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just how do you define indigenous brits who do they benefit isn't this more about living with difference and you in pieces and who do they contain. the royal. anywhere in the world the right to leave the country. goes head to head. on al-jazeera. atlanta police release body camera footage of the shooting of a black man that sparked more protests the officer involved has been fired. again and this is al jazeera live from also coming up turkey carries out multiple strikes in iraq targeting kurdish separatists from the p.k. k. . the leaders of somalia and breakaway states somaliland hold talks in neighboring
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djibouti. and a quarter vatican is due shortly in the philippines it could see a prominent journalist and government critic sent to jail for doing her job. now large protests are continuing across the united states as the fatal police shooting of another black man starts even more outrage following the death of george floyd body cam footage released by the atlanta police shows the moment that officers approached racial brooks on friday night and asked him to take a sobriety test police say a struggle broke out after he failed the test and grabbed an off his taser before he was shot the chief of police has since resigned and one officer has been fired while a makeshift memorial honoring rashad brooks has been set up at the wendy's fast food restaurant where that fire. it took place it's led to new protests against
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police brutality in the city including the burning of the restaurants on saturday night or elsewhere larger black lives matter protests have been held in new york and los angeles demonstrators have now been gathering for weeks demanding a change to policing practices in the u.s. and around the world well let's get the latest now from andy gallagher who's been watching developments for us from miami and we saw the atlanta authorities react fairly swiftly here but has that been enough to quell the protesters there. well 2 prominent civil rights groups in atlanta say the firing of the chief of police in the firing of the officer who discharged his weapon against mr brooks is simply symbolic for them it does not go far enough so it hasn't quite old the protests that are growing every day here in the united states they say there are a much deeper issues at stake than simply this one case which is just added fuel to the fire remember 3 weeks ago george floyd died in minneapolis after
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a policeman kneeled on his neck for almost 9 minutes and the names continue on woods in on what so this in essence i think will make these people black lives matter movement even more determined to call for pleat real police reform and some police forces in the u.s. are already taking some action many are now banning the practice of chokeholds others like new york city police department promising more transparency but activists say that just doesn't go far enough it does not address the systemic racism it does not address the inequality or the police brutality these simply procedures they want to see far deeper changes so the death of mr brooks on friday night i think will just add to the fury of people taking to the streets and people in power lawmakers are beginning to listen now overwhelmingly the american public supports police reform it's how it's done i think that will be very crucial for the future of this country and particularly at the relationship between the police and
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communities of color and then we have been hearing more details on much about the susan that than so can you talk us through what. well what happened i mean we're nish really got mobile phone footage which didn't show much of the altercation you can see mr brooks struggling with the police then we've seen a lot more video particularly the body cam video from the police and it really comes down to the use of deadly force and mr brooks was running away from the police he did have one of the taser weapons but city officials council officials politicians across the country are saying look at this man run away he run away you can get him later on you had his car you had his id you knew who he was there was no need to take this as far as a man having to lose his life in the ultimate question here i think for many protesters on the streets is if mr brooks had been white how then would the police have treated him and the gallagher there for us watching those developments for us from miami thank you very much andy now turkey has known
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a military operation against kurdish targets in northern iraq and the defense ministry says warplanes have struck the candle mountains targeting separatist fighters from the kurdistan workers party or p.k. k. and strikes have also been reported at manson's are now turkey frequently targets pick a fight as in northern iraq and once nearly a 4 decade long conflict our correspondents and has more from istanbul. this is another operation the church of comebacks in iraq against the outflow could follow to spark if it k.k. what we know was that's a good time they will pull ration is in a wider scale than it has been ongoing since 99 cases before turkey used to do a creation targeting a specific area area but this time it's multiple realists and the summit stands up ration come back to by the turkish forces that's why it is why they are scared
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and surprisingly just 'd 2 days ago turkish intelligence chief how come fidel was in back that he paid a visit to back that so. presumably they my the turkish and thousands you've also might have talked about how true to you is to use the p.k. paste platform from the other side of its border because according to turkish defense minister straight men and operations come back safe and to protect the borders. well turning to the current virus pandemic now and india is converting $500.00 railway coaches into makeshift hospitals after a surge in new coronavirus cases there to a shortage of beds in the capital the country reported another record jump on sunday was almost 12000 new infections in just one day 10 coaches had already previously been converted into isolation wards these new carriages will increase
