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changes to fight the spread to vaccine misinformation on law and cuts to. and beyond say makes music history at this year's grammys by winning the most awards on brecker it's. announced on how much not have all the sporting including christiana are now though scores a hat trick to keep eventis islamist syria title hopes alive. syria is marking 10 years since the start of the uprising that spiraled into civil war more than half a 1000000 people have been killed in the fighting millions more have been forced to flee their homes now with the forces of president bashar assad firmly in control of
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most of the country many are asking if it was all worth it so you know whether takes a look back at a. of conflicts. this is the birthplace of syria's uprising in 2011 but opposition members call this moment the end of the dream of a democratic country it's 2018 and the government has just recaptured the southern province after 7 years of resistance. i almost had a breakdown after all the sacrifices when they raised the flag we felt stabbed the town had a lot of symbolism for the revolution. it was here where the wall of fear was broken we watched syrians turn against the police state we watched them bury their dead demonstrators who were killed by security forces was still. going ahead with. protests spread to other areas in homs
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tanks were sent to suppress the uprising. the city which became known as the capital of the revolution became a battleground and. the regime forced us to take up arms and turned the uprising into a war it was no longer possible to face guns without screens. there was a siege on the rebel stronghold after months of heavy fighting months later the opposition agreed to leave the area. ashraf was among them he says they had little choice they were trapped without basic supplies running low on ammunition and abandoned by the world. 2 years later and after a 4 year stalemate the opposition was forced to abandon aleppo which weakened them politically. and i felt broken when i got on the bus i still think about it but the siege was unbearable people were dying either by bombs or
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hunger. is among the millions of internally displaced syrians who live in the opposition controlled north unable and unwilling to live under syrian president bashar assad's rule but he says he fears a ceasefire agreed last year will not hold. already hundreds of thousands have been killed millions have been displaced inside and outside the country and there has been no accountability serious conflict is entering its 2nd decade with the majority of its citizens poor and with little hope. we have been forced to give up on our dreams the international community has failed the syrian people there is no reconciliation there is no peace 10 years of war has divided a country and its people. well we've got 2 correspondents with those this. is in istanbul but 1st let's go to zain a hunter who's not a refugee camp near the syrian border in lebanon bekaa valley zina give us
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a camper many people have spent years hoping for an end to the civil war what have they been telling you is there any hope samisen that one day they'll finally be able to return home. well people have lost hope you talk to them and they'll tell you of course we want to go back we want to go back to our towns and villages but we can't each has a different reason but as you can see behind me this has been the living conditions of it for over the past 10 years miserable conditions many of these children were born in lebanon on they do not know their country they do not know syria and even though the battlefield has been largely quiet for a year now many of these people will tell you how can we go back when there is no permanent ceasefire how can we trust that the conflict will not reignite in certain
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areas another reason why people do not want to return is because they're afraid that there's still no security guarantees in place that that will make these people feel comfortable returning in fact united nations the european union they've said that mass returns are still not safe because there are there are no security and safety guarantees in place human rights groups really have documented cases whereby people who have returned they have been arrested because for the syrian regime you didn't just need to belong to the opposition or sympathize with the opposition by leading the country in the height of the war they consider these people traitors so they say how can we go back if we have no protection whatsoever and then. you have the question of the economy many of these people will say there are no jobs no services no infrastructure left in many many villages the cities towns that have
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been flattened and devastated by the war this syrian local currency has collapsed which means salaries are worthless which means there's hyperinflation the price of food is on the rise the united nations saying there are more people hungry today then at any time sort of out of the 10 year 10 year conflict in fact the united nations says that 13000000 people inside syria require assistance in order to survive and there is no solution in sight even though the president bashar assad may have claimed victory he clawed back territory from from the rebels there he cannot offer any economic incentives to these people because he needs the money he needs hard currency and the international community has made it very very clear you're not going to get money you're not going to get reconstruction funds in
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fact they're even sanctions in place that prevents any country any entity or any individual to deal with the regime to have any business dealings with the regime so the international community is using that as leverage to force bashar assad to agree to a political reforms to agree on a new constitution and really to agree to hold free and fair u.n. supervised elections that he's not accepting and he's not ready to make any concessions in fact he is planning to hold a presidential elections in a few weeks time even though the european union like other countries have said we're not going to recognize those elections because they will not be free fair and transparent so bashar assad may have won maybe he's still in power. but he rules over a failed state and 13000000 people that's half of the pre it war population these people have been left out of his syria so how can there be
