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the unaccountable war the same way as we had if you could not receiving adult humans from the us left without closure. they told us that they so look what happened to their loved ones was a crime. and they want justice in answer just something war 2 also did not see. tensions escalate in the eastern mediterranean as turkey says it's repelled greek fighter jets trying to enter its airspace. kimbell this is al jazeera live from dawn also coming up the blue every goes like a football we are not human here we are just a football hundreds of migrants stuck and bulls here described the abuse that faced
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by local authorities. totally completely makes a legislative change hopefully we can make some political change and hopefully we can really get round this make tens of thousands of people rally in washington d.c. calling again for racial equality and reform. grab in the antarctic should be joined to argentina and the u.k. the race for territorial claim is. turkey says it stopped an attempt by 6 fighter jets from greece from entering its airspace the incident happened on thursday and comes as tensions are escalating between the 2 countries in the eastern mediterranean cockpit video released by the defense ministry is said to show a turkish f. 16 chasing and blocking its guns on to a greek fighter jet the government says the greek plane was entering an area where . turkish ships searching for gas fields greek media reports say it was the greek
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jets that were harassed by turkish fighter jets is there attend a base in creech the region is claimed by both countries the u.n. is calling for a swift and peaceful end to the crisis it's critical that the differences the be resolved peacefully our understanding is that greece and turkey have been engaged in biological discussions and just recently he urges them to continue with that dialogue he's also aware of diplomatic efforts being undertaken and supports these efforts that could contribute to a lowering of tensions in the region the e.u. is pushing for more dialogue but hasn't ruled out the possibility of imposing sanctions on turkey on friday the bloc foreign policy chief said the measures what i'm to limit techies ability to search for energy sources in contested water is 1st you know that now we listing personalities we can't pass to least assets
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ships we can pass through. sanctions the participation of activities that we consume the illegal in means everything related with working this kind of debate is mandating prohibiting the use of european boards it will be in capacities technology. says more from athens on what form sanctions against turkey might take. the sanctions according to certain leaks that have been made here would include would begin from the energy sector from sanctioning individuals and ships and companies supplying those ships that are involved in the exploration but they could extend massively they could extend to e.u. states to turkey to bank loans being given by e.u. bank to turkish companies and individuals and they could extend to travel
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restrictions to individuals so the climate at the informal meeting shows that europe has finally rallied behind greece and cyprus it has largely adopted greek considerate positions to put pressure on turkey to come to the table greece wants negotiations to begin on the basis of international maritime law and should they fail it wants turkey to commit beforehand to arbitration at the international court at the hague so if there is an istanbul she says the dispute has broad implications for the entire region. we're no longer talking about just 2 sides here you're just talking turkey versus greece you have major international implications to this you have deals being done greece egypt you have deals being done turkey libya you have the eastern med having a gas forum that is excluded turkey countries like israel egypt cyprus greece
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involved in that turkey really saying that it feels sidelined when it comes to any sort of profit any sort of involvement of these disputed waters so we're looking at disputed maritime borders you're looking at unresolved legal issues both sides claiming that it's there are so none of this is resolved so it's very very difficult at the moment you have a situation where you have a lot of military hardware in a very small space military ships naval vessels france is also sense a port so i think certainly it's something that analysts will tell you it is tense they don't expect at the moment a huge escalation but certainly mistakes can happen and when the situation is so tense obviously that is a concern. the breaking news now out of the roosts reports that some foreign media working in the country have had their accreditation with told it comes after a number of journalists were detained on post as they prepared to cover the protests and minsk most of them were later released which is news agency says their telephones and identity documents were confiscated but the interior ministry denies
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anyone was detained opened its mouth joins us now on the phone from the lithuanian capital vilnius bernard so foreign media working in the country apparently having their accreditation withdrawn that's quite a major development what more do we know. yet this is continuing a tightening of restrictions on journalists being able to operate in minsk and reports that several foreign media organizations have big credit stations that the journalists were drawn by the authorities in minsk it's been extremely difficult for journalists to get accreditation in minsk there was some accreditation is given to those cover may elections and there are many journalists already operating that without official accreditation but this is the these are those who accredited
