tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera December 9, 2020 4:00pm-5:01pm +03
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something as monumentally horrific as slavery studio be unscripted on al-jazeera. be the hero world needs right. washing. the. al-jazeera. follow their world to see the amount of our hidden endo harm coming up for you in the next 60 minutes rich nations are accused of hoarding covert 19 vaccines leaving poorer countries to miss. a good deal is still to be done
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british prime minister boris johnson says a last minute e.u. trade agreement is possible adding that his country would prosper even without one . a blow to donald trump's attempts to blog's joe biden's election when the u.s. supreme court dismisses his plea to overturn the pennsylvania results mining giant rio tinto was told it should pay compensation going up sites that are sacred to indigenous people in the street. and in sport football players send a powerful message during a champions league match players from p.s.g. and turkish side to shake share walk off the pitch together after an alleged racial incident took place during a game. there is a global rush to get coronas fires vaccines and campaigners are warning that 9 out of 10 people in nearly 70 per countries will not get the job next year the
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peoples vaccine alliance says rich nations are hoarding vaccines buying up enough doses to inoculate their populations several times over the alliance's a coalition that includes oxfam and the state international well here's home rich countries are hedging their bets a sunday shows that canada as enough vaccine doses to inoculate 5 times its population with the option to expand to 6 times now this is followed by the us and the u.k. by comparison though india has enough for under 60 percent of its people brazil 47 percent existing inequality in both countries has been blamed least in part for the severity of their outbreaks and finally there are countries including lebanon whose governments is almost bankrupt say it only has enough to vaccinate 15 percent
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of its population. can cover just 9 was in a hoarder is in beirut she says the pandemic there is months if not years from being brought under control. according to doctors there is a community infection the positivity rate is high the number of critically ill patients is high as well and this is one of the main public hospitals in beirut that has been treating coronavirus patients and the public sector really has been the gluck that for decades ill equipped and underfunded really pumped the public sector so they've been struggling and only recently the private hospitals which really have been the backbone of the health sector in this country have started to treat coronavirus patients so it's a difficult task and now we're hearing from the health ministry that they managed to secure 2000000 doses of pfizer vaccine which is enough for 1000000 people and
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they're hoping that will be 11 on arrive in 11 on in february according to officials who work at the ministry who i've been talking to they're saying that they're ready they have enough centers across the country this is a relatively small country and they feel that. they will be able to deal with the logistical challenges and they say that health workers of course the elderly the vulnerable people they will be given priority just like what is happening in other countries across the world but they're saying it will take at least a year or a year and a half before they're able to vaccinate at least 35 percent of the population and it's still not clear who's going to pay for the for the vaccine and in this country where more than 55 percent of the population are now poor because of a very deep economic crisis this is going to be another challenge. well joining us from dark is nobel laureates mohammed yunus he's also chairman of the yunus sensor
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which is one of the groups spearheading the people's vaccine alliance great to have you with this on the news this is a sobering reminder of inequality and high poorer people are often last in line what exactly is your group calling for to change the situation because it is a complex one isn't it. well we're trying to draw attention that it's not as complex as it's made out what we hear what you're been telling us in the report that it's a shocking thing that's happening the whole endemic it's put gentile world's population in an ocean of. disease. $1000.00 could be 19 but that we had we had counting and now some people are new as the lifeboats now they are saying it's like boats only available to the highest bidder and this is the situation now who can get the lake but there are plenty of blood but that's not the issue and we could create our own like what if they could
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tell us how to make those i'd like but we're not asking for that. just to come we want to produce it ourselves in the every country that we have so this is the thing that it's a whole question is about people versus profit this whole issue is a life versus profit if the situation but what you give just like what to people to survive or you want to negotiate how much they can pay so that you can get the like but we're saying that it should be declared as a common good as a global common good so that it is not i didn't like about it if you remove depicted right then this can be produced all over the world it doesn't have to used in one place in that expensive place and then get into that this question of people versus a profit and the super profits and so on so this is a life where you want to save life you don't want to take this as an occupation to make money for something where the pharmaceutical companies breeds argue that they have spent billions on research and development and they they just can't give away
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their intellectual property otherwise they won't recoup costs they will be able to afford to develop the next vaccine for that for the next pandemic do you think that's a fair argument. that's what we told learned people that will pay if they think it cost them most of its public money so they don't have to pay anything and some yes we should we'll pay you for the. pickle we're not seeing you give it free it's a negotiation you show us how much you cost so all we're seeing that you're not. of this situation people are johnny and you control the local situation that we're sick you make it a public common good we can you're getting the cost you don't we'll produce it wherever we want this this way when it's needed it's not dependence i'm sure you ignore how this is the time to share things with people not control and see you negotiate if you want to sort of negotiate with me that's