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a reconciliation with half the country unable or unwilling to live under his rule is in a holder there alive from the bekaa valley in lebanon say in a thank you. let's get more now from the scene and course you'll lose she joins us live from istanbul in neighboring turkey the scene of this war has been grinding on for years in terms of the military conflicts itself how do things stand 10 years on. well actually when the war started 10 years ago sirius served as a proxy battlefield for local and regional players and when you look today turkey and russia seem to be seem to be actively engaged in syria's domestic civil war you see. more than the health of the country that have been under the control of other rebel groups or let's say other fighter
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groups are now back in syrian government's control and you have the syrian democratic forces led by the kurdish group why fiji running the eastern part of to euphrates river and there are you have it live run by some rebel forces which are named to be jihadist groups vice by some circles and a you have other areas like off ranger are. these places are under control of the syrian national army the syrian opposition group backed by the turkish military in those areas actually were known to be safe zones that the syrian refugees who are residing in turkey their population is that these 4500000 could return so the military situation the military presence is as this right now but besides turkey and russia now we see more players waning in like the
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united states also turkey is presence added on who wrote an article about the syrian. for the 10th year of the syrian uprising today it was published on bloomberg he's making a call for the united states to get actively engaged with turkey in order to. order to prepare a safe place for the syrians so that they can go back and to fight for democracy in syria and this is a military situation but of course at the military situation from time to. time is getting in tense as the spies the us than and source the peace process is signed by turkey iran and russia these ceasefires this peace process and from time to time are being violated and this fight those a great months of this fight all the international recognition of those military presence according to of course some circles these are not legal the turkish
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military for instance is being targeted so you see ringback russia is not willing to willing to give its influence to any other player this fight that russia was a late player in syria who joined in the war after 2050 and you have newcomers to the game and given that turkish military is being attacked by the syrian kurdish fighters group y p g from time to time in those areas and from the syrian government forces turkey doesn't have a clear calendar for a military withdrawal which is it which is actually also a risk between turkey and russia the spite that they have a corporation in syria politic wise they're totally on different pages so after 10 years of this conflict yes you have you don't have any proxy wars anymore you have state and militaries on the ground but still everything is very tense case in him because you're there with an update there from istanbul thank you sir. well let's
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stay with this we can now speak with her a see she's the head of public relations at the syrian association for citizens dignity and joins us also from istanbul is great to have you with was on the news. let me start with this we have a nation destroyed the country's finances in tatters and millions upon millions of people displaced do you think syrians have any dignity in this moment. well today you are taking part in the global com aeration of it's a diversity of views here have a mission as a unique voice of his face hearings because we want to moralize face syrians to continue their struggle for the media rights because this is we've been doing for the past 10 years we are actually struggling for the community and we want to make the international community aware that the 13000000 displaced syrians are you're
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a fucking about half of the population of syria is this place and these people they insist on they're the community and he insists on their rights as the basis of any political solution in serious one a no matter what the regime is doing no matter all the crimes that have been committed we still insist on our the need on and on our rights for many syrians who have managed to escape the fighting and who find safety and shelter elsewhere what does this 10 year anniversary mean to you those who have managed to escape the country. well it's a constant reminder grander for us to continue our struggle i mean we're we've been through a lot we've suffered a lot but this means to us that the struggle continues and it means to us if we don't continually for our struggle and here i am stressing on the importance of incorporating our rights younger the rights of those face serious a spike of any thought of the possible sure but also and the governance and
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a light of all a part of establishing a safe environment in syria because this is what we really need we want to turn back to our a country the struggle is not over even though the country is as the story even though our economy is the story even though that our offense by the regime and a rush to add legitimacy to the european regime or by connections whether by conferences on the return of refugees we insist that there is no safe and vitamin in syria that allows that in turn of the syrians and we insist that the issue of this experience is not a humanitarian issue but it's at the heart of any political solution in syria and any political transduction if we take stock of the situation we've had 10 years of civil war we saw with our correspondents a no holds or beirut children running around in mugs who were born after the war began have never seen their country given the the struggles that are being faced by so many around the world would you say it's been worth it.
