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crissy has been slipping somewhat recently in mexico libya and that's what caused the sort of explosion in these protests. thank you very much will definitely stay across what's happening there in the past where protesters are continuing to take to the streets and express their opposition to these this election thank you on our indonesian investigators have found a series of faults by boeing line and the pilots led to last year's plane crash which killed all 189 people on board a boeing 737 max plunged into the sea soon after takeoff from jakarta choi occasionally reports. it's taken these investigators a year to determine exactly what happened in the final moments of lion air flight $610.00 the final crash report blames a combination of factors including design flaws in boeing 737 max jet as well as maintenance problems and inadequate pilot training. the line
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a plane crashed into the java sea 12 minutes after takeoff from indonesia's capital jakarta all 189 people on board died including anton so hardy's cousins he says he's disappointed with the report's conclusions. we actually had big hopes that the government would answer all our questions but the information we've been given adds almost nothing to what we already known. the report highlights problems with boeing's anti stall software knownas and cas it's also implicated in a similar crash in ethiopia in monch which led to the grounding of the max fleet worldwide it's significant because it sort of reaffirms that boeing does share responsibility for this for the way they designed the in care system which is the maneuvering characteristics saying that basically took control of way from the pilots and the pilots were having to fight the airplane pilots flying the line the
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jets had reported problems the day before it crashed and they say it should have been grounded for further tests. i feel that safety is not yet the core concern in indonesia except for the flag carrier airlines i'm worried about the private aviation companies because even though on paper they're checked by safety inspectors accidents keep happening boeing has already paid a high price for 2737 max crashes within 5 months its chief executive was fired and the company's income has hogged engineers have been forced to redesign software and boeing needs to convince the aviation regulators the grounded jets all safe to take off again victoria gate and be i'll just say are. you with al jazeera live from london much more still ahead for you on the program supporters of zimbabwe's ruling party demand an end to longstanding sanctions that stemmed from them not gobby era and a 4th person is now arrested in connection with the $39.00 parties found in
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a container truck police say he was detained while at the airport. and there's still some buying us weather across the southeast of you. sunny skies and dry plains of cloud there to the north and to the west but clearing away wetting quickly from much of these areas catalonia for example into spain and also the southern areas of francis are impacted by the recent flash floods very wet across much of northern europe this is a view in london you've heard the expression last weather for ducks' while the geese seem to enjoying it hail they were holding up the black have in the process more rain in the 4 calls throughout saturday and you'll notice some white showing up this is just really falling on the high ground skies across much of central europe not and i stay across into
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a spain as well and still pretty warm and sunny across areas in the southeast now touches will begin to come down a little bit as we go through the next week said neutrals northern europe but not bad on sunday a 14 degrees a fairly brisk wind from the old west and clearing away from the u.k. but some rain showers that you cross into northern areas of france and the low countries and the rain very slow to clear away from algeria and tunisia is that little system in the med is to sort of sitting there and spinning but we will finally see the end of those shots from northern egypt as we go through saturday and by sunday that say those shows still quite prevalent throughout the area and on into june is the maybe just a shower into tripoli as well but not cool with a high of 23. all the work to stay with most states where we want to rest internment and mass indoctrination all we were children are no due process of reeducation or chinese assimilation forced labor and the use of high tech surveillance we're being
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complicit in the human rights abuses that are occurring in australian investigation into china's systematic repression of the week is tell the world on al-jazeera. look at the headlines now at least 21 people have been killed in cities across iraq in another day of violent antigovernment protests the un is saying there's clear evidence of human rights abuses since the demonstrations began at the start of the month by anti-government protesters have been taking to the streets of the lebanese capital as well and the house in clashes with supporters of hezbollah leader of the
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group is saying the fall of the government could lead to civil war in the country and indonesian investigators have found that a series of faults by boeing lion air and the pilots led to last year's plane crash which killed all 189 people on board. the boeing 737 max plunged into the sea soon after takeoff from jakarta. when other stories we're following russia has sent hundreds of additional troops and military equipment to northern syria as part of a deal with turkey to help patrol the border region russia's defense ministry says 300 military police and 20 on the vehicles have been airlifted in to help oversee the pullout of syrian kurdish fighters it comes a day off to the u.s. said it was leaving some of its troops in the region to help protect oil fields from i still was on a binge of aid has the latest now from the turkey syria border. there's been more fighting in northern syria forces loyal to the syrian democratic forces the kurdish
