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violet but it doesn't matter where you are you have to be in the can relate to the human can get. to the right place. no i think it's done like and it's my job to shed light on how and why. did the world health organization do all the right things members decided investigation is needed into its coronavirus response. to the home run when you want your desire in life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes a warning that libya's war will get worse the u.n. says a flood of weapons and foreign involvement is having devastating attacks also accused of conspiring to murder has a strange wifeless tutus prime minister finally gives up his job also.
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police for help in argentina after more than a 1000 kroner virus cases the reported in a one as i read. bottom to the program nearly a full point $9000000.00 people infected in a matter of months now an investigation is to be held into how the world has responded to corona virus the world health organization's 194 member states have voted unanimously for an independent and impartial inquiry including an examination of the w h o's roll calls for an investigation led by australia and the european union. and ways. that leader job remains fully committed to trying to spot and see accountability and continuous improvement
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we want accountability more than any one us president told trump has previously accused of being too close to china he's still threatening to permanently cut funding and break ties with the organization basically they have to clean up their act they have to do a better job they have to be much more fair to other countries including the united states so we're not going to be involved in the we do separate way a white house correspondent kimberly health that has more on the u.s. response to the decision. the u.s. statement to the u.s. mission to the united nations saying that they support this review but they want to understand more about the virus and also the timeline and that's a really key wording because the u.s. president has accused the world health organization of not doing enough soon enough in order to war in the united states of the impending threat of the global pandemic
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cope with 19 and this of course as a literate of the u.s. economy this president is running for reelection and he's looking for someone to blame now the u.s. president for his part has been suggesting that there could be punitive measures against china although he said in the last hour that he doesn't believe at this point that he wants to discuss retaliation but he is being criticized from some top democrats on capitol hill who are gravely concerned about the president's comments chuck schumer the top down or democrat in the u.s. senate called donald trump's comments reckless he said the rebuke of the world health organization and other bodies leaves the u.s. empty handed if another country develops the vaccine 1st in other words really concerns that the united states could be left to the back of the line because of president trumps criticism not just of the war of health organization as a body but also chinese officials dr michelle hines that is the medical director at physicians for human rights she says it's the worst possible towing to withdrawal
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from the world health organization. we have to physicians for human rights are strongly advocating for a desperately needed science driven approach to this global pandemic i'm as we all know this is the worst global health crisis of our lifetimes a global health emergency requires a global court unaided response so this is not the time for the u.s. president or any leader to try to weaken the capacity for multilateral collaboration and action that deb you a.j. w.h.o. provides vital international assistance in court a nation there's really no other entity or organization that can do what the dead you h.-o. can do so you know because the lies of millions of people around the world particularly those most at risk depend on effective global action that we depend on global
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action to coordinate and distribute supplies to help develop a vaccine to track the progress globally of the virus and that includes in the u.s. of the more than 300000 confirmed confirmed deaths from cova $1000.00 a 3rd of them are in the u.s. so what we're recommending what we're urging the u.s. government and all governments to do is to work together we need to work together we'd like to see the u.s. engagement in robust information sharing. to other news now the un's acting and voice of libya wall doesn't influx of foreign support is threatening to further intensify fighting the number of civilian casualties has been growing over the past month as forces loyal to ward cleaver have to continue the year long campaign to seize tripoli from the un recognized government of diplomatic editor james bays
