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a syria and russia's intensified forming of drives thousands more people to the border with turkey russia vetoes cross border aid deliveries. oh i'm maryanne demasi and non-tenure with al jazeera also coming up on the. this is a dork for troop withdrawals. benjamin netanyahu gets back after the i.c.c. as chief prosecutor announces plans for an investigation into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories. so the always have it be our economy. the
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u.k. parliament finally backs forest johnson's breaks it deal. and lift off the rides of starlight knew where human space flight and new blow folks boeing is it stalin a capsule goes off course on its way to the international space station. comes the program our top story civilians from syria's province have been fleeing to the border with turkey off to a dramatic increase in bombings by their government and russia the u.n. says tens of thousands have fled heavy oddments in the province this week syrian government troops are reported to have captured 4 villages that is part of a renewed effort to push into mohamad a small. on. russian government forces of intensified the
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bombing campaign which includes al strikes dropping bottled bombs on shelling the town of an insult and syrians living say the tocs are just a spittles market some people stuck it out here rescue workers are struggling to save a young girl stuck under the rubble of all. that tal in northwest syria is seeing some of the heaviest of talks in the almost 9. public and go against the offensive spilled onto the streets on friday hundreds and it looks protested what they call the neglect of their plight by the international community they also called for a swift hole to the bone but. we are the people of south of the countryside where i was in a protest in egypt city condemning the compartment on the top team of the evacuees as they try to clean the house that was on the books just as long as the march of
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the friday prayers in the small town of some others just a few kilometers from the border with the town is a hopeful he's going to see fighters from the opposition had to his shop said the body has to stop the protesters from walking towards the border but they face turkish security forces say they were forced to send reinforcements to ensure the book just as didn't close the border with a intensified bombing campaign forcing thousands to flee their homes and many face a corner and hungry. for show comes on the syria turkey board of forcing many of the displaced to live in flooded makeshift camps where the liberties of the unfallen people who will hammer a missile or woman up using these pieces of cloth this family consists of 16 people and nobody helped us and we use all kinds of materials including shoes in the stove to warm up at children fuel prices have more than doubled in the past 2 months and charities and all but they'll say they're struggling to respond to the crisis how
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about the well just stumble. meanwhile the united nations russia backed by china has vetoed a u.n. resolution that would allow cross border a delivery is from turkey in iraq to millions of syrian civilians for another year mike hanna brought us all the latest on that the establishment of the 4 crossing points has been renewed each year the 1st time that russia backed by china has cast a veto the drafters of the resolution had initially wanted 5 crossing points to be established but then they reduce this to 3 in the bill to avoid the russian and chinese veto but even this watered down resolution failed to pass raising once again the question of the credibility of the security council just as i was sitting in the seat in a state of shock i am continuing to stand here in
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a state of shock and as many of you know when i started the presidency in the month of december i talked about credibility in the council and today we took a huge step backwards in credibility where it really matters russia in turn introduced its own resolutions suggesting to crossing points be open for a period of 6 months both on the turkish border this was rejected by 6 members of the council who labeled it as a cynical political move the united kingdom voted against aggression just because we will not negotiate with a gun held to our heads over a cynical offer that would say fewer lives than we know is needed and that the u.n. very clearly set out which was necessary. the one year term for the 4 crossing points expires on the 10th of january and unless the security council can come up with a compromise resolution by that date it will be millions of syrians with no humanitarian
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aid. the international criminal court's chief prosecutor says she wants to open an investigation into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories once its jurisdiction has been established both israelis and palestinians face the possibility of charges being filed against them palestinians have welcomed the decision but israel's prime minister says the i.c.c. has no jurisdiction to investigate them to abraham reports from ramallah it's one of the alleged war crimes the international criminal court to me investigate the targeted killing of unarmed protesters along gaza's border fence with israel chief prosecutor fratto been sued or says she's satisfied war crimes have been or are being committed in the gaza strip and the west bank including occupied east jerusalem she says because of the complexity of the situation she will ask the
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i.c.c. to rule on the territories on which it has jurisdiction palestinians welcome what they call a long overdue investigation. will hoping that the i.c.c. will hold those who are committing crimes against our people gives or learned. the crimes that are climbing. countable to the cross noble crimes of. the palestinians which will basically set the stage for ending the occupation and thus opening the oracle the scope but israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the court has no jurisdiction to investigate in the palestinian territories this is a dark day for truth justice. the i.c.c. prosecutor has apparently decided not to dismiss the palestinian claim against the state of israel this is a baseless and rigorous decision the court has no jurisdiction in this case the
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i.c.c. only has jurisdiction over petitions submitted by sovereign states but there's never been a palestinian state. the court based in the netherlands will only investigate alleged crimes committed after june 2014 when palestine became part of the jurisdiction in the past 5 years thousands of new illegal settlement units were developed along with the confiscation of palestinian lands and demolition of their homes israel's response isn't unexpected it says the i.c.c. lacks validity over the israeli palestinian conflict since israel is not a member of the court and palestine is not a state even though the united nation granted palestine the status of nonmember state 7 years ago palestinian leaders say any crimes committed in palestinian territory must fall under the court's jurisdiction and.
