tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera June 12, 2020 6:00pm-7:01pm +03
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exposing the optics try to manipulate the rhetoric but they cannot manipulate the listening post your it's like going to the media which is the era. this is al-jazeera. when you're watching the al-jazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. india's top call criticizes the deplorable state of coronavirus and medics threatened to resign. and deep divisions in brazil a beach protest against the president's handling of the pandemic provoked outrage.
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also burundi's top court rules that the president elect can be sworn into office after the. libyan government forces surge into the strategic city of sirte we look at the barriers to striking a ceasefire with the warlord after. the supporters formula one race is a. poor and become the latest to be cancelled because of coronavirus. welcome to the news a dire picture is emerging of how the world's 2nd most populous nation is coping with the coronavirus india has nearly 300000 cases but the number is climbing rapidly and the health system is struggling the supreme court says conditions are deplorable for the patients in the worst affected states have been reports of people being. treatment of bodies not being disposed of properly elizabeth problem
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begins our coverage from the capital new delhi. hundreds of doctors in hyderabad smain hospital for coronavirus patients on strike just one of many protests by health care workers across india a doctor here was attacked by relatives of a patient he had just declared dead who would rush towards us and they just throw the children plastic plastic sheet at me and it did was broken it was hard to my left and i didn't i was very scared and. i still was going to throw it at me doctors in hyderabad want the government to enlist more hospitals to treat that 19 patients nurses in india's leading public hospital protested for 8 days in delhi until the all india institute of medical sciences promised to improve working conditions even further there are nearly 300000 cases
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and more than 8000 deaths along with a public health system that has faced years of cutbacks india's public and just because you know an image is that i mean it in. the for its limitations its good streams its enough. for the whole world to see the watch says his father is interested in proper treatment in hospital but he was admitted here yesterday and a doctor came to check all the time since and no doctor has come to check on him my father is 60 years old and a heart patient he has a severe cough and a fever. his uncle died from the corona virus at the same hospital this week come out it was a good death but we cannot sort of talk about it we kept on walking from the more to the hospital and with great difficulty we got the body and did the funeral he too was admitted here there were no beds available in all of delhi we had to put in a huge effort to get him limited hear the words to the. it is
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a delhi and mumbai to have some of the best health care infrastructure in the country but reports of people being turned away from hospitals continued and here in delhi there are discrepancies in the number of deaths municipal council said they have buried twice the number of patients and those being reported by the government this week. delhi's chief minister says they are expecting more than half a 1000000 cases by the end of next month because. she has are by that there be 1st of july we will leave 80000 birds this will be a huge challenge. year delhi try to restrict the territories beds to its residents but the central government has overruled that decision and the supreme court says the situation facing patients is deplorable and asked the worst affected states to explain why the people aren't receiving proper care elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi. the u.k.
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is also battling to contain the pandemic amid signs it could get worse than the current virus our number which indicates how contagious the diseases is that nearly one when it goes above that level it means each person with the virus will in fact more than one another is in london for us to sort of clarify exactly what's going on lawrence that certain concern seems to be growing certainly about the operates in england england sorry. well it isn't it isn't really that it's getting worse to come in across across the whole country it's more or less static and not point $70.00 and the concern is the reproduction rates across the piece going above warn because that would wind would inevitably mean an end to any relaxation of the lockdown in wales has actually gone down in the south west of england it's the only part of the country that listed where it may be. around warren but then again the
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southwest only had 3 deaths yesterday out of a total of $200.00 in most other places estates static and so it's not really that it's getting noticeably worse it's just that it's not getting better and that's really the problem because. at a point in time when i mean economic figures today were absolutely abysmal a 20 percent fall in gross domestic product in the 1st quarter of the year it's only if the reproduction rates get a lot better and the proper proper signs at the epidemic is it is improving that they can get industry back so it's it's it's very very slow that's the problem and of course this impacts on the economy and it seems to be taking a hit in terms of die warnings of a recession. well yes you know as i was saying they they've lost the equivalent of 20 years economic growth in march and april alone this year which is staggering frankly the odd thing about it to be honest is that it seems
