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talking about their city antonio when we talk about scarcity i want to bring this to you because this is a former guest of the show this is talib kweli who tweeted august 6th this is inexcusable inexcusable you should be ashamed of yourselves for creating a hate cult that leads to anti-black tweets like this and he he tags you in this tweet here would you say to people that say this is anti immigration rhetoric and this is true anti-black rhetoric that you guys should have never put something on the screen that this is trash it's basically a statement against black voters and black people in america basically saying the same things that other governments do inside of their citizenship if you look at the good mean citizenship basically they set it up where they don't have to do this or it's already like preset into the citizenship that you get certain benefits from being there and we having a long lineage there that's not the case in america birthright citizenship came through slowly and was basically given to everyone and that's what we're at now i don't know what i will so i'm going to have to leave it that way at the very end of
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watching off their allies more headquarters here and harms the whole robin coming up in the next 30 minutes venezuela accuses the u.s. of economic terrorism following new financial sanctions aimed at president nicolas maduro stuff from an. america is open for business. as a trade war turns into a currency dispute donald trump says the u.s. is benefiting from his battle with china. and the u.s. president gets ready to join people grieving after you but some say he's not welcome. welcome to the program pakistan says it will put maximum pressure on india over its decision to strip indian administered kashmir of its all to. army prime minister imran khan called for international intervention following india's moves to change the status of the disputed region as a bit of it begins our coverage. in pakistan administered kashmir.
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our fight will continue that's the message from these protesters in was in pakistan administered kashmir if you 100 gathered towards the anger against the indian government's decision to abolish its special status of the himalayan region disputed. me you are. my appeal to the united nations to resolve this issue immediately otherwise we will go there to win freedom for our brothers. you have. members of pakistan's parliament in islamabad voiced 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 the g.o.p. steps in line with the racist ideology. you took
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a little break here you. yank election 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 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 bikes money 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 decade to go. nuclear armed pakistan and india have fought multiple wars over the
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territorial dispute there are fears that this latest move from india could provoke another. way down to 0. like a standard minister to schmear well that's the view from pakistan but the decision to remove indian administered kashmir is autonomous status has received widespread support in india's parliament has more from new delhi. for the 1st time in decades here allow the 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 supposed to hold back. what shall we get what is a home. court what shall we. and all shall do in the city
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of the who look after us and who is going to be a god part of. india's home minister let tuesday start for change in the lower house of parliament with a bill passed easily thanks to the government's majority and support from the 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 take it on india. whatever your religion or kill 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 india to mr kashmir without much success my main guns on that my parents even ok like they haven't
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i don't know they've been alive for me. not knowing what they're going to. say it. so i know what are the problems but this is the highest this is the worst kind of situation that is happening now. as many worry about their families in kashmir being cut off others are dreaming of a new beginning their fez jamil al jazeera new delhi. but one of india's best known female politicians the former foreign minister. has died so raja served as foreign minister for 5 years she did not join prime minister narendra modi's prime minister modi's cabinet in may for health reasons soraya was known for having unwavering support for indians overseas she had a kidney transplant in 2016 but died of a heart attack. the u.s. tough new sanctions will cut off funding for venezuela's president the u.s.
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is frozen but is waiving government asserts blocking all american companies and individuals from doing business with nicholas murderous government supporters trees a boat has more from caracas. long lines in front of the peruvian consulate in caracas most of those who come here are desperate to leave the country. is a retired engineer she has been waiting for months to get an appointment because she says she cannot continue living year. 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 mario when years are frequent in venezuela these days as the country struggles with an economic crisis that has forced a millions out of the country for the united states and dozens of other countries worldwide who are meeting in lima peru to finish its political and economic change
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the united states and venezuela have 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 care act after and announced harsher economic sanctions to go out of office in the past the u.s. imposed sanctions on venezuelan individuals linked to my government and don't believe venice were 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 us and banning u.s. companies from doing business in this country so basically one way to summarize this is to a business for. sample 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
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for their u.s. based european wherever they need to be to the boards of directors and 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 the government and the opposition are holding talks in by bagels to try to find a way out of the crisis but in the end though we are acting on old necessary battlefronts to achieve a solution to the crisis which is what all been insulin's 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 is located. it is hypocritical to say that these so-called sanctions
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that these executive orders protect the purchases of 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 men to the crisis can't come soon enough. u.s. president. fears of a protracted trade war with china he says investment is flooding into america the economy is strong the comments today after the u.s. treasury accused china of currency manipulation a white house correspondent kelly holcomb. 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 us