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capacity by 8000 beds and other new measures including increased testing and a door to door health survey in the capital in neighboring pakistan they are also seeing a record rise in the number of new infections with more than 6800 cases reported on sunday or thirty's of sealed off over a 1000 high risk areas including in the capital islamabad the world health organization has warned that the acceleration could overwhelm pakistan's underfunded health system of iran has recorded 107 deaths from the corona virus and 24 hours the 1st time in 2 months that more than $100.00 people have died in one day after gradually relaxing its lock down since mid april iran has seen a shop rise in new delhi infections on saturday president hassan rouhani warns that strict measures that will be reimposed of the outbreak doesn't come back under control. meanwhile health officials in china's capital are moving swiftly to get on top of the fare the 2nd wave of infections that
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a district and beijing is under strict lockdown after a coronavirus cluster was discovered in the city's biggest wholesale market to hear reports. after nearly 2 months of no new local infections and life slowly returning to normal china's capital is once again drastically stepping up measures to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus cluster dozens of cases are linked to the wholesale market one of asia's biggest cities governments rushed to shut down the sprawling complex which supplies nearly 90 percent of beijing's pressure seafood vegetables and fruit but it was my the one we were told last night that this place is closed now i can only sell my peaches in the street there happen very few people buying them so i'm going to be at a loss for sure a walk a do life and health always come 1st the market is in the southern district home to more than 2000000 people and the area that is now under a strict lockdown plans to open kindergartens and primary schools on monday have
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been delayed sports and the political events have been postponed all public facilities have shut down and movement in and out of the city is restricted state media says the virus was initially detected on a cutting board used to prepare imported salmon prompting supermarkets to take the fish off their shelves additional tests found that the virus could be carried and spread through produce and packaging meaning it could have travelled well beyond the city's limits cases linked to the markets have been confirmed in 2 other provinces beijing's government has launched an extensive operation to test 10000 workers from the market and screen anyone who visited it this month and very troubling that there was panic in the 1st wave but there's no need for that in the 2nd way people are vigilant. we have big data and the government can strictly control things there should be no problem beijing downgraded its emergency response
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level only a week ago using restrictions on wearing masks and having temperature checks this latest cluster is raising concerns due to parallels with city where the virus was 1st discovered last year it too started a market to lead to months of blocked until china said it had overcome the outbreak in march the hoop that declaration was and premature if you go palin. on contrast non-essential shops will reopen and england on monday as it is corona virus restrictions to boost the economy prime minister bars johnson says safety measures will be in place all shop staff will have to follow guidelines on disinfecting products handled by customers the british government is also reviewing its tunisia's social distancing rule as it looks to reopen bowls and restaurants or france's president emanuel back on its claim its 1st victory in the fight against the 19 as some of the last remaining lockdown restrictions there are lifted the
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entire mainland including paris will be under a lower state of alert from monday i mean the restaurants and cafes in the capital will be allowed to operate at full capacity and more people can also return to work . well in brazil thousands of protesters have marched in sao paolo to denounce the government's handling of the pandemic there a small account a rally was held in the capital brasilia by supporters of president. continues to downplay the outbreak the country has the 2nd highest number of deaths worldwide with more than 43000 fatalities stories about reports. get out pulled from maddow chanted this people in any depth in brazil financial capitals hope oh no. 11 i was one of the thousands who felt it was necessary to be on the streets on sunday. i'm here because thousands of people are dying of coronavirus and the government doesn't care about it this is
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a genocide the government is mocking the working class and the police are killing our families and communities black people can't live in peace in this country we are afraid to die because of our collar brazil has become the epicenter of colvin 1000 in south america more than 40000 people have lost their lives many blame president handling of the crisis as he opposed imposing a logged on to preserve the economy and disregarded the virus as a little fuel his supporters have also been taking to the streets to defend the precedent but i think it's a good day mick it's clearly people but it's not that much i don't think the koran of ours by the sorrow of bytes of jews that much i think the most part of people that to die by it has another kind of disease but in this hospital and many do not agree recess the vice 41 and is recovering from covert 19 she has been in touch
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with her family on a video called say the book you know maybe take it seriously because this is not a little some said i couldn't breathe and i know how bad it is i thought i was going to die it's awful stay home if you. and if you need to go out take all necessary precautions because it's not easy. for survivors like back in their minds who is 50 years old with 19 was a life changing experience. and i am very grateful for life my life has changed i'm grateful to god to my brother in law who saved me to my wife my sister and everyone my life started over because the doctor said i was going to die and today i'm here thank god i thank everyone here. brazil is struggling with us bread of covert 19 and yes the death toll continues to rise there's widespread discontent over the president's response. and now the man.
