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we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what you. use in current affairs that matter to you. despite arrests and beatings demonstrators in belarus take to the streets of mass tens of thousands running to demand president lukashenko step down. money and saeed this is al jazeera life and also coming up. hundreds of demonstrators arrested in hong kong as protesters vent their anger over china's security nor a spy and local election. with almost $27000000.00 infected around the globe we
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look at this in corona virus cases in several countries. military helicopters brought in to rescue residents trapped by large wildfires in california . and a huge shock at the u.s. open tennis as well number one novak djokovic she is kicked out of the tournament for striking a line judge with the ball. by the russian security forces have detained dozens of protesters a massive anti-government rally in the capital minsk president alexander lukashenko has repeatedly issued threats of violence against demonstrators but instead they're continuing to defy those warnings and calling for him to step down but it smith has
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the latest from neighboring that the when you. there is still some safety in numbers for the 10s of thousands of protesters on the streets of misc. the ministry of interior in valorous has warned them that demonstrations are illegal closing off city squares and streets but that hasn't stopped people descending on the capitol for a 4th week of protests against the continued leadership of president alexander lukashenko he claims he won the aug 9th election with 80 percent of the vote the opposition say the polls rigged and they want to read from. those protesters made their way home on sunday security forces seem to take advantage of the thinning crowds pulling out people apparently at random according to witnesses and bundling them into vans. another video has emerged on social media of masked men in civilian clothes beating up people on the streets of minsk. in war no breaking down the door
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of a cafe where the owner had given shelter to protesters who visited the measure as it regards people started running inside the door and then out on 15 to 20 people in black mask started to smash the glass into some people our human rights experts from the united nations say they've received hundreds of torture patients of torture impeaching him feel. this is all good call kovar of the opposition coordination council sentenced to 10 days in jail she appeared in poland on saturday after she says she was forcibly taken to the border and then priya. they came to the center where i was isolated they gave me a had a mask and took me out of prison they made me lie in the back seat and they drove me away from the isolation center. of the presidential palace in minsk that was tight security to protect luka shanker from his own people. we won't forgive we won't forget their shouting the video is emerging out of minsk on sunday
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night suggests that whatever tolerance the government had for the protesters is wearing thin that could increase pressure on western powers to impose sanctions on alexander lukashenko and senior members of his administration lithuania's foreign minister says in an interview that the european union's lack of action over belarus is undermining the credibility of its foreign policy. bernard smith al-jazeera vilnius so how did we get to this point president alexander lukashenko has maintained a tight grip on power since 994 silencing nearly all forms of dissent but he faced unprecedented opposition earlier this year of a worsening economy and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic because she has disputed reelection triggered weeks of protests and a tough response from police 2 days after the vote or position lead us from atlanta
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taken off sky fled to lithuania and has been calling for more peaceful rallies from there. russian president vladimir putin has backed his response saying he is ready to send a police force to assist with veronica kahlo is a leading bellerive activist who united behind the opposition leader took enough skier she fled to poland after last month's disputed election and says the protests will continue until look at steps down. we are working very hard with the international community we get to meet international leaders we describe what's going on in bellows because we want the entire community the world community to know what's going on the belarus and would like look i should go to leave some of the possible because he was this a good election he's not the gitmo surprises anymore any longer and he is the one who or bush if you don't there are always people where one can most there with the
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international community with the most need or just through it quickly to let everybody know what's happening there was no people want the changes they want the question to be says i said before and those people will never give up those people don't give up on to a question because you because he has been in the power for 26 years and for the last 4 weeks we saw the way he treats the worst people the way he tortured those people the way he beat the mob and we as a mission those nation we don't want him any longer so we will never give up until he gives up the power thousands of people have been rallying and montenegro has kept all against the price that massless coalition that won a slim majority in all sunday's elections the coalition is now trying to form a government in the tiny vulcan nation. partisans fear it will push montenegro closer to serbia russia but the party say they will continue with the country's bid to join the european union i misunderstood you are completely sure i think people
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have gathered here to support peace harmony and tolerance while the down nationalists interests we all live in harmony as brothers we don't need divisions might need. i mean the sign of the sea i am against any older flag being waved in our country be albanian bosnian serbian turkey should german any orders exceptional to move to new green flag. nearly 300 people have been arrested in hong kong off to riot police cleared pro-democracy protesters on sunday they were demonstrating against beijing's new security no which was imposed on the territory earlier this year people are angry about the delay in local elections which should have been held on sunday adrian brown has the latest. hong kong independence they chose. beyond small groups of peaceful protesters openly flouting a new national security law. there will also individual acts of defying.