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fighters are saying that turkish forces backed by turkey as well as arab fighters on the ground have been attacking their positions something that's been denied by turkey turkey saying 5 of its soldiers have been wounded and there has been more violence these are clashes that have continued for the last 24 hours despite the cease fire but they're happening outside the ceasefire zone turkey has insisted that kurdish fighters should leave the 30 kilometer area on the turkish syrian border deep inside syrian territory in these 150 hour window which expires on tuesday feeling that turkey will move in with force on the diplomatic front we've been hearing from the turkish foreign minister reiterating his demands to his western allies including the european parliament as well as the united states that turkey wants them to be on the same page as turkey in is fighting what he calls and what president gardon has been calling terrorism he's been speaking specifically on the issue of the kurdish general who many senators in the united states have vouch
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for and want him to be granted a visa so you can come to the united states the turkish stance on this is that the turkish justice ministry wants him to be arrested gentlemens doom who they say is actually shane is wanted for crimes inside turkey a nato army he's been carrying out attacks and there is an interpol red notice issued for him so it is a fluid situation diplomatically and on the battle lines despite a cease fire although the guns predominantly have fallen silent but fighting continues on the ground. to zimbabwe nelson porter the rulings on a p.f. of been marching demanding an end to long standing sanctions that stand from the time of robert mugabe's rule he was deposed 2 years ago after nearly 40 years in power but many zimbabweans say they are continuing to suffer what has announced plans from harare. some troubled overnights to get out in time for the anti sanctions march organized by zimbabwe's government they want the removal of sanctions imposed by the european union and united states many
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a deal they still being punished by the west because of land reforms by former president robert mugabe when many white farmers had their property seized. his successor says sanctions imposed nearly 2 decades ago are hurting the economy. but. were. the sanctions were imposed following human rights abuses and electoral fraud allegations the punishments include travel bans and the freezing of assets of some officials in the ruling sun appear party as well as the armed forces of the united states the sanctions are targeted with 141 individuals and companies on its list the americans blamed government corruption and failed economic policies was
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a bar with economic crisis and some economists say even though sanctions are targeted every citizen and local business is affected any country's risk reception is breached or restricted measures that have been put by the international community even if i'm a 3rd party investor i ask questions 1st before i come into the country to see why is this you know country and sanctions so the fact that it's in such an increase is the country specific perception and that's one being you know the american to me. zimbabweans say they suffer in yet another economic crisis this one the worst in a decade there is high unemployment soaring inflation and shortage is a few cash and medicines the main opposition movement for democratic change party says the government is using sanctions as an excuse to avoid taking responsibility does what this government has done to the innocent citizens of this going to that is a very difficult. if it's a do the internal problems the general sense it's the prescription of democratic
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rights the image of innocent citizens that protection of innocent citizens in the external sections of. the e.u. and usa sentients will only be fully removed when political and economic reforms are implemented and the rule of law is respected. al-jazeera. when our algerians are protesting for the 36th consecutive friday calling for a complete change in their political system they want all traces of former president under these beautifully because government gone. resigned in april after months of mass protests but many of his former allies retain senior positions within the government demonstrators are also rejecting december schedule presidential election saying it will not be free or fair in the current climate. a court in pakistan has granted bail to jailed former prime minister nawaz sharif so he can seek medical treatment 69 year old shareef is serving a 7 year prison sentence for corruption for which he was convicted last year he
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denies the charges and claims that politically motivated the main opposition pakistan muslim league accuses authorities of victimizing sharif and his family his daughter is also in prison for corruption at least 8 people have been killed after a russian soldier opened fire at a military base in siberia 2 others were injured during a tack in the town of gournay in the country's southeast russian defense ministry says the soldier was suffering from a nervous breakdown when he opened fire on his colleagues a man has been detained. over here in the u.k. police have arrested a 4th person in connection with the 39 bodies found in the back of a container truck on wednesday a 48 year old man was arrested while at a london airport and the heywood has the latest now well i think police have made a 4th arrest in this fast moving investigation he is a 48 year old man arrested at stansted airport on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people a manslaughter 2 other people were arrested earlier both 38
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a man and a woman in northern england with a lorry driver arrested at the scene is still being held by police the real focus now of course is trying to identify the victims in the early stages of the investigation it was thought they were all chinese nationals but some beer the maze families are reported to have raised concerns about the welfare of their relatives including the family of a 26 year old woman who they believe could have been inside the container the deputy chief constable of essex police gave this updates we owe it to those who died to get this investigation right and speculation is not helpful it may in fact hindu around 1st occasion in its progress. be faulty not commenting on any speculation about the nationalities of those who have tragically lost their lives while this clearly is becoming an international investigation involving the belgian or thought is where the lorry came from and also the chinese authorities who are
