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the fun to make football fun i'll just see. what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they're going through here and i just we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. u.s. security officials admit being unprepared when donald trump supporters storm the capital and say warnings about the threat weren't taken seriously. so robert your charges are alive my headquarters here in doha also coming up. a setback in efforts to end the crisis in myanmar indonesia's foreign minister counsels a trip and protesters demanding
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a return to democracy refuse to back down. also prison riots of 3 jails in ecuador these more than 68 makes dead the president blames the violence on criminal organizations and american golfer tiger woods is injured in a car accident in california police say he's lucky to have survived. the former chief of security at the u.s. capitol have told senators their officers didn't have the intelligence training or equipment needed to prevent the january the 6th riot 2 senate panels are investigating the failures that led to the attack by donald trump supporters of the deaths of 5 people as particle one reports from washington d.c. there was a lot of finger pointing the few answers as to how the building was of overrun so quickly. how could this happen america's symbol of democracy overtaken by an
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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 a genuine. 6 including on january 6th forecast the chance of civil disobedience or arrest or in the protests as remote to improbable they blamed 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 tea for and other extremist groups were expected to
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participate on january 6th and that they may be inclined to become violent the intelligence assessment already here. indicated the members of the arab or white supremacists. and other extremist groups will expect and it's part. of that they may be inclined to pick up while 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 marechal action 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's bad on the west front i followed up at 122 to check on the status of the request senator from my recollection i did
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not receive a request for approval 'd for national guard until 'd 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 is 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. now indonesia's a foreign minister has canceled a planned trip to me in marfa talks with military leaders who seized power in a coup this month it's a setback to indonesia's efforts to steer a path out of the crisis we had been paralyzed by
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a general strike and weeks of demonstrations denouncing the coup and demanding the release of elected leader and son suchi the military have threatened protesters with violence at least 3 protesters have died since the civil disobedience campaign began well these are live pictures outside the indonesian embassy in the young girl where you see crowds of protesters have also gathered let's join scott hyde our correspondent who's monitoring events for us in the thai capital bangkok and scott it does seem now that diplomats are pushing back from being gauging with being bar it's becoming a real regional headache and one wonders how naypyidaw is going to react. yes so it is quite a quite a headache right now but you have to look at what the approach was by you know this planned visit by indonesia's foreign minister to nato or to meet with the generals
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in charge of sensually you can obviously see that that would not sit well with the protesters but beyond that part of the reason they said they're going in this is kind of like a on which is the group of southeast asian nations initiative to try to find a political solution to the situation in myanmar but in the approach you have to look at it that it was almost doomed to fail if they went down this track mainly because the protesters pretty much said straight away you're this means that you're in the gym izing recognizing the military military joint but also what they said they wanted to do is to make sure that the elections that the judge has said that they're going to carry out will be done fairly that is something the protestors are defiantly against they see that they had their free and fair elections back in november and those elected leaders were taken out of of office by the joint a so you have kind of 2 to. knocks against them going in with this approach the indonesian foreign minister the initial recognition of the joint to end it would be
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kind of saying yes ok let's have elections and again to make sure they're free and fair where the protestors say we had elections they were free and fair but those leaders were taken out by the military so i guess and i wouldn't say necessary back to the drawing board but it needs to be definitely realigned in their approach to regional players approach to try to find a political situation political solution to myanmar and of course it doesn't seem to be easy on say dumping the file all the above the protest movement all the way the military could potentially react to them so where are we in terms of where the protests today of the scale of the. as you mentioned just coming into us there are groups of people out in front of indonesian embassy in yangon for that exact reason we just discussed earlier that they are not happy with the way the indonesian foreign ministry was going to go in and kind of present this idea of why they wanted to try to involve themselves they as well as
