Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240711

In the u. S. Georgias republican secretary of state confirms a narrow win for joe biden as Donald Trumps noirs vow to continue to contest the Election Results and run cables. Spell the end of our we known telescoping. Its a record that spearheaded major breakthroughs in our strong and spend on people seen it before. The sports news, a 2nd member, all south africas a cricket squad tests positive for covert mind, seen just a week out from a limited oval series against england. Thank you very much for joining us. The United Nations us called on ethiopias warring sides to stop fighting immediately. So aid can come in and refugee save zones can be set up. The governments launched an offensive 2 weeks ago to getting the great Peoples Liberation front which governs the tea grey region. Both sides accuse each other of killing civilians in airstrikes and indiscriminate attacks. The uns Refugee Agency says is preparing for as many as 200000. 00 people to seek refuge in sudan. So far more than 30000. 00 have fled their humanitarian workers, say millions of children are at risk, and refugees are in serious danger of an outbreak of disease. Aljazeera taber, morgan reports from gaza reef state in sudan, near the border with ethiopia, where tens of thousands have taken refuge. Just 2 weeks ago, while heated saturday was preparing for her sunday, now is operation. He was born with a cleft lip, which has affected his ability to drink milk and along with it his health. But just days before they were due to return to make the capital of if europe is not integrated region, the situation changed dramatically. When we were due to go back for his last check up before the operation, the fighting started, all the roads were blocked and we couldnt get to macquarie, people were being killed and there were bombs being dropped. So i flirted with him and my family. Now we cant even get a doctor to check on him. We cant even get him his vaccination, let alone have hope. Youll get an operation here. The family now resides at this refugee camp in infrastructure in sudans got out of state. There are more than 15000 if you can refugees here in what was once a largely uninhabited area. Thousands more if you have fled to neighboring castle estate to escape the fighting into great. But it to hell are you and her 2 children are some of them. Her infant son has been suffering from breathing problems and she says shes been struggling to get him the care he needs. He has one block nostril and doesnt feed except from a bottle. But i dont have formula for him because weeks cage fighting, ethiopian came here. And the Health Care Center doesnt have formula. So i have to go looking around for that. But i dont know where ill get the money from. The camp has only one Health Center to cater for the thousands of children here. Mothers wait for their turn to have their children seen by doctors. Many children exposed to the horrors of conflict in the 1st years of their lives. According to unicef, 40 percent of the refugees arriving in sudan are children. Some have been separated from their families and the process of tracking them has started. Others have arrived with malnutrition because of the days they spent walking with no food and all have been affected by the conflict integrate in a way that will likely impact their childhood. The uns childrens agency says that chris tricked it access, and the ongoing communication blackout in the region has left an estimated 2300000 children in need of humanitarian assistance. And as more and more refugees arrive in sudan, theres rising concern over their future. Remember, this is the time school started, children will actually miss this years school. And most of the children we saw yesterday at home, there are school age. Unfortunately, they will not have school this year. So we have to actually come up with alternative programs already within the next month or 2. Were hoping the crisis will stop, the fighting will stop. There will be able to go back home. But if thats not the case, we have to be in place to support them. What you do says she hopes the conflict and soon so that she can return back home with her family. She says she wants her child to be operated on, but more importantly, wants him to grow up with no memories of the horror thats forced her and her family to leave their lives behind and seek refuge here in sudan. He will morgan aljazeera and fresh take on the part of the joining us now live from ethiopias capital is ambassador, whos director general of ethiopias Foreign Ministry and a former ambassador to the u. K. And massa, thank you very much for talking to us on aljazeera. Even before the to grayle fence of began, there were already concerns about the humanitarian situation in northern ethiopia. Weve had thousands fleeing into sudan in recent weeks. What is Ethiopian Government doing to address is growing humanitarian crisis. Were trying to address the situation 1st by the situation refugees and secondly is to discuss with the government of sudan in your share with us so that no deploying mom, support supplies. So were going now. So were trying to address it. Yeah, he say trying to address the situation and assess it, but theres been a Communications Blackout which has made it impossible for most media to reach the grave for aid organizations even to reach to grand speaks to civilian there, to assess their needs. How. How are you going to be able to assess the needs on the ground right now . If people cant access it, we have people on the ground. We have deployed employees, but entire communication. We have to believe me 20 people live there and have to do their part or so we are doing this in a very difficult situation ourselves. Is it a p. L. F. Responsible for the Communications Blackout or is it the government . It is that it does test it through city communication, everything while they of course have blamed the government for blocking communications. There. d we heard Prime Minister ahmed say that the people who fled in recent weeks should be able to return. But how and when do you think this could be possible . Is very simple because you know, the border area is cleared of now the area is very calm. And the fighting has moved into the center of the capital city. The regional capital saw it is easy