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yes there just will be the opportunity for the girls to recover even when those. scientists are calling for strong climate policy from the government to reduce emissions without the situation gets worse. a passenger plane crashes in a residential area of pakistan's capital around $100.00 people were on board. i'm sam you say dan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. on kong leaders say they're ready to work with china but not everyone is happy about a proposed law to give beijing control over security a massive clean up operation in india and bangladesh after. through the region.
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and employed stranded and relying on handouts thailand's migrant workers face a precarious future. now we begin with breaking news coming out of pakistan a passenger plane has crashed in a residential area near karachi that coming in to land the city's international airport well there was almost $100.00 people on board at the time let's get the very latest now. joins us from islamabad 1st of all any word on those passengers. well it would appear that day maybe bad new day as far as a passenger just concerned because there's a croft came all was
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a residential area which is a lot of concrete area and a patent lady a.d.a.'s quarter mordred colonnade just about a kilometer away from the airport there's a t 20 ad box was flying from the city of long haul it was on its final approach to karachi airport we are door dead 8 had radioed the cave alleviation or tardy about some technical issue however we cannot confirm that that demo man was on it so it's already on its 2nd attempt to make an approach to karachi airport but writing short writing down short of that ad board and aides feared that most of those reported on board would be dead however they are because this has come out in a greater danger lady black smoke billowing out of doors how did dad was paid very disappointed by the dad the rescue that you see on the screen that possibly the
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people who were injured on the ground know will face you're going for major in or details about exactly what happened we'll have to wait for that report to come in by that you mentioned there will were 90 passengers on board and the plane was flying from karachi it's already lowered to karachi some may come on the bench and then to the plane had radioed in with some technical difficulty do we have any details about the case of you know when they radioed in for technical problems was that just before the crash or has this been going on for one of the. where toward but as i mentioned to you we have to be careful because it hasn't been confirmed by the several e.v.a.'s general darted we were i spoke to a pilot friend of mine who had gold made that day was there to board. a plane had been reported some technical issues was on his 2nd that came to come in for
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a landing by. early days the moment to come out with any final word except that it's aggro has gone over what i read over residential area and that the pilot did not have time to reach the board that the aircraft went down about a kilometer short of the runway. the plane was heading to qur'an she was this when do we know where it was coming from any more details about the people who might be looking for news about loved ones. this is a crossroads flying out of the whole region fun job this would be about an hour and slides because it takes about 2 hours from islamabad richard almost twice the distance show it was day it had taken off from the horn and it should also be remembered that alfred a covert 19 emergency order flights but suspended only recently decided to start
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dates domestic operations except for the chartered aircraft that were taking foreign nationals back to their countries so deeded some shouldn't of their domestic service and of course where director of one day because these activists would then have to go through the cleaning procedure the escobedo in order to ensure that there was a cleaning done on board or the aircraft and only flying on your turn or dave day they exit off go call from the hall for their care day of karachi and then write it down just short of that airport in karachi about a kilometer short of the airport and christ go all ready to ensure the house did all right thanks so much carter no doubt will come back to you later when the details become a little bit clearer and now what's come out how to bring us the latest details on the crash of a plane impacts on. hong kong's government says it will work with beijing to introduce a new national security law as soon as possible we're expecting more details later
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but it's believed to criminalize secession foreign interference and subversion of beijing's state power news of the plan has already been met with protests in hong kong and leading pro-democracy figures called it the end of the one country 2 systems policy chinese premier league chang announced the bill at the opening of the annual national people's congress its meeting 3 months late because of the pandemic also coming from the parliament for the 1st time in decades china will not set a growth target a premier said development would be set aside this beijing focuses on repairing and economy badly hit by the current virus adrian brown has more from hong kong. this has been a very dark day for those people here in this city state who were already worried about hong kong's autonomy and where it was going are china has said that it wants to enact this new law because it's worried about the growing threats from
