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0 reveals never before heard recordings implicating some of the world's most powerful players. everyone would benefit by the abuse of power and go alone for a fugitive on a just, you know i think there were an incredible irresponsibility. u.s. president elect joe biden, lashes out at donald trump for failing to concede and disrupting the transition of power. this is out of their life and also coming up condemnation, as mike pump becomes the 1st u.s. secretary of state to visit illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank. the death toll from protests in uganda rises to 16, following the arrest of presidential candidate and one year on
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a colombian commemorate the anniversary of large anti-government demonstrations. u.s. president elect joe biden has once again chris sized the current president for did i guess victory. he branded donald trump of instruction to the transition during a worsening pandemic as totally irresponsible and debilitating the incoming need. it made the comments after meeting with state governors from both parties to discuss how to tackle the crime of virus pandemic once he's in power. biden was asked what trump's actions displayed to the american people, and then through an incredible irresponsibility credibly damaging messages being sent to the rest world about how democracy functions. i think it is.
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well, i don't know his motives, but i just think it's totally irresponsible. elevations life for us at the white house, very strong words there, but is it frustration is anger? is that both? do we think there's certainly a different tone from joe biden, who, over the last week has been saying, look these things or what them selves. so there's no need to get excited, but you can tell he's beginning to get frustrated because he's speaking to many, many people about what he wants to do after the transition, but he's being deprived of some of the information that he, things is important. there was a roan to joe biden, who believe that perhaps he should head to the courts and make the trumpet ministration start the transition period. but there's a couple of difficulties for that. one politically, joe biden doesn't want to do that. he wants to be seen as the guy who can work with the republicans and thinks, taking court action won't kind of fit into that narrative. the 2nd thing is,
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the one thing of the law is the, there is no exact date of when the transition must start. and therefore you really don't want to go to court unless you're guaranteed of a significant when. so what he's hoping to do is put political pressure and also hope that public opinion will force the trumpet ministration into moving towards the transition. there were fair from the chamber of commerce which tends to support republican candidates. it's been very clear, it thinks that delaying the transition is bad for the american economy and bad for planning going into 2021. we've also heard from the manufacturers' association. it also tends to support republican candidates and here saying that it's bad news if you want to start planning for the economy and also planning how you're going to start distributing the corporate vaccine. and what you're going to do with corbett come 2021. so for the moment joe biden isn't ready to move to court, but he's keeping the situation under review and he's hoping that more and more
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bodies will push donald trump towards starting the transition sooner rather than later when we see sooner within the next 3 or 4 days now allen, the president's legal team present. donald trump's legal team have been speaking. look on our show question, i'm just going to ask you to explain it to us. it's very difficult to do that. as a journalist, you always try to say, well look on one hand, there's this and then there's the other. i listen to the news conference that rudy giuliani in the rest of the legal team gave. and it's difficult to fact check it because a lot of what they're saying isn't true. i mean, just an example, he quoted joe biden saying that they set out the most elaborate election stealing organization ever. that is a manufactured video that has been circulating in the dark recesses of the web. but rudy giuliani is quoting this as fact he's talking about widespread fraud when in
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every single court case that the campaign has brought, they've always said and rudy giuliani said this in pennsylvania a couple of days ago. this isn't a case of widespread fraud. and so the difficulty is that they're making allegations in public that they're not backing up in court cases. and you've got to remember that they have lost the majority. in fact, almost all of the court cases, but that doesn't stop them going after traditional republican targets. they've blamed george soros communists, a democratic conspiracy. and one of their legal team says that this goes broader than just the democrats. this is widespread. the dominion voting systems, smartmatic technology software, and the software that goes into other computerized voting systems here as well. not just dominion were created and zillions of invented by a law at the direction of hugo chavez to make sure he never lost an election after
