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sneeze into your own. ship person have a lot of respect for. the u.s. president talks up his working relationship with the leader of the coronavirus task force after accusing dr deborah burke's of hurting his administration. the reason or silver bullet at the moment and there might never be. the world is warned not to put too much faith in a vaccine the world health organization says the pandemic could go on for a long time. hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching al-jazeera live from our
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headquarters here in the also ahead protesters returned to the streets of mali demanding the president resigns over the dire a commie and for failing to defeat armed groups. spain's former king juan carlos announces he's moving abroad as investigations continue into alleged corruption. the u.s. president donald trump has publicly rebuked the head of the white house coronavirus task force he's accused dr deborah burks of hurting the administration after she said the high number of infections and rural america represented a new phase in the pandemic dr burk's made those remarks after the democratic house speaker nancy pelosi said she had lost confidence in mr trump's we should the dr burke said taken the bait speaking not long ago the president refused to be drawn on many questions about dr burke's insists they do have
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a good working relationship. i. i think we're doing very well i told dr brooks i think we're doing very well she was in my office a little while ago should person have a lot of respect for i think nancy pelosi is treated her very badly very very badly very nasty and i'm just referring to the fact that i thought that really they should say the job we've done whether it's on ventilators or testing we've tested now over 60000000 people know where the country is even close to that we've tested 60000000 people with great in many cases about 50 percent now rapid fire binning 5 to 15 to 20 minute tests where you get the result almost immediately nobody has anything like that nobody and they were just doing very well. rob reynolds is in los angeles he says donald trump's similar. other task force members. nothing new really about the president attacking the top medical experts that he's supposed
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to be receiving advice from just a couple of weeks ago the white house with named an unnamed officials wanted a kind of full frontal attack on dr anthony fauci because felt she had questioned the wisdom of reopening the country fully saying that that would cause a new spike in a coronavirus case is asked about today at the press conference trump repeated several times that he disagreed with with dr fire chief as far as dr burk's as you mentioned she said in an interview that the coronavirus pandemic had become extraordinarily widespread in the united states and trump interpreted that as an attack he fired back on twitter calling burks pathetic and saying that she was in effect manipulated by ansi palosi into a hit on us which one would interpret as
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a political hit on him and his administration so really anyone no matter how medically eminent to disagrees with the president's extremely optimistic thinking and talking up the good sides of the situation such as they might be falls out of favor and is subject to criticism. with several countries racing to develop a coded 1000 banks in the world health organization is downplaying expectations as head says there may never be a silver bullet that eradicates the virus and the testing and containment efforts a still best defense the u.k. meanwhile has just announced test the computer result within 90 minutes sun your gago has more from london. the technology is fast moving from next week testing for corona virus in the u.k. will be easier than ever less invasive. with no need for a health professional to administer them 5800000 on the spot test will be using
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d.n.a. alongside 450000 swab samples and rather than the current one to 2 day wait the results are known within an hour and a half we can expand testing capacity further and into settings where for instance in schools we have currently we have survey testing so we have some testing that would be able to be expanded but also looking at looking across the community where we want to test people who don't have symptoms to find out where the virus is the testing system itself is complex and reliant on multiple supply chains to source the products but it's hoped that it could open up a new phase in testing across the country these tests could signify a game changing moment not only will they be able to be carried out by practically anyone but they can also detect seasonal flu meanwhile those behind the testing say
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that controls are being put in place so as they can avoid any false negatives britain had come under severe criticism at the start of the pandemic the government was blamed for being too slow to go into lockdown to lax testing and had failed to get a successful track and trace system up and running and despite promising leads in its bid to find a vaccine recent regional surges in the u.k. and the rest of europe are warning that the pandemic is nowhere near over the reason or silver bullet at the moment and then might never be for now stopping out bricks comes down to the basics of probably coal and this is going. testing isolating and treating patients and tracy and quarantining their contacts the message more or less the same as it was at the start of the pandemic the basic prevention measures are as crucial as ever as
