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case goal here is to terrorize and here's the other part of this. there's no consequence. this stream on out is the nearest ructions in portugal has covered $900.00 surges to new levels in europe. and the us ahead of the holiday season. come as observer life and also coming up supporting the most vulnerable. the coronavirus pandemic dominates the virtual g 20 summit. as world leaders discuss the economic fallout. protesters torched the congress building, guatemala as anger grows over budget cuts for health services and education. the,
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u.s. secretary of state, a whole separate talks with the afghan government and the taliban. just hours after 8 people were killed. in an isolated, in kabul, the coronavirus pandemic is surging to new levels across europe. and the u.s. with officials grappling with how to contain the spread ahead of the holiday season . the u.s. has now surpassed $12000000.00 cases. that's the highest of any country. as millions of people are expected to ignore official warnings and travel for thanksgiving on thursday. in greece, virus related deaths have hit a daily record of $108.00 hospitals that are under pressure as emergency beds, fill up. officials say the current lockdown is likely to be extended. and portugal's prime minister is banning domestic travel and closing schools around 2
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upcoming national holidays. infections that have risen sharply since september. iran, too, is struggling to gain, to contain a 3rd wave of infections and is introducing a 2nd lockdown. most businesses are shut, and there's a clampdown on travel between major cities to try and slow the spread reports from tehran. nearly 500 people have been dying from covert 900 every day in iran, as it battles a 3rd wave of coronavirus and daily infections. number more than 13000, that's the highest the country has had since the start of the outbreak. current prevention measures don't seem to be working. now the government has imposed a 2 week lockdown that had more the main goal is to cut out of the wire and reduce it to a minimum and to reduce the number of gathering from people commuting. and for some places we had no other choice than in the past,
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we asked people to abide by protocols for their own health and reduced pressure on medical staffs. people to abide by protocol and so this pressure can be removed if one of the possible only essential businesses are allowed to remain open. and some people say they need help when it's closed, we have no other source of income, but there is no other choice. we should do something to curb the chain of the virus . it's tough, but there's no other choice. we need to be patient and have an infection rate reduced. i don't think 2 weeks is enough to control the situation. i agree with the idea of closing down 100 percent, yet many other problems will be created that i don't agree with. like financial problems for people. shopkeepers still have to pay rent and their employees will receive no salary. private vehicles are banned from the roads from 9 pm until 4 am . travelling outside cities is also prohibited. the government says people found to
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be breaking the rules will be fined, but it's facing criticism over its handling of the pandemic. 2 officials in the health ministry have resigned and issued open letters. reza says the government has mismanaged the crisis and disputes statements made by the health minister about the country's progress in finding a vaccine. the closure of businesses is making life worse for many in what was already a tough economic situation because of u.s. sanctions. the grand bazaar here in iran would usually be packed with shoppers, but it's closed. many agree the lock down is needed, but livelihoods are at stake. $10000000.00 families are to receive around $4.00 a month for the next 4 months on a $40.00 loan. but many say that's not enough. the challenge the government faces is whether it can persuade people to keep abiding by restrictions when they need to work to feed their families. to her own. china says things 3000000 people for the 19 in the northern city of tangent. it follows the discovery
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of 7 locally translated cases and knowing from overseas travelers. the government has sealed off a residential area, hospital and a kindergarten. seneca says it's become final trials of a current virus prevention treatment for people whose immune systems are too weak to tolerate a vaccine. the pharmaceutical giant says the antibody cocktail aims to provide up to 12 months protection and could be used for cancer patients. trials involving 1000 participants are being held in the u.k. . the global pandemic is dominating the virtual g 20 summit hosted by saudi arabia . leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies are expected to pledge support a poor countries to help pay for the distribution of vaccines. medicines and tests are diplomatic and said james bays has more. this was very different from the normal g 20 summit world leaders meeting virtually because of coded 19 with the
