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traces a century of racial injustice to reveal how philanthropy politics and economics preserve structural inequality keeping white a supreme and black in its place the race for america part one on and just 0. 0. you're watching the news our life from a headquarters in doha i'm telling you now ok that coming up in the next 60 minutes man mars coup leader breaks his silence as tens of thousands demonstrate against his rule for a 3rd straight day. south africa delays its covert $1000.00 vaccination campaign after a study shows that astra zeneca provides less protection from the strain that's appeared in the country we're in northern india where rescue workers are searching
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for more than 100 missing after a grace year burst sending a flood of water down the valley. of elizabeth for autumn in the town of joshi much of that account where the humanitarian rescue and recovery operations are being coordinated. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu pleads not guilty at his corruption trial and calls the charges against him a witch hunt and i'm he simply told you sports tom brady racks up yet another super bowl title the quarterback has now won 7 of them but this time it would be turned their back moves to beat the kansas city chiefs in their own stadium. welcome to the news hour the head of the military gentlemen mar that sees power a week ago has promised to hold elections and hand over to whoever wins may. klang
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addressed the nation for the 1st time since that too he accused the country's democratic leaders are failing to carry out their duties on a fusing the coronavirus pandemic to rig planned elections he spoke hours after tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets of me and my arm there risking violence and arrests a call for the government to release democratically elected leaders detained in last week's coup scott heide lawyer begins our coverage. the 1st pushback from the m.r. security forces on the growing number of protesters burst from water cannon and in attempt to disperse some of the thousands who gathered in the capital neighborhood . this is the 3rd day of mass rallying against a military coup one week ago a civil disobedience movement has been called encouraging people to skip work and school to head out and protest their demanding that deposed civilian leader on song suchi and the more than $160.00 elected leaders supporters and activists most who
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were detained during the early hours of the coup be released immediately. like at the weekend when tens of thousands gathered in cities across the country waving the colors of suits cheese and though the party and flying the 3 finger salute now a symbol of the movement the protests and calls for civil disobedience have become more organized in the days since last week's overthrow with momentum building labor unions civil servants teachers buddhist monks and students have all taken to the streets good i don't know and you know we are an engine is unique and we are not going to allow this military dictatorship to pass on to our next generation and we will continue our protest until this dictatorship fails we have already looked down on by of the asian people and others around the will for clearing up in an education system in the military room made must destroy you and shon turned out was one of those recently detained by officials he was serving as an advisor to aung sang suu kyi we have called for the main. release of australian citizen professor
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sean to mail from the detention in. our embassy has been providing a face eternal with extensive support during this ordeal how he is a highly regarded adviser a holler guarded member of the academic community. there are signs the military is growing frustrated with the demonstrations a message on state t.v. warned of action being taken against those who break the law. everyone has the right to act and speak freely living in the country put those kinds of freedom shouldn't disturb others it should allow others to have different opinions but these days people have disturbing and even threatening of those by breaking laws while climbing it's democracy if we don't follow the rules and regulations our democracy can get damaged legal action should be taken against those who commit acts that harm the state stability public safety and the rule of law. some supporters are determined to show their dedication to the cause one group tattooing
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a line of an old revolutionary song on their arms that reads we won't forget until the end of the world it's got our jazeera. south africa has put its roll out of the oxford astra zeneca covert $1000.00 vaccine on hold and that's because a trial found its less effective against the more contagious variant prevalent in the country it comes just a week after south africa received its 1st batch of vaccines and was planning to begin vaccinations in the next few days are concerns about astra zeneca will not affect britain's vaccination campaign it will continue administering the job and plans to modify it to keep up with any new variants of the prime minister boris johnson says it appears the job is effective at least in preventing people from getting seriously ill with the virus. they remain massive benefit to our country and the population as we as we go through the pandemic and i've no doubt
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that that seems genuinely going to offer the way out and. with every day that goes by you can see that is slowly getting the upper hand over the disease from of the millers in johannesburg and she explains why the government there is under fire for how it's handled the pandemic. the government has said that it shows that there is only a 22 percent efficacies rate when trying to prevent mild or moderate covert 19 now this is very damaging for the government given the criticism it's already faced and even if the government can be forgiven for only understanding now that the vaccine is not is as effective as they had hoped the government has also come out to say that the vaccines that receive the 1000000 doses last week it's only on a rival that it was a stablished that these vaccines expire in april vaccines take about 6 months they
