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this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian for getting this live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. tens of thousands on the streets of the russian capital but a new wave of protests against president alexander lukashenko. trying to end a decade of fighting libya's rival factions hold talks in morocco ahead of u.n. backed negotiations in geneva.
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police also protesters in hong kong on the day a local election was too stupid to help. so-called excess deaths figures in mexico raise questions over the real scale of the corona virus outbreak that we'll have a live update. and i'm leah harding with all of your sports news clear ghastly is just a few laps away from winning his 1st formula one grand prix and 3 in a williams battles past sloane stephens at the u.s. open she's still on course to equal the record $24.00 grand slam singles titles. tens of thousands of by the russians staging another huge mot sure the capital minsk keeping up the pressure on president alexander lukashenko who's responding with increased force he's refusing to quit weeks off the disputed elections others took him to. for help to stay in power to serious bona smith is monitoring
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developments for us from neighboring the few waiting up to 4 weeks of protests then despite increased intimidation out a rests what are we to make of the old. calling in those protesters to build the number of lines in times by the government to persuade people not to protest they've told them these protests are illegal there are still those tens of thousands descending on the streets of men's and there are protests in other cities across by the roots as well the government said it had closed off a couple of main square as in men's good football quiet around one of the october square the square was supposed to be where the protesters were meeting today but that still wasn't enough people carried on protesting going near again to the presidential palace where there was heavy security to protect from his own people
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the opposition leadership is not in the country it's it's there and lithuania how is it managing to coordinate and stay across all of these protests back home in minutes. there are there are still some left in men's but obviously the government is putting pressure enormous pressure on them out of the protests is just trying to split them up another opposition leader olga karl kovar she appeared in warsaw on saturday she said she'd been she had been in jail for 10 days sentence and 10 days in jail and they came to her the end of that sentence the forty's there she said and they put a bag over and told her that if she didn't leave the country she would spend much longer in jail and she was driven against her will to the border with poland and was forced to cross than she has now called in sick she wants to go back opposite position had spent longer going to sky she is here she'll go down to warsaw on
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wednesday to meet the prime minister there yes very hard for them to coordinate and they want the e.u. and the u.n. these opposition leaders they want even the u.n. to put much more pressure on the belarus government to go for a rerun in elections giving no indication. that but many thanks i was there as part of smith reporting live from vilnius well here's a look at how we got here president alexander lukashenko has maintained a tight grip on power since 1904 silencing nearly all forms of dissent but he faced unprecedented opposition earlier this year over a worsening economy and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic look at shanghai's disputed reelection in early august then triggered weeks of protests and a tough response from police 2 days after that vote opposition leaders for atlanta took enough sky fled to lithuania and has been calling for more peaceful rallies from there president vladimir putin has backed his response saying that he's ready
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to send in russian forces to assist let's bring in the room though he's an expert on eastern europe and russia he's joining us from london to what extent. is that last sentence there key president vladimir putin has backed because response. uh that's extremely key at this point if you look at the situation domestically internally within dealer 1st off the country is rapidly running out of money and $1.00 of the few grow sectors of the belarusian economy is the i.t. sector that spin. hugely undermined by the repeated internet switch off to disrupt the protesters plus a lot of the people involved in the protests are from the ip industry themselves that's just the kind of person that that sector tends to attract we've also seen a lot of strikes in the state sector as well so the dealer asian economy really is on the brink there's a question of whether it'll be able to resurface its loans coming up later in the
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year so russian financial support of huge importance there but equally we've seen you know the people have lost their fear of who he's lost a lot of his authority and our money right troops he's been able to deploy to the streets this just hasn't kept people from continuing to come out and that's where this russian reserve really comes into place this is the kind of last throw the dice really that if he can't hold on with his own people that this is cavalry will come in and basically serve as an exemplary police force to keep him in power but these protests and so it's worth pointing out the majority of them i'm not anti russian although they are there and. why i would love to be a putin continues to buck. despite his popularity. well to definitively answer that question you have to ask mr goulden himself i'd say it's due to a combination of his own prejudices and the advice that he's being given by
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security officials around him many of whom are very hawkish and anti western and see any kind of development of this kind as evidence of a western plot so while the protesters have been very careful not to geo politicized the situation if you want by by making clear that they don't have a foreign policy agenda or don't want to change the regime foreign policy. has acted as if this is a western plot. the russians have apparently bought in to that theory or at least that. would make the this issue ation galleries worse but they also benefit from the fact that if they're getting who is basically dependent on moscow to stay in office that means he's little more than a russian satrap at that point so in some ways this is actually the the ideal situation for russia is then doing the minimal they need to do to keep in office but also in a position where he's greatly weakened and where he really can't say no to any of