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this is a difficult question i mean i cannot say if it's for a sense for people to be sane or for people to lose their lives or even to lose their loved ones but i'm saying it's part of the struggle you stark refused a lot of the syrian people sacrificed a lot i cannot think of any syrian family who did not sacrifice and this in itself is their reason for us to continue the struggle so there weren't we're going to have a difficult for me to say yet but i can say that this is an extra reason for me not to surrender not to stop the struggle unutterable buckton. to a syria which is ruled by the by the assad regime and its cronies and to an unsafe syria we started this for 10 years of all we've paid a lot like you mentioned mel we have a huge last very large lost generation we have generations been born outside syria they don't even know what their country is we have generations who are born in
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towns they don't know what it means to live in a house under under under i rule. but we have generations now who turned 18 and they cannot even participate in any of the political life that's threatened their country so this is all it means to us that we still know a lot of work to do and we still have a lot of struggle and this is why we're trying to mobilize the syrians this place syrians to make our voice heard and to make sure that our rights are incorporated in any political solution on syria i want to say monetary and dignified transfer all syrians ok hire are joining us live from istanbul thank you very much indeed for speaking to al-jazeera thank you. there's plenty more still to come on this news hour including. from the u.k. to a straight a rallying cry for governments to do more to end sexual violence. remaining
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defiance thousands of supporters of brazil's president gerry are both so narrow john protests demanding an end to corona virus restrictions and in sports the north london darby serves up one of the goals of the scenes and we'll have all the football action if you are coming up later in the program of the challenges of the . my. hearing for myanmar as i stood civilian leader aung san suu kyi has been pushed more than a week as her country reels from further bloodshed she's been detained since the june 30th pirate february 1st. at least 39 people were killed on sunday that's the highest number or deaths in a single day in the crackdown on and protesters the military meanwhile has imposed
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martial law in several wages of young gone and mandalay let's get more now from scott hardliner he joins us live from bangkok scott the situation appears to be deteriorating we're seeing a staggering rise in fatalities and i martial law being imposed. yes absolutely and in the particular areas around yangon more and kind of the industrial suburbs of the country's largest city 6 district 6 neighborhoods now have come under martial law and what that means in myanmar is it's pretty much that any kind of civilian administration court system anything within those districts has been disbanded it's now completely ruled by the military now this is obviously an escalation after we saw a very bloody day on sunday in these areas what's more to that is that what we saw yesterday on sunday when we saw the deaths as you mentioned more than 37
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that they went to certain areas where their factories were financed by china and the protesters specifically targeted those attacked some of those factories some of the protesters attacked some of those factors and that's what we see we believe that a lot of this the violence kind of escalated with the security forces with the military with the police there and that's why we're seeing then now the imposition of martial law in 2 districts on sunday night and then for more districts that are around it today on monday morning let's talk about those chinese factories because this seems father significant the if these reports in china saying they're very concerned for the safety of their citizens in after these facts to me it's hag's why is this significant why are the protests is attacking chinese factories within their own country. a lot of the protesters and they
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voiced this in leaders of voice this they see china being sympathetic to the coup supportive of the coup and that is mainly because of the relationship that china has had for decades with me and mars military it is the largest supplier of arms and military equipment to me and mar it is the biggest trading partner with me and maher the military have a lot of interest business interests in the country so they benefit from that massive trade between the 2 countries but then also you need to see part of the reason why the protesters have singled out china is because of that because of their support for the military in myanmar and also the rhetoric that's come out of china during this period since the coup the protest movement they really haven't condemned what the military has done and actually have always called it has kind of recognize it as an internal matter as they say and also when you see what they have done at the un security council twice along with russia china has pushed to
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water down any kind of statement coming out of the security council and they've been successful in doing that because they have a veto power so the protesters see china as. supportive of the protests started supportive of the coup that is why they have focused on these these factors you know we've seen this kind of street the way through a lot of times we saw them gather in front of the chinese embassy and yang gone so this is something the protests that the protesters have been doing over the last several weeks but again escalating when we saw these attacks in the factories. bring is the very latest from bangkok scott thank you. and in asia the netherlands and arlen's have suspended the astra zeneca call that 19 vaccine because of concerns about bloods crossing the region in italy denmark and norway have also holds at the wallets of the japs but experts say it's been tested thorough they say countries shouldn't stop administering its join whole
