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tv   NEWSHOUR  Al Jazeera  September 10, 2020 6:00pm-7:01pm +03

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every. al-jazeera. you're watching the news our life from headquarters in doha i'm dead you know coming up in the next 60 minutes on the move again in search of a home the scramble on a greek island to find help for thousands of refugees after a fire destroys europe's biggest camp. a new fire at beirut's sports spreads talks like smoke and new fears across lebanon's capital a month after a huge explosion. france accuses turkey of unacceptable provocations in the eastern
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mediterranean and urges europe to unite and stand up to its. wildfires destroy entire communities on the west coast of the u.s. and leave several states scrambling to control the spreading blazes. and in school the turnaround just falls to the saw in game 7 in the n.b.a. playoffs the defending champions beating the boston celtics level semifinal series of 3 games of. thanks for joining us thousands of refugees are searching for a shelter on the greek island of less suppose after being forced to spend the night out in the open fire swept through the country's main camp on tuesday nights ships are being sent in by the greek government to provide accommodation johnson rubble
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this begins our coverage. this was one of europe's largest refugee camps morea on the greek island of lesbos fires have torn through tents and dilapidated structures they were thought to have been deliberately lit by people fed up with that desperate existence compounded by corona fires they are out there. today part 5. there are. hundreds of thousands of people became homeless once again precious family belongings hastily bundled together to form a makeshift bedding there were no fatalities but these are lives thrust even deeper now into limbo is very very very unfair to fit in very different cord. is very broad. or purport far more you know has come 3rd where if you don't want to go is living here because this is a problem but if i may be dead now it is you know the camp had housed more than 12000 people in cramped unsanitary conditions designed for
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a quarter of that number of conditions in which coronavirus could easily flourish we are extremely worried not only 4 to 40 percent children that even muddier who are currently on the streets but in particular we need to think also more than 200 people live in the camp who are at particular risk for it either because of their age or because of that would mean that if they get infected the will be much more sick than the rest of the population and so as far as we know right now those $200.00 are mixed in the big group of $30000.00 who are basically at loss in the streets in 20152016 hundreds of thousands of people risk to the mediterranean crossing in small boats from turkey to greek islands like lesbos they fled war persecution and poverty the european union eventually closed its doors but the refugees kept coming many ending their journey here in moria camp a problem the greek government has long said it shouldn't have to. don't ask me.
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i believe that bad experience can quickly turn into an opportunity for better brianna and this will happen in less boss once a damaging maria has been assessed and in consultation with the european commission we take concrete initiatives our party remains the health and safety of vice presidents and migrants with nowhere else to go there was little to do but sit and wait. and john was inside the camp just a few hours ago it's almost as though we're on another planet everything has been reduced to its elements this site however is where the government insists on rebuilding a new secure closed facility the residence of moria village just a kilometer away from here are absolutely against that as is much of the island they simply do not want to camp here anymore the government says that is the wrong choice that the islanders resistance to such
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a camp is actually causing part of the problem it has prevented the government from building a better facility the refugees however are frankly agreed with the islanders they want to leave too this may now be harder than ever for them because we're hearing that much of the paper archive of the asylum service that used to stand directly behind me here has been burnt and that may mean there's a lot of people are stuck here for months longer than they would be because the records determining whether they would be granted asylum allowed to move to mainland greece or whether they would be deported back to turkey. and many of those applications will have to start from scratch. melinda mccroskey is director and founder of the starfish foundation that's a leading n.g.l.s plans islands she explains what challenges the refugees are facing. it's really devastating there's just thousands of people along the road there stay there hungry it's very difficult to actually get to them they're
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becoming more and more desperate so it's even hard to track she give supplies to them. also they say a lot of the angry local people are actually blocking all of the volunteers to for us to get inside to the camp to give them more aid so. yesterday i saw this great big pregnant woman with them she was just lying there crying on the side of the road there in the sun and there's hardly any shade for them it's it's a very devastating sight there's a very big degree of detect tension between all of us at the moment and 1st of all the well we were we were going through a crisis i mean i'm actually from this island too i've got a restaurant i thought properties that i rent out so during the crisis the tourism sort of drops them or we got in 2015 when all the refugees came came through. then that was dreadful for the fact that there was so much bad media going on at that
