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america is i split when america is off balance or become more dangerous the world is looking at us in the next year of sanusi. with the election behind us will the republican party dump truck fuel weekly take on us politics and that's the bottom line i care about how the u.s. engages with the rest of the world we're really good in taking you into a place you might not visit otherwise feel that you were there. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the good. life from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes countries scramble to enforce new covert 19 travel restrictions ramp up vaccination plans as they grapple with new strains of the virus. italy plunges into political
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uncertainty as the prime minister resigns after losing his senate majority over his handling of the pandemic. india's protesting farm a storm of historic red for to new delhi as they march against the government's new agricultural wars. and ugandan opposition leader bobby why and to bring down president was 71 year just a day after being freed from house arrest. and in sports a year on from the death of kobe bryant le bron james produces a fitting tribute james producing the becoming the oldest like his plesance bryant school 40 points and again. they tried curfews lockdowns a hopeful about vaccines but governments are now battling new strains of the corona virus and dealing with some of the worst outbreaks since the pandemic began the u.k.
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has the highest number of deaths in europe at just over $98000.00 it's now considering mandatory hotel quarantine for all overseas travelers the u.s. has tightened its borders blocking non-citizens from brazil britain south africa and $27.00 european countries from entering president biden says that 600000 americans could die before the virus is under control indonesia's supposed 1000000 cases of corona virus more than 10000 have been reported every day there in recent weeks is how it looks globally according to the johns hopkins university hundreds of thousands of infections are being reported every day nearly 100000000 cases have been recorded since the pandemic began. we have correspondents across continents keeping track of the story harry forces in west jerusalem for us with a vaccination program that is showing encouraging results can be how could us in washington d.c. but 1st let's join charlie angela who's at london's heathrow airport so charlie
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brooker's government talking about bringing in mandatory quarantine hotel quarantine for anyone to riving that. yes we're waiting to hear an announcement by the later today or tomorrow it seems ministers are a little bit divided on what form these measures to take some ministers are saying it should be a blanket approach to all travelers coming into the u.k. similar to what they have in australia where arrivals the bus straight to apple hotels and of course to quarantine for 10 days at their own expense other ministers are looking for a more targeted approach saying it should only apply to u.k. residents and u.k. citizens returning from the more high risk countries so that south africa and brazil but they do also include portugal because a lot of direct flights coming to push school from brazil and then into the u.k. now these measures wouldn't either way wouldn't come into place immediately it will take hotels a couple of weeks to get back up and running because
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a lot of them have been closed during the pandemic will they be upgrading reduced capacity you can see there are still a few flight leaving heathrow now. so what would happen is that they would have to start up again but some extra cleaning staff in place make sure they had some coded secure policies in place and employed security to make sure people want leaving those hotels before that 10 days are up and the ad line industry is saying that this measure any measures will essentially be closing the ukase of borders and they say that the policies u.k. has already already enough at the moment as it stands arrivals into the u.k. have to provide a negative povich test before they depart and on arrival they have to self isolate for 10. they say the government says that is not being properly enforced flights from south africa and brazil have already been banned but the u.k. is saying that this risk of a new unknown covariant entering the country is just too great
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a variant that could be resistant to the vaccines that are currently being rolled out and on that note we just heard from the health secretary matt hang called who's offered up the ukase assistance when it comes to analyzing and identifying mutations of the virus saying that you pay at the top one hand to any countries that can identify new strains trying to get the u.k. bit of a heads up and the rest of the world because we are finally seeing a for that infection rates here in the u.k. government doesn't want to risk a new variant entering by the skies that could jeopardize that al-jazeera charlie actually reporting live from london's heathrow airport charlie many thanks indeed let's go live to washington d.c. our white house correspondent kelly how good is the. president biden is warning americans that things are going to get worse before they get better. yeah warning that there are dire days ahead in terms of the number of people not only affected but that he predicts could potentially die from cope with 19 that that number could
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climb as high as 660000 that is why the biden ministration saying that they are stepping up their vaccination efforts we heard on the campaign trail 100000000 vaccinations in 100 days now a more ambitious goal has been set of 150000000 a long way to go though given the fact that right now just one percent of the population roughly has been vaccinated with that 2nd dose of the vaccine so this is something that is of grave concern in fact so much so that the bided ministration has already started to get criticism it's not moving swiftly enough that's why we've had the president update his public schedule now scheduled in the coming hours to make an address about the situation and where things stand with regard to covert 19 but we know that it is not just in terms of vaccinations this is an all fronts approach we also know that there is an effort with the travel
