i just you know explores the single minded journey. of the 1st leader of an independent bosnia herzegovina. as a bag of from prisoner to president on jesse. this is al jazeera. out of there i mean this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes forst of birth control and threats of detention china is accused of trying to curb the population. dozens dead and missing after 2 river ferries collide near the bangladeshi capital. gunmen launch an attack on pakistan stock exchange several

people are confirmed killed in karachi. hungry and trying to stay warm seasonal workers stuck in chile as winter bites and coronavirus stops them from going home. and i'm joining with the sports manchester city on course to defend the f.a. cup title after 18 past newcastle face arsenal in the semifinals. so then china is being accused of forcing it we go women into pregnancy check sterilization or abortion in a bid to slash birth rates an investigation by the associated press has found evidence of a 4 year campaign in north western provinces china's government denies the allegations saying they're not based on facts will be live in beijing in just a moment but 1st alexia brown begins our coverage. never forget the

day chinese authorities told her 3rd child was illegal she says she was threatened told to pay a fine of more than $2.00 and a half $1000.00 should be locked up in an 10 minute camp. to give shot. and remove fetuses forcefully if they say it's illegal to make you get an abortion those who didn't obey were sent to the camps now people there are terrified of giving birth. the associated press investigation is based on government statistics documents and interviews with women like a lawyer who say they knew people jailed for having too many children many received a prison sentence of years even decades government efforts to reduce birth rates and shinji young are both systematic and ruthless we're talking the mass forced insertion of intra year to run contraceptive devices we're talking threats of internment for those who violate birth control policies. zain says the brutal

crackdown is part of government efforts to control the way to get people many of whom a muslim to purge them of their faith and identity. the investigation found the government had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on birth control and shin jang province in northwest china birthrights their decreased by 24 percent last year compared with 4 percent nationwide but. they want to eliminate us but they can't kill all of us it's not possible because the world is watching so they're doing it step by step with policies like sterilization imprisonment or separating men and women and making them work as forced labor as china says the camps are for reeducation part of what it calls a struggle against terrorism but rights groups accuse beijing of locking up more than a 1000000 people to brainwash and punish them those not detained us spied on. her

neighborhood felt like an open air prison she tells how she was forcibly sterilized along with about 200 other we go women. we lost a part of our body we lost our identity as women we will never be able to have children again some women say they've been left with long term injuries a reminder of everything they've lost brian al-jazeera. let's get more on this with katrina you standing by for us in beijing in katrina this is a chilling report of the government say about it and why this needs to happen. well the government saying that they're basically just equalizing the family planning policy nationwide prior to 2014 families were allowed to have up to 3 children but then that changed and in 2014 they were subject to the same one child policy or that changed 22020162 or to child policy nationwide now it is true that

hand women have since been subject to the same fines if they have more than 2 children but they are certainly not foreign into any detention camps or subject to any sort of forced abortions or forced sterilizations as we've seen nor is it in this associated press report conversely hand women actually around the country have been encouraged to have a 2nd child because of worryingly lower birth rates across china now we also know that. people who are members of the we could lead to have been strongly encourage not to marry other week but into the hand majority analysts say that this is another long term policy to dilute the population of the weaker population it does appear that that would be working we know in 1949 according to official figures 90 percent of the population john were weak as in 2018 only 47 percent were weak as now china's foreign ministry today on monday responded to this report essentially

calling the associated press report fake news it has always maintained that its policies and our national security issues designed to prevent terrorism and extremism and separatism that there are in response to very violent knife and bomb attacks in recent decades but as we heard just then many human rights groups disagrees saying that many of these measures are based on race and religion and not only do they say that up to 1000000 people are held in these detention camps which the government by the way calls for occasional training centers they say that many of these policies are designed to also erode the muslim week of religion and culture as well as put them in. very strict almost suffocating levels of surveillance and katrina thanks for that katrina you there in beijing if we take a close look at the week a minority in china find that a predominately muslim group in the northwestern region of. china has been cracking down on their culture and identity around a 1000000 have been put in prison camps or reasons for detention ranged from openly

