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the ends 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. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world around us and no matter when you call. the news in current affairs that matter to you. dozens of migrants arrive in italy after being transferred from a rescue boat funded by the british street artist banksy. climbdown jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. * women in bellew's defied riot police to lead ongoing protests as the government steps up the crackdown banning many foreign journalists. in the right.
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mood are. stepping up the pressure against racism in the us jacob blake's family leads a march in the town where he was shocked a week ago. volunteering to help find a vaccine will meet the indonesian sisters taking part in human trials. italian coast guard has transferred 49 migrants to the island of lampedusa the taking them of a stranded rescue vessel in the mediterranean sea thank you and women and children on the body of one person who died trying to make the crossing they are among 200 migrants who were picked up by a rescue boat funded by the british street artist banksy the crew of the louise michel says repeated distress calls were initially ignored by. european rescue
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services the un says around 500 people have drowned in the mediterranean so far this year for tancredi palmeri is a freelance journalist following the story he says rescue operations have been challenging during the coronavirus outbreak. lampedusa is a very tiny island and basically the hotspot that he's receiving the migrants is a serving as the gate to view them and if you would see how tiny. you would be. baffled to for the how. the mismatch between the size of the island and big back of the gate or view of the reason. for the receiving and then for a blessing the my ground for that after some time and especially in these days or in these times of all my vitals after also the thought is obviously that should give the negativity of the people then are the icing the migrants all
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different hot spots that across italy although according to what the us. and european union are. 2 other counties obviously in the late in the latest times in the last month the operation is being made mark all of difficult to buy all the pulsars that has to be done of doing tests that it's there and then at the meeting we's not coming out negative for katherine mahoney is the spokeswoman for united nations high commissioner for refugees she says the european union should help frontline states deal with the influx of refugees and migrants. human nature is deeply deeply concerned by the continued absence of search and rescue search and rescue vessels and search and rescue capacity on the mediterranean so you have. boats who continue to conduct life
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saving activities on the mediterranean and they're being criminalized they're being penalize and so that's why u.n.h.c.r. were asking for those restrictions on these boats to be lifted so they can continue to conduct their life saving work but also for the e.u. program for search and rescue to come back we also need to understand that you know more needs to be done by the european union and european member states to help me the states need to provide more solidarity to the states that are on the front lines of receiving refugees and migrants and the bottom line is more can be done to show solidarity and by providing. more spots across states to take in to take in refugees and these individuals who are in need of international protection need an excel aerated process imagine being stranded at sea for weeks on end only to reach dry land to then have
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a stalled process for your asylum claim to be processed hundreds of refugees and migrants bound for western europe remain stranded in bosnia herzegovina many are awaiting shelter on abandoned railway trucks existing camps are filled to maximum capacity it's estimated close to 1500 people are living on the streets of b how much of a border town there was really on a movie on its reports now and unger among locals against the refugees. citizens of the cards are gathering for the 9th time to protest and the reason is still the same like it was for the last 3 years they demand all of the levels of authority here in bosnia-herzegovina to do some urgent actions and to help them with this migrant crisis they want migrants and refugees to be deported from the entire bosnia and herzegovina they say that it would be the best solution for everyone. they are also stating that there's
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a lot of concern which people here in be because for the last 10 to 15 days there's thousands of by grins without any shelter out in the street in the open or in abandoned buildings and there's been reported more and more violence and fights between migrants so they think that this is not safe environment for people who live here their families and their property they are also stating that they have support with this protest from the mayor and as well from surrounding cities and areas who are also under a lot of burden since they also have the same problem with this migrant crisis for several years. well the united nations says there are about $9000.00 refugees and migrants in bosnia that means it's hosting more than half of all the refugees in the western balkans most in bosnia are from pakistan and afghanistan about 600 people arrive each week. the numbers vary from day to day what we're seeing is
