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they told us that they saw a liquid happened to their loved ones was a crime. and they want justice and answers something war too often tonight's. hundreds more detained in battle roosts as anger grows over sunday's disputed presidential election. hello again i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from also coming up to a key says talks on the way forward in a dispute with greece of the oil and gas exploration of the eastern mediterranean. india registers another record daily rising covert 19 infections the total. $2400000.00 plus. we are live at all to get
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a consultancy so far safadi taking a trip online the tourism industry looks to technology as the coronavirus pandemic limits global travel. police and better roosts have detained another 700 people on a forced lies of unrest of a sunday's disputed election they join 6000 already in custody in bassa just to belarus have laid flowers at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the crackdown one protester died in police custody on wednesday the unrest was triggered by president alexander lukashenko election victory which the e.u. says was they have neither free nor fair. we were to have reports that people were ill treated during the process of arrest while they were being arrested but also in detention and we do underscore that there is an absolute prohibition on the treatment and torture with very concerned the moral calling for is that those that
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may have been on lawfully detained should be released immediately. 0 step past reports from its. more and more people are joining in here with the spontaneous protest all angry about the police crackdown. some of them are still looking. great many are. out. about a country for their children most of them here are middle class people who have really. feel. the country has come to a standstill. the workers on strike in several factories hundreds of. risking arrest. movement here growing this fight this
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crackdown and everyone is wondering. to this. $9000.00 people have been arrested in ethiopia during recent unrest that followed the killing of a popular musician that's according to the state run human rights commission which says that $178.00 people have died in the violence since june critics now worry that the country may be sliding back towards repression prime minister came to power in 2018 promising democratic reforms us he's had to face growing ethnic tensions over land and resources. going back to. feast made. people prefer investigation. protracted. is a senior lecturer in more kill university and an analyst covering the horn of africa
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he says that has not lived up to his campaign promises. it's unfortunate that the man who has been lauded globally the person delivery an astounding sort of turn around 40 g.o.p. now became it typical african dictator literally investigating the entire political opposition including the very people who brought him to power arresting and jailing opposition leaders such as dr mohammed going to go to perform the all 'd of it us congress individuals leading the autumn of liberation front there are of course going to parties people like to ayala. these are all leaders of political parties who have done nothing except to. democratically contest the youth. hold of you sleep on power but
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unfortunately the man who promised to change and transformation in ethiopia has a very particular way of doing things is extremely intolerant to a position he has now begun to politicize institutions to follow and justice to advance his own political interests and it's very very unfortunate what his how things have changed in such a short bit of time he used a constitutional mechanism internally to postpone the election indefinitely and now . the monday to the government coming close to expiring he has arrested and jailed all political opposition and dragging them before courts in a process that is purely motivated by political considerations. greece and france of held a combined naval exercise in the eastern mediterranean sea greece and turkey along in a tense standoff over turkey's energy exploration which escalated this week with the arrival of a turkish research vessel accompanied by warships france says that its boosting its
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military presence in the area i thought is not we're going to hear michael scotto at the risk of an accident when so many military assets are gathered in such a contained area the responsibility lies with the one who gives rise to just a kind of stances where remained firm in our commitment to international legality and the power of diplomacy to resolve even the most complex issues we will never be the one situation yet self-restraint is only one aspect of our power no provocation will go on and said we have demonstrated that we will respond if necessary and we will do so again if it is required to work then is the truth. the path for a solution in the eastern mediterranean is dialogue and negotiation a formula based on a win win solution that protects the rights of all can be found if we act with common sense and reason busy greece's attitude in the aging and the mediterranean is malicious. i was there was charlie angela reports now on the growing tension
