that they were before. right but he's facing on the now democratic party that constitutional democratic party of japan which are very small in terms of support in terms of members in the parliament. and what will this mean for for for changing the pacifist constitution at a time when the u.s. is seeking more involvement from japan into fences she's. of course many of the main issues in this election is amending the course
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constitution. but i'm so mentioned 44 years now that he wants to change the constitution that was written by the united states during its creation and this was his long life and he's very close to achieving that what he wants now is to get. in the. house of the parliament to be called for and to amend the constitution and all the countries especially the united states which wants to engage more in. more in taking care if we can use this of their asian security indonesian especially you face also the emerging powers of china. wants japan and also to share some of the course of hosting the united states troops in japan which is. the largest bases in.
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so are you the united states would be also very happy to see him. it's going to win these elections with his coalition especially that he has also very close relationships with. they have very good chemistry as they mentioned so the several times they have this personal relationship which also. maintained more of the coalition between the 2 countries with enhanced military cooperation between the 2 countries already mr trump said that he wants his allies indonesia to participate in security. lines transporting or lines through almost straight so they're looking forward to be of course if i do salami and live for us in tokyo thanks very much. still ahead on al-jazeera.
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ricky rezai in the valley in cry of protesters in puerto rico we'll tell you why they want their governor to go. on to meet the parents in india who say their disabled children are being left behind. i must tell you why this sucks for you to have to wait 11 years to get harriman put mental has come out with peter in sports . well it is sunny no so dry picture across china but the rain is a far more spread than they have been you can see here we have got some areas of land showing through quite a lot of clouds along all of these coastal areas and the rain is a say is still in the full cost but really it's a little bit more sporadic we've got a lot of cloud generally in the picture mostly dry day in hong kong with
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a high the a 33 celsius you that's on sunday all monday little bit cooler still quite humid of course this time of year and we have got a lot of travel you'll see the rain is not really focusing on any one areas that's actually quite good news given that we all still dealing of course with some areas that are under water that we had to the south across into borneo we will see off the new shots and thunderstorms faily good there the last few hours but the rain is ramping up really out towards the west across some in a plain sailor also thailand vietnam cambodia you can't really see much land mass there there's a lot of cloud and also the rain is really quite spread as we head into monday so much of it care 30 celsius in singapore $34.00 degrees few in kuala lumpur then we head towards india now the warnings at the moment for the monsoon rains actually across the south and the southwest carola states some very heavy rains in the forecast we have the monsoon rains elsewhere it's been easing off those you have through sunday and monday and a hot day again in new delhi with a high of 35. the weather sponsored by qatar is.
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a conflict that is now considered to be the world's worst humanitarian crisis how many did not all have to die this stock is hearts is on a really for sale and investigation into how billions of euros are made from supplying arms to saudi arabia a leader of the coalition fighting a war in the south the case is interesting to watch the amount of money involved yemen war profiteers coming soon every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories is maximum jail term has jumped from 5 years to 175 years during the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media donald trump shouldn't be the one deciding who is a journalist and who isn't and focus on how they would call it on the stories that matter the most they will cause for a cause or to look at the tire shut down both international and domestic news
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coverage on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera remind all the top stories this hour. the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt says warning of dangers to international shipping after a british like tanker was seized in the strait of hormuz ons called it's a hostile act and is expected to announce further measures against iran on monday. position weighs on german airline move tons i have suspended flight suit egypt's capital cairo citing security concerns the be a suspension the last 7 days their line has. given no details as to what's prompted
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the move. thousands of people have rallied it's in london and a march against leaving the european union hands the man to become the next prime minister organizers say they want to send a pro europe message to boris johnson. well let's get more background there on our top story that escalating tension in the gulf friday's seizure of the british foreign tanker fulls weeks of high profile in sanaa tional incidence there were may 13th for oil tankers were damaged by explosions off the coast of the u.a.e. the united states accused iran of sabotage in iran strongly denies a month later it happens again to tankers were reportedly targeted in the gulf of oman an iranian vessel rescued the cruise but the u.s. accuse the rain ians of attaching mines to the ships just 6 days later iran shot down a u.s. drone that it says violated its airspace the u.s. says the drone was over international waters or july 4th british marines seized the
