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on 00. uninterrupted discussions from on london broadcast santana. after days of marathon talks e.u. leaders finally agree on a coronavirus recovery deal worth nearly $860000000000.00 but u.s. politicians are divided over the new call that $1008.00 billed as a number of cases there edges closer to 4000000. come out about this and this is all to 0 live from doha also coming up.
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more protests are expected in mali calling on the president to step down regional mediators trying to ease tensions and china wants the u.k. over interference in hong kong as britain scraps an extradition treaty with its former colony. european union leaders have struck a multi-billion dollar coronavirus rescue deal that will help countries hit by recession because of the pandemic members have been divided over the amount to be given those loans as well as the amount in grants that don't need to be repaid laura barton manley reports. it was a test of insurance for me you need those 4 days of tough negotiations where tempest often fray finally on the 5th a deal $859000000000.00 in normal payment grants and loans to men the country's worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic catto known in week we spent 4
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long days and nights of negotiation more than 90 hours but it was worth it this agreement is a signal that europe is able to act after all people often accused europe of being too little too late for us here were demonstrating that the opposite is the case wearing most it was the leaders 1st face to face meeting since government imposed lockdown restrictions in march knockdowns that also meant the biggest economic downturn since the great depression. german chancellor angela merkel was among leaders from the pain and italy who led the way you convince in the blog to consider splitting the amount even legal into loans and grants. we've laid the financial foundations for the e.u. for the next 7 years and at the same time came up with a response to the biggest crisis in the history of the european union with the recovery fund the self-proclaimed flugel for sweden denmark austria and the
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netherlands initially stood opposed to the deal the group made by dutch prime minister mark roux to worried about debt levels but in the end they were also convinced this is of course difficult and the decisions in very difficult times for all your appearance and now are turn which ended in success for all 27 member states but especially for the people this is a good deal this is a strong deal and most importantly this is the right deal for europe writes no. while the e.u. has been faced with rising unemployment and industries including an uncommon factions lay off workers. inside these walls in brussels many hailing this and historic deal and a big step forward in softening the economic boom delivered by the pandemic nor al
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jazeera. our correspondent joining us live from amsterdam this is being hailed as a very historic deal as a significant deal but it wasn't an easy one was that there were a lot of compromises that had to be made to get to this point exactly rob this marathon meeting was not only a test of an urines but also a task for the future of the european union because failure was basically not possible especially not during these difficult times so the at the end the countries all except it is quite complicated compromise difficult for go forward an island sweden denmark and austria really didn't want any grants to be given to especially the southern european countries who are suffering from covert 19 the most but at the end they accepted a smaller chunk of grants under strict conditions so there will be economic reforms in these countries and also will be control over these economic
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reforms they have implant implemented a so-called emergency brake mechanism which means that an individual country can stop and burst and offer these funds if they feel that the country is not following up on these promises for reforms so all in all the 27 countries have now got what they wanted and they signed this very historical deal at a very important moment and instead the timeline for this is of course significant because this is still not certain stone it still has to be ratified by member states but of course there are companies and people on the streets of europe which need this money. exactly and that's exactly why the french president and the german chancellor were very much insisting on the getting this deal done and now because what's the point if money is going to be spent and given to countries in a year from now when they are already in the middle of economic recession so
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basically what they wanted to do is to prevent the countries from going into this recession but as you say it's not a done deal yet because the individual leaders will now have to travel back to their countries like mark will have to travel back to the hague and explain to parliament that he has agreed with a larger chunk of grants that he was initially hoping for and especially in these parliaments in europe there are lots of euro skeptics especially on the right among the right wing parties so that's going to be a battle that has to be fought before everything is settled stephanie thanks very much into the service and live for us from a. new cases of corona virus in the u.s. state of florida have soared past 10 years and for 6 days in a row california and texas are also experiencing surges and with expanded employment benefits set to expire next week president donald trump has met republican leaders to discuss another relief bill alan fischer reports. as the us
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heads towards 4000000 qubit cases the president has been discussing a new package for states being overwhelmed he plans to bring back the daily briefing he abandoned weeks ago frankly a lot of the country is doing well a lot of people don't say as you understand but we have had this big flare up in florida texas a couple of other places. and so 'd i think what we're going to do is get involved in well shuttling briefings florida has never recorded more than 10000 new infections for the 6th day in a row a state that close slowly and reopen quickly protesters disrupted a briefing by the governor in a london. in los angeles there are lines at the famous dodger stadium but no one's watching baseball these are for covert tests the site is handling your own 6500 tests a day but still people have to wait for hours in washington congress is back after