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have been priced in this and the in the stock markets in this country actually went up today and boris johnson said well i was expecting all this as well the problem in this country is the insistence on the 2 meter rule and an economy that is largely services based restaurants bars that sort of thing it's impossible for them to reopen where there's an insistence on people staying 2 metres away from each other but at the moment they have to continue with that they say because the operators and going down and so you're out of the circle lawrence leigh in london thanks very much for the update now the u.k. 3 biggest airlines have launched legal action against the government's quarantine policy which requires 2 weeks of self isolation on arrival in britain british airways easyjet and ryanair say the rules introduced on monday are flawed and will have a devastating effect on tourism. well let's move to latin america now where the pandemics been devastating for indigenous people but some are fighting back hundreds of
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tribes living deep in the amazon rain forest are difficult to access or test for the disease the yellow here shows where the tribes live and the green protected land some of the most vulnerable are in brazil many have blocked public access to their villages but rights groups say that they are still twice as likely to die from the virus that other brazilians in mexico the indigenous population of 12700000 often use community radio to share information about covert 19 in remote areas. the population of 80000 guarding the entrance to their town they have just one infection and in colombia's cloud forest 10000 members of the tribe have also set up guard posts now in the 1st report in our series on covert 19 the impact on indigenous people we're taking a look at brazil rights groups say that deaths among the most vulnerable tribes have increased more than 5 fold in the past month and with brazil having the 2nd
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largest outbreak in the world doctors fear the virus will devastate indigenous communities as to reason by reports. more than 100000 people from more than 300 tribes these are members of brazil's indigenous communities corona virus is spreading fast among them and now they're struggling to cope with disease. yeah they have a specific word for indigenous people for salmons for us to perform our rituals and our medicines but there's nothing like that here we have to go through other hospitals for referral when you get there they don't put on the documents that we're indigenous. this hospital or man hours have a designated area for treating indigenous patients but doctors say the biggest problem is not here. but it is one of the diseases spreading into the interior and now it's going to hit the municipalities the river. communities and the indigenous in the case of indigenous people they'll be brought here and why do we have an
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indigenous ward because we need to learn to treat people that are different differently and to value what sounds from the amazon with the state with the highest concentration of indigenous and brazil the highest concentrations of indigenous in the world and geo saying that death toll among indigenous people in brazil rose from 28 to nearly 200 in just one month and they expect the number to rice we spoke to sonya walker who is in the city of d.p. now. she says many communities are fearing extermination. there is an increase in illegal miners and loggers and they bring in the risk of infection we don't have the privilege to care for the pandemic alone we have to do this and at the same time keep on fighting with historical problems we face that will never dissolve like deforestation and invaders in our territory deforestation has also increased in the past month compared to previous years illegal miners and loggers
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are pushing deeper into the jungle brazil's president has made it clear he wants to open up the rain forest for business and the discourse is an incentive to those who want to expand brazil's agriculture frontier a video released by the supreme court during an investigation against the president shows his environment minister expressing the government's plans. to susan we need to make an effort where we are in this moment in terms of prasco overage because they are only talking about corporate and push through and change all the rules and support for norms environmental groups say the government wants to move forward with a legislative agenda that will weaken say guards against the incursion on indigenous lands. and for these communities it means their livelihood is seriously had risk threatened not only by the open damage that continues to spread but also by a government that is ignoring their calls for help.
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at the marriott is oxfam international's health policy lead she joins us now via skype from the isle of wight in the united kingdom good to have you with us on the program is married i mean brazil mexico bolivia just some of the countries dealing with the onslaught of covert 19 and the ongoing issue of how to reach out and treat isolated communities in particular the indigenous groups the approach or not really varies on government policy and it's groups like you that have to pick up the slack . yes inox i miss working around the world in some of the with some of the most marginalized communities that is suffering the most of it at holt of discrimination to do what we can to provide services and information that can be trusted i condone confidence and the ability of communities to protect themselves and what we do know that there is immense diversity across indigenous people of the world but also we're also acutely conscious of very similar