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between turkey and greece. well i spoke to an ex greek naval commander earlier who said that yesterday a greek and turkish frigate had actually been involved in a minor collision so the fear is that in such crowded seas something as innocent as an accident could be interpreted as aggression and this could deteriorate into and conflict because this is all about oil and gas the eastern mediterranean has become somewhat of a gold rush in recent years after israel and egypt found large deposits and on monday when that turkish ship when tend to carry out a seismic survey over greek waters it was flanked by those 5 turkish warships the greek coast guard has put in repeated calls to their shit asking them to turn around and to leave that the but those calls have been ignored so you heard the greek prime minister that saying that he would be deploying his own armed forces and calling on allies for help from receiving that call sending in its own naval
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warships and 2 fighter jets so there's all the see a lot of military hardware going into a very contained area president one saying that he is like you heard open for negotiation negotiation but saying that no country will take away turkey's rights and he's referring to those overlapping maritime claims on the territory that turkish ship the site carrying out the seismic survey is under a u.n. door in turkey in greek waters at the moment but turkey never signed that u.n. door because they think it's inherently unfair that because of greece's very scattered geography they are awarded 71 percent of the aegean sea whereas turkey only gets 80 percent. a school in gaza run by the un's refugee agency has been damaged in israeli military strikes the palestinian education ministry has condemned the attack which came on the 3rd consecutive day of bombardment the school was empty at the time they've been no reports of casualties israel says that it's targeting hamas facilities in response to the group launching balloons laden
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with in century material a senior leader of the muslim brotherhood has died in cairo's notorious scorpion prison egyptian authorities have reportedly refused to hand over the body of. his family saying that they will bury him 10 people will be allowed to attend the 66 year old's funeral and was a doctor m.p. who worked to promote democratic principles within the muslim brotherhood he was arrested in 2013 after the revolution and had been in jail ever since. reports. what's significant about dr samadi on is that he is somebody who was one of the icons of the muslim brotherhood not just within egypt but also internationally he was the spokes person for the group he was one of the few who could speak english amongst its leadership and therefore made a lot of media appearances there he was seen to be more of the quote unquote liberal wing of the muslim brotherhood he was somebody who was also very vocal
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against the hosni mubarak regime as well and actually when the journey 25th protests took place he was one of the few who encouraged the muslim brotherhood followers from the 1st 2nd to actually participate in those protests against the. against the rule of mubarak obviously when the coup took place and he was a member of parliament prior to that he went into hiding for a couple of weeks only to be. hounded by the security forces of these or at least of the military at the time and was in control and therefore was then arrested and has been in jail since there were calls from his family for the past few months for medical attention to be given to him however they were not reciprocated by the authorities and ultimately he met his fate as did other muslim brotherhood leaders whilst they were in jail india has one of the fastest growing coronavirus outbreaks in the world now it's reported its highest number of infections in a single day the $67000.00 new cases bring the total to nearly $2400000.00
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official figures for the number of deaths of more than 47000 but infectious disease experts say that india is still months away from hitting its peak elizabeth 2 other reports from new delhi. yes again another single highest day rise and we also know that one of the reasons that the numbers are going up is because india is testing more than it ever has it's continuing to increase testing. the single highest rise. india also conducted its highest ever number of tests more than 800000 so that it has a better idea of the spread of the infection in the country because remember that point. is thought to be a fraction of the real number of cases the serum logical surveys which have been done around the country show that the real number is many times the confirmed number now the big headline when it comes to coronavirus in the country today is
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that a man who shared a stage with prime minister in the last week at the inauguration of a temple that india's most controversial religious site. where. the 16th century mosque in 1992 he has tested positive for the coronavirus he is the head of the temple and he was seen spending the whole day with prime minister that in there morty and some of the most prominent leaders political leaders in the country. the philippines is planning to start clinical trials of a russian coronavirus vaccine president. wants to begin soon. and hopes to be to get the job himself by may the philippines has recorded the most covert buying teen infections in east asia of the past week prompting strict measures in and around the capital. a weather update banks to announce as they were
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then a continuing state of emergency in lebanon's parliament approves a cabinet decision on which i will have the latest on the mozambican port town but it's at the center of a battle between the military and on. how low we've got the rain clouds gathering once again into central and northern parts of china sea this angry looking. on a satellite picture here and cloud running all the way down through han making its way right the way across into chung do so say some heavy showers longer spells of rain here and that's all generally in the process of pushing further resources of the seasonal rains across the my you front and you can see how it drags its way across the korean peninsula further flooding concerns coming through here heavy rain into northern parts of japan pushing up into hokkaido as we go on through