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have a 6 month shelf life and already south africa has a difficulty in that it didn't have this information on hand so so that ricans are certainly very disappointed and there really is an issue of confidence with regard to how the government is managing this vaccine rollout for the time being we know that they've said that they used the information they had on hand they've said that this was the most accessible vaccine at the time and what they'll do now is one of the experts on the panel that's trying to deal with the vaccine rollout has said it would it would be irresponsible to completely discard the astra zeneca vaccine instead they will vaccinate some people at some point but at the same time continue studies to understand better how to use astra zeneca over more and astra zeneca is reaction let's speak to me barker he's joining us from london so neither have we heard from the drug maker. we have in day we've heard from astra zeneca and researchers oxford university and the both of them of course of have to concede
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that their vaccine isn't as effective as hoped against the south africa strain astra zeneca saying that its scope was limited oxford research is saying that its service spawns was minimal to maal to moderate infections of the south africa strain what we don't know really because no research has yet been done in full is the impact on serious infections of south africa strain but the shared opinion formed leading scientists in south africa and here in the u.k. is a hopeful one but it could indeed still prevent the worst effects of that strain preventing people from ending up in hospital and also preventing people from of course dying off this serious as well which is the message that johnson the british prime minister has been very keen to hit home i think largely over fears that this news in some way undermines britain's very very successful vaccine rollout today we know
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that more than 12000000 people have had at least one dose of a vaccine the hope is that by september every adult in the country will have had at least one but there are big concerns about the spread of the south african strain in the country where no 147 confirmed cases have been logged listed so far but that number is expected to rise it does take just remind you several weeks to map the genomes of the spread of these of the virus and we may see that number creep up the emphasis that the government wants to focus on right now is on search mapping off this virus so locating where it is and keeping those numbers down containing it because if you extrapolate all of this information it basically means that no matter how good. the vaccine program is if the south african strain is proven to be prevalent people will still contract the virus people will still spread the virus
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that's the bad news the good news very briefly of course though is that scientists oxford university say that they are working on a new version of the vaccine they don't need to start from scratch they can build upon existing frank scenes that means tweaking the formula and they also they also say that they don't need a full scale trial afterwards so the onus really is on the scientists to work on continually reinventing what they already have in the pipeline and also on the author a tease to mount any spread of the south africa strain in the coming days and weeks ok neve thank you for that update from london let's now speak to dr clara kut lender's a coordinator of the astra zeneca trial in south africa she's joining us from johannesburg thanks for your time with us on al-jazeera so just talk to us a little bit more about the trial that was conducted and the decision that was then made to suspend astra zeneca in south africa for now at least infinity
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me if you want to be conducted in south africa in don't just look at 2000 to. be healthy and now and then median age 93 she wants. to spend the window and not in the highest. the problem we conducted with this morning chief from the majority of the adults here in rome. i mean if you want to spend and it's a small club who pay people living with a check and had seen them all from everything it takes to have not i'm going to analyze. the results that we received today that he. became 1st they could. be born to be $5.00 and. even if insular. and it is it's.
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all or nothing and what we have or what has people who just against the original virus strain interest rates so you're talking about mild to moderate cases here what can you tell us about its efficacy when it comes to serious cases of that variance in south africa. at the moment there are no dates your available against. the sea against sylvia to seize. the participants you have received it spent sitting at the mentioned and on the panel today we have had no participants you can see this appeared to die from that not a cease that we've been faced on we haven't the results that have come up with johnson and johnson trial. it's a possibility that it's the end of the senate back some of them may well still take 2 games to be. related to who is 5 and.
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$4035.00 quite clear and we are hearing that south africa is planning to fast track the rollout off that johnson and johnson vaccine that you were just talking about how long would that process take what does all of this mean for south africa's ability to fight the coronavirus. being disappointing say it back that we had an effect synthetic carrying the. country in so africa the escalating conflict seen we've just seen one that has domenici the original buyer of. the joints and johnson parents made an application. for it and you mentioned the use approval that johnson and johnson that scene as far as an end to date. has not come through one set
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of people have a theory the theory of simple steps that would need to be taken and secure the fence and to import. and how long it would take when to paint on what we have a defendant here thanks and says you know you could be the important. doctor and we thank you very much for speaking to us from johannesburg. thank you. plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including this no clear leader song mali as president term ends with no agreement on how to replace him. the opposition says he's overstayed his constitutional welcome while haiti's president says there's been a kohut. and a suit wearing serina williams is back to her best the she launches her campaign for a 24 grand slam title in australia that's always coming up with peter and sports.