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restrictions to make sure that those coming to the united states are not increasing the infection rate here that's why travelers now required to provide proof of a test that they have had a test a negative test in 3 days prior to travel so there are certainly a number of restrictions are being put in place and at the same time this is also an issue for americans who are suffering economically as well so cope with relief another aspect of the bided ministrations front with regard to tackling the problem but meeting some resistance in the u.s. congress apparently many thinking that the price tag of 1.9 trillion when there has already been so much relief that has been provided so far for americans the price tag is too high so this is something that we're watching very carefully to see what you. biden will say about all of this but certainly many challenges as he confronts this pandemic as a new president really how could reporting live there from washington kimberly many
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thanks indeed let's go to west jerusalem then i was there as harry forces for us to talk about israel's vaccination program it's the country area that has vaccinated the laws its share of its population and this some encouraging news on that is that . that's right i mean despite the fact that the caseload remains extremely high and that israel's hospitals remain under huge strain and there are big questions about exactly how and when and whether yet soo come out of the current lockdown the indications coming from the vaccination program do seem to be extremely encouraging now with the caveat that this is not some giant scientific test it is not being donda clinical conditions with the sorts of. restrictions and and safety measures taken place this is just a look at the effect on the population as a whole but given that it's very encouraging what we're seeing is that it's from
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those who have had 2 doses of the vaccine and for a week after the 2nd dose the numbers who are getting the disease are tiny according to one of the 4 main health providers just 0.015 percent of people at that stage of the vaccination program process have been contract saying the virus the health ministry put out similar figures as well were a large section of the population so the health officials here are saying that this is early days these aren't scientifically controlled tests but israel's status as a giant testing facility really for pfizer which is what israel put it so forward for in return for getting the vaccine so quickly and in such large quantities from by the early results seem to be extremely encouraging not just here but but in the wider world suit and irene in a target of a minute or 2 ago despite the success that has been prevented tension around the
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that the current stringent lockdown of the country is currently in. that's right i mean there. being no concerns on a societal level about the impacts of the lockdown but specifically within the ultra orthodox community and between the ultra orthodox community and more mainstream secular israel as well there is a tension because of the pretty widespread and pretty flagrant violations of the lock down to be going on in terms of religious schools remaining open various meetings at synagogues and larger gatherings and so for days now we've seen these clashes between israeli police and ultra-orthodox communities they have continued me israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that everybody has to follow the regulations in the same way that he's being accused by his political opponents that they get there's an election coming up in march but he is in hock to the ultra-orthodox parties that he is not doing enough to enforce and indeed the
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alternate prime minister netanyahu his rival benny gantz is saying that he won't support extending the lockdown which many in the health community say is essential unless that's and you know agrees to increasing the fines something of a report by a lay shin's something that there are reports at least he doesn't want to do to the same extent as his but equipments because that would upset the ultra-orthodox parties are terrorists are a force that reporting live from west jerusalem many thanks indeed. some news related to the pandemic in europe it's obvious prime ministership to contact has resigned in a bid to form a new government but he lost his majority in the upper house when a coalition partner with druid support over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic submitted his resignation to president sergio. will start consultations for a new governments the resignation is being seen as a gamble in attempts to forge a new alliance 0 stephanie decker reports now from. 'd 'd 'd 'd political
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consultations party consultations meeting with the heads of different parties over the next 2 days or so to figure out who will be the right person to get that majority a lot of analysis here about how it's going to go i think the consensus is that perhaps i'm saying perhaps because everything is still up in the air that just because you may be given a 3rd chance to form a 3rd government that will then be more acceptable to those who have been you know shuffling for power party political around him which is led to this political crisis so we don't know what the motive what's going to look like other people say that potentially you know there could be a situation where someone else is appointed so i think we're going to have to wait and see but certainly speaking to many italians over the last couple of weeks is this has been bubbling before those votes actually happened is that this was not the time to pull the political crisis there's a lot of issues to be dealt with you know they called economical situation is the worst since world war 2 in terms of public debt small businesses struggling people
