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can't blame the united states the united states also looking at it with urgency it's a blast but i do see that the more urgent need of the. some of the key players in the peace process to account 0. the world health organization says europe faces an alarming rate of new coronavirus transmissions as the number of cases worldwide crosses 30000000. time or about this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up.
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thousands of people reluctantly begin the move to a new refugee camp on less valse. streets turned into rivers buildings destroyed and power knocked out how to consolidate is downgraded but more destruction may be ahead. president on bonanza's measures to promote what he calls your take education taking aim at a new york times project on the long term consequences of slavery. the number of coronavirus cases has now passed 30000000 worldwide earlier the world health organization sounded the alarm over the rising rate of coronavirus transmissions across europe that have been more than 300000 infections there in the past week the w.h.o. is urging countries not to cut quoting teen periods warning that could waste the sacrifices being made and the british government has admitted testing capacity
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there is unsatisfactorily at him about the reports from london. newcastle northeast england a major city and now parts of a huge region under new covered restrictions from friday more than 1500000 residents can't socialize with people outside their household or social bubble and bars and restaurants have to close by 10 in the evening the u.k. government says it agreed to measures with local councils following a sharp rise in infections i think you should follow the rules to make a go we can't. think people not really follow their instructions the shit. am i happy about it you know do whatever we need to do you here to stop the virus and don't think the household things really that is an ak and go play with. other people on from the house on but i can't socialize with bands such as me make sense nationally in the u.k.
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infection rates are going in the wrong direction daily new cases number in the thousands with experts saying the truth could be in the 10s of thousands and after prime minister bars johnson admitted testing capacity isn't good enough the health secretary not for the 1st time appeared to blame the public when he appeared before parliament the challenge is that demand has gone up faster and they can say on the other side no it's not what they call defy the facts and the most important thing for everybody across the country to hear from all of their elected representatives if they are interested in helping this country get through this pandemic is that if you have symptoms get a test if you don't have a sentence please do not come forward to get a test unless you're specifically. britain's far from the only european nation worried about rising infections and deaths that's prompted the world health organization to issue a new warning to governments not to reduce quarantine periods from its recommended 14 days in the spring and early summer we were able to see the impact of strict
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look down measures. efforts over a 2nd phase as 8 off. in june patients hit an all time low the september cage numbers however should serve as a wake up call for all of us old all these numbers reflect more comprehensive testing it also shows alarming rates of transmission across the region in italy the alitalia airline is now trying to domestic coronavirus free flights per day passengers are offered a covered 19 test at the airport before flying the results come within a half an hour only those tested negative can fly here in the u.k. the pressing need is for the general public to be able to access covert 19 tests quickly and for all forty's to improve the contact tracing system with winter
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approaching the challenges for the politicians and for health professionals are enormous nadeem barbara al-jazeera. thousands of refugees are settling into a new tent city on the greek island of les boss they've had to shelter wherever they can since fire swept through their old camp 9 days ago many of the refugees have been reluctant to move into the new camp because they're worried they're going to be stuck there stephanie decker has more from this boss. they came with a clear message just after 1st light an unexpected wake up call for the thousands of refugees and migrants who've been sleeping on the streets here going to become the ok you know i don't know to mention when american come good or bad. you know. but clearly. they can't. many have been reluctant to go to the new tent camp just down the road afraid of the conditions many saying they believe once they enter they won't be
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able to leave a group of people wearing hazmat suits against the coronavirus of now joined the riot police i think the message here at the moment certainly is one of peaceful force a very clear message from the authorities at the time is up to the refugees and migrants bending here that they need to move to the camp and if they don't do that willingly that force will be used these police officers were dressed in protective clothing due to the coronavirus as they motion for people to wake up and make their way to the camp and many started to move telling us they had no choice he said go go go go go go go because it was so of the way problems. not only even here one here 6 months i leave you. but now i go to the go and i don't know how many long time you're leaving one years 2 years 3 years i keep to the co that's. most here just want to leave the island some people got inside and. said for
