tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera August 25, 2020 1:00pm-2:01pm +03
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al jazeera. al-jazeera. wrote about this and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a show of force in the eastern mediterranean greece and turkey hold wyvil naval exercises amid growing tensions over prospecting rights. violent demonstrations in several u.s. cities after the police shooting of an armed black man in wisconsin. facebook vows legal action after being forced by the thai government to remove
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a group critical of the monarchy. and waiting for justice we meet there again to refugees desperate to return home 3 years after me a most brutal crackdown. now santa how much not have all the support the bron james puts in a big performance to put the lake is just one win away from the western conference semifinals. greece and turkey are carrying out rival military exercises in the eastern mediterranean escalating a dispute over gas exploration in those contested waters right now germany's foreign minister is in greece and he'll travel to turkey later on tuesday in an effort to defuse tensions turkey has been operating a research vessel accompanied by warships to survey the seabed for gas and oil deposits greece says the ships in an area which overlaps its own continental shelf
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. this shows the exclusive economic zones of greece turkey and cyprus as defined by the un it accords greece 71 percent of the aegean sea and turkey 8.8 percent but this is how turkey redraws the same mob claiming much of greece's waters as its own and this is the area where turkey has started looking for oil within itself to find waters but that infringes on greece's maritime territory according to the e.u. and the u.n. ok let's go live to john psaropoulos in athens john talk us through what greece is position is with regard to all of this. greek so is making 2 basic demands they are saying that they would like the negotiations on maritime jurisdictions to take place on the basis of the united nations law in other words the basis of the 1st map that you showed that means that all parties must agree
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that the united nations convention on the law of the sea which 168 of the un's 193 members are signatories to should form a legal framework secondly they would like the talks to pick up where they left off when they petered out in march of 2016 because by that time the greek and turkish delegations had had 60 meetings during which they had made a number of informal agreements. and achieved a certain understanding. the turkish side initially asked for these talks to start on a clean slate. it is my understanding from diplomatic sources here that both of these terms have been agreed to initially at the end of july. by both the greek and turkish. had that however it was thrown up in the air on august the 6th when greece
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announced that it had reached a maritime agreement with egypt which enraged turkish president tell you at the un and caused him to return to the explorations that he's carrying out in the areas of the east mediterranean where the greeks do not want him to be because they consider that their continental show now we should find out this week whether mr. is willing to return to the table there are signs that he's left himself a back door to deescalation because he initially. marked august the 23rd now it's august 27th as the terminal date for these explorations that's just shy of the e.u. far as corran ministers meeting on friday and it is hoped for that mr. inter tends to climb down from that position. it is also a week during which the greek parliament is going to wrestle shortly both the
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maritime agreement with egypt that has so enraged turkey and a similar maritime agreements with italy that was reached earlier in the summer both of those are drafted on the basis of international united nations maritime law and greece intends to sit at the negotiating table with these 2 powerful legal documents demonstrating that the country trees in the region all uniformly draft their maritime borders according to that law sunset openness in athens giving us that update on the great greek situation on monday turkey's president's visit to and had this warning for greece. you know he's done a good turn on most women only not a lot of greece is throwing itself into a chaos that it cannot get out of as of now greece will be responsible for all negative developments that may take place in the region and it will be the only
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country to suffer damages it would be useful for greek neighbors to know as we know that those who throw greece on the past of the turkish fleet will be nowhere to be seen tomorrow in the event of trouble that may emerge. ok let's cross over to sin and cos you know who's live for us and istanbul soon and we're hearing very strong words there from. day one but also of course the turkey is sending a research vessel accompanied by warships into this disputed waters this seems to be a ramping up of the situation by turkey what is turkey's stand in all of this. well robert you know when it comes to the seas it's always showing off making the scene for many countries especially with big ships big wrestles of course turkey is trying to protect its a snake west of the aura trace with the warships as. the system acquire cell a was attacked by the greek vessels more than
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a week ago for turkey the main dispute as john also explained is the boundaries for the maritime zones turkey has submitted its. maritime zones the. territorial waters to the u.n. years ago and the u.n. hasn't projected but. opposed to the other countries turkey hasn't signed any exclusive economic zone agreements with any countries in the region and turkey rejects the great claims that because greece is trying to create new maritime zones based on the islands it has this is what turkey rejects this is the main dispute actually between the 2 but when we come back to our dance point of stance. turkey has declared now text not text is an information system in maritime saw that all the trees special was doing suspects that these in the
