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that's a lot of. legal. challenges there. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter darby your watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the world trade organization backscatter over saudi arabia who are accused of blatantly pirating and broadcasting the b. in t.v. sports network. tensions high north korea destroys a liaison office it shared with the south as relations continue to sour. border
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tensions to between china and india troops clash over a disputed area in the himalayas. an order to withdraw u.s. forces from germany the president trumps arguments with berlin escalates and inspire more reaction to that report from the world trade organization and whether it could end this saudi bank deal to my english premier league team newcastle united. top story the world trade organization has issued a scathing legal judgment against saudi arabia over its pirate broadcasts of major sporting events the w t o says the saudi government knew about the piracy operations taking place at a channel called be out q. and actively promoted to the operation involved intellectual property theft on a mass scale not just from kashmir rights holders but also fee for the premier
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league formula $1.00 the n.b.a. and more even so the government did not take any criminal action against the channel over the course of 3 years despite being provided with evidence from a range of companies and governments. has the story. it's been described as the biggest and most outrageous piracy operation in history which has been allowed to continue for the past 3 years but that might all change now after the wall trade organization one of the most important international bodies of jurisdiction issued its findings into the case of saudi arabia on the 5th of t.v. broadcasting rights in 2017 shortly after the kingdom and 3 of its allies imposed a land air and sea blockade on qatar a new television network was unveiled named b. out q the new channel was nothing more than a piracy operation that stole the signal and output from b. in sports the qatari own subscription base sports and entertainment network and
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rebroadcast it around the world the largest global sporting events including the 2018 feet for walt cup the english premier league tennis grand slams and formula one were all illegally broadcast q. and a flagrant breach of intellectual property rights and several other international treaties. according to the world trade organizations independent investigation b l g q was and is supported by the saudi government the report's name sounded funny the so-called right hand man of the kingdom's effective ruler crown prince mohammed bin said a man is being behind to be out q the w t o also confirms that through government owned entities such as arab sites be out q was able to operate and transmit it signal and that saudi arabia ignored numerous requests from the u.s. and british governments and sporting bodies such as the premier league and fifa to put an end to the piracy the phantom has reached
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a specific conclusion that the kingdom of saudi arabia is in breach of the w t o obligation for refusing to take any actions against the pirates be articulate not only that but also actively promoting these basic broadcast of that pirates be out to q. the findings by the w t o do not come with any mechanism that will force saudi arabia to cease its piracy but there is another ongoing legal case that might where is the world trade organizations investigation was instigated by a request from others government the b.n. network has filed a separate 1000000000 dollar lawsuit be in a sport as an uppity company is pursuing its own illegal actions against the kingdom of saudi arabia in the form of an international arbitration and to the extent of my knowledge this arbitration is in its procedures and this is will be the platform for the. b.
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and scored to seek the compensation for the harm that happened to that company this case is important globally because aside from the 5th of some of the most sought after broadcasting television rights saudi arabia is also trying to buy one of the largest and oldest football clubs in england newcastle united that takeover is now hanging in the balance was the world trade organization may not have the power to force saudi arabia to shut down its piracy operation its ruling is a very clear indictment that the kingdom is behind one of the vian largest theft of intellectual property rights in history many will view this is yet another failure of saudi arabia's policies under the facto rule of crown prince mohammed bin son man. ok let's get more on that for joining us here in the news hour is david sugden he is the legal counsel and director of corporate affairs for b.n.
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media group david sugden welcome to al-jazeera 1st off can i just get your reaction to this ruling please. of course this is a major victory for intellectual property rights protection and day a major victory for the international rule of law fundamentally sport relies on protection of ip and international law and local law to protect its interests and certainly for 3 years now. every sports bodies rights have been run roughshod over by saudi arabia and this judgement in fact tickly says that recourse should normally take place i guess in the courts in. why didn't that happen. exactly right ordinarily the natural home for these cases is in the jurisdiction where the crime is committed in the criminal is based that in this case is saudi
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arabia and has been for 3 years however the government of saudi arabia as proven by the b.t.o. itself today deliberately blocked any legal action from being media group from not only b.n. but every single major world football body. in the world from bringing legal action to protect their intellectual property in saudi arabia that was a very deliberate strategy to basically mean that no one can protect their rights and as a result you have to rely on international law which is why this case was brought by qatar. and it is in fact tickly ruled in favor of international law and the protection of sports rights what are the main implications of the this ruling for you if we view it through the prism of protecting intellectual property rights internationally i mean also combined with saudi's aspirations because they've got big expensive probably expensive aspirations when it comes to the game of soccer the game of football in the u.k.