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a wrong message absolutely but the but that message has been has been given out since the start of the pandemic arguably the un has been calling for countries to work together for for months now in order to blunt the impact of the pandemic and we haven't seen any willingness to cooperate thus far in terms of are you expecting the pharmaceutical companies. to comply in the to with the comply with your demands but to hand over some of this these ip rights or are you worried that they might think that this means set a dangerous precedent perhaps for future medicines and future vaccinations that that could be developed. this is not only dangerous dissidents that you call it it is again against the presidents the president is like value of x. it quits on a stock the inventor of the 'd vix it he declared this is it people's backs and
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this is this is like a sunshine nobody can proceed under sunshine so this should move belong to all people so this is that there is a tradition like that it's 88 nixon did it to me free goods to the bacon she gets took so this is a condition of their by lifting the tradition you have coming back and the fight between how much they can extract with the lack of that debt and in danger of this and human being or good reason and digital space is because of the global warming now you're endangering it for any of that direction and what how come much communicate this is this is the time to reflect where that life is something to be exchanged for money or not this is some occasion where you don't go for the profit making you don't share things so that people can decide right so we're still only saying that you make it their public good so that there is not cut and dried there's no direction property tax so that people can be producing it and you should be helping this procedure never done controlling it that negotiating it. with the
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best is bigger and then rich countries buying up several times more than the need it 5 them support they don't support as many population yet have in the meantime the poor countries don't have any access to anything and in what i am afraid of this will create a vast market for fake victims now that the victims or not i'm not available to large number of people 90 percent of the people are still not connected with the banks and there's no chance in the unit next year that they will get connected in the meantime delhi tremendous amount of pressure to come up of tuna just to come up with fake vaccines and destroy people's lives and of that not all of you are not getting the vaccine you're not getting them wrong but sick and kill yourself it's a very compelling argument thank you so much muhammad yunus for making that argument here on how to sarah we appreciate it. thank you very much for. british prime minister boris johnson says no leader could accept the prospects
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a trade deal that the european union is currently offering has been facing questions in parliaments just hours before his juta flights to brussels there he'll meet the european commission chief live on the line for dinner they hope to reinject some energy into negotiations that have stalled on or off for months. i presume that you are currently insisting that if they pass a new law in the future. with which we in this country do not compile boat follow suit then they will be automatic right mr speaker to punish us and to retaliate and secondly they're saying that the u.k. should be the only country in the world not to have control over its waters and i don't believe this is because those are terms that any prime minister of this country should set. well in a moment we'll get the view from brussels with paul brennan but 1st let's go live
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to the far kerry joins us from downing street in london needs our hopes high of a breakthrough on the u.k. side. hopes always higher but the reality though might be a different story the promise of johnson's just arrived here back at number 10 downing street after facing tough questions from the leader of the opposition clear starmer the opposition accusing the government of dragging its feet when it comes to a range ing of reaching a trade deal with the european union the government to hitting back and saying that it is reached its primary objective of making the united kingdom leave on time on january the 31st ever since the u.k. has been in the transition period likened to a departure lounge in an airport it's meant of use this time to hammer out a trade deal to avoid any kind of friction any uncertainty when the transition period ends at the end of this month earlier on in the year for mr bush johnston
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said that a trade deal was often ready but repeatedly we've heard the opposition accusing the government of not even turning the oven on because the old sticking points remain issues to do with fishing rights to do also with business competition rules between the u.k. and the e.u. . the e.u. worried that the british government will try to arrange things to give its industries in his businesses the edge against the european union and also concerns about who and how all of these rules will be enforce some positive news very briefly on choose day relating to another deal some questions had remained over the issue of how goods would go back and forth between the border in northern ireland and the republic of ireland and it looks like some of those issues have been ironed out the question is whether now that this obstacles out of the way whether things could be refocused on the meat of all of this which is trade ok ne farka there bringing us the very latest from london eve thank you well let's head across
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a process now of where we can join pole brennan oh i was all this being viewed in brussels seems where so a near to the deadline and yet so far. i think there's a lot of pessimism frankly. brussels michel barnier the e.u. chief negotiator has been briefing the various stakeholders the talks the e.u. ambassadors on monday he's been speaking to another committee this morning and his assessment is rather bleak you know the people who are in these meetings say he's rather downbeat to me about the prospects what's important to say is that this dinner which will take place at 8 pm brussels time 19 g.m.t. is not necessarily the be all and end all of the trade talks it is important because the 2 leaders need to get together and potentially inject some political impetus into a process which is frankly stalled as far as the actual nuts and bolts negotiations
