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very high still twice the national average rewind on al-jazeera shave. i really really not getting anywhere near. al-jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes more mass demonstrations against racism in the u.s. as donald trump says he's done more for the black community than any other president. britain's join the battle thousands turned out in central london in solidarity with us demonstrators. an about turn from a top epidemiology to admits we should have done more to curb coronavirus. and
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china wants the u.k. to back off as britain talks of offering citizenship to millions of hong kong residents. i'm joining us roscoe with sports has more on fleet speak out about racial injustice and formula one confirms this plan to start its season with 8 races in your district coronavirus restrictions in place. the u.s. president is again fanning the flames of police brutality protests as the last of night long curfews ends in the u.s. donald trump says his administration has done more for the black community than any other president in a series of tweets he's attacked media networks that have been critical of his response to aids days and nights of demonstrations following the death of george
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floyd while in police custody and one of his tweets law and order is all he says well let's go straight to our white house correspondent kimberly halakhah that has been relatively quiet in washington overnight what's the mood like there this morning. yeah it has been relatively quiet things are calm as you point out the u.s. president did in a tweet on just you know the last 12 hours or so tweet that he has done more for the black community than any other president and naming abraham lincoln one of the monuments on the national mall where in fact it was graffiti on monday evening i think the president was trying to highlight some of the things that he believes he has done for the black community in the midst of protests of racial injustice the historically low unemployment for example is something that he has been touting in
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fact he likes that tweet so much he has pinned it at the top of his feed but in terms of the protests that hasn't seemed to really counterbalance it in any way in fact there were thousands of protesters out on the streets of washington d.c. once again pushing back on the show of federal force by the federal government and for the most part it was peaceful there were people with their children there was you know of science but loud honking but not the violence that we've seen in previous nights there was briefly a bit of a flare up of tensions outside the white house fence that had been erected but it was then that some of the other protesters kind of tamp that down so almost self policing the chaos if you will now in the midst of all of this the trumpet ministration we understand had floated the idea of taking control of the d.c. police force this is not something they followed through on but we certainly know that there was national guard as well as active duty that were on the ground in
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washington d.c. and the reason that the u.s. president can do this and not in other states is because washington d.c. is in a state d.c. stands for district of columbia that means it's a federal enclave that the federal government essentially has power over if it wishes to take that power so this is something that the president can. do in emergency situations and has chosen to do we understand that the secretary of defense is the one that made the call to put those soldiers on the ground something that did not sit well with the protesters as we mentioned just a 2nd ago one of the tweets that the president put out simply said law and order but what options does he have now when it comes to these protests well i think you've hit the nail on the head in terms of what's on the mind of the president he is frustrated that he is seeing these cities that in his view are spiraling out of control new york city for one example where he used to be
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a resident where he has battled openly with the city's mayor the city's governor rather the state governor of both are democrats at times they have been very critical of one another the u.s. president for his part does have the ability to quell civil unrest using an act 200 plus years old it's from $1807.00 s. and the insurrection act essentially allows the president to dispatch the military to quell unrest it's not used very often the last time was back in the early 1990 s. by a president who was trying to quell the riots in los angeles so the u.s. president for his part has not gone there yet but he's vowed to in his speech from the rose garden he said he wants to dominate the streets solve the problem for these governors if they don't solve it themselves and as you point out he seems to keep reminding them of that with that tweet law and order there are a whole group of white house correspondent kimberly thank you very much indeed.
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well there was an overnight curfew in many big cities as people defied restrictions to continue their protest against racism and police brutality after the death of george floyd and minnesota where floyd died in police custody just over a week ago the mother of his daughter has held an emotional news conference roxie washington says he was a good man and father john hendren reports from minneapolis. a week after george floyd to death little spark that left american cities in flames roxy washington is demanding justice in the business at apple for. he with. well we're agile way. he will never walk down. echoing the crowd of protesters at the sight of george floyd's death floyd's family wants all 4 officers involved in his detention to be
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charged with a crime and not take. any of the killings because they want justice. just his for him because he was the norm out of well in about it sure. this is the group. at the state capitol in st paul were thousands of protesters meant to keep the pressure on their government . minnesota's governor says he wants justice and he's launched a discrimination probe into the minneapolis police department to get the investigation will review in p.d.f. policies procedures and practices over the last 10 years to determine if the department is utilized to semi practices towards people of color the governor says he wants the protestors to know their heard what we keep hearing from protesters on
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the street is that they don't trust the police they want the police to stop discriminating against african-americans and even black professionals tell us what happened to george floyd here could have happened one of them a need to change the system in the more recent arliss say they experienced discrimination on a daily basis but they worry most about their children encountering police i worry a lot. they're young adults. they're trying to stay positive and be productive in their everyday life. law abiding citizens but unfortunately we. can't change your complection or you're in the city. you don't always get an opportunity it's a theme heard over and over at this site known as the george floyd memorial they come not just for george clooney but for those who might come next. john hendren al
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jazeera minneapolis. one of the more striking protest images from the past few hours was the sight of thousands of people marching on to a busy road in the city of portland in oregon they lay face down on burnside bridge with their hands behind their backs for 9 minutes in remembrance of george floyd in new york but he began making arrests soon after its curfew came into effect thousands of people poured onto the city's streets in the early evening mayor bill de blasio has refused to bring in the national guard saying it will only worsen the tension. a 4th night of curfews ended in los angeles thousands defied stay at home orders to march through the city arrests have not stopped demonstrators from protesting against predominately in the u.s. more than 2700 people have been arrested since protests began. and thousands of people have gathered in london's hyde park in solidarity with the protesters in the u.s.
