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people also call in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines co as if that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera. all. this is al-jazeera. hello there i am however he didn't end though how with the al-jazeera news are coming up for you in the next 60 minutes. anger on the streets of bangkok police may have to disperse protesters who are calling for the prime minister's resignation. the u.k. prime minister warns the nation to prepare for a no deal breaks it's as negotiations with the e.u. stall. 10 scenes outside
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a court in south africa 2 black man appear in court charged with killing a white farm worker. ah. and more than a fire isn't prisoners are exchanged in a deal that could revive peace talks to end yemen civil war. and our view to stem it with all the day's sports news would champion south africa withdraw from the rugby championship citing play welfare as the main concern. but we begin in thailand where there's been violence between police and antigovernment protesters security forces used water cannons to break through a barricade set up by the demonstrators in the center of bangkok thousands have been defying a ban on gatherings for seconds nights that they've been calling for the prime. mrs
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resignation and for reforms to the monarchy but in spite of the surprise. is refusing to stand let's get more now from al-jazeera scott heide lawyer he joins us live from bangkok and scott we've been seeing dramatic scenes over the last hour or so it seems slightly calmer night when you are just give us a sense of what's been happening. there hala yes it is deafening calmer now and we have just heard from the protest organizers that it is officially the protest for this evening is officially off and what we're seeing right now is the mop up operation by the police here in central bangkok you know as you mentioned there was that major confrontation at. a barrier that the protesters makeshift bury the protesters had used even using police barricades and that's why we saw the water cannon use there was another a secondary barrier built by the protesters just here again these water cannon but there are barely any protesters on the other side so they broke through that what's
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interesting now what we're seeing a little little bit of it this is definitely the mop up operation right now is that some of the protesters have blended into the side streets so there's a little bit of a clean up small operation riot police going into the side streets to clear people out we've seen a couple of detentions no mass arrests or anything like that but the protest organizers saying it isn't officially over for the evening what we can also say definitively and that is that the gloves have come off. has made the decision to go hard against the protesters they have not done that until this evening and what we're hearing from officials too is that they're going to use as they said and this came just after we saw that 1st main confrontation the use all means at their disposal and we saw what that means that means riot police and that means water and well the the government's attempts to use only means at their disposal so what exactly is it that the protests are calling for what would it take them to stand down. these are lofty lofty goals that they
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have and the 1st and foremost one is something that himself said today in a press conference after an emergency cabinet meeting they were calling for him to resign the calling for the whole cabinet to resign and he was question he was posed the question by reported this morning saying are you going to quit and he said no so that is not going to happen you know when you look at what the protesters are fighting for what they're calling for the resignation resignation of the cabinet they want the constitution rewritten which is something that has been slowly in process they want the power structures to be shifted and they want reform within the monarchy these are very very lofty goals especially that last one that is something that hasn't been touched for a very long time here in thailand that's a very taboo subject if you will so they have very lofty ambitions when you look at what do they want how will they keep things going that's going to be a challenge for them right now particularly after this escalation we've seen this
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evening but also because the main leadership was arrested on thursday night with that 1st as i should say thursday morning after the 1st large protest we saw i mean in effect this is the 3rd this week we saw one on wednesday they marched peacefully from democracy monument to government house this emergency decree was put in place that's one of the 1st cleanup operation and that's when the leadership was arrested so it'll be interesting to see how they continue to move forward after tonight definitely there has to be a change of tactics because you can imagine that you know this is something that can't be sustained every evening but it'll be interesting to see how and what they say out of this but again as they as the believe ship that still exists now saying the protest is over tonight we know that a nearby university has allowed their campus to be a safe haven for any the protesters didn't want to leave no protesting on the campus but a safe haven but it seems as though right now it's pretty much dissipated that most of those protesters have fled well it's dissipate from the area where you are scott we're showing our. here is live pictures from other parts of the city where tear
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water cannon are still being deployed not as many people on the streets as earlier in the day but certainly the police not old and back there as certainly still some people light on the streets this are certainly a conflict that's not going to be resolved overnight but that's the view initially from bangkok scott highclere thank you very much indeed for bringing us the latest on this story well let's turn now to our other breaking news this hour in the u.k. prime minister boris johnson says be prepared for a no trade deal with the youth that comes after bricks at negotiations slowed to a crawl they want to continue to control the. fishery is. completely unacceptable. and since
