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all this week in fact that there is no was sitting down with washington as long as the existing sanctions which the u.s. reimposed in 2018 continue to be enforced the iranians feel that this is something that they can somehow use to their political advantage but when the question was put to u.s. officials on wednesday as they were announcing this new 15000000 dollar reward for more details about how this international oil sales scheme is being carried out the officials said that they believe and that the president believes that this will bring the iranians back to the table for face to face talks although they didn't want to say whether there's any possibility in the next several weeks of president rouhani and president trump actually sitting down and at least having an initial discussion bryan hook who is the special representative for iran did know that donald trump has actually had face to face meetings 3 of them in fact with kim jong
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il and most people consider to be the leader of a nuclear state so they're saying it's not outside the realm of possibility but if you listen to what's coming out of town hall and there's no such action coming at least when it comes to face to face talks thank you for the update rosalynn jordan in washington d.c. here's what we've got coming up for you on this news out of the scale of the devastation left by hurricane dorian is now emerging as the storm moves towards the southeast united states israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu delivers an unprecedented speech and hebron will have the reaction to that and in sport the 100 world champion suffers an injury scare ahead of his time with defense far as he would use sports a little later. now hong kong's chief executive has agreed to one of the main. demands of the long
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running protest movement she has announced the withdrawal of an extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to mainland china for trial however protest leaders are not willing to call off their demonstrations yet when he has more from hong kong. it's what millions of people have been demanding for months the complete withdrawal of an extradition bill that many in hong kong had come to view as a symbol of a much larger problem the government will formally withdraw the bill in order to fully allay public concerns that the secretary for security will move a motion according to the rules of procedure when the legislative council rescind the billet to months of protests that have at times paralyzed parts of the city seen hundreds of arrests and regular violence with police the honorable mr kerry lunch and previous overtures from chief executive kerry lamb to suspend the legislation in june and then announced that it was did in july failed to end the rest there are more large rallies planned in the days ahead which is when we'll
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find out of carry lands decision will have the desired effect or of protesters believe it's come way too late the protest is viewed debil is just another example of mainland china's growing influence on hong kong so its withdrawal could be seen as a rare concession by beijing demonstrators demands have evolved into broader democratic reforms and an independent commission of inquiry into the crisis and the actions of police told them i rarely organizers say the legislation's withdrawal will be celebrated briefly but it's not enough to end the crisis and by not agreeing to all the demands they believe kerry has proved again she's out of touch with her people caroline herself irrelevant she already proved so many times too many times to all people that she really doesn't care about own people if a leader behave like that people will not care about at all. the announcement came
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less than a day after a private conversation was leaked to the media in which lamb said she'd resign and apologize for the chaos if she could that was seen as an indication that it was china that would decide her fate and that of the bill even some pro-government politicians believe withdrawing the legislation is the right thing to do but it's too late if you ask anybody in the street where they did still remember what that bill was about i think probably 20 percent can tell. you as the protestors i don't get even 10 percent remember it's not about the pier where you walk which is likely to mean that the city's crisis is far from over plain hey al jazeera hong kong. the united nations special envoy to libya as warned the security council that the war there will get worse if it doesn't step up its involvement the security situation in the country worsened 5 months ago when forces loyal to the eastern warlord honey for hafter began an offensive against the internationally recognized
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government in tripoli at least a 1000 people have been killed since then a diplomatic editor james burns has more now from the un. the security council was being briefed 5 months the day since general haftar launched his offensive towards tripoli an offensive that so far has been repelled the u.n. special representative gas on salami put the blame squarely on general haftar for disrupting what he said was a promising political process the timing of all this is important the security council members have to renew the un's mission in libya in the coming days mistress alarmists said he wanted to build on a brief ceasefire during eat in august and he urged the security council members to include a new element in his missions mandate. that the council. to consider adding a provision to the mission's mandate to enable scalable cease fire support
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for whatever form of further truce or cessation of hostilities is agreed between the parties. negotiations among security council members have begun the timing is tight the mandate for the u.n. mission in libya expires in just 11 days time until government protesters are gathering in argentina's capital buenos aires they are angry at president when they see a mockeries attempts to steer the country out of a worsening financial crisis the measures include currency controls limiting foreign transactions that exceed $10000.00 a month well markers accounts for years of financial volatility largely as a result of a weak currency and high debt as a lot of spending led to huge government deficits in 2007 which carried on for nearly a decade investors began to then leave the country when argentina's lower market standing but its high import fees became unmanageable president machree who was