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organizers say they're also marching against systemic racism in britain mass gatherings are still banned under the u.k.'s coronavirus restrictions by prime minister barak johnston said he understood the anger after george floyd's death and he supported the right to protest. i said baby's live in london hyde park i said we've been looking at some pictures from the wire services at the moment it seems like a very big crowd there what's the atmosphere like. well this is a large crowd just midweek here the several 1000 people here now what's interesting is that this demonstration wasn't organized by. u.k. not a concern about the coronavirus social distancing but this has been organized over social media by many different activist groups people showing solidarity and support in what's happening in the united states that this. people have been chanting floyd's name and also taking the knee but it's not only about the united
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states people of his state this also an issue here inside britain people are more likely to get stopped and searched have been a number of deaths in police custody of people and of course it was the death of mark duggan who was shot and killed like were used in 2011 that led to protests here in the capital but also across the united kingdom now in a very rare statement police chiefs have issued a statement saying that they are told by the death of george floyd and of also justice but also that more needs to be done to tackle racism here in the u.k. so several 1000 people here midweek in the united kingdom which is very rare and showing this solidarity and support with what's taking place in the united states said live for us in london's hyde park where there's a protest going on in the moment in support of the u.s. protests against police brutality as well as racism in the u k. sweden's top epidemiologist has criticized the government's response to covert 19. says too many died too soon and sweden should have done more
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unlike other countries in europe sweden didn't impose a strict lockdown and kept many businesses open in the 1st weeks of the crisis instead citizens were left to practice social distancing on a voluntary basis at least $38589.00 infections have been reported and there have been nearly $4500.00 deaths an official inquiry is expected to be launched prime minister stefan wolf and says the government will appoint a commission before the summer paul reese is live for us in the city of. this is really quite a u.-turn what's been the reaction to this. yes rob it really does look like a big u. turn on 1st glance just for context under the state epidemiology list is a huge celebrity now in sweden much more of a celebrity than any civil servant could really expect to be it's his word people
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hang on the daily calm press conferences around 19 about the situation in sweden and in fact it's his agency the public health agency that the government's accede to 1st to in making decisions sweden's approach to covert 19 so it's actually him who's made the decisions. so what he appeared to be saying in his interview on tuesday with swedish radio was that's the approach hadn't worked and they should've done things differently. now because a lot of surprise in sweden because every day he's been saying the same line that this is our approach we're sticking by we think this is best so you hearing something different from that cause a lot of surprise in the rest of the world as well so much so that the swedish newspapers today are carrying english versions of the story in which she says well
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wait a minute i didn't really mean our strategy was incorrect or i really meant was that we could have done things better i've been saying the whole time but. in hindsight we would look at our approach and see what we could have done better and what he does think could have been done better in sweden is to protect people in old people's homes which have been absolutely devastated by this virus so there is a recognition that the health agency under understand could have improved the strategy in hindsight but they're definitely holding off now from saying our approach was wrong well is there any indication that the probe procedure that sweden is going through at the moment is likely to change i mean what is the latest on the situations we. there doesn't seem to be much indication that it's going to change and i think people like 10 you know would say that is in a way the beauty of their approach while other people are coming out of lockdown wondering what's going to happen wondering if cases are going to spike said on
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tuesday as well that sweden has got over the curve they don't have to change anything now they hope that what they do will just mean the the curve keeps going down but the situation in sweden really depends on what age you are and where you live if you live in stockholm you've got a far far greater chance than anywhere else in the country of being infected and again 10 years in the state would say well maybe our approach has helped protect the rest of the country from the worst effects of the virus but also if you're if you're over 70 of the 4500 deaths in sweden about 4000 of those are from people over 70 and about half of them in old people's home so this is where sweden and 10 you know really recognize that they've dropped the ball in this approach and that's where they're saying they would have done things a lot differently from the start to protect these really vulnerable members of
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society does paul roos live for us in marble paul thanks very much indeed. i'm going to head on the news hour including lessons from the pandemic the south korean capital shares its experience with 40 cities around the world. what initially gave me the idea what it was really ice cream trucks and food vending trucks and serving the people one doctor's mission to help black americans during the covert 19 pandemic. spanish football and its fans get ready for the restart with some new merchandise that's going to come up with children the sport. china's warning the u.k. that interfering in hong kong's affairs could backfire that's after prime minister barak said the u.k. could offer millions of people in hong kong a route to citizenship if china imposes a controversial national security law beijing argues that foreign influence is
