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speech it's now being curtailed under your watch mr prime minister. watch as the evidence to startle you like a stance prime minister imran khan talks to al-jazeera. 'd a divided nation rallies across the us to protest against continued police violence and racial inequality while others back law and order. other than i'm having my head seen and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a disaster zone sit around acquires a 3 month long state of emergency due to the worst flooding in decades. reports el
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salvador's president is offering better prison conditions in exchange for supports in midterm elections. and a community pitching in a group of teachers in mexico city is helping disadvantaged students them remotely during the pandemic. the united states is preparing for a weekend of protests as proved trump and ansi drum for demonstrators gather to highlight racial injustice and supports for the police approach rally has already taken place outside the kentucky derby horse race in louisville hundreds of demonstrators there brandishing guns and squaring off with opposing black lives matter protesters there in the city of rochester new york on friday police there watched over. hundreds of people protesting the death of unarmed black man daniel
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prudes back in march there his family released police body camera footage this week showing officers putting a hood over his heads and holding him down for 2 minutes while he was handcuffed and there have been 100 straight days of rallies in portland following the death of unarmed black man george floyd also in police custody back in may let's get more now from rob reynolds see joins us now live from los angeles rob corridor a lot of process to get under way in the u.s. what do you think we should be looking out for. well one bit of new news is that in new york state where rochester was the scene of protests over the death of daniel crude in march the. attorney general of that area of new york is empaneled
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a grand jury to look into the death so there will be some judicial action likely in that case what we should also be looking out for of course it's later on today in portland 100 consecutive day of protests since the death of george floyd in minneapolis back in may there have been violent clashes in portland there have been clashes between protesters on the black lives matter movement and more. pro police protesters and there are also been numerous clashes between the b.l.m. protesters and both local law enforcement and federal law enforcement so we may see more happening there another thing i think. hala that we should be on the lookout for is the emergence of more videos let's take the case of daniel crude the video that was shot by police body cameras the encounter with mr prove where police
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put a good over his face and mr prude was later found to have died of it. that happened in march and the video only surfaced within the past couple of days so how many other videos are out there how many other cities have seen instances where they don't they're not fully aware of what happened in encounters between police and african-americans so that's certainly something to be on the lookout for and another thing i'd like to mention. is that while much of the attention. has been focused on violence on looting especially president trump trying to make the most of that for his own political gain as law and order president promising that joe biden would preside over a chaotic situation in the united states 93 percent of all the protests since
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george floyd's death according to a washington post survey have been entirely peaceful and also wanted to point out that. joe biden the democratic candidate for president has also condemned unequivocally any violence during his visit to konoha earlier this week and certainly a busy weekend ahead for ny though rob reynolds live in the sound jealous thank you . elizabeth ann curry is an expert on american politics sent a professor at george washington university she says the process movement's has already had a huge impact on american society. the struggles have been going on for decades the struggles themselves aren't new i think what we are seeing here is the way in which these protests actually have managed to change quite a few things in a short period of time on the one hand bringing in more people than ever before or persons who are they have changed the language that americans use we now hear calls
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for finding the police coming from you know dinner table every night where that would not the case just a few months ago and we've seen changes in a lot of different localities where most of the policies about the use of the police and regulations for police there me so we have seen changes in specific locations what we haven't seen are some of the larger national changes that people are calling for and in part that's because donald trump's presidency has staked itself on the claim that it is a law and order presidency by which trump generally me kind of unrestrained use of the police which is where a lot of the roach from protesters are now coming into the picture health officials in the u.s. are worried about a new surge in corona virus infections jaring the labor day holiday weekends they fear gatherings and crowded bars could make the weekend a critical point in the fight against the virus the u.s. is already recorded at least 6200000 cases and more than 188000
