tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera January 25, 2021 4:00pm-5:01pm +03
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played important role protecting him and. don't touch face. to. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. the most vulnerable countries are those that are least responsible for the votes of climate change world leaders meet virtually to come up with a plan to deal with the effects of global warming especially on poorer countries.
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as the world approaches 100000000 coronavirus cases a new variant is raising alarm in germany. uganda's high court rules the house arrest of the opposition leader bobby wine is unlawful and ask security personnel to leave the premises. we look at what's changed in the 10 years since egypt's revolution calling for an end to poverty unemployment and corruption. and sport at a fell superstar tom brady will be playing and his record a super bowl or a quarterback led his team the tampa bay buccaneers to victory over the green bay packer. ok let's get going leaders from around the world are attending a virtual summit to address the most pressing issue of our time climate change the meeting is being hosted by the netherlands it's the 1st of its kind that aims to
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close a huge funding gap to protect the most vulnerable in the poorer nations joe biden's newly appointed climate envoy john kerry is attending that summit last week by signalled a return to the 2015 paris climate of court overturning donald trump's decision to withdraw from that landmark deal and here's why a global effort to combat the effects of climate change seems ever more urgent it's . that by 2050 as many as 200000000 people could be displaced by rising sea water levels floods and drought nicholas hark is live for us in senegal where rising sea waters are threatening communities that can really help get us up to speed with the american developments out of our bureau in washington she'll take us through the priorities of the biden ministration they want to tackle climate change 1st let's go to step vasant who's following that summit for us at the hague there in the netherlands so step this is the 1st so-called taishan climate summit 1st of
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its kind why now. absolutely this is the 1st time and the timing is very crucial because not only was 2021 of the warmest years in history but it also of course has been the year that the whole world has been in the grip of the covert 19 pandemic and because of that the climate issue has gone to the background and of course that's of course why leaders here are now a gathering for truly to make sure that the climate comes back on on as an important issue because until now we have always been focusing on how to prevent climate change how to prevent global warming but now the world is realizing that that is going to be a fact that the climate is changing and temperatures are rising and that's why they wanted climate adaptation fund there when they want to raise money because there's
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going to be lots of money put in this pandemic recovery worldwide around 12 trillion us dollars has been pledged and people are worried that this money is going to be spent wrongly that it it's not going to be climate proof so that's why the summit wants to make sure that this money is going to be spent also to make sure that we defend ourselves against this global warming so they got the pledges got the money in coming if you will but they need a proper plan as well don't leave because the effects of the consequences can be felt. zoo kilometers away from where the central problems are or the start of the problems of climate change. absolutely that's why in the next few hours we will hear the beginning of this so-called climate adaptation action plan which has to make sure that for the next 10 years a lot of plants will be and forests we have we're talking about early warning
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systems coastal the fence but also food security and of course most of these disasters that are now happening because of the changing climate a fellow who wants to badly in the being world in the countries like bangladesh in indonesia but also here in the not only and still are a science of course that the climate is changing the farmers are struggling but also the cities this is sitting here right today which is basically on the forefront of climate change it's a delta low lying city and if it weren't for all these adaptation measures that the city has already taken most of the city would be underwater already and i've spoken to the mayor of front of them. about this i'm happy to be member of the boots with . the of the global center on adaptation because we all think that when it comes to climate change that we have to mitigate cities to buy the electric buses to invest in things like that but i know it's been from mother nature so the
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suggestion that we have to live with water had to live with changing climate means that cities must have to dig tents and that means that you have to invest in. reducing the risks for the city how long until they can start actually spending the money and putting the plan into action to be things step. well that's a very good question because we need to follow that money as well is of course been pledges before to put money into climate protection worldwide and there's not much about how this money actually has been spent so there needs to be a really good and solid control mechanism as well when these pledges are being made also the world bank and the i.m.f. and financial institutions so we'll be engaged in this summit as well to make sure that people are going to think differently about financing projects and the