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a summer break 6 months to the day after the 1st positive us test the democratic controlled house has already passed a raft of new measures including a 3 trillion dollar relief plan economy will only get worst worse if we do not if we do not continue to support working families in our country as we have done but the senate ignored the measure the republicans there see their working on their own package it would neither be another multi trillion dollar bridge loan to make up for a totally shut down economy nor an ordinarily an ordinary stimulus for an ocean ready to get back to normal the needed now of some more and between. the president who'd been reluctant to cover up has now sent out a picture of him wearing a mask or an issue which has become politicized he tweeted we are united in our
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effort to defeat the invisible china virus and many people see that it is peachy or take to win a face mask when you can't socially distance there is nobody more patriotic than me your favorite president it was just over a week ago the president was seen in public for the 1st time wearing a mask and he continues to reject the idea of issuing a national mask mandich alan fischer al jazeera washington. protesters have returned to the streets of guinea's capital after 3 months of relative calm because of coronavirus restrictions they've been fighting with police in conakry on monday they're angry about a potential reelection bid by 82 year old president alpha condé the 2nd 5 year term ends in tobruk he made changes to the constitution this year and opposition groups are concerned he'll run for a 3rd term. but i think that we achieved the goal to show that in gainey they are people who suffer injustice and that the people of guinea do not support this 3rd mandate of president alpha condé more protests by opponents of mali's president are
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expected in the coming hours there insisting it will him steps down the opposition has already rejected a proposal from a regional bloc calling for a unity government international mediators are heading back to mali later this week to try to find a solution to the political crisis as more. they call it operation ghost town opposition protesters from mounties and live movements have set up roadblocks in the capital bamako and in the cities of timbuktu and go to protest movement is spreading we don't want to be gassed we raise your hands high up so that they can see we are not looking for violence that we are not a threat our motivation is to continue our movement of civil disobedience so that our demands are met. moments later police fired tear gas in an attempt to disperse the crowd demonstrators want to see president. resign and the newly elected national assembly dissolved the accused of rigging the ballot which was held
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earlier this year in favor of his governing party candidates many of whom are close allies or relatives of the president. to end the crisis the regional bloc eco aust led by former nigerian president goodluck jonathan says newly appointed constitutional judges should rule over the contested election results while the bloc called for national unity it says there is no reason for the president to resign. it is original to set up a government of national unity on the basis of consensus taking into account the recommendations of the inclusive national dialogue the proposals are for 50 percent of government members to come from the ruling coalition 30 percent of government officials will come from the opposition and 20 percent will come from civil society . says a monitoring mission will make sure that this is implemented before the end of july but the m 5 movement has rejected ecowas as recommendations it wants a transitional government saying president is in breach of the constitution after
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commando units trained to fight armed groups such as al-qaeda and i salute philly 8 were deployed and fired live rounds on unarmed protesters several were killed and many injured. we have told that we would not want people to feel a dnd of this whole process that ecowas has disowned of of keeping a president in power against his people must not be an instrument for protecting the heads of state it must be an instrument of the service of the interests of the people the protest movement continues to gain momentum those who support it say they have lost confidence in molly's leadership and president is increasingly becoming isolated nicholas hawk al-jazeera. sudan's president omar al bashir is being appearing in court over the military coup that brought him to power 30 years ago bashir is accused of plotting to overthrow the democratically elected
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government of prime minister of the in 1909 and ahmed a former top officials are standing trial with him a 76 year old is currently serving time in prison for corruption it was forced from government to joining an uprising last year. still ahead on al-jazeera donald trump pledges to use more force to crackdown on protests in cities led by democrats plus . i'm going hey reporting from my language used to be the largest exporter of rice in the world we'll tell you why the numbers are continuing to fall. and this very active weather throughout much of indonesia you can see here on the satellite or the cloud with the showers and thunderstorms heading towards the west some very strong down pulls in a symmetry over the last 24 as more of those on wednesday can see these heavy of
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dark blues the yellows as well them in a peninsula seeing sense in the conditions and also some heavy rain across the northern and western areas of borneo the showers and thunderstorms very well scott it's right the philippines more of those on thursday and you can see the heavy downpours particularly impacting northern areas of borneo then down towards a stray we've also got some rain in the 4 calls too you can see with the cloud is really streaming across much of queensland and that is where we can see the rain over the next couple of days not too bad. it really does begin to accumulate really around rockhampton and to the north of there to the south of there we've got and mix of cloud and sunshine and as we go through thursday that rain really just sitting in the same area and as i say it could be happy if we could see as much as 150 millimeters of rain that could lead to some localized flooding there's a system coming through western australia by thursday they will have cleared 3 maybe just want to see showers across into perth not feeling too bad with the high the of 19 degrees celsius we will have showers in the forecast for the next few days in prison and is then they should be fine and sunny in sydney.
