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it's a little. fighting talk anger in pakistan against in the is decision to revoke your special status. hello and welcome to al-jazeera live from our headquarters in doha with me and is the problem also ahead venezuela accuses the u.s. of economic terrorism following new financial sanctions aimed at president nicolas maduro his government. is open for business. as a trade for turns into
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a currency dispute donald trump says the u.s. is benefiting from its battle with china. and outraged after pictures emerged of 2 texas policeman on horseback leading a handcuffed black man down a road by a road. pakistan says it will put maximum pressure on india over its decision to strip indian administered kashmir of its autonomy promise to iran concorde for international intervention following india's moves to change the status of the disputed region asama been java begins our coverage from was offered a bargain pakistan administered kashmir as. our fight will continue that's the message from these protesters and in pakistan administered kashmir if you 100 gathered towards the anger against the government. decision to abolish its
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special status of kashmir the himalayan region disputed the sun. may you are no good don't kiss my appeal to the united nations to resolve this issue immediately otherwise we will go there to win freedom for our brothers. my opinion is to all muslims that if you have faith come out of your homes and stand with us members of pakistan's parliament in his normal voice their anger at india's decision to revoke autonomy and privileges for the contested muslim majority region prime minister announced on predicted that india will crack down even harder on the people he fears ethnic cleansing and called the ruling b.g.p. steps in line with the racist ideology. you took a little break here you. yank election the manifesto this is not a decision that b j p have taken out of the blue it was part of their election manifesto all along it is in fact ingrained in their ideology to put him above all
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other religions and seeks to establish a state that represses all other religious groups. it was a heated parliamentary session where the leader of the opposition says that pakistan has 2 choices now either to hide or take decisive action but people on both sides of the line of control of heard fiery speeches before the feeling here is their bread and and not knowing what is happening beyond these mountains in the indian administered side of the schmear remains cut off from the outside world pakistan's military leaders say they will go to any extent to fulfill their obligation to the kashmiri people on the army spokesman tweeted pakistan never recognize the indian efforts to be legalised to talk oppression of jammu and kashmir through article 370 or 35 a decades ago. and india have fought multiple wars over the territorial dispute there are fears that this latest move from india could provoke another. artist on administered kashmir well that is the view
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from pakistan but the decision to remove. or tone of the status has received widespread support. says to me it has more from new delhi. for the 1st time in decades here allow the arena feeling optimistic because schmear hindu fled with his family from indeed administered kashmir in 1990 because of religious violence he's pleased with the indian government's decision to revoke the region's autonomy under article 370 but has his concerns if we are we are supposed to go back. well i deserve a home. what shall we. and shall do in the city of the. who would look after us and who wouldn't be a god part of. india's home minister let tuesday's charge for change in the lower house of parliament with a bill passed easily thanks to the government's majority and support from the
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opposition members but many members of parliament say support for india in the kashmir valley has dried up following the government's revoking of the region's autonomy and splitting it into 2 federal territories even those who politically supported the indian government in the region are now lashing out this is not india that i believe. there is a democratic india taking on india. whatever your religion because your region. the students studying in your new delhi are worried they've been scrambling to find a way to contact their families and friends in indeed in mr kashmir without much success i mean guns on that my parents even ok like they haven't i don't know if they've been alive. or not knowing what they're going to do. so i know what are the problems but this is the highest this is the worst kind of
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situation that is happening because. as many worry about their families in kashmir being cut off others are dreaming of a new beginning their fares jamil al jazeera you delhi michael cook as deputy director and senior associate for south asia at the wilson center and he says that new delhi his decision as on democratic. there is a very strong sentiment in favor of independence so many of these people have suffered for so long thanks to the very heavy handed and brutal tactics of indian security forces the last thing that these people want is to be formally integrated with an indian state that they so despise so clearly and india knew that this was going to be a very risky move it would not have walked down the entire region if it didn't think that there would be unrest that could break out once this decision had been taken i would argue that this move by india could even spark a new phase of insurgency in kashmir so you know i think that that suggests to me
