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in what have you said earlier this week there is adopting that 3 reform paper and what we've seen yesterday is they might be seeking some scapegoats we saw that they opened a corruption file for former prime minister najib me out here but if you look at the the numbers and these for the we're talking about the few $133000000.00 in. illicit loans favorable rates that were misused we're talking about very minor numbers compared to the size of corruption that we've seen by the lebanese state so a very it seems that they're just going to start looking for smaller scapegoats because if we really want to get major. address the major corruption it starts at the prime minister's office which and this is i don't think they're starting there and so do you think that there was anything in michele ounds address
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that protesters can take away from. well. what's happening as it goes along the lines of the tactics that have been used by the government to diffuse the protests there is stuff they're trying to buy time they're trying to distract with different things they're trying to fragment the groups and are trying to you know in negotiate with some of them to treat friction between the different groups on the street from what i got from this speech by president on is that they world tried to break up the protest by any means possible and they do not seem to be open to change they were only the army but they to break up the protests and the army isn't in a difficult position here because. many many who are in the armed forces see themselves as part of the people yet they have to take authors.
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yes i mean we've been seeing a campaign a p.r. campaign by the army over the last week also to boost its image but. when it comes down to it it doesn't take the army to really we haven't seen any use of any tactics to a violent act as we haven't seen any water cannons we haven't seen any theory gas which we saw in the 1st couple of days when the protests were angry so they kind of diffuse the situation in the 1st couple of days and then allowed the protesters to have a more festive carnival like a protest movement and that does not really bother the government they do not really need to send out the army to break that up because that. does not affect them what does bother them are the close roads and. stopping of businesses and that can be broken up without any real major force and without the environment
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involvement of the army really unless the protesters really shore up their lines and and are really that organized that they can stop in the front of the state and the citizen you know it's been 8 days now 8 days of banks schools universities closed major roads around the country closed i mean how do you see this playing out over the next few days if again none of the political leaders have said anything that appears to protest a cypher. yes i mean this is the only thing going for the protesters and for increasing or raising the bar of. demands paralyzing the businesses paralyzing their state is the only way the states will listen so they are they have i mean a week is not going to be enough but if they have the stamina to keep their going for much longer then we might see things change or also or another option would be
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for the protester so escalate and put more pressure on the state to assure them that this is not enough. we have not seen that over the last few days we've actually seen that the protesters have deescalated their. anger has been diffused kind of on the streets so we need if that escalates and goes back to the 1st the scenes we saw the 1st couple of days then things might change. thank you very much for your analysis on this that is jim. thank you.
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i am. it is time for sports now his job as the thanking all the washington nationals is just 2 wins away from clinching the fs ever weld series baseball title they thrashed the he still astros in game 2 on wednesday peaches democrat polls. would series game tuesday and the astros had a limbic champion gymnast cmon but supposing they used the native through the ceremonial 1st pitch i want to remember that was to be one of the only highlights for home fans the washington nationals already won nothing up in the series got off to a good start with this 21 double could see of anthony window i see so much time just to speak i loosen a little things up but thanks to this 2 run homer from an expression i like and.
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it stayed that way until washington started to run away with it in the 7th inning could see zuki with a solo home run to set off a decisive 6 running through the next leads i and at the top of the game at an easy to help himself to a 2 run homer much to the delights of these teams in the dugout. i owe a comprehensive 123 victory for washington who have had an excellent recovery since losing 31 of the 1st 50 games of the season i wish i was a betting man. but i'm not. i don't i don't really believe in that stuff but i believe in is. hard work. being consistent of what we do and sticking to our process and we did that state of all respect. washington now get the boost of
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playing at home as the series needs to be its capital for 3 games starting friday they're just 2 wins away from a 1st ever world series biggest emitter al-jazeera. m.b.a. fans in china are still finding it hard to watch games because of a t.v. blackout they could only watch hoff of wednesday's action online and even then many feeds were a delay chinese broadcast as want to avoid showing anyone in the crowd supporting hong kong protesters security at the brooklyn nets whose arena was crushed by activists earlier this week they didn't appear to be there during the nets opening game against the minnesota timberwolves on wednesday and that's now really lost this one by a single point. the dallas mavericks beat the washington wizards in their set a season opener to europeans like a don chipp and chris taps posing this played their 1st game together leading the mavs 210-9100 victory. china may be locked in
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a row with basketball but its relationship with football is much better they've been awarded the expanded club weld cup in 2021 was announced at fifa council's meeting in shanghai for president jenny in one scene i was asked whether the players and staff would have to censor themselves to avoid a similar and be a stall row over freedom of speech everyone has his opinions and everyone can express his opinions and everyone can see. what he wants but as far as free face comes on as well as read it we are concerned as i mentioned before we are trying to use a football always as a catalyst for positive and there are 4 negative. well pfieffer also announced they are doubling their funding for women's football to $1000000000.00 over the next 4 years it follows a successful world cup one by the usa which was watched by more than a 1000000000 viewers. how about this the same calm under pressure in the major
