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the human rights prices that persist beyond the health crisis counseling your questions is a dollar locos is just nothing we are now approaching across route this is an opportunity must people miss the street on 00. 0. 0 i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes one in every 100 people in the world is now displaced forced out of their homes by war or persecution says a new u.n. report. beijing's controversial national security bill for hong kong moves a step closer to becoming. a bombshell from the former u.s. national security advisor john bolton's new book it says donald trump asked for
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china's help to get reelected. oil companies and government are accused of not doing enough to clean up oil spills putting thousands of lives at risk and on people simply for your sport says not going to be to vince's in a penalty shoot outs to win the cup you tell us. to begin this hour with our focus on one of the biggest challenges of our time people uprooted from their holds that number has now reached nearly 80000000 says the united nations has the highest since its records began war persecution human rights abuses all forced millions of people to make a life or death decision every year to stay or go displacements have nearly doubled over the last decade reaching 79500000 people by the end of last year that's one
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percent of the global population and just 5 countries account for 2 thirds of those displacements syria venezuela afghanistan south sudan and me and maher. there is no doll that the. country's at war the. people be they refugees displaced people but can i see ordinary civilians are more stark risk take for example take libya where we continue to work the un in n.g.o.s continue to work in those countries but our movements are limited corbet has placed another layer of constraints in a situation where already war conflict and violence limits our action turkey has the highest number of syrians displaced by war since i was in istanbul in the tunnel but not really syria neighborhood. already finding their cinema.
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well this is a raise actually called little syria because it is one of the very conservative areas of istanbul and actually historical district as in terms of old istanbul and that's why it was so easy for the syrians to at the opt to the turkish society here and the turkish people at that thing to syria as it was so they could easily find the harbor here after they left their countries this area where i am stand to standing is called malta it was always a markets even 50 years ago my father also had the shop here back then and syrians came here and one by one they they rented the shops and it's like exactly as it's called middle syria you have these syrian restaurants most of them are dealing with some shops that sell mobile accessories it's a world trend syrians always have those kinds of shows they have coffee shops and
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it's even became popular among turks people living around this area so whenever they want syrian food they come to this district to far to have some syrian food taste then their coffee is very popular and many people come here especially to buy coffee from this shop and we have here here he's one of the syrians that we met many years ago like 3 years ago he owns a small shop where he sells mobile phone accessories and it is difficult to find an english speaker a syrian shop owner here and that's why we are with my here. today there was a report that explains the difficulties of being affluent to being away from home and home has been that you left syria. sheets you've lived here for you know the reasons that the war if you can just. you.
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it's pretty difficult to believe you should believe in the religion or. what i was looking i was going on before when i. was lucky i phone to hear some friends. but it also. took people thinking as you know was a good result for you and i was looking as you know them and what about the family i'm sure you have children how are they holding up are they going to school how is their social life with. my family with me. i have. no i have gears and boy. when they receive 50 kids are starting. everything we could that's not what what about business because you are not a citizen and it is
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a little bit difficult just survive as business in a stumble especially in general how is the business year with you it's not good it's not it's not bad but it's almost done good. news as i told you i was lucky. the neighbors here are good to people and others but we just got back and. the situation is not you're a very positive example you set a very positive example what about the difficulties that you had ok you're happy turks were friendly but as a refugee what kind of difficulties did you have at 1st. of course it's it's it's but the experience experience experience. to be refugees very difficult. it's nice that you have to start every scene from 0. there was a lot of difficulties but. it's
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a must read. like. money must have a board just a very short answer to that like from you would you ever consider going back to a country if everything is settled back in syria. good. might come but. i'm not sure that's. difficult thank you very much mark well michelle mahrer is a very positive example as he says he's lucky but of course there are also very unlikely people who haven't been able to cling going to live income trees including turkey and there are at least 3500000 syrian refugees living here and some of them are in big cities like in istanbul and already turkey is going through a phrase joya konami process and sometimes opposition politicians mostly the nationalists one say that the syrians are becoming a burden on the turkish economy but it's been more than 8 years almost 9 years they
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have settled their lives some of them do not want to go back but of course when you speak to all of them by the border or other big cities they always miss their countries richelle all right senator thank you very much for bringing us the story we appreciate it let's bring in john avlon and also he's the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council and thank you so much when we talk about the number 80000000 that is larger than a significant amount of countries on the planet that is a difficult number to get your mind around how do you make people understand that. what it is indeed how much for 1314 times the entire population of my country it's like a depopulating in large part of the united states we are not understanding how this is the battening verdict really on global leadership on national lead the