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area but the spike the turkish wrestle it was there in greek authorities also announced a declared null text which is impossible according to maritime law when you speak to the experts and that's why turkey it take it personally as greece is trying to. show off and agree greece is actually trying to provoke proc the mediterranean sea and from one chorus perspective this is not a by this is not only a by literally issue between turkey and greece because turkey sees eastern mediterranean issue as a whole and turkey has signed a deal merits. time zone deal with libya a couple of months ago which sparked a lot of report questions a lot of reactions from other countries and especially greek side think with greece siding with france and especially the u.a.e. united arab emirates is also seen as greece is trying to provoke turkey to do something in the eastern mediterranean this is on course perspective and ankara
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says'. uncle actually believes that greece is the spoiled child of the e.u. but of course today. has or has been making calls on some deescalation. losing detentions also german chancellor is also in the scene today iran and 77 o'clock 7 pm local time german foreign minister will also come to the turkish cups of ancora and everybody is expected to see more more reasonable that go between greece and turkey but of course time will show it is time for both countries to show musses in this in the mediterranean whether it is going to be it is going to become a real tension a military tension is still on them or whether is it's going to stay like this while we're going to be following those meetings that germany's foreign minister home os is holding both things on in. a cinema thank you very much indeed sinon
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costello in is something. the european parliament's foreign affairs committee is meeting to discuss the political crisis in belo reuss they're talking to opposition leaders for atlanta to kind of sky out who's in exile in neighboring lithuania on monday police in bello loose detained several leading opposition activists protests calling for president alexander lukashenko to step down have been growing ever since the disputed elections earlier this month the demands of the risk is simple and free and. action. this is the demand of the protesters on the streets this is this log on of the people on strike in your respect or is across the country bill rose has woken up re on the lot of the oprah zation anymore we are the majority now
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one of the above has been following that meeting for us from london what's the message from the new. well rob this should it should be stressed that this is the message not from the e.u. officially but from the various groupings in the european parliament directly elected body so they have diverged on some point since last week's meeting of the european council the heads of government of the member states so they repeated what the council said which was that basically it doesn't accept the results of the bell or a selection as free and fair they don't recognise alexander lukashenko as the elected president of belarus they did china with a message from the online meeting in brussels previously saying that this is not a bipartisan issue and the street protests have not been pro e.u. they some of the european parliamentarians noted the lack of the u.s.
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flags neither has it been a pro russian movement and they are in their numbers called for the involvement of russia in fact one of the european parliament speakers said that if things don't change in better us now in terms of another election for example there must be a strategy on the part of the you how to progress in belarus involving direct talks with moscow some speakers suggested using the organization for economic cooperation and development more similarly though they were spoken to you just heard a clip from spec liner taken off sky or online from lithuania there wasn't a dialogue it was just a message that she'd given to them and she repeated that that the protest movement is not pro or anti the european union all russia it's a national movement calling for true democracy now she mentioned the arrest of some members of the national. the coordination council that you were just talking about
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she regretted those arrests called for all political prisoners and protesters to be really. as did many of the european parliamentarians but interestingly she hokie phrase was we are not the opposition now we are the majority so clearly feeling that momentum is behind her but still how will that translate into political change and to call for new elections which she says his her really key demand her only demand she says she doesn't want power herself it's still very unclear. in london bringing us up to date on the situation with the european parliament's foreign affairs committee which has been talking about bello reuss well let's talk about the situation inside bello who's joining me live is alexander story and that should go through it a journalist based in the russian capital who's been monitoring the situation for us let's talk about the situation with regard to the opposition 1st of all we saw some members of the opposition leadership who were being detained yesterday what's
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the latest with that. well rob this crackdown on the leaders of the brought this on leaders of their position is that continuing the 2 members of the court national council which were detained yesterday are today facing the administrative court court which if this case for them doesn't turn into a criminal case they will probably be fined 3 other members of the nation will counsel have been called to report himself for questioning to the police one of them is literature prize we never settle on a alexander of each and they are called for questioning in regards of craving a case regarding the warming of the court nation or council itself other leaders of strikes in the big belorussian factories were detained yesterday as well a so. that there is also a threat to the teachers that the ones that are not falling in the official line
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will be will be fired from their works well all the strengths and all this information doesn't seem to be working with the people of belarus that are protesting there are going to be gathering today again one group in front of the ministry of education so there beyond tress or intimidation in the meantime the situation in belarus is going to be main topic today here in moscow between the deputy u.s. state secretary steven begun and the minister of foreign affairs of russia missed that a lot of this meeting is some to start and previously both said basically of the same thing that it is up to the people of bell or us to determine their own fate that there should not be any influence interfering or meddling from the 3rd parties and behind it this similar wording is sort of
