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this is the life from more than 10000 migrants including children are still sleeping on the streets of greek islands or less well so after a fire destroyed their refugee camp police are trying to move them into a new tent city but many don't want to go also coming up we'll look at new migrants arrivals on the canary islands as thousands of refugees continue risking their lives on the atlantic ocean to get to europe. and guilty of corruption the former head of one of the flesh sentenced to 2 years in jail following
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a dumping scandal his lawyers say the court has made him a scapegoat for a much larger call. legendary nightclubs have been forced to close because of the pandemic botswana entrepreneur has found a way to get frustrated party goers a quick fix without risking their lives. welcome to the program a police operation is underway on the greek island of les boss to move thousands of migrants and refugees into a new temporary tent city many have been sleeping on the streets after a fire destroyed their refugee camp authorities say the operation has so far passed off peacefully but many migrants are reluctant to move into the new facility. rows of tents on the greek island. they've been set up for migrants displaced by
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the fires that gutted the morri account. on thursday week police started moving hundreds into them. over the past few days migrants have chosen to stay on the streets in squalid conditions many saying they'd rather remain here than run the risk of being detained for months in a completely new camp. some have even returned to what remains of moria they said the temporary tents and not enough they want long term solutions. going to look that comes to naught at a medical one we want to free life we've come here to live we are human we are not animals. they put us in a place where there's no life and it's like a jungle. a human cannot live in such tents. early on wednesday only about 1200 of the roughly 35000 migrants rendered homeless by the fires have
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moved to the new temporary accommodation the un refugee agency said there is capacity for about another 8000 people and had urged people to move it said it's the only way for went. people who have been in moria can come to this camp and we encourage them to come there because it's from a new year that their process will continue that their procedure will continue that tradition is can be found and that people can leave the island because the idea is not that people remain forever on the island of lives was. that while several european states of offer to take in migrants from less bus others say they will not they're offering to provide more aid and even more tense instead. of a more information on the situation on the ground let's bring in amanda munoz the total she's the executive director of the n.g.o.s phoenix that provides protection
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and legal services for refugees on lesbos amanda is this a good move from a by the greek government for the police to force asylum seekers into the new. so for the moment our teams on the ground are saying that it's peaceful people are slowly walking to the new site we are soon to see what happens when people start to say that they do not want to go to that crowd at the moment there are thousands of people are still willing we are looking hour by hour to see how things change well this new tent has enough space for 8000 people but in fact $12000.00 migrants will be crammed into it is nervous that the new camp would go up in flames as maria there are many reasons that will come out of this camp it's not winterize there's already we expect strong things next week rain and it's not ready to receive this rain it's based on my it doesn't have a disability access to it is for people with disabilities and there's the tents
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that are a far away from any kind of missions so we also hear more about women that have always been at risk. do you think the greek government is doing enough that well tents are never enough this is a new war yeah we expected better and longer term solution. more became a symbol of europe's failed migration policy what should be done by the e.u. in your opinion that. it's time that europe takes part of the burden and find any understands of the refugee crisis is not a greek issue it's a european issue and greet priest need support because this was. a recipe for continued. mother when you have the torah thank you very much. thank you. now we're joined by one fernando lopez or he'll out of here is the chair of the european parliament committee on civil liberties justice and home affairs thank you for joining us we've just heard the situation in maria is serious
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and it looks like it's politically created to keep migrants away to scare them off is that official e.u. policy now. absolutely we had a debate just today in the european parliament of it said 1000000 times this tragedy was predictable and was announced throughout the debate in the lead a comedian. it's absolutely intolerable it's unacceptable that there has been 30000 then 20000 no 13000 people completely homeless with no sanitation facilities with no roof with no access to medicines it's absolutely incompatible with the european values as it is incompatible the narrative which allocate that migrants on a threat to the european security or to the european identity there has to be a more humane approach which is precisely what we have been asking for more along
