they didn't know what direction greece was in. so that's the reason why over 3,000 people were lost at sea. and many of these people, they don't know how to swim, or they've purchased life jackets that are made in china and are actually filled with plants or foam. so they're fake life jackets, even. so that's why the journey is so perilous and so many people lost their lives. >> and, actually, while we were there, when we were on the island of lesbos, a boat came in, or a boat was trying to come in, and capsized, and most of the people on that boat were lost. >> i know that your group is doing a lot to help the refugees in particular. >> yes. >> what are you hoping that these interfaith trips will do? >> yes. we're so excited to be running these interfaith trips, and we're going to continue to run about two or three a year. so if your community is interested in running one through israaid, please get in touch with us. you can visit our website. but we're really hoping to continue to run these trips because it's so important for pe

in which greece turkey exchange large numbers of greek orthodox christians. they and their families prevented from returning to the places they only regionally came from until twenty years ago. i don't. think there's a really good. point that i made because i'm assuming then i don't i mean even if you know me there's no way i'm missing never read about it unless you know if you hadn't been there a lot of wondering if that of that it was. you know you know it was you know i am really i'm sure you know that nobody never ever said yes i have been a good candidate and you may ask is that what you said i don't do you go to make us do it. she never said that you know but i do not really love the u.k. completely you. know yes. i did hear your flu then. oh yes now. here i am over there god i have it out of. the coalition to fight it. they didn't bother to charge it was they taste my idea to me so i. wanted to do that. to the terrorists let you in that is a take it makes you on. the. more recent up. on and his family also came from the same village as motivated smuggl

a group of exchanges from greece and their families make a reciprocal trip to turkey. ever to like the good system never to get the days or the goodies so. that it's all because all my good men there did not promise that. does this and then get. cities or sick i was at this think a little of the dizziness and all. true confessions morning but not a big green up but not or a cynical example of communist propaganda and i wanted to put it up a bit here i want to walk bare all i want to do is i will call him twenty ten al-jazeera access to north korea to investigate the alleged use of biological warfare by the us during the korean war rewind revisits dirty little secrets this time on al-jazeera and this is different whether someone is paying for some of his favorites. i think it's how you approach an official and if it is a certain way of doing it you can't just inject a story and i out. doing this for the benefit of saddam people so bad they see the importance of. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. forcibly displaced by their governments

last waltz in the name of thousands of people protesting in greece after a decades long dispute with their neighbor macedonia. political turmoil in the maldives as ram top in the past few hours the opposition's decided to file a motion to impeach several senior government figures including the defense minister and the tourney general also seeking a no confidence vote against the parliamentary speaker. troops have surrounded the parliament building after days of unrest police fault with crowds who are rallying in support of the supreme court's order to release political prisoners judges reinstated twelve m.p.'s who were expelled for siding with the opposition if they return to parliament the ruling party will lose its majority to m.p.'s who have since returned from exile now being arrested at the airport earlier the attorney general warned that any attempt by the supreme court to unseat the president would be illegal because he said only palmer has the power to do so journalist ahmed explains why the president is unlikely to be removed. would need two thirds of the parliament majority

as a personal issue for greece. let's put. everything on the borders let's pop safe havens let's get massive processing camps. let's get these safe havens so everybody knows where to go where the services need to go and concentrate in on these border regions but nobody knows anything nobody knows. what aid he's been gone it's all the mishmash of everything all different organizations trying to do different things and for me the is the biggest culprit here because he sees these cultures. clearly shown that it cannot deal with the problem merkel obviously said everybody is welcome but how do they deal with being preyed on by gangs drugs like said drug gangs and sex traffickers but where is the where they say these are the places you need to go to these are the agencies that are there working we can help you we can make you safe nothing nothing in the media saving appreciate you coming on good to get thought that was a stephen morris there from the english democrats party in the u.k. thank you. thank you thank you for

