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the are pricing. on al-jazeera. i really really not getting anywhere in it which. i wanted genocide suspects for d.c. and couple go is arrested in france after 25 years on the run. i'm kinda now this is over there are live from davos a coming up. a slow move to reopen parts of europe with caution remains to prevent a 2nd wave of corona virus infections and. food prices soar during the pandemic in nigeria worsening the plight of many who are out of work and struggling to survive . trapped in unable to join their adoptive parents dozens of babies born to sorry
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good mothers are stranded in ukraine. atop a un prosecutor is welcoming the arrest of a suspect in the $994.00 a wanted genocide 84 year old feliciano had been on the run for 25 years the hooter businessman is accused of funding those who slaughtered civilians and the radio station that encouraged it over a period of $100.00 days and $994.00 hutu militias killed at least $800000.00 minority tootsies and moderate hutus prosecutors say paid those militias and purchased weapons that were used in the killings in 1997 he was indicted on 7 criminal counts including genocide it was arrested near paris on saturday after he was found living under a false identity. phil is
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a professor and author on africa who says could because the rest is a significant legal moment the genocide couldn't happen without to prove he basically bankrolled the entire genocide. by sickly produced created and funded the interim one militias which carried out many of the largest massacres during the genocide he also bankrolled the mind height right station that incited many of the 2 massacres and he also united will the import of about 500000 machetes into the country without which the killing spree would have been an impossible sort so really without could the genocide simply couldn't have happened and and his arrest tonight is are is an incredibly significant legal moment he was being protected in kenya for a very long time in fact it's a great surprise to many rwanda watches that he's ended up in paris so i don't think many people realize that but he managed to find saif passage to france this
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is a key element of this story though it because could go always had very close relations with with mr owens government in france he's very well connected in elite circles in paris and i think his arrest today will also writes questions about how much science he has received from the french government in recent years the u.n. tribunal which is still up and running in a residual why it wants to prosecute could go at the u.n. want to shut that tribunals but i would love to have computer as their last suspect i would love to go out with a big legal bang but by the same token the rwandan authorities want to prosecute him and to. prosecute configuring to dolly in many ways would be the equivalent of arguments trial in jerusalem it would mean an enormous amount to the rwandan legal system but more importantly it's seen as crucial for rwandan genocide survivors and rwandan society generally that he be prosecuted into in
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a courtroom where he can be seen by every general wanted people and where the impact of that trial can be felt very strongly domestically. borders and beaches are reopening across europe as countries look to stem the economic damage from crown of virus restrictions they say the government announced it will allow travel to and from the country starting next month since march the country has been under one of the strictest lockdowns and it's had the tourism reliant economy hard has broken gupta reports. empty tables deserted holds rooms steeped in history left without visitors there's no one to the gilded walls of italy's finest much of the hotels instead of course the silence on the once bustling terrace and the symbol of a pandemic that swept through italy leaving thousands dead devastating its economy this that the piano this whole would have been crowded noisy with people chatting
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at the bar visitors passing by and appreciating the beauty of these halls now it's empty lonely it is the 1st time in almost 80 years of the history of this hotel which was built to the thirty's is empty and closed. but there are signs of hope the government is allowing people into and out of italy from early next month free travel within the country well also with numbers i want to get we look forward to the reopening of borders and then there might be the possibility for travel forecasts and not positive but we are very optimistic. a low italy's coastlines hotel owners are preparing for a different kind of summer but on the other we're ready to host tourists who come to the veneto coast in these last weeks we've worked to adapt our beaches our hotels and our campsites to the current health emergency we're able to guarantee the celebrity of a seaside holiday caution is critical for the industry that contributes 13 percent
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to italy's g.d.p. and employs more than 4000000 people the economic impact of the pandemic has been devastating to the limit we're estimating they will lose about $18000000000.00 in 2 risen this year but we need to understand what will happen from tomorrow on wards if hotels have a possibility to reopen in june giving foreign tourist the chance to reach italy we will limit those damages with many countries district and air travel tourist numbers are predicted to fall by between 60 to 80 percent this year globally but many hope that with enough the children's business can get moving again and the lights can finally be turned back on. in the u.k. local authorities are still urging people to continue to stay at home that's despite restrictions being eased this week in england henri telent is in the british coastal city of bryson he says it appears that people have listened to warnings to
