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the wall the prisoner and the president who came together to end apartheid in south africa nelson mandela and f.w. de klerk face to face on. protesters calls most flights at the hong kong airport to be canceled for a 2nd day as mainland china styria sconce occurrences live pictures here of the hong kong. this is live from doha coming up. protests in indian controlled areas of kashmir against new delhi's decision to revoke its autonomy fact of the territory. a nuclear mystery in
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russia where a missile test went wrong people are demanding answers. argentina's leader promises to fight back after his defeat in a presidential primary leads to economic turmoil. all outgoing flights have been canceled that hong kong international airport during a 5th day of protests on monday a large demonstration shut down the region's busy hub on kong's chief executive caroline says weeks of anti-government protests are damaging the rule of law she told reporters the city in her words is seriously wounded and she warns hong kong will take a long time to recover the violent demonstrations. monahan
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siple a file and so no matter if it's using violence or condoning violence he pushed hong kong down a path of no return we plunged hong kong society into a very worrying and dangerous situation i believe that those who heard my words previously might have only half believed me but the situation in hong kong in the past week has made me very worried that we have reached this dangerous situation rob mcbride has more from hong kong international airport now where the announcement was made about 15 minutes ago here and we still have passengers arriving there been going past us at about to get some very bad news when they arrive at the check in desk because basically the check in desks are now empty we watched staff about half an hour ago started to basically close up shop with withdrawn from the check in. and yes 80 aircraft that have already checked in and the be across still taking off. passengers all the gas side will be going to sea
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but any craft that had been checked in yet well you won't be able to check in your flight has been canceled the 2nd day running one of the busiest aviation hubs in the world brought to a standstill by the sheer weight of numbers of protesters who turned out there it has to be said the numbers are far less than yesterday monday when we saw tens of thousands of people take over this terminal there have been less stupid people the protesters turning up. scott hyla has more now for us from shen jan in mainland china. so engine here is the gateway from mainland china into hong kong territory behind me there's a railway station there's a bus station there's a way for pedestrians to make their way into hong kong territory now also what's been happening here in engine over the last couple days is quite interesting you know there was state run media that put out video and stills of armored personnel carriers and paramilitary forces gathering here in the city actually an athletic
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field just outside central shenzhen now obviously this sends a message to those who are protesting in hong kong there's this big military force just across the border the central government says they are here for a large exercise that's going to be happening over the next couple days this is coupled with the strengthening of rhetoric also coming out of beijing calling what's happening in some of those protests terrorism and saying that they will crack down with an iron fist but when you talk to people here in mainland china about what's going on in hong kong they have a much different view than those in hong kong they say they're frustrated they're angry and they're also scared we actually talked to some people who are going on their way into hong kong from mainland china here one family was going to hong kong disneyland and they said they're frustrated because they're worried about the safety of their children so obviously a much different view of what's happening in hong kong here in mainland china. has overshadowed the muslim holiday of eden parts of kashmir under indian control hundreds of people protested against new delhi's decision to strip the regions all
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talk to me effectively next in the territory they marched in the capital srinagar defying a security clampdown in place for more than a week priyanka go up to reports from new delhi. it's the 1st time holiday either in st the law to city in india that ministered to me under the tightest security you know week. 10 pres but only mosques. a peaceful protest followed. these cushnie least. are angry at the indian government's decision to reform their autonomy to was on board in order there were 2 days which are festive and sacred and that's 8 but this is not. we're just mourning kashmir. the government says security restrictions are being eased in most areas in general and parts of.