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iranian tanker of gibraltar in the western mediterranean britain says the ship was carrying oil to syria in violation of sanctions the iranians called it piracy on july 10th the british navy chased away 3 iranian vessels it says were threatening a british tanker and then on thursday the u.s. claimed it shot down a rainy and drawn threatening one of its warships in the region iran denies these claims the next day iran's revolutionary guard sees the u.k. flagged stana imperial saying it merit violates its maritime law as well iran says it was simply up holding international maritime law when it sees the vessel door search has more from to her on. their winnings have said that those tanker had turned off the tracking devices and it was not responding to any communications that were trying to be made with the crew on board the iranian society decided to
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seize this vessel because they said it was traveling in the wrong maritime direction and also it was not responding to any of the calls they seize this vessel and took it to the nearby support city of bandar pass where the 23 crew members are now still there waiting to be questioned by the authorities the foreign ministers of arteries as also commented saying that this is a very very different incident the revolutionary guard was simply upholding international maritime law by seizing this vessel and it is not comparable to what the british navy did in the strait of gibraltar by seizing the iranian oil tanker grace one on july 4th the foreign minister has stressed that the ship will have to go through the proper legal channels in iran before it can be released iran's foreign minister job as aris is blaming the u.s. for increasing tension in the gulf region and beyond a new wave stream one sided adventurism from the united states is the main theme of
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the challenge that we all face in one way or another is undermining the rule of law at the international level that's threatening peace and stability all around the world in different ways. a funeral is being held and yemen's capital for journalists who was killed in the latest rounds of saturday you either led airstrikes said the media say coalition jet fighters targeted military camps across santa destroying air defenses and missile storage sites it follows a series of drone attacks from yemen rebels targeting airports in the south of saudi arabia. make regular governing sons any step arcee is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the revolution that toppled dictator on a standstill somoza it made ripples around the world and was a claimed by many but amid a brutal crackdown against the opposition there are questions about what that revolution has actually achieved john homan has more. this week 40 years ago in the
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can i take to the young sandinista rebels toppled him at the chance to remake the country that lofty ideals education and health care for and then to crippling inequality and to the brutality of the outgoing regime 40 years later we're asking some of those who took part in that revolution how things have turned out as a young man colors brown is was a senior sandinista commander but now in his sixty's he's just spent 11 months in prison after protesting against form a comrade and now president daniel ortega. bernie says that he's become what they feel again still see there's a slogan why i'm going to you there's no sector that hasn't been attacked for its political position so we've gone backwards in journalism in social and economic order it's an imperial aggressive punitive government. and the repression is get worse it's mass protests began last year hundreds arrested civil society groups and pressure down tens of thousands fleeing to neighboring costa rica it's
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a far cry from the hope of a 15 year old whole subpoena behala fell when she joined the sundanese to successful literacy crusade teaching those in remote areas to read. but off to be original advances she says education's been hijacked for political gain and get on parole am i going to be think the whole year now the big problem is that successive governments in the revolutionary war and those who came after up to the president try to use education to get their political ideas across to change the story today evolution and 2 minutes. help for the country's poor has also been tight political patronage but here the sundanese to government has achieved more says next up and daniel vice minister of planning in the early years and now a noted economist or not said it on the air this government has been as close with the poor as the previous 3 governments were with the rich that's very clear and it was aided by something that doesn't exist now the oil funds from venezuela 40
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percent of those loans went towards reducing poverty. with the lowest drying up in the current political turmoil fuelling an economic crisis of a dozen uses those of pulses against poverty are being paid back not all of the famous or successes of the last 40 years can be tied to the sandinista front there have been 3 other of ministrations between their times in power but the growing authoritarianism and the brutal crackdown on protests with all that's brought with it has to be laid squarely at that school. question is if that rather than the early tribes will in the end define the sound of the street don't hold it out does it or when our. there's been noisy protests in puerto rico where crowds are refusing to give up their demands for the governor to resign. tens of thousands of people have rallied since controversal messages the scene
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because of the silence his aides who leaked. the chat so the knockings women the disabled and fixin's of hurricane leah cabral i was on the has more nights. from san juan. i'm here in the heart of the old city of san juan puerto rico and normally this is filled with tourists but now it's something different you're seeing the signs your of all of the shops and now this is the sign of the times ricky is the new ricky resign it says that's in reference to the governor ricardo rossi you know people want him out of office tourists not here right now we're mostly seeing protests year this is the heart of where the protests have been happening just about a walk down in that direction this love for tennis or the governor's mansion and that's where the embattled governor has been holed up now for over a week what's happening here is one of several protests we've seen throughout the last several days there banging on pots and pans demanding that the governor step
