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opposition boycott. and the war in the region and public confidence in china, the china vac vaccine. wayne's in thailand, as covert cases, continue to search ah, and statue of a u. s. confederate general at the center of violent clashes 4 years ago, has been removed from its pedestal, in the city of charlottesville, virginia, on look as cheered as the robert e. lee monument was lifted from the prince cruise, also removed a statue of fellow confederate, general thomas stonewall. jackson, protective fencing and designated, no parking zones had been installed by securities. but the event passed off peacefully in 2017 white supremacist protests over plans to remove it, led to clashes in which a woman was run down by a car and killed. today the fact you come down and we are one

small step closer to a more perfect. yes. the object was only important because of the race of the man who sat upon the horse. his greatest honor was his whiteness and a treason that he committed in the attempt to preserve the great american tradition of being able to enslaved rape, pillage and murder, our black people for economic gain. what was growing in the mind, the man who commissioned this statue? my guess would be the desire to continue to perpetuate the erroneous theory. that whiteness is supreme and he got her joins us live, washington, d. c. and the how significant is the removal of these statues? well, i think it's significant when you look about, look at how peaceful the process was today and compare it to the scenes we saw for

years ago in charlottesville, when the removal of the plans to remove that statue became a flash point for white nationalists. we remember those pictures of neo nazis marching with torches and at the time president trump saying there were good people on both sides and ultimately the death of heather hayer, the anti anti races protest. who is mon, down by new not seen a car. so you fast forward for years and the city of charlotte, so its been through all sorts of legal battles to get this done. and you see these 2 statues being removed peacefully and people cheering and the crowd being of all different backgrounds and races. it is a victory, i think, for charlottesville and a victory of people that have been really campaigning. and the reason this statue was removed today is because basically a high school girl started a petition. they went through various legal battles, but things went off very smoothly today. and the city of charlotte, but i think taking a significant step forward, what about all the remaining place?

you know, according to the southern poverty law center there or something like at least 700 symbols of the confederacy still in place across the entire country. there are various battles to remove them. a battles that have speeded up since is the death of george, florida, the hands of a white police officer. just recently, we are a member that trial as well, but several states including alabama, mississippi and tennessee are all putting laws in place. now that would preserve those symbols of the confederacy because they say this is part of the history of a sudden states. civil rights activists of course, have a very different view of those kind of statues and symbols. i mean gallia, thank you very much indeed. ah, the u. s. as rejected haiti's appeal for troops to help secure the country after the assassination of president reuben and marie's on wednesday. i

h. e. 's. senate has nominated joseph lumber to serve as the new interim president until new elections, which is set for september politicians, also back to ariel, only to replace, to joseph as the prime minister, the owner of a bangladesh factory in which at least $52.00 people died in a fire on thursday has been charged with murder, 4 of his sons, and 3 company officials who also arrested more bodies could be trapped in the rubble of the food processing factory. just outside the capital. temperature reports from room guns, families wait to find out what has happened to their loved ones. so my begum sister was working in the factory the day. the fire broke out. she is desperate to find their sister's body, so she can bury her. but a hospital authorities told her they will need a dna test and that could take weeks, as most of the bodies recovered our chart be directed. nation john, i left the la my sister was going to run downstairs from the 4th floor when the

fire started. but the line supervisor told them to stay, put, the fire will be under control downstairs soon. then they locked the gate by then the fire spread to the 4th floor. she couldn't escape, she has 2 children. what are they going to do now? but many survivors say the front gate of the factory, their only way out was locked, which meant workers were trapped inside. you can see that devastation all around me . this is the court floor of a 6 story factory building. this is a floor and most of the bodies were recovered from the fire service. it's still doing sub job ration. number of people are still missing. fire service officials say they don't expect to find any more bodies but will continue their search. no, we haven't gone at only 49 dead body yesterday. i don't photograph, we have a 100 over the all the borders and then they have. busy sent all the bodies to

