tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera September 19, 2020 9:00pm-10:01pm +03
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if you go to it with urgency it's a blast but i don't see that the more urgent. some of the key players of the peace process talked out 0. 0. 0 there and give it al this is the news hour live from doha coming up the next 60 minutes. voters should pick the president and the president should just use the death of supremes court liberal icon of ruth bader ginsburg is in a fierce battle over have a place spent. more than 300 arrested in balad says protesters march for another day calling on the president to step down. as the number of coronavirus cases tops
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30000000 and many countries are considering reinstating lockdown measures in the face of a 2nd wave. the u.s. tries to turn back the clock on the iran nuclear deal but faces a world wide opposition. i'm satisfied it's not the latest sports including gareth bale rejoins english premier league side tottenham boss sock completes a one year loan leave after 7 trophy laden seasons ounce real madrid. tributes are being paid to u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg who has died at the age of $87.00 while many are remembering her legacy as a champion of women's rights but little fight is brewing over what happens next with 6 weeks to go until election day republicans want to name her successor immediately president donald trump says the nomination should be made without.
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delay democratic challenger joe biden says the next president should decide when fisher reports. became to leave tributes to pay their respects to mark the passing of a woman few here knew but all respected a loss they felt personally even if ruth bader ginsburg's decisions from the supreme court may not have touched their lives she was physically small but her presence loomed large on the court she was a blunt talking liberal who often challenge her conservative colleagues on the bench born to jewish immigrants in brooklyn new york in 1033 ginsburg was a brilliant student she was one of only one woman to enroll in harvard university law school in 1956 later transferring to columbia university where she graduated at the top of her class the skin's broke told one television interviewer no law firms wanted to hire a married mother i had 3 strikes against me when i was jewish to our. way that i was the mother of a 4 year old. that is the sixty's and seventy's launched the women's
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movement ginsburg found a place in academia then as co-founder of a women's rights project for the american civil liberties union she wrote the 1st supreme court brief on gender discrimination after 12 years as an appeals court judge in washington d.c. president bill clinton appointed gives birth to the u.s. supreme court in 1993 ginsburg proved to be a consistent liberal voice on the increasingly conservative high court she supported abortion rights and gender equality she also advocated using international laws to shape u.s. laws there spoke in ginsburg fought several battles with cancer her dying wish was the vacancy her passing creates will not be filled until after the election. we started to gather at the court soon after her death was announced their numbers grew there were hundreds the. one trump supporter with a megaphone arge the president to move quickly he was trained by the chants of others. yes. the president has already unveiled
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a list of people he wants to put on the court if he wins a 2nd term but leaving a rally he only praised justice ginsburg. facing life. what else can you say she was an amazing woman. she was an amazing woman. and 26 thieves justice antonin scalia a republican choice passed before the presidential election the senate refused to confirm but there are success and named by president obama democratic candidate this time joe biden says there must be no decision until the election has passed voters should pick the president and the president should pick that justice for the senate to consider. this was the position of the republican senate took in 2060. or almost 10 months to go before the election
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that's the position the state senate must take today ginsburg strive to maintain strong liberal voices on the supreme court to balance the conservative ones that her own voice has been silenced that balance under threat. let's go live to who is outside the supreme court allan so this all adds another element doesn't assume the lead up to the november election donald trump now tweeting about how he would like to see justice ginsburg's ginsburg's replacement sort of that how do you how he'd like to see that will proceed. many of the people who are showing up here and you can see a lot of them behind me and they've been tightening up since just almost immediately after the innocent of the justices passing was made i can say and what may happen as well as paying their respects to the justice back in 2016 donald
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trump used the supreme court as a way to galvanize his base he told them look if you vote for me we're going to get we're going to get conservative justices on the bench that is why you need a trump presidency he could play that trick this time around but he's decided it would appear that he's going to push ahead and named someone to the supreme court mitch mcconnell who is the leader of the republicans in the senate will be his job to marshal him through that hearing that will be interesting because of course 4 years ago there was the death of a conservative justice antonin scalia just before the election 10 months before the election and mitch mcconnell said then no we can't do any confirmation hearings with the election so close he says the difference this time is that there's a president and the senate under control of the same party therefore he is going to push ahead with that so it would appear that we're going to get some sort of nominating process in the next few weeks that's going to be very interesting can we get it through 1st of all did you dish it a committee and then to
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a vote on the floor of the senate it probably could but there may be some senators who don't want to cast a vote at this moment although a number of expressing on twitter that they will back up plan but if you can't get it through by the election he could possibly get it through by the inauguration that's the 20th of january why is that important because if joe biden wins the election donald trump will then be a lame duck president and we will see a conservative justice essentially in poised on joe biden and that could lead to a constitutional crisis it could lead to democrats saying to joe biden one of the 1st things you do when you get into the white house. is that you expand the number of people on the supreme court this story is going to run not just until the election but we beyond just watch now and just to remind our international viewers of what's at stake here why the way the supreme court is so important. to. this supreme court has become more important in recent years because
