tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera October 25, 2022 12:00am-1:00am AST
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certainly heavy ranks with central philippines and back through bornea towards sumatra on the southern part of thailand. and as the monsoon range disappear from india, so this is the sting in the tail often happens, a tropical depression, as it will be there, going up across bangladesh and to the northeast of india. there of course, red warnings, i for both bangladesh and the ne, soon they will be flooding everywhere else in india and pakistan, it's dry. ah, which site is winning keyless or controlled? what does the new forever proxy war mean for america and nato? as long as americans keep consuming, prices are going to keep going up. why didn't joe biden see inflation coming? how did we get so much raw? the quizzical look. us politics, the bottom line. ah,
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this is al jazeera ah, hello, i mary. i'm to mozy. welcome to the news, our life from london coming up in the next 60 minutes where she soon on wednesday, you can conservative policy leadership contest will become the 3rd prime minister in just 7 weeks. there is no doubt we face a profound economic challenge. we now need stability and unity indian persons react of historic promotion soon becomes the countries fussed asian, minnesota. it's a broken garza indiana. i don't know is jones is also put you onto the also coming out this hour, at least 60 people a killed in a man, mom military as strike on
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a music festival. and iran con, joins them on, is off to a prominent pakistani john list is shot dead. and i'm sorry, hyatt us the latest sports including helping visually impaired football fans. the cats are woke up is ready to debbie, an arabic comma tree service ah for she soon act will be the next you k prime minister. he is expected to see king charles on tuesday when he'll formerly take on the role. so not will be the 3rd prime minister in just 7 weeks. it was his resignation, as finance minister to help bring down boris johnson. and he was beaten by liz trust in these subsequent leadership battle. at 42 soon act is the youngest person in modern history to lead the nation is the 1st person of asian heritage to take
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the top job and the 1st hindu. he steps in a downing street at a time of deep economic and political crisis. he inherits a divided party and will lead a nation where many votes as a struggling to pay that bills and feed their families. our coverage begins now and downing street with alan fisher. and so alan, we have another prime minister. the 3rd one has not been elected by the people in just a matter of weeks. how would you describe the of the reaction in the country to this well, i think many people thought that richie, so next time a in front line politics was going to be at an end. he, of course, run to be the leader of the conservative party when boris johnson stepped aside and he won the majority of support from conservative m. p. 's. but he couldn't convince conservative members of the party that he was the man to take the top job. instead . the pointed list truss so he moved back to the back benches and probably hoped
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that maybe in a few years time he would get his chance. but 7 weeks later, he will walk through the door of downing street on tuesday to be the next prime minister of great britain and northern ireland. my colleague paul brennan has been following the key developments of to date for a party which is as the 2 of its own prime ministers in the past year. it was a remarkable veneer of camaraderie for the arrival of p. m. number 3 at party headquarters in london to 7 weeks after being beaten in the previous leadership contest, ritchie soon ack emerged unopposed as the conservative parties chosen one. he won't officially become prime minister until asked by king charles on tuesday. so soon i can limited himself to a brief tv statement of acceptance. the united kingdom is a great country, but there is no doubt we face
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a profound economic challenge. we now need stability and unity, and i will make it my utmost priority to bring our party and our country together with the sailor. during the final hours of haggling and campaigning, the momentum of snacks campaign became unstoppable while than half the parliamentary party declaring their support for him. in the end, only he reached the required threshold of $100.00 nominations from fellow conservative em piece. i can confirm that we have received wall valid, horace johnson's decision to quit. the leadership race on sunday came as a surprise that left just penny mordant answer neck in the contest. she resisted intense pressure to do a deal with sumac and fort literally to the last minute to get past the threshold. but just seconds before the deadline, she too withdrew. richie sooner had one arriving here in dining street soon like
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face is a daunting list of immediate challenges. those, the double digit inflation, the soaring interest rates as the grim state of the public finances, and a deeply wounded and divided party that he now leads. not to mention the question marks as to whether the conservative party actually has a mandate to govern any more wishes to not was rejected by his own party membership only weeks ago. the people in his country now deserve was to go to the electorate to put our policies forward about how we going to deal with this cost of living crisis it. the conservatives to put upon the british people and let them have a vote. scary how we kind of tend to page and continued down the same track up. i feel like prime minister, but we're just as good so. so we're looking at the bird bars that really talk to the board lawyer. if you look at all the other 4 person about offices which are lawful during the summer leadership contest against trust,
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which you soon i predicted many of the you case current economic difficulties. the economic landscape has turned even bleaker since then, but be in the country now. wait to hear what it's new leader and his government plans to do about it. ho brennan al jazeera downing street. and alan, where she was seen ac was saying earlier in remarks, it is time for the conservative party take you night or die. much of whether he will be able to tackle these. a economic financial problems will depend on whether the party can pull itself together. he realizes that over the last couple of months that the conservative party has largely become a laughing stock across the country if there was and the general election on thursday labor would when a significant majority know after boris johnson, one has big majority. you'd have thought it would have taken 2 or 3 elections for that to happen. that is how far behind the are. so richie soon does not have his