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deaths. el salvador's president says denying reports that he offered a pair for gang better prison conditions in exchange for lowering the merits of rates ahead of midterm elections a foreign news paper said it has documents that detail negotiations with the notorious m s 13 gang president's now a bouquet and it responds with that storm to theorise denials on twitter but the attorney general says he plans to launch an investigation this manual republic reports. images of prisoners in el salvador stripped to their underwear and kept in crowded prison cells or once again in the news on friday the salvadoran government allowed journalists to tour this supermax prison which houses members of some of the country's most notorious gangs and has in the past attracted criticism from human rights groups the prison tour appears to be in response to
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a recent report accusing the salvadoran government of negotiating with members of the emmis 13 gang to reduce violence in exchange for prison privileges all in an effort to gain political favor ahead of the upcoming midterm elections via twitter el salvador's president now you deny the accusations pointing to images of the prisoners lined up in rows in adding show me one privilege just one as well we caught up with him last december the salvadoran president sat down with al-jazeera is james baines speaking specifically about the importance of reforming el salvador's prisons we close communication in jails in the jails he had a wife wife cell phones computers everything and they were ordering killings from the jails and so they were the headquarters of the gang this very much yes we were paying for their headquarters. in recent years el salvador has made significant gains in curbing violence on friday the ambassador tools solved or applauded the efforts of the federal government to. the reason the violence has been reduced if
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partially because of the russian. president now e-book elice popularity. remains high and his relationship with u.s. partners is strong but the accusations of alleged negotiations with gang members are serious as m s 13 is regarded by both countries as a terrorist organization. and president said after el salvador civil war 30 years ago makes the law clear on who the government can and cannot negotiate with. recognizing guerilla fighters as political actors was fundamentally negotiating peace but the gangs is completely different they are not a political group or a criminal group on the margins of the law and the state cannot negotiate with them . gang violence has been a chronic problem in el salvador since the 1980 s. in nearly 4 decades on the president to ghana is not the 1st government official to be accused of colluding with these gangs for political gain will solve those
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attorney general says he plans to investigate the allegations manildra below al jazeera. sudan's government has declared a 3 month state of emergency because of weeks of flooding and have killed more than 100 people the river nile has risen to levels not seen in a century 100000 homes have been badly damaged and others completely destroyed since late july the u.n. warns the situation will get worse says above average rainfall is forecast until the end of september and i had to and then my brother got all our power operated equipment is out of order and there's a high possibility they won't operate again needless to say residents are all gripped with fear and panic we have not slept for days that while the flies and mosquitoes are multiplying in huge numbers cholera may break out at any moment god forbid that's why we've planned an insecticide spring campaign. morgan has this something it's from 2 sea islands in khartoum. the river that you see behind me is
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the nile river which a sudanese government officials say is unprecedented in terms of the level of waters it is carrying right now at 17.621 meters meteorologists say it's the highest that have been recorded in nearly a century and that has resulted in massive flooding in various parts of the country now one of those areas is right here in this island of tootie which lies between the blue nile and the white nile the flooding from the nile waters has resulted in massive destructions of properties many people have been forced to leave their homes to look for refuge and shelter and for drier lands. and now to. most of the destruction isn't just because the river flooded we have an annual phenomenon where the water in the river increases during the rainy season the river manages to break the makeshift dams that we build this will cause the most destruction but this year is the worst we've ever seen now countrywide at least one 100000 properties have been destroyed and at least 100 people have been killed as
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a result of the floodings meteorologist say that the reasons behind the high level of the nile river is our duty to facts as they say one of them is climate change heavier rain falls and if you can highlands has resulted in more water flowing downstream toward sudan which has resulted in more flooding along the banks of the blue nile which contributes to 80 percent of the nile waters the other factor they say is the number of dams that have been built along the nile over the past few decades they say that has led him to more want to being trapped in the clouds and into more rainfall as a result so sudan's government has declared a state of emergency after the loss of lives and the destruction of properties there calling 180 in his nations to intervene but they're also saying that the water levels will continue to rise over the next few days and are urging people to stay away from the banks of the nile and try to build as much sand barriers like they've been doing over the past few days to cope with the rise of the nile levels they also said that if people do not listen to the cautious and to to alert that are being issued by the government there will be more destructions and more loss of life something that they're trying to avoid. activists have rallied across parts of
