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6 if its base is too polarizing to take home the white house there's a generational divide that's real you might ironically see the outsider mantle the most corrupt incumbent president ever bootlegs america's divided democrats on his era the olympics. one of the most wanted suspects of the 994 genocide in rwanda was arrested in france for this young couple that was on the run for 25 years. but on down in jordan this is al jazeera life and also coming up a total lockdown more than $6000000.00 people in chile's capital are back under quarantine after a spike in corona virus infections. of course reopening italy gives the green light to international tourism after weeks of total shutdown plus. the kind of piglet
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which clarity baby how do i pay my mortgage or do i do grocery shopping difficult decisions in the united states has food prices soar to the highest level in nearly 50 years. a top u.n. prosecutor is welcoming the arrest of a suspect in the 1904 london genocide. has avoided capture for more than 2 decades until french police raid the apartment near paris some of the reports. this is going to say he was one of the world's most wanted fugitives 84 year old. the man accused of financing the militias that mascot 800000 people in 100 days during the rwandan genocide until his arrest in france he had been on the run from international justice for 25 years i had been indicted by the united nations
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international criminal tribunal in 1907 on 7 counts of genocide but the film a businessman managed to avoid arrest using his powerful international connections to evade capture to go always had very close relations with iran's government in france he's very well connected are in elite circles are in paris and i think use arrested i will also raise questions about how much sorry paba army. has receipts from the french government in recent. cougar had been living under a false identity in this apartment in as of sen near the center of paris he had previously lived in germany belgium the democratic republic of congo as well as kenya and switzerland. this morning we were surprised because when we went downstairs like all the neighbors we were trying to get out and then we saw a whole army of police preparing this operation because. his son in law had been arrested in germany in 2007 for war crimes committed during the 1994 genocide the
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u.s. had offered a $5000000.00 reward for information leading to his arrest. had also been the chairman of the infamous ekta l.m. radio station which he used to broadcast propaganda inciting ethnic hutus to murder to seize his arrest was carried out by french police together with cooperation from belgian and british authorities now he will face the international criminal court in the hague for his part in one of the worst atrocities in recent history sonny diagonal al-jazeera. central africa director for human rights watch he says this is an important moment that the terms of the genocide. this is a huge day for rwanda and this is a huge day for international justice and it's very difficult to overstate how significant this arrest is for this young couple who is one of the big fish he is one of the last remaining individuals out there who really had it was alleged to
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have had excuse me a real planning purpose with regard to the rwandan genocide and for many years folks like myself thought maybe he was going to get away with it maybe we would never find him there was rumors of him being in europe in east africa for years so to wake up to this news is incredibly significant and i can't imagine how relieved and i don't want to use the word happy but how resolved people in rwanda survivors and victims' family members of victims of the genocide must be i think there will be questions asked and i think they absolutely should be the fact is that for this young couple does not someone who was unknown there was a massive reward out for him for many many years he has been at the top of the rest the sort of most wanted list of not only east african countries but also european
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ones so i think there should be an absolute investigation as to how he was able to get this other identity and how he was able to evade justice for 26 long years the 1st day of a weeklong lockdown in the chilean capital santiago has seen city streets almost deserted more than 6000000 people have been ordered to stay in that sense the health ministry reversed the easing of restrictions on friday off infections increased rapidly in the past 2 weeks chile has nearly 42000 confirmed cases so fall 2 is about was monitoring developments across latin america from argentina as capital one as i was. the streets of sunday i will fiend empty as the chilean government tightened the lockdown in the capital city as you just said those above 70 years old were quested to remain in their homes those who wanted to leave their homes need to get a special permits from the police and violators will be fined with thousands of dollars as used to host is also said of the amount of people infected in the
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country has doubled in this past week and most of those cases are happening in the capital santiago from the very beginning chile implemented a case where they called it a segregated lockdown where they blocked certain neighborhoods that had a larger amount of people that had been infected well that changed today the whole city is right now under lockdown there's been reports also that several hospitals are already filled their intensive care units are already filled and they've been transporting several cases across the country so that those people could be treated even though the death toll is not higher over $400.00 people have lost their lives it is expected to rise we do know that in santiago its largest cemetery already this saturday the people there have been digging graves not only in that in that cemetery but also in other regions because the death toll is expected to rise well some european countries are beginning to ease restrictions on movement travel to
