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it was quite a surprise. in the middle of a war through the sale of ships of the desert said the yellow fleet al-jazeera. al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour live from a headquarters in doha and there you know coming up in the next 60 minutes sudan says it's transferred millions in compensation for u.s. bombing victims in a deal to remove it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism. new measures for the upcoming u.s. presidential debate microphones will be muted to cut out interruptions. accused of beatings and torture and the democratic republic of congo video emerges of abuses
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by fighters loyal to or want to reward with the support of the military. deploys more security forces to the border as remarks coronavirus restrictions called a surge in the number of men as well and trying to call. not have all the sports. may have played his final game for arsenal the $450000.00 a week has been left out of the club's english premier league squad. hello thanks for joining us so don is all set to end more than 25 years of international isolation it's transition to democracy the us president donald trump says he's ready to remove the country from a list of state sponsors of terrorism now as part of that deal sudan says it's transferred comp. station for u.s.
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victims and their families from the bombing attacks on washington's embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1908 we'll speak to a correspondent morgan shortly but 1st here is her reports. this is one of the events that have kept sudan on a u.s. list of state sponsors of terror and kept most foreign investors away for more than 25 years. in august 1900 attacks on the u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania killed 224 people and injured more than 4000 sudan was accused of providing a base for the bombers then president ahmed had already been accused of offering sanctuary to the likes of al qaeda and its leader osama bin laden. but after you have negotiations by the transitional government president donald trump says he's ready to restore sudan's international status in a tweet he said sudan had agreed to pay $335000000.00 compensation and once deposited he would remove it from the list. the road ahead of us is long and we
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have to have a serious plan and work together to benefit from this opportunity we promised people and we work to achieve our promise with no agenda except the interest of the nation together we can achieve the impossible being on the list has meant sudan has struggled for investment resulting in a hard currency shortage that led to inflation that 1st rose slowly then steeply the country's pound has lost more than 50 percent of its value against the dollar in just the past 2 months because strapped government is struggling to pay for stuff lies of lead fuel and medicine all items it subsidizes resulting in shortages sudan's removal from the u.s. list would allow it to be relieved of its that by the international monetary fund that will still take months but the country needs help now some analysts say that may mean a move to normalize ties with israel which comes with an economic assistance package could still happen i suspect however that we will see in the coming days or weeks. an effort towards normalization on the part of the sudanese because
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washington at the end of the day needs to get some kind of political way and i think it's a sad commentary for washington and for the trumpet ministration that it isn't a sufficient enough win for them to point to a success story in the horn of africa where there wasn't one before this is a region you know beset with political problems and economic problems and for us to be able to point to a success story should be a sufficient foreign policy win for this administration that it should want to triumph and trumpet that win. and while president trumps the foreign policy when sudan's prime minister abdullah him to set the delisting would open paths for sudan economic improvement crucial for its transition to democracy. will bring in our white house correspondent kemeny halkett in just a moment for reaction from washington but 1st have a morgan will join us now from khartoum and so donna saying it's now transferred the millions and compensation have also know what comes next for sudan once it's
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actually removed from that list. well for sudan this was a crucial and important matter that had to be completed within this transitional period the economy has been witnessing a rise in inflation since this transitional government came to power last august in january the inflation was at 60 percent now it's had over 125 percent that's because there is no hard currency coming in due to sudan being on the list of state sponsors of terrorism the minister of finance spoke just a short while ago and she said that while this is good news it doesn't mean that the economic impact will be felt right away she says that they are still processes and procedures that will take place before the impact of the delisting can actually be felt by the average sudanese people but she says this paves the way for the banking system in sudan to be able to cooperate with external or foreign banks that is something that sudan was not able to do before being delisted and that is something it will not still be able to do until it is officially delisted after
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depositing the mining and after president signs off on the order in sudan of the states sponsoring terrorism the other thing is the issue of transfer sudanese here in sudan cannot transfer u.s. dollars or hard currency outside of the country neither can they receive the minister of finance and that is going to change one thing delisted along with the route to pay paving road to being basically relieved of its 60000000000 dollars debt something that has been accumulated over the past 30 years ok but thank you for vats from khartoum let's bring in. joining us from the white house security is the string seen as a foreign policy win for the president 2 weeks before the election. well certainly that is the goal of the president to try and achieve this before the u.s. election and he is in fact trying to kind of add to the list of what he sees as his foreign policy goals but this is also kind of
