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the father the sound and the gee hands. on his ear. i don't know talking to her the top stories here on al-jazeera and the united states has become the latest country to approve the fine is a biotech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use president trump says the 1st could be administered within 24 hours with millions more sent for nationwide distribution my kind of reports now from washington d.c. thank you very much yes da announcement followed immense pressure from the white house during the course of the day president trump chef to additional fire wall between politicians and da deliberations with a furious early morning tweet describing the f.d.a. as still a big old slow turtle and addressing the f.d.a.
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commissioner he continued get the damn vaccines out now dr han stop playing games and start saving lives the white house chief of staff is understood to have followed up with a phone call to the f.d.a. commissioner urging him to expedite the approval. this followed a rip you off the vaccine by independent health experts thursday who voted overwhelmingly to recommend emergency use authorization president trump has now welcomed the f.d.a. approval they have really good news today our nation has achieved a medical miracle we have delivered a safe and effective vaccine in just 9 months this is one of the greatest scientific accomplishments in history it will save millions of lives and soon end the pandemic once and for all the vaccine manufacturers pfizer has said it will be able to roll out an initial $20000000.00 doses within 24 hours of approval in terms
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of guidelines drawn up by the centers for disease control the 1st recipients will be frontline health care workers and the elderly in assisted care facilities though it will be left to the governor of each state to establish distribution protocols. the governor of new york state andrew cuomo said he was expecting 170000 doses by sunday or monday this will be enough to treat 85000 people in the 1st wave of vaccinations. a 2nd vaccine manufactured by madonna will come under review next thursday to says it will be able to roll out 20000000 doses within a day of emergency use approval the virus continues to rage throughout the united states with more than 200000 new cases we've reported each week and some 3000 deaths a day being recorded and health officials warn that it will take months before the
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vaccine begins to have an impact on the use of stop statistics mike hanna al-jazeera washington mexico's health regulator is also giving the green light for emergency use of pfizer's coated 1000 vaccine the decision makes it the 6th country to allow the experimental vaccine to be rolled out and britain's astra zeneca plans to test whether the effectiveness of its covert $1000.00 vaccine can be boosted when combined with russia's black sea trials are expected to start in the coming weeks the u.s. supreme court has rejected a legal bid from the state of texas to every turn donald trump selection to feed the president back the lawsuit which sought to throw out the results in 4 key states u.s. president elect joe biden has unveiled 5 top picks for his incoming administration many of them are familiar names with close ties to former president barack obama's cabinet iran has executed a dissident journalist convicted of fueling antigovernment on rest according to
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state media was captured by the revolutionary guard in 2019 after years in exile was accused of stalking violence through a social media channel during nationwide protests in 2017. at least 10 rockets have been fired on afghanistan's capital kabul killing one person wounding 2 others an afghan government spokesman says they were fired from a vehicle on the city's outskirts has been a claim of responsibility new evidence in the case of an italian student tortured and murdered in egypt could further implicate security officials video clips obtained by al-jazeera from italian judicial sources indicate for the 1st time that 28 year old researcher judea and he was monitored while being in egypt there's a headlines got more news coming up right after what's often are. the a. lot
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he didn't even talk to me matt but i was going to meet. him i mean i'm going to meet. the demand maybe. a lot more but i thought it was a name. where bassett goes a bit. of warm him up in one of the muscles. so. i knew. that he was good. and i know. now. that i was a man that you had to. go as a restaurant and sign and that you need to be me. one of the by now that they are
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not by 2 people they're paying down the loans that they took you know to come to china how many people are ready to go into the system and they're already so they need to know that they're not in the job. if you were stopping and were fired so that is an example of if you don't pay own you get fired of course his name we lose a job and we saw how he's going to pay. oh he did there's a reason to do salary 1st of all the roommates leave the house and because risk control of the housing or not is how when or even who you talk to how long you've been out. i walk in and i have 2 or 3 people on the phone texting and there and they said we're there texting we know we do something wrong we ask a question to the supervisor castles and so he's going to use his eyes and ears of
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the work and eyes and ears of the home so we need to be able to house into the living room they're not under surveillance and they don't feel coercion and that some of that show up on thursday asking for money. in rivers or brought chandra levy once they were out here during see what is it to you bonnie they are paying back to restyle rate they're paying back and dad not making several years. we're told it's a management. but it isn't it on the bill and that is. no money at. all the man is in
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a big movement that he is and that he from. yandell well done mt indeed the limo bus but ascended us in my young and i only thought i was but ascending would be some of the people who were going out of. here but i thought that other body or other for latin where there were. no not true or not. so all. the rest well as they might last a. moment blood they went on water now that you don't. know my god. oh. come on i'm going to.
