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al jazeera. where. we just run away run because. an emphatic victory for gerry biden in south carolina giving his bid to be the democratic presidential candidate the boost it needed. hello welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm martine dennis also coming out. show healthy people if you're healthy. you will probably. go through a process and the. president trying tries to reassure americans after the u.s. recalls its 1st coronavirus death. the tussle at the top in malaysia
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continues even as a new prime minister is sworn in. turkey opens its border with greece saying it won't stop refugees and migrants trying to cross into europe. in this have a decisive win in the south carolina democratic primary a former u.s. vice president has secured almost half the votes with bernie sanders coming a distant 2nd he got about 20 percent south carolina as the 1st southern state to vote in the process to select the candidate who will take on donald trump in november's presidential election is also the 1st state with a large black population african-americans are a key element of the democratic party's support. oh you were knocked down counted out lucky on prices your cat paid
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the. rest days ago the press and the promise of your crack this candidacy dead. now thanks to all of your heart of the democratic right we just run and we've run big because. well there are 54 delegates up for grabs in south carolina and biden now has the opportunity to draw level with bernie sanders in the overall number of delegates gained so far south carolina comes just days before the all important super tuesday when a quarter of all remaining delegates allocated it takes place in 14 states plus american samoa all on the same day super tuesday well all same mike bloomberg 1st appearance on the ballot the former new york mayor has not competed in the votes helped save far but he saunders has conceded defeat in south carolina and he's now banking on
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a big win on super tuesday tonight we did not win in south carolina. a lot review only defeat there a lot of states in this country nobody wins a wall i want to congratulate joe barden on his victory tonight the. not old we had the super tuesday a good 3rd of the well out there is on the gallagher is with the biden campaign in columbia south carolina. to say this is a boost for the biden campaign would be an understatement this is the 1st but surely diverse state in these primaries so far member we had new hampshire we had iowa we had nevada here we have a large african-american population hispanic population this has given joe biden the legitimacy and the momentum he needs going into super tuesday
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a lot of moderate people in the democratic party have been looking for a moderate candidate to take on bernie sanders they may have just found him in joe biden because his lead was getting eaten into steadily as we were running up to this primary bernie sanders was making traction with young black men 9 year olds tom steyer was spending a fortune and some of the polls how bernie sanders within the margin of error but the polls close at 7 o'clock tonight within minutes they were declaring joe biden as the winner of the south carolina primary so this is more than just a boost this is given joe biden the energy needs he's given his supporters the energy they need and all those people who will vote on super tuesday 14 states on american samoa will dish out almost a 3rd of all the delegates is a potentially game changing day in politics and by it now it's looking way way stronger than he has in the past for the billionaire told in style is projected to
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come in 3rd place in south carolina and has dropped out of the race that voters have been a major target of his campaign the environmentalist spent more than $18000000.00 in south carolina he's been a fierce critic of president trump and has portrayed himself as a political outside. are at this point now because you're an assistant professor of political science at howard university she's joining us live from washington d.c. thanks for talking to us what does the south carolina vote actually tell us about the biden campaign. well i think it tells us that the biden campaign is very much alive and that black voters will be decisive particularly black women i think that was one of the things that went under and recognize i mean we talk about the black vote but i don't think we talk enough about black women who have been really steadfast supporters of the democratic party and have shown themselves time and again to turn out to save the party in certain respects so i think this is a big victory for joe biden but it was also a big victory for black women and how indicative would you say is the result of
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south carolina. what is to come in all the southern states where there are large diverse communities particularly the african-american community will it be replicated i don't know if you will necessarily be the trouncing that joe biden had against its competitors tonight but certainly he's racked up some important endorsements in virginia from tim kaine collen all red in texas so i think he is showing that the southern states with large black populations are in fact where he's going to spend his time i mean north carolina just to the north or south carolina is also an important place so i think joe biden is certainly going to focus on this reliable segment of the democratic electorate because there is no one who can claim victory as a democratic nominee who cannot win black voters and we often talk about the black vote the african-american vote in the united states particularly in the southern