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inequalities that they face inequalities that heighten that risk to that the very worst health impacts of coronavirus but also those devastating social and economic consequences high rates of extreme poverty poor housing conditions less access to water and sanitation poor a nutrition and also very sick disproportionately high levels of preventable illnesses and treatable illnesses because health services are not reaching them where they live and work in that communities so it's a not provided in the right languages health workers are insufficient and in many cases indigenous people face the greatest barriers because that council to pay for health care services ok user fees and private services failing to reach. these communities the let's get into the new details out of this out in terms of the sort of problems you face practically in terms of trying to get that
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information and treatment out to where it's needed most because south america is a vast area and as we say you know these communities live in isolated. areas where getting to them is 70 percent of the problem. yes that's true and that's why it's so incredibly important for organizations like oxfam and indeed governments to be partnering with communities themselves we learnt from our response to the outbreak that building trust sharing information building confidence. by working in partnership working with marginalized communities and designing responses in partnership with them was so incredibly important for people to be able to empower and protect themselves we as an organization are suffering. from. the problems associated with locked out of
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supplies to reach these communities as well as transport so partnering with communities directly partnering with like an organization says so incredibly important right now obviously an organization like yourselves that oxfam want to be a political but how do you then work with countries that refuse to acknowledge that is a problem and that its own health care infrastructure as you previously mentioned isn't geared up to help. well we we have to just work as a as i say in partnership with communities to help raise voices as much as possible or to demand that their rights if if if else and we know in this in response to this pandemic. we're seeing exposure of longstanding inequalities in access to services across the board and so if you like we need to see it a 2 tier approach we need to see governments responding by investing more in health
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care across the board redress in those inequalities removing user fees reversing privatization but we also need to push and work in partnership with communities to . enable and push governments to respond appropriately to design approaches in partnership with indigenous people so that they are tailored to their needs and are culturally appropriate and and accept it we need to see more health work it's recruited from indigenous populations and trained to deliver services so that again they are accepted and as i say we crucially need to remove those financial barriers to access across the board but particularly for indigenous populations who struggle to afford those and if we don't we're going to see the very stark inequalities that were already in place before the coronavirus pandemic become even stopped and more entrenched in the days and the months ahead i just
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want to get your your final thoughts on the whole statements that we often hear from the w.h.o. they often talk about a 2nd wave i mean your view and your or the organization also will be worried about this considering many believe that the 1st wave in south america is hardly over. yes i mean we're all very concerned about that 2nd wave which makes. public health measures ever more crucial we need rocket response in terms of scaling up access to water and sanitation particularly so people can prevent the spread of infection and we need very sensitive social distancing measures employed now we've learned the lessons we should learn the lessons of countries like india looking down to heart and risking people's food security livelihood security and doing something which could become an even greater threat to that health than that pandemic itself so we
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need to see those responses take that sensitive but we need to keep up the effort to prevent infection and not let our guard down or the marriott international thanks so much for joining us from the south of england thank you thank you. and in brazil confirmed cases have passed 800000 more than 40000 deaths divisions over the government's response to the pandemic have been laid most famous beach. reports . activists from a local peace dug 100 graves on beach in rio de janeiro turning brazil's most iconic curious part into a mark cemetery to memorialize the country's more than 40000 people who've died of kovi 19. it was a symbolic memorial but also a dramatic protest against presidents. dismissive response to defend them ik about
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it but it is there to. be the president of the republic needs to understand that the people are ensuring one of the most difficult moments in its history thousands of dead families mourning unemployment the ghost of hunger haunting the houses of for valor residents and what can we expect from the president of the republican a time like this expressions of hope of solidarity seriousness and management while many locals seem to appreciate it the memorial was also a focal point for the deep divisions among brazilians a masculist supporter of president sorry knocking down the crosses while others applauded then another resident intervened to put the crosses back up as an argument ensued you know what will be the one my son died from coronavirus he was 25 years old and this guy's clowning around with no respect for those who are protesting there needs to be respect the beach is public and they have rights to.
