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the studio we want continues with spirit we do stories that have impact on society i testified in the court of law to be sure that the bad guys are behind bars so many people are going to jail that's a result of my work we want on al-jazeera. t.v. is internationally recognized government makes new gains on the outskirts of tripoli as it battles the forces of warlord who for half dark. i'm given al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. balances of the pakistani jet crash victims wait for answers on what caused the disaster after the search for survivors ended. welcome back to spain tourists are
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being allowed to return to the beaches bars and boutiques in july. and with governments borrowing billions to stay afloat during the pandemic we investigate the challenges of repaying the huge debts. 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 all of our start the latest success builds on recent gains by the tripoli based government of national accord or d.n.a. against tough saw and his self-styled libyan national army earlier this week in a forces took over several towns and an air base near the border used for hostiles airstrikes his forces launched their offensive to capture the capital in april last year but it felt to get very far beyond the city limits so. that leaves the un
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recognized government in control of tripoli misrata and other areas shaded here in blue stretching west towards to newseum highly far far and his forces hold the red territory they include vast desert regions as well as his strongholds benghazi and further to the east to brooke that's where rival administration allied staffed are is based. let's go live now to have a bell we're heading standing by for us in tripoli mahmoud just explain for us why these camps that the g.a.o. has taken us so important. indeed they are very strategic military camps in southern tripoli because as you know these 3 military camps recently recaptured by the gun forces they used to be. they used to be. controlled by have to his forces over the past months and in fact a lot of military camp. was used by half the forces as
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a central command to the but the battles in the southern tripoli in fact mercenaries are russian most movies from the wagner group fighting along with have towards forces against the government forces used to position in that more committed 3 camp sitting surveillance equipment and also learning that from. as you know kim their forces took control of a little more military camp in may last year and from there they tried many times to advance towards the capital city center but they failed as you know this is another setback for half the forces who lost control of the strategic. last week which is close to the tunisian border. and also this comes after. forces lost. cities and towns along the western coast in mid april meanwhile in southern tripoli especially in around the military camp where government forces
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have now deployed they say that they discovered that many landmines set up by have to his forces in streets civilian properties and civilian houses the government is warning civilians not to return home in the areas. which have to us forces withdraw from at least for the time being especially after the 2 civilians were killed by a landmine that was set up by half that us forces in the neighborhood ok our move through the government of national accord is got a bit of momentum here what is it end game does it thea military solution to this well the military solution does not seem to be. putting it into this crisis especially with the government forces are determined as they say to move on until
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the push after us forces back not only out of southern tripoli but also to chase them to this strategic city after the major stronghold of have to his forces in the worst of libya meanwhile have taught us forces does not they do not seem to be also accepting any peaceful solution especially as you know jim that recently have to in a recorded voice message is boosting his forces more encouraging them to continue the fight and also. stating that every turkish person involved in this war is a target for his forces as you know that turkey has been playing a measured and vital rule in shifting the balance of power in favor of the government of national accord. thank you for that head there live from tripoli. a former president of china zia is calling for the crown prince's of both abu dhabi
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and saudi arabia to stand trial before the international criminal court on surf marzuki accuses had been there and muhammad been found of undermining countries involved in the arab spring uprisings including interim is here 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 2 of $99.00 people on board survived and there are reports of more casualties on the ground raghu the reports many of those on board of pakistan international airlines plane were flying home from the hold to celebrate the holiday but. the supplier tried to land the 2nd time the airbus into the 20 rushed into homes in a crowded restaurant shaheb a home. movie by the way. i did 20 fell on my car 3
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doors of my car were locked 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 wounded he was absolutely all right he was alive he was speaking he asked me to save him i tried to pull him out but his legs were badly stuck in the emergency door. 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 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. is one of them on a limb there are plenty of women and there were cries of children and adults and the elderly the cries were everywhere and everybody was trying to survive i undid
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my seat belt and i saw some light and tried to walk towards it then i jumped out 10 feet onto the ground more school days with child beyond recognition the families want to take them home to be buried for us they have to be identified through the national database of registration authority or the not. knowing is telling is the true picture i've identified my mother's body they've also very fight with now they say a team will come in according to the government authorities instructions then we will start handing over all the bodies. of the crash site rescue workers and local capel working to clear the rubble pakistani. says there will be an investigation. there will be a transparent inquiry of the incident and there will be no role of p.r.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
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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 a mass destruction and with weeks of lockdown restrictions for the warning pakistan are now in mourning. on syria. gaza's health ministry has reported the territories. coronavirus death officials say the 77 year old woman had been under quarantine after returning through egypt on tuesday the united nations as border that occur on a virus outbreak could be disastrous given the high poverty rates and weak health system in the coastal strip which has been under israeli blockade since 2007. spain's prime minister has promised international tourists can return in july but there are sensors under pressure to reopen in time for the peak summer season lockdown restrictions are gradually easing but the state of emergency remains in