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a threat to hong kong stability and prosperity and listen to this has been echoed by hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb who's in beijing to meet chinese officials. well i can only say that the international community and some of the foreign governments at the. data and double standard in dealing with this matter in commenting on this matter it is within the legitimate jurisdiction of any country to enacting laws to protect and safeguard national security. usa is no exception u.k. is no exception so why should they object to recess for even condemn and take sanctions against hong kong and the people's republic of china. the people have access to what johnson's called a route to citizenship for those with a b and old passport which sounds for british national overseas the b.l.o. was issued to people in hong kong what it was still a british colony before it was handed back to china in 1997 it's
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a travel document but it doesn't automatically give holders of british citizenship our allow them to live or work in the u.k. around 300000 people hold the passport but nearly 2900000 people in hong kong are eligible for it that's about 40 percent of the population. well let's get the reaction out of the u.k. paul brennan is in london for us these numbers are very big and the conservative party traditionally has been somewhat against mass immigration how does this breakdown. first of all the conservative party of course is as you say they're against unregulated immigration but there is a clear moral and. legal obligation for this group of people these british national overseas they have essentially british passports so the government here in london clearly has an obligation to look after them and i think the issuing of this
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message by 1st of all the foreign secondly dominic robb and emphasized and reiterated by the prime minister himself corus johnson shows i think it's the normal discrete lines of diplomacy seen the options seem to be narrowing china has pressed on with this national security law despite opposition and the foreign service here in the u.k. has grown increasingly concerned about that now what are they offering well 1st of all at the moment be a no passport holders that's 30350000 of them can come here for 6 months without needing a visa the offer now is for to be extended to 12 months and to have a right to work here in the u.k. and potentially have a pathway to citizenship and what boris johnson has gone even further than the foreign secretary is saying is that if he's gone to extended to those who are eligible to apply for that passport so not just the current passport holders but
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those eligible to apply and that number some 2 and a half 1000000 people in hong kong so you can see this is a really major shift in the government's stance and one that has drawn sharp criticism from china the british government has gone ahead with it anyway so you can see they're not tempers necessarily but hackles are right. rising on both sides paul the prime minister is going to be facing prime minister's questions this afternoon one would imagine that he thinks the plan for hong kong is going to be a positive thing and would hope to be answered questions on that i'm guessing it won't be quite as easy for him. well i mean promises questions we just had it and it was dominated essentially by the confrontation between the opposition labor leader. and boris johnson it's become a bit of a weekly appointment of you frankly boris johnson's normal blustering style faced by a forensic examination by a guy who has a background as
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a court lawyer and is used to picking up parts in consistencies in witnesses stories what he's concentrated on sic is down today is the government's stance on testing on the track and trace system and they've got the prime minister rather exasperated at times accusing kist aamer of essentially creating an atmosphere where people were distrustful of the of the of the government's approach and frankly i was pointing out that the inconsistency is in the government's own statistics doing the job for him he said the government should not miss that mistake scrutiny for criticism paul thanks very much indeed china withheld vital information about the outbreak and waited more than one week before publishing the genome of corona virus in january that is according to an investigation from the associated press which is funded the world health organization officials heaped praise in beijing in order to coax more information
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between to you reports from beijing. when news of the virus in january the world health organization lutie perspire we were very impressed with the level of engagement of the chinese government at all levels. but while the un agency praised china in public privately officials were reportedly frustrated by a lack of transparency an investigation by the associated press concluded that chinese health officials not only withheld information about the outbreak they also delayed distributing the card $900.00 by several days chinese health officials told the public that the possibility of human to human transmission over the w.h.o. tweeted in agreement but behind the scenes agency staff were apparently skeptical $100.00 portraying china positively as w.h.o. director at honda did during the meeting but she didn't ping in late january was
