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media landscape in search of justice, an epic saga of through sitting under refusal to be guide. radio, silence, a witness documentary on al jazeera. ah, thousands of protesters take to the streets in sudan against the military takeover and the arrest of civilian leaders. ah, hello there, i'm miss darcy, terry, this is out there at life durham, also coming up climate change on the economic recovery from the corona virus or high on the agenda with the g 20 liter summit getting underway in rome. us drug regulators authorized a lower dose cove at 19 vaccine for children aged between 5 and 11 and the
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desperate journey for a better future. we made the migrants from central america, determined to work their way to the u. s. ah, well, we began and sued on where right now, thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest against monday's military crew, major roads, and through don's capital there have been closed. and a cyber security watchdog says the internet has also been blocked. the u. s. and the un, meanwhile, are calling on students military not to interfere with these demonstrations. at least 11 people have been killed during protests just this week. activists have been broadcasting messages and masks, urging people to continue their opposition to the military's takeover. well, how did we get to this point ensued on the military seized power from a transitional government led by prime minister abdullah hum dock on monday.
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general abil fatter. alba han has dissolved the sovereign counsel. that ruling buddy was established. i'm about my eldest share was overthrown. 2 years ago now, and also announced a state of emergency, he promises to hold elections in july 2023 and then hand power over to the elected civilian government. still protest have been held around su down to reject the return of military rule. while it speak, correspondent, hey morgan, she's in cartoon for us. have i? no internet access is patch. you to say the least. but what are you hearing from the streets at the moment while phone lines have been restored and its not period about that is temporary or it will be permanent, it's been on an office monday through the cool thought that. but we're hearing from activists on the ground that protests have thought that in several locations around the capital, including the city of undermanned people, are taking $2.00 to $3.00 chan thing that they don't want to go back to the military rule. and this is this fight, the internet shut down that has been imposed on monday. now general athens at the
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elbow han on the day he made the announcement of the call on monday and then that he'll be forming a civilian transitional government. besides the one that has already been dissolved and that the power sharing agreement between the force of the freedom in change coalition. and the military is still valid with the exception of a pure of crucial points. and that is his counseling, the article that says that the transition military council, which took over the following, the allison, of this year will be restored. so people are out in the streets think that they don't want that military to be charged. they don't want the transitional military council running them even if they are really in transition government phone. even if they're all signal press as he had promised. there's also concern for violence, massage or over. over 10 processes have been killed. more than $140.00 have been reportedly injured since mondays protest since 4th and started on monday and their concerns because of the widespread of security forces on various trees and the block. the closure of bridges and major roads and the heavy presence of security,
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that there will be violence between processes and security forces that is concerned, that they will be death filled by the end of the day. and that processes will face violence. many of them say that they're going to try to stick is try to stick to people process to get their message across that they don't want the army to need them during the transition period. however, you say they're all these concerns about violence. these are obviously plan protests. the military, as you say, has been preparing. can you talk us through a little more about what they've been putting in place? obviously the eyes of the wells are on the yes indeed. so you could see tanks on many of the bridges that have been closed by the military leading to the capital hotel. now yesterday, the and that will be closing all bridges with the exception of 2. but we've been seeing this morning, lots of spreads of military pick up some military truck, fully mounted soldiers and machine guns on the bridges. many of them are spread across major tech, major intersections around the capitol, the roads leading to the army headquarters that has been off limits since the 21st of october. when more pro, when there were other protests with people demanding that the military did not
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develop the government, this means you have to go back and started. before this all started, there was a pro military system in front of the presidential palace demanding that the military dissolve. the transitional government and there was a pro democracy system where tens of thousands officer to the 3 demanding the military hind overpowered the civilians. and this was at the height of tension between the 2 side. so there concerns that the security because of the wife, by security forces around the capital, blocking major rosie to putting trucks with machine guns and soldiers on board. this concerns that the processes and the, and the, and the soldiers will face each other. several international acts of have called on the military to try to maintain the peace and maintain the peacefulness of the process. that is expected to be very why today, but it's well clear how the day will play out. we're going to have to just wait and be how the military will handle the processes who are demanding that they handle the power to civilian rule here. but as you say ahead of the school, we saw some break away factions from the civilian protest movement. and they were
