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and we will deal with climate change the new president reversed the decision in time. face up to the climate crisis follow the issues of the u.s. election on al-jazeera. budge until it becomes the 5th nation to record more than a 1000000 coronavirus cases as a global race for a vaccine accelerates. but on the clock this is al jazeera life in doha also coming nigerians defy a curfew in and around the country's biggest city to keep weeks of protest against police brutality. the film said to marcus o.g.'s sues the saudi crown prince in the united states over the journalists murder. sudan welcomes u.s. plans to remove it from the list of state sponsors of terrorism but victims of bomb
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attacks reject the sudanese compensation offer. so that in several latin american countries are expected to reach $1000000.00 covert $1000.00 infections within weeks and they include colombia mexico and peru argentina is already there becoming the 5th country to reach the 1000000 mark and that is despite having in forced one of the world's longest lockdowns iran is reporting more than $5000.00 new infections 24 hours after a record increase in virus related deaths and russia has reported more than 16000 new cases over the past 24 hours and in eastern china hundreds of cute in the city of you for an experimental vaccine yet to complete its clinical trials the chinese firm in syria france says it's amy to have more than a 1000000000 doses ready by next year to raise about has more on the rise of infections there in argentina. people here are trying to find out they want to know
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in spite of argentina seem to do everything right and early dark lockdown it was imposed on the streets with security poor forces on the ground asking people to stay home but that was 7 months ago and even though in the very beginning most of the coronavirus cases were happening in the capital where our society is hearing greater want to cite is the virus has continued to spread and is now stable in what a sight is but it's spreading to other parts of the country for example the city of los why i wrote down at the tip of argentina close to antarctica there are numbers of cases there have greatly increased in another area like our society that's one of argentina's greater. grain ports the cases are also increasing of a r one what people want to know is what went wrong and one of the what people are mostly saying is locked down fatigue i mean from the very beginning argentina is a problem argentina it's filled with going through an economic crisis people
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couldn't afford to stay home many informal workers many live in poor areas where there is overcrowding lack of sanitation among other things and also a critics are saying that the government focus on concentrated their efforts in imposing that lockdown but did not carry out enough testing and that was in a way one of the biggest flaws what the government is saying that the time in the past few months what they have done is to in a way increase the the strength of the public health care system they were they managed in a way to increase the amount of intensive care units the amount of beds in intensive care units respirators among other things and that's why the hospitals in this country have not collapsed and until now. when india's prime minister is promising vaccines will be made available to all citizens in the run remotely urge everybody to remain vigilant and take precautions because nationwide address for all of the announcements of the fewest new daily coronavirus cases in nearly 3 months for numbers could peak again with
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a series of religious festivals happening soon. amish is a senior scholar at the johns hopkins center for health security he says it will be a challenge to distribute the vaccine globally once it is made available. and many vaccines that are what are called phase 3 clinical trials which is the last stage there are 3 or 4 big ones that are being tried in the united states and europe the ones that make the headlines like astra zeneca and johnson and johnson you're hearing a lot about all of those types of vaccines and then you have vaccines that are being made by the chinese government the russian government companies now we are little bit in the dark about how effective they are and many of us think that we're probably going to see different approvals on different timelines the u.s. and european maybe getting emergency use approval before the end of the year for health care workers and high risk individuals but it's really unclear to us what's going on with the chinese and russian vaccines because we haven't seen all of these 3 clinical trial data to show how effective it works see what the safety profile is
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and i do think that some of those chinese vaccines are very promising and they may make it into into people's arms and they are already being used experimentally and for limited populations but we want to see the data and we want to make sure we get this right and that we have a safe and effective vaccine that actually people are in bold and to take i do think that we will start to see vaccination occur too for more of the general population of the planet in spring and into summer i do think that for the developing world we'll probably have to be vaccinating well into 2022 so this is going to be a very daunting global challenge to get this vaccine into people's arms so that we do have control of this virus but i but i do think that we have to not really stick to these dates because we may have problems in manufacturing we may have problems in scale up we may have problems in distribution remember some of these vaccines are going to take 2 doses some of them have to be kept at extremely cold temperatures which is going to be just simply challenging thousands of nigerians are defying a curfew in lagos state to continue protests against police brutality the
