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except of us why are you willing to go. because there are other people that need me people that are sick and dying and not isn't right people shouldn't be dying when there are people who can help them. 0. hello i'm watching the news hour live from london al top story. tens of thousands defied threats of a crackdown a rally against the president in balad loose alexander lukashenko has dismissed calls to stand down as he's pictured carrying a rifle who are in the bulletproof vest also coming up. after this misses a cease fire announcement by the u.n.
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recognize government in libya as a marketing stunt. more protest against police brutality in the united states after another black man is shot dead and fraudsters fugitives convicted criminals and al jazeera investigation identify some of the foreigners buying citizenship in cyprus. munich's moments. before. the winds european football's champions league for a 6th time. over 100000 protesters have taken to the streets of minsk to demand again that president alexander lukashenko steps down it marks over 2 weeks of anti-government
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demonstrations triggered by his declaration of victory in an election the opposition says was reg's a crowd defied warnings of the army being deployed against them in march towards the presidential residence of a square outside the parliament was turned into a sea of red and white by protesters who were waving the traditional better russian flag that's become a symbol of that movement. average. united in one course they gathered in the streets and in the squares of the capital minsk since the disputed presidential vote on august 9th protesters have defied the authorities and have been gathering every day calling for an end to president look ashamed because 26 year old despite the continued threats of a violent crackdown opposition supporters say they won't give up ahead of sunday's rally the bellary saw me rolled into the central city streets a warning to those marching any unrest name only once and statues would not be
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tolerated and they not the police would see to that. arriving back at the presidential palace in minsk the man at the center of this wave of discontent alex on the look. he has the backing of russia who's the moment has condemned the protest movement on saturday railed against the opposition supporters and accuse nato of deliberately positioning its bourses by the country's western border and ordered the army to defend its territory. nato forces are approaching we understood this last year when they announced drills but coronaviruses slowed them down a bit now the situation from their point of view has become unstable internally they have switched back to operations they've deployed all their troops we can see this. nato has dismissed his accusations as baseless. it may bring you to ania thousands joined a human chain spotting 30 kilometers from the capital building to the border
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a show of solidarity not least because it is where opposition to the kind of sky fled to and remains for now she's urged her supporters to keep up the momentum want to know the russian people don't want this president president anymore and it's our people and authorities to this year. and listen and his to hear what the russian people warms this is a protest that has taken root across the country maybe clinging on to power by any means rejecting any talk of voter fraud in his electoral win but it is unlikely that he will be able to cultivate support for his leadership in a country where many say they have had enough of his leadership. al-jazeera. earlier we heard from alexandra. journalist based in the russian capital who's been
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following moscow's response to the unrest in paris she says officials have been encouraging lukashenko to negotiate. mr overall he's saying that the way out is wide and broad genuinely broad national dialogue with michael schenker should talk with the trade unions and that moscow would be ok with whatever he agrees with the opposition at the same time he's a suspect in this quarter nation or council of a position was formed the strange way saying there is a lot of people there they're actually on good russian he went further saying that the her north korea when she came abroad was apparently under some pressure and started again doing political statements supporting and calling for a 4 protests and he also said there is a certain program of the colonel in which these written in belorussian said that the us should go out of your asian consulate should they should go out of the
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a collective security treaty and of the union state of belarus and instead go towards e.u. and eventually nato he even says that it's so there that the russian language should be pushed out on the account of belarusian language calling the kind of artificial language and this kind of rhetorical we heard before and we heard it in the case of ukraine all together with the foreign factor with the foreign interference which is an acceptable. russia is pointing out and saying that it is a parts of opposition that wants to violence on the streets of means and in belarus and they are calling for the bloodshed and that it should be up to belorussian people to decide what to do next or kid giles is a senior consulting fellow for the russia and eurasia program at chatham house joins us now by skype a strong showing on the streets of minutes today but i suppose the question is