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now in developments elsewhere turkey is saying recall remained silent against what is describing as russia back mercenaries supporting the forces of war to pay for after libya president wants comments come a day after the tripoli based government a way to close a military cooperation with turkey russia expressed concerns about attacking potentially sending troops to libya meanwhile forces loyal to the u.n. backed tripoli government of launched an offensive targeting troops loyal to have to near the capital. on our large crowds in india's capital of again defied a government ban to continue days of protest against a controversial new citizenship law similar demonstrations wild in on the cities with protesters saying the law is anti muslim sabina shuster reports for me daily. from friday prayers to street protests indians in the capital new delhi who are in no rush to obey the government's ban on large gatherings. demonstrators chanted for freedom they want the scrapping of the citizenship law passed earlier
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this month it paved the way for migrants from 3 neighboring countries afghanistan bangladesh and pakistan to become indian citizens but not if they are muslim tens of thousands of protesters in various parts of the capital joined the outcry against what they say is divisive and discriminate 3 legislation by the ruling b j p hindu nationalist party. in delhi is german chancellor shaker. a leader from the delhi party a so-called caste waved a copy of the indian constitution later he even read sections from it security forces arrived as barricades were built government leaders haven't officially responded to friday's protests protesters called for peace harmony and nonviolence from arm in the i pay my gratitude to hindu christian sikh and valid brothers who are fighting this by. longside i also want to tell it to the people here who make
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this rally at success by protesting peacefully and being united. in the northern city of luck now the capital of that with the police for protesters 24 hours after one person was killed. 2 others were killed in karnataka state a ban on large gatherings has been imposed in both states the port city of mangalore and karnataka remains under curfew till sunday. protesters waited until late evening to join in demonstrations turned violent and police used water cannons against the protesters people we talked to earlier today said that they had come to the streets to protest not only against the citizenship law but also to stand up for secular constitution more protests are planned in the coming days. al-jazeera. meanwhile a senior regional politician from india's ruling party has been sentenced to life
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in prison for raping a teenager called deep saying sang are a form of b j p legislator was convicted earlier this week the accuser who was 17 at the time of the attack attempted suicide last year accusing the police of inaction a family was put under protection in july after she was injured in a car crash and 2 of her family members killed sangar is expected to a pale. what watching al-jazeera live from london. going to this 7 bicycling ordering the dutch government to slash greenhouse gas emissions. and lebanese protesters clashed with police and blocked roads 24 hours after a new prime minister designate was announced. hello
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another temperature record was broken on friday in new south wales a new state highest recorded temperature attempt is on dropping in there not necessarily the real story at the moment the fires still are in the process of dropping the thames is knots of forecast for saturday a 20 degree drop typically adelaide and melbourne the process of doing that on a frontal system is with thunderstorms and gusty winds so ahead of the drop you get some really nasty conditions which drive fires further west in person temperatures about 34 dropping to about 30 by sunday as the wind change comes in maybe a few showers here too and by which time sydney's tempura drop sydney's wind direction will have dropped so possibly the city will not be quite as a ridge or afraid it won't last. now across in new zealand a typical wet summer the rain is ready you were tired is rowing away taking the ready with it leaving a few showers behind but you should have a couple of good days almost warm summer sunshine 20 no can turn
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a t.d.c. eventually temperature in winter was running close to going to the end to end the weekend. the winter for the north in japan isn't particularly harsh snow might catch itself in her car there but it's still cold across the water they voted last talk. on counting the cost especially on investing in the burgeoning markets from the doha for a bright here is how foreign direct investment is reshaping the global economy and what that means for the future a bit antiglobalization a populist sense of. counting the cost on al-jazeera. t.v. . i. go.
