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this is 2.0 the hunt for the woolly mammoth. just sirrah. revealing eco friendly solutions to combat dress to our planet on al-jazeera. countries across europe and asia star so we hand them a chris tricks but there's concern they could be moving too fast. i'm sam is a band this is al jazeera live from coming up u.s. crude oil prices plunged to record lows as coronavirus tranqs global markets down again. china hits back against australian criticism of its handling of the pandemic saying it has grave concerns. we still with you and we grieve if you
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can it is prime minister pays tribute to those who died in the country's worst mass shooting is the death toll rises to 80. now some governments in europe in asia are loosening lockdown restrictions as the harbor of coronavirus deaths falls daily germany has reopened some shops and schools nursery schools in norway are reopening to the czech republic denmark poland also opening some businesses but european union health experts are warning the battle is far from over with infections nearing 1000000 india has partially lifted its lockdown allowing agriculture manufacturing and construction to resume says the country reported its highest single day crease in new infections in the
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last few minutes the world health organization has warned the easing of lockdowns worldwide does not mean the pandemic is coming to an end. ending the epidemic will require a sustained effort on the part of individuals communities and governments to continue suppressing and controlling this deadly virus so called lockdowns can help to take the heat out of a country's appeal to me but they cannot and it alone countries must now be sure they can detect test isolate and care for every case and trace every contact or paul brennan joins us live from the u.k. is in guilford in sorry say the easing of restrictions across the continent sign of confidence that there won't be a 2nd wave or that they can deal with it now. i think it's
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a very delicate balance to be for it to be frank and i don't think it's confidence as much as necessity what we have is realize ation that you've got you've had children in spain for example locked in the house in their home since the middle of last month and only now the prime minister is saying well they really do need to get outdoors and get some fresh air but it's only to austria you know there's the economic impact there's also the psychological impact of that kind of degree of confinement and what you have is those countries mainly on this side with them with the southern tip of europe where the virus hits. and they are now coming through the other side of the curve so while there are still deaths and there are still new infections they believe that the strain on the health care systems can be more controlled and therefore they can risk the idea of taking the foot off the brake as far as mr restrictions go that said there are plenty of countries u.k. being one france belgium being others where the restrictions are going to stay in
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place minimum for the next 3 weeks because there is no evidence here that the time is right for those restrictions to be eased the briefing from the prime minister's spokesman here in the u.k. this morning monday morning was that if restrictions are eased at this point the fear is that could be a 2nd wave of infection which would grow exponentially i would have perhaps even more significant health and economic impacts than the 1st way so that's simply not at that stage yet here. also a lot of concern about whether they're at the stage of having enough personal protective equipment tell us about the latest in that. well this is a global problem you know the virus has hit the requirements for personal protective equipment p.-p. for the medical staff who are treating those patients is immense it hear it. u.k.
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the government is under intense pressure its competence has been questioned frankly about whether it did enough early enough to secure all the correct supplies there are concerns being raised by the umbrella bodies for the various hospitals to say we are running shorts. on who is the chief executive n.h.s. providers which represents hospitals in england on friday said that there was barely 48 hours supply left hitting the government's credibility is promises that more was arriving and it hasn't there was supposed to be a shipment from turkey arriving yesterday sunday and it simply hasn't arrived in the government and it's not quite sure exactly when it might arrive it's a mixed bag here at the royal sorry county hospital in guildford spoken to them and they say that actually that the stockpile is ok at the moment but other hospitals are reporting real problems and it's a real dilemma for the medical staff having to deal face to face with those to run a virus patients if they're being asked to compromise the safety equipment that being given. by paul brown and that thanks so much india's long down is
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also being eased elizabeth in new delhi explains how more than a 1000000000 people are trying to navigate their way through the crisis. as of monday there's an easing of some restrictions only in places that are considered known hot spot or green zones places where there hasn't been a rise in the number of cases and state governments think that that would be around 10 to 25 percent of the country so what is allowed a really big easing of restrictions in the farming sector and all the businesses that support it so even things like transportation roadside restaurants will be allowed to open for truck drivers to focus on farming because more than half of india's workforce is employed in the agricultural sector and with the winter crop just harvested it's important to get food from the villages to the cities to avoid shortages there's also going to be an easing of restrictions in and banking and
