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now all jews. and. i witnessed officers being knocked to the ground and hit with various objects that were thrown by rioters former police officers at the u.s. capitol say bad intelligence left them unprepared for the january the 6th insurrection by donald trump supporters. i'm about to send this is all to 0 live from doha also coming up lucky to be alive l.a. putting say tiger woods has sustained serious injuries to his legs in
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a californian car crash. anger on the streets of georgia lives thousands protest against the arrest of a prominent opposition politician. 67 inmates are killed in prison riots in ecuador we'll find out what makes prisons in latin america such dangerous places. the former chief of security at the u.s. capitol have told senators that officers didn't have the intelligence training or equipment needed to prevent the january the 6th riot 2 senate panels of investigation the failures that led to the attack by donald trump supporters and the deaths of 5 people as particle hane reports from washington d.c. there was a lot of finger pointing but few answers as to how the building was overrun so quickly. how could this happen america's symbol of to mark. christie overtaken by
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an angry mob the capitol police overwhelmed reinforcements would not arrive for hours these 3 men were in charge of security but before 2 senate committees basically said it wasn't their fault a clear lack of accurate and complete intelligence across several federal agencies contributed to this event and not poor planning by the united states capitol police every capitol police daily intelligence report between january for and january 6th including on january 6th forecast the chance of civil disobedience or arrest or in the protests as remote to improbable they blame federal agencies for not knowing what was planned an f.b.i. memo warning of possible violence was sent to capitol hill police they testified it was in forwarded to them but they admitted they did have an assessment days before the attack the assessment indicated that members of the proud boys white supremacist groups and and other extremist groups were expected to participate on
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january 6th and that they may be inclined to become violent the intelligence assessment already here. in the care of the members of the power board white supremacists and t.v. and other extremist groups will expect and it's part. of that but it may be inclined to become part of a much more targets are needed in that they insisted they move the perimeter back as a result but it was poorly guarded and the fence a temporary bike rack asked about when they called the national guard before and during the riot they pointed fingers more recollection was at one o 9 while i was sitting in the command center watching things rapidly deteriorate i made a phone call that a phone call was made in the presence of i believe both my assistant chiefs and possibly my general counsel at which time i made the initial request that we need to be the mclean national guard the situation is bad on the west front i followed up at 122 to check on the status of the request senator from my recollection i
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did not receive a request for approval for national guard until shortly after 2 pm and the former chief of the capitol police defended his actions saying they couldn't have been prepared for this no civilian law enforcement agency to include the united states capitol police is trained or equipped to repel an insurrection of thousands of individuals focused on breaching a building at all costs many senators expressed concern at that saying that is exactly what police here should be prepared for now this was just the 1st hearing up next members of the department of defense and the f.b.i. will be here to explain what they did what they didn't do and why. al-jazeera washington. american golfer tiger woods has been undergoing surgery following a car crash near los suns and the 15 time major champion has multiple leg injuries police say there was no evidence he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs it
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was the sole occupant in this single vehicle crash they had a county sheriff says the crash happened at a known accident sites and that woods was lucky to be alive for the time it made it cross the center divider to the point that arrest it was several several 100 feet away so obviously they did a case they were going at a relatively a greater speed than the normal however because it is downhill it slopes and it also the curves that area has a high frequency of of accidents is not uncommon no skid marks no braking so apparently the 1st contact was with the center median and from there then across into the op opposing lane of traffic hit the curb hit a tree and there was several rollover is during that process rob runnels is following developments in los angeles. and many people will be very very concerned and upset by this but also very relieved that as the sheriff alex dillon who gave
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us said this was not worse than than what it could have been if you look at the damage to the vehicle a modern s.u.v. that tiger woods was driving it it seems remarkable that. his injuries were not greater now we do know that he underwent surgery we have not had a briefing from the hospital where he's being cared for yet so we don't know exactly when he. how long the surgery last or when he went out or what he's doing now he's likely to be in intensive care but looking at the the biography of tiger woods i think the golfing world was somewhat stodgy dominated by white men and then tiger woods came along and kind of make golf cool again he was a person of color dominating this ancient sport that started hundreds of years ago in scotland and doing it with such flair and such conviction and creating
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a whole codd ray of fans opening up horizons for other young athletes the u.s. and e.u. have condemned the arrest of a senior opposition figure in georgia and a commanding i was taken into custody in tuesday morning is accused of seeking to violently overthrow palm and robin fusty walker reports from the capital tbilisi. surrounding the headquarters of george's largest opposition party police carried out a special operation to breach the building. was opposition supporters resisted but officers soon overwhelmed them taking the camillia the leader of the united national movement into custody. last week georgia's prime minister resigned citing concerns about clamping down on the opposition his successor appointed on monday was quick to take out a hard line position to throw. over the i sincerely thank the entire police force
