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tv   NEWSHOUR  Al Jazeera  February 25, 2020 4:00pm-5:01pm +03

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with this documentaries that open your eyes on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello from doha i'm hala mohit seen with the al-jazeera news are coming up. the mubarak who ruled egypt since hoping toppled in the 20 a level revolution has died say age 91 mubarak spent years behind bars after the uprising but was eventually a question of the charges against him we'll have full analysis and reaction from around the region also ahead. we have outbreaks in multiple countries right now increasing at exponential growth rates
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a jump in deaths inside china and infections of brined the globe the world struggles to contain coronavirus. also military deals and commitments towards a trade agreement sounds u.s. president donald trump wraps up his visit to india. and global support continues to be impacted by the coronavirus outbreak with rugby 6 nations and now under threat and remembering a basketball legend kobe bryants a widow vanessa please the tributes to at a memorial service in los angeles. hosni mubarak the egyptian president stood from paris during the arab spring uprisings has died aged 91 he passed away in a car on hospital where he had recently undergone surgery current president of the fatah sisi is among those offering tributes to mubarak well al jazeera is jamal was
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in cairo when mubarak fell we'll speak to him shortly and we'll hear from him or another of our correspondents who covered egypt extensively but 1st laura burton manley looks back on the later gyptian with his life and legacy. hosni mubarak maintained a firm grip on power in egypt for 3 decades. until finally in 2011 the people had enough millions took to the streets hundreds of killed but after 18 days this. president mohamed hosni mubarak has cited to wave the office of the president of the public. crowds reacted as they heard the news that brought the man with an iron fist down. the military council took the reins of power but it was from the bullet train the
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mubarak had originally risen to power. in 1973 he led an air campaign the regain the sinai peninsula from israel it has been a humiliating loss in the 967 war president anwar sadat's made him by surprise and. mubarak was just meters away from sadat when he was shot dead in 1990. 8 days later. became president almost immediately he implemented emergency laws giving the state sweeping powers of arrest and cousin basic freedoms that would remain in place for his entire presidency there were a number of assassination attempts like this one during a visit to ethiopia in the mid 990 s. nearly 60 people were killed in luxor. mubarak cracked down rounding up
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thousands of suspects from the inside many egyptians considered his rule oppressive although he won 4 elections there were allegations of fraud but he continued to impress mattie in the global political arena as he made international diplomacy a cornerstone of his rule. to secure a steady flow of oil supplies into world markets and brokered deals between the palestinians and the israelis the americans enlisted support of 2 major allies saudi arabia and egypt the saudi kingdom used its financial power and egypt under mubarak use its political leverage to influence arab league decisions the strategy paid off and he received crucial u.s. military aid with billions of dollars. but unflinching western support from a barak soon faded for the arab spring began mubarak was arrested and charged with
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corruption and abuse of power in 2012 he was sentenced to life in prison the failing to stop the killing of hundreds of protesters after a retrial mubarak was acquitted in 2017. but his legacy has endured with the current regime led by another military figure. using similar hardline tactics to crackdown on dissent in order to stay in power. i mentioned al jazeera reported on the barak's resignation and at softer mass here he is prepared for his 1st free and fair elections. it was here right behind me and central. then president hosni mubarak's poster was ripped down in what was an unprecedented demonstration of the people's opposition and anger at the man who had
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ruled this country with an iron fist now in its place you have election banners and campaign posters as the people of my head get ready to reap the 1st rewards of the general 25th revolution a revolution that many across the country believe that the people here were amongst the 1st to instigate. al-jazeera. egypt. and well and so to speak now with jamal sheil his life in the china sea and capital tunis you covered those protests that brought about the end of mubarak's 3 decade long rule as well as some of the initial aftermath just give us a sense though of how you think egyptians will be reacting to the news of his death given the strength the feeling that brought so many of them into the streets in 2011. well there is going to be a mix of expressions and feelings but there is
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a legacy that still remains and that is probably a lot stronger than the emotions felt a legacy of 3 decades of forethought tarion rule the gradation of the gyptian economy as well as the essential basic infrastructure of the country which led to widespread health epidemics like hepatitis c. impacting more than $10000000.00 egyptians were true the educational. sector in egypt are also going downhill becoming from one of the main becoming transferring rather from one of the main destinations for those seeking education in the arab world through the 2nd worst primary education in the world all of those are impacts that many people believe are a result of mubarak's rule but there is it's important to talk about the sentiments the sentiments which lead to millions taking to the streets the sentiment that led to people deciding to start those protests on january 25th which was a day dedicated or