practicing their religion having long beards or traveling abroad but china denies mistreating the week says tough security measures are necessary on separatists in the region take this on further we can speak to james libeled is an associate professor at la trobe university also author of the book of ethnic policy in china is reform inevitable joins us now from melbourne mr libeled it's hard to fathom this chilling is the word isn't it the government takes these sweeping measures to slash birth rates amongst weekers all the while encouraging growth of china's han population. i mean this is pretty clearly systematic and intentional process of both cultural in demographic genocide that's been going on for more than 5 years in change and so it involves not only the massive term meant that you mentioned but also really orwellian system of surveillance as well as the

systematic attack on the weaker language culture and religion coercive labor in educational programs and now we learned this pretty horrific campaign to reduce birth rates among sweeter women this phrase demographic genocide has been mentioned a few times in this latest coverage do you concur about that and also given that the international community needs to step in. you know i think it's a fitting term i mean i think just to put it in the context china has had a long history eugenics program not only among the city i think minority population but also its han majority this goes back over a century a belief that the party state needs to take active measures to weed out what they would call call the variance in the case of the one majority that leads to poverty

you know poor poor hygiene poor education but in the case the government believes that low quality births also lead to political instability and acts of separatism terrorism and extremism and so this is been a longstanding concern of the party state and what we've seen in this new report is the evidence to back up its it's pretty chilling effect on the lives of. women right so should the international community use that evidence that's been brought to the fore by the associated press. something done at the united nations for example. most certainly i mean we are seeing pushback. in countries like the united states a stray cat and we did see a number of un special rapporteur was send a letter of concern about human right the tearing conditions in in china i suspect some of the pushback in geneva but i think quite importantly it's important that we

raise awareness about this outside the english speaking liberal west in particular your audience in the middle east needs to understand what's happening and change on they chinese party status worked really hard to put out misinformation disinform ation on this issue it's worked hard to co-opt journalists from outside the western world to spin its narrative that these are but 9 set of policies seeking to shore up stability in the region they need to be exposed for what they are which as i said is an intentional systematic process of both cultural and demographic genocide of course the chinese government say it's all just fake news and what they are doing in the region has to be done because of terrorism and security issues. you know it's with great irony that they've now caught on to this phrase that really started in the united states some months a trump a ministration really were an all out information war here with

a with all saw ads spinning various narratives and what. about this report and the underlying research that was also done by adrian sense is that it's fact based it's informed it uses the evidence in the words of the chinese communist party that have been scraping the internet to demonstrate what it's doing and it's pretty hard to refute china will call it fake news. you know scholars academics n.g.o.s will continue to put this stuff out to hold beijing to account right would mention see how this develops and if indeed the international community does take this on james like gold. thank you very much. at least 9 people have been killed in pakistan after gunmen tried to force their way into the stock exchange in the commercial capital of caracas ahead now from south heart. police helicopter hovers above the gun battle between security forces in gunmen

attacking pakistan's stock exchange in karachi it's surrounded by sick war and it's heavily guarded. but the attackers detonated a grenade as they entered the grounds despite that they were unable to get into the main building security forces quickly reach the scene and for the attackers killing all fooled the stock exchange director. despite the gun battle outside brokers huddled together inside and trading continued. rule of the terrorists were killed at the main gate. the other the 3rd was the center gate and the. 3rd of the main gate of destruction building saudi law enforcement agency is the polish and the rangers played a very very vital role in combating this attack and. destruction the financial hub

of the. war syria. with dozens of hand grenades ammunition found at the scene the heavily armed security forces believe they stopped the attackers from inflicting more damage in pakistan's largest stock exchange it seems government forensics experts who started collecting evidence at the scene and have searched a car used by the gunman sort of site at al-jazeera. search and rescue efforts are underway in bangladesh and after a ferry capsized in a river in the company dhaka rescue workers have recovered the bodies of 30 people so from dozens remain missing still the ferry was reportedly carrying more than 100 passengers when it collided with another vessel let's speak now to time with childfree who's life 1st in the dr and time to tell us more about the rescue efforts and the latest. spoke to a left turn and come on down off the coast. he told me the rescue operation is still on that recovered so far 30 bodies one of the smaller boat that actually sank

and the morning. until and unless that. they want to know if there's more bodies there are very few people actually saw him across so he's saying that it's a possibility that might be more bodies now we know this happened early morning today on 930 local time one of the big passenger freddie boats collided with a smaller one the bigger one didn't have much damage nobody got injured in that but the smaller ones sank and that's what the tragedy happened with barely 2 kilometers from the spot will be heading there so now we know that passenger friday boat accident is quite common in this country the 6000 kilometer of any one waterway this one of the major public transportation modes are people going to a lot of coastal areas and other places and there's a lack of enforcement and sometimes what a lot this. sometime even during stormy weather to play in this rivers which is

