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back saying informed opinions should we be buying bitcoin ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines. inside story on our. america is back u.s. president joe biden declares a sharp break with the troubled era telling allies he's reaffirming his country's global leadership role. so robert your challenge is there live my headquarters here in doha also coming up economic powers promise more money for farrah covert 90 vaccine access but won't say exactly how many doses 100 over. also the new york times of tains
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a confidential you would report which accuses prominent donald trump ally erik prince of violating the libya is a bargain also. the security forces fired hundreds of people who'd been protesting against elaine's and holding elections. welcome to the program u.s. president joe biden's declared his country is back sweeping away his predecessors america 1st foreign policies biden address the munich security conference in his 1st international speech since taking the white house reports now from washington d.c. . pushing the reset on the past 4 years u.s. president joe biden addressed to global conferences with world leaders on friday but delivered one clear message forget the america 1st policies of his predecessor
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america is back the transatlantic alliance is back i know i know the past years of strain and tested our transatlantic relationship but the united states is determined determined to reengage with europe biden made clear he believes solutions to global threats must be collaborative during the virtual gathering of the g. 7 and later the munich security conference leaders conferred about shared threats posed by china iran and russia. a victim of it on the future it is very important that we develop a common transatlantic russia genda which on the one hand makes corporative offers but on the other hand clearly identifies differences and i can only agree with the american president on the question of what makes a strong strong european union unfortunately russia is not working on this at the
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moment. on the issue of climate change biden underscored he believes the planet faces an axis tensional threat even as the united states has officially rejoined the paris climate accord envoy john kerry apologized for precious time lost in pledge the united states will do all it can to meet a mission reduction targets he urged others to do the same what we do or don't do in the coming months and years will make all the difference but biden says the most imminent global threat is the covert pandemic the united states has pledged in the initial 2000000000 in funding for vaccinations for developing nations french president macron pushed back saying what's needed isn't money but an immediate vaccine supply many critics believe developing nations are being overlooked when it comes to vaccine distribution if you settle for. a low with if we know it's
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billions today to supply doses in 6 months 8 months in one year our friends in africa will be under justified pressure from their people to buy doses from the chinese russians or directly from other lib or tories then the west strength of europeans or americans will be a concept and not a reality. as biden repudiated the nationalist approach of his predecessor donald trump he had knowledge challenges to preserve democracy remain both inside and outside the united states democracy doesn't happen by accident we have to defend it fight for it strengthen renew it we have to prove that our model isn't a relic of history. it's the single best way to revitalize the promise of our future the global conferences were an opportunity for president biden to lay out his foreign policy agenda and chart
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a new course with european leaders while reassuring them that the era of trump style diplomacy has ended it can really help get al-jazeera washington well accused of holding doses wealthy nations say they'll pour more money into the un's quote of ours facts a nation program kovacs which aims to inoculate poorer countries the e.u. says it will double its contribution to kovacs promising a total of $1200000000.00 u.s. president joe biden is vowing $4000000000.00 half of which will be said straight away france says it will handover up to 5 percent of its facts in supplies but hasn't specified when i'm going to kingdom says it will donate any surplus doses jonah hill reports under pressure from the united nations and the world health organization g 7 leaders promise to step up their efforts to make vaccines available worldwide make sure everybody gets the vaccines that they need.
