tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera June 5, 2020 4:00pm-5:01pm +03
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every generation has a higher purpose. ours. this is al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson this is the news on live from doha and coming up in the next 60 minutes. libya's un recognized government says it's taking control of walt khalifa huffed as the last major stronghold in the west of the country. kneeling in respect memorial services are held in the u.s. for george floyd whose death in police custody sparked worldwide protests. 3 years
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since the blockade of qatar by its neighbors we'll look at how the dispute is being played out online. all creatures great and small we look at the world biodiversity plays in our planet on the unprecedented threat it's now facing. i'm going to go with the sports. and so on. and i will do better and i will be part of the solution. and quarterback drew brees another apology after being criticized by fellow accolades for his comments on u.s. protests. and we begin this news hour with developments in libya where fighters linked to the government of national accord are celebrating after retaking the city. that's the last stronghold of wallowed khalifa haftar in western libya about 65 kilometers
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from the capital tripoli on thursday the u.n. recognize government announced it had regained full control of tripoli as forces still hold a lot of swathes of the territory in the east and the south of libya head as the latest from talk. as you can see here. the government forces are out and now it will control. when. absolutely victory the defeat of half its forces in the city of. now by losing. the major loss to some homes in western libya as you know that. swift. of this attempt at whom the swift seizure of this city off the huna is mainly attributed to the turkish military support for the government forces and also there was drool of. russian medicine rees from the bagnall group have been fighting
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alongside after forces now. this city the city afternoon at about 75 kilometers south of the capital tripoli is very strategic very significant from here after his forces had a central command over the past year and from here russian military expects i don't agree with him arace and egyptian military experts have been supporting have to they run the battles build on the battles in southern tripoli from the sets of central command and the city of the who now from ted who now have to his forces received ministry enforcement reinforcements and also military supplies over the past year well earlier i spoke to someone commenting who's the editor in chief of the online magazine international interest he says the capture of to her no means
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the end of hostilities months long offensive to seize tripoli. has those offensive on no trip really had 2 key strongholds into it was launched from 2 key strongholds the 1st was on what the air base that was taken not too long ago and the 2nd was. after the fall of a lot of those forces knew that they could not hold on to tripoli offensive. began to withdraw some of their troops and don't want to or the news from taiwan or comes after the g.n.a.t. went to moscow and after the meeting between and again and said i was the president of the g n a where it's believed that turkey and russia are now negotiating a framework of cooperation so i want to today it's unclear whether it fell because of the military attack by the d.n.a. forces or whether this is part of a negotiated exchange between the russians and between the turks with regards to libya but in terms of its significance it means the end complete end of half that as a tripoli offensive and the military solution that has been offered to those powers
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that wanted a military solution is no longer on the table and we're back to the status quo as it was before the beginning of the tripoli offensive east and west this summer you say that this is significant in terms of the balance of power by to have to are still control significant parts of libya itself so what happens next are we likely to see some sort of resurgence from halftimes forces. i think it's important not to get carried away with i don't know there's a lot of people very happy with that and of have there is a military solution and anybody who wants to negotiate a political solution should celebrate the fact that half the tripoli offensive has failed however as you said it's important to put it into context this is the end of half that is bid to completely win in the civil war this isn't what we're seeing today is a return to the status quo the stalemate that we saw for many years between east and between west and this prospect of an military campaign eastwards is very
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unlikely and the reason i say this is that the biggest dynamic is not necessarily in the military terms the biggest dynamic is the change in power brokers it's no longer eat you it's no longer european countries it's no longer u.a.e. or egypt or these countries it's now russia on the eastern side and turkey on the west and say almost a repeat of syria in the sense that these are the countries that are going to be pushing the parties to decide what the future of libya should look like and that's why we're hearing talks of partition talks of autonomous regions talks of a status quo whereby the west will be turkey influenced d.n.a. and east will be too broke influenced russia so in other words what we're seeing today is not a complete halt alternating of the dynamics of the war we're seeing a return to the status quo that was in 2001000 before the start of the tripoli offensive and the road ahead to find some sort of solution to the war is still very long and if anything even more complicated now because of the of the ferocity of
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the international struggle a resurgent u.s. a very angry france a confused germany and italy that is scrambling russia which is asserting itself turkey which is now the dominant power in other words it looks far more complicated and far more complex than it looked through 2 or 3 years ago. ok let me take you to the u.s. where 10 nights of nationwide protests have given way to a song or memorial service for george floyd his life was celebrated in minneapolis by civil rights leaders and family members while thousands of others across the u.s. paused to remember him his last words i can't breathe become a rallying cry against police brutality and systemic racism john hendren reports from minneapolis the minneapolis police chief took a knee is the hearse bearing george floyd past a barrel of respect for the man whose death at the hands of his officers launched a national movement.