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a date dedicated by them about approaching to celebrate the police and the people thinking about there was nothing to celebrate about a police force that routinely rounded up political opponents that tortured and even killed detainees like khalid saeed and others and that those are motions that will be further example or rather that were further i dictated by those who were then killed or injured during the protests that took place in 2011 are going to be very strongly held by the many in egypt that continue to suffer that that legacy. in chinnis for now thank you let's speak now with hashem he's sane techies had safe province near the border with syria let's get more from him now i have shim you've obviously covered egypt's. extensively over the past few years just give us a sense of what you think mubarak's legacy will be. people
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saying different things about the legacy of mubarak this is someone who came to power in 1981 after the assassination of anwar sadat that was so that back then it was lost and the life was one of the most important presidents of egypt after so about. and then he he will bought a came with this idea of starting the reforms one of the 1st decisions he made was releasing political prisoners and hitto he spoke about the need to introduce more political reforms but throughout the years people started to think about those. about those statements by president has to mubarak and then they started to feel that instead of introducing genuine political and economic reforms what happened a decade later particularly the ninety's was rampant corruption sweeping powers
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given given to the security at the. disgruntlement and the growing sense of hopelessness among the gyptian people i think the pivotal moment would be the parliamentary elections of 2010 described by the international community. as the most fraudulent elections in the modern history of egypt it was that moment that the international community started to. believe that it's going to take some time for egypt to change i think it was that sentiment that paved the way for the 2011 mass protest movement that pushed for the of his to ultimately. after 2011 when you talk to people in egypt they would tell you that at least and the. egypt was pivotal in which comes to the region he was one of the most important players in the region what happened after hosni mubarak was and more
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uncertainty so feeling sentiment of the people about test him a lot of is definitely going to be divided and we continue to be sue for quite some time to come. there live for us on the turkey syria border thank you let's get more on the snow from of the fatah fayez he soldiers here is editor of egyptian affairs and joins me live on set this it's impossible to know where to start see had a 30 year long tenure at egypt's president and it's. a presidency that ended with the revolution he was seen in court he was jailed then released this is so much to bring in but for your point of view how do you think egyptians will remember him will he be mourned or will there be a sense of relief that he's not gone. actually. the most significant issue right
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now or you know to sit you know. the huge divide between the egyptians about mubarak the even between the people who make their pollution against him you know we know it is today for example very important symbol of the revolution such as dr iman or for example he's a leader of. one of the the person who. you know make the competition against mubarak and the british the presidential elections of mubarak put him behind the bars for 5 years and he's now living outside the country even he cannot go back to egypt and he's saying and forgive me what make this the video actually not that forgive me or forget what he did during his very long presidential period but because the situation now in egypt is more warse
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. mubarak is buried you know even regarding the the freedom of speech of pretty the media. economy the situation is more work. tens of. people suffering even regarding the relationship between egypt and israel for example which is was blamed the egyptian people whose blame embark aboard this one no the nation we can see between egypt and israel is this more huge even in military issues in c. in ny there is a huge who could be nation which is refuse the way that you can people so we are we can divided also the ability of the for president hosni mubarak to 2 hops the food was wonderful you know he started as hashem mentioned started with releasing all 1000 this of figures in political figures arrested by but is it into said that
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during the what we say in egypt to the north of anger over this huge wave of recession and said that made it in september 19th $81.00 and he killed the just one month after it hit is all of them headed toward bet that the hysterical. party a wasn't you know decades of panic even muslim brotherhood you know that the bulletin what we are calling the political islam movement is muslim brotherhood just started working on that during the debris of the starting 19 eighty-four a the the became bottom of the parliament 1987 also the. competition with alarm bell party so this stuff the other half of the day mubarak the burial which is starting very bad with when his son jamal mubarak begin