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a personal goal of the president ever has to do in the context of his support of israel something that he has had through out his administration now in terms of this the we know that up until last month the united states had worked to formalize relationships between arab nations and israel but it really only included jordan and egypt all that change of course last month when adding to that list was the u.a.e. and bahrain and this is ministrations really interested in seeing yet another country sudan added to this list so as part of these negotiations that we've been talking about 11th hour condition was that recognition the administration offering humanitarian aid to sit down to try and help escalate these agreements but at the same time this is obviously a sticking point one that the administration is really working on but to be fair it isn't just a trumpet ministration foreign policy goal congress has been trying to recognize
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that encourage democracy for almost 2 years at least a year and a half but when it comes to the compensation there are still a lot of sticking points the american courts have not decided how these funds could be distributed there's also the issue of how much an american citizen might get in comparison to say a kenyan or tense indian victim so there are still a lot of issues to work out now in terms of the election i have to be honest there aren't many americans that are going to cast their ballot based on this issue still it will be something that the president can talk about particularly in this upcoming presidential debate set to take place on thursday that will include foreign policy issues all right so you can really thank you very much for that update from the white house let's speak about this with one. majuba who is a governance and development expert and president of the sudan policy forum he's joining us from doha thanks for being with us on the news hour so this is a significant political win for the transitional government which has really been
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accused of not being able to get the economy up and running so the repercussions of this will be felt by the sudanese on the ground answer. yes i mean rather than going through a legally called proceedings or. getting all of this in court extra you my me we need to give you a little bit over a little background here the ex again knowing the criminal record. tourists do make what we know as an. island settlement so the. foreign minister has succeeded in that using the city event from $7000000000.00 to $2000000000.00 the current prime minister has finally succeeded in reducing it to $335000000.00. once sold down is the listed. i mean it should be able to regain what we know as
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a sovereign immunity or some very privileged in-situ be able to become again it should be able to regain its to start a member of the international banking system now book but once that is issued i think sudan will be issued and i've been a number or it will be part of this suite. called little wick hands companies should be able to resume did normal activity like the able to extend an it out of creating it and they should be able to import this seemed machinery and get it cut some of. the equipment badly needed to increase the productivity of sudanese prison so this is a deal between the u.s. and so don but to what extent then is it a real reset as well with the international community. i think it's not it's not there yet he said and again it's. sudan is putting it in presidents of
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a country that is sued for crimes that it wasn't crimes that willing committed by the sudanese people it wasn't committed i mean in sudan and it was indeed needed and designed by saudi citizen implemented by him and yet many cities and carried out in international waters so setting such a precedence we don't know the extent to which this is going to help greece in the image of sudan in the international community however there are 2 important outcomes here at the submarine did obviously would not automatically be these all of these unimportant. but its direction will be put aside so if so done there is this all it's definitely going to have been but that's not going to happen immediately ok let me ask you about another topic officially of course
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officially on the face of it any link between this deal and that of normalizing relations with israel is being denied by officials but behind the scenes do you think that the said show is really off the table how much pressure is so done under by not only the united states but its backers to normalize relations with israel. i think that's an important question knowing that kicked out of the american president delivered of i don't concede joyce i don't think there is no way that he could have missed it sudan from terrorist list that was our team receiving. actually i think without the sudanese people making very clear decision about the normalization of relations. there's no way down he could have done this list it is just and election eating at him but i doubt it very
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much because he knows the mentality of this dennys kind of entity gene do you know how weak they are you know. a lot of political establishment and the pressure it's the economic cruise ships that they are facing so i think he he already had put it in front on table and again is that he should the this thing. or that all right so we will have to wait and see what happens but for the time they were leaving the table we thank you very much for speaking to us on this issue from doha. thank you . delegation has arrived in israel for its 1st official visit since the 2 countries normalize diplomatic relations palestinian officials branded the move shameful the uys finance and economy ministers of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu have now signed 4 agreements including one on visa free travel the u.a.e. and behind became the 1st goal for arab states to establish formal ties with israel
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last month under a u.s. brokered agreement. my staff some large they started by saying we are literally with this history in the back and i said absolutely not. we are making history we are making history in a way that will stand for generations. for this peace agreement among our peoples is enormous it's real it's broad it's deep and it reflects the potential that is being realized today there's plenty more ahead coming up on the al-jazeera news hour including this bonding over milk tea how a simple drink has become a symbol of solidarity for protestors in thailand plus. i'm john hendren in the suburbs of minneapolis one of the many suburban belts in swing states where the u.s. presidential election will likely be decided. sports news and we look ahead to the
