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but when it. gets to feed. to the socks. on just. not answer. on i'll just see that. hundreds of migrants are brought to the italian island of lampedusa after being rescued at sea some of them by ever so funded by the british street artist banksy. come out of us and this is all it is there are live from doha also coming up but having 4 more demonstrations or thousands are expected to hit the streets in
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balance demanding president alexander lukashenko steps down. flooding in sudan destroys homes and displaces thousands of people the government warns the nile river is reaching unprecedented levels. and german police break up a large protest against coronavirus restrictions in berlin because only a few people wearing masks on keeping their distance. dozens of migrants who were rescued from the mediterranean sea last week have been brought to the italian island of lampedusa they want among more than 200 picked up by a charity vessel funded by the british street artist banksy shall about us as mine . after radio silence from the italian coast guard on saturday they responded to calls for help transporting 49 migrants from charity vessel luis michel to the
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island of lampedusa it was 32 women 13 children for men and one body and an identified migrant who failed in their dream to start a new life in europe they had been on the ways michel a search and rescue ship funded by renowned british street artist banksy named after a 19th century french an artist banksy painted it with a fire extinguisher and tagged it with a modified image of his balloon go i did launch last week from near valencia but the sushmita ship and its crew of team have been quickly overwhelmed. it came across nearly 90 people floating in a rubber boat on wednesday in 130 more off the coast of libya eventually with an overcrowded did they take the life rafts to the ship and most are in germany for urgent help but received no assistance the reason that there would not ever 2
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more were because they were going to live for a long time to not overcrowd so much and also to have. 5 a place for the body that they found. as the drama unfolded banksy posted this on instagram because i think the city guy writing like most people who make it in the art world. to cruise the meat it's a french navy vessel we converted into a lifeboat because. deliberately ignore distress calls from known europeans he goes on to say black lives matter. the u.n. says 44000 migrants have crossed the mediterranean this year 5000 have been rescued mainly by charity ships 500 have drowned there is a very dire a very. provent a bowl and a very unacceptable situation going on in the in the mediterranean right now there
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is deeply deeply concerned by the continued absence of search and rescue search and rescue vessels the u.n. has cooled for europe to do more as a whole so countries like italy and ports like lampedusa don't bear a disproportionate load and the migrant crisis. al-jazeera another boat with hundreds of moderns of refugees has been allowed to dock at the port of long to do so patrol boats on the italian coast guard rescued the vessel with about $450.00 people on board the boat was in danger of capsizing because of strong ones. dozens of protesters are expected to gather in belarus on sunday in what's now being more than 3 weeks of anti-government demonstrations on saturday when in march today in one state violence against protesters authorities have arrested thousands of people since the disputed election earlier this month they've also started withdrawing accreditation from journalists and expelling them that in bother reports.
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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 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 near 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
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a joint statement they said we condemn the disproportionate use of force and urge the belarusian 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 this sanctions against certain list of individuals who are guilty of human rights violations. that is an important step and this will impose. a hassle for those people on the list but the regime considers this the cost of doing business and this won't stop them from further intimidate bellers.
