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they can do with these extremely heavy waiting while the world has been focusing a lot on the tourist. the local real desperation here about how much they've loved . 35 square kilometer as of last greenforest of woodland has been burned, really does resemble. i know i'm gonna get in landscape the heading home 5 americans in prison in iran are released and the deal that seen washington unfreeze $6000000000.00 in a rainy and funds. the hello online site. this is out. is there a life from day or so coming out? kind of as prime minister says now incredible allegations that the indian government was behind the killing of a sick activist in june. also what expels
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a top indeed and diplomats and get into a purchase is gather and the libyan city devastated by floods off to, to dance collapse close to our rank rebels in northern molly say they've taken control of 2 on the basis by saying has escalated off to you in peace keepers began withdrawing the wrong and the us have carried out a prison the swamp. as part of a castle, a mediator deal, 5 american citizens held in tyrone for several years and now on their way back to the united states or 5 of radians also free off to the us agreed to drop federal charges against them. the deal has also seen the us on free $6000000.00 and a radiant oil revenue in wrong con has moved from dial for up to 2 years of
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intense negotiations. a 2 hour flight from toronto has brought an end to a no deal for 5 imprisoned americans. the 2nd year, those negotiations will cast, re mediators shuffling between hotels and the at no point. and that the american and iranian policies meet face to face. the free to prisoners included us around and you'll actually see about give us an image chucky as well as environmental is more of the above. they've been accused of spying and held for several years into their own. they were released as part of the prison. this won't deal to included 5 iranians also released from the us custody. the deal with kathy orchestrated and began with $6000000000.00 of funds of frozen iranian oil money initially seized in south korea, being sent to switzerland and then to go. the ronnie and foreign ministry confirm that transaction would be the charge of the have on c, r in the framework of our active foreign policy. we have unlocked our frozen assets
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in south korea today. god willing, these funds will be in the hands of our government and people, and this government will spend it accordingly to the needs of the people. it was a short walk from that plane through the terminal building, but it's don't quite over for them. yes, they've been met by a sorry delegation. the business have been met to now by the us embassy and levels of the state department. they'll want to get them to the united states as quickly as possible, where they'll be given a medical evaluation and a security. the very thing, the form, a category ambassador to the un said that this was a good deal for a whole. it was the plus to that 2 boxes of the uh go, this is a cutout that live just as the ending. uh, as the box uh, you know, for the past 2 years would be those headphones come through over shows, move it back and forth between the washington dc and the is
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outcome. it is good for both kansas especially that people who are, you know, having to we vision of and they have time to this and is also good for i would be joining because the more we sold for problem or problem solve the problem. and as the more the drum was table and there was a visible sense of relief, is afraid, prisoners bowed at the flight out of town on monday to catch all this has been a successful outcome to a very difficult negotiation process. but this is far from over for the iranians and americans who remain at all of the several issues, including iran is new to energy program and issues such as that will require both sides to sit down and talk face to face iran, which is their, the magenta on sorry, spokesman full cuts, all us foreign ministry on advice that to the prime minister. he says that the 2 year negotiations for the prison that exchange often face challenges at many points,
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there was no light at the end of the telling of it comes to the said mediation. however, in the past 2 years, and in the past months we flew a lot of the visits to both dc that on and direct and negotiations and direct negotiations that will help in various places around the world. and with our, uh, 5 megs the in the southern it of, uh for mine and they, that the states and indeed on we work along uh, finding a solution to this. and i think one of the main difficulty that you are able to get through was making the technical side of this deal at the, at the right time. so all the things can happen at the same time and make sure that everything happens without the glitch. both sides during the negotiations went through a lot of difficulty to get the find the language that was the approved over the financial humanitarian channel. no. so, but the exchange uh and the way to get place and that there was a lot of, uh, very clear guidelines on what should be done and what it was done and did this is
