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be the hero the world needs the. washing. us the air. china urges india to control its soldiers on the border as top level talks take place to try and ease tensions. the air. i'm going to tell this is observation from doha also coming up. turkey sends troops into iraq after bombing the bases of kurdish fighters it calls terrorists. a dramatic end to reconsideration efforts with south korea now pyongyang says sending troops back into the demilitarized zone. from prison true to great mates in mexico are struggling to stay alive during the coronavirus endemic. the
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end to begin with the bitter dispute between china and india of the fighting along the shared border india says at least 20 soldiers were killed by chinese troops beijing says it's not a bible is urging india to control its troops on the frontline a phone call is taken between the foreign ministers in china says they've agreed to deescalate as soon as possible the dispute centers on clashes on monday between the 2 sides in the galata valley region in the himalayas it's the 1st time in 40 years they've been engaged in what china calls violent physical confrontation resulting in death shelob ellis reports. 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
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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 have ups their military presence tensions increasing over who are 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 confident in a diplomatic resolution just on saturday india's army chief see this. situation along our borders with china. yet having a series of talks the chinese also thought dialogue was working but blame india for
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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 could see escalation this very modest more aggressive posture. which looks like a deliberate policy to create a vision between or rather materially of the relationship between china at the highest level. lay is a quiet town on the indian side of the border outside of military helicopters resilience have few clues behind the tension only do steep if the joint border middle face of what officials are releasing a statement regarding the standoff that is going on at the border say rima spread
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which has created fear among the people people living near the border mosque at the cellular network in the area has also been cut off and no information is coming through yet the deadly skirmishes raising the stakes for beijing in new delhi are the weird the vast frontiers begin and end dallas al-jazeera. joins me now live from new delhi. spoke about the deaths of these soldiers what's he had to. promise in the names of modi said that the deaths of the 20 soldiers would not be in vain he also said that the solving t. of india is the most important thing and that india wants peace but that it's capable of what he called a bass fishing reply if instigated is also called for a meeting of all the major political parties on friday to discuss the situation he's held meetings with defense chiefs already and also with his own cabinet ministers and we've had high level with the tree towards taking place between india
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and china in the valley where the clashes happened on monday we've heard from china's foreign ministry which has said that it's open to communication but it's comments aren't going to be received in india because it's also said that the sovereignty of the valley belongs to india well that is going to be come as a surprise to many in india defense experts say that china is expanding its territorial claims and the ministry of external affairs has said that china was trying to unilaterally change the status quo of doing deescalation efforts in the region off east in the uk we know that both sides had increased their military presence in the region following skirmishes in may that indian defense experts were accusing china off encroaching into indian territory and they had been asking the government watch it was doing about it well the government had been holding tools with china with both sides saying that they have the diplomatic channels and plays
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to resolve any border disputes through dialogue and yet we have reports these 20 deaths in fact confirmed at a time when the indian government was assuring the public that it had the situation under control but now there are a lot of questions about whether in fact it does. and a lot of pressure. for india to act against china. ok this is a big business possible pressure facing the government might india became to deescalate both given this imbalance in military power will perhaps all the reasons as well. so if you look at what's in the danger modi had to say that the death of the 20 soldiers is not going to be in vain and also that you know they're capable of a big fishing response if they provoked well that's that's it doesn't seem like he
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wants to deescalate that and again he is under a lot of pressure there are protests out on the streets they are small they are still restrictions on the number of people who can gather that there have been protests and lots of cities around the country including outside the chinese embassy by army veterans calling for action against china is. the hash tag boycott china and boycott chinese products is trending on twitter to india has a very nationalist media and they're all holding action against china and again india is not going to respond well to the chinese foreign ministry statement either because again they were calling for communication but they really blaming india for everything that happened and as i mentioned defense experts here say that claiming the sovereignty of the got a long valley the entire sovereignty of that will that's new and that that's not part of china's territory thanks for that but problem there live from new delhi.
