Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240713

With all the controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick holds a try out session in front of team scouts but only after a last minute change of venue that and more coming up this news hour. Police in hong kong are on the brink of trying to break up a standoff with protesters that is getting more dangerous by the hour demonstrators have barricaded themselves inside a University Campus from their arrows and hold petrol bombs police have fired back with tear gas and water cannon now they warning theyre ready to make the next move and urging people to get out of the area for their own safety and were going to go live to rob mcbride in hong kong in just a moment 1st he has his report. Another sunday afternoon another home cold streak turned into a battleground. At the end of a week that seen a marked escalation in the level of violence between protesters and Police Students took over several College Campuses. Polytechnic university is the last under their control and they seem determined to hold on to it i think. About them its not about we have a plan for the freedom. They say were not behaving like students but were fighting for our better future. Violence began early sunday when people turned up to clear surrounding streets of bricks and barricades and students resisted Police Quickly arrived with water cannon and right vehicles. And probably 2 more of the cannon are now working as night on the barricades and i do not protest the thing to be hauling back but are still wrong there where more and more. The College Campus is located next to an important cross harbor tunnel which is being closed for days it will likely remain closed until police can retake the campus also close by as it can occupied by Chinas Peoples Liberation Army p l a soldiers looking on closely police say theyve been targeted with long range projectiles 5 from the campus buildings with one officer hit in the leg with an arrow. They say the students now inside the campus face riot charges which carry a lengthy prison sentence in spite of the warning the students show no sign of giving up. Lets go to rob mcbride now in hong kong and rob throughout the day this is been a very tense situation and we know that the protesters have dug in but the police also potentially moving on the protesters give us a sense of that scene right now. Absolutely and when it is a very tense standoff at the moment and it does it goes in waves and throughout their sunday evening here in hong kong from now rosario had something of a little bit of a response which i think has been welcomed by protesters and police alike and a few minutes ago from nowhere it seems that i was. Being fined in a movement of mosques and everybody is running around now once more this is the junction behind me where we can still see the lights of the. The want to cannon which would bounce occasionally and thats who wants the barricades thats where most of the home has been taking place today but in the last few hours as weve gone through this something even more and more police have been turning up at all of the different entrances and exits of the sec campus and area in particular theres a phone i overpay jaimie with a large barricade at the top of that where there have been some very fierce clashes between police and protesters there many protesters throwing voluminous amounts of patent bombs on the police werent responding with huge amounts of tear gas and also things like care of a bomb and some and in the last half hour or so we had to what had been a very prime ira carried here on this side of the Campus Police suddenly appeared and looked like they were starting to clear away some of the obstacles as though maybe there was going to be a further attack and so a lot of the protesters have now come forward donna now. Taking possession of this barricade again all around us here you see huge numbers of petrol bombs and ready to go as this standoff continues. Rob just a couple of things water the high home call thora hes actually saying about this and its been 24 hours or so and hes been saying the the troops the China Mainland troops on the streets theyre volunteering to clean up but how is that being received as well. Thats right they are for a tease here as they usually do and condemned their stay saying that this is the work of the mob they said that these people are right that the police are warning that anybody who is found in here is potentially going to face a charge of writing that carries a very stiff prison sentence here in hong kong i dont know whether that has. Played on the minds of many of the protesters here but it doesnt seem to have deterred many people the police upset that any home being open. To this campus so people can leave urging people to leave but the fear is from protesters here and they are reporting that protesters have left they have been arrested so its difficult to see that the numbers are going to do when throughout the night during that doesnt seem to be too much of a plan here as we know this whole movement seems to be. Quite lead to less and that doesnt seem that there is a plan and they dont seem to be announcing it apart from the general feeling that if the barricades on the surrounding roads breached get knocked away and people will move back into the campus building which they have occupied which then brings the very real prospect of this battle continuing. And that would be a very dangerous prospect indeed as far as the Peoples Liberation army is concerned that you mentioned there is just about 100 meters from here a base that there are a number of military bases around hong kong used to be occupied by british troops during the colonial era now occupied by the Peoples Liberation Army Soldiers that you normally dont you from day to day weve been looking curiously through the fence whats been going on but have been very much standing in their camp. Saturday evening we did see at some p. L. O. Soldiers coming out to clear breaks away which are some people would see as part of a symbolic act as potentially a further erosion as far as some of the pond democrats are concerned. And except ability of having chinese soldiers on the street when other people would argue that its fairly innocuous they were simply helping the community they werent in uniform and wants to clear away some bricks went back. Rob thank you in israel describing their very tense scene of course we go back to rob if that situation does escalate over the coming hour well a familiar name in sri lankan politics is back in charge former defense minister got to rajapaksa has been declared the winner of saturdays vote his rival. Conceded as early results put rajapaksa at more than 50 percent mark needed to avoid a 2nd count Bernard Smith reports from colombia to his supporters mainly from the senhor produce majority got a buyer rajapaksa is the president sri lankan mean they believe he can strengthen security after the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks 263. 