tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera February 26, 2020 1:00pm-2:01pm +03
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become the ultimate fashion statement. the on. al-jazeera. hello there i am how he had seen in doha with the al-jazeera news are coming up in the next 60 minutes iran reports for more deaths from the coronavirus bringing the total to 19 dead france records its 1st fatality japan's prime minister says major sporting events should be suspended because of the corona virus outbreak the pressure is on to decide about the tokyo olympics india's prime minister appeals for calm and troops patrol the capital after at least 20 people are killed in
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violence and egypt holds 3 days of mourning for a leader at 4 states in a popular uprising it 2011. and the corner virus outbreak is having a far reaching empathic cross border not just the summer olympics the president of the women's tennis tour says that the crisis poses an unprecedented challenge. the world health organization is warning the coronavirus site break is moving quickly and action must be taken to prevent it from turning into a pandemic that's where it becomes white spreads around the world and the number of those killed is rising in iran at least 19 people have died there more than 130 people infected with the virus that includes the country's deputy health minister in south korea the number of cases has past 12. hundreds it's the largest
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number of infections cited mainland china and as japan tries to limit the spread of the virus from minister shinzo abbey has called for all sporting and cultural events to be delayed by 2 weeks or canceled well we'll have more on that shortly but 1st let's just take a quick look at this tracker from the john hopkins university in the u.s. it gives us a good picture of just where the outbreak has spread to and the number of cases now the global total is just over 81000 brazil lukes to have south america's 1st case a resident from sao paolo who recently came back from italy know what mcbride is standing by for us in so with all the latest developments from south korea but 1st let's go to say invest in seron zain we are starting to see the number of cases in iran rise and it comes after the shock announcement yesterday the country's deputy
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health minister himself is infected with the virus just tell us more about what's happening where you are. yes that's exactly right the health ministry spokesman has given the daily briefing for today in that he has confirmed mr killen is john poor the spokesman for the health ministry has confirmed that there are 44 new cases adding to the $95.00 that we were at earlier yesterday that total comes to over $130.00 as you said and the total number of deaths have also gone up he's confirmed that 19 people are now confirmed dead from this coronavirus here in iran now he also offered some guidance on how to move forward iran has been perceived the government has been perceived to be dealing with this somewhat slowly but now they are offering daily briefings they are offering advice s.m.s. messages are going out to people of how to proceed and the health ministry spokesman said today confirming that there are no citywide or province wide
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quarantines of any kind but he has advised to avoid home province giladi province and generally avoid any nonessential travel anywhere in the country he also said there is no safe no place safer than your own home and advise people to stay indoors and repeated guidance on observing personal hygiene he also said that the government is expecting the number of cases to rise in coming days that is the expectation that they are operating on and as such public events remain canceled things like football matches people are also being discouraged from going to mosques or malls anywhere where there may be may be a large crowd where this may perpetuate the transfer of the disease further now president hassan rouhani also during his cabinet meeting earlier today spoke once again about the coronavirus but he took on a much more national security tone and it really is a reflection of the fact that iranian government leaders are beginning to count the
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cost of this crisis the price tag of this crisis in that meeting he said that the coronavirus should not become an weapon in. hands of enemies to shut down business inside the country and that he said there are no quarantine plans for the city or the country and the people should not pay attention to rumors and once again who does he mean by enemies of the country he spoke about the united states really saying that the united states was quick to criticize iran for its handling of this corona virus outbreak whereas in the united states more people have died from the flu really the government is taking on a national security language when dealing with this crisis ok same bus or of a life or a sense here on thank you let's get more now on the situation in asia mcbride's joins us live from seoul in south korea rob again the numbers are continuing to climb in so and well in south korea just give us a sense of the scale of this this outbreak and how the authorities are trying to
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tackle it. well that's right another big spike this wednesday nearly 300 new cases and rude people looking at these figures i think with increasing anxiety we know from officials from the government that the next few days are pretty crucial in trying to determine just what has going to happen to this outbreak whether it can and whether it will be construed strained in the southeast corner of the country and whether the government is really on top of it is containment measures are working when you see spikes like the one we've had this wednesday it really does cause unease and you do sense that in the streets here in the capital seoul it is affecting every day life people more and more companies are getting their people to work from home and people are avoiding crowds they're not going to cinemas they're not going to restaurants as they used to schools are suspended so it really is impacting the daily working life of the