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it would seem that congress can't legislate but there's a lot of legislation the ends up in the building behind me what the justices are asked to rule on whether or not 8 is constitutional that is their role there are 3 branches of government in the u.s. presidential congress and the court no we've seen some cases come here like marriage equality ruth bader ginsburg was very much in favor of that and that gave gay people homosexuals the right to have marriage equality in the united states some parts of obamacare challenge in the court upheld by the court and there's going to be another test for obamacare coming to the court very soon and it will concern preexisting conditions donald trump says he's going to defend them but of course it's the republicans who are bringing the case here to the supreme court and the supreme court might say no insurers don't have to recognize pre existing conditions that is a big talking point in the election 2 more key points as well 1st of all if the
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election is close and donald trump says well it's going to be stolen from us it might well end up here in the court at the moment that would mean. just 8 justices so it could be a 44 split that is distinctly possible and you remember elections have ended up in the court before back in 2000 the recount in florida it was decided by the supreme court here's another thing to remember if donald trump loses the election there are democrats who have said that they would like to see him face criminal charges over some of the things he's done while in power if that were to be the case and it was to make its way through the criminal justice system almost inevitably it would end up. at the supreme court and you could have 9 justices the saving on the feet of donald trump 3 of them appointed by donald trump so you see why this is a really important moment in american politics it was incredible the antonin scalia died before the election in 2016 for ruth bader ginsburg who's gone through cancer many people thought that she would hold on till after the election the fact that
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she is diet changes the whole complection of court changes politics in the run up to the united states of america and of course means she's deeply mourned by the people who are turning up here on capitol hill in front of the supreme court ok thank you there to alan fischer there live in washington d.c. . and as alan mentioned republicans and democrats are now fighting a battle on 2 fronts the presidential election and the naming of a new supreme court justice which could have consequences for decades to come that's why republicans want to proceed immediately with the nomination of democrats say it must wait until after the new president takes office supreme court judges have been appointed in past election years but never so close to the vote in 2016 republicans refused to even hold confirmation hearings for obama nominee merrick garland reacting to ruth bader ginsburg's death obama said republicans invented the principle that an open seat shouldn't be filled before a new president is sworn in and that role must now be fairly applied joseph era
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is a professor at texas a and m. university's doha campus where he specializes in the u.s. supreme court he says though the republican party controls the senate it's not a certainty that a trump nominee will be confirmed. the leadership of the republican party of the last 4 years or any god will be as aggressive as possible and using the product of their office to move forward with a nomination from the white house with a confirmation from the senate but of course not all republicans are in the same political circumstances and not all of them are equally on board with the president and his agenda so i think the large majority of republicans will be eager to fill the seat and hold a confirmation hearing with a vote but it would take only a small number of the factions of republicans who are either facing difficult reelections or have principal of objections to ignoring the rule that they are in for so recently in 2016 and that might derail
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a quick response to justice ginsburg asking there's not a democrat in the white house they don't hold of a majority in the senate so aside from campaigning on the issue both in the presidential election and in the senatorial campaign that are ongoing and trying to use public pressure to peel off that little republican voters in the senate there's very little they can do the question becomes if the president is successful in building the seat and if he loses the election what will the democrats do and in the next term or 2 to try to undermine donald trump's you know midnight judges. police in belo rooms have made more than $300.00 arrests in a repeat of last weekend's protests women defied the police crackdown to join marches in the capital minsk protesters continue to call for the resignation of president aleksander following last month's disputed election our correspondent
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stan false and witnessed some of the arrests in minsk. after last night thanks itself last week rally the women are back here on the streets women have even tried hard 1 fought against protest and battle since the very start bringing. women were the opposition leaders 2 of them have fled the country oneness and think tanks and so now we are the women here thinking over and they are still our strength and the south and of course look at factories i. police have the rights to women are running away they are trying to hide into their shops and restaurants here in this area better panicky and i. feel. as if. tens of women by now have
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already been put in the detention vehicle some of them quite aggressively here pushed inside they keep pushing the press away all the time as well they also have of course been detaining journalists over the past weeks as well so everyone has to be really careful here some women are really emotional some are crying and shaking out of fear because of course these man up very intimidating they also have in the past been trying to grap them actually reveal their identities to make sure that they will be held accountable for what they have done. let's speak not to really see a broad nick and starr kong she is a research fellow at the center for new ideas a perversion think tank thank you time are you surprised by what was being seen today in minsk. honestly no one who is surprised that i go in and bothers fright now because we saw the. soldiers have already crossed the border for violence and for by showing by detaining people and by exposing them to
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torches prisons. tension process so it's no longer surprised anyone and neither does it surprise the european union or the western tis so it's been very violent since the beginning although they compete but probably today in tomorrow will be the most violent. scenes the 9 cent. goes because. the president has been granted by some sort of political freedom for violence which was prompted by putin and when he gave the credits to the financial supports to the which is one and a half $1000000000.00 so we expect and it's going to continue but you mentioned there torture i mean there are claims of of the some serious event is a serious human rights abuse how are these abuses be documented what are you