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our policy is greater relaxation and great easing out so that people can come out and greet each other but at the same time we are keeping a watch on the situation if they are any mysterious elements who want to disturb peace we'll be tough with them so. would you. in new delhi me students meet the best of the holiday far away from home d.c. they haven't been able to speak to their families for over a week. to gather for a feast but their minds are on the events unfolding back home. this is the 1st time that you know we have not been able to walk or talk to our parents are important which is not only. not only just really important but culturally important as well we have not been able to speak or might have not spoken to my family for 7. more some chris midis and activists gathered in the heart of the capital determined to
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get their voices heard. there is anger and frustration among these new delhi stunned by the extent of the communication that stopping them from reaching their families especially in the muslim holiday of the government says is a restrictionist a temporary but its impact can be felt on the daily lives of those cut off from the outside world. al-jazeera new delhi. is a senior lecturer in international relations at king's college london he says the ongoing dispute has drawn the attention of the international community if there was an extent what if $947.00 as it has it happened round about partition india did actually annex quite a few of the princely states including the. princely states
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a judge general and and hyderabad kashmir itself was joined india through an instrument of atic station by the hindu maharajah at the time and that of course led to a conflict which eventually led to so of un intervention and call for a plot to never occurred so pakistan is using the term. is i think using it to draw attention to the issue which absolutely needs to needs to have more attention to it i believe that the international community and the un as a sort of embodiment of it would see this is an ongoing. international dispute but also a major. question of concern for the human rights of a particular people their people the question about annexation the question specifically about the united nations is that there are
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a number of acts and un resolutions that the international community and the united nations i think would return to if they want to to start addressing this conflict. argentina's frozen intimately c.e.o. mike lee says he plans to win a 2nd term despite his defeat in sunday's primary vote financial markets reacted strongly after the results with the pair so falling by more than 30 percent against the dollar. has more from one of. the day after his shock overwhelming defeat in primary elections president mackey said he would listen more he appealed to argentina's the patients for his policies to show results his address to the nation came after a day of emergency meetings firstly with the head of the central bank then with his cabinet moment i live in the oh you must to. we've had a very bad day today we're poorer than we were before the primaries we've been hit hard the dollar has gone up again with all the consequences that will have. the
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markets reacted to sunday's result while the government was still reeling the ark in time bay so lost one 3rd of its value against the u.s. dollar in the 1st few hours of trading stocks and shares in both wall street and one osiris took a pounding the argentine electorate has clearly rejected president mackie's near liberal austerity measures while the opposition is offering solutions to argentina's problems but the financial markets are clearly said they don't like. that if the results of sunday's primaries are repeated in october and it would signal a clear 1st round victory for a birthday often and is. his vice presidential running mate is the former president cristina fernandez to kitchener and the markets returned to her populism high spending on social projects and the allegations of corruption that still haunt her . it seems to me that i was in diamonds haven't learned much in all these years i
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think a hard god knows i was going to come back to the government which i think is bad news equally mackley is a bad manager the economy a bad marriage the economy well played a graduate in but didn't walk. you can't believe devoted prefer a criminal a mob and didn't appreciate all the public work that's been done it's been a mad and i'm sad because this can be. the result is resoundingly across latin america the right wing president of neighboring brazil one of the return of a left wing government in argentina could lead to another venezuela. we don't want our rajan time brothers here that would happen if the results of the elections held yesterday are confirmed in the october vote. the size of the argentine government defeat is still being analyzed it is a difficult situation the voters votes was a pocket and the best of votes was runs with the expectation of a konami policy with a little over 2 months until presidential elections the argentine electorate must