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the regional players ossie on so that has prompted them to go out again in front of the internees an embassy we saw that yesterday tuesday as well we know that there are also some some ethnic group protesting on the streets of yangon right now today too we've seen that over the last couple of days and in mandalay again the 2nd largest city people coming out again so those warnings from the military government about potential violence for those people coming out onto the streets it really hasn't stopped them now we're not seeing those massive numbers we saw back on monday we when we had that general strike but they are still coming out and they are still looking to keep that pressure on the government saying that they want their leaders free and they want them reinstalled to know how things were before the 2 on february 1st and so obviously a story with lots of moving parts will continue to bubble to that with you in bangkok thank you. have broken out at 3 prisons and equitable leaving at least 67 inmates hundreds of police are trying to regain control of the
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facilities which i hope to 70 percent of the country's prison population over but badly house will. lose when telephone is presumed death grip and the police a minute to stew. that's to gun battles and knife fights broke out between rival gangs battling for control 3.0 monday night dozens of people were killed in the bloodshed and this is their lives in hospital there are reports of prisons posing with the bodies of their rifles. ecuador's president lana moreno took to social media to blame the riots on criminal organizations he said he to range to exercise control of firearms and explosives around the prisons. in the largest city y.p.u. police patrols bomb squads and helicopters surrounded the penitentiary as smoke rose from building families could only comfort each other oh ok but at that get
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a good effort everyone knows that all the prisoners have telephones our children told us last night that they were in danger and that there would be a riot at any moment and we thought it was a minute no fucking idea what we wanted out authorities process a list of people who died to know if my brother is ok. around hearts of the people killed were in tory prison in cuenca where writers were filmed punishing knives in the prison roof waving for the cameras and as the police secure the 3rd quarter packs the prison the injured were moved out these jails a said to hold about 70 percent of all inmates in ecuador and often flashpoints the battles between rival gangs last year 51 people were killed in prison disputes and with riots occurring frequently there's concern about the conditions inside the prisons we have
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a system which is meant to house around 27000 inmates but the weight training right now we have over or eat out in the system this causes tremendous overcrowding or sanitary conditions are now official said calm has been assumed but with the gangs continuing to operate in the prisons there's concern that calm may be short lived. well still ahead here on al-jazeera. we'll be back in ecuador to tell you why the country could be facing another digital uprising. the protest prime minister warns climate change is a grave threat to world peace those stories after the break.
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how there were cuts a mix of rain sleet and snow once a part of the middle east over the next couple of days we had some rain in and around central parts of saudi arabia even here in carter we saw a few spots of rain out west a weather system in place as we go on through awareness day some snow just around the caucasus sliding out to georgia or armenia southern parts of the caspian and a little chain of wintry flower is easing over towards afghanistan took many stand and is back you start becoming a little more widespread perhaps as we go on through thursday sinking further southwards around will see that mix of rain sleet and snow maybe a shower or 2 possible here in doha temperatures pick back to around 22 degrees celsius but i think for the most part it will be fine and dry as is the case to the south of that the year year monument seeing fine in trying whether one or 2 showers into that western side of yemen joining up with a little china showers that we do still have across central parts of ethiopia but
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the wetter weather will as per usual be down towards lake victoria easing down towards kenya through our tans in there and some wetter weather also coming into northern parts of madagascar i will say some lively storms rolling through here that could cause some localized flooding as we go through wednesday and thursday. this is a challenge because of all of their. current corrosion is the way they are now in syria the only way to get. a crossover minister of keenest. a european judge tasked with imposing nor a new order and a trial testing the nose of a new from a nation. with mace. highway on out 0.
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deservedly so hell rob a reminder of our top stories former security chiefs at the u.s. capitol have told senators offices didn't have the intelligence trading or equipment needed to prevent last month's riot 2 panels are investigating failures that led to the attack by donald trump supporters. indonesia's foreign minister has canceled a planned trip to be a mob which means paralyzed by a general strike and weeks of demonstrations denouncing this month's military coup is set back to indonesia's efforts to stay a path out of the crisis and riots have broken out small tavi asli a 3 prison ecuador leaving at least $75.00 events dead hundreds of police are trying to regain control the government says gangs are fighting for dominance.
