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we listen i still think that travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on which is their own. al-jazeera. 1800 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera i'm come all santamaria and this is the news hour investigators from the international criminal court in libya they are inspecting mass graves and looking into whether warlord khalifa haftar committed war crimes also in the news a deadlock over a deal to spot marathon talks on a compromise all for a year leaders differ over a coronavirus recovery fund. raising display
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of minds members of a mexican drug cartel for their weapons during the president's visit to their stronghold. this could be a new means of transportation in the face for sure but for some a little scary when we go inside what could be the future of long distance travel in europe they call it the hyperloop. and sport lewis hamilton clinch is home position for the hungary and grand prix the defending formula one world champion will start at the front of the grid for the 90th tie his career. for one we're looking at libya where a team from the international criminal court is now on the ground tasked with investigating a warlord of a possible war crimes investigators from the i.c.c. are in tripoli now looking into acts committed by forces loyal to come. after that
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is expected to include a visit to the mass graves found in tucker who now last month the 3 person team will also investigate booby traps left behind during a retreat by half his fighters residential areas south of tripoli the i.c.c. says it's also received credible information regarding 11 mass graves containing men women and children so let's start with the one who in tripoli with more details on the investigation the government so far seems to be reluctant in revealing the details about the team's. details exactly but we know from sources with the government of national accord nearly $225.00 bodies have been recovered from the mass graves around the city of lahore now and also last secret notorious prisons as you know that we reported that and the past
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few weeks about the secret prisons where opponents including civilians and women were told and murdered and bit in the mass graves that's according to eyewitnesses government officials and local officials from the city of along with medical sources now the team is also due to visit several areas in southern typically to check the areas where they land mines were planted in civilian areas specially those if you like ns are neighborhood insulated dean and also in the vicinity of the old inactive international airport these areas were like nearest to or a battlefield during the military campaign civilian areas had. land mines were planted by helped us forces namely by the russian mercenaries from the bag group and they killed dozens of innocent civilians who were impatient to return home immediately after the end of the fighting. if you go back 9 years that was when the
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u.n. security council unanimously referred reports of atrocities in libya to the i.c.c. they granted judges jurisdiction to investigate possible war crimes and crimes against humanity an investigation into hafter his forces includes allegations of massacres kidnappings torture mass burials also alleged war crimes such as the bombardment of civilian areas as well as the targeting of hospitals and medical workers this was during half this 14 month siege of tripoli the i.c.c. is also investigating reports of booby traps and improvised bombs planted in homes by have to fight as as they retreated from the capital's it's earlier we heard from the founder and director of the static institute which is the 1st public policy think tank in libya he told us hafter actually has a history of getting away from international prosecution. if we use the un and the e.u. as a measure of these kind of protections that are almost water but there is
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a national level if they couldn't return at the un security council and a veto at the european union so any of the members of the foreign here and security council members or any of the 28 member place other members of the e.u. to choose the statement or sign generally or aren't there the sanction one of those actors will get a little falls apart and it seems like france and russia have interchangeably 'd be offering these kind of it's almost kind of diplomatic immunity for the last several years not something that we can think of when it comes to the i.c.c. who can make a statement but really again it requires the will of a need for states i have the capacity to bring them to so i can't articulate in france in fact there are crimes that are being investigated by the french course domestically about the role of the u.a.e. in yemen and that could be something that happens with the u.n. a row for example have support out there in france or italy not even it's only
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happening in the united states what kind of doctor is there investigated for war crimes that there is going to a local in the county in virginia because helicopters and jewel americans as you so kindly don't have them is that over that implemented no it seems that there is so much interaction it's only half there's this is not his 1st word he's been around for one year in the last 6 years he's launched $22.00 failed attempts over with already elected or appointed governments international reconciles gone and it seems to be the same case over and over again. we move on to coronavirus news and after 2 days of hard negotiations e.u. leaders do not appear to be close to an agreement over a coronavirus recovery fund this is despite a compromise offered by the president of the european council to try to break the deadlock shows michel's revise the amount which would be paid out in grants to countries needing help to bounce back from lockdowns european leaders are negotiating for a 2nd day already had 14 hours of talks on friday which failed to find