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government says disbanded a special unit accused of actually divisional killings and extortion but that has not satisfied protesters the speaker of the. refusing to approve the budget without compensation for victims of police brutality. i will not sign off on the 2021 budget that does not does not include adequate full visions to compensate those who have suffered by our lives i'm fatality at the hands of the police in nigeria in the last decade this peter i mean addresses life for us from abroad to not meant it seems the curfew is in place but many are not following it. well a lot of people are not following it especially in the leckie zone this is home to millions of people we understand that there are pockets of protests just chill on the streets protesting and demanding that their demands be met and there is also a very very serious traffic jam along that road it's usually
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a very. difficult situation at this point in time when people close from work but it's made worse by the disruptions caused by protests on the streets of mickey and environs now in the last few hours or in the last few minutes we've also heard from the president of the senate asking the president to please address the nation apart from that that is information coming out of equities still in southwestern nigeria which. declares of 24 hour curfew beginning from 10 pm local time and this is a state where a week ago schools resumed and now only in the day the government announced that schools will be shut and then a few hours later they're now talking about imposing a 24 hour curfew in the state so we expect to see more of these measures being taken by state governments the capital here as and now wants to ban on street
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protests however that did not stop the protesters from carrying out their protest on the streets of a buddha in fact the protests even got messy out with violence yesterday we saw how dozens of cars were burned by people at the protests protest to say who are hired agents who talked to them and then they retaliated. against the attackers so we've seen businesses destroyed in the process as well and similar incidents have been recorded and we like we said before this is a very difficult or chaotic situation we experiencing and when the a lot of. i had to create or other specific measures to address this situation rather than waiting and see whether the process will fizzle out is adding more to the fire i think or i mean thanks for that interest reporting there from. the film say of murdered somebody journalist marcus o.-g.
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has filed a lawsuit against the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sultan over the death of her husband to be the lawsuits was filed at a u.s. federal court by hattie's agendas and cause so g.'s organization democracy for the arab world now they're alleged that bin selman and his coconspirators ordered the abduction torture and murder dismemberment and disappearance of a soldier the lawsuit says this was done to silence and prevent the washington post journalists from speaking out against democratization in the middle east i asked do united states government. and the nation that has to look for justice accountability and the right. i ask that you me and all those who love him out and say we will support your affords to fully and call word to truth and show that those that it's possible i'm fond liable in a court of law. share returns is more now from washington d.c.
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. they seem to be 2 main goals as was suggested in what we just heard that is one to get a court determination in the us saying that mom had been solomon was directly responsible for jamal khashoggi death but also to get more information about the death there's still so much that we don't know we do know that authorities in the us of made the determination that muhammad been solomon had bought some direct responsibility for the death of jamal khashoggi but what is that information the u.s. government isn't releasing it and so what they're hoping is that in the discovery face of this phase of the civil lawsuit more documents will have to be produced by the u.s. government other governments around the world as to exactly what evidence they have which led them to the conclusion that there were there's official responsibility for jamal khashoggi death and they feel that they have jurisdiction here in the u.s. to push the civil suit because of the that there is the torture victims accountability
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act i believe it's called which which allows allows for us and all u.s. citizens in the u.s. to file civil suit in u.s. courts against those working for a foreign government deemed to have been committing torture when all other local remedies have been exhausted but also because they say this was a plan that was hatched and actually carried out on u.s. soil that that the efforts to lure jamal khashoggi to the consulate in turkey happened on u.s. soil and this was to have an impact on the political discourse in the united states because the market shoji had just set up his organizations they feel that they have standing and they filed they filed the suit the u.s. about a justice and 11 states to suing internet giant google with multiple violations of the federal antitrust law it would be the 1st significant legal challenge that google has faced from u.s. regulators despite years of investigations into the company's practices google called the lawsuit deeply flawed. so ahead here now to syria
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a call for unity the u.n. chief says he stands ready to try to resolve the gulf to speed to run the blockade on cut. a precision parking nasa scientists hope to land on an asteroid millions of kilometers from. but. how will the seas still chopping off the coast of a manmade the tropical depression dropping one of 2 spots or variances be nothing significant out of it and there's more active weather in the eastern med this is the bottom end of a frontal system might wind up into something it's certainly going to influence the weather in the event temperatures are coming down from their highs in the low thirty's to the middle teens which is where they should be with the breeze setting up out of iraq and down through the gulf states which might turn into a bit of