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stay away from large gatherings. the fear amongst the local authorities here and i've been speaking to a counselor from the green party works here in brighton and hove and he was saying look it's against every bone in his body every every fiber of his being but he was saying just don't come here this weekend if you're from london outside of brighton wherever this is not the place you should be coming at the moment for a day trip up and you can see the beach behind me it's there are people here but it's certainly no way near as busy as it would be on a normal warm may weekend but these are not normal times we know that we've been told it time and time again and the fear is that as these restrictions are being slowly incrementally released in in the u.k. with boris johnson dropping the stay at home message now saying stay alert instead
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whatever that means that people are going to start rushing to places like this and they're coming out of there in forced hibernation but for the moment it seems as if the people are still listening to their the advice that they should be being very cautious and not going back to normal life quite yet. in germany a football match is resumed on saturday 6 games are being played that spectators are not allowed to cross one and only came has the story from the. what we have right now is situation no fans in the stadiums anywhere across germany where the top flight football is taking place and they're missing out on plenty of goals having been scored in the games that have been getting under way remember over the course of the next few days saturday sunday monday all 18 teams in the bonders league or will fulfill their fixtures but with nobody in the stadiums to watch them
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in german it's called guys the ghost games nobody there the point is that these games are being watched if not by people in the stadiums but by people around europe because they are looking at what the boomers leader is doing and and wondering to themselves might this be a template for our country's many football associations having their eyes on this to see well are the procedures put in place by the blunders that you're going to be the sorts of things that they can do because remember the players the squads have to be tested on a very regular basis on the basis of those tests then the teams are able to to field squads who can play against each other fulfill the fixtures and get to the end of the season that is what the blunders league officials really hope they're going to be able to do now darian said complaining about rising food prices during ramadan that's coinciding with the covered 19 pandemic the cost of some items has doubled they're expected to stay high after the muslim fasting month ends up at
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interest has been speaking with buyers and sellers in markets in the capital a butcher. she knows what is the shops for the families next meal she is a regular at this small market in the hurt of the city but says prices have increased dramatically since the start of ramadan the prizes mean you know what you get for like. 5000 there are girls for like 10000 and you just have to keep the children are told. consumers say price rises during ramadan happen every year nigeria abundant it's price control and commodity boards more than 30 years ago but many here say those boards help to protect consumers from exploitation and with workers' wages not lasting through to the next paycheck many want them back. mohamed in a sort of gaze the head of the markets traders union he says 70 percent of his customers are staying away but the price increases are not entirely the fault of
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traders that really. it's all because demand outstrips supply when there are shortages the prices will increase when you factor in the cost of transportation we see that a lot these past few weeks so the increase is then automatically transferred to the buyer it's particularly difficult now with ramadan coinciding with covered $900.00 pandemic with workers forced to stay at home due to lock downs. many consumers say they're cutting costs and watching what they spend and very soon they could be hit by price rises because the muslim festival of ego isn't far off. some of the grease al-jazeera. several countries have reported children being treated in hospital or dying from an inflammatory illness similar to the rare disease the head of the world health organization says it's studying a possible link to covet 19 reports from europe and north america have
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described a small number of children being admitted to intensive care units with a multisystem inflammatory condition with some future is similar to car circus this is an toxic shock syndrome initial reports hypothesize that this syndrome may be related to 19 it's critical toward a gentle and carefully conduct arise this clinical syndrom to understand causality and to describe treatment interventions. still to come on al-jazeera. planes from the u.s. president but experts want to gets to suggest suggestion of a covert 90 vaccine by the end of the year. look at how the broader virus vaccine crisis rather is changing how when and where we will work in the future.
