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forge narratives only right through the listening post gives you the full picture. widening the net in the crowd down on hong kong activists china orders the arrest of 6 pro-democracy protesters in exile. hello this is al jazeera live from our world headquarters in doha for you but also coming up. we'll look you to check facts we may be betting. president trump puts pressure on the chinese company behind a popular video in the u.s. mexico agrees a multibillion dollar deal for international assistance as it records the world's
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3rd highest coronavirus death toll and how a ban crops in lebannon is struggling to keep its children from going hungry. thank you very much for joining us hong kong police is demanding the arrests of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile as china steps up in force meant of its new national security now they include former u.k. consulate work assignment chang who says he was tortured by chinese authorities for information about hong kong's anti-government protests also on the wanted list is prominent opposition figure nathan in law who fled to london out of fear of persecution under the new legislation police haven't commented but it would be the 1st time the last been used to target activists outside hong kong let's speak to diego patton in hong kong for us so davey exiled no protection against this
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national security law what is the idea behind charging people who are out of the country the territory i should say. well fully from the start china has asserted that hong kong's unrest dissent was all cemented from abroad it was due to foreign interference so this is china underlining that fact the national security law was they say was implemented to quell unrest the protests that we saw in hong kong and so once again they're using the extent of this national security law to underline the fact that implementing it is now making hong kong a more stable place one of the main tenets of that national security laws that there are no boundaries anyone anywhere a resident or not can fall under that are violated and have to be punished so once again the authorities are exercising that so they're sending very a lot of messages by accent are seeking the arrest of these activists abroad but
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analysts also say this achieves several goals of china one of the main things china is trying to do at the moment is a keep up its nationalistic supports and one of the best ways to do that is to tighten control over hong kong especially grassroots supports which is so it's tightening its grip over the territory to ferment of more nationalistic fervor supports and also on top of that it's a sending a message to these other countries saying that despite the fact that these countries are weighing in criticizing the implementation of the national security law in hong kong china will not be bullied they can extend their jurisdiction on international soil countries like the u.s. the u.k. canada have all condemned the drastic implementation of that law and they also have recently cut their extradition treaties with hong kong and in the latest germany's
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made that move to suspend its extradition treaty given that one of those wanted by china is now seeking asylum there thank you very much for the pollen in hong kong for a. sammael chill is a u.s. citizen and his old he's one of the activists wanted by hong kong police it held down just there that china's government is acting like a dictatorship that wants to stamp out all forms of opposition i think i was outrage and really not surprised but this is such an outlandish claim that somehow they have jurisdiction of an american citizen lobbying an american government is just completely out of line i think i'm not the only person who's out ritually up spoken to a number of congressional offices and i as i said from the very beginning when the law what if they're going to come after me they must love marched down to capitol
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hill and the rest speaker pelosi said senator rubio said and everybody in the white house because they too have been under the small articles you know that it is using to charge people like me. a session and colluding with foreign powers and that i think is what they're both not understanding is that they're creating really a perception of how desperate and house they are global international influence and pressure i think that this is what dictators do one day know that they have lost the hearts and minds of their people they go out and disqualified opposition leaders who they issue or and address before dissidents and they delayed any sort of democratic practices and process in elections because they want to saw what is it with production and i think that they might be able to lead us who are here but all of that are really doing is growing their movement and reinforcing the
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commitment all of us have that will once again be a free city one day. donald trump is vowing to use his presidential powers to buy the chinese own social media platform tech talk from the u.s. it signaled he didn't support an american takeover of the company amid reports microsoft is in talks to buy to talk emily soon reports it's still latest rift in the escalating tech war between the u.s. and china for weeks u.s. officials have raised security concerns over the chinese owned video app tick-tock saying it can help beijing spot on americans and now president donald trump threatened to fan it all together we're lucky that we may be bending take god we may be doing some other things or government option but a lot of things are happening so we'll see what happens but we are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to. trump stepped up his rhetoric following