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country and of course down in the southeast especially around the city of daegu itself it is having a real continuing impact there more and more factories work places who have had people who gotten sick have decided simply to close down in some cases others may be disinfecting and looking at reopening but this is going to have the is having and will continue to have a detrimental economic impact as we work through this and we just heard as we were coming on air that for the 1st time that the catholic church here in its 236 year history has just announced that it is suspending all masses all services for the time being so we are living through fairly unprecedented times here we are thanks very much rob that's right bring us all the latest from sawa let's stay in asia as we mentioned earlier japan's leader is calling for some of its to be delayed or
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canceled completely in a state that stalks no reports let's go. just 5 months before the tokyo lympics get underway. japan is set to host the olympics in $149.00 days but right now domestic sporting events are taking a major hit as the prime minister shinzo up in his government try to curb the spread of coronavirus that's a look at about the money or not considering that there's a large risk of infection for nationwide sports and cultural events where a large number of people gather who will consider measures such as suspension put spawn meant and reduction of size for the next 2 weeks. worrying times for organizers of tokyo 2020 which has been 7 years in the making at a cost of more than $20000000000.00 the game starts in july with $11000.00 athletes expected to compete and hundreds of thousands of fans set to attend on tuesday dick pound the longest serving member of the international olympic committee said the games are under threat and that a call needs to be made within 3 months however the japanese government quickly
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moved to play down those comments why did they go through the games organizing committee has checked with the i.o.c. regarding this with regard to this members comment the i.o.c. has responded that this is not their official position at the i.o.c. is proceeding with preparations towards the games has. the games may still be on but corona virus has already made its mark on the event several qualifying tournament have been perspiring to cross several sports from boxing to badminton but olympic committees around the world still preparing to compete come july we're taking it very seriously we're not going to this walk through the next few months you know avoiding the conversation we're dealing with and we're taking going to vice and we remind as our partners. in the taking government and the organizing committee come for the guys will go ahead there's been talk of possibly moving the games to london which hosted back in 2012 but it's unlikely given the
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logistics involved and the limited time available listen you're going to do there's your florida. bans 2 months is not enough you'll never get. in stock your bust the modern olympics is only ever been counseled on 3 occasions since it began in $896.00 each time because of war and the longer the battle against coronavirus drags on the more tokyo 2020 is at risk of suffering the same fate david stokes 0 plenty more still to come on this news are included in a report on why some fighters backing libyan war locally perhaps there are accused of sharing an ideology with eisel and after years of violence many inside sudan fear history may be repeating itself and in sports it was raining philly's in portland this summer will have all the basketball action for you later in the show . you.
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will india's prime minister narendra modi has called for calm after 3 days of violence killed at least 20 people here the 200 have been injured as hindu crowds wielding arm bar is targeted muslims on the streets of delhi and some of the worst rioting for decades buildings were satellites and mosques ransacked there has been a new wave of protest over the past few days against a controversial law that denies citizenship to muslim immigrants who have more form elizabeth piron in new delhi but 1st let's head to tony berkley is outside the hospital for some of the injured have been taken at sony you're outside that hospital what have you been hearing from some of the people who were injured in those clashes. these people are deeply scarred by what's
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happened in the last 3 days this is going across communities that have been living together in fairly harmonious ways for years and suddenly in the space of 3 days that's all changed we have spoken to people who are hindus and muslims who both lost loved ones in these protests. people living doors away from each other have lost people to bullet wounds now nobody knows exactly who fired those bullets that's a matter for investigation if there is going to be an investigation but there's concern here about what will happen in the future it may be calm now but what will the repercussions of the last 3 days and hail and going to take some time i think for the healing to actually take effect there are concerns also about what will happen from here because this whole argument was about civil rights if you come in northeasterly a religious matter and people here human rights activists are very keen to make sure he stays back on track as a civil rights matter matter at the moment is
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a lot of confusion about how many people have been killed this 21 that we're told officially and also about 250 but it's very confusing because all the all the wounded in the injured it spread between 3 hospitals so the streets sets of information coming out in addition to what the police have been coming but at the moment i have to say it is calm for now mainly because a group of women who are staging a sit in in just for bad were persuaded to leave for their own safety that seems to defuse the situation but it may be seen also as some kind of victory for the hindu hardliners who were involved in the protests who threatened that they would move these women if the police hadn't done so so it's who knows what's going to happen in the short term but whether or not these communities can ever live together again as they did remains to be seen ok tony burke there that live in new delhi thank you elizabeth piron i'm. covering events for. mr moody has now broken his