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the homelessness is up for example in the last year here people called pay their bills having lost jobs the vaccination campaign has been wheedled back because those are not being delivered by belgian and the schools remain closed people are frustrated as there's a lot going on so it's they need a strong government to push through legislation get a strong hand on things and serving at the moment that's not happening. in the netherlands hundreds of people have been arrested after a 3rd night of protests against lockdown measures. ha the demonstrations of at least 10 cities including amsterdam water them in harlem many angry at a new nightly curfew police are describing the unrest as the worst in 4 decades step boston reports from amsterdam. they're calling these rioters corona hooligans basically young people mostly men who have been attacking police provoking police looting shops and destroying all kinds of property and it's an odd burst of anger
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of course that the netherlands hasn't seen for many many years so everyone is actually wondering what triggered this and of course we've seen this curfew in place since saturday night but 3 nights in a row there have been riots so there are protesters also actually been protesting against the corona measures but these seem to be young people who are really dissatisfied distrusting the government who actually also want to show their anger as well it's a combination it seems of a conspiracy think also backed by a q a non this movement in the united states but also protesters who are actually also been very peaceful but this makes has also been sort of provoked by far right politicians i have to say who also actually called on people to resist against this curfew from 9 pm in the evening basically saying or liberties are being taken away
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from us well that's not much really been taken away from the dutch since the beginning of the polemic because the lockdown was much more lenient and we saw a lot of countries the government has been very hesitant also been protecting businesses but now of course they sort of lost the battle with the virus and decided very last minute that they needed some stricter measures which is now this curfew so people are also a bit at last with this the government indecisive so to say the european union's vaccination plans have been disrupted by supply delays astra zeneca as a biotech announced that they would fall short of the promised liveris ministers a warning to restrict vaccine exports from the block. kenyon reports from berlin. the view here in berlin is pretty clear that they believe that astra zeneca should be providing the millions of doses that it promised it would provide when it
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received an upfront payment of more than 400000000 dollars for a potential 400000000 doses money that they received many months ago now and not just here in germany but across the e.u. institutions of the e.u. in brussels but also many member states believe that this is should not be allowed to stand there have been people certainly the the federal the health minister here young man talking about perhaps a bloc being placed on vaccines made in the e.u. being shipped to the united kingdom what's really at stake here is that all very many of the 27 member states in the e.u. had based their plans mass vaccination strategies on using the astra zeneca vaccine and now that astra zeneca has said that it's not going to be able to supply even half of what it had planned to supply in the 1st few months of january well that's caused alarm bells to ring so and that's something that the varian prime minister
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said in the course of the last hour or so now there is some crumb of comfort perhaps from the fact that some astra zeneca officials have said well they may be able to accelerate the release of some of the doses they said they were going to deliver in february moving it forward from the 15th of february to the 8th of february but what it leaves still is many senior politicians in berlin in brussels around europe looking at what's happened with astra zeneca and wondering perhaps have they as it were backed the right horse should they perhaps have invested more money in the other vaccines available. as we reported back at the beginning of the program entities here has a past 1000000 confirmed cases of corona virus it's the worst affected country in southeast asia and hospitals in some areas are overwhelmed jessica washington reports from jakarta. on indonesia's most populous island java hospitals are stretched to their limits these covered 900 patients were able to get treatment but
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many others are missing out added to the not fastened i'm among we have rejected so many people in the hospital reject patients every day because there's nothing else we can do the doctors having to reject critically ill patients is a heavy burden. well google cosign and it makes me so sad to turn down patients i read the files of patients who are referred to our hospital they can hardly breathe but we cannot help them. the indonesian hospitals association says hospitals on the island of java and bali are close to collapse doctors are forced to turn away patients because of a lack of intensive care unit beds and a shortage of health care workers. indonesia's covert 19 task force says in some cities all hospital beds are full and health specialists say on average more than a quarter of people are testing positive for the disease. across indonesia
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the positivity rate is 27 percent it's high the w.h.o. standard is 5 percent to ensure that the pandemic can be controlled many have struggled to get care for their loved ones it also must. the emergency unit was full there was a tent for all the positive cases but all the rooms were full so my parents were sent home with medication. out of desperation some families have turned to a local covert 19 data agency to help them get their relative into a hospital often it is too late. from our cases one died in the health center another died in a taxi after being rejected by many hospitals another died in hospital because the i.c.u. was full. despite the rise in cases and deaths indonesia's president says the situation is under control. we're grateful that indonesia is one of the countries that can control this crisis well that many