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said to be used as a strategy to gain more information china's foreign ministry says the associated press report is untrue. things the epidemic broke out china has been acting in an open transparent and responsible manner we have stayed in close in the song communication cooperation with the w.h.o. since the beginning of the outbreak china's foreign ministry has not any cover up or accuracy when it comes will forming the public about the run of hours these new allegations deal and added blood to both beijing and the world health organization at a time when the agency is struggling to maintain support chinese officials last week donald trump said the u.s. was terminating its relationship with the. accusing it of being china centric chinese president xi jinping has meanwhile pledged $2000000000.00 to the organization over the next 2 years funding which analysts say could increase china's influence over the agency. and inside of you
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a chance to efficient within the u.s. really difficult balancing they have to make sure the. same time not alienating other. even. china has agreed to a review into the origin of the pandemic once the outbreak is under control and investigation which many will be scrutinizing when and if it does happen. al-jazeera beijing government in his disproportionately killing african americans to make matters worse testing is scarce in poor largely minority neighborhoods where one doctor in new jersey is addressing that issue i was on the went to meet him. trying to stop the spread of corona virus not from a hospital but from the back of a van it's dr alexander salerno who is offering mobile testing for 1000 infections as well as antibodies taken in medically salerno when
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a family health clinic for 30 years was dismayed by the inaction of authorities and the near non-existent testing in poor communities hit hardest by the by. he took matters into his own hands and spent more than $40000.00 to set up a pop up clinic his team tests more than $100.00 people a day in economically depressed neighborhoods of new jersey what initially gave me the idea it was really ice cream trucks and food bending trucks because you know in urban areas. are very much part of summer time and so we came up with the idea. is that not everyone could get to a doctor's office and they really shouldn't be going to emergency rooms in hospitals for testing because really you know created a major backlog so it's kind of like bring the testing to the people this is
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a high rise apartment of senior housing everybody that lives here is elderly and particularly vulnerable to. many don't have the ability to go very far to get tested and now they don't have to they just walk out their front door to doctor salerno. get their tests done and the results come back within 48 hours and he turns nobody away even if they can't afford to pay burnous holmes was trying to get tested way back in march but the site was an hour away in a wealthy community and he could never get an appointment. when i have. they 1st site was in bergen county and we can and we couldn't go over there to get tested. i had to wait to get closer because i mean you start proving all it takes to get tests for people who need it the most is a place to park in. east orange new jersey.
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officials in india have urged people to stay home because of a tropical select phone that's hit 2 states on the west coast at least 100000 residents in the. states have already fled their homes for safety and in mumbai dozens of patients are covering from the coronavirus had to be moved it's the 1st time in more than 70 years a cycle has touched down in the area. it's time for the weather here is jenny with the latest on tropical storm cristobal yeah christabel we have another one in a completely different region hence the name as well as. saying in satellite this will give you an idea we're in central america and this is it this is cristobal and this is now indeed a tropical storm but before it was it already produced entrenched amounts of rain flooding fairly widespread throughout southern areas of mexico damage has been done the winds of course have been strong but a lot of this damage has been done by the force of a flood water so this is a storm system it is expected to make landfall later on wednesday it's been moving extremely slowly south southeast and as i say that is the name crist now we have
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still got these tropical storm warnings in place all the way along this coastline and they have come peachy and the winds right now 90 kilometers now there's a stay winds gusting higher than that and in fact the winds extend as far as 95 kilometers those sustained winds from the center of the storm has a say moving extremely slowly towards the southeast and then through thursday it begins to change its course this particular storm it doesn't really move very much for the southwards and begins if anything's moved to the north and this is then the forecast track as we go into friday it's going to push back out into these warm waters in the gulf of mexico and off then the track has it moving northward across as i say these very warm waters in the gulf of mexico all the while it will continue to produce some very heavy amounts of rain very widespread across mexico again across in dakota mala el salvador and in some areas the could be in excess of hoffa a meter of rain so rob this is a severe storm in terms of what it's going to produce when it comes to the rain so
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there will be flooding mudslides and landslides in that obviously as it develops jenny thanks very much indeed still ahead on al-jazeera still seeking justice a year after of violent crackdown in sudan killed $100.00 people died in sports with joe sri lanka's cricketers return to a training camp with a difference. ferguson has been in turmoil at least 2 of my police are searching and there are not like times you're. about to make a political hole in my city where you promised a representative back in 9091 to me it was all how hard you wanted a god without a gun my brother was killed my hood don't look no different the any other hood out here damn michael brown was keel me i saw my son in 15 years and i felt like you know at this my time to stand up. this is the most and bill for us i'm just not
