tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera September 3, 2020 6:00pm-7:01pm +03
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in the council area mining. claims were destroyed and about 80 percent of the land al-jazeera has teams on the ground people are just talking about wind and solar is it that's going to solve the problem of flow to bring. documentaries and light. on and on. al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the get this is that here's a live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes donald trump backtracks after suggesting that americans should try to vote twice in november you know says that voters must check if the postal ballots have been counted. we called on russia to
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investigate this in a transparent and. the e.u. steps up the pressure on russia as the kremlin rejects german allegations that opposition figure alexina valley was poisoned. a boost for the leader of. the russian prime minister restrained supporters alexander lukashenko grapples with a serious political crisis. at a quarter of a century after the bay went online find out how its founder is backing efforts to rein in and break up tech giants and then sport contrasting fortunes that for the top see that the u.s. open novak djokovic to round 3 but carolina has been knocked out. u.s. president donald trump appears to have backed away from earlier comments that voters should try to cost. ballots twice in
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a series of tweets he clarified that voters should vote by mail as early as possible and then go to a polling station to check that it's been counted a day earlier he suggested voting twice by mail and in person to put anti fraud systems to the test let's go straight to our white house correspondent kimberly help so kimberly is this a correction or a terrific ation from the president did we misunderstand him. going to throw in a 3rd c. there and i think what this is is cleanup given the fact that the president was faced with overwhelming evidence and a statement coming from the top official in the board of elections in the u.s. state of north carolina that to vote twice as the president suggested just one day earlier is in fact illegal it is illegal to vote by mail and in person so now what we've seen is the u.s. president to as of the last hour or so clarifying on twitter that he believes that
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or is suggesting that people if they are mailing in their 'd ballot that they then go to a polling place to make sure it was tabulated correctly but that's not the only clean up we've seen we also saw the attorney general quite soon after the u.s. president made the suggestion that people break the law by voting twice that he was really in the words of the attorney general just trying to make the point that the monitoring of the election system in the united states is not very good now i don't think that donald trump in his statements was suggesting that but what we have now is the attorney general cleaning up the president's comments and now the president himself cleaning up these comments in face of enormous pushback and even the reminder that such a suggestion is illegal the bottom line is what's happening here is that there is a further erosion in confidence by the american voter in terms of election security
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the reason a lot of americans want to mail in their ballots is because of the concern of standing in long lines during a pandemic we know that 25 percent of voters voted by mail in 2016 we expect those numbers to be much much higher in 2020 but given the fact that the president continues to suggest there could be widespread fraud because of mail in ballot and if leaves doubt many americans minds that the election will be secure. they will even accept the result and that's just the internal concerns you have to remember there are also the extra no concerns about interference having for russia coming from china and other nation states that our intelligence agencies here in the united states say is a very real possibility but what about the the president's other controversial comments in the last 24 hours on threats to what to defund cities with the spin the violence during protests against police violence. yeah there's no question that
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this is going to face some legal challenge given the fact that this is being viewed at least by democrats as being politically motivated in essence what happened was on wednesday there are emerged a memo from the federal government that the attorney general have 14 days to identify cities that the federal government believes local officials have lost control of namely portland new york city even washington d.c. with all have democrat mayors and as a result of some of the protests have seen later on violence breaking out in the case of portland extreme more than 3 months of violent unrest in some cases so what the argument is from the federal government is that essentially these local officials have abdicated their responsibility is to keep local citizens safe but what others are suggesting is really happening here is the president is trying to deflect from some of the negative headlines he's dealing with right now trying to
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project strength in law and order in order to detract from the fact that we continue to have high unemployment the numbers continue to rise there the numbers also continuing to rise when it comes to cases of covert 19 and the president getting a lot of blame for that it's a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat there reporting live from washington kimberly many thanks indeed let's bring in sean xylo from washington he's the deputy editor of congressional quarterly magazine sean good to have you with us what do you make of the president clarification here well i mean this is par for the course with president trump will say something that gets a lot of negative attention and back up he say he didn't mean it. i think it's it's his rhetorical style. is orders say people should. take him with a grain of salt that he's often joking around or sparring with the press but his detractors now that he is the president of the united states and what he says some