00 people were killed the government ignored intelligence warnings that the bombings were imminent its paid the price for that and other perceived failings at this Election National security was that knowing this theres a car coming the. Trading people were crying in fact every other day or there was some agitation and obviously they were waiting for opportunity to get in the government rajapaksa is a divisive figure many tamils in sri lankas north believe the former defense secretary should be tried over allegations of killings and disappearances during the final stages of the war against the tamil tigers the countrys Muslim Council says hes victory realizes all our worst fears their fear food because. This. In his Election Campaign stressed National Security and National Security that ethnic minorities something a little bit fearful because it means that they are the ones being viewed as security threats and for the muslims in particular they have bad memories of the period before 2015 because there were riots against them in one go there was a very good military under god. The military and the intelligence didnt protect the muslims and i hope that that will change in the future as all the brother and former president of mahindra may now become Prime Minister as the rajapaksa family returns to frontline politics. Excited and super excited and happy for the country and the result that the majority of the sri lankans have been expecting for a long time up the argument and also up we want to someone like this to save the country so the top children the future generation will have a country one of got a buyer rajapakse as priorities is to rebuild state intelligence and Surveillance Networks he says they were dismantled by the Outgoing Administration under International Pressure and when asked about those allegations of human rights abuses when he was defense secretary the now president elect says people should stop talking about. Bernard to me ill just era. Well lets tell you more about sri lankas incoming president rajapaksa served as defense minister while his brother mahinda was president from 2005 to 2015 i oversaw the defeat of the tamil tigers at the end of a civil war that would last a decade its a controversial figure hes accused of human rights abuses to many of the majority sinhalese hes a hero but he was effectively in charge of the army during the forced disappearance of thousands of tamils his ascent to power could also signal a shift in Foreign Relations the rajapaksa has was shunned by the west and india for alleged abuses at the same to favor relations with china were charulata hawg is an associate fellow in the asia program at Chatham House and he joins us from london i want to start 1st of all with what people were looking for clearly this is the strong man youve got the the hangover from the attacks of course that very much influenced this election is this were people looking for a strong man in charge whos proved to be a strong man in the past. Absolutely i think there are multiple factors at work here firstly its the fight against terrorism we go to bear seem to be Strong Enough to lead and protection lanka the 2nd is the issue of political stability and strength as well you know as last year the where there was a constitutional crisis in november that there were doubts about within about the ability of the government to leave the country and to deliver the prospects that everybody wanted there is also the state of the economy so i think multiple factors came together but most importantly i think it was a call for somebody who could play a strong rule and and give the country stability and in that case what does this do to tensions ethnic tensions within the country itself are you concerned now about where this might be heading. I think the spells are particularly low point for minorities not just the tamil minority but also for muslim minorities it is true that there have been attacks attacks which have been condoned by the state in 20032014 against the Muslim Community led by hardline single over this which have not been acted upon subsequently there were they have been attacks in 2018 and following the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks they had the Muslim Community is feeling very very vulnerable and there as it should so in terms of the future of reconciliation in sri lanka and of the the issue of minorities feeling at home and secure i think the spoils of particularly low point in sri lankan history lets look a little bit more broadly now at how this is going to be perceived by countries in the region budged. To be india of course has been tensions in the past with other countries during a formal rajapaksa royal regime there how do you see that playing out particularly the relationship with china with my offset the tensions with india well since 2015 the relationship with india a stand simply perked up and there was an attempt in establishing better trade improving bilateral political relationships and that would certainly seem to be a back seat and would not figure in the calculations of court by a rajapaksa if the past is anything to go by so the 10 years under his brothers presidency between 20052015 certainly saw a strengthening of relationship