tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera June 17, 2020 1:00pm-2:01pm +03
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midsts 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. 0. point michel carry this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes turkey sends troops into iraq after bombing the bases of kurdish fighters it calls terrorists. as north korea skule its warnings to the south we look at the increasing role of kim jong il in sr and political affairs . the u.s. sanctions go into effect targeting any person or entity that supports the syrian
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government. and a top footballer pressures the british government into providing free school meals during the quarter virus pandemic. and sport german football giants byron munich celebrate their 8 the bundesliga title in a row. maybe heard of graham and one nil to secure 830 in the crowd. but the game at the bitter dispute between china and india over fighting along their shared border and says at least 20 soldiers were killed by china's true chinese troops that is beijing says it's not to blame but that it's continuing talks with the indian government and this dispute centers on clashes on monday between the 2 sides and the gall one valley region in the himalayas it's the 1st time in 40 years they've been engaged in what china calls violent physical
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confrontation resulting in death so we're going to go live to beijing and new delhi in just a few moments 1st though this report from charlotte dallas. in the remote whiston himalayas there is little evidence of what lead to indian and chinese so jews in gauging in a deadly brule at the border on monday india's army said there were casualties on both sides but not a shot was fired these are indian military reinforcements destined for the border shortly after. india and china share the wounds longest unmarked border in recent months both sides of ops the military presence tensions increasing over who are what now and the border has been disputed since india and china went to war in 1962 the line in yellow is the so-called line of actual control but there are several disputed areas only the site one of the main ones is a chain which is claimed by india but administered by china india has appeared
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confident in a diplomatic resolution just on saturday india's army chief see this. situation along our borders with china is under control yet having a series of talks the chinese also thought dialogue was working but blame india for the deadly breakdown. on june 6th forces of the 2 countries had command a level talks and reached a consensus on easing the situation in the border area however it was shocking that the indian forces violated the consensus crossing the border twice to carry out a legal activities and provoking attacks on chinese soldiers. indian officials have refuted that i cool cease collation this very modest a more aggressive posture. which looks like a deliberate policy to create a bridge in between india or other material if the relationship between india and
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china at the highest level. lay is a quiet town on the indian side of the buddha outside of military helicopters resistance have few clues behind the tension only do steep if the joint bottom it will face off what officials are releasing any statement regarding the standoff that is going on at the border say rima spread which has created fear among the people people living near the border most get the cellular network in the area has also been cut off and no information is coming through yet the deadly skin issues raising the stakes for beijing in new delhi of the weird the vast frontiers begin and end venice. with ron joins us now from new delhi celebs what is the latest from where you where you are i understand a prime minister is that something you say. we've just heard from prime minister that in the modi a short while ago and he said that the deaths of the 20 soldiers will not be in
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vain that the unity and sovereignty of india is the most important thing and also that india wants peace its capable of a what he called a b. fitting reply if instigate it is also a cold for a meeting of all the major political parties on friday to discuss the situation he's already held meetings with defense chiefs and with his own cabinet ministers we've also got local media reporting that high level military walks between the indian and chinese side of taking place in the gun one valley area where the violence happened on monday night and the indian army has said that both sides have now disengaged but this is very much a bastion of narratives now with the indian side maintaining that china tried to unilaterally change the status quo during deescalation efforts in the region off east in the dog we know that both sides have increased their military presence in the region following skirmishes last month and defense analysts here defense
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experts in india have been accusing china of encroaching into india's territory and they have been asking the government what they were doing about it while the talks to diffuse these tensions started 10 days ago and now there are a lot of questions being asked about how 20 soldiers would code the 1st deaths along that border and 45 years when the indian government and in fact both governments were saying that they have a good relationship and all of the diplomatic channels and plays to resolve any border tensions through dialogue so now that the indian government is being asked how this could have happened what's really happening at the border whether they have that situation under control and there was some small protests in the number of places around the country including here in the capital new delhi outside the chinese embassy by army veterans they asked small but people asking for calling for action against china. all right the problem with the latest in new delhi liz thank you ok for the other perspective on this let's go to beijing where katrina u.
