Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240713

To create a Compensation Fund thousands of sexual Abuse Victims. And in sports nascar driver bryant human savants a crush of the daytona 500 the american has serious but normal life threatening injuries after this final collision. The u. N. Human rights chief is calling on the Syrian Government and its allies to open humanitarian corridors for civilians to leave areas of fighting michelle says the government and Russian Forces are deliberately targeting civilians and hospitals a 9 100000. 00 people have been forced from their homes in northwest syria since the beginning of december the Syrian Government offensive to capture the last rebel held areas has created the biggest single civilian displacement during the 9 year civil war. Is live for us and there turkeys border with syria tell us about the civilians i mean so many of them have already fled to other parts of syria where do they go out. They literally have nowhere to go kim because most of them are now in their fear panic about any potential offensive by the Syrian Government theyve decided to just be on the move towards the border with turkey thinking that if worse comes to worse then they might have a chance to cross into turkey when we know that turkey has also see its border quite some time ago in the past because they were concerned about this exodus into turkey if the situation further deteriorate now back in 2016 with the mass exodus of civilians from aleppo from the. Galvanize the international sentiment against the war in syria and the cities committed against civilians this time its unprecedented the scope and the magnitude of the displacement is the largest according to the United Nations human rights chief michel but surely 900000 people forced out of their villages all converging in open fields on the of the outskirts of aleppo hoping that someone might step in someone might convince the International Community to put more pressure on the Syrian Government and halt its offensive the people that weve been talking to in live and on the outskirts of aleppo told us that this time theyre really lost hope in the International Community and they feel like everyone has betrayed them now this explains why the u. N. Human rights chief has been very quick to call of syria and russia saying that basically what they are doing could be intention to what spokesperson had to say. The sheer quantity of attacks on these hospitals medical facilities schools. Would suggest that they cant all be accident. And at a minimum even if they were accidental it shows the lack of course now tina says city caution and so on. All of which can contribute to something being attributed theres a war crime. Internationally in sorry intentionally directing attacks against hospitals and places containing the sick and the wounded and against medical units using the red cross or red crescent emblem is a war crime. As humans talk about the fighting on the grounds on the one hand weve got this. Bashar al assad is making this push forward but weve got troops turkish observation posts which have been surrounded turkey and russia have just finished up another round of talks what came out of that is. No indication whatsoever of any breakthrough it seems the talks have stalled turkish delegation does not seem to be happy with the outcome this explains why it took issue officials are coming out now basically saying that the tool the russian come to us if they cannot train in president Bashar Assads troops if they cannot stop them from continuing that offensive then turkey might intervene might use whatever means it has to prevent that from continuing is bush to take over it live on the outskirts of this explains the. The growing number of turkish troops convoys deployed into live expanding the Turkish Military outposts in many places with one single target basically preventing the 1st defense lies of the syrian army from launching the decisive push to take over and i think you know the International Community will be scrutinizing what the outcome of the talks between the turkish and russian officials because the biggest concern here is if those talks collapse it could be the beginning of a why the military confrontation in northwestern syria with bit turkey one of the key players in the region against the syrian army backed by russia and also shia militias thanks for that update there thats a live from home. Well to china now where the head of a Major Hospital at the center of the corona Virus Outbreak a mohan has died of the disease. The director of research on hospital died early this morning he is the 7th Frontline Health worker to die of the virus and total the corona virus has killed more than 1800 people with over 70000 people infected in china alone 98. 00 of them died in the last 24 hours mainly in who by province the outbreak is hitting the economy hard so Chinas Finance Ministry will now offer Tax Exemptions on nearly 700. 00 u. S. Products including medical equipment circuit reports. Officials go door to door in a city wide sweeping to identify anyone infected with the virus 10 more Quarantine Centers are being set up in districts in the city they offer 11 and a half 1000 beds for those showing mild symptoms the number of people infected outside the epicenter of the outbreak may be fulling but inside here by province the situation is still serious more than 50000 cases have been confirmed there you go should a woman being be in that there are still a large number of severe cases in which and there are also some objective reasons like the lack of Emergency Care facilities and insufficient pressure of oxygen supplies. One of were hands most senior doctors meaning has now died after contracting the corona virus more than 3000 Health Workers have also been infected. Medical teams from the Guangdong Province and to bitch and now are being sent to the city to assist start struggling to treat the high numbers of patients across china hospitals are also expanding clinics and opening up new centers to ease the pressure across the country but it is about then dont do it in response to the potential epidemic we have activated the hospital facilities that we built with the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center back in 2004 and weve renovated around 200 reserve beds for emergency use. On tuesday china announced it would exempt tariffs on nearly 700. 