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public works in the social sector in construction and i t all with specific restrictions and self employed professionals like plumbers electricians carpenters i.t. repair are allowed to work and again would. as well as the specific restrictions everyone has to wear face masks or they step out of their homes and observe social distancing norms we have heard from the government in the last few hours and they have said that there's already been violations of lockdown measures that they have been more incidents of violence on health care workers complete violation of social distancing norms and too much movement of vehicles in urban areas us all prices have dropped to their lowest level in 2 decades as concerns over the coronavirus clips the deal to cut the may futures for the benchmark is fall into around $11.00 a barrel global demand has plummeted and travel restrictions reduce the need for oil the crisis was compounded in march by a proxy war between saudi arabia and normal opec member russia that ended this
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month when they and other countries agreed to an unprecedented continental port of almost 10000000 dollars barrels a day boost marc. it's but despite that the world is still oversupplied 5th prices could fall of john hendren reports. across american oil country the pumps are shutting down since the coronavirus lost much of the western world in their homes the floor has dropped out of the oil market is a gas station selling gasoline for 99 cents a gallon now you would think was great and anybody going to run and there was a line of people there still because of the question is where you're going to go the price of the benchmark american crude west texas intermediate has collapsed from $60.00 a barrel in january to below 20 in the past week across the u.s. the price at the pump is lower than it's been in years rick even at rush hour if you are vying the international energy agency says the world's appetite for oil
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hasn't been this low since 1905 especially hit hard the fracking industry that turned the u.s. oil industry into a net exporter since 2011 fracking companies which break rocks to find fuel meet oil above $30.00 a barrel to make a profit it's not it's not just that it will come you know it's the oil service companies it's a little towns in the oil patch that you know the motels the diners restaurants you know those types of things that the river was packed is tremendous when you go move out from the old gas company and all the ancillary companies that provide them services and arts so i'm afraid it's going to be ugly the 1st casualty came on april 1st denver based whiting petroleum declare bankruptcy if prices don't increase soon whiting will likely become only the 1st of hundreds of oil and related companies to do so right now and then they're like well it's. not we're not
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80. they're not 80 you know maybe whatever. if i had a situation. so the oil industry waits in worries until all the pumps return to service john hendren l.g. 0 chicago there have been protests in russia's north are set to region against local lockdown measures with demands for an easing of restrictions which many blame for rising levels of unemployment police detained several protesters you can also say there's a lack of information about the coronavirus response russia has reported more than 47000 cases so far just over 400 deaths. china is one thing back after australia raise questions about its honesty handling the pandemic the top of the in diplomat memories pain once an international investigation into the origins of the virus and how it spread china's foreign
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ministry says it has grave concerns over those remarks chinese authorities have been under pressure over the way they dealt with the outbreak beijing insists it's always been open from beijing catrina you is more a reaction from the chinese government. at the end of january there were some voices from some doctors who tried to raise the alarm about the severity of this outbreak they were silenced and punished for doing so and for weeks the message from the chinese government was that this was under control that there was no evidence of human to human transmission and they were criticizing countries for closing the borders to chinese travelers and fast forward in 4 months and it's a very different story china has has not admitted that it was at any fault but it has said over and over again that it's been open and transparent despite the evidence to the contrary and certainly today the chinese foreign ministry was saying that had this message was attacking that the australian government saying
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that these remarks were grave and and disrespectful that china has always worked with international agencies and was doing all it can to to be a leader in this global fight against the pandemic responding of course to marie's paying the australian foreign minister's comments that questions about china's parent transparency had reached a very high point calling for an inquiry where the australian government would be keeping its eyes open so the diplomatic ties between those 2 countries certainly tense also had on al-jazeera why this european nation's economy made bounce back from the impact of a pandemic faster than many others. we report from kenya where flash floods rather struck a region just a year after communities were devastated by another disaster.
