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Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240712

A number far greater than was previously reported. As virus cases rise in bangladesh corruption is fueling fears of getting safe treatment in hospital. Also the mollies process leaders refused to back down on demands for the president s resignation and dismiss regional mediation efforts. One of americas most famous civil rights activists congressman john lewis has died at the age of 80 he was among the last surviving pioneers of the movement during the 1960 s. He helped to organize the march on washington where Martin Luther king delivered his historic i have a dream speech nearly 60 years later the dream of Racial Justice is ongoing black lives matter protests sparked by the death of george. Floyd to being violently suppressed by the police in the city of Portland Oregon overnight on friday federal agents fired tear gas at Peaceful Protesters the state of oregon is now suing over the use of force statues have been toppled and some Police Officers sacked during months of protests across the u. S. The Confederate Flag has in effect been banned from all military sites we begin our coverage with this report from Heidi Joe Castro looking back at the life and legacy of the civil rights leader we can argue about we can argue about. Who john lewis was born into the segregated world of rural alabama in 1940 when i was growing up i saw those signs that said white men colored men white women colored women white the son of black sharecroppers lewis devoured books as a child the words of dr Martin Luther king jr spoke to him loudest seem like he was saying to me john lewis you too can do something. And i would ask my mother as my father my grandparents my great grandparents why segregation why Racial Discrimination it was the best way it is dont get in a way dont get in trouble but trouble would find him many times as a student leader in nashville tennessee lewis was beaten for peacefully protesting segregation at restaurants and on buses in selma Alabama Police cracked his skull as he led a 600. 00 marchers across a bridge. But thats. What it was at age 23 lewis was the youngest leader of the march on washington 2 years later president Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights act into law protecting black americans from discrimination at the polls the act would foreshadow lewiss own political career he was elected to the u. S. House of representatives in 1986 his consistent defense of human rights during his decades of service earning him the title the conscience of Congress John r. Lewis as did in 2011 lewis received the medal of freedom from barack obama the nations 1st black president a moment lewis called amazing and unbelievable and in 2016 he was honored at the opening of the National Museum of africanAmerican History the museum lewis had proposed nearly 30 years prior but even then the statesmans work was not done louis continued to champion liberal causes Like Universal Health care and the rights of undocumented immigrants. Never been more than remembered as both fiercely partisan toward his Democratic Party and a fiercely independent louiss legacy is his bravery in the face of perceived injustice have this body. About things that us all right so good so necessary if youre willing to die for. You not a for your own freedom right now following his mentor Martin Luther king jr to his final rest john lewis was the last of the great civil rights leaders that shaped modern American History leaving another tall shadow for the next generation to fill. Well people from across the political spectrum have been paying tribute to john lewis the former u. S. President barack obama on twitter is that not many of us get to live to see our own legacy play out in such a meaningful remarkable way john lewis did as we mentioned earlier protests calling for an end to racism and Police Violence continue in the United States his role brunells on the events unfolding in Portland Oregon as knightly protests over systemic racism and Police Violence continue in portland a disturbing new development has emerged this week witnesses say federal agents in unmarked vans are grabbing protestors off the streets and detaining them without clear cause. This video shows a man being grabbed by armed men in military fatigues without name tags and without any indication of what agency they work for he is marched to a vehicle and driven away several protesters say they were grabbed put in cells in the federal courthouse and then let go without being placed under arrest or charged with any offense that it will marshals denied any knowledge of the incidents and the department of Homeland Security has refused to comment in an interview on friday Oregon Governor kate brown says she wants President Trump to pull federal agents out of her state earlier brown said the armed agents were making the situation worse. Trump troops in portland are definitely not the answer as we saw this only escalates the tension. And we need dialogue and deescalation trump has boasted about how federal officers he deployed routed portland demonstrators i guess we have many people right now in jail and we very much quelled it and of it so its again well quality again very easily acting Homeland Security secretary chad wolf called the protesters lawless an archivist says oregon democratic senator ron wyden accused trump and wolf of provoking violence for political gain the demonstrators focus has been on the downtown area federal