tv NEWS LIVE - 30 Al Jazeera May 23, 2020 7:00pm-7:34pm +03
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say berlin or paris or london a man in cairo on al-jazeera played an important role. ringback libya's internationally recognized government makes new gains on the outskirts of tripoli as it battles the forces of warlord holy father. i'm convinced now this is al jazeera live from dakar also coming up. relatives of the pakistani jet crash victims wait for answers on what caused the disaster after the search for survivors ended. the normally bustling time of year
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businesses in kenya are suffering ahead of the 8 holiday. welcome back to tourists in spain terrorists are being allowed to return to the beaches bars and boutiques in july. we begin in libya with new developments in the fight for tripoli government forces have seized control of 3 military camps on the outskirts of the capital from warlord after are now the latest success builds on recent gains by the tripoli based government of national accord or d.n.a. against after at his self-styled libyan national army earlier this week jan a forces took over several towns and an air base near the tunisian border used for half dollars airstrikes his forces launched their offensive to capture the capital in april last year but have failed to get very far beyond the city limits let's go
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now to mahmoud of the wellhead who's standing by for us in tripoli mahmoud just explain to us why these recent gains are so important for the g n a. indeed there are on not only for the g n a but also for have to the forces a major setback for us forces losing these military camps as you know the military camp that the government forces the capture today and in fact advance beyond a year or more military camp has been set but have his forces as a kind of since are in command to run the battles in southern tripoli in fact it has been controlled by russian mercenaries from the wagner group to around the battles and the government to military sources say that the russian mercenaries set up sort of valence equipment inside the military camp but the government forces say that they could not stay longer inside because half of his forces have been
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targeting them with mortar rockets now the clashes are going on in the vicinity of the old in active international airport that has been under control of have put his forces for the past year. meanwhile on the other hand in in the neighborhood that the government forces say that they have managed to drive have told us forces out pushing them back a few kilometers about insalata di neighborhood here in southern tripoli and also in an area called the project neighborhood the government forces say that 2 civilians were killed by a landmine that was set up by have to us forces meanwhile the government forces are warning civilians not to return home at least for the time being because have those forces have set up landmines in civilian areas in their properties and also in
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civilian houses streets they say that it's the same way i salute set up blunt mines in the city of sit in 2016 the government forces say that they are determined to push after the forces back beyond the administrative borders of the capital tripoli not only that but also to move on the city of that who are the major stronghold of half that its forces in the worst of the country as you know that the city of the homeowner is now besieged from civil of their actions and also the supply line coming to town who now from a job for a military base in central libya has been blocked recently by the government forces which means that the besieged on to the owner is being get tightened day after day it seems that half those forces are suffering major setback especially after the series of losses they have suffered losing so it is exceeding of. the hour on thursday and before that lost last week losing the strategic oil which you needed
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near the tunisian border and in mid april losing 6 a strategic cities and towns along the western cost him thanks for bringing us up to speed there mahmoud to unthaw the head live from tripoli. a former president of 2 newsier is calling for the crown prince's of both abu dhabi and saudi arabia to stand trial before the international criminal court on seth meyers and accuses mohamed bin say it and mohammed bin salmond of undermining countries involved in the arab spring uprisings including tunisia he also accuses both countries of war crimes in yemen. the search for survivors has ended in pakistan's largest city karate after a passenger plane crashed into a residential area on friday only to have $99.00 people on board survived but there are reports also of the few casualties on the ground praeger gupta reports. many of
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those onboard a pakistan international airlines plane were flying home from the hold to celebrate the eve holiday but then pulled and she screamed and was a pilot tried to land the 2nd time the air passed into 20 crashed into homes in a crowded restaurant shaper had her up she was moving her body very very quickly i did pony fell on my car 3 doors of my car along the door on my side was open 1st i took my people out after that i saw a passenger outside the plane his legs were winded he was empty all right he was alive he was speaking he asked me to save them i tried to pull him out but his legs were badly stuck in the emergency door. a little outside more trees and hospitals people look for the lost ones one man was shocked to discover his nephew could be among the dead but. last night i spoke to him and i said are you coming to caracas
