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when the dream will feel life inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. witness on al-jazeera. at least 135 people dead fowls and injured many homeless numbers and mountain lebannon after a major explosion in beirut another morning of 17 through the wreckage of the blast at a core warehouse officials believed to be responsible on the house of and it's. cool . clear watching al jazeera live from doha with me fully back to war also coming up us present donald trump's campaign account his briefly banned from tweeting over a coronavirus full steam to be misinformation the same post has been removed by
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facebook the disappearance of hundreds of women and girls in peru raises more concern about domestic violence during the coronavirus pandemic. and 5 years after hiroshima the threat of covert 1000 forces japan to scale back ceremonies commemorating the victims. the end. thank you very much for joining us levanon skull from untested cleared a 2 week state of emergency in beirut a day after a massive explosion devastated large areas of the capital at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 are injured and about 300000 have been left without a home investigations are focusing on negligence with the officials believed to be
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responsible now under house arrest as in a hard one has a report from be. the people of this disaster stricken city are starting to assess and comprehend the extent of the damage of a blast that was far more destructive than any explosion lebanon has ever seen just before sunset on tuesday highly explosive materials. stored at a warehouse at beirut port caused the blast sending shock waves across a city now in ruins. almost every building has been damaged many are dead thousands are injured rescue workers work through the night and into the morning as people and bodies were feared trapped underneath the rubble so. my husband is an employee at the electricity company he survived but his colleagues didn't the only now moving their bodies from under the rubble this is a country already reeling from a dire economic crisis where 50 percent of the population live below the poverty
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line the damage spread several kilometers more than 300000 people are now displaced its people are not in a position to cope with this disaster. but the. material losses are sad but it's nothing compared to those who lost their lives this is my taxi it's my livelihood and i'm still paying for it. everyone has a story of survival or tragedy many are blaming those in power for the catastrophe . this was lebanon's hiroshima we trusted them with our money our souls our lives and they betrayed us why are they still in power they should all resign we only have gotten their day will come. last summer how authorities are appealing for help from the international community the state is close to bankruptcy. it's like a big earthquake hit lebanon in beirut this will cost billions of dollars to restore the economy will get even worse because businesses have been hit entirely
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in order for it to relaunch and nice new investments we will not despair some countries have started to send much needed medical supplies the health care system was already close to collapse hospitals have been laying off staff in recent months because of the financial crisis 'd and mr mankell we are an afflicted hospital there is no hospital as you can see hospital is closed and now we wait for our directors in order to receive instructions because we want to start the recovery workers cannot get in also as you can see because it's unsafe the ceiling is falling down it is a critical situation. lebanon's leaders are promising an investigation to determine who was responsible for storing ammonium nitrate without safety measures at the port for years and. we are determined to investigate and reveal what happened as soon as possible and bring those responsible to justice and punish them accordingly we will transparently announce the results of these investigations but those who hold power are being blamed for negligence incompetence and corruption people are
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in shock but anger is also growing out a political class many blame for mismanagement and being responsible for running the economy into the ground months of protests calling for a new leadership have been met by a militarized state and demands by the international community to fight corruption especially at beirut ports in order to. eligible for financial aid have got hurt what many call a manmade disaster is the latest crisis to hit a country already on its knees so much has been lost when there was already so little. beirut a comparison of satellite images is providing another strong perspective of the damage this picture of beirut sports from planet lab was taken in may this is how it looks now we can see structures wide town and a notch section of the main dock his gone now the focus is also turning to the long term humanitarian impact more than $300000.00 people have lost their homes and
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beirut's governor says fixing the damage will cost billions of dollars medical stockpiles are depleted and some hospitals are in ruins those that are functioning have largely been overwhelmed and lebanon's main grain silo was destroyed at the port leaving less than a month's reason. help is arriving in turkey russia iran and the european union are among those sending aid france says 2 planes are being sent with surprise as well as firefighters and medical staff french president demanding mccraw plans to travel to beirut on thursday and an iraqi delegation has met the lebanese prime minister husain job promising to send fuel and wheat lebanon imports up to 80 percent of its fold. in other world news tweets or temporarily restricted president donald trump's campaign team from tweeting on wednesday it was in response to the account sharing video of a fox news interview with sean in which he made false claims about the coronavirus