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. well it's very hard to reconcile the 2 if you don't protect intellectual property rights then you can't participate on a world stage in sport the 2 are interlinked to be successful in sport as a country as a team as a football club as a as a local community you have to protect your interests and particular broadcast perspective and be inspected and sky and others you have to protect intellectual property and the direct consequence of not doing so means that sport is is poorer for it because broadcast money contributes a significant amount of sports bodies revenues and if those broadcast feeds rights can't be protected that money dries up and that goes directly to the premier league fee for you a fair except for and then turn to football clubs such as newcastle and so if you cut off the source of funding through illegality the whole system falls apart and that's what's the danger of happening here will there be a sanction laid at the door of surly arabia or not or will some sort of
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terrorist only be imposed on saudi arabia if or perhaps when those aspirations they have particularly when it comes to newcastle united end up going away because perhaps just perhaps that may not happen. that's a question for saudi arabia whether it wants to comply with international law there are 164 member states that have agreed to sign up to these rules that they do with cio and it seems that one is very clearly not keen to follow them. and that the bigger implication is for world sport because as i said. given coronavirus all kind of commercial revenues are drying up and gate receipts are drying up because much of our and close doors sponsorship revenues are falling off a cliff sports is incredibly dependent on broadcast rights revenue and broadcast
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rights protection and outside people to action. and if you take that away. whether by a state actor or in any event sports bodies will take action that's what's happened here that this is not just a ruling for qatar and b. and this is this is a major ruling for fifi you wait for the premier league or league a bun does league and the a.f.c. and others because it's a full endorsement that if you break the rules. rulings will be made to to clamp down on that so it's very much the ball's in saudi arabia's court mr sutton good to talk to you thank you for your time the south korean government has threatened to respond of pyongyang continues to escalate tensions between pyongyang and seoul north korea blew up the liaison office it shared with the in the border town of his song the u.s. says it's in close contact with seoul following the bombing the office building had long been unoccupied tensions have been building for weeks this latest development
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was prompted by defectors in south korea sending balloons carrying political messages up over the border the increasingly influential sister of the leader kim jong il in kim jong previously warned the military would destroy the building if the defectors weren't stopped mcbride begins our coverage now from so. the complete destruction of a building created at the height of improving into korean relations and with it and the immediate hope of reconciliation the north has become enraged by defectors who make calls human scum releasing propaganda balloons into its territory kim jong the increasingly influential sister of leader kim jong un had warned the military could destroy the building in retaliation. and confirmation came choose day afternoon with a faint plume of smoke spotted north of the border. this corresponds to the mindset
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of an enraged people to force the human scum and those who have sheltered them to pay dearly for the crimes the joint liaison office was established in 2018 i made the flurry of summit diplomacy between the 2 koreas and between the north and the united states since then all talks including getting rid of the north's nuclear weapon threat have stalled by this action north korea seems set on creating a new crisis on the korean peninsula it's already cut the hot lines across the demilitarized zone border with the south making any attempts at reconciliation far more difficult and possibly signaling a return to the extreme tensions of the past that's something the liberal south korean president moon j.n.t. has wanted to avoid at all costs but even his government seems to be returning to acrimonious warnings from which i thought we sternly warned that we will strongly
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respond if the north continue so take steps to worsen the situation adding that all responsibility for this destructive act falls on the north of macbride al jazeera sold correspondent alan fischer joins us live now from outside the white house allan what's the reaction like there in washington. well the national security council has said that they're in touch with their allies in south korea that's exactly what we expected them to say there's been no reaction from the pentagon a from the state department or indeed from the president but they are talking to their allies behind the scenes that is almost set in the north koreans said that this was because of failed diplomacy new you remember is exactly 2 years ago this month that donald trump and kim jong un met in singapore for a summit that promised many things donald trump believed that this was going to be a new era of diplomacy on the korean peninsula but unfortunately at the next summit
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in vietnam everything fell apart donald trump pushed too hard with the koreans to remove their nuclear weapons to end their nuclear program and kim jong un decided to walk away if this move was to try and get dole trump's attention it's not going to be overly successful he's got a lot in his plate at the moment he's got the covert crises he's got the economic fallout of the covert crisis he has got demonstrations across the country because of police brutality and here of course has got an election to fight and to try and win in 5 months time he is not going to give a great deal of attention to something that is difficult complex and complicated like diplomacy with north korea so it seems that the americans are going to be watching what north korea does next but at the moment there is no official reaction from the white house thank you. plenty more still to come for you here on the news hour including thank you say sions of war crimes in libya human rights watch says
