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online be part of the debate let me put some you tube comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic violence that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way he treats human way to business if we're going to adapt to climate break down this street on al-jazeera. led. you can measure the mass. slaughter and the fish the skin. and historic 1st life in prison without parole for the new zealand white supremacist shot dead 51 was the worst. along came the dell this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up
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a 4th night of demonstrations in wisconsin over the police shooting of an unarmed black man. we don't have to choose between supporting law enforcement. and standing with their african-american members. the u.s. vice president defends donald trump's call for law and order it's racial unrest continues to dominate headlines across america. disputed accounts of the fatal shooting of an autistic palestinian man who was killed by an israeli police officer . our top story this hour her step toward closure for relatives of victims of the worst terrorist attack in new zealand's history the gunman who killed 51 muslim worshipers last year was sentenced to life in prison without parole brenton tyrant is the self-confessed white supremacist who was responsible for attacks on 2
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mosques in christchurch by hate has a story. after a harrowing emotional 4 days in the high court in christchurch just as cameramen delivered brinton terence sentence on each of the $31.00 shocking murder charges while he. was fit to live in prison. all of it you see the citizens who are tearing showed little emotion even when being told he would spend the rest of his life in prison outside the court there was relief and gratitude that the convicted murderer. and terrorist had been given a sentence never before handed down a new zealand but it was mixed with the realisation that the pain will go on. no punishment. will bring our loved ones back. we respect our justice system. and then using a muslim community. known most of them as well was thought to
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go against the court was told terance actions after he entered the 2 mosques on march the 15th last year were premeditated and calculated he had studied the layout of the buildings and when they would be busy and in interviews with police expressed disappointment that he hadn't killed more worshippers his year of in-car she picks through my arms it was brutal and beyond. your actions in human. week the sentence brought in into 4 days of statements by survivors and family members of those killed at least 90 statements were given some of them expressing anger some offering forgiveness all of them emotional the prime minister spoke soon after and expressed his support for them and the sentence the trauma of much 15 is not easily healed but today i hope is the last. where we have any cause to hear or the name of
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the terrorist behind it has deserves to be a life time of complete and utter silence. the sentencing of brenton terrine close a chapter in one of new zealand's darkest days and means no one has to relive the events in a parole hearing but for the relatives of the 51 people whose lives he took away and those he injured trying to recover will be a long difficult process when hey al jazeera. is from new zealand's islamic women's council and she thinks the threat from white supremacist still looms of the country it's the end of the court process and there in itself was a harrowing persis and we're really happy that that is over but this is not the end dearest. to her to those near nazi were to princes spaces and i think we as a country need to come together and 3 steps in a g.
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and time and making sure that people don't go down this path if we are again i think we need to be a wide range of changes 1st war through government through some of the late play ssion that will allow more accountability when people are making extreme statements and i think we also need work in the community activities that bring different communities together that allow us to understand each other and see each other's humanity and i think that's the most powerful picked of those but them statement is that we the world actually got to see the humanity quick to see the pain and suffering in their experiences in a way that i think has happened before in this country. donald trump says federal troops are being sent to assist the national guard following a 4th nights of black lives massive protests in konoha around the 1000 gods are in
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the city in wisconsin where police shot and paralyzed black american jacob lake on sunday during protests on tuesday 2 people were shot to it and lisa questioning a 17 year old suspect was from john hendren notion. hundreds of law enforcement agents at all levels are descending on the small city of can no ship where local police have struggled to quell escalating violence. the ramping up of law enforcement follows a fatal fight between protesters and a teenager who fired an assault weapon on demonstrators killing 2 and wounding one . using video from the scene sheriff's deputies arrested 17 year old kyle rittenhouse a man you. know we're going to blame it on everybody else it was not clear whether rittenhouse was among the armed militia members who verbal e clashed with protesters after days of looting arson in violent clashes the city
