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and commit all this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. this president has led bold initiatives in nearly every corner of the world the u.s. secretary of state breaks with tradition to speak in support of president trumps reelection while abroad on business. bracing for impacts hurricane or approaches the u.s. gulf coast region that's been hit hard in the past. and in that indonesian textile workers are struggling to find business turn their skills to make he asks. protesters in the u.s. city of can osha have defied a curfew for a 3rd night the demanding justice for a black man jacob blake who was shot in the back by police. tear gas was fired to keep demonstrators from entering a courthouse building several buildings with satellites. state of emergency is in
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place with extra national guard troops to point the process of going ahead despite blake's mother calling for unity and calm john hendrick reports from. smolders a city corrections building burnt to the ground one of 3 dozen buildings left in ruins in a single night firefighters and residents sweep up the wreckage. i am with. protesting in the. community philip merry arrived to find the windows of his 92 year old office smashed but it was largely spared his neighbor wasn't so lucky. senseless it is. someone's property the mother of jacob blake the black man whose shooting by police set off the demonstrations says he would not approve if. you knew what was going on as far as that goes the
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violence and the destruction. he would be very pleased blake's family spoke of the latest incident of alleged police brutality captured in this viral video of an officer shooting in the back his 3 sons watching from inside the car. 7 pines. something. like he didn't matter but my son matters blake's attorneys say he underwent surgery on tuesday and remains paralyzed from the waist down i'm not sad i'm not sorry i'm angry and i'm tired i haven't cried one time i stopped crying years ago i am numb. i have been watching police
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murder people that look like me for years as her family struggles with what happened so does a battered city while police were protecting government buildings the looters came here to be uptown neighborhood and they fire bombed and looted each of the stores for a couple of blocks until they got here to kingdom word ministries that's where david my gomery is pastor actually we had somebody actually take a. big large rock and throw it to the window and we started yelling hey this is a church marriage several people say you don't touch a church you know now one of the firemen said a pastor it looks like your building is going to be the only thing to say you know it's just a miracle from god one building salvaged amid dozens of burnt out holes and more broken hearts john hendren al-jazeera konoha wisconsin.
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u.s. president donald trump 1st lady melania and secretary of state michael payor will speak is on day 2 of the republican national convention breaking with decades of precedent the 1st lady spoke from the white house rose garden well pump a record of his address while on a diplomatic mission a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more. together. america it was a night billed as a tribute to the great american story and the people empowered to succeed by president trump's policies many of those stories appeared to be produced by the former reality t.v. star himself breaking with precedent that presidential candidates lay low until the final night at the convention trump appeared the re time granted jon i'm not sure you know there's a full pardon he issued a presidential pardon restoring the rights of
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a bank robber who has made it his mission to improve the lives of convicts and repeat after me in another made for t.v. moment trauma corporative as citizenship ceremony into the program to reach out to voters of color touting his push for legal immigration breaking with tradition secretary of state mike pompei appeared from west jerusalem while on official government business despite telling his own diplomatic corps weeks earlier that overt partisan politics violated u.s. law he told voters only president trump will keep american freedoms intact because president trump has put his america 1st vision into action it may not have made him popular in every foreign capital but it's worked. the 2nd night of the republican national convention remained a family affair as it had the night earlier 2 more of trump's children spoke his son eric and daughter tiffany railed against the media coverage of their father
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people must recognize that our thoughts are pinions and even the choice of who we are building for may and are being manipulated and visibly coerced by the media and tech giants. but it was 1st lady molony a trump who delivered tuesday evenings marcie address making an appeal to women voters to support her husband she outlined the challenges he needs to overcome for racial unrest to tens of thousands of americans dead from cope with 19 i know many people anxious and sound feel helpless. i want you to know you're not alone. my husband's administration will not stop fighting until there is an effective treatment or vaccine available to everyone indeed the 1st lady was one of the few speakers at the republican national convention to acknowledge the personal
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devastation and heartbreak that americans have faced during the pandemic it's a pandemic many blame president trump for not doing more to stop it's a narrative he may not be able to overcome with just 10 weeks until the election kimberly help at al jazeera the white house the israeli military says some of its aircraft have fired at several posts belonging to the iran backed lebanese group hezbollah in response to shots fired from lebanon. the israeli military had said it had identified a security incident ordered people stay in their homes no injuries were reported last month israel said hezbollah tried to infiltrate a northern border area which the group did noise. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is sending a senior delegation to the united arab emirates next week on the country's 1st direct commercial flight to the gulf state the 2 nations agreed to normalize ties as part of a u.s. brokered deal the u.a.e.