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but 1st rescue operations are underway in northern india it's a free more than 30 people trapped in a tunnel a day after part of the himalayan glaciers collapsed 18 bodies have been recovered while around 200 people remain missing elizabeth purana reports from. the rescuers are relying on heavy equipment to barge the piles of mud and debris declaring a tunnel workers have been trapped since a torrent of water and debris swept through on sunday after part of a glacier broke off upstream. working on the crown of the tunnel when we heard screams get out get out we didn't know what was happening we started running to escape when the force of the water gushed in through the mouth of the tunnel. it's thought the workers are stuck in an outlet about 180 meters then. my brother was
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here he used to work here and now i'm hearing he is trapped inside we have no information about him there were 6 people from our village over here. about 2000 members of the military police and specialist in mountain rescue of involved in the search. while they hoping to find survivors of the tunnel some teams have been out on the river fearing the worst. so our team is here searching for bodies if we see anyone near the banks or in the river our work is to recover them. most of the missing will working on 2 hydro power projects being built by the government deep in the mountains of northern state. was damaged another destroyed and homes were washed away experts say the burst could be linked to climate change and a team of scientists has been flown to the site to investigate all the environmentalists blamed the construction saying it's damaging the himalayas fragile ecosystem clearly this is an unstable valley which is not
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uncommon in these sorts of environments i worry i think would be that this there could be other such events i saw the launches landslides snow avalanches and so on in the future and that that may well be exacerbated by by climate change. food and medicines have been delivered to some villages that have been cut off and this mountainous region prepares and reconstruction will take time this is where the humanitarian and rescue efforts are being coordinated so the town of. the 300 kilometers from the state's capital takes time alice to reach by the head of india's national disaster response for said one of the biggest challenges is the difficult terrain and the rescue and recovery operation could take up to 48 hours elizabeth pran an al-jazeera joshi mother. well scientists studying himalayan
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glaciers have warned that increasing global temperatures are speeding up the rates of ice loss that's causing the development of glacial ponds that can hold millions of cubic metres of water they want governments and agencies to pay more attention to the risks satellite images of their risky ganga hydroelectric project show the change in ice cover on the surrounding glaciers over the past 4 years from february 27th seen these surface area of ice gradually. increased in the region that continued into 21000 before rapidly expanding in the winter of 2022 what can be seen here but within the past year much of that new cover has melted away let's talk about this with the rachel carson lecture and physical geography at newcastle university she's joining us from there thanks for your time with us on al-jazeera so it's not yet clear of course what caused this particular incident in india but why do you think the greater bursts. what could be a variety of factors they probably come back to. will make so kind of what we mean
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small that mel available only last year and in front of the guy. we get things like calling it looks nice so now it looks like the sun is that across it and it can also cause i said also cease to increase and we can see the cost of speeding up and losing from so can such disasters be predicted in the future if you're saying that there is a link to climate change i mean i think we can say that these events of life he's had the most frequency as close ones and this will melt and say that the longest is last year is a changing very very rapidly and then we've seen that across the in there so i think we can say that they will expend more but the key question to me is where they're going to work and when so that we can line bets warnings and bets and has assessments and ultimately management so is there any way that we can find out
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where they might occur. so i think we can look at changes in kind of key key parameters so we can look to changes in the gus's cells we can literally change in the world to store front of those lost years and still talk those losses as well as changes in the hill slopes so the yet the areas surrounding us and we collection kind of landslides must movements and changes in the materials front of the grass here as well and that will help us to understand where these events my ok next and identify potential dangers lakes and now there is a conversation going on in india whether such dams should be built in areas like that because the ecosystems are so fragile do you think that there needs to be more regulation to prevent environmental damage. i mean i think i think there has to be a balance. you know there is this need for the water resources we have to just see and these are all of the legislation is not what is he but we also have to offset
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against the environmental an ecological damage as he sat and also his threats from these best sets and the evidence hasn't to life property in man land as well and just put this into context for us and just the scribe how as an glacial lakes actually form. yes what happens is you have a garcia and it quite often has lots of rock and other material on its surface and this late last year i smelt the surface of the glass yet to flatten but it's got little lumps and bumps on it as well and those hollows collects about water. because the melter is comparatively dark and despite one that the ice by definition because it's also there and it causes melting within those hollows you can imagine a kind of positive feedback whereby it last year melts it collects floats and that
