tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera December 8, 2020 6:00pm-7:00pm +03
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that is with compassion and generosity and compromise because of the only way we can try to solve any of these problems is together that's why al jazeera so important we make those connections. al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the good and this is the live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. a 90 year old grandmother is the 1st person to get the pfizer bio and tech coded 19 vaccine as the u.k. rolls out a nationwide in the nation immunization plan. desperate journey for a new beginning a rise of the number of child refugees trying to cross into europe from africa. britain's government withdraws contentious clauses in
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a draft bill that reaches its agreement to pull out of the e.u. . and shock you go test pilots who broke the sound barrier dies at the age of 97. and in sport 2 of football's biggest stars get set to go head to head in a champions league showdown. barcelona play kris jenner and all those you that says it's the 1st time that you will face each other in a match since $28.00. nearly a year into the corona virus pandemic which is killed more than 1500000 people globally the world's 1st fully tested vaccine is being rolled out in the u.k. this is the moment when a 90 year old grandmother from northern ireland became the 1st person to get the fire as a bio enteric jab 800000 doses of vaccine and they leveled at hospitals across the country that's enough to vaccinate 400000 people and in the past few hours u.s.
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health officials published the 1st detailed review of the pfizer vaccine largely confirming its effectiveness on tuesday donald trump is expected to sign an executive order ensuring that americans are prioritized for vaccines procured by the government and mexico is planning to give the pfizer vaccine to 125000 people in the coming weeks we'll get the latest on all those developments from our correspondents. who is live for us in mexico city kimberly how could in washington d.c. and sunny again go in london in just a moment but 1st a report from the book. it is happening a turning point in the global fight against a virus that killed more than a 1000000 people around the world 90 year old grandmother margaret keenan made history becoming the 1st person to be vaccinated with the pfizer bio and take drug outside a trial she encourage others to follow her lead. group it because it's
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free and it's the best thing that's ever happened and the moment you do please go for it in a somewhat dramatic turn the 2nd vaccine went to a man called william shakespeare a poetic star perhaps to a new chapter in the fight against corona virus more than half of the people who've died of the virus in the u.k. are over 80 they're getting the injection 1st along with the elderly in care homes and their carers unused doses are going to frontline medical staff the british government's call this a v. for vaccine day but the prime minister warned it's too early to call this a v. for victory in scotland in wiles' in england people are having the vaccine for the 1st time and it will gradually make a huge huge difference but i stress gradually because you know we're not. yet we haven't defeated this virus yet bunches of the pfizer biotech drug approved for use
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in the u.k. last week have been arriving from pfizer's factory in belgium the logistical challenge has been immense the vaccine needs to be kept to the round minus 70 degree celcius in england dozens of hospitals with facilities to store the super chill drug are the 1st places to administer it scotland wales and northern ireland have also begun similar programs the government sorted 40000000 doses so far and initial 800000 will be available in the 1st round of treatment this week capable of inoculating 400000 people with 2 injections 21 days apart we've shuttered our economies. and struggle through months of grief and anxiety lives who've been cut short and elderly people separated from their loved ones we've known for some time that the only sure fire way out of this pandemic is a vaccine and now a shred of hope the 1000000 not too distant future things might start returning to
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normal it's hope so full 1000000 people will be back soon 80 before the end of the year when boxes of the vaccine that come in packs of almost a 1000 doses will be split up and sent to doctors' surgeries and care homes around the country the vaccine can be stored at normal fridge temperature but only for a short period it's a day of mixed emotions joy and hesitation most vulnerable people won't get the vaccine until next year but with infection rates going up here in london and elsewhere restrictions may have to get tighter before they get easier. but it is only a matter of some scientists set their minds on defeating this common enemy a process that normally takes many years and now against all odds a sense of the long march out of the pandemic that's began the farka al-jazeera london. right let's speak to go who's outside a hospital in london where people are being given the jabs the 1st people who've
