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form told the national security this is a political impasse here's the conflict are we telling a good story. we're really interested in taking you into a place that you might not visit otherwise and to actually feels that you were there. al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes coronavirus cases surge across europe pressure mounts on regulators to approve a vaccine for use as soon as possible. the electoral college. vote. top republican senator mitch mcconnell congratulates joe biden and running mate
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campbell harris on their election victory and anxious wait for the families of hundreds of school boys abducted in northwest nigeria and scientists that track a rogue and park the iceberg that's a commission course with the island of south georgia. and i'm santa how much with all the sport chelsea have missed their chance to go top of the english premier league the blues were beating 21 by wolves. we begin the news hour here in europe or several nations are facing tough choices in their fight against the coronavirus cases are surging ahead of the christmas period with fears that increase travel could accelerate the spread or new restrictions could hit businesses when they least need it but the past day is also
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brought new hope that vaccines could be administered in several countries a soon as the next week and the reports from brussels. in brussels they're dreaming of a busy christmas shops reopened in belgium on tuesday despite a recent rise in coffee 1000 cases but bars and restaurants have to stay closed shop keepers here in belgium are hoping to make the most of the reopening but with daily covered 19 infections roys ing and the reproduction rated almost one the government is not ruling out bringing in new restrictions at the end of this week. over the border in the netherlands they've gone into a 5 week lockdown closing all non-essential shops as well as schools prime minister mark router insists that rising infection rates make it essential to in his words bite through this very sour apple before things get better. it's totally understandable the number of afghan iraq if this wasn't done the consequences cannot be neglected. i looked down if not really dissolution of
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a strict enforcement not compulsory facemask even the coronavirus at and shopping malls the temperature should be checked but there's new hope at the prospect of mass vaccinations across europe after pressure from the german government the european union's regulate free body is set to approve the pfizer biotech vaccine next monday the sort of on the lion president of the european commission tweeted i welcome the a.m.a. bringing forward its meeting to discuss the pfizer buy on take vaccine before christmas likely that the 1st europeans will be vaccinated before the end of 2020. germany hopes to vaccinate up to $4000000.00 citizens by the end of the year but with hundreds still dying from the corona virus every day it's bringing in a national lockdown on wednesday. in france they've lifted a lot down but they're bringing in a nighttime curfew and bars and restaurants remain closed tuesday so members of the cultural industries protest angry that places like museums and theaters and also
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allow to open not to see him the huge numbers of cinemas in theaters that will close its catastrophic person will no longer be the culture city it was before the lockdown. you know. you can't say one sector is essential and another is not there's no evidence of clusters in theaters in cinemas now the governments are voicing people to quarantine before meeting up at christmas because. of budget scientific cants least saying and i view that as reasonable if you can self confine for 8 days before christmas if you can it's not possible for everyone across europe the message from governments is the same please be careful over christmas so the new year can be a better one letting barbara al-jazeera brussels signior u.k. government officials are discussing whether to proceed with plans to ease coronavirus restrictions over the christmas period and the current measures that 3 households will be allowed to mix over a 5 day festive period but an urgent review was called after 2 leading medical
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journals was warned that the decision to relax the rules was rash and would cost many lives u.k. cabinet office minister michael gove has held talks with leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland they've agreed to seek further advice with the situation expected on thursday meanwhile tougher restrictions are due to come into force here in the british capital at midnight local time just a few hours from now jonah hall has the latest from london. tonight we've been spiraling rates of infection around the london area under southeast at some places infection rates doubling in 7 days we're told that there is this particularly virulent variant of the virus that's been identified in part responsible for that fast uptick in infections and then this rather in congress situation where the government is lifting all restrictions for a 5 day period over christmas to allow families to get together in their homes to