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tightening of restrictions by the government. to try and prevent the protests continuing them a so that they got it over the last 4 weeks and especially if the protests are expected on some day. ok thank you for that there with that breaking news. in belarus foreign media having their accreditation with join will bring more bring you more on the story as it comes to hand. the e.u. is going ahead with sanctions on 20 senior officials over this month's disputed election and a crackdown on protesters president alexander lukashenko says he's prepared to retaliate by cutting off trade routes dominic a reports from that it. for weeks protesters have been on the streets of demonstrating day and night against a government they believe is illegitimate and a president who they believe stole the general election these people hope the
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outside world is listening in berlin on friday the e.u. aunts and singling out for new sanctions the leaders of the government in minsk there was a political agreement among ministers to designate selected individuals responsible for their fraudulent elections. and for the subsequent krag down under the existing go to sanction regime this does the nation showing crude individuals. by political level but the belarusian president who hasn't been sanctioned himself is unmoved alexander lukashenko says if more sanctions come he will cut off transit routes through his country for e.u. goods destined for russia and the baltic states he says he will listen to farmers workers and students collectives but not those on the streets of the violent thugs who roam the streets and shout that they want
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a dialogue they don't want dialogue and nobody from the authorities will hold any negotiations on the street if there are seen people from the opposition which see its country is free and independent welcome. but while he wants to be seen as ready to listen you can put his armed forces in combat ready mode and appeal to russia for help president vladimir putin has said he is prepared to send a police reserve if necessary some people in the west have likened the opposition movement in belarus to those that toppled communism in eastern europe in the late 1980 s. the german chancellor angela merkel lived through those times in east berlin which is why she feels an empathy with the protesters in jail or us and believes their grievances should be heard. of this i hope the groups that have now courageously taken to the streets the people who have denounced abuses that they will have that degree of freedom which we can take for granted freedom of demonstration freedom of
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opinion. by bringing in targeted sanctions the e.u. is trying to deliver a clear message to alexander lucas shameka but in return his message is equally clear he is not going anywhere anytime soon dominant cane al-jazeera berlin as many as 500 refugees and migrants are stranded on a railway track of bosnia herzegovina one province decided to ban them and push them into another which is refuse to accept that show about reports. on a road to nowhere hundreds of migrants from bosnia a trap to my place and a changing political times the blare with us like. we are not human here we are. they say they are being kicked between police into neighboring bosnian provinces in a sauna can't on announced last week would ban migrants in tring in movement the rulings in a galaxy has been questioned migrants were pushed back to the province of republika
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srpska which refused to accept them these were away tracks so the only place they find amnesty. while there is 17 you know that it is very hard. they rely on aid agencies to bring food water and medical aid to the tracks. no food no water nothing. and he migrants seem to mind is increasing in bosnia people in one town suit up roadblocks this summer to stop migrants who still see increased after a regional health minister announced 8 migrants have tested positive for private 19 the infected were taken to a local hospital and 2 escaped during further anger from residents. it is certain we have hundreds in fact thousands of migrants in camps where migrants don't follow any norms any regulations and none of our guidance there are simply people who
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don't respect anything the un's refugee agency says as of last month there were $9000.00 refugees in bosnia accounting for 60 percent of refugees in the western balkans the vast majority are from pakistan and afghanistan $600.00 arriving in bosnia each week up from 50 in may. even migrant camps are full. they keep coming every day it would be ok if they were inside camps but they keep coming from everywhere coordinating their movements by phone. then they tried to walk to the croatian border just 3 kilometers that way but get turned back to us. became a bottleneck for thousands of europe migrants and $27.00 tane as other migration routes closed up resulting in a $34.00 would increase of arrivals these migrants are finding themselves on the wrong side of the tracks china ballasts 0 afghanistan's army says it's
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killed dozens of taliban fighters in the past 4 days afghan forces attacks taliban are posts and condemns province killing 44 fighters an interim dozens more the army says the operation was retaliation for a series of taliban attacks on their bases in the region so the hair on algis there will have more from afghanistan including. situations. and. more dire. but look at how the violence and the pandemic can make in the lives of thousands of afghan families miserable. fighting crime in the occupied west bank has become fodder for recent days find out why. hello there plenty rain across areas over in the nation but in particular northern