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whether this popular pressure can be translated somehow into political gang. yes it's an impressive turnout today after a few days when it seemed as though support for the process was waning in the face of these intensive repressive measures that location because internal security forces have been waging against the opposition there have been tortures there have been a paramilitaries all intended to dissuade people from taking up the opposition's cause and in some cases from not agreeing to sign the false election protocols confirming that both look so put that all together and yes it is impressive that this many people have come out once again today. president alexander lukashenko has had a fraught relationship with russia in recent years now even if moscow is always going to support the existing government and that every this is more palatable to president putin if he's weak and struggling with the last thing russia will want will be an unstable and an unpredictable situation so even though looking at times
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has been a difficult partner for russia better that than something which russia has no control over whatsoever i think that's what lies behind the efforts that we see to support location to promote going out that might seem like the early hard part of it says none of the direct intervention that some people are expecting it a little east asian this crisis but we do see the fingerprints of moscow in some of the new policies that are coming through in billows and as you heard from your correspondent in moscow just now moscow is actually interfering directly by trying to discredit the be a russian opposition by ascribing to them all kinds of anti russian policies which would be at all popular with people in bellows. does that mean that the kremlin has company messed all rolled out the possibility of any kind of gosh ation with the opposition or any sort of reform in the country they do seem to be keeping their options open and i think that's where these calls for negotiations for talking to the opposition actually come in now for all of this time russia has been watching
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and waiting to see which way the situation would develop but there's another angle to this which is disturbing as well which is in the stories that president look at those trying to put together about external aggression against billups you saw him earlier getting off a helicopter or body armor a little rifle and you know ridiculous pantomime trying to suggest that the country is under attack all of this is exactly what russia does not want to hear and it provides a pretext for russia to step in should it wish to. how would it and how would that happen what's their vantage bench and could could materialize well let's take one example look at is been pointing to the western region of grodno near the borders with poland and lithuania is what he says the the center of where nato and the west is trying to stir up unrest to unseat president bush and in fact to attack from outside now it just so happens that's exactly the scenario of a huge exercise military exercise with russia and belarus working together that we
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took place a few years ago calls up in 2017 where precisely that region was the site of these nato shenanigans and the response was for russia to send in troops to work with belarus to suppress that and then that escalated into a broader conflict they took it and that kind of playing with fire blistering up this gore rhetoric but look at shanker that we need to be watching out for now. giles thank you very much for joining us today from the chatham house. now iran's atomic energy organization is saying last month's fire at the natanz nuclear facility was an act of sabotage and that the cause of the blast will be revealed in jew time much as an attack facilities on the ground fire official said the damage was significant enough to slow nuclear development in ousmane comes a day before the head of the un's atomic watchdog arrives in teheran in an attempt to get access to sites believed to be storing undeclared nuclear material as a bake has more from tehran well this is the 1st time they were officially admitted
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that this was an act of sabotage when this incident took place in early july we were 1st told that it was an accident i had taken place then it was revealed that actually there was more damage than previously thought and then we were told that there was considerable damage and it could cause medium term delays for the production of advanced machines but iran said that they would compensate for any delays but creating more capacity now we don't know the exact details of this act of sabotage retold that that will be released by security officials at the appropriate time now this incident did take place over a month ago but was preceded by an explosion east of the one near a military base and then there were several incidents fire power plants and also factories which really suspicions in the country now this isn't the 1st time iran's facilities have been targeted in 2010 the stuxnet virus was discovered at the very same nuclear facility than the tons nuclear facility which is thought to have
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caused considerable damage to iran's nuclear program now no one admitted who was behind that but it's largely thought that the united states and israel were behind the virus but the specific details of this upper target how it was carried out we still don't know. watching the news hour live from london much more still ahead protests as a back on the streets in southern iraq after that deadline for the local governments resignation expires at least 13 people are killed in a stampede in peru's capital after police raided a nightclub for violating coronavirus restrictions. really very frightening. and emotional 1st major title for the chairman of golf who almost gave the game away. a spokesman for libyan warlord khalifa haftar has to missed
