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several years ago with its eyes open and looked ahead to how it would compensate in his words for illegal acts of the other sides he's talking about the way that the u.s. unilaterally quit the deal last year since then we've seen iran breach its set limits on the production of enriched uranium which potentially could be used for a nuclear weapons program of course sorry for in the last couple of hours has said that the measures that iran has been taking a reversible in the sense for example on shipping in the gulf fully willing to cooperate to ensure the safety of shipping in the gulf if. iran's shipping is also guaranteed safety so it's fairly compromising if you like but at the same time he has been denouncing since he's been in europe over the last week what he calls u.s. unilateral ism no president mark home has floated the idea of some some way of allowing iran to sell limited amounts of oil to certain countries
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as a sweetener to iran and he was hoping that that would actually come out of these talks in paris is something he could take forward to the international community we're not hearing any detail and we haven't heard from the french themselves so it's not quite clear how much progress they have made is the main takeaway. with these sorts of talks when we especially when we have not much concrete that simply the lines of communication are still open and i'm imagining that might be important so given that the g. 7 is literally around the corner. definitely right i mean it's not just president micron who believes that it's essential to preserve the deal it's the other european signatories and china and russia as well who are behind it. the question is how do you go about saving it given the tough
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line being taken in washington now president micro and his foreign ministry have been criticized for dealing directly with iran recently they have said that it's fully within the remit to do so and they're hoping that they can take some kind of progress to the rest of the g 7 the other leaders over the next few days and say well maybe this is a plan in which we could get the deal but up and running in perhaps the midst term with these possible sweeteners with something as president micron says which will enable the iranian people to live better than in other words to soften the impact of those reimposed economic sanctions what's not clear is whether the americans are going to be receptive to that kind of talk at least publicly they've suggested that this kind of diplomacy is not the way to go and that they believe pushing iran further will actually get some kind of concession so it's hard to say. they're live
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with the latest from paris and thank you. the syrian army has moved into the area around the turkish observation post in northern hama stay divvy is reporting the government forces are meters away from turkish troops and mortar after capturing towns and villages in the northern hama countryside turkey's foreign minister says the attacks must stop in order to allow for talks. with the regime is active around our observation posts we are discussing this issue with russia and iran we start the process to have a political solution that's why these a constitutional committee. under the regime has to be loyal to vote this is not apparent arabs of asian post but the future of syria that's why our negotiations with russia still go on let's stop the attacks and the tears as soon as possible and focus on the main process. martin smith has this update now for us from untucked. syrian government forces are now essentially in control of all of the
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towns and villages in the countryside of the province to the south that leaves it countryside and the city of idlib itself still in rebel hands but clearly would be the next target for assad's forces and in the process of this takeover of this territory the syrians have come into contact with turkish observation post in what is supposed to be a deescalation zone but this is clearly become an escalation zone because of the syrians are moving in to what was once rebel held countryside the turks say they are still going to keep those observation posts there there are a dozen of them that they're in agreement with the iranians and the russians but at the same time turkey is desperate to get this saves own along its border with syria implemented they're still in negotiations with the americans as to how big this saves on is how deep it would go into syrian territory about whether the turks and the americans would patrol together the americans would prefer to patrol alone
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turkey saying they're still having talks about form of this safe zone but no indication yet as to when it would put in place the turks are desperate for it to happen sooner rather than later. for his fight for what's in there now fighting has been going on for decades in central nigeria by ethnic and religious differences as well as the battle to secure scarce land and resources thousands of people have been till also the state hope to find safety in camps but as mama did all reports they're facing another terrifying threat. to our buggin a company the city of is one of dozens dotting the expensive been with state in central nigeria its inhabitants are just a fraction of the 171000 displaced across the street by the end going violence between tribes in this bottle. while the comp was supposed to be a refuge for the people most don't feel safe here anymore
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a sharp increase in reported women and young girls is deeply wounding this community. and. i fear for my daughters there those who send their kids to go work in the city but not me the current situation is too dangerous and people here complain that repast become so widespread that women come along to leave the compound accompanied a missed international in a recent report detailed how girls as young as 9 and 10 years were being whipped a times by the very security personnel charged with protecting. news that a 10 year or displaced rape victim was delivered in a new a few days ago has sent shock waves across nigeria we met the girl and her baby girl at one of mccord's hospitals. dr educate michael help with the delivery of the 3 days of labor we need to do this is