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that the indians will try to drag out this this lockdown i imagine are going to be a no media rush to ease its grip on the region of course even if it were to remove the lock down and ease its grip on cashmere as you know the indian security forces are always there so it may be very difficult for these kashmiris to express their or their discontent which of course will only sharpen their grievances that they harbor toward the indian state. let's move on to other news now the u.s. has tough new sanctions will cut off money for venezuela's president the u.s. has venezuelan government assets blocking all american companies and individuals from doing business with the mother little's government and its supporters tori's about reports from caracas. thank you long lines in front of the peruvian consulate in contact us most of those who come here are desperate to leave the country. is every tired engineer she has been waiting for months to get an appointment because
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she says she cannot continue living here one of them when they had a history that i have a pension of 40000 bolivar's that i can buy 2 kilos of cheese my son is in peru and i'm going to live with him but i cannot get their. stories like my as i frequent in venezuela these days as the country struggles with an economic crisis that has forced a mill. ians out of the country for the united states and dozens of other countries worldwide who are meeting in the map to venezuela needs political and economic change the united states from venezuela have a historically had a strong bilateral relationship but that relationship started to deteriorate 20 years ago when socialist leader over travis took office and denounced what he called the united states' interference in this country in the past month the situation has escalated even further the united states shut down its embassy here in cairo act after and announced harsher economic sanctions to mother would go out of office in the past the u.s.
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imposed sanctions on venezuelan individuals linked to model the us government and. venice way less state oil company accusing them of serious human rights abuses drug trafficking and corruption now they're taking things further by seizing venezuelan assets in the u.s. and banning u.s. companies from doing business in this country so basically one way to summarize this to a business for example is do you want to do business in venezuela or do you want to do business with the united states and i think for any international corporation for their u.s. based european wherever they may be to the boards of directors shareholders they ought to be asking their management if it's worth risking for a trickle of income from the illegitimately dural government if it's worth risking their business in the united states if the government and the opposition are holding talks in barbados to try to find
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a way out of the crisis but in the end we are acting on old makes a serious battlefronts to achieve a solution to the crisis which is what all been in the islands want the kingdom of norway's mechanism continues because what we are generating are the conditions for a real solution to the crisis but the government says that the latest sanctions are a full economic embargo and. blames the us for the consequences it will have on the population. it is hypocritical to say that these so-called saying that these executive orders protect the purchases the medicines because it is only possible to buy them through transaction banks you have to pay for it but you can't because you can't use the international financial system but for the thousands of people who continue to struggle to find a way to survive and then to the crisis can't come soon enough. i just got i guess . a police chief in the u.s. state of texas has apologized after to watch officers on horseback led
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a black handcuffed man down a street by a rope photos of the arrest have sparked widespread outrage galveston's police chief says his officers showed poor judgment and should have waited for a transport unit and a statement to the chief called it an unnecessary embarrassment for the detainee but he also called the officers actions a train technique and best practice in some scenarios he added that the officers had no malicious intent and that it won't happen again shihab rattansi has more from washington d.c. . 43 year old donal neely is bipolar he's homeless he's had several run ins with the police they know he's mentally ill in fact his family have been looking for him for some time to try and bring him back home he was arrested for criminal trespass on saturday and it was decided by the officers that this was the best way to deal with him because there wasn't a vehicle to transport or that is how attach
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a rope to the handcuffs and then leaving for 2 blocks by horseback be police say this is a normal routine measure that they use in volatile situations crowd control for example but of course this wasn't a volatile situation and now we have this apology from the police who say that they realize the mistake was made that the officers they showed poor judgment but but the police chief says that as far as he's concerned there is nothing malicious about it as far as we know no disciplinary action is being taken against the officers but the time of heightened discussion about how white supremacy imbues us society at a time when we've long been looking at how the police deal with both african-americans and actually the mentally ill black people who are likely to be killed by the by police officers than white in fact a study came out just on monday from the national academy of sciences a black man has a one in 1000 chance of being killed by a police officer the mentally ill have a 16 times more likely chance of being killed by a police officer than an old mentally ill person there's