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a cease fire announcement by the un recognized government as a marketing stunt. says the truce is actually part of a covert plan to attack us this fight is uncertain i'll just but he made no mention of a power of el ceasefire announcement by the eastern based part of it which is allied to have to search is the gateway to libya's prized oil fields. we believe the ceasefire is false and meant only as propaganda it is simply to throw dust in the eyes this is the reality on the ground and this is what was confirmed or air and land recon all the intelligence we go that proves that in turn to attack our forces in sirte and. well malik traina brings us more on this story now from misrata. this isn't the 1st time that have to has refused to sign a cease fire agreement back in january talks sponsored by ancora and moscow brought the warring sides together the g.n.a.s. internationally recognized government tripoli signed the ceasefire agreement have
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left moscow without signing so and this was when have there was on the outskirts of tripoli since then have to his forces have been forced to retreat there now in syria g.n.a.t. forces are about 7 our position about 70 kilometers west of sirte it's been it's been quite peaceful for the time being but both sides have sort of been reinforcing their positions in recent weeks now we saw officials from the high state council yesterday in a press conference say that they will not negotiate with have to they consider him to be a war criminal when he was his field camp is filled can't military campaign to take control of tripoli has caused thousands of lives thousands were killed hundreds of thousands have been displaced their homes destroyed so they don't see him as a partner in peace now what's significant is that this is the 1st time that i get a solid has signed this agreement so whether or not it's also gain traction with
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have to have to his foreign backers are welcoming the cease fire agreement now and all the stories are following southern iraq is facing the prospect of more on rest it's after a deadline set by protests as for the resignation of the local governor expired they've been demanding justice for the killing of prominent activists in recent weeks i missed cousin me has visited basra in a bid to find a solution and to give a warning. points. a deadline has come and gone but these protesters still don't have what they want. they had demanded the resignation of governor over the killing of prominent activists for now they say they'll continue to protest. on saturday prime minister mustapha arrived in basra only hours after returning from his trip to washington d.c. he met local politicians with the hopes of calming the anger on the streets but he
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had a warning for those looking to cause trouble either decidedly quickly which would mean this is a message to all criminals and killers this is a new government that is walking through established a prerequisite self security it aims to establish security employer gun crime i'd like to tell everyone to look at is a weapon contrary to the government's lol they wouldn't ask a punishment on the killers would be brought to justice very soon i'd like to tell the criminals who us in 87 hashim that scene and the young female doctor. will be a vital for justice john a 33 year old is the young female doctor prime minister kazumi refer to she was a prominent activist investor and let several womans 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 sparked days of protests and unrest fueled by anger
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protestors 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. 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 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. 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 this mural of the scene osama the father of 4 who was killed in
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basra in august 14th quickly went up in tahrir square in the capital shortly after his death and that death is a constant reminder of the risks that activists and protesters face in iraq on a regular basis as the new government tries to bring some stability to an increasingly volatile region dorsetshire bari al jazeera baghdad protests have broken out in the usa said louisiana after police shot and killed a black man on friday but he say try foot pedal and was wielding a knife in the city of la fiat comes off the weeks of protest against police brutality laura manley reports. i'm not here to get everybody motivated to come out of it. on the street simplify out action now the killing of the black by us oh on saturday more than 150 people block traffic on the infantryman highway the site of where hoffa dozen police had surrounded and
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then shot 31 year old trafford padron on friday the incident was captured on video by a bystander becoming my niece was the time a gun. they go shooting no you got to wait we've got to we know you gotta. get on the ground. make me do i want to. be. taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead the louisiana state police say he was walking towards the store with a knife they shot stun guns at him but say they were in affective but activists here see it as another form of police finds against black people i think one of the things that when i got here to this site that disgusted me was the fact that the