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ships it's a failure of men with arms and guns and power to defend civilians we are letting the groups these government armies these criminal gangs to get populate launch areas people are defenseless we have to change this it's a great point you make yes there's a there's some things that are not beyond that are beyond our control but a lot of what you're describing is absolutely manmade it is absolutely manmade and it is up to men and women to try to fix this what is the most pressing thing that you have to drill down on when you're talking about 80000000 people displaced as a getting them back home is it education is it health care where do you begin. well indeed these a chameleon are all this placed by violence and war on top of this we have tens of
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millions of people displaced by natural disasters induced also climate change what we need number one is an end to these protracted conflicts we need protection of civilians here only in recent weeks there has been half a 1000000 people displaced in the democratic republic of congo loan in the side held belt in in syria in yemen people are displaced all the time still so we need an end to the beilenson to the conflicts and then we need durable solutions and what for the people themselves what is that well it is that people either are allowed to return home in safety and dignity voluntary return that should happen to syria one day i hope the oil hope the refugee my hair is able to return button to really safety dignity protection but that is still not possible in nearly
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all parts of syria or we need a local integration of of refugees but but look at the palestinians in lebanon they are now 4th generation of people living as refugees palestinian refugees in lebanon the 3rd possibility is a resettlement in say places europe north america japan gulf countries australia that number of spaces have been reduced the world as a call it a place now with the increased number of people seeking protection when you talk about generations of refugees. and that makes me think of the generational psychological trauma that is passed down through families what are the effects of that. well i mean millions tens of millions of take
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this number 80000000 people displaced by violence internally in their country or as refugees in other countries roughly half hearted of these 4050 percent are children and youngsters what we offer them is really a very raw deal no for hope for a real future no livelihoods no normality and in many cases no education nor livelihood so what we will harvest is bitterness and potentially more conflict so what are what we are seeking as new each and rescue council is a new deal really with much more investment or so in hope where there is hopelessness more education more livelihoods more integration more investment in hope for these millions of youngsters and
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a deal for refugees. thank you so much the norwegian refugee council. claymore had on the news hour including why lovenox economic crisis could get worse by a u.s. move targeting syria's government. sworn in 2 months early burundi's new president takes office following the sudden death of his predecessor. the english premier league is back with an important black lives matter message it will have all that sport. china's top decision making body is considering a draft of hong kong's controversial security bill that's been widely criticized the standing committee of the national people's congress is reviewing the bill and it failed to pass in hong kong's legislature because of strong opposition so this legislation sparked a new wave approach him ocracy protest when it was announced in may it's fear the
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law will curb freedoms in hong kong something authorities had dismissed the train e.u. has more from beijing. well we do know that it's more surveyed essentially by beijing's frustrations and embarrassment following these pro-democracy anti-government protests that have been taking place in hong kong since last june beijing firmly believes that these are a source of instability in a threat to the region's prosperity they also believe that they're being fueled by forces intent on splitting hong kong from the mainland now critics would say simply it's beijing's way of taking matters into its or in hands because anti government voices in hong kong are simply getting too loud now essentially what would happen with this law is that it would be inserted in hong kong's mini constitution its basic law while completely bypassing the usual legislative process in hong kong now we know that china's national people's congress the standing committee which is the top legislative body in beijing discussed this law today on thursday and they
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defined 4 separate crimes under this national security law which are separatist activity terrorism colluding with foreign forces and also state subversion and they also apparently discussed punishments for these individual crimes now we are yet to hear any specific details on this but analysts believe that this will will essentially take hong kong one step closer to being like any other chinese mainland paul than in the sense that any criticism of beijing is likely to be censored or severely punished. brownell tells us the legislation will have an effect on the people in hong kong. you find it of a busy street up a narrow staircase where walls are 1st student with stickers advocating hong kong separatism and mocking china's leaders the building is home to a bookstore specializing in literature sympathetic to hong kong's protest movement and that the owner concedes makes him