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a lot to unpack in this photograph at this particular time that's not to say it's necessarily anything out of the ordinary but the difference is in this day and age these images go viral and that discussion then can ensue. still ahead on the bulletin the united nations refugee agency says a new italian your targeting migrant rescue ships could endanger lives and the death of a nobel laureate to put it back at the life of an author and champion of black america. hello there we're still watching this tropical storm a kima it is still way off taiwan but it is heading in that general direction i can see this massive cloud on the satellite we've got a little rain still into manila and then across towards the east this is what we're
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watching this tropical storm now what will generally happen is as this storm actually continues its journey up towards taiwan it will begin to pull some of this moisture away from luzon so some a double edge sword that with this system it will produce some very heavy rains some strong damaging winds as it heads towards taipei but it should begin to ease things a little bit across into use on a fine day in hong kong with 34 degrees celsius further to the south the rain again is staying away from borneo we've got it all is to say being pulled up towards the philippines it's all part of the monsoonal flow and you can see here the direction of the arrows where that rain is going in fact where it's also coming from so another what does this say into manila we've also got more rain across into bangkok and also here in and that's where the rain will stay really as we head on into thursday as well no real change we might actually become a dry days by the end of the week into poland for the high the of 32 degrees celsius india it is the same story very heavy rains particularly across central
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regions so temperatures 27 but with that comes those strong thunderstorms. the weather sponsored by qatar is. a conflict that is now considered to be the world's worst humanitarian crisis how many would have to die if this stock is. 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 but. the amount of money involved yemen war profiteers on al-jazeera.
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on the problem and with the top stories on al-jazeera pakistan says u.s. maximum pressure on india after new delhi his decision to strip the ended administered kashmir of its autonomy province to amman can has warned the situation could lead to a regional war. the us says new sanctions against venezuela will cut off financing for president nicolas maduro and there has frozen all the venezuelan government assets blocking the u.s. companies and individuals from doing business with my daughters that ministration. and a text police chief has apologized after 2 white police officers on horseback led a black handcuffed man down a street by a broad galveston's police chief said his officers showed poor judgment. u.s. president trump has shrugged off areas of a protracted trade war with china he says investment as a flooding into america and that the economy's strong he made the comments and they
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are that u.s. treasury accused china of currency manipulation a white house correspondent company how could reports. a strong economic position that's the claim the trump white house made amid an intensifying trade war turned currency dispute between the united states and china america's job for business america is open for business it's been a week of back and forth between the world's 2 largest economies of monday the u.s. treasury accused china of currency manipulation following a sharp drop in the u.n. against the american dollar for filling a campaign promise made by u.s. president donald trump. the drop comes following more u.s. tariffs on chinese goods last week 10 percent on 300000000000 products effect of september 1st china retaliated announcing its state run companies would stop buying u.s. agricultural products inflicting further strain on u.s.
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farmers but on twitter president trub argues the u.s. is benefiting from the economic tit for tat massive amounts of money from china and other parts of the world is pouring into the united states companies are also coming to the u.s. in big numbers this is a transformative president. who is going in many places where prior presidents and both parties have fear to tread and i think part of that has to be trade. but the trade war has hurt american farmers already the u.s. government has put in place to aid packages to compensate for the billions in lost sales for products like soybeans and pork to china and we hope to see fewer acts like this would serves no one's interests we also hope the us sticks to the for. and solves the u.s. china economic and trade issue more rationally and practically rather than move further along the wrong path that the white house says it's still working with
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china to negotiate what it calls the right deal it expects more talks with beijing in september kimberley health at al-jazeera the white house. survivors from the mass shooting and speaking out about their experience as president trump prepares to visit the city in texas but there are mixed feelings about his trip the congresswoman representing the district has refused an invitation to meet the president should be attending a protest instead rob reynolds reports from and. in el paso each day brings new stories of courage under fire it is only 9 years old but on saturday he likely saved his mother's life. in wal-mart a person started shooting my mom for those she couldn't move so i grabbed her hand and we ran outside and hid behind a truck. on tonioli zora day came face to face with the gunman and was shot in the
