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we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. the way. his new president does so on in after historic rerun of the vote puts the opposition candidate into power. play watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for back to go also coming up 5 u.s. states hit daily coronavirus records as the reopening 2nd to new the number of infections is now more than 2000000. there was no known well oh. no
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time to be silent protests in colombia after the killing of a mother and her daughter. the one jonah hill only one with the success of a trial involving the delivery of medical supplies by rodent from the baby has important implications for isolated communities everywhere. where it has been sworn in as malawi's new president after historic result in the rerun election check where i won nearly 59 percent of votes defeating incumbent with a rica it's the 1st time in africa that a court ordered volta has led to a victory for the opposition candidate the constitutional court had canceled with every cause narrow win in last year's election citing vote tampering and ordered a new vote let's speak to harm in africa respondents joining us from zimbabwe an important moment in malawi's political history harald what can malawians expect
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from the new leader. well let's try to unite the country he said he said that he knows what it's like to grow up in a country which is good governance he told a story about how he grew up poor his parents were farmers but even back then when he was growing up well i was still a country where even without political connections he was still able to go to school to able to go to university and then enter into politics and you see that's something that young people nowadays in malawi aren't able to do he says he understands that people are struggling he understands that people are tired of issues of corruption and allegations of government officials stealing from the country's coffins he said he's going to be a president and leader who is going to be different he knows that the election last year was defeated he said he knows that he doesn't have he may have some people who may not actually wanting to be president even said i know some of you who are watching my address probably feel worried what kind of leader am i going to be he
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awesome to please please be patient and let him and the people he put in his government give them a chance to lead this country unite malawi and he's promising to tackle corruption and fight poverty. with your help. we're strong. generous restraint. in the possibility of having our government that's. not our government our room. government that is far. not a government that if you're a. government that listens that our government that's. a government that starts for you. i'm not against. her is going to be facing many challenges the economy one of them. yes economy is one of them there are roughly 18000000 people in malawi most of them
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are poor farmers who are struggling to make ends meet then you go into the towns and cities many people are living hand to mouth many working in markets also struggling to make ends meet the economy really is a big issue on people's minds i mean even before he was sworn in as president in malawi the economy was already on its knees before the current a virus pandemic and now with endemic in places make things even worse he has a huge challenge ahead of him people are also watching him because he's the leader of the malawi congress party that's the party that independence from colonial rule in 1964 they were in charge for about 30 years and within that time some of them were accused of corruption stealing from the state coffers mistreating people and many people back back in those they thought that their leaders at that time and lost touch with main the poor people on the ground so they are hoping that to create a brings a new life into this party and that's what he says he said he's going to be a new leader do things differently so people who remember the old c.p.
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party will be watching him closely they also know there's other challenges as well he only won this election because he formed an alliance with other very powerful opposition leaders like former president joyce banda like vice president those people always know have political ambitions maybe one day they also want some kind of power as well within so he has to try to work with them they also may be expecting some kind of compensation reward for helping him win this election so you have to manage those expectations as well but the main thing the main challenges facing now is the economy people are desperate they're tired they're hungry they want time to change very very quickly he has to hit the ground running his honeymoon period will likely be very short thank you for that how much us are reporting from zimbabwe. now bonafide dani is a recession rector at the institute of public opinion and research in malawi he says this is a significant moment in malawi's political history i think it is at the end of the road for the time terry cut the electoral commission has only gone to great lengths
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to to make sure that the process this has been a transparent and the what race to all the very issues including scrutinizing each and every quarter that was declared i snarl and void and in the process there will be disappointed some of those ballots as of early the andrea pushed on them to the right of candidates so even if they go to cortez they intended at the in day in the speech that interpretive yesterday i don't think if they were to lately succeed indeed as you're so not there what's the danger there preaches if the courts i mean they've tried to remove the chief justices there who dismissed to their rulings of the constitution on this supreme court so they are unlikely to get the you know much sympathy from either the public or you know the courts or the one up so that the courts would demonstrate the same level of independence of that that they have done in recent months millions of people in poland are now choosing