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silence appealing for peace and harmony own twitter as the government's expanded on this it's all a reference to the controversial law that sparked all these protests in the 1st place. those 2 tweets from prime minister moody appealing for was all he said about what's happening in delhi the worst violence we've seen in the capital in decades and the b j p has she is coming under criticism because of. these protests taking place in fact the delhi high court is actually hearing complaints by petition those who say that it was a b j p politician who incited who incited people like him who support the citizenship law to attack those people who are protesting against it and the delhi high court even said that they are not going to allow a repeat of 19 eighty-four they were referring to possibly you know we haven't had
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violence like this and possibly since then that was the 1984 riots against the minority community following the assassination of. the by her seat bodyguard the. common man party who are in power in delhi they asking for me to be in control because security and control by them but by the central government they're asking for the army to be and they say that all the affected northeastern suburbs should be under curfew at the moment it is just. that tony was mentioning it is only that one area under curfew where people aren't even allowed to come outside of their houses and they too held a news conference. a little earlier laying the blame squarely on the. again the b j p leaders comments on sunday which led to all of this violence it's not the 1st
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time at all in the last few months that a b j p leader has said things like this and that resulted in violence against protesters who have also heard from the country's main opposition congress party calling for the whole home minister the interior minister on the charge of design he's in charge of security in delhi but despite all of this and we have heard from the j.p. leaders talking about this but they refuse to condemn their colleagues ok elizabeth purana large for us in new delhi thank you well india's new law has been controversial from the very beginning it was proposed by the b j p led governments and was passed in parliament in december last year the legislation makes it easier for religious minorities from neighboring countries to gain citizenship but specifically excludes muslims and that's why many say the law is discriminatory and marginalizes nearly 200000000 muslims who live in india
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itself the be widespread protests since the bill was passed and they've become increasingly violent but the p.d.p. has denied any bias at home let's get more on the snow from. an activist and member of united against hate a civil rights group against hate crimes he joins us on skype from the state of bihar in india gets have you with us on the usurp what are your view is behind the spiraling violence is it the citizenship low or has this been a problem that's been festering in india for quite some time. i mean if you look back at the last play went up because there was no in the movie as you can buy were at the center we have seen a steady normalization in mainstreaming of the what was an acceptable go as automatically or all of a sudden become acceptable i mean what are getting
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a particular community turning blame game debates on national media maligning a particular community of more glinting than wins against my not it be that as moms sort of descend upon people belonging to minority communities specifically muslims start getting them and then the ruling by be going and supporting those who would accuse of that heat game so this is going on look like a long citizenship law is the latest in the spirit in that in sort of a speed up and the muslim and the minority think that there's that element or that when they brought in the citizens of law they did not expect this kind of protest across the country that indeed disappeared that people were just in such large numbers that muslims were living under a state of for the last 5 and up is because of the crimes david come out of them to the large numbers of women. in such large numbers but just to get in the citizenship law when that happened all that does come from the other side that is in the government. today this intimidation hate speech is you have the chief minister of the biggest state of india that is the chief minister with the police saying that we will take you to bend all those who protested against it does it not
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and then in his statement people have been gunned down you had a minister of you had a leader of b.p. was that the short protesters like dogs and in the coming 2 of them again if need be will you suggesting in some way i said it's cut you off he's suggesting in some way that all this violence suspense sanctioned by the ruling b.j. case. i'm saying that their words having consequences on the ground you have one leader saying that it does not bring to the people who've been protesting against the law and 2 days later you have a bus and lining up in one of the was that these things you want them and what the last 3 days to be about so many gunshots so this dog whistle politics of playing to that of. putting people like that sticks by did speeches that is going to what we want i mean even as we speak just a few hours ago. they need to go to museums of the need speeches that have been given maybe to be leaders and not the bullies and what have you done about these issues because given my leaders and shockingly that anybody said that they had not