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pandemic and the economic fallout from it at the center of all the discussions. this has been an extraordinary year. the cold at 19 and demick has been an unprecedented shock that affected the entire world within a short period of time, causing global economic and social losses. our peoples in economies are still suffering from this shock. back in 20082009, the g 20 led efforts to get out of the last global recession. some say they haven't shown the same leadership this time. and the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrace, has been calling for them to extend the debt relief program they passed earlier. this year and to increase funding so that vaccines can reach the poorest people on
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earth for saudi arabia, the host of the summit. this will probably be seen as a missed opportunity to improve their tarnished reputation. they put on a fly past over riyadh, but the normal pomp, formal dinners and face to face meetings, haven't taken place because of the virtual and truncated nature of this year's event. sitting next to the king as he opened the summit, his son, crown prince mohammed bin, some man, as the man in day to day charge of the kingdom, human rights. campaigners say he should be held responsible for much of the civilian death toll in the war. in yemen for the death of the journalist, jamal khashoggi, and for the continued repression inside saudi arabia, during what's been described as a counter summit on human rights in the country, the sister of imprisoned humanitarian worker abdul rahman al saud han described what happened when she went public about his detention hosted on twitter. where is
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my brother and the moment i get back, i started to receive threats. saying if you say one more word, you're going to regret it. even than any us citizen and living in the united states . i was still receiving threats, and i was also threatened that i'm going to be thrown in the sewer system with my brother. this is likely to be president trump's last ever international summit. his 1st foreign visit in 2017 was to saudi arabia and he's never criticized the kingdom's human rights record. the royal family will know that it's likely to be very different when president biden takes office jamesburg days out as era at the united nations police have clashed with anti-government protesters in guatemala, off the 100 stormed the congress building and set it on fire. gas was used to clear the demonstration, which was led by university students. often it's turned violent. there's widespread
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anger at the new budget which protesters say disenfranchises all an indigenous people. sundra. yes, he joins us now from bogota. he's monitoring the situation in guatemala for us. and the sun is just bring us up to date with the latest. well, security forces moved in as the fire was raging. they fired tear gas. and the protesters that scattered across downtown guatemala city continue to confront the police. we've seen reports of a number of people that had been injured during these confrontation and now both the fire and the protest are under control. but people's rage remains and we can expect more protests in coming days. what sparked this protest is this budget bill. people are angry, not only at what's in the bill,
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that fact that it cuts the number of benefits for people while increasing benefits for lawmakers. they also say that prioritizes a number of programs that would benefit private companies seen as close to the government about they're also angry at the fact that congress passed this bill. 3 and negotiated almost secretly while the country is dealing with back to back. that created devastated effects. so a number of issues that have been simmering for a while and that now seem to have reached the boiling point in the country. but with the attack on the congress building, the president is unlikely to listen to their demands. in fact, he's probably likely to take a hard line stones and that will probably be the case. the president so far has not commented at all, both the bill and the protests that have followed to his vice president
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because he has protested against this bill. he offered to resign and said that the president should do the same for the good of the country. there are also a number of legal challenges that are being presented by opposition parties by social movements, human rights defenders in the country against the this bill. but there's also the sense that this goes way beyond the bill that people are truly angry and tired of what have been longstanding grievances in the country inequality extreme poverty. and that this time will continue to pressure the government and till they manage to bring some change inspired in part by what has been happening, for example, in chile and in peru. so definitely we can expect more protests coming in in the
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following days. monitoring the situation for us in guatemala, from bogota. thank you very much. nationwide demonstrations are taking place across chile, demanding the release of hundreds of people arrested during protests for social reform over the past year. in ice in nations and rights, organizations are accusing the chilean government of using detention as a political weapon. presidents have been detained without trial overseeing rights head on al-jazeera, desperate for food and a report from sudan where thousands of ethiopian refugees who fled fighting are struggling to survive. a surge in arrivals authorities in the canary islands, struggle to house hundreds of migrants and refugees coming from africa.