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a president in elections delays because of the cone of eyes and that make conservative incumbent andre do days seeking a 2nd term and there are 10 other candidates that as closest challenger is war souls liberal pro european marathon stripes all ski poles for dates the 2 men will likely face each other in a runoff next month and they're also heading to the polls in france for a 2nd round of municipal elections the 1st round was held in much voters are set to choose mayors and municipal councils election is being seen as by many as a test of president a man in my cause reform policies and his centrist party. a controversial national security nod could be imposed on hong kong within days it's been put top of the agenda for china's legislative body that began a 3 day meeting in beijing. the standing committee meeting on top of the agenda is the introduction of the national security laws in hong kong china
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introduces or announced this in my it's now trying to fast track it through ahead of what we expect to be a large protest on july 1st and that's when state of the standing committee meeting goes to 3 days it started on sunday in beijing but the expectation is now that those national security laws will be passed on tuesday ahead of the protest all the rallies we do expect to mark the anniversary of the 23rd anniversary of the british handover pum pum back to china now last year at the civic human rights fund held a huge rally on july 1st attracting about how for 1000000 people this year they tried to do the same but of course the police have rejected their request to go ahead with this now the civil human rights front the organization that hopes to attract a huge numbers of the last year or so 1w2w people in last years and he extradition marches up with a simple human rights front they go into the court to try and appeal this decision of what we do expect the place to once again reject their request to go ahead but either way we do expect protests to happen across the city when say to mark the
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anniversary also show up as opposition to the national security goals if they are introduced will certainly pass on to say in beijing now what these laws do is i'd ban the act of subversion foreign interference terrorism and any talk of independence or suspicions that these these rallies that we've been seeing of the last few months they are attracting a number of flags calling for independence from china. the coronavirus crisis now and a number of american cities that have been reopening their economies have had to change course because of a surge in new infections are now more than 2500000 cases of over 1000 in the u.s. about a 3rd of the cases globally both florida and arizona have set a record for new delhi cases forcing vice president mike pence to cancel campaign events there several states are taking steps to reimpose restrictions threatening a much hope for economic recovery is under is in new york he says the sates that pushed to reopen 1st are now seeing a dramatic rise in cases. many ways the coronavirus outbreak in the united states
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is worse now than it was back in march april or even may when the covert 1000 pandemic was in the northeast of the united states where i'm at right now new york new jersey. now you're seeing it spread elsewhere florida texas nevada arizona these are the new epicenters that we're seeing and really troubling huge numbers out of those states particularly florida over 9500 new cases just in the last 24 hours that's a record tex's nearly a record in new infections in the state of texas as well and in harris county which is a 2nd biggest county in the united states it involves houston as well as suburban towns around houston 5000000 people just in harris county health officials they're saying that the situation there is severe and uncontrollable this is a virus it's spreading very quickly in many key states here what do all of these
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states that i just mentioned have in common one thing they didn't take it seriously from the beginning and as part of that they were all states they began to reopen at the end of may and are now seeing huge spikes and are now trying to pull that back a little bit and close again some sectors but clearly there's lots of problems here as this corner virus pandemic continues to really become more of a crisis now in the u.s. almost than it was even a couple months ago. demonstrators in the u.s. state of colorado are demanding justice for elijah mcclain a black man who died after being put in a chokehold by police last year have been ronnie's outside police headquarters in the city of all racan and for the offices of rest colorado's governor has promised to re-examine the case mccain staff is one of many being given renewed attention after the death of george forward in police custody lester spence is a professor of political science and africana studies at johns hopkins university
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he says a back nice madam movement has created momentum for more political change when i talk about victims of police violence like george floyd george floyd was positive of. tested positive for kobe was a bouncer and a truck driver. arbor a who was killed not by police but by police action but by police like action he was he wanted to be an electrician but he couldn't graduate who didn't have intuition the next has to be linking the this protest up with labor diamond there's a reason why when i go to the convenient store to shop every employee is black the last asked for me that's what the next step is where in the middle of political struggle right now we've been in the middle political struggle for a little bit but we're in political struggle with a tendency that arguably is in its death throes and they're not going to go down