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reports that he may sign an order forcing chinese parent company byt dance to sell the u.s. portion of take talk microsoft was set to be in talks to acquire it but neither side confirmed any deal in a blog post earlier this week took talks cheap kevin mayer says his company is not being treated fairly he says it's receiving more scrutiny because of its chinese origins and insists it is not the enemy talks estimated to have 800000000 active users worldwide a 10th of them in the u.s. experts say banning it would be challenging i think it's very unclear what a ban would look like and what it would mean you know it's very hard to ban something that's popular among the use it's just you know if your parents tell you not to do something it makes you want to do it more in june a video that went viral on ticked off was seen as one of the reasons behind the poor attendance at trump's campaign rally in tulsa oklahoma. forcing
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a wildly popular app off the smartphones of millions of americans could prove to be an unpopular move ahead of trump's reelection m.-e. suau to 0 the u.s. has imposed sanctions on a chinese paramilitary group for allegedly uses against muslim away gores the treasury department says all american assets owned by shane john production and construction corpse will be frozen the u.s. is accusing the company of being involved in the mass incarceration and torture away gore's and other muslim communities the u.n. says more than a 1000000 wage wars are held in prison camps but china called them reeducation camps necessary to counter extremism 3 people including a teenage boy have been charged for a huge twitter hack that targeted high profile uses they took over accounts belonging to several high profile people such as former u.s. president barack obama and tesla basilan musk before tweeting out
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a fake bitcoin dhea the cryptocurrency scam raise more than $100000.00 in a day and he gallagher has details from miami in florida away 2 of the suspects off from. in terms of cyber crimes this one was pretty or day they hyped into about 34 accounts including as he said people like jeff bezos people like kim carr daschle in the former president barack obama joe biden the list really reads like a who's who now how they did it was shows you a measure of just how sophisticated this was they phone finished members of staff who work at twitter managing to get the tools unwittingly from members of staff at twitter to then just hack into those accounts they then used each account to put out what looked like a charitable message saying if you send me whatever amount i pledge i will you know whatever amount you pledge i will double it and essentially using the big corn accounts belonging to these 3 people to line their own pockets the 17 year old who
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was arrested here in florida on friday is said to be the mastermind behind this he's only 17 so we can't name him for legal reasons but he only just graduated from high school here so this is a sophisticated hack on a level and a scale that hasn't really been seen before and prosecutors announced charging the 3rd the 17 year old with 30 felony charges. hundreds of protesters have gathered in portland untie racism and police brutality rallies continue in the u.s. city for more than 60 days these are live pictures from portland present donald trump has warned that federal offices will stay in the city until local law enforcement can clean up what he's labeled on a kiss and i just agitates his they were deployed in july despite the state government's objections and they've been accused of using excessive force. the younger son of media mogul rupert murdoch has resigned from the border of news corp
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citing disagreements over editorial content james murdoch had previously criticised climate change coverage by some news corp outlets accusing them of downplaying the crisis besides the conservative fox news network the group also owns several newspapers including the wall street journal and the sun newspaper in the u k. i said ahead on the program accused of spreading lies and coronavirus why a south korean leader is being blamed for a spike in case it's. a call for justice for a black actor killed in what portuguese protesters say was a racially motivated attack.
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plenty of nice warm sun sunshine really throughout much of europe yes this embrace me as a cloud we have seen the missiles already it is about the heat 1st of all look at this in the southwest of france some inches in the high thirty's celsius but of course it does mean it's very hot when you're out and about the people doing what they can to cool down obviously using the water and also in many cases having a nice cool drink or a nice ice cream then into northern spain time which is actually even higher in the low forty's celsius and it's just a similar scene as you can see using the water to keep cool now we are girls going to still see some very well weather across much of the southwest again through the central areas you can see if we go through south and other bits and pieces of clouds and showers and also the weather across the u.k. northern france these temperatures a coming right the way down because we have goals at the moving in from the northwest and that will bring like you want to show the sunny and increase any amount of cloud on sunday across the u.k. just scattered showers throughout and quite a line of really very heavy rain work its way through germany and as you can see
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sitting here across northern areas of italy but to the east of there it is still fine and dry with us temperatures on the high side you can see where the warm air is in place you can see how it is cooling down across the northwest as well but even so in london how much is around the average and cool still very warm in the south of spain. frank assessments what are you seeing back in yemen. blow the beach to fish it's an informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown many calls or the enemy a region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate after the use approach because look the recent big interest of the libyan people in-depth analysis of the day's political headlines inside story on al-jazeera. in the to.