for us now to treat them. And we are trying to do that. But we understand that people are afraid to return because as you said, theyre still fighting ongoing in, in the capital of t. Great. How can you expect people to be trustful and return home when theres still conflicts going on . This people, most of them do. They fled from the border areas, not from so we would prepare for any eventuality, even those who would be displaced from but the border towns know if they will come back and most of them are from those areas. And where do we were . Ok. Ok, its going to be difficult ambassador, you understand to win over a population that has so long revere the t. P. A. Left. How does the Ethiopian Government intend on Building Trust with the people of t. Gray, who are still part of ethiopia . That a certain amount of support, of course, lake city is about and i meant it is a different reading. And that reading is they have done their part for 30 years without remembering the people where they were in power. Now they have come after everything is a spoiled, did they have subjugated their people so that our system meant doesnt work. Now. The government says its only attacking military targets into grey, but of course, a great forces have accused the government of bombing civilian targets, including a university in whats the governments response to that . We will never attack mosques church schools, but they want to drag us into that area. But they displace this by taking their comeback and she into the c. B. D. And into shipping areas. But still, we will never shoot, induce areas and who would have to my nature to cut them. Ambassador, thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us and giving us Ethiopian Government. You point there. Bassett, us to say, how sure is directed general of the field. Yes, Foreign Ministry joining us there from attis, we appreciate your time. Thank you very much. Staying in africa, ugandan opposition . Politician bobby wine has been released on bail after being charged over actions likely to spread. Coronavirus. Officials have accused a president ial candidate of violating colvin 1000. 00 restrictions, while campaigning for the president ial elections scheduled in january 2021. At least 28 people have been killed during protests sponsored by bobby winds arrest on wednesday. Malcolm webb is monitoring the situation forests in neighboring kenya. The death toll continues to rise in uganda. Whats the latest youre hearing about bad, and what is the government saying . Were Senior Police officer spoke to the press earlier today said 28 people being killed in the violent street to come parlor car moving back to normal today. But this violence which began on wednesday continued on on thursday morning that separately a Police Pathologist has told News Agencies the number of bodies resulting from the violence was actually 37. So the numbers in, on to tell you clear, some serious Security Officials and police have said that they blame people for rioting and for attacking police officers. Other on the other hand, there eyewitnesses but the wind himself, when he came out of court as well as Rights Groups have complained of unjust and unfair and excessive violence on the part of the security forces. Some Rights Groups have accused the ugandan government to weaponize ing its covert 19 response. Bobby wine is now out on bail malcolm, but is facing Court Proceedings in the, in the weeks ahead. What is that going to mean for the campaign and the election in january, 2021 . Proceedings may interfere with the program of campaign rallies, but also if the limits on the number of people, the real outfits and rallies, which was set by the ministry of health and the election commission. Just 200 people, if thats actually going to be enforced from rodman is going to be very difficult for any of the candidates to hold meaningful rallies, specially in urban areas where they tend to attract significantly larger crowds. And on top of that, 4 other opposition president ial candidates have suspended their campaigns in protest against what they say was unfair. Treatment of poppy wind that this election is still nearly 2 months away will be held in the middle of january, waiting to see what if any campaigning will actually now be able to go ahead between now and then malcolm, were monitoring the situation in uganda from nairobi kenya, where i am now happy to say that we have on the line with us for no pando, who is a spokesman for ugandas government is on the line from kampala. Mr. Pando, thank you very much for talking to us. Were getting reports of at least 20 People Killed in the last 3 days in uganda. Some tallies go as high as 37. How did these day and injuries occur . Mr. Pounder, can you hear me . Apologies. We seem to have a problem with our connection to ugandas government spokesman pando, hopefully well get him back on the line. Mr. Pando, are you there yet . You can hear you. Ok, great, thank you so much for talking to us. So weve had reports of at least 28 People Killed in uganda, some go as high as 37. Can you tell us 1st how these deaths and injuries occurred . I think we lost him again. I really apologies. The spokesman for ugandas government was on the line there with us, but unfortunately hes not able to hear us. So hopefully well be able to get him back on the line this hour to find out more about these sort of occurred in uganda. At least 27 People Killed in recent days in protests, during demonstrations, against the arrest of Opposition Leader bobby wine in uganda. Theres plenty more ahead on this news hour, including what the security crisis in book enough aso could mean for thousands of voters in the upcoming elections. We are just human and we also have business goals in our lives. A difficult to swallow for notices in the philippines. Desperate to work abroad. And in new zealand by minister draws the womens rugby team again. Some of the ethicists wyvil speedo have the details in sports coming up. U. S. President elect joe biden has been declared the winner in the state of georgia for a 2nd time after a hand recount the ballots were audited. To present Donald Trumps campaign question, the results and claimed widespread fraud. Georges secretary of state said, as a republican, his disappointed in the results, but asserted that the numbers dont lie. Im a