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ostensibly actually being sponsored by the military, just how united is the protest movement that we're seeing out on the streets right now. well, the break away movement was from the force of freedom in change coalition. that is the coalition that lead the anti government protests in december of 2018. now they have accused the central committee of that faction of that whole alicia, of being exclusive and excluding many actors that were participating in the protest against president armitage basheba. now when it comes to when, when you look at the 2 sides of the force of freedom in change, coalition, the central committee and when you look at the forces of freedom in change collision, the national that and then the national charter alliance, as they call themselves they're both on opposite sides. one of them is supporting the military saying that this is not a clue, but rather it's a correction of the path of the revolution and the others are calling it a military take over a clue because of the dissolution of the transitional. executive cabinet and the
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sovereignty council. when he look at how united the central committee of the force of freedom and change are, they were able to mobilize protesters without internet was for, with 4 phone lines and communication. so it's, it's clear that they still have the power of the streets despite the fact that over the past 2 years, economic progress has been very slow reforms that people have been demanding for years. since the transitional govern government took over, has been very slow as well. but people say that been this than that, because it's the transitional government. there's very little that they can do and they have to wait until elections. so it's, it's, it's, it's a battle of who has more support in the streets and who can have a stronger heart, a stronger cards when they come to the negotiating table. should there be negotiations. there's been talks of mediation efforts by the united nations and by several countries. and it's clear that they are trying to mobilize supports from the streets as much as they can. should they ever come to the negotiating table and talk about what comes next for sedan transition? and we are seeing those crowds. they're build on the streets in khartoum and under
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man. at for now though, we'll be speaking to him at, throughout the day. thank you. heather, let's now bring in jonas horner. he is the deputy director for the horn of africa project and a sing analyst for student at the international crisis group. he joins us now from nairobi at jonas. we've been saying these and surprisingly, synthetic huge crowds and the military responses obviously not going to go on notice now, given the internet throttling and the road closures we've been seeing what hibler was describing there, about the presence on the streets. how concerned are you that they're going to actually crap down fairly home today? i think there's a strong prospect of that. there have been significant and point warnings coming from internet and intellectual actors, both sudan and gives them out of community outside of sudan over into for soul. any violence that might come about today. but the army has shown it's based on the streets in key centers to me, at least today so far. and so we're really concerned that that, that this may be the star,
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a new phase of violence in all of this. and i think the other component be that we worry about is a splintering of the military stairs abbas array of armed actors that are out on the street. and they all will take their orders from different centers and dash itself holds plenty of opportunity for for muscle chaos and violence. i will, this crew is really only possible join us because per. 2 hand on him at the very notorious general managed to make peace with each other. he has quite the reputation for violent crackdowns. you allude there to a potential split within the military side, how united all day, especially with potential concessions on the horizon. the alliance that brought him at the emperor hon. it together or back together. really it was, it was after a moment in which they were almost at daggers drawn a, in early june. and, but i think the current agreement that has brought them into
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a bit of a coalition is very much short term in outlook. it doesn't account for the clear and existential concerns that existence and that have existed incidents since independence, that relieves pin center and periphery. and really, you know, those who back are hon. those. ready back committee haven't vastly different concerns boss of different interests at the end of the day. so is really is something of a short term nation for, i'm at bonham. i you mentioned that some of the international pastor, obviously that's and building on behind on the military side. and i see he's now saying that a new government will be led by a technocrat. and there are obviously plenty of room is going around, but there are talks also happening behind the scenes. how likely is it that hum dog could potentially retentive how angie thank it's not out of the realm of possibility. undock is certainly done his reputation, which is often battered in the last year or 2 that he's done on his reputation no harm by taking such a principle stand in no joining bronze government in refusing to dissolve the
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cabinet in the days before it is to actually occurred and you have a rather more clear set of demands that just come out from a fairly cohesive set of processes on the streets. and they are very keen to see 1st of all the overthrow and removal of huntington, etienne and their rest. they wanted to see the end of the state of emergency, and they do specifically see the restoration of honda at the head of the transitional government. i want to ask you a little more about the timing of all that we're seeing jonas, because obviously there was supposed to be a transition from the military leading the council to the civilians leading the council. and that by some estimates was supposed to happen in november. so i mean, the timing is obviously very interesting when we saw the cur. now, given that we're seeing people out on the streets, offensively rejecting what the military is offering. where does that actually leave any kind of transition? well, that really is that debbie will be in the details of the sorts of negotiations that
