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on the day until it host the winter olympics. but how will the pandemic and cause for a boy impact the sporting event november on out jazeera ah? the african union, suspend sedans, participation and the world bank stops aid in response to mondays, military coup. ah, hi there, i'm kim fidel. this is angie, they're alive from doha. also coming up. israel approved plans for nearly 3000 new illegal settlement units in the occupied west bank. the used talk court finds poland, $1200000.00 a day. however, there is a dispute about judicial independence,
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how facebook's algorithm has been boosting emotive, post some people's timelines. ah, will begin with sudan and the mounting demands at home and abroad for the military to walk back at school. the african union has suspended so darned from all activities until civilian rule was restored and the world bank has put a whole to on age. there is an economic pressure internally to state oil company workers and doctors are among the latest to join strikes and protests against the crew. and the military crackdown goes on with politicians and activists arrested on wednesday. general abdel father, albert han says he seized power to stop sudan sliding into civil war. the un security council has been meeting to discuss the un mission in a contested region between sudan and south sudan. ahead of those talks, we heard from the ambassador from kenya,
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which holds the rotating presidency of the security council. he said he hugs deed as will back the african union in its actions against the coup. i am more optimistic now that the piece of security council has made this position clear because our colleagues, everyone on the council speaks very often about backing africa positions. so now we shall see which delegation actually buck the african union position. and so this will make it very clear by the end of today or tomorrow, have a morgan has the latest now phone call to. and we've been around various parts of hartaman. we've seen many businesses still remaining shots that because when we spoke to the few business owners who were hanging around their shop, they said they're not sure that would impact the military take over by the army take over, will have on their businesses. they say that they've been monitoring the situation over the past few days, but they said that the reason why they haven't opened the main reason why they
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haven't opened is because of the called for civil disobedience. processes have been setting up road blocks and barricades and on main street and neighborhoods to show the military that they do not want to be that they don't want them to be in charge per say. they've been demanding a return for civilian the transitional government. and they want to see the politicians and activities who have been arrested since monday, who released and brought back to their positions of power. so most of the street that we've been around on, we've seen barricades, we've seen people using blocks using trees to basically form barriers on, on the streets to prevent movement of security forces. but also to prevent people from going out. they say they want a general strike conducted at both federal and state levels to should the military, that state and state institutions and businesses don't want the army to be in control salary. then al vein is a sudan specialist and political analyst. he says, the biggest challenge for the military will be gone during widespread support. the
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military seem to be united that with regard to the army, the rabbit, a response forces and the police, the intelligence, and some of the a little courses side is deal with the government in yorba last year. they seem to be in a united front supporting this more. on the other side, there are civilian groups who are citing again, is this more especially worried that this is a military took over and my cuba that i see the whole transition. now moving forward, i think if they manage to come up with an acceptable or government government that is formed with real experience who are independent from political affiliations, who can be trusted to take the country into election in 2023 or 24. as it was the stipulated before, i think that would be the key in terms of granting some sort of stability in the
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country. because, you know, the last 2 years has been very difficult for the normal cities. it's special and comes to the living conditions and the economic crisis that hit the country very high. over the last 2 years, israel has approved plans for about 3000 new illegal settlement units in the occupied west bank. they'll be the 1st to be built on the prime minister, enough tally penis and during presidential biden's term. the u. s. is deeply concerned about the plan saying it will hurt prospects for 2 state solution. settlements are illegal under international law, the israel, which axis the american new site axis is reporting then secretary of state antony, blank and vocally opposed. israel's decision source has told the site there was a tense coal between blinking and is waiting. defense minister ban against lincoln reportedly told gans that the number of units in the location were unacceptable needed. abraham has more from not less in the occupied west bank. what