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inside a minneapolis memorial service george floyd was remembered as a family man a gentle giant who would doored his 6 year old daughter giana now fatherless it's crazy. all these people came to see my brother. that's amazing to me that he touched so many people hawt. he was also remembered as the spark that set off often fiery protests in more than a dozen cities across the u.s. a movement the reverend al sharpton urged mourners throughout the country to continue its time. to stand out in charges made and say good job and meet. this crowd of hundreds of people didn't come with invitations they came to pay their respects to george floyd and there's such a demand to do so that there will be multiple memorial services one in his state of birth north carolina on saturday another in his former hometown of houston on monday and then a funeral on tuesday. as the memorial took place
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a key demand of the floyd family was fulfilled 3 of the police officers who detained floyd in his final moments faced hearings for new charges of aiding and abetting 2nd degree murder the 4th officer derek show been who knelt on floyd's neck saw the charges against him elevated from 3rd degree murder to 2nd degree a charge that suggests the killing of floyd was intentional but for those mourning the 46 year old man the charges mark just the beginning my brother's gone. with the floyd nice to live soon as floyd family prepares to take him from his adopted home city for the last time the demonstrations that began when he uttered his final words i can't breathe continue john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis. ok let's go to our white house correspondent kimberly halakhah kambli the have been some incidents overnight but in washington d.c. it's been mostly peaceful but now the d.c. mayor wants the national guard i would tell us about that.
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that's right there has been pushback between the between back and forth between the u.s. president and mayor mariel balancer a democratic mayor of course the present a republican president for some time but it really has been intensified with these protests the argument being from the d.c. mayor that this is a street in a city that has been militarized and she doesn't want these soldiers on the street now the reason the u.s. president can put federal troops in the district of columbia is because it's not a state it's a federal enclave which means while there is a mayor the federal government has oversight is able to oversee the jurisdiction so the mayor is pushing back any way she can with any legal means she can and the latest effort has been to push the national guard troops staying in hotels in washington d.c. she says that they will have to leave in that they will be evicted now it is
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important to point out that well these trips have been here the rioting that we've seen in other cities has for the most part disappeared in fact there wasn't even a curfew in washington d.c. last night and it has been peaceful well the protests continue there hasn't been the rioting the looting the this sort of destruction of property that has been occurring in other cities so the argument is there's no need for these national guardsmen anymore but they are made from the white house says yes there is the reason it's peaceful is because these soldiers are here and here believe the president's heading to the u.s. state of maine today a time when new job numbers or road what's going on there. yeah we had expected more bad economic news so everyone was surprised including the president that the unemployment rate in the united states didn't increase it decrease in fact there were 2 and a half 1000000 jobs created last month in fact the u.s.
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presence was so surprised he took to twitter as he always does and called an impromptu press conference that will be taking place in the next hour to talk about these jobs numbers and of course he congratulated himself on twitter and then lashed out at the presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden saying the only one that can kill this comeback is sleepy joe biden the bottom line is the president is always made the argument that he is the president that creates jobs that he can turn this economy back on was a strong economy until coronavirus hit and now he feels he has the ammunition and of course he's going in front of cameras to talk about that he'll also beat as you pointed out traveling to maine that's important to note because this is a battleground area just like some of the other previous visits he made this is to a swab factory that helps with those testing kits for coronavirus expect that he will use this opportunity this photo opportunity to once again tao what he sees as success and why he believes he should be reelected for another term in the white house security hole could give yourself up to trial lawyer to his committee thanks
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very much indeed. well the new york state to police officers have been suspended after a video showed them shoving a 75 year old man to the ground it happened in the city of buffalo as police were clearing the area where the protest was finishing. the elderly man is in a serious but stable condition in hospital the city's mayor says he's deeply disturbed by the video well the state governor condemned the incident as quote utterly disgraceful let's talk to kevin powell he's a filmmaker and a civil rights activist in these joining us now from brooklyn in new york via skype kevin i want to talk to you about the idea of the video that we've just seen from buffalo there of course the 75 year old man who was pushed by police was a white man it's not just black people or people from other ethnic minorities who are affected by police brutality is it. no it's not we're talking about
