tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera February 7, 2021 9:00pm-10:01pm +03
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anabelle development. al-jazeera. you're watching the news our life from a headquarters in doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes. the search for survivors in northern india after a family and voice your brakes off sending a wall of water down a valley more than 100 people are missing. when the fire's warning shots fired me and mar as police try to break up protest
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announcing a military coup and demanding a return to democracy. voters in ecuador pick their new president will inherit a country facing deep economic problems made worse by covert 19. political standoff in haiti the opposition wants the president out saying his term is finished the job in illinois insists he still has one year to serve. and timely harding with all the day's sports tampa florida is just a few hours away from hosting the super bowl on sunday when the buccaneers take on the defending champions the chiefs. welcome to the news hour around $170.00 people are feared dead in india after part of a himalayan glace euro collapsed a torrent of water was sent rushing down a river where there are hydroelectric power stations and villages 7 bodies have been recovered and rescue operations are continuing alexey o'brien reports.
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a wall of water docks. and rock roars down the dolly gangle river in northern india the bridges and dams in its path damaged or destroyed a portion of the named david iglesias said to have broken off sending the torrent surging down the mountain and through narrow valleys below people living on the river and several nearby tributaries were warned to move to safety immediately is all but is of the government when that i've never seen anything like what i saw at the rashid ganger power plant about $50.00 to $100.00 people were running for their lives they could not be saved and they were engulfed by the river. rescue teams in the military quickly arrived at the area where dozens of people were working on major hydro power projects like the top of envision a god plant which was under construction others scrambled to reach at least one blocked tunnel where people were trapped inside. here at least some good
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news with several workers pulled from the rubble. so in these difficult times the modi government is standing shoulder to shoulder with the people of that account of the disaster management teams along with other security forces are already there the indian air force is also on alert it is our priority to minimize the loss of life and property to the people of lootera cond and restore normalcy here. look at a condom the himalayas is prone to flash floods and landslides in june 23rd tain record rainfall caused devastating floods that claimed close to 6000 lives. that disaster was dubbed the himalayan tsunami because of the torrents of water which buried homes and swept away buildings roads and bridges. a former water resources minister olmert batty and other environmental experts have criticized the
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construction of power projects in the area pointing to its fragile ecosystem and the damage caused by the 2013 floods it seems like the part which was right in. this disaster today was actually a less than 15 megawatt plant the question is should we be compromising dignity of him for such a small project more questions will no doubt be raised after this latest disaster for now though the rescue operation continues brian al jazeera. so as you've been hearing it happens in the mountainous states in the far north of india the glazers found on the country's 2nd highest peak called $900.00 and of course it is said to have broken off sending a wave of water and breathe down nearby rivers with support hydroelectric dams or power stations like the one at rainy on the receipt gang a river and the top of. power plant which was under construction further downstream
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on the. elizabeth brought him has more from in the foothills of the himalayas. rescue workers said they are going to be working throughout the night at the moment they say that there are 30 people believed to be trapped in a tunnel and that rescue operations are proving difficult because they believe a lot of people are trapped on a a lot of debris now local media reporting that at least 8 bodies have been recovered so far we know that hundreds of homes have been washed away and as well as the homes that have been destroyed rescue teams have also saying that they're finding bodies really far away from the size of where the worst of the flash floods happened and that's because of how fast the show was moving again as well as the ones that have been destroyed to power hydro electric power plants have been damaged one of them is on the construction we did see 16 workers being rescued from
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a tunnel in need the top of that for power plant that was under construction but there are fears for around $150.00 workers at the power plant that authorities have not been able to get hold of and a major bridge in the area has also been washed away by the floods and that is making the rescue efforts more difficult science of studying himalayan glaciers of warne's increasing global temperatures or speeding up the rate of ice loss that's causing the development of glacial pongs which you hold millions of cubic meters of water they've called for the risks posed by glacial ponds to be given greater attention by governments agencies satellite images of the rashid hydroelectric project so the change in ice cover on the surrounding glaciers over the past 4 years from early february 27th seen through february 28th in the region experienced a gradual increase in the surface area of ice coverage this growth continued