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the a. player watching al-jazeera with me fully back to boy a reminder of our top stories on kong police is demanding the arrests of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile as china steps up in force meant of its new national security law it would be the 1st time police have targeted activists outside of the territory under the law. donald trump is vowing to use his presidential powers to manage the chinese own social media platform tick-tock from the us is also signal that he doesn't support an american takeover of tech talks u.s. operations are made reports microsoft is in talks to buy it. and 3 people including a teenage boy have been charged over a huge twitter hack it took over accounts belonging to several high profile people
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such as former president barack obama and tesla bost mosque before tweeting out a fake big coin deal. fam xico has overtaken the u.k. as a country with the world's 3rd highest coronavirus death toll more than 46 and a half 1000 people have died on friday a multi bill. donna agreement with the united nations was announced to buy medical equipment and supplies money rapido has more from mexico city. but mexico is a country in desperate need covert 19 has killed more than $46000.00 of its citizens so on friday president under this manuel lopez obrador signed an agreement with the united nations for international assistance the $6800000000.00 deal will cover all wide range of medicines medical equipment and future back scenes from global suppliers is to see me this means we are going to obtain all the medicine
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from countries across the world good quality medicine at low prices and without corruption. officials also announced the creation of a new government agency tasked with the distribution of those medicines as the health crisis continues to worsen nationwide the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in mexico is here in the country's capital were locked down restrictions have been lifted and many non essential services have been allowed to reopen. many now fear worsening contagion will force local officials to announce new law down measures in the days to come it was important because i mean it's important for it to be now and if we don't change the trend than there could be exponential growth that would take us to a taiba with hospitalizations that's a greater than what we had in june. mexico has now overtaken britain as the nation with the 3rd highest coronavirus death toll in the world just behind brazil and the united states. mexican health officials have stepped up coated 900 testing efforts
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as even federal authorities admit the real infection statistics and death tolls are likely much higher than what's being reported. up the low al-jazeera mexico city. and the u.s. around $30000000.00 people have been left unemployed as a country struggles with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic but now they could be facing another hardship as $600.00 a week imagine see relief payments come to an end reynolds has more. amid the worst economic collapse in decades millions of americans are struggling just to eat we're seeing 223000 up to 7000 families come through in a 3 or 4 hour period emergency relief payments of 6 $100.00 a week have kept millions of unemployed people in the u.s. financially afloat for months a moratorium on a vixens has kept millions of renters from becoming homeless that would really help with iran now those federal supports are about to run out and congress is unable to
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act the democratic controlled house passed a 3 trillion dollar relief bill in may it includes extending the $600.00 a week unemployment benefit 3600000000 dollars for election security and additional food aid for the hungry it would also provide $200000000000.00 to renters and money for schools and testing as well as a trillion dollars to support state and local governments but the republican controlled senate waited till this week to offer a pared down package one 3rd the size of the democratic controlled house proposal among the crucial differences republicans want to provide blanket protection for businesses from lawsuits brought by employees who contract at 19 in the workplace the senate bill gives nothing to struggling states and cities and the republicans
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say the $600.00 a week unemployment payment is too generous they argue essentially that work shy americans would prefer to sit back and get government payouts rather than seek jobs the republicans would slash payments to $200.00 a week so far the 2 sides have been unable to negotiate effectively and predictably they're blaming each other white house chief. of staff mark meadows the democrats believe that they have all the cards on their side and they're willing to play those cards at the expense of those that are hurting the democratic house leader nancy pelosi fired back we put forth what we think is urgently needed by the american people because we recognize the gravity of the situation they don't despite the urgency of the situation there is no compromise in sight and while the
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democratic house remains in session the republican senate took off on a 3 day weekend rob reynolds. the leader of a south korean church has been arrested accused of concealing and under reporting coronavirus cases prosecutors say leaman he hampered the government's on thai virus response the 88 year old denies the accusations and says he cooperated with the health department more than a 3rd of south korea's infections have been linked to his church rob mcbride reports from city in south korea's north. province. it was by far the most serious outbreak dating back to very nearly the beginning of the epidemic in february march here in south korea accounting for more than a 3rd of the country's $14000.00 plus cases mainly in the southeastern city of daegu but also in neighboring provinces such as here north go the church says it
