tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera May 18, 2020 9:00pm-10:01pm +03
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the men who still live on al-jazeera. be the hero of the world news. washington. this is al jazeera. and i'm convinced this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes france and germany propose a $542000000000.00 fund to finance the relaunch of the european union's economy. 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. the f.b.i. says it has evidence that the saudi cadets who killed 3 people at a u.s.
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military base had links with al qaeda. libya's u.n. recognized government seizes control of a key air base from forces loyal to warlord really fast on. france and germany are jointly proposing 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 repos all suggest the block bar the funds together there have been differences in europe over how to push forward with an economic relief plan. across find out how to live for us in paris and to just tell us more about this proposal. or the german chancellor and french president said that this recovery plan this
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recovery fund would be used to try and help economic sectors in the european union that have been badly hit by the coronavirus a pandemic you would also be used to help some member states countries and regions of the opinion that have really been struggling economically of the last few weeks and will do for weeks and months to come now the german chancellor and french president said that this plan would be the money would be taken from the financial markets it would be paid back after the next budget either from the budget off a member states budget that's yet to be confirmed but either way this was a question they said of showing solidarity to all e.u. member states and what for president micro had said a few weeks back was if the european union failed to come to the assistance of all the u. member states to share unity as a time of such crisis than the e.u.
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is very survival could be at stake because it could be so anti e.u. sentiment is fueled in some countries that feel that they are being let down by the european union it could also put the future of the euro zone at stake so we have the chancellor and the french president both at least agreeing that what is needed is a plan on paper but what's important to know is that even though these 2 leaders can suggest such a plan to the european union to brussels if you like it is not for them to actually put this into action that will be something that brussels will have to do and it has there been any reaction to this proposal so far. well the global stock markets have surged on the news of this proposal so obviously it's being seen very positively or in the financial world we've also heard from
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several even leaders including the head of the e.u. council and the commission who both welcomed this plan and say that is very much in line with the way that they use already thinking when they when it comes to recovery plans the thing is over the past few weeks there were so many differences between member states as to exactly how they are going to fund recovery of the european union after such a pandemic it does seem though that perhaps some progress has been made again the chancellor of germany and the french president both saying look you know france and germany are really the drivers the motors of europe they're seeing perhaps themselves as the drivers of this policy thank you for that the thought about living a life from paris in big is a professor ial research fellow at the london school of economics european institute he joins us on skype from london i guess 1st off what do you make of this plan well it's certainly significant there's been vacillation going on for
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several weeks now european level about trying to agree of a recovery fund of some description and so far all it's been done by the european level is to create new loan instruments where this new fund differs if it goes ahead as france and germany propose is that it will give direct grants to regions and sectors which are in difficulty and now it's game changing because it means that there's the possibility of a region of italy or a regional spain or an industry receiving actual cash and not having to repay it to a neighbor to recover from a covert 19 locked up. it's not yet a done deal and it will face several obstacles because broadly speaking northern europe has been against such a fund and southern europe has been horrid friend sits on the borderline between north and south germany tradition has been very reluctant to engage in this kind of spending it seems knows who agreed that it will be up to the germans and the french
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to persuade their partners in particular the dutch the finns and the scandinavians that this is something that's worth doing. how is this different i guess is is my question how is this different from the corona balls which were floated and obviously spain and if they were very came for that to go ahead but how is this what we're hearing from the french or the germans how is this different well it's in some ways it's similar because the idea is that the european level as a whole will borrow to enable more spending to take place so be public spending funded but borrowing what is not though is a creation of a new program in your opponents a temporary fund which will only take place for however long it's needed maybe 5 or 6 years is not very clear in that particular set of details and what we expect more from the european commission next week but it is not boring like t.-bone is boring
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which has been in place since the late 18th century this is a temporary fund it's quite a difficult one to onset but is this enough of a kick start for europe post pandemic. well anything helps and this is on a big enough scale to be significant what's not clear from the proposal so far he's how many years it will be spread over it could be that expensive or 4 or 5 years in which case it goes down to roughly $100000000.00 euro $100000000000.00 euros a year and in economic terms that's helpful but not enormous $500000000000.00 euros $540000000000.00 is quite a lot relative to you g.d.p. it's about 3 percent so that is on par with what's being done in many other countries and it's in addition to what's being done to country level in the e.u. so yes it would be quite game changing if it were spent quickly it was father of 5 years clearly much less thank you for your time your analysis and big there from