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a reception because there was no we little enough for them so we don't risk much to be got some units of blood on the internet or turned into even if this social worker was one of those who brought the girl to hospital and told us that she grew up an orphan and was raised by her grandmother but was forced to flee how home when her grandmother and called tried to force her to marry a blind man that is when she fell prey to the man who raped her. despite what she's been through the young mother already has dreams for her baby. i don't want my daughter to go through the same suffering as i did when she starts walking both of us will go to school police say there were arrested the man suspected in her rape last december but they have this plea for families of rape victims punishments for offend us can serve as deterrents to orders intending to do the same but when
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family members tend to make wish it to kind of receive more nice from from suspects all to try to prevent prosecution family members can come up to help us let the prosecution process be concluded. the plight of the little girl prematurely propelled to motherhood is fast becoming a rallying cry for those seeking action on rape in nigeria's displaced people's camps many hope that her case will spark the authorities to take action too and such horrendous crime once and for all $100.00 of the world. but couldn't agree. japan's prime minister shinzo abbay says south korea's decision to stop sharing military intelligence will damage trust between the 2 countries south korea made
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the move after japan downgraded its trade status it's been embroiled in an increasingly bitter dispute over wartime. ports now from seoul south korea says it had been hoping until the last minute to avoid pulling out of the pact blaming japan for what's now become the most serious deterioration in relations in decades young japan created a green change in bilateral security cooperation we have determined it would not serve our national interest to maintain an agreement to exchange sensitive military information the intelligence sharing agreement was set up 3 years ago to counter the nuclear and missile threats from north korea its breakdown comes at a time of increased missile testing by pyongyang what anymore called the south korean decision completely misjudges the current regional security environment it's nothing but a disappointment and i find it extremely regrettable disappointment to from the
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u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o who's called for the 2 u.s. allies to settle their differences relations have soured just as regional rivals china and russia seem to be moving closer together militarily this dispute began with a south korean court ruling in favor of victims of forced labor used by japanese firms during the 2nd world war japan retaliated with the restrictions on the export of materials and components needed by south korea's high tech manufacturers. south korea then responded with a campaign to boycott all japanese goods and cancel holidays there. it's now started another campaign to support south korean firms hurt by this dispute this company making air fresheners had spent 3 years trying to break into the japanese market and was all set with 3 major orders which have all now been canceled i look
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back as citizens we need to support our government's policy given the current mood with japan will need to find an alternative solution for now exports to japan are difficult. this deepening trade dispute comes at a tough time for south korean exports has already caught in the middle of the trade war between the us and china trade figures show exports this month are down more than 13 percent compared to the same time last year extending a slump that's gone on now for more than 8 months many here fear the next move by either side in this continuing tape for tat will only be further deterioration robert bright al-jazeera sold. china has announced new tower of song $75000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods it's retaliation for tariffs washington plans to impose on chinese imports later this year china's commerce ministry said the duty of 5 to 10 percent will be
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placed on more than $5000.00 products some take effect on september 1st fathers come into force on december 15th they'll cover agricultural goods crude oil small aircraft and also cause full democracy demonstrators in hong kong are forming a human chain across the territory the so-called hong kong way is inspired by the same tactic used in the baltic states in 1990 calling for independence from the soviet union protest organizers say the chain of people will go along the sidewalks of 3 main subway lines it's expected to spread from hong kong island the new territories. hong kong court has extended a ban on any more protests inside the territories airport airport bosses went back to the high court as opposition groups prepare for more action this weekend last week thousands packed inside the main terminal forcing the airport to shut down meanwhile hong kong union say staff an airline cafe pacific are being targeted for
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supporting the protests earlier adrian brand's fall to bombing live from the protests organization civil human rights front she says cathay pacific employees are being who. is very sad to see what has what is happening in cathay pacific because it is a very big corporation international cooperation and hong kong people one is immensely proud of it and it has a very strong union but how it however we see that the workers union of one of the leader of the workers' unions had been dismissed and even the c.e.o. was forced to resign from the corporation this is how would a corporation are facing the bullies by the chinese government and i urge not only corporations in hong kong but also globally. to think one thing is that are you standing for this bully or are you standing up against these kinds of bullies i think it is a time to make decisions hong kong's economy is hurting the actions by your group
