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this is the central and this is the section where the whole thing is a news outlet charge users and dealers here is 120 of them in 3 different sounds on al-jazeera. a powerful storm smashes the u.s. gulf coast unleashing flooding hundreds of people moved to safer ground. i'm about this in and this is all just live from doha also coming up donald trump contradicts a top health officials timeline for corona virus a vaccine claiming at least 100000000 doses could be distributed by the end of the year. u.n. investigators find evidence of crimes against humanity by venezuelan security forces and say president nicolas maduro supported it. and the former head of all
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the things is found guilty of corruption i mean diac is sentenced to 2 years in prison. we're going to begin in the u.s. what extruding weather is bringing flames and flooding to office at sides of the country strong winds of finding wildfires on the west coast well a major storm has inundated communities with heavy rain on the gulf coast tropical storm sandy made landfall as a category 2 hurricane on wednesday it's been bringing in what's been described as catastrophic and life threatening flooding it's the 2nd how to can to hit the area in less than 3 weeks it's one of 5 active tropical cyclones from the atlantic ocean the only other time on record this is happened was in september 19th $71.00 on the ah. this side of the u.s.
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a federally declared disaster is happening in all are gone it's now the hot spot on the west coast unprecedented wildfire season hundreds of thousands of people have faced evacuation orders and some entire towns have been destroyed down a few moments we're going to go to rob reynolds who's in oregon for us but 1st jay gray is joining me live from mobile in the state of alabama jay just talk us through the fact that this area is no stranger to bad weather it's been inundated bombarded with storms for many years how are people reacting to all of this. well we're on the west side of that storm and so we get an easing of conditions rather early and people have been out talking to them they say you know we've been through storms with this one was different popped up very quickly developed within a week and much more powerful than a lot of people thought let me show you an example of some of that this is being built where the park in the middle of downtown mobile is huge oak trees these huge
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macnow you trees that survived hurricane ivan survived hurricane katrina didn't make it through sally some splintered and torn apart others pulled from the wet ground laid on their sides these are massive trees and this is an area a lot of people enjoy this means a lot to a lot of people here unfortunately it's a scene playing out really across the city right now there are trees on homes here in the downtown area businesses have been ripped apart the awning thrown debris thrown from the front windows they have been shattered as well and so now the cleanup begins it was the wind on this side it was the rain and the storm surge on the east side the water that storm surge flooding low lying coastal communities and then rain in some areas more than they've seen in recent history really swallowing entire communities and unfortunately those flood waters are not going to recede anytime soon while the creeks and lakes and rivers that usually carry that water out already over their edges and more water is pouring in and it's just going to
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continue to push into a lot of these communities rob one other thing that's a big problem right now and that power outages here in the mobile area almost 165000 or so without power and then if you expand that to the entire strike zone right at nearly half a 1000000 people no electricity right now jay thank you very much indeed bringing us up to date in mobile alabama thank you j. . you an investigator's have accused the venezuelan government of crimes against humanity including the killing and torturing of protesters the fact finding mission to find a reasonable grounds to believe president nicolas will order the crimes to silence oppression it's now calling on the international criminal court to open an investigation if venezuelan authorities fail to act the material government denies the report saying it's riddled with falsehoods they support reports. the whole city
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already are and their leader better many people have been demanding justice for over 2 years or more in. their 20 year old son who was killed during protests in venezuela in 2017 he died after being struck in the chest by a tear gas canister not only was anything we have gone to every international organization to denounce our son's execution because his death was part of the passion of excessive use of force by the state we need to stop this the fact that young men go out on a protest and a killed we want reaper ration and memory so that in venezuela never again a person is killed for fighting for their rights. it's been alleged that security forces were shooting directly towards protesters human rights groups say abuses have been on the rise in venezuela since the opposition started to take to the streets against president in 2014. on tuesday the united
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nations fact finding mission in venezuela accused of crimes against humanity is no way sions were committed directly by members of state security forces and intelligence agencies. we have reasonable grounds to believe that higher level all 3 g.'s within these entities as well as political author origin is with 2 sides power and oversight over them including the presidents and the ministers of interior and of defense were aware of these crimes and either ordered or otherwise contributed to them. the un is asking nations and the criminal court of justice to take action for the abuses torture and extrajudicial executions that have allegedly taken place in the country since 2014 the report shows specific studies involving over 3000 cases of violations and crimes you want to talk your included among other things severe beatings psychological torture. let's have an execution