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pushing the british police to find out exactly what happened and the focus really is on trying to find out where the lorry started its journey and how those people came to be on it in the 1st place social media giant facebook is testing a new feature with users in the u.s. in an effort to combat so-called fake news it's partnering with a number of news organizations to have their stories distributed on a separate news tab a team of editors will help monitor content for the mobile app a similar approach taken by apple news facebook has long been criticized for failing to curb the spread of false information. now the late democratic congressman elijah cummings has been remembered as a leader with fiery moral conviction at his funeral service in baltimore cummings of the 22 years in the u.s. house of representatives but before his death on october 17th civil rights leader was credited with helping calm racial tensions in his hometown of baltimore it was also a leading force in the impeachment inquiry against president trump integrity and
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character his can do spirit made him a guiding light in the congress he pushed back against the abuse of power he was on we bring in his defense of our democracy he had little tolerance for those who put party ahead of country or partisan ship of truths. australia is officially closed to climb is after a decades long fight by indigenous people the last visitors to scale the sacred rock were allowed to stay until sunset with public celebrations to take place over the weekend to commemorate the band the people have called for the climb to be close in 1985 when the park was returned to them andrew thomas reports from the. park. you don't see them from a distance but zoom in and you can like. for these people
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the climb made their trip to special something everyone should experience it's wonderful but you'll stumble through it well yes that's a shame that is a shame like even taiwan even the last one of the last people to climb already before i shot here what change when did you notice people for whom it is a special cultural sites one which they have long said it is disrespectful to climb and equivalent to people clambering over a cathedral or a mosque they were pleased that climbing on the rock was being banned because it shows that. we have a bit of authority over a sacred sites and we can close of if we want to. climbing has been officially discouraged for decades but it's not being banned in fact there's been a safety chain to help those who choose to climb anyway and arrangers who each day check to straggle as closing the climb is controversial many australians see this as a national landmark which belongs to everyone not just indigenous people whose ancestors
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lived nearby the longest. climbing some say has long been part of a visit in a time to the summit of the rock which is 2 miles long and 1500 feet. small can forms the world's most unusual visitors book bearing the signatures of those who sought out this natural temple of the aboriginal in a few years this footage might look just as dated the management board of a road that set targets which when met would trigger the closure of the climb percentage of people climbing i suppose it is a 5 year old as it is needed to drop to 20 percent or below the prime reason for visitors coming through a roof was about the cultural natural values and not the climb and that survey they needed to be adequate activities for people to do other than doing the car. those are things like organized walks for sunset feelings and even segway tours around
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space it was late afternoon on friday when the new closure sign went up 2 hours later the last of those who to send it with the clive was legal came down over the next few days that shane will be removed anyone who chooses to scramble up anyway risks a fine for indigenous australians is much more significant a new era of respect not just for them. andrew thomas al-jazeera at central australia al-jazeera dot com is way to go for more on all the stories we're covering in the bill also plenty of opinion on commentary to be found as well. quick recap of the headlines now at least 21 people have been killed in cities across iraq in another day of violent antigovernment protests prime minister he has
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promised to introduce sweeping economic reforms but demonstrators say they're fed up with empty promises want the entire government gone the u.n. secretary general says there is clear evidence of human rights abuses since the protests began at the start of the month we have issued a report just city days ago with some preliminary findings. we deeply regret the number of. large number of people that have been killed in these circumstances and according to operability findings there were indeed. substantial violations of human rights that took place and need to be clearly denounced and condemned. anti-government protesters in lebanon's capital have been clashing with supporters of hezbollah riot police were brought in to try to defuse the situation the political arm group is part of the hariri coalition government as a leader hassan nasrallah says the fall of the government could lead to civil war
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hundreds of thousands of people across the country have been rallying against the government for the past 9 days. protests in chile as well truck drivers are become the latest group to join a mass demonstrations of an economic conditions which have entered a 2nd week hundreds of trucks caused gridlock on a main highway in the capital santiago demanding an end to road tolls protests initially began last week over a hike in metro fast but of now evolved into wider frustration of income inequality the un is sending a team to chile to investigate allegations of excessive force by police after 19 people were killed. and indonesian investigators have found a series of faults by boeing and the pilots led to last year's plane crash which killed or 189 people on board the boeing 737 max plunged into the sea soon after takeoff from jakarta the report pinpoints multiple flaws in the design and approval of the plane software while noting the captain was sick and the copilot was on
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familiar with emergency call that procedure is well those are the headlines this hour coming up next on al-jazeera it's up front with me he has been. with another deadline about to pass and the deal still not done is democracy in britain being undermined that's this week's debate with former u.k. minister david lammy and economist liam halligan and could bring a return to violence in northern ireland i'll ask a former member of the ira turned member of the european parliament welcome back to a new season of up front you. you.