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a potential target for china's new security law something pops especially the us. where folks there are tight toes on separatism on the hong kong dependence that we sell so all these might be things that got us in trouble some time later he has reason to worry in 2015 another hong kong bookseller disappeared into chinese custody for 6 months following a visit to the mainland the clock is ticking for the imposition of a law that journalists say could severely restrict freedom of speech in shrines in the deal that britain and china did before the handover in 1997 so we're concerned over many questions as to whether we can interview. you know film people calling for an end to one part party rule or criticizing the government but beyond that we're concerned that we won't get on to the top of these questions and this law is
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going to be vaguely worded broadly applied in the same way that it is in the mainland to stifle dissent not so say china's leaders they insist the new law will only target a minority of one or termed troublemakers who threaten china's national security. but in a sign of what may be to come 15 veteran pro-democracy figures have gone on trial accused of taking part in an illegal assembly they include albert ho who says he's prepared for jail i may have to risk my safety my liberty that is something i'm prepared for but i won't. the new security law could be in place by july the 1st the 23rd anniversary of hong kong's return to chinese rule the timing of this new law comes ahead of elections which are due in september critics say it creates the conditions for china's leaders to disqualify candidates who they consider disloyal
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or a threat to national security adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. the tell all book by former u.s. national security advisor john bolton is becoming a cause of major embarrassment for donald trump alton's accuse the u.s. president of asking foreign leaders including side as president to help them get reelected this year that's based on excerpts released to the media early war will be released on the book is out next week mike hanna reports from washington. the democrat controlled house of representatives impeach president trump for his dealings with ukraine ruling that he'd withheld aid to leverage information about his political opponent joe biden john bolton refused an invitation to testify before the house but now alleges that this action was typical of president trump's dealing with a number of countries and he criticizes the house for limiting its investigation to ukraine had they taken the time to inquire more systematically about trump's
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behavior across its entire foreign policy john bolton writes the impeachment outcome would have been different in published excerpts from his book bolton alleges that president trumps all favors from foreign leaders like t.f. over one of turkey and in particular president xi of china bolton recounts president comes conversation when he met the chinese president in a saga on the 29th of june last year trump then stunningly turned the conversation to the coming u.s. presidential election alluding to china's economic capability and pleading with she to ensure he did when he stressed the importance of farmers and increased chinese purchases of story being said if we in the electoral outcome bolton continues i would print trump's exact words but the government's pre-publication review process has decided otherwise despite bolton's confirmation of the manuscript has been vetted by the national security council the department of justice has asked
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a federal court to block publication 50 years ago the supreme court held that a similar attempt by the nixon administration to block publication of the pentagon papers amounted to censorship the widespread publication of passages from the book is likely to reinforce the federal court in applying precedent and rejecting the trumpets ministrations case next weekend. likely the public will be able to read the full it comes of a white house which practices in john bolton's words obstruction of justice as a way of life my kind of al-jazeera washington. and the us president tweeted an attempt to dismiss the claims in the book saying bolton's book was made up of lies and fake stories they continued saying the former national security advisor used to say good things about him until bolton was fired and went on to insult bolton saying he never had
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a clue and china's reacted to the allegations saying there's no they have no intention of meddling in the upcoming vote. we're going to need to go and. china pursues a principle of noninterference and others into the live feeds we have no intention to interfere in us into little fees or when they really. don't fish is joining us now from washington d.c. with more so allan this kind of follows a pattern we've seen this when someone leaves the white house and says something that the president doesn't like and then he insults them. but they were smart when he hired him so the white house is trying to get this book blocked saying it's classified but the president says it's all lies so what's going on. and that's the difficulty that the white house has the white house to trumpet ministration knew that the book was coming we knew back in january that john bolton signed the deal to do this book they knew at the beginning of the week that it was
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going to be published next week they have no waited until the last possible minute to seek some sort of court injunction to stop it and that's simply not going to happen the hard copies of the books have been sent to booksellers all over the country in some cases even a side that the country started to leak selectively to various media organizations john bolton has done a big interview which will air in primetime on sunday more of that in a 2nd and this book is out and i'll show you how i know that is because if you see here on my computer screen last night i was sent a copy a digital copy of the book this is chapter 4 the singapore sling and it's all about his meeting with kim jong un the difficulty the government has if they go into court when the department of justice argues they will say look this is all classified information he shouldn't be seeing these things he hasn't gone through the vetting process properly but here you have the president saying this is all
