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i mean if you if their rhetoric and. they cannot manipulate the listening post your insight go to the media because the era. japan slips into recession the world's 3rd largest economy is on course for its deepest slump since world war 2. i'm right about this and this is all just a live from doha also coming up india extends its coronavirus lockdown for a 4th time bringing more misery from migrant workers trying to head home. the brazilian president's rallies his supporters there backing his call to lift
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restrictions despite an increasing number of cases. and malaysia's parliament convenes for the 1st time since the prime minister resign but the won't be any business done until july. the world's 3rd largest economy has slipped into recession japan has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic its economy shrank for the 2nd consecutive quarter by just under one percent in the 1st 3 months of this year prime minister shinzo out of a had announced a massive relief program last month to keep the economy on track japan has recorded more than 16000 cases of the virus and close to 750 deaths or rob mcbride is joining us live from seoul rob japan's economy was already beginning to slide into some recession before the pandemic hit but things have just got even worse haven't
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they. that's right and there is worse economic news to come from a coded 19 but as you mentioned we've had now 2 quarters where the economy has contracted so it is in a recession but this started at the end of last year in the last quarter this is well before anybody had even heard of coded 19 japan had already been hit by a rise in a controversial sales tax from 8 percent to 10 percent that hurt spending it was already suffering from the lingering effects of a typhoon then of course the all of its economic problems are really now being compounded rolling into this year with the onset of covert 19 the delay of the summer olympics it was about this time that many companies throughout japan were expecting to be ramping up massively employing thousands of people as the country was preparing to welcome the world well as we know all of that has now been delayed
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by at least a year and just in april we had shinzo of a the prime minister declaring a national emergency that further kept people at home that kept people away from going out clothes many more businesses in fact many economists are predicting that this quarter that we're in now the 2nd quarter of 2020 is when we'll see the real economic pain with some predictions that the economy is likely to contract at an annualized rate of more than 20 percent now that is depression sized slump the worst in living memory shinzo obvious already declared a stimulus package of a trillion dollars well that frankly at this stage does not seem enough and he's likely to expect to announce more help to help the economy through this is rather more broadly for us in seoul bringing us up to date on the situation in japan rob thanks very much indeed. india has extended a nearly 2 month old lock down by another 2 weeks as it battles to control the
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rising number of infections india saw its highest daily spike on sunday with nearly $5000.00 cases taking the total to more than $95000.00 shell about us reports. behind each of these padlocks is a closed shop in this once thriving way spangle alley inside a half finished i don't see that make them haven't worked to nearly 2 months they have now learned it will stay this way into june logged on nabc obviously. the situation in lockdown is such that when it was spring lock and we had orders for our doors and the 100 got side with us we could have managed but it was all closed so while the situation was going on we have not worked it has been raining yes. india is extending it's not down for another 2 weeks because cases keep rising sunday so the highest daily jump yes it's nearly 5000 fiction's schools moves in
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other public places will stay closed but some moves are being relaxed we covered 19 is more contained mainly in the areas. a look down extinction is bad news for migrant workers who are losing the jobs in the 10s of millions the urban exodus is unprecedented you know without quality they started gathering here since late last night we have been persuading them to not gather here and also to take trains or buses and a white on save more the francois taishan we have sent some on buses but it is still very crowded here public transportation is completely overwhelmed physical distancing is not an option the indian government range from buses and trains this week but with a population of nearly 1200000000 this simply no room for everyone all lined out doesn't know why god will i feel special my going to division but nothing happened my form will get done to me i think the doubts are making money off duty charging
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money and the money. gets the ticket. it means migrants of fools to hitchhike on trucks it's a dangerous option $24.00 laborers were killed this week in order pradesh when a truck crashed. others simply walk with their children and belongings for hundreds of kilometers i got out of i applied for transportation but my application was never approved i'm a daily wage labor how can i save enough to feed my family in such troubling times we have no rations and my children are hungry we have to go home and with the nation wide lockdown no exchanges any relief and still some weeks off valis which is their. his supporters to back his call to end the lockdown is attack to governors who introduced restrictions in an effort to stop the spread of the virus the president's push to reopen comes despite 15000
