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all night you she channels plus thousands of all programs. award winning documentaries, and in depth news reports. subscribe to you choose dot com forward slash al jazeera english. ah, this is al jazeera ah. hello, i'm mary. i'm no mossey. welcome to the news our life from london. coming up in the next 60 minutes. at least 3 people are reportedly shot dead in sudan as tens of thousands take to the streets, demonstrating against military rule. climate change in rebuilding the global economy tops the agenda on the opening day of the g. 20 summit in rome to grind, rebels say they've sees the key am har, a town of dessie,
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but the ethiopian government denies those claims and supportive of analytical party in pakistan. hope their march on the capital, as the government tries to end their protest, i believe he disabled him go home with all the sports news. also the 1st game since the setting of a coach incident who a no prizes for guessing who helps matches the united bounce back of the last week's 5. no hammering. ah welcome to the news hour. we begin with the latest developments in sudan where the doctor's committee says 3 people have been shot dead in protests against the military. co. hundreds of thousands of people have been on the streets and cities across the country in the most significant challenge to the military leaders since they seized power earlier this week. or the military used to tear gas and blocked
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roads. and they've been multiple reports of gunfire. the u. s. and the united nations had called on sounds military not to interfere with these demonstrations. at least 13 people have now been killed since the military dissolved the transitional government and declared a state of emergency on monday. august areas have a morgan reports to us now on the sydney's capital horton. ah, a protest that's been days into making thousands of people gather on the streets of her too demanding a return to transitional government. something they say was rob, from them after the military call on monday, unless no one love the we went to the street because we reject the military rule. and he reject authoritarianism and categorically reject all the behavior of the military council. i don't know my be not more, not than what log on. we want to topple the security committee and bring it down.
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we don't trust these people. this is not their 1st coup. we need the world to know that the sudanese people are living under oppression and are being beaten. our voices are not listened to because there is no coverage and there is no internet. ah, they're risking a lot. days of protest in the capital, letters treat to st battles with the military and demonstrators killed. with the internet, cut off organizers used mosque flyers and graffiti to reach people. ah, the military also blocked the main road to the airport. the plant root of this march saturdays protests were met with tear gas and live ammunition. what is really concerning is the vast array of military. it's a charity actors that are on the streets. there are just incredible set also out of security sectors that now patrol the streets no sense that they are necessarily taking orders from a central spot. and i think each that i know that diversity of different mills
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rectors is really worried. ah, these demonstrators are demanding that prime minister, the lamb dukes, cabinet, be restored. it was toppled by general abdel for the helper hon. he also dissolved the sovereignty council established after the overthrow of omar bashir 2 years ago . some political parties have supported the cool o relationship a little you. but hans, as he will hold elections in july 2023 and then hand power to the elected civilian of a man i with the takeover has provoked international condemnation. the u. n. n u s . has called on them in theory, not to intervene in the process regional and international acts as have been urging general han to reverse his school and was so the transitional government which he dissolved on monday, but many protest this year. so even if that happens, it's their fault sort of their demands to completely hand over power to civilian rule. the people on cartoons 3, call it a power, grab and demand a return to democratic process. he will morgan august 0 or to well,
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joining me now is dalia dillman. i am a sudanese activist. she joins us from har tuna, and of course, in sudan the in particular to day the have been restrictions on the internet and also on mobile phone networks. but we'll see how far we get with the connection that we have. and so let me start by asking you about information. you've been guessing about the use of gunfire live ammunition against demonstrators today. i dalia just checking that you can hear me. i know the line is a little bit shaky. this is mariam in london. not sure if you can hear me dalia. hi yes,