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was earlier reported to have called off the meeting after netanyahu opposed the sale of u.s. bill to $3055.00 jets to up with darby. turkey says it's open to dialogue with greece of the disputed or oil and gas resources in the mediterranean but without preconditions greece has also signaled it's ready for talks the 2 sides blame each other for the dispute despite diplomatic efforts by the e.u. to find a resolution simcoe see all reports from istanbul. turkey and greek warships on alert tensions are high as the 2 countries have been locked in a dispute for weeks of a maritime boundary is that offshore rights. germany for its part is trying to mediate a dispute between the neighbors and nature a life as foreign minister hike of last conducting shuttle diplomacy between athens and ancora earlier on to say most warned of a passable catus for a fender region or severe it's all over what we originally need are visible steps
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towards the escalation and a genuine readiness for dialogue i have been hearing from all sides that there is a willingness for dialogue and so we believe holding talks is achievable in the end a binding and peaceful solution to the eastern mediterranean dispute will only be possible if there are direct talks between greece and turkey. turkey calls greece a spoiled child who has and conditional support from the e.u. that's why and honestly you medication is necessary for dialogue your hope that only if you make statements such as we would have window rights we carry our rules we do not say we will make a mistake but we will do whatever is necessary without hesitation therefore do not get ignored by those countries act with common sense tension between the 2 neighbors speak when the turkish research vessel that they or trace began carrying out suspect research in the eastern mediterranean the ship is being escorted by warships between crete and cyprus where say is a stopping for
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a diplomatic solution but stands ready militarily. so greece will defend in the name of law its sovereign. and the sovereign rights groups who defended snatch to end european borders the sovereignty and sovereign rights of europe does not have any other choice but to do certain. turkey's foreign minister sat athens provocator steps on the disrupt stay local between the 2 countries germany revived desk nation talks between senior turkish and greek office chills and initiative started in july but broken up by turkey several weeks later after greece and now some maritime deal with egypt earlier this month turkey says it is open to dialogue with greece only if there's a fair distribution of rights in this in mediterranean but if athens continues presenting preconditions for dialogue and doesn't give up its uncompromising approach in the region and chorus is a real conflict may become unavoidable see now because so little al-jazeera
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a stumble the gunman behind new zealand's worst mass shooting has faced survivors and relatives on the 3rd day of his sentencing hearing 29 year old brenton tyrant killed 51 muslim worshippers in christchurch last year he has already pleaded guilty and could be had a new zealand's 1st life sentence without parole. i want to hear is a voice only hear my dad's voice my brother's voice your optimism for you as someone who's done not want to realize they're beyond the school over him as i say they're all the same enjoying all the ins and function the same finally i'd like to tell you that we remember that but there's a scare killer and nothing was your actions with goodness character
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of a person. there's nothing horowitz a virtual shooting but shooting people from behind. and people are having a chance of defending themselves terence said in saying it's expected to happen on thursday morning. so to come here on al-jazeera under a blockade and now under lockdown coronavirus restrictions are now being posed in gaza. vowing not to give out the name of valerie z an opposition leader says protesters calls for a democrat democratic by the transition will not be silenced. singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins some of the islands off the coast of indonesia literally vanish it's
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a big business smuggling sample it will take to sit there until the sand is there you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so plentiful tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sound walls at this time on al-jazeera. 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 patagonians there if they're plentiful and they're calm like this one is then you know that the system is coming back and that they feel no threats and that's why you're on par rewilding patagonia on al-jazeera.