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one constitutional referendum came out the way he did not want it to come out. we have one very strong witness who has explained how it all works. lysis fact check a couple of things there. hugo chavez died in 2013. the dominion voting system was established in canada. it wasn't set up in venezuela just a few days ago. it donald trump's better, your own cyber security unit said that this was the most secure election there has ever been. donald trump claimed credit for that and then suggested that the democrats that stolen it. he also fired the head of that unit for daring to contradict him when he has tweeted out several times that the election was stolen. the campaign says that they're going to go to court in the next few days to challenge a lot of what has been done. we wait to see what evidence there present to court because of course, in court, the evidence has to be a lot greater than what you're saying at a news conference in front of journalists there. you can't really lie to
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a judge or you risk not only your case being thrown out, but losing your law license. that's how the fish of their life for us in washington, d.c. thank you very much. my pub, they are, has become the 1st u.s. secretary of state to visit an illegal settlement in the occupied. west bank has also become the 1st to set foot in the occupied golan heights. it's the latest and most controversial leg 10 day tour of the middle east and europe. getting ready for the 1st visit by u.s. secretary of state to an illegal israeli settlement. winery had named a blend for my pump. after he declared a year ago, a change in american policy no longer viewing israeli settlements as contrary to international law. they're saying that we have
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arrived to state department was announcing new policy requiring all settlement made goods to be labeled as israeli when entering the us market. the declaration of sorts that annexed or not the us see settlements as israeli territory. us administration is not biased towards the occupation. it's a partner in the occupation. we've seen it all before. his visit didn't surprises at all. posted photos of his tour on his twitter feed, saying he hoped not to be the last u.s. secretary of state to make such a visit. the view from the palestinian side very different. the city of i'll be rick, is home to a large number of jewel us palestinian citizens, whom the settlement of sangatte is their stolen land. i can't even get close to the settlement. i'll be putting myself and anybody around me and physical harm. since the seventy's is my visit their own land for all the controversy attached to this visit by my pump to the settlement. and for all of this, talk about
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a possible 2nd trump administration. this visit to israel has had the atmosphere of something of a goodbye tour and that was detectable in the statement that he and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu gave in jerusalem. the 2 men went over a litany of trumpet cheve months on behalf of israel was eager to show that the world had not yet dried up the globe or any israel b.d.s. campaign is anti sematic. mr. prime minister. it seems like a statement of fact, but i want to know that we will immediately take steps to identify organizations that engage in can withdraw our us government support. the boycott divestment and sanctions movement rebutted the accusation saying it rejected anti jewish racism. ended his tour in the golan heights, considered occupied land under international law, but sovereign israeli territory by u.s. administration. that continues to make radical shifts on mideast policy with just 2
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months left in its term. sorry for sit in the occupied west bank at least 16 people have been killed in uganda during protests, sparked by the arrest of opposition, politician by security forces shot at supporters of the pop star turned politician . as they demonstrated off to one was detained on wednesday. officials have accused of violating coronavirus restrictions. well, campaigning for the upcoming presidential election. the un has called for immediate release. malcolm webb has the latest from the iraqi. his spokesman says he's in a high security police facility, which is in the eastern city of ginger. that's not that far from where he was arrested when he was campaigning, police haven't confirmed where he is, but lawyers and the spokesman of complaining, as i'm being given access to legal representation or to his medical team, they're worried that he might be injured. they're waiting to see if or when he
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might be produced in front of a court. yesterdays wife shared on social media media want to appear to be a charge sheet saying that he'd be charged with offenses relating to spread of causing the spread of disease. that refers to the rallies that have been holding which visibly have much larger crowds than the ministry of health, the limit of $200.00, which is ostensibly to prevent transmission. all the other thing that might happen is that probably one might be taken back to his home discretely. he's been arrested several times before. and often the security services in with bobby wine and with other prominent opposition, politicians in an attempt to quell the unrest. try to take those people home, maybe late in the night, so that people don't continue protesting on the streets. but they certainly face between with a couple of tough options. now there's nearly 2 months to go before this election. and if they allow these rallies to continue,