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a dusty breeze but again i don't think anything significant is going to come from it the rain in the rift valley is a daily event so falling heavily still stretching as far north as south sudan as fast south as probably angola maybe touching botswana but not much of malawi on notice so you've got a mass of these blue showers is the daily event you expect serious that rainy season the same is true for government places through d.r. congo and this potential of something wanting appear that they look amount to a tropical depression but we're watching in case it affects madagascar south of all this and apart from passing shots it's a dry ticking picture for now there are showers developing in this northeastern part of south africa might affect johannesburg which is currently again much warmer than it should be. frank assessments if other can public opinion piece betrayed by social media
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platforms after november would be because if you believe that there corrosive to our democracy one obvious solution is to break the law informed opinion just look at his dog anyway the protesters are going anywhere either if the bill is going to revolutionize people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines with it that's really out there on the screen inside story on al-jazeera. well again you're watching al-jazeera your mind about top stories this hour several countries across latin america are expected to reach 1000000 cases of at 19 in the coming weeks argentina has become the 5th nation in the world to reach the 1000000
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mark that's despite having in force one of the world's longest lockdowns. thousands of nigerians are defying a curfew in lagos state to continue protests against police brutality nigeria's police chief has ordered and he brought officers to prevent on an inspiration. they feel unsafe murdered a saudi genista marcus orgy is suing the saudi crown in the united states and lawsuit alleges that mohammed bin salman ordered kasar g.'s a killing at the saudi consulate in istanbul 2 years ago. the u.s. supreme court has declined a republican bid that would have limited the count of mail in ballots in the state of pennsylvania it means that postal votes there can now be counted up to 3 days after the election on november the 3rd the state is a key battleground in the upcoming presidential but the top court was deadlocked
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allowing an alert court ruling to stand there are currently only 8 justices on the bench following the death of ruth bader ginsburg. but lives massive 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 key states that he came close to winning minnesota from where john 100 now reports. all of the suburbs were 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 a short commute from minneapolis george floyd's death under a police officer's need led to raucous protests that divided
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a nation in many households. 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 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. it's super storms. here one voter's crisis of law and order is another's calamity of social injustice and i have 100 percent support for the protesters and i've been doing my best to stay as
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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 city is 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 religious 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 but trump supporters note he also leg hillary clinton in minnesota in 2016 before
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nearly pulling off an upset victory john hendren al-jazeera was out of minnesota. so don it could be a bounce when more than 25 years of international isolation and boost transition to democracy u.s. president donald trump says he's ready to take the country off a list of state sponsors of terrorism and that's likely to bring an injection of international investment and allow urgently needed that relief it will more than reports now from the capital khartoum. this is one of the events that have kept sudan on a u.s. list of states says of terror and kept most foreign investors away for more than 25 years. in august 1988 attacks on the u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania killed 224 people and injured more than 4000 so dan was a. of providing a base for the bombers then president ahmed bashir had already been accused of offering sanctuary to the likes of al qaida and its leader osama bin laden. but after you have negotiations by the transitional government president donald trump
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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 have to have a serious plan and work to give the to benefit from the separate unity we promised people and we work to achieve 0 promise with no agenda except the interest of the nation together we can achieve the impossible and being on the list has meant sudan has struggled for investment resulting in a hard currency shortage that led to inflation that 1st throw slowly then steeply the countries pound has lost more than 50 percent of its value against the dollar in just the past 2 months the cash strapped government is struggling to pay for stuff lies of fleet 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
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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 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 when. and while president trump seeks a foreign policy when so dance prime minister abdullah him to set the delisting would open paths for sudan's economic improvement crucial for its transition to democracy he will morgan al-jazeera hot on. org marilyn is managing partner at