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come through this. already announced that. a strong strongly supported ahead of the virtual meeting chaired by britain's prime minister the un said just 10 countries accounted for 3 quarters of the entire global vaccine rollout 130 countries have not received a single dose the w.h.o. has warned of a catastrophic moral failure that will be paid for with lives and livelihoods among the world's poorest bucks iniquities not just the right thing to do it's also this morning thing to do. 37 pledges of funding in future vaccine donations have been welcomed but countries like india and south africa want to share access to vaccine patents what we're calling for ari forms in the how patents are in this case we because this should be in people's votes is in many countries as possible
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we have the capacity to be able to produce. for themselves this is we carry it starting with africa has to wait for lift overs from the rich countries is not going to end the epidemic only france and germany have considered making some of their own vaccine stocks available to developing countries now the french president has suggested donating up to 5 percent of existing supply he has support from the german chancellor says among them to come from japan the middle of august i stressed in my intervention that the pandemic is not beaten and to all people in the world have been vaccinated i'll mention after that infant the g 7 pledges of progress campaigners but not enough joe to hold al-jazeera now u.n. investigation has reportedly found that the former head of a us security contract in the firm violated an arms
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a bargain in libya the new york times says it's obtained the confidential report it said to detail how erik prince a prominent ally of donald trump allegedly said weapons to a militia commander who was trying to overthrow the internationally recognized government in tripoli let's get more this by joining christians will be our correspondent in washington d.c. christian just remind us who eric prince is and how close he was to the former president. well very close indeed erik prince is a former navy seal and the former head of the military security contractor blackwater and our viewers may remember that blackwater had operations in iraq and became. well known for attacking and killing 17 civilians in iraq became really a symbol of all of the unfortunate excesses of private militia groups he also is the brother of betsy to vos who was president trump's education secretary and
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was very close it with the president a very prominent supporter of the president known to be close to some of his. key and controversial allies like steve bannon and roger stone so someone who's fairly well known in circles in washington d.c. the coltons of the report see the surface to be growth or explosive so if we assume the cold sense of the reporter as far as we assume they are how much trouble could he be in. right and at this stage we only have it confirmed through the new york times and one source at the united nations does tell us that the report is accurate but if that is the case he could face. repercussions at the united nations for violating these sanctions a travel ban he would be able to travel internationally which would hinder his current business he could have his bank accounts frozen other assets frozen it's no
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guarantee that this will happen at the united nations and certainly many other countries and groups have been accused of violating the arms embargo and pinning people down on this is very difficult at the united nations but. a lot of questions here that still need to be answered also questions about what president donald trump knew and his ties to any potential operation here and whether or not prince use those ties to pull off the the mission if you will the report in the new york times claims that. prince made calls to the white house in july of 2019 in the midst of some very fine some battles that weren't going well there's also it's also worth noting that the president in 2019 surprisingly declared his support for this commander that prince was supporting
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general tar who was the head of a militia group and fighting against the government of national international the government of national accord the internationally recognized government in libya so this was a reversal of u.s. policy him speaking out in favor of this person all happening at the same time so a lot of interesting links there a lot of questions but i suspect this is not the last we will hear about this report certainly where those details to emerge officially be objects to see what reaction comes from all sides thanks so much just a story that for us in washington d.c. . but security forces of fired on hundreds of protesters in somalia's capital a presidential candidate has been leading a watch through mortgage issue to denounce delay to elections catherine sort of courts. barely heard a protest march started in the other airports when this happened.
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an intense firefight between government forces and proposition fighters the demonstration had been called by opposition presidential candidates and was being led by some of them they included somalia's former prime minister has a hiding and opposition leader abdul rahman. they are angry about delays in holding a presidential election and the continued. life on my job and the top post after his stomach speired 2 weeks ago the opposition blames government forces for provoking the fight. to do security forces opened fire against peace rally in mogadishu this happened as the event was being widely watched in the media and the world as a result of this some have died and others wounded the prime minister mohammed says opposition fighters fired the 1st shots every citizen has the right to demonstrate peacefully and for the security services to be the ones to guard the demonstrators
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and ensure their safety but we will not accept demonstrations guarded by forces outside the state authorities this is unacceptable the constitution does not accept and we won't accept any shape or form. several people were injured in buildings around the airport destroyed by rocket propelled grenade launched by an identified man. 3 other presidential candidates were also caught up in an exchange of gunfire between security forces and unknown gunmen at a hotel in the city on friday the accused the president of ordering the attack saying it was an attempt to assassinate them mogadishu is now calm but tense many people say they want an end to the security and sat in but they also know the longer their political leaders feel to agree on how an election will be run and who will be in charge of the country in the meantime there was the situation can get catherine saif al jazeera. well the weather's coming up a young good deal of