with china and with pakistan both in terms of military supplies but also in terms of investments within sri lanka the fact is the sri lankan economy is not a good place its for the 15th time its hard to bail out by the i. M. F. And certainly Foreign Direct Investment is at an all time low all this is accentuated by the fact that weve had this Easter Sunday attacks and therefore trust in the sri lankan state is low at this point in time one way to bolster and that would be perhaps going to bear on the boxes calculation is to go back within the chinese embrace and this would have pretty strong impact within the region region relationships with india i dont regard another issue that one must be yes of sorry we just just finish that thought yes go ahead. One more issue we must be mindful about is that there was an internationally led process at the Human Rights Council on transition just justice and accountability intra lunker and that certainly seems to have ground to hold not to have you on the program sorry lot of thank you so much suzanne. List putting more ahead on the news including a queue of remembrance groups marking the anniversary of student uprising why violence in Northern Ireland a generation ago may soon take center stage in the general election and youth triumphs over experience at the tennis a. T. P. Finals peta has all the details coming up. Influential iraqi cleric has called for a National Strike on sunday a story in baghdad has caught fire witnesses say it was as a result of violence between Security Forces and protesters demonstrations started last month against the lack of jobs and Public Services but have grown into calls for a change in government more than 250 people have been killed in the demonstrations and protesters in the iraqi city of basra have erected barricades and blocked the highway but set the roads on fire to prevent people from going to work and school the citys poor has been closed because of growing violence in nasiriyah and my son says hes also or hes declared a holiday to allow people to attend protests potentially going to him has more now from baghdad. Other roads were quite klug coming into Tahrir Square were seeing a lot of students and the numbers do seem to be bigger than we would typically see this time of day on a sunday if you look behind me you can see pretty significant plume of black smoke you mentioned that the prominent shiite cleric daughter called for a nation wide strike in iraq its prominent because his followers comprise largest bloc in parliament they are the primary opposition and they are united with the protesters in calling for the resignation of Prime Minister. And calling for elections. In baghdad as i said were expecting more people in Tahrir Square than we typically see on a sunday in basra things appear to be quite tense the ports the operations there are once again halted as protesters block the entrance were told that theyve blocked the roads to several oil fields and they blocked the primary road leading from basra to baghdad theres no school today in basra in may soon and the local councils have actually given people the day off from work and school so we expect to see significant numbers of people attending protests there so really what were seeing is that protesters are continuing to maintain their momentum and try to keep the pressure on a government that they believe has not gone far enough in its reforms right now we have draft of an election law and a new Electoral Commission that are waiting to be reviewed by the parliament but of course the one thing that protesters want which is for the Prime Minister to step down has not happened the New York Times has a Chinese Government documents it says reveal new details about beijings crackdown on muslim wages in the scene john region around a 1000000 we use a believed to be interred in what the chinese call Training Centers intended to reeducate people leaning towards extremism now the documents include instructions to local authorities on how to handle students returning home and finding family members to tie and or missing how to control wages and plans to extend restrictions on islam to other parts of china and the documents reveal how the crackdown was a hardline local party chief to control the scene john in 26 think now the leak also suggests there is resistance within the communist party to this crackdown. Such richardson is taught to direct a Human Rights Watch she says the International Community can do more to ensure chinese authorities stop these abuses as a legal matter its now incredibly clear whos responsible for these highly abusive policies at the same time one reads the story and thinks about all of the people in the we get the asper a world wide who are reading the same information and really having their worst fears about whats happened to their family members confirmed and that must just be an excruciating reality for them and i think you increase is the pressure for chinese officials to be held accountable i certainly think it brings that much more pressure to bear particularly on Member States of the United Nations to push for an independent Fact Finding Mission to the region ideally under the auspices of the high commissioner for human rights you know and for any of the governments that have resisted the idea that chinese authorities are actually carrying out this campaign of repression if you know if the facade of support for chinas position really is starting to crumble and this report goes a long way towards you know denying people the ability to say well its not really happening or theres no credible evidence here and it is we think its been urgent to that kind of investigation for well over a year and now and i think every day that goes by without Holding China accountable reinforces an extraordinary kind of impunity and if anybody thinks that those abuses are going to stay within chinas borders weve got news for you theyre not and thats why china really needs to come under pressure brant now to play by the same rules as every other government the world is expected to. So ali arabia has put a preliminary valuation on it studies of owned Oil Giant Aramco of between 6. 