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throughout 2019 before rapidly expanding in the winter of 2022 what can be seen here but as you can see within just the past year all of the newly gains ice cover melted away. is the former vice chairman of india's national disaster management all 40 he describes the difficulties of the recovery efforts. yes it's a long region i don't owe you know my 1st hand experience during the the. you cannot. be the flood and carrying the still difficult and that it is going to get better there is going to work you need to go so it will be it's going to get into not going to be very easy but wrong i've . got my own national disaster response force and the other local. out in the country was our own looking together at the air force people and forces
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you to the nearest star location and and. i will. get to but you know all along the route it may not be easy to. reach people out. tens of thousands of people have rescued violence and arrests to protest the myanmar in the largest demonstrations yet against the military coup was the last they call those days of going civil disobedience including strikes internet access has been partially restored according to monitor net blogs it's been nearly a week since the army ousted the democratically elected government rights groups say dozens of people have been arrested since then including the leader and. florence do a report this. was for
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a 2nd successive day people in myanmar have taken to the streets to protest against the military takeover marching through downtown yangon they held up the thin gasoline a symbol of defiance against storytelling. even people who weren't part of the demonstrations showed the support by backing off honking their cars protesters are demanding an end to military rule and the release of. the democratically elected leader and others still in custody they marched undeterred by the police presence and the threat of arrest already so you know we have decided and will fight and to be in the lives for a generation we have to work for the next generation to get democracy to them if we want to end this military dictatorship the demonstrations which have spread across the country have been largely peaceful other police fired shots in the town of one sunday to disperse the crowd and video showed at least 2 protesters being arrested
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a man might emerge from nearly 50 years of military rule in 2011 people here aware of the military's violent crackdown of past uprisings but some saying they're not afraid. that our ancestors had already made revolution against the military we can dislike the military when citizens had already shown their demands by voting we are on the streets to show that we are against the military dictatorship. a near total shutdown of the internet and disruption of phone lines was partially lifted on sunday facebook and other social media platforms had already been blocked the un special rapporteur on myanmar has accused the military of trying to paralyze the movement of resistance and keep the outside world in the dock all week the voice of disquiet has grown louder and bolder from nightly noise protests began gone to a civil disobedience campaign the roman catholic pope is the latest in the
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international community to express solidarity with the people of myanmar but activists say mere words are unlikely to have an impact. the military leaders dictatorship is gambling on the fact that there will be a lot of statements but no real action it's time to target military companies because the economics of the situation is an economic power one off the market dating forces for the military to grab power like this for now there's no sign the generals are ready to give up control even though the calls for them to go are growing sunday's demonstrations are the largest since a 2007 uprising against the military. it wrong supreme leader says his country won't return to the 25th the nuclear agreement limits on its nuclear program unless the united states lifts all the sanctions it's imposed since leaving the deal in 2018 but president biden has rejected that saying
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any future negotiations would depend on to her on stopping its uranium enrichment. has the latest from to run. it is national air force stay in iran and this day is named after a day 42 years ago when the country's air force pledged their support to ayatollah khomeini who had just returned to iran on february 1st after spending 14 years in exile abroad we heard from the current supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei who addressed the country's air force and he used the opportunity to reiterate iran's position when it comes to negotiating with the united states and what iran expects the new administration in washington to do before they return to the jay c.p.o. way. out of the one that has the right to set conditions for continuation of the j.c. is iran because from the beginning iran has met all of its commitments they
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violated their commitments we have the right to set the conditions if they want iran to return to the chase e.p.o. commitments the u.s. must remove all sanctions and not just in words and on paper they must remove all sanctions in practice then they will return to our commitments this is the definite policy of the republican and all are running officials agree with that and we won't change this policy. this is something we've heard in the past from not only the supreme leader but also all other levels of government including the president and the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif this is where things stand at the moment the arabians have given the binded administration till roughly about the end of february to see if they will do anything in terms of lifting any of the sanctions so otherwise iran has said that they will take the next step and that means according to a law that was passed in the country's parliament they will reduce their compliance to the j c p a way by limiting the access of i spect. to visit the nuclear facilities under the