courthouse which falls outside local Police Jurisdiction 6 federal officers there have fired tear gas smoke grenades and socalled nonlethal munitions at protesters in one incident widely viewed online a federal agent fired on a protester hitting him in the head with a projectile and leaving blood on the pavement the man 26 year old donovan loved bella needed surgery and is hospitalized in serious condition rob reynolds aljazeera. Irans president says 25000000 iranians have now been infected by the coronavirus thats more than a quarter of the countrys population rouhani says another 35000000 are at risk and those figures from the Health Ministry are far higher than the official number iran is the hardest hit country across the middle east with nearly 14000 deaths. As no car to get a viral mohammed one of the most important matters is that here is to medical recommendations and social distancing to limit the spread of the corona virus according to the ministry of health estimates 20 5000000. 00 iranians have been infected with the coronavirus so far and we have lost about 14000. 00 of them within 150. 00 days it is possible that 30. 00 to 35000000. 00 citizens are at risk to be infected in the coming period this means that the number of patients who will be hospitalized will double it is possible that the virus will continue until march ok well get to send us ravi our correspondent in tehran in about 30 seconds or so but lets just look and offset those new figures coming to us out of tehran as we get ready to drill down into them compared to the official figures that we get of course from the Johns Hopkins tracking device its a really good resource its a global ready reckoner of the figures there you are you can see the figure for iran total confirmed cases just over 269000. 00 lets have a look at the official death toll as well there you can see in white top right 13791 lets bring in zain bus ravi our correspondent in tehran so zain unpack these numbers for us how do we read them. Well peter its been about an hour or 2 since president Hassan Rouhani spoke at todays coronavirus taskforce meeting and since then theres been an attempt by some of the members of his task force this is made up of dozens of Health Officials as well as security folks and politicians and now his secretary of his Science Committee on this task force has tried to clarify what the president was talking about he said that the figure that president Hassan Rouhani was referring to of 25000000 people infected includes those individuals who were given blood tests for antibodies so people who had contracted the virus technically but hadnt shown any symptoms hadnt been referred to more for more medical care and were only given blood tests not a swab test for the corona virus but they did come out positive for the antibodies he also said that irans official infection rate is taken from people who are hospitalized have obvious symptoms and test positive for the p. C. R. Test so perhaps what president Hassan Rouhani was trying to say is not necessarily infected but how many have been exposed and how many more could be exposed and how this remains a very dangerous virus for the iranian public now this could be to create some kind of shock value for the public today is the start of one week of additional lockdown in the capital tehran cities across the country that have been seeing the virus resurgent have been having similar lockdowns and in tehran we start today one week of a lockdown similar to what we saw months ago across the country but whether this was a gaffe by the president or a purposeful flair of being shot as a warning to the iranian public one thing remains true that iran remains the worst affected country in the middle east whether its a gaffe or a change of tack i guess doesnt matter but its definitely a change of chuen on the parts of the government because in the early days of the pandemic there were accusations killing of a lack of transparency and now we seem to be getting a totally different picture. Thats absolutely right peter if you remember going back 4 months 5 months when we were having these conversations iran was really in a position of pitting the economy against a Public Health crisis and that has remained their footing throughout this response throughout the response to the outbreak if you recall in the early days when president s and ronnie made one of his 1st public addresses about the virus he said it would probably be over in a matter of 3 days the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini characterized it as a nonemergency slowly but surely they were forced to recognize that this was a massive pandemic that it was a major Public Health crisis not just internally in iran but across the world and they have adjusted accordingly but even months in to this pandemic in iran there were debates and discussions there were public spats between municipal political leaders and the National Government in tehran about how the numbers werent accurate when the Virus Outbreak began in this country wasnt accurate that the government wasnt coleading numbers accurately enough that the methodology was off and there were is even a member of the task force internally in into iran that acknowledged that the numbers are likely far higher than the official statistics actually tell so what were seeing is because of this back and forth iranians didnt necessarily take the pandemic very seriously contributed to the spread of the virus all over the country we saw the lockdown being lifted a few months ago and that