that's. controlling the world of business and commerce driving the energy transition east the promise of clean energy and illusion the dumpsite of green energy. on al jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian figure and this is the news a live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes one month on lebanon is about to remember the moments that an explosion tore through beirut's devastating the city more than 200 people died that day hundreds of thousands were left homeless but there is still hope as rescuers search for a possible survivor in the rubble. erupts aboard a supertanker off the coast of sri lanka it's carrying $2000000.00 barrels of oil.

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seen so far is unfortunately no trace off in the big theme of buddy we have been conducting 2 scans in 2 different room holding the scanner on the porch we just need a 4 'd inch fence and commit the horse so we did that so far we can see nothing and but we are going to conduct again i'm sure another scan thing is done we work in face the call the nation is by to cheat him to get me to tell me. live and he's going to tell he we have a very good team everybody's looking hand in hand let's go live now to beirut how serious is that your the auspices the the center point of where this this vigil is about to get on the way almost a month on exactly to the minute is what studer happened. well yes the people gathered just outside the door at the site of that massive

explosion still people have come to go mark that day that moment that changed the lives of so many people 191 dead 6500 people injured many of them critically injured many of them suffering from life changing injuries tens of thousands of people have lost their homes but there are 70000 people and that's according to the united nations have lost their talks because it didn't just change people's lives or many people lost their livelihoods so now they're gathering here outside and a show of solidarity with many people who really wasn't were affected many of these people are survivors many of them lived in the buildings just across the sky way so that those thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate that was stored at warehouse 12 an unsafe conditions it's not very far from residential areas so all these all these

neighborhoods around the ports were affected in that explosion so people are coming together trying to make sense of what happened there's a lot of graves there's a lot of anger and there's also hidden scars. it's been a month since the explosion of beirut port and many like north are still struggling to cope with things like the sun i mean the line of fire and after the explosion at the time of the explosion i was feeling really bad that i couldn't go down and help people but i was just very afraid of leaving my home even though the blast rips through neighborhoods like marmite killing nearly 200 people and wounding 1000 but some injuries can't be seen what is the matter of course turned for ras now what we call the heating scars what you don't see. these explosions.

the blast was lebanon's latest calamity. many businesses already reeling from a deep economic crisis were impacted united nations estimates 70000 people have been put out of work that's 12000 households lebanon was also on the verge of a humanitarian crisis with more than 50 percent of its people in poverty. is thankful that he and his family survived the explosion their home is just a kilometer from the port they struggle to carry on like so many others they rely on aid agencies for handouts and. my car was destroyed or used to be a doctor i was able to feed my family and buy milk and diapers for my daughter going to the focus came to assist our situation 3 days after the blast they haven't . damages are in the billions of dollars money the nearly bankrupt state doesn't have decades of corruption has been blamed not just for the economy's collapse but

the port blast many lebanese blame the political elite for this explosion so far mainly ports and custom employees have been arrested as part of the investigations but senior officials haven't been questioned even though they were aware almost 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate were stored in unsafe conditions in a warehouse i expected the president. the president to bury today in prison to put themselves in custody until the investigation happens and dependently from their presence lebanese authorities have rejected calls for an international investigation into one of the world's largest non-nuclear explosions in history i still feel angry. when. you're sitting at your home in uniform. and hearing danger. i mean. so you go through that. everything the storms they've been in the country i don't

even more i mean nor is not alone in her despair and misery it's been crisis after crisis in what is now a broken country. many people. have not comprehend that exactly what happened that day so many stories of survival have stories of tragedy when you talk to people here let's remember what they were to wait on half the time about explosions at 6 am i believe it or let it out there will be able much of my life to the memory to our national mourning you can even have they are. in there in the heart of what old love that that was ok out of that night's patriot . act as as we speak just a kilometer from where we are in one of the worst hit neighborhoods the search operation rescue search operation because a team and a team from philly found some signs of life underneath the rubble one votes on

which is why people here are so angry and demanding justice because they believe the authorities have done nothing now they are commemorating the work of the fire department firefighters proud of them died and that's not so the explosion because they received couple that there was a fire at beirut ports and they rushed to the scene a little bit they know the right i don't know. not a. little bit.