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how we have another pulse of faery heavy rain making its way outs of central china pushing towards the fall south of japan this area of cloud and rain the seasonal rains of course a stationary front just dragging across a similar area that will push its way towards the south of japan not see bad on sunday just a grazing blow here for sunday further north some wet weather just coming out of the mungo the fall northeast of china that will gather as we go on through monday and cooper to some flash flooding it's a pos of north korea made edging across into the south of south korea as well we are going to see some wet weather there at this stage making its way across q she's 7 pounds of honshu further south the rains continue across southern parts of china a chance to some wet weather some very wet weather coming into taiwan find
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a warning has now been issued for tropical storm of one form you can see it means very close to taiwan hence the showers here legacy of showers coming back in behind across the philippines in the usual showers the coast much of southeast asia sees a very heavy showers into the southwest of india into sri lanka 10250 millimeters of rain here with some flooding we are looking at a developing tropical siphoned in the goal making its way further north this week. political. ideals grassroots activists and polished speech in its own lines takes you inside the battle for the democratic party. and asks if its base is too polarized to take home the white house there's a generational divide that's the real you might ironically see the outsider mantle to the most corrupt incumbent president over the last america's divided democrats
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on al-jazeera. geologist there are a moderate our top stories this hour french police have arrested a rwandan businessman who is accused of funding the $994.00 genocide felicien has been on the run for 25 years french authorities say the 84 year old was living under a false identity in the us. italy's government is to instruct the restrictions from early next month all international travel and movement within the country will be allowed italy was the 1st country in europe to impose a nation one knocked down. and in germany be put to sleep the football tournament
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has resumed on saturday 6 games being played but spectators have been the exclude it. looking now it's more about world news there are reports that companies based in the united arab emirates have sent mercenaries to libya to support warlord li for half the and his campaign against the un recognized government the bloomberg news agency says a confidential un report details how a team of western mercenaries were dispatched from dubai last year to help puffballs bid to capture the capital tripoli the u.a.e. has previously been accused of supplying weapons to health are in violation of a u.n. arms of baggage. 10 people have been killed during raids in northern rio de janeiro brazilian officials say police were looking for a gang leader who escaped prison in 2016 the shootout between the offices and locals later took place the suspect who was also wanted for drug trafficking is
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said to be among the dead. members of hong kong's protest movement has gathered at malls across the city dressed to blend in to crowds they sing and shout slogans and then disperse the movements leaders are calling for an independent inquiry into place sanctions during last year's protests so clark has been one of the more where she's been speaking to protest his. restrictions have eased in hong kong as a result of these protests the saudi again and the government groups are targeting shopping centers in this weekend there are a number of rallies planned the police are here in the checking identification of some nice people present in this particular mall and also the security of telling people here that they must not gather in groups of more than i people of the like this is not living out they want to carry them to resign and then what china to stop interfering in her own political affairs they're also angry at the police accusing them of using excessive force and brutality during last year's protests just part of just a bit you dependent commission of inquiry which she's doing used to say just the
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attitude of the government and most of the phone call is that that they don't want to listen to people that a government backed watchdog defended the police actions last year during the anti-government protests but said this room for improvement within the police force but these protests groups say they will continue until i see justice and i also want to further investigation into the police force and what i described as excessive force used on the protest groups during last year's anti government demonstrations. a 3 trillion dollars package in the u.s. aimed at helping those struggling to deal with the fallout of the pandemic has passed its 1st hurdle in congress president trump is threatening to veto i did your castro report. it's at no time since the great depression have such a large number of americans sought help after losing their jobs and never in u.s. history has their spending at stores and restaurants fallen so quickly and so far now some of the members say let's take a pause let's take
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a pause do you think this virus is taking a pause do you think that the rent takes a pause do you think that putting food on the table and or the hunger that comes if you can't take a pause house democrats advance yet another coronavirus rescue package on friday the 5th of a pandemic this one totaling 3 trillion dollars it seeks to extend unemployment benefits and send more checks to american families and would bail out the postal service and address election security republicans who control the senate have called it a partisan ideological wish list that will never become law the senate will not consider this bill the president will not sign it into a wall speaking from the white house rose garden into a background symphony of truck drivers protesting his handling of the pandemic president trump announced the formation of a fast track program to develop a vaccine and have 300000000 doses available by january when
