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when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen after world war saying your europeans go build united states of you but we would not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter don't go 0. libya's main airport under attack forces loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar unleash a barrage of rockets. this is all just there a lot from don also coming up russia's president leads muted ve day celebrations is covered 19 cases the past 10000 for a 7th day. turkey says an app that tracks people who have caught
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a virus is working to reduce the number of infections he's. known to fans around the world as the king of rock n roll little richard dies aged $87.00. we begin in libya where forces loyal to warlord holy fire have to have fired at least 80 rockets into tripoli's only functioning airports and libyan airways plane on the tarmac was hit it was jews to take families back to europe but nobody was on board 2 civilians died from shelling near the force of the us forces had earlier targeted residential areas in the capital close to the turkish and italian embassies dawa head has the latest from tripoli. authorities in airport say that one of the damage of the plane is one airliner that was
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set to. transfer european nationals and also to bring libyans stuck in a spain nobody was on board that plane when it was head by the rocket but it was a located for that flight meanwhile infrastructure civil buildings inside the compound were heads including and under construction building for the united nations and also. a jet fuel tank according to the. marketing company that's part of the state owned oil corporation it boasted that one of its jet fuel tanks water was also hit and set on fire and the firefighters were striving to put out the fire in airports many other facilities inside the compound were hit or damaged by the explosion as you know come that nearly 80
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rockets were launched and we have the forces on i'm 80 again on the vicinity of the . airports 2 civilians were killed a man and woman in bed that's a neighborhood close to the city center and there was a state of panic among the civilians there and the security forces. in a made to get airport to say that they had to block the way the coastal way that links the city center to get airport to prevent any more civilian casualties in case of any possible or further attack by have to us forces. russia's president vladimir putin has led scaled downs elevations to mark 75 years since the end of world war 2 in europe and for the 7th day in a row russia has registered 10000 new infections lopez hadia reports.
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instead of a military parade on moscow's red square russians marked victory day in solitude covered 19 has changed everything the streets routinely used to display russia's military power are empty no tanks no music no marchers. president vladimir putin place flowers at the a train or flame near the kremlin walls and for the 1st time in recent years western delegates who were due to attend the event canceled. addressing the nation he called for unity. during the year we know and they firmly believe that we believe and we stand together. a military air show replace the ground parade with jets flying over 47 cities across russia. during the 2nd world war the then soviet union lost about 25000000 people more than any other country. yet the most we probably don't deserve
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a parade under the circumstances everyone is out in scared of the virus whereas the veterans were going under bullets and minds. with social distancing traditions have turned to technology and stead of families carrying a photograph of a relative lost in the war like previous years portraits were uploaded online for a digital commemoration the start menu the price and i don't mind the celebrations were cancelled people will celebrate at home and watch the parade from previous years. but the president was counting on the parade to mark the 75th anniversary with his approval ratings hitting a record low there is frustration over the handling of the pandemic as russia becomes a new hotspot for the virus at home a weak economy and a slump in oil prices are making things worse. the economy is not doing well i know a number of at the crisis measures have been taken and i hope it will help us to
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survive the situation year. abroad its involvement in the war in syria and libya has fuel tangents with adversaries the president was hoping the parade would help his political standing and the country's might now. but as it marks the end of the 2nd world war russia now faces a new invisible enemy. al jazeera. or is a different scene a bellows where thousands of people gathered in a tightly packed crowd for ve day celebrations the country is not introduced to any social distancing measures or travel restrictions long time president alexander lukashenko has dispersed fares of coronavirus as psychosis at least 121 people in belarus have died of the virus and more than 21000 has been infected when the u.k. the government is to announce that all incoming travelers will have to isolate for 2 weeks the restriction is expected to take effect at the end of the month both on
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breaking the rules could face fines or deportation or bran it has the latest on the situation in the united kingdom. looking over my shoulder here i am in richmond on thames a very affluent part of southwest london and people are already to a certain extent taking matters into their own hands sunbathing sitting out on the grass essentially in defiance of the stay at home order that the government has put into place i have to say there have been police patrols out here and as long as you're not spreading out a picnic and planning to stay all afternoon the police here are taking a very lenient view and that is part of the problem that boris johnson has a very delicate delicate balancing act to come up with he doesn't want to release the pressure on the on the lock down too much too much because he fears a 2nd wave of infection but at the same time he needs to give some hope for people here in the u.k. who've been locked down for 6 weeks so far and so what's expected on sunday is a very modest relaxation the thing that's come forward in the newspapers and from downing street sources today is this idea of