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and of the pensive heavy rain still in the 4 calls to coastal central and southern areas of china assessable to assess of course has been speeding in areas of asia but so the latest batch of rain is now pushing through on cheese day some gusty winds across much of honshu and also some strong winds coming right across the korean peninsula it will take the time down even further in seoul but this is where the rain will be as we go through choosing particularly on wednesday very heavy all the way from northern vietnam across into one gee guangdong and again not to much eventual come down in hong kong but its value will wednesday with a high of 25 but that's what i mean about seoul 9 celsius the average is 1617 degrees this time of yes it will feel pretty chilly it's a dry picture as well a further to the southeast across asia certainly see march through choose day some rains across into java and heaviest spells across into borneo but really apart form as you scout achiles in the philippines it's fine and dry there and also bangkok
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thailand vietnam mostly enjoying some dry clear whether you can see wednesday again more of those scattered showers in borneo again picking up the brunt of them but ready mostly it is looking a little bit dry a bunch of heavy rain there still developing through west bengal bangladesh in particular on cheese day and. has a lot coast across into kara. counting the costs the great lock down africa to sink into its 1st recession in 25 years come it's health service take the strain of the pandemic historic production company but what does it mean for gold economies plus europe's colonial. counting the costs and i'll just. come to the free storytelling around the biggest issues. and usually do it again.
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who's. holding. come back here watching al-jazeera time to recap those headlines germany is reopening some shops and allowing limited school classes other european governments are also taking steps towards normal life action and fatality rates slowing. the world health organization is warning the easing of lockdowns doesn't mean the pandemic is coming to an end says governments must continue to suppress and control the virus with a focus on testing isolating and tracing every continent. china is hitting back
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after a stray as foreign minister raised questions about his honesty in handling the pandemic varies pain called 'd for an international investigation into the origins of the virus and how it spread. turning now to some other world news the death toll from counters worst ever mass shooting has risen to 80 the shooter was disguised as a police officer opened fire in the province of nova scotia on sunday bodies were found around the town of porter peak prime minister justin trudeau paid tribute to the victims saying the attacks had shaken the country. this happened in small towns puerto peak troops wilford and. places where people have deep roots places where people know the leader should look out for one another there everyone knows that mountain because they are everything from police officers to social workers to teen counselors now these communities are in mourning in canada
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is in mourning with. thank you lang joins us now live from toronto strong words there from the prime minister's give us an idea of the sense of shock in the country. well of course it comes as everyone would realize amid the covert 19 lockdown which canada has been observing pretty strictly from one side of the country to the other so people are devastated i think it's fair to say yes in nova scotia the eastern province where this took place these are tight knit communities indeed the province as a whole is fairly tight knit people do tend to know each other and all morning long we've been hearing details of people who knew the victims and and were just completely in shock the prime minister speaks of course. every day in this country to try and comfort people and announce new initiatives to help people coping with covert 900 salacious testing and personal protective equipment and so on this this
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crime is completely unprecedented here it's still not clear exactly what happened but it seems a single shooter started off in one community where he had some vacation property set some fires shot people as they came out to see the fires and then dressed as a police officer and driving a fake police car drove almost 100 kilometers along roads in a busy highway stopping every now and then so the police are saying that's why they're not really giving details on the final number of casualties we only know the dead we only know of one injuries so far an r.c.m.p. officer a police officer they are still investigating multiple crime scenes strung out across the entire province it's the sort of crime that you really couldn't make up it just seems to horrifying but the r.c.m.p. the police are also saying it does show that there was a degree of plotting and planning here and they hope to give us a few more details today and that just leaves
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a whole bunch of questions doesn't the daniel why it went on for so long why he was able to drive 100. i think miles as you said the uniform he had even being able to disguise his car to look like a police cruiser. sammy that's so true that there are far more questions here than answers yes it's early days after a horrific incident but at the same time with the gunman dead shot by the police at the end of his rampage across the province usually answers come out a little quicker in incidents even lesser ones but in this case no i just think there are too many crime scenes there's no indication as to motive whatsoever speaking yesterday the senior investigating officer said it appears that many of the victims may have been targeted at random there may have been one or 2 who were known to the shooter but the rest of them just seem to have been very very very unlucky people who got in his way as he drove down the road shooting and setting
