tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera August 23, 2020 4:00pm-5:01pm +03
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for a military style white to radical surgery one o one a steve instigates is the shining battle to get in shape on al jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson this is news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the army is deployed in central minutes because tens of thousands of people take to the streets calling on the belorussian president to resign. fraudsters fugitives and convicted criminals my knowledge is the investigation identifies some of the fallen those buying a new citizenship in cyprus. india records more than $3000000.00 coronavirus cases
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and the world's highest daily increase in covert $1000.00 infections plus. i'm webb in a tea plantation in kenya as highlands more than 60 years ago british colonialists forced the local people off their land to make space for it will be speaking to the few that still survive about their fight for justice. in the sport and finally to take on paris for the european champions league title will be in lisbon ahead of the big game. the opposition and belarus has called for another round of mass protests to push for president alexander lukashenko his resignation 2 weeks after he claimed victory in a disputed election these are the scenes in the capital many square tens of thousands of people are now streaming into the center of the city defined has ordered the
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army into full combat readiness in the past hour of the russian foreign minister has come out in look assange has support. says there is no way to prove the embattled belorussian leader did not win the presidential election despite a violent crackdown demonstrators have been coming out every day since the disputed vote on august the 9th. in minsk with the latest. this is the 1st time that we actually see tons of military trucks right in the center of minsk there parked here behind me at the opposite side of the independence square carrying soldiers it's not clear how many of them are here but what we do know is that yesterday has announced that he will solve the problem as he mentioned as he called it in the next few days a lot of people of course are worried for not a crackdown the same we saw just after the election results was announced and claimed that he had won 80 percent of the vote that it was the riot police who
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cracked down on the protests but also on random people on the streets 7000 people were detained at the time since then police have been merely absent from the street and also know our soldiers were seen last week we had a large rally here of more than 200000 people fairy peaceful no police at all only some traffic police well this is a very different atmosphere today here in minsk this is definitely something that i hear has been really annoyed about he has of course for the last week increased his rhetoric that foreign forces are provoking the protests here in that it's not an internal problem but an xterm no problem he showed up at the western border yesterday wearing military clothes also saying that there are nato troop movements so basically all of creating some kind of war atmosphere at the border but now he has created the same war kind of atmosphere here right in the middle of mints. and
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al jazeera investigation can reveal cyprus has been sending e.u. possible its to convicted criminals fugitives and fraudsters the large leak of possible war data to our investigative unit reveals serious flaws to the island's so-called golden pos board scheme which has generated more than $8000000000.00 for its government and the 1st of our exclusive reports on the cyprus papers here's deborah davies. to become a citizen of the mediterranean island nation of cyprus costs more than $2.00 and a half $1000000.00 among those who've paid that russian businessmen of he'd already served a prison sentence for extortion and the chinese investment tycoon junk a changin who had been jailed for fraud the cyprus paper has a large data leak obtained by al-jazeera revealed it to an all 1000 people from 74 countries who bought a cypriot passport. cyprus says it checks applicants have
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a clean criminal record but we found multiple cases of applicants who wanted by police at the time they was sold cypriot citizenship. was already wanted in ukraine for large scale theft of public funds. in june prosecutors displayed the $6000000.00 they said was offered in bribes to end years of investigation into his energy company. slit chev ski denies any involvement his cypriot passport allows him to live out of ukraine and he didn't return for questioning. vietnamese businessmen pham that blue won't be using his cypriot passport any time soon he was already facing trial for bribery when he bought it see how. we found 30 people linked to criminal activity who've bought so-called golden
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passports allowing them in their wealth to move freely around the e.u. . the passport scheme of cyprus is a risk to security in europe these passports are for high value in particular for people from countries which have a record of economic and political criminality passports and citizenship should not be for sale they are not a commodity the cypriot interior minister told us no citizenship was granted in violation of regulations and the independent committee now studies and evaluates previous applications and a new law can strip citizenship from suspected criminals that shooting clude father and son malek sabet and mehdi ebrahimi they wanted in iran for money laundering and fraud and facing similar charges in canada but many deny all charges the cyprus papers suggest they're among dozens he may have used their golden