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a breakthrough this is the problem you've got a proposed $858000000000.00 coronavirus recovery fund and that should be the problem that the issue though is how much should be distributed as grants or as loans on one side you've got the a use for biggest economies france germany italy and spain they want the money most of it to be paid out as grants but the leaders of the netherlands austria denmark and sweden are all saying no we need to be more frugal here they need to be smaller grants and bigger loans meanwhile hungry in poland just object to the proposal being tied to democratic rights in the 1st place following this one from london this saturday is not a. dame take us through the compromise as much as you can find a compromise here. that's right come out it's very slow going these talks of course started on friday wrapped up around midnight local time
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on friday and now with with no one none the wiser as to whether there will be a breakthrough but sharma show on saturday has offered the e.u. $27.00 new proposal which goes through some of those sticking points you were mentioning the rule of law conditionality that is worrying poland and hungary whether allocation of funds will be dependent on them getting into line in the e.u. . way of thinking in terms of the way they run the judiciary and so on. things like the balance between grants and loans in this huge fund let's not forget over $850000000000.00 us dollars to recover from this pandemic well now the sharma shows saying let's reduce the amount of grants slightly from $560000000000.00 to $500000000000.00 but that doesn't really tell us what what that would do in terms
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of appeasing the countries in what should the whole pot when used in some ways another argument is over vetting procedures where the dutch and some of their allies want any one of the e.u. $27.00 to be able to effectively veto the handing over of some of those this money . dependent on reforms within a particular member state that's likely to anger italy and spain who are some of the hardest hit e.u. members by bike of it 19 of course so then what chance of a deal do you think 19 as i said they had 14 hours of talks yesterday more today in the simple fact is you've got 27 countries in the one room difficult at the best of times to find some sort of consensus. it is and it always goes very late into the night if not extended there's a possibility we could see more talks on sunday or a later date but there's another sweetener from show me show suggesting that
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austria sweden and denmark some of the so-called frugal for could actually get a bigger rebate on their contributions into the fund to the recovery fund let's not forget apart from that they're trying to agree a 70 year budget until 2027 which we crucial in meeting things like the carbon neutral aims of the european union in terms of providing money for new technology new research infrastructure and jobs all against this backdrop of the e.u. economy shrinking by at least 8 percent this year alone so it really does matter just in the last couple of hours the italian prime minister says that the contour has put out a video on facebook saying where to them pass now it's more complex than what was expected but the e.u. is budget commissioner on twitter saying. the following a solemn reminder covered is not over infections on the rise in many countries high time to reach an agreement which allows us to provide the urgently needed support
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for us citizens and economies in other words come on guys really let's try and put national interests aside for once very hard to do though isn't it just ok now the keeping an eye on the summit in brussels thank you. the point he makes there about this not being over well yeah 14000000 cases worldwide nearly 600000 deaths from corona virus and a growing concern that those numbers are maybe actually possibly a lot more conservative than we thought a lot of countries now estimating higher rates of infection than they previously announced for example iran where the president remember iran's already the worst affected country in the middle east the president says 25000000 people have been infected which is more than a quarter of the population. much higher number than the official counts because it includes people who showed no symptoms he has no card to get favorable for him one of the most important matters is that here is to medical recommendations and social
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distancing to limit the spread of the corona virus according to the ministry of health estimates 25000000 iranians have been infected with the coronavirus so far and we have lost about 14000 of them within 150 days it is possible that 30 to 35000000 citizens are at risk to be infected in the coming period this means that the number of patients who would be hospitalized will double it is possible the virus will continue until march a similar sort of issue in india where scientists of estimated high members of infections 2 there's been a survey from the indian council of medical research which says at the end of april point 73 percent of india's population may have been exposed but remember india's population is 1350000000 so it's a lot of people india officially went past the 1000000 mark on friday but experts have warned that number could be much higher yes what we're saying is if you want to look at something like this and we look at it a lot don't weigh the virus tracker from johns hopkins university in the united
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states it presents a certain picture as snapshot in fact these are the numbers right now as i said 14100000 confirmed cases all over the world and deaths approaching 600000 bets what we know about that's reported numbers as i say the best snapshot you've got at any one time but those numbers could actually be a lot higher more with same bus ravi now in iran on the dramatic claims by president rouhani. this alarming hard to believe number comes on the 1st day of return to lock down to a lockdown situation here in the capital tehran after we've seen a record number of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in recent weeks now in the hours since this meeting took place in the hour since the president made this statement about 25000000 people potentially infected number that he said could turn into 30 or 35000000 in the next few months there was clarification from the secretary of the science committee on his taskforce and this gentleman put out