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you're watching are just there a reminder about top stories this hour protesters in the u.s. the u.s. city of can osha have defied a curfew for a 3rd night demanding justice for a black man jacob blake who was shot 7 times by police in the back. u.s. president on trump's the 1st lady and the secretary of state have spoken on day 2 of the republican national convention in a break with tradition trump spoke from the white house rose garden mike pompei oh during a diplomatic mission. turkey and greece say they're open to talks over disputed oil and gas resources in the eastern mediterranean follows an escalation in tensions on tuesday has both sides held naval exercises. demonstrators are expected to
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rally. to true prominent opposition leaders were jailed rival demonstration is also due to be held in support of president alexander the. he is resisting calls to step down after a disputed election steadfast and reports from mint the. solidarity for those punished protesting against their look i shan't go away jean musicians are gathered at the theatre in minutes every day so it's our rector was sacked for supporting the protests while more cultural minister powerful up to scratch faces a criminal investigation insists this missile hits become one of the key members of the opposition council. performances are cancelled and actors of all resigned in support of him including all agog both was been a popular performer for decades but. there are a lot of resignation letters at the moment we are lucky we are united in stick together your parties don't know what to do with us we don't know what will happen
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to us next. and if i and the actors openly display the opposition flag after police took it down i would have to the rule was a new one assumes it's impossible to work under such a regime we are heavily censored in our salary is miserable and we cannot express our opinion as a person of culture under this regime our profession makes no sense the actors joined a rally at the ministry of education with teachers also gathered to protest against lookers shankar's this beautiful reelection earlier this month he's announced that all teachers who don't share his ideology will be sacked. i've been working at the school for 35 years i've come here to declare that teaches don't agree they are very brave people because it is scary for dismissed teachers there are plans to establish private schools so they can take children and still earn money thanks
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while hundreds of teachers stage a peaceful rally police vehicles arrive some protesters carry and children shout we are not scared. was going to france and in fact there is again and still because broadcasters say thank you thank you thank you for the story in spite of crisscrossed by the fact that we. made teachers taking to the streets it seems the president is increasingly alienating professionals who are the rulers of his government for fashion also have become more and more united in their fight against him and his 26 years in power step fasten al-jazeera mints. world health organization says the likelihood of being infected with covered $900.00 for a 2nd time is slim and after a man in hong kong was reportedly reinfected over more than 4 months to people in europe have also been reinfected one to belgium and another in the netherlands so
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we've had anecdotal reports every now and then of people who have tested negative then tested positive and it hasn't been clear up until this case whether that was simply a problem with testing or whether people well getting infected a 2nd time but it's very important to understand what this means in terms of the mukasey and this is why we have got a lot of research groups actually tracking people measuring antibodies trying to understand how long the immune protection lasts the natural immune protection and that should be understood as it is not the same as the immune protection that a vaccine provides before down has been declared a gall's are half the 1st cases of community transmission of the corona virus for identifying until now all covered 1000 cases had been linked to people returning from a brought me a concern gaza's health care system will not be able to cope with it spreads perforce it has more. for months gone as it has managed to dodge this moment but
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now it's here near empty streets. instructions to stay home for personal safety after 4 cases of coded 19 would attempted in the same family the 1st cases at large in the general population for a blockaded territory with an under equipped overstretched health system this is a frightening time. for the few we have started to implement a plan that we prepared for in advance police are imposing a curfew on people are completely committed to it we will take more preventive procedures depending on you evaluations of them. a combination of the israeli and egyptian blockade and very strict quarantine measures had till now kept the corona virus out gaza's 110 cases had all been in quarantine centers these new community cases were traced after a woman got an israeli permit to travel to jerusalem for medical treatment and was