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i can hear you now. it's the yeah. taking a bit of time just to just to get the the line properly established. i was asking, what information do you have about the use of violence against protested today? sorry, can you repeat the question? i'm really sorry. dental. it is a great right now. sure. i'll ask you one more time. what information do you have about the violence and the use of gun fire against people that were out protesting on the streets to day oh, you know, maybe we'll try and come back to that because the line is a little bit inconsistent. they're bitter. obviously dahlia abdomen. i am joining us there from cartoon. she's an activist, and obviously a great deal of concern about the, the use of tear gas and reports have gone fire being a deployed violence being deployed against peaceful demonstrators had gathered in
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cities all across the country. and of what has been the strongest show of opposition against the military since they staged a coup and essentially dissolved that power sharing agreement with the civilian government and declared a state of emergency earlier this week on monday, we'll get more on that story. a little bit later on, but also coming up for you in this news, our argentinians calling on their government to freeze. i am f debt repayments with poverty and inflation. now on the rise here in the u. k. the prime ministers, speaking of a turbulent relationship with frances around of the fishing rides, escalades and sports african south quinten to cock returns and takes the need before their t 20 world cup game against sher lanka. ah, now the g 20 summit is underway in the italian capital raw with the climate crisis
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cove at 19 and we're building the global economy all topping the agenda fleet. as of the wild biggest economies, pledges made so far include a global minimum tax aimed at stopping big business from hiding profits and getting covert vaccines to poor nations. adam rainy reports now from rome. the g 20 summit began on saturday with a plea from the host of the gathering italian prime minister mario groggy. we must do all we can to overcome our differences. and we must rekindle the spirit that led to the creation of this group coming in to the summit . leaders from the world. major economies agree to a minimum global corporate tax. a 15 percent meant to reduce abuse of offshore loopholes. the biggest issues though, are proving the most difficult, covered 1900 vaccine equity, and taking effective action on the climate crisis. a draft statement from the group
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shows it struggling to get member countries to truly commit to capping global warming. at the $1.00 degree mark, a benchmark scientists have said is required to avoid disaster. and this comes just days before the climate change conference in glasgow. some key leaders opted to attend only via remote video chinese president. she, jim pang made only vague comment about china opening up further to the world that made no mention of china's role as a major global polluter. russian president vladimir putin had a more pointed request on vaccine recognition when russia sputnik cove in 1900 vaccine has not been approved for use by the u. s. or the european union, and hopes of reviving the iran nuclear deal. us president joe biden met on the sidelines with the leaders of the u. k. france and germany. they later issued a statement warning of the dangers of a nuclear capable iran. outside the security perimeter protestors gathered to call
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attention to various causes, thousands of protesters. some different groups have come out to the street here in rome on saturday. some are calling for action on the climate crisis and others are marching against capitalism. they all have one message. the net for world leader is pitcher and global equity. climate change. now, we're marketing today because we're asking for more concrete policies on demand change since the g 20 is happening right now in the summer, we'll continue on sunday. people will be watching closely to see if a closing group statement will go far enough and addressing climate change. adam joined us now. what's been achieved so far? i don't. well, mariam, there are some symbolic achievements and concrete ones, concrete wise. we mentioned that corporate global, minimum tax it's, it's hard to overstate the importance of reducing safe spaces for people looking to spend their money on tax outside of national limits. so this one's been championed
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by u. s. president biden. he of course, has to get the u. s. congress to sign off. but this was one issue that they call rally around at this g 20 summit on its 1st se symbolically. it's a big deal because of course this is the 1st time these leaders are meeting and 2 years since june of 2019 and prime minister, italian prime minister, marty that i was making much of that same. they need to come together, as we said, rekindled their spirit. now this of course, isn't just any prime minister. this is one who is seen as having said the euro during the economic crisis earlier in the decade here in europe. and he's also someone, of course, has made a time 100 this year, he's in european leader that people rallying around now. and he's trying to use these international for, as this way to build consensus to really tackle these pressing problems. problems that the citizens of these countries think the governments aren't doing enough to