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a 2 week self isolation for people who arrive at ports in the u.k. having to give an address where they will stay for those 2 weeks after arriving in facing the prospect of spot checks by the police and potentially a $1200.00 fine if they fail to abide by that self-imposed isolation it's a difficult one and it's certainly all eyes will be on boris johnson on sunday as through a whether this comes to pass whether it is as predicted and 2nd of all what else he might tack onto that as far as for the relaxation the expectation there is for modest very very modest differences. pakistan's government has started lifting all down measures despite the number of daily infections soaring more than $1500.00 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours bringing the total to around $27000.00 come a high has the latest from islamabad. august on had been in a state of log down for over a month now initiated hurting business. people who were relying on making an extra
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amount of money because of the month of ramadan however the government said that it was taking a difficult decision to open up the benefit of the factory however schools and colleges are going to large congregation nord be allowed the important thing now is what kind of effect this will have on august on. their time when the infection rates are writing within the country there are already warnings by the medical fraternity there such a move mayport extra pressure on pakistan them. made it official that there will not be a very good deal read their friend make. the big worry is that if the situation gets worse in the next few days and the influx of coronavirus patients increases by tens of thousands then the whole health care system will collapse because we don't have many ventilators and we don't have the capacity to cope with a mounting crisis now the government is moving in
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a calculated man expecting the people to go observe the fop but we have been able to keep people regard ma oblivious to the danger and of the friend dead make and their death god has going to be a rare danger for bar gets done. we understand that there is an increased threat of infection to people but we are also faced with an economic crisis lifting the lockdown will help us in a living for our family as people will be out to eat shopping and off to eat the government can go to look down again and we won't object to it with the idea the idea though the government has lifted the lockdown this will endanger more lives as no one here is following the standard operating procedures people here are also not taking it seriously. the move by the government to either a trick or take pressure off of more trade we've been demanding reopening their businesses but didn't go through a move which i did go in danger and could lead to an alarming right and
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a number of. officials in turkey say the use of so-called contact traces is help control that's corona virus outbreak more than 3600 people have died since march but the mortality rate has been falling for 17 straight days so tim costello reports on the treatment method that's getting the credit. this patient has just been transferred from the hospital's emergency service to the intensive care unit. he has severe coronavirus along with other complications most of these i.c.u. patients are 65 or older they know they are especially vulnerable but they are fighting to return to tell the. truth here their. 60 percent to take these cases are reported in istanbul we treat many of them here we used to get $8.00 to $10.00 cases overnight now it's more like 4 or 5 per day
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are intensive care unit is still 3 quarters full but fewer people are dying. after recording some of the fastest growth uncovered 19 infections in the world the outbreak in turkey appears to have hit a plateau after 6 weeks. because all the rubble the health minister ses context tracers their so-called white army have been the key. 6000 contact for acer's across turkey unsure covert missions stick to quarantine rules and identify anyone with whom they have been in contact. this records who has called it and where they are helping to identify and contain hotspots yes mission contact racing eliminates the virus contamination and possible new cases you've got the patient on what to do how to set a time as it isolate the number of the covert cases in our district went down at
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least 40 percent. and the tracing begins this young medical worker has tested negative so far but the contractor fraser team has the scabbard that this family has been in contact with that person was a coroner of ours while they are running to get tests to find out whether anyone is in fact the out break may have reached a peak in turkey but caution remains and people are being warned that social distancing rules will be around for a while longer and that to avoid cold with 19 the safest place is home. al-jazeera the stumble. still ahead on al jazeera demand for home deliveries but some can you drive as a missing out on profits we'll tell you why. one stitch at a time and volunteers in spain pull out their sewing machines from where they call