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we have 10 weeks until the end of the transition period on jan 1st i have to make a judgment about the lockout and to get us all ready and given. much of the last few months and. appears to rule out a can of the storm i think we should get ready. we arranged the more like australia's based on simple principles of free trade let's cross life that's paul brennan in london and paul the prime minister there he wants the country to prepare for no deal does this mean the negotiations are not all off. not quite but where we really are at the brink now after 5 years of this press it saga going on the context of all of this of course was that last month boris johnson said that unless the trade talks could be arriving at some kind of
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conclusion by this european union summit which has been taking place thursday friday in brussels then frankly the british would take the attitude well we're just going simply going to move on from here and call a halt to it they haven't done that yet and that's probably the one glimmer of hope that we can take from this that the talks are going to continue. said that the not calling back the negotiators and saying and calling an end to the talks and indeed michel barnier the european union's chief negotiator will be here in london on monday to continue the talks but the time is running very very short indeed yesterday thursday when the european union summit put bread on the agenda they gave the u.k. around 2 weeks in order to make the necessary moves to make an agreement possible now that kind of language from the european union was almost a red rag to a ball throwing down the gauntlet the sensually it was seen as by the british
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government hence boris johnson coming out with this statement today saying language such as the e.u. has failed to negotiate seriously i mean really quite strong language here where will it go well both sides are saying that a deal is possible angle. at the end of the summit in brussels just last couple who are saying we have to show willingness to compromise for a brics it deal and that's both sides he was talking about and. on the french president we remain ready to talk and make progress but we will not we will not sacrifice our fishermen so the stakes are really high and so is the tension 6 are very high indeed poll given this exactly was johnson's message aimed at. domestic and international of course i mean he's putting out a message they're playing hardball with his european counterparts it's a very very tense stage of the negotiations and he doesn't want to give ground
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where he doesn't have to but of course the kind of line was that he was talking about is for his domestic audience as well. caps that instead of saying a no deal which would set alarm bells ringing and already has in some industry courses from the public point of view he cast it in terms of what will go with an australia style deal which frankly doesn't quite sound as stark as a no deal bracks it so there was that and i think the other thing is he was reassuring in that he said look we can cope it'll be ok it'll be destructive but we're strong enough to be an independent country so both domestic and international messages that take away from the states so let's see it play for then for now paul brennan live in london thank you. plenty more still to come on the news hour including. he went from prison to prime minister then president of kyrgyzstan all within a few days. plus find out why israel's government has banned palestinian popstar
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from returning to the occupied territories. and perhaps sport for you where the atlanta braves are one win away from the world series he said we'll have more later this hour. and more than a fact some prisoners have been on the front lines of yemen civil war have returned to the capital in the past 2 days the last 2 planes carrying he fighters who've been held by the society coalition arrived in sun are a short while ago another plane carrying coalition fighters right in the southern port city of aids in after leaving santa the scene is a trust building measure aimed at reviving peace talks mohammad's. at santa airports where the feed these have been arriving. this plane has just touched down on the runway outside the national post carrying on board that's the 100 fighters
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just returned out on the presence of the international yeah nice government and also just been backed by the saudi arabia united arab emirates now this is a moment of joyful our joy and also hardness of all the whole fees and also for the government of sudan are. waiting for this moment the months are you can imagine that those people. didn't just really. inside their presence although 5 years both parties have faced many setbacks in order to score such detail the. result already received over 670 tell. president prisoners of war while the last i recognized government have received 400 to the presence of 4 among them 15 saudis and also 2 for so many so such states could tilt pave the way
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for the artist result their differences peacefully was nearly 6 enough the. bizarre turn wants. to salt lake. city suffering. also. went. a under the radar and also the. gates for 90 or 80 percent of the countries and course. libya's year unrecognised governments is threatening to enter serious and for sacrificers loyalty warlord holly for has their affairs forces foreign for missiles the region west of syria its own servers say the tripoli administration is accusing have to have repeatedly violating the cease fire. authority for the 6th time in a row the ceasefire was breached by forces loyal to khalifa haftar by fighting for
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cried rockets at the area this while ation comes as we are in talks in switzerland tunisia and egypt mediated by united nations and attended by delegates from both sides we are committed to the ceasefire but if these violations continue after the dialogue then we will wait for the orders of pm seraj and we will enter sirte and expel the wagner's ring jonjo we'd mercenaries as we expelled them from tripoli. there have been renewed calls for syria's president bashar assad to step down kurds have been outs protests in provence against his rule and military attacks on the area is the last rebel held pocket in syria this week human rights watch accused the syrian brushing alliance of committing possible war crimes and crimes against humanity by attacking civilians in. whether a process starts at a courthouse in soon a car south africa black man appeared accused of killing
