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al-jazeera. hears president donald trump faces fresh allegations of tax avoidance and day it's . the wonder of it. and the america would be proud to share but that's just rude news. and how the magazine and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. caught up in the fighting between azerbaijan and armenia international pressure builds to hopes the escalating violence. the fast track coronavirus tasks for
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passengers that airlines hope will give the industry a much needed lift. and indonesia's giant mapping project to end land disputes but not everyone's been allowed its to have a say. struggling properties a $750.00 tax bill and debts tallying in the hundreds of millions of dollars these are just some of the revelations from the u.s. president's tax records that he's long fought to conceal a very different picture from the one donald trump betrays on the campaign trail of a savvy businessman with a neck for making money heidi joe castro has this reports. in 2015 here donald trump emerged from a golden l a big. to declare his candidacy he paid 0 dollars in federal income tax just as he
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had in 10 out of 15 years prior in 2 101617 president trump paid just $750.00 a year in federal income tax while the average middle class american family paid more than $10000.00 the new york times says it reviewed more than 2 decades of trump financial records the account published sunday describes a businessman president who avoided taxes by declaring huge losses but now personally owes creditors more than $300000000.00 soon to be due trump's prized golf resorts reported losses of $315000000.00 since 2000 the times reports the washington trump hotel shows a loss of 55000000 from has long sought to suppress his financial records taking the fight to the supreme court at
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a hastily called press conference sunday trump sought to discredit the new york times reporting based on leaked information to the fake news say we were through the same stories you caressed in the same questions for years ago i had a little get this and talk about it totally fake news now actually i paid tax but then you're saying that the servers might actually change the bits under the banner order for them to have indeed the times reports the internal revenue service audit concerns the legitimacy of a 72 $1000000.00 tax refund that trump began receiving in 2008 and then there are the potential conflicts of interest trump has refused to divest in his businesses while president of the times reports his mar-a lago resort has made $5000000.00 a year in new members since trump became president and his resort in dorell collected $7000000.00. dollars from the bank of america overseas income brought him
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$73000000.00 in his 1st 2 years in the white house iraq say if you go out and in an arrangement that we do strums taxable income the president's daughter and white house advisor evanthia trump appears to have been paid as a consultant even ashley managed her father's business trump may be engaging in tax fraud on an epic scale where he's using state consultants in i.e. his children to turn businesses that would be turning a profit into losses that he can count on his few businesses that make money but their only losses because he's making his ridiculous payments to people who are on his company's payroll already the times reports the trove of records do not appear to incriminate trump further in his business dealings with russia the times did not publish the records themselves but democrats on twitter quickly seized on the report a roadmap of possible attacks against the president the new york times says it
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a tantrum financial records from confidential sources with legal access to the information the paper promises to publish more revelations in the days to come this may well be what the trump campaign most feared and earthquake of damaging reports just weeks before voters head to the polls the route once again shifting in an election year full of surprises. castro al-jazeera washington. well tim constantine is a writer with the washington times he's questioned much of the york times reporting and says it's unlikely to hurt trump's chances in the vendor. i don't think it will make a huge difference it will be an issue but there are many bigger issues the economy is one of them cold it is one of them the supreme court justice selection will be one of them i think in the big picture this is a story for one or 2 days the democrats will certainly beat the drum and try to
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make it something but the fact is that if he has followed all the rules all the laws it has no impact whatsoever. that international calls for calm are so heavy fighting between armenia and azerbaijan at least 16 people have been killed including civilians there the fighting is the latest flare up in a long running conflict over the. region which lies inside answered by shan but is run by ethnic armenians rising has reignited concern about stability in the south caucasus a corridor for pite planes carrying on oil and gas to world markets well robin forester walker is in the region region and has filed this report. as ery tanks under attack according to armenians defense ministry it also claims that is very drones and helicopters were also destroyed but civilian casualties are among those
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reported killed early in the morning around 7 am and other virgina forces launched a large scale aggression including. a long line of counter that contact we thought of not going to karbala they are targeting civilian population and civilian infrastructure. as a boy john has condemned what it called a 1000000 propaganda president said as ery forces had launched a counter-offensive after coming under attack so it managed media was the 1st to fire and the 1st to die by johnny servicemen as a by john gave a decent response to the enemy and the enemy could not move an inch this is the new goal no karabakh region internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but the red areas are controlled by armenian forces adjacent as ery territories in green are also occupied by armenia the international community has called for an
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immediate cease fire with russia playing a lead mediating role it has a military presence in armenia and good relations with azerbaijan but now another regional power is playing an increasingly assertive role on sunday president added the one of turkey said that turkey stands with azerbaijan. armenia's prime minister nicolle passion warned against turkey becoming involved. and of. the fact that turkey is maintaining such dangerous behavior is fraught with the most devastating consequences for south caucasus and the adjacent regions the international community must prevent with united efforts the dangerous development of events and stop efforts to destabilize the region. armenian separatists fought the control of little or no kara back in the early 1990 s. with the collapse of the soviet union 30000 died in the fighting.