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he said no my leave request is not approved so i was not expecting him on that flight my sister called me and told me to check the crash point and i said why she said he was on it only 2 people survived mom is one of them all to live when they are living here the minute there were cries of children and adults and the elderly the cries were everywhere and everybody was trying to survive i undid my seat belt and i saw some light and tried to walk towards it then i jumped out 10 feet onto the ground more child beyond recognition the families want to take them home to be buried 1st they have to be identified through the national database for the station authority or the not. knowing is telling is the true picture i've identified my mother's body they've also verified with not now they say a team will come in according to the government authorities instructions then we will start handing over all the bodies. at the crash site rescue workers and local
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capel working to clear those up in pakistan international airlines of the p.r.c. says there will be an investigation. there will be a transparent inquiry of the incident and there will be no role of p.i. in it there will be no role of civil aviation in it this inquiry will be carried out according to international rules by the aviation industry with the permission of the prime minister a summary of which is under approval. the commercial flight was one of the posters in this week after planes were grounded by the corner virus pandemic and after struggling with weeks of lockdown restrictions the warning pakistan i'm now in mourning. odyssey or. malhotra is following the story from osama but he says investigators are slowly piecing together what caused the crash. this is. this particular flight 303 took off from the hall where there were.
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about 130 minute flight time it was coming in on the approach to landing just before the final moments of the. 'd war and obviously that it recorded for the record most of these communications. international people who are watching they. turn around and come in for another run and patently. during that communication and they. were indicated that the landing board north then they. could. crash. back into that guide and come in for a landing they forcibly board. the
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plane. and then make it around obviously. looking at all. of the only explanation that we've been able to piece together. something happened during that initial landing where the landing. gaza's health ministry has reported the territories 1st coronavirus staff officials say the 77 year old woman had been on to quarantine after returning to egypt on tuesday he noted nations's warns that a crowd of arson prayed could be disastrous given the high poverty rates and weak health system in the coastal strip has been under israeli blockade since 2007. doctors in sudan are threatening to continue a nationwide strike if their demands for better working conditions and not meant by the government the main doctors union called a 72 hour strike on thursday that was after 4 doctors were injured during an attack
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at the on durham and teaching hospital on wednesday they're also unhappy with the lack of protective equipment for those treating coronavirus patients. the global pandemic is affecting how many muslims a celebrated aid this year rise in infections is there to a lockdown in the eastley neighborhood of kenya's capital nairobi looks at how business is a coping. this leaves both of business hot on the residential area the end of the muslim fasting month of ramadan is usually busy for traders pitfalls of muslims flocking to buy clothes and food and readiness for the festivities and of this here the government imposed a look down here to rick's a go up to dozens of residents because the positive phone call that 1100 little brought this either is just buying we have nothing to celebrate only a handful of customers are coming to buy clothes to celebrate even the textile
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vendors this market is famous for saying that feeling the pinch of the wholesale business is down by more than 60 percent remember it's not just the look down the eastley but the order stopping people from entering the city of nairobi that's also keeping shop as a way that the lockdown has been extended for another 2 weeks police checkpoints all entry points into the suburbs allowing in only medical personnel an essential service style government official says a system of the lockdown is necessary given the high number of coral bite us cases found in this neighborhood tens of thousands of people come here they need for business and there are fears of a spike in the 1000 cases if strict measures are not take. that it says and always been a busy period for livestock trade is the muslim faith will buy goods and ship to celebrate the end of the fostering with friends and relatives with a pandemic such gatherings are out of the question people are not happy there's no
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joys. in this not only coronavirus from them it but that doesn't exacerbated by the fact that this really is sort of a true don't know when it's going to be known is going. the literally the love and it's what happened so people are not buying goods that critical of the challenge and different threats. and so. long day of the markets with no meaningful sales livestock freighters hot they'll flock back to the sheds they too are slowly realizing that this season is like none they've seen before how about the well just a little beacon. still ahead here on al-jazeera the u.k. attempts to strike a balance between public health and reopening the economy. and for the 1st time since a call in of ours and again china reports no you cases. how