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found there to have the disease the world health organization says such a moment was always likely to come and if health workers are following correct procedures in tracing the origin and spread of the outbreak. since we discovered the 4 cases in magazine refugio camp the medical teams have been following up with more people who could have been in contact with the infected people we've stopped outpatient treatments halted planned surgeries and repaired all the health facilities to receive possible infected people. gaza has about 100 ventilators in the public health system with another 100 in private clinics the w.h.o. says the territory can deal with hundreds of cases but not thousands hamas which controls the territory is calling for a new international aid the coded threat only compounds anxieties for gaza's $2000000.00 people already struggling with as little as 4 hours at a tricity a day after israel banned diesel imports for the strips only power station it's part of a recent escalation in hostilities between hamas and israel within century balloons
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and rockets launched from gaza and in nightly air strikes by israel the biggest fear for now is of the power of this pandemic and what it could do to a place like gaza but the hope is it can be contained in time for sit al-jazeera. at least 70 people have died in flash floods in northern and eastern afghanistan rescue workers are trying to find others faired trapped under the rubble hundreds of homes were destroyed a night in parwan province local officials say they're struggling to help those affected and have appealed for federal help. hundreds of thousands of people have been told to leave their homes on the u.s. gulf coast as hurricane nora approaches and it's expected to grow stronger as it makes landfall and gallacher reports. all along the gulf coast they're preparing once again for the worst when tropical storm laura churned across the dominican republic in haiti it left
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a trail of destruction and killed at least 11 people the weather system then hit cuba's southern coastline before spiraling into the warm waters of the gulf of mexico now a hurricane it's expected laura will strengthen potentially to a category 3 before slamming into the coasts of texas and louisiana produce the. cover up north. all open and that is around there. in the open like this pier for flooding rather parents right there are several reacted on its states of emergency have now been declared in many low lying communities as the national guard deploys troops and equipment to prepare for what could be a major hurricane both please state and no stranger to powerful storms they are in the words of the mayor of houston battle tested and ready to throw a pandemic into the mix and things become more complicated many residents are being told to keep wearing masks and practicing good hygiene they're also being asked to
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stay with friends and relatives if they need to evacuate gathering large numbers of evacuees in shelters is say authorities something they'd like to avoid actually a hotel motel location is a good type of location when back you ation or evacuating during a pandemic remember. just because a hurricane is coming to texas does not mean that team either has or is going to leave texas in previous years hurricanes harvey and katrina devastated the same coastlines all the cause severe flooding and killed 68 people in houston 3 years ago look at ciena claimed almost 2000 lives in new orleans in 2005 city officials say they're taking no chances paying attention this thing has been changing fairly quickly and it's still possible for to move even further east and be more of a direct hit to us hurricane laurel will make landfall late on wednesday or in the
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early hours of thursday morning forecasters say a period of rapid intensification is likely bringing potential storm surges of 3 meters and winds of 170 kilometers per hour and to gallacher al-jazeera. let's go live now to jay gray who's that like charles in the wheezy and just tell us more about how the state is preparing. yeah kim right now that time to prepare quickly running out we've seen people boarding up sandbagging to protect against the water and a lot of people at times by the bus load evacuating moving out to higher ground we've just learned over the last few minutes from the national hurricane center that the forecast for this storm is to greatly intensify perhaps to a category 4 before landfall and that landfall is expected overnight into the early morning hours on thursday when it does make landfall it will bring with that quite
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a storm surge and that will be adding to that storm surge will be the fact that this storm is going to strike during high tide so you could see a wall of water pushing well inland and again causing major problems here if there's any good news with this storm is the fact that it's moving quickly is expected to move through pretty rapidly but it's still going to be strong it's still going to cause problems as it continues to cut across the south and then move to the east coast this is a storm that the wind is going to be just as powerful as the water that's something that doesn't happen a lot with these storms this area's familiar though they dealt with rita 15 years ago on the heels of katrina that was a devastating storm that really rocked the lake charles area in particular louisiana lake charles specifically still right in the crosshairs of the forecast
