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this platform makes a connection and presents a digestible scene, each the award winning online content on their audience portal with me sound or gotten on out to 0 me ah, me. this is al jazeera. ah, hello there, mr. hey, this is a new life coming up in the next 60 minutes. united states sees is a $33.00 media website linked to iran. terrace condemns it as a breach of freedom of speech. hong kong apple daily newspaper meanwhile says it will shut down. office assets are frozen and several stuff arrested under beijing's national curacy. india government says a new code at 900 varies,
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has been detected in 3 states and ordered testing to be stepped up. growing discomfort just a month out from the tokyo olympics and protests against the games going ahead. well, japan continues to baffle the i now iran says it's stopped and attempted active, sabotaged against the building of it's of tomic energy organisation. this news just hours after the u. s. c, a 33 media websites with links to iran on tuesday to iran condemns that move, calling it a breach of freedom of speech. people attempting to access the english language side. press tv received this message that had been seized by the u. s. government. the us previously sanctioned rounds revolutionary garden state media that's making it illegal for them to do business with them. and the department of justice has
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accused rainy and media of spreading disinformation. now it's not the fast time. this has happened. back in october the u. s. took down about a 100 websites linked to iran. missile. all obviously comes at a crucial time for the nuclear talks in vienna. the u. s. and iran have not met face to face, but to promote, say, they have made progress and the governments involved should make a final decision soon. well, it speaks dorothy jabbar, she is in the iranian capital. karen for us, daughter, this is obviously an incredibly sensitive time and now these alleged reports of this attack on the atomic energy organization. what do we know about what happened? well, we have very little information that's been shared from officials here, but we do know that was the attempt to attack one of the buildings of the countries atomic energy organization in the city of catch, that's just west of the capital, teheran. however, officials have said that they have managed to foil the attack and no one was
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injured and not none of the structures of the buildings there was destroyed or anything like that. nothing more from officials are remaining very tightly because apparently the investigation is still ongoing. and they are trying to decide who the perpetrators are behind this attack. this comes, of course, at a very critical time when iran is trying to decide whether or not they will accept an agreement to put forth by the remaining signatories of that nuclear deal of 2015 in the united states. since the 6th round of negotiations wrapped up in vienna a few days ago, there's been a special committee that's been form to make that decision with various branches of government members, part of that committee. so the very important time, and of course, an attack like this, which we've seen in the past on a much larger, larger scale as well. of course the nuclear side of the towns was attacked in april as well as last summer. and this will just be seen as another attempt to try and sabotage any kind of an agreement that iran could get back to. and also critical
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timing here as well when it comes to these websites. 33 of them being seized, or talk us through the reaction that you're seeing over there. well, for the 1st reaction we saw very quickly was from iran, said the head of iran un mission. and he said that this was an illegal act by the u . s. government, and this will not go on notice by the rating officials they will pursue this matter through the appropriate legal channels. we've also just heard from the reigning communication minister, who said that this act was a breach of international law. we've also been hearing from president has sandra honey's, chief of staff, who's been speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting. let's listen to what he had to say about, you know, me check on the con john the, what the us did to iranian websites was a breach of all principles of freedom of speech, which the united states is proud of. they restricted freedom of speech. we condemn this measure. we will use all our legal and international means to counter this wrong policy of the united states. it is not a constructive move at