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hearing. that's the question of the bigger scale but only plays on the national level there are human rights organizations primarily this spring 96 organization that's keeping track of all the people who suffered from violence and torture as it's been reported to the higher bodies such as us or amnesty international and different human rights organizations abroad they also pay attention to the human rights violations in the country although it's still impossible for them to be present in the country in bigger number of people so it's currently very much for stricter the resources of human rights i'm going to say she's within the country are limits what do you think this continued crackdown will do to the protest movement. i think some protesters have already demonstrated that they are not ready to give up and for me seems like
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the violence is only increasing the protest sentiment that people are just willingly join in the cold says despite the risks and assessing their possibilities to be detained or the fact that they can be detained is no longer prevented them for from taking part in the protests and that's why hundreds of thousands will believe her sons are still to test him on the streets because they demand freedom and according to some research to some primarily it says already that both her sons are joining the protests primarily because of the violence that's been treated by the regime rather than due to political and election fraud ok we'll have to leave it at a time thank you for that nick there. thank you. i did our head on the news on turning. back on his feet it's poisoned russian opposition they did alexei navalny says his recovery will take a long time. cramming into
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a camp thousands of refugees have relocated on the greek island of their small but there are new fears for their health and safety. and the english premier league's top colombian import up into scoring accounts for more details coming up in sports . alexina belly is walking again after emerging from a coma a few days ago the russian opposition they says his recovery is going well but will take a long time he's being treated in germany his doctors say he was poisoned with the russian nerve agent talk last month the kremlin denies involvement and is a specialist on russia and an extra and modern european history at queen's university belfast. he says have always recovery won't necessarily mean he'll return to his previous level of political activity. if he returns and he resumes he
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is there with don't like the we've got much less room for them to do anything about it because they'll be so it's so much more. international attention paid to whatever they do in the country thinking on the regular basis as they used to the guns which in the jail in certain of the countries in him again they think it was them who did it but at the same time. they know a lot of on the itself yes to kind of try to very careful line in a sense that he doesn't want to be at the 2 on pity or tick in russian the russian public and there is weston calls for sanctions imposed on russia individuals but also on. the gas pipeline which is being built and so forth really make make his situation within russia a little bit more precarious as well i would say with the public as well as the thirty's full of the north the he's but if your career will be just but as i think what we can say for sure is that he's not going to be the same as it was before
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because for all the factors because of the poisoning because of the international pressure and sanctions. and because of the. other do the therapist will basically. treat him as as they used to treat him before so it's a difficult one and i'm still not 100 percent sure that they would actually let him return to russia the could be a pressure for him just to stay away. a growing number of coronavirus cases among refugees on the greek island of this is causing concern at least 214 infections are confirmed that's is 9000 refugees have been moved into a new camp after the previous one europe's knowledge asst burned down 10 days ago stephanie deca has this report from the camp site in this month's. people are starting to settle into their new reality which is life in this new camp an emergency camp it's very windy today open to the elements one thing people have been concerned about was not being able to leave thinking that they would perhaps
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be stuck and they're calling it a potential jail but from what we've been seeing is people are being allowed moving in and out of the camp the authorities are telling us that people are free to move to go and buy supplies groceries until 8 pm in the evening we've seen people queue up outside a supermarket just down the road where they can buy groceries and this is what they had to tell us about what it's like inside the camp. over the conditions are really bad inside there's just a tent people are sleeping on the floor the conditions are horrible. no toilets for the toilets you have to go outside these are some of the videos that have emerged from inside showing the horrendous conditions of the toilets. and this is really only early days when it comes to dealing with thousands and thousands of people so time will tell how this camp is going to come together it's still being constructed agencies are still getting their act together but certainly
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the message from people inside is that the conditions are challenging what people want is to get off the island many of them have been waiting over a year for their asylum say papers to be processed for their requests to be processed and that is a process that is going to be restarted soon but certainly the message from the authorities here it doesn't seem that these people have been waiting for so long already are going to be leaving the island any time soon. be corona virus pandemic has infected close to 31000000 people worldwide and killed almost 1000000 so far the 2nd wave of infections is feared in many countries the united states continues to be the worst affected with close to 7000000 infections and nearly 200000 deaths india is the 2nd worst adding more than 93000 daily cases. it's total of more than 5000000 germany has recorded its highest number of new infections since april and parts of spain's capital madrid gehring up for restrictions affecting 850000
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spaniards britain's prime minister boris johnson says the 2nd wave of infections is being seen he says new restrictions might be necessary but he doesn't want another locked arm. so the game goes on inside a testing site in london and sent this report. well this is one of the mobile testing sites that has been set up on this weekend in order to try and deal with the surge of coronavirus infections in the u k particular what is worrying is even though they are younger people who are primarily affected by this most recent wave concern is that it will go to more vulnerable members of society including older people who are more affected by the virus meanwhile there is more pressure on the prime minister to try and deal with this 2nd wave now last week mr barak's johnson did say that to do another national lockdown would be a disaster for the u.k.