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deaths in brazil more than all other latin american nations combined. reports. hundreds of supporters of. once again poured into the capital brasilia on sunday. honking their car horns to call for an isolation measures in the country. people think oscillation is not being done in the right way there is no previous experience in the world of closing everything down just to see what happens. become a weekly event in this city coronavirus cases are still increasing rapidly across the country but the president is keeping up his fight against. posed by local authorities. in front of the presidential palace but what's new is that for the 1st time he. face masks but that didn't stop him from shaking hands and embracing a young supporter dressed in
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a military uniform and attacking what he calls the terror of total isolation measures calling for the reopening of the economy and urging people to get back to work. we will change brazil's destiny even with this crisis affecting the entire world thanks to ministers thanks to the wonderful people here we have. 15000 brazilians have died of 1000 so far though experts fear the figure is probably much higher with many cases because of insufficient testing and no where is the situation worse in the region. on sunday residents of this neighborhood in took it into their own. tends to this infects the streets of the city with the highest rate of infection spread capitaine the country. we took that initiative because we lost we have a lot of victims in our neighborhood and that was the tendency if we did not act. and now there are growing worries of the virus fast spreading upriver into isolated
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indigenous reserves at least 11 tribe members have already been confirmed dead but without testing or access to adequate medical care nobody knows how many lives will be lost alison. the death toll in the us is approaching 90000 but with the number of new cases on the decline more than 2 thirds of states are beginning to reopen that has health experts worried about a new wave of infections i did joe castro has more. crowded new jersey beaches are one sign that coated 19 infections and deaths are on a downward trend in parts of the us comfortable being up here but i am surprised there are so many people but the progress in overcoming the pandemic is not uniform across the country with experts warning against rushed reopening there are some states that are still having increasing daily numbers of cases some states that are
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flat some states that are going to new york the virus epicenter has seen new cases hover around 2000 a day down from its one day high of 11000 a month ago i'm going to show you how fast any secret is to take a test governor andrew cuomo showcase new york's expanded testing capacity getting a no swab on live television to encourage new yorkers to be unafraid of the procedure that's it nothing else does the president have confidence in the meanwhile one of president donald trump's top economic advisors criticized the centers for disease control and prevention peter navarro blamed the c.d.c. for distributing flawed test kits in the early weeks of the pandemic not only did they keep the testing with the end of your rock receding had a bad test and that did set us back president reached back further to cast blame more than anything this pandemic is responding to former president barack obama's thinly veiled criticism saturday of trump's handling of the pandemic but he was an
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exasperated president that's all i can say roughly is that trump has vowed to reopen the economy with or without a vaccine while some americans continue to protest local movement restrictions public health officials have been unanimous reopening too soon is a game that gambles with people's lives castro al-jazeera silver spring maryland. the newest branch of america's military the space force has launched its 1st mission. the united launch alliance atlas 5 rocket which. the unmanned spacecraft blasted off from cape canaveral in florida after being delayed for a day by bad weather officials haven't revealed the purpose of the mission nor are they saying how long it's going to remain in orbit the solar powered vessel has flown several times before but this is its 1st mission with the space force which was established in december still ahead and al-jazeera months of political
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uncertainty in israel come to an end as the prime minister and his rival agree on a unity government and international outrage after a prominent egypt journalist is arrested for just doing her job. hello wave say more severe storms into central parts of the u.s. we've also got trouble storm off the just off shore here that's going to run its way up towards the mid atlantic states as be going through the next day or 2 you can see the system which will push up toward north carolina maybe into virginia as we go on through monday coming labby got some very wet weather still pushing in across the plains easing over towards the appalachians 12 celsius there in chicago
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some haze ahead of that d.c. at around $21.00 degrees a similar value as we go one to chew say that west the weather slowly but surely continuing to push its way east was brought skies come back in behind the close essential areas still a chance of want to see the showers there over the rockies temps is around 18 sesa to san francisco and you can see some useful showers there some welcome showers coming into a good parts of california even into central parts some lobby shows into the caribbean as we go on through the next day i think across northern and western parts of the region so we'll see sweater weather into northern areas of cuba maybe sliding down into central america big shower was just around costa rica make iraq you're pushing into panama sloshy fine for the lesser antilles with plenty of tropical sunshine.
