tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera October 6, 2018 2:00am-3:01am +03
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the video he posted outside of course in leeds. if you see one of these pages total of some logs is there any point me looking through the content. you. go. to the there's this those pages are image. so if you do. you have to the top video just goes through this issue. of anything there. with nine hundred thousand followers robinson's facebook page is so popular it's been given the same protected status as governments and news organizations when they say freedom of speech what they're really saying is we really want to permit people to do whatever they want in this platform and we will do the bare minimum to make that socially acceptable their business model is really tied to being able to publish whatever they want and it once you understand that the nature of large
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internet networks is that the harshest minas voices are going to dominate what you realize that the more open you make the platform inherently the more unpleasant inappropriate bad content you're going to get on. why does tony robbins get a shielded account the same as the government of the b.b.c. high profile organizations that are respected if the content is indeed violating it will go to the very valuable accounts these all but i got hundreds of thousands of followers again i want to be clear this is not a discussion about money this is a discussion about political speech and i think people would expect us to be careful and cautious before we take down their political speech. we didn't come in . fake news and data misuse that's not some kind. which is why facebook is changing from facebook has launched
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a high profile campaign to improve its image. we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry i started facebook i run it and i'm responsible for what happens here i understand why it's been hard for people to come to grips with all this but the incentives to do so now are really compelling and i just hope that as a consequence of this film that the tone of the debate becomes sharper more focused more persistent and that we stop accepting their excuses we stop accepting vera surance says c.p.l. told is ensuring our trainers and employees are always fully trained and up to date on facebook policy changes is critically important to us so we are investigating this matter as a priority and taking immediate steps with facebook this is included conducting
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extensive refresher training within the last week for all the train as we are one of the most heavily scrutinized companies in the world and that's right we have a lot of reach to people in many different countries it's right that we held high standards we also hold ourselves to high standards you've identified some areas where we failed and i'm here today to apologize for those failings of make it clear that we do recognize that they were weaknesses that we should not be in this position all i can say is that we are committed wherever failings of brought to our attention to taking them seriously to addressing them and trying to make sure that we do better in future.
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hello again and welcome back we're going to be seeing some better conditions here across the eastern part of australia we saw a lot of rain over the last couple days and that's good news because of the drought situation that has been going on so saturday more rain for brisbane down here through parts of sydney melbourne not looking too bad with the temperature there of twenty two degrees but that weather system that's responsible is going to slowly make its way towards the tasman sea so we'll have some residual clouds may be here for sydney still up towards brisbane it is going to be a cloudy day few for perth though we do expect to see some clouds rolling in and it's up to their twenty two in adelaide temptress warming up at twenty five well looking very nice across much of new zealand over the next day and that is because we are between systems so you can see one out here towards the pacific and one coming into the tasman sea so that means partly cloudy conditions for most of the
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two islands we are looking at auckland seeing about nineteen degrees in their forecast but as we go towards sunday things get a little bit worse we can be seeing more clouds rolling in and the temperature there of about eighteen degrees and then very quickly across much of the newer part of asia we are watching kong re make its way towards parts of the korean peninsula making landfall on saturday bring a very heavy rain across that area so so a rainy day few with a temperature of about nineteen degrees. on counting the cost this week why people in brazil feel that the next president can't save the economy and what that means for the rest of latin america and drugs above me why the world's big drug companies charge such high prices for their prescription pharmaceuticals counting the cost on al-jazeera. when people need to be head. start is being. told is life it's not
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on the boat get fired by the barriers where mobile barricaded the full seven streets that lead to here the movies now has been all about change people have gone past the fear barrier the mission of the national army is to search the entire one complex and i'm just your stories about telling it from the pupils first but to what they think is happening in their culture. to. move the. goal. zero. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes right cavanagh on track for a lifetime see the u.s. supreme court after clearing the first of two crucial senate votes
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a chicago police officer who killed a black teenager four years ago shooting him sixteen times is found guilty of murder this year's nobel peace prize is awarded to yazidi campaign an idea mirage and dr dennis moore great day for their work to end sexual violence. and fears more than a thousand people are still buried under a hotel and housing complex flaxen by the quake and tsunami in indonesia. with all your store intruding or you would see for yourself with only one face. city's opponent by turning up late on the way this news will have to wait. or we start with a day of political drama in washington where brett kavanaugh now appears to be on track to secure a lifetime job on the u.s.