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force for another 2 weeks that's when the legal football league is due to restart it all has more on the easing of measures from madrid. spain receives $8000000.00 visitors each year and tourism was one of the sectors worse he'd buy their corn of virus crisis and. 12 percent represents a 12 percent of the gross domestic product and has interact impactors of 35 percent in the spanish economy so all these owners of hotels and restaurants and bars we're looking for a signal from the prime minister a bit of sun to that today announced that we will be reopening to foreign tourism in from the market month of july what he just sent 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 these year. take their holidays in spain in order to reactivate the economy he's got
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untying this will be safety for the people that are coming in and for the spaniards that are traveling to the spanish nation. brazil's supreme court has released a video apparently showing president jaya both are not threatening to fire senior police officers their bosses and a minister to protect his family the footage was released amid claims there both are not or has meddled in a criminal investigation into his son the dignity political crisis comes as the government admits that at least $11000.00 fatalities have not been included in its coronavirus death toll brazil is by far the worst hit and south america are thought the ability has more on brazil's a rising death toll from. the confirmed number of dead has been over a 1000 now for 3 days in a row bringing the total number to more than 20000 confirmed dead in the country this despite the fact everybody believes that that number is actually much higher
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and on friday the brazilian government has admitted that there are at least 11000 more dead that happened in the past couple of weeks that they have not been able to confirm these have already been burned and that they will not be able to know if indeed they had to do with. 19 so the situation keeps getting worse by the day a number of hospitals are being completely overwhelmed by the number of cases they have to deal with especially in pour areas or with smaller medical services like for example in the amazon but keeps insisting that he thinks that isolation measures will do more arm harm than good he continues clashing with a number of local state governors that are insisting on keeping measures in place
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instead both scenarios says brazil needs to go back to work needs to reopen while these numbers keep going up keep rising truly a worry some very dramatic pace. still ahead on al-jazeera the u.k. attempts to strike a balance between public health and the economy. but . we've got hot sunshine that sums up the weather across a good part of the middle east not exclusively further north little more clouds just starting to slide its way back towards the levant we see some showers pushing through here and pull those temperatures down as well so gone are the temperatures into the high thirty's touchin the 40 degree mark the 20 celsius there in beirut 20 celsius for jerusalem will see the shabby rain making its way a little further eastwards as we go on through monday relates to the mid forty's in
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baghdad by that stage 38 degrees celsius but to the south of that yabber up around the 40 degree mark and a couple of very high for some quite a brisk wind as well so watch out for some lifted dust and sat across a good part of the region dry and sunny across much of north africa maybe the share with algeria showers continue raud across west africa into the gulf of guinea some big downpours here liberia seeing some live to shout slogans spells of rain some showers there also pushing their way back across into ethiopia maybe some showers still showers there just around the rift valley so uganda could see a little bit of wet weather coastal positons there a game in with a child to say some showers or longer spells of frank to the south of that slick unless you try and sunny but right pushing into cape town for monday. night is really just 3 days and trace frank assessments wise it's only struggling
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to cope with the number coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action. per informed opinion it's going to be my. we're challenging in a place like haiti where there is one ventilator very relieved people in depth analysis of the dangers global headlines india going up to nip the spread of throat of ours in the inside story on al-jazeera. who would the world hold. you're watching all just there are a mind 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
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more highly for half. the games are another setback for half dollars a year long campaign to capture the capital. the search for survivors has ended in pakistan following friday's plane crash only 2 of the 99 people on board the air bus survives there are reports of some casualties on the ground but the jet came down on homes near karachi airport. brazil's supreme court has released a video apparently showing president john abell scenario threatening to fire senior police officers their bosses and a minister to protect his family the deepening political crisis comes as the government admits that at least 11000 fatalities have not been included in its coronavirus death toll. more now on our top story the u.s. president donald trump has spoken to turkey's leader average of type one about the conflicts in both libya and syria president early on is providing military support to the government in tripoli and bex rebels in syria's northwest a white house statement of their phone call says president trump reiterated concern
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of a worsening foreign interference in libya and the need for rapid deescalation president trump and president one reaffirm to the urgent need for a political solution to the conflict in syria as well as on the impeded humanitarian access throughout the country. governments around the world are grabbing financial lifeline because they fight to keep economies from collapsing the world bank says the pandemic could push another 60000000 people around the globe into extreme poverty the international monetary fund predicts global growth will shrink 23 percent this year far worse than during the financial crisis more than a decade ago i.m.f. debt for leaf has been approved for $27.00 countries including afghanistan the democratic republic of congo and yemen and the world bank says it will issue $160000000000.00 worth of emergency funds to $100.00 developing nations alan fischer the except where the money is coming from and whether those borrowing it will be able to pay it back. across the globe as countries deal with the health
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impacts of coping $1000.00 but also dealing with the economic impacts the global economy has seized up supply and demand to be the most basic of economic drivers there was a huge economic problem during the financial crash of the 1930 s. but now the global economy is much more complicated interconnected into dependent on stoner are you sure are a semester not by a car you're in your phone's very big at and that's what makes this whole thing sort of a soothing from his headquarters here in washington the international monetary fund has put together a 9 trillion dollar port to help countries deal with the covert crisis most of that money has come from the g 28 the world's richest nations and more than 100 countries have asked for help this is the i.m.f. map of where money has been distributed among those helped $2700000000.00 to egypt $4911000000.00 to ethiopia $361000000.00 to bosnia and why well take the