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betray you has more now from the chinese capital. china says it's in close communication with india by both diplomatic and military channels foreign ministry spokesperson jolly gen spoke to the media today on wednesday and said that both sides were intent on resolving this dispute through peaceful dialogue and that china did not want to see any further clashes at the same time jolly gen laid the blame for the deadly brawl on monday so we at the feet of india according to beijing the truce lines actually reached a consensus on the border dispute on june 6th but indian troops violated this consensus and he said they provoked and attacked chinese personnel he also went on to urge the indian military to discipline its troops he went on to say further that the location where this altercation took place the golden valley he said that this was and has always been chinese territory something that's heavily disputed by
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india and he said that clearly it was clear about who was on the right in the wrong side of this clash that resulted in the deaths of those soldiers on monday now according to indian media there were chinese casualties as well but the chinese government is yet to release any numbers and there is some speculation that they may never release these numbers a state media here are saying that this is in fact a sign of goodwill from beijing an example of beijing wanting to pursue peace with india and not wanting to spark any confrontational sentiment that nail lead to all out conflict. so it is all just another military offensive against separatists in northern iraq or deployed troops to the hostin and region near the border to cake or planes of also targeted the groups positions around $3000.00 fighters are believed to be in northern iraq turkey the u.s. and the e.u. all this the p.k. as a terrorist group seen in kosovo has more now from istanbul. today's operation is different
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compared to the one that happened 2 days ago because this time ground forces are also in place and they have been accompanied by the turkish air forces for pimpin to point operations targeting the bases ammunition depots sent $36.00 points of the out those could be some workers' party what makes this operations a special is turkey is aiming to cut the logistic moves of the p.k. k. from iraq to syria because for turkey p k k and the syrian kurdish fighters group y p g r r organically it's hard to each other and there is an ammunition and weapons transfer between 2 sides from from the wipe e.g. to iraq and one day those weapons can be turned against turkey and that's why turkey is trying to eliminate the p.k. fighters they have bases and as i said that the logistic routes. between is syria and iraq this is the idea of the operation and. these operations have been recently
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conducted have been in touch have been conducted in cooperation with the turkish intelligence agency before turkish intelligence agency didn't have any authority for course border operations but in the last couple of years with the presidential system they are authorized to cooperate with the military and they have been providing ifield intelligence and turkish drones have been active in the area and when you speak to the military experts they say the success of the ration is based on the drones armed and on armed aerial vehicles in the area providing information every day some of whole thing is a bad bet and says the lack of reaction from authorities is being interpreted by some as welcoming the operation. well we still don't have an official statement neither from the iraqi government here in baghdad nor from kurdish authorities in iraq he kurdistan we in fact called the spokesperson of the joint operations
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command here in baghdad which is the entity that is supposed to govern all military activity in iraq and he quote said he had no information unquote at the moment about the incident and of course all of this is made more difficult because the areas where these operations are taking place are under the control of the same semi autonomous kurdish government and what is interesting that we haven't heard anything come out from neither the k d p which is the kurdish democratic party which coincidentally has the minister of foreign affairs currently inside the iraqi government nor from the p u k and the way some people interpret this is that in fact the kurdish authorities have welcomed these operations because in fact they don't really want the presence of p.k. k. fighters on their ground either what is particularly interesting in this case that this appears to be not just a turkish operation there appears to be also some iranian involvement and we have spoken to
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a kurdish general who is in charge of the border areas with turkey and iran and he said that actually iran has participated in these operations through artillery strikes and that these artillery strikes are still ongoing and the areas that appear to be targeted are either belonging to the p.k. k. or iranian opposition groups. still ahead on al jazeera anger in argentina over a government plan to takeover of that prompted an agricultural company. and strong white house aide to john bolton to stop them from releasing a tell. we got yet more heavy right into central parts of china and i'm at a loss of clout tumbling out of those central areas stressed to the north the
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shanghai has the money by front last making its way further ace where it's just pushing a little further north such a thriving some west whether into west south korea for a time some very heavy rain possibility of some flooding it's a huge issue into southern parts of honshu and you can follow the older way back into those central parts of china southern areas generally trial be a little here at their home called at about $33.00 celsius but yet more heavy right into central areas of china as you go on into friday just not just how does stick a little further south what's the big a little further south was too full key issue for the korean peninsula war the west sunshine coming through but we will see some rather heavy rain into central areas of honshu including tokyo will see some very heavy rain continue across a good parts of india the southwest monsoon doing very nicely now so the western ghats since him and heavy downpours will sustain some rather heavy rain there into the far north east of india just around the west bengal me and la are also seeing some really heavy rainfall possibility of some flooding in that flooding right
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pushing right up into bangladesh for the know the places that it's hot and dry. but. it's saudi arabia publicly championing women's rights so do you think he's committed to empowering excuse empowering women while privately punishing those who stepped out of line so they raided laptop went after him they would if there was taken to the security gate pointed out is there a while it examines the alleged detention and torture of saudis women activists the only charges against relate to their talking to foreign organizations like human rights watch and amnesty international saudi women prefer more oppression on al-jazeera.