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is standing live so what are you hearing there. well they don't think that they agree on the 2 sides richelle so so far so far beijing has said that it's in close communication with india through diplomatic and military channels and that they're intent on resolving the differences via peaceful dialogue beijing has said that they do not want to see any further clashes but that seems to be where the agreement starts to stop beijing says that india is solely responsible for the deadly brawl that took place on monday and is not to deny any blame on china's part whatsoever let's hear what the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson jen had to say on the matter. knowledge of indian troops seriously violated the consensus across the lawn of control and provoked an attack the chinese personnel this lead to fierce physical confrontation between the 2 sides and resulted in casualties we once again ask india to act on our consensus and strictly disciplined
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its troops not to cross the line to provoke and not to take unilateral action that may complicate the situation. according to the chinese government the 2 sides actually reached a consensus on this tense disagreement in the go one valley on june the 6th and on monday when this deadly ball to place it was because according to beijing the indian side broke this consensus now beijing also went on to say that where this all to cation took place in the ga one valley that this whole area is in fact chinese territory something that's disputed by many in india also generally want to say though that even though china is ready to defend its sovereignty he described the situation at the moment as stable and controllable when it comes to state media here what's interesting is that we haven't heard very much at all about this china india dispute and some analysts say that this is quite intentional beijing is keeping quiet on potential casualty numbers for example indian media reporting that
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the have been some chinese casualties but the chinese government have been very quiet on this and it seems to indicate that they're hesitant at this stage to start any confrontational sentiment that might occur if the chinese public do you hear that they were losses on the chinese side but so far beijing seems only surface apart from blaming india to say that they would like to go forward peacefully when it comes to this dispute ok attorney you with the latest in beijing katrina thank you. turkey has launched another military offensive against armed kurdish separatists in northern iraq ankara deployed troops to the huffed in region near the border to fight the p.k. k. or planes have also targeted the group's positions around 3000 fighters are believed to be and northern iraq turkey the u.s. in the e.u. all list the p k k as a terrorist group so we have correspondents on both sides of the story so manifold going to standing by for us live in iraqi capital 1st i was going to say and costello in istanbul sassoon and what are you hearing there.
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well michele the operation a still on the way as well as well as we heard from the turkish defense ministry and the army and we have been hearing from the minister sources that they will pray shin. will go at 70 kilometers deep inside this area nearby have to ending and what we heard is that the military turkish military is already 1011 kilometers right now and in the morning we also heard from the military sources that there is a close contact between the p.k. k. fighters and the turkish ground forces in the area and clashes were underway this is this operation is different compared to the one that took place 2 days ago because ground forces are there and have that in supported by the turkish air forces armed and on armed aerial vehicles and other. other military.
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supplies military support from the turkish army and the main idea of the circuit this military operation is actually to cut the logistic routes the lights up the p.k. k. from iraq come the mountains to the i.p.g. controlled in syria because turkey believes that turkey says that the syrian kurdish fighters require p.g. is ok. nic with ties to the p.k. k. and the arms and the weapons provided to the y p g to fight against i'm still in syria by. the americans also reach out to reach out to come to the mountains to seek a command ship and those weapons can be turned against turkey and at times that's why before this threats reaches inside the country reaches in sight turkish borders turkish military is trying to elevate this threat in its own base whether it's northern iraq whether it's northern syria and this is the main idea according to
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the turkish military and turkish. took it turkey's defense ministry and the operation seems to be continuing for a while. prison that was conducted 2 days ago was to the to the come the mountains where the p.k. k. names the area as the media defense platforms which is actually their kind of fuel some of them used for the area and that area was put to the under control of the p.k. k. neither the kurdish regional government nor central baghdad the government had control over the place and in the past and there are 2 camps over there this area is not totally under control p k k yes there are in iraq is to see but p.k. is very active and very dominant in that area of course the civilian casualties are the main concern when military operations are conducted by any country and when you speak to the military ended her kitchen tells us who have been supporting the
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military with the information provided from the ground they say that the point can point to ration and they are doing their best ever had any civilian casualties in priscilla with the latest there in istanbul so let's go down to some other fault and standing by in baghdad what are you hearing there. well until now there has still not been an official statement by the iraqi government or the autonomy kurdistan region issued until now but what we understand from our sources on the ground is that there are actually 2 separate operations going on the one which is what's in em just described near iraq's border with turkey and then there is a separate operation going on near the border with iran an area called. and we have spoken to both civilian and military sources and that area who have described continuous shelling since yesterday which has continued until the morning hours of
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today from the iranian side targeting not just the p.k. k. but also other iranian resistance groups so it's uncertain whether these 2 operations are core or needed from the iranian and the turkish side but of course both of them oppose these resistance groups that have taken shelter on iraq a territory now what's what remains to be seen is how the authorities will react with the government here in baghdad has made sovereignty one of his key concerns emphasizing that no regional or global power should use iraqi soil to settle their scores so we'll have to wait and see what he says but also very interesting lee kurdish authorities until now have been silent on the matter and that there is some suspicion on the ground that. the k.p. which is the party that controls the kurdish regional government in fact welcomes these operations because it does not really welcome the p.k. k.