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nonproliferation treaty iran currently now allows the inspectors to visit at any time any of the facilities that are declared nuclear sites but after this deadline the end of this month that will no longer be the case the inspectors will have to request in advance what sites they want to visit and when this is something the international community has said they don't want to see happen it is in the best interest of all parties involved for the united states to return to this nuclear agreement and for iran to return to full compliance well let's get reaction from hi joe castor joining us from washington d.c. so what more is the president said about iran and where does all of this leave the united states. during this still leaves the 2 nations are seeing who will be the 1st to make a move and president biden speaking with c.b.s. news they actually recorded this interview on friday it's airing later today but in
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it biden said that the u.s. would not lift sanctions on iran until you ron 1st comes back into compliance with the uranium enrichment levels in the nuclear deal this is something that is also supported by republican senator lindsey graham who's speaking with media today said that he would advise biden to not lift those sanctions until iran's behavior changes what we do know though is that biden's administration is seeking some way to differentiate its policy toward iran from that of the trump administration jake sullivan who is biden's national security advisor has said that he believes the trump era policies iran made the situation worse by escalating what he called the nuclear crisis that iran is posing now to the u.s. we know by that ultimately wants this nuclear deal to be revived and brought into however getting there seems to be a distant and even more distant goal by the day by biden says that he wants
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a return to diplomacy with iran all right hundreds of castro thank you so much. hear the news on al-jazeera here's what's coming up increased tension along the same time the border why both sides are deadlocked over the disputed area. open for business the move by cuba to help its economy rebound after being hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic sports news leo will be here to look ahead to the c. 5 club world cup semifinal in qatar between buying munich and. the 1st voters in ecuador picking a new president who will be expected to steer the country out of an economic crisis made worse by the coronavirus pandemic 16 candidates are vying for the top job but the main contenders are former banker or law so an economist. voters are also
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choosing members of the national assembly let's bring in the who's running us from bogota in neighboring colombia so ecuadorians are voting in these presidential elections under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic of course and the severe economic crisis alessandro what is at stake here. yes some 13000000 are expected to vote to choose a new president and the members of the national assembly and that made all of one of the worst economic crisis in the recent history of the country just to give you an idea the economy has contracted just in 2020 almost 9 percent unemployment went from less than 4 percent to more than almost 9 percent in less than a year hundreds of thousands of it lost their jobs in the last couple of years creating an atmosphere of uncertainty and even anger we've seen violent protests in
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2020. 2 trials in 19 so it's a very different. to asian for whoever will be the next president but most observers in most of what dorrian's if you ask them will tell you that they see this election still as a referendum on the legacy of former president rafael correa who govern the country from 2017 to 2700 sites from 2007 to 2017 managing to live to millions of ecuadorians out of poverty thanks to. an economic boom high. prices of commodities that really helped him at the time but who is now in exile because he is accused of corruption he cannot go back to ecuador yet the person who is the front runner who is mostly unknown to
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a lot of a quite dorrian said 35 year old the economy. is backed by quota and that's enough to put him 1st in the polls and a lot of ecuador ians feel that the term of the current president sent. the current president in. is responsible for a lot of the economy the economic crisis that we've seen in the last 4 years the economy getting worse that in the country this 2nd candidate in the polls is last so he has been a candidate to 3 times for president already he favors free markets and the kind of measures that international organizations such as the monetary fund believe are the best way forward for any weather so there lies the difference and the divisions while the votes continue in ecuador and ok on the standard thank you
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thank you for that update. well the opposition in haiti is threatening more protests their president does not step down on sunday haiti's constitution says a new president's term begins on february the 7th everyone agrees on that but not on which here as he still has another left in office reports on the political crisis. clashes between the opposition and security forces right next to the presidential palace. it's become a regular occurrence on the streets of port au prince. protesters continue to demand presidential in more he steps down. gives us. more yes it's a strike against kidnapping against hunger in the country and we are sending a clear message to the president to respect the constitution oh you know this week transport unions and other workers went on a 2 day strike denouncing institutional violence and an alarming grice in
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kidnappings human rights groups say at least a 1000 people were kidnapped in 2020 when someone is kidnapped. the person must go to the street and ask for so many movies to give and so you really does a reason why we organize 2 days of look up to show. that we can't accept this situation you know but as soon as the look of finish the kidnapping restored quickly. haiti's opposition says it's time for moyes to go they say he's mandate ends this sunday but moyes does a reset he says his 5 year term began when he was sworn in in 2017 and that he still has one year in power but members of the opposition say maurice term began in 2016 in the wake of chaotic elections. and while the political crisis deepens haiti's economy continues to deteriorate. economies like. says