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passports to evade justice deborah davis al-jazeera london sort of fulfills a reporter at the organized crime and corruption reporting project and she says this is yet another call for european agencies to take action. a couple of years ago we organized crime and reporting project we. called for was called it was our either projects are now. samurai of european countries running managing programs similar to the stupid ones to say that easing section $12013.00 the separate program in particular have raised. concerns and worries but probably with. these are just your investigation shows for the 1st time of the strength of number the extent to which. things. even the council of europe until money laundering agency in the 29000 who force highlighted the super problem
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was inerrantly. to money laundering and this is also. this is also if this comes off suppose there reinstate is as in having a marriage or above to money laundering and the shipper program is strictly dived to the realistic market i think this investigation this year papers was a. cold and that was more to the european union because in essence what cyprus is selling is a european passport to. a separate possible without all the set up rights that come out with the european states and with an at wouldn't be sort of europe or investors or or i networking leaders from or around the war so i think this is probably the time for the european union to turn. into some actions. protesters in southern iraq have given the local governor until now to
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resign or face more on rest the rallies have been sparked by a number of killings of prominent activists and people are demanding those responsible be held accountable by most and most of all how to me is in basra to find a solution to the crisis this is about he has the latest from the capital baghdad prime minister mr kadhimiya arrived in basra only hours after returning from his trip to washington d.c. he met local politicians late on saturday night with the hopes of calming the anger on the streets but he had a warning for those looking to cause trouble that is not only could we should i mean this is a message to all criminals and killers this is a new government that this war can to establish the prerequisites of security it aims to establish security employees in crime i'd like to tell everyone who carries a weapon contrary to the government's law they would ski punishment on the killers will be brought to justice very soon i'd like to tell the criminals who us in
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$87.00 hashimi the scene and the young female doctor that your blog will be a title for justice john a 33 year old $300.00 cubits the young female doctor prime minister kazumi refer to she was a prominent activist investor and let several women's marches she was killed on wednesday when gunmen with assault rifles riding a motorcycle opened fire on her car. days earlier godman had shot dead activists seen osama their deaths spoke days of protests and on rest fueled by anger protesters set fire to local government buildings in the southern iraqi city demanding those responsible be brought to justice and calling for the resignation of the provincial governor danny the recent rise in targeted killings poses a challenge for the new prime minister there have been nearly a dozen attempts on the lives of well known activists this month and 4 have been killed 3 of them in basra the prime minister dismissed the local police chief last
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week after osama's death in response a number of senior tribal leaders issued a statement saying the armed themselves if the government fails to protect the people this is the worst andress the city has seen since last year's protests which led to the resignation of prime minister of the law. is known as the wealthiest province in iraq it's home to most of the country's oil reserves yet it has some of the worst facilities of public services years of mismanagement and corruption have led to protests on a regular basis. let's go live to dorset regarding who's in the door so do we have any further updates about what the situation is like and. we've just been hearing from a number of protesters who have. reached out saying that they have begun to gather in the city. they feel that their demands have not been met so we are expecting to see some crowds again this evening in that city we also have heard from the newly
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appointed chief of police in basra province he issued a directive earlier on sunday to his entire staff and all the security apparatuses in that province there was a number of things he highlighted the 1st was that there are to be no armed civilians in that province this is something that the police will be trying to regulate encouraging people to lay down their arms to try and dissuade people from escalating the tensions that are ongoing there the other issue that was mentioned in this directive by the newly appointed police chief is that vehicles that do not have license plates will be stopped and taken in by police this is in an attempt to try and rein in these militias that many believe are behind these killings of these protesters that appear to be very tense in that province the prime minister has left already we understand that he's back in the capital and the protesters that we are hearing from over the past few minutes say that they are gathered yet again and
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they are going to demand the same thing that they've been demanding over the past few weeks the local governor needs to resign and there needs to be accountability there needs to be people brought to justice for these killings. as dosage of bonnie bring us up to date from baghdad on the situation in the southern city of basra a dorsal thank you very much. time on the head of the news hour including. i'm wayne hay reporting from chiang mai in northern thailand we will tell you why an old protest movement may be about to hit the streets again. massacres in colombia's countryside raising questions on whether the relief brought by the 2016 peace deal with fog has come to an end. and in sports with joe we've got action from the men's tennis to returns after 6 months time because of the pandemic.