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down this is what some people had to tell us what we as a as a nation are demanding him that he needs to step down so we just want to help we talk of this the option i mean like this is been happening like when many many other governments to now with higher by what is going on right now like we the people are tired so we want him to resign so far the governor has been defined he says he will not step down however the street protesters say they will not back down either and they plan to stay here there's another huge protest planned for monday where organizers say they hope to get hundreds of thousands of people back out on the streets. ukraine's the president is facing his 1st major test as bosso sets the polls on sunday for a snap parliamentary election voters the landscape dismissed parliament 3 months ago after he won a landslide victory form a comedian is seeking
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a strong mandate for his party so he can deliver on his pledge to implement reforms and tackle corruption. several 1000 people from both near and across europe have met for the burial of 86 false innocence nearly 3 decades after they were killed most of the victims were from warrior attention camps and had thought they were being released in a prisoner exchange but they were driven to the core of county cliffs and shot by boston serb forces in 1992 the $200.00 bodies which included bosnian croat it's only found last year under piles of rocks. the vatican has begun a new search in the hope of solving the mystery of a teenage girl he disappeared 36 years ago experts are examining chambers at the vatican's pontifical tonic college following a tip off that emmanuel or landis' remains may be buried there she was 15 when she
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vanished on her way home from flint lesson in broome in 1983. ok process because of bones have been passably that's the point where it thousands of bugs i can't say for 2000 or 2000 but they're really a lot. of bones are the remains of a few dozen people there are long small bones you have to imagine that it's not an catalogued collection of close to part of a subject they all piled up inside a cavity. parents in india say disabled children are being left behind despite the introduction of laws meant to help loads of elements millions are so deprived of the most basic education and the stigma that comes with disability is holding them back even further shallow bellus reports. ashi yard of his just started treatment for cerebral palsy her mother manager brings her to this clinic in new delhi to improve her function she wants to she to live
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a normal life but doubts in india it's possible to mourn with them society doesn't like children with special needs i always face discrimination against my child when i take her outside because she can't walk or speak properly. a she has one of nearly a 1000000 children living in india with a disability the u.n. report discovered that 3 quarters of disabled children at the age of 5 among quarter of all disabled children are not in school there are fewer girls with disabilities or more old them boys parents worry their children are being forgotten . actually and lot needs to be done in the city because. after are going to get up there should be a support system by the garment. inside this is one of those such as the government has implemented laws to protect the disabled reserving 5 percent of places in higher education and 4 percent of jobs for policing that is difficult with the
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stigma of disability survey sieve in society one of the biggest challenge has been to remove stigma prejudice and you know how not to treat them differently and look at that they have tremendous potential. to sort of learn numeracy literacy and not to be left to be very. was an inclusion starts with parents and teachers according to the u.n. report the she has that support now 4 years old but providing her with an inclusive education and work life will be a challenge. out as there. at least 39 people have died as a result of the monsoon rains and flooding in northeast india and millions of others have been forced from their homes wildlife is also at risk in india's part of the largest population of the protected one horn's indian why no more than 100 animals have died the tour gave me reports. marooned on what looks like an island
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these one honed rhinos in buffalo have no choice but to wait for the floodwaters to recede they've taken refuge on one of 33 artificial highlands built 3 years ago at catherine national park they almost certainly would not have survived otherwise. i wouldn't do thanks to a concert that i wanted to last year out of your concert at around 1000 kilometers or the 3rd or. so it's basically something about. this baby rhino didn't get to higher land in time to escape the flood water instead after numerous attempts a rescue team succeeded in dragging the panicked cough to safety catherine the national park is home to several protected and endangered species but it's the conservation success of the one honed indian rhino that turned this park into
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a world heritage site. but the animals still face 2 big threats the annual months in floods and poaches the park has 199 and watch towers most of which are currently surrounded by floodwater ranges a working round the clock where the poaches may take advantage of the diet conditions to launch more attacks. and to take care we've been very vigilant we keep a close eye on the animals day and night i'm expecting more poachers to come now because they take more chances during the rains india rhinos were once close to extinction today there are nearly 3000 and can. the renga is home to more than 80 percent of them the demand for rhino horns in neighboring south east asia remains a huge threat as do the monsoon rains victoria gave him be algis there are. still to come on al-jazeera peter will be here with all the day's sports including action for we world surf league.
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