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return of the champions league with 2 of europe's biggest clubs to face off on tuesday. first a 24 hour curfew will come into force in nigeria's financial capital lagos a 1500 hours g.m.t. protesters block the international airport on monday as demonstrations against police brutality continued the government has the bandit a special unit excuse that extra do just so killings and extortion but that's not satisfied protesters the speaker of parliament is refusing to approve the budget without compensation for victims of police brutality. new buttons on microphones are being introduced for the final election debate
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between donald trump and joe biden the u.s. president frequently interrupted his democratic challenger during their 1st face to face debate last month on thursday each will get 2 minutes without interruption trump says it's unfair but he will take part our correspondent mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . strictly speaking it's the same format and that is a 90 minute debate divided into 6 sections but what the change is is that each candidate will be given 2 minutes to speak at the beginning of each section and now the commission on presidential debates says the other candidates microphone will be switched off during those 2 minutes to stop all interruptions and then during the discussion that will follow a free discussion in each section any candidate that interrupts will have the time taken off him and given to the other candidate this just follows the absolute chaos that ensued in the 1st and only television debate between joe biden and president
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trump now the commission insisting that it has to take these safeguards to ensure that some form of debate does take place between the candidates early on in the day of the trump campaign sent the commission a letter saying that it object to the fact that it was not focusing on foreign policy this particular debate it also described the commission as pro biden and also insisted that it would not accept the muting of microphones well the commission announced this change in rules after that and it doesn't appear that there's been any oppose all opposition to this particular fact so it appears that this debate will be going ahead according to this new formula in terms of which the candidates mikes will be switched off for the 1st 2 minutes while the other candidate is talking the u.s. supreme court has the quine day republican been that would have limited the count of mail in ballots in the state of pennsylvania it means postal votes there can now
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be counted up to 3 days after the election on november the 3rd the top court was deadlocked allowing a lower court ruling to stand there are currently only 8 justices on the bench following the death of ruth bader ginsburg. well black lives matter protests and the accompanying violence and property damage could have an impact on us suburban voters in the upcoming election and they were key to donald trump's victory in 2016 helping him take 3 states and he came close to winning minnesota from where john hendren has filed this report all of the suburbs we're rolling lawns lead to expensive homes where scenic views meet shops quaint and common close to culture far enough from squalor idyllic havens of safety in middle income splendor but don't let the leafy tranquility fool you divisions here run deep these are the battle grounds where the u.s. election will be decided in suburban minnesota
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a short commute from minneapolis george floyd's death under a police officer's need led to raucous protests that divided a nation and many households it divides. and probably for me it would be trying i like the idea of a republican socialism and that seems to be the direction of the democrats and i think character is an important quality and. i think also we need someone who can unify and not divide it why president donald trump seeks to instill fear into the suburban heart if you were elected this guy the suburbs would be overwhelmed with violence and crime and why joe biden is striking back how many suburbs will be burned in wildfires how many suburban neighborhoods will have been flooded out how many suburbs will have been blown away. super storms. here one voter's crisis of law and order is another's calamity of social injustice and i
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have 100 percent support for the protesters and i've been doing my best to stay as active and be as involved as i can with it when trump won the suburbs in 2016 he won the election the math of midwestern battleground states is pretty simple the cities lean heavily toward democrats the rural areas lean heavily toward republicans most of these states will be decided in the suburbs the battlegrounds within the battleground states in pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin trump won the suburbs and narrowly won those states he won the suburbs here outside minneapolis to narrowly lost this state but there are signs of trouble for trump here white women for instance perfectly college educated women growing really just and chatted with them in many ways so a lot of them fell in the suburbs so yes overall they are moving away at least somewhat. here in the land of 10000 lakes trump is now lagging biden in the polls
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but trump supporters know he also leg hillary clinton in minnesota in 2016 before nearly pulling off an upset victory john hendren 0 was out of minnesota for us hard 6 former russian military officers for a disruptive and destructive cyber attacks on major events they included the $2800.00 winter olympics in south korea on the presidential election in france 3 years ago british officials a legend of the structure next year's olympics and paralympics u.s. prosecutors say the russian group was part of the same unit that interfered in the 2016 presidential election kremlin is the nih and the involvement. no covert 19 infections in the u.s. have reached their highest levels since late july it's the world's worst affected country with more than 8000000 cases and 220000 deaths president has been widely criticized for his handling of the pandemic but he claims that if he had listened