some of the causes for this major accident and bang with that's right i was going to say does it come down to lack of political will the fact that you know most people in bangladesh have to use but it's to get about in some shape or form is there not enough action on the government level. well i mean for every major disaster that happened here we have covered those for. the government comes up with a special committee to look. at that things will be better from now on but again and again we say this accident takes place a lot of the. passenger ferry boat owners they don't actually abide by a lot of the lack of manpower to enforce those until all is a government really cracked down on them unfortunately this sort of accident probably will take place again a time dan thanks for that update from duncan wanted us to have a child. of

a 1000000 dead and growing the toll from coronavirus keeps climbing is attitudes and restrictions are relaxed more than 4700 people are dying every day because it is flattening but many countries cannot contain the spread of the virus the united states brazil and parts of asia well they're struggling with 5 straight days of record cases in india this country free or safe from its fires i mean some countries some small pacific islands for instance have been over to bring down their numbers right down but it will if the bars anyway it's everywhere that's really been demonstrated this week when. people can't help people especially in the northern hemisphere where they're enjoying us so much they say kind of got that this threat is there and unfortunately it's really come back to bite us yes one quarter of all infections and deaths are in the united states that is the worst hit

country as several states are imposing restrictions to try and hold a 2nd wave that well the u.s. health secretary warns time now is running out particle he explains. the corona virus is marching through america in houston texas hospitals are quickly running out of intensive care beds in florida arizona and texas mobile testing sites are being overrun with people waiting for hours many turned away health experts warned this would happen in many of these states mostly republican governors move to reopen businesses stressing the importance of the health of the economy now critics say the public health system and a growing number of people are paying the price well the trumpet ministration says there is no connection. all 50 states are opening up again to one degree or another states like florida and like texas actually began to open up in in early

may for the better part of 6 weeks john we did not see any significant movement but if you look at this tracker showing which states meet the government's criteria to reopen only 4 are safe the ones in red are seen large spikes in cases and now at least one member of the administration is sounding the alarm window is closing we have to act and people as individuals have to act responsibly we need to social distance we need to wear fit more face coverings if we're in settings where we can't social distance particularly in these hot zones but in many of these states where cases are on the rise there is no mandatory order to wear masks in public and in many ways this is become a partisan issue well the vice president attended an event sunday where the crowd seemed to mostly wear masks the president has not done the same and my understanding that the centers for disease control has recommended the use of mass but not demand require it because they don't want to send the president and that

the president should be example you know real men wear masks for the president's part his focus at least on twitter was elsewhere we tweeted this video to supporters you only white power. he appears to have deleted it before leaving the white house once again his weekend spent golfing by some estimates the number of cases that have been reported each day has more than doubled over the last 2 weeks and given the way this virus spread that means the number is likely to jump dramatically in the days and weeks ahead political haim al jazeera maryland. well the spread of the virus in brazil is also showing little sign of slowing down it is the world's 2nd worst affected country with more than one and a quarter 1000000 cases brazil's president is blamed for worsening the crisis and opponents of an international day of protests called stop both sonora. has more now from neighboring colombia as the sun rose over the capital brasilia 1000 crosses

were planted in front of the brazilian congress to honor the more than 57000 people dead of so far 1000 in the country but it was also the 1st of a series of demonstrations on sunday against president. of the pandemic. groups of protesters in more than 20 countries in the brazil's main cities called for his resignation. cheering supporters in the state of. without a face mask despite a court ruling that required him to wear one but while the overall number of cases in the country keeps rising i reduction in the number of daily deaths in religion 80 was enough for the mayor to reopen stores in beauty salons to this weekend but many customers say they remain worried i think it should be done step by step there can be no crowds everyone should keep their distance we all know our economy is

collapsing and we have to get back to work but the viruses and visible so we can only wear our masks. the coronavirus and their mic continues to wreck havoc in much of latin america. even colombia that had managed to control the spread of the virus is experiencing a resurgence of infections after partially reopening the economy the mayor of the capital is asking president to reinstate the strict lockdown. the numbers are overwhelming but has reached 27th those in cases and arraigned 600 dead the country has more than 88000 cases and almost 50000 deaths we need to prepare to go back to a strict quarantine. staying at home might be the only way to protect the health system reaching a critical state but something difficult to implement again in this and other countries in latin america with a large population working informally hand to mouth then needs to be on the streets