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the. power of the migrant workers in the temporary farm workers being treated now over the years we've. talked about various kinds of abuses migrant workers and dined in farms and fields they have been abused in homes and employers homes and in restaurants etc tell me a bit about the the numbers of workers that you have documented many workers do you . get in other document we have. with migrant workers who are about the situation and no action what bleiberg these scams menorah for a long time is worth at least getting out is there anything more that can be done to sort of educate people in their home countries that when they come here they're
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not in this awful trap of having to pay back like how much in wages what they're charges up to $1215000.00 and they're not making more here you know they're making they're making minimum wage are laws treat people differently people are indentured which means people are tied to an employer they pay into unemployment insurance we cannot receive access to it they cannot have access to welfare or any form of social assistance the provincial laws and federal laws are what constructs my good workers vulnerability. well could be i would never have but i don't know that i would be plus cussing. i'm going to that class at no one but on the con. damn near
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anything and i'm in a plane made another. and that i get. over that i don't the mother. of one of the many young indonesia and in addition how much you understand though hand those 50 you. don't actually grouch but it. seems to have them going to fit ready what you like and in the car is safe. and. doesn't matter if what. insufficient. magical.
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but i mean come on as you say. i've been adding to the not because. we need a program to be funny. we had a girl i wanted me to my. guitarist replied don't to get you wrong yet but combine the more dollars at the top command. in order to bring you to canada your employer has you completed affleck ation and prove to the government that they couldn't find a canadian worker to do your job and that application that he completed was ever it was a request for a labor market opinion or an element but as for the 1st president is. this is this is your contract. did you get a copy in indonesian gotta know that if you've been the owner in
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a nice english there is no internees they never got a copy in indonesia no mystery why you don't understand it or as read in there oh my goodness ok so i'm going to show you here can you translate this when's their current employer brought them to canada that employer agreed to pay for their airfare the employer agrees to assume the transportation cost of the temporary foreign workers round trip travel between country of origin and the location of birth in canada. it's month to the end and then in about a month that we are there we aren't in it and then one as a mishap who would internees and be a mentor once again by transfer the money for what for their take on your contract says the air ticket is paid. aside from the ticket what was all this other money for yes exactly size 00 never been a bluetooth us too. if. not these are the i
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thought. well i'm never going to. do. auntie and uncle coming along with no debate and that line and anything new to. it developed by tonight it to me i must come up what i know while up on my. own terms from the little i'm departing duck the long time supply last watch end up but i think that. took a little out. and should uninsured and may end. up with no mother but i was
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a bit though i want to feel that i'm the wrong. mccabe i don't want some and we don't so. i'm a this is cathy i was given your phone number from claudia oh yes. we have 2 women so it could be a one bedroom. that they share or a 2 bedroom depending on price. they both work in the packing packing for greenhouses yet and so there their contract is for a couple of years so they'll be you know they'll be stable and. you know. like indonesia. right. now.
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but she has. oh you know they look like i don't know. you should be a basic a little english but enough enough for me to communicate so yeah yeah for 24 so it's a little bit more of a problem yeah. the only way to go yeah. yeah i mean it's not that region so many people. and i class it. and then we get to hear those on the street i guess i'm missing out on was a saturday or 6 of me. yeah yeah so room talking yeah
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ok did you like the place i learnt but it's going to be expensive but if that's too high then we just keep looking and if there's too much we can keep looking for other places you. could be. 100 today you paid your. receipt. yet the one time they didn't speak the fly 165. ok so you 2 are them ok because. they don't know anything other than what the workers tell me. but i i do know that there's a large according to the workers there is and all the papers recently showed me there's a significant amount of money that's being collected and has been collected. and many many many workers are very very afraid. very very quickly in this community
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and other communities people become very wealthy. by exploiting the farmers by taking their money and so there's a lot of money at stake and money is at stake. for certain parties in it and that's trends that can be so. could be problematic song. are you afraid he's going to hurt you physically and in no not at all. i'm not sure what my serious but hey i'm chilling is radiation. to better $666.00 per month 2 bedrooms some of the filipino workers live in this building and they're very happy and. yes. i
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have to see. here. ok so you ready. yeah let's go to. hi where we're standing outside but we don't know which unit. so you like this apartment is a lie because of medical and or less. good because you live in a house of honing people in relief on one hoss. so i have. and him. i think met me in the sea me. i think angry. but i've been.
