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into the east and we will see some wet weather grassy making its way into jamaica. it's you who have created heat fish. u.s. president donald trump's accused of inflaming racial tension after a shooting in portland where the supporters clashed with counter-demonstrators. the soldiers are a lie from. also ahead celebrations among opposition party supporters in montenegro mokhtar a church dispute brings a surprise election result. tanks are rolled out in the bella ruse capitalists tens
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of thousands of protesters marked the president's birthday with a renewed call for them to go. a minimum wages among sweeping labor reforms in qatar in the lead up to hosting the next football world cup. follow the mayor of portland has accused president donald trump of creating a culture of fear hate and division in the u.s. the criticism comes after a supporter of a far right group was killed on saturday night it happened when backers of the president clashed with counter-demonstrators i can i reports. and racism protests continue in a number of cities across the united states the new wave of demonstrations sponsored by the police shooting last week of jacob blake and cannot show wisconsin the 29 year old african american remains paralyzed in hospital. on saturday night
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dozens of president. supporters confronted protesters in portland oregon. one person was shot and killed in circumstances still to be established this afternoon my heart is heavy the city's mayor insists that president trump must bear responsibility friends it's you who have created the hate in the division president trump you bring no peace you bring no respect to our democracy you mr president need to do your job as the leader of this nation president trump spent part of the day playing golf 'd but only after sending dozens of tweets rushing out to the ports in may trump described his supporters who converged on the city to hold counted demonstrations as great patriots urging others to follow their lead his chief of staff denies the president is inciting violence we've had over 200 and
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our kiss and they're not peaceful protesters these are people that every single night conduct violent acts and and it is in democrat cities you know you want to talk about donald trump's. america most of donald trump's america is peaceful it is a a democrat led city important that we're talking about this morning people are getting injured a 17 year old self described supporter of president trump has been charged with killing 2 people in cannot share in the days of to the jacob blake shooting. the president is still to condemn the killings and insists he will visit cannot show on tuesday despite the mayor there asking him not to i think that when you look at the conditions that are going on in the community this can be his time you know trying to move the governor and i think that at this point in time it's it's not the best idea following days of protests in cannot against police brutality a small group gathered to express their support for police an indication of the
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ongoing divisions within this country which critics contend president trump is intent on exploiting amid his campaign for reelection. mike hanna al-jazeera washington jason stanley is professor of philosophy at yale university and the author of how fascism works he says president trump has incited violence to boost his campaign message of fear. mayor tad wheeler was really horowitz in his speech it was really a remarkable thing to state the truth so clearly and that's what we need from more politicians in the united states today the president is using the tactic of inciting protest let's recall that the president sent federal forces into the city of portland to incite protesters lens black lives matter protests were dying out. and he incited these protests that incited also
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property damage and made them larger in order to run on a message of law and order and now we're in seeing him foment and encourage militias which is of course extremely dangerous the kind of vigilanteism that we've seen in to notion where ordinary citizen thinking they are. supporting the president i suppose they are but ordinary citizens that are not part of any of officialdom join who go on the streets armed i mean this is this is the hallmark. of authoritarian movements worldwide. both main parties in montenegro have claimed victory in its problem entry elections early results put president me load you kind of which is ruling d.p.'s party narrowly ahead with 35 percent of the votes the opposition alliance has won about 32 percent its supporters have been out
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celebrating in the streets and its leader has declared the regime has fallen. more from. want to negroes capital. it's quite surprising situation and result in montenegro in these elections because this country actually never saw changes in power in its history so even the chance that it might happen is a surprising surprises the sharp fall of leading ruling party also a sharp rise of course that would be unqualified but. none of them have enough hands in parliament to create a new government even both sides claim that they will try to form a government today will need the support from other minor parties the good information for all those in montenegro. a supportive for you of this broad western country took in the last couple of years 3 years ago montenegro joined nato
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alliance it's a front runner in balkans region when it comes to european integration so the good information for all those. country could change its course in that sense is that government could be formed only with the help of the smaller parties there are 3 options and all 3 are very progress there oriented so they will definitely not allowed to change the course of the country in short term and. no matter who is going to be a leading party is it going to be the support from them to nigger ruling party currently or is going to be a pro serbian opposition parties who are claiming that they will form a government at the end. filippovich is a political analyst from montenegro he says an official results will take up to 2 days. we have preliminary results stated by the independent n.g.o.s what is very important to mention is that the officials 8 electoral commissions
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didn't. go out with it be official results we had claims of week to really by the position archives and according. to what general said they are the majority of 41 to 42 out of 81 members of parliament. big already announced their coalition. with the help of the possibly in part with the help of a small per european coalition called united reform action also from when we get him up tonight and told the public there they are short of one member of parliament to form a majority so preliminary he announced the last night you'll still be out. there in front of us or 2 days until tuesday and that's the legal obligation we're just 8 electoral commission are we will elect be official.