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people for and against the protest argued in front of the cameras some accuse the protestors of being leftist terrorists. president not to rush to brazil has woken up to these actions from the left nobody can take it anymore instilling terror and . during ridiculous things. the president kept downplaying the pandemic further in training and already divided country even seeking last week to conceal the total number of dead turning a dangerous health crisis into a deep political one that increasingly seems to be bringing the country to a breaking point alison that the. protesters have faced off with police in hong kong as a controversial national anthem law comes into effect the legislation makes it
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a criminal offense to mock china's activists say violates their freedom of expression it's a year since police crackdown on demonstrators who are surrounding the government headquarters leading to months of violent demonstrations which is as dear gopalan has been at the protests in hong kong and said this update. the police are still moving people away they're trying to break up gatherings now they keep saying that this isn't an authorized gathering as you can see that as a blue that held up a blue flag they say that people are risking arrest by coming here protesters wanted to come here to mark one year since. the hong kong's protest and pro-democracy movement reached a turning point a year ago a large number of protesters in the 10s of thousands surrounded the legislative council the government headquarters to try and stop proceedings on a law it was said next traditional proposed extradition law that would have seen hong kong criminal suspects sent to mainland china to face their opaque courts that
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are ruled by the communist party the protesters grew larger and larger and police broke that up and protesters say they used excessive force human rights activists also called out police abuse against the protesters since then hong kong's protest movement changed both sides up the ante we saw police use more force against the protesters to break up gatherings and we saw the protesters change their tactics to confront the police and there were almost daily violent confrontations in the last half of 2019 but in the past year the protest movement has somewhat died down. somewhat died down it was subdued mainly due to the corona virus outbreak and due to social distancing restrictions. burundi's constitutional courters raul the president elect must be sworn in as soon
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as possible following the sudden death of. the outgoing president died on monday weeks after elections to choose his successor the ruling party's candidate was announced as the winner well let's get more on this from malcolm where p. is following the developments from nairobi and it seems that it wasn't going to be the speaker that was going to be sworn in i. think the calls to do the constitution suggests the constitution says it's the speaker of the national assembly that takes over in the case of the head of state dying and careens either died while it was announced on tuesday we don't know when exactly he died the government said it was a heart attack a growing number of people believe it was in fact coded 19 following his surprise death in normal circumstances it would have been the speaker of the national assembly is then meant to oversee an election to choose a new president because it would have had an election last month which was marred by violence and irregularities but the ruling party's candidate as you just said
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every day he was announced the winner through the constitutional court has ruled today that that means he should take over as soon as possible without any kind of interim administration and now there are at least 2 factions vying for power within the generals in the ministers. who control the rudy and today's result is going to be good news for one of them for the update thanks very much malcolm webster in nairobi for us. let's head to asia in a way in afghanistan there's been an explosion at a mosque in the capital kabul police say at least 5 people have been killed and many more injured in the blast officers say the mosque official who was leading friday prayers is amongst the dead t.v. or contra fury is in kabul and has the latest. the minister of interior phrased the number of dead to 5 and says that at least 8 people have been injured however there
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are reports from other ministries that raise the number of injured to at least 17 and i can confirm that the emergency hospital here in kabul there have been at least 9 people have been transferred there are 2 are in critical condition so there is others have been transferred to other hospitals so it appears that the number of injured right now is higher than the number of 8 that the minister of interior gives there are some reports that the explode there the explosives were put underneath the podium where the mom was supposed to hold a sermon late in the day during today's our prayer and then as soon as he approached the podium that's when there was the explosion so if that turns out to be true it appears that the mom was the primary target of the attack but places all initial stages and we're still waiting for more information to come out from the
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ministry of interior. our turkish teams arrived in the libyan capital tripoli to help this month long ones left behind by forces loyal to all of cleave to have to turkish military support has been key to territorial gains made by the un backed government train the reports from misrata. in a major setback for warlord khalifa haftar forces loyal to the internationally recognized government in tripoli are now advancing into the city of sirte on libya's central coast after a string of victories in the west. syria is located near libya's most important asset its oil producing region in the east which is under hussars control. libya which has africa's richest proven crude reserves and relies on oil exports for nearly all its state revenue plunged into violence with the toppling and killing of longtime leader while mortgage death the in 2011. the country's oil fields
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pipelines and terminals have frequently been damaged in fighting putting libya on the path to economic recovery means preserving libyan oil facilities and strong access to the national oil corporation have to or is backed by the u.a.e. egypt and russia among others more than a year after he launched his unsuccessful campaign to take control of tripoli from the internationally recognized government his backers are now seeking to keep half their involved through diplomacy but now embolden with turkish support and gaining territory rapidly government forces and officials say they will not negotiate with have to nor accept the ceasefire. we will enter a shot this isn't the battle for cities like shit to linger such it is a fight for libya for freedom and democracy we will continue until we liberate all of libya from the war criminal. european leaders have called for a cease fire with the german ambassador visit in half there in eastern libya on
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wednesday and then tripoli the day after much to my leave before. unfortunately the international community stood by while have to our sort of tripoli and killed civilians the feeling among libyans is they no longer trust the international community countries who recognize the g.n.a.t. but support have to like egypt can't be trusted the u.n. support mission in libya has said that the d.n.a. and half there's military delegations are now fully engaged in the 3rd round of talks but with both sides very strict conditions it is unlikely we will see a cease fire in libya any time soon now traina al jazeera misrata. well still ahead here on al-jazeera britain's prime minister says a black lives matter protests in the u.k. have been hijacked by extremists as winston churchill statue is boarded up and what hundreds of rallied in the capital of the philippines against a new anti-terrorism law. also the n.f.l.