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a vaccine is ready the u.s. government will deploy every plane druck and filled required to help distribute it to the american people as quickly as possible but trump in facades that with or without a vaccine the u.s. economy is ready to restart that's contrary to the advice of government health officials who have warned it reopening too soon could trigger another outbreak now people get a little antsy with the mask and. they really want to come out more than 2 thirds of u.s. states have now canceled or significantly relaxed stay at home orders now as more people and their weeks of social isolation it's far from clear how safe is the world they venture into. castro al-jazeera silver spring maryland. the president certainly has a lot of planes trucks and soldiers at his disposal but can operation warp speed produce a safe and effective effective vaccine in such
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a short amount of time you provided some clues as to how this might work well we accelerate the final phases of vaccine trials operation warp speed will be simultaneously accelerating its manufacturing and manufacturing process in other words we're getting ready so that when we get the good word that we have the vaccine we have the formula we have what we need we're ready to go as opposed to taking years to gear up we're gearing up it's risky it's expensive but we'll be saving massive amounts of time we'll be saving years of this sort of time table has never been tried before hundreds of millions if not billions of doses will need to be produced on human trials are still taking place so we could be ready by january but there is no guarantee that it will be effective this years if the vaccine is only 45 percent effective the record holder for the fastest
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vaccine ever approved for mom stuck a little over 4 years but safety standards and regulations have been dramatically improved since then the vaccine process usually takes a decade sometimes 2 or 3 only a fraction of that seems ever approved for public use chris smith is a consultant viral is just at the university of cambridge explains the risks of rushing out a vaccine. one sure fire way to solve our present situation is to confer immunity on everybody by getting a vaccine to everybody but that doesn't mean that we jump the gun and we make the situation worse we have got to be very cautious about this because we know what the risk is from corona virus and we know that about one percent of people may lose their life to it well if we make a vaccine that actually has a bigger risk profile than that then actually arguably it's better to catch coronavirus and take your chances than it is to take the vaccine and that's what clinical trials are for but at the same time there are situations where sometimes you have to take shortcuts because the loss of life potentially that you are
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avoiding is greater if you can get a vaccine into people than if you do go the long route take your time and guarantee that it's safe to your basically trading safety against potential loss of life if you don't move faster. dozens of sorry could babies have been left stranded in ukraine by the current virus locked up it means adoptive parents have been unable to take them home cattle office how to get reports. i know these newborns were supposed to be at home when do you siri said there is change in a facility run by a reproduction clinic in ukraine they were born to certain mothers for foreigners but with the countries close borders the parents can travel to them and nurses are now looking after them which queue skip the core and then the muzzle as i'm in the rental care cannot be replaced with a thing else no matter how professionally a person looks after babies the psychological and emotional connection most be
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established within the 1st days of the baby's life we try to send parents photographs of the children and organise conference calls but this cannot substitute direct contact. the issue was raised when the owner of this reproduction centering released a video showing dozens of babies waiting for their parents it's estimated that across ukraine nearly $100.00 infants are in the same situation at borders remain closed and locked down measures are extended many fear the number could quickly rise if you order. these children here facing a big problem they can't go to their parents who are in china france spain italy the us and vogue area they're all in the same situation because the borders are closed ukraine is one of the few countries that legally allow service e for foreigners with a weak economy many women turn to the controversial industry where they can earn about $15000.00 for each pregnancy the foreign ministry is now trying to find
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a way to allow parents to travel to ukraine to pick up their infant we're going to get the report. we have some parents who are 50 to 55 years of age they've been waiting for this child for 20 years and they were given this opportunity for the parents of these newborns a journey years in the making will have to wait a bit longer. so the young al-jazeera. chile has stepped up restrictions at its capital santiago its health care workers deal with an upsurge in cases of covert 19th in america as embassy in yemen has more on the. air force planes airlifted patients from chile's capital to hospitals and far away cities while in santiago ambulances waited with patients outside the hospital emergency room entrances for up to 10 hours tens of thousands of residents ignored calls for social distancing as the queued for essential goods ahead of the start of the total
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lockdown something presidents of us camping it ahead said would not be necessary. but the exclusion of coded 19 infections in the capital up by more than 500 percent in 2 weeks dashed his hopes of controlling contagion without shut down the economy . we are fully aware of the difficulties the restrictions and the shortages that a lockdown means for the chilean families we're going to make the up mice if it to facilitate food medicine and other basic services german the quarantining pull it out and it is. receiving an emergency shipment of ventilators at the airport the president appealed to opponents to unite in the face of a monumental threat behind me is the entrance to sense our general cemetery inside grave diggers have been working around the clock in order to meet and in fact surpass their yearly quota of tools in order to be prepared for the worst but many
