tv NEWS LIVE - 30 Al Jazeera June 16, 2020 12:00pm-12:34pm +03
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yes i can literally see the future of baltimore to the ass of my students and it does not the rewind on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. isn't a euro. with. the. up in smoke south korea accuses the north of blowing up a liaison office sealing tensions further. and kim that al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a saudi coalition attack kills 4 children in yemen as rights groups criticize the u.n. for taking it off the blacklist of warring parties that are killing children. trying to brings back lockdown restrictions and steps up testing in beijing to control the
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resurgence of coronaviruses. and protecting the harvest kurdish women in syria take up guns against i self i says targeting their farms. north korea has belonged to jointly a's office with the south it was opened on the border and cuss song 2 years ago the north has issued several warnings in the past few days and described people in the south as human scum you don't you look some one to the north south joint liaison office was completely ruined on tuesday in the wake of cutting off all the communication lines corresponding to the mindset of the enraged people to surely force human scum and those who have sheltered the scum to pay dearly for big crimes. let's go straight now to a mcbride who is in south korea's capital seoul rob what more can you tell us.
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well that is a very serious development but it is a think a development that many people here in south korea had been half expecting we've had of course worsening relations in recent weeks even months set a course against the background of stalled denuclearization talks between north korea and the united states often north korea blames south korea for the hold up it is the easiest the closest target to lash out at and we have seen in recent weeks a stepping up of the belligerent talk from the north also in recent days attacks made against groups defectors here in south korea who had been planning to release balloons as they often do carrying propaganda messages to the north it often in rages the north koreans but it does seem as though they've used this as an opportunity now to carry through on this threat of blowing up this liaison office
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we heard from kim jong that is the sister of north korea's leader over the weekend that this was possibly going to be a target and that it was now going to be up to north korea's military to teach the south a lesson well it seems from pictures and now confirmation reaching us here in seoul that they have carried through on that threat to the unification ministry here has confirmed that this has taken place we have now seen pictures taken from military intelligence in the south of what appears to be this office being blown up with a statement being issued very quickly from the north accusing what they call human scum that's what they refer to as defectors here in south korea has been responsible for this and also threatening to take action not only against them but the people sheltering them which is of course south korea thanks for that update there from the bride to a live from seoul. robert kelly is a professor at person national university who specializes in the korean conflict he
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explains why propaganda leaflets are being used as an excuse as tensions rise the leafletting has been around for a good 20 years now at least made maybe even earlier than that right the north koreans have respond and they don't like it but they've never actually done this kind of stuff before and i think the real issue is probably that the americans are pushed the south korean government very hard not to cut a deal with north korea this south korean government is sort of the most dog on north korea in the history of south korea never before has south korea had a president who has bent over backwards for north korea to strike a deal as much as this current president jane yet because of the alliance with the americans moon has been very constrained in what he can do specifically on the rollback of sanctions and i think the north koreans are really frustrated after 3 years of this and i think that's why the rhetoric has gotten so much harsher this year so there were a couple of deals signed with the south koreans in the last couple of years and i think the north koreans are going to those they weren't really very substantial but i think the north koreans are going to sort of begin to roll those back as a way to signal their displeasure to south korean president jane when jane's got
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less than 2 years left in his presidency has really offered a great deal to the north koreans i think the north koreans see a window for some kind of deal which they thought was sort of wide open a couple of years ago fading away and i think they're pushing hard to try to get moon in his last year and a half of the president to really make some kind of major concessions so yes i would imagine the north koreans will continue to provoke what is important understand that that one actually leads to a conflict right in the north koreans know that they would lose even at that point south korea alone they would lose certainly they fought the american down the south koreans they would get crushed the north koreans would provoke what they want to actually allow things to escalate spend out of control. 3 indian soldiers have been killed during saucing on the border with china and have been in the disputed territory which if it's to deescalate tensions are underway well correspondence of both sides of the story could treaty you is standing by in beijing to the chinese stand on the dispute to elizabeth purana in new delhi so elizabeth what is india's saying. so indian army officials are saying