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rather when the water is warm, this time the and it is in the city. families see if you like. and the cold air freezing it comes over top of it is doing that community siberia, you generate big shouts, thunderstorms, and other rain or snow. this will be mostly rain, but for the high ground of 4 corridor. and north korea will see a bit of snow out of this. mostly it's going to be rain for honshu and on the north coast as well. the air behind it is wintry, cold, high temperature by day harbin is mine 7. and in beijing it's plus 4. in the cody's sinking sags into a good part of mainland china, it too will generate a certain amount of snow in the west where the ground is high and come across just north of 101. maybe the northern limit of the really cold air or the southern of touch say because south of that, hong kong is enjoying what really has been late summer 24 degrees or so. but for the same reason as you get showers generation over warm water, when the cold air comes across it, we're generating the beginning,
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the south china sea and the philippine sea. heaviest rain here before the thunderstorms. proper rainy season, rain further south through malaysia and indonesia and a hint recirculation the bay of bengal. that will be no more than tropical depression, but it will bring some pretty heavy rain to the north as for lanka, and eventually time allowed or the start of next week. for the me out here. carol london, borough park and tacky income that they can take the american state dead in a state capitalism, unprompted uninterrupted. all of these, these divisions of the working class of working people and they keep us from realizing our collective power, money crap at home, eat whole make. then, if you obey the market for 30 years, you begin to worship it and believe it has power over you. a lot. judy, a great date on al-jazeera.
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we're watching out as a reminder of our top stories this hour, u.s. health officials are urging people not to travel for the thanksgiving holidays, but says the country supposes $12000000.00 active cases. you're paying countries are also moving to soaring infections with portugal banning domestic travel ahead of the holiday season. $719.00 is also donating the virtual g 20 summit, hosted by saudi arabia. leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies are expected to pledge support to poor countries to help pay for the distribution of vaccines. medicines and tests. police have clashed with anti-government protesters in
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guatemala, after hundreds stormed the congress building and set it on fire officers fired. take gas to clear the demonstration, which was led by university students turned violent. if your peers rejected an african union offer to mediate in the conflict in the north region, the government launched an offensive against the people's liberation front 2 weeks ago. and agencies say about 2000 refugees arriving in neighboring sudan every day. and as have a morgan reports from gallery state, many bad the scars of the horrors they've escaped. since he arrived in this refugee camp in sudan's got out of state 5 days ago, haile world has been hoping to have his properly treated. he says shop will hit his hand while he was fleeing from soldiers in ethiopia as northern region. but he's now lost 2 fingers. i was at the farm where i worked when i started seeing people
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running, i didn't know what was going on, and when i went to see them, hyla says he was also hit by shock, mail in his stomach, and fragments are still lodged in his hand. it's now become infected and he's worried he may lose it. fighting in the region began more than 2 weeks ago, when the regional to great people's liberation front, launched an attack on a military base. the government responded by launching an offensive that's forced more than 35000. people to flee to neighboring sadam. this camp was uninhabited, but sudan's government has reopened it to cope with the sudden influx. and her 2 children arrived here, after running away from their home and walking for 10 days to cross the border. at night, armed men came to my house and threatened us and told us we should leave immediately or we will be killed. so i took my turn children and what i could carry more than 15000 refugees live in this camp. many tell stories of brutal killings and long
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journeys to escape. if he appears government has imposed a communications blackout and blocked access to the region. since the start of the fighting rights groups say civilians have been targeted. integrate. the united nations says the killings could amount to work rhymes while not all of those displaced have witnessed the attacks of this recount. they say the stories they heard from family members and relatives were enough to make them come here, rather than back home. and those who say they witnessed with their own eyes, people being slaughtered and killed, say they doubt their memory will ever fade from their minds. tell a home his wife and 2 children were among the 1st to arrive in the camp, fleeing from a khadra. he says the journey took them nearly 5 days and they came with little of what they own to live with. we lived in the suburbs and i had only heard of the fighting back then. but then people came armed with machetes and knives, and it was chaos from the telephone says he doesn't know which side the people who came to his hometown belong to. because they were dressed as civilians. and to his
