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this is a moment for pretty much the opposite we're retreat from the world actually see that every generation has its moment this is ours. banks under attack in lebanon troops patrol the 2nd largest city to stop more protests against the financial crisis. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up france's private esther says the lockdown has saved lives but keeping it in place could lead to economic collapse. a moment of silence in britain to remember health workers who died after contracting covert 19 used to stick say the number of dead
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is much higher than the government is reporting. and missing out on vaccinations unicef says that millions of children aren't getting critical care. soldiers are patrolling the streets of lebanon's 2nd biggest city where there's been a 2nd day of violent protests against the deepening financial crisis security forces in tripoli fired tear gas and rubber bullets to clear demonstrators who vandalized banks and set fire to cash machines at least one man died as thousands of protesters to fight a coronavirus lockdown on monday i was there as you say the horror is in tripoli and says the protestors a vow to carry on until their demands are heard. the army is out in force and reinforcements have been sent to the city there are still mischa's in some neighborhoods where anti-government protesters are throwing rocks after the army
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soldiers army soldiers have been responding with tear gas rubber bullets. right now they are in one of the the streets in tripoli it's known as the back street banks were set ablaze they were found allies as well as cash machines people really venting their anger odds banks for a number of reasons some imposing informal capital control people cannot access their savings and if they have a foreign currency account the banks are only dispersing the local currency which has lost 60 percent of its value so people really are suffering from a haircut their money in the bank say it's has lost value as a as well as the lebanese found itself trading on the black market at $4000.00 liras against the dollar that's a loss of some 60 percent and then you have inflation up more than 50 percent so an increase in the prices of basic goods so people here are losing patience with the
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authorities not just the banking sector they're also blaming the political class for years of mismanagement years of corruption and now the state is close to bankruptcy so the situation is quite tense you speak to people here they say ok the army may have cleared the street so for now but we're just going to come back and if we don't come back hours we will come back tomorrow this is not going to end until our economic hardships and in france prime minister i'd want to. help to save $62000.00 lives this month but keeping it in place could lead to economic collapse plans to the 6 week blocked out in france a being discussed in the national assembly politicians are trying to weigh a growing frustration from the 1000000. and stuck at home against the risk of a 2nd wave of infections that are of new daily cases for one of the 165000 infections. who thought though good luck we feel that
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a prolonged halt to production and entire sections of our economy a lasting disruption to the schooling of a large number of children the interruption of public or private investment the prolonged closure of borders the extreme restriction of the freedom to come and go to meet to visit relatives or parents would present the country not only with the painful disadvantage of confinement but in fact with the much more terrible risk of collapse lives that are serious and who's dodging the showers and in southwestern france that tasha the prime minister said that the government's plan could be described as freedom with some exceptions tell us more. well it's a real challenge for the french government because what they want to do is get the french economy getting it again it's been absolutely battered by this now 6 week lockdown but on the other hand of course the prime minister has made it very clear that the french government wants to stop any risk of the so-called 2nd wave of
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inspections by opening up the country to thaw and that is why the prime minister's called the de confinement pran in a way a 3 to him with a certain amount of restrictions because what will happen is all maybe less than 2 weeks off to 2 months of lockdown here in france that there will be in an easing of certain restrictions so for example people want me to permits anymore to go out so they'll be able to go further than one kilometer shops will reopen things though like restaurants and bars when taken for some time yet it will be a progressive say used in loosening of restrictions says the prime minister and what that means is really region by region mess across france will be able to choose whether or mustn't they region they want to loosen some of the restrictions because we're talking about parts of france that have very high infection rate other parts where the infection rate is much lower and the prime minister said you can't really have a plan that is kind of one size fits all each region really needs to decide whether
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or not it will reopen its schools whether or not businesses can start again but really the prime minister encouraging people to remain at home to work from home for as long as possible as social distancing hygiene measures wearing mosques all of those things of course going to be very important going forward the prime minister seemed to leave the government a feral margin for maneuver in many areas is there an overall strategy here. yes the french a prime minister has said that all made the 7th so that's only a few days before this may 11th. knock down loosening dates if you like or made the 700 the government will actually convene and decide whether or not the mayor levon restrictions was possible now what the government is doing is trying to give itself as much time as possible to see what the evolution will be here of current of r.'s cases they are dropping in each day for now as are the number of deaths but