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ascalon to me and that is a very bad. note. i know what are for a drinking and the 1st hour. outside the new camp the immediate result of this operation waiting under the scorching midday sun to be registered and tested for the coronavirus. the greek government is making it clear this is the only option for the refugees where they can be provided for and where their paperwork will be resumed. today we are doing the obvious thing is a democratic and civilized society migrants are being moved from the streets to the new camp from being abandoned to being cared for from hygienic dangers to control and protection of public health from no water to order. it's been 9 days since moria camp europe's largest refugee camp burnt to the ground since then most of its 12000 people have been sleeping on the roadsides or wherever they can find shelter
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most have been waiting for more than a year for an answer to their asylum requests now many tell us it feels like they're somehow starting all over stephanie decker al-jazeera this was island greece. a u.s. judge has temporarily blocked what he's calling politically motivated changes to the postal service ahead of the november election the case has been brought by 14 states who say the changes threaten the delivery time of mail in ballots the judge says some harm has already been done was widespread outrage back in june when the changes were announced but the head of the postal service lou joy who's made large donations to u.s. president donald trump's campaign the f.b.i. is warning u.s. politicians that russian actors are trying to influence the upcoming election and they're doing it by going after democratic presidential candidate joe biden. we certainly have seen very active very active efforts by the russians to influence
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our election in 2020 through what i would call more of the malign foreign influence side of things social media use of of proxies state media online journals. are an effort to both so divisiveness and discord and and i think the intelligence community has as says this publicly. to primarily to denigrate vice president biden and what the russians see as kind of an anti russian establishment. that's that's essentially what we're seeing it was once considered a routine affair but this year the census in the u.s. has been marred by court challenges and political controversy that's going to have an impact on how federal funding for states is allocated and seats in the house of representatives and that's accounting reports from chicago. for more than a century wave after wave of immigrants has settled in chicago's back of the yards
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neighborhood on the city's south side some striving others struggling. the stock yards that once made it a meat packing epicenter are now vacant but this remains a working class neighborhood where people depend on the food assistance health care and housing programs funded by the federal government programs that rely on the census to determine how much money is distributed to communities in minutes i mean they only asked me about my family how many people lived in my home i was never asked about my paper they didn't ask for my social security number a lot of people are afraid because they think they'll ask for their papers we met safina salazar at a food drive 150 package meals were collected in an hour back of the yards is a neighborhood with a low census response rate so state and county officials have organized food mask
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toiletry and book giveaways to earth people out of their homes during the pandemic once their volunteers help ensure they fill out census 2020 it serves multiple purposes because there is a need for food. you know we want to have the opportunity to interact with some of these residents and so. we've been doing this for the past month and. you know i think that it does make a difference the 10 minutes it takes to complete the census translates into as much as $2000.00 of federal funding per person a year for the next decade people before the pandemic in the shifting deadline for getting an accurate count for the 2020 census has become a challenge to trumpet ministrations flash funding for housing to and staffing it attempted to put a citizenship question on the form of the supreme court squashed that put the fear in immigrant communities like this one girl to compensate for the lack of federal
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funding illinois like other states has poured millions of dollars into getting an. accurate census count it will neuer is expecting to lose a seat in the house of representatives seats are based on the census well for more than 200 years this was an administrative a nonpartisan process. and unfortunately we have a president in states who among his other sense has tried to discourage participation in the census. after living in back of the yards for 30 years some of that time undocumented most of us out as are is now volunteering for the census she says she realizes being counted means ensuring their neighborhood gets the resources it needs natasha going to. chicago. still ahead on al-jazeera children in brazil are going back to school this fight to the
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country remaining the world's 3rd largest covered 19 hotspot. disarming local tribesmen in iraq the battle between reducing crime and maintaining tradition. however same yet more heavy rain flooding into parts of central china recently you see this big band of class stationary front that has brought some big downpours in across the region 103 millimeters of rain here in the space of 24 hours not wet weather staying in place as we go on through the next 24 hours or so pulsing out into the east china sea heading towards japan will see some we have a downpours coming in here for a time and it'll pack out further once again as we go on through saturday another pulse of very heavy rain pushing through but japan starting to poke through bright
