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he comes down to prejudice studio b. unscripted and al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every. al-jazeera. hello there i am how he is in and this is the news our live from doha coming up for you in the next 60 minutes act a call for world leaders to avert another health crisis like coronavirus. the world cannot afford to wait until the point to make use to start planning for the
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next one. and the virus is mutating so much that vaccines could be ineffective within a year we talked to one of the people behind a scientific survey. trying to flee airstrikes in the end mark but we have reports thousands of people from korea and states a big pushback from the time border. and she died after her neck was broken i don't reject the treatment of a refugee while in police custody in mexico. and in school raining african football champions algeria have finished their latest qualifying campaign in style by beat botswana 5 nil to extend unbeaten run to $24.00 matches. it's been more than a year since the corona virus pandemic to korver our lives the virus has not
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affected more than $127000000.00 people worldwide and killed close to $3000000.00 now countries around the world are joining forces to prepare for a feature i breaks the world health organization and the leaders of 23 countries are calling for an international pandemic treaty the time to act is now the world cannot afford to wait until the parliament is over to start planning for the next one we must not allow the memories of this crisis to fade and go back to business as usual but dealing with the existing outbreak could get a lot tougher some of the world's leading scientists have warned that the world may have less than a year before current vaccines are no longer effective against future covert me to asians they're calling on companies to share vaccine technology so more people can
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be vaccinated and prevent other variants from emerging and in the coming hours more will be revealed on the origins of this pandemic the world health organization and china will release their findings based on an international investigation in the chinese city of now we have to correspondents covering the story for you can't do a whole kits is standing by for us with reaction out of washington d.c. where some u.s. officials are expressing skepticism about this investigation 1st though let's go to katrina a year she joins us now from. katrina this reports which we're expecting in the next hour or so is supposed to shed light on the origins of the coronaviruses turns our world upside down how much light is it likely to shed though given the challenges that investigators have faced.
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well we have seen some leaked versions of this report circulated a $120.00 pages hala but none of it off is any firm conclusions about the origins of carbon 19 among its main points is that it's morse likely this disease originated in a bass or another animal but it's unlikely it came from forest and food imports and very unlikely according to the polls that the lead took from the wall lab it also raises questions about the role of this one on seafood market a local market here mohan which was closed down full of in the discovery of the 1st cluster of coated $1000.00 infections and it also said slight and the fact that there was some people with covert like symptoms as early as october 29th t. now we haven't seen a final report on this is likely to be out in the next few hours but it's already frustrating members of the scientific community they say another independent investigation is needed because of the role that the chinese government played and setting up the parameters of this mission they say it cannot be trusted now they
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say that this mission ran more like a highly curie said choreographed government tool rather than a scientific mission then among that complaints they say is that the chinese government were allowed to veto members of that mission there were also present and chaperoned all visits to hospitals and other locations here while the mission was here and during that one month that they were here hala for that time was spent holed up in whole tel quarantine now we've had conflicting reports from members of the mission visited one here who are a member who are members of that mission one of the scientists say that the chinese counterparts work walker says that another account says that they were very heated discussions because the chinese officials and chinese scientists refused to provide rule dasa about those official initial cases so right now china for its part denies that it's been withholding any information and condemns what it calls a politicized ation of the investigation ok. live for us in beijing thank you and
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let's get the view from washington d.c. now with our white house correspondent kimberly. really it's a different team in the white house behind you that but is there any indication at this stage. because of the white house are going to be any more receptive to this job report than their predecessors. the words are in terms of the description of how this report is being received are healthy skepticism the reason is is that there is a feeling that the united states and its team of experts has not been given all of the access it needs and so there are questions about the methodology of this report so what we know and the white house press secretary has confirmed is that there are a wide range of u.s. officials that are reviewing this report as well as how it was put together those that include the centers for disease control the national issues of health and also