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financing and climate friendly way so we will hear in the next few hours from the 30 world leaders and the government leaders european leaders marco america prime minister let the from the netherlands but also the pope but also shake us enough from lots of leaders but also surprisingly now that john kerry from the united states will be speaking and that's of course something a lot of people here to mystic about that the united states is back now ok good point takes us to our next conversation here on the news to washington and my colleague. state was saying there kimberly mr kerry front and center. under his new boss mr biden it feels like such a big change compared to the optics of the trumpet ministrations attitude towards the place where we all live the planet's climate change. yeah not just the optics but a major shift in policy this is the 1st sort of major event for john kerry as the
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special climate envoy where he'll be meeting with these global leaders to inform them that the united states is back whatever you heard for the last 4 years into the trumpet ministration expect just the opposite from joe biden so not only is he carrying that message but he's also delivering the message that there are some pretty big goals of the biden administration when it comes to combating climate change not only is there an aim by biden to cut the emissions in terms of 0 net emissions by 2050 but also to transition to 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2035 now these are obviously ambitious goals they're not going to be sort of accomplished in the next 4 years but what this is is a signal that the united states will be laying the path in order to do that now we should point out there are going to be no firm commitments made at this virtual
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summit and that is one of the controversies in it but also there's another controversy here in the united states and that is as the united states economy struggles to recover from a pandemic the signals that are coming from the biden administration globally are not sitting well particularly with conservatives domestically already the fact that in the early days of the bided administration there was the cutting of the federal permit for the keystone pipeline axing jobs not just in the united states but also in canada and the concern being that this is only going to exacerbate with this push towards renewables the number of energy jobs here in the united states being cut at a time when the united states is struggling to recover economically but the bottom administration promising that there will be new jobs created but again many arguing that in the short term what is needed is not a long term solution kimberly many thanks ok that's the picture. in europe that's the picture in the united states let's check out the picture in west africa
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nicholas hogg is joining us now from popping in senate go so nick behind you over your right shoulder it looks like a pretty scene over your left shoulder not so pleasant i mean the real impacts of climate change being felt on the coast of senate go. that's right and what you're seeing peter right behind me and where i'm standing is our home with that have been destroyed because of what you see just there the ocean the ocean rising dangerously and what happened a few years ago a looter tide came in and swept all the homes behind me one after the other like dominoes fell and where i'm standing here used to be the living room of someone's home and there that's what's left of the kitchen behind a bedroom this is the picture for 24000000 people who have been displaced last year because of climate change many of them because of the
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rising sea and what it's doing to people here and you can see these are concrete slabs that were put forward to try to prevent the ocean from moving forward but that's just no match to the force of the ocean and the rising ocean so what senegal and many other countries there are affected by this want they want embankments to be built but they don't have the money to do so and that's why this conference that's happening in the hague is so important at stake is to try to preserve homes and places like this just a few kilometers away in the north of the country is a unesco world heritage site called sound louis it's a historic town it used to be the capital of french west africa well that's just one metre above sea level and already homes are being destroyed and the fallout of this peter is that people are on the move people are trying to find a safe place. to live and just in the last 6 months we've seen
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a 3rd of people mostly from west africa trying to make it across this ocean to the canary islands and many of them come or have been displaced because of the fallout of climate change some of them because of coastal erosion others because there isn't they're not able to farm because of drought in this hell region so while there has been money put forward for climate change and most of it has been used to harness the power of the sun and the wind and that has been used to power water pumps to irrigate places that have been affected by droughts because of climate change there's still a huge amount to be done so that destruction is like this don't continue to happen across the coast here in west africa peter thank you very much nicholas reporting live from senegal.