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mama she did. get up with. just the just the do not the bit that i'm going on now could not get by the people but i met. you do you know that if i. just did last if i had to buy that up at the be sure to buy it if you get. $100.00 of the 5. from 6. and me now here in and handy. and there's something back and i'm back
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i'll never leave my house the lot of. it but they must somebody coming to see me it took me by him going to iraq instead. nana's have i have. yet to get out of my argument. when there malone she ain't gonna get well my dad. never never konami got the money or. i now and then year after my there way to look at me but i'm down. it's. just. that i got 1. 1.
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i don't look like in doha the top stories here in al-jazeera and the united states has become the latest country to approve the pfizer biotech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use the president says the 1st dose could be administered within 24 hours with millions more set for nation wide distribution mike hanna has more now from washington d.c. . the company pfizer says that it will be able to rollout $20000000.00 doses within 24 hours of the approval so we could be looking at the vaccine being delivered to various states as soon as a sunday but it's truly astounding it's taken 9 months to develop this particular vaccine in emergency use and one must put this into context because the previous
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faustus vaccine development was that 4 months which took 4 years to develop mexico's health regulation was also given the green light for emergency use of pfizer's covert 19 but you see the decision makes it the country to allow the experimental vaccine to be rolled out 1st and astra zeneca plans to test whether the effectiveness of its covert 1000 vaccine can be boosted when combined with russia's sputnik rexy trials are expected to start in the coming weeks the u.s. supreme court has rejected a legal bid from the state of texas to overturn donald trump's election defeat the president had backed the lawsuit which sought to throw out the results from 4 key states. iran has executed a dissident journalist convicted of fueling anti-government on the arrests according to state media. was captured by the revolutionary guard in 2019 after years in exile was accused of stoking violence or
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a social media channel during nationwide protests in 2017. at least 10 rockets have been fired on afghanistan's capital of kabul killing one person 2 others and afghan government spokesman says they were fired from a vehicle on the city's outskirts has been no claim of responsibility. new evidence in the case of an italian student taught she didn't murdered in egypt could further implicate security officials or for the eclipse obtained by al jazeera her italian judicial sources indicate for the 1st time that 28 year old with a gun was being monitored while in egypt italian prosecutors say they plan to charge for cdn members of egypt's security forces. more coming up right after we return to witness the.
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temporary foreign workers. in the labor market. we care where they're from we care what they look like we care because. if they were coming from england if they were coming from australia if they were coming from the united states nobody would. maybe out of them in the past but up we honestly say i am asking them about me and i'm a that will now cost a bus what i'm about all young up and i am 100 on a bus but for now that might be begin more now about on our doorstep in september
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after the company. that. i'm calm about last more i need grass the rocks i'm going to bow out of the. company got me some us want us now and then buy a while and we don't win by. producer and. that's what i suppose i am i said bruce i'm. so what do you think is going on into me i think there's a retaliation. i mean clearly it when you see it is the other woman. they will describe being called and told that they're not to be like. and so her job mr normal i was also means and status and in adam's i'm i'm doing and she's been made an example of us.
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night i called and there's a place that we can see so if you still want to see the apartment if i end up in there if i have a. america by are a lot of muslim up will not that i had an idea it is not only about how not to do you know now whom i want back. but they fix $1500.00 that you just finished paying off that amount was prohibited by the contract saying. about your money market you are going up and you need a home got the job done in my op an architect i was thinking about our job our jack of just won't be our combat we have to have as you say out of by now been back into indonesia. the cayo want to remember all of that part of that we're going to say that i was. meant to be
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a little farm my ass up it i've. put that over. my work and if i don't have even provided the one. i'm at me i'm up but i don't look at you know that. i'm doing right after the hour. but. i am one it's about you know that on friday sometime last week somebody contacted the police. so it was a member of the leamington community who had concerns about money that was being taken from you and threats not deportation if you didn't gain and if you didn't obey the police have sadly many anybody would like to talk to them they're
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available backing them up compound at the landfill not on duty at home and up undercut by myself and they won't do anything among. us and it's a we're going to the. amount of up or down with us in the middle order. so article by the be innocent by the cops. determined. i think you can begin to. man man down man you not looked into which and i'm going to call me naive groupie nothing at all in that won't begin moments when if we. were.
