Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240712

Investigation into a citizenship scheme in cyprus after its government dismisses the report. And in sports barcelona say they have no intention of allowing leno naseem to leave the club messi stunned the footballing world by handing in a transfer request on shoes day. So in the last hour a 17 year old has been arrested and charged after a shooting in the us city of. 2 people were killed and another wounded during a 3rd night of black lives matter protests was video on social media said to show a suspect shooting at demonstrators. So this attack happened as we said during the latest demonstrations in particular against the shooting of jacob blake he is a black american who is now paralyzed after police shot him in the back 7 times on sunday a state of emergency is being enforced and the National Guard are on patrol in the city in the state of wisconsin several buildings were set on fire and tear gas fired to prevent the storming of a court house now president obama chimes tweeted this in the past half hour or so lets have a look we will not stand for losing our son violence and lawlessness on american streets i will be sending federal Law Enforcement and the National Guard to connection was constant to restore law and order so well get an update on the arrests in a moment but 1st this report from john hendren he was in can osha and saw what happened overnight. To know she was smolders a city corrections building burnt to the ground one of 3 dozen buildings left in ruins in a single night firefighters and residents sweep up the wreckage. I am with black lives matter. You know ive been protesting that im that what this is not community. Philip mary arrived to find the windows of his 92 year old office smashed but it was largely spared his neighbor wasnt so lucky. Senseless it is. Dandelion is someones property the mother of jacob blake the black man whose shooting by police set off the demonstrations says he would not approve if. You knew what was going on as far as that goes the violence and the destruction. He would be very pleased blakes family spoke of the latest incident of alleged Police Brutality captured in this viral video of an officer shooting in the back his 3 sons watching from inside the car. Several tang. Something. Like he didnt matter. But my son matters blakes attorneys say he underwent surgery on tuesday and remains paralyzed from the waist down im not sad im not sorry im angry and im tired i havent cried one time i stopped crying years ago i am numb. I have been watching Police Murder people that look like me for years as her family struggles with what happened so does a battered city while police were protecting government buildings the looters came here to be Uptown Neighborhood and they fire bombed and looted each of the stores for a couple of blocks until they got here to kingdom word ministries thats where david my gomery is pastor actually we had somebody actually take a. Big large rock and throw it through the window and we started yelling hey this is a church and marriage several people say hey you dont touch a church you know now one of the firemen said a pastor it looks like your building is going to be the only thing to say you know its just a miracle from god one building salvaged amid dozens of burnt out holes and more broken hearts. John hendren reporting there he is now back on base in Chicago Illinois for us an update if you wouldnt mind john on these arrests. For 3 days we have had protests that have been peaceful during the day that get raucous in the night and weve had buildings burned down all over the wisconsin in one night there were 37 fires but overnight in the past 8 or 12 hours things really escalated and there was a conflict a bunch of men showed up armed men who were counter protesters we dont know if this involved one of them or not for sure but what we do know is that there were men carrying a ar 15 Assault Rifles walking through town and according to some video i recently viewed there was a conflict now Police Confirmed that 2 people are dead and one person is injured after a gunman shot a bunch of shot into a crowd of protesters after they had some kind of trust that is confirmed by officials in wisconsin and now the governor tony even as tells us that after talking to President Trump he is sending 500 more National Guard troops to connote sure wisconsin now initially there were 125 cent in now the city really wants to try to get control of that area and thats something they have not been able to do is theyve controlled the city center where the governor building where the government buildings are with those police and sheriffs deputies in that town looters have gone out to other parts of town stolen from stores and burned them down afterwards so this is an effort by the state with help from the federal government to try to crack down and get control of that city because for 3 nights it has been out of hand i should add that while we know that we have find. 100 more National Guard troops coming there President Trump simply said he was sending federal assistance that came in a tweet but he didnt specify exactly what that assistance is so whether that is those 500. 00 National Guard troops who report both to the federal government and the state or whether theres even more coming were not sure but the president has been talking about sending federal troops into these protests zones where there have been looting and other violence and this appears to be the 1st major example of that happening after the disastrous deployment of a small number of federal troops in Portland Oregon where there were big clashes with protesters there so this is the latest action to try to control a situation that has been clearly out of control and important that it does come under control manana spoken to you at previous. Events like this thats not quite the right way but youve seen how quickly you can decide how quickly the the tension builds. At a time when when issues of Racial Injustice just keep coming. That try these incidents keep happening i think we have spoken in the george floyd incident after he had been killed under the knee of a Police Officer and there were massive protests started in minneapolis went around