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a statement saying that the number that mr rouhani was talking about reflects those who were tested and showed signs of having antibodies and those were people that were potentially asymptomatic for the covert 19 virus and were not hospitalized he also made the point of illustrating the actual figures of infection and death that iran compiles that it then sends out to the world official confirmed figures those come from people who are hospitalized and are tested positive in swab tests for the covert $900.00 coronavirus now what we see here the figure that mr rouhani is talking about perhaps a better word than infection is it's the total number of people that have been exposed in the country to the coronavirus now whether he misspoke or whether this was president hassan rouhani trying to fire a warning flare to illustrate iranians it remains
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a serious problem that they have to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously the point that the president made today either way is that iran has been and remains the worst affected country in the middle east studies. and associate professor in cellular and molecular sciences northumbria university in the u.k. we are asked him how the numbers of people who don't show symptoms could be affecting these totals these individuals are very very very difficult to. down simply because they have no reason to go out and report to clinicians to doctors the nurses to you know pharmacy stuff oh i've got symptoms as a result of that a much more or less likely to be tested so we're going to see them only if they've been exposed the body has responded to where it can pronounce develop and then there's an antibody study like will be ready in present to talk about carried out on the come back as a positive all about subhuman the test this correct and critically assuming that
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these us into magic individuals respond in the same way symptomatic individuals which is not something we've pinned down yet then we can start saying ok we can pick them up now what we do know is that there's another component to the universe for the so-called t. cell immunity which is actually really really important and we just don't have a straightforward way of testing for this as we do with these antibody tests so i would be very cautious in interpret any information regarding our symptomatic individuals apart from the fact that the raw data that show that these individuals transmit the virus we've known from the 1st few weeks when people started putting the availability of antibody tests that these are not necessarily precise enough to be able to tell apart the 4 common flu coronaviruses from the covered 19 virus
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and as a result of that having not seen what exactly the techniques used in iran are accomplishment comment on whether or not about 25000000 is an overestimation a lot but based on what we've seen in the rest of the world where we think we have a prevalence of that to this season of no more than 5 percent of the population being exposed i would hazard that this number is perhaps a little bit exaggerated a bit not necessarily an overestimation. in the united states as the 1st day of the new school year approaches a fetus nationwide debate is raging should children be sent back to the classrooms during the pandemic or stay at home be taught virtually online rob reynolds looks at that from the sounds of us. los angeles parent brenda del hero is helping her 10 year old daughter emma with school lessons online it's been kind of stressful just because i am i think i quit at more work i feel like with that
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more work here than our school emma's mother says virtual learning is not ideal but she's against sending her daughter back to class the risk outweigh everything i can of my cat risk my kids getting sick or possibly getting somebody else sick or their teachers or vice versa on friday california governor gavin newsom laid out detailed guidelines for school reopening including mandatory mask wearing schools in counties with low numbers of cold cases and downward trends may reopen otherwise the school doors must remain closed schools that don't meet this requirement they must begin the school year this fall the distance learning school reopening has become a national political issue president donald trump says democrats are scheming to make him look bad if they think it's going to be good for them politically so they keep the schools closed no way so we're very much going to put pressure on
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governors and everybody else to open the schools back in may house democrats approved 90000000000 dollars to support schools reopening safely but the republican senate has not approved that measure but when you make it about politics than just people trying to. score points and get elected i mean that's what i really think it is a disservice to how credibly important this issue is the conservative dominated school board in orange county california recently voted to allow schools to fully reopen without masks or social distancing it's time to get these doors open and get these babies but the school board has no power to order schools to reopen that's a decision made by local school districts and so far the county's largest districts say they'll opt for virtual learning los angeles and san diego schools will also use distance learning for students brenda del hero has
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a message for trump my kids are not getting picks i'm not going to send my kid to school to see if they're going to get coven and to see if they're going to survive an agonizing dilemma for parents teachers and kids now weaponized for political purposes rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles. here is a look at what's coming up on this news out. we cannot. we cannot give you. the tributes keep pouring in for civil rights icon john lewis has passed away the white house says it will fly the american flag at half staff in his on. your friends in equality be fine some of the time united nations secretary general antonio tennis highlights urgent global inequalities in the wake of the pandemic and have a look at this in sport to indy car driver somehow walked away on the high. from that crash far out we'll have that and the rest of the sport a little later. but