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their proposals say for the political or economic integration so how do you see this playing out over the coming days and weeks. it's difficult to say as mentioned earlier the big thing that russia wants to do is to do just the minimal amount of necessary to keep living shank in power 1st off they they have their own domestic issues that they need to deal with and they don't want to be sending resources this way secondly they're probably smart enough to know that if the michigan stays in office on the back of thousands of russian riot police that's going to breed a lot of resentment towards russia among the electorate. at this point that it seems that things are going to shake out that there's going to be some sort of we can leave you shank kept in place through a russian backstop but it's equally probable that that moscow could miscalculate that it could not search the resources necessary to keep the shaken power in dime
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and we could see the protests actually succeed in overthrowing but at this point. you know it's a tight call but i'd say it leans towards we could be. in power on moscow's blessing or tolerance is actually good to talk to many thanks to dharma thank you. efforts to end the 10 year war in libya are underway in morocco as capital delegations from tripoli's un backed government of the east coast to brook parliament are meeting south of rebirths to find a political settlement talks come ahead of a larger meeting in geneva on monday where countries supporting the rival sides will be a part of the talks let's go live now to tripoli observes mark ward of the wofford is where there was a press conference within the last hour what do we learn from that have these talks got us anywhere. well trains to be seen
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or word of these talks will lead to specially with the fact that the meetings are contradictory to the situation on the ground as you know that all these meetings including today's meeting again will call tomorrow's meeting in switzerland all meant to solidify to bring peace back to the country to. enforce. the escalation to put the cease fire in place the ceasefire that was announced it in august by both were a vocal leaders the head of the internationally recognized government in tripoli face and the head of the pool have to use that in the speaker of the eastern parliament i give in last august when they both declared the ceasefire the situation on the ground is not like that especially with how far his forces continue receiving heavy weapons their advantage weapons in and mercenaries from
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russia along with advanced fighter jets from the united arab emirates until very recently only a few days ago they have been deploying forces and advances weapons of mass of fighter jets near the oil crescent area now today's meeting and more of course is meant as a moral can for the mystery stated to bring the right libyan rebel factions back to negotiating table now why moral this is a whole world can initiative by the way. and moral court in a way or another is trying to say that the agreement the libyan political agreement that was sealed and so they rot in 2015 is the bays for any political settlement and libya that's why a moral court is bringing the 2 rave both factions to delegate shows from the 2 over the factions today and miracle ear to all 1st of all to continue the peace the
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international peace efforts to bring the rival factions back to the negotiating table and also to retaliate that any settlement any political settlement any peace making in libya should be. started or initiated little launched by the tool. buddies which are the 2 legitimate bodies are presenting libya according to this whole route agreement but now on the other hand there is division subdivisions within the divisions up conflicts within the compass because the 2 did again meeting today and morkel are not representing the whole the raven factions in libya now the parliament for example is divided one in tripoli the other end total and also the tripoli based a branch of the house of representatives is not included in these talks and also the high council of a state to 24 members stated that did disowning this more and because they're not
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represented in that meeting now deserves more for the of the word reporting live from tripoli many thanks indeed will rival factions and allied forces have been battling over libya since the overthrow of longtime leader moammar gadhafi 9 years ago the un recognized government controls the areas in blue here seat of power is the capital tripoli the ward khalifa haftar who form the self declared libyan national army controls the areas in red and the administration that sides with him is based in the eastern city of. broke after us forces have been trying to capture tripoli from jna forces for more than a year let's bring in peter millet former british ambassador to libya he joins us now live from london peter could tell you with us you know all of the people involved in these talks and today personally what do you make of it so far well any meeting between libyans is
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a good step and has to be welcomed i think as your correspondent has said they only represent a rather narrow group of people and if this is to gather momentum and succeed 1st of all it needs to buy in from a much broader group of political classes the tribal leaders this society leaders the municipal leaders and so forth secondly it needs to buy in from the military factions particularly have to of there have to be a genuine ceasefire you can't really have a peace agreement if there is still fighting going on and thirdly it needs to buy in from the entire international community with the leadership of the united nations but we can't have what we've seen over the last couple of years which is different groups being supported politically and then armed military by different
