tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera June 23, 2020 12:00am-1:01am +03
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writing and it stretches all the way towards south korea to solve into north korea but of course the chinese and is also wet. and. al-jazeera. hello i'm not entail a this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. new york continues to emerge from its coronavirus lockdown but in some of us states infections are accelerating. brazil's outbreak shows no signs of slowing as hospitals are overwhelmed protesters battle over who to blame. the 1st migrant rescue ship
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allowed to dock in italy since the pandemic began why aid groups are concerned many more will follow. a name change that tensions between china and japan in their dispute over uninhabited islands in the east china sea. in sport a huge show of support for the african american racing driver who was the target of a racist nascar drivers pushing bubba wallace's car to the front of the field before monday's race in alabama. the current of us pandemic is accelerating across america south and southwest a dozen states reported record increases in new infections over the weekend as one rises in the number of people in hospital the u.s. now accounts for 20 percent of new global cases while restrictions have been further reduced in new york states like florida and arizona are seeing infections
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rise brazil's outbreak also continues to worsen and india has reported another daily record of new cases with more than $15000.00 confirmed on monday on sunday the w.h.o. warned that the pilot his eyes ation of the crisis is just as dangerous as the virus itself let's go live now to rob reynolds who's in los angeles for us so is rob but california just one of a number of states experiencing a spike. that's right lauren altogether there are 29 u.s. states and territories that are experiencing spiking numbers of positive coronavirus cases the situation here where i am in los angeles county is definitely one of the hot spots now the governor of california gavin newsom held a briefing a short while ago he had some pretty. sobering statistics saying that over the past 14 days california recorded 35 percent of all the coronavirus
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cases that it has recorded since the beginning of the pandemic several months ago that number is over 46000 on saturday alone there were 54515 new cases recorded that is a single day record and coronavirus hospitalizations in the state of california have increased by 16 percent over that 14 day period but it's not just california in texas for example the governor there greg abbott displayed a very alarming graph during his press conference today showing sharp increase in hospitalizations he says to state the obvious coronavirus transmission is out of is unacceptable at unacceptable levels governor abbott said in the state of texas
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and in florida another big hotspot governor rhonda sent us also saying that they're seeing an alarming number of new a kind of a new phenomenon there apparently an alarming number of people who are testing positive who are under the age of 40 now normally or previously i should say learned had been thought that younger people were at less risk of getting the virus or of getting very sick when they did get the virus but decided to sit. it appears that a lot of younger people in florida are letting down their guard and it's the same situation in places like oklahoma and elsewhere oklahoma of course was the place where president trump held a big kickoff rally that had disappointing numbers in an arena in tulsa but he's not finished with is taking his campaign on the road the president is planning another rally tomorrow tuesday in phoenix arizona another hard hit state rob
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reynolds thank you very much indeed for your quiz once considered the epicenter that they were at break but it's cautiously reopening with the app right there seemingly under control and restaurants boston has titles have welcome back their 1st customer since mid march christensen to me is that. some of the most important and visible sectors of the new york economy are now able to reopen for business the mayor of the city predicts anywhere from 150-002-3000 extension 00 workers will be back on the job this week right now i'm on 5th avenue in midtown manhattan where some of the most iconic high end shopping centers exist and what we're seeing is a bit of a mixed bag we've got open stores clothing stores here there's one open followed by another that's open followed up by a boarded up shop and in fact the rest of the block is still closed for business with some stores only doing curbside pick up. as for the city's $27000.00
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restaurants they are allowed to have outdoor dining with tables spaced 6 feet apart these are restrictions that are difficult for many establishment to adhere to nevertheless the mare is hopeful that this will prevent some 5000 restaurants from permanently shutting their doors and 45000 people from losing their jobs office workers also allowed to go back on the job today but at 5050 percent capacity in their office buildings all of this with strict social distancing measures still in place anywhere inside or outside where you can't be more than 6 feet away from people masks are still required a cautious approach moving forward for the city of new york. and the world health organization says they have been worrying creases the virus across latin america during a spike in cases in brazil over the past 24 hours the country has now recorded more than 50000 deaths and 1000000 infections divisions