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mix together and it sparked real concern about what comes down the line beyond christmas possibly a 3rd wave in january maybe even a 3rd lockdown real criticism aimed at the government not least on tuesday for 2. preeminent medical journals in this country both internationally respected that have issued a very rare joint editorial warning the government of what is at stake here saying simply that if people do get together people will die most likely elderly relatives predicting that the caseload for the national health service after christmas will be 40 times higher than it was at the beginning of the 2nd lockdown back in the autumn and urging the government not to blunder it says into another era so lots of these voices now aimed at the government urging change that it sounds like there might be some tweaks in the offing the government on the other nations of the u.k. discussing the possibility of tweaking these rules and one minister earlier on in the day admitting that look all coronavirus measures are under review all the time
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. well a 2nd corona virus vaccine is set to be given approval in the u.s. this week regulators say the jab produced by the drug for a month during the is safe and highly effective in fact tests show it's more than 94 percent effective when 2 shots are taken within $28.00 days of each other if an independent panel gives it the go ahead on thursday it would make the u.s. the 1st country to approve 2 vaccines john hendren is live for us from washington d.c. so john this is day 2 of vaccinations in the u.s. how is rollout going in specially guessing in light of what is potentially promising an optimistic. well by tomorrow we'll have 636 locations barber that will have the vaccine and it's being administered 1st to jock toure's and nurses and people who work in these facilities in part because
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they're the most exposed but also to show other people and give them confidence to take it then nursing home workers and then after that it begins to expand to essential workers and others but right now we're really in the very initial stages as you say it's day 2 but on day 5 we could have 2 vaccines as soon as friday we could have an approval from the food and drug administration here on that madonna vaccine and that will of course increase the numbers of people who will be receiving vaccines but anthony found she the top disease expert here in the united states it's been advising the administration reminds us that this is a bittersweet moment it's only the beginning of the rollout it will of course take many months possibly till summer before the vast majority of the public is vaccinated and still we have 3 minutes 300000 dead over 16000000 cases of which i am one much recovered and we're seen people die at
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an alarming rate in this 2nd wave about $3000.00 people per day those are $911.00 level numbers but the introduction of this 1st vaccine in the prospect of having another vaccine within the week has offered a ray of hope in a bleak covert landscape here well john it's only good to hear that you've recovered from it that we know that sort of 1st line of the vaccines are medical workers a nursing home residents but there's also talk of some high profile people receiving the shots who was likely to be among them. that's right the presidential advisor i was speaking of a minute ago anthony found she has said that he thinks it's very important that the top officials of the current president president trump the incoming president joe biden and his vice president coming to harris all receive the vaccination a for national security reasons but also once again to provide an example to give
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people confidence because we've had studies here that show his view was 60 percent of the public intends to take this virus some new polls now put that up to 70 percent you really need about 75 percent or more of the public to be vaccinated in order to get herd immunity here in the u.s. and right now the public confidence just isn't quite there and that's why there is a call for some high profile people already the pat most recent past presidents bill clinton barack obama george w. bush also that they will take this vaccination publicly in order to instill confidence in the public one particular group here though that really has less confidence in the vaccine because they've often been excluded from medical studies in the past or african-americans and other minorities and so there's now a call for some separate celebrities black celebrities hispanic celebrities to be
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doing this publicly in order to encourage people to take the vaccine there are still some concerns about that but public confidence seems to be growing. john hendren with the latest there from washington d.c. john thank you. coming up on al-jazeera this news hour it is impossible for me to share this honor. with the regime where young people are tortured and killed the former italian culture minister explains to al-jazeera why she is giving up her. homes torn down in indian administered kashmir where authorities accused tribes of illegally occupying forest land and in sport could there be 2 winner is when the host the city for the 20 games is announced sunday will be here with that story of.