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reports. arlen's decision to call a temporary halt to the use of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine could have far reaching consequences the country's immunization orthe already pointed to a safety alert raised this week by the norwegian medicines agency after 4 health care workers suffered serious blood clotting events within 14 days of receiving the astra zeneca jab denmark and iceland have raised similar concerns with the ripple effect extending to bulga area and as far afield as thailand the irish move was described as precautionary we will continue to monitor the situation and if we can be satisfied that these events are coincidental and not caused by this vaccine we will reassess the situation the u.k. based astra zeneca has defended its vaccine saying that safety data collected with 17000000 doses administered so far shows no evidence of increased risk of parliamentary embolisms or thrombosis pending further investigation the european
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medicines agency says the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks and the world health organization says it's rollout should continue it really doesn't mean that it is potentially unsafe it is been tested widely have been no reported problems beyond what you would normally expect with a vaccine we're going to see really the occurrence of these. is no greater in. vaccinated population ronit is in the vaccinated population so why why regulators in these countries are taking that decision beyond being extremely cautious. is not really clear inevitably now concerns will linger the oxford astra zeneca vaccine has been beset by problems including political disputes and delivery delays now add safety concerns it's important to
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note that no one is alleging a conclusive link between the vaccine and these blood clotting events but the longer the doubt is allowed to persist the worse the effect will trust therefore the overall vaccine rollout jono how al-jazeera london. face that it has begun labeling posts about covert 19 in an effort to combat some misinformation contents about vaccines will have labels with facts from the world health organization the tech giant says it will expand its coronavirus awareness effort see other platforms such as instagram and whatsapp facebook has faced heavy criticism for allowing false claims and conspiracy theories see spread steering the pandemic for anything that's viral that's misinformation it gets removed from platform but there's a huge gray area of people who have concerns that are having a conversation about a coven some of which some people would call misinformation and some of which other
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people would call doubt. and we also know from a lot of research that on the margin if we were move all of that it's really icky polarize people even more. and so what we want to do what we've learned again without health experts is the best thing to do in and out in huge gray area is just to show up with authoritative information and helpful way. well let's get more now from simon clark he's not associate professor of cellular microbiology at university of reading and joins us from there great to have you with us on the news our 1st of us president with face big d t welcome this move by facebook to. also massively label all posts about vaccines you think it will help. but really i mean something needs to be done because there is a lot of actually mentioned right across the world. more so in some countries than others but of course social media in particular facebook is where
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a lot of people get their news from these days so i think. while we have the possibility of. fake news regards right actually appearing up on platforms like facebook it's incumbent upon the the owners of that platform to take steps to to people that what they might be reading isn't necessarily correct i think the problem is a misinformation on social media when it comes to vaccine uptake. well in the u.k. there does seem to be a problem with some people with some communities and facebook is just one of the on the rest of social media i should say as well as just one element of the dissemination of of. this a false news faith sorry that but it seems to be very common and how do you think people should be listening to you when it comes to information about vaccines any
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face makes going to pit information from the w.h.o. on vaccine post but the w.h.o. was trashed by donald trump and when i sing a similar thing with the astra zeneca vaccine in particular you're told by one health agency that it's safe and then you have a string of countries polls in the lights because they're worried about safety who should people be listening to. a good question i mean people have to ask themselves whether they want to believe what donald trump told them not why it might say what he said. these are the other governments particularly european governments notice that excellent point. they don't help themselves when they say the state but go to explain exactly why they're doing what they're doing we hear. they think that's that the chance of increased blood clotting after vaccination but blood clots happen in people normally and really the numbers that so that we have