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american golfer tiger woods has been seriously injured in a car crash near los angeles the 15 time major champion has leg injuries and police say he's lucky to be alive rob revels reports now from los angeles. tiger woods suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries after a violent car crash near los angeles it's my understanding that he had a serious injury so both legs the los angeles county sheriff's department said it was a single car rollover collision woods was the sole occupant of the s.u.v. no skid marks no braking so apparently the 1st contact was with the center median and from there then across into the up opposing lane of traffic hit the curb hit a tree and there was several rollover is during that process the vehicle wound up lying on its side at the bottom of a shallow ravine one look at the severe damage to the front of the s.u.v. shows how violent the accident was the outcome could certainly have been worse the
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front end was totally destroyed the bumpers everything was destroyed airbags deployed all of that and however thankfully the interior was more or less intact which kind of gave him the cushion to survive what's there was would have been a fatal crash sheriff's deputies who pried woods loose from the wreck say he was wearing seat belts and that he was conscious lucid and able to speak with his rescuers authorities say there was no evidence woods was impaired by alcohol or drugs the 45 year old golf legend was transported to a nearby hospital and underwent surgery tiger woods is unquestionably one of the greatest golfers of all time and he won 15 major championships including 5 masters tournaments 3 british opens for p.g.a. championship and more as a person of color who dominated what had been an overwhelmingly white sport he
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shattered barriers and expanded horizons for other athletes inspiring many fans young and old tiger it was said made golf cool woods has had his share of difficulties and embarrassed. it's including a messy divorce and the disclosure of multiple marital infidelities it's still not known whether woods will play golf professionally again after tuesday's crash police say it may take days or weeks before they determine the cause of the accident rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles thailand has received its 1st batch of krona virus vaccines the 200000 set of doses of china and 2000000000 have been awarded a 2nd batch is due to be shipped next month and the 3rd in april thailand has reported more than $25000.00 infections since the pandemic began those to have been detected since the latest wave of cases started in december. a protest against
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create a virus restrictions are being held for a 7th consecutive day police fired tear gas and live rounds killing 2 demonstrators as nicholas hack reports. 7 look at him on georgina cries i raised him like my son such a gentle and calm voice she says this was taken moments before the money died after police shot him in the head she says he had breached a government imposed curfew to get food but police say he was taking part in protests against the current of virus restrictions. then amarna. say they shot him like a dog threw him like a piece of rock treated him like a hunting animal i want my child back i want to bury him with. what's known as the free citizens it started as an online movement calling for people to bang their pots and pans every night during the curfew the protests grew
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and spilled into the streets across the country in response police have fired tear gas and life bullets to disperse the crowds several have been killed and many injured still the night demonstrations continue fearing for his life this demonstrator doesn't want to reveal his identity. sees all this. this is a movement rebellion and we're not here to just destroy things and make noise we want to be able to open our stall at night. our leaders don't understand our reality they need to set us free. is what about because richest countries governed for half a century by the bungle family while the family amassed huge fortunes live in poverty president offered a stroke in 2008 his son dean is said to be ruling the country and has passed draconian laws infringing people's civil liberties in the name of protecting the population against the pandemic they recently pushed through parliament very
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rapidly a little to. the political elite as it was when we learned. if the president became incapacitated people are not quite clear how far able. has returned to the leadership will already have the presidency the money was in his 2nd year of university when he died in his death georgina didn't just lose her nephew but someone she counted on to bring food to the table in a country that has so far left her poor isolated and now grieving nicholas hawke al-jazeera . police in new jersey say that there's been looting in the capital of the m.b. after the electoral commission declared pursuit of the winner of the presidential runoff he took the head of his challenger former president mohammad used to sami with more than 55 percent of the vote but the polls have been barred by the
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killings of 7 election workers on sunday observers have called on candidates to respect the final results. hundreds of protesters and i could all have marched to the capital quito to battling a recount of this month's presidential election of a digitas cabinet peris says vote rigging prevented him from advancing to the runoff allotted america to jealousy and you've been a small. thing for days indigenous ecuadorians march to the capital some from as far away as the amazon rain forest to demand a recount of this month's presidential election but the entire country's tired of so much corruption bowing to manipulation and abuse this time we won't give in jaco represents resistance was the march was led by the biggest the center left environmentalist and indigenous rights activist who insists he came in 2nd place that would allow him to compete in a presidential runoff in april. there are no longer doubts fraud is no longer
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a presumption it's a truth no one can hide it's a structural fraud and we have the evidence here was it is commonly known by his adopted indigenous name. which means water impeach what he presented the electoral council with boxes containing alleged proof of inconsistency is in nearly 50 percent of polling stations his supporters are demanding the council order a recount of all of them even though it has already declared conservative gilmore last saw the official 2nd place winner by less than half of a percentage point. though if they don't respect the letter of the law millions will heed our call for a national uprising because they can take away the dreams of the ecuadorian people 7. it's not a threat to be taken lightly. it would do is combative indigenous groups are well organized and in the past have proven they can paralyze the country and even force
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out governments when they mobilize the electoral count. so argues it can only challenge results from specific polling stations when there's evidence of inconsistency is it also argues that it can't afford a massive recount. the point of this demonstration and larger ones that may follow is to show that refusing the demands of ecuador's 1st serious indigenous presidential contender could cost the country far more a c. in human al-jazeera. the us city you have condemned the arrest of a c.d.o. opposition figure in georgia the current value was detained on tuesday morning sparking protests that he's accused of seeking to violently overthrow parliament over the forestay 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
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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 a hard line position he needs to throw. over the i sincerely thank the entire police force 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.