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another protest march has taken place in northern french town in memory of a young black man who died in police custody 4 years ago. was arrested on his birthday after running away from. officers who approached him for an idea check hours later he was declared dead and nobody's ever been convicted over his death have also been several autopsies have contradicted each other as the story. in the paris suburb of paris saw thousands marched for justice for adam a troy a young frenchman of mali and heritage who died in police custody and 2016 police say he died of natural causes his family say officers caused his death for 4 years his sister asked to has campaigned for the truth i never thought we'd still be here after 4 years that i'd still be demanding truth and justice for 4 years we've
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suffered relentless pressure but it's made us into soldiers the black lives matter movement to protests against george ford's death in the us have propelled atomised case back into the spotlight in france and made an ass or a figurehead for those fighting against racial injustice and police brutality i could. make by little brother's name a symbol to tell the world that our brothers have the right to live and that they have the right to help build this world and build france and their own lives people walk through streets knew where adam lived and where he died were not a match roy was arrested he was taken to this police station when his family came to find out what had happened it was several hours before police officers told them that he was dead france has a history of abusive arrests this week 3 police officers were charged for manslaughter in connection with the death of a delivery joy for in paris in january cedric's was of algerian origin his family
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says officers held him down while he cried out that he couldn't breathe the charges are rare in france where police are often accused of acting with impunity police violence is something we experience all the time in our neighborhoods even if not. directly after we witness it all the time we've seen the similarities between george floyd an editor of its police violence infamy this is a moment to find it. in the march was organized on the 4th anniversary of adam is death a young life lost in circumstances that are still to be clarified still they are the sister and her supporters won't give up will forget. al-jazeera passau from. he was president donald trump's ordered flags over public buildings including the white house be flown at half staff to on of the congressman and civil rights icon john lewis people from across america's political spectrum of pain tributes to
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louis has died at the age of 80 former president barack obama said this on twitter not many of us get to live to see our own legacy play out in such a meaningful remarkable way john lewis did how does your construct with this look back now the life of one of the last surviving pioneers of the 960 s. movement we can argue that we cannot. we cannot give you. john lewis was born into the segregated world of rural alabama in 1940 when i was growing up i saw those signs that said white men colored men white women colored women white the son of black sharecroppers lewis devoured books as a child the words of dr martin luther king jr spoke to him loudest seem like he was saying to me john lewis you too can do something and i would ask my mother asked my
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father my grandparents my great grandparents why segregation why racial discrimination it was the best way it is don't get in a way don't get in trouble but trouble would find him many times as a student leader in nashville tennessee lewis was beaten for peacefully protesting segregation at restaurants and on buses in selma alabama police cracked his skull as he led a 600 marchers across a bridge to montgomery but i don't think that i know what it was at age 23 lewis was the youngest leader of the march on washington 2 years later president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act into law protecting black americans from discrimination at the polls the act would foreshadow lewis's own political career he was elected to the u.s. house of representatives in 1986 his consistent defense of human rights during his decades of service earning him the title the conscience of congress john r.
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lewis as did it in 2011 who has received the medal of freedom from barack obama the nation's 1st black president a moment lewis called amazing and unbelievable and in 2016 he was honored at the opening of the national museum of african-american history the museum lewis had proposed nearly 30 years prior but even then the statesman's work was not done louis continued to champion liberal causes like universe. so health care and the rights of undocumented immigrants will not be. remembered as both fiercely partisan toward his democratic party and fiercely independent lewis's legacy is his bravery in the face of perceived injustice have this abiding faith that things have us all right so good so necessary if you're willing to die for. you not
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a for it. is a former communications director for the southern christian leadership conference the group which led the fight during the civil rights era we spoke to him earlier and he says the torch has now been passed from john lewis on to the next generation the only people that are really left of that generation would be andrew young former congressman u.n. ambassador. jesse jackson waterfront roy but. there is a new wave a new energy and it is wrapped from these essentially these protests and for the most part they have followed in the tradition of making sure that they are nonviolent obviously there have been some moments when that did not stand true but yes this and the whole goal is to raise this new generation of leaders who will
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continue to oppress and challenge america to be what it said it is to live up to the ideals that it always proclaimed so loudly and so i think that's part of where black lives matter came from after the murder of trayvon martin and now this 8 minutes and 46 seconds with george floyd has just sparked and just ignited this phenomenal movement that like that movement in the sixty's as very multicultural multiracial to mexico where one of the country's most notorious drug cartels has been displaying the scope of its power in a social media video look this shows the seemingly endless line of heavily armed members of the whole new generation can't tell if idio coincides with