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but he is coming and more pressure not just from his own party but also from other leaders around the u k scottish leader nicola sturgeon as well has asked that an emergency meeting be chaired to deal with this the effects of this latest wave and also the mayor of london city on has called for more guidance from the government but this is going to be the weekend where boris johnson is going to have to consider exactly what he's going to have to do that couldn't tell further local lock downs as well as more severe social restrictions including non mixing of the households together. john is from the johns hopkins university center for health security he thinks the priority should be to expand testing for all. you know a lot more in september of 2020 about this virus and we know even in march or april
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of 2020 we have a new tools we do know how to diagnose this we have treatments we understand what activities fostered the spread of this virus and which ones don't so we can be much more targeted with their public health interventions now being said we do have a virus that spreads very efficiently so we're always going to have to be vigilant we're always going to have to seize our active cases going up in cases going down trying to titrate our public health interventions to keep them to a level it's manageable by hospitals and out departments if you can test people if people have the ability to know their status maybe if they were home test so people can know before they go out we wouldn't have to do this as much because then we wouldn't have so many chains of transmission is that testing tracing and isolating that we need to do in many countries still do not have the capacity to do so. for 2 months students have been peacefully protesting in thailand as they call for a change of government new elections and a very sensitive topic mottaki reform and on saturday they held their largest protest today stinks to a new ally of a well established pro-democracy movement called hard to reports from bangkok. with
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the grand palace says a backdrop and what's known as the royal field under their feet thousands of pro-democracy protesters gather in bangkok. as they began to flow into the original venue at thomas art university it became clear that those coming out were not just students anymore. but red shirts were arriving in strength joining the protesters calling for reform in the government and modern. the red shirts are a populist movement started by former prime minister talks and his sister yingluck was removed from office in a coup led by the current prime minister channel chalk a veteran of the red shirt movement citywalk. organized dance to bring supporters down from the north. and they've been pm can lead this is the 1st time that the red shirts the now saw support for the students and their demands because they have the same goal that we have always been fighting for true democracy. early afternoon
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some of the protesters broke into sun on long or while field just across from the university once in they began to set up for the main event the police were unable to stay their ground outnumbered by the flow of protesters with common pro-democracy goals the red shirts and the student protesters have come out together and for evidence that the student groups demands for reform in the government and monarchy have broad appeal. and antes come out it shows that they cannot take it anymore i don't think a matter when it comes to disc protests is about our right everybody has defamed right to stand here because we've wasted 6 created a coup and we have gained nothing despite the many different ages that came out from across thailand one message was clear made by the speakers and by those listening this is the beginning if the changes and reforms they call for are not made they'll keep coming back out it's got harder al-jazeera banker. still ahead on
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al-jazeera as the world's largest wetland bans as an unprecedented rate brazil's president says his government should be congratulated to cast. i'm charlie rangel on the river delta in southwest england by an animal hunted to extinction 400 years ago is making a comeback trying to turn something to just flooding. and inspire the world number 2 finds an easy way through to the semifinals at the italian i can. tell you we've got lots of high seas on shot across the middle east as per usual not a lot going on as you can see largely clear skies winds will pick up across the central parts of iraq as we go on through the next day sliding the. down towards kuwait to
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push on into monday those winds a little more intense we could see some lifted dust and sand as a result of that but for the most part as you can see in terms of any right now that in the full cost over the next few days at least away from turkey up towards the caucuses plenty of rain in the full cost though cross central parts of africa was pay usual say some heavy showers pushing across the democratic republic of congo central african republic also seeing some very heavy rains so sit down could still see a shower would say on the heavy side as we go on into sunday so what's the weather they're pushing across and sue the big goal cameroon southern parts of nigeria seeing some very intense downpours and that could lead to some localized flooding heavy showers there too into uganda i want to say showers around southern and eastern parts of kenya maybe down towards tanzania but across southern africa it's largely dry we got some wetter weather pushing back into the eastern cape for a time and that will gradually make its way further north and east.