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in the netherlands the prime minister is defending his government's decision to impose night time curfews the country's 1st since the 2nd world war the restrictions were met with protests and clashes with the police across the country well in 200 people have been detained. for the 1st time since world war 2 the capital of the netherlands is under curfew from 9 in the evening until 4 30 in the morning people in amsterdam have been told to stay home and on sunday this was the reaction of many crowds of hundreds of people voicing defiance even a new danger measured in life until i don't agree with the actual politics in the netherlands the restrictions of freedom and it's all the whole point the media don't always show these protests nicely but i hope we can show that this is just a voice a voice saying no we have so fright that we're going in the wrong direction this is understandable but it's really the wrong way. bars restaurants cinemas and cafes in the country had already been ordered to close in october but the extra restrictions
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have created an unexpected backlash. if it needs aimed at the affluent roark i don't agree with the curfew because i don't believe that you will have a big effect overall i believe that people who come up with alternatives anyway normally people would meet at 9 pm but neither will meet at 3 pm they will keep on seeing each other. parliament tighten the restrictions last week to prevent a new surge in cases from a coronavirus variant 1st identified in the u.k. police were deployed in amsterdam and at least 9 other cities nearly 200 people were arrested in the dutch capital on sunday a water cannon were used on demonstrators another 90 were detained 9 of it with a central train station in the city was attacked and vehicles burned the prime minister has condemned the violence that's to an opposition of no this is unacceptable every normal person can only be disgusted by this one really wonders what has got into these people this has nothing to do with protesting it's criminal
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violence which will treat as such the government has also banned flights from south africa south america and the u.k. and is preventing ferries carrying british passengers from docking. officials have issued a message telling people not to travel to the netherlands and the national lockdown is due to remain in place for at least the next 2 weeks and should help out is here . now in germany the health minister says e.u. regulators may approve the covert 1000 vaccine developed by astra zeneca and the university of oxford on friday concerns are growing about a mutated variant of the virus 1st identified in the u.k. and now spreading rapidly in germany an entire hospital in berlin was put under quarantine on saturday after an outbreak of the more infectious variant was found there dominic cain joins us live from berlin dominic how are these variant infection numbers unpacking. so far the
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vast majority of the infections that are announced every day have been from the original corona virus no doctor virus it and the trend of those infections being announced every day has been downward for some considerable time and yet the main concern emerging now from ministerial circles but in berlin birds elsewhere in germany too is about the new variant 1st identified in the united kingdom this one hospital in berlin not very far away from the studio that i'm broadcasting to you from now well that's in fact those infections were 1st announced were 1st discovered rather some time ago more than a week ago and yet the hospital was placed into quarantine only at the weekend and that has sparked some concern about how many of the people inside that hospital are population in other words of patients but also a staff of 1500 perhaps more than that of how much contact they may have had with the people who tested positive for the new variant and then these people who might
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have gone on or around the city that sparked the concern locally and at the national level there's no doubt the minister had a good hon who works in the chancellor the alongside angle america on a day to day basis where he told german news outlets yesterday evening sunday evening that he has no doubt he's certain that the new variant 1st identified in the united kingdom will very soon overtake the original corona virus in become dominant in this country that explains the haste with which the ministerial circles here have tried to intensify locked and sort of said that people need to wear masks that can withstand the virus better that can protect people against the virus better why they've extended lockdowns why are they keeping schools shut wherever possible all because their belief is that the new variant will soon dominate in this country and because it's so much more infectious that's why. taking their precautions dominic thank you very much dominick in early and. plenty more still to
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come here on the news hour including mexico's president test positive for coronaviruses the country struggles with a rising number of infections and oxygen shortages. and a new report reveals how the pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of unemployment worldwide. so a lot of things are done in the world lurches never done. with the anniversary of kobe bryant's death approaching n.b.a. stars take a moment to reflect on his legacy. mexico's president manuel lopez obrador has tested positive for cook at 19 the 67 year old tweety is being treated for mild symptoms and will continue to work from the presidential palace lopez obrador has been criticized for his handling of the pandemic that killed nearly 150000 mexicans the country has the world's 4th highest
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death toll. well he is the latest world leader to test positive for the coronavirus see how some underlying health conditions we've been hearing he has been condemned in the past for refusing to wear a mask his own home. he's 67 years old he has got high blood pressure he also had a heart attack in 2013 so this is a president that even when he got into power there were certain questions about his health so far during his tenure as time in power he hasn't had any serious health problems but will be keeping an eye on this and it comes at a time in mexico when there are serious problems for the country in trying to deal with the pandemic the hospitals in the capital are close to full and have been for some weeks now there's a real shortage of oxygen tanks for those who are trying to get to treat their relatives at home so it's a real critical situation this week alone recruits have been broken more than once