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a different message because the u.s. investors are. here in russia said that it is russia that is influencing situation in belarus and that it that is an acceptable from russian part we heard previous days that it is foreign influence that is pushing belarus and let's remind that russia is one of the few countries that recognize disputed elections on 9th of august and putin himself congratulated that look at shankar in his week that in what we're seeing days is that he's getting support from moscow in different ways it sounds as though out of the school for bringing this up today with the situation in from moscow thank you very much indeed. but more ahead on the news hour including it's being hailed as a historic deal changing the face of politics in the middle east find out why there are signs the u.a.e. israel deal is already sounding. and all busy the investigation reveals how more than a 1000 russians have bought cypriot possible it's in the last 3 years including those
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wanted for corruption fraud and money laundering. it was known as lightning bolt the world's fastest man talks about fears he's been struck down by coronavirus. the police shooting of a black man 7 times has brought protesters back onto the streets of several u.s. cities crowds have come out in new york minneapolis and the city of kosher wisconsin where the shooting happened on sunday. the gas has been used to fire forced back crowds who have defied overnight curfew orders in the city than a state has of also set fire to cars and garbage trucks used to block roads the national guard was brought in earlier in the day after violent protests on sunday
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29 year old jacob blake who was shot in the back as he lead leaned into his s.u.v. john hendren reports from can osa. think about the body once again a local mayors struggles to answer for the put my shooting of a black mayor. how you are. the shooting captured on mobile phone is difficult to watch jacob blake apparently unarmed walks around his s.u.v. his 3 children unseen inside seeming to ignore the police following behind at the door an officer grabs him by the shirt his back to police. police fire 7 shots. the shooting set off a night of protests in the streets the city blocking roads with garbage trucks demonstrators set them on fire leaving behind charred chances including a neighboring car lot and a message on a courthouse wall and be clear this was not an accident this wasn't bad police work
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this felt like some sort of been dead a being taken out on a member of our community the officers daily actions attempted to take a person's life in broad daylight the shooting drew condemnation from presidential candidate joe biden who issued a statement saying the nation wakes up yet again with grief and outrage that yet another black american is a victim of excessive force these shots pierced the soul of our nation. blake survived and is in stable condition jacob blake's lawyer says he parked his car and got out at this corner in order to break up a street fight and as he sought to deescalate a conflict police for reasons that remain unexplained treated him as a threat. the shooting of jacob blake adds to the anger over police brutality that erupted following the death of george fluid in minneapolis. and briana taylor in
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louisville kentucky the outrage that reverberated across the u.s. now engulfing canoe ship ellis is now lost somewhere i sobbed. i just have to say gather my thoughts for a moment i can't speak for the carcase the community maybe it's surprising to me it's not surprising to me despite a curfew in the arrival of the military troops of the national guard to control the streets protesters are continuing their demonstrations demanding an end to a cycle of official violence against black americans in confrontations with police that could have ended peacefully but didn't john hendren al jazeera can no show wisconsin. 4 prominent activists in thailand have been summoned by police on sedition charges as the government cracks down on a growing student led opposition movement the police question human rights lawyer and student organizer part of chilled act known to his supporters as penguin more
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than 30 opposition figures have been arrested since the anti-government protests began last month demonstrators are demanding a new election a constitution and reforms to the monarchy criticism of the monarchy is illegal in thailand now facebook says it's followed a government order to take down a popular group that allows discussions about the royal family the page royalist marketplace was blocked on monday evening they can still be accessed from outside thailand facebook says it's compelled to restrict content them to illegal by the government but it is preparing its own legal action the group has more than a 1000000 members or pavane talk show on point plan is founded that blog page and he's an associate professor of type politics at the center for southeast asian studies a queue to university he's joining us live by skype thank you very much indeed for being with us let's talk about the facebook legal challenge 1st of all how do you react to that well 1st when vessel inform me last night. for the fact that
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facebook has to apply a lot of blocking but michel i was ready to quote it but then when i woke up the good news this morning that facebook has position i don't know what would what would come next but nonetheless i think no fall from the west but you know from one state. response to. being sort of you know would set an example for you know to stand on these kind of pretty bow debt we need to be seen what would be what would be a kind of legal proceedings that they're entitled to if i understand it correctly you've already set up another page and it's already got about 400000 followers what do you read into that. i have to correct you on that i said describe immediately last night after the blocking and up to now we have more than half a 1000000 already so let's go to show that disco is hugely popular especially among