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problems to seek at least trust suspending her last night behind that very famous door. as prime minister, she will host the last cabinet meeting on tuesday morning and then make some final remarks before she leaves downing street for the last time. as prime minister, she will head to buckingham palace there. she will meet the king. she will tender her resignation which will be accepted. he will then summon richie sooner to the palace and ask him to form a government. he will come back here and make some remarks before getting back to what no, we had from him to day after he won the election at to become the leader of the conservative party. there was nothing specific in there that you wouldn't normally hear from someone who just won that sort of election. but there was a warning note that the united kingdom is facing some real economic troubles. and that will be top of his agenda. he realizes, people across the country are suffering from the cost of living crisis, from double digit inflation. every time they go to buy their weekly shop,
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it seems to becoming more expensive. and of course we're just about to enter winter here in the u. k. and people's energy bills are going to go up and up significantly . so he's got a lot of what to do. he's got a team to put in place, unlikely to change 2 of the key cabinet positions that of interior minister, the home secretary, and also the chancellor. the exchequer, who is of course, the finance minister. when a jeremy hunt was appointed by liz trust in the final days of our premier ship, it seemed to settle the markets. richie sooner doesn't want to upset them again and make his job even harder. the could be changes though, the foreign office because teams cleverly back to boris late on sunday. that probably won't be forgotten by soon next him. but he's got a lot to do. first of all, he's got to deal with that cost of living crisis. he's got to bring the conservative party together because they have no split. i'm damaged to prime ministers, and he's got to convince the country that he is in charge. he is in control and
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he's making their lives better if not, the coals for a general election here in the u. k. will go to load to ignore. i'll thank you very much on official, the all the latest from downing street. of course he made his name as chancellor of the exchequer, as alan was just mentioning there and saw that a political blow over his multi millionaire wife's tax status. well, what kind of prime minister is re she soon? not going to be sun gaga reports on that now become the return of richey soon at this time as a leader of his party. he missed out til his trust in the last leadership contest, only to find himself less than 2 months later, back in downing street. this time at number 10. cynic is the 1st u. k. prime minister of south asian heritage. indeed, the 1st from any ethnic minority in modern times, a hindu whose family came to britain from east africa. while his rise in british
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politics marks a milestone moment, a reflection of the case diversity. it is his personal wealth and privilege and that of his wife that has come under scrutiny effect many believe that would have on the decisions he would make running the country. there are so many challenges that he has to face. first of all, of course, he ran the economy that built up a lot of the debt that we're now talking about. and there was some episodes of discussion about hughes and his wife's tax affairs and the possession of a green card which suggested, you know, i've gotten to check to see in case things don't work out in british politics, which a lot of people didn't like. while soon acts super wealthy wife's tax status played badly with voters, the parliamentary party regarded him as a safe option to guide the economy at a time of global uncertainty. synnex financial support packages. businesses hit by coven locked downs, marked him out as leadership material within the party, very eager to hear, putting them on a collision course with then prime minister boris johnson. but they continued to
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work together through the various scandals that besieged johnson wooten. his position became untenable and soon as publicly parted ways with johnson. let's make him on mix leader. he threw his hat in the ring for leader, the party campaigning on a place that he was the right person to manage the economy. my message to the party and the country is simple. i have a plan to steer our economy through these headwinds. we need to return to traditional conservative economic values, and that means honesty and responsibility. not fairytales, who lives deeply critical of his predecessors unfunded tax cuts that plunged the british economy into chaos. his motive and lead to less trust is resignation like ki i now, sooner with faces the challenge of his career uniting i party on stabilizing the
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government and fixing the economy in a country that has seen more than his fair share of political and economic drama. in recent times, sony guy eggo al jazeera, so i'm not joined by will. jennings is a professor political science university of south hampton. what is your expectation? do you anticipate that a rashid soon act premier ship will draw a line under britain's political farson, perhaps, brainer, period of more stable government? well, suddenly, rashly seen that has better ratings with the public than either of his 2 predisposes him at the end of the johnson government bars. johnson, the prime minister was deeply unpopular, not least because a party gate and liz trust the scene record, record breaking lows in terms of popularity, where she soon, ac is actually relatively popular for frontline, conservative politicians, but it's important to know that his ratings nothing like what they were at the height of the coven pandemic,