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to the country's top infectious diseases experts the situation would be much worse she had reports. the numbers are going in the wrong direction over 70000 cases reported just on friday of last week the highest since the us is peak in late july new cases are up almost 30 percent from a couple of weeks ago at least 17 states reported record covert cases last week hospitalizations increasing in some 39 states reaching all equalling new peaks in 6 states. and their worrying signs in several north eastern states which are already adding to existing concerns in the midwest and west and all of this before the own set of winter weather and what's expected to be a 2nd wave that may now have to be renamed in utah one of the worst hit places in the u.s. overflow facilities are being prepped just in case hospitals become overwhelmed and the past month the state has reported more than 500 new cases per day that number increased in the last 5 days with over 1000 cases for day on friday almost 4000 new
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coronavirus cases reported in wisconsin my biggest concern about wisconsin right now sick he says are going up hospitalizations are going up deaths are going up and yet the policy changes are still not quite in place they have weeks of infections built in already if they don't act more aggressively now it's not really even clear how they're going to go to mitigate and manage all of these new cases infections and. this is yet there was the u.s. president at a rally in wisconsin on friday with his assessment of a coronavirus was being beaten even as his own task force want officials in wisconsin to avoid large gatherings speaking on monday the u.s. is leading infectious disease experts anthony foundry confirmed what appears obvious the u.s. is facing a new resurgence of covert 19 we have a lot of challenges ahead of us and i can't help thinking that we're really you know going through
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a time that's disturbingly anti science and certain segments of our society and ultra provided more evidence to back up that conclusion just before fouty spoke saying this in a campaign conference call a few hours earlier people have tired of curve and people are saying whatever just leave us alone people are tired of hearing from the tree and all these idiots if we listen to him we have 700000 or 800000 deaths from adding in regards to tree every time he goes on television there's always a bomb but there's. a bigger bomb if you fire him troubled also been scathing about democratic presidential candidate joe biden's response to the pandemic over the weekend to listen to the scientists 100 monday biden responded with a one word tweet yes she represents the al-jazeera argentina has become the 5th country with 1000000 infections and new cases are increasing despite having in forest one of the world's longest lock downs other latin american
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countries are also heading towards the 1000000 infections mark including colombia mexico and peru scientists in brazil say an experimental vaccine being developed by china appears to be safe $9000.00 brazilians are taking part in the trial of corona vac it's one of 3 vaccines being tested their data on how effective the treatment is won't be released until the trial is completed our reporter monica yant i.q. has more from rio de janeiro. the one that is ahead of all is of the chinese one produced by sue nowak and it's called corona vac it has already been tested on 9001000 people they've received 2 doses and it's proved to be safe with very little side effects but what they really are worried now is to see how effective it is and i've spoken to a researcher who said that they are expecting vaccines to be like 50 percent 60
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percent effective not 100 percent brazil also is testing is also working with the russians on the russian vaccine which they hope to have by the end of the year and also with astra zeneca so there are 3 vaccines that are expected to be in use here . india's prime minister is promising vaccines will be made available to all citizens and the interim oduya urged everyone to remain vigilant and take precautions this nationwide address followed the announcement of the fewest new daily coronavirus cases nearly 3 months but experts warn numbers could peak again with a series of religious festivals happening soon. let's get a check on the weather now with rob. beautiful sky artistry here this is low to the south of ireland is tied up with a system that stretches all the way down this western side of europe towards portugal
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a place where we should focus on because at the bottom end of that frontal system it's waving a bit and therefore it is raining there's actually a heavy rain warning out for portugal and it's for today and the reason why well they've had $79.00 memories of rain so far on average for the whole month of $170.00 getting nearly a month's worth of rain in a day and this is just in this been the capital and the worst is probably still to come because this is the forecast the rest of the day the orange being the heavy rain it's edging in through ports go towards western space you know be going through i think by tonight if you follow it overnight then the heaviest rain ease a bit goes across the bay of biscay catches northwestern parts of france and heads up towards the british isles for wednesday leaving portugal still cloudy and wet but not as wet as it was so that means for example london is a day of heavy rain on wednesday still breezy and sherry on thursday the temperature around about the average mark for some on the east of all this the
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induced warm southerly means temperatures are well above average take munich for example. coming up on the officer in his hour as guinea waits to see who gets next leader will be many in the mineral rich country have been left feeling abandoned by politicians nassau prepares to touch down on an asteroid for the 1st time in a bid to unlock the secrets of our universe there is controversy brewing ahead of next year's roost scheduled olympic games in tokyo we'll have all the details in sports. global community. that looks like the part of the debate issue in each of you can jump into the conversation when no topic is off the table you're not afraid of anyone taking our we just what. you says 3
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targeting richer and the poor getting poorer it's not kill destroy the system it's just to look at the system and. this street on out is there a lot of that asked when the president of the united states speaks out the rest of the world takes notice. aggressive negotiation on trade deals. unparalleled military might international agreements hanging by a thread will the next u.s. foreign policy put america 1st. and be a leading light for the world at large. some of the key issues of the u.s. election. on al-jazeera.