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younger generation who has been so hungry about you know knowing information about the issue that has long been you know in high society but at the time. to request and honest discussion on me all that has cost and impact on daily life of the people let me ask you about the timing of these protests because the father of the current king was of course in power for a very long time and there was unrest in the was. some degree of discontent but it didn't seem to cross the line in the way that this appears to have done what is it about the the that what is it that people are actually protesting against is it the the in the institution if you like of the royal family or is it the individual who is the current king. i think it's a combination of what you just said yes you are right yes a big difference between the previous king and the current king and it in this is the main source of discontentment among the people i think people in the past had
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their fair in the war not unfortunately the current king and able to provide the same kind of security as that for the people. during the whole week when the economy keep the people in the heart but in these people when they look at the news they saw their king having a coup in germany benteke in germany is a long term for a new king now so because of that with the lack of moral authority of the new king and all saw the fact that they think they have been abandoned by their own in these communities and sort of pushed the people on the street and right now on demand for reform of the monarchy how concerned are you given the fact that you're putting these pictures up obviously from kyoto that the government will essentially run out of patience and we might end up seeing violence on the streets of thailand definitely i think the request from the student would never come down now because
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they're still then pushed the feeling so high that the only way for student is to continue with their requests now is in the court of the kaufman. government or it is right now the admitting legal tools in order to arrest certain people including blocking my group but they're not going to question all of the other courage to give you know with his reputation especially while in the reputation that least a possibility the use of force could be our you know in order to corrupt us there would have been touch on pumping we appreciate your joining us in our visitor thank you very much indeed. the u.s. brokered deal between israel and the united arab emirates may be souring less than 2 weeks after it was announced the us news website actually oss is reporting the u.a.e. has called off a meeting with israeli and american officials after prime minister benjamin netanyahu opposed the sale of f. 35 jets dobby the deal is to normalize relations and it's been hailed as historic
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by the u.s. government u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe is expected to discuss the jet sales during his trip to abu dhabi this week as well is the only country in the middle east to have the u.s. as most advanced fighter jets the f. $35.00 it's been american policy to make sure that israel has a military advantage in the region israel believes it would be threatened by the u.s. sending f. $35.00 to the u.a.e. that is not the only issue complicating the deal iran which israel sees as an existential threat has long standing economic links with the u.a.e. recently there's also been increasingly open communication between the 2 countries that the deal goes ahead it would make the u.a.e. the 1st gulf country to normalize relations with israel palestinians say it's a betrayal of the colons model mashallah is al-jazeera is a senior political analyst he's joining us live from london by skype good to have you on the show as always marwan why do you think that benjamin netanyahu is
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opposition apartment opposition to this u.s. deal is materializing not because one would have thought the details on both sides would have already been known. well not exactly i think there but good mostly on principle rather than a form that it'll need to grip these are the details about of the answers that disagreement so all disagreement but clearly a more sites that there is a lot of diplomatic the optics going on now i don't think it's very serious on the surface and their arms are you know they want to make sure at least one did come up with the side because of the growing opposition to the so-called peace agreement in the gulf region and the arab world that it wants to show that it that it demands respect that it wants to be treated as equal and that israeli side there's also an understanding with the united states that when such deals happen is the united
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states should get that green lights from lizard which is quite outstanding when you think about it but this goes back some 40 years not you know probably a lot about what we were thought about that but the united states wanted to so sophisticated that it promises playful able aspected one thing in it when 40 years ago and this is an objective and then it went on to this whole who blow up crisis between the 2 capitals and doesn't the united states want that but also israel got a lot of it there and i think that's what that and house trying to do this i'm around his men who had anything to say that he proposes that the so that when that the end passes he will get a lot into it there from the united states but still that's still there is that there's a question about why it is that he needs a 30 five's to continue what he had many days to bomb iran because if that really happens i mean on the enemy's side of course he would know that this asset of the war there and any conflict with iran would mean that abu dhabi and
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dubai you know could be forgotten about so any literally look at this controversy and what's behind it it's kind of all to be honest status. let me ask you a moment about the involvement in iran in all of this because we were mentioning earlier that relations between iran and the u.a.e. do seem to be strengthening at least that are longstanding links there it is interesting to know that they managed to try and get this deal done knowing that u.a.e. does have those links with iran and of course as we mentioned that israel is diametrically opposed to iran it seems very difficult to see how this deal is actually going to work in practice. i think that it is not even possible to from there's not that. but i think they lead price to keep the door open if you waited for some sort of battle with lettuce powers in the region simply because it knows.