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being based inside its territory but for now we're still waiting for an official statement here in baghdad writes mona fault and live in baghdad simona thank you. plenty more had on the news hour including from president to the grave why inmates in mexico some people have never even stood trial are struggling to stay alive. trump white house's former aide john bolton to stop this policing a tell all book. and sport this prints are speccing a wink wink suspension bar we'll have all the details ahead in the polls. to the korean peninsula now where a war of words is further escalating tension or korea is warning it will rain deploy troops near the border and resume military exercises that's all says it will no longer tolerate and reasonable behavior on a private parts on presume on the south korean side of the border. making its
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message clear and unequivocal the destruction of the joint liaison office has been widely broadcast by north korean state run media accompanied by warnings that it will increase its military presence along the border separating the 2 koreas. guard posts that had been removed to deescalate tensions will now be restored while military exercises on the northern side of the border will be resumed bringing this unusually strong response from the south. such moves thought to the efforts and achievements made by the 2 koreas to maintain peace and the north will surely pay if these measures are put into action the north has blamed the south for allowing defectors to release propaganda balloons into its territory but north korean leader kim jong un is also frustrated at his failure to get more concessions in summits
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with the south korean president moon j.n. and with u.s. president donald trump the north seeming to conclude the current path of diplomacy has run. it's course trump just doesn't is not that interested anymore money is very constrained by sanctions i mean that's why this thing is sort of been frozen for you and i have i'm just not sure that much can change in the next 6 months or 8 months a jew on the southern side of the border relatives of people abducted during the korean war hold a simple ceremony. and then the events are being staged with the coming 70th anniversary of the start of the conflict lisa was a baby when his father was abducted to the north for him and others still living with the war's consequences this latest attempt at reconciliation has achieved little condone kim jong un wouldn't recognize this issue even uses and the sauce korean order ministration couldn't put the issue on the table green the summit in any case this section of the border is where rail and road links were meant to be
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connected if the current initiative had been a success it was planned that you would become one of the main crossing points between north and south in what would be a new era of peaceful coexistence on the peninsula they are hopes that for the time being at least seeing dashed once more robert bright al-jazeera to south korea and speak to aden foster carter in exeter in the united kingdom he's a korea analyst at leeds university we appreciate your time so much so kenge kenge on sr what do we know about her. well we've got to know more and more recently this year and more importantly perhaps the north korean people have got to know that it will be probably it wonderful biography and 2 minutes i mean she studied in switzerland as a child like a pro that it so sadly you know the west especially western education doesn't seem to sort of have the softening fact that some people think that it would be the
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really important thing is that from being sort of an about crown prince coming along with the blocking paper to dry his signature when he signs deals and stuff like that she's not a very important in her own right as she says she doesn't embarrass statements this year or more particularly this past week. so i think there's a sort of something going on quite apart from all the into current stuff itself up behind the scenes there is an issue we all got part about kim jong un's health when he disappeared for a few weeks recently there isn't a clear line of succession because his children are very young in this strange reggie trick i mean as i'm so do the testing the system would seem to me to have to be to be to do with domestic politics but obviously it has a big negative ramifications for international politics as well if the timing why do you think that this is about the questions about ken tong and help which obviously his speculation but what do you think. there's a number of different factors going on the of the global order is in disarray let's face it isn't that coronavirus for the us china spot and when that's the case north
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korea will make mischief and i'm sure we'll see more mischief by the way you know a good cup coming on and yes we have but a story in the weeks months ahead but the domestic stuff i think 2 things i mentioned one of them need to sort of boost the system as a possible successor in case anything goes wrong with kim jong un but there's also the domestic economy things are not going well well the north criminate is to fight if they had sanctions to some degree the economy is bad mainly because of epic restrictions but the current of us are they claim not to actually have so you know what do you do you create a distraction you make people scream people very angry against the south koreans and they will do to him option the will of that so i think it's about domestic politics economics as well as making trouble international it may seem to be a good thing to have your brother on your side but as we all know kim jong un can can turn on a dime even when it comes to family tell us about his relations went with other
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members of the family. that would be. that there's really nobody else much that matters in that sense i mean that his offer of the kim jong number the part that he had never met by and if well there was a sign that you all in and. oh i see what you mean sorry sorry yes i've seen people need forgive me yes i'm very famous they. hit harshly in 2030 and he dispatched his uncle by marriage jang song take it would be pretty much a mental toucan occasion him of treachery and so on so yes whether he'd do that to his sister i don't really know although the point is being made i think quite valid that she's being set up as such to see her profile is being raised she is being set up as bad cop in all this and if you turn on a dime to what's piece a guy i wonder why that would leave yes it's all very sort of macchiavelli on and i don't think it would like to be even ruling in most correct like honestly it's a risky business ok oster carter appreciate your expertise thank you. thank you.