exchange macedonia for catalonia, greece for spain. this is the sort of regional or economy questions we are seeing. lloyds ba n k or economy questions we are seeing. lloyds bank in a bitcoin crackdown, stopping its customers using credit cards to buy the cryptocurrency. concern about huge losses that it you were a similar move? lloyds said they do not want people going on to bitcoin and purchasing £100 on the credit card because if you lose you still have the dead and if you are unable to pay it off you are also paying the interest. we decided to not allow clients to send money to bitcoin because if it is anonymous if it is as anonymous as people say it is, it points to some people really wa nt it is, it points to some people really want to use it for anonymity thenit really want to use it for anonymity then it is difficult for compliance. bitcoin has had a bad 2017 —— 2018, even though went ballistic and 2018. this year is when it will come back down to earth. it got up to $20,000 coin in the last part of last year saw a lot of

yugoslav republic of macedonia calling itself the same name as greece's northern macedonian region a region once home to ancient ruler alexander the great they say it implies a territorial claim the greek government has been trying to broker a compromise with the country of macedonia over the name which has brought protesters onto the streets among those addressing the crowds was the world renowned composer micky's tedder doric is. very much if. we must not agree with this falsifying of history. thirty. one the greek government seeks a deal with its neighbors as these protesters insist there should be no compromise . to cyprus now were conservative incumbent nikos honest as the artist has won the country's presidential election he was running against left wing candidates. with all the votes counted honest us yachties is the winner with fifty six percent the left wing backed mahler's has conceded defeat the economy and reunification talks are the main focus of the election blamed on a stasi audi's for a breakdown in last year's peace talks between the greek majority sells the island a

outcry over a name hundreds of thousands of people protesting greece the decades long dispute with neighboring macedonia. alive adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a political power play in the mall deaves as the opposition tries to impeach senior government figures. italy's prime minister condemns the shooting rampage by a far right supporter who wounded six african immigrants a rocky ride to senegal's only passenger train will explore the ambitious plan to link east and west africa. and names inflaming a passionate protest by hundreds of thousands of people in greece there demonstrating right now in athens against the use of the word macedonia by the small bordering balkan states of protest as you can see it gathered outside parliament to try to dissuade the greek government from allowing the term macedonia in any settlement in the round with its neighbor the two countries agreed to set up to see asians. earlier this year they've been at odds over the say over the name since the republic of macedonia broke away from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred one gr

good for greece. it is 25 basis points wider everyone thought it was over yesterday, the bank of england changes the rate view. mark: mark carney yesterday, bound to consents the hold off on his message? >> this is 9-0. they made their decisions two weeks beforehand. this is anything they could have held off. he chose not to. this is a committee response. it is poor timing. it has not helped. mark: inflation next week is the big one, next wednesday. he is all booked then. -- in. the pains becoming more normal. in on the first word news with courtney donohoe. has signed atrump two-year budget deal ending the shortest u.s. government shutdown on record. hours after the partial shutdown again at midnight, the house passed a two-year budget bill that raises federal spending by almost $300 billion and puts the death of -- debt ceiling on hold for one year. rand paul earlier padlocked a senate vote for hours, he was unhappy about extra government spending any measure. the sister of the north korean leader h

inflation is actually good for spain and italy and greece. dealing with their issues. it is good across most emerging markets. you know, it is surprising -- many people would think it is surprising, the mexican peso up 4% year to date. there's been virtually no volatility in mexican rates or mexican currency. spain has rallied year-to-date. it is really those assets which have had the most overpriced valuation having kicked into a correction by this inflation scare, and that would be bunds and treasuries, and that has kicked over into the u.s. equity markets. so, those assets will benefit like greek government bonds have done quite well. bonnie: i would agree with robert that the eu has to inflate its way out of the debt. so, in a way, it is good for them. i would also point out that the ecb has been buying a lot of credit. even though the program is a lot smaller, only 30 billion, they are buying the same amount of credit as they were when they were 80 billion. just a mix of changes in the credit. as you were discussing, the peripherals are trading like credit. you ar