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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 but al-jazeera voters and montenegro are heading to the polls to elect a new parliament the governing party of presidents will observe and of which is facing opposition from an alliance seeking closer ties with serbia and russia the year kind of vision government has led the country almost continuously since the end of communism in the 1990 s. making him one of europe's longest serving leaders in sudan interventional rain and floods have submerged many parts of the capital the government says the levels of the nile river are unprecedented at least 88 people have died and thousands of homes have been destroyed since the start of the rainy season here morgan reports from hard to this is all that remains of a famine jailings belongings after the river flooded his home and his neighborhood in sudan's capital hutton he says when he 1st saw the river rising 2 days ago he
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thought he'd be able to save his home but soon realized otherwise. but. 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 out when my home got submerged in water or lower 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 of the nile river is due to heavy rains in the south of the country they also
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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 us staying behind to guard what is left of their shelters for many families who've lost their properties in the floods they journeyed 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 monarchical i am again we speak to an increase in the normal level in all situations especially from khartoum going northwards so we're doing those people on the banks of the noire limits branches not just to be alert but to help protect the
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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 heba morgan on to 0 or tomb thousands of people in kenya have been forced to abandon their homes after a drastic rise in the levels of lakes along the rift valley homes schools hospitals and roads are underwater environmentalists say decades of deforestation and unusually heavy rains this year have contributed to the disaster katherine sawyer has been going to lake baringo where the water has risen by around 12 meters in the past 7 years. that's our boat on lake baringo in kenya's rift valley but this area wasn't always covered by the lake and its waters are hundreds of homes some schools clinics and markets many thousands of acres of farmland as well as several islands also marched as the water continues to rise at about 2 and
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a half centimeters a day longer sariel and who has recently moved to higher ground after house was claimed by the lake villages on an island that has been split into 3 and they were not are not and no this island was whole and we could move around now the waters separated us from our relatives i don't even have a boat to go to the other parts of the village people here say they started seeing the phenomenon in 20. since then the water level has risen by up to 12 meters environmentally said decades of deforestation siltation and unusually heavy rains this year are the course this is a new village that was built a few months back after people were displaced by the floods but water is again on their doorsteps and they will have to move soon they tell us life is stuff they're dealing with the cold mosquitoes and other animals like crocodiles and he pools yet they don't know where to go next i had spoil was recently killed by
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a crocodile several tourist hotels are also struggling to stay above water. this is a reception area of the lodge where we were staying beyond it was a carpark 6 years ago and right here the lake was about 500 meters away as you can see in the hotel next door is all gone the manager shows us what remains of a one story cabin that accommodated up to 7 guests and a picture of what it used to be 6 years ago we had for this go to this head and i love for bond us. virgin large camping ground over there and this was sitting on around 10 piece of land this is a freshwater lake which hundreds of thousands of people depend on for their basic needs it has no known outlet and is largely fed by readers who source is a mouse forest one of the region's most important water catchment areas but
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government officials say people are destroying the forests through illegal logging and farming some people are suggesting building a canal for the excess water to flow out by it's not clear what impact that will have on those downstream and the lake itself for now known this area and thousands of other kenyans who leave here have to fend for themselves they say at the rate the lake is rising they might soon run out of higher ground catherine soy al-jazeera kenya. still ahead on all jazeera. and. demanding answers the families of victims have been forced disappearances in pakistan urge the government to take action. the devastating toll of the oil spill in malicious brings people onto the streets the accuse the government of failing to act quickly enough.
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hello there plenty of cloud as usual so much of indonesia but a massive. really affecting much of the philippines that sickles that is. that is on its way north as monday but still we'll see some very heavy rain across luzon we just pushing down into the central philippines elsewhere very heavy downpours across central northern areas of sumatran across into the monday peninsula as well it does tend to improve that on tuesday at the same time. really does pull away from the philippines so the rains the coming rather more scattered in some heavier downpours this time across into borneo that we had down tools australia have had some very nice well weather across the east coast of new south wales the cloud the rain is further to the south again people being flocking to the beaches you can see here just enjoying the very nice weather temperatures have been in the mid twenty's celsius that is a set to change as the case through monday 20 degrees at best in city so not too
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bad not too bad generally across the southeast but plenty of weather on its way towards the south island of new zealand and an expanded rain is on us when that means a very wet unsettled day for 17 degrees celsius and as a say that weather really is on its way tools new zealand across the tasman sea monday not as bad but by cheese day widespread rain and snow. rewind returns with a new series and brand new updates on the best about to say this documentary this by will compare it to an onion we have in the onion the fitness bar the heart of the food the company not the girl to remind continues with cambodia is often in business. this is actually totally crazy cinna just allowed us to pick up full kids from his infant actually they now gone out and we could just drive off with them on al-jazeera. to.
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i'm. watching out to see a reminder of our top stories this hour the italian coast guard has transferred $49.00 migrants to lampedusa after taking them off a stranded rescue vessel that among $200.00 migrants were picked up by a rescue boat funded by the british street artist banksy. more protests are expected in bello said day after thousands of women marched to condemn state violence authorities have detained thousands of people since anti government protests began more than 3 weeks ago. eventual rain and floods have suffered marriage to many parts of sudan's capital khartoum the government says the level of
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the river nile river is on the president doesn't have died of thousands of homes have been destroyed since the start of the rainy season. a global spotlight is being put on victims of so-called enforced disappearances this sunday rights groups say pakistan has one of the worst records with thousands of political activists taken against their will and held in secret al-jazeera spoke to one woman whose father was seized by an unidentified armed men last year charles stratford as her story. tania contacts father idris is a well known human rights campaigner in pakistan on november 13th last year he disappeared in a police statement his driver said that unidentified armed men stops their car put bags over their heads and drove them away in a separate vehicle the driver was released 2 days later and.