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europe calling for immediate action on climate change police in the u.k. arrested dozens of protesters who managed to delay the distribution before national newspapers supporters of the extinction rebellion movement blocks access to the prince and presses of the sun the daily mail the daily telegraph and the financial times they accuse the papers of failing to accurately report on climate change. unless we start reading the code in our carbon emissions by the end of 2022 months of pavement thankful prices so we've heard that 69000 fighters on the government's response of the poor hundreds of billions of pounds into the old economy so what we've got here is borrowing money from the future generations to help with troy them so we feel it's so drama so desperate we feel we have to make a dramatic statement. so as to come on al-jazeera a glimmer of hope fades in beirut's rescue workers make
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a tough decision about the search for survivors from the 11 i'm glance plus. we speak to kenyans who say they're struggling to survive after being evicted from forests in a fight over lands and environment. hello there all eyes are on typhoon high shand this is it showing very very carefully a very clearly defined eye on all of this cat had it these are the outer feeder bands all of this is some already pushing rain and some strong winds into western areas of japan but of course it's still about the chira process particularly through the korean peninsula and indeed across into the northeastern china just about the damage that was done this of course from typhoon may 2nd now this whole system hi shannon is taking
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a very similar path through sunday the winds still strong with the storm not as strong as it was so sustained about 200 kilometers an hour and really pushing the rain across into western japan also beginning to push into southern sections of the korean peninsula and it is moving quite a bit faster as well so from sunday into monday it makes a great deal of progress and really comes on shore probably the very early hours of monday across the korean peninsula of course heading across the same region and eventually pushing up into the northeast of china elsewhere across into china it's no secret to the south that is where we could see some showers and some thunderstorms and actually is a cross into southern india where in the next couple days when this these are all the heavy rain developing really from horatia and then extending all the way south across into carola and extending towards and sri lanka. this lands of money in a in. a pointy shoes playground during election season they say if you win
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a dog all you're big on they are but a lot of promises are made on votes are gobbledygook their votes are for sale so you of the day don't go over it but real real changes make their way to the lives of the people who work a lot and leave in the 1st land. on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera a reminder of our headlines this hour the united states is preparing for a weekend of process as pro and anti trump demonstrators gather to highlight racial
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injustice and support for the police approach of bradley has already taken place outside the kentucky darby horse race in louisville el salvador's president denies reports he offered the powerful gang m.-s. 13 better prison conditions of exchange for lowering the merger of rates ahead of the upcoming election the government invited journalists to prison on friday to show them how top and created the conditions there are. and the city's government has declared a 3 month state of emergency after weeks of flooding nearly 100 people have died the nile has risen to levels not seen in a century but overall rates of flooding and rain have exceeded record sets in the 1940 s. . chilean rescue workers have abandoned their search for survivors under the rubble of a collapsed building in beirut's signs of life were detected there on thursday a month after the catastrophic port explosion that killed at least 191 people
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rescuers were able to go down in a tunnel inside the building to confirm there were no survivors. i mean. unfortunately today we can say that technically there is no sign of life in sight to be getting. thousands of women and university students are back on the streets of the bell russian capital minsk calling on president alexander lukashenko to resign last security agents have dragged protesters off the streets and bundled them into vans at least 30 students have been detained a country has been gripped by protests since last month's disputed presidential election the question could the noise opposition accusations that he rigged the polls to stay in office. you know we're we've got the words we are tired of the police state here they come to the universities they grab people at their doorsteps
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they're already starting to come to schools what's next kindergartens. the law hasn't been observed in our country in a long time 1st the elections were rigged then the people who came out to protect their rights were beaten murdered arrested. the russian opposition activist or go says she was forced to leave the country and has now arrived in poland kovach of us says she was taken to a border crossing where where she travelled on to warsaw the activist says a senior figure in the belarusian opposition coordination council she was sentenced to 10 days in prison in august early as the hordes of us as a crowd to me when i was in jail representatives of the militia and the intel minister of balad ruz came to me and said that if i did not agree to leave the country i would face a long time in jail i ended it is the end you get there. i didn't know which border crossing there were taking me to it turned out it was. all of this will not stop me