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and from italy will start again next month but only people traveling from sangin and e.u. countries will be allowed to enter they'll be no more 14 day quarantine also previously banned trips within the country will be allowed the prime minister just at the com to says he's taking a calculated risk. what about the mostly bling she be the man the only states our values remain the same and the 1st of those is the protection of life and of citizens health their non-negotiable values but we have to approach them differently in this phase 2 we are facing this risk and we have to accept it otherwise we'll have to wait until a vaccine is discovered and we can't afford to which is what travel is also now allowed across england but rules for the rest of the u.k. have not been eased in france and greece people cannot go to the beach there are rules the number of people allowed and how close together they can be sport is back in germany with the return of the bundles league of football league 6 games are played on saturday but fans were not allowed inside stadiums in italy the daily
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death toll has now fallen to its lowest in over 2 months but the tourism sector has taken a big hit this is usually peak season and as priyanka gupta explains hotel owners can't wait to get back to business. empty tables deserted holds rooms steeped in history left without visitors there's no one to the gilded walls of italy's finest nazi hotels instead of ghostly silence on the once bustling terrace and the symbol of a pandemic that swept through italy leaving thousands dead devastating its economy is that this hole would have been crowded noisy with people chatting 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 the did 30 is empty and closed. but there are signs of hope the government is
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allowing people into and out of italy from early next month free travel within the country will also receive a number you're going to get we look forward to the reopening of borders and then there might be the possibility for travel forecast the 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 work to adapt our beaches our hotels and our campsites to the current health emergency we were able to guarantee the celebrity of a seaside holiday caution is critical for an industry that contributes 13 percent to italy's g.d.p. and employs more than 4000000 people the economic impact of the pandemic has been devastating of their life in the line of we're estimating they will lose about $18000000000.00 into reason this year but we need to understand what will happen
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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 restricting 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. with the restrictions being partially lifted in england people on britain's southern coast are worried about visitors flocking to the seaside chalons has more now from brighton. 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
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wherever this is not the place you should be coming the moment for a day trip up when 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 'd may weekend but these are not normal times we know that we've been told it time and time again. 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 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 spain's prime minister pedro sanchez says he'll try to extend the state of emergency for another
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month that gives the government extra powers to lift the lockdown gradually a number of new cases and deaths have been falling spain reported 1023 talent is on saturday alone one day rises mid march sanchez heads a frontal coalition and they have to rely on the support from opposition parties. the u.s. president says he may restore some funding to the world health organization donald trump tweeted saying his administration is considering several proposals including spending about 10 percent of the previous contributions from suspended u.s. financial support to the double h.-o. in april accusing it of spreading chinese descent to nation about the corona virus outbreak. meanwhile former us president barack obama has made a veiled swipe at his successes handling of the pandemic saying it has torn back the curtain on american leadership speaking at a virtual ceremony for thousands of graduates he said they have to seize the initiative while the nation's leaders have fumbled more than anything this pandemic
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is fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing a lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge of the world's going to get better it's going to be up to you. the cost of food in the u.s. has seen the biggest monthly increase almost 50 years the price of groceries increased by more than 4 percent in april it's put more pressure on americans struggling to make ends meet during the pandemic john hendren has more now from chicago. just when they can afford it least americans are suffering sticker shock at the grocery store the meat the deli. the ham the cheese even the bread is costing more now according to the u.s. labor department food prices rose 2.6 percent in april the biggest monthly jump in 46 years prices for staples like meat and eggs are even more and with single parent i have a mortgage i have a car no still you kind of think like what's priority right now do i pay my
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mortgage or do i go grocery shopping with tens of millions of americans newly unemployed more than it any time since the great depression soaring prices mean long lines at food banks in more americans than ever questioning where their next meal will come from ali because we already are worried that people are stuck in their house and senate happened and now we know that a lot of people who are stuck in their hats that number one in 5 families is food insecurity she says the number is 2 in 5 for families with children under 12 and higher for african-american and hispanic families. as meat plant workers who've grown ill and died from the global pandemic dozens of plants shut down and walk around all the 17 out of people. that they've you know. president trump ordered the plants to reopen with new precautions in the said he plans to change visa rules so that plants can keep foreign workers in the u.s.