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and others like you are contributing to that are you satisfied now that you have succeeded in one of your primary goals which is to basically wreck the hong kong economy well i believe. the only thing that is hurting hong kong economy generally and also including tourist industry is starts people from around the world do not think hong kong is a safe city when they hear that property rights that personal safety cannot be protracted and if the extradition be was passed it it's what happened so what we're doing now is trying to save home calm in order to. keep this safety in new york times is reporting that israel's carried out an attack on a weapons death for iraq to senior u.s. officials told the newspaper that there have been at these 4 strikes on what fools control by iranian backed groups and iraqi military official confirmed a base was hit and 3 people were killed including an iranian israel has carried out
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hundreds of air strikes against iranian assets in syria over the course of the each year civil war. a 17 year old israeli girl has died in an explosion in the occupied west bank the blast was near deal of settlement northwest of jerusalem israeli army says it suspects a palestinian was behind the attack and to send more troops to the area tensions been high in the occupied west bank recently the clashes at. a holy site that sacred to bill muslims and jews. palestinians are gathering in gaza after organizers called for an increased turnout at weekly border protests hamas which controls the strip and warned of a return to more direct confrontations but is now saying the demonstration will be controlled harry fawcett joins us live now from gaza hi there harry house payment in short maybe a quieter friday than we might otherwise have seen. oh yes this payment that came through from qatar the cancer
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e envoy of the mahdi is in town here arrived yesterday evening and was bringing with an $11000000.00 u.s. dollars in funding for poor families inside gaza which had been approved by israel israel not approving payments for hamas civilian staff however so still some room for food for controversy there but at 3 o'clock in the morning there was an announcement by the committee which is in charge of these protests essentially run by hamas now after initially being very much a social movement hamas kept does have the ability to dial them up and down with that committee saying that there should be no use of tires of incendiary devices and that young people especially should be kept well back from the fence we have seen a lot of hamas security officials in plain clothes i was seen stewards in orange vests trying to keep people back but just about half an hour ago where they were
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tackling individuals stopping them from going towards the fence as you can see now a lot of them have got through they aren't. at getting right up to the fence and we've had a couple of bursts of live weapons being fired from the israeli side but so far no sign of any major injuries a small amount of tear gas being used so so far it does seem that while they're calling for large numbers so far the protest is relatively controlled perry it it's been a month heightening tensions in many ways so what do you think the chances might be of another escalation. well certainly it is a sensitive time as you were just reporting on those vans instance in the west bank the occupied west bank there have also been an increase in attempts to get through the fence by armed palestinian men we've seen 9 such people being killed by israeli forces this month alone 6 rockets or project i was being fired from here towards
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and into israeli territory so the israeli army is blaming this on one of the major armed factions here they're blaming this on palestinian islamic jihad saying that hamas has to control its actions and to and to make sure that there is no escalation in the security situation we are though in the election season in israel and that has been a time in the past when there has been an attempt by hamas to try to increase the pressure on israel certainly hamas is not content with what has happened since the last escalation in terms of israel making good on various undertakings that hamas understood it was going to in terms of easing some of the restrictions and assisting in various economic activities improving the the electricity flow into the gaza strip and so on so we remain at a position where things are tense and it's a sensitive political time in israel and hamas is not happy with what israel has
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done in terms of easing the situation inside gaza so far harry fosset there joining us with the latest from gaza harry thank you. ice time for the weapon at his cabin that's right it's all about the tropics this hour we're going to take you 1st of all over here towards taiwan where we have been watching this tropical storm over the last several days make its way towards taiwan and we do expect to see a landfall tomorrow just on that southern edge of taiwan in the afternoon timeframe right now winds are about 83 kilometers gusting up to about 102 moving to the west at about 13 so what we're going to be see is with the storm very heavy rain storm surge as well as gusty winds across much of this area so i said saturday afternoon local time making landfall there but that's not the end of it on sunday we're going to see a 2nd landfall here of the southwest coast of china but notice all the very heavy rain still looks to be back here towards taiwan as well as down here towards the philippines a localized flooding is going to be