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the department of homeland security in addition there are 17 or more 2 experts in the fields of public health even better narry science bio warfare epidemiology that are also reviewing this the feeling is is that the chinese government strictly controlled the origins of where this virus originated and as a result there is a feeling that this report may be incomplete so again healthy skepticism is what is being. bandied about in terms of this report they're certainly looking at it with interest what what top official is saying in the biden administration is the bottom line is this is not about who is to blame but making sure this doesn't happen again . ok kember there live for us at the white house camberley thank you very much for ny now as we mentioned there are plans to prevent the next global health crisis
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the world health organization and dozens of other nations including the u.k. france and germany wants an international treaty to tackle future pandemics at the same since your resources are shared and nations are prepared. it distorts us one group to lessen not turn 3 no continent to industry to condemn each alone crisis a global approach the us who other than the. collective commitment at the highest level the next been doing which is not a question of if but when so we must be raids and we have no time to waste and other developments germany is a capital berlin has suspended the use of the astra zeneca vaccine for people under 60 years old that says the country's drug regulator announced its record 31 cases
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of people developing rare blood clots in the brain after getting the job that there's no proven link but europe strug regulators previously said it can't relates a connection or but 2 of those cases were women between the ages of 20 and 639 patients died or tuesday marked the 1st day the astra zeneca vaccine was available for 60 to 65 year olds in madrid smiles facts and nations are being held at a local stadium with more than $500.00 people getting the job every hour some said they didn't care which brand they got they were just happy to get their vaccination . in australia the city of brisbane is going into a 3 day snap lockdown after more than a dozen new locally transmitted corona virus infections were detected queensland state premiers says the cases of the highly infectious due case strain on the restrictions people will only be allowed to leave home for essential work shopping
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care jeezy's or exercise schools were also we closed we have had a lot of people now out in the community infectious so that's why we need this 3 day lockdown to get on top of all of the contacts of all of these positive cases and work out where they have pain and having everyone in their home instead of out and about in the community just helps us get on top of all of the context and minimize the risk of further sprayed chillis health care system and funeral services are under increasing pressure as coves infections surge the country recorded 7000 new cases for the 5th day in a row on monday cemeteries in the city of paris or having to store bodies in containers well chile is under an extensive locked in to curb soaring infections despite having the highest vaccination rates in latin america. now
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thailand in the philippines of urged me n. mars military genter to stop its crackdown on protesters the statements from myanmar's neighbors are some of the strongest since the coup began thailand's insists it's allowing refugees to skate violence from current states across its border but activists say 5000 people have been pushed back in the last 2 days they say 10000 people have been displaced by airstrikes in current state over the weekends and the death toll from the military crackdown and c.q. protests in myanmar has surpassed 500 as according to local rights groups 3 on drabble groups of threatened retaliation against the military if the violence continues or protests in towns and cities have continued nonetheless on choose day let's get more from florence louis she joins us from kuala lumpur in malaysia florence very well so different figures bandied about here what exactly is
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happening at the border between thailand in myanmar. different figures and also conflicting statements from the fire authorities resins what activists are saying and thai authorities are saying that there has been no pushback of. nationals who are seeking to escape violence in myanmar saying that any return to myanmar is voluntary however this contradicts what activists have been saying the current human rights group tells as at least 5000 people have been pushed back into myanmar many more were not allowed to come into the country to and to thailand despite being made homeless despite fleeing from airstrikes now we're also getting reports that there has been at least one airstrike that took place in corrent state on tuesday showing that the hasn't been any letup in violence but dozens of people were allowed to enter a thai border village to seek medical treatment and from the reports that we're
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seeing and from the pictures that we're seeing the wounds of the injuries appear to be consistent with some form of explosion. also patients telling reporters that they were injured when a bomb fell out of a plane now across protests are taking place on tuesday as well in different in different towns in different cities hundreds perhaps thousands of people have also again taken to the streets to show their opposition to the coup and more than 500 people have died in nearly 2 months of protests and in a perhaps a rather. encouraging sign that the international community is more willing to come together to find an solution to myanmar we're hearing much stronger statements coming from myanmar's regional neighbors philippines for example saying that young man has to resist using force it should exercise restraint and it must stop using disproportionate force against protesters the philippines foreign ministry