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he believes daddy was good parents you know political leaders think it is all about they all these small independent prizes and you can go on the escalator should you wish their words are all distribution is generation for me and we create the pressure on the georgian and they will come back to remember here in negotiations and we will negotiate political settlement which really clearly elections georgia has special status as an eastern partner of the european union and its western allies are alarmed that 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 the
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elections and in the parliament behind me. efforts by western diplomats to get georgia's political factions to talk to one another rather than at one another appear to have failed. instead more protests and more arrests may lie ahead robin for the walker how does iraq tbilisi. now one of 3 men charged with killing a high profile investigative journalist and baltar has been sentenced to 15 years in prison visit must plead guilty to murdering daphne karunya. in 2017 the men are accused of setting off a car bomb that targeted her vehicle was known for investigating corruption involved as government muskrat's 2 brothers are also on trial. a judge in india has granted bail to climate activists dishy raffi saying evidence she committed sedition is scanty and sketchy she was arrested earlier this month
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the qs of developing a so-called tool kit to allegedly show people how to support farmers protests that have lasted for months police say the guide encourages violence during a rally in january 2000 farmers have been demonstrating against laws reforming the agricultural sector. united nations security council members have met virtually to discuss the impact of climate change on international peace and security secretary general antonio tariff said it was the defining issue of our time u.k. prime minister boris johnson chaired the meeting and called for richer countries to help better help vulnerable ones but asian naturalists david attenborough said climate change is the biggest security threat bottom humans have faced. if we continue on our current path we will face the collapse of everything or gives us our security we have left the stable and secure climatic period that
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gave birth to our civilization there is no going back no matter what we do now it's too late to avoid climate change and the poorest and most vulnerable those who have the least security are now certain. that our diplomatic editor james bays has more from the united nations in new york this is the highest level meeting of the security council on this issue the u.k. has the presidency this month called the meeting there are some countries that believe climate change shouldn't be discussed in the security council notable among them is russia it's a point that was picked up by the british prime minister boris johnson in his trademark flippant style. i know that there are people around the world who will say that this is all curly green stuff from a bunch of. shoes and not suited to international
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diplomacy and international politics i couldn't disagree more profoundly the u.s. climate envoy john kerry effectively apologized for his country not being in the paris climate deal for the last 4 years but he said his country was now back in permanently president biden knows that we don't have a moment to waste which is why he moved to rejoin the paris agreement just hours after being sworn in and it is why he has direct it towards know that whole of government approach to address the climate crisis elevate the issue as a national security priority and to put america on an irreversible path to achieve net 0 emissions by 2050 or earlier and i emphasize irreproachable by any president by any demagogue of the future the u.n. believes that the commitments made by countries of the past climate deal back in
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2060 now don't go far enough and that's why there's a big build up to another climate summit that's happening in glasgow in scotland at the end of this year. by xobni for us interior secretary has faced tough questions on energy policy on the 1st day of a senate confirmation hearing if approved hollande will be the 1st native american cabinet secretary her responsibilities would include overseeing national parks natural resources and native american reservations she's promised to strike a balance between energy needs and conservation. i was there with me so whole robin a reminder of our top stories the former chief of security at the u.s. capitol have told senators their officers didn't have the intelligence training or equipment needed to prevent the january 6th riot to pavel's or.

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