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because she enters from the west african regional bloc ecowas a meeting could leaders in mali's capital bamako delegations trying to find a way forward after mali and colonels forced president either him. to resign and dissolve his government on tuesday ecowas condemned the coup and close the borders to neighboring countries cheering crowds welcomed the toppling of the government ahmed address is following developments from the nigerian capital he's joining us live and ahmed this meeting with the. the coup leaders was unexpected today because they were supposed to be meeting representatives from the u.n. . exactly followed the brief meeting they had yesterday and a lot of expectations were placed on yesterday's meeting but eventually after 15 minutes members of the delegation walked out of that meeting some report to suggest with a gloomy faces or unhappy faces from there they proceeded to cut the camp of the
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military camp where president abram booker catered some members of his cabinet had been detained by the military overnight they met them and according to the leader of the allegation from what i did and president. good luck jonathan he was very well they met him in fine spirits and there were some discussions there were rumors abound as to what was discussed some of them. probably talking about how the delegation wanted to know if brian booker caters position or about situation of things and whether or not he is coming back to power but those are still rumors so the meeting ended abruptly yes today and then overnight they got to meet the detainees and this morning surprisingly this information came in that meeting the coup leaders at the ministry of defense putting on standby the meeting the early a meeting shuttle would be african union on the united nations in bamako so right
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now for more than 2 hours they are still locked in that meeting there's obviously an expectation on the part of the ecowas team that they this may produce some sort of result but the military has an awful lot of support for this action hasn't it it looks as though ecowas doesn't really have very much to negotiate on. exactly they really they really are in a very tight spot it depends on what of course. cater told them last night but the momentum is on the side of the military right now. may also realize that even if he was returned to power it will be the same demonstrations it will be the same discount and on the part of the opposition and somalians who are feeling the pinch of economic slowdown the poverty levels are high and then the question of security in north and central mali are still there yet to be resolved by the government of president. so
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a lot of commentators diplomats are looking at various options how will the military get a soft landing that will also bring in one thing into play there will be. returning to power that would one course want to see a swift return to democracy in mali and that will be probably that could be what they are discussing right now. thank you very much ed senator is following the story from the nigerian capital abuja india has now confirmed more than 3000000 cases of coronavirus after recording over 70000 new infections in a single day the country's leading the world in numbers of new cases covered 19 and spreading through google areas across the country especially in the north india has the 3rd highest number of infections after the united states and brazil. is from the center of social medicine and community health now for university he says
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there's a need for an improved plan to curb the spread of the virus. underside of concern to change one that it's increasingly spreading to smaller towns and villages. the public and services certainly recurrent that did this speaking. as well as the fact that though on the aggregate tests have shown up. in terms of tests per 1000000 population india is still a lot behind comparable countries such as the brics nations all they're testing for a serious and u.k. india is certainly putting in a lot of emphasis on testing however what is also true is that the info infrastructure and resources need to be augmented a lot more to make testing available to instill greater confidence in the public and system so that people who come forward went even relatively minor symptoms and
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get tested and the other thing that's really crucial for containing from here on is the extent to which people. practice and certainly enhance preventive behavior such as masses such as distancing as unlock gets into newer and newer areas in other words as newer and newer sectors of the economy open up that the indian health authorities both central state as well as local health authorities certainly in hundreds the risk communication strategies and greater degrees of very sensitive community engagement south korea has reported its biggest rise in corona virus infection since march was in 400 new cases such as jump marks the 3rd day they've crossed $300.00 most of the new insights and it's come from the densely populated seoul area the government has banned large scale gatherings and shut nightclubs and
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churches. to than that of the recently we've been having more than 300 patients for 3 consecutive days it's not just happening in the capital area but in 17 cities and provinces nationwide we are in a very grave and serious situation facing a nationwide pandemic antigovernment protesters are gathering in thailand following weeks of student led rallies calling for elections and a new constitution that's despite a state of emergency to control the spread of coronavirus and the recent crackdown on government critics on thursday police arrested 8 more activists including 2 popular rappers for defying a ban on public gatherings or in haiti has more. calling for political change is coming at a cost for many protest leaders in thailand here in the northern city of lumpur $2.00 students were among the latest to be ordered to report to police to hate charges against them for their part in organizing a peaceful rally for most of the tab i feel like thailand is becoming
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a country that takes away people's rights it's honestly shocking what's concerning about this situation is the fact that a country that claims to be democratic is trying to stop students expressing their opinions here the student led anti-government movement has spread to many parts of the country including the north and northeast traditional strongholds of a group known as the red shirts that staged large rallies in the capital bangkok in 2010 that ended in a violent military crackdown. that been largely quiet in recent years but as the momentum of the current protests grows red shirt leaders in the north of fixing their loudspeakers and entering the fray panchen with the direction students are going these protests have more power than before because everyone is coming together it isn't just red shirts or adults or people who follow politics or. the protesters want a different more democratic political system from the one that allowed the army general who led a coup in 2014 to stay on as prime minister after last year's election but they
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also want to change an economic system that has helped to make thailand one of the most unequal countries in the world which is being highlighted and made worse by the corona virus pandemic the city of chiang mai in the north relies heavily on international tourism and is being hit harder than most. the protest movement is already showing signs of spreading way beyond just students and the city probably encapsulates the threat that poses to the government most people here have never supported this government and now many are hurting economically. despite all the arrests and charges against proteus leaders they say they won't be deterred and will continue fighting for a better future. for him and i just had a hung fear can only be used once or twice there's been many cases where they tried to report the protestors but at the end of the day after everyone is over that fear it becomes a catalyst to come out more and go against the government. apart from arresting and