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friday and into sas then you can follow that straining weather system right back into northern and central parts of china to the south of that still a few showers the well humid down or southern parts of china and on into what muslim areas of vietnam for that same line of showers long spells of rain in sioux myanmar more big downpours coming through here the northeast of india also seeing some very heavy showers we have got warnings in force for many lost a little circulation just developing a little area of low pressure which will bring some very heavy rain up towards that northeastern corner of india back into bangladesh a more very heavy showers all the way up the western guys this weekend. jump into the stream and julian on global community this generation will have to create its own democracy social media. online be part of the debate let me put some
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you tube comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic violence that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to be to transform lives the way he gets human way to business if we're going to adapt to climate break down this street on al-jazeera. well again this is how serious economics remind you of the main news this hour the passage just about a roost of laid flowers at a memorial for victims of a crackdown police of detained another 700 people are forthright about rest of the sunday's disputed election to join 6000 already in custody or more than mine 1000
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people have been arrested in ethiopia during the recent unrest that followed the shooting dead of a popular musician state one human rights commission also says the violence has killed 178 people since june. greece and france have held a joint naval exercise in the eastern mediterranean sea standoff between greece and turkey over energy exploration escalated this week with the arrival of a turkish research vessel accompanied by ships. lebanon's parliament has approved the state of emergency in beirut it was declared by cabinet after last week's explosion but had to be ratified by m.p.'s after 8 days that the days now of protests calling for a complete political overhaul demonstrates as a furious of politicians for what they see as in action that entrenched corruption last week's explosion killed more than 200 people let's go live now to beirut al-jazeera stephanie deca is there staff where are you how are people coping.
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i think that's a question you're talking about about the politics and the repercussions but it really is about how many people's lives changed in a 2nd we are in an apartment that should males apartment for now that has 2 young children she lost her husband here in the apartment which is very close to the port she's telling us her hiring story what you see now in this apartment this is cleaned up so this is after it's just over a week now that they have been cleaning up what remained of the complete rubble and bernadette tell me you were telling me how when you heard we when you saw the smoke that you moved you moved to the balcony tell us a little bit about what happened you have to live like when that in the kitchen. we were all together the my husband and my children and also. almost the mood ok so we looked over the window and we still. smoke.
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cloud that's what we saw a few seconds. in the saying here and my husband stayed in the kitchen but i thought the 2 left the kitchen because there was a carpenter in the kids wrong because the hebrew had brought a new roof for his children or so hockey because they would have a new room that was the last piece of. luck in front of our house. so i saw the kitchen and. so and then after a few seconds the explosion. come there and i was standing there. looking for him for. the smoke of the last 30 years and i don't. know from actually flown there in a few seconds ok and it was really over the knee and my kids we were they
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were playing and i broke for them a spin you. know i was in the. they're putting on it ok i'm going to 2nd guess the smoke come out and the everything was like that so anything just my kids it was friday and i look over his arm i saw. me find this. soul i think. you know really ever since most are like the boat my house at the end i didn't hear anything ok but in my mind i thought he was good he would be fine because me i was standing. at the explosion other was falling and i looked over my well you also heard the looks of the just a little bit so i thought that my husband the 5 and he has someone to happen is something. new took your because i thought my fields and i.
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on the road where. i was the carry came back to my home to see. why my husband never came back than 20 and so i. waited for some minutes for a few minutes and then the security of this. i saw a man walking on the streets like i thought in the country is check my house but still in the house it didn't came down you saw them carry him out right yes after some of the mother thought i was safe. take the kids for a sense ok so he was in the kitchen right we're just going to go into the kitchen to show you the extent of damage that has happened here ok he was standing here after all of those i discovered that there was a mistake he had isn't built for the kids so that's why when the explosion.