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store is still open a man died on the doorsteps of it but circle k. continues to launch a business and allow people to come out here and purchase like nothing happened is a likable black man worth less than that of anyone else the american civil liberties union of louisiana is demanding a fair and best a geisha and trace it pellerin should be alive today instead a family is mourning in a community is grieving. none of the communities is safe when the police can murder people with impunity all when routine encounters escalate into deadly shooting sprees. one of the protesters here were to shoot it i told. a reference to slide by police in minnesota in. that killing spot calls to defund police departments and galvanize a black lives protests across the us which is still continuing in some states
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palin's mother has spoken out about her son saying he was an intelligent man who suffered from social anxiety one civil rights attorney said instead of giving him a helping hand they gave him bullets. people hear a calling for the officers involved to be dismissed this latest shooting spurred the heightened their anger at the police when they say chest to protect. at least 13 people have died in a stampede in peru after a place raided a disco that was holding an illegal party more than $120.00 people try to flee of a club in the capital or off the officers arrived violated restrictions imposed to cut the spread of coronavirus daniel shimer reports. peru has been one of the countries in latin america worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic and now this. dead and injured grieving relatives and
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confusion the father i thought i was there thank god i was saved if not i would have ended up like my sister dead their food take us where everyone was older women who where there were completely scared desperate to get out as everyone has seen the police should have tried to get them out one by one and not move such a large group. neighbors had called police to report a party organized via social media and in contravention of peru's emergency curfew to try to limit the spread of the coronavirus exam was one of them that we entered and we were taken by surprise that it was not for. more than $100.00 the police version is that when they arrived at the thomas. neighborhood to break up the illegal gathering the crowd rush for the only exit trapped in the narrow stairwell they were crushed fixated on. in this police operation or fire in which a gas was used as an information circulating on social media but unfortunately
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misinformed society police acted in strict compliance with the law we acted professionally. police detained 23 people 6 including 3 police officers were injured family members meanwhile gathered outside the nightclub pleading for explanations thorough it is a working to ensure this latest tragedy does not escalate and. we have been commissioned by the health minister peter mazetti to carry out rapid tests on all detainees 1st to identify those who are positive and those who are not 2nd we are going to carry out tests on all police because the police were exposed 3rd we're going to carry out rapid tests on those who helped or who think they have had contact through has suffered more than 27000 deaths from covered 19585000 infected the authorities began to ease restrictions in june to help in the qana me that shrunk by 30 percent only to see infections double in
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the last few weeks. which is era. now the governor of sicily has ordered all migrants and refugees to leave the italian island by monday because of fears of a coronavirus the order also bans migrants from arriving on sicily dozens of migrants in sicily have tested positive in recent weeks the vast majority of its these new infections have been among people returning from holiday that's now speak with free arts journalist seem to who joins us from rome via skype 1st of all does the government in sicily have the authority to issue an order like this against migrants or will it cause problems with the central government in rhyme. well that's exactly the case i mean this really puts the government in sicily these are the government in rome because essentially he signed this ordinance the governor saying that he's barring all migrant arrivals as well as wanting to remove
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the migrants from the reception centers but the interior ministry here in rome essentially has said that the regional governments don't have the authority in our studio that because migration falls under the purview of the central government and so they say he can't actually carry out this action but the sicilian governessing is saying that he feels that it's necessary to do this because he's not getting enough help from the central government or from europe and that he can't exactly guarantee the safety of people on the island and prevent further contagion now it's interesting to note as you pointed out that dozens of migrants have tested positive in recent weeks these migrants in the reception centers insists that believe it really the bulk of cases of corporate 19 in italy are because of people returning from holiday or b.k. ssion and coming into the country and testing positive cissie though has had to
