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A refugee rescue boat and the tributes pouring american Actor Chadwick Boseman who has died off to a 4 year battle with cancer it was 43. Bozeman including formula one champion. The difficulties latest poll position for the inspirational arts. Hello welcome to the news hour our top story thousands of women of marched in baton rouge to denounce state violence against protesters since a president ial vote 3 weeks ago theres been a crackdown on Peaceful Demonstrations they have also been hundreds of arrests and as mounting evidence of torture and treatment in Detention Centers now the authorities have started withdrawing accreditation from journalists with some of them expelled on saturday but it smith reports now from neighboring lithuania. The triangle looks like a crackdown on dissent in belarus these women chanting we wont forget we wont forgive a part of what they call a peacekeeping force designed to stop the intimidation of peaceful protests thousands marched in the capital minsk since Alexander Lukashenko was reelected as president earlier this month officially winning 80 percent of the vote there have been daily demonstrations several people have been killed and hundreds more injured and now the authorities have started withdrawing the accreditation of journalists working for foreign Media Outlets the government says the move was recommended by belaruss counterterrorism unit Opposition Leaders of atlanta chicken off in exile and if the way nia says shes worried about the government targeting the media on saturday she said quote the only way it will attempt to cling on to power is by fear and intimidation there was also a strong reaction from western embassies in minsk in a joint statement they said we condemn the disproportionate use of force and urge the belorussian of dorothys to stop the violence and the threats to use military force against the countrys own citizens and to release immediately and unconditionally all those unlawfully detained intimidation and prosecution based on political grounds need to stop we call on the bell original dorothys to respect the countrys International Obligations on fundamental democratic and human rights. The crackdown on journalists comes a day after e. U. Foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions on 20 senior bella russian officials this sanctions against certain list of individuals who are guilty of Human Rights Violations about the groups that is an important step and this will impose some sort of a hassle for those people on the list but the regime considers this as the cost of doing business and this wont stop them from further intimidate bellers. The e. U. Has urged russia not to intervene in belarus after president Vladimir Putin promised military support for Alexander Lukashenko. But theres no sign those in power are ready to change their approach to the opposition. When its made. The news. Well were now joined by Derek Mcdowell hes the head of your earth and central asia maple cruft a global Risk Research firm how important was it to have women out on the streets today in a women only much particularly in light of these accusations by the government that this Popular Movement is being fueled by foreigners in extremis. Well i mean women have become the symbol of this uprising or rebellion or protest movement. We saw early on of the president ial elections. Became a candidate almost by default you know she didnt put herself forward into the political limelight originally. And you know some of the the initial spark of this movement has all come from from women in female leaders and so i think thats more this is what this is been used to demonstrate its also harder to crackdown on a march about kind with severe force what did you what did you make of the police response. I mean that the police in galleries have been pretty brutal in how theyve been trying to suppress these protests so far but it does the it does look like theres a limit to what they can do the fact that theyre you know arresting thousands and still they havent really slowed down the protest movement shows that theres you know theyre coming to the end of that part of the strategy authorities in the country of also have to tighten their stranglehold on the media by revoking accreditation to journalists who are watching for foreign Media Outlets does that suggest that a broad dead deep crackdown like imminent absolutely i mean thats the 1st thing that you would do if you were planning to intensify the violence i mean the reason. That theyve been somewhat restrained so far is that you know the eyes of the world are upon them and there has been a lot of very good reporting coming out of a ruse that has been showing whats going on and has put the. Election on the global agenda and if you cut off that information you make it that much easier for it to slip off the agenda for people to start ignoring the others again does that mean that Human Rights Violations and crimes wont be documented if technology is disrupted and people are isolated. Precisely and also the people responsible wont necessarily be held accountable part of the reason reportedly that this is been enacted is that members of the Security Services are worried about being identified or worried about being filmed. And so this is just one more way to make it more difficult for the opposition to coordinate with one another to to get Accurate Information on the situation in the country and to potentially carry out here human rights abuses when the protest movement initially started after that disputed election there was a lot of anger and frustration in the country it really seemed as though the downfall of the lucas i think government might might actually happen but now is it perhaps can we expect there to be this prolonged period of protests perhaps in varying degrees of clamp