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the day until it hose the winter olympics. but how will the pandemic and cause for a boy impact the sporting events november on out just sarah? ah, this civilian lead transitional government should be immediately restored. the bible ministration condemns the coincidence. am suspends millions of dollars of aid and response. ah, meanwhile in saddam thousands come out on the streets to protest against the military takeover. at least 7 people are killed in shootings by security forces. ah, hello, i'm down. jordan, this is al jazeera, alive from doha. also coming up, leaders in southeast asia,
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holding that annual summit. me and marble top the discussions, but it's jen to leader was left out and back to school children across venezuela, resume learning and classrooms. after months of cobit 19 locked out, ah, united states has condemned the military coup in sudan sang. it will not hesitate to hold to account those responsible for the overthrow of be transitional government that was supposed to usher in democracy. the biden administration is demanding the release of all detained political prisoners and bits suspending $700000000.00 in emergency assistance to the country. meanwhile, the un security council will discuss the down behind closed doors on tuesday, and it's calling for restraint and asking the stakeholders to return to dialogue and restore the constitutional order as well as not to poach domestic peace and
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political transition at risk. we stand ready, of course to, for us to forge the country on its path, tom's domestic peace and political transition. meanwhile, a state of emergency is now in force across the country. sources at the health ministry have told al jazeera, the 7 people have been killed al, to protests following monday's crew. well, will bring you more details on usm global reaction in a moment. but 1st, this report from he been morgan on what happened earlier on monday. i after a month of power, struggle with civilian leaders for dance general have stage a coup and imposed a state of emergency breaking up a fact transitional government that has been leading the country home of jesus. yeah, i think the god, we dissolve the sovereign counsel and the cabinet and we put an end to the maze jobs and under secretaries. and the state governors will revise everything and will take decisions to watch everything. ah,
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general hans as the military had to intervene to and political and fighting with a cross to dan. this fury tens of thousands of men and women breaking on the street to show they anger against the fed and military takeover. i live in urgent call to all sudanese civilians who want to protect the revolution. what the military is doing is a betrayal to all citizens on all fronts. it is the duty of all civilians to move and to block all roads outside to prevent any military force to move right now, all of us must unite to show the truth. i think i was the, hey know, the return of the old regime is impossible. no matter what the excuses or the justifications the return is impossible. this is the 1st statement of the people, women and men are refusing any kind of fraud on democracy and civil society. the military has arrested several civilian members of the transitional government and move prime minister of the land built to an undisclosed location fronting global
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concerns. c do you is very concerned about sedans, military forces, reportedly putting, ah, prime minister, hum, duck under house arrest. and as well as detaining other members of the civilian leadership. and we urge for their fast really included the pro democracy forces of freedom and change coalition. born out of the 2018 uprising that out, that long time leader omar bashir has called for protests and strikes to resist the coo division between the military and civilian side of the transition. government widened after last month failed to attempt by forces loyal to receive both sides, blame each other for lo reforms. a worsening economic crisis, poverty and corruption. many people are angry, but some of celebrating the news of the military take over a coalition of political parties has been teaching assistant in front of the presidential palace for more than a week, urging the military to take control. if members say some of those who participated
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in the 2018 uprising against the government have not been listened to, the military have been key to creating the conditions for this discord in security . and certainly in congress to given that the bahamas in many ways, instance, we had a state in this hybrid transitional arrangement. and those who have been part of this movement to push the government out are themselves key members of government. so any criticism of government performance is very much self criticism. i think the hard one gains of the pro democracy uprising have not led to the reforms. many people thought force and now with more political upheaval, the nation is once again on the edge. he, bill morgan, august era, harpoon, robin jordan has more now in the u. s. reaction to mondays qu from washington d. c. the biden administration is taking every opportunity to say that it condemns the coup attempt in cartoon on monday. not only has the by debt ministration
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decided to suspend all $700000000.00 and economic assistance to the transitional government. it also says it is watching very closely how members of the holder are behaving as the process carries out. this is what bad price had to say about the prospect of sanctions against members of the military. rosen. it is very early hours. this happened overnight. we're evaluating the situation on the ground. we're watching very closely. we are communicating and coordinating very closely with our allies and with our partners around the world. so i don't want to get ahead of, of where we are. but suffice to say that we are willing to resort to any and all appropriate measures to hold accountable. those who me be attempting to derail on the will, the aspirations of the sudanese people and those who may be responsible for violence for violence that we may yet see. the co happened just hours after the u.