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charging lead is the government and police haven't tried to stop the protests yet but as the movement grows and becomes more diverse intensifying the pressure on the government that approach may change soon wayne hay al jazeera chiang mai thailand german doctors are running tests on russian opposition leader alexina volunteer for suspected poisoning it was found to berlin in an induced coma on saturday from a facility in the siberian city of on sc russian doctors initially considered an avanti too sick to be flown out of the country but they changed their position late on friday dominic kane is in then and he's been monitoring of on his condition. mr novelli is going through the process of having a thorough going diagnostic series of tests performed on him by the doctors and nurses in the chalet to the hospital behind me here in central l.a. and no statement given from the hospital so far as to watch the
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have found all we know is that on saturday they said that they would be performing this battery of tests and until they were in a position to inform his family of what their conclusions were they would be making no statement we know that they do not anticipate any news conference taking place on sunday one development report today is that mr van these wife yulia is with him she has gone into the hospital and is therefore with him and is able to ask the doctors what their findings have been and that sort of thing but nothing has been made public remember she is the one who alleges that those russian doctors who 1st treated mr know of our need didn't lay the release of mr vanney for long enough in her words for whatever was in his system to degrade making it harder for it to be detected clearly if there is something in his system which has made him so poorly and it will be the staff here in the show hospital who will discover it so as i say
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you really are never naive that's his wife yulia. ledges that the delay was to allow what was in his system to become degraded hard to find the problem for all of us here is that we know it's unlikely there be any kind of statement from any party in this affair today and the 17 people have been killed by armed groups in a 24 hour period in colombia it's one of the most violent days since the signing of a peace deal in 2016 and as alessandro ramp yet it reports it comes after weeks of increased unrest across the country. a truck carrying 6 bodies arrives at a morgue in south west a town long at the center of the country's civil conflict as family members grieve soldiers and police look on these killings were one of 3 incidents in just 24 hours that left at least 17 young people dead in remote regions of the country it was the
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deadliest day since the signing of the 2016 peace deal with fired rebels that aimed to end the worst of the violence. there are groups we try our fighting each other for control sources of illegal rains mainly related with narco trafficking but also illegal gold my. chart targeting youngsters in order to try to instill fear and week ago colombians had already been horrified by the killings of 8 college students near the border with ecuador another 5 young people were shot dead just days before outside the city of cali massacres of this nature had long been routine in the internal conflict as paramilitaries get 3 years in the army fought for control of territory but after a lot following the signing of the peace deal violence has returned as the government has failed to assume control and implement peace reforms in those areas
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the government has condemned the attacks and downs to a new special military unit well downplaying the increase in violence. one of the. culprits of connected homicide. investigations to clarify the facts that have affected this region by the anti country. but the united nations mission in colombia says they have already documented $33.00 massacres seems to beginning of the year and they are calling on the government to do more to implement the peace accord the sudden spike in killing outraged colombians reminding many of the worst days of the conflict just as the country struggles to turn the page on its violent path alison that m.p.'s. in peru at least 13 people have been killed in a stampede during an illegal party at a nightclub in the capital lima more than 120 people tried to flee the thomas the
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rest the ball club as it was raided by police the party violated restrictions imposed to curb the spread of corona virus through his latin america's 2nd worst affected country i temperatures and lightning strikes are continuing to fan hundreds of wildfires in california at least 6 people have been killed and nearly 700 buildings have been burned so far as was sparked by a lightning storm that burned more than 400000 hectares of brush and forest. and it's time for the weather here is rob i'm looking at the map behind you there are a lot of lightning strikes on that map as well and a couple of storms moving there on actual facts the story you just talked about in california genevieve was a hurricane which is no longer the case but it's throwing a lot of thunderstorms up through mexico and into california might unfortunately make things worse might start more fires but we're talking about the wet bit so if further east to tropical storms in this mass of tired if they both appear in the
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gulf of mexico the same time they'll be the 1st time in 60 years and i think they probably will but as we stand at the moment we've got tropical storm laura that's in the book probably of the haiti at the moment and then marco just about a hurricane in the middle of open water in the gulf. this one is moving quite quickly lowered went through quite a rico yesterday and last night doing sort of montgomery's a tropical storm might do it's not a hurricane remember its name is defined by the wind strength so it produces a lot of rain did some wind damage is currently about the same strength as it was then as it moves across haiti towards eastern cuba for the rest of today so the winds about 85 kilometers for out the movement is quick and the main risk is probably going to be from our eyes a bit of wind damage and mudslides or what happens on the coast celtic seas and swell that extends out towards the bahamas to turks and cake will take us and also eastern cuba right laura and his position on let's go to marco say it's very close
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to being called an actual harakah i'm for the next day or so it's going to warm the north woods towards the coast of the u.s. and its likely to make landfall sometime late tomorrow it should still be just a hurricane these damages like to be more from storm surge in the wind and i know we're going to be checking that in the next few days good story for now rob thanks very much indeed still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm listening in a consenting adult chile and this is one of more than a 1000 shanty towns that are popping up all over the. entry coming up i'll explain why. i got in sports with joe things get a little heated inside the basketball bubble a disney. history has called it the great war in the final episode the 2 sides fight themselves to a standstill while britain and france conspire behind closed doors to produce
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a secret agreement that will shape the middle east for the century to come world war one through our bodies on al-jazeera on the deserted streets of they've become familiar figures couriers on bicycles delivering food or medicine to lock down colombians most of them here are venezuelan migrants they might go on this a mother of 4 says contagion is always on our mind none of them receive health insurance for their work and exposing themselves and very few seem to have it yet there may be a bright side people who look down on them as own skilled migrants now say they're essential to control the virus and receive messages on the out saying that we are you knows i was a nurse back home what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. or.