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the london school of economics european history the response to covered 19 is becoming increasingly political with calls for an inquiry into how it's been handled well twilight chinese president xi jinping has defended his country's response is open and transparent during an annual health conference run by the world health organization a beijing has been facing growing criticism and diplomatic editor james bay says will. it's a time when countries have been concentrating on their national responses to the virus and with tensions between china and the u.s. growing the un secretary general sounded frustrated his video link from new york to geneva wasn't working well but delegates heard him condemn the lack of global cooperation result one of you does express your the severity may have some talk of solidarity but very little unity in our response to cope with 19 countries have followed different sometimes contradictory strategies and we are all paying
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a high price for this many countries have ignored the recommendations of the world health organization as a result the virus has spread throughout the world and is now heading towards southern countries where it could have even more devastating effect and we risk new peaks and waves many nations want a full inquiry into the response to the virus including its origins in the city of . the issue has become increasingly politicized with president trump suggesting it may have been manmade in his address china's president xi supported the idea of an inquiry but with very clear limits. that china supports the idea of a comprehensive review of the global response to cover 19 so that it's brought under control to collect experiences and address deficiencies but he wants the world health organization up in charge of any inquiry and it's the w.h.o. under its leader dr ted ross that's been condemned by the trumpet ministration for
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its poor response and in particular being too close to china 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.h.o. 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 what we're seeing play out in geneva is likely to have reverberations around the world the growing antagonism between the u.s. and china is compounded by the fact that other major nations don't want to take sides because the 2 countries have so much economic clout and that's a recipe for global diplomatic deadlock james bowie's al-jazeera at the united nations. mexico has begun to gradually easing of its lockdown in 3 stages beginning
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on monday coronavirus free municipalities will be allowed to reopen with no restrictions the 2nd state 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 today to mexico's record of more than 5000 covered 19 related deaths let's go live now to mexico city where man you're a polo is standing by for us so is this an indication that authorities there believe the worst is over. that certainly appears to be the case monday is the 1st day that mexico is implementing this quote unquote return to normal plan but i want to point at the numbers reiterate some of these numbers that have been mentioned as of sunday there were 5177 deaths related to cope 1000 here in mexico that's an increase of 132 from the previous state this is significant because mexican authorities had previously stated previously forecasted that last week was
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going to be the week where mexico would see the height of contagion and as of now what we're seeing is that mexico continues on an upward trend of contagion and this is worrisome because now is exactly the time that the mexican government is outlining this plan this 3 phase plan to return the country to reopen the nation's economy and the reason that people are talking across latin america about which countries may be more ready than others remember that cope with 1000 the new coronavirus seems to have reached latin america last this is the last region of the world that the virus has hit so many of the many countries here in this region are only now starting to reach the height of the contagion now when we're talking about this these 3 phase reopening strategy that mexico has outlined as of now as of monday it's only affecting 15 of mexico's 32 states with a plan of reopening the country by june 1st the big question right now is over the manufacturing sector specific to the specifically manufacturing along mexico's
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northern border with the united states there's a lot of pressure for auto manufacturers to reopen soon and what we're hearing from government officials is that that lock down of auto manufacturers on the northern border of mexico could be lifted even before june 1st and that's something that's causing a lot of controversy here in the country and something that we're keeping a close eye on him likely be diving a little deeper into the reopening of the auto industry a little later in the program thank you for that menu out of hand on live from mexico city. 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 cos is warning that all public hospitals in self will run out of space in 2 weeks so paulo has become one of brazil's worst hit areas with around 3000 deaths president jaya both the narrow has been criticized for his handling of the escalating crisis there's been at least 15000 deaths more than all other latin american nations combined. you and marshall is
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a reporter with the brazilian reports him english language magazine he says miscible and federal governments are sending mixed messages to communities on how to react to the pandemic 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 lockdown on the city of some pall so some power has only has these kind of basic social isolation measures where all non-essential businesses are closed but it's not that well in force we're still seeing a growing you know over 50 percent of the population are still circulating on the streets so the idea is that no you try to avoid this fall out a last minute effort to try and avoid it they may even import of those you love