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who's also being treated for cancer says he's tested positive for the crown a virus. after 4 negative test today you know portion i tested positive for 19 for corona virus my doctor's advice since i had no symptoms is to stay at home i'll be able to continue to meet online and through the internet i'll be able to continue working but from home picks pick taishan is that i will be here for the next 10 days. well still ahead on the. bearing for more on the indigenous community flower saying despite ecuador skull and a vast cross. and chad's bells toll across london in memory of the 72 people who died in the grenfell tower fire 3 years ago.
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hello the rain is still waving in a night of japan and it's on the satellite picture through the evidence there clearly is moving out of the way so you've got a dry period coming in quite a woman up to 33 in tokyo on monday but if you thought it was my you buy you structure back into china this is where it's now sitting over the yangtze and further north. this is all human a wet weather to science is that the remains of nori the tropical depression briefly storm can't be identified just adding to general melon which means yet more flooding in guangdong or yunan you've also got this orange center of the system itself which is just flooding is likely to head towards shanghai we're talking topping up the river which is what the seasonal rains are supposed to do it does mean that much of the action in the atmosphere is a long way north there are showers the south but malaysia and indonesia should see
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this time of year fewer showers and there are fewer but there are not not so the ways he's looking quite wet the southern philippines quite wet peninsular malaysia as well as a few shots particularly in the north the concentration should be a lot further north so for example in thailand and cambodia in fact and sudden vietnam is certainly certainly sundry on tuesday but not every day. the glamour of hollywood in an unlikely place. although cold you know it's another interesting. i think i'm turning the little play mother here she was pretty incredible jurgen fists there's a lot of love but attraction and respect over the world people a world away from mumbai a nation has taken indian cinema to its hot out as you well reveals the color and passion of morocco's bollywood during.
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i know again. let's remind you of our top stories this hour protests are continuing across the united states following the fatal police shooting of another black man this time in atlanta police have released body time for us it's in the moments leading to a struggle between the officers and brooks before he was later shot. turkey has launched a military operation against kurdish targets in northern iraq warplanes have struck the candle mountains targeting separatist fighters from the kurdistan workers' party p k k. thousands in brazil have joined the margins our power to denounce
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racism and the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic it's the 2nd worst affected country in the wilds with 17000 new cases and 612 deaths reported just on something. in the final report of al-jazeera series looking at the impact of coverage 19 on indigenous communities we're focusing on at cradle it has the highest death toll per capita of any country in latin america but the indigenous community is using both ancient and new methods to fight back as a latin america editor and senior reports. it's a national community perched on the high lands of ecuador. the centuries of tbilisi agricultural sure the center for the capital keep it all about an hour away. you might as well be another world this sign born community under warranty. the $132.00 checkpoints in around every single entry point. everything was
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disinfected and the indigenous community control should jewels interests and exits of all vehicles and people. only a few outsiders are allowed in. a curfew from 2 pm till 5 am it is strictly enforced it's now 2 pm and the town is closed till tomorrow. but a little circular where. you must understand that the endian and the generous people have their own philosophy their own cause my vision language and culture that's applied to our struggle for land water and self preservation we're also applying it now to the pandemic. those who disobeys by breaking curfew or other irresponsible behavior are submitted to indigenous justice. for. these young men are being punished with 8 to 16 hours of community work and conclude everything from cleaning this plaza to public toilets it's immoral sanction men to embarrass them before the
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community that you are not the police sometimes hands them over to us and we assign the punishment. the results are impressive in this community of $120000.00 there hasn't been a single death from called 19 nothing short of miraculous in the country with the highest death toll per capita in latin america. is nevertheless suffering on account of the pandemic. it's famous for its roses one of ecuador's main exports but with the world a clone of me on lockdown there roses have been wilting away. in the flowers on our main source of income around 80 percent of the population lives from them so this pandemic has hurt us badly. a few cargo planes are beginning to export their beautiful products again albeit in small quantities. but the indigenous community
