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the death toll from corona virus in the united states crosses 40000 as governors in hard hit states warn it's too early to lift that homewards. element like this is out there a life and also coming up brazil's president joins protests calling for a lifting of restrictions some of joy of bolton are supporters are demanding military intervention. 100000 people defy look down orders in bangladesh to attend
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the funeral of a popular islamic preacher. at least 16 people killed in a mass shooting in canada's never scotia police say the suspect is also. so and donald trump is being accused of making dangerous statements as the death toll from corona virus tops 40000 in the united states many democratic and republican state governors insist they're not ready to lift restrictions but trump remains optimistic antibody testing will help get people back to work i think i get reports now from miami. the u.s. accounts for a 3rd of the world's confirmed coronavirus cases and president don trump held up swabs claiming no nation has tested more people he says more than 4000000 people have already been screened and that's now expanding to millions more is it. does it
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remind you of something remind you of this. once a swab once a q-tip it's actually different. it's very sophisticated actually but it's a little bit like so this is the straw. and. the water a lot of them they have a lot of them some of them some of the states they were shipped to states and the states don't know where they are at sunday's briefing the white house showed favorable comments from democratic new york governor andrew cuomo in what could be seen as an attempt to heal a growing political rift over trump's determination to get people back to work in new york where cases all falling but remain dangerously high governor cuomo says this is no time to slow precautions or reopen too quickly it's no time to get cocky and it's no time to get our it right we still have a lot long way to go and a lot of work to do and this virus has been ahead of us every step of the way we
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have been playing catch up from day one in this situation. in other parts of the nation though small groups of protesters egged on by the president continue to call for an easing of restrictions the desire to kick start the economy is growing but problems persist republican governors who really have critical words for their president said this still facing major hurdles and i could probably double maybe even triple testing in a while burchill overnight if the f.d.a. would prioritize. companies that are putting a slightly different formula together for the extraction reagent kit and that if the f.d.a. would do that we have a shortage worldwide shortage of some of the materials that go into that so we really need help money from the payment protection program designed to keep businesses afloat has now run out even as more than 20000000 people around have
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work is now for u.s. lawmakers could meet as soon as wednesday to consider expanding the program but that's already running into political arguments despite the president's optimism that the u.s. will be back in greater than ever the just tickle issues political infighting and a shortage of essential equipment persist at this point the daily briefings given by president don't trumpet become somewhat repetitive and increasingly political he's blame state's governors for a shortage in testing talked about the thousands of ventilators being made and weighed in urging certain states to be liberated that death toll here is now by far the highest in the world and for many this crisis is far from over and they gallacher al-jazeera miami florida or some in the united states are taking a stand against conservative protestors. this is from denver in colorado where health workers are out on the streets counted
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demonstrators demanding an end to stay at home or those. the british government has denied reports that it wasted time and botched its response to the coronavirus pandemic with the prime minister boris johnson directly to blame a damning report in the sunday times newspaper says he ignored scientists warnings and skipped 5 emergency meetings as a crisis group the total number of people who have died from the virus in the u.k. has pushed past 16000 as paul brennan reports now from london. the accusations of complacency a misjudgment to spread across 4 pages the headline a damning assessment of government failure to prepare the quotes alleged 5 weeks of missed opportunities and political in nashua the british government's national crisis committee is called by the acronym cobra prime minister boris johnson's failure to attend any of the 1st 5 coronavirus cobra meetings is singled out for particular criticism government ministers reject the sunday times allegations the
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idea that the prime minister skipped meetings that were vital to our response to the growing of us i think it's protests and the truth is that the other meetings across government some which are chaired by the health secretary some chaired by other ministers but the prime minister took all the major decisions and i think anyone. can sort of what happened to the point is just a little while ago nobody can say that it's some throwing heart and soul into fighting this virus an unnamed senior advisor to downing street is quoted in the sunday times as saying this is no way you're at war if your pm isn't there he liked his country breaks he didn't work weekends there's a real sense that he didn't do crisis planning and a senior source at the department of health is also quoted saying yes a pandemic was always at the top of our national risk register always but when it came we just slowly watched the prime minister from the moment that it became clear
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that there were challenges in terms of coronavirus developing in in china has absolutely been leading our nation's effort to combat the coronavirus making sure that resources and money is not an issue or concern for any department especially health service in terms of dealing with this. as britain start their 5th week of partial lockdown the government is firefighting criticisms from several angles concerns are growing the frontline medical staff are running desperately low on. plies a protective masks and surgical gowns. national health service providers warned on friday that stocks may run out within 48 hours the government said $84.00 tons of that equipment would arrive on sunday from turkey the shipment now won't arrive as planned. groups are also saying that a lack of testing means the true scale of deaths and infections among the elderly are being seriously underestimated by the government with more than 4000 fatalities
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not officially accounted for paul brennan al-jazeera westminster. brazil where the president jaya bolts nora has backed protesters calling for military intervention as his standoff continues with state governments over how to handle the pandemic a gathering of his supporters in the capital was the biggest since lockdown measures were adopted nationwide also nora has repeatedly undermined efforts to contain the spread of the virus calling for the economy to be reopened and ignoring guidance on social distancing brazil has the highest number of actions that in latin america. we don't want to negotiate we want action to be taken for brazil. the old way of doing things is behind us a new brazil lies ahead everyone without exception must be patriotic and believe and do their part so that we can give brazil the prominence it deserves the age of disrespectful behavior is over power to the people. u.s.
