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euro persecutory should be able to comment the world minister from syria has closed the door to syrian refugees like the buffalo maybe he goes head to head with trump advisor stephen moore this year the trump deficit a trillion dollars due to a rule not to reelect any well don't know how to 0. 0. 0 again and this is the news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes there were you know new and dangerous phase the world health organization warns the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating after a record number of infections some day. celebrating the end of historic slavery
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rallies are held across the united states as the anti racism we've moved backwards . ramping up pressure on the president to resign and demonstrators in mali gather for the 2nd time in a month and justin trudeau calls on china to drop as thin as charges against 2 canadians amid speculation it's in retaliation for the case against a wall way executive. army warnings with the sports news including would be most to score some pollen and pick legend alex a novelty has been seriously hurt in the sinisterly we understand he's been lifted to hospital after a crash with a heavy vehicle. now the world health organization is warning of a new and dangerous phase. in the current a virus pandemic after
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a record number of infections for a single day more than 150000 cases were reported on thursday almost half of them in the americas as well as large numbers in south asia and the middle east the world is in a new and dangerous phase many people are understandably fed up with being at home countries are understandably egger to open up their societies and economies but the virus is still spreading fast it is still deadly and most people are still susceptible. we call on all countries and all people to exercise extreme vigilance. well as i mentioned nearly haas of the new deal reported code than 1000 cases are from the americans but we have kristen salumi standing by for us in new york but 1st let's go to our latin america at attendants union and she's in santiago you see it it seems that brazil has now will
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surpass that very grim number of 1000000. absolutely nuts it was sort of predictable that this what happened but that doesn't make it any less grim and any less worrisome especially as opposed to what we've just heard from the head of the world health organization the government is pushing to open up the economy and even entertainment for example on thursday night pressure from president died but also not all the 1st football championship game was played in rio de janeiro which is the city with the 2nd highest number of infections and deaths and this game was played without an audience without the public but nevertheless it was sending a signal to brazilians or at least that was the point of it that everything is getting back to normal that it's time to go back out to play and especially go back out to work and this game took place right next to an emergency tent hospital where
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people were actually dying from coronavirus as the game was taking place so that just gives you an idea of what is happening of the disconnect if you like between what is going on on the ground with the corona virus and the way that authorities in many cases are trying to deal or not deal with it and speaking of authorities who say you're standing in chile and the government there has been imposing these strict measures that we've been seeing but the numbers are still growing. absolute from the atlantic side of latin america and brazil here to the pacific in chile things are very grim indeed and in fact other just a few hours ago the health ministry announced more than 6000 new confirmed cases here in chile the government that the president rather has sent a bill to congress to try to. punish people who violate the quarantine with up to 5 years in prison but the opposition is unlikely to pass it they say that the problem here is not just that people aren't taking the lockdown seriously and now people by
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the way of going to be allowed to only leave their homes twice a week to go shopping rather than 5 times a week as it was until now many say that 1st of all it would be pointless to try to put people in prisons that are already overcrowded and prone to infections from coronavirus as the government is actually releasing prisoners and at the same time what really needs to be done is that the government has to crack down on industries on business which is not what it's doing in fact i can see in front of me a starbucks that's open that's not exactly what you would call an essential industry and so a lot of people have permission to go to work and that's what they have to really reduce dramatically and in the short term in order to keep people at home off the streets and away from infection you see a new man there with that update from south america well let's now move over to north america and bring in kristen sumi she's in new york kristin new york city was once considered the epicenter of this pandemic and now it's scenes that we're seeing cases really escalation in southern states many of them with republicans in charge. we're seeing
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a big one day increase in places like arizona florida california south carolina texas states to the west and to the south where they've had record single day increases of new infections florida in particular one of the 1st states to reopen saw a big jump from just under 2800 cases to just over 3200 cases in arizona they're starting to worry about intensive care beds and hospitals moving forward as you mentioned these. are 2 states with conservative governors who been resistant to mandatory mask wearing they say that they are concerned and they are watching things but they are have been reluctant to make that extra step now some localities are imposing them themselves here in new york were passed the mountain as the governor would say he held what he called his final daily coronavirus briefing for