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supreme court two senators who held the swing vote over cavanagh's fate of now announced they will back donald trump's nominee has been a fierce public and political backlash to cavanagh after three women accused him of sexual misconduct in jordan joins us live now from capitol hill and we were watching the announcement of senator susan collins she has confirmed that she will back cavanagh is it looking like his confirmation is a foregone conclusion or could it still be an unpredictable situation. it is looking more and more like a foregone conclusion mario and that's because three of the so-called swing senators there and there are four of them have now said that unless there's something really on toward that comes out in the next twenty four hours they will be voting to confirm brett kavanaugh as the ninth member of the u.s. supreme court of course there nelson has come in the middle to get another tumultuous day here on capitol hill. on this vote the yeas are fifty one the
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nos are forty nine the motion is agreed to. the u.s. senate is now taking what should be the final step needed to approve brett kavanaugh for the u.s. supreme court thirty hours of debate and a vote the process has been delayed for nearly three weeks due to allegations of sexual assault a special senate hearing to review the allegations and a one week delay so the f.b.i. could investigate. senator jeff flake a swing vote was pressured by sexual assault victims into calling for the delay and yet despite protests out of his office and a review of the f.b.i.'s report blake says he will vote yes on kavanagh a new kind of oh yes motto. something big change see. what would happen to. but anyway i'm glad we had a better process when he knew better process kavanagh was already
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a contentious choice because of his conservative views on abortion gun laws and presidential powers but in mid september it was revealed christine blazin ford had accused him of trying to rape her when they were teenagers i've never sexually assaulted dr ford or anyone or as capitol tried to clear his name his testimony before the senate judiciary committee raised new concerns with too hot headed to be one of the united states top judges possibly for decades even the former u.s. supreme court justice john paul stevens called kavanaugh unfit for the post to the supporters called this criticism slander and insist kavanaugh should be approved judge kavanaugh was publicly accused of a crime and his reputation and livelihood weren't state so it was only fair that his accuser have the burden of proof the consensus is that the burden was not
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met what makes the final outcome hard to predict a number of so-called swing senators republican lisa murkowski said on friday she would not vote to confirm and her republican colleague susan collins later said this and i will go to canned firm chad's cabin. right so possibly a major decisive vote from senator susan collins that tell us what happens tomorrow . well tomorrow the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is expected to declare the end of the thirty hour period for debate on the nomination and then there will be a vote and that is we will know for certain that everyone who has said that they're going to support brett kavanaugh will cast a vote in order to do so and those who are opposed to him will vote in the other way but again this is something that is pretty much of the foregone conclusion now
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because the fourth swing senator democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia has said in the last hour or so that he too is going to support this nomination. ok well thank you very much charles and jordan following all the developments there for us from capitol hill joining me now is peter shane a law professor at ohio state university and he was a witness for the democrats on the senate judiciary committee hearings into cavanagh thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us so we've been hearing from the undecided senate says on the brett kavanaugh nomination throughout the day they said that they will back him on the senate floor what are your thoughts on what we've seen is kavanagh's confirmation all but certain now. and i don't see any possibility that the next twenty four hours will change anyone's mind. and we know that the f.b.i. conducted up supplemental background check into cavanagh now obviously the
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democrats have said that there were flaws in this investigation that it wasn't thorough enough but we know that the republicans and the president himself insists that he's been cleared of any wrongdoing what are your thoughts on that. well i think it's simply not true that he's been cleared of wrongdoing the white house appears to have stage managed and limited the scope of the investigation and with perhaps most troubling about. the way in which this question is being crane is that this is not it criminal trial. checks cavanagh is not being tried for the offense or attempted rape he is he was interviewing for a life time position on the highest court in the united states the you know whether or not one doing occurred is not tested by a beyond a reasonable doubt standard in that setting the question is just it is it still
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credible that he was in fact culpable for that act when he was a teenager i think the answer is clearly yes he did not really refute what dr ford had said there. and the witnesses that the few witnesses who were allowed to be questioned by the white house. apparently didn't really go to a number of inconsistency is in that cabin much testimony for the weaknesses of his case it's it was remarkable for example that you know effort was made to talk further to dr forte and determine for example if there could be more certainty about where the house was in which she believes she was attacked on a jet and indeed these allegations have been denied what are your concerns about