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at the moment as far as we know suggests that they're no more common in the vaccinated population and they are that unlocks in a population if if the regulators have seen something unusual or of concern they really do need to be a bit more forward to bit more honest about what it is that the the problem that they've they've come up with aids which you say they ask is that a vaccine is safe. yes my father has had a i have no reason to think that it is unsafe i haven't been vaccinated yet there's a good chance i will get that vaccine the oxford astra zeneca and i will happily take it if i do and so what would you say to people who are nervous if they are offered for example the astra zeneca vaccine don't want that one they want a different one what would you say it's it's a view as of al-jazeera who worries about its force in the vaccine or whether it's
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safe whether they'll get blood clots and whether any of the conspiracy theories that here on face they can whatsapp what would you say to them if they're offered a vaccine against current virus well firstly i would say don't feel bad about asking questions it's ok to ask questions and it's for people like me. and medics and nurses to take splayed why nothing is safe millions of people have had this vaccine and there is no evidence yet i do for any side effects that are that severe that there is a problem sure some people get x. a sore arm after infection that's fairly normal actually but more serious complications there is no evidence that they occur any more frequently than they do in the unvaccinated population you have to remember that yes some people might get blood clots but some people get blood talks anyway even if we never heard it ok
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simon clark thank you so much for joining us on al-jazeera and sharing your thoughts and your expertise thank you. lots more still to come on this sound is here a new star it's all about balance we'll tell you how nigeria plans to manage rivalry between livestock farmers and those growing crops. and a sandstorm sweeps through china's capital but beijing has a big careen plan to stop it happening in the future. and support this american goal for its own right all right master class of players championship for all the details with santa place it in the show. the weather's looking pretty messy across europe at the moment lots of clouds
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showing up rain sleet and snow across parts of france germany hazing across the alps and over towards the balkans as well so a lot of weather front showing up on a chopper doesn't move out of the wakes so you cannot speak area of high pressure coming in so that is going to start to quieten things down across those western parts as we go through choose day rain clearing away from that east side of scotland and england diving down into the low countries a snare is a front seeing some rather wet weather for a time some snow there over the alps and snow down towards the house easing through remaining hungry seeing some snow pushing across into parts of ukraine as well quite a few showers this well for good measure down into the mediterranean will see some wet weather around southern parts of italy into sicily grace seeing some showers as well blustery conditions here some choppy waters and across central and eastern parts of the madness not a whole lot better as we go on into wednesday more wintry florist out towards the southeast was a black sea the eastern parts of turkey quater weather though coming back in across
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the british isles well she quite safe western parts of france through spain and portugal quite to across northern parts of africa at least away from the north coast. libya and also egypt. jump into the story there is a lot going on in this and julia not global community when i talk of all the misinformation i think we don't want to feed than we are and where it be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are and would love to hear from you in each week be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is there. reporting in the field means i often get to witness not just new is breaking but also history as it's unfolding crossing from serbia to hungary to read one day i might be covering
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politics and the next or i might covering protests. but what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they are going through so that i can convey the headlines in the most human way possible. we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. this is al jazeera quite remind all the top stories for you this hour it's been 10 years since the start of the arab spring uprising in syria that spirals into a civil war and half a 1000000 people were killed in fighting and millions more have been forced from
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their home. myanmar security forces have killed at least $39.00 people on sunday that's the worst day of violence in a month and a half long crackdown on the anti coup movement state television says one police officer was also killed. and indonesia has become the latest country to delay using the astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine over bloodsport concerns the drug firm says it's reviewed the data and there is no increased risk. tens of thousands of people in a stray are protesting against the sexual abuse and harassment of women they're furious that allegations of rape and assault centered around australia as parliament's nicola gage reports from canberra. thank you protesters outside astrologers parliament demanding action of violence against women in recent weeks allegations of right have rocked
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a struggle in politics prompting a growing number of people to speak about sexual assault and harassment i don't want to go up on world where women are listened to and i think that we should make a change it was sparked by shocking allegations that former political star for britney he guinn's was right by a colleague in the defense minister's office. we're here because i'm function of what we used to having to say stale tired of. the struggle is top floor officer attorney general christian porter is also accused of an historic right dating back 3 decades which he categorically denies police have closed the case but the government is facing growing calls for an independent inquiry we just don't think that it's appropriate that a man who holds the highest floor office in the country can have an untested and also apparently on ridge right allegations sitting out there it makes women feel
