tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera September 5, 2019 6:00pm-7:01pm +03
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and show that they are very serious and uphold their end of the deal those jabari in tehran thank you at least 10 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a large explosion in afghanistan's capital kabul the taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack saying it was targeting a foreign forces convoy the blast windows and doors in an area close to foreign embassies and government buildings had brush and worry has more from kabul for us and was ultimately that is here in the town to discuss a draft agreement between the u.s. and the taliban officials with the president and also other politicians the president also other politicians raise their concerns about this draft and they want to discuss those those concerns with the u.s. and why is i'm actually i'm also told by the sources at the palace that. when president multiples i mean this was it and where he's also we also met with the. president and other politicians. who want to show their strength and power as they
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increase their attack not only here in capital kabul but also in the provinces a few days back they also attacked a key province of the one is on the congress where there is a flag which was later they were pushed out of the province where they are going to cure the forces so the one of the really clear showing that certain powers to get out of this stuff from the u.s. officials. still ahead on the program the trade talks are back on the u.s. and china agreed to return to the negotiating table to resolve their trade war costs. tens of thousands of iraqi graduates raise their voice against unemployment. hello we've got lots of sunshine across the mediterranean last a clear skies here
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a few showers just around southern parts of italy but the the west whether the wild weather is a little further north we have still got some spells of rain moving across the far northwest easing outs of the british isles like it's way further northwards and west was when still coming in from a cool more formal westerly direction so london around 17 celsius the blustery day coming through here but it should be dry the next and he was over the past couple of days little wet weather there just making its way towards denmark towards sweden as well live the showers they will rumble away just around the outs there's still a chance of a few showers just was sisterly towards multan we wanted to friday east of that is fine and dry lots of sunshine coming through but northern italy now seeing that wet weather just sliding out of the alps pushing across towards the reality can still rather blustery notice up towards the northwest london at about 18 degrees celsius or $27.00 am a trade lots of sunshine here a lot of sunshine to across much of north africa
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hello again a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera british prime minister boris johnson's proposal to hold us not election before the break said deadline of october 31st has been voted down and. passed a bill blocking the possibility of a no deal exit from the european union iran's president hassan rouhani says his country will operate a nuclear program without limits it comes as iran launches the 3rd phase of its withdrawal from the 2015 new u.s. imposed new sanctions on tehran for the 3rd time in a week and at least 10 people have died in afghanistan's capital kabul following a large explosion the taliban is claiming responsibility the group says it was targeting a foreign forces convoy the blast windows and doors in an area close to foreign
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embassies and government buildings. and taliban forces were behind another blast in the green village area of kabul on monday that left 15 people dead let's speak some more about this not to in design team who's director of the center of a peace and development studies he is live from kabul thank you very much for joining us on al-jazeera. so what do you make of this latest attack by by the taliban and what the. does it say about their commitments for peace to peace in afghanistan what is their strategy with these attacks. every morning where just waking up with a bomb blast in we're losing humans every day in a daily basis it diverted back to 2 sides number one. political lack of political commitment in the security. they cannot analyze the situation what they do is like me i condemn that attack their dogs they're living in the hope in trust and politics in
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a situation where when you deal with people like taliban there's no trust there's no hope but the leadership of security sector they're doing that also the taliban are just posing their power how long they're just building their power we're just in the brink of. getting into the real face to face dialogue i think this should be stopped and stopped immediately now the weather in kabul is gloomy and it's very saddening situation a gloomy mood you say so what does this mean then for the for the talks we were under the impression just a few days ago here in listening to the u.s. envoy. that a deal was imminent do you think that is still the case. well we would like to be that you've heard back to you the 4 point agenda of which one of them was that there should be a ceasefire in there should be. violence is from the side of thought about and it's
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not happening the way i was criticizing the 4 point agenda of what is art and thought of on this is the start i mean in the time when we're just close by to deal in thought about just posing that type of threats what do you expect next i believe the thought about leadership is playing different brand of diplomacy in peace negotiation there shaking the right hand in that hoarded rock at the lift but that cannot happen all the time we often are just living in this country and they have to have it to people in population and as you say is you hand. hinted there even if there is a deal it doesn't mean that a wider peace agreement for afghanistan is going to happen any time soon afghan we consolation has to happen what's the way forward in your opinion and what is at stake. well let me tell you that things cannot happen overnight people who are water addicted you cannot expect them that they have to put guns on the