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international players so it needs it it's good that there is a meeting and it's good that these leaders whatever agreement they reached but to gather and maintain that momentum it needs the buy in from a much broader group so what are the prospects for for the talks in geneva the get on the well monday 6. well it again these are useful meetings and depending on who's there and depending i would like to ensure that it is united nations who are in the lead here but that it has a much broader a group of players and sets in train a road map leading to elections sometime next year you know the irony here is that back in april 29th the all of this was set to go in a national conference led by present salary the u.n. envoy that was destroyed by have to and when he attacked tripoli in april last year the same sort of concept of a broad set of libyan players
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a broad agenda covering militant military players ceasefire political players economic program a progress for the libyan people that needs to be put back in place but at the moment i'm seeing momentum i'm seeing an international and domestic political will there and i hope it leads to further progress really good but a thanks and a bit of millet former provision back to libya. this is that he is still to come on the program determined to keep studying how rebel army is making sure the children are still going to school in myanmar despite a government ban cue to the coronavirus pandemic with crunch bragg's it talks resuming this week after little progress so far the u.k. warns the e.u. we won't blink 1st. in the toronto raptors or ousts to level things up at the eastern conference semifinals for a little later in the sport live. police
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in hong kong of 5 pepper balls of arrested at least 90 protesters during anti-government demonstrations the protests are against beijing's new security law which was imposed on the territory early this year people are also angry about a delay to elections for hong kong's legislative council which were due to be held sunday but they've been postponed for a year due to the pandemic al-jazeera is adrian brown reports out from hong kong. some of the scenes you've just been looking at are reminiscent of what we saw a year ago but this was not on the scale of the protests of last september or ghost or june effectively what has happened here today as the police have managed to block a large planned demonstration and they did that by flooding the streets of the cow
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lupin instead area of nathan road up to 2000 police were deployed now that didn't stop small groups of people mingling with shoppers and chanting slogans in support of hong kong independence why does that matter well those actions that contravene the new national security lorem people who are doing not of course risk arrest as for what the demonstrators themselves feel they've achieved well we saw plenty of individual acts of defiance on sunday and yes a lot of the protests to say our ability to stage large demonstrations have been curtailed but you know our voice has not been entirely silence the reason why there was there was anger on sunday is this was supposed to be the day that the people of hong kong went to the polls but the government cancel those elections citing coded
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19 opposition groups say the reason why the government council the election is because it knew that the pro establishment parties would face a severe dropping as they did during the local elections 10 months ago the number of people who have died after being infected with the coronavirus in mexico could be much higher than 1st thought the health ministry there has recorded 123000 excess deaths during the pandemic that's nearly double the official death toll the world's 4th highest several regional government off for says have run out of death certificates of rights groups said that a lack of protective equipment has led to more medical workers dying with the virus in mexico than anywhere else now does it was out of sight of b.s.e. is in colombia's capital bogota to talk about the scale of the corona virus outbreak in latin america will begin though. with mexico what are we to make of those excess deaths figures.
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well this has been a problem from the start in mexico given the fact that the government there has to do a very limited amount of tennis think per 1000000 people in the country relying instead on statistical mathematical methods to try and keep a close eye on the spread of the virus the result though is that the real number of deaths could be or seems to be much higher there around double the number compared to the confirmed number of corona states in the country we understand that many hospitals including in the capital of mexico city but with the situation being war similar of both areas of the country often didn't have the means to do testing on
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many people arriving at the hospitals and dying there quite quickly a lot of people have died in their homes and were never tested so that's why now we're seeing such a big difference in the numbers this is obviously created control over see in the country with critics of the government accusing the government there. the real numbers the government says that that's not true about the no doubt the real situation there seems to be much wars 'd then what do fishel numbers show at this point in the center of mexico is and alone in the region ensuring a big divide between the official numbers and the increase in overall deaths in this period is it. yes unfortunately that is the case now that there are countries like where we are in colombia that seem to
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have done a better job if we look at this that this fix that are available of excessive that between april and august here in colombia we are around 1819 percent of the medium of the last 5 years now the government says that they have me unable to confirm that 17 per cent of those excessive dates are due to the corona virus so there would be just a 2 percent dates that would need to be confirmed or seeing if if they are related to their causes but that's not the case in other countries for example which already has the highest death toll compared to the population anywhere in the world we're looking at almost $87.00 that's 410-0000 people in well now according to the late this there the government says there have been less than 30000 deaths 29687 that's confirmed cope with 19 cases with