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a cease fire in 1994 was brokered but sporadic fighting has continued ever since say almost 3 decades later internationally mediated peace talks have stalled tensions rose in july with the worst fighting since 2016 as a by john has repeatedly bowed to recapture nagorno-karabakh by force and armenia has vowed to depend the territory both sides remain determined to claim nagorno-karabakh as their own robin for a steel walker al-jazeera tbilisi. a funeral has been held for 2 palestinian fisherman who were killed by the egyptian navy hundreds of people gathered in the gaza strip to mourn the 2 brothers who dies on friday off fishing near the gaza egypt's maritime boundary a 3rd brother has been treated in an egyptian hospital hamas has condemned the
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incident and called on egypt to investigate. the mall antigovernment protests continue any journalists the latest happened in d.s. just north of cairo at least one person has been killed in the rallies which began more than a week ago there's anger over corruption and a deteriorating economy the protesters want president out of c.c. to resign he says he's leaving egypt through necessary reforms. french president emmanuel mccraw has criticized lebanon's leaders over their failure to form a new governments prime minister designate moustapha deep quits on saturday less than a month into the job lebanon's economic crisis has been exacerbated by last month's massive explosion in beirut supports a chromos particularly critical of the sheer group hezbollah. hezbollah out.
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on him his brother cannot be an army fighting israel a militia fighting civilians in syria and a respectable party in lebanon all at once it can't believe it is stronger than it is it is up to them to demonstrate the very respect the lebanese as a whole it is clearly shown the opposite in recent days. a judge has temporarily blocked the trumpet ministrations attempt to ban u.s. downloads of the video sharing app tick-tock president trump wanted to ban the bonds of the band to take effect by the end of sunday he says ticked all these parent companies chinese owned forces a security threats the company denies this well jim anderson is a tech analyst and the c.e.o. of social flow he says tech talk has a number of obstacles to overcome before it can secure its place in the u.s. markets. i think the big challenge here is you know it buys them a little bit of time but it's unclear what the end game is you know tick tock is
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ultimately really a pawn on the chess board between the u.s. and china and i say that with no disrespect it's just you know this is a geopolitical issue between the united states and china and to happens to be caught in the middle and you know they're doing everything they can because their very existence as a company is being threatened your pretty significantly said the u.s. is their 2nd largest market so better to get this injunction today and get the state to try to fight this out and to try to work out the deal with oracle and wal-mart over the next week or 2 the overall concern is that tick tock is owned by dance which is a chinese company and chinese companies are subject to the authority of the chinese government just like u.s. companies are subject to the authority of the u.s. government and given the chinese government's views on privacy and you know what kind of data it believes it has access to i think it is a very legitimate concern the challenge has been it's been a very chaotic implementation of this ban you know it was very quickly done 45 days there was lots of confusion you know supposedly there was going to be
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a deal with microsoft ultimately it looks like the chinese government is the one who would not buy off on the deal with microsoft and now we have a somewhat convoluted deal between oracle and wal-mart to try to own not exactly tick-tock but to be the trusted technology partner and you know when you listen to what oracle says and when you listen to a byte and say they don't actually line up which is pretty unprecedented on a deal of this size so there's a lot of confusion around it. still to come on al-jazeera a major milestone in yemen the government and the rebels agree a prisoner exchange and these tracks are is a revolutionizing farming with some extra terrestrial help. hello there mostly clear and calm picture across much of the middle east across
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turkey they want to see bits and pieces of cloud in the last few hours i have seen one or 2 showers now as we go through monday quite a bit of cloud with those showers working their way into as the caspian sea and in fact working the way for the east was as we go through the day so northern sections of iran and some very well scattered showers as well across areas of afghanistan and northern pakistan becoming a little bit more widespread as we go through cheese day much of the middle east the arabian peninsula is mostly clear and dry the winds are fairly light damages north as high as they have been 43 in kuwait city 35 in the hole but still feeling fairly him with 35 the winds are very light since the one of the shows in the fall south and west of yemen that we had down into central africa plenty of showers here the rains pushing further south not typical for this time it is becoming quite widespread through the d.l.c. and across into much of tanzania as well more of those coastal showers and even want to shout into more northern and central areas of angola and all the while those showers working their way through the south africa becoming quite widespread
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into more areas tools east of against and shot just pushing up into southern sections of mozambique so a fairly unsubtle in johannesburg for the next few days. as astrolabe prepares for bushfire season survivors of the last summer's catastrophic fires are still struggling whether one east follows one community's road to recovery now just 0. 0003. 1000. questions have. to be. the only way the one.