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of the number of people that die daily from coded and the number of daily patients from coated and president and his men will look his opera dort throughout this pandemic he and his administration have been criticized the handling of it he's someone who has not like tunas occasions refused to wear a mask especially at the beginning of the pandemic he was hugging his supporters when he went out and tool was his own administration was in a vising people to maintain social distancing and meanwhile he said to continue working from the national palace and tomorrow actually on monday he has a coup with russian president vladimir putin the russian leader to talk about vaccines so he's trying to keep working and he's hoping his symptoms don't get any worse. the united states will reinstate a travel ban in an effort to contain highly contagious coronavirus variants the
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travel ban the u.s. is reinstating will come into effect shortly it will not however apply to u.s. citizens or anyone traveling in from most of the e.u. countries they will be affected by it however president biden has promised to administer 100000000 doses of covert 19 the vaccines in the next 3 months his 1st 100 days in office and he also wants congress to pass a $1.00 trillion dollar pandemic relief bill rose jordan from washington. it's the worst affected country in the world nearly a year after the u.s. recorded its 1st covert 19 case that number has climbed to more than 25000000 with a little boy that's one in 14 americans infected with the disease almost 420000 of them have died president joe biden says the pandemic is his top priority but his team is already revising his goal of that's an eating 100000000 americans
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in 100 days it was a little bit of a misunderstanding what we're talking about is 100000000 shots in individuals so a shots as in other words when you get down to let's say a certain part of 100 days at the end of 100 days you're going to have some people who will have gotten both shots and some will still be on their 1st shots what the president is saying 100000000 shots in the arms of people within $100.00 days and buy into officials are accusing the trumpet ministration of making a grave mistake in it's an demick response plans everyone american has seen the way in which people get vaccine is chaotic it's very limited we've seen this factor all over the country where millions of doses have been distributed about half of that has been given out the president wants congress to approve nearly 2 trillion dollars in pandemic relief spending this on top of the $900000000000.00 measure
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passed back in december biden's fellow democrats say supporting the economy is critical right now but congressional republicans say not so fast idea that we need a stimulus is a little hard to understand because i'm one of those is convinced that if you want to see this economy get going we've got to get beyond coated if we get beyond cove it i believe that the economy's going to come roaring back and spending and borrowing trillions of dollars from the chinese among others is not necessarily the best thing we can do to get our economy to be strong long. before donald trump left to the white house he lifted a coke at 19 travel ban on not americans coming from europe and brazil but on monday that ban comes back and will extend to those coming from south africa by the end of the week the u.s. reportedly is trying to stop the spread of the so-called south africa variant of covert 19 another variant from the u.k. has already been found in 20 u.s. states and it said the list of countries could get longer if that's what it takes
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to end the pandemic rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington new zealand's 1st community coronavirus case in months was likely spread the jury in quarantine and women test positive just days after completing 2 weeks of men trick or unseen after arriving in the country is believed she caught a more infectious south african variant of the virus from another traveler inside quarantine. the case has now been given confirmed status it was a probable cases today it is now a confirmed case we know that the person's husband and he had researched negative i would say i outlined this morning it's a very encouraging development that we can also confirm that the strain of in fiction is the south african variant and the source of in fiction is highly likely to be a fairly rich a knee during the person stay at the pulmonary tell and australia has stopped its travel bubble with new zealand in response to that new case anyone travelling in
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the next 3 days will not be able to skip the 2 we quarantine. job losses during the pandemic have been 4 times higher than those from the 2009 global financial crisis that's according to the international labor organization it says more than 8 percent of global working hours that's equal to 255000000 jobs were lost last year women have been more affected than men and younger workers have also been hit hard but is not all bad news reports says could 1000 banks the nation's take effect most countries will see a recovery in the 2nd half of this year let's talk now to showing only he's the director of the employment policy department of the international labor organization he joins us on skype from geneva shiny only what kind of jobs have gone here at the at the we actually have a cindy corps range of jobs being destroyed in the last year pe teacher e 'd daughter sectors here it could be
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a combination and we had some construction and manufacturing so some service sector examine factors that were hit very hard to compute the. could the figures be actually worse than your organization is reporting because if we're talking about rural jobs if we're talking about say rural farming jobs in countries in the subcontinent countries across africa countries in south america those are not wage paid jobs that blip on a union payroll they do not blip with the local employment ministry. that is actor or actress so we have to try to actually include those are workers from the rural sector examples the informal economy as you are there are so heavily affected by the coffee at 9 pm but in the case of rule economy because of the nature of their work they are relatively speaking they are less actually exposed to the calling of 90 related impacts on the labor market compared to the urban sectors