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willing to accept what some stand so legislation can i get through that's going to speak to a major need for my community this bill identifies used violence as a public health epidemic last year we had $200.00 murders the ripple effect of violence when it comes to the youth it stretches far why. are you willing. to move. you're watching all jazeera reminder of our top stories in this hour donald trump says he's done more for the black community than any other president than his
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democratic presidential nominee joe biden he blames media networks for giving who he calls terrorists thugs and losers a platform to speak to. china is warning the u.k. that interfering in hong kong's affairs crewed backfire that's after the british prime minister said the u.k. could offer millions of people in hong kong a route to citizenship they have china imposes a controversial national security law. both of president donald trump visits to christian sites this week have been fraught with control over sea leaving clergy members outrage after his trip to st john's on monday trump on the 1st lady visited a shrine in the capital on during the late roman catholic pope john paul the 2nd catholic archbishop of washington d.c. has denounced the move as baffling and reprehensible meanwhile the u.s. defense secretary says he was given no notice before president trying to let tend to a widely criticized visit to sin john's church on monday in an interview with an american
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news network mock espers says he expected to inspect the damage church and talk to the troops esper also says he had no idea protesters were forcefully cleared from a park for trump to make his way to the church stood by for photos with a bible in hand at the damage building. ruins of former director of global engagement at the white house under president obama and he's now running a consultancy called global situation room he's joining us now from washington d.c. as always thanks very much indeed for your time bret how significant is it that mark white house insider would actually choose to admit in a t.v. interview that he didn't know what was going on. well i think you see an effort by secretary esper and others in the administration to put some distance between themselves and what was let's be honest a pretty awkward photo op and as well it was just
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a terrible situation where you had the military you had police gassing protesters on the doorstep of the white house so that the president could engage in that photo op i think this is a spurious effort to try and rid himself of some of the blame so where does the president go with this because it sounds as though this has been a mistake it has misfired so we put it that way is this somebody within the white house that regards having a press a photo opportunity for the president as more important than people's rights to publicly protest oh sure there are those in trump's base and in his white house that see this as a victory that he was acting strong and despite obviously denying americans who were peacefully protesting that right they believe that this is the right optic
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to have at this moment unfortunately and who are your audience around the world i think it's important to note that sense these protests have started we have yet to hear a national address from the president of the united states which you would expect from our leader at a time of national crisis and i think people both in the republican party as well as the democratic party have been waiting for that and instead we just got this very bizarre incident in lafayette park in front of the white house this is give us an indication of where the decision making is taking place within the white house are we seeing this now being done predominantly by a very very small group within the white house. it does indicate a rather erratic decision making process as you suggest and one that is really concentrated amongst a few close advisers to the president let me just go back to secretary caspar his
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comments it is remarkable it is astonishing that you would have a secretary of defense in gage in what's a pretty risky maneuver with his troops involved and he had no idea how that operation was going to go down and that's just unacceptable from the days when i was working on the national security council but it's always good to get your views in this we appreciate it thank you very much good to be with you ok laura barton money is joining me now with more on line reaction on this what are people being saying about this yeah thank you very much rob well one of the biggest trending has tag since the protests began has been live. millions of social media users have shared this movement hatched online and to support their for the mass movement has also organized protest banas on its website and if we can just get to it now one of them just says enough is enough. well the hash tag has also been used to share
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protests images from around the world and there's a moment where hundreds of protesters in homewood illinois lay on the ground for more than 8 minutes to remember george floyd we're still working towards getting those are now one of the biggest recent social media trends has been the hash tag blackout tuesday the day later provokes a mixed reactions this is when almost 29000000 instagram users posted a black picture on their profiles to commemorate george floyd others displayed hands or hearts of different colors and some images of george floyd or the hashtag started with 2 black women from the music industry but quickly gained traction and many took to social media to question why black people should black out their profile and be silent or film director other developers says she would