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go michel barnier and his british counterpart lord frost have essentially reached the end of the road as far as their mandates go. they can't move within the mandate so what's necessary to move these negotiations forward is for the politicians to decide that there can be a little bit more flexibility so that's why they're having this meeting tonight to decide whether there is political flexibility to allow the negotiations to reconvene perhaps later this week maybe over the weekend coming and have one last try that raises lots of different prospects i mean where will the compromise be found for example level playing field has been mentioned. about sovereignty were spoken about dynamic alignments with boris johnson clearly unhappy that the european union would expect britain to keep up to date with any developments in european law a compromise there might be that britain opts for a non regression sort of clause not promising not to go backwards rather than
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always promising to step forwards but it's possible that the 2 political leaders sides agree that there is no political common ground they can't find a way forward so while it's not the end of the road as far as the possibility. for more talks it may be the end of the road as far as the political the political route goes ok paul brennan there live from brussels poll thank you very much for all the latest there there's lots more still ahead in this news hour including oil for a cash point china is ready to invest billions of dollars in iraq and what makes the deal g.b.s. to us. and i'll end it with balkan senegal's time but today we did find out next how this once bustling town attracting migrants looking for work has become an major transit point for migrants trying to make it to europe. and in sport find out why this former england rugby player plans to take legal action against the sports
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pharo be here with fat later in this program. but 1st the year supreme court says rejected a last ditch attempt by republicans to reverse joe biden's electoral victory in the past or current state of pennsylvania the state's results has not been certified in favor of bison and a 1000 statement the supreme court refused to call that certification process into question it de rails an attempt spy donald trump's republican party to have as many as 2 and a half 1000000 votes dismiss well hours before the ruling don't trump spoke of her he's hopeful he can stay on as president again falsely claiming he won november's election. we were rewarded with a victory down let's see whether or not somebody has the curch whether it's
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a legislature or legislate sure's or whether it's a justice of the supreme court or a number of justices of the supreme court let's see if they have the courage to do what everybody in this country knows is right let's get more now from our white house correspondents kimberly ho and kimberly what impact does this latest feet high have on trump's efforts to overturn the election results. a let me give you a little bit of context of where we are in all these legal cases this is the latest major setback in virtually i'm broken streak of more than 50 court cases in 8 states over 5 weeks and virtually all of them have been dismissed tossed out or completely over ruled so this is not good news for the truck campaign that was trying to challenge the use of mail in voting in pennsylvania that overwhelmingly
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favored joe biden what the hope was was to try to invalidate those that were counted after election day given the fact that donald trump on november 3rd had a very strong victory but of course as the votes continued to be counted in the days after that lead evaporated now the supreme court in its ruling as you mentioned just one sentence and it is notable that when this case was dismissed they agreed with the attorneys who were in the defense saying that this was an affront to constitutional democracy and it is important to note in all of this that on this high court donald trump has 3 appointees and there was 0 dissent. kimberly given that trouble said so the election could be will be decided by the supreme court's you could argue that the supreme court has to cite its results are based on going on with the 10s of millions of people who support the president who
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were arguably kind saying on a legal win in the supreme court's. well there are 50 states and that was a case of one state which means they could hear $49.00 more cases they're not going to do that but what they are likely are potentially considering is a case out of texas that would involve 4 different states the texas attorney general is pressing a case that would involve not just pennsylvania but also georgia michigan and wisconsin and wants to argue that in fact these mail in ballots should be invalidated this if the court takes this up would be significant because that would involve the use of millions of mail in ballots the argument from conservatives and supporters of the president in this country is that they saw that one sentence ruling on that pennsylvania case as being a real slap in the face they felt that their concerns had not been adequately investigated that is not the role of the court is the job of those presenting the
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case to present that evidence and it's very clear that repeatedly judges even those appointed by the president have said that there is evidence of fraud but not widespread fraud that would overturn millions of ballots or change the outcome of the election so we are still waiting to see if this texas case will be heard but again given the streak that the trunk campaign has had thus far it is unlikely to be successful ok very as all the latest from the white house came to be frank. a prominent u.s. cyber security firm fire on foreign governments hackers with both clones capabilities have breached systems the firm says these hackers stole software that tests the computer defenses all of its clients include government agencies global corporations saying it was definitely a state sponsored hack the company didn't name
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a specific country. 5 people have been killed in post-election violence in ghana people say 61 incidence of violence were reported since monday's presidential and parliamentary votes former president's and main opposition challenger john muhammad accused the incumbent of trying to break the election president a coup for are those team has released unofficial results suggesting that he's leading the race let's get more now from the t.g.c. joins us live from the capital accra and i heard what work he tell us about the violent scenes that we've been seeing in the wake of this election. well basically those figures were confirmed by the police as well as the opposition we all we spoke with just a few minutes ago they confirm that 5 people have been killed in at least 3 locations related to this particular election and the police are in fact saying