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it has evidence against fighters loyal to the warlord. human rights group calls for justice and a crackdown by security forces in the democratic republic of congo between 20152018 . and in the sports news details of an important win off the pitch for this premier league sprint cup. 3 indian soldiers have been killed during facing with chinese troops on the border it happened in the disputed gul one valley territory where efforts to deescalate tensions are now underway the 2 countries have been locked in a standoff on the border for weeks india's foreign ministry said on tuesday the faceoff was the result of an attempt by beijing to quote unilaterally change the status quo there elizabeth iran has this update from new delhi. the indian army
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confirms that an officer and 2 soldiers were killed in what they're calling a violent faceoff on monday night and say that senior military officers from both sides and involved in talks in the location to try and defuse the situation and the defense minister is also holding talks with the head of the army and that's because what's happened is significant clashes along one of the world's longest disputed borders calm and this is the 1st day as a result of clashes in 45 years and it happened as both sides were involved in deescalation efforts after recent tensions on the border they started in may when they were a series of clashes along the unofficial border it's known as the line of actual control or l.a. sea where china accused india of trespassing on its territory accused them of trying to build a fence facilities and they always maintained that its troops were on its side and after those skirmishes we had both sides increasing their military presence in the region and then both sides saying that they had
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a good relationship and that they had the diplomatic measures the channels in place to resolve any border tensions through talks talks have been held for the past 10 days and these deaths occurred despite those assurances from both sides that things were deescalating so now there are a lot of questions and about whether the indian army about whether the indian government has been completely honest about the situation along the border how serious it's been and whether they have it under control. it will continue dialogue . but if tensions continue to train the u.s. has more now from beijing. well the chinese side has laid the blame for this all to cation slowly at the foot of india now according to jolly jen who's the foreign ministry spokesperson here in beijing he said that because of these intensifying scuffles have been taking place between china and india in recent months but there have been deescalating dialogues that had been taking place in the lead up to june
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and he said on june 6th a consensus between both sides was reached now we also know that chinese state media say that on that same day chinese military officers and weaponry were sent to the border to also conduct military exercises now according to delhi jan on monday this consensus was broken by the indian side let's have a listen you do it in front of you what is shocking is that on june 15th the indian troops seriously violated the consensus of the 2 sides crossed the border illegally twice and carried out provocative attacks on chinese personnel resulted in serious physical conflicts between the 2 border forces china has had that it's made some representations to india it's dismissed having any responsibility for this and that it will continue peaceful dialogue but at the same time china's ministry spokespersons have often said that tunnel will not back down from a fight if there is in fact any challenge to its sovereignty by india. human rights
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watch says it has found evidence of war crimes committed in libya by fighters affiliated to the warlord after online video shows fighters torturing killing and desecrating the bodies of soldiers loyal to the government in tripoli the watchdog is calling on have to hold his self declared libyan national army accountable for the crimes let's speak to one sala she's a research a specializing in libya and mauritania for human rights watch welcome to the news what do you want. to do now. so we have seen over and over again over these past years incidence of extrajudicial executions desecration of bodies of fighters torture all of them gleefully being presented in the social media by fighters affiliated with the libyan national army without any consequence and this is a real problem we have issued multiple reports we have obviously every time that
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i'm not the senior leadership that they too can be held to account if they don't do anything about these violations if they don't put an end to them and certainly if they don't hold people to account so what we really want is for these violations to stop in the meantime it would be good if the senior leadership recognizes that a senior leadership of the libyan so-called libyan national army or the libyan armed forces what. conduct an investigation and what at least remove people who are found to be responsible for serious human rights violations i think i'm right in saying we're talking here about at least 8 mass graves have your personnel being to those locations or are you getting information from another source. so just to be clear that the 2 incidents that we reported about the ones that were documented with the extrajudicial executions of the desecration of the torture of of a of