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heard this week is because we did that were given during election campaigns this week is that everyone is hurting and the daily police i mean sort of been ignored is that we haven't heard them that's why they haven't acted on the court how to play those need to inside the courtroom to say that the leadership would take action that all of the legal to be misguided in terms of this fighting what is the police media reports of one of the police has but dissipated in these one instance where he them stood as i'd expected it would that blacks have been happening. was police just participated in it i mean you had recently been into the storm that people police and people go to where he's beating protesters were already in debt and laying on the ground to the role of the administration that all of the government ought to be to be does the rule of the police and then the all of this you're being misguided in this you've been in budget investigations what will give in this will he do you think should be standing up for the protesters who are being beaten up who are being victimized in your view i mean where they the opposition party in all of this he's speaking out for the people who are being attacked. i
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mean i would sit i mean i think that in the beginning the main bunk to me not religion but given me a spoken out and i'm under the minister's resignation i would do under minister the resignation but i would say that the words of the religion but the devil is a complete i mean if that really spoke them out again this it what it is that we did be a didn't like to think of up what about right there is no things would be this deeds unfortunately the muslims have been the right no a political orphans no one speaks for them i mean things that the whole of it in the country the social fabric of and it's not well it is on really just lay it off with him but he's been the best if they're seen standing up with 8 muslims starting about the way to the minorities the majority would not work with them that is the kind of bowman's then that has been created within the political mainstream in the last 5 years and that's extremely sad so you have the biggest inability. for the last few days you don't have been saying well i mean it was like on to anything i mean he is going by what indian he can well believe he has because he's what is asking lawmakers to come and go and the people who might believe but none of that
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is happening again been left in the let alone and you know what he will take this out and get it back and i'm reading reports of how good this would go and document these things the having that in there because i knew he knew it i knew a muslim and so being poor don't you see if there's been some states to us had been within the a muslim or not ok the guy that was living in the national capital up in the attic no ok i'm sorry to cut you off but we are out of time. activists and member of united against hate thank you very much for sharing if these from the heart in india thank you. and circus president richard sipe parents of one says uncorrupt plans to push back syrian forces in provence turkey has a number of military observation posts there and some have been surrounded during an advance by the syrian government's kurds one has also called on damascus and that's ally moscow to stop their attacks and let civilians leave the borders safely . we are doing and will continue to do all that we can to address
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a humanitarian catastrophe taking place in italy we demand the regime pulls back to where we agreed in sochi unfortunately russia is not concerned with this humanitarian issue the assad regime is killing his own people we will push their forces back from the border and make sure the refugees can go home meanwhile the united nations says nearly 950000 people have been displaced since the government began its offensive in december and it says more than half of the people living in places like this are children was the biggest displacement of people in such a short period of time in the nearly 9 year long war and has been described as horrifying a horrifying new level of crisis many people had come to the northwest region after fleeing other areas have been widespread reports of babies and small children dying of exposure. well this is what they're fleeing at least 26 civilians including schoolchildren have been killed more than 100 injured in the
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past day alone russian and syrian air strikes and shelling of had a number of times and villages across it live and the remaining rebel held areas in hama and aleppo on the grounds government forces take a cluster of locations in the south west of the province let's get want to from a banner hussein had to say in turkey near the border with syria a distressing fitz's that's coming out of this region it seems women and children are bearing the brunt of this just bring us up to date what more if you've been hearing has been. one of the ass rocks the attacks have been going on for quite some time over the last 48 hours the syrian government has stepped up stepped up its offensive targeting areas. in the southern part of the province this is and a bubble stronghold has also been targeting areas north of how and also rural
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pose and those these are residents in areas these are where people hoping to see some sense of. safe zones being implemented they have nowhere to go they have seen others fleeing to areas in the northern part of it live only to be bombed and targeted once again by the syrian government and the russian. the syrian government says that is going going to continue the offensive and that as far as it is concerned it will continue until it live comes and its control under think this is wish it were this is going to further exacerbate the humanitarian situation which has been deteriorating over the last few weeks in lip problems we're expecting to see huge numbers of people fleeing those areas and moving to the border with turkey over the last coming days. life as on the turkey syria border thank you very much indeed.