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a deepening over president bush now as handling of the crisis is repeatedly downplayed the threat of the virus calling it a little flu that's going to have to turn isabeau who's in buenos aires. figures are saying that brazil will show that brazil had more than 54000 infections in one day as the president responded to that figure. well we haven't heard much from the brazilian president in this past few days not in that he has not been speaking to the media or on social media he has been very very active in this past month condoning lockdowns same a calling coronavirus at least through among other things the world health organization announce that 54000 people have been infected in brazil in 24 hours bringing up the figure of total infections in brazil to over 1000000 people over 50000 people have already lost their lives and that's why the president is being
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criticized in brazil important newspapers like. say that the president has failed to pay tribute to those who died because of this than demick another newspaper or global says that was when i know it's real responsible for a tragedy that is remains unfinished and they're also saying that what is scary is that the world health organization in seoul is also saying that brazil has not reached its peak yet least 82 municipalities in brazil already have cases of coronavirus deep in the amazon rain forest indigenous communities are already being infected in some of brazil's poorest poorest states difficulty to reach hospitals finding and treating people has been a constant in this past few months and an aside from all of this has happening there's also a political crisis with people taken to the streets to protest against president jalal tonight or for his handling of the phone and make criticizing presidential
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you've also had a for an increase in the amount of people that have been killed because of security operations in brazil's favelas or slum most of them are black and poor but also now the supporters have also we don't the streets defending the president they have been throwing fireworks against the supreme court whom they accuse of persecuting president tonight or an institutional crisis where many believed that democracy was addressed with the. airing of an entire mention of the armed forces and a prayer and a precedent that has been in a way at hacking and governors that attempted to impose lockdown in sao paolo into the others are made off and those governors have started to open up the economies of those states even though there's been a surge in cases and also a surge in deaths in terms of oh thank you very much there are fears the current of our south break could spin out of control in south sudan it's recorded almost 2000 confirmed infections but the true number could be much higher the united nations says cases spreading rapidly and threaten to overwhelm
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a health system battered by years of conflict the country of 12000000 people has only one permanent infectious diseases unit with just 100 beds more than 50 health workers have contracted the virus. saudi arabia says this year's hajj will be allowed to go ahead with limited numbers muslim pilgrimage will be restricted to people already residing in the kingdom although exact numbers have not been given the annual event normally attracts around 2000000 people from around the world 5 days of worship and rituals in mecca. britain's 1st local lockdown could be imposed in wales after an outbreak among workers at a chicken processing plant $175.00 cases have been confirmed at the factory on the island of anglesey welsh 1st minister mark drake for it says he cannot rule out reimposing strict measures in local area more cases are expected at the plant as hundreds of staff attested outbreaks never to have been issued to an increased
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spread in a string of countries including germany the us and brazil some in clark is an associate professor of cellular microbial biology at the university of reading explains the likely reasons why meat factories have become virus hotspots. well this is something the authorities are now going to have to look out properly it seems that the food processing plants presumably because they're typically refrigerated nature. are going to be hot spots for current virus infections and it now incumbent on. local health authorities to check and see whether there is a problem here which he's going to affect their product obviously if it does that has big implications for the food supply you have to make sure that proper hygiene proper procedures are in place in the factory and quite simply the authorities will have to take race up of the food to see whether they can detect to take
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a virus in it is simple is that there's a possibility with anything yes friedan vegetables i mean vegetables are often cooked but it's not all of them and thing and you pale things as well so tokyo vegetables are not going to be. much threat to anybody and neither romy very few people eat roommate should be said it's often cooked so. you know cooking and peeling things will go for the significant layer of protection stuff. coming up for knowledge there this news hour why venezuela's fight for power has moved to a london courtroom and an argument over tons of gold. will always president try to stop the country's election being rerun it coming really during the pandemic. and english premier league match gets an unwanted fly past that's coming up in sports.