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a white farm worker as a public standoff was you thousands of supporters of the south african opposition party the economic freedom fighters and white farmers in the free state of cynical 22 year old brendan horner's body was found tied to a pole 2 weeks ago a farm manager at injuries to his face and neck or freedom miller is live in seneca oh. they have been concerns about racial tensions in the area why is this. and let me go through the. earlier today we did see confrontations between supporters of the economic freedom fighters. that goes back through windows. into the courtyard. by suspects accused of killing friends in a war not appear now they could only act we don't like. white farmers who goes in
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got to have hated storming of the court or white children. any kind of if we don't like to say that there is. then the public institution states property that this is really about our farmers and white people in this country even know that within the south it would have been black people who had stronger cloth everybody. from the police would be very different now that you've spoken to have said that this has got nothing to do with they were in the in a call earlier today to protest. according to africa forum and that's the right. there is. 295 attacks have taken place and that at least the the 7 people have been killed at the end of the day it really has worked out to tensions between these 2 groups of people and that has been put so that it's around race and the tensions in that especially political tensions economic tensions and
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that's very much what we saw in cynical through the day the see you know that has the arms the the weekend. we're waiting for the year. that the supporters who are still here been waiting think. about the outcome of a bail application by those. and they're. expected to come out in the next hour. but we have seen. tension through the day that have led to increased. around what might have been a good girl for me to live for as cynical thank you so much. afghanistan a spokesman for the governor of helmand province is accusing the taliban of working with al qaeda and other foreign fighters or marines who access the armed groups are supporting taliban attacks against government forces the taliban denies this
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fighting escalated in recent days raising concerns stalled peace talks may collapse . when the afghan government says 6 civilians have been killed by a roadside bomb happens in the city of funeral school in a province interior minister says has been surge in taliban attacks there in the past 24 hours. because some politician freed from prison by protests is just days ago has been appointed interim president said here in japan was made prime minister on wednesday but has resumed the presidency after the resignation of soon by jim becker of parliament has ended a state of emergency in the capital bishkek that had been declared to end days of unrest triggered by disputed elections a new vote has to be held within 1000 days. well to par of his supposed by some who say he's forced his way undemocratically into power but he also enjoys massive
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supports his trial struck for sue travel to japan birthplace in rural northern kurdistan. this is the village of can sue and it is a cool region of northern kyrgyzstan it is the birthplace of the man who so his critics say has forced his way into power in the chaos since a palm tree election on the 4th was cancelled because of vote rigging allegations so there is a part of it is now prime minister and until new elections are held acting president 3 weeks ago he was serving 11 year jail term for kidnapping. but here on the much of the vast rule regions of kyrgyzstan he is loved by many others i believe in soldered to par off because he's faced many difficulties in his life he recognizes the problems that worry ordinary people like us things like corruption and land that was sold to neighboring countries some politicians support him and
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some do not but it's meaningless because we support him. to part of supporters freedom from joe during post-election protests as party leaders scramble to influence email to peer to be a power vacuum to power supporters charged a peaceful demonstration in bishkek. many supporters of other opposition groups fled. in rural towns there are memorials dedicated to kill guess who died fighting for the soviets in world war 2 and statues historical figures who was a member of parliament 10 years ago is known for his nationalist views not much has changed in the village where he was born since kyrgyzstan's independence up to the breakup of the soviet union 30 years ago the men ride horses to herd cattle and sheep most of the young have left for the capital bishkek will join the estimated 800000 carriages forced to find work abroad. yet the life of
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me i believe everything will be ok i'm very proud of saudi or japan or of he came from us ordinary people i saw him once and i asked him to be good not to bring shame on us a man should only leave good things and memories behind him. his critics describe him as a thug somebody who should still be in jail or frets to the democratic progress this country has made they say but the fact of the matter remains that the new prime minister southern japan has huge respect in the rural areas of kyrgyzstan areas that eggs but say have repeatedly been ignored by governments in the path. that al-jazeera you see cool kyrgyzstan. well there is says put opposition leaders for atlanta to connive sky on its wanted list she recently met european leaders after fleeing to lithuania in the days after august disputed election that sparked process and calls for president alexander lukashenko to step down in official say