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that 21 of the cases are only 2 of the cases side related to electoral violence be they must have deployment of forces across the country as very successful now the question is and the concern basically is what will happen after the announcement of the results which we expect to be on that stage right behind me any moment from now we expect their electoral commission to come and brief the media and also the outcome of monday's presidential election initially it was planned for yesterday but there were delays in collation of results across the country some of that these results were received this morning are not due to be an hours now but what we've seen over the past 24 hours or so were claims of victories and counter claims both sides of course supporters of these 2 leading political parties were in such a brute 3 mood last night everyone each one claiming to have won the election and
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there are concerns basically begun means that some kind of disturbances may follow following very release of these elections and the opposition leading opposition figure is accusing the election commission as well as the ruling party of plenty to a rigged him out in fact to base their mation 5 parliamentary seats that they said the election commission was trying to take away from them and give it back to the. ruling party both sides of course also claiming to have won majority in parliament so a lot of people are watching this closely to see what will follow the announcement of the presidential election results as well as the parliamentary election results that we will witness in the next few minutes or few hours the case maybe we'll check in with you again then when that happens but for now in accra thank you. champions league football match has been suspended after players from both teams
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walked off the pitch after allegations of racism the incidence of up to is when that peer were bought a system coach with the turkish club the sharks year was involved in a fierce sideline arguments and former cameron international was shown a red card accuse the match official of using a racist term players from his team and their parry center man opponents then left the fields let's get more from the taj a butler who joins us from paris that's what working tell us a buy this incident have people been reacting to it. was been a flurry of reaction after the champions league game on tuesday night here in paris where those 2 teams are walked off the field unprecedented really we have heard of course from you way for europe's governing football body they would normally slap a penalty on the teams for refusing to play but of course they have made an
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exception in this circumstance and they have promised a full investigation into what happened we've also heard it here in france or from the french sports minister the spokesperson for the french government both sharing their solidarity for the 2 teams for protesting on tuesday night they said that of course there is no place for any form of racism in sport we've also heard from many top football players around the world including some of the players are involved in that match or last night pierce yes stars killian am back and neymar both taking to social media to say no to racism and the turkish president also became involved on tuesday evening just after the match saying that racism was unacceptable in this circumstance of course turkish president also making further comments on wednesday rather more unusual saying that this reflects the what he called culture of racism
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in france well of course the referee in question the 4th official who is alleged to have used a racist slur against or the assistant coach of the turkish team was actually rumanian so i think that most people they will see the turkish presence latest comments in the context of the ongoing war of words of the turkish presence has with the french presence a matter of macro relations between those 2 countries strained as ever indeed that match will continue again this evening more can you tell us about that we must assume the steps i'm sure there's no repeat of what happened last night. well the 2 teams are walked off the pitch after just over 20 minutes into the match so you wafer is allowed that match to be continued if you like from that moment on the words this evening here in paris or those 2 teams will continue to play the
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match we understand also that the referee team in question has been replaced there will now be a dutch referee leading a new team and pierre weber the assistant coach the former cameroonian international football player who is the assistant coach for the turkish team he will actually be allowed to be present on the bench during this match away for have a suspended the red card that he was given on tuesday evening they say while a full investigation is being undertaken nevertheless of course once again this latest incident has raised the issue of racism in sport of racism in football and it will just add to pressure for governing bodies of 4 football governing bodies i should say and for football officials to do more to crack down on racism in the sport that there live from paris natasha thank you let's get
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a quick check on the weather now here's everton. however there we're looking at some very cold air across north america as we go on through the next couple of days you can see this area of cloud just around the u.s. canadian border a cold fronts across the plains pushing over towards the western side of the u.s.s. the cold air to the north of that some warm red to the south there but what you're your attention to this cold front just up around hudson bay that's going to do some really cold air proper cold as we go on through the next couple of days so they get you see where the cold air is around the rockies into a good part of canada to places to keep an eye on what he picked 5 degrees celsius should be about minus 5 minus 6 at this time of year then 19 celsius she round plus sixes and walked around the denver at a day 4 would be paid at present as we go on into thursday as they had coals off 7 in denver freezing therefore when it gets colder still a colder really dive and then when it picks struggling to get to around
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a minus 13 celsius in the heat of the day on saturday see going to notice that change cold enough in denver just 2 degrees celsius we got some cloud and rain some snow just around the southern sections of the rockies central parts of the u.s. largely dry some snow there perhaps some lake effect snow over towards that east side of kind of the pushing east. thank you everett said there's much more a still to come on the news hour including no prospects and nothing to lose protesters in northern iraq refused to back during our territories in indonesia regional elections as doctors worried about cost of covert 1000 emerging and the formula one hopeful for one champion rather hopes reback for the final race of the season on one of the hardest weeks of his life.