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. hello that's a mainly clear conditions across much of the arabian peninsula seen some clouds coming up in the last few hours is actually coming out from sudan ethiopia and some rain in it but not a huge amount what we'll see possibly as the old isolated or maybe a thunderstorm with the winds a strong to the north so again more blowing dust across much of iraq these northern central areas of saudi but it's a clear day sunday through the eastern end of the mediterranean some showers well up to the north clearing the way eastwards across the caspian sea and a bit of a repeat generally of a sunday say by monday time which is about 39 in riyadh $35.00 degrees in the hall the winds are still fairly brisk coming down from the north and the rain is a certainly much a feature still across the central areas of africa we've seen some very heavy rains
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across tanzania and kenya and it's really the coastal areas again as we go through sunday that will see the heaviest of these down poles and showers through eastern and central as a madagascar mostly care across much of south africa in fact a warm day on sunday in capetown with a high of 27 degrees celsius but again back across the central regions around the gulf of guinea the rains very extensive at times of course very heavy as well pushing also across into the democratic republic of congo similar story on monday the rains again developing late in the day fine in trying to cape town. is really just treats and trace frank assessments why is between. struggling to cope with the number coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action them behind her informed opinion it's going to be much more challenging in a place like eve with there's one ventilator 3000000 people in depth analysis of
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the day global headlines india dumb enough to admit the spread of coronavirus in the inside story on al-jazeera. you're watching are just there a reminder our top stories this hour libyan warlord holy father forces have attacks tripoli is on the functioning airport with at least 80 rockets a libyan airways plane was hit nobody was on board 2 civilians died from shelling near the. pakistan has started lifting lockdown measures just like the number of daily infections reaching a new high there are fears over the state of its economy slipping into
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a recession. and officials in turkey say the use of so-called context traces has helped to control its chrono virus outbreak more than 3600 people a dive since march the mortality rate has been forming for 17 straight days. at least 6 people have died in afghanistan after security forces opened fire on protesters several others were injured it happened in goa province among those killed including journalist and 2 police officers now the $100.00 people have gathered at the governor's office demanding a they want help to cope with coronavirus restrictions. you have been to the say saudi arabia has deported hundreds of somali refugees to their side of the border who they say the group of more than 800 is now being quarantined in the area of. of called on aid agencies to help saying they don't have the capacity to look after them all behind our top has more from some of. the hold these run supreme council
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for humanitarian called the nation has called on the refuse commission to uphold its responsibility before the this big number of refugees that have been deported by the saudi arabia to the has been where the hold these have. set up. what he can say as salacious and center for them as the afraid that the could could be infected by the cold in 19 as the country couldn't tolerate another battle on another front the yemenis here are the most vulnerable society especially over there 5 years of war has really impacted the humanitarian and economic situation here in the county there is a big number all for refugees in yemen they are traveling through yemen to saudi arabia from saudi arabia to europe and america as the believe that the
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traveling to the dreamland and the and this region which is saudi arabia vivi be go through difficulties and also many of them have been killed during this risky trip. egypt's president sisi has expanded his powers under a state of emergency is also granted to security agencies additional pounds the government says the new measures which include the ability to quarantine overseas arrivals are needed to combat the corona virus outbreak but they also include expanded powers to ban public and private meetings protests and celebrations. by juries government is warning that many states could soon run out of beds in corona virus isolation centers the number of cases continues to rise across nigeria particularly in parts of the north and in the commercial capital lagos a clinical trial involving the drug hydrochloric queen on covered 900 patients is said to begin in lagos state. business is booming for online and hundreds every
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service is because of crowd of us restrictions but in kenya's capital some of those who are going door to door say they're not saying any of the profits a struggling to make ends meet welcome web reports from nairobi. it's been more than a month since pubs in nairobi like this one are popping with life. kenya's government closed bars and restaurants to prevent the spread of the corona virus. but the risk to life. in the kitchen. through meat is a local speciality steak a ways are allowed and motorbike riders like france his career deliver to those who don't venture out. it's a big risk getting up from the house. with a good. bit of. crohn's he says that 3 deliveries around which as