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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 that his speech his message 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 a whole you know you've got a lot of people who are still not being these measures as to what the president's same. i do more ahead on the news out proving back in the driver's seat the u.s. car industry is up and running but it's unclear if anyone will start to buy plus. more tension in hong kong pro-democracy politicians scuffle with those back in
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beijing inside parliament. the head of the u.s. house foreign affairs committee says the president may have fired a government watchdog because he was investigating an arm sell to saudi arabia eliot engel says he asks the state department inspector general steve the nick to investigate donald trump's decision to declare an emergency to clear the way for the $8000000000.00 trump announced his plans to remove the neck on friday let's cross over now to washington d.c. where mike hanna is live for us at the white house mike tell us more. well indeedy a tangle who's the chairman of the house foreign relations committee has now issued a statement saying that the inspector general who was fired on friday night steve linnik was about to deliver a report on his investigation into the trump administration's state of the merchant
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sea which he believes was to bypass a congressional oversight for an $8000000000.00 arms sale to saudi arabia now the background to all of this speck in may last year president trump declared a state of emergency in order to prevent any congressional oversight of this arms sale to saudi arabia that being strong bipartisan opposition in congress both republicans and democrats to this arms sales given saudi arabia's human rights record the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi so certainly there was resistance in congress to do this president trying to clear the emergency his secretary of state might pompei or then convey the decision to declare that emergency to congress knowledges revealed that eliot engel off the house judiciary foreign relations committee asked the inspector to start an investigation now he reports that the result of this investigation was about to be released so new insights into
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the possible reasons for the firing of the inspector general at must be said to that friday night firings have become something of a pattern angle linnik was the 4th inspector general to be fired within the last 4 weeks most of them late on a friday night my guess at the time both houses of congress voted to stop this sale from going ahead what those trends reasoning at the time of the using his powers to make sure that that $8000000000.00 sale did go ahead. well president trump in his a merge and see declaration quoted the threat of iran he said that this. arms sales were needed to come to what he saw as a national security issue and that is the threat from iran this was an argument backed by his secretary of state might compare as i said in that letter to congress
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congress at the time dismissed the president trumps. the statement that this was a reason for the state of emergency opposed to there is strongly about to due to the constitution that declaration of emergency went through the arms sale still going ahead but there's also another reason for the inspector general's investigation which has emerged in elliott engels report and that is possible involvement in the arms sale of the person within the state department who was previously a lobbyist for one of the bigs arms distribution companies breath on now at that time angle r c inspector general to look at the involvement of the state department official with a view to possible corruption possible conflict of interest so this report being compiled by the inspector general it would appear covered a huge amount of ground but at its most central point looking at the reasons for
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president trump declaring the state of emergency and whether there was any validity to those reasons based on the advice given by the secretary of state on pay or thank you for that mike hanna there live from the white house. the f.b.i. says it has found evidence that a saudi kid it wasn't contact with the armed group al qaeda before he shot and killed 3 people on 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 would be abbas's technicians managed to unlock the phone to retrieve evidence off the apple declined to help the fans contained information previously unknown to us that definitively establishes ronnie's significant ties to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula not only before the attack
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but before he even the arrived in the united states we now have a clear understanding of al show moranis associations and activities in the years months and days leading up to his attack protocol and is following developments from washington d.c. . 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 arabian peninsula and mohamed
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ronnie saying that it went back to his far back as 2015 before he even tried to enter the saudi military this brings up 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 to a pretty big program they said that there was vetting going on well now they're saying that even while he was in the country for years from texas to florida and he was communicating by phone by electronic device with people in gammon and nobody in the vast surveillance state seemed to have caught on to that. major development in libya now its un recognized government says it has retaken control of the air base it was being used as one of our holy father tells headquarters in western libya lord but unmanly has more power but it. was a moment of victory for libyan government forces and another setback and if i have to fight has officials in tripoli say their forces have taken back other what base
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nittany is he is border it has been under have to us control since 2014 the bases within 50 kilometers of 3 towns the intense awana and its location has made it difficult the government forces to find a secure area where they launch ground ines trikes to retake the base in early may the fighting resulted in heavy losses on both sides the military says the turning point came when it destroyed at least 2 at halftime russian aid and defense systems to game changer in terms of the last year of teleprompters offensive. from now on tripoli and i think in that sense we have to understand how it's changed the military calculus now have to have importance to russian defense systems that are in recent days in order to safeguard or not frozen of value assets of the top down a little bitterly over this as