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states but it's not an amorphous mass is it there are distinctions you've already said the black women in particular have come out in support of what about the youth . well the youth vote i think is very much geared toward bernie sanders that was shown in south carolina but the problem with youth voters is they don't show up but who does show up older people and women and so when we look at these young voters say the 18 to 44 or so crowd they came out but only about 30 percent of them came out and i think it's also important to note that in north in north carolina this weekend in charlotte which is just above the border of the northern part of that carolina with a major sporting event that celebrates h.b.c. you athletics and a lot of young people are likely found themselves in charlotte this weekend and not in south carolina where they don't have early voting so that might have actually cut into or sander support because those folks weren't there it but who were there older black voters and black women now historical precedent suggests that the black
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vote in the democratic primaries basically in dorsey's who eventually does become the democratic party candidates to run for president come with their full suggests that biden is likely to be self bernie sanders. i don't know if he'll do that i think it's still too early to tell and certainly we'll have a better picture of this on wednesday but i think it will be probably by july when the convention is held in milwaukee a dead heat between joe biden and bernie sanders because no one is projected to have a majority of the delegates they're going to need by the time the convention comes so i think it will be a knockdown drag out fight and i think bernie sanders has not proven himself to older black voters yet i think young people are very much in thrall with his campaign but he has not been able to prove to black folks who've been around for a very long time that he is the man and that they in gym class who's seen both of these men up close for over 20 years now in door thing joe biden perhaps signals
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to black people in other places that he might be the better more reliable candidate bernie sanders who doesn't seem to have been able to build those coalitions and build that passion among this very reliable and very important boat base of voters where the democratic party and i wonder if you could explain for us for those of us outside of the united states why is it why does it appear that the black american vote the african-american vote in the united states appears to be so vastly different in terms of its concerns from the white because up until now we've seen bernie sanders trump virtually all of the caucuses in the primaries so far and yet come south carolina and the 1st significant black contribution to this process and it's completely. well i think black people share many of the same interests as white folks i mean if you look at a state like south carolina there are 14 counties that don't actually have access
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to obstetric care for pregnant women so there are issues like health care college affordability and things like that there are all these groups share but i think joe biden has proven to black people that he is able to get it done i think bernie sanders has been in washington for 30 years and people didn't really have any knowledge of who he was until these last 6 or so years so he didn't really make any overtures and he had built that goodwill with black voters and black voters are also very pragmatic i think bernie sanders has a lot of ideas and certainly he speaks to many of their interests but i don't know that black voters trust that he has the political capital to get it done as a black vote is a very pragmatic voters they have to be our very lives depend on it and we know that sometimes we can't count on just big ideas we need to pick the person that will do the least harm and also potentially do the most good that we can count on and so it doesn't appear that bernie sanders has been able to convey that message yet because a good to talk to you thank you very much. thank you. i was saying in america but
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another major story and that is a state of emergency having been declared in the state of washington after a man died there of coronavirus president trump called for calm after confirming the 1st step in the u.s. from the disease the white house also announced additional travel restrictions affecting iran parts of italy and south korea which have emerged as major hotspots the president's also considering closing the border with mexico and that's despite mexico having had only 4 confirmed cases additional cases in the united states are likely. but healthy individuals should be able to fully recover and we think that will be safe and that we can make. with great surety now that we've gotten from e.u. with this problem they should be able to recover should they contract the virus