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deal with the burden of migrants because of course it's still graphically closer perhaps to north africa than the rest of the talent mean land and we have seen a surge in migrant arrivals particularly as we are in the summer months and so that the weather and sea conditions do allow for more arrivals of these mind and vessels and of course this is a hot button political issue there in italy isn't it curious that you say. it will be very difficult for the governor to actually enact this move and if so does that mean that it is perhaps just sort of a headline grabbing tactical announcement ahead of local elections. yes indeed i mean it's interesting to note that moose amaechi the guy who bell says there is he's at the center right party. in on top of that you have a matthew salvini the far right leader of the leak party expressing his support for
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missing a cheese suggestions of such an ordinance saying in social media reports that he supports this and of course this coming as you mentioned just before those local elections scheduled for next month you have center left politicians however saying very clearly and left leaning politicians criticizing this move that in fact saying that their sicilian governor is just pointing the blame conveniently at migrants when instead one should perhaps look at the controls that are being taken at ports as well as airports on arrivals and he really technically and restoration for more investment briefly does that mean that actually nothing might happen and what does it mean for that the people on the island that they're refugees and might they be left alone well at the moment it is clear that they can't actually move them that the sicilian authorities don't have that priority but what the interior ministry has said today as well is that they are going to try to work with the governor to
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try and come up with solutions now they have already sent these quarantine ships off the coast of sicily to try and how's these migrants in order to serve up there too we quarantine period as one move but they are looking at other solutions because they do understand that the burden does fall on the island in so the trying to come to some kind of solution and the sicilian governor for his part is a calling for solutions not just from italy but also from europe at large. thank you very much appreciate your time sima got to joining us there from rome. so ahead for you on the news out an expected announcement on a new coronavirus treatment from president trump will be live in washington in a few minutes. an environmental disaster waiting to happen the u.n. sounds the alarm over a decaying oil tanker off the coast of western yemen. and he's battled the injury for years in our affairs as the men's tennis tour turns off to months of course
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because of coronavirus. hello there some nice weather across southern areas of europe very unsettled also central and northern regions but we finally got a bit of a break across the northwest that is until the next system has them but look at this some beautiful sunshine in poland the southeast people enjoying the weather. and also similarly across into albania very organized beach as you can see that now away from that we have a kohls got the rain in the clouds very unsettled through central europe the winds are quite strong as well coming through the channel lower than i was a low countries and the rain spreading eastwards all the time but have a down day in berlin with a high of 22 degrees and also a bad day generally across the u.k. but you can see this mass of blue behind me that is on its way on tuesday some very
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heavy amounts of rain and yes again some very strong winds that the u.k. met office has got warnings in place to choose day and on into wednesday but to the south of there is fine and dry pretty good and warm and then that rain across that will push east was as we go through choose as a very heavy rain through much of the central and western areas of ukraine heavy rain then in london on tuesday with those warnings mostly cloudy a was a the rain moves up to the north and then a few light showers as we head into the how much is also a little bit lower than we have seen lady meanwhile paris firing a little bit better if a little bit unsettled. september on al-jazeera the trial of those accused of helping in the 25th had been paid for it to be seen. as the wild plans to move to was a green and a new documentary examines the brush environmental challenge in this group from the
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postpone the parliamentary elections due to coronavirus return to the. one i want to investigate in-depth stories from across asia and the pacific as u.s. president on the terms executive order banning china's most popular comes into. thank goodness america will get to the screen on us china relations september on al-jazeera. frank assessment what are you seeing in the 76 1st soon as you call the police you see what it's been through if this was true and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera.
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welcome back the headlines now more than 100000 protestors of march through the capital of balor roots demanding that alexander lukashenko step down to the largest gathering country has seen in recent days despite threats of a government crackdown iran's atomic energy agency is saying that last month's fire and attacks nuclear facility was an act of sabotage that the cause of the past will be revealed and you time. a spokesperson for libyan warlord khalifa haftar has dismissed a cease fire announcement by the un recognized government as a marketing stunt. now as you were mentioning u.s. president donald trump is set to make an announcement about a coronavirus treatment very shortly jabbered chancy is in washington and joins us now to me how much information about this.