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a reckless disregard for all human beings this is a white man a white brother 75 years old he's an elder a senior citizen and the problem is the way that police officers are trained oftentimes violence is the 1st course of action as we saw with your george floyd in minnesota as you saw it was elder man in buffalo new york as you see was having a lot of protesters i mean just last night i was on the floor of one of my friends was in a bit of a protest in the box here in a bit of a live feed the protesters were peaceful and the police still rushed them and still arrested several people it's and brutalized people and it's all on facebook live isn't even almost like there's no care for how people are being treated. as you're talking we're watching a rerun of the video that features the incident involving the george floyd and of course when incidents like that do make it to the national and international media that sparks the whole conversation but i would imagine there are many more incidents which are of course not caught on camera give us some experiences that you've been through or that you know about of police that strong police action
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shall we say which have not been caught on camera. well you're absolutely right i believe i've been both a writer and civil and human rights activist in america for 30 years and so i've literally documented many cases of police brutality racial profiling that never had any were never videotaped never filmed where police up killed people with people have been paralyzed because of the police even when i was 15 years old as a kid as a youth in this country i got it i was assaulted by a police officer you know mean a young boy had an. altercation boys fight but it was nothing bad it was no nothing dangerous at all but the police officers in a face no repercussions whatsoever and so we need to understand unfortunately in our country police officers are not looked at it as they say they are which is to protect and serve but instead of kind of like an occupying and hostile force to our communities and we're seeing it now even as people are protesting peacefully in many places everything is not rioting and looting or to put is this as being put
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out there by some people it's actually many protest many acts of civil disobedience and the spirit of dr king and the spirit of gandhi and spirit of nelson mandela and still police officers are coming insulting people and that said that we have a very serious problem with how police officers are trained in this country and some police would argue that they are formed at least in part by the experiences and the treatment that they get on the streets from a wide variety of different communities is the work to be done within the communities to try to change that aspect of it. i think the work needs to be done on both sides but i think that you know when you talk about the police you know how are you trained you know how to relate to people of all different backgrounds you have a working understanding of all different types of people you know doesn't matter if they're white black brown yellow red whatever their background is you have respect for human beings because our taxpayer dollars are paying for you to protect and serve not to us for us to live in fear of you that's the problem and in terms of the community the community is actually reacting to
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a history of behavior that we feel have been highly problematic this is that's something that's new the system start with george floyd this has been going on for many many years and what we're seeing now with this mass outrage in america we have seen as kind of protests and since the 1960 s. during the days of the civil rights movement because i think that when you look at it now people off backgrounds and because of social media are saying my gosh look at what has happened over and over again enough is enough which spies exploding so the police work for us we don't work for the police we need to be very clear about that and so the people who really ultimately be accountable be brought back to the table to be retrained and also listen to the community and our concerns are the police officers we really appreciate your giving us your time kevin powell thank you very much and david thank you. many more ahead on the news including how another type of virus during the pandemic is in danger and people online in turkey via scams and phishing sites. and disney world becomes the happiest place on earth
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for basketball fans as the n.b.a. announces a restart that's coming up with joel in the sport. attacks in democratic republic of congo have forced more than a half a 1000000 people to escape in just 9 months the united nations says some of the attacks could amount to crimes against humanity more than 1300 civilians have been killed there in almost the same time period the keevil region is plagued by attacks by armed groups and retaliation by the congolese army. now it's been 3 years since an air land and sea blockade was imposed on qatar by egypt back rein and its neighbors the united arab emirates and saudi arabia but despite recent efforts to deescalate tensions there is no end in sight for the worst political crisis the gulf region has ever seen. reports. may the
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20th 2017 donald trump arrives in sunday arabia his 1st trip abroad as u.s. president trumps aim was to have wealthy gulf nations join the u.s. bid to defeat i still to help and the war in syria and contain what the u.s. described as iran's growing influence but that was a short lived hope. 4 days later the website of qatar's news agency was hacked and fabricated statements posted attributed to the emir of qatar critical of u.s. policies in the region the washington post subsequently cited u.s. intelligence officials saying the u.a.e. orchestrated the hacking that was just the beginning on june the 5th saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt severed diplomatic ties with qatar and it posed
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a land sea and air blockade which continues until now the qatari government strongly denies allegations of supporting extremism qatar also condemned a list of demands from the quartet as a breach of sovereignty. the 13 demands included big relations with iran closing a turkish military base and shutting down the al-jazeera media network there is no appetite at the moment in the international community to to get involved in the gulf crisis the covert 19 condemning it has really consumed pretty much any policy making capacity in western capitals and other international capitals everybody's looking at dealing with that pandemic any insecurities across the middle east and the gulf crisis just one of many crisis in the middle east have been put on the back burner this is the man widely seen by qatar as the architect of the blockade