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malaysia's interim prime minister mahathir mohamad since you'll return as leader if he has enough supports in parliament 2 days ago he resigned suddenly and his party quit the governing coalition in a sense he wants to form a new unity government which he says wouldn't be aligned with any specific party but his former coalition partner. says 3 parties have nominated him as prime minister and more supporters have been protesting outside the palace where the king . let's call live there to florence young go on she joins us now on the phone for us this is an enormously complicated situation what's going on what's happening in malaysia. called an even more confusion and her more of a sense of the last. now what happened there. is now a rape in the truck sold to become the next prime minister of malaysia after
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martyrs stepped down and even though he remained as interim prime minister anwar ibrahim it's going to be annoying to accept that they had an agreement which was made before the election not general election in 2018 but mahathir would step down within 2 years and that deadline comes up sometime in may of this year but it has gone on to say that he will only be ready to step down at the apec meeting in kuala lumpur so there's no road heinlein that stephen and i and. following the collapse of the government there's been a tussle to see who will have enough numbers to form the next government even though anwar has now come out to say that the 3 parties from its former ruling coalition because remember there were 4 and one of them are hard to dispute from the coalition on monday. this week party support him to be nominated as prime minister but it's not clear that they both have enough numbers to take control of
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parliament mockingly wrong i'd say he's happy to remain as long as you have majority support. of of the of lawmakers of members of the and keep the we're not sure it's not going to be. going to be the case as well because his idea of a unity government led by him had been rejected by the opposition party the main opposition party. was told planning to come back into power but to. have it as one way of putting it they had held secret meetings and they were ready to form the government they have people from the from on my blog and party who had left the tonsil the site of the faction who are a faction within the party and they were unhappy with what was happening within our party and they were ready and the party tell you they want the numbers to form the government in fact taking over government not to the ballot box but in this manner
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to defections and to. withdraw from the coalition but how to get a stop to that by resigning but now the country leave in even more even more political upheaval in malaysia and there's no way of telling how this is all going to play out because parties to negotiate changes the horse trading the 5 closed doors and they're all just trying to get enough numbers to form a majority in parliament hala for and keeping track of the situation for us thank you very much. well says the libyan warlord tell me if i have to began his offensive to take the capital tripoli he's courted the west finds saying he's trying to see rid the country of so-called terrorists bunts elements within have to his forces have been accused of sharing an ideology similar to al qaida and as charles stratford reports now from tripoli the mucky mucks how these fights is i've
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also been accused of war crimes. these are fighters loyal to walter lee for half the battle in un backed government forces in eastern libya have to says the world should support him because he's a secular force the west can trust to fight terrorism. but many of the most powerful militias fighting for hafta are considered by western governments to be a threat to the future stability of libya and the security of their own countries because of the ideology they embrace and. the big contradiction is in what have to tries to promote about himself and the evidence which is clear his forces are comprised of so that the jihad their ideology scares many people we have seen them storming mosques and forcing others to follow their version of islam they are in an open war against the moderates in libya. these are monthly fighters saying that
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huffed is god's chosen one the muckle is follow what some analysts describe as an ultra conservative sect with a jihadist ideology based in saudi arabia this is a saudi based shaikh telling mudhoney fighters loyal to have to that their fight against the un backed government in tripoli is a religious one. the government in tripoli in western libya says it wants to dissolve all militias fighting on its behalf and integrate them into a national army have to has far more solid he's fighting with him by thousands than the western government so what he says and what's actually happening on the ground is quite different the backbone of his libyan troops the strongest force aren't highly salafist to follow and obscure a saudi sheik and and have what some claim is a quietist philosophy although this is an anomaly to you for all the analysts
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because what kind of quiet is silent this should get people every day this is general haftar with one of his top commanders mahmoud a willfully and this is a lawfully killing prisoners in benghazi he is wanted by the international criminal court to face war crimes after reportedly detaining a wolf for leave for a few days off the released him and promoted him to lieutenant colonel in the near 6 years since war locally for half launched his military operation to try and seize power in libya rights groups such as amnesty international have accused both sides of committing war crimes after describes himself as being a secular leader fighting terrorism a leader the west couldn't trust before the u.n. backed government here in tripoli military analysts and many people across this country that simply isn't true trial strap on al-jazeera tripoli. let's get
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a check on the weather now everton's here and you going to be telling us about the flooding in indonesia yeah well it was a very very bad as we went through the weekend monday in particular very very heavy rain it's looking better over the next couple of days hala you can see that we have still got plenty of cloud across much of the region in asia pushing up into malaysia but really back down to the the regular heat of the day showers as we go on through the coming days we'll see these showers just coming and going about in the mornings come the afternoon they will pack up and you can see more heavy rain coming in for some of this is said nowhere near as bad as it was on monday in particular further north probably seeing the heaviest showers overbore and we have seen some very heavy showers recently into possible straight ever since some very heavy rainfall coming through here you can see 2 tropical cyclones to stop towards the far north of the country there he's in the process of making the way for the west was at times weakening this was a situation actually in perth where we had
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a super cell just exploded over parts of perth bringing some very heavy rainfall visibility down to around about couple of 1000 meters at times some very very strong winds winds gusting to 84 meters per hour we will see the showers continuing here's a go on through the next couple of days still wet across the eastern side of australia but at long last turning a little dry hala thank you very much lots more still to come here on on just 0 including the sports and often a town has his sights set on with claiming the top spots in the world rankings and all the tennis action coming up later in the show. migrants in uniform volunteering their labor to appease locals and combat the anti migrant sentiment. people in power travels to the north of italy
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where a bold experiment is underway. with an unconventional approach to integration. italy's migrant boot camp. when the news breaks we're almost out of it in the getting wobbly in the presentation and economic development when people who need to be helped but top leadership world where the potential for parity of a virus weeks before the public would hold of those dangers al-jazeera has teams on the ground the syrian army says determined to defeat the battles and continues advanced was this isn't it to bring you more award winning documentary and light needs. the all the the for the.