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subversion also foreign interference and also separatism and it says this is a law that actually should have been passed by hong kong's government more than 2 decades ago after the handover and it's finally love patience with the hong kong government and it said if you can't do that job and basically we're going to have to do it for you know this is all really a direct response of the worsening protests in hong kong during the past few months in particular one incident which happened outside china's de facto embassy here in hong kong at central liaison office when the chinese flag was was desecrated and chinese communist party symbols damage that infuriated china's leaders and what will happen now in future is of people who are found guilty of acts like that could face very long prison terms indeed just a few weeks ago in fact a man was found guilty of of desecrating hong kong is now
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a china's national flag and he received a sentence of just 20 days in jail and china wants that sentence to be of course much longer in the future as to what will happen with the protests we've seen small skirmishes today in hong kong in the streets and also in hong kong's legislative assembly but of course of the moment we still have social distancing restrictions in force here in hong kong until june the 4th so china's announcement is in fact very convenient for hong kong's government because of course people are able to gather in groups of no more than 8 and that will remain in force as i say for at least another 2 weeks the question now is what happens when those social distancing rules are lifted and when those rules will be lifted. india's prime minister narendra modi has visited areas hardest hit by the region's worst powerful cyclon in decades at least 96 people died in india and neighboring bangladesh modi's
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survey the damage done by site flown from the air before announcing financial aid for the state of oregon is a struggling to restore road links and electricity to millions of homes in kolkata the streets were flooded trees and power lines were torn down there are concerns coronavirus could spread among people in the mergence shelters and in bangladesh people have been unable to return to their villages after some were left underwater a storm surges flooded low lying areas food parcels of being given out to those left homeless. well in india rajaram reports from kolkata about the prime minister's visit. it is a seedy situation in brisbane drug which is happening on the credit $95.00 days and then looked on and off of that of course i can entendres has wrecked havoc across west we are just a month about
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a jeep accompanied indian premise and on into more the under god are all across saw you know western great rock and also it was an ideal view of what the prime minister of god and what the devastation is like announce an initial ground 0142000000 euros dollars that the state of west bengal and for the family of the deceased and those injured he has he has given out about are 2800 euros store does and $700.00 euros dollars respectively from the prime minister's would be fun but our trees planted on the street which is causing a concern because essentially it's imus's is a problem when it comes to reaching 2nd areas and that is something that the physical parties i have to do as quickly as possible no other routes i'm so sure that people are not inconvenienced i suppose is going to be a challenge for the people as that is a civic authorities of the state administration is doing all that it can done via childfree is in dhaka where hundreds of homes have been destroyed leaving people with no way to go. that maybe the coast guard and the army has been deployed to
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take care of these people providing them relieve the big challenge and the question still remains what to do with all this people they don't have a home to go back and this isn't a situation when the country is going to economic challenges due to the shutdown people have to be provided relief asked to be given 10000000 people are without electricity i mean all the mobile towers are gone dikes have been washed away hatcheries up 180000 had to restrain farming it's a big business and southwest abang of that is totally washed away farmlands and 46000 of farmland washed away so the government has to think in a long time rather we have believed a dis people because they don't have a god home to go back to and keeping them in the shelter also is a double edged sword because this time of pandemic for corona virus so a major challenge ahead for the country to deal with this fallout from the. thailand's 4000000 migrant workers are more vulnerable than ever after recently all
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stewards of the covered 900 pandemic it will disclose thousands of stranded and relying on handouts go hide the reports from someone's home. about an hour south of bangkok is some suck on the hub for thailand's seafood industry and home to the largest population of migrant workers in the country primarily from me and more. now because of the coded 1000 shutdown many are without jobs and are relying on food handouts to prevent the spread of the virus thailand sealed its borders with neighboring countries back in march stranding tens of thousands of migrant workers mostly without any assistance from the thai government. mom omo had been a garment factory worker here for 9 years she lost her job when the shutdown started to take hold at a coal india can my hand my daughter this crisis is probably the worst one that i've experienced there are no jobs in the market and i couldn't find work i haven't