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playing god political rule and what we are saying about the demand mubarak will be the nicus to president after his father the corruption increasing. of the corruption in the division between what we are seeing in the all the generation and didn't do generation and their rulers. which is which is headed by mubarak. also the very poor economy could afford made by. the which is which is make it dependable so for to do. so this is the start of the dropping of mubarak and the start of the revolution a very mixed legacy one could say thank you so much. at the service gyptian affairs thank you but we are getting some reaction now from regional leaders palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has praised mubarak's commitment to the palestinian cause and israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu hailed the later
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gyptian leader for his pursuit of peace and security let's get reaction from al-jazeera as marwan shara he's our senior senior political analyst and author of the book invisible arab the promise and peril of the arab revolutions he joins us live from paris where there's marwan we're hearing there are somewhat something of a mixed legacy for the stats hosni mubarak leaves after over 30 years as egyptian presidents. well i guess it depends on one's perspective i'm not sure what is so mixed about being a dictator or an authoritarian leader not a world. going through in 1980 through 2010. but be that as it may i think when you look in the general context of the arab world you will see
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that the relatively speaking. between the 2 tightly terry and regimes like that and syria and the ortho terry and regimes like that in egypt during the cold war was that in syria it was far more repressive far more oppressive and far more dictatorial all aspects of life there was one party one leader one idiology in egypt under mubarak under so that and so so forth the authoritarian regimes were definitely dictatorial but it cleft it up to the society to basically mind its business whether it is intertainment and culture or whether indeed you cation other aspects of life so authoritarian regimes in the arab world were generally speaking more open source surely or society speaking but politically they were dictatorial so mubarak was definitely a dictator who ruled for 30 plus years alone and he differently dictated to the
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party what he needed along with the army there is no mixed mixed legacy in that sense but in the general context of the arab world certainly it was easier when egyptian than it was say for an iraqi or a syrian. and margaret in 10 in terms of the egyptian people i would do you think they're going to be receiving this news is mubarak has his supporters or many people did see for many people he was the only president they've known for a large chunk of their of their lives i mean his tenure ended with the arab spring in the arab revolution do you think they'll be those wistful for the days of mubarak's rule i think the egyptian people have long turned their back they checked out basically about that that ended in 2011 and i think what we see now and here you have some
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nostalgia some people who were close to the regime of hosni mubarak who would tell you even though even then they would tell you that look i mean considering what you see today from presidency see you know it was merciful more bar and this is again relativism in the sense that under sisi. egypt has actually transformed from an authoritarian state where there is a bit of a liberal handling within the society into a to tell it period state so age or prove the 1st time became a totalitarian state where the president has the last word where the country is repressive where there are some 70000 political prisoners this certainly contrasts seriously dramatically even with the mubarak era so yes the presidency of sisi has made a lot of people go strategy to our nests or oppressive dictatorial nests or
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percival this closed mubarak era because mubarak because he lasted for 30 years it was basically becoming more of a stilted mate more of a stable regime that took people for granted as much as people took him for granted be that as it may while today egyptians truly suffer under a truly repressive regime that does not allow any departure from the official policy of the palace ok martin bashar al jazeera senior political analyst live n. tyrus thank you. well the rest of the day's news is a heads turkey's president confirms the dents in turkish soldiers in libya and what's next for malaysia after the resignation of the prime minister will bring you an update on that story later i'm i have the sports for and we'll hear from chin is he is star of the 7
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a new benchmark for arab tennis. polarized coronavirus status in china and a sharp increase in infections the stalking fears that the global spreads of the 8 break is entering a new phase iraq has no bans travelers from 7 countries after reporting its 1st case on monday among the band's countries is iran its confirms 15 deaths but has denied reports that its all could be much higher bahrain afghanistan kuwait and oman have all reported in factions though in europe italian authorities have sealed off the worst affected towns in the north 7 people have died there and more than $200.00 are infected that's the highest concentration outside of asia and at least 10 people have died in south korea where there are almost a 1000 cases u.s.