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been given that the covered by team vaccines are an important day sania the government proceeding with caution wants the country's health minister been saying today. yes at mit the exhilaration and relief that there it is being felt here there is of course those notes of course that is being us it by the health minister secretary matt bangkok and that even though it seems that there is light at the end of the tunnel that there is perhaps a glimpse of normality that is being seen in the distance not forgetting of course that we are still in winter and that this is the time of the. when the virus is at its most deadly where it thrives easiest and so in effect all those restrictions are still in place for now they are going to be reviewed from december the 16th to see how they go but he did say that perhaps in spring and early spring that they
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could be looked at being lifted if there is a trend of going down and perhaps and with together with the vaccination program. looking back to shore signed up things can go back to normal without any problems or any danger of any spikes happening here this is also a message that is being underlined by the medical officers the deputy chief medical officer jonathan mann tam did say that. these restrictions could be well in place until spring time as well of course you have to take into consideration that the vaccination program is going to be rolled out gradually with the most vulnerable 1st being vaccinated and then further down lot at the line until everyone can have access to those back scenes so all in all even though there is an incredible amount of emotion at this historic day nevertheless that caution and the message to the british public being really is here these continue to stick to those restrictions
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wear the mask keep the distance and the social distancing in place if this is going to be the success that everybody is so dearly hoping for. reporting live from london many thanks to its on the atmosphere life and to washington our white house correspondent kelly how good is secondly what are we expecting to happen then today . now while we're expecting that as you mentioned that the u.s. president is going to side of executive order prioritizing americans when it comes to receiving this vaccine part of his america 1st agenda the vaccination summit is part of operation warp speed that the president has said how to see that these vaccines made it to market in very short order of time but this is also going to be an effort to reassure the public that is still very skeptical in many cases about the science and whether or not these vaccines are safe now we know that the food and drug administration has taken the extraordinary steps of holding and live
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streaming its hearings and as part of this approval process that will be taking place on thursday and this is a time for the public to take a look at the data behind these approvals that is being made public so we expect that in the case of pfizer when this hearing will be held here in the united states that it will quickly be approved and made available to the public shortly afterwards and the case for madeira the other drug company behind the vaccines in the united states is going to be approved shortly after that so what we know is that millions of doses are in the waiting and so this is something that we expect the u.s. president will be highlighting in his vaccine summit today so the 1st people in britain to getting the jobs today when could americans expect to get this vaccine. there's a little bit of controversy behind this well we know that front line workers and those in care homes where the bulk of corona virus deaths have been in the united
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states will be receiving the 1st vaccine this and that will be by the end of the year the 2nd wave is a little bit in question and that has to do with the fact that operation warp speed this a sort of body behind most of this vaccine production of the united states was reluctant to acquire additional doses of the vaccine until there was reassurance that the science was safe and as a result other countries bought up the supply and so it's looking like there may be not until the 2nd quarter only another 50000000 doses available and then of the 3rd quarter another 50000000 doses available just to give you some context there are 330000000 people in the united states and of course there are 2 doses of this vaccine that are necessary so when you do the math there's a big shortage and it's going to be quite some time it appears unless something changes that the american public can be completely vaccinated so this is a concern that is getting out into the public raising some eyebrows so as the
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president tries to reassure the public in this summit expect that there may be more questions than answers i was there as white house correspondent kelly holcomb reporting live there from washington many thanks kimberly bubble wrap up our standing by for us in mexico city tell us about the mexican government's national vaccine strategy memo. well we heard early on tuesday from the mexican president and from health officials here in the country were reassuring people guarantee people that even though there is expected to be an initial shortage of the vaccine everyone in the country will be guaranteed access to the vaccine we heard from mexico's foreign minister marcello a bit odd who said that there are 9 different options from around the world for vaccines of which 3 contracts have already been secured this includes the fines or vaccine access to somewhere over $90000000.00 doses of potential vaccines that will over time be available to people here in mexico we mentioned the pfizer vaccine which is reportedly close to be green lighted by the f.d.a.