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rather look at black horses right now the look at black squares and adding with past this kind of symbolism she also says she thinks the hashtag should encourage white people to learn to talk read and think about racism and an award winning activists and podcasts host brittany packet coming and ask whether this hash tag could have been a tour to silence black voices if you are black and your plan was not to speak at all today i am worried. this whole game of telephone made this thing confusing or not is actually co-opted with the music industry planned on doing and were implemented amplified mailinator voices and man black people to do. digital protest suppression. but there's also been plenty of misinformation on its website social media platform tick-tock was accused of censorship and this after videos
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with hashtags black lies matta and george floyd were marked with their reviews it apologized on its websites and with the blackout profiles there's also been a wave of 4th claims circulating on social media using the hash tag d.c. blackout about half a 1000000 people shared tweets the authorities have blocked internet signals in washington d.c. the claim appears to be baseless and net block the fight the monitors global internet connectivity says there was no social media blackout or back to rope laura thank you very much indeed and are you going to be checking that out for us as time goes on but thanks very much. french court has approved the transfer of over one genocide suspect to a u.n. tribunal for this in cuba is accused of bankrolling the 994 massacre of at least 800000 people in 100 days 'd his defense team had argued he was too elderly and frail to be transferred but the court ruled the 84 year old's age and health
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condition were not obstacles ok for more on this story let's bring in that tasha botha in paris it sounds as though there have been a variety of different issues being argued over here just if you can just sum them up for us natasha and take us through where the case is going to go now. yes often. as you say a man accused of financing their aunt in genocide in 1984 was found by this paris court was told by this paris court that he could be extradited to face an international tribunal in. tanzania now this was a hearing but it's by no means the end of the process because the defense lawyer the lawyer is for could say that they will take this to a higher court they will appeal they say that he's 84 years old his he's frail his health isn't very good is certainly not good enough they say for him to be transferred to another country and they argue that he should face justice and
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france now their appeal could take at least 2 months so for the time being. will remain here we spoke to some representatives though for rwandan associations in france of today's decision though by the court and they certainly said that they welcomed it they say that this was a very important step even though they worry that if the process takes too long with these appeals that could be 84 years old may not make it and they wish that he would see justice because they say that he was a man who was wanted for more than a quarter of a century he was at large for that long until he was arrested in paris last month he was one of the main people who had been searched for by international police in connection with the rwandan genocide and they would of course like to see him face justice natasha thanks very much and to those natasha botha live for us and powerless. libya's u.n.
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recognized government says forces loyal to warlock are losing ground in areas leading to his stronghold of. the government troops carried out at least 10 air strikes earlier targeting an airport they're trying to capture in southern tripoli of those fighters launched an offensive to seize the capital just over a year ago. is in tripoli for a small who just bring us up to date with what the situation is but also remind us if you could why this airport particularly is so significant. well rob it is indeed very significant where i'm standing now not very far from the the all the inactive international airport where the clashes are going going between the government forces and forces loyal to the warlords plea for help to the who are positioned inside the old inactive international. the importance of that airport is that have that his forces have been in control of it over the past 11
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months in iraq and from there they have been targeting the government forces locations in many areas in southern near tripoli as you know it's a very well. it's a very well fortified and the government forces say that have to visit forces inside the airport to take in shield inside their very strong concrete building is inside the airport now the airport and its vicinity is the last stronghold of house for us forces in southern tripoli the government forces who are now moving on have to his forces in and around the airport say that if they manage to be captured the airport and it's a vicinity then they can. on have that as forces in the city of thought who are south of tripoli the last stronghold of half the forces in the worst of libya where if have those forces lose the city of their own are then they have no place and the
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worst of the country now we've been getting reports from government military sources in the vicinity of a to whom that city also saying that the government forces have been besieging the city from the main they erections are now. get engaged in fighting would have those forces in the vicinity of the city now the government forces who are fighting against her forces in the vicinity of the old inactive international airport in my left in our not far from here say that the major advancement. they have made is mainly due to the decrees of have to as forces air strikes due to their jamming systems e on it that have been set up by the government forces in the vicinity of the old inactive and now tripoli was now on my left and the airport is to tripoli is on my right now and they got there the airport is on my left the government forces say that only one thing that is derailing that advance on