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ground in the industry turn to life i think that's over expectation we're not talking that where just hoping cities you could leave things would change but i'm expecting that both the united states american the thought of on leadership and also the leadership should be ensuring that they are just giving hanes to you to just putting all the dots together and finally bringing up an a type of settlement where people are not dying if we're dying we're just losing hopes on the peace talk now a final thought from even to this question where still hoping that something good will happen but if such kind of attacks are occurring at the daily basis hour by hour as i think that can squash our hopes for the future thank you so much for speaking to us in design director of the center for peace development studies in kabul thank you for your time the number of people killed in the bahamas by hurricane dorian now stands at 20 and is expected to rise the storm has regained strength and is now a category 3 hurricane threatening the eastern united states the speed of the winds
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that hit the abaco island in the bahamas when dorian made landfall busy where the highest on record the bahamian prime minister says rescue operations are in full swing and has warned against humanity. distilleries on the council building was a disturbing. behavior i distrust. down to anyone. and for the decision for those affected by this tragedy. either prosecute to just. bring to the full extent of the. magna rapido has more from the island of abaco. these is the island of one of the worst hit areas by hurricane dorian the local air terminal was destroyed by strong winds and storm surge people now gathered by the runway looking for a way out. as we made our way toward the community of black wood the scope of the
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devastation became even more apparent acres and acres of downed trees block the road. the region is still flooded but waters are finally starting to recede. in the capital nassau bolen tears are mobilizing to compile desperately needed disaster relief food medicine and bottled water. but access is limited to the areas most affected so right now we're getting a lot of help from the military from the united states with a search and rescue and after that it's going to be about getting food medical supplies and even volunteer teams to these islands that would have brought you some of the volunteers sorting donations or tourists like george and maria who cut their vacation short to lend a hand i saw the news on the t.v. and i said i can go to the beach way down the beach enjoying my vacation and then i said i'm right here why not tell people. back on abaco island residents gather with their families to assess the damage many have lost everything for since us sitting
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on the side of the role nowhere to go some parsons cannot even find a family member so it is really back. to this storm may be over but for thousands of. the hey means the challenge of rebuilding their lives still lies ahead as you can see the devastation here is enormous powerlines a litter the streets there's no electricity no running water no cell phone service and of thousands of people have no or to sleep tonight the of been left homeless waiting desperately for help to arrive when rigid upolu odds as eda abaco the bahamas chief executive carry ma'am says she would fully support an international inquiry into pennies conduct during protests in hongkong at comes a day after a she announced she would for many with draw a controversial extradition bail that spawns 3 months of demonstrations also place to follow up on recommendations some the inquiry the bill will be withdrawn that will be no debate and no vote take the segun action there's we will fully
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support the worth of the independent police complaints console people from all walks of life with different stances m. backgrounds invited to shared a views an air their grievances we must flying ways to address the discontent in society and look for solutions algis era sour a clock has more from hong kong hong kong's chief executive carrie lamb has done her 1st q. and i said with the media in the wake of her decision to withdraw the controversial extradition bill she said she hoped that this would break the political impasse which has been startling politics here in hong kong and she said that it would give hong kong a way forward she also said that the study that she's commissioned would investigate the political crisis she hoped that this would give the community a platform for conversation she denied that she was under pressure from china's central government she said they respected and understood her decision to withdraw
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the extradition bill she's also rejected accusations that this independent study into this political process is meaningless she said the international representation on sporty would give would deliver credible outcomes as for the other 5 demands other demands that the protesters want met she's refused their request for universal suffrage she's also refused to bow to their demand to introduce or commission independent investigation into police behavior and until all those demands are met by protesters those protesters are vowing to go ahead with their demonstrations chinese american trade negotiators are to meet for talks tolbert to try and put an end to the trade war between the world's 2 largest economies the latest round of ted for tat tat between the 2 countries went into effect on sunday my kana has more from washington. the announcement of a new round of talks came from the chinese commerce ministry in beijing apparently this followed a telephone conversation between u.s.