01 trillion dollars now thats short of crown Prince Mohammed bin solomons target of 2 trillion of the kingdom says its looking to raise more than 25000000000. 00 by selling a 1. 5 percent stake in its oil company its taking bids from investors in the final price to be saved after that phase which ends on december 5th. Is an International Oil economist and visiting professor of Energy Economics at e s c p your Business School and in london he joins us from there nice to have you on the program let me get a thought from you 1st of all about this valuation i know that some would put it as low as a trillion not as high as 2 trillion but around 1. 7 is that still too high. I think even the evaluation of 1. 00 to 1. 00 trillion dollars is is quite big or exaggerated my own calculations is that the evaluation could it be more than 1. 00 to 1. 00 trillion dollars the original valuation of put into someone but been selling man and the banks are that it is a bit out of based on saudi clear him of 267000000000 barrels of oil my research sure is that the proven reserves of saudi arabia are around 55000000000. 00 barrels consequently the value issue should be far less than that so my estimate is a 1. 00 to 1. 00 point to an eternity and still a huge sum of money per hour if Global Oil Companies but never did this is a. Business this is a very highly valued very hardy Profitable Company what is weighing them on that is to move in your opinion youve mentioned the your skepticism about the saudi oil reserves the rule so questions about price there are questions about demand and the geopolitical tensions as well and that. In my opinion the advent of national of saudi arabia saudi armco will never see the light of day for 2 reasons one para sistan question marks about diprivan reserves of saudi arabia the 2nd one is that is of. Many can litigation and anything to a 911. 00 of course you can add now another factor which is the fact that the saudi oil in the us that he has become a horse teach to the truth is of yemen these are allies of iran and they have proven their reach when they at that in the divestiture of way some of the Oil Infrastructure of saudi anywhere there is nothing to stop them at that king and gain and if electing the same damage unless saudi at abia that each is out for them and end the war in yemen and to build bridges of trust between them and iran b. S. Out of the factors which have been f. X. Being the i be or as a horn and will effect it now and in the future but do so and i thank you so much for giving us your analysis a project that. Lebanons former finance minister has withdrawn his name from contention to be the next Prime Minister Mohammad Safadi said it would have been difficult to form a harmonious cabinet in a statement he added that he hoped that outgoing Prime Minister saad hariri would be renominated jamal joins us now from beirut just tell us about the reaction to this of course is not just forming a harmonious cabinet that is a problem but also resistance from the street to hes hes nomination. To get stuck in the moment stuck on the stuff all these nameless even taluk say there was a young girl amongst a crosssection of Lebanese Society if its a clear you go through have been at the forefront of what has now become a month long uprising go against the government against corruption money primarily because my mother suffered these name has been an extra kept leading with corruption whilst he was himself a minister so this is something thats real and has overdone people you dont own the protesters who have gathered again here to mark one month of the protests in marthas square ill just step out of the shot so you can get a sense obviously the crowds are still in maybe it is only a few 1000 i would say theyre not huge in terms of numbers but the fact that they are still taking place is that significant they are expected to pick up over the next couple of hours but the sentiment thats being expressed here is that yes its good that suffered his name has been withdrawn however that is far from whats their aspirations are their aspirations is for nonsectarian governments to be formed given those aspirations then jamal and given that the protest is still continuing just how difficult is it going to be to find a new Prime Minister and be able to to establish a functional cabinet. Hugely and immensely difficult for many Different Reasons primarily because of the political makeup and system. If you are in lebanon it is by definition a sectarian system whereby the president has to come from a source inside the Prime Minister to promote from a certain sect the speaker of parliament and so forth so unless there is going to be a revolution to get away with the political system which many people are calling for however its difficult to see how that will succeed considering got beyond lebanons border is where the real Decision Making is happening in the end of the day nothing on each sect is a proxy for greater regional and International Powers be its iran saudi arabia the United States even the french have influence and so forth aside from not so obviously is the fact that you have an institutionalized corruption thats its also very difficult to get rid of what many people are looking at here is just how far this movement can go in at least maybe improving or lessening the negative implications of offbeat in demick corruption of the political system moving forward obviously its not just the protests that are taking place so there are general strikes son tomorrow for example there was some hope that the banks would reopen that was dashed off to the Workers Union said that they will continue the strike i let it be out of fear for their security to stay according to the mc on stage behind me has been clear that theres a National Strike across all sections where schools and universities will also be closed so there is some sort of paralysis here im not paralysis added to the economic woes that this country has been going through is just making things a lot more understandable jamal thank you still ahead on aljazeera. For a legal way to go