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the republican party's refusal to accept joe biden's presidential election win has all but collapsed after the most senior congressional figure congratulated the democrat majority leader mitch mcconnell offered warm words to the president elect the day after the electoral college officially voted in the winner the electoral college. spoke so today i want to congratulate president elect joe biden the president elect is no stranger to the senate he's devoted himself to public service for many years i also want to congratulate the vice president elect our colleague from california senator her beyond our differences all americans can take pride in our nation as a female vice president elect for the very 1st time well biden himself is back on the campaign trail in georgia were early voting has begun in
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a run off for 2 senate seats in the past few minutes he's made one of his most direct remarks yet against donald trump's claim that the presidential vote was wreaked on just don't shop less. in this election george wasn't going to be born when george was going to be sorrow and george was certainly wasn't going to stand by and love donald trump or the state of texas or anyone else come in here and toss out your votes. what you know. you know did stand by. you know did nothing well charm texas and others were trying to wipe out every single one of the almost 5000000 votes cast here in georgia november your 2 republican senators let's go to our white house correspondent kimberly how could you for once is not outside the white house but she is in atlanta georgia kimberly good to see you talk us through what biden is actually trying to achieve in georgia
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well as you heard there the gloves are off he's trying to convince georgia voters who came out his historic numbers in november and help him narrowly win this state flipping it from republican to democrat control what he's asking them to do is to do it all again to come out and as you can see i'm at a polling station he's got a little work to do because it's a little quiet right now but the vote is not and till january 5th so there's still some time and that's why he's here he's campaigning he's asking people to turn out and why is he campaigning so hard well the reality is is that this is a runoff election for 2 very important senate seats currently controlled by republicans if democrats are able to flip these 2 democrat control what this means is that joe biden will be able to have sort of an incumbent access in terms of pushing through his agenda in other words democrats will control the house of
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representatives he hopes they'll control the senate with a win in january and really what this means is allowing him to push through his agenda it's all on the line so it's pushing through his agenda their particular messages that he has for voters. yeah well as we've heard there as he's comparing rate here in atlanta the reason i'm standing here right now is that he's trying to communicate to the voters here not only how important this is but what he hopes to accomplish he outlined some of those agenda issues as he's been speaking in the last few moments he was to try and overcome the challenges of racial injustice in the united states he wants to address climate change that the united states is such a big contributor of a he wants to make sure that there is cold relief that there's funding for the testing that will allow americans to get back to work but he's for minding all of the voters not just in this state but around the united states because all eyes in
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the u.s. are on the state right now money coming from the outside in support of the various candidates that really this is the difference between having this happen and seeing much of the obstruction that we saw for democrats when barack obama was in office and republicans were in charge of the senate at that point much of what he says he wanted to do he blamed on republicans and a republican controlled congress so biden warning that that could happen again and underscoring why he sees this election as being so pivotal can really help here with the latest there from atlanta georgia kimberly thank you. a faction of the armed group boko haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of school boys in the area the students were taken from a boarding school in the northern katsina state on friday the group's faction says they've taken more than 500 students become 6 years of the bottom kidnapped 276
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school girls in the town of chibok many of whom have never been returned parents of the boys are unhappy and then they jerry and government's response you know maybe not we want government to risk your children because they have the capacity to do so but their actions are slow because it is not their children that are involved in the incident they put us in the situation now parents and grandparents are an absolute confusion they've stopped us from having peace of mind we are totally sad words of a mother they are now and interest says more now from nigeria's capital of abuja. we understand that the group has been on the move since the day or since the night they were taken from can kind of and they've been moving from one forest to the other climbing rocks and mountains according to witnesses who escaped the must subduction what they're telling the media with the telling government officials and cuts in the state so it's difficult to say exactly where there are there are rumors
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that they've been moved from in a state deep into the forest in some for a state where over the last 7 years we have seen how. security has deteriorated with bandits attacking communities and displacing hundreds of villages and. rendering a lot of people homeless and usually we were told that only a few dozen students were abducted the need later turned out that they were more the governor of kut in austin was talking about 333 and now witnesses are even claiming that the number is much higher than that because the school had more than 800 boarding students and on the night of the abduction on the following the following morning after the night of the abduction more than 200 students were reportedly rescued or have come back to school before the school was finally shot so if you had more than 800 students in a school and only 200 have come back then definitely more than 500 are left and
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accounted for but quite i mean saying that it's holding more than 520 of them if that is classified or doctors confirmed then suddenly this will be the most the biggest abduction since this conflict or the book crisis began 11 years ago. a renowned italian writer has returned the major french honor in protest of the decision to awarded to egyptian president of the c.c. colorado i'll just hand it in. to the french embassy in rome egypt's president was given the owner last week despite human rights concerns including the torture and death of italian student janie rights groups also want the release of patrick zaki an egyptian student who was studying in italy who was who has been detained in egypt since february. these former culture minister given the landry says she will also return her medal in protest i spoke to her a little earlier. it's
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a sad decision it's. it's a heartbreaking decision i was honored. in 2003 by president chirac for the great cultural ties between our countries and i keep on working for these ties and this has nothing to do obviously with the judgment on the arms on france but it is it is impossible for me to share it that's on or with a regime where young people are tortured killed you see an italian young student a. young. excellent student in 2016 julia jane was unequivocally an equivocally. tortured and killed and and it's proved now that there was a role. of the national security forces in this and.
