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jews you. are now. you. your. egypt's fast democratically elected president mohamed morsi dies chilling a court hearing state t.v. says he had a heart attack human rights groups and the muslim brotherhood blame egypt's government for morsi is down. there i missed all of you take in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. releases new images it says implicates iran into oil tanker explosions and it's now sending more troops to the middle east and staying under the radar how surveillance savvy protesters in hong kong are hiding their digital footprints.
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egypt's 1st democratically elected president has died after collapsing in court while on trial on espionage charges egyptian state t.v. says mohamed morsi had a heart attack he'd been in prison since 2013 when he was toppled often less than a year in power and a statement to the muslim brotherhood says it holds president. and his government responsible for what it calls the plan to criminal killing of morsi his lawyer says his body has now been buried in cairo morsi son says egyptian authorities refused permission for him to be laid to rest at the family plot and human rights activists say morsy is medical condition was ignored by egyptian authorities and harsh conditions in solitary confinement could have led to a premature death explains. a death that human rights activists have called
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tragic but predictable and what former egyptian president mohamed morsy supporters say is a model 17 june $29000.00 morsi appeared in court for a trial on charges of espionage he asked the judge if you could speak to him the session in what is now his final address morsi demanded a special tribunal and better trial conditions the public prosecutors say the 67 year old man collapsed and died in a defendant's cage. help them you know how medical source has revealed the details of the medical condition of mohamed morsi who died monday afternoon due to a surprise heart attack during a court session for the espionage case the source added that morsi had continued to receive medical care and that there was no neglect to his medical condition in and out of prison. but human rights groups say egyptian authorities ignored multiple
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warnings about morsi untimely death because of inhumane prison conditions that he was singled out for risk. in the 1st 4 years of his detention you had exactly 2 family visits he was held in solitary confinement for nearly the entire time of his tension he never received the medical care that he asked for he was not allowed to have the food and medicine provided by his family that virtually all other prisoners in egypt are able to access last year a panel of british politicians and lawyers said treatment in prison was so bad that it could amount to torture. a predicts that if you didn't get the appropriate medical treatment he may very well have a premature death and of course for us out of. torture is a crime of universal jurisdiction and we found that the responsibility for that would sit all the way up the egyptian chain of. come on the here are the more they
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are worth a lot about you and the man who sits at the top of the chain of command is egypt's current leader preston uphill for the c.c. the former army chief ousted morsi in a military coup in 2013 and since then has locked up thousands of people as political prisoners this is the outcome that the egyptian government guys wanted for years or morsi and also for other brotherhood leaders like mine or. they don't want necessarily to execute people because of. the execution it would create what they want. there now calls for an international investigation into morsi steffen court while his life in prison seemed entirely nord by the world priyanka gupta. mary challenge looks at the rise and fall of morsi. mohamed morsi sailed into the presidency of egypt on the wins of a people's revolution demanding change in 2012 he became egypt's 1st ever
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democratically elected president the 1st civilian to hold the office morsi was born in 1901 he spent his adult life 1st as an engineering professor then as a member of parliament and a political prisoner the egyptian revolution in 2011 set the stage for morsi to reach the pinnacle of power from the start of his critics accused him of placing his allegiance with the muslim brotherhood and not the country morsi made a point of repeatedly promising to be a president for all egyptians his opponents however claim he tried to consolidate his power by giving himself or thought see above the judiciary and dominating the governments with muslim brotherhood members. morsi said his actions were to combat counter revolutionary forces led by the so-called deep state that wanted to kill egypt's name. and democracy those forces included members of the military as well
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as regional powers namely the u.a.e. and saudi arabia who were vehemently opposed to the arab spring in june 2030 in scenes reminiscent of the revolution huge crowds of egyptians filled square calling for their president to step down it was a culmination of the rebel campaign a movement which was born a few months prior and was later revealed to have been supported by abu dhabi morsi supporters took to the streets to which emboldened him and he refused to step down instead he made an offer of national reconciliation including forming a new government of technocrats that offer was rejected by the army which days later deposed him ending egypt's historic but brief experiment with democracy stripped of the title of president morsi swiftly became a political prisoner once again he was ultimately tried and sentenced to death for allegedly working with foreign groups and crossing a mass jailbreak when guards or killed. numerous human rights groups as well as