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defeated in the primaries last month is now under pressure to improve the economy before the elections in october. correspondent is out with the protestors on the streets of the argentinean capital. we're here in the center of what our site is a right in front of the social development ministry that's where hundreds of people have gathered here to protest against the government and demand that the government passes that that's known as the food emergency plan that would speed up the process of the government being able to send food argentina's most vulnerable neighborhoods we've been talking to several people here and they're saying that the amount of people going to soup kitchens. that children are point hungry and that many many cannot make and it beats what's happening in argentina right now the country and the government are struggling with a devaluation of the base so karen see that's caused by capital flight people heading to the bank to get the u.s. dollars they have there is that reminder of the crisis that happened back in 2001
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when i didn t. know again what he would make prices they've got and right now as me trying to buy train stations affecting the country's most vulnerable like. we do think that tax some basic them concrete thing minimum wage among other things that people are saying that it not enough it also implemented some coming to the country already got it to stop a hemorrhage of u.s. dollars that very many here say to me 9 of them up create you right there is a not canteen at that have not ended well aurukun dorian is moving closer to the united states off to devastating much of the bahamas 7 people died on the islands and the prime minister says that number will likely rise in the hof of all homes on the 2 most affected bottoms by the damaged or destroyed that dorian now of course heading for the u.s. east coast gray is there bringing a set up to date on the u.s. evacuations and preparations in savannah georgia we've had a band of rain move through and it's just going to get progressively worse the
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conditions over the next several hours here were right in the middle of that forecast path and most here in savannah who have been told to evacuate it looks like they have for the most part there are those who are going to ride this out and we've seen plenty of them but yesterday they actually loaded buses up and moved people who didn't have another way out into shelters outside of the potential strike zone here will see this storm continue to move mirroring the coast and if it does make landfall it looks like at this point it would be by the end of the week and that would be in the outer banks of north carolina it's been losing a bit of its steam and and certainly some of that organization the eye wall not as organized as it used to be but the storm itself has spread out so it may affect more communities but not nearly as powerful as what they saw in the bahamas and boy you feel for everyone in the islands there seeing the devastation it left behind. there is growing outrage after a new series of xenophobic attacks on foreign owned business is in south africa so
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the african burns face reprisal attacks by protesters in nigeria and zambia the president's are all rim of also says years committed to stop and your tax on foreigners small from how them which are so in johannesburg nigerians angry about anti firing attacks in time africa protest outside a surf can own store in they costs they when they get mage you do more to protect nigeria's living inside africa non-drug government dad plant or supports the subplots what is a brutal booked at life from property of those people wow our none didn't people are dying our people at dine on a daily bases in surf the things are slowly getting back to normal after a few days of writing in leasing made me fire her own businesses were targeted at any is from miley he says he's lived internet because for more than 20 years and can't understand why some rochas feel foreigners a taking the chops a kelly year i lit all of a whit j.
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our played blows you were due was that up gov people come to week no it did me yeah you know what did you do someone your figure ass raises from ethiopia he's no issa by speaking about attacks on fine nationals a case a stall is talk at it some people say why skate poverty and inequality i should blame put the violence you know all of us a free concert you know but souls of 3 guy got 3 thing like we came troll confident load i don't all but we are the same but i don't know's also a free comes just thinking who and not would we can relate far we're like util for lake america but also rick him from us record this is one thing some surf against believe criminal gangs are responsible for their peace and violence why i ticking i walk on i walk on africans why i wind different behind your what you do whites to chinese if we're really really dissing it or not it's
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only after 4 pm when we are taking only our all. attacks so many african foreign nationals happen regularly entire africa many who come here are competing with locals the skills jobs and government services some shops and businesses have an opened for days many owners are afraid that could be more violence and looting this area in downtown johannesburg is where many of the attacks happened with the country's an employment rate at nearly 30 percent and he found the sentiment will likely continue her much as al-jazeera. we spoke to some of the little bit earlier policy and political analyst at the university of south africa who says the unrest is largely contained to the south african townships. where they'd already not complaining of security as well as a program. or dealing with ready the rotary club somebody.
