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holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. role in the war on al-jazeera. warning. her. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian fit again this is the live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes iran's president mocks u.s. attempts to unilaterally reimpose nuclear sanctions after a u.n. security council members rejected the plan. refusing to give up the fires the day after hundreds of women are arrested another march is taking place against the president of better or worse. increasing
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disharmony we meet she lays indigenous people who are embroiled in a land dispute that's getting more dangerous. but off the rails hundreds of thousands of people are left stranded in south africa because of train troubles. and in sports matthew wolfe will take a 2 shot lead into the final round of goals the u.s. open the 21 year old could become the 1st to win the title in more than a 100 years. we begin this news with the standoff between the united states and some of its closest allies over nuclear sanctions on iran washington announced unilaterally that sanctions have been reimposed but that's been rejected by every other permanent member of the united nations security council tehran says that it will give a crushing response to what it calls u.s.
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bullying the president has done rouhani is urging washington to respect international law and he promised world powers praised the brother for standing up to u.s. pressure iran is calling on its international partners to oppose and defy the u.s. move. of course the edges of the united states are much ado about nothing and i imagine it's having its most bitter days and hours the u.s. choice was to stand on the wrong side of 3 and forget what its duties or tehran's message to washington is clear would turn to the world community return to your could minutes and stop insurgency rebellion and the world community will accept you but the u.s. isn't backing down secretary of state might pump a or threatened consequences if the un member states failing to comply with its sanctions washington insists that it does have the power to re-impose the measures despite pulling out of the iran nuclear deal 2 years ago let's go straight to
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terror ron said beggars there as a tell us more about what president rouhani had to say. well prison has been rouhani it was a cabinet meeting and he took the opportunity to give a televised address and this wasn't planned we didn't know that this was going to happen up until about 20 minutes before he began to speak and he's actually capitalizing on this division at the u.n. united nations security council he said that the united states maximum pressure campaign has turned into maximum pressure he thanked those states that opposed the united states he thanked them for opposing them he said that they supported the j.c. that's the 2015 nuclear deal and they rejected the united states and he's really playing it up he's talking to the iranian people as well as the other countries and he said to the remaining signatories of that you $1050.00 nuclear deal that iran is willing to return to its commitments if they return to theirs but you also gave
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a warning he said that if they use the united states is committed to carrying down this path carrying on down this path reinstating those sanctions that they will be met with a firm response from iran now that's been repeated to iran by foreign minister divides or if you don't actually know what that response is but there are concerns here in iran that the united states may try to stop iranian ships now if that happens will likely respond i'm going to push you on the business of the firm response. if these sanctions are implemented what on earth could iran do. well we sometimes hear some of this rhetoric coming out of the iran talking about a firm response a decisive response if it's all depends on what the united states will do if the united states starts stopping iranian ships well strategically iran is placed at the strait of hormuz that's one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world it's 20
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percent the world's oil passes through here it's about 39 kilometers wide at its narrowest point and history has taught us that when iranian ships have been stopped iran does respond but also if those sanctions are really imposed well we've been speaking to politicians hair and some of the options open to them is to leave the 2015 nuclear deal to stop i.a.e.a. inspectors inspecting nuclear sites here in iran and iran thinks that the odds are stacked in their favor because the europeans still want to maintain the 2015 nuclear deal they still want those inspectors inspecting the sites here they still want those certain restrictions placed on iran and if those sanctions are imposed well iran could leave the j.c. p.o. way stop the inspectors and that's something that the europeans don't want i was there is as a big reporting live from tehran also been a thanks indeed. france germany and the united kingdom of denied the u.s.
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has the right to re-impose sanctions on iran in a joint statement they emphasize that the us ceased to be a participant to the iran nuclear deal after its withdrawal 2 years ago and that washington's move to reimpose sanctions will not have legal effect the u.s. allies go on to explain that they are committed to fully implementing the 2015 deal endorsed by the u.n. let's bring in our own merits who is iran analysts who joins us live from glasgow good to have you with us aren't surprised that the china and russia against the the u.n. proposals you have france germany even the united kingdom against it too what are we to make of that. yeah i think you're right to emphasize the strangeness that the united kingdom freight from the u.s. on this policy. foreign policy in the u.k. is basically in lockstep with the trumpet ministration on almost everything for example last year. the year of the arabian vessel headed to syria.