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and also today as as you mentioned before another brave young man and student called patrick zacky a student from the university of belonging is detain illegally in an egyptian prison this is a human rights activist and frankly i think we all should as europeans as a tangent and by the way i. you know i really hope that also the tannin government exerts much more pressure well diplomatic political tool and i was just going to ask you that because obviously actions like yours are hugely symbolic and they're having repercussions that the issue has been raised but you are a former politician you know about the pragmatic decisions that often need to be made do you think that the kind of awareness that there are now is to the human
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rights situation in egypt will change that. political attitude of the italian government perhaps the french government other european nations well exactly because i 'd am a former politicians and i had great honor of chairing for some years the. committee for human rights of the house of parliament so i understand that diploma diplomacy and politics should go their way but frankly a true democratic state should award. a human rights activist rather than a regime where young people are tortured and yes i expect my government to exert much more pressure political diplomatic pressure egypt has dismissed a lot of italy's allegations on the process of 2 that it cheney and yet still today . patrick zacky is illegitimately kept in egypt.
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again forgive me for interrupting you i mean obviously the case of junior johnny made headlines and he's like his italian that exact he was studying at a university in italy obviously i guess within the european media as well these cases made the news because they were european citizens do you think that all of this attention will also though focus the attention on the hundreds if not many many more of the gyptian zz was human rights are being broken do you think that that will also happen. well thank you for the question because you see both bathetic zacky and also do look at jenny they are young students work at working for human rights they are human rights activists and they were working for defending abuses against a young egyptian so i think human right abuses should never be awarded on her 1st secondly europe must be united in in the fight
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for human rights and you know it is so important in this time. in a globalized we're word world to never forget how important human right you know that news and our must be central to also the education of of the european future guinea's veteran leader. has been sworn in for a 3rd term as president in a country which limits him to 2 terms he won almost 60 percent in october as election which the opposition says was rigged as they call a snap reports now from neighboring senegal it's left to some canadians the spondon . for this shopkeeper indycar the presidential inauguration of alpha condé is another step back for democracy in his home country guinea with stuff about the looks concert as you want just the head of
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guinea's constitutional court praise the 86 year old president's eagerness to take on a 3rd term he says he's not duped and has kept a tally of all that has gone wrong since called he came to power 10 years ago from tweaking the constitution to allow him to stay in power to rampant corruption in arresting opponents in a country rich in minerals like gold and bauxite most canadians are trapped in poverty while the says is that failing his people at the beginning we thought they would bring us home but he has shown us history calder's he has disappointed us he doesn't respect the constitution and he exercises control of everything that people are scared of him either getting arrested or. after his victory was announced in october the military fired live bullets at protesters and went house to house detaining mostly people from the. group to support opposition candidates and jell-o. he believes condé rigged to the elections and says he won the vote the inauguration
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is taking place as protests are being held gather during the ceremony are number of aging african heads of state who like condé have changed their country's constitution to stay in power. outside of. our young african migrants from various friends speaking african countries all of them share this common feeling that they've left behind nations led by presidents clinging on to power robbing their nations of wealth and leaving young people without jobs opportunity and the space and freedom to express their political views at a car's museum of black civilization the activist from across the continent have gathered to warn of a dangerous trend. of civil liberties being stifled and governments muffling democracy and freedom of expression among those taking part is gello an outspoken critic of condy called his government has issued an international arrest warrant against him you need to do. this because we have seen nation state use the
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coronavirus plan to make as that is an excuse to restrict individual and collective freedoms of citizens bonding protests when these do not suit governments this pandemic benefits an autocratic regime. the borders between guinea and senegal are closed days unable to return home to his family and with the inauguration of alpha condé fears it will be more trouble ahead nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car. so the common. 3 frenchmen are sentenced for racist assaults after an al-jazeera investigation helped convict them . it survived sentries on libya's mediterranean coast but a modern day war has pushed these ruins onto unesco's endangered list and in sports a legendary formula one name finishes up at the wrong end of the time sheets an
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hour without. my. wednesday is going to be a stormy day for the british isles that's the thing they're developing fairly quickly running up through all and 1st one crossing into england scotland and wales the wind and the rain and the struggling blue here is rain that goes way down through spain and briefly to push through to it to keep moving eastwards through france but showing itself more in denmark certain parts of both norway and probably central sweden where you'll see snow as well previous snow the next storm system swayed already so this is all going up this part of europe which means century city it was quite quiet fairly cold but not standing beside anymore the eastern med is improving currently stormy weather but by i think the middle of when said to be
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much better for the most part and that's you happen to be in north need it for example where i would be called wet and windy and that same sort of weather could creep in through morocco during when same ticket he says it is snow up on the this mountains otherwise it's going to be rain showers and then of course it's largely dry i've been looking at temperatures throughout the sahara they've been on the high side recently all the way as far west as senegal they're coming down to where they should be no tension still in the middle thirty's just in a few shows around the gulf of guinea. building a new knife on an entirely beach living off the sea and then. a dream shared why so many but so few make it to be an attack. a family business led by a mark of a woman with
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a flair for cooking and desist when if. i didn't catch it on al-jazeera. i care about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world i cover foreign policy national security is very much a political impounds here's the how do we illustrated are we telling a good story will people will be inclined to think they're living outside and make it count this is not the way any family wants to raise their children we are really a kid in taken you into a place that you might not visit otherwise really feels that you were there. to lose.