for the kind of humanitarian situation that greece facing martin milius from the it organization care in amman jordan thank you thank you. our next we shift our focus to the u.s. where last week's mass shooting at a florida high school has ignited a new push to end gun violence seventeen people were killed in the massacre well now the surviving students are leading the movement for change pressuring state lawmakers to pass tighter gun control laws but on shoes say they suffered a setback as politicians rejected a motion to consider a ban on the sales of assault style rifles. students from marjorie stoneman douglas high school make the long journey to florida state capitol to pressure lawmakers to ban assault style weapons they want the massacre at their school to be the last. they were that they were going to be just. part of florida we have to go. we have to show them how. to how they have. their calls fell on deaf ears students was shocked when the state house voted down the motion but there are signs that washington is listening although he campaigned on a pro-gun ticket president

that greece continues to struggle to clear up a scandal involving pharma giant no vomitus prosecutors have been investigating the swiss company for over a year it stands accused of bribing high ranking politicians to smooth the way for expensive sales and fast approvals for its medicines in greece now the country's parliament is also getting involved the affair has provoked furious reactions in greece where many blame corrupt politicians for the country's economic woes. kentucky fried chicken customers in the u.k. were left disappointed after the fast food chain was forced to close most of its nine hundred outlets because it was unable to get fresh chicken delivered the first food chain recently switched its delivery contract to d.h.l. which clearly had some serious logistics problems neither k.f.c. nor d.h.l. went public with the reasons for the shortfall. it's called petro and is meant to help pull venezuela out of its endless crisis. on tuesday the country's president nicolas maduro launched a new digital currency. but it definitely won't today marks the birth of the letter . crypt

two parameters two mentions on stopping one diplomatic and geopolitical one which says that a lot of greece see it is a matter of national interest to have a strong position on the so-called macedonian name issue on the other hand of course it's of issue of motional popular national identity so a lot of people consider the ancient legacy. is part of greek identity and part of the greek narrative of continuous greek nationalism so it's a matter of both of geopolitical disagreement the question of the national interest and their emotional national identity when the two gets together it's actually very difficult to conduct diplomacy isolated from the sentiment on the street. cyprus's president has won a runoff election with fifty six percent of the vote nicos anastasiades comfortably beat his challenger. he's vowed to improve the economy and push ahead with reunification attempts on the island a u.n. administered demilitarized zone runnings with the capital nicosia has divided turkish controlled north and a greek dominated south cyprus since one thousand nine hundred eighty four. human rights

scandal has rocked all of greece and the government wants to get to the bottom of it. we want to help cover up to conceal one of the biggest scandals in modern greek history because the greek people have the right and the demand to have everything come to light and to learn the truth. even at the height of the country's economic crisis. charging for drugs according to the greek government it says that left thousands without access to affordable medicine between two thousand and six and twenty fifteen the swiss drugmaker allegedly bribed thousands of doctors and civil servants including the former finance minister he is accused of signing documents that unable to tax bill from the voters to be merged with public sector debt he was you to give yourself the ladies and gentlemen the statements are entirely fair and never signed anything of the sort mine or did i have the authority to do so and i don't think anyone else either. it is for first weeks now i have asked to be shown the relevant documents with my signatures they simply don't exist. greece's parliament is now inv

protestors in greece call on the government not to allow its northern neighbour to call itself macedonia. and, in a tense final, the philadelphia eagles beat the new england patriots to claim theirfirst super bowl victory. reports from south africa suggest that presidentjacob zuma has refused to stand down during talks with senior officials from his ruling party. a meeting to discuss his future was held at his official residence in pretoria. mr zuma, who is 75, is facing allegations of corruption. he has previously survived several votes of no confidence in parliament. andrew harding reports from johannesburg. he is swamped by scandal. south africa's president, jacob zuma, has already been found guilty of breaking his oath of office when he upgraded his private home, lavishly, at the taxpayers‘ expense. more recently, his friendship with the controversial business family the guptas has fuelled allegations of massive corruption. "state capture", they call it here. during the zuma presidency, south africa has floundered. the economy is struggling and unemployment is soaring, amid a sense