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health workers have criticised the government for failing to properly implement restrictions to stop the spread of the virus and allowing a crisis to unfold in their hospitals jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. still to come on the news hour why iran says the u.s. should recommit to the 2050 nuclear deal before it's too late. to take a look at accusations of rights abuses in egypt since president of the fattah el-sisi came to power. and its force gareth bale helps to keep top them on track the english f.a. cup. in india tens of thousands of followers of travel to the nation's capital new delhi and their biggest show of strength yes against the governments they breached the historic red force just hours after a large military and cultural parade was held to mark india's republic day fall as
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have been demonstrating for months now against new agricultural laws which they say will destroy their livelihoods and favor large businesses. lopez had eye on reports . frustrated and angry thousands of farmers occupy india's most prominent landmark the iconic red fort blocking highways and roads. they say new agricultural laws being introduced by the government will devastate their livelihoods and favor large companies. what began as protests months ago has turned into a movement with farmers marching into the center of india's capital. in the outskirts of new delhi police fired tear gas when a group of farmers breached security barricades with their tractors. up in the polls that we had designated routes for protesters many follow the orders but
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others who had stones at police vandalized barricades and tried to run us over. the demonstrations coincide with india's republic day as farmers rallied nearby this. is what another's. side of the capitol looks like a festive display of the country's cultural diversity and military strength is that by the year. the entire country watches delhi on republic day so when the farmers roll the tractors into delhi and the message goes out that the farmer's fight is not yet over it's just started we are fighting for our rights by entering the city . opposition just 3 agricultural last pass in november is challenging the authority of prime minister narendra modi. the reforms will relax rules on the sale price and storage of farm produce the government says the changes will boost incomes and private investments but farmers insist they are an invitation for
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conglomerates to take over agriculture in india if. the government has passed these laws without any discussions without any thought they just imposed them. about half of india's 1300000000 people work in agriculture the government's offer to delay the new laws for 18 months has been rejected by farmers . they say they will continue protesting until the laws are fully repealed cuts your local civilian. protesters internet back out on the streets voicing their anger against poverty and social injustice that demanding the release of other demonstrators who were arrested over the past few days human rights organizations say that more than a 1000 people have been detained including hundreds of minus protesters a defying a government ban against gatherings put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus meanwhile opposition parties are calling for the resignation of the
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government of prime minister hishammuddin he re shuffled his cabinet last week but the opposition says it's not enough. ugandan opposition leader bobby wine says that the police siege on his home was a form of torture it been under house arrest since the presidential election 12 days ago why it claims was for jill and security forces about lifting the blockade on trial court order white as promising to bring down president jailed in a 70 through peaceful means within a year the law provides for the people of uganda to stand for the our rights and we encourage them to stand against one thread to link results that were read by me about come. 70 should not be president of uganda and we encourage the people of uganda to use orderly go and or nonviolent means and ideas that we have to free themselves from the 78 didn't she deserves catherine saw is following
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developments from kenya's capital nairobi. this press conference was held in his home after the police and soldiers while withdrawn in compliance to the court order issued yesterday and basically he reiterated that he has overwhelming evidence of widespread rigged a widespread irregularities including rigging he did not provide this evidence but he said that he's part of the national unity platform is considering the option of going to court even if they do not trust the system and don't trust the judges will give him a fair hearing then he went ahead to call on ugandans to use every means nonviolent means legal means to free themselves this will likely upset many government officials and president yoweri museveni has also spoken about the election he was speaking in entebbe during the country's labor liberation day celebrations where he
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said that the election was free but there are some people who are trying to cause trouble he said that the government will not tolerate any form of violence he also said and i'll quote this we are not a shallow force which shall be tossed around by opportunists forget about threats so definitely a looming showdown but like i said. a strong statement he made but then was also careful thing that whatever is going to happen whatever is going to happen going forward is going to happen a using within the confines of the low the united nations security council is meeting to discuss the palestinian israeli conflict that's the 1st briefing with the new u.n. middle east coordinator it's also the 1st time of the council has met to discuss the region since the new u.s. president was sworn in as a lifeguard to the united nations our diplomatic editor james. james we expect from this mission. well meetings well underway a monthly meeting at the u.n.