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stopped our tourism it dropped by 80 percent so that's made a lot of us very very traumatic over our income and everything and this you know with all the virus it's even worse. and then with the refugees here everybody is like focused on the refugees and not so much about what's this beautiful island is all about the tourism so it's making us all very frustrated and everything firefighters are battling a blaze in beirut at the site of last month's deadly port expose and that's the life picture where the fire is still burning at this hour 5 hours later it's a destroyed warehouse which was storing oil and tires at least 200 people died and more than 6000 were injured when a stockpile of ammonium nitrate exploded in that same ports last month has more from the ports in beirut. a massive fire raging just a little over a month since a massive explosion ripped through beirut neighborhoods killing over $190.00 people
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the fire across the street people are still traumatized from that explosion on august the 4th people started to evacuate the area around the port because. there was little information on what caused the fire the lebanese army then issued a statement saying this was not deliberate this was an accident and that fire that oil as well as tires that were stored in the warehouse caught fire and the army as well as firefighters they've been deployed to the scene as you can see trying to put out the flames helicopters have are also being used to try to distinguish extinguish the flames the people are on their nerves this is a city that is still on their nerves the city still demanding answers they're still having questions on what caused that massive explosion 55 weeks ago investigations
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are continuing leading leading the case has been they've been questioning security officials as well as politicians but still no answers still no official help to account especially since so many officials were aware of the presence of highly explosive ammonium nitrate at the warehouse and they did nothing about it let's talk about this with jamal listen he's a writer and political analyst joining us from beirut thanks for your time and al-jazeera so another fire very close to ground 0 the scene of last month's blast how much panic has this caused amongst people in beirut along with you and people that you might know. i mean of course sr get a lot of p.t.s.d. among the population and that will not specially in the surrounding areas or in the roots and that. it's still the press will and so obviously the scene. believe from death is not very comforting so it is it's not in debt and the day
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where a lot of people have very little that. but thankfully it's not as devastating and i've been reading a lot of tweets people seem to be grappling with the issue of whether they said close the windows because of the fumes and the ashes from that fire or to open them in case there is another explosion which is very reminiscent of course of what happened on august the 4th absolutely just something that the 1st initial reaction of people was what we open the windows or at least. i mean like i said this is a very fresh wound so this is something that. people are trying to grapple with like you said but. again this is clearly not a very healthy situation this early tire we're talking but as dire as possible all over the bridge is that's now. in the air of beirut it's
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a scary image so i would guess that yes closing the window right now with the stage bets and we're still not clear of course on how exactly it started but the president missed out on has called for a security meeting at 7 pm local time over in beirut but so far no official has come out and spoke and no one from the caretaker government nor the prime minister designate it's what can the government say right now that will calm people's fears can they say anything. well we have to be realistic here. this same mismanagement and negligence that's been around for decades still and there was no miracle over the last 5 weeks that cured everything that fix everything 11 so yes we've had governments resign and you know prime minister designate that but they haven't done anything yet and the real change or any
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movement the word it's more responsible the thing governance 11 on will take some time it's not just having a fight be what we've got right now is a situation. a continuation basically of negligence by what happened before. except that there is no. 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate sitting around just waiting the lot of the city so these warehouses where these things have been stored are the same warehouses that's been there the same mission that had no sprinklers fires or fire alarms and and actually the strike not the. way by the explosion of bieksa got so at this iteration right now it was definitely not not safer than it was except for the lack of the highly explosive material how angry. do you expect people to whom.
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i think. people are just tired and exhausted and the not of anger got them anywhere at the end of that the only path to change is through a political process. and the people are not or they have not shown deadly teeth to create a political and turn into that it will create chains quickly this process unfortunately is slow developing and. might take some time. thank you very much for joining us from beirut thank you. still had on the al-jazeera news hour so force by police officers in argentina were off the job and on the streets of. syria william stays on course to win a record equalling grand slam title and he will be here with the details on that later in sports.