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a time when nuclear talks are underway in vienna. this act done by the treasury within the u. s. government apparently was in the making for some time. it is not something that was decided to take place the last minute. so it does though, come at a very unfortunate time. it does really put a damper on where things could move forward between iran and the united states, but the official fear said that they will continue the negotiations even the president liked him. racy has said that negotiations would only he would support them as long as they benefit their rating people. but we believe these kinds of actions by the us government will only have a negative impact and the conservative voices in iran will point to it as an example. of why the u. s. government cannot be trusted down the line dosage very that with all the les his, for us from the iranian capital her on. thank you to of speaking of press freedom, hong kong pro democracy newspaper. apple daily has confirmed that will shut down
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operations by saturday afternoon assets were frozen. this announcement follows the rest of its chief columnist, the writer known by his pen, namely ping is now the 6th staff member who's been detained this month on the basis of national security law typically has this update for us from hong kong. i will daily have said that the last edition of its popular pro democracy newspaper will likely hit the sounds on thursday. the board of directors say this is due to current conditions prevailing in hong kong and comes as yet another one of his employees was arrested under the national security law. this time of popular and prolific columnist who is known for his outspoken views on china. this is seen as an extension of a raid and a number of rust from last thursday. and with 500 police came into the building behind me, arrested a number of executives and editors, and confiscated reporters journal notebooks and computers in the 1st of such
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a move on a media organization. apple daily, owned by jimmy lie, he's the media mogul and a 1000000000 are known for its outspoken views on democracy. and as far as supporter of democracy in hong kong, he's currently in jail facing charges under the national security law of collusion with foreign forces amongst other charges. his assets are frozen by the government . and so over the assets of next digital media, which is the parents come to me of apple daily apples aly had been warning that it was quickly running out of resources to pay itself and continue operations. well meanwhile, the 1st person in hong kong to be charged under beijing's national security law is on trial. the government has denied the defendant. the jury, citing concerns about the safety of jurors, tonguing kit is accused of terrorism and inciting. professions are driving his motorcycle into a group of police officers while flying a protest flag last july. now,
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meeting on an international conference aiming to bring more stability to libya is currently getting underway in berlin. representatives from the transitional government, all they're taking part along with key foreign players, including the u. s. russia, turkey and egypt talks will focus on pan elections in december as well as the removal of foreign faces. we share the goal of a sovereign stable unified, secure libya, free from foreign interference. it's what the people will be deserve. it's critical to regional security as well for that to happen. national elections need to go forward in december, and that means urgent agreement is needed on constitutional and legal issues that would undergo those elections and the october 23rd cease fire agreement has to be fully implemented, including, by withdrawing all foreign forces from livia. while delegates at that conference will be hoping to build on the progress that's been made during the last 18 months . and january last year, another bell and conference leaders agreed to uphold the un arms and bugger and
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pushing the b as warring sides towards a full face fire. just 9 months later, they reached a deal to end hostilities. it included a demand that thousands of foreign fighters leave with a 90 days, but that hasn't happened on the arms of continue to come in. but the agreement did set libya on the path to the transitional government that took power in march and a deal on elections due to be held nation of this year. well, let's bring in our diplomatic at a james base. he joins us now from london. james, we've just heard in the last half an hour or so from blinking. and hagar mass after the initial bilateral meeting, really setting the mood ahead of this conference, trying yes, absolutely. the international community feels it needs to give libya another push this particular time. now on the positive side, from the international community perspective, you've got a much more engaged us when they have the 1st one of these bell and conferences. back in january 2020 was a leader level. it was chaired by chancellor merkel. all the leaders were there.