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governments try to stamp out rising infection rates to avoid the full lock downs that have crippled economies around the world so they have all al-jazeera london. russia will send an antiviral drug gets approved to treat corona virus to south africa and 7 countries in latin america. has been used in japan since 2014 to treat severe forms of the flu russia's health ministry fast tracked its approval for use against covert 19 in may technology to produce the drug will also be sent to bolivia. norway is blocking all cruise ships with more than 100 passengers from docking after a break on one liner at least 36 crew members and 5 passengers tested positive for the virus last week health officials fear dozens of towns and villages along the western coast could be affected as the ship also acts as a ferry lebanon has a new foreign minister following the resignation of massive he who quit saying the
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country's at risk of becoming a failed state he is the 1st cabinet member to step down since the start of the worsening economic crisis which has pushed lebanon closer to bankruptcy he's been replaced by the presidential advisor charbroil waybe. the former king of spain juan carlos is reported to have left the country as he becomes mired in allegations of a financial scandal in a letter to his son published on monday king philippe he said he'll move to another unnamed country. spain's form of king juan carlos nowhere to be seen as investigations continue into his involvement in a high speed rail contract in saudi arabia spain's supreme court opened a case in june after a swiss newspaper reported he received $76000000.00 from the late saudi king abdullah spain's royal house published this place on monday in its one come also informs his son king philip of his intention to lave saying it came against the
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backdrop of public repercussions of certain episodes of his past private life his son responds conveying his respect and gratitude for the decision the announcement live spaniards stunned and divided their comment must be the concept of innocence before being held it is very easy with these matters to say this and that but who knows demanding narrow i thought of this kind of it's better that he just goes i'm not sure how he's going to look after himself but i think that is a lot better he hasn't been giving a very good image of spain but not by a fair had by the fact that we think it's terrible because this person has done a lot for spain with his dark and bright moments but he has done more good than harm. king juan carlos is credited with helping spang peacefully restore democracy after the reign of dictator francisco franco he came to power just 2 days after frank was danced in 10751901 so does
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a team to the military coup he showed a decisive side and won widespread praise for defusing the crisis but he was tonnage by scandals including a luxury safari trip which involved shooting elephants during spying. economic crisis and 20122 years later he had to cave in favor of the sun family the movement he lost immunity from prosecution right given to spain's head of state. after he stood down he released this. newly gumby fuel our fuel. him but my only ambition was and always will be to contribute to the welfare progress and liberty of all spanish people i want the best to spain to whom i've dedicated my entire life and who service i've given all my a bit see my hopes and my efforts. the scandals resurfaced this year putting pressure on the spanish monarchy there were allegations one carlos had
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secret offshore accounts king felipe responded in march stripping his father of his $230000.00 annual allowance and renouncing his own inherent hints that investigations continues john carlos has seen prosecutors can still contact him if needed china ballasts. afghan security forces have been fighting a gun battle against armed men in jalalabad there are reports of rockets being fired towards the city airport explosives have been seized from one house security officials say the attackers are hiding in another location near the airport and hundreds of prisoners are on the run after men affiliated with lysol earlier stormed a prison in jalalabad here's anderson. afghan security forces spent much of monday waiting for the right opportunity to assault eisel gunmen who had taken over the prison in jalalabad and if courtenay did attack it was taken over on sunday and hundreds of isaw fighters set free. in the battle to retake the facility more than
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30 were killed including prisoners and prison guards soldiers and civilians. 10 attackers died their bodies were laid out for the media by the provincial police i saw remains dangerous in these parts and most of it's captured fighters in the east of afghanistan or in this facility territory it is in retreat it was never particularly it never held. huge tracts of land but it did hold significant districts in the east of the country and a combined fight between afghan government forces including civilian. forces raised from the civilians in the local area at us as strikes us on the ground on the taliban basically cleared it out of much of eastern afghanistan and elsewhere it only ever held pockets bodies of 2 taliban prisoners were also found apparently killed by only so fighters. these scenes are in stark contrast to the
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rest of the country as a rare truce was observed between the taliban and often government for the ied holiday ahead of an expected return to talks by the 2 sides enter chapelle al jazeera. still to come here on this program. my son's death had not being in. the u.s. judge making a plea for better privacy laws after her son was killed in their family home. and back in business zimbabwe's stock exchange reopens giving some hope to an economic one. hello there still some very heavy rain the 4 calls across northern sections of the korean peninsula and to the south are watching his massive cloud here this is