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that i was told from the spanish foreign minister that the u.k. was actually involved in and ordering the theta. i think what we can read from dominic rock you say foreign ministers split from the u.s. stands with the with the other members of the 3 from germany but it is a totally unreasonable american democracy no one in the no one in the u.n. vote except the dominican republic supported not u.s. sanctions u.n. sanctions rather than leave because the u.s. led the jays the way. most people say this has to do with american domestic is that on fire has been really things information about. attempts to assassinate u.s. ambassadors in and in south africa he's got
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a habit of taking on verified intelligence and just putting on the media it seems to be that americans are looking for a political cause us to basically escalate something by these things. you incoming traffic into are wrong maybe i'm straight and loose with something but it's all about the election and the received wisdom is that during the election i left for iraq to incumbents in times of war and that's been widespread speculation that this is what the administration is up to. the spectrum status threatened consequences and then the states who don't comply with u.s. sanctions could those consequences be. well it's just part of the secondary sanctions regime so america has its own unilateral sanctions on the american on the iranian economy and because the us is the global currency of
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reserve and america's such a so had jim on heavy weights and nationally when it comes to finance that means that if you are a country a country trading with a rom. and you violate u.s. sanctions and therefore looted from the u.s. economy too if you like the sound more if your. or if you're a trader and bricks and then you want to buy the stuff she owes or if you want to set a wrong sort of white goods you'll violate u.s. sanctions and then the u.s. wants to apply this 2nd bridge sanction regime under u.n. sanctions which principally are around. but in actual fact iran is going to be set insulated from this because iran. iran produces a lot of it domestically because it's been forced to by the sanctions an interesting bit is that it signed that domestic manufacturing production has actually been larger in value and oil exports in iran and iran has
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enormous smuggling networks which it use which it uses to move arms and an outside of the country which are outside the sort of legitimate shipping industry so i think your view is should really excited about this is principally about the on principally about the election it's not so much about a material effect of sanctions on iran either way because american looking really articulate even if even the u.k. having the u.s. that is wrong on this one so it may not to. burnish his bilateral credentials and and on the sanctions ball and really good story too many thanks to our unmarried pap in glasgow. at least 24 civilians are reported to have been killed in northern afghanistan in a series of government air strikes the afghan defense ministry insists the attack killed 30 taliban fighters but witnesses have told the a.p.
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news agency that innocent villages were killed it comes as the taliban the afghan government meets in qatar to find a way to end the decades long conflict russian warplanes of lords and strikes in northwestern syria the bombardment hit just west of the city of lip northwestern syria is one of the last areas in the country held by rebels who are fighting against government forces police and by the roofs have started to detain protesters who've been gathering in the capital minsk rallies are getting underway across the country demonstrators are demanding the resignation of president alexander lukashenko following last month's disputed election as a large police presence in minsk the internet has been shut down al jazeera says step boston is therefore on the telephone from minsk right now as we can't get an internet connection to see. step where are you what's happening around you.
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i don't know among tens of thousands for such service right now circling a the city of. cancun she knew where to go they were planning to go to the supreme court because this march is called a march for justice they are saying that the sanctions should be brought to court to a tribunals called torch run the thing that's happened in the last couple of weeks that they were also trying to get his followers to be independent want to extract a dentist because all the roads were blocked so the group has. c increasingly difficulties gather to gather today and their rallies also kind of circuitry but another 2nd thought they are running also on go in right now where they clear that. question passes in fact on these protests but i have to stress that the people who are still on the streets most are very well that they could be detained
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any minute police and army is in full force across the city and across the country in other cities as well said i mean even if the security forces intervene here where are they going to put people they detained yesterday hundreds of women were arrested after being after marching in in minsk and they were released almost immediately there was no way to put these people. exactly you are there to complete overload of the detention right now more than 1000 people have been detained nearly as when we turn now so yesterday it was funny to hear that silly talk mother not the sanctity of even feel the pain all these women so they have to go back and forth and we just saw that police actually using public buses now like real normal public transport to argue change people so at the moment this mistake valley is soon large for them to intervene but police will always wait until there's a smaller group and then they started telling people they have done that earlier
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today and there's something you don't like to do the same thing again later on. al-jazeera steadfast in reporting live from minsk many thanks indeed to step. this is from out 0 still to come on the program a symbolic stand against thailand's mana keep the challenge that's being laid down by protesters so i think we're going to start the brushes extremely. well have a nominee very soon the political debates over who will succeed the u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg heats up. and in sports a rare setback for rafael nadal as he builds up to the final grand slam events of the year. refugees on the greek island of last boss of describe the conditions in a new camp as horrible thousands of arrived at the new settlement they were