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his suitability to sav on the high court in the united states. well my concern it is i would put it this way. it wouldn't it doesn't come as a surprise i think anyone that judges come to the supreme court or any court with a to disappear loss of the behind them it's not surprising that republican presidents in recent years have by and large appointed. judges and justices more conservative than liberal and democrats have done the opposite. but we're church cavanagh has done has made this explicitly partisan in a way that's unprecedented his remarks in defense of himself where he alleged that this was a partisan conspiracy you know funded on the left by friends of the clintons in revenge i suppose for his participation in the can't start investigation is just
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unheard of for a judicial nominee and. whether you know it and i think it's going to cast a cloud over every vote he casts it in a case that has. a political balance an outcome that will favor republicans more than democrats peter professor a highest state university thank you very much you're very welcome thank you well staying in the united states gerry has convicted a chicago police officer of the shooting of a black teenager office said jason van dyke was found guilty of a second degree murder of a quantum mcdonald a policeman shot mcdonald sixteen times as the teenager held a knife by his side john hendren joins us live now from the court john how unusual is this that they. marry him it's very unusual this is really the culmination of the black lives that are moving here in the u.s.
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in a rising concern over police shootings of young black men across the country it is rare that a police officers charged with murder here in the u.s. and it's rarer still that they're convicted it's been thirty years since such a charge has been levied here in chicago but now jason vandyke of chicago a veteran police officer has been convicted of second degree murder and second degree because first degree would have required premeditation second degree means that the jury felt that he was in fear for his life but he shouldn't have been he was also convicted sixteen times of aggravated battery would. a firearm is one for each of the shots he fired into the body of look quadric dog. this is extraordinary extraordinarily unusual here you have protesters gathering for weeks outside of the courtroom they had filled the streets when this video came out and that video came out a year after the two thousand and fourteen shooting when it did it completely
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contradicted the police officers argument that with one mcdonald was waving his knife and was posing a threat to the many police officers who were gathered around him instead that video showed him walking in a line away from police officers he did have a knife and in hand it was later found closed and he was shot sixteen times and the jury simply found that to be an unreasonable reaction they convicted jason van dyke now his lawyers say that. he will appeal that in fact he was a scapegoat here that in the current climate it was impossible for him to have gotten a fair trial and they tried to move that trial but instead a jury of twelve people found him guilty marion and that was a major political and public wi a caution to macdonald was killed what does it mean for the city to finally have a verdict in this case. where the city was prepared for
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something perhaps as big as the one nine hundred sixty eight riots which are still left there scars on parts of chicago that the city has twelve thousand police officers they were all put on alert about half of them were actually deployed around the city and demonstrators were prepared by the thousands to march in the streets of chicago today they said if i were not convicted that they were going to shut the city down to shut down businesses to stop the buses from running and fill the streets and there was real concern about that but instead they ended up largely celebrating instead the city center piece. home workers on the buses were filled with workers leaving and while there is a demonstration going on right now in downtown chicago it is i'm told in largely celebrate jory marching around the city and the people that we've talked to here who have been activists say that they feel vindicated but that this movement will not stop here it won't stop with jason van dyke that it will go on all around the
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country and that they will be here to make sure that incidents like this do not continue to happen but this trial was a major statement that juries like this are not going to accept shootings like this when there is evidence that they were unnecessary marian thank you very much from chicago with all the latest john hendren. still to come on this news hour from london interpol chief main hallway vanishes on a trip to his native china. this is human rights activist amman saudi arabia verify the whereabouts of a dissident journalist to hasn't been seen since entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. and in sport to christiane are now those biggest sponsors voiced concerns about rape allegations against a footballer. well now the two thousand and eighteen nobel peace prize has been awarded to yazidi women's rights activist nadia murat and congolese doctor dentist. was captured by