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a 2015 and back to the person civil war that was sparked by philip after in 2014 now it's a major development because it really alters the way in which water can continue his offensive on tripoli. to control of our base in 2014. that's when he called on libyans to rise up against the u.n. recognized government in tripoli since then he's used it for his headquarters for his forces in western libya. have tars been launching strikes since april 2019 to support his offensive to seize control of the capital. an offensive that's killed more than a 1000 people have to continues to launch strikes in tripoli and its mitiga airport and 8 kilometers east of the city but he no longer has any air bases in the west while he still controls launch swathes of land and oil fields across eastern and
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southern libya the. analysts say the recapture he. may tip the balance of power. since it no longer has to defend the west and focus on the captain of the man the al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera so far from harm we'll have more on how india's extended lockdown is crashing problems for millions of neighbors tough. it's a big part of tourism in kenya a run of viruses affecting its wildlife preserves. and their very whole picture across much of the middle east on the arabian peninsula we have seen some trials steaming to the whole country working its way into northern sections of turkey this gave rise to this amazing picture coming out
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of istanbul on sunday that very low lying clouds me while you had farther to the south into amman in jordan and it's about the temperatures and the heat. around 39 degrees that was slightly the high that it reached on sunday on the jordanian metal 10 degrees above the average for this time of year it has going to stay very holds throughout much of the eastern med and again of course across much of the arabian peninsula quite a bit of bubbling up through choose to our wednesday 3 will central western areas of saudi this could certainly. the winds are fairly strong and at the same time we could just see a stray shower or thunderstorm but becoming fairly extensive into iran as the day progresses meanwhile down into southern africa mostly skies across the south and what has given rise to a beautiful sunset certainly in cape town time which is actually on the rise here over the next few days it's just a dry ice that you don't choose a 20. 1 and eastern areas of madagascar and those heavy rains back in the for call st tanzania into kenya staying that way on wednesday and then clear skies in the
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south and you thought warming up in cape town with a high of 25. when a military coup overthrew chile's marxist president one stadiums became prisons and the hunter's sole objective was absolute control. publicly refused to accept dictatorship episode 4 of football rebels expose the life of carlos cassilis. the footballer whose personal story swayed a vote that altered the history of his country carlos caselli and the demise of i ended a on al-jazeera examining the impact of today's headlines extraordinary times require extraordinary measures but these should not be at the expense of our privacy setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussed moods are no didn't live there within these walls and now there's no live in the what the noble experts in discussion in
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this democracy why are people not voting international filmmakers and world class journalists. on how to sarah. you're watching al-jazeera a minder of our top stories this hour france and germany are jointly proposing a relief fund worth over $540000000000.00 to help europe recover from the pandemic the proposal suggests the bank borrowed the funds together have been differences in europe over how to push forward with an economic relief plan. chinese president xi jinping has pledged $2000000000.00 in aid to contain the corner virus and demick
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during an address to the world health organizations and the assembly beijing supports an inquiry into the pandemic it only wants its been brought under control . the head of the u.s. house foreign affairs committee says donald trump may have fired a government watchdog because he was investigating an arms sale to saudi arabia steve then it was asked to investigate trunks decision to declare an emergency to clear the way for the $8000000000.00. a court in israel has convicted a jewish settler for a 2015 acid attack that killed a palestinian toddler and his parents the bad father bombed the home belonging to the family in the west bank village of duma force that has more from not in israel head bowed. was led into court charged with carrying out the most infamous individual act of anti palestinian violence in recent years he was on monday convicted of the murder and so are the watcher and their 18 month old son ali by
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setting their house on fire as they slept their 4 year old son ahmed was badly burned but survived. the trial will not bring my family back it will not bring back real sad and early the trial will not bring back our midstream i don't want there to be more children to go through the trauma that we went through. the prosecution said ben earlier along with another youth conspired to attack palestinians in the occupied west bank after a jewish man was shot and killed it said the miners stayed away but the 21 year old ben ileo went himself into the village of duma and set fire to the dew of his house in their verdict the judges acknowledged the unresolved elements of the case in particular witness testimony and crime scene evidence suggesting more than one attacker was involved but ruled that the detailed content of ben confessions made it clear that he was guilty this case attained such a high profile and there was such pressure of a conviction that israeli security services use tactics on the suspects will