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suspicious bombing of some cell would be understood editions and some some of the in the should track that it should be commerce in the gulf though he warned us about angering iran and hence whatever he was doing with israel went and got it on and then he'll is going to be the man who when he gets put to make sure that it comes if you will the spirits at there are in the meanwhile if trump is or that it presents again in november 3rd i think he would see that i like it all aligns with much in between that the mob would not be on washington under the tutelage of that i can search it and that will pose a real danger to iran and with a silly tension in the area however if joe i mean it's elected and decides to go back into the nuclear deal with it why then i think they'd tire him out i keep bets
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on a deal with his to improve its relations with the united states and its center in the region is one of the probably back of it always good to get your thoughts on the small one percent of we appreciate it as always thank you. now it's time for the weather and here's jenny there's a storm heading in to the west coast of the u.k. in january february to my experience that's no unusual what's different about this one what is the time of the as you say rob this storm that's coming through is very very powerful and it's more like an autumn storm one early winter storm so yes it is a little bit unusual sunny for this time of year but as i look 1st of all on the satellite it's actually not see bad across much year we can see straight away the air that we're talking about this massive cloud that's been pushing in ahead of all this if not some pretty strong thunderstorms again in the southeast this across into croatia and it's been quite a rain sun equals much of the you came facta day 4 of the test match was yet again stopped the play was stopped to quite frequently that is more likely to be probably
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any place you go through today and this is why now this storm is significant and it has been given a name is called a storm of frances because as a ses bringing heavy rain but also some particularly strong winds now here a couple of us have been reported 72 kilometers an hour the cork and dublin at the airports however on the west coast of ireland some gusts have been reported as high as 92 kilometers an hour and this is the storm look at this mass of rain so we're going to see some very heavy rain this could cause some localized flooding but really it's about the winds and you can see them sweeping across coming in from the southwest now these winds could easily be about 70 kilometers an hour just bear in mind that a tropical storm has sustained winds of 65 kilometers an hour and these are probably not sustained winds but even so. just how strong this storm could be this will likely cause trouble destruction and that's about the bridges being closed roads being closed and also cause power outages because again remember this time of year you got all the leaves on the trees so there's likely to be a lot of damage because of the say that rain is heavy so some localized flooding
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not only good side of this it does move very swiftly away begins to push across towards the low countries and germany said that is where it's heading as we go through wednesday but still quite a significant storm and certainly some very strong winds through northern germany and again rob some heavy amounts of rain but really apart from that most of europe is enjoying find some light weather yeah it's a typical. scott is summer as far as i can tell there jenny thank you very much indeed still ahead on our does hero wife alma bosnian serb commander of the told love it says back in court at the hague. and in sport a pain in the next we'll tell you about the world number one's official return interactions. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such to moms as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the stimulus we provide business growth promote
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we want to know is it a reminder of our top stories this hour greece and turkey have announced viable military exercises in the eastern mediterranean escalating a dispute over gas exploration in those contested waters. germany's foreign minister heikal ma says visiting both countries in an effort to defuse tensions. european parliament's foreign affairs committee is meeting to discuss the political crisis in belarus protests calling for president alexander lukashenko to resign are growing in bellows several members of its opposition council arrested on monday. facebook says it's follow the thai government order to take down a popular group that allows discussions about the wall family but it is preparing legal action over it criticism of the monarchy is illegal in thailand. it's been 3 years since may of last started a brutal campaign against working in muslims which the un described as
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a textbook example of ethnic cleansing hundreds of thousands of writing a fled and now almost a 1000000 people remain displaced in neighboring bangladesh unable to return home homage on job boards. for the rohingya one of the world's most persecuted minorities it often feels like the storms never end as monsoon rains threaten to wash away what little these refugees have to hold on to. the little mother would it enters into washington and then worms get under our maps effacing so many problems . rebuild and reinforces as best she can but that brings little relief she knows full well the heart will flood again and realizes that in a life full of temporary fixes the only real constant for her is sadness there's a lot of pressure my heart burns for my country the whole night and day and i try to sleep at night to sleep doesn't come instead my mind goes to man my it's been 3
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years since me and watch military launched a brutal crackdown against the rigging in iraq on state. a campaign of mass killings rapes and arson that was quickly deemed by the united nations to be a textbook example of ethnic cleansing and one that forced close to 800000 rowing across the border into southern bangladesh mean more denies charges of genocide at the international court of justice saying its armed forces were conducting legitimate operations against what they called militants who attacked police posts which in the ensuing years bangladesh and me and more have attempted voluntary rohingya refugee repatriations but refugees have refused to go back and observers say conditions remain unsafe for their return. with life at a standstill for their hunger the makeshift camps grew into the world's largest refugee settlement and conditions became ever more dire their 1st section on every aspect of their head to a refugee is lives the same clear distinctions on freedom of movement. restrictions
