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programming the world is watching. investigating the. desperate for shelter hundreds of refugees begin to move into a new tent city as the debate goes on about their future on a greek island. result is there a lie from. also ahead winds pick up in the fire spread in california but the u.s. president donald trump insists the scientists blaming climate change have got it wrong. facing trial for marking a massacre some of hong kong's most prominent democracy activist appear in court over a chinaman square memorial. and neighborhoods flooded with sewage the dire conditions
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in senegal's coppertone after 3 months of rainfall in just 24 hours. hello more refugees on the greek island of less posts are agreeing to relocate into tents accommodation hundreds have already been transferred after their camp was destroyed last week by a huge fire but many staged protests asking to be moved to the greek mainland authorities are planning to move 12000 people in the next 3 to 4 days stephanie decker's live at the nou camp where as we're saying more and more refugees are now willing to move to this makeshift camp stephanie. gets the most movement certainly that we've seen so far at the moment it's kind of quiet behind. but we have seen families men and women come to this place are coming
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willingly at the moment i think the reason for this change is that yesterday the greek authorities gave out papers and in various different languages speaking to the refugees telling them that this was the only safe place for them to go it was the only area where they could provide them with shelter with water with food with medicare and also importantly to process their paperwork so now you can see there's trucks coming in and out they are still working on expanding this camp we're talking about around 12000 people out of shot there is refugees you can see the mining opera round a time there that will see being tested for corona virus of course it is a major concern here that it has spread among the refugees the latest number we have is 21 people tested positive of the around 800 that have entered the camp so far so this is the situation today certainly there seems to be this light change a lot of people still reluctant to come here over because they think that once they're in there they're going to be locked up won't be able to move but certainly
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the message from the greek authorities at the moment is that your only chance to get off the island through paperwork and through due process is by actually coming here and how do local residents of lesbos feel about what's going on on the island . how many of them feel that once the county burned down they've been hosting this refugee population for years now they are kind of seeing it as an opportunity to make sure that they leave for good what they say is that this is affected their economy it's affect tourism and they say that one villager we spoke to yesterday said this is a tale of 2 tragedies yes you have this tragedy but you also have our tragedy and it's one that isn't recognized by anyone because of the burden that this population has had on the greek islands it's not just lesbos juried but certainly it is no we don't have any more people arriving it's very difficult you have the 2 populations they're trying to live together the refugees also don't want to stay here we had a meeting yesterday of. authorities on the island on whether to stage
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a general strike to put pressure on athens to get one of them off the island that hasn't come up with anything yet actually there you do have some people one lady coming in now bringing her mattresses and also just briefly we have seen a team of the norwegian medics just arrived they have doctors nurses midwives and also we're told they were based in bad couple in italy so they're quite well trained when it comes to dealing with the coronavirus so they've just arrived in the last hour or so will be setting up a medical facility here for the next 2 weeks that he's medicine of course medical care something very crucially needed here all right stephanie tucker thank you for that update from west coast in greece well at least 24 migrants are presumed to have drowned after their boat capsized in the mediterranean the u.n. migration agency says libya's coast guard intercepted 3 boats altogether on monday to recover 2 bodies on the total of $45.00 survivors a majority of the migrants are from egypt morocco. here as president donald trump
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has been branded a climate arsonist as wildfires burning across the west coast become a hot political issue he visited california for briefings on the growing disaster insisting scientists are wrong and that it will get cooler as democratic rival joe biden they choose trump a failing to acknowledge global warming's effects on the wildfires which have killed at least $35.00 people and destroyed thousands of homes hard as are cast reports. exhausted firefighters are doing what little they can to battle the monster inferno consuming towns and homes and lives. monday's drier conditions and gusty winds meant no respite as nearly 100 fires continue to burn across 12 states give these otherworldly scenes are new california has now experiencing several summers of severe wildfires realizing predictions of