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who are especially during elections tend to take its impositions on the east 2 or 3 not blaming or many things not going well and. and also their oil imports mend and the economy condition in the country all of those come by if not well man just then they create this cyclical tension between what in models and. ready especially those who are in the mind because the middle class and those in the upper class you hardly ever hear of sides turns getting into this low paid you know that comes it's where the interface in the locals who are at the lower level. interface will grab a break on the news hour when we come back a bold stance or a p.r. stunt assessing the impact of wal-mart's decision to stop gun ammunition sales.
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also argentina's worsening financial crisis i think we talked to that story earlier but it's very much ongoing there the protests in point osiris. and in sports arena williams moves a step closer to a recording calling 24 grand slam titles. hello there's been running kharaj on and off for the last 3 or 4 days and in satellite picture you see the last thing i mean 3 times the be much more i could be wrong but the cloud has crossed the not quite the straits of hormuz just crossed into oman the. the potential for thunderstorms exists there but i'm mentioning this because for the rest of this area for iran right facts will evolve nothing is happening attempts to come down in baghdad $43.00 degrees typically and that's only slightly
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wouldn't who was kuwait that there have been reports offshore that you're right and the law and $5152.00 trysts think it must be there will exaggerated it's late summer night after all temperatures will be in the low to middle forty's in places humidity still high around the gulf states if it is certainly in their hearts drier inland it's the wettest still humidity was in salalah but the standard $27.00 this is of course the sorry if still blowing lower tide a lot of drizzle. in southern africa things are starting to turn a little bit more active again you didn't see much here in satellite pictures at the cloud creeping in here but that's not much to do with the systems developing remember vast amounts of palis showing itself particularly in the east in a cape to durban that develops into significant rain. as a weapon of war leaves the very deepest scars. scars so wrong that the victims men
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and women can barely talk about it. they are the only witnesses who can help bring about justice al-jazeera fall as human rights campaigners in libya investigating right since the 2011 revolution. libya unspeakable crime on al-jazeera. women is breaks. when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told pretty remarkable filter that a weird died last week crossing from mexico in a day with exclusive interviews and in-depth reports we can live according to their fish and the wifey is exceptionally al-jazeera has teens on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news.
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the news from al-jazeera these are the top stories the united states has announced new sanctions on an iranian oil shipping network it's also ruling out waivers to allow a french proposal to try to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal on kong's chief executive kerry announced the formal busy withdrawal of an extradition bill which would have seen people sent to mainland china to face trial it was the proposal which sparked months of protests and of course our top story is brags that where british m.p.'s are voting on various amendments at the moment to a bill aimed at blocking a no deal exit from the e.u. we're back to merriam now in our london news center for more. yes that's right
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we are in the middle of a massive tug of war between boris johnson's government and the parliament the prime minister has said that under no circumstances would he ask the e.u. for a delay so that october 31st deadline for break set but right now m.p.'s are trying to do just that they are in the process of trying to pass legislation that would stop the u.k. crashing out of the e.u. by forcing boris johnson to ask brussels for an extension if a deal is not reached by the end of october a journal is live for us in westminster and joins us now and generally i know that we've said it before with this story but it really does feel as though we're in uncharted territory here. yet i don't think many people would disagree with you that this legislation is anti no deal legislation making its way with lightning speed through the various stages of the house of commons as we speak votes taking place in a series of amendments in about 90 minutes time or so it's like do you go with the