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best says al jazeera quick mind off the headlines this hour iranian authorities have confirmed 4 more deaths from the coronavirus total of 19 people have died it's the highest number outside of china more than $130.00 people have been infected including the country's deputy health minister. in south korea nearly 1200 people on are infected with the coronavirus the catholic church that has canceled all masses in the country in an effort to avoid further spread on the surface president richard sipe heard one says ankara will push back moscow backed syrian forces in province make it safe for civilians united nations estimates nearly 150000 people have been displaced there since the beginning of december. there are military funeral is expected to start soon in cairo for egypt's former leader hosni
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mubarak bashed he passed away on choose day at the age of $91.00 the government says announced 3 days of national mourning after his death mubarak was in power for 3 decades until being foresights during the 2011 revolution well jim i'll shell joins us now from the chimneys ian capital achiness jamal will be interesting to see the public reaction to see this funeral once it gets under way as someone who reports it's at from egypt's on the process that led to his dying for how do you anticipate the egyptian people are going to to mark his funeral. well in terms of the images that we will be seeing today there will be very much those of sauron mourning for the former president but that's more a reflection of the states of freedom of expression in egypt than it is about so the general overwhelming sentiment may or may not exist amongst most egyptians
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a fact that we for example aren't allowed to report from egypt is for the testament through that so the egyptian states will be sure to broadcast those images of mourning people participating in the funeral obviously all the stops being put out for the former autocratic rule a military person who represents not just his 30 years in office but also represents the military establishment which centrally controls all facets of the egyptian states does that reflect all of the egyptian population it doesn't because the proof in that is the 2011 uprising the. expression of egyptian public sentiment towards the ruler in the fact that it's brought about all facets of egyptian political society social economic backgrounds who essentially came out into the streets in their millions
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rejecting those 3 decades and saying that enough was enough so it would be very one dimensional through judge. the way in which the georgian people view mubarak purely by looking at how the funeral procession will take place today what's more important is looking at the legacy of mubarak and what that meant in terms of the education economy freedom of expression political spectrum in egypt and how that's impacted on egyptians everyday life will talk us through that legacy then i mean how do you see that being and that being reflects the country's president for you right 3 decades well sort of legacy does he leave his people. well egypt now is probably more autocratic than it has ever been under general before you who is probably the embodiment of the mubarak legacy which is a military legacy mubarak was the legacy of so that was the legacy of abdel nasser
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then ever since the military took over egypt in 1950 true up to egypt many egyptians believe is that's egypt is not a country with a military it is a military that's has a country because the army controls all such as of society when we're looking at the facts of it you're talking about under mubarak more than $10000000.00 egyptians suffering from what types us see you're talking about the educational sector in egypt going from one of the best in the arab world to the 2nd worst globally according to the united nations standing here talking about the egyptian currency decreasing in its value year on year unemployment increasing year on year poverty becoming so much so that the vast majority of egyptians live on just about $2.00 or less a day so valid is the legacy of hosni mubarak that the average egyptian will or struggles to essentially survive as a consequence of and that's what's going to impact it's obviously that won't be shown through the procession it won't be shown through the military funeral that
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you will be given another point that would be interesting to note is the comparison between the funeral that will be afforded to a man who many accuse of not just order of those things that i just mentioned but also killing those hundreds of protesters during 2011 comparing the funeral that will be given to him and the lack of a funeral that was given through egypt's 1st democratically elected president mohamed morsi who was forced to be buried at night where people were arrested for just showing or just mourning his passing and that again is more of a reflection of the mubarak legacy and the continuation of the policies that's were put some place by the military. than anything else ok jim our. life for as in china is thank you for nigh well let's stay with this sounds we await those images of that funeral procession i am joined on set by all jews here is middle east analyst yeah and then he's with me in the studio we were hearing from
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jamal there quite a bleak picture of the legacy that hosni mubarak has left in terms of life for ordinary egyptians how do you think they will be read will they be marking this this funeral are we likely to see tearful mourners lining the streets how do you think egyptians will be reacting to this you know position well apart from a minority of egyptians who are suffering from the stockholm syndrome i don't believe that the great majority of egyptians are going to mock. the ok it's as simple as that believe that the minority of egyptians who are suffering from the stockholm. syndrome being need to to be analyzed to like a logically psychologically about not being a psychologist i can't comment on that but in terms of the we were hearing that had this is this is a military funeral that he's likely to get you hosni mubarak was