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also saying that it supports myanmar's path to a fuller did. crissy which must begin with the immediate release of aung san suu kyi and other elected civilian leaders however we've also seen in the past our military leaders have really not at every international criticism really hasn't had much impact on them so it really remains to be seen whether. this sort of force can be brought to bear on myanmar's military authorities and and and meanwhile unfortunately we're not with or we're also not seeing protesters showing any signs that they're going to back down on protesters instead they've taken a different tactic they're also doing what they're calling a garbage strike in yangon the biggest city in myanmar telling people to leave garbage at the main intersections of the city to further paralyze the city and parts of the economy ok for a slew of their lives from column per floor is thank you. responsible still to come
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on this new siren cruising a pivotal moments in u.s. relations we're going to it's the 2nd day of the trial of the former police officer accused of murdering george floyd. fighting for freedom support grows for a process losers jailed into thailand's war is to fame in the more it's faulty. and in sport these recent drivers hit the target store the 1st time in 60 years real cash more with andy later in the show. ok so police brutality in mexico was sparked protests there and in el salvador 36 year old salvadoran refugee died after being arrested in the tourist resort of to loom an officer was filmed kneeling on her back and an autopsy showed her neck had
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been broken shot ballasts has more. toria salazar jaso was a refugee from el salvador a mother of 2 teenage girls working in hotels in mexico's resort town of tulum now she's the face of protests against violence towards women and police brutality. faced down and barefoot died on a roadside and her limb on saturday police officers restrained her on the pavement and threw her body into the back of a pickup truck the state prosecutor says officers used excessive force they make up police eloquent go but the police technique of body control that was applied the level of force used was disproportionate immoderate and with a high risk to life. according to an autopsy report salazar died of a broken neck after police officers knelt on her it added her injuries were compatible with so-called submission maneuvers used by police salazar's mother
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compared her death to that of african american george floyd in the united states last may. they already gave her reports that my daughter's neck was broken and they broke a lot of ribs because there were 3 men and a woman on top of her. the death comes as mexico is hosting a un forum on gender equality mexico has one of the worst rates of violence against women in the world last year an average of 10 women were killed there every day the rate of femicide has doubled in the last 5 years many believe sellers as death is symbolic also of a worsening treatment of migrants and refugees the police in the streets rick barry heard the migrants of the use of force is incredible is late late. this is a situation in minneapolis in may of 220 this is certainly the same case president lopez obrador says those responsible for sellers as deaths will be punished this is
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from yeah i want to say to her family members to salvadoran and mexican women to the women of the world to all men and women that those responsible will be punished they are already in the process of being prosecuted and no be no impunity the reasons for sellers as a wrist have not been released those protesting over her death so they won't stop until they get answers and justice. ballasts al-jazeera. i. back to what's being seen as by many as a pivotal moment in u.s. race relations the trial of derek show ven former police officer charged with murdering john. floyds by kneeling on his neck for his staff ignited worldwide protests against racism man's police brutality the 2nd day of the trial as she's got underway in iran's an hour's time well john hendren is in minneapolis and he
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joins us now john what are we looking ahead to on this 2nd day of the trial. that's right it's day 2 of the most watched civil rights trial in america and we expect to get under way with the cross-examination of a martial arts expert who happened to be on the sidewalk and taking video at the time when police took george floyd down and put him down on the ground and knelt on top of him and that martial arts expert was a key witness on the 1st day of the trial because he said that the officer seemed to be using a chokehold that he was familiar with from his own training he was also a security officer among other things and he said that he was strange that there was a way to hold somebody where he would choke off the blood any he said in a videotape that he himself had taped to derek show of and who was sitting there
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said that is a blood choke and according to the witness chauvin looked up and made direct eye contact with him as if to say yes that is what i'm doing so we expect the defense now to question him perhaps to call into question his expertise on this matter and yesterday was the 1st day of the trial was some exciting testimony take a look. for about a penalty of perjury the most watched civil rights trial in america opened with this stark accusation of murder this is a very shocking you treat this batch. when he used excessive and unreasonable force upon the body of mr george for. that he put his knees upon his neck and his back. grinding and crushing him.