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nevertheless the government knows that could change at any moment and they don't want to be in a position where they are not themselves if you like into saying well maybe 11 these restrictions will be lifted but in fact they'll have to continue and we heard the prime minister's saying that look if we don't feel comfortable is it governments all made the 7 it could be that we do not newson these restrictions on maybe 11 and the restrictions are in fact extended it's also why the french government is putting a lot of power if you like in the hands of the regions to decide how those regions oh should go ahead with the loosening of restrictions on what the government is doing is really trying to protect itself because if there was to be a 2nd wave of infections they wouldn't want to be in a position where they could be accused of having not taken the right precautions how does aaron attached but reporting live from shari southwestern france many thanks indeed the tasha the latest coronavirus state has the u.k. on track to record one of the worst death tolls in europe the office for national
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statistics released numbers which are much higher than those provided by the health ministry as figures include people who've died outside of hospital standing in the rain in london for us is out of service jonah jonah the government daily coronavirus press briefing has just got underway the government says it won't be changing social distancing rules any time soon what do those numbers that we mentioned appear to show. but if anything they reinforce the government's position that it is too soon to start talking about easing the lot but they also expose the fact now that the actual death toll from covert 19 in england and wales at least and by extrapolation the rest of the u.k. is quite substantially higher than the official numbers suggest the numbers released from the n.h.s. and put out by the government take into account only the deaths taking place in hospitals versus the owen s numbers that take into account the much wider picture
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of deaths from co 1000 taking place in the community at home also in care homes also in hospitals tuesday mornings figures up to april the 17th there's an 11 day lag here say. i beg your pardon get that 21284 people died of related causes up to april to 70 at the same time the official number was 13917 that's a difference their ages of 52 percent an enormous difference when you consider. the numbers coming from the government it puts britain ahead of france and spain in their relative epidemics not quite yet ahead of italy but certainly she was she's gives the lie all the tests the contention of the government that britain is turning the tide on this thing in a very worrying picture emerging as well from the care home industry that augments that difference potentially even further the number suggested that in the last 2
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weeks death scene care homes were of course the cause of this society's most vulnerable people live shrivelled for a running total now of nearly $5500.00 people that number not included in the official statistics either and care home leaders warning that the care sector is now the frontline of the code 19 battle and at the peak in the care sector has not yet been reached out to us jonah hill live in london town of many thanks. germany is seeing a rise in the rate of infections after some restrictions were eased it's currently reporting around 1000 new cases every day more than 6000 people have died after contracting covert 19 not serious dominic kane reports from berlin. the german government finds itself in a quandary right now ever since the pandemic began ministers have stressed repeatedly that what informs their decision making is the scientific data or the numbers that are provided to them by the robert cock institute which is the
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responsible body for the tabulation of testing and the compilation of statistics relate to the number of factions the number of deaths and so on and while the reproduction rate of the virus was in a downward trend it meant that the ministers could start to contemplate the easing of restrictions which is what they have done but now the our north reproduction rate of the virus has reached one again that means that each infected person can infect one other person that is the point at which alarm bells ring for the ministers for anglo-american in the chancellery behind me that is they want to try to reduce the economic damage to ease the restrictions on freedom of movement but they know by doing that and with the are not back at one there is the distinct possibility of a 2nd wave of infections turkey's defense ministry says that at least 40 people
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have been killed in 2 bombings in syria it's blaming the y. p.g. group for the attacks in africa and in the northwest of the country there are reports that one of the explosions targeted an oil tanker the city's been under the control of turkish tax troops for 2 years. we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then the u.n. is top human rights representative for you me and mark prepares to step down leaving a damning assessment on the plight of the hangar. in one nicholas hawk indycar senegal find out next why this country with a small health budget has the biggest rate of recovery in infected patients in africa. hello there are plenty of warm sunshine across central and southern areas of china the rain has gone for the time being so if you shine as educated away from northern
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sections of japan particular. heavy downpours on a wednesday but not a cold day 13 celsius is the high and sunny warming up all the while across much of holland show elsewhere the time which is already on the high side 32 in beijing or wednesday and up to 30 celsius in shanghai on thursday also warming up across into a socket and tokyo as well the high of 23 but the rays developing again through the central areas and it will gradually work its way east was as you push on to the next day plenty of rain still in the 4 calls across much of indonesia dry conditions are generally throughout much of thailand cambodia on into vietnam but over the next 2 or 3 days the middle a peninsula seeing some very heavy downpours also northern a western as a some arches so we could be picking up as much as $130.00 millimeters of rain of rain in the 4 calls into northern and eastern areas of india this is in the fall in the west you can see these docks skies these thunderstorms leaving a fun as you can see there a rainbow actually in the sky but we'll see more of this is a go through wednesday and thursday the rain is fairly heavy across much of the
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northeast and we'll see scattered thunderstorms really on the next couple of days slightly developing later in the day and a woman get a new telly 8. rewind return the scare bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera is documentaries in liberal i was the top of the plus and now i'm like and the other student rewind continues with children of conflict gaza would love some peace in this world especially in their city children do not have any rights here rewind on al-jazeera.