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children who want to have the comfort of a secure home, he now has to explain that their lives have changed, and they face an uncertain future. he will morgan of his era and for sugar, the bar of state i so says is behind rocket attacks in the afghan capital that killed at least 8 people and injured dozens more. the attack came just hours before, u.s. secretary of state like the afghan government and taliban negotiators in cata for your country. 48 reports from the kabul school girls running for their lives after a rocket lands near their school. part of a coordinated attack on the capital, kabul more than 20 rockets landed in residential areas near the green zone, where many embassies are based. it was a little after 8. 30 in the morning when the 1st rocket landed in the afghan capital for the next 10 minutes, it felt like kabul was under attack. witnesses say the attack during the morning
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rush hour was timed to cause maximum damage. so what they could, it was morning and we were leaving our home when an explosion happened 2 of my sisters and my mother wounded. so we took them to hospital. i would have thought the way it was around 9 am. rockets hit the bakery, wounding an employee who needed hospital treatment. lots of shopkeepers are going to suffer financially because of this. i still has claimed responsibility for the attack. it came just hours before the u.s. secretary of state michael. arrived in qatar is capital doha. he's talking to both afghan government and taliban negotiators involved in peace talks there shames richie's and security that are just breathtaking. yet again, the sort of weaponry get into the city. and secondly, it's part of a trend where greater violence in the suits is 90 assassinations. not in its own.
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oh no. even at a time when taleban upset that they won't launch attacks on incentives, i know has been behind recent attacks in the capital gunmen stormed a catholic university, 3 weeks ago. at least 22 people were killed. the government says, in saturday's attack, fighters fired the rockets from the back of 2 trucks. it's investigating how the vehicles managed to enter the city undetected, posing more questions about the government's ability to keep the capital city secure. the area contrary, i'll just say of 70 deca has more, is told to the afghan government and taliban negotiators in doha. my pompei are wrapped up saturday with meeting the taliban delegation involved into afghan talks
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. see it met an hour earlier with the afghan government delegation. these are talks that were integrated back in september, the u.s. secretary of state where he was here for that as well. but it's been a difficult process moving forward to hold still stuck on the technicalities of what kind of islamic law will govern the govern. the framework of these tools, i think the message certainly for my pompei will be that they are keen to get the 2 sides to sit down to really get to the difficult issues when it comes to a long lasting cease fire and a power sharing agreement between the 2 sides, of course, he also met the pattern or is it merely had a lunch with him and also met with the deputy prime minister and to be discussed issues like iran. this is a ministration that's been very much an anti iran in a country as a country that has very good relations with iran. it's also one of the issues when it comes to the gulf, blockade the blockade in countries demanding that qatar cuts ties with iran, something they have so far, refused to do. this is also an administration that has said it wanted to perhaps get some movement on the lifting of the blockade that certainly at the moment
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hasn't happened, not to the full extent anyway. and of course, also in a way pump a oh, of course, and u.s. president donald trump not having conceded defeat, but patters. amir has already called the president joe biden, to congratulate him on his way. he says, just a few, 150 mines in territories regained after weeks of fighting with armenia. is one of 3 areas surrounding the disputed region being handed over by autumn, ia a russian brokered deal of it reports another town back in the hands of azerbaijan. it may be uninhabited, but it's still dangerous. the military says more than 150 land mines were defused along a few kilometers of this road. these units are taking control of once
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a busy city in one of the most populated areas around the corner, credible for them of them is an important victory achieved without violence and displaced. people writing peace will be able to return according to our plan, roads and buildings will be rebuilt. the government will provide full support for the return of i.d.p.'s. as one of the 3 regions being handed over by armenia under a russian brokered deal. about 2000, russian peacekeepers are tossed with ensuring no armenian troops are left in their territory. most of them has been under the control of armenia since the 1990 s. . according to the un, hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee, or azerbaijan the territory occupied by armenian forces during the war. and with as