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a major concern there the other area watching is down here towards the bahamas though this mass of disorganized clouds is what the national hurricane center is watching right now because it does give it a 40 percent chance of developing over the next 24 to 48 hours and with that we're going to see him plenty of rain across much of the bahamas as well as into florida tomorrow now the storm is going to make its way towards the north once it does off the coast of the carolinas and georgia we do think that it is going to develop the possibly a tropical storm at that time. still ahead here on al-jazeera u.n. investigators say the scale of sexual violence against the range of by man laws militia shows a genocidal intent. and environmentalists are calling it a potential charge noble on ice the floating nuclear reactor on its way to the arctic. cricket decides it still isn't safe enough to play a test match in pakistan but say they are now open to
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also know what they see the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera remind of our top stories this hour brazil's president says he may send in the army to battle fires that are burning through the amazon forest world leaders are calling it an international crisis and are demanding action french president manuel micron wants urgent talks at this weekend's g. 7 summit. iran's foreign ministers hailed the positive talks with the french president a man will not calm on salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal reeve said both countries
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have made suggestions on how to move forward after the u.s. pulled out of the agreement last year. syrian army has moved into the area around a turkish observation post in more akin northern hama province turkey's made it clear they have no intention of leaving the course. violence and insecurity are robbing almost 2000000 children of an education in central and west africa a report by the un children's fund unicef examines increasing threats and attacks in 8 countries it singles out mali where attacks on schools have double between 2017 and this year in central african republic that figure will by more than a 5th and school closures juta violence have gone up to 6 fold over the past 2 years in burkina faso mali and nature or patsy mchale is head of the unicef's africa service unit and is the lead author of the report she says the large numbers of students norton school has a serious impact on the country's development. first of all i'd like to bring to
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you the words of a priest that i met in northern burkina faso just a few weeks ago father arcadius so adorable who is saying that without education we have no development and when you have such a large number of children out of school especially girls this has an extremely serious the tremendous effect on the country and that's that's another thing that perhaps strikes me as well that in a situation where you have education under threats where you have the livelihoods and the lives and futures of children parents are real. extremely concerned about this and you understood you see when meeting with them with the families and with the children selves how important they feel that education is so so that is perhaps you know one of the main messages we'd like to we'd like to bring forth is the voices of these children that are being prevented from from receiving like the most basic of education we're not asking for much here and also the fact that their parents in some cases are you know they're risking their lives the lives of their
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their children when they do try to send their kids to school. the government of chad is deploying the military to 3 provinces where states of emergency have been declared dozens of people have been killed in fighting between farmers and herders in the landlocked african nation alexey o'brien has the story. of the city of shares about 900 kilometers from the chadian capital in jamaica and surrounded by grassland making it an important cattle raising center. but the battle for land and resources between its farmers and america herders has seen it put under a state of emergency the region's governor has been meeting with tribal and religious leaders to try to end recent unrest in which dozens of people have been killed. can not be any head of a civil administration or tribe must arrest criminals in this area because it is their job and responsibility to take care of the people otherwise they will be sent
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the emergency measures in wa dian seeler provinces in the east and to based in the west allows our cities to impose curfews search homes and censor the media. president idriss deby has called for civilians to give up their weapons and close some borders blaming the surge of violence on conflicts in neighboring countries local tribal leaders agree but you know the media. the troubles come from libya and sometimes from central africa and sudan those infiltrators who come to work from the conflict zones and sometimes from gold mining areas are the main reason of troubles. there's been some alarm race between herders and farmers in other african states including mali and nigeria drought and population growth aggravate the conflict while the influx of weapons and a rise in armed groups across the region have made the cycle of violence more deadly. chaired soldiers are part of
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a regional force that's fighting back on her arm and i select groups but some analysts suggest that strange the military and the unable to counter the recent violence. shows one of the hottest cities on the planet with most days over 30 degrees and with climate change expected to turn more of this region to desert battles over resources are likely far from over elixir brian al jazeera un investigators say the scale of sexual violence by the 1000000 mom military against the ranger was so widespread and severe that it demonstrates what they call an intent to commit genocide or of war says soldiers routinely and systematically raped gang raped and sexually abused women children men and transgender people the u.n. says those responsible should be prosecuted on charges war crimes genocide and crimes against humanity the report also mentions sexual violence persecution in the states