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tropical storm had to pay it but these rains the takeaway affecting northern areas of south korea have been very widespread an incredibly destructive at least 6 people have died as well as a result of these floods and also some mudslides that have taken place now there's more rain in the full cost because we're also watching to the south the progress of tropical storm hit this coming tuesday working its way across land just to the south of shanghai producing some very heavy amounts of rain and as he had off into wednesday to continue his journey north northeast and then eventually push across into the n.s.a. at this point on wednesday it should be downgraded no longer a tropical storm but still producing some very heavy amounts of rain you'll see to the north of there still some very heavy rain expected across much of the korean peninsula so again the flooding not about to improve any time soon similar story across into endure as well some very heavy rains here in the fork also over the next couple days maharastra seeing some particularly heavy downpours but you'll notice here again through much of bangladesh and these rains really being funneled up this northern area of the bay of bengal so across into myanmar as well some
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heavy downpours heaviest still across the northeast on wednesday and we could see about 400 millimeters accumulating in mumbai. as a weapon of war a very. effective man and women. the only witnesses who can help bring about justice. as human rights campaign is in libya and just to go to great success to 2000. and speakable crime on al-jazeera.
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the watching else is here a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. president donald trump has publicly rebuked the leader of the white house coronavirus task force he accused dr deborah burke's of hurting his that discretion after she said the rapid spread of covert 19 in the u.s. representative new phase in the pandemic. the head of the world health organization says there may never be a silver bullet to end the violence pandemic and the testing and containment efforts are still our best offense. and the former king spain one carlos is reported to have left the country as he becomes mired in allegations relating to a financial scandal and a letter to his son published on monday will be paid he said he'll move to another unnamed country. pakistan's prime minister has labeled india's actions in the industries region of kashmir as genocide has been almost
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a year since new delhi has stripped indian administered kashmir of its autonomy and enforced a security clampdown india and pakistan were involved in a border skirmish just before that happened and speaking to al jazeera imran khan said he seeks no conflict with india the indian government rather than. asking us for an explanation or watching proofs trying to prove that pakistan was involved this sent their jets and bombed us we in the end we had to retaliate one of the indian jets was brought down in pakistan. we returned the pilot because pakistan does not want an escalation and i repeat nuclear armed countries you can order a forward and escalation because you do not know once even a small skirmish starts you don't know where it will end up and that's why we tried our best to tell the indians and let's resolve this issue on the table we are
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willing to talk to them but that was only till 5th august last year. after a break for the muslim festival of the protesters in mali once again calling on the president to resign the country has been paralyzed by demonstrations for weeks which will mediate a threatened sanctions if their recommendations aren't implemented by the end of the week here's nicholas hogg. an employed angry jealous says his circumstances have got really bad to worse in the 7 years since president came to power accompanied by other protesters he forces the mayor of 5 to shut down the neighborhood town hall back on the streets they disrupt traffic only caters resignation could bring this civil disobedience movement to an empty thing. the struggle continues we want the regime to enter into prison cater is no longer credible no respect of the law was probably an entourage and not for the people of mali. well the testers took
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a 10 day break for the most infested easy to the west african body echo last attempted to mediate and lead to the political crisis but few of its recommendations have come into effect so far no independent investigations was launched into the death of protesters after security forces used live rounds on demonstrations in early july while president named 6 new ministers there's still no national unity government judges of the constitutional court and 31 ruling party m.p. recently elected in contested parliamentary elections refused to resign among them from the region of coro cinnabar. it is not a role to ask elected m.p.'s to resign there are other solutions to the crisis there is no roadmap set out to follow if we were to resign. the leaders of the protest movement known as the m 5 say the west african mediation effort is failing to address their demands including the resignation of president personally. they