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path so again the time to prepare the time to evacuate quickly running out even though right now it's very calm here we know the conditions kemah going to change dramatically over the next several hours ok thank you for that it's a gray line for us at lake charles. a change in weather is helping the battle against wildfires in the u.s. state of california cooler temperatures higher humidity and less wind is providing some respect for thousands of firefighters hundreds of blazes a still burning the fires have killed at least 7 people and destroyed well the 1000 homes. they are brick of cover 19 is challenging creative industries around the world in indonesia many are sense have had to adapt to keep their business is viable textile design is there now helping combat the pandemic by making millions of masts a day jessica washington reports from jakarta. this is what it takes to make
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indonesia's famous textiles intense concentration and an eye for detail this technique of making prints hand printing wax on dyed fabrics is called batek is a workshop in jakarta is in a social housing complex and provides employment opportunities for the women who live here. but sales have fallen with more people staying home because of the pandemic there's less need for new clothes. and we couldn't sell any beings so we had to use monster truck buyers again and that's what we are focusing on it's what people need know mosques are compulsory across indonesia and traditional textiles producers have helped to make them more accessible for the what i'm getting ahead of them is that we have to wear masks so we need to tell the government that because we all need to take care of our health. these fabrics are usually used to make shirts or dresses but covert 19 has changed that each month
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this small team produces around $100.00 sheets of fabric which they turn into masks like businesses around the world they've had to adapt their practices and even their designs to stay afloat during a pandemic. designing prints for masks makes painting the designs even more difficult prints have to be smaller and more detailed images that we're used to working on large surfaces but now we are using smaller surfaces it is challenging for my eyes design and nonna swati has also had to adapt to the reality of life during the pandemic some weeks how popular brand a modern take on ancient japanese fabric had no sales at all. our insights for what should we do during the pandemic well from there i came with the ideas off. from celebration fresh am in 2. years and. before the pandemic dresses were the brands most popular offering these
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days her handmade mosques often sell out online. with cases of covered 19 rising by thousands each day in indonesia the demand for reasonable mosques is likely to grow just a washington al-jazeera jakarta. * don't forget you can always check out the web sites that it's al jazeera dot com. with the headlines on al-jazeera protesters in the u.s. city of ken notion have defied a curfew for a 3rd night demanding justice for a black man who was shot 7 times in the back by police jacob blake is now paralyzed below the waist a state of emergency has been declared in the city and extra national guard troops
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deployed like family is appealing for peace. leave. let's begin to pray for healing for our nation. we are the united states have we been united you understand what's going to happen. when we fall because our house didn't give each other. to all the jews i'm praying for you. u.s. president donald trump the 1st lady and secretary of state has spoken on day 2 of the republican national convention and a break with tradition melania trump gave her speech from the white house rose garden and my pompei recorded his during a diplomatic mission trumpet and a convicted felon and presided over a citizenship oath taking ceremony. turkey and greece say they're open to talks over disputed oil and gas resources in the eastern mediterranean that follows an
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escalation in tensions on tuesday as both sides held naval exercises. the israeli military says it's fired at several posts belonging to the iran backed lebanese group hezbollah in response to shots fired from lebanon. the israeli military said it identified a security incident and ordered people to stay in their homes. hundreds of thousands of people have been told to leave their homes on the u.s. gulf coast as hurricane nora approaches texas and louisiana it's expected to get stronger before it hits later on wednesday the gunman behind new zealand's worst mass shooting has faced survivors and relatives on the 3rd day of his sentencing hearing brenton terrence killed 51 muslim worship is in cross-stitch last year he's pleaded guilty and could be handed the country's 1st of life sentence without parole well as the headlines more news here on al-jazeera right after earthrise stay with us. hi i'm steve clemons i have
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a question that's nice days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important to you the bottom line tackles the big issues this is shaping the united states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on al-jazeera. 3 quarters of all land on earth are now significantly affected by human activity the few remaining pockets of wilderness left are themselves at risk of becoming ecological this that agriculture industry urbanization climate change and hunting all these they see made it go systems and destroy biodiversity. 60 percent of the
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