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a photo opportunity that can obscure the truth this is a legitimate news story that's just clicks and points. it can see. right through the listening post gives you the full picture. palestinians say they've been betrayed as a united arab emirates and bahrain sign deals to normalize ties with its writer. oh you're watching al-jazeera live from our world headquarters in doha fully back he will also coming up a disaster declared in oregon the u.s. state can now access federal funds to help fight one fires that are spread across the west coast's. more than 100000 damage 1000 homes damaged or destroyed the
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cleanup gets underway in sudan after weeks of bloody and kick off in south america football returns after a 6 month suspension because of the panda. thank you very much for joining us senior palestinian figures say they've been betrayed after the united arab emirates and bahrain signed u.s. brokered agreements to normalize ties with israel have been protests against a deal in gaza and the occupied west bank u.s. president donald trump says a deal is represent the new dawn of a middle east i want house correspondent kimberly hockett reports. it's not the promised peace deal of the century between israelis and palestinians still u.s. president donald trump hailed the so. of the abraham accords at the white house as
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an historic day after decades of division and conflict we mark the dawn of a new middle east. the agreement signed between israel the united arab emirates and bahrain formalizes relationships already in place but now includes the opening of embassies it's a pivot point they hope will end old conflicts and lead to new cooperation among israel and eventually even more arab nations to all of israel's friends in the middle east those who are with us today. and those who will join us tomorrow i say. earlier in the day trump hinted that other countries will also be signing diplomatic pacts with israel but we'll have at least 5 or 6 countries coming along very quickly. but noticeably absent from tuesday steel siding palestinian leadership the foreign minister of the
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united arab emirates acknowledge their participation in the agreement require the preservation of current palestinian land. i thank you for choosing peace and for halting. territories at position that reinforces our shared will to achieve a better future for generations to come. in the palestinian territories there were protests over the deal that also failed to ease the 13 year blockade of people in gaza the human rights activists have like into an open air prison this trump official blames palestinian leadership for refusing to negotiate separately you have the leadership of the time and time again refused to engage refuse to engage directly with israel their message is to go to the united nations. the road to peace not through the united nations through the through. through through the
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divisions over the steel also on full display outside the white house. is a bit of us and they deserve to have a. listenable are going to. be in the middle east. there are also questions in the united states about why the abraham accords are called a peace deal given none of the nations are war there's also concern the so-called peace deal is really a new military alliance of nations with a common interest to confront iran the u.s. congress already promising to scrutinize the d. . particularly over the possible sale of f. $35.00 fighter jets to the u.a.e. but more importantly for president trump with less than 2 months until the us election the accords offered the optics of a foreign policy win for a president behind in the polls and eager for reelection kimberly help at
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al-jazeera the white house the u.s. city of new evil is to pay brianna taylor's family $12000000.00 in compensation for her death the 26 year old woman was 3 piece of me shot by police when they forced their way into her apartment the settlement will be accompanied by reforms in the city's police department mike hanna reports. and just. very quickly here we are you briana. the name a sicko during months of the nationwide black lives matter protests briana taylor was shot dead in a own home during a botched narcotics raid and now the city has accepted responsibility and will pay a record amount to settle a wrongful death lawsuit and will also implemented reforms in the city's police department as part of this settlement will metro government agrees to make several important policy changes 1st to build stronger community connections between our
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police officers and the people they serve we will one establish a housing credit program to incentivize officers to live in certain low income census tracks within the city. through her birth. we all know taylor's attorney has welcomed the settlement had been so long get into this day where we could assure. briana tell you. life will be swept under the road like so many of the black women in america who have been killed by police marginalized. but regardless of this landmark step. and the journey to justice we still are demanding that kentucky attorney general do you look him or bring charges
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amid. against the police officers that murdered briana taylor immediately this week a sentiment echoed by brianna taylor's mother as significant as today it's only the beginning of getting full justice for brianna we must not lose focus on what the real dr. and with that being said it is time to move forward with the criminal charges because she deserves that and more. so please continue to say her name. briana telling. her that seems like be with activists pitching to keep up they campaigned against racism and police brutality across the country by kind of al-jazeera washington. u.s. president donald trump has approved oregon disaster declaration making it possible
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for the state to access federal funds oregon has become the latest hot spontaneous dozens of fires continue to burn across the west coast and he said he 3 people have been killed and thousands of homes have been destroyed rob reynolds is in the city of effect in oregon which is being threatened by wildfires. oregon needs a lot of help there have been tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of hectares burned here 6 small towns almost completely wiped out there are 8 people known to have died as of now but there are 50 people unaccounted for the firefighters say that they are getting a handle on some of the really big fires in this state including here in esther keda called the riverside fire they're being helped by. better weather conditions it's much less warm than it was it's much less humid that's caused in