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that says well local calling to the government will be problematic for covert 19, although his supporters believe these restrictions are simply to stop people. seeing how popular a year's still ahead on our desire. a language of pace rather than the language of war. the u.n. security council are optimistic about a breakthrough in libya following tilted. rival factions lost weight and a cry for help from communities across central america after a storm iota left a trail of destruction. however, a story in the u.s. in the last few days have been one of coal really has got coptic in the northeast corner. now winter is more or less kept in the canadian prairies at the moment. for, by that i mean the amount of snow for half the sky and the temperatures will
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recover for toronto, new york, and washington from low single, to low teens as quite a big change. it won't necessarily last because this is a pool of cold back which will edge eastwards. there's not much weather in it, but we saw before the junction between the 2 is quite stormy. to wrong turns temperature drops down to 4 degrees on saturday as a result of the cold air. and if you look at this line here, that is the junction which produced some nasty weather the last couple days were cold meats, warm, but the contrast isn't as great this time. so i think things will be as bad. the coast of california now turns sunny once more in his british columbia that gets the rain or inland the snow. we have no more hurrican stalk about. otis dissipates any cogent being, but this area from mexico down to costa rica, panama, and even colombia is still potentially very wet, given the amount of damage and the flooding on the ground. this is only going to top up the flooding once for nicaragua and honduras in particular.
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but how does one forgave after losing 32 family members in a heinous massacre? a survivor of one of colombia's 50 year long conflicts, worst atrocities dedicates his life to reconciliation. but his peace falters around him. naina palace yos, life and mission are in jeopardy. witness buckeye are caught in the crossfire on al jazeera
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your jihad is there a reminder of our top stories this hour? u.s. president elect joe biden has again, chris is the current president for denying his victory. he branded donald trump's obstruction to the transition during a worsening pandemic,, is totally irresponsible and debilitating. has become the 1st u.s., the secretary of state to visit an illegal israeli settlement in the occupied west bank and the occupied golan heights. it's the latest and most controversial leg of his 10 day tour of the middle east in europe. at least 16 people have been killed in uganda during protests, sparked by the arrest of opposition leader. but we won 350 people were arrested security forces shot at supporters of the pop star turned politician. more americans are currently in hospital with crying a virus than at any time in the pandemic. so far, 79000 people are currently admitted as infection rates climb. schools have now been
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shut in new york city in a bid to the spread of the virus. americans have been strongly advise not to travel for the thanksgiving holiday next week, and there's been more than 11 and a half 1000000 cases in the u.s. . coronavirus cases across africa have now passed $2000000.00 and is fit the actual figure could be much higher as testing rates quite low across the continent. the world health organization blames the rise in infections on family gatherings, interaction work, and election campaigns. dangerous has more from nigeria. this seems to be some for tea or some kind of fatigue on the part to of africans. we just came back from an election in ivory coast and what you notice there and across many sub-saharan african countries is that people where very few people wear masks this days. social distancing is still a problem,
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and crowds gather in large numbers. most of the people you see in such crowds don't wear a face mask. experts are warning that as the how much fun dusty amateur season kicks in. in a few weeks or a few days. we were going to see we are going to see a lot of cases of covered 19 for example in nigeria. for the last 2 months, only a few dozen cases were reported each day. but today, the center for disease control, it released its results, saying that in the past 48 hours, more than 200 cases were recorded. and it warned that this could increase as people abundant safety precautions use of trees. and of course, social distancing the issue of vaccines is good news for maybe africans. but remember, this is a very, very hot continent. most parts of the continent is very hot. the storage of these boxes is a problem with shortage in electricity supplies. and all that could be a problem delivering such data storage areas. hard accessible rural areas will also
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be a contributor, a factor to why are these boxes may not necessarily which people quickly the 58th region is moving ever closer to the areas capital. the country's prime minister says his forces are closing in on me, but in a facial of the city's university says a number of students have already been injured in a government strike. the if europe in government has previously denied targeting civilians. it's also promised to bring back 30000 refugees who fled to neighboring sudan will have a day reports from the i don't think, given the government knows the true extent of the humanitarian situation on the ground. that's why they said today that they are sending a task force to look into the gravity of the situation on the ground. even before the war started, there were hundreds of thousands of people who depended on food aid into region.