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many as 200008 series, wanting to return politicians another by john want to also assure armenian civilians. they can stay at the end of the day. they are citizens of represents an estimated 1000000, a series displaced from the karbala region in spite of being subjected to ethnic cleansing. in spite of being expelled from other homes and leaving as i.d.p.'s for 30 years. we have not any feelings of animosity we have, nor any feelings of hatred against armenians. that's why i have always been saying to armenians in the going across the whole region of azerbaijan, that please remember, do all the walls about the landmark mosque are covered in graffiti and soldiers. here see animals have recently been kept in the centuries old place of worship. as cities and towns come back to as a control, the destruction is becoming apparent. people are eager to return, but they realize that it will take time. and those who do from the area say that the physical scars might be removed,
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but they would always carry the burden of this war with. 'd al jazeera, the italian government, as issued a final warning to egypt to cooperate in the investigation into the murder of an italian researcher. it comes nearly 5 years after julia. a genie went missing. his body was found with signs of torture in the desert outside of cairo. now the italian prime minister has reportedly told president abdel fattah el-sisi, that egyptian agents involved in the crime must choose a lawyer in italy. and thousands of people have more since cities across france, against the draft security laws. the proposals could prohibit media from publishing, or filming police officers on duty. critics say the bill is an attempt to stifle press freedom and prevent journalists from documenting police brutality. spain's vows a diplomatic offensive in africa, sending senior ministers to morocco in senegal, following
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a record surge in refugees and migrants reaching the canary islands by sea. hundreds of n. transferred to a makeshift camp on a military side with the local government and car like it's the tourist season on spain's canary islands. but despite the coronavirus pandemic and a lack of visitors, these apartments and hotels haven't been left empty. they're being used to house a growing number of migrants arriving in record numbers from africa is very good. but the problem is, was not good for his to do. so you address it and you are just as well good out of also the best to have a family the government forgot to let us all of africa where to move to but tell us at least $18000.00 people have landed on the shores this year alone. more than half of that in just the past month. and that's put a strain on government facilities and left thousands stranded in the main port
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without basic services. yeah, it's also angered local authorities, and many of the island's residents who've criticized the government's slow response . was these people simply not being here, but what can we do? the government says it's urgently setting up makeshift camps on military sites in a little french almost about we think that by the end of this year we will have temporary camps to house $7000.00 migrants set up. this is the 1st solution. it blames the increase in arrivals on e.u. agreements with turkey, libya and morocco that have stopped many migrants using established routes. the interior minister has held talks with his moroccan counterpart and the foreign minister is to meet u.n. officials ahead of a visit to senegal. that's become one of the main points of departure for those
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willing to risk a perilous journey in the hope of a new life on european shores. car leg al-jazeera. how fast the sea levels rising. scientists hope a new. 'd observation well helped them find out the central 6 satellite left an air force base in california on saturday on board a space x. falcon 9 rocket on a 5 year mission to map sea level changes associated with global warming. and is part of a joint project between nasa and the european space agency almost 2000 years after they died in pompei in the pompei a volcanic eruption the bodies of 2. more victims have been uncovered, frozen in time. italian archaeologist made the discovery in the excavation of a village, just north of the center of the ancient city, believed to be a rich man and his slave joy. the 2
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victims of an incredible and extraordinary testimony of the morning of october the 25th when they have what pim took place. these 2 men were probably seeking refuge when they were swept away by the volcanoes, comment at 9 am, when the plume reached pompei destroying the higher part of the city completely killing everybody is there and these are the top stories. u.s. health officials are urging people not to travel for the thanksgiving holidays that says the country supports is 12000000 active cases. european countries are also moving to curb soaring infections with school banning domestic travel ahead of the holiday season. iran struggling to contain a 3rd wave of corona virus infections. authorities are closing most businesses and clamping down on travel between major cities to contain the spread.

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