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forces there are considering scaling back military exercises as for china numbers of new infections in areas outside of who've a province are fall and botts there have been another 71 deaths mostly in the epicenter there we'll have more on that with adrian brain hugh is in hong kong we also have to have a jump june in northern italy simcoe cielo will tell us all about a turkish airliner that had to be diverted due to a suspected infection but let's begin with us said big in iran's capital. a top health official has just confirmed that he has tested positive for the virus that's fairly astonishing just tell us more about this. absolutely astonishing the deputy health minister dr terry g. has today posted
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a video on social media saying that he has tested positive for corona virus now this very same health official the deputy health minister yesterday gave a press conference from that ran alongside the government spokesperson in a room filled with other politicians and members of the press where he was denying the number of dead. were as high as 50 he offered to offer his resignation even if it was half that number and he gave this press conference and some people questioned whether he was feeling well himself because he was displaying some symptoms now this is a very bizarre situation where he has come in contact with the government spokesperson with other members of the government the government spokesperson has contacted the president and the cabinet so we could have a possible situation where the entire government of iran has been in contact with the krona virus and can't possibly contract it and at the same time president hassan rouhani this morning. tries to downplay the spread of the krona virus saying
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it is not as bad as the spread of the flu virus that the country has dealt with in the past and he's asked people not to panic and follow the health ministries advice well his own fishel from the health ministry has now contracted the corona virus and people outside in the streets are wearing gloves they're wearing masks people are actually afraid there isn't a state of panic but what do people expect from the iranian people when their own government the ministers from their own government are contracting the virus and people are questioning the official account and now we have this member of parliament from the city of qom where which is the epicenter of the spread of this virus now he said yesterday that 50 people had died the government has denied this and today he said people have been buried in the cemeteries of home and doctors are writing down that the cause of death is respiratory problems when the health ministry know that these individuals that have died have come out of warranty for the crown of of the coronavirus ward now we're in a very difficult and
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a weird situation right now here in iran because everyone is questioning how many people are actually affected how many people have actually died and members of parliament pretty much accusing the government of a cover of this member of parliament. about these said that the virus the virus had been present in iran 3 weeks ago the government her made this public and effectively accusing them of covering up he's been scathing in his attack in terms of the government handling this crisis this virus he said that their response has been 0 that nurses don't have the right uniforms and they are afraid to treat the patients patients schools and universities remain closed it's very quiet outside in the streets of the her and there's less people there's fewer people in cafes gyms have been closed concerts matches of all being canceled and the iranian people are looking at the government for guidance but their ministers. in the virus ok are so
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big they're bringing is a live update from tehran thank you let's get an update now from asia bryan is in hong kong forus agent the chinese government threw everything the kids at this fire is trying to contain it but all eyes know are on the spreads of the corona virus. yes that's right i think what is happening now in south korea hala is really confirming in some respects the worst fears of the world health organization which fills that this virus is now outpacing the attempts to contain it now on monday the w.h.o. said that they didn't feel it was necessary to declare a pandemic at the moment but they are concerned that many countries simply aren't prepared for that eventuality and that sentiment has been feeding into investor confidence here in asia markets in tokyo and hong kong were both down on choose day
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shares in car manufacturers have been falling that's of course because many of them are reliant on chinese suppliers and many chinese for factories remain closed they've been closed now for more than a month and they could remain closed for several more weeks book because of course the the global supply chain has been thrown into chaos in that vein the french finance minister today has been talking about this he said that the virus had been a game changer for globalization and that it was time to rethink the global supply chains because he said it would be in his words unreasonable and unthinkable for that to happen in other words for the world to continue relying on china in the way that it has particularly for things like pharmaceuticals now state media in china is reporting that china could begin testing a new vaccine in several weeks they say that a professor at
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a university in the northeast of the country has been experimenting with a vaccine he's taken for oral doses with no side effects but other experts have been saying in the past couple of weeks that actually we are several months off from a vaccine being developed because of course a new vaccine would require extensive clinical trials to him. sure that it was safe and also effective and finally here in hong kong the government has announced that all schools are going to remain closed until april 20th they've already been closed for a month and of course that's going to put more pressure on families because parents in many homes are having to work from home at the moment. bray is up there from hong kong thank you now the highest concentration of cases outside of asia is in asia the l.g. serious mohammed john jones joins us from long birdsey region. you were near cardon year but you appear to have moved positions slightly further away just tell