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well again this is al jazeera lists take a moment to remind you the main news this hour soldiers are patrolling the streets of lebanon's 2nd biggest city tripoli where there's been another day of violent protests against the deepening financial crisis security forces used rubber bullets to clear demonstrators who set banks on fire. the president the prime minister i'm sorry of france. edward felipe says that lockdown has helped save $62000.00 lives this month but keeping it in place risks economic collapse plans to roll back the 6 week locked out in france being discussed in the national assembly the u.k. so health minister says the government will start to include deaths outside of hospitals in the government's published figures it comes after the independently run office for national statistics of the number of people who died england and
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wales is 52 percent higher than government figures show. to the us now the number of confirmed coronavirus cases is fast approaching 1000000 president donald trump is promising to expand testing as some tate's states begin to ease lock down restrictions florida's governor is in washington to meet with the president of the moment let's go live now to our white house correspondent ghibli hell could of florida kimberly is one of those states that is planning to ease restrictions. yeah it's a populous state is a state that many people flocked to for tourism it's also the official residence of the u.s. president who no longer calls new york state as his home but now calls florida as his home state of course has a very big property there some would argue that he even has an interest in this reopening this is a meeting that is taking place with that state's governor in the u.s. president we understand still underway in the oval office as we speak we're already
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starting to get some information coming out of that meeting and it seems the president is having a bit of an issue with some of the questions by reporters with regard to testing saying that no matter what he does in terms of testing that he would be criticized so that seems to be the headlight of course we're still waiting for that tape playback from the oval office but there's no question that there has been some friction between this white house and governors with regard to the reopening of their states many would suggest that perhaps the reason this republican governor from florida is up here at the white house is because he's trying to avoid the fate that we saw with another republican governor in the u.s. state of georgia last week reopening in sort of some conflict with the federal guidelines of this white house that say that you should have decrease in the number of prone to virus infections for 14 days before reopening that wasn't the case with georgia the governor there going ahead with it and getting
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a very strong public were buke from the u.s. president's presumably the republican governor of florida here in washington for this meeting trying to avoid that now this is just one of 2 times we expect to see the u.s. president we also expect to hear from him again around 990 from the rose garden will he'll be talking about the paycheck protection program this is a program that allows small businesses to remain open with funding from congress and keep many americans who away otherwise lose their jobs on the payroll but notably. well we will see the president in the rose garden also in the oval office we won't have a coronavirus taskforce briefing as we had been having of this coming after the u.s. president was strongly criticized for some of the advice he gave there to inject potentially disinfectant or even u.v. light to the human body in order to combat that night seen since then the white house changing their messaging canceling those briefings now we are awaiting that
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tape playback from the oval office instead i was there as white house correspondent kelly how could live in washington kimberly many thanks indeed let's we'll show you some live pictures out of madrid right now this is spain's prime minister that are sanchez who is presenting his plan for restrictions in the country to be eased further he's speaking right now as you can see and says the plan to return to normal life includes 4 phases but he's hoping things will return to some sense of normality by the end of june restaurants he says can open at 30 percent capacity with sent 16 times for people over the age of 65 we'll keep listening to that address by private ascensions and bring you any further details that come out of it now some a goal has the highest rates of recovery for infected patients anywhere in africa and trials have begun on a coronavirus testing kit which costs a dollar and gives results in 10 minutes i was here as nicholas hawk reports from
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bucko. senegal is doing what most countries count testing everyone symptoms are not entering a health center for the novel coronavirus it has no shortage of testing kit thanks to this lab at the best researchers are developing a one dollar quick diagnose ticket originally made to test for dengue fever patients drop blood or saliva onto the devices and wait for a blood line to appear like a pregnancy test explains researcher i do sell tests there is no need for a highly equipped it's a simple test that can be done anywhere the idea is to rip at least produce $2.00 to $4000000.00 kits not just for us but for african countries so that we can detect and isolate patients quickly the sick are administered a cheap anti malarial drug called chloroquine commonly found in sub-saharan africa where malaria is endemic while the world health organization cautions the use of it to cardboard scientists did you how woods says it's an affordable treatment for