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what we have seen here today. and therefore, we will not that worried that a last minute thing might happen in the, you know, sabotage the whole deal. however, we do understand of course, that it was not an easy task in that to, in both sides. there are lots of questions about it. i do believe that the, the agreement that communities is quite a robust, it has the taking a lot of time and effort. a lot of the, you know, discussions over this to make sure that we have an agreement that can stand, that can withstand the, the criticisms and deb, this is what we are seeing right now. earlier we spoke to jr. again, say, who is the lawyer representing the family of c and maximize the one of the rainy and american prisoners. now on his way back to the united states, he shared with us his experience of securing his clients release. what the family has been through is just absolutely horrific. and now i'm the mom of wife, i think, of mazda, and see like the mazda you're on a plane to the united states,
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where they will meet the brothers, the mac, the mazda, the, and, and the, and the father bought her to mazda and his family will finally, be together for the 1st time in more than 9 years. and they just so using the word hostage rather than the word prism which of course the iranians use. tell us why that is. well, there's an interaction convention on hostage taking the defines of hostages, a person who's being detained for something of value, whether it be money or a policy concession. and a ron just today was given $6000000000.00 have its own money back in order to secure the release. so this is a textbook definition of a hosted, how difficult has it been to represent somebody who has being held prisoner has been held hostage in a country like a ron as well. interesting. i mean, it's, uh, you know, obviously it's very, very hard to go up against, run around, doesn't exactly have a fabulous human rights record. not just in regards to obviously, uh, you know, foreign nationals detained in the country. but obviously in terms of its own people,
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it has a long history of gross human rights abuses committed against. uh, i can just, uh, women against religious minorities, against political activists and so forth. so it's a very, very tough road. but frankly, you know, when it comes with us around a relationship with going back to 1979 has been an exceptionally difficult one. it's often very hard to get the united states to be willing to come to the table across, especially across different um presidential administrations that have very, very different policies. and so, you know, any family in this circumstance has to fight actually both sides in order to get them to come to the table the same time. and that's that they're the most difficult part of the job. and did you have any access to say a mike when he was in the prison? the 1st 2 years, he was a pain, mostly incommunicado, held by the ron ryan revolution and guard corps, and subjected to daily interrogations and torture. after he and his father both convicted and given tenure sentences for so called collaborating with a hospital, stayed with a reference to the united states of america. um, you know, c,
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a mac was, was sent to the general awarded up in prison where he mixed with other 4 nationals who have been convicted as well as a ronnie unplugged for prisoners. and so over the last, about 6 years, we have had regular access to him. he's been able to make phone calls from the prison phones and, and i've spent many years getting to know him and, and obviously working in test it with a family on the outside for a friend, get his father out before he died and ultimate, the, to get him out as well. i want to bring you some breaking news from canada. it's expelled, a senior indian diplomat of the saying it has credible information, potentially linking new delhi to the motor of a seek leader in versus colombia in june. foreign minister says the expelled diplomat was the head of india's intelligence agency in canada. prime minister justin for though told parliament that he raised his concerns possibly um, directly to the indian problem and a sudden or into moody. during the recent g. 20 summit in utah,
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the hot up saying that y'all was shot dead outside a sink temple. on june 18th, over the past number of weeks, canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the government of india and the killing of a canadian citizen har dave seeing major canada as a rule of law country. the protection of our citizens in defense of our sovereignty are fundament, our top priorities have therefore been one that our law enforcement and security agencies ensure the continued safety of all canadians, and to the all steps be taken to hold perpetrators of this murder. to account. steve hewitt is a professor of north american history at the university funding, and he is canadian, and studies the history of terrorism in counter terrorism in canada. he says,
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this is a very significant development. the canadian government must have fairly clear, rather than to have escalated to this level to go on public and obviously behind the scenes at the g. 20 to embrace this issue. but it obviously takes canadian even getting relations to a whole different position. and then with the large canadian community as well, who works many had been accusing the new government of involvement in this murder it, it just obviously gives them further evidence that their, their claims were legitimate. so this is an issue that has a long history. it goes back, certainly goes back over 40 years, where you've had a c canadians who been involved in efforts to gain independence for, for their habits independent speak state in india. in 1984 i, some of the viewers may remember there was the air india bombing, the worst act of terrorism in canadian history, where 329 people lost their lives all around during that period. the indian