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a visit by president underwrites manuel lopez obrador to 3 states which are content strongholds in the video the gunmen pledge allegiance to one of mexico's most wanted drug gang bosses known as el men show john heilemann with more on this one from mexico city a reminder isn't it to the president if he didn't already know that he's certainly not welcome in all parts of his country. yeah definitely and as you just said there it's really significant that they choose to bring out this video just as he was told to touring through that territory and as part of their that tour here for this support to the governor of police co which is really the heartland of this cartel and said he'd help him in this fight against to organized crime so really this cut tell the police got a new generation cartel is that code sort of saying we're here and this is territory as well it appears although i should add that this video still hasn't been verified and the government says that they're doing that law i was just
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speaking to a security analyst and he says that his source is not checked with a couple of other people who say that it is authentic and that there's no reason why it shouldn't be true and it would be very hard to fake one of the thing that he brought up actually which i thought was interesting was he said that this is now been given a name these sorts of videos in which cartels show that power it's called violent lobbying and it's where they say look we hear this is the amount of weaponry and men that we can bring to bear don't even think about touching our interests and this is one of the most powerful cartels in mexico drugs it's also got the security analysts quite a diverse put portfolio which includes so the mafia style activities owning businesses owning casinos in different parts of the country so they're really obviously trying to put a stamp on this and saying look don't touch us and it wouldn't be the 1st time they've done this i remember a few years back in mexico this cartel 1st sort of exploded into the public consciousness and that was when they shot down
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a federal police helicopter and at that point that was not unheard of but it was really strange and unusual for cartels to be moving in the full frontal way against federal forces and they've never shied away from that and their leader a mensch or never has seemed to shy away from that so this isn't something that sort of new for them so these parts of mexico where for example this group is is prevalent i mean what's life like there are they in charge are they effectively the law there. it's not quite that simple in terms of there's obviously a functioning government in the country 2nd city. harder there but how it was described to me is that these do have a lot of power they've got a lot of men apparently they've got workshops that are producing weapons as well but they act in a guerilla style way they can bring out their fools but they can also melt away into individual homes and villages throughout the region so even if the mexican
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government do send in the army and all of that power it's not going to be a state's battle it's going to be with an enemy that it's really hard to pin down which does has a certain support whether that by fear or whether that's by giving certain benefits to from some of the local population so that's a difficulty for the mexican government not just a show of power but also trying to actually get hold of this cartel and of their leader and that goes for most of these criminal organizations throughout mexico very interesting stuff thank you john homan in mexico city. ahead for you on this news our. top when you get more mass protests in israel as anger against the government grows to look at exactly why and so suspicion of arson behind the fire that engulfed one of the most iconic cathedrals prompts and in sports on a critic predicts cricket's most high profile competitions might need a new home far will happen.
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i know they're very hot and also fairly dusty across areas of the middle east now to the south you can see quite a different story a lot of cloud has been spilling in of the last year as is a little of low pressure tied to the monsoon rains and they're working their way towards oman this is going to produce some pretty heavy downpours at times in fact we could see into southern iran as much as 65 millimeters of rain that could well produce some flash floods and then as you can see it will work its way across towards yemen similar story here the rains not as heavy but even so it could cause some flash floods bisan pieces of cloud damage is a cause of very high 50 celsius in baghdad a similar sort of temperature into kuwait on a monday the winds picking up so we'll see it a bit more in the way of sound and temperature wise doha at the temperature coming
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down to 37 celsius but it'll probably feel fairly humid with 37 then down into southern africa fine and dry throughout much of south africa and again quite a bit of cloud to do those monsoon rains really impacting these eastern coastal areas so plenty of showers always fall south as mozambique and then through tanzania kenya and up towards somalia very heavy through the central regions the tropics particularly gathering around the gulf of guinea and then on monday some very heavy rain particularly in tibet and on towards getting a but it's fine and dry on the south and warm importantly. growing up in a harsh and unforgiving circumstances children learn to play dangerous games they exist without throwing stones at the store the house and take worn down by frustration and broken promises young men living under the constant threat of imprisonment they took me to the cheap and blindfolded me the time for them to
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regain control of their lives is when the boys returned prison live. on al-jazeera. the soon as the sun goes down the shouting russia is a very challenging place to work at the gonna live even though the authorities here say you can't do it it's not allowed we'll build hooshang we're always pushing the fog of the sands of moscow we've longer loved all the people are being detained for peacefully march they are predicted to stand for we are the while traveling the extra mile we oughta media don't go we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. oh. oh. oh.