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us what's been happening where you are. yeah that's right hala we've been forced to move about a kilometer down the road from where we are where we were when we last spoke and that's because the red zone which is the core an area of those towns that have been affected has actually been expanded out just in the past hour or so if you see behind me those are those police vehicles that are making sure that no cars or trucks get into that red zone unless they have permission to do so and no cars or trucks get out of that red zone unless they have permission to do so so at the moment we're about 9 and i have 10 kilometers away from but the problem now is that there is a sense of alarm that is really growing people in this area are concerned that the containment measures that have been put into effect may not be working as well as people would like them to work in the past couple of hours we've also heard several
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times about more spikes in the number of confirmed cases now we're at the number of $283.00 confirmed coronavirus cases that's according to several italian media outlets 7 have died as a result of being infected and now we are told that there are 7 regions across italy that are have been affected that have corona virus cases in those regions so every few hours there seems to be another big spike if you hear behind me there seems to be another ambulance approaching there's been numerous ambulances going into and coming out of that area several hours and that's one of the reasons there is a growing sense of alarm and a bit of panic in this area when we speak to the residents because they are very worried about the number of ambulances and the amount of sirens that they're hearing all throughout the day now talian officials continue to urge people not to panic and they continue to say that they expect the number of confirmed cases to rise and they're saying the reason that that will happen is because there are more
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proactive measures being taken by health officials here throughout the country to try to test people and to try to diagnose those coronavirus cases ok mom a judge and jury has live for all i know is an 8 silly thank you. now a turkish airlines flight from iran has been diverted speakers of a suspected corona virus infection on board the flight from tehran to istanbul landed in turkey's capital ankara and states so his health minister says 132 passengers and crew will be quarantined for 2 weeks so he shuts order crossings with iran and suspended some flights following the rise in infection there let's go live to c.n.n. course yolu she's in istanbul for a sin of what markets ehlers. well let the 1st cell that the health minister turkish health ministry the client the airline that set the flight
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was diverted they say this plane was already planned to lend an arm corral so it's the nation it wasn't a stumble basically let me summarize you like this turkey suspended its flights. from tehran actually it took a suspect didn't suspend but 30 is not bringing any iranians to inside turkey via turkish airlines so it says that the situation which to which was taken a couple of days ago turkey only brought the turkish nationals from iran and other in fact that countries back home so this plane that was flying from teheran to ankara out was also carrying 132 passengers that were turkish nationals and that were coming from iran to attack iran but on suspicion at that some of the passages had. higher fewer they were to the plane landed and uncle
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and all those people were taken to a special hospital in the turkish capital that is specifically spared for this current teen and we are waiting for the health minister to do a live press conference after the scientific committee meeting finishes which is actually do in half an hour maximum but so far there is there is no case there is no whole a coroner virus case in turkey if there were some 5 people who were who were suspected because of called like symptoms but there are tests that show the negative for koren the virus but i have to say that especially in isn't province of one which is a borders that there with iran there is a there are some concerns the town was shaken shaken by earthquake during the during the last weekend but they also face the risk of koran up because there are $2500000.00 iranian tourists coming over to turkey every year.
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from istanbul thank you. let's get more now on the death of a state's egyptian president hosni mubarak i'm joined in the studio by our sure who is the head of critical security studies program at the doha institute's good to have you back ali and we did speak earlier and you were outlining how much of a survivor hosni mubarak was throughout it's his extended presidency of egypt one of the things he was not able to survive was the will of the egyptian people in your view when did when did the egyptian people lose faith in him it was not a long time coming or was this something that was the straw that broke the camel's back i think egypt the actions never really had a chance to choose 1981 who was the vice president of sadat and stayed there in power. for a long time i don't know if they were feeling fair elections in 1980 s.
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or the 1990 s. or even to solve the means to solve it was the 1st time southern 5 i think it was the 1st time egypt has ever witnessed presidential elections before they had presidential referendums where they can say yes or no to the president and no matter how much they know it would still be 90 percent plus yes in the south and 5 he won the elections with 88 percent but many know that was it was not neither free nor fair the too many rigging going on to soudan in the rigging was so frustrating for many egyptians in the parliamentary directions december 2010 that it mobilized with other issues of oppression and corruption that was happening. tens of 1200 of thousands of people on the streets of egypt and we had 2011 revolution is still outlived a revolution you know the period yes he was behind bars 2012 years to a sentence all that happened but he survived it he outlived it i think in july 2012