every day to survive listen to them and just. well let's move on to chile now where thousands of foreign fruit pickers are in limbo because their savings goal and borders remain closed many off from libya which doesn't have diplomatic ties because of a long running territorial dispute with its neighbor in the 3rd part of our series on latino stranded by the pandemic a lot of america at its embassy in human reports now from santiago. some have traveled thousands of kilometers from southern chile to get to this school in santiago to date a refuge for stranded bolivians here they're given a mattress and blankets and assigned a classroom where they join the others. mostly seasonal workers who come to chile each year to pick fruit from october to march when summer ends but now it's winter it's raining and cold and like the rest of the game is family hasn't been able to

leave home and. bolivia close the borders and declared a quarantine they didn't let buses or any. one cross not even a living ends but 3 months they camped outside of their consulate asking for help but just like thousands of the new whalen cuban colombian and peruvian migrants stranded in chile they've had to depend on charity now that their savings are gone . we have mattresses food and a roof over our heads but no thanks the bolivian government says it's abandon us that's what hurts the most moderate who are working in southern chile but they declare lockdowns there too so we had to come here we don't know when we can go home. 3 women have given birth while waiting to return to bolivia. 4 others are pregnant the 300 people here have been told the following dinner no one else will be able to enter after that the plan is to put this whole school

under quarantine so that everybody who's in here can be guaranteed to be called with free after 14 days then they will be taken by bus to the border with bolivia but at this point there is absolutely no guarantee that authorities there will open the borders to allow these people to go back home. in the last month they've in fact allowed 2000 libyans who undergone certified quarantines to reenter but with the number of coronavirus cases in chile now one of the world's highest many countries are understandably less eager to speed up repatriations all this while the number of people stranded here grows but. there is a permanent flow of people we're only just beginning to see the economic effects of this pandemic on migrants and temporary workers. for many who wait isn't the worst part it's the feeling of being trapped and the fear of not knowing if the virus might take their lives or dose of family members back in bolivia before they can

make it home to see in human al-jazeera santiago. and in the next part of the series will be speaking to cuban migrants trapped in mexico who are helping to care for other travelers that will be on tuesday here of course on al-jazeera. time for the weather is rob and more of the same just across in year one after weeks of rain in northeastern india it's still flooded of course the ground is sudden and if you look at the satellite picture you get an idea that there is still rain this part of india and in bangladesh which is true of the monsoon went through fairly quickly but these rain started before that as a result this really widespread flooding in karate in. this is that the 1st bit of sea typically you got about half a meter of rain i think the total so far this year is it is approaching a meter but this is the part of the world where you get up to 11 meters the wettest place says a lot more still to come the next 24 hours i think the past month back on the

indian side. for example and if you follow the same line of progress of the seasonal range you get to china we saw this also yesterday something like a dozen people known to have been killed by the floods so far in sichuan this year there are still some missing and they will be more flooding still to come it is course equally a regular event so rescue efforts are pretty much on hand even a tense there in no time at all into bay province which is a bit further along the line of the cloud again there is flooding up to a depth of about a meter it all falls at once and it all channels into the same place called side the cities this is lovely we want this started cultural nation in this part of of china and there is of course yet more rain to come i'm surprised me nic all right thanks very much still ahead here on al-jazeera judgment day for francois feel as the a former french prime minister faces possible jail time for corruption. and taking down a symbol of racism mississippi votes to the last state flag in the united states

with the confederate emblem. and on the same day they need. indian patriots sign a new quarterback to find more than $1000000.00 bail tell us what it's all about. it's very difficult as a shop or restaurant or to buy shrimp with the confidence that what you're serving is going to be good seafood by nature is a high risk commodity sometimes trampas raised using production drugs. that are not approved for use in the u.s. the f.d.a. simply isn't casting enough on the imported market to really find our things violet the president and take note on al-jazeera. in a 2 part series. observes the lives of 2 children.