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doesn't like say about a weekend for japan should be a lousy try you can see a fair amount of sunshine coming through here the wetter weather is offshore the fall of this system here this chain of showers all the way to the south of china so it does look somewhat drier and brighter for the southern areas of china at least for the time being central parts generally fine dry the odd shower there into send flowers to the north it is settled in sunny 29 celsius and by saying we've got somewhere to weather just making its way across the far east of russia that will push some right into northern parts of japan as we go on through monday and by monday for the rain does return into southern areas of china where we have at times could cause some localized flooding showers too as per usual across southeast asia some lively ones for some see some wet weather still in the mix there for us of
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intonation pushing over towards poppy new guinea meanwhile we still got some rather heavy showers in the mix across the far north east of india little puff of cloud still showing up here further heavy downpours certainly on the cards we'll see some wesa weather pushing into more the possible addition to the fall northeast of india not just for sunday is still left through monday bluetongue could also see some wet weather for most across india it's hot dry and sunny. with no guaranteed paid sick leave millions of americans are forced to choose between work and health i don't use my leave get my mammograms and use my leave to care for my mother as the coronavirus brings employment laws into stock focus both lines examines the human cost of putting business before he. faces falling behind people get the impossible choice america's paid leave crisis on al-jazeera.
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you're the. you're the one. we're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour forces fighting for libya's internationally recognized government of captured 3 military camps in the suburbs of tripoli for war holy for half those men the gains are another setback 5 dollars a year long campaign to capture the capital. of former president of tunisia is calling for the crown prince's of both abu dhabi and saudi arabia to stand trial before the international criminal court on seth meyers' alkie accuses mohammed bin zayed and mohamed bin salma of undermining countries involved in the arab spring
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uprisings. the search for survivors has ended in pakistan following friday's plane crash only 2 of the 99 people on board the air bus arrived there are reports of some casualties on the ground when the jet came down on homes near karate airforce . the british government has defended the prime minister's chief advisor saying a trip he took during lock down did not break guidelines dominic cummings drove more than 400 kilometers from london to his parents' home in northern england when he was supposed to be self isolating after showing symptoms of the virus of position and pays a calling on bar stunts and acts all for cummings to resign as others have done for breaking down rules on the latest out of the government held its press briefing where this controversy was raised by reporters it's crossed out to nadine barber and london's sun a day more to the transport minister i have to say when asked about all of this. well the transport minister grant shapps basically. put his support behind dominic
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cummings the number 10 senior adviser he didn't go into all of the detail of what 'd happened but it's important to know that just a few hours before the spokes person for number 10 downing street put out a statement saying owing to his wife being infected with suspected coronavirus and the high likelihood that he himself would be become unwell it was essential for dominic cummings to ensure his young child could be properly cared for this is at the heart of the arguments there are lots of voices now coming out and saying the advice was actually in such circumstances to stay at home and self isolate interestingly the deputy chief medical officer at the same daily briefing just now jenny harris refused to get into the discussion but she did not back up dominic cummings his version of events she said that in such circumstances where people
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were symptomatic the advice would basically be for the family to self isolate together at their home and that means effectively not to travel to the other end of the country to do so the opposition are calling for dominic cummings to resign there's been a whole stream of cabinet ministers taking to twitter to come to his defense and essentially say that he did the right thing one of them is matt hancock the health secretary interestingly he was one of the people who welcomed the resignation of a chief scientific advisor who had broken the lockdown guidance previously and it said that it was a matter for the police to deal with so there are accusations now of hypocrisy but also now that boris johnson through grant shapps has defended cummings himself it becomes a headache because instead of distancing themselves they are fully behind mr cummings and as this story rumbles on and on then it becomes either something which they
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think they can get rid of or he has to go there are no other options it seems right now and in london thank you. england is slowly easing out of lockdown but for some it's not coming fast enough business is dependent on the tourist trade or at risk of businesses stay away during the normally busy summer the challenge facing the government is protecting public health as well as companies from bankruptcy lawrence lee has more from cumbria. this is what the british government wants to see mass testing barrow in furness on the northwestern coast has proved a model and surprisingly it's demonstrated a higher infection rate than other places which aren't testing yet it's also lets a barrow somehow being accused of poor hygiene standards not only do they think that's deeply unfair they also worry that the government doesn't really understand what's happening so. that's why we want this considered russian approach to moving forward in which we have all say but also that we don't. we don't penalize