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that initial. the big takeaways from from the morning press conference here in mexico city again that everyone will have access to that seeing that people over 60 medical professionals other individuals who are considered at risk will be top priority to receive the vaccine in that 1st stage of inoculations we know that this is expected to take place somewhere around 125000 doses of the pfizer vaccine will be made ready to be delivered now in december sometime in december and into january of next year 1 other thing that we should note is the deputy health minister. here in mexico city he mentioned that there is a reality in mexico which is social inequality and that not everyone has equal access to health care in the country but to that end he once again guaranteed made the reassurance that the strategy from the mexican government is that everyone will have access to the vaccine mexico one of the country's worst affected by the
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pandemic just remind us of this the scale the status of the health crisis that right now. over the the latest numbers very quickly blood 1000000 182249 confirmed cases more than 110000 confirmed deaths even though these numbers are actually believed to be much higher given the lack of testing here and mexico one point of concern one major area of concern is saturation at hospitals we've been hearing overwhelmingly from medical professionals in the country crying out that there are still way too many people out on the streets that traffic is already yet people prepared to make levels urging calling on local and federal officials to to impose at least some sort of partial lockdown now last week we did hear from from officials here in mexico city specifically where we know that there are particularly the coppa designated hospitals that are operating beyond the saturation point you know the medical center is is operating at 122 percent capacity beyond the saturation point medical
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professionals again calling on the government to do more we have heard of the mayor of mexico city stopping just short of declaring anything that could be considered a lockdown or a shutdown of the economy but still urging people to not go out of their homes unless they absolutely have to ahead of the holiday season asking people not to participate in gift exchanges not to travel over an over the holiday season there is an expectation by many here that a lockdown even if it is just a partial lockdown too to prevent people from being lured into a false sense of security just because a vaccine is is going to be forthcoming asking people to stay in their homes there's an expectation that a lockdown is almost inevitable at this point i was there as a reporting live from mexico city many thanks to them all. this is the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program. we have a 100 pages of words and now we need them translated into powerful action new
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zealand's muslims call for change after an investigation into the christ church mosque killings. the human cost of the war in afghanistan a new report reveals a staggering rise in the number of civilians killed by airstrikes. and the summer olympics is breaking with tradition details coming up later in school. more than 2000 children among refugees and migrants super arrived in the canary islands over the last 2 months save the children says that it's extremely concerned about their physical and mental health of zeros bernard smith reports from gran canaria. it's not much of a red carpet welcome but for this boy it's at least the 1st time he's touched dry land in 5 days you have spent time in
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a fishing boat with around 25 other people crossing rough atlantic seas from west africa. the canary islands is experiencing the largest wave of migrants and refugees arrivals in 15 years and with it what the regional government calls a significant upturn in the number of children. international aid group save the children is concerned that the authorities here are struggling to provide for the specific needs of minors in overcrowded conditions to making this a life. i. wouldn't have seen and. have seen people dying on board and turning to. and on may have experienced. on the all these years the biggest fear is that you know. we were at sea for 6 days tells me 6 days he and his friend madiba
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a 16 years old from mali. in mali there's a war now so we came here my mother and father over there and they are getting old and now there's no money so i came here there were more than 8000 migrants and refugees arrivals just in november breaking previous records spain's migration minister suggested transferring migrants to the mainland to relieve the pressure here but that's been rejected by other ministers saying they'll just encourage others so new arrivals are being transferred to these military bases or being kept in hotels. unaccompanied children are less likely than adults to be sent back to their home country mom shaken baby who runs an aid group that helps african migrants thinks this is why there are more minors making the trip south asian each young person is a community project they're not coming on their own they've got their parents
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behind them they look for a strategy to make their project successful and they know that their children have more chance to be able to stay in europe because it's the law. the canary islands government says it's open $21.00 emergency centers for unaccompanied minors it says it's repeatedly asked the spanish government and the e.u. for more money $12000000.00 has now been promised by the end of the year not as fast as the migrants and refugees keep arriving in a moment we'll speak to nicolas how couzin in senegal a major transit point for west africans heading to the canary islands but 1st let's join bernard smith live in grand canaria why so many people especially children landing on the canary islands right now. age and part of it is economic as nick will explain to you shortly another is practical really it's become much harder this year for migrants to cross from the
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north of africa through over the mediterranean to southern europe it's much harder because they've been increased funding for customs border patrols along the libyan and moroccan coast so what is happening is that migrants are being funneled down through to west africa and a crossing from west africa on these rickety fishing boats normally $25.00 or so people crammed into one of these boats taking a 4 a 5 day journey across the atlantic to land on european soil so it's because this is really the route left for them to cross by adrian so what are local authorities there doing about it are they any better prepared to deal with this sudden influx. they were caught flat footed when the influx began several weeks ago now in fact for a couple of weeks. so are going to be counted
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we can hear you trying to match you a little later let's go to nicholas hawk then who's standing by for us in the town because in senegal picking up on what bernard was saying nic this is a longer more dangerous route why are people risking it making the journey. well we're here in town because you know which was a town that attracted a lot of migrants from west africa to work in cotton mills and the cotton industry here but that's been decimated over the last decade and so this place has become a transit point for migrants coming from mali fleeing the war there and you've got migrants from neighboring guinea fleeing the political instability but also a lot of the young senegalese now we're in a professional high school the technical high school here and the principal of this school earlier told me that every week there are students disappearing he say he says they're making that dangerous journey to europe now we're in a classroom here where you have students who are learning about electricity to
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become electricians in a country where most people don't have electricity now a lot of these these children or these young teenagers while their parents are farmers and when we speak to their parents they say that because of the changing climate it's become harder to farm it's become harder to feed their animals and even their family and so these young people are not fleeing war persecution they're going to europe simply because they feel that the skills that they're learning here well they won't find jobs here in senegal but they're hoping they can find jobs in europe there's also this this rumor this false rumor on social media circulating in senegal and even in this high school that because of the coronavirus i break a lot of aging europeans that are dying are leaving their jobs open for young africans to take. the sort of police authorities doing about it.