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has hundreds of thousands of members but is regarded by mainstream religions as being more of a sect it's alleged that it held on to some of the lists of its members making the process of tracing and testing some of its congregants all the more difficult and in fact some of its offices were raided by the authorities but from the start it's leader liam and he and other church leaders claimed their innocence saying that they have been cooperating with the ortho or at least threw out a spokesperson saying that the truth will come out in court and japan's capital has confirmed a record 472 coronavirus cases this saturday is governesses is considering a state of emergency meanwhile okinawa region has its own 2 weeks state of emergency a spike in cases a record 71 new infections were reported on friday and majority of cases in those. american troops stationed there. international aid agencies say
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a rising number of lebanese families are new losing their income and sinking into poverty save the children says half a 1000000 children are going hungry and that's just in beirut it's aging the government to help the vulnerable zana harder reports. in this middle class neighborhood in the heart to the lebanese capital stories of poverty are everywhere households have been pushed into desperation i'm a liberal him like so many other families is a victim of the rapidly imploding economy she says it has been hard on her 11 year old son hamza who's had to adapt to a new lifestyle. where borrowing money to feed her children for 5 months short on house rent my husband isn't working my family will die from hunger if the situation continues. children are already hungry more than half a 1000000 of them in the greater beirut area according to the charity save the
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children poverty is a real thing some children currently go to bed hungry the negative coping mechanisms for the time being are able to kind of fill some of these gaps but on the long run if there's no micro level and sustainable solution there will be. already half the country lives in poverty here in the northern city of tripoli families struggle with soaring food prices due to the local currency losing 80 percent of its value. children are being deprived from buying what they want people are under so much oppression of. decades of corruption and mismanagement are blamed for running the economy into the ground and political leaders don't seem to have a solution. non-governmental organizations say $80000.00 people have lost their jobs in recent months bringing the total number of unemployed to $430000.00 or 32
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percent of the workforce many warn up to $1000000.00 out of the $5000000.00 lebanese population could be jobless by the end of the year. the world food program says 2 thirds of households in lebanon have lost their income and some have started to sell whatever they can to survive about. to buy food and water. many people are in debt and depend on charity but those who were able to help now need help themselves yes there are no lives being lost as an typical natural disaster or a typical war but lebanese people that live in lebanon. others they all are falling off the cliff so you have wives at 1st aid agencies are already calling it a humanitarian crisis as lives continue to be destroyed by lebanon's financial
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meltdown. beirut. he ranks prime minister has announced general elections next june a year earlier than scheduled. to me promised an early vote when he became prime minister in may early elections have been a key demand after anti-government demonstrations began in october last year the testers want an overhaul of iraq's government which they accuse of corruption and sectarian sectarianism. not to portugal where the killing of a black actor has triggered untie racism protests a white man in his eighty's has been charged with a major. story. demanding justice for bruno campaign african portuguese actor and father of 3 the 39 year old was killed in a busy lisbon street on sunday protesters say it was racially motivated so was i get
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that we are here working paying taxes and we cannot live in peace why are they always killing black people why. police say can. they were shot 4 times in broad daylight a white man in his eighty's has been charged with his murder. khamis family say the accused shattered racist slurs and threatened to kill condé 3 days earlier. we really want justice because there is no solution is there you can't kill a person like an animal. anti-racism protests triggered by the police killing of george floyd in the united states have swept. and in portugal there are parallel grievances and the police brutality. at $28.00 a report by the right script council of europe accused portuguese police of multiple cases of racist violence and last year 8 officers were found guilty of kidnapping and beating young people from
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a predominantly black lisbon neighborhood near the gulf with more serious globally portugal remains from the authorities to do today a racist country which is to actually resist these demonstrations contribute to make portugal better and more just. cam day was originally from guinea-bissau while parliamentarians there passed a motion condemning what they see as a racially motivated murder and will send a delegation to portugal to see cancers barbara and al-jazeera. tens of thousands of people in russia's far eastern city of khabarovsk protesting against the arrests of say gay forgot a popular governor he was deposed after being accused of ordering 2 contracts killings and an attempted murder 15 years ago the supporters say it's a political move aimed at getting rid of an independent politician his election in 2018 was seen as a vote against the kremlin and president putin. a u.s.