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very unsafe and unsupported allegations of miso jenny and sexism minestrone as parliament and nothing new the nation's 1st female prime minister julia gillard called it out in 2012 having that stories of a toxic culture continue it's still very much a bloke's world here a man's world and even if you work in the building as a woman you know are very clearly that you're not in charge of the government says violence against women is a priority and has set up an investigation into workplace culture but many don't believe that goes far enough this isn't just about women in politics many others here have their own story about being harassed or sexually assaulted their calling for recruitment crying from the top down like the women are treated equally. some are calling this latest movement a struggle is 2nd me to wave stories all too familiar right across the globe
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become a gauge al-jazeera canberra. the u.k.'s prime minister has promised silicate how women and girls can be better protected from violence or as johnson made the pledge following criticism of police action as a vigil for sara everett's who was killed while walking home alone. as the story i said i was anger outside police headquarters in london a day after a vigil ended in seems that shocked many people here in the u.k. demonstrators gathered mixing demands for an end to male violence against women with claims that the police are part of the problem at saturday's vigil the focus was clearly on the we've been victims of male violence here the focus has shifted with denunciations of police brutality hundreds had come to the south london vigil near where sarah ever odd went missing initially police kept their distance but the decision to move in on the crowds and the use of force to arrest women created
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outrage i agree pretty patel asked the metropolitan police force for a political the department said they were are not to questions after she bit the mic chief chris adik and london's message he can from the opposition labor party says he's unsatisfied with her account insisting the met didn't honor its assurances the vigil would be policed sensitively but despite calls from some for cressida dick to resign she's standing firm and strongly defending what happened with her as the big crowd that gathered lots of speeches. quite rightly as far as i can see my team felt this is now an unlawful gathering which poses a considerable risk to people's health regulations. it really invidious position for most us to find themselves in labor's now set to vote against a new policing bill in the coming days this week in parliament we start
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a policing bell try. a 100 or so pages $170.00 something told this and almost nothing almost nothing if you can believe it violence against women and girls the gaping hole in this bill is why will be voting against it a complete missed opportunity by the government civil rights groups have also criticised the legislation saying it gives police too many powers to ban demonstrations if they'll cause disruption more protests are planned near parliament on monday as the pressure on the capital's police force and the politicians it says to increases the al-jazeera london. iran's foreign minister says after 4 years of what he calls u.s. economic terrorism washington needs to build good faith with teheran before any new nuclear deal talks can begin it's a rift made the comments in a virtual conversation with the european policy center. sanctions on anybody really needed are not just punishing. punishing russia. punishing rob nabors so.
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the united states did not pass that test in fact the united states miserably we passed. under our belt so let's. let's get something under the belt of the united states. and then come back and talk about it and then it will be the next administration you know and by 6. the 2nd round of legislative elections in the central african republic have taken place with ites any major problems it's different to december 1st so ryan says that was marred by fighting ship outports. the last time voters lined up to cast their ballots in the central african republic armed groups were threatening to march on the capitol to try and disrupt the vote. a 2nd round of voting happened on sunday under heavy security with
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a 3rd of seats in the national assembly up for grabs. we didn't know that there would be that you have to come in large numbers to vote our country has suffered a lot we need people to help us move the decree nisi to do that even though there's insecurity in the country ok i have to vote i must 1st and that is essential work for a citizen 2 thirds of registered voters were unable to participate in december's polls due to violence this time many stayed away for another reason voter apathy you know people start models more unfortunately unlike on december the 27th there is no real enthusiasm but generally speaking this is what happens when people don't necessarily have an electoral culture when people vote the 1st time they don't see the point of voting a 2nd time after president faustine our tranche twaddle won reelection in december rebel groups put the capital under a blockade and cut off food supplies un peacekeepers russian mercenaries and