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the last nearly 3 months these have become a daily event where he would update the latest figures the latest containment measures for the disease and he says it's no longer necessary because the numbers of new infections and daily does here in new york are now where they were at the very beginning of this pandemic some 3 months ago and governor cuomo actually criticized some of these other governors for moving forward with reopening before they had so-called flatten the curve and brought some of these new infection rates down unlike here in new york where they took very stringent lockdown measures until the infection was contained and only then started to move forward so some growing pressure on those states out west into the south so far they're resisting but watching the situation very carefully kristensen to me there for us live in new york city thank you very much for that update kristen. well india has also recorded
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its highest single day spike in corona virus cases and the southern city of chennai is now back under lockdown health officials reported almost 1400 new infections there on thursday the restrictions will remain in place until at least the end of the month police have set up hundreds of checkpoints that enforce the rules and drones are also being used to monitor residence. the recent crowd of ours outbreak there which forced parts of the city to impose a lockdown this week is now under control more than $118.00 new infections had been confirmed since monday hundreds of thousands of residents and records have been tested katrina you now reports from beijing. this time last year long queues were a common sight outside beijing sporting all entertainment venues but this week thousands have been queuing to be tested to carve a dainty mynheer work in the restaurant industry here no money it's because many in
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the restaurant industry buy their me and fresh produce from shin 40 market i think this is why we need to reassure customers beijing's should body wholesale market is reportedly the source of the latest outbreak it's applies 80 percent of the capital's food dozens of people have been infected and more than 29 neighborhoods are under lockdown now authorities say the new cluster is under control. the city detective dammit locked the source and it took measures at the earliest time after the outbreak they managed to cut off further transmission and kept to all the bridge withing a minimum range chinese scientists have published the genome for the virus strain saying it came from outside the capital more than 700000 people have been tested since the latest outbreak was discovered more than a week ago beijing authorities are using mobile phone data to help track contain the virus residents of possible high risk areas recently received this message it
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says according to a big dust analysis may have cost the shin flogging wholesale market recently we urge you to stay home and report to authorities those who do not will be held legally responsible but new infections continue to rise in the capital hundreds of flights were canceled after beijing braced its allowed level on wednesday travel risk. actions and social distancing measures have been reinstated raising questions about the government's transparency the outbreak in one harm had disastrous consequences and now just after a few days the beijing authorities say this outbreak is under control do you think this can be trusted so it's not sure that. there is some cover of infection numbers and situation that i don't think this will happen in beijing. we didn't know about the virus and how to do is it. authorities say the new cases are
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not severe but despite reassurances that the outbreak is under control people fear normal life or something like it may still be a long way away katrina you al-jazeera beijing well scientists and italy say they found evidence the coronavirus was in 2 cities in december that's 2 months before the country's 1st cases were reported samples from so edgewater plants in milan and children were found to have traces of the virus on the 18th of december now in china where the virus originated the 1st cases were only confirmed at the end of december and italy's 1st registered case was only in mid february and moving on to other news and the united states is marking the end of slavery a day known as juneteenth and it's taken on added significance this year with the recent protests against racism and police brutality on june the $1865.00 an order was issued to free thousands of slaves in the state of texas about point slavery
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had already been abolished for more than 2 years but there weren't enough soldiers to enforce the new law and so many whites in the confederate south kept the news from mislay and now there are growing calls in the u.s. to make juneteenth a national holiday. well let's now talk correspondent kimberly elizondo he is at a protest in new york that's marking the day we've been watching those crowds around you grow over the last few hours and in a departure from previous years that there are a lot of white faces out to. there are these protests are quite incredible quite frankly i want to just give you a scene this one goes on for several city blocks in what is more than 40 different protests that are happening throughout new york city and the surrounding neighborhoods on this june 13th holiday here i want to bring in a guest let's bring it back on in here how are you doing what's your name again my
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name is joseph joseph thank you for joining us you're an organizer with black bias matter why are you out here today. all of them are the people organized where black . ribbon you know why should i mind. not running to you to me tonight to you. and here's to you when no. sleeves were made and it became aware 2 years later again so we are here in new york city limits and that's what we're looking at the scene speak high and you're here what do you think as you see all of these people what's going through your mind i think i'm living. my happy she saw me. that doesn't want to stay in new york. city man just you know.