it is in our country and greece. the bigger party. we accept it isa greece. the bigger party. we accept it is a fact. with countries like yours that are trying to get up to the european average, the best talent in the country leaves for the biggest western economies. we have seen biggest western economies. we have seen it with bulgaria and romania. are you worried that might happen with macedonia? we have expectations when to become a member of the european union. it is an open market now. we believe in the values and these values will be more guaranteed for you to remain in our country. we hope to improve our economy and standard because we attract a lot of foreign investors. they push the economy and increase salaries. the prime minister that of macedonia. it would mean a lot to country. the unemployment rate in macedonia is 2296 unemployment rate in macedonia is 22% and they have been meeting finance yeas here in london and one of them the european development bank, says it will take them 60 yea rs bank, says it will take them 60 years to get up to the eu gdp average per pe

athens urging the government not to compromise in a long running name row with neighboring macedonia greece has blocks the former yugoslav republic from joining nato and the e.u. saying its name implies a claim over a greek province also called macedonia john psaropoulos reports from athens. the message was clear macedonians are greeks and no one other than the greeks should be allowed to use the name macedonia greeks refer to the neighborhood by the name of its capital city skopje their opinion is important because they held a power of veto over its entry to nato and the european union he might give the union to me again as anyone macedonian is greek greek people will not accept the fact of a name we determine to show that we went out to history under the terms that can be no european plus spectroscope yes this was greece's official position until about a decade ago it has since accepted the use of the composites name such as northern also love macedonia and a new government in scope is willing to die you to the countries constitutional name republic of macedonia so the basis for a comprom

countries concerned for its stability and survival but greece has cited its own security concerns. as a vital part of any agreement the government would be called upon to remove articles in its constitution but implied claims on its territory article forty nine talks about protecting macedonian minorities in neighboring countries article three leaves open the possibility of changing the country's borders in two thousand and eight the greeks vetoed former yugoslav macedonia as entry into nato undeterred the government in scope erected statues to ancient king alexander the great and his parents but now there's a more moderate government in scope here willing to compromise over the name and greece's official position has changed to accept a composite name that includes the word macedonia but as far as greeks are concerned these are legal niceties that skirts the real issue which is national identity but the. name symbolize something if i come to her house and we say we're going to have the same surname that means we have the same father and same rights this is none and we're not oblig

oppose a potential deal with macedonia that would see a longstanding dispute over its name settled a greece has opposed its neighbors use all the name macedonia since it became independent from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred ninety one nothin's says it suggests a territorial claim on its own northern province of macedonia the two sides have pledged to find a solution this year. well for more on this we can bring in our correspondent in athens and the kara salva and they what is it that the demonstrators are looking to achieve what are they calling for. well for starters the turnout has been absolutely phenomenal authorities are also trying to pay down they put out an initial statement saying that about one hundred forty thousand just showed up organizers are putting that number up to one point five million. difference between the two but we've clearly seen hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people out there in the demand is just why the greeks do not want to relinquish the name macedonia greek name to it their northern neighbor. in light of these name disputes that eased negotia

has territorial aspirations and wants to claim united which is simply not there what about within greece itself how big is the opposition to the use of the country in a macedonia. the opposition is huge and this this protest in fact is a symbolic of how emotional it happened what an emotive issue this is with the years after this if this name dispute kind of erupted and yet it stokes a lot of passions here to be bringing out so many people and the latest poll over the weekend show that seven in ten greeks oppose any use of the name macedonia in a solution that's being figured out between these two countries and that puts the government here. in a bind because it has in fact to really to proceed with negotiations that would include the name danny in some sort of a composite name briefly and say i mean all police expecting any turmoil. oh well the exotically been a peaceful protest but it's not over yet and authorities are bracing for some violence to happen some street on the on the fringes. they're staying put in there hoping to keep militant extremists from both sides hot headed nationa

tens of thousands of people rally in greece over the use of the name macedonia by the neighboring former yugoslav republic. the standoff between the supremes caught on the president deepens as he refuses to release opposition leaders and reinstate dissidents and pains to people die and dozens are injured after a train crash in the u.s. state of south carolina on the u.s. secretary of state increases the pressure on president maduro threatening to restrict the sale of oil from venezuela. and in sport the new england patriots are preparing to face the philadelphia eagles in super bowl fifty two the patriots quarterback tom brady is aiming for a sixth championship title will be live in minneapolis at the gate. tens of thousands of greeks have staged a mass rally in the capital athens urging the government not to compromise in a festering name raul with neighboring macedonia greece has blocked the former yugoslav republic from joining nato and the european union saying its name implies a claim over a greek province also called macedonia johnson office reports from athens. the message was cle