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on access to live a hood and of course there's internet and communication restrictions right now rahmatullah like many other refugees used to get a lot more work. that was before covert 950 measures forced aid agencies to reduce their presence in the camps these days he takes any job he can right. now because of the coronavirus we can't go anywhere we're not getting work opportunities of n.g.o.s has made our living conditions much tougher. community leader abdul hamid says the time has come for the rohingya to get the justice they deserve. we are very thankful to bangladesh in its public for hosting us but we don't want to stay here any more we want to go to our place no one expects that will happen soon but that won't stop the adults from searching for a solution and it won't keep the children from finding ways to play for in these
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camps the suffering may be apparent but the resilience is abundant. and. run only as a visiting scholar at the international state crime initiative at queen mary university of london he's joining us live thank you very much indeed for being with us on al-jazeera it looks as though from what mohammed's report was saying that basically everything is a stalemate nothing is moving is there any chance that they're here might eventually be allowed to return to their original whole bit. we're not in the short or medium term it's looking like me and not going to change its approach which has been to quite frankly suggest that reagan who return will be returning to the same genocidal conditions that they left and in those circumstances really get quite reasonably don't wish to rush back into the burning as so to speak they don't wish to return to the same conditions that forced them to flee me and my 2017 so the
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chances that they'll be a return in the short to medium term i would say out 0 and that's a tragedy for the rich and it's a shocking indictment of the international community because this is a failure of political will it's a failure of the international community to apply adequate pressure on the government of me and ma to change its upholding practices and make the conditions within northern rakhine state the regime his ancestral home safe for their return if the international community was to apply more pressure and had the willingness to do so what will be the best mechanism for them to do that. well probably the best mechanism would be collective action taken through the united nations but that would need to demonstrate to me and mock that there was a collection of powerful international actors not not just one or
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2 but that there was a consensus of opinion internationally and we all to back it up i mean what what me and my has gotten away with foot too many years when it comes to mistreating groups like the reaping and other groups mind you with me and my badly mistreated in the u.n. is documented that on numerous occasions what me and amounts gotten away with too often easy it gets platitudes from the united nations and from international activists and they say that they're concerned about human rights violations they're concerned about genocide they're concerned about war crimes and crimes against humanity but they're not willing to back those concerns with that action and that that's what's need me and my needs to know that if it does not change its approach and if it does not safe cumin rights and then at the very least they've been instructed by the international court of justice that they need to mean provisional
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measures or did by the international court of justice have awarded me and not to continue committing genocide against the rating and now in theory that should be that should be backed up by the un security council with me and doesn't live up to its responsibilities but it spain it's been months and i've seen absolutely no change in me and must approach towards the really the northern rakhine state that is 120000. and trapped in concentration camps within me and these are the ones that didn't escape the 2017 they were to able to flee because since 2012 they've been in camps which they can't leave surrounded by barbed wire and men with guns and their conditions haven't changed since 2012 and really got to get your thoughts on this are running late we appreciate your time i'm afraid time is slightly against us but thank you for joining us on our jazeera. pledge in russia
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says the german clinic treating opposition leader alex we know volumnia must find the substance that caused his illness before it can investigate the e.u. has urged the kremlin to launch a transparent and independent probe after german doctors found indications of a toxic substance in his body but moscow insists the belling clinic does not conclusively diagnose poisoning the long time opponent of president vladimir putin collapsed on a plane on thursday after he drank a cup of tea at tomsk airport. the head of iran's atomic agency says talks with the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog have been constructive but i'll go see is in teheran pushing to visit to sites suspected of storing undeclared nuclear material the u.s. is pushing for the reimposition of u.n. sanctions for alleged violations of the 2015 nuclear deal let's go live to us in teheran and previously relations between. the i.a.e.a. and iran have been pretty tricky but how are these talks going now it seems as
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though there seems to be some progress. well it may seem that way but i think the issue is still tricky you think. he came out and said that he does that have a political orientation or judgment but there are still issues that need to be resolved that the there's no ice like that influence on the agency but they are precious yet not theirs and they're working hard not to allow those pressures to affect their work now the issues are unresolved of these 2 sites rich thought that undeclared nuclear material was the store brew used dating back to early 2000 now iran has so far blocked access to these sites iran believes that these 2 sides are not a part of the j.c. priore 2015 nuclear agreement and back in june the i.a.e.a. passed a resolution that was put forward by germany france and the united kingdom demanding access to these sites. that the dust here with the i.a.e.a.