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yes we do the troubles going to announce of the f.d.a. the food and drug administration is allowing an emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma that is the liquid the pale yellow liquid that's left over when you take out white and red blood cells and platelets from blood leaving a soup of ingredients including a great deal of antibodies the fit the theory is if you take this passive from patients you've recovered from covert dainty and injected into people who are who are suffering from cope with 1000 particularly the early stages of a showing symptoms that this will give a boost to the immune system it will it will fire up the immune system so that the that the patient can actually stop producing antibodies of their own donald trump actually is just beginning to speak now i believe at the white house. and the point is though that there's a sort of political intrigue about this is a genuine scientific debate about this underway right now but it's been muddied
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a little bit because old trump has been accusing the f.d.a. off having a cabal of deep state operatives within it who are preventing the approval and testing off therapeutics and vaccines in order to scupper don't trump selection charges and what's interesting is the f.d.a. was going to announce is a couple of weeks ago but the national institutes of health which includes dr foushee and others who are much much trusted said put the brakes on and said wait a 2nd we don't have the data yet for this it's interest to see whether anything will have changed now between then and now i haven't looked at the f.d.a. press release it doesn't seem that they have any more data about this we do know that there's been this political pressure from the white house but away from the politics this is a genuine scientific debate on the one hand you can argue look plasma has been shown to have been effective with solids as it's been shown not to be not to be dangerous but on the other hand as you know that said we don't have the data now we've had lots of tens of thousands of people been treated with plasma and it's shown positive results but not in randomized clinical trials so when
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a patient gets better after having had plasma injected inside we don't really know whether it's because of the ploughs more other factors perhaps a patient who has plasma injected into them is just getting better treatment in the 1st place perhaps they have there from a demographic that is not susceptible to cope at 19 so that starts the problem with with with with approving it for widespread use because then you probably never get the clinical trials to know what the plasma because everyone will once a treatment or not want to be part of a randomized trial where they may get a placebo so the pros and cons to all of this but as always with all those politics to he indeed then we'll chat some more about this a bit later for now and thank you. and algis their investigation can reveal cyprus has been setting european passports to convicted criminals and fraudsters largely of passport data to our investigative unit reveals serious flaws in the island's so-called golden posse scheme which has generated more than $8000000000.00 for the government in the 1st of our exclusive reports on the cyprus
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pipe as is deborah davis. to become a citizen of the mediterranean island nation of cyprus more than 2 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 who had been jailed for fraud the cyprus papers 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 a clean criminal record but we found multiple cases of applicants who wanted by police at the time there was sold cypriot citizenship. was already wanted in ukraine for large scale theft of public funds in june prosecutors displayed the
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$6000000.00 they said was offered in bribes to end years of investigation into his energy company. slit chaps denies any involvement his cypriot passport allows him to live out of ukraine and he didn't return for questioning. or vietnamese businessmen fam not blue won't be using his cypriot passport any time soon he was already facing trial for bribery when he bought it see her. we found 30 people linked to criminal activity who fought so-called golden 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
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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 passports to evade justice deborah davis al-jazeera london. well scientists in hong kong are joining the global race for a coronavirus vaccine the city is also launching a voluntary mass testing next month to combat concerns a 3rd wave could be starting the government has enlisted the help of medical
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experts from mainland china that has developed a pollen reports now everyone supports them in the. hong kong latest outbreak was the worst and most widespread prompting the government to impose its sick to social distancing measures here it's proved effective for now but according to the medical community here this will not be the last week for the city overnight and ours is a very smart virus so it is behaving more and more like in france so it is likely to be staying with us for a long story and the way to combat this virus will be by vaccination dr ivan hung is a very religious treating coronavirus patients at one of the city's main hospitals and is working with the university of hong kong to develop a vaccine hopefully our own vaccine will be able to go into phase one in the coming november and the vaccine will be inhaling vaccine it's still in the early stages of