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crude oil prices have fallen to a fresh multi-year low with lock downs and travel restrictions sharply reducing global demand the u.s. benchmark dropped below $15.00 a barrel that's its lowest level in more than 2 decades this is despite a deal to slash output by major producers. 16 people have been killed in a mass shooting in the remote part of eastern canada and he say the 15151 year old male. a series of attacks in the small coastal town of port to peak in nova scotia this report. say this was the most horrifying crime scene in this quiet part of canada just before midnight saturday a gunman was reported in puerto pick a remote seaside village where the suspect 51 year old gabriel borkman owned property for the next 12 hours along nearly 100 kilometers of highway police
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fielded dozens of emergency calls about house fires gunshots and other incidents heavily armed officers pursued the suspect who at one point was dressed as a policeman and driving and apparently homemade police car just before noon sunday i witness is said they saw the suspect lying on the ground surrounded by police at a petrol station near nova scotia's international airport visibly shocked senior officers said one of their own a 23 year veteran of the royal canadian mounted police was among the victims countless families are in mourning today each person who lost their family and friends and they too will need their support the impact of this incident will extend to one end of the province to the other. police expect more victims will be found as multiple crime scenes along the highway and elsewhere are investigated several other police forces are involved in this massive operation were not fully aware. because. as we're standing here the investigation continues into areas that
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we've not yet. export across the province. these sorts of mash routings are rare in canada which has much stricter gun control than the neighboring u.s. police say they have no idea yet about motive and that many of the victims appear to have been targeted at random it will take days possibly weeks for a full explanation to emerge about one of the worst mass shootings canada has ever seen daniel lack al-jazeera in the united states a memorial planned for sunday's mark the 25th anniversary of the oklahoma city bombing had to be canceled because of coronavirus restrictions but that hasn't stopped the victims from being on this video tribute has been posted to remember the 168 who died in the 1995 attack former soldier timothy mcveigh detonated a truck full of explosives in front of a federal building he was executed in 2001 on his accomplice remains in prison for
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life. the arrest of 15 of hong kong's most prominent democracy activists has drawn international condemnation they'll be released on bail to face charges in connection with last year's mass protests the u.s. says beijing is betraying commitments it made ahead of hong kong's transfer of sovereignty to china in 1970 while the u.k. says the right to peaceful protest must be respected china's hit back saying foreign countries have no right to interfere not only is a founding member of the democratic party of hong kong who is one of those arrested on saturday is calling on the international community to exert more pressure on china and not consider. whether or not we are not to see but i hope much more concern. and i suggest the international community should really look at how they close it because your key to the china problem. is to keep. if you allow the chinese government to break its promise to the british
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government will carefully set out in the side of british tactic a ration $985.00. written into the basic law hong kong's mini constitution. guarantees that it would be able to enjoy i.d.p. in a part of me namely from defense to get fitted for and said it will be masters of our own house and he would have democracy 10 years after the handover but this is a tradition here and universal suffrage is nowhere in sight they don't talk about it anymore and that is a problem if you allow china to prick an international agreement with impunity you are encouraging china more it indefinitely that made it with your country that is the important. thing that their vote should be looking at
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a place in nigeria blaming armed bandits for the deaths of $47.00 people the tanks happened in several villages in the northwestern state of katsina gang related activity in the region which included kidnappings and robberies continue despite large troop deployments on the interior's army says it's killed $105.00 per her own fighters in the northeast according to the military the fighters were allied with a local eisel affiliate and attempted to infiltrate the town of willie gary on saturday still ahead here on al-jazeera why the increasing global demand for rubber gloves has led to fears workers are being exploited. however there is yet more rain to talk about for japan the 1st bells going through once more circulation the next one's on its way through looks big looks massive for