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more then 68000 excessive over the period of defend situation quite similar to the one in mexico but the worst country in the region might be believe you were the number of deaths could be 5 times higher. i was so busy reporting live from boulder to the many thanks dude. health workers are protesting in iraq's capital baghdad over the shortage of equipment needed to protect them from covert 19 coronavirus cases a prison with a record 5000 new infections there on friday the health ministry says that hospitals are overwhelmed with a rising number of cases to offer jabari as the latest from baghdad. despite the sweltering heat in baghdad and a pandemic aliya at non traveled almost 200 kilometers from to crete to demand a job graduated from medical school over a year ago and she has yet to get work that i'm not proud west of the center at the
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club you started all our lives not just for the past 6 years now i've been sitting at home doing nothing when the country needs medical professionals i feel useless now why did we study all our lives we demand the government give his job especially doing this been damaged according to the iraqi medical association aliya is one of 31000 people who have graduated in the health care field but have new jobs this at a time when iraq is facing a sharp increase in the number of covert $1000.00 cases iraq has one of the lowest number of doctors and nurses per capita in the world for every 1255 people there is one doctor and there are only around 30000 working in the country critics say that figure could be doubled if the government did more this is another issue doctors face in iraq being attacked by family members of patients who pass away they are often accused of not doing enough to save lives the issue of safety is one of the
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main reasons these doctors have gathered here not only with those i want to but the iraqis have suffered from a deteriorating health care system which hasn't been looked after for decades more than $400.00 doctors have been the victims of attacks or targeted killings since 2003 now more than a 1300 doctors have contracted covert 19 these conditions are not acceptable in july the government formed a committee to find ways to employ medical graduates but the finance ministry refused to fund more jobs citing a lack of money. and the prime minister criticize the increase in violence against doctors and. the assault against on medical stuff will be faced with severe legal punishment we are calling on tribal leaders know to allow these assaults to be commuted under their names that's them fertile to placate health workers doctors across iraq say they will start a partial strike and by the end of the week the government has failed to address their demands they will expand that and 12 for one has covered 900 cases are rising
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and could have disastrous consequences and it's something everyone wants to avoid doris's of ari al jazeera back to. turkey's president is warning greece to enter talks over disputed eastern mediterranean territorial claims or face the consequences the 2 nations have been in a standoff for weeks of a competing energy reserves turkey is prospecting a seabed area the greece claims as its. true you know they also learn turkey has the power to discard maps or documents imposed well understand that turkey has the political economic and military might need it to cast off immoral maps and documents imposed by others all projects and maps based on places plots we are ready to clarify this by going through what ever it takes no matter how painful it is whether it's that they go sheeting table or in the battlefield we the people
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and the government are ready for possibilities when it comes to any fronts or negotiations we've said that we are ready to share rights according to fair agreement and times. of fire in syria's rebel held province has killed 3 children it happened in a tent in a displacement camp in the town of. a civil defense who has helped to put out the fire and to rescue the mother who suffered burns the oldest child was just 6 years old. look at the weather update next on the news out then we'll tell you why close economic relations between china and bangladesh a causing unease in india. is accused of executing dozens of civilians during counter attacks against armed groups will tell you more. of the new york islanders have reason to celebrate for the 1st time in 3 decades near will be here to explain in stores.
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hello the heat wave remains in place across much of the nor the middle east and across the levant you can see here pretty clear skies in the last few as i look at these temperatures all monday ferdie 5 celsius in a jerusalem the temperature has really not dropped below this now for several days but also it will begin to warm up across much of the east as well but for jerusalem for the next few days really no sign a tour of this heat wave easing 36 the forecast high by wednesday all of these thomases against an average of 28 degrees say it is going to warm up elsewhere that hasa really extending across much of iraq 47 in baghdad and 48 celsius in kuwait not as holt to the south 38 and i have a feeling quite humid without a high of 38 degrees celsius central africa plenty of thunderstorms and again we've
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seen quite a lot of working their way across more eastern areas of south africa now through monday it does really begin to clear up some want to shout just lingering to the east of course elizabeth the usual shows further to the north some scattered showers along coastal areas of tanzania also on into mozambique and there's a move on into cheese day it really does warm up sun into the fall south into cape town it stays fairly warm for the next few days and we should have some my sunshine to go the high of 25 on tuesday. and experimental treatment in russia and some multiple sclerosis sufferer. treatment one o one east follows those trying to get in and out of moscow in a time of pandemic. frank assessments what are you seeing back in yemen.