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is a political impasse here's the are we telling a good story. we're really interested in taking you into a place that you might not visit otherwise it's actually feels that you were there . is there a reminder of our top stories this hour the death of a u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg is now the backdrop of a showdown between the trump administration and democrats of a name because successor just months before the presidential election ensberg died aged 87 chip pancreatic cancer. police and others have made more than 300 arrests in a repeat of last weekend's protests demonstrators continue to call for the resignation of president alexander lukashenko following last month's disputed election. alexina
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valley is walking again after emerging from a coma a few days ago the russian opposition leader says his recovery is going well that will take a long time is not to say he was poisoned with the russian nerve agent last fall. the u.s. is preparing to break with almost every other member of the u.n. security council on sunday when that bridge they re imposed sanctions on iran washington claims to iran is not complying with the 2015 iran nuclear deal and says it will invoke a provision in the agreement to snap back sanctions but all the signatories say washington has no right to do that is it abandon the deal and 28 diplomatic editor james bass has more. it's aroud it's even pitted the u.s. against some of its closest allies and it's now over 5 years since the iran nuclear deal was signed in vienna joining the negotiations the us team under the
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leadership of the then secretary of state john kerry devised a mechanism called snap back if iran breached its commitments all international sanctions could snap back into place but that's not the way things played out the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal it was the u.s. under president trump that pulled out of the deal 2 years ago. despite this in objections from the rest of the international community the u.s. still argues it could trigger a snapback the one thing that the previous administration got right is they created provision where under u.n. security council resolution 2231. any one of the nations identified there had the right to say we want the sanctions that were in place prior to this that moment to snap back and that's what will do the rest of the world have ignored the u.s. declaration and in some ways more important than snap back is what happens on
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november the 3rd but one of the diplomats who negotiated the iran deal told me even if joe biden is elected president told that day getting back into the deal might not be that easy i don't think it's as easy as some people have made it out to be that president i'm certain i want that yes and then everything we go back to status quo ante i think actually you're i mean insert why it's you argue that 8 man out and say should or the sanctions or other countries receive united states issues i mean out of. your ass i think is going to be much more complicated than just the station yet diplomat saber. in the scenes a great deal of pressure was put on the other members of the security council to support the u.s. position only one country the small nation of dominican republic did whatever washington says it seems that the plan to snap back sanctions has failed
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james. at the united nations but i speak now to jared funk in washington d.c. he served as the state department coordinator for iran nuclear implementation under president obama he is now a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace thank you so much for your time mr barch you described any u.s. measures against iran in this snapback as window dressing can you talk me through that. well snapback is the reapplication of u.n. sanctions and other restrictions including travel restrictions and most famously at this point the arms embargo my view is that the united states has very little ability to implement or enforce those multilateral sanctions or restrictions using unilateral tools and since the vast majority of the united nations are closest allies and partners have rejected the legitimacy of our use of snapback i don't
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think that there's a whole lot that we can do unilaterally to enforce the the rules as we see them. specially when it comes to the arms embargo we can say that they're going to be sanctions on anybody who sells arms to iran but we already have sanctions on anybody who sells arms to iran the europeans want to sell arms to iran in any case and the countries most likely to do so for example russian arms exporters are already sanctioned by the united states for on other grounds ok so what's the point then i mean some believe that the u.s. is just spoiling for a fight with tara and they'd up to the elections what do you think. i think that's where things were a few months ago i think that the entire snap back plan was designed in order to try to shatter the remnants of the g c.p.o. a and make it impossible for a newly elected democratic president to try to reenter the deal if they if they choose to do so i think the administration has basically it failed in that effort
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they've failed to complicate the situation of the united nations the europeans have been categorical that the united states doesn't have standing to use snapback that means that from the world's perspective un security council resolution resolution 2231 remains in place as an international legal framework for the deal and they've also failed to provoke an overreaction from iran that would eliminate the remnants of the deal and so at this stage i think quite frankly they're just trying to kind of clean up the mess that they've created and do some domestic politics i don't really think that there is a diplomatic or national security purpose to these moves ok what about the iranian reaction and the iranian calculation here well it seems to me if you just looking at what iran has and hasn't done over the last few years that the iranians have made a decision that they want to leave in place some skeleton or shell of the g. c.p.o. a that that isolates the united states from our european partners and it leaves