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longer to replace those who are sick or under quarantine but panic buying in a supply chain slowed by social distancing or driving prices higher. chicago's old meat packing district is filled with restaurants now the old slaughterhouses in meat packing plants have moved to rural areas but the meat is still traded on the chicago commodities exchange a few blocks away where prices have been steadily rising with no cure and no vaccine in sight the rising arc of food prices continues to mimic the growth of the virus itself john hendren el jazeera chicago time for a short break here and al-jazeera when we come back out of work and struggling to feed themselves the plight of nigerians as pandemic restrictions send food prices soaring and how to work together when we're on the moon not lays down the rules without more than status.
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hello there mostly fine intracoastal than areas of asia plenty of cat is in the spotlight but we have got some showers with that of a nice thought about day slightly sunday across much of japan just want to stray showers most of the rain through sunday is staying well to the east but there's more heavy rain pushing into the korean peninsula and then you see all of this trading down across into southern china and some very heavy rain on sunday into southern and eastern areas of taiwan that is the remnants of what was tropical storm of on follow that will clear out of the way through monday but look at this some very heavy rain then pushing its way into western japan and again pushing down into all southern areas of the korean peninsula and all the while more rain and thunderstorms into southern areas all the china to say the remnants now of tropical storm of on fall you can still see on the satellite plenty of activity across through zone it still is on its way to clear there so we'll see more showers but you can see that really has been some widespread flooding across much of luzon all
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the different provinces have seen destruction as you can see and just look at that the actual floodwater coas carries a long distance and that is to say it came onshore into samoa and this is the damage that has been done so a lot of clips a place over the next few days that the weather conditions will improve so if you shot as as we go through sunday and by monday why do scottish shows generally across much of the region. for. a city defined by military occupation there's never been an arab state here with the capital of jerusalem everyone is welcome but. that meant is because only project that's what we defuse it was one of the founders of the settlement and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is apartheid in the 21st century jerusalem our rock
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and a hard place on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on al-jazeera the man accused of funding the militias who killed hundreds of thousands of people during the rwandan genocide has been captured and this young couple was found hiding in paris under a false name after avoiding capture and only $25.00 news. the 1st day of a weeklong lockdown in the chilean capital santiago has seen city streets almost deserted more than 6000000 people have been ordered to stay in their homes. italian prime minister joseph accounting says the country is taking a calculated risk by gradually lifting the lockdown he says protecting lives is
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paramount but it's we can't afford to wait until a vaccine is developed. health officials in yemen have confirmed 13 new cases of coronavirus and 3 deaths that raises the number of known infections and government held areas to 122 who the rebels have also reported to new cases in territory they control 5 years of conflict a lift yemen's health system in tatters they work as a infections are spreading undetected aid organization save the children is warning the surge in deaths in yemen's southern port city of aden could be the result of the spread of the virus it's issued a statement saying our teams on the ground are seeing how people are being sent away from hospitals breathing heavily or even collapsing people are dying because they can't get treatment that would normally say their lines there are patients who go from hospital to hospital and yet cannot get method. is the children's advocacy and media directive a yemen she says the lack of medical facilities is making it hard for the country
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to respond to the outbreak. are currently. 500 going to latest in the entire country there are only 520 i.c.u. bad stuff are available for cooking 1000 patients and that means it's it's going to be very difficult for yemen to be able to respond to to this outbreak and the health system has been decimated by 5 years of who are only house of the health facilities are functioning at the moment so aid agencies like i was a really bracing all cells for a 4 day outbreak to spread of and which is why it's more important than ever to be able to do early action and try to stop the spread try to respond to what is happening right now so that it doesn't get worse. now massive testing for a gram is underway in the chinese city of where the corona virus outbreak was 1st