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a house that is force locations is the land mine is planted by the russian mercenaries from the back in a group in the vicinity of the old inactive international airport including get it is it is areas not heard thank you very much indeed authorities in saddam have put a barricades outside the military headquarters in the khartoum crowds are gathering to mark a years since a violent crackdown by security forces killed more than 100 people and injured 700 others the protests or president or model bashir removed from power but many victims say those who replaced him are yet to deliver justice al-jazeera is what morgan has more. it's been a year since his son arbaaz was killed and his family can't bring themselves to open his closet to clean out his belongings he was killed in a deadly raid by sudanese military on a pro democracy sit in at the army headquarters in sudan's capital hot zone and now the few belongings he leaves behind are what the family cherishes most remotest of
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. we found out he was shot in the attack when someone saw the video on social media and told us he would lift the house when he heard about the attack then he went to the hospital to look for him we didn't know he was did until we started searching in the hospital then we had to begin the long process of filing cases of the police station to receive permits to bury the body. of the june 3rd attack brought an end to the september started in early april it was what prompted the military to overthrow the country's longtime president armadale bashir after months of protests after he was ousted the sit in continued as protesters demanded the military hand over power to civilian rule witnesses say the attack which was led by the paramilitary rapid support forces on the unarmed protesters was a total onslaught at least $120.00 protestors were killed on the day of the attack on the sit in but they were not the only atrocities recorded rights groups reported women and men were raped and sodomized and witnesses reported bodies being thrown into the river and many who were present on the day of the attack remain missing
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but a year after the attack some have criticized the committee and say the investigations are slow and justice is being delayed and. when we took to the streets in december 28th scene we demanded freedom peace and justice saddam can't go forward without peace and freedom but more importantly it can't go forward without justice back in the room that was once have basses his sister says the government needs to remember the price paid by many to bring it to power i will have and i'm going to hand the government came to power through blood people sacrificed their lives and now there's no justice that has been delivered the people on the streets haven't forgotten what it took and more move on without that justice and accountability accountability that one year on since the attack remains elusive for families who have lost their loved ones he will morgan al-jazeera heartsome. still ahead on al-jazeera a change of pace for this brazilian football veteran as he makes his way to his new club that's coming up with job.
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business leaders as well to buy no bra spot. for.
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business leaders is both to buy no bra spot. for the. well at the start of this news hour we were talking about how the us president has resorted to threats of force as a way to control the on the rest in the u.s. previous presidents however sought to balance military might with words of pull passion and calm and as i did you'll cast to reports some say that balance has so far been missing from this white house in the days following the assassination of civil rights leader martin luther king jr in 1968 riots broke out in more than 100
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u.s. cities including the nation's capital during that time virginia and her husband ben kept open the doors of their d.c. restaurant where dr king had frequently dined i do remember. city of activists everybody coming in. and it was just that kind of place the restaurant survived 3 nights of rioting eventually armed troops helped to quell the violence across the country and president lyndon b. johnson told an aide i don't know why we're so surprised when you put your foot on a man's neck and hold him down for 300 years and then you let him up what's he going to do he's going to knock your block off. those words were oppression alan i'm on. the image of a white police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man in minneapolis killing him touched off protests now gripping the nation
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52 years later we're having this same issue. that's a real tragedy. it's really a tangible history remember as president johnson's response to the 1968 riots as a show of force coupled with an articulated effort to address the country's racial problems in contrast president trump has sudden little about the underlying issue of police brutality toward black americans his public statements have focused on law and order labeling some protesters anarchists and terrorists when america needs to hear in a time like this is we need to become a family aircraft a family in equity is our straight jacket he say let's just get by and this crackdown and the equality and humanity. america's racial agony has simmered since the nation's founding in slavery and boiled over many times. in 1902 rider set los angeles
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ablaze after a jury acquitted by police officers who had brutally beaten another black man ravi can ironically it would be king who would call for calm after days of unrest and we are getting it when we get along and president george h.w. bush toured the damage then and told the nation the federal government would continue pressing for justice this wispy there were rallying cry of good and decent people for their say. for all our sakes and hope is what president barack obama gave to a community and nation in 2015 after a white supremacist killed 9 people at a black church in south carolina obama gave the eulogy for one of the victims but it was this powerful moment that was a call for unity i'm a the. the great.
