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the press is not after trump is after the we're not the enemy of the people we are the people u.s.a. the current battle ground truth is it anyway on. iran's president announces another break from the nuclear deal while stressing it can be reversed to both sides return to the negotiating table. hello again my name's peter dhabi you're watching al-jazeera live from also coming up a renegotiated e.u. withdrawal deal and another referendum for his main opposition leader plays out his brics plan ahead of the general election. people throwing their belongings from a building as it's in the gulf to inflame above
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a crowded market in my jury. and fighting back a community displaced by diamond mining in sierra leone takes a stance in court. there on seeking another step away from the 2050 nuclear deal hasan rouhani says it's about to start injecting uranium gas into more than $1000.00 centrifuges it's the latest fallout from the u.s. decision to pull out of the last year and his daughter jabari explains it's likely to put more pressure on the remaining signatories. president hassan rouhani arrived at this factory in teheran for an inauguration ceremony but he used the term announce enron's 4th and most significant step in scaling back its commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal more as fire door on iran's 4th step will be launched at the photo nuclear facility and i will advise the atomic energy organization to start as
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of tomorrow by feeding gas into the centrifuges i will also inform the p. 4 plus one of the step this new action will also be under the supervision of the international atomic energy agency for don't you clear facility is the only place where iran can and has produced 20 percent enriched uranium. that's considered an important stage towards developing uranium with the potential for a nuclear weapon it has always been a controversial facility its existence was revealed to the world by iran in 2009 that was after the united states intelligence agencies alleged that there was a secret nuclear facility in iran and the president acknowledged that there are sensitivities surrounding the plant. this may increase concerns we know people are sensitive about a quarter when it's centrifuges but whenever they uphold their commitments we will reverse our steps. under the nuclear deal of 2015 for doe had become solely
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a research facility it was one of the most contentious points of the joint comprehensive plan of action or a agreed with world powers to limit iran's nuclear program since the united states withdrew from the deal in may of 2013 and imposed the series of new sanctions on iran officials here decided to gradually reduce their compliance and have been saying that if they are not able to sell their oil or to get the benefit of the transaction with the global financial system there is no benefit for data to remain a party of the new cardio that to president rouhani declaring in may that every 60 days iran will announce another step until the remaining european signatories uphold their end of the. this latest announcement will have serious consequences for iran and officials here are very aware of that but president rouhani has stressed that all these measures are reversible as soon as the european signatories of the deal so for compliance until then iran will continue to take these steps
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while the international community continues its condemnations north of. tehran. britain's main opposition leader jeremy corbyn has laid out how he plans to resolve the brics across the if his labor party wins december's election mr coburn says it negotiate a new withdrawal deal with you which would keep britain more closely aligned with the blog then put that due to voters in a 2nd referendum with the other choice to be cancelling breaks it all together the tories have failed on bracks it for 3 years a labor government will get bricks it sorted within 6 months by giving you the british people the final say. and he would following that story for us out of london and he says he can do it in 6 months as a big promise it is a big promise given that we've been in this mess now for 3 and a half years 6 months is a pretty big promise indeed but jeremy corbyn has really been accused over the past
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few months of not making clear his bricks it policy but he said it was very clear and simple today that they will go back and renegotiate with the e.u. based on current negotiations with the bloc that they've been having and then get this deal back within 3 months and then put it back to the people they'd say do you like this deal or do you want to stay in the e.u. would be a simple as that he made it sound very simple indeed but from likely to be that clear cut if that does happen but but he was really trying to press ahead again with this idea that boris johnson he said hijacked bricks it he talked again of about these ideas that the tories wanted to sell off part of the n.h.s. and he certainly got a lot of support from those in the room when he said it was simply not to fail and an investigation about alleged russian meddling in the original referendum is being held from public release. yes there's no sign of that report being released as yet we understand that the report went to downing street on october the 17th it was