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treasury secretary steve newton and the chinese vice premier they've agreeing that lower level negotiators will meet during the course of this month to set an agenda for the high level negotiations that will take place in washington during october it does appear to most observers that this is a consequence of the leaders of both country realizing that there is no benefit whatsoever to the ongoing trade law both countries have suffered major economic impact because of this increase in tariffs but it would be in the u.s. as well there has been a political impact president trump's advisers have been cautioning him about the impact the terror of said pads on his bedrock support the rural areas the farmers just one example of the export of soybeans from the u.s. has dropped by more than 50 percent since the same period in 2017 so certainly there are of both political and economic factors at play here in both countries
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it's the 80th anniversary of the chinese communist party next month and president xi certainly looking as well for something to be able to celebrate. thousands of university graduates in iraq are protesting outside government ministries in baghdad demanding jobs unemployment for young adults sits at 22 percent and the government admits it has not made sufficient provisions to employ large numbers of graduates but has a story from baghdad. grown up and her fellow engineering graduates have been camped opposite iraq's oil ministry for almost 2 months they're just a few of the thousands of young iraqis with university degrees protesting outside government buildings in baghdad and they are demanding jobs on the other because i feel a volcano of anger inside me and i'm saying because it's my country and all i'm asking for is my rights iraq has so much oil it's like water from a temp and i'm sitting on the pavement after 16 years of study. every year
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150000 iraqis graduate from university and they are eager to work in their chosen fields but unemployment among 15 to 39 year olds is around 22 percent but says it's in the government's interest to act we said i don't know healthy message to the community here because we make them know that education is not the solution for this country the government sector is much bigger than the private it's tripled in size since 2003 and now employs more than 4000000 people. yet new government jobs are scarce iraq's all minister admits the country's 2019 budget didn't make sufficient provision for employing large numbers of graduates in the ministry but he says iraqi leaders are working hard to create jobs in public companies. the planning ministry says the government needs to focus attention on
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encouraging the private sector to. the government has to find alternative solutions the ministry of planning is focused on our 2030 vision which will also create space for the private sector it needs empowerment supported by lords it is vital for the country's development. of the decades of conflict and political instability iraq has yet to win the confidence of foreign investors. many graduates say foreign companies often bring their own employees from abroad and demand years of work experience from iraqis before offering jobs in baghdad in the summer even at night is almost unbearable but in recent weeks graduates like the have been sleeping on the pavements in areas opposite ministries across the city and it shows just how determined. that the government listen and respond to their demands. we are all determined result and we will not leave this place until we get our
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rights in recent years iraq's population has been increasing annually by about a 1000000 young graduates like would have started most of their lives with the aim of ensuring a better future for themselves and their country but without jobs they say that simply can't be done. 0 back that. don't forget much more news on our website at al jazeera dot com the very latest on all of our top stories on their dot com. hello again i'm fully back to the headlines on al-jazeera british prime minister boris johnson's proposal to hold us not the election before the brics a deadline of october 31st has been voted down and these also passed a bill blocking the possibility of a no deal exit from the ukrainian european union. a rainy and president hassan
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rouhani says his country will operate a nuclear program without limits comes as iran launches the 3rd phase of its withdrawal from the 2050 nuclear deal the u.s. impose new sanctions on tehran for the 3rd time in a week. as we didn't reach out desired result the atomic energy organization will now immediately start what he would. the technical means of the country are in the field of nuclear research and development we will put aside all commitments made in the field of research and development what kinds of new center fuses and everything we need for enrichment the taliban is claiming responsibility for a large explosion in afghanistan's capital which has killed at least 10 people dozens have been injured the armed group says it was talking of foreign forces convoy the blast windows and doors in an area close to foreign embassies and government buildings in kabul taliban forces were behind another blast in the green