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protesters and valorous were warned against demonstrating but government threats of a crackdown didn't keep them away tens of thousands once again filled the streets in the capital to protest against president alexander lukashenko they hears him a frigging day presidential election burdensome fs following developments from neighboring lithuania sunday's alexander lukashenko 66th birthday this is not the president he was hoping for was we're not a herd of cattle or cowards we're belorussians that chum to him was 3 weeks since the disputed election that the ballot russian president claimed to win with 80 percent of the vote. no one here believes that and they've been protesting against luka shank ever 6. months i'm here to express my disapproval at the rigging of the elections and to be in solidarity with
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everyone he was detained i am for peace i am propellor s. but. the protesters have been peaceful from the outset and after initially violently attempting to suppress earlier demonstrations the security forces have taken a step back in the past couple of weeks some protesters are being detained more than 125 according to the government or many journalists of how their accreditation revoked there was on sunday what witnesses described as the largest deployment so far of security forces who blocked off access to some main street. one of the country's largest mobile phone operators said it had reduced mobile internet capacity at the government's request. and tanks rolled down the road closed the loop to shame because residents of minsk as protesters headed there . but there seems to be no indication the momentum has gone out of these demonstrations and luka schenker looks no more likely to loosen its grip on the
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presidency after 26 years. the kremlin says about amir putin called alexander lukashenko on sunday to wish him happy birthday for the 2 men of agree to meet in moscow in the next few weeks a suggestion of the kremlin's a willingness to buck russia's president as the european union prepares to impose new sanctions. bernard smith al-jazeera vilnius from. the russian journalist and political commentator based in neighboring ukraine he says there have been anti-government protests in the past them by the roots but the scale of the current movement is unprecedented. what we can see right now it means streets and larger cities of belarus we can see all generations all social groups workers students older people protesting against the government so they don't protest just for europe or for russia they protest for freedom this is the pure
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pro-democracy movement in 2020 you know belarus is very patriarchal very conservative society and women were never involved in politics but this year is very different we have the presidential candidate and the opposition leaders for planets and those can well lead in the whole movement and we also see that the majority tof rallies the protestant minsk in the regions are organized by women social media are the fool of this protestant the most of the current did nation activities are made by a telegram message an ad so people agree on the place where they brought us they were on the form on the topic and look at the can not control because it's only encrypted messages and social media is the main driver but also the main there for people to take part because before when you came to means going to 1010 state television was controlling the information space and the majority of delusions didn't have done that if the propaganda but right now they can go to instagram you
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tube telegram and they see that majority do ability to censor jim in about freedom and this inspires them it mobilizes them and the 1st of all it helps information to flow. coming up on al-jazeera. we look at what's behind latin america struggle to slow down the spread of covered. this is the reception area all of that will tell where we have been going. and it was a cop park a few years back live where it was about 500 meters away on concrete so you know i'll tell you why inmate is rising so quickly and it's devastation it's morning. but. yet more rain in the forecast for the korean peninsula we call sweater weather
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now making its way across northern parts of japan clear skies coming in behind the rash of showers here cloud and rain sliding out of eastern china will come down across north korea gradually pushing into south korea but look to the south of that that is and next a thai food this is typhoon my sack coming about a week after babbie it will continue to drive its way further north has spent to get to make its way into south korea sometime choose day going on into wednesday with more damaging winds or more flooding rains we will see clear skies meanwhile as that system makes its way away from the philippines we are going to see still quite a rash of showers coming into loose on take we'll see some western weather here for a time much of the area across southeast asia really is a case of sunshine and shallow as now we see some very heavy rain recently into were pakistan particular cross southern pakistan this is in karate where we had 225 millimeters of rain in just 48 hours and that is something you don't see every day
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. in the strace across here we have a submarine making its way inside a lot of heavy rain coming through here and flooding those flooding rains will continue across eastern pakistan into monday. but. thousands of children were removed from east timor jury need denise you know to patient decades later wonder what he's doing is mending the last generation as they find to head home. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera where every. were rude. or. form.