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a military man do you think there's a recognition on behalf of the current administration over the the troubled legacy the troubled ends to his tenure in this is why he's receiving a military funeral rather than a state funeral does that come into it in any way at all i guess. you know when they decided to go for a bellatrix funeral they meant to send a message both to the people and to the military a message to the people. there we are i mean that man that you were of all that against you managed to remove. and he's been celebrated as a national hero and a military political hero. and also another message sent to the military. pacifying them whatever might happen you'll always be celebrated and you will always be honored at the end does this send the message that the military is firmly
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in charge because let's not forget 5 years not as familiar with the regional politics the current president el-sisi he was a former military man himself is the military sensually the defining force energy policy it's kind of goes without saying it goes without saying and you know talking about the few credits that could be given to the former president mubarak is the fact that he manage over 3 decades to put a distance between the army and the group ruling egypt. instead of what's happened since 2013 now we're seeing a different kind of group which is almost a direct quote of direct military rule of the country so this is one of the few things that should be given to hosni mubarak against all the bad things in the
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mistakes and evils he made. well i mean one of the things that he made them i think one of the. fundamental mistakes he made. you know intentionally or unintentionally is the fact that he confused ability with stagnation he was always talking about stability while in the meantime it was actually stagnating the whole country economically and politically. the fact also that he managed to invent a choreographed a make believe political life that didn't really exist but in order to make the people believe that this is a real version of political life he had. to give a margin of freedom of expression actually is something that was killed by his successor c.c. and that is why some a job since long before the days of mubarak although it's all wars it's almost like
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you know make a comparison between the bad and the worst there are a lot of things that we can talk about about abel's of hosni mubarak and a few credits that could be given to him as opposed to the brock prison that the egyptians are living ok lots to expound upon i'm sure we will in the coming hours for now. thank you so much in deed a sense other news now some and signed sudan have doubts about the future of the country's transitional government's the warring sides signed a power sharing deal on saturday instead ending years of conflict well to serious have a morgan spoke to people in the capital juba about how they feel about this deal. almost every evening just of getting and his friends meet under this tree they discussed life and the recent political developments in their country south sudan specifically the latest power sharing deal that has seen the reappointment of opposition leader break machar after years of war in south sudan.
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i wanted as i was to be there because. joseph says he feels the deal take south sudan back to where it was in 2013 he wonders what if anything has been achieved africa's in this country seceded from sudan in 2011 after 2 decades of fighting for 2 years later its own civil war started when the president salva kiir accused his vice president riek machar of attempting a coup a deal was signed in 2015 to end the war that killed thousands and displaced over a 1000000 people but it didn't last i cannot assure you that things will be different but what i got mad because i know is our commitment that we need to the storm. peace and stability in the country will be a national army we should not the militia may belong to this field of my you or belong to the government the new deal is a revitalized version of the 2015 deal and has been broadened to include other
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armed opposition groups that were born after that deal collapsed machar is once again vice president along with 4 of us with the same position the deal also includes a 3 year transition period before elections are held the revitalised deal includes sharing of ministerial cabinet positions between the government and the opposition groups that's yet to happen it would is for the war even you can read from the political leaders face that all of them they are fed up in continue to do so they. are just to assume political issues politically in the state of. fighting. the partial formation of a transitional government last saturday didn't come without deadlines regionally and internationally repeatedly missed deadlines that the sanctions on several government officials frustration through among the poor economy and the worsening humanitarian crisis but some doubt the future of the current they fear it's
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a return to the days when the president and the vice president didn't trust each other. joseph and his friends have nicknamed the treaty meat under the tree of hope they say they'll wait to see how the revitalized deal is implemented and the improvements it can bring and hope it better south sudan after years of suffering morgan al-jazeera. still to come on al-jazeera the coronavirus is something a major impact on the european champions league sana will be here after the break to explain why.