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and an asian court has issued a guilty verdict against 7 west papuan him human rights activists charged with treason will serve up to 11 months in jail the group known as the 17 stage demonstrations calling for independence and fair treatment and 2019 human rights watch says the indonesian government has a history of discriminating against dark skin and to innocent people. or sections are being stepped up further in china's capital more than half of the flights in and out of beijing they have been cancelled alert level was raised after more than $100.00 locally transmitted cases were reported in the past week all schools have been closed and officials have shut down some residential compounds and markets and israel as prime minister has put the military in charge of border quarantine operations after a breach of protocol allowed covert 1000 back into the country 2 women with the virus were allowed out of coron chain early on compassionate grounds the 2 who had
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arrived from the u.k. hadn't been tested before travelling 650 kilometers to visit a dying relative the prime minister said it was an unacceptable failure of the system. the suspension of compassionate exemptions will continue until such time as we can guarantee a disciplined and rigorous system at the border that ministers have confidence and . i know this will be up sitting to some new zealand is seeking to return home to visit dying relatives and loved ones however the risk to our collective if it's to eliminate simply too great i cannot allow the guardians we have all my to be squandered by pro ceases not being upheld we're still has reported its highest daily jump a new coronavirus cases almost 35000 the increase came on the same day an official leading the country's pandemic response said the situation as under control brazil
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has the 2nd highest number of infections right after the united states more than 45000 people have died colombia's capital bogota started easing walk down restrictions but there are fears this will lead to a spike in new cases to avoid that the city's mayor has announced new restrictions for residents according to their national id number there been 50000 and factions and the country since march. a lot american prisons are notorious for being overcrowded and under resourced and with coburn $1000.00 hitting the region hard many are worried about rapid spread in jails and mexico the government had an amnesty plan to release low risk prisoners john heilemann reports from mexico city . a new fool got out of a mexican prison this a group just as coded hit the country hard but when we 1st met him he wasn't feeling too relieved his brother dan was still a prisoner and they got the virus and he'd been taken here to this hospital in pueblo
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a new foot been waiting outside for any news for 2 weeks sleeping in this tent. that right now i feel good to be at liberty but if they gave me a choice between the lives of my brothers and to stay in prison and prison that's saying something overcrowded cells a lack of basic medicine and no way out you couldn't get a much better breeding for co that the mexico's jails we asked the new food to phone a friend who was still inside and tell us about conditions. here if you haven't got medicine or you're in trouble because a paracetamol costs 75 cents you get me there's no medicine and the medical service doesn't attend. what does if it was how many seconds there since i lift this. almost everyone in the dormitory is sick brother. government says early screening in isolation has prevented many prisoners in federal jails getting sick but for n.g.o.s this is still a ticking time bomb. in cells were for people should be living in some prisons that
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are more than 20 in that situation with this pandemic the infections are exponential the government's tried to reduce overcrowding in april it pushed through an amnesty law to release thousands of low risk inmates from federal prisons. but after nothing happened the law or the proceedings the legal proceedings in order to for these summits if your cure depend on the executive branch the final decision depends on the judiciary branch too independent backers a lot of. slow we're a critique proceedings in order for things to go from intention into reality and that's what's not happen it's got stuck in the red tape yes except. in a separate process state prisons notoriously the most overcrowded have managed to free more than $3500.00 still just a drop in the ocean about 2 percent of the total prison population
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a new phase one of them although he says he had to fight for it but freedom of become bittersweet by the time we met again his brother a done it since died of coded his mum was devastated now. what can i do i try to be cheerful there's no other way there's no other way but to keep on going when was the last time that you saw. quite right 4 years ago it's an injustice what they did to him. she says that because dan spent those years in prison without his case even going to trial thanks to a close up legal system more than $70000.00 of mexico's prisoners in exactly the same situation. now a new 4 is about to begin a new struggle finding work as an ex-con in a country where unemployment is surging but before that is something he has to do is. take his brother's ashes to the cemetery with john home and
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how does it or mexico city. ok let's turn to weather now whatever 10 there is. hours across europe yeah that's right richelle i like to call this sporting weather . and it serves the sport i mean it's just a ball of the cricket seasons on how i know you're american you don't care about cricket but in terms of football start of the premier league of course soccer we've got lots of thundery showers across a good part of europe and that's certainly the case across england and wales so we're seeing some wetter weather stretching in across the western parts of your broad across the heart of europe and down towards the southeast as well lot of heavy rain around here we've seen some big downpours over the past few days this is bowl garia 180 millimeters of rain here through chews day and in hungary a similar picture has been raining here for day to day we have flash flooding localized flooding lots of problems here with those heavy downpours and they remain in the forecast as we go on through the next couple of days said to central and eastern parts you can see that really wet weather there into were poland into the