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until the very breath no leisure gentleman until the very life. were squeezed out of as opening arguments began in the trial of the police encounter that sparked a racial revolution in the streets the lawyer for the white former minneapolis police officer accused of murdering a black man named george floyd shot back you will learn a direction when did exactly what he had been trained to do over the course of his 19 years. the use of force is not attractive but it is a necessary component piece this morning about the prosecution's 1st witness a police dispatcher who watched on police cameras as officers knelt on the back and neck give george floyd then she did something she'd never done before she called the police on the police alerting a sergeant to what seemed to her like an unusual use of force floyd was on the ground so long she said she thought the video had frozen i don't know if they had
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to use force or not they got something out of to back up the squad and all of them sat on this man the central question in this case is this did chauvelin kill floyd using unreasonable force as the prosecution suggests or did a combination of drugs covert 19 and heart trouble kill him as the defense contends those arguments are the beginning of what's likely to be a month from long trial filled with painful and potentially inflammatory testimony . with jurors watching new evidence and really watching that disturbing 9 minutes of video with george floyd using his final breaths to cry out for his life at the. minneapolis is boarding up and bracing for the final verdict and the possibility it could revive the riots of the long and violent summer of 2020. outside the heavily fortified courthouse floyd's family made it clear it is american racial justice that is on trial they say choice the system. they want us to trust
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a system. where this is a chance to show us. we can trust you. judge peter cahill says it's a police officer that's on trial not race but once the jury has its say in the racially charged case of a black man who died under the knee of a white police officer the crowds in the streets of minneapolis and cities across the u.s. will render their own verdict on racial justice in america. one of the reasons prosecutors seem to be choosing the experts or the witnesses that they've chosen is that each of them so far each of the 3 has had a video to present and 2 of them presented videos from a different perspective there was there were there was rather 2 of the 3 had video there was a police dispatcher who had been watching these videos on police cameras and we saw some of that footage on the 1st day of the trial and then you got a woman who worked at the speedway gas station across the street and she found this
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situation so alarming that she came out and taped about 5 separate snippets of george floyd being held down on the ground by these officers and she commented that she was disturbed about that as well and then we have that martial arts expert the guy on the street who also took the video who had admonished the police officers to get off of george floyd's neck if you just said that he identified the choke hold that was used in his words to cut off the blood from george floyd we do expect to see the defense try to poke holes in his story but there is a list of 400 witnesses doesn't mean that they will all be called as a matter of fact they almost certainly will not be called but that is the universe from which these 2 sides can choose the prosecution will continue with its witnesses and they will have cross-examination today also from the defense have
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a little salute ahead to when that trial begins in minneapolis but for now john hendren there live from minneapolis thank you very much d. . time for a quick check on the weather. now the weather is for a short while quiet this was the responsible frontal system that brought the tornadoes to the southeastern corner but this is the thing to watch now that is a late winter early spring snowstorm on its way through the middle of canada a lot of snow with it and it's quite cold that cold air will keep pushing dash through the plain states and we get a line here where cold meats warm if you like and you know happens and you develop a line of thunderstorms which possibly produce tornadoes and it's exactly the same sort of area where we saw the last 2 outbreak so that is one to watch now the temperatures to the north of it to extremely low with subzero in winnipeg we've got time to go back up to 11 from 5 in denver is only
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a brief blast of cold until you look at what's happening on the eastern seaboard as it all goes off shore a referent of cold air means a bit of late snow but even hit new york it's almost certain the full india england ok and strips us a windy picture particularly for the small island in the eastern med lot of showers here and that wind is tending to as a stronger produce a bit more clouds and rain for costa rica and panama and i suspect we're going to see an increase in showers in mexico as cold air streams again across the gulf so it's a come on i'll just era. celebrations at the suez canal a massive container ship finally floats free traffic begins moving again. despair on the border respective families caught up in violence between venezuela's army and colombian rebels and in sport the bar munich starting business who
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ones with all the power what do we do what's the solution 'd get organized what are world leaders or governments missing talking about targets in like 2040 or 20 he went. up front with me. on al-jazeera. the or. this is al jazeera quick reminder of the top stories for you this hour the trial of the former police officer accused of murder in georgia floyd are set to resume for the 2nd day opening arguments focused on the use of force and the cause of death. well tell the organization experts are set to announce their fighting since the
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origin of the coronavirus pandemic a leak version of their report found it was highly unlikely virus originated in a lab. and a survey from the yearly scientists is warning vaccines could become in effect of against future corporate 19 variants in less than a year they're calling on companies to share vaccine technology so the world's can be rapidly vaccinated to prevent the virus from spreading and mutating well let's get more on that story we can speak very soon until you know the car oh he's a microbiologist involved in that study and a professor since communists international university of health scientists and joins us now from rome straits have you with us or mail jazeera news or no my understanding is she works on that reports what's the real message that you're trying to convey here because it seems like the vaccine campaign is doomed to failure because those viruses mutate into much. no the message