over 20 years. where insights into circumstances that shape lives. in a rapidly changing world. 20 years of mean continues with good morning group senior on al-jazeera. how to get your watching al-jazeera or a mind of our top stories this hour and china is being accused of forcing the we get minority to lower the birth rates an investigation by the say depresses hundreds of thousands of women are forced to undergo pregnancy checks sterilization

and abortions. search and rescue efforts are underway in bangladesh after a ferry capsized in a river in the capital dhaka 30 bodies have been recovered dozens of people are still missing. an attack on pakistan's stock exchange has ended with at least 9 people killed the security forces were able to stop the attackers before they could take control of the building in karachi let's get more on this 2nd mile hike has been following developments from the capital islamabad and come all tell us more what do you know. off to the. deadly attack on the exchange the director general of. charge of security in the province of. major general. don king. with the media. he described in detail what happened in the

morning he said dad ford. stock exchange they lobbed a grenade at main gate 2 of the. main gate. to get inside the president made to interrupt their stock exchange they were bending gauged by a graphic reaction force of the rangers the police and the guards who put up stiff resistance neutralizing the other 2 were just outside the main building now. saying that. happening. borg a did not name the country who would be supporting this but the pilots liberation army was quick to take responsibility for the they said that all going to ideation died had been declared candidates by the united states the more dedicated focused on financial heart that city of karachi. had brought food water and enough

grenades and on your nation. to kill as many people there but are commodity with the for the moment thanks very much david but. from islamabad. protests begin held across india against rising fuel costs in defiance of restrictions on gatherings to contain the spread of coronavirus the opposition is criticizing the government for increasing prices off the almost 3 months of this but at a protest in the capital new delhi. word of protest against the i think field cost being broken up by police that's because protests. by mr actions that they have been called for. all over the country and that is because fuel prices have not meet every day for the past 3 weeks their highest level in nearly 2 years and this is happening globally oil prices are down and there was. nothing on

the benefit of the low cost of procurement to the people that are increasing taxes you know india already has some of the highest taxes on fuel the governor said to me the revenue people must say that at a time when. financially india is in an economic crisis because of one of the strictest downs and there have been other protests this is just the latest in the city. and the congress is going to ask the president. on the fuel price high. fuel prices indian health workers have reported the biggest single day increase in corona virus infections several states are reimposing full or partial meltdowns because of the nearly 20000 new cases more than half a 1000000 indians have been infected during the nearly 3 months some states he will

increase testing this week now to deep secret chettri who's a medical doctor at calcutta rescue and providing medical services for disadvantaged people in west bengal she joins us on skype from going talk which is the capital of seacom states. so the north will come to that in just a moment but of course life in all court is being held to ransom by a covert 19 possibly possibly a 1000000 cases in india by the end of july. varying situations across the country in the north where you are things are slightly different tell us about that oh yes lighting where i am we are a very small northeastern state in india and right now unfortunately so i think we have one of the best scenarios globally and we have the least number of cases even on a global scale at this particular juncture in stick him that is so what is happening that isn't being done in the rest of the country or is it just a sort of confluence of of luck and opportunity nor does not luck an opportunity to

thing that happened here is that we enforced slow down slightly earlier than the rest of the country and i think we being the least popular state of the nation of our population is only about 6 lakh so you know the implementation of the law becomes very easy and also the people are extremely compliant and disciplined so i think that plays a major role different ballgame as you know in new delhi in the capital there anticipating 500000 cases half a 1000000 cases by july but only 15000 beds it's hard to countenance how they're possibly going to manage. oh yes so it is not new news that we do not have enough beds because at the same time we have a lot of other patients to riyadh developing country and delhi is the capital so what the are doing right now is the government has taken up stadiums and auditoriums and they have transformed it into huge probably one of the largest

corporate facilities globally rich are going to be put in use one stone beds are officially over in the central and the private hospitals what do you make of the fact that india is the 4th highest in the world in terms of the numbers of infections but actually has a much lower death toll why is that is a matter of the ability to count fatalities or what. see as a doctor if you ask me 18 can be indians have the advantage of having a slightly stronger immune system because we have already been dealing with so many other viral infections and indeed to be compared to the rest of the world so that is slightly towards our advantage yes it what do you think of the government approach to this so it's almost impossible to stop and that's in a population of what 1300000000 years exactly 1300000000 and. the father called that crisis also our economic graph of the country was not very promising and now after the lockdown it has almost become like