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businesses in the following to make matters worse the high infection rate in the north west has come a time when its famous beauty spots should be full of families bus the message from the authorities so far has been to stay away in towns like kendall the effects of that has been this unemployment has risen by over 300 percent this part of england is now in the unique position as having had the highest code infection rate in the country but also now the highest rise in the unemployment rates the local health authority is seen as having done a very good job in the hospitals here are not overwhelmed but businesses are starting to really suffer and that's leaving many people to start asking what's actually worse the disease or the cure every single person we spoke to said that they wanted restrictions eased as a matter of urgency and it seems to me they were run by people who do not understand statistics and they've managed to somebody frighten enough people i mean
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you know members of my family still genuinely think we should cower indoors and i thank you we need to start living again there's a lot of businesses here. you know bits that might not be able to carry and sad to see him actually my appear on the high street at the end of all this you know he might reopen and he won't the sign saying stay away or go home have disappeared. aired though it's still impossible to book a hotel room the totally opposing demands to protect public health while keeping the economy from collapsing have led to the tourism authorities and politicians trying to suggest that people should start to come but slowly we know that all part of tourism hospitality won't get back to normal until the autumn probably not until next year and that's a reminder that given that this is a seasonal business there if we let people stand on their own 2 feet in the autumn that all you have built is perspiring business collapse of unemployment from march
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to this autumn the great fear the worst case scenario is the closure of all this until the end of summer there would then be no way back for thousands of businesses which wouldn't survive the winter the view from here is that protecting livelihoods is becoming every bit as urgent as protecting lives lawrence lee al jazeera in northwestern england. spain's prime minister has promised international tourists can return in july hazara sanchez is under pressure to reopen in time for the peak summer season lockdown restrictions are gradually easing the state of emergency remains in force for another 2 weeks that's when the league of football league is due to restart martha arrowheads more on the easing of measures from madrid. being receives $8000000.00 visitors each year and tourism with one of the sectors worst heat by the coronavirus crisis and. its 12 percent represents
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a 12 percent of the gross domestic product and has an indirect impact of 35 percent in the spanish economy so all these owners of hotels and restaurants and bars were looking for a signal from the prime minister a bit of sun tear that today announced that we will be reopening to foreign tourism in from the market month of july what he does send he sent 2 messages that these this return of these the opening of the borders for for international tourists and for domestic tourism as well because he's trying to implement that spaniards each year. take their holidays in spain in order to reactivate the economy he's got untying this will be safety for the people that are coming in and for the spaniards that are traveling to the spanish nation. no new corona virus infections have been reported in china for the 1st day since the outbreak was 1st reported there in december but health workers have warned of some suspected cases testing has been
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increased including in wool one which was the 1st epicenter of the disease and wearing masks in crowded places such as supermarkets and shopping centers remains mandatory katrina you has the details from beijing. amal's are in today no new cases that means no imported cases no asymptomatic cases according to official figures but china is not out of the woods yet we do know that there are at least 2 active clusters of the corinna virus 5 or 6 cases were identified some weeks ago in ruhani at the center of the outbreak and that's a citywide testing schemes are millions have been tested in the last few weeks and perhaps more worrying for authorities is a cluster in jilin province which is in china's north east and there have been more than 100 cases identified there recently and actually 2 small cities have been put into lockdown. lockdown with some residential compound sealed off and travel restricted in and out of those cities are definitely while it is
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a good very good news for today we still have those suspected cases and still china's fight against the coronaviruses is far from over. the president of tanzania continues to attend election rallies despite the pandemic gianna michael fortier who is seeking re-election insists the virus has been defeated through prayer 500 cases have been reported among the 60000000 population the president has led a crackdown against anyone who questions the government's response critics have been arrested and opposition politicians and rights activists say their phones are being tapped. what do. we have decided to go this way to depend on god we have started with god and we should finish with them in reality god has answered our prayers the number of infected is dropping. anger is building in the indian city of kolkata over the response to a psych loan which is if millions without power and water.