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time for sports updates on is here thank you very much i had a while the president of the women's tennis it still says corona virus that has left the sport a facing an unprecedented a challenge event in china where the outbreak began i have already been cast old while the amount of travel players on. the take also exposes them to the risk of infection far a smile reports. tennis players are among sports great travelers this week the leading women aren't kept are during the year they have top level events in 28 different countries while coronavirus may have started in china is now having a global impact president of the women's tennis tour says safeguarding players health while keeping them on the move is a huge challenge this is an outbreak that has grown exponentially so fast and i mean you know we've all heard it's in the news we keep up with the
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daily reports of new cases here new cases there south korea iran italy japan we've never lived through anything like this. china is a big market it's an important venue for tennis but the women's tour is already had to cancel some lower profile events there due to coronavirus from september onwards the games top players are due to play in a series of asian tournaments with china the 1st port of call the season ending finals in november are also in china before that comes the tokyo olympics in july on tuesday a senior games official said organizers had a 3 month window to decide its fate. well i know that. is a very clean country and they will host such a big if they would be some problem if it should happen then it's going to happen but i believe we as attorneys paris and and overall sports people we are so strong
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so we can get through it and definitely we have huge warnings from you know all the tournaments so they're doing great job just to make sure we're just safe and nothing can happen to us tennis officials are passing on up to the minute health advice to players but except the global nature of their sport means risks do remain . airplanes cruise it's all you know we live in a small world now and a very accessible world so that's great but it's also bad in a situation like this when it's very hard to contain something like the coronavirus for our seats for ourselves and you know we're a traveling circus keeping this circus on the road and its star performers how the challenge now being replicated across the sporting world far is small. 6 nations the time and could be thrown into chaos. arlen's team are set to play
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italy in dublin on march 7th but the irish health minister says the game should not go ahead italy is europe's worst affected country with more than 300 cases of the virus and 11 deaths italian football team eventis are in france to play lille in the champions league 2 local mayors a say the $3000.00 event is fast should not be allowed to attend the game but eventis coach. disagrees. everything or it's the european issue i think a valid supporters have the full right to be present here for the match against li on jeremy it's clear we have facing a problem with the authorities have to try and contain this virus and sold it off to woods but still by munich have taken a big step towards the champions league quota finals the 5 time when has hammered the chelsea 3 a nail in the 1st leg of their last 16 tie. said can operate was on fire in london
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he netted 2 goals in 3 minutes for the bruins legally this 6 champions league goals this season all that have been dusky adding a 3rd before late a red card to marcus along so compounded a miserable evening for frank lampard side and winning giving bang on the one confidence that was my biggest disappointment from the most the start to finish to be fair. we want to play here we shall know the season today we're going to life and that can happen some time during the intense atmosphere when everyone was there and. saw it was a harsh lesson a reality that implies a level we're going to get so this is champions league football. and the other match barcelona grabbed an away goal as they fall to from behind to draw 11 against napoli the samaritans had put the serious side ahead that put frontman on to aggress my squared things up in the 57th minute barcelona and in the game with 10
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men off to our 2 of it i was sent off separate american auto of course we can win it's true that we lost 2 important players for the 2nd league match but will recover to other players like jordi alba and sergio roberto you need to look at things with a positive attitude it's true that we don't have a lot of players now and things can happen but we want to be optimistic and think positively we don't want to complain. well philadelphia's impressive it is open and acapulco as he looks to reclaim top spot in the world rankings he crushed his fellow spaniard a popular. 6362 in mexico becoming world number one again if he wins the title and rankings a top i know about joke of it fails to reach the semifinals of the 2 by tennis championships. and b.a. now in boston celtics a star jason pass and put on a 3 point masak loss on tuesday we all saw forward that was
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a near unstoppable of from a long range against the portland trailblazers he sank 8 of his that $123.00 point at 10 and wraps up that 6 points in total patriots efforts leading up to celtics 118106 when they said in the eastern conference. and that's what it's for i have more for you later on but for now i hand you back to hallah. thank you very much indeed son a lot still to come here and i'll just share but that is the end of the news or to say whether this research will be with you on the other side of the break spring you know the very latest well you see that.
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iran reports 4 more deaths from the corona virus that brings the total to 19 dead france records its 1st death. slogan on peace it will be you're watching out to syria live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up india's prime minister appeals for calm and troops patrol the capital after at least 22 people are killed in violence. turkey says it will push back syrian government forces in northern syria as the number of displaced people reaches nearly 1000000. and egypt a whole.
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