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displaced almost 2 weeks ago after the morea camp down many refugees didn't want to go to and you come to mounting instead to be taken to the greek mainland let's take you know we're not going to do that just for a 2nd a rally in support of the refugees on those most is taking place in germany's capital berlin right now a test as a calling for the immediate evacuation of all greek refugee camps off the fires at berea now we can take you live to less upon such a serious stephanie deca is braving the breeze for us how conditions that today stephanie better than when we spoke to yesterday. not really i mean we've been watching some of the people being able to happen even able to leave the camp today in the morning they were allowed to leave that we're being told that at some point there was an order to close the gates being allowed to get so very much a fluid situation but we've seen some of the bottles to get much of. them back in
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you know the garbage cans that have wheeling them back into that because the tents at the moment are just basically. yes they're being handed those blankets but obviously you know it's getting colder at night here a.j. . and so it's a very basic infrastructure when it comes to discount and of course there was a lot of pressure to get people off the streets and been sleeping on the streets for 10 days off to the firebird morea cows so i think it's a work in progress certainly the refugees and migrants we've been speaking to saying the conditions are terrible particularly the lack of running water showers sanitation you know the toilets are terrible we've seen videos of that so i think it's taking some time to get on its feet as various n.g.o.s and there are helping the greek government the army that is running this camp of course you're talking a 1000 thousands of people might 1000 people that came into this capital very short period of time so that is the situation at the moment i think interesting me tomorrow the asylum process is going to restart the paperwork processing that had
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been put on hold since that fire that's been a very lengthy process age and this is why a lot of these people have been here for over a year and i think interesting the surrogate forward europe is going to be debating their migrant policies many people will tell you that more this now is a symbol of the failure of europe's migration policies of allowing these people to fester and these kinds of terrible conditions they're going to be reassessing their policy on wednesday having to do with adoption convention basically meeting that wherever the migrants refugees 1st land that's the country that has to deal with their asylum which is why countries like greece and italy were really at breaking point having to deal with such a large number so we have to wait and see what they come up with but certainly you know if we look at it practically here you know if that's going to me that they're going to be getting off this island any time soon it certainly doesn't look like it won't 0 stephanie decker reporting live from many thanks indeed. tens of thousands of protesters in thailand have ended the latest round of demonstrations
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by presenting a sense of to moms to the mall to keep it calls for the king's power to be limited or new constitution and elections criticism of the ball to keep elite. in thailand demonstrators place to park next to the grand palace in bangkok declaring that the nation belongs to the people more protests are planned for thursday at a general strike next month al-jazeera is way hey reports from bangkok. while the significance 1st of all is the location where the protest was held tens of thousands of people turning out on saturday and where this park has been placed which is the park that you mentioned just across the road from the grand palace it's a historic site it's been the scene of many royal ceremonies for centuries and it used to be a place that was open to the general public to use during the day as well but in recent years that's not been the case it's been off limits to the public so the protest leaders made it clear that that was one of their targets they wanted to retake this park for the people and that's exactly what they did and in the early
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hours of sunday morning they dug up a section of the concrete in the park and place this plaque into that area and now the significance of the park itself is that it commemorates the 1932 revolution that turned thailand from an absolute monarchy into a constitutional one so the park says that thailand is for the people not just for the king 3 years ago an official park in another location nearby mysteriously disappeared overnight so that was seen by many certainly the protesters here and as another sign that the king was strengthening his power and perhaps turning thailand back into an absolute monarchy again the latest anti-government protests in argentina brought traffic to a standstill in the capital point to. the economic crisis the pandemic response and propose judicial reforms or demonstrations and also questioning the removal of 3
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judges from the corruption investigation into vice president cristina fernandez to coach them. a centuries old conflict over land and discrimination is escalating in southern chile a dispute between indigenous people the government and private landowners and lately some younger have become arming themselves to expel people they view as foreignness put their communities have given exclusive access to all latin america and it's a loose in newman is the 1st of 2 of his special reports. this vast landscape is just part of what many call my rock and the land of the indigenous. rich for trial region stretching south of the beale beale river to 400 kilometers today it's part of chile but as these mapuche of flags indicate some of the land is being reclaimed increasingly by force. in the last 4 months they've been nearly daily