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confirming that an officer and 2 soldiers were killed in what they calling a violent faceoff on monday night and that both sides and walt and talks in the location to try and defuse the situation and as well as that india's defense minister is meeting with defense chiefs and the minister external affairs because what's happened is significant while clashes between indian and chinese soldiers along one of the world's longest on mocked borders known as the line of official control of l.a. see the clashes are common this is the 1st day along this border in least 40 years and we did see some tensions in april and may there were a series of clashes then we had chinese state media saying that they were accusing the indians of increasing their defense facilities along the border india said that it was staying on its territory so there were those clashes and we had both sides
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saying that they were going to try to deescalate the situation and we've had nice things for about 10 days now again both governments really emphatic that they have the ability to solve any border tensions diplomatically and yet these deaths have taken place despite those assurances from both sides that they were trying to deescalate. thank you their lives with brandon there from new delhi let's bring in katrina you who is in beijing katrina what we heard from from chinese authorities and also can you explain to our viewers how we got to this point well let's listen mentioned before there has been a dispute fee years over the line of control between these 2 areas and for years both sides have been camped quite literally in many instances staring each other down from both sides now according to china. the both sides have been gauging in
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deescalation dialogues for some weeks especially intense dialogues leading up to the beginning of june now jolly gen china's foreign ministry foreign ministry spokesperson just spoke to the media and he said that actually on june the 6th both sides reached a consensus interest and late on that same day state media here in china reported that chinese military troops and weaponry were sent to that border area to conduct exercises now judge and continued by saying that on june 15th that's yesterday on monday the indian side shockingly i like he said he said they shockingly violated this consensus so it's quite clearly pointing fingers at the indian side who said that they engaged in illegal activities that they were provoking and attacking chinese personnel resulting in this serious physical confrontation so china very clearly denying any responsibility for causing this all to cation that resulted in the deaths of these 3 indian soldiers they say that they are maintaining these
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talks and that they will do whatever they can to maintain peace on the border but china has made it quite clear before that if it must it will do whatever it can to protect its sovereignty sovereignty and it worked back down if the shortest fire or any other movies made by india thank you there turkey trying to you there live from version. the saudi led military coalition fighting of yemen has been removed from the united nations black list of warring parties that harm children in conflict the decision came as a coalition air strike hit a vehicle carrying civilians in northern yemen on monday the rebels say 4 children are among the dead save the children says 13 people were killed rights groups have condemned the coalition's removal from the list a diplomatic editor james bass has more it comes out every year and it's the list that no country wants to be all me un's list of the policies that are harming children in conflict zones either killing or maiming children the saudi led
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coalition has been on this list this year it's been taken off the list that's interesting because when you read the body of the report in the section of yemen it says that the worst offender are the who think he's the 2nd worst offender is the coalition of the 3rd worst the government of yemen and yet only the who thiis in the government of yemen are on the list the secretary general's special representative says that's because saudi has been reducing the number of children that it harms and it says that they're still going to be monitored going forward it continued united nations monetary in an engagement you. will ensure they sustain the implementation of the program. and the bequeath in the number of. the u.n. failure of which were dressed in a really thin well the thing about
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a nation in my name you say failure surely it's a failure this year when they've killed or maimed $222.00 children. because they still are stuck in relations in the car they figure a general meeting and i think you will argue with me that if the price utilized in section 5 of the route or where age pension monitoring make any difference with the place but 20 months to assure it and the completion of all the initial. human rights organizations though i'm not happy with that response human rights watch says shame on the un for removing the saudi led coalition from its list of shame. human rights watch says it's found evidence of war crimes committed in libya by fight is affiliated to war lot. online video shows fighters torturing killing and desecrating the bodies of soldiers loyal to the government to tripoli the
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watchdog is calling on half the hour to hold his self the fed libyan national army accountable for the crimes still to come here on al-jazeera sending u.s. soldiers han donald trump's argument with germany escalates. for acute stress. from its operation which. we look at the uncertainty facing people released from immigration centers in the u.k. due to the pandemic. however we got plenty of showers across southeast asia as we should do as well then all following the sun of course some lively showers up here but still seeing some rather heavy right over towards at least the side of indonesia $160.00 millimeters