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open the possibility of a return to compliance for compliance return to the way in the future it's hard for me to see anything that's happening this weekend with the u.s. assertion of snapback in the united nations or any plan new sanctions announcement next week shaking that apparent decision on terrans part how might the scenario their relationship c.p.o. a change if joe biden is elected come november. well president biden has said repeatedly and very clearly that what he would like is a compliance for compliance return to the g.c. in the united states pulled out of the deal and we stop to abiding by our obligations and after that iran's stop to divide abiding by the sum of their obligations so what vice president biden would like is for both sides to go back into abiding by their obligations and then from from that standpoint to start talking about the other issues that we have between our countries i heard your
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previous guests to my friend richard if you said you know that's going to be complicated and it is that any negotiation between the united states and iran over these issues is going to be difficult but it seems to me that that's the 1st effort that vice president biden would make if elected and again if you look at what iran has and hasn't done so far it seems to be plausible but they're open to that as a way forward ok i think that jared blank there joining us from washington d.c. thank you. so government is being urged to do more to prevent damage and loss of life from heavy flooding that has ravaged the region half a 1000000 people have been forced from their homes and more than 100 have died experts are warning of more flash floods while the government is trying to stop the outbreak of disease in affected villages mama don't reports from santa. the small let up in the suffering of sudan's flood victims in single town in south
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western sudan and tired neighborhoods remain completely cutoff. the higher share of the neighborhood is only accessible by consumers of the law sent his wife and children come for the displaced but chose to remain behind to guard his flooded house he is angry at the lack of help. even the response from the government has been very weak for the past 3 years we've been begging the government to reinforce the flood defenses but they didn't we went and spoke to everyone from the local authorities to the national government and still nothing. that was floods 400 years in sudan completely destroyed most homes in this neighborhood the government has defended its response so far saying that it's been hindered by international economic sanctions as well as the shop full in the sudan he's palmed i want to know about i know what bad you know who do what at
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that our house with the 1st one to be flooded in the neighborhood we were asleep we could only save our lives everything we owned got swept away sudan's rapid deployment forces of sprayed insecticide some pools of stagnant water to kill mosquito love but given how widespread the flooding has been it's almost impossible for everywhere to be disinfected the destruction of thousands of quick look through by the floods also is a great bend to the population you know and i guess it's like unicef are now helping the government run them budgets to help scientists to deal with and i'll break. up one of the numerous comes for the displaced in syria unicef medical stuff i immunize in children against missiles and other communicable diseases the health care workers say they are doing everything they can to avoid outbreaks is cutting up our nutrition said velo. now at the lectern why it's getting. to be honest some buy for any and as you know and also to detect early.
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monitors and kids and to take them on the road if it is that they need further. treatment the government in recent days issued new allots to communities living on the banks of the nile that rains in the highlands of neighboring ethiopia could did to flush floods sudan's humanitarian aid commission say 650000 people have been affected since the start of the rains in mid july millions of others are facing hardship as the cost of food and chance puts solos because of the flood disaster 'd and long running economic tomoya in sudan. how does eat or. is sold was to sit down the governing party in ivory coast is holding an election campaign rally before next month's general election tensions running high after judges barred opposition the sorrel and lawyer from running critics say the constitution forbids
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president allison what part of seeking a 3rd term in office these are as he has no choice following the sudden death of his chosen successor in july. president has survived an impeachment vote in congress martin discarded denied corruption and interfering in an investigation into government contracts awarded to his friend but out of sanchez reports from the capitol they may. be your conscience they voted against their own intentions one week after a majority of lawmakers decided to impeach president the discover for moral incapacity many voted against unseating him legislators said it was for the benefit of the country but during the impeachment proceedings many had accused the scott of interfering in an investigation into a government contract awarded to a friend and the president denied any wrongdoing he shouted out why are we here what's the basis that motivates this congress to impeach me which is the justified cause that until now can't be proven let me and my man but many lawmakers who voted
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to impeach the scatter didn't give him the benefit of the doubt yet not only the idea all politicians must be ethical and we must demand good behavior that's why we must penalize the behaviors that go against the dignity appropriate for the most important job in the country. there were many different opinions throughout the proceedings some lawmakers condemned the president others said he was morally unfit to govern but the consensus was that he must be investigated but the law protects presidents from prosecution until the end of their term recommissioning. i will not accept the accusations against me they are biased i ask what is the crime i'm not saying things shouldn't be investigated on the contrary i'm the 1st to be interested that the truth is known. since he took over the presidency met these cover confronted political enemies 7 cabinets ousted more than 60 ministers