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a climate activist who's been supporting protesting farmers were sent back to jail . the hope for millions of people in the so called a geek economy after a top u.k. court rules that drivers are entitled to work or rights those stories after the break. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored by qatar airways hello the weather's looking decidedly spring like across japan over the next couple of days we've got a few wintry flyers to get out of the way just across the far north of the country into hot temperatures in sapporo around 7 degrees celsius but take a look at tokyo she wrote 11 or 12 this time of year sas they say is a high of 18 degrees celsius that is warmer still as we go into sunday could touch 20 degrees found high that was stretches across the korean peninsula 16 there in
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seoul in the 17 the for beijing much of china will be fine and dry a few showers down towards the southwest and we got some very heavy rain meanwhile making its way towards central and. southern parts of the philippines in the form of a tropical storm has its local name and the name given by the joint typhoon warning center my butt winds have around 95 clematis pratt gusting to 120 clematis per hour said doesn't mean the potential for damaging winds and large waves very heavy rainfall that's the main threat $150.00 maybe $250.00 millimeters of rain over the next couple of days and that could lead to some localized flooding as in italy makes its way into southern parts of the philippines and then pushes across into those central areas elsewhere i will say some wet weather coming into the southeast of india but to the north of that is try and find. ways in india identity politics on the rise what we're seeing is the construction
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of partitions in the hearts and lives of communities to across the country and as a dark side is you do see the grit from his office the majesty of the fish into something more like the team i didn't see of the british today i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera. but the backyard is there at least the whole rub the reminder of our top stories u.s. president joe biden has declared his country is back sweeping away his predecessors america 1st foreign policies by an address the munich security conference seeking
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to reassure allies sidelined during the trump years also a un investigation has reportedly found that a prominent ally of donald trump erik prince violated an arms embargo in libya the new york times says has obtained the confidential report also security forces have opened fire on hundreds of protesters on the streets of the somali capital mogadishu the violence broke out as a presidential candidate led a march to denounce the delay to elections. that one of the former u.s. president all trumps most restrictive immigration policies has started to be dismantled until friday thousands of asylum seekers had to waited back soko for their cases to be heard in the u.s. now under the by the administration of the 25 people a day will be allowed to enter the u.s. immigration courts consider their future reports now from mexico city or by the policy change will affect the number of arrivals of the border. this is very much
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on the radar of immigration officials both in the united states as well as here in mexico and we should note that throughout the course of 2020 the lock down from the pandemic saw an overall decline in migration from central america specifically but then something interesting happens in december we see a spike in the number of migrants coming up toward the united states we're seeing numbers that are higher than even before the pandemic began and we have heard those speculations that this could be in part due to the more quote unquote relaxed policies by the by did ministration and that very well could be the case but we also have to remember that a lot of the conditions that were leading to people or driving people out of their countries in central america extreme poverty widespread violence political instability these are things that have improved you could argue that they've actually been exacerbated by the coded 1000 pandemic now you couple that with 2 back to back hurricanes that slammed into the region late last year in november in honduras alone this resulted in more than
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a 1000000 people being displaced you put all of these factors together and you start to get a better picture of what's really driving this increase in migrant numbers over the course of the last few months democratic republic of congo has confirmed another 2 cases of a one of which is far from the center of its outbreak 6 infections have been confirmed the rule of 2 deaths the world health organization says the d.l.c. has balls of 8000 vaccinations available. to us a sudden almost 20000 doses to get in the west african country has declared a view of the epidemic kitty sierra leone of liberia a hole at the center of the world's worst outbreak between 20132016 which killed 11300 people dr king is a technical officer at the world health organization's office for africa he says there's a high risk of a regional outbreak. we are going to vaccinate contact and contact with contact
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who will be identified. so we're not going to vaccinate older people it's not a must question if. we are confident that we feel it is strong investigation we will be able to identify all of the contact and well spect receive 11000 those this sunday and that will stop nobody vaccinating them on monday we have jewelry conducted in up to this assessment here for this event so. overall risk been. very high at the cultural event and regional event and that will event because as you might snore we are one confirmed case going to be. traveling from more or very clearly to correctly you know or was it occur is
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a around. 1000 kilometer from there so we consider that the risk is very high and. come to. the top senate has approved a new law which gives legal backing to the government's credit virus not time curfew the legislation was hastily drawn off after a court last week cited with after curfew campaigners ruling the restrictions have the legal basis of a spacecraft the government was seeking to overturn the decision but friday senate vote means the appeal court case is now over dozens of. they all jerry of government has released dozens of pro-democracy activists jail as the country prepares to barclay's 2nd anniversary of a popular uprising. the problem of journalists college it was among 33 people freed a very presidential party algeria's president of the day announced the move to
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appease the hit up protest movement which forced a leader abdel aziz beautifully cut from power in 29 team organizers are now calling for mass protests above date about the great complete overhaul of algeria's ruling system. nigerian officials say they're negotiating with an armed gang that kidnapped a group of students the exact number of those taken on wednesday is a hundreds of missing evidence just reports from a picture. caleb knows he's fortunate to be back home. he injured his leg escaping from a group of kidnappers who attacked his boarding school in niger just got a district his brother didn't survive he was shot dead by the gunman i see it on the way. but i was sleeping when i heard the kidnappers come into our dormitories they started shooting guns when i saw them i jumped over the pants other students also started running everywhere. nearby yet another family is devastated they're