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a reminder now of the top stories on our e.u. members are preparing to roll out the pfizer biotech coronavirus vaccine as early as christmas european regulators are on the pressure to approve the job they're expected to deliver the situation next week meanwhile regulators are close to approving them up there are not coronavirus kept vaccine for use in the u.s. tests show them of their own a job is more than 94 percent effective when 2 shots are taken within 20. as well as buying vaccines for themselves the richest countries in the world have offered help to those less well off the world health organization led kovacs scheme has pledges worth $2100000000.00 from donor governments companies and charitable foundations but it says there's still a $28000000000.00 shortfall in what's needed to buy enough vaccines treatments and
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tests to get the world out of the pandemic research suggests that high and some middle income countries have already purchased nearly 4000000000 doses with options for another 5000000000 but kovacs has secured a mere by comparison 700000000 doses to cope cover both high and low income nations that are in the scheme well that means that most people in low income countries will be waiting until 2024 to be vaccinated with that misstating health and economic repercussions well dr krishna kumar is the founding director of the do you cook global health innovation center he joins us over skype from rally in north carolina sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so i guess you know that the point behind the kovacs scheme is pretty laudable as in you know everyone should have fair access to the vaccine so there's pledges worth $2100000000.00 but that they don't seem to have materialized that will this is say
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. i think what we're starting to see is that there is a growing recognition of the need for multilateral approaches as you noted kovacs is the single platform we have at the moment that brings almost 190 different countries and participants together and yet it's severely under financed and so it's on shaky ground respectfully its ability to finance the purchase of vaccines so of more than $7000000000.00 those is that have already been purchased less than 1000000000 have gone through kovacs so we do see an urgent need to fix that if we're going to have more equitable distribution of vaccines around the world we've heard stories of a lot of wealthy countries ordering enough vaccines for sort of 4 or 5 times their population i guess that's because at this point no one really knows which vaccines they will work or will work best to do you think that after 6 months or a year that will level out and a lot more vaccines will become available i do i think 1st we should celebrate the
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science that's gotten us this far in the amazing ability to have multiple vaccines that seem to be effective in less than a year which is unprecedented in history and the amount of funding that was invested largely by high income countries over the last year we should recognize allowed us scientifically to develop multiple vaccines several shots on goal and the optimist in me would like to think that in 3 to 6 months we're going to have 345 or even more vaccines that are available that will allow us to have much more of a global distribution and much less that's limited only to high income countries ok so appealing again then to the optimist the new what would you think would be the best case scenario for say the end of 2021 where most of the wealthier countries would have managed to vaccinate certainly the most vulnerable members of their population. yeah unfortunately even the best case scenario for the end of 2021
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doesn't look that great even if kodak's is able to raise the entirety of the funding it needs the goal is to be able to roll out enough vaccines to cover about 20 percent of the populations across low and middle income countries we know that that's not going to be nearly enough to reach a herd immunity we do hope that it will be enough to stop the acute phase of the pandemic but we're looking at 2 to 4 years really to get through this with very strong public health measures aided by vaccines but certainly not the end of the pandemic in the next year well the pandemic by definition is global so if a lot of low income countries will be waiting until 2024 to be vaccinated what impact does that have all the wealthier parts of the world that perhaps are vaccinated but what does it do to the pandemic as a whole yeah we're going to see the impact play across the world it's not just low income countries that are going to feel the impact we have very good modeling that
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beyond the very strong equity and humanitarian arguments you can also make very strong economic arguments that economic recovery in high income countries will be stronger if they allow for a more equitable global distribution of vaccine so our economy's not going to recover the number of people dead around the world is not going to be lowered it as much as we possibly could unless we really see this as a global problem with a global solution not a question though day a kumara founding director of the duke global health innovation center so i thank you for sharing views with us thank you thank you. 3 far right activists have been sentenced in a french court after an al-jazeera investigation helped convict them of assault and in one case inciting terrorism and on the cover a reporter infiltrated a right wing group in the northern city of li the judge said the evidence they found played