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for protecting the dignity of our state the stability of our state and once again reminding everyone that we are a state governed by the rule of law which we want someone to live with and i'm sure many here is accused of leading anti-government protests that turned violent in the summer of 2019 but the opposition says his arrest is politically motivated an attack on a democracy with western aspirations using tactics borrowed from the kremlin. he believes daddy was good parents you know political leaders think it is all about they all these small independent prizes and if you only escalate the situation their ports are all distribution is that regeneration commitment create the pressure on the georgian and they will come back to remember hearing that negotiations and we will negotiate political settlement which really clearly elections georgia has special status as an eastern partner of the european union
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and its western allies are alarmed we are urging all sites in georgia to shoulder necessary restraint utmost restraint and responsibility to avoid more escalation in the interest of the country and its people the arrest of this senior opposition figure in the command has deepened george's. political crisis which has been going on for months now the opposition refusing to recognize the results of october's elections and into parliament behind me. efforts by western diplomats to get georgia's political factions to talk to one another rather than one another appear to have failed. instead more protests and more arrests may lie ahead robyn for the water out 0 tbilisi. more than
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a 1000 migrants from me amman have been deported from malaysia even though a court blocks their removal hours earlier rights groups are warning their lives could be at risk protests in miramar itself are growing more intense by the day as tony chang reports international reaction is becoming more damning. malaysian immigration trucks transporting more than a 1000 asylum seekers to the coast and ships waiting to deport them despite a last minute court order delaying the repatriation the immigration authorities defined the courts killing 3 myanmar navy ships waiting on the docks the decision overrides concerns that some of those sent back will be under threat from myanmar's new military government. in myanmar itself mourners paid their last respects in front of the comp in the tent and i when. the 37 year old company was one of 2 people killed on saturday when security services opened fire on protesters in the
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city of mandalay. i feel so sad losing him we lost the guardian of our family and now i need to move on with the remaining family members. me i'm a senior general minong lai however made no mention of recent deaths when he appeared on state t.v. late on monday nor did he make any concessions to the huge numbers of protesters who've taken to the streets instead the general threatened to withdraw the license of media companies that continue to refer to the military takeover as a coup. but international condemnation reaction is mounting fast. a statement from g 7 foreign ministers said the use of blind ammunition against unarmed people is on the acceptable and e.u. foreign ministers announced targeted sanctions today we have these high that a set of targeted measures with ministers in response to these events. when we took to political agreement to apply sanctions targeting didn't really to be responsible
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for the cool on day comic interest. and still the street protests continue demonstrators in yangon acting out the roles of doctors and civil servants operating under military rule. the protesters are hoping their movement is gaining momentum but at this stage there's no sign the generals listen. tony ching algis are. still ahead on al-jazeera the outrage in argentina as the political elites secretly work their way to the front of the queue for the coronavirus vaccine. u.k. farmers facing a new financial threat despite the government making promises until the cows come home. it's time for the perfect jan in the winter sponsored by qatar airways.
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hello there because something of a change in the weather for beijing over the next couple of days on sunday temperature touch 26 degrees celsius but with service has been resumed wednesday a top temperature of around 5 degrees celsius so we lost that record breaking february hate little bit of snow just coming into the sections of china as we go through wednesday some rain easing in as well across central parts all making this way for the race was through the elysee heading towards south korea we'll see some wetter weather coming through cooling off in shanghai with some heavy downpours which could lead to a little bit of localized flooding showers will gradually make their way towards southern parts of japan some wintry weather there into north of honshu into hokkaido in between not too bad in tokyo with a top temperature of around 11 degrees celsius not too bad now into the philippines you see some very heavy rain recently of course with our recent tropical storm punching its way through its face laying out a legacy of showers just pushing into northern areas through lose almost see some
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wet weather coming in here as we go on through a weapons day somewhere to weather some wintry weather pushing across northern parts of india meanwhile northern areas of pakistan wanted to show was into nepal and bhutan but for much of south asia is fine and dry. sponsible qatar airways in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. their forcibly taken from their families back to the most terrible thing in syria just to be detained this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship of a mother and her sometimes i thought it would be better to die than continue to be sure really acted and tortured. the disappeared of syria on al-jazeera.