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development but at least 5 chinese companies are already in phase 3 of clinical trials that's the last stage of testing required for approval which means they could introduce a vaccine for public use early next year for now hong kong's government believes mass testing is the best way to control the spread of the virus or in the past month we've been the only hong kong profitable or trade to be appointed by the whole government for mass community testing so in the past month we've already done 200000 tests and we will continue that with the high cluster areas danny and is the c.e.o. and co-founder of primitives it's one of 5 companies unlisted to help with mass testing set to begin next month kinetics will continue to focus on high risk clusters. all the other 4 companies also obsidian reserve mainland chinese firms who spearheaded the voluntary testing drive hong kong government wants to test at least 5000000 people and about 2 weeks a team of about 60 experts from mainland china that will be leading the process
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that along with the fact that the majority of the companies conducting the tests lengths across the border is raising concern and suspicion among some groups on sunday activists and local politicians how the news conference calling on people here to be wary of the free government testing offered the moscow testing of government is trying to get the data from hong kong people am a prostitute toggles company. that they. want to put on the top or even stand to be fun china's top 40 the government has dismissed the claims saying that no samples will be sent to the mainland and the laboratories will not receive any personal information if you go pollen hong kong. chile is often touted as latin america's most prosperous nation but the coronavirus pandemic is widening the economic inequalities job losses
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a force many families to give up their homes and take over land to build their own shacks america added to lucy and human reports now from the port city of san antonio. the beauty of the pacific ocean from whale point is spectacular but the dozens of families staking their claim on this piece of private land haven't really had time to notice them just to get used to live in a 3 bedroom house with 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 that you only figured out while coughing that up 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
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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. these children are living in the capital while he puts his knowledge to good use here building them 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. their nest and made in 1000 lang grabs or camps are 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 have increased by 21 percent but those were pretend
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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 you have there will be no 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 it any moment they could be a victim from the place that for now they call home. to see in human al-jazeera
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san antonio chile. the wife of russia's opposition leader and a top aide to visit him in a hospital in berlin where he's being treated for suspected poisoning alexina valmy is still in a coma but his condition has been described as stable by his spokesperson is undergoing extensive tests after falling ill on a flight from siberia to moscow on thursday or dominic aim is in berlin and says there are still no answers about what made the valet on well. 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 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
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no statement one development to report today is that mr around these wife yulia is with him that 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 no need 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 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 they'll be any kind of statement from
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any party in this of today in either nations as the warring sides in yemen to work together to prevent an environmental disaster a decaying oil tanker more than the red sea is certainly rusting threatening to leak more than a 1000000 barrels of oil and as a tab reports are fears it could all end up in the sea by next month. up with turn szell environmental disaster and the pristine waters of the red sea this oil tanker has been murdered here off yemen's recent cost about 8 kilometers from the port since 2015 it's holding on is to meet at 1140000 barrels of crude oil experts say the ship structure is deteriorating and earlier this year water breached its engine room in july the u.n. want the tanker called the suffer course pull 4 times as much oil as the exxon
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ferries which run aground in alaska in 1989 spilling $37000.00 tons of crude that are also fares the ships unstable cargo could explode if fire breaks out on bald. assertion or if the tanker explodes it will cause devastating economic and environmental consequences in yemen might even be more powerful than the explosion in beirut environmentalist's expect the pollution could reach barber monday and the swiss sea channel in the north. in yemen this lawmaking by a mental catastrophe has prompted the un to dispatch a team of engineers to evaluate the rescue but the team is yet to start work the u.n. security council has appealed to the holds the authorities or control parts of yemen including capital sana'a to give unconditional access to the team.
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we asked for germany and sweden to be like a 3rd party to bring their own people so we can trust the outcome of this evaluation. yemen's un backed government which is supported by a saudi equalisation blames the deterioration of the bizzle on the whole theory run governments and son the oil company in charge of the vessel. says the situation father deteriorated after the saudi us a qualification blocked an oil shipment that was to be used in its calling systems . in 2016 we imported fuel for the tanker but the shipment has been denied x. is the unlawful piracy practiced by the saudi in russia coalition doesn't india it has restricted the interest of diesel and low grade fuel shipments from saudi arabia seaboard injuries on these restrictions are the main reason behind the current humanitarian crisis. there are still talks to figure out how to resolve