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s. as special envoy for the horn of africa. jeffrey feltman left the country. he had been left with the impression that the process of political transition and reconciliation was still on track according to some in the state department. now, the big issue is whether or not this will affect the resolution of another regional crisis. that of the grand ethiopian renaissance damn otherwise known as gert officials here at the state department, say they need to deal with the political situation of cartoon 1st and worry about other regional issues later. southeast asian leaders have kicked off their annual r c. m summit in brunei all be at virtually. there'll be 3 days of talks, but me and my notes are to be absent after refusing to send a civilian representative. it comes off of the country's top generals, excluded for refusing to take steps to end violence in his country. yes, president joe biden, as well as chinese and russian leaders are also set to attend the summit. boltron
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st. louis joins us live now from a column for flowing, said me, and more clearly at the hot topic on the agenda. but i see on the has excluded the gym to leda. tried us in foreign ministers earlier this month, decided not to invite margin to achieve may nong hang, but to invite a non political representative. instead, some member countries felt the need to send a strong message to me young off with failure to implement an offer in that piece plan. and in particular, there was unhappiness that the audience appointed envoy was not able to meet and was told he would not be able to meet, deposed civilian nita on on to cheat. now men must june to late on mondays of e, for the summit struck a defiant tone at said and said its participation would be by its head abreast of representative or by a minister. it also accused often of failing to abide by its charter m. yeah, na stand is that the violence in myanmar is being stoked by who the military
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government calls terrorists aided by a shadow. government opposed to the coo and it says that asi has not taken this into account. now austin has not recognized the military leadership in me or not, but man mart remains a member. and i think me on my will be a key sticking point at the summit as in traditionally operates via a consensus. so this means that a one single country can effectively shoot down a group decision, but report to suggest it that's a decision to exclude or to not invite the june to achieve wasn't really unanimous . there were some members who were not in favor of that and get that decision was made. so i think there will be questions on how this group will operate in the future. will some analysts have suggested that maybe it's time for them to rethink its policy of non interference. it main principle of non interference with the malaysian foreign minister even suggesting that perhaps it's time to move towards a different model. suggesting that constructive engagement may be a better model for off in front. meanwhile,
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many asian nations are still struggling with the cobra. 1900 demick. so what else will be on the agenda that that's why i imagine member countries will want to talk about strengthening. we're making that public health systems more resilient, so they're able to deal with other health classes in the future. the one to talk about strengthening the economy. when he saw these asian countries were battered because of the pandemic. and the want to talk about supply chain strengthening these. the weaknesses in the supply chains were exposed during the pandemic. they'll also be discussions about the south china sea, the militarization. there are the members and china are discussing a code of conduct in the south china sea. they're already competing claims in large parts of the south china sea between some member states and china. and of course, that we talk about the intent security rivalry between us and china, and that's linked and part to the south china sea. now, many member states have said they don't want to have to choose between these 2 big giants. the u. s. is a traditional ally for many member states,
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but china is in their own backyard and it's a very important trade partner in the us for the 1st time in 4 years is participating in this in summit with us president joe biden joining in fire tele conference later on tuesday, in contrast, former president donald trump skip the events 4 times during his term. and this often summit is also taking place in the back top of a new security pipe, known as a trilateral pack between the u. s. u. k and australia for the india pacific region . and i imagine that will also be on the agenda with member state prep, wanting to say they want that keen to maintain peace and stability in the region, but they may be concerned about security build up in the region. all right to florence, very live for quality and performance. thank. now a diplomatic rabbit. in turkey on the west appears to be the escalating turkeys president had threatened to expel ambassadors from 10 western countries. they were demanding the release of a jailed activists accused of being part of
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a coup attempt in 2016, russia, ty, berto on had called their demand on attack on turkeys sovereignty. on monday the embassies issued statements saying will abide by you and convention, which calls on debit not to respect the laws of the house state. because im near to miss osler could is to go to my aim is not to start a crisis. it's only to preserve and protect the rights and interests of our country . today, the ambassadors took a step back and refer to the vienna convention they staple, led us to believe that they will be more careful in terms of our rights that are derived from our sovereignty. any one who doesn't respect our rights, cannot remain in this country. lots more. so to come here now does air including the you and warns the world is way off track to cap rising temperatures as global emissions reach, record highs and facebook post huge profits hours after whistlebury accuses it a putting growth for people's welding morning status.