passionate conservative. And as ive said before, im a proud trump supporter. I was with him early in the 2016 election cycle and hes given the nation, but the same conservative principles that i hold dear. Like other republicans, im disappointed our candidate didnt win georgias electoral votes. Close elections, so distrust people feel their side was cheated. We saw this from the democrats in 2018, and we see this from republicans today working as an engineer throughout my life. I live by the motto that numbers dont lie as secretary of state. I believe that the numbers that we have presented today are correct. Now, including georgias tally biden, has won the presidency with 360 Electoral College votes. He only needed 270. Donald trump fell short with 232 biden, is the 1st democratic president ial candidate to win georgia in the ne. 3 decades. At house correspondent kimberly hocket in washington. So it can be almost all of Donald Trumps Court Actions have been dismissed and yet theyre still digging in. Whats the next move now . Where is he looking for support . Yeah, those votes there in georgia now certified that there is going to be a certification happening in michigan in pennsylvania on monday. Still u. S. President donald trump is expected to hold a meeting today. The white house with republican legislatures from michigan. Why is he doing this . Well, hes trying to do a little use strategy to essentially win a 2nd term. What this would mean is, even though the votes have been pledged for joe biden in michigan, thats not yet official. It wont be until the Electoral College holds this meeting in mid december, and those votes are officially cast. What can happen between now and then is a republican controlled legislature, as is the case in michigan, could instead send electors to the Electoral College meeting. Who are republicans instead of democrats . In other words, they could cast the votes for donald trump, even though the results of the november 3rd election were for joe biden. So this is something that has not really been explored is pretty unprecedented. But weve seen in 2016, there was a case of just a few more than a half dozen who did this and voted for someone other then the candidate they were expected to vote for. Theyre called faithless electors that went all the way to the supreme court. It was ruled constitutional now it appears that donald trump, in the face of these last court cases and mass, is trying to use this little u. S. Strategy to win a 2nd term. And how americans reacting to this committee, this, this mess that the country seems to be in with, you know, not knowing whats going to happen next. Sadly, the divisions in this country have only gotten worse with this election. You have to remember that the results of the selection were very close, in fact, on november 3rd, for a while there looked like donald trump one, but as these mail in ballots continued to be counted, that mostly favor joe biden. He ultimately won the election, but narrowly, when you look at the numbers, its really a spread of 72000000 to 77000000. Its not a strong and resoundingly victory. And thats the problem here. So Many Americans support the president s actions, even though there are unprecedented. They believe his claims that the election was not valid that there was rampant voter fraud and intimidation and all the other allegations. And because of this unusual process of sort of delaying the certification of the vote, its given a window of opportunity for this to be explored. So sadly, even after this is final, i dont expect that there will be Many Americans that will feel good about this process in the overall democrat or republican, and theyre going to be millions who want accept the result. Thank you for that force in washington. In other world news by jons army says it has entered a district thats been under armenian control for almost 30 years. Its one of 3 areas that armenia has had to hand back to azerbaijan. A spot of a cease fire reached deal a deal reach. Just over a week ago, russia helped broker the truce and peacekeeping forces on hand to oversee the transfer. Armenians are angry about giving up their land in many have been protesting to demand their Prime Minister. Resign as a by john in armenia, sign the agreement to end 6 weeks of fighting over nagornokarabakh. Now lets take a closer look at the region being handed over the region alone is nearly the size of the disputed region of armenia must hand over to more areas in the coming weeks, including the care, bashar region on november 25th, on december 1st, it will have to hand over the district, and that includes the important chordal connecting the guy to armenia. Thats now under control of russian peacekeepers, azerbaijan will keep all its territorial gains, including a gunnel, kind of 2nd city shah. There is a some, a big job in the reports from near our home. Weve been told that that is exactly the same as what we, what we saw in physically, which was a ghost town. Just to give you an idea of where we are. These are actually the trenches on top of which were standing for about 30 years. This is the area which the is very army, was using to go back to the dude go towards the front lines and were just a few 100 meters away from the defacto border, which has existed for about 27 years and about 10 kilometers away from the town center where weve seen some social media pictures of the azeri army moving in and taking control of large parts of the city again, which was a ghost town. So adam was one of the most Populated Areas in the gorn, a car about one of the 7 regions around nagornokarabakh, which were taken by the area by the Armenian Army in 1903, when they moved in. And it was about that 10 percent of all of the rajon territory. So now it is being handed over people. Weve been meeting on the street on the way to the border, waving their flags coming out in support and asking us, has somebody been to the other side . Has somebody been to their mosques or somebody seen their homes . So theres a lot of anticipation here because people want to go back, theyve been living away as i. D. P. s, and they now want to return to their homes. But it is not going to be easy or quick because the military has been telling us that all of this area is littered with an exploded munitions and one mines. Now as, as very