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but again informal economy is what it really heavily are affected by the crisis because of the or stricter lockdown measures. so many world leaders are now perhaps since the end of december christmas time new year time then are signaling that the global pandemic will probably get worse before it gets better that's certainly the message from joe biden in washington boris johnson in london emanuel macron in paris does that mean that the unemployment figures will get worse still or because those jobs have gone and somebody can only lose a job once before hopefully finding another job at some point down the line will the numbers stay as they are roughly. our election analysis that it's yet to reflect in the latest development particularly in europe and the united states and relating to the 2nd wave and also the factory indeed some good news on the fixing
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the some front we actually expect that the 1st half of the p.c. year is faster in the what advanced countries in europe and the u.s. continues to be very difficult to so we expect significant to leverage the working our losses pretty sister in the 2nd half of the 1st half of the year so we could carry on the horizon you know our view will be the 2nd half of the year ok we'll leave it there mr lee thank you so much thank you time for the weather is rob. yet more winter weather in fact winter storm warnings are in existence across the u.s. this is the picture of the grand canyon down arizona and he's trapped fog inside the canyon was on the top should say it's been that cold in the snow protect potential exists through new mexico through colorado and the central plains states and once again we're talking about new england there's a lower limit to this where it's much warm we see rain recently but circulating behind me is the significant weather the incoming significant pacific storm which
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is stretch a long way down the coast san francisco's forecast for example a suddenly gave developing on tuesday still windy whence it rained for 2 days then things become a bit better on thursday that's unusual weather for san francisco is our usual weather this entire coast there's the pictures expounds on wednesday eventually bring the rain down through southern california to baja california plenty of snow of the sea inland there's a flood potential there as well i think and in contrast throughout the caribbean it's really quite quiet there are a few light showers a bit of a breezy was taking the temperature in kingston down to near average again and the coastal areas nicaragua costa rica and panama will be still pretty cloudy and sometimes damp disappointed really. still to come here on the news for you by colombia's former rebel movements the park is changing the name of its political party. and it's called a new year slumps leaves the english premier league manager looking for
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a certain area i'm you know how you know you can even. welcome back you're watching youngster news our live from harlem peter dhabi your top stories leaders from around the world are attending a virtual summit to address climate change the meeting is being hosted by the netherlands it's the 1st of its kind that aims to close a major funding gap to protect the most vulnerable in poorer nations germany's health minister says berlin expects the regulators to approve the qubit 19 vaccine developed by astra zeneca and the university of oxford on friday that his concerns
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grow about the more infectious u.k. very spreading in germany. new zealand turns reported his 1st community case in months that was contracted under quarantine is believed to be the south african strain of the virus. members of the us house of representatives will deliver the article of impeachment against donald trump to the senate later on monday paving the way for his trial the senate majority leader says mr trump 2nd impeachment hearing will be fair but move quickly mike hanna from washington passed manages a walk articles of impeachment through the corridors of the capitol to the senate this was a little over a year ago but for the 1st time in american history this ritual is to be repeated against the same man. this marked the beginning of the chain of events that led to impeachment joe biden declares victory in the november election but his opponent
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donald trump refused to acknowledge it and declined to concede if you count the legal votes i easily win. instead a sitting president mounted to the real in campaign against the result deeming the process fraudulent and contesting it in dozens of courts all in pain the supreme court including 3 off trumps picks simply ignored repeated requests to take up any of the cases and an increasingly frustrated president focused in on preventing the boat being certified in congress and pressing his vice president to abandon his constitutional duty and prevent certification. once again in vain let's get back to work in a series of tweets he urged his supporters to come to the capitol to protest it will be wild he promised and when they arrived the article of impeachment alleges
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that then president incited them to riot now it is up to congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy and after this we're going to walk down and i'll be there with you we're going to walk down because you'll never take back to our country with weakness you have to show strength and you have to be strong be seen so it's alleged by a majority in the house was a direct consequence of trump's words and actions in contesting the democratic vote as if it's not enough that he sent an angry mob down the mall to invade the capitol didn't try to stop it and a police officer was killed i don't really know what else you need to know some senate republicans say they've already made up their minds not to impeach the 1st chance i get to vote to end this trial and do it because i think it's really bad
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for america for others are keeping open minds article of impeachment that were sent over by the house suggests impeachable conduct but we have not yet heard either from the prosecution or from the from the defense. in the last trial then president trump was confident of the outcome is confidence in the decision up or a public and controlled senate was not misplaced only one republican registered and guilty vote along side the democrats but just over a year later the dynamics have changed and democrats have a slim majority in a senate that will act as jury healing and unity will only come if there is truth and accountability and that is what this trial will provide and if a minimum of 17 republicans vote to convict these could be the last pictures of donald trump holding any form of public office mike hanna al-jazeera