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there were charges here out of mind of our top stories this hour you nations which are multibillion dollar coronavirus recovery package after a 4th night of talks a majority of the package is being offered as grants to hardest hit member states after intense negotiations u.s. president donald trump has backed congressional leaders from his republican party to discuss a coronavirus economic relief bill that says cases continue to soar florida california and texas a seeing a big increase in infections. international mediators are heading back to mali later this week to try to find a solution to the political crisis that's led to protests the opposition has already rejected a proposal from regional body ecowas calling for unity government there insisting bodies president abraham bore greater steps down. there's been a breakthrough in the race to develop a covert 19 vaccine the lancet medical journal has published promising results from
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scientists that oxford university has been conducting early human testing they say it is few side effects and has triggered the critical immune response which could stop the virus paul brennan has more from oxford. phase one really could have gone much better for the oxford team early positive signs now confirmed in the published research this is an important milestone on the park but we're now moving rapidly forwards to trying to evaluate whether the vaccine actually protects the population . by conducting large scale trials we have 10000 people already vaccinated around the world we still see how the vaccine in older people more is the disease than the thank you so that's the subject of work and to be more public. the oxford vaccine is adapted from a common cold virus found in chimpanzees spike glycoprotein a genetic material from the co with 1000 virus was added the hope is the human body
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will develop immunity to the spike protein stopping the virus from entering cells and preventing infection tests indicate the vaccine produces 2 reactions by producing a defensive antibody response as well as t. cells which attack the infected cells t. cell response peaked just 14 days after volunteers were injected antibody response peak to 28 days and side effects were minor mainly just tiredness and headaches treated with paracetamol i'm hopeful i've got my fingers crossed but to say that i'm 100 percent confident that we'll get a vaccine this year or in the next year is a last just you know an exaggeration we're not there yet this is a hugely encouraging result for the team here in oxford but provoking an immune reaction is just the 1st stage in vaccine development phase 3 trials already underway in the u.k. south africa and brazil are looking at issues such as optimal dosage and exactly
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how much protection vaccinated people have when exposed to the actual corona virus fairly cameron was injected with the oxford vaccine as part of the phase 3 trials she's a family doctor herself and has lost friends and patients to the virus. rather than sitting in front of the t.v. and screaming at the mortality rates every day screaming at her decisions or getting annoyed and say should media write i really felt very strongly. that i wanted to do something i just wanted to be a part of the on sarah a day thing there's going to be one ounce it i think there's going to be a few different. 9 in 10 vaccine projects and in failure and there is no guarantee that the early promise of the oxford trials will lead to an effective covert jab but it is a very positive step paul brennan al-jazeera oxford pakistan has resumed its vaccination campaign against polio the program was suspended from on this because
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of the pandemic now volunteers plan to vaccinate more than $800000.00 children under the age of 5 pakistan and afghanistan are the only 2 countries in the world for polio still poses a risk of lost in pakistan's balochistan province has killed at least one person the explosion in the busy talk about bazaar has injured several of the people police have cordoned off the area and rescue teams are on site as many of the wounded have been taken to hospital no one has claimed responsibility for the attack pressure is mounting on china's downs because of days of heavy rains and flooding at least $140.00 people are either dead or missing lovers along the young sea system have burst their banks in some areas flooding villages and crops every rain since the beginning of the month has forced 1800000 people from their homes seasonal rains affect large parts of china each year where conditions this year have been particularly severe. china's accuse the u.k.