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like the soup this is an informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of breakdown many cops or the elite region are actually under a de facto state of knowledge and see a critical debate after you use a proxy he does not there. certainly enters the bolivian people in-depth analysis of the day's political headlines inside story on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. and sneeze into your own.
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it's good to have you with us hello adrian figure here with the news from out 0 of the headlines thousands of better russians are staging another march in minsk trying to keep up the pressure on president alexander lukashenko who's responding with increasing force he's refusing to quit weeks after the disputed elections efforts to end the war in libya are underway in morocco factions from tripoli's internationally recognized government and the eastern based to brook parliament a meeting ahead of un backed talks in geneva on monday and police in hong kong are 5 pepper balls that have arrested at least 90 antigovernment protesters the demonstrators but demonstrations rather again are against beijing's new security law and the one year delay to local elections. india has once again reported the world's highest single day tally of new corona virus infections on sunday there were more than 90000 cases the death toll has now surpassed 70000 the
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government says the rise is due to increased testing more than 4000000 people now tested positive for covert 19 but on lakshmi the ryan is director of the center for disease dynamics economics and policy the u.s. based research organization he says that india's true number of infections is likely to be much higher. so long as you study that in there and it will probably undercounting cases by a factor of anywhere and a 100 perhaps even more and keep in mind that the 4000000 that are reported these are not the 2 infections that the recruitment of these would indicate that we're well above $100000000.00 infections true infections right now because most of the surveys show that anywhere between 20 and 30 percent of indians are already infected everyone knows that there are reports of infection which is what you see in the media and reported by government for the true infection rate which is
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a function of many more people getting infected and keep in mind the predictions we made for the situation when nothing would happen as a baseline but in spite of that we are already in the hundreds of millions of true infections and i think at this point it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle is pretty much under control epidemic at this point as i said health system the public health to which is what it's meant to sector ted and i believe you know was hobbled by not having enough testing early on in the epidemic so it's been a continuing problem and they're now has more than a 1000000 but many of these and to do tests which are not very accurate now the health care system has been challenged in the urban areas but the disease is now in many rural parts of india where there are not there are no private health care facilities and it's really a challenge here because it's an invisible epidemic there are people dying but they're not getting on to order at that point in time. and man last summer schools
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are refusing to close to spite of increasing covered 19 infections the government ordered ordered to shut down more than a week ago that students living in areas affected by civil war are still attending classes as answers here as wayne hale reports. in a remote peaceful part of a rebel army is providing security and education a new classroom built by the korean national defense organization is attracting students who fled fighting in their villages and they're now separated from their families education gives them hope for the future but it's a reminder of why they're here and what i've lived through. in deposit i saw burmese soldiers queue my uncle and burn our house i had to run and hide the whole relationship is on fire this area is controlled by the korean national defense organization one of many armed groups that have been fighting the me and or burmese army for decades they want
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a new political system that would guarantee greater rights and freedom for their people the fighting forces thousands from their homes and restricts economic and social development and leaves many children missing out on education a peace process led by me and my as leader aung san suu kyi has made little progress and in rebel areas resentment among young people towards the government is growing. they promise to support the current villages they promise many things but they never do anything especially in san suu kyi she didn't help those she doesn't look after the ethnic groups so we all suffer for the school along with others in ethnic minority areas chose to ignore the government's orders to close because of the corona virus outbreak the teachers say the children have missed out on too much already to close. the students in this area and outside the community are on the run from the fighting the conflicts in current state of impacted and interrupted their learning enough for now education is the one
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constant they can rely on while living with the anxiety of not knowing when they might see their families again wayne hay al jazeera. coronavirus restrictions in australia as sport victoria state has been have been extended for the 2 weeks until late october the capital city of melbourne has been locked down since the beginning of august but a nighttime curfew has been shortened to people from different households so to be allowed to meet from this month infections in the state account for most of the country's cases and deaths. for the 1st time since being shot in the back by police and left paralyzed from the waist down we've heard a message directly from jacob blake from his hospital bed his shooting in the state of wisconsin has added to the anger right across the united states over racial inequality and police brutality process which is still ongoing brunell's reports and will i stand with in my back state was speaking from