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league soccer playoffs toronto f.c. made it into the eastern final thanks to a brilliant 90th minute plank a style penalty from our 100 personal oh that was enough to secure a 21 win over new york city f.c. and send to a conference decided against atlanta or philadelphia. 2 months after knee surgery tiger woods has made a spectacular return to action to lead this ozo championship in japan despite bogey in the 1st 3 holes he fired and 9 birdies to carve a 6 under par round of 60. that's his best score in more than a year and it gives him a sheriff 1st place with gary woodland this is the 1st official p.g.a. money event in japan and $70000.00 people turned up to watch day one. new zealand rugby coach steve hansen won't be drawn into mind games ahead of their well cup semifinal against england earlier this week is opposite number eddie jones chiefly suggested that someone was spying on the training session but here you know
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i both know fear and love and war and there's nothing be more than throw away destruction it isn't saying you don't you go is all that you jumped on them it is quite clever don't you morning i mean people wonder we're not born and. they have a good laugh on chucking in the why we're good at it against a pretty good things he's laughing oh martin you goes again what you want was yvonne's clicking on the back. well some team news now in england of reverted back to george forward number 10 to face the all blacks with captain owen pharrell back to center ford had been benched for the quarter final against australia south africa are preparing for their semifinal against wales without their star winger chesson colby who has an ankle injury they have an historic advantage over wales with 28 wins in 35 meetings but they've lost the last full the springboks have been criticised by conservative style the 2007 world cup top try scorer bryan habana
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says results are what matter most when they mean opportunity or good luck to finish their finishing it off so i would all love to see the ball get to the wings a lot more in a world cup year where the margins are so fine. don't but he was winning probably not for me one now and renato have been retrospectivity disqualified from the japanese gone pretty because they used illegal driver aids rival team racing point complained about runners braking system. both ran out drivers finished in the top 10 said the decision cost them $9.00 points and put them down and 6 in the construct to standings miss eighty's knows how often is top of the drivers' championship going into the mexican grand prix this week he found himself in less familiar territory in mexico city though as he took part in a boxing session with x. world champion. hamilton is sure to pull no punches as he fights for 6 world
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title. all right that is all yours for now but feel a telling joe thank you very much for that and that does it for the al-jazeera news hour but do stay with us darren jordan is here with another full news bulletin in just a couple of minutes thank you for watching. what are you protesting about how does the in question when they're online why face minstrelsy directly out of translated slavery or if you join us on sam's this is an attack on academic freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely they
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tech surveillance we're being complicit in the human rights abuses that are occurring an australian investigation into china's systematic repression of the weakest tell the world on al-jazeera. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as i would that's what this job. lebanon as president promises a crackdown on corruption but says the government cannot be toppled from the streets. alone daryn jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up police in britain identify the bodies of 39 people found dead in a truck near london. donald trump lift sanctions on turkey and praises the success
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of a serious cease fire but rivals tell a different story. and libya's president at a morality says he is on course for an outright win as a disputed vote count nears its. lebanese president michel aoun has addressed the nation in a televised speech he says it's vital to review the current government he also promised he would fight state corruption as demanded by hundreds of thousands of people protest as have been demonstrating and demanding political change for 8 days with very. good one what are being i call on you to observe to act as monitors and all these. reforms are implemented without crippling the movement and i will act as a guarantor and i will expose and reveal whatever is taking place and i will do all that i can to have these reforms implemented i have listened to calls to topple the regime put the regime cannot be toppled from the streets i know the regime has been
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crippled for years well it's because they know how to who is in the lebanese capital beirut zain i said this is the 1st time the president i will not address the nation since the crisis began he focused on corruption and embezzlement well the speech be welcomed by protesters older did not go far enough do you think. well the reaction we're getting it did not go far enough the president offering his solution to this crisis he is promising to fight corruption and he has opened the door to dialogue inviting representatives of the protest movement to go to the presidential palace to lay down their demands and he is promising to work with them the reaction so far has been why should we trust you you've been in power for years you have made promises like this before and in fact what we have been hearing from politicians over the past week in many ways each and each one of them blaming the other just last week when the protest movement began and they were demanding the resignation of the cabinet the prime minister said well i wanted to enact economic
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reforms but i couldn't because of my partners in government they were obstructing my work now we're hearing from the president who is saying well i couldn't implemented my my my goal is to create a civic state in lebanon to end sectarianism and levanon because of the obstacles i face with my partners partners and government so politicians are blaming each other but this is this is the way out of the crisis at least in the eyes of the government hold a dialogue very strong words the regime cannot be toppled from the street there is will only be toppled through constitutional tools what president down basically is telling these people is that you can stay as long as you want we're not leaving and the next change will happen at the ballot box so for protestors this is not enough what they want is a new government ministers who are going to be technocrats people who are not affiliated with any political party and people who will serve the interests of lebanon so i wouldn't saying that look as you said you know the regime cannot be
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toppled from the street so what does this mean then for the protest movement going forward what can they realistically achieve. well they have disrupted public life for over a week now as you can see behind me they're closing roads in the capital of across the country piling pressure on the government schools can't open universities can't open banks can't open so this is their way they believe the pressure on the government now whether they'll take ethical or tory measures it's too early to say what the government was hoping is that these people will be confined to squares and they can protest for the next few months or years but but the government needs needs the army and the army's role is going to be key because it has all workers to open roads it has orders to ensure that they need life returned returns to normal but so far the army is staying on the sidelines but i have to tell you there is a dangerous because there are anti pro-government protesters on the street but more and more we're seeing protests are supporting the political parties in power
