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they are often legitimize them greta why is pedophilia an era online jumping to the quick fix and the team to. this stream on out is the era. with coronavirus cases rising across europe in the run up to christmas warnings from the world health organization with the pandemic could worsen across the continent next year. hello i'm adrian for get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the besieged gaza strip is seeing a rise in corona virus infections the ongoing israeli blockade making the situation even worse. as many parts of latin america struggle to slow the spread of covert 19 cuba battles to keep infections at
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a minimum and i'm on the richardson in doha where the hosts of the 2022 football world cup of london the rights to hold another huge sporting event. the world health organization says the coronavirus pandemic could worsen in europe early next year right now several european countries including the netherlands and germany are struggling to contain rising numbers of infections and deaths in the u.k. london and the surrounding areas have entered the highest level of restrictions and prime minister boris johnson's plans to relax those restrictions over the christmas holiday have been criticized by some medical experts germany has begun its 1st day of an emergency lockdown with limits almost christmas gatherings and events at the same time the record daily death toll was recorded more than 950 people died of vaccine rollout will start on december 27th jonah hill reports now from london. no
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one is expecting a normal christmas at least of all those who've lost loved ones to the pandemic in london grieving relatives accused boris johnson's government of mishandling its response and demanded a public inquiry since my father michael who died 8 months ago tomorrow we were hoping that by now lessons would have been learnt there has not been tested traces you know and that's very clear mistakes keep being made the government refuses to admit to any mistakes if one doesn't reflect on one's mistakes how can they be corrected there are concerns that the government is about to bungle christmas as well with warnings from the medical and scientific communities about the deadly consequences of plans to relax restrictions so that families can meet they've provoked a change of advice not a change of plan a smaller christmas is going to be a safer christmas and a shorter christmas is
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a safer christmas. when we say 308. days i want to stress that these are. not targets to aim for. the u.k. is not heading into the gloom alone germany has gone into a stricter lockdown after previous restrictions failed to bring infection numbers down on wednesday the country reported a record number of coronavirus deaths. it's very strange it's not i don't know what these politicians want to do they've left it all open and now all of a sudden we have to quickly buy everything in 2 days we don't know what they're doing anymore in italy meanwhile they've been warnings of a national tragedy after the country statistics bureau said that deaths this year would be the highest since world war 2 the government says it's considering small adjustments to the current restrictions critics feel much more is required many european countries are planning to begin
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a vaccine rollout by the end of december pending approval by the european medicines agency light at the end of the tunnel but the tunnel still has some way to go. al-jazeera the 19 infections in the netherlands. reported more than 11000 cases in one day it's the 2nd day of a strict 5 week lockdown schools are closed and only essential business operates and evelyn's has recorded almost 650000 cases of more than 10000 virus related deaths. reports from brussels about the latest developments across europe. many people see this as a necessary step others are treating this rather reluctantly particularly all the businesses that were hoping to recoup some of the lost profits ahead of christmas we believe that there is some wiggle room though on christmas eve and christmas day and the day after allowing a certain limited number of family members to meet but nevertheless this is pretty
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much the tightest restrictions that the german government could implement or across the country's 16 different federal states primarily primarily because the numbers have been going in the wrong direction for some time for at least 11 days in a row the death toll has been above 400 deaths a day and now with this sudden surge 952 deaths in a 24 hour period the number is somewhat skewed by the late arrival of some data from saxony never the less though there has concerned an awful lot of people close to the german government including scientific advisors who say the 1st lock down help to reduce contact between people in the country by 40 percent they need it to be closer to 60 percent for it really to have a lasting effect but germany isn't the only country to be implementing this tight lockdown the netherlands also begins a 5 week increase in restrictions there including the closure of schools and