the country and what weve seen there in minneapolis here in chicago and then in can know sure where ive spent the past couple of days is that things can kick up very quickly whats happened is theres been a curfew at 8 oclock at night then the protesters start to surround the courthouse and can osha then police come out in riot gear and then there is there are fireworks and bottles shot out at the police and police fired back with tear or pepper spray and with rubber bullets and so then youve had these looting incidents and a good. Out of control very quickly but very predictably after 8 you have the chances with police and then after 10 or 11 is when you start to see the violence of the looting and the fires and that is what police are trying to stop theyre now in the governors hoping he can do it with more troops john hendren with that update from chicago thank you john on the same issue of the u. S. Made a plea for that during his speech to the Republican National convention. I urge people to come together in a civil manner so we can work and leave up to our standard american ideals. I also ask people to stop the violence and looting being done in the name of justice and never make assumptions based on the color of a persons ski. Instead of tearing things down hearing things down lets reflect on our mistakes be proud of our evolution and look to the way. Our own fish is with us now from the white house and the contrasting approaches if you like while the 1st lady talks about unity the president says send in the National Guard. I dont think republicans will see a disconnect in that on one hand the 1st lady is saying look we should all get along essentially to paraphrase rodney king but the president has said that he is the law and order president and in those tweets that john was referencing he said they simply wont stand for looting arson violence and lawlessness on the streets the white house has confirmed there was a phone call between the governor 20 even and the president and the president once again offered support of federal Law Enforcement that would suggest that its likely to be people from the department of Homeland Security the ones who are the ones who are involved very much in the incidents in portland defending in their view the courthouse there from the rioters and certainly dont all trump sees himself very much as the law and order president has been promoting the idea of law and order very much on the side of police this will play well with him over the next 48 hours is a big speech on on thursday and im sure can osha has already been written into that speech so he sees himself as very much danding up for those he would consider to be on the front lines its interesting though that as hes tweeting out about the violence and can assure hes made no reference to the shooting itself although there has been comment of course from joe biden and also from camilla harness allen well what are we now day 3 now of Republican National convention and we whats coming up today. Well its going to be interesting were told that donald trump may make an appearance but hes unlikely to speak of course weve had that before and we saw him on camera twice on tuesday there are people and even some republicans who are a bit concerned about the white house being used so extensively as the backdrop to so much of the Republican National convention youll hear a lot of people talking about the hot shot which is a night from about 80 years or so ago saying Big Government employees cannot be involved in political campaigning essentially while theyre on the taxpayer dollar that wouldnt apply specifically to the president and the Vice President so be interesting to see how the agenda how the program is is fixed tonight who are we going to hear from well Kellyanne Conway is going to be addressing the convention she of course one of the president s closest advisers was involved and actually running the campaign 4 years ago were going to hear from lot of trump she is the wife of a trump shes very much involved in the campaign has been for a very long time very eloquent speaker someone who tends to hit very hard the points that will resonate with the base and of course were going to hear from the Vice President mike pence we normally hear from him on the 3rd night we normally hear from the Vice President ial candidate on the 3rd night interestingly enough a couple of months ago people were saying will mike pence give this speech there was talk of replacing him on the ticket with nikki haley the former u. N. Ambassador who of course gave a speech on monday night but its going to be my pants its going to be from fort mchenry and maryland why is that significant well that is where Francis Scott key wrote the poem that became the National Anthem of the United States you can see the theme here and this is what my parents is going to hammer and no doubt will be talking about the events in wisconsin as well when he finally delivers this speech live to the convention in just a couple of hours time ok thank you for that alan fischer at the white house. Were moving on to other news the greek Prime Minister. Says his country will be extending its territorial water claims westward in the ionian sea it is a legal expansion it is an area between greece and italy so it doesnt directly affect the territorial claims at the center of the dispute with turkey however its arc is added greece may increase its claims in other maritime areas in the future and i do you know much embarrassed greece will extend the coastal zone to the west from 12 to 6 miles greeces growing others have said this building where the ones who are putting this into practice. Before that announcement was made reject type warned greece not to test turkeys patience president added that turkey will never compromise on what is aus the 2 countries are in a standoff over maritime borders in the Eastern Mediterranean and the potential natural gas wealth beneath it so yes. We are determined to do what every region issues here in the military political and economic since we invite her counterparts to get it together and avoid mistakes that would bring the destruction. Live to berlin the dominant cain is with us as e. U. Defense ministers meet to discuss this this is quite a job theyve got