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of rain here in the space of 24 hours the big and thundershowers they will continue across a similar area further north where we're looking at a case of some showers that once again just pushing back into india china more the way of sunshine for the philippines for a time she was never really to follow the way of settling into the heat of the day in a similar picture as we go on through the day much of indonesia's not too bad again more in the west sunshine than sours and that's the case across australia we have got some blustery conditions just rattling through the southeast and colder but high pressure still in charge for many senate process south australia a lot of fine and dry weather if little breezy side down towards the southeast and cooler we've got some wetter weather making its way into perth 23 celsius here on wednesday as we go on into thursday night is some very heavy rain started to push east way into new zealand we need the rain here so that's no bad thing central parts seeing some heavy downpours turning rather windy too we'll see that wet weather pushing up across a good part of the north island by thursday. night
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you're watching on jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour north korea has blown up its jointly his office with the self was opened on the border and coast song 2 years ago the north has issued several warnings in the past few days. 3 indian soldiers have been killed during fighting on the border with china that happened in the disputed go on valley territory where efforts to deescalate tensions are on the way. saudi led military coalition fighting in yemen has been removed from the united nations list of those who harm children in conflict decision came as a coalition air strike hit a vehicle carrying civilians in northern yemen on monday with the rebels say 4 children are among the dead. talk disease expert in china is warning next 3 days will be crucial in determining the impact of a new coronavirus break in the capital some neighborhoods in beijing are being put back in lockdown after $100.00 infections were confirmed the city had gone 50 days
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without reporting any cases. ever since new cases suddenly emerged in beijing we have tried to figure out the reasons for the outbreak since there were no covered $9000.00 cases filmed of the past 2 months we came up with several possibilities and the most likely one is that the carrier of the novel coronavirus comes from outside china or other parts of china and brought it here is the global number of chronic virus cases passes 8000000 the world health organization is warning of a possible 2nd wave it took more than 2 months for the 1st $100000.00 cases to be reported. for the past 2 weeks more than 100000 new cases have been reported almost every single day almost 75 per cent of recent cases come from 10 countries mostly in the americas and so's asia countries must stay are lowered to the possibility of
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a resurgence pakistan's government has reimposed what it calls smart lock downs following a record rise in corona virus infections part of a lot of bars and peshawar have already been sealed off with areas of the whore and other cities set to follow the government's warning infections could soar to one and a quarter 1000000 by the end of next month prime minister imran khan has ruled out a nationwide lockdown saying the country can't afford to stand still while higher has more from the capital. and there is now being a. guest on to about 20 major a particular one jobs program through our door. statement that we're going through i logged on nobody would be allowed to come out except by essentially groceries already at the pharmacy nearby within those communities. the government knowledge think that. what they're doing is that they're looking at the
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number of infections particular. and then once they see that that it that's why they're putting go ahead has done studies on the subject which was done to lock down and always so now we're getting reports that from midnight tonight measured. in even in the province something major city going to be going into a state of down for 15 days in order to drive through. the exponential growth of that particular band that make all career door to the government. getting more support from china moyock drugs have been coming in red. men are so full the most important they project on is going to school with the rising number of cases given warning from the wanted and don't deny vision and even the government bridge knowledge that there could be a 1.2 of the many engaged by d.n.o. . across in india prime minister narendra modi is preparing to discuss the rise in
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sections with the chief ministers of $21.00 states and territories in the record more than $10000.00 new cases on tuesday hospitals are running off beds in delhi in the state government's convention wedding holes and train carriages. president donald trump has confirmed he's ordering a significant cuts in the number of u.s. troops stationed in germany he says the total will come down to about $25000.00 soldiers that's a reduction of almost $10000.00 trouble q this is nato ally of not paying its fair share of contributions to the alliance budget germany as you know is very delinquent in their. payments to nato. and they're paying one percent in this supposed to be a 2 percent in the 2 percent is very low it should be much more than that so they're delinquent of billions of dollars and this is 3 years delinquent so we're removing. a number down to we're putting the number down 225000 soldiers we'll see