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czech republic just around the outstretched around the low countries as well what's the weather swirls away across england the world's more heavy downpours coming in here as we go through thursday the solar system brighter weather coming in as we make our way towards the weekend they'll try a little brighter 21 celsius in london 22 for paris as we go through friday and on into saturday much saturday does look fine and dry out in may well make its way in from the west so the setting up a wet weekend for show average and thank you very much. all right still ahead on al-jazeera the news for anything political when police unions in the u.s. say they're being unfairly targeted on the back. return of the english premier league later on in the private sense for. international trade would you have supported having free trade with nazi germany or
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the japanese or chinese dogs or germany controversial immigration policies that anyone who has a well founded euro persecution should be able to come as a wolf minister from syria just close the door to syrian refugees like the buffalo maybe his son goes head to head with senior trump advisor stephen moore this year the trumped up as across a trillion dollars due to a rule not to reelect him from well no one no matter how to go around to 0. then they just use it as it breaks the only warning on the same draft prevented many deaths and struggle to rebuild their lives with detailed coverage confines it so cold in the middle of a deepening cold pull between china and the united states from around the world by the government close to bankruptcy many say such initiatives will not be enough to deal with what prime minister has found dead warns could be a major food crisis. you're
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. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now china says it is agreed to continue talks with india over a disputed border in the himalayas and d.s.s. 20 of its soldiers were killed in fighting with chinese troops in the region on monday turkey says it sent troops to fight kurdish separatist and northern iraq that launched a new operation against the p.k. k. on sunday and is also carrying out air strikes. north korea has warned it will redeploy troops near the border and resume military exercises along from the line areas that blames the south for bad behavior and justified destroying and enter korean liaison office on tuesday. new u.s.
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sanctions against the syrian government have gone into effect they target any person or entity that does business with those close to president bashar al assad the caesar act is what it's called and it's aimed at increasing the economic isolation of regime by restricting the ability to trade and get money from abroad the sanctions will target a supporters with the threat of arrest war travel bans they could be politicians military personnel or anyone in business or banking as well as the oil oil and gas industry the new law also effects country seeking to do business with syria's government such as hezbollah and lebanon iran russia some gulf states and allies and eastern europe surely a decade of violence has left syria with a collapsing economy the sanctions are expected to derail president bashar al assad's postwar recovery plans samaha reports from beirut and a warning viewers may find some images disturbing. they're known as caesar's photographs named after a military defector who documented torture and killings in syrian government jails
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his testimonies to the u.s. congress was part of a campaign to hold the regime responsible for what have been described as war crimes it led to the passing and now the implementation of a bill in the u.s. the so-called caesar act in any country in the world there's a company individual. that's providing acknowledge the financial support. and military support. are all liable for states and under. these sanctions go further than existing ones are aimed at preventing international engagement with bashar assad's government partnering or fighting on its side will also be punishable the syrian government calls the legislation economic terrorism but proponents of the law point to exemptions that minimize any impact on civilians . the federal government is allowed to buy medicine they want but they don't want to do it. for insurance they want to fund their war machine they want to pump the
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militia human rights groups have accused the syrian government of using aid to fund its atrocities benefit those loyal to it and punish opponents by confiscating their properties plans to move to a post-war phase in syria will now be difficult. it's. this with this. regime. it's already faced with a collapsing economy and currency there is unprecedented poverty some say a 3rd hasn't been this vulnerable at any time during the 9 year war. it kind of shuts the door fully closed in terms of there being any light at the end of the tunnel for the syrian regime so i think politically and diplomatically that will
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have an impact but it adds to the already terrible effects of the syrian economic crisis assad has faced pressure in the past but has never agreed to making political concessions he since the clear victory in the war in syria and while he may have won militarily winning the peace may prove harder the new legislation means the fight for damascus as the seat of assad's power and legitimacy has still to be fought senate. beirut let's pick tomorrow in kabul and doha is the head of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies ma and thanks as always for joining us so on these sanctions what concerns do you have about that. but principal i think that i mean this is doing to do it for me i mean it's just like and not the war in syria is almost finished and a major military operation is. definitional so i don't know if this bill actually when affect anything on the ground so my idea of concern here