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a detainee these are not related or not the parent related to any of the reports of mass graves to our information there there is currently no no no figure yet no confirmed figures yet of people who have been found in these mass graves and i also want to be clear that we do not know that there is only 8 there's probably more than that and we also don't know when these mass graves where established so it could be that they go back as far as 2017 and this really drives home the point that we have been making over and over again that there is a real need for accountability for abuses in libya this country has slipped under the radar and people have been going about their business with complete impunity and i think the next real possibility for that is the un human rights council that is currently convening in geneva that could establish. an international fact finding mission to document these violations and to identify those responsible for
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violations is there something of a trend here because there were i.c.c. arrest warrants issued when there were 20172018 from memory i don't think they went any place them. there is certainly a trend when it comes to abuses and when it comes to capturing abuses on camera we know of the international criminal court has issued a 2 arrest warrants against mom or do it fairly he's a captain would a libyan national army and he operates directly under. have to that he remains in his position that there has been no accountability and we have not seen any attempt by the libyan national army to hand him over to the international criminal court but what is what still needs to happen is the international criminal court has a mandate in libya and it's a very important mandate and it's an underused mandate it could be a deterrent for serious human rights abuses so from my point of view this is again
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an urgent call to the prosecutor of the international criminal court to take a good look at these videos that we are presenting but also like other evidence out there and to really hold to account all those who have committed serious human rights violations and that includes also the the other party of the conflict the government of national accord and all fighters affiliated with them because they're not exempt from a from any kind of future prosecuted for war crimes ok sila from human rights watch thank you very much thank you the nato chief says he's begun talks with the u.s. and germany that's off the president all trump for the withdrawal of 1500 u.s. soldiers from germany mr trump has falsely accused the nato ally of not paying its fair share of contributions to the alliance his budget germany as you know is very delinquent in their. payments to nato. and they're
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paying one percent in this supposed to be a 2 percent of 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 one foot in the number down to 25000 soldiers will see what happens well in its achieve stoltenberg says is not yet clear when the troops will be withdrawn but it will be high on the agenda for forthcoming defense ministers meeting he says his message is clear and i was spoken with the president . spoke you know there are present is of of the u.s. administration and i also spoke with the german defense minister on the 5th ago called bobber so this now and only going dialogue on this issue and my message is an amends to has been and remains to be the importance of. north american u.s. canadian presence in europe because that binds europe and north america together
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and that's good for both europe and north america germany is the latest e.u. member to launch a contact tracing app because of coronavirus using bluetooth that informs the public if they've come into contact with a covert 19 positive person dominic cain explains. germany has been praised around the world for its approach in combating the corona virus keeping the number of infections down and keeping the number of deaths down in states around this country the thinking is lower isolated breaks but generally speaking very low numbers such as here where i am right now in the state of schleswig-holstein in the north of the country and what some of the right here is a low one of the tools that government ministers are particularly hoping will help them in the next stage of combating corona is an app that uses and people can download on to best mom which allows them anonymously to see information about whether things mean proximity to somebody who's gone to test positive likewise if
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a person test positive well then they will upload the details of their positive test which will be also sent to cases and then that information can be sent on to other uses of this app and that way ministers hope that as i say it will be another tool take that their coverage and their treatment of her and on to a different level kind of if you can help to build people who've been in contact with others who've been affected more quickly than it's been possible up to now every extra hour to board about the dangers of infection as a win in the fight against this virus one of the problems that the government with this app and bringing it sat is previously issues that many people would concerns would the data that's gathered here really be anonymous could data protection be in short ministers say yes it can but the interesting thing is that surveys suggest the germans down the middle of less than 40 percent yes they say they will download this app but around 40 percent say they want ministers hope that in the course of
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the next few weeks and months as the pandemic progresses that many people will realize that they can use this app and it will give them a degree more safety will certainly that's what ministers hope. across the board a hospital. workers in france have helped protest in different cities up and down the country demanding better pay and an improved public health system police fired tear gas at demonstrators in paris french hospitals have been affected by budget cuts and many were overcrowded because of the pandemic the government's been negotiating with medical representatives after the president emanuel mccrum promised reforms still to come for you here on the news hour cries of foul by the u.s. venezuela's opposition leader as the government appoints what's considered an illegal electoral cum so. desperate for food peruvians are forced to risk their lives amid strict virus restrictions. and in sports encouraging signs of a return to the n.f.l. for colin kaepernick and he's here with that story in about 20 minutes.