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well today in an unprecedented move a court has in fact. charges sentenced 3 fathers to have sense that their children away on these boat 2 of them had died on that journey now they've been sentenced to 2 years in prison that's very rare to make that public and to have gone after the parents that sent their children on this journey but of course there are many more that have made it across and that's what's encouraging all these young people to take the risky journey there's also been a state visit from the spanish foreign minister that has come here to try to organize fast to patch relation of senegalese that made it across already we've met some senegalese who have been created back here. and so all these moves are to try to stem out the flow of migration of the flow of people leaving this country but when you talk to the principal of this high school into young people here the
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solution for them is simple they want jobs they want jobs in their own country it's not that they want to go to europe they'd rather stay at home if that possibility exists it's also very difficult doing for people holding an african passport a senegalese or a passport from mali or guinea to actually get a legal visa to get into europe now the europeans are also making certain moves following that visit that state visit the spaniards are sending the border security guards here in senegal where they will be portraying the borders of europe right here on the african continent and remember in mali where there is a crisis where there's a largest deployment of european truthful the french president emanuel mike when justifies this saying that security. at the borders of the european union are protected and it's based on that these troops being here right here on the african continent but that is not
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a long term solution for those people here they want jobs adrian you construct reporting live from tampa and senegal many thanks to both of them with some problems but as you were telling us about authorities there being somewhat of a hope. yes they were and for many weeks migrants thousands of them living on this key side tents set up on this hog tom. it's only a couple of weeks ago that they managed to build some tented camps in military bases for them and others are being put up a tourist hotels hotels that are empty at the moment because there's no taurus because of cove it so getting something comes to the hotels but also on monday yesterday the authorities here have begun repatriating mainly moroccans who they say have no rights no claims to stay in europe these flights been put on hold for many months again because of the pandemic because of covert 19 they've started again the authorities sent $22.00 back on
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a flight from the canaries to morocco on monday they aim to get about 80 per flight it doesn't sound like many and in terms of the numbers arriving 2600 in the last couple of weeks it's not the his say they want it to look like a deterrent to show people who might be tempted to travel from north africa to europe they will get sent back quickly that they if they if they have no little legitimate claim to stay but it's miss live in grand canaria many thanks man that iran has approved a bill suspending the un's unrestricted inspections would still feel facilities but it hasn't happened without controversy in rome let's go live to 0 as i said big who can tell us more about this what does this mean. well it gives the united states and the europeans 2 months before iran stops inspectors from inspecting its nuclear sites and starts enriching uranium to 20 percent currently iran is enriching to 4.5
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percent over that 3.5 percent limit in the 2015 nuclear deal and this bill came about after the assassination of iran's needing scientist. last month that this bill went to a body called the guardian council which takes care of some constitutional matters it was sent back because of some technicalities but it was finally passed despite opposition from the government now president hassan rouhani he is a reformist he said he didn't like the bill he said it was harmful for diplomacy and the parliamentarians should let diplomats do their job now foreign minister zarif and he also said that he didn't like it but if it went through the constitutional procedures it would become law and that's exactly what's happened now president hassan rouhani was supposed to write this law in into the country's law but he didn't do that so it went to the speaker of parliament now that's what he's done is now the law as foreign minister. this law is a reversible if the united states returns to their commitments this law will come
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into effect but what this does show is a split within the country the reformist president hassan rouhani he's reformist government have always been for the 2015 nuclear deal or has been for diplomacy and waiting until president elect joe biden comes into office and hope that he returns united states to the 2015 nuclear deal and lift those sanctions but in this particular internal battle it looks like president hassan rouhani and his reformists have lost. reporting live from turn around i said many thanks indeed. we'll get a weather update next here on al-jazeera them rights groups criticize abu dhabi for buying a stake in a notorious israeli football club. workers across india stage a nationwide strike in support of farmers and their protest against you and recall chills. and it's forcing the major league soccer team that's aiming to make history a story coming up
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a rolex. and the last film systems go through is quite active not since remains in afghanistan the next one will produce a few showers in lebanon maybe a bit further south increasingly northern iraq and the high ground of turkey has to be snow so guys are bottom and the allies have 3 fine days but a cloud that's a small chance for shabbat $21.00 degrees is reasonable enough weather the show is blowing steadily down the gulf and there's an increasing likelihood of snow on the mountains of iran to iran to this 1st snow day of the season as well the active season already is showing itself now in zambia and zimbabwe in particular and although it is welcome it isn't always helpful for example this is what happens
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when you get only 50 minutes or so gathering up in any of the rivers in zimbabwe overflowing quite often so up near victoria falls that is flooding up the windows so level in the south 50 millimeters in a raging torrent through this soft red mud even in our foundations tends to undermine them as has been happening in sudden zimbabwe on the whole though this is positive news we've had some pretty poor season rain last couple of years so this is good and there's more to come for zimbabwe and mozambique and malawi to focus a blow away or calm therms it 3 sundry days great stuff. canada a country of promise and opportunity from my gram workers but with little protection from the state or far too many are forced to pay extortionate relocation phase and a saddled with heavy debts says it also no luck to come to canada here. lot of money in one brave group of indonesia and workers speak out and seek justice for