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a climate report released by the white house in 2018 but president trump who flew to california for fire briefings continues to deny manmade climate change exists it will start getting cooler i will just you just watch i wish science and everybody else but. i don't think science knows actually trump has repeatedly blamed the wildfires on democrats accusing them of mismanaging forest lands in western states as the election nears he's dug into the pro fossil fuel policies of his administration former vice president joe biden who seeking to replace trump in the white house challenge his record in a speech from delaware we have 4 more years of trump's climate denial how many suburbs will be burned in wildfires how many suburban neighborhoods will have been flooded out how many suburbs will have been blown away in super storms. if you give
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a climbing arsonist more years in the white house why would anyone be surprised we have an america blaze. but for the americans suffering fires in the west and new hurricane threats in the southeast the candidate's campaign promises offer little consolation as destruction becomes the new normal hijo castro al-jazeera more than 20 pro-democracy activists are appearing in a hong kong court on charges over a vigil marking the 1989 men square massacre among them are media tycoon jimmy la and joshua long police say they took part in an authorised vigil on june the 4th the annual event was banned for the 1st time in 30 years. thousands of people who lost everything in sudan's worst ever floods are calling for more help aid started to arrive over the last few days but those affected say
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it hasn't been enough at least 100 people were killed and thousands of homes are submerged the river has risen to record levels but as the water recedes there is now a threat of water borne diseases and senegal is one of several west african countries that's been battered by heavy rain the government is now facing criticism for failing to warn people to prepare for the floods large parts of the capital are submerged and thousands have been displaced from their car here's nicholas hock. displaced and finding the elements the rains took away their homes now it's taking away their shelter inside. just what she can. just. that's all i have left the rains we had to leave our house behind the devastation we have lost what feels like and for things. 3 months worth of rainfall in a matter of 24 hours and
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a car journey jones neighborhood into an island sinking in overflowing sewage with roads turned to rivers the area has become almost inaccessible most have left their homes stranded are few families like the braving disease infested waters to save their belongings from looters. not. we can't afford to pay rent anywhere else which you expect to go we have no choice but to adapt to the situation as early as february governments in west africa were warned by the un that this year's rainy season would bring floods people were not alerted of the storms al-jazeera has reached out to the senegalese government and is awaiting their comment meanwhile the government announced it will release emergency funds to assist those displaced . 12 the government allocated more than $1000000000.00 to tackle the problem of floods but people here are wondering what have they done with that money. for these
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tents for those that have been displaced but with intensifying rains people here fear that these are temporary solution to a long term problem. well as the mayor of como sun in senegal says climate change is responsible for the destruction angry residents blame the state for its lack of planning. the su feels like a big dream the states must come and build a sewage system so that they can be an end to the floods with months to go before the end of the rainy season has no intention of returning home fearing what is to come. because hawke al-jazeera the car. looks take you back to hong kong where we were reporting that several prominent activist have appeared in court today difficult pollin is joining us from the outside court room so what are we expecting to happen. for a jury in so the proceedings have finished what sits
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a pretrial hearing where each defendant has read out the charges against them and us each one was read out each one was os whether they understand the charges and most of them commented saying yes i understand that morning the june 4th crackdown it's not a crime now among the group is lee turkey and he's one of the founders of that candlelight vigil that takes place every year in hong kong he's also known for healthy dissidents from that crackdown in beijing and he said it is important to keep the memory of that alive since hong kong is the only place on chinese soil where that tenement crackdown is mentioned or even spoken about so before going to court he gave a speech and he was defiant. we insist that point then the family every year will become the light if not ok when he says they will have their country where they say it's also against him or not and pick on them great