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resigned he deserved congress last year despite surviving the impeachment the 50 said. the leader has only a few allies in the legislature with little support he must rely on popular support from peruvians and with 10 months to go until his term ends 79 percent said he should stay by the other songes than just cedar lima bid to. mexico's president plans to comply with an agreement to supply water to the united states despite opposition from farmers under a 76 year old treaty mexico needs to send more than 300000000 liters of water to us by october the 24th protesters in the drought stricken chihuahua state stormed the compound of the dam that's used to divert the water 2 people were killed when the national guard was sent to disperse them. wildfires are burning in the amazon rain forest and the parthenon wetlands of brazil government critics say the destruction
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is unprecedented president obama's in iowa says brazil is setting an example for the world on how to handle the environment monica has the story. the punk that the world's largest wetland and not a drop of water in site fires have been blazing year since july leaving a trail of destruction so far there have been more than 15000 fires triple the number than the same period last year it's the worst record since 1998 when the government national institute for spatial research started measuring them. it's a really strange combination. of drought. with with bad policies from our government lack of control. and wrong discourse in the media all the time kind of sensuality. illegal crash destroyed the environment
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because they think it would hardly coaches or mining in batches like they're treated as a huge mistake. is all the fire that they're getting in the bunker now and owsley jamel it does have an effect on what the cycles that irrigate our are going to go surely the. flames have already incinerated animal sanctuaries and also farms like this one. in minutes we saw it all come to and then including the animals it's very sad because we couldn't do anything and then there is the blinding smoke which experts say will soon darken the skies in cities like some powerful more than a 1000 kilometers away from the. president reagan has been downplaying the fires saying they're being exaggerated by environmentalists the press and foreign governments but the smoke almost per quarter his visit to the bun bun are often out
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of plane was forced to abort a perfect time to land in my state in the heart of the region also natto didn't go near the fires he visited farmers rode a tractor and dismissed criticisms from abroad like those made by the european union. we're being largely criticised and attacked by countries who compete with us exporting agricultural goods they don't have problems with fires because they've already burnt all their forests. but investors both in brazil in abroad have done more than criticizable sinatra's policy they're threatening to stop buying products from a country that doesn't take the environment seriously meineke an active al-jazeera rio de janeiro. police in romania have recovered rare books stolen in london 3 years ago but include 1st editions of works by isaac newton and galileo the
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rarities worth more than $3000000.00 were found buried under a house in rural romania. an animal hunted to extinction in england 400 years ago is making a comeback believe it is a thriving in the county of devon and as charlie angelo discovered they're attracting tourists as well as improving water quality and reducing the risk of flooding. a family of beavers frolicking on the river otter hunted to extinction in the 17th century for the 3rd and then meet eurasian beavers were discovered here 12 years ago no one knows where they came from the when the government threatened to remove them fearing they could carry disease there was local outcry the beavers were allowed to stay for 5 years as long as they would closely study scientists say the benefits they bring obvious there's a whole long list but 4 main ones are flood reduction so when they build dams they reduce flooding downstream water quality improvements those same dams capture
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pollutants research the carbon capture within the dams in the vegetation that grows in the sediments behind them and then we see an explosion in the wall of life so much more wetland wildlife than losing it and after the beavers sort of for a columnist. 15 families now live here and the government has sanctioned their reintroduction across the country it's a groundbreaking decision returning a once extinct native species to england but not without problems beavers are brilliant architects cutting down trees to build dams which create deep pools of water to hide in and store their plant food you can see here free food is created it is highly i believe it and it's a welcome change for this land for some landowners a concern that some of the downs could flood their fields conservationists are urging the government to provide funds so that everyone can embrace their return. flooding and managing it is already costing the u.k. $2800000000.00
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a year ecologist sikkim to point out that the work the beavers do has real value far outweighing the costs of mine to floods to farm and these beaver dams store water they can slow the flow of water through catchments which can alleviate flooding and create more flood resilient landscapes the beavers slow water down as it moves through that territory and not cause the the impact on the side of an dropping out of the water and that can trap environmental pollution such as phosphate in the trades so a release of species to be introduced in england back on the rivers the numbers growth so his interest in them attracting tourists and boosting the local economy. this female has for spring will each go out to find their own river to build lodges and dams on spreading the benefits across the country charlie al-jazeera southwest england. still ahead on al-jazeera in sports the n.b.a. superstar le bron james is not happy about a rare 2nd place finish. to watch. corruption