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except for president trump, who sent his secretary of state more peo, and certainly on this darcy a, the us on the trump administration. we're not interested. also, you've got a united cd, you in the past when libya was divided. so was the european union and certainly from seem to have sympathies for. busy general half the while the you now seems like it, so that is the positive and of course the situation is you've just outlined on the ground has improved. you have a sci fi, you have a government of national unity in place, but there are the big sticking points going forward. and that's what we're going to focus on. 2 things. number one is the foreign fighters on the arms embargo. they don't believe the international arms embargo is being properly respected. there are you of vessels, doesn't you force looking at the sea, but nothing really to stop anything coming in by land or by so that is one factor and a lie to all those foreign forces. and now the 2 significant players that are
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turkey and turkey makes the case that it's been invited in by the libyan government and its presence there is legitimate turkey is one of those that's attending today's conference. and russia also attending today's conference. but russia says, no, we don't have russian forces there, and they make the distinction. these are russian contract is working for security. come a company effectively mercenaries. although most western diplomats will tell you there's no way they would be in libya if president putin didn't want them in libya . james, given that, as you say, things have improved marginally and just how far away away from the last thing resolution. now, how far all the parties away from trying to resolve these taking points. i was in libya 10 years ago, and at that point there was the big push towards tripoli, which then happened later in the summer and get out for you, then fell. i was in libya that day there was a great deal of hope at that time,
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and it's really been 10 last years since then of division and fighting among the libyan parties and among the international community. because many of these players know the spoils in libya are great that it got a huge oil resource ultimately. now is that they can move forward. but the 2nd sticking point that they're going to have to deal with today is the 4th coming election. that would be what the interest committee wants libyans to go to the polls on the 24th of december and elect a new democratic government. but so far the authorizations and legislation needed for the funding and the planning of that election and not in place that was coming from the the interim government. the perhaps they're going to postpone the elections. that is not what the international community wants. and there's going to be a big push, i think, to try and make sure those elections take place on time. they do not want things to drift again as they did 10 years ago, james and london across that conference forth in berlin. thank you so much jane.
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while there are still plenty more heads here, this news hour, including dozens of faces in democratic republic of congress to render their weapons, even types, many and england have top the group as a protest. and so the law, 16 of the euros, will have the option for you. in also the pandemic come out and more than 20 cases of a highly infectious trib 19 strain. have now been found in 3 indian states. its closely related to the delta varying that was fast detected in that country. health officials saying that this new delta plus mutation is a variant of concern. elizabeth per on him has one out from you dunny. the ministry of health is worried. that's why they have classified. this is a variant of concern saying they give the title a variant of interest or concern when a variance is more trans miscible or is more virulent. they said they found $22.00
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cases of the states of my last month for dish and, and catalog. but the governance press information bureau is now putting that number at 40 days off the states to put very strips containment measures in place where the clusters of the various have been found. that includes contact tracing, testing preventing any gatherings, and also prioritizing vaccinations that they're saying that so father by then to $53.00 characteristics of what they call in the delta plus the variance that it is more transmissible that it has stronger binding to the receptors of long cells and there's a potential reduction in antibody response. they've also said that india is one of 9 countries with what they call in the delta plus has been identified. that's also being found in the us, the u. k. switzerland, portugal, japan, poland, may, paul, china and russia. and they are trying to get the delta plus under control, which is something that they weren't able to do with the original delta variant,
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which we have both in india and abroad. we have the white house chief medical adviser to add to the fact you're saying on tuesday that the original delta variant is america's greatest threat to get included on the control of some of the most vaccinated countries which relied heavily on chinese made jobs are experiencing a resurgence in curve in 1900 infections. data published by the new york times now shows that countries out pacing the u. s. and vaccinations such as bahrain chalet, mongolia, they have some of the wild west outbreaks. and that's raise concerns about the effectiveness of those vaccines. let's speak to dr. patrick tang. he's a medical microbiologist and division chief of ology services sort pathology sciences at sidra medical and research center. he joins us now. here in doha. dr. i want to start with the question that has us all nervous, how many mutations before the vaccines that we have actually stopped working