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so healthy people if you healthy. you will probably. go through a process and you'll be fine and as our correspondent reza in jordan now reports the feste death in the u.s. from corona virus raises questions about how the disease is transmitted and we don't know how this person was infected but washington state officials did say that the man who was in his fifty's did have preexisting health conditions and infectious disease experts say those are the people who are most at risk of contracting the virus and having an adverse effect from it from becoming very very sick or possibly dying from corona virus for everyone else people who are generally considered healthy they might develop worst a bad cold or a moderate cold but their immune systems are supposedly strong enough to withstand the virus now we don't know anything more about where this man had been before he
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was exposed to the virus and that is something which infectious disease experts are now trying to determine they're particularly concerned because there have been at least 3 or 4 counties it's now on the u.s. west coast where there wasn't any prior travel to a country where the disease has infected hundreds of people notably china or south korea or italy those are the 3 countries that have the largest numbers of cases right now. and australia has suffered its 1st casualty from corona virus he was a man who became sick on the diamond princess cruise ship he was 78 and had been evacuated from the ship to a hospital in perth that's where he died the man's wife is also being treated one of 25 people in australia who are in quarantine and it brings the global death toll to almost 3000. seen has been sworn in as malaysia's prime minister by the
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king it follows a week of political chaos sparked by the resignation of the veteran nida marketeer mohammed he says the move is illegal and is calling for an urgent session of parliament saying his allies have a majority victoria gave him the reports a changing of the guard to malaysia that critics are calling the death of democracy we've seen yassin swearing in his prime minister capping it with week in the country's politics. the king announce my appointment on saturday in a move that sidelined formally. whose ruling coalition collapsed last week mad to resign this premier after his bizarre tea party which is led by me signaled it could work with the united malays national organization. that party government for more than 60 years until it was forced from power by my height is coalition in 2018 . is the party of disgraced former leader. who's on trial for corruption accused
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of looting millions of dollars from the state fund one m.v.p. . was kicked out of no in 2015 but it rallied behind him this week he was sacked for raising issues of corruption when m.t.b. but now in a sort of wrangling that's happened in the last week or so in malaysia he's joined forces with the same person in the same party that he was sacked from and issues he stood up for now he seems to be making alliances with many believe the latest crisis was also a part of a tussle for power between him and his longtime rival abraham analysts say the coalition was torn apart by infighting over who should succeed who at 94 was the world's oldest premier on earlier on saturday and was said he'd back i had his return to power but now neither man is leader and the recalls for protests might
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hear boycotted the swearing in ceremony and is determined to fight back saying he has more support to lead victoria. still to come here at al-jazeera afraid to return home mia monitoring of refugees a stocking caps in bangladesh 3 a military crackdown. what was supposed to be a day of voting turns into a day of fighting we'll have the latest from guinea. hello there more wintry weather on the way across into areas of tokyo got a real mix of rain and snow cools mostly the snow it's the high elevations we've also seen some pretty strong winds this isn't being funneling its way through the eastern end of the mad and certainly by sunday the rain and some snow possible on
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its way for the east with through syria and on into northern areas of iraq it will continue that john east was as we go through monday again that snow in the cold and those high elevations and then really throughout much of the arabian peninsula paul from the fact we will some pretty strong winds again coming down from the north it is nazi bad 24 in doha 31 celsius over in dubai and now the rains have been very heavy over the last several days particularly into namibia and it's a similar story as a go through sunday but they're also very widespread across central northern even eastern sections really over south africa just cape town where we tend to stay dry warm as well the high there 28 degrees celsius and as we go through monday again a rash of shah is really very very well scattered and again those rains quite heavy through angola and really across towards my zombie can madagascar as well all the while seeing some fairly scouted shadows again as we go through monday they could be having a particularly to areas in the north and maybe a shower in johannesburg with a cool a high of 23. gives
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you a deal dead and did you. the peace prize too soon. is this going to hurt or help donald trump's reelection chances it is very true in the face you could shoot somebody on 5th avenue and not have any consequence this is not a muslim issue this is a human colony issue join me marry her from as i put it up from questions to my special guest and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on .