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the rain to talk about is this going through honshu now given your miserable day for most of the day on monday for tokyo no points north was true for carter the sun comes out afterwards and the sun is predominant throughout northern chary from central china because more rain developing further south not eventually would head out towards the sudden non's of japan but maybe not in hong shoot his tongue just north of hong kong i think the humid weather there will likely be mostly dry there was fred shasta south anything really given some hint by the ocean that it should go up in the sky will do so they go thunderstorms in the southern philippines few in borneo sort of ways included they're still there in java in sumatra but not as obvious as they were not as frequent or as heavy as they were which is right this time of the year whereas developing in bangladesh in particular but also this part of northeastern new things called cowboys sharkey's shy and thunderstorm this time the year we can produce tornadoes said it could use flash flooding and hail they've
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been in the forecast reason they and they dangerously still there for the next few days at least. when names breaks or when i don't know the dumping of garbage in the river by the government is wrecked our lives when people need to be housed and this story needs to be tone to many coming to this place in the only chance they have to eat at least once a day with exclusive interviews and in-depth to me it's obvious reasons as the world battles potential new pandemic we'll bring you the latest developments from around the globe al-jazeera has teams only ground to premier voting documentaries and life means.
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but again you're watching out 0 a reminder about top stories and the number 'd of people killed by coronavirus across the united states has passed 40000 the new york state accounts for nearly half of the fatalities but it's reported another drop in daily deaths. brazil's president jaya polson are at his back the protesters calling for military intervention as his standoff continues with state governors over how to handle the pandemic also laura has repeatedly undermined efforts to contain the spread of the virus calling for the economy to be a reopening. at least 16 people have been killed in a mass shooting in the coastal town of kind of as nova scotia 51 year old male suspect is dead. now in bangladesh more than 100000 people have defied coronavirus lockdown orders to attend the funeral of
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a popular muslim cleric the government has banned all public gatherings of more than 5 people health officials there are struggling to enforce social distancing rules with nearly 100 deaths and 3500 cases confirmed the funerals organizers says he wasn't expecting such a huge turnout but it need to saddam i know it's a lot that we wanted to make small arrangements for the funeral following the government's guidelines on maintaining health and safety but people gathered out of their respect without our knowledge we've no idea how it happened. but the coronavirus pandemic has seen demand for medical rubber gloves saw driven by surgeon orders from europe the united states and 2 thirds of the world supply made in malaysia but there are concerns of a forced labor and factories try to keep up with demand as florence new. its production lines run 24 hours and workers put in overtime this is to meet increased demand for rubber gloves as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread 2 thirds
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of the world's supply of rubber gloves are made in malaysia the malaysian rubber glove manufacturers association told our 0 that global demand could increase by 30 percent this year compared to the previous year factories are struggling to keep up even last year yeah. from a mile a mile from the malaysian level of association yes i do think i would one day short of work and be assured of generally percent of that what goes if you like at malaysia's restrictions on movement also includes a ban on foreigners and that has contributed to the nape a shortage in an industry that relies heavily on a migrant worker force glove benefactress say they're hiring more locals and looking to automate more of that production line but i suspect trees ramp up production a labor rights activists expressed concerns about exploitation of workers the
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company's very strong reputation for finding a lot of working hours with. workers. well. credibly i want to say i don't speak on the ration that. you have any time situation or labor lost to september the u.s. banned imports of gloves made by a malaysian company over the use of forced labor but it revoked the bad in mid march just as demand for personal protective equipment saw it citing an improvement in labor conditions glove manufacturers here say they comply with malaysia made by law and that they've made efforts to improve living and working conditions but labor rights activists still concerned and the government as well as global by its to ensure work has adequate and protected warrants the al-jazeera quality. flemmi putin says the coronavirus situation in russia is under complete control the
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president made the comments as orthodox christians were urged to stay home during the easter weekend recalled daily rise of 6000 new infections reported on sunday but putin says the healthcare system economy can cope. we win you my dinner and. we're carefully analyzing the experience of other countries and actively cooperating with our foreign friends and colleagues we understand what's happening and see the risks know what to do no matter how the situation develops and doing what's necessary when you've left all levels of government are working with a cli smoothly and responsibly the situation is under complete control. australia has become the 1st country to make it compulsory for web giants google and facebook to pay for news content the competition watchdog says it will release draft details of a payment plan in july as trainees government tempted to operate a voluntary scheme for digital platforms to pay traditional media for news content