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hello again this is that he was our from al-jazeera atrium for the going to here in doha the headlines the world's 1st fully tested coronavirus vaccine is being rolled out in the u.k. 800000 doses of pfizer bio and tech vaccines are now available in 70 hospitals elderly people and health workers are being prioritized u.s. health officials have published their 1st detailed review of the pfizer bio and tech vaccine last the confirming its effectiveness the preliminary reports coming. as the u.s. president is expected to sign an executive order ensuring that americans get priority vaccines procured by the government of iran has approved a bill suspending the un's unrestricted inspections of its nuclear facilities it was voted on by parliament last week the president hassan rouhani who opposes it refused to side it into law the speaker of parliament has ordered its implementation in the next 2 months. ethiopia's government says that it's still
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chasing faces from the people's liberation front that it describes as undefeated several troops captured the region's capital by kelly last week but hundreds of people are still being forced to leave their homes aid agencies say the area is too volatile to distribute humanitarian assistance and a 1000000 people in the region of thoughts of been displaced al-jazeera spotted ball is in sudan's capital khartoum and can tell us more what's the latest. yeah the latest is lots of reports about this the situation been getting more difficult inside to grace up there are 3 criticisms leveled against each opens by international aid agencies and other groups basically that continuous blackout of information coming from site to great. difficulties to get access or to grant access to n.g.o.s bringing aid to people who might be victimized or
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a victim of this conflict or we have this report about about each european army opening fire on one aid convoy that has been confirmed by the o.p.'s themselves they said that's because those convoys did not to it here to the walls they did not dig they won't try or try to go beyond the done mind that was drawn for them so that means there are areas that they can't reach and this is subject to criticism by the aid agencies there is the 3rd problem which is reports about. the each open army a block in the passage for people trying to flee from that conflict that's that's a source of concern of course for you for for international community we have seen a little less than 50000 refugees crossing into sudan and we talk to some of them did in the last few days they talked about the continuation of acts of aggression
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against them there are also these reports about coming from the u.s. and out of the surely announced however about the role for every trade. those reports by a certain diplomats we did not want to their names to be mentioned and other sources inside the u.s. talked about a joint action military action between every chain army and each open army both countries it is fair and each of you have of course denied those reports but all of this in the aggregate refers or may or stresses. or confirms the concerns with these are some of the humanitarian situation inside as a. reporter they are not the norwegian was just. saying that aid should be allowed inside to get a pretty quickly and that it can't wait any more. that that's basically the gist of what we have received from today at the moment and serious crime involved live in
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khartoum many thanks for how much bigger more is the president of the international committee of the red cross he says that the disruption of aid in the to greater region has played the humanitarian crisis even worse we have seen a 10 security situation over the last weeks emerging we have been spared for the time being of major security incidents but indeed we have been in. for since the outbreak and even before of the escalation of violence it remains a very dire situation but it remains 1st and foremost a dire situation for the civilian population we have seen dramatic shortages of. health services to people the main hospital in make is barely functioning anymore because our supply chain disruptions it is very difficult
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situation in terms of displacements and livelihoods for people in general and it is in particular a very difficult situation because of the number of wounded people who should to receive medical treatment and to receive it because supply chains are still a big issue. and are blocked. to briggs it is now the u.k. is backing down on one of the key issues it's removed clauses from a domestic bill that breaches the withdrawal part of the agreement with the e.u. it's been a sticking point in talks to secure a wider trade deal britain's prime minister boris johnson and e.u. commission president slobodan delenn will still meet in brussels this week the u.k. has left the european union and has until december 31st to secure a long term deal charlie angela joins us now live from london so actually this is and isn't to do with a trade deal what does it mean exactly. well this is the resolution of one of those
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disagreements that's been going on in power to the trade agreement and michael gove one of the prime ministers most senior ministers and marrow of it the e.u. commission vice president have come out saying that they have an agreement on the specifics of how goods can be traded between the u.k. and northern ireland specifically checks on animals and plants derived products export declarations the supply of medicines the supply of chilled beets and other food products to supermarkets so this is great news for northern ireland and we just heard in a tweet from the irish foreign minister simon cove any he said it's good progress it means practical cooperation and flexibility has been agreed to make it as manageable as possible for people and business but what this also means is that certain controversial cruises in britain's internal market bill can be removed and this is definite progress because they would have broken international law and the
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e.u. a said that unless they were removed a potential trade deal could not go through so that does that removal does bring us maybe a step closer but we are absolutely running out of time here and so much now is riding on the face to face meeting between prime minister boris johnson and a slow one day and we're still waiting for details on when that will happen some sources say wednesday others say friday off to the e.u. leaders summit for the music just isn't great today the prime minister said that it would be very very difficult to get a deal and then may come a moment when it is just game over we also saw downing street today reject an olive branch from the e.u. who suggested that in the event of a no deal they were willing to extend talks into 2021 that was a flat no from downing street so we really are on tenterhooks here and what happens now is that michael gove will return to the u.k.