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about as you've indicated some are between 406 other people or a figure which per week in the building who we receive approximately the same number of people the property if you look at the last 2 and a half years we've consistently had somewhere between i would say 50026002 maximum 800000 migrants and refugees in those here to governor that figure hides the fact that these are not the same people mostly there are so the small group that is an exception but mostly these are these are changing population population trends and so was he was a corner remains a transit country for now which is by the way also reasonable markets and refugees continue to come because they know that they have the highest chance to actually make it through to border creations movie into the words. far rights activists have burned a koran in an anti muslim protest in sweden it happened in malmo and triggered a riot with some of the 300 protesters attacking police and setting fires in the
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streets 15 people were arrested and another 3 detained for hate crimes the demonstration was held near a multicultural neighborhood. thousands of women have marched in bella ruse to denounce state violence against protesters since the presidential vote on all this 9th authorities arrested thousands of people now they've started withdrawing accreditation from journalists with some expelled on saturday and reports. defying what looks like a crackdown on dissent in belarus these women chanting we won't forget we won't forgive part of what they call a peacekeeping force designed to stop peaceful protesters being intimidated thousands marched in the capital minsk. since alexander lukashenko was reelected as president earlier this month officially winning 80 percent of the vote there have been daily demonstrations several people have been killed and hundreds more injured
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and now the authorities have started withdrawing the accreditation of journalists working for foreign media outlets the government says the move was recommended by bellerose his counterterrorism unit opposition leaders from atlanta to colonel sky in exile in if the way here says she's worried about the government targeting the media on saturday she said quote the only way it will attempt to cling on to power is by fear and intimidation there was also a strong reaction from western embassies in minsk in a joint statement they said we condemn the disproportionate use of force and urged the belorussian authorities to stop the violence and the threats to use military force against the country's own citizens and to release immediately and unconditionally all those unlawfully detained intimidation and prosecution based on political grounds need to stop we call on the bell original dorothy's to respect the country's international obligations on fundamental democratic and human rights . the crackdown on journalists comes a day off the e.u. foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions on 20 senior belorussian officials but
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this sanctions against certain list of individuals who are guilty of human rights violations about the rumors that is an important step and this will impose some sort of for hassles for those people on the list but the regime considers this as the cost of doing business and this won't stop them from further intimidate bellers . the e.u. has urged russia not to intervene in belarus after president vladimir putin promised military support for alexander lukashenko but there's no sign those in power are ready to change their approach to the opposition. al-jazeera democrats in the united states of accuse the intelligence services of betraying the american people after it was announced they will no longer provide in person security briefings to congress on foreign interference in u.s. elections the decision comes just over 2 months before the presidential vote and 4 years after russia was accused of interfering widely in the 2016 election mike
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hanna has more now from washington d.c. . well the office of the director of national intelligence was shared tool to brief congress in the middle of next month on election security particularly with regard to foreign interference in the american electoral process now john ratcliffe the director has written a letter to congress saying that this briefing will no longer be in person that the relevant committees in congress will be provided with a written briefing now in his letter he indicates the reason for this is because of certain leaks out of congress now this has been rammed home by the president himself who says that the director john ratcliffe got annoyed at the degree of leaks and president trump goes on and names the chair of the intelligence committee in the house adam schiff as one of those who could be responsible for such leaks is what president trump said. directorate live in broad information into the committee
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and the information leaked where there were shifty here for somebody else. they leaked the information before it gets in and what's even worse they leak the wrong information and he got tired of it so he wanted to do it in a different form because you have leakers on the committee. obviously leakers that are doing bad things probably not even illegal to link and of course democrats in the house are absolutely enraged nancy pelosi and the chair of the intelligence committee adam schiff have released a statement describing this as a betrayal of the american people saying that there is political intention at work here to minimize the russian interference that the according to the counterintelligence department is ongoing and is aimed at bolstering president trumps chances of reelection thousands of people have marched in the u.s.