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of violating international law after britain suspended its extradition treaty with hong kong beijing has urged it to immediately correct its mistakes british foreign secretary dominic calls the measures a reasonable and proportionate response to hong kong's new national security law last month china imposed sweeping legislation on the city outlawing what it considers secession subversion terrorism and collusion with foreign entities. the british side has made some wrong moves on hong kong related issues such moves violate international law and basic noise guiding international relations they violate china's internal of fear is china firmly opposes them and resistance right to react fears of china's internal fears that allow no foreign interference between the use in beijing with more on the latest reaction out of china 11 that has also said that beijing reserves the right to take countermeasures against the
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u.k. in response to this move now we don't know exactly what those waves might be but we have had some suggestions from chinese state media newspaper got the global times here and it says this one of the headlines is the u.k. urged to make quiet on court choices and it actually says that beijing should consider taking aim at british companies particular it mentions terry hey just b.c. and the automotive company jaguar land rover which has investments in china it also mentions chick talk which is a chinese social media app owned by the chinese company but dance now as we understand it by done it was in talks with the u.k. government or been a new headquarters in the u.k. that would provide about 3000 jobs but according to some sources these talks have stalled due to political reasons so we may see some sort of trade tit for tat or certainly some economic ramifications from this move by the u.k. . saudi arabia's government may soon announce corruption charges against former
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crown prince mohammed bin nayef according to the reuters news agency it points to a pro-government twitter campaign that's been active since friday accusing been the f of misspending billions of dollars of counterterrorism funds mohamed bin someone sidelined been in 2017 when he became crown prince since then he's consolidated power by prosecuting potential rivals within the ruling family under the guise of fighting corruption meanwhile a saudi leader king solomon is in hospital it was admitted on monday suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder. an american couple who pointed guns at anti racism protesters have been charged with the unlawful use of a weapon the felony charges against markham petition mccloskey stem from this display outside the mansion last month they said they were legally defending their $1000000.00 home from protesters and no shots were fired the couple's lawyer is seeking community service rather than jail time. for us president donald trump says
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he'll send federal agents to more cities to control protests against police brutality on monday he criticized cities run by what he called liberal democrats the president sent officers to the city of portland 2 weeks ago for rallies were held over the death of black american george floyd some of those officers have been criticized for their heavy handed approach towards demonstrators we're sending law enforcement. to portland was totally out of control 'd the democrats the liberal democrats running the place and no idea what they were doing they were ripping down for $51.00 days ripping down that city destroying the city looting it. president trombones put the conflict in libya on his agenda holding talks with multiple leaders on the situation the white house says the journal phone call with egypt's president of the fox l c c the 2 leaders affirmed the need for immediate
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deescalation in libya including cease fire trump also spoke to french president in manual mccrum about deescalation the white house statement says the situation has been exacerbated by the presence of foreign forces and on us but egypt's parliament later voted to let president sisi deploy troops abroad for a potential military intervention in libya sisi has previously said egypt would support forces loyal to the wall. that tripoli's government and its turkish allies attacked the city of sirte the areas controlled by hamas forces and it's a gateway to libya's oil rich region. egypt's foreign minister has met palestinian leaders in the occupied west bank city of ramallah some initial korea reaffirmed egypt's support for a 2 state solution and rejected israel's plans to fix palestinian land israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said he would begin the process of onyx and parts of the occupied west bank and jordan valley from july the 1st new labor him
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and visit from ramallah. it comes as part of palestinian officials diplomatic efforts to try and pressure the u.s. and israel through the arab countries especially those who are peace agreements with israel we know that the full tour and israel are against the next station they've said it's against international law and international system of the we've also heard that they need officials say that annexation threatens the peace treaties signed with israel there is a visit comes a day after he was in 2 words and he met with the king of the jordanian foreign minister and they both firm to their rejection of an expansion plans and they've invited the 2 parties to engage in any meaningful negotiations process of course palestinians have been saying for so long that it's read to that today through the palestinian foreign minister. that they are not interested in