00 u. S. Goods from the beginning of march thats intended to avoid shortages of products including pork beef soybeans and crude oil the fallout from this outbreak is being felt across asia with some countries describing it as an economic emergency south koreas president has flagged new measures to cushion the Financial Impact so too has hong kong as a region stepped up efforts to prevent a growing economic crisis on china reliant upon a means sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. Japan has reported 88. 00 more cases of corona virus infections on board a quarantined cruise ship in york harbor and that takes the total number of cases to over 540. 00 and the doctor vessel the government stepping up efforts to test the medications on patients its not a proven treatment but scientists are trying various antiviral drugs to see if any of them can improve conditions. And south koreas government has sent a president ial plane to move some of its citizens on board that quarantined cruise ship 14 of its citizens have been inside the diamond princess for nearly 2 weeks the impact of the corona Virus Outbreak has prompted south korea to declare an economic emergency after major disruptions to its production and shipping industries were behind the corona Virus Outbreak there are thousands of notices mainly women who are paying a very personal price explains the faces of the women fighting coronavirus are trending online the virus is taking a physical toll on medical staff in china many have deep lines on their faces from surgical masks digging into their skin some hospital staff and wuhan even wearing Adult Diapers to save time from taking bathroom breaks on we bow a social media platform in china a topic called sisters go fight the virus weve got your back has reached over 220000000 views one organization has even raise money to provide the female nurses with 180000 sanitary pads however one volunteer said those donations are only helping a 3rd of the women. Others are cutting their hair to avoid cross infection and to cut down on the time it takes to put on and take off their protective suits this video went viral posted by the chinese newspaper guns who daily it shows 15 women getting their ponytails cut off before being sent to aids patients in rwanda some of them were crying they were hailed as heroes in headlines but the move sparked outrage online with people calling it unnecessary and sexist one user said its cruel and asked why do people need to cry to become heroes the original video has since been deleted there are campaigns to help these nurses some are taking to social media to ask for others to provide the nurses with meals other patients say they wouldnt have made it through quarantine without help from the medical team and when it got worse i really thought i was going to die but the doctors did not give up on me and the nurses were on hand every day i could feel that my condition was Getting Better day by day i feel so good and i want to say thank you to the medical workers for their care and love thank you so much these nurses are at the forefront of the battle against the coronavirus emergency and they do it at great personal risk. Plenty more ahead on the news on including we speak to rain ians outside the capital to see how that feels like ahead of fridays parliamentary election. And the wife of the to its Prime Minister appeared in court in connection with the murder of the former 1st lady. And support liverpool get ready to return to the stadium where they won last seasons european Champions League. The uns top envoy for libya has appeared optimistic that talks and stopping the fighting between the countrys warring sides is possible a song for the army is mediating a 2nd round of talks in geneva thats often the goetia earlier this month failed to reach a deal on implementing a truce on monday the European Union announced it plans to launch air and sea patrols in the mediterranean to try and stop the flow of weapons into libya allowed diplomatic editor james bass joins us now live from geneva james so were hearing some positive signs coming out of those talks can you tell us. Yes lets 1st tell you the backdrop to all of this came which is that the flow of weapons into libya continues and gas on salami the u. N. Envoy saying more sophisticated and heavier weapons coming into the country theres still no ceasefire in the last few hours the port of tripoli has come under attack presumably from the forces of general haftar so it is a good pretty grim situation remember the whole diplomatic plan was up ended in april last year when general have to started his attack on tripoli the u. N. Though is plowing ahead with its diplomatic process and we have the military commission a meeting thats 5 representatives of the internationally recognized government 5 from general haftar here in the room and the u. N. Envoy sounding optimistic the big question is your plan back on track my plan is not back on track my plan has never left the track it is being implemented was patience and determination displayed many of the. Better have a cease fire in order to implement all the tests but this is not the precondition so the plan i think is to keep the momentum going that the 2 sides who are talking right now the military talks about trying to get a durable cease fire theyre not even in the same room theyre in adjacent rooms to mr salami is going between the 2 sides what theyre hoping is theres enough progress then for talks which are already in the dari and were told that they will take place whatever next week in 8 days time and theyre supposed to be wider talks with all the political groups in libya the u. N. Is trying very hard despite all the problems to get some progress thanks that thats james phase then live from geneva. Ukrainian soldier has been killed and several others wounded in the eastern donbass region the largest attack since the Peace Process was renewed last year ukraine says that russian backed separatists are responsible allegations deny age. Of more on this that lets bring in 7000. 