ahead of them to bring the peace between greece and turkey. The point about this meeting has been what the e. U. Is calling its to be a strategic compass and in effect this meeting has been all points east and South Eastern Europe specifically this situation building up in the Eastern Mediterranean how to resolve the tensions in a peaceful way between greece and turkey the problem being that given that its an e. U. Meeting turkey is not part of the e. U. And therefore is not in these meetings whereas greece and cyprus are as Member States of the European Union both those countries in broiled in this tension with the turkish government and although the turkish government has no representation at this meeting the comments the views from the turkish government from president out of one very much at that meeting interesting they the e. U. Has no military role of substance in this area whereas nato does and of course turkey and greece are members of nato and so yes the general secretary of native who was at this meeting in berlin on wednesday was calling upon both countries to step back to try to to ease the tensions between them the interesting thing is that there will be further such meetings but this time involving Foreign Ministers of e. U. Countries in berlin on thursday where again this topic will certainly be to the forefront thank you dominic cain following european developments in berlin that. Weve also heard from the u. N. Secretary generals spokesman who says theyre following this develops in the developments in the Eastern Mediterranean very closely i think its important. Given the number of parties engaged as you noted Different Military exercises or maneuvers that all the parties involved in engage in dialogue. And solve their differences in accordance with the principles ensure in try and in. In the charter just a little background on this and how these mediterranean divisions appear on the map cyprus is claiming this section to the east. And greece claims the area to the west. The area shown in stripes youve got there is turkeys exclusive economic claim but turkey has been drilling in that yellow area there for years and fact so were going to talk to cronies couple it is about as a Maritime Security analyst at Chatham House in london nice to have you with us so i believe in current form wrong that actually turkey has in the past made these sorts of expansions out into the sea so greece would probably just say well what you can do we can do as well. You know to be able to answer that question we need to go back to 98 the 2 but when theyre right to countries to expand to development to cover miles that their territorial waters were granted and if you look at this the basics so we will actually see the. Need apply thats right and its fun to go myras in the black sea and they did mediterranean if you can do so at the d. N. C. Because. There will each use thats going to be shot with greece but up until today when the Prime Minister announced that he will be expounding to of not go my it was certainty on you can see it to eat regional is the only country globally that were still 6 not to go miles greece doing that expanding to build a new government in the home you can see does understand that there are issues with so it is something that has to be discussed right so its it is a legal move that the greeks are taking its an area as we said closer to italy than anything else but it is i guess the type of thing which will worry turkey what do you make of the turkish reaction is it almost turning into threats from them now. Well what greece is doing is theyre not theyre the same that i was beating up decedents tensions between the 2 countries or of course none of them wants to use military force to try to resolve this but we are see that greece is probably trying to push e. U. Counterparts to take good care stance to support greece because we are seeing that individual states like france for example are supporting greece but jeremy. Is very neutral approach and the euro is only do not express its solely diary on the decay side we are seeing a much more aggressive narrative and of course we should be very cautious because we are seeing a lot of mean jerry us it sort of naval bases new very small area for a prolonged period and that could lead to serious incidents do you think the e. U. Can find a resolution to this our reporter was talking about the the delicate job theyve got there. Someone should play there all of the 3rd party that is going to greet the 2 countries have you that they book to discuss and resolve these bunking 9096 when there was a crisis at the islands near im not you know was the u. S. We did that now it seems that the u. Is in amongst a better position to try as you and the result of these both countries have expressed their interest as you know they really discussed but it cannot be done with me terry are sits in their region the same time rice company destroying us in Chatham House today thank you for your time sir we do appreciate it. One other note concerning turkey iraq has warned turkey over continued airstrikes saying it will respond to any attack threatening its security iraqs ambassador to the u. N. Made the remarks during a virtual session of the Security Council as warnings just a day after turkish air strikes killed 2 high ranking Iraqi Security officials in Northern Iraq turkey says that the military campaign which began in june is necessary against the kurdish fighters which it considers terrorists now an agreement has been reached in iran to give the uns Nuclear Watchdog access to 2 suspected former atomic sites leaders in tehran announced this in a joint statement with the International Atomic Energy Agency the i. A. E. A. President Hassan Rouhani also promised to continue cooperation said bags following this one from tehran it all seems very cordial and cooperative. Yes it does now it wasnt always that way there was some tension between the i. A. E. A. And iran over these 2 sites the head of the. Met with irans head of irans atomic agency. He met with the foreign minister zarif and also the president has done role harney now wanted access to these 2 sides that they said it was alleged to undertake a Nuclear Material had been stored or used now iran had blocked access to