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mohammed the crown prince of all the b. and effectively the ruler of the united arab emirates ben's date and saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin said nan both strongly oppose calls for democratic reforms that have gained momentum in the region since the arab spring uprisings 9 years ago this is the law and we're going to do that too small too little on the challenges are huge we're talking just not about the. challenges and that outs that we are talking about 19 additional well. you know you can army x. . then that next social environment and all of these as well as of course the hard security all of these going only that it all the region works together as well you know. qatar has ruled out withdrawing from the
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g.c.c. and says it welcomes talks with its rivals but only when the blockade is lifted. according to the wall street journal trump has recently called on sandy raby and the u.a.e. to and that ban on qatari airlines using that as space but this was turned by the saudis and emirate is who believe the risk riches of their only leverage to extract concessions from qatar the roll cage has left lasting wounds for qatar raise they hope their gulf libels will mend the diplomatic rest one day but on the quartet remain divided over a wide range of issues that reconciliation may take a long time. well as you heard there one of the incidents that led up to the blockade was the hacking of qatar's news agency 3 years on this information networks are still active spreading rumors that tend to jump from twitter to
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newspapers printed in blockading countries most are aimed at describing qatar's ruling family in the past few months for example qatar has denied unconfirmed reports it was planning to leave the gulf cooperation council before that there were rumors of a coup attempt all based on a fake video in april saudi owned all out of the sky news arabia and b.b.c. arabic all reported that a qatari dissident had been killed in a dog prison all have since deleted their reports the qatari government told the a.f.p. news agency that the 1st decision from ation campaign back in 2017 when i was unprecedented but that people no longer take them seriously well let's talk to al-jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashar here in doha moment as always good to have you on the program let's talk about the descent from a sham campaign 1st of all what do we read into the fact that it seems to be still pretty intense 3 years on. well rob because there's nothing else
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they've lost all their playing cards. whatever they gambled on sale they wanted to we can cut it but that emerge stronger they want to isolate it it tend to have even but the relations with the outside world was so strong partners throughout the region and beyond. they coude both that washington were joined them washington not not washed the best support also western european capitals as well so their only thing that is left for them to do now is basically to diffuse this operation that's something that they've done but a long time i find betty particular interesting aspect of it is that they actually were projecting their own stadia and their own savings in general so for example when they talk about it this isn't buying in qatar it's because i didn't just die west here in saudi arabia by firing next to you know i'm 68 the project it's a piece that thomas and i wanted to build and the whole world reported to talk
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about that oppression in cuts while going to pressure actually go round and the whole ward reports so they really sort of best put it that the only thing left at this point in time 3 years later is for them to. broadcast and because this information fake news and no one believes them anymore how much is the blockade about the original issues that that started and how much of it is just waiting for a time of which people of which everybody involved can actually come out of this and say face. you know it did take a year or 2 and now in a 3 year insights we could actually understand the origins of this conspiracy. beyond the 30 in 40 demands that they've made. those demands are basically a watered down version of what they're looking out of the us of course as we spoke
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before my favorite point of the 13 demands is the 3rd point which actually calls for the closure of i'll just see why would they want to do that well because of as it was the voice of the arab spring and that's something that they detest and they find that the stabilising to the 'd seams but be that as it may 1 could in the end cite or 3 years this still the importance into 3 major objectives for the conspiracy against one was the original occupation of cut it by military force that the emir of kuwait sad that this was somehow undermined by the united states and other regional powers so the instead of occupying qatar they moved into the possibility of the mini think it through shocking that and why they want to do the many controlled occupying what because they wanted to take over it's once as we all
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know that is one of the richest countries in the world it sits on one of the most important gas well in the world and they thought by taking control of our thought that they would be taking over a quarter of trillions of dollars in the coming decade 'd or 2 and why would they wanted to take over the fortunate but that while there some of them are actually quite rich like the u.a.e. and saudi arabia because they wanted to fuel their regional crotches regional project is to kill the spirit of the i don't spring to support with her family she . that's why the c.c. regime egypt and make sure that their thumb anything scheme along with israel by the way it would be handsome refinance and where would they get the money from it would get a problem taking all the wealth of this city they had it planned if you will.