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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. farmers but on twitter president trump argued 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 feared to tread and i think part of that has to be trade. with
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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. like soybeans and pork to china and we hope to see fewer acts like this which serves no one's interest we also hope the us sticks to the facts and solves the us 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 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. robots call it has a senior international economist top the economic policy institute he says beijing is waiting to see if it can get a better deal with the u.s. after the 20 twentieth's presidential election. but i don't think that these talks are going to be reaching a conclusion any time soon chinese cited that they can't. treat trump as
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a remarkable bargaining partner and they appear to be settling and to wait him out they know the election is going to be taking taking place in about 16 months and they're willing to wait to see what happens and see if they can get a better deal but i think it's important not to overstate the importance of this trade dispute. certainly that china is dependent on exports to the united states but they have played their ace in the hole by lowering the value of their currency is to some extent offsets the tariffs trump has imposed it lowers the price of china's exports american consumers are going to feel the bite and the prices are going to go up somewhat it may lower the rate of growth of g.d.p. by a few tenths of a percent i don't think that's enough to pitch the u.s. into recession who will be hurt who will be hurt are multinational companies doing
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business in china so that's why you're seeing it reflected in a sharp fall in the stock stock market here in the us. well still ahead here all elves are outraged after pictures of 2 texas policemen on horseback leading a hunk of 2 black man down a road by rope. on the death of a nobel laureate we look back at the life and champion of black america still to come here. hello there mostly fine and dry across much of the middle east we have a. cross into pakistan. but there's a few more on the cause what we've also been saying is some pretty strong winds particularly working the way southwards across much of iraq but not holding things
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out of course not not this time of year 46 celsius in kuwait city 45 in baghdad on wednesday and as we head off into thursday you can see time which is really not changing a great deal but we certainly got still those winds coming from the north and it is also on thursday we could see some scattered showers. across areas of pakistan $33.00 in caracas shape and we had down towards the arabian peninsula those winds at doing the job a good job of at least a levy on the humidity into doha $45.00 degrees celsius 38 across into abu dhabi but even on she'll fly over the next couple days into southern sections of oman so this could also produce one of 2 showers very light the across into and then in southern africa wednesday is the day for the showers but they do carry away from cape town so by thursday it's actually going to really be a dry picture a little bit cooler 13 degrees in cape town in the wake of that system and then we could see 23 and been on thursday and again here and on shore flow so we could see
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some showers. bigger and potentially more dangerous that's the best way to describe what's happening with a smoking alternative known as vapor i enjoy the taste of it and. i was hoping those between 20132014 alone we start tripling in use among us high school students and head to head. first is conventional 6 which one do you think has helped my opinion i think they're both dangerous take no one else is the.
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welcome back you're watching officer of means the whole rovna reminder of our top stories. it will use maximum pressure on india after new delhi's decision to strip indian administered kashmir of its ptolemy pakistani prime minister in one car has warned the situation could lead to a regional war. the u.s. says new sanctions against venezuela will cut off financing for president nicolas maduro america has frozen all venezuelan government assets blocking us companies and individuals from doing business with a ministration. president trump shrugged off fears of a protracted trade war with china washington accused china of being a currency manipulator after the one fell to its lowest value in more than a decade. while staying with the us a police chief in the u.s. state of texas has apologized after 2 white officers on horseback let
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a black man handcuffed down the street by rope photos of the arrests have sparked widespread outrage galveston's police chief says his officers showed. judgment and should have waited for a transport units well in a statement the chief called it an unnecessary and barrister into the detainee but he also called the offices actions a trained technique and best practice in some scenarios where he added that the officers had nobilities intent and that it won't happen again she had returned see smalls in 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 term that is how attach a rope to the handcuffs and then leaving for 2 blocks by horseback be police say
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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's nothing malicious about it as far as we know no disciplinary action is being taken against the officers but 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 more 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 the not mentally ill person there's a lot to unpack in this photograph at this particular time that's not to say it's
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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. now the f.b.i. will investigate a mass shooting in the u.s. state of ohio saying that the gunman had an interest in violent ideology investigators will try to find out what influenced 24 year old cole abets to open fire in a popular nightlife area in dayton on sunday he was wearing body armor and killed 9 people including his sister in about 30 seconds the f.b.i. will also investigated anyone who helped him or knew of his plan we have uncovered evidence throughout the course of our investigation that the shooter was exploring violent ideologies and based upon this evidence were initially initiating an f.b.i. investigation side by side with the dayton police homicide investigation to make sure we get to the bottom and we explore everything and we are trying to understand the best we can why this horrific attack happened survivors from the mass shooting