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but it didn't work let's take this on we can speak now to david bell who's a cyber lore expert at the university of new south wales and joins us on skype from sydney mr bill could you clarify what happens here at the moment google and facebook they take news content for media organizations and then they take a large share of the revenue. well i'm sorry about that we have no connection with david vaile we'll try and get that back we can let's move on so we're always say they're relieved to high court judge blocked the government's plan for 21 days and they say they can't afford to stay at home in spite of the health risks from coronavirus the tour again be as this report. it's business as usual at this market in the malawi capital workers and a long way to live hand to mouth and say look down here simply won't work the government
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should. do. it face it and everybody is sitting amount of money which rock that isn't possible good are scattered all over the government wanted to impose a $21.00 day lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus but high court judge blocked the plan on friday because of the devastating impact it would have on workers who lose their incomes in south africa where people have been under lockdown for 3 weeks sheer desperation is fueling social unrest. and in kenya as of saturday human rights groups say as many people have died in police crackdowns on citizens defying the curfew as from cave in 19 africans are the moment copping what's being done in europe and in china particularly in china and they've been a number of delegations but the chinese with a strong state and an autocratic government can enforce compliance that is not the
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situation in africa the african union predicts the pandemic could lead to the loss of more than 20000000 children throughout the continent in a meeting last week the world health organization asked g 20 finance ministers to support african countries with debt relief so they can focus on fighting the pandemic ochs them says what was decided at that meeting doesn't go far enough away you suspend date you just sure problems still next year we also need to see the greats in egypt. of cash right now so governments need to follow the lead of countries like the u.k. who are meeting narrate commitments the spread of the coronavirus has been relatively low in africa say far the fear is that's about to change and knock down measures many can't afford may need to more protests and violence was the tory gave him be al jazeera i thought it was try again with that interview doing on that story about australia becoming the 1st country to make it compulsory for web giants
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google and facebook to pay for news content with david bailey disciple or expert at the university of new south wales joins us on skype from sydney mr vaile i'm hoping you can hear us now and we can hear you yes that's ok by you he's glad to hear as it clarified 1st of all what happens at the moment google and facebook they take news content for the media organizations but then they take a large share of the revenues that right. well interpose themselves as intermediaries google mostly through this search system and facebook through the news stream and then provide links to the news content in many cases this is what's known as deep links they go right through to the story an example here is one of our most important business newspapers the financial review if you tried to log into it straight from the internet i'll say i'm sorry this is subscription only you know send us your money here if you put the same story into
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a google search you discover that it found a way to get you in without being a subscriber and are on the way you'll be saying their ad so they'll be getting some at revenue it's not sort of somehow you know getting into the newsroom and somehow getting the revenue there it's at the point where people discover the story and using sophisticated techniques to avoid. this sort of advertising and subscription engines on the news services right if that's taking revenue away from the media organizations who we know are all under the cosh at the moment what what effect does that have. well it's catastrophic the. essentially less be that is sort of too big to regulate is what our regulators conclusion moralists suggests and the quote bribe from trying to step in and do this but they basically main that the about level and revenues and subscription revenues to
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a lesser extent for new services all around the world large and small have been addressed equally sort undermine the willingness of people to sort of pay subscriptions like they used to be prepared to pay for their daily paper is meant undermined and so you say in the decimation of news rooms the closure of. the small regional news services in australia we've just had a whole raft of country papers sort of collapse under the additional pressure of that the bar is but they're already on you know lost support because of the problems of existing you know in the environment where facebook and google in particular capture the absolute lion's share of revenue using these techniques and a real do appreciate that great to get your expertise thanks very much indeed david vaile the cyber lord thank you. turnout has been very low in mali's election with voters put off by the twin threats of the coronavirus and violence from iceland