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helps houses melt as we get more more mel and more water accumulating on the glass and eventually these lakes and ponds consult together to form large lakes at the front of last years and these can best out as we've seen in india and it would seem like asians are right thank you so much for speaking to us so rachel car from newcastle thanks very much. israel's prime minister has they did not guilty to corruption charges and even netanyahu appeared in court charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases he says he's a victim of what he calls an attempted coup harry fawcett reports from occupied east jerusalem. the protesters that have gathered every week for the last 8 months outside benjamin netanyahu as residents at a new focal point on monday the jerusalem district court a couple of 100 meters beyond the police barricades i would not think about the public security safety economics because the only thing that would interest me is
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how to get out of jail and this is why a person like that cannot stand in this position to be the prime minister the volume went up as the prime minister's convoy arrived and you know i was accused of fraud and breach of trust in 2 cases in a 3rd he also faces an additional charge of bribery and you know they are shut down with me on the eve of his appearance he issued a message to his supporters calling the investigation and trial politically motivated insisting the case was crumbling the alleged offenses range from soliciting accepting lavish gifts from wealthy friends to offering assistance to media owners in return for favorable coverage in court he spoke only to confirm the written defense of his lawyers in essence a not guilty plea and to thank the court before leaving after sitting through just 20 minutes of legal argument his lawyers continued in his absence to question the legality of the investigation with the judges appearing to push back with benjamin
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netanyahu as departure for all the sound and fury out here for the legal argument inside the courtroom one of the most important things that could emerge from today is the time table something much more prosaic but could decide whether the evidence 3 phase the witness phase during which will be all kinds of allegations put under oath whether that comes before israeli election no decision was issued but legal observers saw hints of the judges were in no. the judge said well how long will it take you to send some of these documents that the other side needs and he said 3 weeks and the judges pounced on it 3 weeks on the money another 3 weeks so it looks to me if i had to guess right now we will see the witnesses start coming end of march early april which would be after the march 23rd election that would itself be a minor victory for the prime minister allowing him to campaign outside of the direction of a legal battle that is just one issue among many dividing voters as they prepare to return to the polls for a 4th time in 2 years. al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem
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a socialist economist has topped the poll in the 1st round of accord or as president on elections but n.p.r.'s arrows will face a runoff in april. he reports. despite the pandemic ecuadorians flocked to polling stations in record numbers on sunday to choose a new president early results indicate terry 6 year old socialist economist and the race at house is the front runner with more than 31 percent of the vote but he won't be able to avoid a runoff in april even though the final results are yet to be announced at oust claimed the victory minutes after the polls closed this is the must get public but i don't think that's obvious you need to or in people to have solutions now there are many changes that must be made urgently and we were ready to work for a country to work from home and after this resoundingly victory you could or you know people have given us. but his main rival conservative ex banker guillermo last saw who is running on
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a free market platform insists the contest is far from over. what i can tell you is that there will be a 2nd round and we will be in the 2nd round. another candidate ecologists paris who offers a middle ground between populist socialism and a mainstream free market economy could also end up a surprise 2nd after an unexpected strong result. the vote was largely seen as a referendum on the government's handling of an economic crisis that sparked violent protests in 2019. at ows mostly unknown to ecuadorians was handpicked by former president i failed corera which mediately pushed him to the front of the fields of candidates despite being an exile in belgium were removed before and they could dorian court sentenced him to 8 years in prison for corruption his political influence still looms large in deeply divided
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dorian's. there is concern in tension fear of being infected with the virus and the instability we're experiencing in the country i'm worried about the candidate that will be elected at ows is promising if elected to make 1000000000 us dollars in direct cash payments to families affected by that and then make an a return to the socialist policies promoted by his mentor what most analysts agree on is that whoever wins will have to prove he can offer real solutions to a country on edge i listen to al jazeera. still ahead on the news hour long millions of people have been pushed into poverty in nigeria despite the country's well. the olive trees in these libyan mountains might not have roots thousands of years old but the tradition of pressing their oil certainly hands and 7 time f one champion those hamilton signs for another season with mercedes it will have the story in sports 11 later.