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is actually is that it would make life of syria more than it is in and out of control of the syrian regime and also oil and other bases and much more difficult because i don't think that sanctions have any time actually during this century affected their behavior at all related to the collapse of an energy i mean this book i'm going to school but not the on iraq and that's about to say it did not actually lead to the good as that to be seen but made light of the people by anybody difficult so that is mine so i don't want to see any applause at having said that men know that that's a good point you make why do countries continue to go this route if you don't see that if there's not really a track record of it being affect it. well i think i think we have made maybe to question. the objectives of the united states because i was as i said early on a stool intuitive to live i think the major objective of the united states from
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bussing bestowal i mean at this particular time is but perhaps to put pressure on assad not told me i mean to change their behavior that easy morally to any sort of political solution in syria but the pressure on that is human not a force that your audience to accept syria that is the major concern or the public message of them from the very beginning and the james jeffrey it was a you is in going to syria has said that clearly that the major issue that the united states is easy going to stand about right now is how to make iran leave syria. so that is something that we have to keep to keep in mind and i also am mentioning that something that is really important now that for example does not to see has been dozes of sanctions on the syrian regime and has also and its allies iran is under sanctions russia isn't going to sanctions so what difference does this new we've been with mick actually for about but it's going to or. military
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situation on the ground in syria would that lead to that change of m.b. here in the behavior of the sea to be seen will that lead to the change of the outcome of this conflict i didn't doubt that so this is why i'm really concerned that the the syrian people will pay even more because of this new section sanctions which in my opinion when they would have done it would they would be in the bill because that he she has it was in the meeting good again got me in appointing. the consequences of all sorts of sanctions which have been put on it since the beginning of this crisis mar wanted to that point that you make that the u.s. would say that there are exemptions and this so that it doesn't hurt the most vulnerable. well we have to have this considering of trees cheap i mean in iraq i mean they said that they want to actually do examine. this in etc but that could the sanctions you know are committed to that more than half
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a 1000000 iraqis you know and i could shoot them. so i'm not i'm not really convinced that this as you were on the sanctions will not i think the like are going to be said it's already affecting that in fact the collapse of the syrian bomb is one consequence of the introduction of this and you know some of that is a 15 point of the. moron carville on thanks for your insight as always thank you thank you for having. the u.s. government assuming former national security adviser john bolton in an attempt to stop him publishing a book about his time working in the white house president obama trump says the book contains classified information and must be edited before release the memoir accuses trump of committing several and peach offenses alton was fired last year after 17 months in the role somebody said he went out a wrote a book if he wrote a book i can't imagine that he can because that's highly classified information even conversations with me they're highly classified i told that to the attorney
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general before i will consider every conversation with me as president highly classified so that would mean that if he wrote a book and if it if the book is out he's broken the law i can as in washington and says bolton's lawyer are adamant the book isn't a threat to national security. john bolton's lawyers are adamant that there is no threat to national security in the book that bolton did work with the national security council in writing the book and made significant amendments to it during this process the lawyers say as well that while there may be events that are exceedingly embarrassing to president trump this does not constitute a national security threat so they are adamant that there is no classified information going to be put out in this book john bolton himself is on the record through his competition is saying that incidents like the ukraine for example for which president trump was impeached using
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a foreign policy relationship to get some kind of domestic political gain was the judgment of the house on that particular issue but john bolton said this was part of a wider pattern and through his publishers as well he said he can't remember always hard chris to remember a single foreign policy decision taken by president trump that was not driven with a view to reelection so certainly the content of this book could be very startling indeed the department of justice intent on suppressing it before it's published and it's due to be published in exactly one week's time. signed an executive order to reform policing following the death of george floyd in custody it aims to stop bad officers from being able to move jobs and restrict the use choke hold but trump rejected calls to defend the police alan fischer reports from washington. after 2 weeks of being accused of not doing enough on the protests sweeping the country president donald trump gave his blueprint for the way ahead peace and dignity and
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he quality for all americans in the rose garden of the white house with senior law enforcement figures looking on he signed an executive order which falls far short of the changes demanded by protesters the president wants to ban chokeholds unless the life of an officer is a threat set up a national database to stop but officers balancing your own police departments provide funding for better training including deescalation and provide social work support in certain police cases but he rejected the idea of defunding police departments which many are calling for or strongly oppose the radical endangers efforts to defend dismantle and dissolve our police departments. especially now when we've achieved the lowest recorded crime rates in recent history. americans know the truth without police there is chaos without law there is an arche and without safety there is catastrophe. protests erupted across