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urgent action is needed. the amount of people going hungry in the country has doubled it's gone from $2000000.00 to $4000000.00 people the currency is devalued and there's an inflation rate close to 25 percent. to complicate matters legislative elections were postponed when parliamentary terms expired this past year pressin moyes has been ruling haiti by decree the u.s. and the organization of american states have urged new legislative elections to restore the balance of power maurice is proposing a referendum in april to reform the constitution. last week we held a major meeting with all interviews including the un the provisional electoral council the advisory committee the government the police chief the prime minister we had a big talk about security issues elections and the referendum we were clear with
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all these people on april 25th because it will be a victory for us. but the opposition says it's another excuse to hold onto power and that's why they vowed to continue pressuring the government on the street that he said will. kill lives as a journalist for the newspaper. he says that president continued to face opposition if he insists on staying power. well he's really taking a page from the devalued dictatorship which ruled haiti for 3 decades from $957.00 to 1986 and france what happened back to value basically laid the groundwork for that presidency for life as he called it. for by rewriting the constitution and setting up the rules of the game so that he could stay in power and so job that was really taking that. approach him self i mean
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his party the haitian baldheaded party founded by his mentor sweet micky michel martelly is a new york devalue risk party so this is basically devalued from 2.0 there's definitely going to be a lot of trouble lot of. uprising in the streets today i mean 35 years ago today was when the jungle or duvalier was driven out by demonstrations are the people going to have enough capacity to drive out job anomalies today i don't know but i think one thing's for sure even if he survives today he's going to be faced with a huge. and rest for the next year a roadside bomb in somalia has killed at least 12 agents working for the national intelligence on security agencies it happened near the summer rob town on sunday and host the talks on elections that collapsed 2 days ago on shabaab says it was
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behind the attack severe cold and strong winds have pounded parts of europe the netherlands has been hit by its make 1st major snowstorm in a decade for sima government to close its coronavirus processing center and in germany snowfall caused major travel disruptions also here weather warnings have been issued across parts of the u.k. and zimbabwe reports from 10. well here in the u.k. where there has been snowfall it's not been extremely heavy but it is settling and there are weather warnings in place for sunday and into monday morning for the whole of the london region the southeast including here in kent and the east of england part of stormy darcy that's continuing to come in from the east now over in belgium they've had light snow fall which has meant that people in the capital brussels have been able to have snow ball fights and to go sledging next door in the netherlands it's been more worrying where the meterological agency
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has issued a code red warning with winds of up to 90 kilometers an hour and bitter cold the government has said they've had to close all covered 19 testing centers for several days and there are reports in the netherlands of scores of cause skidding off the roads or people being advised not to drive and train services on sunday morning were suspended the roads have been problems in germany mainly in the north from the west with the snow line almost a meter deep in some parts in the western city of minster. ambulances have not been able to get out and about a toll and similarly reports of hundreds of accidents well here in the u.k. the meterological experts are saying that this is not going to be as bad as what they called the beast from the east back in 2018 but for several days there could be sometimes heavy snowfall for many more days to come right along the east side of
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great britain still had on the news hour on al jazeera the police shooting of a street performer sparks fiery protests in chile as demonstrators demand an end to police brutality. we'll hear why teachers and students in the philippines say academic freedom is at rest and former world having. a boxing champion leon spinks has died leo will be here for a look back on his long career. well it's an active weekend weather wise and the remains of the curling low here in the cloud going to sit around left $66.00 millimeters of rain in court which is in the tie on the south bank of the tigris and east by double the average so we've had
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a wet spell but it's all falling apart usually when this goes through never give it a shower or 2 is fast as you end up with blowing and it's doing the same again for a couple of days beyond that the skies have cleared the temperatures are up into where they should be more or less average of about is nice and warm in jerusalem by the same opinion by the representing part of the levant there are shouted rain i should say in western yemen and the match is the southwest and saudi they're all the way back once more in fact has been an unusual bit of activity in kenya and tanzania was right where you don't expect this time of the year otherwise the seasonal rain is doing its stuff we have had flash flooding in botswana and parts of south africa but there's the extent of the rain in the forecast is looking dry in cape town in terms of and things probably on its way up but in madagascar we've got days or thunderstorm this is the last of the really wet months for that rain continues and not just in madagascar as you can see it's in the mainland too.