back and be with the people a plea from exile theyve a morale this tells aljazeera he wants to return to bolivia and finish shes president ial. A surprise in sao paulo well tell you whos on pole for sundays proceedings from. Hello dan its good to have you back when we have been following the snow here across parts of iran over the last few days attempters have really come down 1st of all weve been showing you some images that have come out of tehran the snow is going to continue across that area as well especially around the caspian the southern part of the caspian could be a mix of rain and snow down towards the south though notice in the Higher Elevations we could even see some snow there thats really going to be in the overnight hours but a lot of rain across much of the area really affecting quit city as well the snow continues across the region and for tehran unfortunately are going to be below average for this time of year staying really until we get towards wednesday a combination of rain and snow possibly here on monday possibly on tuesday as well wednesday does look better but still quite cool with a temperature of 10 maybe the average for this time of year should be about 70 degrees there well here across the gulf we are going to be tracking that rain as it makes its way down towards the south as well i did say kuwait city heavy rain few as well but as we go from monday and into tuesday look at doha is forecast we do expect to see some rain across the area that will also push over here towards the west for abu dhabi though not looking too bad with attempt of 29. 00 and then down along the coast of amman we are looking quite nice there saliva it is going to be a pleasant day for you with a temperature of 29. 00 to be nice. 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Truelike is former defense minister got a rajapaksa has won the president ial election his rivals such it probably also conceded as early results put rajapaksa over the 50 percent block needed to avoid. Saudi arabia has put a preliminary valuation on its oil. Between 6. 01 trillion dollars the kingdom says its looking to raise more than 25. 00. Point 5 percent. Irans president has Just Announced people will receive subsidies to help pay for fuel price increases now thats in response to days of protests against the price hike earlier Supreme Leader ayatollah ali denounced what he calls hooligans for quote sabotage riot police and Security Forces have fought with demonstrators across dozens of cities on saturday protesters around the happy with being rationed and prices rising by as much as 200 percent. Joins us now from tehran and tell us a little bit more about these subsidies how much theyll be and who theyll be given to. Well the president has announced this decision in his Cabinet Meeting this evening in the capitol in response to all the anger and frustration that has been coming out of the general public to the announcement that the subsidies will be going to about 16000000 iranians thats about 18000000 families across the country who are living below the poverty line or very low income families the president had said initially that this these subsidies will be deposit it into the accounts of those families later on this month but as a result of the events that have unfolded in the country over the past 48 hours they have decided now to deposit those subsidies earlier and the president said that although it is the right of people to protest to voice their opinion in the country it is not anybodys right to riot in iran he said that this is not something thats acceptable weve also been hearing from the countrys Intelligence Ministry who issued a statement earlier on sunday saying that since the Supreme Leader has spoken about the issue backing up a decision thats been made by the government to increase fuel prices the Intelligence Ministry will be out in full force trying to restore calm and security in the country and they will deal with any kind of insecurity as they see fit this is as a result of a decision to hike up the price of petrol from about. 3 falls actually where initially just last week it would cost an average iranian about 3. 00 to 4. 00 to fill up a gas tank as a friday morning when they woke up and found out about this news it cost them about 10. 00 to fill up a gas tank. So what about the protests themselves given those warnings that weve seen from the government announced that these subsidies are going to be brought forward what impact do you think thats likely to have a will will the people continue to work to talk to the streets im sorry i cant hear you. Do you have me no no we are saying 2 of last door so there. Bolivias former president has told al jazeera he should be allowed to return and complete hes final term in office that time as the United Nations warned that violence in bolivia could spin out of control on friday. His supporters were shot dead during violence with Security Forces he used his twitter account to demand the interim government in bolivia identify those responsible for the deaths if sports spoke to aljazeera as John Heilemann and outlined his next moves. Up until sunday if more rallies was latin americas longest standing current leader now pressured to resign by the military after accusations of electoral fraud hes suddenly bolivias former president and in exile in mexico but after less than a week here he told our dizzier hes already planning to go home. I cant be outside of the country im used to being with the people as a union leader president doing work i miss it a lot im looking for a legal way to go back and be with the people as they resist the dictatorship the coup he says if allowed back he wouldnt seek to run in fresh elections thats a bone of contention between him and the opposition but he still wants to complete the last 2 months of his term. I dont know why theyre so scared of evoking they dont want me to participate thats ok everything for life for democracy i retire my candidacy but they should let me finish my term is that understood not understood by now interim president to me and years she said he could face charges if he goes but its