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all these be held accountable. i george i got to ask you you're wearing a mask i'm wearing a mask almost everyone hears her mask because we're still in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic listen to why do you still feel you have to come out here ask yourself even though we're. this pandemic happened but i'm retired and i'm certainly. not going to stop me from the government community. not to fight for the community and the people so. it's problems and we need to be where we need to be aware we think. yeah i'm still here no justice no peace george thank you very much good luck with the rest your brains out here today thank you so you can really get a sense here of just the numbers of people that are out on the streets. and this is just one of multiple protests happening right now in new york city and it really
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has taken on added significance because of what is going on in america right now these are truly historic moments in u.s. history frankly and people really feel it on this friday at the juneteenth holiday is a moment to really sees and you can see there's a lot of black faces but there's also a lot of white faces a lot of that a lot of asian that's what is making this so much different from any other protests that we've seen her in the united states that they're just to take the 1st city of the cross section of people that are really coming out here to have their voices are. on the streets of new york for us thank you very much well now let's move a little further south to the capital washington d.c. where she had been tansey is standing she has you out with protesters there to talk us through the mood that looks very different from the.
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well this is what as in new york is one of many protests that are occurring across the city you joined us we've just march with several 100 people from the museum of african-american history to the monument to martin luther king jr here on the banks with the paternal like right now they're holding. a rather quiet protest taking a knee and reciting various names of people killed through police will be doing this for 8 minutes and 46 seconds which was the time initially reported as the amount of time that a police officer knelt on the neck of george floyd. let's. take a look at. its. i'm not sure how much of this you can have but it is.
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much more than that. well i don't think they've lost. the ultimate goal here i mean the point is and this is what we keep hearing from demonstrators it's all very well now for the democrats and the republicans to start talking about police reform. notably the republicans have put forward proposals which are relatively toothless democrats put forward proposals which have some long held like some sort of national database of police officers with a disciplinary record we have no transparency we've had no transparency for a very long time but i think what we keep hearing here is what those politicians don't seem to understand is the conversation is this isn't about police reform this
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is about starting again this is about defunding the police because of the systemic nature. within the police force as we see around the country. using enormous amounts of force they get very angry. drop so if you're dealing with that then how can you possibly reform them and that's what we keep on hearing after the point is that main focal point remains defunding the police having a different system because right now the police are just seen as occupation officers who only language is only ability to be violent so that is that remains the main issue however of course systemic racism isn't just limited to the police force and that has been ruled in. washington d.c. we'll continue watching around the country on this day. thank you. well president trump was planning to have his 1st campaign rally in months today on june 18th but then postponed it to saturday after a backlash that he's tweeted
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a warning ahead of that rally saying any protesters or in his words lowlifes who are going to oklahoma should understand they'll be treated differently to those in new york seattle and minneapolis while the un's human rights council is now launching an inquiry into systemic racism against black people following the police killing of george floyd last month the member states unanimously adopted that resolution put forward by a group of african countries the un's rights chief michel bashfully has one year to report back a findings an initial draft of that resolution called for an investigation specifically in the u.s. but that's been taken out following closed door negotiations well now one of the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of black women brianna taylor in louisville kentucky is being fired the 26 year old was killed when 3 police officers entered her home on a no knock warrant and then shot her 8 times kentucky's police chief has written to
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the officer brett hankinson saying he had violated procedure when blindly firing into her apartment she said hankins ins actions were a shock to the conscience to other police officers are on reassignment while that case is being investigated. well there's plenty more ahead for you this news hour and feeding more divisions in yemen's war southern separatists seized the main security building on supply trucks at. british stations to touche and apologizing for the past but is saying sorry for their role in slavery enough. and as football returns around the wound there are concerns that teams are playing too many games too quickly. now a u.s. course is hearing president trump's last ditch attempt to stop the release of a tell all book by his former national security advisor the justice department says
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john bolton's memoir contains classified material and has called for a temporary restraining order but many media outlets have already obtained advance copies of that book and bolton has asked the court to dismiss the case against him well we can now speak to alan fischer who's at the white house for us alan i see the president trying to saying the book is both pure fiction but then at the same time is also insisting it's full of national security secrets that court hearing i believe is happening right now so how is this actually like to be argued that. exactly that way the department of justice has taken on the mantle of arguing for the government they say that we can't allow the to be published because there is classified information and there even though donald trump as you see has said it's all 'd lies are stories that have been made up to damage him and he's been very disparaging about john bolton on twitter more on that in a 2nd as for john bolton he says look we can't