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ah, ah, look forward to brighter scully's, the winter sponsored my cattle airways. hello, the weather is generally set fair across much of the middle east as usual, but we have got some longest spells of rain, some wet weather, just developing around the caspian sea in northern parts of around could see some rather lively showers slightly to lead to some localized flooding in terms of temperatures where we're in the mid twenties around the levant, still getting up to around 32 celsius in baghdad. so there's still some warped around q weight on a similar number inherent, doha, getting up to around 34 degrees. over the next couple of days i shall was we'll continue around southern parts of the caspian, but for the most part it is settled and sunny might just catch a shower or 2 into that eastern side of a man might catch a shower or 2 in to our parts of east africa, but generally looking fine and dry. here we go. one or 2 showers. they're just
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around the ethiopian highlands, longest spells of rain to the heart of africa, pushing over towards the gulf of guinea. some pockets a very, very heavy rain. they're just around cameron's southern parts of nigeria. meanwhile, in southern africa, we have got some wet weather now coming into a good parts of or southern mozambique, some lively showers. they're just stretching across at east inside of south africa . they're running all the way up into angola and some where to where the to the east and libya blue weather sponsored by katara, always compelling journalism. we keeping our distance because it's actually quite dangerous ambulances about the explosion inspire program making. i still don't feel like i actually know enough about living under fascism was light. how much money did you make for your role in delay? rent and late that al jazeera english crowd recipient of the new york festivals
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broadcaster of the year award for the 5th year running. oh ah, welcome back of her grandma about top stories here. this state of emergency is now in force in sudan not to be military sees paulina kuhn dissolving the transitional government. the health ministry says 7 people have been killed during protests against the military takeover. meanwhile, the bike, the ministration is suspending $700000000.00, an aide to sedan in response to the to egypt as joint cut out, france on the un in coin for restraint and southeast asian leaders on meeting virtually for the annual assay on summit. it's being hosted by tonight and ian moss
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jumped as refused to send a civilian representative. after it's miniature leda was excluded. now the you, a special envoy for iran says efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal at a critical phase. and patience is wearing thin, with iran's reasons for avoiding talks, robert malley says terence should not delay its return to talks any longer. he'll meet his e counterpart in brussels for talks on resuming discussions. ron's, deputy foreign minister will also be there for my years president donald trump pulled out of the agreement back in 2018 the you and his warning that half of the scanner stones population is now facing starvation. the world food program says unprecedented numbers are at risk, conflict, drought, and, and economic crisis all combining as winter approaches. the un calling on the international community to immediately release suspended, a donations. stephanie becca has more from a capital consul. count down to catastrophe and one of the world's worst
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humanitarian crises, if not the worst. those are the warnings from the world food programs executive director. if you look at the numbers over here hoff buff gannons population are facing severe food insecurities in this latest report. 22.8000000 people, 14000000 of those children. and also interestingly saying that for the 1st time urban areas, areas like cobble in the main cities are facing the same rate of food insecurities as the rural areas. there are various reasons for this, but the main one also recently compounded by the fact that the international community is withholding billions and billions of dollars of much needed money here everyone. we've spoken to whether their civil servants under the taliban government taliban fighters, people who work in the health sector and nurses, people who work in centers of drug rehabilitation. they have not been paid their salaries and months. people do not have the cash to feed themselves. also recently a couple of weeks ago, even world food program saying that only 5 percent of households across the country
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are getting enough to eat so desperate time 0 really going to get worse with the onset of winter temperatures dropping below freezing. here it will snow it will be wet at and also the aid agencies warning that many people who are displaced will be cut off for much needed aid and russia briefly. also quoting for the international community to release those funds. we've been talking to people here, one man yesterday telling us that this is not the money of the taliban. this is not isolate money. this is the money that belongs to the afghan people. and the situation is so desperate that they need to release it as soon as possible. amnesty international, it says it will close. it's 2 offices in hong kong by the end of the year, because it can't guarantee the safety of staff. a group says a national security law imposed by beijing makes it impossible for its employees to work without fear of reprisal laws been used to target pro democracy protest as civil society groups and dissenting voices. australia is promising to reduce its