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has responded with a new curfew we're not going to put up with what we saw monday night we're not going to is that mean we're going to stop it all. it comes on numbers that come we're not to be able to stop at all but we're going to be assertive in helping to protect the city at the notion that. the governor has called in a broad array of law enforcement from across the state of wisconsin the region and the federal government governor tony has called in 500 more military troops from the national guard to join hundreds of local police and sheriff's deputies in riot gear president trump offered up federal troops saying today i will be sending federal law enforcement and the national guard to canoe she was constant to restore law and order that federal contribution could be sizable a law enforcement source tells me that 60 f.b.i. officers and an untold number of federal swat officers are coming from chicago alone adding to a force that has increased dramatically in recent days. the demonstrations began on
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sunday after police fired several shots into the back of jacob blake. a black man left paralyzed from a shooting his 3 sons witnessed from inside the car where he was struck wisconsin attorney general josh call says the investigation into that shooting shows police were trying to arrest jacob blake following a complaint from his girlfriend that he had trespassed in her home and call name the officer involved. mr blake walked around his vehicle open the driver's side door and leaned forward while holding on to mr blix sure officer ruston. fired his service weapon 7 times call says blake it mid to officers that he had a knife later found on the driver's side floorboard of his car the video did not show him threatening officers. as protests continued past the new curfew demonstrators seemed undeterred that
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a massive influx of police planned to shut them down john hendren al-jazeera can no show wisconsin. us possible styles of joins the protests the n.b.a. postponed all of wednesday's playoff games that's off the wisconsin based no walk a box boycotted their match against a orlando magic the rest of the team's followed suit. the u.s. vice president used the 3rd night of the republican national convention to praise donald trump's record on the economy and law and order why parents accused democratic presidential rival joe biden of attacking america and said americans wouldn't be safe if he beats trump and november's election as a white house correspondent kimberly in washington. it was a night heavy with symbolism as the vice president delivered his keynote speech at historic for a cadre in baltimore the inspiration for the u.s.
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national anthem or. by mike pence stood with veterans in a display of patriotism the imagery a condemnation of athletes to kneel during the song the star-spangled banner parents and president donald trump have denounced athletes many of them black who kneel in protest over police brutality the american people know. we don't have to choose between supporting law enforcement and standing with her african-american neighbors but trunk joined his vice president standing in support of law enforcement as protests and riots continue following the latest police shooting of a black man in the u.s. state of wisconsin pence denounced calls by some democrats to define the police you won't be safe in joe biden's america as the head of the coronavirus task force has defended the u.s.
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response to cope with 19 even as more than 180000 americans are now dead joe biden said that no miracle is coming but when joe doesn't seem to understand. is that america is a nation of miracles. just like the 1st 2 nights of the republican national convention wednesdays lined up again included members of the trump family advocating for his reelection this time daughter in law laura trump spoke directly to women who could help decide the 2020 vote defund the police is the rallying cry for the new radical democrat party joe biden will not do what it takes to maintain order to keep our children safe in our neighborhoods and in their schools the appeal to female voters was also reflected on the white house lit purple and gold to mark the 100th anniversary of
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a woman's right to vote. but the convention didn't focus solely on domestic safety but also trumps foreign policy as well his former acting director of national intelligence defended trump's america 1st approach the d.c. crowd thinks when they call donald trump a nationalist and they're insulting him. as if the american president isn't supposed to base foreign policy on america's national interests 1st they will be the final night of the convention would president trump will officially accept his party's nomination right here at the white house democrats plan to counter his message democratic vice presidential nominee color harris will speak prior to tromp what she says are his failures to contain code that night. kimberly helped at al jazeera the white house. newspaper newsroom is reporting that a police officer told investigators that as callie was unjustified in killing an