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meet you friday night on. monday the police event is. unfortunately powerlessness. and if so why a fine to see that so many families have to go through this. still mean years and the really neat and deep and. in the end this still has the organization defense of human rights pakistan says idris is one of the around 5000 people portrayed as having been subject to enforced disappearance in pakistan in recent years to include journalists political and human rights activists and suspected members of the armed groups many protests against the practice of being held families are demanding to know the whereabouts and fate of their missing loved ones in june the united nations released a statement condemning what it described as the widespread silencing of human rights defenders through intimidation secret detention torture and in 1st
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disappearance with the direct involvement of the pakistani government with its complicity complacency those are my brother has been missing since 2017 and since then my mother self has deteriorated we're worried about our health we demand pakistan's army chief to help us in his recovery as promised by his. prime minister imran khan was a vocal critic of enforced disappearances while in political opposition after being elected in 2018 he approved a draft law criminalizing the practice but 2 years later the law still has not been presented to parliament for approval it is absolutely shameful that after 2010 there was the report of the national commission on it forced disappearances nor elected government has enforced are implemented any of its recommended pakistan's
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minister of human rights offers no explanation why it's taking so long to pass the law for them and i think that was why we needed more and more on this one but not much like. that. did you. believe that he'd be put on the. mobile. phone i wonder does that mean tallia made a video as part of the family's campaign demanding more information about their missing father in a rare acknowledgement of an enforced disappearance the military has confirmed that you'd receive facing charges under pakistan's secrets act the family have filed a petition in the high court ordering the government to tell them where he is so far they have heard nothing they are increasingly afraid about the safety of a man they say has for years worked tirelessly to improve human rights in pakistan strafford al jazeera and in the locating is
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a south asian campaigner with amnesty international she says the number of people who have gone missing is likely to be higher than what's being reported. inforce disappearances are certainly something that because they're shrouded in secrecy we're never going to have an idea of the exact numbers of what agree that we how many people have disappeared especially in box and across the region but in fact then we see that it's very much an ongoing phenomena it is something that we see almost daily reports often it doesn't really show any signs of relenting and in sri lanka we seem to sort of moved on to a where looking at a smear if it's at a transitional justice where they're not ongoing but families are still waiting for justice but i think the most critical number that really sort of defined the phenomenon of a horse's appearances in south asia is the number 0 which is the number of prosecutions that uptick that is one of the biggest reasons why it continues to
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happen with the force that it does it's one of those situations where it really as long if the political will doesn't exist it doesn't really matter what the background wants of how the government was functioning or how entrenched they were in the military affairs is because as we see that even if the democratically elected governments that spent this princess continue to happen relent that's the and and even in sri lanka of course we've had civilian governments that have decided over this we've seen in the fall that has been the case we've seen that in kashmir that continues to happen so it's really just if you don't have the political will and then that's if the act itself is not criminalized to continue unabated turkey's foreign minister is warning greece that its plans to extend the tour waters in the jain sea could lead to war in its 2 weeks of military exercises northwest of cyprus both sides have accused each other of violating the airspace there's been months of tension over who controls gas reserves in the eastern mediterranean took his vice president echoed the foreign minister was born in. it's
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a member you grease wants to expand its maritime boundaries for 12 additional miles that means we will not be able to move not our commercial ships nor our tourism ferries nor our fishing boats they really expect us to accept this if this is not a cause for war than what is one person's been shot and killed in the u.s. city of portland violence broke out between john supporters and counter protesters at a vehicle rally on saturday portland has been the site of nightly demonstrations for more than 3 months since the police killing of george floyd in minneapolis and the capital washington d.c. police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse anti racism protesters who gathered near the white house. for a global number of confirmed corona virus infections has now surpassed 25000000 and in cities across europe thousands have been protesting against government imposed
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restrictions hundreds gathered in central london they want the government to withdraw all safety measures put in place to stop the spread of covert 19 the u.k. is the 2nd worst affected country in europe with more than 334000 cases reported so far there were similar protests in the swiss city of 0 tick people were calling for an end to mandatory ma schools they're also urging the government not to make a coronavirus vaccine compulsory. but the biggest march was in berlin thousands of protesters defied a police ban and violated social distancing rules to join the mass rally against covert 19 restrictions and when it came reports from the german capital. 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 the guns are big youngest illegal