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they had to be fed by the charities. the charities have been unable to replenish their talk of relief, food in the past 2 weeks. vehicles laden with relief and food supplies. us talk at the border. the tick rate in the house with them had a region we've been informed of long queues for bread, not just mckenna, but all the other towns in the to grey region. there are also of the thousands upon thousands of refugees from the trail who live within the takeaway region and humanitarian sources. tell us that this is, this has gotten, was the period the fighting has been going on and it's only bound to get worse. and then that call of people to the ton, i don't know how they're going to cut it out, but these people fresh out of their homes. they've seen the amount of, you know, impunity and a tux got to because their neighbors, the must like of people, particularly in small towns like my country,
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where hundreds of people were beheaded with knives and machetes. so it's highly unlikely that those people of the trucking all the way to saddam would be able to the ton soon as the government is putting the un's acting in libya, envoys home security council members. peace could be on the horizon. it comes off to rival sides met in tunisia last week. diplomatic, at its looks at the many challenges libyans face after a decade of war. thank you. this is the 1st security council meeting since developments in libya that the u.n. say may be a breakthrough. a fragile cease fire is now in place. and the talks in tunis, we've seen the beginnings of a peace deal that supposed to lead to elections in about a year's time. i am optimistic about the way forward in libya, yet clear about the many challenges that lie ahead. 10 years of war. it cannot be solved one week of political talks,
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but we hear more now the language of peace rather than the language of war. for the sake of libya, 75 libyans came together in tunis last week in a good faith effort to start the process of healing their nations. but do a search from the well respected international crisis group whose follow developments in libya during its last decade of conflict. so as the very many challenges ahead should not be underestimated. heightened by the fact that now we're not seeing open conflict, not entirely optimistic that we've seen the end. this may devastating destruction or self destruction of the country by the hands of the libyans themselves. it's too early to say that whether the country will come out of this enormous economic recession that it has suffered, whether they'll be able to go beyond. the ideological divides that still cut
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through the country. the problems are among the libyans. there's been no agreement on a new prime minister or a unified presidency council. as proposed by the u.n. . the country remains divided. the prime minister in tripoli fires all saraj has indicated he's prepared to stand down. and ben garcia, general charlie for after has made no such pledge and has the big issue of foreign involvement under the cease prior deal on libyan forces was supposed to leave the country, but early next year. if you are hopeful that will be achieved under the deal that's been done, the un is supposed to provide more letters to be deployed in libya to observe the cease fire that will need a u.n. security council agreement negotiations. the difficult one member of the council, a permanent member, russia, has nationals in libya, working for wagner. what many consider
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a mercenary company that's been fighting on the side of general hafta. james at the united nations. pakistan's prime minister is in afghanistan for talks with president. it's imran khan's 1st visit to the country since taking office. it comes as peace talks between afghanistan and the taliban have stalled. and there's been more violence between afghan forces and the taliban. the visit also follows donald trump's announcement on choose day that he will cut the number of u.s. troops in afghanistan before he leaves office. it has been following the story from islamabad. this comes at a very crucial time engage. because there is a transition of power in the united states, the u.s. president going to drum that, did the outgoing president, had already mentioned that he wanted to do. one of those troops. the pakistani prime minister was given and rousing rant, come both sides saying that did what they had started. romney saying that there
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should be a need for both countries should move has tried to move. dr. imran khan also saying that it was indeed a head start, a new development and he said that progress on will do whatever it is for sure, but there's still be said of and it's done. and while and all of the diplomatic and on the ground votes for the brave, there are serious challenger jobs. and no one knows what happened within the next 2 months. focused on gordie's as a prime minister had already played a crucial role in bringing the long taliban and the us that brought their day but from each other. and also played a role in the interest of our own dialogue. you know what progress on has said all along that this has to be on the lead on all and buggered done also one set of one if done so and should not be used against any other country. something that the taliban agreed with the united states code so that our deep pockets on the elements