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majority that it has that it will clear the commons and then make its way to the house of lords where we expect there to be a pretty sustained attempt by conservative party lords to delays to filibuster to try and frustrate the process of this law through file that one of the admin books we've just seen a vote on and there are a number similar to it on attempt it represent attempts by m.p.'s to try and resurrect if you can believe it to reserve a's withdrawal agreement thrice voted down in this house of commons some labor m.p.'s say they now deeply regret that they didn't vote for that at the time well this amendment is just passed voted down by a whopping 420 and for a further sign of just how fraught and tense things have become earlier in the day during debate in the house he motional scenes as nicholas soames the 71 year old grandson of winston churchill fought back tears saying how sad it was that his 37 year career is now. he had been brought to an end in this way sacked this morning
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by boris johnson for voting against his own government last night. very dramatic and unprecedented what we're saying there in westminster right now thank you very much john holl bray us all the latest well the bright side of goetia michel barnier held a series of meetings with officials from member states in brussels he says the bloc will remain united in any further talks with the u.k. after my meeting with the member states an all volunteer for the artwork and. just want to tell you is a day who will remove the need. for the vigilant united uncovered. as the turbulent brecht's that battles roll and mass protests for and against the move continue to take place right across the country hundreds of pro and anti bricks of protesters rallied parliament on wednesday waving a new flags and holding signs activists on both sides of believe and remain divided
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and protesting in central london for months now but many britons say they've had enough and they want the government to find a way to break the impasse. he keeps popping out on my phone and i'm really bored with it in one of the stores that i don't want to see how it's i want to steal it but you know. democracy is such that the society decided what they want it's all i said it and it's becoming too complicated i think it's that we've got those looks but it's a mix of the installments going on in front of me really closely. i think part of the reason we got ourselves into this mess is because there's been a public disengagement in politics now that's really coming out of itis i think everyone's got rights if it's the right light it's day in day out the same day the i m the new it's a merry go round once the opinions. and and he breaks it activists of listening micheline mock with warnings about the potential consequences of leaving european union without a deal the messages were projected on to the wings of the angel of the north
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sculpture in gateshead it warns of potential food medicine and petrol shortages the activists also accuse prime minister boris johnson of backing breck's it for personal gain or we are also following stories elsewhere in europe and political turmoil in italy as well but the crisis that appears to be easing the prime minister does just that because he has presented his cabinet list to the president who will sway in the new government on thursday the formation of a new coalition of and his stablish meant 5 star movement in the center left democratic policy and a month long political crisis triggered by hard right. who brought down the previous administration the union of the 2 rival political parties is an unlikely coalition but one that's expected to improve ties with the e.u. and adopt a soft a stance on immigration. a russian court has sentenced a man to 3 and a half years in prison for his involvement in recent opposition rallies 48 year old
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yevgeny revenko was charged off the footage circulated online showing him throwing a rubbish bin towards police offices at a demonstration in july he has denied those charges and several other protesters have been jailed this week with more still facing challenges germany will ban the use of controversial weed killer life is saved from 2023 off to recent concerns that it can cause cancer it's the most common weed control product in the world and the ban against it will be introduced in phases a move by chemi comes off to austria on the chemical in july. it was not i just was glad to say kills everything green those depriving insects of their basic food source therefore we have set a fixed date for the complete ban of. the year 2023 and earlier things out is unfortunately not possible due to the current approved use of the chemical until 2022 but there will be a media partial bans and extensive restrictions for the use of in many important
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areas. well coverage from london coming up in about 25 minutes time let's head back to. marion thank you for that benjamin netanyahu has made a contentious visit to hebron in the occupied west bank he gave a speech there making him the 1st israeli prime minister to do so you know he was there as part of his campaign ahead of the elections on september 17th palestine's foreign ministry condemned the visit as racial and colonial hundreds of jewish settlers live in the israeli controlled part of hebron which is home to 40000 palestinians. we are not coming to dispossess anyone but nor will anyone dispossess. hebron will not be cleansed of jews we are not strangers in hebron we will remain there forever palestinian protesters accuse netanyahu of using the visit though to just getting votes from right wing israelis.