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a long running territorial dispute over a group of islands has been reignited by a japanese local council the chain owners who in japan and china lies just northeast of taiwan in the east china sea and both china and japan along with taiwan claim ownership now a local authority has voted to change the name of the administrative division covering the islands emphasising the japanese name and drawing criticism from china now as are remote and uninhabited but they've been argued over for hundreds of years japan 1st claimed sovereignty in the late 19th century after serving them for a decade more recently japan has administered them since 972 when they were returned by the us which had trusteeship following the 2nd world war the issue of oil and gas rights means that the dispute has festered since then into a flashpoint in 2012 when japan bought some of them from
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a private owner as agent brown reports the move looks set to deepen tensions. at the southern tip of the japanese archipelago a cluster of uninhabited islands now on the frontline of what may be a new flashpoint they lie close to significant oil and gas deposits strategic shipping routes and lucrative fishing grounds to japan they are the cuckoo islands china calls them the dar use but for 50 years they've been administered and controlled by tokyo taiwan also claims ownership china's government had warned japan against changing the status of the islands and is now reportedly deployed coast guard vessels to the area as it has done many times before. it's a serious purgation against china's territorial so empty that a japanese type possibility in the name it's illegal and invalid it cannot stand the fact that though you island blog china they formally abort that 11 more made
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with japanese side china asked large. for diplomatic status and a 3rd of the right to for their react. the rising tensions in the east china sea come as china's military continues to assert its maritime claims in the nearby south china sea and while its soldiers are involved in another sovereignty dispute with india it was also where is the ongoing as india and china will serve. that the chinese are a bit of article this dispute has often stirred nationalist sentiment 2012 saw violent anti japanese protests in many chinese cities after japan's government brought 3 of the islands from their private owners and although monday's renaming decision was taken by a municipal council it could still inflame passions once more what makes the waters of the east china sea so potentially turbulent is the high profile of another
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military this warship evidence of a 60 year old treaty which obligates the united states to defend japan if it's attacked it's a treaty that's yet to be seriously tested adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. north korea is being urged to call off plans to launch thousands of balloons into the south in the biggest have a proper propaganda campaign against its neighbor in 4 hours a week of rapidly deteriorating relations between the 2 states from seoul right mcbride has the story. north korea says it has 12000000 propaganda leaflets printed and 3000 balloons ready to carry them south across the border depicting south korean president moon jay in pyongyang says they represent the wrath and anger of the north korean people up we do not have any intention to reconsider or change our plan at
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a time when north south relations have already broken down last week north korea demolished a joint liaison office on its side of the demilitarized zone in the surest sign yet of relations unraveling. the office was opened after a successful summit in 2018 which also agreed to stop provocative propaganda moves by either side. north korea has accused the south of breaking that agreement by allowing defectors who make calls human scum to float propaganda balloons into north korean territory despite having freedom of speech guaranteed in the south the government here has tried to cattail these provocative acts. one defect a group that had threatened to float bottles filled with rice and propaganda messages into north korean waters has been prevented from doing so with this appeal from the south john going on you were the south korean government has already
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announced its stance regarding the leaflet campaign the government is blocking efforts to send anti north korea leaflets and commodities we urge north korea to stop their plan to distribute and the south korea propaganda leaflets that will only worsen into korean relations. but another defective group says it will launch a batch of propaganda balloons to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the korean war later this week threatening to increase tensions even further robert pride al-jazeera seoul. a high level u.s. delegation has met with libya's prime minister fires or so raj the discussion centered on a return to political negotiations as tensions grow between egypt and turkey which backed rival sides in libya's conflict. head has more from tripoli the meeting between u.s. officials including the commander of the u.s. africa command and the u.s.
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ambassador to libya with the libyan government officials including the prime minister face a raj focused on the need to return to the political dialogue and also and deescalation there. was a warning against the prolonged conflict that might excessive be the human suffering that is also a u.s. concern. of the growing presence of russian mercenaries in libya the wagner mystery's who have been fighting alongside forces loyal to the warlords plea for have to the meeting it comes as the human rights council at the united nations established a fact finding mission to investigate their human rights violations in libya including the mass graves found in and around the city of the horn and also the killing of hundreds of civilians during their military campaign launch and white
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house to his forces over the past year it seemed that the international criminal court is also deeply concerned about reports of mass graves found in libya in and around the city of horner and according to the i.c.c. general prosecutor photo with. that is a message to the perpetrators that impunity in libya is not an option anymore. the french president has launched a furious attack on turkey's conduct in libya accusing it of playing a dangerous game that can no longer be tolerated emmanuel mccall says turkey is an obstacle to securing a ceasefire. a click a move with you don't. i have already had the opportunity to make this very clear to president i now consider this turkey is playing a dangerous game in libya and is in breach of all the commitments it made at the
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berlin conference this is the same speech i made this afternoon during the exchange i had with the president trump because it is in the interest of libya or its neighbors or the whole region but also of europe hundreds of migrants have arrived safely in sicily after they were rescued from the mediterranean is the 1st time a rescue ship has been allowed to dock initially since ports were closed because of the pandemic there are concerns the number of people trying to make the journey is rising for years italy was the main route into europe for migrants and refugees with nearly 660000 arrivals from 2014 to 2019 but a crackdown on smugglers in libya led to a foreign mediterranean crossings this year there's been an uptick more than 5 and a half 1000 people have landed in italy so far that's was double the number in the same period last year 6 boats with more than $100.00 migrants arrived on the island of lampedusa in just the last few days to be reports. it's the