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can you tell us what happened to you without. i didn't notice. you i could. just see your. eye sore from the room there was no time away from the door. so i went to the one where your like oh no no no no no no they were had already i would go out was a real one go away why don't i think you know this is what saved growin was i have called the blind. eye and the roof. i mean somebody was like one year today you know a lot of people have been here. by the splash the photo you why the change has baby changed since that day how this is not are you not. if you if you just see the peepers how they're working on the streets they don't know what to do or where to

go from where do they get. what you do to morrow we don't know what moral this is really a pastor of a tribe dramatic there's a new prime minister and the french are have launched an initiative to try to solve the political crisis to try to push the officials to carry out much needed reforms to improve the situation in the country are you hopeful that there will be change we cannot be hopeful unless we see some positive things on the grounds. that we do saying even his people the french. president come here and to try to understand the story asian. to be hopeful we need results we need small wins we need just a small group that things are going to change i don't you don't have. any time now i wish. to debate what is going to be minister or from which religion which starts

in later present think. so this is not good signs and i thank you very much so people really still in shock still asking a lot of questions little faith and those in power a little faith in a lebanese led investigation into into that blast and that's why people here are are demanding an international investigation and justice as well as accountability . how does it say to hold or reporting live there from beirut from that commemoration ceremony. remembering the moment an explosion tore through beirut devastating the city exactly one month ago today so many many thanks to. this is the news from al-jazeera still to come on the program. after they stole the city in the democratic republic of congo surrounding a prison dozens of armed fighters leaves peacefully we'll tell you more about that

russia's coronavirus vaccine receives a positive review from one of the world's most renowned medical journals but it still needs to be tested further. but in sport the man behind the football league's website that led to corruption investigations across europe has gone on trial and he will be here with that and the rest of the sports. base who is calling on russia to cooperate with an international investigation into what happened to kremlin critic alexina valmy doctors in germany when the volley is being treated say that he was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent but russia's government says that it has no evidence of any crime and is there as lawrence lee reports. the russian government insists it had nothing to do with the poisoning of the arch critic of president putin alexina

valley the state hasn't opened a criminal investigation despite the valley apparently being poisoned inside russia by a weapons grade nerve agent novacek which is only produced in russia in the latest exercise in banging their heads against a wall in the valleys legal team went to court in moscow accusing russian investigators of not doing anything to the surprise of nobody their case was thrown out still they said they would keep trying to mothers of its passports congress comes that we will appeal this decision at the most specific caught and you will also ask the following activity being illegal the failure to consider the claim if it all to check definitive launch a criminal case on the deliberate poisoning of election about. after the european commission said it was marshalling its forces to get russia to focus on the poisoning nato has now involved itself as well arguing it has the right to do so since the poisoning was a breach of international law made dollars agree that russia now has serious

questions it must answer the russian government must fully cooperate with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons an impartial international investigation those responsible for this attack must be held accountable and brought to justice yet when he was asked what exactly nates a would do next he could only say he would continue consulting with allies the problem for nato and everyone else is that if there was a crime it was committed on russian soil and without russian consent in an investigation where they go next is totally unclear lawrence lee al jazeera let's go left out of moscow alexandra. is there for us or xandra what is the kremlin saying in response to natives call for its cooperation in an international investigation. well adrian

minister of foreign affairs of russia responded to your statements and he said that russia has nothing to hide but he also said that russia has nothing to react on since russia was not presented with any facts or evidence that they requested about his health and about what was found in his blood or urine so that they cannot react and they cannot proceed with their investigation before their requests have been answered he called this loud statements from a public tribune instead of replying to official request he also said that russia is by now skeptical since this he said happened before and interesting enough you mentioned the case of sergei script by poisoning saying that also then russia asked for what was so found that exact xs basically to the findings and was denied now i mean keeps on repeating that nothing was found in russia itself and