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actually finalized back in the spring here yet no sign of it as i was saying but there was a great deal of pressure coming on the government to try to get them to release really 3 port it sent us we understand on alleged interference by russia in the run up to the 27000 general election and also the referendum which led britain to decide to leave the e.u. back in 2017 thank you israel supreme court has upheld a government decision to expel a senior human rights watch official omar who is an american citizens accused of supporting a boycott campaign against israel the court rejected as a few saying the interior minister made a mistake in not renewing his work these are these really government is essentially saying that mainstream advocacy for palestinian rights is not part of free expression in the country that it deserves a separate standard for review and if the israeli government gets its way today
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with human rights watch who will look throughout next the precedent of this decision threatens to affect the work of many other advocacy organizations it's a chilling decision that essentially puts the court's veneer of legitimacy and legality on the netanyahu government's policy to muzzle human rights criticism and dissent. at large. iraqi protesters a blocking roads and bridges in baghdad and elsewhere as they step up pressure on the government. security forces fired live rounds of demonstrates is gathering near the state t.v. had courses killing at least 5 people running schools from end to the bloodshed in the protests of achieve the goals and the no hurting the economy the touch of a man has more from backed out. what we're seeing is an escalation by protesters because there is an impasse between them and the government protesters here in
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tahrir square released a statement on monday evening saying the entire government must go and that includes dissolving the parliament which do you say is what they missed for election rigging they're calling for early elections and they're also calling for an election committee that would have members free of political party affiliations the president has announced the prime minister i don't know that he would resign once the successor was named he did not give a timetable for that we're indicate word for lack of a new minute after the president has also said that a new election law is going to be drafted a new election committee will be formed and the members will be selected based on credentials not party affiliations but again no timetable has been given the president has only said that a draft of a new election law is being worked on and will hopefully be submitted to the parliament for its review this week i spoke to
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a political analyst and he says we're dealing with a government that doesn't realize that it is tied up that it wants to cling to power and protesters are fed up they've been protesting on and off since 2010 and he says they no longer trust the process no longer trust the government and they will continue to stay in the square and so there are they believe their demands are going to the max. turkey's president says u.s. forces are still holding joint patrols with kurdish faces in northern syria the fighters are meant to withdraw from the so-called safe zone that turkey is working to establish now that's part of a deal between president wretch up top or the one and russia's vladimir putin turkey launched a military operation to clear its border with the north east of syria of what it calls terrorists. terrorist. unfortunately what is the united states doing with terrorist organizations y p g n p y
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d they're also carrying out patrols in their way they were supposed to withdraw how can we explain america holding patrols with terrorist organizations in this region even though they made the decision to withdraw this is not in our agreement. demonstrators in lebanon blocking more roads as protests and 20th day despite the prime minister handing in his resignation last week there's no sign of progress towards an agreement on a new government stephanie decker is in deep north of beirut where the army has started clearing one of the main highways. the army has now turned out in full force. and they're trying. to route out you can see a lot of frustration here on the drivers. there's orders being given by the army commanders. to say on. this highways and backed up all the way she'd. try.