medical college and we requested the families of the missing process to contact the medical college so that they cannot any fight. the disasters blamed on poor fire and building safety standards are common in bangladesh. one union leader said things may have improved in the garments and textiles sector, but other industries are still lagging far behind. it is complete negligence by yes, it is true that debt is improvement in the government sector and that has happened because of the enormous pressure from the source source and brands are source in countries and international community was like watching over. but there are so many manufacturing sector exist in the country. we just absolutely overlooked the international labor organization phase. the rope gunfire highlights the importance of safety measures for building construction in bangladesh and elsewhere. but for

many relatives who lost loved ones, it will be a case of too little too late, and workers be let down that adequate safety measure are not in place. 10 with child re, i'll just say the rope, guns, bangladesh. at least 9 people have been killed and 8 others injured in a large explosion in somalia capital market issue. a car bomb, targeted the convoy of mogadishu, police force commander, colonel, for han, homa, and who survived the attack? i shall, bob says it was behind the blast. aiden was appointed in april to his previous s. i was accused of calling for coo the party of if he appears prime minister abbey at mad has won a landslide victory in june 21st elections. his prosperity party, 1410, a 436 parliament receipts, showing him a 2nd time in office. the vote was overshadowed by an opposition boy caught ethnic violence and the conflict in the northern dry region digger i was want to free if

you choose 10 regions where votes did not take place as gardner to catherine story in the capital at oliver. and guess what it takes to know the results to come out, especially since it wasn't that close. yes, it has taken a while by professionals of the electoral vote. a saying that some of them is also waiting for coming from very remote areas, but also they were dealing the tro board was dealing with numerous complaints that he had received from political parties and politicians of election malpractice. so he was dealing with that, but this announcement really comes as no surprise prime minister. obviously the amid was far as the party has been leading from the very start. and it's also an election really that has been boy courted, was born quoted by some of the countries be guest opposition. parties in the lead up to the election. some opposition. 7 leaders why some of the shouldn't be,

does was arrested. they'll also voting does not take place at all in dozens of constituencies because of security problems. so some on a list we've been talking to assume they're very worried because now that parliament is dominated by members of parliament, of prime ministers. a prosperity parties could be very hard for the m p. 's to properly hold the prime minister and government to account to ask the tough question. they're saying that what we might see going forward is more opposition from outside parliament. as you mentioned, the routing party is one, but what, what is promised to be a need to do to win back public confidence given the security and political problems that the countries facing well, it really depends on who you talk to. he's supporters will tell you that this huge victory really is a manifestation of the support he has in the country, but he is facing a huge challenge going forward. not just the security problem in p guy where he's

facing a rebellion from the to grand forces. we have ethnic conflict between different ethnic communities. we have political tensions in some areas. we have tension between the feel peers done and egypt over the ongoing squealing of the grammar innocence, dom with the countries downstream, egypt and sudan, worried about how this could affect the flows, the water flows to their own country. so just the other day, a few days ago, he addressed parliament a saying that his biggest priorities are, you know, growing the economy, development, building the infrastructure and so on. but many philippines are saying that what he really needs to do is unite this country, which they feel is deeply divided and you know, deal with a security problems and he's going to achieve his agenda of economic prosperity. catherine story, thank you very much. supporters of south africa, the former president, jacob's humor,

had been protesting against his imprisonment inquiry. lou natal demonstrations, turn violent on major roads in the province after court dismissed. zoom is bent to suspend his prison sentence. vehicles with such a light and some nearby shops looted, president sort of poses called on demonstrated respect the rule of law, the 79 year old former president has begun a 15 month term failing to pay before a corruption inquiry. still to come this half hour, we look at what the telephone advance across got us on means for women in the country. and it's a football tournament. the nearly never was. but the cup on erica finally just hours away. ah ah. well, once again, i have to report that the heat from good part of europe is being driven out of the