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well again the top stories on their al-jazeera news our prime minister is welcoming us plans to remove the country from a list of state sponsors of terrorism as part of the deal sudan says its transfer of compensation for u.s. victims and their families from the bombing attacks on washington's embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1900 microphones are to be. interrupted the final u.s. presidential debate on thursday during their 1st face to face president donald trump constantly talked over his democratic challenger joe biden. a 24 hour curfew will come into force in nigeria's financial capital lagos at 15 g.m.t. protesters walked the international airport on monday as demonstrations against police brutality can to. human rights watch has released video shows fighters from these armed groups beating civilians and getting support from
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the military the leader of the group has been on the run for more than a year reports. she is wanted by prosecutors in the democratic republic of congo. recruiting child soldiers the crime against humanity of rape he leads an armed group called m.d.c. its fight is a new tool for torturing and executing civilians they controlled a larger area than any other militia released in congo until the group split 3 months ago. some of the fighters surrendered to the government. remains at large in spite of a warrant for his arrest and it's widely believed that a lot of his weapons ammunition uniforms have come from government army officers who supported him to fight other armed groups. denies it and denies committing right to be says then to fit in with. the in d.c.
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does not have any collaboration with the congolese army when we're in confrontation with other armed groups we find heavy weapons ammunition and congolese military uniforms. international rights group human rights watch has released videos that it says show otherwise they will film secretly by local residents this one appears to show fighters collecting illegal taxis and shows people who can't pay being beaten. punishments a brutal for anyone who doesn't comply one of the fighters says. and one of the armed groups commanders. about the goals of the. and the congolese government soldier. well it is there. but some things have recently changed which
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deputies turned against him congo's army has been fighting him since. those who say there may be a certain collaboration between the army and we don't should bring evidence we are actually in military operations against gadhafi collaboration would be against the nature of our mission which is to track down all armed groups. of people in eastern congo have suffered in brutal conflicts for more than 20 years human rights watch says gadhafi and army officers who supported him must be brought to justice malcolm webb al-jazeera. let's now speak to thomas fessing he's a senior a d r c researcher at human rights watch and he's the also the author of the report he's joining us from london thanks very much for joining us on al-jazeera so you heard in malcolm's report the denial from the congolese army spokesman that they supports gay don't but from your research on what you've been able to uncover how
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prevalent is the support from within the congolese army towards the leader. well we spoke to the same spokesman who also has united. nations and actually. we're waiting to see the evidence hopefully the material that we've released today . helping. treat get investigations into. this subject what suit we found in our research which was made possible over 4 yes it is that continuously over there is yes some of the companies army units provided weapons and haven't. you don't use it and use yahoo and also they used to prove as a proxy force in the fight in the military operations if you will against
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the militia in the region and i suppose it's important to note here that the allegations are not towards the entire kong of these military but rather units within the military correct. exactly according to our research we found that specific networks with dimitri the company zani have been supporting these groups and we've also seen that some of the support which channel through the head of the military in the province of north kivu in eastern congo so we're talking about. we naming a few offices that i'll pray to that and we naming specific regiments that went to gloried in the syria and all the involved in military operations over the last few years against a number of on groups east using the domes and d.c.
