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child slaves partnership slavery a 21st century evil. on al-jazeera. should person have a letter respect for the u.s. president talks up his working relationship with the coronavirus task force leader after cues in dr deborah burke's of hurting the administration. there is an all silver bullet at the moment there might never be the world is warned not to put too much faith in the facts seen and that this pandemic could go on for a long time. hello i'm down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the australian state of victoria will start fining people 3 and
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a half $1000.00 if they break home isolation orders. several people are killed in flooding and landslides in the region surrounding south korea's capital seoul plus . my son. had nothing. but us judge making a plea for better privacy protection laws after her son was murdered. the us president donald trump has publicly rebuked the head of the white house coronavirus task force is accused dr deborah burke's of hurting his administration after she said the spread to cope with 19 throughout and rural america mark a new phase in the pandemic reports. dr deborah burke's is one of the most prominent experts supposedly advising president donald trump over the coronavirus pandemic but trump lashed out at burke's on monday calling her pathetic and
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suggesting that she was out to do him political damage burke said warned in an interview that the outbreak had entered a new stage and the virus was extraordinarily widespread in the u.s. in a white house press conference trump seemed to backtrack to person have a lot of respect for so far the virus has infected more than 4000000 700000 people in the u.s. and killed more than 155000 the centers for disease control forecasts 20000 additional deaths by late this month. trump once again hailed his administration's response the united states has done an amazing job and great job meanwhile teacher protests continue to grow against schools fully reopening next month something trump continues to strongly support and negotiations stalled over extending an economic lifeline to $30000000.00 unemployed us workers as white house
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negotiators met with democratic leaders on capitol hill the sticking points include the democrats' desire to continue unemployment benefits of $600.00 a week republicans say that's too generous and proposed $200.00 a week instead the democrats also want to allocate a trillion dollars to states and cities hit hard by revenue shortfalls resulting from the pandemic dismiss the idea they want to bail out cities and states that have done a bad job over a long period of time nothing to do with the coronavirus with china virus or whatever you want to call it they want to bail out 2 cities and states and what bailout money trump has been talking about signing an executive order extending unemployment benefits and banning vixens but so far he has not acted robert oulds al-jazeera. when with several countries racing to develop a kind of at 19 vaccine the world health organization is downplaying expectations
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its head says that may never be a silver bullet that eradicates the buyer a sound that testing on containment efforts still best defense the u.k. meanwhile has just announced tests that can provide a result within 90 minutes someone has more now 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 d.n.a. alongside $450000.00 swap samples and rather than the current $1.00 to $2.00 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 will be able to be expanded but also looking at looking across the
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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 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 and 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
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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 through him. testing. and treating patients and tracey and quarantining their contacts their 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 governments try to stamp out rising infection rates to avoid the full lock downs that have crippled economies around the world. al-jazeera london in the philippines tough new lockdown rules have been reimposed in the capital manila and surrounding regions some businesses and public transport have been shut and people now need special passes to leave their homes more than 30 $200.00 new infections were confirmed across the country on monday the philippines is the 2nd
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worst affected nation in southeast asia after indonesia and the australian state of victoria is introducing a 3 and a half $1000.00 fine for anyone breaching cope with 19 isolation orders it's one of a number of measures to reduce infection rates melbourne australia's biggest city is subject to a nightly curfew and non-essential business is up in order to close daily cases reached a high of 700 last week nicola gage has more from sydney. this really does show that the state of victoria is ramping up its efforts to make sure that people are it stay inside their homes and away from each other because they need to reduce the number of community transmissions of this piracy to bring those numbers down and that's just not happening at the moment we have had new figures come out for monday which shows that more than 400 new cases have been recorded by the day we have a new cases in the triple digits and that is why the premier daniel
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andrews has brought in tighter restrictions and penalties for people doing the wrong thing one of the big problems is that many people who have tested positive for us has not been oscillating about one 3rd of people who have coke 19 at the premier says when or 30 feet go to check on them and now they will be facing much higher penalties to make sure they are doing the right thing and also on top of that there will be more than $500.00 extra strongly in defense force personnel on the streets to make sure that people are abang the new restrictions and road. the former king of spain juan carlos has reported to have left the country after corruption allegations surfaced against him in a letter published on monday he said he's moving overseas but didn't say where charlotte bennett's reports. spain for meting one come last no way to be seen as