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however not much going on in the weather across the middle east at the moment losey fine and dry not too much in the way of cloud as well little bit of cloud down towards southern parts of amman southern areas of yemen but that's a fair weather variety that we could see hot and dusty that sums it up as per usual we see quite keen wind blowing in as we go through where to stay on into thursday pegging the temperature back to around $39.00 celsius here in doha the uptick the president says that the winds will be picking up a somewhat as we go on through the next few days lossie dry then as you can see across the region a few showers there into turkey showers continuing meanwhile across the central africa as they should do right across into the gulf of guinea so take
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a heavy one is just around cameroon southern parts of nigeria easing over towards gonna liberia pushing up towards southern areas of mali actually in more of the same as we go on through thursday that easter the side of africa on the other hand a little drama has been. a recently charles a want to take us to shasta nothing much to speak of still a chance of some of the shows there went to uganda maybe into western areas of kenya east and parts of africa just coming down into madagascar and also into big will see some wet weather for a snare is south africa. called the to be on the well. taken without hesitation. and dogged from power defines our world we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas here we made the rule of investigating
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welcome back let's just have a quick skip through your top stories today the world trade organization has ruled against saudi arabia and its legal battle with caps are over football broadcasting rights the ruling says the saudi government participated in intellectual property theft on a mass scale by allowing the pirate channel be out to operate in the u.s. says it's in close coordination with its ally south korea that's after north korea blew up a joint liaison office tensions escalated 20 factors in south korea sent political messages by balloon over the border. us president on from saying he will sign an executive order on police reform later today donald trump was hailed u.s. law enforcement as quote mostly great people he says the executive order will ensure reforms are fair just consider. amnesty international is urging justice for hundreds of people killed in pro-democracy protests in the democratic republic of
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congo a new report by the human rights organization found congolese security forces brutally and systematically cracked down on protesters quote between 20152018 they were opposing the president joseph attempts to remain in power beyond his 2nd constitutional term by the end of 2018 at least 320 people were dead and 3 and a half 1000 have been injured in the capital kinshasa with an 8000 arbitrary arrests and detentions were made in connection with the protests mohamed atta reports now on one family's quest for justice. 2 years after the killing of his sister by police chong bungalow still seeking justice tears kapanga and no reason 100 protesters in the capital kinshasa generate 2018 calling for former president joseph kabila to step down after the expiry of his 2nd term police deployed to quell the protests come down with shootings beating senator ists
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terrorist was dead within minutes of being struck by a single round. of measures paid we feel completely abandoned by the authorities our only hope is to see the government on our side one day and our quest for justice was launched complaints several times asking for police officers and others responsible for the death of my sister brought to justice but unfortunately nothing has happened so far is the presidential elections will finally held in december 2018 without kabila on the ballot the winner felix to kid he formed a coalition with kabila spirity to secure my duty in parliament despite his promises of really change he said mr schoen is here to act on repeated calls for the prosecution of those responsible for the killing so protesters show for concern as minister of justice i haven't seen even a single file of a complaint from families of those killed during protests in the past i don't see
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how way as government can refuse to receive such complaints we have no vested interest in turning down any such petition with them i'm just international is calling on the congolese president to live up to his promises an issue of justice for victims of police brutality it's also calling for transparent investigations into serious human rights violations committed by security forces during the protests for your own crowd kapunda he says does most has been made all the harder with the knowledge no one has been held accountable he's vowing he won't give up the fight mohammed and all al-jazeera. the military coalition fighting in yemen has been removed from a united nations blacklist of warring parties that harm children in conflicts the decision came as a coalition air strike hit a vehicle carrying civilians in northern yemen on monday who the rebels say 4 children were on the dead save the children says 13 people were killed rights groups of condemned the coalition's removal from the list diplomatic editor james
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bays as more it comes out every year and it's the list that no country wants to be all me un xl list of the parties that are harming children in conflict zones either killing or maiming children the saudi led 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 these 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 morning daryn and engagement trying to. really ensure it's sustained the implementation of the