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lies well they can't be both it's either lies and therefore should be ignored or it's classified information so that's a really difficult thing for the department of justice to argue so i suspect they know that this publication is going to go ahead it has many damaging stories not least there's mike hanna said the fact that he asked china to get involved in the 2020 election there are other stories in there that the president didn't know that the united kingdom was a nuclear power that finland was not part of russia there is one very interesting passage where he says he decided to send out a tweet in defense of the defacto leader of saudi arabia. had been some and during the jamal khashoggi case not because he felt compelled to support mohamed bin selman but because it would detract the media from looking into a story that ivanka his daughter was using her personal e-mail to conduct
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government business the exact same thing the donald trump had repeatedly attacked hillary clinton for doing no as i see john bolton is doing a primetime interview on sunday who got a sneak preview of that on one of the morning shows here in the united states just in the last couple of hours and he says donald trump isn't fit to be president. you describe the president as erratic foolish behaved irrationally bizarrely you can't leave him alone for a minute he said conspiracies behind rocks and was stunningly uninformed he couldn't tell the difference between his personal interests and the country's interests i don't think he's fit for office so i don't think he has the competence to carry out the job there really isn't any guiding principle that i was able to discern other than what's good for donald trump's reelection. alan where do we even start a lot of the details that we've seen in the book are our gasoline details they are
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but they fit a pattern of behavior that we've all actually seen and witness for ourselves there is there is facts that he doesn't know we know that he has saw foreign powers to help him at an election we know that he has an affinity for dictators these are things we all know and john bolton is just kind of filling in the details there what this actually make a difference with the election a few months away. here's another thing we know richelle and you hinted at it in your 1st question this fits a pattern because others who have served in the white house have come out and said similar things and donald trump has reacted in the same way by saying it's all lies this is a conspiracy this is deep state here's the reality donald trump has an approval rate of around 4445 percent that has been unchanging particularly during the corporate crisis and also all the mass protests that we've seen across america in
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the past 2 weeks he has a base of support they don't care what people like john bolton see the support donald trump the true believers they think that he is if not the best american president in history then certainly one of the best presidents in american history the difficulty donald trump has that in the 2016 election he was able to convince a number of democrats and certainly floating voters to come over to his camp and vote for him that makes it much more difficult this just continues the narrative that donald trump doesn't know what he is doing john bolton doesn't come out of this covered in glory either because you remember as mike hanna said he was asked to give evidence to congress when it was going through the impeachment hearings he said it's up to a judge to decide if i have to do that he knew all of these things were going on he says in the boot there were other things that could have led to impeachment as well but he didn't step forward at that time and see anything to anyone instead he kept
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his own counsel and decided to accept the deal somewhere in the region of $2000000.00 and published his book by the time all right alan fisher i have in the white house alan thank you. so rockets whole turkey to pull its troops out of the north and to stop bombing this weekend or deploy ground forces to iraq and carried out air strikes turkey was targeting kurdish separatists and a serious escalation of its decades long conflict with the p k k baghdad said it was a violation of its sovereignty let's bring in someone a fault and now from baghdad someone what is the latest on on the ground this ground operation by the by the turkish forces. well today the ministry of foreign affairs here in baghdad has for the 2nd time this week some moans the turkish ambassador condemning those strikes and the ground incursion in fact northern iraq as a violation of its sovereignty now what is perhaps more significant is that at the
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same time the ministry of foreign affairs is also someone that uranium ambassador over similar operations that have gone on in the north and that is quite unusual because iran is a country that is seen as wielding quite a lot of influence over past governments here in iraq and someone in the iranian ambassador is quite a departure from previous foreign policies and it signals that the new prime minister most of them is trying to create some sort of equivalence in treating all of iraq's neighboring countries in the same way insisting that they have to respect iraq's sovereignty and now let's remember what happened during these operations we had 2 separate events going on in the northern kurdistan region and one that was an attack by turkey which consisted of both air strikes and the ground incursion and on the iranian border with iraq we also had artillery strikes against an area called in and in fact we heard today that those strikes resulted in at least one
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civilian casualty as well as other people being injured so some morning they are in ambassador is quite quite relevant but also significant step now it remains to be seen how much effect these decisions will actually have because let's remember the dad does not control these areas they're controlled by a semi autonomous kurdish regional government in the north the federal government does not have any troops to really enforce its request that these attacks on northern iraq stop so the diplomatic channel to try to request the neighboring countries to respect iraq's sovereignty is really all that the ministry of foreign affairs here can do but those areas under the control. of kurdish parties and both kurdish parties although they have not officially said so are likely to well come these operations because they target the p.k. k. and the kurdish authorities are very much also likely to be keen to see the p.k. k.