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village area on monday that left 16 people dead and more than 100 wounded the number of people killed in the bahamas by hurricane dorian has risen to 20 the u.n. is warning $70000.00 people are in need of aid and as grade $1000000.00 the storm has regained strength and is now a category 3 hurricane threatening the eastern united states chief executive kerry says she would fully support an international inquiry into police conduct during protests in hong kong that comes a day after she announced she would formally withdraw a controversial extradition bill that's watched 3 months of demonstrations also page to follow up on recommendations from the inquiry. and chinese and american trade negotiators are to meet for talks in october to try and put an end to the trade war between the world's 2 largest economies the latest round of tit for tat terrorists between the 2 countries went into effect on sunday those are the headlines has him speak out will be with you in under 30 minutes time for the news
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hour on al-jazeera people in power starts now. after 25 years of affording whirls waste china through the global cycling industry into chaos. the growing pressure of agreement skies is resulting in change we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in. counting the cost on al-jazeera. over 3 months of mass protests unlike. what began as opposition to an exhibition or was it both approved the pro-democracy movement. so why did this crisis develop and why yes i did leave in the 1st of 2 special reports this is the story behind it all comes summer of $25.00.
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government's plans to amend hong kong's extradition role. it was feared anyone suspected of breaking the law could be sent to mainland china to face trial last od outraged hong kong as took to the streets believing such a move would undermine the edge to sri and the city's autonomy. thing our wallow under public pressure the proposal was put on hold. but the protests stopped and the chinese government appeared to be losing patience with. people. here more. quickly. so what was fueling the demonstrations. and where would they lead. lap. and the fust of 2 reports people in power
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traces the evolution of hong kong some of the finance. little that little doubt that led us on the june the 9th was when the 1st major protests kicked off. i'm over the proposed extradition bill had been. simmering for weeks. i know there was among other things hong kong was feared beijing would use the law against its opponents living in or even just passing through the city hall my spirits renewed that you're free gift unnecessary power to the government the hong kong government with sudden appeal is it the china government was something that you would see. organizers said a 1000000 people were on the streets that day. police had a far more conservative estimate of 240000. but despite the town out chief
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executive kerry lamb announced the same evening that's a 2nd reading of the bill would go ahead anyway. but discussion erupted on social media and in various chat groups. they're all his oscar have question what should we do if peaceful mob is useless they think that maybe we should go radical maybe there is something we still can feel and the government may or. the group of protesters decided to head for the entrance of the legislative council building. some attempted to breach police lines. by the time jason or right clashes had erupted. hours for dollars only the so i grabbed my friends like that day me. how it's like that. and called us so they tracked me through the battle barrier that
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they rolled me there and they had given me up at like feature for. i. jason faces a 5 year sentence for unlawful assembly. he says he has no regrets a way to use whatever he can to lead to god to hear our voices even though they may not care even though it is turn out nothing but we need to do this. there are 3. jason's college roommates was also arrested the same night. a philosophy major tie on has weighed the pros and cons of radical action and all with. basic cable in. our homes are. not how you want to. see was on. with my dog
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o'grady ideas on. like many of their peers both jason and took part in the umbrella movement in 2014. 79 days hundreds of thousands of hong kong occupied key roads in the peaceful show of civil disobedience. ah ah. ah but the campaign for universal suffrage ended without any concessions from the government and to many of the movement's leaders but jails. today protesters say they've learned from the past why you're. charging. them so i was on walk on. the water at a higher target sure it's all we don't know how you cut a hole in mines you know it's you know it's
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a way i think it was he told them. about. 5 years after the umbrella movement roads surrounding government headquarters once again filled with protest as. it was the 12th of june 3 days after the 1st major march. a 2nd reading of the extradition bill to take place that morning was a protest as was surrounding the government complex to stop the next just as a council for meeting. the majority of people who showed up. peaceful but some believe more needed to be done to make the government listen it's all it's because. places are still out on the up if i don't i thought i was sitting. there walking as i would or another search of mondale's
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easy to follow orders are the. late morning opposition no make up alvin young received some news. was no new thing for him not how you want all other movie was. but it wasn't what the protesters wanted and they refused to back down. i may think we are. hoping to calm things down approach the police and call. it the dallas. police call the law. anything. that i think month i want if i was like oh boy they told me. not that it's a hot button if you got caught on the but it wasn't on the up i must know.