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sorry no more executions let's do an execution family members sexual assault really great knowledge of fusion. a un report comes out just as the us secretary of state mike pompei or travels to south america to step up pressure against model. but while venezuela struggles to find a way out of its economic and political crisis victims saying only international pressure will help them in their fight for justice and truth. and. tall trump has contradicted the director of the u.s. centers for disease control earlier on wednesday robert redford said vaccines wouldn't be available to most americans until the summer of next year but trump claims redfield mess polk and insists a vaccine would be ready for distribution by october. we're on track to deliver and
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distribute the vaccine in a very very safe and effective manner we think we can start sometime in october so as soon as it is announced we'll be able to start that will be from mid october on . maybe a little bit later than that but we'll be all set so as soon as it's given the go ahead they're doing trials as you know and as soon as it's given the go ahead we will get it out defeat the virus we've manufactured all of the necessary supplies so that as soon as the f.d.a. approves the vaccine and as you know we're very close to that will be able to distribute at least 100000000 vaccine doses by the end of 2020 and a large number much sooner than that. let's go live to mike hanna in washington d.c. mike once again the president really facing off with the experts as far as the vaccine is concerned. well indeed yes and not just on the issue of
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a vaccine also on the issue of mosques we heard from the director of the c.d.c. giving evidence before a senate committee saying that a mosque could be more valuable in terms of protecting him then a vaccine he also said as well that the time line for a vaccine to become generally available to the public is looking at a summit next year that's in the middle of next year a matter of months rather than in president trump's ideas a matter of weeks not president trump was asked about this he said that he phoned the director of the c.d.c. and claims that the director told him that perhaps he was misunderstood president trump says it appears that the director misunderstood the question he repeated this a number of times during the news conference but certainly on the issue of mosques which president trump flat out rejected the concept that a mosque could be more valuable in terms of protecting an individual than a vaccine and on the subject of the time line president trump insisting that his
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director of the c.d.c. use that talk about the fischel in the country is incorrect which is once again going to raise the argument that the president is putting his own personal beliefs before the science of the facts one would imagine might that there's been a fairly instantaneous response to what the president's been saying well very much so and particularly from presidential candidate joe biden who basically said that the president cannot be trusted he points to the president's handling of many aspects of this campaign as having misled the american public and he says the real danger is there too that the president will attempt to mislead the public over the issue of a vaccine for political purposes to get that vaccine pushed through before the november election this is what biden had to say which we had to take much to distribute to the entire population. i'm more hopeful than ever in the power of
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science to get us there. one thing is certain we can't allow politics to interfere with the vaccine it anyway. americans have had to endure president trumps incompetence and dishonesty when it comes to testing and personal protective equipment we can't afford to repeat those fiascos when it comes to a vaccine when it occurs the stakes are too high american families are already suffered in sacrifice too much so let me be clear i trust vaccines i trust scientists but i don't trust donald trump this moment the american people can't either. well the final trials for the potential vaccines have only just begun and they involve tens of thousands of patients and importantly at least 2 doses need to be administered over
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a period of time so it's just not possible for the timeline that president trump in visit has to be met at all logistically so the question now arises is whether president trump is considering cutting short the protocols for the testing up a new vaccine that had been established for decades mike thanks very much indeed that's mike hanna live for us in washington d.c. . ok let me take you back to our main story tonight as we mentioned several states along the u.s. west coast are still battling wildfires wildfires are burning this is joining us live from portland portland in oregon rob i can see the density of the smoke behind you there just give us an indication of how bad things are but particularly regarding the smoke. things are really bad rob we spoke to a a health official for the county that includes portland oregon he says that this
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is worse than any air pollution event that they have reported since they began taking measurements more than 20 years ago the same is true in washington where the governor said that air pollution have broken all records the get this at the hospitals here in portland a number of emergency room visits for people suffering from asthma like symptoms or trouble breathing are up 88 times the normal range and people are being urged at all costs to stay inside or if they must go outside to where a proper mask or you can see i'm having a little trouble with my mask right now but we're doing our best it is a choking feeling you can feel it burning in your along and people are really feeling it and it's drifted into the high atmosphere all the way to the east coast
