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understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world is another matter when you cool hand luke with the news in 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. bloom barbara sorry 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 coronavirus is far from over in the u.s. congress loses a man described as its conscience john lewis the civil rights hero who shared a dream with martin luther king dies aged 80 and french protesters marched to
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remember a young black man who died in police custody his family continued their campaign for. the welcome to the program investigators from the international criminal court are in libya's capital tripoli to look into whether forces loyal to warlord the have to have committed war crimes the 3 member team is expected to visit mass graves found in total now which is 60 kilometers south of the city last month's they'll also investigate booby traps set to during a retreat by half their fighters in residential areas south of tripoli the i.c.c. team says it's received credible information regarding 11 mass graves containing men women and children here's what he'd from tripoli with more details on the
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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 horner and also loss of the secret notorious prisons as you know that we reported that in the past few weeks about the secret prisons where half the opponents including civilians in women were tortured and murdered and voted in the mass graves that's according to eyewitnesses government officials and local officials from the city of warner along with medical sources now the team is also due to visit several areas in southern
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typically to check the areas where a land mines were planted in civilian areas specially those if you like ns are neighborhood insula dean and also in the vicinity of the old inactive international airport these areas were like 2 or a bettle field 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. iran's president hassan rouhani says 25000000 people more than a quarter of the population have been infected with corona virus in a televised speech on saturday he said another 35000000 are at risk of infection iran has officially reported about 271000 cases around his office says his much higher figures are based on research estimates by the health ministry further
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restrictions are being forced in the capital tehran and elsewhere after a surge in new cases the virus has killed nearly 14000 the reins yukio has no call to get home or him one of the most important matters is that here is to medical recommendations and social distancing to limit the spread of the corona virus according to the ministry of health estimates $25000000.00 iranians have been infected with the coronavirus so far and we have lost about $14000.00 of them within $150.00 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 be hospitalized will double it is possible the virus will continue into march same bus driver he is in tehran for us with more on president rouhani statement. this alarming hard to believe number comes on the 1st day of return to lock down to
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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 hours 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 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 repeatable 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
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covert 19 coronavirus now what we see here the figure that mr rouhani is talking about perhaps a better word than infection is is 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 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 steadiest moscow says an associate professor and settle in there and molecular sciences that university he says the accuracy of antibody tests can be questionable. we've known from the 1st few weeks when people started importing the availability of antibody tests that out
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these are not necessarily precise enough to be able to tell apart the 4 common flu viruses from the covered 19 virus and as a result of that having not seen what exactly the techniques used in iran are accomplished in a comment on whether or not the 25000000 is a lot or a summation a lot but based on what we've seen in the rest of the world. we've we we have a prevalence of that this is 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 after 2 days of negotiations e.u. leaders do not appear to be close to an agreement over a coronavirus economic recovery fund a compromise has been offered by the president of the european council to try to break that that lock shows michelle has revised that the amount paid out in grants the countries needing help to bounce back from lockdowns. one of the baba has been
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following all the details and joins us now obviously you know we've seen europe divided in camps before and this is perhaps highlighting it remind us what the sticking points are there are lots of different countries want different things or raise different objectives the netherlands and the like there are so-called frugal for the netherlands austria denmark and sweden who want more of this recovery fund in terms of loans and not free grants not handouts now this concessional saturday by shell michaud proposes reducing the amount of grants from the total pot from $560000000000.00 to $500000000000.00 still huge amounts no word on actually reducing the total size of the fund it's not clear whether that's going to be enough for the likes of the dutch they also want to return has asked for effective veto powers for all of the e.u.
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$27.00 to be able to objects to an individual nation's spending plans to recover from coverage that's going to anger the likes of spain and italy who are going to receive a large share of this money because they've been the hardest hit on the southern periphery of the u. it's going to cause a lot of anger. show michelle has said that there could be an emergency brake he's calling it where they could actually have a 3 day opportunity to trigger a review he's gone that far he's also saying to these countries you can have a bigger rebate on your on the money that you contribute to the e.u. budget the austrian chancellor has said they still want more but it's a step in the right direction and then lastly countries like poland and hungary a worried the allocating this covered recovery money could be dependent on the rule of law and we know that they've been criticized heavily by the e.u. commission on things like the media and the judiciary and so on and me it's interesting considering how many almost all the economies are suffering you could
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see how this is the protests. schildt really damaged the e.u. so when are we likely to see an agreement do you think or at least for this initial phase of negotiations well it's looking like it could go on the talks could go on at least into sunday if not later into july now because there are so many things in such huge sums involved. in prime minister does epa county has put out a video in the last few hours on facebook saying we're in an impasse now it's proved more complex than we thought the budget commissioner johan is holland has tweeted a solemn reminder he calls it saying that the corona crisis isn't over and saying it's high time to reach an agreement allowing us to provide urgently needed support for citizens in economies so a reminder that really it's people's lives at stake but not just that it's the whole you budget for the next 7 years that they've got to agree as well in this round of talks and vera there are a big rouse over an idea of allocating 30 percent of the entire budget to meeting
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the climate change commitments the carbon neutrality by 2050 poland for example which didn't sign that target is saying there should be no mention of this target let alone allocating 30 percent which let's not forget is going to be tens hundreds of billions of dollars in the years to come so is difficult to get agreement between so many countries that in bob i know you'll follow the story for us in the coming days thank you. it's going to the us now where president donald trump is tweeted the say that he's saddened by the death of civil rights hero john lewis flags have been lowered to half staff in the capitol in honor of the late congressman several u.s. politicians including former president barack obama have paid tribute to mr lewis the 80 year old who was the last survivor of the big 6 civil rights pioneers in america castro looks back at his life and legacy we cannot give
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up 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 father my grandparents my great grandparents why segregation why racial discrimination it was the best way to 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
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a bridge to montgomery but i don't think that i know what he 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. lewis has dedicated 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
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louis continued to champion liberal causes like universe. so health care and the rights of undocumented immigrants will not be. most 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 the things that us all right so good so necessary if you're willing to die for you not a fair. still to come here on al-jazeera on the day she show of strength drug cartel fighters flex their muscles as the mexican president hits town. fire damages another famous french church building this time it's full of being deliberately.