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he'll update. the mint chief negotiator david frost will also return from brussels and he will update the prime minister on the state of play before that crucial meeting with us move on to the end but we are just 2 days away from an 80 just summit and it's very doubtful that they'll be anything to present to them and bear in mind if a deal is agreed on it will still have to be ratified by parliament here in the u.k. on the european parliament before december 31st charlie angela live for us in london many thanks johnny a member of abu dhabi this royal family has bourse a 50 percent stake in israeli football club it's our jerusalem shake hammad bin khalifa not yon has also committed to invest more than $92000000.00 in the club over the next 2 days the next decade that's despite being the only top club in israel never to have signed the palestinian israeli play out they also have
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a group of friends in this life familia which has been openly abusive towards palestinian israelis harry source of reports now from west jerusalem. on the day that it was reported that a former israeli space security chief was confirming the existence of aliens this is perhaps the 2nd most sort of cognitively dissonant story in the media the idea that an arab royal family would buy into in such a large way the most overtly arab anti arab group of fans in israeli football and their club base our jerusalem which plays here at teddy stadium in southwestern jerusalem does seem very strange nonetheless the new owner as of 2 years ago at least. a hog who himself says he is a jewish arab because of his parentage coming from north africa he's been trying to shift the perception and change the nature of this club this is a a bit coin or cyber currency tycoon here in israel he's been trying to sort of
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shift the perception of this club that has stayed with it throughout its history set pretty much since its inception in 1934 and he has signed for example an african muslim midfielder he has tried to really change the way that this club is seen nonetheless there it remains this very sizeable hardcore openly racist far right group of supporters and it is very much for many of these supporters at the heart in the identity of this club there have been attempts before to try to change the the image of. people around india held demonstrations in support of farmers protesting against new agricultural as for 12 days now thousands of farmers have been blocking roads into the capital region of delhi they say that the laws will lead to corporate exploiting an end of minimum prices for their produce less with broader reports. these
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crowds are growing at the single border crossing between the states of hyaena and delhi and so too is their resolve to occupy this national highway for nearly 2 weeks the road has been closed to traffic as thousands of farmers camped on it in their trucks they say the government's recent agriculture laws allow large corporations to set prices for projects when farmers are already struggling to make ends meet. the government. being don't want to be predicting you anymore by legal aid in the market you can interface with the markets all by you also and see what happens fine for yourselves. single has been the epicenter of the protest movement attracting not just farmers but their supporters delhi state leader irene cage iran's political party says police barricaded him
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inside his home after he came here to sing good to express support for farmers on monday and a number of other opposition politicians who spoken out in support of farmers also put on the house arrest ahead of the nationwide protest on tuesday. but that didn't stop many other opposition groups and unions around the country from demonstrating in support of farmers in the state of maharashtra west bengal and odisha protesters sat on railway tracks and stopped trains that's not to follow as asked everyone who supported them to shut down bottom urgency services as a. right. of the country on the streets of. the right. in support of the people's. business. calming indeed as i'm single you say the protests have resonated with people and the government is out of touch with what farmers need dogville are your money.