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when his chief of staff chief of security general intelligence almost a man general a straw man when he died in july 2012 egypt out. it's taught her as you as the main guy in charge of keeping mubarak in power before actually out of almost a name and the revolution to get out of the coup that broad general sisi to power after that and. really died normally so this is even in jail so what do you think in the sense that the egyptian people will finally get the closure that they didn't get to be said with his trial because he was tried. was found guilty than the people who cleared. you know he never ended up they didn't get the trial they wanted the egyptian people this is death now bring cause you're for a good many of egyptians of course and get the right trial but i don't think now he matters i really agree with marwan because he said that many egyptians actually would year into his days because the level of corruption and the level of
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repression war much much less compared to today you know the today i think egypt never saw a more oppressive period even compared to the times of nasser not not even walk so this period he doesn't really many egyptians if he was choice between him mubarak's regime and the current regime i think many would bet the majority would choose his regime so this is on one end but on the other end there was no justice really that even the trial that he got was was very you know we would remember his pictures on you know carried by a cop and he was pretending to be like on a stretcher he was actually healthy enough to stand but he didn't want to stand. and just to get some public sympathy and i think this is this to a certain degree worked but also the military also did not want to go too hard on one of them and compare his trial with the trial of mohamed morsi who died out of medical negligence in his own cell and collapsed in front of everybody in the court
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quite well thank you so much should ray is that extra analysis that's omar assure the head of critical security studies program at the doha institute's. said time to have a quick check on the weather ever since you. thanks very much how we're looking at snow and ice giving cause for concern across parts of northern europe as we go on through the next couple of days but for the time being we do still have flooding concerns up towards the northwest this is shrewsbury in the west of england where we still got the the high water levels of course but as we go on towards the weekend we will see slightly less cold air coming through but we are looking at some snow and ice packing in before that so we got this band of cloud and rain here it's making its way further south towards as it does so turning to snow and the center of the case over the high ground could see some decent snowfalls over the alps as we go on through the next couple of days and about time too i'm sure some people would agree we're going to see a fair bit of snow there in sioux austria southern parts of france that will
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gradually make its way further race with simpler was to just pushing up across that western side of scotland england western areas of arland as well along with well so some wintry weather coming through here see some wet weather weather just pushing in this we go on into thursday some heavy rain sliding across the breast peninsula bumping into that colder as zurich at around 4 celsius we will see snow sliding its way and stays that will continue to drive this way for the race was brought the skies come back in behind but if you head towards the weekend it will turn wet and windy again thank you very much everett's and now the u.s. president dilma drum says he's optimistic a comprehensive trade deal with india will be reached as he wraps up his 2 day visit talks with indian prime minister narendra modi in new delhi the trips not design the chips designed not only to be straight and ties but also trumps reelection chances at home by appealing to see indian american voters.
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another major focus of my discussions with prime minister modi is forging bilateral economic relationships that is fair and reciprocal our teams have made tremendous progress on a comprehensive trade agreement and i'm optimistic we can reach a deal that will be of great importance to both countries that have both sort of caught on the beach and he had the relationship between the united states and india is not just limited to the 2 governments it is people driven and people centric it is the most important partnership of the 21st century president trump and i have had discussions to raise it to a comprehensive global and strategic partnership well elizabeth the parana i'm joins us now live from need to have a alice was censored more from donald trump what's he been saying. yes how is that we heard from president trump just
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a short while ago that he wraps up his 1st visit to india. in another couple of hours and we heard from him and he actually did something that prime minister modi has never done which is take questions from journalists and while he emphasized you know both the president trying to climb in the stability of really can to emphasize this defense deal this india is buying $3000000000.00 worth of true equipment from america's so they've talked about that i guess they see that as the. you know tangible thing that they've got out of this trip we did have president trump for the 1st time about what's actually happening in india and what's been happening in india the biggest story here for the last 2 months which is the ongoing protests against the citizenship nor and white house officials said before president trump traveled that he would raise concerns with the president and went. about
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that and he had to be asked about that today because they have been following the scenes in delhi for the last few days like we haven't seen in the last 2 months and he was asked about that and he replied by heaping praise on prominence to modi yet again saying that you know promise to modi is committed to religious freedom and that is religious freedom and that he has full faith in him and when he was pushed on it he ended by saying something quite bizarre that you know there's no problem with muslims in india there's 200000000 andean muslims when they're only used to be 14000000 so we're not sure what you know time period he's talking about here but we also know that president seems to have a bit of difficulty with numbers before he came. to india he was boasting that 10000000 people were going to reach him upon his arrival everyone here was