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people are going to take seriously to what extent is he undermining voter confidence in the system with his comments well i think that is something he's part of his election strategy certainly i think he wants to. keep turnout down i think he use the best electorate is one that smaller than normal because he has a very strong base of support but it's not a majority of american voters it's maybe 4040 percent of american voters so his interest is to discourage people in the middle people who are feeling apathetic people are feeling disgusted with politics from coming out to vote does made in voting in the u.s. favor one policy over the other that's a really good question i think. democrats who have been supporting expanded mail and voting because of the pandemic their initial argument was that the storage data
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indicates that it does not favor one party over the other there are a number of states that have allowed mail in voting for for some years now and it has not a bird republicans over over the democrats or vice versa but the polling this year amidst the pandemic indicates that democrats really would like the opportunity to vote by mail and republicans aren't as keen on that may have something to do with the way with president trump's rhetoric that may have something to do with the ideological divide over the virus which republican voters seem to take less seriously than democrats is the president's ultimate aim aim who are to to create so much doubt around the system of maine in voting that he can contest the result. i did a lot of people are certainly concerned about that and there is the possibility don election day we won't have the final tally because these mail and votes are going to take a while to count and if the president is ahead on election day from those who voted
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in person he's going to have a big incentive to try to short circuit the counting of the mail and votes so people are very worried that that's part of his strategy here yes good many thanks indeed for being with us shawn's out of that in washington. democratic presidential nominee joe biden is due to visit the city of commotion in wisconsin which has become the new focus of the national debates on systemic racism he's expected to meet with the family of jacob black a black man shot 7 times in the back by a white police officer last month the shooting led to days of sometimes violent protests against racism and police brutality let's go live now to kind of show i was there was john hendren is the. job i've not due. until later in the day so let's stop with the civil controversial comments this time by attorney general ball
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police shootings. that's right william barr said that jacob blake was carrying a knife he believed when he was arrested or when he when police shot him the family of jacob calls that gaslighting saying he did not have the knife with him the facts as we know them are these according to police blake did acknowledge that he had a knife at no point in the 20 seconds or so a viral video we saw just up to the point where jacob blake was shot 7 times in the back by police at no point in that video was he shown threatening them at all that knife was later recovered on the floorboard according to the police side of the story there had been a tussle with blake and they tried to shoot him shoot times with a taser but blake's family particularly as uncle justin blake talks about the 2
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different systems of justice blake may or may not have had a knife on his person but it at no time do we have any evidence that he threatened police with it and yet during the protests kyle rittenhouse a young white 17 year old boy from illinois gotten a tussle with protesters shot and killed 2 of them and shot an inch. a 3rd one he walked away with an assault weapon strapped to the front of his chest held his hands high and walked straight past police despite the fact that there were people behind him yelling that he had just shot some people police allowed him to pass allowed him to drive home to illinois spent the night where he was arrested the next day for those shootings and justin blake jacob blake's uncle says that bad is evidence of 2 different forms of justice one for white people and one for black people and he says that bill barr is simply trying to justify the
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unjustifiable so joe biden john do the little what are we expecting. well what we know is that biden will be meeting with jacob blake's family but he will also be eating with business leaders and with law enforcement and that's telling because biden has been trying to walk this line where on the one hand he's supportive of the protest movement and the need for social justice the kind that black lives matter has been crying out for but he's also been condemning the violence that occurred here the are the arson and perhaps looting that occurred and so we expect him to be talking about that when he meets with business leaders and law enforcement and then when he meets with the blake family. we expect him to just offer some sympathy and to talk about the need for a systemic change to what he describes as systemic racism by police here in the united states how long he'll be meeting with the family we don't know we know that
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he met with the family or he spoke with them on the phone for something like an hour last week and this suggests that biden who's been largely doing virtual events from his basement may now be out on the road doing regular campaigning which is the traditional thing to do when there is not a covert 1000 crisis so we expect. hear more from the vice president later treading that central line condemning the violence but also supporting the protesters and that's key because president trump is essentially called him a tool of far left radical protestors this is biden coming out as he said in a speech within the past 48 hours saying no that's not who i am and as he said in that speech do i look like a radical socialist john we'll be back with you i'm sure in coming hours for the moment many thanks john hendren live in cairo shop in wisconsin the release of police body camera video of