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normally preserved the palestinian detainees such as detention without charge and unharnessed interrogation sometimes called torture. lawyer says that will form the basis of his appeal his admission and his confession was made up. of including the daughter and the whole. of the ruler their judgment. is really security service called a verdict a milestone in the battle against jewish terror but no leo was acquitted of belonging to any terror group the other suspect who can't be named because of his age at the time was however convicted on that charge as part of an earlier plea deal. with the how this this man was convicted but we think with certainty that he's not alone there are others out there who are part of it and they're free and they can still practiced here on our people it is possible that we can be subject to the retell atory attacks. due to be sentenced next month 5 years on the
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families say they're still far from finding a sense of resolution. lloyd israel. work is in some of the largest auto plants in the u.s. a back on the assembly line but the timing couldn't be worse with sales promising new car makers reporting huge losses the u.s. auto sector makes up around 6 percent of its economic output more than $835000.00 people are employed in vehicle manufacturing alone and the financial impact on car companies is already being felt ford for example has reported a 4th the 1st quarter loss of 2000000000 dollars and the company expects that number to move in double in the 2nd quarter but john hendren reports the industry faces a number of questions including how keep its workers safe. america's auto workers are back to a strange sterile new world employees at detroit's big 3 for general motors and
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ffion chrysler return on monday to manufacturing plants where the new normal is one part assembly line one part hospital there's 977 and above this will turn red that'll turn red incoming workers temperatures are checked so you're going to go through they were behind new barriers with new masks gloves plastic face shield in signs amount social distancing everywhere along with walking lanes in reminders to stay 6 feet apart. assembly lines are restarting for the 1st time since march when the global pandemic shut down detroit and auto plants across the u.s. except for a handful been made ventilators for the sickest virus patients we see a little bit in the last year or so. but we didn't expect the literal crisis all. that the exactly what happened just. operating. for one potential worry
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a global supply chain that's been slowed by the coronavirus mexico is still locked down but last week the government unveiled a plan that could see some auto parts makers open to supply detroit now that automakers are building again the question is in the worst market since the great depression does anyone want to buy the cars they're making across the u.s. unsold cars by the thousands sit idle delaying the introduction of new models and in these belt tightening times competing with cheaper used cars got to my desk by comparable self any week we've got a great recession i think up in terms of. our case to get out the supply and demand why dealers are offering once in a lifetime. incentives like 7 years of no interest loans with little progress so far whether you are laid off from. cars very purchase from other people
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sometimes the start of something so comfortable and so you cannot buy our meeting. until buyers return in force the production lines will reopen more slowly than they shut down and new cars will keep aging on american car lines. lauren fix is an automotive analyst and c.e.o. of automotive specs and that is an automotive consulting business she joins us live from buffalo new york thanks for your time what immediate challenges are popping up now that the manufacturer is a starting to reopen i'm not just talking about how to keep work is safe but i'm thinking more about you know other issues. sure the biggest issue is going to be the supply chain because a lot of components come out of mexico or out of canada and even subassemblies if those subassemblies are not in place when they're ready to start running production of course they have some in the plants went before they shut down this is going to
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be the biggest dilemma and we saw that not just in china and europe but we're seeing that in mercedes who opened their plant a couple weeks ago and they now have to shut it down for a week in order to catch up with the supply chain no parts they can't build cars as we've been saying john has been reporting there in his piece you know on the one hand the economy is tanking people don't necessarily want to buy cars will feel like they can buy a car we're also driving alone this how much can the industry absorb. well the industry can't absorb that much there is some profit margin from past sales because we did have really good sales last year in the year before at 17000000 units now we're looking at potentially maybe 10 or $11000000.00 of course we can't predict with the rest of the year will hold we can only guess at this point but it looks like there's going to be some pent up demand some people do need vehicles and they are selling through touchless services or with dealers that are working through e-mail and curbside deliveries we're also seeing that the used car
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market is a place that a lot of people are looking at and there's going to be about a 1000000 vehicles coming in to dealers in the next in this next this month than last month and those vehicles need to be sold and so there's going to be even more used cars on the market and so this could actually lower the price of used car values which might be a good value for consumers how is the industry having to adapt to these new times i saw toyotas here is presenting its products on a live stream of mine how is the industry changing. well the industry is going to hybrid even though the gas prices are low we're not sure if that's going to build up demand at all right now electric vehicles plug in vehicles are very low 2 percent and they just haven't picked up especially if that manufacturer loses their incentive such as general motors or tesla but we are noticing that some manufacturers are holding off ford announced just before we went on air that they're going to delay the mach which is their electric version of