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the government says it's proud these built in our interests of the government to tell does not know how they will benefit farmers it was the farmers who informed them about the flaws in the bids. the government has indicated it's open to amending the laws of pharma say they'll continue to block highways until the bill is a repealed they came to delhi to protest off to so when they went to crops and say they don't have to return until they. need harvesting in april elizabeth al-jazeera delhi. at least 8 more opposition activists have been arrested in hong kong they're accused of taking part in a band protest rally in july several former politicians are members to tame it and the u.s. has imposed sanctions and a travel ban on 14 chinese officials in response to hong kong's decision to disqualify opposition politicians from its legislature china has reacted with anger
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. hong kong is china's hong kong hong kong's affairs are purely the internal affairs of china no foreign country has the right to interfere in it if the us insists on going its own way china will continue to take counter measures to safeguard its sovereignty security and development as well as the legitimate rights and interests of chinese person now. number of afghan civilians killed in asteroids carried out by the us and its allies has risen 330 percent since 2017 a report by the brown university called the costs of war project said that around 700 died in 2911 that's the most since american troops invaded afghanistan after the 911 attacks on the u.s. in 2001 the report attributes the rise to the us relaxing its rules of engagement 3 years ago. an inquiry into last year's mass shooting at 2 mosques in new zealand has found failings by the police and intelligence but says nothing could have
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stopped the attacks yesterday and got another serving life in prison without parole for killing $51.00 people way hey reports in march last year this place of worship became a scene of terror now it's hoped it can be a symbol of change as muslim leaders in survivors gathered at the mosque to discuss the findings of an independent report into a terrorist attack less in the apology from the prime minister from the police from that service which is something good was started from there and they'll be undercut for the change. after hundreds of interviews in britain submissions the commission of inquiry findings were made public it found that intelligence and security agencies were too focused on islamic extremists and didn't pay enough attention to others including white supremacists like brenton terence who carried out the attack on 2 mosques in christchurch and it found police failed to meet required standards when they issued him a firearms license without proper character references or background checks while
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the commission made no findings that these issues would have stopped the a take these were failings nonda least and for that on behalf of the government i apologise terence was among those interviewed for the report but his comments have been permanently suppressed to avoid them being used by others as motivation to carry out similar attacks some in the muslim community are welcoming the recommendations others are saying the report doesn't go far enough and there is skepticism about any real change because many say that been raising some of the same concerns outlined in the report for years and no one listened and no one acted until a gunman entered the mosques and killed 51 people the government has accepted in principle all $44.00 recommendations which include strengthening laws on hate crimes of which many muslims say they've been victims of the commissions ultimate finding was that nothing could have been done to stop the attacks many in the
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community that was targeted by the gunman disagree saying if they had only been listened to a long time ago the lives of 51 people could have been saved wayne hay al jazeera christchurch just ahead here on the news our force covered by team cases hit the n.b.a. as the league prepares for its true season story coming up with far in just a moment. halfway between tokyo not shizuoka was the end relatively sleepy place not a was. violent crime and so when 4 people get killed on one occasion in those bloody and massacres this was the tracks a lot of reporting. a task force of each police officers was created to find out what happened. police counted more than 40 stab wounds all together because.
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a stark astronomer naldo for the 1st time since the portuguese left around the dread for eventis and 20 lessees barcelona housey italian champions at the nou camp later on choose day at both sides have already qualified for the knockout rounds with bar side top group she won all the miss last month's fixture against varsity to testing positive for corona virus and i think it's not nice to be to tell who is better because both are incredible coote and both are at by if i had my boast plays because they keep and they gave us so many nice evening which creates goals which is great titles. manchester united are facing a crucial champions league match at german side r.v. like say all they got are soldiers team leipzig final at old trafford last time out and only to avoid defeat if they were to advance to the last 16 man united p.s.g.
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and lights they go all tied together on 9 points but only 2 can progress. the car after the group of the group is getting better and better. we're looking forward to the game it's something that we want games like this is a tradition from on united's we will never make it easy for ourselves of course they will look at the games especially the away game against a stumble we could have to 3 points but that's just the way we do things we do do make it hard for us else that's that's been ever since. i played and that's a long long time ago. major league soccer cup champions seattle sounders will have the chance to defend their title after the shock win over minnesota united on monday trailing united to nail the sounder scored 3 times in the final 15 minutes of regulation in stoppage time to stun minnesota 3 to win the western conference final seattle will now travel to columbus to figgs the crew on saturday seattle is just the 2nd team in m.l.s.