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welcome back a look at the headlines syrian and russian attacks and led province have sent thousands of civilians fleeing towards the border with turkey this as russia and china vetoed a u.n. cross border a delivery plan from iraq to millions of syrians. international criminal court is preparing to investigate alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories which it says could lead to charges against israelis or palestinians israel's prime min. to insist the court has no jurisdiction and in india huge numbers of people have to find a police ban on public gatherings to rally in new delhi and other cities in the country against a controversial citizenship law. well
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now in lebanon thousands of mostly sunny muslims have been out in protests against the nomination of the next prime minister in the last couple of hours that in clashes of lebanese troops firing tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators they threw fireworks and rocks at the soldiers protesters have also blocked the main highway linking beirut to southern lebanon prime minister designate has sandy alba is promising to form a technocratic government of experts within 6 weeks to solve the country's economic crisis tony but he reports now from beirut. less than 24 hours after lebanon's do prime minister designate was announced this was the reaction from people in one beirut suburbs. they launched angry street protests a confronted lebanese soldiers and riot police rocks were thrown with casualties on both sides i. felt this is a sunny harry of beirut and these people are supporters of sorry the outgoing prime
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minister he's calling for people to remain calm he wants them through reduce the tension and he wants them to work with a new prime minister to help solve the problem but obviously that message is not being heard by these people. i was even though the prime minister designate has and dad is a sunni muslim he was nominated by the predominately shia alliance of hizbollah and the mouth and its christian allies many in the sunny community expected hariri to be nominated for the sheriff are burned there is anger on the street because sunnis feel like we are being excluded no one will accept this people are hungry they don't have jobs and now they want to silence others who might have a hope but as your measurement of them as market we need a person like her a very i can save the country from sectarian strife and a man who knows about the country and who can save the economy and the days that how do you get the latest protests following weeks of anger demanding political
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reforms were confined to launch east. populated areas in beirut and tripoli lebanon's 2nd largest city. d.m. says he understands the problems but has asked the people to give him a chance he says he will begin talking to all political groups on saturday and says he hopes to form a government within 6 weeks. as an independent technocrat i'm looking for a technocrat government that consists of independent ministers in order to serve our country in sort out our problems that we all know about diablo's a university professor and former education minister but many especially within the civil protest groups associate him with the corruption and nepotism there's played lebanese politics for decades i can didn't see all sides of the sectarian divide that he can solve the country's deepening crisis is not going to be easy. it is a huge chunk of the mountain of trouble of the airwaves and the but he made salad about all of this that you have to roll against the interests of the established
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parties. horning creasing number of lebanese the time for protest is over shops and businesses are closing the economy is on the verge of collapse youth unemployment is at an all time high inflation is soaring and many people are desperate for a solution. a mobile mobile we're targeted situation even the corrupt politicians are tired and we need a solution our boys who are have to emigrate and leave the country to the politicians of. has a limited time to overcome political divisions and form a government to solve the crisis and quell the anger if he fails further chaos and instability seems certain tony berkeley al-jazeera beirut. well here in the u.k. parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of boris johnson's bracks it deal paving the way for the country to leave the e.u. by the end of next month fresh from a resoundingly actual victory johnson took out all the compromises that when the 1st version of the bill
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a section on protecting workers' rights has been removed and parliament's ability to scrutinise the next stage of talks also undermined paul brennan explains. minister to move 2nd leading prime minister to move 2nd reading. there is a new mood in the u.k. house of commons the knife edge bricks and votes of the autumn are now ancient history the tension replaced by political inevitability and in front of the newly expanded ranks of conservative m.p.'s boris johnson was enjoying the moment history will record the 1st act of this new parliament in its earliest days was to break the ice floes and find a new way through a new passage through the unsuspected oceans of opportunity his parliamentary majority means that prime minister boris johnson can now press ahead with his vision of bracks it the new law will prohibit any trade talks extension beyond december of 2020 and it weakens parliamentary scrutiny of the executive clause on