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people believe it's settled have come to this so soon. the government had boasted that chile was doing better than its neighbors ignoring earlier pleas from doctors and mayors like rudolph carter to declare a total lockdown before infections got out of control. we have to say it very clearly without panicking that these next 2 weeks are going to be the hardest speaks in the history of chile since the 1973 cool we're going to have dead people you're going to have hurt families. police will be on the lookout not just for those who violate the quarantine but the traffickers who are using delivery services which are allowed to circulate as the perfect cover for distributing illegal drugs to lose anti-narcotic squads have already made more than $200.00 arrests multiset. they misuse well known brands of delivery services to deliver drugs instead of food or medicine why because a policeman probably won't suspect
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a delivery man on a bicycle that's why we're cyber patrolling the social networks to try and identify the traffickers. the battle to stop people from violating or abusing the quarantine is on now the chilis doing good most agree is the right thing but not necessarily soon enough you see in human al-jazeera santiago. as countries begin easing restrictions many people have become used to working from home some and now wondering whether these changes will be long term. jack dorsey announced last week that his employees can carry on working from home indefinitely facebook and google say this stuff can continue until next year many companies are doing a cost benefit analysis as restrictions eased research shows benefits in food grace have productivity and improved work life balance and they say mental health but some employees feel isolated or distracted posing a challenge for employees is casey wall is the c.e.o.
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of a tuned to ai a web based platform that at allies is employee motivation. so some people the whole reason for them going to work like we have data is in a tuning that's all social relationships and going to build those relationships are why they go if they're going to be working from remote for too long by themselves only seeing their families which have good things of course over and over and over it they're not going to be able to do it so it i think it's there's a certain segment that wants to be in the office all the time and as a segment i really like the remote work and would prefer this to be it but where it's going to be difficult for companies is probably the majority in between that like a little bit of this and a little bit of that and how do you set up policies because if it's remote work 1st then it's kind of easier to manage everybody you get everybody on the cycle but there's groups and person and groups outside you don't have that equal kind of conversation and level of relationship and i think we're going to kind of see faces
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is many companies are going to get x. rays go infrastructure ok you got to zoom calls or this guy calls are the collaboration tools but how do you keep people productive how do you deal with the mental health i think there is a mental health benefits but there's also a kind of loneliness in the people that have social relationships as a big intrinsic motivator how are they going to be able to get their needs met i think so there's a lot of complications i will be coming for these next years for us. this isn't as there are these are the top stories friends but they said the rest at a robe on the businessmen's accused of funding the 994 genocide for the sand couple guy has been on the run for 25 years french authorities say the 84 year old was living under a false identity that passed during the genocide 800000 people were killed and that 20000000 were displaced. italy's government is to ease travel restrictions from
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early next month all international travel and movement within the country will be laos italy was the 1st country in europe to impose a nationwide lockdown in germany the bundesliga football tournament has resumed on saturday 6 games are being played but spectators have been excluded when it came has more from berlin over the course of the next few days saturday sunday monday or 18 teams in the bundesliga will fulfil their fixtures but with nobody in the stadiums to watch them in german it's called guys the ghost games nobody there the point is that these games are being watched if not by people in the stadiums but by people around europe because they are looking at what the boomers leader is doing and wondering to themselves might this be a template for our countries there are reports that companies based in the united arab emirates have sent mercenaries to libya to support war wholly for after the bloomberg news agency says a confidential un report details how
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a team of western mercenaries were dispatched from dubai last year after launched a campaign to capture the capital tripoli from the un recognized government more than a year ago 10 people have been killed during raids in northern rio de janeiro brazilian officials say police were looking for a gang leader who escaped prison in 2016 a shootout between the offices and locals lace it took place the suspect who was also wanted for drug trafficking is said to be among the dead there's been protests and shopping malls across hong kong demonstrators stops to sing and shelter before blending into the crowds the movement's lead is a coin for an independent inquiry into police actions during last year's protests. but as the headlines the news continues here on answers there are after fault lines so don't go away.
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me. good luck may well if. not. for the coronavirus stop the world in its tracks the battle for the future of the us democratic party was in full swing back. to clear off sions would eventually emerge from a pack of candidates with very different visions for the future of the country i'd like to introduce to you.
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