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at the end it is for us. monte don't want to know. your good death you do have to suffer again begins with it because we're looking dead right. now coming into that missile coming down. because he was watching new girl a bunch and. i am not a 1000 pound i do watch them up close and i know. my marrying me one was young. let me pull a man thing only one thing i need
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a little thing yeah i think it was the last thing on almost in thinking i need luck in being and i'm going early in a month and i think i've become an accountant or lot i'm. getting it under we don't do too well i'm sorry but it's up. to tourists and it's one of the more. homeowners hadn't a member of the. they are not. to be out there. let me. tell you haven't. heard. that in part capital as to who home and mom. want someone knocking them back they're going to.
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it will be this i was like when she come in this was for the ramp up in history that i'm accustomed to feed me in this and that misprint me make my hair the move got one when i'm probably rather than eternal and you got local men well to talk. only see and want to say neither of you well you see then he doesn't need to show you have i doubt working permits i am very pleased with. flat us forces should only happen that something. that. they are not kill. this image nobody had to have been so. in the. us of a. document it doesn't. look at bulk of the lead they had more money
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and they got the money going up now and. he wanted you to think beyond he's due for . our top story this hour a 3 county man or a facing extraordinary just told me to constable shauna coulter says the arrest and the charges are the result of a 6 month investigation. i can tell you that there are my great work pretty good victims from indonesia. the charges relate to the extension of money from the workers being employed and we need to. be close but not oh you heard the word exploitation in the church in the english word where there is absolutely no such restriction placed ruthless for who she. will be it will be that usual threat that if they did it would be just other people did not make those threats did not make those threats would not be strange but our clients would by no means threaten to send these people. or to revoke their visas or to do it with an actual
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shortfall so if you come over in $6090.00 that's going to be able number it's their contractually bound to pay it and recover easier for the covers their application for their work permit in accommodation costs which it's tied to. it's real question about recruitment things aren't paid legal these workers are alleging that they were charged tours and now we're in no no no no there's no such thing as a recruiting role always or the word recruitment feet and number 2 there are causes mr miller is looking for. airplane travel there is an application fee to beat them to be paid to get a ration of the plane fare in foreigners and in need not in this instance but and it's important with it. the employer did not hear. your plan for you in this. the it. was going to be.
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the awful. choose me. i will begin policing of the day in the not must never come on when in your garbage pickup no you are rooted to the ballot do go up but there is up a big 100 obvious a new one up and a mess on the. well you can buy at that welcome talked about b.s. . but garbage madness made it up out about the governor and the rarity of the gotta get the classical behind them and get the big dog up they did that by now.
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for. a little nestle well yeah. rah. we nearly had warming. up this morning with because now that unlike. most milan found out if. i can any. jet is a my get the the me as you get that up. doesn't but. last but. when i want to get next it again if you've ever been in the mean anything excellent as a monkey. the hamburg inn will begin to thank you again thank god
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the me. there are hundreds of bollywood when he came last night right after they finished at work and then were notified formally by the employer that they were without status and had been so for 2 weeks according to the woman the employer said that he had never applied for. the what is called the l m i. so they don't understand that by any apply why would he not tell us back in december when he said he applied. a lot of questions they were also which is very surprising to me is that they're adamant that they wanted to go ahead with the lawsuit and now they now you call the lawyer and so they had to call the lawyer where they cut the up the rate there are 2 calls he didn't answer call again and. oh are you writing right. ok you can't kill me here the tape.