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appeals court has overturned the death sentence for the man behind the 2013 boston marathon. bombing the course says a judge who oversaw the case which saw the hassani f. sentenced to death did not adequately screen jurors for potential prejudice sania and his brother set off homemade bombs near the finish line of the math on in 20133 people were killed and more than 260 others injured his brother died in a gunfight with police now to pakistan where muslims have been celebrating the festival of either but authorities have been concerned about a possible 2nd wave of the coronavirus after the holy day. at the grand mosque in islamabad and says as evidence people are following the government standard operating procedures known as peace did a few warships go. ahead and bogged on all through the government issued.
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their report should dogs of the breed in order to gain their spending make earlier in ramadan the government decided to eat down restrictions before. and to our dangerous spike in the number of cases reported from across the country right now people are observing the india open centers of august on but in the rural area it's another story the fear ward they're targeted on could be faced with a huge crisis ridden number of deaths mounting however it has so far been able to see it don't turn and by the bugs on the prime minister. nor charge down the country because of a fear that people would be on the street and unemployed so far the government tactic has worked why did it. sound the trumpets and of course a word of caution let down your guard and you made the 2nd bite.
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divers have removed 500 kilograms of abandoned fishing nets from a sunken submarine off the greek island of catalonia nets caught on ship wrecks can prove fatal for marine life like sea turtles and dolphins this wreck is one of the biggest submarines from world war 2 it sank after hitting any time in mine back in 1902. get him fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera police in hong kong are demanding the arrest of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile it's the 1st time police have targeted activists outside the territory under the new national security law imposed by china devika palin has more from our call from the start china had asserted that hong kong unrest dissent was all for mentored from abroad it was juta foreign interference so this is china underlining that fact the
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national security law was they say was implemented to quell unrest and the protests that we saw in hong kong and so once again they're using the extent of this national security law to underline the fact that implementing it is now making hong kong a more stable place donald trump is vying to use his presidential powers to ban the chinese own social media platform take time from the u.s. and the president is against microsoft's reported takeover attempt of take talks u.s. operations. a teenage boy is among 3 people who've been charged with hacking twitter they allegedly took over the accounts of high profile people such as former u.s. president barack obama and test my boss iran mosque in a big coin scam the u.s. has imposed sanctions on a chinese military group for a major abuses against legal muslims the treasury department says all american
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assets owned by shin john production and construction course will be frozen the u.s. accuses the company of being involved in the mass incarceration and torture of course and other muslim communities. that need to have a south korean church has been arrested accused of concealing and under reporting coronavirus cases prosecutors say lehman he hampered the government on thai virus response which he denies more than a 3rd of south korea's infections have been linked to his church japan's capital has confirmed a record 472 corona virus cases tokyo's governor says he's considering a state of emergency the majority of the cases in those southern islands in. on american troops stationed in okinawa those are the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera inside story. 10 years ago a mining disaster in cuba dropped $33.00 now and the world watched as a 2 month rescue turned me tragedy into
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a miracle al-jazeera revisits the men once celebrated as national hero and asks how this ordeal changed their lives chilean miners after the rescue on the jersey. could the u.s. presidential election be delayed donald trump is criticised for suggesting postponing the vote in november but could mail in ballots on the coronavirus pandemics why the result this isn't some sort. of hello welcome to the program on imran khan the u.s. presidential election is planned to happen just over 3 months from now with the number of corona virus infection still rising in the world's worst affected country many states are making postal voting easier so americans won't need to queue polling stations.

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