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the way we are waiting for a so-called new pact on migration as item which is a whole new package of pieces of legislation but one thing is sure the european parliament stands for binding solidarity as it is proclaiming the lisbon treaty shared responsibility european search and rescue and of course legal pathways so that those who are. addressing the european union do not have to reste their lives by exposing themselves to the illicit trafficking of human beings with these catastrophic results that we have seen about the committee that you personally it says responsible for put press waiting member member governments to at long last agree to a common policy towards dealing with my when so it's like you have the chief botched up here. the committee which i chair is the heaviest workload when it comes to law making in this european parliament and this european
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parliament is a law making house we have actually made laws on migration we have actually made those on asylum but you know what there's an increasing members number of member states flag rankly violating european law and of course they violate the reception conditions directive and. receive your directive and the qualifications directive when they practice pushbacks or they deny human rights in the external borders of the european union ok who are all these who was in the united states invited last he's asking them that yes. well all member states who practiced bassy pushbacks in the external borders of the european union would disregard of the geneva convention and the european law on asylum and may have a copy of my yearly european law and while there has been allegations that that is the case not only in croatia in greece in the extent of borders but the point i'm making is that it is not enough to ask the member states who have vulnerable
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borders of the european union behaving and respecting european law it takes social solidarity from the rest because one thing is sure it's absolutely unacceptable that those countries who do have external borders to the european union like it is the case of greece malta cyprus easily and spain with thousands arrive into the canary islands from the west african coast field that they have been left on the wrong that they have been left alone and facing all the responsibilities of the broad there has to be a shared responsibility and that's shared responsibility as a leader of the is a monday of the treaty of lisbon it's not a wishful thinking it's a legal mandate but also new laws for serious programs are violating european law how can you force this train how can you asking for solidarity is one thing comes through force them. their whole. the whole the whole of the european union has to
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respond the commission has to launch infringement procedures and it has the european court of justice has convicted those countries who denied shared responsibility when he came to read occasion programs for instance whole and then poland poland hungary which have been convicted for denying the cigarette glued in the tortillas visitor group denying all shared responsibility not accepting a single a single person being relocated to the territory where it is a monday that they have to be part of the relocation programs because they are binding law of the european union. there is not an option it's not. the ad hoc it's not fragmentary solidarity when it comes to as a matter of urgency transferring $400.00 of comedy by ners from the hill in les pauls in moria to the mainland it's a matter of being binding fully directly ruled by european law which is mandatory for the member states so that we never have more yet never again but we don't have
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them produce a needle we can have out again again in the canary islands people. living in camps of misery awaiting from some signal of solidarity from the rest of the european union when it is clear that is in the g.o.p. an issue and it has to be a european response well the signal has come from germany and france they both countries have said that take some of the refugees from moria but the greeks apparently say not so fast we need to get them into the camps we don't want to create more reasons to come here so well isn't this another for inside the e.u. here. just yesterday oppression for you made it clear that migration is not and menace is not a threat it is a fact it has always been there and it has to be managed but managed at a european level and i say said fragmentary and a hawk. rooty are part of the solution but they are not the solution the solution
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is a binding mechanism of solidarity and responsibility search and rescue at a european level that is ruled by european law and we have adopted those laws we need a commission which is fully engaged with implementation of european law within member states you can play with the rulings of the european court of justice it is it is it is evident that all and has this regarded with contempt a number of european court of justice rulings those are the issues that we have to tackle and i say said 400 unaccompanied minors been transferred to the mainland well done might be understood as a relief but is it enough is it an acceptable answer no all of the member states have to be part of relocation programs according to european law in a humane way according to european standards and european values because there is nothing more damaging all of the european project than the contradiction between the utopian rhetoric which we heard yesterday from the lion speech of the state of the union and facts and delivery and that contradiction has been shown in the most
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cruel and inhumane way in a catastrophe morea very briefly please next week the commission will come up with a new proposal looking forward to that with high hopes. of course we have been looking forward for some time now because it was part of the commitments that explicitly made person from the lying when she was invested as president and of course commissioner johansson when she was confirmed to the job by the liberal media which i chair we ask will request binding solidarity as part of the package shared responsibility european search and rescue as a legal pathways regular ways for those in need to make it to you to uphold the whole those so that we can actually tackle the business model of the least trafficking of human beings there has to be of course a long. herman part of the policy making which affect their root causes and medium