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waiting for update hoping their kidnapped son would be found alive. the government should help us find our families our only hope lies but the government. hundreds of students who are sleeping when they are still in stormed in now empty beds and deserted classrooms are reminder of growing attacks on boarding schools kidnapping so ransom by armed groups that come on across many northern nigeria states. in december more than 350 students ducted and eventually rescued by niger security forces. so parents education is under attack. i haven't been able to sleep since this happened i'm asking the government to please risk it my son he will continue with the education despite these types of threats once he's risk i assure you he will go back to school pressure is mounting on the government to end these types of attacks and parents across nigeria are left
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wondering if students will ever be see officials say contact was made with the group holding the students and that they will be released soon although officials insist that money was not part of the negotiation there were reports that ransom was paid for hundreds of students taken from a boarding school in december 2020 there were also reports that money and prisoners were exchanged for some students taken from a girls' 2nd school in chibok in 2014 many years the paying ransom to criminal groups is involved in them given the resources to buy arms and the confidence to strike again immediately is al-jazeera. now hundreds of displaced syrians have been protesting in the rebel held city of idlib the president bashar al assad allow them to return to their homes elsewhere in syria which they say have been seized by the government they also chanted against the upcoming presidential election saying it will be rigged. a course in india has ordered
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a climate activist to be kept in jail while she's investigated for sedition please accuse. other environmentalists of waging a social media war after they shared an online documents telling people how to support farmers protests elizabeth problem reports are from new delhi. and the. new delhi court hoping to be released from jail after 5 days in police custody but the judge denies have a quest. rather he was arrested as part of an investigation into her and 2 other environmentalists in connection with an online document that supported farmers protesting against new agricultural laws they say favor corporations and were ruined their livelihoods. and on. her breast has led to protests in the cities of ben deludedly delhi and mumbai and criticism from some of india's leading lawyers
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and environmentalists and here we are looking at a document a google document that almost becomes like a like a nuclear cord of sorts that's the way the government is actually looking at it it's a google document that tells people what hashtags to use and what is the problem that indian farmers are actually facing people did well during the human rights lawyer call and can solve it says the accusations are unfounded said ition requires in addition that there be actions taken aimed at overthrowing the state has done nothing of this so this charge is bizarre. free speech is not sedition police began investigating the document off to swedish climate activist shared it on twitter the document tells people in india and abroad how they can peacefully and democratically support the farmers protests the police say it aims to wage an economic social cultural and regional war against the
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country also say the sharing of the document on social media indicates there was a conspiracy behind the events on the public day in january when the largely peaceful protests erupted into violence involving the police. the police accuse 6 separatists of helping create the document many of the protesting farmers belong to the sick faith political analysts say the government is trying to discredit the protests by linking them to separatists despite a lack of evidence when we've seen similar methods being used in previous protests in the citizenship protests when. it is a misnomer. separatism. was raised in that context and used to disrupt the protests and taught them during this ever since these protests started off or whatever i do work with. thousands of families continue to protest against the government's recent agriculture on the outskirts of delhi supporters of vavi say her arrest is
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a warning to those who stand up to them elizabeth pradhan al jazeera you delhi. the u.k. supreme court has ruled drivers of britain are entitled to benefits like paid holidays a bit above wage judges drivers should be classed as workers as a self-employed is a decision that threatens his business model and could have big implications other workers in the get caught me. this is not just an issue with one company this is a business model that has been infiltrated into so many of our core urban services as i said so you don't depart from economy to get a commie the digital good economy in most specific is has transformed you know the care sector the domestic sector the korean sector and they all use similar techniques one of which is this myth classification of worker and algorithmic management so essentially this is going to do 2 things it's definitely good press
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and then that can then be used by workers in other sectors to contest their papers but i think it's also done is. essentially have been able to get away for that's the only man because it has all of its work force as an easy target it's a largely my grown black and ethnic minority workforce. you know people who aren't seen to have seemed to have the social and political power to take on such a massive company like. what this is really shown is that with the severe underestimation that workforce a high tech study has revealed more about of the gyptian sarah who rules more than 3000 years ago including how he died of the battlefield. tar the 2nd drained over south of egypt but he famously led his troops are going to pick sauce west asian dentistry which took over the vial told. all the fears of our signal back obliquely tillage though the fact that without doubt that he died through our his
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war against the exorcist and he was captured by the axis and we know that they tied his hands and they hit him on the face and they threw him in the ground and they hit him again but his soldiers were able to take him to the workshops the mummification workshop the mall fire him. watching al-jazeera with me so robin a reminder of all top stories u.s. president joe biden has declared his country is back sweeping away his predecessor's america 1st foreign policies biden address the munich security conference seeking to reassure allies sidelined during the trump years i know the past few years of strain and tested our transatlantic relationship.

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