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our list have a look at the top stories here and out joe biden has one comfortably in the south carolina democratic primary bernie sanders has come a distant 2nd tom styer came in 3rd but has dropped out of the race by the soaping his win will take away support from sanders ahead of super tuesday. president trump has called for calm after confirming the 1st coronavirus death in the u.s. additional travel restrictions affecting iran italy and south korea have now been imposed in the white house is considering closing the border with mexico. scene's been sworn in as malaysia's prime minister following a week of political chaos sparked by the resignation of marketeer mohammed who says dean's appointment by the king is illegal. the more than a 1000000 of mir miles rangers are still afraid to return home after a 2017 government crackdown al-jazeera is florence louis was part of
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a small group of foreign media taken on a tightly controlled visit to parts of record state where the government says it's helping. northern rakhine is still considered a restricted area so foreign media only allowed here on trips with the government we came here with governments mind we have a hurry that we have to follow and we're not allowed to stray off the beaten path and one of the 1st places we were taken to village where the door district administrators are was here he was meeting with the villagers telling them what the government was going to do to help them rebuild their lives here the hmong district administrator seen handing out cash to villages to help them rebuild their homes then we were taken to another village near this village not far from where we were and again to me 2 of villages we had to sit in a school hall it was a town hall sort of maintain it's extremely difficult to get to speak to as candidly about what life really is like here even when we wanted to break away rule
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followed by police and government minders and the government denies charges that the myanmar military committed genocide and it says that the fact that $600.00 more than $650.00. since august 2017 is proof that everything is safe here but the fact remains more than 700000 in bangladesh to feel a full 2 or 10 there's not much for the remaining gold to return to you and we've traveled south to the capital of rakhine state citrate this area was not affected by the violence that happened in 2017 but the roof remain in camps for internally displaced because of race riots that broke out between the mainly buddhist ethnic rakhine and the mainly muslim and the government says it's making efforts to reintegrate them but so far not many have been able to return home and not only that they were going to have very few rights they're not considered citizens of
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this country and all be able to go to university they're not able to access public health care they're not even able to travel out of the township without government permission. now the turkish president reptile bedouin says that he has told his russian counterpart vladimir putin to get out of the way in syria's last rebel of italy it follows the deaths of 34 turkish troops in the strike by russian syrian government forces on thursday. we killed more than 2000 syrian soldiers and destroyed more than $300.00 armored vehicles we will prove to the syrian regime and those backing them that we are capable of this only yesterday we destroyed 7 chemical depos we did not want the siskel ation it was the syrian regime the forced us into it and that's why the syrian regime must pay the price. and the turkish president says his country's borders will remain open to syrian
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refugees and migrants seeking to start new lives in europe on saturday thousands tried to get across into greece and turkish soldiers guarding vessel of the border retreated natascha good name reports now from a d.n.a. when a lot of the just days ago a coming together of refugees and the turkish military near the border would not have ended this way as crowds gathered on saturday at the crossing with greece turkish soldiers retreated amid cheers. president. juan has made it clear his forces won't stop hundreds of thousands of syrian and other refugees from trying to get into europe one of. them going to europe because i want to continue my education my stop my education in syria and work here in turkey isn't quite my salary is barely enough but his bit of you will have health care and many other opportunities. we don't have identity cards nothing hospitals
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don't treat us they don't give us medicine the bosses take our money sometimes don't pay our salaries we don't have residence permits we have many problems. there your phoria didn't last long soon they were choking on tear gas fired from the greek side police there said refugees threw stones at them in a 24 hour period ri said it had stopped 4000 migrants from entering it was sending reinforcements to secure its land and sea borders. the situation is now difficult to numb pleasant thousands of suffering people are messing up how borders they don't come here by themselves and neva ticky is pushing them away and using them we want to seem to mrs to all that we will let no one get in without legal travel documents greece has borders europe has borders and it is these borders that we greeks a god. in istanbul for a 2nd day 3 buses were provided for those wishing to take their chances at the
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border amid the crowd there were also afghan and iranian migrants this isn't the 1st time president erdogan has cleared the way for refugees to head to europe's borders since the start of the war in syria turkey is fighting for control of the last rebel held area in it live and mourning its greatest loss of soldiers earlier ones message is clear he wants nato on the battlefield with turkey and europe needs to help with the syrian refugee crisis natasha going to name al-jazeera a durned a turkey near the border with greece. they've been protests in that guinea and capital conakry following president alpha condé is decision to press spent on a controversial referendum on changes to the constitution as there is nicholas how cripple. this was supposed to be a day of voting instead it's another day of fighting and get his capital security
