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ship episode 4 of football rebels explores the life of carlos. the footballer whose personal story swayed of votes that altered the history of his country carlos caselli and the demise of a young day on al-jazeera. china says it's ready for an investigation into its coronavirus handling once the outbreak is over president xi jinping promises billions to fight the pandemic. this is all just there on live from doha also coming up. the f.b.i. says it has evidence that the saudi officer who killed 3 people at a u.s. military base last year was in contact with al qaeda. france and germany propose
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a $542000000000.00 fund to finance the reader of the european union's economy. on the brink of collapse the mayor of brazil's largest city wants its health care system has reached 90 percent capacity. the country at the heart of the crowd of ours outbreak that's infected nearly $5000000.00 people around the world is defending its handling of the pandemic tried is now pledged billions of dollars to fight the virus president xi jinping made the announcement during an annual health conference run by the world health organization. china will provide $2000000000.00 over 2 years to help with the global covered $1000.00 response and to help with economic and social development in developing countries china will also work with the un to set up a global humanitarian response to pro and hub in china. president also told the
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virtual meeting he supports an inquiry into the global response to code 19 only once it's been brought under control china's face growing criticism from countries including the u.s. and australia its initial response to the outbreak that president g insists beijing has been open transparent and for sponsible we have mike hanna standing by for us with the latest reaction from the white house the 1st let's go to asad beg who is standing by for us in london as said the w.h.o. is keen to really make this show of unity did it succeed well yes and no many world leaders came together to call for unity and solidarity in dealing with this pandemic but the world health organization has been under attack about their handling of this pandemic and the director general dr ted ross did address the assembly and he defended their record he said that the world health
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organization had acted early that they had shared information that they had warned countries but he did say that he would be initiating an independent review into the dealing of the pandemic at the earliest. moment. world leaders so that the world health organization need to better funding and more support in dealing with the pandemic and that the organization independent organization that oversees the world health organization they have said that the that they showed good leadership but the should be reviewed with the response that pandemic should be reviewed but not in the heat of the moment because it could hinder their work but they have said they have warned about the increasing politicize ation of the response to the pandemic so would this review this independent investigation also look into the origins of the virus because we know that an increasing number of countries want that looked into. no that's a separate resolution this would specifically look into the handling of how the
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world health organization dealt with the pandemic how they shared information how they warned other countries now the what will look into the origins of the virus is this resolution that's been supported with the right $120.00 countries not china was initially opposed to this now not opposed to the nie the supporting it this resolution calls for independent impartial and comprehensive investigation into the international response to the pandemic but also says it will look into evaluating zoonotic origins of the virus which is have the disease from the animals to humans now china did have a diplomatic specked with the strain over this beijing to get personally ministry you 1st proposed a similar investigation into the origins it's been put forward by the european union now china says that they also want to comprehensive investigation but led by the world health organization but after the pandemic has been brought under control
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and that could take years thank you for that said big there across developments at the world health assembly live from london. now we go to mike hanna who is live for us at the white house in washington d.c. mike the escalating spat between the u.s. and china had really threatened to overshadow this world health assembly i believe the u.s. representative has spoken want to they have to say. yes indeed relations between the u.s. china and with the w.h.o. in the middle continuing to deteriorate president trump has frozen funds to the w.h.o. he says that he is reviewing this at present and the possibility is that all funding will be struck off but the health secretary alex azhar has entered the fray with a sharpie critical speech to the world health association the world health organization in which he accused the w.h.o.