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reports from the united nations. after a surge in fighting in recent weeks the un's acting special representative stephanie williams gave this bleak assessment of the situation in libya to security council ambassadors i believe we have reached another turning point in the conflict conflict from what we are witnessing in terms of the massive influx of weaponry acquittance and mercenaries to the 2 sides the only conclusion that we can draw is that this war will intensify and broaden him deepen the devastating consequences for the libyan people as the foreign intervention increases the libyans themselves are getting lost in the mess their voices crowded out we must not let live the s. a when. she said it was civilians paying the price $58.00 killed and $190.00 injured since the 1st of april an 89 percent rise in civilian casualties compared
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with the 1st 3 months of the year she said the vast majority were the result of attacks by general half does forces she said it was regrettable that at the end of april the general had rejected the international peace plan and claimed he alone had a mandate to rule the country libya's ambassador who's loyal to the government of national accord was scathing about how after and one of his main international backers the united arab emirates we wish to inform you on campus council that we have damning evidence of direct in the legal transfer of these specific weapons to libya by the united arab emirates and support of their work and now and is militias which of these evidence we are sharing with the panel of experts in previous security council meetings over the years the united nations has been reluctant to criticize one side or the other simply saying that both must show restraint but the
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tone has now changed the criticism of general haftar was direct and much stronger amid reports that even some of his backers believe the impetuous commander has overplayed his hand james al-jazeera and the united nations syria's warring parties have agreed to reconvene in geneva to negotiate a constitution once the pandemic eases un special envoy pedersen says the relative calm in the last rebel held enclave of italy provides the opportunity for building confidence now the war in syria has been raging for more than 9 years it isn't called on all parties to work towards a un facilitated peace process which includes un supervised elections. obviously united states and russia has 6 year old to play in this os for that they increase their dialogue and corp when it comes to syria they've done it
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before and they can do it. on course there are many older actors also needs to be on board if you are to be able to find a solution to the syrian conflict in south sudan at least 120 people have been killed since friday what authorities are calling cattle raids that more than 100 people were also injured during the attacks which took place in county in a state to staff and doctors without borders were also killed at a tea over the weekend forcing the organization to suspend operations in the region well hiper morgan has war from the sudanese capital khartoum she says it's feared the final death toll will be much higher. tensions have been high between the lawnmower and the more groups in people and areas over the past few weeks since february when the accused of attacking their areas in people or and burning down villages and killing at least 10 people now that cycle has been going on but has
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escalated over the weekend on saturday and sunday when the learner accuse the morally of attacking their villages at least 6 villages and killing over 100 people and wounding hundreds more now the final death toll is not yet clear but the government is saying that they've counted at least $122.00 villages and that the counting is ongoing and they are expecting the death toll to be much higher now this is a cycle that has been going on for decades if not centuries between the 2 tribes but has taken an escalation over the past few years due to the purification of arms between the 2 groups especially with south sudan going through a civil war for a peter 5 years which ended in 2018 now a government of national unity was formed in february but governors are yet to be appointed and south sudan's government of national unity is saying that that's the reason why these tensions have taken some time to respond to because there's not authority on the ground to coordinate between what is happening and between the got the national government however it says that it has deployed forces to try to stop
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the violence between the 2 sides the medical charity doctors without borders has also announced that it is spending its operations due to the killing of one of its staff and injuring of 2 others aid workers have been repeatedly targeted in conflicts there or ethnic violence around south sudan and the charity has said that it is not going to resume its operations and till it receives guarantees that it will not be heard so far that. those guarantees are yet to be given but south sudan's government is saying that it is working to try to respond and to try to end the violence so that no more lives are lost in these tensions while still the cold sort of. a successor to prime minister thomas or to have to step down but his resignation as. a month long crisis spot but accusations of involvement in the murder of a strange wife her killing in 2017 cents shock waves through the nation prompting calls for the 80 year old leader to leave office reports.