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city of jacob blake was shot by police nearly a week ago the event follows another. night of protests which remain peaceful more than a 1000 national guard members from wisconsin and 3 other states are on watch following earlier unrest in the city 29 year old blake who was shot 7 times in the back that's been left paralyzed. my nature is to protect my son. my son when he cannot stand up. on. the right. mood or. really. really. on the call to end racial injustice in the united states has spread to chicago
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black lives matter demonstrations being held in the downtown area with other rallies happening elsewhere hundreds of police officers have been deployed around the city john hendren is in chicago with more. it's called the shut down the magnificent mile protest the magnificent mile is the area in chicago known for its posh shops and skyscrapers it's where the business is and they want to gather people's attention by shutting that area down by taking over the streets and this protest started with dozens of people and it's grown into 100 perhaps low hundreds still dwarfed by this 700 police officers around chicago who are trying to ensure that this thing doesn't go south they are taking no chances indeed there are business owners business owners have begun boarding up again because in the past after large rallies sometimes the city has gone out of control late at night this was a long scheduled event and that means the city was prepared for it they had
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a plan police have been participating and for weeks now whenever we've had events like this curfews and road shutdowns have been the norm so that police could control the streets most of the coming on al-jazeera including. the suspension of a day as interior minister divides the nation further will have the latest on the ground in misrata on a nightmare on the nile thousands of homes are destroyed and dozens of dead as the river reaches unprecedented levels more in that state it's. how i once again welcome to another look at the international full cost because some rather wet weather making its way towards the korean peninsula we have got to parents of cloud sliding through as we go on through sunday so wet weather pushing
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across some lovely showers down the spine of honshu as well as suspects sheltered by the mountains tokyo should states right now hot on tap just as around 35 celsius . the temperature as we go on into monday showers will ease their way across the sea scattering of showers across much of china but further south we have tropical storm a sack intensifying that will eventually push up towards the korean peninsula something to watch out for for the middle to latter part of the week some a sec is making its way away from the philippines this clutch of storms here that is the system just pushing a little further north with dragon in a few showers there across the northern parts of the the philippines loose on seeing some heavy showers scattering of showers there across much of southeast asia showers along the spells of rain continuing to insist central parts of india some heavy downpours just easing over towards the western side of the country some of that western weather making its way back towards pakistan with the risk of flooding
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welcome back or come out of our top stories here on al-jazeera the italian coast guard has transferred 49 migrants lampedusa. after taking them for a stranded rescue vessel there among 200 migrants who were picked up by a rescue boat funded by the british street artist banksy. thousands of women have marched in the galleries to denounce state violence against protesters there defying threats by president alexander lukashenko his government has also started withdrawing accreditation for foreign journalists and democrats in the united states of accused the intelligence services of betraying the public after it was announced they will no longer provide in person security briefings to congress on foreign interference in the us elections has learned from says the changes to prevent leaks of sensitive information. turkey's foreign minister is warning greece that its plans to extend territorial waters in the a g. and c. could lead to war he also announced 2 weeks of military exercises northwest of
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cyprus earlier both sides accusing each other of violating aspace as one months of tension over who controls gas reserves in the eastern mediterranean stephanie deca is in istanbul where she says the government has run thing up its rhetoric. we have heard from the vice president he said that greece is moved greece has announced that it's going to extend its maritime borders this is on its towards italy however but by 6 miles but certainly here it's being taken as something that it could then also do when it comes to turkey and saying that that certainly you know if that isn't a provocation to war what else is in this is the kind of language that you're seeing coming out of the highest levels here also the announcement that turkey will continue to carry out military drills northwest of cyprus for the next 2 weeks or so so i think certainly there's no indication that the situation is calming down anytime soon it is so complicated you have a situation where you have 2 countries backed by different regional and