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part by this smoke and i want to just take a look well look down the highway here that highway is closed by the way to everyone except for emergency responders and the people who live there but take a look at that smoke that is just choking choking paul a shroud of smoke over this entire area and straight from los angeles to seattle all the entire west coast is choking under this it's obviously bad for people with respiratory diseases the forecast is for. possibly some rain later next week and if it's if it's a good solid rain that will be the very best thing that could happen to oregon and the surrounding areas. a powerful but slow moving storm is closing in on the u.s. gulf coast hurricane sandy week into a category one but is expected to gain strength before making landfall early on when se is said to bring heavy rains and strong winds forecasters are warning of
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flooding on an unprecedented scale alabama and mississippi have declared a state of emergency and some residents have been ordered to leave their homes. the number of people affected by floods in sudan has risen to more than 650000 tens of thousands of homes have been damaged by the unprecedented rise of the nile river and as its waters recede residents are struggling to clean up and make repairs him or morgan has a story from khartoum. this is what the inside of a lattice house looks like now weeks of flooding has damaged or destroyed much of what he has he says he's got no way of draining the water out hiring a water pump is costly and he's lost too much already but he says moving elsewhere after the floods is not an option. than my house is about 3 kilometers away from the narrow and i've lived here for a number of years. getting
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a plot to move elsewhere is costly with today's economy and me and my family can't afford it so all drain the water and hope this doesn't happen again next year. abdellatif home is one of dozens that have been damaged in his village of in the southern part of sudan's capital hard to. torrential rains caused the nile to rise to levels not seen in more than a century the resulting flood damage to well over 100000 homes around sudan most were just kilometers away as the river burst its banks wiping out villages and towns and displacing more than 600000 people and it forced the government to declare a 3 month state of emergency some chose to stay in their homes despite them being filled with water the man waters have begun receding after nearly 3 weeks and people in the area are hoping to start the recovery but there have been problems with the drainage system and its weakness can be seen on the streets of out of tune after rainfall since the start of the rainy season 2 months ago some of the major highways have been cut off schools and health facilities have either been damaged
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or destroyed it's a site that repeats itself every year but meteorologists say this year's rains are unprecedented so dan's government says its focus is on helping those who've been displaced and preventing water borne diseases but more rains and floods are expected in the coming days and those displaced say the government needs to do more to help them. on the government to give us new plots so that this doesn't happen again really who live in the banks of the mine we don't have the ability to buy new plots it should be the government giving us a plot so that the problem is addressed by that route a normal houses collapse from rained off until he gets a new plot this house is all that the lot he has he says he'll do what he can to get the water out so that he and his family can return to their home and start rebuilding he will morgan on his their own hearts and. japan's spawn into a vote on the next prime minister in iran and an hour's time shinzo up before me
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resigned early along with his cabinet japan's longest serving leader he revealed last month he would leave office because of ill health chief cabinet secretary. has been chosen to lead the ruling democratic party is expected to win the vote given the ruling party strong parliamentary majority. still ahead on al-jazeera i found his appeared to agree a timeline from ali's military joined at to hand power to civilians and to places a nontoxic are breaking free we hear what can be done to slow the damage from rising temperatures. i'm pleased to say we have seen a little more cloud a little more rain just nudging towards the pacific northwest so a chance to somewhat to weather some cold weather increasing humidity up towards
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oregon and also into what washington state science of some improvement in the other wild fire conditions at least so the far northwest of the u.s. not really seeing anything useful making its way anywhere near california having said that the really wet weather of course is a little further south and east down into the deep south we have hurricane sandy staggering away making its way across mississippi as we go on through what whether stay into thursday and gravity easing over towards south carolina and it will bring flooding looking at some copious amounts of rain for subsist in the storm at the moment and it is only moving very slowly it's staggering along at around 4 kilometers an hour that's not even walking pace it really is a stumble and you can see how does this little zigzag so moving very slowly throwing huge amounts of rainfall potential for historic rainfall across the deep south of the u.s. maybe 20300 millimeters all more of rainfall coming in here as we go through the next few days for central america the wetter weather is into central america and
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to the us. welcome back you're watching our ages here on live from doha a reminder of our top stories senior palestinian figures say they've been be traded after the united arab emirates and bahrain signed u.s. brokered agreements to normalize ties with israel have been protests against the deals in gaza and the occupied west bank and the white house has approved oregon's disaster declaration making it impossible for the say to access federal funds dozens of fires continue to burn across the u.s. west coast and the number of people affected by floods in sudan has risen to more than 650000 tens of thousands of homes have been damaged by the unprecedented rise of the nile river. to our antarctica's most important geishas are breaking free the pine island and tweets cases already contribute to around 5 percent of global sea
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level rise the survival of the tweets has been deemed so critical that the u.s. and britain launch a multi-billion $1000000.00 research mission hanna sophocles an environmental policy specialist at the university of california davis she explains the changes needed to slow the melting process. we actually have known for some time that these glaciers were melting and they were on the track that they were on track to perhaps one day disappear completely but we didn't necessarily know was how quickly that was likely to happen and the mechanisms underlying the new studies that are coming out are showing are shedding light on that mechanism and indicating that melting is happening much more quickly than we had expected until recently there is a difference between these glaciers melting and the whole glacial system melting and we also have control over some of these things the fact that the glaciers are melting and that may be may eventually disappear or nearly completely that seems to be something that might be inevitable but the rate at which that happens that i