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1st time these migrants have slept in days they survived the journey across the mediterranean from libya to europe but only just they were saved by a rescue ship run by the german aid organization sea watch as the migrants were brought ashore in sicily their dream of a better life is by no means guaranteed 1st they're being transferred to a quarantine center where they'll spend the next 2 weeks. the 211 people on board the german ship were rescued from 3 separate boats last week. 70 people mostly africans were crammed into this boat reported to be in distress last wednesday evening and gave them the following night another rescue operation was underway that on friday of the 67 migrants mainly from africa and bangladesh was saved about 70 kilometers off the coast of lampedusa they've been without water for 2 days this is happening because of the war and the conflict ongoing in libya which
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pushes a lot of people moving moving on and not necessarily staying in libya to earn. earn a salary. for years italy was the main route into europe for migrants and refugees but a crackdown on people smugglers in libya lead to fewer mediterranean crossings. this year there's been an increase with nearly 6000 people danding in italy so far that's almost double the number in the same period last year. this is the 1st time italy's allowed a rescue ship to dock since the government closed ports in april because of the coronavirus pandemic this summer the expectation is they'll be many more boats that will need rescuing full of people risking their lives in the hope of finding work in europe the turia gate and the al-jazeera. the russian region of siberia has a reputation for. extreme cold but unusual weather in the past few months as climate
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scientists alarmed russia's weather service says the past winter was siberia's hottest since records began 130 years ago average temperatures were about 60 degrees celsius higher than normal siberia also recorded its warmest may on record surface temperatures and some parts were up to 10 degrees above average president vladimir putin declared a state of emergency in the city of norilsk because of a large oil spill is thought melting permafrost anything powerplant storage tank caused it to collapse and on saturday another new record what's thought to be the hottest temperature ever recorded north of the arctic circle when they siberian town of alcohol and sc hit 38 degrees celsius what is steadily as a climate scientist at the danish a major article institute he joins me now over skype from copenhagen thanks very much indeed for being with us so can you put it into context for us
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a little bit this this figure 38 degrees why is it significant p.r. we have had several heat waves. during the last couple of years but this one is quite unusual for 2 reasons 1st you have set extremely high temperatures since. december roughly half a year and then the all singers who sets. later it's peaked in may with these extremely high temperatures and if you look at the who runs for example with these 38 degrees this is almost 5 to greece more month than what has been observed before i'm serious of more than 100 years so it's quite unusual so i mean there's also an unusually wide temperature range in siberia took us through how it how it happens there. yeah it's amazing the larger the temperature range so the lowest temperature something like minus $67.00 is generated and the highest temperature. is these
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$38.00 degrees so we have a difference of more than $100.00 who is more than $105.00 degrees which is the populated place on earth as your largest temperature range between quarters of one percent and what are the consequences are going to be of this these a pretty high temperature in that region the consequences are mainly with respect to permafrost so the oil is a region is under way in by a permafrost and in parts of. this process one of several 100 meters so it there would be no immediate effect for the west the permafrost becomes scenario and in the region of noise for sure was just mentioned it may well be possible that the other frost decayed has an effect on disability or foundations of the century and may have contributed to this spill. it is also important to look at the siberia with this see it come across and that is because if we have
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such high temperatures the part of us starts melting from the surface and if the temperatures remain high and this is a melting continues so that means it will run into trouble with permafrost not today not tomorrow or of the day after tomorrow but all of the low that period if we don't do anything against it and this is important because we have huge amounts of carbon dioxide and methane lying below the permafrost so it's trapped by the frost is the frost is a pos these greenhouse gases will be released to the atmosphere and that will be pretty bad and tell me in terms of what's causing the heating in the 1st place is it possible to identify at this stage exactly what's happening what's happening. yeah there's actually 2 things one is whether one is climate stop with the weather so we have had a very unusual circulation in the winter from he said until the basra approach was a permanent nearly covered full of. relatively warm air from the false west through
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all of europe all the way through western russia all the way to the euros we have had warm winters before but this is very very unusual and then since v.f.s. mall is permanent high pressure area in the region which means lots of sunshine and since we are close to the arctic circle there's also. no period for the sun can shine and. in particular seas high pressure the have. transport of warm air from the cells into these regions that the weather the climate pos tells us if we assume that there was no climate change and if we could relate whole probable it would be was all climate change as he also such a large deviation from every inch like these 10 degrees you mentioned then being what's come out at something like once in 100000 years which of course means that it is virtually impossible that he guesses such extreme temperatures was all to
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climate change not due to the assumptions which are made that cannot nobody can put a number of hope probable that is but it is pretty obvious that this would not have happened without trying to change thank you very much indeed and not instead of what i had time to talk to sanjay i'm thinking. still to come here this news hour. but the loss is been immense more than 90 percent of the ecosystem be had has been lost conservationists have a fight on their hands as they battle to save mexicans at last wilderness. 72 years since britain welcomed caribbean migrants a far more recent scandal suggests the country still has a long way to go to tackle racial injustice. and sport a 2nd tennis player tested positive for krenov are set on a controversial series of events and the balkans.