the culmination of discontent that started back in 2016 when moralists to change the Constitution Program for a full time there was a referendum the majority voted against you having a 4th term and afterwards. If you did it you did run again and that seemed to go against the spirit of democracy in the country where you could interpret it like that but so you know on the 21st of february 2016 the lie won enough lies to beat us with 70000 votes moral lesson the right united and beat us based on the lie you and c. N. N. Were in on it the u. S. Embassy prepared that lie hes on repentant the moment and he also insists that there wasnt fraud in the elections a month ago this by investigators from the organization of american states saying that they too was diverted to a secret service that there were clear manipulations he says the organization is politically motivated which of yells i had a lot of trust or some trust but now i dont have any in the oas i should be called the organization of the states of north america not america he did call fresh elections after the oas preliminary report but by then it was too late many c. F. L. Morale is as a good leader who simply stayed too long you managed to almost half of poverty the economy grew under you and you brought stability now. Given whats happened if you could go back in time would you have run again for this 4th term would you have gone against that referendum or if you could have your time again would you if bowed out gracefully out of war was or was you dont look for the post of presidency it seeks you out thats my experience in the unions in my experience in the presidency and i want to tell you that after the 1st mandate i was happy content to go back to cochabamba is that when you when people say trust and go again and. That in the end may have been his undoing and in his way bolivia is in crisis with Police Killing protesters and violence from both sides meanwhile you can only look on from afar john home and how does it of mexico city. People in greece and marking the 46th anniversary of the crushing of a student uprising against the military junta the episode set into motion a chain of events that toppled the u. S. Backed military government in 1904 participants of place flowers at the old gate of the Athens Polytechnic University where it all took place some 5000 Police Deployed as part of the tight security operation lets go to john up with us now who joins us with the latest from athens and john mentioned their concerns about security tell us about that nor so that the numbers of people weve seen in the in the march. Weve seen. Its a large march this year as a 46 year old event it has gone through many different phases and some years have been weaker than others this is a tense here there is a very good turnout many thousands of people have gone past us and there are security concerns because the police are using not only the numbers that youve talked about 5000 men and women on the streets in uniform but also drones and helicopters overhead to monitor what the actions of illegal groups who are. Acting on the sidelines of the march might be doing because a few years ago some of those groups and the coasts or or other of nihilists or. Simply gangs of criminals who turned to find an opportunity to express themselves during this event or after it started throwing bricks on the police blockades from balconies from a great height and seriously injuring some police so now police are going up there up in the air as well theyre watching whats going on from above. This is a much the it is a political statement it is 1st and foremost an anniversary of a political event the greek see as seminal in the restoration of democracy in 1974 after a 7 year military dictatorship that was backed by the Nixon Administration and that is what they are chiefly celebrating any sort of violence events take place afterwards the polytechnic was important because it led to an asylum law that gave all University Campuses immunity from Police Interference for the last 45 well most of the last 46 years this government says that that war has been abused far too often criminals and illegal groups have taken refuge on University Campuses from which they have launched forth and attacked police or sold drugs or vandalized public transport and police and the new democracy conservative government that was elected in july said were going to end this war they did that during the summer this is the 1st of november 17th anniversary since that asylum was removed so were waiting to see how far the police is going to take advantage of its new ability to enter University Campuses and particularly that of the polytechnic john drop us live there from athens thank you john. The conservative party in the u. K. Is pushing for new legislation to protect soldiers from what Prime Minister Boris Johnson calls unfair trials now under the proposed law veterans would not be prosecuted for historical offenses committed during operations in iraq afghanistan and closer to home in Northern Ireland where British Forces were engaged in a conflict with Irish Republicans for decades lawrence live splines as well as being bogged down in elections its that time of year when the u. K. Honors its war dead and the sacrifices they made in the 2 world wars when asked to go and fight the conservative party now wants that unequivocal support to extend to the actions of soldiers in more controversial conflicts. Its widely expected that in the coming days the conservatives will include in their election manifesto the pledge to protect by amnesty all british soldiers who fought in Northern Ireland during the conflict there including those already accused of crimes the newly appointed veterans minister in Boris Johnsons last government said as much on twitter suggesting the new law of Armed Conflict with a plan the battlefield and would override the human rights acts to protect soldiers past and presence from prosecution the implications are politically volatile one former soldier has already been charged and is awaiting trial over the killing of civilians on bloody sunday in Northern Ireland in 1972 