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a number of units approved in wednesday's meeting might not be as large as it was during the era of the u. s. president. donald trump, for palestinians. one settlement unit is one unit too much. we're standing here in front of the league israeli settlement of a lead has been here since the eighty's and it has been expanding, has been connected to other illegals, really settlements, an israel with a network of roads, transportation. it has access to electricity and water. and it has also prevented past indians from accessing their lands. we're not just talking about the built up area, but the whole mountain has been off limits to palestinians who own agricultural lands there. now in wednesday, the meeting there are 2. it is really outposts that have been approved by this meeting. it means that sometimes settlers decide to put up caravans,
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but they are not approved by the government. but many of them we've seen across the years were did through actively, later on, approved and recognized by the government. although in the meantime they acts as they have access to infrastructure and services. when it comes to the palestinian authority, it condemned the new settlement building and said that all supplements are considered illegal under international law, urging the international community to intervene. the european union's top court has ordered poland to pay a fine of more than $1000000.00 a day, as part of a deepening dispute between the e u. in it's my mistake about poems. traditionally, a recent polish court ruling challenge to the supremacy of e. you law and the country here to keep it is the editor all brussels report dot you and you side covering european politics. he says the find further threatens and already fragile relationship. the european commission took this particular
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concern to the top you court and luxembourg. european court of justice, which has now ruled that this a specific judicial arrangement in poland violates your law and has imposed a fine on poland. poland is already expected to pay a fine over i think her whole 1000000 euro a day. for another condemnation, which is about the refusal, the polish refusal who shut down a coal mine near the new to check border. the poor government has a few weeks ago asked its own constitutional court whether you law is superior to national law. and the constitutional court has said that it is, but only if certain conditions are fulfilled, meaning it's not always superior. one of the conditions, according to the polish top court, where you law is not superior,
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is when you would be trying to intervene into how the polish judicial system is being organized. which is actually the case now with this new fine because paul is being fined because of this disciplinary chamber that the polar governments and polish parliament half have create it. not what's next. it's hard to say you could expect. now the ball is government to say, well, sorry, we're not able to pay this fine because it or own poses constitutional court has said that this would not be in line with the polish constitution. although there has spoken exclusively to one of hastings most powerful gang leaders and groups like the one run by jimmy challenge. they control large parts of the country violently enforcing beryl 40. they're also causing a severe fuel shortage chill as a told rob reynolds, what it will take, the end of the blockade. i have to sit there. his name is jimmy shell,
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say we're commonly known by his childhood nickname, barbecue, once a haitian police officer. he is now the leader of a powerful confederation of gangs called g 9, which controls much of florida, prince in its suburbs. with an automatic rifle strapped to his chest shall say, took us through the garbage strewn alley ways of la celine, a sprawling slum. he urged us to show the world the desperate poverty in which millions of haitians live out their lives without basic sanitation, healthcare education, or hopes for a better future. although he is the feared leader of a violent criminal gang cheryl z a appears to be trying to reinvent himself as a leader, a man of the people flu, battling a corrupt system. and the current government led by prime minister aria henri,
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who shares a condemns. no ma'am, got boom, able look. we'll see. also see that we are fighting for another society. another haiti, there is no only for the 5 percent of the people who keep older, well figured, but a new hater where everyone can have food, clean water. so they can have a decent house to live in another haiti where we don't have to leave the country. we could have a cheryl's, a also stands accused of masterminding, numerous assassinations and massacres, including one in 2018 that killed up to 25 people. he denies all the allegations you buy gun bombs, young. i'm not a gangster. i never booby a gangster is the system i'm fighting against today? the system has a lot of money. they own the media. now they try to maybe look like a gangster. william fallen off shall z, a condemned the kidnapping of 17 us and canadian missionaries who are being held for ransom by a rival gang look, or danny to zack kid. not be. we condemn, oh, kidnappings that happen in this country,