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forces in downtown could agree fire tear gas at protesters who responded with rocks president alpha called his address to the nation failed to quell their anger over a move that could keep him in power on national television guinea's president announced a delay in local elections and a referendum on a change to the constitution it would allow the 81 year old to run for another term and potentially be in power until the age of $92.00 love him you don't want to nevermind those who think it's a said banks to your future will show that we will come out of this stronger the people of guinea will freely express their choice to referendum and freely choose their members of parliament the vote was counselled after the bloc of west african nations and an organization of french speaking government refused to send observers citing 2400000 irregular entries in the electoral roll in addition many people had not received their voter cards the opposition accuse the. government of electoral fraud and uncalled for boycotts. we are open to dialogue so that we can
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discuss our differences this crisis is not our choice our choice would have been that laws were respected and the rule of law was applied but this is not the case. since alpha condé announced his plans to change the constitution and stay in power human rights organizations say hundreds have been arrested and at least 30 protesters have died in clashes with security forces most are ethnic for lonnie's they make up the majority of guinea and but never has a full on he been elected to power many of them feel unrepresented in politics when you have the ethnic dimension in politics and you add to that exclusion in the political process you increase the tension because no you make part of your population feeling like they are completely excluded from the. political process. the postponed vote is now expected to be held in 2 weeks and while the opposition is preparing more protest allies of condé resigning among the ministers and senior
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members of the armed forces the president is increasingly isolated and it seems unable to bring back stability to his country nicholas hawke al-jazeera. now luxembourg has become the 1st country to make public transport completely free abolishing fares for trains trams. in an effort to tackle road congestion and pollution and annual passes standard travel had costs almost $500.00 u.s. dollars travelers can still choose to pay for a 1st class the government says it hopes the change will help support people on low incomes. now a film critical of the death penalty in iran has won the coveted golden bear of war at the berlin film festival but the director of there is no evil mohammad reza loff was not there to receive his prize he can't travel from iran and faces charges of participating in social and political activities the money came there is there
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there were tears and a standing ovation when it was announced that there is no evil was the recipient is the recipient of this year's golden bear the most prestigious prize this festival has to offer a film which many of interpreted as a sharp critique of the way the government of iran governs in its own country the fact that the direct the director of this film could not be here in person meant that someone else very closely linked to him had to collect the award on his behalf obviously i'm very very awful round and happy but to support and at the same time i'm very sad because this is for a filmmaker who couldn't be here tonight and i think i can say on behalf of everybody. and it seems that this is for him. international jury reading this prize will clearly profoundly affected by the nature of the topic
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which was examined in this film the taking of life or not by the protagonists inside this film they sign according to the director of the film of the oppressive nature of the government in iran and it's clearly another sign of this particular film festival likes to award prizes to films that question the very nature of society in countries very diverse countries around the world. right let's take a look at the top stories here around jazeera joe biden has secured an emphatic win in the south carolina democratic primary with bernie sanders coming a distant 2nd by this hoping his win can take away support from sanders ahead of the upcoming super tuesday primaries. knock down. counted out like the races you're up for that day was.
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the 1st in the promise of this candidacy. thank god you are out of the democratic primary we just won and we've won big big that was president trump has called for calm after confirming the 1st coronavirus death in the u.s. additional travel restrictions affecting iran italy and south korea have been imposed and the white house is considering closing the border with mexico and australia has recorded its 1st death from coronavirus a man who became sick on the diamond princess cruise ship the 78 year old has been evacuated from the ship to a hospital in perth where he died the man's wife is also being treated for the virus one of 25 people in australia currently in corinth. well her dean yes seen has been sworn in as malaysia's prime minister following a week of political chaos sparked by the resignation of mahathir mohammed who says
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dean's appointment by the king is illegal luxembourg has become the 1st country to make public transport free abolishing fares of trains trams and buses in an effort to tackle road congestion and pollution the government says it hopes the change will also help support people on low incomes. a film critical of the death penalty and iran has won the coveted golden bear of the berlin film festival but the director of there is no evil was not there to receive his prize he cannot travel from iran and faces charges of participating in social and political activities you're up to date those are the headlines up front is next. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the trouble parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so
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blatantly wrong the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies and their effect on the world. over the past 3 months nearly a 1000000 people have had to flee for their lives in syria children are freezing to death but does the world care i'll ask a senior un humanitarian official. mockups thank you for joining me up front your the u.n. deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for syria over the past 3 months there hundreds of thousands of people have been fleeing from their homes inside of it live many of them including kids freezing to death as the syrian army advances towards them is anyone going to save them can anyone save them.

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