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that but i think by. not know what are you the folly and some of the make up and much of it on the old age i saw. it was yet another sign of how much things have changed since the umbrella movement. no one person look who was in charge no one could tell these protesters what to do. away from the front lines the protest remained peaceful. up on a bridge filmmaker yang and a group of academics and artists were on a hunger strike. originally from mainland china he now lives in exile in hong kong off to making a film critical of the mainland justice system if enacted the extradition law could be used on him domino watson's ashoka editing to repair the whole.
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side of the foreign ministry wall xanga meetings iou the present 1000 shouted things up each year marrying your jesus. by late afternoon some protesters on the front lines getting restless. outside the main entrance of the legislative council building demonstrates is charged police lines police responded. with rubber bullets. and then tear gas driving school protesters in the area including those not involved in clashes towards the entrance of a nearby building. puts it shed on social media shows a near stampede as hemmed in on 3 sides by police hundreds of protesters attempted to feed through the one unlocked door of this office building.
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outside police continue to fight to cast right into the middle of the fleeing crowd . not. up. was the moment. in another video riot police were seen grabbing hold of and beating this man mucked up. the a are by nightfall police had pushed protesters away from the area surrounding government offices. at around the same time. chief executive kerry lam released this video that a voice sailing on the long boat the white. he said would the. old saying say it is highly softly only
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it outsold take a fuckin cold. it was a characterization with significant legal implications. anyone charged with rioting faces up to 10 years in prison. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah it was a sea of black as hong kong was returned to the streets on the 16th of july. ah ah they marched despite an announcement by lamp that she was suspending debate on the extradition bill indefinitely although harry lamb has postpones a tradition they still do not allow the people or even the pandemic credit legislative council has to stop extradition from passing in fact in 12 days the
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governments can restart their extradition bail can restart the whole legislation process. of the. cause and signs reflective of a growing anger towards the police. last who are accused of using excessive force in clearance operations outside government headquarters. adding to the outrage the death of a protester a day earlier. he had been staging a one person demonstration when he fell from a building. in the weeks that followed 6 protesters killed themselves for reasons that may or may not be linked to the movement. really don't want to see more some size happening. you know understand that this
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coming. contagious this. campaign. which you. talked to was b.r. . together with. 9 days out that the 1st major protest. executive carrie lam told the people of hong kong that she was sorry the concert was over the past few months have been caused by deficiencies in the work of the government over the amendment exercise this has led to controversies this bill was announced in society. for this i offer my most sincere apology so all people of hong kong. for these protesters it wasn't enough when i was when the model turned on you had to work on my own money so i get the chance i was they also wanted nam to stop
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categorizing the june 12th protest as a riot and to set up an independent inquiry into alleged police brutality. but lam wasn't budging. police for their part insisted that actions were necessary and proportionate my office is acting in accordance with our guidelines. and they rightfully use some force to protect themselves and other people at the sea was protesters responded with increasingly radical action. was police headquarters was surrounded and besieged multiple times bad entrances blocked buildings vandalized. it was an embarrassment for