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of failing in its mission to explain the origins of the virus to communicate what was happening to the rest of the world this is what alex is are at to say in an apparent attempt to conceal this outbreak at least one member state made a mockery of their transparency obligations with tremendous cost for the entire world we saw that w 2 failed at its core mission of information sharing and transparency when member states do not act in good faith this cannot ever happen again the status quo is intolerable w.h.o. must change and it must become far more transparent and far more accountable. well the us has also sharply criticized the w.h.o. for excluding taiwan from these ongoing discussions this in a statement from the secretary of state mike pompei or who insists that taiwan should be included in deliberations about the pandemic given the role that it has
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played in fighting the virus however china of course has been absolutely adamant that it would not allow taiwan into play any international role within the w.h.o. particularly not in this round of discussions so yet another factor creeping into this sharply deterioration relationship between the u.s. and china. thank you for that to my candidate live from the white house. the f.b.i. says it has found evidence that a saudi kiddish was in contact with the al qaeda before he shot and killed 3 people and a u.s. military base last year federal investigators found cell phone evidence which they say reveals mohammed saeed. communicated with an al qaeda operative who encouraged the shooting u.s. attorney general william botha's technicians managed to unlock the phone and retrieve evidence off to apple declined to help the phones contained information previously unknown to us that definitively establishes ronnie's
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significant ties to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula not only before the attack but before he even arrived in the united states we now have a clear understanding of these associations and activities in the years months and days leading up to his attack he wrote a final will purporting to explain himself and saved it in his phone the exact same will that a q a p released 2 months later when they initially claimed responsibility he wasn't just coordinating with them about planning and tactics he was helping the organization make the most it could out of his murders and he continued to confer with his a.q. a.p. associates right up until the end the very night before he started shooting. let's
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head across to another part of washington now justice in fact where joins us now live patty what else would the f.b.i. director and the attorney general have to say. well they really were trying to turn this into a press conference about the technology industry they got a search warrant to search these 2 phones apple simply said no we're not going to comply with that so this is been an ongoing fight between the justice department and big tech in the united states but i think some of the bigger things that they announced perhaps were in the finer details things like they launched an attack against an associate in yemen that's the 1st time we've heard of that wasn't successful exactly what kind of attack in later questioning they wouldn't say but they also went on to detail a very long relationship between al qaeda in the reagan peninsula and mohamed randi saying that it went back to as far back as 2015 before he even tried to enter the saudi military this brings up
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a broader question about exactly what kind of vetting the u.s. was doing after all thousands of people from across the country come to train with the u.s. military it's a pretty big program they said that there was vetting going on but now they're saying that even while he was in the country for years from texas to florida as you heard just then right before he was communicating by phone by electronic device with people in gehman and nobody in the vast surveillance state seemed to have caught on to that now the military has since said that they are doing better vetting and they went on to say that saudi arabia is in fact in their words but you're seeing their vetting process as well but i think it's going to raise broader questions perhaps from members of congress congress of exactly what sort of investigation and what sort of surveillance they were doing all these foreign military recruits they were getting access to secretive u.s. military bases thanks for that live from the department of justice in washington d.c. . libby is internationally recognise. the government says it has retaken control of
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they all walked here airbase the site has been used as warlord headquarters in western libya since 24 teams earlier this month forces from tripoli launched an offensive to recapture the base soldiers loyal to hostile pulled out on monday after suffering major losses during heavy fighting in recent weeks. ahead does in tripoli he has more on the significance of the airbase. this is a strategic highly significant air bases being currently lost by house to us forces in the worst of the country as you know that have to those forces have been using this air base to send over crafts to fighter jets to target the government forces look in many areas especially in southern tripoli it's very significant in the battle for the capital tripoli and as you know that have to the forces it lost to a russian made defense system units panas to namely and that as they were targeted
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by the government forces the drones now the takeover of a base by the government forces is was swift takeover and partly thanks to the intensified because drones recent airstrikes now the government forces say that they can now focus on defending the capital tripoli and also more on the major stronghold and all the and last a stronghold now for half the forces and there was of libya namely the city of the horn about 70 kilometers to the southeast from the capital tripoli. so from here on al jazeera so far from home we'll have more on how india's extended lockdown is creating problems for millions of neighbors.