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washington. ok turning our attention to south america because colombia's former rebel group fark has renamed its political party the revolutionary armed forces of colombia will now be called the common people's party the former rebel group has struggled to disassociate itself from its role in nearly 60 years of violence that killed more than 260000 people and became a political party 2016 as part of a peace agreement with the government. will change our name from the revolutionary armed forces of colombia to common from now on our party would up the name of common peoples party were developed or a political platform as a proposal for the construction of a democratic and peaceful colombia let's bring in collin harding he's a latin america analyst who joins us from manchester in the u.k. call and good to have you back on the news so why are they doing this. well i think
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they're trying to get together a platform for next year's presidential election and they realize that a lot of people put off by the association of the initial shock which they capture and that they came to school with violence with extremism with with revolutionary struggle and so on the chances are extremely awkward for people who suffer the consequences of the violence that has been 2nd on there and so they're shown to us that he is the leader 'd of 3 years the party who is known by the number get out of him the chant kerry is saying that they huntington beach more people than channel the aspirations of the storm there are people for peace and justice do you think the voters will buy it. well that's a very rare in the history state as i i wouldn't. like to brush up that they're going to really become a major trolls and for me and now a natural politics they haven't made much impact that they have at 10 seats in the
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too long in congress want it as tight then they'll have some time in the senate they're guaranteed in churches 'd there are 20 states as part of the peace deals in 2016 now but they haven't figured much and in elections now and they aren't they make sure that congress actually the president the previous presidential election 2018 you have and now the hope that really this change of the image in the red roses this simple math rosalyn garnish that this little appeal to people are going into that into 2 major faults because the peace agreements really serious problems and they have to bounce much simulates down and that there is question what it is contempt and fear into london society which that hoping to be able to channel that we have to see you know successful whether it's the armed forces of colombia or the common peoples party can save the 10 people that you're
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talking about can made despite their backstory can they do contemporary malton politics. well that's what they're trying to get across you know the yes they can. they. made it possible the soccer has laid down its weapons and. we're trying to be be incorporated into civil society like there as. people and trade. profession well as politicians they haven't made that much of it in. the hope that you have to show that they really mean business terms are going to become. a motley democratic party ok we'll leave it there carla nodding there in the u.k. thank you very much. the european union is discussing how it will respond to the arrest of more than 3000 people across russia before the meeting on monday in
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brussels the e.u. has talked to plant. so the events were worrying and of great concern russian police detained thousands of protesters over the weekend during rallies support of the jailed opposition leader alexina. uganda's high court says the continued detention of the opposition leader bobby wine is unlawful the court has directed the police and military to leave winds residence he's been under house arrest since january the 15th a day after the country's disputed presidential elections in the past the wind has gone on twitter saying the military is still surrounding his home and blocking access catherine sawyer is monitoring developments for us from neighboring kenya she joins us from the capital city nairobi so catherine despite the judge ruling that the house arrest was unlawful it looks like the house arrest carries on. well for now but i did have spoken to the police spokesman fred in anger who said
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that they will abide by the court truly and will withdraw the soldiers and the police that have besieged poppy once home he did not say when he hired are also said that they are going to keep the surveillance going he did not give details on what this surveillances but then when i was in uganda covering the election i spoke to him several times and he did mention about this surveillance that has been going on he insisted and continues to insist that bobby wian is not and house arrest he says what the security forces have done is provide a cover a surveillance because of a body one's own protection and also because they have information that wine was planning to organize violent protests after they declare ration of the presidential results but he did say that they that they will withdraw the forces that are there now i also talked to one of winds lawyers benjamin katana who says that he is not
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holding his breath he's going to believe this withdrawal when he sees it he says that if the police defies that court order then the lawyers of wine are going to be forced to go back to court to file for contempt and immediately after the ruling this morning our colleague and other journalists tried to get to the winds house a police checkpoint about 500 meters away from his home in margaery that's where they were stopped so it's going to be interesting going forward to see when exactly these forces are going to be withdrawn what this surveillance the police spokesman is talking about exactly entailed and of bobby why he's really going to be free indeed to move around and if he is free to move around if the house arrest terms and conditions are changed presumably not very long after that happens we might actually get to see the evidence she says she has in his position in his possession rather confirming to the world that the election was not free or fair allegedly.
