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and the last question and i think that's what i'm hearing he asked the question that people should be accountable and get people to give. a peace pact between the governing party and the opposition leaders in tatters said gonna 5 people die in post-election violence. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up wealthier countries are accused of hoarding covert 19 vaccines that may lead people from poorer nations to miss out. a good deal is still to be done britain's prime minister boris johnson says a last minute e.u. trade agreement is possible but that his country would prosper even without one. at
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a chilling vision of the future human rights watch reveals how china is using big data to profile for arrest. 5 people have been killed in post-election violence in gaza police say that 61 incidents of violence have been reported since monday's presidential and parliamentary vote former president and main opposition candidate john the hama accused the incumbent of trying to rig the election president not a coup for team as released on official results suggesting that he's leading the race al-jazeera is addresses that a very noisy rally in the capital across what's happening.
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all. right. guys. i'm sorry i we really can't hear you above the music that we're going to have to come away from you will try and return to you a little late so many thanks indeed there is a global rush to get a coronavirus vaccines and campaign as a warning that 9 in 10 people in the at least 70 poor countries won't get the job thanks here the people's vaccine alliance says the rich nations
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a hoarding vaccines buying up enough to assist to inoculate the population several times over the alliance is a coalition that includes oxfam and amnesty international mohammad yunus is a nobel peace prize winner and chairman of the u.s. center which is one of the groups spearheading the people's vaccine alliance he says the companies producing the covert vaccines are actually breaking with president. the precedent is like value of exit that quits on a stock the inventor of the many who picks it he declared this is it people's backs and this is this is like a sunshine nobody can profit under sunshine so this should be belong to all people so this is that there is a tradition that it's 88 dixon they became free goods to the peasantry goes to so this is a condition of their violating the freedoms we have coming back as a fight between how much they can extract with the leisure that they have and in danger of this and human being or good reason and danger to space is because of the
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global warming now you're endangering it for any of the next and 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 with the people can be set right so we're still only saying that you make it public good so that there is no piton drag 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 well who is the best how is bigger and then the rich countries buying up several times more than they need it 5 times more they don't support as many population you have in the meantime the poor countries don't have any access to anything and what i'm afraid of this will create a bust market for fake vixens now that the back since i'm not i'm not available to large number of people 90 percent of the people are still not connected with the
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banks. germany's chancellor angela merkel is calling for tougher coronavirus restrictions that after the country reported the highest daily death toll since the pandemic began nearly 600 more people have died tighter rules or come into force in the southern states of bavaria the infection rate has been surging across germany despite weeks of national restrictions officials recorded nearly 30000 new cases on tuesday. the most important tools that we have are not the closures and the restrictions and the prohibitions and the police controls which are necessary the most vital tools we have to successfully combat this virus are the people and for each individual to behave responsibly and to be prepared to contribute british public health officials are advising people with a history of serious allergies not to take the pfizer bio and tech coronavirus vaccine the warning comes after 2 frontline health workers suffered serious allergic reactions to the job the u.k.
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became the 1st western country to start a mass vaccination program on tuesday. pressure is mounting on the u.k. and the european union to reach a deal before britain leaves the bloc in 3 weeks from minister johnson is traveling to brussels for intensive talks with the e.u. commission chief president. again barbara as the latest from london. heading for brussels for crisis talks but giving nothing away earlier the british prime minister told parliament he was prepared to reject a trade deal with the european union if the terms weren't right whether the new arrangements resemble those of australia with the e.u. or whether they like those of canada with the e.u. i have absolutely no doubt that from january the 1st this country is going to prosper mightily this is. johnson is meeting ocilla vonda lion president of the
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european commission over dinner but it's simply to gauge appetite for compromise something needed to break the impasse if nothing emerges the chances of a no deal scenario on the 1st of january look greater the german chancellor insists that a use ready for that she says the area where the 2 sides are furthest apart is how to ensure fair competition in the midst of a level playing field nationals your plate we need a level playing field and not just for today but for tomorrow and the next day we need agreements on how each side can react when the other side changes its legal parameters otherwise it will result in unfair competition and we won't let this happen to our businesses. differences over what access e.u. fishing fleets have to u.k. waters are seen as more solvable the other sticking point has been how to enforce any trade deal this week e.u. joint committee agreed specific arrangements for northern ireland including managing the border with island now the u.k. has dropped legislation that would break international law but the committee's
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co-chair says level playing field demands remain a big problem the prime minister is being. that we're going to maintain high standards in this country but we're also going to be a sovereign country and that we need to be in control of our own rules and regulations our laws and ways of doing things e.u. leaders are holding their own summit on thursday and friday if there is no resolution tonight i think we will have more calls from even the decides to step up the narrative preparations but at the same time the e.u. will not walk away from these negotiations they will try to negotiate until the very end until the actual deadline which is the said the 1st of december and no deal breck's it is what many businesses in britain and the youth fear most incredibly nobody truly knows whether that's what they'll get in a few weeks time knitting barber al jazeera. we're going to weather update next here i was 0 then the u.s. supreme court makes a ruling on donald trump's latest attempt to overturn the election results. kick it