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it is that invisible behind a wall of silence. against corruption corruption is not something to be told in the. country his e-mail let's destroy this war. in 2020 the free space i want to encourage is the heroes who are fighting against corruption this helps our communities to save the resources they need in order to address the burning problems that affect us all. shine a light on the war and corruption here i. nominate now. on counting the cost of aging population soaring debts and recession can japan's new prime minister
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fix the economy famine property an uprising is the pandemic wipes out of decades of economic growth plus pakistan's asia's best performing still. counting the cost on al-jazeera rule. or. it's not enough for to start thanks a lot kim well let's start with manchester united to suffer the shock to feet in the english premier league opener the red devils went down at times crystal palace for many nights of play will for example came back to haunt them the ivory coast international scoring twice final score 31 palace combine international has rodriguez and scored his 1st goal to help his new side efforts and beats west brom 52 they were helped by the baggies having
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a player in their manager dismissed so nick calvert also got a trick and gareth bale as officially rejoined former cop tottenham from real madrid on a season long loan the welshman one suiter leader and 4 champions league titles of course have joined in what was at the time a wall direct quote transfer deal worth $132000000.00 but the 31 year old became a referral figure ryall last season playing just 100 minutes in the league following the 3 month coronavirus heights. e.p.l. champions live full of signed on 23 year old portuguese striker diogo datta is moved from wolves is worth more than $50000000.00 he follows diego county who fishley completed his move on friday the spain international joins from by him you know having just won the champions league with the german cup. when you
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pass the years a pass and you are trying to wean as much as you can when you win you want to win more and i think that describes what i am as well so i want to achieve all the or so we know trophies as possible m. and also this kind of family thing that a neat because we're we have a very close relationship with the club and i think it would feel this way we've had this feeling with this that was what well number one of a talk show could which is into the semifinals the italian open the serbian solved the german qualifier dominic cote for to get that he did however lose this 1st set of this year's tournament on route to winning 634663. into a bounce back from his controversial exit from the u.s. open where he was disqualified in the round of 16 off to accidentally hitting a judge with the ball. well up next for jock which is norway's caspar road to the
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21 year old pulled off a major shock on saturday he found 4th seed mateo but it feeney in the 3 sets to advance. well number 2 simona halep is through to the semifinals in the women's events yulia putin savall of ca's exxon was forced to retire from the last 8 match with a bike injury is building up to the final grand slam of the year the french open which starts next sunday. or the l.a. lakers of crucifix tryphena denver nuggets to clinch game one of the western conference finals the top seed didn't waste any time opening up a double digit lead in the 1st half anthony davis starred with 37 points and 10 rebounds the bron james added 15 more as the lakers rolled past the nuggets 126-2114 pants it wasn't all good news for jane's musing out to the milwaukee bucks younis compo as he was voted the league's 2nd most valuable player to.
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fit a 2nd a lot more career there from a championship now 4 times as. you know like i said never and never came into his league sound the be m.v.p. or be a champion i've always said i just want to get better and better every single day and those things that take your a self. there's some things this is a lot of money and some things you can't control and it was a painful day for one player south korea's top basketball league. giants infielder and she hung was rattled on his head by a wall to pitch in his side's win over the dino slightly reacted on time and managed to take the bow on the helmets. of the painful but for your sport for now i'll be back later with more bikes you can thank you as well. well that says it for making that alabama news out there and he will be here in just
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a moment from london with more of the day's news. corruption it is that invisible behind a wall of silence. against corruption corruption is not something to be told that it. is not on the african. country his. destroy this wall. in 2020 the free space over encourages the heroes who are fighting against corruption this helps our communities to save the resources that we need in order to address the burning problems that affect us all. shine a light on your anti corruption hero. nominate now.
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an image can change the way we see the world it could spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful it can obscure the truth forge narratives and rewrite them to listening post gives you the fruit picture on the jersey. after nearly 2 decades of conflict in afghanistan. the warring parties me face to face at the negotiating table but watching them now we're in a different phase and i wish the afghan can blame the united states the united states also looking at it with urgency it's a blast but i don't see that in the more urgent need of the africa. some of the key players of the peace process talked out as iran.
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revealing eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on al-jazeera. but death of us supreme court judge ruth bader ginsburg starts a fierce political battle just weeks before the presidential election. in london you're watching algiers 0 coming up on the program. sudan's government to do more to prevent future disasters as it tackles the worst flooding in a century. tens of thousands of people rallied against the government in thailand as months of political protest grow louder also.
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