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we want georges in a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. senators have heard capitol police did not have the training or equipment to prevent january's rioting congress has security chief who resigned after the incident said troops were not requested earlier because a fuse it would look bad. american golfer tiger woods is undergoing surgery after suffering multiple leg injuries in a car accident in los angeles the l.a. county sheriff says the crash happened i don't known accident site and the woods is lucky to be alone in. the us and the e.u. have condemned the arrest of a senior or position figure in georgia become many i was taken into custody on tuesday morning triggering protests in the capital tbilisi is accused of seeking to
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violently overthrow parliament. some of tennis rides have broken out at 3 prisons in ecuador leaving at least $67.00 inmates dead hundreds of police are trying to regain control of the facilities which are home to 70 percent of the country's prison population around half of those killed and were in the city of cuenca the government says the violence is the result of gangs fighting for dominance there have been a number of deadly riots and jail breaks in prisons across latin america recently at least 24 people were killed during a riot in colombia's capital bogota last march human rights watch says prisoners were intentionally shot that were protesting against authorities not doing enough to prevent the spread of covert 199 prisoners were killed in a peruvian jail in april and that was during a protest by inmates demanding better health care and one of the most deadly riots more than 40 people were killed in a venezuelan president in may by
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a rival gangs sparked riots in ecuador in december leaving 11 prisoners dead let's bring in adrian perez is so. he's an attorney and he's visited some of the detention centers in ecuador he's joining us by skype from kill it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera thank you very much indeed for being with us describe to us some of the scenes that you have witnessed when you've been to these prisons. well thank you very much for having me. i have had the chance of witnessing it firsthand the conditions of some of these this prisons and they are quite appalling they're actually yumi and it is not a surprise at all given dollars those conditions these essential incidents are our own fortune common occurrence in or in your system. you have we basically have a system which is meant to ours around 27000 inmates but the waves
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are operating right now we have over 40000 in the system this causes tremendous overcrowding or sanitary conditions and in in under such circumstances not possible react petion for these people eat. hence to these occasional operates at allan's you refer to them as occasional who are briggs but we were just talking about going to some of the cases there and they were fairly recent tell me something across latin america the situation with with the prisons is seems to be very similar in many latin american countries is this policy by governments or is it desperation by governments that led to this. i want to know a boat or are a we have a tremendous amount of structural issues that have been on addressed by the
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government but the actual government the present government and all the governments we've had and asked. we have. basically given the short amount of resources we have a disposition it's a very a very unpopular to use these resources to enact prison reform people say well if you are these people are evil dollars why should we invest in prisons why should we invest in we have got issues on money for schools we should use our money for roads and the like but that's a very short short sighted way of seeing things because if more resources are in it and are not placed in revolution centers in prisons and penitentiaries then you are not we're never going to be able to escape the cycle of violence that shakes not only are all that in american countries the government in ecuador is blaming
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rival gangs fighting for dominance for this latest outbreak of violence but also as we mentioned before there was another occasion in december in again in ecuador for again rival gangs sponsored more violence there one gets the impression looking at it from the outside that governments and authorities have almost no control over most of the prisons and locking america one gets the feeling that it's the gangs and it's the criminals who are inside who are actually running the place. i didn't get a precision is completely correct given the overcrowding and the lack of resources they dictated to our penitentiary system there is no way for our up for guards an order a prison staff members to keep control over our prisons and it's also a structural problem in it what are the corruption is rampant everywhere so when you have an underpaid prison guard for example it's very very easy for him to
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accept a bribe so for him to be tempted it would bribery from from from gang members and that away the institutional if he of the prince system is compromised and so we have a situation in which prisons become a no man's land in which prison gangs essentially run amok really interesting to get your thoughts on this we appreciate your joining us and as a comparison as a thank you very very much indeed thank you. at least 900000 doses of the chinese made son of farm vaccine are about to arrive in argentina the delivery comes as the country royals from the vaccine scandal which saw government officials getting secret injections presidents are about often wonder as vying to take action against anyone else involved there is of all reports from one of those. dozens of people over 80 years old attended this vaccinations 14 when
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a site is the place has been specially set up to receive them. kooky would not want to reveal her real name told us she feels an enormous sense of relief after receiving the vaccine and from being isolated from her family for many months after the radical synchronously i am very worried for my children and my grandchildren the pandemic has changed our lives with our loved ones i need to hug my family kiss my children i can do that once i get the 2nd dose. the government started the vaccination campaign in january for now argentina is using russia sputnik v. and india's vaccines the 1st doses were meant to protect health and essential workers and now the elderly but not everything is going as planned argentina vaccination campaign came under scrutiny following reports that people with political connections had early access to the over 1000 vaccine this generated the