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fires we really need to learn a lot more before we can really speak to this and begin to explain it in never mind come to terms with it that will take much longer horrible senseless acts of violence that thanks so much daniel black for covering turkish prosecutors have published more details about the indictment of several saudi nationals for the murder of journalist jamal has shown it includes pictures and information about the alleged perpetrators and testimony from turkish employees working of the saudi consulate in istanbul mr g. was a critic of saudi rulers was killed inside the consulate building knocked over $2187.00 course all is in istanbul she says she would use fiance and family to not pursue further legal action in saudi arabia out of fear for their lives. this indictment was prepared early march on. in march and on april 11th it was accepted by the court so the court proceeding has been launched and it is it is an ongoing
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process and turkey turkey has extra that it has asked for extradition of those 20 suspects including al asiri the intelligence chief and sold on captain who's the special adeel to. crown prince who are very close to the crown prince mohammed bin samar but there is another there's another ongoing judicial process in saudi arabia a country that rejects to extradite those people but here the court proceedings will continue and they called the 1st civil complaint if you find the call they hold your mouth but you just fiance the teacher as his family members avoided filing a complaint in saudi arabia probably because of the threats and fear. renewed rocket attacks on libya's capital have killed at least one person. video shared on social media shows
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a residential area being struck on sunday the u.n. has repeatedly warned indiscriminate attacks on civilians or war crimes part of trying to capture tripoli for the past year 3 a half his forces fired on homes in the past week that's in retaliation for losing strongholds in western libya forces backing the internationally recognized government a search is underway in western kenya for 22 people who disappeared during flooding 12 all those confirmed killed a reporter katherine sawyer says the flooding is in the same region where landslides killed many kenyans last year. this was a thriving trading sensing a town of about 3000 people and i've just spoken to a trader who was selling go to save 24 good 20 of them have been swept away by the water he tells us that when this water started. gushing down there cotman on saturday afternoon many people who saw what was happening went to safety but some
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weren't so lucky several people have died. dozens are still missing rescue operations still going on all the straw that you see came down with the water there were residential areas here as well all flattened houses submodule people still looking for their loved ones and this comes just a few months back and in november last year another mouth slide in this region killed 60 people same circumstances the government has is now feeding about 2000 and even more than 2000 people who have been displaced they have no food they have no one they only managed to save themselves their livelihood is destroyed this saying that they do not know where to go now. prisoners across south africa are threatening to go on hunger strike off to some inmates contract with the virus more than 90 inmates in jail staff have tested positive for covert 19 for me the miller
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has more from johannesburg. this is one of more than $240.00 prisons across south africa and combined there house around 160000 prisoners cording 2 organizations that represent prisoners they say there's overcrowding of at least 35 percent there are sometimes between 60 and 100 prisoners in one cell living in conditions that these organizations say are an i.g. make and unsanitary they're concerned about the spread of the coronavirus so far about 99 people some of them warders others prisoners who've been confirmed to have grown up virus prisoners they say they should be more testing of not just borders but prison as themselves rather than just screening now the south african organization for prisoners or human rights says it wants prisoners released
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based on certain criteria the sort of african prisoners organization for human rights demand that 1st term nonviolent offenders must be released immediately and then they often they must look into the release of political prisoners without discriminating about their political affiliation the government has in no way indicated that it's considering the release of certain prisoners but it has said that it's doing whatever necessary to keep people safe but prisoners say this isn't enough and they want more done and until that happens they say they're willing to go on a hunger strike to get the attention of the government. now the coronavirus emergency hit greece as it deals with the migrants and refugees crisis and the aftermath of years of a stir 3 caused by massive international debts but fatalities have been relatively
