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Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240713

Left brain dead. Former colonies warlord known as the terminator is sentenced to 30 years in prison for murder rape and conscripting child soldiers. And sports Sonny Bill Williams a saw in the biggest deal in rugby or Rugby League History to new zealand has agreed a contract with the transfer will spark was close to 7000000. 00. Chiles president has announced tough new measures in an effort to stop 3 weeks of antigovernment protests descending into more rioting and looting president Sebastian Pinera is proposing nors to congress to toughen penalties for looting and acts of violence especially about people hiding their faces with goods and mosques or did protesters attacked upscale areas of the capital santiago on wednesday a series of concert concessions a failed to pacify the protesters who were angry at economic inequality. In america to understand human is live from the train capital santiago those are bodies measures make any difference you think. Lauren at this hour there are more and more protesters coming precisely to the if you like them or affluent center of santiago this is where the big business offices are where set must camping out of the president s office. From where i am right now and just about 20 meters behind me you are can see the water cannon and the tear gas trucks position there theyve just been dispersing protesters in front of the castaneda center which in some ways is the symbol of all feeling to this country which is precisely why the protesters have come here and a little bit to my right we understand that some looters are trying to break pharmacies and other shops so it is quite chaotic it certainly hasnt stopped people from continuing to gather but some people believe it was necessary because the level of violence is out of control the president said you cannot have social improvement social reforms without having peace but the others say that this is just an attempt to pacify some of his own sense of his own Political Base which is becoming more and more edgy as the protesters get closer and closer to their own part of town until a just 2 days ago this was a kind of an oasis in the middle of all the chaos weve been seeing all over some cabin indeed the most of the country for the last 3 weeks in fact today is we could number 3 since all this began barring i would imagine the kind of efforts to try to contain the way the the prepurchase a handled by the Security Forces is there anything on that side is being offered to the protests as. Well. Well exactly that is the problem and that is one of the big criticisms why didnt the president also announced measures and the 10 measures he announced none of them had to do with controlling what is being widely seen as the abuse of a lot of our Security Forces. Police abuse the indiscriminate use of tear gas and and its pepper gas its not just pepper spray these are hold trucks to come and spray the whole area with pepper gas also the water cannon is laced with acid this is really really you know heavy stuff lauren and of the pellets that are hitting people many people have lost their eyesight and he has not spoken out and are genitally about that and that is one of the criticisms that were hearing at this hour as the president prepares to meet with the National Security council of chile for the 1st time since 2014 so this is a very serious situation and you see here in this kind of level of destruction how much impact is it having on on on the economy is that measurable so far. Yes ive least 3000000000. 00 have been lost according to the government and rising all the shops in this area have been shuttered at this hour and in many other parts of the country and of the city of course the the currency chillies place or has plummeted in the last 3 weeks and sold this began and its becoming more and more difficult to maintain Economic Growth which the new finance minister said will be only 2 percent this year and it could be even lower this in human thank you very much indeed. United nations has urged bolivias government and opposition to restore dialogue and peace after a 3rd person was killed in the protests there parts of the capital or powers were lit up in the early hours of thursday as rival demonstrator groups clashed with each other am the are. Sporadic and intense demonstrations have gripped the country since the disputed election last month opposition supporters say the result was rigged to allow president ever moralez to stay on for another 5 years hes already been in power for 13 years or as has accused the opposition of trying to stage a coup and the big intense clashes between rival protestors in the bolivian town of into the mayor of the town was attacked by opposition supporters of chair was dragged through the streets barefoot covered in red paint and activists forcibly cut her hair her office was set alight and the windows of the town hall were smashed the protestors accuse the mare of having bustin supporters of the president to try to break a blockade. A bolivian protest leader has become a symbol of opposition to president even more as is on his way to lepers who is fine under commercial plans to deliver a pre written Resignation Letter morale is to sign them in their mortgages will get him what we want is for peace to return to our country and for hatred confrontation and racism among the libyans to be set aside we want to have a country with peace and hope. The Reuters News Agency is reporting that 4 protest says have also been killed killed in the Southern City of well theyre soft at least 4 antigovernment protesters were shot dead by Security Forces in