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you. you. you david lammy and liam halligan thank you both for joining me on outfront to debate what seems to be the only issue in british politics right now breaks it liam i want to start with you you're a supporter of brics it in terms of where we are this week another break that deadline has come and gone another promise has been broken prime minister bruce johnson said last month that he would rather quote be dead in a ditch than ask for another break that delay but he's had to ask for one so does he have a ditch picked out do you think. yeah used to some quite colorful language i think 2 important things have changed mehdi and it's nice to be here what we've seen this week is we've seen the house of commons finally finally actually pass in
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principle a piece of legislation allowing through withdrawal agreement that's something that he's got in his back pocket the 2nd thing is the orus johnson has been keen to show the electorate leave us and remain as that he's been trying desperately to live by that. deadline of the 31st of october hallowing deadline. and it's only in his narrative the house of commons that stopping him in particular the opposition parties led by the labor party so in some senses the high jinx the game playing is still ongoing and how and i think winners see a lot more of that but something really important happened this week when we saw the house of commons as a whole backing a major piece of bracks at legislation that hasn't happened that's true is the referendum in june 26th to give it all the votes he has lost given the mess over his illegal suspension of parliament given now this latest mr bracks that deadline
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what do you say to people who say boris johnson should now resign as his true conservative predecessor through the man david cameron did since bracks it well i think that's what a lot of his political opponents would want but he is riding pretty high in the opinion polls he's got a 1015 even 20 percentage point lead over his nearest rivals if there is a general election that's not to say this is isn't a divided country it's absolutely more divided i think david nial agree than in any time during our our lifetimes we're all ins in similar years. but it has to be said as the opinion polls show. as he's pushed more and more as he's driven this narrative deliberately it's name versus the remaining political and media establishment trying to get. his popularity has gone up ok david lammy you've actually called on boris johnson to resign what do you say to liam when he says
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well hold on he's actually doing very well in the polls despite all this chaos look i've been in politics 20 years and i know that polls go up they come down and different polls tell you different things and frankly i'm not interested in politics that's decided by the polls this is a very very worrying prime minister he's taking quite a lot out of the trouble rulebook he's tearing up our constitutional arrangements trying to suspend and shut down debate in parliament and frankly on any analysis the decision that lies ahead of britain is a hugely significant one boris johnson wants to get this all done in a couple of days basically he's not taking it seriously and the reason he's not taking it seriously is because he as she doesn't want the withdrawal bill and the basis on which she wants to leave the european union properly scrutinised and i wouldn't if i were him either but we don't have it is
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a member of those frankly david isn't it it's we've got with the european union isn't the problem though that you're obviously staunchly and you don't want to break any kind when you talk about scrutiny and parliamentary procedure and parliamentary sovereignty and the suspension of part of it i thought well and good but most people know deep down what you really want is you don't want bracks it was just oh now why hide behind all these others want to say look we're trying to stop breaks it by any means possible why not just say that. look that's a fair point and i'm very clear i think the best arrangement for this country is to remain within the european union but i respect that across my party there's a range of opinion and a range of opinion in the country what i would say is the best way to bring this country back together is yes to allow the deal that boris johnson has now struck and this withdrawal withdrawal agreement that he's put before parliament allow the british people to say do they like it or do they want to remain within
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the european union he won't do that because he's afraid that the british people will say thank you very much now we've seen that you want to dismantle our workers' rights you want to a bad an environmental protections you want to have the minimal free trade agreement with the european union and that would mean tariffs now on our manufacturing on so many goods and services now we've seen this in detail out of the problems we've got in the island of ireland on that basis we want to remain that's why doesn't want to do it and yeah i'm clear we should remain within the european union but i want the british people to ultimately make that decision many let me just say that if they do decide to stay i'll go with it do you agree with david there that there is a very real risk even you as a bracks that must accept given you look at the polls that suggest the british public are not change their mind they want to stay in the e.u. and that's what would happen if you had another referendum people would change their minds now i do you that's right i agree with david we can take the polls with a pinch of salt suffice to say that. polls now show majority of people wanting to