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low after the government imposed long down measures earlier than other countries now the desire hoping for a quicker economic recovery to john psaropoulos reports from athens. says the coronavirus has been good for his business especially in the run up to easter and. people are stocking up on food because they're afraid of shortages but they're also sitting at home watching cooking shows and experimenting with new recipes. is one of the businesses considered essential by the government that didn't have to close due to coronavirus customers have to keep their distance one per 15 square meters but for other firms it's a different story. they're locked down measures were announced on a friday night i was able to pay my rent i'm such a morning and called my landlord to say i'm not going to pay you dismantle and a good thing to do because i've been living off that rent for the past month greece
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is spending $15000000000.00 supporting affected businesses and workers until june it's locked down began early carnival celebrations were canceled in february schools were closed on march 10th a week before france and germany and 10 days before the u.k. people who don't live on the islands aren't allowed to sail there so ferries a traveling light mainly to keep trade alive all this has led to greece having a fatality rate of 9 per 1000000 much lower than the death rates in most european countries sources close to the prime minister say the government knew the national health system couldn't cope with a major outbreak early measures would create a recession but so would a health crisis so the government opted to trigger an early recession calculating that this would save lives and give it a stronger economic recovery but some say there was another goal stemming from greece's decade long economic crisis. crisis and the
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virus and what we want to show you. can respond to. an expected events and we do so. well we believe that it will turn around and say you know what. i maybe we will get over this image that people at the experiences that they had. so i will be able to attract investment in the future the international monetary fund predicts a 10 percent recession for greece this year followed by 5 percent growth next year if that assessment is correct coronavirus could mark a turning point giving greece the economic recovery many here want after a decade of economic crisis jumpstart all plus al-jazeera athens. just getting some breaking news coming to us out of israel where prime minister benjamin
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netanyahu and his main rival benny gantz have just agreed to form an emergency unity government let's go straight over to harry for so he joins us now live from west jerusalem what does this government look like exactly. well it looks like one that benny gantz said was necessary in a time of national emergency to fight the coronavirus he of course was someone who'd dedicated his pretty short political career albeit including 3 consecutive inconclusive elections to trying to unseat benjamin netanyahu but he decided last month that he would join him in a unity government but those negotiations have been extremely rocky ever since and there was a real danger or for those who are against it a real hope that they might fall apart there was always the possibility that benny gantz might use the piece of leverage in his back pocket that he did have available which was at least allowing if not sponsoring a bill which could have legislated against someone facing corruption charges as
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benjamin netanyahu is from forming a government from standing as prime minister had it gone to a 4th election on need netanyahu side really i think there was a pretty clear awareness that benny gantz had put all of his eggs in the basket of a unity government so that was a pretty strong card for them to play they said that they would abandon talks on a unity government should gantz go ahead with trying to legislate netanyahu out of office one of the key stumbling blocks was about judicial appointments netanyahu apparently extremely concerned about the prospects of the high court ruling that he can't form a government because of his indictments on corruption in a trial due to start next month and the blue and white of benny gantz was keen to ensure that it had some control over those judicial appointments as well and so all the while this has a stance of me being about these 2 opposed factions coming together in
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a time of national emergency to fight the coronavirus these are very personally important facts to benjamin netanyahu and his ability to stay on as prime minister have also been there for the deal would see him stay on. for 18 months and then guns would take over as prime minister after that we wait to see of course about actually eventuates so just to be clear on some of those thorny issues when it comes to the so-called rotation deal that's prime minister binyamin netanyahu is staying on as you said for 18 months. what are alternately did they decide when it comes to the demand for more influence over judicial appointments while we wait to hear the details of the deal but there have been indications that there's been this afternoon some kind of agreement some sort of bridge made on those issues so the detail of that has yet to emerge also when it comes to the radiational deal that had been leaks to the media that netanyahu was trying to ensure that he could stay
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on in a very influential role even after handing over the premiership to benny gantz as would under the terms of this arrangement be the case in 18 months time as a deputy there are concerns that perhaps he might be ruled out of that position again because he is corruption charges that he faces and so we wait see exactly how it all comes out in the wash all right thanks so much harry forces there. brings us to the end of this new show we've got counting the cost coming up next and of course i'm back at the top of the hour with another form of news you can check in any time with al-jazeera dot com for a look at your headlines and more details they with us here now to say.
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