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those who sacrifice no matter you're going to let the law now impose on people we will see of all during the year. vigil. i was there to go paula reporting from hong kong well coming up right after the break on al-jazeera the man portrayed in a hollywood film hotel rwanda appears in court on terror targets plus. all the rage find out why president donald trump is a popular subject for books across america. hello them all rather heavy rain in the full cost across much of the philippines you can see plenty of clouds in the region in the last few hours and it's tied to this area of low pressure now this could develop into a tropical storm in the next couple days so watching that very closely but it will
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continue to really feed all this moisture across much of the philippines certainly the central and northern areas but what it does do of course is keep that rain further to the also a fairly dry day wednesday born here down across into java and then as we go through thursday the south china sea is then the home for this area of low pressure again picking up much more moisture so a system will continue to watch very closely that we had down tools australia has been quite a bit it can work its way across the great biped is staying fine and dry across the southeast in fact through wednesday damages firing pretty well 25 in sydney 24 across into adelaide want to choose showers working their way up the queensland coast and then this rain is on its way across the great by say it'll stay fine in perth the next couple days but the rain is really pushing in on thursday so it'll bring cloud as well and certainly bringing these temperatures down but this rain on the snow is on its way across both islands of new zealand but this is south island that really will pick up the brunt of this there are plenty of warnings in place heather a low on the coast strong winds and heavy mountain snow. 'd
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other week on the top stories on al-jazeera more refugees on the greek island of lesbos are agreeing to relocate into a tent accommodation hundreds have already been transferred after their camp was destroyed last week by a huge fire many had staged protests asking to be moved to the greek mainland. u.s. president donald trump has visited california which has been hit by record wildfires he denied a link to climate change insisting scientists are wrong and it will get cooler rival joe biden called him a climate arsonist more than 20 pro-democracy activists are appearing in a hong kong court on charges over a vigil marking the 1989 town and square massacre among them are media tycoon jimmy i and joshua was. the signing ceremony of the much touted peace agreement between israel and the u.a.e. will take place at the white house on tuesday the deal seeks to create new
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diplomatic and economic links between the countries but as mike hanna reports this is a very different agreement from those reached between israel and its neighbors in the past. this is just the beginning a lot of things are happening and they happening very quickly people want to be involved in the announcement of the agreement came from president trump in the white house surrounded by members of his administration including his adviser and son in law jared who played a major role in negotiating the agreement within days krishna was among those who boarded the purse flight by israel's national airline between to libby and the capital of the united arab emirates while this is a historic flight we hope that this will start even more historic journey for the middle east and beyond much of the media reacted with hyperbole this is very valuable this is when this could be seen as a major foreign policy win for the president definitely it is it does seem to be
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clear that it's going to be something the president wants to use as part of his reelection but amidst all the hype some observers point out that the u.a.e. is not a neighbor to israel and has never been at war with that their own merits on his marital relations were you know there was never going to between them. the signing of the israeli egyptian peace treaty following the camp david accords put an end to a state of war brokered by jimmy carter the deal between menachem begin and unwise to that was based on egypt recognizing the state of israel and israel withdrawing from the occupied sinai peninsula. in 1904 king hussein of jordan signed a peace treaty with israel which guaranteed jordan the restoration operates occupied land as well as an equitable share of water from the jordan river both treaties involve the return of the land occupied during war and both were intended
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as part of a broader initiative that would culminate in the creation of a palestinian state alongside that of israel. and ensure a lasting peace in the region the arab position had long been based on a saudi plan in 2002 endorsed again by the arab league in 2017 which offered recognition of israel if it would do from occupied land including east jerusalem but last week the arab league declined to pass a palestinian resolution condemning what the trumpet ministration calls the abraham plan to create a palestinian foreign minister labeling this as a betrayal of the palestinian people know how to learn a new documentary and we found ourselves in a position where we have to defend ourselves and our culture the situation turned upside down in a way where was it come to troublemakers and the ones to blame because we dared to stand in front of the earthquake as we stood against the u.s.