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hello big thunderstorms been wandering around central and eastern europe it seems the days now and despite the current of cloud behind my head this is the active area now i think for tuesday it is quite a specific line that takes you through ukraine towards remain here just missing hungry and that was the 2nd balkans and northern greece this is all fairly humid air quite warm but the storms have been damaging the bottom get to wednesday this bit of a break in that line the focus is more into poland slovakia and bits of austria but again anywhere is trying to at least a few share and all this time that our west the sun is going to apart from want to shout maybe in spain we just see a rising in temperatures are just overlaid the colors to show you it feels warm and last through not record values necessarily in london is it says degrees the average
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is 20 but the record is such 6 so we're off that but certainly a very was go for a few days and that extends all through north africa with the breeze up enough through egypt maybe sudan and chad to least pick up the dust the showers are still building not big ones in the ethiopian highlands of moving through west africa mostly the coastal the dew ridge far north as the gambia. in germany's capital there is a barber like no other sort of what it is. a strong cross what you are. but as his city changes he's moving with the tide. and going on the road. the stories you don't often hear told by the people who live there. the master barber of brooklyn this is you. frank assessments
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tourism but the income stream is dead in the water what's been the result. 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 gives a treat i think not only seem to grady but he's written in this the really deep all we all continue inside story on al-jazeera. we're going to run of the top stories here on our 0
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a groan of ours pandemic is accelerating across america south and southwest a dozen states reported record increases in new infections over the weekend as well as rises in the number of people in hospital. world health organization that says they've been worrying increases of the virus across latin america including a spike in cases in brazil over the past 24 hours a country has recorded war more than 1000000 infections and 50000 deaths. a french president has accused turkey of playing a dangerous game via providing military support to libya's internationally recognized government. says france will not tolerate the turkish intervention has helped to push back world honey for after. watching is breaking out in yemen's abyan region just hours after saudi arabia announced it had brokered a ceasefire between yemen's government and a southern separatist group the kingdom said the 2 sides had agreed to start peace talks days off the southern transitional council took full control of the island of
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support internationally recognized government called it a coup the separatists want an independent state of south yemen and backed by the united arab emirates. protest as a condemning israeli fans annex parts of the occupied west bank the un's middle east envoy was among several diplomats at the mass rally in jericho it was organized by their post an international operation movement which says the 10 next 10 days are dangerous and crucial for protests israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is vowing to begin the annexation on july the 1st bit if for him is in jericho new york about west bank she says palestinians hope their protests will generate international pressure. thousands of palestinians and tens of foreign diplomats have gathered here in jericho to prove that they expect that the israeli moved by the next thing the part of new york you why it was the bank as of july 1st
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the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu can bring this issue to the table and palestinians are saying that they're trying to voice out their rejection they want to talk to foreign diplomats to try and talk to other countries to pressure israel not to go forward with its plans they want these countries to tell israel that they're going to impose sanctions of course this is good and this did not happen yet but palestinians are told that by doing gatherings like these they will crush or the international community of course gatherings have been banned because of the recent surge coronavirus the palestinian official said that because this issue is a very important one gathering like these will continue in the next few days and weeks to try and broker israel and to really tell the world what is going to happen when it comes to the israeli plan. a syrian doctor living in germany has been
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arrested for alleged crimes against humanity the man is accused of torturing and inmate at a prison in homes in 2011 john mccain has more from berlin. the offenses that this individual is suspected of having committed relates to the period of time in the 1st year of the syrian civil war specifically to the last few days of october the start of november 2011 when this individual was working as a doctor at a hospital in the city of homs people have come forward here in germany to say that the individual concerned mistreated maltreated and indeed tortured in their words an inmate at the prison at that time prosecutors here are using the testimony of 2 of the witnesses who spoke to them to proceed against this individual who was taken into custody on friday this individual has been working as a doctor in germany since coming here in 2015 what makes this case interesting is