that they are investigating in fact it is a breach investigative process what they're saying is that so far they found nothing and whence they are presented with what the german doctors found in the german labs of this governor then they can decide whether there will be a criminal case or not other public members are actually political figures here in russia commented on the statements of general secretary of nato stating that actually it's not their place to interfere in that and they have no mandate in such matters and we also heard what we heard in the file case as well that the russia has nothing to show to the organization for provision of chemical weapons since they are not producing enough the chalk well these are things that keep on repeating themselves not only in this case of the finally poisoning but we heard them before in the case of sergei scree by poisoning one thing in. yes for sure

that said such statements coming from nato and also from the e.u. leaders are going to further strain already strained relations between russia and specially between nato and russia where there is no love lost for quite a while alexandra style of it's got for reporting live there from moscow alexander many thanks indeed the tension between turkey and greece over gas exploration rights was also raised by nations secretary-general he says they've started talks that's despite a denial from greece which says the talks will only happen once took a ships leave the disputed areas in the mediterranean what nato is doing with arm trying to do is. not to address the underlying problem about to de conflict and to try to develop and hands mechanisms for decon fiction. as long as we have so many ships in the eastern mediterranean we believe that there is

a need to have technical talks on how to. develop the mechanisms and hans mechanisms for the confliction turkey's foreign minister is accusing greece of lying about the nato initiative not they're going to stick at it the nato secretary general asked for greece's views and greece gave the go ahead and after he got the go he'd the nato secretary general made an announcement we were not surprised but unfortunately grace refuted the nato secretary general but it is not the nato secretary general who is lying it is greece itself which is mine. a baylor opposition leader has called on the international community to impose sanctions on president alexander louis argued alexander lukashenko government. should have scalia made the appeal in an address to the un security council she was a presidential candidate in last month's election which is widely considered to been rigged she cannot sky fled to lithuania after the election which lucas shankar

declared that he'd won by a wide margin. patients taking part in the clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine in russia of all developed antibodies according to a report in the lancet medical journal us the lancet says the trial is too small to prove the vaccine safety and effectiveness $40000.00 volunteers have used for the trials the kremlin has denounced international criticism of vaccines rapid development saying that it's an attempt to undermine russian research let's bring in derek gatherer who is just at lancaster university in the u.k. because you have a with that have you with us again derek is the kremlin right to be rather miffed at the fact that everybody seems to be pouring cold water on russia's development quick development of this vaccine. i think know they've released some data i think people will probably be a bit better disposed towards this particular saga in the beginning nothing's been

raised it was all very secretive but no we have data in the lancet today from the combined fees 12 clinical trial and that means that we can for the 1st time gator course look at the procedures that would be used we can see how many patients are in the trial we can see what protocol was for administering the vaccines and can also look at some of the follow up safety and. the lab results on the volunteers we don't know yet anything about real efficacy of the of the vaccine and preventing infection and that will come later with the face 3 trial which has been under we know for about 3 weeks and russia but i think know that we have we have something to look at something for people to critique it in detail some of the criticism will be somewhat and we can get down to looking at this and that facts so how long will this phase 3 trial take and then how long before the vaccine actually comes to

market will russia be thought to bring a covert 19 vaccine to market. well to mark it is a complex process that the russians have already given approval for use of the vaccine within russia for for limited use within russia even though the vase 3 trial hasn't been completed so there are certain say actions of the of the russians to sightsee that are receiving the vaccine as if it had been approved and in fact in china there are 2 vaccines that folks have been approved for limited use within china but it's very doubtful with vaccines that have been given a school who approval will be given automatic international approval with very satisfactory results in the fees to be clinical trials and without international approval and there's very little chance that we see it any of these 3 vaccines either the russian one or the 2 chinese ones in major international use on buoyancy