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international of european powers it's all about the exploration of gas it's all about where lines stop in the sea but you've got an area that is so populated by islands for example the greek island of kos the lauded saw is only around 10 minutes by ferry from the turkish coast so it just shows you how complicated the situation is even longstanding disputes with cyprus are coming into this and inflaming it in terms of who gets access to what gas so certainly turkey yes particularly europe being accused of being provocative but the message here from from ankara is that they're doing what's right in that they're being unfairly treated john psaropoulos is just outside athens he says the current tensions of spilled over from a long running dispute in the aegean sea. the escalation of these incursions by turkish forces has been very precipitous in the last 2 years they've risen from mere dozens before 2009 to hundreds since then and now well into
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the thousands and this year we're set for a repeat performance greece nonetheless insists that it is going to play this dispute by the book which means it is simply standing by international law and international maritime law un law of the sea and it is calling on turkey to come to a dialogue on the basis of those laws greeks are standing by this by the book approach because they're winning by this week they've ratified maritime agreements based on u.n. law with egypt and italy they've managed to get the european union behind lining up sanctions that could be used against turkey next month and they are going to stick to that strategy they suspended interior minister of libya's u.n. recognize government is in tripoli for an investigation of the recent government violence against peaceful protesters fathi bashar go we questioned about the
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response to demonstrations that took place on friday the minister requested the investigation be televised to ensure transparency reports suggest growing friction within the government of national accord between bashar and the prime minister has i'll summarize. thousands of valid and misrata in support of the suspended interior minister who's from the city they voiced a wide list of grievances against the tripoli based administration people are accusing the government of corruption and not investing enough in infrastructure. to sudan now where torrential rain and floods have submerged many parts of the capital the government says the nile river levels are unprecedented at least 800 people have lost their lives and thousands of homes have been destroyed since the start of the monsoon season and as he the morgan reports in khartoum more flooding is expected. this is all that remains of his belongings after the nile river
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flooded his home and his neighborhood in sudan's capital hard to me he says when he 1st saw the river rising 2 days ago he thought he'd be able to save his home but soon realized otherwise. we put sandbags around the entrance of the house so it won't collapse then i went to help other homes much closer to the nile and when the water continued rising i ran back to make sure my house wouldn't collapse but it did and we lost so much i took my family to a relative's house and now i'm trying to see what i can salvage. dozens of other homes have suffered similar damage destroyed by the river less than 5 kilometers away. i took my kids home got submerged in water all our property and life savings have been destroyed by the flood. i have lived here for many years but this is the 1st time the flood has reached this height it's caused a lot of damage my house now has collapsed meteorologists say the rise in the level
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of the nile river is due to heavy rains in the south of the country they also say climate change has increased the amount of annual rainfall flash floods have killed scores of people since the start of the rainy season a month ago thousands of properties around the country have been destroyed hundreds have been displaced some living in tents of a staying behind to guard what is left of their shelters. for many families who've lost their properties in the floods the journey to starting over is one that will take some time the country is going through an economic crisis with inflation soaring at 150 percent and as families wait for the water levels to recede they remain concerned about the potential spread of water borne diseases such as malaria and cholera sudan's government says it expects more floods in the coming days as heavy rains continue to fall in the highlands of neighboring if you are the source of much of the miles of water i know that. we speak to an increase in the normal level in all situations especially from khartoum going northwards so we're doing
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those people on the banks of the neulander branches not just to be alert but to help protect the areas in their villages and come together for osama the damage is already done he's hoping the government now focuses on assisting those who have been affected by the floods so that they can get over the crisis and rebuild their lives he will more going on to 0 or to him. thousands of people turned out on the streets of berlin in a march against coronavirus restrictions that's despite a police order for the demonstration to be shut down because social distancing rules were being violated dominic came reports from delhi. for weeks the daily number of new coronavirus infections in germany has been rising yet for these people in berlin what matters most is their right not to observe any restrictions not to wear masks not to follow social distancing and to show their anger at the politicians who have imposed them because of it youngest illegal eilis is illegal the whole government is illegal everything is illegal and corona is just a medium to heavy flu