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now consider which of to start clear posing economic models will best result of their dire economic difficulties how to 01 of cyrus name is chief market analyst at think markets u.k. he says argentina could be lurching towards a new economic crisis. no one really want is intrusted to hold whether it's a 10 year point or whether it's a one century bond rich argentina has issued is well but remember argentina has a long history with the i.m.f. with 22 previous bailouts as well but what i am half would be very careful they don't want to see yet another app is what they have seen what happened back in 2001 when country came up with it and looked for a bailout of 8000000000 which they did and then still the country had a default because it's very easy to go out and then say ok we're going to do more
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spending we're not going to listen to i.m.f. blah blah blah but in all reality that is not possible because when you are taking money for i.m.f. it comes with certain conditions and i.m.f. does dictate to a large extent how you would really perform with your fiscal policies russia's government says radiation levels in the northwestern city of several advanced spiked by up to 16 times after a rocket engine exploded as a military site the state nuclear company says 5 of its staff were killed in the blast on thursday it caused panic with people buying. medical iodine known to reduce the effects of radiation exposure the blast happened at a naval facility which tests ballistic missiles used by nuclear submarines steadfast and has more from moscow. more and more questions are being raised about what exactly happened last thursday on this test site in the north of russia and
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the area. only now 5 days later it's becoming known that the radiation levels in the city of 7 since near the test site had gone up 16 times more than normal and the highest concentration was measured at a local kindergarten your thought is have been extremely tight lipped about this accident and there's a lot of speculation right now and conspiracy theories going on about what exactly happened and a lot of people remember of course what happened in 1986 when the big china bill accident happened of course it's a very different scale but the same sort of information blackout happened at that time initially it started on thursday with reports that 2 people had died but there was no radiation then the story changed again local authorities said there was radiation but it was only there for a couple of hours and it had gone back to normal then suddenly there was this report that parts of the the white see the debate was closed off for shipping for
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a month then a few days later it became known that actually 5 scientists died during the accident and the authorities down at mit that there was a small nuclear reactor that exploded observers are now speculating that what the russians have been testing was a new sky fall missile which is a nuclear powered and the flight to be put in last year boasted about this missile saying that it could fly from one side of the planet to any other because its nuclear powered donald trump tweeted saying that they are watching this and learning a lot from this accident and saying also that the united states actually has the same technology but more advanced meanwhile a lot of conspiracy theories people are asking questions also there was a blackout of all the state. television on friday for more than half an hour also raising questions that maybe that had something to do with the accident or maybe
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testing something so it's not the same as in 1986 people are more aware now and they really are demanding answers to their questions so the head of al-jazeera immigrants with legal status in the u.s. are under pressure from donald trump's new policies. and weather conditions are likely to deteriorate across much of western japan and that is because we have the next tropical storm on the way just beginning to appear there on the satellite but this is it this is tropical storm krosa right now we've got winds at about 85 kilometers an hour gusting to about 100 kilometers an hour it's not expected to get particularly stronger in the next couple of days but
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wednesday will begin to see the effects of this storm and certainly through thursday that is when is it is expected to push across into western japan q she taking the brunt of this initially some strong winds as i say but really it's going to be about the rains and of course that coming down on some fairly saturated ground it's quite possible we will see some flooding from this possibly even some landslides and it's also a very wet day thursday across much of the korean peninsula so keep a very close on and keep you well updated the rains and all to about across into guangdong province but you will see we have got more rain across into taiwan still into the northern philippines across into luzon but the rains are easing compared to what we've seen lately that she wanted hong kong on thursday and that does come with that the rain then further to the south again we've got a few more showers appearing to cross into northern borneo meanwhile to the far west we've got fairly cloudy skies certainly for singapore and kuala lumpur rain showers probably stay.