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say we can only change presidents through elections but what about the people what about their desire for good governance to fight against corruption and social justice their recommendations are just about protecting the president not the people meanwhile on sunday and al-qaeda affiliate ambushed and killed several 1000000 soldiers and in another incident a graphic video released by eiseley philly 8 its leader is seen it beheading a local elected official while attacks by armed groups are multiplying in the north pressure against the president in bamako is mounting it was hawking al jazeera. the latest round of talks about ethiopia's contentious new hydroelectric dam have ended without a break through the use of european governments says the $5000000000.00 project will boost the economy but sudan and egypt downstream on the oil are worried about reduced water supplies more talks are planned for thursday. at least 20 people
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including children have died in yemen where flash flooding has swept through several provinces that the government is one of the worst affected 2 weeks of heavy rain destroying shelters and farms more than 2500 families have lost their homes yemen's internationally recognized president months so hardy is calling on local governors to send relief to the victims. argentina's government has unveiled plans to reform its judiciary by increasing the number of federal courts but the opposition says the move is president alberto finance's attempt to shield his predecessor from prosecution to reason reports now from buenos aires. argentina and flags in a call to respect the republic hundreds protested against the government's initiative to reform the justice system. the little i'm worried because they want to train just supreme court 1st it had 9 members then 5 now they want to increase it again it's a pretty court of a country cannot be manipulated by the wishes of one person. for decades
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in argentina have repeatedly been accused of pro-government bias reforming the judiciary was one of the 1st pledges of this when he became president in december. to believe that reforming the justice system is necessary because it's filled with corruption and irregularities but many do not trust in the government essentially because they believe that this is a way of asserting functionally over the judiciary during the previous government of president. there were a series of high profile detentions of people close to former president and now vice president cristina fernandez. most are facing corruption trials including question herself who says the allegations against her are politically motivated. but the precedent says he's main objective is an independent judicial branch.
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with this we are looking to get beyond having decision making power concentrated in a reduced number of magistrates that as is currently the case have the power to know and decide in nearly all cases with institutional and therefore high profile relevance the proposed law plans to increase the number of federal courts from $12.00 to $46.00 and create a commission made up of 11 experts to assess additional reforms that include the supreme court questioners lawyer is part of the commission we know sociologist and legal expert brought out of the lottery less as the government is making a mistake. if. the name of the lawyer of the former president is a very clear message the government has given us we don't have to cover our eyes there are no excuses on why that lawyer is there in many latin american countries they have been reformers of the judiciary in colombia in the 1990 s.
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the access to tribunals the changed history but they are not during that. week forming the judiciary's likely to increase political tensions here for many doing so in the middle of economic and social problems caused by the covert 1000 pandemic is wrong. when a scientist. hundreds of teachers in new york have been protesting against plans to reopen schools in september they refused to accept mayor bill de blasio as proposals to have students return to class 2 or 3 days per week opponents say not enough is being done to make sure schools are safe and i asked the governor of new york state and require most says he has yet to make a final decision. a u.s. judge's son was killed by a gunman is calling for better privacy laws for those who serve on the bench investigators believe esther silas and her family were targeted because of her position is she had pretenses last month a man dressed as a career pulled up judge esther services house in new jersey silas was tidying up
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with her son following his 20th birthday celebrations the day before daniel and i went downstairs to the basement and we were chatting as we always do and daniel said mom let's keep talking i love talking to you mom and it was that exact moment that the doorbell rang again and looked at me and said chris that and before i could say a word he sprinted up stairs within seconds. i heard the sound of bullets and someone screaming no. i later learned. that. this monster who had a fed ex package in his hand opened fire
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a daniel being daniel protected his father and it took this years 1st put. so regularly to the test the gunman then shot judge silas's husband multiple times he's recovering in hospital however the target is believed to have been judge us the alleged gunman 72 year old attorney roy dunn hollander described himself as an empty feminist last summer here appear before john salazar who he later described as a quote lazy and incompetent latino judge appointed by obama and quote hollander was found dead in his car in new york the day after he killed silas a son authorities say he shot himself in addition holland had a list of what are thought to be other potential targets including several female judges john seiler says she's speaking up to protect other judges and their families we know that our job requires us to make tough calls. and sometimes those calls can lead people angry and upset and fortunately for my family