truth, again, every taking land for nearly 30 years by armenia, many people are packing up and leaving the area how dagenham it has more from lashing. Very few people here at the moment, weve barely seen any civilians. Weve seen some of the armenians who had stayed here to defend the area. You probably see behind me, theres also the russian peacekeepers. Theyve been deploying. Massed, weve seen huge convoys of them along the road. Now. The lachine district is the last one. To be handed over, it was actually the 1st one to be captured by the armenians back in the early 1990 s. Simply because it is the lifeline of nagornokarabakh of the is this one road that goes all the way from armenia from gori is the border town all the way to stick by my character and that one is going to stay open for axis only civilian armenian civilians. And it will be under the protection of the russian peacekeepers. Thats one of the reasons why i held by john another district, a bit further north from here on the western flank of nagornokarabakh was delayed in the handover simply because at the moment this road is not ready yet because it goes very closely to or near the town of shushan now in azerbaijani control. So a very complicated situation and even though this town specifically, he would stay in the hands of the armenians, but simply because its a long road. Well, the few we spoke to said they didnt trust, they would be safe. Theyve been clashes outside a south African High School where people have been protesting against racism. The school is accused of discriminating against black students to gas was used outside the capetown school, which allegedly held a graduation event where only white students and teachers attended. A school denies this and says a function was a private event, has more from near the school in cape town. A number of members about 2000 of them in fact tried to move closer to the school. You see behind me there now behind a Police Barricade, but to keep them back. Police once again fired tear gas and stun grenades. To use water cannon. To prevent these protesters from approaching the school, they say only 500. 00 protesters are a would be allowed through. And the sized piece, which is why we see this Police Barricade in the heavy police presence. Protesters here have in fact been quite peaceful. And theyve also accused police of being heavy handed. Theyre also apart from targeting the school. Theyre also angry with police saying that theyre racist and they wouldnt respond in the same manner to white protesters or if marches were white, it wouldnt be the same scenario. So people here are angry. Now timothy, the target is bracken file high school, which they accuse of racism. This goes back to a function that was how the year in function for final year students, once the official trance and interview function was canceled by the school because of covert 19 restrictions. It appears as if students had their own private function. This is what the school is saying. But there are black students at the school who say theyve been discriminated against, and none of them were invited to this function they wont allow to attend. Weve also heard a number of former and prison students say that this goes back years and this is a school with has been a lack of integration, a lack of black teachers. And theres a greater problem of racism at the school. The school has demanded that it has rules were admitted that some work has to be done in that theyre now listening to all black students feel still ahead. On this aljazeera news hour, Mexicos Senate opposes a cannabis, legit, legalese ation. Bill. But it still faces head off before doors are fully open for business. And well hear from the champion scare me, kyla shefrin, as she prepares to race for the 1st time in 300 days. Thats coming up in sports with peter. Do stay with us. Were back after this very short hello, the arabian sea is quite active at the moment. This master class, he will resolve itself, i think, into a circulation ceasar culture. And the whole of africa to model a few shows to form in yemen and amman as well. And then from the levant, across to iran. Another wave is coming through snow for the iranian mountains, sunder storms, rain showers for iraq and the tail often society and the change back to cooler weather. But sunshine is showers in the levantine coast, and that of sea continues east was with afghanistan getting more of the significant snow. But a breeze picks up down the gulf there hoss 29. I think youll feel the breeze in that. And heres the rain down in yemen. But you know where the main rain is this times a year . Its a line roughly speaking from zanzibar westwards, but look how far it stretches. This is the time the year when the Okavango Delta gets full of right. Well, thats it, and theres rain certainly around here, and it stretches down through botswana to the heart of south africa. Doesnt affect cape town, whose temperature has just dropped with a change in wind direction. However, when talk just to the west, youve had your rains. I think so weve got 32 degrees or thereabouts, next 3 days, little wind, and plenty of sunshine. Tell me out here in london, brutal path and teeth that dont get income the day. The american states that been, theyve been unprompted uninterrupted. All of these, these divisions of the working class of working people and they keep us from realizing our collective power holmy, homemade. Then if you obey them all of the 30 years, you begin to work with it and believe it has power over your last great date. They are. d held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison cell, denied the right to a fair trial. No charges have been brought against al jazeera correspondent. Youre saying his crime journalism to demand my true thinks and boy solidarity with all detained journalists. Sign the petition. d free 100 percent the eve of the we play you watching the news hour on aljazeera with me for you. Back to bill, i remind our top stories. The United Nations has called on ethiopias warring sides to stop fighting immediately. So aid can come in and refugee safe zones can be set up. The government launch an offensive against a grey enforces in the north 2 weeks ago. Thousands have fled to neighboring, so don ugandan president ial candidate bobby wind has been granted bail after being charged for flouting coronavirus restrictions. At least 28. 