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of kitchen and sean targeting other ethnic minorities hundreds of thousands of ranger living in camps in cox's bazaar that's on the bangladesh mine near border stephanie decker is there. the u.n. report on the cities the sexual violence committed against the right is a reminder to the world that these are stories that people have been telling aid workers and journalists for the past 2 years there are the most horrendous stories stories of mass rapes children being raped in front of their parents of wives being raped in front of their husbands now that's coupled with stories of killings of people being chopped into pieces of babies being ripped out of their mother's arms and thrown into the fire now this is why hundreds of thousands of people fled across the border here to bangladesh in just the space of a few weeks and this is why this is now the biggest refugee camp in the world these people want justice what does that mean it means they want to go home but they want
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to go home with guarantees of citizenship and security and not seems a long way off a ship carrying 350 migrants are set to land in malta after 60 you countries agreed to take them in while she's military vessels and taken the migrants to shore the ocean viking had been stuck at c.f. to malta and italy initially denied their request to land russian opposition leader lex in a bali is predicting protests against president vladimir putin are set to goal of all he's just been released from prison after a month behind bars for encouraging demonstrations in moscow calling for free elections several offices and candidates of blocked from running on technicalities just moved me to the store run you for this rebel we see that lies and fraud are not enough for them it's not enough to bend the candidates from the election they want to arrest and beat up people to smash anti-corruption organizations and these organizations can see they have no support and people feel afraid. russia is
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launching the world's 1st floating nuclear flower planned it will be told sizes of kilometers to the east to provide energy to remote communities but a growing peace activists say there are safety risks and the plant could become what they call a chair noble on ice stead reports from moscow. a nuclear power plant sailing the seas russia says it's one of the safest and cleanest ways to provide energy to remote areas the academic low monos of combines both the technology of a nuclear powered icebreaker and that of a land based nuclear plant it took 10 years to design and build the power plant will be towed by 3 boats for more months to the region of 2 caught 5000 kilometers away on a journey that could take up to 6 weeks depending on the ice the 2 reactor unit is one of the key projects of president putin so-called northern sea route a fastest sea connection between europe and asia which has become accessible due to
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a melting arctic despite safety concerns russia's nuclear agency sas has very little chance of a nuclear accident the nuclear station is very solid and is not vulnerable in case a tsunami or another disaster happens tests have shown the chances of a gigantic asteroid destroying the earth in the future is twice as high as internal damage to this reactor but greenpeace is not convinced in april 2017 the environmental group protested against a project calling a child noble on ice referring to the nuclear disaster in the soviet union in 1986 . of if the fukushima nuclear station was damaged by a tsunami we can only guess what could happen in this case the place can be flown upside down it can be thrown onto the shore or get damaged in a recent nuclear accident in the north of russia which caused a spike in radiation has also raised concerns with several nuclear accidents happening in the past few months and
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a government that is by political about what exactly has happened people are growing increasingly suspicious that like in the time of chernobyl your forty's are trying to cover up incidents of leaks radiation even though the academic i don't know if off will travel only partially populated areas its journey will be closely watched russia's plans to sell floating nuclear plants to other countries have also rung alarm bells according to greenpeace offshore reactors will be harder to monitor and it can fall into the wrong hands academically no self will stay in effect and you got got for at least 10 years before going back to more months for maintenance and to dispose of its nuclear waste step fasten al-jazeera mosco. that us will has the world's largest foreign oil reserves and it could be one of the world's richest nations years of under-investment corruption and u.s. sanctions have crippled its energy sector that's left many feeling betrayed by the
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government and the promises they once made to resemble has more now from the time of the mess in venezuela. has always lived beside the lake of monaco you will in the northwestern state. he's a fisherman but he says pollution from the oil industry is destroying his way of life. this is abandon completely abandoned in the past the oil and gas installations were taken care of but not anymore now are lake is filled with oil and contamination our boats are dirty or nets are dirty my family depends on this and it's killing us we're close to the town where oil was 1st discovered in venezuela in 1922 it turned this country from michael cohen coffee producing nation into an oil giant but things have not been going well in the past 2 years the bottom of the lake of what i was filled with thousands of kilometers of gas pipeline some.
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