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advances plans on how they'll fight racial injustice injustice he said i'll have that story in sport after the break. hello hot and dry would be good word to describe most of the rape incidents in the middle east and then but actually hot and humid has been more the case around the gulf states recently so this increase in the wind out of iraq jeez usually a dry one and sometimes a dusty one might make things feel a bit different bit better maybe we're still talking about 4543 and are maybe only 40 in dubai and is hotter generally speaking in the heart of society meccas how down to 43 that will be a fairly humid feel as well coastal parts of levant much better temperature wise high twenty's or low thirty's but again not particularly dry it could be humid and
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is becoming increasingly huge in salalah as yet how does not set in but is due to fairly soon obviously the same conditions stretch across the sahara the still some coastal weather for morocco there which he always is at the moment and that will bring some rain the biggest showers you expect dime from the gulf of guinea all there is a huge one a huge mass developed area they tend to drift west through gonna head toward sierra leone and this is exactly what's happening in the orange center suggesting that the heaviest rain is likely to be eventually they will move further inland the moment the coastal. short films of. and inspiration. snow stories of 3 young women challenging the world around them.
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oh back your watching i was there is news hour with me said the reminder of our top stories india has recorded the biggest single day jumping coronavirus cases with nearly 11000 new infections in just 24 hours the rise in infections comes as the government eases its nationwide lockdown also the coronavirus transmission rate in england has risen to nearly one its a value slightly higher than the for the u.k. as a whole the our number as it's known represents the number of new people each coronavirus case in sex there's been an explosion at a mosque in the afghan capital kabul police say at least 5 people have been killed and many more injured in the blast. so to the u.k. where british prime minister boris johnson has accused extremists of hijacking the black lives matter protests as demonstrators care up for
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a further 3 days of rallies starting on saturday in a twitter post the prime minister described the attacks on police and violence during protests last weekend as intolerable and apparent he also defended the protection of british monuments including a statue of winston churchill from vandalism he's urging people against attending this weekend's demonstrations. what's happened with these these demonstrations is that a tiny minority or a few a growing minority unfortunately have hijacked and they are using them as a pretext to attack the police to to cause violence and to cause damage to public property so my unforeseen my message to everybody is that for all sorts of reasons they should not go to these demonstrations. dean barber joins me now from central london and the pm really being quite outspoken about the issue of
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statues. the isn't as you just heard from the sound bite he's relating these 2 of the right to perceived threats to start she's like the statue here in parliament square of winston churchill to the black lives matter protests now there is one that's going on right now here in central london protesters who gathered in hyde park are about to arrive we believe here opposite the the u.k. parliament and behind me as he can see the statue winston churchill boarded up late on thursday evening as well as the senate off the memorial to the war dead just down the road here that was on the orders of city car and london's city mayor but supported by boris johnson he has said that it's absurd that these that you need defending this is in light of what's happened in the past week particularly last sunday in bristol in the south west of england where a statue of a slaver edward colson was pulled down and thrown into
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a river 5 black lives matter protests as it sets off a whole debate about how the country memorializes remembers its past who deserves to be elevated and what happens to controversial figures winston churchill of course notable for his role in the 2nd world war boris johnson saying this is a permanent memorial to his achievement in saving europe from a racist and fascist power but of course he has got his critics around the country for other episodes in history too and so. he wants to see concentration on the british streets at all not even the british government but it is going to have an impact on sort of the conversation or the arguments that both sides are going to have especially those that support the black lives matter protests. yeah i mean you heard there from boris johnson saying that because in his words
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fate been hijacked by extremists intent on violence and there have been a number of police officers injured in confrontations just down the road outside downing street he said nobody should protest for this cause well that is very unlikely to be heeded but there was a demonstration on saturday which has been canceled for fear of confrontations between black lives much of supporters and the far right who is still expected to be here on the streets on saturday and city cars are saying the london city mayor has appealed to people not to gather in central london but he supports black lives matter as a movement he's he's tweeted so much but behind the between the lines there are a number of local got the rigs that are happening for that cause on saturday but in a lot of people's minds the prospect of confrontations but also city cons been warning about the spread of cobbett 19 saying there's proof that other demonstrations in other countries have seen transmissions of the virus so he's