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you're on the news on here al jazeera and these are the top stories investigators in the international criminal court of the rived in libya's capital to look into whether forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar have committed war crimes mass graves and booby traps were found in the city of time tonight last month. after 2 days of negotiations e.u. leaders do not appear to be closer to a deal. over a coronavirus economic recovery fund and this is despite a compromise offered by the president of the european council their only go schettino for an $858000000000.00 proposal. and iran's president says $25000000.00 iranians have been infected with the coronavirus more than a quarter of the entire population a son ronnie also says another $35000000.00 are at risk of contracting the virus. israelis are out in the streets of tel aviv again protesting their government's handling of the pandemic israel reimposed restrictions after a surge in cases last week something that has angered the demonstrations they have
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been protests for weeks now of the economic situation and the lockdown measures also chanting slogans demanding prime minister benjamin netanyahu resign harry for citizen west jerusalem just keeping an eye on things and what's happening in tel aviv as we say this is becoming a regular occurrence there in tel aviv and generally pretty big numbers coming out . that's right this is a 2nd weekend in succession that we've seen these substantial protests in tel aviv israel's largest city and also we're seeing similar protests here in west jerusalem close to the prime ministerial prime ministerial residence at balthus street just had reports that a substantial number of protesters have broken through roadblocks trying to get closer to the prime minister's residence in an anti netanyahu protest here as well in tel aviv we understand the protest there to some extent at least as well as
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being a general and you know thing yahoo protest. those concerned about it that the corruption trial he's undergoing and so on which has been a long term protest against these protests have been given extra. momentum in extra numbers by the economic situation in the light of the coronavirus pandemic we saw just in the last couple of days more measures instituted by the government announcing that for next weekend all beaches will be closed at the weekend or morals and non-essential shops will be closed at the weekends the restaurants will be closed from 5 pm friday and then they had to reverse that last measure because of the concern about restaurants and other small business owners taking to the streets and a real revolt against the government's measures because the government give them such little notice but they had already bought their provisions for this coming weekend and so they reversed that decision and allowed restaurants to stay open until tuesday morning instead and we're hearing from some restauranteurs that
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a substantial number of them plan to remain open in defiance of that government restriction because they're concerned that their industry will simply go under if it's forced to be closed down yet again the reason for these very wide ranging restrictions still short of a full 2nd lockdown is because the sheer numbers that are still mount. we've just seen in the last few minutes that the 24 hours since friday evening we've seen another 745 cases of grown a virus 27500 active cases there are real concerns that the health system could be overwhelmed and now there is talk from some government officials about trying to get the numbers down to maybe 400 a day by the end of august well a few weeks ago they were saying that if 100 a day were to happen again then a full lockdown would have to ensue so that gives you an idea of just how far beyond the bounds that people were talking about quite recently things have already
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gone and that sorry for so with an update on coronavirus and the protests in israel thank you the u.n. secretary general's delivered a stinging critique on inequality in the world during a speech to mark nelson mandela international day and turning to terrorists as the world is at breaking point and the coronavirus pandemics only exposed deep divisions in our societies our diplomatic editor is james bays he interviewed mr tell us after the speech here is some of it. my belief is that people. now aware of the enormous fragility of our world of our economies and of our societies for she with the addition to a microscopic virus that has put the fs put us on our knees for as you know the nation to climate change visualisation to lawlessness in the cyber space for deliberation to the new risks of nuclear proliferation again and my hope is that people will understand that when recovering when taking profits or the opportunity
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that of course after the coffee we need to restart when recovering people will be aware of the need to address the fragility that have caused the chaos that we have in today's world with the government and that requires fighting inequalities that require active climate action that requires international cooperation on the digital space that requires a in the end much stronger unity and solidarity in the way international relations are conceived well it's not obvious that we are going to win this battle we see also nationalists we see populist we see people trying to use the convience. to. racism and xenophobia to the 5 but my feeling is that if one looks at the world populace are not doing well fighting the call for it and i hope people will understand that only by international cooperation and only by a very strong sense of sony that it would be able to not only overcome the call
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with but to build a system that addresses the fragility is there to cover those the most rated as you know the e.u. have been meeting the g 20 finance ministers are meeting this weekend the problem is they're dealing with the immediate problems of the pandemic how do you get them to focus on these underlying issues that you've raised 1st of all that i need your problem with a very important the you to approve a becket that is essential to relaunch the european economy. and i hope the g. 20 we'll see as we can see that the need to have depth relief measures going beyond the least developed countries that were benefited in the 1st g 20 decision so there are scenes that need to be done now but on top of that sink it's absolutely essential that we have an effective international court the nation of the recovery and that means a consensus on inclusiveness and sustainability that means that we are not going to spend money on the subsistence of fossil fuels or in helping the brown industries
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to come back but we will be investing in renewable energy and investing in. activities that are promoting a good economy that means that we will address the problems of universal health coverage the problems of a new generation of safety nets that are necessary that we have that with demonstrated necessary about the problems of the poorest people not only in the in the poor world with also in the week in the rich world by the pandemic that we will be able to give and never quit priority to education and to digital literacy as equalizers that on the globe make internet available for everybody message reinvesting in the scenes that can allow for more international justice and more cohesion in each of the as i mentioned in the speech and new social contract in each of society and the new global deal at the global level you must know secretary-general some of that is going to be controversial in some countries there