down without any sudden change in the country. Its very difficult to say at this point one of the important factors is that the country is running out of money. The Exchange Rate is under severe pressure a. T. M. Is immense grrr emptying out in people or getting their hands on as much hard currency as they can and this is a real problem particularly in the midst of the economic damage done by the coronavirus pandemic now russia can assist in this regard and its also. Offered assistance in the form of these police. That you mentioned but you know even if that does happen this you know means be other reasons effectively going to be a dependency of moscow. Who will be in office but not really in power so in a sense you know the protests already have. Ended his presidency as it once was the question is now whether this external support is going to be enough to stem the protest movement and prop up the economy. Or whether he will be ousted before that can be done thank you very much Jacqueline Dalziell joining us thank you. Only on the story weve been following closely today general pace having halted a munch on the capital but then protesting against the governments coronavirus matches they say they were forced to act because people went abiding by social distancing guidelines which organizers had agreed to as a condition for them not to take place domenic kang has more from ballen. For weeks the daily number of new Coronavirus Infections in germany has been rising yet for these people in berlin what matters most is their right not to observe any restrictions not to wear masks not to follow social distancing and to show their anger at the politicians who have imposed them because of the killing is illegal eilis is illegal the whole government is illegal everything is illegal and corona is just a medium to heavy flu pandemic that is being used to enslave us humans. That view is not shared by the police who tried and failed twice on friday to persuade the courts to ban the demonstration saying the protestors posed a serious risk mentioning d. M. Of and of me was going on and that these are people that we can assume as coronavirus skeptics have taken no precautions in recent months in a time when infection numbers are increasing we dont believe these gatherings to be responsible. The protesters are made up of many different groups some from the political fallout of society some from the far right what unites them is a sense of injustice and rights being lost demonstrations like these pose this countrys politicians a serious ethical dilemma forcing them to balance on the one hand the rights of individuals to protest against government measures with which they disagree and on the other hand the rights of the Wider Community to be protected as far as possible from the risk of coronavirus infection. Its a risk ministers say is growing believe is. The problem is the numbers are too high too early given that winter is coming and we dont currently know what effect it will have and hell the flu and other illnesses will affect it the numbers are too high at this early stage. Thats why they all fortys have tried so hard to prevent seems like the us and why they are so fearful of what effect so many people might have when theyre in such close proximity to each other without masks dominic kane sera berlin. Much more still ahead on this news hour well tell you about an encounter between turkish and Greek Fighter Jets in contested as space in the Eastern Mediterranean. Also dolphin deaths and environmental disaster anger in russia so over the handling of a massive oil spill. And n. B. A. Basketball were turned off to social justice protests but the players say a still a lot of work to do. In tallinn coast guard has picked up 49 Vulnerable People from a charity rescue in the mediterranean after it sent out a distress call crew aboard the m. V. Louise michel said they were no longer able to move the vessel after rescuing more than 200 refugees over the past couple of days the boat is funded by the british street artist banksy well as a frolic is a member of the michelle support crew and she spoke to us on the phone from me at valencia in spain. The reason that. To move was because they were telling these to life raft alongside not overcrowd to fix too much and also to have. 5 a place for the body that was unfortunately found in that boat in distress. Arrived on the scene and now people are being disembarked finally after almost 24 hours on 2. Coast guard vessel. The situation is getting if it. Is a lot of people on board. Ben again the only other ship in the area that might be willing to take them on board is that and. d so again its not. The job. Catherine maloney is the global spokesperson for the United Nations high commissioner for refugees joins us now via skype from new york and of course that banksy boat is getting a fair bit of attention isnt it but there are still hundreds more people who are stuck on boats in the mediterranean right now what what do you know of their condition and you know youre absolutely right as of this morning what we knew was that there was a very dire a very. Preventable in a very unacceptable situation going on in the in the mediterranean right now we know that there are more than 400 individuals people who have been stranded at sea on different vessels we know that 27 individuals are in fact on a commercial tanker and that includes a pregnant woman and and children as well. By no stretch of the imagination can we say that a commercial tanker is a safe or acceptable place for people to be stranded at sea without any solutions for more than 3 weeks so theres the situation continues and thats why we continue to call for the immediate disembarkation of these individuals so that they can access safe land so that their humanitarian needs can be assessed as well as their asylum claims and its important to highlight