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their s.u.v. mustang and the bronco for 2 months in other words moving them to 2021 models so they're going to see a lot of pushing forward and just sort of shortening the total amount of units built for 2020 thanks so much your time lauren fix there an automotive analyst time i am always has announced it will file for bankruptcy it had been seeking a $1800000000.00 loan from the government which owns 51 percent of the company the airline is expected to conduct a sweeping restructure off its knees. yemen's un recognized government has accused to the rebels of hiding the true toll of covert 19 areas under its control it says 20 virus related deaths have been reported of service have announced just 2 in their territory the un is warning the pandemic could worsen an already dire food shortage around 80 percent of people in yemen rely on food aid. india's financial
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hub is facing an acute shortage of hospital bits mumbai is now building a makeshift hospital to cope with a soaring number of covered 19 infections doctors say patients have been forced to share beds they also report bodies left lying in wards because the morgues a so fall on by reported more than 1500 new infections on sunday taking its total number of cases to nearly 20000. staying in india and it has extended the world's biggest lock down by another 2 weeks but eased some restrictions markets are allowed to open for the 1st time in 8 weeks and travel between states is permitted in personal vehicles and buses that's despite the number of cases continuing to rise with nearly 100000 infections and more than 3000 deaths elizabeth prata reports from new delhi. is preparing to open his toy store and car market for the 1st time in 2 months it's in one of the most expensive parts of the indian capital with the highest rent our sales are and the government is saying we have 2 big
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repayments you have to make that enters 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 we will have coming back. but as far as over those concerned we have
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a little concern 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 you don't like to start up a new we have to learn to live it. to be there in our lives to keep going we can't have a permanent lockdown. elsewhere in the country barbershops 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 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
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a still waiting at transport hubs trying to get home elizabeth pratham al jazeera new delhi. that is an indian author and journalist she's been on the road for the last 63 days covering the plight of migrant workers she says the lockdown has had unintended consequences. what has happened here is that in the beginning when this lockdown was in polls despite the fact that make we talked we were going to be in a medical emergency instead what ended up happening is that we're in the grip of a humanitarian crisis and in fargo it's because when the country was not covered begin with policymakers did not think about an estimated 45000000 migrant workers in india those are men and women and their children who have homes in the village that actually come to the city so what we saw was a panic mass exodus some are calling it the biggest mass exodus of human beings since the partition of india and initially there were attempts to keep the small
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cars where they were to say you're not allowed to move so they were not provided trains they were not provided buses because the talk was that they could not the social distancing of big crowds needs to get out but in that chaos what ended up happening was a factory shutdown these workers lost their lives a source of income many of them were on the brink of starvation and shola any of them and i've literally lost count i've now of all highly off the highway into an indian states and they have walked hundreds of kilometers on short troll rain without heat sometimes only with a packet of biscuits so as i said we started off battling what we thought would be a medical emergency and instead because of the plight of citizens of migrant workers we are now in the grip of very very real humanitarian crisis. summit tippins are accusing the government of putting their lives at risk by building a flyover so close to their apartment block now the capital cairo transport minister says residents who want to move will be compensated but many gyptian say the project is yet another example of the government's corruption. on the
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outskirts of egypt's capital cairo a new flyover is being built it's one of the many large projects and by president abdel fattah el-sisi to fix the country's finances and win the trust of the people but this is the reality for egyptians living in apartments close by the fire there is centimeters from their homes and in some cases their balconies look straight out onto the road. this fire is dangerous now the sunlight but after they completed my flat will turn into something the resembles a grave or warehouse the 1st 2nd and 3rd floors will never ever receive some light again the road's been planned for several years and once completed will link eases northern and southern district it's estimated that 750000 cars a day will use it but images such as this on social media ridicule the government's perceived incompetence. of some floors were completely buried under the fly over
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while the balconies of others were blocks we were shocked to find burglars trying to break into some of the apartments. opponents also accuse government of corruption they're demanding to know how planning permission was granted to build a flyover in a densely populated residential area. and with the street was very wide and our park meant was expensive when we bought it when 2 days ago the transport minister came out here and simply said those 10 or 20 apartments don't matter so well disregard them no it's important when not living in a random place here you cannot speak to us like this. the 12 kilometer long project is costing $317000000.00 and is expected to be finished later this year the transport minister says residents will be compensated by the government and offered the chance to relocate but for many it's too little too late the tory gate and be