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kong international airport for the 2nd day in a row thousands of protestors have occupied the arrivals area for a 5th day. the muslim a holiday it's been marked by demonstrations in areas of kashmir indian control hundreds of protesters defy the security lockdown the city of srinagar 8 days after india revoked the area's autonomy pakistan's government is calling it an illegal annexation and is asking the un to intervene. russia's government says radiation levels in the northwestern city of service once spiked by up to 16 times after a rocket engine exploded at the military site the state nuclear company says 5 of its staff were killed in the blast on thursday. saudi arabia says it's offering full support to yemen's government after sudden separatists took control of the port city of aden crown prince $100.00 been sandman and king sandman met leaders
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from the u.a.e. and yemen the u.a.e. is now urging dialogue this by backing the separatists who launched a major offensive at the weekend the saudi a morality coalition has been fighting yemen's hooty rebels for more than 4 years meanwhile who think rebels say they've launched drone attacks on an airport in saudi arabia international airport is in the south of the country there's been no confirmation of the strikes from the saudi government it's the latest in a series of drone attack. by the who says in the past few months and while all this is going on civilians who have been displaced from their homes in yemen are living in hardship aid is in short supply as hooty rebels and saudi u.a.e. coalition forces continue fighting al jazeera as one of the latter has been following the struggle of a number of families across the country and has this report from santa this year many victims of war are living next to
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a graveyard 1000 kilometers from their homes fighting force them to move south from radar problems to aden but now they face a different poverty and hunger they don't have the money to pay for the most basic commodities. that we consist of 11 families who have fled. we have found no shelter except this gleefully art we are scattered between the graves as we cannot be our shelter. and so the empty plastic bottles which he collects from the streets he says is the only way he can even attempt to provide for his big family. most days we eat and leftover food in the garbage i work all day to collect plastic bottles on the best days or end up with one or $2.00 so we ask for blankets and regular food aid. the united nations says more than 2000000 many families have left their homes since the war began in
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march 20000 here in sunny the south of people are being displaced from their homes is as great as those in aden across the country foreign help has failed to supply enough aid to those needed more asked for years of war has led to our credit is all basic essentials. fled the fighting in a leader for some are his family have taken over this long deserted house his son needs an appreciation to see his right eye but there is no money there but i will have there i flip the wall and who data is the situation there has become unbearable especially after i lost my work i've also come here to treat my son before he loses his sight but i have ended up with no work and with no hope for a piece of future. as the fighting who later goes on despite a ceasefire that was signed last december more civilians are likely to be forced
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from their homes in search of safety and food and his family's long journey has brought them to his previous heart but they don't know how they will survive over the coming months without bob and somehow the tanker drivers in portugal say they'll go back to work as a fuel crisis bites during the busy tourist season the government ordered them to end the strike after supplies ran down in much of the country including lisbon airport the workers could face jail or lose their jobs if they don't comply with the government demand drivers are seeking better salaries and working conditions they'll return to work but won't do extra time. italy's senate will meet on tuesday to set a date for a vote of no confidence in prime minister just happy content the vote was called by is deputy material salvini says the ruling coalition has broken down. leads the far
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right league party which shares power with the 5 star movement it's thought he's hoping to capitalize on his rising popularity with an election with an early election party heads failed to agree on a date for the vote when they met on monday is the other goes but the but apart from the fact that when you ran away quickly you did not leave any decoration in parliament even started a government crisis outside parliament which is very serious a constitution foresees any kind of crisis is opened inside parliament because all citizens have the right to know and for this reason there are debates in the chamber not at the beach so let's try and get to the prime minister and interior minister mr philbin back into the chamber u.s. attorney general william barr is criticize what he says were serious irregularities in the prison where convicted sex offender and financier jeffrey epstein died in an apparent suicide on saturday guards were meant to check on him every 30 minutes because of a previous suicide attempt epstein was awaiting trial over new charges of sex
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trafficking underage girls kristen salumi has more from washington. jeffrey epstein may be dad but the investigation into his alleged sex trafficking crimes will continue with top u.s. officials calling for justice for his alleged victims and accountability for the prison that failed to prevent his death the f.b.i. was spotted searching epstein's estate in the u.s. virgin islands on monday even as u.s. attorney general william barr promised that his justice department will go after any so-called coconspirators epstein's former girlfriend is lane maxwell has been accused by the victims of helping to recruit under-age girls a charge she's denied speaking at a police function bar criticized the prison where abstaining died a facility run by his federal bureau of prisons of the syllabi under his authority prison guards were supposed to be checking on abstaining every 30 minutes