the fact that there are no lead search and rescue boats right now these vessels like the one that weve been talking about funded by banksy our commercial and their ngo boats and whats even more interesting is that being penalized. Youre absolutely right you know human nature is deeply deeply concerned by the continued absence of search and rescue or search and rescue vessels and search and rescue capacity on the mediterranean and as you rightly point out its almost ironic because you have these and geo boats who continue to conduct life saving activities on the mediterranean and theyre being criminalized theyre being penalize and so thats why you are asking for those restrictions on these boats to be lifted so they can continue to conduct their lifesaving work but also for the e. U. Program for search and rescue to come back we also need to understand that you know more needs to be done by the European Union and european Member States to help responsibly share the situation at hand but what can be done realistically to pressure brussels to do more absolutely i mean the Member States need to provide more solidarity to the states that are on the front lines of receiving refugees and migrants and the bottom line is more can be done to show solidarity by providing. More spots across states to take in to take in refugees and these individuals who are in need of International Protection need an excel aerated process imagine being stranded at sea for weeks on end only to reach dry land to then have a stalled process for your asylum claim to be processed more needs to be done and we have to recall that you know these are refugees these are people who are fleeing conflicts from around the world who are in need of safety and the situation in europe is manageable. Well thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on this story with us United Nations high commissioner for refugees Karen Mahoney joining us staff catherine moni forgive me for joining us there from new york thank you thank you hundreds of refugees and migrants meanwhile are stranded on a Railway Track in Bosnia Herzegovina one province ban them from entering and try to push them into another which also then refused even people stuck in the middle charlotte reports on a road to nowhere hundreds of migrants in bosnia a truck 20 police and a changing political times the blurry ghost. We are not human here we are just a football they say they are being kicked between police into neighboring bosnian provinces in a sauna kent on announced last week it would ban migrants in tring in movement the rulings in a galaxy has been questioned migrants were pushed back to the province of republic of soups which refused to accept them these were away tracks so the only place they find amnesty. While there is 17 you know that its this video hard life here is going to hard. They rely on aid agencies to bring food water and medical aid to the tracks. No food no water nothing. Anti migrant seem to mind is increasing in bosnia people in one town suit up roadblocks this summer to stop migrants who still see increased after a Regional Health minister announced 8 migrants who tested positive for private 19 the infected were taken to a local hospital and 2 escaped during further anger from residents. It is certain we have hundreds in fact thousands of migrants in camps where migrants dont follow any norms any regulations and none of our guidance there are simply people who dont respect anything the uns Refugee Agency says as of last month there were 9000. 00 refugees in bosnia accounting for 60 percent of refugees in the western balkans the vast majority are from pakistan and afghanistan 600. 00 arriving in bosnia each week up from 50 in may. Even migrant camps are full. They keep coming every day it would be ok if they were inside camps but they keep coming from everywhere coordinating their movements by phone and then they try to walk to the croatian border just 3 kilometers that way but get turned back to us. Became a bottleneck for thousands of europe migrants and 27. 00 tane as other migration routes closed up resulting in a 34. 00 would increase of arrivals these migrants are finding themselves on the wrong side of the tracks charlotte ballasts. There is. Now on an increasing sense of anger among locals towards the refugees. Citizens of b. Cards are gathering for the 9th time to protest and the reason is still the same like it was for the last 3 years they demand all levels of authority here in bosniaherzegovina to do some urgent actions and to help them with this migrant crisis they want migrants and refugees to be deported from the entire Bosnia Herzegovina they say that it would be the best solution for everyone. They are also stating good that theres a lot of concern with people here in because because for the last 10 to 15 days theres thousands of by grins without any shelter out in the street in the open or in abandoned buildings and theres been reported more and more violence and fights between migrants so they think that this is not safe environment for people who live here their families and their property they are also stating that they have support with this protest from the mayor and as well from surrounding cities and areas who are also under a lot of burden since they also have the same problem with this migrant crisis for several years. Turkey says it stopped an attempt by 6 Greek Fighter Jets from entering contested as space the incident happened on thursday as tensions escalated between the countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Cockpit Video released by and chris Defense Ministry is said to show a turkish f. 16 chasing unlocking its guns on to a fighter jet but greece is saying its jets were simply flying back to base incident happened over a part of the mediterranean both claim as their own potentially rich in Energy Resources well