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investigations continue into his involvement in a rental contract in saudi arabia and an alleged $100000000.00 gift from the late saudi king abdullah spain's world house published one carlos whose decision to leave the country in it he tells his son king philippe his departure is necessary due to public repercussions from susan past events in his private life the announcement live spending stunned and divided. the must be the. concept of innocence before old guilty a mile in the air oh i thought of this it's better that he just goes he hasn't been giving a very good image of spain. 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. one carlos's creators who'd with helping spain peacefully restore democracy after the death of dictator francisco franco in 1975 but he was tarnished by
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scandals including electricity ferry trip which involved shooting elephants during spring's economic crisis in 20122 years later he abdicated in favor of his son felipe a newly gumby fuel fuel you see you know 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 for spain to whom i've dedicated my entire life and who service i've given all my ability my hopes and my efforts. that stooping down hasn't stopped corruption allegations from 3 singing the palace is education also meant he lost immunity from prosecution right given to spain's head of state one can see the investigation is can contact him if needed shiela ballasts out using or at least 20 people including children have died in yemen where flash floods swept
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through several provinces the governor it is one of the worst affected 2 weeks of heavy rain has destroyed shelters and farms more than 2500 families have lost their homes and flooding and landslides in south korea have left at least 13 people dead and forced up to 2000 from their homes much of the damage is in regions around in the capital seoul and central parts of the country more rain is forecast our correspondent robert broad is in power north west of the capital so. the man which we have a brief respite from the rains they ease lightly but they are forecast tuesday afternoon to have more to rancho rains forecast to be between $58.00 millimeters to $100.00 millimeters per hour the interior of the south korea is very hilly very mountainous terrain and since the weekend we've had these torrential rains that have been causing all sorts of problems with flash floods and also slides and mudslides and sadly the victims who have died or people who are still missing
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hoping quarter in some of those mudslides it's all being fed and made worse by the fact that we have this a typhoon had jupiter in working its way through china it is downgraded don't going to be downgraded to a tropical storm but it is still feeding moisture into this weather system that stubbornly remain straddled across the korean peninsula with more rain forecast 'd for basically the rest of this week. to come here not just here including back in business zimbabwe stock exchange reopens giving some people hope for the economies revival. we'll hear from the tennis players competing in the 1st official event since the sport was put on pause during the pandemic more not stay with us.
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and them all hot and dry weather throughout much of the middle a sunny dusty as well the winds have picked up again of the last couple of days and still plenty of cloud across the far west of saudi and down across into western areas of yemen with had flooding of course in sana in the last few days you could see some more this rain is very persistent at times is also very heavy you'll also see the blowing sand and dust the winds quite strong coming from the north coming through the interior of iraq so temperatures once again on the high side 49 celsius in kuwait 46 in doha on tuesday and again. quite hazy conditions without sand and dust being picked up in the draw the strong winds the winds get stronger on wednesday and possibly feeling a bit humid as well that's how much a coming down and how to 44 and still staying in the mid to high forty's across much of iraq and down across into q.e. then down into southern africa has seen an increase in the rains across central regions over the last few days and sunny through to say some heavy downpours later in the day to northern sections of the democratic republic of congo and all the while showers continuing week on these coasts and as a tanzania and across into kenya up to will somalia and it is staying cool and
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welcome back a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera 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 administration after she said the rapid spread of covert 19 in the us represented and new phase in the pandemic. strain in the state of victoria is introducing a 3 and a half 1000 dollars fine to anyone breaching cope with 19 isolation orders daily cases reached a high of 700 last week. and flooding and landslides in south korea have left at least 12 people dead and forced up to 2000 more from their homes much of the damage is in the region surrounding seoul and central parts of the country more rain is forecast. lebannon has
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a new foreign minister following the resignation of massive heat he quit over what he said was government inaction which is putting the country 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 has been replaced by a presidential adviser sharper where. pakistan's prime minister imran khan has told out his era his country played an important role in defusing tensions between saudi arabia and iran he said islamabad prevented a military escalation from taking place in the gulf region he also spoke about last year's border skirmish with india and new delhi's decision to revoke indian administered kashmir is autonomy. the indian government rather than. asking us for an explanation or water proof trying to prove that pakistan wasn't this sent the jets and bombed us we we had to retaliate one of the indian jets was