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america after the killing of george floyd a police officer knelt on his neck for it minutes and 46 seconds the officers were also on the scene but did nothing to help all no police murder charges but the president insists good course but cops go on were tiny it's a very small percentage what we are seeing here is basically tiny steps by president donald trump to address the issue but what we're seeing from the president also is the president is waiting for and looking to congress that is now working on legislation both in the house and the senate to address wholesale systemic changes what was missing from the executive order was any suggestion of sweeping police reform there was no notion that racism may be a systemic problem or that black people receive different treatment from the police new legislation is come clean be considered by congress campaigners will be hoping that it goes much farther than the president's executive order alan fischer
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al-jazeera at the white house place reforms are being implemented at state and local levels but there's disagreement over the best way to try systemic racism placing in say they're being targeted as anything political when northam activists say it's the unions that are the problem chris and salome has more from new york. pepper spraying pushing and plowing into demonstrators the spotlight on the new york police department since the killing of george floyd has not been flattering and the state has moved quickly to pass reform measures but the unions representing police in the city say they're being used as political pawns and public safety will suffer what we're saying now is we're all demonized because someone is murdered in minnesota i'm going to say it again most restrained police the bobbin in the country activists say unions are a big part of the problem ya know smartphone is a civil rights attorney running for manhattan district attorney all across the country we have we've got to step forward one step back we're electing better
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people we're asking better laws but these law enforcement unions are clinging to their power and they're going to do everything they can to undermine or forums into undermine individuals who are elected and. since a member of his staff compiled a list of local politicians taking campaign donations from law enforcement groups however many politicians have decided to give back the money signaling the tide may be turning new york's governor last week signed a law banning chokeholds named after eric garner who was killed by one and making the records of police officers accused of misconduct public and on tuesday the mayor of new york city announced that footage from police body cams must be released within 30 days if it involves the use of a firearm or force that results in injury or death. police reforms here in new york and elsewhere around the country have largely focused on individual officers and holding them accountable for their actions but critics say racism is
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a systemic problem and more systemic changes are needed former police officer dennis kenny believes the issue isn't unions but rather a militarized approach to policing we've gone back to the effort militarized police easily evaluated tactical solutions and so forth and all of those have the effect of kind of driving a wedge. we community and elise. and i think that we we need to go and sing softly again about why we not just our police in california the state's largest police unions have published their own reform agenda ignaz the need for action that calls for lessening the use of force and increasing accountability to root out racist police officers but that will require communities and police to work together to make communities safer for everyone kristen salumi al-jazeera new york the largest his holiday company in the u.s. has pleaded guilty over the deaths of 84 people in one of the country's most
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devastating wildfires the 2018 fire was sparked by decaying and for a structure on pacific gas and electric power grid a company admitted to $84.00 counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of unlawfully starting a fire it's agreed to pay the maximum fine which is $3500000.00 i profile footballer has taught the u.k. government and to a u. turn over a help for school children from struggling families food vouchers were to stop during the summer school break until manchester united's marcus rushford demanded the government reconsider the team bopper reports. he's a 22 year old footballer and he's just monies to bring about a major government policy change on tuesday prime minister boris johnson reversed his decision to stop providing food vouchers for school children when the summer holidays start they'll now be a covered some of food fund costing around $150000000.00 with more than a 1000000 children qualifying that's prompted the manchester united england star to
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put out this tweet. since britain's lockdown started in march many families have been given either vouchers to spend at supermarkets or food parcels but the scheme was due to end next month in england last weekend rushford wrote an open letter to all members of parliament urging a rethink he used his own experience of growing up relying on free school meals and food banks even though his mother worked full time there obviously has a huge importance for me. probably on a personal level because. you know what form is it going for now i want to go through the. same system and it's very difficult to find a way out. now that i'm in this position and then it's very important for me to help the people that are struggling brushwood campaign through widespread support including from some members of johnson's governing conservative party the government stuck to its guns saying it was spending money on summer activities and local authority hardship funds but then shortly before the prime minister was due
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to appear in parliament came the announcement and in the last hour the government has you turned on free school meals can i put on record my thanks to marcus rush for the part that he has played on this issue in the victory for the 1300000 children affected. marcus rushford has already helped raise around $25000000.00 for one charity to supply meals to struggling families their chief executive has welcomed the new extension but he's warning about challenges just around the corner the really important sticking plaster after that we're going to have large numbers of. come to an end as well increasing large numbers of people who are going to need . further support and this is where we are actually quite fearful of the future the c.e.o. of the premier league has also congratulated rushford on his lady's achievements but the real winners will surely be children whom as and said about his younger