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a black americans death has provoked calls for officers to be charged with his killing protesters rallied in rochester new york state's office of the videos release which the city mayor describes as disturbing police were called when new york proved run naked into the street while he was suffering a mental health crisis officers who did him and knelt on his back died when he was taken off life support 7 days later according to the washington post 1022 people have been shot and killed by police in the u.s. over the past year well the heart of the total number of those killed were white black americans though a shot at a disproportionate rate $32000000.00 people hispanic americans are also killed by police a disproportionate rates $24000000.00 on the figure for white americans is 13 less than hoff the race of those who are black phase of itself is the co-director of the liberty and bashful security program of the brennan center for justice she says
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that successive the us governments of failed to recognize systemic failures in law enforcement. it's not just admits this is mr ation that has difficulty admitting and you will recall that former f.b.i. james comey was also you know very. very negative about some of the protests going on around these taliban acking that 14 so this isn't a long standing. position in one force and which is to deny that there are systemic problems and to blame any misconduct on it's a few bad apples theory because that's very convenient for them right it means that you can now focus on you know prosecuting one or 2 people rather than stepping back and looking to see what are the structural racist. issues that are taking place in policing around the country it's
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a movement that was born on the fringes of the internet q on long pushes far fetched conspiracy theories including that a so-called deep states is trying to bring down donald trump now a woman who has spoken in support of q. and on looks likely to win a seat in congress on his ear as andy gallacher reports. an online grassroots movement that came to be called the great awakening the q and on conspiracy theory was born on the dark fringes of the internet nearly 3 years ago followers believe that the in all of us q is someone with high government player in the movement began with the unfounded claims that satanic worshipping politicians and celebrities who work in tandem with global governments to abuse children and that a so-called deep state wants to destroy president donald trump i am 100 percent behind him he's working for the president is working for our country the rallying call of we are q was then heard it from rallies and even the president himself seemed to embrace a movement the f.b.i. has called
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a potential domestic terrorist threat these are people that don't like seeing what's going on in places like portland and places like chicago and new york and other cities and states and. i've heard these are people that love our country and believe us and now running and in marjorie taylor green's case winning elections green who president donald trump calls a future republican star beat a conservative you're a surgeon in georgia and will likely had to congress in many cases and then elano mars and that he should minneapolis and the plan was not only a man and he said we're not going to allow them to tear our country down berners is right and really we want to have that here in northwest georgia that according to media matters more than 60 former and current congressional candidates have promoted or embraced q and on political experts say in reality the movement remains on the fringe it hasn't gotten bigger but it could. but with that said i
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think people are more resistant to these sorts of ideas than sometimes we give them credit for and at the same time conspiracy theories are just a part of the human experience and this is really nothing new i'm more involving those candidates that did well while embracing bizarre conspiracy theories have since distanced themselves and some cases the republican party has subtly aligned themselves with the q and on movement and the president has retreated q. and on followers at least $200.00 times there are even gating followers outside the us it's said that we live in a post truth era but cuban on has serious consequences followers have been accused of attempted kidnapping murder and other criminal activities it may have started as a fringe cult like belief system following the president's comments and several victories in elections they may feel more emboldened the never under gallacher
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al-jazeera miami florida facebook has announced what it says a steps to prevent its platform from being exploited in the week leading up to the u.s. election it will stop accepting new political ads 7 days before the election but will continue showing ones already in the system c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says that he's concerned about a period of intense claims and counterclaims as the final results are counted facebook has previously faced criticism for not doing enough to fact check on tickles on its platforms. this is the news hour from 00 still to come on the program free for the moment at least hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie is found not guilty of one charge but it's still under investigation. it's not much fun of the fair these days will look at steps to what help businesses who are battling to survive in argentina and argentina international football returns to europe for the 1st time since the coronavirus locked down the details coming up later in sports.