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brought down in pakistan. we returned the pilot because pakistan does not want an escalation and i repeat do nuclear armed countries you can order of forward an escalation because you do not want no one's 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 the let's resolve this issue on the table we are willing to talk to them but that was only till 5th august last year when the 5th of august last year was the day that new delhi stripped indian administered kashmir with special status and placed the whole region under lockdown curfew has been imposed in the area to prevent any protests on the 1st anniversary which falls on wednesday officials have also banned mass gatherings because of the pandemic. afghan security forces have been fighting a gun battle against men in jalalabad there are reports of rockets being fired towards the city's airport explosives were also seized from the house security
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officials say the attackers are now hiding in another location near the airport. for aides to us secretary of state mike pompei i have been subpoenaed by democratic party members of congress they're investigating the firing of the state department's former investigator general steve linnik his team was looking into an 8000000000 dollars arms deal sale to saudi arabia and other arab allies despite humanitarian concerns over the war in yemen the mic is one of several federal government watchdogs have been sent by president trump 3. anti-government protesters have returned to the streets of mali's capital demanding the resignation of president abraham. the opposition stop the rallies for the holiday at least 14 people died during demonstrations over the past few weeks. as accused of failing to deal with insecurity and corruption regional block has been leading mediation efforts it's given both sides a deadline which expires on thursday to implement its proposals including
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a unity government. trading has resumed on zimbabwe's stock market after it was halted 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 more from. after weeks of uncertainty and inconvenience for investors trading on zimbabwe stock exchange resumes stock brokers say the 1st day back went relatively well most people were just watching to see what was going to happen so that's why he said it was a good day there wasn't panic selling people we think. the government suspended trading at the end of the gene to try and stabilize this. government leaders suspect it's an individuals and companies were moving money out of the country causing shortages in foreign currency and fueling the black market $3.00 companies including old mutual which is listed on the london stock exchange aren't allowed to trade and
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till they meet certain requirements when robert mugabe was removed from power in a coup 3 years ago president promised reforms critics say he's failing to turn around the economy and human rights abuses are on the increase. last friday streets in the capital harare with largely deserted and businesses shut as security forces stop protests against a poor economy and corruption from going ahead human rights lawyers say dozens of people were arrested somewhere abducted or disappeared for a couple of hours some for more than 2 days in them there were little sarin to the police one of them who was disappeared for more time was actually just dumped somewhere close to his home and when he was. released or when he reappeared he was severely tortured and opposition leader jacob got evil me and a freelance journalist hope watching one all remain in detention accused of using social media to incite anti-government protests as workers' salaries continue to be
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eroded by rising inflation now at nearly 800 percent opposition groups are threatening more demonstrations as a country shows no obvious sign of recovery. al-jazeera had addie. argentina's government has unveiled plans to reform is traditionally bank tracing the number of federal courts but the opposition says the moon is president for not as attempt to show his previous as a from prosecution reports from but as i was. with argentinean flags in a call to respect the republic hundreds protested against the government's initiative to reform the justice system. i'm worried because they want to try and 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 the way dirty control 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. with this we are looking to get beyond having decision making power concentrated in
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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 kitchener's lawyer is part of the commission we know sociologist and legal expert provided the latter adolescence the government is making a mistake. here 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 as in colombia in the 1990 s. 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
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so in the middle of economic and social problems caused by because in 1000 pandemic is wrong. when a scientist one of the teachers in new york have protested against plans to reopen schools in september they refuse to accept mayor bill de blasio for students to return to class 2 or 3 days a week about inside not enough being done to make sure schools are safe the governor of new york state under cuomo says he's yet to make a final decision. a u.s. judge who son was killed by a gunman is calling for better privacy laws for those who serve on the bench investigators believe esther and her family were targeted because of her position she have a tensely reports it's last month a man dressed as a korea pulled up at judge s. to salvage his house in new jersey silas was tidying up with her son following his 20th birthday celebrations the day before daniel and i went downstairs to the
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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 and then you 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 scream you know. i later learned. that. this monster who had a fed ex package in his hand opened fire a daniel being daniel protected his father and he took this year's