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a procedure that reportedly was not followed i was appalled and indeed the whole department. and frankly angry to learn of the m.c.c.s. failure to adequately secure this prisoner we are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation the f.b.i. and the office of inspector general are doing just that members of congress are also demanding answers from the u.s. attorney the ranking members of the house judiciary committee sent a list of 23 questions to barr saying that the criminal justice system had been marred by this apparent oversight. now in miramar nearly 60 people have now been confirmed dead after friday's landslide in southeastern monster 8 tens of thousands
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were forced to flee their homes thousands more have been displaced by monsoon flooding roads remain blocked with homes and schools submerged many villages have taken refuge on top of their homes. the white house is rolled out another hardline policy aimed at reducing the number of people settling in the u.s. it will now be harder for immigrants who rely on government benefits including subsidized housing and food stamps to obtain permanent legal status house correspondent kimberly. as migrants come to the united states seeking a better life those who come legally sometimes rely on government benefits food and housing but that assistance may now come at the cost of obtaining full citizenship on monday u.s. officials announced those who come to the u.s. must be financially independent immigrants who need help from social programs may be denied so-called green cards or the ability to obtain work permits and even
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permanent residency president trump said ministration is reinforcing the ideals of self-sufficiency and personal responsibility ensuring that immigrants are able to support themselves and become successful here in america the announcement comes just days after officials arrested hundreds of people in the u.s. state of mississippi hughes did working illegally in food processing plants the u.s. government says it's also targeting employers who hire such workers but so far none of the employers in the mississippi raid has been fined or arrested we just finished an investigation very similar in tennessee where over $150.00 arrests 18 months ago we now have an individual employer who's got a year and a half cents in federal prison for this effort we're in the middle of a criminal investigation this case will be pursued the raid that sparked protests in the united states critics say the raids are part of president trump's effort to
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marginalize minority populations this is ministration has directed d.h.l. to to conduct these rains as part of what i believe is this administration's campaign of terror. which is to make holes whole populations of people afraid to go to work the white house argues congress passed bipartisan legislation in 1906 to prevent immigrants from exploiting public benefits but the laws were enforced as congress has been an able to reform immigration law the trump administration says it's seeking to attract only the most self-reliant applicants the benefit to taxpayers is a long term benefit. seeking to ensure that our immigration system is bringing people to join us as american citizens as legal permanent residents 1st who can stand on their own 2 feet who will not be reliant on the welfare system especially
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in the age of the modern welfare state which is so expansive and expensive frankly the new immigration policy will take effect in october but it's almost certain to face legal challenges in the courts can really help at al-jazeera the white house. and let's take you through some of the headlines here and now to syria now all outgoing flights have been canceled that hong kong international airport for the 2nd day in a row we're looking at live pictures coming in from the territory thousands of protesters occupied the arrival area for a 5th day hong kong's chief executive caroline says weeks of anti-government protests all damaging the rule of law. siple violence no matter if it's using violence or condoning violence will push hong kong down a path of no return we plunge hong kong society into
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a very worrying and dangerous situation i believe that those who heard my words previously might have on the whole believe to me but the situation in hong kong in the past week has made me very worried that we have reached this dangerous situation. the muslim holiday has been marked by demonstrations in areas of kashmir under indian control hundreds of protesters defied a security lockdown in the city of srinagar 8 days after india revoke the area's autonomy pakistan's government is calling it an illegal act sation and is asking the un to intervene russia's government says radiation levels in the northwestern city of severed nonskid spiked up to 16 times after a rocket engine exploded as a military side state company says 5 of its staff were killed in the blasts on thursday argentina's president has vowed to win
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a 2nd term despite his defeat in sunday's presidential primary pezzo plummeted as a result of 1.4 in more than 30 percent against the dollar saudi arabia says it's offering its full support to yemen's government after a sudden separatist took over the port city of aden crown prince mohammed bin sandman and king solomon of met leaders from the u.a.e. and yemen the u.a.e. is a dialogue despite backing the separatists who launched a major offensive at the weekend tanker drivers in portugal say they'll go back to work as the fuel crisis bites during the busy tourist season the government ordered them to end the strike after supplies ran out in much of the country including lisbon airport it's inside story now stay with us.
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it's rare and it's deadly the democratic republic of congo has suffered its worst ever ebola outbreak an experimental vaccine may prove effective against the virus but what does it take to contain the disease and how do you reach the people most at risk this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. the democratic republic of congo is struggling to contain the 2nd largest outbreak of ebola ever it's killed at least $1800.00 people in just one year in the central african country and has been declared
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