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wondering where he got that number from we certainly have no idea and of course it wasn't 10000000 but it was 125 1000 'd welcoming him. when he landed yesterday and that did seem good enough for him. and liz just tell us more about these protests against the u.s. citizenship because the timing of that is pretty terrible induced trying to put on its best face to welcome the u.s. president some are you have these violent process that just don't seem to be still . yes this is exactly what the indian government promised him or he did not want to happen while president trump was here and you know a lot of these protests in the past 2 months while they has been some violence on the whole the protest movement against the citizenship act which we have covered extensively over the past 2 months is largely peaceful violence occurs most of the time when those who support that citizenship go off come out and
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attack the protest as that's what happened on sunday afternoon and that is off. a member of prominence to morty's by the party threatened protest is saying that you know unless they clear the roads and on this police cleared them then these people will take matters into their own hands and and that's what happened that's resulted in 10 people killed and something like a 130 injured so far ok lispers karama my furs thanks very much for that update. turkey's president has confirmed the deaths of 2 turkish soldiers in libya pressure typer to one sense and troops in january to support libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli government forces are battling fighters loyal to warlords khalifa haftar who've been trying to
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capture the capital for the past 10 months. a cease fire started in gaza between the palestinian armed group islamic jihad and israeli forces the u.n. and egyptian seas far falls to days of cross border attacks israeli air force says it responded to the firing of at least 80 rockets from gaza on monday and 6 people including 2 islamic jihad fighters were killed by israeli strikes in syria on sunday night's attacks on gaza wounded 4 people went to. malaysia's prime minister is reported to be trying to form a new coalition government 24 hours after mahathir mohamad resigns to add to the political turmoil his party quits the will in coalition over a long running feud with masters rival forms louis has the latest from the capital kuala lumpur. mahathir mohamad in his capacity as the interim prime minister of malaysia met with party leaders across the political divide on tuesday reports say
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he is planning to propose a unity government one that would see politicians from rival parties working together to form the next government but that idea has now been rejected by the main opposition party known as a mill i'm no was dominant in malaysian politics for more than 60 years until it was voted out in a general election 2 years ago now i'm no together with several other opposition parties held a press conference and they said if mahathir cannot even lead a coalition of 4 parties what's more a coalition consisting of 12 parties they're calling for parliament to be dissolved and for fresh elections to be held now another possible scenario that could play out however is a new coalition could be formed now political horse trading in negotiations are happening behind closed doors and it's still too early to tell which parties would have the right numbers to form
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a majority in parliament but if the outcome of all this is opposition party politicians coming back into power through this manner rather than through the ballot box then civil society organizations and voters may just reject such a government and political upheaval will continue in malaysia. hollywood film producer harvey weinstein has been led from courts in handcuffs after being convicted of sexual assault and rape he complained of chest pain since the verdict was delivers and some to suit he's been given medical treatments when seen his case inspired the mitsu movement's faces 25 years in prison on the reports from new york who weinstein's trial took place. harvey weinstein's days as hollywood's most powerful movie producer officially are over he's now a convicted felon and rapist after the verdict some of harvey weinstein's accusers said they hoped his stay would finally come weinstein was found not guilty of the
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most serious charges of predatory sexual assault but was found guilty of a criminal sexual act and a 3rd degree rape as a perfect was read weinstein showed a little emotion as he was handcuffed and taken to jail in a shanty tears to get emotional i just kept saying we're not in a state of the bottom and it's an ideal that you know it's all in the state of the verdict caps nearly a 3 week trial and 5 days of jury deliberations he was on trial for allegedly raping an aspiring actress in 2013 and sexually assaulting another woman in 2006 in 2017 investigative reporter rich mchugh was one of the 1st to report allegations of rape by weinstein he has since interviewed dozens of other women who accused him of sexual assault and harassment i know at least one of the women who will be testifying and her case is horrific. and so i think it's i can only imagine the case will be even stronger in los angeles that is here in new york and.
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i imagine you know a verdict will be i don't i don't i it's hard for me to predict but the case is pretty pretty strong from from all that i know at his peak of power weinstein was a hollywood legend many of the greatest actors are actors. says over the past 40 years have worked with him in some capacity he either directly or through his movie studios throughout his career weinstein has been associated with 81 academy awards weinstein's conviction is a victory for the me too movement that began in 2017 when actress alyssa milano tweeted if you've ever been sexually harassed or assaulted write me to as a reply to this tweet millions did and the movement took off harvey weinstein now sits in jail awaiting his sentencing by the judge next month if he's given the maximum which would be 29 years that would mean he's not released from prison until
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he's 96 years old gabriel's on doe al-jazeera new york. still to come in sports find his own excuse books or don't they won't i gave his to feeds tyson fury. business later. by not grasp our.