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is quite different it is that we have a creek is a. box in our show on company a 2 blocks in 8 is much people it's possible because the so we box you need we can reduce the possibility of where they were to replicate it to produce violence we have a to do we do wherein the word and not all only country absolute having to color all the work but even with the high income countries there even they are not able to get the vaccines that they've paid for thinking here about the e.u. canada so given this situation where does the problem lie and what's the solution that you see where is the problem lying there really i don't know but they were not the solution. to ever to increase the place where they are but the
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news producer to share technology it took these to please him to give also the possibility to other countries to the produced about and by the like this doesn't happen well why is this not happening then why are. the wealthy countries apparently blocked a proposal to weigh 3 intellectual property rights for the covert vaccines that would enable many countries to make these vaccines why is this the case. i don't know why you can say the. war 'd to make a try to hide in the compensation shown public on the produce of the by the sea is not to stop. the way to compensate their mother but to try to good use more bucks in it we don't manage it we'll do it for it we would be more difficult to win the
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fight against us and in terms of getting more vaccine out to more countries. do you think that if more production facilities are brought online in different countries around the world this could hold the key to stopping the coronavirus pandemic i think it is stamping it to pick and there to do it but to share pick and ology it to start doing it that we have it looking to 'd buy who will last the pork sometime we will 'd also talk about a box in the future probably. the same schema that is being used at the forum to answer by those in the issue sure. we have to increase the cup ability of the world to produce vaccine is the only way ok anthony you know the carol at from the sense to me this international university of health sciences
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is great to get your thoughts on your expertise thank you so much for speaking to us on al-jazeera thank you. 3 female health workers sabine shots and killed in afghanistan the women were working for a pouliot vaccination program in the eastern city of jalalabad the government says it's not yet clear who carried out the shootings earlier this month 3 female journalists were killed in the same city eisel claimed responsibility for that attack. now the youth driven process movement in thailand fighting for reform of government on the monarchy is trying to regain momentum of its leadership was jailed during a recent legal crackdown using a revived royalty for nation law it's got hired lawyers been speaking with the parents of those behind bars and reports from bangkok. defiant at their quarter rivals earlier this month protest leaders put it she would lock known as penguin.
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and upon the often a cool known as wrong. but they were hidden from the cameras this week at least made certain to keep them out of sight as they arrive for criminal court hearings both face charges of sedition and royal defamation. at a tribute for the arrested protesters penguin's mother she would walk is now growing more worried about her 22 year old son but says she's staying strong for him. penguins been in jail since february 9th and 2 weeks ago started a hunger strike until bale was granted. a couple of polls he always tells us to be patient to make sacrifices and be proud of him no matter what happens to him he's not harming anybody only expressing his honest opinion to make his homeland a bit a place both penguin and wrong have been charged with multiple counts of insulting the monarchy and king corn each one could carry a 15 year sentence they've been denied bail repeatedly just last year prime
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minister said the king told him not to use the lens majesté law but clearly that directive has not only changed as now the war of defamation law is being used to intimidate and scare protesters and their leadership around 80 cases have been filed since november. proctoring supports the monarchy and strongly believes in thai traditions a mother herself she feels that parents need to take action if their kids are protesting for royal reform. my kids have to listen to their parents when told they shouldn't criticize the king it's a sacred institution of our country it's fine if you criticize the government runs parents and penguins parents really should have ruined their children. rooms mother city rotten a cool says she has some regrets for her daughter taking care of wrongs cats while she's away gives her comfort. like i will if i could go back in time i'd still give my daughter the same warnings i gave before if you want to involve yourself with
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politics they'll be consequences you may go to prison you may not be able to bail yourself out and you may lose your freedom. and at this stage both protest leaders have traded their freedom for what they see as the battle of their generation deep reform of thailand's power structures scott heiler al-jazeera bangkok. central african republic president are comes to a dinner a is being sworn in after his reelection last december he has a 2nd term and he was reelected with 53 percent of the votes in an election marred by violence december's poll was violently contested spawn a coalition of rebel groups and 270000 people were displaced well let's talk about its nicholas hierarchies for when those developments from senegal as capital dhaka next are comes to a dare is when was violently contested as we. will sort of security concerns are there for his swearing in. well not just for his swearing