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this is al jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories for you campaigners are warning people in poorer countries will miss sites on call with 1000 vaccines next year because wealthy governments are hoarding supplies of people's vaccine alliance says some have been after an ocular at their populations several times over. the british prime minister boris johnson says no leader except the post breaks that trade deal that the e.u. is currently offering johnson has faced questions in parliaments just hours before he's due to fight a process for last ditch talks with european commission chief of wonder lion. and
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the year supreme court sas rejected an attempt on republicans to overturn joe biden's victory in pennsylvania the policy of sorts a scrap 2 and a half 1000000 votes. was iraq a real son's or an economic crisis is expected to sign a multi $1000000000.00 on oil deal but china is being seen as a bailouts with beijing offering money up front back dance with their own receive more than $2000000000.00 for a year's worth of oil supplies the contract says between iraq's soul will patrol in agency and china's general haul company iraq has been hit particularly hard for the drop in oil prices the government's been struggling to pay salaries and it's a corner me is set to contract some 12 percent this year well china's prepayment contracts is among the largest in recent history it adds to beijing's large scale
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loans and strategic investments in latin america and africa well let's get more on this now from allium border he's a political analyst and joins us from baghdad kids are everywhere there's on the news are this what appears to be a very good deal for china would you say it's a good deal for iraq. well with the current economy situation it could be a good deal for iraq to get the money in advance in order to fulfill its obligations to the salaries of public servants and retired people which the government has been not able to pay their salaries on due time and had to postpone for one month the payment of the salary is in addition they have agreed with the parliament on passing a law in order to allow the government to. get monies from the local banks and burn and they're not going order to pay their salaries well that's all very well and good but what sort of breathing room does that does this give the iraqi government
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because 2 $1000000000.00 sounds like an awful lot of money to to be new perhaps but in terms of government spending i mean how many salaries is this going to cover and for how long. well maybe you don't know that in iraq we have about 10000000 iraqis get it public salaries either as public servants or retired people and we have the largest percentage of public servants. compared to the number of population so the monthly payment for salaries constitute about $5000000000.00 so the amount they're getting from this bailout which is about $2.00 to $3000000000.00 u.s. dollars is. a drop in the sea in fact i don't know if it can cover or helped really the government to fulfill its obligations to pay the salaries of public servants in iraq for the coming few months and the prime minister himself said a couple of weeks ago that for next year it would be very difficult for the
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government to fulfill its obligations the problem is this will not help. our the government on the long run and without real reform administratively and financially with respect to the public expenditure we'll continue to face problems financial problems what kind of path ahead is there for iraq is given that the situation i mean it's economies lorson dependent on cruise all sales being locked in a 5 year contract and all prices are let's less be on a supports at the very low right now what kind of options does iraq have at the minute i mean is it going to have to turn back to china and be more of these kind of deals and does that worry you because china has been known for lending money to developing nations who then get locked and see what's being termed as debt trap
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diplomacy. well or unfortunately it doesn't seem that this government or prior governments in other korea lies the economy difficulties we are facing when they have increased the number of public servants from about 1001000000 to 10000000 within our age of 15 years and the options are limited in fact because the private sector is not efficient enough and have not been given the chance to develop over the last few years and their revenues are very much leviton and the government is very much dependent on oil videos with a drop of the oil prices of course they will face problems so. they have released what they called a financial reform strategy for the next few years but this strategy has been released time and time again without actual. actions. with
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respect to enhancing the private sector developing the private sector providing jobs to millions of new iraqis coming into the job market. and that government is can at least dependent very much on money getting from loans either from china or from the world bank or from the local banks in iraq and the budget deficit only for 2020 years about $20.00 to $25000000000.00 u.s. dollars so you can imagine within the next few years iraq will be drawn into lawns deeds very challenging times lie ahead for the iraqi government and indeed the iraqi people on board a great to get your thoughts thank you so much for joining us from baghdad for shit and well a curfew has been improves in iraq's northern syria many a province south or at least 5 people were killed in anti-government protests the
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semi autonomous kurdish region is reeling. from a long standing financial to speeds between the central and regional governments a global to coin an oil prices has intensified the crisis has some wonderful team ports. this is the office of the kurdish security agency near the town of one of many government buildings set ablaze by angry protesters in iraq's northern soul in many a province it's a defiant show of dissent in a region where security forces use deadly force against anti-government demonstrators many here are afraid to show their faces on camera in fear of being targeted i don't know what they're no no no no no we're not going to tell them. that. they're close. 6 enough. in nearby mourners gathered to pay their respects to the family of 23 year old.