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that the special one is the missionary set me soon. there americans, when we talk about missionaries and they came to this country to help us today, we cannot support any gangs who kidnapped people, you know, fussy, a severe fuel shortage as practically shut down haiti's capital, the result of gangs hijacking fuel trucks and blockading depos shells a says he can get the petrol flowing again, but says haiti's prime minister must go debbie if arielle on re resigns at 8 o'clock, then at 8 o 5, remove all the barricades so that the trucks can come to the fuel depot and fill up . and then the crisis will stop. cheryl's a says he wants to tear up haiti's political and oligarchic system by its roots. his system sack, the system is criminal, the revolution we're preaching to day. we cannot do this without guns because we have our own guns. this gun is a symbol of our revolution, the revolution against the 5 percent of those who hold all the wealth of our nation . as he walked, the streets of la saline barbecue was greeted warmly by many so does this gang
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leader have ambitions to one day rule haiti? he certainly talks like a politician. comparing himself to one of haiti's most revered leaders in its struggle for independence from france in the 18th century, he discussed him fia jones. jak de salon was a great man, the father of the nation who fought hard to free haiti. today i'm doing the same fighting at the salon, did. i'm following his dream. the dream of de salaam was to see the wealth of his country b shed equally li, battiata. outlaw would be revolutionary leader of men in arms. the man they call barbecue is one of the most powerful and enigmatic figures in haiti to day. rog, reynolds al jazeera, puerto prince salon al jazeera, with europe's most carbon polluting plant. poland faces the challenge of becoming carbon, neutral by 2050. ah
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hello the skies a lazy clear across much of the middle east. lots of hazy sunshine coming for her little more cloud though up towards the yeah. the caspian sea and make its way through dry weather coming in on the cool cipher terran around 17 celsius. but at least it will be largely dry bits and pieces of cloud of rain moving through took minister, northern parts of afghanistan charts of a shower or 2 in kabul, or chills of a shower to just around eastern areas over man on thursday, or maybe on friday. wanted to shout, he, gracie, easing out of the way, should be large, dry. here in doha, we getting up to 32 degrees bush, little further north. you see some wet or whether they're developing just around central and eastern parts of taken. maybe northern areas of syria could catch yard shower, along with northern parts of iraq pushing into iran, chatter,
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the od. shower, to into a somali or over the next day or so. plenty of showers around the ethiopian highland and where to where the coming down across lake victoria. more big down horses seasonal, raised in a nicely. they're cross the gulf of guinea sink a little further southwards. in the coming days, you can follow that line of sherry, rain cross at western side of the democratic republic of congo, pushing right down across angola, some heavy down, pause there into botswana and turning increased the wet for south africa. ah, frank assessments is likely to change biking behavior at all. it's not going to change their behavior, they are going to continue to do what they do and in depth analysis of the days global headlights inside story on al jazeera well is experiencing unprecedented extreme weather record. temperature, the being said last year than i feel for deteriorating off whenever the quote
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running down world leaders are moving laws, go in the u. k. in a bit of fresh out a deal to flashing machine to port to late all over you and climate summit on al jazeera. ah ah, you're acting out, is there a reminder about hot stories this on? the african union has suspended sudan from all of the blocks activities until civilian is restored. and workers from saddam state under oil company have jointed growing civil disobedience movement against monday's military coup. israel has approved plans for 3000 new illegal settlement units in the occupied west back according to axial snooze site. the u. s. secretary of state vocally opposed the plans in a tense phone call with the israeli defense minister. fear being unions. top court
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has ordered poland to pay a fine of more than $1000000.00 a day. it's part of a deepening dispute between you and it's fantastic about poland is traditionally a facebook whistleblower has leaked documents showing how the company encourages divisive and emotional posts, rather than factual content. it started in 2017 when facebook began treating emoji reactions. it's 5 time is more valuable than a traditional, like. the theory was simple. post that prompted lots of reaction tended to keep uses engaged in bat was good for facebook's business. but companies on research is confirmed and 2019 that posts which sparked angry reaction emerges were disproportionately likely to include misinformation, toxicity, and low quality news. that means for 3 years, facebook promoted posts that purposely sought emotional and often angry responses.