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and their other cat a picture across the southeast of europe you can see this little swirl of clouds and it's not really moving very far at all and this will continue through some rather heavy amounts of rain quite a line of cloud as well streaming across northern areas and this is what looks like this across into the northeast of england up to sunderland so not a bad sun set the quite a lot of clouds up there and meanwhile across into lithuania very warm very sunny said these children enjoying cooling off in the fountains now across the u.k. this ash that line of south has it will take the rain with it push across towards denmark again into areas of scandinavia and then really just very unsettled to the southeast some heaviest rain on it towards romania and then on in sumanda say that
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rain across the north that will work its way through germany and some heavier downpours across much of poland and again you can see that line of rain certainly impacting much of sweden but some clear skies out across the west and we put the time which is on you can see where the warm weather is not really very woman told across the northwest across scandinavia plenty of red coloring elsewhere some of the better weather of course in portugal and spain so madrid warm and sunny for the next few days it'll stay drive course as well in london not too bad clouding over pretty good in berlin. from fossil fuel. to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power developing to the investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the stream we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and vironment energy solutions for
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future generations the brush fire nearing future. the the earth. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera investigators from the international criminal court are in libya's capital tripoli to look into whether forces loyal to warlord before have tried have committed war crimes u.s. leaders a pain tribute to one of the country's most respected civil rights activists congressman john lewis who was died at the age of 18 and iran's president hassan rouhani says
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25000000 people more than a quarter of the country's population have now been infected with coronavirus and 35000000 more risk. there have been protests in tel aviv over the government's handling of the pandemic israel reimposed restrictions after a surge in cases last week there were strangers are also rallying against the economic situation with some demanding prime minister benjamin netanyahu resignation harry foster joins us live now by skype from west jerusalem so a 2nd major protest in as many weeks why are protesters so angry right now. well yes and we should just note that there are 2 simultaneous sizable protests going on one here in west jerusalem close to the prime minister's residence where we are hearing reports of water cannon being used again of a large number of streets around the residence being sealed off in order to keep protesters away and as you say this other major protest in tel aviv in there been
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small protests throughout the country there are those who are protesting as part of a long term campaign against benjamin netanyahu on the grounds of wanting to get rid of a prime minister who's also facing trial on the trial in 3 corruption cases but the numbers have been very much but tryst and swollen by people who are protesting against the economic fallout of the pandemic the protests in tel aviv. largely or at least they've been talked about as protesters from the communities of small business owners of restaurant owners because they feel that they are unduly bearing the burden of the shutdowns that have been taking place as you say the restrictions imposed last week further restrictions imposed just a couple of days ago including beaches to be closed for next week all non-essential shops and morals to be shut down during weekends gatherings restricted to 10 indoors and 20 in open spaces but they also plan to shut down all restaurants from
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5 pm on friday there was a revolt from restaurant owners who said they'd already bought all of the perishable goods for this weekend the government reversed itself on that because it was afraid apparently of the kind of street protests and public disorder that could have resulted from from that and indeed one owner of a major restaurant chain in israel told a news channel this evening that he expected many restaurants to remain open in defiance of that measure when it is due to come in force on tuesday this is all because the numbers continue to rise 70. $145.00 in the 24 hours from friday evening that is actually a little bit lower than the $929.00 the previous 24 hours but it's worth noting that it was the jewish sabbath and so testing numbers are down so that could actually represent a further rise in the graph in terms of the portion of people testing positive more than 27000 active cases in israel and the government is having to do something to
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try to rein that in without fully shutting down the economy again harry force it with the latest there from west to slim thank you. the u.n. secretary general and tony the terrorist has said the coronavirus pandemic has pushed the world to breaking point exposing deep divisions in societies across the globe he made the comments during a speech marking nelson mandela international day of diplomatic editor james bass spoke to a good technician until earlier. in your speech secretary-general you describe a world out of balance you say we are at breaking point it is an idealistic speech but you are a realist how do you achieve the things that you want to achieve now my believe 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
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a microscopic virus that has put the fs put us on our knees for as you know the nation to climate change visualization 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 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.