iraqs capital baghdad clashes broke out there when demonstrators tried to remove barriers need into 2 bridges headed by does Security Forces says theres now a battle in use of military grade tear gas grenades on demonstrators after Amnesty International said they were used to kill protests is not just. A crackdown against unarmed protesters has killed 1260 people since on respray pat last month. The name of course from baghdad. Says he came to Tahrir Square with his brother abas is may yield on october 1st ready to push for change carried him out that day after a tear gas canister sliced open his stomach the unemployed teacher died last week from complications related to his injury they reject the thought when i hold his photo i feel like hes with me just like he came with me to the protest i want to avenge his death by playing the politics among the protesters there are people like nasir hashem trying to scrape together a living one shining shoe and one step on the scale at a time nasser says he supports the protesters but he cant afford to join them despite the crowds he says few are interested in perfectly polished shoes the father of 5 from basra has been forced to leave his family behind to work in the capital among the protesters there are people like nasir hashem trying to scrape together a living one shined shoe and one step on the scale at a time nasser says he supports the protesters but he cant afford to join them despite the crowds he says few are interested in perfectly polished shoes the father of 5 from bus. Has been forced to leave his family behind to work in the capital its a very difficult situation there are no jobs if you have money to bribe someone he will get a job if you dont theyll tell you to go the oil rich province of basra has been the scene of violent protests people block the entrance to the port halting operations for days the government says thats cost iraq more than 6000000000. 00 protesters say that revenue is being looted by the government they are getting is for services pollution and cancer. Intact rear there is a congenial spirit as people bond over their love of iraq and their common cause to create a government that is responsive to their needs people are coming here to offer their Services Free of charge salem says he supports 3 families but he felt compelled to help in the one way he knew how now i want to head up on i came here with a group of friends to look off to the protesters so they can continue we try to provide them with everything food so they dont go on friday Tahrir Square could see its largest crowds yet protesters are encouraging iraqis to come in memory of those whove been killed according to the u. N. About 300. 00 people have been killed since the protests began on october 1st the talks are going to Ayman Al Jazeera baghdad. Anonymous protests have been taking place in guinea and against the president s plans to change the constitution it comes days after 2 people were killed during a funeral procession for 11 People Killed in earlier demonstrations as widespread anger at president his plans to alter the constitution of the west african nation so that he can run for a 3rd term in next years elections then if he does still will put the give them regulations to the. Theyre here because they did to take the risk the risk of getting killed in the risk of being a risk to put in prison because when we go to a peaceful protest of the reign of this president we know that nothing can be ruled out as it was during the funeral of the victims. Lets return to our story about bolivia and we can speak now to Catherine Ledbetter whos a director of the Andean Information Network joins us from cochabamba thank you for being with us so we were in a program these dramatic pictures of a mare in bolivia being dragged through the streets war times a bit about what happened and why there was that escalation there. Well weve been having since. October 20th elections road blockades from people who demand the resignation of bolivian president evo morales and attempts to break the blockades in clashes between. Protesters that support and theres a lot of tension and there has been a lot of friction and there is a. Although it didnt initially start this way Class Divisions a racist element that part of it on the right the mayor that you saw are was a mirror from the ruling party from a very small town and citizens of that own community burnt. The Mayors Office and and beat her and forced her to walk in humiliate her in that way so we have a an environment where there is a lot of nuance a lot of misinformation and a lot of violence and he treated and an incredible amount of or at least he had i you surprised by the level of kind of this kind of escalation of the protests or how ordinary people reacting to it when they see something as as violent as that. Well i think today there was a bit of calm after this violence and its important to note that last week there were 2 killed in montana another 30 out in confrontations in the city outside santa cruz i am quite surprised at the level of violence and the way that the discourse has deteriorated and i think that the levels of violence in bolivia are comparatively lower to other countries such as this point in time or colombia i think theres a great deal of concern and its really an uncertain outcome in a clash where i think all bolivians right now are losing what about theres an order it being carried out by the organization of american states into the results of the election and theyve been urging people to stay calm and wait for those results of people to listen to that and will people accept the results when they get them. That is not clear i mean to be you know the opposition