would his case be dropped under the new law that would be explosive in republican parts of the province already deeply unhappy over the bracks its i think a lot of these things will depend a political reality on where he sits on the political spectrum. In this in play politically for all sorts of things but like a blanket amnesty is it you know its a major precedent because certainly bouts of hope. The new law would also provide blanket legal cover for any purchased soldier accused of a war crime or a human rights violation in any recent conflicts in the middle east or afghanistan. Would have been soldiers found guilty of torture being let off and as well as protecting rank and file soldiers but also give covered some more Senior Officers who gave illegal orders i would say that try and issue forth this. Is that there are attempts to prevent those high about those. Great. From being looked at the law is aimed directly at traditional conservative so you think the British Military has to a by far seem any laws while enemies like i sill and al qaeda dont follow any rules at all but for all that there are concerns that soldiers already accused of serious offenses might simply be let off and also how exactly military commanders will interpret the new law on the battlefields of future wars. Support for military veterans sponge raising Job Opportunities Better Mental Health care are normally uncontroversial and are widely backed by the British Public blanket protection from prosecution and abuse of power written into law may prove slightly more difficult to argue for largely aljazeera london. Still ahead on aljazeera its power christiane could be about to reach another big milestone in history thats coming up in sport. And investigation into the real powers that control the World Health Organization their obligation to their shareholders completely overwhelms any consideration of Public Health can they be trusted with building a healthier future if their loyalty becomes questionable. People that are part of the h one n one push is it getting much difficult for you now that w h o yes theres a chance who says dont you trust that you trust on aljazeera. Political security and cultural complications of might a difficult for Health Workers to could tie into the bowl outbreak in democratic republic of congo doctors and al using local leaders in a vaccination drive to reach one of the most hard to access communities Katherine Sawyer reports from benny. Health workers in bailey have set up a medical comp next to an open chalk service on the sunday morning this service is attended by reclusive become a Community Living in villages in the congo forest doctors tell us the community has also been affected by it but convincing them to come to Treatment Centers ill get vaccinated has been difficult to have a hope as many people as possible will say yes to the vaccine. And to convince them they bring in Community Leaders like. To talk to the rest and i think when i was vaccinated in man dina to share my people theres nothing wrong with it i tell them this is a war were fighting. Jerry has brought how 3 children to be vaccinated. She is reluctant to fast but tells us she now sees the importance of it in general outgoing governor i was convinced by our Community Leader i came for develops a nation with my children because i dont want this decease to find us you know who. I was told it kills people horribly. Pygmies in the democratic republic of congo have been historically marginalized. From hospitals or schools this is a community that moves around a lot leaving in villages such as this one in the forests those here have been vaccinated but accessing many others has been difficult this doctor tells us sometimes it takes hours walking through dense forest where rebel fighters also hide where we are now in this village work and come into the wood. So they moved. This fight that we are working where we close with them get involved in the vaccination make them aware of the weeks that they have. And so efforts continue to get this community vaccinated how far it is to reduce the cases. To 0 by the end of the yeah and for that to happen they tell us no one can be left out catherine. Benny is then democratic republic of congo. Many patients with severe Heart Disease could benefit from medication and lost all changes rather than surgery thats the finding of a major 7 year study in the u. S. Its the biggest yet to compare invasive options like stents with conservative treatments like cholesterol lowering drugs and aspirin the study says the findings could save hundreds of millions of dollars in health care costs. Is dean of the university of nebraska as Medical Center college of Public Health he says the study backs up the findings of earlier research. I absolutely would represent recommend the more conservative therapy and so this is now the 2nd time in over a dozen years that i think weve really for once and all answered the fundamental question that if you have stable Heart Disease should you use medical therapy and lifestyle marked occasions or should you go on and include invasive treatment such as dancer or a cardiac bypass and the data is pretty clear 5000 people 37 countries one 100000000. 00 to do this study stick with the drugs in the conservative therapy the findings apply to people with stable cardiac disease if youre if youre having a heart attack then yes you should go on and get some other invasive therapy but if you have stable disease then you will do just fine with conservative therapy however people who have severe stable Heart Disease so you know if theyre walking and they have severe chest pain then the studies suggest that theyll have a better improvement in their quality of life however theyre not more likely to live longer or not have a heart attack or not require hospitalization. But now its time for sports his presence thank you very much controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick says hes ready to play anyway despite refusing to attend a tryout session when i was by the n. F. L. In atlanta the 32 year old instead switched the venue to a nearby high school and how the zone session he says it was to allow the media to be prison true path a computer. This was billed as the 1st step in calling cappa next journey back to the n. F. L. Instead it became a slightly fossil chapter in the ongoing battle between competent and the league and f. L. Bosses how to organize an official tryout in atlanta in front of 25. 