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arson attacks on trains trucks and forestry companies that now own the lion's share of the land but also against farms in homes owned by ordinary chileans and people on both sides of the conflict are being killed. outside of a jail in an boy put your community leaders announced will fight by any means necessary for the release of those they call political prisoners of chile accused of carrying out attacks. we are being persecuted and imprisoned for demanding our land for many years we were repressed but now we've learned to organize and defend ourselves with them up what you would gain or spokesman says new deployments of chilean special forces units to the region are escalating to confrontation it's getting dark hair and well and we're starting to slim out military trucks passing by this is right below ground level of course the gaza strip and we're also seeing
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there are trees that have been chopped down to try to block the roads so the cars can pass and it will get worse as the night goes. around as it becomes darker because it's part of an ongoing campaign a sabotage on the part of those who say that they have to spell the political obvious up their land for hundreds of years neither the spaniards nor the subsequent chilean state was able to conquer the comeback of my bullshit but by 880 chile's army succeeded in driving them off most of their land destroying their rural economy and plunging them into deep poverty that persists to this day. now many communities are trying to take back what they lost like this property owned by chile's largest forestry company. but they say it's also about countering 140 years of humiliation today they've gathered for a game of palin and incest or a sport played between 2 communities in order to reinforce their ethnic and
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cultural bonds 32 year old susannah suttle says that like many more pushes her grandparents took up spanish names to try to offset deep racism and discrimination by chileans in my wildest dream only one that you know some of us may not have the pushing names anymore but we still have blood and we aren't ashamed of it we are from a new generation that has the strength to rise up again. more than 12 percent of chileans identify as much to change yet chile's constitution does not recognize their existence as indigenous people for a supermarket owner delafield size says he too belongs here he takes us to see the remains of his family's country home just hours after it was burnt to the ground by unidentified armed men whether some sort of. i feel nostalgic anger knowing they burned down something that belong to us nearly 100 years we can
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through build our memories but i'm going to rebuild the house right here because no one can throw us off our land fills the. sorting to violence are a minority. but until melech jail says they're part of a larger and conflict that the chilean state is refusing to address except with force. that's a military plane with state of the technology to intercept telephone and radio signals over the flies day and night when you see things like this who can deny that this territory is being militarized impossible. which also become obvious is that there's no easy solution to a complex dispute to which most chileans were oblivious until now that it's become impossible to ignore you see in human al-jazeera chile or as that conflict escalates some are hoping that a new constitution could lay the groundwork for peace and reconciliation join us
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again on monday for the 2nd part of the serious report from southern chile sudanese authorities are grappling with the sheer scale of devastation brought by record floods more than 120 people have died 100000 homes damaged or destroyed and as the waters recede the health ministry says the danger to the public is increasing from mosquitoes flies and water borne diseases let's go live now to khartoum al-jazeera. is how it how are people coping right now. well things are not so good in sudan where. a flick to people who are living in 17 or 18 states that this country is made up of wood tunde just yesterday from the sin state and particularly single tom which is one of the worst affected we saw
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thousands of people living in i.d.p. comes in some of the most desperate conditions aid is reaching them but not enough that is enough for the people who. now the greatest concern both the international aid community and the government have is that outbreak of diseases which is a huge concern because thousands of put the 3 been destroyed by the floods and the waste from this latrines mixed up with the floodwaters that us thehotel stagnant in most areas where the floods have been at their worst and also most kittles becoming a problem raising fears of diseases of bricks of does the like malaria to communion and then when they get fever as well as other water borne diseases and that is the concern right now and what people are saying is that if there are any outbreaks it
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could really bore the numbers of people that that would have been killed or affected by the floods ok so people are obviously suffering due to these floods the floods are just another aspect of what is a difficult life for many people in sudan tell us about what else that having to cope with. well aid workers would be quick to tell you that it's not the floods that is sudan's biggest problem right now but in flesh and it is that 167 percent prices of essential commodities like bread and sugar have more than doubled in the past few weeks. also the exchange rate there is a big disconnect between the black market and the state fixed rate the government has also been cutting down on the black market something that's already exacerbated the situation and this people of sudan losing up to 73 percent of the ball
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in the exchange rate of course this is an inflation that's been caused by people would be quick to tell you the recent pay rises for the public sector workers where they'd been given more than a 500 percent pay inclement that is the highest incidence history something that she get the inflation that the people of sudan seeing right now and many families are finding it very difficult to cope at this time when they have to deal with not just the floods but also the 1000 pandemic how deserves to have it at a live in ca too many thanks david mamet. well let's get a weather forecast meteorologist everson fox is on our can watch yeah that's right yes taking with the wind in the rain theme here i do and in general what it's actually been a couple of days and since we've had a new storm developing so that's my optimistic spin on things we have still got some rather nasty weather around and this is the big bad one that we have at the