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a gag over my mouth and shut me up and this is exactly what they're trying to do here he says that donald trump isn't concerned about foreign governments getting ahold of the information he's concerned about the american people getting hold of the information it's rare that a court would decide to block this but if they did it would mean the publication on tuesday wouldn't go ahead but i've been working my way through a copy that i obtained and most of the main information little interest thinks that bits but the big stories are all out in the public domain they've been covered in extracts in newspapers over the last couple of days have been covered by as here on al-jazeera john bolton a piece for the wall street journal it may not please john bolton's hopes of making big sales but you've read most of the information but he's still hoping to go ahead in the court will make that decision though interestingly enough there's been a briefing by the press secretary here at the white house just in the last hour or
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so she was asked specifically about some of donald trump's tweets about john bolton he described them as dumb as a rock and he was out and she was asked why does the president trying to continue to employ people he ends up criticizing massively on twitter people who are dumb as a rock not fit for purpose that sort of thing she insists that donald trump likes to hear opposite views and it's like a president lincoln's team of rivals where he gets contrary information and that is why john bolton was brought in but. it was soon realized that he wasn't fit for the job and that is why the white house continues to insist it fired him john bolton says he resigned and this is all going to go and one other very interesting detail there's another book coming out very soon it's written by donald trump's least she is a qualified psychologist she's a doctor make and he was asked about the publication of that book and she said they had no comment as we haven't seen it but that is also expected to be highly
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critical of the president's alan fischer there for us at the white house thank you very much for that update allan. now former allies in yemen's war battling to control an island off the horn of africa southern separatists have stormed the security department building in the city of her debut on the island of soko the southern transitional council is backed by the united arab emirates and is fighting government forces supported by saudi arabia now the s.t.c. had originally supported the saudi u.a.e. coalition against the rebels but now wants to break away from more than yemen a yemeni minister has called on the coalition to end the fighting and to restore order on the island i spoke to catherine shocked them she is the director of the yemen yunus at the next century foundation that's a think tank that operates in conflict zones she says the resurgence in the fighting we're seeing is possibly because of turkey is growing involvement in yemen . it was a real fear that you would try to increase them sometimes you miss out on problems
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of yemen and try to open up you know and use one i've been through if you will and i think that the u.a.e. reacted to know and this is what is happening now in secret trials and we need to remember about as far as the u.a.e. is concerned the whole intervention in yemen anyway i was always about having control of that which you raise in yemen so in the south and making sure that for example secret how would not fool we've been someone else's jurisdiction a spy as they are concerned that it was a matter of. national security so i think that the fact now that we see around in your hands is a very tall tale sign to me that the reason a lot of anxiety like the animosity toward syria. and that potentially we seeing new crocs appearing in terms of the creation and mary kind of. the chances that underpins these very very tentative lines and now the last of 3 aid
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shipments has arrived in yemen as the u.n. suffers a funding crisis that more than 40 tons of medical equipment including ventilators and testing kits have been flown in to help the country battle the crying of virus earlier this month a u.n. appeal fell $1000000000.00 short of what was needed forcing 175 percent of its programs to be cut in yellow. now demonstrators have gathered in mali's capital for the 2nd time this month ramping up pressure on president abraham who had to resign the protests and bomb being encouraged by religious figure. cases opponents of accuse him of corruption and also of failing to contain violent groups the president has promised to hold talks to establish a unity government well our correspondent nicholas haq is following all the developments from senegal capital dhaka nick pressure has been mounting on the president for some time now the opposition is looking remarkably energized just how
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significant is today's protest. well now they're significant enough that the presidential palace called on its security forces to arrest protests here is that we're marching towards the palace after the leader of this movement mahmoud sent a delegation to try to engage in dialogue with the president now earlier during the day we saw thousands of people gathered in that crowd swelled to tens of thousands of people this protest movement is gaining momentum despite the arrest of protesters by the presidential palace and after they were arrested decode took to the podium and said he bared witness the international community that his effort for peaceful dialogue with the president failed a warning to what could happen next time there will be protests because these protests are set to continue and it seems that president. attempt
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to appease the protests by announcing a series of measures suggesting it a unity government. dissolving the newly elected national assembly he was accused his party was accused of cheating during those election. increasing pay for teachers teachers that haven't been paid for 7 months while all of these measures are not enough to quell the protests it seems here in the trust between the 1000000 people and its leadership is broken and that's the heart of the problem here so echo oss the west african body sent out a high level delegation to try to mediate between the protesters and the president this was a delegation formed by the foreign minister of i read. and the share a senior delegation really tried to stem out the crisis because what happens in mali has repercussions across the help the ongoing fights and violence that we're
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seeing is in mali is spread. across the borders just last week we saw violence 'd on the border of ivory coast from armed groups that have their base in mali we're talking about al qaeda affiliate subtle islam one loosely mean and the samik state in the greater sahara who are also good gaining momentum in the mali region meanwhile the french minister for the last yesterday announced that at a senate committee in france saying that the efforts to bring mali to peace is going towards the right direction next. later this month there will be several elite forces european forces from. european countries that will join the french in counter terrorism operations in mali in this is happening at that time as the u.n. security council will renew the mandate of the $14000.00 strong u.n.