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so far, we've seen a lot of the, the mutation being recycled by the bar as it's evolving the natural part of that for the buyers to keep evolving as long as we don't have it under control. so what we've been with the delta barrier and now the delta variant in that you know, the delta barrier, it's already a variance of concern. and now it's picked up an additional mutation that similar to a previous there and the beta variance and, and this is potentially going to allow the buyer to be able to have a higher ability to be in unity from the back being and from the but i the big, bad bad, you know, the backing protection that we're seeing, again, the beta barrier it protect it. so even though there's a minor reduction in back in africa, the for d m r n a back in. they are still highly effective. we speak 80 to 90 percent
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protection against the bader and chic back. the same thing for this new delta, while varying doctor by my understanding, every time the virus infect, someone, it mutates just a little bit right. more so in people with compromised immune systems. but so if we look at that, that's how we've been able to attract chains of transmission. so when do those mutations become significant enough that we actually call it a new variance? so the vast majority of mutation don't do anything for the virus. they don't make it more transmissible, they don't make it, give it the ability to be in unity or increases that they are, the vast majority of mutation. do not. right? so the only tiny proportion of vacation are able to give extra character to the large. but what we're seeing is that, you know, the different by mutation are very similar between all the different barriers. they
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are converging in that it's in terms of by using very similar mutation to do the same thing. so so this new mutation at the delta barrier delta quite baron have, is already, has already been seen in the beta variance and, and we do have a lot of evidence already. real world evidence that back things are going to be able to control. so i know my personal view is that, you know, we can be very important for public health officials. they're important for epidemiologists and they're very concerning for country that don't have a high rate of active protection for the country bad already. and she's a high degree of back the protection in their population. they don't have to worry much about these new barriers because the facts and do work. and there's only so many mutation that the virus can make the vaccine immunity or preexisting community . so, so, but i think that i do want to say that there are great waves of the planet where
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there's very, very low levels of vaccine immunity. so given that there are multiple variance that exist and that they will presumably go on new se thing could, should people then not let their guard down even if they're fully vaccinated? because then variance could mutation these other parts of the walls and then travel back to vaccination areas? well, i think the important thing here is that we have to address that in inequities in back the interest that have to be the goal instead of worrying about whether the parents are going to attack all their country that have high rates of protection. if they're gonna, if he's barry and get into a country that have a high degree of backing protection, you know, and you know, i've actually buying the people the pocket, the people that are, are back needed for whatever reason or don't have immunity for whatever reason. and
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it's going to cost them infections and those people. but for the people, the back majority, people that have a good protection from one of the stronger vaccines. they're not going to have to worry about having severe outcomes from, from your various but, but the important thing about the bed is that they will, we have it in all their countries that have or vaccine coverage. and you are barry concerning for many parts of the world, and we say that have her desperately trying to address that doctor patrick tongue. they're a medical microbiologist, division chief of pathology sciences at sidra here. and thanks for sharing your expertise with us. again, doctor, thank you for having. now it is just a month until the opening ceremony for the tokyo lympics and purchase as of use this occasion to gather outside the japanese olympic headquarters. calling for the government to cancel the games. and when a poll just last month, more than 80 percent participants said they didn't want steal and fix to even go ahead. japan's health care system is struggling with the current of virus and your
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residents are worried about a new such. while meanwhile, and big organizers have now imposed a ban on alcohol. as part of tufty rules for spectators, they say the usual festive mood at the event will have to be suppressed in order to make sure that it is safe and secure. well, let's speak the funniest lama he joins us now from tokyo. so fuddy, we're seeing these protests today. what is the trajectory of public sentiment they're like now as the games get ever closer look pretty thin. so when you watch over 80 percent for the public, they don't want to be next month. and the government, as you know, has been pushing for the big for the last few months. but mr. prince, come from a week ago when the emergency focused emergency was listed in tokyo and i got
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a picture. he said that he wants to see inside the events ceremony even maybe he's risking safety for he's gone. but if you can gain some of the people who said they mentioned that they are really what do you again, not, they're going through with the coming off about 60000 people from all over the last 11000. and that's what that is there. like now the, the body in them though it has been effected in several cases in japan. and one of the, again, the young team olympic team came through a few days ago. they said that they've all gone, all of the team members were vaccinated and they were tested before they came to