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addressing the nation on state t.v. thomas to say he was finally stepping down as prime minister my fellow countrymen and women period for you to do to announce that they were there do it assigned me may not yet be over by the time to retire from the grade here to all the action and take leave from public life the north is has finally arrived his resignation puts an end to months of political uncertainty and instability to bobby was under pressure to resign over a case in which he and his current wife my c.-a are suspected of conspiring to murder his former wife nearly 3 years ago they have both denied any involvement. he was under the argument that because he's a sitting for a minister he may not be prosecuted yesterday that that argument was weak but now that the he has resigned it can be a spectator that. the police and international prosecution can now proceed smoothly
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to investigate that case against him. in the capital my saddle some people hoping next prime minister my kitty my general will focus on the economy at this hour we need to be a 100 we don't health food we don't have jobs the thought is that we get out very little as a result they call and it's always down i this don't think much will change their replacement i don't think is going to do it in ok the expected outcome any difference it won't make any difference because the same people same guys we've been we've seen that it time and are still in government i actually out and blamed it on our loan for the problems of our government. lissett is new prime minister is under pressure to prove his leadership style will be different from his controversial criticism he also has to try to contain the chronic virus outbreak in a country of roughly 2000000 people many of whom are poor and struggling to make
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a living. still ahead here on al-jazeera the palestinian government takes a tough new stand over israeli plans to alex nearly a 3rd of the occupied west bank. the reins to evacuate millions in the path of a storm bearing down on bangladesh and india the stories after the break. hello there we have had plenty of rain across the midwest also down across into the south are still watching. it's now pushing well away from the east coast of the united states but as i say plenty of rain elsewhere look at this into central kentucky there were warnings out tashi for these flash floods but unfortunately his drive is not aware of the nichols drove into the federal says and in both cases the
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cars stalled out of spente more rain as we go through wednesday is generally across the southeast and again across into the mid atlantic so this rain just coming down on top of what we've seen recently into north carolina of course which was brought about by tropical storm off and meanwhile very heavy rain working its way across the pacific northwest the northern plains up into southern canada as well and the winds quite strong as well through central areas there is quite a significant fire risk across the desert southwest for the next few days time it is a high but the winds are also very high so 3000 more rain through the central plains warm of course in the south could see the most severe storms and again still some rain just lingering through the maids a glance a bunch of rain across florida bahamas fairly widespread and very heavy rains across central america as well certainly throughout wednesday and again hey we could actually have some flooding rains very heavy at times i want to see showers across into the yucatan peninsula but a high of 28 in concord. is
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still real. family i'm free to go into my receipt years ago you were out we heard the sounds of large. on the hardships faced in captivity they came for me. they told me to leave my son i said. so much in the. pricing. on al-jazeera. where the. old the the the. welcome back you're watching others are with me as a whole rama reminder of our top stories the world health organization has agreed
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to hold an investigation into the global response to the corona virus pandemic 194 member states voted unanimously to hold an independent inquiry including an examination of the w h o's role. the un's active voice in libya has warned that an influx of weapons and mercenaries is threatening to further intensify fighting between the country's warring science is to to swear in a new prime minister on wednesday after thomas the ban it was signed he'd been under pressure to step down or to be accused of conspiring to murder his 2nd wife bonnie and his current wife have been charged but both deny the allegations. palestinian president mahmoud abbas says palestine will not be bound by agreements with israel and the us because of israel's planned an exception of 30 percent of the occupied west bank addressing an emergency meeting a bastard scribed the u.s. says israel's partner in crime and he called for countries that have rejected
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president donald trump's middle east peace plan to recognize the state of palestine and impose sanctions on israel under trump's deal israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could begin and extend palestinian land as soon as july element of knowledge carried in front of the palestine liberation organization and the state of palestine and not bounty as of today already agreement an understanding with the american and israeli governments and if it would be obligations based on these understanding and agreements include in the security ones our correspondent ibrahim puzzle from ramallah. while he said the p.l.o. is no longer bound by agreements signed with israel and he said that he did not say that he's dissolving the palestinian authority and the palestinian authority itself is the through it of the agreements that has been signed between israel and the palestinian authority in 1990 see so we need a couple of days or maybe weeks to understand what really is going to be taken on