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the. historian say grace is a necessary element that past presidents have shown in times of national turmoil an element so far missing from president trumping. castro al-jazeera washington. and it's time for the sport there's joe rob thank you very much for n.b.a. basketball legend kareem abdul-jabbar hopes the killing of george floyd will awaken people to the horrors of racism protests continue around the u.s. against racial injustice and police brutality floyd an unarmed black man died 10 days ago after a policeman knelt on his neck for many 9 minutes a number of sports stars have spoken out including abdul-jabbar he remains the highest point scorer in n.b.a. history it's been a lot of talk about how horrible the rioting and looting is. that that is no way to demonstrate but people should think about the fact that. alan kept trying
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to demonstrate peacefully what did he cut he got ostracize he lost his job he was black well that that was a peaceful protest about an issue that is very real and no one could it could acknowledge that we've got to get to the point where we take these people seriously and acknowledge the wrongs that they are trying to identify and rights and one thing that we can do all of us we can go out and make a friend of someone who doesn't look like us you know we have to understand what people's lives are like people that we don't spend a whole lot of time with on a regular basis but we have to get to know our communities who are our fellow americans from one champion lewis hamilton is one of the sports stars has spoken out saying he has overcome with rage over a fence in the u.s. meanwhile the new f one season has now been knocked in to start next month with a crisis in europe all without funds well rice's in asia the americas and middle
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east should be confirmed in the next few weeks f.n.c. a chase carey said that a driver testing positive for current affairs would not automatically see a race canceled. safety as priority one it we wouldn't be going forward if we were not highly confident enough that we have the necessary procedures necessary expertise and necessary capabilities around us to provide a safe environment and to manage you know whatever issues may arise and individuals having been found with a positive action will not lead to up cancellation or race you know and we sometimes will have you know we've encouraged teams to have procedures in place that if an individual has to be put into quarantine and we have say a hotel room so if somebody has to go into quarantine we have an ability to quarantine individuals if they're found positive at that hotel. the return of japanese baseball could be in doubt of to 2 players tested positive for current virus of the country's most famous team the young yuri giants in tokyo of called
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off a pre-season game because of the tests but it's not known if this development will delay the start of the season which is set to begin on gene the 19th in empty stadiums meanwhile a japanese footballer has also tested positive with the jail set to restart on july the 4th. surely it is cricketers are back in training after 9 weeks of lockdown 13 players have been selected for a special residential training camp in colombo with tight coronavirus restrictions it's mainly bowlers who have been chosen as they need more conditioning to get much ready there staying in a hotel for the whole 12 day camp could host a series of one day t 20 matches against india starting later this month but has not yet been confirmed if the tour will go ahead. meanwhile 3 west indies players have refused to travel on their tour of england in july subject to government approval the 3 test matches will be behind closed doors and venues with hotels nearby that can be turned into
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quarantine bubbles. sanish will restarts next week and clubs are finding ways of turning new coronavirus safety measures into money making merchandise oscillators just one of several clubs to release branded protective facemasks for fans their official stores started selling 3 different designs of reusable masts at $20.00 each became compulsory went outdoors in spain in late may with mainly european clubs seeing an opportunity to make money after losing millions in revenue during the pandemic shutdown. the portuguese football league gets back underway later on wednesday with leaders porto looking to build on their one point advantage as they visit family at how the match has worried local authorities after port i phone said they gather outside the stadium to support their team even though fans will be allowed in but will not be allowed inside his coach says it will be strange to play in an empty venue vice versa different places different is that it will be different without fans it will be missing the necessary come to moments like the
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ones we put in a good solid a solid without all of oil vinegar and salt it's probably not the same thing but if we're hungry we will eat anyway so we're hungry to play you were hungry to achieve our title we need to get in there as if the stadium was crowded with supporters now it's like changing gareth top brazilian footballers leading from the front and helping the country's poor veteran striker fred is on his way to rio to rejoin his former club prevents but he's covering the 600 kilometer distance from his previous home in belo horizonte on 2 wheels the 36 year old who signed a 2 year contract hopes to help around $4000.00 families on his cycling trip companies sponsoring him will give out for food kits for each kilometer he writes fred will be fit to phenomenal tired when he gets to rio and could start training soon as some of the rio clubs have already got non-contact practice underway or there's no use for now more later rob joe thanks very much indeed and that's it for me robotics and for this news hour i'm going to be back in
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a moment with more of the day's news i'll see you then buy for doubt. the latest news as it breaks the only warning on evacuation same draft prevented many deaths to an operational phase the struggle to rebuild their lives with detailed coverage on calm finds it so cold in the middle of a deepening cold war between china and the united states from around the world by the government close to bankruptcy many say such initiatives will not be enough to deal with what prime minister has found dead warns could be a major food crisis. she chips strong man is ruling within a fire and faced and the silence from his allies is deafening the us was perfectly happy to trade off the march for sea for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even their own citizens have fallen victim to his repression
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executions torture or censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london or man in cairo on al-jazeera as bombs continue to rain down on afghanistan civilians are paying the ultimate price they are completely forgotten and no $1.00 is listening to these people while those responsible operate with impunity this is about owning our mistakes this is about things guy and this is the accountability in a nicely on account or has anyone from the u.s. military been in touch with you since the night no not for klein's investigates of gonna stop civilian loss in the us air war on a. al-jazeera
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. and. more mass demonstrations against racism in the us as donald trump says he's done more for the black community than any other president. i'm above us and this is all to save a life from doha also coming up britain's join the battle thousands turn out in central london in solidarity with us demonstrators. an about turn from a top epidemiology list who admits sweden should.

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