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ticket of sky is wanted for quotes making calls to overthrow the constitutional order. israel has stopped issuing visas un human rights workers in palestine it cut ties with the united nations human rights agency in february after it published a list of companies working in illegal israeli settlements in the west bank 9 out of 12 foreign staff no been forced to leave the remaining 3 have visas that are due to expire in the coming months israel controls all access to palestine and has frequently used that to stop rights groups are doing their work but israel is also restricting a palestinian popstar from returning home mohammed atta who rose to fame after winning the arab idol contest and 2013 his previous permit was based on his status as a u.n. ambassador and israeli politicians says has been blocked because the videos he made
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calling for resistance against the occupation of palestine well us of has responded with a post on instagram saying the ban is a continuation of the israeli policies that oppress the palestinian people it wouldn't stop him continuing to sing about the plight of his country. no ownership here is the israel and palestine to me it's a few human rights he's based in a month since being expelled from israel last year a piece of support in polls to boycott israel secure says rights activists are being kicked right for doing their job. forcing a un human rights monitors are part of a clear strategy that aims to muzzle documentation of israel's systematic repression of palestinians i mean this is part of a larger trend it's not only the denial of thesis of the 2 these un human rights monitors or my deportation we have seen other representatives of the united nations
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we've seen other human rights advocates we've seen activists palestinians and others from countries across the world denied entry to israel and palestine as a result of israel basically disagreeing with their underlying opinions or criticisms of its human rights record the reality is this is basic mainstream human rights advocacy in fact the u.n. human rights office in ramallah which i had the chance to work very closely with when i was based on the ground much of their work actually can constitutes working on arbitrary arrests and tortures of the palestinian authority and in terms of settlements this is basic black letter international law there are war crimes under the 4th geneva convention so documenting those abuses in calling for actors including companies to avoid complicity in that legality is the kind of basic human rights work that human rights watch does and 100 countries across the world and the work of the united nations doesn't virtually every country across the globe.
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american voters were asked to tune into julan televised events on thursday with president donald trump and democratic candidate joe biden both vying for their attention but see you had originally planned to face off on a shared debate stage but after trump's covert 19 diagnosis and subsequent fusel to participate in a virtual events there would be debate splits into separate events featuring the candidates solo and airing at exactly the same time i did your castro reports. with the pandemic raging in a divided america president trump was on the defensive in florida and if you are about it i think what you missed it i didn't is white supremacy of what you next play she appearing to have recovered from his 3 day hospitalization for cope at 19 but trailing in national polls the president also refused to denounce q one on
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a baseless conspiracy movement which has grown exponentially during america's outbreak i know nothing about it she went on i just tried your very lightly you told me but what you tell me doesn't necessarily make it shocked i hate to say that i know nothing about it i do know they are very much against it pedophilia they find it very hard but i know nothing of the baby the president's event aired at the same time as a town hall event with democratic challenger joe biden in philadelphia which mirrored his steady loci campaign presence in my view with all due respect to spend divide and conquer the way he does better if he splits us there's division. and i think people need hope both candidates took questions and comments from voters some laudatory in some way and some might be some. others were tougher what's your view on the crime bill. that you wrote in 1904 which showed prejudiced against
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minorities it was a mistake biden whose campaign's been hit by 3 recently disclosed corona virus infections lashed out against trump's handling of the pandemic more than 217000 americans have died in the words of a president matter absolutely no matter whether they're good bad or indifferent they matter and want to president doesn't wear a mask or make fun of folks like me when i was wearing a mask for a long time then you know people say well it must be that important press by the moderator our masks trump defended himself by falsely characterizing the study but just the other day they came out with a statement that 85 percent of the people that we have massed jack shit you know this is a very right to say as i just said that's what i heard and that's what i said i think the disservice may have already been done for the past 3 to 4 years maybe one where. you know misinformation and this information all these things i think became
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our new reality and i think. it's not shocking anymore that's the maybe the sad thing about. the final presidential debate is scheduled for october 22nd and so far both sides have agreed to attend but with the feared 2nd wave of covert approaching and the virus penetrating both campaigns nothing can be counted on an election year like no other. castro al-jazeera philadelphia. one point during trump's debates the host criticized the president's for boosting conspiracy theories about his rival. just this week you reach tweeted to your 87000000 followers a conspiracy theory that joe biden work history to help seal team 6 the navy seal team 6 killed to cover up the fear that face the death of bin ladin now why would you send a lie like that to get it all over to even each week that is a read which that was a opinion of somebody and that was