way by yet more incoming weather weather being cloud, wind and rain, but mostly chattered right. if the british isles and france, and they've got the maybe that's, that's the general area, which is the most unsettled, if you'd like. but it has influenced the rest of europe. and we left with just a few scaffold shares around significant rain drifting up to the north of sweden and red hanging around the british charles and northern front. so temperature wise, it's around the edges where it's warm is particularly, and surprisingly in finland, which has the highest june average since $84470.00 odd. yet it's still quite warm. influenced down through the baltic states as well. helsinki, for example, the capital, the record $33.00, and we're looking at $32.00 of the forecasts for saturday, sunday, and monday they're a little bit cooler, but it's still well of the $21.00 degree average. so this is the war merrier if you're not as hot as it has been, for example, the se in greece, turkey still quite hot in spain, but again madrid's dropped back to about 30 where it should be down the bottom left

added to the fear where it is at his hottest seville, is still up to $42.00 on sunday. reckon was 47 but was still above average ah. with a bag of energy and change. came to every part of our universe. or small to continue the change all around the shape by technology and human ingenuity. we can make it work for you and your business. ah,

the me or one of the top stories you deserve. a statue of us confederate general robert e lee, which was the focus of violet clashes 4 years ago as being removed from the city of charlottesville, virginia, a statue of fellow confederate general, thomas, stonewall. jackson was also taken down the owner of bangladesh factory where at least 52 people died in a fire on thursday has been arrested for murder. 4 of his sons and 3 company officials were also detained. many of the dead were trapped inside the building by a locked door. and the party of his prime minister met as one a landslide, victory, and last month selections. its prosperity party, 141-8400. 36 parliamentary seats. more afghans

taking up arms and joining the fight against the taliban as the group continues. its rapid advance north on saturday on citizens and afghan security forces battle taliban fighters on the outskirts of condos, most districts in the province of already foreign to the taliban. they've made huge gains in recent weeks and claim to now be in control of 85 percent of the country. but the army commander and conduce says his forces have managed to keep them out of the city itself. almost a 100 i wanted to follow up on the gun forces are ready to defend the homeland. during the past few days, the enemy has carried out so much offensive in the city of condos, that they say strong resistance from all forces and suffered heavy losses as a result. as a ton of an extended control across the dentist, on many women fear the gains made of the past 20 years could be lost when the child was removed from power. african women became prominent politicians activists, police officers, and judges. in more recent days, though,

read restraints on education, freedom of movement, and clothing, a returning in some areas. there are reports that some women are being ordered to wear beckers and others told not to leave home alone. female journalists and media work has been particularly targeted by the taliban. the african journalist safety committee says 14 was threatened or attacked last year. news reports suggest hundreds of afghan women taking up arms to prevent a return to a harsh taliban rule. had the bars interim co director of the women's rights division at human rights watch. and she joins us from the pakistani capital is i'm about, you know, you know, by pakistan. but what, what are you hearing from i kind of on self about to the situation for women. now when you talked about a moment ago, you know, the taliban is, is gaining territory rapidly. and when they gain control of the new area, they're moving very quickly to implement policies that are pretty much identical to

how they treated women treaties have. and then one. and what about these reports of potentially women taking up arms to, to, to try and hold onto the their freedoms. what least fight, fight the taliban? is that something you're hearing much about? well, they've been reports like this coming from different parts of the country. i think it to the symptom of the fact that i can women all across the country, no matter where they are feeling really terrified. some of them are, i'm looking for ways to leave the country. some of them are appearing in some of these images that we've seen of women taking up arms and many others are just sort of quietly contemplating what their life will look like if they can no longer study or work or even leave their home alone to go out and carry on the daily business. and how much was an issue of women's rights? a part of the piece talks which be, you mean, i mean if you mean the 1st talk between the taliban in the u. s. government,