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of the united states and even beyond to europe so the smoke and. the the health implications of the smile are the big story this is very bad for people with asthma with long conditions with heart disease because it can cause heart attacks or strokes so it can be streamed. serious very tiny microscopic particles let's mauler than the diameter of a human hair are circulating in the form of smoke and adds a lot deep in the long as they can even get into the bloodstream so overall it's a very serious health problem here in the pacific northwest and all up and down the west coast of the united states rob thanks very much that's true all brennen's in a small covered portland in oregon. still ahead on al-jazeera libya's internationally recognized foreign minister fires also rosen says he'll leave his posts by the end of next month. and setting the trend the coronavirus pandemic is
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change the look of new york's fashion week. hello there all eyes of course remain on the southeast of the united states is because of this hurricane sandy of course coming on shore throughout wednesday will continue to work its way across alabama on into georgia as we head through thursday most likely still as a tropical storm but it will produce some torrential amounts of rain expectancy widespread flooding across much of the southeast and then me out across the west will still have a chance of want to see showers working their way along the pacific northwest coast maybe some heavier spells of rain the winds there could also increase as that system comes onshore so that's not necessarily a good thing and then by friday the southeast should be looking a little bit dry but as you can see that rain really does push across into the mid
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atlantic so still some very heavy rain really embedded within that system so if a seattle in the pacific northwest coast we have got rain in the forecast for the next few days it should help of course but it doesn't actually come very far inland and it's a similar scenario of a portland maybe friday and saturday wanted to showers and then by sunday it's actually back to being dry 10 which isn't too bad there are a little bit to below the average and then across into the courses no rain that falls south and instead we're going to see mostly clear skies on a course that says smoke really just mixed in there for the next few days. climates i question how these days it's hard to filter out the noise keep. track of what's really important each the bottom line tackles the big. united states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the wealth and the bottom
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line only. play an important role in checking it would. ringback be watching out to see a reminder of our top stories this public and sally has brought life threatening floods from florida to alabama buildings homes and cars have been deluged and hundreds have been rescued by emergency crews half a 1000000 people lost power in the region. u.s. president donald trump has contradicted a top health official on why in a coronavirus vaccine will be available the c.d.c.
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director robert redfield says widespread the distribution won't be possible until the summer of 2021 but something says that will happen by the end of this year. u.n. investigators accuse the venezuelan government of crimes against humanity including the killing and torturing of protesters they're calling on the international criminal court to open an investigation. the head of libya's internationally recognized government has confirmed he's stepping down prime minister fires all set eyes made the announcement and then address on national television peace talks are due to start in geneva this week set out his term for the base government will negotiate with a rival administration in the east of the country which is allied to war latifa have to set our says he will stay on until the end of october when the new leadership is chosen few. horrible just like i declared my sincere desire to handle my duties the next the good of a party no later than the end of october in the hope that the dialogue committee
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will complete its work and to the new provincial council and prime minister who had no responsibilities to their luck when the ball had is in tripoli he says the still a long way to go for the negotiations will not this his wish will come true that remains to be seen as you know that. the international mediations have been trying to bridge the gap between rival factions including the meetings in montreux last week and switzerland and also meetings in morrocco that gathered civil or evil factions in libya and that was sponsored by the united nations support the mission in libya and the humanitarian sinter the center for humanitarian died so. it will remain in power until a new cabinet and your presidential council is chosen no one knows for certain when
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this will happen but we know that according to the. conclusions the rival factions agreed to extend the interim stage until for 18 months so it has been always calling for early presidential and parliamentary elections in march but no one of the rival factions has agreed. to hold early elections belorussian protest leader who disappeared after being detained by masked men has been charged with undermining national security but he is in jail in minsk after ripping up her passport to avoid being sent to ukraine by force before her arrest she played a key role in organizing demonstrations against long time leader alexander lukashenko is accused of rigging last month's presidential election. services in