or for what will use having say that the both countries do have a wide range of international partners that are involved in helping them with the feast of a clinical trial so there is testing of that of the vaccines occurring and several countries but again that that's a long way from actually be on the market. has a just horse show your best guess as to when we will get a safe effective vaccine against covert 19 and will it bring an end to the pandemic . i think that the timing actually largely depends on on political pressure if we were tense such an international emergency at the moment and governments were feeling so pressurised to to do something about it then vaccine development would always take a lot longer than than the time scales that we're seeing now the russian paper that came out today and the alliance that it describes face one and 2 were compressed in

their particular trying or so they began a feast one traveler beat the basic safety trial and then 5 days later they started these 2 trials for if you can see and report a tree tasting normally through 20 days before you begin your face trial at least so it should and it shows how they're combining all of the stages into a kind of externality to process the results that have been said. sure that the russian vaccines boutique 5 produces neutralizing antibodies in volunteers who neutralizing antibodies capable of binding to and activating the virus in the border tree so theoretically those people might actually be protected from from over 1000 invention and it could be that at some point politicians will decide that that is good enough that we will we will go ahead with vaccines for

release that have this kind of property even though we meet or have complete data from face the clinical trials and there's a tremendous difficulty with gating data from the face 3 clinical trials because there are so many other factors involved at the moment different parts of the world are in different phases the pandemic flu and in europe we've seen it go up again dramatically and know that starting to come up again in north america there is also a prominent 1st spate but then it didn't really come down and it's planted off a lot so they made a concert have a have a have had a long planned to a pension and in other parts there. it's different again africa for instance appears to be still more or less around its 1st wave sort of in different parts of the world you have different prevalences the virus and this means that people are on a trial how different a different chance of catching the fight is depending we're not in a world i'm not of course different parts of the well also have different rules about. and the different standards for hygiene and so on so these things only

difference korea derek i was learn something when when you when you were on many thanks indeed once again for being with us tara gather that from lackluster university an armed group has returned to its base in the democratic republic of congo after a standoff outside a prison around $300.00 fighters from the so-called co-operative to the development of the congo entered the town of bunia on friday they'd initially given the army a deadline to release fellow members who were being held inside they've since left after negotiating with the military but it's unclear what had been discussed narcan webb is following developments from nairobi. hundreds of fighters piled into the town they were demanding the release of prisoners and also demanding the terms of a provisional deal that they'd made we've some factions of the army to be upheld they want to be demobilized they want to be integrated into the army for fighters

to be given food rations this is something that they say they've been promised and that the army and the government had failed to deliver the army's going green trying to defeat this militia called could echo since the beginning of the they failed to do so to the militias said you know if you can give us positions in the army food rations and so on we will come out the bush now they said this had been failed to army and failed to deliver and then it seems that the reason for this is that there isn't backing for this kind of agreement from the capital kinshasa and just 2 days ago the un's chief in congo said that they would not support this kind of demobilisation because they don't like they have done this kind of thing many times in the past they now don't want to be in a position along with the international community where they're seen to be rewarding people for taking up arms and for killing civilians and many civilians have been killed by these groups in that area in the last year or 2 many people have fled their homes many people i mean displaced because of this escalating violence. we're very nearly at the midway point in this news hour we'll get

a weather update next and then brazil reaches 4000000 confirmed coronavirus cases but there are hopes that infection rates they're slowing. counting the cost of the corona virus in lost jobs will take a look at the long term impact of the pandemic in the u.s. and in sport perfect timing for the defending n.b.a. champions as they turn the tide in their playoff series. because plenty of hot dry weather across the middle east as we should have some places of class the down tools a solemn end of the red sea you might just catch it up a few and far between further north is really about the heat with all the heat there in kuwait and baghdad getting up towards the made forty's once again but also