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a rule the world ladies down he's struggling to look after his family it's not easy riding around on a bike all day nairobi's not that he will but the moment raining a lot of the time you leave once a sweater for walking down the road to the right as they think they're old enough for the kilometer windowing day long and then there's the pressure of trying to get home safely before the something. police have been accused of rights abuses when enforcing it be found after dark writers say they might be beaten or have to pay a bribe to customers say they plan to get their favorite food at home but they miss the good times that at the restaurant those who have given them things here and there you think that they're going to go but they have not told him that. business is booming for other delivery services to workers from this company microsurgery for customers who send a list. writers deliver them to their homes for us it's exploded we've
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reduced the number of. even thinking of our watching my every need to. be able to. use a service that only some can afford not the writers themselves france's income is down by about half as many others have no work at all a lot of economic activity has ground to a complete halt millions of informal workers left destitute français like so many others he called waiting to receive. malcolm webb al-jazeera nairobi kenya. construction workers back on the job in parts of india has some areas relax restrictions building has resumed on a metro line in the northern industrial city of cumple workers are being screened as they enter the site and numbers are being limited to allow for physical
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distancing a nationwide lockdown is still in place until later this month but regions considered to be low risk are allowed to start early. the marrow of south korea's capital seoul has ordered all bars and clubs to close of the concerns the virus could be spreading there the government had begun to relax its social distancing measures after a drop in new infections but in seoul there were reports of new cases links to some bars and nightclubs which prompted the order to shut them down. from hong kong palin says there was optimism after infections in south korea drops to single digits. but this now is becoming a cautionary tale for south korea and letting its guard down too soon this latest a cluster of infections stem to one man a 29 year old man who on thursday was identified as having coronavirus it was then revealed that he had visited 5 bars and nightclubs over overnight on may 1st which was the 1st few days when south korea was easing its social distancing measures
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that happened to be a long weekend to use of people from all over the country happened to be in the area to celebrate south korea's overcoming their outbreak so now about 40 people have been identified as testing positive link to that koester but it goes much further than that in fact the district now says they have to track and trace about 7000 people who may have this is the area over that period because of what they're calling silent spreaders or secondary infection so it's not serving as an example or a test case for the rest of the region and other countries for instance germany which had a similar trajectory jack tree to south korea as far as infections go which is now opening up china also which is now easing restrictions and opening up and hong kong in particular which this week is now opening bars and detainment to areas. italians are being warned to maintain social distancing measures even though restrictions
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have been partially lifted in rome people were seen gathering a popular drinking spot some without wearing musk's most spawn's 7 were offering take whale and in milan police patrolled areas which would usually be packed with tourists the city's mayor says the area will be shut down again if people don't respect the distancing rules. meanwhile rome has been speeding up the development of a network of cycling lanes the italian capital has created 150 kilometers of emergency bike lanes to give people more options to avoid public transport. and so very or thousands of people have cycled through the capital to protest against the government's response to the pandemic or accusing the prime minister of taking advantage of the crisis to increase police powers and curtail civil liberties are wearing masks is now compulsory on public transport in spain as the country moves to relax its lockdown there's a lack of protective equipment so volunteers are getting their sewing machines out
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to address the shortage for him home it has the story. spain is gradually reopening following the lockdown which began mid march like many other countries there's a shortage of protective equipment for health workers and support staff caring for coronavirus patients. the scarce supplies have prompted volunteers in northwest spain to put needle to thread common garcia is one of many described as a warrior with a sewing machine. i decided to help by doing something for the community common says something made her feel less helpless jury in the state of emergency though she's returned to work she continues to dedicate time to producing 20 masts a day each folded and measured to a specific size but i would have to understand that he just. used to continuity with disposable cotton and t.n.t. non-war them fabric with cotton we fold the fabric so one side and 2 or 3 fold then
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attach elastic on both ends this can be washed and reused t.n.t. fabric is much quicker as there are no folds and they're disposable. more than $600.00 spaniards have joined the cause 90 percent of them women with tailoring experience working around the clock. mask. everything's going to be ok the volunteers say they're following government health and safety guidelines. in organic and inorganic chemistry chemistry as well as a manufacturer as the materials fabrics are the nato. by. more than $80000.00 mosques have been delivered so far including to nursing homes supermarkets petrol stations and the local council in the region. helping with collections and logistics. this is.