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paid my rent for the past 2 months. she only has another few weeks to pay what she owes before she and her family are kicked out they want to go home to mandalay in myanmar but can't the average daily salary for my coworkers here in some province is only $10.00 that goes for those who are working on fishing boats the factory workers now there's growing concern that jobs like this could become a few are once thailand fully reopened for business to tani gallic lies says thousands of workers have called her migrant worker rights network seeking help the organisation has been providing food bags for families but suit admits even if the migrants are able to get to their home countries they'll end up coming back to thailand once there's work she says they'll return even more vulnerable than before the pandemic. i'm worried that the workers will be forced to work for longer alice for a smaller wage they're quite vulnerable unlike us who have more rights and more power i think fewer workers will be employed but have to work harder the thai government
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has opened a selected border checkpoints for a limited number of workers to return home each day but many don't have the money to travel. a few fortunate ones are able to get some work but most remain stuck on land facing mounting debt they'll have to be paid back when they do finally find a job it's got harder al-jazeera summit's a con thailand. so i had an al-jazeera stranded at sea tens of thousands of cruise ship staff on the sky. and the lights camera back in action on the last of those that were put on hold at the restart button. well i was still got some rather wet weather affecting china at the moment southern
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parts of china see this long line of clap so i shouted with the seasonal rains and that stretches all the way down into the fosse out of the country still a chance of some heavy downpours as we go on through saturday but it is going to make its way further south was surprise us guys will eventually come back and it's dry and bright across central positron a few showers further north into the yellow sea we've got the system which will roll across the korean peninsula heavy rain laugh and all the current eventually some of that wet weather also affecting south korea as we go one of the 2nd half of the weekend japan all the time staying last fine and dry temperatures here at around 24 degrees celsius and we've got some much dry weather in place to say across much of india even bangladesh started to see some dry weather but this area cloud that we do have into the fall north of bangladesh into the far northeast of india this is the remnants of on pond still the potential for another 200 to 300 millimeters of rain over the next couple of days so we're not quite out of the
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woods just yet you can see the heavy rain which may even make its way up towards baton main story then becomes the heat the building hate once again temperatures snout getting up into the low to mid forty's for many. a story of blackmail. conspiracy. and. you'll have a feeling i have strangled you have a story of carnage a lot of the fear is real. passion. and very serious just. route.
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to move. back you're watching out 0 time to recap our headlines now a passenger plane has crashed in a residential area near karachi while coming into land the city's international airport was almost 100 people on board and. pro-democracy activists in hong kong of condemned new national security legislation planned by china beijing is aiming to pass a law that could be the biggest limitation to hong kong's autonomy since it was handed over by britain. at least 96 people have been killed by the most powerful side flow to hit eastern india and bangladesh more than a decade cyclon pond made landfall on wednesday up routine thousands of trees destroying power lines. protests have broken out in the indian capital
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over the suspension of labor laws the changes to working hours wages and health and safety standards are aimed at kick starting the economy off to 2 months of covert 19 locked down but the unions say they'll lead to exploitation our india correspondent elizabeth 4 on them has more. protests here in the capital delhi that was called to protest against changes to labor laws broken up by police that is because it's actually. more than 40 people gathering remains in place to stop the spread of the going to was never the less people gathered to protest against those changes and number of india's most populous up there where they are more than 220000000 people live. for they have scrapped most labor laws for the next 3 years that is what these people. have gathered to protest against.
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the state have made other changes so it was rights including working hours and working hours wages all the time occupational health and safety stand out the 1st thing the people who are protesting. that exploitation i would. say that the changes are necessary to get us out. after 8 months. and states which are rolled my problem is a little bit of my duty i just the problem you know be take a. look at us say that the government had a budget. that was 1st. that has using the opportunity to do so the price. i believe you will of course.