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the ground in on the ground in terms of measures by the palestinian authority now to the issue of the security agreement between the 2 parties it has been suspended a couple of times before but in recent history we're talking about the past 20 years this suspension was only limited to the high profile high level meetings between the palestinian is and israeli security officials but side channels have happened in the past between palestinians and israelis that kind of allowed this security coordination to continue of course it's very important for the palestinians both in authority is viability and many officials here in the occupied west bank argue that the palestinian authorities the stablish ment is an accomplishment and that they are not looking at. just dissolving the palestinian authority. is the co-founder of the electronic intifada author of the battle for
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justice and power starr joins me now from chicago via skype good have you with us on the program for our international audience who are really aware of the ins and outs seem to crissy into into proceeds of of the agreements ending the agreements and understandings i mean what all those agreements that understandings that both parties have signed up to that they're now well looks like the it's in the trashcan . well there's 2 important points here one is that the creation of the palestinian authority was allowed by israel up to 993 for one purpose and one purpose alone which was to create a native palestinian auxillary to. basically implement the occupation on behalf of israel and that is and has been the role of the palestinian authority since its creation israel allows palestinian security forces to have guns but those guns are only to be used against palestinians and so the agreements are
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basically that the palestinian authority acts as a kind of serious police force for israeli occupation forces now that's given the title security coordination that's the polite name for it that's given in the agreements. and i've asked the head of the p.a. has announced i i can't remember how many times that he's suspending this agreement or that agreement and the fact is he's never done that he's never suspended an agreement and indeed this evening as we're speaking palestinian authority sources told the israeli newspaper ha'aretz that in fact a security collaboration between the israeli occupation forces and the palestinian authority is continuing and will continue and the reality is that the palestinian authority khan move a salt shaker from one side of
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a table to another without the permission and help of these really occupations so to boil it down many who would have passed his announcement that he's suspending agreements and tearing them up is absolutely meaningless it is then just saber rattling. no i mean he doesn't have the same book to rattle so you know you can't rattling the saber that you don't have and simply an empty announcement to make a headline trying to impress the palestinian public who i think knows better than to believe any of this and it's because the palestinian authority is completely dependent on israel that all they have is announcements the only meaningful move would be the one that the palestinian authority has ruled out which is to dissolve it cell and to force israel to assume its legal responsibilities under
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international law as the occupying power instead of subcontracting palestinians to act as prison guards for the occupied population let israel do it directly let israel bend the cost and be appropriate but that's the one thing that matter and i best will never do because there is a small palestinian authority a political and business elite that you know benefits from the status quo while the rest of the promised syrian population has been reduced to. a dependency and dejection under the current p.l.o. israel partnership if you're saying that that's the underlying issue that will remain and keep the status quo as it taze publicly as abbas is saying with with no cooperation does this then in theory allow israel or the right to do what it wants in the occupied territories or once you might say policed by the
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palestinians or as you've suggested reading the palestinians never had any power to stop way that they were just doing what they had to do at the behest of israel. well very quickly israel says israel has always intended to annex the west bank and has in fact been doing so for decades the only difference now is that previously israel hoped to have a palestinian signature on the annexation track to be able to wave around an agreement and say look the palestinians agree now the only difference is that israel is saying we're going ahead and we don't care whether the palestinians agree or not because we're confident that the united states the european union and the arab regimes will i think support us out right to do absolutely nothing to stop us so that's the only difference i think sation doesn't change anything on the ground it's just it's just a. an indicator of israel's brazenness
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a confidence that no longer needs the fig leaf of a so-called peace process or peace agreement with the palestinian signature to complete the robbery of palestine from the palestinian people i have a neighbor from the electronic intifada it's always good to have your insight thanks for joining us from chicago thank you thank you. to asia now where officials and india and bangladesh are racing to evacuate millions of people before the arrival of a supersonic clone is expected to be the most powerful weather system seen in the region in the last 2 decades but the coronavirus is complicating efforts to move people away from the coastline some to charity has more from dhaka thanks this is the 1st super cycle on forming over the bay of bengal in more than 20 years. people living in the coastal areas are worried. approaches the coast of bangladesh. is in a hurry to collect their belongings and rush to
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a shelter. we are worried about the cycle and now we're preparing to go to the shelter the situation isn't good we're not sure what will happen to us all commercial ships fishing boats and trawlers over the bay of bengal and deep sea have been advised to take shelter a lot of the volunteers across the coastal areas are warning people of the dangers and arjen them to go to a cycle in shelters the bangladeshi government says it has prepared shelters in coastal the stakes for more than 5000000 people but maintaining social distancing will be difficult in densely packed shelters with limited space. we've already seen it rise to the relevant cycle in shelters provided money baby and dry food as well as food for livestock we've doubled the number of cycling shelters to around 12078 in order to maintain social distancing. if the storm makes landfall in the low lying delta there is also the potential for a major storm surges perhaps even as high as 9 meters you're going to only once