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are on iran is fake and is against iran and iran won't be giving in to any illegal requests and they will move forward for iran in what they see as the national interest that this is the difference between iran and the organization because iran seemed to have shifted its position about these 2 sides few days ago saying that it would grant access if it was a precondition if it would end questions once and for all but it's inevitable that if the i.a.e.a. is granted access to these sites that there will be more questions so it's not a done deal the access will be granted to these sites and iran has also said that the i.a.e.a. should act independent and professional and that's why russia come out in the gain said that he has doesn't have a political organization they hear there is no outside that can influence because it's trying to convince the arrangements that the i.a.e.a. is acting professionally and independently to try to get them to grant them access
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to those 2 sites so it's still not a done deal and we are expecting a statement later. well we're probably back in touch with the i said when that statement comes out but for now i said bacon tehran thank you very much indeed a leading member of the european parliament just as monitoring group has asked the e.u. justice commissioner to take decisive action to end the cypriots going to sell e.u. citizens have a call from m.e.p.a. sophie in the veld fallers odyssey a report on the golden passport program which has revealed serious security concerns investigation also revealed the large number of russians who purchased separate passports up to a 1000 that were davies reports. the sign reads lim a sole grad a nod to how the 2nd largest city in cyprus has welcomed so many russians each paying more than $2000000.00 to become citizens on the island round the coast in power force the owners of these coral sea villas include
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a trio of russian bank is also approved to separate citizenship and passports on the same day the senior executives with v.t. be a state controlled russian bank that is under sanctions from the e.u. and us after russia annexed crimea in 2014 but the cyprus papers show 3 of the top people was still sold passports with full access to the e.u. the russians don't just come for the cypriot sun they want to better climate for their money they do not trust their own russian state to leave all their assets alone and they are looking for a place with the rule of law that is absent in the room and a country that also will not scrutinize their application too closely former gazprom boss nikolai going off was already wanted in russia for abuse of power when
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he bought a so-called golden passport. he was approved for citizenship despite being wanted for bribery related to state railway contracts the a nanny of brothers are charged with embezzlement from the bank they founded all of cypriot passports enabling them to live anywhere in the e.u. and beyond russia's reach the cyprus papers reveal at least 20 russians wanted all convicted mainly for financial crime many more are not criminal but close to president vladimir putin including 2 of russia's richest property developers and several high profile industrialists people who want. for good reasons or for criminal reasons or even political reasons will always be looking for weakest link and a security system is
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a strong as its weakest link the cypriot interior minister says a new committee now studies and evaluates those granted citizenship the government's promising to revoke any found not to be in the public interest but for now the money from moscow continues to bankroll the economy of cyprus deborah davis al-jazeera london for finding something cyprus papers will be revealed later and on al-jazeera dot com in part 4 which airs at 10 g.m.t. on wednesday we look into a cache of documents listing 2 and a half 1000 names including many wanting a safe haven away from their own governments as deborah davies reports about 500 people from china and 350 from the middle east have bought citizenship in cyprus allowing them to live and work in europe. a former bosnian serb commander known as the butcher of bosnia is beginning his appeal against his conviction for war crimes
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including genocide but called nottage was sentenced to life in prison in 2017 for his role in the conflict in the balkans in the 1990 s. his forces killed more than 8000 mostly muslim men and boys in bosnia 70 it was the worst bloodshed in europe since world war 2 not it insists he was defending his country and his people telling them savage is live for us in the i understand that both sides have lots appeals on what grounds well now this was found guilty for genocide here instead but instead for crimes against humanity and the violations of customs and laws of war so the defense things that the trial chamber's factual findings were wrong that their implementation of law was wrong and that the chamber was biased against. and therefore they are going for a straight acquittal or alternatively for
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a retrial on the other hand he was acquitted on one count of the indictment that count is in regard to genocide outside that i've been saying the rest of about the 1992 so the prosecution is once him to be found guilty on that count also. telling their message we appreciate it we'll be checking in with you as the cases are heard but for now thank you very much indeed. and it's time for the sports here is santa thank you very much of rob well the l.a. lakers are now just one win away from the west conference semifinals they crushed the portland trail blazers and game 4 with their stuff there le bron james put in an era big performance sam matic reports. the part that i. love bron james really looks like he's enjoying his 1st post season as an l.a. lakers in game 4 against the portland trailblazers not only did the n.b.a.'s biggest star show off his individual brilliance sure sure. but he also set the
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stage for his fellow lakers to shine. on top of bagging 10 assists some excellent shooting and gotten 30 points takes a deep sigh and that's just le bron's effort setting up a 20 point win to move the lakers within one's win of the next round to keep up on what was a special moment for the franchise the 24th of august being dubbed kobe bryant day due to 24 nate being the numbers kobe wore during his career you know so is this beautiful beautiful night for our franchise and something that are always remember . games or. oils. this mom has. been watching. the one play a seemingly capable about shining le bron's this postseason is yanis and typical. he scored 31 points to help the bucs 281212106 when overall amdo and take