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the house of representatives just voted to to make d.c. a state that's not going to get out of the senate but still just that action alone actually kind of gives us more resources can allow people who are organizing with this to double down a bit more and they able to creation of new institutions that can consistently push that fight forward. still ahead on al-jazeera costa rica is on the road to reopening to tory's why it's seen as a success story in keeping coronavirus infections down. in turkey takes ahead we'll take a look at our farmers are working around labor shortages. hello there's been a shift in emphasis of where the wettest weather is and has been in the last few
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days in southeast asia you might get a clue from these from sea the satellite picture gives it away that's where the heaviest rain is more or less from southern vietnam across to the northern philippines now south of that there are certainly a few showers a scattering but it really does look a lot druther to just 3 or 4 days ago and that includes peninsula malaysia where for example kuala lumpur has been unusually wet well monday is dry in the forecast the thunderstorms do come back on she said wednesday admittedly you can't i mean dry all the time but if you're anywhere else in the chances are pretty low they're going to get a thunderstorm that includes jakarta and delhi for example but it's just down to australia at least this looks right of the season now you've got one swirling area of cloud off new zealand and the next system is on its way through that part so forecasts wise is wet and windies through person a temperature of 20 degrees some rain in western australia at the moment and for the next couple days it's largely dry and southeast colas front just schemes into adelaide maybe melbourne more likely tasmania new zealand is the place it gets the
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wettest and the windiest weather in the immediate 24 hours with wellington's forecast a fairly wet and windy one. rewind macare bring your people back to life i'm sorry but take on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues from bondi to know the full news distance rewind continues with the return of belief that change steve shall be one on one east of our culture trees 100 species are going extinct every 24 hours and a lot of that is attributed to wildlife trafficking we want on al-jazeera. to me to. the on the.
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list. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera last a player has been sworn in as malawi's new president he defeated incumbent to beat him with a recount in a historic rerun it's the 1st time in africa that a court ordered vote has led to victory for the opposition candidates china's top legislative body is meeting for the next 3 days and is expected to fast track a controversial national security law fong gone have been weeks of protests over the proposed legislation and a dozen u.s. states have put plans to reopen on hold after a surgeon you call the 1000 cases both florida and arizona has tech new daily infection ice forcing vice president mike pence to counsel campaign events. now the white house has denied reports that president trump was told that russia paid taliban fighters in afghanistan to attack u.s.
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troops both moscow and the taliban have denied the planes in the new york times reports the russian embassy in washington dismissed it as dangerous and basis news the taliban says it was not indebted to any foreign country i'm awesome odd is the former afghan ambassador to france and canada says the allegations could put the afghan peace process at risk what is needed at this point despite the fact that the russian parliament. is to substantiate this in order to see what does may be going on at the time when there's a peace process underway where afghans are supposed to meet on one hand the taleban of the others on the other side afghans that are on the post $911.00 order the afghan government included and we this is going to complicate issues further and it remains to be seen as to how it's going to have an impact on one hand this issue
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have asked to obviously as i said the spanish cheated it needs to be looked into it needs you see if you seriously on one hand on the other hand we need to see how the diplomatic efforts from here are going to deal with it and whether it is going to be real or stall or midi to some extent. it's going to. damage the ask want use process. and if it does what what does this mean in the long term to the american presence in afghanistan to this issue that will be taken to an administration by the time of actions. as well as decisions that we can after the american election. the democratic republic of congo's justice minister has been released after being briefly arrested in kinshasa it follows a recent disagreement with the president over proposed judicial reforms the
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controversial proposals include to define powers of judges critics say is an attempt to muzzle to judicial president police use of katie's coalition opposes the legal changes put forward by supporters of his predecessor joseph. german chancellor i'm going to merkel says the coronavirus pandemic is far from over as regional outbreaks gave rise to fears of a 2nd wave lockdowns were imposed in western germany last week after not break the link to a meat factory infected more than 2000 people michael says her goal is to get europe's economy back on track as germany takes over the rotating presidency of the european union next week germany has recorded nearly 195000 infections and about $9000.00 covered $900.00 deaths after months of a knock down restrictions costa rica is preparing to reopen the country to international tourists widespread calls in $1000.00 testing has set it apart from other latin american nations which are still struggling to contain the pandemic