00 people have been killed in protests over is attention during an Election Campaign rally. And us president elect joe bidens, victory in the state of georgia, has been confirmed in a recount. But president , trump is still refusing to admit defeat in the coronavirus fun demick now and a number of east Asian Countries hailed for their early successes in handling the pandemic. Are now seeing a shop increase in cases. Japan is on its highest alert after a record rise in daily infections of more than 2300. Its never had a full lockdown in the public decide on following social distancing rules. South korea is on the brink of another wave, is registered more than 300 new cases, a 3 month high. The Prime Minister is urging people to minimize end of year aunties and stay home as much as possible. And in china, Community Transmission is reemerging for more domestically infected over 1000 patients have been detected in Northern City of changi in the area is now being classified as highways and in the philippines. Nurses are opposing a government ban on taking work abroad as they say they have the right to pursue work overseas, but the government wants them to stay during the pandemic. Jermaine alynda gun reports from manila. Gary, good admits working as a nurse in manila feels like a struggle for survival. For more than 10 years, hes earned around 400. 00 a month. And this is barely enough to support his family. Gary has been accepted to work as a nurse in ireland for 6000. 00 a month, a salary that is unimaginable to earn here. The Philippine Government in april barred nurses and other medical workers from leaving seeing they were needed to fight the crew in a virus crisis. A told me working abroad is not make us any less of a patriotic citizen of this country. For me, it is absolutely a hero week act. We are just human and we also have this goals in over lives. The salary here is not to sustain the needs of our families. Gary is among the thousands of filipino nurses who have called themselves prison nurses. They started an Online Campaign to petition the government to reverse its position. They say it is tantamount to forced servitude. Filipino nurses are some of the most sought after Health Workers in the world. But this fight, this a global study shows that nurses in the philippines receive one of the lowest salaries in southeast asia. The pandemic has highlighted the plight of nurses in the country. And i mean nurses theres no one number one nurse to 200 patients. If the government wants to really improve the situation here, they need to hire thousands of nurses in government hospitals. Some are nurses who now work in Different Industries like call centers because these jobs simply pay better. Nurses are calling for the chapel band to be removed and for salaries of all nurses in the country to be raised. But the Philippine Government is defending its decision. It says about 75 percent of cities and towns across the country, lack Health Workers, and it needs to keep the current pool of Health Workers. Here during a pandemic, Health Workers tell us no one wants to leave their home country. If there are fair opportunities for all, and most of them had to borrow money or sell their land in order to afford to go abroad. Now deep in debt, they see the government stands is denying them the opportunity to have a better life. Dugan aljazeera manila, spains Prime Minister says a substantial part of the population will be vaccinated against over 1000. 00 in the 1st half of next year. That will, sanchez said, his government will unveil a cold virus vaccination plan, excuse day, spain, as the 2nd highest number of infections in the European Union with more than 42000 deaths and over one and a half 1000000 cases. Now the World Health Organization has removed the viral drug rem, disappear from its list of recommended medicines for patients in hospital with over 19. Its another setback for the manufacturers. Gilliatt after the drug received early attention as a potential treatment of the latest suggests. It has little or no effect on survival rates or reducing hospital stays for infected patients. 3 days of mourning have been declared in sadly as the leader of the countrys Orthodox Christian church died. After contracting corona virus, a triac became ill after attending the funeral of a senior cleric who also died of cold the 19. The 19 year old was a staunch conservative with broad political influence. He opposed the independence of kosovo, seen by serbs as the birthplace of serbian Orthodox Christianity, because of all broke away from serbia after a civil war in the 1990 s. Now the world famous observatory, in puerto rico, is set to shut down ending 57 years of scientific work. It played a key role in discovering the 1st span it outside our solar system and helped us traumas identify i thought, so awards heading towards earth. The u. S. National Science Foundation that owns a facility made the decision after 2 major cables broke, causing significant damage. Lets speak to francisco, diego about this is Senior Research fellow at the department of physics. In astronomy, at University College london, he joins us on skype from london. Thank you so much francisco. Always good to have you on here. So weve had hundreds of astronomers posting messages of sadness online using the hashtag. What men means to me, what it has meant, tell us more about the major discoveries using this telescope. It has been a very iconic instrument for many years. The Largest Telescope in the world until the chinese came only these year with the short firefight, 100 meters across, but then a siebel telescope on nearly 60 years of, of use its causing a fascinating telescope. Discovering, for example, one of the main discoveries you need was the fastest us on a planet which you seem to think to see planets orbiting poles arse, which was something i couldnt believe that you could discover that with the, with a, with a telescope like this one and that was made in they, and i mean much before they, they, that they are, its all a plan as well discovered by other means. And he has also managed to, to make sure the, their rotation of the planet meant pretty to the scope of the molecule, seen other galaxies with a powerful, loutish, that the house also tomorrow, near thought near