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as palestinian citizens are angry about netanyahu storming the city of hebron we feel provoked to be used as palestinian citizens for our city to be used mosques to be used for our properties to be used as part of this political election campaign by newton yahoo so he would gain the votes of the extremist israeli right and we got the views of a key elder columnist for al monitor israel pulse who says not only his biggest concern really is to have his party emerge as the winner in the upcoming election. we are now 2 weeks before the general elections and he was gonna do much to get such coverage everyone is part of the he's with voters and actually even the general public part of the consensus with the holy sites and the jewish quarter so he may he may get. a good coverage or in this
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context of the elections talking to his constituency and trying to grab extra voters from the radical right we can is now what he's focusing on is to come out in september 17th and the largest party and to get the mandate from the 1st ones to get the mandate from the president to form a new government places that are one reason to be concerned about violence and this wet ground of the relationship between jews and arabs jews and muslims this is the holy city of jerusalem and the holy city of hebron so. i would be very careful these days not to grab the attention of the muslims and give a reason for the extremists from both sides to celebrate so to speak on
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the this tension in hebron. one of the world's largest retailers says that will stop selling ammunition for hand guns and military style weapons in the united states this is in response to the recent mass shootings wal-mart a major arm seller in the us has been under pressure to change its policies the company says it will also ask customers not to bring weapons into it stores in so-called open carry states where it is legal to do so part of the reason for the change of policy is people haven't being shot inside wall months in july an employee kill to co workers at a store of mississippi few days later it was the government who kill 22 people inside a wal-mart in el paso texas a just 13 hours after that 9 people were killed in a mass shooting at an entertainment district in ohio more recently on saturday 7 people were killed and texas in a drive by shooting and wild wal-mart's called the situation on acceptable use
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a politicians have not taken any significant action yet the new laws that allow guns to be temporarily seized from dangerous owners are spreading across the u.s. the so-called red flag laws are now in 17 states with more looking to follow alan fisher has the story from maryland. after yet another mass shooting in texas this weekend which killed 7 president donald trump suggested legislative change on a national level seems unlikely for the most part wrong if you make your backyard jack they would not stop any national inaction has moved individual states to push forward with their own warts maryland is one of 17 states along with the district of columbia that have passed so-called red flag laws and they've been considered such a success that 5 more states are considering putting similar legislation on the books catherine dimmy was one of the delegates to miral and who drew up the legislation
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that allows guns to be temporarily removed from someone who could be a danger to themselves or others if you can't say you're qualified to have a gun i have you know that it's fine to have one but for those you know that shouldn't or are going experiencing a crisis that may result in a tragedy i think we need the opportunity to be able to make a correction but in the us there's always strong opposition to anything that looks as if it may violate the 2nd amendment of the constitution regularly summarized as the right to bear arms one gun rights advocate says red flag laws don't make people safer you have a person who the judicial officer finds to be an immediate danger to himself or others and you ceases constitutionally protected property and you just leave him there you think he's a less dangerous now. you're even there with a whole house for a vehicle but any other weapon you can imagine nationally the house of representatives has already passed new gun legislation there's no sign the senate
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is about to follow suit. who is campaigning for change see public opinion is swinging behind them we have another election coming up in about a year and if this congress refuses to change the laws the american people are going to change the lawmakers the white house is planning to push new legislation but likely not background checks or red flag laws it wants to speed up the death penalty for mass shooters critics say that's not much of a deterrent for people who really expect to survive if they launch their own deadly rampage alan fischer al jazeera maryland. a group of haitian politicians of ransacked parliament to prevent the ratification of the newly appointed prime minister they're angry about a worsening fuel shortage and rising corruption under the government of president morsi. supporters burns tires in the streets and on demanding the resignation of the president. our brazil's president is refusing to give additional land to
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indigenous tribes his government but also council approvals that have already been given all of this comes as some of those indigenous areas have been wiped out by the fires raging in the latin america edison is in newman has more now from there are in the state of. indigenous what i need elders chant to chase away their anguish. and the explains they've just been attacked by gunmen trying to force them off what they claim as their rightful land if a shared boy came all came here ben my shut down on friday for the 3rd time in broad daylight and just now to return them to everything almost hit my baby in the head they were shooting us nowhere in brazil our land rights more in dispute than here and. where the country's largest indigenous group lives in squalor. a century ago there were any were forced into 8 reserves and their land distributed
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by the government to outside farmers. today the reserves are hopelessly overcrowded and so hundreds of families have left and set up camps on what they consider their ancestral land is one are screaming at the security guards that are directly in front of the whole door before the landowners that are controlling the land over there is over there which they say belongs to them they occupied this land about 2 weeks ago and since then they've been having a long confrontation after the other in fact they say that about an hour ago the security guards fired on them so. this young lad anyone who had clearly been drinking was beaten when he confronted the guards alcoholism and suicide are alarmingly high explains flavio bunch of the missionary council for indigenous people. or the last 18 year. being ones who side are weak 70 percent of the young
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men of marrying age khan find a way to support a family they are marginalized and called find a work outside so the hang themselves. but many like 80 year older than me are not divine yeah believe the answer is to fight for their rights she lives by the highway facing the land that was once her home where generations of her family a buried her husband 2 children and a grandchild were killed by trucks speeding down the highway. i tell my family let's all group together and recover our land if we're going to die it's better to die fighting where our ancestors are and not on this highway for 20 years the land that she and thousands of other families claim has been under consideration for demarcation but now brazil's president says all outstanding requests for indigenous lands are cancelled. this is the latest serious blow to the original settlers of this vast nation.
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