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links to the tweet now arrive at this speech twitter says suppose violated its rules on covert 19 misinformation and the owner must remove it before they can tweet again the campaign appears to have complied hours earlier facebook removed the same video from president trump's main page mike hanna has more from washington . well president trump stated in that interview phone interview with fox television that children are almost immune from coburg 19 or virtually immune he said as well at a different stage now this is clearly payton falls the centers for disease research research the c.d.c. says that some quarter of a 1000000 children have contracted to corona virus and at least 6 have actually died of acute inflammatory situation stemming directly from coburg so this is clearly incorrect but what has got to be looked at as well as the context that
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president trump has used this phrase virtually immune he has done it before in public on a number of occasions and the context is his absolute insistence that schools must open in the u.s. in their entirety he does not want virtual education he wants all the classes to open at the beginning of the new school year because he argues the economy cannot provide and this children are back in school freeing their parents to go to work so this is the context of these repeated false woods being made by president trump with regard to children and covert 19. rob pegoraro is a freelance take writer he says it's notable that facebook finally took the step of removing tom's video and he believes a pandemic is playing a part in changing the company's approach. 257000 americans dead from this disease that's part of it i think also facebook this story glee over the last few
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years we've seen the do not want to upset to new people around the president to the extent where a very pro trumpet inaccurate news source like right art does not get banned does not get what gets a privilege spot in the face but missed out on their mobile app. and they have gotten a lot of criticism including from what if this were complete. because tried not to get sense to the president and his support it is a business advertisers don't want to be in a place. i would assume that having a site overrun with conspiracy theories would not make it. i don't think this is going to draw to draw too many way from facebook the complaints people have about it i was just writing both served at the steamer so special of the number one complaint described as not is facebook mean to conservatives are not it is definitely true that some of the same people in that house many hearing who cusack
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are grrr of and the other executives of being biased against republican voices will have another talking point even though actual evidence of that bias i haven't seen it trump seems to have done very well using facebook as a megaphone he certainly has an immensely large audience. the counting of votes is underway in sri lanka after wednesday's parliamentary election turnout was down but polling wrapped up without any major incidents of violence that of space previous elections we now fernandez reports from colombo. pulled open early on wednesday to choose sri lanka as members of parliament when the coronavirus pandemic made the national election commission job extremely difficult the 1st. and lawyers. for the election both each all aboard. employed at least that was probably kill me. this is more than
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being. roy's our house. says it was important to ensure the health of tens of thousands of state workers police military and 16000000 voters the election was postponed twice because of health concerns observers see when the vote was one of the most peaceful in recent years and that is an achievement. the preference voting system usually causes much rivalry between candidates from the same party but new restrictions on campaigning minimize can transition election day proceedings are ok but some undistorted pending issues related to 3 the lection campaign. during the campaign reveal that actually they were unable to create a level playing field because. candidates over really feel candidates were able to
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spend millions off. the head of the election commission agrees definitively we need campaign finance or x. one because. we thought that we can build it and other thing we have some laws. not to come to all the media are some sort of that regularly this weekend is that it then asked them to. work according to the media outlets a number of complaints were made about mass media coverage during the lection is iraq voters in colombo what mattered when make their choice we had to board wisely to select the good. person who is free from correct corruption and all signs of understanding so it is quite important because we will be sending 225 people to the parliament and they will be governing this country for 5 more years. good