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the capital of men's and she says almost all of the opposition leaders have either been locked up or forced to flee these charges are actually quite brought it to call for action aimed at on the mining national security instead of what the police earlier sat was a coup d'etat which was of course much harder to prove but still she is facing 2 to 5 years in prison she was indeed the last female opposition leader still in the country and because she ripped up her prosperous avoiding being deported to ukraine she has turned tear into a national leader the opposition movement is not really relying on its leaders to be honest so it won't affect the protests that we have been seeing in the last couple of weeks and in fact only one of the opposition members of the council that was situated said to have this transitional government by the opposition is now still free and here in a ballerina's and she's in fact being protected by european diplomats 24 seventh's
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so they come to our house to make sure that she's also not being arrested. so i think because coronavirus restrictions are being rolled back after a decline in the number of infections president sort of on the force says the country will move to alert level one as of midnight on sunday curfew hours will be reduced to between midnight and 4 am but up to $100.00 people will be allowed to attend funerals international travel will also be allowed from october we have withstood. the cauldron of violent storm. now is the time to turn our country its people and our economy to a situation that is more normal. but more his numbers the knives that we were living 6 months ago. it is time to move to what will become. what we call our new normal. as long as the cauldron of violence is with.
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mali's new military rulers say they've started the process of naming an interim president after west african leaders threatened a total embargo on the landlocked country members of the 15 member economic community of west african states gave the coup leaders 18 months to hand over power to a civilian government and exchange sanctions will be lifted but only if the military puts together a transition team within days because hawks reports from dakar senegal well they have just a few days to try to find a president a prime minister and so they said just just as we heard that they're going to appoint a committee now that will decide on who will be the president and who will be the prime minister and who will be the vice president now who will be members of that committee but we don't know will that be members of the military turns out will they be appointed from members of civil society 5 or the opposition it seems that
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it's an additional hurdle for this military leadership that seeking to gain recognition at stake here for them is to find a new leadership that will bring security to the ins and to jumpstart their economy to reassure the population and to bring back the state where the state has so longer so so far been absent the u.k. prime minister has been forced to compromise over controversial plans to break international law boris johnson had been facing a rebellion over his in town or markets bill which would give the government the ability to override parts of the president withdrawal agreement but johnson has agreed the parliament will be able to vote before those powers can be used this bill is intended to uphold the economic the political territorial integrity of the united kingdom and i believe it should be supported by every member of this house. horrific culmination of failures by boeing's engineers and
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management that's the conclusion of a us house investigation which blames the plane maker for 2737 max crashes that killed 346 people but a port says a series of decisions by boeing employees led to the crash of a lion air and an ethiopian airlines flight within 6 months of each other the report also blamed places blame on the federal aviation administration for what it calls grossly insufficient oversight into a 737 max think it's still grounded worldwide the former head of a world with less explaining diac has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 2 years in prison he was part of a scheme which covered up russian doping in return for bribes if it stops reports. i mean diac was the most powerful man in athletics for 16 years but on wednesday in a dramatic fall from grace he was found guilty of corruption at a court in paris he's been convicted of multiple charges including accepting more
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than $3000000.00 in hush money from russian athletes in return for covering up their doping offenses the 87 year old from senegal was sentenced to 4 years in prison with 2 of them suspended and find nearly $600000.00 his legal team confirmed they will appeal. this decision is unfair and inhumane unfair because we see that the judges have tried to be politically correct and if wanted to use mr jack as a scapegoat. diac was originally charge 5 years ago he's been under house arrest in paris ever since and the case has attracted global attention it was a big question on the table. it was the 1st. one of the case involving main leaders in the indian sports community so we understand that there was a big media team but it took a pressure it's not the 1st time that a friend german english judge has difficulty trying to resist resist pressure. diac
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was head of what was then called the r w f from 999 to 2015 his help in covering up russian doping and that many athletes who were cheating were able to keep competing at major events all at the expense of clean athletes that they can ask. you can see the smile on my face with the mask but i'm very happy to have been recognised as a victim of the corruption by the leaders and i'm also happy for only other athletes who are victims we need to continue the fight against doping. the court had a guilty verdict of 5 other people including d.x. son a saturday ak who worked as a marketer consultant for the r w f when his father was in charge $15000000.00 were funneled to his companies including commissions from t.v. rights deals. in senegal which is refusing to extradite him he was sentenced in absence to 5 years in prison and find more than $1000000.00 as for his father the