aljazeera stephanie decorous following the story from istanbul where she says the government is ramping up the rhetoric. We have heard from the Vice President he said that greece is moved greece has announced that its going to extend its maritime borders this is on its towards italy however but by 6 miles but certainly here its being taken as something that it could then also do when it comes to turkey and saying that that certainly you know if that isnt a provocation to war what else is this is the kind of language that youre seeing coming out of the highest levels here also the announcement that turkey will continue to carry out military drills northwest of cyprus for the next 2 weeks or so so i think certainly theres no indication that the situation is calming down anytime soon it is so complicated you have a situation where you have 2 countries backed by different regional and International European powers its all about the exploration of gas its all about where our lines stop in the sea but youve got an area that is so populated by islands for example the greek island of kos the loaded saw is only around 10 minutes by ferry from the Turkish Coast so it just shows you how complicated the situation is and even longstanding disputes with cyprus are coming into this and inflaming it in terms of who gets access to what gas so certainly turkey yes particularly europe being accused of being provocative but the message here from from ankara is that theyre doing whats right that theyre being unfairly treated well John Psaropoulos is just outside athens and says the current tensions have spilled over from a long running dispute in the agency where turkey has a history of military incursions into territory claimed by greece. The escalation of these incursions by Turkish Forces has been very precipitous in the last 2 years theyve risen from dozens before 2009 to hundreds since then and now well into the thousands and this year were set people homans greece nonetheless insists that it is going to play this dispute by the book which means it is simply standing by International Law and International Maritime law the u. N. More of the sea and it is calling on turkey to come through dialogue on the basis of those laws greeks are standing by this by the book approach because theyre winning by this week theyve ratified maritime agreements based on u. N. Law with egypt and italy theyve managed to get the European Union behind them lining up sanctions that could be used against turkey next month and they are going to stick to that strategy what protests have broken out in the libyan city of misrata a day after the u. N. Recognize government suspended its interior minister. Is being investigated for his handling of demonstrations in tripoli last week where shots were fired to disperse the crowds protests from his hometown accuse the government of corruption its been reported that friction is growing between Prime Minister pfizer serai and a shadow over the control of an tripoli now floods and share of killed at least 45 people and hundreds of thousands more forced from their homes heavy rains have caused an affair of it to overflow. Shutting down the capital niamey hundreds of grannies of also been damaged which will likely affect the Food Supplies Prime Minister breaking a referee mean one that Climate Change means the country will never be safe from flooding. Well now to mali a meeting cold by the countrys military coup leaders with Civil Society groups and those who lead antigovernment protests against the ousted president has been spawned on friday the west african bloc at the military must transfer power to a civilian at government and hold elections within a year in exchange the 15 member bloc says it will lift sanctions but the opposition is saying the people should decide who governs them and when to hold those elections influential Opposition Leader meanwhile mamma d. Ca is warning military leaders not to make the same mistakes as the previous government. I ask you to remain vigilant i would like to say this and it is a clear message that no one will be given a blank check. We let this fight people died the military came to finish it but dont let them make the same mistake as the previous one. Well now thousands of people in malicious are protesting over the governments handling of an oil spill more than a 1000 tons of fuel leaked into the sea after a japanese ship struck a coral reef off the Indian Ocean Island nation in july the discovery of dozens of dead dolphins in recent days has intensified calls for a thorough investigation karr leg reports. The final desperate moments of a mother trying to save her dying car from this footage was filmed by a fisherman as he tried to help the pair as they struggled in waters contaminated by oil in militias but they join dozens of others that have washed up dead in recent days thats happened after a japanese own tanker struck a coral reef in july and leaked more than a 1000 tons of fuel oil into the sea. Nourishing or 30 states not yet clear whether this bill is to blame for the dolphins deaths but environmentalist and experts warn the worst is yet to come. The ship is stranded on coral systems and destroying the creatures creating clouds into the water inside the coral reef despite the machine governments efforts and a team of specialists sent by japan the people here say not enough has been done. Thousands gathered in the capital port louis calling for an investigation and for government officials to step down the government says it has set up a commission to look into the spill and promised autopsies on all the dead dolphins but many say thats too little too late since the one i have been like soliciting our government about. Their immediate precaution to prevent managed into the ocean but ive never once thought they were completely in action the full impact of the spill is still