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government at that time accused the canadian government of not doing enough to crack down on so you can stream this in canada and there were stories and there was, there is evidence. i've seen government documents in the 1980s that indian agents were active in canada. certainly monitoring this the community. but obviously this goes one step further beyond just monitoring if it's true to actually going to canada and killing a canadian citizen. a demonstration has been held in libya, is east of the city of done a one week off to devastating floods kills thousands of people protest as a cooling on the public prosecutor to speed up the investigation into how to dams above the city collapsed in the heavy rains a blame officials but not maintaining them properly. many in the crowd was so cold
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for national unity onto yes of division. as the 1st of all, we pray that all the monitors will rest in peace. and i hope this is the end of all catastrophes. we just ask that if there will be any rebuilding efforts that no libyan company be involved. this is because everyone in go now from the head of the municipality to all the officials are corrupt. during rush. either be left as it is or a foreign company should be involved. meanwhile, rescue workers in donna are struggling to identify decomposing bodies. at least 10000 people are still missing in the city. and they are growing concerns about the spread of disease. monic training reports from tripoli. it's been over a week since thousands of people were killed when 2 dams burst and sent a wall of water in mud crashing through the eastern city of deadman. the
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search for bodies goes on. thousands of people are missing and feared that many bodies are so decomposed that identifying them is proving difficult and disturbing for search and rescue teams. the to then, so the, the much some that are the libyan when i put on the bodies, i swear i cried. i can handle it, but it is god's well. so you have to hold up and pull out the body. there was a body that was cut into 2 parts stride before us. there was nothing to do but to point out the bodies. what can you do with so many people on accounted for, and so many presumed dead. the threat of disease increases by the day some survivors have returned to what remains of their homes and are overcome with grief
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. again as if we found dead bodies of neighbors, friends, and loved ones, i cannot explain of this, libya has been a deeply divided country for years. so nation sensors like this one in sibley have been set up across the country. volunteers are crossing front lines, ignoring byways, and political and russ that have existed for years in order to help those in need in the east. many survivors wants to know how this disaster happened and who might be responsible for the system that i have a small family of 6 from mike spend the families that are more than $48.00 people missed so either god would punish the people who were supposed to take care of down . the un says that more than 40000 people have been forced to free their homes in
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the 7 mode or side of care for that get paid. it was like a dream of that we can't comprehend. we just can't comprehend to yet help from abroad continues to arrive. what so far? international and living official say is just not enough. not latrina old. you're 0 . tripoli. still ahead on the al jazeera, we were focused on the moroccan government assessing a make shift college students in some areas west affected by the lake and the face of in the hey, rush objects to the un codes jurisdiction. and instead of slide case folks find the had a lot of that parts of australia have been sizzling under an early spring heat wave and we're going to see temperature is continued to sit very high. so this time of
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year, across parts of the se, in particular, sydney, we saw a record for september broken over the weekend. we could see a challenge to that over the next few days. in contrast to this, it has been a little bit cooler across southern parts of western australia with a temperature input about the average if at this time, if you have a cold front. however, sweeping across the bike to for the south of that is going to bring damaging winds to the likes of tasmania cooler conditions as well to that southeast corner. watch those temperatures the dip down wednesday into tuesday. but for sydney, it remains locksley hots and fly at least through to wednesday. if we have a look at the 3 day by thursday, we could see a chance of showing much crude up conditions. now he's also the story across particular the south island of new zealand. christ church, seen the temperature touch rights up for this time if you and damaging winds potentially coming in as we go into wednesday for southern parts of the south on an but a large we settled picture across the north island that and as we move to southeast