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moment this is teddy that will run up just to the east of bermuda and then will push up to that eastern side of canada as we go into the next couple of days certainly want to watch out for is not going to go away would be made it will be very close will cause some problems here they storms to the east but not too worried about them is further west we move out into the gulf of mexico and of course we've been talking about tropical storm beta for some time now that it's making its way ever since slowly towards the far south of texas at the moment winds of around 95 kilometers per hour we're looking at it getting close to hurricane strength but it might not quite get there nevertheless it is more about the rain than about the wind if you look at the speed of movement it's moving at 6 kilometers press about 3 miles an hour staggering pace we could walk a lot faster than that but what that means is huge amounts of rainfall for a long period of time and then of course we do have the big storm surge to worry about as we go through sunday into monday that's when it will edge its way
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a little further northwest was up towards the far south going on through monday will make landfall into southern texas and just look how widespread that rain is all the way across into a good part of louisiana right in everything many thanks indeed. still to come here on the news a crucial tipping point the u.k. health minister is warning of further restrictions corona virus infection is the. still ticking along a deal to save the u.s. operations of a popular chinese video and gets the nod of approval from donald trump. in support its advantage dallas in the series that will decide. who wins hockey's stanley cup . player. corruption it is that invisible behind a wall of silence. against corruption corruption is
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it's good to have you with us hello adrian fenty going to here in doha with the news out from out 0 the headlines iran's president is threatening a crushing response to the u.s. decision to unilaterally reimpose international nuclear sanctions against iran britain france and germany and says the relief will remain as part of the 2015 nuclear deal on the table. we could see the u.s. lost 3 times in the span of a month that the un security council the americans always thought they had the upper hand at the security council for many reasons including enjoying the veto power and having traditional friends they never imagined to be defeated at the same council we saw 13 out of the council 15 member states seductive the u.s.
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they supported the j.c. and rejected the united states today we can say the u.s. policy of maximum political legal pressure against the iranian nation turned into maximum isolation for the united states embarrassed security forces arresting protesters at another anti-government rally in the capital minsk demonstrators are demanding the resignation of president alexander lukashenko following last month's disputed election. and authorities in sudan are grappling with the sheer scale of devastation brought about by record flooding more than 120 people have died at 100000 homes damaged or destroyed. us president donald trump says that he'll nominate a woman to replace supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg who died on friday he's promising to move quickly despite objections. democrats who say that the winner of november's election should make the decision was a restaurant had reports. president donald trump says he will appoint
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a woman next week to succeed justice ruth bader ginsburg who died on friday to the u.s. supreme court it will be a woman a very talented very brilliant. with trump's rival democrat joe biden insisting that the next president should name a successor the nomination battle puts ginsburg at the center of yet another supreme fight even after her death let me be clear that the voters should pick the president the president should pick the justice for the senate to consider trump might face obstacles within his own party in a statement republican senator susan collins said i do not believe the senate should vote on a nominee prior to the election but republican leaders in the senate which confirm supreme court justices have vowed to move quickly i think they'll pick someone who
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is ready to hit the ground running as they say ready to go before a committee almost senate moments notice and begin to circulate on capitol hill and it courtesy calls for the death of the supreme court justice just $46.00 days before a presidential election has the republican senate majority leader mitch mcconnell parsing his own words after refusing to consider then president barack obama's nominee for $237.00 days today i am nominating chief judge merrick bryant garland to join the supreme court at the time mcconnell said the election was too close to approve a nominee for senate well appropriately revisit the matter when it considers the qualifications of the nominee the next president nominate whoever. that might be now mcconnell has vowed to go ahead even though this time the vacancy occurred less than 7 weeks before an election only one nomination has come closer
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to election day that was in 1064 now ginsberg's name is attached to another struggle this time over her successor john hendren al-jazeera chicago. let's go live to washington alan fischer is there for us on this the sunday morning t.v. talk shows digest the week in politics where are we now. well very much where we were 24 hours ago people are digging in republicans are saying we're going to go ahead with a vote the democrats are saying absolutely not this should be delayed there is a problem for the white house donald trump has said he wants to put a nomination forward within the next week or so but on average since 1975 it takes around 60 days for someone to be nominated how does the process work or the nomination is made it goes to the senate the senate colleagues all sorts of background checks there's normally a committee hearing even if the committee votes nor it still goes to the full