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shot that on monday by security forces who opened fire at demonstrators. at sunset we went to a brother shop on the main street he didn't participate in the protests within the army of the kurdish democratic party open for the protesters and the protests began over the nonpayment of government salaries but have spilled into broader anger at the ruling parties in the semi autonomous kurdish region. very is no have no water. here. the unrest comes amid a deepening fiscal crisis brought about by a decline in global oil prices which has exposed long lasting structural problems the 1st factor in the current crisis is that we have been criticized is the corruption the lack of transparency in kurdistan region. the illegal taking off by national. benefit from the public's. call for the kurdish
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regional government is supposed to get a share. central government's budget to cover public sector salaries but baghdad has refused to pay up because the region is selling its oil independently rather than for the central government kurdish politicians say they are being denied a constitutional right. there is a constitution in place and let it be the judge between us and iraq therefore this issue should be resolved within the framework of the constitution but the iraqi government owes the. billions of dollars the drop in oil prices has shifted attention to our revenues like customs duties every year billions of dollars in goods enter iraq from turkey via this border crossing in the kurdish region but some say much of the customs revenue is siphoned into private pockets in october the government implemented a new system to automate financial reporting to boost transparency for years the federal government of iraq and the regional government of kurdistan have quarreled over how to share revenues in august they agreed to split customs revenues from
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border process like these but since then new political tensions have hampered the implementation of. the latest demonstrations have put pressure on the kurdistan regional government to agree to terms to release the budget but the people protesting now are not just unpaid public servants they are you feel they have no prospects and little to loose. al-jazeera in the kurdish region of northern iraq. the spanish government started returning home refugees and migrants who arrived in the canary islands where 22000 people which the islands this year around 8000 just in the. reports from the village of. incentive girls tumble cond region. i'm a do so i had never seen the ocean before he stepped on took boat hoping to make it to europe a land he saw filled with opportunities he cannot find at home but the coward are
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from tom burke who was caught by spanish coast guards and sent home empty handed to his family his son sergeant mohammed streams to play professional football in spain gone are his daughter my mood his hopes to study medicine in europe i'm a do feels like he failed his children. i wanted to head to carl's voice farm in spain maybe that would have changed my life in my children's lives. in unprecedented wave of illegal migration from west africa to europe spanish coast over 600 migrants have died trying to make it to the canary islands this year among the dead are many school age teenagers that topical does a professional high school students learn to become electricians in a country where most have no electricity the students say they are learning skills for jobs they cannot find in senegal and then there is this false rumor that. dying of the coronavirus or leaving jobs vacant for young african men to take. the school
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principal says every week a student disappears attempting the journey looking for a better future. often there is someone in their village or neighborhood that witnesses someone that made it to europe and succeeded in building a new house and being successful and that motivates young people to follow suit. among those that have made it to the other side is and i do so as neighbor cherno so he was a young man when he took the. boat to the canaries after spending 12 years in the suburbs of madrid selling flowers he came back to the home he built to celebrate his wedding with his 2nd wife something he would have been able to afford had he not got to spain and he explained. if you stay here you're on a pittance just enough to survive you will never be able to build this once in europe everything becomes possible. to leave loved ones in order to make their
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lives better flee not war or poverty but in search of a dignified life despite his failed attempts to reach europe it is a pursuit so is not yet ready to give up nicolas hawke al-jazeera predikant osa out west senegal. mining giant rio tinto is being told it should pay compensation for the destruction of secret indigenous sites in the stray layer the company blew up caves despite warnings of their cultural significance and australian parliamentary inquiry has been investigating the company's actions and the gauge is in canberra and says the report was scathing review team to conduct. the report had 7 broad recommendations the main was one was if the government does approve these recommendations that rio tinto mediates the area where these sacred caves were destroyed and puts together negotiates