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british parliamentarians and his family complained of intentional medical neglect and warns that morsi is imprisonment conditions would lead to his death if not improved to the end morsi was defiant rejecting the court's authority and insisting he was the legitimate president of egypt elected by the people. while in november 2017 mahmoud morsi spoke about the conditions of his imprisonment he said he'd had no access to his lawyers or medical treatment the since the 20th of september i've been in prison and i've been isolated there glassman is in front of me i tried to speak to the court about different problems but the court decided not to hear or see me after so many days when they turn on the lights it was very painful i can't see the court except in shadows sometimes ahead of witnesses and sometimes i don't but i'm speaking very clearly i've got a lot to say to the court i haven't seen
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a doctor and i haven't seen my lawyers have a right to be seen and to be present i am in a very very bad situation if you treat me in this way i am mohammed morsi i am extremely worried about egypt. william lawrence is a professor of political science and international affairs at george washington university and he says morsi was refused things like food and medicine that other prisoners had access to. it's important to point out that morsi was defiant he was defiant as president and he was defiant in prison and so this in part led to the circumstances that he found himself in that said the regime in place now refused medical care for a chronically diabetic man who had a heart condition as a connection to that someone who had liver disease and kept him in solitary confinement 23 hours a day which according to un guidelines amounts to torture for years and refused
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family visits and food and everything else so you know whether or not they murdered him they certainly were criminally negligent and violated basic standards of how to detain prisoners violating his human rights and and the denials coming out now are not very convincing now mosques in turkey will hold funeral press for mohamed morsi on cheese day has in russia have taught that iran has paid his own personal tribute . in our eyes mohamed morsi is a martyr who lost his life while he fought for the cause he believed history will never forget the tyrants who put him in prison threaten them with the death penalty and caused his martyrdom we filmed a close friendship with him before he was the link to this president and preserved it afterwards morsi who was put on trial by a court established by the khud administration and cintas them to death davis' last breath in a court room and this is a symbol of the cruelty inflicted upon him and his people for years the emir of
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qatar shaikh to member the model charlie has tweeted were saved with this deep sadness the news about the sudden death of former president dr mohamed morsi i send my sincere condolences to his family and to the egyptian people are protesters in new york have demonstrated to show their anger at morty's death people also demonstrated in turkey's largest city istanbul they followed calls from the muslim brotherhood for egyptians living abroad to march in front of embassies to condemn his death meanwhile in the capital of mauritania police have struck demonstrators with battens as they look to break up what had been a peaceful protest. while dalia farmy is an associate professor of political science at long island university and author of egypt and the contradictions of liberalism she says the lack of international reaction is telling. what we have heard out of the united nations the united states the european leaders is silence
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and so the question is why is there not a call for the independent investigation of the death every world leader at the hands of another now a few months ago on this very program when i when i was asked about well present my client has said that you know egyptian human rights violations will need to be accounted for well then why still in france still selling great amounts of arms to egypt more so than any other western nation why does president trump here in the united states continue to say sisi is doing a great job even in terms of the war on terror he's failing and so the question is if western nations continue to see stability in the region through the iron handed fist what we're asking ourselves is is this really reality he's failing in the war on terror is failing in terms of domestic stability and this leaves death of a world leader in a prison indicates that the democratic aspirations of egyptians and arabs in general are not only lost but are no longer part of the agenda of the west towards the middle east still ahead on al-jazeera on crime and poverty take center stage in
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guatemala's electoral race ahead of a runoff players and organized and more restrictions on venezuelans and colombians trying to cross the border and the hope of a better life. hello there will be watching some rather hefty downpours a republic have to keep recently for a look at the satellite picture we can see these bright white little areas of cloud those are the heavy showers and they gradually pushing their way north woods they'll still be with us as we head through the day on tuesday so still some heavy thunder downpours around at least that would take the edge of the temperature the little bit because it's pretty hot across this region now we're looking at a top temperature in aleppo of around 30 degrees and baghdad but rather a halt to $43.00. even further east it's pretty hot force in kabul with a top temperature of around 30 or 31 degrees as we head through the next couple of
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days but if you think that's hot head a bit further south to doha it certainly is a very very hot at the moment but it's a dry heat something of a relief so our temperatures topping at around 46 degrees on tuesday and as we head into wednesday may be just a fraction less $45.00 for the day was the south is a bit more cloud over the coast of oman at the moment so that's just taking the edge of the temperatures a little bit that must get we still make it up to around $35.00 that are down towards the southern parts of africa there is a bit of cloud here most of that is skating around the coast so forth in mozambique that could be one or 2 showers here and there could be the shower around the coast of madagascar as well but away from that is looking you know actually fine and dry and fairly warm in cape town at 20 degrees. and counting the cost india has lost its crown as the bass is growing bigger economy where did all go wrong for modi so soon after his landslide election