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a 31 series lead a win in game 5 will send the bucs into round 2 it never liked you can step back just start make sure you just get by the energy and there are on the 1st 3 if you don't let go that. there's been little between oklahoma city and houston so far. on monday the fonda came out on top with a $117.00 to $114.00 win this series is now all square 2 wins apiece to possession with and looks to be heading for an exciting finish so he'll malik al-jazeera. the world's fastest man you sound bold is in quarantine at his home in jamaica after testing positive for corona virus the 8 time a limpid gold medalist that was already in isolation while awaiting test results both posted this message to his fans on twitter the night before. sought
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a source and they say that palm firm taught. 19. and it attests on saturday to the cause i work. trying to be responsible something i stay in and stay for my friends. are so all i have in north and from so well into quarantine myself. 2 to 3 times grand slam winner champion while champion serena williams has made her way through to the last 16 of the western and southern open in new york she was given a real workout through the roof of the netherlands the world number 72 pushing williams all the way in 3 tough sets a loss of 3 hours at 763676. the score for the american. game said knightley. of the american will not be joined in the next round by 2 time wimbledon champion pitted a convict over the 6th seed from the czech republic met her match against fellow
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countrywoman mari over the world number 48 winning 267563. men's world number one novak djokovic was playing his 1st a.t.p. manage in 6 months because of the koran a virus pandemic but the serb it didn't have the luxury of easing back into time and to play at the western and southern open djokovic struggled against youth raney and. the rankest in the round of 32 he received treatment for his stiff neck between sets djokovic who's the favorite to win the u.s. open which starts next week eventually managed to win the match in straight sets 676 it's unfortunate you know of the 6 months it's a little bit strange you know no competition 6 months and you would think you know everyone is ready and coming back and all sudden you have like i mean injury obviously it's not it's not injuries not so bad that i have to pull out but from
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singles but you know it's bothering me it's bothering is definitely with the serve but at the same time you know it's much better than it has been yesterday or 2 days ago so or hopefully it's going in the right direction or to some west and southern open when andy murray secured a 1st top 10 victory in over 3 years 3 time grand slam champion produced his biggest win this is undergoing a 2nd hip surgery he battled past fishies alexander spit have in 3 sets to reach the ground. in the n.h.l. dallas set b. the colorado avalanche in game 2 to extend their lead and the western conference 2nd round series the stars dominated the game off the job of all ski open the scoring account for the stars where they went on to seal a 5 to 3. and that's it for me rob so i thank you very much indeed qatar's foreign minister is on a visit to lebanon to finalize an aid package after the blast of beirut support the
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surge and political stability to make humanitarian plans more effective. the mess of explosion in beirut has shaken everyone because of the did the wounded and the economic outcomes the state of cattle was completely in support of lebanon and we were among the 1st to arrive here to boost the effort to send rescue teams field hospitals and other assistance to help the lebanese people the direction of his royal highness the emir is to look at every project affected and lebanon and we're about to finalize in partnership with you nice if a project to reconstruct hospitals and schools also there was a plan before the explosion to help our brothers in lebanon to overcome the economic crisis undoubtedly there is a need for social and political stability to boost the reforms we urge all the powers to put the interest of lebanon as the top priority. and it is going to be here in a couple of minutes with more on all these stories and thanks for being with me.
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september on al-jazeera the trial of those accused of helping in the 2015 charlie hebdo newspaper attacks begins in carrots as the wealth plans to move to was a green energy a new documentary examining the fresh environmental challenges this will cause following the postponement of parliamentary elections due to coronavirus iranians return to the voting booth one on one east investigates in-depth stories from
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across asia and the pacific as u.s. president donald trump's executive order banning check china's most popular app comes into effect across america will this profile of the strain on u.s. china relations september on al-jazeera. frank assessments saying that. there's. life being slipped is informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of breakdown many calls of the old immediate region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate of that is a proxy because not every sunday enters the bill of your people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. russia now seems to be going off to the main economic resource which there's a pool story we bring you the stories in development is that a rapidly changing the world we live in a president's promise america 1st policy trigger to try wall that morphed into
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a technological wall counting the cost on al-jazeera. a show of force in the eastern mediterranean greece and turkey hold rival naval exercises amid growing tensions over prospecting rights that. hello there i missed on the attack and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a new move. the majority now belorussian opposition leaders for granted to kind of guy a tells the european parliament that a peaceful revolution is underway.
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