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they couldn't dominate cut they couldn't take over it's wealth and they can't there and the wheels on the arab spring so basically means they're left with their wounds to lick i'm able to climb down the tree because as we always say in the gods it tends to be a difficult treat the climb down on it's not just that easy for them on are and so on so course so it's just dragging on. unnecessarily for them to just accept the fact that they've lost and for them to stop sucking if i sing the unity of the gulf region and the other who are all for them to the past some really devilishly seems because in the end of that they cut that has emerged stronger if america and they really should accept the result of their doings well in the shadows algis it is a senior political analyst well and thank you very much. it's time for the weather is rob we're off the yucatan and get to see how much more christabel has to give it's cause a lot cristobal is in this massive cloud here now it was followed as
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a proper tropical storm from tuesday until about the middle of wednesday and then just dissipate into that mass did make landfall there on the the gulf side of the top of his or in the camp which is state of company in mexico and caused some damage the winds were particularly strong but there's been extensive flooding in fact there is still extensive flooding throughout the yucatan the what his place now is like to be on the caribbean side if you have time because that's where the onshore breeze is masses and storms as you can see the figure is have been quite spectacular actually in the last 5 days to deeds in the north of the of the prince's sea nearly half a meter of rain and he hasn't yet stopped for any in fact the likelihood is that christabel will vary form is a proper storm so expect to see is tropical storm watch issued in the next few hours i would think it's not a very strong wind but it's got a lot more rain to keep the 2 half or 250 millimeters up to half
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a meter 1st in the kitchen then the gulf coast of the u.s. so as it winds up then 1st of all the winds will get strong and then move just briefly closer the rain will follow so it's going to be a wet and windy weekend on the u.s. side of the gulf rob thanks a lot still ahead on al-jazeera. i actually had interviews about like every right before the pandemic head and of course that's not happening we look at the side effects of the coronavirus pandemic for america's unemployed loose by britain's biggest airline is thinking about suing the government plus. what would it say for one of us to be right about police brutality robbers. and of all players call in the league to address racism and injustice in this social media video that's coming up with joe in the sport.
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special coverage on a. we want to remind of our top stories this hour there are celebrations on the streets of telephone after the government said it's taking control of the last stronghold a wall in the west on thursday the u.n. recognized government announced it had regained full control of the capital tripoli . and more oil services have been held in the united states for george floyd 10 days of the black lives moto protests been halted as tributes have been paid including in minneapolis where he died in police custody 4 policemen have been
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sacked and charged in connection with his murder. the u.s. economy gained $2500000.00 jobs in may and the unemployment rate dropped to 13.3 percent new figures release comes amid the phased reopening of businesses across the country during the corona virus outbreak. while unemployment has fallen in the u.s. last month more than 25 percent of people aged between $16.00 to $24.00 were out of work that is highly jocasta reports from washington some fear the effects will last a long time. giovanni pam a men know and made joseph spend a quiet afternoon at the dog park normally they're surrounded by other people's dogs in the care of their dog walking business but today it's just own i'm a college student now so i been going to school. full time and then this was part time in the pandemic and everything just went down so we lost
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everything panameno says the dog walking paid for school tuition and her car now she's asking creditors for more time to pay off debts her friend joseph recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in public health she was counting on the dog walking money to apply to graduate school and now i'm probably not going to be able to go to grad school for a few more years till i kind of raise the money to be able to go young americans work in great numbers in the service industries shuttered by coded the labor department reports more than a quarter of workers aged 20 to 24 are now unemployed for those young would be workers the great depression is here i was searching for jobs like every night stay up till like 4 am a lot of job searching a lot of like e-mails saying i'm so sorry like we just got rid of. a lot of our stuff and we can't afford to hire anymore economists agree the impact of this bout of youth unemployment could be more than just temporary studies show that entering
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the workforce during an economic downturn can depress earnings for a life time pam a man who's studying hospitality says even completing her degree is difficult now there's no way to complete the in person internships that are required i actually had interviews about 3 right before the pandemic hit and of course that's not happening. the cancellation of many government. in summer work programs for young people has only made matters worse but in washington d.c. the program is moving online the young workers who normally have summer jobs at sports camps and childcare centers will instead work from home offering tutoring and tech support. one. or 2. we're all. or and it's
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a learning but during this coronavirus summer the lessons for young workers may be of patience bending off creditors and overcoming disappointment. castro al-jazeera washington in the u.k. breaks it is back on the agenda and things are not going well a week of talks between british and european officials has ended in deadlock and recriminations on both sides the eaves chief negotiator michel barnier has warned that unless there's some compromise from london on the transition period the hard drugs that is on the horizon here don't cause you to pull the sheen if you just live has not been any significant progress since the beginning of the negotiations and we can't go on like this forever the british have refused any extension of the negotiation period but if there's no joint decision about such an extension the u.k. will leave the single market and the customs union in the 7 months on december 31st along sleighs live in dorchester in the south west of england and is in the middle
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of dealing with coronavirus the bridge that talks run into a brick wall. when you can hear the frustration of can you and michel barnier his voice in the complaint the europeans have kept making all this year while they've been doing these virtual bricks it's all because of the pandemic is that they say well that the brits the british say they want to deal then they keep putting these obstacles in the way to make the deal impossible that's what bonnie just just said then and june was supposed to be the point in time when there had to be a framework organized in order for an orderly deal to be concluded by the end of this year when the pandemic began everybody assumes that they couldn't continue the talks both bonnie and david frost the british negotiator both got the coffee virus themselves so i want to seem a bit extension of boris johnson said no we're leaving one way or the other and he seems remarkably relaxed about the prospect of no deal or some in the meantime these supporters of that no deal bracks it's of coming out saying look nothing to
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be worried about we're dealing with a pandemic why can't we handle a no deal brett says and they point to places like this and what's coming out of the ground to support their case. it's once pick itself and they have to get a move on because this company produces a 1000000 bags of salad leaves a week for years workers from poland have harvested it but just as this season began old yes space closed and they couldn't come faced with a crisis on its hands the farm did something it has never done before british people to do it i was pretty determined i was going to lose the crop say yeah it was if it was on the cards yeah there's no doubt if you don't get the team in and you don't have the stuff the machinery that we harvest with can operate this team then is made up almost entirely of british workers like james he's a fitness instructor up with gyms closed and a wife and baby at home he needed the cash yeah i mean we're outdoors all day long so we're probably in the best environment not in h.s.