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a retreat i'll put it out there people can decide for themselves out of the television like someone's crazy uncle we don't really know whatever that was a read tweet and i do a lot of reach which frankly because the media is so shape and so corrupt if i didn't have social media i don't call a twitter a close associate media i wouldn't be able to get the word out and the worst. one more americans are voicing earlier than ever before election day could now become the 1st in u.s. history where most ballots were cast before hands long lines formed outside voting centers in north carolina on thursday on the 1st day of early voting there across the country some 15000000 people voted to cast their ballots. windy conditions are hampering efforts to contain a won't far in the u.s. state of colorado the cameron peak fire is the largest in the state's history it's
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been burning for more than 2 months and has destroyed more than 64000 taxpayers well let's get another check on the weather for you here's everton. it's like it's going to be a changeable weekend a week into 2 halves for japan we've got some wet weather now in the process of pushing a fair amount of cloud rolling in here and that cess days picture a soggy sad state 15 south years cold wet fairly miserable hang on in that come sunday it will brighten up the sunshine coming through temperatures getting up to around 20 celsius 20 celsius in seoul and in beijing as well so some fine dry weather across the korean peninsula to northern parts of china got some showers into central china then quite a kid in the northeast the breeze fading down towards the south china sea still facing some very heavy rain into vietnam i'm afraid on that breeze we'll see some much weather coming back in here it is 200 millimeters of rain in the space of just 24 hours in them for there is more where that come from we're going to see more
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heavy downpours coming into central northern parts of vietnam something of a a tropical disturbance making its way in here's you go on through the next couple of days that's pretty wet across a good part of indochina it's pretty wet across the western side of in there as well mumbai 108 millimeters of rain in one day nearly 200 millimeters of rain in just a couple of days and the average for october 18th one millimeters so very wet that's could see of this system now which is moving out into the arabian sea. so to come here on al-jazeera half of england is preparing to go back into lockdown as the government struggles to contain a rising number of corona virus infections how china says that a city of a leaven 1000000 people over call could 19 in just 5 days and in sports in one time most of the g.p. champion becomes the latest top sports star test positive for corona virus although coming up after this.
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'd held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison cell denied the right to a fair trial no charges have been brought against al jazeera correspondent mr saying his crime journalists. to demand my true thinks and boy solidarity with all detained journalists sign the petition. 3 percent. frank assessments if american public opinion is betrayed by social media platforms after november what would be good for the cautious and if you believe that there horowitz into our democracy one obvious solution is to break them up informed opinions look at checkers don't go any way the protesters aren't going anywhere either it's ability to get out of aleutian you in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines who is it that's really out there
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on the street inside story on al-jazeera. all. this is al jazeera a quick reminder over headlines this hour police in thailand's of use water cannon to break through a barricade set up by anti-government protesters in the center of bangkok those are protesters have been defying a ban on gatherings for a 2nd night. u.k. prime minister boris johnson says it's time for his country to prepare for a no deal breaks it is office says talks with the european union are over unless there's a compromise from brussels. and thousands of supporters of these safe african
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opposition party the economic freedom fighters are facing off against white farmers in this scene a cow see black men have appeared in courts accused of killing a 22 year old white farmer. and the u.k. has imposed tough restrictions on half of england in a bid to curb the latest surge in the coronavirus a break london and a number of other cities abandoned or gatherings when angolans new 3 stage of their system they've been moved to level 2 so far only liverpool is at the highest level of restrictions will the u.k. has recorded around 20000 cases reach of the past several days and for more let's cross live to knead parker who's in london for us and they've just give us a sense of the situation in england right now. for 1st of all a moment drugger square the heart of london normally bustling with tourists there
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are some tourists here significantly fewer number head of water or a raft of new restrictions not only for the capital but also for the county of essex the city of york and several other locations across england as you mentioned there's just 3 chiefs system very high high of moderate to the midnight tonight. london and other locations go from moderate to high all that translates as meaning is basically no intermingling of different households inside so in bars restaurants and in private homes the rule of 6 though still applies so 6 people from different households can meet outside what we've seen here in london and also potentially other places in england and restaurants adapting their space extending that terrace is putting top pole in out and wheeling out heaters to be able to know whether the wind but also the potential economic storm that's coming their way because of course the hospitality sector has been hit hard over months of lockdown. and there is a the same time an almighty wow that's developed between central government and other
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local leaders in the north of england the mayor of manchester has been resisting putting the level up there from high to very high largely over concerns about the impact on the economy and the kind of level of support that may be available to people who may be temporarily out of work as you mentioned liverpool is at that very high status meaning a complete ban on all mingling of all households restrictions on entering and leaving those areas in the closure of all bars or restaurants unless they serve substantial amounts of food there is a mood among some including the leader of the opposition that a short time circuit breaker locked down may be needed to stop the virus dead in its tracks the government has been resisting that so far boris johnson says he doesn't want to return to the misery of a full lockdown but some feel may be the inevitable direction of travel. back there live in central london and thank you. well much of europe is facing