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what i want to see are a reminder of our top stories this hour another major anti-government rallies underway in the capital by the loose it's the latest in a wave of protests against the disputed reelection of president aleksander because sanka. and al-jazeera investigation has discovered discovered cyprus so. e.u. passports to convicted criminals all those under police investigation the interior minister denies any citizenship rules were broken. india has now confirmed more than 3000000 cases of corona virus after recording more than 70000 new infections in a single day the country's also leading the world in numbers of new cases. lebanon
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is now in its 2nd full day of a 2 week partial lockdown after a surge in coronavirus infections there the health minister is warning that hospitals are being overwhelmed by the number of cases lebanon's health system is under serious strain after 6 hospitals and 20 clinics were damaged by a huge blast in beirut nearly 3 weeks ago 70 jackers in beirut and she's spoken to a specialist about how lebanon's health system is coping. hospitals are at a breaking point they are ready were you know before the crisis before the explosion because of the economic crisis and then you had a rush of thousands of people going to the hospitals injured severe injuries because of a catastrophic loss and then now you have the corona cases on the rise so want to talk more about the specifics of that and what it really means we're going to be joined by dr anna far she's a doctor of infectious diseases tell me a little bit about what strain you're under house situation because so little the doctor so the situation at the moment this is quite dire because you know after the
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blast the blast was just a couple of weeks ago and the not only did we have a lot of injured people but also we had problems with the building per se so we have sources are broken windows etc and in all of that we have the corona cases are on the rise that need special rooms a special security equipment. you know for the preventive measures so the economic strain is quite dire and we're seeing it on the patients that have a hard time paying for the care that have a hard time apart having hard time finding places for the care especially the intensive care unit. how serious is it would you say i mean how people are saying that you cannot cope is it at a breaking point what what needed to be done it is at the breaking point because we are at the beginning of our epidemic and this is just we're just in the beginning were the 1st few weeks and we expected to get worse was in the very near future within the next couple of weeks it's going to get much much worse and i don't think
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we are ready for that really. a community of more than $100000.00 people in kenya is seeking compensation from the british government for forced displacement from their homes and farmland it happened under colonial rule in the 1st half of the 20th century to make way for plantations most of them have lived in poverty ever since a multinational tea companies profit from their land welcome why a bunch of the town of calico in western kenya rehabs their stories. when elizabeth for a way recalled what happened nearly 70 years ago the memories were clear and painful she was a young woman at the time british colonialists forced her and her family from their farm land here in creature county in kenya. and setting our houses on fire was painful there was a lot of hunger i remember my child almost drowned in the river. ever
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since she lived on this small piece of land much larger more fertile land that was once home could be seen on a distant hilltop we went to have a look elizabeth says her husband planted this tree a few years before the eviction demick ate their land and try and stop the colonialists from taking it it didn't work a plantation manages a house was built where she says her once stood and the rest of the land became part of a tea plantation that today multinational companies millions of dollars every year . the tea plantations cover about 100000 hectors which were grabbed throughout the 1st half of the 20th century hundreds of thousands of people violently a victim from here some say they were maimed tortured and raped. today the land belongs to 5 international companies the largest are unilever and finley's who
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export the tea to europe. neither responded to our request for comment some of the surviving a victim and their descendants live in a settlement of shacks in a remote corner of the vast plantations everyone here says the lands too little to earn a living wage from farming. godfrey sang's a historian an activist who's compiled hundreds of testimonies and documents from colonial records he says it's time for justice get uni off nic these people can breath they can do anything look at dow believe this kind of squalid conditions yet the billions of dollars per pre-dated from this land none of which are coming back to benefit their local communities here godfrey's work form the basis of a legal complaint submitted to the british government on behalf of more than $100000.00 surviving this place people they've also submitted it to
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a un special rapporteur the british government has said it's too long ago william kip langat says it's not he was a teenager when he was a victim when his parents his father was one of few people here who could read and write at the time and he kept records of everything he was in prison for resisting william says he was tortured very bad to a few so much pain when i speak about these trying to forget it all i don't think will ever heal until the day even the day our father died he wasn't supposed to day then it's because of what he suffered the anger and so much war to. malcolm webb al-jazeera can reach a county kenya or more countries have begun demanding compensation from their former colonial rulers namibia has just rejected germany's offer of nearly $12000000.00 for the killing of tens of thousands of people in the early 1900 the