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history to reach the final 4 times in 5 seasons it's. a break dancing is said to make its debut on the world's biggest stage it's been confirmed as an official sport for the pairs 2024 olympic games new i.o.c. rules allow host cities to hand-pick sports to include in the games based on local popularity and public appeal paris organizers saying they want to attract a new and younger audience the sport will officially be known as breaking other sports have also been included such as skateboarding sport climbing and surfing these however will debut at the daily tokyo games 2021 breaking is not totally new to the olympics it was featured at the 2800. games in buenos aires it has a pretty big following an olympic program commission report last year estimated that 1000000 people take part its inclusion does have its critics though australian squash great michel martin says including it is making a mockery of what the olympics it's earlier spoke to elite breakdancer carm saying
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who plans to represent great britain that the paris games he expects his sports will prove the critics wrong. has been very very which regard to as a dance an art form a sport i'm a different things that are and i believe that debate is still going on is still a little bit controversial however a physical exertion and in a competitive nature does make it a sport as such and i think most people realize that once they do chewing into it and it and it gets it shall not platform is a little bit high and sometimes when you do see some of the negative comments about break in a more break in as i think that's due to having a lack of understanding about what it is that we actually do because a lot of people still think that break in and b. boying of break dance is just going on the street with a boom box and a hot or doing the robot for many clubs but it's come such a long way from that i guess something like this which is unique and different allows the use to become intrigued is it has a social aspects my allowed people to get involved and some of the not this is much
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much much different to the traditional sports are currently in the olympics and some that haven't yet featured and which might get the youth and the participation levels up with myself doing what i do in the nature of it and the nature of what we do as a whole lympics would be a dream come true to be able to represent on that scale also because i'm so competitive and i enjoy what i do i'd love to have a shot during the olympics and 2024. a fairly avoided 8020 series clean sweep against india on tuesday and they did so in front of more than 30000 fans at the sydney cricket ground and easing of restrictions in the state of new south wales means outdoor stadiums there can now operate at 100 percent capacity those in attendance got to see the home side win by 12 runs matthew wade starred for the aussies with 80 runs off 53 balls india won the series 21.
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the new n.b.a. season may be getting underway in just over 2 weeks but positive coronavirus cases are having an impact on pre-season training borton trailblazers have shut down their training facilities for deep cleaning after st positive cases the trauma raptors who are playing their season out in slaughter to have had 3 staff members contract the virus. will definitely be smart and you have to have because he's going to be safe because it is a very proud it is a very demeaning to have. you know it doesn't seem like in reading occur if you step back to school you have to you know do the right things and not just for ourselves but the people around us ok and that is all your support for now adrian back to you many thanks indeed. one of the world's most famous pilots has died chuck yeager made history as the 1st person to fly faster than the speed of sound he died on monday at the age of 97 god help us holly our reports. he was one of the
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greatest aviators of his generation u.s. pilot chunk yeager started off as an aircraft mechanic before becoming a world war 2 fighter ace and the 1st person to break the sound barrier for captain power here you got carved out of a cockpit of a rocket crap it was on october 19th $47.00 and at the age of $24.00 that he flew an airplane to the sound barrier at a speed of more than a 1000 kilometers an hour such attempts had killed other pilots before. he would later say he could have gone even faster at the plane carried more fuel. but he did continue to fly faster on other dangerous missions this tests were used by the u.s. air force and nasa to advance research into flight and the u.s. space program. before his success he was already well known in aviation he shot down 13 german planes during world war $25.00 on
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a single mission he commanded fighter squadrons and flew $127.00 combat missions during the vietnam war. during the 1960 s. he trained air force personnel to become astronauts 26 people he tutored later went into orbit under nasa his image as an aviation legend gained greater status in tom wolfe's a bestselling book and later film the wright stuff was dangerous this very day. he later said in one of his requests was not going to college as not having a degree prevented him from becoming an astronaut. never regarded himself as courageous or hero often saying he was just doing his job a job that experts say led to new heights in aviation and space exploration. his tides at the age of 97 that's if that is all but of course the news continues i'll be back to update you as the day's top stories just moved to see about.
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2020 year of lockdowns and social distancing he can't reach across the screen and get someone to alleyway explores one of the global pandemics biggest side effects the loneliness everyone who lives alone has been forced to be socially isolated for the 1st time they're highlighting its effects on physical and mental health and discovering unique ways of coping control makes being alone together at the same to all have a lockdown on al-jazeera. as a 2nd wave of covert 19 brings
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a surge in infections a few months ago there were dozens of cases a day now if we chose 2000 and countries and force new measures to curb contagion this is the 1st step forward for the government a in the mass testing the entire population of scientists are on the brink of releasing new vaccines to reduce the spread of the virus will it be enough to bring the global health crisis to an end the coronavirus pandemic special coverage on a. i was raised in france and these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. fighting both isis and us of. the 1st of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father the son and the jihad caught one on al-jazeera its context the significance in depth storytelling around
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the biggest issues done but had to do you should do it again. a welcome boost for oxford astra zeneca as covert 19 vexing on the day that the u.k. rolls out a nationwide immunization plan using the fire as a child. a librarian forget this is al jazeera live and also coming out british government withdraws contentious clauses in a draft bill the breaches.
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