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business later. by the brass power. it's time for the sport here santa thank you very much i had a virus continues to spread that once in your limbic official says this just 3 months to decide the fate of the tokyo 2020 dick is the longest serving
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a member of the international olympic committee he says with a just ticks and like security media food. accommodation to consider that the session needs to be made up by late may the games are set to begin on july 24th with around 11000 athletes expected to compete to fans health minister says it's too early to talk about counselling. welling's has more on how the coronavirus is impacting global sport well this is an increasing concern for sports governing bodies globally of course a pressing problem in northern italy which is the area of europe worst affected by coronavirus cases in their sport it's particularly affected football so far we saw 4 sorry much as possible into the weekend at the same time it's in china of course and in asia that we've seen the biggest problems and the affected sports as well the world athletics championship in managing the indoor off that it's been
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perspired into next year the chinese going pretty in shanghai in april that was cancelled asian champions league football matches postponed china world cup football qualifiers moved to thailand south korean lee and the japanese led by perspire and and all this does put a question mark about those lympics in tokyo of course we've seen now dick pound a long serving international olympic committee member coming out and sign is a 3 month window in his view to actually politics and then get something in place kobe bryant's widow vanessa is suing the company that operated the helicopter that crashed last month killing her husband daughter giana and 7 others the knesset bryant lead the tribute at a public memorial in los angeles at the staples center which is the home of the lakers were brian to play that his entire career. god knew they couldn't be on this earth without each other yeah to bring them home time together. we both rest
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in peace and have fun and haven't told me to get on wednesday. we walk he bucks i have showed why they've got the best that winning record in the n.b.a. they managed to with stand one of the best solo performances of the season bradley be a lot was on fire for the wiz's the 2 time also battling $55.00 points that's the joint 5th best scoring effort of the campaign but it wasn't enough to save his team the eastern conference leaders bucs winning it in overtime 137234. 2020 has already been a breakout year 14 is in tennis player. at the australian open in january the 25 year old become the 1st arab woman to reach the quarterfinals of a grand slam tournament this week to go is playing at the cuts open and she's been talking to our correspondent for a smile about her story so far. honestly it was my dream since i was like 5 or 6 years old my mom asked me what i want to like i told her when i win
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a grand slam i want to be number one and it started like this you know and you know sometimes i had difficult times believing in my dream and i've worked hard in training all my my life in the internet i like the way it's coming off for me like that i'm a dream is coming true we've seen a lot of new players coming out as asia do you think having top level tournaments in africa how how grow the sport there i'm kind of wishing it to have more tournaments there we have a lot of bite us like small tournaments but i'm actually looking forward to have a more w.t. is the only one and it's in my roll call right now. i hope one day we can have a double back in my country and into nisha i know i have to to give a good image i'm trying my best to to inspire a lot of players to be here either in tunisia or enough to go even into arab words . it's a responsibility but i think i'm ready for it and i hope i hope i can do a good job you did very well at the australian open how has that changed your
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career it was my one of my goals to be in the 2nd week of a funny grand slam i knew that i had level 2 to beat any player i knew that i had in my in my tennis team in my mind they could be really good and and they would be good games but it never happened for me but now each evening this part changed a lot of things for me made me more confident on the court maybe believe more in my dreams and in the end of 2019 i spoke to my team and i said like that's this year's going to be $21.00 is going to be my year and i want to do good. hosting the tennis this week but in exactly 1000 days it will stage the football world cup it will be the 1st time the time that the has been held in the middle east and qatar has been comprises 2012 out of 8 sagan's have already been delivered to it with 3 more scheduled to open this year. well governing body usa has agreed to help clean up football in greece the country's leagues have been honest
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a by years of crowd violence and corruption allegations but now u.s. as president alexander sypher in the has signed a deal with greece's prime minister promising to assist the greek football federation is this agreement that was signed. clearly said it doesn't mean government getting bored to death means that you have a week. to help to solve this problem and i hope greece becomes. again one of the top countries like in 2004 would you want a europe john who has come out with a new excuse for his and the loss to tyson's here he says that his elaborate previous fight to outfit a weight around 40 pounds and wore him down before the fight. thank you very much indeed sanna stay with us and i'll just say i'll be back with you after this very short break.
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75 percent of the land here of the marine environment have been severely altered by human activity exploitation of species through over fishing and hunting climate change caused by a greenhouse gas emissions. pollution and finally the house a creek told local ecosystems by invasive species reports both to say the decline can be slowed even stopped in some cases but to do that we must transform our relationship with. perception because validation we believe you want to receive but in one my time we cannot see everything that we would lie if you experiences of others. and the legacies of previous generations. of that testimony we have no bearing. witness documentaries that
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open your eyes on al-jazeera. the. hosni mubarak who ruled egypt until being toppled in the 2011 revolution has done its age 91. a barak spent years behind bars after the uprising but was eventually acquitted of most of the charges against him in the full analysis and be action around the region. and how he's in and this is al-jazeera my from doha also coming up iran's deputy health minister seen here wiping his brow during a coronavirus press conference on monday says he is not in fact it's.

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