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leave the european union and they show leader of the referendum when of course they voted to leave the european union the real issue i have with this and i do respect where david's coming from he has been a lot more honest than a lot of other people in his party he said almost from the outset a couple of days after the referendum i seem to think that we needed a 2nd referendum that he was completely. opposed at least he's being straight a lot of other people have been hiding behind procedure i have a major problem i'm afraid to call me old fashioned with the idea of not implementing a referendum when parliament has sanctioned the referendum and given the decisions of the british people back in early 2016 parliament voted by a 6 to one to give this decision to the british people or services vested in the people via parliament not in parliament itself and i think it's a major concern if we don't implement that decision and it awful lot of people
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outside the south east london the westminster in the media bubble would be absolutely shocked indeed around the world if britain the mother of democracies if you like on some definitions didn't actually implement a referendum decision david deal with the big picture issue here which is if you are successful in stopping bracks if you will have undermined the result of a democratic referendum that you and your party signed up to in 2016 whatever you think about the rights and wrongs of practice balam massive impact on british democracy and faith in british democracy will it not many no one can tell me a country that has ever undermine democracy with more democracy that is why you can have a general election and you have another general election in 4 years time and let's be clear if we did have a 2nd referendum it would have been in about 4 years time that's the interval of a general election cycle let's also be clear this was
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a referendum that was meant to be in an advisory referendum that was the basis on which parliament set it up i give it some advice what you think but it was really because different parts of the united kingdom had different views and we're ignoring currently the views of scotland and the views of northern ireland particularly and it was also. a referendum which actually relatively it was pretty close knots a people who voted to leave are now no longer with us and many young people were disenfranchised and many brits who live in the european union and abroad who are deeply concerned with our relationship with europe were not permitted to vote and i'm afraid we know now that the vote these campaign broke the law in several places and there was a lot of misinformation so that all many many mature democracies like island like
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portugal there made that point rerun referendum campaigns where people got it wrong how could it be undemocratic to ask the people to vote again you're not overruling the people you're asking them have you change your mind it's 3 years later there's been a lot of chaos since why not get another opinion firstly it was the idea that it was advisories is frankly risible david the government of the day right so every single british house all 27000000 households and so that is with all the stations and some which were part of the fact that the david talent all that are in by through are not my problem is if i can if i can speak if i can speak so let me finish and as you have a general election and then yes you don't have another general election 4 or 5 years later that's because it's a general election it's not a one off referendum that's been sanctioned by parliament they imagine if you had a general election and then you spent 4 years not changing the government you just didn't implement it that's the danger of not implementing something and then asking people to vote again on the same decision which remain on the ballot paper which of
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course is what david wants he can say it's nonsense but it's showed if you put remain on the ballot paper again when that decision has already been made and not implemented because frankly a bunch of the media and political ache but leave your ticket out of the political economist to live your economist you know very well john maynard keynes once said when the facts change i change my mind what do you do lots of facts of. changed to 26 why can't people change their mind i don't quite get it may in fact the changes of the british economy is carried on pretty well despite project fear by whitehall and a lot of westminster saying that the economy will collapse just on the strength of voting for the referendum what we've really seen i think and this is this is sad for me i must say what we've really seen is the extent to which are lots of our establishment distain ordinary voters you all to stick you will misled us made the wrong decision we're going to make you vote again until you make ok writes david
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it's your responses are. out of people in david well i mean see what i mean are you sure that many can i finish. david david you're disappear showing disdain for the electorate we've got this terrible elite that has gripped the conservative party but it's taken them to the hard right that inflames immigration rhetoric and rhetoric around muslims black people a leader that's been very very racist in room and we've also got these public schoolboys they've been eaten and heroin very posh schools who now claim to speak on behalf of working class people i represent the working class area i don't recognise what i'm hearing and on the government's own figures this particular deal that boris is putting before far women would see a drop in g.d.p. of 6.7 percent that is not contested and it is bigger than we thought in the 2008