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but it. will last in the very active weather that produced flash floods in iraq and iran this is tail and nerves are abusive a few more showers the northern parts of iran across into turkmenistan and then snow in afghanistan leaving behind open skies and blueness and apart from a few showers in the mountains a sudden saudi and yemen it's going to be dry the still blowing for a couple of days down the gulf which means doha will be dusty and a bit breezy was not particularly severe and temperatures here in the levant are rising beirut's forecast gets 22 that's above normal by about 4 degrees a nice warm weather nothing hugely changes in the next 2 or 3 days says wednesday's forecast you're looking at now apart from the lack of showers spot the difference.
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the same is true i suppose in southern africa with the sun slowly moving north now so the rains are quite intense over south africa in fact you'd expect this time of year to watch a step in madagascar and maybe mozambique is still right time to develop a tropical cyclone right on the edge of your screen you see the only one in the world at the moment for us use in the middle of the indian ocean but significant rain is still likely in places like the capital of by the gaskets in the forecast for at least the next 2 days. there with into afghanistan to help but now a strategy of soldiers of facing allegations of war crimes including murder. one i want a steve vest to guides on al-jazeera. since its inception in 1961 the kuwait fund has been supporting people's livelihoods in over 100 countries
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by funding projects in an array of sectors. ranging from infrastructure to health and education. these initiatives ultimately help to eradicate poverty. and promote sustainable development. algis in. every.
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on the other top stories on the al-jazeera news hour the head of the military seize power mean morrow a week ago accuse the democratic leaders of failing to carry out their duties flying spoke hours after tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets of . rescue operations are underway in northern india to free more than 30 people trapped in a tunnel a day after part of a human collapsed 18 bodies have been recovered but around 200 people are still missing south african health authorities are working with international scientists to drop a new vaccination strategy after the original plan to use the oxford astra zeneca job was suspended the trial showed it gives little protection against a highly contagious variant of the virus. so opposition leaders say they no longer recognise the president's. term has expired but with no agreement on elections to
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replace him an alliance of opposition candidates say they won't accept an extension of his term a plan to hold an indirect presidential election broke down over disagreements on how to proceed with the vote speak to her mother though he's monitoring the story from nairobi what happens next. well daryn no one knows for sure no one is brave enough to predict what the future holds for somalia and the country has now entered uncharted territory it's been it's a fust. a sitting presidents monday to expire and either without the elections banged housed or a political agreement being. a good between the political actors in the country and a country that is now recovering from almost 3 decades of conflict so right now the ease a lot of shuttle diplomacy that is happening been carried out by the international
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community the leadership of the african union peacekeeping mission in somalia to try and but even the leaders of somalia's federal regions once again face to face with the president of somalia and if that doesn't. i'm in succeed it is going to be really a difficult period for somalia. so if actively it sounds like somalia there is basically a power vacuum right now in a country what does that mean for security. well security that's a huge issue and that's what many people are asking themselves this crisis also has been a year in the making and according to a statement released earlier today by the american embassy in mogadishu they say this political gridlock has affected the fight against al shabaab to the extent
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that. everyone is so concerned with what's happening in politics that very little attention is being given to security but what do you talk to the president and his supporters they say there's no power vacuum there's no vacuum at all and that the president would only leave office once elections held the moment there's no sign of these elections happening any time soon ok mohamed atta reporting from nairobi thank you. more than 20 people have been arrested in haiti that's over an alleged cruel plot and made a dispute over the president's term there the opposition. 5 year term expired on sunday but we says he still has another year to rule when he will wrap up the reports. of the other day of protests in port au prince opposition supporters continue their calls for the resignation of president should now. because they've
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had to do was simply we cannot accept that job now moyes violates the constitution of the country we demand that the constitution be respected. but instead of responding to the opposition president moyes told reporters his political rivals had plotted to overthrow his government and have him killed or drive. thank you to all my security guards thank god they're planted and work out security personnel will explain in detail what happened yesterday the security of the national palace arrested more than 20 people who had one goal and that was to leave the country without may images on social media showed the arrest of opposition members including a supreme court judge in id be a judge's court in the uk the less than 48 hours ago he's been captured along with an inspector general of police who are planning to arrest the president and take him to patsy at the same time they plan to invade the palace to install
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a provisional president who already had his speech prepared in this case we can all speak of immunity here. the arrest come on the day that opposition leaders to see the president's mandate in office was supposed to end well everything i'm hearing from haiti and just gathering the strands is that this is actually an attack against the opposition parties kind of an excuse to round up opponents the people who have been arrested are a number of prominent voices and critiquing his regime so to me it seems like the story is a cover for something very different. tensions in haiti remain high as opposition leaders have found to continue to put pressure on the move and if called for more demonstrations and al-jazeera. the u.s. is saying that will it will of reengage with the un human rights council after leaving under former president donald trump and 2018 the secretary of state anthony blinken echoed a trump administration claim however that the body is biased towards israel but he