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are going on here, particularly those currently that are, that are featuring international actors. i think the shame, though in many ways has been, you know, from the beginning. but there has been insufficient inclusion of abroad or sway sort of see to needs to provide their inputs to, to, to offer a sense of what they would like to see in both the transition and then incident going forward. and i think any an opportunity to incorporate those interest, those voice from the street, those people who are out there today when younger today absolutely is key. i think the form and, and may i stream of negotiation as yet to really soul. but i know the u. m is, is working on this, i know other external actors are working on this and i think, you know, most importantly of all, there's a lot of engagement between washington and the data is probably the locus of power as things stand as, as the international try to support or return to civically more transition. and those voices on the streets. they're certainly very loud and plentiful. today,
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jonas horner, the deputy director for the horn of africa project and seen alice for student at international crisis group. always great to get your thoughts. thanks for joining us, trans. flexible. now, moving on, and rebel as an ethiopian tig or i region say they've now sees this very strategic town of dessie that's in the neighboring i'm hora region. the claim has not yet been confirmed by the government and can't be independently verified by al jazeera, but fighting has moved into the em horror and a far regions. after rebels, we took control of tiera in recent months. the conflict has now been going on for more than a year, killing thousands of people to spacing, organ tune. and in while, meanwhile, the annual g 20 summit is underway in rome. presidents and prime ministers of the world's leading economy is amazing for the 1st in person summit since the current of ours pandemic is lead prime minister court for aggressive solutions to fighting the climate crisis. mario drug, you also urged his federal leaders to prioritize equitable covered 19 vaccine
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distribution. the condemning is not over. and there are startling disparities in the global distribution of vaccines in i, hank, and i income countries, more than 70 percent of the population has received at least one, those in the poorest ones. this percentage drops to roughly 3 percent. these differences are morally unacceptable and undermine the global recovery. well, that's bringing out to the magic. as i said, james base, he's in room for james plenty to cover. but let me start with this because this summit is taking place just days before those climate talks in glasgow and i see the draft g 20 communique really attempts to set the tone for those. yeah, absolutely. out there is obtained a copy of the draft communicate not worth telling you. this has not been agreed by
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the leaders power. golf say there are agreed. other paragraphs say they are not. but the language on climate i think is important. the g 20 is committing to capping global warming too, and the quote is well below 2 degrees celsius compared with the pre industrial levels. now that is not well below is not what the un says it wants, which is $1.00 degrees. that's the u. n's target, the g 20 says that it will keep that target with within reach, it will try and get meaningful effective action to get to that target. but it recognizes there are different pathways and approaches to get that diplomatic language to say the g 20. don't agree on a common approach. also important on climate is the commitment for the g 20 to help the developing countries of the world with finance. now that we've been a commitment for $100000000000.00 every year from the g 20, they made the equipment in 2010. it was supposed to start in 2020. they're still
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meeting that commitment. again, they've said that they stress the importance of fulfilling their commitment to mode loves 100000000000 annually until 2025. so they're promising to do something again that in the past they've failed to do. and i think in addition to the language in the communique on climate, i'm the communicate we expect to come out at the end of this on sunday afternoon on rome time. you could also look at what we individual g 20 nations promised to do when the lead is moved from here to glasgow. the key phrase is nationally determined commitments. n d c is going to be hearing a lot about that in the coming days, that the individual commitments by countries to deal with the climate emergency. and what's interesting is the un scientists to be looking at the current commitments as they stand right now. they produce the report and they reckon that forget about what the g turned he's saying about, well below to 2 degrees, or what the you want 1.5 degrees target. if you look at it right now, then you're going to be on
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a figure of $2.00 degrees temperature above pre industrial levels by the end of the century. and the words, if you and secretary general, that would be catastrophic. indeed, james, this is as we've been saying, also the 1st time the g 20 is actually meeting in person since june 2019. as the pandemic and economic crisis and energy crisis talk history. the other big parts of the agenda that we should expect today. well you say that meeting and person they are, but not all of them by my calculations is a g 15 in person and 5 who are taking place, taking part remotely. in this summit they're gonna be talking about some things. i think they'll make some progress on global vaccination for coven 19. they're talking very positively about that. the talking positivity about the commitment already made by the g 7 to make sure that multinational companies pay off tax. they say they going to have to pay