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crash and they will be doing that to working class areas they're not going to suffer the super rich will get wealthier and the middle class will just about survive but the poorest in our society whole tracks of the north of england deprived areas like my own in london will suffer hugely you know we're running out of time before we do live you've mentioned how divided the country. now as david just mentioned racism and the rise of islamophobia racism other things it's not something you thought would happen and is that something you accept is linked to bricks it let i come from a similar part of london as david lammy we're from very similar socio economic backgrounds i'm the son of immigrants to you and we suffer plenty of discrimination in our lifetimes and he knows that because we've known each other for a long time and we do actually quite like each other to leave it on our viewers should look at the pew international poll poll ratings of surveys of tolerance across across europe and indeed the world this country has the highest tolerance of
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immigration and this is a poll just in march 29th saying this country is the most welcoming to immigrants than any other member of the e.u. and it has the highest tolerance towards immigrants are you saying that hasn't made a rise in racism since 2016 there are awful people everywhere in this country except for us and of course there are some racists in this country there are far far fewer that would you know i honestly and i'm not denying that i'm just has there been an increase since 2016 this that seems to suggest there have been my own my own experience is that and talking to lots of people is that there hasn't been i do think there are an awful lot of politicians who are dangerously trying to airline the idea of people voting to want to live in a set sovereign independent country with a more direct democracy with division and the outbreak of hostility towards certain ethnic and social groups this is a very tolerant country there's a lot of less crime and there are big cities of course there is racism i think it
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would be better just got on with this and implemented the decision just a nifty clearly you can be a tolerant country and still see an increase in racism within a tolerant country the racially motivated hate crimes compiled by the home of a show there has been an increase david we're out of time last point do you want to respond in terms of what britain's becomes 2016 or where you place the blame for that britain is horribly horribly divided. there looks like no prospect of this coming together at the moment hate crime has gone up by 41 percent he's wrong to suggest that the economy's great it's not great we've got massive under employment particularly in the economy knots of community left behind austerity was hurting and things are set to get worse under this deal so i'm afraid this is a very very low moment i've never seen it like this and i've almost i'm almost now 50 all of us are extremely worried in our country politicians threatened with their lives i face death threats nearly now on
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a weekly basis we lost cox during the referendum campaign and we have a prime minister who takes his cues from steve bannon and this is deeply deeply worrying how they've captured captured the mood here throb throb what we're seeing with the republican party and they're taking britain down this down this path and the only person that benefits frankly are the few super rich that will get wealthy because of their sovereign wealth funds and the movement of money around the world and very sadly our opponents in countries like russia who seem to be manipulated much that's going on in our own country david lee and we'll have to leave it there thank you both for joining me on from. one of the biggest stumbling blocks to brics it has been the all important issue of northern ireland 20 years ago the good friday agreement put an end to decades of sectarian violence there which killed more than 3 and a half 1000 people today with bricks around the corner and fears of a hard u.k.
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irish border returning to the island of ireland that hard won peace is under threat could really bring about a return of the northern irish conflict and maybe even a breakup of the u.k. martina anderson was a member of the ira who was freed from prison as a result of the good friday agreement and is now a member of the european parliament for the shin fein political party she joins me from strasburg martina anderson. thanks for joining me up front you're welcome your political party shin fein played a critical role in the resolution of the northern irish conflict you signed up to the good friday agreement you supported the laying down of arms on all sides how worried are you that brics it where there are a no deal brics or even a brics that under the terms of this deal proposed by boris johnson making its way through parliament how worried are you that brics it could lead to a return of violence in your part of the world it's important to the state at the outset that the war is over conflict it's over and
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the people of ireland want to continue on the pathway that we haven't barked on 21 years ago why should terrible things and it's how you get out of it how you build conflict resolution but there is one thing for sure there pranks it is totally incompatible with the good friday agreement and the people of ireland will not align the british establishment to have false as collateral damage but when you say it's totally incompatible with bricks it is up all forms of bricks it is a deal bricks it which brings back a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland or is it this boris johnson bracks it which parliament this week voted on which puts the border in the see and avoid some of the hard border issues allegedly. well there is no good prank sent but a crash it is the worst of all we have the marking to ensure that they would never