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greenhouse gas emissions by 35 percent by the year 2030 prime minister scott morrison's aiming for net 0 emissions by 2050. but he said the goal will not be put into law and that jobs will be protected. australia is one of the world's biggest emitters, per capita, and a major exporter oil and gas. meanwhile, the u. n's calling for much more ambitious targets. it says the world is way off tracked, kept rising temperatures. greenhouse gas devils hit new records last year. carbon dioxide levels and are rising at a higher average rate. they've been over the past decade. and one of the key issues at next week's un climate conference is how to finance a green transition. rich nations had promised to provide poor countries with a $100000000000.00 every year to tackle global warming. but a new report says that target has been missed and is more likely to be reached in 2023. that's 3 years later than originally planned. nigeria has
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launched a digital currency only months after it, bard banks and financial institutions and dealing with crypto currencies. the currency name, the entire will operate as an electronic wallet of madrid. reports now from boucher with after 3 would delay nigeria digital currency is now legal tender i did to launch president obama bahati says the ina will i show in opportunities or banks, customers and the country's economy lever of central bank digital currency. it can have moved away more people and businesses from the informers into the former sector, thereby creating the tax these of the country alongside to innovation center. when it came 1st, the economy grows through better economy activities about an hour after
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the launch. michael lunney co downloaded the app but says it didn't work. one would expect that if a government is rolling out on official platform, one would expect that it's been tried. it's been tested and it's running so much so that the launch, the launch itself would be like the 1st public safety for each. right? so when i log on after 40 minutes, and i'm not getting the, the, it gives me some level of concern. the government hopes this new virtual courtesy will also improve cross border trade, expand access to financial services, and increasing remittances from elijah das properties. the central banks has more than 2000 customers registered within 24 hours of the e. not a platform starting, not a great start when the banking population is more than 100000000. model vicious, the expected rise in the numbers using it in the near future. but ex was worn,
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that the central bank must provide confidence for customers, skepticism and weak infrastructure on the only challenge is facing the new digital currency. nigeria central bank aims to move 10 percent of montreux transaction to the platform it months to come and only say, not all financial institutions would like that. this is a really trade to the commercial bands because if you move forms, they already india across study to this in error. it means that this one has gone up of this house of this commercial bank. and i foresee a situation where commercial bounce, we do, one of the things they asked of subsides is very process. almost half the country has no access to bank account. the central bank says this digital currency will change that by drawing millions of nigerians to banks. but are the initial skepticism greeting this launch? it's hard to say if the new digital current platform would succeed. why the traditional banking system has failed? how many degrees al jazeera up would you?
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an american rental company has ordered a 100000 electric cars from tesla is the biggest order elam mosques company has ever received. the $4000000000.00 deal will give hurts the biggest electric vehicle fleet in north america. each tesla model 3 will cost $40000.00. the rental company will take full delivery because by the end of next year, hundreds of companies and organizations reliant on us based computer systems are being hit by a new wave of russian cyber attacks. microsoft says it's notified more than $600.00 customers between july and october. they'd been attacked. it says the russian group on last year's solar winds attack is also behind the latest assault. last year's attack gave cyber criminal's potential access to thousands of u. s. government and private computer networks. facebook has posted quarterly profits of 9000000000 dollars hours after more potentially damaging revelations. a former facebook employee turned whistleblower has been giving evidence to
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u. k. politicians. francis hogan says the tech giant has knowingly fed online hate and violence to maximize profits or appearance could affect new rules. the social networks in the u. k. is where we challenz france is how can says she never wanted to be a whistle blower. but since leaving facebook with tens of thousands of internal documents earlier this year, her alarm call has been heard around the world. october, the 5th us congress walked over 25th the u. k. parliament's message that is deeply critical of the way facebook is run, mark sucker berg it has unilateral control over 3000000000 people. right? there is no will at the top to make sure the systems are run adequately same way. the systems francis, how can, is most concerned about the algorithms promoting content uses of the social media giants. i think lots of research that says that kind of ranking engagement based