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are many who believe the market is king do you believe you're wading into deep deeply political issues for example here in an election season in the u.s. when you say and i quote it's a law free markets can deliver health care for all now free markets have a very important role in the economy but it is clear that else care for all will not be delivered by free markets. it took to have markets and we need to have government and you need to have public services and what is clear now or even in the most i would say free market societies is the fundamental role of a public policies is the fundamental role of public institutions so the 2 sinks need to be combined i'm not here to say that free markets should be abolished what i'm saying is that we need to use free markets but we use free markets in a context in which public policies have a positive influence to make the markets work for all you know secretary general
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what some people say though they'll say that you were once the socialist prime minister of portugal you were once the president of the organization socialist international was this a socialist speech now this is a speech based on values and delegates are universal and by the way even when you talk about the questions of inequality there was a time indeed in which it was especially left leaning economies that would be concerned with inequality but today inequality is recognized by all economies as an obstacle to the development so this is something that is becoming clearly a universal value that all countries any interest to promote developed countries developing countries we out and all these together and as i said in my intervention we are in the same sea but we need to be back in the same boat because some are traveling in super yachts and some are just clinging to the dead bodies so if we want to solve the problems that we have together we need to be able to act together
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you talk about some very broad themes but some are very close to home in your job as secretary general of the u.n. when you talk about how the victors of world war 2 still have a position that is different from others in international organizations and in the u.n. for your remaining time as secretary general whether it's another 18 months or whether you get another 2nd term and do another. 6 years or so are you now going to be pushing for reform particularly security council i do believe that all international institutions need to be reforms in order to adapt to what the world is today they were designed after the 2nd world war this is true for the un it's true for the buttonwood system is true for many other institutions now times have changed populations have changed in the world economy economies have changed in that i mentions and then there are relations so we need to adapt and that is why i
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believe the reform of the city council is the reform of the bretton woods institutions of the reform of many others are essential and i think it's our duty it's that these member states responsibility it's not the sec there's of united nations that can promote them but it's member states responsibility but i think it's an interest of everybody to adapt our institutions to what is the reality of today's world. now stained glass windows and the grand organ of the iconic some piano and some pole cathedral in western france have been destroyed in a fire as the cathedral police say an arson investigation is now underway this is 50 months of course after the devastating blaze in ultra dome in paris they had in records. the cathedral of st peter and st paul and not in flames more than 100 firefighters were deployed on saturday morning hours later thick plumes of smoke were still rising from the building president emanuel called the church a gothic jewel. easy the fire started in 3 spots i can confirm to you i saw it with
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my own eyes inside the cathedral the prosecutor spoke a while ago saying that an investigation was going to be opened i think it subjectively too soon to come up with conclusions having spoken to the teams who were on site there reporting a certain number of analyses. just 15 months ago the fire came close to destroying . in paris fire reports suggest not cathedral wasn't nearly as badly damaged. the fire came as a surprise given concrete beams were used to replace wooden tempers destroyed in a previous fire partly as a precaution against another blaze near harding. we are back with their sports news in a moment final qualifying for the 1st. season children holding to plan for the rights far as to.
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what is the price of luxury. an undercover team travels deep into the illegal cocoa plantations of the ivory coast simple solutions are very hard to find for something as complicated as the child labor. chocolates hearts of darkness and counters unpatrolled labor is working in a $100000000000.00 industry well overhaul of the country's cocoa produces live below the poverty line. coming soon. an image can change the way we see the world ask if we had not seen this week we'll be talking about it it can spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful he created this longing for a photo opportunity that can obscure the truth this is a legitimate news story but these clips and the talking points look pretty i don't see it can forge narratives only right through the listening post gives you the
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full picture. the all. was fine for f one and moto g.p. far as got the details yes exactly thank you come all lewis hamilton is clenched pole position for the hungaroring wrong free the defending formula one world champion will start at the front of the grid for the 90th time in his career which . are sure if i found your mojo today. and milton and his were city's teammate valtteri bottas dominated the qualifying session in budapest canada's lance stroll headed a racing point 2nd row alongside teammate sergio perez altos and narrowly leads
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hamilton in the overall championship standings heading into this 3rd race of the season. being that it's a short season you don't have the choice to take your time so we have to go at it had has been during this period of time is to make sure you arrive at the 1st race as if you've already done multiple races and that's in terms of fitness in terms of focus and. the 1st race wasn't ideal but that's what i'm really happy with how these last 2 qualifying sticky have gone. we are in pretty pretty impressive level at the moment as a team and i think me and lewis were really pushing each other to the next level. up in the end it was good and i thought you know with that lap it could be a possibility but not quite. and it was a record breaking day in spain as qualifying for the 1st race of the motor g.p. season took place france's fabio smashed the lap record at the have a circuit to take hope was issued for sunday's race to beat out maverick finales