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the demonstrators who are also disobeying social distancing rules the mass gatherings they were angry because sunday was supposed to be hong kong's election day the government citing code 19 for the postponement are of course have been silenced by the government yet every time you want to apply for like a protest or marsh they always band than us so this time we didn't apply for a. march or protest to a police chase we are seeing their decision to cancel the election has nothing to do with covert 19 i think the government is here to suppress the people's demands and what the future should look like there was a heavy police presence across the county in peninsular as officers move quickly to shut down any opportunities for large gathering. yes. but one stage firing pebbles at a group that refused to disperse but a little shocking image was that of
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a young girl being thrown to the ground. in spite of what happened here on sunday protests in hong kong have been largely cattail by this new national security law but the voice of dissent has not been silenced entirely. a number of political activists were arrested on sunday including tom tacky who was detained in his home by officers from the new security department he's accused of uttering seditious words i was silly but still trying to talk to the media as he was bundled into a car adrian brown al jazeera hong kong efforts to end the war in libya have begun in morocco delegations from tripoli's u.n. backed government and the rival eastern base to parliament have met to find a political settlement it comes ahead of a larger meeting in geneva on monday where countries supporting the rival sides will be part of the negotiations libya has been at war since long time leader
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moammar gadhafi was deposed and killed in 2011 the edits to we urge you to be pragmatic and practical to reshape and find an ultimate solution the libyan people are eager for peace and i'm hopeful that within a couple of days the delegations will bring the people positive developments. mood up the overhead has more from tripoli. morricone foreign minister spoke and both of the legations also spoke it seems that there is a positive atmosphere apparently bought this is only this seems to be only the beginning of a series of meetings to be house to buy more or call it seems that workers also keen to invite both rival leaders the head of the tripoli high council of the state of the missionary and the speaker of the. eastern
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parliament. later there is no definite time for that to be meeting but as you know that morrocco is also in a way or another tries to make sure and to stress on the fact that the agreement that was sealed in morocco in 2015 known as the libyan political agreement is the main bases for any political settlement to the crises in libya now but this invitation to the rival delegations by america is a whole moral can initiative and it's paddling with other international efforts to sustain or to make sure that the seas fire dick aeration is being implemented on the ground. saudi arabia says it
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has intercepted and destroyed an explosive laden drone from yemen the spokesman says several drones were sent to attack saudi arabia's airports in response to an increase in saudi air strikes in yemen the saudi u.a.e. coalition has been fighting yemen's iran back to the rebels since 2015 let's go to mohammed who is live for us in some up mohammed tell us a bit more about this attack. yes as you mentioned the. spokesperson misspoke spurs and general reader made a little reveal to media that the they have carried out a number of drone attacks on salary been particularly on a behind a national airport they have. said that the they have had their targets and also they have targeted along with the. international airport
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another small sensitive targets in. saudi territories this. release or these really tell you 3 attacks by the host these have come just a week after the the defense minister of the sanaa based government wants saudi arabia that they will carry out more a retaliatory attacks inside its territories and that the entered the 4th the 4th phase of their retaliatory oppressions in saudi arabia in response to what they have mentioned the despite of saudi tax an era strikes as the july month has witnessed the more subtle it sees among civilians in different regions of yemen particularly and sadat and hijack and these attacks are also being carried out just one day after the transportation ministry marked the 4th the 4th
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anniversary of the saudi ban on the international airport with which has really catastrophic impact on the civilians and as the press mentioned that at least 80000 civilians have died because they have a right to travel abroad for treatment has been denied due to the ban on the international airport i had a lot of speaking to us there live from santa. a fire in syria's rebel held province of idlib has killed 3 children the eldest was just 6 it happened in a tent in a displacement camp in the town of. a civil defense units helped put out the fire and rescued the mother who has suffered burns. still ahead on al-jazeera japan has lashed for the 2nd time in a week as another powerful typhoon brings face wind and rain.
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the parent says the execution of civilians news shares military faces grave accusations. hello once again it's got something of a change on the way for parts of north america as we go through the next couple of days. just moving across the canadian prairie some wetter weather on less showers longer spells of rain just sinking down across the mountain states through montana some very heavy rain turning to snow as it moves over the high ground and sliding a little further south with said denver getting up to 33 celsius the hate continuing here through monday by south com choose day 3 degrees so you can see something of a massive change there will be some significant snowfall on this said but a wet weather into central parts of the u.s.