unfolding but scientists are warning of a major ecological disaster one that could impact militias and its tourism dependent economy for decades to come car leg aljazeera still ahead for you on the program with 2 months until tanzanias president ial election thousands of people turn out for the launch of john mica foodies reelection bed. Honoring the women who changed u. S. Democracy a central park statue immortalized as the suffragettes. And a japanese swim star a chance to pull off the beating leukemia will have that everybody in the sport. However got plenty of hot sunshine across southeastern parts of you have clear skies here looking good as we go through the next couple of days was a northwest a very different story here looking a little more autumnal shall we say wet sand windy weather blustery showers rattling through this area of low pressure just around the low countries is where we got the cooler air in place and this weather front that we have here well that most the boundary between that cooler air and the very hot head down towards the southeast have been just getting up into the mid to high thirtys for some further west north london will struggle to 19 celsius and better get to 20 degrees there in paris where we do have that weather front weve got some very heavy rain just around the out some big downpours coming through here we could see some flash flooding possibly the old mudslide as well out west of weather that pushes all the way up towards the Baltic States with some big down poles easing over towards that western side of russia then a little chop a little further east which as we go on through monday showers along the spells of race sliding across italy into the balkans and then coming behind well quite won the bank holiday in london of course in the u. K. For monday not to be disappointed temperatures will struggle to reset and see degrees but at least the waynes will be on the light side. Rewind returns with a nice scenery and brand new updates on the pants down to scenes from entry i would compare it to an onion we have in the onion that we can spot so hard and if you can pronounce you dont see the green line. It continues with cambodias wolf and these nice. This is actually 2 to the crazy scene and just analogous to pick up full kids from his belief in action they now con out and we can just drive off with them. On aljazeera. The whole d. N. A. Of aljazeera is to deliver news on behalf of people who are subject to the decisions made by the powerful when you look up a deal about when the general election in the time of the pope or the old anything when you see big groups of people walking through your theyre all individuals with children the lloyds but with backstory this place has become a complete crock so of course recently to know where to go to ollies people you have to hear all of them and to treat them with something that in respect. Welcome back i had lines now thousands of women of marched in but a ruse to denounce state violence against opposition protesters in the wake of the disputed president ial election 3 weeks ago some journalists have now been expelled from the country often that accreditation was revoked by authorities. The Italian Coast Guard has picked up 49 Vulnerable People from a charity rescue boat in the mediterranean after it sent out a distress call. Thousands of protesters and denounce the governments handling of an oil spill from a ground the japanese timecode the oil is a major damage to a fragile ecosystem. Activists and relatives of jacob blake a black man who was shot by police in commercial wisconsin taking part in a justice for jacob march the event follows another night of protests which remained peaceful will than a 1000 members of the National Guard from wisconsin and 3 other states will be on watch as kosher moves forward off to days of unrest 29 year old blake who was shot 7 times in the back has been left. Well lets go to john hendren now whos in chicago 1st of all what do we know about the protests. Well we know that there are hundreds of people this is of course is 6 days after that last event on or after the event on sunday were jacob blake was shot 7 times by police we know his father and other members of his family were there and his father had a lot to say one of the things he said was he urged people not to tear down their city he said youre going to need your stores and other places that dont make it about violence and he he went on to say that this was about black lives matter and about how to put into street African Americans but he also said that they needed white allies in the community and so that this was a really global event an effort to try to change the law in the United States he spoke in a number of other people spoke at a time when jacob lake remains in the hospital after a recent surgery he was until recently chained to that hospital bed with Handcuffs Police stopped doing that i believe that was after that was due to a charge that had been levied against him by an old female acquaintance who said he trespassed into her home and touched her in a way that was she deemed a Sexual Assault and that is why police were trying to arrest him because he had a warrant out for him and that is why the police say he was handcuffed to his bed but that his ended now his father says the way its been treated is typical of the way africanamericans are treated by police in the United States in vats why for all of these days people have been marching in the streets and despite a few days of violence and fire bombing in the streets and looting for the past 3 nights after a Massive Police presence of hundreds of Additional Police officers descended on konoha wisconsin it has been peaceful and today has been no exception. All right from chicago john hendren thank you very much. U. S. President donald trump has told southwest louisiana to get a firsthand