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senate with the recommendation that the nomination be rejected that very rarely happens and so then the senate the full senate makes the vote here's an added problem for donald trump and the white house not only has susan collins a republican senator from maine said that she doesn't think there should be a vote she's been joined by lisa murkowski who is a republican senator from alaska saying exactly the same thing now you throw into the mix there's a special election in arizona and the republican candidate there mathematics sally the cut sitting senator looks like she is going to lose it for a democrat wins then he would take up his seat on the vendor the 30th so that makes things very very complicated here's another thing that the white house is considering the politics of it all donald trump says he's going to nominate a woman there is talk that he will nominate a latina woman makes it much more difficult then for democrats to stand up and vote
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against a latina woman because that would play well in those communities across the country but in particular they're talking about a judge from florida an important swing state do you really want to alienate voters before the election so this isn't just about the makeup of the supreme court this is very much about politics before the election it's interesting that it's been a very long. time since there was a nomination in an election year that was confirmed that was a gentleman by the name of anthony kennedy and that was more than 20 years ago donald trump is trying to push this through in a very short time frame he believes that this is a winning issue for him he believes that saying the supreme court is no much more conservative please in to his core vote and he is trying to marshal those around him as we get closer and closer to november the thought al-jazeera is alan fischer reporting live from washington allan many thanks indeed president trump says that
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he'll approve a deal to allow the social media platform to talk to keep operating in america chinese apple partner with the u.s. firms oracle and warm ups the white house had applied pressure on its parent company of what it called national security concerns about our new downloads has been delayed by a week trump said as part of the deal to talk would set up a $5000000000.00 education fund but its owner says it's not aware of that agreement early learned of it through the news in a statement it says that it's always been committed to working on initiatives the students around the world colombia's president wants his venezuelan counterpart to be prosecuted as a war criminal the colombian leader made the plea during a visit by the u.s. secretary of state might bump a 0 as well as president nicolas maduro has accused from peo of war mongering al-jazeera stereo schreiber reports. the u.s.
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secretary of state mike bombero came to south america to strengthen an 18 month campaign of economic sanctions and diplomatic pressure directed at the president of venezuela nicolas maduro on eat. eat. if. he received firm backing in colombia the final leg of his 4 nation tour from president of. the colombian leader highlighted a report released this week by united nations mission on venezuela alleging unlawful executions in force disappearances of which we detentions and torture. using international justice we should go ahead and as i said many years ago denounce nicolas maduro to the international criminal court but no during his 7 years in office has heard it all before and withstood several attempts to overthrow
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him the latest a failed military incursion 5 months ago he remains defiant my palm one then when the heat up my pompei was in a war mongering tour against venezuela but it's backfired on him and he's failed in all his attempts to get the governments of the continent to organize themselves in a war against venezuela the great friend of the united states of america brazil colombia and several other governments in the region support the us stance on venezuela others condemn what they see as interference by washington and. the people that have to take care of my dear are the people of venezuela not the united states might prompt doesn't have to take care of more during the venezuelan voters does. all the ideological battle rages the humanitarian crisis continues in northern brazil pompei or visited some of the hundreds of thousands of venezuela migrants who have crossed the border to escape economic and political turmoil then a swale won't take them back while it tries to contain the coronavirus pandemic. of
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the doura has made it clear he doesn't plan to go anywhere either. al-jazeera. britain's health minister is warning the country is at a tipping point in the fight against the coronavirus matt hancock says that if people don't follow health measures the new restrictions could be brought in corona virus cases in the u.k. have risen sharply in the past few weeks on saturday the government announced fines of up to almost 13000 dollars for people in england who are caught breaking self isolation rules let's go live to london now serious on a day go outside the house of parliament in westminster $13000.00 for breaking quarantine is it is the situation that serious there in the u.k. . well i think the government wants to highlight exactly how important it is for the public to follow the rules and
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don't forget of course that 13000 number is the maximum penalty that those flashing the rules could get it starts off really at about sort of 1300 for people who break the rules and 13000 for those who insist on breaking them at all during this time but really is a source of concern for the government for the health secretary matt hancock in particular who's trying to relay the government's message will be it of course the government's message has been perceived as being mixed. perhaps going at cross purposes at times when it has been actively encouraging people to go out using incentives such as the eat out to help out scheme. trying to take advantage of that as ways of trying to dig up the economy i mean which of course devastated reeling from earlier not done as well in consideration with that but you also have to determine exactly how to go forward in terms of public health the government has tried to relay the message with this sort of so-called 6 rule rule of 6 where 3