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manya rapper lil has more. or. a massive coronavirus testing campaign is underway in published district it's a response to a recent spike in infections in this part of the country. it's important to know you don't have the virus and to prevent more infections i think there are a lot of people that are infecting others and don't realize it i think mass testing is very important to prevent the spread of the virus. has applied a combination of mandatory social distancing a strict lockdown in widescale testing it's a strategy that appears to have paid off the country is now the 1st in the region to announce plans for a gradual reopening to foreign tourists you see it. i want to announce the opening of the borders even happened you. we're going to wait until august 1st this will happen for the international airports and this will only be allowed for countries that have a controlled transmission and remember you can follow a very strict health protocol so that everyone who enters the country can be traced
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. the city has announced the low coronavirus numbers means public spaces like beaches and shopping centers will soon reopen a cassette leak out with a population of just 5000000 responded early. in brazil population 212000000 and take over measures have been far less stringent the number of confirmed cases there has surpassed 1200000 the brazilian government's response to the pandemic has been widely criticized. although in the city of new drive through testing is now available to residents here a positive test triggers an automatic contact tracing protocol in the city brazil averages about 3 tests per 1000 people and that to roy has already surpassed 40 tests for 1000 people this is key to following the infection rate and halting the spread of the virus they. need to know it was the 1st brazilian city to impose a law down and call for strict sanitation measures authorities say until brazil
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implements similar procedures nationwide the corona virus outbreak in the country will only continue to worsen. al-jazeera. there's been a surge in violence against women in colombia since a country one into its coronavirus lockdown and now the killing of a woman and her daughter protests in the capital bug attah. reports. violence against women is nothing new in colombia but a spate of recent cases has people reeling *. despite a coronavirus lockdown disposal testers took to the streets saying they can turn their backs on women being attacked and killed at a pace that depends seems to have made worse. crime rates of fall in the country during the quarantine violence against women has increased by a planned 6 percent we're being killed more for being women than the coronavirus we
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are sick and tired we all fear getting the virus but we can't accept this violence anymore. activists say at least $315.00 women have been killed since the beginning of the year at least $110.00 of these murders are femicide with the victims killed because of their gender it's the entire structure of society that's just signed and our lives and well being to crush us it's like having a knee constantly on our necks it's time to take the new way protesters are blocking intersections different intersections neighborhood in the south that were just last week a woman was killed together with her 4 year old child allegedly by our partner even if she had reported many times to the tories so protesters are saying that some disruption is needed to bring more attention to what is happening and pressure out tory these. protesters scuffled with the police when they try to tag the
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walls of this military barracks. many are furious after 7 soldiers confessed on thursday of the rape of a 13 year old indigenous child kong. it's passed a new law allowing for life sentences in cases of rape against minors which many here consider useless when few of those responsible or punished at all. it's ridiculous that the state focuses on this kind of action when we have 85 percent impunity in sexual violence cases it's evident they don't understand where the problem lies is just a band-aid over an open wound and. the women's right movement is relatively new in colombia but it's growing as is the attention of the general public to crimes against women and the cry studio tour it is to do more to protect and listen to them and just. hundreds of people in china have been moved to safety after torrential rain triggered floods rescuers use heavy machinery to lift people from
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cars and rooftops the deluge has caused landslides and left some areas under more than a meter of water continuous downpours have hit the south since the beginning of june with another month of seasonal rains expectations that turkey is one of the world's top t.v. producers but sama say the sate on companies not giving them a fair price and now with a pandemic and border closures they can no longer rely on cheap labor from neighboring georgia simcoe still has a story. the journey of a cup of tea begins here this is turkey's northern tea grove ingrid in along the slope suffers a running down to the black sea to get the best quality leaves you have to pick them with care this is the 1st harvest of the year with 2 more by the end of august but the farmers who work for only a short season say they are not getting what they deserve from the state company
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which by 60 percent of their crops you know as. conditions are better than before we used to receive our money once a year you know the state company pays every month the state has a purchase quota so we sell the rest of the crops to private companies and they beat down the price. most of the t. forms here are dotted along the rock terrain it is difficult to carry the loads of tea in these weighing nearly 50 kilos each from the farm to the village it's a job people in the area no longer wish to do so since the 1990 s. nearly 40000 workers from neighboring georgia help come here to work in these farms often for lower wages than what the locals would ask for but this year the common 1900 pandemic close the borders and the workers couldn't come so the salvation was the master should go this garden belongs to my cousin this year i picked his 3 georgians don't pay attention with the job is done properly or not they think the
