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A Bahraini activist says he feared being thrown from the roof of his country's embassy in London during a protest in July.
Moosa Mohammad scaled the roof of the Gulf state's embassy to protest against the executions of two Bahraini activists.
Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports from London.

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More than 800 people have died this year trying to cross the Mediterranean, and the death toll is still on rising.
In the last two months alone, dozens of bodies have washed up on Tunisia's tourist beaches bordering Libya, the main base for people smugglers.
Al Jazeera's David Chater reports from the resort city of Zar Zis, which is now the new front line in the migration crisis.

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The situation in Bangladesh is worsening, with the number of those who have died of dengue fever and those infected rising steadily. Health experts suspect the Aedes species of mosquito, which carries the virus, may have already spread outside the capital Dhaka.
It's becoming increasingly difficult for the Bangladesh government and private hospitals to cope with the mosquito-borne disease. The government has launched initiatives to help control the spread of the virus - while experts say climate change is partly to blame.

Al Jazeera's Tanvir Chowdhury reports from Dhaka.

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Former US Vice President Joe Biden is a front-runner among Democrats vying to challenge President Donald Trump for the presidency in 2020.
But Biden's legislative record on criminal justice has been under growing scrutiny.
Many progressives blame his 1994 crime legislation for exacerbating mass incarceration in the United States.

Al Jazeera's Shihab Rattansi reports from Virginia.

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Special officers have arrested Kyrgyzstan's former President Almazbek Atambayev after storming his home for the second time in 24 hours.
A soldier was killed during Wednesday's failed raid at his country residence near the capital Bishkek.
Al Jazeera's Laura Burdon-Manley has more.

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"We are sick of being teargassed, we are sick of being shot at," a demonstrator yells during street protests in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. "All of these young people deserve respect and justice."

A teenager named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer on August 9 of that year in the majority-black suburb of St Louis - the fourth unarmed black man to be killed by police in the United States in a month.

He was shot at least six times, his body left on the street for hours as community members watched on.

Residents took to the streets demanding justice and the release of the police officer's name.

The protests took place amid long-simmering racial tensions; while only 67 percent of residents were African American, they accounted for 90 percent of citations, 93 percent of arrests, 85 percent of car stops, and nearly 90 percent of all documented uses of force.

Over the following days the protests quickly spiralled; tear gas and rubber bullets were used to disperse protesters, rumours arose of gunshots fired from the crowd, heavily armoured vehicles were brought in, and a state of emergency was declared.

The unrest drew national and international attention and helped build the Black Lives Matter movement, aimed at fighting for racial justice.

Five years on, Rewind travels back to Ferguson to see what has changed, and how far the community has managed to move.

According to award-winning St Louis filmmaker, Chris Phillips, who lives just a few metres from where Michael Brown was shot, very little has changed.

"A lot of the businesses that are on this side of town haven't recovered or haven't rebuilt since what happened in 2014," he says, and describes how many public services are still located in white-concentrated neighbourhoods.

Adolphus Pruitt, the president of the St Louis City branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, says that there were some victories in the courts.

"The rulings that we got and the things that happened, those could not have happened without the protesters willing to sacrifice themselves because, at the end of the day, the brutality that they suffered and which we took to the courts and got favourable rulings, somebody had to be on the receiving end of that," he says.

But he says any progress has been a drop in the bucket.

"The racial makeup of that police department, like many others, has not substantially or dramatically changed," he says.

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With the likes of Amazon, Google's parent company Alphabet and Facebook becoming the world's most valuable listed companies, Big Data is quickly becoming the world's most important commodity. Meanwhile, regulators are scrambling to keep up with the changing environment.

The newest tech initiative - and one causing some concern - is Facebook's plan to introduce a new digital currency, Libra.

A cryptocurrency used by the social network's two billion users could effectively create a new world currency, perhaps even rivalling the dollar, yuan or euro.

However, given that Facebook has in the past abused data it has on billions of people, many in policy circles are opposing the cryptocurrency on the grounds that it is also a threat to national economies.

The loss of sovereignty is a huge concern for the likes of France's finance minister who raised concerns about a cryptocurrency with huge amounts of power but no governing rules or obligations. Issues of money laundering and funding of terrorism are also concerns for the US treasury secretary.

Although Facebook claims its influence on the Libra currency will be limited, tapping into the global payments market will make it extremely rich.

"Libra is going to be the first major cryptocurrency ... introduced by one major corporate or enterprise," says Naeem Aslam, chief markets analyst at Think Markets, comparing it to something like Bitcoin, which he says is decentralised and driven by the user community.

"Innovation is always important for our ecosystem. It always helps to make things more efficient, so yes it is of significant importance that we should see these innovative ideas, these new innovative technologies and currencies emerging," he tells Counting the Cost.

"But there shouldn't be a wild wild west when it comes to them. They should adhere to some regulation and make the entire regulatory framework even more better," he adds.

China: Currency manipulator?
There is a new battleground in the intensifying trade war between the world's two largest economies, China and the United States: currency valuation.

After China's government eased control over the yuan, allowing the currency to surpass the 7 per US dollar mark, the US responded by designating China a currency manipulator.

The downside for Chinese consumers is that they will pay more for imports. But with the yuan worth less, Chinese exports become cheaper and are able to compete better in the US and across the world - offsetting the US tariffs imposed on Chinese imports.

"China is trying to say we are not going to be bullied by the US, and a small reminder to the escalation of the trade war and what China can do," says Dan Wang, from the Economist Intelligence Unit. But, she adds that a further escalation is "highly unlikely".

Labelling China a currency manipulator is "more of a political statement" by the US, says Viraj Patel, an FX and global macro strategist with Arkera. But he is concerned that the US is willing to "bend the rules" to make that statement.

"It's more nuanced than just labelling a country of China's size a currency manipulator," he says. "I think the US has to take a step back ... The approach from the US is completely wrong. As soon as you apply tariffs, as soon as you take more of an aggressive stance on China, they become defensive."

Patel says the continuation and escalation of the trade "war" between the two powers could be quite damaging. "At some point, someone has to yield, but there is just no end in sight here," he says.

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