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tack on the fact. he said it's morally unacceptable that poor countries aren't being vaccinated at the same level as richer ones. whether or not prime minister drug is going to be able to rally the support and get these countries behind him to start really taking concrete action on vaccine equity on the environment is yet to be seen. but it's really important for him, at least, to send the symbols out to the world, especially just days one day before the you in climate conference in, in glasgow. now it's also worth mentioning that this time being the 1st time these leaders are meeting in 2 years is important rather than virtual meetings because it allowed other meetings to take place on the sidelines. we had us present biden meeting with leaders from the u. k for to germany, trying to revive those talks to, to make sure iran isn't building some sort of nuclear arsenal. those didn't take place as much in the virtual world. so of course these in person meeting, sometimes they're criticize,
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is just being this kind of show and tell moment for political leaders to make nice and put on pretty pictures for the international audience. but they do have a real world impact in these people coming together to try to solve these problems . and you mentioned just briefly the signals on climate change targets. what is the likelihood of that being some major breakthrough on that, or will they probably just save that for cop $26.00 in glasgow now? well it's, it's again symbolic marion in some ways. but also they're kind of falling short because they're always trying to build consensus, especially before this major climate conference coming up. they're struggling to find a way to make a statement that makes clear to people around the world that the g 20 is taking this serious enough. we've seen draft language and a document in which, although they're saying they support this target of 1.5 degrees celsius as the cap
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for global warming. it doesn't really have much teeth in it, and that's what protesters told us in the street. there like enough talk really put something behind that to show you're committed to that. now this draft statement that, that many of us saw earlier on saturday is the 5th draft of this statement. so perhaps in the next 24 hours, they'll make it stronger, but it shows the challenges for this community of leading economies. they know they need to take stronger action, but building consensus with so many powerful parties. it play is really tough to really put anything in paper that has true teeth and true meaning. so we'll be looking in the next 48 hours as leaders gather in class, go to see if they did enough here in room, mary. thank you very much. from ron item rainy well gee, 20 countries which includes brazil, china, india, germany in the united states account for more than 80 percent of the world's gross domestic product. and 60 percent of the world's population. over a decade ago,
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they agreed that developing countries would need a $100000000000.00 annually in order to battle climate change. they've not yet delivered on that pledge. even though g 20 countries produce 80 percent of carbon emissions rights group say, promises to address vaccine and equality is also too little, too late. unicef says g 20 countries of administered 15 times more doses than deliver to poor nations per capita. so far, wealthy nations of pleasure donate 1300000000 doses of vaccines to poor nations. through the u. n's kovacs facility, there's only received 356000000. vaccine access also affects economic recovery, where the round corporation, estimating that developing countries could have added $38000000000.00 there, g d, p for cost in 2021. if they had the same vaccination rates as high income countries, or buddha allmers as the director of global policy forms financing for sustainable
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development program, he joins me from rome. and i know that your expertise is focused very much on a global tax rates and debt. when we speak about debt, public debt levels of reached all time highs. now, because of the response that was required to the coven 19 crisis. what does that, what does that mean in real terms for resources, for everything, from education to health care? well, thank you for inviting me today. well, indeed, the dead situation in developing countries especially is, are very bad and it actually got even worse since last year's and still this topic was big on the g twenty's agenda. and that's at stocks have reached all times high dollar time highs. but even worse, i think even bruce as to problems that poor countries have to devote more and more to tax revenue to, to paying creditors to paying of debts and taxes of cross country that's missing.