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in but for the millions of people for in the central african republic who are displaced following years of violence and an uptick of violence since this election that happened last december the election happened under very contested times there is a group of armed groups that once fought each other and united under an umbrella organization they call themselves the coalition for patriotic change they believe that did not win this election and they want to take over power now during his swearing in ceremony. addressed these armed groups he's calling for. national unity dialogue what he calls it. in french which means republican dialogue calling all parties to let go of their arms and to come around the table and to discuss various grievances also in his speech when she was sworn in he said that he alluded to the
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former president what was he saying that politicians are trying to put their personal gains over the interests of the people well they'll be one that will have to face justice at one point or another for what was a was under u.n. sanction the former president is believed to be. behind this coalition for patriotic change creating a disturbance in the country where according to the u.n. 44 percent of the country is in their hands so. is starting this mandate in a country that he has very little control over and caught over this this tussle for power are the people of the central african republic half of them depend on humanitarian assistance we were talking earlier on to humanitarian working for the norwegian refugee council with telling us that he has met children aged as youngest 12 paid $30.00 or the equivalent to join the armed groups and that's that
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that's the challenge ahead for president. to bring back this state in places where the state has been so upset that he has the backing of a key ally russia who has sent in during the post-election violence in support of twitter right in fact the foreign minister sergey lavrov congratulated twice and in not so veiled threats the russian ambassador to the central african republic said that said that the former president. will in case he is faced with fighting or with with it with an attack from the central african republic army with the backing of the russian well he may be killed in those battles so you sense here that twitter has a lot of work ahead to try to unite a country that is very much divided hala ok nic live from dakar next thank you.
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united nations investigators have concluded at least 19 civilians were killed in a french attack in central mali last january french warplanes struck near the remote village of boone t. the report confirmed the attack at a wedding party attended by over $100.00 civilians a claim initially disputed by france let's get more now from the taj a butler she is live for is in paris. france responded to this reports. you know we have just received a communique from the french defense ministry and the french defense ministry says that it stands by its version of events and even questions some of the work that was done in this investigation by the u.n. mission on the ground in mali. the french defense ministry questioning for example
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the identity of some eyewitnesses who contributed to the report and the way in which this report was carried out and we're likely to hear more as this story continues to happen because of course this news has just broken but the report by the u.n. mission in mali says that on general the 3rd french airplanes dropped 3 bombs on what was a wedding party 900 civilians were killed now amongst that wedding party there were 3 members of an armed group linked to al qaida were also killed now the french defense ministry has always said it's always maintained that it targeted. not civilians of course it targeted armed groups the it said that it had detected that there was a large group of armed fighters on the ground and that is why it dropped these bombs that is never denied carrying out this airstrike but it is always said that
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the targets were armed fighters however in the days after the said strike it emerged we had reports from eyewitnesses quoted by a local ngo who said that this was in fact a wedding party so conflicting reports but we are now hearing from the u.n. as i said minister putting out this report a short while ago saying that this airstrike was in fact mainly on civilians ok natasha butler bring us the very latest there from paris natasha thank you. as ships are once again sailing through egypt suez canal a giant container ship blocking the canal for 6 days was finally moved on monday the u.n. says it will take up to 4 days to clear that backlog of marine traffic in the canal victoria gayton bay reports. after being stuck in a maritime traffic jam for almost a week this ship was one of the 1st to resume its journey along the suez canal on monday night it will take several days though before shipping along this vital
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waterway returns to normal. begin resumed at 6 pm local time is from both sides within 12 hours 113 ships will cross in different convoys either from port side or from suez this means that within 3 days or 3 and a half days the delay will be resolved earlier on monday the stricken ever given which had been blocking the world's busiest shipping lane for 6 days was finally free. much to the delight of the crew of the dredge who'd worked round the clock to clear thousands of keep it metres of sand around the giant container ship. 10 tug boats then pulled it out of the bank and into deeper water it has taken as quick as possible to do this and the high tides will have helped insult jeffords as well as well but i think it's fantastic news for the suez canal so the suez canal authority need to i think
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a really good job has been delayed by all involved 12 percent of global trade normally passes through the suez canal between the red sea and the mediterranean while the immediate crisis is over experts say the ever given is mishap raises long term questions about the canal sustainability is going to be a lot of head scratching and thinking not only about making supply chain more resilient but i'm sure a serious canal thora who's having a good hard think as well about how to make the the canal itself more. the ever given is now in a wide a section of the canal where it's being inspected for damage bringing an end to a crisis that's disrupted billions of dollars worth of global trade victoria gates and be al jazeera so it's on al-jazeera and sports tennis is world number 2 is extended her year long running streak will be here with that story thanks to the program.