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term we just need to update the pieces of legislation which are needing of dating as it is a case of doubling regulation but most importantly we need relocation programs urgently now once and under lopez a chair of the european parliament committee on civil liberties justice and home affairs thank you very much for joining us today. thank you for having me thank you for having me. well while the struggle continues for european solution for the migrants on lesbos the next refugee drama is unfolding at another euro european external border already the canary islands some $4000.00 people have arrived by boat since the beginning of the year hundreds asshole to have died while making the journey across the atlantic many of them are fleeing the deteriorating security situation in this with boats departing from morocco and the territory of western sahara also departing hundreds of kilometers fala south from where attaining and senegal arrivals to mainland spain fell by half compared to the same period last
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year landings in the canary islands increased nearly 7 fold. a calm sea after a harrowing journey. and his friend to read a 3 days on the atlantic in a rubber dinghy on what's considered the most dangerous migration route in the world. it's estimated that one in every 15 migrants dies on the way. so literally we heard air leaking from the reporting at that moment everyone was scared to death i had the feeling that this could really be the end for us and i thought about my little sister who would then be left without me because. i thought about friends i would never see again i was in a state of shock and i couldn't move anymore. they made it just 2 of 1000 migrants who have arrived in the canary islands in the
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past weeks. many islanders feel abandoned by the rest of europe. and officials say 4 to ventura can't take anymore people. new arrivals are sealed off in hotels that's attracted criticism from human rights groups who say the migrants have no access to asylum procedures and lack the most basic necessities and then there's the island's tourist association. so we. are currently working to promote fuerteventura as a safe and clean island that's in the best of health nobody likes to see a hotel full of migrants now that's reality. adding to the stress the government sees growing concern over coronavirus infection rates immediately upon arrival people reaching the island are tested in one of the last groups half the test were positive many newcomers like mara and 2 ray want to leave
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the island as soon as possible and move on to the european mainland some where they can find work and are safe from deportation back home. not to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a video released by colleagues of kremlin critic alexei in a volley claims that prominent political figure was poisoned in a siberian hotel room not fear or previously thought not a chalk the nerve agent used to poisonous in the valley was detected on an empty water bottle at the hotel. in the us hurricane sally has been downgraded to a category one storm but is still cause severe damage to parts of the florida coast heavy rains have caused severe flooding in the city of pensacola the storm is expected to weaken as it pushes further inland. the government of barbados wants to remove britain's queen elizabeth its head of state and become a republic caribbean island gained independence from britain in 1906 retain the
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queen as head of states the prime minister says it's now time for the country. in that office. a call from pro-democracy activists in hong kong to boycott the opening. of the newer disney film alarm has hit early ticket sales the actress who portrays milan publicly supported hong kong police as they battled pro-democracy protesters last year. india on tuesday became the country with the 2nd highest coronavirus caseload in the world after the united states with more than 5000000 cases reported on a daily increase of 90000 for a week there is no doubt that infections are surging the government is pointing to india's relatively low fatality rate as a sign that the government has stepped in to control the pandemic but there are doubts if the $83000.00 reported best 19 convey the true picture of india's
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coronavirus fatalities saying goodbye to a husband and a father. mitra died in july after he was admitted to hospital with a fever and breathing difficulties he tested positive for the corona virus but you won't see his name on the list of coronavirus fatalities a muscular disorder was the official cause of death the family are confused. i feel that they are hiding death records otherwise why would they take my father so far away for crim a show the government is saying my father died of my esteem but they have created him according to cope with 19 protocol for the bill c. it's not a unique story and could explain why india has only had about 80000 covert 19 deaths in a country of 1300000000 people experts are warning that these figures might be misleading saying india isn't counting many deaths a claim that the health ministry has strongly denied. a certain degree of