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but the 1st one in 2021 and a new momentum i think many security council members feel potentially with regard to this long running conflict as you know in the final days of the trumpet ministration you did get diplomatic developments important developments the so-called abraham accords peace deals or normalization deals that nice between israel and a number of arab countries the united arab emirates bahrain sudan and morocco but the central problem dealing between the israelis and the palestinians no progress whatsoever and both israel and the former u.s. administration weren't really dealing with the palestinians at all now you have the biden administration here for the 1st time and people believe that there is an opportunity moving forward clearly there are some negative signs as well in the
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final days of the trumpet ministration israel has pushed through many more plans for settlements and there's also been criticism of israel which has made very strong progress in its vaccination program for not vaccinating palestinians who are in occupied territory many human rights groups are arguing but we've heard in the last few minutes from among others the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov he's calling for an international conference he's also calling for a ministerial meeting now which would push the israelis and palestinians together he says he wants all of the cortex that's the e.u. the un russia and the u.s. plus and he named a number of other countries egypt jordan the u.s. bahrain saudi arabia and the israelis and palestinians to come together in the summer for some sort of ministerial meeting i can tell you the idea though all of a meeting or an international conference was attacked by the israeli. darn he said
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it would be pointless and a distraction the people we haven't heard from yet are in many ways the most important and that's the new biden and ministration but of course the new secretary of state hasn't been sworn in and the new u.n. ambassador hasn't been sworn in so we're going to hear from a career state department official richard mills in the next few minutes our diplomatic editor james bay is reporting live from the u.n. in new york james many thanks indeed. we'll get a weather update next here on al-jazeera then we'll tell you why business is booming in my source for stronghold in iraq. 2 years after one of brazil's worst environmental disasters families of the victims wonder if anyone will ever be held accountable. but in sports south africa a back playing test cricket in pakistan for the 1st time since 2007 and be here with back for the rest of the day sports a little later. however
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we've got more wet weather in the forecast across the middle east northern parts of the reason in particular a fair bit of cloud rain sleet and snow sliding across turkey at present where to say doesn't that say about full advantage should be largely fine and dry but the winds are gathering we are going to see a wet and windy weather gradually pushing through here as we go on through thursday so syria lebanon jordan pushing down towards israel calloused and in territories charles to some shabby rain coming through that say some of the more the way of west where the northern parts of syria could see some showers shastra it's just flood in the way across northern parts of iraq into the northwest of iran ahead of that is generally fine and settled and even caught out to be fine and settled temperatures in day out around 22 degrees with light winds early morning mist and folk to watch out for over the next couple of days meanwhile into southern africa
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and the a shower us into the heart of africa still some very wet weather coming down across botswana the remnants of a ways to little side went away still bringing some very heavy showers into central and eastern parts of south africa's you go on through the next couple of days it orally it's well a little further east with as we go on through thursday and push right across the eastern cape. frank assessments go colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for $2200.00 people informed opinions how big this foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office for the huge about foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get the vaccine when there's no money and all the rest of rich
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countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera a firsthand glimpse of the challenges faced by journalists in the age of donald trump we are fighting the fake fake phony the enemy of the people through the eyes of a veteran white house correspondent what do you base your legs on to caesar down the press is not after try this after the fact we're not the enemy of the people we are the people usa the current battleground whose truth is it anyways. oh. i get everyone for the get here in doha but the news from out is here are the
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headlines the u.s. has tightened its borders blocking non-citizens from brazil britain south africa and 27 european nations from entering president joe biden says that 600000 americans could die before the virus is under control. it so these private us to is that the content has resigned in a bid to form a new government he lost his majority of the upper house but a coalition partner withdrew it supports over his handling of the corona virus outbreak at indonesia has cost $1000000.00 reported cases of corona virus it's the worst affected nation in southeast asia with almost $30000.00 confirmed deaths. france says that iran must comply with the obligations of the 2050 nuclear deal before the us returns to the landmark agreement to iran says that it's waiting for washington to make the 1st move. i have on only on no plan for talks of contacts with the u.s.
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and still waiting for the off chance of the us government about their return to their commitments in removing sanctions which is part and parcel of the commitments any progress in this regard is totally dependent on the practical steps of the us through tech to meet its obligations under the reason lucian 2231 actually america's time is limited and the window of opportunity for the u. s. and the european embers of the g c p a remains open for a limited period of zeros it also says that iran is determined to continue downgrading its commitments to the dail until the u.s. is back at the negotiating table. according to a law that was passed in parliament in december the government has to proceed with carrying out these measures and the next step that they will take about is they will reduce their protocol additional protocols under the nonproliferation treaty meaning there will no longer be allowed surprise visits by specters into nuclear