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turkey has hit back at france's call for a tougher stance towards ankara amid growing tensions in the mediterranean ahead of a summit of southern leaders french president emmanuel mccall said turkey was no longer a partner to europe in the region ankara has been seeking to expand its energy resources in areas claimed by greece and cyprus and turkey's foreign minister said my remarks were arrogant and it was not up to him to decide maritime borders. joining us from paris so what has the french president been saying ahead of that summit. well the french president has just been meeting actually with the greek prime minister on the french mediterranean island of corsica this is ahead of this summit which will be starting shortly of 7 leaders
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of mediterranean countries including spain and italy in macross call this summit to talk about a variety of issues including migration and libya but of course the focus very much on those rising tensions in the eastern mediterranean as turkey continues with its efforts and plans to explore for oil and gas in those disputed waters claimed by greece and cyprus now manno micros made it very clear that france stands with greece a fellow e.u. member he has said that anchor is violating greece's soften c. by exploring in those waters a matter michael's also said just before this summit that turkey as a nato member isn't upholding the values of nato and certainly should be acting in this way towards other nato members including greece so very strong words indeed by a matter of our own who is calling on the european union to unite and take action against. them move beyond we europeans must be clear
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and firm with turkey not as a nation as a people but with the government of president order one which is behaving in an unacceptable way. we want to avoid an escalation but avoiding a schoolish and does not have to mean passiveness or acceptance and what are we to read into this tough talk from presidents micro aimed at turkey natasha. well over the last few months for the french president has pretty much been engaged in a war of words with the turkish leader him out o. my call believes that many of turkey's actions are basically pose a threat to the european union that they are aggressive to the european union as some of turkey's actions are incompatible with the values of nato and turkey's exploration for oil and gas in the eastern mediterranean in these disputed waters
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is for macra just the latest in many of these kind of examples in which macro believes that turkey is acting in a manner in which it should now watch tomorrow michael wants is for the european union to unite you just heard him there and take action against turkey and what france has been pushing for is for the european union to perhaps talk about imposing future sanctions more sanctions on turkey at least it's clear that frogs' might want germany to at least come up with more efforts in order to try and mediate in this crisis all right natasha butler thank you for that reporting from paris. waterborne diseases are the latest threat to the people of sudan hundreds of thousands have been displaced as the knowledge river reached unprecedented levels the flood waters are starting to recede but a growing number of people are getting sick they were morgan reports in the capital khartoum barely able to stand 13 year old mohammed seeks treatment at this health
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center in the south of the capital hard to medics see he's suffering from heart here a parasitic infection usually caused by lack of access to clean drinking water his mother tries to comfort him through his speech but she herself is barely able to hide her discomfort. raffish and other we've been living on the streets for more than a week the home is completely flooded and we didn't receive tents this father is also sick he's mentally unstable and i can give him his medication if he had a tent i'd be able to take care of him there the clinic treating mohammad was set up nearly 2 weeks ago to help patients affected by recent flooding in many villages and towns in khartoum many have fever diarrhea and stomach infections thinking that they will last longer i can read my daughter has been suffering from diarrhea for the past 3 days i myself am also sick and it feels like i'm coming down with an infection my voice is now weak it's all from the floods and living in the camp.
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floods hit sudan after the nile river which flows through the country rose to levels not seen in more than a century the surge in water was caused by heavy rains on the if european high lands upstream more than 100 people were killed and dozens injured and at least half a 1000000 people were displaced as homes were damaged or destroyed by the waters the government declared a 3 month state of emergency last week and while the rivers water has started to receive this week the number of those falling ill is increasing. so that was facing a health crisis even before the flood emergency pharmacies have been reporting shortages of medicines and many hospitals like adequate equipment since the floods began 3 weeks ago the number of cases of water borne diseases in areas affected have increased many families say they're struggling to cope with illnesses after having lost so much already. aid organizations say the health consequences of the floods will be much worse in the coming days and that action needs to be taken now
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and. the biggest protest is the water it was a disaster when it flooded and will be a disaster when it recedes if not dealt with properly and if there are no strategies to fight contagious diseases will have a bigger catastrophe than what we see it will be stagnant your says which will result in more malaria cases diarrhea cases in. sudan was already struggling to handle the coronavirus pandemic when the floods hit those in areas affected they're hoping proper measures will be taken to it used to health risks now that the floodwaters are receding so that no more lives are lost people more going on just their own heart. record fires are raging along the west coast of north america from mexico to canada at least 7 people including a one year old baby have been killed in the u.s. several states are now battling flames have consumed entire communities and blanketed cities term san francisco to seattle in smoke reports. from
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montana to the mexico border huge swaths of the western u.s. are burning hundreds of thousands of square kilometers have burned in california colorado arizona montana oregon utah and washington what we're experiencing this year is simply without precedent the small town of malden in eastern washington was almost completely incinerated by a wind driven wildfire authorities are searching the rubble unsure whether all of the town's approximately $300.00 residents made it out alive in medford oregon a fire swept through a mobile home community reducing it to a burned out hell scape of twisted metal resident regina hill lost everything she owned. what you're wearing right now this. powerful winds are spreading the oregon fires the governor invoked emergency powers to