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a key role in establishing the 3 men skilled they would have recent reports. it was the only one of the 3 men who appeared in court to hear the verdicts ramey follies and on how and have avoided media attention since legal proceedings began 2 years ago after they were featured in an al-jazeera documentary. an undercover reporter from the network's investigative unit infiltrated a branch of generation identity in the northern french city of lille. the far right movement believes that europe needs to be reconquered from what it sees as muslim invaders of former generation identity activist rémi follies was found guilty of incitement to terrorism and assault he was given an 8 month jail sentence suspended for 18 months. follies was filmed covertly at the group's legal headquarters he described his dying wish to drive a car into a crowded market popular with muslims. most were children. she was in my
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judgment is a small. piece of the original plan was actually it was a media folks like you. and it was the police. police's conviction for assault followed an argument with arabic speaking teenagers in leo's nightlife area. wearing plastic reinforced gloves police struck a 13 year old girl. charged alongside fillies was gay on some p.s.t. he was convicted of assault and given a 3 month suspended sentence he was filmed using pepper spray on the same teenage girl that bullies later punched. a 3rd defendant etienne's on hell when was convicted of assault and incitement to racial hatred he was given
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a 5 month jail sentence suspended for 18 months. when helen was filmed making a toast to the nazi party in a bar with other far right activists. the judge said that evidence from the al jazeera documentary played a key role in establishing the 3 men's guild said this your one is as clear with this decision sends a clear message to the muslims of france and around the world but especially in france that today we will not accept discriminate 3 acts perpetuated because of people's religion and in particular those towards muslims. relations between the french government and the country's 4000000 muslims have been strained by a series of crises in recent months to date spent and recognize the racist motive and the link before right ideology. they may for sure but what many muslims here would consider justice for
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a racist attack on the 13 year old girl because she was in a david harrison al-jazeera. israel's supreme court has approved the extradition of a school principal accused of sexually assaulting her students in australia life her is wanted on $74.00 charges of sexual assault including the rape of girls of girls at a melbourne orthodox jewish school the israeli australian you will citizen fled in 2020 accusations surfaced for extradition was originally blocked due to mental illness in september an israeli court ruled that she could be extradited saying that she had faked. the head of a philippine news website has refused to enter a plea in a cyber libel case describing the charges against her across the c.e.o. of rappler is accused of linking a prominent philippine business went to a criminal report from 2002 it's one of a number of lawsuits that maria ressa is facing which she says are intended to
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intimidate her and other journalists in the country rappler is known for its tough scrutiny of president rodrigo the 3rd day and has been critical of his war on drugs . the irony is i'm being i supposedly facing a charge of cyber libel but the charges themselves are libelous to what working journalists write so this shouldn't be allowed i will take this all the way to the end and we will win it because it's ludicrous. dozens of homes belonging to nomadic tribes in indian administered kashmir have been demolished local authorities say the community is illegally occupying forest land but the tribes argue they've lived there for generations as alexey o'brien reports. to those destroying these hearts and the himalayan forests there and wanted pieces
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of wood and cement. but to the back are well and good the muslim nomadic tribes who live here their home at least for 6 months a year as they move between the forests and mountainous pastures what they heard of goats and sheep. we are yet to recover from the shock we have been living here for generations. for our livestock and our children i tried to plead with the demolition team but they threatened us with the rest and find some in the tribe received a notice from the local forest department saying their homes were legal a few days later people arrived to tear them down. the himalayan region of kashmir is controlled by india and pakistan and pot but claimed by both in full last year india revoked the region special status imposing restrictions on movement and enforcing a communications blackout. critics say the government wants to change the demographic
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of the muslim majority region as carrying out the demolitions to do that. they want to dislodge people gradually from this. tore them out make them all melissa in their own salt said billoo nanda she is indian is there and that will facilitate their agent off completely. but local officials say they only follow in court orders and that more than $60000.00 people are illegally squatting on the land in india traditional forest well as a usually protected by law and tribal leaders in kashmir say that should extend to them. hold up straight last year with a special status was appealed to the government published a lot of noise went that they were going to implement the forest act law in the region but the reality on the ground is different the government is working against