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where he was seen as having manage the economy the solo scheme extremely well. and so while we might expect to see a little bit of a turnaround in the paulding portions of the conservative party, he's certainly not coming as a blank slate and with a straightforward honeymoon. i mean, i feel is more important in the polling fortunes of the party is the cost of living crisis in the country and whether or not he can resolve a country's economic crisis. but i guess that will depend on there being political stability. first you say that he's popular within the policy, but is he influential enough to overcome the very deep divisions and fractures within a party that we have seen lacking in discipline and really at war with itself? well, it's certainly the conservative party is certainly deeply, ideologically divided, and i think some of the tests that the out of that of that part, the unity will come as he has to me as risky, should estimate tough decisions about taxing and spending. you know, clearly the,
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the, the consequences of the trust government and it's failed. many budget means that the government is looking to improve the fiscal situation of the country. and that may mean, you know, a trade off between cuts of expanding or potentially tax rises. now different wings of the conservative party of those things are the different either. there is an element, many of you would have to step back 3. she actually don't want to see tax rises, but there are other possibly than 30 party. but really i'm looking at the state of public services thinking we can't go into a stereotype 2.0, repeat the georgia osborne years and so well, reach you soon. i got to got a little moment where the party has come together. a won't be long between have it before he faces of major challenges and potentially that, that unity starts to become more fractious. to what extent do you sort of connect this to the vote of a bracket, which is sort of unleashed some very divisive ideological forces because it means
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different things to different people. for some people, it's about, you know, singapore on times. others believe it's more about cutting down on the role of the government in people's lives, cutting down on, on the welfare state. others. it's anti immigration. how, how are you going to be able to sort of reconcile all these different forces within the party without perhaps tackling the issue of breaks it? mean as you, as you say, i mean breaks it is, is the elephant in the room here? not nice because brett's it's on least the instability and the conservative party than seen and full prime ministers since since the referendum from david cameron's retreat neighbors, johnson is trusted. now rashid rashly soon act. so there's the division of the instability in the parliamentary party, but the, the breaks in votes and subsequent impact on general elections. the scene, the support for the conservative party become divided between its new electorate.
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many of whom we voted for to leave the you who attended to be potentially more work in class. more st. t fuse and immigration and it's traditional, more affluent strongholds in the south of england and shires. and those quite different electrodes. that old electric favoring fiscal conservatism, you know, slightly kind of a reduced reduce tax rates. and so this is the challenge that, that richie cynic faces in some ways, less trust government pushed the experiment with, with towards the tax cut side of things where she seemed like i think we can expect, we'll try and balance that divide. but it is incredibly tricky to fight to manage. all right, thank you very much. will jennings, joining us that from winchester, appreciate it. or the biggest challenge facing sooner because we're hearing that is really rescuing an economy that has been deteriorating. and particularly the rising
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cost of living. british shoppers have car spending with retail sales in september down to percent on the previous 3 months. this trend is expected to continue with one in 5 business is expecting a low, a ton of november aust baton. he has also seen its 1st decline in 20 months. that was during the pandemic. it's slowing at the fastest pace since january last year. and a public set, the net debt now stands. it's $2.00 trillion dollars. that's 98 percent of the annual g d p. also i'm joined now by economists. vicky price is a former economic advisor to the u. k. government. thank you very much for joining us, vicki. so it's going to be very difficult, i suppose, for she's an actor strike, a balance between tax rises and spending carts. how much more difficult and how much more painful is the next 5 to 10 years going to be compared to the decade after the 2008 financial crisis? oh, that's a very interesting question. because of course,
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when we had the financial crisis, at least it was quite obvious that there was an issue about the financial stability of the system. and banks need to support. and what you needed to really do is stimulate that the economy by ensuring that there was enough funding round so that both businesses and consumers could get that cash because basically bank stopped having any sort of trust in each other. and we got out of it, of course, through reducing interest rates all across the world and so on. and now we, we have had of course covered where interest rates went down very significantly. but as we were coming up, we did, didn't see that to that. i'm in financial crisis this time round. there have been such miss location if you like, all from both labor and parts and manufacturing that we ended up with supply chain issues and inflation going up quite significantly. so what we've seen, of course, was ukraine has been and even faster increase in inflation than we certainly
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experienced whether we had not experience at all or during the aftermath of the financial crisis. so these are problems of a different scale which in many countries have had to deal with. so it's not just the u. k, which has had this cost of living crisis, which now of course we have to face higher interest rates coming as well. both of the short and long part of the market, but you've also get this serious problem of countries having to got and borrow huge amounts of money. so that's where we are now in the u. k. during covered and under risha soon act mostly as chancellor actually put back into the economy. something like 18 percent of our g d p. so boring, hugely, with the indeed the actual debt to g b ratio, nearly a 100 percent managed to do that, that reasonably low rates. and then of course, came the ukraine with causing of course, huge increases in inflation. and also of course, are requiring