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protecting workers' rights has been removed and a previous commitment to receive unaccompanied child refugees has also been watered down. critics and opponents say the changes show the prime minister can't be trusted for all the promises over the past few weeks that they are all the party to protect rights at work at the very 1st opportunity they removed the basic provisions they said would be part of this bill that does not bode well for freshman emphatic election victory the prime minister has little need to contemplate the critics or placate his opponents but he will have to consider the voters especially those who switched from labor and in his words lent the conservatives their support in the election the simple fact though is that johnson has the numbers with him the eyes of the right 300 $58.00 the nose to the left $234.00. bill his bill will
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become law in january paul brennan al-jazeera westminster. in france the former head of the country's largest telecoms company are and has been found guilty of charges of harrison that led to a series of workers suicides a decade ago that he alone bad was convicted for his actions during a restructuring of the company then known as france telecom prosecutors listed 18 suicides and 13 suicide attempts at in 20082010 will not go to jail as he's not deemed a danger to society lawyers believe it could set a president for a similar action against large fans. i fear the use of more minnie arkell it's been 10 years since we started this fight in court to come to the sentencing for institutional moral harassment of all the executives of the time of their accomplices the company we're there for extremely satisfied with the sentencing. and then it's the emotion of the sentencing won't bring our colleagues back. now
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the developments france's find us internet giant google $166000000.00 after accusing it of abusing its dominance in the marketplace for online investments google lets advertisers bid for keywords that bring up that clickable content french competition authority said the rules concerning the bidding are not what they and not applied of vague and not applied equally google says it plans to appeal. dutch activists won a legal battle forcing government leaders to take foster action on climate change and celebrations of the verdict which forces the government to reduce emissions to at least 25 percent below $9090.00 levels by the end of next year the court said the government had a charity to protect its citizens from the effects of climate change. dennis van buckle is a lawyer at the kendah foundation which brought the case he says that dutch politicians must now comply with the ruling well obviously they have a responsibility but the difference with governments is that since 1902 they have
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acknowledged that they have a response they have the responsibility over this problem that they have a responsibility for all the emissions in their territory since the climate treaty in 1902 they have adopted the responsibility in paris again in 2015 they said we are responsible for this problem we need to make sure that these emissions are going to not lead us to a warming about 1.5 degrees and we have human rights which are the basis of this case that what we get to the states to do to take these actions. now china's president is saying beijing will never allow foreign forces to interfere in its special territories as he swore in a new pro beijing government in macau unlike the protests in hong kong the gambling hub of macau has seen little dissent the pollen reports. it was a major moment for the chinese city often in the shadows of hong kong high praise
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from the president of china as he wrapped up his 3 day state visit its longest yet to my couch. the macair people are patriotic they feel strongly towards the nation have a strong sense of belonging and are proud of their nationality this is the most important reason for the success of one country 2 systems in macau hong kong and macau on opposite sides of the pearl river delta are the only 2 cities in china administered under the one country 2 systems framework they enjoy freedoms and rights to night anywhere else in china. for the past 6 months hong kong has been racked by antigovernment protests and pro-democracy demonstrations trying to resist the tightening grip from china's leaders in beijing in macau along with celebrations on the 20th anniversary of the handover to chinese rule she jumping inaugurated its new chief executive. and china's leaders used the occasion to showcase macassar
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b.d.'s and compliance and called on hong kong to learn from its neighbor macau is different from hong kong in terms of this political culture where cars will go culture is far more conservative far more prob ageing macau is china's gambling capital massive revenues generated by the casino industry are another factor for political apathy according to sulu sukar whole the 28 year old is macos youngest ever legislator he's one of the few elected by popular vote and is pro-democracy gambling market help the government earn many a lot from 0. then the government always used of a huge front and so resources to increase the so-so import of the control the international monetary fund says macau is poised to become the world's richest city in terms of per capita revenue by next year times 2 to gaming industry largely fueled by this interest from mainland china presumably you know for you know me you