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this is al jazeera quick reminder of the top stories for you know the new york times reports donald trump has paid 0 tax in 10 of the last 15 years the paper says it's obtains more than 2 decades of the u.s. president's tax returns trump dismissed the reports as false. have been international calls for calm after at least 16 people were killed during heavy fighting between armenia and azerbaijan a stir things continue to it's a monday morning it's the latest flare up in a long running conflict over the nagorno-karabakh region. and adjourned chaz temporarily dogs of the trumpet ministrations tempting band u.s. downloads of the chinese video sharing at take top the band was taken facts by the end of sunday washington says the company poses
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a security threats which take talking denies. the ballistics reports from the kentucky state police is contradicts in the official accounts of the fatal shooting of brianna taylor the 36 year old black who was killed in a police raid gone wrong no officers to be charged over her death she returns he has more from louisville in the united states where there have been a series of protests. the protests of the renamed. downtown louisville in justice square our own almost on a daily basis we got more and more information leaking to approach the thrust of the official account of the circumstances of brianna taylor's death which was presumably presented to the grand jury just doesn't add up the latest information it has not been ruled out of the police officer who was wounded by a gunshot wasn't by another officer but it could have been friendly fire the
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attorney general. so that has been ruled out if you will documents addressed that haven't been ruled out in addition a lot rides of one witness out of 12. he did hear the police announce themselves before they used a battering ram to reality he was home however now transpires it took 2 months for this man to say about 2 months of interviews 3 interviews over 2 months and even then what he said was what the police said this is because that's the quote that he gave which again adds to a certain amount of incredulity that's how the police would have it out themselves and even though he says it when he said that once all of us are doing to clamor for the grown juror grand jury transcripts and the underlying evidence to be released so we can see what evidence we drew is really worth considering when they decided not to troll one police officer with the death of brutality. mali's president says
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named an interim prime minister he is former foreign minister marked are all on his hope the appointments will he synonyms to sanctions placed on mali by west african countries following a military coup last month the transitional government has agreed to serve for 18 months before elections can be held. television police have found stun grenades and tear gas to disperse so 100000 people in the capital minsk rise against president alexander lukashenko also took place in a 9 other cities across the country and 200 people were arrested sunday marks the 50th straight day of protests against the disputed presidential election. warring states in yemen have agreed on their biggest prisoner exchange since the 6 year war began the u.n. says it hopes to build on the men sent to get a national cease fire and eventually an end to the conflict. reports.
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this is the u.n. 1st major achievement in yemen in years the hoa fees and the government have agreed to exchange prisoners the deal was initially struck into 1018 in sweden but never implemented the 1000 and $81.00 individuals would only indeed will represent the largest release operation during the history of the conflict in yemen peaceful negotiations can succeed and they will succeed in bringing relief to the yemeni people and building confidence for the peace process. implemented this new deal would pave the way to a broader prisoner swap. 6 years says the houthi is took over the capital sana whiting contin years claiming the lives of thousands of people the fate of
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thousands of prisoners is yet to be decided the un hopes the warring factions will resume talks soon to free all prisoners at the end of the day only parties to the conflict can bring long lasting positive change that yemeni people so neat. i believe over the law as there is we have been reminded here again that small steps that can have big impact are possible and much needed in yemen today. in the past tribal leaders and clerics brokered major prisoner exchanges but never managed to get all the parties to and the conflict. the saudi backed government insist a political deal will only happen once the houthi is pull out from the areas they controlled into $1014.00 and had over their weapons it condition dismissed by
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the iran backed rebels who describe themselves as legitimate representatives of the yemeni people. in 2018 un envoy announced what he described as a landmark deal in yemen the stockholm agreement consisted of a prisoner swap the creation of a demilitarized zone in cities on the red sea and to the fighting in tires and a commitment from all the parties to start political talks to end the conflict but within days the deal collapsed and fighting could resume. but many things have changed since the store call my dream and the ho these have considered dative their military gains in the north u.a.e. back to session this control most of the south president had he has lost
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significant influence here runs the few areas still under his control from exile in saudi arabia. the un has described the humanitarian crisis in yemen as the worst in the world most of its people including 12000000 children need humanitarian assistance many hope this agreement may be a step towards an and to a war that is raising the threat of yemen's disintegration. al jazeera. and tenacious government is close to completing a national marketing project which it says will address london disparities indigenous communities those say they've been excluded from the process as jessica washington reports from jakarta. indonesia as west timor people have been left to pick up the pieces of their demolished community to turn over sadly this is what's left of my home after the local government tore it down i don't have