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nurseries too after reporting an increase in 11000 infections. gaza's government is asking for international help to provide medical supplies in order to contain the corona virus outbreak that the strip has reported a new record of 935 cases in one day a recent rise for the strains the health system which is already weakened by more than a decade of the israeli blockade restrictions have been tightened in gaza and doctors say the rays of infections could soon become uncontrollable honest in the end territories of recorded more than 120000 covert 19 infections and all the 1000 related deaths. is director of operations at the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees he says the overcrowded camps make it difficult for people to follow coronavirus measureless like in other parts of the world it's difficult to contain the virus because it requires at hearings to public health
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measures such as physical distancing and mosque wearing on the context of gaza some of this is difficult to implement in the 8 to refugee camps where on road works there is huge overcrowding and it's just simply a challenge for people to keep the necessary distance and many people are too poor to afford personal protective equipment including mosques so that's one set of problem i think a 2nd set or european countries the difficult balance to strike between the economy and the council of the population is the end but on daily income and of course the authorities are reluctant to shop things down because that would have a devastating and quick economic impact. almost half of singapore's migrant workers have been infected with covert 19 in the past 9 months most lived in shared rooms in large dormitories they face restrictions on their freedom of movement that are
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due to be gradually lifted next year overall singapore has reported more than $58000.00 infections since the pandemic began and south korea is preparing to implement its toughest coronavirus measures yes on wednesday it reported a record daily number of infections with more than $1000.00 cases parties to the iran nuclear deal including senior iranian diplomats have held virtual talks to discuss the state of the pact all signatories urged to iran to reverse its violations of the deal which began after u.s. president donald trump withdrew in 28 team president elect joe biden says that he plans to rejoin the pact once he assumes office but iran's supreme leader ali khamenei says that he still expects the u.s. to remain hostile towards iran while president hassan rouhani isn't excited about by neither. i tell our people if this pressure
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persists it is from an individual that unfortunately still has a few weeks to go he has been the united states is most lawless president and hopefully he is leaving we are not excited about mr biden taking office but we are very happy to see trump go he committed so many crimes he's a murder a terrorist he even causes problems when he wants to buy a vaccine he's a man without humanity or moral principles we are very happy that this arrogant man who wasn't committed to any pledges has been toppled. from those who's in iran's capital tehran. there is a lot of discussion inside iran from various officials we also heard from the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei who said that if these sanctions are removed they shouldn't hesitate for one second he was pointing to the fact that officials who are in favor of dialogue should continue if that is in the national interest in the best interest of the country we heard also in the past 24 hours from the u.s. special envoy on iran abrams who said that the united states now has the upper hand
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given all the pressure the economic pressure that iran is now under they have a chance to really seize this opportunity to force iran into possibly renegotiating this nuclear deal but officials here have said over the past the point of contention that remains on all sides is iran's ballistic missile program and iranians have said that that is absolutely not up for negotiation the iranians have said that they've done everything there and uphold their side of the way they have had inspectors from there visiting 26 military facilities that are outside the nuclear sites they've given access been on announced visits those are things that could possibly come to an end given the fact that the parliament has passed a new bill given the remaining signatories of the 2 month period to remove some of the sanctions so there is a sense that time is of the essence and there will be
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a small window for the incoming u.s. administration to try and remedy the situation 15 of a group of more than 300 kidnapped by jury and students have been released. claimed responsibility for the abduction from a boarding school a state official says the government is in talks with the kidnappers for the remaining students release. it's almost tedious and here and yeah without this you might say that the. light from the people misty. came here and see my son but honestly speaking i do this myself that's why. there's no way i can measure my anger now this is the 4th day we've come here in the morning to the school we can't sleep we can't eat because of our children when we see security men moving back and forth it gives us hope of finding our children out zeros obtained exclusive access to the draft of
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a resolution on the tear raising human rights in egypt which will be voted on by the european parliament on thursday at the same time it's only as foreign minister is urging the european union to help seek justice for an italian student who was murdered in cairo in 2016 italy wants the e.u. to pressure egypt's response to need to respond to new evidence suggesting that for security officials were involved in jewelry janie's kidnapping and the one that was involved in his death 2 prominent attorney and figures a journalist and a former capital minister are returning france's highest award the lesion off the egyptian president of the fatah all sisi was awarded the same last week. well get a weather report next here are 0 then a french court and jail terms to 14 people linked to the 2015 attack on shelley had those. days to recall magazine at a jewish supermarket. in the us everglades is home to more than 20 rare endangered