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likes to say that their lives will again smell like roses as long as they continue winning the battle against the intrusive virus. you see in human al-jazeera. now the leaders of somalia and breakaway state somaliland have met in djibouti for talks somali lands president hu say b he wants a 2 state process to defend what he calls the region's independence somaliland split from somalia back in 1901 that has never gained international recognition ethiopia and djibouti are brokering those talks after the last round of negotiations collapsed and 2015 further south in the horn of africa somalia has now officially recognized the contested leader of the semi autonomous state of juba land but only as an interim leader a former warlord of member derby was reelected as president of jubilant in august but somalia boycotted that and backed another candidate in
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a parallel election with obey is rejecting the interim leader designation. separatists in southern yemen have captured a convoy carrying billions of reales to aid in central bank forces loyal to the southern transitional council who took control of aden in april stole billions in cash as it left the port it could threaten a fragile peace the group has with the saudi backed government now of course in the philippines is due to decide very shortly if one of the country's most prominent journalists should go to prison maria ressa is accused of cyber libel after publishing a story linking a businessman and a high court judge on her news website rappler the case has been widely condemned as an attack on press freedom under president ford record to testy correspondent to milan duggan has more from outside the courthouse and then than now. the fear to day here is that if she's convicted she will be able obviously to post bail she'll be able to go to the court of appeals to petition their case all the way up to the
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supreme court but the biggest question here is the impact of these convictions the less than famous. those who are working in the community who may not have the same kind of public support as you know my real along with another journalist has been charged for a cyber libel case. over an article that was published. by rappler news network which he co-founded a few years ago now the real test here for the judiciary is the potency of this cyber libel case we just long been being appealed by rights groups by journalists are going to say she's here to be decriminalized it was something that was passed during the previews administration and it has never really been tested until now there are a lot of journalists here waiting outside watching this case very slowly closely and i think of about 8 30 am local time i visit will be rendered by the court
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at this point she is an island are expected to sign a coalition deal on monday to end 4 months of political deadlock michel martin is widely expected to take over from live broadcast prime minister martin's family fellow party 137 seats and islands 160 seat parliament and february's elections with rudd because female party taking 35 seats the green party will also be a part of that alliance now the deaths of dozens of people 3 years ago exposed just how unequal life is in the british capital in london's richest bara most victims of the grand cell tower fire were poor and from immigrant families the prime minister promised to leave no stone unturned in finding out how the dead were failed so badly but former residents feel they're no closer to the troops trying to help reports. church bells toll for the $72.00 victims of the grunfeld tower fire disaster in west london the 3rd
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anniversary marked with socially distanced visits to the site and an online church service addressed by the prime minister and while no words can undo what happened and the passage of time can heal the wounds inflicted that night i want you to know that i remain absolutely committed to uncovering the causes of the tragedy and ensuring it is never repeated but campaigners say the underlying causes of many of the greenfeld deaths have not gone away they point to higher death rates from coronavirus among black asian and minority ethnic groups as evidence of ongoing social inequalities 3 years ago. a community in a tower who had raised questions about safety in that building were not listened to and one of the main reasons we would archaeal i would argue that they weren't listened to was because of institutional racism because of the demographic they
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were largely a muslim they were largely black their working class community and actually they were not taken seriously the pace of reform has also been slow at ensuring this can't happen again as many as 2000 buildings are said still to bare the flammable cladding that allowed the ground fell flames to whip up the side of the building and rage out of control with as many as 56000 building residents living at daily risk reinfeldt hour and coronavirus have more in common besides lives from very different backgrounds in one of london's most multicultural settings imperiled then and in turmoil once more. you know as alvarez escaped the fire with her family and wasn't able to complete her exams at a crucial stage in her school career the school is shot now because of the virus and you know as has missed the chance to sit her a levels it's like what are the odds start missing 5 matches and then all of my