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think about it as a runner as if you might know there's a finish line some distance away but you have control over how quickly you are slowly you get there and you also have control over how painful it is along the way those translate into we can have control over how quickly we act and how strongly we act to mitigate climate change which will slow the pace at which the glaciers melt we also have control over the adaptation measures that we can take so that the melting isn't as costly to humans. west african mediators have reportedly agreed to allow 18 months for my military coup leaders to hand power to a civilian government military regime will head to state as a dead deadline imposed by the came to an end they call it hoc reports the. governors president greeting millions new strongman colonel a see me going in addressing these coup leader as mr president no firm handshake
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spread a warm welcome on his 1st foreign visit meeting west african heads of states have imposed sanctions on the country after you ousted president brian booker kater from power 3 weeks ago in a bloodless coup. to do. this . not. only to the. west african leaders condemned the coup shutting its borders and stopping financial transactions with a landlocked country following the meeting they greed to an 18 month transition to full civilian rule and the lifting of sanctions a full transition team is put together in matters of days not months. on stage this
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weekend the military presented their road map in charge where the military remains largely in power to civil society actors politicians and religious leaders. took the applause as a sign of their support however the influential and 5 opposition movement disavowed mali's military leadership in their methods. we denounced intimidation and democratic methods dating from another time as well as the. really the ship that goes against the a spear a shameful change. in july the un condemned these militaries extrajudicial killings of civilians they are meant to protect their long 4000 french and european troops are fighting armed groups in northern and central mali called in the fighting are over 6000000 facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis counter-terrorism measures make it difficult for you many organizations to have a engagement with local populations and whoever is there
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to represent them this has become the challenge for molly's new leadership attempting to embody the aspirations of the people and gain legitimacy both at home and abroad because hawke al-jazeera. international is calling for an independent investigation into the killing of a pregnant woman by men in military uniform in mozambique the government says those seen in a video are not uncommon soldiers but rebels from northern provinces interrogate to me as a story. this video has been circulating on social media since monday and shows what appear to be government soldiers shouting there's a woman stripped of her clothes the men hit her several times with sticks before shooting her dead amnesty international says it's another gruesome example of gross human rights violations happening in the know them. evidence of kabul delgado by
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mozambican security forces they believe she's an insurgent at the beginning of the video they say she's the oldest a fair trial. after they have killed her if they claim that we have killed. so if they believe that it was. the reason why they killed her. the government rejected the allegations saying the attack was carried out by rebel fighters impersonating soldiers. or even continued. we asked for mello strongly condemn all barbaric acts against any citizens or party has always been for the defense of human rights and we are looking at these barbaric acts with a lot of concern. there's been fighting in gas which gardai for 3 years rebels who say they want his state have burned villages and
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killed civilians. isos claimed a role in some attacks the government with russian military support has been accused of extrajudicial killings of civilians in its brutal crackdown against the rebels already at the mozambique and governments as well believe. instead what they're spending and doing what they invested on is was on the outcome and all denial. of. all for talking to groups like how was human rights groups are calling for an independent investigation and for those responsible to be brought to justice victoria gates and the al jazeera. human rights activists are filed a complaint against a migrant detention center in the united states and abuses including mass hysterectomies s. of spanish speaking women a nurse working at a facility in georgia reported several detained women did not understand why they were having operations to remove all part of their uterus the whistle lawyer says
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the facility refused to test people with coronavirus symptoms and faked medical records a detainee at the center lied to likened it to an experimental concentration camp. u.s. democratic presidential nominee joe biden has made his 1st campaign stop in florida he's seeking the support of hispanic voters republican attack ads are painting by denies the socialist a message just resonating with conservatives for both candidates florida is seen as a must win state and he got to get reports from miami. if joe biden wants to win in november as presidential election he'll need the majority of floridians to back him including this state's crucial latino vote is the former vice president knows there's a lack of enthusiasm and deep mistrust of what the republican party calls his socialist agenda this then is a chance for biden to convince hispanic voters who make up 20 percent of flour does
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a lecture it that he's a man down chumps failed to spend community time and time again and that's not a secret whether it's in his heinous act of separating children from the families on our border or his repeated attacks on dreamers or neglected the people in puerto rico after hurricane maria or his repeated failure to make sure essential workers have the personal protective equipment they need i'm going to be good to go down as almost crested presidents in american history republican attack ads have been hitting home in this battleground state many like biden's politics to nations latinos fled a message that resonates with conservative voters 5th will his administration will lean too far to the left the biden campaigns hitting back spending millions targeting voters with spanish language ads democratic party organizers say the republican party is playing with people's emotions a while it's something that works very well and people will pop into their ear.