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says the u.s. departure allowed offshore tarion countries 6 oared a vacuum of leadership in the un h r c this is the latest reversal of trump's foreign policies by president joe biden and jordan is joining us from washington d.c. so what does the secretary of state mean when he says reengage. well what this means is that what the state department is calling the immediate term the u.s. is going to be an observer member of the human rights council and that will give diplomats at the council the ability to engage with their counterparts to make the u.s. argument for reforms within the human rights council as well as be able to speak out on issues coming before the body the state department's view and the biden administration's view is that you can't get change unless you're actually engaged in the organization and of course this is just the latest in
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a number of steps that the biden ministration is taking to reengage with international organizations and any sort of more clarity on what those changes are or what the secretary of state would like to see and the body. so there isn't any clarity as to what the secretary means by looking for reform certainly we saw during the trumpet ministration many criticisms that or that countries that the u.s. considered authoritarian or dictatorships and had a more leftist political view seemed to come to the fore seemed to come to get seats on the council things that the u.s. opposed even though the u.s. had very little to say about right wing governments that might have also had their problems with human rights abuses there is a briefing a daily briefing here at the state department in the next few hours and we are
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going to be asking for clarity on what sorts of reforms that the u.s. would want to see but it is worth pointing out that the u.s. is view under joe by the u.s. president is that engaging with the united nations and its affiliated organizations is to the u.s. is benefit not to its detriment. reported from washington rosalyn thank you for parts of indonesia's capital has been submerged by flood water after heavy rainfall it's triggered evacuations and power outages in jakarta riverside households have faced the most damage frequently sufferance floods and landslides during the rainy season between november and march. the scramble for a scarce lands in once you area especially millions of people into poverty that's according to activists and 28 teen nigeria overtook india as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty experts say it's largely because
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of corruption land confiscations and how resources are distributed by the dress reports from. in 7 years one certainly has fought at least 16 court cases of land been taken and justly but lost most of them. the lawyer an activist says the poor are up against the powerful who have the resources to manipulate the judiciary i handle a case where local traditionally. used area court judges succeeded in. front he sent us who are not apart from that far and then dead in abject poverty and many equally among the politicians. he says many landowners and witnesses are being intimidated into silence. across nigeria there is
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a huge demand for land for housing projects and industrial units in many cases developers used force to encroach upon farmland and evict poor farmers from the old things. what i use of chose to sell 2 or 3 forms rather than lose them the women of . the rich people invade our villages and use their enormous amounts of money to convince or even coerce poor villages to sell them land as a result many of now lost their source of livelihood and become destitute. nigeria's population grows by 3 percent each year the same rate as arbonne a zation but as rich and powerful nigerians buy up more land experts here that the government and the poor may struggle to find enough for agriculture and development . experts say even protected forest land is being targeted they say the elite are enabled by we close and corruption the land use decree itself allows people
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to acquire parcels of land which then are fenced off so that poor people are increasingly being pushed to the margins ones who fence of the land the push of who are these poor people poor farmers poor hardest who are increasingly being pushed to the magine of society as a. constant. developers' economics that the odds favor the rich but say most often it's the poor who approach bias the sauce. you us is very serious or. money or a right if you go so that as a challenge so you really is a challenge for. us is you know is that you. personally is the family all of us
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a group really. we develop. i mean. activists warn that unless the government puts an end to unrestrained and sometimes illegal acquisitions nigeria could soon face conflicts bigger than those the country is kind of plea deal with a decrease. but an innkeeper. cryptocurrency big corn has had a record price of $44000.00 a year net after automaker tesla about $1500000000.00 worth tesla says it will soon begin accepting payments in the digital currency and that its investments and corn and other alternative assets may grow. china has formally arrested an australian journalist on suspicion of sharing state secrets chang they has been detained by beijing since august she had been working as a television presenter for the state owned channel c g t
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n the australian government had repeatedly repeatedly raised concerns over her detention beijing says her legal rights will be guaranteed but the move tension to already deteriorating relations between the 2 countries the former us secretary of state george shultz who played a key role in helping to end the cold war has died at the age of $100.00 soldiers had several cabinet posts over his long career but made the most impact leaving the state department under president ronald reagan he helped cement a historic nuclear missile treaty with moscow and remain the strong advocate for arms control. still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour we'll have more on tom brady was racked up yet another super bowl victory stories coming up in just a moment but peter.