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i never meant it and never plan to live and i will soon return there. the french health minister has warns there will be more severe coronavirus cases in the next 2 weeks france caused more than 20 schools after recording nearly $9000.00 cases on friday it was the biggest single day roy since the beginning of the pandemic health officials say the increase is partially due to expand the testing. several regions in mexico have run out of death certificates because of the high number of people killed during the coronavirus pandemic a california the state of mexico and mexico city are among the areas that have run outs of certificates 30 say a 1000000 uniforms have been princes and distributed mexico has the 4th highest death toll in the world more than 675 isn't killed in the outbreak
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millions of students across the world are returning to school this week after months of coronavirus quoters but nations differ significantly in their approaches to reopening regular muhammad reports on the impact distance learning is having in mexico. this is not just a tortilla shop in the heart of mexico city named the corner of hope it intends to offer just that hope by offering disadvantaged children a chance to carry on learning remotely join the pandemic. before classes begin students or my wearing masks and wash their hands volunteers here teach english mathematics and science. yet they also provide textbooks a spot phone and laptop. the shop owner says she wanted to help by offering free tutoring and a study space for those in need. of the yes i was at the store to shop we know
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everything about the neighborhood we started asking how are you going to deal with sister turned to school and some said i don't have this or that so we the neighbors started organizing support mexico's government has set up virtual classes through radio and television to ensure students maintain their education but taking classes online isn't so easy for everyone more than half of households he had told own a computer while only 56 percent have access to the internet families here are worried about how their children will keep up with classes. i don't have internet says it's very difficult for me to send homework the teacher at this particular shop is helping me me that the rice is the home for high school students ida moreno studying at the tortilla shop and using ex-wife i is making a difference. yes this works for me because before i couldn't learn much now i can have support from the t.v. but analysts believe more needs to be done to make sure that all kids get the same
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quality of education so you know there is a community that is participating in supporting these children who don't have access to those resources and that is very important we see it at the same time the government is not providing the resources and that is very important to students in mexico want to return to school until authorities say it's safe to do so which means around 30000000 may be forced to learn remotely and for now community driven initiatives like this will fill some of the education gap mohammed al jazeera. there are warnings in iraq that hospitals may lose control of the coronavirus a break within days within 5 factions were recorded on friday the highest daily number so for the health ministry is blaming much of the spike on a recent religious event procedure bahrain has more now from baghdad well there's
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a slight decrease over the past 24 hours as opposed to the numbers that came out on friday just over $4600.00 new confirmed cases across the country and 63 people have died in the past 24 hours as a result of code related issues but these figures are an indication that the shura gatherings which took place on august 30th in the city of karbala in southern iraq which commemorates the death of amman hossein who is the grandson of the it late prophet is that one of the main reasons that we're seeing such a spike in these numbers over the past 48 hours across the country to has been nearly 10000 new infections and those numbers are something this country has not seen just to give you an idea in neighboring iran it's double the size a population of iraq and they have half the number of confirmed cases we also understand that these figures that we receive on a daily basis are not true indication of the actual number of people that are confirmed to have the virus because many people don't get tested or they are too
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afraid to go to hospitals many of the facilities and medical facilities in the country are not equipped to deal with the number of people that they should be dealing with on a daily basis. just the numbers we've seen of people who have contracted kovan 1000 votes go into a medical facility in baghdad alone over the past 48 hours has been just around 370 so this shows us that they really a number of people we've spoken to as well say even if they do get sick they do not seek medical help. protesters in israel have been rallying outside the prime minister's residence for an 11th straight weekends they're demanding ben you've been netanyahu quits over corruption allegations he's been charged with bribery fraud answered breach of trust protesters are also angry about netanyahu is handling of the coronavirus crisis. more than