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victory but no longer the world's garbage came out china disrupted the multi-billion dollar global waste industry counting the costs on al-jazeera. i really feel liberated as a journalist was. going to the truth is that i would love for this job. hello again i missed. a reminder of the news this hour egypt's 1st democratically elected president mohamed morsi has collapsed and died while appearing course. egyptian state t.v. says the 67 year old had a heart attack. the muslim brotherhood says in
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a statement that it holds current president. and his government responsible for what they call the planned criminal killing of morsi his lawyer says his body has been very didn't cairo and says egyptian authorities refused permission for him to be laid to rest at the family plot. the united states is sending about $1000.00 more troops to the middle east the announcement comes just hours after the u.s. military released new pictures that it says shows the iranian military removing an unexploded mine from a japanese aren't vessel it was one of 2 whale tank is hit by explosions last week how does your caster house move. the u.s. military says these newly released photos taken from a navy helicopter show members of iran's revolutionary guard removing an unexploded mine from the side of a japanese oil tanker there'd been an earlier explosion on that tanker and another ship last week in the gulf of oman iran denies involvement but on monday night the
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pentagon announced it was sending approximately $1000.00 additional troops to the middle east by and large when you look at the overall side of u.s. military forces are small measure it's designed to send a message but it's also designed to notch this is nowhere near what you need for an invasion or a war in a statement u.s. acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan said the united states does not seek conflict with iran the action today is being taken to ensure the safety and welfare of our military personnel working throughout the region and to protect our national interests the u.s. relationship with iran has deteriorated rapidly since president trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear treaty citing iran's engagement in this whole development and supporting proxy armies since that the us has imposed and ever tightening noosed of economic sanctions on iran washington calls it
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a campaign of maximum pressure but even leaders have been promoting another term maximum restraint you have seen that already in the last days we have called for the maximum restraint and think back to a particular wisdom have been the words of secretary general of the united nations but that is when he says that the world cannot afford another crisis especially in an area like that iran's decision to increase your radio production has led some in the u.s. to hughes tehran of nuclear blackmail washington flexing its military might only add to the tension and the fear of confrontation heidi jocasta. washington well iran's military has denied involvement in the explosions on oil tankers in the gulf of oman last week and its chief of staff says if it decided to block the strait of hormuz it could do so the straits of vital gateway for the global oil industry and tensions been rising there over a series of attacks on tankers in the region. as long as no one causes problems
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with the security of the straits of hormuz we will preserve its security and as long as the islamic republic is exported the others will be securely exported to. if we decide to block this creature from we'll do it in a way that even a drop of oil past the street. saudi state media says to who see drones have been intercepted by ed defenses one of them was reportedly targeting a residential area in saudi arabia's city earlier yemen's heathy rebels said they had targeted the airport with drones for the 5th time since last wednesday the who these of warne's they'll continue attacking saudi airports and retaliation for the kingdom's actions inside yemen and suicide bombers have targeted a crowd watching a football match on television in northeastern nigeria killing at least 30 people 2 bombers detonated devices in the village of qana and officials say at least 40
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other people were wounded and taken to nearby hospitals there's been no claim of responsibility saddam's protest leaders are calling for more rallies as a tense standoff continues with the military janitor they wanted an investigation into the violent dispersal of the sit in demonstration in khartoum earlier this month more than $120.00 people were killed in that crackdown the european union has blamed the military for the violence. now police in hong kong have changed their position on mass protests against a controversial extradition bill no longer referring to them broadly as riots sarah clarke has the latest from hong kong. purchases have had a window of a nod to the police commissioner here in hong kong last night at a press conference declared wins days gathering not as a riot as previously mentioned instead he said a minority of those protesting will be charged with related offenses now this simply categorizing it as a riot meant heftier penalties for those protesters instead he says. people on the