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us people are suffering under pressure from the government to move from the forest and from encroaching cities some say their traditional way of life is becoming too difficult. to live in fear that we may face the same feet as the others we keep on thinking dear night that our homes may be demolished we would we go for generations they've laid a nomadic lifestyle but that could soon become a thing of the past and examiner and al-jazeera tech firms could be fined up to 10 percent of their entire global revenue if they fail to remove illegal and harmful content draft european union rules could see companies such as apple and google broken up under the measures it says it's providing do's and don'ts in a relatively on regulated area but google says it would hit innovation similarly the u.k. government says multi-million dollar fines could be levied on social media firms
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there if they fail to limit and remove child sexual abuse and the extremist material. dozens of united nations world heritage sites that have been damaged by warfare or neglect or risk of losing their status in the 1st of a 5 part series on the unesco endangered list we visit the ancient. ruins on libya's mediterranean coast 6 years of fighting has left the site in the glare by local authorities but as malik trying to reports there is hope that peace talks will change that established by the phoenicians in the 4th century b.c. the coastal city of subrata was used as a trading post that served as an outlet for trade from africa it was later ruled by the new 1000000 kingdom of mass and on to rome rebuilt it in the 2nd and 3rd centuries a.d. . today from
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a distance it looks like it's endured the violence libya has witnessed for nearly a decade. but close up are signs of the conflict. the conflict in libya between an internationally recognized government of national accord or ginnie and warlords lethal have 2 years libyan national army l n a lead to unesco to put subrata and 4 others on its list of endangered world heritage sites so broad so was controlled by forces loyal to have to during his failed military campaign to capture the capital but the tripoli based government retook the city in april. unfortunately the city of soprano has seen several armed conflicts in the last decade the ruins were hit during the fighting but thank god there was only minor damage to the theater. but now brought as crown jewel a 5000 seat theater has survived and stands 3 stories tall built by the romans
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nearly 2000 years ago it's a testament to the history and culture this country on the southern shores of the mediterranean has official here they thousands of foreign tourists youth the come and visit but the years long conflict and political divisions have had a devastating impact on a 3rd of them sector. and of course there's also the pandemic for now besides a few local families heritage sites like this remain for the most part abandoned but some still come and. we live in tripoli with cave 19 we're all a bit depressed so i brought my kids here to see the history of their country and to get some fresh air the lack of attention and funding by authorities is clear. we will help the fighting will end and we can have security and economic stability in our country i hope that those in power realize how important developing our historical sites it could create jobs and give young men an incentive to leave
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their weapons behind. with un facilitated talks between the rival sides ongoing many here hope stability will be achieved however long that takes and with that a new lease of life for libya's historic sites malik traina al-jazeera so blotter. still to come on al-jazeera this news hour in sports there was a surprise winner at the women's u.s. open centers here with that story in just a few moments. british
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scientists are setting off on a mission to investigate the world's biggest iceberg that could be threatening one of the world's most fragile ecosystems the iceberg measure is more than 4000 square kilometers and it's on a collision course with the british south atlantic island of south georgia scientists fear that if the iceberg called a $6880.00 runs aground it could destroy wildlife havens surrounding the. mostly our spokes when they're in the open ocean they tend to break up and go into smaller icebergs this one remarkably as remained intact and that is still even more remarkable because it's got quite a shallow keel it's not very thick so we'd expected to break apart so something the size of luxemburg is going to be a massive impact on an island like south georgia which isn't that much bigger than blocks of book itself i mean it could scour a large areas of the continental shelf of the diversity on that shelf on the bench