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a pandemic that is being used to enslave us humans. that view is not shared by the police who tried and failed twice on friday to persuade the courts to ban the demonstration saying the protestors posed a serious risk mentioning d.m. under the i was going on and that's these are people that we can assume as coronavirus skeptics have taken no precautions in recent months in a time when infection numbers are increasing we don't believe these gatherings to be responsible. the protesters are made up of many different groups some from the political fallout of society some from the far right what unites them is a sense of injustice and rights being lost demonstrations like these pose this country's politicians a serious ethical dilemma forcing them to balance on the one hand the rights of individuals to protest against government measures with which they disagree and on the other hand the rights of the wider community to be protected as far as possible
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from the risk of coronavirus infection it's a risk ministers say is growing blame is it's just some fruits of war the problem is the numbers are too high too early given that winter is coming and we don't currently know what effect it will have and hell the flu and other illnesses will affect it the numbers are too high it. this early stage. that's why they all thora g.'s have tried so hard to prevent scenes like these and why they're so fearful of what affects so many people might have when they're in such close proximity to each other without masks dominic came out zerah berlin. have been similar protests in the swiss city of 0 equip people demanded an end to all coronavirus related restrictions this includes no more wearing of mosques to demand that any corona virus vaccine would not be compulsory in the major as reporting record new coronavirus cases for
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a 3rd consecutive day more than $3000.00 or reported on saturday taking the total to almost 170000 that's led to indonesia advancing trials by potential vaccine developed in china just about washington has more now from bandung. the sisters are used to doing almost everything together and now yet another shared experience they are part of the trial of a potential covert 19 vaccine trial and we said that if this vaccine works praise god indonesia will go back to normal and we can go anywhere without being what each day they feel in a health report and so far they've had no thought of picks up on it and. that they did human trials in phase one and 2 and they were fine and so there's no need to be afraid more than 2000 indonesians signed up for the trial of the vaccine developed by chinese pharmaceutical manufacture a sign of back. dr youn has also pointed indonesia's medical community has been hit
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hard by the outbreak and dozens of doctors and nurses have died he hopes he can help his colleagues. i don't feel like we're being used as guinea pigs in this time of the pain to make this is an honor for us. the proposed vaccine has previously been tested in china now advanced trials are taking place in countries with higher rates of infection base 3 trials are expected to last around 6 months and if the vaccine does work indonesia's state owned pharmaceuticals manufacturer says it will increase production capacity and aim to produce around $250000000.00 doses of the vaccine by the end of the year. the government has signed a deal with son of that to purchase 50000000 doses of vaccine concentrate and take part in a technology transfer. according to those running the trial in indonesia that's good for both nations yet the one thing infection rate is still high here we can
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benefit from this trial if it is successful in the michele field one of the 1st countries to get the vaccine. analysts say the outcome of the vaccine race could have long term impacts on global politics if. we're. son of a vaccine candidate is also being tested in brazil and has been approved for late stage trials in bangladesh just to washington al-jazeera then to indonesia. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the italian coast guard has transferred 49 migrants to lampedusa after taking them off
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a stranded rescue vessel there among 200 migrants who were picked up by a rescue boat funded by the british street artist banksy the un has called in the e.u. states to do more. and the bottom line is more can be done to show solidarity and by providing. more spots across states to take in to take in refugees and these individuals who are in need of international protection need an excel aerated process imagine being stranded at sea for weeks on end only to reach dry land and then have a stalled process for your asylum claim to be processed more needs to be done and we have to recall that you know these are refugees these are people who are fleeing conflicts from around the world who are in need of safety and the situation in europe is manageable thousands of women have marched in better routes to do not state fallen so against protesters led to falling threats by president alexander lukashenko his government has also started withdrawing accreditation for foreign
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journalists democrats in the united states of accuse the intelligence services of betraying the public after it was announced they will no longer provide in person security briefings to congress on foreign interference in u.s. elections president trump says the changes to prevent leaks of sensitive information. he also announced 2 weeks of military exercises northwest of cyprus took his foreign minister is warning greece that its plans to expand territorial waters in the aegean sea could lead to war as been months of tension of a control of gas reserves in the eastern mediterranean. the suspended interior minister of libya's u.n. recognize government is in tripoli for an investigation of a recent government violence against peaceful protesters. and questioned over the response to demonstrations that took place on friday those were the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after super 30 states and that's what.
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