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a minimum of 15 percent tax and not dodge the tax from around the world of the global issues. all obviously get talked about in the sidelines of a meeting like this in the current draft declaration, no mention of all the story of a su dawn. but i can tell you i asked you and 2nd general about saddam when he arrived here. and he said, he urged the military to show restraint and not create any more victims. important meetings take place on the sidelines that something like this. and one of the most important is happening in a few hours time. and that's about the iran nuclear deal. the u. s. is going to sit down with the european signatories who is still in the deal. remember, president trump pulled out and that is the u. k. germany and france trying to work away for the us. go back into the deal. but the big question is whether iran wants the us back in the deal. that's certainly what they'll be debating. the stated position of iran is yes, it wants to re negotiate the deal and get the u. s. back into the deal and it has said it will go back to the sol talks in the end up by the end of november,
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very busy day that and ryan james pays out different medic edits across all that for us. thanks so much jane. speaking of diplomacy, kuwait is now the latest gulf country to recall its lebanese ambassador, saudi arabia, and bahrain did the same on friday with re add also putting a hold to all lebanese imports. the dramatic feud comes after 11 on the information minister criticize the saudi lead coalitions war in yemen and a video circulating online webinar as prime minister that mccarthy is urging the information minister to make the right decision and fix our relations. the league is also calling on all parties to resolve the spears. while the united states is to start vaccinating children between the ages of $5.11 against coven 19 the drug regulation agency has proposed a lower authorized. i'm sorry, authorized the lower dose of the find the job for that age group. as many as 28000000 children could be eligible, the head of the food and drug administration says the move will encourage
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a sense of normalcy in the country. that decision follows arise and infections of the delta variance, as well as the reopening of schools learn. guston is the director of the world health organization center on global health law. he says vaccine mandates for children are unlikely for now. i still worry about the u. s. commitment to global vaccination in equity, but to the united states, this is a really important landmark because children 5 to 11 year old will be able to get the 5 to cover vaccine. it'll get our schools more stable and secure kids educated and they'll, they'll be much safer and their families will be safer. there already are a number of requirements for people to get vaccinated. president biden announced 3 vaccine mandates for the entire federal workforce for
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hospitals, nursing homes and also for large businesses. and cities and states and businesses themselves are already requiring vaccinations. so we already have a lot of mandates. i do not foresee cities and states mandating it for children, or at least until we get some better safety data and vaccination mandates for the workplace are really starting to, to take hold in the united states and where we, we started to, to move up in our vaccination rate, now that we're going to do it for young children and will even be higher. and so i'm encouraged by this move, but i'm not complacent. we need to do a lot more to get the entire population vaccinated. now sorry, and state media has reported explosions near the capital to mass. guess it says the
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military intercepted an attack from the direction of israel in country side. no further details though, immediately reported how french president, manuel micron says a phishing dispute with the u. k. as a test of its credibility in a post bricks at world, the u. k. is threatening to conduct increase checks on all you vessels fishing on its waters. if france goes ahead with a series of repose sanctions, paris is threatening penalties if the u. k. doesn't grow more licenses to french fishermen. the british government says that would put the e u, and breach of a trade agreement. alexia bryan is in the french port city of la harv, where british bows has been seized. the boat was caught up and was francis calling, it's 0 tolerance approach and expression of its anger and frustration over not getting given the licenses that it expected that it says it deserves under that post bricks a trade deal. now francis said, if it doesn't get the licenses that at once by tuesday, it will go ahead with the sanctions. things like stopping british fishing vessels
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from docking and ports like this, and extra health and safety checks on trucks going in and out of the u. k. and also extra security checks on british boats in french waters. now all comes down to what it says is, is the u. k. and the authorities of jersey, the u. k. crown dependency. and ireland just 22 kilometers off the french coast at not giving french fishing, fishing vessels, the licenses to fish in those waters, ports like this one. however, it is one of the biggest fringe ports. it's actually the biggest container port and it is one of the 6 ports that could be included in those extra measures. now, french president menu mccall has reportedly said that this phishing route is a test of the you case, global credibility. and he's has reportedly told a newspaper look, you cannot spend years negotiating this deal and then a few months later decide which parts you want to stick to, depending on what suits you best. he says that is not a sign of good character. and the fringe prime minister, john carter caustic says,