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a 2nd wave of corona virus with infections and deaths on the rise across the continents poland as recording a record death toll of 132 people in its latest daily tally there are concerns that the health services could be overwhelmed russia has reported more than 15000 new cases another record high it's been more than 1300000 infections there since the pandemic began nearly 24000 deaths germany has also seen an unprecedented rise with more than 7000 new cases there the government says tightened restrictions on masks and gatherings in the feds to curb the outbreak well as many countries tighten coronavirus restrictions some are relaxing their s u zealanders arriving at a stray aliya for the 1st time in months without rates having to quarantine it's the 1st step in a so-called travel bubble scheme to reconnect the neighbors. local leaders in
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the eastern chinese city of qingdao say in less than a week they finish tests in the city's 11000000 people for coronavirus that was sports fan discovery of a handful of new cases where ron's dozen people were found to be infected so as katrina you reports it's china's coastal city of qingdao is known for its beaches and beer but this week it made headlines for a coronavirus cluster the 1st local transmissions discovered in months authorities responded by testing the city's entire population of 11000000 over a period of 5 days. there are enough men still in people to protect themselves and social distance people are sticking to the rules the testing aims to reassure residents thousands of medical workers worked 16 hours a day to complete the mass testing a few cases have been confirmed the patients relate to the qingdao chest hospital
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where overseas arrivals with carvin 1000 were being treated the head of the hospital and the city's health commissioner have been fired several neighborhoods locked down and close contacts traced and quarantined officials have played down concerns of a large scale outbreak. qingdao cases have many appeared in hospital and we have concluded that the scale of demick it's a likely to be as large as that happened in beijing and according to official figures china's coronavirus cases have fallen drastically but the country remains on high alert after criticism of its mishandling of the outbreak and we have to see if the chinese government is under pressure to respond with the new local case it's authorities have put cities into what they've told us i might follow the discovery of previous classes elsewhere in the country i think we did learn a lesson the when there was clearly some missed opportunities at the local government level at this point it's a national government level we have
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a very clear chain of responsibility here. in may officials tested 11000000 people in the city of one on the original epicenter of the outbreak following the discovery of new cases. chinese state media has china's recent covered 19 response to that of the u.s. and european countries pandemic restrictions across china have largely eased during china's golden day last week more than 600000000 trips were made nationwide those who visited qingdao have also been ordered to take corinna virus tests katrina al-jazeera beijing. malaysian opposition leader anwar ibrahim has been questioned by police after a complaint was made about a possible list of politicians who support his bid to become prime minister and were met the king earlier this week in an attempt prove he had seen his words a convincing majority to replace prime minister more he seen florence louise
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reports from kuala lumpur. a list containing 121 names of politicians who allegedly back opposition leader anwar ibrahim's bid to form a new government has reportedly gone viral on social media now police say they've received more than 100 reports on friday afternoon on more arrive here at police headquarters in kuala lumpur to be questioned police say they're investigating based on provisions that make it an offense to publish or circulate statements that could cause public mistreat or harassment is. just. a political ad a statement and clearly from my understanding. political is thought. police because the men. and the issues. those brought up purely on the issue of. their members or their
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malaysia has had 2 prime ministers this year and a change in government all within 2 years of holding the last general election. prime minister and we don't yes and was sworn in in march and critics have accused him of stealing power by switching allegiances analysts say anwar is attempting to do the same by creating new possibly temporary alliances and all this political upheaval is happening as the country has battling its birth weight problem coronavirus infections amidst all this political uncertainty the palace has issued a statement edging malaysians to unite and politicians to stop politicking and the prime minister. his position is looking rather shaky on one attempt to form a new government by claiming majority support in parliament by at least 5 opposition m.p.'s one not aligned with anwar have filed a motion of no confidence against parliament and hoping for it to be debated when parliament reconvenes in november now apart from that just
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a couple of days ago the biggest party in the ruling bloc the united lays national organization has on no has said it wants to renegotiate the terms of its support for the ruling alliance. for nearly a decade stick japanese government has been trying to figure out what to do with more than a 1000000 tons of radioactive water from its fukushima nuclear plants though no this formal decision has been a 9 slocum media are reporting it's been decided to gradually release it into the sea the plant was destroyed in an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 the utility company that runs from has been storing contaminated water on site that says it will run out of space next year representatives from the japanese fishing industry have urged the governments not to do so in south korea still has a ban on imported fish from the fukushima preachin well sean burney is a senior nuclear specialist with greenpeace and works in japan he says dumping at