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a lot more boring. so here we are with the new prime minister who of course, was in charge of the finances of economy until now, having still this issues to deal with that he was dealing with before. but now with an extra dimension that we went through this wobble, if you like this period of the markets, suddenly feeling terribly uneasy about whether we had any serious fiscal plan in mind for the years ahead and having to indeed balance things in such a way that stops economy maybe from falling into big recession again. but at the same time, managers to satisfy the markets that we know where we going. which of course, until a few days ago, we didn't. how different is that going to be? because we know there is a period of the, you know, retrenchment is going to have to be some very difficult decisions coming up. but how is he going to be able to implement anything if at every turn his own party is trying to sink his government and sabotage him all we had it for
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a general election sooner than later. we might be, i don't think it is interest, of course. so the conservative party to have an election any time soon, given the opinion, polls differential to help with the labor party a board he's gonna try and do, is izzy. unify them somehow by maybe not doing all the things that we fear you might do or at least jeremy hunt was suggested you would do, which is basically raising taxes very significantly because he needs to satisfy the market. so he's serious about recent ones and data maybe postponing some of those increases to later still promising some cuts towards the end of the period. even though spending cuts that the dent to do, which have been already pre sort of thought if you like. but jeremy hunter's chancellor for the moment whenever he's going to stay there. there may also happen over a period of time, so we don't get them immediately because if we get both tax increases happening very quickly and cuts in spending than what we seen already. and you itemized it
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before the fall and consumer confidence, a falling business competence. the reduction we've seen already manufacturing out with the reduction we seen in retail sales. the reduction we're seeing in services more generally looking for intensifying. forgive me working for interrupting, but do you think the market is going to give them that time? i'm afraid to most of be seen for the moment, the magazine reasonably satisfied. and that will probably continue for some time we have your cobra. so the 1st fiscal event to go through 1st and we see what they think about this afternoon. all right, thank you very much. economists vicki price joining us there from london. appreciate it. thanks very much vicky well, richie soon act will be the 5th person to hold the office of british prime minister in 6 years. and the barber looks at a series of tumultuous events that brought down successive governments. in 2015 prime minister david cameron was re elected after promising britain
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a referendum on the european union membership. his conservative party governing in coalition with the liberal democrats was splitting over europe under pressure from the united kingdom independence party. you kept ahead of the referendum in june 2016 cameron back to remain, but the vote leave campaign headed by new convert boris johnson. one cameron resigned a few hours later. negotiation with the european union will need to again under a new prime minister. the riffles are still being felt to resume one the conservative leadership contest promising to make a success of bricks. it in march, 2017 prime minister may set the clock ticking on 2 years of negotiations with brussels. that summer she called a snap election to boost her mandate, but instead she ended up with a hung parliament, the u. k. and the you did eventually reach a withdrawal agreement, but parliament rejected it 3 times and knows have a, the knows have a following a series of cabinet resignations, including that of boris johnson, whom she'd made foreign secretary theresa may also quit in july 2019.
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re enter paris johnson this time in the top job leading the conservatives into an early election in december 2019 under the slogan, get brakes done. he won a large majority in parliament and the u. k. left the european union in january 2020. but a new threat was emerging. the corona virus, the johnson government, hesitated before imposing a tough lockdown. later accounts from inside downing street, suggested johnson, and government officials had broken their own covered 19 rules on gatherings. johnson told parliament there'd be no partying. i'm sure that whatever happened or the guidance was followed in the rules of holiday times, but in april he got a police fine, the 1st sitting prime minister to be punished for lawbreaking this summer after allegations johnson had appointed a top official. despite knowing, he was accused of sexual misconduct, dozens of his own, m. p. 's resigned. soon, johnson was out. i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up. the best job in
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the world less trust was the person, the conservative party membership chose to replace him. within weeks of many budget announced by her finance minister, cause he quarter had spooked the markets with its extensive on funded tax cuts. trust sacked, quoting, but his replacement jeremy hunter reversed most of the many budget, leaving the prime minister looking week. last week she stood down after only 44 days in office, the shortest serving leader in modern british history, that he baba al jazeera. here the news, our life from london still ad on the program, ukraine invites the u. n. for an inspection of its facilities off to russia, alleged it plans to use a dirty bomb on its own people. a balice on racism, why black voters will be a major force in brazil's upcoming presidential election. ah,
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now ukraine has invited officials from the u. n's nuclear watchdog to examine its facilities off the rush or accused of planning to use an explosive laced with radioactive material. rushes defense minister reportedly voice concerns during telephone calls with british french and turkish defense ministers. russia is not provided evidence to support its claims, but plans to raise it at the un security council. on tuesday. harry faucet reports now from keith. russia's been on the retreat on the battlefield, but on the offensive to diplomatic channels and in public, with more unsubstantiated accusations that ukraine plans to designate an explosive with radioactive material, or a dirty bomb and blame russia. a lot of kids go to human body in moscow. the head of rushes, nuclear, biological and chemical defense expanded on the defense ministers claims of the previous day. initiation for once, a really, that's a great name. according to the information that we possess. 2 ukrainian institutions, a commissioned to so called dirty ball in the works or in the final stage, is now