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a restitution package with the traditional owners it was pretty it didn't mince its words when it came to rio tinto though it said that its actions here were inexcusable and raise significant issues with the culture and practices within the mining company and said that internal changes were needed as well it said that the p.k. k. paypal the traditional owners would hardly let down by regard to tow but they were let down by multiple governments state and federal native title law and even their own lawyers so this really was a situation of a perfect storm where these sacred sites were able to be destroyed. strict measures have been in force tens of millions of people voted in indonesia's regional elections it has the worst covert break in southeast asia don't worry a large voter turnout could make things worse just the washington reports no
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tangram. politics has long been a family affair in indonesia circuit or this candidate is hoping to follow in his father's footsteps. good brand rock a booming rocker is the son of president joker widodo and is contesting the same a roof race that kick started his father's political career is contesting his 1st election in unusual circumstances when some might be reluctant to go out and vote because of concerns about cope at 19. right over the voting booth the safe comfortable and sterilized and don't forget to wear your mask. when president joe kudo was elected to the highest office. many saw him as an outsider to the dynasties that have long characterized indonesian politics. now in his 2nd and final term with his son and some minimal contesting the election analysts say president maybe setting up a dynasty of his own. president. was going to be different he was
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outside he made it to the top of politics because he was seen as being different you prove he would sweep away the cobwebs of ism and corruption. the vice president's daughter is also running for election i cannot dance. as a daughter of the nation i want to show my devotion to the country and bring benefits to its people elections in the world's 3rd largest democracy are usually spirited crowded events and although familial politics may be the norm this year in the shadow of the pandemic things are different wearing a month it could fall syria around. this point you have sanitizing voters don't disappear. into a spike in carbon 19 cases medical groups had called to postpone the election as the country grapples with the worst cope of 19 outbreak in southeast asia with at least 18000 confirmed deaths and more than half
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a 1000000 cases. doctors say the health care system is under strain and many intensive care units around major cities are already at 90 percent capacity which is why i was just i see this in anticipation i have told my colleagues get ready for december and january because the number of cases will increase. some voters told al-jazeera they were aware of the risks involved in voting. to mark and i my they are of course i'm worried about private 19 but voting is a responsibility that's part of being a democracy we have to do it the count could take days or weeks but doctors say the result if they're focused on is the likely surgeon coburg 1000 cases in coming days jessica washington al-jazeera sound. still to come up the sport for you and far we'll have more on the racism allegations that forced a champions league match to be abandoned to stay with his.
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business leaders just want to buy no bright spot. the a. 0. 0. 0. type of the story here is far thank you so much i have been as you've been hearing the champions league produce one of the most powerful images of solidarity against racism on choosing in paris players from p.s.g. and turkish side istanbul but shake sharon left the field after an alleged racial incident so how malik looks back at football struggles with the issue this season looks as if people share choirs are potentially going to refuse to continue it was a moment that shocked the footballing world istanbul does ducks here players
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marched off the pitch followed by their opponents parasangs human after a racist term was allegedly used by the 4th official towards the assistant coach of the turkish champions league here we go it led to the match being suspended when it comes off from the old officials the guys who are protecting the safety of the of the players. for the respect in the values of the game as well they have been appointed by the way for as well to to guide a game like that and then have one of you officials say a racial slur to a number of and staff member. that's a complete disgrace so without actions you would be tough aside there are just words you wait for say they are investigating the incident which comes at a time when racism is a major talking point in football. teams and leagues have latched on to the global anti racist movement prompted by the police killing of george lloyd in the united
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states in may but despite the banners and displays of solidarity incidents. continue to happen is. what went down in paris followed embarrassing scenes for a 2nd tier cup little this past saturday their fans booed one place took the lead before kick off that incident came days after a controversy involving manchester united star edinson cavani the you're going to use a racial slur in an instagram post but has since deleted it and apologized sometimes you feel that maybe you know you were for and just out there with the bad nose and placards and and you know i'm for the captain saying oh we want to end rushes in but when you go to the core of the problem you feel that they're not tough enough when it affects for example the finances when it affects the t.v. scheduling of the games perhaps us and visa will come out and say you know what we're not going to take this anymore istanbul bizarre and p.s.g. would be back at the park to promise to finish the game on wednesday you wait for