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well i think he's you know so in those confined spaces with the a.p. and all the rest of it so i. think for myself very lucky to be out here and of of good job. the house the idea of a british land on me takes to world war 2 and that patriotic spirit underpins this current t.v. ads as well it's part of a campaign called pick for britain and they even recruited royalty for it now i do no doubt that the work will be on glamorous and at times challenging but it is of the utmost importance of the height of this global pandemic you will be making a vital contribution to the national effort so british workers are helping feed the nation in the middle of the pandemic supporters of rex it will say if we can do this we can do anything disruptions of food supplies has always been one of the strongest arguments against a no deal brecht state and yet since the pandemic came here there's been panic
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buying queues for hours to get things with supermarkets and yet the food supply chain has remained remarkably resilient quite by accident it seems a pandemic might have given. the british government's an argument as to why a no deal breck's it might not be so bad off the rolls. but if these people go back to their old jobs next year then who does the job then the u.k. wants are strict numbers of seasonal fruit or vegetable think is to just 10000 when in reality the country needs 7 times that many the estimate is be more than 70 thousands maybe over the whole season over the country so you know. we just need to make sure that the arrangements are there so that if we do need people to come in they can. withstanding there are very many people on both sides of the english channel who say it would be the heights of madness for the u.k. to push ahead with bret's its hole in the middle of the biggest health care crisis for 100 years the collision of bricks in the virus promises to make the british
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government's position even more controversial yet lawrence with the talks deadlocked now what does the future look like over the next few months or so for brags that. well that there's now push the deadline back to october which is really the last ditch it has to be if you take boris johnson it's his words but the problem for the u.k. the meantime quite apart from the question is whether they can put food on the table in the middle of a pandemic in the events of individual breck sits next january is about the manufacturing industry rob sebelius with you because because of the pandemic there have been huge company off a huge company announcing thousands and thousands of job losses every single week there's not a job in sight in the u.k. at the moment and highly skilled people that makers like aston martin and aeronautical companies like rolls royce are all being laid off and there's and there's no way to go this week miss san which employs several 1000 people in the
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north of england said if there's a no deal breck's in there's no trade deal where shutting down in the u.k. and moving out as well and so you have this collision of the pandemic and the no deal bricks at the start of next year tracing vast numbers of job losses and the government simply saying we're going to have to get through is because as best we can i mean that's going to be increasingly difficult as a message to sell a country this is struggling as much as this one as long as they bring your sub to date on the situation in the u.k. from the southwest of england lawrence thanks very much and the parent company of british airways says it's considering a legal challenge against the u.k. government's quarantine rules all travelers to the u.k. are required to quantitate for 14 days from monday or face a hefty fine i agee says baucus johnson's government did not consult the industry before introducing them so you're going to go has more from london. the pandemic has been absolutely catastrophic for the aviation industry but what's really
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concerning the chief executive officer of i agee the parent company of b.a. is that they simply will not be able to it will affect incredibly their chances of being able to carry out business in july and flying up passengers in july. willie walsh the c.e.o. . really criticized this as as a blow to the company saying it would in effect torpedo the company and that it was an irrational decision that the government had taken to impose this 2 week quarantine on travelers as well now he is also being backed up by a rival low cost carrier the c.e.o. of ryanair said that what the government's quarantine plans were in effect nonsense and really they need to have some other kind of plan in place otherwise it could affect the aviation industry in the u.k. for many many years to come and be a.b.a.