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poor african countries dealing with the outbreak. in these clearing is a virus from respiratory system proven in making said people on the mall contenders . know more sick. with only 50 ventilator machines for $16000000.00 people senegalese engineer using a 3 d. printing machine to produce more well imported ventilators cost $16000.00 this one is just $60.00. sinegal is counting the cost and it's paying off more than a month into the outbreak the small west african nation suffered only $2.00 death with most patients treated healed senegal has the largest rate of recovery in patients infected with the current virus in africa the 3rd in the world ahead of countries like the united states and france and while it has a tiny health budget compared to those countries it has a wealth of experience in dealing with infectious diseases and outbreaks over
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$3000.00 children died of pneumonia last year in senegal thousands more from malaria coronavirus is one of many deadly infections the country is dealing with lessons learned from the aids epidemic the recent a bull outbreak were key in senegal strategy in dealing with the pandemic i'm interested because summers are already. important case coming in the country and to be patient of movement in confinement of people from 8 pm to 6 am i things so since. these measures were taken when there were less than $100.00 cases scientific modeling predicted tens of thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths but this has not happened early detection and african led research means senegal is so far beating the odds nicholas hawk al-jazeera the car. unicef is warning that south asia is on the cusp of a health crisis as children miss out on vital vaccinations during the pandemic
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unicef says that almost a quarter of the world's children who haven't been immunized or of only been partially vaccinated live in the region that's nearly 4 and a half 1000000 children most of them in afghanistan india and pakistan and that number is expected to rise immunization programs have been suspended in several countries including afghanistan and pakistan where polio is common. is the chief of health for unicef bangladesh she says that it's important that vaccination programs continue despite the virus containment lockdowns. unicef is very concerned about the children and the potential that due to the covert 19 crisis the children will be more at risk for. vaccine preventable diseases like like measles and in bangladesh leave actually need the support the government to actually make every year about 3800000 children against all the childhood
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vaccinations and last year very successfully actually make a 3200000 people are fearing the cofee 1980 so we are verkaik the government through to the direct to health workers to all the no harm basically to at one hand put back the health workers but also to go continue to protect children against these that can prevent will be he says as such it's measles the styria already are it's very challenging but we do need to to look into the possibility so one way is to really have very localized situations of looked out which of course requires a full knowledge of around the epidemic and he or the of the cove in 1980 s. in progress in bangladesh but there are still districts and parts of this like that
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are not on the look down in there the stations can continue and we also have encouraged the static sessions in the health facilities to continue so if mothers and children can come out and they can be protected on the other hand also what we have advice is to limit the number of the people in the same area so observe some social distancing during the vaccination sessions as they're going on is a lot of this relaxing some of the strict lockdown measures that it introduced 4 weeks ago people will be able to spend more time outside and some schools and businesses will reopen as a serious way to hail reports from our. after 5 weeks at the highest corona virus alert level new zealand does work to a partial easing of lockdown rules until now all non-essential businesses were
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ordered to close now some regulations have been relaxed allowing other businesses to open like restraints and cafes for pick up or delivery only i've been hanging out for this it was welcome relief for those wanting their caffeine fix from a professional communities come out and supported us which is fantastic a few hook ups with the website this morning but everyone's been very relaxed. so it's good to be open again there were also plenty of people wanting a break from the kitchen as long lines formed outside fast food outlets only a handful of new coronavirus cases are being reported in new zealand each day so the government believes the time is right to begin relaxing the rules but the message remains for most people stay at home there is no widespread undertake to community transmission in new zealand we have won that battle but we must remain vigilant if we're to keep it that way that includes safely returning more new zealanders to a neighboring more businesses to reopen now allowing some of the recreate to police
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we've missed and the past 4 weeks now it's a balancing act for new zealand and countries in a similar position trying to avoid a resurgence of the virus while getting the economy moving again key to that is restarting stalled infrastructure projects and as the alert level was lowered construction workers were able to pick up the tools again under alert level 3 the government expects around 400000 people to return to work which will of course provide a big boost to the economy after 5 weeks of inactivity but there is a sense that even though new zealand has managed to control the virus so far economically the worst may be still to come thousands of jobs are linked to tourism and right now the border is closed the government's own modeling says the worst case scenario could see up to 26 percent unemployment restrictions may be easing but this country like so much of the world is a long way from being close to returning to normal wayne hay al-jazeera or clint.