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out with a look at football struggle with racism out of both sides station and president who counts in the champions league match. ally once again is quite down i see now across the middle east after last week's rather disturbed weather still some but some places the cloud around the turkey for the black sea over towards the caspian sea you might just catch a drop of rain at say just up to its attack iran over the mountains in iran but for most it is dry and 5 minutes freshening up here in doha temperature is $25.00 celsius with that just blowing across the region we go on into friday could be freshest still the $23.00 degrees grab you have brought peace them abt
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a west positive rain but more importantly do grab a sweater it is going to feel a little on the cool side then dry and fine across northern parts of somalia meanwhile plenty of showers there into the democratic republic of congo some showers that see into angola and we see some heavy rain recently into zimbabwe just around the rift valley more than parts of my exam be could see some showers as well and notice some what's the weather just coming back into that eastern side of south africa for a time madagascar will be rather unsettled as we go on through the next couple of days some heavy downpours coming in here some rather lively showers there with some thunder it is likely to cause a little bit of localized flooding as we go on through the weekend. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse or $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of this regime he
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comes into office for the huge amount of experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get the vaccine when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for inside story on al-jazeera. oh. hello again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour at least 5 people have been killed in post-election violence in ghana police say that 61 incidents of violence are been reported since monday's presidential and parliamentary vote official results of not yet been released campaign as
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a warning people in poor countries will miss out on covert 19 vaccines next year because wealthy governments hoarding supplies the people's vaccine alliance says that some have enough to inoculate the populations several times over. and britain's prime minister boris johnson says that no leader could accept the post briggs's trade deal that the e.u. is currently offering johnson's face questions in parliament hours before he's due to fly to brussels for last ditch talks. iran's president hassan rouhani says that u.s. sanctions are making it difficult to access medicines including covert 19 vaccines iran is suffering the worst corona virus outbreak in the middle east recording over a 1000000 cases and more than 50000 deaths sanctions imposed by the united states since its 2800 nuclear deal with drawl of made it difficult for iran to access funds that import let's say big do now and our people should know that whatever we want to do when we want to import medicine or import equipment or vaccines we have
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to kiss trump a 100 times as he has created so many problems in annoyances a simple job that would normally be done with a phone call a message or swift transaction takes weeks or months to complete and the whole country has to work together to transfer money from one place to the other just to buy medicine the bunch is spending their last days of this sinister teenie at the white house our vets work it. al-jazeera said begin to run says that many are afraid of the repercussions of doing business with iran earlier in the year iran did apply to the international monetary fund for a $5000000000.00 loan to help them tackle the covert pandemic now that was rejected in iran blamed the united states could be that sometimes countries and companies are afraid to do business with iran because of those sanctions even if they are not directly impacted in the year iran purchased a flu vaccine from france and that was held up in spain we believe in the health minister said that consignment was stopped by the united states so they actually
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blame the united states for stopping that vaccine getting to iran now iran did hit 1000000 kroner virus infections earlier this month is the worst hit country in the middle east but officials here say that they are working on their own covert vaccine and if trials are successful they hope to roll that out in early early summer 20211 of the leading members of the palestinian liberation organization has submitted her resignation there's growing speculation about her reasons for leaving but in an official letter she says it's to allow for the renewal of palestinian leadership a strong he was the highest ranking female politician in the palestinian authority and a pillar executive since 2009 i'll just need to aber him as more from ramallah. she said that she's met with president mahmoud abbas on the 24th of november and she told him that she's going to be resigning and followed that up with
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a written resignation the next day she says that the president has referred to her as a nation to the palestinian central council this is the council that has reappointed to this position of being a p.l.o. executive committee member in 2018 but in harris statement she says that this is resignation wasn't supposed to be announced but it has been leaked to the media and we've heard some arab media has been referring to some sources telling them that she indeed did resign and in the statement she sent today she says while i appreciate and respect the president's position for my resignation and consider it to be in effect allow me to quote another. item of her statement which is important for us to understand probably the reasoning behind her designation she says it's time to carry out that acquired reform and activate the p.l.o. in a manner that restores its standing and rule and that could be also linked to the issue
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of saw a better death he was a senior palestinian official the p.l.o. secretary general and he has been responsible for the negotiations mandate in the p.l.o. and it seems like there has been some sort of a disagreement on who's going to be taking that position after a pause that could be one of the reasons why ashrawi has resigned. the u.s. supreme court has rejected a last ditch attempt by republicans to reverse joe biden's electoral victory in the battleground states of pennsylvania the state's result has been certified in favor of biden and in a one line statement the supreme court refused to call that certificate process into question it was some attempt by donald trump's republican party to have as many as 2 and a half 1000000 votes dismissed a white house correspondent kelly healthy how it says that the president has sort distanced himself from the pennsylvania case. the u.s.