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ssion industry is course crucial to the u.k. economy given trade and also the tourism industry here brazil has overtaken italy to record the 3rd highest number of covert 19 deaths in the world that's after it reported a record daily death toll for the 4th day in a row more than 1400 deaths were confirmed on thursday that's pushing the total above $34000.00 brazil is latin america's worst affected country president general also noddle has been widely criticized for dismissing the risk of the virus saying on tuesday that death was quote everyone's destiny. coronavirus restrictions mean people are living more of their lives online banking or shopping or using government services and scammers are ready to exploit that in turkey police cyber crime unit has seen a massive increase in the number of phishing sites so the reports from istanbul we
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can look down this travel bans closing businesses and staying home these measures to contain the koran a virus across turkey have led to an increase in attempts by cyber criminals to exploit people as many sort to make payments online the government say's phishing size imitating government institutions corporations all banks have tripled in 2 months. film director morata clicked on the what appeared to be a sponsored advertisement for his bank on instagram that promised a 5 for your credit card for your refund. if. i thought i was using my bank's app i even received a security code i'm kind of an obsessive person so i called the bank to check whether my application was on track to my surprise it was all fake the bank said i got swindled they froze my accounts canceled my cards but $1600.00 were already gone to launch legal proceedings against such operations and turkey police need the
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approval of a judge but courts have been closed since late march and will not reopen before mid june and that's believed to have encouraged the fishing criminals. during the coverage crisis phishing sites have been exploiting the need for governments and schemes set up to support the stay home campaign so they're imitating the most trusted platform the east date after which people used to apply for state aid but the real app never asks you for your payment details. some the police say they dealt with 30000 cyber crime cases in 2090 but in the 1st 5 months this year the number reached 20000 the internet makes it easy for phishing criminals to operate from servers or wrote. cyber police say as more people use it homers the digital crimes are rising they say they are doing their best to catch phishing swindlers but the most the fact of defense is a security conscious and user 68 percent of people in turkey spend an average of
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nearly 3 hours a day on social media and while other forms of crime have fallen by a quarter during the penn demick it's helping cyber crimes escalate c.n.n. kosovo al-jazeera a stumble start ahead and i'll just say to find out why the tokyo olympic games tribute set for a further delayed joel explain in sport. business later it's just what you buy no brass power.
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the u.s. the new orleans saints quarterback said he still would never support those who knew the national anthem before games calling it disrespectful he was strongly criticized by teammates and issued a written apology on social media is now followed up with this video i wish i would have laid out what was on my heart and regards to the george ford murder. a model of 3. years and years of social injustice police brutality. and the need for so much reform and change in regards to legislate and some of the other things to bring equality to our black communities. i'm sorry and i will do better and i will be part of the solution and i am your ally meanwhile n.f.l. players have been asking the league to address racism and inequality in a video posted on social media on thursday what would it take for one of us to be
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right about the police brutality. adele back in jr and patrick my home's are among those calling for the national football league to admit that they were wrong to silence plays a protest peacefully like quarterback colin kaepernick who was cut off to nailing during the national anthem in 2016 they also want the n.f.l. to specifically say that black lives matter. the n.b.a. is set to return in july at disney world in florida off to months out because the coronavirus pandemic league board approves a $22.00 team plan to finish the current season it seems are only to train and play on flights to keep them in a quarantine bubble each team will play 8 games to determine speed before entering the playoffs the league is targeting a start date of july the 31st with the champion crowned in october but now just waiting for the players' association to approve the plan obviously the most significant changes from when we shut down our play without fans you know we're
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playing a central location we're going to play a campus where as soon as. the players are going to live. and remain there throughout the competition everyone's going to be tested we're working through the logistics with the players but most likely daily there's so much chaos in the world right now i mean even before the racial unrest we're experienced and now that let's let's come as close to normal as we can and this close to normal as we can is top 8 in the west indies playing 4 rounds of 7 games so then that's what we intend to do and our goal is to create a champion. but the announcement meant the end of the season for 8 teams in the league including the atlanta hawks and ultimately the end of an incredible career for vince carter carter is the only player in n.b.a. history to play 22 seasons you don't announce that this would be his last with the current virus shut down it means the hawks lost to the new york knicks back in
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march was the 43 year old's final. take your 2020 lympics organizes my have to wait until early next year before deciding whether to go ahead with the games that's according to one of its executive board members the olympics have already been postponed until 2021 because the current virus but now the board member. says they need to monitor the situation until early 2021 to decide whether to hold the games next year despite that a further delay beyond 2021 has already been ruled out barcelona tried to calm their fans fears over an injury to lean on messi the spanish giants have confirmed their star player has a thigh injury and has been training away from his teammates but they say he should be ready for the league's restart next week barcelona lead by 2 points as they faced me yorker in their 1st game since the coronavirus stoppage 2 but if he could play as are in hospital after the team boss was stoned by angry fans after goalless