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will be hoping at the very least that the remainder of the match will be played out without incident so he'll malick. care amaka balmy and has been fined $10000.00 by the ruling body of african football he say the forward undermined the reputation of african football while on international duty with the ball last month the bombing and his team had been detained at the airport in gambia for more than 5 hours the arsenal star posted images of his teammates sleeping on the floor ahead of their african nations cup qualifier against gambia and one post obama anger outs and nice job cas it says if we were back in the 1990 s. . a former england rugby player steve thomson says he's been diagnosed with early onset dementia a 42 year old who won the world cup in 2003 says he's joining their group of former players to take legal action against the sport they players all under $45.00 accuse world rugby the rugby football union in england and the welsh rugby union of
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failing to protect them from the risks caused by concussions or early response to the daily mirror's rugby correspondent alex pinku says the games world governing body is facing huge challenges to make the sport safer. i think in truth ever since state the n.f.l. was involved in concussion settlements around 2013 rugby probably looked across the atlantic to that saw that rugby is also. a contact sport or a heavy collision sport albeit one played without helmets and a lot of people felt probably that sooner or later this was going to come across the pond and now it has 8 players yet say 8 former players of have so far. come forward 3 of who put their names to it he couldn't stay thompson new england's rugby world cup winner from 2003 that's a shock to a lot of his friends and teammates at the time who didn't really know there's
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probably a problem but he suffered to over the last few years it has definitely been a greater awareness of head injuries a greater concern shown towards that concussion has been moved right up the agenda to the very top of the gender of rugby now but the problem is year on year players get bigger stronger faster the pitch they play on never changes in size so the physics of the situation just say that the bigger they get the heavy occlusions they're going to get the more power is coming back at them as they as they're giving more out so it's just a problem what and it's difficult short of changing the title height completely to change the whole kind of look of the way place a tackle below the waist as they used to be intimate way way back it's difficult to see how they can get around this one. formula one world champion lewis hamilton says he hopes to return for the season ending abu dhabi grand prix following a difficult week there for
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a 35 year old next sunday's shocker grand prix after testing positive for corona virus in bahrain i will tell you however did not say whether he has tested negative which would be a requirement for taking part in the race his driver wrapped up his 7th world title at last month's turkish prix. i know i've not been in touch this past week but it's definitely been one of the hardest weeks that i've had for some time and. it's just been focusing on recovering and trying to get back in shape so i can get back in the car race the final race and i would be i woke up today feeling great and got my 1st workout in so i just wanted to send you guys a message of positivity let you know that i'm ok i'm team house is going down the behavior of driver nick you know massive and he will be driving for them next season the 21 year old russian posted a video on instagram in which he appears to inappropriately touch a female in the backseat of a car and has since apologized for his actions. ok and that is all your support for
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now back to you thank you so much farwell has said for this new servant to keep it here on al-jazeera i'll be back with you after this very short break see you then. frank assessments colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there is only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live at the back seat when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al jazeera. for 4 weeks america in goal in protest every day all over the u.s.
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even as the country faces the continued threat of a deadly penn demick. it morphed into a movement calling for police reforms sometimes it was violent. but mostly it was peaceful we asked people to describe what america is now feeling i think people want change. and i think people are willing to do whatever it takes to get there on friday billions of people in america are expected to celebrate what's called june 13th and unofficial holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the united states this year in the wake of the nationwide protests there is a growing number of calls to make it an official federal holiday. people see it as a great opportunity to take to the streets to continue to let their message be heard. covert 19 is grounded global travel for countries dependent on tourism like kenya the effects are devastating. and the fact that you
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have not been called well. somebody has livelihoods vanish people in power reveals the hardships facing affected communities and the efforts being made to protect wildlife from the threats of increased poaching in the wake of the pandemic kenya the unfathomable virus on al-jazeera. rich nations are accused of hoarding covert 19 vaccines leaving poorer countries to mess 8. other that i'm out of my head c.n.n. this is al jazeera life and though also coming up a peace pact between the ruling party and the opposition leaders even tatars in ghana 5 people die post-election violence. a good deal
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