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program. and the very big crease in the number of. the u.n. failure of who we. were dressed in a really think well the thing about a nation in my name you say failure surely it's a failure this year when they've killed or maimed 222 children. because there still are. a ballerina in the theater are you thinking a general meeting and i think you will and he would mean that in the press and if you delight in section 5 of the room where aids patient monitoring make any difference. but 20 months sure it and the completion of all the men in agony human rights organizations though are not happy with that response human rights watch says shame on the un for removing the saudi led coalition from its
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list of shame the us president says he'll sign an executive order on police reform later today donald trump says order will ensure changes are fair just and safe it follows protests of the deaths of 2 african-american men in police custody is an egalitarian. as protests continue to gather pace across the nation the family of ray sharp brooks gave the 1st emotional press conference the 27 year old father of 3 died on friday after he was shot twice in the back by a police officer his death has been ruled a homicide the officer who killed him has been fired and he's grieving family wants justice because tomorrow we're going to have to deal with any. we go head to beer and we go i think we miss you in a pretty if they were lucky enough we got this is the of the not there were no but racial brooks was killed 3 weeks after george floyd died in minneapolis after an officer knelt on his neck for almost 9 minutes now police forces across the us
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a promising major reforms to procedures community policing and their relationship with african-americans in new york the city's anti crimes unit comprising of around $600.00 police officers will be reassigned the unit was involved in the death of eric garner in 2014 and was responsible for a disproportionate number of shootings and complaints make no mistake this is a seismic shift in the culture of how the n.y.p.d. polices this great city it will be felt and mediately throughout the 5 district attorney's offices it will be felt immediately in the communities that we protect despite his insistence that law and order must be enforced president trump says the death of racial brooks is concerning that it was a terrible situation. that it closely i'm going to get some report starting today in very strong reports and have a little more to say about it tomorrow but certainly it was very to me it was very
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disturbing on tuesday it's expected president trump will sign an executive order aiming to improve police training weeding out bad offices and improving dealing with mental health issues it's not expected his order will address system racism even as place reform appears to be sweeping the nation those calling for change say it's not enough most of the changes involve procedures and not police accountability many want to see officers who carry out unjustified killings face justice something that all too often doesn't happen to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is accusing the venezuelan president nicolas maduro of trying to rig the forthcoming election the parliamentary vote is being overseen by a newly appointed electoral council that's dominated by the door and loyalists mr pompei o says this was illegal the opposition leader why don't has also condemned the move as a violation of the constitution let's talk now to armando our mask is
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a venezuelan lawyer and social activist he's also president of the permanent commission for foreign policy sovereignty and integration of parliament he joins us on skype he does not want us to tag his location amanda are welcome to the news out what is wrong with this new electoral council well thank you very much peter 1st of all we have to be very clear about our mean goal as a democratic movement is to have 3 instead general elections so it is so low is it well known but not no no well we're 3 times the size of iraq with 2 thirds of iraq populations by the music go some people there with enough money to buy when it's europe and latin america it is because the political situation they create. it in economic and social
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decadence undergoing on the now when people cross the border at least with their homes that were bad enough to prevent the big world approximately 280000 people apart every week most of whom were mondo i'm going to have to stop you there for which i apologize what you're saying is interesting and relevant but not actually in answer to my question my question was what is wrong with the formation of and or how it's put together this new electoral council. so yes i wanted to address. within the context so the. problem with the national electoral council is that if it has been according to our constitution as you point it by the national assembly that's our rulings that's our
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cause additional procedures so because the democratic critic movement has the overwhelming majority of the population backing us and he's as it was in 2000 we won over 2 thirds of the of the majority in parliament we are the ones who should be appointing the according to rules of our constitution the electoral council and what most of the. appoints them illegally and when do i do it then. rule in favor of a point. in an unconstitutional way the new electoral council to have elections because all of them support the really basic ok i'm assuming here therefore that you don't accept the validity of the electoral council if the
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electoral council was broadly speaking 5050 if it was 50 percent people who would self identify as backing mr magara and 50 percent people who would self identify as backing mr quite oh would that be ok for you. so the electoral council is comprised by like the national the truck council the board i mean it's comprised by 5 or 5. people type and. our the discussions at the negotiation table in jamaica republic and barbados and not within nor when i was about to having this kind of conversation like the government would appoint the early regime with a point for 2 members the opposition leader necrotic movement will appoint 2 members and between the 2 of them will appoint a 5th member which is by the way that both for for both parts this was something