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peacekeeping mission which is the most deadly operation for the u.n. and also one of the most expensive it cost a $1000000000.00 a year and france and the united states are at loggerheads over the future of that mission united states wants to see a drawdown of that mission france wants to see more of the same caught in the middle of this of course or the 1000000 people who are struggling with their day to day lives there accusing the 1000000 president himself of emptying state coffers of benefiting personally from from from the government coffers he recently renovated the presidential palace for $11000000000.00 around a $1000000.00 spent on his own presidential palace meanwhile the condition for going a 1000000 has gone from bad to worse half of the population are dependent on humanitarian assistance so these protests are set to continue no matter what. is going to do and in the absence of the leader of the opposition some majlis you say it's this
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influential clip. cleric now has become the face of this protest and because he's a political he's able to draw such a large crowds on the streets of. that watching that situation for us from dhaka thank you very much. well still ahead on al-jazeera calls for no more united nations sanctions on iran european leaders push back against us to monitor. such an angry india's prime minister says the country is mourning the 20 soldiers killed and crashes china. and find out why the world's most expensive footballer has to pay his old club $7500000.00 it's.
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how i was saying some rather lively showers pushing out the southeastern parts of a year a race needed to still see a fair amount of cloud just into the northwest of turkey where these dramatic scenes came from women falling into the water there it is swept away by the very heavy rain in the northwest of turkey thankfully she was rescued and we are now looking at a further showers coming in across northern parts of turkey that was a weather sliding into central and eastern i was as we go on through saturday south of that across the middle east it's generally dry with plenty of sunshine temperatures here in doha to around 43 celsius some places say winds have dropped lotsa lifted dust in the sand around in recent days as we go through the next couple days the winds not too bad 40 celsius here as we go through sunday similar temperatures but across the region the lower 47 still on the cards for kuwait you might cast around the southern end of the red sea chance of some showers there to just around the holidays push iran across into the hearts of africa some very very
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heavy rain just a. around cameroon pushing into southern areas of nigeria they show us a stretch right across central parts of the continent but largely dry hole. that. is saudi arabia publicly championing women's rights so deeply is committed to empowering excuse empowering women while privately punishing those who step out of line they raided lap and from they will if there was taken to the security get pointed out is there a world examines the alleged detention and torture of saudis women activists the only charges against them relate to their talking to foreign organizations like human rights watch and amnesty international saudi women reform or oppression on al-jazeera. if you are in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when miss was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and
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around the world call it chinese and not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our 1st president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china part one on a jazzy. hello again i missed out the attainder let's remind you about top stories this hour brazil has reported more than 1200 deaths from the current a virus in a single day it comes as local media says the country has now passed 1000000 and
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infection. commemorations are being held across the u.s. marking the end of 3. avery the day known as juneteenth has gained significance this year after nationwide protests of racial justice. demonstrators have gathered in mali's capital for the 2nd time this month ramping up pressure on president bringing bill baka case to resign in protest and by mco are being encouraged by kerry. how the canadian prime minister says he's disappointed that china has charged 2 of its citizens with spying michael and michael spousal have been held since 2018 it's seen as a retaliatory moree of by beijing off to canada detained huawei executive show. continue to. release. the pressure. to cease the arbitrary detention of these 2 key citizens who are being held for the other reason than there. really is
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disappointed with the independent proceeds of the judiciary we will continue to send in firmly the return of the 2 mike. well let's now bring in collin robertson from ottawa he is a former diplomat and also a vice president and fellow with the canadian global affairs institute cohen thanks for joining us i do want to start with today's reaction to all of this you're a former diplomat yourself you are in hong kong as did my whole career very how do you feel the canadian government is handling the situation. well i think it's got to be more than words now the chinese it's taken trade sanctions against our wheat and our canola and our beach and of course nothing to michael which is truly serious we've not done much in response except to try and gather international support for words but i think the time for words is still there but we've got to
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really should 1st of all britain go back to the g. 7 and nato countries and say we've got to speak out on behalf of these 2 individuals one of them the diplomat and your diplomats could be in exactly the same position and the same time i think we should need to take some punitive measures at home as symmetrical this trade isn't going to work for us but we've got a lot of chinese students studying in canada i think the children of the chinese communist party will be to chip to find their visas have been revoked think that will send a signal certainly to the leadership we have to respond the chinese have gone to the strategy on cyber intrusion collectively again with australia japan other countries we should be responding to china they don't like to see a kind of collective response that the west is capable of doing but seems incapable of doing at this time when called on the chinese government hasn't explicitly said that this is retaliating for the launch as a wrestling it's clearly implied even in the way they've been speaking about at a press briefing these charges now that we're seeing a clearly an escalation do you think that beijing intends to follow through with