more so in fact just around the levant where temperature is still currently running around 5 to 10 degrees above the average a little colder here as we go on through sunday by cooler we're talking 36 in jerusalem 2 should be as hot as that further north we have got some showers starting to push across the black sea the caspian sea behind this system just one this is going to not be edge off those temperatures but elsewhere as you can see it is going to be largely dry warm if not hot and sunny want to show a sense that western side of yemen plenty of showers there around the highlands drifting further west would see as they should do for much of southern africa it is looking fine and dry we have got a few showers coastal showers in the full cost of mozambique full recap pushing up towards maybe even into southern parts of somalia but look further south across the southern cape some very heavy rain coming in in that wet weather setting in all saturday and slowly pushing east the sun.

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it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha with the news from al-jazeera the headlines some of it has been held in beirut to mark the moment exactly one month ago when a catastrophic explosion tore through the city around 200 people died and thousands who lived in the blast. russia's corona virus vaccine produces an antibody response without side effects according to early results scientists of the plan says are encouraged by 2 school trials but they say the largest tests of need is. an armed

group has returned to its base in the democratic republic of congo after a standoff outside a prison around $300.00 faces left bunia often to go see a singer with the military. cypresses to strip 7 people of citizenship for violating the terms of a scheme offering so-called golden passports in exchange for investment it follows an al-jazeera investigation into a cache of leaks documents they reveal european passports of been sold to a number of convicted criminals fugitives and political figures considered to be a high risk for money laundering deborah davis led that investigation and she joins us now live from london deborah what do you make of this news. well it's not news they're recycling something that they said in november of 2019 when another scandal because this scheme has been plagued by scandal for several years revealed the names of people who should not be given asshole's at the time the government said

it was going to strip our sports from about 30 people and $26.00 names emerged then in may of this year in a form or applied to us the ministry of the interior said they'd already begun to strip the passports from 11 people so $26.00 had already shrunk to 11 and now it seems to have shrunk to 7 and non of those names are among the names that we revealed in the cyprus papers we had about 30 people either convicted wanted or under investigation for the crime as far as i can tell the secret government is not reacting to any of those revelations so what do you think is is actually going on here. i think what's going on is that they are very. pressurized by the criticism and the fundamental criticism

is what they are not addressing the fundamental criticism is that these schemes attract the money they attract criminals who want to highlight the proceeds of crime and they try to people who want to hide themselves because they're wanted in their home countries so tinkering with the rules saying you're going to take the passports away from a handful of people. they may think that's going to deflect the criticism but it's not going to end it in an interview with us last week did it rained as the european justice commissioner said the time had come to end these schemes and that is the only thing that is going to satisfy the critics deborah davis who led his innocence cyprus papers investigation live from london that deborah many thanks indeed. a crew man has died in an explosion in the engine room of all time that's on far off the coast of sri lanka 22 crew members have been rescued from utah and. the tanker

has been on fire now for 2 days the sri lankan indian coast guard crews are trying to put it out. well fernando's reports now from colombo. the vessel itself is on man and all the crew have been evacuated the surviving crew there is no power because of the fire so it is drifting basically in international waters it seemed that it was moving slightly towards the sri lankan course something that the sri lankan authorities are very conscious of this is off the eastern coast of sri lanka now obviously more than $2000000.00 barrels of crude oil. massive environmental disaster waiting to happen we just heard at the official press conference by the navy the marine environment protection agency about what is being done so far now obviously the sea they're keeping close tabs or walking with the

indian course guard to bring the flame under control to cool the surrounding sort of parts of the ship to prevent the spread of those flames into the cargo area but obviously there is no guarantee that this can happen now the navy very confident that the indicators are that they might be able to contain it within that sort of bridge area and the engine room area but obviously the coming hours are crucial. president trump has denied making disparaging remarks about u.s. war veterans the atlantic magazine says that during a 1st world war some teetery ceremony the president described u.s. war dead as loses it says that an unnamed senior defense department official reportedly confirmed the comments trump says the magazine is making up fake stories to stay relevant. that would be negative.