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what happens mark simak of ski is an order resident fellow at the atlantic council he says trump is wrong to suggest germany owes the u.s. money to nato. this comes directly after reportedly chancellor merkel among others were resistant to coming to the united states for a g. 7 summit i think the president was very angry with the chancellor personally over that and any course comes over frustration that the president has had of germany's inability to meet the 2 percent defense professional but all allies committed to the will summit several years ago so i would not say germany is delinquent they don't owe the united states money they don't own nato money they're paying their nato do become the president's perception is that because germany is unable to meet the 2 percent threshold even though it has been rising in its commitment that you has the ability which you does to punish germany firemen the u.s. forces but again those forces are not there to protect your money those forces are
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there to protect all the you know. countries as well as to protect u.s. interests and frankly it's being done you know laterally and it's a gift to president putin which again i think reinforces 'd why this president has such a strange relationship with russia and he has now essentially given russia a gift or move the u.s. forces without getting anything in return a top level talks have been held between the e.u. and the u.s. against what's being described as an increasingly a set of china a foreign minister just held a 2 hour video conference with the u.s. secretary of state on pay oh well says while they don't agree on everything the 2 allies should work to defend common interests when dealing with beijing including the situation in hong kong i should jest it should just it now about to push the ability of continuing gauging or not bilateral dialogue focusing on china and the challenges for dad to get more assertive fact to to do with china is
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putting on the on do will stage. israel has started building a road through occupied east jerusalem to better connect illegal settlements l.s.a. unfair that is just a step towards the annexation of their lead her force it reports. a long planned road through occupied east jerusalem is rapidly taking shape the american road named after a route that was abandoned part built by a u.s. contractor at the end of jordanian rule here in 1967 will instead become an israeli artery improving links between illegal settlements to the south east and north of the city its supporters call it a bypass that will benefit settlers and palestinians alike but a resident doesn't have to pass through traffic in the city that's the russian out of this road the road will of course if the whole population living here who wants to pass from north to south without getting stuck in traffic. but in the
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palestinian neighborhood have. a very different interpretation that the road is part of israel's plan to close off occupied east jerusalem to the west bank and and any lingering hope that the city being a future palestinian capital this will eliminate the project and the possibility of creating a viable path any unstated initially to a separate the city of jerusalem from the northern and southern parts of the west bank the reuters news agency says the road will be 8 kilometers long and include a tunnel under palestinian neighborhood close to the old city and of course none of this is happening in isolation from the current politics the illegal settlements that this road will link are among those that the prime minister benjamin netanyahu is promising to start an exciting as early as next month. on sunday and monday the u.s. ambassador to israel has been an annexation talks with netanyahu and his rival turned coalition partner benny gantz in an attempt to bring both onto the american policy path in the meantime work continues on the american road just part of what the
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palestinian leadership views as a decades long process of de facto annexation on the ground or a force that occupied east jerusalem. israel says it will ask the u.n. security council to intervene in a dispute over a controversial dam being constructed by ethiopia on the nile river. between the 2 countries as well as sudan have faltered after restarting last week egypt is worried that filling with ground ethiopian renascence dam to quickly will reduce its water supplies. brazilian president jaya both an hour has said the military would never remove him from power is being investigated for his possible interference in federal police appointments and is facing a number of impeachment proposal from congress for his handling of the coronavirus endemic more than you've got of for the most what that means for the arab forces and i'm also of the military we are truly responsible for democracy in our country we will never follow orders we will also never accept a political judgment to ruin
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a democratically elected president in light of definitive another brutal interference of the supreme court in the executive we cannot agree with that i think that up to a point i have been patient and more than accommodating i don't want to put my 1st on the table nor confronting the one. kurdish woman a former community protection group to guard crops against eisel the fight is bad wheat and barley fields across northern syria and iraq last year salah ballasts reports. harvesting season has arrived in northern syria but in the turn of the malian there's more women than mean more guns than harvest is these women a kurdish volunteers and have created a group called the. protection forces this self-appointed mission is to protect his crops from islamic state arsonists. we came to protect our crops so that what happened last year won't be repeated this year we are preparing to
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protect them as part of a big effort. last year tens of thousands of acres of wheat and barley fields with schools across northern syria and iraq resulting in millions of dollars in losses for already struggling communities islamic state kind many of the fires as punishment for those who oppose them others say eiseley uses the 3 have cropped burnings. into paying them taxes these women are determined to put a name to that. in the event of an emergency all role is to contact the firefighters to bring wet socks and help the firefighters put out the fire. farmers are also harvesting earlier than usual saying green shoots a better burn twenty's cousin of do not a physical process iraqi border in cuckoo he started harvesting on may 20th a month earlier than normal. we started harvesting because of islamic