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marshal more resources in california high winds are also fanning the flames 14000 firefighters are out on the front lines in california where 28 major fires have scorched over 100000 hectors tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from several of the largest fires in the state's history a big fire in san diego county is moving dangerously close to populated areas we have a sleeping giant that is in the back country california national guard helicopters flew hundreds of stranded campers and back country residents to safety. relatives welcomed the rescued after an anxious night long wait. for it but no crying but there will be tears the smoke and ash in the atmosphere cast a blow over san francisco in an eerie orange light air quality in parts of the bay
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area was labeled hazardous what's behind the many conflagrations bone dry brush and trees following years of intermittent drought low humidity combined with a broiling heat wave in recent days and above all high seasonal winds blowing down from the mountains provide a singular recipe for disaster rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles mark how dan is the director of the climate change institute at the australian national university he says the increasing destruction of these fires balls down to politicians not making climate change a top priority. we also need to change the rules which govern evacuation which govern how people build the building standards and with ideals we also have learned that we really need to educate people so that they don't start fires in the 1st puts because apart from lightening human accidents and schuman activity is the
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thing that most fuels as far will in places like the west us the australia far the just a normal part of the system and we've got digitization which is adapted to the odds and the question here though isn't where the fast occurred before but what we're seeing a trend towards more intense fire as far as a much much greater area than ever experienced before along the fire season and the fire danger generally increasing quite considerably and and so those are things which are all linked to climate change so as the temperature goes up and their systems can get drafted more frequently because of those high temperatures we're seeing increased fire risk so the answer there is really one things we have to do is reduce climate change which means reducing greenhouse gas emissions the world wildlife fund is warning of the devastating effect people are having on animal and plant life and how nature is being destroyed at an extraordinary rates this year as
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the global living planet index says the wildlife population has declined by 68 percent in the last 50 years latin america and the caribbean are the hardest hit with a 94 percent wipeouts freshwater species seem particularly vulnerable with an 84 percent decline globally and climate change and human activity are blamed the w w f is urging us all to make immediate drastic changes to reverse the trends rebecca shaw is the chief scientist at the world wildlife fund she explains more about the factors causing the destruction. the biggest drivers right now are habitat destruction and primarily for expansion of agricultural lands to feed a growing population on the planet we also see indicators that climate change is shifting populations of species and driving some species extinct and we'll see that
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play a bigger role in the future. the kinds of things we're seeing happening on the planet that seem callous but cataclysmic many of them have their roots in the destruction of nature what we're seeing with these dramatic fire fires in california and australia even covered 19 and its release from the wild has everything to do with the with the way we're destroying nature listen we depend on nature for clean air clean water a stable climate and things we don't think about every day like pollination of our for most nutritious food crops so we really need to pay attention to this and we really we have we know what to do and because of it more people are paying attention we are so we're at a turning point and it's really time to take action the next generations that are coming into leadership positions see this very clearly and are asking for change and i think we owe it to them to leave them
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a much brighter future than they have in front of them in a business as usual scenario. coming up on the news hour on al-jazeera we'll take you to chile that's where historic talks between indigenous leaders and the government how to resolve an increasingly violent conflict and struggling for schooling in the philippines children from vulnerable communities suffer as distance learning years put in place in sport we'll hear from the japanese footballers striking a big blow for gender equality details after the break. hello there plenty more hot and dry weather throughout much of the middle east now calls to much of the been very high through the eastern end of the mediterranean or calls into syria time which is still very high but not to extremes that they were so on
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friday we'll see a high of 33 in jerusalem 31 in beirut more of a plenty of cloud developing through much of central west as a saudi but again those temperatures very high baghdad. 47 degrees celsius and doha back up to 40 degrees now through saturday this very little change the winds beginning to pick up a little bit more through where the interior of iraq should help to alleviate some of the heat meanwhile 37 in doha say feeling quite humid with the light winds there then down into africa central regions by dish as pension funds storms and i've also seen a fair few showers along coastal areas for the last few days and you'll notice that rain is back in the forecast we along the southern coast of south africa the winds a fairly strong as well and we'll see quite an increase in the temperature meanwhile he was developing sunday through south of the through much of tanzania and up towards kenya and somalia but also those temperatures the weather in capetown it'll cool off again by monday quite