and. would not. look like the military getting. a. really. good. life not of the white house and our correspondent kimberly palca so kimberly denials from the president and hey look it's 24 hours ago again a big effort by the white house to refute yet another story. absolutely a major cleanup operation happening by the white house communications team but the president himself giving a 7 minute rebuttal in the darkness he got off a plane from another campaign event he is really furious over this he feels that he has done more for veterans than any president in recent history but given the fact that the allegations are serious that the president called not only a name soldiers losers but also

a decorated war hero john mccain the former senator who died in 2018 a loser in some of donald trump's own comments are hard to refute given the fact that he did call john mccain a loser back in 2015 in a tweet now some of the president's comments already making their way into political ads that are attacking the president also attacking the fact that he himself never served in the military but got multiple deferments for both college and also for medical reasons never watching very carefully the u.s. president is set to appear in the next hour to meet with the leaders of kosovo as well as serbia to sign an economic agreement we're also watching his rival joe biden who is set to speak at the top of the hour if he is on schedule we expect the both men will address this issue in the coming hour what damage committee could this do to the president's reelection campaign. could do

a lot because he really needs the veteran vote the military vote he got it big time in 2016 poll there have you have to remember donald trump is the commander in chief he as president leaves the u.s. military and there was overwhelming support according to a poll in 2016 he led hillary clinton support by 20 percent this time around in 2020 he's trailing joe biden by 6 percent he knows he needs this vote to win reelection that's why we saw him in north carolina earlier this week a big battleground state that also happens to have military bases there and also a lot of active duty as well as retired better is a white house correspondent kimberly how could reporting live from washington many thanks indeed kimberly u.s. federal agents of killed a suspect who was wanted for fatally shooting a protest in portland a supporter of a far left group is being investigated for the death of a far right activist it happened during weeks of often violent demonstrations in the city an oregon state against racism and police brutality but that suspect

michael right now spoke to vice news before his death and said that his actions were an act of self-defense totally justified had i not acted on i am confident that my friend and i'm sure i would have been killed because i was even to stand there and let something happen but they've done is they are trying to make it look like we're all terrorists and they're trying to make me look like a murderer i've noticed that they keep saying that it's not clear that it's related to the protests. that's a lie they know that it's related to the protests. the u.s. economy is showing few signs of recovery employers are cautiously hiring but so far only hauffe of the 22000000 jobs lost in the pandemic have been recovered and some roles in airlines hotels restaurants and office may be gone for good his role

brunell's. mary bennett dead oh lost her job as a janitor months ago when the coronavirus pandemic crashed the u.s. economy like millions of others she's worried for the future that's a buy plant. i think live on a stroke for months president donald trump and his advisors have been predicting a rapid recovery and we've been talking about the v. this is better than a v. this is a rocket ship from preferred to graphs economists to vaas to show the length of an economic recovery v. shaped means activity goes down fast but then rises again quickly the bulk of the evidence says we are still on track for very significant upward move and it's to be shaped recovery but many economists say no it's not easy it is not a choice right now because we had. too much firing if people are afraid of

getting sick and dying they're just not going to behave. in a way that's conducive to growth more likely says a federal reserve bank chief is an l. shaped recovery a steep fall followed by a long plateau of low growth and high unemployment time that's required to recover is going to be a quite a bit longer than we might have otherwise expect even with effective vaccines or therapeutic methods economists say there's no question of magically returning to the free pandemic economy many jobs in affected industries may be lost forever airlines like united and american if cut thousands of positions as have department stores close makers. big banks and blue chip companies like 18 t. boeing and hilton hotels and the list goes on businesses are looking out at the landscape and realizing it's not going to be a quick recovery they are then resizing and rescaling their operations to manage