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is equivalent to what we find in areas such as local activists and really significant amounts of carbon is stored up in this ridge by diversity on the seabed but also you could get in the way of these enormous colonies of seals and penguins globally significant populations over half of all working penguins for instance i've found on the islands of south georgia weisberg's car or the time what we are worried about is that models are predicting that this type of carving events is going to increase in the future and so we could expect more icebergs like this to be going in the sources or actions in the future ok let's go to santa now in doha for the sport. thank you very much barbro all chelsea have missed their chance to go top of the english premier league table the blues were beaten 21 by wolves or leave usual opened the scoring of for chelsea in the 49th minute but wolf to hit back at all in it scored in injury time to seal the win for the home side it's
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chelsea's 2nd straight defeat and they remain in 5th place we have 5 asli try whatsoever and come back and charge it up to wolves but everyone's in the same boat on that front at the moment we have a couple of injuries in areas that means i can't make too many changes in my stations in certain areas that attain so i understand that side of it but i think when you're one new up and you turn over a game as we did i don't want to feel once in here for an on fatigue or a lot of a side on well chooses other games between manchester city and west brom that much is just coming up to full time and it's a level at one all. macarthur to has taken full responsibility for arsenal disastrous run of form a year into the job but it s.t.m. are 15th in the table having failed to win any of their last 5 matches when you know getting results at the end of the day the manager who was in might see
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more responsibility to. those well i accept them because you can say whatever you want to explain but at the end you have to influences and this globe is too big to accept these many losses in the last weeks so my test is here he is. why be a star you only sent it to cawnpore has signed a record breaking contract extension no with the milwaukee bucks the greek forward who has twice been named the league's most valuable player confirmed details of the 5 year deal on social media is worth close to $230000000.00 making it the most lucrative in n.b.a. history make sure marco will be hoping for a better results when he next gets into a formula one car schumacher was bottom of the time she 13 after a day of test laps in abu dhabi son of 7 time world champion michael will make his
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f one debut for has team next season it when one year old has just won the formula 2 drivers title. the key point was just too tired for the more. you know long runs are very good. and i think we. have a pretty good knowledge about what what i need to do south korea with a limb came and produced a huge upset at the women's u.s. open in texas your world number 94 winning the title on her term and deb you sell malik reports. nobody saw it coming south korea's kim stunned the golf world on monday by winning the u.s. open on her debut at the tournament. the world number 94 had a massive task going into the final 18 holes trailing by 5 shots but that didn't visa. neither did the fact that she was up against world number one jin young.
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her fellow south korean having to settle for a share of 2nd place alongside amy olsen of the united states who carded 3 straight bogeys in her final round for managed to finish up 2 under. kim however had no such problems the 25 year old made 6 birdies 3 of which came in succession on her final 3 holes to seal a memorable victory. saddam or those door here i cannot describe it in birds i never expected that i was going to play the women's u.s. open but with this when i see you cannot feel it could probably sink in when the 70 wraps up the world will wait and see whether this win is just the start of big things for the new u.s. open champion so he'll malik al-jazeera. the president of the united
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arab emirates athletics federation has been suspended for 6 months after corruption investigation or the thickset murder alchemically gifted watches to african delegates at a meeting 5 years ago in a bid to win votes for a place on the council of the sport's governing body. method to handing out the watches but claims that there were only worth around $50.00 he torch relay for the perspire and tokyo lympics will begin its journey in $100.00 days really it was postponed just 2 days it before it was jus to begin earlier this year when the decision was taken to delay the games the torch will start its journey around japan on march the 25th. we are planning to have about 10000 people run for the torch relay and who are making kernal arrangements for the selection basically we are proposing with the hope that the same people who are chosen before the postponement will run as much as possible we also need the
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cooperation of each front to carefully managed together with us in order to prevent the spread of the covert 9. there could be 2 innocent one the host of the 2030 asian games are announced on wednesday the bidding cities are riyadh in saudi arabia and the qatari capital of doha the president of the olympic council of asia is attempting to persuade one city to hold the games in 2030 and the other to organize the competition in 2034. the event in 2006 all saudi arabia has never hosted the games. and also is full for me and you about to barbara in london santa thank you very much for that and that is it for this news hour do stay with us though i'm going to be back in just a moment with all of the latest on the day's news and latest reaction live from the
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