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foot at the list my nephew made a funny. with the details but who's. foregoing which. in the whole nobody ever questioned. 3 people president trump plans to visit el paso as well as dayton ohio on wednesday the local democratic party chairwoman has a message for him stay away unless you tell me to acknowledge that his language played a part in still having been witness to this massacre on saturday i don't think that there's any need for him to tom and i think that malaki only cause more damage talking unity if he doesn't trump has made restricting immigration the center of his political platform he has described mexicans as criminals and rapists he referred in obscene terms to countries whose people seek to enter the us and grinned at a rally when
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a supporter suggested shooting migrants holding says trump's words matter his language has consequences and we saw what those consequences would be that he said bad. immigrants aren't invaders and that's the exact same language that the shooter used in his essay that he wrote explaining his reasons for coming out so since the beginning of the year the trump reelection campaign has posted more than 2000 immigration themed ads on facebook using the term invasion university of texas el paso scholar daniel check on says words like that are packed with negative meaning to invade a. country or region is to take it over to dominate it to be invaded by you know by another army is basically what you're saying they want to come in they want to take over they want to take what's ours but the el paso. look at party chairman says trump's words are not racist and that he is welcome yes i think the president
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coming here to show that he's got concern i think is outstanding there's a lot of people in this community that support him certainly many in this city will welcome from with courtesy others however they feel it is he who is invading them rob reynolds el paso. the u.s. has warned turkey that it's willing to prevent any unilateral incursions in syria saying such a move would be unacceptable that comes as turkish president. sent troops to an area east of the euphrates river which is controlled by kurdish y p g fighters where the i p j has been a key u.s. ally in the battle against. considers that a terrorist group at the un says he's losing patience with washington of a setting up a so-called safe zone in the area and northern syria. it's
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our top priority to train the terrorists want in northern syria turkey cannot feel safe as long as the structure in the south which is growing like a cancer cell and is increasing with a heavy weapon itself is not eliminated if we don't do what's needed today he would have to do it tomorrow by paying a bigger cost god willing we will bring our operation different phase very soon. health ministers in the democratic republic of congo have reached an agreement on how to fight the outbreak after michigan on tuesday the ministers agreed to tighten health screening at the border and improve the sharing of information. the united nations and european union have voiced concern about a new italian law targeting charity rescue boats in the mediterranean the law gives the government and more authority to block ships trying to bring migrants ashore alexy o'brien reports. calling for safe harbor the spanish rescue vessel open arms remains off the coast of italy carrying more than 120
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migrants it picked up from the mediterranean sea. italy's refusing to late at dock and is threatening a $50000.00 fine if the captain tries. to go it off but since the italian parliament approved a new law on monday targeting open arms could face a fine of up to $1100000.00. there were protests against the so-called security decree which allows for the arrest of captains who ignore orders to stay out of italian ports and the immediate seizure of their boats the european union says it's analyzing the changes to see if they compatible with e.u. laws while the un's refugee agency warns the decree could put already vulnerable people and even more danger n.g.o.s play an invaluable role in saving the lives of refugees and migrants attempting the dangerous sea crossing to europe their
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commitment and humanity should not be criminalised more stigmatized the decree is seen as a victory for deputy prime minister. and his far right league party he says rescued migrants can only land in italy if an agreement is already in place with other european countries to look after them. in june the german captain of a sea watch rescue ship was briefly detained for breaking an italian naval blockade trying to stop her bringing a group of migrants ashore. italy's one of the main mediterranean entry points for people fleeing conflict and poverty in the middle east and north africa. the u.n. says nearly $4000.00 have landed in italy so far this year after the treacherous crossing. the you've been funding the libyan coast guard to help them turn around migrant boats but the bombings of a migrant detention center in libya last month raised global concern. open arms
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says the people it's rescuing tell stories of rape and other violence in libya for now they remain stuck at sea. and al-jazeera. now ireland's prime minister says bush and will be in the goshi ations with the e.u. for years where the without a deal speaking in belfast leo varadkar said that if there is no deal that issue isn't the withdrawal agreement would still need to be resolved post breaks that the u.k. is due to leave the e.u. a tribe of 31st but britain's parliament is deadlocked over a future relationship with the bloc. this doesn't and on october 31st if there is a deal we're going to get enter into several years of negotiations on a new free trade agreement with the u.k. and a new economic and security partnership if there is no deal then at a certain point we will have to begin negotiations again and 1st items on the