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more they pick the more they are when the harvest begin in late may the turkish government lifted its travel ban allowing locals who live in other cities go back to their villages for the harvest industrial present it is hunger that georgian workers that income but $100000000.00 state in their pockets. we hope to introduce our unemployed brothers from the south to the job opportunities here so money stays in our country we plan to train students from the university on how to cut professionally. orcon an owner say they enjoy nature while working here with 10 other friends from southern turkey where they don't have many job options across the black sea region so 1200000 farmers factory workers traders and their families make their livelihood from the tea industry and the screen province a phrase that has been the center of the turkish tea and us tree since the 1920 s. c.n.n. because solo al-jazeera. a drone has begun delivering agents medical supplies
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to a hospital on the isle of wight off the south coast of england has joined a whole reports the child could have significant implications for the delivery of humanitarian aid to isolated areas. high above the soul and off england's south coast and unmanned drone hurries pathology samples across the water to a hospital on the isle of wight it's 4 times faster than a conventional ferry crossing at a fraction of the cost and enormous benefit to remote and island communities and their stuff is there live or die either by boat which is really slow or by manned aircraft which is really expensive and so i can see a commercial operation in areas like that where there are poor logistics links where a really cheap platform such as this can reliably deliver things and can fly at night can fly and for 'd can fly in paul whether the ground operated drone system
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was developed at the university of southampton with the aim of distributing humanitarian aid it's been given special permission to fly in britain skies to assist with the government's covert 19 response in fact i like to think of it as a sort of a landrover of the sky a similar sort of needs in that it's very robust very tough very easy to repair. twin engines so it's capable of flying on a single engine therefore very reliable the successful use of drone technology to transport medical supplies from the mainland here to st mary's hospital on the isle of wight is a breakthrough for island communities everywhere but think of the wider humanitarian possibilities the ability to deliver lifesaving supplies to isolated communities by air efficiently at times of natural disaster or war or pandemic. it's easier just to be to reach the places which were not reachable before.
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and you can evan from london just remotely by a lot of drones which is in bangladesh for example so i think we really have a lot of charities like doctors without borders already make extensive use of drones for filming and mapping hard to reach areas but the animal of one trial with the ability to carry a 100 kilogram payload over a distance of a 1000 kilometers is the most significant advance in autonomous drone flights yet. al-jazeera on the isle of wight. so again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera. has been so i mean as malawi's new president and i said morny attended by thousands in a long way he defeated incumbent and with every kind of historic rerun it's the 1st time in africa that a court ordered volte has led to
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a victory for the opposition candidates. with your help. we were restore a new generation of faith. in the possibility of having our government that serve. not our government but room. big government bodies spiers. not a government out of your huge. big government but listens not a government but show. a government that fights for you i'm not against you. people in poland have begun voting in the presidential election conservative incumbent andre do days seeking a 2nd term is running against 10 other candidates but none of them is expected to get the 50 percent required to avoid a 2nd round tuit as closest challenger is warsaw as liberal paul european men. and they're also voting in france where
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a 2nd round of municipal municipal elections is underway voters are choosing mayors and municipal council as the poll is seen by many as a test of president in money and the cause of reform policies and his centrist party. china's top legislative body is meeting for the next 3 days and is expected to fast track a controversial national security lawful hong kong if in weeks of protests over the poles like station. and a dozen u.s. states have put flans to reopen on hold after a surge in coal that $1000.00 cases in cost the country both florida and arizona have set new daily infection highs forcing vice president mike pence the council campaign events say the number of infections in the u.s. past 2500000 on saturday those are the headlines on al-jazeera will have more use for you after everyone stay with us. if you want to help save the world's. sneeze into your own.
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my. hello and welcome again to rewind on of the product since the launch of al-jazeera english back in 2006 we're built up a library of award winning films and here on rewind we're very visiting some of the best of them today we're reminded to 2013 when we went undercover on a wildlife smuggling trail stretching from madagascar off the southeast coast of africa across asia to.

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