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al-qaeda affiliates but those who did take part in the 2nd round ballots say the country needs a functioning government if. it was an election supposed to bring peace but brought fear few millions came out to vote because of the threat of a bomb attack at calling stations for catching the coronavirus one of the voters said it was a risk worth taking. part of when we talk of peace we need a functioning assembly that can make decisions and take action sort of our country can move forward under 2015 peace agreement signed with the armed groups in northern mali the government agreed to a parliamentary election and to change the constitution to give more time to me to regionals the election was cancelled twice because of insecurity vowing to overthrow the government our fighters linked to the g.s. and al qaeda. they called for a boycott of the elections after the kidnapping of opposition leaders to my lessons say 3 weeks ago. for
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a 1st time parliamentary candidate tom i do indeed. dialog not military operations is the solution. since we are incapable of fighting them we should negotiate with them even if we have to apply sharia it shouldn't be a problem 95 percent of us are all muslims why fear an islamic republic armed groups are pitting ethnic groups against each other such as the full lonny and build on villagers fight each other in central mali but after being forced from their homes by repeated attacks they live in peace side by side in this makeshift camp in bamako cherry would do when i've been in normal circumstances i would have taken part in the vote but we can't have them here i would have liked have had my voice in this election. while several police stations were attacked by armed groups the government announced several new coronavirus infections and that hundreds that were in treatment with most candidates failing to get an outright majority in the
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1st round 2 weeks ago the turnout was low in the 2nd round the ruling party rally for mali is set to win the majority of the votes the legitimacy of the result is already being questioned by the opposition in all of those that stayed at home during the vote nicholas hawke al jazeera. this is down to 0 these are the top stories and the number of people killed by coronavirus across the united states has gone past 40000 new york state's accounts for nearly hoff of the faith teletubbies but it's reported another drop in daily deaths on saturday i think i like a has been monitoring the president's daily briefing from miami and he says that donald trump's reassurances do not match the situation on the ground. at this point he's repeating the same points over and over again saying look we're testing more than any other country we're manufacturing more ventilators that are needed we've
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built more hospitals that are needed but when you look at the picture on the ground particularly in states like new york and louisiana and even here in florida where the corner virus is yet to peak those kind of posturings from the president don't really aren't really grounded in reality the death toll in new york may be dropping but from 700 in a day to 500 a day is still a render the u.k. government has rejected accusations it was complacent and botched its handling of the pandemic the sunday times newspaper says that prime minister burroughs johnson missed several early emergency meeting is. brazil's president is back to protesters calling for military intervention the standoff continues with state governments over how to handle the pandemic a gathering of his supporters in the capital was the biggest since lockdown measures were adopted nationwide also nor has repeatedly undermined efforts to contain the spread of the virus calling for the economy to be reopened brazil has the highest number of infections and in latin america. u.s.
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crude prices have fallen to a fresh multi-year low with lock downs and travel restrictions sharply reducing global demand the u.s. benchmark dropped below $15.00 a barrel its lowest level in more than 2 decades this is despite a deal to slash up with by major producers. at least 16 people have been killed in a mass shooting in the coastal town of port to peak in kind of his nova scotia a 51 year old male suspect is dead. and bangladesh more than 100000 people have to find a virus locked on notice to attend the funeral of a popular movement cleric the government has banned all public gatherings of more than 5 people officials there are struggling to enforce social distancing rules. right up to date with bad lines here and i deserve more news coming up right after that talk to al-jazeera.
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every generation has a higher purpose. ours is just a. little more. to see. it's been over a month since colbert 19 was declared a pandemic. more than 120000 people have died and more than 2000000 are infected worldwide. the health emergency has also affected the global economy and diplomacy one of the countries that has been hardest hit by the pandemic is spain. it's had more than 80000 deaths despite the weeks long government imposed lockdown it's already weak economy has declined further. and despite concerns by the world health organization of workers' unions and opposition leaders the spanish government has announced a partial lifting of the restrictions. prime minister petro sanchez has asked the.
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