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awful cities. as a force on the frontline against. groups and what sort of abuses have you on covered what it comes to sort of the impact this is having on civilians. you don't and has been responsible for the camp ness of using the as we talking about said dozens of killings are we talking about countless rights and acts of sexual violence we've got even in cases of sexual slavery we're talking about severe of the teams i'm told. we're talking about the recruitment of china so if this is so many abuses carried out this. group actually controlled. the biggest chunk of territory than any other in the middle east and had set up a sort of government governance structure with
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a very sophisticated taxation system rocketeer him civilians and profiting from the trade. gold mining and the minerals in india area which was what they would give in return for collaboration with some of the army units to those military commanders that they're collaborating with and finally let me ask you what you're hoping this report the human rights watch has put out its will will achieve what we hoping that the authorities can use this report as a tool to remind themselves that they need to arrests if you don't they put out a new arrest warrants against him and you're not in june sorry to 2019 so last yet nothing has been done to to stop him and to stop he's abuses but also to look at it he's back it is within the committees amit to identify and the senior commom is
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that i came to it in the collaboration and in the support of that group to suspend to send this action them and to prosecute them if needed. thank you very much for speaking to us on outta there. elsewhere in the eastern democratic republic of congo our men have freedom around $1300.00 prisoners from jail that jailbreak happened in the city of beni the town's mayor is blaming the allied democratic forces armed groups the u.n. says the a.d.f. has killed more than a 1000 civilians since the start of 2019. the rebels. and police uniforms entered the prison in the prison as to leave for about 4 kilometers in the phone some holes where we stayed until the morning. they sold us . thailand's prime minister is recalling parliament for a special session next week his protesters continue calls for him to quit thousands
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or rallied for 6 straight days in the capital bangkok along with pryor of resignation they want reforms to the constitution and the monarchy many are also angry over the government's decision to suspend an online t.v. station that it says is spreading false information. that the government will talk to the media and suspend the ones that need to be suspended i'm not violating anyone's rights everyone has the duty to protect and eliminate harmful intentions to create or incite chaos i can't let something like that happen yet. there were emotional scenes outside a person in bangkok when 22 protesters were freed on bail on monday evening they were arrested after police fired water cannon to disperse anti-government rallies last week and to protest leaders were among those freed but they were then rearrested on charges relating to putting up a plaque critical of the monarchy and other activists who was released remain defiant. we didn't feel deterred by the arrests we know that
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this is part of the fight and it's become a piece of crucial evidence to prove that the government is unfeeling using the law against political activists one of the people with different political views the government is trying to shut our mouths but that's ok because while we were in prison we were so happy that the protests kept on going well the protest movement in thailand is finding support over in hong kong activists in both places are pushing for solidarity seeing parallels in each other struggles it's been dubbed the milk tea alliance after their shared love of this drink right there both groups view themselves as taking a stand against an oppressive government in hong kong they're protesting against a security law which threatens freedom and autonomy in the chinese territory while over in thailand they're pushing for reforms of what they say are undemocratic institutions there's been an uptick in collaboration online as well activists have
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been sharing means and slogans many of which also feature taiwan they're also exchanging protesting tactics so what began online is now spreading to the streets josh who is one of hong kong's most well known activists held a rally at the high consulates he says that he stands with the thai protesters. crack got in high today we stand with fellow protesters in. crackdown suppression is not the way out is the time to rush out and hina and to push forward the cry to reform james buchanan is a visiting lecturer of my head's all university international college she explained some of the reasons behind the move toward solidarity. at the see a lot of parallels between the 2 struggles on boards are essentially struggles for representative democracy and both movements are also used late movements saw
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just kind of a. shared identity there between the young protesters i think the political contacts are very different in hong kong and thailand move more broadly so that would be different in terms of the protesters. you mentioned that they've been kind of communicating online stuff so language there have been some language difficulties to overcome which has been interesting because. hungover suspect was some people think don't always speak perfect english and sometimes are quite shy about your english so but that is all been part of the part of the fun and has actually helped to build the solidarity trying to overcome these very rich think it already has even the origins of the multi-line was started to get some interest from for example some of the other countries in the southeast asia region or countries which have been negatively affected or who feel grievances over issues like the. strain is the just grip on countries like philippines and vietnam. and
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more recently of course india who had a border clash with china and we saw a lot of interest and support from indians coming into the starting to follow the hash tags of the lines newly introduced employment laws in indonesia have provoked more protests this time by students they rallied in the capital jakarta against what they say is the weakening of workers' rights and protections for the environment the government argues that the legislation will attract more investment and create jobs for the coronavirus hit economy. colombian police and soldiers are beefing up security on the border with venezuela to stop the latest surge of migrants searching for a better life in the center of the reports from the colombian city of kolkata hundreds of venezuelans are aiming to smuggle themselves over the border any way they can. colombian police and soldiers on an impossible mission to block desperate