look at the last destruction from hurricane laura at least 10 people have been killed in the state and hundreds of thousands are experiencing vast Power Outages and extensive flooding the hurricane which to its peak when making landfall in louisiana with winds reaching more than 250 kilometers an hour that stronger than Hurricane Katrina in 2005 trying to visit also a lot 15 years to the day since katrina devastated the region so 15 years ago this week louisiana was devastated by Hurricane Katrina that seems to be katrina seems to be the standard. Seems to be the one that serves 15 is it actually today 215 years ago today and whether you come from louisiana or 5th avenue in new york city you know all about katrina it was a big deal and so you came together and you rebuilt america helped and here we are today and you can have this situation taken care of very very quickly im not joined by political analyst eric cantor as our President Trump is in louisiana right now but were just getting some reports here from the Reuters News Agency where hes saying that he will probably visit show wisconsin which is obviously just the story we were discussing with our correspondent this is the city of blake was shot 7 times in the back by police is he really likely to make a visit like that and if so what kind of reception would he get. Well we do know one thing about President Trump he is very predictable way of being unpredictable and so the to visit a a site of civil and racial unrest would be something out of the norm that we have seen from this president weve got to remember when george floyd was killed d in minneapolis president dumbell trump did not go there we havent seen President Donald Trump on the ground in places like georgia where a mob or e. Was killed or where Brianna Taylor was also killed in kentucky so this would certainly be a 1st for the president and if he does so its certainly a recognition of the volatility of whats taking place not only in wisconsin but also the the ratio powderkeg thats coursing across the country but why would he choose to make a visit like that assuming that he actually follows through and its not just an off the cuff remark is it just about being controversial and headline grabbing. Why i think it is because we are less than 70 days away from a president ial election and we do know that the polling data overwhelmingly shows that millions of americans believe that President Donald Trump has not handled the racial unrest in this country well let all much like his handling of the pandemic so if these are 2 of the most salient and biggest issues that will drive the electorate in november its certainly an issue that this president will want to get in front of particularly given that right now he is behind the polls and also we have to recognize that wisconsin is in fact a battleground state remember its one of the 3 states that President Trump barely won in 2016 that put him over the top and so now the president is fighting to try to maintain wisconsin in the wind column so it would go a long way to ensure that the president recognizes and also hears the people and wisconsin the concerns that they have at this time i have to ask you about this incredible launch that we saw in washington just yesterday by some estimates crowds of tens of thousands up to 50000 people and perhaps that will be more protests as well against racial inequality and the need for Police Reform and in the weeks and months leading up to the election but i mean what about what about Vice President joe bidens policies on this because you know after the death of george floyd he was talking about funding for Police Departments i mean is he really being ambitious enough. Well we do know that hes got a praise got a former prosecutor by his side now and his running mate coming to harris but also we do know that joe biden has reached out to the families of both jacob blake and george floyd we do know that he was also the also visited the family of george forward and while he does not actually agree with many of the progressives in the Democratic Party in defunding the police we do know that he does have a record of providing funding for crime remember if you go back to 94. 00 he was a a vocal supporter of the crime bill and so that is something that will both dog him with his detractors on the left but also in deer him to many who are center right so he certainly has a record to run on on this issue the question is can he or donald trump actually position themselves so that theyre able to thread the needle to assuage those suburban white voters but also ensure that they bring along that viable and very large outspoken minority of africanamerican voters as well thank you erick erick our giants thank you washington. Well in all the stories were following israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing another saturday of demonstrations demanding his resignation for a number of consecutive weekends now thousands have been rallying outside the lead his official residence in leicester and then people say that protest is there saying he should step down while facing a trial on corruption charges and theyre also angered by his handling of the economy and the outbreak of coronavirus. The United Arab Emirates has officially ended its 40 year boycott of israel the u. A. E. President. Handed down the decree which paves the way for normalizing economic relations including trading israeli goods countries recently agreed to establish diplomatic ties making the u. A. E. The 3rd arab state to recognize israel now to tanzania the president has officially launched his reelection bid 2 months ahead of the vote john mcafee is seeking a 2nd term and thousands attended his launch rally in the capital to doma its also faced accusations of authoritarianism and covering up the extent of the corona Virus Outbreak up against opposition needed