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undercounting no doubt but certainly not to explain. it to lower numbers. if for example if you look at that 1000000. now tell it to rate their current number is about $60000000.00 and the united states it's about 4 times less population 8 times now do that a 1000000 so you cannot really explain that you are going to be sort of underground to. death statistics were already unreliable before the pandemic in india with many indians dying at home without the presence of a doctor. the lack of data can make it hard to identify where spikes are occurring as the economy begins to reopen leaving many worried that a certain deaths could be following the latest rise in cases on the subject let's take a look at some of the other developments in the coronavirus pandemic new zealand
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has entered a recession for the 1st time in more than a decade as a result of economic damage from the pandemic countermeasures germany has recorded it's the 2nd highest daily increase in cases since april the country's public health body reported more than 2000 new infections and a report by unicef and save the children says the pandemic and related lockdown measures have pushed more than 150000000 children around the world into poverty. us president all trump says that an effective coronavirus vaccine could be ready ready for distribution within weeks directly contradicts comments made by one of his top health officials democrats have expressed concern that trump is pressuring government health regulators and scientists to approve a russian vaccine to help in his reelection. to sports now the former head of world of letting been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 2
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years in prison a french court found that media solicited bribes totaling 3000000 euros from russian athletes suspected of doping he then used the money to help them compete in events like the 2012 london olympics. it's he was one of the most powerful men in sports during his tenure at the governing body of track and field the international association of athletics federations and a french court says he used that power to rake in piles of money. that included a scheme that allowed russian athletes who paid millions in hush money to keep competing when they should have been suspended for doping some of those athletes went on to claim medals at the 2012 london olympics medals that should have gone to athletes who didn't cheat runner crystal do and they said she was all smiles after the verdict says up on the warhead you can see the grin on my face with the mask i'm wearing but i'm very happy to have been recognized as
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a victim of the corruption by the i double f leaders and i'm also happy for all the other athletes who were told that he was out the tool that. has long professed innocence in the scandal maintaining over 16 years he turned the track and field body into a much admired organization. now diac son. was given a 5 year sentence for illegally funneling out some $15000000.00 during his father's tenure but he spent a lengthy trial comfortably in his home country senegal which has refused extradition requests. you also on these accusations i can say that based on everything i've read i'm not very reassured that the french justice system has no basis for condemning lamine. to remains free for the time being as his lawyers appeal the verdict a verdict they say made their client a scapegoat that after the judge told the he had purely and simply violated the
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rules of the game i mean you have this new there. the german capital of berlin this famous across europe for its wild and diverse nightlife but since the pandemic hit in march majority of clubs have had to close as part of government measures to contain the virus outbreak one businessman though has come up with a new way to party warning this next report of the flashing images. berlin night life is once again open for business well kind of introducing the tele disco a phone booth disco whose popularized fame in recent weeks is perhaps a sign of the times grow wiser maybe it is a change. it's great it's the best thing i know. you may come party any time.
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many of the city's famous clubs are on the verge of bankruptcy. but the inventor of the tele disco is escaping the current crisis he bought a dozen telephone booths back in 2016 and converted into many nightclubs. and it's a business that makes people happy business this was all you have to do is put into heroes and choose your music. listeners and tourists alike are grateful for the chance to experience if but a slice of bread lends club culture amid the pandemic because even if he has a 1000000 it's magnificent but it's great this little dance did make it was a pretty tense moment. with no reopening date in sight for many of the clubs for the city's reading urges the telly disco will have to suffice. if you're looking forward to a big bargain at this year's all some sales then this might be for you next month's
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christie's is planning to sell one of the largest skeletons ever found known affectionately as stan it's nearly 4 metres high and 12 metres long so this is one prehistoric pet whose owners will need a lot of space to keep him but prospective buyers of this king of the dinosaurs will also need deep pockets kristie is expected to fetch between $6.00 and $8000000.00. you're watching the news here's a reminder all the top stories we're following for you police on the greek island of les pauls have begun transferring migrants to an emergency 10 town off of 5 destroyed the previous. thousands have been sleeping on the streets since the file above the house been reluctant to move to the new face of to. do what to do with w. news live from the bell in the house up next is business with bank fizzling don't
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the shit. thousands of homeless refugees left to themselves without a home. after the fire in the morning the banner is growing for everyone on the island of. what is the dealing is the new interim camp only
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