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hello again the top stories on al-jazeera the mayor of portland has accused president donald trump of creating a culture of fear and hate in the u.s. the criticism comes after a supporter of a far right group was killed on saturday nights when trump backers clashed with counter protests. both main parties in montenegro have claimed victory in parliamentary elections early results could present a ton of riches d.p.'s party and narrow but opposition supporters have been celebrating after their leader declared the government fall and. tens of thousands of people have again filled the streets of the belorussian capital to demand the resignation of president alexander look at. the queues him
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a frigging the presidential elections the daily protests are in there for 3. countries in latin america are still struggling to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control the number of cases and deaths continue to rise the region accounts for about a 3rd of the more than 25000000 global infections daniel shrine the reports from water sirees. c c there's been no let up since the 1st case of coded 90 was reported in latin america at the end of the february. 5 months only when the cyrus these ambulance workers mourning the death of one of their frontline colleagues a number of registered infections in argentina has school 100000. it's a similar story across the region in peru these health workers to the mom better working conditions peru has just overtaken belgium as the country in the world with the highest number of deaths per head of population they most. need more than
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1000 workers have been infected you. the lack of personal protective equipment more than 70 health workers have died. lack of adequate investment lies at the root of many of latin america's problems the inequality is only highlighted by the pandemic with health workers often hit particularly hard. i was a kind of a patient 49 percent of my lungs are been affected as an employee of the affected institution i've still not been paid compensation. each country has tackled the crisis in its own way some like peru in argentina with strict early lockdowns others like brazil and for sizing the economy over health brazil has just registered 120000 deaths from the virus 2nd in the world only to the united states is to many places this seems to be
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a real disconnect between the parties says that are being implemented and what the epidemiological kerberos tell us this is not a good sign wishing the virus so we will not work. economy showing tentative signs of recovery last year have been devastated by the pandemic the already vulnerable like the street vendors in the colombian capital bogota are now barely surviving. days that we don't work a days that we don't eat and don't have enough to pay for utilities or anything at all like. many countries in latin america believe their rates of infection will be peaking around now and they begin dreaming about the end of the crisis that's not happening the nightmare only continues. when their elders era one of cyrus. the number of infections in the united states have slowed but deaths haven't that
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could be because the number of people being tested has fallen in recent weeks the us has reported at least a 1000 deaths per day for almost 6 weeks the number of covered 1000 infections is now nearing 6000000 lebanon's a massacre in germany most of the books likely to be the new prime minister after days of deadlock that's after he won support from several parties including the governing future movement talks are expected on monday to confirm the post the former government resigned earlier this month after a blast in the capital beirut killed nearly $200.00 people under lebanon sectarian power sharing system the prime minister must be a certain. lebanon's president michel and says the political system needs to be changed and he's called for a secular states. the transformation of lebanon from a prevailing 6 tarion system to a modern secular state a state of citizens and citizenship means that vacation from the hated legacies of
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sectarianism and its repercussions from sick red lines and quotas that bind any constructive will and hold any step towards reform. the white house adviser jared kirsner has set the stage is set for more progress in the middle east he's in jerusalem following a u.s. brokered deal to establish relations with israel and the united arab emirates on monday kirsner and other u.s. advisers will join an israeli delegation on the 1st commercial flight from israel to the u.a.e. the palestinians have denounced the deal saying it betrays their rights. cats are has announced a series of labor reforms for the 1st time and set a monthly minimum wage for employees regardless of nationality or the type of job the new measures also allow workers to change employers without needing their sponsors approval imraan khan reports after
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a 2 year long consultation process with the u.n. body the international labor organization the state of cattle has announced sweeping reforms in the way employees are treated in the gulf state some of the changes include the introduction of a minimum wage of $1800.00 tare rails around $500.00 u.s. dollars a month which includes an allowance for food and accommodation there's also freedom of movement between employers without the need for what's called a no objections difficult the law applies to all ex-pats employees in the country including domestic workers employed by individual families there's concern that previous laws in place to protect workers haven't been in force properly local media reported that some construction workers were paid for months at the start of the coded 19 and then make the international labor organization says the new laws will be forced and there will be more outlets to resolve labor disputes. we had to jointly with the state of qatar study its impact its paper ations and ensure that
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it's been official for all including the workers the private sector and the country so a lot of ground work had to be done also the legislative changes the actual law to be prepared but also when it comes to the minimum wage there actually has to be a study done on the needs of the workers councils largest export populations come from bangladesh pakistan the philippines and india the government says that the minimum wage will be beneficial to both employees and the country this is part of it bigger picture there reforms 1st laws are very good these 2 new 2 major announcements today are fantastic for the country but implementation is equally as important so we will be working with the government here. ensuring that the labor inspectors are fully aware of the legislation making sure that their workers are aware making sure that their enterprises companies the private sector is aware because i was hoping these reforms will also address concerns in the run