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reportedly written to the european commission saying, asking it to demonstrate that there is actually more damage to leaving the european union than staying in at a signal to the u. k. o, any other country? thinking that you get a better deal by leaving the blogs, but actually that's not a good idea. well, poor brandon has more of the british perspective now from london. the sense here in the u. k, is that there are used upon bigger fish to fry. i mean, we are on the brink of the call 26 summit, perhaps the biggest summit of our lifetimes, trying to control temperature increases globally for the next generations. and for these 2 old allies, old rivals, in some respects, to be arguing about the fishing rights of some 40 to 50 fishing boats in the english channel, is frankly seen by some as a distraction. as a lack of perspective, i was frankly, just not very helpful at all. the comments by the french president micron show
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a sense of exasperation by the french, boris johnson on the plane out to rome to the g. 20 summit. that's taking place, said puzzled by what's going on. obviously, we will stand by to take the appropriate action if the french carried through with these threats to blockade ports and prevent precious trawlers from landing there, catch in french ports. ready we will do whatever is necessary to ensure you k interest. but at the heart of this, what you, what you essentially have is exasperation from the french side about the way the british have gone about trying to renegotiate elements of the breakfast deals. specifically the protocol on northern ireland. and from the british side, you've got them rather muscular li, trying to defend the rights of their fishing boats. and poland parliament has improved the construction of a wall along its border with better roof to stop migrants and refugees from
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entering over the past 3 months of thousands have attempted to enter the european union. there. the block has accused mittens go providing them with safe passage. to the e. u. as retaliation again, sanctions imposed. the war will be 100 kilometers long and cost about $400000000.00 . that proposal will now be sent to the president who has promised to sign it in the coming days. i found in almost a week since a landscaping migraines set off from the mexican city of tampa, truly aiming to get into the u. s. but while previous caravans had been stopped by next can authorities. this one has managed to advance. john holman, has worn out from salad mexico. ah, it's a tough awakening for the group of more than 3000 people who are moving through met confer. trying to get to the us after another night spent sleeping on the street. there's a lot of children here. the 7 in the martinez family is struggling already, and some of them were tired,
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but the children even more so one is ill. she's got sores, they've all got irritated skin. it must be the sun and the change in the temperature. like most people in the caravan, the martinez is, have come from central america on today. in their case 15 people, 3 generations of their family have fled late to they'll tell us why. like many of this, they arrived quickly at the mexican city of tampa, tula, hoping to then travel through the country to the states. but authorities confined them there for months. now they've managed to get out. we will little they can carry these bags, contain all evolved in martinez is his wife and free children's possessions. perched on a rickety buggy girl gas. thou, i might. 6 want them, i reckon wheels might give out at some point today during the walk. i'm right now, this is everything that you have in the world pretty much know out a test all look it in, in soon enough it's time to
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head off. the group started before dawn to avoid the south metzger peak. the only sound the little chatter and the children who can't take it any more and despite long lines of calls and taxes to the side of them, no one's going to give them a ride. the mexican government's plan this time round seems to be to let people advance but only on foot. and they've set up checkpoints like this one daily ahead of the caravan to make sure that cars, buses, taxi's aunt picking migrants up. and that way round the migrants in the caravans quickly getting worn down and they still a couple of months walked from mexico city, the caravans official stopping point 6 months at the current rate from the us, where many want to eventually get to the martinez family are already on the verge
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of giving up, but one thing stops them. and now we have nothing back home. we sold everything. and what's more, we can't go back here. we're put in my husband had problems with extortion because he's a taxi driver and my son to because he didn't want to join the gangs. and those that don't join can be killed when it led over leslie to over memories of his son. she says was so precious by the gangs to join that he took his own life. in the arthur, ma'am, at firing gang of my son killed himself when he was 20. i mean, if i can offer up my life back home is paul. but so is this journey given i, as i was alone, that night we left the family sleeping in a leaky warehouse in another village, only a tiny bit further on the long walk, nor john holman out visitor is squiggly on moving on and
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pump stones are causing trouble along japan, southern coast. they come from an undersea volcano and have now clogged with 30 ports, damaged dozens of boats and disrupt and fishing. the government has decay, the natural disaster, but the stones are still moving around. officials warn they could affect the coastline even further north. ah, hello, this is out of there and these are the headlines. protesters are back on the streets of cartoon alderman and other cities and sudan denouncing monday's military crew. the us on the you and are calling on sedans, military not to interfere with these demonstrations. at least 11 people were killed during protests this week. have a morgan has one hour from the sudanese capital. there's concerns at the security because of the widespread security.
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