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ice ill when they took her village in iraq four years ago and sold her repeatedly as a sex slave since escaping from mosul three months later she's become a passionate campaigner against the use of sex and warfare and an advocate for her people a highly persecuted minority in northern iraq dennis mcguire gay is a gynecologist in the democratic republic of congo known as dr americal he established his own hospital in one thousand nine hundred nine specifically to treat female victims of sexual violence during the civil war and has helped felons of women since then john holl reports now from. at home they call him dr miracle denis mccuaig a congolese gynecologist who's helped countless women who've been subject to sexual violence as a weapon of war. belongs to the minority group among thousands of women and girls subjected to a systematic campaign of sexual violence i saw fighters in two thousand and
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fourteen she's now an activist who speaks out for those women who can't or won't for. he humiliated me every day he forced me to wear clothes that didn't cover my body i was tortured i tried to flee but one of the guard stopped me all those who commit crimes of human trafficking and genocide need to be brought to justice so that women and children can live in peace they are joint winners of the two thousand and eighteen nobel peace prize both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on and combating such war crimes in its citation the committee described macweb is enduring dedicated and selfless efforts to end the use of mass rape as a weapon of war the more this prize has a big meaning that although it took time for the world to recognize us the world has started listening to women and not just listening to getting to know the
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problems that you face understanding our problems is not enough they must realize that when you commit a crime against anyone it's not right both mourad and move quicker the committee said have endured personal risk and cost to combat war crimes and seek justice for victims in a year in which controversy has touched the nobel name itself and with calls for me on mars be to understand shooty to be stripped of her peace prize the two winners of the two thousand and eighteen nobel peace prize are likely to be considered anything but controversial. i asked the chairwoman of the nobel committee with this she and her four other committee members had decided this year to play it safe i asked to be believed that we make our decision on the mandate will happen alfred nobel's will sometimes our decisions are very controversial sometimes they are not but being not controversial does not reduce the importance of the prize you know
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word them no joda how to zero. or not sr says she couldn't be more proud. because the key question today we are very happy even if she were not my sister and this had been achieved by any years later it would still have raised our heads and made us happy any one of us receiving his prize is like shooting a bullet into the enemy's chest therefore today we have a very proud and pleased god willing she will always go forward and defeat the enemy we hope the rest of our women and girls who are still in the hands will be freed soon zana circuit as the director of international policy in partnerships at physicians for human rights she has worked with dennis mcguire again the d r c and says both winners have had a major global impact through that work. but you are absolutely overjoyed as is
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anyone who's ever known or worked with him or especially those who have been treated by him the many many thousands of patients that he's literally brought back to normal life or at least as much as can be expected following the kinds of trauma that you've just heard about but i think this year is particularly profound given. what has gone on around the world in terms of women who have suffered the shame and stigma and silencing of sexual assault sexual violence mass rape in conflict these voices are being heard now more than ever all over the world women and not only women but male survivors of sexual violence have a platform through this prize not only to dr mcwade but also to not be a mirage who has been such an outspoken voice for the use the community and especially the women and girls where it's very very difficult to talk about this
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crime or a rebel attack on an army post in the eastern democratic republic of congo has left six people dead in store she say four soldiers in two civilians were killed in the attack in the city of beni near the border with you kenda a rebel group the allied democratic forces which opposes ugandan president yoweri in the seventy is believed to be behind the assault. to indonesia now a search and rescue team say more than a thousand people could be buried in a housing complex flattened by last week's earthquake and with hope of finding survivors fading as growing anger that rescue operations didn't start soon andrew thomas reports from the scene of a collapsed hotel where bodies are still being pulled from the rubble. at what was the row a row hotel they're still digging and still finding bodies after the horn sounds the machinery briefly stops and the body is carried out but it's not the one such
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as husband. is still somewhere inside last friday he was staying at the hotel on business the couple spoke to in the afternoon three hours later their worlds collapsed. and his son drove eighteen hours straight here. when we arrived there was nothing going on even though we could hear people crying for help some local people tried to help using their hands but they couldn't do much without machinery. have now spent six days sitting by the hotel white sing while we were talking the horn sounded again another body had been found but it was another leighton's mother a very disappointing from the government of the. us are so very late about how more lives could have been saved if they got here yes i'm sure. in the easiest government says it brought in twenty one heavy machines to the loo