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depart from kurdish areas are it's not a call to lie for us in baghdad thank you. ok let's go to weather now and talk to ever and it is a it is warm across parts of europe but also some storms and there yeah that's right you summed it up nicely there are shell it goes from summer heat to summer downpours not say where the downpours are well they stretch all the way from england and wales right from the u.k. right the way down to the black sea we're going to see more of those showers as we go on through the next couple of days though grossly make their way further east was going to bump into this area of high pressure that we have just around that western side of russia so i think over the next few days the showers going to become increasingly intense across central and eastern parts of here for the moment they've been pretty lively over towards the west you can see on the side here welcome back i think that means welcome back to the rain it also means welcome back to the shoppers of course it's been fairly wet across a good part of england and wales that western weather will make its way further northwards over the next couple of days on the other side if you will people have
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been sheltering from the sunshine very hot sunshine temperatures in moscow touch 31 celsius yesterday i think will be nearer 20 degrees as we come to the end of the week came but not too bad nevertheless there we go with the wetter weather into central parts gradually noting further ace was as we go on into friday they'll still be a few showers around into northern parts of england in northern ireland stretched across denmark over towards the baltic states and as we go on into saturday signs of some brighter weather coming in behind but the next system will sweep through then we're home free will see warm sunshine temps just a touch 28 celsius by wednesday in london richelle ever again thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera beijing warns of consequences after the u.s. congress passes a law targeting chinese officials involved in detaining the makers. of my preferred hard by coronavirus medical worker said they're not getting the support they need. and formula one returns to the streets of italy peter will have
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all the details. frank assessments tourism income stream is dead in the water what's been the result of recent poaching significantly informed opinions there has been a very aggressive political rhetoric that has become very normal in israeli society in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines it's time for new policy and say on the street the technology does seem to grady but it's great to be there stability over all continues inside story on al-jazeera when the news breaks children here say they're excited to be back at school but also nervous when people need to be heard while qatar certainly has friends here it's the kind of fee on foot in part has its limitations and that's what pushed the country for a profit on it the method of production al-jazeera has teams on the ground just
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because your choice doesn't mean it cannot be crushed what about the guy that can't afford it to bring you more room would win documentaries and life. rashid al jazeera let's pick out the top stories right now the united nations says almost 80000000 people are now forcibly displaced from their homes for only one percent of the world's population and the refugee agency says the majority are escaping wars and persecution. china's top decision making body is reviewing a draft of a controversial national security bill for hong kong announcement may spark
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criticism and protests and fears it will curb freedoms. a new book by former u.s. national security advisor to. bolton says donald trump asked the chinese leader for help in his reelection says it has no intention of interfering in the vote. for indy's new president every state may has been sworn in he was a declared winner of last month's election he takes office more than 2 months took office rather more than 2 months early after a sudden sudden death the president here in cruces and now joins us live now from nairobi to tell us about about the swearing in and about about who he is. every day i see me i was sworn in a ceremony a short while ago was held in a football stadium in the capital. as he said the reason he's being sworn in now is following the surprise death of pierre in korean these are his 3 to test who died last week the government said he died from a heart attack although many people believe that it was actually coded 99 when
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currencies didn't have any policies to try and slow the spread of the coronavirus one thing that people are waiting to see now is if that's going to change on the shimmy over the last few months sporting events has continued into india as usual there were political rallies with thousands of people gathering for elections last month but even in the swearing in ceremony today we've seen no social distancing hundreds of soldiers lining up for a military parade so no sign that the policies changing so far another thing that people are waiting to see will change is true in these human rights record towards the end of 15 of the 15 year rule of spearing frenzies. regime became known for widespread reports of extradition killings torture and crushing of all dissenting voices many journalists opposition and rights activists have fled into exile those elections last month were controversial were widespread reports of violence and
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irregularities in the vote counting within days shimmy was announced the winner he was in queens eases chosen the successor waiting to see if any of these things will actually change on the new ruler came out and and nairobi malcolm thank you. accusations us president ronald trump told china's leader that he approved of beijing's for oppression a lot from weaker and other minorities are excerpts from this yet to be released book we've been talking about from national security advisor john bolton former that is says a trump agreed with china while publicly condemning the mass detentions allegations came as. signed into law an act that calls for sanctions against chinese officials who are involved united nations says up to a 1000000 weekers have been detained in camps china's government says the centers provide vocational training beijing has reacted with anger the chinese foreign ministry says china will resolutely hit back in the u.s.