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rwandan troops stepped in to support the government crucial supply lines have been reopened with neighboring cameroon 200000 people were forced from their homes in between the 2 rounds of voting the u.n. says the rebels are backed by former president francois boise's a claim there were voter irregularities the last time around 20 party is expected to hold on to power in the national assembly despite efforts to disrupt the vote and or chapell al-jazeera. security forces in nigeria have repelled an attack by armed men in the northwest he tried to students from the school officials say all children and staff are accounted for and troops have stepped up their search for 36 other school children still missing after gunmen attacked a college in the same states could dinner on thursday the overnight raid was the 4th moscow abduction in the region since december and i geria this been constant conflict seen farmers fearing cattle and others to grow crops politicians there's
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some areas say the open grazing of animals needs large amounts of water and land so it's unsustainable but one solution has managed to reduce violence between farmers and it's hoped the projects can be replicated other treats reports from sokoto. new calf joins the herd but it's grown over the past 4 years. that the animals are a mix of local importing breeds and the result of a government scheme to improve herd management and minimise conflict between farmers and herders. or species housing and a constant supply of feed and supplement farm managers say business is thriving. we got at least 6 jersey pregnant cards and broncos and hollister and cattle from the government they helped us upgrade our facilities which enabled us to expand in a ploy more hands milk production is up and we even sell off excess cattle.
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because of the upgrade he says both production has grown by 300 percent in 3 years and continues to create. this state government started the program to stem barley and sweeping many parts of nigeria as competition for land and water in tears a fight between livestock farmers and those growing crops. the state is expanding the program just as hundreds of cattle farmers forced from the southern part of nigeria by the violence are moving north we have 1000 grazing reserves that are provided for these herders and we have said to do some of them so that the farm was well known no there are limits of encroachment we have to where there is a possibility of trying to have between on the beach in the famine and the how does as well have in some of these locations that has been taken care of the cattle
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farmers are told to go forth for the herds and vet in a risk. the government is made. not obstructed or encroached upon in areas where the new scheme is up and running we also have dames where animals drink. they are also encouraged to form both cooperatives and send their produce to government or private milk processing facilities. nigeria's cattle population is estimated at 1x4w3w of them here. but while deadly violence involving cattle herders and promise is reported across much of nigeria here is there's been no major incident over the past 6 years the government says it plans to settle pastoralists is bringing calm and raising output. violence between farmers and herders is a decades long problem in nigeria but has worsened recently and many hope that initiatives like this might help bring that to an end of
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a decrease al jazeera nigeria. the chinese capital beijing has been engulfed by its worst storm in a decades blue in from the gobi desert pushing air pollution to the top of the scale much of northern china is affected and some flights have been grounded so storms are common at this time of year and the government is reforesting areas around the capital to limits their impact calling it the great green wall. it's been a historic night for women at the grammy music awards say has become the most decorated artist in the awards history and it was also a big night for taylor swift. reports. an awards ceremony to honor the best of the music industry the grammy awards made history this year marked by women taking home the top awards good bradley goes to
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there was. the star of the night was beyond say who won for grammys with her 23 when she became the most awarded woman in the grammys history of wanting to uplift encourage celebrate all of the beautiful black queens and kings that continue to inspire me and inspire the whole world. was taylor swift also made history with her album full glory she became the 1st female artist to win album of the year 3 times and that puts her in the ranks of so-called 3 peat performers like frank sinatra stevie wonder and paul simon mostly we just want to thank the fans you guys met us in this imaginary world that we created and we can't tell you how honored we are. british singer do a leap of one best pop vocal album for her dance the future nostalgia and spoke of the value of music during hard times and record of the year when to billie eilish
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for everything i wanted yeah thanks for doing this i love you thank you the song of the year went to r. and b. artist her for the black lives matter anthem i can't breathe addressing issues like police brutality social justice and rates we are the change that we wish to see and you know that that that fight that we had enough of the summer of 2020 keep that same energy thank you the pandemic has devastated much of the music industry with canceled festivals like concerts and twitterers the grammys reflect. did that reality with artists at the ceremony socially distance and wearing mask and also with many prerecorded performances. a groundbreaking ceremony and a reminder of the power of music especially during challenging times. this other young al-jazeera. still to come for you here on al-jazeera staff curry celebrate says birthday and misspelled we'll have the basketball action and the rest of us
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when it's coming up after this break it's history.