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autistic list indian men. facially shot in occupied east jerusalem in may the armed officer denies being repeatedly warned to hold fire is colleague said there was no need to shoot because the victim posed no threat of force that has more from west of them. this is a dreadful case a real tragedy and one that prompted protests that happened around the same time as the killing of george floyd in the united states and prompted palestinian lives matter protests also listing rare expressions of regret from senior israeli political leaders as well when we spoke to the father who was 32 years old when he was killed shortly after his death he said that he was really very childlike enjoyed cartoons and dressing well and had recently been given the responsibility and freedom of walking himself by himself to his special school inside the old city in occupied east jerusalem one of the teachers we were told especially introduced
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him to soldiers at a checkpoint nearby to ensure that they understood his condition but on the day in question is that if of may he arrived early in the morning it was seen to be in the opinion of one of those israeli security forces members to be behaving suspiciously potentially carrying a weapon and he alerted his colleagues who chased. one of them shooting at him and he ended up trying to hide inside a trash or even around a corner and it was that the 2 fatal shots were fired into his torso now the senior commander of those 2 israeli security forces who ended up with him so that he told his colleagues his junior colleague to stop. he told him to stop twice even after the 1st shot was fired and he said that it was a closed place according to the reporting and with no way to escape from it he didn't attack do anything he was definitely not resisting it endangered me in that situation i was junior colleagues and he didn't hear anything that he was just carrying out the operational procedures that he was told to do so because he felt
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that they were dealing with a terrorist. still ahead on al jazeera the justice commissioner considers legal action against substance if it's to sell citizenship the latest development to report from al-jazeera is investigating. the. down on the southern us hurricane norah last is the gulf coast damage and leaving tens of thousands without power. we have typhoon babbie now making its way across the korean peninsula pushing up towards the northeastern corner of china legacy of showers coming in behind it is weakening and it's on the verge of turning into a tropical storm so losing that intensity in terms of the way and still some very
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heavy rain coming into the eastern side of china and just across much of the korean peninsula further east it's well to try whether they're into japan we will see want to choose showers into central parts of honshu for a time eastern areas of china now seeing some very heavy rain not so long ago shanghai getting well up into the thirty's looking at sub temperature 30 celsius that rain sets in on friday will sweep through as we go on through saturday temps just starting to notch up notice an increasingly wet weather making its way towards south korea and the far north east of china the eastern side of russia few showers down towards a southeast of china say showers that just around taiwan pushing towards northern parts of the philippines plenty of showers along the spells of rain flooding rains again across the northern plains of india anywhere around it disha pushing through maharashtra easing a little further westward southern parts of pakistan could see a little bit of wet weather along with the fall off they'll be a few showers creeping that way into the hall.
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frank assessment it's. like being superficial informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of breaking. many parts of the old immediate region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate of the use of proxy people to look at everything because the bill if you feel an in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera.
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you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour the gunman in new zealand's worst mass shooting has been sentenced to life in prison without the child support self-confessed white supremacist brenton turret killed 51 muslim worshippers and 2 mosques in march last year. additional national guard troops have been deployed to the u.s. city of can no show wisconsin after 4 nights of protests over the police shooting of unarmed black man jacob the u.s. athletes have also joined the protests the n.b.a. responding to all of wednesday's playoff games. baratz newspaper in israel is reporting that a police officer told investigators that his colleague was unjustified in killing an autistic palestinian. was fatally shot an occupied east jerusalem and make the armed officer denies being repeatedly warned to hold fire. hurricane laura is battering the united states with forecasters warning of unsurvivable storm surges
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it's been downgraded from a category 4 to a category 2 but still has top wind speeds of almost 180 kilometers per hour tens of thousands of people that are without power the governor of louisiana is worried that some coastal residents issued with evacuation orders have ignored them from asking people right now to pay attention to this storm to get out of harm's way if there isn't a back you ation order in place where there is mandatory or voluntary and i understand our state hasn't seen a storm surge like this in many many decades jay gray is in lake charles louisiana which is taking the full force of the storm. but that's always the preferred literally. toll free hotline. we are told that that's the power of life.