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hello there some very wet weather across the great peninsula and across into japan lots of castrating that way in the also as also trading down into well southern areas over china pushing some heavy rain across much of taiwan now this is the system which as we see the last you push away from northern sections of the korean peninsula but this is a warm rain system exit 8 so. the next works its way in so weighty a down couple of days tuesday wednesday through central hampshire up towards the north sea that will be the wednesday in tokyo high of 25 but that raised again from the south and some heavy rain developing into central areas of the china very widespread rain throughout much of indonesia we're also watching this system here just off the west of sumatra could develop into trouble it's actually pulling a little bit away as we go through wednesday but it will bring some heavy rains into those west facing coasts and then we had the bay of bengal this is our tropical a psych shown or
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a very strong and indeed throughout wednesday winds sustained at 230 kilometers an hour gusting to 280 it's working its way steadily northwards not quite as strong a wednesday but still very significant with winds of 200 kilometers an hour and the winds are so strong over see huge concerns of storm and some very heavy amounts of rain obviously accumulating in the next few days. but some opec nations are struggling to make any money right now but then also it could be oil prices crashed opening the green economy. plus boils biggest player moving in on a little piece of that. counting the cost 0. i really really not getting anywhere near.
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botching are just there are a mind of our top stories this hour chinese president xi jinping has pledged $2000000000.00 to tackle coronavirus during a w.h.o. virtual gathering she said beijing supports an inquiry but only wants the outbreak is brought under control. the f.b.i. says a saudi cadet who killed 3 people on a military base in florida last year had links with al qaida and the arabian peninsula also says it has been able to access his phone despite a lack of support from apple. libya's u.n. recognize government says it has retaken control of a key airbase all what t.o. was being used as will leave from afghans headquarters in the west of the.
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france and germany a joint be proposing a relief fund worth over $540000000000.00 to help your recover from the pen demick their leaders held a video conference to discuss the initiative on monday the proposal suggests the bloc borrowed funds together there have been differences in europe over how to push forward with an economic relief plan. across the natasha butler is live for us in paris to tell us more about this proposal and how it's likely to be received among a huge part of. yes the leaders of france and germany proposing that the e.u. launch a $500000000000.00 euro or about $545000000000.00 recovery fund for the blog now what the chancellor of germany in the presence of france said was that this money could be used by different regions or countries that have been
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worse hit by the current if i was pandemic it could also be used to revive certain economic sectors that have been particularly badly hit as well by the pandemic they said that it was absolutely fundamental that the european union come together and try to help some of those countries regions economic sectors of really are going to be struggling to try and recover and come through this growing a virus pandemic now merkel both made it very clear that as the leaders of france germany there are too many position to make decisions on behalf of the e.u. but they said france and germany are the drivers of much european union policy and that is why they were putting themselves at the forefront if you like of some sort of decision making process trying to encourage the european union to come up with this recovery plan fund and fast this was a question said the french president of showing solidarity at a time of unprecedented crisis thank you for that update there natasha live from
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paris. italy has lifted more of its coronavirus lockdown restrictions and what the prime minister is calling a calculated risk for the 1st time since march people can go to cafes restaurants and bars more shops are open and so in libraries museums and beauty salons free movement is now allowed within regions and churches can hold mass prime minister has warned cases will increase it says italy can't afford to stay locked down until a vaccine is developed mexico has begun a gradual easing of its lockdown in 3 stages beginning on monday coronavirus free municipalities will be allowed to reopen with no restrictions the 2nd stage will see the mining and car industries up and running and social distancing measures will also be gradually lifted by june 1st across the country to date mexico has recorded more than 5000 covert 19 related deaths. the mayor of brazil's largest city says its health care system is on the brink of collapse after reaching 90
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percent capacity because of the pandemic bruno says warning that all public hospitals in sao paolo will run out of space in 2 weeks. has become one of brazil's worst hit areas with around 3000 deaths presidents jaya both a model has been criticized for his handling of the escalating crisis there have been at least 15000 deaths more than all other latin american nations combined. your national is a reporter with the brazilian report an english language magazine he says municipal and federal governments are sending mixed messages to communities on how to react to the pandemic it seems lately especially lane from the us government is that yet there is no way a matter of time before the public hospitals are also because the curve is increasing and is continuing to increase and some poly the other option which has been talked recently by the mayor is to impose a through scale lottery on the city of some pole so some power has only had these