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echoing what people politicians of all different shades have been saying look after yourselves but there is the other counter argument to demonstrate that we cut it right to protest although these rallies and demonstrations officially are not allowed as people are not supposed to gather in more than 6. in london thank you. so cross over to the u.s. now where new york governor andrew cuomo says a divisive stance of christopher columbus' should not be removed because of its importance to italian americans his comments come against a backdrop of global anti racism protests in response to george floyd's killing statues of columbus and other european explorers have been attacked because of the harm they cause to native americans and africans. the curse of the columbus statue represents. in some ways the italian american legacy in this country
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and the italian american contribution in this country i understand the feelings about christopher columbus and some of his acts which nobody would support but the statue was has come to represent and signified. appreciation for the italian american contribution to new york so one night for that reason i supported. and demonstrators in seattle have blocked streets and set up tents to protest against police brutality that govern a what's being called an autonomous zone it's free of police under an agreement between protest says on the city's police department president truman criticize the arrangement threatening to take back the city if local officials don't time it well while white house correspondent kimberly how it joins me now from washington d.c. well as you might says the country continues to discuss race and police brutality what is on the president's agenda because he says he has a plan. yet he says he has
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a plan that he is drafting an executive order essentially to try and reform the police in the united states he says that he will be looking to improve policing standards also seeing that social workers and police can work together and i think what's important to note about this is the president plans to do this via executive order and this is an addition to the legislation that's being worked on by democrats in the house of representatives and also the legislation being worked on by senators in the republican controlled senate so there is a lot of conversation taking place in the united states the u.s. president though saying where he differs from many democrats on capitol hill is he is not supportive of defunding the police the white house has said repeatedly that is a nonstarter. well of course completely the other thing is this issue of seattle the you know happy medium it seems that the civil society has meant with the police
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itself it's just the president doesn't like it well what we see right now is a war of words that continues to escalate between this republican president that says that he wants to be the law and order president and makes no apologies for dominating the streets in order to bring about a quiet and calm for residents he says this was compassionate because what it did was protect lives and businesses but when it comes to the so-called autonomy zone the chads as it's called in seattle is about a 6 block radius area of capitol hill in seattle what the president says essentially to the mayor as well as the governor if you don't take back your streets i will and the question becomes how exactly is the u.s. president going to do that he does have it his disposal something called the insurrection act it's not been used since the early 1990 s.
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the president repeatedly intimated that he may take that course of action we should remind our viewers that the military is not to be turned on civilians in this country that is a policing role so really they can act to support with the exception of the insurrection act or things could be stepped up but the problem for this president is that we've already seen that he has had his defense secretary his chair of the joint chiefs of the military sort of breaking rank with the commander in chief the defense secretary being very clear that he does not believe now is the time to use the insurrection act so the u.s. president continues to threaten to take action as the capitol hill and in seattle as well as the mayor and the governor say they will push back to believe things that can be how can one tell us correspondents in washington d.c. . hundreds of people are protesting in the philippine capital manila against the new antiterrorism law and activists say it gives police expanded powers that could be open to abuse they fear that present the bigger detesting could use it here against his political opponents and critics the government says it's needed to stop
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attacks by armed groups. a report to the un security council has found missiles used in attacks on saudi arabian oil facilities and an airport last year of a rainy and origin un secretary general and tonio terror says that weapons and other material seized by the u.s. are also of iranian origin tehran has previously denied any involvement our diplomatic editor james bays has more from un headquarters this is a report by the un secretary general antonio good terrorists to the security council it's not yet been published but now it has ears obtained a copy and it's following the work of the u.n. panel of experts who have been looking into a number of attacks on saudi arabia on oil facilities and on an airport and they conclude that some of the materials used in the attacks may have been transferred in a manner inconsistent with the security council resolution 2231 that's the resolution