that situation which comes with more permanent layoffs the workers hit hardest tend to be those with the lowest wages who work in hands on jobs like mary benedetta oh . the work. for millions like her there's a long hard road ahead rob reynolds al-jazeera. brazil's governments it's now recorded more than 4000000 cases of corona virus nearly 125000 people have died in the world's 2nd largest outbreak there are indications that the rates of infection could be slowing as manuel rup below explains. will run very briefly through the latest data from brazil's health ministry as of thursday evening the number of confirmed cases of code 1000 was 4041638 only the united states compared to the rest of the world has a higher number of confirmed cases then brazil i don't think anyone could have

imagined brazil being at this point more than 4000000 confirmed cases has represent somewhere close to 2 percent of the country's population but it there could be signs that things are improving if you look at the daily contagion rate the daily death rate over the past few weeks it does show signs that the health crisis is starting to improve last week the daily death rate dropped below $900.00 per day which is still very horrifying especially compared to the rest of the region but could be an indicator that brazil is finally starting to climb down from that plateau of contagion that is sort of characterized it as a nightmare scenario for latin america here in mexico there is concern over in alarming contagion rate among doctors nurses medical workers which is now the highest in the world and a lot like brazil mexico is leadership has been widely criticized for taking what many would characterize as a relaxed approach to the containment efforts against the kobe $900.00 contagion

pro-democracy activists in hong kong are urging people to boycott the new disney movie the star of if a lou caused outrage by voicing support for the police crackdown on anti-government protests this protest leader joshua wall says that anyone who believes in human rights should support the movie. the philippines congress is proposing raising the age of consent from 12 years to 16 years of age it's a sign of some progress but why it's groups say that it's not enough compared to what's being done in other countries which is there as john allen dogon reports from manila thank shiela gardy is a journalist who focuses on gender related issues she has been speaking in schools against a culture of harris meant and victim blaming towards women and young girls in the jeep this guy kept leary when i got out of the jeepney it was about 15 minutes of the guy just following me home. saying very vulgarly basically asking me to come

home with their she's one of many women who have joined the filipino version of the global need to movement e.r. a call which means i'm a girl was created after a facebook message posted by staff at a police station in june told women to dress modestly to avoid getting harassed this fight having one of the highest number of female executives in the world and to be no president in the past it remains to be the only country globally where divorce is still not recognized and where the age of sexual consent is still at 12 years old one of the lowest in the world. congress has now filed a bill that would criminalize sexual intercourse between an adult and a minor aged 16 years old and below even if the child gave consent to the act government data shows at least one woman or child is raped every hour in the

philippines and most victims come from impoverished communities and they're afraid to come forward we have for instance a very conservative church the church has gone again many of. our excellent or productive longer are our. productive have a very long activists also say government officials is to claim a. president or 3 go to tear to has repeatedly joked about raping women in this public speeches even recent last like the safety reasons are. recognized unacceptable any ruhi be dead and punished on the legislative run we must continue our oversight on big implement the sean because also sexual harassment is certainly a by rhonda of the broad rape culture size says she knows that the battle she chose

is difficult but she's determined to continue dugan al-jazeera manila. i'm am not a poet and activist has been found guilty of violating a law which requires advanced notice to hold a protest most on car was fined $22.00 by yang on court for violating peaceful assembly and peaceful professionals he was accused of staging protests demanding an end to internet blackouts. but such appeals court has upheld the conviction of a far right bieda for collectively insulting moroccan people give builders will no longer face it will face no punishment over comments made in 2014 is far right freedom party is the 2nd largest in the dutch parliament. still to come here all that you saw in sports of tennis is wising stars and it's the grand slam of a former world number one andy hit with fast and the rest of the day's action next .