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a hospital bed jacob blake described his constant agony 24 hours every 24 hours is pain is not the pain. to breathe her sleep. move hoosac decide hers eat. blake was shot in the back like an ocean wisconsin policeman in august he's had numerous surgeries and is paralyzed the state's department of justice is investigating the shooting i just want to save my daughter yeah ok and even all of them to me it's a lot more life to live. in rochester new york protesters clashed with heavily armed police. police used chemical irritants against protesters who had launched fireworks out there. was some protesters formed a human chain and there were several arrests the demonstrators were demanding justice
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for daniel prude who died in march after police restrained him held him on the pavement and put a mash hood over his head prudes death was ruled a homicide. the new york attorney general announced she would empanel a grand jury as part of what she termed an exhaustive investigation into prudes death. 7 rochester police officers involved in the killing have been suspended. in louisville kentucky black lives matter demonstrators continue their protests over the death of briana taylor shocked by police in her home in march the protesters gathered outside a racetrack where the precise digits kentucky derby horse race was run armed counter protesters calling themselves pro police patriots confronted them black
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lives matter marchers there was arguing and yelling but no violence as the patriot group eventually withdrew and in portland oregon more protests over police misconduct and systemic racism continued for the 100th consecutive night. cortlandt has come to symbolize the most extensive nationwide protests the us has seen in decades over racial injustice and as the summer season draws to its close the u.s. faces a long hot holiday weekend of protest rob reynolds al-jazeera a memorial has been held in washington state for a far right activist killed during protests in portland oregon else was shot in a confrontation with black clive's massive demonstrations the months long protests that were sparked by the killing of george floyd in may the federal government deployed forces to the city in july to stop the bottoms. well the
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800000 people have been ordered to leave the southwestern japan as typhoon draws closer it's the 2nd powerful storm to hit the region in a week some forecasts predict record rainfall and unprecedented wind speeds and warnings have been issued to 5 and a half 1000000 people. korea's leader kim jong un has visited areas hit by another storm typhoon may sock state media say that all of 1000 homes were destroyed in the ham young province when the storm struck overnight on wednesday kim called on people from the capital to help recovery efforts. the un is warning that flood warning flood levels not seen in a century in sudan a likely to get worse in coming weeks with above average rain predicted for the rest of september weeks of flooding of so far killed more than 100 people the government's declared
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a 3 month state of emergency 100000 homes have been badly damaged and others destroyed since late july what are from other serious morgan in khartoum who explains what factors are likely to be to blame. scientists are saying that the current level of the standing at 17.61 meters is the highs that they've seen in at least a century and they're attributing that to the number of dams that have been built. over the past few decades now the ground if you can as on's them could be one of the contributing factors they say that having an dam build and storing water in the reservoir of the dam can lead to more condensation and heavy clouds and therefore more rain for the operations of the grand ethiopian renaissance that is not clear and nobody knows how they are dealing with the dam that they are still building but that they have partially filled let's go back to a few a couple of months ago when the amounts that they have began the partial feeling of the ground if you're in a zones them now that's happened during rounds of negotiations and talks between
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sudan and downstream countries and egypt and if europea if you had been saying that it will filter down by mid july whether there was a deal or no deal sudan has been calling for a deal to be to be reached before the feeling of the dam and egypt has been concerned about the impact of that dam on the nile river especially because more than 90 percent of its population depends on it but there has been no clarity from the if you've been side on how this dam is being operated when it was filled how long it took to be field how how will the gates be opened so all of that is raising questions about what role this is currently playing in terms of the rise of levels right now in the country. as army has been accused of executions and forced disappearances of civilians during operations against armed groups the operation in december followed an attack by armed groups on the military that killed at least $71.00 soldiers or desires of address is
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a neighboring nigeria where security forces have also faced serious accusations over their conduct. we've seen this scene play out across the region over the last 10 years remember in the early days of boko haram in nigeria we've seen how security forces react angrily to local residents following attacks on their convoy on their own troops so it needs yeah it's all. painful episode in december last year when i saw linked fighters attacked the army barracks or in octaves or ambush the army convoy in august more than 71 people officially or deported to have been killed and then a month later in general he doesn't at least $25.00 officially have been confront of been killed but families of the victims say dozens more have been unaccounted for so civilian populations in all these regions from hooking up faso mali jerry
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unusual cameroon are actually in a very difficult position they are placed between a rock and hard place. the security forces on one hand accuse them of not cooperating with the government soldiers in fighting these armed insurgents and on the other hand the fighters the arm fighters are accusing them of call operating with the security forces the campaign for new zealand's general election is underway after the dissolution of parliament it was marked with a brief ceremony at the capital wellington understood to send had delayed the election by a month after the 1st new coronavirus cases in over 100 days were recorded in august election day is on october 17th. the u.k. will not blink 1st that's the fighting talk from britain's chief negotiator as tension mounts over briggs's trade negotiations with europe david frost says that the u.k. has prepared to leave without a deal britain left the e.u.