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government calls the amount an insult in turkey 13 the u.k. agreed to pay millions of dollars to kenyans who had been tortured in detention in the 1950 s. but only once belgium and germany to pay billions for abuses joined decades of rome democratic republic of congo is also demanding compensation from belgium in june king phillipa became the 1st belgian monarch to express regret for acts of cruelty jury in its colonial past and india has called on the u.k. to pay compensation for 2 centuries of colonial rule rodney dixon's a barrister temple garden chamber he's joining us from london by skype thank you very much indeed for giving us your time so find a study correctly and please correct me if i'm wrong i think you're involved in this latest claim by the kenyan group that we were talking about earlier if that's the case and given the fact there seems to have been some success in the past about getting money from various governments how confident should the kenyan people be in
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this case of getting some sort of reparation. yes we are acting on behalf of the kenyan group and there they is some hope because of some governments now are beginning to recognize that they need to be reparations for past wrongs but but what my clients want 1st and foremost is an acknowledgement of what happened in the past that there is an apology for that and then appropriate compensation there has been a start in certain countries the u.k. government has also in kenya recognized certain wrongs which they have sought to provide reparations for but for those of creature county nothing yet and we are pursuing that with the u.k. government and with the u.n. in order to get what is rightfully theirs other prevailing previous efforts to get
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compensation why is it taken so long to start this process. the process has been going on for a many years and just because they wasn't compensation given at the time is no reason thought the u.k. government now to be saying it's too late that that doesn't sound very convincing or fair i think any objective view of that would say just because at the time it's wrongs are committed you didn't correct them then well then you can forget about them the people we act on behalf of many of them are very old and they want some acknowledgment before they die and for their children to benefit from some reparation as well why is the emphasis being placed on the british government to provide some sort of reparation fine it's appears to have been corporations and companies at the time who are carrying out these acts that push these people from their lands. my clients are focusing on both both the colonial government at the
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time who removed people from their land often very violently and took over the land and then also those companies who were given that land to use for farming saw the plantations so both being addressed in order to provide the necessary recognition and compensation it's not one or the other but one led to the other and the companies that are there at the moment of benefiting directly from it and they should realize that and they should engage in this process so i thought they have refused to and that's very disappointing we appreciate your time server adi dixon thank you very much indeed thank you. ok let's get more on our top story those protests and brother was calling for the resignation of president nixon the vice and is live for us now in minsk step earlier on we were seeing pictures of independence square in minsk absolutely
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packed with people but just a few moments ago i saw pictures of people streaming away from independence square do we know what's happening with them. yes they are moving now to a different location to continue their rallies tens of thousands are now sort of spread around the city moving to this place called stone and that's also a place where there have been protests before there were unbelievable numbers indeed at the independence square earlier. also leading up to this square full of people. similar number we saw last sunday and then people said it was more than 200000 people coming to the square to ask for the resignation demand the resignation of and also for him to be brought to justice for a police crackdown that happened just after the election all the threats that the president has made in the last week and also now it's in
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a sort of new crackdown mobilizing the military to where tens of military trucks standing nearby also riot police was nearby it didn't help at all to deter people away from this rally nobody was afraid i spoke to many people there they were all saying whatever happens we are not afraid they brought even their small children who were family there was quite a cheerful. as i saw we were seeing reports that apparently according to the defense department that it was the army and not the police who were going to take be responsible for protecting national monuments and statues if there were going to be protests near them now that does seem to be a marked change in the way that the defense minute. story is approaching this and yet from what you're saying the hasn't really affected people's willingness to come out onto the streets. absolutely there was this worry this morning when the minister of defense announced that the they will
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protect all these monuments including the independence square there are monuments there us while they were playing out some kind of soviet style music as well urging people to leave the square to were like loudspeakers repeating this message on and on again but people were just moving it away and continued singing their songs and yelling their yells that they've been yelling for the last 2 weeks same sterve military that we saw on standby was completely outnumbered simply by the crowds but start bringing us up to date with the situation in minsk i know we are going to be checking in with you as the process continues to thank you very much indeed. still ahead on al-jazeera we're going to hear from one of yesterday's stars of the french club aims to make history in europe that's coming up with sports with just.