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dizzy and i mean we're. on the rubber and not. going to be in a clear and most are there but it's a much a moderate katona that can and not all the stuff in the most other than bob about half of the lead. in what can a man had been asthma what men and. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories at this hour the world's 3rd largest economy is in recession as the coronavirus pandemic hits business and industry hard japan's
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economy preceded by almost one percent in the 1st quarter of the year. india has extended a nationwide lockdown for at least another 2 weeks schools malls and other public places will remain closed the shutdown has forced thousands of migrant workers to head back to their home states often on foot. brazil's president of china both are not always rallying his supporters to back his call to end the lockdown there this despite 15000 coronavirus deaths more than all other latin american nations combined. but ages parliament has convened for the 1st time since the resignation of its prime minister mahathir mohamad most were placed by his deputy maki dean yes seeing who was appointed by the king in march that happened at the markets have failed to form a new unity government that's come on this from soreness louie louie who is in the column for funds apart from the king's address in parliament what else is likely to
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be on the agenda. well up on the old week ago we were warned that that meeting would have been the best thing right between the government and the. government and the opposition but now the government has limits at the meeting today to just the king's speech now and so for opposition politicians that will be no chance to debate a motion of no confidence that been put forward by the man the prime minister replaced mahathir mohamad has put forward a motion of no confidence against the prime minister opposition politicians say this is an illegitimate government that doesn't have the people's mandate and they want to test his support in parliament that is not going to happen on monday that will also be no opportunity to discuss the economic measures that the government has put in place to cushion the economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic now. opposition politicians have said that they will respect the agenda.
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even though analysts have said they could show how unhappy they are that this meeting has been limited by staging a walkout now the king in his address has called for unity in the government but the political drama in malaysia is set to continue the opposition politicians issued a statement on sunday to say they will continue opposing this administration and they want to try and we gain power of the government has said it's limiting the sitting to just one day because of the coronavirus and because the country is still trying to contain the spread of the virus that malaysia has begun to ease restrictions put in place since 2 weeks ago. as far as the vote of no confidence is concerned presumably the delay means it's not going to take place until the next sitting in parliament. that's right so the next setting and parliament will take place in july and the speaker has already said that it has accepted the proposal but no date has been set for. the debate but remember that
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this parliament meeting taking place on monday is one that was already supposed to have taken place in march just a row we copped a prime minister we didn't yes in came to power in a political coup and that meeting has been postponed till now so there's no there's no certainty that the meeting in july will go forward as planned or that it won't be postponed because it also depends on how the government is handling the coronavirus pandemic at the moment but opposition politicians and those have also said they are concerned that the prime minister is going to use the time between now and then to try and shore up support already several politicians from the coalition's 2 biggest parties have been given appointments at government think companies as well as positions and special envoys and ambassadors presumably to shore up support that's what opposition politicians are concerned about and they're also concerned that one of the biggest parties in the coalition is. a party known
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as i know it's the united malays national organization this is a party that ruled malaysia in one form or another until it was defeated in a national election 2 years ago because of a string of corruption scandals linked to politicians but now that party is back in power florence thank you very much indeed for some of them for. well after more than a year in the hall for inconclusive elections and political paralysis a new israeli government has been sworn in a long time prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rival but the guns have agreed to share power each is going to spend 18 months in charge how many false reports from west jerusalem. even after 3 inconclusive elections and being charged in 3 corruption cases benjamin netanyahu has shown once again that he's going nowhere we thought we would with our hours of great responsibility binny gains and i decided to form a unity government and avoid