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up to the football world cup in 2022 human rights groups have highlighted various issues about workers in the country that include some construction sites and inadequate living conditions in the last 6 years 34 workers have died during the construction of world cup stadiums that's brought a lot of attention from the international community on cats are now these labor law reforms are partly their way of dealing with international pressure however the closer we get to the world cup in 2022 the more bright the international spotlight will shine in my own car on al-jazeera. floodwaters have reached the highest levels on record in the capital of sudan killing more than 1000 people troops have been deployed to help an evacuation and building barricades in for 2 tons of thousands of homes have been destroyed since the start of tarantula rains the government says
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the knol river has already reached unprecedented levels. by this president of the world association for a stable development and he says the sudanese government hasn't done enough to help those affected by the floods. the current flooding in from. the could be that which we all see but across the whole river not from doing well off from across the central part of sudan is primarily i'm not sure of the disaster no one can argue against that and that the defense system that needs defense or the bridges are all that the book fiction mechanism which only you need to understand very well they have failed to deal with it not because of the failure of the system i'm always been a critic of the government but this is serious i think we have to be to give 6 right that advantage of that what these can hold in terms of quarter is being frock on it's a broken record it's quite heavy flooding naturally they come with serious else issues there will be lots of
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b c's lots of problems even now some environmentalist trying to help the country by giving them warning about next insects which would come out of the water it's a very serious humanitarian crisis come don't it's a natural crises nothing to do is it down but it needs the government where does the minister of social affairs this is the time where do you see a social fabric so bored by government motivation and leadership we have never seen a single talk from any of the government officials prime minister is in different ways he doesn't feel the benefits people i think this is a real classic example of a government fairly you have to support is this and i guess one example george w. bush lost. his leadership when he failed to respond to a national disaster in the u.s. i think what is we're seeing in the natural disaster we leave total government failure. flooding is also causing chaos in kenya or if our reasons are been forced
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to abandon their homes environmental decades of deforestation and unusually heavy rainfall have contributed to the disaster catherine sawyer went to laboring go for water levels have risen around 12 metres over the past 7 years that's our boat on lake burial 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 a half centimeters a day longer sarah palin who has recently moved to higher ground after her house was claimed by the lake villages on an island that has been split into 3 and they were not are not are 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
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the phenomenon in 2318 since then the water level has risen by up to 12 metres environmentally c decades of deforestation siltation and unusually heavy rains this year because this is a new village that was built a few months back after people were displaced by the floods the water is again on their doorsteps and they will have to move soon they tell us life is stuff they're dealing with the called mosquitoes and other animals like crocodiles and he pours yet they don't know where to go next i had spoil was recently killed by 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 car park 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
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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 misalignment 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 rivers whose source is a mouse forest one of the region's most important water catchment areas but 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 on 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
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kenya. tens of thousands of pilgrims packed the iraqi city of karbala to walk the muslim holy day. it was one of the largest gatherings in the country since the coronavirus pandemic began some presidents who are gloves and masks but many went without a gun our governor of the region defended the safety measures in place and said that it was a successful event. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the mayor of portland has accused president donald trump of creating a culture of fear and hate in the u.s. the criticism comes after a supporter of a far right group was killed on saturday night when trump backers clashed with counter protests. do you seriously wonder mr president why
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this is the 1st time in decades that america seen this level of violence it's you who have created the hate in the division it's you who have not found a way to say the names of black people killed by police officers even as people in law enforcement have president trump you bring no peace you bring no respect to our democracy you mr president need to do your job as the leader of this nation and i mr president will do my job as the mayor of this city. both main parties in montenegro have claimed victory in parliamentary elections are the results good president joe kind of riches d.p.'s party a narrow lead but opposition supporters have been celebrating after their leader declared the government had fallen. tens of thousands of people have the streets of
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the capital to demand the resignation of president alexander lukashenko. the presidential election. looks likely to be the new prime minister after days of deadlock adeeb won support from several parties talks to confirm the post on monday the former government resigned earlier this month after a blast in the capital beirut it's white house adviser. relations between israel and the u.a.e. on monday other u.s. advisers will join an israeli delegation on the 1st commercial flight from israel to the united arab emirates those are the headlines talk to al-jazeera. people have come to expect a lot from al-jazeera over the years the reporting the commitment to one the reporter places the commitment to the human story. but it's also the idea of
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