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sea may be the cheapest option but it's also unnecessary. i think understand is that the government in japan would have everyone believe that it's only one type of radioactivity so called city and that's in the water again that's also not true there are many different people who plights in the water including strontium 90 which is the bone sticking cancer causing isotope. that will be released along with all the other reader activity in the water over about 30 years starting possibly in 2023 if we can't stop them and that water then spreads through washing currents but the reader activity depending on the type of activity concentrates in different marine life and sea weeds and ultimately in the human food chain unfortunately they have dismissed the alternatives did not use the best available technology and they have this crisis of over a 1000000 tons of contaminants in water. the alternative is very clear which is to continue to store in more robust tanks the japanese government's own committee in
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february issued a report we're acknowledging that storage on site after 2022 was possible it ruled out because they said to them it would take time to negotiate there's also the land outside the fukushima daiichi site which of course is highly contaminated and will not be inhabited by most people from that era for the foreseeable future so the storage option is clearly the best option other than rather than releasing directly into the environment and that's what we've been telling the guy japanese government and that's what we'll be demanding that they do this is not over the government's making a decision but it doesn't mean it's going to happen. the death of a baby separates you from her jailed mothers fanta anger in the philippines human rights worker rayna main the snow has her daughter taken from her soon after birth the case is intensified criticism of president. treatment of prisoners and
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political activists and organ has more from manila. from of peaceful ceremony so i like the rally which family members and supporters of reinado and her baby rivers say a show of indignation and outrage towards the treatment of rayna a mother for the 1st time a political prisoner who was forcibly taken away from her baby elaina was not able to say goodbye she was not given a chance to say goodbye to her sick baby and she was only given 3 hours in total to visit the funeral and say goodbye today the day of the burial even before the program even before the battle began. flirted. with our lord and stopped people from joining the. ranks and comrades and even the family members you know this little from joining. the program.
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all i ever wanted was for mother and daughter to meet for my granddaughter to be buried to have a peaceful meeting but it didn't happen i even hit my head on the funeral car because i was holding onto it. no rights groups say the treatment of rayna is proof of the harsh methods of the philippine government towards political prisoners. and rights. now the plight of political prisoners is included in the latest human rights record by the united nations by amnesty international and volume on rights watch these are again is asians have been piling on the philippine government to improve the living conditions of political prisoners and to ensure that those cases that have been dropped should be released immediately they say the philippine government has a responsibility to treat filipinos the mother with theirs that this is and to
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ensure equal protection under philippine law. security forces and guinea her part of the entrance to conakry city center is tensions months ahead of sunday's presidential election there and men attacked a military base in western guinea killing the camp's commander statement from the ministry of defense as the army has responded to the death of colonel monody condé president alpha condé is seeking a 3rd term in a campaign that's been marred by violence and ethnic divisions. mexico's former defense minister has been arrested in the united states salvador sian for a go slow the army for 6 years after the president said rico and b.k. pena nieto present president under lopez obrador has criticized the previous governments and insists anyone else implicated in the scandal will be suspended and investigated so john holdren has more now from mexico city. salvador where he
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goes a retired general was also a really prominent member of the cabinet of former miss can president enrique pena nieto he served for 6 years under that president as the minister of defense in the country and that basically meant that he was in charge of the school says he was really involved with the struggle against crime in the country now he's been arrested in los angeles airport some people might be surprised about that and that's because the on full series were brought in a mixed herds of organized crime because they were seen as basically on a sled susceptible to corruption in the police force other people i think maybe less surprise and that's because the army in the time that it took them to really get involved in the fight against the cartels in the country was seem to be becoming more infected with time with the same corruption that it hit the police
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before them now this isn't the only high profile arrest that we've seen over the u.s. side also hinata garcia luna who was a former security saw under another metz connex president felipe calderon the really started the war on drugs in the country was also arrested in 2019 so there are prominent figures from past governments that offer pulling here. says come on al jazeera cancer is said to host a big asian food bowl finally in december will have all the details for you right after this break. business leaders. find a bright spot. business
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waiters just to find the brass power.