these sites in june of this year the i. A. E. A. Passed a resolution that was put forward by germany france and United Kingdom demanding access now over the last few days it seemed like iran was changing his position it said that they would crack texas if it would end questions once and for all now this joint statement seems that these conditions will these kind of vague preconditions have been met now in the statement diy says that they dont have any more questions or access regarding sites to sites to iran has already declared even more so what theyve said is that they will take Iran Security concerns concerns into consideration thats a quite a bit of a point for iran to have because theyre concerned about security this site sites security and where the information goes and when the i. A. E. A. Says that they will take that into consideration it means that that information will be shared with the United States so iran and i. A. E. A. Both have what they wanted to have access to these sites and iran has these reassurances that there wont be any more questions theyre not asking to access more sites and also this security concerns have been taken seriously and speaking of the United States they were pushing for this return of sanctions on iran trying to do that through the u. N. Security council where is that now. Now that was blocked by the Security Council the attempt to trigger that mechanism that would reimpose u. N. Sanctions now most of the Security Council except the Dominican Republic were of the view that the United States cant trigger the act because theyre no longer a part of the 2015 Nuclear Deal Donald Trump pulled the u. S. Out of that and 2018 now that doesnt mean that the United States wont try again because the presidency of the Security Council changes again in september so it is likely that the United States will try for mr jihads rivers already commented he said that the u. S. Bullying has led to them being isolated again and iran has come out to say that theyre grateful and glad that the disk caps are blocked this attempt especially considering the United States has stated aim is to destroy the 2050 nuclear deal and that u. N. Resolution and they hoped discreet to cancel would stop any further attempts so the United States is still trying again trying to reimpose dissensions but as far as iran is conversant this is another victory for them they deny states wasnt successful in keeping extending the arms embargo that such expired in october and they havent been successful so far in trying to trigger that mechanism to reimpose of sanctions against iran thank you for those updates that as i said begin teheran now aljazeera is Investigative Unit is standing by its exclusive report which the government of sunbursts is now calling propaganda investigation focuses on a case of confidential documents listing 2 and a half 1000 people who have purchased citizenship in cyprus some of those have attained the cypriot passports are criminals others are people seeking a safe haven away from their own governments to protest reports. A meeting of president s to discuss greater links between cyprus and china. But away from the public glare hundreds of chinese have quietly paid for a personal connection aboard cypriot citizenship a few likely are criminals he sanctioned by the us the laundering stolen cryptocurrency others like tanya are politically connected hes boss of a state owned Energy Company the chinese presence is increasingly visible in cyprus 2 and a half 1000000. 00 for citizenship and a passport which can be invested in a luxury home is a modest price for chinas super rich young husband both have separate passports through her family Real Estate Company Country Garden shes worth an estimated 27000000000. 00 and is often called asias Richest Woman but paying for the passport and moving assets to the island isnt straightforward because china has strong currency controls strictly speaking its all illegal but often they use hong kong as a way for getting their money out of china and there are many creative ways doing so and its sometimes also used in macau as another way. Can assure wisconsin now a News Conference been given after the arrest of a 17 year old over the shooting of 2 people. And then once investigation is done will be turned over to the district attorneys office. But i want to talk to you about that today is whats going on there are a lot of very good people in this community and what is happening to them is wrong people have differences of opinion. We have different concepts of how things should be done and those are all fine but violence in the community is not acceptable. Violence to property violence to people absolutely unacceptable and it is up to us to make sure that that does not continue. We have called on many groups for support. And one of those id like to think at the moment is. This is blake. Who came out and said stop this is not what her son wanted and so i want to give a hard thought thank you to her because she cared about the community and what was being done in her sons name. And that is appreciated but we still have so many things that we have to deal with and a lot of misunderstanding of what is being done in this community for the safety of the public and the safety of the community and i was just kind of walk through a little bit of what occurred after the shooting. The city made the requests to the state for support and governor even granted the guard to come vessel guard to come in we have continually talked with them about the garden the guards continued its numbers into the community to help us deal with the looting and violence that has occurred. We also have had the situation where we have called for a curfew which is 7 oclock 7 and that curfew is there to protect the public we need to make sure people are off the streets so Law Enforcement can do their job and i think sometimes people forget that they think that because you call curfew its their decision to get tickets to everyone it is not it is there to protect the public and that is so so very important this time. Notions of community that in the long run will recover we will Work Together to resolve our issues we will work with the Minority Community to continue to move forward and we will make this