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a further really how hard i have to look at the division and distrust remain evident in this unity deal now you know who in his former rival benny gantz have written into it all kinds of guards against betrayal sworn in similar taney asli as prime minister and alternate netanyahu to go 1st then gantz after 18 months unprecedented 36 ministries shared equally. we decided to take national responsibility especially at this time israel needs a national government that represents broad sections of the country after more than 10 years the era of government by one half of the nation is over we are here to represent those who felt they had no voice in leading this country but dance also predicted bitter arguments to come one big difference their position on an exciting 30 percent of the occupied west bank under the terms of the trump peace plan dances calling for a delay in consultation netanyahu is doubling down and was it is time to apply
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israeli law and rice a glorious chapter in the history of zionism this state doesn't delay peace it brings it closer because peace must be based on the truth and the truth is that there are hundreds of thousands of settlers and you dare and sumeria under the coalition deal netanyahu can bring an extension for a vote and he time after july the 1st veto power of the terms of the deal say that annexation has to be carried out in coordination with the us and must not threaten any regional peace treaties and now the u.s. seems to be signaling that it wants to see a delay and jordan's king says annexation would cause massive conflict with israel netanyahu and dance say the new government answers the. all of the israeli people at a time of pandemic and economic crisis gansa swarm opposition ally says it serves the interests of politicians not voters a cold look at have his government was a stablished 0 trust between the partners everything through lawyers and court debates overriding the basic laws people who don't believe
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a word the other says. it is at least been our functioning government the 1st israel has had a nearly 18 months but its structure is unprecedented and faces severe tests of the impact of the coronavirus and accession and having a prime minister whose corruption trial is due to start next sunday our aforesaid quest to salem. political campaigns and have ended at the head of wednesday's general election they've been marred by violence and hate speech with both sides blaming each other katherine sawyer reports the. supporters of bullies main opposition candidate i got home last hour on the streets of the capital which they hope that he'll win wednesday's general election he has run for president twice before but lost he says his victory was stolen by a president. who is not standing by campaigns have been marred by sporadic violence
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between supporters of the ruling c n d d f d d party. in dresses congress for liberty party government officials say 30 people have died this injured and many arrested all of this is meant to intimidate the opposition so as to guarantee the victory of the ruling party but this is quite clear nonsense. at the other end of town thousands attend the ruling party's final campaign president who accompanies his preferred candidate every session to supporters are confident victory belongs to them as she me is one of the most influential politicians in buti and a close ally. of the president he's a former rebel fighter who survived the ethnic cleansing of students of hutu ethnicity at the university of beirut in 1905 the president calls him a national hero. he was a fast. track to prepare for arrival after signing the peace deal that ended the
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civil war it was a brave move his job was also trying to grab it i mean police which he did successfully he also played a big role in establishing c.n.d. . as a formidable political party. is pushing ahead with the election despite the coronavirus pandemic the country has at least 2 dozen confirmed cases and recently expelled some white house. after their criticism the government's response has been adequate the president says the situation is under control obviously looneys the only country where people are still gathering for public and religious holidays god knows what is happening in their world and that's when we are turning to for protection. and you will be choosing a president and peace paul representatives the poor that will have no international observers kind of a promise to fix the struggling economy create jobs unify the country some of the $5000000.00 voters are survivors of a 12 ethnic based that started in 1903 you know violence in the 2015
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election and they say all they want is a peaceful outcome cathy zoi al-jazeera. ok let me show you some scenes in hong kong's parliament this is just from a few moments ago pro-democracy and pro-government lawmakers have been arriving over procedures with the leadership of a key committee that state security guards have removed some legislatures from the chamber it's related to a recent dreadlock over electing a chair of the committee so it can move to passing legislation some of that legislation is highly controversial 2 of the bills include the government's planned urgent business for that meeting including a controversial bill to criminalize disrespect for the national anthem. libya's internationally recognized government says its launch strikes on an airbase controlled by war locally for huffed are on saturday shelling by forces loyal to
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hof dog killed at least 7 people in seldom shipley the attack targeted a university dormitory being used by internally displaced people and ambulance was also hit by shrapnel as medics treated the injured there's a growing rift in syria within the president's inner circle bashar al assad's cousin business tycoon as refused to step down as the head of the largest mobile phone operator and a 16 minute video posted online of i mean mock louve says the collapse of syria tel would be a catastrophic setback for the economy he says is under pressure to hand over its profits or face arrest it's the 3rd such video has posted in recent weeks where the editor of a prominent egyptian online newspaper model has been released on bail after outrage over her arrest the publication says lena was arrested outside the tora prison complex in cairo should appear in court on monday there was