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a forest once known as asia's finest. probating nor make a micro 10 believes lam should shoulder much of the blame it. all does discarded by the chief executive herself she made a pretty good decision it backfired she's a new one to carry resulted putting the police in between. really. isn't fair to the police. or what's made things worse for the police of the new tactics employed by protesters. they've taken pains to hide their identities. and have no known leaders. most of the organizing is conducted online most normal people are using all our foreign oil i.e. k.g. . i have a lot of mobilize ation are clear and reginae for for that for us all and bad they move through telegram and anyone can speak i didn't follow all the messages those
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messages are being over flowing like crazy over a 1000 and say had to fit their minutes. the approach can generate a lot of noise but also plenty of ideas. ahead of the g 20 summit a series of advertisement calling for international support for the movement appeared in major newspapers across the world. strikingly there was now a 5th demand for universal suffrage or free and fair elections for the city's chief executive and football its lawmakers. the project was run by volunteers many of whom had never met each other in the start but crowdfunding on 25th of june which is a tuesday and there will be 8 hours 6700000 were collected. everything was just let them come like that and then within 2 days even the newspaper were
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published. at around the same time a different group decided to organize a march. on aids if i go where i was i'm going to haul you to goldbach i see will not come hey mom told oh i see dar her all i see how he's hanging i got my fingers on at each stop protest is urged g. 20 nations to raise the issue of hong kong during the summit in osaka. protesters said both this and the advertising campaign if old separately and organically in line with the philosophy embraced by many in the movement. of water . a same popularized by hong kong screen legend bruce lee meaning to be adaptable and to go with the flow. that also means nothing about the movement as predictable as the events of the 1st of july what to show.
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it was the 22nd anniversary of hong kong's handover to china and for the 1st time ever the ceremony was taking place indoors. outside 3 meta high barriers surrounded the venue. in various chat groups they had been calls for protesters to disrupt the ceremony police when taking any chances. was. not good. but they didn't see this coming. on able to get past police lines protesters turned their attention towards a different target the let's just it's a council building. on the move on the whole. all the having got all your carry guns all the game no matter what the scene. you. don't think you know that they're part of your thing all of all of the long time
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they've got to believe it was several croton more proceed lawmakers are right soon after warning of severe legal consequences oh. hello dolly was on the knock. out of. the ball. lock stock was up but. we're not out of the thing. on the other side of the glass panels dozens of armed police looks on. the break in happened as hundreds of thousands of hong kong has marched peacefully at the annual july 1st rally. and
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on the way they were greeted by these protesters. many he did the cool although few went to the front line. instead they showed their support in other ways human chains postone supplies to those trying to break in. at around 9 pm the 1st group of protesters were finally entering the lets just as of council. police when nowhere to be seen. a protester the face the emblem of the hong kong special administrative region was . others draped the city's colonial era flag on the speaker's podium. and other tour up a copy of hong kong's constitution the basic law. on. top
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almost. all of all but perhaps the person who made the bold this move was this young man what was the hold up i know much of it i got it all is a lot of one time a letter was all i heard was what it was all it was it myself email under some of the commands edwards and we got some votes like oh it was. brian learn a ph d. student based in the us. left hong kong off to this extraordinary night we banished to speak to him on the phone. in the city council as you know very undemocratic. laws to a very undemocratic politics and deprivation of freedom over the past few years.