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species now this vast some tropical national park is itself in danger. of. coming up from the size of the u.s. and against cold air is an innocuous looking line of thunderstorms that will turn into a significant nor'easter effectively a snow storm for the snowstorm for the northeast of the u.s. he's trying to focus on pennsylvania that run up to the northeast call including massachusetts jewing thursday it could get hit a half a meter of snow so this is obviously a very significant storm it doesn't last more than a day it's gone by the time thursday has gone for the most part to the west the same time a big pacific storm system is bringing snow not to the same depth down through the
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rockies with rain on the california coast probably eventually reaching l.a. but all if you light snow inland on the high ground and again towards the plains states the cold stays off the snow has gone that will feel quite biting now was the cold front which is associated what's happening in that nor'easter in hans's the showers picks up the showers in southern mexico on the yucatan and we see as same increase in shower potential in costa rica for the most part around the caribbean apart from the daily showers it's fairly quiet i think friday be a fairly wet day in places like barbados but not for others. in the poorest suburbs of 3 european cities community tensions often reveal a shop cultural divides but they feel they have no future and are sidelined as discrimination is a real problem in brussels al-jazeera world meet some of those struggling with
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racism radicalization and life on the margins the joy of this young men away from destrehan their distich the other face of europe on al-jazeera. we. were. well again this is al jazeera surmise of the main news this hour the world health organization says the coronavirus pandemic could wasnt in europe early next year germany has begun of the most in c. lockdown while london and its surrounding areas approves the highest level of restrictions. parties to the iran nuclear deal including syria iranian diplomats
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held virtual talks to discuss the state of the pact are set to meet again next week as the signatories urged to iran to reverse its violations of the deal. and 15 students in nigeria have been released by kidnappers after they were abducted along with hundreds of others over 300 children are believed to still be missing after an attack on friday boko haram as take blame for the abductions. while on our top story the covert 19 pandemic has hit latin america harder and longer than any other region but there is one country that's been an exception it's cuba as all that's in america at its to see a new madrid ports. dr mark the dallas runs the plaza of the revolution polyclinic and knows just about everyone in the neighborhood every day she makes the rounds to check on called 900 suspects who've been quarantined in the ear of the owner of the car especially those who come from abroad like florida resident. upon landing
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in cuba she was given a cold 1000 test then she and her entire family were put under strict lockdown a doctor checks on them every day on the 5th day she got a 2nd test and now dr galavis has come to tell her she's in the clear in the online persona i'm impressed that despite cuba's few resources they've been able to control this pandemic so well also the people are very aware of what's going on and what they have to do. with the popular. sion of 12000000 cuba has had fewer than 10000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and fewer than 140 deaths this secret is in the weather the same detail to block by block organizational control that the state uses for political purposes is also an effective tool for confronting everything from natural catastrophes to pandemics a. lot of i'm convinced that the organization of our society has been vital in
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confronting the virus and controlling it an organized society with active participation of its citizens has given cuba the success it's had dr old atomised says the results of clinical trials for a cuban vaccine against cold 19 look promising but not the mean while dr galavis and her colleagues continue keeping close tabs on every possible carrier then i was in no numbers we assign one person of each quarter team family to go out and get essential is under strict protocol this is one of the ways we prevent the transmission of the epidemic at a moment but it's been so effective that roxana that doral of us who lives in miami says she flew to cuba last week to stay with relatives in havana because she feels much safer than in the united states to see in human al-jazeera. a french courses found accomplices of the. guilty for their roles in 2015 salts 14 people were convicted of crimes including financing a membership of