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that's come that's, that's money. that's missing. that's much money to this missing for the corporate response. is money to that that's missing for, for health and education services. even for commenting, climate change. while it has been big under the twenty's agenda last year, the law in last year and the did you 20 or forget suspension to low income countries at destination. if the steps are a suspension initiative expires by the end of the year. and the 20 also am developed up suggested a new and that to leave initiative to so called common framework. but the common framework has not delivered anything and, and celebrates the 1st anniversary here in rome and the c. and that hasn't, hasn't delivered any debt leave to any country. so the situation we are facing is that countries, low income countries need to resume that service by the end of the year. because the, as, as i did at so a suspension as sort of has expired and this on much more that than they had the year before. and you would now think of course, that this would be
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a big topic. he in rome, but we don't see any indication that and did you 20 leaders have discussed and then great any follow up to the d. s. as i and any effective that's of that relief initiative festival care about this at nittany debt service issues to poor nations developing countries. this is a problem before the curve at 19 pedantic. now it's a come much was that what previously 2 initiatives that were that led it introduced by the g 20 and that's that's led to no results whatsoever. well, i did. the 1st initiative lead to some different service suspension, but it did not lead to any debt cancellation. so the impact is, of course, that are benefiting countries, did not need to pay that service for 2 years now for almost 2 years. but they will have to pay even want that service once there's still a bunch of d as, as i has expired by the end of the year. so in fact, i mean the d as, as i,
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as been, has not been a solution for the debt crisis. it has been that kicking the can down the road. and this road as clearly leading to a cliff because i'm, by the end of the year that stocks will be higher than ever before. and programs will have to pay more detrimental before. and, and on top of this, i suppose that the, the productivity and the economic recovery in many developing countries will be severely hampered by the fact that they, the vaccination rates are extremely low compared to her wealthier nations. why indeed? so, i mean, obviously in developing countries need to continue to, to, to have locked on some, some, some sort basically, so that they cannot really become fully recovered there, restart their economies. and that is an issue. and of course, i mean, it is all, some are related to each other because the money that payment, that services, of course, has some money, they could have book, bottom purchasing, purchase vaccines. so of course, i mean this pretty much what i said, what a set,
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i mean, each dollar pay on that service is a, is a dollar that is missing on more important 6 items. current emission reduction targets are not enough. are they tend to stop global warming at now? we speaking to our course why an earlier about said the oversee climate change is going to be on the gender and it comes just ahead of e caught 26 climate conference in glasgow. do you expect to see any ad strong, positive signals there in rome? well, climate is indeed a topic that is some is being discussed here. come well, if you asked me, i mean of course we have the cop next week and that you 20 does not need necessarily need to meet make agreements and everything. i mean climate change is a can, is a topic is an issue. it's a problem that affects all countries in the roads and t in rome, the of only 20 countries round the table. in classical we have the united nation,
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so that will be we will have fun of $93.00 countries are on the table. so section did better if that if the deal is be made there. but of course that you 20 countries have a lot of homeworks to do. i mean they have to reduce emissions, especially they have to deliver climate finance. they never delivered on their, on the agreement to, to, to provide climate finance to june of $100000000000.00 per year. and um, one thing they could of course do is this in a new kid on the block of development finance. recently, the m f issued special drawing rights, which is a reserve currency to the member states. most of the de leon sure of the special drawing bites went to the richest countries, which still needs additional money because they, i mean, they're in a financially quite good situation. the one thing they could do is to, to redistribute v channel, the special drawing lights to make sure that i'm poor. countries have more resources for commiting climate change, but also to purchase vaccines and to generally recover better and faster from the quick 90 crisis and important point tack unit about targets on providing climate
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climate financing and not being met. thank you very much, bud our allies for joining us there. appreciate it. thank you for having me want to bring more and our top story now, the demonstrations that took place in sudan today with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets across and says he's actually across the country in the strongest challenge. yet the military leaders who seized power earlier this week on monday, dahlia abdul, money and missouri. sydney's activists joined us on the phone as time from cartoon . so hopefully we can do a bit better if we speak this way. can i ask, 1st of all about the information you have on the violence and the use of live ammunition against demonstrators in the country today? when i was at the post office, the 60th street, and when we left,
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it was pretty peaceful. it was just made, the purchase is jumping against the military, but then we began to get news. but 5 live ammunition was being fired at the protest . undermine, which is one of the other cities that makes up cartoon. and pretty soon i was beginning, i was getting reports that hospitals were not able to get any more injured that all that were taken. that 3 had been shot dead. and the last count that i got was at 3 dead and more than 100 injured. and so, i mean, i see no reason why they would fire it says address the fact that they were threatened simply because all the protests would pick the 6 and they will be pick up. it's been followed by all the processes they were peaceful and they, it a week we should, we showed, but we came for we, we will not stand by and allow the military to swoop and once again and hijack of evolution. and can you tell us who was firing on protest as which particular
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groups or forces were behind this violence on his grave? well, what would happen you since monday? it's basically a combination of all militia forces and army are a step. it's a combination so to speak. so i can't really pinpoint and say it was the so at the end of the day they all fall under one umbrella. and therefore they will, they have one target which is on the photos. but it's obviously, it will be happening for several time, but a lot of the former rebel groups and the armed groups, they've joined forces with the military and, and we were the target today. we are speaking right now on the phone because they have been restrictions on the internet and mobile phone networks as well. so this widespread disruption to communications in the country. do you think that the, the sort of mass mobile mobilization can continue in the face of that?