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front line the protesters on the front line who held the metal barricades and the metal rods who were confronting police that were the ones who are now being charged $32.00 protesters were arrested 5 for writing related charges and 10 for violent crimes now this is a win for those protesters because they had tricky demands number one they wanted the extradition bill withdrawn altogether they want to carry it to be to stand a number 3 they didn't want wednesday's gathering to be categorized as iraq simply because it incurred those heavier penalties now as for hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb we haven't seen her publicly since saturday on saturday she held that press conference where she announced the suspension of the bill on sunday she issued a statement study i public apology but we've seen no public gathering also certainly no public speaking from kerry lamb since saturday last night around 1000 protesters marched to her office which is round on my right hand side today she's meant to be holding a media briefing it's a regular event here in hong kong where yet to determine if she'll hold that press
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conference and meet the media once again but here in hong kong we're led to the council building all those council meetings have been canceled today as have all the executive council meetings today so the next step will be whether or not carrie lam fronts the media well those protests have been coordinated through social media demonstrators of use technology to spread the word about their actions and many of them have also learned how to cover their digital trucks. bride reports. mostly young and technologically savvy these protesters are experts at using social media to organize themselves but they're also aware the tech tools they're using can be used to trace them eunice is a college student who took part in wednesday's mass protest that ended in violence since then she's being careful to stay digitally dark deleting messages and chats from her phone afraid that police could use them against her they try to have in
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her life phone they will know. the list of the other people as what they feel are teenagers like other protesters when she travels she doesn't use her travel swipe card which is linked to the individual owner instead buying single journey tickets activists using popular messaging apps like telegram are careful to a raise their conversation straight afterwards and turn off the tracking functions on their phones it's fueled the debate here about what you can say online in a society that allows free expression in hong kong as elsewhere it's a crime to incite someone to violence but what happens if you simply encourage others to join a protest that then becomes violent anyone who attended and talks about it online is potentially in trouble and always have to understand for us technologists that
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nothing is absolutely secure. in especially if you are facing a very technically savvy police force and so on they awarded tuesday they need to you have to be careful stella another student knows that her worried parents persuaded her not to attend wednesday's protest. so she worked from home on her device and helped by putting different groups in touch with each other although again yes i'm scared but he won't stop me from doing it important things and that there are people struggling on the front line and i feel like i owe it to. she like many opponents to this controversial law seemingly prepared to make a stand and take risks they wouldn't have taken before mcbride al-jazeera hong kong . sheehan thing is planning to visit north korea this week and what could be the 1st such trip by a chinese president in 14 years he accepted an invitation from north korea's leader
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kim jong un in january denuclearization talks between kim and us president have been stalled since their failed summit in hungary in february. mahler's top presidential candidates are facing each other in a runoff vote in august after the 1st round was held on sunday sandra tourism $100.00 have pledged to crack down on crime and rein in poverty david meserve has more from guatemala city. marking the end of the carrot a collection season millions of what a marlins headed to the polls on sunday to elect their next president this 1st round of voting offered few surprises with sandra torres of the center left party taking around 25 percent of the votes as promised to send soldiers into the streets the battle gangs and use social programs to combat poverty a strategy that gained her popularity when she was the country's 1st lady i think that people have the right to choose freely what you want is
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a free democracy no more demagoguery but rather democracy crowded field of $1000.00 candidates total as was unable to secure 50 percent of the votes needed to win the 1st round she'll head off against conservative 4 time presidential candidate. in a runoff in august. and the other candidates have all promised to fight government corruption a key issue among voters but with 3 of the past for president having been arrested for corruption charges after their presidencies finished people here say they don't have a lot of hope that things will change. i don't have any confidence that the candidates who maybe did to the runoff vote will do anything significant to resolve the country's problems not been. capable of bringing around the legal reforms that are necessary to get rid of corruption in our country. clean up the ministries that make up the government there will always be corruption sisig and international un
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backed commission has been tackling corruption in guatemala for over a decade helping to bring charges against dozens of high level politicians including former president's. political pushback fronted by guatemala's current president forced most of the group out of the country months before their mandate was set to expire analysts say the timing was opportune planned to investigate the elections with a focus on illegal campaign fundraising. missionary discovered the nexus between criminal structures and a political party fund raising and helped a lot of high impact cases move forward these criminal structures obviously see seasick as the biggest threat to their traditional practice of doing politics and feeding themselves of public funds many guatemalans fear then until corruption and impunity are dealt with the poverty and violence which plagues the nation will continue and that means thousands will continue to look for