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his league as top score robert love went down steve that got the winner with his 31st strike of the. campaign. this is the 30 years' time they won the championship as they look to complete a trophy trouble this season. only. one game draw against. the rest. yellow on air life on air. the rest of the games we won and fans who played brilliant today maybe needs a break next week 2nd. saving grace. during the season was a tough tough battle but i'm happy that we can you know that the truth. of the world's most watch a football competition the english premier league returns later on wednesday following a 3 month long coronavirus hiatus 2 games the pick being manchester city at home to
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arsenal all e.p.l. matches will be played behind closed doors for 2nd place city a loss will mean leaders liverpool can claim the title by winning their next game well that tree for arsenal who were 9 will help their chances of claiming a european spot offer more on the story we're joined by the athletics rafael hornick stein firstly let's talk about byron munich they certainly didn't look very rusty after their hiatus what an incredible win for the. yet if an incredibly system consists in there for every single game as you said since coming back from the coronavirus break even before that they only dropped a couple of points since since christmas so it's an amazing turnaround if you consider that back in december there were only 7 of course buy and always start with the best side the most money so it's not a huge surprise that they were in the title but in the context of how badly the season looked early on it's still a remarkable turnaround ok let's talk about the english premier league makes its
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long awaited return later today this cry but if you can the level of excitement fans are feeling there right now well i don't live very far from the arsenal stadium and i think it's. an unusual atmosphere on the one hand people are very excited at football is back there they've been starved of seeing their teams in action they want something to do on a saturday afternoon and even on a wednesday evening at the same time it's not real football is football without the fans and i think there is a sense of sadness in a sense of regret that we can't get the full body of the game back and it doesn't quite come with the same excitement that you would have at the beginning of a season also a lot of clubs don't have that much to play for so as much as people want out of football back if you're mid table team that isn't really that much riding in the next few games but of course is different at the very bottom and for some teams in the hunt for hero police chaplaincy places again are still facing manchester city
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has huge title implications tell us about that. well arsenal have a chance of really helping liverpool get their 1st title in 30 years quicker if they can beat manchester city and look will only need one game to win the title after that 30 longing in their dream coming to fruition but it's a foregone conclusion anyway look we'll need 2 wins they will find to win somewhere and of course for the sake of nobody asked to think maybe you wouldn't be so bad if that weight goes on a little bit more makes it a little bit more exciting to see that moment happen but of course the city has dollar gender they want to keep winning and wants to win the chairman's ucas wausau he will not want to. you know drop off and performances especially with a view of those big games coming back in august when when a chance of hopefully comes back ok rafael chronic stein thank you so much for your
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time you're welcome barcelona have maintained their perfect record since the spanish legacies of resumed they beat league anus at home and are now 5 points clear of the nearest rivals around madrid it was the 1st match the camp new hosted after the league's 3 month break 17 year old and so fatty scored his 5th goal of the season for barcelona an all time top scorer lino massi doubled their lead in the 69th minute sealing the 2 nil when the 99000 capacity stadium was far from atmospheric as fans are barred from all illegal matches in an attempt to stop the spread of covert 19. before the event that is going before we started i was having a stroll around them it's so different losing such an important part of football the ego the noise the atmosphere the applause everything the chance that's what we noticed of course when you play at home we can hurt you but when you play away it
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can help you because all teams love to play in front of their fans because fans have a massive impact on the game. and world 100 meters champion christian coleman says he's facing a possible suspension after violating anti doping whereabouts rules comes after the american sprinter missed a tast on december 9th of last year that makes it 3 failures to properly file whereabouts information and a 12 month period ever coleman says only take responsibility for one if he gets hit with a 2 year ban it would mean the 24 year old would miss next year's tokyo olympics ok and that is all your sport for now we shall back to you thank you very much farai and thank you for joining me on the news hour here on al-jazeera website we're going to put her up there for you al jazeera dot com very easy to find all the top stories there for you we're keeping all across what's happening between india and china right now with their border dispute course latest on the current
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virus as well all that so keep it here kevin else up on the other side of the break . when the news breaks children here say they're excited to be back at school but also nervous when people need to be high to walk are currently has when your phone if the kind of theone put in part had its limitations and that pushed the country the focus on the message production al-jazeera has teams on the ground just because it's large doesn't mean it can all be proud what about the guy that can afford it
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