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the moment you step into the lecture say to change there's no turning back i miss going to be and now we're never that we have to join forces to. do something. but. i got by would you like they could reach to release a statement reiterating that to mons but the cold to occupy the chamber didn't draw much support you know my family although. they thought i've been talked into having 10 times i will tell those who leave the well bad ball i'm on a whole apartment almost home i don't want to quit that i'm with on target on how they would think that young can go on but they want their young to god's you gonna say oh ok i'm going to. despite knowing the risks rex was one of them and for the protesters who decided to remain. but some of their fellow protesters at the other ideas was. it
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was a. much it was putting a gun to your play on what i thing then yeah that was i want some thing called the only thing that was was a colonel paul i don't want a war. now we have all been high you know about the law. by us when you think that but without how you. think them highly unlikely they don't call them from hey go home don't you know what my movie. critic i want. us to. outside police moved in with tickets. but by
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then most of the protesters were gone. at 4 am that morning the chief executive called a press conference i hope community at large will agree with us that with these violent acts at we have seen it this right for us to condemn it and hope society will return to normal as soon as. we see you know. that. was. what the public condemnation didn't quite materialize. for hong kong's protest as the fight was far from over. next week on people in power questions and recriminations auto suspected tribe members
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for a general election. iran's president says his country will scale back. the . explosion that's killed 10 people in afghanistan's capital what it means for a proposed. south africa shuts its embassy in nigeria after a dispute over attacks against foreign owned businesses in johannesburg. i'm joining the sport as rafa nadal palace on the u.s. open the spaniard through to the semifinals with another straight sets victory new york you know fired up the back to the action for the latest. hello british prime minister boris johnson has failed to break the deadlock over breaks it m.p.'s voted down his attempts to trigger
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a snap election they also passed a bill blocking the possibility of a no deal exit from the european union johnson said he was willing to consider that if no new withdrawal deal was agreed and or simmons has more. another defeat for boris johnson already on the back foot with a rebellion in his party and the opposition taking over the parliamentary timetable i use to the right $327.00 knows the act 299. within minutes boris johnson was on his feet with his plan for a snap elections i don't want an election the public don't want an election the country doesn't want to lection but this house has left no other option than getting the public decide who they want as prime minister and i commend this motion to the under the opposition bill that now has to be passed by parliament
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upper house johnson is forced to seek an extension of the brics a deadline that will move it to january scuppering his do or die plan for a no deal brix it if necessary on october 31st but labor the main opposition party isn't ready to give support to johnson's call for an election which needs a 2 thirds majority that the author of the election to die. it is a bit like the offer of an apple to snow white in the wiki because what he's offering you still is an apple or even election but the poison of a no deal thank you sir was just. i repeat i repeat what i said last night last night let this bill pass and get a royal assent then we will back at election so we do not crash out with no deal exit from the european union. unsurprisingly rude labor abstaining johnson's
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attempt to get an immediate election didn't pass by having the house well we are aware. that the nation has no out of. the majority or quad out of the fixed parliaments fact this is about defending our democracy ahead of the latest political drama demonstrators in parliament square denounce boris johnson's actions accusing him of engineering a no deal grex it by claiming they're all still chances of a deal when there's no progress whatsoever boris johnson may have only been in power for 6 weeks but he doesn't have control right now nevertheless you've only got to listen to the demonstrators to realise the central issue is about trust and the opposition want to be absolutely sure there's a cop up on some guarantee he can't play any tricks if there is an election the
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2nd largest opposition party is also against an immediate election people don't trust him when he says he really wants a deal we all suspect that he wants a new deal and we also want to make sure that he's not able to use his proxy of powers as the prime minister to create some tricks and allow the country to crush out another day of unprecedented moves within parliament and with it still uncertainty about what the people of the united kingdom might expect from its political leadership drew simmons and westminster. hall for more on this we're joined now by lawrence lane who is live for us from westminster in london so lawrence a dramatic day developments in the u.k. . parliament yesterday what what happens now. well yes i mean it certainly seems like a very long time since parliament came back on on tuesday afternoon less than 2 days and inside that time boris johnson has lost 3 votes in parliament he's close