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a detonation of such a device could be disguised as a continuous explosion of a russian low yield nuclear weapon. it's a claim that's been romney, dismissed here in cave and in western capital, as transparently false ukraine's foreign minister is invited in inspectors from the international atomic energy agency. to refute it, the question being asked here is whether this is russia trying to throw sand in the eyes of its enemies, or whether it really doesn't tend to use some kind of nuclear device. what, what do you think russia expects to gain from making just a threat even if it doesn't go through with it? i think i asked her try to give us today the, the eat can continue this. ready or permanently and the to go to another level till the escalation. and maybe it's impossible. it's important for us to do today is to compete it. russia presses its nuclear narrative, it continues to launch conventional weapons targeted increasingly at ukraine's
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energy facilities. among those weapons. iranian made drones, ukraine, president warning israel on monday that iran might receive russian nuclear technology in return and renewing his calls to israel to provide its i and missile defense. your browser was pitched and asked them if we had immediately secured our skies when faced with miss el drone through it. russia would not even have a motive now to get round and offer it something in return for assistance with terror. for a young man in berlin, more calls for help this time for longer term economic aid. ahead of tuesday's international conference on rebuilding ukraine. reconstruction though requires an end to the war. russia is instead warning of an uncontrolled escalation, harris was it. i was just here at kids will to me and my now are you 60 people have been killed at an ass stripe by the military in the northern state of catch and victims included singers and musicians, certain events,
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celebrating anniversary of the catch an ethnic group, political wing, united nations office and me and ma said in a statement that it was deeply concerned and saddened by reports of the ass strikes tony chinese following developments forth from bangkok. this was a big festival. there was a performance on stage at the time, some very celebrated kitchen singers who we believe are also amongst the fatalities tree. mamma jets are reported to have attacked her aftermath of the attack shows an awful lot of destruction. some building still standing, but a lot of debris, both buildings and vehicles strewn across the open ground. we understand at the moment there are still a 100 seriously injured people who are in the village of can see where close to where the attack took place. they're not being allowed to leave the area by the met mom military who closed off the area with checkpoints around the village. many of
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them in urgent need of medical attention. but we've also heard from the national unity government, the government in exile opposed to the military government. mamma. they have condemned these attacks and called for a no fly zone. one minister who i spoke to a little while ago telling me that this is just another example of me. i'm of military attacking civilians. and it does appear to be a pattern which we've seen emerge in, in recent months. i was just on the border last weekend talking to people from inside. he said the one thing that really they fear the most is attacks from the coast. memory military has complete air superiority, although they faced many challenges on the ground. the u. s. justice department says it's disruptive criminal activity by individuals working on behalf of the chinese government. several intelligence officers and government officials have
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been charged their accused of trying to obstruct the criminal prosecution of telecommunications company huawei in 2019 and working illegally in the us for a foreign government says more in this. how does your casara joins us live from washington? any more information about these charges? yes, mariam, we know that there are 13 individuals who have been charged and this is across 3 cases. that as a whole of the department of justice in the u. s. describes as malign schemes in the u. s. on behalf of the government of china, one of these cases reads like a spy novel to chinese nationals have been accused of trying to bribe and u. s. law enforcement official into sharing information about the prosecution of a telecommunications company that's unnamed by officials. but reporting shows is indeed huawei and in exchange for money and for big coins and jewelry. i,
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these accused chinese spies are said to have received fake documents from this u. s. official because he was a double agent all along working for the f b. i. now another case here is a 7 chinese nationals charge for targeting a naturalized u. s. citizen from china who was being harassed both his family here and in china in a, in an effort to force him to repatriate to china. 2 people have been arrested out of these 13 the rest though may still be at large likely are in china and would be very difficult for the f, b i to apprehend. but what's further significant about this marion is who delivered the announcement about these charges. this came from the top to u. s. law enforcement officials, the attorney general and the director of the f. b i. these are 2 men who normally shy away from the cameras, but when announcing these charges, had forceful words directed at the chinese government. we've found the chinese
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government threatening, established democratic norms and the rule of law as they work to undermine us economic security and fundamental human rights. including those of emergence. we also see a coordinated effort across the chinese government to lie, cheat and steal their way into unfairly dominating entire technology sectors. pudding competing u. s. companies out of business. now these men were question about the timing of this announcement, given that seizing pain just started his historic 3rd term as china's president. now the law enforcement officials and you as denied that there was any sort of political message being sent by these announcements. thank you very much from washington. how did your castro quit right now? that low self come for you on the program. what is the rise of a she soon act mean for race relations?