00 whos in moscows step how major an escalation is this. Yes this is the largest attack and violence that happened since the Peace Process was renewed again after president as a lansky took office in ukraine he promised to bring peace to Eastern Ukraine was one of his biggest election from asus and then he started a process where in prisoners were exchanged there was a demilitarization process going on troops were withdrawn there was a meeting again also with president putin. Present at the summit in paris where also germany and france were present and then this is happening now specifically at a very crucial location near a deal militarized zone this attack happened in the Early Morning both parties both the Ukrainian Army and the separatists backed by russia are blaming each other for this attack as usual the official confirmation is one soldier died but the unofficial reports say that more people have died and the president s alinsky was so worried that he has convened this Emergency Security Council Meeting hes sad afterwards that he wont be deterred from proceeding with the Peace Process but of course this is a serious backdrop and its also been question how serious the parties actually are especially those on the ground to have to speak for Peace Process still i was really interested to see that russia is continuing with this line that it doesnt have any feiss or doesnt support any fight is on the ground what more are we hearing out of the kremlin. Yes immediately dismounting off to attack took place the kremlin spokesman said that they were unsure what was going on didnt they needed more details but of course russia couldnt be blamed because obviously russia is not involved and this is of course the line they have been maintaining since the invasion in Eastern Ukraine and of backing off to separate ukrainian. Rebels today or that thats always been the line but of course theres an overwhelming evidence of that the chose the contrary its also important to note that this Peace Process has been going very slowly from the beginning because russia is insisting that ukraine organizes elections in Eastern Ukraine and also give a special status to dumbass and thats something very difficult because ukraine says we can only hold elections when theres no armed forces there in that area and also when we have control over that border which is basically still controlled by the russian backed separatists and so this is a major point and a major debt block to this whole process which is today gone back again very far and it doesnt look very optimistic right now i think that thats steadfast and now with all the updates from moscow were going to some breaking news now afghanistans president musharrafs gandhi has been declared the winner of the president ial election gandhi 150. 64 percent of the votes and that ballot was held in september of last year the results were delayed after allegations of vote rigging forced a recount. Irans Supreme Leader has called for a high turnout in fridays parliamentary elections as a way to display unity within the country there are nearly 58000000 eligible voters while turnout is traditionally low in the capital and surrounding towns and villages its often an. Well if there is a dos jabari travel to a town outside of tehran to find why. This is the main street investor mean. Its dedicated to those killed during one of the bloodiest uprisings leading up to the 1979 revolution. This town sits about 35 kilometers southeast of tehran and its home 2280000 people. 195000 of them are eligible voters. One of them is that would suffer he who owns this car battery shop suffer he has been working with cars for nearly 20 years and is a native. He explains why voting on friday is crucial for the people in his town. I will vote for now because if i dont and my friends dont and others dont then who will who would support these published minutes if we leave the system alone then our officials wont be able to do anything this town has only one seat in parliament and 27. 00 approved candidates are fighting for it all are running for the 1st time that includes ahmed the president who says he believes he can make a difference for the people here. Our town has a number of problems and deficiencies and a concern lawmakers should pursue these problems i promise if i make it to parliament as a local of this town. Attention to their problems i have 1st and seen them for my so. One of the main concerns here as in other parts of the country is the economy. And that were going to yes i will take part in the election because this town is facing many problems the most important one is unemployment there are things i expect from the person i vote for and i hope the next n. P. R. News stands astounds wos more shit i mean i know i will participate because they dont do anything about our problems im starting now but there is no job for me todays major problems inflation and sanctions are economies oh fool went election is done dont even look at these town suffer he also says the economy is the main issue for him he has 2 small children and says he earns in reales but spends in dollars that means as irans currency loses value life is getting tougher. By voting many here believe they can hope for a better future. The views of the people in vera mean on the parliamentary elections reflect those of many in iran despite the fact that the current m. P. From here has been disqualified many still believe in the system as a whole its not just about electing their next member of parliament but rather a show of support for the political system that came into being over 4 decades ago in 1979. 