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will bear the burden of all subsequent subsequent consequences and he is a senior research fellow at the center for china and globalization he says there's an element of duplicity in the white house response to china. you'll recognize that issues of oral swabs the bar red wine or any but plain to take a look. at. and this is. well used to play the last thing on us we always. try to cause us to do all the work for 7 schools within the realm of national security strategy was the u.s. really naming a plane in washington. that i think china has a little always wanted to talk a little plan of running was exactly what we will or should. we were
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friends with however i think it is also a very pragmatic and was letting you know why the wall meaning that i think this is where western media some friends over in. the china things and. in the west is we've always said of the all situation in that there are elements of his administration war in iraq which i think you know is much more pragmatic the more interesting arnold will want bill and really that's being. a good beat down that actually says. that all the time is doing well in singles actually the right things but on. charles and so there is an element of i will see within the certainly what i think they think what the administration with thinking. what the polls. german prosecutors say there's enough evidence to suspect russia ordered the murder of a former chechen rebel last year the victim was killed in
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a berlin park last august germany has summoned the russian ambassador and says it reserves the right to take further measures russia has people say call the accusation baseless and cain joins us live now from berlin dominic what else can you tell us about this. richelle this is the part in which the killing took place so my right shoulder those benches there that is where i was shot 3 times and was killed the incident at that took place in broad daylight at the end of august during the middle of the day a person came up to mr bailey when he was walking through the park a cyclist shot him 3 times and then made off witnesses say that they saw the gunman or who they believe was the gunman throw away the gun that was used and a wig that he had been wearing he was apprehended not that long after the incident took place until now the german government has said that it believed the russians
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or the chechens were responsible for this but what the what's the development today is the clear statement by the german state by the federal prosecutor is that they believe that the russian government ordered the killing of mr really at a date up to the 18th of july last year of course the incident took place on the 23rd of august the person concerned who is alleged to have carried out the killing has been in custody pretty much since the incident took place but as i say the development today is the german state federal prosecutors coming out with so much information and the fact that the mass as you were saying the social democrat foreign minister of germany saying that he summoned the ambassador to account for this latest development but also crucially saying that the german government reserves the right to take further action regarding this case so clearly they are irate about what's happened here and they want an explanation ok dominic hang with the latest there in fairyland thank you. it's been nearly 10 years since the un
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call for a major cleanup of nigeria's nature delta but a new report says little is actually been done decades of oil spills of call severe damage to the delta and 2 $1011.00 the un said the cleanup could take 30 years and cost a $1000000000.00 up to $40000000.00 people face major health risks because of contamination to agricultural land fisheries and drinking water across the delta the region has also seen a rise in infant mortality the study also found un back so-called emergency measures of water and health protection have not been implemented properly investigation by pressure groups including friends of the earth and amnesty found cleanup work has only begun on about 11 percent of the contaminated sites so in a statement shell petroleum nigeria which operate in the niger delta said this this report fails to recognize that the majority of the un environment programs recommendations need lol to stakeholder efforts coordinated by the federal
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government of nigeria and that shell has acted on all recommendations directed to hit it in the u.n. report to continue to actively support the cleanup process along with other stakeholders romulus that speak to and go be a mission for risk within in the united kingdom she's a member of the state oil and environment commission a group set up by the archbishop of york to investigate oil spills in the niger delta and we appreciate your time so much so does anything about this report surprise you. thank you very logical have in your channel the 1st thing i should say. rafa are you. that's the one thing. to be honest the record it lets you know look at so it's not surprising the problems in the mind of the ongoing for decades. and there was no hope of pulling will never forgive the level. that it will be. the stimulus for actually
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one to delta especially because of. travel. evidence around in control of living on the lives and livelihoods of the people allegedly what he has reported right what and what has changed in the light of those that were going to let him across the board so numb what did not surprise me i think very recently one tickle will a lot of make actually change things on the ground and i don't want one in the meantime but people who are the police for morals of islam. so when you say a lack of political will is that because there is relative really really not a lot of accountability not a lot of punishment a lot of lot of consequences and sadly i think that the that is the case because for me when i get out on one area where no one argues about the fact that all