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so he was he has in terms of the drilling cause of the pressure of the explosions and you can see i mean the walls but no doubt see the spigot getting only thing anything no anything after a human the few minutes after if those items i didn't follow the here that is this disaster ok other than magic that the eye could see here this disaster so that those are the ones in the sun not just in the subtle because i didn't imagine that i'm following the likeness of those lives straight facing the notion of scale and look everything is this story and i think just me i don't know how long i went live today with my 2 kids oh no i can't imagine i can't understand why my husband has no i'm talking earlier about you like are you angry i'm so angry i'm so
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angry because is his love blanket in this culture if they don't deserve his blood they don't deserve because there was a good man a strength. everyone loves and you log all of the above is the last love zamboni cried from the person. who are saying also your flat your shows a lot of struggle this you know i've lost in the few seconds everything i that in my life all my kingdom in the few seconds 11 years went like this. my my work you can see there are a lot of my clinic i was a dietician my clinic is all were broken there's lots of left ok my house and the most important. point is all it can be after but more and more in my hospital my life i love my life my husband the everything everything was
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a very good man so why he should belong what he should be for the start he or i for no reason you don't for no reason why i should be happy i should be more the only lot of them didn't. you think of the just. people who. was really almost died before her. or no one. no longer with just the no justice for anyone in this country full. of the love of any of. the speech. but don't deserve anything they want. but don't care of all that they'll care about a lot of our world if we have the live if you are 6 and a half year old that is if we are allowed to cry it is coming out because you think i don't know you know that i like to i was not lying or been basically wrong on the
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whole time we've been here not to cry and i think it turns an example this is just one story of hundreds of thousands of people who have been affected by this blast and as you can hear from bernadette there is no hope that there is going to be justice you know when it comes to the ruling class or when it comes to at least when it becomes to the mismanagement of the corruption you know what has happened here what has happened to these people what has happened to these homes is really the ultimate indication of what is wrong here but there is no hope that that's going to change anytime soon. 0 stephanie decker live there in beirut stephanie thanks. fighters linked i saw have taken control of the port know the mozambique is the 3rd time this year that. the prior has been seen to turn as an important part of a 23000000000 dollar natural gas project which is around 60 kilometers away security forces say they've killed 59 members of an armed group trying to occupy the area over the past week or serious from the miller reports from johannesburg there is
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a muslim beacon military presence in that area but this is also an army that is under funded doesn't always have enough resources at hand and so when this attack took place it carried on over a number of days and this is also when the muslim beacon army said that they killed at least $59.00 of these fighters but ultimately the the army was pushed back and the fighters linked to isis to control of the town we do know that the muslim became government has used private security companies to try and assist in trying to keep these fighters outside of this territory it hasn't always been effective in this particular case the private company mercenaries even had dropped ammunition but too far from this particular site to assist the muslim beacon of soldiers a quick you know ultimately this area was lost to these fighters linked to iceland
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of course it continues to be of great concern because it seems as if these attacks are escalating they've been going on since 2017 and this year alone according to the united nations they've been at least $28.00 attacks and that was it just at the beginning of the year and now it appears as if these fighters again in more territory in in an area that is of importance to the mozambique government given the massive gas reserves offshore that amount to at least $60000000000.00. a state of emergency is in place in south sudan state of jonglei after heavy flooding the more than 150000 people have been displaced 500 homes have been destroyed many communities there have already been suffering through sporadic fighting between armed groups the government's issued an urgent call for humanitarian aid. 7 african nations say they'll begin testing for antibodies to get a more accurate picture of the spread of the corona virus liberia sierra leone