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leaders decide the future of the country those with brains will choose good candidates the others won't. yes muslims we have problems because they are telling us that we can't cover their hair that we have bad days and all the problems so we have come on board should look at people's party led by the rajapaksa brothers who serve as president and prime minister is expected to win a majority in parliament that happens the party would be in a strong position to change the constitution and revoke some of the reforms lost by the previous government limiting the poems of the presidency a week opposition is not expected to pose much of a challenge the results of sri lanka's twice delayed elections are expected to be released late on thursday whoever wins a majority of seats in parliament they're expected to face the challenges of improving the economy and tackling the coronavirus pandemic mina fernandez
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al-jazeera colombo. still ahead on al-jazeera. never end raimondi valleys his base task construction begins a controversial but long promised. fast crime quarantine and an economic crisis in argentina find out how people and officials michel. hello once again we still have some very heavy showers just around the western side of yemen lots of plants still showing up here but elsewhere across the middle east it's business as usual in dusty weather that dust and sand certainly a possibility with a keen wind blowing as we go through thursday and on into friday 48 celsius in
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kuwait 46 in baghdad in the civil temperature here in doha we want to show is just around the southern end of the red sea then into western yemen just into the far south west of saudi arabia and those showers there into eritrea stretch across a good part of the fee opiah making the way across south sudan southern parts of sudan also seeing some live you shall see some pretty wet weather too just making its way across chad and heading over towards nigeria big downpours coming in here then the likelihood of some localized flooding further flash flooding a possibility into south sudan as we go on through the next couple of days as showers really never too far away i know the president got a group of congo are also seeing some heavy showers but to the south of that it is generally dry until you get into the southern cape of south africa still a fair bit of cloud rolling through here some rather cold air in the forecast 14 celsius and wet weather there for port elizabeth and turning cool if it's 100 by friday.
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kidnappings and murders in crimea says russia's forced an extension of the black sea financial. i don't understand why the speed now. scores of crimean to toss have been arrested tortured and killed. most believe by russian security forces. crime in russia's dark secret on al-jazeera. the arab the on. you're watching al jazeera live from doha with me fully back to go
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a reminder of our top stories this hour lebanon's cabinet has declared a 2 week state of emergency in the rules following tuesday's devastating explosion at least 125 people are dead more than 5000 injured and about 300000 have been left without homes authorities are blaming vast tours of highly explosive ammonium nitrate which they say were kept at the port in unsafe conditions for years several officials are now under house arrest in connection with the blasts and twitter temporarily restricted president of trans campaign team account on wednesday it was in response to the account sharing video of truck making false claims about coronavirus. facebook removals the same video from president trump's main page. former colombian president out of viral raby has tested positive for coverage 19 just a day after the country's supreme court ordered he be placed under house arrest has
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been detained over allegations of witness tampering and fraud which he denies i was on that i'm getting reports from bogota. the 2nd day of startling news for former president i believe just as he prepares to begin handing detention amid the witness tampering investigation he announced he tested positive for covert 19 but for many colombians he's undeserving of any sympathy. like jacqueline christie you're who considers him responsible for the death of his brother jaime a decade ago or dory still how the who lost their son the same way they are 2 of thousands of men that were abducted and murdered by soldiers during his administration been declared rebel combatants to boost war statistics and justify your. a scandal known as false positives they haven't presented this year the court's decision gave us great joy we know it's not about the false positives yet
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but we think it's a great step forward we thought it was out of reach i think it will open the way to the continuation of other investigations into all the other things we know he's implicated in. been a towering figure in colombian politics for the last 2 decades and has been investigated for ties to drug traffickers paramilitary groups any legal spying dozens of his government appointed close allies and even family members have been found guilty of a number of crimes yet then. he unself as always managed to avoid prosecution. millions of colombian support him and believe he is the victim of a conspiracy of the left in response to the supreme court decision his party is calling for a constitutional assembly to change the country's justice system. let the courts this is an is totally arbitrary and a step in the face to the immense majority of colombians who believe you rob is
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honest and demonstrates the columbia's justice is politic ised and not impartial. but political analyst arlene ticknor says the fact that the court went on to detain would even despite incredible pressure against it is unusual do you do it cases unprecedented in terms of the level of the politician involved and so i believe that if indeed convicted this will set a tremendous precedent in terms of future investigations of high level politicians in colombia. jacqueline in dari say they're not interested in retribution they're just hope that after more than a decade the decision to put their house arrest could become a turning point in the search for justice and truth at least in the room and just eat over with. 4 months of corn teen and then economic crisis have left many in argentina feeling insecure or the situation has been worsened by