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frank assessments seeing that. there's. like being superficial informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of breakdown many calls or region are actually under a de facto state of the nudging scene critical debate after the use of proxy because nothing of recent big interest of the few people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. al-jazeera.
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the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the myth that chile is lucky america's most prosperous nation job losses have left many without the means to pay for housing many families have had to resort to land takeovers setting up informal camps and building their own shacks cinnamon reports from the port city of san antonio. the beauty of the pacific ocean from whale point is picked tackler but the dozens of families staking their claim on this piece of private land haven't really had time to notice. jessica used to live in a 3 bedroom house with
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a bathroom running water and a proper kitchen but when she lost her job she couldn't pay the rent. so she moved all of her family of 5 belongings into this newly built shack. the neighborhood children also share the television powered by battery so you only figured out well coffee not either i can even cook with gas because i don't have any i there that's my kitchen now i've never noticed the privileged view from here because every day we all struggle to eat every day we have to struggle to get water to wash ourselves as best we can. look leave there's a fire hydrant by the highway everyone helps each other out because they're all in the same boat with no home of their own and out of work. to work in construction in the nearby port. but because of the pandemic building projects closed months ago his children are living in the capital while he puts his knowledge to good use here building them
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a home. i used to have an apartment but rent is going up and i have to choose between eating or paying rent it's one or the other and i have to prioritize when you have children you have to worry most about being able to feed them. they're in a system made in 1000 lang grabs or camps called throughout the country a phenomenon that authorities have been longing and order in the last 9 years the number of camps like this one having crazed by 21 percent but those were pretend demick statistics now what we know is that because of the deep economic recession that's here chile the number of families that will be forced to resort to living in conditions like these will increase dramatically. but leslie lived here with her 2 children when she 1st arrived with nothing now she sells basic goods and has been elected the communities president to organize the distribution of donations mother
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you have a love you know we've received absolutely no help from the government this land grab was all our doing we haven't even gotten the box of food that's been distributed to other people. like thousands of other families they're hoping to turn this improvised community into a proper neighborhood with their own roof over their heads. but they live in anguish because this prime real estate doesn't belong to them they know that in any moment they could be evicted from the place that for now they call home. you see in human al-jazeera san antonio chile. and it's time for the sport here's joe rob thank you well we are just hours away now from finding out who will be crowned football champions of europe this season french club paris and your man are up against german champions by munich in the final in lisbon for p.s.g. it's their 1st time in the final of this competition and striker killian in bapi says he's determined to make history by winning france's 1st champions league title
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in 27 years the last french club to claim the trophy was a limp marsay in 190321 year old pay forms a formidable task force strikeforce packed with brazilian neymar. what i demand seen in a video has you since i joined in 2017 we've experienced a number of disappointments and now we're in the final and that shows i didn't give up and nor did we give up as a team it would be a real reward if we could win the competition with the fridge side that was my mission when i joined. by our 5 time champions that have the highest scoring player in the competition in their ranks in robot level of ski who has 15 goals so far one of the germans key players in defense is also getting motivation from bines history of success in this competition. felines even the. kind inclusive and there is no bigger title to win at club level than the champions league those were the games you'd look forward to watching as a child of course it is
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a shame that the final will happen without the fans but nonetheless it is a huge chance that we want to take the previous bond generation needed 2 shots at winning it we want to do it and one shot a piece global sports correspondent robert harris has been covering the mini tournament in lisbon and says that it's been a success. well it's been highly unusual the fact that we've had the single games rather than 2 legged fortified noise and 75 miles is perhaps made them less cagey affairs they've been more exciting teams of really have to go for it just think back just less than 2 weeks ago the stadium behind me here p.s.g. were so close to going out so the torment they beat something at the lancer had to equalize the 90th minute and then grab the winner perhaps if it had be original format we would have had a more sort of tense affair trying to push it into a 2nd leg when the last couple of hours i had a chance to sit down with the weight of preston alexander schaeffer and what is revealed is he's very keen on retaining some elements of this format if possible he
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said he will have to sit down with the various stakeholders across football to get their views but he says the feedback he's had is it's very exciting and he believes that even though you might reduce the number of games by having single legs from 2 legs the value of them could go up the champions league is was interested before interesting before it's interesting. it's quaint to. experience if you have to think about changing something that works well anyway so it's not the pressure that something doesn't work and we have to change it we don't have to change anything. but. we've got some new ideas and i think it's very hard to hold a final a competition like this in a single city with fans due to all the rival factions gathering but maybe we could see a final 4 format gathering in one week and create that sort of super bowl style for a city or a single country but of course it was this was all
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a forced by the pandemic and the fact that even managed to complete this competition is something that didn't seem possible just a few months ago. david beckham's m.l.s. team into miami have finally got their 1st win of the season and they did it on the home debut at their stadium in fort lauderdale florida up against state rivals orlando city in the end coronas us called twice and the dolphins are 0 also starred as they came out $32.00 winners the result finally sets a 5 game losing streak which was the worst ever stopped by an m.l.s. expansion team. british boxer delay in white dreams of winning the heavyweight world title or in tatters after a shocking defeat he had knocked down russia's alexandra but twice during their fight behind closed doors in london but for europe a vet can got up and ended it with a huge upper cut is the 2nd defeat of white's career and it means he now won't get a shot at fighting tyson fury all day on to walter for the w.b.c. belt. sicking with a fighting theme and things got a little heated in the n.b.a.