00 leagues counts they said in an effort to get him playing again although several players and commentators had suggested the whole event was a p. R. Stunt by the league but at the last minute the quarterback moved the session to a nearby high school where captain it held his own tryout he said to allow the media full access obviously with everything today was making sure we had transparency what went on we were getting that elsewhere so we came out here is important here ground here were ready. To go anywhere my agent jeff nally is ready to talk to interview with a team and. A fair reading and stay ready now continue to be ready for their part the n. F. L. Released a statement saying we are disappointed that cullen didnt appear for his workout call his decision has no effect on his status in the league he remains an unrestricted free agent eligible to sign with any club. Over the last 3 years no n. F. L. Franchise has been willing to take happening at a since he left the San Francisco 49. 00 is at the end of the 26th season captain it made headlines in that season for needling during the u. S. National anthem ahead of games in a protest at Racial Injustice it prompted similar protests from other players as well as criticism from u. S. President donald trump off to leaving the force you know on his cap and it became a symbol for civil rights and social activism you know if your dreams are praised but while his celebrity helped him win lucrative endorsements it didnt get him an n. F. L. Contract in 2017 capn it took legal action against the n. F. L. And its commissioner Roger Goodell claiming team owners were conspiring not to sign him because of the. Protests cases eventually settled out of court so were waiting for the 32. 00 owners. Roger goodell of them to start right now running from the truth stop running from. Their captain excess hes ready to play but if saturdays events have proven anything is that theres still plenty of mistrust between the players and the n. F. L. Fact al jazeera. Greeces will number 6 different city person predominate team for the title at the a. T. P. Finals later he knocked out defending champion and best friend alexander very in the semifinals on saturday 7563 the austrian also moves up to a woman before. It will be a maiden final for both him and c. T. Plus to beat Roger Federer he semifinal 21 year old greek root already knocked out refound adel on friday beat federer who is 17 years in senior 6361. Cristiana rinaldo is now just one goal away from reaching 100 International Goals supportive of the game still going on but portugal are ahead of luxembourg to know in their 2020 qualifier Bruna Fernandes scored the 1st goal if portugal win the reigning european champions will confirm their place at next years tournament for now there is on 99 goals for his country in the other group the match of the day serbia are to want to head of ukraine later in and travel to kosovo while albania host world champions from. The n. L. Messi and argentina are due to play euro guy in a friendly in tel aviv on monday will see messi faces barcelona teammate luis what is your ally arrived in israel late on saturday the match in front of 30000. 00 fans had been in doubt because of intense fighting around the gaza strip and pressure to boycott the hosts last year argentina called off its world cup warm up against israel because of threats to the national scene. Dutch driver max stop and will start from pole position for sundays brazilian formula one grand prix for stop and was fastest in saturdays qualifying at the end to a lot of circuit in sao paolo the dutchman defeating beating Ferrari Sebastian vettel to pope position by just 0. 123 seconds it will change hamilton in 3rd this is the 2nd time in his career at the start and will start from pope position if were looking for his 8th career grand prix victory. Tommy fleetwood has won the navy band gulf challenge at sun city in south africa the Holiday Resort nestled in a stunning hillside thats where a fleet would be to marcus can hold in a playoff the englishman find a spectacular final round 65 to take the clubhouse lead on 12 under par but then had to wait for the rest of the pack to see if he had done enough not really so it went to the playoffs he would win it when the swede boogied the 18th. Ok well leave it there for now most more for me again later stand peter look forward to that and thats it for me this news hour back with more of the tax news in just. Capturing a moment in time. The snapshots of other lives. Of the stories. Providing tips into someone elses work out on a. Do day or. Inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. Witness on aljazeera its a tough time for the afghan Security Forces taliban attacks have increased their suffering heavy casualties and the prospect of a withdrawal of u. S. Forces hangs over them yet young men are still joining up some for reasons for others is the only way to get a job despite the risks midways karimi was an Army Bomb Disposal engineer in Helmand Province he knew the risks he was blinded in both eyes and lost a leg when a roadside device exploded as you try to defuse it always aware of the danger of seeing friends wounded while working on mines i wasnt scared to lose an arm or a leg is to separate us we have to like to serve this country. From lagos to jerusalem by a mob the government has plans to. Go and form my last man history background. 3 short founds that show how people take a stand against eviction same as struggling communities the 1st time they arrested i was 11 years old a. J. Selects on aljazeera. But University Campus thats become a Battleground Police in hong kong want people to leave for their island. Im stan grant this is al jazeera live also tell me. 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