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be returned to a harder border in maryland they close the border is already too hard in ireland and do you think the border is coming but i'm wondering given this week's events what do you now think is going to happen because on the one hand you have some hard bricks it is in the u.k. parliament saying actually we could still get a no deal brokered by the end of 2020 and you yourself said back in august to boris johnson when you say you don't want to hold border we don't believe you do believe in now. well it's not a very believe in boris johnson i can assure you of that of course there could be a crash and that would be the worst pranks of all but that's where we are at the moment there was a photo. in westminster and the majority of the m.p.'s in that house of chaos formally known as the house of commons actually forwarded for the british withdrawal from the e.u. you know what they didn't fold for what they didn't support was the time frame as
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to how long we take for that to be concluded so we know for the for a 1st time in that house here's there has been the thought that has supported that deal so if that deal was to be implemented then this deal that has been agreed comes in immediately after the translation period and it's just for us to understand and for your listeners to understand the backstop was only going to be applied on less on until it was needed whereas this deal ny comes entry into force immediately after the transition period so we have gone from something that the some temporary in the backstop to semi permanent arrangement the former chief british negotiator in northern ireland jonathan powell recently wrote mr jobs. may have done more for a united ireland than the ira ever did not that many people were talking about irish reunification before 2016 now post the british referendum the polls suggest a lot more people could brics it provide
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a back door route for getting what you and your part you've always wanted a united ireland well of course people in chin fein in within the republican family he represents the majority of the people in the north of ireland have been talking about irish the unification and someone like myself all of my adult life that. has actually acted as an accelerant to that conversation because people are looking at the good friday agreement and i understand the position in the good friday agreement that we all. far i didn't i was in prison but people from my tradition folded forward because of the position in the agreement that stated that the british secretary of state had the discretion and an obligation to bring about a unity referendum in ireland when it appeared likely that the majority of the people in the north of ireland consented. no deficit big. strategic swallow for us as a wish republicans who believe in the sovereignty of the whole of the island but
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opinion poll after opinion poll the last one for instance lloyd lord ashcroft shows that there is a growing majority of people in don't want to show you growing majority in the euro and indeed it shows 51 percent of people in northern ireland support independence 49 percent support reunification 49 percent don't that's within the margin of error that's basically a statistical tie. of course it's within the margin of error but as you would know 52 percent is dragon the people of britain 8 of the and i believe it was like 51 percent in america they got your president elected so based on statistics and that's all we can go with the moment and point you make if we want to send as a journalist. in such a tense place to tell history of violence with a history of violence attempts plays where you want to make big decisions you can't blame you unionist opponents like the do you believe the democratic party for being
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against this breaks the deal because they still have to represent whole for almost half the people in that part of the world who don't want to united ireland the d.p. do not represent 50 percent of the people in the north of ireland represent less than 30 percent of the people in the north of ireland so the d.p. do not speak for the majority of the people in the north of ireland what i'm trying to explain to you at this moment in time universities civic society lawyers and many many others on. and a cam and reasonable conversation about a plan and preparing for a constitutional change in the let me just explain to you that in the north of ireland and in ireland people realize that their rights of which they file you their citizenship of which they and some like myself a critic engage with you know with needs to be reformed but we know that there is a democratic pathway back into the and let us all recall that on the 29th of april
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27th when michelle barr need the chief negotiator was given this mandate that the european kind soul statement of that day said that in the offend of irish reunification the whole of ireland will remain the only a few weeks ago we had president with chromed standing forests johnson and he's saying that the solution to the backs of problem is irish reunification but of course it is up to the people of ireland if as you suggest the poles are moving in your direction the europeans are on board for a unity referendum and you end up getting a united ireland off the back of brics it is an irony that you have boris johnson to thank for that you know the only people we will have to thank for that ourselves it will be the people of iran don't you just said you all hold it against britain but break into the land if you're going to volunteer and as a result of something you voted against you're going to get something you want but
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some irony is that no. i wish people in the north of ireland folded to remain in the and on to the good friday agreement we have a democratically endorsed pathway back into the and we would like the people of america the people of the world here on the stand that we are the regional people in the room and we're having for a good informed conversations about constitutional change in ireland margaret anderson will have to leave it there thank you so much for joining me on outfront thank you very much. that's our show up from going back next week.