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in january but is currently in a transition period which expires on december 31st talks are due to resume in london on tuesday syria's sania gago reports the e.u. has to negotiate as a bloc where is the u.k. has to understand is having to understand this and is already putting plans in place all scrambling really to put pounds in place to try and prevent those and of course this is taking a lot of currency away from an already pandemic hate economy here in the u.k. the u.k. is having some been one of the worst. hits to the economy during the coronavirus pandemic it's having to prepare massive lorry parks it is having to scramble around for paperwork it's it's really putting an awful lot of pressure on all the businesses here as well as not to mention of course the issues with northern ireland to northern ireland because in effect northern ireland is going to have. is
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going to be not really part it's going to be part of the u.k.'s customs area but it's also in it is going to have the same rights as the neighbor in the republic of ireland of course boris johnson folded on that as the last minute when he signed the northern ireland protocol but it really does go to make it very tricky for the u.k. if they do decide to walk away without a deal and you know there have been reports that it could hope to cover some of that mess up with this whole pound the whole recession that it is facing but the likelihood of that in the middle of winter this happening and having a bare supermarkets and of course you know other sectors affected it will hit the u.k. a lot harder than it really would hope it would. a team of experts from britain and the netherlands has arrived in sri lanka to assess an oil supertanker that's been on fire since thursday and sri lanka navy says there's no danger of a spill at least for the moment and that the fire is mostly under control tankers
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carrying 2000000 barrels of oil. china is increasing its investments in bangladesh pouring billions of dollars into development projects and that's causing concern for its neighbor longtime ally india their relationship has been strained by changes to india's citizenship law which critics say discriminates against muslims via chowdhry reports now from dhaka. since president xi jinping visit to bangladesh in 2016 bangladesh and china have turned their relationship into a strategic partnership china has since pledged almost $38000000000.00 in aid in loans to dhaka where mode then $8000000000.00 economic package offered by india. reached one which is the biggest. in a crisis when. a president. we're watching. the
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developments in the relationship contrasts with that between india and bangladesh that's been under strain since new delhi rolled out the citizenship amendment act last december critics say it discriminates against muslims and has led to protest and violence the nations are also in dispute over water resources they imposition of tariffs and the killing of dozens of bangladeshi civilians by indian border guards this year in august india's foreign secretary made a surprise visit to dhaka his foster brought since pandemic in an attempt to mend relations that are listened to but a special message he carried from indian prime minister narendra modi to his bangladeshi counterpart she was not made public analysts said that was an indication india is concerned china could be using its economic power and funding of construction and defense projects close to india's border with bangladesh to
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undermine new delhi's relations with dhaka. china is not done with the single biggest foreign investor china's investment in bangladesh is just not limited to defense facilities and power projects a chinese company under the country's public private initiative is building the biggest so called smart city which includes an international exit bishan sent out and host of other i mean it is here in port much all on the odds got off capital dhaka some indian analysts are also skeptical about china's large investment in bangladesh well known because the will have to wait and watch the whole beans. projects progress i think there just had a proposal in spirit and even one additional was the dangers of getting too
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clause in our ira even getting money from china because of the debt trap is something there is now evident to everyone in the word india has taken several steps in recent months to improve transport connections with bangladesh now bangladesh has described the project with china as economic diplomacy that's widely seen as an attempt to diffuse the growing tensions but many analysts say china's growing economic leverage has already cast a shadow over dockets traditional relationship with new delhi trying to charge me i'll just sit out back up bangladesh. just ahead all the news are in sport live will have all the action is surreal to williams continues her quest to win a 24th grand slam singles title.