0 there i mean. When i speak not so for it is that he has and to romp a is a professor of world studies at the university of tehran thank you so much for your time talk to me about the major issues for voters from what we heard endorsers packers there seems like sort of bread and butter issues the economy lack of jobs sanctions. Thats true i think. The number one issue that is mine they want to see inflation reduced most people are suffering because of high currency rates which is it has a negative effect on. The prices it increases the inflation so thats very important the 2nd issue is Foreign Policy Rouhani Administration has not been successful in. Getting some of the objectives done at the United States left the Nuclear Agreement and that was a setback for rouhani and his team and people who oppose rouhani politically and using that fact to portray his Foreign Policy as a failed policy there are also no couldnt use that people deal with it in your report you referenced town in north of the iran small towns have their own difficulties problems issues so thats going to be on peoples mind when they vote for their parliaments representative something dorsett didnt mention there is that obviously thousands of candidates have been barred from running by the Guardian Council analysts say people now have a choice between hardliners and conservatives who are loyal to our telecom a what do you think. I dont think thats accurate in tehran for example. At least 7 different lists of the reformist people who support president rouhani. Presenting so there are plenty of candidates including reformist candidates quarters of rowhani moderates and they are intent on the 50 people competing for the one seat in your report you had 27 people competing for one seat in the town so there are plenty of candidates in fact people are confused because a lot of. Issues that the candidates talk about and does not shortage of candidates that people are disqualified also and generally disqualified because of the laws in iran that bars individual is taking part in elections if for example they dont accept the constitution so the competition is between people who accept the current constitution of you know within the reformers or conservatives or principle lists or whatever but yes if someone does not support the current constitution consideration if they support the opposition that is based outside iran they are going to be part so there are people who are disqualified for that reason some people disqualified because of Economic Issues Financial Issues some of the current employees were disqualified generally because they used their position to advance their own. Economic situation and financial situation so that Different Reasons were people who were disqualified but all Political Parties have enough candidates to compete against each other so may not view of the reformist current polman tarion who have now been barred from running but it is good to get your views thank you for that for i desire to be live from tehran. Well time now for the weather and here is a vision folks and i gather there is more rain headed for the British Isles yeah im afraid that is the case came in as things stand at the moment one 161. 00 flood warnings in force plus 7 of those severe so thats the last thing we really want to see as sings go we have got this line of clout that is what remains of storm dennis thats in the process of pulling out of the way you can see the clearest guys actually over the British Isles there weve got this rush of showers rattling frequency of the i suppose a lined up from west to east and thats where we got that mobile westerly flow becomes a weapons days whether this area of low pressure that we have out in the north atlantic thats going to continue making its way. Eastward as we go on through the next 24 hours or so heaviest rain lucky to be across the northwest of wells with maybe 70. 00 to 100. 00 millimeters of frank coming in on this system but many places will see 4050 maybe 60 millimeters of rain over the next 24 to 48 hours certainly the case across the Western Isles western parts of. Pushing up towards that western side of scotland snow over the high ground for good measure because some very heavy rain also pushing into the northwest of england removed from wednesday and into thursday that rain will drive its way across the rest of the anglicans down through the middle instead of through the southeast and colder into the low countries brought his cause come back in behind for a time and then we did the same became more wet sand with the weather piling in on friday and you know what came to be more as we go on through the weekend thank you for that update every time and still ahead here on aljazeera makes me feel like im greedy makes me feel like a letter to the country. We hear from the ugandan student stuck in 100 frustrated by her got scolded. And then forced off to more than 70 years away this former world number one is back playing competitive tennis. A unique yet endangered biodiversity lies in the heart of one of ecuadors tropical jungles there was a lot of misinformation about the animals of a half year and now. Becoming by said their self conservation in their communities out there are journeys deep into the rain forest to follow a scientist