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this just a signal. no i think that beijing does intend of a lot through i think that they they were surprised that the most recent ruling by the judge that we saw you may have seen showing your viewers the picture of mang one join or legal team on the steps of the judiciary before the ruling as to whether herders consider a case constituted procmail had it comes up i'm convinced they thought that the pressure they brought to bear in canada would result in the judge making a decision to release it didn't happen because again we've got an independent judiciary that's how the west functions and i think the chinese require taking a back at this and the other shoe drops in this of course is with the indictment of the 2 michaels but you michaels my gosh i'll say a prayer for them tonight because i think they're going to be in chinese prisons for a long time now the chinese conviction rate is 90 percent because they are both prosecutor judge jury and executioner so i think that this is going to go on for some time and
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i think wouldn't be surprising if the chinese do other things as well. well you say this will go on for some time the 2 michaels have now already been in custody for 18 months and now because of the crime of endemic there a sense of being denied access to visitors as well while by contrast milenko is under house arrest and by some accounts improving how oil painting do you have a sense of how the michael's of doing. the reports i get from embassy and again they haven't seen them for several months it's been a couple of phone calls is that they're it's very hard on them and that it's not so much the physical as the mental challenges of being cooped down with the lights on all day so you know this this is not this is they're not going to come out of this the same people they went in unfortunately called enron that's a form a different and also a fellow with the canadian fiber fs institute great to get your thoughts here on out is there thanks for joining us colum thanks insense him. now
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several major british institutions and companies have apologized for their involvement with slavery the church of england says its links to the slave trade in the 18th and 19th century was a source of shame new analysis by university college london found nearly $100.00 clergymen benefited 10 former governors and directors of the bank of england have also been named in that report the bank called the trade an unacceptable part of british history and vowed not to display images of the senior figures involved insurance giant lloyd's of london and a pub chain greene king also made similar pledges the fans say they'll fund projects to provide opportunities for minorities but a regional alliance of caribbean countries says apologies are not enough it's calling on british institutions as well as other former colonial powers to pay for development in the caribbean well now let's bring in hilary beckles from kingston
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in jamaica he is the chairman of the caribbean community reparations commission so bekele thank you so much for joining us today let me start by asking you how you feel about this apology well 1st of all i would i would say that. this is a process that has been evolving for a truly but is is no gain in the momentum in this 21st century which we had in the sense predicted it would give the logic of. the war to the true historical crimes of slavery through to the 21st century moment so in that sense it's as it is really consistent with volver and since consciousness. is there. in the era or in per. i know that you've been pushing for reparations talk me through the kinds of reparations you'd like to
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see and how you think they could realistically be rolled out. well again let's historicity for just a moment you know these crimes that were committed slavery nature of genocide the globalization of african slavery all of these were processes to help to build the more than bless them the entire 9 take industrial culture on both sides the american side and side bill to fund the splines and it took all of the $1000.00 century to. chop of slavery in the western world took a 100 years legislation country by country to eradicate slippered then it took us all of the 20th century to bring civil rights and human rights and legislation to deflect people across yet line to work of another 100 years to get those human rights and civil rights recognized and now with this with the 21st century and and
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escapable next from a logic in all of this is that this is the moment to every part we just it's part of it on their descendants so this is the kind this 21st century is going to be the century of reparations in fact it's quite clear that already it is shaping up to establish reporter truth and justice for all of this kind of the have been committed to be the greatest political movement of the 21st century so if you're looking for development looking for development we're saying that all of the damage that has been done to the african peoples and it descendants of empires of collapse and have left them in poverty left them and destitution across the counter been what we see is the legacy of europe in cold and. the poverty in the slum the existence of the public. very 'd poor infrastructure the european countries have an extract hidden well through the slippery moves in the caribbean of the core who
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walked away and who left the region and diasporic so what reparation of those calling for is. a be more than a strategy that says you must come to the site of the cranes and you must assist the citizens of government in cleaning up the mess that you have left behind there continues to to be big realty and the descendants of the society well this all clearly goes beyond apologies and beyond money but it is about trying to build racial cohesion in the societies that we live in now what would you say to those arguing that holding on to historical grievances really can create more division today. the consequences and the legacies of slavery and colonization debilitates and all around us and the societies that were built upon dysfunction you made reference for example to the bank of england bank of england was established and 689422 regulate all of the cash that was flowing into britain