to do so and 13 of the candidates and you see recently returned to tanzania off to spending 3 is a broad following an assassination attempt Katherine Sawyer is following the story from neighboring kenya and says the opposition candidates in tanzania are worried that the election wont be free or fat. President john mcgrath will be kicked off his campaigns in a stadium in the capital packed with thousands of his supporters and he mainly spoke of the chief mantle of his government in the last 5 years he spoke at length about corruption saying that his government has been dealing decisively with corruption which has been and then make in tanzania he spoke of infrastructure all the rules that have been building he said that more people in tanzania are now connected to the electricity grid he also said that to his government has uplifted the lives of millions of people in the process through its people the villages for people in markets and so one but the president has also been accused of hes authoritarian style of leadership people in tanzania say that he is intolerant to dissent they say that his government has stifled. Expression and the media increasingly losing john the list and politicians being arrested and just people who oppose the government position by the president in todays rally steered clear off that debate saying instead that he wants his Development Track record to speak for itself and. Youll remember when we started this war against corruption we got a lot of threats including threats of legal action by many people including tanzanians but we forged on without fear because these resources belong to the people of the country now im sure those people who are talking armed terrorists that we are winning the war theyre 14 other president ial candidates but a lot of people lessing president before his main competitor is to listen hes a flag bearer of the Main Opposition Party chair and he started his campaigns on friday and arrested he say that he is going to restore democracy in the country he has often called prism up before the a dictator and the spending the people of tanzania if you are. The president again the situation in the country is only going to get was and a lot of his supporters believe that if the election is free and fair the niece who is going to win we also had complaints by our opposition politicians complaints against their lector all commission to damn awful status is saying that the 57 of its parliamentary kind of dates have been unfairly disqualified as well as 600 candidates all of the local council posts Electoral Commission officials are saying that they investigating the allegations that are also coming from leaders of other opposition parties but already were seeing this leader this opposition politicians saying that they do not believe that the election is going to be free and fair or transparent. Now its been a 100 years since women were given the right to vote in the United States and while the fight for equality is far from over inspiration can still be found in the pioneers who left the way for change a new statue has been unveiled a new york 3 womens rights act of advocates as a tribute to that work deborah is on to has more from new york. There. Was a statue to honor 3 women who paved the way for Voting Rights its called the womens rights Pioneer Monument and baled to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote in america the statue shows 3 Inspiring Women of great achievement who gave their lives in really their entirety to fighting for womens equality and the right to vote and full citizenship for all women regardless of color or economic status there susan b. Anthony Elizabeth Cady stanton and Sojourner Truth theyre sitting around a table as if conducting a strategy session Anthony Holding a pamphlet that reads books for women from design phase to sculpting to unveiling it took nearly 3 years and the location was no accident here in central park there are over 2 dozen different statues of Beethoven Shakespeare and even want to Frederick Douglass who fought to in slavery in america and theres a statue of a dog but until now theres been no statues dedicated exclusively only to women. It comes at a time less than 3 months before a president ial election for womens votes will be more critical than ever and when for the 1st time in u. S. History a black woman is on the ticket running as Vice President and nearly 4 years after Hillary Clinton was United States her 1st female president ial candidate on any Major Party Ticket she was on hand for the statues debut there is nothing more important to honor the women portrayed in this statue then to vote that is the best way to lead America Forward as a sufferer just used to say forward through the darkness forward into light organizers say theyre not done the work is not finished so monumental women is now challenging all municipalities. More statues and other public you know monuments to women in people of color to teach young people about the Suffrage Movement and about all the other ways that women and people of color have contributed to the United States a symbol of the struggle for the right to vote long overdue but now when shrine didnt stone gabriel zonda. New york still had. 