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watching out is there a reminder of our top stories this hour china is urging india to control its troops on the border as talks between the country's foreign ministers take place to try and resolve tensions india says 20 of its soldiers were killed on monday beijing says it's not to blame. turkey says it sent troops to fight kurdish separatists in northern iraq and launched a new operation against the p.k. k. on sunday and is also carrying out air strikes. on the korean peninsula now where a war of words is further escalating tension north korea is warning it will redeploy troops near the border and resume military exercises its all says it will no longer tolerate pyongyang's on reasonable behavior but broad reports from pardieu on the south korean side of the border. making its message clear and unequivocal the destruction of the joint liaison office has been widely broadcast
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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 with the south korean president moon j.n. and with u.s. president donald trump the north sea. to conclude the current path of diplomacy has
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run its course trump just doesn't is not that interested anymore and moon is very constrained by sanctions i mean that's why this thing is sort of been frozen for year and a half 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. 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 when kim jong un wouldn't recognize this issue even exists 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 connected if the current initiative had been a success it was planned that you would become one of the main crossing points
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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. coronavirus restrictions are being stepped up further in china's capital more than half the flights in and out of beijing have been cancelled the alert level was raised after more than 100 locally transmitted cases were recorded in the past week or schools have been closed and officials have shut down some residential compounds and markets. latin american prisons in a tourist who being overcrowded and the resorts and with covered 19 hitting the region hard many a word about rapid spread jails in mexico the government had an amnesty plan to release low risk presents its own home and reports from mexico city. a new feel good out of a mexican prison this a prove just as covert hit the country hard but when we 1st met him he wasn't
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feeling too relieved his brother dan was still a prisoner in the got the virus and he'd been taken here to this hospital employee . a new 4 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 i'd stay in prison and that's saying something overcrowded cells a lack of basic medicine and no way out you couldn't get a much better breeding for covert the mexico's jails we asked a new fool to phone a friend who was still inside and tell us about conditions. here if you haven't got medicine in trouble because a paracetamol costs 75 cents you get me there's no medicine and the medical service doesn't attend to me what does if it was how many seconds there since i lift. almost everyone in the dormitory is sick brother mexico's government says early
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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 where 4 people should be living in some prisons that are more than 20 in that situation with this pandemic infections are exponential the governments try 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 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
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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 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 and exactly the same situation. now a new fall is about to begin a new struggle finding work as an ex-con in
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a country where unemployment is surging but before that there's something he has to do is. take his brother's ashes to the cemetery with john home and how does it or mexico city. chile has one of the highest death rates in the world from the virus many people are blaming the late lockdown of the capital the scene human reports from santiago. these residents wave goodbye to yet another neighbor who's died 19 a scene that's being repeated at what medical experts call a catastrophic great so you don't moan but at the very latest 47 year old brother was infected while at work in a pharmacy 3 days after taking a cold 19 test he was rushed to hospital but he was sent back home the next day without a diagnosis. 2 days later he was back unable to breathe. he was worried that we could get infected and he sent us home the next day he was dead
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we buried him and it wasn't until the day after that that the results of his covert tests came back positive. it did in his family blame the government for gross incompetence they're angry that it refused to implement drastic measures early enough to prevent widespread contagion. the government was reluctant to declare a full lockdown in the capital until a month ago by then contagion was totally out of control and even that has been ineffective government subsidies have been insufficient and too slow in arriving as for respecting the quarantine we crossed the whole city without being asked for our permits to circulate by soldiers or police where i'm going to be out of the community with the highest rate of contagion in the whole country and it's supposed to be under lockdown like the rest of the capital but as you can see there are people absolutely everywhere traffic as well as so now war were voices are demanding that some cat will be put under hibernation which is really just
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a euphemism for a quarantine that actually works. we spoke to the think tank that came up with the term. at the beginning we had a 40 percent reduction in. public mobility this is way too little we need at least 70 percent for a lockdown to be effective and now many people are ignoring it altogether so we need to rethink the strategy. that means enforcing the quarantine energetically allowing only essential businesses to keep working and implementing a robust social aid program to allow the unemployed to stay home something the president has finally agreed to do many accuse the government of refusing to listen to warnings from mare's and the scientific community i think that is there they may . or the problem. over 'd a man that was not able to. west not.