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eilis is illegal the whole government is illegal everything is illegal and corona is just a medium to heavy flu a pandemic that is being used to enslave us humans you know 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 protesters posed a serious risk mentioning the him 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
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the other hand the rights of the wider community to be protected as far as possible 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 at this early stage. that's why the all thora t's have tried so hard to prevent scenes like these and why they are so fearful of what effect so many people might have when they're in such close proximity to each other without masks dominic kane al-jazeera berlin or chris smith us from the radio show the naked scientists he says the protestors are putting the wider public health at risk. big numbers is definitely a risk if those people are not observing social distancing and it's very likely
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that many of them won't i mean obviously you've got to be careful because they may be household groups and household groups can be considered to be a person in the not themselves in one group so that's a bit different but i think some of the tension here is around the question of wearing masks outside and to be quite frank the evidence supporting that measure isn't strong i don't think there's really any justification for a person who's wandering around in the street not me or anybody else wearing a face covering that that really isn't going to help anybody but when you're in a situation where you can't observe social distancing that's where it might be helpful and the data that we're generating seem to suggest there might be even if it's a small one a benefit from a face covering under those circumstances and that's why governments such as the u.k. government have said in situations where you can't do social distancing like on public transport like in a shop for example where you have less control over where you stand relative to other people then it might be useful but i think people are getting frustrated
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because they see no end in sight and and to a certain extent you can see how we might be moving to a situation where we now know a lot more about this virus than we did at the outset and as a result we know who the people who are really at risk are and therefore people are saying well 99 percent of people are doing something to protect one percent of people perhaps we should throw more resources at protecting that one percent of people and allowing the 99 percent of people to do what they want to do and to take the risks that go with it the room protests and militias over the government's slow response to an oil spill people say the environmental damage is worse than it might have been more than 1000 tons of fuel spilled out on a japanese ship struck a coral reef in july caught a leg reports. going to proceed with. the final desperate moments of a mother trying to save her dying cough. this footage was filmed by a fisherman as he tried to help the pair as they struggled in waters contaminated
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by oil in militias but they join dozens of others that have washed up dead in recent days that's happened after a japanese own tanker struck a coral reef in july and leaked more than a 1000 tons of fuel oil into the sea. nourishing authorities say it's not yet clear whether the spill is to blame for the dolphins deaths but environmentalist and experts warn the worst is yet to come in the congo so the ship is stranded on coral systems and destroying the creatures creating clouds into the water inside the coral reef despite the mission government's efforts and a team of specialists sent by japan the people here say not enough has been done. thousands gathered in the capital port louis calling for an investigation and for government officials to step down the government says it has set up a commission to look into the spill and promised autopsies on all the dead dolphins
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but many say that's too little too late since the one i have been like soliciting our government about. their immediate precautions. to prevent maneesh into the ocean but never once thought they were completely in action the full impact of the spill is still unfolding but scientists are warning of a major ecological disaster one that could impact militias and its tourism dependent economy for decades to come car leg al-jazeera. this is all just the release of the top stories the italian coast guard has transferred 49 margarets to lampedusa after taking them off a stranded rescue vessel that among 200 migrants who were picked up by a rescue boat which has been funded by the british street artist banksy. and the
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bottom line is more can be done to show solidarity 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 accelerated process imagine being stranded at sea for weeks on end only to reach dry land to 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 another boat with hundreds of migrants on board has been allowed to dock in the lumber doos a but all boats on the italian coast guard rescued the modern vessel with about 450 people on board more protests are expected in bello who said day off to thousands of women march to condemn state violence authorities have detained thousands of
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people since demonstrations began more than 3 weeks ago against the rule of president alexander lukashenko. voters in montenegro heading to the polls to elect a new parliament the governing party you know president and over which is facing opposition from an alliance you can closer ties with serbia and russia. one person has been shot and killed in the u.s. city of portland violence broke out between top supporters and counter protesters at a vehicle rally on saturday portland has been the size of night the demonstrations for more than 3 months. the global number of confirmed corona virus infections has now so pasta 25000000 and in cities across europe thousands have been protesting against government restrictions and as have gathered in central london they want the government to withdraw all safety measures put in place to stop the spread of covert 19 the u.k. is the 2nd worst affected country in europe with more than 334000 cases reported so
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