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skies coming back in things starting to dry out not too bad across the korean potential that will in areas of china not too bad but for the south we are looking at some big downpours at the moment it all links up pasty all with at tropical storm moore which is making its way towards central parts of vietnam putting the western weather away from the philippines as it does say that cloud on the right coming into central vietnam grassi pushing across laos lots of very heavy rain there across a good part of indochina heavy rain to wincey western parts of india a lot of cloud of the western side of in the more heavy cloud heavy rain there pushing into bangladesh and staying very wet for a good part of nepal. amidst a struction and despair a group of friends resist. rescuing books from the rubble they build
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a refuge for freedom and democracy. a secret library of hope from which they endeavor to rewrite their story and that of their country. who witness the area and library under bombs on al-jazeera. i want to go to cedar a reminder of our top stories this hour the world health organization says is concerned about the alarming rate of new infections in europe that would be more than $300000.00 infections in the past week some countries have reintroduced lockdowns in hard hit cities. thousands of refugees are settling into
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a new tent city on the greek island of les pauls after a fire swept through their old camp 9 days ago many of them have been reluctant to move in because they're worried they'll be stuck there. for us judges temporarily blocked what he's calling politically motivated changes to the postal service ahead of the november election the case has been brought by 14 states who say the changes threaten the delivery time of mail in ballots the judge says some harm has already been done. the u.s. president has announced a series of measures to promote what he's calling patry arctic education in his speech at the national archives museum he said the new so-called 776 commission would quote teach our youth to love america is criticize what he called a left wing indoctrination which he said views every issue through the lens of race and moves in response to the new york times $1619.00 project it highlights the long
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term consequences of slavery and the contributions of black americans trump has already threatened to cut funding from schools that have incorporated elements of the 161000 projects into their classes. as many of you testified today the left wing writing and many other direct result of decades of left wing in dr nation in our schools is gone on far too long. our children are instruction from propaganda tracks like those of howard zinn that try to make students ashamed of their own history jason nichols is a senior lecturer in the african-american studies department at the university of maryland college park and he's joining us on skype from etiquette city in maryland thank you very much indeed for being with us on al-jazeera so the president says our youth will be taught to love america with all their heart and soul how do you react when you hear that phrase. when i think it's terrifying i think whenever you
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talk about patriotic education it means that you won't acknowledge the mistakes that the nation has made throughout its history and when you don't acknowledge mistakes you are doomed to repeat them so this is another culture war tactic that the president is using and it's actually more divisive then inclusive and it's something that i think is very dangerous when you start limiting knowledge and limiting when people are exposed to any mention of howard zinn which i think is so important because howard zinn said one of the most important statements of the 20th century and that is that dissent is the highest form of patriotism that's what patriotism is to love your country so much that she wanted to be the best it could be not just that you will blindly praising the president has targeted particularly the 16900 project as i mentioned before now that project has been criticized for allegedly putting ideology ahead of. historical understanding if you like
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how difficult is it do you think to teach a country's history and not have it affected by ideology in some form. well i would disagree that a lot of the complaints or the criticisms from actual historians are upset about the ideology of the 69000 projects most of the criticism of the 69000 projects project is that it doesn't acknowledge the colonial and remove but that's a historical argument that is saying that maybe there may be a factual issue there but the political argument that's coming from the reactionary right and the donald trump supporters is one that is not one that people in academia are making the historians are saying they love the idea of the 69000 projects they just think that it could be more historically accurate and i think that that's fine but when you start talking about you know ideological differences
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and which ideology you like best that's when you start diving into propaganda and that's what it is a reminder of a lot of things we've seen around the world where young people are actually indoctrinated and i will also remind your audience that this 1619 project has never been conceived or was never conceived to be a primary teaching tool it was a supplemental teaching tool and something that had articles that teachers could grab from and they could discuss with their students and that's the way it should be if i understand it correctly states are the ones who have control over they the levels of education and what is taught to the kids within their within that state how much of an uptake is the likely to be on for something like this given the fact that one would imagine that if states thought that this was inappropriate that what the president is suggesting was an appropriate thing to do they probably would have done it by now. well i think we have seen it done in