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a cloudy day on saturday and then you'll see again quite a drop in the temperature in forces about. frank assessments what are you seeing in yemen. like it didn't suit this it's an informed opinion which is ethiopia on the verge of breakdown many pots or the only a region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate after the use of proxy because look the recent big interest of the libyan people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera 967 and the 6 day war was at its height a u.s. spy ship the u.s.s. liberty monitored the conflict from international waters suddenly she was attacked by the warplanes of america's closest regional manager israel over 200 were killed and wounded the front part of the ship was just red with blood what happened that
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day has long been the subject of cover up and mystery mount the truth can be revealed the day israel attacked america a major investigation on al-jazeera. the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour thousands of refugees are still without shelter after fires burned for a 2nd night on the greek island of lesbos much of the morning a campout already been destroyed by blazes late on tuesday emergency efforts are underway to find places for the refugees to stay. a major fire has broken out in beirut at the site of floss once deadly port explosion firefighters are battling
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the blaze right now at a destroyed were. interest or an oil and tires lebanese authorities say the fire was not deliberate it's. the french president emanuel michael has called for a tougher stance towards turkey as it seeks to clean energy resources in the mediterranean turkey's foreign minister called those remarks nationalistic. in colombia 7 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a night of protest against the death of a man tasered by police riot police fought with demonstrators setting police stations on fire in the capital bogota. were incensed by seeing video of or done is being repeatedly shot with a stun gun police said he'd broken coronavirus restrictions the 46 year old died later in hospital. joining us from just outside a police station that was burned during the demonstrations joining us from the capital bogota to talk us through what's happened so far.
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well. posed a candlelight vigil for. this man killed by the police after being. turned into. rage like this city has seen in years in different parts across this city people at the neighborhood police stations like the one that you see behind me a 3rd of these police stations have been burned to the ground or. these riots continued through. the night this protest of her with rocks at the police the police responded with tear gas in a cording to a number of social media videos that we've seen also with some. some policemen covered cation in people with poor. as you 2 asian
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though really went out of control during the night here and across the metropolitan area and tells you truly just how frustrated people are towards the police and a number of cases of police abuse that have happened in the past months during that pandemic and and before that it also shows that there is a lot of frustration pent up frustration among many colombians for a number of reasons the question now is if this will reignite the kind of protests that the colombians were holding at the end of last year on the issue of the police. are saying there have been calls for police reform in this time from a number of politicians this isn't the 1st time colombians have raised their concerns about police.
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absolutely there was a famous case in the protests that happened at the end of last year when a policeman shot to and killed one of the young protesters that was unarmed seemingly wasn't. doing anything against the police wasn't hurting rocks or or anything that was a famous case but during the day i mean there were also a number of other instances in which the police use the excessive force on people that were not respect the rules that were imposed to fight the coronavirus and this truly goes through the fact that many years but they issue is that the presidents of the minister of defense so far in their response are talking about. being cases of bad apples that is not a structural problem instead the mayor of what i was a center left the police station came out this morning she said that the destroying
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this city will not reform the police has not set the ball at all but of course she said she understands the frustration she understands the lack of legitimacy and confidence that many people have towards the police for the way it has been operating especially in the last few years so the question is if this will indeed spark a new serious approaches just as the city gets out of. the worst of the coronavirus restrictions and also if indeed that there will be this will be the time to bring forward the reform and number of congressmen have already announced that they will indeed present a reform bill in the coming days because they're saying that this situation can continue growing as it has being going and they're calling on print the president
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of colombia to reckon the eyes what is the situation with. this institution and this country to recognize the frustration that people have not only towards the police but towards the fact that there has been hundreds of killings of human rights leaders social leaders there in the country and it cannot make my lais and that people need a response ok on asunder impunity with an update from bogota thank you the u.s. president donald trump told journalist bob woodward's he felt no responsibility to better understand the anger of many black americans that admission was made in a series of interviews for woodward's new book and trump also admitted he downplayed the severity of the coronavirus let's go to our white house correspondent kimberly how did so what's been the fallout from these revelations. well the follow up for the white house is that they continue to try and push back on the allegations that this president held back what could potentially be life
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saving information and other words if he had told the american public sooner about the deadly nature of covert 19 but lives may have been saved the latest person to try and deflect some of that criticism is vice president mike pence he has been speaking on national television once again saying that the goal of the president and the right tone was struck from this white house he believes that in that they were trying to project calm and confidence will at the same time deploying the ability to ramp up production of face masks and ventilators so the white house is trying very hard to push back on these criticisms pointing out that the top infectious disease specialist anthony found she has said there was no distortion by the white house but what has been acknowledged by the vice president is they were not fully aware of the top administration was not fully aware that the president was granting bob woodward the journalist who made these 18 different recordings of