a hunger vs health for us so i don't i don't see us as a country combating and containing the virus any time soon what we have to do is maybe learn to live with it in a safe manner that is the best approach i think right there's talk of increasing testing in certain areas is that going to be. they were they do say that you know you need to test test test. yes we have been i mean our just yesterday we did more than one laxity 1000 tests so you know we have to rampantly increase the number of chance in almost all the states of the country and that is going to be extracted you henceforth also what we have mean focusing on is to increase the testing as much as possible so that even the is symptomatic carriers can be traced and we can catch the disease at that you know incipient stage the german embassy sent messages to citizens living in new delhi warning that there was little or no chance of admission to hospital for treatment for coronavirus as well as other

intensive care facilities you can see how bad it is for patients but what about the health care workers at the front line that we've seen throughout this crisis how they're the most affected healthcare workers has been affected the most i would say because you know we we have a very less doctor to patient ratio doctor to patient ratios almost one doctor one lakh patients so you can imagine the crisis the f.b.i. is saying not only does damage to the health of the workers but also the you know in both the scarcity of health workers so i think it is a good time for us to reflect on the need to upgrade the health system in our country focusing on 1st and foremost to you know increase the number of health workers make more doctors produce more doctors that is what we need for our country we could try training we do appreciate your expertise in your analysis on this thanks very much indeed thank you yes thank you so much. and the u.k.

is considering imposing a lockdown on the english city of leicester after a surge in creative artist cases meanwhile in london police have broken up a number of illegal mass gatherings officers were called in after thousands of party goes gathered in the capital street like 3 pretty patel called it unacceptable. a concert is being held at a cemetery in northern italy to all of those who died during the pandemic. italian president. paid his respects and was joined by families of covert $1000.00 victims it was a province one of the regions which was hardest hit by the virus. recorded its lowest one day death toll since the outbreak began. now a verdict is expected in the corruption trial of the former french prime minister francois feel it is up to 5 years in jail but says the scandal is a political smear campaign a report from. a scandal that changed the course of the 2017 french presidential

election a french newspaper allege the conservative candidate and former prime minister fossil fuel had misused taxpayers' money when he was an m.p. to pay his wife penelope as a parliamentary system 3 years for no work the couple were placed under formal investigation feel denied the accusations and said he was the victim of a political smear campaign on sees only 36 years of political life 36 years without any judicial problems today i am the target of a ruthless one sided attack 7 days a week 24 hours a day old legal is this public pressure mounted on feel to step down he refused but the damage was done he failed to make it past the 1st round to the election losing out to the far rights marine le pen and centrist emanuel who went on to win his political career over feel was rarely seen in public until february

this year when he and his wife went on trial in paris france has a history of corruption and nepotism in politics some say feel is a symbol of both but others say the forward inquiry against him was unfair politically motivated and time to end his presidential campaign the sciri gained strength last week after president micro ordered an investigation into. new claims the prosecutors were pressured in 2017 to move unusually fast against feel his main rival in the election race mccraw passed an anti corruption law targeted to cleaning up politics soon after his election but this magistrate says if the president is serious about the independence of the judiciary he must reform the system there's effective micro mom. the judiciary's independence has always been questioned because it's the executive that appoint state magistrates the law dictates that magistrates are under the authority of the justice ministry so as

long as we stay with the system people will doubt the impartiality of magistrates if found guilty of misusing public money feel could face up to 5 years in jail his wife a 3 year suspended prison term for complicity for one of france's best known politicians which comes so close to being president it's been a spectacular fall from grace. al-jazeera paris. voters in local elections in france have punished president tomorrow micron's centrist party green candidates in major cities enjoyed a series of victories and the far right national really won its 1st major city. in the south and voter turnout was a record low due to corona virus and then it concerns. to poland where the president has failed to win enough votes to avoid a runoff next month and the results of sunday's election show that andre do topped the 1st round fall short of the overall majority leader 2 there is an ally of the ruling nationalist laurent justice party that wants to further implement it

socially conservative agenda which critics denounces homophobic dogs main rival has ruffled. the pro e.u. liberal mayor of course. the u.s. president continues to deny being briefed on reports that russia offered to pay taliban fighters to target american troops in afghanistan and it tweets donald trump said intelligence agencies did not find the information credible and therefore he was not informed about it the new york times which 1st reported the story now says senior u.s. officials were aware of the plot as early as january these paper reports at least one death was connected to the bounties house speaker nancy pelosi has accused trump of siding with russia's leader this is as bad as it gets and yet the president will not confront the russians on this or denies being whether he is or not is that ministration no other allies who were some of our allies who will work with us in afghanistan have been briefed and accept this report just as i've said