a better place to live but it will take time it will take healing it will make it require us to reach out. To. Follow parties to the community and actually have on a style of. So im here today basically to number one inform everyone that we are not planning on. Playing this violence continue number 2 we are going to Work Together to resolve the racial issues in our community and we are going to make that work the only other thing id like to add which i forgot to say earlier and i apologize for the arm well off topic theres been a lot of talk about the support from governor avers governor avers has been very supportive so the community and i think Everyone Needs to know that they also need to know that there is a concept that the federal government is not participating in can osha they are the f. B. I. Is here a. T. F. Is here and the u. S. Marshals are here so its important for everyone to know that this is been a group. Activity where everyone has been involved in trying to make things better. I want to leave you with one last thought. And that is there is an unanticipated always used oh my oh actions and campaigns in this in sound will hokey i suppose a community is only as strong. As its weakest neighborhood. As a country we are only as strong as the weakest city. We need to make sure that we help create or stop this divide and this anger that is going on in this country and that only begins with each one of us willing to honestly talk with each other so thank you for listening to me and i will now turn over to share. Some of mine is going to mirror what the mayor said and he acts youre mining me to. Talk to mrs blake tucker for probably about 10 minutes on the phone got her some information that she wanted about her son told her where she had to go what hospital to go to the sea. She was probably one of the calmest nicest people i talked to an entire evening and. I havent talked to her since but she was i agree she was a very nice person calming person start off with we got called in on sunday after 530 to assist the city you know in a shooting our job was to protect the scene and it got a little hairy out there as the night went on our squad cars were damaged. Ive seen some video taken by people im very proud of our staff the you know should Police Department staff that went out there and protected the scene calmly. Politely and stood there in the face of rocks being thrown one of the sea captains got something him in the back of the head and into the ground right in front of me. But everyone was very good and our and was very calm that night and maintain security and in got out of there is really as well as we could the march came downtown the focal point for each and every demonstration that really weve seen is d a building that were in right now the safety building. The city Police Department you know if the Sheriffs Department is stationed here it is to some people to some people its you know really bad really bad people and to the majority of the committee were d the people that go out and help save and protect the other part of it is the courthouse the courthouse represents justice and all the people are are looking for justice whatever it is theres justice in where we are found guilty and when we found innocent so im sure that will come out in time on monday that the numbers grew our resources also grew we put out an all call throughout the states. To local Sheriffs Departments and Police Departments and they showed up in the embers in the hundreds we put it out to. Also put it out there to. Monday we thought we put it out to the National Guard and we found that we had our wires crossed we didnt actually request the National Guard on monday night. Or the sunday the 1st night because we had our wires crossed the 2nd night they did the lever people in last night they delivered more and were very thankful for the National Guard. Like i said we had Sheriffs Departments coming from all over the state of wisconsin they brought their personnel they brought their equipment they brought their armored cars they brought things that we needed the state of wisconsin in the federal government the f. B. I. The u. S. Marshals they brought technology they brought equipment too and the resources in the information they have passed to us. Is a mess. We have got the d. N. R. Wardens that are down here that dont have riot gear were out every day in the face of everything state troopers were here the local agencies here and can osha you know around us could be brother brothers and sisters but then we could ask for the coming health check you know show. Tuesday we put up a fence around this building all of you were allowed to come in through the gates and the reason we put the fence around here is like i said earlier this is a focal point for protesting and it still was last night thing if the protesters want to come here say their piece which is wonderful no one in Law Enforcement no one step for you that has any issues with. People coming in here and protesting we support that i know that about a month ago the mayor and i went over to one and we threw the meal for 9 with a group of people that were there we were there supporting the. Thats around these buildings actually allows us to do because this building holds. Some of the structure not caught on fire. County sheriff giving some specifics on what his department has been doing in the wake of the protests in wisconsin but before him we had the manner of. Speaking and another call for unity another call for people in invoking a complex mother and saying she wanted to see the protests stop she wants to see some common that people should be listening to her he also and actually lets talk to john hendren lets bring john hendren in chicago in on this one to talk to him about it 2 other things we should point out john one is the arrest of a 17 year old over the shootings and the other is the National Guard coming in to take us through those things. Thats right there was a shooting last night overnight tuesday into wednesday and in that shooting according to the video that we have seen. There was a conflict between an armed man sharing an Assault Rifle and some of the protesters the armed man was white the protesters who were of mixed races and. He appeared to have been