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a house anymore now i have to live under a tree. and organise the local government victim. firing tear gas and tearing down their houses only a few bill went up and. they offered to relocate us but they immediately tore down our houses before the replacement houses but even ready since then they've been living in tents the local government says the land has huge potential and needs to be developed for agriculture number but that doesn't mean the god of the lancets if it is a state document we told them take the local government to court let the court decide who the rightful owner is. disputes like this are common across indonesia corporation's local governments and indigenous communities are often at odds over who owns what land it's a problem the government says it wants to resolve its. policy song it
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is to solve the problem of land over land prices we're dealing with problems that occurred in the past like comics. for almost 10 years indonesia's government has been working on a complete database of maps to help minimize overlapping land disputes now the government says the project is almost complete but indigenous communities say they've been excluded from the process activists say the mapping process has been opaque and closed off. the state considers these indigenous people is living on land which doesn't belong to them and with its power tries to stop their efforts to fight for their land. and local leader of the indigenous kennebunk munity was arrested accused of stealing chainsaws being used to cut down trees in the forests . he says the government always sides with corporations who he accuses of encroaching on their land and he's skeptical that the government has any real intention to protect indigenous communities. when it comes to relations with the
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vestas indigenous people are always the ones left defeated he says they like many indigenous communities all over indonesia will never stop fighting to protect their land just to washington al-jazeera jakarta. airlines are pinning their hopes on preflight coven tests that deliver results within 15 minutes called antigen tests they can be administered by non-medical staff and cost as little as $7.00 however they are more likely to miss positive cases than law based molecular diagnostic tests still the airline industry hopes they will help restore passenger confidence and produce the need for tough travel restrictions quarantine is a complete dead terror to any. trouble project if you have a current it is this nation or that whole it blocks completely trouble
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so we said we have to remove guarantee and what we think is that one terrorist at departure port guaranteeing that at 98 percent sensitivity the passengers who are traveling are not infected we are not saying that this is that he is one of the percent. sensitive and that there is it is 0 risk 0 risk doesn't exist what we say is that this is guarantees that the pandemic will not be transferred from country a to country really at a level that it is not under control when she's due key issue is it that we will that the key issue is that the remains of their control. now farmers in sweden are turning to outer space in their bid to cut waste boosts crops and help the
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environment for research and has this report form follows in southern sweden. much has changed since last 1st got behind the wheel of a tractor as a 16 year old 45 years on these farm machines are space age they're still doing the same job of spreading manure on the fields but now they have an extra terrestrial help beam straight down into the tractor from the skies. yeah. they're really a cardinal seed so in years gone by was just dust smoke it was the our chemical are these days it's comfy seats ac and satellites telling us separately where we are and what we need to do on a square meter of the field. the tractor of the 2020s is packed with high tech equipment sensors measure crop density to see exactly how much pesticide is needed and where not too little to endanger the crops or too much to endanger people while
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satellites analyze a host of factors such as soil quality and nitrogen uptake in a sugar beet field like this one a farmer would normally have to use a mixture of guesswork and experience to decide the amount of fertilizer but beaming down information from a satellite can mean less waste for the food industry and less of an impact on the environment. it could be a small step from. our need for crops with our need not to destroy the planet or ourselves the united nations said 3 years ago that 200000 people were dying annually from toxic exposure to pesticides while excess fertilizer becomes greenhouse gas or leeches into rivers and oceans the farming co-operative here in sweden says it aims to have its climate impact every 10 years while increasing production partly with the help of the satellite platform invented by 22 year old
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robert schmidt the correct amount of enables you to have the best the best quality of the plant if you apply too much it will be bad for the environment. it might be about a 40 year old or the quality of the crop with our technology being able to reduce the amount of wasted nutrients by about half the coronavirus pandemic has shown a greater local food supply to be more vital than ever high tech attractors may mean climate goals don't have to take a back seat as a result. paul aris al-jazeera of sweden. or the weather headlines here on al-jazeera the. u.s. presence tax returns the paper says donald trump paid 0 tax and sang.

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