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zambia's. cameroon nigeria of morocco will carry out the test from next week consonant has a low level of covert 19 testing it means that the infection rate could be much higher but it's being reported several countries in europe are reporting a surge in corona virus infections france is seeing its highest number of cases since restrictions were eased in may in spain the government says 675 active outbreaks germany has its highest increase in cases in 3 months the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted international travel and tourism of course now though technology editor tours are helping some people get as close as they can to the real thing priya who got explains. japanese businessmen caught so i knew and his wife are traveling to italy 1st class except they're not on a plane. it's
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a virtual cabin where passengers can look at floating clouds and fleeting landscapes projected right next to them the. meals and drinks are served and then they are the virtual reality goggles in an instant rounded travelers in tokyo are transported to the sights and sounds of florence and rome either you are sort of the last of all i often go overseas for business but i haven't been to divvy although i saw it virtually my impression was rather good because i could get an actual sense of seeing things there 1st analyze a japanese entertainment company offering these the most of 2 or say their bookings have gone up about 50 percent since the coronavirus pandemic began of course i'm not so up they cut it with their customers it chooses because they can't travel overseas due to coronavirus they're also customers used to go to hawaii every year but now they can't do that so they came here to enjoy a trip to hawaii. we are live at all pitted a consequences so far safadi in some countries like here in kenya technologies such
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as smart phones and social media also being used to what are called so far safaris live streams that bring people closer to wildlife not just a generate revenue i know when is the conservation efforts but also to attract visitors in future companies say governments are also stepping in to use virtual reality for tourism the tourism industry or. a lot so people cannot really move around and then because they're not generating income at the moment it's difficult for that dish sort of technology in in they walk and i think that is where we are seeing that government is now stepping up so they are basically providing funds to do dish going to things to get people to at least travel virtually at the moment the international air transport association says 2020 will be the worst year on record for aviation with an alliance expected to lose more
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than $84000000000.00 international tourism numbers had already talked by 90 percent as of may virtual reality may not come close to real destination before some it's as close as still get to holiday until they can travel again. to tell even a slower a very unforgiving headlines from al-jazeera a new ambassadors to belarus have laid flowers at a memorial for victims of a crackdown that police have detained about a 700 people are forced by of unrest of a sunday's disputed election they join 6000 already in custody. the u.n. human rights office has condemned the violence against protesters and is calling on bail reuss to release the detainees we do have reports that people. during
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the process of the last one being arrested also in detention and we do understand absolute. treatment and told with very concerned that they have been detained should be released immediately more than 9000 people have been arrested in ethiopia during recent on rest that followed the killing of a popular musician that's according to the state run human rights commission which says that $178.00 people have died in the violence since june critics worry that the country may be sliding back towards repression greece and france of have a joint naval exercise in the eastern mediterranean the standoff between greece and turkey of energy exploration escalated this week with the arrival of a turkish research vessel accompanied by warships. a school in gaza run by the un's refugee agency has been damaged in israeli military strikes the palestinian education ministry has condemned the attack which came on the 3rd consecutive day
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of bombardment a senior leader of the muslim brotherhood has died in cairo's notorious scorpion prison egyptian authorities reportedly refused to hand over the body of. his family saying that they'll bury him. was a doctor m.p. who worked to promote democratic principles within the muslim brotherhood and was arrested 2013 after the revolution he's been in jail since india has reported its highest number of infections in a single day the 67000 new cases bring the total to nearly 2400000 official figures put the number of deaths more than 47000 but infectious disease experts say that india is to months away from hitting its peak there's the headlines morty's fear of 0 after the stream next. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter
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of 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. let me take you back to when you're about maybe 5 or 6 years old how would you handle the current advice i am for me ok the home edition of the stream i topic today is that mental impact of a global pandemic on youngsters age between north and around fighting is if you will in u. shape tell us about your family the kids in your family the kids that you know how are they managing share their stories share your coping solutions we really would love to hear from gave and also before we get the conversation started we checked in with some of the string family kids to see how they're talking about.

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