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in indonesia some muslims for pairing for the holiday are ignoring the strict ins aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus market traders are disappearing police orders and risking their business licenses to stay open just to washington reports from the capsule. in the center of jakarta is southeast asia's biggest textile market the lead up to the muslim holiday even is usually the busiest time for traders as customers come to buy new clothes before the celebration this year is different place have come to shop the market down to enforce virus restrictions fundament they keep opening the shops and so the buyers keep coming it's not right we will continue to enforce the social restrictions and we will take actions it's really tiring it's now a daily ritual there are thousands of traders here and forcing all of them to follow regulations aimed at curbing the spread of the virus is proving difficult
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for them to find out what happens if they keep breaking the law will have to revoke their business permit up until now we've been trying to persuade them the lead up to it is a test for into these in authorities the restrictions mean that many businesses have been forced to shut their doors at what would normally be their busiest time of year and some attempt to break the rules despite the risk. many here are daily wage earners and some say they haven't received any aid from the government. that about the market by definition if we follow what the government is telling us to work from home what will we ate the virus might not kill me then but we can still die from hunger crowded you can't as main airport this week prompted criticism that the indonesian government relaxed restrictions far too soon only business travel is a permitted to fly and only those who can afford the increased emphasis can make the journey some feel low income earners are being disproportionately targeted.
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when i want to own meaning i want justice if you want to close my store then close everything don't just keep allowing wealthy people to continue and force people like me to close they chase us like we're selling stolen goods. just hours after the police raid this is what the central market looks like sellers putting out their clothing racks again and returning to business as usual but that's because of the way i feel sorry for the small sellers that depend on their sales and what that they give to their families it's hard and some are now bankrupt they know it's not allowed and unsafe but they say they have no choice but to stay open and earn a living jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. tens of thousands of cruise ship staff or maimed trapped say 2 months after the pandemic crippled the industry they say they've been abandoned many are being paid or some hunger strike and the gallacher reports from miami. sailing the open seas dancing on deck and
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seeing the world from the comfort of a floating hotel that's what the cruise line industry is supposed to be about since the outbreak of the coronavirus that image has been tarnished outbreaks of covert 19 claimed lives passengers were eventually allowed to go home but crewmembers many of the migrants from poorer countries like the philippines have all but been abandoned crewmember caio saldana heart centers these videos from onboard celebrity cruises he's been moved from one vessel to another told he was going home only for plans to be canceled all of which he tells us is taking a huge mental toll there are still people there you can see in their eyes. but they are there they are hanging. out why didn't think so much you know trying to do some things to get it there are some people like me in their eyes you know they are in
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a way of the situation and have something to say and once to do so not only for me it works for everybody it's thought that at least 7 crew members of died from covert 19 well over 500 have been infected by the coronavirus cruise line companies say they're steadily repatriating staff but the process is slow and complicated in april the c.d.c. ban cruise ships from u.s. waters and to the police late july other nations are insisting on strict testing and the cruise company should pay for a land based quarantine while some crew members have returned home tens of thousands remain in cramped conditions with no pay on one vessel there was a food strike while several suicides. i've been reported lawsuits are now being filed on behalf of crew members in what some legal experts say is bordering on a humanitarian crisis by use the term who is your partner in sweatshops 3 years not only the situation that there are thousands of miles we don't know what's going on
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don't know when they're going to not necessarily but they're being threatened. i mean you're really couldn't think of a worse situation. caio here in happier days is a crew shit d.j. told us he never wants to work in the industry again for now he simply wants to speak out for others you knew you were lying to you don't have a new value as a human being you are just a number right now we. know our psychological. getting crewmembers off the ships is being complicated by nations closing ports strict restrictions and lack of coordination but many say the industry could and should do more for loyal staff facing an increasingly desperate and dangerous future and to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida iran's supreme leader has called
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for a continuation of the fight to liberate palestine t.v. address on clubs or jerusalem day. and i described israel as a cancerous tumor in the middle east and he said the occupation of palestine is a crime against humanity iran has held the annual could stay since 979 in a show of support for the palestinian struggle. forces loyal to the un recognized government have seized control of another town in western libya 9 fighters allied toward the hafter were killed before the surrender of a law sabah towns on an important supply route for half the troops they've been waging a yearlong campaign to seize the capital government troops have made significant gains capturing several towns in the major airbase recently. the 100 reports from. forces loyal to libya's recognized a government of national accord are now in full control of the town of about