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resignation of the minister of health and the government published a list of those benefited from this members of the opposition are saying that this did not happen in one hospital or in several parts of the country. around 70 people were included in the initial list among them politicians journalists ambitious men . the controversy has damaged the government's credibility and angered the population. president i want to fight a man this who is currently mexico said he already took the necessary measures to prevent the v.i.p. vaccination program from happening again. i hate privileges i don't use them and don't need them i can't stand that this happens i'm sorry that some of my people did and i already spoke about what ideas and took measures to correct it and i'm asking prosecutors the chick the penal code we can answer for the things we. do
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know what in mexico's president or say manuel lopez what order one of his allies in the region said the problem is the shortage of vaccines he says latin america has received only a small percentage of the vaccines available worldwide. these are human rights the right to health and the right to life their basic rights but it's not working out of 80 countries that have the vaccine 10 have secured 80 percent of the doses. access to the vaccine is important to help jumpstart latin american economies and distributing them fairly to those who desperately need them is crucial to save lives. when a society is the world bank certain to suspend financing for corona virus vaccines in lebannon the bank's investigating accusations that politicians were inoculated in parliament without prior approval to top lebanese officials supervising the vaccine rollout called the revelations outrageous and threaten to step down there's
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also been an outcry on social media the world bank's approved $34000000.02 pay for vaccines for $2000000.00 people. the taliban's accusing the afghan government of not living up to its end of last year's peace agreement the group says it's still waiting for the release of more of its fighters from prisons as it was promised during the doha talks it's also concerned the united states has not changed the group's designation to go see it as in the afghan talks say the taliban hasn't been completely truthful and i can say sion the group deniers or some avenge of it has this update from doha the taliban have been accused of perpetrating the violence that we've been seeing in the last few weeks in afghanistan you've heard from the you nominate erected there accusing groups of carrying those attacks out and the government of the of the son has actually leveled the blame at the taliban at bay is that a senior afghan official a taliban official told us that the taliban has not committed any attacks against
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civilians it says it remains committed to peace and for the 1st time they've laid out in detail on how free in phases one government and they were supposed to abide by the agreement and they say they haven't they haven't released the prisoners this is the bombardment drone attacks night raids all of them are continuing in taliban areas the taliban insists that there have been no attacks on western targets they say that there are no intelligence reports of any foreign there attacking any or planning to attack any other country using of dance well so they say that they're holding their end of the bargain and nato ministers as well as the united states says that it is continuing its intelligence gathering on the ground and a decision is imminent about what is going to be the future course of action with regard to not just the troop withdrawal but a permanent cease fire and peace in afghanistan. a judge in india has granted bail
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to a climate activist saying jd evidence she committed sedition is scanty and sketchy the 22 year old was arrested earlier this month accused of developing a so-called tool kit which helped people to support the months long farmers protests police say to encourage violence during a rally in january critics see her case as part of a government crackdown on dissent dozens of farmers have been demonstrating against the laws reforming india's agricultural sector. the u.k. government's promising to help farmers adapt to life outside the european union by mess about us johnson's told the national farmers union it's a chance to boost training and improve standards and some food producers are what about short term losses as netting baba reports. the start of a long process. this wheat is heading to a bread maker they'll sell their products in the u.k. and possibly beyond but the road ahead for british agriculture is less certain than
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for decades. and addressing the 1st national farmers union or n.f.u. conference since britain left the european union the prime minister paid tribute to the sector as we look ahead to the rest of the year preved course from the shackles of the common agricultural policy i hope that this could be the moment where we start to realise the many opportunities we now have not just for the benefit of our fantastic promise for all of you but for our entire country around 3 quarters of u.k. farm businesses say they're not viable without subsidies they get under the e.u.'s common agricultural policy those are being phased out by 2027 to be replaced by incentives for going green the government says it will pay farmers for things like anti flooding measures protecting wildlife habitats and planting trees now that we have left the new payments and incentives as well rewards farmers for farming more sustainably creating space for nature on their land based on seeing animal health
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and welfare and reducing carbon emissions. but in the short term some farmers who rely on exporting to europe face real uncertainty you customs checks and paperwork mean delays and extra costs the u.k. currently exports around 18 percent of the beef it produces while for barley the figure is around 22 percent and in both those cases the vast majority of the exports nearly 90 percent go to the european union so whatever trade deals. britain strikes with other countries in the next few years many farmers here simply can't afford to ignore that european market. but for david hicks would in n.f.u. representative who runs this farm in southern england the real worry lies elsewhere the real biggest threat to our business now is that the government will do across the world we could for example see australian based south american beef coming into this country competing directly with my cattle here at a much lower cost that is where the problems lie rather than our relationship with
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the still with frictionless trade with europe gone some industries like fishing say they're fighting for their survival other producers want to know how they'll be helped to stay afloat in these uncharted post brix it waters. for its part the government is promising golden opportunities for those prepared to change the debugger al-jazeera in southern england. this is all just 0 these are the top stories u.s. senators have heard police at the capitol building did not have the training or equipment to prevent january's rioting congress had security chief who resigned after the incident said troops were not requested earlier or to fear it would look bad american golfer tiger woods is undergoing surgery after suffering multiple leg injuries in a car accident in los angeles.

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