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facebook groups. spain has been one of the hardest hit countries with more than $25000.00 fatalities as the government begins a 4 phase plan to get back to what it calls a new normal by the end of the month exercise outdoors is allowed and some have returned to work but wearing masks is compulsory on public transport the government says it will distribute around 6000000 face coverings with help from the european union and china and these women are a sign of a solidarity with in spanish society they're determined to make things better one stitch at a time mohamed al jazeera. one of the pioneers a rock n roll little richard has died at the age of $87.00.
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his hip thing faded good golly miss molly and that long tall sally for family went performance since his career spanned 7 decades influence the likes of elton john and the beatles david sinclair is a london based music journalist he says richard was a trendsetter. he was playing the piano he was appearing as basically and a singer but he was standing up and he was he was hollering and yelling he actually came from a gospel background a religious background and his whole style of singing was developed as a sort of test and testifying sort of style he would sit down afterwards or before the show with paul mccartney and show him how to do the beatles did long tall sally of the you know there was that one of their famous covers and so they were there and if you listen to paul mccartney's style of singing it's very you can hear elements a little richard's. deliberate delivery in it he also is
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a big influence or on someone like elton john obviously who you know any kind of piano man who came afterwards would have started with little richard you know that's that's where that whole style of hammering away on the piano very theatrical i mean you know you see on john jumping up on top of the piano that was live as well little richard did he was the 1st guy to do that so he had a big influence down the years on on all the the rock'n'roll you know the key in the key groups in the key key performers in the popular music world. this is all just there are these the top stories let me in warlord helicopters forces have attacks tripoli's only functioning airport with at least 80 rockets. libyan airways plane was hit but nobody was on board 2 civilians died from shelling near the airport the mood head has more from tripoli. many people here are angry
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especially civilians hold live nearby airport they say that they have been calling on the international community to put pressure on half those forces to refrain from targeting civilian areas civilian facilities it is additional areas but it seems that so far half the forces have not been responding to these calls in the u.k. the government is set to announce that all incoming travelers will have to isolate for 2 weeks the restriction is expected to take effect at the end of the month those found breaking the rules could face fines or deportation pakistan has started lifting lockdown measures just by the number of daily infections reaching a new high there are fears over the state of its economy that slipping into a recession. officials in turkey say the use of so-called contact traces has helped to control its corona virus outbreak more than 3600 people have died since
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march the mortality rate has been falling for 17 straight days in belarus thousands of people have gathered for victory in europe day celebrations the country has not introduced any social distancing measures or travel restrictions on time president alexander lukashenko has dismissed fears of coronavirus as psychosis based 121 people and have died and more than 21000 have been infected. so jerry is government is warning that many states could soon run out of beds in corona virus isolation centers the number of cases continues to rise across nigeria particularly in parts of the north and in the commercial capital capital lagos. the mayor off south korea's capital as it wanted. to close of the virus could be spreading them the government had begun relaxing and social distancing measures after a drop in new infections. the news continues here on al-jazeera the inside story and i'll be back at the top of the hour.
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a punishment or a redeployment a u.s. decision to remove patriot missile batteries from saudi arabia is making the kingdom's leadership nervous they were supposed to protect riyadh from iran so what's changed and this oil politics at play this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm peter dubey the united states is removing its patriot missiles and other weapons systems from saudi arabia the us president
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