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but. it's one of the most recognized sites around the world playing for support from far and wide but for the slams back home it's more than just a football club and i want to tell policy should be left out of football you know football. the passion and the politics of liverpool f.c. the defiant joint. part of the football series on al-jazeera. when the news breaks the next few days crucial security forces have been deployed to hit me in hot water like this one when people to. have to be fulfilled by the government and. leave but if. i'll just say iraq has teams on the ground this is the insurrection that president trump is accused of fueling to bring
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blue documentaries lightnings. you are a warrior. oh. and again you're with news hour on al-jazeera here the top stories rescue efforts are underway in in 0 after part of a head of the invoice or a collapsed officials fear up to 170 people are dead including people who are working at 2 power plants when flash floods hit both sites tens of thousands have arrest violence under arrests 2 persons to me in mind these have been the largest demonstrations yet against last monday's military coup. polls have opened in
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ecuador's presidential election voters will choose between 16 presidential candidates as well as elect 137 lawmakers to fill the national assembly countries suffering a severe economic and political crisis. the killing of a street performer in chile has triggered protest against police violence the 27 year old juggler was shot dead in a southern town on friday after officers say he resisted a routine identity check emily soon reports. anger in the chilean capital over the police shooting of a young street performer police used water cannon as hundreds took to the streets in santiago to the bank pots and charged at officers the protesters wanted to show solidarity with 27 year old francisco martinez romero who was shot dead by police on friday officers say they opened fire because the juggler refused to cooperate in a routine search the government held an emergency meeting well
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a judge has ordered an investigation into the shooting with element that we always regret that an operation of these characteristics result in the death of a person as a government we want to guarantee that any measures will be taken to ensure the justice system and the prosecutor's office can investigate exactly what happened. the fall for justice came after demonstrators at several public buildings on fire in the normally sleepy town of. residents say police brutality must come to an end you know gregory fell in love with the bomb i believe that the protocols and the actions of the police must be reviewed yes it's not the 1st time or the 2nd or the 3rd time he indicated he said we must have justice because something like this cannot go unpunished it cannot always wash their hands saying it was in self-defense no things cannot stay this way it cannot. mass anti-government protests since 29 team have put chile's police force under intense scrutiny with mortal and international watchdogs alleging excessive use of force and she writes
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violations. it's always been like this in the last couple of decades because the police institution has never really been reforms there's 'd a lot of human rights violations a lot of repression by that you know these going on in the shanty towns near the capital and in the smaller neighborhoods the poor neighborhoods which we never hear of well those living and mourn the death of the young street performer but many are hopeful it will bring what they say is the much needed police accountability. let's bring in our latin america to turn this new wrenches and science have on the cia here at the way that's being held for the victim tell us what you're seeing and what's going on. yes well you can see behind me that there are large groups of people there getting hundreds and hundreds coming all day long to that house the residence of the family of francisco martinez the young man the
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juggler who was killed by the policeman the people in this race look rather cheerful but we have been seeing street artists jugglers clowns. and all sorts of people coming out all day long to pay their respects and that image here at the crowd because people have been waiting a long time under the hot sun it's peaceful so far we can't see the policeman anywhere but we don't know how long that's going to last we do know that within about an hour we're expecting the judge to decide whether or not the policeman who shot was fired rather at mr martin is whether he will be charged with murder or something else and that could ignite a or not more anger out on the streets if his plea that he was to be acted in self defense is. receives the. the attention of the judge is a pre-nup so we're waiting to do that but the whole country is actually watching what happens next because this is not the 1st time that
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a person has been killed or that there's been an excessive use of force by police should surely especially since last october when there was just social upheaval and revolt in this country this is what happening time and time again according to the human rights institute of cheney and show people are just waiting to see what is going to happen within the next few hours and certainly the next few days to see if the policemen will at least try to see a new man thank you very much for that update from chile. in a major reform of cuba's state dominated economy the government says it will allow private businesses to operate in most industries in the past small businesses could only place a separate in 127 sanctioned activities but that's now been expanded to more than 2 thousands of communist caribbean island is trying to recover from an economic slump brought on by tough u.s. sanctions and the pandemic of for decades cuba's economy has largely been run
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through state owned companies it relies heavily on price controls on subsidies and owes massive debts to venezuela russia and china among others tourism health care either culture and offshore oil or some of its major industries any foreign investment is tightly restricted the economy has stagnated for years the government began slowly rolling out policies to open it up and 2011 but analysts say it hasn't been enough the economy is strong by 11 percent last year its worst decline in nearly 3 decades and for months cubans have faced shortages of basic goods and necessities parson is a former special advisor to the world bank he says it's too early to say whether these changes will be enough to turn cuba's economy around. i think so hasn't been suggested is not right not a 124 so not you suggest it will be understood control will be good they're removing 127 and 54 what 2000 in numbers are impressive
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however one doesn't wish to change one wants to see genuine reform to take the agenda forward correct the economy or contract it considerately it wasn't because of the soviet union we learned percent interest but we also knew that was what we continued to jump the borders because of the pandemic with the collapse of the tourism industry and also the rolling back of the obama era policies with cuba last trumpet ministration and the intention of the incoming by the administration for loosen some of those restrictions and look at its use remittances which is of great reason to think that the sense of investment capital going to the island would be acquitted but i mean it's clear that the current president. is showing some indications of events and the various right agendas are right the economy might mean up a bit to for americans to encourage an export might have been was not right.