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the protesters are putting their hands up shouting peaceful. that there's a lot of. frustration. the protesters during this to keep the pressure on the government but a lot of people are getting upset so civilians in the south. was . the situation that we're in isn't normal you're protesting and we support you but choose your places to allow people to access hospitals for children texas schools the government is losing millions of dollars and then what do you
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think about the corrupt government of that's what's happening i hope the army won't open the road by force. that's wrong but. the army of the far right the road blocks that were in place now opening up this major highway the protesters are saying they will come back to the street because our demands haven't been that there's been no political movement and they say that this way is the only way to keep the pressure on the government. emergency crews in nigeria fighting a big fire which has threatened to destroy a multi-story building people race to safety below the blaze broke out on the roof of the popular. some people tried to fight the blaze through their possessions out the window. into 5 faces from reaching the building from. here on al-jazeera including what's next to the world's climate change agreement the u.s. has formally starts the process of leaving. people who say they're being targeted
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unfairly by protesters in hong kong. thanks. hello once again welcome to look at the international forecast with us last fall and dry for good parts of 1st central and eastern china we're going to have some pleasant sunshine coming through but huge swathe of plant here as you can see in the south china seas and that may well develop into a tropical system tropical depression tropical storm as we go through the next few days either way we're looking at more very heavy rain rolling across the philippines and it will gradually push over towards central and southern parts of vietnam north of that as you can see warm sunshine to hong kong gets up to around $29.00 degrees celsius lots of dry weather hazy sunshine into northern parts of india no saw of any rain nothing to clear the the filth out of the air there in
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suwannee delhi for example what right me to you have to be further south to go whether the name says for lanka to go mark will see developing system push its way in here showers longer spells of rain on the eastern side of the bumping go through the nicobar islands up towards and ma western parts of india also seeing some wet weather at the moment and notices circulation. mohammad making its way back towards gujarat as we go through the next couple days a possibility of some localized flooding just notice some welcome showers not disposed of by possible to the north. for you protesting about how does this income to where they are on line well i face mental state i'm directly translated slavery or if you join us on saturday this is an attack on academic freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely
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this is a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice climate change is real the discussion is real and i'm here to talk about the solutions on how does iraq. welcome back updates on the top stories for you so far this half hour iran taking another step away from the 2050 nuclear deal the president hassan rouhani says raney and gas injection process will be started this band under the agreement. britain's main opposition leader jeremy corcoran has laid out how he would use all the bricks in crisis if his labor party wins next month's election open says he
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wanted to see if a new withdrawal deal with the european union could then put that to voters in a 2nd referendum. iraqi protesters are blocking roads and bridges in the capital baghdad and several provinces as they step up pressure on the government on monday security forces fired live bronzing demonstrators gathering near the state television have forces killing at least 5 people. now the u.s. has started the formal process of withdrawing from the paris climate accord the pact between $185.00 countries was set up in 2015 to fight climate change but it'll take at least a year before the u.s. can officially leave iraq math. june 27th and president donald trump announces that the us will no longer support a global agreement to limit greenhouse gases the united states will withdraw from the paris. i'm in a court. the u.s. is estimated to be the 2nd worst polluter in the world trump says the deal puts an
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unfair burden on u.s. workers on monday the u.s. began the legal process of pulling out the world's worst polluter is said to be china its economy is heavily dependent on coal but it's staying in the paris agreement or will be argued we believe that climate change is a common challenge faced by all of humankind all members of the international community should join hands to cooperate among china's allies another signatory french president emanuel mark wrong you know for the let me must confirm next year new commitments 420302050 the cooperation between china and the e.u. in this respect is decisive somebody of climate change is happening naturally others say the driven by industrialization and human consumption environmentalists say the number of extreme weather related incidents is increasing there are 22 of
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the 50 states in the u.s. who got climate action plans as 550 cities or who are doing so so in this sense trump does not represent the entirety of the us he represents the federal aspect of it which is which is really a helpful leaving the paris agreement was a trump campaign promise but the u.s. cannot officially withdraw until november 4th 2021 day after the next u.s. presidential election rob matheson odyssey. india's top court has summoned regional leaders demanding solutions to the country's pollution crisis air quality did improve slightly since monday but it's still deemed hazardous the supreme court has accused state governments of failing to take effective action against farmers burning stubble and other polluting practices in the capital new delhi because of being restricted from flights by. the chinese president xi jinping has put his support on kong's leader on show during