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and of course the violence that we've seen against protest is it seems to be becoming more dangerous for them. well, i mean, we woke up this morning to find there was no, we couldn't even call each other. but we still went out. i mean, we've, we've, we've been internet black out since monday. and same thing with mobile. net can a mobile phone connectivity, yet we still managed to plan to court date. and even though you know, the, the bridge is connecting the 350 battery car to them and might have been cut off. we can't cross into each other's side. we still went south in our own area, and once they said that they were more than 4000000 protesters more than 3000000 car to maneuver. and some $25.00 to be throughout the country went out. so they could switch off as many mobile networks as they want to, will still find ways to get around the fund to communicate with with each other,
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and make sure that the momentum doesn't die. that we continue pushing and pushing for the end of military rule. i mean, agent will, as we spoke loud and clear back in 2019, and we're speaking loud and clear today as well. how will the international reaction or the level of pressure that shape the, the reaction of military leaders and whether or not they enter into negotiations with the civilians? i think international pressure, it's definitely being applied on the military and their allies. and i think the fact that they allowed us to protest peacefully, so to speak, for a certain number of hours. there's a lot, i mean, there wasn't that much of a present of the military on the, on the street. they mean they were pockets of them. but not as for that, as i thought they would be. so i am positive that the international pressure is, is having an effect. and if they continue to press,
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then it will definitely we will see a reaction. they will push the military to come to our turn, basically out interesting that you said in terms of who is deploying violence against people who are demonstrating it's difficult to know which groups are out on the streets. you concerned that this could be a new sort of phase of chaos in disarray in the country where you've got different actors and entities and military groups just sort of out there trying to protect their own interest initially with them said yeah, but after today and the past few days of collecting information, they told me to contact resources and so on. the people are divided and we know who is standing against the journey to the bulk of the civilian democracy. so we, we've been down this road before. i mean, this is a new tactics the she regime has always employed these tactics in the past. they
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may have work done, but they certainly don't like now because in a way, with walking up revising up we, we, savvy to their ways and their church. the methods and they can enjoy, i mean, end of the day it's the will of the people. i mean, how long, how many do they have in their forces? but more than 42000000 and we spoke in one voice. we've been speaking one voice for a while now. so end of the day, the military and all their forces should answer to the people because they're, they're here to serve us. we're not here to serve them. they're here to serve and protect the people. i think with the continuing to national pressure, we will see a result soon. alright, well thank you very much dolly until monday and joining us on the phone from hart. tim, when you go to, if you're a piano rebels from the tank why region say they've managed to seize the strategic town of dessie and the neighboring hora region. the claim from the big white
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people's liberation. frontal t. p. alas, as being contested by the government. no fighting has spilled over into horror and a far after rebels took control of tig gray. in recent months. a conflict has been going on for more than a year. thousands of people have been killed and more than 2000000 displaced william davison as senior. if you are listed international crisis group, he says that the government and artist of a might have to now negotiate with the rebels. i think it's important that it opens up the routes to and this is another major obstacle. so that's a great forces and it's also a large and significant. and it also allows to see great forces, easy a passage to the east, and perhaps to take control of the booty road, the main trade route. so it's important, those are special. so a large psychological below if the 2 great forces indeed take control of it. and i
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think, you know, they have a nice amount of control, but they're still fighting ongoing and, but it is part of the steady gains on the battlefield for the 2 great forces in july, we do not know whether they will face fit for resistance on the other fronts and northwest, i'm horror, around guns and these types of areas. but it does look like the 2 great forces have a significant military ascendancy where that actually takes us in terms of the politics of the situation. is of course a whole other question yesterday quite significant for the further call to the people and not just the military to defend against great 40. so you can see this guy the threat. but other than those types of options we have at how being used against cities is great over recent weeks. but that's not likely to have any.

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