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this is it reviews live from berlin to ruled out a u.s. federal court deals a blow to president trump's asylum ban that's thousands of central american migrants have towards the u.s. a judge in california since trump cannot deny them their right to seek asylum even if they enter the country illegally also coming up every day innocent yemenis are starving and dying because of a conflict that is entirely manmade well the latest calls for a cease fire at the united nations change anything and if not just what will it
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take to end the suffering plus she's just a small child and has to carry so much weight that it could break her back at work and it's hard for her we need to cheer old so mayo she escaped the threat of islamic state terror and now she's forced to work to feed her family a fate shared by thousands of syrian refugee children in lebanon on. his great to have you along everyone a federal judge in the united states has temporarily bird president donald trump from denying asylum to migrants who enter the country illegally through mexico the president had issued a proclamation that anyone who did not go to official ports of entry would be in the eligible for asylum federal the. court's ruling comes as the u.s.
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steps up security at its border with mexico over fears that migrants might try to overrun the checkpoints thousands of migrants from central america are currently waiting in the mexican city of tijuana to apply for asylum in the u.s. . well in his ruling the judge said that trump's order to block asylum claims represented quote an extreme departure from previous practice. whatever the scope of the president's authority he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that congress has expressly forbidden. while the temporary restraining order will remain in place until there is a permanent legal ruling all right this is a setback for president donald trump's hard line and the gratian policy let's get more on what this all means that with jason a camper donya he is the los angeles bureau chief for n.b.c.
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news radio and of course has been reporting on this story good to have you with us jason what does this injunction mean right now for those in the caravan and for the migrants currently in shelters at the u.s. border. right now if you're sitting in a shelter you've got hope this absolutely is going to boost morale in some of the makeshift shelters that are south of the border in the border town of do you want to we're getting reports that conditions are worsening as more and more migrants try to come to the united states and seek asylum they're bringing in you know extra restrooms or bringing in more food people are trying to collect donations so this right now is basically just boosting morale it's giving them something to look forward to you because it looks like that they you know i have an open window as the temporary order is and place all right but the operative word here jason is temporary this ruling is only temporary what's the next step. well we know
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president trump and we know that he likes a good fight it's safe to assume that he will file some sort of appeal or the white house will file some sort of appeal within the next coming days there is a holiday thanksgiving holiday that starts on thursday and then they're going to be out of session for a week but i'm sure that somebody is going to say something and we all know it's safe to assume that trump is soon as he gets in front of a camera somebody is going to ask him about that and that might be shots fired and maybe that'll be a precursor to what's in store say expect him to dig in the president how much of a setback is this injunction for president trump because i wonder is does the issue of the caravan still carry political value now that the midterms are over oh absolutely trump is already campaigning for twenty twenty and he has been for months and which is base with the republican voter immigration is probably if not
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the most important it's definitely number two on the list so he's going to try and continue to push that agenda and his big thing has been promise made promise kept and if a judge orders some sort of you know ruling that's temporary he's vowed to fight it so i'm sure that's coming in the next couple of days all right jason a camperdown yeah l.a. burr chief for n.b.c. news radio thank you thank you all right let's bring up to speed there was some of the other stories making news around the world. at least forty people have been killed in an explosion in the afghan capital kabul around sixty others have reportedly been injured officials say a suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a hall where islamic scholars had gathered the event was marking the birth day of the prophet muhammad. and this sign and mitsubishi shares have plummeted following
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the arrest of their chairman karl is gone for alleged financial misconduct all the automakers are preparing to oust dawn who also chairs of the north following allegations that include misuse of company assets. in yemen fighting has again flared up between who is the rebels and the saudi led coalition despite calls for a truce or earlier the two sides has signaled a willingness to halt the military operations after more than four years of conflict and a few hours the u.n. security council is due to debate a resolution and ring and bring about an immediate ceasefire between the warring factions. for yemenis young and old the ceasefire can't come soon enough. as many as eighteen million people more than half the country are close to starvation. four years of conflict have brought yemen to its knees monem