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reported the 1st cluster of new infections since the lockdown was eased has been confirmed but as crowds formed tests and has some people concerned that going for a task can expose them to the virus they are being has more. the people in this province have been battling the novel perona virus longer than anyone else the virus started here in december last year and grew to epic proportions killing more than 4000 people in china alone after months of lockdown and province the number of cases began to drop then this week there was a cluster of new infections a new testing campaign is underway to stop the spread the residents fear going to crowded testing centers could put them in danger. i think some measures should have been taken for example people should be separated when there are many of them is not very good to have too many people covered in one place some paper where the moscow not safety has become
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a hot topic especially on social media among the 11000000 residents of this latest campaign is voluntary i think it's fine everyone is keep it a distance off one and a half meters from. that. says the epidemic people have had a great sense of responsibility to keep i distance from each other to reduce risks there are now nearly 5000000 cases of covert 1000 around the world more than 300000 have died what started in china may be returning for a 2nd wave leah harding al-jazeera. at least 24 modern workers have been killed in northern india when their truck collided with another vehicle it happened in the state of the pradesh is the latest incident involving laborers as they try to return home during the lockdown in the past week more than 30 have died with no public transport tens of thousands of people have been forced to walk often hundreds of kilometers elizabeth brown and as more details in the capital new delhi
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. the migrant workers were in a group of about 50 people who were traveling from the western states of roger stone and the launch truck carrying limestone and other construction material they were from the states of just going to be there for the west bengal and were just trying to get home like millions of other migrant workers around the country are losing their jobs the government in the state of the. crash happened has ordered action against any truck drivers found to be transporting migrant workers and they've also ordered buses to be stationed at each of the state's borders to transport migrant workers found to be walking with the shares borders with about 7 other states unfortunately though this isn't the only incident deadly incident involving migrant workers on saturday and the other 5 have died after the truck that they were traveling and overturned in the state of it was going between the
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states of maharashtra and again. and just last week we had something like 16 migrant workers die when they fell asleep on train tracks in the station. and something like 150 mine workers have died at least 150 trying to get home since india's lockdown was announced and hundreds of thousands have walked. with on to some other news the syrian government and al qaida affiliate. have conducted a prisoner exchange in aleppo. the government released for fighters from. the rebels released a colonel a soldier from the syrian army at the hunt for the prisoner swaps in aleppo over the last 18 months. has deployed its army near its border with croatia in order to prevent hundreds of migrants from entering the country said because defense ministry says it's simple troops to secure 3100 migrants to protect locals from
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alleged criminal activity the 4000 people slinging war and poverty have been stranded in their words on to reach the european union. members of hong kong's protest movements have been gathering at malls across the city dressed to blend in they sang and shouting slogans before dispersing into the crowd movement's leaders are calling for an independent inquiry into police actions during last year's protests on friday a police watchdog group released a report saying some changes were needed but the force of mostly stayed within guidelines sarah clarke was at one of the malls where she spoke to some protestors . destructions 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 mood 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
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stop interfering in her own political affairs they're also angry at the place accusing them of using excessive force and brutality during last year's protests just part of them to set up an independent commission of inquiry was just do with used to do so so just the attitude of the government and most of the phone call is . that they don't want to listen to people that the government backed watched or defended the police actions last year during the anti-government protests but so this room for improvement within the police force but these places graveside that 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. now nigerians are complaining about rising food prices during ramadan some items are twice as expensive and expected to drop even after the muslim fasting month ends and address has been speaking to the people in the capital abuja feel. she knows daisy shops for the