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a massive rift inside his own policy by sucking some $21.00 of his own m.p.'s who refused to support his demand for brics it by the end of october and in doing so he's now in a minority government and all the power clearly now rests with with the opposition who are now off having these things behind closed doors working out their strategy which is entirely aimed at deciding when is the best moment to agree to an election in order to stop boris johnson's version of bricks and that's either going to be on october the 15th which is what boris johnson wants but the opposition parties are worried that if the conception won that election don't someone simply repeal the anti no deal of this nation and still do breakfast at the end of october and so they're now starting to vieques was waiting till the delay starts. on october 31st and then agreeing to an election at some point often interesting lee the main issue
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with aces is what to the labor party think and the other opposition party the liberal democrats and the s.n.p. opening a lot of pressure now on labor to say if you decided for an october election because coleman is not very charming cold in the lebanese leaders and very popular you might lose and johnson might win so don't do that wait until later and it could even be the case frankly that if boris johnson can't get his bricks but in the book so that he might have to resign in which case to be yet another conservative party leadership contest even before an election could take place and so in terms of trying to really squeeze the conservative party and press them their advantage so amongst all of this deadlock and uncertainty lawrence a would sane then that's a general election still looks like the most viable option to look at this point. yeah yeah absolutely it does all all the parties to say that they're happy to have
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a general election it's just it it's about timing and what suits them the conservatives because of where they where the polling is at the moment in the way the british electoral system works would prefer to have a sooner or later and they're also making the arguments very strongly not because they're trying to get back on the front foot they're accusing the opposition parties and jamie colby in particular of being flat out how it's a running away from a general election in the middle of october and they're trying to then say on behalf of the british people if you like look at these opposition parties they're not representing you you'll just as sick of bricks as we are let's just get it done and these people are surrendering to the european union i'm betraying you the people so that he's now going to be the conservative party strategy straight through whenever the elections of happening. all right for the moment largely life . in westminster let's cross over now to charlie angelo who is live for us at london's high court we're hearing is under way on
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a legal challenge to prime minister boris johnson's suspension of parliament charlie what are we expecting no. well i've just come from the courtroom where g.m. and his lawyers are challenging boris johnson on that decision to suspend parliament and she is being supported in her case by fraud most conservative prime minister john major sammy chakrabarti his the shadow attorney general and the welsh government and through their legal representatives they are arguing that this is an improper use of probation that's the official term for suspension of parliament they're saying that the prime minister has unlawfully abused his power and misled the queen as to the real reason of why he wanted such a length the suspension that he claims that he wanted to shut down parliament to set out new legislation to tackle domestic issues to look at funding of the national health service and tackle violent crime lawyers here argued that the real
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reason was to run down the clock on rex it debate we've yet to hear from the lawyers representing the prime minister that will come later but just to give you a little bit of context on this case pro gay tional suspension of parliament is very normal the prime minister is entitle to do it what's unusual here is the length $23.00 days that is the longest time since 1930 the usual suspension period isn't only a few days in 2016 it was 13 days and what gina miller is really arguing is that this case goes far beyond the ramifications of brecht's it what will happen to this government this sets a very dangerous precedent for future governments who want to use it as a tactic unlawfully to shut down debate on issues that they are finding difficult so we have the hearing now and later we'll find out whether or not that will proceed to the proper place or right for the moment when charlie and your life are staring landed outside the high court. of the other stories now iran's president
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says his country's energy program will now operate without limits in his words tehran is taking a 3rd major step in scaling back its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal it is preparing to begin work on advanced centrifuges which would allow it to enrich uranium faster that would shorten the time that it needs to have enough material available to build a nuclear weapon if it chose to do so in july iran abandon 2 of its other nuclear commitments increasing its stockpiles of enriched uranium and its cap on how pure those stocks can be iran announced that it would step up its production of uranium in may but denied it had any intention of building a nuclear weapon is the latest now from iran's president. as we didn't reach our desired result the atomic energy organization will now immediately start what he with the technical needs of the country are in the field of nuclear
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research and development and we will put aside all commitments made in the field of research and development all kinds of new center fuses and everything we need for enrichment. or dosage of bari joins us live now from the iranian capital so door so what's the president been saying then as well about the the 3rd phase of the reduction of iran's commitment to the 2050 nuclear deal. well hasn't president hassan rouhani made the announcement here late wednesday evening alongside him was the head of the country's judiciary ebrahim i.e.c. as well as the speaker of parliament i larijani the president said that this is the most significant with extraordinary effects he said that this is because the signatories under this nuclear deal have not been able to come up with a plan that.
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