for me to head, for with us to know its writing, name, danger, collision with the earth. So thats has being a major, major, think to do with the some may think that this quote says, im a 30000 actually. Yeah. Maybe not a chief yet that im very sad. A lot of people sad about this. I know that engineers scramble to try to preserve the structure. Why couldnt they fix it . What, what went wrong . Well, he has been many years and we have to remember puerto rico is a subject to hurricane season. Here the in the, in the got to be on, on high winds, some humidity, no doubt these, cuz taking up toll in the, in those in destruction which is made out of concrete. We see the vertical people are so holding the cables and these cables out Holding Basic structure that we see now in the images here, which is about 80000 kilograms in weight. Thats caused the, the secondary mirror on that mission. Optics, on all these structure has being knocked out software because of all these years in the, in the couric and the area, not also the telescope, proper organisms. Weve with funding in the last 20 years, there have been problems with funding where the national Science Foundation and scientists got being a pushing to keep the telescope going on. David, these top couple of accidents happening just a few weeks ago with 2 cables broken produce these enormous holes that we see here. When i see this damage, i see a well, i wish it could be kreskin because these are not the structure that still sound. But i dont know, probably the engineers have already assess the situation and then the funding available change of administration in the United States. There are so many things and i need to play, but we will see how calm things develop. Thank you so much. Francisco decker for talking to us about this vietnam is threatening to shut down facebooks operations in the country unless it blocks more content from government. Critics, according to the reuters news agency. Earlier this year, the social media giant gave in to pressure to increase censorship of posts which criticize the state. But the government wants further restrictions. Rights groups and opposition activists have long accused facebook of putting profits before human rights in a country where more than half of the population off facebook uses. China has warned it will respond if the u. S. Continues to send senior officials to taiwan. The chinese Foreign Ministry says it opposes all official interactions between washington and taipei. It was announced that the head of the u. S. Environmental Protection Agency will visit the island. Its the 3rd such top level visit since august. E. U. Leaders are not in a budget standoff. Putting 850000000000. 00 Coronavirus Relief package in jeopardy crisis talks were held at a Virtual Summit after poland and hungary vetoed the budget. Earlier this week, the 2 countries brought adoption of the Recovery Plan over a cross that ties funding with. Adhering to the rule of law, paul brennan has more from london. Well the 2 countries that are the foremost of this veto threat, poland and hungary, its been pointed out that they did actually agree to this provision of rule of law mechanism back in july. And so the diplomats are rather disappointed that poland and hungary have chosen to take this stance. Now at this late stage, its important, dont forget that the total package is in excess of 2. 00 trillion dollars, dollars worth. And any delay will cause a knock on delay for disbursement of those e. U. Funds. Once the new budget starts a new budgetary year starts next year. But the concern is that poland and hungary are not exactly comfortable bedfellows with the rest of the European Union when it comes to issues of law and order. Since 2015, when the polish government changed and the new law and order party, good lord, Justice Party came in. Theyve been accused of, for example, interfering in the judiciary impacting on media plurality policies which impact unfavorably towards minorities and vulnerable groups. And you can see that thats not going to, well, it hasnt gone down very well with the european parliament. The fact that so they want to have some kind of leverage over poland and hungary. Its important to say its only leverage if the rule of law impacts on the e. U. Financially, so as not in an abstract sense, its own financial policies. Mexicos senate has overwhelmingly opposed to a ban to make it to use marijuana legislation needs to pass for congress, but the vote is seen as a 1st serious attempt to move allies cannabis in a country thats become the tories for its drug war. John heilemann reports makes kerrys been grappling for years with how to regulate this one. Its been illegal for decades while the war against drugs has raged. Now, a new law approved by the senate, which still has to go through congress, proposes legalizing production and consumption with quite a lot of restrictions. I dont would be able to buy up to 28 grams of pole and cultivate food plants for personal use. It could also be imported an export it with a license. This grower, now producing illegally is cool to mystic. If you happen to have a book here and so i decided to grow because im a consumer 1st, and i think that right now the conditions in which marijuana is produced and distributed in our country is very violent and very corrupt. And thats the key question. Legalizing marijuana, if it makes cars, cartels and gangs who currently run the business. The common consensus is no kind of his production is just a small part of their portfolio which includes meth, then to new cocaine and other rockets. Like extortion of a look at this, these kind of these plants are actually being grown right in front of make scary senate by marijuana activists who are trying to raise awareness with whats going on. And they have another big question, and its this group, or communities in the rural hills of mexico that currently grow their crops for the no case. Now get the chance to go legal. And on paper, under this law, it seems like they will because 40 percent of the licenses to grow marijuana in the 1st 5 years that legalization a reserve. But there its, but in practice, things could work differently in the mountains. Minimal risk that if you, as a local peasant prince and say i will only produce legally, now i want to make a living in a listen to legal