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a criminal gang the bottle reports now from paris. survive as a lawyer is arrived at the court in paris for the verdicts at the end of the trial into the generally 2015 attacks judges found 14 people guilty of helping 3 gunman who killed 17 people in the city they were handed sentences of between 4 and 30 years 3 were tried in absentia. we are happy that in our country when faced with terrorism the justice system works and the perpetrators were condemned. a lawyer for one of the defendants called the verdict disappointing and it's not very satisfying for the victims yes sentences have been given but what the victims wanted was to know who the real perpetrator is because it certainly wasn't those in the course saeeda and shareef cautious shot dead staff in the offices of shelley abdo and a policeman outside they targeted the satirical newspaper because it
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a repeatedly published cartoons of the prophet mohammed the brothers claimed the attack in the name of al qaida. in the following days. had pledged allegiance to eisele shot dead a policewoman and 4 jewish people in a kosher supermarket police killed coulibaly just hours after officers tracked down and killed a co-op brothers who'd been on the run. for survivors of the attacks and relatives of the victims the past 3 and a half months in court have been an emotional and harrowing experience the sun about silly head customers at the coach's supermarket he said he hoped the verdicts would provide some closure but it was a moment the terrorists a dead but those who supported them were tried and it's a huge relief they were condemned it's important for me and the families of victims who need to grieve with the public the judge said that without the logistical support of those found guilty the gunman would not have been able to carry out
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their crimes the defendants have been given 10 days to appeal natasha buchla al-jazeera paris. doha has won the right to host the 2030 asian games the world's 2nd biggest multi-sport event after the olympics capital was announced the went up after a vote of beating appealing for conservation in oman it'll be the 2nd time the host of the games of the saudi capital will stage the event for the 1st time in 2034 the richest reports from just up the road here in doha. it's a victory really for the horan cattles long term commitment to its sporting infrastructure i mean it's hard of course not to see the geopolitics of this situation with saudi arabia being part of the blockade that's been imposed on cattle but i think this is slightly more nuanced and perhaps slightly more straightforward than that qatar has vast experience of hosting huge sporting events it started really in 2006 when it hosted the asian games for the 1st time it's
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remodeled its national stadium and everything really is in place so really host an asian games and since then last year we saw the world athletics championships hosted here in doha and of course the big one coming around the corner the football world cup and that has resulted in even more investments in training facilities in transport facilities for fans and media so it's already there and the scale of this event is hard to understate it is the 2nd biggest multi-sport event after the olympics it will involve $10000.00 plus athletes and the olympics the limbic association both regional level and the international level by thomas back is at pains to stress that it doesn't want to overburden hosting countries and at the moment cats are in a position where pretty much tomorrow it could host these asian games has to be said that riyadh and saudi arabia are also moving in that direction they are starting to host big sporting events bit formula one race next year they've hosted
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big boxing matches in the last few months as well but in terms of hosting multi sports events with large numbers international athletes it isn't quite there yet so this compromise has been required by saudi arabia will be given that extra few years to prepare for the 2034 asian games. india's supreme court has offered to set up a mediation panel to try to end weeks of protests by farmers who want new agricultural repealed desires elizabeth purana has been speaking with some of the protesters. the supreme court asked these on the matter general that's the government lawyers are here on the committee and there are they are marian leaders and the government to enter the last 3 weeks stand off saying the government hasn't been able to do so and already also has said that these road has a high risk of becoming a national national matter at the moment they are confined to the outskirts of delhi where tens of thousands of farmers have blocked the really major highways into the capital region the supreme court out also heard contrition on the sinking
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the immediate removal of foreigners from these highways including our own where we are here tariq ramadan here the family members of farmers who have killed themselves because they have been dead how the demonstration. that he got there. where will the farmers go the farmers have been committing suicide impinge on across the country because of rising debts with the passing of these laws there will be more famine suicides families will be left with no option so we demand that these laws be repealed immediately or else farmers will continue to take their lives more than 300000 indian families have killed themselves in the past 25 years because of their financial situation and farmers who've been protesting for weeks now say that the new agriculture will drive them further into debt by removing the minimum prices for their projects live in them at the mercy of large corporations who want to take price the supreme court has asked the solicitor general to report