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in el paso all speaking about their experience president trump prepares to visit the city in texas but there are mixed feelings about trump's trip rob reynolds reports from el paso. in el paso each day brings new stories of courage under fire eduardo mayor is only 9 years old but on saturday he likely saved his mother's life the moma in wal-mart a person started shooting my mom friends she couldn't move so i grabbed her hand and we ran outside and hid behind a truck on tonioli zahra day came face to face with the gunman and was shot in the foot at the list my nephew had a funny. old put the details put to use. for going which. in that whole nobody ever told me. 3 people president trump plans to visit el paso as well as dayton ohio on wednesday the local democratic party chairwoman has
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a message for him stay away unless you tell me to acknowledge that his language played a part in just having been witness to this massacre on saturday i don't think that there's any need for him to tom and i think people optional only posit morgana just 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 u.s. and grinned at a rally when a supporter suggested shooting migrants holding says trump's words matter his language house consequences and we saw what those consequences would be that he said bomb. immigrants aren't invaders and that's the exact same language that the shooter used in homes i say that he wrote explaining his reasons for coming so
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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 chuck 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 republican party chairman says trump's words are not racist and that he is welcome you know past i think the president 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 al-jazeera el paso they wanted states as warm turkey is willing to
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prevent a unilateral incursion into syria saying much such a move would be unacceptable it comes as the turkish president recipe the one announced that he would send troops about 30 to 40 kilometers east of the euphrates river which is now controlled by the kurdish white peachy now the white peachy is a u.s. ally in the battle against isilon is considered a terrorist group but ankara one said that he was losing patience with washington over setting up a so-called safe zone in the area in northern syria. surely. it's or a top priority to train the terrorist one in northern syria turkey cannot feel safe as long as a 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 we would have to do it tomorrow by paying a bigger cost god willing we will bring our operation so a different face very soon. to his ears the biggest party in that it will run
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a candidate in next month's presidential elections is the 1st time another has contested the presidency since the arab spring revolution of 2011 and the party has nominated its vice president abdel fattah to the announcement follows the deaths last month the president said see. protesters have rallied for another day and hold call police have made several arrests and pushed back crowds that were blocking traffic trying as government described the protesters as fugs and promised to punish any violence well the protests are threatening hong kong's reputation for stability and that's having an economic cost as under thomas reports. in calling monday's strike protesters in hong kong directly targeting the territories economy to make their political points but the protests which started in june have already been having a financial impact. shoppers are staying away. retail
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revenues in june were down 7 percent year on year figures for july and august are expected to show much bigger drop still. business is terrible terrible people have lost the desire to spend tourists who are missing especially those from mainland china home and. mainlanders like us afraid to run in to protest i won't be rushing back i right away or quite down tourists losing confidence in hong kong it's one thing. but if international credit rating agencies do too that could be disastrous. cantin will escalate. and become uncontrollable then that will have significant impact on hong kong's credit rating hong kong's current credit rating scores a similar to those of the united states there are a lot better than mainland china's because hong kong is seen as economically and
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legally independent the process could mean a downgrade either because they make hong kong a more difficult place to do business or because evidence of beijing asserting itself would undermine the independence that many consider makes hong kong special a downgrade would mean hong kong's government and any firm listed here pays nor to borrow. hong kong's economy was already sluggish weighed down by the us china trade war and sky high house prices were beginning to dip property and move away. and you can expect from that impact of the political instability so. many people are willing to enter the market in this kind of situation the protests could tip hong kong into recession it's too soon to know the full impact of the protests economic data takes a month or more to feed through and who knows whether the chaotic scenes here have reached their climax or going to get worse but what has been lost already is hong
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kong's reputation for stability that will have a cost even if it's unclear yet how great that cost will be andrew thomas al-jazeera hong kong. the nobel literature prize winner toni morrison has died at the age of 88 in new york. at the author's life and her work. 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 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
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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 was a bestselling author many times over but as she noted in a recent documentary her work was also feared says the connections. because of my insight and i thought come post said that. 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
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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 and 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.
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you're watching it is there of me said the reminder of all top stories pakistan says it will use maximum pressure on india after new delhi's decision to strip indian administered kashmir of its all told me the pakistani prime minister iran com has warned the situation could lead to a regional war was such that all united india went against the 17 resolutions of the united nations security council they 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. says new sanctions against that is where they will cut off financing for president nicolas maduro america has frozen all venezuelan government assets blocking u.s. companies and individuals from doing business with but the government. president trump has taken a very strong move here imposing these sweeping sanctions putting a full block a full freeze on all assets of all parts of the government of venezuela in the u.s.
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and also imposing sanctions are setting up the. situation to impose sanctions on any person or business that got a significant business with the government of venezuela so this goes well beyond anything we've done before and it really is a very strong move by the president u.s. president. to trade will.

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