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the united nations special envoy to yemen has visited iran for the 1st time to discuss the war martin griffith's trip comes off to the u.s. revoked the terrorist designation for who with the rebels the group was backed by this month the u.s. halted its support for the saudi arabia led military campaign in yemen a promise to help defend its borders. over centuries of changing civilizations religions and cultures in libya the small mountain town of has relied on the same industry pressing olives for oil. at the people carrying on the tradition.
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in the mountainous small town of him so let's about 100 kilometers southeast of tripoli the people here live and breathe olives the good gas the all the tree is one of 50 varieties that are specific to this town known for their large size an abundance of fruit they are picked twice during the olive season here all of us have been grown for thousands of years and their oil extract it will some a works for the archaeological committee he says these ruins are of an olive oil factory built by the romans over 2000 years ago he was brought to him so lots of by the phoenicians later the romans began exporting all of oil that was produced here from the ancient city of leptis magna we run perscribe detects in libya of 3 to 400000 liters annually the all of harvest is a special time of the year for people here this is perhaps the most traditional method of processing all of oil and almost every household in the town of them so
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that's if you can find an area like this where all of us are crushed by hand and family members enjoy time together miffed has fond memories of growing up and making all of oil that hasn't got. my grandmother would sit and we would take turns crushing the illness it was fun we would drink tea and eat out all of the with bread of course the olive oil made by hand is much higher quality than the factories. arabic word for all of the oil factor they've developed through stages over the centuries here all of their grinded with these mechanical wheels. the pace is then put on just and through pressure but we always extract it and usually sold by the leader salim has researched the variety of all lives in libya for decades he received a ph d. in the us and agriculture he then came back to me and started this all of oil
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factory it's one of the more advanced factories here. in the town of them slaughter all of oil has a special meaning it's celebrated every family here spends the months of november to march harvesting all of us to make will each of them have different techniques. and silat has for the most part been untouched by violence in the years of conflict in libya that's because here and during the harvest all lives and the quality of oil they produce is the only thing that matters malik traina al-jazeera and so a lot of time for an update on the sports there's a peter 3 thank you very much tom brady has done it again that 43 years old he's won a record extending 7th super bowl title and this time with a different team he led the tampa bay buccaneers to a dominant victory over the kansas city chiefs david stokes reports. came from. the chiefs were defending champions and favorites heading into super bowl 55 but
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they were up against 6 time when a tom brady and his new tampa bay team were the 1st franchise ever to play a superbowl at the home stadium 25000 people were allowed inside including 7 and a half 1000 health care workers. the 1st points went to kansas city but it was all tampa after that brady setting up his former new england patriots teammate rob brown koski for the 1st touchdown the many helped persuade out of retirement to join the books and it wasn't long before the pats seemed up again for another touchdown to send them further clarified they had 3 by halftime brady combining with another old patriots friend antonio brown they were 216 ahead at the break oh . the weekend was the star of the half time show which had a different feel the shit with his dances building social distancing in face masks into their performance the bucs dominance continued in the 2nd half and they were
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singing out of sight when leonard from the net brought cliff a touchdown before sealing the title for tampa and superbowl number 7 for brady after his 6 with the patriots which means that he alone now has more than any single friend choices for does this right is this the crowning achievement not quite many making any comparisons i know being down here and experiencing it with this group of guys is every year is amazing and this team is world champions forever you can't take that away from myself liberal. there were concerns pre-game that fans gathering to watch would lead to a spiking cup at 19 cases but that didn't stop these tampa funds from celebrating their 1st title since 2002 i was proud earlier but saw their baby bump give us some tears on live t.v. break it down far cry until. i got to right now. build earlier bear now at 0 i know how to crack down brady wins it again next year that'll make you cry and you know