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because. african leaders have wrapped up their virtual african union summit the pandemic dominated the meeting on last vaccinations have begun in other parts of the world the rollout has been slow on the african continent malcolm webb is monitoring the summit from nairobi he has more on what the leaders discuss congolese president felix just a getting the new chair of the african union spoke at the end of the 2 day virtual meeting one of the topics on it and there was covert 19 and the response of the african union to ticket he said the need to be a rapid acceleration in covert testing and also in the acquisition of vaccines he also mentioned some of the continent's conflicts. holy shit i'm sure because i don't need to. acknowledge the increasing number of armed groups as a threat to peace security and stability in africa these groups are responsible for rapes massacres and destruction of the ecosystem and natural resources in central
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africa democratic republic of congo there's a whole region and then mozambique but there was no mention of any plan of how to resolve any of those conflicts and neither will say any mention of the conflict in ethiopia northern to grave region ethiopia is the official host of the virtual summit and its government forces have been fighting there to grain people's liberation front in it's a great region since november thousands of people have been killed tens of thousands of fled their homes and millions are in need of humanitarian assistance but the government of ethiopia has made it clear that it considers it a domestic affair is not open to any foreign attempts at to sell its ating mediation to see katy also talked about the need to resolve differences between ethiopia sudan and egypt over ethiopia's grander neysa on both sudan and it lies downstream on the river nile and those 3 countries have failed so far to reach an agreement on how to use the river niall's waters felix difficulty is the
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new chair he was taking over from outgoing tear president cyril ramaphosa of south africa. sudan's army says it's made new gains in the disputed triangle farmlands along the ethiopian border tensions have led to an increased military build up there and talks between the 2 sides have failed to produce results as her morgan reports from sudan's i doubt if states. from this standing point can see the elevation of his farmland more than 3 and a half kilometers away but for more than 20 years he says he has not been able to access it he says if you're paying farmers back by militia men took over the area in 1906 bushing him and other sudanese farmers out of their property and then. there was nothing we could do if you open farmers came the previous government didn't send soldiers and the ethiopians were backed by the military we had nothing
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so we were forced to leave their lands and we have westward. john led his farm lives in for sugar in sudan's eastern about of state and for sugar covers an area of about 3000 square kilometers and sudan's government uses to colonial agreement to claim the region it's divided into greater and lesser shake up by a river contributing to its fertility to produce sesame and weeds but ethnic on her farmers from neighboring ethiopia in the east city area belongs to them and have been farming it for nearly 5 decades in december last year while this european government was occupied with the military operation and it's not integrated region sudan's army moved into push back if you've been farmers in the area the move has sparked border violence in the past week that's resulted in deaths and injuries of soldiers from both sides this is the alberta river and on the other side is where all the military operation is taking place so that's army says it's reclaimed 80 percent of the farmland in groups of a sugar that were previously occupied by if the opium farmers and less of the army
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says it's reclaimed 60 percent of the area so that is who have got some of their lands back say they're concerned with farming season only weeks away if you have friends who've been pushed away from freshly go will come back even if they have to use force to do it. since 2002 talks to the market the borders have stalled between the 2 sides sudan wants the boundaries drawn according to the 1902 deal if you are on the other hand want to renegotiate for a new deal we have to come up together sit together look into. the study of the program and then define the status of the part of. holdings. and the. sorts of area it's only after that we can go into the americas. if your piece says it won't resume talks with sudan and less its forces withdraw from a fresh ago some sudanese border specialists say if europe is more concerned about addressing domestic issues. there is an international agreement recognized by sudan
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. and before it even the un if you please messages right now are not directed to this with me or the world is directed internally towards its people the best way to move forward is to democrats the border and then look into the welfare of the if you can farmers once the border is clearly marked jalabi says he hopes he gets his farmland back before the start of the season like many other farmers from both sides the continued tension along the border means they're likely miss out on farming this season and potentially longer if the issue is not resolved quickly he morgan al-jazeera of out of state a new case of a boat has been detected in the eastern democratic republic of congo they instructed women in the city of the kiva region has died the area suffered a large outbreak from 20 to 2020 that killed more than 2000 people last november the country declared itself ebola free after ending a smaller outbreak in the west. israel has started lifting its strictest
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coronavirus lockdown restrictions some businesses were able to reopen including takeaway food services and hairdressers the month long lockdown was the 3rd time the country has shut shops and kept people home for an extended period a ban on air travel remains in place astra zeneca says it's working to adapt its covert $1000.00 vaccine against a variant 1st identified in south africa after a trial showed it might be less effective the study shows the vaccine has significantly reduced efficacy against the mutation according to a report in the financial times the trial is small and it's not been peer reviewed the south african variant is among a number of mutations causing concern because of their higher rate of spread. to resist vaccines. teachers and students in the philippines are angry at a decision to allow military forces to enter the top state university critics call