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president downplaying what was seen as a sizable loss of the u.s. supreme court in a case involving the u.s. state of pennsylvania that would invalidate millions of votes it's quite notable that given the fact that donald trump has 3 republican appointees on that court that there was 0 dissent that means that all the democratic appointed and republican appointed judges agreed that there was no merit to the case that was brought before them essentially what they were claiming is that these votes should be invalidated those defending the case said that this would really undermine u.s. democracy in the u.s. constitution and the judges agreed but donald trump has been tweeting a flurry of tweets all talk about one of them that references this pennsylvania case 1st and then we'll get to the rest the president saying this was not my case as has been so incorrectly reported that's why he's talking out of pennsylvania the case that everyone has been waiting for is the state's case with texas that's still
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to be heard and numerous others joining it is very strong all criteria matt how can you have a presidency when the vast majority think the election was rigged the case the president's pinning his hopes on texas the attorney general leading it out of that state but it involves pennsylvania georgia michigan and wisconsin and essentially what they're asking the supreme court to do is to declare that the electoral college votes in that state not go to joe biden the un's human rights chief michelle bachelet says that she's gravely concerned about civilian casualties in ethiopia has no been too great a region the government declared victory last month brushless says the fighting continues this question of you know. i think it's really warring a bullet time and i have had warned it's spiraling out of control with a calling impact on civilians. the spanish government is returning refugees and
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migrants who've arrived in the canary islands more than $22000.00 people which the islands this year. reports in the village of video cotto and seller goals. region. i'm a do so had never seen the ocean before he stepped onto a boat hoping to make it to europe a land he saw filled with opportunities he could not find at home but the coward or from tom burke who died 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 hate carl's for your family in spain maybe that they've changed my life in my children's lives. in unprecedented wave of illegal migration from west africa to europe spanish coast over 600
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migrants have died trying to make it to the canary islands this year among the dead are many school age teachers that 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 europeans dieing of the coronavirus are leaving jobs vacant for young african men to take. the school principal says every week a student disappears attempting the journey looking for a better future for what they're 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 my do so is 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 their home he built to celebrate
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his wedding with his 2nd wife something he would have been able to afford had he not gone to spain 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 lives better clean 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 southwest senegal . an automated system of mass surveillance and detentions is supercharging beijing's repression of the country's muslim weaker minority that's according to a new human rights watch report that's revealing more details about how china's predictive policing program works the research is based on a linked list of at least 2000 the week of detainees apparently flagged by the
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system all of them were sent to political education camps in china's western chine jang region by reverse engineering the system researches identified criteria used by an algorithm to flag its targets the analysis suggests the majority of flagged for lawful behavior that includes traveling being young or acting suspiciously the report says the system operates independently from china's judiciary leaving its targets with no way to challenge the algorithms conclusions or beijing is dismissed the human rights watch report as an attempt to smear china's reputation. as the so-called human rights group you mentioned has always been full of prejudice and stirring up trouble the words are not worth refuting ken roth as human rights watch is executive director he says that china's reaction to the report is not surprising . they say it's not worth refuting because they can't it's all accurate it's based
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on their database i mean somebody leaked an official database containing 2000 names of and weaker and other turkic muslims who were detained we simply didn't analysis of the database of course they can't refute it please that's their own words that basically show how little it takes to be detained if you are a muslim in china and you know the chinese government likes to say oh this is just a counterterrorism campaign we're just going after criminality but what this database shows is that basically they're going after islam because if you look at the how little it takes to get detained you know there was one man for example who was detained because in the mid 1980 s. he studied the koran and in the early 2000 he left his wife wear a veil that was it you know he was just a practicing muslim back got him detained and we see this kind of thing over and over and over again if you study or preach or read the koran without official state
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permission that gets you to taint and what's what's interesting is that this is not only revealing about how much this is not about criminality this is about islam but it also shows really this horrible automation of the detention process is hand held out that human rights watch reverse engineer which police officers and change and used to input virtually 11 pages of data on every muslim and then there are is a big data analysis done to decide ok what are the suspicious criteria but you know suspicion means somebody from abroad called you or you travel from your video edge to another village or you're young it's nothing you know and basically this is just a war on you know anybody with any vibrancy any degree of belief islam they get detained and detention means you were you know under pressure you are really going to forced reeducation until you abandon islam and you abandon your culture.