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larry maggie is c e o of connect safely dot org. that's an internet safety privacy and security organization. he's, as facebook has an immense amount of responsibility. if you go back to the original motivation of keeping people engaged, that's not a bad thing. i can't think of a single media organization that doesn't try to make its content compelling to people's that they remain tuned in. that's what the nature of media is. and that's how you get eyeballs on to advertising. so it's definitely part of their business model and nothing, nothing is, you know, surreptitious or evil about the intention of but the reaction, the way in which it's unintended consequence of the cause harm is something that facebook's people have been debating. and i think it's why these documents exist, because there are people at facebook who are very uncomfortable about what they've created. and the problem with social media, if you don't have the editors and reporters like yourself, who are professionally bound to respect accuracy, you've got billions of people out there with all sorts of things. and you've got
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bad actors, perhaps from other countries who are deliberately poisoning the well with, with false information. and what facebook's failure is that they haven't done a good no job to police sat. and when you add in the algorithms which amplify anger and division, that creates a situation that we find ourselves in where those actual social harm. but what is bad, is it some of the ways in which they've gotten people to pay more attention to remain more engaged have created they said the social harmon, i don't think that mark zuckerberg with thinking, you know, sitting around thinking, oh, how am i gonna create havoc around the world, but i think that that's been the result, or least a partial result of some of his decisions. the u. s. government is trying again to extradite wiki mcsaunder. julian, the songs from the u. k. protest is denouncing the extradition or outside the high court in london where the 2 day hearing is being held. a lower court previously ruled as songs not be sent to the u. s. on mental health grounds. massage remains
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and a high security prison. he faces 18 charges there. listen to the publication of secret military documents. a wrong electoral commission has begun a manual recount of some of the results from this month's parliamentary elections. it's a response to claims of vote rigging my policies who lost their seats. ahmad, uh, go ahead, reports from baghdad. it's a labor intensive process, counting by hand bullets from nearly 2000 pulling stations across several iraq to provinces. this came about after supporters of political parties, that last seats demanded our account. the representatives have been monitoring the process along with the anime of about vol. today. we've re countered over a 100 stations. we are comparing current in old results to see if there is a difference between manual and electronic numbers. in this case we go by my, your county, then we'll honestly you results day by date, there is more than 50 observers here,
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but iraq's parliamentary election earlier this month, which was moved up to meet the demands of protesters. so a turn out of 41 percent. that's the lowest figure in the post saddam hussein era. the blog affiliated with the influential she, alida looked at a souther, $173.00 seats. the most of any party. however, the pro uranian multi party as that alliance, secured only 17 seat down from 48 in the last election. several previously dominant political parties have rejected the election results, accusing the electoral commission of vote rigging. the commission says it has received more than 1400 appeals so far, but it says it has turn it down, most of them because they are not supported by evidence. ha,
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for more than a week, supporters of losing parties have been protesting near to the entrance to bagdad green. soon. most of these protesters are members of the iran backed popular mobilization forces. the military are of the shia alpharetta lions. security measures have been tightened around the area, which is home to the u. s. embassy. other international diplomatic missions and government offices that followed threats made by the protesters to storm into the green soon. they have denounced do and mission which monitored the election. and i q as did of facilitating fraud, or the la la ya to 1000 pulling stations will not change much, shall we want a manual recount of all votes in all provinces, in the presence of mutual international observers. otherwise, there will be escalation and will demand a reelection, but many people also say that he count will not change. march. supporters of the
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popular mobilization forces have organized sporadic protest across the country. in recent days, they burn tires, unblocked roads, north and south of baghdad. for them, the election result is crucial for their future and their political parties can't get into parliament. they fear they'll have nobody to look out for their interests . hold up through a l g 0, but that thousands of ecuadorian continue their demonstrations against the government's economic policies. they're demanding president gay marcel reverse as decision to increase fuel prices. protest as are also angry about plans to double oil and mining exploration in amazon. a brazilian senate committee has approved a report recommending president diable sonata face criminal charges for his handling of pandemic. a calls on prosecutors to put ball sonata on trial,