and had teams out to save the flora and fauna so precious in the region women make science ecuadors Hidden Treasure on aljazeera banks love to make loans to sufferance because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because those tax payers never go away theres a new one born every single day a 19 it is an Urgent National message that it deals with visually request rationing of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in a greek system somehow i am a sinner im a bad person the debts machine on aljazeera. Youre watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the u. N. Human rights chief says the Syrian Government and Russian Forces are targeting civilians and hospitals of northwest syria shelled bhatia day is calling for humanitarian corridors to be set up 900000 people have been displaced since december. The number of People Killed by the coronavirus is now 1800 china reported 98 more deaths the head of a Major Hospital and behind the center of the operate is also dot again virus. Afghanistans president ashraf ghani has been declared as the winner of the 2911 with just over 50 percent of the votes results from septembers election were delayed after allegations of vote rigging forced a recount. Of the boy scouts of america one of the largest Youth Organizations in the u. S. Has filed for bankruptcy the group says its to ensure compensation for sexual Abuse Victims last year it was revealed that more than 12000 children had allegedly been abused while taking part in boy scouts activities a list of more than 7800 suspected pedophiles was disclosed last month well our White House Correspondent kelly health is live for us live for us in washington d. C. Kimberly what kind of options did this organization have how much pressure was it under. Under enormous pressure and it didnt have many options of the boy scouts of america as an organization wanted to continue the numbers are just staggering you highlighted some of them their time period spanning over 75 years there were more than 7800 leaders that had allegations against them and the number of victims more than 12000 kids so there were very few options for the boy scouts of america given the propensity of the claims and the allegations against the organization in order to deal with these claims they essentially had to make this filing and this will allow in terms of a legal strategy restructuring this by some time in order to not only look at all of these claims but also to make sure that they are paid out equitably and that the organization if it was really the only option i had if it wanted to try and continue what does this mean for the future of the boy scouts as a as an organization. Yeah in terms of it again only option if it wanted to continue but i think what you have to look at in all of this is theres sort of a p. R. Strategy thats going hand in hand with the legal strategy because there are very few people that would want to continue in an organization that had been so heavily tarnished in fact the boy scouts of america admits their numbers are already dwindling so what were seeing in addition to this bankruptcy filing is an effort to change the image of the start of that theres an open letter online of apology to the victims this letter will also be in a National Newspaper tomorrow here in the United States this is part of that ongoing rebuilding effort this is the largest bankruptcy case ever seen in the United States so this is significant in regards to that its got many sort of chapters to it in terms of not just the legal but also in the Public Relations it really was the only pathway forward for this organization that still also allowed for these claims to be paid i think that thats complete helka been live from washington. This lady has appeared in court for her alleged role in the middle of her husband 2nd wife i fear the body is charged with ordering the killing of lipo little to bonnie and 2017 shes been granted bio but was that court in the capital mafia too for a Pretrial Hearing from where the reports. In a case thats a rock to the small mountain kingdom of the sioux to the 1st lady my c. R. To bonnie appears in court for murder shes charged with masterminding the killing of Prime Minister thomas to barneys a strange wife. Almost 3 years ago if found guilty by sia could face the Death Penalty the judge at the court in must cyril told her to return next month and she remains out on bail police are still investigating the case. Reportedly refused to divorce her husband after hed begun a new relationship with myself the intrigue is not only caught the attention of the nation of more than 2000000 people but its also lead to political tensions with Police Commissioner a whole lot more money bailey says to bonnie instructed that he be sacked as the investigation Gains Momentum a quarter later ruled that his job be protected will. Give you. Information or evidence but of late. That people are coming in. To give us information including my cea has been released on bail but some members of the to barney family want that decision reversed they say the brutality of the murders shows that shes dangerous. It was here in hama sana at de paulo to barneys home that people say she realized her life was in danger just days before her death someone tried to break into our home back to the attack of flared when her neighbors were alerted within days diplo was shot and killed on verse rolled while traveling home with a friend witnesses say 4 men fired at a vehicle theyre too afraid to speak to us on camera saying they fear for their safety. Both my cia and a lawyer declined requests for an interview but in court papers shes denied having anything to do with the murder and says the police have acted maliciously Prime Minister to bonnie has been linked to the crime too but hasnt been charged police say a call