greece struggling to find. resorting to drug dealing. stories. defense ministry says. in. the western media. that has broken the truce. monday morning in moscow thanks for joining us. the winter olympics in south korea wrapped up with norway coming out of the medals table at the olympic team came the thirteenth at the doping scandal having prevented many russians from simply competing. takes a closer look at russia's achievements in. well seventy medals chang is the only minus twelve if you compare it to twenty nine team russian medals and saatchi this is not a mon blowing result but it still deserves a huge round of applause given that most russia stars weren't even invited here by the international olympic committee so basically it was mostly a team of olympic newbies but i'll tell you what did blow the mind of russian fans here in p.n. chang it is the first gold medal by their men's ice hockey team in twenty six years the final was really tough neck and neck till the last second with surprise silver medalists germany and the red machine was only able to show who's boss

turkey and greece have a past off military conflict i mean in the seventy's they were even at war at some point it's not a surprise that these two could nato member states are in such a situation for a minute it won't make that much of a difference of course the other countries are very poor it that this is might get out of hand you know that of course they do not like to nato members at war but nader has always survived this kind of skirmishes especially between greece and turkey we should not forget that all rhetoric aside and nato was never about democracy and human rights i mean when nato was founded greece was a military dictatorship and turkey was a military dictatorship that did not impede their nato membership so i think on the whole things will go on as usual just that the only thing that we have to take care is that this does not get out of hand this can always happen of course. u.s. city of baltimore will introduce a cease fire this weekend aimed at tackling record high murder rates and stopping a spate of killings is the third ceasefire of its kind comes as members of a p

one thousand one will greece won't allow macedonia to become a member of the of nato all the european union without an agreement on the matter so what's behind greek opposition to the use of the name macedonia well the main argument is that it could imply territorial claims over its own northern region which has the same name both governments of signal that they're willing to compromise but convincing voters may be more difficult let's go live to athens and a series johnson is there john it's obvious that feelings are running pretty high there in athens this isn't the first time we've seen protests like these though why are they flaring up now. no you're right it's not the first time this happened again in one thousand nine hundred two shortly after communism collapsed in eastern europe and you get the former yugoslavia broke up into its constituent states what you're seeing here now in assamese is a replay of those same emotions that we were seeing then and if you if i step aside slightly and you look behind me the square in front of parliament is now completely full of people but th

greece that thinks they suffered a lot from one of the former finance ministers of both going sharply he traumatized that country in a way although his insistence on austerity was weakened in his last years but he's still a symbol for that and so the hope in greece and with other social democrats all across the continent is that this spells the end of the german insistence on austerity and that's something apparently that mountain srodes was very examines about he said that also during his time as president of the european parliament i have to see of these hopes are dashed or not because a lot of shows the new finance minister in germany might be a little closer to showing blood than some people on the left some politicians on the left would like him to be right could be some changes in the way for europe will have to see our correspondent max hoffman for us in brussels in our political correspondent with us here in studio thank you both turkey's human rights record is in the spotlight today as the european parliament instructs for votes on a resolution over measures introduced by anc

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only in capital skullcap and this happened for two reasons one is that in the last decade greece has suggested that it's willing to accept a composite name something like slough macedonia and northern macedonia which was not the case back in the ninety's when this dispute first flared up and secondly because in may of twenty seventeen a more moderate government was installed the socialist party took over in skopje and they suggested that they one of the top priorities of their government would be to reach a compromise solution with greece on their name they want to enter the european union they want to enter nato greece holds veto power over both memberships if this issue isn't settled and so it's of the highest import. this is what happened when yugoslavia broke apart a quarter century ago and its southernmost state claimed independence as the republic of macedonia a million people gathered in the soil and the capital of the greek region of macedonia outraged that a non greek nation should lay claim to ancient greek heritage that is still the dominant view here today. they're trying