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back you watching out, is there a mind at the top story? is this out? iran on the us have carried out a prison as well as concepts a cast on media to deal 5 american citizens held in tech for on, for several years a now on their way back to the us. 5, all the irradiance are also free on the us agreed to drop federal charges against them. kind of that has expelled a senior indian diplomat on to say it has information potentially linking new delhi to the motor of a seat later in british columbia. i'm going to suggest some trade, i told parliament that he raised his consent personally and directly to the indian prime minister and to run the movie during the recent g. 20 summit out of demonstration has been held in libby as eastern city of done one week onto the devastating floods to thousands of people. protest as,
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according on the public prosecute and to speed up the investigation in the health to dance about specific collapse in the heavy rains. initials blamed and not maintaining them properly. stora grumbles and northern molly say they have seize control of 2 military bases. in the town of larry, near the border with mauritania, buttons has escalated since you and peacekeeping troops began, withdrawing from the north, polite was demanded by molly's genta. truly to say that considering mobilizing the service and have cooled off independence day celebrations next week, one day theresa is a specialist in defense and security issues on a consulting principle, a james, which provides open source intelligence analysis. he says the situation in molly is deteriorating. the marion military as a apparently experience several setbacks and these issues against these on the militant groups which were signatories to the elders of course,
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of 2015 and $2.00 of the things that molly is facing was the heidi groups. the fact that he moved to is in circled in the state of locates and kind of deal with supplies. so it definitely feels that the not even really theories in the back foot that it has not been seen since 2013. and it's very hard to say where the situation is going to go, but it's dissing the coast licenses. and there's of high probability that the seas will get this. i think the french was to, was the 1st categories because the french where very effectively targeting on the, the, how these groups and we're seen as an important guarantee. her auth, uh, the respect of the orders, the court by the uh, to our new to groups in the rules. and so the departure of the french, which was met with a degree of incredulity by some of the support groups already started the switch
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we're seeing now. and this was only aggravated by the departure of the you and you should do remember that the you and never had amended to enforce these. and then you don't have an offensive mandate. there was there to act as a stipulation force so that their ability to carry out operation against all the groups with limited but the presence alone help to keep things in check. i would say schools are reopening in central them are okay. 10 days off of us, quick in the hottest hit areas in the atlas mountain students are being educated in tents. the one says the great displaced more than 300000 people with stephanie decade is visited, some make shift classrooms in us me. this is an effort to return the lives of so many children affected by this earthquake to some form of normal c, u, the government to set up these make shift classrooms if you will, in these tense today,
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should be the official 1st day of school. some students arrived this morning but causes couldn't get under way, particularly because of a lack of transportation for some of the children around 50 arrived here. they want around $3000.00 to come and that's what we understand pretty much of work in progress because challenges still remain with transportation. it was, as we've been reporting over the last week, the roads are so incredibly difficult and the villages are still hard to get to. but this is really for the villages surrounding this era. we met one young boy outside 9 years old, all asking him if he wanted to return to school. he said yes, very much. his house was destroyed, his village was destroyed, and his school so. so this very much an effort to try and get things back to normal, but certainly this country still very much reading from that are great stephanie decker. i'll just, sarah, has me judges at the international court of justice,
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the hearing arguments from russia and ukraine about claims by moscow that it launched its invasion to prevent genocide. ukraine brought the case to the u. s. high school days off to russia invaded last year. he accuses moscow of abusing international law by falsely alleging genocide and east and ukraine. russia wants the case to be for announced objects to the course jurisdiction. farm is in ukraine's northern. so me region say they're working on the constance, rest of attack russian tanks on tillery and across, across the board of hit agricultural lands. hundreds of times residents describe a systemic campaign. a 5th same is robbie has moved from the village if couldn't the tape or harvesting season in wartime ukraine. navigating open fields near the russian border means risking land mines, an unexploded bombs always keeping one eye on the sky. for drones,