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wanted to make it right. on time and now we are suffering the consequences. as of this week there's a new health minister who is more open to advice in criticism but promises of remedies in past mistakes is small consolation for thousands of families who are burying their dead. you see in human al-jazeera santiago. argentina is stuck in a busy dispute over how to recover from the covenant in crisis the government wants to take control of a bankrupt agricultural group to save jobs but opponents say any kind of nationalization will only plunge the country into deeper economic crisis danielle sharma reports from want to say it is. the giant argentine agricultural group this and dean credit is more than a $1000000000.00. the government has stepped in to rescue it it says its plan will save jobs and help to ensure the future of the country's food sovereignty. this is
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the latest protest by workers and many in the business community who oppose any kind of government intervention. the real concrete sea protection proceedings there is just. if they're subjugating it's the intervention is illegal that's how the people understand it the moment before we hear this is a very special moment for our region we have defending our companies and with that defending the sources of work. they're asking where the argentine government will find the money since it's already in crisis talks with creditors to avoid another massive debt default others raise the specter of previous failed nationalizations one of what they call another venezuela. the battle is partly ideological the previous right wing government is being questioned over its financial dealings with this and dean. it's also historical argentina's powerful likely cultural sector is
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suspicious of vice president cristina fernandez the kitchen the 2 sides were almost constant dispute while she was president from 2007 to 2015 this is a battle for the soul of the visiting group which in its nearly 100 year history has helped argentina to become one of the leading b. for cereal and grain producers in the walls the results of this battle will to some degree dictate what kind of country argentine there is as it emerges from a covered 90 crisis. was president alberto fernandez and his center left government the expropriation and turnaround of the failing concern that will serve its workers they community and the rest of argentina it is going to be argued that . this is a company under protective measures to stop it going bankrupt not someone's company that we're trying to take over i have no idea what the opposition is saying about this honestly i dart i just know that the work is residents and produces will be very happy to hear this news and all argentine should be content that we're taking
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a step towards food sovereignty. the tools seem as happy as the president appears to think they are his vision must still be debated by congress when the deep divisions in argentina society will again be starkly exposed to the anguish when there are 201 osiris. the u.s. government is suing former national security adviser john bolton in an attempt to stop him publishing a book about his time working in the white house president donald trump says the book contains classified information and must be edited before release the memoir accuses trump of committing several impeachable offenses bolton was fired last year after 17 months in the role somebody said he wanted to wrote a book and we wrote a book i can't imagine that he cared because that's highly classified information even conversations with maybe they're highly classified i told that to the attorney general before i would consider every conversation with me as president highly
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classified so that would mean that if he wrote a book and if it if the book is that he's broken the law the largest utility company in the u.s. has pleaded guilty over the deaths of 84 people in one of the country's most devastating wildfires the 20 same file was sparked by decaying infrastructure on pacific gas and electric power grid it's agreed to pay the maximum fine of $3500000.00. watching out just there recapping our top stories china is urging india to control its troops on the border talks between the country's foreign ministers have taken place to try and resolve tensions india says 20 of its soldiers were killed on monday beijing says it's not to blame. knowledge indian troops seriously violated the consensus across the line of control when provoked and attacked chinese personnel this lead to fierce physical confrontation between the 2
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sides and resulted in casualties we once again ask india to act on our consensus and strictly disciplined its troops not to cross the line to provoke and not to take unilateral action that may complicate the situation. turkey is all just another military offensive against ob kurdish separatists in northern iraq. deployed troops to the afternoon region near the border to fight the p.k. k. warplanes have also targeted the group's positions around 3000 fighters are believed to be in northern iraq. north korea has warned it will redeploy troops near the border and resume military exercises along the front line areas it claims to sell for bad behavior and justified blowing up into a korean liaison office on tuesday coronavirus restrictions are being stepped up further in china's capital more than half the flights in and out of beijing have been cancelled the alert level was raised after more than 100 locally transmitted cases were recorded in the past week all schools have been closed and officials
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have shut down some residential compounds and markets brazil has reported its highest daily jhumpa new coronavirus cases almost $35000.00 the increase came on the same day an official in charge of the pandemic response said the situation is under control brazil has the 2nd highest number of infections after the united states museum's prime minister has put the military in charge of border quarantine operations after a breach of protocol board covered 19 back into the country 2 women with the virus were allowed out of corn early to visit a dying relative ryan ministers said it was an unacceptable failure of the system was the headlines more news to come here on al-jazeera after inside story do stay with us.
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