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the president that there was such an unvarnished access being given a name it sounds as if the white house is feeling a bit of regret that there wasn't more sort of careful monitoring of the president because clearly some of the details leaking out are a problem for this white house but the other thing that's coming out in all of this is some blowback against the journalist himself bob woodward that if he knew that there was information that could save lives why did he wait so long to give it to the american public choosing to sell books instead of perhaps trying to give the information to the public when it could have helped if i can really you answered my 2nd question so let me ask you this instead then some other interesting bits from those spoke that aren't getting the same sort of headlines as the coronavirus issue is this the president's also downplayed the block lives not or protests tell us more about. yeah yeah there are a couple of things that are getting the major headline that are still really
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important of note you hit the nail on the head as we've had these social unrest protests in the case of portland it's still going on more than 100 days in some cases violent the president was asked very directly by bob woodward the journalist you know because of your privileged upbringing do you know can you understand what people of color in the united states may be experiencing why there is anger why there is a feeling of systemic racism and just in just injustice not justice what the u.s. president said it is and apparently this is in kind of an incredulous and mocking tone is that he feels he has no responsibility to even try to understand that yeah because of his privilege upbringing this is just something that he's not going to be able to understand and then he also said that he doesn't believe that the systemic racism in the united states is as bad as it is in other parts of the country so there is that not get there one quick other nugget is that the u.s.
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president talked about a secret secret nuclear weapon that he had been developing no one seems to know what he was talking about but it seems to be a submarine launch ballistic missile that was deployed earlier this year so all of this is a problem for the president because it's been reported likely to show up in campaign ads of his opponent joe biden who we should remind voters is leading in the polls here in the united states again we're less than 8 weeks until the u.s. election all right kimberly thank you very much for that update more than a 1000 chinese students studying in the united states have had their visas revoked during the last 3 months federal agents have tracked down students suspected of stealing american intellectual property and concealing their ties to china's armed forces donald trump ordered the crackdown in may as tensions escalated with china's government it accuses the us president of racism. in the wake of astra zeneca
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decision to suspend human trials of a potential vaccine after a patient became ill the head of the world health organization said bilateral vaccine deals could compromise equitable access and hold up progress for all countries. rated the need for all countries to work together to help stem the coronavirus pandemic the border united global effort is even stronger than when the. was launched between now and the end of the year we have a limited window of opportunity to scale. and fully you know build the. dream world. currently the abduction is supporting research into brown missing vaccines ibut diggs and magnus diggs but we need. our clinical trials modified joining licensing and regulation so that these products can get
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to people and started saving lives their economic crisis and recession hit argentina means many are struggling to make ends meet including police officers hundreds protested in the capital to demand higher salaries better working conditions and improved protections uncovered 19 terrorism has their story from one of. these police officers belong to the largest force in argentina. they have been protesting for days demanding better salaries and work conditions and one peter has been an officer for 16 years she says her family can barely survive because of. that i mean i make 43000 pesos a month this is a wage that leaves my family below the poverty line before the pandemic we were able to make some extras but now we don't have any extra money and it's tough to sustain my family base officer who did not want his name mentioned says he needs to
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pay for his own equipment. this gives us some money for our clothes but the price is 4 times what they give us we have expired bullet proof jackets everything is wrong. so this week for the 1st time police officers are taking to the streets there demanding a 56 percent salary increase. only 19 having praised the pressure on the men temp lawyers like doctors the police and others who say they are working nonstop and cannot make ends meet i didn't tina has one of the highest inflation rates in the world even the economic crisis and that's why this people here say they need to wait government officials. but some of those involved in the protest are under investigation for crimes committed during service and could be suspended and that's why they were trying to create chaos. as group of officers showed up outside the presidential residence many perceived their presence there as
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a threat to argentina's institutions. precedent for them and they said this is not the time to put security at risk and then now as he was redistributing national resources to assist the province of when i. look at. what i'm thinking is how many citizens are now left without security or how many are left at the mercy of those who commit crimes this is not the way i tell you honestly i hope you reflect and stop this and i'm sensitive to the demands of these officers because it is clear that they have been left behind in regards to their salaries and we must give them an answer. but the protesters say they just need better wages and a time when hardship has become the norm thagard and when a sighting. schools in the philippines are struggling to provide children with education coronavirus pandemic and those from poor backgrounds are being