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state terrorists and the burning of our crops and fields for our own security we carry a rifle with us it is on usual for a harvester to carry a gun but this is because we don't have security here and there are threats on us. i salute is no longer a significant threat in the region but it is a lingering one in rural areas with much of the group's resources and manpower decimated they launch small scale targeted assaults like burning fields they hope to store fear in place of crops this year farmers and their communities are prepared shallot ballasts al-jazeera. they were released from britain's immigration detention centers awaiting to find. what will happen to them when the lockdown is eased by a 3rd being held was freed at the height of the corona virus pandemic to stop the spread of the virus this imma haywood reports campaigners say no one should be held up not a day goes by without was shorn davis wondering whether he'll get
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a knock at the door born in jamaica he moved to the u.k. when he was 11 and has lived here for the past 20 years 10 years ago he served a 2 month custodial sentence but hasn't been in trouble since he's married to a british woman and has a baby efforts to try and deport him led him to be taken to an immigration removal center before he was released at the start of lock down now he's in limbo for a few weeks. your family your friends. here we're going to be i mean you children should be taken away from you and put somewhere that you don't know which with the children. it's. it's heart wrenching. it's between 800 and a 1000 people deemed low risk of being released since the start of the covert 900 lockdown some a staying in home office accommodation or with family is now required to stay in contact with the author or it is many still have outstanding claims to stay in the
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u.k. others want to return to their country of origin but can't because of the current travel restrictions some people remain inside these immigration removal centers and campaigners say it is difficult to socially distance in this type of setting and that they should have been emptied entirely and that even with fewer people inside a limited number of toilets hand sanitizer and general hygiene facilities put detainees at risk in a statement the government spokesperson told us removals are still taking place where routes are available and immigration enforcement and following the latest guidance from public health england and we make no apology to seeking to remove serious violent and persistent foreign national offenders and continue to do so using all the usual mechanisms lawyers representing detainees say the whole system of detention needs overhauling and the current situation is a worry and large fortune of the people who make up the immigration just that state
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have preexisting vulnerabilities of government and its physical health issues often have experienced posthumous why they came to the u.k. over experience of the way to get the ongoing fear of free detention and deportation that is only going to increase the stress on the beach i'm from the damage just like looked well be. reassured hopes he'll get to be around to see his daughter grow up in these very uncertain times many lives are on hold and he would al-jazeera. result is there and these the top stories north korea has blown off its joint liaison office with the south it was opened on the border in kosovo 2 years ago the north has issued several warnings in the past few days you can you look at some of . the north south jointly areas on office was completely ruined on tuesday in the
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wake of cutting off all the communication lines corresponding to the mindset of the enraged people to surely force human scum and those who have sheltered the scum to pay dearly for big crimes $3.00 indian soldiers have been killed during fighting on the border with china it happened in the disputed gaul one valley territory where efforts to deescalate tensions are underway the saudi led military coalition fighting in yemen has been removed from the united nations' list of those who harm children in conflict decision came as a coalition air strike hit a vehicle carrying civilians a northern given on monday who the rebels say for children are among the dead human rights watch says it's found evidence of war crimes committed in libya by fiat is affiliated to warlord holly for her after online video shows fighters torturing killing and desecrating the bodies of soldiers loyal to the government in tripoli
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one of china's top disease expert says the next 3 days will be crucial in predicting the impact of a new coronavirus resurgence of the capital some neighborhoods in beijing were put back in lockdown on sunday after 100 infections were confirmed pakistan's government has reimposed what it calls smart lock downs following a record rise in corona virus infections odds of islamabad and pascha one have already been sealed off for the areas of lahore and other cities to follow. top of talks been held in the e.u. in the us against what's being described as an increasingly a sort of china e.u. foreign minister joseba real held a 2 all video conference with u.s. secretary of state. well says while they don't agree on everything the 2 allies should work together to defend common interests. was the headline stay with us this is europe is coming up next one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much and put in contribution to
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