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yes he say to this on the eve of the declaration of the presidential resolve he rejected the results saying that he has evidence of widespread irregularities he said he's going to present this evidence then officials of his party the national unity platform held a press conference are not too long after that address that he had saying that they are in the process of compiling that evidence which they will present to court in a petition that they intend to follow the constitutional court challenging the presidential resolve after that press conference police and and soldiers were deployed to the offices are all of that new piece party and they say the officials of that party including what we wind say that several of
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the agents were compiling this evidence was arrested and then this weekend he has a facebook live address where he said he's not sure anymore about going to court because he the agents who are compiling the results compiling the evidence have been arrested he says that thousands of declaration forms that they were gathering from the polling stations which are quite crucial for the case have been confiscated by security forces but then he says they're consulting and they will come up with a way forward in the next coming days he still hasn't till the end of the the end of the month to file this petition with the constitutional court but he's also said that he doesn't trust that system he doesn't trust that the judges will give him a fair hearing ok catherine thank you very much catherine sawyer reporting live from nairobi. it's been 10 years since the start of the uprising in egypt the long time president hosni mubarak the 18 straight days of street protests riots and
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violence were inspired by the uprising in tunisia but the arab spring in egypt hasn't lived up to the hopes of those who took to the street. as jamal sheil now reports. there were scenes that's gripped the world's attention for 18 straight days millions of egyptians demonstrated in the streets and squares of the country's cities ultimately bringing about the end of president hosni mubarak's 30 year rule the the protests began on january the 25th with wholesome social media platforms for people to take to the streets demanding freedom justice and bread. those cools by unarmed civilians were met with a type of police brutality that was synonymous with the mubarak regime consequently the demands and chants shifted to a simple and very clear one was was shot beauty had a scot in the rom or the people demand the force of the regime. on february the
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11th it's felt or solo the faults were boxed up the site and the country's military generals took charge despite attempts by the army to maintain power they were forced to allow the country's 1st ever free and fair parliamentary elections to take place those were then followed by a vote for the presidency which resulted in the muslim brotherhood parties mohamed morsi becoming egypt's 1st ever democratically elected president. throughout that time social and economic instability became the norm egyptians had begun experiencing political freedom but living conditions remained bad regular and it tricity outages and the never ending fuel shortage crisis led many to direct their opposition to egypt's post revolution president discontents continued to rise and in 2013 supported by the army and police another mass protest took place will be it's far smaller in size and shorter in duration than that of 2011. the protesters
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said morsi had to go because he failed to deliver on the goals of the revolution his supporters said it was the counter revolution that had been sabotaged the morsi presidency and was now behind the unrest it's led to transpired that most of the crises were in fact manufactured and the violence which rocked egypt streets had been encouraged by a deep state that once a quarter versus the gains of the john you 25th revolution. there or move all of morsi by a military coup in 2013 installed on the general abdul fatah has sisi as either an ultimate the president. since assisi came to power egypt has become the world's 2nd largest borrower from the i.m.f. in 2014 the country had a foreign debt of $46000000000.00 today that figure is more than 125000000000 poverty levels in egypt have increased just a clique and more than 50 percent of the country's revenue is spent on trying to
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pay back its foreign debt. and c.c. points to infrastructure projects like the expansion of the suez canal and the construction of a new administrative capital to justify the loans but she's also found money to build several huge new palaces and buy a new presidential plane amongst other things but she came here ok actions that have enraged the egyptian public the vast majority of which lives on or below the poverty line 10 years on in cairo's tahrir square is a far cry from what it's looked like egypt is not the country those who protested dreamed it would become and for tens of millions of egyptians they have little in the way of freedom justice and broad. al-jazeera. ok let's talk to maggie shandy he's the editor in chief of the newspaper mr magni welcome to our to 0 the news our unemployment is running roughly at 10 percent according to
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the world bank 60 percent of egyptians are either very poor or they are financially very vulnerable what is mr sisi doing to correct that situation. for sure and so many things on the real life. but it's not enough because the egyptians have a lot of them. and a lot of holds since the 25th of january 27th. matters could be worse. but. the day. has not entered into this path.