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this issue the company assigned by the un to look after the tanker wants to tour to kuwait for repairs but the whole fees say they wanted to fix locally or transferred to a 3rd party they can trust like the government of switzerland the tankers holding tens of millions of dollars worth of oil that could help many struggling yemenis the united nations dry as the urgent need for stopping the threat posed by the supper oil tanker but many here who are being denied and attention this story has booth can bring yemen's warring sides back to the negotiating table with the aim of ending the conflict and also it could be a way to ease the world's worst humanitarian crisis. from the seaboard city of. the bride of the red sea. still ahead
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we have all this for a while happens when a ride is forced to jump off his motor g.p. like that more than 200 kilometers an hour it will have that story. after years of over grazing 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 me and if they're plentiful and they're like the sun is then you know that the system is coming back and then they feel no friends. and that's what you're going for rewilding patagonia on al-jazeera his country's begin easy coronavirus restrictions scientists warn of a 2nd wave of infection. in the last. neighborhood and
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many feel the economy is be prioritised about for human life until fall of people come to the caucuses and out here spike in public like to say we bring you the latest developments from across the globe coronavirus funded special coverage on al-jazeera. roof. oh. sport now at peta. marion thank you so much brian munich has won european football's biggest club trophy for a 6th time i. fans in
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germany celebrating their team's one know the feats of paris and germany in a stadium without supporters in the portuguese city of lisbon by and further enhancing their status as one of europe's elite clubs they joined liverpool and 6 time champions league when it was only a real madrid and ac milan have won the title more times. than. i. was one of their own who headed home the decisive goal against p.s.g. in the 59th minute away a kings became and grew up in paris and graduated from the french clubs you think cademy is headed to live is a triple trophy treat this season for brian europe's biggest prize adding to the whole of the bonus league one for the 8th successive season and the german cup. another 2 minutes came the big prize sophia pop of becoming the 1st from her country to win a women's gold major and then revealing issue almost quit the game the 27 year old
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held a nerve to finish 2 strokes clear of thailand's jasmine. at the british open at royal troon top of as never before won a tournament on the old lady's european tour it was an emotional victory for the world number 304 the lowest ranked player to capture a major title but if you have the mazing. there's a lot of hard work by now and a lot of struggles that i went through the last 6 years especially helped wife and . i'm just glad i was able to overcome everything and you know keep my head and then i knew i was capable i just had a lot of obstacles thrown in my way and i just i'm glad i stuck with it you know i had almost quit playing last year well thank god i didn't think. jimmy anderson is on the verge of becoming the 1st pace to claim $600.00 wickets in test
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cricket in spirit is too short of the milestone after a 5 week at all against pakistan he helped dismissed the tourists for $273.00 in the 3rd test at southampton the sun will follow on $310.00 runs behind engines 1st innings total and australia's cricketers around there waiting for a 6 game to the 1st national sports team to leave australia during the coronavirus pandemic they'll remain in a bio secure bubble in england just like pakistan in the west indies the season australia will play 32020 and 31 day matches in september for steve smith it's the 1st time back in england since last year's ashes unfortunately there's no. so the egg me on and if. you know. it's going to be funny it was on the. right by. the men's a.t.p. tennis tour is back with its 1st competitive tournament since february the western and southern open is being played in a bubble in new york ahead of the u.s.
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open at the same venue 3 time grand slam singles champion andy murray won his 1st match in 9 months of the to keep surgeries he beat france a c.f.o. who has recovered from corona virus mary will play alexander very of in round 21 man who will not be in that 2nd round is 2014 u.s. open champion marin chile which the croats was eliminated in the opening round on sunday by canada's denis shop a lot of pretty straightforward to fall shop all of 63 and 6317 times n.b.a. champions the boston celtics have eased into been extra of the eastern conference playoffs on saturday they saw the philadelphia 761-1106 that win sees them sweep the series for nothing kemba walker school in 32 points while jason tatum added 28. let's up the pace now a portuguese rider has won his 1st ever murder g.p.
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race or achieved the feat on sunday in austria at the story and grand prix it also counts as a home win for his teammate katie am who are based in that country jack miller and pole guard all completed the podium and fabio product at all is talk of the overall standings i was just ok i'll stay here and i'll do my my my line and prepare the exit and to cross the line you know very emotional. very had be there is many reasons to be happy about it my 150 grand prix also. yet to finish up with the win it fantastic. a great day for the vera but not so much for maverick venial a set 220 cases now the spending had to jump from his bike up through the brakes failed and that's all the sport lariam thank you very much peter. that's it for the news out of it so i will be back with a full but us and going to bring you much more of the day's news very shortly
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