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the move an attack on academic freedom. again reports from manila. if art is a reflection of society then this display of work by filipino artist email can be seen as a put trail of young people struggle for academic freedom in the philippines time called. our barricade he created it to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the beginning and put you in february 971 activists march to the university joining martial law and declared it liberated from state forces the incident ended in a violent scene which. and now similar better lines are drawn once again the military has and did a decade's old agreement with the university of developing to keep state forces out of its campuses across the could shape the military says the university has been a haven of recruitment for communist rebels the new people's army and the military
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have been fighting for more than 50 years the conflict is described as the world's oldest existing communist insurgency hope we were. able to get some of the. military has not been your know only you. moron. resource. for other universities have also been accused of encouraging dissent in a joint statement to the military their heads say such allegations are irresponsible and without proof critics say the military is the zisha and to cancel its accord with the university of the philippines is the play disturbing it could soon mean that soldiers in civilian clothes could join students in rallies and that the atmosphere of freedom and campuses would soon be replaced by fear university education needs you need to give
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a range of ideas the man has thought of his time immemorial we have a length for all heroes was in for free dom is based here. the limit that i publish across the country student activists are up in arms to their unfairly targeting the it's a large and it's because we are not somebody with the call about the ball also and i think it's absolutely off the events that you do that much of times work has been focused on the legacy of the martial law era when young people were under siege and turned to art as a means of expression and defense he says recent events are a reminder that those times of trouble and conflict could be returning the. dog and i'm just manila. still ahead on the news hour the west indies pull off an incredible run chase to beat bangladesh somalia will be here to tell you just how they did it after the break.
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al-jazeera is investigative unit goes undercover tracking down an international organized crime network. i want to. go back to exposing direct links to corruption at the highest level of the bangladesh government. the fact. that. al-jazeera investigations all the prime ministers man. this thing to say and it's time for a different approach so let's leave them listening to the headlines join me as i take on the dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradictions i'm marc lamont hill and it's time to get up for frank assessments you got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse
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for $2200.00 people and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines. inside story on al-jazeera. oh. well it's super bowl sunday in the u.s. that's when the best in american football battle it out for the top prize the kansas city chiefs are chasing their 2nd straight title against the tampa bay buccaneers only a limited number of fans will be allowed inside the stadium but health experts are worried the lead to another rising covered cases gallagher reports from miami. and tampa what come out of. the super bowl is by far the biggest sporting and
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television event in the united states last year's final attracted over 100000000 viewers but as the tampa bay buccaneers and kansas city chiefs prepared to meet on sunday this will be a game like no other tampa's raymond james stadium is the venue it's also a testing site for code 19 in a state that's lost close to 30000 people to the virus in a bid to keep the game safe the stadium will only be a 3rd full with strict protocols and social distancing as you pass through security screening your tickets will be scanned and you will be provided with a safety kit which includes a and $95.00 mask and a hand sanitizer health experts say the national football league's measures are acceptable under the circumstances that more concerned with what happens in areas outside their control it's the pre-game the post-game and for those people who aren't at the game the during game celebrations where we expect folks to get together in private and public venues and that's where the risk is especially since
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we now have 3 new strains of the disease that have. landfall in the states there will of course be the much anticipated celebrity filled multimillion dollar ads but also a recognition of the sacrifice made by u.s. healthcare workers $7500.00 free tickets have been allocated to vaccinated frontline staff mostly from florida it's just exciting like you don't even believe it you know that like a fairy tale almost it's amazing and we're very grateful all this is a far cry from previous super bowls where host cities reap huge economic benefits last year's game in miami generated more than $500000000.00 for the local economy tampa's mayor says the goal is to have funds arrive healthy and leave healthy umask mandates now in place but health experts warn there could be a spike uncovered 1000 cases following the game the super bowl was never going to be canceled all anyone can do is make the best and hopefully the safest of
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a bad situation to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. well let's get more on the sports news with. well it's all about the super bowl it's by far the biggest sports story of the day and it starts in just a few hours the tampa bay buccaneers are the 1st team in history to play the super bowl on home turf and all eyes will be on the 2 star quarterbacks patrick holmes and tom brady this is actually i don't even know what number super bowl but he's won 6 of them and correspondent jay gray is outside of the stadium and sent us this report. this is a guy who really is the undisputed greatest quarterback a ball on reason is 10 super bowl looking for his 7th to win and really that's unparalleled in the sport and really in sports 7 trampy in ships would just be amazing across the board on the other side you've got patrick mahoney the quarterback for the chiefs who is in his 2nd straight super bowl looking for a 2nd win and many think that he's the heir apparent to tom brady so you've got