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that in acting against this individual the german authorities are using the principle of universal jurisdiction which governs certain serious offenses crimes against humanity war crimes that sort of thing in this case as i said the witnesses say that the offenses that this doctor carried out in 2011 were tantamount to torture and it's on that basis that the german authorities are proceeding against him i court judges in london harry a case over venezuela's bid to force the bank of england to release almost $31.00 tons of gold the right to access the reserve worth around $2000000000.00 is a dispute intertwined with the right to rule the country so you've got to go report . far from venezuela lies some of its most prized riches 31 tons of the country's gold is held here in the vaults of the bank of england for
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safekeeping now there's a legal battle over who can access it president nicolas maduro or opposition leader why the model says he needs the 1000000000 to help fund the country's crumbling health care system during the coronavirus pandemic however attempts by venezuela's central bank to access the gold began 2 years ago just after my daughter won a contested election the bank of england never released it and then said last year it would recognise why daughter as the interim president not my daughter despite that my daughter's lawyers say that diplomatic actions since have shown britain still recognised him as venezuela's leader well you know. you have. got is an effective government. for example b.c.b.s. . president yes. yes.
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and no of this as you know this is very much. why those lawyers said the bullion is his to control the british government and more than 50 others around the world said they would recognize him as interim president however why those attempts to create a transitional government have been unsuccessful in this questioning. and i think that's also one of the main. but also the. transfer. sanctions on mismanagement have crippled venezuela's economy and triggered a humanitarian crisis lawyers say the gold reserves amount to about 15 percent of its much needed foreign currency reserves the case is set for another 3 days and could set an important precedent in relation to other frozen venezuelan assets
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around the world and just who gets access to it. al-jazeera monday is windrush day which commemorates the day 72 years ago when the ship the empire windrush arrived in the united kingdom carrying hundreds of people from caribbean countries who'd been invited to come to work and start a new life 2 years ago it was revealed that a lot changed had stripped members of the so-called windrush generation of a right to remain legally in the u.k. a summit meant the loss of basic rights others face the threat of deportation the government was forced to apologize and the inquiry that followed accused the home office of institutional ignorant and despite the creation of a fund to compensate those who had suffered while the 1000 people are still waiting for compensation. i joined now by rene landell who's a doctoral research in caribbean studies at royal holloway university of london
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a grandparents were part of a wind rushed generation thanks very much indeed for joining us 1st want to ask about your grandparents experience what was tell us a bit more about them yeah so thank you very much for having me on the show and such a momentous day my grandparents greatly impacted the ways that i think as a woman of faith and as an activist so my paternal grandmother of the landau and my paternal grandfather passed the t. a land. founded the west bromwich ranch the bethel united church under the leadership of bishop dahl the great british i am near you founded apple styluses in britain and you're also seeing an image of a boat shoes which they arrived at my maternal grandmother as me to you as a black woman arrived in this country and became the founder and business owner multiple has fallen in london as well as a bakery which she co-wrote with my granddad and it was and they are just examples of the leadership which seems to run through the veins that we just interaction
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with the 2 years since the u.k. had to apologize for the way people were treated in the course called the wind rush scandal how far do you think the government has gone to implement the findings of the report at the time. not that. we're hearing that out of the several 1000 victims only 60 have received compensation so that's more than 95 percent who are still yet to receive compensation and that have been several reviews there has been but he reckons that if i excel recommendations of the u.p.a. which are yet to be implemented $110.00 recommendations of the ngo need yet to be implemented and 30 crucial recommendations of the wind rushed lessons learned which is yet to be implemented in the winter that has learnt review was published only a few days ago which raises many concerns in an op ed cell of the b.b.c. have published not who just a few hours ago stating that there is a grave arrest of scandal repeat if these recommendations are not implemented and
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implemented see how much different is the back eyes matta campaign in the recent galvanization of that movement had in terms of what you can expect to change in the next few months or so. yes so in this current time the black life has been great of great impact we have a new fire in our belly which has been reignited amid a broader reckoning of or on institutional racism institutional racism is at the core of this scandal that we're just handled and it seems to me a horrific mirroring of a very dark past which precedes when dress that of the in slave moment of african peoples report to the caribbean to work on slave and haitians where their labor was exhausted and expendable and if we fast forward to caribbean people who were invited to this country to help rebuild it after the 2nd world war the window of scandal is an institutional racism deborah which tells us yet again our labor and