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disproportionately affected as the reports from the. 14 year old marketeer is loves art specially troy happy faces but the last few months were spent not inside the classroom but in the fields of bangor province in the central philippines. he's farming every day just so he can save $150.00 to buy a cell phone he needs for the newly implemented rule of distance learning but no money. and they are the indigenous tribe is considered one of the earliest inhabitants in the philippines but for decades their population has dwindled. and now live in scattered mountainous parts of the luzon region on the walk is a village of about 900 people and just like most indigenous communities across the country they have suffered dispossession and this placement for decades but the
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coronavirus pandemic adds another layer of difficulty for the ita families here the philippine government has implemented a distance learning program for all schools to help stop the spread of coronavirus education officials say it is unlikely that schools will reopen until a vaccine is available which means filipino children will have to study from home with electricity a laptop and internet connection that's a major problem in a country where more than half of all families live below the poverty line and where millions of already lost their jobs because of the month long point to lock down. it's an even bigger dilemma for indigenous tribes like the ideas long suffering from discrimination and abject poverty many live without electricity or running water to have a laptop and a working internet connection every day a tome is almost unimaginable for them in a healing potion and i mean you see it in the eunice people are far from the cities
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they don't have grown the way it was here so why should this just learning be entirely implemented here to history books here tell us that the ideas or the country scary or the culture and identity but for the parents here they say all they care about is the legacy of education they want to leave behind for their children. duggan al-jazeera manila. is if ingold is the chief of education at unicef in the philippines he says more help is urgently needed. this school closure has been afflicted 28000000 children in their feelings and the department of the nation has be paralleling continue with the plan that includes different more than 2 to reach the children in different areas of the country so there is a part on an online learning or so there is t.v. a location relocation and also distribution of bringing materials serious. concerns
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. gaps that can increase because right now that schools already started with the new school year and public school will wait until the official start which is october fact so you nice a piece of ok good will to start this as will not force you all i'm not the least bit farther or soft we we are also advocating for face to face nearly a lot risk areas the myriad cases so we think that that response who also with the safety and killed that that's a possibility that the department of children and see if. this coming up on the news hour. that helped produce a world record. story in just a moment it's. for
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the 1st time in chile for more than 100 years talks are being held between the indigenous leaders and government representatives our latin america editor on the sea of newman was given exclusive access to the meeting into moco aimed at resolving an increasingly violent conflicts. we're at the beginning of what's being described as the very 1st meeting between members of the council on which are. and these are the most the highest ranking members or some of them up which a community here and the story hours of the state that is executive branch of the
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just litter and the courts the supreme court the venue was changed at the 11th hour and is taking place in a stadium in the capital region in a location that was supposed to be secret but it was leaked and a rival group of have now arrived and are protesting against the meeting riot police are here to try to push them away but they're not succeeding these people say the meeting inside does not represent the majority of the nation there is a deep division between those who are meeting or believe it's time to start talking with the state and these people who choose them of being imposters in fact they refused to sit down with the government unless it releases when they could put a political prisoners many of whom have been on a hunger strike this meeting is taking place as militant groups escalate arson attacks against forestry companies and private homes and would be
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a claim as their ancestral land in fact on the eve of this gathering a 21 year old man was shot dead by the same group that had earlier burned down 3 houses presidents of us gambling it is represented in the ministry of social development. represented after the other accuse the state of abusing usurping land and discriminating the nation for centuries and while those who are meeting here are hoping to lay the groundwork for the 1st formal dialogue between them approach a nation and the chilean state $1825.00 the government is also committing itself to substantially increasing the presence of militarized police in this region which is home to the longest running. mind in latin america. let's get an update on the sports news with andy thanks so much daryn more running and be a champion states interrupters have managed to stay alive in the playoffs they beat the boston celtics in overtime to send the eastern conference semifinals who are
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deciding game sevens helmick reports the raptors had every reason to look nervous before tipoff in game 6 only a win would keep their title defense alive we've got some good and despite looking up for the fight beating 17 time champions boston was going to be anything but easy they needed a big performance from this dominant kyle lowry that you just 6 time all star badly game high 33 points toronto however couldn't pull away from boston due to the guy who kept coming up with big plays. they pushed the raptors hard and even managed to deny them the win in regulation 2 periods of overtime when needed to separate the sides. to run to eventually proving to be the better team on the night in the snow . but only just the champions hanging on to win 81252122 force the deciding game 7 play hard we got there
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in every possession like as our last. the l.a. clippers had a far more comfortable win over denver in the western conference semifinals was in a nice recall why leonard starred with 30 points finishing just one assist short of a triple double. time sucking his efforts leading the clippers 289685 win for a 31 series lead. it meant. more. in a better union the clippers are now just one win away from their 1st ever conference finals so hell malik al-jazeera. the n.f.l. will become the final major league in north america to kick off since the card with 19 outbreak super bowl champions the kansas city chiefs will host the houston texans now all other sports of hell games out spectators the n.f.l.