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i'm. going to charge you vote you know the preacher. who was we applied for an extension for everybody's term. also. work permit came back here didn't accept. sure what this means we have to arts. thank you reapply. one more time $6090.00 days to reply. for 90 days you can. order the other our action if you go back to them to be sure. we can reply it's an 1 option if you want to do that the problem is related if you know they were going to. help i know who. i don't know who that struck me for your money and what you're feeling where you live
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what you will whether their. home was the only. thing they. did and that is nothing should be a $300.00 bill it can refuse again i don't know. you want to go back i don't get the point if that's the process. then we can arrange that whenever you want. ok but you have to make a decision sure going. so one should think about to talk to girls and we can discuss this with the junta ok so what i would want to know is when did you know about that in iowa and then why didn't you tell us as soon as you knew why did you wait 2 weeks and then have you work 2 weeks without status i think not everything is being told i understand that you need to eat you need to pay rent you need to pay medical bills and you have found leaves and children back
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home so i understand that there's a need for money but i just want you to know that if you decide to work for cash somewhere and then immigration picks you want then i can't do anything. they have been tricked into illegality not just force they've been tricked into illegality the employer tells you that it's ok that you're fine don't worry because don't worry and meanwhile the employer knows very well that the papers that are necessary. to insure your status hasn't even been. absent from files that i think about the steps in the federal government has not provided any support centers any places where my coworkers can go and see what is happening what are my rights so they're really left at the mercy of employers and i think
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that this is by design i don't think that is just an oversight is a misstep and the government hasn't thought about it i think their vulnerability is constructed. this is just one of the groups that we happened to meet there not the show they're not unique and there are multiple hundreds and hundreds of stories similar stories out there. it's not hard to find it's all around this area all uls through this program. so you're the employer does not apply to reducing the status and manhood and that is that the beginning of that b.s. and. i think that if. you talk about wanting to sue the greenhouse for overtime dictation. and also for the agency.
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we have heard or has done a similar lawsuit there were 60 temporary for workers at denny's in british columbia who were hearing agency fees they were not getting paid for over time. they settled they got a lot of. their other cases that area of theirs they were but this would be one of the 1st ones for people were angry. when i. got a long story but it's up one story. you know and the gunmen were glad. 'd 'd it's the only thing. you're going to be the one of the. other you're going to be going to be remembered i'm going to demand that my vote is even going but it doesn't say what i. did because
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the debt. will not be. oh i'm going to tell miss summerson. going to back to am going to. get another. and 7 they had going to the 2nd i'm going to have them and they be saying you mean don't believe. it when i'm going to give him that. she. was going to have if i want it i want. it i would never in that. machine if you
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knew that i want to know who won. but never did i was on your way and. there we go i feel now bad as i get to. get that done and visit me that and then he said you do measure don't let gotta. get up we're not sure about it that this you mean you can get one down. in me that i know about was about other now don't i give me the hunk of the market now and you can go. no matter. how many on that there will be no but. i love my new boss and my family. to get one of them in a minute. and a man and and small boy named be at. government get on it and make any
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covering the challenge the government faces is aware that it can 3 people to keep applied and by restrictions when they need to work to feed to family. from around the world the so-called swedish model may be under some pressure but a full lockdown is unlikely and perhaps even impossible. was looking lousy draw in quantico secured parts of the middle east a few showers just around the back seats was a coke sees towards the apostles around the south of that it is generally settled and following quite a brisk wind blowing through the gulf that's was a scary concert temperature is 2324 celsius as we go on through the next couple of days that fresh way and maybe picking up a little bit of lift dust and sand but it will feel a little colder than all of let's say cool by night for the south it is generally dry and sunny lots of hazy sunshine stretching across the whole of africa and then
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we got the usual showers down across the rift valley will see some wet weather just around lake victoria uganda sing some heavy rain heavy rain there into rwanda renee and heavy downpours also affecting a good part of the democratic republic of congo joining up with the showers that we have in zambia zimbabwe also seeing some wet weather notice a fair bit of cloud to the eastern side of south africa we will see some rather heavy downpours here for a time that was the weather for the gathering as we go on through saturday not quite as wet as we go on into sunday but the showers are still there nevertheless the other side of the country still to about a so for cape town temps just doing quite nicely getting up to 23 degrees celsius by sunday afternoon. dissecting the headlines in the midst of a pandemic let's start with some of the on the ground realities affecting the news coverage what's the lay of the land there to stripping away the spam
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a gripping story about presidential corruption it is real reporting it's not if you keep challenging assumptions and the official line for this i do agree need to kind of i was the group we don't want to lie on the authority and. the listening post on al-jazeera. we know what's happening in our return we know happened get the plate but others hang on i wasn't done but only p.r. guy. by the party the only purpose i did 0 at that time in it for grabbing to go live on the go live to work another story that may not be mainstream but the fires are still more normative in. the way they encountered the story isn't what can make a difference. it uses performance art to draw attention to the critic or controversial issues facing china. want to waste its china.
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