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the kremlin is rejecting accusations of responsibility for the poisoning of opposition leader alexina valliant russia's responded to doctors in germany saying that there's unequivocal proof that no the chalk can nerve agent that was used about these seriously ill in a berlin hospital after collapsing on a flight in russia 2 weeks ago chancellor angela merkel describes the poisoning as attempted murder and the e.u. says that only russia the serious questions that raises be called on russia to investigate these in a transparent and thorough manner and it's also in the interest of russia to provide answers to the questions because this type of. chemical agent is not freely available it was used on the russian territory against the russian citizen so it's very important that it's thoroughly investigated and that the answers are provided
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both to the russian public and to the international. live out of moscow alexandra steele a lot of us called for is their forests alexander was the kremlin been saying. well kremen is rushing awful possible allegations that they might be involved in this poison ing at the same time saying that no one in russia would benefit from harming another irony so well they're basically saying is there is no proofs that were shown to us and we would not have a motive to do something like this when it comes to prove their insisting that their previous requests to the german because there's office should be should be responded to and his request is basically asking for a full access to all the analysis all the results. of i knew from the moment he left to that hospital in siberia now when they're saying we are willing to fully cooperate this is connected with this request of this exchange of information as it
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was called now the spokesperson of the russian president vladimir putin. he said that the sanctions stock is unacceptable and that there is no reason to put any sanctions on the russia and there is no reason to accuse russia of this of this thing at the same time i have to notice that the ministry of foreign affairs had a bit harsher statement saying that russia is moving to cooperate if the goal is to come to the bottom of what happened to alexina vialli but there suspect or hinting that the goal is a different one a political one so that the reason is given sanctions to be put on russia that are already prepared some some sort of a conspiracy any new in the meantime this shifting the blame game of spreading seeds of doubt is getting the new promoters in a face of for instance the head of the foreign intelligence agency of russia saying that one should not exclude this to be an operation of for instance western secret
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service another one which is a head a speaker of the russian duma says that even iran is held gets worse then one should think that the ease in operation russia is also insisting that whilst he was in russia. all the best that are down here showed no toxins that they tested on organic false weights which apparently another jockey belongs to and found none so instead of answering the questions they're asking new ones and wanting to be shown everything that germany in germany was founded on the about me alexandra god for reporting live from moscow an example many thanks indeed russia's prime minister is in belarus meeting with president alexander lukashenko who's faced weeks of protests against his rule russia has vowed to send police forces into battle reuss if requires demonstrators have been calling on local shanker to resign after he was accused of rigging last month's election in order to continue his 26
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year rule he offered support to russia of a german accusations that it was behind the poisoning of alexey the value. president look at shanker used the meeting to offer support to russia. as as you heard over those accusations that it was behind the poisoning of alexina valmy . warsaw is a contact with the 2 opponents were of course carrying out counter intelligence against nato in our military radio intelligence intercepted an interesting conversation that clearly says that it was a philosopher cation not army was not poisoned. russia completely supports the sovereignty independence and territorial integrity of belarus delarue says dear to us not only thanks to historical linguistic and religious connections but also our hundreds of thousands or millions of citizens who are practically one people.
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al-jazeera as bernard smith has more on the growing proximity between bella recent russia. a lot of minutes incentives prime minister to stand down and mince to really seal the deal for moscow to make it clear that bottom if you sin is going to back. the now and that was never clear before in the run up to the presidential election in minutes on it was the 9th shanker in fact used to set the rules for threats of russian interference in his country's affairs if people didn't vote for him poll went to had claimed he won with $0.08 the will as now as we know it will tens of thousands of people out on the streets of men who reject that and many most western powers of also rejected that 80 percent result on the calling for a reelection putin has decided to but who has decided to back lucas shank previously there was no love lost between the 2 leaders but the payoff of putin may
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well be that way once had an irritating and not very compliant neighbor to the south well now. it's a viable 2. prosecutors in slovakia are appealing the acquittal of a high profile businessman who was charged with ordering the murder of an investigative journalist young. fiance was shot dead at the home 2 years ago police suspect that was targeted for reporting corruption involving businessmen with political connections the murders led to mass antigovernment protests and the resignation of the prime minister. a prominent media mogul and pro-democracy figure in hong kong has been found not guilty of intimidating a reporter from a rival newspaper jimmy lai was facing up to 5 years in prison adrian brown reports now from hong kong. it was all over very quickly surrounded by media some from organizations he owns jimmy lai was a man in