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that the democratic opposition proposed and this was something that the regime was not able to take into consideration ok we have to leave about armando i must thank you very much thank you. the brazilian president has said the military would never remove him from power he's being investigated over his possible interference in federal police appointments and is facing a number of impeachment proposals from congress for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic more than you got us for the market i mean our armed forces and i'm also of the military we are truly responsible for democracy in that country we will never follow orders we will also never accept a political judgment to ruin a democratically elected president while defending if another brutal interference of the supreme court in the executive we cannot agree with that i think that up to
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a point i have been patient in more than accommodating i don't want to put my fist on the table nor confronting the one. that's in america is the current epicenter of the virus and then make accounting for one 5th of all cases around the world brazil is the 2nd worst affected country anywhere in the world with more than 43000 dead and nearly 900000 confirmed cases chile has also emerged as a hotspot for the death toll is quickly rising. more than $100.00 days after the 1st case of curb it 19 was reported peru has one of the highest infection rates across latin america the government established one of the 1st and strictest lockdown measures in the region but desperation for food money is forcing people to risk their lives mariana sanchez reports now from lima. patients are brought in coffins or carried out across the country hospitals are being pushed to be on their limits it's what president discover had hoped to avoid when he implemented one of the earliest and strictest lockdown measures in latin america. and the rise of
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contagion is because of this staying at home is out of the question for more than $5000000.00 poor peruvians who can only live on what they earn each day and they must go out for fresh food nearly half of prove fields don't have a refrigerator. we are dying of hunger our children have nothing to eat and the president and mayor don't say anything they only tell us to follow the rules but the rules are against us. in some districts street vendors scrambled the lead to avoid police a curfew added to other restrictions has left more than 2300000 peruvians jobless in the capital alone the desperation is there fuelling the contagion you know the ground there is a great conglomerations in lima contributing to an increase of patients but we must to reactivate the economy and help those who need to work in an orderly way. the pressure is on many are already operating with restrictions the government's push
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to reopen the economy is leading to more travelling people will not only have to take the risk of going to the markets which have been the hot spots for contagion in the city now to go to work most will have to take a bus traveling in the people are usually crammed up and health care officials say that will likely increase the number of cases putting an extra burden on the health care system they do not we are in the better for lima general be the highest point more than 65 percent of all beds are now dedicated to covered. when the pandemic began there were fewer than 150 intensive care beds for peru's 32000000 people now the government says there are nearly 5000 but that may still not be enough 93 year old maximina also was not accepted in any hospital because of her age and because there were guarding of beds variation marmara nothing for my mother could have died
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a month ago but fortunately a doctor came in the middle of the night to give his medicine. to the health care system continues to struggle officials say more than 6500 peruvians have died experts say the real number could be at least twice as much while patients hope for a hospital bed poor peruvians are trying to earn enough to eat aware that the choice may turn out to be between hunger and getting sick but you know some just. kind of formed a community protection group to guard crops against ice or arsonists last year the group large areas of wheat and barley fields across northern syria and iraq inshallah bellus. harvesting season has arrived in northern syria but in the town of the malian there's more women than men more guns than harvest these one. a kurdish volunteers and have created
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a group called the community protection forces the self-appointed mission is to protect his crops from islamic state mists. we came to protect our crops so that what happened last year won't be repeated this year we are preparing to 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 icily uses the trace of crop burnings took store locals 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
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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 state terrorists and the burning of our crops and fields for our own security we carry a rifle with us it is i know usually for a harvester to carry a gun but this is because we don't have security here and they off 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. still to come here on the news sports news
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with andy more reaction to the world trade organization report that could end a proposed deal to buy premier league team castle united.