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a way to escape including making the dangerous trip north to the united states david mercer and al jazeera. now tens of thousands of venezuelans are crossing into colombia every day to buy much needed food and medicine in the border city of kuta the 2 legal pedestrian bridges between the countries reopened earlier in june after being closed for 4 months but as i listened around p.s.u. reports an increase in police numbers means the journey now carries even greater risks for those without the right papers. colombian police on the move since beneath the reopening of legal crossings in the border city of hundreds of policemen have been tasked with cracking down on venezuelans using illegal paths to enter into. officers dismantle dozens of improvised bridges over the river dividing the. 2 countries where they are in the field here you can see what's left of the makeshift could all sinks they built. thousands use these paths during the 4
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months in which venezuela shut the border off and having to pay a fee to criminal gangs to cross. will be good for the military if he's had so far turned a blind eye on documented business where lands but not anymore these men were caught in the country without proper documents and will be the 4th to. me that i thought i came here hoping to be able to work in sin money back to venezuela things a very difficult back home i have 3 kids and my wife to take care of everything the security has been on the legal bridges as well in response the venezuelan government announced it will also start to require migration cards for colombians travelling to venezuela. but vanished when migration i was very few here and this is one believe i've read your telling us off camera that you just fell flat from necessary issue of the car just not working yet and then you require
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a man. who has become a lifeline for up to 40000 been a swell and cross in search of affordable basic food items and medicine on a daily basis at least 4000000 have left venezuela for good in recent years i for the moment the crossings remain open just to pedestrians trailers that the venezuelan government across the bridges to block them remain in place creating long queues but it's an improvement. to give us whatever support i had to cross on the path many times and it was very dangerous very scary now with the bridge open even with the container still in place i created a bottleneck but despite it all things are much better a small consolation for the 10s of thousands then we need this border to remain open to survive as a crises in the country sees no end. alison and the others either with the now 4 people have been shot as a rally for the n.b.a.
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champion raptors in toronto or canadian police say 2 people who were carrying firearms have been arrested raptors fans ran from the scene in a stampede from the city will square tens of thousands were in the area when the shooting took place. hello i missed out the italian diver with the headlines on al jazeera egypt's 1st democratically elected president has died after collapsing in court while a trial for espionage charges adoption state t.v. says mohamed morsi had a heart attack he had been in prison since 2013 when he was toppled often less than a year in power morsi is a lawyer and families say his body has now been buried in cairo earlier his son said egyptian authorities refused permission for him to be laid to rest at the family plot in a statement the muslim brotherhood has blamed the current president abdel fattah el-sisi and his government for what they call the planned criminal killing of morsi
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there's a toll on the have a little me home. later for this is a sad day not only for the muslim brothers but also for the egyptian people and for his family and for arabs and muslims and especially for the palestinian people who witnessed how morsi stood with them in the war there's no doubt that history will remember it very much as a day morsi was martyred after he was killed by the military coup. the u.s. says it's sending about a 1000 extra troops to the middle east the pentagon says it's in response to iran's hostile behavior that comes just hours after the u.s. military released new pictures that it says shows arabian troops removing an unexploded mine from a japanese vessel it was one of the 2 tank is hit by an explosion last week and iran denies any involvement. as long as no one causes problems for the security of the strait of hormuz we will preserve its security and as long as the islamic
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republic's oil is exported all of the others will be securely exported to one time if we decide to block the straits of hormuz we'll do it in a way that even a drop of oil well past the street saudi state media say to. drones have been intercepted by ed defenses one of them was reportedly targeting a residential area in saudi arabia's city yemen 3 the rebels say they targeted the airport with drones for the 5th time since last wednesday and suicide bombers have targeted a crowd watching a football match on television in northeastern nigeria killing at least 30 people 2 bombers detonated devices in the village of qana duca all those are the headlines on the news will continue here after counting the cost. in morocco unregistered and under-age marriages have caused problems especially for women and children i've been trying for years to get my daughter legally recognized by her father the pressure from lobby groups has led to changes to the madonna family code giving
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women greater rights in marriage while keeping the family at heart now the divorce rate has increased a lot mainly with occupations made by the wife's. al-jazeera world. i'm richelle carey this is counting the cost on al-jazeera weekly look at the world of business and economics this week no longer the fastest growing big economy where did it all go wrong for modi so soon after his landslide election victory and no longer the world's garbage can how china disrupted the multi-billion dollar global waste industry. i'm joined here in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming up.
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