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our own we have no shelter we have nothing we don't even have water our children are sick. doctors just can't keep up with the number of malnourished patients. who are stuck again that we receive twenty five malnutrition cases every single week a capacity here is very limited and marcus i have got to say are the activists say they get that renewed fighting flared up in the port city of her days again on tuesday but the u.n. is pushing ahead with its efforts to broker peace talks between the warring parties . the yemeni government has said it would send a delegation to talks. that came after the rebels said they'd stop missile attacks on saudi arabia the yemeni government's major baka but as ever in this conflict skepticism remains. i believe this is just a way for the saudi led coalition to establish an excuse for themselves and abandon
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their obligations the coalition will not stop the aggression. the aggressors do not usually stop and they see these sorts of cease fire agreements as a sign of weakness of. the u.n. hopes the suspicions of proved wrong and that fighting around the key battle ground of data is soon stopped for good. beyond that yemen needs a long term plan for peace. even with all sides at the table that will be a major challenge. now to lebanon where refugee families who've escaped the hardest serving forced to hire out their children as day laborers to make ends meet some one hundred eighty thousand refugee children in lebanon are working long hours for little pay no place has a higher concentration of syrian refugees and lebanon's bekaa valley. travel to a camp there and has been looking at one family's plight that's similar to so many
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others it is six in the morning and lebanon's bekaa valley eight year old so my just woke up a splash of cold water in the face and she is ready for work. her family fled syria to escape i asked her now they're in lebanon where they can't always afford breakfast so my issue is this tiny makeshift bed with three of her six siblings. she doesn't go to school there are no schools in the camp where would she go to school so may as mother is sick and cannot go to work her older siblings also work but so may still need to pitch in to help the family make ends meet so instead of getting on a school bus so mayor gets on the strike every morning where she is the only child among many adults.
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for two dollars a day some are collect whatever crop is ready for harvest in the bekaa valley. today it is onions and her hands are too little for the gloves the adults around her where. i came here from home today can collect the onions but i would rather have toys to play with. three quarters of syrian refugees in lebanon live under the poverty line according to unicef an estimated one hundred eighty thousand syrian refugee children. have been forced into child labor in the country so a lot more to do i don't know when she goes to work and i stay at home of course i'm not happy with that she's just a small child and has to carry so much weight it could break her back it's hard for her that she should be at least thirteen or fourteen to do work like that. there were many refugee families in lebanon rely on their children to pay the bills
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and the resources of aid agencies are overstretched it's unlikely that so many will be able to start working anytime soon. to popper new guinea now where a group of police and security guards have stormed the parliament building breaking windows and smashing furniture the whole thing was over a pay dispute the guards were furious that they had not received the money promised to them after working out last weekend's international summit hosted by this south pacific island. from smashed plates to broken windows but this was more than just a break in it was carried out by the very people who should have been protecting the building security guards and police stormed proper new guinea's parliament to demand paid wages from a summit that only ended on sunday. chinese
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president xi jinping was among the guests at the apec conference hosted by this south pacific island. but it's an extremely poor nation and there's been growing anger at the expense of it all a fleet of luxury cars was bought by the government in which to ferry round the dignitaries some local residents claim they're living in tents after their homes were demolished to make way for a new road the government has reportedly promised to pay the security personnel for their work at the summit but that hasn't ended the un rest tires have been set on fire in the capital port moresby and there are reports of looting a heavy price to pay for a summit that failed to reach a trade agreement between the u.s. and china and which is left this nation with little to show for it.
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a volcano in guatemala has begun erupting violently sending out dangerous flows of love on ash and putting thousands of lives at risk the volcano fire as it's called killed some two hundred people and destroyed several villages when it erupted back in june on thousands of people have been evacuated now from vulnerable areas. pillars of love a thousand meters high blip the night above volcano of fire a towering display that made the danger from the volcano plain for all to see. the mountain has been sending bursts of lava hot rock and ash rushing down its slopes areas to the west have been bombarded with ash and flaming rocks thousands of people have heeded the call to evacuate. look at that.
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you have to find a way out as soon as you can and that's it. because when the lava rugs you barely have time to leave. even if you run because it comes down really fast. many people in this area are still traumatized by an eruption earlier this year in june some two hundred people were killed when the mountain exploded sending out flows of mud and debris that buried entire villages back then authorities were harshly criticized for not ordering evacuations this time they're taking no chances. it's likely this won't be the last time people in the area will need to seek safety the wake of all kanno is the most active in central america and will remain a hulking danger for the people who live here. very scary indeed well don't forget you can always go do a news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple store
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