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back on thursday what the information on the committee and how he plans to end the spill. destroy is taking its trade dispute with china to the world trade organization it's launching a formal appeal over china's decision to impose heavy tariffs on its bali. explain . it's. from barley fields in the astray in state of victoria to beijing and now to the world trade organization in geneva china has imposed tariffs of 80 percent on a stray in barley effectively halting the $1000000000.00 trade it was the largest market for these farmers astray is calling foul and for the 1st time asking the world trade organization to intervene we along with many other countries use these processes in the right normally why and australian industry should see this is being about a strongly defending the values operation in the interests of a stroll in produces but doing so. methodical and careful manner
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china insists a stray leader is breaching w.t.r. rules it argues that australian farmers produce barley with government subsidies and sell at the low cost so should be subject to any dumping juicy the $1.00 we're both ashore where we have said multiple times that some discriminatory practices by australia against chinese companies go against relevant international norms the australian government should take chinese concerns seriously and take concrete action to correct discriminatory actions against trying these companies. china is a strangely is largest trade partner with 2 way trade totaling nearly 200000000000 dollars last year but diplomatic relations have deteriorated and with a trait it worsened after a stray leah rallied international support for a un inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus since then it is go later and further with a range of trade measures it's not posed by its tourists it's why in its call even
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lobsters called sugar so it's quite sharp now between the 2 countries where the world trade organization will act as a referee for china and australia a result will take time potentially years in the meantime china is piling tariffs on a straightly in goods in canberra is searching for new markets challenge ballasts al-jazeera a chinese space probe has returned to earth with the 1st rock samples collected collected from the moon in decades the successful return of the cheney 5 probe brings to an end to one of the most complicated missions in china's aerospace history the 2 kilogram delivery makes it only the 3rd country to reste retrieve lunar rock and soul samples and comes more than 40 years since the last such collection. that's the latest in our series on your nasco world heritage sites that are under threat and special status often catapults remote locations to
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international fame but that status can also be taken away and a gallagher reports now from florida's everglades. the everglades national park was among the 1st places in the u.s. to be added to the united nations' world heritage list and for good reason this vast subtropical river of grass is the largest mangrove ecosystem in the western hemisphere refuge to over 20 rare endangered and threatened species the park's also faced more than its fair share of problems since receiving its designation in 1979 is the state's population's grown fresh water flow has dwindled and toxins from agriculture the choking the everglades pristine landscape the everglades ecosystem was once huge and over the years as florida has developed we have cut away not only at the natural wildlife habitat but also at the water flow about 70 percent of the historic river of grass water flow has been cut off because of florida's urban and
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agricultural development environmental challenges of threaten the parks status the public awareness of its importance is increasing people are rallying across florida again to cross the country to say the everglades is dying and we need to need to renew reaffirm this sense of purpose and do it with a sense of urgency as environmental threats grow so too is the determination to restore this unique sanctuary and vital source of fresh water billions of being spent on improving water flow eradicating invasive species and increasing awareness one of the things that that we aim for is to educate the public as much as possible as to why this place was protected in the 1st place and why it needs to be restored and protected for the future the stakes then are high the dangers of losing its status as a world heritage. site constant but environmentalist's are optimistic that awareness funding and restoration will preserve this park for generations to come
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there's no denying the everglades faces huge challenges from global warming population growth and a rash of invasive species spock status as a world heritage site attract tourists from around the world but more importantly supplies fresh drinking water to 8000000 people this park survival and the states then are into linked reason enough to save it no matter what its designation in years ahead gallacher al-jazeera the everglades national park florida and you can see the next report in our series throughout the day from 10 hours g.m.t. on thursday i'm robyn 1st to walk in. georgia to find out why the inhabitants of these ancient villages are fighting to protect their heritage. it is good to have you with us.
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