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as a result of the slave trade and it was thought necessary to coordinate a national bank and system disk was put in place because of the tremendous wealth from the slip trip that was born into the country church of england participated in all of this and i am from the island of barbados and i grew up in the neighborhood not very far away from the cauldron term plantation to cauldron the plantations were owned by the church of england hundreds of slaves were by the church to bring been displaced were branded on their shoulder with the letter c. all. church over even the church of england was one of the major owners of enslaved people and the profits out of the plantations under slave thank each and owned by the church of england those profits were sent back to the bishops of london and the
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unions that cash to build churches provincial churches all over in them then of course lords of london slavery and of slave trade could not have continued but through to 300 years without a very sophisticated banking system sophisticated system of insurance they could not now go and. vote lloyds of london they were defeated on szell brings into financial infrastructure that can enable all of this to happen and it did very well financially so these institutions will need to come back to the site of their enrichment and participate in the leg of the ministers not from reasonable this is moral this is just. the kind of standard. one would expect in the us and it is 21st century to to issue a statement so regret and reporter do from a distance the problem were issues that could side as an exercise. public spectacle
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or not. be rejected by the people in the caribbean what we are going for in their low negotiation the ports of crucial in the system all we can. hope the society to move forward hellery a backless that the chairman of the caribbean community reparations commission thank you for joining us out of there you're most welcome now the u.k. france and germany say they won't back a u.s. push for the reimposition of u.n. sanctions on iran washington has threatened to trigger the sanctions if the u.n. does not extend a syrian expiring weapons and baba well for more on this let's speak to dominic cain he is in balance to make it seems germany and europe still desperately trying to keep the 2015 u.k. daily lives. this is the latest time that the ministers the foreign ministers of the 3 european countries who are party to that
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deal with iran have met to discuss what they do next and yet again they have shrunk back from a decision to return to the sanctions route against iran remember that these countries have been trying to adopt a bit of a carrot or stick approach with iran they have helped they have set up a mechanism called instax to help iran to as it were get around some of the sanctions imposed by the united states but they've also used the stick approach against iran several times by saying that the the activity that iran has been undergoing and going through since 2019 are not really the kind of things that should be big should be doing under the treaty it agreed to to it's also these 3 ministers here have referred back to the access that iran has been denying to the international atomic energy agency in saying well iran really needs to allow the inspectors from the eye to do their job but the clear from here is that
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the 3 european powers who are in that agreement with the chinese with the russians they say that the route they are taking right now they believe is the route that will keep iran within the terms of the treaty in the long term dominic him there for us in balance thank you very much. now india's prime minister has assured opposition leaders the country's borders are secure and the military is capable of defending them and render modi said the entire country was hurt and angry of the 20 indian soldiers were killed in violence on the disputed border with china on tuesday it's caused a flare up of anti chinese sentiment and one of india's biggest trading associations is now calling for a boycott of thousands of chinese products elizabeth purana reports. gathering the chinese products from the homes and setting them on fire. burning effigies of president xi jinping along with the chinese flag. or defacing
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billboards advertising chinese products people have protested across india calling for both military and economic action after 20 indian soldiers were killed along the border with china for the 1st time in 45 he is seen as what china is doing at the border has very young fortunate if a country is going to treat india like an enemy then we should also. we should not have any created lucian's with china here. that's a sentiment shared by many including an influential group of traders it's not just a campaign asking movie stars to stop advertising chinese products it's also $70000000.00 members to boycott $3000.00 chinese products starting with those which it says can be replaced with indian made items spending money on chinese products is i do would be good to hit the country because china will use the money. i don't. report pakistan for getting the respect of reducing our country or china
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over the money goods forces against forces. we asked the head of the trade association of he'll stop using his apple i phone and given many a maid or assembled in china there's a good idea but let me know not. all of. india imports $70000000000.00 with of products from china seller bazaar is one of the biggest markets in india selling everything from household items to any tronics toys clothes and cosmetics and like other markets elsewhere would sell things and both and at low cost many of the products here i made in china. shop owners say they support a boycott of chinese products. we have have to offer that people and no longer buy chinese and will make an effort to buy indian mean even if we make less profit.