was made to his mobile phone from the scene of following the murder hes not the kind of guy who would plot a bit and still i stand to be corrected but i have different convictions in a slight his new wife is concerned the scandal has worsened divisions within the governing all of us who to Convention Party while some within the Party Supporter bernie others want him to resign for people to listen to these developments may be unprecedented but remain a test for their democracy and the independence of its courts. Aljazeera a serious suit to. Were back now to one of our top stories the spread of the coronavirus are some countries are moving quickly to evacuate their citizens from chinas who by province others like uganda dont seem to be ok Brianna Dillon is a ugandan student stranded in well one city and says shes frustrated by her governments response all we have going through. The embassy theyre going to give the scene and go its a stocking brought up in the podium and in uganda and all that means those are aware of whats going on in there well how we pray for evacuation but. He waits us because they dont think they are the 1st broke out in uganda so they decided to send us money but money is not really what we need i know the other day they were able to quarantine the other ministers who came from china and went to go so get your books or anything like. That i mean you still but i dont understand why they dont do the same thing worse the students its ok we can still current. So it went up to the media so only know about the situation honestly next move really makes me feel like im going left out of the country local overloads dont matter they dont care. If. Its not true the best decision. Ever cure should go still be made it. Its best. To treat those local if we get. Off more on this were joined on sky buying their own though in device she is an associate fellow in Global Health at Chatham House thank you so much for your time so do you think way we heard from a student there who is in you go who is you get ugandan but stuck in one high do you think that uganda for example is failing its citizens why would you want to make a comment on exactly why the government is or is not bringing students back when i think what the students said about the government being afraid that if students came back they would not be able to properly monitor or managed the outbreak i think thats an important point. And most countries in africa have some of the week is Health System in the world and so all we see citizens from the United States from canada from the u. K. Coming back but they can effectively be quarantined and i know that theres already 65000 students in china from africa i dont know what your question of that is from uganda but it gets you know a bit older a certain threshold it might be very difficult for the floor of the invention to be contained there have been no confirmed cases of caught a virus in africa sort of proper given the inability to test in the early days on the continent could it be going under the radar. Yes that is definitely a possibility so up until about maybe 10 days ago most countries in africa didnt even have the capacity to detect the current a virus if it was there meaning the Laboratory Capacity to confirm the virus it was only senegal and south africa since then the World Organization along with several partners initiate the pell havoc with the laboratories and with training with materials with 3 agents to be able to confirm the current a virus if it is suspected in one of these african countries so thats about 20 countries now that can detect the growth of that risk that was my next question what do you make of the World Health Organization support so far for african countries in protecting against coronavirus i think a lot of african been made and its quite a lot of whole World Health Organization has you know through its partners really raise about 600000000 dollars to put towards the countries of the weakest Health Systems for preparedness and for response measures and additionally partners like the bill and Melinda Gates foundation have given about 25000000. 00 to 2. 00 african countries so i think this influx of money is really helpful especially because be absorbed in these Different Countries the african c. D. C. Has developed a National Taskforce so these these are these entities have been really i think on top of it especially you know compared to performances during the polar and other and other outbreaks so i think its quite logical thank you for your time there they are on the live from dubai an associate fellow in Global Health at Chatham House. Thank you. Well china is deploying its mass Surveillance System in an effort to combat the spread of the corona virus new facial recognition and Temperature Scanning Technology has been in stores and public transport systems but concerns are growing over the big brother use of daughter giving police the power to create a digital or a tear in state 3 year reports from china. One glance is all thats needed and to jump those subway system the citys a 1st in china to set up they show recognition gates in all of its underground stations the government says its about customer convenience so that you are sure to hear this is especially home before people will carry a lot of heavy bags all the people who dont have a cash or their smartphones who run out of battery those problems could be solved by facial recognition now facial recognition cameras are being used alongside infrared temperature scan is to help contain the spread of corona virus in the city of hama joke a man was reprimanded after facial recognition cameras filmed him leaving his home before completing 2 weeks of self quarantine high tech surveillance cameras allow authorities to access a citizens travel history there are more of these in china than in any other