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possibly in person will examine the issue and saudi arabia is walcott team receives a vote of confidence from my crown prince. ah, that the weather should be changing, going towards winter at the moment, but you would not think so given that the weather's coming lives in the southwest, which is not a cold direction. and so what was cold in scandinavia? freezing in fact, is rapidly pushed out. the way once again. so although we saw temperatures right down below normal over the weekend, it's going up 8 in also go up to double figures. come wednesday, the real code is pushed back in finland and heavens, beaches where everything else covered in cloud and lightest rain. it's on the miles side of normal, even more so where the sun is out, which is the case when most of space, the central part,
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the measuring across towards the balkans, the last the rain disappeared from italy and slovenia. so conveniently, most places in mainland europe are about 7 degrees above average, temperature wise, and then not going down any time soon, not significantly. now in north africa, the anomaly here is more the rainfall and the temperatures is still rating all off as far north as the gambia. now ban, jules had about 140 percent so far off. it's monthly range for any more is just icing on the cake and it's still raining heavily in ghana and southern large area where of course there are floods ah november on a just as the footballing world's greatest tournament kicks off, all eyes turned to cat ha as they prepare the spectacle like no other old ways for new days. first nations frontline discovers how traditional knowledge is helping
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lou. welcome back to the news our lie from london now main stories. now ukraine has invited officials from the ones nuclear watchdog to examine its facilities off to russia, accused of planning to use an exposed device with radioactive material on its own people. ukraine's western allies say russia's pulsing to use the allegation as a pretext for escalation. at least 60 people have been killed in an air strike by the mere mom military in the northern state of catching the victims were. it's an event that bracing the anniversary of the catching ethnic groups political wing and form when you get a chance love, richie soon will become the countries at next. prime minister on monday soon won the race to be leader. all the conservative party will be the 1st prime minister of indian heritage. your pace is less trust who resigned last week. as you mentioned
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soon, ac is that to become the case 1st, prime minister of south asian heritage, he was confirmed to the role on de la lee, the hindu festival of light, which he is known to celebrate in the london suburb of south. for there were mixed views about where she soon acts rise to the top of british politics. you know, it's appropriate as a indiana i. so i like, you know, we, we become a prime minister of good. it's good for you, click on the economy as well. oh no, like the right doesn't make any difference because he is born in england and he's born and brought up here only so i don't think so. there isn't any difference in somebody who's non white myself. i would have wanted somebody with a few more to know more scruples, probably a bit more left leading maybe especially coming from you know, a minority and having suffered certain things. you know, you would want somebody to understand that i feel like he doesn't. so marcus rider
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is the head of external consultancies at the sell any henry center for media diversity, and the editor of black british lives mattie joins me now from london. so obviously a mixture of different views about where she synnex appointment to the premier ship there in the suburb of south full. does it resonate with you personally? i think was really interesting is that people are watching the question when i just heard those sound bites. i think people are answering a multitude of different questions and we need to pick some of those, some of those answers and what's really going on. you know, so is a historic moment for the fact that the 1st non white for the person of color to be prime minister of the u. k. absolutely is a historic moment will actually help people of color will actually help other asian people living in the u. k, mostly academic literature, seems to be against what i would term,
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the idea of trickle down diversity and trickle down diversity is the idea that if you place a person of color or place a woman or someone from a diverse background at the top, somehow trickle down and benefit other people of color or women down in the organization or create policies that will help people further down it trickle down idea of diversity and mostly academic. she does not support that. that is a historic moment. absolutely would actually help people of asian descent other people of color academic studies don't seem to support that. and that's important because of course, it makes her a great headline, doesn't it? her a countries governing institutions to better represent those that it governs. but the reality is that there are so many different issues at play from a culture society history race. and it varies from one country to another, many different ethnic minorities and communities in this country. everyone's
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experience is going to vary with discrimination at racism and marginalization. but of course it is the, i suppose, broadly speaking, it is the issue of systemic change. what it, what it is, is that we're talking about culture as well. and so for anybody to get and so most of this academic literature is not looking at governments, but it applies to governments as well that you get to the top of a company to get to the top of government to get to the top of your political party, you need to embody the values in the culture of that of that party. and if the call to that party is predominantly white men, the chances are it was paid to with your woman, respectively. a person of color. in order to get to the top. you need to mirror and reflect those cultural values, you know, and so it's highly improbable and very difficult to get to the top and then be an agent of change and say, actually i will now be an agent of change and go against those bay values which
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help me get to the top and so is what you need to do is that it's unrealistic to put all of this on one person, whether it's or even just a few people in senior positions. you need to look at the entire culture of the organization. you look at the entire culture of the conservative party, the entire culture of the government, and that will give you an indication is unrealistic in that one person, even in the position of prime minister, will be able to change the culture in the policy of, of that party very interesting isn't to suggest that men and women that are able to rise to these senior positions in politics or business are essentially co opted into the status quo and the kind of existing ruling establishment. so where does then, where does change have to come from? does it begin with education? i would just push back little bit against the word co opted and because it, because that's a slightly motive term. so i would say that people are cultural ised,