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the charges ranging up to crimes against humanity. mike, inactive has more. the boarding session lasted nearly 12 hours an entire day to review evidence gathered by the brazilian senate committee, which spent the past 6 months investigating the government's handling of the demick . in the end, 7 of the 11 committee members approved the final report holding 80 people responsible for the 600000 people who've died of coven. 19 in brazil, you shall get. most of the report, least most of the blame on president jade will. sonata was down, played the virus and pushed to curtail lockdown measures. the senate recommends he be charged with 9 crimes among them, crimes against humanity, i use. death bull sonata is accused of letting coven 19 spread throughout brazil, in a failed attempt to achieve heard immunity through infection, and somehow protect the economy. brazil has the world's 2nd largest death toll
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after the united states. according to the report, a 3rd of those lives could have been saved, had the president taken the pandemic seriously and act it sooner. instead, he called it a little flu, encouraged mass gatherings, spent public resources pushing unproven treatments, delayed the vaccination campaign, and spoke out against vaccines. that's despite the president himself, testing positive for coven 19. just last week, bull san ardo continued spreading misinformation on social media. you rewarded facebook and you took, took down a video in which he falsely claimed that coven 19 vaccines were linked to developing aids. senator hen lunkhead year. those who wrote the report was clear in his assessment of the president's role. this c said you all feel the president is a serial killer who has a death fixation and continues to repeat everything that has been said in the past
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. water. wonderful, now with this declaration that the vaccine config people with aids clearly demonstrates he has no respect for brazilian lives. after proving the report, the committee asked brazil supreme court to ban bull sonata from using social media . but the president supporters said the media has its own political agenda, and its main goal is to defeat balsam arrow in next year's presidential elections general. so the report will now be submitted to brazil's attorney general, who has 30 days to respond. it's highly unlikely that most charges will be brought before next year's presidential elections. but the senate committee says its investigation has already had an impact. it has cast a spotlight on the governments wrongdoings and raised public awareness. monica and i give, i'll jazeera now some incredible pictures of come in from the spanish island of la palmer. were volcano, continues spewing,
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ash and molten rocks. lava cover is about 9000000 square meters, mostly farmland. it also destroy more than 2000 homes. thousands were forced to flee their home since the volcano 1st dropped it in september. un report shows greenhouse gas emissions reached a record high last year. countries are working to respond. poland has agreed with the european union to hit the 2050 carbon neutral target. although it still generates 70 percent of its electricity by burning coal and all that does, he feels the clock reports across poland, coal hot lands. this is a familiar site every day of the year and has been for decades, power stations working non stop, to keep the country running. this is their biggest and most carbon polluting power plant to the whole of europe. it is a balance of power station and it accounts are around a 5th, about 20 percent opponents total energy requirement. and it's fueled by this
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colossal open pit my. we can see in front of his head and employs nearly 10000 people but everyone across the industry is deeply worried about the future as a transition to renewables means coal should be phased out entirely by 2049 at the latest. so the question is, what happens to the minus now shows us no by i'm feeling you probably, jim. but if a proof, i understand change is taking place in the money industry on necessary. but those changes have to put people 1st. it must be a just unfair transition, securing their existence for the government. the green transition is a huge challenge. it admitted to al jazeera, it's unlikely to hit the 2050 carbon neutral target, agreed by the e u. it might be a few years beyond that. we haven't said that goal specifically in our, in our decision today. we are currently working on, on a strategic until 2050,
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but it hasn't been finalized. i don't want that stone certainly does not make the forthcoming you in climate negotiations in glasgow any easier with their focus on the phasing out of co a bad use to. because from a health perspective, the green transition can not come soon enough. across poland, toxic coal smoke billows from millions of chimney tops. and this at a time when the world health organization says it, air pollution is more dangerous than previously thought killing and estimated 7000000 people a year in poland itself. air pollution causes $45000.00 premature deaths each year, for the country has some of the most polluted air in europe. and 36 of europe's 50 most polluted cities are in the country. but in the ones badly polluted city of crock of science is hitching a ride into the evening sky. every time this sight, seeing balloon goes up on board sensors, send air pollution measurements down in 2019 city authorities band,
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the burning of fossil fuels within city limits. and the effects have been immediate . se, yeah, great. changing the city, the quality of the air is se improving. the crack of experience demonstrates the possibilities ahead for poland. phase our coal, you slash emissions, and clean up the air at the same time. but getting there is a challenge. mcclark al jazeera salisia, poland. ah, had m kimbrell, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories. the african union has suspended sudan from all of the blocks activities until civilian world is restored. and well, bank has put a hold on sedans, aid workers from saddam states under oil company have joined a growing movement against monday's military. co.

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