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kind of basic social isolation measures where all non-essential businesses are closed but it's not about well in force we're still seeing a road you know over 50 percent of the population are still circulating on the streets so the idea is that no to try to avoid this fall out a last minute effort to try and avoid it they may even import of those kill off there in the senate bill so not of this kind of urging people to go back to work he wants the economy to work again he's trying to avoid this massive recession that is probably going to come and have results soon but we're seeing but his speech his message all and the isolation of playing the only effects of the virus is having an effect on the populations manes as i said you've got just over 50 percent of the population some powerful are still circulating they're still they're not in the social isolation measures and that's just in some hello i mean the whole country as
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a whole you know you've got a lot of people who are still more babies measures as to what the president's same . india's financial hub is also facing an acute shortage of hospital beds mumbai is now building a makeshift hospital to cope with a soaring number of covert 19 infections doctors say patients have been forced to share beds they also report bodies left lying in wards because the morgues are so full by reports of more than 1500 new infections on sunday taking its total number of cases to the early 20000. india has extended the world's biggest lockdown by another 2 weeks but some restrictions markets are allowed to open for the 1st time in 8 weeks and travel between states is permitted personal vehicles and buses as despite the number of cases continuing to rise with nearly 100000 infections and more than 3000 deaths elizabeth prada reports from new delhi. is preparing to open his toy store and car market for the 1st time in nearly 2 months
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it's in one of the most expensive parts of the indian capital with the highest rent our sales are now and the government is saying we have 2 big repayments we have to make. those are so high income markets we cannot survive. the indian government announced on sunday night that all markets are allowed to open but it's for states to decide the rules can market as one of new delhi is well known and usually busiest while shops selling essential items have remained open most of it $150.00 stores bars and restaurants have been closed for the past 8 weeks at an estimated cost of nearly $40000000.00. from tuesday shops in delhi's markets must take turns opening on alternate days to keep the number of market goes down the president of the khan market traders association says while all shop owners want their businesses to function 7 days a week the pandemic isn't far from everyone's mind because of the economy. coming
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back. but as far as over those concerned we are a little concerned about it because we need to make people understand what actually we market. the indian government has allowed the easing of restrictions in certain areas despite the number of cases reaching nearly 100000. delhi's chief minister says the government has used the past 8 weeks to prepare the health care system for any rise in the number of cases as more activities are allowed. we have to learn to live it could all never to be there in our lives through keep going like on telephone and look down. elsewhere in the country barber shops and salons have also opened and the government announced that people will be allowed to travel in private vehicles and buses between states that agree to the move the latest easing of restrictions has led to traffic on the roads for the 1st time in months but
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while many people are now able to move around outside the situation remains the same for india's millions of migrant workers who've been stranded and a still waiting at transport hubs trying to get home elizabeth pratham al jazeera new delhi. malaysia's king has want politicians not to create another crisis as the country grapples with coronavirus his comments came as parliament convened briefly for the 1st time since a power grab in march the short session means new prime minister well hidden yes and has avoided a no confidence vote for now foreign story reports from kuala lumpur. up until last week it was thought this parliamentary meeting could have been the setting for a showdown between the malaysian government and the opposition the new prime minister and weed in yassin and several m.p.'s left the governing coalition in february triggering a collapse of the previous government the prime minister at that time mahathir mohamad resigned refusing to work with the new alliance which would have included
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the united malays national organization a party that was defeated in the last election amid a string of corruption allegations earlier this month mahathir who says he still has majority support proposed a motion of no confidence against the prime minister but the government has limited the agenda to just the king's opening speech citing efforts to contain the spread of the corona virus during the last. we don't like government for 2 weeks and we have lost 2 precious weeks. down the ostrich spending. the government decision to leave me one day. just to employ me. says it only among the politicians opposition politicians accused the prime minister of being afraid of a no confidence vote. but we cannot accept the excuse that we can only meet for 2