terms that you will not get away with. Because there is frank power off, organized crime with groups in those areas. And the most likely scenario is unfortunately, that if you have a new look at your market coming into play, that they will try and probably succeed in getting their hands on. The new proceeds on them, your profits, the fear of marijuana activists is that the law will actually only help International Corporations get into the mix car market. And so to richer urban consumers, well elsewhere, the street could have business continues is normal. But in a socially conservative country, really talk of drug legalization is deeply controversial to senators and the kurds. Hope this could be the start of change. John homan, mexico city, millions of people in brooklyn, a fast so will head to the polls on sunday. But activists say the ongoing violence will make it difficult for the countrys 6000000 registered voters to cast their ballots, even if they wanted to. And i did, race has our report but i want to tell the and her family fled the villages to you after a night attack by gunman. Although the family was lucky to make it to a good to good life. Many other villages did not. The mother of 4 says she fled without identity documents and without them would get a say in the elections. I dont have a birth certificate and dont know how to get one. I need to get a new National Identity card which will allow me to receive my voter card. I wont be able to vote on sunday because theres nothing that proves im from burkina faso. Shes one of hundreds of thousands of broken, obvious who have lost Voting Rights because of the violence sweeping across the west african nation. Attacks by armed groups in 2015 marked the beginning of a violent campaign. Baloch aida. I solenn that feeling. Its that a self, i killed thousands and displaced more than a 1000000 people. In particular, a School Activists say about 1600 communities have been uprooted because of the attacks against civilians and blocking of us the security forces. Its a difficult situation, its complicated and its the 1st time in history this many people will be disenfranchised, but its the reality not because they dont want to vote, but simply because they cant say more than 400000. 00, new voters could be added to the register this year. Because of the violence and widespread displacement, the Elections Commission has already given up on conduct in the polls and hundreds of villages across the country. Back at the shelter for the delos too much as only one wish that whoever becomes president after sundays vote will end the violence so that they can go back to build their lives. Not an impossible dream, but like millions of other victims of the violence sweeping the sahara region of west africa, the family may have to wait a bit longer to see this dream come true. The uns acting in libya, envoy has told Security Council members. Hes optimistic, peace may be achievable, it comes out to rival diplomatic point. This is the 1st Security Council meeting since developments in libya that the u. N. Say may be a breakthrough. A fragile cease fire is now in place. And the talks in tunis, weve seen the beginnings of a peace deal, the supposed to lead to elections in about 2 years time. I am optimistic about the way forward in libya, yet clear about economic challenges that lie ahead. 10 years of war cannot be solved in one week of political talks that we hear more now the language of peace rather than the language of war. For the sake of libya, 75 libyans came together in tunis last week in a good faith effort to start the process of healing their nations. But do a search from the well respected International Crisis group whose follow developments in libya during its last decade of conflict. So as the very many challenges ahead should not be underestimated. Heightened by the fact that now were not seeing open conflict, not entirely optimistic that weve seen the end. This may devastating destruction or self destruction of the country by the hands of the libyans themselves. Its too early to say that whether the country will come out of this Enormous Economic recession that it has suffered, whether theyll be able to go beyond. The ideological divides that still cut through the country. The problems are among the libyans. Theres been no agreement on a new Prime Minister or a unified presidency council. As proposed by the u. N. The country remains divided. The Prime Minister in tripoli fires also. Raj has indicated hes prepared to stand down in ben garcia generationally for after has made no such pledge. And as the big issue of foreign involvement under the cease fire deal on Libyan Forces was supposed to leave the country. But early next year. If you are hopeful that will be achieved under the deal thats been done, the un is supposed to provide more letters to be deployed in libya to observe the cease fire that will need a u. N. Security council agreement. Negotiations be difficult. One member of the council, a permanent member of russia, has nationals in libya, working for wagner. What many consider a mercenary company thats been fighting on the side of general hafta . James pays aljazeera at the United Nations defending champion for the americas cup trophy in campus. Thank you very much. Understand why leon . Angry at being the focus of even more controversy at the club may say who tried to leave at the end of last season has been accused of running a reign of terror for the former agents. Griezmann. He was mobbed by reporters after returning from International Duty with argentina and said he was tired of being blamed for all problems at the club. Barcelona play at lessingham madrid on sunday. Premier lovell, i can understand leos anger. I think we should have more respect for him. I think its disrespectful to ask him about one right after a long flight. So this could be the medias intention to create a controversy. Teenager yusuf mukoko is set to become the youngest ever been in this league a player in germany. He turned 16 today and has been given clearance to play for brasil dortmund in a game against her to bill and on saturday. Because it is a strike in a scored an incredible 141 goals in 88 youth matches for dortmund since 2017. He was born in cameroon, but raised in germany. Greek lobel. And he are courses accused fever. And some african