country in the world an estimated 350000000 roughly one for every 4 people. So now lets squeeze in just joe were using a little card over her thats some public stands for the same form of the law for the faces of the only 2nd. The technology is part of the governments nationwide plan to boost security and surveillance cameras will be linked to foreign and other personal data making it easier for police to identify and monitor citizens than ever before for some the benefits are clear. Heard about facial recognition recently as new and seems very khamenei and to use to me but others are wary of how that information will be used in our in our day as the leaking of private information is common and the problem is very serious is something im afraid of facial recognition is used to name and shame minor offenders such as pedestrians who ignore traffic lights but the government says its crucial for catching criminals and everyone with nothing to hide has nothing to fear so all of on another positive aspect is because people are now living under the spotlight they will be more careful with their behavior but of course there is a reason privacy is violated and information being abused. 7 in should john human Rights Groups say muslims for the week a minority are being monitored and imprisoned using the vast digital Surveillance Network one of which several u. S. Technology companies have helped build. In junk joe people can so far choose but the choose facial recognition gates but soon there may be no way out katrina you aljazeera just joe. Well speaking out to paul monsieur in shanghai on skype is the Asia Technology correspondent for the New York Times poll tell us about this technology is it being used around the world or is it the government control of china that concerns you. Well assume that its being used by lee in china and were starting to see it appear around the world mostly in the us more authoritarian countries and i think whats probably most startling to see is how its been used within china you know and as your report showed facial recognition cameras are everywhere theyre big theyre linked into big data databases theres a lot of questions about how much of the state it can leak out how well its being protected so were really seeing them sort of start to build a future based on kind of real world surveillance and theres a lot of questions that havent really been answered and in an opaque autocratic country like china youre not getting a lot of answers about that so theres a lot of reasons to kind of be concerned yeah looking ahead the European Commission is going to set out new regulations on official intelligence on wednesday how do you deal with misuse of this kind of technology in china yeah i mean i think the most important thing is to just start a dialogue about this to Start Talking about what the global standard should be within china its very hard to understand precisely whats happening you see the cameras you rarely see the back and for several years now theyve been using algorithms to try to identify ethnic minorities based on their facial characteristics which of us 2 years just to understand that they were doing that they often have black list so that they can put politically minded types on or even the mentally ill d on and you dont know if youre on a list you dont know how to get off the list its the kind of transparency about the sort of stuff so i think starting to talk about it in setting rules would be one way that you sort of bring china to the table but but again when you have such a passionate within china its hard to know how much that will shift things you have as you mentioned there don some fairly indepth investigations into high tech surveillance in china given what you. Use of this technology with the coronavirus does it concern you. You know i think one of the important things to realize is right now the most cutting edge stuff the speech recognition stuff is good at targeting individuals but its very bad at targeting sort of large populations truck whole swaths of the population so when youre doing things like Contact Tracing try to see through one person who had the virus and whether theyve run into 10 or 15 other people its not particularly effective and so what weve seen china do is kind of similar to what weve seen they do in shin junks that now across the country which is set up checkpoints everywhere with a lot of people and have those people use apps and databases and other things like that to try to track how people are coming in going and then after the fact do Contact Tracing that way so what we see this new technology coming forward in china a lot of whats happening is kind of good Old Fashioned checkpoints with a heck of a lot of people need hundreds of thousands of people manning these places to check temperatures and take down peoples information and a lot of times theyll sort of you know force people to download apps and then enter their information on the app with the idea that you know they can see that you were on this train or that plane and then track it back so a lot of Old Fashioned kind of jerry rigged systems still kind of exist here to deal with the sort of existence ease of the crisis at the moment thank you for your time thats poem hill that live from shanghai the asia tailor to cross fun for the New York Times thank you kim the u. N. Secretary general says the wild must step up and do their part to support afghan refugees and turn to a good status is attending a conference and islamabad recognizing 40 years of afghans living as refugees more than 2000000 of them live and pakistan come on hide it is in the city of peshawar which is home to many afghan refugees he says a key point from the meeting was that more is needed from the International Community. 