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driven out by the pakistani military, including by huge insurgents, are training on the other side. so the bug astonied really warned some action from the government. protesters have been gathering in colombia's capital to mark one year since massive anti-government demonstrations being led by unionists, students, teachers, and members of colombia's indigenous communities. they all want to be included in the talks with the government, and they want to talk about social and economic reform. last year, plans for a labor strike escalated into widespread protests against president ivan duke's policies and says, concerns over the pandemic has meant a smaller crowd compared to last year's master menstruations by and proud that number of other cities across
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a decent crowd by general colombian standards when it comes to demonstrations and protests that we're clearly not even close to what we've seen. obviously a lot of that had to do with that, making that everybody wants to throw it at the time in this context. and that it might be that it will be difficult for some people hoping to do for a year, which is just down the start to go see a patient at the serious social and economic so they think on the government when it comes to the story that they think the reality has been that the government cannot keep pace with the kind of reforms that and also the fact that there has
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been a lot of violence here in the country. to laze, police chief has resigned off to 2. children was shot by office as president, sebastian pinera praised the chief needed chiefs leadership despite allegations of police brutality. during a more than a year of government, demonstrations, protests is all demanding the release of jailed activists. and that the president resigned. 3 weeks ago, chileans voted in favor of rewriting, the constitution forecasters are warning the devastating floods that left by storm could get worse with more heavy rain on the way i would say came ashore in south and central america as the strongest atlantic hurricane of the year. killing more than 30 people and leaving a trail of destruction. here brian reports overcome with emotion. these families are being reunited. after hurricane iosa ripped through
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their homes in colombia. the desperation of seeing their neighborhoods destroyed the fear of losing their loved ones and the relief of survival a too much for some your words because i can't explain, it is the worst thing a human can experience. now there are people on the streets sleeping on the streets . there's been a lifted from the island of providenciales. and this is what they've left behind. the military has been called in to help with the cleanup. and what will be a long road to recovery. for know that the reconstruction challenge is going to be enormous treats the total destruction of a lot of the infrastructure. important thing is that in the 1st $100.00 days of intervention, we will have humanitarian assistance. going to be able to help the most affected families. the storm unleashed winds of around 250 kilometers an hour and record
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rainfall, swelling rivers, and triggering mudslides across central and south america. rooftops doss, the sea of muddy water and honduras, tains of thousands were forced to flee to shelters. and i feel obligated with thankful to god, thankful to those who arrived and help the children above all else. the atlantic has seen a record storm season this year. scientists say warmest seas caused by climate change and making hurricanes stronger for longer after landfall. many of these areas were battered by another major hurricane, just 2 weeks ago. authorities and build in nicaragua say anything left standing after that storm was destroyed this time around. shelters already packed after easter and now overwhelmed with new arrivals. and right now, i'm in a shelter, but at any moment they could kick me out, and i don't know where to go,
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and it's not over yet. there are more warnings of life 3 thank flash, flooding from the heavy rain in iotas tail, alexia brian al-jazeera, politicians in japan voted to give a climate emergency. a warning that the world faces a crisis. they hope the symbolic declaration will increase pressure for action to combat global warming and send the message that japan is serious about the campaign . this is there, and these are the top stories. u.s. president elect joe biden has again chris sighs, the current president for denying his victory. he branded donald trump obstruction to the transition during a worsening pandemic as a totally irresponsible and debilitating then through a new cd. incredible irresponsibility.

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