knocked down got up and just started firing into the crowd Police Confirmed that he hit 3 people or that somebody hit 3 people and 2 of them died last night and the other one is in the hospital expecting to recover police say that that person is 17 year old Kyle Rittenhouse who was arrested over the border of wisconsin in illinois and that he is responsible and they were at the young age of 17 for those shootings now we were there yesterday and we did see the. Well who were dressed as militia members they were wearing camouflage they were civilians some of them had long rifles some of them had side arms but they said they were there to help keep this city safe and that provoked some of the demonstrators there was some loud argument between them and it is possible that this was simply a private security guards guarding a gas station thats one version of the story weve heard another is that it was one of those militia members and that there was some kind of conflict and he responded with gunshots well find out what more about what police have to say about that but what were hearing in that News Conference is that more and more police are coming we know that 500. 00 National Guard troops are supposed to be coming but what they said in that News Conference was that a number of federal agents are already there the federal bureau of investigation the f. B. I. The alcohol tobacco and Firearms Agency and so you have a number of people there already from the federal government in from cooperating Police Departments throughout this state and the region so this city is telling us that theyre not going to put up with this any more they are massing up with police thats what we saw in minneapolis although they did it much quicker because minneapolis is a much bigger city that was after the killing of george floyd by a Police Officer there so its looking like this could be an increasingly big confrontation and you see a call for peace there but also the explanation that many more police will be out on the street and they dont want to put up with that kind of violence and looting that theyve seen thank you john hendren for those updates there in chicago the u. S. National Hurricane Center says laura laura is now an extremely dangerous category 4 storm it is expected to make landfall in the u. S. Gulf coast weapons day well then half a 1000000 people have been ordered to leave their homes near the texas Louisiana State border with already set in stone poses an immediate and grave danger to life. But ryan has side step to us push to normalize relations with israel king hamad bin told the visiting u. S. Secretary of state might pay or that they want to see the creation of a palestinian state 1st been part of a middle east trip aimed at forging more links between israel and the arab world after brokering the israel u. A. E. Deal for told another stand by the Arab Peace Initiative which calls for israel to withdraw from palestinian territories it occupied after 967. 00 coronavirus news now the World Health Organization says it Still Believes theres only a small risk of being infected with covert 19 a 2nd time this was in response to reports a man in hong kong contracted it again 4 months after he 1st fell ill. So weve had any. Reports every now and then of people who have tested negative then tested positive and it hasnt been cleared up until this case whether that was simply a problem with testing whether people well getting infected if they can time but its very important to understand what this means in terms of the musicians and this is why we have got a lot of Research Groups actually tracking people measuring antibodies trying to understand how long the immune protection lasts the natural him youd prefer action and that should be understood as it is not the same as the immune protection that a vaccine provides no studies provided more evidence that obese people are much more likely to die from corona virus researchers at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill found obese people had a 48 percent increase in death rates and are twice as likely to be hospitalized the u. S. And the u. K. Have some of the highest obesity rates in the world in the u. S. Still has of course the highest hope at 19 transmission rates well talk to dr simon clarke about this an associate professor in cellular microbiology at the university of reading in the u. K. Dr clark thank you for your time can you give me more specifics on this because obesity covers a lot of different issues different illnesses as well what is it was the specific reasons that obesity is leading to these high death rates. Well we dont actually have. A mechanism for why obesity makes somebody more susceptible to kind of 98. 00 and it does not at all levels ready if youre right base youre more likely to be hospitalized 90 if you get lost that will youre more likely to end up in intensive care and if you end up in intensive care youre more likely to die compared to the always into a piece there are a number of potential metabolic reasons why people who are obese tend to be resistant will have some resistance sit in so the normal physiology is effective and doesnt affect it and thats probably also they have a degree of inflammation and we know that in very many cases its a receiver immune response the cause is that thats what often kills is that immune response and if theyre already carrying the naturally high mation then that means that bodys comes home appropriately. So then could obesity and maybe this is more of an interpretive question but could it basically be almost considered an underlying condition you know how people with quote unquote underlying conditions have to be more careful with coronavirus things like passman for example i mean it could could have basically almost be tied into Something Like that. Quite possibly actually people who are based i tend to have. Cardiovascular problems or more likely to have problems when we know that cardiovascular problems are one of the Underlying Health conditions so this is all tied up as well my suspicion is that there are many physiological factors that people probably have more one which is make them susceptible or increase except the 90 and its worst effects 1st johnson the u. K. Prime minister i dont know that