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venezuelans crossing illegally into the country. that formal entry points have been closed for months to stem the spread of coronavirus oakland destin trails are everywhere. as economies reopen across the continent a new flood of venezuelans is fleeing misery and hunger at home and inflicts made became control. theory difficult especially during dry months when they can cross almost anywhere the border has way too many homes. 5000 migrants entered colombia in just 10 days many paying belittled they had left to criminal gangs who profit from smuggling gasoline drugs and people on the trails. the family had returned to venezuela at the height of the pandemic now they're trying to make it back to columbus capital to look for work and food i. continue walking with whatever help
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we can find food a lift anything that helps us in normal circumstances this bridge would see almost 40000 people crossing. now it's totally empty and the colombian government was planning to reopen the border between the 2 countries on november 1st but now fearing a massive influx of migrants. saying it cannot reopen. the conditions are not in place to reopen and address the migration crisis it could be the most critical phase of the past 5 years and we must assess our capacity to attend them especially when we already have 2000000 venezuelans in the country close borders also impacting venezuelans who have lost work and are trying to go home their numbers of decreased in recent weeks some 930 still sheltered daily in socially distanced camps in as well as allowing less than 200 enter on any given
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day the un refugee agency says migrants are facing even worse humanitarian conditions than before defend them ik. i can't we need to respond to the reality on the ground it would be an error not to address these growing needs where working with the government to generate that response. if any swelling crisis was already one of the worst in the world depend pushing migrants and those struggling to help closer to the breaking point listen to them and just. not scientists are putting the final touches to plans for a spacecraft landing on an asteroid 320000000 kilometers from earth if all goes well they hope rock samples will help unravel some of the mysteries of the solar system but the reports. a historic moment is on the horizon of the nasa cyrus rex mission it's about to briefly touch down on the surface of asteroid
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banding together a sample of rock something nasa has never done before this is the culmination of a lot of work it's probably one of the most exciting missions that i've worked on and this is really claiming to know that we're finally going to be able to touch the surface of a vast. ben who is more than 320000000 kilometers from earth the plan is for the osiris rex to land in adult crayton a benny's north pole once the sample collect the senses contact with any surface it will fire a small part of compressed nitrogen to kick up daybreak and capture pieces of the asteroid and event that last just a few seconds scientists say many things could go wrong they have gone a couple of thessalian on this year they approach to 60 meters to 40 meters just to check that they're with us ok the hostile trial sites. are mocking sampling and now they are doing that they want for good going really go into into or near the surface of the asteroid. cyrus rex blasted off from cape canaveral in
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florida 4 years ago it arrived at benito in 2018 and has been mapping its surface ever since scientists say the sample can. lect it may help unravel some of the mysteries of the solar system asteroids are out there in space in the solar system are these when they are left over in the solar system for 4 and a half years you know and so i look at the grassroots in studying or studying them learn and start to understand that material was here and it made it. that's really really important fundamental and. if the mission is successful the sample will be delivered to earth in september 2023 victoria gate to be algis they are coming up on the al-jazeera is our the sports news on the dallas cowboys making history in a rather embarrassing way sun i will explain how in just a few moments. business
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leaders. i know brush.
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business leaders. i know brush. ellerey in time for the sports series we found out thank you very much a tear in well one of the english premier league's highest earners mistletoes has been excluded from arsenal's e.p.l. squad cheese day it was the deadline for teams to submit the $25.00 a man lists the german world cup winner who is in the final year of his $450000.00 per week contract hasn't played a competitive game since march had already been left out of arsenal's european league squad with exclusions running alongside an apparent breakdown in relations
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between himself and the club in august ozil criticize arsenal for distancing themselves from his tweet and china's treatment of hugo muslim's the club saying at the time that it does not involve itself in politics there was also the issue of pay cuts and used to apply the pandemic arsenal requested players to take a 12.5 percent reduction of 12 months but refused saying the move was rushed that the details were unclear and just recently was accused by many fans of embarrassing the club he offered to pay the wages of the mascot the service who was laid off as part of covert cost cutting measures but we spoke to the daily mirror's a chief football writer john cross and he believes ozil is highly unlikely to ever play for arsenal again. very sadly i don't think you can say mr klein for us or
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i have to say this wasn't in any shape manner or form of an expected that he wouldn't be in the premier league school because it's a logical step bearing in mind that he's not obscene made the europa league squad so i think arsenal had worked trying to find him range with. to try and play up the contract before you eat for squad what was announced and therefore nothing's going to change on a friday i mean it's it's a disaster i think on a personal level for us because he clearly has made it clear that he still loves arsenal he doesn't want to leave doesn't want to leave london and yet is being snubbed twice willian so he doesn't fit into mikel arteta plans that's perfectly clear. it's very difficult to know where this goes forward other than perhaps arsenal finding a solution with those also they could potentially in january in the next window.