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in shrine and the 2015 iran nuclear deal of course they can't make a definitive judgment on that because it's not clear to them when exactly these materials were transferred from iran whether it was a breach of the nuclear deal what i think is important about this is it gives fresh ammunition to the u.s. what is a very politically sensitive time the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft is preparing a draft resolution which is very controversial she want to extend the arms embargo on iran and she's making threats she's saying if she doesn't get her way then she's going to trigger a provision. of the iran nuclear deal called snapback bringing all the sanctions international sanctions against iran back into force you may ask well how can the u.s. do that because it pulled out of the iran nuclear deal it is
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a very tricky legal position and certainly legally there isn't seem to be any right now. there's certainly going to be a big dispute if they go down that route and it's going to be a dispute that pits the u.s. is closest allies its european allies on the side of russia and china against the united states the u.n. has issued a desperate plea for financial aid and support in yemen saying more than 30 of its 41 programs in the country could close in weeks doctors in yemen have officially recorded more than 500 cases of covert 19 but health care workers say that that number lags far behind the actual infection rates the u.n. says the health system has collapsed with hospitals liking beds and basic medicine and turning people away more than $24000000.00 yemenis that's more than 2 thirds of the population rely on some form of aid yemen is facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis that includes an ongoing 5 year civil war with the threat of famine and the spread of diseases like malaria humanitarian aid is becoming the
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only lifeline for millions across the country sara bay is the key is the country representative for yemen unicef she says the situation is growing worse by the day for 90 percent of children. the crisis is of cataclysmic proportions you have a preexisting situation where children were already in dire need and now children are confronted with multiple issues in just adds to their complex in very difficult lives that they that they leave the children in yemen are worse off than all children in the world and for us this is an emergency adequate testing in yemen we know that we don't have. all of the communities with access to testing and so definitely what we're hearing as all we're seeing as the numbers being officially declared do not tell the story that the children are facing children are facing multiple issues so for example i would give you children are for now out of school
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and you would say well all should know the world out of school for the most part but the children in yemen almost 6000000 of them who've been out of school since march schools are probably closed had no access to any distance learning no access to education online no form of education at all in addition to that they're facing a conflict we have active lines right now you can't talk about children playing you can't talk about children even having some sort of recreation so at the end of the day the children of yemen are stuck stranded the u.n. refugee agency is appealing for more than $200000000.00 to cope with a wave of displaced people who fled violence in the region of groups with bases and mali have spread their attacks tunisia and the king of a so at least 4000 people were killed in 3 countries last year because reports. hiding under the staircase of an abandoned school is a bully family shaken from an attack they've turned classroom benches into beds beneath is everything they save before dawn militia armed with machetes and guns
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tore through their village in central mali 66 year old bully has seen a lot of conflict between philosophies and doggoned in his lifetime but the brutality of this week's attack has left him in shock i am afraid of the dog and militia not the jihadi groups or mali and forces they don't harm us like them but they don't protect us either the militias control our movements they kill us and burn our villages. the u.n. investigation accuses doggone militias in the militaries of this a hell of committing war acts of extrajudicial killings on the civilians they are meant to protect than the armed groups their fighting no individual has been a function and held responsible for all of the nations so that has generated a general sense of impunity. and a repetition of. 2.3000000 people mostly children are on the move fleeing the violence in the south 5000000 are facing hunger and are in urgent need of
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humanitarian assistance the united nations refugee agency says they are overstretched and are appealing for 200000000 dollars to help those displaced people have fled their homes have literally fled with the clothes on their back they don't have shelter they don't have food they don't have the most basic stuff things all focused in this came up will be to bring in that shelter. to be supporting governments which started off as an armed insurgency in northern mali in 2013 has now spread beyond us to hell into togo and ivory coast with attacks being carried out by groups linked to islamic state and al-qaeda last friday while tens of thousands of demonstrating against their government's inability to protect people from the violence french forces said they killed the leader of al qaeda and islamic magreb. in northern mali you know incident comes as the united nations wants to slash the $1000000000.00 budget of the un peacekeeping operation in mali
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for failing to deliver peace the mandate of the $14000.00 troop is up for renewal while the united nations security council debates the future of the mission i believe in his family wondered not when but if it will be able to return home nicholas hawke al-jazeera. well still ahead in sports related suspension football in spain returns we'll have all of the details in sports so don't go away.