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a rise in crime reports on how the government is tackling the situation. security personnel on the ground in winter sightings their target is a drug trafficking ring involved in armed robberies. the operation is money toward by the province's security minister said. he sell a 10 in corn and in the army a surgeon and a lawyer he says the only way of stopping when a site is going out of control is to be on the ground every day. we are kompany to him on one of more than 40 security operations that take place every day in this province of 12000000 people that live in so i want to say that the province of borno state is going through a pandemic is the region is a virus but we already had other intimate problems like insecurity it's getting deeper and we need to approach it with all sorts of policies. the raid is not an easy one members of the group try to escape and shots are fired this is great heard
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one side is very aware of high poverty rate and working security has been on the rise and major challenge for the government is keeping the situation in this part of the country under control. the police searched the homes of the suspects for drugs and guns children are terrified. poverty has been on the rise in recent years but says the pin demick began the situation has deteriorated even further the government has increased cash and food handouts but it seems much more needs to be done. better he says the situation can be compared to the 2001 crisis when argentina defaulted on its sovereign debt. even though looting and riots are under control for now inequality has been on the rice. and mental the crime we're seeing now is younger people involved in criminal activities people with no
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criminal background it's more disorganised the crisis that is coming it's worse than 2001 because it's deeper and sharper but we're trying to control it. for people are detained on drugs confiscated but with more security personnel on the ground human rights activists say abuse has increased. we are seeing cases of abuse all around the country with different levels of violence abuse from the police and provincial and federal forces this is not new but it reaffirms that these are not isolated cases and there is a structural problem. argentina struggling to contain the spread of covert 19 and is coping with an economic crisis the challenge is to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control once again. that is how will one of scientists. and the virus is accelerating in peru where concern is also growing about the
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disappearance of women and girls a peruvian women's rights official says more the $920.00 ported missing between the side of the law down in mid march through until the end of june john heilemann explains from mexico city this is a problem in terms of domestic violence and in terms of women and girls going missing that's been happening long before this pandemic it's just really intensified it in terms of today expect this to to go on the intensification well the pandemic improves quote one of the worst def rates in the world and it's one of the worst case rates in the world so it is opening up a bit the country but various different departments regions of that country remain closed down and women's rights officials say that that's really what's intensified this the fact that women a cooped up with abusive partners really is really no way out and that leads to an uptick in violence and of course to the cases of missing girls and missing women
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a lot of cases aren't in the cities as is the case for example in mexico a lot of them are in rural areas where perhaps there's more of a culture of my cheese more of of men feeling that they own women in some in some respects and that a lot of the cases are happening there i should add as well that 2 thirds of these more than $900.00 cases in peru are actually minors these are girls robbed of the women so there's a another sort of added layer of vulnerability that young girls and going missing in the country. india's prime minister narendra modi has laid the foundation stone of a hindu temple on the royals of what was once a mosque the demolition of the babri mosque in 1902 triggered riots in many parts of india and as a random reports. prime minister that in the morty prays before an idol of the hindu god rom ahead of construction starting on a temple and the date he's on earth it's
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a moment many of india's nearly 1000000000 hindus have waited decades for. this temple will be the symbol of our perennial feet in nationalism it will also be symbolic of the united strength of hundreds of millions. but division of the side has led to some of the worst religious violence in india's history and security has been heightened. in 1902 thousands of hindus from around the country came to the town and destroyed the 16th century babi mosque and 22 others. 18 of the muslims living in the town were killed including relatives of. and mohammad shine had. lost everything in the violence my sawmill is here we have thousands of dollars worth of wood they set everything on fire they killed my husband and brother in law. up the koran in our mosque and started stomping on the pages we tried collecting the pages. getting. started attacking people.