i think not at all, not at all and actually on my side who led those talks on behalf of the us government. quite dismissive, when people asked him about women's rights, the sort of waved it away and said that's an issue for the trap can talk when the interact can talk happened, which, which only carried on in earnest for about 4 months. there was a small proportion of the african government delegation that was women. and those women certainly did everything they could to, to raise women's rights. there were no women, of course, in the taliban delegation. but those talks never moved forward very much. you know, during those 4 months they sort of got to the point of discussing the rules of engagement for the talks. and then, you know, they seem to have been overtaken by events and the u. s. and others seem to given up and walked away from, from that process. i mean, is there any likelihood that the u. s. and other countries in nature that were part of the, the fight against the taliban will actually want to protect some of the gains that

women had in that period. and they, are they going to do anything altering to try and protect some of those issues? well, i think that's an enormous question right now, and they don't have a ton of options to protect those gains, but they do have some. i think the real question is, how much political will there is to do that and how willing different countries will be to come together and really send a message to the taliban that an entity that treats women this way can never expect have legitimacy in the community. of countries around the world and some of them, the longer term issues there was, there were some reports for us, for example, it was cuz it considering next pedantic visa program for vulnerable africans, including women, politicians. is that something that you're involved in at all on or, or backing? yeah, absolutely. we think that this is really important, and we think that other countries as well that, that where trip contributing nations donor nations,

just nations that care about african women should be looking at doing the same. i think there's, there's been a big focus on trying to help people who were military interpreters get to safety. and that's very important. but they're not the only ones at risk. the international community really encourage and urge african women to step up to, to play leadership role, to be prominent and speak out about women's rights. and in their hurry departure. they don't seem to have thought very much about what the consequences might be for the women who, who took that invitation. so we think that providing visas for women who feel they have no choice. the fleet to flee is, is something urgently important and a responsibilities that countries out is women had evolved from the human rights which thank you very much. indeed for joining you. pakistan is gearing up for a large influx of refugees because of the recent taliban gains in afghanistan.

focused on shares to border crossings with afghanistan, but only one is operational. local officials are making plans for camp sir, to house large numbers of afghans. so for refugees haven't started arriving. anything can happen at any time. they can arise, possibly enlarged numbers from outside preparations are being completed within 3 or 4 days. if the need arises, my going to set up one camp for african refugees, one on a separate camp. current of our russia has reported a single day record of 752 k with 19 death. the country is also recorded more than 25000 new infections down slightly on the previous day. relations outbreak has been blamed on the delta variant, health officials of speeding up the country's vaccination program. so far about 20 percent of the population has received at least one dose. fiji is making vaccines, compulsory for all workers as it struggles to contain a new outbreak. the nation has had kept infections in check for years. but after

a quarantine breach, it's now reporting almost $900.00 cases a day. mostly the delta variant, under the new jobs know job policy on vaccinated punk public sector employees may be fired. and private companies that don't comply could be shut down. countries across asia reporting records daily cove cases because of delta variant in thailand, which has just announced a new lockdown lease documents, suggest doctors are concerned china's fine vaccine is not effective against the new variance. the health minister has defended the job saying, believe member was only an opinion, but it's totally trying reports from bangkok, public confidence in winning a small group of protesters tried to march to thailand's health ministry. but the police are determined not to let them through. their protesting both the scarcity of vaccination shot and the vaccines. the

government is giving them some on a whole lot. i'm worried about the vaccine that the government has ordered for us with many people, including myself don't wants to novak vaccine, but the government keeps ordering more. reassuring was from a senior health official have little impact leaked memo, shows that the government is keen to defend signed a vax effectiveness, despite doctor's concern with health officials. unwilling to push other vaccines for fear of denting public confidence. to illustrate their concerns, the protest is poor, paint on bound, muddle corpses, and attempt to create them. security guards quickly, step in sign of ac was the 1st bank seem to be released. and thailand was quickly distributed to frontline medical workers, most of whom have now had 2 doses, but it's a new cobit delta variance spread. some found they weren't protected here, there were 5 medical staff infected with k with 19 and 2 were admitted to the i see