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right. and i and so, yeah, less likely a change. yes. a slight distinction. but the same literature, which same academic literature tells us that is very difficult for a woman who's at the top too often that women are penalized when they advocate for the women or people of color penalized. when they advocate for other people of color, when they get to the very top, the same literature tells us that if they're in your organization where the majority is women, then it's far easier for them to do so because they're actually reflecting that culture. so what we've got to do is we've got to look at critical mass theory, which is at what point can the co to an organization actually change? at what point, if there were more asian people of color in the conservative party, might actually change the nature of that government or change the nature of that party. you actually need to look at things more than just look at the big headline was and just look at one individual, 2 individuals. you need to look at the entire country in time,
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make up your organization, whether that's a company where that's a political party and then you can see what culture actually changes. and when culture change them values change, policies change, and perhaps also developing an awareness of ourselves as individuals. thank you very much for correcting me on that. because if i say, you know, it's a very sensitive, important discussion and the language really matters. thank you very much. marcus ryder, thank you. well now brazil has one of the largest black populations outside african has long painted itself as a racism free country. in sunday's very tight presidential run of black brazilian votes could determine the winner and latin america added salisia newman reports now from salvador, brazil. the port city of salvatore, the maria in northeastern brazil. it's where the atlantic slave trade from west africa to the so called new world began from the mid 15. hundred's brazil, imported more enslaved africans than any other country. and was the last one to
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abolish slavery. to date, brazil has the largest black population in the americas, and they make up a disproportionately large percentage of the poor. the majority of black voters support former left when president lula da silva, like julie de santos, who's selling b traps, promoting his run for another term. is want to watch quite what to do, or who opened the doors of public universities to blacks. it was lula both to nora, only once, rich whites, to have superior education over yours, them. i would do battle who runs an angel called black initiative is worry nika, how, caesar, and lies. good advice also narrows economic policies, racist which is extremely serious. oliver and the presidents, racist comments are equally serious, wouldn't go. why? as a congressman, bull sonata was asked what he would do if one of his sons fell in love with a black woman fighting over what is could you please keep,
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i'm not going to discuss how a scuse with you. i don't have to face that rust because my children were very well educated. one above me, joe wilson had also commented once that he'd seen a fat black man who weighed about 7 at ro last in obsolete unit, used to wait african slaves as a r. my just sierra is a priestess of the afro brazilian religion cannibal blair, the fellow did. he says a tax against their temples by radical evangelical supporters of bulls, renato r escalated, notched them by the date key. not far. we have a precedent. he says, there is any one religion his own and he is fanning intolerance. i'm afraid that this could generate rate violence. 83 percent of brazilians are black or mixed race, descendant of slaves who abroad here to what was one of the western hemisphere. larger slave markets, but despite tell, the president wilson was over racist. comments and opinions. many,
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many brazilians have color planned to vote for him. among them of these men who performed cap waiter for tourist, it's a popular after all brazilian marshal art where they can revise your net, your proposal now as a clean slate, a clean plate. a clean plate is better than a dirty one. don't you think we'll we need him to change our country. brazil remains in extremely unequal country divided along racial and clashed lines. whether children like these will be able to climb the social ladder could depend greatly on the outcome of sunday's election. she and human al jazeera, salvador, brazil, a well known pakistani journalist has been killed in kenya. lisa, our shod sharif, was shot by an officer while he was a passenger in a car. sharif had been an outspoken critic of the pakistani military and had previously received death threats, causing him to leave pakistan or about manly reports.
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warmer pucker thought he prime minister iran con, with one of the 1st senior officials to visit the law about home of investigative journalist, arshad sharif, who was killed in kenya on sunday night. many appraising sharif is a man who dedicated his work to end in corruption and challenging the political elite. in an earlier tweet, emerald con wrote, he is deeply shocked, and that sharif paid the ultimate price for speaking the truth. he says the entire nation is in mourning sharif is leaving behind 5 children and his wife chaverra said dick, who announced his death on social media, saying he'd been shot and i robi, she says she's lost a friend, husband and her favorite journalist is how i live and we'll put here for my pe sharif a previously worked as a present of the pakistani channel arrived. it was well known to be highly critical of the government and military or what he left pakistan after saying he received
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death threat little wants. there are reports and application has been filed with the high court for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding why he left the country. in august, a police report showed arise odor under the staff members were arrested after the network. ed comments by former prime minister run cons. at fighter, a state run media regulator ordered to roy to temporarily go off air. it prompted the us to express concern about press freedom impacts on others. she knew of journalist what cultured in the day were forced to make certain confessions. i think this is a link would that official or should she left focus on under compelling condition? he knew that he wasn't next door. he was just like, brother to me and or with a impeccable background of journalism, no one can quite any from good at him. truly professional as tributes poor in for