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but the service doesn't accept. the little fallout will happen. will it put your career in this right now the most part of the front side the part i was torn apart for powerful over the back right to tell you this is. really covering quite a part of course of the way we're going to convince the vision for that you know our spirit to work for for over 4 hours per week also though that. is true that paul is going to put them in the local store for errors where we're going with this. great board that's the way to fight bells with the president just take a lesson from what is wrong to ever make landfall in the real. the
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foreign ministers are holding talks and then one easing tensions between greece and turkey over an energy distribution the estee eastern mediterranean both nations have been holding military exercises now patch of water that they both claim a turkish ship is carrying out drilling research in the area on wednesday greece said it would extend its claim of waters in the ionian sea for that to the west. we are all concerned about the situation in the eastern mediterranean i welcome your efforts to find a constructive way forward i'm in constant contact with the greece and turkey marring message is that the situation must be resold in a spirit of solidarity in line with international law dialogue and deescalation are in everybody's interest iran's currency has also more than half its value in the last 4 months leaving iranian struggling to make ends meet the
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court of ars pandemic and u.s. sanctions are causing economic damage as a big sums it up prantera. a struggling economy rising inflation and now the iranian currency is losing badly fast the devaluation of the reality has caused the cost of living to rise and left the government and the central bank question for ideas about how to ease the financial pain be taseer nice in my way to kill which is we can't deny the role of sanctions while our economy is shrinking we're trying to create economic stability and prevent negative factors affecting our economy sanctions undoubtedly have their impact one of the ways to supply hard currency is to buy it from export as who bring their earnings into the country we buy hard currency from them based on the central bank's instructions. but the government is blaming exporters for keeping their money overseas with the currency losing value some exporters prefer to keep the dollars abroad or in hard cash the government wants them to bring those dollars back to iran and use iranian banks to
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exchange them but they exchange rate offered by the banks is less than what they can get on the free market the government is offering $190000.00 real to the dollar whereas exporters can get around 220000 reals elsewhere it's that lack of access to the current currency one of the fact is driving the devaluation of the real the government has put increased pressure on x. . porters suspending exports licenses and the state bank their u.s. dollars in iran but they're not just for the fun and you know some exporters don't return dollars into the country because if they sell it in the free market they'll earn more than everybody naturally seeks his own interests government income sources have been restricted drastically and oil income which is the main source of revenue has been reduced over the past few years and exported to kind under the pressure of sanctions. economists also think that years of government mismanagement is the major factor for the current crisis. with the government's
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inability to find new financial sources when oil revenues dropped they again raised exchange rates in order to fill their budget gaps that is the reason for the current turmoil government leaders say they're confident the result will claw back any losses but with unfavorable exchange rates offered by the central bank there's little incentive for businesses to use the banking system to sell their dollars raising the prospect of the real sinking of a further i said big al jazeera. amman is the latest stop on the u.s. secretary of state's regional tour was welcomed by some bin tarik are expected to discuss how to lift the saudi led 3 year blockade of qatar and the u.s. is encouraging more arab countries to follow the u.n. he normalize relations with israel china has condemned new u.s. sanctions on 24 chinese companies this rising the south china sea government leaders in beijing say it's unreasonable for the americans to target activities
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within china the u.s. is china is intimidating its neighbors by building military bases on artificial islands. india has reported in near daily record of more than 75000 covert 19 infections in just the past 24 miles and students in the wilds the 3rd worst affected country are angry at the government has decided to allow some university entrance exams to go ahead despite the worsening upright elizabeth pramod reports from the city of agra. and. the highest single day by the cases and to look into it is a case is that any other country in the world. but this. there are no longer stricter laws. in most of the country when you leave the relatively strategized world of central delhi as we have there's no real social. costs the 2nd reason is and it has increased testing and so detecting testing
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around 1000000 people a day now dellys chief minister has said that the capital region is going to double the number of tests it's conducting from 20240008 day off to delhi recorded its single day rise and 14 days he said that he would be to double the test and isolate people with the virus in the state of west bank goal there was a complete halt in place west bengal something that no other state strict lockdown for 2 days every week and police officers are out on the roads that checking bags to make sure that people are only going out with essential services huh the chief minister what's that all has been one of the most local regional leaders yet decision to hold each university entrance exams for engineering and medical school and she accept. that around to the leadership register and many are expected to take shots today in an online edition that i