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appeal keeps lamine diac out of jail for now he himself made no comment as he left the court david stokes out 0. 1 of the world's most iconic fashion shows has had to reinvent itself in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic the new york event usually lasts a week but with face masks and social distancing it's been cut short as particle hang reports the wider fashion industry has been hit hard. new york fashion week has a new look yes the styles are cutting edge but the live shows are fewer and the guests farther between thanks to the coronavirus for designer mico underwood who's showing for the 1st time the pandemic has brought with it major challenges from disrupted supply lines to the staging of the show itself we all have to be super cautious we have to be you know awful of the space tough love social distancing making sure that everyone is feeling ok in the moment that they show up making sure that we
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provide masks and gloves and the all of these things you know just very new environment this year fashion week is only 5 days instead of 7 with the majority of a vent online and spaces that once host of events turned into production studios fashion week of side the industry particularly luxury fashion has been hit hard by the pandemic stores may have reopened but many people are still working from home if they have a job and go eat out less all of which means less demand for new clothes department stores like neiman marcus and lord and taylor which cater to high end customers have declared bankruptcy and the mall based stores like j.c. penny brooks brothers and j. crew are also struggling experts say with hours without a strong presence particularly vulnerable of consumer demand wanes for a pair of high heel shoes add a glamorous dress retailers we're going to have to pivot very quickly and as you see demand for mass are going up demand for the essential items are going up which
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brings us to this year's must have excess or as designers we all have to look at with this new accessory was the mask and what does that mean and has that look like going forward as a creative i think it's challenges are good for me and it stretches me to be more innovative so a fashion trend to burst by designers but one that everyone hopes will be short lived particle hain algae. this is all just over these of the top stories how to consolidate has brought life threatening floods from florida to alabama buildings homes and cars have been deluged on hundreds of people have been rescued by emergency crews off a 1000000 people have lost power in the region jay gray has more from alabama it was the wind on this side it was the rain and the storm surge on the east side the water that storm 30 flooding low lying coastal communities and then rain in some
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areas more than a theme in recent history really swallowing entire communities and unfortunately those floodwaters are not going to recede anytime soon all the creek lakes and rivers that usually carry that water out already over there edges and more water is pouring in it you're going to continue to push into a lot of these communities here as president donald trump has contradicted a top health official on when a coronavirus vaccine will be available c.d.c. director robert redfield says widespread distribution won't be possible until the summer of 2021 but trump insists that will happen but the end of this year. u.n. investigators have accused the venezuelan government of crimes against humanity including the killing and torturing of protesters they're calling on the international criminal court to open an investigation. about the russian protest leader who disappeared after being detained by moscow men has been charged with
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undermining national security many across the cold days in jail in minsk after ripping up a possible to avoid being sent to ukraine by force before her arrest he played a key role in organizing demonstrations against longtime leader alexander lukashenko he's accused of rigging last month's presidential election. south africa's coronavirus restrictions are being rolled back after the client in the number of infections president said obama says the country will move to alert level one as of midnight on sunday curfew hours will be reduced to between midnight and 4 am well up to $100.00 people will be allowed to attend funerals international travel will also be allowed from october those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after top to all just go by. i am see prime minister i have a question to ask these days it's hard to filter out the newly single track of what's really important to the bottom line tackles the big issues this is shaping
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the united states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world and the bottom line only on out you see around the world is all. you see. the people of afghanistan have seen war for much of the past 40 years from the soviet invasion of the late 1970 s. to the rise of the taliban in the 1990 s. . and its eventual fall from power in late 2001 there have been 6 democratic elections since then but finding consensus among afghans fans competing and diverse political groups has been challenging. while the taliban continued its attacks against civilians and government targets afghan forces and their allies have spent years fighting the group but after years of conflict where civilians are often the victims to become clear the way forward.

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