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draw against john della on thursday for schools primarily is the 2nd of europe's major football leagues to reopen after suspension during the current virus on just the 2nd might bag there were no fans inside the stadium as you can see the coaches were doing their best to stay safe both teams went close but in the end had to settle for girls' draw the result puts been fico ahead of bitter rivals porto on goal difference. unlike in portugal france's top play decided to end the season early representatives filial and army and took their case to france supreme court in paris on thursday and were relegated with 10 games to go . they missed out on a champions league place although they may have had difficulty anyway catching up 10 points to secure qualification a verdict will be around next week if you look at. this situation is unfortunate because the leagues in england have received the biggest championship
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in the world we can say germany resumes easily resume spain and portugal resume many countries i think this decision has been taken much too quickly and these decisions are just. over in england chelsea have reportedly signed german strike a team or vernor who scored $25.00 goals this season for all the light sake in the bundesliga is released clauses in the region of $68000000.00 chelsea's women's team of also been confirmed as champions after their season was cut short and in the u.s. m.l.s. clubs are also back in training houston dynamo new york city f.c. and david beckham's team into miami were among the teams on the training ground on thursday major league soccer has been suspended since march because of the current virus pandemic alright that is all the sport for the outback hero joe thank you very much indeed now it's world environment day when the united nations urges world wide awareness and action to protect the planet scientists are warning that human activity is destroy a wildlife habitats and an increasing rate they're calling for greater efforts to
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protect biodiversity everything from the largest animals to invisible microbes the clock reports. the wonders of the natural world are an end to these troubling times especially the extraordinary life in our ations like the millions of golden jellyfish here in the marine lakes of polo a unique subspecies evolved to harvest energy directly from sunlight all the myriad diversity of the world's coral reefs where 25 percent of marine species live but here too there's another biomass which dwarfs everything else combined and it's invisible to the naked eye it's the microbial life of aussies and it's found everywhere from the surface to 4000 meters down and these unseen microbes include astronomical quantities of viruses that attack marine bacteria all part of the web of life in the sea. in fright every
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liter of seawater contains no viruses that there are people on the planet 95 percent of all life in the oceans by weight is comprised not a fish or of whales but of microbes. and it is these microbes that create 50 percent of all oxygen on the planet every 2nd breath that we breathe. the problem is from invisible lifeforms to some of the biggest piece on the planet biodiversity is threatened by environmental destruction for the african elephant it's more than just poaching for the ivory trade we're also facing big big challenges when it comes to happen that accusation transformation for larger industries and of course the biggest impact that is less talked about which is the increasing population of africans and therefore the competing nature of land between people and it's when the ever decreasing frontier between wildlife and
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humans is breached disease like corona virus can jump from animals to people. out of the 7800000 species that we have on the planet about 1000000 species are under threat from extinction and that's a lot because the nature is this finely attuned by diversifying its human system where each one plays each species plays a role in the bigger puzzle how it 19 is clearly one of these messages that we need to understand and heed very fast that you can't continue to undermine and encroach on nature and expect nature to be stable it's apparent that we're at a turning point experts say the era postcode it must be one where we act to save our environmental heritage or will continue to pay a heavy price nick clarke al-jazeera. and that's it for me rob matheson for this
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news hour i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news. as protests rage over police brutality and corona virus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the u.s. elections on a. nowhere in the world is the primary forest disappearing faster then it is instead of. bending the will fly we have been called genius. and it totally is and traitors that i was a place that is now like the child who has fallen into the fires flowing river into knots in. one man's fight for the rights of indigenous heritage a time to swim
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a witness documentary on al-jazeera. rewind i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry but date on the best of al-jazeera is documentaries the struggle continues apart from by the till now for his distance reminder to news with australia's lost generation ever cover a frank ocean is a really important issue suicide writes do a mind very high still twice the national average rewind on al-jazeera it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with eventual capacity for 4000 covered 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites on the way the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertised researchers say that huge gap. testing capacity that the government is now trying
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to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. libya's u.n. recognized government says it's taking control of warlow 34 huffed hours last major stronghold in the west of the country. i'm about to send this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up signs of recovery donald trump credits himself as the gradual reopening of the u.s. economy adds more than 2000000 new jobs. 3 years since the blockade of qatar by.
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