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lives are expendable and we're calling on the home there's been many cause a lot for the home office to suspend and destabilized the hostile environment policies which have prevented and still are preventing our family members our loved ones from accessing public services and these are vulnerable migrants who have so long believed that they were welcome citizens in a land thank you very much indeed for to haunt us. a malawians add to the polls on tuesday historic presidential election rerun last year's result was an old due to allegations of widespread rigging with ballots seemingly altered with correction fluid the vote is a rare move as her report. malawi's main opposition leader who formed an alliance with the vice president. says he's going to win choose days
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presidential rerun he lost to president 515-9000 votes in last year's election with a constitutional court ruled was marred by whites played by judges or did a really good. young people and that the majority of malawians do not have better jobs are telling them that will work real jobs will have to just. have a measure of the service that every young person involved in something that will build this country prison with erika try to stop the rerun but the supreme court turned down his appeal when he then tried to force the top judge into early retirement opposition groups accused of trying to intimidate the judiciary the president denies the allegation it's only the 2nd time a presidential election result in africa has been overturned visible and the 2nd ability is crucial. to. from work is there an independent judiciary is there i mean we hear brazil going and going and tradition of putting
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down in demand the elections must be held according to law and we have managed to get here so it's not perfect because as to a number of significant gaps but i think it's going to say they are also logistical concerns for months opposition groups demanded the removal of the organizers of last year's disputed election the initial commission now has a new man in charge who is under pressure to make sure voting and counting of ballot papers go smoothly this time for a 1st. time. we were sworn in on the 9th of june and december problem and resolved about the date of illusions you know the 23rd of june we made the decision to go there it which meant that we had less than 2 weeks now to prepare for. the coronavirus pandemic has to travel for international election observers organized a trying to keep voters safe by encouraging social distancing mascara and had washing all of which hasn't been widely seen during campaigning. there. more than
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90 percent of southern mexico's last remaining tropical rain forest has been cleared to make way for farming they lack and on jungle is a crucial climate regulator and home to a vast array of wildlife but as runner up low reports from chakra state more forest is being lost every year despite conservation efforts i this is the moment is a solace jungle reserved 3312 square kilometers of unspoiled tropical rainforest is guy who thought because he's the man is more the result of this ecosystem is very bio dad was it's home to nearly half of all bird species in a mexico and one 3rd of all mammals and butterflies stews but the last has been immense more than 90 percent of the ecosystem we had has been lost. we don't know for a better sense of how much of the forest has been destroyed we plotted a flight path to survey the jungle near mexico's border with guatemala. here human
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development has moved right to the edge of the forest and in many cases settlements are clearly visible far beyond the limits of the reserve evidence of the illegal exploitation of natural resources is also clear as day settlements like these are referred to as invasions by the indigenous like and whose presence here dates back hundreds of years and look at it in the park there and they're trying to steal the land on people do not agree with the normalization of this invasion the government should intervene and relocate them. the moment this is who is reserved is the heart of the luck and don't rain forest the largest in north america it represents the most important regulator of the climate in this region of the world we're travelling along the loch and doing remember one of the most important waterways in this part of mexico scientists refer to this entire region as one big water factory 30 percent of all surface fresh water found in mexico is produced by the like and
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don't rain forest. and the like and don't hold any measurable wealth of natural resources for species like the scarlet macaw survival depends on the watchful eye of conservationists. one of the biggest threats rare animals face is from the illegal wildlife trade and. in the past there was a large population of mccollum's extending across several mexican states but due to the destruction of the ecosystem this is now the last wild population found in the uk and in jungle. in 2018 the mexican government launched an initiative aimed at reducing before station by providing economic incentives for people who live near the edge of the jungle but for many here likely god you are these are simply more money to be made raising cattle in which people have said that i should plant hardwood trees but i asked them. how long would i have to wait for the tree to see in my children disco i feel most secure with my castle and if i need money tomorrow
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i just sell a cow. like other threatened ecosystems in mexico and across the planet the future of this diminishing wilderness depends on the battle between the efforts of conservationists and the forces of development i. fear reserve. so the calm when i was there this news hour show support for the african-american racing driver was or was the target of a racist act on sundays andy will have details and spoke to more liability.