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a hurry as your rival west kalou magistrates court within minutes of entering the building he was acquitted of the magistrate said she found insufficient evidence to support allegations that the media proprietor had intimidated a reporter from a rival newspaper more than 3 years ago calling the journalist an unreliable witness. i didn't talk as he left court it's not the end of his legal fight he faces at least 5 other criminal investigations last month around 200 police raided his newspaper office after he became the most high profile figure from the city's pro-democracy movement to be detained under a new security law he was charged with foreign collusion and faces up to 10 years in jail that trials expected to happen next year jimmy lies acquittal comes amid renewed debate over judicial independence in hong kong just this week the chief
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executive terry moran said there was no separation of powers between the executive legislature and judiciary a principle that's been repeatedly emphasized by the city's top judges carrie lamb will be able to point to wednesday's verdict as proof in her eyes that the judiciary here does remain independent even as more legal thinkers say the opposite adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. the afghan government has freed nearly all taliban prisoners in the run up to peace talks that are due to begin $400.00 prisoners were awaiting release australia and france are objecting to the release of the last 7 remaining inmates who due to be held in custody while the negotiations take place. we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then anger across africa claims of corruption and the response to the coronavirus prompt protests in a number of countries. taking aim at tech giants
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e bay's founder tackles the firms he believes are impacting democratic values and in schools will tell you which team some of the semifinal clash with the top seeds in the n.b.a. playoffs. hello the dry weather across much of the middle east but it's also been very warm that all few days through the eastern end of the mediterranean no real cloud in size and no real easing of those temperatures now elsewhere the winds are very lies they will say much the way of sand or dust but in fact how much is reaching the mid forty's baghdad across into kuwait not quite as hot further to the south feeling really quite humid plenty of cloud as well developing through central western as a saudi and still the child's there shows into the fall south and west of yemen the south of it is more rain in the 4 calls working its way across the black sea so we
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could see one to more showers and some thunderstorms across northern areas of turkey nickols coming down some very saturated ground say ok there would be to have you now those temperatures coming back in jerusalem suffered a 39 degrees celsius that is well above the average for this time of year maybe by monday wanted to showers but even then with a temperature of 35 it is still very warm for this time of the central africa. they tend to really cluster around the gulf of guinea for the next couple of days notice a bad day friday further to the south across south africa by there is more rain in the forecast pushing into town on saturday i will see more those scattered showers and try to conditions throughout much of central and southern areas of mozambique. if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on but what is this rice is a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our
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obsession with economic drugs this is still the center of capitalism there is no limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to bakers as well as smaller and smaller we don't want to base that realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al-jazeera. building a wall was the promise made in the bid for the white house 0 tolerance approach the southern border became government policy detaining children and separating families the stark reality of a picture too much to bear for many americans in a country that was built on immigration. follow the key issues of the us elections on al-jazeera.
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good. hello again this is al jazeera adrian finnegan here in doha with the news our headlines u.s. president donald trump appears to have backtracked on his suggestion that people try to vote twice in november's election he says the mail in votes should be sent to early on the voter should go to polling stations to make sure they're counted. russia's prime minister is in his meeting with president nixon to look at schenker who's faced weeks of protests against his rule russia has vowed to send police forces into baylor lucifer quiet. and the kremlin is rejecting out accusations that russia is responsible for the poisoning of alexina valmy germany says that it has unequivocal proof that. a nerve agent was used on the opposition figure is now
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being treated in the. libyans in the city of misrata of voting for the next municipal leaders other cities are also planning elections despite the pandemic and the shaky cease fire nationwide elections aren't being held in areas controlled by the ward connerly for half the this rather played a major role in the un recognized government's campaign to drive halftones forces out of western libya al-jazeera manic trainer is there and says the voting has been going smoothly. this is the 2nd center that i've personally visited today and it seems to be going well i mean once once residents answer into the poles they're forced to wear face masks they have to sanitize their hands and i have to say people are really happy i mean we've spoken to many people and they're excited that you know they have the freedom to vote they said this is what the revolution was in 2011 for so that they can choose their leaders you know we met i met an older
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gentleman earlier who said you know i lost a son in the revolution of 2011 and and my son died so that i can vote and that our future generations can vote can vote for their leaders for a free and democratic libya. jamaica's general election is on the way despite a worsening corona virus outbreak that more than 7000 people have been hired to maintain hygiene a polling stations infections of spiked since the vote was called in august by prime minister andrew homeless 6 months ahead of shuttle polls suggest that his center right ruling party will win another 5 years in power analysts say that homeless is capitalizing on approval ratings boosted by his government's handling of the economy. the dates been set for the united states for withdrawal from the world health organization president trumpets already signaled the move saying that the w.h.o. it failed in its response to covert 19 the states and says that u.s.