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a winning journalist was interviewing the mother of a jailed activist. who's on a hunger strike protesting his detention shareef one sort is from the committee to protect journalists and he says the egyptian government is using any excuse to go after journalists critical of the system. you're not alone mother must have suffered a lot of hard last month by the egyptian government even allow for the one who is currently on hunger strike in jail he is the mother must contribute around colonist and he was arrested after writing a critical columns. and for many reasons this is nothing. customary for egypt we know that because it has been one of the warders deliberative journalists now since 2 so than a 13 and the government have used every possible excuse to go after jonas
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then this time they basically are trying to bring in the manner of speaking videos and pictures of military look aisha in this case. it isn't many will not it's political activists have been in jail egypt will even be enforcing a stricter curfew for the muslim festival of weed starting next week shops beaches and parks will remain closed egypt has reported nearly $12000.00 kona vises bodies cases and more than $600.00 deaths the race to produce a vaccine is a global priority and it will be discussed at a 2 day world health assembly beginning on monday as countries work around the clock the u.k. has placed over $100000000.00 towards the mass production of vaccines running challenge has more from london. the government badly botched the messaging over the easing of its lockdown restrictions leaving many people confused and a poll suggests that most people now think that the u.k.
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government is doing a bad job so on sunday we are being told that the country is at the forefront of the push to research and develop a corona virus vaccine $100000000.00 worth of funding for a dedicated vaccine facility and also a new raft of funding as outlined by the business secretary out sharma i can also confirm that with government support oxford university has finalized a global licensing agreement with astra zeneca for the commercialization and manufacturing of the oxford vaccine this means that if the vaccine is successful astra zeneca will work to make $30000000.00 doses available by september for the u.k. as part of an agreement to do $100000000.00 doses in total the u.k. will be 1st to get access. and we can also ensure that in addition to supporting people here in the u.k.
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we're able to make the vaccine available to developing countries at the lowest possible cost but here's where the government's messaging gets a bit confusing because the oxford university astra zeneca tie up is being talked about is being able to pump out 100000000 doses of a vaccine by september with u.k. citizens being 1st in the queue but as far as we're aware no vaccine actually exists yet and writing in the mail on sunday the british prime minister boris johnson warned everyone that the path of getting to a vaccine was still a long one and even said we might never get to one being developed. this is all just here these are the top stories the world's 3rd largest economy is in recession as a kid on a virus pandemic hits business and industry hard japan's g.d.p. declined by almost one percent in the 1st quarter of the year prime minister shinzo
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abi announced a massive release food program last month to keep the economy on track. and ia has extended a nationwide lockdown for another 2 weeks schools malls and other public places will remain closed the shutdown has forced thousands of migrant workers to head back to their home states often on foot brazil's president jetta both or not it was rallying his supporters to back his call to end the lockdown this despite 15000 coronavirus deaths more than all other latin american nations combined 230000 people are known to be infected in brazil but experts say the true figure is likely to be higher. we will change brazil's destiny even with this crisis affecting the entire world thanks to mr snipes of the wonderful people here we are together presell is ours. u.s. president has had to back it criticism from barack obama who said the government has fumbled its response to the pandemic you were sitting president that's all i
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can say roughly. speaking as he arrived back at the white house from his weekend retreat at camp david and donald trump again said that a cure would be found by the end of the year contrary to what medical experts believe. a new unity government has been formed in israel after 3 deadlocked elections prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his former rival turned part benny gantz or both lead for 18 months scuffles have broken out in hong kong's parliament between pro-democracy and probation politicians there are erupted over the failure to elect a new chair for the key committee it's meant to scrutinise bills and it's been without the leaders since late last year the backlog of bills includes one that would criminalize abuse of china's national anthem. and those of the news headlines and it continues here on al-jazeera after rewind josephs journey good buy. county mccall richen results is but some opec nations are struggling to make any
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