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sharif. many are also worried about the future of independent journalism impacts thumb lore about molly. i'll just, there are at least 10 soldiers have been killed and about 50 wounded in an attack. a northern burkina faso, a salt took place or an army base in the town of jibber. on monday, at least 18 of the attackers were also killed. armed groups have been waging an insurgency in northern begin a faster since 2015. when our climate change activists and germany of defaced a cold manet painting to protest against fossil fuel extraction on the path or a mixture of mashed potato at the priceless artwork. and then glued themselves to the wall below, barbary museum and potsdam says the painting was enclosed in class and is not damaged. the group, let's say,
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generation wants the german government take drastic action to protect the climate. finance continue our count down to the fi. felt while camp with sarah high right in doha ah well weigh less than 27 days from the saucer. the fee for wal coughing cats are visually impaired. football fans will get to enjoy a new service at this year's tournament. ly specialized comment tree in arabic will be available for the 1st time. and he richardson has his report. with, despite being born blind on a chrome, he has loved football all his life. the audio descriptive comment tree, he's listening to jewels he can enjoy game day like any of the fan. wow. go through and especially train commentators writ this events in qatar and i me the benefits of blind and visually impaired supporters audio. descriptive commentaries is
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totally different from the, the mainstream commentary that we listened to on televisions are, registrations, when it's aimed at describing action. like how players are reacting and how planes are cheering up with their teams. and how the bowls warping. they are like following the ball all time. they are describing every single action as if they are looking at the game. they are our eyes a long time. that's where long hallway in the build up to this world cup catalyst has been kelly for university organized training programs for would be commentators volunteers with the chance to play a key role at the finals. still very challenging for people with disability to go from their homes to their seats. it's a lot of challenges for them. and when they are in their seats, you know for sure that these people are obsessed with football. the, the love the game. so i promise myself that i'm going to be delivering the best
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only descriptive commentary for them. life is giving me the opportunity to, to share what i feel inside my heart thought this game through my voice and explain and build a maximum for somebody will share this feeling accessible via an app on your phone . this type of commentary has become increasingly common in europe, but arabic hadn't been heard a major tournament and celestial arab cup. audio descriptive commentary made its welcome, deb you in south africa in 2010, but this is the 1st time it will be available at the finals in the arabic language . specialized commentary will be on offer in arabic and english at every game during this world. come, when we speak of the potter was the top, we all speak of legacy was this tournament will leave to the region. and i hope that the descriptive coming through will be a part of this legacy. it's about making football in the middle east,
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a more inclusive experience, just worn long term targets of this world cup. and the richardson al jazeera, doha, well, it's day. our correspondent jo. gotcha. raska spoke to the chairman of castle social cultural center for the blinds to find out more. i'm joined now by fi, so i'll call her g. here is going to be talking to us a bit more about this audio, descriptive commentary and arabic fi. so how will it change the experience of blind and partially sighted fan to this? well, i think that the audio descriptive commentary confirming the principle of inclusivity or persons with disability being part of the workup. so at that stage, persons with visual impairment will be able to join or to attend their matches and here to the audio commentary at the same time and feel the environment and the atmosphere at all does. how has her cat, her society changes attitude towards blind and partially sighted people?
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i think her, the last 20 years. that is a big change that has been happen from farms in gulf, in northern institute educational entity in the city of pepper. then as shown, can you just listen to a 1004 to let him related to the rights of persons with disability and 2008 that are also a to for the c r p d. conventional price of persons with disability and in 2002 at godaddy has been awarded the host of the world cup. all of these factors together improve their local persons with disabilities. please allow carty. thank you very much for joining us. so as you had their audio descriptive commentary will make a big difference for our big speaking visually impaired and blind found this world tournament, and english 70 is really what is all about. saudi arabia's crown prince mom had been saw man has wished his national team. good luck ahead of the world cup surgery beer is playing in groups see facing off against argentina, mexico and poland. it's the 2nd time the team has played in the tournament.
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admiral rattle, saga said, especially guess at atlanta. another group is a difficult one in the world cup and no one expects us to win or even to draw. so what i want to tell you is to be comfortable for play and enjoy the tournament. i did not want any of you to play on the psychological pressure that affects your natural level. the weight is nearly over for the bigger show on earth. all eyes are cutter. as the world cut comes to the middle east for the 1st time. a truly global event, bringing together football cultures from all over the world war. $32.00 countries battle it out with the trophy party of correspondents on all continents will bring you coverage like no other as the world come to carter, we will pay you around the world. the cut out 2020 to welcome on al jazeera. but for all of those that will be watching, there are close to $3000000.00 tickets that have been sold. occurrence cross $64.00 games and while many fans cummins cats on my still be wondering what to expect
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while local supports is are also looking forward to learning about the visitors coming to their country. i'm excited to see people from different cultures from different countries. how we're all going to get to experience those different cultures and in like one space and because cut are so small, it's gonna be like condensed and oh, but that for me is exciting because lake you'll get to see people from all walks of life, which is very, very like, exciting for me. and that so your sport from me for now back later. thank you very much. sorry. so that's it for the news out. i'll be back in a couple of minutes with much more the daisies, including of course, all the latest reaction from london on the countries, the prime minister. ah ah
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