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people from 2 households complete top and with gatherings outside no larger than 30 otherwise the police can be called but local authorities have really been quite again confused by the government's message because they haven't had any authority really to tackle this that it comes under the police powers themselves and there is also the question as well of what do you do if you are a low income worker and you need to self isolate but you can't afford it well what the government says it's going to do is now bring in stipend of about $650.00 per week for those people who are having to self isolate without suffering the economic drawbacks of that because before of course previously when people simply. could not afford to to miss out on work especially those working in the so-called good economy they would simply go out and resume their normal patterns and thereby increasing infection within the community. suffering an increase in the number of
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cases it's happening right across the continent right now as that absolutely there have been numbers that have been going all been especially in in spain and in france 1st started out with an uptick of cases now we're gradually seeing that rise in hospitalizations and even in the rates of death as well in those 2 countries they're not the only 2 countries of course there have been spikes in belgium and the reaction by belgium has been to impose tough lockdowns which are extremely unpopular but they still went ahead anyway this is the kind of model that the u.k. would look to adopting and copying if it ever gets to those levels the czech republic and poland are seeing record numbers as well as germany germany have hasn't seen the rise in infections numbers since april and they are having to deal
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with their own reactions to it for example on sunday there has been sort of. conspiracy theory type of demonstration against these lockdowns claiming that these us just sort of more conspiracy theories of the government isn't to be believed so . having not only to deal with the very real public health dangers. in the country but also having to deal with information damage limitations as well with these conspiracy theory groups continuing to peddle these theories which are doing an awful lot of damage and confusing messages that are being put out by the governments. reporting live there from london sunday many thanks indeed. australia is reporting its biggest decrease in new coronavirus cases in 3 months and the 2nd largest city melbourne reported only 14 cases on sunday as it moves towards lifting lockdown restrictions victoria state health minister praised people sticking to the
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rules but dozens of people have been arrested for defying stay at home orders to protect against restrictions the test rather and the world's largest captive elephant population is being affected by the pandemic a number of sanctuaries in myanmar being forced to close due to a lack of tourists many can't be released back into the wild due to an increase in ivory poaching hundreds of thousands of people in south africa have been left stranded off the parts of the railway system that closed down train services or at already been severely limited because of the pandemic now the railway bosses say there's an unprecedented level of vandalism and theft of a serious form of the mill reports from jobs bill. about 1200000 commuters across south africa's halting province use these trains every day they're a lifeline for those travelling to work in school who can't afford more expensive transport such as minibus taxis but with corona virus lock down restrictions
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limiting timetables and now widespread theft train services across of africa are facing a crisis thieves have pillaged stations stolen cables and vandalized facilities in houghton province alone trains are operating at under a 3rd of normal capacity we considered as iconic as some would tell you. as an economic hub if you really infrastructure it's it. is the one that will link many economy get it if it is solved it is a real economy from that angle in this mobile footage the eaves a scene risking 3000 volts of electricity running through the cables to get to the valuable copper in another video men can be seen removing corrugated iron sheeting from the roof of a railway station these are overhead traction why is which supply power to the trains little remains. the passenger rail agency prosser has had to rent diesel run
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locomotives to pull the trains instead the government says the stolen copper is melted down and exported through mozambique to markets in asia it's believed it will cost at least $120000000.00 to replace the stolen and damaged equipment and facilities. this is one of several metro railway stations and offices across the halting problems vandalized and looted much of the damage happened after security was pulled out months ago leaving this station and many others and god and security was withdrawn after it was uncovered that contracts had been awarded illegally prosser is an organization that was overrun by months asserts he says are not attacked in number off the key and strategic areas within prosser and you know the contracts the security contracts were designed to favor security companies and
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the people who are benefiting from their inside policy. while the rail agency was lost to place an administrator by the minister of transport to fix its problems the government is not given a clear timeline of when the train system will work properly so as a mess of cables dangled in the air so too through the hopes of hundreds of thousands of commuters desperate for a reliable transportation system for me or al jazeera janice berg just ahead here on the news are in sports we'll hear from the outsider who's on target for an unexpected winner of the u.s. open and be here with us next. frank assessments what are you seeing there in yemen. like the weeks of this it's an informed opinion. is ethiopia on the verge of
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breakdown in any calls or beyond will meet region are actually under a de facto state of emergency critical debate of that is a proxy he does not there are some big interest of the few people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. the world's biggest economy was put on hold. deregulating industries of old delivered new growth for a president who promised greatness again. but the coronavirus pandemic has seen resurgence replaced with a recession as the world eagerly watches zone to see how either presidential candidate might revive the flagship u.s. economy. details coverage of the u.s. elections on al-jazeera.