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sections of the philippines you can see this massive cloud here this is the latest talkable storm which probably throughout sunday will become a thai food and this is it may sack now it is gradually moving away from the northern philippines but still producing some very heavy amounts of rain elsewhere . thunderstorms some heavy downpours into northern and western areas this march at the mill a peninsula as well and then through monday that storm continuing to move away from the philippines but again as you can see they're still caught up in some very heavy amounts of rain coming from that storm system that we had down into a strait in new zealand it's mostly clear across much of australia pretty warm as well across areas to the north well if he's got a chance on storms into northern sections of queensland and still some strong winds working their way with this system across the straits and sunny across much of tasmania cause all of it on his way towards new zealand but about a couple of days across into pass but the rain is on his face that late monday on into tuesday but as i say that rain on his way to new zealand so
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a blessed day on sunday quite a lot of rain certainly on those west facing coasts assim the story on monday and of course we could see some snow to the mountains. counter because of how carving up the oil and gas riches of the east and that is really improved proved to be a costly mistake millions of jobs lost as peru tries to control the spread of the corona virus. plus the brigadier who wants to run the world trade organization charging the cost on al-jazeera. every generation has a higher purpose. ours is. the in the.
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know what you are just there are a reminder of our top stories this hour turkey says it stopped 6 greek fighter jets from entering its airspace as tensions over energy resources escalates in the midst of mediterranean greek media reports say the greek planes were harassed as they returned to base and create. are reports that some foreign media working in bell routes have had their accreditation. comes after a number of journalists were detained on thursday as they prepared to cover the protests in the capital minutes though the interior ministry denies this. hundreds of refugees and migrants are stranded on a railway track and bosnia herzegovina one province banned them and another has refused to take them in. a decision by palestinian bid is to cut ties with the
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israeli government is affecting many people in new york west bank contact was blocked 3 months ago in protest against israel's threat to palestinian land you to abraham reports. imagine reporting an armed robbery to the police but they can't show up on time this is what happened to a jewelry shop owner in 10 feet in the northern occupied west bank thieves escaped to israel in june with 8 kilograms of gold police say they know the suspects but can't get to them postin security forces requires rady permit to operate in more than 60 percent of the west bank was that already complicates the work but now they don't apply to israel for permits in a political protest against the israeli government plans to annex palestinian lands they've all finian authority cut all ties with israel and may. we can't arrive at the scene as quickly as we used to when we had security
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coordination i can't risk sending policemen in uniform to some villages still have to pass by israeli forces or settlements they could arrest or humiliate them in some police officers try to work out of uniform in plain clothes but it's not always possible during the 1st wave of the one of ours and i'm a palestinian security forces imposed lockdown on palestinian areas controlled by israel like this one without security coordination they can't do that. no coordination means that imports of medical supplies through israel isn't possible international organizations are facilitating the delivery of covered 1000 really to supply palestinian officials say 30 percent of imports are blocked including used cars. we bought cars then all of a sudden they told us that coordination is stops our cars are now stuck at the ports and are a risk we need to have one high profits but restore our capital fewer imports means
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reduced tax revenue the palestinian authority is already suffering a financial crisis it's refusing to receive palestinian tax revenues collected by. israel at only 150000 public employees aren't being paid regularly if you make any on that power will shorten your responsibilities fully you would put it in the garbage and never before and you would need to receive it and you would get it in israel isn't doing that the p.a. is coming under pressure to restore coordination it's not the 1st time palestinians are left to choose between 2 difficult options. the occupied west bank. the united nations is concerned about more than 50000 people displaced from their homes due to violence in afghanistan's condense problems the taliban has recently captured 4 army bases despite talks with the government to end
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the fighting of some avenge of a couple. in their heart is one of many of gone provinces contested with be in afghan government forces in vegas style groups fighting escalates whenever government forces try to expand their territory and control of groups such as the taliban attack government positions. of our civilians are often caught in the crossfire relentless fighting in north western province events farmers from tending their fields it's not easy even a local school becomes your home or dean had to evacuate his family from their village and booze problems go on my me before it was a good a mortar shell was fired into my home and destroyed it the situation is very bad over there tens of thousands have had to leave their homes and possessions for law says if they don't there are children in senior citizens here they've left their livelihoods it's a time for harvest for can do says famous we lenin the government another was supposed to help refugees did not even hiss at them. gold in $1000.00 is an