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loyalist they too are taking to the streets in some areas still very spontaneous so the threat of confrontation is real in this deeply deeply divided society all right as in the lebanese capital beirut say no thank you let's bring in jamal horse and he's a journalist and for me it is a english he joins us live now from beirut so what do you make of the speech by president i would nominate you know he talked about the scourge of corruption but do you think it'll be enough to calm the young go in the streets. i mean unless action is seen i don't think anything is going to calm the people on the streets of course there is the other option of just squashing the uprising which is an option but like i was mentioning right now that would require the cooperation of the army which doesn't seem to be available right now show there are i mean it did not inspire confidence i think that's how you summarize it it was clearly
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a prerecorded message you saw a lot of junk cards there is some books in the background seem to have moved during the speech so this is not exactly a speech that aspires confidence and that's what the people were looking for in the president all right so how realistic then jamal are the demands of the protesters and they want to see the government toppled and the installation of a new political system but we heard michel aoun himself say look the regime can't be toppled from the street so what happens next. exactly there's a real crisis right now and they're mean responsible action is needed and that's why i mean if the streets were to see. responsible steps being taken either by the president or the ruling class i think that in light. is there there are protests but so far we haven't seen any serious action they have been
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dismissive of the streets we've seen that they're just buying time paper that the economic reforms that are proposed are really unachievable and they're even if they were achievable they do not address the real issue all they do is probably long or push back the crisis a few months so we haven't seen any action from the government that really inspires confidence and that they're taking a crisis that we're facing seriously and the same time i think they feel confident that the protesters don't have the answers either saw i don't know where we're going this is a very dangerous time but there are serious government does not seem to be the party or does not have the answers right now jamal it's just not just a final thought from you i mean what about the use of the military on the streets i mean they've been used to clear roadblocks but is there a wider concern about the deployment of the army on the streets and the
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implications that that can have in a place like lebanon. well right now they've had the deployment of the army has been kind of limited they have. the deployment of the army cannot squash uprising violently because that will create backfire and that might. drive things out of control and really cannot stand in the middle if loyalist party is decide to launch contour a counter protest and clash with the protesters that now but i don't see that happening i don't think there's any intention by the lawyers for it is to do there that would really open the door towards a much much more dangerous situation but the army cannot even cannot stand in the middle either they're not equipped nor built in a way that they can perform their roles so right now it's really we need to see
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wait and see what's happening what's going to happen but the army is not this superpower that can really just hold the street or control it for any prolonged period of time jamal haass and good to get your thoughts thank you very much indeed for talking to al jazeera now the u.s. president has ended sanctions on turkey saying ankara's offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria is over turkish and russian troops taking over territory previously patrolled by american soldiers donald trump says it's time for someone else to fight over this bloodstain sand our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. he promised a withdrawal but on wednesday u.s. president donald trump announced that some of their troops will remain in syria trump says a u.s. brokered cease fire between turkey and kurdish fighters known as the s.d.f. was a success as a result u.s. sanctions opposed on turkey earlier this month or so the sanctions will be lifted.
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orla something happens that we're not happy with trump left open the possibility there could still be new sanctions and tariffs on steel exports from turkey to the united states the invitation for president recha tie of error to one to visit the white house next month is also still on for now trump says it may happen in the meantime he says america's work in syria is mostly done we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out let someone else fight over this long blood stayed and sand truck fired back at critics abroad pushing them to pick up where america has left off he wants washington's allies to help detain eisel fighters and repatriate them to their home countries. but trump syria policy faces domestic criticism in the
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u.s. congress even from within his own republican party senator mitch mcconnell is promising bipartisan legislation to push trump to cancel air to ones white house visit and halt the u.s. troop drawdown should a nation speak up we cannot effectively support our partners on the ground without a military presence the democratic senate leader fears u.s. actions will have grave consequences for kurdish fighters fata alongside u.s. forces to defeat eisel he's particularly concerned with reports the united states withdraw all has now allowed some eisel fighters to escape the president's incompetence without a one in syria has handed isis a get out of jail free card and put simply put american lives in danger. well it was about foreign policy president trump's white house address was geared
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to a domestic audience already campaigning for re-election president trump is keen to show he's keeping a campaign promise withdrawing u.s. soldiers from a generation of war kimberly hellcat al jazeera the white house the 39 people found dead in the back of a container truck in england are believed to be chinese nationals the bodies were found in a wednesday at an industrial estate in gray's that's just east of london a northern irishman arrested on suspicion of murder remains in police custody well al jazeera is lawrence and he joins us now live now with the latest from london lauren so the police have been revealing more details about the nationalities of the victims what more they've been telling us lawrence yeah that's right dave there's the developments of the day they say they were all chinese. adult men and one young woman and that's that the fact they were chinese has also massively led to everybody speculating that they may well have been weak is from west.
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