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additional if the water surge happens and the level goes up we have enough materials and manpower ready to deal with the situation along with the help from the district administration but many people along the coast say that they know better from experience. like the rest of the world we're worried about coronavirus and in the midst of all this there's a high tide in the ocean and the area could get flooded if it stays like this it poses a great danger to us. the double tread of corporate 19 and the cyclon is particularly warning for disadvantaged people in coastal regions and for those living in crowded growing a refugee camps in cox's bazar while bangladesh is dealing with coronavirus pandemic supercycle is approaching its course lying posing a challenge to the authorities here to evacuate coastal areas even if the softer wakeling it could cause significant damage to the farmlands and ruined homes. i'll
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just dhaka bangladesh. community leaders in one of the largest shanty towns and one designed reserve demanding that the government support the local population as the virus spreads more than $1000.00 confirmed cases in the neighborhood of $31.00 the area known for poverty and violence lacks electricity and basic sanitation for its 45000 residents argentina has reported 382 deaths from the virus sometimes more than 8000 confirmed cases trees a bow was among the demonstrators. were here in the center of one of societies where a group of people have gathered to protest against the city of one aside is saying that it's not taking care of the poorest people that are living in some of the slums in one side if they have come here saying that they do not have hygiene products they do not have food among other things one of the reasons why they have come here today is because one of their community leader in the slum 31 in one of
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the side is passed away a few days ago because of cold 19 he has been denouncing the slums and want to say it is do not have any type of water in order for them to clean themselves among other things argentina was one of the 1st countries in the region to impose a complete long time and it has succeeded in preventing the spread of disease nationwide but there's been a surge of cases in the slums of one aside in this past few days what we're seeing here is that this is not just happening in argentina but a similar situation is happening elsewhere in countries like brazil parole and others. present donald rumsfeld the national security advisor who had earlier pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. has asked an appeals court to dismiss the criminal case against him or arguments for the case. michael flynn's lawyers had asked the court of appeals to drop the case as requested by the justice department follows pressure from donald trump and
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republican allies would also advise truck during the 26th. campaign and then 2017 he confessed to lying about his conversations with russia's ambassador in washington. the details of 9000000 passengers have been accessed in a cyber attack on the british airline easyjet the hacker obtained the email and travel details of the customers as well as the credit card information of more than 2000 of them easyjet said it was contacting the customers. with me so robin a reminder of our top stories the world health organization has agreed to hold an investigation into the global response to the corona virus pandemic $194.00 member states voted unanimously to hold an independent inquiry including an examination of the w h o's role. the main is fully committed
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to transparency accountability and continues improvement we want accountability more than anyone the un's acting envoy to libya has warned that an influx of weapons and mercenaries is threatening to further intensify fighting between the country's warring sides the number of civilian casualties as surge in recent weeks as forces loyal to ward cleaver have to continue their year long campaign to seize tripoli from the un recognized government palestinian president mahmoud abbas says palestine will not be banned by agreements with israel and the us because of israel's planned an exception of 30 percent of the occupied west bank abbas calls the countries that have objected the trumpet ministrations middle east peace plan to recognize the state of palestine and the post sanctions on israel. the suit is due to swear in a new prime minister on wednesday after thomas them bonnie resigned he's been under
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pressure to step down after being accused of conspiring to murder his 2nd wife bonnie and his current wife have been charged but both deny the allegations in south sudan at least $120.00 people have been killed since friday in water authorities are calling cattle raids more than $100.00 people were also injured during the attacks which took place in county in jungle i state 2 stuff from doctors without borders were also killed in a rural county over the weekend forcing the organization to suspend operations in the region and officials in india and bangladesh are racing to evacuate millions of people before the arrival of a supersized clone is expected to make landfall in the coming hours cycling on bund will be the most powerful weather system seen in the region in the last 2 decades those are the headlines you can get more on our website at al jazeera dot com i'm back in half an hour next it's one o one eastern do stay with us. i easily test treats and trace frank assessments why is it it's only struggling to cope with the number
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coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action really get them behind her informed opinions it's going to be much more challenging in a place like eva there's one ventilator $3000000.00 people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines india done enough to nip the spread of the out of hours in the inside story on al-jazeera. it's dangerous for it still that she's been cooking he is about more than the. continued use of the school nor the kids you know his heart out with the 1118th makes the head chef serving up hospitality to those who.

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