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Well time now for sports heres andy thank you so much came all the fallout over the Houston Astros cheating scandal is dominating the build up the new baseball season as team for sensing spring training to the sports biggest stars of accused the games governing body of being too lenient in its punishment david stocks reports the same show 6 years ago was so good to be here i think this was the moment the Houston Astros played the biggest prize in baseball the world series in 2017 but since then theyve admitted they cheated to win it using a camera to steal pitching signs to get their batters an advantage Major League Baseball find the 5000000 dollars the teams manager and general manager both lost their jobs but the players were given immunity for cooperating with the investigation and many in the game want tougher sanctions including stripping the franchise of the Trophy League boss rob manfred disagrees the idea of you know an asterisk or asking for a piece of metal back seems you know sort of a futile act. Those comments specifically about the trophy have not gone down well at the l. A. Dodgers the team the astros big to the title 3 years ago back in spring training for the new season 3rd baseman Justin Thomas has played more than a 1000 korea games still without a championship to his name i mean i dont know if the commissioners ever won anything as life maybe but the reason every guys in this room the reason every guy is you know working out all offseason and showing up to camp early and putting in all the time and effort is specifically for that trophy you know we understand how difficult it is to win pretty evident to me that it wasnt and its not something that you know a banner should be hung in their stadium a trophy should be put up wherever there is trophies go sorry world series championship is and its it defines careers. Its not just the dodgers he feel agree. Of the team the angels are also back in training and their biggest star mike trout believes the astros players should be held accountable on the structural issue. Just to. See so much of. The tough things like not always going to be called champions for now the Houston Astros keep their 2017 trophy but with anger growing within the sport major league bosses may well have to reconsider their punishment and take away that piece of metal after all david stokes aljazeera. Nascar driver ryan newman has suffered serious but not life threatening injuries after a huge crash of the dots on a 500 race in florida in the lead on the final lap of the event known as the Great American race when he was bumped spotted fellow for driver ryan blaney now blaney said afterwards he was actually trying to help push newman to the victory 42 year old did win this race back in 2008 earnhardts death 19 years ago was the last time a driver was killed in nascars top series you know him crossing the track there was a bad scenario in the 1st place but yeah it just. Its a weird balance of you know excitement and happiness for yourself but obviously someones health and their families you know bigger than any win any sport so you know were just hoping for the best. Political manager you are going club says his teams Upcoming Champions League matches one of the most difficult fixtures in football the defending champions taking on a lets go madrid in the 1st leg of that last 16 in spain theyll be playing at a stadium where they won the trophy last season liverpool 25. 00 points clear at the top of the premier league and the favorites of egress will athletico well the 4th in Spanish League playing about to go is one of the most difficult things in and lie in the life of a put will play a. Really good organized result machine. Squeezing results 3 months out of each game if possible yes people will tell me and told me already this is not exactly they want but its a transition period thats normal person youre on a taking on brushing dorman name all sets return from injury for pastry the brazilian has missed the last 4 league games with a rib injury patients have been knocked out at this stage in the past 3 seasons dormans teenage sensation erling hauling will make his Champions League debbie for his new team the 19 year old norwegian is called 9 goals in 6 games since signing to dortmund last month. Hes already a magnificent player despite the fact hes done 1000 years old and now hes in dortmund roads like Something Else and salzburg resort he played live Champions League 2 with salzburg rescored a lot of goals im sure he will do the same with us like a late goal from leandro gave their 1st win in this seasons asian Champions League the brazilian scoring in the 82nd minute to give the Japanese Team a 10 victory over australias perth glory but the win last year as jamie grows up moved to the top of their group i began their campaign with a 10. 00 win over melbourne victory part 2 young with the only goal of that game the South Koreans in back in the group stages for the 1st time in 3 seasons. Our house cameroon will face imbiber in the 1st match of this years african nations championship the draw taking place on monday with the home country also set to take on became a fast so and mali the tournament which kicks off in april is only open suppliers who feature in their domestic leagues morocco of the defending champions and 4 time grand slam champion Kim Clijsters has made her return to competitive tennis the 36 year old was playing at the dubai championships put in a pretty spirited display against this years Australian Open final. This is the belgiums 2nd comeback having 1st retired in 2007 go through eventually winning this one in 6 sets taking the match there on a break. Ok but its a sport so looking for now i get that ending but thats it for me for this news hour but stay with me ill be back in just a moment with more of the day. 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