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began at the start of the month prime minister abdullah abdullah has promised to introduce sweeping economic reforms but demonstrators say they're fed up with empty promises and won't need time government gone it's going to reports now from the capital baghdad. the sound of stun grenades reverberated around to rear square in baghdad on friday dozens of protesters were overcome by clouds of tear gas they chanted free baghdad corrupt officials out from iraq's capital to the southern city of karbala iraqis demanded the resignation of prime minister i do not have to maddy and his government they are not many other states that's all they can not do anything that can look minutes at the event at the school not this the country the nationwide protests were on the 1st anniversary of mehdi taking office there are also a continuation of protests which began at the beginning of the month that have
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killed $149.00 civilians and 8 members of the security forces the government acknowledges the excessive force was used to somebody they call it a democracy put the hands they used to wield this democracy are dictators when they kill their people with snipers it's not democracy in addition to promising to punish those responsible for killing protesters mehdi announced that he and other government leaders will cut their salaries by half and divert the money to a fund to help the poor is also vowing to reshuffle the government next week by or ties in qualifications before party or set time. for you as we heard about reforms it's just a sleeping pill to calm the people all of us are rejecting this corrupt government protesters are primarily young men desperate for jobs they can't find in a country where the gap between rich and poor only seems to grow because you are
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located to medicate i'm jobless i have $0.24 now i told the television station see me this is all i have. protesters say they want to live in an independent iraq not one that's a puppet of the united states as you rot the office of an iranian backed armed group was torched in the southern city of summer walk the prime minister says if the government resigns now chaos will follow protesters remain unmoved they say the solution is for a new government to take over the talks are going to aim. well they've been protests unfolding in lebanon as well antigovernment protesters in the capital beirut have been clashing with supporters of hezbollah riot police of wharton to try to calm the situation the political group is part of prime minister saad hariri coalition government as bala leader hassan nasrallah says the fall of the government could lead to civil war hundreds of thousands of people across the
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country have been rallying against the government for the past 9 days. to chile now truck drivers have become the latest to join mass protests of the economic conditions that have entered a 2nd week hundreds of trucks schools gridlock on a main highway in the capital santiago demanding an end to road tolls protests began last week over a hike in metro fez but of evolved into wider frustration over income inequality the un is also sending a team to chile to investigate allegations of excessive force by the police after 19 people were killed. and the u.n. is also saying that it supports an audit of bolivia's disputed election results after allegations of fraud bolivians have blocked streets and lit fires in the past calling for their vote to be respected incumbent president evo morales was declared the outright winner in sunday's vote securing a 4th consecutive term critics say the vote was rigged the u.s.
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brazil argentina and colombia called for bolivia to hold a runoff between where alice and his top challenger carlos messrs. tell the world the program is coming up next focusing on the story of the week of muslims of china . northwest china what's called the singeing autonomous region. in august 28th seen a united nations committee said it had received reports suggesting that new government policies were transforming the region into quote a massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy more than a 1000000 we get as many of the muslims and other ethnic minorities have been
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rounded up there detained and forcibly indoctrinated all of us many of us will cry . when we align. we decided to talk about it. just. tell the world. everyone. what happened what's been happening it's happening now. australian wheat years have been detained while visiting china and their relatives in singeing are under constant surveillance and like other weak years have had their passports confiscated every single people received last from one in their in their family. alone in the world of the. personal testimony satellite imagery and government documents point to what some analysts believe may be the largest imprisonment of a group of people on the basis of ethnicity since the 2nd world war. this is an act
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of cultural genocide on one of the worst human rights abuses of our time i'm quite used to uncovering dirty secrets of the chinese government but when i realized the magnitude and the impact the implications of what i found it was it was really something else. china's mass internment of its muslim population is directly affecting astray and we get families this film examines the chinese government's campaign of cultural and religious repression in singeing and asks what can be done to challenge it.
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most members of the australian we get community i'm missing someone. everyone has a family member detained imprisoned or trapped in singeing. many have remained silent out of fear for their relatives in china but now in a state of desperation they're starting to come forward and make their story known . my older brother younger brothers and 2 young sisters 5. taken by the chinese government masked police heavily armed special forces police raided their home and taken them by covering their face and shackling them in front of the kids they took my father and brother. and they detained them to the internment camps as a father as
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a husband most important thing is your wife and your kids and that they are not with me. saddam. left singeing to study in a stray 10 years ago and became in a strange and citizen in 2013. yes yes this is. the us from the. saddam has never met his son
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who is now 2 years old and. look he is trapped in sin jang with his mother saddam's wife and the dealer. will it was or. is it. all i worked as live a normal life because charlie stay with mossad stay with my wife gets all i want. would be so hard to bring my wife and my son here. there are around 3000 we get is in a straight they're muslim and speak
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a turkish language and many sort of asylum in australia to escape government persecution in sin jack. which has. been now free to practice their religion in their adopted home but in syria jang the chinese government has affected well you know it is like. they. can't pray a conference. need to speak chinese in the school. the government come to. that ridiculous point where actually they controlling the why we look men are not allowed to have it be it and a female not allowed have scuff even long dress. the government crackdown on the week has followed decades of ethnic and religious tension this was exacerbated by the migration of millions of han chinese the dominant ethnic group
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of mainland china into sin jack wiggers began to feel themselves being dispossessed of their land. dispossessed of their way of life. 6 in july 2009 protests broke out. nearly 200 people were killed with reports that over a 1000 week is were arrested. in response the beijing government launched what it called a strike hard campaign and we get areas to suppress dissent. would it began to do is really systematically step up its police presence as well it's party infrastructure. to begin to surveil the weaker
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population. and so some of them struck back in really terrific ways. there was a suicide.

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