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the un's top human rights representative to be on mars stepping down after spending the past 6 years raising the alarm on atrocities committed against ranger was a minority of muslims in her final report she said the military's actions bore the hallmarks of genocide florence louis reports. the human rights envoy to myanmar made her pronouncement visit to myanmar in january 2017 she seen here in rakhine state in august of that year security forces attacked the mainly muslim minority there and the myanmar government has not allowed to visit since military commanders said the crackdown was in response to attacks on security posts at bahrain get fighters nearly 3 quarters of a 1000000 rahane get escaped over the border to bomb british many reported rape torture and abuse by soldiers and protest more cops on the gambia accused me of genocide against their will and launched a case at the international court of justice last november and must lead. tonight
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the charges and defended her country for granted pretty gambia is placed before the court an incomplete and misleading factual picture of the situation in rakhine state and. yet it is of the uk those importance that the court assess a situation of changing on the ground and or crime dispassionately and aker's for the remainder little has changed in. the still denied citizenship are unable to move freely and have little access to health care and education has done nothing to dismantle the system of violence and persecution and the rohinton remain and recover and live in the same dire circumstances that they did prior to the events of august 2017. many have tried to escape to neighboring countries risking their lives with people smugglers but increasingly no country wants to let the men the malaysian navy recently prevented
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a boat carrying around 200 rangar refugees from landing and last week the bangladeshi foreign minister said 2 other boats carrying around 500 people in the bay of bengal wouldn't be accepted either. in the last 2 years the rangar have also been caught in the fighting between the myanmar military and the our economy fighters for the armed groups. the un says fighting has intensified with near daily reports of violence tens of thousands of civilians. have been forced from their homes the myanmar government has imposed an internet blackout in several townships for months and the government's accused of arresting journalists and government critics in her final report to the united nations human rights council last month lease said the optimism she had when she started the job 6 years ago has been lost and she's watched devastation and tragedy since. al-jazeera a little boy. it's
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good to have you with us hello adrian from going to. the headlines on al-jazeera soldiers are patrolling the streets of lebanon's 2nd biggest city tripoli where there's been another day of violent protests against the deepening financial crisis security forces used rubber bullets to clear demonstrators who set banks on fire. is that. so people here are losing patience with the authorities not just the banking sector now they're also blaming the political class for years of mismanagement years of corruption and now the state is close to bankruptcy if so the situation is quite tense you speak to people here they say ok the army may have cleared the streets for now but we're just going to come back and it's. this is not going to end until our economic hardships as prime minister in france and want to leap says the lockdown has helped to save $62000.00 lives this month
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but keeping it in place could lead to economic collapse plans to ease the 6 week locked out in france a ping discussed in the national assembly. the u.k.'s health minister says that the government will start to include deaths outside of hospital in its published figures it comes after the independently run office for national statistics said the number of people who died in england and wales is 52 percent higher than the government figures show the turkish defense ministry says that at least 40 civilians have been killed in 2 bombings in syria it's blaming the kurdish y p g for the attacks in a free and in the northwest there are reports that one of the explosions targeted an oil tanker the city has been under the control of turkish backed troops for 2 years. there's the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after rewind next.
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