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on friday forty six in total since last friday when it's running this operation seems unprofessional but the search started lights and even now it stops not knowing. what i was. next day we hope that we have more. us. in the professionals here not just the first to be saying lessons must be learnt after thomas al-jazeera part of indonesia. well many of the people made homeless by the earthquake and tsunami of being forced to sleep in the open at least seventy one thousand people were displaced after houses were sucked into the earth and waves washed away homes as wayne hale reports from many still lack basic supplies and have no idea where they'll go next. people here escaped the earthquake and tsunami but the fight for survival goes on in palo parks have become refugee camps for those who have nowhere else to go their houses were destroyed many family
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members killed. yan now they use whatever they can find to build shelters while still struggling to comprehend what's happened to them. my sister was trapped and they're all they managed to get her out but she died my mother in law is still missing. i mean there is some food being given out of my bone but it's well short of what's needed there's still a lack of basic supplies around the affected areas including here in the heart of parlors city where people have been camping for a week despite all the money from the indonesian government and all the offers of assistance from foreign governments no one's been able to supply the people here with temporary toilets or adequate shelter and part of this camp is on the grounds of the mayor's office those sheltering here say he's only been to see them once when the indonesian president was in town we asked the mayor for an interview but his staff declined the refugees say die
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a grateful for the land to sleep on but they need more help than i ate the bad i can tell you there are some toilets over there but they are full of excrement so i eat only once a day so i don't have to go maybe everyone is ok at the moment but if they don't sort it out we will have disease here some people are waiting for space on military flights out others say they have nowhere to fly to everyone is scared of more earthquakes and wondering when or if they'll be able to go home when hey al-jazeera palu indonesia. now the stories of following two people have been killed in the latest protests along gaza's border with israel one of those killed is just fourteen years old protest and writing have been taking place at the border fence that divides the gaza strip from israel for months gazans are calling for the right to return to that ancestral homes in israel as well as an end to the economic blockade on the territory. a french interior ministry says it's puzzled over the
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disappearance of the president of interpol who went missing after traveling to his homeland china mang hong why has not been heard from since he left the french city of rio where interpol has its headquarters at the end of last month a french to dish an official says he arrived in china that disappeared soon after man was formally a senior chinese security official front says his wife has received threats after reporting his disappearance our correspondent adrian brown has more from beijing. well so far this mysterious story is not being reported by state controlled media the reports we're getting about monk home may coming from france that's where the international police organization has its headquarters in leone and that's where he lived with his wife now she apparently contacted police because she says she hasn't heard from her husband since he returned to china last week we don't know if he was summoned back to china because he's still a vice minister of public security and that was the position he held here in china
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before he was appointed president of interpol in two thousand and sixteen the first chinese person to hold that post he's also been a director of the counter-terrorism office here in china a very senior law enforcement officer now interpol has issued a statement saying that this is a matter for the authorities in china and france and they will be commenting any further some important context a man who was ultimately monks boss was jailed for corruption in two thousand and fifteen and then a nother man who was a vice minister of public security was also jailed for corruption in two thousand and sixteen and al-jazeera has a stablished that his name was removed from a tea party committee in april two thousand and eighteen just a few. months ago now it's not unusual for prominent figures to disappear here in
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china a tycoon from china disappeared from a hotel in hong kong twenty months ago he'd been wanted for questioning here in the mainland and hasn't been seen since and then in june a well known actress vanished she suddenly popped up just this week following an investigation into her tax affairs and then of course we had the cases of the hong kong booksellers who also vanished only to reappear again after several months of being held on the mainland now there could be an innocent explanation for moms disappearance but if he hasn't appeared by monday then i think the chinese authorities will be facing demands for some sort of explanation. in the news hour still ahead. i was on a binge of it on the iraq syria border and i'll tell you why thousands of women and children previously associated with beisel are stranded with no future prospects.
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