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over towards the lakes not too bad if it was east of sable to a few showers down towards the southeast and cooler we could do with a right on the other side of the country because i'm afraid we're not going to see any of that in california still getting up to 31 celsius not as hot as it has been but still plenty hot enough we'll see a few showers meanwhile across the southern parts of mexico over the next couple of days we've got a a tropical storm just off shore here not really causing too many problems a rash of showers through mexico through the yucatan peninsula into central america some really large ish hours to just around haiti cuba and some very wet weather for a time in jamaica. in the global fight against financial crime banks rely on databases for cars to make checks and it requires you to shore that you know who that person is and you understand the risk to the person brings to the bank in terms of financial crime
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al-jazeera well it investigates big financial data and what can happen if you find yourself on a list where. terrorists the database on al-jazeera. the . you're watching al-jazeera mind top stories this hour tens of thousands have marched in belarus despite threats of retaliation from the government they say last month's election was rigged and are calling on president lukashenko to resign. libya's warring sides are meeting in morocco delegations from tripoli's un backed
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government and the eastern based brooke parliament holding talks out robots ahead of a larger meeting in geneva on monday. saudi arabia says it has intercepted and destroyed an explosive laden drone from yemen the spokesman says several drones were sent to attack saudi arabia's airport in response to an increase in saudi air strikes in yemen. nearly 27000000 people around the globe have now been infected with corona virus and more than 880000 of them have died the planet's fastest growing outbreak is in india which reported the world's highest single day tally of new infections on sunday but 90000 cases infections in europe are surging again front's has reported just over 7000 new cases although that's around 1500 lower than the day before the u.k.
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is hit a 3 month high infections with almost 3000 recorded on sunday the government says those cases are mainly in young people but they all fail as it could spread to the more vulnerable. and mexico has the world's 4th highest death toll and moved 67000 but the true count may be double that alexander amputee is following developments across latin america from colombia he has more on the impact of the virus in mexico this is been a problem from the start in mexico given the fact that the government there has this to do a very limited amount of testing 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 is that the real number of
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deaths could be or seems to be much higher there around double the number compared to the confirmed number of coronavirus deaths in the country we understand that many hospitals including in the capital of mexico city but with the situation being worse in more remote areas of the country often didn't have the means to do testing on many people arriving at the hospitals and dying there quite quickly a lot of people have died in their homes and these 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 but no doubt
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the real situation there seems to be much worse than what official numbers show at this point. jacob blake has spoken out for the 1st time since he was shot in the back 7 times by police he's been less power lies from the waist down his shooting in the state of wisconsin has only and added to the ngo of a racial inequality and police brutality in the united states. 24 hours every 24 hours this thing is not. ours to breed. moved from side to side a person eat i just want to say when i saw our young cats out there and even older to me there's a lot more life to live out here and. your life and not only just your life your legs some that you need to move around move forward in life be taking. place in the u.s. city of portland arrested over 50 people during demonstrations against racism
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police brutality on saturday people have been demonstrating that continuously since the death of on the black man george floor wade back in may in watched new york to gas was fodder more than 100000 activists who took to the streets over the death of daniel pruett he died earlier this year when police placed a hood over his head and held him down the city's mayor has promised action over the last few nights we have seen righteous anger in heartfelt protest from many residents of our community and other than just majority of the people that have taken to our streets do so with pure hearts good intentions to ensure chatty tragedies like the death of mr prude never happen again their message that we must do better and that we have to address how we please our city has been heard these
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cars are not new in the chief and i have worked diligently to do the necessary work . military helicopters have rescued dozens of people trapped by a wildfire near a popular reservoir in northern california more than 60 people as lifted from the shaven lake area after a fire blocked the only road leading to a campsite several were injured a drought and the heat wave off fuelling fires in the state has prompted the california grid operator to declare a power emergency warning the outages a possible that fire grew so quickly so fast the trapped people. whose reservoir up in the mountains. at some point during the day when they became trapped they were doing what they could to rescue themselves and make themselves safe. some of which resulted in injuries including both broken bones lacerations scrapes bruises those kind of things rob reynolds has more from los angeles. it was
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. a very dramatic rescue that the california national guard pulled off with their helicopters these campers were trapped between the wall of fire and a body of water and that's obviously not a good place to be so 207 people in all were airlifted to safety there were several people who were injured and were 2 people were taken to the hospital nearby in critical condition there have been several small communities placed under mandatory evacuation order in fresno county where this fire known as the creek fire has exploded in the past couple of days fire started friday evening there are about 3000 structures that are at risk from the fire most of them are sort of summer vacation the holiday cabins and so forth and there are $800.00