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a surprise meeting in shanghai mr sure you spoke to carry on the sidelines of a trade event on monday expressed a high degree of trust in the hong kong government's ability to tackle months of antigovernment protests. during a very short meeting with preston seeking peace here express caring concern about hong kong especially given the social disturbances that we have seen in the last 5 months and he expressed support for the various actions taken by the hong kong special ministry of reaching government and we will continue to do so in strict accordance with the principle of one country 2 systems up holding the off law and trying to put an end to the violence that we have seen in the last few months catherine you has more now from beijing. carolan met that xi jinping on the sidelines of a big international trade expo that's happening this week and they had what was really a very positive meeting now this follows 5 months of turmoil and increasingly violent
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protests in hong kong this has been a big source of concern and embarrassment from beijing but there was no sense at all of any reprimand or any displeasure from xi jinping to carry land in fact he expressed a high degree of trust and confidence in him government and acknowledged all the hard work that should been putting in to really try and calm the situation now this seems to really be a message from xi jinping to the people of hong kong and the rest of the world that carry land is that to stay as the leader of hong kong and that really puts to rest some speculation that they were preparing to replace or as a leader as early as the beginning of next year now many in hong kong are really going to be unhappy at this meeting and they're going to see really it as further proof that kerry land is little more than a puppet of the government of beijing and president xi jinping ended his reasoning with caroline to say no we really want you to continue these discussions with the people of hong kong to improve their lives which reflects what the communist party
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here believe about the protests that they're not about wanting more democracy than not even political the really just about the frustrations of the people in hong kong about lack of work opportunities about the lack of things like affordable housing and beijing is hoping and they do believe that once those issues are addressed that these protests will start to peter out. and hong kong does brace for more demonstrations people from mainland china living there say they are increasingly being targeted some say the threats and intimidation have now become so serious they're considering leaving his. home kong has suffered some of its worst violence in weeks anti-government demonstrators increasingly taking aim at businesses linked to the chinese mainland and chinese people living and working here say they've been attacked as well. this assault on a j.p. morgan banker went viral further
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a moving chinese citizens here the 1st banker get. this because this imad the ring that he said china's. that was shocking ricky z. is a mainlander working in hong kong's financial sector he says in public he no longer speaks mandarin the dialect most widely spoken on the mainland yes only a few angry and also feel afraid i mean. more frayed angry i guess and have been so many times. feel like at this hour this could only happen to to me my family and my friends this is a bad feeling frankly speaking ricky says some of his mainland friends who didn't feel safe here have now left he'll do the same if the violence worsens there have been tensions between mainland chinese and hong kong people ever since the handover in 1997 when this former british colony was returned to chinese sovereignty since
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then more than a 1000000 mainland chinese have come here to live and work and local people complain that that has helped to push up property prices as well as to increase competition for jobs and public services many of those migrants are from fujian province some who voiced support for the hong kong police and say that's led to their businesses being. attacked. this restaurant owner agreed to talk to us if we didn't identify him he says he's worried about what could happen to him and his family if protesters discover where he's from. you know why i'm afraid people are going to be part. and taking nice to protesters so on my restaurants website have changed type of scene from future in style to hong kong style. some people here say the protests are also about something else identity and even though many demonstrators can trace their roots back to the mainland they now see
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themselves as hong kong is 1st and chinese 2nd adrian brown al jazeera hong kong a community in sierra leone has taken a diamond mining company to court people say the government failed to protect them when it handed their land to a mining company called. families have been moved elsewhere 100 say they will fight the of action. reports from. for decades. damon miners lived off the land instead of district. until the arrival of multinational mining companies. in the shadow of the biggest mining forms in sara leone these workers labor in the pits or the hope of getting a storm or 2 but they fear their homes and the pits will be off limits. the government has handed their property to the octu mining company to expand its
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operations. gena bio is among the hundreds of residents who've been affected but we don't know. why. they did not even allow us to pack our bags they sent down rocks and water should destroy our house our clothes money everything was covered in debris. trouble began at the end of the country's civil war when most people started returning home from refugee camps when most of them who came back the. place is now safe is that they rebuild their homes with proper documents the company challenge them that even the up with enough legal homes protest followed in subsequent years killing and injuring a number of people and more more who are strapped and killed during a demonstration in 2017 is buried right here in the middle of the street as a sign of resistance to the mining companies and government are suddenly on the