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1st bullet. so regularly to the test the gunman then shot judge charles husband multiple times he's recovering in hospital however the target is believed to have been judge silas the alleged gunman 72 year old attorney roy dunn hollander described himself as an empty feminist last summer here appeared before a judge told us who he later described as a quote lazy and incompetent latina judge appointed by obama and quote hollander was found dead in his car in new york the day after he killed silas's son authorities say he shot himself in addition hollander had a list of what are thought to be other potential targets including several female judges john salo 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 the threat was real and the free flow of information from the internet allowed
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this sick and deprived human being to find all our personal information and target us my sons that cannot be in. power this is a time when all of our personal information has been commodified as never before and josiah sez she accepts change will be complicated but she ends the dialogue should begin shared hansie out jazeera new york. 2 years after 43 people were killed in a bridge collapse in genoa at the italian city has opened a replacement the bridge inauguration ceremony into the tribute to the victims of the 28 team disaster. the new structure is equipped with robots which will perform regular safety scans the company that manages the old bridge is still under investigation a couple of homicide. sports news hour after
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a hiatus lasting almost 5 months tennis is making its official return the open is the 1st tour event to take place since the coronavirus locked out the riches reports. the palermo open is normally a low key event but this year it has global significance it marks the official return of professional tennis after coronavirus force the suspension of both the men's and women's tours in march. strict health protocols are in place one n one player did test positive for cope with 19 with competitors being tested regularly before and after their arrival in italy and while limited numbers of spectators are being allowed in players can have just one member of their support team with them inside the venue i mean it feels pretty safe we have a. room i mean it's pretty safe to be in the room to. take away food to get some room service but also
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coaching will be different. but i mean it's up to the players also to figure out. thanks time to kind of just. figure out everything you need to do so on the other hand i think it's necessary i think we all need to do something that makes us makes us feel safe not all players are as keen to travel at this time wimbledon champion simona halep decided not to make the trip to poland and world number one ashley barty made an early decision to pull out of the u.s. open the year's 2nd grand slam tournament is due to start at the end of this month behind closed doors hokum patrick nick curiosus also withdrawn from the event due to health concerns and even those who are committed to playing in new york except the risks are involved. i was thinking maybe of maybe trying to travel somewhere or . weather training but then it's like then you're increasing your risk of
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potentially. you know catching a virus which then means. she can train or travel for a couple. it doesn't. like playing a grand slam and. the global nature of the tennis calendar and its players has traditionally been a strength right now it looks to be sweetness and the richardson al-jazeera. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has publicly rebuked the leader of the white house coronavirus task force is dr deborah books of hurting his administration after she said that the rapid spread of covert 19 in the u.s. represented a new phase in the pandemic dr burk's made the remarks of the democratic house speaker nancy pelosi said she'd lost confidence in her trunk tweeted that dr brooks had taken the bait still the president says they have a good working relationship. i think we're doing very well i told dr burk's 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 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 no other countries even close to that we've tested 60000000 people with great in many cases about 50 percent now rapid fire building 5 to 15 to 20 minute test where you get the result almost immediately nobody has anything like that nobody and they were just doing very well. you know the head of the world health organization has said there may never be a silver bullet to end the coronavirus pandemic and the testing on containment are still our best defense. in the philippines tough new lockdown rules have been reimposed in the capital manila and surrounding regions people now need special
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passes to leave their homes the philippines is the 2nd worst affected nation in southeast asia in the major history and state of victoria is introducing a 3 and a half 1000 dollars fine for anyone reaching cope with 19 isolation orders daily cases reached a high of 700 last week. at least 20 people including children have died in yemen with flash floods have swept through several provinces is the mark gov it is one of the worst affected areas. and flooding and landslides in south korea have left at least 12 people dead and forced up to 2000 more from their homes much of the damage is in the region surrounding seoul and central parts of the country so those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after the stream station that's watching. own choose their own. is the government of the sorry optional to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still
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think that travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter to zara. they're welcome to the stream home edition i'm josh rushing sitting in for femi ok today we're looking at a country in today's episode where it's one of the few countries in the world where corona virus does not exist at least according to the government now doctors and grave diggers might tell a different story we're talking about turkmenistan and if you're already in the you tube watching this right you probably either have a connection to turkmenistan or you're curious about it because turkmenistan does not get a lot of coverage and we have a whole half hour to talk about today either way i bet you have a lot of questions and comments so what i want you to do see that.
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