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families next meal. she's a regular at this small market in the hurt of the city by sis prices have increased dramatically since the start of ramadan the prizes mean you know what you get for like. $5000.00 for like $10000.00 and you just have to keep buying the children not whole consumers say price rises during ramadan happen every year nigeria abundant it's price control on commodity boards more than 30 years ago but many here say those boards help to protect consumers from exploitation and with workers' wages not last in through to the next paycheck many want them back. mohamed in a sort of days ahead 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 traders julie. it's all because demand outstrips supply when there are shortages
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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 1000 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 the isn't far off. comedy agrees al-jazeera. now nasa has set the stage for a global debate on what it could look like to govern the moon the so-called artemisia code seek to establish safety zones that would surround future moon bases to prevent interference from rival countries or companies nasa said that companies working on the moon could own the lunar resources they mine but russia has not been thrilled with these accords criticizing washington for excluding it from early
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negotiations an official from nasa says he hopes the future of space exploration will look more like star trek and less like star wars but francisco diego is a senior research fellow in the department of physics and astronomy at university college london he says all nations need to work together on this project people in the united states are not in touch with the planet what is going on of course in our international treaties and of course there are a waste of going out into space asa human kind if we have to remember when the last apollo astronauts landed on the moon they left a plaque that says we came in peace for mankind so these needs to be truly international collaboration not someone that starts setting up the rules and people joining in but internationally set in their way in a way we could take the example of the antarctic treaty that has an extra
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exploration for scientific purposes that this program doesn't contemplate scientific purposes is very important we want to see an international collaboration underlines with the antarctic treaty on the lines of the international space station and then take it from there. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the man accused of funding the militias who killed hundreds of thousands of people during the rwandan genocide has been captured they could do that was found hiding in paris under a false name after avoiding capture and the 25 years the 1st day of a total coronavirus lockdown in chile as capital has seen and 3 city centers in quiet streets under the new rules people in santiago will need a police pointed to leave home for at least a week. italian prime minister josep
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a contest says the country is taking a calculated risk by gradually lifting the lockdown he says protecting lives is paramount that is we can't afford to wait until a vaccine is developed what are the most appealing she became and the only states now values remain the same and the 1st of those is the protection of life in of citizens health their non-negotiable values but we have to approach them differently in this phase 2 we are facing this risk and we have to accept it otherwise we'll have to wait until a vaccine is discovered and we can't afford to. spain's prime minister peres sanchez says he'll try to extend the state of emergency for another month that gives the government extra powers to lift the lockdown gradually spain reported $102.00 deaths on saturday the lowest one day rise since mid march. u.s. president says he may restore some funding to the world health organization from tweeted saying is that ministration is considering several proposals including sending about 10 percent of the previous contributions from suspended u.s. financial support to the w.h.o.
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in april. at least 24 migrant workers have been killed in northern india when their truck collided with another vehicle it happened in the state of the pradesh is the latest incident involving laborers as they tried to return home during the lockdown in the past week more than 30 have died with no public transport tens of thousands of people have been forced to walk often hundreds of kilometers and the syrian government and al-qaeda affiliates. have conducted a prisoner exchange in aleppo a government released for fighters from. while the rebels released a colonel and a soldier from the syrian army have been one full of prisoner swaps in aleppo over the last 18 months so those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after inside story stage you've done so much in life and.
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coronavirus and jack countries rushed to introduce the tolls to track the spread of the pandemic but how effective bombay do they danger human rights this is inside story. hello welcome to the show i'm sami's a than health officials in tech companies around the world have been racing to develop smartphone apps to control the spread of corona virus some governments may be weighing right.
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