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basketball bubble at disney should. strike. you. as you will this is actually his danged 3 in the playoff series between the orlando magic and the walkie bucks magic for james ennis and bucs forward marvin williams were both projected for this scuffle in the 2nd quarter. it was the bucs who went on to win the game no surprise to see us as a record 35 points 11 rebounds and 7 assists eastern conference top seeds now lead the series 21. in the west portland trail blazers star damian lillard played with a splint in game 3 against the l.a. lakers after dislocating his index finger in game 2 and it didn't seem to affect him as he scored 34 points however it wasn't enough because le bron james scored 38
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for the lake has anthony davis got 29 the lakers won by 8 and leave the series 21. the men's a.t.p. tennis. is back with its 1st competitive tournament since february the western and southern open is being played in a bubble in new york at the u.s. open at the same venue 3 time grand slam champion andy murray won his 1st match in 9 months after 2 hip surgeries he beat francis t. a phone who has recovered from coronavirus more replays alexandre's farah of in round 2 to go from dustin johnson has built a commanding lead at the northern trust the world the before followed up around of 60 with a 64 on saturday 7 on the par finishing his round with a birdie and eagle that puts him 5 shots clear of the field heading into the final round johnson is on course for his 2nd p.g.a. tour win since the resumption of the lockdown. the world's top cycling team to meet any os has pulled out of the italian national championship after one of its riders tested positive for corona virus in order basso tested positive on saturday but
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showed no symptoms but he and 3 other riders will isolate 2 weeks is precaution not him a part of the squad for the tour de france which starts on saturday. australia's cricketers are on their way to england for their 6 game tour there the 1st national sports team to leave australia during the current virus and demick one remain in a bio secure bubble in england just like pakistan in the west indies have done for their previous tours. yeah unfortunately there's no credit so the egg me on and give me a bit more about invasion. you know you still you know there's going to be plenty of eyes on the t.v. on i watching ends yes it's to be great to be back out there by. all right that is all useful now we'll have to rub joe thank you very much indeed and that's it for me to sing for this new star i'm going to be back in a moment with more of the day's news and of course you get more details on the web site al-jazeera dogs come join me in
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a couple minutes. after years of overgrazing the damage caused to the precious grasslands of chile is being reversed with one of the world's biggest ever conservation projects. they're pretty emblematic of the kind of hands out if they're plentiful and they're like this one is when you know that the system is going back and that they feel no threats and that's why your car. patagonia on al-jazeera more than 7 decades ago a country was split into really big with dick cheney and now at the time. being myopic all it took was a pan a map of the collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled in 672 had never been to india before al jazeera examines the
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violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these new clear neighbors partition borders of blood. i was taken to prison just now that i was being trained one years or just need of mothering the father of my daughter 8 months. when parents are imprisoned the government doesn't have any plan for the trigger left behind for these children need for they need shelter they are searching for love. my passion is to see that this should be enough prisoners are also given another chance to live like normally shouldn't because they're not a party to that cravings committed by their parents when i finally get to that place to build a home for these children and they see them become somebody used to fall in the
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society fending for themselves. to give me satisfaction. the army is deployed in central minsk as tens of thousands of people take to the streets calling on the belorussian president to resign. i'm not bothersome this is all to see a live from doha also coming up fraudsters fugitives and convicted criminals and all jazeera investigation identifies some of the photos by e.u. citizenship in cyprus protesters in southern iraq to demand the local governor's resignation after the killing of a number of prominent activists.
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