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missiles and russian artillery. it could just be one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. would the people's lives are a priority. we only work when we know it's safe and there was no for us to learn. we take every precaution here. some of us feel the mind. there are other fields we cannot get to because the road to mind of much of the farms in to me region are no go areas because of russian munitions left behind or ukrainian land mines place there. as a deterrent winner, russian shell hit her farm. tatiana lost 27 head of cattle. she describes unrelenting russian attacks and says to me, needs more help me in the bar trick versions, fly drones every day and watch what is happening here. the spots us an open fire. they are shooting that civilians. there's no military here and they notice, but they still open fire damage from artillery and showing is fairly common in
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places like this in the assuming region. and that's because we're only a few kilometers away from the border. russian positions are set to be just beyond those power lines behind me. but this is not a normal front line. there are no tanks or trenches or troop movements. none the less communities here say they come under attack on a near daily basis. just as we arrived, a drone dropped grenades damaging a nearby cell tower, further isolating people here. a russian attack also damaged the local school and leveled the only hospital in this village. many have left. those still here show signs of stress and depression. so it's not fair is fair. what else is about to say i'm considering leaving? i have 2 children and it's terrifying to live. hey, i feel terrible. i feel that i don't want to do anything. i can't get used to it. we do retention de mining work to make farm land viable again,
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could take 10 years and will only begin after the war. for now, russia continues to target entire villages near the border. ukrainians carry on unwilling to leave, but ensure how much longer they can stay. the same bus route of the old to 0. kendra teeth, got village in ukraine. sylvia reach the us military is asking for the public's help in finding an s 355 to you at that's missing in the state of south carolina. upon it was forced to eject over the city of north child charleston of to what the matter she called a mishap jet was on auto pilot, was thought to be in stealth mode when the pond it supported based on the jets location, on conjecturing the us ministry, believe the $100000000.00 fights and yet is someone that likes moultrie and marian $8200.00 move migrants have arrived on the telling island of lum producer,
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italian prime minister, georgia maloney has pushed through new measures designed to help to to my goods and speed up the repub creation, the building of more detention centers has been approved for since anti trust, regulate, to assess house a series of rules designed to stop all to official intelligence technology from being monopolized by a few companies. the proposals come 2 months before the u. k. host the wells fast a safety summit, the bulk has moved from london. as you go about, protecting consume is the use of artificial intelligence on the same time, no stifling the developments of these are rapidly accelerated industry. that's one of the big questions being asked by persons antique monopoly agency, the market business, all sorts see they all think, be concerned about the power of a being in the hands of, of the home full, a very powerful tech companies, which is why they've come up with a list of proposals that include accountability,
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so always making sure that there is a human hand at the top of the food chain to put the brakes on. should things go wrong or indeed take legal responsibility if i, i, for instance, goes rogue. and then that's the question of flexibility. so a low income stream is to be able to freely choose between different a or a all i platforms as they want. this isn't cost simply the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all of the associated risk link to our official intelligence concerns about a all i taking over people's jobs leading to mass unemployment. it's about a being used by and seed us government's autocratic regimes on the deed, rogue states. for instance, a like having the freedom to choose between life and death on the battlefield. co pays the many of these challenging issues surrounding the tank will be honest, is that the world's 1st a i summit. so that's taking place in the u. k. in november. well, leaders have been invited from the united states europe and further afield. the
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british appointments to reach you soon that team to have the chinese on board. we don't have cost with china has in recent years, had a very different relationship to it's used to fall as efficiently intelligence using for instance, facial recognition as an extension of state power. the genie is very well out of the buffalo. the question is, how do you protect consumers while remaining fat to develop the bulk of out to 0, london, the . this is al jazeera, these are your top stories. iran and the us have carried out a prison. this wolf is pos, if a cap top media to deal 5 american citizens held in tyrone for several years and now on their way back to the us. well, 5 and radians are also free off to the us agreed to drop the federal charges against them. canada has expelled a.
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