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involvement with the organization will end on july 6th next year the statement says the u.s. is looking for alternative partners to carry out the work that the w.h.o. was doing and washington is refusing to participate in the global vaccine effort kovacs because it's led by the world health organization more than 70 wealthy nations of committed to fair access to any future vaccine the coalition will buy and deliver $2000000000.00 doses by the end of next year in july the trumpet ministration announced that it had started the process of its withdrawal from the world health organization india has recorded the world's biggest single day rise in new corona virus infections more than 83000 cases were reported on wednesday the 3rd time this week but so close but above $80000.00 the us held the previous single day record at $77.00. and france has announced a nearly $120000000000.00 stimulus package to help ease the economic impact of the
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pandemic the prime minister presented to the plan of the weekly cabinet meeting in paris outta serious natasha butler reports. well france is very strict on a 2 month lock down and the current of r.'s pandemic has meant that the french economy is now in recession unemployment is rising so will the french government want to do courses reverse this trend and that is why they have launched $118000000000.00 stimulus package now it was announced by the french prime minister . said the a ms really to try and make france more competitive and more self-reliant the focus is very much in job creation and also investing in sectors like transportation health culture present role has also said that he really wants a focus on the green economy sir 3rd of the money from this fund is going to go into green tech green jobs and industries the support for sustainability there's
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little doubt that for president micro with an election in less than 2 years' time he will want to see the economy really getting a boost and he will just say unemployment rising unemployment and it is of course in micros interest however trying to lift the economy and public confidence at a time of so much uncertainty won't be easy the current of ours pandemic continues and infection cases in phones have continued to rise with an average of about $5000.00 new infections each day being reported the government is telling people to remain vigilant many cities across france most major cities of in fact made the wearing of mosques out in the street obligatory children or the 11 at school and university students they have to wear masks to the government says the people must take care and continue to social distance because of course his health crisis is far from over. a number of african nations are facing protests over scandals
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related to the purchase of medical equipment hospital staff in south africa held a demonstration in pretoria of a low salaries and the poor quality of protective equipment a report by the authors of general found that some of the 30000000000 dollar coronavirus fund has been used for zealand in kenya the president is older than investigation into the state agency that handles medical supplies after allegations that some officials and business men stole $400000000.00 during the procurement process that in nigeria doctors in state run hospitals have been striking over a lack of p.p. eat more than $800.00 health workers have been infected al-jazeera from it amila has more on the situation in south africa. a few dozen protesters have gathered outside the union buildings here in pretoria that's the seat of government just outside the president's office and while it is a fairly small group because remember covert restrictions are still in place they can't be gatherings of more than 50 people they people here are vocal and these
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have also been very persistent complaints around the procurement of personal protective equipment equipment and hospitals and a lot of it revolves around alleged corruption we've spoken to a number of health workers who have said that there isn't enough p.p. in hospitals sometimes nonna tool they've also complained that often they've had to reuse and disinfect p.p. and they're blaming corruption for this in that the companies that have supplied p. p. e. often have connections a political connections are connected to the ruling african national congress here in south africa and that's how they've come by these contracts when in fact they aren't actually capable of delivering the equipment that's needed and they say it's for this reason that health workers are at risk at least 24000 health workers in south africa many of them nurses have contracted covert 19 and at least $250.00
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have died so far and this is what angers the protesters behind us they say that so the africans have sacrificed so much so far during the slump down and to add to that you now have a government that they're accusing of being in efforts and corrupt only worsening this health crisis in the country. argentina's president has announced new measures to help businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic economy is already into its 3rd year of recession and is expected to shrink further this year as are serious stories about reports now from santa fe with the government struggling to jumpstart the economy millions of people are trying to prevent bankruptcy. has a vivid memory of how many times argentina's economy has collapsed through the a years his grandfather started building carousel 60 years ago but in this past month he has been forced to sell some of the horses in this carousel to make ends meet if. there is iraq to vittie i have never seen anything like this before i
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understand the pain dimmock and the situation but everything we've built is disappearing i'm selling the horses to pay bills the horses sell for around one $150.00 each bell massa says in argentina doing business is not easy because the rules of the game are constantly changing with the administrations. on the genome we cannot compete with china 1st one government bans exports the next government allows you to export more taxes now this exchange rate controls in the wider situation i had dreams that i could export my horses but i feel it's all over for us. i didn't know the con army was already in trouble prior to that and then make with inflation with session and exchange rate controls the government has announced that it has reached an agreement with foreign creditors on it solving that many people here hope that this will help we activate the economy and help this country
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put an end to it and then make economic troubles you cannot make situation is so dire small businesses are shutting down poverty and unemployment rates are on the rice and foreign companies are leaving the country on wednesday precedent out of out of the for a man this announced credits and other measures to assist the industry sector and says he's government has a plan so that it put on a model or they will have what we needed to solve or did crisis because we didn't have a horizon knowing we had to pay $48000000000.00 did in 5 years now you'll see our budget and you'll see watch we believe we can do what our physical objectives are and you will know our rules no nothing is being improvised it is a difficult job in the worst scenario but analysts say the government has a bigger problem a name change. maybe. i mean we were trying to get from trucks. a victim whining on getting.