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the religious violence spread beyond iowa mohammed child's father and uncle had to have more than 2000 people who were killed around the country leading members of the hindu nationalist bought at the edge on the party are on trial for conspiring to destroy the mosque the b j p had long promised to build a temple it was 1st elected to govern the country in the general election following the mosques destruction. then. that is where the destruction really created a new. created new kind of force. that force ultimately. in the country. after the legal battles of the sides on a ship the supreme court ruled last year that it belongs to him dues now 30 years after he joined the campaign for a temple prime minister met in for more tea is
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a nor gracing its construction and is a purana al-jazeera you daddy. and absent of rating the hindu temple in iowa is on display on a billboard in new york city's times square is paid for by hindu group but the got a lot of pushback a coalition of muslim men secular activists lobbied for it not to be put up and later supporters and critics of the indian prime minister gathered in times square rival demonstrations were peaceful. survivors of the world's 1st atomic atomic have been marking 75 years since the bomb was dropped on hiroshima in japan it was a scaled back ceremony because of colvin 19 about 140000 people were killed after u.s. forces job the bomb in the final stages of world war 2 robert jacobs works with the hiroshima peace institute he says the threat from nuclear weapons is still high. well there's several overall legacies obviously interpersonal the the legacy is
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harm that was done to people loss of family members destruction of families loss of wealth so here in hiroshima the legacy is personal and some of the commemoration is very much about people and ancestors but for us as a society the legacy is that we moved forward from here roshumba into a world full of nuclear weapons in which we all faced risk from nuclear war so as you know there is a treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons that is moving through the united nations mechanisms and this is to address the fact that 75 years later we all still face risk and threat from these weapons so that's one of the primary legacies for those of us who don't have a familial connection or a community connection to these attacks it is easy to forget that and actually there have been over 2000 nuclear weapons tested since 1945 we think of the cold
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war as a period of time in which nuclear weapons were not used but statistically a nuclear weapon was being detonated every 8.6 days during the cold war millions of people were exposed to fallout and it's pertinent that you mention the court case with the black rain survivors those were people who were outside of the city so they weren't affected by the blast or the heat of the radiation but they were affected by the radioactive fallout. there again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera lebanon's cabinet has declared a 2 week state of emergency in the capital beirut following tuesday's devastating explosion at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 danger and about 300000 have been left without homes authorities said they need vast stores of highly explosive ammonium nitrate which they say were kept at the port in unsafe
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conditions for yes several officials are now under house arrest in connection with the blast. twitter temporarily restricted present donald trump's campaign team account on wednesday it was in response to the account sharing video of trump making false claims about the coronavirus hours earlier facebook removed the same video from the president's main page mike hanna has more from washington well president trump stated in that interview phone interview with fox television that children are almost in new from coburg 19 or virtually immune he said as well at a different stage now this is clearly an peyton falls the centers for disease research research the c.d.c. says that some quarter of a 1000000 children have contracted to corona virus and at least 6 have actually died of acute inflammatory situation stemming directly from coburg so this is
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clearly incorrect the counting of votes is underway in sri lanka after wednesday's parliamentary election turnout was down the election had to be delayed twice because of the pandemic present go to by our edge of pax's party is hoping to get a 2 thirds majority so that he can change the constitution and the coronavirus pandemic is killing one person in the world every 15 seconds that's according to a tally by the reuters news agency the number of recorded global desk has surpassed 700000 latin america remains the epicenter with brazil and mexico driving the surge in new cases and fatalities those are the headlines i have more news for you after the stream. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of
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a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and society on al-jazeera. say they're welcome to the stream home edition i'm josh rushing sitting in for femi ok now look if you're watching this on the you tube live stream i need your help to that chat box over there that's a live chat box there's actually a stream producer in there right now waiting to get your comments and questions to me so i can get them to our experts that are in the show today and it could not be a more important show we're talking about family planning during code at 19 i'm going to cure right to my computers to show you a table here and now it's not a it's not a pretty picture but it is an important picture i want you to look right down here at this.
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