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m.m.u. law and he represents $569.00 judgment holders out of the total of $700.00 and that accounts for about $250.00 families that he says they all facing discrimination for 2 years my clients and i have been trying to urge sudan to negotiate directly with us to get them off the list my clients have great empathy for the sudanese people and they want to see democracy flourish they want to see the people of sudan benefit under a free government with respects human rights and the horrible horrible period of bloodshed that they have also gone through in order to do that we've even it presented certain companies that were willing to invest in sudan to help finance the the settlement my clients claim so that it wouldn't fall on the burden of the of the sudanese people but the sudanese government refused to even discuss such
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a thing with us saying that the state department had exclusive rights with it to negotiate the agreement with them and this is the crazy discriminatory plan that they've ended up with who discriminate against people who have an arch almost all of it's just going to a handful of the of the victims to the u.s. citizens who are getting paid 21 percent of the judgment and a $400.00 of my clients get absolutely nothing 0 and the rest of it being paid like one percent of their document so 1st of all discrimination based on race or national origin is absolutely unacceptable and 2nd it's not a settlement when $400.00 clients are asked to waive their claims for no compensation. human rights watch has released video it says shows fighters from a congress armed group beating civilians and getting support from the military the leader of the group has been on the run for more than a year is marking where. she is wanted by prosecutors in
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the democratic republic of congo. the reaction recruiting child soldiers and the crime against humanity of rape he leads an armed group called n d c r its fighters are notorious for torturing and executing civilians they controlled a larger area than any other militia in eastern 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 and 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. the in d.c. 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
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uniform. 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 taxes 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. and the congolese government soldier one with him and my family. you know well it is there. but some things have recently changed which deputies turned against him congo's army has been fighting him since.
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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 and army officers who supported him must be brought to justice malcolm webb al-jazeera. men have freed around $1300.00 prisoners in democratic republic of congo jailbreak happened in the city of beni the town's mayor is blaming the allied democratic forces armed groups un says the a.t.f. has killed more than a 1000 civilians since the start of 2019. thailand's prime minister is calling parliament for a special session next week as protesters continue called for him to quit fountains of rally for 6 straight days in the capital bangkok along with prior to channel
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just resignation they want reforms to the constitution and to the monarchy and many are also angry at the government's decision to suspend an online t.v. station that it says is spreading false information. about 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 prison in bangkok when 22 protesters were freed on bail on monday evening they were arrested after police fired water cannons to disperse anti-government ronnie's last week. the u.n. secretary general says he stands ready to help the gulf countries ease tensions in the region speaking during a un security council debate intended to terrorise said that he hopes prices ranging from the war in yemen to the blockade on qatar can be result of soon in
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2017 saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain egypt imposed the sea land and air blockade on gaza accused of supporting terrorism and of being too close to iran cutter rejects those allegations. now nasa scientists are putting the final touches to plans for a spacecraft landing on an asteroid 320000000 kilometers from earth and all goes well they hope rock samples will help unravel some of the mysteries of the solar system. 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 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 really claiming to know that we're finally going to be able to touch the surface of. ben who is more than 320000000 kilometers from earth the plan is for
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the cyrus 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 puff 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 these year they approached to 60 meters to 40 meters just to check that there was he was ok the hostile trial sites. are looking sampling and now they're going they want for good we're going to go into into or near the surface of the asteroid. cyrus rex blasted off from cape canaveral in florida 4 years ago it arrived at benito in 2018 and has been mapping its surface ever since scientists say the sample collected may help unravel some of the mysteries of the solar system asteroids. are.
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left over in the solar system for 4 and a half years now and say look. we're starting to understand that material was here and it made it. that's really. if the mission is successful the sample will be delivered to earth in september 2023 victoria gate to be al jazeera. the right time for a quick check of the headlines turn out to 0 and several countries across latin america are expected to reach 1000000 cases of cope with 19 in the coming weeks argentina has become the 5th nation in the world to reach the 1000000 mark that's despite having inforce where the world's longest lockdowns throws a bow has more from one of their us what we're basically seeing is what's happened .
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