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a page on singapore and japan have become the latest grand prix races to be canceled by formula one organizers because of the coronavirus pandemic virus restrictions present too many challenges for those countries to host races according to a statement from f one the start of the season had already been delayed to july when it will begin in austria with no spectators former one says it's still hoping to run between $15.18 events with new races in low risk countries also being considered. there's controversies surrounding the fight deal agreed between tyson fury and anthony joshua earlier this week one of the main deal brokers daniel kinahan has been named by a court in ireland as a senior figure in organized crime he was named checked by fieri who announced the deal on wednesday. lower than just after getting off the phone with daniel can i. just inform me that our the biggest fight bridge of boxing history just print agreed. and big shout out got
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a storm. literally over the line to fight deal khidir haroun is one of the founders of him t.k. global a management company that represents fieri is based in the united arab emirates and was recently hired as an advisor to the prince of bahrain sports organization k h k there were calls in ireland's parliament for the government to intervene in the fury joshua deal which is said to earn those involved hundreds of millions of dollars and you know you say i was rather taken aback to see. tyson fury in this video the other day and just dropping in. that name the you mentioned. as if this was not somebody who has quite a checkered history in the state and elsewhere and. can't come to any particular guard operation i can certainly assure you that there has been contact between the department of foreign affairs and the authorities in the united arab emirates. that
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matter u.k. broadcaster bt sport has shown fury fights in the past but stressed that no deal is yet in place for the joshua bouts a.p.'s rob harris spoke to us earlier about bts response. but clearly aware of the controversy surrounding and links to this fight and broke the fact that so they will scrutinize with a crow yet levels of responsibility before deciding whether to enter into any deal so bt clearly have a corporate responsibility as a listed company in london and this will obviously spark deep questions around the company over whether they do enter into the or for the fight because it's about so much more than just putting a fight on television when you've got the irish government flagging up concerns about one of the key figures involved in dealing with the fight then they do have to ensure they are appropriately scrutinizing just where their money is ultimately
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going football is returned in spain for the 1st time in 3 months with the darby and legal between sylvia and rail bettys on thursday there was a moment's silence before kickoff to honor the more than 27000 in spain who have lost their lives due to the disease gold from lucas or compass san fernando ensure the tuna win for sofia on the night. it's early season gets back underway to later with a cup a telly a clash between new ventus and ac milan with ties delicately poised at one all of the 1st time the 2 teams are back in action sunseri are was postponed in early march meanwhile natalee has been preparing to host into millennium their semi final on saturday no fans will be allowed into the study or some paolo but i've got a deep clean anyway. they're on the way on round 2 in texas as the p.g.a. tour continues its return for a pandemic stoppage but the virus isn't the only hot topic for professional golfers on the tour lately joanna gash reports. it's been 3
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months since professional golf was last plate but in that time much has changed around the world and on the p.g.a. tour all week players have talked about the fight against racism and a moment of silence was held for george floyd ahead of their opening round. one of those who's been at the center of the conversation and pushing for change is harold fond of the 3rd the world number 124 let his golf do the talking on thursday as he grabbed a share of the lead alongside justin rose at the colonial country club in texas i will govern i was like i'm not really about to play golf but i want to start you know worked out not trying to this morning i was like oh it's game on like you know just back in the saddle it's not just social justice it's fool's gold to take a good look at how it needs to move forward the current virus pandemic which pulls the game for so long as lead to a ban on spec tastes for the 1st 4 events as major champions just in thomas jordan speak and rory mcilroy rolled in the birdies it felt more like
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a practice round and in a way that's what it was with the p.g.a. tour the 1st major sport in north america to return it off as a glimpse into the future for other sports expected to come back soon but it's a little strange you know not having anyone are on but at the same time you know. we are so concentrated on what we're doing and trying to shoot good scores and play good golf and so once we you know me personally once i got into it i didn't feel like it was much different it's certainly awkward not having everybody out here but to i'm certainly proud of the steps the p.g.a. tour has taken to have everybody be safe feel safe in this environment and to hopefully entertain and have some people watching on t.v. even though they're not here. t.v. viewers was certainly entertained by south korea's sun kang on the 13th hole but the lack of an audience at the course meant the celebrations for his hole in one were decidedly meted joining us roster al-jazeera. the n.f.l.
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has pledged to donate $250000000.00 over 10 year periods to combat systemic racism it comes after the league's commissioner apologized for failing to listen to players who protested and agreed that black lives matter but some are calling for the n.f.l. to go further hall of fame wide receiver to bell owens joined a protest in california and says it's time to bring the man who started the kneeling protests back into the game. but this is a systemic issue if that's just to stop the start of college or obscene matter 4 years ago. the president basically ordering dollars not to decide because it's still in fear into those players that want to support. those guys didn't want to be i want those guys to stand they have the power to keep what they started that's all the sports news for me from morgan latest thanks very much peter and you have been watching the al-jazeera news hour with more news on the other side of
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