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the old the old. be back with you now venezuelan refugees in colombia are accusing their country's army of killing innocent civilians nearly 5000 people have fled fighting between the military and rebels in venezuela sought refuge across the border or santorum care to reports from the border town of archita 6. for the ramírez interim lena families the pain is unbearable.
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4 of their relatives were killed last week during a military operation ordered by the venezuelan government security forces accused them of being part of a colombian rebel group and said they died in combat but neighbors and family members insist they were innocent taken from their homes and executed just that up and i was looking out for my brothers i saw them in their house and gestured to them then ran back into my home because soldiers were threatening people that's when i heard an armored vehicle stopping in front of their house. neighbors saw our house soldiers took them away so she ran out again let me get a look at all the other soldiers they took my family they said go home that i didn't need to worry that they were taking them to the battalion for questioning before returning them home instead they reappeared in pictures circulating on social networks bed some dressed in fatigues with pistols or a grenade at the side of their body when yeah anybody who knows my sister in law
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will tell you she hated boots she never wore boots like those you don't need to be a forensic expert to know that this was staged. many of the almost 5000 refugees who fled the clashes share similar stories accusing the military of illegal detentions as well as looting and burning homes. under pressure vinous well as the fence minister vladimir putin enough said the armed forces were to defend the country from the regular groups but added that human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border would be investigated have been a swell as former prosecutor general now in a poser of president nicolas maduro told al-jazeera that will likely not be the case or you know if there is no type of accountability today in venezuela you know any institution that investigates look at how the prosecutor's office controlled by their surface took 5 days before announcing they're going to investigate events at
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the border such serious facts should be investigated immediately like countless other colombians from this border region that i mean this had fled to venezuela over a decade ago at the height of the conflict between get 3 years in state forces in the country but now the same kind of violence seems to have reached them on the other side of the border alison i'll just. but libya's former president several more hours has led thousands of people in celebration of the ruling socialist faction supporters of the movement to socialism party or marking 26 years since its founding presidents luis r c joined the festivities the socialist political party returned to power last year after morris was forced to resign following a contested election and widespread violence. brazil's president jr bolsa morrow has replaced 6 ministers in a government shake up foreign minister and there still are all call was the highest
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profile casualty as attacks on china are blamed for hampering access to coronavirus vaccines also narrow has been under growing pressure over the spiralling scale of the pandemic brazil's the 2nd worst affected country in the world. has more than a cabinet reshuffle from rio de janeiro. brazil's president datable sanada has been under increasing political pressure as the pandemic has spiraled out of control in one week he has seen businessmen bankers and lawmakers take a stand and basically say that he must change his policies and stop downplaying the virus or he'll lose all support last week wilson out of solace in congress pressured him to fire the health minister this week they pressured him to change the foreign minister and their star will was very close to bulls and not his family and like the president himself a devoted donald trump follower and that's what i want to ended up resigning after
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being accused of destroying brazil's foreign policy and isolating the country in the midst of a pandemic he bashed china brazil's main trading partner and supplier of vaccines but i am sure did not act on his own he acted on behalf of also model was not happy to see him go the president may have caved to pressure by substituting with a career diplomat but at the same time he announced a minister of reform and fire the defense minister a moderate military was against involving the armed forces and politics palestinians are marking the 45th anniversary of land day and a new invention process against israel's illegal occupation of palestinian territory the number of people this year has been restricting to the crewmembers pandemic palestinians are honoring 6 people killed by israeli police during protests against the 1976 imax ation of lands in the galley region since then march