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who will start 2nd on the grid defending world champion mark mark has will race from 3rd to this is the 1st moto g.p. race in 8 months. the 1st semifinal in this year's english f.a. cup has just kicked off current holders manchester city are taking on arsenal at london's wembley stadium on sunday manchester united played chelsea at the same venue of both teams aiming to win this trophy and also secure a champions league spot. just one step away it's at wembley so we just focused on that on the f.a. cup and the trophy of course that's must see for any player to win and any team to win so that's our main focus now is to get to the to the final and then we will look at west ham and look at leicester after the angling cricketer java archer has a sea of japan for breaking rules aimed at keeping players safe from coronavirus archer has been fined and given a written warning for visiting his home after the 1st test match against west
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indies a world cup winner is missing the 2nd test of the series while he self isolates. and this year's indian premier league could be moved out of the country because of the chrono virus pandemic cricket's most lucrative league is already been delayed it was meant to begin in march but they now take place in the united arab emirates later in the year in theory that would crash with the t 20 world cup in australia but cricket writer said longer believes that events may soon be cancelled in the uk now given the health crisis in the country is highly unlikely to be able to provide a bio secure environment for so many so many cricketers and. to be able to get foreign star international cricket stars to travel to can go is going to be a hassle whereas you either has had had it much better with forward 19 than what we have out here and the time zone to think about india because that is not all that
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so-called time before it's between the 2 countries so the logistical speaking commercially speaking it has come across as the best option should india not be able to get the shouldn't been do not be not be able to go ahead with the i.p.l. india and to indy car drivers were able to walk away i'm harmed from a huge crash in iowa colton hurt i went airborne after this collision with freeness v.k. curtis said afterwards it all happened so fast he wasn't sure why it was going on a crash did and his run of 4 consecutive top 10 finishes. ok and that is all yours for now thank you so much finally a quick trip into the future and perhaps the pioneer and shape of things to come for intercity travel if engineers get it right instead of buying a regular take it maybe you could go by train and we're not talking a traditional underground train here but speeding as fast as an airline us through
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what is called. step pass and has the story from the netherlands. this old russian oil pipe in the middle of the dutch town of delft now has a futuristic function it's used as the 1st european test center for a whole new means of transportation the hyperloop a sort of tube train that can travel at the speed of an airliner well actually the 1st thing the world has been able to prove the special technology and the next step is also to prove them at a higher speed. mosque received worldwide attention when he 1st mentioned diaper lupin 2012 but a dutch company says its design is now the most advanced the idea has attracted the attention of one of the busiest airports in europe amsterdam's schiphol bajan having terminal or station right next to the departure hall part of a larger european network and other station passengers can board instead of an airplane group and go can go to berlin or london in just one hour toward
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a recent study by skype poll shows that 520-5012 1000000 passengers up to 70000000 predicted to fly between here paul and european cities could travel by hyperloop this is how the hyperloop should work this cabin is connected to electromagnetic field so there's no resistance and it can travel at extremely high speeds inside this you know air pressure this could be our new means of transportation in a way for sure but for some a little scary i mean. that's. cabin is designed to make travelers as much at ease as possible traveling up to a 1000 kilometers an hour in a windowless jupe there's a very comfortable way of speeding up and slowing down vehicle or you will feel almost nothing all that can we walk around that is a very good question that some of the questions we do research on as well also the question whether or not passengers can use the toilet has yet to be answered train
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experts out of on hassles as predictions that travelers can use a hyperloop in the near future are far too optimistic. but that is all it's a fantasy that's all it's good to invest in research to find out if it's possible and to know what we can learn then that's fine but to say this is realistic i would say it's not absolutely not he suggests the netherlands to invest in existing technology such as magnetic trains in stats which he says are cheaper to build and safer than atlanta aims to be the 1st to develop the hyperloop and plans to open a new rypien center in holland in the next year but the city's 3 kilometer test track will have to prove that the super fast international troop train is indeed the way to go step last an al-jazeera that left. and that's it thanks for joining
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us for this news oh bob or sara is along in london in a moment. al-jazeera world meets bull remarkable both men wouldn't survive this after those closest to them were taken away never to return. some of the 8000 muslim men and boys killed in the stripper needs a massacre 25 years ago heartfelt accounts from those left behind trying to move on from the pain of the past women who refused to die on al-jazeera.
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i wonder how does anjali lest working in asia and africa every day is where i'd be choosing editing my own stories and a refugee camp with no electricity and right now we're confronting some of the greatest challenges that humanity has ever faced and i really believe that the only way we can do that is with compassion and generosity and come from miles because of the only way we can try to solve any of these problems is together that's why al jazeera so important we make those connections. what is the relationship between culture religion and a deeply divided city everything here is overshadowed by politics even the most basic of things food in 2008 al-jazeera traveled to jerusalem to see a food could cross deep lines of division jewish and the dish it to build we call to build that we can assure the people that the world this week. rewind street food jerusalem on al-jazeera. understand the differences and similarities
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of cultures across the world is another matter when you look at the news and current affairs that matter to you. the international criminal court begins its probe into alleged war crimes carried out by forces loyal to the libyan warlord highly for half that. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up 25000000 people infected millions more at risk iran's president warns his country's fight with corona virus is far from over the u.s. congress loses a man described as its conscience john lewis the civil rights hero who shared.

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