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japan. but one of them him, that was it that he was, it was special facility. so if you've a lot of grade just today, i think committee, they announced the guideline for the behavior during that would, and they're asking them to go directly from their homes or lodging location to the venues and go back directly also to after watching the event. they're also now seeing that they're going to hold the low, $32.00 from about 900000 tickets to the people because they know that it would be a couple in 1000 each venue during the limbic. so basically they have thought about 3700000 tickets and now they have to find out the 900000 tickets. so they are going, those are all the look for that to choose. we're going to defense all of the, all of this is kind of the making public feeling of unbelief. so they will
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take the head of the big organizing committee. but it's conference and she expressed that hope that the opening ceremony would go as smoothly as possible. but the all eyes now on the number of fiction infections, insult you, especially to see to see any research and the number, the effect, the opening ceremony for the alarm. and i also see actually just spend the last hour the that a 2nd member of you got into the lymphatic team has now tested positive, a very interesting development in tokyo. the salami and the japanese capital organizes are insisting that all the necessary precautions will be in place to make sure the games are indeed safe, as well with bright report. with one month to go before the game starts. this with the rehearsal for the opening ceremony with bus loads of stuff playing the part of l. m p and but the organizes are still unable to predict
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a sure how this lympics will play out before the closing ceremony. also being put on show for the media, the athletes village, which will be home to $11000.00 participants. it was originally planned for many of them to eat together in vast dining halls. but instead, competitors will be asked to eat alone with extensive precautions in place. the organizes are insisting these games will be safe. after these are the i stayed in the athletes villages for total of 11 times 7 times as an athlete and 4 times as a team leader. but we started out this village is by far the best. they'll be restrictions on when and where spectators, concert's sing, and their numbers will be kept at 50 percent, which may be further restricted. by the time the games get underway, what small spectators from overseas or band dealing a big blow to businesses like memorial to knock a sports bar in downtown tokyo,
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already struggling with business down 2 thirds during the pandemic. when we, when we were hoping the gaines would give us a boost, but i'm torn because having more customers can cause a covert cluster. equally torn it seems, is public opinion in japan about going ahead with these gains. we don't lucky people are asked to make sacrifices and put up with the restrictions, but the government wants to hold the games with spectators and i don't understand them. came from that. we've waited a year and we should just go ahead with a stadium full of spectators and there's not enough information about people coming from outside japan and if they've been vaccinated, i'm concerned the virus will spread further than i. as official olympic posters are unveiled, there are still so many and answered questions. but finally, the biggest one is now seemingly resolved. the games will go on mcbride al jazeera
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and will also have much more on the olympics for you in sport intruding middle distance. great. she says, the lack of fans in the stands will not affect athletes performances. and also still ahead here on out there why cuba and the us are returning to the era of confrontations is 5 months and to jo biden's presidency knocking down and stopping again, albania aims to rebuild stronger homes. following 2019 and the phoenix suns, when with less than a 2nd glass on the diesel will be what will be absent from ah hello no sir. here's the weather story across europe on wednesday we've got some instability toward the west. some high heat in the east end the south as well.
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we'll go over all those details right now, but we're going to begin with some wild weather that we saw toward the south of france. we saw hailstones here about 2 to 3 centimeters in diameter. that was enough to bring down some leaves and just poor visibility trying to navigate through there. and i think we can expect much of the same on wednesdays. storms bubbling up through the north of iberia, through the south of france, pushing into germany, southern and eastern sections right into the czech republic. now let's talk about the high heat. the heat is certainly on. as we look toward the east look at moscow 36 on thursday, that's very likely to break your all time june temperature record of 34.9. also heat for the bulk ins, tarana 37 degrees. and you know, if we go toward the mediterranean, we've got to run some showers of off the boss for assemble twice. 7 degrees, look at is mere $35.00. and by thursday, cyprus, nickos. see you could be touching 40 degrees. we've also got some high heat for
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areas of libya. tripoli, 45, and your average is 30 degrees. and as we look toward thursday, 45 is while the for some, a robot is a mechanical or even that self driving train the apple. but androids today can be over the humanoid. robots, like, me, will be everywhere. al jazeera documentaries. next the lead on the weird and wonderful world, the robot that learn think for you and even trust. i feel like i'm alive, but i know i am a machine. origins of this nation. coming soon on, al jazeera, overflowing with passion, but desperately under resourced, chides national football team has never qualified for the africa couple of nations . all the wildcat al jazeera world asks,
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