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the 13th 30th rather has been known as lunde. time now for the sports here's andy thank you so much hello all raining african football champions algeria finished their latest qualifying campaign in style they beat botswana 5 nil to extend their unbeaten run to 24 matches the win so algeria finishing the cup of nations qualifying group with 14 points from 6 games a final kick off in cameroon next january with algeria also targeting a spot of the world cup series in cuts off. $100.00 scored twice a 7 side african champions league it's also routes of qualifying one team with an easy win the liverpool striker is effort helping his teams were full of victory of commerce egypt thinks cameroon as group winners. now despite their defeat commerce along with gambia have been the breakout seems of this qualifying competition we've been talking to sports writes about what we can expect from these 2 countries who
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are on their way to the cup of nations for the 1st time. you have kamar us which is a tiny archipelago of less than a 1000000 inhabitants off the coast of the indian ocean coast and you have the gambia the scorpions of gambia in west africa 2 very small nation when you talk about the african football in scape moros really put on their diaspora as well they have more than 200000 people living in france and many of these players are for personal footballers within the top 2 divisions so they have this great pool of talent to pull on from and it has a lot of stability around their national team as for the gambia they also qualify for the 1st time in their history some census the belgian coach at their home really thinks his group of players which he said is assessed group of players has ever worked with in terms of their spirits in terms of their unity those who claims that have really impressed across the continent and i see for the keeping their eye on him or 2020 so algeria are really. dead set right now on the
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2022 world cup in qatar they feel like they could be the 1st african and maybe arab nation to make it to a semifinal of the world cup. the have this unbeaten streak going to have world class players such as it's been necessary it's in milan or admire that mr city and they really do feel like they have what it takes to make a push in an arab country with a lot of the big algerian despero where they could feel like they would have been a little bit of a home field advantage to move poland plazas tested positive to cover 19 ahead of the world cup qualifier against england on wednesday huddle a full polish squad members have now tested positive for corona virus during this international break funniness striker 11 dusky will also be missing from the game at wembley due to an angel. and watch football star gareth bale says he would join a collective boycott of social media by international sports stars to protest against online racist abuse the 31 year old is current with the wales squad preparing for that qualifier against the czech republic his comments come after to
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his teammates for racial abuse on instagram after wales is a $10.00 win over mexico on saturday. so if everybody did it once maybe not just one or 2 people before we had kind of a campaign where a lot of big influential influential people in sport or in other forms of life came off social media to make the statement then yeah i definitely think you could make it help now we've been talking to football writer george takei mirror who previously worked to be and see racism in football group kick it out he says the social media companies he should be taking more responsibility if that was decided are they going to you know boycott for a whole season that might make social media coming. but at the same time i don't think it's on you know i don't think it's my place or anyone's replace really to say to you must give up your platform give up your voice to take the stand because you know it's not necessarily fair because social media is
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a very important central part of modern life and what yours and it's a lot of those it's a great wedding gazing with that supporters and their fans and and the stuff that they're doing outside of football and what you're saying to me is that you have the only way that change is going to happen is you have to silence yourselves so i think it's very very difficult to start saying you know asking for the list to do that but ultimately if they did you know it might make social media companies stand up and take notice but there's no guarantee. oh canada have recorded the biggest win in their history they beat the cayman islands 11 nil in a world cup qualifier on munich style fonso davis there he scored twice with another well placed now to progress to the next stage of qualifying in their region and it will be one of 3 host nations for the 2026 world cup. now mary soccer is through to the quarter finals of the miami open extending her unbeaten run to 23 matches the number 2 seed from japan beating at least merton's
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of belgium or soccer who's the reigning u.s. open and australian open champion beat the 16th seed in straight sets to advance to the final 8 in miami for the 1st time in her career and women's world number one ash barty had a much tougher time after winning the 1st sets her opponent ranked 149th in the world christina could you level things up the australian came back to take the match in 3 sets and she's into the pool of. a melodious events in the nascar racing series had a very different look for the 1st time in 50 years the drivers were competing and crushing on dirts rather than the bristol circuit in tennessee had been covered with morgan 2000 truckloads of rather 3 occasions the race itself was won by joey logano his 3rd career victory at this. ok more sport throughout the day without a star we're looking for in our thanks very much indeed for this news hour but to
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