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protestors are frustrated that their without essential services since one struck on wednesday demonstrators blocked roads and set a truck on fire of a knife the cyclon contributed to the deaths of at least 96 people in eastern india and in neighboring bangladesh. to iran has threatened to retaliate if the u.s. tries to stop it from delivering millions of dollars worth of fuel to venezuela 5 iranian tankers are approaching the caribbean where the u.s. has a large military presence deliveries will ease fuel shortages in venezuela are in defiance of sanctions imposed by washington on both countries the 1st tanker is due to arrive in the next couple of days. as frame court in brazil has released a video apparently showing president jaya ball scenario threatening to fire senior police officers their bosses and a minister to protect his family also not out denies the accusations has out latin america and human. this videotape is what those accusing president jade bosso
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not all of interference in brazil's justice system consider it the smoking gun a cabinet meeting in which the president explains his motives for wanting to sack rio de janeiro's police commissioner and the federal police chief. i tried to change the security official in rio and i couldn't that's that i'm not going to stand by let them my family or my friends because i can't change someone in charge of security who was part of the structure i'm going to change him and if i can change him i'll change his boss and if i can change his boss i'll change the minister full stop the minister sitting at the meeting was none other than said moral brazil's most popular anti corruptions are who resigned shortly thereafter refusing to fire the country's top policeman who is now leading the charge against boards not all through an impeachable offense the president dismissed the recording saying he was talking about his son's personal security detail not about getting
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rid of top police officials in charge of sensitive investigations but it's no secret that also national has long wanted to control police in real when members of his family are under investigation. for those who don't know rio has militias made up of the violent former security forces who control the slums child protection money and operate like the mafia they're also interested in obtaining political power in the bolton are of family especially eldest son flavio has very close ties to them we have presented the evidence. in the videotape also speaks and linked with. p. diddy using foul language of the need to arm brazilians suggesting that governors and mayors who defy his handling of groener virus poses a threat to brazil. why do i want brazilians to be armed because i don't want to dictatorship we can't hold back any more whoever doesn't accept my creed family god
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brazil weapons freedom of expression and free market is in the wrong government. all this may be music to the ears of the president followers but for the growing number of brazilians who see him as increasingly of the terror in the video is proof that brazil's biggest threat maybe not of himself you see in human al-jazeera . results is there and these are the top stories forces fighting for libya's internationally recognized government have captured 3 military camps in the suburbs of tripoli from war hell if i have to ask men that's a half 1000 year long campaign to capture the capital. head has the latest from tripoli. for how after the forces a major setback for his forces losing these military camps as you know that
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military camp that the government forces recaptured today and in fact advance beyond a year or more military camp has been set by have to his forces as a kind of central command to run the battles in southern tripoli a former president of tunis here is calling for the crown prince's of both abu dhabi and saudi arabia to stand trial before the international criminal court wants if matters ok accuses mohamed bin mohammed bin salam of undermining countries involved in the arab spring uprisings including. the search for survivors has ended in pakistan following friday's plane crash in karachi only 2 of the 99 people on board survived there are reports of some casualties on the ground when the air bus crashed into homes. gaza's health ministry has reported the territory's 1st coronavirus death officials say the 77 year old woman had been under quarantine after returning through egypt on tuesday. doctors in sudan are threatening to
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continue a nationwide strike if their demands for better working conditions are not met by the government the main doctors union called a 72 hour strike on thursday that was after 4 doctors were injured during an attack at the on durban teaching hospital on wednesday. the british government is defending the prime minister's chief adviser saying a trip he took during on down did not break guidelines dominic cummings drove more than 400 kilometers from london to his parents' home in northern england when he was supposed to be self isolating after showing symptoms of the virus. spain's prime minister has promised international tourists can return in july as your sanchez is under pressure to reopen in time for the peak summer season. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera off the fault line so don't go away.
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