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or has witnessed so many big problems. because. terrorism one plane led to egypt not having millions of dollars and the stability as i say is the source of improvement economic improvement stability is important we have achieved some of our horses but still we need more to be done word it comes to unemployment we wish one day will come where no egyptian is employed the slogans and the mortals of january were also looking for that we need the gyptian to put an end to poverty in age of the egyptian regime has now some projects for all the villages in the country is
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sold surely insurance. still we need to do more for the egyptians. ok so i hear what you're saying however 10 years on external debt has risen by a factor of 5 it has gone up 5 fold in the past 10 years on top of that your currency the egyptian pound in effect is flat lining you say things could be much worse how could it be much worse because put together those 2 factors with borrowed debt external debt in egypt is running at record levels and mr sisi is using borrowed money to service to pay the interest payments on borrowed money how could it be worse than it is for the people of your country.
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sure extend the debt is annoying for the political elite here in ages and the economic elite as well and that's why so many members of those a lead to political and economic people have tried to give some examples regarding the external debts but what it comes to the economic reforms and the egyptian power and the currency of egypt. back again is the dollar these steps should have been done decades ago but the previous regimes didn't have that. to apply economically
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forms. in the age of their it's why the. people of egypt were suffering because of the prices and inflation but their current 3 g. in old was try to the pend on the. the new gas and there is still the hope that this will sort out with so many problems in addition. take investments and give a government to the end 1st lecture in the age of the color to jim in egypt is trying to do its best for the people but this is ok. i apologize i'm going to have to interrupt you for which i sincerely apologize but thank you so much for joining us on the line there here on the news hour still to come here on al-jazeera sports and f.l. star tom brady is back in his record 10 simple to tales of far from
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on. time to sports with far peter thank you so much and i felt superstar tom brady will be playing in his record 10th super bowl on feb 7th the quarterback led his team the tampa bay buccaneers to victory over the green bay packers a 43 year old in the box survived a 2nd at comeback by the packers to win the n.f.c. championship $3126.00 grey will be aiming for his 7th super bowl title his 1st with tampa bay but host reigning champions the kansas city chiefs it will be the 1st
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time in history that a team plays super bowl in their home stadium. and you know it's taken a lot of different people over the course a season off and defense special teams to come through and you know that's why we're still playing it will be 2 teams are playing we're going to be one of them and again just an incredible journey for all of us and just proud to be a part of it. it was primarily a club chelsea have sacked manager frank lampard after 18 months in charge the blues have lost 5 of their last 8 premier league matches and dropped to 9th in the table lamp hearts last game in charge with chelsea's $31.00 win against luton the f.a. cup 4th round on sunday former p.s.g. manager thomas to go is set to replace the 42 year olds. and tuesday will mark the one year anniversary since the tragic death of basketball legend kobe bryant bryant was killed on the 26th of january in a helicopter crash along with his daughter giana he was $41.00 cup he spent his
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entire 20 year playing career with the l.a. lakers lakers all star forward le bron james took the moment to reflect on bryant's and men's legacy. and it takes time everyone has a own grieving process it will understand you know everyone individually is different and one is going to. you know grieve differently and how long it takes him to come to grips with it s. up to them and that individual is a lot of things that. in this world legendary duck. so it was all about ribs and. ok and that is all yes but for now back to you peter thank you very much and finally as they say south korea has a new celebrity a baby panda for baal the giant panda cub was caught on camera clinging to her keeper after a weighing session millions of watched the 15 minute video of the 66 month old cub online the 1st of a panda to be born in south korea. that was your news hour will have 30 minutes
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