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Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question to ask these days its hard to filter out the noise and keep track of whats really important in the bottom line tackles the big issues this is shaping the United States its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on aljazeera and. Tributes of being paid to the american Actor Chadwick Boseman who has died at the age of 43 best known for his role as to challenge in the blockbuster film black panther it been suffering from cut on cancer for 4 years and her chappelle has more. You know one of these pictures broke your head Chadwick Boseman brought the stories of real life black heroes to a new generation of 3 movies black man and white baseball among them Jackie Robinson james brown and Thurgood Marshall roles that would inspire black youths to strive for greatness by remembering their past you would hear his portrayal of baseball legend robinson in the film 42 caught the attention of hollywood which watched him out shine established actor Harrison Ford a private person with a quiet demeanor bozeman spoke about the challenges he experienced that connected him to the characters he portrayed especially racism and discrimination and he turned down roles playing black characters he believed lacked complexity or spirituality intellect or romance and were without hope the questions that are areas that the producers are already perhaps paved the way for less stereotypical were true for the black actor who stepped into the role after me and there was one role in his career that he said he was on or to bring to life to challah the king of wauconda in black panther. It was the 1st major superhero movie featuring a predominantly black cast and shattered expectations in hollywood earning more than 1300000000. 00 at the box office 3 Academy Awards and many other accolades. I think the important thing for chad way especially with bringing you know the childhoods like was that you know the history of it well in america is is you know and theres really no way around that so many of us are not connected with where our families are from but this role really made him feel like he was able to connect wait his own country what kind it is obviously a fictional country in the continent of africa but it made him. It reminded him that we were you know the sentence that is in play then that is something that he felt right well that moment i. Went right letter well wrote and directed. It in the confidence boesmans family say he filmed black panther and other movies while undergoing surgery and chemotherapy for colon cancer his fans were unaware many say bozeman changed their lives we knew that we had Something Special there we wanted to give the world that we could be for human beings in their roles that we were playing that we create we could create a world that exemplified a world that we wanted to see those men died at his home in los angeles with his family by his side he was 43 years old announcing with the sport west some of the stars have also been paying their respects to chadwick by as many yes thank you marian has been on a lot of minds to die in that stalwart formula ones World Champion there is how much a new dedicated his proposition of the its a postman. Again been dominant in his myside is finishing ahead of team 8000 but toss their bones much to stop them or start along side of the final in the 2nd it was hamiltons 93rd career paul and 6th at spa. Like grant hill section were. Such that. It is a really special one for me and i wanted it to be profited i wanted to show strength and i wanted it to to be honest i wanted to be up front on my own but i chose. To make it significant to make it important and impactful because today is this special day to be able to dedicate that to jack chadwick. And i feel very honored to be able to do that. And b. A basketball player has resumed the playoffs after boycotting fixtures ironically injustice and by their gestures to them the Milwaukee Bucks and Orlando Magic observed a minutes silence for the late october for their game in the disney bubble in florida and again that seems to be for the National Anthem the playoffs were suspended remember on thursday and friday after the bucs refused to take to the court in the wake of jacob likes shooting which happened in their home state of wisconsin we saw in our earlier report that one of Chadwick Boseman most famous roles was by sports hero Jackie Robinson and it was actually Jackie Robinsons day in Major League Baseball on friday celebrating the 1st africanamerican who broke this false rice barrier in 1947 with the book created dodges the players across the league who are voting since famous number 48. Tennis player nomi a soccer became another sports star to psych a stand against vices in this way but shes now had to withdraw injured from the final of the western and southern ive been in new york she has a hamstring problem which means Victoria Azarenka gets the title earlier in the tournament asako pulled out of the said he follows to highlight racism but when thats all it was suspended she was reinstated despite the injury she plans to play the u. S. Open which starts on monday. Im really proud of every one of the turning there. For just standing up for whats right and i think that. Its really important to start a conversation and for me i feel like we took a really huge step just now. And i know i feel like we made a lot of people uncomfortable but i think thats also a good thing because maybe theyll think about why they are comfortable. There was action in the mens final where world number one Novak Djokovic fought for the set down to beat the australian it even won 23 matches on big machine and ties russian the dolls record of 35 masters tartans joke which is the 1st man to win each masters event at least twice this is unwelcome news for him after his duties did adrian balkans which was scott talk to him 3 other players tested positive for. Cycling is delayed top of france has begun in nice despite rising numbers of coronavirus cases across the country fans were allowed to line the route on the 1st of its 21 stages on saturday riders will face covered test 2 out of which ends in paris on september 20 and eating the records more than one positive test will be expelled from the rice stage one was won by norwegian sprinter alexander christophe. And lets finish on a really good 2 story japanese olympic hopeful. 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