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a ship to the reception with on. me i. can only. come in case. i you know. because. i get my. lack of hope is what most argentines like that muscle feel these days in a country struggling with epidemic and with a history of the canal mix train that is how will and jesse to santa fe argentina. in pakistan days of torrential rain and widespread flooding of course chaos in karate the financial capital at least 23 people have diet and there's widespread anger among residents of sounds there as mohammed jump june reports. in karate floods batter the city plunging pakistan's financial capital into chaos since last
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week people have had to contend with power cuts mobile network outages and shortages of both fuel and cash. perhaps with all the a.t.m. machines aren't working all over the city and we are unable to withdraw money even for our groceries and we are facing a huge problem there is no want to help. dozens of people have died as a result of the torrential downpours and widespread flooding. and anger is growing . but incumbency did negligence say absolutely it's incompetency and negligence on part of the government we are paying taxes and in return what are we getting there's not even a proper sewage system and that's why there is dirty water flowing all over analysts also say corruption and lack of proper urban planning are to blame but government officials deny those allegations the accusations made by presenting did smoke connection of mismanagement. in the decent. funding situation in the
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city of karachi one reason i think the influences you have put out some of the unprecedented it has been on previous record and it is only unfortunate that in this wonderful time when the nation needs to know that the to solve these problems these p.t.a. percentages and again distorting these bases allegations despite the difficulties driver hide cleans and repairs his rickshaw. a financial situation was ready by that but now the floodwaters made it worse i'm unable to drive it in that water is . i really hope he'll be able to continue to provide for his family but like so many others in karachi he also worries things may get more difficult. typhoon may sack has swept over the korean peninsula leaving at least one person dead winds reached more than 160 kilometers an hour and the severe flooding in both
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the north and the south rob mcbride reports now from busan. north korea's east coast cities inundated with flood waters as typhoon my sack drench is the korean peninsula unusual for north korea its state run t.v. has been carrying live reports of the damage every hour my sakit already pounded the south korean island of jeju before barreling into the southeastern city of busan in the early hours of thursday at 1st light the amount of damage could be assessed but extensive preparations had kept it to a minimum. damaeus is not as much as i fear however it is bigger type and then in previous years. i think a lot of preparations were in place i think this time we were ready for it as the cleanup gets underway here in busan people living further up the korean peninsula are now dealing with the torrential rains brought by this typhoon many of them
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living in places already soaked after a summer of extreme weather north korea like the south was already suffering the effects of typhoon badly last week which came after rain usually severe seasonal rains robert bride al-jazeera busan south korea and in rough seas caused by the typhoon $42.00 crew members are missing after their ship which was carrying livestock capsized and sank only one survivor has been found by search and rescue crews in the east china sea a ship reportedly had engine failure on its voyage from new zealand to china 6000 cattle were aboard. just ahead on the news out in sport novak djokovic stays on course to win his 2nd grand slam title of the year tennis action coming up with something.