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a few states i know the state of texas which is actually really influenced influential in terms of education for the entire country they've done some things where they've tried to eliminate chicago history or mexican american history same thing in arizona people on the reactionary right want to destroy the fact that mexican americans have made a contribution and as a matter of fact texas and arizona are were indeed part of mexico so really what they're trying to do is a race history which is the dominant form of propaganda is what they're trying to do and this is happened before now it's coming from the highest office in the land and that's even more dangerous than some of these people who are in these individual states is that you're getting a mandate from the president of the united states and that's a really powerful position and it's something that's going to hurt our students for years we're trying to get rid of what's called a lost cause history which under mind true history about slavery in
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our country and now you have the president was trying to undermine efforts to affect real education in our classrooms and that's really troubling just briefly let me ask if they think how concerned are you that they the factual element of history if you like the defendant the defendant have element of history as far as we can tell it because it is always going to be objective to some degree is going to get lost in amongst an overly sensitive approach towards political and cultural considerations particularly in the united states. so i think if you are really telling the story of the united states we are that multicultural multiracial nation and you are going to include the. contributions of people who are of different backgrounds and certainly of the native people of our country and any time you are
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a race that that's what i'm most fearful of the more inclusion actually the better the more we learn about what made our country what it is the better and i think that that's actually historically factual we talk about railroads we can't talk about that without talking about asian americans we can't talk about you know texas and arizona new mexico without talking about california without talking about mexicans and mexican americans we can have to include everyone in our history and that's not ideology that's just fact and that's what made us who we are the desire to a race that is i think the most dangerous thing we can do i really appreciate you giving him expertise in this jason nichols thank you very much indeed for being an al-jazeera thank you so much tropical storm sandy is bringing torrential rain to the u.s. state of georgia on the carroll line as it moves north from the gulf coast it's
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already wreaked havoc in florida and alabama but at least one person has been killed the storm has been downgraded to a tropical depression but officials say it's not over yet with warnings of widespread flash flooding. schools in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro have reopened but nobody knows for how long legal disputes between mayors governors and trade unions have left students and teachers in limbo all cases remain high nationwide there were 36000 new covered 1000 cases on thursday and more than 800 deaths reports. the deadly pandemic kept this school closed for 200 days but not any more children are back in class despite brazil remaining the world's 3rd largest covert 19 hotspot thing i'm afraid but we have to take a risk rice not all students have returned but 10 year old isabella has decided to take the plunge she's taking precautionary measures against coronavirus and says
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she prefers being back at school than at home learning online but isabella's 1st class in 6 months may be one of her last something we've had for injunctions in 48 hours we don't know what will happen next all over brazil decisions are taken one day and radically change the next week political squabbles have turned brazil's educational system into a shambles is a bell us family of 5 is struggling to get used to the pandemic and to the changing guidelines i have given them the only rule in brazil is that there is no rule whether to grandma or not whether to reopen the schools or not men say one thing governor 3 another trade unions fight back and the federal government has no policy every family is on its own isabella's daughters study at a private school but lessons will remain online. person was accepted by
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a public university free of charge he had one week of classes before the pandemic shut down his college his father is a teacher at the state funded school for the hearing impaired this is the 1st time he has stepped into the building in 6 months and it is still empty now. a huge percentage of public school and college students have no access to internet or the means to follow online courses but many in brazil say children should be back in class and have staged protests to make their point. if bar stores and shopping centers have reopened they say and schools should be allowed to do the same before the pandemic this school had 180000 the 1st day it reopened only 38 showed up the 2nd day only 5 resilience aren't sure if schools should be open or not if it's legal to do it or not there's only one rule everybody seems to agree