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boeing's 737 max jet has returned to the sky after being grounded since 2019 revamped aircraft made its 1st commercial flight from goal line from sao paolo support alegria boeing hopes that it can turn the corner after 2 crashes that killed 346 people. rio tinto is facing renewed pressure over its destruction of sacred aboriginal rock shelters in australia. pay compensation to traditional and rebuild what it destroyed the. capital. this documentary paid for by mining giant rio tinto describes the deep cultural and historical significance of the ancient jew can gorge rock caves in australia's remote pilbara region. really unique if the preservation. 5 years later destroyed to expand one of its iron ore mines the incident sparking
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global outrage and grief from traditional owners who tried to stop it from going ahead. and national inquiry into their destruction has delivered i think a thing report saying the traditional owners were let down not only by rio tinto but by governments their own lawyers and native title law was granted approval to damage the site in 2013 under aboriginal heritage laws but a year later an archaeological dig intended to salvage anything found there discovered just how precious the caves were containing evidence of human activity 46000 years ago the report describes his actions is inexcusable saying it's knew the value of what it was destroying but anyway it also says significant. about the culture and practices within the company and recommended
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rio tinto negotiate a compensation deal with traditional owners known as the people while committing to reconstruct the caves. it can't just be a token. that the people have the leverage to make a decision about what kind of restitution they believe to be appropriate 3 top executives including the c.e.o. have resigned over the failings that. with the inquiry's findings not legally binding many and now watching. camera. turkey's president is blaming what he calls a racist trend in france for an incident during a champions league football match players from istanbul. and paris walked off the pitch on tuesday night. looks back at football struggles with the issue of racism
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in the season it looked as if they were shocked to hear players are potentially going to refuse to continue it was a moment that shocked the footballing world. ducks the players marched off the pitch followed by their opponents parasangs a man after a racist term was allegedly used by the 4th official towards the assistant coach of the turkish champions league here we broke it lead to the match being suspended when it comes off from your old officials the guys who are protecting the safety of the of the players for the respect in the values of the game is what they have been appointed by the way for as well to to guide a game like that and then have one of your fishel say a racial slur and staff member. there's a complete disgrace. you would be tafel sides there are just words you wait for say they are investigating the incident which comes at a time when racism is the major talking point in football. teams and leagues have
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latched on to the global anti racist movement prompted by the police killing of george lloyd in the united states in may but despite the banners and displays of solidarity incidents continue to happen. when down in paris followed embarrassing scenes which in a dish 2nd tier cup little watch this past saturday their fans booed while place took the knee before kick off that incident came days after a controversy involving manchester united star edinson cavani the year old wine used a racial slur in an instagram post but has since deleted it and apologized sometimes you feel that maybe. no u.f.o. and just out there with the bad nose and placards and and you know i'm bad for the captain saying all we want and 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 he affects the t.v.
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scheduling of these games perhaps us and will come out and say you know what we're not going to take this anymore istanbul but that's the end p.s.g. will be back at the park to promise to finish the game on wednesday you wait for will be hoping at the very least that the remainder of the match will be played out without incident so he'll malik al-jazeera. it's good to have in the style of adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera at least 5 people have been killed and post-election violence in gonna play said it 61 incidents of violence have been reported since monday's presidential and parliamentary votes official results have not yet been released on a series of addresses that today when we were supposed to be getting final results of such an economic and a government in. this case i just want to open.
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