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if the time is a as bad losses as runners up pythons are now host majesty knighted and what's their pick of tuesday's 8 group stage it matches the red devils that go into the game following some pretty inconsistent form despite beating newcastle 41 in this family gone on saturday united have only taken 6 points from their opening for league games p.s.g. however are flying high after shaky start to the season then our 2nd and. fantastic group for us every game will mean a lot never again will be. important for us because this team has just started on something and is the very. first time this this team together can play against the best probably the biggest test for us that we've had so far have will be in this game i think. magister you know dell has to not to forget because the memories are great and all the fans they had it in mind but these are usually delusion ish
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and you're asian new premier league season is a new football and they are progressing if you met her. before entrenched they have signed the right players in my opinion and they are going to improve from there you know progression i don't think they are. i'm progressing is going to need to. i don't think they are. going for is that less a cowboys have made some embarrassing n.f.l. history following their latest defeat or despite being beaten 38 to 10 by the arizona cardinals and seeing their record slump to just 2 ends and 4 losses they still sit atop of the n.f.c. east division makes them the 1st team with a losing record to have a division lead through week 6 since 970 well we've been speaking to u.k. based american sports broadcaster michael carson he believes the cowboys new record
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was in some ways enough to. top of the division isn't isn't much of a compliment when it's the n.f.c. east and to an extent dallas has problems like 3 of 2 of the other 3 teams in the division they have new coaches this has been a terrible year to bring in a new coach for most teams because you've had less practice time because of the pandemic you're not as sure about your roster because of the pant pandemic and it's it's been difficult for a number of teams the problem for the cowboys in the short term has been that their defense as it has been for a couple of years has been very very shaky indeed they've allowed 34 or more points in their last 5 games and that's something that hasn't been done in the n.f.l. for about 30 years the east was a very competitive division for a long time you know the eagles in the early part of the. first decade of the
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century dominated for a couple of years but since 2004 there hadn't been a repeat champion until the eagles did it again just just in the last couple of years but coming into this season you knew that you were going to have to noticeably bad teams in washington and the new york giants and then you had a philadelphia team that is kind of always in a rebuilding state since they won the super bowl and a dallas team which looked to be the easy favorites looked to have improved somewhat but we're operating with a new coach and a new defensive coordinator new system so there are big question marks to begin with in that division. the japanese government say they cannot turn a blind eye to malicious cyber attacks after britain and the united states so called russian military intelligence are trying to disrupt next year's games the country's chief government spokesman said japan will proceed with cyber security
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measures to make sure that tokyo lympics succeed on monday britain and the united states condemned what they said were serious series of malicious attacks orchestrated by russian military intelligence the games were rescheduled for next year due to the current pandemic. you know so i say to you we cannot overlook malicious cyber attacks that may threaten the foundation of democracy took your games is an international event which brings global attention we think cyber security measures are important we will continue to share information globally and all the related ministries and organizations will work as one to firmly proceed cyber security measures for the success of the total games. and that's all useful for me we'll have a mole for you later on including the build up to the champions league matches but for now back to derry all right looking for thank you very much santa for that update and thanks for watching the news hour on al jazeera back in just a moment we'll have much more of the day's news all the day's top stories coming
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your way in a minute see you then go bye. decades ago manila was called the pearl of the orient the manila metropolitan theater was once a testament to the city's grandeur but decades later the theater has become a symbol of manila sticky now the philippine government is changing their government buildings the universities and monasteries were just some of the many structures that were destroyed in manila drawing world war 2. but rebuilding a life and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts say manila has never truly recovered. frank assessments if american public opinion pieces betrayed by social media platforms after november what would be that because if you believe
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that there corrosive to our democracy one obvious solution is to break up informed opinion lucas has don't go anywhere the protesters aren't going anywhere either it's ability to get a revolution people will call in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines who is it that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera. i want you to know our nation is going to do defeat this center china viruses we call it there is no place for hate in america well i'm feeling great out of about your worry mask is not a political statement it's a scientific recommendation of the final presidential debate live on al-jazeera. when covert. 19 1st struck china and began to spread the cost asia. some in the west criticized countermeasures a stupid or too weak. but of the different experiences before asian nations in fact not shown the world to root out of this
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