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agenda will be systems rights the financial settlement and the solution to the irish border now space x. has successfully launched a communication satellite aimed at improving broadcast broadband and high speed data across africa the aim all 17 satellite is made by the israeli company space com was launched by a space x. on a falcon 9 rocket 3 years ago another israeli made satellite exploded during a preflight test destroying the company's $200000000.00 satellite. finally this bulletin the not about literature prize went to toni morrison has died at age 88 in new york crossing the jordan looks back on the office life and what she was the 1st african-american to win literatures ultimate prize the nobel in 1903 breaking barriers along the way when i think there can a call for writer. has got to be the nobel prize but what toni morrison
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really did was create space to discuss racism sexual abuse injustice and love through the experiences of african-americans she became a global cultural icon and an inspiration to every would be writer the reason she turned to writing rather than reading and editing is that she saw a literary landscape that had a gap that wasn't telling a story that she wanted herself to read she shared with us lives that had not been previously shared morrison was the ultimate working single mom while raising 2 sons and working as a book editor and professor she published 11 novels 8 books of essays and a series of children's books she won the pulitzer prize in 1988 for beloved a novel about a mother's decision to kill her child so that she would not be enslaved morrison
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was a bestselling author many times over but as she noted in a recent documentary her work was also feared this is the collection. of my insight that's how powerful is it and. as fast as morrison wrote the honors poured in including the presidential medal of freedom in 2012 circumstances may not have been ideal but the words that came out. were magical. toni morrison's prose brings us that kind of moral and emotional intensity that few writers ever attempt from song of solomon to beloved toni reaches us deeply using a tone that is lyrical precise distinct and inclusive she believes that language arcs toward the place where meaning might lie toni morrison always insisted the black experience in america is as universal as every other experience
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as she used the well written well edited word to underscore that point toni morrison author mother icon dead at age 88 roslyn jordan al-jazeera. is a prominent but the headlines on al-jazeera august maximum pressure on an india after new delhi decision to strip ended in the meat of its autonomy promise to iran khan has warned the situation could lead to a regional war. that are united india went against the 17 resolutions of the united nations security council he went against the united nations general assembly resolution and they went against the agreement they have taken a decision in which they want to change the demographics of kashmir. the u.s.
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says new sanctions against venezuela have been cut off financing for president little america has frozen all venezuelan government assets blocking us companies and individuals from doing business with the ministration. us president on trumpet shrugged off a as a protracted trade war with china washington accused china of being a coven see manipulator after the un fell to its lowest value and more than a decade. a police chief has apologized in the u.s. state of texas after 2 white officers on horseback their black handcuffed man down a road by a rope galveston's police chief says his officers showed poor judgment. health ministers in rwanda and the democratic republic of congo have reached an agreement on how to fight the outbreak after meeting and he said me on tuesday that ministers have agreed to tighten health screening at the border and improve the sharing of information. police in hong kong have once again clashed with pro-democracy
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protesters police charged towards demonstrators who surrounded a police station in the city's shanshu reported district china has more protesters not to mistake its restraint for weakness. ireland's prime minister leo varadkar says brushing will be in the goshi ations with the e.u. for years where all without a deal varadkar says if there's no do the issues of citizens' rights the financial settlement and a solution to the irish border would still need to be resolved paused for exit and the world is paying tribute to american author toni morrison who died on monday age 88 marson was the 1st black woman to receive the nobel prize for literature well those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside stories coming up next thank you for watching.
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kind of fueled. by the spread over the internet. followed by killing sprees government and tech companies are coming under mounting russia to take action is that a correct balance between sensitive violent content and maintaining freedom of speech this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. from the weekend's shootings in the united states to the mosque attacks in new zealand and many more besides fell or linked to.

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