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east. peepli there was sleeping the lives of the people the evidence is there. what ought to do there have been more accountability there are cases here and then people called in for intersections where we can try to access just routes to get some of them have you look for more compensation but but once you involve it never really be completely captured the along with all the damage that has been done but more importantly the environment it's not have never really had any attention to it so reminiscent as we know it in the west. i don't know what happened in the minds of those you have so much to believe that movie like it's an acacia a but basically about god cannot hope slow the actual. religion of environments like that in the closest thing to polygamy is not happening i'm back to the bottom and an essay
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thank you very much thank you. the new u.s. sanctions against syria's government and its backers is causing concern in neighboring lebanon some of those targeted lebanese nationals who deal with syria and this is expected to worsen its economic crisis as the government seeks help from the international monetary fund said i heard a report from beirut. lebanon's tripoli port was getting ready to play a role in the rebuilding of syria a few kilometers from the border it's well placed to become a logistics hub for local and international companies but any foreign investment or business dealings with president bashar assad's government will now be punishable by u.s. sanctions the measure targets assets political and economic backers some of them are in lebanon i think it would be very difficult for lebanon to keep maintaining his relationships with the syrian regime it's going to be difficult they will not
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be able to reconcile before syria is the only functioning land border in lebanon has trade might be affected. lebanon is in an economic crisis what this means is lebanon will be isolated according to customs we export more than we import about $400000000.00 and. it's not clear whether commodities for which taxes have to be paid will be considered aid to the government but what is clear is that syria will find it harder to rely on lebanon to avoid sanctions it has used it to access dollars in banks for international trade. is one way for for for him for smuggling for exchanging. some. trade lebanon is a longer one of the long so. through sanctions also apply to any force operating
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in a military capacity for or on behalf of the syrian regime that would include hezbollah the armed iranian backed group that controls political power in lebanon. it's calling for restoring relations with damascus only so nicely lebanon is in a difficult position the government risks sanctions if it supports syria's collapsing economy or doesn't move away from the syria iran account. talks with the international monetary fund for much needed financial aid to help deal with a deep economic crisis will also be affected. authorities will be required to stop the smuggling of goods like fuel and wheat into syria which the united states believes is helping government survive the new sanctions may not be directed at lebanon but lebanese business owners companies politicians even the state could be targeted. beirut. healthcare workers in peru have been protesting against the lack
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of protective equipment are facing one of the worst rates of coven 1000 in south america the government has rushed to test more than 200000 people built makeshift hospitals and flying doctors around the country but many say it's still not doing enough just to protect frontline workers are going to sanchez reports from lima. yes. there is anger and fear in public hospitals on wednesday doctors and nurses took turns to protest refusing to leave their patients on attended to demand more and better protective equipment to treat covert 1000 patients will pay more for your will and not demanding payments we're asking for solutions to protect our lives. they say they often have to buy their own masks and other equipment because the government doesn't provide enough they feel over exposed and in danger who are probably why we are probably the hardest hit me this morning my friend died he was fighting against the in this together with all of us he died fighting to
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help others until the end. at least 45 doctors have died in bed to seize the coronavirus pandemic struck 7 this past weekend alone most in the wards nurse sonya keeps her last name from us because she still working even though she's not sure if she's recovered every damage into whatever i got the virus at work i feel i am cured although i constantly have to catch my breath but i need the money not how does not matter who knows me to steal says only a few of her colleagues have been tested for covert 19. we want to be tested i'm in the emergency ward to be are in the constant contact with current patients and no one has taking tests who knows if they bring the writers to our small children are our parents. around the country hospitals and clinics are overwhelmed how do you know beds not enough. exigent not enough ventilators all
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well covered 1000 numbers continue to ryse when the pandemic began to have fewer than a 150 intensive care unit beds for 32000000 peruvians it's a sign of just how broken the health care system has been for decades of the call that crisis has forced on improvement there are no 5000 beds available many say it's too little too late. we're not of the beast got to acknowledge just mistakes have been made since he and post one of the earliest and strictest lockdowns in the region a recent opinion poll says 70 percent of peruvians support his strategy but only 7 percent think he's done enough to bolster health care and the hospital workers who risk their lives every day but the innocent just. still add on al-jazeera the streets of naples are flooded with fans celebrating italy's 1st football profi of the season you don't have all the details. of.
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business majors. by now brushed past.