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you'll. time for sports with andy thank you so much kate so while the saudi arabia by newcastle united has had a major setback the world trade organization racing a report that confirms the saudi government is supporting the t.v. network and network that illegally streams sporting events could now mean the proposed $380000000.00 davies blocks bothered. premier league the league has itself been pursuing the saudis for 2 years over illegal streams of its matches now they
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have to fine you council has to press the league so-called owners and directs this test we spoke to simon chadwick a professor of your asian sport about the impact this report my have if there is evidence of saudi arabian government piracy or sorry arabian backed. a campaign of piracy and this is this is seen as being somehow a criminal act then what conceivably the premier league could do is to take that report to investigate further and potentially there may be a link between the saudi arabian government the entity by newcastle united and also the entity that has been involved in in pirating content in which case the premier league could judge it could rule that the takeover may not go ahead because there is evidence of criminality so in this particular case i think essentially what
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we've what what what is happening that we've all always known would happen is that the premier league is being brought into sharp focus here because it potentially faces making a decision way you have a solvent investor that is bringing money into the premier league hence the premier league would see you may see that as an attractive proposition but at the same time what you also have is an entity that is pirating the premier league's. content and has been deemed to be engaged in criminal activity potentially by the world trade organization and so the premier league has to make a judgment call on this one and it is a really a very big judgment call that asked the mic. obama unit can secure an 8 straight german league title a little lights are on a win against vertebral give them a record 30th funders lead a championship since the return of that competition by end of $16.00 straight games
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and much to not to strike a mark as russia has pulled off an important victory for more than a 1000000 children in the u.k. the government has agreed to his demands to provide male vouchers for children from low income families during the summer holidays rushford had written open letter it's a politician's asking for a policy change the 22 year old and raise more than $25000000.00 for charity since the crown of ours lockdown began in march now n.f.l. commissioner roger goodell says he'd like to see colin kaepernick back playing in the league this season and has encouraged teams to sign him in 26th amy former san francisco 40 on his quarterback started nailing during the national anthems a protest against racial injustice he left that same 27 scene and hasn't played since last week it all said the league had been wrong not to listen to its players during their protests if you want to resume his career in the n.f.l. that obviously is going to take a team to make that decision but i welcome that support the club making that decision and encourage them to do that if it is efforts are not under seal but in
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continuing to work in this space we welcome to their to their table and to be able to help us and guide us and of course make better decisions about the kinds of things that need to be done in communities we haven't voted him in before and we want to make sure everybody's working at their table and trying to help us deal with some very complex difficult issues that have been around unfortunate for a long time. dallas cowboys star running back is the elliotts has tested positive for corona virus several players from his team and the 9 players from the houston texans of also return positive tests elite though still set to begin its season as scheduled in september. the organizers officious t 20 cricket world cup in australia say the competition is likely to be postponed due to coronavirus tournaments still officially set to begin in october but health and safety issues i'm
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a dropsical with 16 international same's flying in for the events going on most of the r.c.c. at least it's based model aside some likely while as we fully call. on its own countries it was in the car with by scott still going through it. all realistic will be very difficult for a number of different options. with mine. on the u.s. open tennis tournament is set to get the go ahead but without found attending many stop plays including novak djokovic and the rafael nadal have voiced their concerns about taking in the event you see the impact of coronavirus right now all top level events all suspended the u.s. open is due to start at the end of august in new york ok most sport for me throughout the day but that is how we're looking for now it's and the thank you very much for 30 minutes of news for you when we come back at the top of the up
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hopefully see about. another early morning another ceremony to bit health work as well. 29000 to cuban doctors and nurses working in 59 countries around the world has confirmed cases of coronavirus increase so does demand for cuban medics medical services at the island's main export while western commentators assume cuba sends doctors mainly to expand influence experts on the others health system draw
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a different conclusion you're making a big sacrifice why are you willing to go. because there are other people that need me people that are sick and dying and not isn't right people shouldn't be dying when there are people who can help them. join our global community because the price is just slapped is the phrase blessing upon latin upon human capital equals global health keeping you up to date with why so voice situation where we have a human rights crisis. that persist beyond the health crisis answering your questions is a dialogue just nothing we are now approaching a crossroads this is an opportunity that we must mark miss the stream on al-jazeera is saudi arabia publicly championing women's rights so do those committed to hiring its most empowering women while privately punishing those who step out of line they raided. their friend they would lift their stake into their security al-jazeera
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world examines the alleged detention and torture of saudis women activists the only charges against them relate to their talking to foreign organizations like human rights watch and amnesty international saudi women reform or oppression on al-jazeera. the world trade organization backscatter and a case against saudi arabia for illegally broadcasting content from its b. and t.v. sports network. this is not just a ruling for qatar and b. and this is this is a major ruling for a fee for you a for the premier league syria under the air sea under those. hello again i'm peter dhabi you're watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up 10.

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