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additional threat to the fighting aid workers are appealing to international agencies to provide the basics for of guns forced out by fighting. the whole and not until no no one from the government or in geo came to help and none of the organizations even conducted a survey to help them u.n. agencies admit they may have missed some despite only receiving 28 percent of their budget in c c they're doing all they can that increasing gun battles makes aid work riskier and access to the needy more complicated we are highly concerned. the strong. people and they are caught between the. actors and the. force. difficult situations. and become more dire security remains of understands the biggest challenge one
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forces are faced with the prospect of u.s. troops pulling out within months as well as battle hardened taliban and widespread corruption a recent audit found 50 to 70 percent of police positions in 4 provinces are so-called ghost posts salaries are drawn but the policeman don't exist despite the release of nearly 4700 taliban fighters peace talks remain pending taliban leaders told al-jazeera they will abide by the deal signed with u.s. forces and demand that the afghan government lives up to what was agreed upon the delay drags on of one civilians continue to suffer some of a job read out of their. tens of thousands of people have rallied in washington d.c. to demand criminal justice reform and racial equality the u.s. has been gripped by racial protests and unrest since african-american george ford was killed by police in may heidi joe castro reports. 57 years ago the great american civil rights leader dr martin luther king jr gave his famous i have
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a dream speech at the 1963 march on washington are what was king's speech was a clarion call for racial equality today one of his sons told a crowd of some 50000 marchers that his father's vision of an equal society still looms unfulfilled we still struggle for justice the militarizing the police dismantling mass incarceration and declaring an determinately as we can that black labs narrow. fridays march was announced at the funeral of george floyd who was killed by a white police officer who knelt on his neck. floyd's death sparked months of protests across america if we got a march every day if we got a vote every day we will get you know neither of our.
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tens of thousands of people are participating in this peaceful march temperature checks and masks those are all precautions the protesters say a pandemic could not keep them home because with or without hope it black americans are being gunned down by police officers earlier this week in another flashpoint the shooting of jacob blake in wisconsin an officer shot him 7 times in the back paralyzing him in front of his children. exited cameras and young right black and brown people suffer. the mark. say president trump doesn't care about black americans and some members of congress have floated proposals for change but little action has been taken hold only the efforts don't go unheard hopefully we can really makes a legislative change hopefully we can make some political change and hopefully we can really move forward from this moment just as hope was in the air in 1983 it's
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here now it was in the voice of martin luther king's granddaughter. father's dream and after this march there will be more protests to come the protesters say if their voices aren't heard here they will be during the presidential election in november. castro 0 washington. star johnson is the president and c.e.o. of the n.w.a. c.p. he says friday speeches will have resonated with people across the u.s. . it was a call to action the reality that our constitution guarantees that everyone was created equal to an alabama rights when it came to african-americans we could not take that commitment to the bank of justice and so we are seeing that same reality today 65 years ago we had a young man was lynched and money mississippi many people who gathered and i 1063
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recognize the beautiful murder of emmett till it was one of the sparks that started the civil rights movement as we know it and here we are 65 years later still calling on this same level of equity to ensure equal protection under the law is afforded to all citizens so particularly african-americans in this moment for african-americans we understand and we've seen this before in our history and that's why you see so many people taken to the streets and protesting in louisville kentucky now it was constant in d.c. today because we recognize that this moment we must fight with all we have to ensure democracy work and turn out the vote in november because our lives depend on . protest as a gathering in berlin to march against coronavirus restrictions 22000 people are expected to take part and count the protests are also planned these are live