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firefighters now out on the front lines in this brutal heat battling these blazes. well then 1800000 people in japan's kyushu island tappan ordered to leave their homes as the country's best said by its 2nd typhoon in a week typhoon high fashion has hit southern regions with gale force winds and rain $180000.00 homes are now without power the typhoon is moving to would south korea. mission as ami's been accused of executions and forced disappearances of civilians while battling armed groups the operation in december followed an attack on the minute change that killed at least $71.00 soldiers amid interest is in neighboring nigeria where security forces have also faced serious accusations over the conduct . we've seen this scene play out across the region over the last 10 years
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remember in the early days of boko haram in nigeria we've seen how security forces reacted angrily to local residents following attacks on their convoy on their own troops so. got its own painful episode in december last year when i saw linked fighters attacked the army barracks or in octaves or ambushed the army convoy in that is more than 71 people officially what reported to have been killed and then a month later in general dozens at least $25.00 officially have been confronted been killed but families of the victims say dozens more have been unaccounted for so civilian populations in all these regions from kenya faso marlene nigeria and. 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
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cooperating with the government soldiers in fighting and these are the insurgents and on the other hand the fighters the and fighters are accusing them of collaborating with the security forces. to sit on now where his stark slugs are affecting more villages and neighborhoods as the blue nile reaches its highest level in more than 100 years scientists say dams that have been built over the past few decades are partly to blame him or can reports from car too. flood water has covered the streets in a dome in sudan's capital hard to homes were abandoned as water from the nile filled them making them uninhabitable it's the result of a rise in the rivers level the highest in more than 100 years lacking in how you get. the amounts of water was unimaginable was a home no expect to reach my house reached the house before me with my house on the homes after me around my house more than 40 homes were destroyed by the floods.
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sure the people have taken their properties and left their homes we have houses that have been partially destroyed and houses that is completely collapsed in other parts of how to land that was once dry is now part of the river which is rising for the 3rd week its cost floods that has killed at least 100 people over the past month more than 100000 homes have been partially or completely destroyed a 3 month state of emergency has been announced by the government and the country is now a natural disaster zone where people once walked both have become the main form of transport people mostly use them to get to dry land this isn't the 1st time the nile has flooded its banks but those affected say it's the worst they've ever seen so down government says at least have a 1000000 people have been forced out of their homes as a result of the mild unprecedented rise in levels experts say a large part of that is because of climate change. last year the international
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committee for the red cross had listed sudan as one of 10 countries to suffer the consequences of climate change climate experts say the increase in rainfall on the few can highlands is caused by climate change that's led to more water flowing down the blue nile which contributes to 80 percent of the miles of water that's where experts who say development along the nile is adding to the effects of climate change well not that i listen to the rains usually come at a certain time and people have been counting on that and they moved to areas where the knol borders the banks but this year we've seen an increase in the amount of rainfall because of climate change and so the nile has flooded more than before in addition a lot of trees are being cut down to make place for residential areas near the nile affecting the valleys where the water would flow through sudan's government says the levels will continue to rise over the coming days people say they hope the water doesn't take long to recede so they can go back to their homes and start the process of rebuilding people morgan on dome. the world's top tennis
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player novak djokovic chance been kicked out of the u.s. open after accidentally striking a judge with a ball he was playing a 4th round match when he hit a ball interest ration after losing a game and it ended up hitting a female short in the throat after a long discussion with the tournament referee was confirmed he'd been disqualified joke of it chad's been fined all the money he and. this is these are your top stories tens of thousands have marched in belarus despite threats of retaliation from the government they say last month's election was rigged calling on president lukashenko to resign with them when i'm here to express my civic stance against the shanker with the rigged elections we're
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treating our citizens the way he does use of some young leaders i disagree with the declared election results i support all the protesters i am for freedom and democracy i want to live in a happy and free state i will keep coming here until we retrieve our rights. thousands of people have been rallying in montenegro as capital against the pros nationalist coalition that won a slim majority in last sunday's elections protesters fear it will push montenegro closer to serbia and russia. nearly 300 people have been arrested in hong kong after riot police cleared pro-democracy protesters on sunday they were demonstrating against beijing's new security law which was imposed on the territory to see. libya's warring sides meeting in morocco delegations from tripoli's un bags government and the eastern based parliament to holding talks south of rabat ahead of a larger meeting in geneva on monday. saudi arabia says it has intercepted
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and destroyed an explosive laden drone from yemen the spokesman says several drones was sent to attack saudi arabia's airport in response to an increase in saudi air strikes in yemen. and there fears the number of people killed by the corona virus in mexico is far higher than previously thought the health ministry has recorded 123000 excess deaths during the pounds i make that's nearly double the official toll which is already the world's 4th highest police in the u.s. city of portland of arrests of more than 50 people during demonstrations against racism and police brutality on saturday those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after a.j. selects. frank assessments what are you seeing any of this into 6 percent disapproval of police you like still being
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