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not an indian doha sport. thanks so much lauren well there's been a huge show of support for the african-american racing driver who was the target of a racist act on sunday nascar drivers here pushing the car belonging to rubble wallace to the front of the field before monday's race in alabama wallace is the only black driver competing in this series we have to be eyes investigating who put a noose in wallace's team garridge over the weekend just a couple of weeks ago wallace successfully campaigned to get the confederate flag banned from all racing venues this move coming amid a global protest against the death of george floyd in police custody. as well as the new speaking found a confederate flag with the banner defund nascar was flown above the talladega racetrack on sunday the flags were also being sold outside the venue in
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a protest against the ban well in response wallace wrote on his twitter page our sport has made a real commitment to driving change in championing a community that is accepting and welcoming of everyone we will not be deterred by the reprehensible actions of those who seek to spread hate well earlier on we spoke to the u.s. sports broadcaster michael colson he believes nascar is attempting to move beyond its traditional fan base. nascar is a particularly southern centric sport soccer racing in the states has always been biggest in the states of the former confederacy and there has been a feeling for many years that the confederate flag as a symbol of a rebellion or of history or whatever is out of place in general american society and i think you get a good idea of what it truly stands for by the idea that someone would leave
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a noose in his in his team seemed erasure on his car symbol of lynching symbol of the years of jim crow in the united states and violence toward black men you know ever since those slaves were freed in 865 nascar attendance and t.v. viewership has been falling somewhat in the past few years and it's hard to determine whether that's a result of just lessened interest in their core area or whether it's that by expanding into the rest of the united states and they're trying really hard to spread stock car racing into other areas of america whether that still looted the product somewhat or creates a lack of interest over all by banning the confederate flag there saying that we're moving to a position that is acceptable through the whole united states. one on one said 5 past the head of the english premier league match between manchester city and
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burnley on monday abana saying whites live matzoh burnley was fond of a city's stadium old plays out speaking in 84 games and having and they have black cloud mass arrests on the banks of the shirts the moment bernie of issued a statement strongly condemning those responsible for the aircraft and offensive bana said he went on to win the match itself 5 nil. a woman born of a joke of it she's facing criticism for a series of tournament's he's been organizing in the balkans 2 of the players involved have now tested positive for corona virus borne a church is the latest player to confirm he's got the virus or go to make sure his old side says the positive so and so of so far being held in serbia and croatia and another event is penciled in for near herzegovina next month djokovic has since been tested but that results yet seem made public in a statement charge said harvey one i wanted to inform you all that i tested positive for carded 19 i want to make sure that anyone who has been in contact with
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me during the last few days gets tested i'm really sorry for any harm i may have caused i'm feeling well i don't have any symptoms well al-jazeera correspondent joseph sara chose the latest for us from the croatian capital so crap. there are a lot of critics saying that organizers didn't do well that they organized this storm and like it was completely normal times like there was no threat from coronavirus it was kids they 'd played basketball more than 5000 people went to watch the last week and the creation minister of health said today their mistakes were made but he said that there is no fear that in this part of creation will be an outbreak of coronavirus he said because when little people came to direct contact with this tennis players among this players not joke of each world's number one he was not tested last night things other he went with the plane and his
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family to belgrade and he was there they said today this results we are still waiting creation minister of health said this is a message that this is the new normal must be taken seriously that all these kinds of whence must be organized in full cooperation with the government and with the following of all the rules he said no any you measures for now will not be implemented. there are smaller eyes in the new corona cases western balkans but the leaders of these countries are saying that these numbers are not something to especially worry about and they are not thinking about taking some new measures like lock down or blocking the freedom of movement ok. let's get back to lauren in london and you can actually said may don't tell if this news coming out without a full round of the day's news in just
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