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a levels get cancelled it's a bit like why me i guess like people have had struggles in their life time everyone goes through their own battles so it's kind of like oh no i'm not special and had 20 now in terms of. having finding something that keeps me going i guess everyone has something that keeps them going and i mean it's nothing particular for me it's just. i just keep moving forward i can. once again a life is being shown on society's imbalance demands for change now more urgent than ever journal al-jazeera west london farmers and have banded together to fly in foreign seasonal workers to save their harvest pandemic restrictions what stops them from toppling threaten to leave projects rusting in the fields. it's summer harvest time in italy and crops are ripe ready to be picked but this year
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does this shortage of foreign workers from sudden mediterranean countries such as a morocco and tunisia without them all of the best crops could go to waste 70 tons per day. the farmer owns $200.00 hectares in a boot so in central italy to overcome the labor shortage angelou other farmers got together to save their livelihood and that is in the back of the insured couple of my company paid around 4 and a half 1000 euros and coordination with the farmers association we're able to bring back our workers from morocco's the only ones who can do this job this specialized workers who are trained over the years to carry out this kind of job loss. italy has low relied on foreign labor but this so-called green corridors were shut down because of the cove in $1000.00 pandemic just a few days before harvesting was due to start without the seasonal workers many
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farmers face bankruptcy in a matter of days. that's your next trip we needed this workforce we needed them already in march then throughout the summer you had the bulk of the harvest when farmers were unsatisfied with the government's initiatives many tried to switch crops but they couldn't compete with the large scale distributors. hundreds of moroccans were flown in on private charters the 1st non e.u. workers to land in italy among them 30 kill cuss me after testing negative for the coronavirus he was allowed to work at angelou choose phenols fields something he has done for the past 15 years with your mood. we're happy because if we weren't important to them they wouldn't have brought us back here or paid for the plane ticket i mean those a costly we stayed at home for 14 days and they'd call us continuously to see how we're doing until we took blood tests that had good results and we went back to
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work. but the number of seasonal workers who made it to italy falls short of the 350000 needed every year and while many italians are now seeking jobs india good culture the expertise of moroccans antony's gents is what the farmers need to harvest the crops but that doesn't mean. that this is out of there and these are the headlines protests are continuing across the united states following the fatal police shooting of another black man this time and atlanta police have released body count for search of the moments leading to a struggle between the officers and race on brooks before he was later shops and gallagher is following developments from miami initially we only saw mobile phone video but now we've got a whole raft of body count footage footage from the wendy's restaurant where this
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all to cation took place and you've got the condemnation of not just of atlanta but all of us also the district attorney some of the council people saying that use of deadly force in this case was simply unnecessary one of the central questions being that if the mr brooks was not african-american how would the police have treated him and now as for the firing of the chief of police of the city of atlanta and the officer who discharged his weapon that really isn't damping down the enthusiasm for reform turkey has launched a military operation against kurdish targets in northern iraq warplanes have struck the candle mountains targeting separatist fighters from the kurdistan workers' party or p k k. thousands in brazil have joined a march in sao paolo to denounce racism and the government's handling of the corona virus pandemic it's now the 2nd worst affected country in the wild with 17000 new
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cases and 612 deaths reported just on sunday or the number of coronavirus cases has spiked in india and pakistan both countries are now taking about density measures to boost their medical care capacity after seeing near record rises on sunday iran has recorded 107 deaths from the corona virus and 24 hours 1st time in 2 months that more than 100 people have died in one day after gradually relaxing its lock down since mid april iran has seen a sharp rise in new daily infections and of course in the philippines will decide soon if one of the country's most prominent journalists should go to prison maria ressa is accused of cyber libel after publishing a story linking a businessman and a high court judge on her news website rappler the case has been widely condemned as an attack on press freedom under president ford record to testing for those of the headlines next up it's inside story.
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a global reckoning on racism police killings in the united states target protests and debates on racial legacies in britain and elsewhere so can europe and the u.s. learn from each other this isn't. hello and welcome to the program on iran come on the killing of george floyd an american police custody has triggered protests around the world some in solidarity
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