i don't get on the school is that the thank you so much i journal serina williams's through susie 3rd round of the u.s. open the 6 time champion i mean when her 1st grand slam title in 3 years so she's actually course enjoying playing in front of large funds are. a record equalling 24th grand slam title is moving ever closer for serena williams oh a straight sets win over russia's margarita i guess sparing in saw her advance into round 3 at the less open where she'll meet 2017 champion sloane stephens williams

says the copen era quiet of a family's stadiums isn't affecting her so far and i love the crowd here obviously but it's something cool like i mean i've been playing so long i now play in the modern area where there's there's no crowd it's all digital stuff but it's it's something kind of calming about it you know africa's top ranked player is also through to his he has owns job beating kaia kanepi to reach round 3 for his 2nd year in a row to go any further job or will have to beat sophia can top level tennis was suspended for 5 months due to coronavirus in the reigning australian open champion says her best form is only just returning. apparently people were telling me you're playing well you're playing well i'm like no i'm not but yeah i'm going to put these 2 matches i've really got a good groove and i'm playing some really good tennis andy murray's grand slam return is over. it's coming off the back of

a 5 set win in the opening round the former world number one who was beaten in straight sets by candidates felix all share the s. to. 33 year old murray is coming back after a career saving tips are to break the back of your mind you know you're facing in the mary so even though you have 2 sets to love you always go back to the man you always. i think you know i got to get this break i got to get to sleep because you never know how we can you know start playing well and come back and you never know what tricks he's got you know and it's pockets for a 20 year old seemed this is already a career best performance at the u.s. open for a smile al jazeera now defending n.b.a. champions that's france or ups's clinched game 3 of the series of the boston celtics in one of the most dramatic games of the playoffs so far the celtics were leading and there's less than a 2nd left on the clock they look set to go 3 up in this best of 7 series and then the rep says oh gee i don't know be sinking a 3 points at right to the puzzle. to run so i staying alive for this one for

someone i 3 when game 4 on saturday was. all credit goes to. your point you know i don't want to ask you is just it's just. it's own g.'s moment and that's a great moment for happiness. and that's why you know the person enough in the shot was. the l.a. clippers have taken game one of their western conference semifinal series against the denver nuggets. the clippers dominating the nuggets throughout this going or line of their scored a game high 29 points leading his team to a 120 to 97 victory. a little messy father has claimed that the player isn't tied to a clause by barcelona worth more than $800000000.00 who they messy is also his son's agency sent a letter to the head of the spanish league arguing that the family's case mary is

messi has made an official request to quit the club and believes he's entitled to leave pass on a free transfer. the man behind the football league's website has gone to trial in portugal rippin sorry says his aim has always been to expose corruption in football information he made public lets you judicial investigations in france spain belgium and switzerland it is the now face 90 criminal charges that include computer fraud and attempted extortion. max for stuff and crushed out during the 1st practice session ahead of sunday's it sally and groom pre the incidents are here resulting in the session being whole said but the red bull driver was able to drive later in the day he was more than a 2nd slower than starter lead at lewis hamilton in 2nd practice pushed up and is 2nd in the championship standings is the only norms say these drivers will want to race this season. and i want to crickets fiercest robberies will resume a little later on england the hosting australian a t 20 series the teams are ranked one and so in the world with england just behind

australia this series was meant to be a warm up for the t 20 world cup which was scheduled to begin in october but that's being postponed because of the global pandemic when you grow watching ashes cricket or any game against australia it's always built up and seen as. critical of anybody's career and i think regardless of the format that you play there is always a bit more on the line when you when you play against australia and canada is the last remaining team in the n.h.l. players are taking their series into a deciding game 7 the vancouver canucks defeating the vegas golden knights if for nothing in game 6. the canucks have been $31.00 down in the series the decider coming up and i think so in a few hours time. ok most sport for me throughout the day but not as it finale and many thanks indeed and that's it for the news hour but i'll be back in just a couple of moments to update you on the day's top stories we'll see you then. on

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