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is letting individual same's make their own decisions on that the chiefs are allowing $16000.00 people in that's around 20 percent of their usual capacity. it's a big step for us obviously good to play in front of you know our for you know the most as we're going to be. i think ultimately man it is the same game we've been playing for a very long term you know as football is all about team is all about do with your teammates. and that's what i'm looking forward to ice arena williams is through to the u.s. open semifinal she had to work hard in new york after losing the 1st set against france on appearing cover from bulgaria who's playing in her 1st one of the 3 years coming through to remain next to serena who's aiming for a record equalling 24th grand slam title praising her opponents see why kerry is making a comeback after becoming a mom. she's incredible and so i think most influenced by my god my god how do you do it i guess she's going to be we have to be younger than my. peers i do you play
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imagine you go home and you still changing diapers you know it's it's like a double life it's really surreal. williams will face victoria azarenka in the last for the former world number one had a much easier time in her much against at least merton's of belgium thrashing opponents in straight sets the valorization so she's looking forward to that game against us. i mean you can so i'm so excited about this it's so it's an amazing opportunity to play against a champion and the someone who i respect a large who is my friend so i'm just so excited for this opportunity i hope people are excited for this for this for this match so i hope i'll be fine i mean i know will be fun for me. now japan's world cup winning footballer you can i guess is to become the 1st female professional to play for a men's team in japan 33 year old assigned alone deal with an amateur club that plays about 5 teams below the elite je i guess also normally plays for the chicago
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red stars women's team and will return to the u.s. for the start of their new season next year. so in a lot of work up with it. it was very inspiring to hear the messages about gender inequality that meghan rypien i was trying to deliver during the world cup so i've been thinking about how i can do the same slow different but i want to get the message out to the girls who are playing football that women can join a men's team and challenge themselves brazilian. air has broken our own world record gavia it's a converse 22 minutes away even portugal earlier on this year now it's been confirmed following me that this is the biggest wave ever ridden by a woman gabby ever broke her leg and almost drowned attempting something similar at the same spot back in 2030. ok more sport for me throughout the day but as it finales are ok we'll see you later and we thank you very much and thanks for watching the news hour al jazeera back in just a moment with want to see in
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a minute by. this underwater treasure is a risk of disappearing juice a coral bleaching caused by rising temperatures. great. eric egypt's. tourism industry base. instantly if we have another. continue just when the opportunity for the corals to recover but. scientists of calling for
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strong climate policy from the government to reduce emissions without this the situation on the get worse. global community we are having this conversation elbow. crisis response that looks like be part of the debate you can jump into the conversation when no topic is off the table here not afraid of anyone taking power we just can't. use these 3 children richer and the poor getting poorer it's not kill the story the system it's just to look at the system and. this street on out is there. in response to global warming germany is gradually shutting down its coal industry but is it happening fast enough we don't have any time to waste anymore we can't wait so we're taking direct action to call for the immediate phase out of culture as climate change activists challenge communities reliant on the industry
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for jobs people in power who will win the cold war on al-jazeera. on the move again in search of a home the scramble on a greek island to find help for thousands of refugees after a fire destroys europe's biggest camp. watch al-jazeera by from a headquarters and navigator also ahead a new fire at beirut's port spreads toxic smoke and new fear across lebanon's capital a month after a huge explosion. the floodwaters begin to recede in sudan but there's no relief for the people affected waterborne the.

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