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our get time to support his abbi thank you so much a general 21 year old matthew wolf is in with a big chance of making some gulf history he could win the u.s. open in his 1st appearance in that sort of months no one has done that in more than a century late into the final round at new york's winged foot course the american is playing on his 2nd major championship moved ahead of the field with a 5 under par round of 65 all on saturday the thing i want to go out there and just do my thing i mean it's golf anything can happen especially on a course like this so i know if i keep calm and let my not let my emotions get the best of me i should have a really good chance bryce and a sham by will paul and i will form that final round he's just 2 shots behind on 3 under par. oh such
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a grand was the lead after 2 rounds but he's now 8 shots off the pace after he carded a fairly disastrous round of 774 time a champion rory mcilroy he had a better day and he is in striking distance of the leaders on one over par this tournament being played without fans due to cultivate 19 restrictions on the shelf lee he's on level par just one of the players he's facing their absence it's the u.s. open and it's a major championship and it's playing really tough and those are the shots that really get your term and gone around and fired up the crowd and noses i mean you hear crickets chirp and so it was it was kind of lonely out there not going to lie but. i think it's definitely easier to sort of stay in your own head space and not let anything sort of bug you too much since there's no one out here well the dallas stars of claims an early advance agent hockey's stanley cup final the stars and taking on beats hampered by lightning at the conclusion of
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a season like no other as far as small reports. but for the players who are in need of 3 months behind schedule the stanley cup final is underway in edmonton canada and the dallas stars are facing the tampa bay lightning in a series that almost never happened it was. the players have been in a bio secure hub for $56.00 days edmonton and toronto are the 2 cities selected to host all the n.h.l. playoff games and while no players tested positive for corona virus during this postseason plans for a new season are still unclear nobody can tell me whether or not the border between canada and the united states is going to be open by a date certain nobody can tell me with the state of covert my teams going to be nobody can tell me whether or not or arenas will be able to have either socially distance or fully occupied buildings and stick to it was the dallas stars that jon benet did game one joel hanley scored his 1st career n.h.l.
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school i saw anton who dobin made 35 say i said say by chance on jason dickinson also helping dallas to a 4 and one victory the stars leading the series that awards north america's oldest sports title one nothing i couldn't be happier for jamie's played fantastic hockey for us it's a winning goal tonight but he's been great for us all year and it was a big goal for him but that's how you win the playoffs you get contributions from people that all the said they're jumping up and make in making you a better team i jealous or trying to clinch their 1st stanley cup title in 20 years 2 of the best of 7 series takes place on monday far as smile al-jazeera. boston celtics hit back in the n.b.a.'s eastern conference finals having lost the 1st 2 games against the miami heat the celtics winning game 3117 so one of the 6 best of
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7 series will decide this conference title of winners or they'll face either the l.a. lakers or the denver nuggets for the n.b.a. championship. title hotspur put on quite a show for the new signing gareth bale south korean star sunday here in minsk going for a 5 c. win over southampton bale may be back at the club but injury well it's a real him out and so mid october 1 of 4 games taking place this sunday later on the founding champions liverpool play chelsea that city managers can cop in front of him for they had something about such line falling out when it seems met at the end of last season he's probably a really nice guy on just about i don't know because i don't know him brian but so i like he knows doesn't owe me a bribe and then got a sideline we are quite animated and emotional and sometimes you say a few words you wish you a few minutes later you wish you would have said it that's how life is that's all football is there's nothing more than that fans are making a pass return for the start of the new it's how in season 1000 spectators attend
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parmesan home game against napoli games have been taking place behind closed doors since the corona lock coronavirus lock down in march not much for the home friends to cheer the napoli winning this game sooner. spanish champions run madrid begin their title defense later on the down side taking on for once they've been pretty quiet in the transfer market the only addition to the squad midfielder martin era got his back after a long spell of real saucy that is a rare setback for rafa nadal on the clay court surface he's dominated society much of his career after a 6 month layoff no doubt has been playing at the it's open and events he's won 9 times but this year he was beaten in straight sets biology and seen as diego schools in the quarter finals down everyone else building up to the final grand slam of the year that is the french are present next sunday. ok that is why sports is looking for abby many thanks indeed we'll live in turkey and in minsk next
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