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a peace process with us being the sole mediator of it they say the u.s. is very biased towards israel i think has already taken steps on the ground to show that it's not going to be. there for that process they hold and today with fred the palestinian foreign minister calling for an international peace conference we're different players. in folding. in. order to really solve the palestinian calls to do what they. are. that international. legitimacy. thailand has been relatively successful at handling the coronavirus pandemic so far but its economy is struggling and it's expected to be the most affected in asia and that's largely because it relies on international tourism and exports there is a particularly tough for the agriculture sector mainly rice growing when he reports
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from bangkok. farming has never been an easy way to make a living but in thailand these are particularly tough times this year growers of rice and other crops have been hit hard on multiple fronts all beyond their control but. there's not enough water to grow rice probably the rainy season arrived late this year and the water in the canal is true salty the farm will be in trouble if there's not enough rain soon because the drought was really bad this year. thailand is the world's 2nd largest exporter of rice but is likely to drop down the list this year the coronavirus pandemic slow demand to thai rice as other produces such as vietnam stockpiled their own product to protect domestic food stocks in case of a shortage now they are freeing up supply flooding the international market which is pushing prices down but not the thai exporters who can't compete on price even
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though thailand's rice farmers have had a difficult year with drought which affected production warehouses and mills like this are expected the fill up in the months ahead as exports continue to decline they'll have the product to sell but the strong thai currency makes it the most expensive rice in southeast asia exports may fall by 30 percent this year and industry leaders worry about the long term future of the sick. we are less competitive now it's you know why because our labor costs is increasing our land prices increasing and our farmers. you know it's more than 55 years old most of them. next generation they don't want to go into farming so any more growers who've been working the fields their whole lives are also concerned they say a government subsidy in the form of a price guarantee won't be enough but walking away from farming isn't an option for the incumbent in the one i continue to grow rice i don't know what else i can do
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i'm getting old and i can't work in the factory and know that i'm not going to make a lot of money but i have to carry on. with a round a 3rd of thailand 70000000 people working in agriculture that's a sentiment that will be echoed around the country wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. this is all it is here are these of the top stories in nations have reached a multi-billion dollar coronavirus recovery deal following a 4th night of talks a majority of the package is being offered as grants to hardest hit member states after intense negotiations caught. in wi fi we spent 4 long days and nights of negotiation more than 90 hours but it was worth it this agreement is a signal that europe is able to act after all people often accused europe of being too little too late whereas here we're demonstrating not the opposite is the case
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at the end of april the european union gave us the mandate of designing a recovery package and today only 2 months later next generation europe is up and running and it has the agreement of the european council and in the history of the european union that is an absolute record for a new budgetary instrument you know as president donald trump has met congressional leaders from the republican party to discuss a coronavirus economic relief bill that says cases there continue to soar florida california and texas seeing a big increase in infections international mediators are heading back to mali later this week to try to find a solution to the political crisis there protesters in mali are insisting that president even him steps down the opposition has already rejected a proposal for a limited government. a trial has begun for sudan's ousted president almost all bashir over a military coup that brought him to power 13 years ago but she was accused of
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plotting to overthrow the democratically elected government of prime minister subject all marketing in 1909 a 76 year old is country serving time in prison for corruption. now we're getting some breaking news out of the u.k. a delayed report on russian attempts to interfere in u.k. politics says there is evidence the kremlin tried to meddle in voting including the scottish independence referendum but port says russia considers the u.k. one of its top intelligence targets. china has accused the u.k. of violating international law after britain suspended its extradition treaty with hong kong beijing has urged it to immediately correct its mistakes the british foreign secretary dominic robb calls the measures a reasonable and proportionate response to hong kong's new national security law and those are the headlines the news continues here on alt is it off to slavery a 21st century evil goodbye as protests rage over police brutality and
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coronavirus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and so their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the u.s. elections on a. 300 years the most powerful nations on a screw rich and strong go on the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 men women and children will be transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south america today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the 19th century it is a life it is thriving and it is bigger than ever.
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