he would have been officially described as obese but he was overweight he got kind of a 19 hes lost a lot of weight since then hes made a big push as an about the health General Health and yes of of people this has to be something that people consider Going Forward yeah it is very upfront about is about what needed to so it will lose weight hes been seeing the papers taking lots of regular exercise himself yes im afraid as well as it might be. I think people weight will be showing or is the show to have a defect in their ability to survive coded 90 i stick to somebody spit weight myself so i know that its really important for health or is this something in the u. K. So push people to say more exercise whats really good advice at any time isnt a dr simon clarke from the university of reading thank you. Some of the coronavirus news the malaysian low Cost Airline Asia or air asia x. Says it will need help from creditors to ride out the pandemic the Company Posted a 73000000. 00 loss for the june quarter revenues tumbled more than 90 percent and so its asking suppliers and lenders for payment deferrals concessions while it makes further cuts itself managers say the future of the business depends on fines being able to resume properly by early next year the gunman who committed new zealands worst mass shooting has faced more survivors of his crime during his sentencing hearing Brendan Townsend kill 51. 00 muslim wishes in christchurch last year and in a 1st for new zealand he faces life in prison with no chance of parole and support from wayne hay for a 3rd straight day Brinton Terence was brought into the high court in christchurch handcuffed and shackled he again sent largely emotionless as he listened to and faced family members of people he killed or injured and those who survived his attack are to be totally thought the riemann do pretty well as i fear the gunman may hear and find in the stock room. I stayed in that position and did the police came in and let those out from. I saw the bodies. Outside the mobs terence was charged with killing 51. 00 people at 2 mosques in christchurch on the 15th of march last year attempting to murder 40 more and to engaging in an act of terrorism he pleaded guilty to all charges. Im uncertain there will be enough justice for what has happened at the hands of a terrorist its you however i know one thing for sure that this monster did my father and the other beautiful souls that day much is how it. On the opening day of the sentencing the court heard how terrence methodically researched the mosques and planned the attacks for when theyd be busy before entering his 1st target the elmore mosque he uploaded a manifesto online detailing his obsession with White Supremacy tyrant declined to address the court but many of those who were affected by his attack chose to speak directly to him i dont know how this Justice System would deal with you but i have peace knowing in the here i ask that you keep what you just said by the will of the other might not the beer was. Was done was when the sentences handed down brenton tyrant is likely to become the 1st person the new zealand to be sentenced to life with no chance of parole wayne hey al jazeera toughing bobby has forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights in south korea strong winds of battering the Southern Island of jeju and the typhoon is expected to make landfall in north korea early on thursday here is rob mcbride with more from seoul. Typhoon babie is the 8th typhoon of this season to come out of the western pacific and it is shaping up to be one of the strongest ever to hit the Korean Peninsula with wind speeds of over 160 Kilometers Per Hour also expecting to dump hundreds of millimeters of rain it is affected already the southern south korean island of jeju and also the countrys south coast as it moves gradually northwoods through the yellow sea that separates the Korean Peninsula from the coast of china it will be passing closest to the most densely populated part of south korea thats the sole metropolitan area during the nighttime hours of wednesday through into thursday and then thursday morning it will be making its landfall in north korea itself now it will have lost some of its intensity but this will still be a very big typhoon barreling into north korea the north d Korean Leader kim jong un has already held a meeting this week of his politburo to discuss measures to mitigate the impact of this the country has been put on full alert but this is a north korea is already facing of course merely at problems from the continuing sanctions from the effects of isolating itself because of fears of the coronavirus from the outside world its also had of course the impact of a weeks of heavy rains that have gone on longer than usual the summer rains that have been really impacting its crops that have been flooding its waterways drenching the ground causing landslips and then on top of all of that of course they now have to deal with the impact of this typhoon. Flash floods in parts of afghanistan and pakistan have killed more than 200 people in the past 2 days the afghan president has ordered a deliveries for the worst affected areas and troops have been sent to flood the regions in pakistan Priyanka Gupta reports was a lot of afghans in power one province rescue their loved ones any way they can. Rename flash floods so impoverished through Northern Region the dozens killed a mostly women and children. Others remain missing feared trapped under the rubble of their destroyed homes local leaders say the scale of the disaster is overwhelming and they need help here and move on little girls removed there was barbed wire on the roof of my neighbors house i cut that and wanted to take my family to the rooftops from flood water was coming towards us just to save their lives suddenly the flood water flushed out everything and my family 7 members of my family are missing. All over neighboring pakistan its a similar scene of devastation after days of torrential rain in the largest city karachi polluted water from drains flood streets spilling into homes. I promise to run conses troops are being sent to help pump water from flooded neighborhoods of the bombing the other day i want to john if you can see there is chaos people are annoyed no vehicles can pass through the streets as all the roads are inundated we appeal to the government they must do something to clean the storm water drains. The Monsoon Floods in both afghanistan and pakistan are common at this time of the year and so is a threat to life and property without data drainage systems and poorly constructed homes adding to the danger. Aljazeera. Far as he with his sport now in the clarity of this whole messy business it still pretty murky we just have to wait and see what barcelona say they have no intention of allowing leo messi to leave the club messy stuff on the footballing world by handing him a transfer request on choose day the player in the club looks set for a legal standoff messi believes his contract will allow him to leave on a free transfer barsa insists he is still bound by an 800000000. 