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facilities in the country when iran signed the nuclear agreement in 2015 they also signed up to these additional protocols under the nonproliferation treaty as a goodwill gesture they now say results of the sanctions being imposed on them by the united states they are reducing their commitments to these additional protocols they've already taken the step of increasing enrichment to 20 percent in early january this is now a 2nd phase of what's coming as a result of the united states withdrawing from the nuclear deal the iranian government is now saying it is up to the new u.s. administration to lift some of those sanctions and return to the nuclear deal there is no further negotiation iran is not interested in rediscuss ing the way because it stands as is and the united states knows now what they need to do to return to it so the position here is very clear and there is now a very set timeline for what they expect the biden administration to do 4
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years ago iraq's anbar province was freed from i saw a group today there are some signs of economic revival but some believe national government regulations are holding it back from further expansion. of 14 reports from the provincial capital ramadi the local government once more control over the regions of. 4 years after it was largely freed from eisel construction in iraq's western anbar province is booming. once complete this mall in the provincial capital of the mahdi aims to be the largest of its kind in iraq. these projects are needed in this province and according to our assessment in feasibility study we believe this project will be successful how precious the jobs have been created at a time when iraq suffers from economic downturn and rising poverty rates just. minutes before this project started i was an employee the project helped many young
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people to get jobs and it has helped reduce unemployment in the province it's estimated unbar has a nano sector investment portfolio worth 2000000000 dollars one of the highest among iraq's 18 provinces the director of unbias investment commission says the relative stability around ramadi over the past few years has created a business friendly environment. and society believes in the authority of the civilian government because of that we haven't had any armed groups 3 years no one is allowed to carry weapons except for the government security forces. the local government in unbar wants to develop vast untapped mineral and gas resources and says it needs to attract more foreign investors especially from the gulf but the sunni province is demanding more leeway to circumvent the shia led government in baghdad known for its cumbersome bureaucracy and widespread corruption and. we hope the central government gives us more authority in energy and electricity
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production many international companies proposed projects in anbar because of a limited or a forest in the complicated procedures of the central government things are going to light up with. the local governments push for investment doesn't just aim to develop unbiased economy it also underpins its political ambitions for greater autonomy from the central government in baghdad. but some businessmen say decentralization alone won't solve their problems this investor says it has taken more than 2 years to complete the paperwork for this hypochlorite plant and blames the local and central governments equally he has spent millions of dollars but is yet to receive a license he didn't want to speak on camera for fear it might further complicate the process experts say until the government overhauls its regulations few foreign investors will take the risk of setting up shop here seem more awful teen
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al-jazeera in iraq's western anbar province an explosion in northern syria has killed 3 people and injured 4 others it happened at a busy market in the city of tal. of the border with turkey no group has claimed responsibility turkish forces took the town from kurdish why p.g. fighters and 29 team. egyptian rights groups say that more than 60000 people have been detained disappeared or executed since president a bill fattah el-sisi came to power in a military coup in 20130100 volga reports. $800.00 fatah knew her come out these were just a few of thousands of young activists who paid the price for exercising their right to free speech in egypt during the last 7 years they were all arbitrary arrested under cues the political dissent or links to terrorist groups some went missing for months or years before their families found out they'd be taken by the authorities
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some were found dead with marks of torture on their bodies. the crackdown began in july 2013 that's when egypt's 1st democratically elected president mohamed morsi was overthrown in a military coup led by his then defense minister abdul fatah. overnight the high hopes of the youths who led the january 2011 revolution turned into foster ation thousands were killed or arrested in a crackdown on muslim brotherhood protesters are problems square in cairo ever since there has been a continuous campaign to silence all opponents an election in 2014 consolidated the city's power but that did not stop human rights abuses according to rights groups while the mother of some center during the last 5 years in exile he recorded the force disappearance of 8636 men 120 knight women and 11 children the number of arbitrary arrests during the same period exceeded 30000 several 100
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more were wrongfully executed and this latest report amnesty international said egypt and authorities have embarked on a horrifying exec you should spree in recent months putting scores of people to death in some cases following gross unfair mass trials. most of those are fought to be against political detainees according to egypt's opposition sources they say 63000 people have been detained including up to 3000 women 1000 miles since 2013 widespread torture and other forms of abuse often leading to death porter. that includes the death of president mohammed morsi during a court appearance in june 2017 after years in prison has reportedly been denied medicine to treat diabetes un experts described his death as an arbitrary killing. egyptian authorities deny involvement or committing extra judicial killings but
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rights groups say there was a lack of transparency over the fate of hundreds of detainees who have gone missing after being arrested or who have disappeared most were political and social media activists who tried to express their views freely exercise in for same rights for which many of their young colleagues lost their lives during the january 2011 revolution. or disease the government of france has threatened to shut down a far right group that seeks to expel muslims and why currents from europe authorities and france over bet outraged by generation identity's efforts to on the mind the french republic a group secret links to marine le pen's far right party were exposed by al jazeera as an investigative unit in 2018 a documentary generation hate show of the movement carrying out racist attacks on arab and celebrating hitler's germany david harrison is an address to get a reporter without a serious investigative unit he joins us now live via skype from london david how