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with playgrounds like this one are off limits the owner says she followed all the safety procedures but brazilian authorities keep going back and forth this is getting help me some parents need to leave their children here because they have to go to work and don't have good internet connection for online classes but they don't know who to trust and meanwhile bills keep coming and since there has been no final decision if schools should reopen in rio de janeiro or elsewhere in brazil students teachers and parents from maine in limbo monica and active all just sirrah rio de janeiro. iraq's government has launched a campaign to reduce the number of illegal weapons the aim is to reduce crime but some tribes say disarming them goes against their traditions though says about the reports from baghdad. these are members of iraq's special task force looking for illegal guns in the south eastern province of miss sun they're
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eager to find them so they search of people's homes and commercial sites like this factory trying to uncover any where people could hide weapons they've set up extra checkpoints here to make sure unregistered guns are not smuggled out and this is what they say they've confiscated so far let me just run the we've seized more than 30 weapons made 6 arrests and confiscated 4 vehicles without license plate this operation is also happening in the neighboring province of basra which has seen the biggest increase in violence in. weeks of tribal feuds lack of facilities and corruption have led to anger and protests here and a recent rise in targeted killings of high profile activists forced the prime minister to travel to basra to reassure people the government's will do more. targeted killing of prominent iraqi scholar his family hashmi in july outside his home in this neighborhood in baghdad by gunmen on motorbikes prompted outrage
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across the country the government has been accused of not being able to protect its citizens from armed groups which is why many are turning to their tribes for protection this is why disarming tribes in iraq is not an easy task the name although. the issue of having weapons in iraq is not a new phenomenon it's part of our culture especially the tribal culture so disarming tribes will require special initiative to convince tribal leaders that weapons position has a more negative impact on the entire society and a long history of conflict has also created a market for illegal weapons. behati is one of the main tribes in the country in baghdad its leader explains why the government's plan won't work. i don't believe they will succeed it is considered an insult to take away the weapons of any thrive veterans are considered the symbol of all iraqi tribes it is because the
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government blocks power to protect people and enforce the rule of law that they use that thrives to settle data disputes and sometimes to be need to settle disputes back in may sand despite the challenges facing these forces the search goes on to rid the country of illegal weapons or such a party al jazeera back that. this is all just the readings of the top stories the world health organization says it's concerned about the alarming rate of new infections in europe that have been more than 300000 infections in the past week some countries have ring introduced lockdowns in hardest hit cities. thousands of refugees are settling into a new tent city on the greek island of lez boss after a fire swept through their old camp 9 days ago many of them have been reluctant to move in because they're worried they'll be stuck there a u.s.
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judge has temporarily blocked what he's calling politically motivated changes to the postal service ahead of the november election the case has been brought by 14 states who say the changes threaten the delivery time of mail in ballots the judge says some harm has already been done u.s. president donald trump has announced a series of measures to promote what he's calling patry arctic education in a speech to the national archives museum he said the new so-called $776.00 commission would quote teach our youth to love america is criticize what he called leftwing indoctrination which he said views every issue through the lens of race the moves in response to the new york times 1619 project it highlights the long term consequences of slavery and the contributions of black americans the f.b.i. is warning u.s. politicians that people working on behalf of russia are trying to influence the
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upcoming election the writer christopher ray says they're trying to undermine confidence in the democratic process and they're issuing a steady stream of misinformation aimed at denigrating the democratic candidate joe biden. tropical storm sally's bringing to rental rain to the u.s. state of georgia and the carolinas it's already rich havoc in florida and alabama it's now been downgraded to a tropical depression but officials say it's not over yet with warnings of widespread flash flooding. peru's president will face an impeachment hearing on friday after the constitutional court rejected his appeal for a delay martin biscotti is accused of interfering in a corruption probe looking into nearly $50000.00 worth of irregular government contracts the homes of several government officials were raided on saturday as part of the investigation the president has rejected the allegations those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story good bye.
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this south africa doing enough to fight xenophobia human rights watch accuses police and vigilante groups of routinely targeting foreigners so what's needed to ensure equality for all in the so-called rainbow nation this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i mean ron cowen routine and lethal violence against foreigners.

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