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stand of i.q. is ations of abuse and displacement between the community the mining companies and the government has now escalated to west africa regional court members of the community also claim their farms and water sources have been polluted by mining activity is. here has built new homes for those who have been evicted jenna timely was given a 4 bedroom house instead of the 5 they were living in. complains it's small and that it leaks whenever it rains. pretty much house and farm have also been marked to be taken over but he vows to fight on all because he says the terms are unfair. by all of the iowa people they are everything to do everything. because they have money and. they are using our own local authorities i gave us because they have not . the community has taken its case before west africa's regional court because they
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say the people have little faith in the justice system here. an official of the mining company or at 1st denied knowledge of the court case later said he can't comment on the matter that's before the court or just part the lawyer representing the government of sierra leone acknowledged receiving the court papers but says the government was yet to study them. with a lot at stake many people here expect a trial to be long and hard. i'm a decrease al-jazeera. said early on tech companies with billions of dollars have been under scrutiny for how they've contributed to a housing crisis in the u.s. state of california now one of them is putting some of its profits into providing affordable homes rob reynolds with that story. california has more homeless people than anywhere else in the us last year there were approximately 130000 people in the state without housing a 30 percent increase over 2017 according to the most recent homeless count
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59000 people in los angeles were living on the streets or in tent camps rehab centers or shelters in san francisco the figure is close 210000 apple which is valued at 961000000000 dollars announced a 5 point plan that devotes $1000000000.00 for an affordable housing fund another $1000000000.00 in assistance for 1st time homebuyers and opening up $300000000.00 worth of property apple own for low income housing development so we've been working on issues to prevent reduce and almost in the community for the past decade another $200000000.00 will be focused on a san francisco housing fund and support for that city's poorest and most vulnerable i think we're actually have the dollars truly addressed in this action there for the house and but we now need neighborhoods and local politicians to
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welcome. new housing into their neighborhoods as technology companies expand their highly paid workers drive up the price of housing making rents an affordable for middle and low income households california has a chronic housing shortage in part due to restrictive rules on new development in many cities and towns the san francisco bay area where apple is headquartered ranks as the most expensive place to live in the u.s. apple c.e.o. tim cook said in a press release that quote we know the course we are on is unsustainable and apple is committed to being part of the solution california governor gavin newsome called on other companies to follow apple's example last. month facebook pledged a $1000000000.00 package of housing loans and grants in california and in june google announced a similar $1000000000.00 effort to create affordable housing economists say however
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that by themselves the billions promised by tech companies will not solve the housing crisis extensive new government housing policies and massive financial investment are also needed they say robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories iran is taking another step away from the 2050 nuclear deal haasan rouhani says from weapons day iran will start injecting uranium gas into more than $1000.00 centrifuges process was banned under the agreement but mr rouhani didn't say whether it will be used to enrich uranium those are his reaction from tehran what this means is that the future of this so-called jason pill way that's the nuclear agreement getting bleaker and bleaker with sap that iran takes this is the 4th that they've taken so far since may of
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this year that's when president hassan rouhani said that because the united states withdrew from this deal and imposed a series of new sanctions on iran the european signatories that are left are not complying with the steal and until that happens iran will continue to take these measures to get back its nuclear program on track and to make up for the loss times of the past 4 years britain's main opposition leader jeremy corbyn has laid how he plans to resolve the crisis if his labor party wins the election on december the 12th it's called and says he'll negotiate a new withdrawal deal with the e.u. which would keep britain more closely aligned with the trading block will then put that deal to voters in a 2nd referendum but the other choice would be cancelling bret's it altogether. israel supreme court has upheld a government decision to expel a senior human rights watch official he's omar he is a u.s. citizen was accused of supporting a boycott campaign against israel the court rejected his appeal saying the interior
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minister hadn't made a mistake in not renewing his work visa sakia says his deportation is politically motivated. iraqi protest as a blocking roads and bridges in the capital baghdad and several provinces as they step up pressure on the government on monday security forces fired live rounds of demonstrators gathering at the state television headquarters killing at least 5 people. emergency crews in nigeria fighting a fire which has threatened to destroy a multi story building as a shopping mall people race to save their belongings after a broken nose on the roof of the popular balogun markets in lagos crowded market stalls that prevented firefighters from reaching the building for more than an hour . come out we'll keep you company from 15 g. i will see you from 10 g. tomorrow up next it's the stream for now but i.
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