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we started the sports here summer thank you very much hello world to shine or not all kept alive eventis is fading syria title hopes with a hat trick on sunday in deportees star has been linked with a move back to real madrid and also came under fire for his performance in new base champions league exit against portal but he was back to his best to help his team beat carry 31 win means the italian champions are temperance off the top spot
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they do however have a game in hand over leaders into the team still scheduled to face off in may well into themselves also go to when early in the day they beat torino 21 for miller tackle open the scoring from the pound to spot torino are in the bottom of 3 but they managed to level the game and they to head from notaro 6 martinez secured the victory for into. ac milan's recent inconsistent form continued on sunday the league's 2nd place team were beaten one nil by napoli it means ac now trail into by 9 points. north london dobby produced one of the best goals of the season as tottenham were beaten by arsenal in the english premier league. put spurs ahead with parts of spectacular cross led efforts known as well born and gunners though equaliser not
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too long after they took the lead with the 2nd half penalty from alexander luck as it things got worse for spurs who was sent tall for a 2nd yellow card as it shows a merinos team went down to one they're now 6 points off the champions league spot . only 2 things that were positive in the 1st row was an amazing goal and the result. the 11 result because of the 11 was not a fair reflection of the 1st row where they don't mean it was for the e.p.l. title see me out of reach manchester united boosted their chances of finishing 2nd by beating west ham. only goal of handing the red devils a one nil when they're now one point ahead of 3rd place less the also one on sunday . and rb leipsic have lost grounds in the german title race on the
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backs of being knocked out of the champions league by liverpool did it take lead against frankfurt to this striker. with a goal but this game was to finish one all leipsic now a trail leaders by munich by 4 points. cricket now in the west indies are celebrating a one day international series clean sweep over sri lanka bravo saw them for the home side and also with the sentry they overturned sri lanka's total of 274 would mind balls to spare 5 wickets when seen in the series 3 nil. well number 3 golfer justin thomas has won the players championship in florida the american produced some amazing golf in the final round posted a 4 under 68 to finish one shot ahead of lee westwood who's now being the runner up for a 2nd straight tournament this is thomas' 1st when the season and the 14th p.g.a.
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what victory. it means a lot obviously it's a huge championship very special it's a tournament i wanted to win tournaments that i truly did feel like i was going to win it at some point and hopefully multiple times i just i love the golf course it was an incredible shape this week the greens were were so good the fairways were perfect ruffles was long. just a great test i got. to tell you from the 2 it's just just a lot of pride you know i ground out today give myself a chance i suppose at the end. made some nice birdie puts nice pop ups. plus we lost weight was also very good you know these are world class fields these are young guys you know i'm given 2025 years to most of them and. yet i'm still contending so i'm enjoying the thrill to be out. one of the n.f.l.'s
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greatest ever quarterbacks has announced his retirement through brees is ending his 20 year career in new orleans saints player leaves the sport as the all time leader in passing yards and comped completion well he led the franchise that to their only super bowl win in 2010 writing on social media the 42 year old said till the very end i exhausted myself to give everything i had to the saints organization my team and the great city of new orleans. buckyball saw steph curry put in a birthday performance at to remember to help the golden state warriors and a 4 game losing streak 2 time m.v.p. who turns 33 on sunday celebrated her style scoring game high 32 points his effort so golden state beat the western conference leaving here touch as a by a 12 point margin the wires are currently in lines in the west a one place outside the playoff spot for music history. and that's it for me
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hala thank you very much indeed. wraps it up for this news hour adrian finnegan will be with you and just a moment for more of the day's news but we'll leave you now i would some of the sights and the signs of syria's war as it marks 10 years since the arab spring uprising began there to stay with us. it is the moral obligation of us all to stop the suffering of the syrian.
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russia is partnering with the syrian regime to carry out war crimes. frank assessments the world is on the brink of a catastrophic failure is that a fair assessment it would be a catastrophic. twice valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying bit coy 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
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