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hours because of the coronavirus pandemic. we didn't have postponed the original parliament a session from much 98 days after he was sworn in as prime minister analysts say he's been shoring up support since i think you have become the prime minister keeps his coalition partners loyal warning them with political powers for example the chief minister positions in the state of johor and malacca m.p.'s of also have been appointed to important positions in government linked companies or made special envoys over the weekend parties in the governing alliance said they would formalized the loose coalition the next parliament setting will take place in july and with the speaker of the lower house having accepted a proposal for a no confidence motion against the prime minister it is expected that a showdown can still take place in parliament later this year malaysia's political drama is far from over florence italy al-jazeera kuala lumpur. millions of tourists
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normally flock to kenya's wildlife reserves but international arrivals have been stopped because of a pandemic the loss of tourism dollars is putting conservation projects at risk as malcolm webb reports from nairobi. these lines don't know it but the corona virus is a danger to them too. or they probably can't get the virus the pandemic does in directly threaten their habitat. they live in a nature reserve. and nicholas carr yeah normally guides tourists who come to see endangered animals. it's near kenya's capital nairobi. the government suspended international flights nearly 2 months ago no foreign tourists have come here since it's a little bit because of the legacy of plants in the country there are now more for lots of jobs for the going to be lost. this is normally eat and sleep in the camp where nicholas works is have to temporarily close normally in camps like this all
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the beds are fully booked during the peak seasons more than 2000000 foreign tourists visited kenya last year most of them come here to see the wildlife that lives in the reserves and the money they spend creates millions of jobs and provides crucial funding for conservation the fees charged for visiting reserves and camps pay for the salaries of rangers who protect animals from poachers the communities living nearby depend on the incomes of those employed in the sector and if livelihoods are lost people are forced to find other ways to survive things like poaching there for you know household protein supplement. you know cutting down of trees to supplement household income that is tied to the harsh economic realities occasioned by covered in 1000. niobium reserve is unique in that it sits just on the edge of the city conservationists say in the long run if tourism is an
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economically viable reserve land will be used for farming or property development instead. just outside the park is a sanctuary for often animals he's walkways they usually teeming with visiting schoolchildren. wouldn't told us educating local community is key to conserving wildlife and its environment. a mistake to artists come from our country. who's. coming because their schools were closed due to they're going to get us live in european house condo. nobody here expect things to change before the coronavirus restrictions are lifted conservationists say they're looking for other ways to fund the reserves so the wildlife within them and the people around them and have a future. malcolm webb isle does iraq nairobi kenya. a fire has broken out of hong kong's parliament was.
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there was anger from pro-democracy politician says a probation politician was elected as chairwoman of an important committee it's meant to scrutinise bills and had been without a leader since late last year the backlog of bills includes one that would criminalize mocking china's national anthem. results there are these are the top stories chinese president xi jinping has pledged to work with the un to provide $2000000000.00 to the global response to the coronavirus pandemic president made the announcement during an annual health conference run by the world health organization. china will provide $2000000000.00 over 2 years to help with the global coverage $1000.00 response and to help with economic and social development in developing countries china will
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also work with the un to set up a global humanitarian response to post and hub in china the united states is accusing the world health organization of failing in its response to the crowd virus in an apparent attempt to conceal this outbreak at least one member state made a mockery of their transparency obligations with tremendous cost for the entire world we saw that w. 2 failed at its core mission of information sharing and transparency when member states do not act in good faith this cannot ever happen again the status quo is intolerable w.h.o. must change and it must become far more transparent and far more accountable. the f.b.i. says a saudi kiddish who killed 3 people at a military base in florida last year had contacts with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula but also says it was able to access his phone despite a lack of support from apple 3 sailors were killed and 8 others were wounded on the military base in florida last december france and germany are jointly proposing
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a relief fund worth over $540000000000.00 to help europe recover from the pandemic their leaders held a video conference to discuss the initiative on monday the proposal suggests the block or the funds together there have been differences in europe over how to push forward with an economic relief plan. libya's un recognized government says it has retaken control of the al watts here air base it was being used as well or heading for half does headquarters in western libya the mayor of brazil's largest city says its health care system is on the brink of collapse after reaching 90 percent capacity because of the pandemic bruno cover us is warning that all public hospitals in sao paulo will run out of space in 2 weeks the headlines more news here on al-jazeera after counting the cost for go away.
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