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business majors. by now brushed past. the. toughest part with it are they going to show how much the city manager has thrown his support behind the black lives matter movement he seemed returned to action in the premier league on wednesday after a 3 month suspension because of the coronavirus reigning champions manchester city took on arsenal in a match played without any spectators before kick off players paused to pay tribute to health workers and then took and me before the game kicked off after city's 3 no win manager pep guardiola weighed in on racial injustice we should say that when
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people is a bowler genesis story or the way we treat the black people in the last 100 years or for centuries. i feel ashamed when we have done produce marvelous. black people around the world is not a problem but the usa in the instance of america would have run for mr white. probably received the ms and never were. now police have won the 1st trophy of the italian season may be due vengeance in attains penalty shootout to clinch the copy you tell you on another frustrating night for you very star player christiane i remember you and i go to roscoe has the story. italian football returned to action last week but christian are now to shop miss remains absent the portuguese star failed to score in the 1st leg of this final and was denied again on wednesday napoli had plenty of opportunities to score to you face keep it generally cheaply fun kept them that they. would score nil nil at full time the match went straight
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to penalties because players still getting back into shape and that's when the rust really began to show for you they palatable a shot to save. brazilian danio sent his spot kick into the empty stands and before they knew it you they were to kneel down. a polish striker converted the decisive penalty to senior for 2. i. did it christiane are now to have been waiting to take a spot kick he missed his chance instead it was napoli who took the spotlight and the copper out in the 1st major triumph for coach generica 2 so. the young coach had lost this final as well people would have tagged me as a loser because i had already lost 2 finals this was the 3rd and it is tough to leave football the way i do but it's the only way i know and that's why i feel the
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victorian side because i know where we started i know how difficult it's stressful i've made life for my players and for the people who work in this club and i think we deserve it. little johnny quickly i'm angry and disappointed when you lose on penalties the disappointment and the anger even stronger because you end up with the feeling that winning or losing only depends on luck if one has to lose a fine or maybe it's better to lose it after the 90. minutes robin on a penalty shoot out of unable to be in rome for the final because of coronavirus restrictions fans flooded the streets in one post to celebrate after the 3 months sporting break because of the pandemic the trophy and the night finally belonged to them the s. joining al-jazeera. dortmund quest to secure 2nd place in the german bundesliga has suffered a setback on wednesday dortmund were at home to mind the 1st half go by jonathan
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burkhardt and the 2nd half penalty from is wrong felipe ensured a victory for the visitors thankfully for dortmund they have already qualified for next season's changes in. the race for the other 2 champions league places is still on their rb leipzig were held to a 22 draw by fortuna distilled off even though kevin cumple and team of have put leipzig 2 goals ahead the sold off hit back with 2 goals in the final 3 minutes to level matters like 6 of food in the thick. and by leverkusen have moved into the 4th champions league qualifying position they defeated cologne 31 on wednesday in spain bender put them in front before high harvard's finished 1st fry and moved to double the lead cologne pulled one back but then the rb completed another stylish move to wrap up the wins leverkusen are one point ahead of munchen glad back. the world's top wheelchair tennis player has accused us open organizers of discrimination after the sport was dropped from this year's event in new york
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paralympian dylan all carr says players were not consulted before the u.s. tennis association took the decision this tournament will be played behind closed doors in august because of coronavirus restrictions the 10 time grand slam champion tweeted i thought i did enough to qualify 2 time champion number one in the world but unfortunately i missed the only thing that mattered being able to walk disgusting discrimination formula one teams are counting down to the season start with the 1st race in austria just over 2 weeks away. it was an unusual sights on the italian streets on thursday morning sharma clare took his car for a drive through maternelle over the team is based the dawn drive to the test track may well come up a few residents but at least he missed russia. i'd like to do that sometime later hersel thank you very much that is all for the news hour but i do have much more news for you right here on al-jazeera on the other side any other
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side of the breaks a keeper. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. the usa is always of in fact the people all right the world people pay attention to what goes on here and i do see it as very good at bringing the news to the world. when the covert 19 come down to kick iran. a filmmaker cut the drift from his crew began documenting life from the knock down a made on growing international sanctions. and
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intimate portrayal of isolation in one of the world's least understood countries coronavirus locked down iran people in power on a. al-jazeera . where as you write.
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one in every 100 people in the world is now displaced forced out of their homes by war persecutions has a new u.n. report. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from tokyo also coming up a bombshell from the former u.s. national security advisor john bolton still book says donald trump asked china for help to get reelected. lebanon's economic crisis could be made worse by u.s. sanctions targeting syria's.

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