to the president with him all roads lead to prove he will not he will i don't know what the russians have on the president politically personally financially or whatever it is but he wants to ignore he wants to bring them back into the g. 8 despite the annexation of crimea and the invasion of ukraine. we can hear now from karen greenberg who's director at the center of national security at fordham university school of law and she says even if trump's denotes are true because it's not good. if this is a story that actually has some merit to it which if the new york times is right it seems to be that of that he would be briefed on it and not just him but his closest advisers would be briefed done and he would think that there would be some kind of investigation into the validity of it and some kind of sense of how to respond and what to do so if he wasn't briefed on it that too was

a problem because if there was a story out there intelligence sources or elsewhere then it's the kind of thing that needs to be brought to the attention of the president and so you go away whether he was briefed or not briefed and this actually was information that was in the intelligence community in the national security council arena then either way it doesn't look good for the president in the area of afghanistan pakistan intelligence services who is using who is. who to do their bidding which groups it's an incredibly cloudy complicated and untrustworthy area and if you study the history of the region over the past many decades you there is always a little bit of who's on whose side who's doing what so it's not unusual but it is unfortunate and it just highlights the complexity of the region and how difficult it is to know who's really on whose side and who's doing what but when you're in

the middle of peace talks you really need a level of trust that this story betrays. starbucks is the latest company to stop advertising on facebook because of concerns it's a platform for hate speech facebook announced on friday it will tag potentially harmful posts civil rights leaders have urged the boycotts of the social media giant saying it doesn't do enough to stop racist and violent content. senators in the u.s. state of mississippi have voted to replace the state flag the last in the nation to display the confederate battle emblem and the bill now goes to the republican governor. to be signed into law many see the current design is racist because of its links to slavery in the south and is under as this report. a contentious flag that symbolized america's past connection with slavery soon to be gone. lawmakers

in mississippi voted overwhelmingly to remove the state flag 126 years after it was adopted. the last of its kind in the us to carry the symbol of the confederate states that fought and lost the civil war to maintain slavery in america but you want to be on the right side of the free market and i'm proud that i've personally cherish here today and i'm sure the credibility of the individuals who came out and shot it appears that same. for many the confederate flag symbolizes hate my parents and grandparents experience much terrorism and tyranny under that flag as a younger mississippi and a millennial it represents the darker days of our state when our state government and various others used it as a symbol of supremacy. others argue getting rid of the flag is in another attempt to wipe out america's history has been changing to take my.

place. george washington. in 2001 mississippi voters decided by a 2 to one margin to keep the flag is the official state emblem but times have changed. with the death of george floyd in may sparking nationwide civil rights protests highlighting racial inequalities a renewed call to change the flag this time it was successful. but a new flag is just a 1st step in achieving racial justice some argue more is needed in a state where 31 percent of blacks live in poverty compared to 12 percent of whites in the flag of assembly. you know up won't them because now it will leave you traveled and i faced daily and most african-americans in this state base so that is a closet full of substantive. we have to see these policies that are

punitive and i mean right now we have to get rid of those policies so that we can have. a 9 person commission will oversee a new state flag design voters will approve or reject it on the ballot in november . i will have sport coming up in a couple minutes time that tennis player in trouble after putting a new supposed to be self-regulating will have all the details.

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i hear logs of sport to talk about joe standing by nic thank you very much yes defending f.a. cup champions manchester city have cruised into this year's semifinals as after a comfortable when of a new castle united there also wins for us nal and chelsea on sunday as david stokes reports. manchester city completely dominated the 1st half against newcastle who only completed 15 passes in the 1st 25 minutes still it took 37 minutes for city to break through jesus was found in the books and kevin deployed us schooled the penalty. new castle did improve after the break and should have equalised what gael somehow missed an open goal and that mistake seemed worse just a minute later when rakim stirling put the game to bed. to no city who may have lost the premier league crown to liverpool this week but could still in the season with 3 trophies they've already won the league cup the still competing in the