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ranking prioritize is polarizing extreme divisive content. it doesn't matter if you're on the left or on the right. it pushes you to the extremes, and it fans have right anger. and he is the easiest way to grow on facebook. she says it's a system that's being abused. there's something called by reality hacking, where you figure out all the tricks on how to optimize facebook and good actors. good publishers are already publishing all the content they can, they can do. but bad actors have an incentive to play the algorithm. facebook executives know this, says francis, how can, but the reason they haven't changed the algorithm is money. they think user engagement would decline and with its ad revenues, i think there is a view inside the company that safety is a cost, a cost center. it's not a hunter, which i think it's very short term thinking. us congress and regulators are investigating facebook. part of the deadly storming of the u. s. capital, an independent report commissioned by facebook, said it failed to stop the platform being used to incite ethnic violence in me and
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mar. so miss how god believes as a real world cost in lives, i have no doubt the like the events for scene around the world. things like me on march. if those are the opening chapters because engagement based ranking does 2 things. one, a prior priority as an amplifier device of polarizing extreme content and to it's hyper concentrated in, you know, 5 percent of the population. and you only need 3 percent of the population on the streets to have a revolution. facebook says much of the reporting is based on a false premise. yes, we're a business and we make profit, they say. but the idea that we do so at the expense of people safety or well being, misunderstand where our own commercial interests lie. the truth is we've invested $13000000000.00 and have over $40000.00 people to do one job. keep people safe on facebook. but with a consortium of news organizations going over the thousands of pages of lead, internal memos, facebook crisis isn't over yet. reach helen's how to 0 children and venezuela back
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in class after a long gap due to the pandemic, the government's gum and a p. r. drive showcasing spruced up schools ready to welcome back students. but many se conditions are far from ideal. donald sean la report, many schools across venezuela have reopen their classrooms 19 months after the pandemic force them to close. and after several delays, due to rising rates of infection, could add on the ceiling. but i thought nothing will rec, laughing. we've created the conditions to return safely to classrooms. the administrations and the teachers have been working to make sure their attorneys safe so that parents feel comfortable and oh, after so long without face to face learning, all playing with his friends. one is clear about what he expects from school and on cause i know he says he wants 2 things to play and to learn the wires. cedar fair if his mother midian says she was nervous about the return,
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but it was necessary. and i thought on tampa, florida, fuck, laugh is happy to be coming back. v needed communication with other kids to play, to share things with a teachers that motivation. once i've gone for the sale program out, the government is called the reopening campaign. a drop of love for my school here . this video released to one of president nicholas my daughter's social media accounts shows workers, spruce thing up school buildings, and the state delivering vital learning equipment, where he admits many peoples of abandon their education. i gave my yamaha in the bill, invite them back so they can return to the classroom alone in the low low class. however, many teachers and parents say buildings are in disrepair, supplies a low and thousands of teachers. the lowest paid in the region have left the profession or join the millions were fled venezuela to escape poverty and inflation . just what they had not been left only for now. i don't think the conditions are
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suitable for children return. there are schools at lac wasser that are not a quit that don't have the infrastructure. how many teachers let your wanna have supplemented their meager incomes by inviting pupils into their homes. rather late on we are very concerned because we are going to find many gaps and that education, for example, a stay lead and say, a good aid. brenda pandemic began. they have already passed a 2nd or 3rd. and maybe they don't know how to read official figures, said the virus is killed, less than 5000 people in venezuela and infected 400000. however, many health experts dispute, those numbers, as well as the government claimed that it is vaccinated, 80 percent of teachers. ha, the welcome returned to school in venezuela is proving to be fraught with difficulties with the coven 19 pandemic, highlighting and exacerbating many of the problems the countries education system
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was already facing. oh, thank shimla al jazeera and a quick reminder you can catch up with all the news on our website. there it is on your screen. the address out is here with dot com. that's auto 0. don't com. ah, i brokercheck of the headlines here in al jazeera, the u. s. says it suspending $700000000.00 in aid to sedan in response to the military to at least 7 protesters are reported have been killed. the military has dissolved the transitional government, arrested ministers, and declared a state of emergency. we are evaluating the situation on the ground. we are wa.

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