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know want to everything is coming full time yet so i don't see that we can survive without time it's a point that beijing wants to make sure the people of macau in hong kong don't forget macau so reliance on china was highlighted by the newly installed chief executive who said the city would be an example of free unification with china but it's a sentiment that many people in hong kong have been fighting against making it less likely that the chinese president will see hong kong emulate what he calls macau success. the u.s. airspace company buying his own spaceship astronauts but not without a hitch a star line a failed to reach its required altitude to dock at the international space station which points to one and lift off the rides of starlight the atlas rocket carrying the on man stalin a capsule survived one of its biggest challenges only to run into problems minutes
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after liftoff it appears as though the mission elapsed time in system had an error in it and that anomaly resulted in the vehicle believing that the time was different than it actually was nasa would it contracts to both boeing and space x. the company owned by billionaire mosque to develop cheap reusable methods of going to space nasa astronauts have been riding russian soyuz rockets since retiring the space shuttle fleet 18 years ago space x. successfully launched its on man dragon capsule into space for the 1st time 3 months ago and boeing is hoping to send astronauts into orbit next year for a slightly as a result of this to slip at least a month or 2 i don't think it will be. a huge huge delay these things happen in space flight you get delays all the time but it does it raises the probability that
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america will have to go to the russians cut in hand and buy some more seats on the russian soyuz this latest hitch is more bad news for boeing it's already paid a high price this year for 2737 max crashes within 5 months killing $346.00 passengers and crew in indonesia and ethiopia. that cools the grounding of the max fleet worldwide at the removal of boeing's chief executive and multibillion dollar losses to boeing share price and income and production of the latest version of the world's best selling ad line it was stopped early. this week. the difficulties of the american aerospace industry giant are a reminder that there's plenty of training and learning ahead for boeing before nasa succeeds in the new space race getting private companies to launch astronauts into orbit in a new type of space taxi victoria gate and b. al-jazeera. now
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a story from mexico where 2 luxury cruise ships have collided. with. a carnival glory ship was trying to dock in the caribbean resort of cozumel when it scrapes the carnival legend video shot by startled passengers show the noisy slow moving accident which left part of the glory mangled at the stern 6 people injured. just a quick recap of the headlines now before we leave you as thousands of people in syria's italy province flee toward the border with turkey russia and china vetoed u.n. cross border age liveries from turkey and iraq to millions of syrian civilians this at the united nations has been a dramatic increase in russian that attacks and with at least 26 civilians killed
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in the past 2 days. the international criminal court's chief prosecutor says she wants to open an investigation into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories palestinians are welcome the decision but israel's prime minister says the i.c.c. has no jurisdiction to investigate chief prosecutor for 2 bensouda says she thinks there is enough information to proceed i am satisfied one that walk crimes have been or being committed in the west bank including east jerusalem and the gaza strip. 2 the potential cases arising from the situation would be admissible and free but there are no substantial reasons to believe that an investigation would not serve the interests of justice in lebanon thousands of mostly sunni muslims have been protesting in beirut against the nomination of the next prime minister in the past couple of hours there have been clashes with lebanese troops firing tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators who threw fireworks and rocks at the
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soldiers protesters of also blocked the main highway linking beirut with southern lebanon. touch activists of one legal battle forcing government leaders to take fast action on climate change the verdict forces the government to reduce emissions to at least 25 percent below $990.00 levels by the end of next year court said the government had a judy to protect its citizens from the effects of climate change. and here in the u.k. parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of boris johnson's breaks it deal the bill paves the way for the k. to leave the e.u. by the end of next month among changes the bill a section on protecting workers' rights has been removed counting the cost is coming up next with a special edition from the doha forum. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives that provide an eclipse
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into someone else's whupped. witness on al-jazeera. and i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost of al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and take it over this week a special program for you from the doha forum here in councell we'll discuss the future of investments in emerging markets since the 1990 s. globalization has given the impression that it merging markets work and could couldn't with developed nations the brics and next 11 became the latest investment craze hundreds of millions were lifted out of poverty and millions more climbed the social escalator into the middle class but something has gone wrong the end of the commodity supercycle and easy money came along before populism and the threat to globalization but it could be a.

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