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think of these exams but many of the street and it hit saying that students help should be more important than exam. and brazil had environmental research as a warning that smoke from fires in the amazon rain forest could worsen the coronavirus death toll more than 10000 fires have been recorded this month at least 2000 brazilians needed hospital treatment for respiratory illnesses during similar fires last year the european justice commissioner says he'll consider legal action to stop cyprus from selling citizenship he was reacting to a week of reports from al jazeera as investigative unit the cyprus papers reveal dozens of criminals and high level political figures have bought so-called golden passports every davies reports. the european parliament has repeatedly demanded an end to schemes where one country can sell passports which open up access to the rest of the european union in an exclusive interview with al jazeera the european
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justice commissioner said the time had come for legal action. i have had many contacts with. the minister of interior. said letter to the government and now we are analyzing its need of interviews and in the city all the problem was a list of. the cyprus papers leak reveals the scale of passports sold to wealthy foreigners including criminals and officials considered high risk of being corrupt the european commission should put cyprus before the european court of justice the passport scheme of cyprus is a risk to security in europe passports and citizenship should not be for sale they are not a commodity at a press conference yesterday this is how the cypriot interior minister branded the cyprus papers you have to go on you are just you know what houses here is doing is not investigative journalism but rather propaganda against site press but this
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scheme has always been controversial even among cypriot politicians the way the scheme was implemented the last few years. yes a procedural final out here in this. for which the public of cyprus. in the pretty near critiques the only thing that will satisfy them is the phasing out of the. year it's the best way of course. he also wants the cypriot parliament to take its own measures a new law to strip passports from criminals has just been passed i want to be sure it was also them we thought they actually well we have. we have evidence of a real problem well they don't really show all that. i've seen you know we're all so new we have the reaction. but it's also with us the
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justice side has investigated. so far the government says they've identified about 30 individuals who no longer be considered fit for citizenship the evidence of the cyprus papers suggests there are many more deborah davis al-jazeera london. and if you want to find out more about the cyprus papers you can go to al-jazeera dot com ford's last cypress papers revealed and explore in more detail exactly who has been buying european union passports from cyprus and where they come from. this is al jazeera these are the top stories the gunmen in new zealand's worst mass shooting has been sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole self-confessed white supremacist brenton terrence killed 51 of them washed person
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to mosques in march last year you see allen's prime minister said the sentence will help with the community's healing process nothing will take the pain away but i hope you felt the arms of new zealand around you through this whole process and i hope you continue to feel that through all the days that followed the trauma of much 15 is not easily healed. today i hope is the last we we have any cause to hear or i should the name of the tirith behind it has deserves to be a life time of complete and utter silence for national guard troops have been sent to the city of can osha after 4 nights of protests over the police shooting of unarmed black american jacob blake u.s. athletes joined the outcry with the n.b.a. perspire and in all of wednesday's playoff games u.s.
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vice president used the 3rd night of the republican national convention to praise donald trump's record on the economy and law and order mike pence accuse democratic presidential rival joe biden of attacking america. as newspaper in israel is reporting that a police officer told investigators that his colleague was unjustified in killing an autistic palestinian man. facially shot and occupied east jerusalem in may the armed officer denies being repeatedly warned to hold fire his colleagues said there was no need to shoot because the victim pose no threat hurricane nor is battering louisiana and texas in the southern u.s. forecasters warning of unsurvivable storm surges it's been downgraded from a category 4 to a category 2 but still has top wind speeds of almost 180 kilometers per hour. news continues on al-jazeera after inside story.
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a peek into depths of the eastern mediterranean turkey and greece are up along the heads of a volatile area of both countries claimed rights to energy resources that could this dispute escalate and what would it take to diffuse it this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian for the concerns are growing that there could be a conflict between turkey and greece in the eastern mediterranean for weeks now the
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