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or. we. are again step inside my time machine we're going to go back 25 years to the beginning of the dot com boom many of the stops then wouldn't survive but one that became known as e-bay transformed buying and selling as we know it now the man who found that it is working to limit the size and power of today's tech giants brunell's reports from last century's. in 199528 year old computer scientist pierre omidyar had an idea for a new type of e-commerce company based on an ancient model it became known as e-bay
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used to take in the. idea and the bizarre which we have now now is like centuries all and you have figured out a way. and you know kind of scale it globally and that was the beauty of you know kind of really not all e-bay quickly became a rising star in the emerging online world e-bay became a publicly traded company in 1998 making omidyar a billionaire at $31.00 under c.e.o. meg whitman e-bay entered a period of growth and acquisition those were the years that you know wired. and so many different companies that were very very lucrative and were a significant part of the company's early success by 2015 e.-bay stock was worth $80000000000.00 it had revenues of 8 and a half 1000000000 dollars that year and employed $11600.00 people but he commerce
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rival amazon began picking up steam innovating crushing rivals and taking more and more of a share of e-commerce from e bay i would characterize than as a little bit of that that happy year the company was was doing well financially but then they seemingly had slowed down it had lost the momentum in the market place to amazon today even a is still profitable but it is dwarfed by amazon's scale and reach as for omidyar he stepped down from the base board in 2017 and has devoted himself to philanthropy through his investment firm the omidyar network he's stepped away from and yes a lot of time to think about how to make the world a better place from this point of view the no. work has taken aim at tech giants including google and facebook and their impact on political discourse and democratic values 26th you know question. on purity are what other people
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around the world raise concerns and where. my platforms were very well may be ours network supports legal efforts to break up and rein in the tech giants an issue that has become increasingly prominent politically democratic presidential candidate joe biden promises to take a hard look at splitting up companies such as facebook if he's elected robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles times awful sport has santa thank you very much adrian there were a contrast in fortunes that for the top seeds at the u.s. open now that the joke of it is through to round 3 but carlin that this cover has been knocked out in time and also so a stunning comeback up by a grand slam newcomer and it's in reports. christina madden of it looked on course for a routine win over russia's grand slam deadbeats involved. but having gone to sets
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and 51 up my benefit she's game a probably collapsed the 30th seed from france instead saving her biggest shots for tournament organizers later describing living conditions as a nightmare. she was one of a group of players who faced tight movement restrictions after being named ben wopat the french player who tested positive for corona virus last week it's a full advantage after saving for match points she went on to win the deciding set 6 love is examined completely drained is just worse and worse and i don't have comments to make i just like to thank you for that i'm real experience yeah i don't want to comment. another french player certainly wasn't complaining caroline garcia knocking out top seed carolina place in straight sets ok i'm not a leader now i mean i suck i had to enjoy the age old problem of a parent struggling with technology after her 2nd round when. you were. the 4th
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seed or mask bearing the name of a larger mclean before and after her match with klein was a black american who died last year after police restrained him with a choke hold osaka says should be using this tournament as a chance to highlight issues of racial injustice i think tennis people watch it all around the world. you know things that we think is like common names it's probably not common overseas and for me i just want people to you know sort of just have more knowledge. talk men see never joke of it was a force that we're not over britain's call edmund djokovic she is now won $25.00 matches in a row this year but is yet to win over rafa nadal and roger federer to his idea of starting a new break white players union there were very much aware what is going to happen and i respect of course completely their choice of you know all that they want don't want to be involved in it at the moment they don't think it's the right time
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and that's fine you know that's their opinion i disagree with that. everyone would agree that joke that used to big favorite to win this title and the richardson al-jazeera. the houston rockets have set up a semifinal encounter with the top and the l.a. lakers they did it by beating the oklahoma city thunder and game 7 of their 1st round series russell westbrook scored 20 points against his former team james harden may have had a low scoring night with just 17 but made a big block shot just seconds left in the game rockets winning 104102 and they sent conference the miami heat as past the milwaukee bucks the heat the had squandered a 6 point lead in the final seconds of the game to me but to to free throws it with no time remaining lifted the heat 216214 when miami is the 1st n.b.a. team in history to take it to nothing lead over in number one seed from
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a farm where the game do happen more know we're still going to win. you know they. were consciously. international football is returning to europe for the 1st time since the coronavirus locked down 2 rounds of nations the league matches will be played in the coming days germany versus spanish that god is theirs they stand out fixture all players are being tested for the virus ahead of the games and the fans will be allowed to attend the matches. space captain sergio ramos says they are now messi has earned the right to decide his future messi handed in a transfer request a parcel on the last week but the club is reluctant to let him go repertory as you're going to with regards to messi i think it's not an issue that concerns out there because he has earned the right to decide his future i don't know if he's
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doing it in the best way having said that for the spanish game and for boston i mean i'm for the rest of us we'd like him to stay as we always want the best around us in the. national team have set themselves another big challenge ahead of their home while cup in 2022 the asian champ is will be guests answers at next year's gold cup the tournaments is that for teams from north and central america and will be hosted by the united states in july qatar will also play and next year's copa america which will be held in argentina and holland via. colorado avalanche to have forced a game 7 in their n.h.l. playoff series the number 2 seed defeated the dallas stars for one to even their western conference series at the games apiece the deciding game 7 will be on friday in edmonton. let's have fun we'll have more for you later on tonight.
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