champions league and now into the semifinals of the f.a. cup they'll be up against arsenal who've won the cup 13 times more than any of the team the gunners went ahead against sheffield united midway through the 1st half with a penalty alexander lakas that was brought down in the box and pep 8 and the rest. sheffield are actually a place higher than arsenal in the premier league and created more chances after the break they goalkeeper dean henderson nearly equalized with the wind assisted go kick but it bounced just over to the relief of his opposite number are still did concede to a long throw without failing to clear the ball and david mcgoldrick level things up with 3 minutes left it seems certain to head for extra time. but arsenal went to the other end and grabbed the victory substitute daniel could buy us firing him the winner in the 91st minute 521 the final score arsenal on track for f.a. cup number 14. after that it was leicester up against chelsea in sunday's 2nd match

leicester were the strongest side in the 1st half but didn't take their chances and they were made to regret it. chelsea were a different side after the break and ross barkley popped up off the bench to score the game's only goal. so frank lampard team had to wembley well they'll play manchester united you know it should be norwich on saturday each of this year's cup quarter finals all played behind closed doors one by the away team is the 1st time that's happened since 1987 david stokes al-jazeera. in spain clearly got real madrid have opened up a 2 point gap at the top of the standings thanks to a $10.00 win at espanyol on sunday rails brazilian midfielder kasim eto'o netted the game's only goal in the stroke of half time time is running out for espanol they are bottom of the table and 10 points adrift of safety was in a danger dans men are 6 games away from the 34th title but if you go.

we know that this is only going to be decided at the game and. we know it's a very complicated league and it's always contested until the end last legal title in 2017 with me as the coach was only one on the last day of the season so i expect something similar is going to happen this time around. now it's emerged that one of the reasons i and robin was coaxed out of retirement by his old club was them showing him clips from michael jordan's last dance documentary the 36 year old former chelsea real madrid and by new nick star has returned to dutch side f.c. groningen they use the example of jordan's basket will come back to woo him along with images of his own career robin originally played for going in as a 16 year old back in the year 2000 he's happy to be back. here. then i have a very good feeling about the future i was talking with my wife about how to answer the question why are you doing this you can describe it or than one phrase club

love that's why i'm doing this i am a positive person and i just want to go for it maybe it will be over in a month maybe it'll end in 2 years from now or somewhere in-between. over in italy ac milan are making a late charge to try to qualify for european football next season on sunday they won their 2nd straight match since the restarts it means malana now just 3 points outside of the europa league places with 10 games to go maybe roma to nil with goals from and shan hakon shailaja go in the 2nd half milan are now in the 77th place very missed a 56 points away from the champions league places meanwhile napoli maintained their place above milan in 6th on course for that place in the europa league they enjoyed a 31 win over city as gautam side speil goals from trieste merton's jose callahan and i mean eunice napoli have been in great form after the season restart 11 days

ago they've eventis to win the cup italia. brazilian club fluminense a has joined the black lives matter campaign their players wore the slogan in portuguese on the back of their shirts as they paid vaulted in the rio state's championship on sunday well to solo nato also took a knee in solidarity after scoring his team's 3rd goal in the 3 nil victory. west indies cricket is where the black lives matter logo during the test series in england captain jason holder said the team wants to show solidarity and help raise awareness the 1st of 3 tests begin in southampton on july the 8th behind closed doors in a bowler stuart broad agrees more work has to be done to tackle discrimination in cricket moving forward arcing. will do a lot of work and have done a lot of work of ways really not we're not just talking. into the cricket team the playing team i think it's every aspect of. the game that we love. coaching

administration journalism. at every every part way trying to sort of create opportunities in the 6 time super bowl champions the union pages have been fined over a $1000000.00 and had a draft pick taken away to the t.v. crew filmed on the sidelines of a browns bengals going without permission but some news for the pats is that they've signed free agent quarterback cam newton he was a 2015 n.f.l. most valuable player he is expected to fill the hole left by star quarterback tom brady has spent 20 seasons in new england winning 6 super bowls in less than a week after apologizing to fans for putting himself on the public at risk by playing in the ill fated tennis tall well number 7 alexander's vera of has courted controversy again after promising to self isolate following the positive coronavirus results of 4 of the players on the toll the german was seen partying in

a beach bar in the south of france vera has also known as sasha has been criticized by fellow player nick carry us so i wake up and i say say more controversial things. see. sasha's vera. baby how selfish can you be american go for dustin johnson has won the traveller's championship for his 21st page a tour victory having shot a career low 61 the day before a pair of bogeys on the back 9 and a rain delay in the final round couldn't chroma the trial to finish up a straight ahead of kevin straight woman johnson's one at least once in 13 consecutive seasons. all right that is now. make it.

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