has made things resurgent and weve seen just earlier this month the peak death toll being achieved records being broken consistently day after day so president and ronny here clearly whether it was a gaffe or not trying to send a message to the iranian people that they keep they need to keep taking this virus seriously ok they will leave it there many things correspondent reports month from the news from tehran. Plenty more still to come for you here on out to 0 including a difficult negotiation leaders meet for a 2nd day to reach a deal on the coronavirus economic recovery front and. Also ahead hospitals in brazil struggling to cope with the worlds 2nd worst Virus Outbreak. And in the sports news one of the crickets most high profile competitions might require a new temporary home all the details in about 30 minutes. The president of the European Council has offered a compromise to break the deadlock over the e. U. Economic Recovery Fund shell michels revised the amount paid out in grants to countries in need of stimulus money e. U. Leaders are holding a 2nd day of negotiations in brussels to find a way to pull the european economy out of what could be its deepest recession since the 2nd world war talks on friday 14 hours of them ended without an agreement here are the main sticking points now leaders are divided over an overall proposed 858000000000. 00 coronavirus Recovery Fund theyre struggling to agree on whether it should be distributed as grants or as a loan be used for biggest economies france germany italy and spain want most of the money to be paid as grants rather than loans but the leaders of the netherlands austria denmark and the swedes to have urged a more frugal approach pressing for more money in the loans meanwhile hungary and poland well those 2 countries object to the proposal being tied to democratic reforms and human rights lets talk now to alric broker hes a political analyst and a professor for European Studies at stanford in berlin he joins us from the greek capital athens already broken or good to talk to you again whats the difference between the compromise and what they started talking about yesterday. Well i think what we observe is a state that we got used to since the founding of the European Union and given the fact that its not a state or a federal organization but an organization consisting of sovereign states we have to observe this summit situation in which everyone is fighting for a National Interest in the end of the long and intense conversations we find a compromise and then everyone appears in the press conference as a window do you think the e. U. Was possibly being a little bit overly ambitious when it said to certain countries in the mix youve got to peg this money to human rights reforms well before co rolling out this sounded like the new approach nots related to the Recovery Fund but for the 7 years financial forecasts as they put it to the negotiation costs and put everything in 1. 00 package for the next 7 years which is about a trillion euros and the idea was to not appear as a tiger that kind of bite but an organization that has leverage to enforce the rule of law and democracy and specifically in countries like poland and hungary and now it appears that its basically the Prime Minister of hungary or bonn will black mayor of the European Union for either drop it completely or do you find conditions that are easy to afford to travel to the list of the sticking points that we went through just before you and i started this conversation which is the weaker one or the weakest one when it comes to the rest of the e. U. Perhaps compromising so it can get an agreement signed and start interacting it. Well the fact that we have so many dividing lines sounds like a very complex and complicated situation but at the same time it allows that everyone who gets something and then it doesnt appear as he is the one who is the Crucial Point and the others are sort of a minor importance then martin for example wants to cut the total amount and then they return home and say we save taxpayers money and the balance between grants and loans that appeared to be a very heated conversation but also it leads to a compromise that can just be a balance of numbers but i think what matters the most of that is the fact that everyone agrees that we are in such a difficult situation with co now that its not about if we do it but we will do it and so in the end the surprising results will not be an entirely new thing or. The failure of the negotiations but everyone will get something and can present it as i want and that can return home and. The opposition the years if we ignore the magnitude and the importance of the issue on the table that theyre trying to agree on here going into this summit we had angle a cool and emmanuel macro clearly signaling this is a defining moment for the European Union is what were seeing at some level critics of the European Union might say an inherent flaw in the e. U. Because the bigger it gets the bigger the talking shop gets and the more diverse interests are brought to the table and clearly Prime Ministers president s Foreign Ministers that they want to go back home and say i got the best deal for my country. But it perfectly describes the situation we are human but the finance minister of germany calls the fact that we extend the level of expenditure on a european level of like that the School Policy equivalent often already centralize Monetary Policy to such a number at like 2 perce

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