have argued fraud and accuse proud to be the odd it is the. Means by the International Community remember the United Nations even the u. S. Trumpet ministrations accords it is a way to clarify things and a way to move forward unfortunately oppositions that man such shifted further to the right the more extremist elements of the right are now managing the discourse and there is a rejection on the part of opposition courses to even submit complaints or to engage actively in the sonnet and i and i think its assumed i think that that was the negotiated strategy out of this morass and i dont know where were going at this one ethernet of a thank you very much indeed to fail for us on the situation in bolivia appreciate your time thank you. Coming up on this news hour from london and we come to saad hariri resigned to calm lebanons protest a speaker of Parliament Says hell nominate tend to be Prime Minister again. A u. S. President is ordered to pay 2000000. 00 for misusing the Trump Foundation. And in sports south africas world cup winning rugby team kick off a 5 day victory lap of their home country. A french president Emmanuel Mccall has criticized nato describing it as brain dead and interview with the economist magazine michael warned European Countries they can no longer rely on the United States to defend the alliance he says the u. S. Under donald trump appears to be turning its back on its commitment to nato russia welcomed the comment but german chancellor Angela Merkel says she disagrees with the course quote and drastic words. Tony guard dogs is a former Georgian Deputy foreign minister he says other european nations arent likely to agree with michael whats really a moment emanuel micron wants its difficult to know because if he wants to replace nature with the idea of European Defense our i think france will be almost alone in this in this project because most of the Member States are pretty much pretty much attached to nato and their membership especially the countries of eastern and Central Europe also the other proposals are for a modern micron of the most close to russia and bring russia closer to europe and far away from china i think its also a mistake because its deeply underestimating the the the nature of the russian regime and the fact that russian regime has to fear serious much more with china than with europe. A new york judge has ordered us President Donald Trump to pay 2000000. 00 for misusing his namesake Charitable Foundation trump was found to have distributed some funds from the foundation to 2016 president ial campaign the Supreme Court judge also signed off an agreement to close the Child Foundation and says the payment should go to a group of nonprofit organizations the former National Security adviser to President Trump has failed to appear before the impeachment inquiry john bolton was formally invited to testify on thursday but his lawyer quickly made it clear that his client was unwilling to appear voluntarily bolton who was fired by trump in september says he will only be willing to testify if a federal court backs a subpoena the impeachment Investigation Centers where the President Trump abused his power by pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden whos on his request for joins us live from washington d. C. And heidi a transcript from the testimony of george kent hes a former a senior diplomat in ukraine has been released what did he say. Thats right this impeachment inquiry lauren is moving ahead at breakneck speed so theres so much to get caught up on the latest is that george can who is a state Department Employee really in charge of ukraine policy he testified days ago but now his transcripts have been has been made public and in it he says that the president s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani was quote full of lies earlier in the year when he was in ukraine trying to peddle these conspiracy theories that linked joe biden with corruption and with a Company Called charisma that trump believed should be under investigation now trump asked the president of ukraine to publicly announce these investigations at a time when joe biden was leading in the polls as a possible president ial challenger against trump in 2020 which has led democrats to the accusation that trump abuse the power of his office wanting to get political gain and of course that he was withholding close to 400000000. 00 of Ukraine Security assistance from the u. S. As leverage now while all of this has happened though impeachment investigators actually are not hearing from the primary one of the primary witnesses that they really hope to this week and that is former National Security advisor john bolton he was supposed to be on capitol hill today he was a no show and the reason that he could be so important is that he has a lot of credibility he came from the political right he was a supporter of trump and he is said to have been very concerned when he detected the existence of this rogue Foreign Policy campaign that was going through the president s personal attorney in fact previous witnesses say bolton called this a drug deal his attorneys though have said hes not appearing before congress until and unless a federal court rules saying that he has to comply that its because. The white house has told its former employees like bolton and current employees not to heed the investigators request to appear when will a judge actually rule on that and what which federal court are we talking about is it the one thats going to rule perhaps by the end of the month or is it all the way up to the u. S. Supreme court which could be you know something that goes on for mo

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