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racism and xenophobia to the 5 but my feeling is that if one looks at the world populace are not doing well fighting the culverts 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 with but to build a system that addresses the fragility is there to cover those the most rated. tens of thousands of protesters in the far east of russia are rallying against the arrest of a popular governor. 74 gold the governor of the region was arrested last week and flown to moscow he's accused of plotting the murders of his business rivals 15 years ago supporters in his home region say the accusations are politically motivated. protesters in northern in a northern french town have been marching to remember a young black man who died in police custody 4 years ago and that much harder was
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arrested on his birthday after running away from officers who approached him for an id check but hours later he was the clear and that nobody has been convicted over his death and several autopsies have contradicted each other the reports. 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 in 2016 police say he died of natural causes his family say officers caused his death for 4 years his sister asked her 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 suffered relentless pressure but it's made us into soldiers the black lives matter movement protests against george floyd's death in the us have propelled atomised case back into the spotlight in france and made asser
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a figurehead for those fighting against racial injustice and police brutality to. 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 matter or i 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 citric was of algerian origin his family says office. has 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
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police violence is something we experience all the time in our neighborhoods even if not directly ourselves we witness it all the time we've seen the similarities between george floyd and adam of its police violence infamy this is our moment to face it. the march was organized on the 4th anniversary of adam is death a young life lost in circumstances that are still to be clarified until they are the sister and her supporters won't give up will forget. al-jazeera passau from. mexican government officials are analyzing a video showing dozens of gunmen and armored vehicles apparently belonging to a powerful drug cartel the video shows an endless line of heavily armed the members of the new generation cartel videos release coincided with president lopez obrador his visit to 3 states where the cartel has
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a stronghold home and has more now from mexico city. it's really significant that they choose to bring out this video just as he was taught of touring through their territory and as part of that tour here for his 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 organized crime so really this cartel the hell is going new generation cartel is they could sort of say we're here and this is territory as well it appears although i should add that this video still hasn't been verified the government says that they're doing that law i was just speaking to a security analyst and he says that his sources now with a couple of other people say that it is authentic and that there's no reason why it shouldn't be true 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 their power it's called violent lobbying and it's where they say look we hear this is the amount of weaponry and
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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 moves drugs it's also got the security analysts quite a diverse put portfolio which includes sort of 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 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 that 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. an arson investigation is underway after a fire at a cathedral in western france
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a fire began this morning in the 6600 year old building in the city of long harding has more. the cathedral of st peter and st paul and in flames more than 100 firefighters were deployed on saturday morning hours later thick plumes of smoke were still rising in the building president emanuel called the church a gothic jewel. the fire started in 3 spots i can confirm to you i saw with my own eyes inside the cathedral prosecutors say in the us 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 . paris fire reports suggest wasn't nearly as badly damaged.
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the fire came as a surprise given concrete beams were used to replace. destroyed in a previous fire partly as a precaution against another blaze. and you can find that much more about that story and everything else that we've been covering on our website. take another look at our top stories making the news on al jazeera investigators from the international criminal court are in libya's capital tripoli to look into whether forces loyal to warlord tally for half that have committed war crimes the 3 member team is expected to visit mass graves found in petaluma 60 kilometers south of the city last month. iran's president has signed the rouhani says 25000000 people more than a quarter of the population have been infected with corona virus iran has
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officially reported about 271000 cases but rouhani is office says his much higher figures are based on research estimates by the health ministry has no call to get home on him one of the most important matters is that here is to medical recommendations and social 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 affected in the coming period this means that the number of patients who would be hospitalized will double it is possible that the virus will continue to march. after 2 days of negotiations e.u. leaders still do not appear to be any closer to an agreement over the coronavirus economic recovery fund that's this fight a compromise offered by the president of the european council shells michel to try
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to break that that look. u.s. leaders are paying tribute to one of the country's most respected civil rights activists congressman john lewis who has died at the age of 80 mr lewis helped organize the 1963 march on washington d.c. when martin luther king jr delivered his i have a dream speech tens of thousands of protesters in the far eastern russian region of khabarovsk are rallying against the rest of the governor said a full gallop is in custody after being flown to moscow accused of plotting the murders of business rivals 15 years ago his supporters say the arrest is politically motivated. coming next it's a listening post more news in half an hour but i.
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under. the tree. hello i'm richard quest virgin you're watching the listening post working from home here are some of the media stories we're covering this week poland reelect president after the government turns back the clock to the good old days of state controlled television he won the nobel peace prize last year but now the ethiopian prime minister has shut down a major news network and jail.
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