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what could be a passing of the torch here but tom brady says he's not ready to go in fact now saying and he's in his story saying he could go to 45 maybe in play football so it will be interesting to see how how this plays out tonight either way i think what we're going to have is a very good football game these are pretty evenly matched teams when you talk to fans what they say is you know we can't be together we can't gather. but it brings a sense of normalcy and i think a lot of people me that the super bowl is a big deal here and i think a lot of people want to feel normal again. the semifinal of the fee for world club world cup between maris and to greece has reached half time it's still nil nil in that game earlier qatari club to haleigh wrapped up 5th place thanks to a 31 win over age and champions olsen hyun day of south korea goals from ed meltzer
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jr mohammad muntari and qatar national team hero and was sealed the win for the doha based team. there it is european champions byron munich will be in action on monday when they take on african champions at the in the 2nd cup semifinal the germans have won the abundance league for each of the last 7 seasons and are hoping to add the club world cup to their list. of will it was always a good if it is being played we want to take part in it and we want to win this tournament we all know that it is a bit stressful but we have to say that we want to approach this with seriousness it is a great challenge to end the season with the 6 titles and we know that we have to put in excellent performances for the next 2 matches if we had to do that. if you ask any team in the end of. the one who has done what we have done and then we don't know no. we
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every team. wants to be where we are ac milan strikers latonia bring him a bitch has netted his 500 career club goal the swedish superstar jeev this feat with the 1st of 2 goals during milan's 4 nil home when against proton on saturday ac milan are 3 points clear at the top of the tally and sorry our. english champions liverpool have been thumps 41 at home in the premier league by top of the table manchester city meanwhile liverpool's upcoming european champions league match against our b. leipsic will be played in budapest instead of germany german authorities have denied the entry of liverpool because of their covert $1000.00 rules all arrivals from areas with the mutated strand including the u.k. are banned until at least february 17th leipsic were due to host the 1st leg of their last 16 tie
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a day before that on feb 16th. former heavyweight boxing champion leon spring has died at the age of 67 he famously shocked muhammad ali to win the title in 1978 in only his 8th professional fight spanx also won olympic gold at the 1976 games in montreal for the last 5 years he's been battling prostate cancer after smashing a double century against india england cricket captain joe root has also been impressive in the field he took this spectacular one handed catch to get rid of ageing to a running on day 3 of the 1st test england are well on top in this one after their huge 1st innings total of 578 india closed 182-5746 still 321 runs behind. the west indies have pulled off a remarkable test victory victory in bangladesh mare's made an unbeaten double 100 on his debut as they chased down $395.00 to win by 3 wickets it's the 1st highest
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successful run chase in test history. world number one golfer dustin johnson has won the saudi international for the 2nd time in his career the american was the overnight leader going into the final round johnson shot a 2 under par 60 on sunday he was 15 under overall for the tournaments. yeah i mean this is tough to win you know on european tour p.g.a. tour no matter what ranking you are so. obviously one that is as number one is is definitely good obviously gives me a little bit more of a lead so it gives me a lot of confidence going in you know for the rest of the year obviously we were at the beginning of the year so very pleased with our plan and looking forward to the rest. already all that's all your support for me and you back over to jury all right leah thank you so much and thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera we hand you over to our teams in london merriam the mozzie will be with you in just
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a few moments it's with much more of the day's news about. told to own their own we tell us all in a case where some of the stuff you compensated civilians we listen to the only music you hear is only the most beautiful music in the world it's silence we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that although to 0 it's america's worst kept secrets cracked open the time of a pandemic exposed in the time of trump through the turmoil of 2020 the big picture
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traces a century of racial injustice to reveal how philanthropy politics and economics preserve structural inequality keep the white a supreme and black in its place the race for america part one on a just. as the deadline approaches for unrestricted access to iran's nuclear program will u.s. president joe biden overturn trump sanctions and help rebuild relations or will tensions escalate and hopes of or igniting a nuclear deal with iran disappear special coverage of iran's nuclear program on al-jazeera. there's a wave of sentiment around the world if you actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often people's voices are not heard because they're just not part of the. mainstream news narrative. obviously we cover big stories and report on the big events going on but we also tell the stories of people who generally don't have a voice i mean one of the child but that's never been critical and the last
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question and i think that's what our series does the ask the question should people be should be accountable and also if we get people to give their view of what's going on. around 170 people are missing after a glassy a breaks sending a deluge of water down a valley in northern india. power i'm maryam namazie in london your with al jazeera also coming up on the program this hour. protesters in myanmar grow bolder marching right across the country in huge numbers as anger grows against the military. chileans demand an end.
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