countries are failing to protect players from covert 19 during recent International Matches to olympiakos players contracted the virus while playing afghan qualifiers including their top scorer usaf l. R r b on duty with morocco. These are pictures of morocco training earlier this month, but africas governing body carefully as defended its protocols, saying theyd achieve the desired results. Egypt mohamed sylar her also called covert 19, shortly after attending his brothers wedding in cairo, where he was pictured without a face mask dancing with dozens of people, missed both egypt games and will miss at least one little match. But his manager, youre going flop as the fended him. Her brothers wedding is a very special moment where i can say about my players. They are incredibly disciplined. They really know about the situation, but sometimes it doesnt work out like this and something happens. And now we have a situation we are in, but all the rest is just between moore and me. A 2nd member of south africas cricket squad has tested positive for covert 1000 head of a limited over series against england. The unnamed player has been moved away from the hotel where both teams are staying and placed in isolation. Despite the 2 cases, the series is set to go ahead and will be south africas 1st International Action for 8 months in than have reported no positive coverage. 90 missiles, colombian golfer camilla b. J. Guess is the lead of the r. S. M. Classic tournaments on the p. G. A. To adjust 4 months off to the death of his daughter. 22 month old mia was battling brain and spine tumors when she died in july. Jagers took a break from competitive golf, but hes now played a few tournaments and with these brother as hes caddy. He produced a flawless round on thursday, which included 6 birdies. It was kind nice this morning. I go on the range and see a little rainbow out there because i think you have me on so a little, lets have a good one. When im out there, its so focused. Theres so much going on, especially under these conditions. And they were my brother and you just follow it through a process a show, it doesnt distract me. But like i said when i, when i got on the range and i saw a rainbow, mean a listen here it is. She love colors and rainbows, and my wife was all about it and it was cool. It was, he was a nice wage. So the, the draw for next years womens Rugby World Cup is taking place a little seed 2 of the games field. Since tribals faced each other in the pool stage, i whole i was so new zealand kicked out the draw. What australia a strange and new zealands Prime Minister just in the arden had a hand in putting defending champions and hosts new zealand alongside australian pool. A 2021 competition will take place in the Southern Hemisphere for the 1st time when it kicks off in september. Yeah, im unsure of a lot of my time. Ive never been in a pool of australia, but every time we come up against each other at a mess of bedouin, no doubt, next year is going to be nothing different to the mens Rugby Championship and argentina are looking to build on their incredible win over new zealand, the pumas, stunned at the rugby world with a 2515 victory last week in sydney with their 1st ever win over the all blacks. There were a lot of emotions on show and their coach wants them to keep that intensity against australia on saturday. We dont want to change, and i think you motions are a very good thing. And passions are a good thing. But i thought there was a lot of control to the way we play there was a lot of this is the way we should be playing. American skier, michela shift for news, preparing to return to racing for the 1st time in 300. 00 days. The 2 time olympic and 3 time world cup overall champion will in the longest break of a career at livi in finland on saturday, shift and hasnt raced since january the 26th because of her fathers unexpected death. And then the coronavirus pandemic, if you like, racing is actually going to be a break from going on vacation, which is not really how i used to think about it. But right now its like im so grateful to be here. And im really excited to just get in the start gate again. I am incredibly angry, but not about the way last season. And im angry that my dad. I mean, grieve that. I dont know. I mean, you know how alone i feel most days and, but then on the side i am incredibly grateful that i have my mom near me. So i asked and will finish with the oldest trophy in sports sailings, americas cup defending champions. Team new zealand have launched a new yacht, which they hope will help them retain the cup which will take place in oakland next year. Before that challenging teams from italy, britain and the United States will race each other in january and the winner will take on new zealand in the main event in march. Thats where well leave it for now. Ill be here again later with more sports news for me. Thank you very much. Well see you a little later. Of course, thats it for this news hour on aljazeera to say were still. Weve got plenty more world news coming up after this. Very short break back in a moment. In under a year cope with 19 has altered societies and exposed deficiencies in political, social, and economic structure of capitalism is the pandemic back in the root cause of so much of this number of apps and big data which old could literally save our lives, can be the headline has the pandemic given us the chance to reevaluate our world all hail the lockdown coming soon on out to 0 on college and the cost sam be a, becomes the 1st african nation to the fall from its debts of the pandemic era. But us debts pile up, Central Banks think the unthinkable. Negative Interest Rates plus brazil is dumped out of the rankings of the worlds top 10, economies. Countering the cost of aljazeera. France once had, a vast empire spanning several continents. But by the 1940, s. , the french were forced to confront reality and to moms from dependence. And a fast part of a new documentary series, aljazeera looks at how the colonial unrest, through conflict in ontario, and full scale war in indochina, led into his french to colonise ation on aljazeera. Aljazeera right will ever meet i am i so don prepares for an influx of more refugees from ethiopia, the u. N. Warns that it could be overwhelmed. 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