00 buyout clause the 6 time world player of the year has been at bar so for his entire career winning 4 european cups and 10 Spanish League titles theres no no. We dont contemplate any kind of exit by leo from his contract because we want him to stay because i think that leo knows he has enormous respect because were talking about the best player in the world maybe the best player in history and im absolutely convinced the immediate future can be positive we have to be optimistic and sulk about blending new young place into the team alongside the experience old leo together we have to build the boss wants with a basic salary of around 90000000. 00 a year not many clubs are in the running to sign a 33 year old English Premier League side Manchester City offers the chance of a reunion with former barcelona player and manager have already iowa b. S. She might see massey as a player who could help them win their 1st European Champions League is former barsa teammate neymar is already at the club and turmoil and are backed by ambitious chinese owners desperate to and you bent it is event hisss dominance in the Italian League the other option for messi is to stay where he is many in barcelona fear that relationship is broken beyond repair. I think youll be afraid of him because of gaza right now i see 0 possibility of a messy staying abbas alona there is an unlikely option which is that bottom you the president make sure the messy stays by resigning it would be a nice gesture but were talking about a president who stayed in his post following the greatest debacle in the clubs history so i think youd be very unlikely for him to take that step right now so as much as i regret it i see missy leaving the club. And wishing chelsea had already spent close to 200000000. 00 on new signings ahead of the new season bennett show well is their latest addition the leicester defender has joined the london club in a 70000000 dollar transfer chelsea are also on the verge of a deal with buyer leverkusen to buy midfielder have or its l. A. Clippers coach doc rivers gave an Emotional Press Conference after his teams win in the n. B. A. Playoffs rivers had been asked for his take on the Police Shooting of jacob blake in wisconsin the black lives matter slogan has been highly visible at games since the n. B. A. Restart and many players have spoken out in support of the fight against Racial Injustice is just its really so sad. I should just coach. So dont. Mind my cover you know its just really say lets just do better to run to raptors players say theyve discussed boycotting their next playoff my action protest at the Police Shooting of blake the reigning n. B. A. Champions are due to face the Boston Celtics on thursday oakland are here going towards the player. You know supposed to not be a game but its a start and were going to theres going to be motions or not this really turned. We are again with another northwesterners. And former world number one Serena Williams has compared losing a tennis match to being stuck in a bad relationship the 23 time grand slam champion made the comment after being knocked out of a u. S. Open warm up event in new york the american who struggled with fitness issues during the match went down in 3 sets to marias akari. I put myself in a bad situation you know its like dating a guy that you know sucks and i had only what hes. Doing out here and its like i got rid of this guy just makes no sense i dont know why yeah its frustrating. Serina and that is all yours for now call back you got to show what side of the thank you for that far. So thats good news i remember the headlines are down to 0 dot com whenever you want them and in about 2 and a half and its time to let the bar in the team in london for us interviews for you right here on aljazeera by the. Deadline its drawing near ivory coast his rival parties to nominate that president ial candidates. Octobers election is likely to be a major test for the countrys security who will face the people in iran for the highest office i recall as president ial candidates on aljazeera more than 7 decades ago a country was split into. Anything and now i. Think all it took was a pan a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled it in 67200 have been to india before al jazeera examines the violence of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these Nuclear Neighbors politician borders of blood. The u. S. Is always of in fact the people all right the world the big game play number one you cant beat you up to report only through an International Perspective to try to play your little audience how this could impact feel like this is an important part of the world and i would leave its very good to bring the news to the world from here. Dreams dance and entertainment a way for people to rise above the violence around them so its my role to give these girls a different title that they can leave the wards of this community 3 short films show how performance creates a home and family and gives hope and opportunity. A. J. Selects on aljazeera. Racially charged protests that end in further tragedy 2 people are shot dead in commercial wisconsin a 17 year old is now in custody. Bar and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. Laura grows in strength its now a category 4 horak and with a potential storm surge that officials warn could be unsurvivable. 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