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a dozen people have been arrested in these trillion city of melbourne and hundreds of nord restrictions to protest the city's lockdown the. police say at least 150 people were finds now burned as the capsule or the state of victoria which is this really is main virus hotspots 76 new coronavirus infections and 11 deaths reported in the state on saturday break there is gradually easing after nearly 5 weeks of severe restrictions. so french soldiers have been killed in mali their armored vehicle hits an explosive device in the northeastern province their fears last month's couldn't rally will undermine the fight against regional armed groups linked to al qaeda and i still. around 300000000 people around the globe live in forests including 60000000 digital families their charities are accusing governments of using the coronavirus pandemic
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as a cover for its fictions around a 1000000 individuals people are affected by deforestation and brazil's amazon it rules by 25 percent in the 1st half of this year and in borneo indigenous lands are being taken to build routes plantations and for mining it's estimated that $300000.00 people are threatened with displacement or worse for conservation groups in cambodia warn that logging has increased recently in may more than 200 members of the blue known indigenous group protested after being denied access to farm land or in kenya a community of forest weller's is also struggling to survive after being evicted from their ancestral lands there were people who were given the regional legal rights to live in the forest but the government says they're destroying parts of a fragile acars system catherine sawyer reports from the mouth forests in the rift
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valley jane career is among hundreds of kenyans addicted from the mouth forest in july is in the rift valley kenya's most important water catchment area government official thing in the last 2 decades the forest has lost many of its trees because of logging chuckled banning illegal settlements and increased our culture tells us she's a forest well from the community and the mal is how home it won't take you back in the any solution is to permanently settle us in our ancestral land all governments found us in the forest but have never found a proper alternative place for us we have suffered for many is. some of the displaced have sought shelter in schools this grandmother says is the 3rd time she's been evicted in as many as the controversy over land ownership around the model forest has been going on for decades people here live on the edge all is
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ready to flee from government forces or other hostile communities everyone we've talked to said that tired and want a permanent solution in just over 40 years hundreds of thousands of people from different communities moved into the forest and surrounding areas some are said to have illegally obtained title deeds for land where the organic was supposed to be settled others were brought here from other parts of the country to increase votes for sat in politicians during elections the battle over ownership of the land has often resulted to ethnic clashes. rights campaigner daniel kobe shows us remains of fighting following the recent avik sions he says the community has won court cases including in the african court of human rights the judges ruled in favor of their rights to live in the forest or be settled elsewhere what we want. to land well protected. because we have seen the the old these are the cause of the problem
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government officials say some of the 52000 again have been resettled but a few sold off their land influential people also grabbed much of it and the process has since been politicized and the area covered but. nobody's. going to tie the back of this with. the this is an emotive issue that has often led to death and despair here government surveyors meet hostile villagers as they inspect in 1907 forest boundary which has been adjusted several times leaving large swathes of forest land unprotected one of the classical that people say they're tired of boundary changes and they're tired of fighting catherine saw. mao forest kenya. this is al jazeera these are the headlines the united states is preparing for
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a weekend of process pro and anti trump demonstrators gathered to highlight racial injustice and supports for the police approach umbrella has already taken place outside the kentucky darby horse race in louisville hundreds of protesters brandished brandishing guns squared off with opposing black clothes matter protesters health officials in the u.s. of warns of arson use surgeon coronavirus infections jury and the long weekend hold say they fear gatherings uncrowded bars could make the weekend a critical point in the fight against the virus. el salvador's president denies reports he offered the powerful gang m s 13 better prison conditions in exchange for lowering the murder rates ahead of the upcoming election the government's invited journalists to prison on friday to show them the crowded conditions.
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sudan's government says declared a 3 month state of emergency because of weeks the floods that have killed more than 100 people the river nile has risen to levels not seen in a century 100000 homes have been badly damaged and others completely destroyed since late july. had their little brother got all our power operated equipment is out of order and there's a high possibility they won't operate again needless to say residents are all gripped with fear and panic we have not slept for days there while the flies and mosquitoes are multiplying in huge numbers cholera may break out at any moment god forbid that's why we've planned an insecticide spring campaign. chilean rescue workers have abandoned their search for survivors on to the rubble of a collapsed building and beirut's signs of life were detected there on thursday a month after the catastrophic port's explosion that killed at least 191 people but those are the headlines since a story is up next. first
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