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15 activists arrived at court penned in by media supporters and opponents one defendant striking a defiant time he was. supposed to stop been saying all. this. to some indians here. does the son of god those appearing in court include the think it heads of hong kong's democracy movement like the lawyer and former politician mattingly now $81.00 and frequently vilified in china's state controlled media as is margaret own another lawyer and campaigner the newspaper owner and businessman ginny lai believes the arrests were ordered by china's government and are intended as a deterrent against future mass gatherings well i think he's obviously that they just want to intimidate you know the people here that they will they will come up with
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demonstrated hong kong's police deny the charges are politically motivated and insist they're just doing their job. nearly $8000.00 people have been arrested since the start of the protest last june but the round up of some of the territories most respected campaigners a month ago shocked many under a colonial era law they were charged with taking part in an illegal assembly if found guilty they face up to 5 years in jail the hearing was adjourned until the middle of next month these court appearances come ahead of some very sensitive anniversaries and hong kong and just days before controversial legislation is due to be presented to hong kong's fractious legislature. and that legislature was a combative place on monday with m.p.'s physically fighting for control of an important committee 14 from the pro-democracy party. were expelled from the chamber
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they now face the prospect of criminal charges which could dispose of them from standing in elections later this year adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. malaysia's king as 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 will have been yes and has avoided a no confidence vote for now florence lawyer 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 read in yasin 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 the united malays national organization a party that was defeated in the last election amid
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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 february oh yeah we don't like government for 2 weeks and we have lost 2 precious weeks. down the ostrich spending so i can't the government decision to let me know when to shoot not just to employ any excess if only to. 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 hours because of the corona virus pandemic. he didn't have postponed the original parliament to session from much 98 days after he was sworn in as prime minister
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analysts say he's been shoring up support since you don't have to be 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. political drama is far from over florence italy al-jazeera kuala lumpur millions of tourists normally flock to kenya's wildlife reserves but international arrivals have been stopped because of the pandemic the loss of tourism dollars is putting conservation
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projects at risk as malcolm webb reports from nairobi. these lines don't know it but the coronavirus is a danger to them too. well they probably can't get the virus the pandemic does directly threaten their habitat. they live in a nature reserve. and nicholas normally guides tourists who come to see endangered animals. it's near kenya's capital nairobi. the government suspended international flights nearly 3 months ago no foreign tourists have come here since it's a little bit because of a legacy of plants in the country there now i'm afraid but lots of jobs are for the going to be lost. this is normally eat and sleep in the camp where nicholas work is have to temporarily close normally in camps like this all the beds are fully booked during the peak seasons more than 2000000 foreign tourists visited kenya last year
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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 indeed economically viable reserve land will be used for farming or property development instead. just outside
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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 his 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 can have a future. malcolm webb how does iraq nairobi kenya. 9 televised golf has returned to the u.s. for the 1st time since balls there was shot down weld number one warry mcelroy and dustin johnson won a charity match which generated $5000000.00 for the fight against chronic virus
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that stocks reports after 2 months away gophers back live from florida but with a different players have to carry their own bags because social distancing meant no caddies were allowed there were no friends out on the course either but that didn't stop the players pretending to hear all those cheers or oh yeah i'm still here and we're going to raise it i'm going to press play on my speaker ricky fowler and matthew wolf we're up against rory mcilroy and dustin johnson in a charity skins match where they played for money but i think you forget i want to . know what all the 25000000. that doesn't feel as we youngster the world number one was playing just a few days after publicly criticizing donald trump over his handling of the coronavirus crisis the president a big old fan actually phoned in to chat with the commentary team were a lot of military for a little actually some. like my bala thinks very much and probably the ones that
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don't i don't get to see as much we want to get sports back we miss sports we need sports in terms of the seki the psyche of the of our country the match was tied after 18 holes so it came down to a sudden death closest to the pin challenge. stay on the green mcelroy came out on top to secure nearly $2000000.00 for the american nurses foundation. for their 5. bags guys it's been awesome it was nice to get back on the golf course and get back to some sort of normalcy you know to just to get back out 'd again and you know a little bit competitive it was also a lot of hard in defeat and wolf when more than a $1000000.00 for centers for disease control and fan donations from home pushed the total raised to more than $5000000.00 the p.g.a. tour for real restarts behind closed doors in texas on june 11th david stokes out 0 . well that's it from me came down the team here in doha i'm going out to barbara
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