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right now just as the i did they sit back to back out through the bowl of babble ball a 43 years old in 188 days brady's already the oldest player to ever play in a super bowl and it appears he's not done yet we're coming back with a i don't know what they did stokes al-jazeera. we spoke to n.f.l. broadcast a michael colson and asked him how likely it is that brady could go on to win super bowl number 8 that's really interesting question because the heart needs of the senate to keep a successful together for a number of years and. that's what. was so good at doing at new england a what frustrated me in the last couple of years is the level of talent around you got smaller. temp work won this game i mean much as brady played very well and it was doubtless the events that really won this game and you wonder if we'll be able to bring back all brady's haircuts and walk ins plus the key defensive players
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a lot of them are young and will stay with that scene where you never know about one or 2 star players who now have a super bowl ring and other teacher who walk we know a lot of money there are $3.00 agents and then you have kids like the city who are also a young team and practice rooms as a young order back looking around for a few warriors to challenge. serina williams says she was inspired by brady after winning her opening match at the australian open the 39 year old american was up against germany's a laura siegelman in the 1st round in melbourne on monday it took a just 56 minutes to secure a 6161 victory in front of a small but very appreciative crowd serena is chasing a record equalling 24th grand slam her most recent slam title with 20170. which opened the defense of his title with ease the world number one secured a straight sets victory over frenchman jeremy shockey rocking just 6 games in an
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otherwise dominant when so many team and alexander's better. european champions buy in munich take on are largely in the fee for club world cup in the next few hours our sports correspondent andy richardson is there at the stadium and andy what sort of chance there's a lot we really have of causing an upset here would you say. well we're going to do what no other african seems ever done at this tournament about his beats european opposition they will be well supported. in france but of a feature of the club world cup in the last couple of editions here in cats or last time around pretty much every egyptian seems to be a liverpool supporter back in mohamed salah has his team went on to win the title on that occasion and our holy will have a lot of fans say albeit said the past the caps at an absolute maximum 30 percent
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covered 90 restrictions are going to in cairo in 2007 for their sin senior celebrations and soak into their then coach manual josie said managing this team is not like managing a normal football club it's not managing a country such is the level of support its influence and history within egypt but for all their success over the years they've never reached a club world cup final before they going to pull off a huge upset this time around against those european champions beyond munich and let's talk about byron munich the appropriations were disrupted by a delayed flight how much might that affect them. they were rather annoyed yeah the really the timetable is a symptom of the hectic schedule that says enforced on a lot of clubs after the enforced right last year caused by the pandemic that plan again pretty much every 3 days and then they were playing on friday nights in berlin the plan was to jump on
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a plane just before midnight and get here to doha just in time for breakfast they were delayed on the tarmac in berlin it got past midnight the berlin airport said you can't fly they then eventually took off in the morning the crew had to change in munich it took about 1415 hours to get here current room and again the club chief executive saying that people in berlin might have a conspiracy against bond meaning because they are chasing this perfect collection of 6 trophies something that even by and have been done in their last years history they want the domestic trouble last season and the european champions they to get at this tournament they've also won the wife a simple cup and now they have the chance to win the club world cup as well something that only the barcelona same of 2009 is achieved in the past and just quickly any tell us about the mexican team already through to thursday's final. yet a bit of an upset beating at polaris of brazilian in yesterday semi final note seen from mexico indeed no team from north or central america that confederation has
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made it through to the final before they won one now we have to look at the player drain from latin american south america see europe but it's gone the other way round they've got a veteran french strike on j.p. asian yak has been with the club since 2015 is their record goalscorer he's already got 3 goals in this tournament including the winner last night and he's now taken the club to the cusp of a great sin famous title win here in cats and the richardson thank you so much look forward to talking to you again in a couple of hours time. 7 time for me one world champion lewis hamilton has agreed a new deal to raise some say he's the season after months of delays the british driver has agreed to continue his relationship with the team for a season and he'll continue to partner with finnish driver. the sadie's has also committed to greater diversity and inclusion across all of its motors for teens. that's where we'll leave it for now most sports news coming up again later during
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