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or. hello again type of sport his lawyer thank you adrian all frenchmen pierre ghastly just won his 1st ever formula one race at the italian grand prix and initially the day looked like it would belong to 6 time f one champion lewis hamilton the briton led halfway through the race but after charles le clerc crashed his ferrari the red flag came out and the race was suspended hamilton was given a 10 2nd stop go penalty for entering the pits illegally allowing ghastly to take advantage the 24 year old took his 1st place for the 1st time in his career carlos psalms and lance stroll completed the podium hamilton finished in 7th. it's been a great day for serina williams the 23 time grand slam singles champion is through
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to the 4th round of the us open she defeated sloane stephens and is on track to equal margaret court record of 24 slam titles peter summit has more. day 6 at flushing meadows and all eyes were on 6 time u.s. open champion serena williams the 38 year old is chasing grand slam singles title number 24. but on saturday she found herself a sit down against 2017 champion sloane stephens williams ready back to eventually win the match to see 62 and 168 with a limpia looking on 62 in the next round she will face maria so cari of greece as billie jean king said pressure pressure is a privilege so i wouldn't want it any other way. so i just try to think about. how fortunate i am to have been in this position and honestly to be serene
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it feels weird to say that. one of williams's rivals for the title will be 2nd seeds of the cannon the young american won the australian open earlier this year and is through to the 4th round in new york after seeing off to his ears on 7663 no fans allowed in the stands because of coronavirus restrictions but that didn't stop these guys from trying to get in to see 2nd seed dominate team b. 2014 champion marion gillett your screen came out on top 62623663 as he continues his quest for a 1st major title and not 100 percent happy yet there were play but it's getting better and better today was a good win against a big champion against a great player that should give me also a boost and could break this tomorrow and then i hope play a good one on monday. another man looking for a 1st grand slam singles title is russia's daniel medvedev the 3rd seed defeated j.j. wolff of the usa 636-3622 advance to the 4th round. an
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easy win but the russian knows fought tougher assignments awaits as he aims to go one better in 2020 after losing in last year's final he has them at al-jazeera. except a rough night against the toronto raptors the past was the real star of the show which when a 3 point and 11 rebounds shooting beautiful 3 is like that one calorie was right behind him with 22 points of his own the raptors 193 level in the eastern conference semifinal to 2 games apiece. in the western conference semifinal the denver nuggets never trailed in their game against the los angeles clippers jamal murray scored 27 points while niccolo joke which had 26 points and 18 rebounds both teams have one win under their belt the final score here 111 on ones denver. over to ice hockey and the new york islanders are on their way to the eastern conference
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finals for the 1st time in nearly 3 decades they were up against the philadelphia flyers and didn't let them score and not even once they entered the game 4 in 0 the islanders will face the tampa bay lightning next with that winner going on to the stanley cup final. so here's to baseball and the minnesota twins led an impressive rally against the detroit tigers sun old lead minnesota with a home run and the tying single in the 9th and mean there just wasn't anyone in the sands to catch that one then byron bucks and beat out and field single for the game winning r.b.i. the twins ending the night with a $43.00 victory. and a milestone for the los angeles angels for starters mike trout slugged his $300.00 career home run that helped lead them to a $109.00 win over the houston astros it was also $42.00 degrees the hottest start to a game and angel stadium history. world number one dustin johnson retain the lead on
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day 2 of the p.g.a. tour championships in the u.s. state of georgia the american is just one shot ahead of south korean him that's after johnson shot and even par 2nd round he's 13 under overall. over in austria tourists in innsbruck have more than the city to enjoy it was the 16th golden roof challenge featuring some of the best long jumpers and pole vaulters in the world south africa's rush while some i claim victory here with more than an 8 meter jump germany won it for the women in pole vaulting. all right that's me back over to adrian many thanks. you'll miss it it's a rare sound but it's excited music fans wise around the world and just the other organ playing the world's longest and slowest performance has changed chords for the 1st time in 7 years. the instrument is playing a slow as possible by us composer john cage. the performance is expected to last
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more than 6 centuries coming to a very slow end in the 26 floors and. we're back with more news for you just about . this is one of the. revolutions. made plan that we have to meet the emission targets electric cars and nuclear mitchum in the ocean they need to be mined where people are just talking about the stars if that's solved. the world of business and commerce driving energy transmission is the promise of clean energy an illusion the dark side of green energy. on al-jazeera.
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what was described as the world's longest long down the largest exodus and the creation of independent india and 947. experts believe india is still as a stage of infection but the long down has already created a humanitarian crisis and driven the unemployment rate for 6 to 23 percent and it's also highlighted inequality religious tensions and a health care system that isn't equipped to deal with a pandemic before the weeks will tell. the peace and mass movement of people will also accelerate the spread of the corona virus from indian cities to its rule hot. the us is always of infecting people all right the world has been going on for a number of what you can be called the report through an international perspective crikey your global audience how this could impact feel like this is an important
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part of the world and our leaders very good at bringing the news to the world from here. i i tens of thousands on the streets of the bay the russian capital the new wave of protests against president bush and. hello again i'm adrian forgive this is sound was there a life also coming out trying to end a decade of fighting libya's rival factions hold talks about iraq or head of un back because he actions in geneva. medical workers in iraq protest for better pay and protective equipment at hospitals.

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