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in the current climate of anti china sentiment. china isn't just the biggest export it's also a crucial investor and some of its most successful e-commerce companies. is . really. you know you need to invest. and. so while people destroy chinese products in public and the hash tag boycott chinese products trends on twitter the latest model of china. in
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minutes elizabeth. it is now time for sports. thank you we start with reports from italy that the motor racing and paralympic hero alex has been seriously hurt in a road accident we understand it happened during a hand bike race in tuscany involving a heavy vehicle that he's been airlifted to hospital with severe head trauma 53 year olds in our day he used to race in formula one had both of his legs amputated after it crashed during a car race in germany back in 2001 he subsequently switched to competing as a. very sorry and has won 4 paralympic gold medals bring you any updates on his condition when we can. well it's football returns around the world the global players union 5th pro has expressed concerns about player safety it believes teams are being asked to play too many games too quickly
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if proclaims there's already been a spike in injuries because of insufficient preparation time and congested much juice leagues are trying to make up for lost time because of coronavirus and well governing body fifa has tried to ease the load by allowing 5 subs but much evil managerial can club says they will be tough but he does want to get the season finished. we have a lot of games in a pretty short period of time but that's the challenge for all of us we will see but it will be 100 percent really really tough but for example the injuries from us and other end from gusty have conceded had nothing to do with. with a shrug he's used or anything else these are the things again have always conflicts or you don't want to have this can happen and so yes i would not and many other think. about it all the world's most expensive football and name oh has lost a long running lawsuit against his former club barcelona the brazilian who now
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plays a procession on kind of an unpaid bonus of needing 15000000 dollars but it's punished court rejected that and ordered him to pay them $7500000.00 instead bizarrely despite that the speech passed known to still try to resign one more last year. well football has returned on the pitch in brazil despite the country battling the 2nd biggest outbreak of carnivores in the world protests took place outside where i was famous maracana stadium was for me to combine in the state championship as jonathan moscow reports. the american air has been the scene of some of the biggest celebrations in brazil's football history. don't thursday these fans came to protest the restart of play after 3 months covering a virus stoppage. today our movement criticizes the reopening of the
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championship as one that is a fascist irresponsibility of the government who are not committed to helping the people who are only concerned with the economy exchanging lives for the economy the people are against the reopening of the rio championship and are in favor of getting rid of boston are. brazil's president also narrow has been pushing to restart football competitions saying the play is a less likely to die from covert 19 because they are physically fit but just metres from the merican a pitch is a reminder of what the country is dealing with a field hospital with 400 beds for current virus patients stands outside one of its gates and even some of the 200 fans that attended thursday's match agree that football in the country could have waited its take out of the match at home since march so in this sense i can say it is attempted as in football matches but on the health side i think we could do it a little longer they could hold training sessions a little bit more and in the beginning of july we could have
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a start inside the medical teams went through disinfection tunnels to get to the locker rooms and head of kickoff they held a minute of silence to honor the victims of covert 19. flamengo went on to win the match against 3 nil but their coach knows the balancing act football have to perform to continue through the pandemic having tested positive for the virus back in march. all of us the entire city will have to handle the virus until we have a vaccine to eradicated the most important thing is to learn how to live it's not to have fear it's to respect the virus respect the virus means to do tests social distancing and prevention. the debate over football's restart in brazil is set to continue this weekend with top clubs buttafuoco and fluminense are saying that they won't turn up for their scheduled games 2. joining us roster i'll just.
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i'll be back with more later including the latest on alex analogies condition. that's it for me and stasia tale but i'll hand you over to the rain in london we'll have more of the day's news very shortly that. this country's begin easing coronavirus restrictions scientists warn of a 2nd wave of infections in the last few days. in front of the name of god and many fear the economy is be prioritised about for human life until fall to pull yet
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