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administration when they took our right to renewed fanfare president trump announced on friday that bahrain would also be a signatory to the deal which confirmed the belief of many that far from seeking a middle east peace the abraham plan was forging an alliance against a common enemy of gulf states and israel iran the israeli occupation of palestinian territory is unaffected and threatened the building of illegal settlements continuing unabated. but in president tom's eyes the abraham plan is a foreign policy triumph that will be displayed in the weeks leading to the november election mike hanna. washington. the u.s. military says missiles have been fired at an iraqi base central command confirmed they were intercepted near the heavily fortified green zone in baghdad there are no reports of any casualties or damage. and is really subtler plans that appear has 3
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life sentences for murdering a palestinian couple and their baby i'm iran through a fire bomb into the family's home 5 years ago family members say the court's decision gives them no joy and critics say attacks by settlers have gone unpunished for years harry fawcett reports from that. more than 5 years of the fire bombing the house of the family as they slept. on video not in court because of coronavirus restrictions was handed his sentence the judges gave him 3 consecutive life terms one thing each of his victims. and the 18 month old son ali plus another 20 years the attempted murder of the sole survivor older brother ahmed who was badly burned particularly up on how to look at all cannot give us our right no matter what they do they cannot bring back a month's mother or father and brother they cannot bring back his house. still
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lives with his grandparents in duma the village in the occupied west bank where the attack happened over the years he's had extended treatment for his burns it was here on monday that he and his grandmother learned of the sentence. may god punish him i hope he rots in jail or suffer while he's alive as he's done as harmony and justice and i hope he's punished on judgement day. the court found that ben had conspired with another certainly youth than a minor to carry out a revenge attack after a jewish man was killed in a drive by shooting the prosecution said been illegal was alone by the time he got to do and set fire to 2 houses his legal team said he was tortured during enhanced interrogation sessions 2 of his confessions were ruled inadmissible as a result but later ones stood up in court one but only a was convicted in may the israeli security service the shin bet said it was a landmark in the fight against jewish terror but others point to the length of
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this process and also the fact that so many settler attacks go unpunished. israeli rights group ph d. in studied hundreds of attacks by israeli civilians on palestinians going back to 2005 and found charges were brought in only 9 percent of cases it's very clear that this is the exception. many. of those could him and others are moving freely in the west bank without any consequences and without the money it could him in a liberal see that again. this attack was certainly exceptional in its nature and in the told to be born by its only survivor. 10 years old now the legal process that's lasted half his life is at last over but that toll remains a force at al-jazeera israel. millions of students in pakistan are returning to class after being away for 6 months because of the coronavirus shut down.
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while primary schools will reopen at the end of september pakistan's infection rate has dropped to around $200.00 a day from a peak of $7000.00 a day. as more from the capital islamabad. it has been 6 months since. educational institution because of. the world health organization however it is now raising 40. 300. you know burchett you will. really be reopening across the country but they will be allowing great on word. on that. they will also encourage the others. from. the food the large. 50 pertain jordan's really have to come on or.
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in order to ensure. for lord. big we have masks we have. a exhaustive disinfection schedule and we've had to change a lot of how we do things a number of our students are not in school physically today they are still accessing on 911 and we have a number of families that have told us they would like to continue on line until december some of. this is a good step forward because tiffany's was stopped because of the lockdown even the university has not opened properly as we have to come here alternative but i think it is good for us the next few weeks. to see where their younger children will be allowed back on the camp. what happened yeah maybe i gave the word the prime minister and the government. and their.