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significant are today's comments by france's interior minister well i think they're very significant this is the 1st time the interior minister has commented publicly and condemned generation identity. we heard last week that was that this whole thing sparked by yet another protest by this group where they went to the pyrenees to a mountain pass in the france spain border and said they were there to defend your now it's not the 1st time they've done this last week though a lot so than socialist politicians calling for the group to be and to be dissolved but it's very significant this is the 1st time the interior minister has talked about the possibility of doing that in itself and he was using quite strong language as well you know he talked about he told his staff his team at the ministry to gather evidence on generation identity and he says that if there is sufficient evidence he will indeed dissolve the group. tell us more about what you
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found when you were investigating this group for your wrote your film yes we have an undercover reporter who infiltrated the leo headquarters of generation identity and he was there for 6 months filming secretly and he discovered all sorts of things mean the people using wielding guns he found we filmed 3 people assaulting a group of young teenagers in the city center one of them pepper sprayed a 13 year old girl another one shoved her and the 3rd one punched her 4 times on the head wearing these plastic reinforced gloves one of those people already follies was also caught on camera declaring that his wish was to his dying which would be to drive a car into a market popular with muslims in need of the upshot of this was the police investigated and all 3 were charged and convicted they were convicted on the charges ranging from assault to incitement to religious and racial hatred and in
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one case the case of police incitement to terrorism they were all given jail sentences to spend it and given fines as well so i think that the context of of this now is the present mccrone the french government or debate see an anti extremist charter and present course some waves last event where he described islam as a religion in crisis and there is a feeling that this charter was really aimed at muslims more than anybody else so i think what's interesting about the interior minister's comments today is it shows that they are looks like they are going to take seriously the threat from extremists from the right wing david harrison from our serious investigative unit so had many thanks indeed. hundreds of women have protested in honduras against last week's congressional decision to strengthen an existing ban on abortion protesters are angry at the government's move to outlaw abortion under all circumstances including rape and incest women face up to 6 years in prison for
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undergoing an abortion. in brazil relatives and friends of hundreds of people who were killed in a mining disaster marking its 2nd anniversary with a memorial service there also calling for those responsible to be held to account efforts to find and recover the remains of those who died still ongoing in the southern state of better j.s. as under shapiro reports 2 years after her sister went missing natalia do leave there are still hopes her body will be found some families in the town of broome or jean your continuing to search for the remains of their loved ones that were swept away when the dam collapsed nearby meanwhile thankful for that my sister can be anywhere in this search for listen i come in pray hoping to find her as soon as i can there's a lot of possible areas we don't know if they're here we pray for everyone to be found when the dam collapsed at this mining complex 12000000 cubic meters of mud in
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mining waste was unleashed authorities say more than 270 people were killed but people here say that's a low estimate and many more were swept to their deaths at a my of a hater sister was among them along with other families he wants the mines operator valley to be held to account for what happened excavation efforts are still taking place. well it's true all saw not only did destroy my family countless families were destroyed the lives of many people today we don't smile is only said the state government is seeking billions of dollars in compensation from the late the world's largest producer of iron ore while the company's former c.e.o. was charged with homicide last year no one has been convicted. of vigils in memorial services provide moments of solitude and reflection many here still feel anger and they say it's hard to move on and move forward when no one has faced justice and al-jazeera. thousands of indigenous
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people in southeastern bangladesh have been forced from their villages by global warming water resources in the chittagong hill tracts a drying up from their child free reports managing lives in bomb the barnhill district in bangladesh she says for years ago villagers here grew an abundance of rice and vegetables and the streams provided fish and drinking water but not anymore she says global warming has changed that yes. now it's much more difficult to get water since streams and wells dry up especially in the winter now we have to walk so far to get water and vironment to the hilt tracks regions are in danger of losing their prehistoric hill streams dream like this all across chittagong hill tracks are gradually drying up villagers have to struggle to get their fresh water needs they're getting increasingly concerned for
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their future need for fresh water woman here collect water and it's getting harder . it's become much more difficult to get water from the streams and wells drying up especially in winter unlike before we have to walk far now to get fresh water social activists say the whole ecosystem of the heel tracks region is now under threat apart from the global warming there are some issues affecting the local people in lots of alters for example the human made notes. like a stone extension the sun starts and the forest reasons and also being obstructed illegally without any concern of the local people losing their traditional way of life many among the tribal population are now moving to a settlement to find war. we used to be farmers then but now the environment has changed drastically run able to farm anymore us to move to the town just to earn a living environment to lex but rainfall drought and landslides in the hilly
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regions are also forcing people to leave the chittagong hill tracts in bangladesh it's the most elevated area in the country and it's actually quite susceptible and vulnerable to the impacts of climate change particularly landslides sometimes heavy rain and then also droughts and lack of water as well so impacts of climate change will be quite significant in. the perry segment and climate summits mean very little to the people here as the struggle to survive for them the impact of climate change is already a harsh reality time to charge 3 al-jazeera chittagong hill tracks. story as national day has been mocked by protests demonstrates this rather than sydney calling it invasion day because it commemorates the arrival of british settlers indigenous australians say that a holiday symbolizes the destruction of their culture by europeans. just ahead here all that is on the gymnastics florida team that's going through the roof
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on social media and be here with that and the rest of the baseballs in just a few moments.