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it's time for this point here's peter thank you very much world champion south africa will not play in this year's rugby championship to be hosted by australia citing player welfare as the main reason south africa's rugby players have only returned to action in the last 2 weeks after a long suspension because of the coronavirus the south africans say the lack of game time for their players could result in serious injuries you zealand and australian players resumed playing in june and july respectively the springboks would have had to foreign team upon arriving in australia further hampering training time and preparation. so africa's also face the challenge of trying to get as many as 24 players based in countries like the u.k. ireland france and japan available to play those countries all have their own coronavirus protocols the c.e.o. of the thought african rugby union unity root says we understand that public safety
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concerns come 1st and there's no way that we could expect short cuts to be found to get them out of their host countries and into the springbok bubble. the springboks have been traded to play argentina in their opening match on november 7th in sydney australia organizers say the withdrawal will have a big impact on the tournament and its funding clearly it has. all the modeling was . sorry rugby championship with double headers as you know. and now we model a 6 week tournament with rates names involved and the broadcast implications still to be worked through but look at the end of the day it is what it means and if one thing turnover does drop this year i'd be a stranger is you need to be nimble and carry the ball in both hands and be ready to step of the floor deputy editor at sport $24.00 soon jiggly source says the south africans have taken
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a decision in their own best interests especially with the lucrative series against the british and irish lions coming up in 2021. the only option but africa had us saying that i know cooked. i know ready and it doesn't springbok team to australia have a choir and teen for 'd 2 weeks and then play test rugby it just didn't seem plausible but as it stands and it's not the fault of they all say that because they had it the worst all of in terms of covert implication of all the 4 countries argentina but african youth live in australia and for us to only get back now and be expected to go over there i think that the team or a team that will be risking injury is just not fathomable so south africa is a totally different country and i think for that reason that has fed into a lot of the decision making that has happened or off for which is nicely put it to
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cook to say guys no we're not going to do this we're not going to go over there and risk our players just with the sake of make making extra dollars let's wait let's get our bags into right into the right shape and let's get ready for the british and irish lions tour coming up in july of next year. the atlanta braves are now just one win away from their 1st world series since 1999 atlanta handed the los angeles dodgers attentive beating on thursday in game 4 of the national league championship series was a good way to bounce back after the dodgers handed the braves 153 of the night before 2 home runs from marcel osuna helping atlanta to a 31 series lead here. in the american league the houston astros are still alive in late championship series against the tampa bay rays the astros won 43 in game 5 to reduce tampa bay series advantage to 3 to tell us how they are with a mind inning homer to help houston to victory. over in japan baseball will be used
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to test our coronavirus counter-measures said big events ahead of next year's delayed tokyo olympics yokohama stadium will hold 3 games at 80 percent capacity later this month so far venues have been limited to 50 percent of fans this game of the tokyo dome on thursday had 19000 in attendance as well as having their temperatures checked all fans had to give their contact details to staff in case of an outbreak. moto g.p. is 9 time world champion valentino rossi has also tested positive for covert 19 the italian says he's disappointed to miss this week's aragon grand prix in spain as well as next week's race at the same venue the 41 year old says he's been suffering with sawbones and a slight fever next year's wimbledon tennis championships will go ahead with or without spectators organizers have announced this is the grand slam was cancelled for the 1st time since world war 2 because of the coronavirus pandemic it was the only major tennis tournament not to go ahead but we're going to fishel say the
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grass court event is planning for different scenarios in 2021. qatar will host the final of this year's asian champions league the 2022 world cup hosts have become a hub for asian football during the coronavirus pandemic the gulf country has already held the knockout stages of the western countries and will hold east zone matches next month before and will be held on the 19th of december fresh from victory in england last week tyrrell hatton has shaken off jetlag to lead the p.g.a. tournament in las vegas after round one the englishman admits he is feeling tired and grumpy but if i had an opening 7 under par 65 to sort of shot ahead of shelf away. ok when we were there for well we'll be back again a little later with another sports news update thank you very much indeed feet so well that wraps up this news hour but to keep it here on al-jazeera i'll be back
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latin america discovers new filmmaking talent from around the globe. message for my daughter. for 4 weeks america in goal in protest every day all over the u.s. even as the country faces the continued threat of a deadly pandemic. and it morphed into a movement calling for police reforms sometimes it was violent. but mostly it was peaceful we asked people to describe what america is now feeling i think people want change. and it's going to buy willing to do whatever it takes to get there on friday billions of people in america are expected to celebrate what's called june 13th. an official holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the united states this year in the wake of the nationwide protests there is a growing number of calls to make it official federal holiday. people see it as
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a great opportunity to take to the streets to continue to let their message be her . anger in the streets of bangkok police moved to disperse protesters calling for the prime minister's resignation. her them how he and into ohio and this is al jazeera also coming up the u.k. prime minister warns the nation to prepare for a no deal breaks it says negotiations with the e.u. stole. more than a 1000 prisoners are exchanging a deal.

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