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hope and expectation a normal life may be able to go to doom within the next few weeks. ivory coast's top court has cleared the president to run for a 3rd term even though the legal limit as said it to president alassane ouattara successfully argued that its $26.00 the an amendment to the constitution reset the number the court rejected 40 of the 44 candidates for next month's election including the former president laurent. and the man whose story inspired the film hotel rwanda has been charged with terrorism complicity in murder and forming an armed rebel group paul rusesabagina declined to respond to all 13 charges and denies any criminal wrongdoing he's been credited with saving more than a 1000 lives during the 1994 genocide malcolm live reports from nairobi. full
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recess and begin a period in handcuffs in a courtroom in rwanda's capital kigali amid tight security prosecutors say that he's responsible for terrorism and involvement in an armed group that carried out attacks inside rwanda he's facing about 12 charges relating to the alleged offenses he declined to plead to the charges he said he wants to face and separately but his family say he's been denied legal representation of his choice and he's just been given lawyers by the rwandan government not been allowed to his own legal representation during the 1994 genocide he was credited with saving the lives of more than a 1000 people protecting them inside an international hotel of which he was the manager at the time the story was made famous by a hollywood movie in 2004 hotel rwanda but since then he's lived in exile he's been
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critical of the government of president paul kagame me saying it represents the interests of only a small ethnic tutsi elite criticism isn't tolerated anymore and there are many government critics people who question the narrative of the genocide have ended up in prison or ended up dead the court hearing today didn't shed any further light on how it was 2 weeks ago that was as a beginner had ended up in kigali his family said he left his home in the u.s. and took a flight to dubai they say that he was kidnapped and taken to kigali one. the government has denied that he was kidnapped previously it is said if the rest came as part of an international cooperation but in the court today their account contradicted that and they said that he was arrested on his the arrival in kigali instead is next year in court in just a few days' time by the court or here and up location for pale. the latest book
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about donald trump's presidency hits bookstores across the u.s. on shares day in the book the veteran journalist bob woodward accuses the president of deliberately playing down the coronavirus pandemic alan fischer takes a look back at the controversial books published about trump over the years they've come from insiders outsiders and even family members the record that the history of the moment the character of the man the nature of the administration no modern presidency has driven book sales like donald trump's the 1st year of the term presidency generated around $4500.00 books in the english language compare that to the obama presidency there were about $800.00 since then many many more books have been placed on the shelves more than 70 have become bestsellers generating millions of sales for their authors the source blockbuster came from journalist michael wolff the president tried to block publication and field others who've served in
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the administration have written books to give their side of the story. and others other supplied support in print the don't tend to sell as well people want to be the times they want to be then to you know confirm their unbelieve right it is. political entertainment at the same time right on the things that are going on and it is certainly. is a great subject for a book sale one of the authors of the bestseller a very stable genius admits there have been a lot of books but some are the 1st draft of history some people are motivated by the quick heyday sort of i'll admit like if if there's a circus in town it's a good idea to sell tickets and there are folks who are are certainly looking at this as an opportunity film i looked at it as an opportunity in a different way which is we're serious journalists there's no other there's no
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other journalism like this going on and we wanted to tell it accurately and fairly the presidency generates on average 2 books a month many have common themes shocking revelations insider gossip but few have it any lasting political effect on don't some i wonder whether or not somebody like i can write good like i'm a loser people can't stop reading about him alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the headlines on al-jazeera more a few jews on the greek island of lesbos or agreeing to relocate into tents accommodation hundreds have already been transferred after their camp was destroyed last week by huge fire many had staged protests asking to be moved to the greek mainland stephanie decker is at the new camp. at the most movement certainly that we've seen so far at the moment it's kind of quiet behind history but we have seen
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families men and women come to this place are coming willingly at the moment i think the reason for this change is that yesterday the greek authorities gave out papers and in various different languages speaking to the refugees telling them that this was the only safe place for them to go it was the only area where they could provide them with shelter with water with food with medicare are at least $24.00 migrants are presumed to have drowned after their boat capsized in the mediterranean the u.n. migration agency says libya's coast guard intercepted 3 boats altogether on monday and recovered 2 bodies and a total of $45.00 survivors a majority of the migrants are from egypt and morocco it was president donald trump has visited california which has been hit by record wildfires he denied a link to climate change insisting scientists are wrong and it will get cooler his democratic rival joe biden has called him a climate arsonist more than 20 pro-democracy activists are appearing in
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a hong kong court on charges over a vigil marking the 1989 where massacre among them are media tycoon jimmy lie and joshua long. everything. 100 people were killed and thousands of are submerged. but as the water recedes there are. millions of. they've been away for 6 months because of a coronavirus shut down. around 200 a day from a 1000 a day. viewfinder latin america. its
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