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move toward the oh oh. i'll again type of sport here's andy thank you so much a general a year on from the death of kirby brown lebron james produced a fitting on court tribute for the l.a. lakers a legend james becoming the oldest lakers player since bryant to school faulty points in a day the 36 year old achieving a feat during the lakers went against his old saying the cleveland cavaliers. james
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had 46 points in this victory brian schooled 60 in the final game of his career at the age of 37. 1000000 younger. and in your game is now it can be or should be and that's ok because you know if you put the work in it but the time it takes a long time if you want to you know if you want to be great like if you want to be . great at what you do then it takes time and basketball fans in the philippines have been putting their artistic skills on short so mark the anniversary of kobe bryant's death he died in a helicopter crash in california at the age of 41 alongside his daughter giana and 7 others brought on the n.b.a. championship 5 times at the lake is also it suits i'm willing to take gold medalist . now like it stumbled on day one of the 1st test between pakistan and south africa in karate south africa returning to the test arena in pakistan for the 1st time
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since 2007. yes a shot $63.00 wickets is the tourists were bowled out for $220.00. 1 team struggled in reply. but they've been reduced to 33 for 4 by the close. now with less than 6 months to go until the lympics the world health organization says athletes are not a party for the covered 19 vaccine the big organization continue to are there are reports that it's ok games will be canceled more than 11000 athletes are set to compete in the games that are scheduled to begin in late july it's not about saying it's putting one priority in front of another we should address all of these issues over time right now we're laser focused on solving our biggest problem which is vaccinating workers in all countries and allowing people who are vulnerable from dying from this infection former paris sanjay monaco shirts almost sickly said to become chelsea's new manager of the 47 year old german was fired by p.s.g.
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last month during the club to go on to french titles and lead the club's their 1st ever champions league final last season but will be speaking to starring from the digital sports network that lets him he says to cool may not be a natural fit for chelsea. so must talk or is widely recognized as a top manager but he can be a little bit stubborn and abrasive and bof a dog and where he worked before his recent job but person to me and indeed an infant in france there were issues with superiors he did have a falling out with a sporting director and dog when he knew that affording are but a sporting director paris of the transfer policy and of course just see as a manager you not ever really in full control as far as the club's why the strategic decisions are concerned so there is a worry at the same time i think chelsea have looked at his work on the pitch and decided that that risk if you will is worth taking because these teams tend to play
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some really good football is very variable is approach very attacking and success usually follows so bit of a risk i think as far as the peace in the wider political landscape much as he is concerned but definitely i think an improvement as far as bringing out a team that will be collectively much more cohesive and tactically sophisticated tunnel that's come from a goal down to get past 2nd say we can wonder is in the english f.a. cup we can soak a surprise lead in this game the team haven't played since january them not because of positive 90 tests. because they hear from gareth bale fatah them just before half time and 3 late goal secured the when the spurs it's finished for one and they will take on everton in the next round. and a fellow jim peyton manning says he doesn't think tom brady will retire after his upcoming super bowl appearance the 43 year old we're playing in the n.f.l.
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championship game for the 10th time this time the tampa bay buccaneers brady was previously nearing a patriots for 2 decades where he won the super bowl on 6 occasions. he's extremely disciplined and his all season training is in saves him sleeping habits eating habits and all his paid all form that's allowed 4 him to have such great success and this age i just have all the credit he has put in for me to sacrifice he has. formed a bond with his new teammates in a short period of time going to pandemic all season so he is on the right 1 handers chamber in the super bowl in his hometown tampa bay take a look at this gymnastics florentine it's gone through the refunds social media. college student may have done this a while and the judges around the world with a routine that was celebrating excellence full time olympic champion someone boyles just one of the millions of fans to share praise that performance.
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was looking for anybody thanks for the news but i'll be back in just a moment with more news see them. as a celebration of traditional life. i'll just knew what kate's way insights into the diverse culture of somalia. 2
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different couples. together. on auntie's the. first time glimpse of the challenges faced by journalists in the age of donald trump we are fighting the fake tears fake phony the enemy of the people through the eyes of a federal white house correspondent what do you base your legs on the scissor down the press is not after truck after truck we're not the enemy of the people we are the people the usa the current battleground whose truth is it anyway. the u.k.'s biggest hospital with the eventual capacity for 4000 covert 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar
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sites on the way the actual numbers could be much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. countries scramble to enforce new code it by 900 travel restrictions and ramp up vaccination plans as they grapple with a new strain of the virus. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. india's
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protesting father stormed the historic red force of the new delhi as they marched against the gulf.

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