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meaning the president trump launched his latinos for truck campaign last year and he's continued to court hispanic voters across the country despite the fact that latinos historically vote democratic polls in florida show a tight race between the 2 candidates but many hispanic americans came here to pursue the american dream right he came we all want the america i want the american dream we all want the american dream this is and if you look at what they're asking for it's like the american nightmare that many in the democratic party in florida have reportedly been urging joe biden to pay more attention to the latino. vote for months hillary clinton narrowly lost to president trump here in 2016 but beat the president in support from latinos by a large margin it's long been said that all roads to the white house go through florida both candidates acutely aware of the importance of the state and its latino voters in this presidential election latino voters may be the hardest force over
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and ultimately the most crucial and gallacher all these are miami florida hundreds of people in honduras are calling for the president to step down the opposition have protests as the nation martin dependence day police fired tear gas and use water cannon to disperse them and his president on orlando have manda says government of corruption as related to the alleged mismanaged mismanagement of funds meant for tackling the coronavirus pandemic. and the main south american football competition they live there to doris come after a 6 month suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic distractions have been introduced to allow the game to go ahead as a virus continues to cause havoc across the region daniel sheiner reports from. the regional football association cami ball has implemented a series of measures for the liver to doris cup can resume in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. come a ball has designed and implemented
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a detailed program to enable us to restart our competitions with dog checked out at the return to football will be safe. those measures include no spitting no kissing one another no exchange of shirts the obligatory use of mass through those not on the pitch and of course no fans they've also ruled the $32.00 clubs in the competition can choose their teams from squads of 50 rather than 30 players some will need to the argentine club 6 times live with a doris champion's pocket juniors last week announced more than 20 of their players were infected. we can't rush to be a 100 percent it doesn't exist we hope to be the best we can and i'm relaxed and hopeful we will be. called the ball is allocated $95000000.00 to help overcome the difficulties since commercial flights have been suspended and there are different degrees of lockdown in the 10 competing nations but why in this time of crisis are
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they playing football a top the national team championship the america's cup has been postponed until next year and they've played no club football here in argentina since march those hotbeds of footballing passion like the iconic block of junior stadium behind me have been eerily silent. the football here is a fundamental element of many people's lives and life must go on as part of the gradual return to some kind of normality as well as. a reminder of one of the places we're missing i think it's a very very would challenge for south america africa my world because we saw that in europe they did it they play the champions league they play much east you know of any problem so i think we have to do it we have to do to live on. because. then of course there are the financial implications for all the clubs that play the daily but others got it need the money need the dollars and especially you
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know she and jean are in venezuela in bolivia in your way so they have to play. completely they will continuing a 61 year tradition that pits the best of south america's club sides against one another only this year and until the final in rio's maracana stadium in january they've covered 19 to contend with 2. down which when they're all dizzy or one of cyrus. hello again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera senior palestinian figures say they've been betrayed after the united arab emirates and bahrain signed u.s. brokered agreements to normalize ties with israel every in protest against deals in gaza and the occupied west bank a u.s. city of louisville ok brianna tanis family $12000000.00 for a death during
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a raid on her apartment a 26 year old woman was shot several times by police when they forced their way into her home. as significant as today it's only the beginning of getting for justice for brianna we must not lose focus on what the real drug is and with that being said it is time to move forward with the criminal charges because she deserves that smart. so please continue to say her name briana. human rights activists have filed a complaint against the migrant detention center in the united states alleging abuses including mass hysterectomies spanish speaking women a nurse working at a facility in georgia reported several detained women did not understand why they were having operations to remove all a part of a uterus u.s. resin donald trump has approved oregon's disaster declaration making it possible
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for the state to access federal funds oregon a scene record amounts of land destroyed by wildfires nearly 100 burning across the west coast 7063 people have been killed and thousands of their homes destroyed the number of people affected by floods in sudan has risen to more than 650000 tens of thousands of man homes have been damaged by the unprecedented rise of the nile river and 2 of antarctica is most important glaciers are breaking free the pine island and waits is already contributed around 5 percent of global sea level rise the survival of the weights has been deemed so critical that the u.s. and britain launch a multi $1000000.00 research mission coming up next on al-jazeera viewfinder latin america.
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