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120 kilometers south of the capital tripoli after heavy fighting with forces loyal to the world a lot have to by taken control of the town of. they can now secure the back line of the city the mountainous strategic city of their yan that half the us forces lost months ago and they tried several times to recapture it but they failed have those forces have been losing momentum recently especially after they lost the strategic air base of i would say any of the tunisian border only a few days ago and also it's a bit of strategic cities and towns along the western coast in mid april. now if you've run out of things to watch from home as a result of the lockdowns hit might be some good news to see a number of film and television shows have resumed production in some places but with strict new safety protocols of course new zealand for example given the green
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light to domestic production international ones will follow once the government reviews border restrictions hollywood sequels for avatar amazones lord of the rings series were among those that stopped working in march in hollywood itself though television movie and music productions may reopen in the next few weeks if cases in los angeles don't increase productions won't resume in the big apple though till it opens up some more stay at home order remains in force in new york city on production like disney's frozen on broadway has been canceled completely they've conley is the executive graphic effects for juicer it whetted digital and the fax company that worked on lord of the rings planet of the apes and avatar he says plans to resume major productions are an encouraging sign. well we're working closely with the government to help open up the borders or work within the
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restrictions and guidelines for bringing movies back into new zealand and this is a positive and encouraging sign we look we're looking at other opportunities for more movies to come into musing very soon so what we're doing is we're looking at a variety of new different techniques that employ both to affect post production techniques and shooting techniques that elevate the standards of hygenic practices on set so will be the test case if you will for those types of movies but we do have practices in place now that encourage social distancing among crew persons among the actors and we're hoping that there will be you know a variety of digital solutions that we can employ to help finish films the. entire economic. impact won't be known for at least another year but yes across the world we've had a number of productions that have shut down and we have been fortunate that we've
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been able to finish a few movies while the coronavirus shut. production down but what we're hoping is with the resumption of filmmaking that we will be able to start making movies again the true impact will not be known for at least another year. and let's take a look at some of the headlines here and al-jazeera now a passenger plane has crashed in a residential area nicaragua she was coming into land of the city's international airport for almost 100 people on board come on haida has the latest. 821 line from the city of law it was on its final a brochure karachi airport we are toward that it had radioed that b.h. you're not already about some technical issue however we cannot confirm that at the
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moment. to make any approach to karachi airport but range short range downed short of that airport and it is clear that most of the people on board would be dead pro-democracy activists in hong kong of condemned new national security legislation planned by china beijing is aiming to pass a law that could be the biggest limitation to hong kong's autonomy since it was handed over by britain activists say it marks the end of governance on the one country 2 systems india's prime minister narendra modi has visited areas hardest hit by the region's 1st powerful cyclone in decades at least $96.00 people died in india in neighboring bangladesh to survey the damage done by cycling from the air before announcing financial aid in kolkata streets were flooded in trees and power lines torn down there are concerns corona virus could spread inside the emergency
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shelters in bangladesh people have been unable to return to their villages after someone left on the water a storm surges flooded low lying areas food parcels of being given to those left homeless around supreme leader has called for a continuation of the fight to liberate palestine in the t.v. address on could soldier use them day it's a law and i described israel as a cancerous tumor in the middle east and he said the occupation of palestine is a crime against humanity. forces loyal to the u.n. recognize government have seized control of another town in western libya faces allied toward holly for huffed out of were killed before the surrender of the last sabah towns on an important supply route for have to troops. i had lines it's inside story now stay with us.
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what's going to happen to higher education in the middle of a pandemic universities are scrambling to get their lectures online as coronavirus lockdowns lock out students but what will that do to the quality of education this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. but coronavirus pandemic is disrupting higher education worldwide lockdowns of closed university and call.

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