you. others are concerned by a lack of information about signed a vax results. although test groups show the vaccine works. why the studies have been hard to find if the problem about the transparency of the report when it is study in larger group of participant, it seemed like that information is not getting out of the investigators. that could be a real problem to thailand. domestic production has stalled and delivers the more effective m r n. a vaccines went to arrive till the autumn thailand had a real problem finding enough supply vaccine to meet demand. the current rates, the whole country won't be fully vaccinated until the middle of next year. at a local temple, people have been queueing over night just to get a cobra test. increasingly difficult in thailand, which now has reco daily infection rates,

despite early successes in the fight against cove at 19 times responses now looking poorly planned an ill prepared. now many a questioning the faith in the government's ability to respond. tony chang, how to 0. bank of several countries have touched, aid to june, is years at battles. a record breaking surgeon covered. 19 infections with an 8000 cases were registered in. the ice is $24.00 reporting period. putting severe stress on oxygen supplies. cutter has already sent the ministry playing with a field hospital on board. in neighboring algeria state television says the new prime minister has code 19 m and been up there. man only formed his government on wednesday. the president has ordered the government to reimpose social distancing, and ma, squaring measures after surgeon infections. venezuela, security forces have moved and 2 days of heavy fighting with armed gangs in caracas that have reported the claim. 12 lives. almost a 1000 police and military personnel entered for poor neighborhoods of the capital

on friday, after battles between gangsters and police, several bystanders. a believe to be among those killed. the government blames the violence on opposition. plotters trying to destabilize prison. nicholas monroe was major sporting tournament that almost never was, but in just a few hours, south americas copper america final will kick off between brazil and luna. my sees argentine and then your short reports to me, what is our is on the hopes and controversies surrounding the world's oldest international football tournament. oh, they got there in the end. the corporate america kicked off in june and ends with the final between brazil and argentina in rio de janeiro iconic monica now stadium brazil, the hosts and holders argentina which has won this tournament since 993. which doesn't one, anything with leo may see. arguably the best for there in the world. a classic

copper america, but a couple america like no other. it's a very different fella coast. all of the copies that come before because we have fans in the spans as being very quiet, very unusual. regional co host colombia in argentine and were forced to pull out just weeks before the kick off because of political arrest across colombia and the spiking corona virus infections. in argentina, the brazilian president job bull sonata stepped into host at the last minute, despite his own country's pul record on dealing with the pandemic. and growing political opposition with some general vision of the genocide going on across indigenous lands, while thousands destined for vaccines for indigenous people is being spent on this cup, the cup of death. look at the present, then the players start getting infected. hello me. it is very difficult what i'm going through because i don't know what is going to happen to me. i'll be able to

play football again normally. or if i'll be able to be as i was before, it's been a copa america without the color and excitement of previous tournaments. the big screens implies is in the pack bars. normally the football dominate, especially when alex and tina reaches the final, especially when not finals against brazil. this time the pandemic is the greater concern with the foot of the destruction some light relief and otherwise difficult time. brazil has lifted 5 world cups to argentine as to the container has long 14 copper america to brazil's 9. it's a rivalry that spills out of the football stadium. this is best go gina. i especially want to tell argentine as president that the only rivalry between us will take place at the mechanic. and i will tell you the result beforehand. 5, no, i say 5, no. these more pragmatic, young arch time fans disagree. the resume reading with brazil is

a tough rival for sure. but if i try to get together that can win and be champions . if you clear, well, we can really turn in the morning. so i'm very nervous and totally obsessed. i guess we'll win it to one, but it'll be a tough game. it's been a tough tournament played in difficult circumstances, but the football as it muff, as it always does, goes on shine the road to 0. what osiris ah? top stories around to 0, a statue of a u. s. confederate general. at the center, a violent clashes 4 years ago has been removed from its pedestal, in the city of charlottesville, virginia, on lucas chit. as the robert e lee monument was lifted from the flint cruise, also removed a statue of fellow confederate general thomas stonewall jackson event passed off peacefully.