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pictures from berlin chancellor angela merkel has warned they could get worse in the coming months the summer comes to an end germany has recorded more than 242000 infections. olivia has announced an easing of coronavirus restrictions interim president janine on a signal edge that could be a 2nd wave she says has become a choice between the virus and widespread hunger livia's economy was already in decline and made rust by the pandemic. cuba is tightening restrictions after recording its highest jump in infections in 6 weeks and overnight curfew will come into effect on tuesday cuba eased a lockdown measures in june the travel between provinces caused an increase in infections. chinese government is claiming sovereignty of a part of antarctica but the effort is being disputed by argentina and the u.k. the continent's natural resources have long been protected under international
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treaties because the newman reports from santiago. this is antarctica according to the antarctic treaty signed in 1961 by 54 countries it's a continent to be used only for scientific purposes and that it belongs to no one. nevertheless this week chile's president of us stamping it out went to the southernmost tip of the country to announce that he was in acting in the antarctic statute recently approved by congress. but today we are taking an important step to strengthen better protect and defend the vocation and destiny that chile has had since its inception we reaffirm our rights our sovereignty and our presence over the white continent. speaking from the magellan streets near the city of venice which is described as the gateway to antartica yet it was seen to be responding to argentina's desire to expand its antarctic platform beyond 200 miles
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this would conflict with the interests of both chile and great britain all 3 countries claim sovereignty on overlapping parts of antarctica. how is this possible if no one is supposed to own it but i will and they will see it to put it simply chilly hodge and tina straley in new zealand the u.k. and france excepted to put their claims on ice as it were but they have never renounced their claims of sovereignty when they signed the antarctic treaty and so far there's been no problem. chile has 9 antarctic bases 4 of which have a permanent presence including families of church and the post office nearby there are russian and chinese scientific basis in practice sovereignty isn't really an issue as long as the antarctic treaty is respected but many countries not just chile want to demonstrate that they were there 1st as a kind of color is ation just in case things should change there is this notion
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that. it is a. continent of resources that could eventually be explored it. one day finally the treaty is broken you would have you were going to actually you know that your are pretty now conflicting claims are limited to diplomatic spat paradoxically chile and argentina a cooperating to convince signatories to form a marine protected area around the antarctic peninsula only russia and china are opposed to the idea of declaring the seas are around the antarctic off limits to human exploitation you see in human al-jazeera santiago. i'm going with the headlines on al-jazeera there are reports that belarus has withdrawn the accreditation of some foreign media it comes after a number of journalists were detained on those day as they prepared to cover the
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protests in the capital minsk but the interior ministry denies this but its math has more from the lithuanian capital bilious. this is continuing tightening of restrictions on journalists being able to operate in minsk it's been extremely difficult for journalists to get accreditation in venzke certainly there was some accreditation given to those covering the elections and there are many journalists already operating without special accreditation but this is the visa goes who are credited tightening of restrictions by the government. to try and prevent the protests continue 'd some that they've gathered over the last 4 weeks turkey says it stops 6 greek fines jets from entering airspace that's above an area where one of its ships is exploring for gas greek media reports say the greek planes were harassed has they returned to base increase hundreds of refugees and migrants
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a stranded on a railway track in bosnia herzegovina one province has decided to ban them while another has refused to accept them. afghanistan's army says it's killed dozens of taliban fighters in the past 4 days afghan forces attacks taliban are posting condemns province killing $44.00 fighters and injuring dozens more the army says the operation was retaliation for a series of taliban attacks on very bases in the region. tens of thousands of people have rallied in washington d.c. to demand criminal justice reform and racial equality it was held on the 57th anniversary of martin luther king jr as i have a dream speech the us has been gripped by racial protests and on rest since african-american george floyd was killed by police in may well those are the headlines and that's it for me for that a while they will be with you at the top of the hour. you know what i think.
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not. the way the story is what and it came to friends. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a look at the world of business and economics this week carving up the riches of the mediterranean could prove to be a costly mistake as a lebanese well comes up dry and companies delay drilling could nations miss out on the oil and gas bonanza. peru's economy has tanked millions of lost their jobs as the government tries to stop the spread of the coronavirus people are desperately trying to make ends meet. at attempting to a changing economy why a university degree may no longer be the key to success for many americans.
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turkey claims to have found a big store of natural gas in the blacks.

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