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the threat was real and the free flow of information from the internet allowed this sick and deprived human being to find all our personal information and target us my sons that cannot be and. however this is the time when all of our personal information has been commodified as never before and josiah says she accepts change will be complicated but she adds that the dialogue should begin sheriff hansie out 0 new york. the u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe has held a video conference with the taliban's chief because it's there to discuss the peace process in afghanistan. and corns discussed among other things the release of taliban prisoners the armed group wants them freed before it will join any
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negotiations with the government's incompetence. tradings resumed on zimbabwe's stock market after it was stopped in june to help stabilize the nation's currency but people there are facing their worst financial crisis in more than a decade and tensions are rising as the economy gets worse from harare. after weeks of uncertainty and inconvenience for investors trading on zimbabwe stock exchange resumes stock brokers say the 1st day back went relatively while most people were just watching to see what was going to happen so that's why we said it was a good day there wasn't panic selling people we think it's been happening the government suspended trading at the end of june to try and stabilize the zimbabwe dollar government leaders suspected some individuals and companies were moving money out of the country causing shortages in foreign currency and fueling the black market 3 companies including old mutual which is listed on the london stock
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exchange aren't allowed to trade until they meet certain requirements when robert mugabe was removed from power in a coup 3 years ago president promised reforms the critics say he's failing to turn around the economy and on human rights arrests and abuses are on the increase. last friday streets in the capital harare weight loss he deserted and businesses shut as security forces stop protests against a point conny and corruption from going ahead human rights lawyers say dozens of people were arrested somewhere abducted disappeared for a couple of hours some for more than 2 days in them there were little to the police one of them was disappeared for more time was actually just dumped somewhere close to his home and when he was. released when he reappeared tortured an opposition leader jacob got evil me and a freelance journalist hope watching want to remain in detention accused of using
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social media to incite anti-government protests as workers' salaries continue to be eroded by rising inflation now at nearly 800 percent opposition groups are threatening more demonstrations as a country shows no obvious sign of recovery. this is al jazeera these are your top stories the u.s. president donald trump has publicly rebuked the leader of the white house coronavirus task force he accused dr deborah perks of hurting his administration after she said the rapid spread of covert 19 in the u.s. represented a new phase in the pandemic dr brooks made the remarks after the democratic house speaker nancy pelosi said she'd lost confidence in her trunk tweeted the dr burk's had taken the bait but he doesn't says they do still have a good working relationship. i think we're doing very well i told dr brooks i think
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we're doing very well she was in my office a little while ago should person have a lot of respect for i think nancy pelosi treated her very badly very very badly very nasty and i'm just referring to the fact that i thought that really they should say the job we've done whether it's on ventilators or testing we've tested now over 60000000 people. the head of the world health organization says there may never be a silver bullet to end the virus pandemic and the testing and containment efforts are still our best offense lebanon has a new foreign minister after the resignation of the who quit saying the country's at risk of becoming a failed state he is the 1st cabinet minister to step down since the start of a worsening economic crisis which has pushed lebanon closer to bankruptcy he's been replaced by the presidential advisor charbroil way be the former king of spain one car losses reported to have left the country as he becomes mired in allegations of
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a financial scandal in a letter to his son published on monday king philippe he said he'll move to another unnamed country at least 20 people including children have died in yemen where flash floods have swept through several provinces the marriott government is one of the most worst affected 2 weeks of heavy rain has destroyed shelters and farms or the 2500 families have now lost their homes. hundreds of teachers in new york had been protesting against plans to reopen schools in september they refused to accept mayor bill de blasio as proposal to have students return to class 2 or 3 days per week opponents say not enough is being done to make sure schools are safe enough those are your headlines the news continues here on al jazeera off the inside story more news in 30 minutes see that.
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it was huawei now he's taking aim john all trying to the chinese video in the u.s. again he signed security concerns but we'll of those alleged. with trump go in his business war against china this is inside story. hello welcome to the program.

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