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caribbean islands or some vincent and granite jeans and a corner me built on today's them which is completely disappeared 16000000 helps until things get better. health comes through to sporting not cancelling debt payments $64.00 countries in the world spend more on debt relief than health that is temporarily halted. there are also additional direct loans and other instruments to ease the financial burden. from the i.m.f. and some for a longer term plan and program is likely going to have to step in to help countries through that so that's probably what will see out here i think the i.m.f. has delivered the message that the recovery we have to hope for this has to be a green recovery that we have to do to use this as an opportunity to do the things that are necessary to deal with the effects of climate change the crisis we've all
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seen the pictures of. nature reasserting itself in various areas and i think people are going to understand the impact we've had so perhaps that will encourage domestic support for actions countries will still have to figure out how to people back a lot of the right know when they'll finally be in a position to do that alan fischer washington. tim jones is the head of policy and jubilee desk campaigning u.k. based charity that works to end global policy he says rich nations and institutions have no real interest in helping governments struggling with debt the i.m.f. . hundreds of billions of dollars in reserves and just a small proportion of that could be used to cancel this year and help keep money in country but we need to see action across various lenders the world bank is
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important but also there are private creditors at the highest interest loans are to private land and we need to see those being tackled as well we've not the only thing the yet. to be aware of that the what's happened so are we are. in china and the us and offered a suspension of payment. this year. that payments will bank be made in a couple of years. down the row or to the bottom and that. britain's government is defending the prime minister's chief advisor for driving 400 kilometers during lockdown dominic cummings was supposed to be self isolating after showing symptoms of the virus the government said he visited his parents in northern england to arrange care for his young son and did not break lock down
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vocals opposition m.p.'s are calling on vice johnson to sack cummings. i can tell you the pm provides mr cummings with his full support and mr cummings has provided a full statement and i think it's but you're right the questions are asked in your loss in the same questions and i appreciate about the transport significant transport announcements the upgrading of the a 66 a dual carriageway and a 1000000000 pounds to make people's lives better and faster to connect and i appreciate that a better you know i do think it's important to note that the questions are asked quite rightly and the questions be answered. in this early evening out of lockdown but for some it's not coming fast enough business is dependent on the telestrator at risk a visit is stay away during the normally busy summer the challenge facing the government is protecting public health as well as companies from bankruptcy on clay has more from cumbria. this is what the british government wants to see mass
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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 there's a worry so that's why we want this considered russian approach to moving forward in which we have also but also that we do. we don't penalize 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
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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 leading 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 suddenly frighten enough people i mean 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 here 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.
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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 then all you have built is perspiring business collapsing unemployment from march 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 barnsley al-jazeera in north west of england. dogs in sudan are threatening to continue
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a nationwide strike if the demands for better working conditions are not met by the government the main doctors union called a 72 hour strike on thursday it was after 4 doctors were injured during an attack and the on durban teaching hospital on wednesday they also unhappy with the lack of protective equipment for those treating coronavirus patients. the president of tanzania continues to attend election rallies despite the pandemic john michael fully who's seeking reelection insists the virus has been defeated through prayer 500 cases have been reported among the 60000000 population the president's lead a crackdown against anyone who questions the government's response critics have been arrested opposition politicians and rights activists say their phones are being taps to remember what it is that we have decided to go this way to depend on god we have started with god and we shall finish with them in reality god has answered our prayers the number of infected is dropping. anger is building in the
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indian city of call council over the response to a cycle in which is that millions without power and water. protestors are frustrated that without essential services inside clone struck on wednesday demonstrators blocked roads and set a truck on fire overnight cycling contributed to the deaths of at least 96 people in eastern india and in neighboring bangladesh. international condemnation is growing louder against china's plans for a new security nor in hong kong the last governor of the british colony christie person says it's a betrayal by a new chinese dictatorship opposed legislation would ban activity that china's communist party considers subversive hong kong's government can expect more protests adrian brown reports. on the day china announced it was bypassing hong kong's parliament to push through a new security law the city's leader was putting on a brave face surrounded by her cabinet kerry said hong kong people and foreign
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investors had nothing to fear as she offered support for the legislation there will be protests of all sorts in hong kong as we have seen but the important thing is for the people hong kong to realize that without protection of national security many of the things that we enjoy many of the things that we treasure. will be lost. when china regains sovereignty over hong kong from britain in 1997 it promised the city a high degree of autonomy for 50 years. but china's leadership now says those freedoms are being undermined by violent protests subversion calls for independence and foreign interference. and under the basic law hong kong's mini constitution they say they have the right to impose security legislation on the on friday the
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vice chairman of china's national people's congress. confirmed that china's security agents will operate in hong kong when needed words that have unsettled many people here they all feel that the one country 2 systems is dead and and now the reaction is general panic people would like you and me grey and making preparations to leave hong kong some people we spoke to said the law was long overdue others resigned to it i think it would have happened anyway like if the fear i think i've gotten past this stage about being afraid or got it all makes sense a country needs laws to protect itself people only abuse freedom if there is too much. business groups here fear the proposed law will threaten hong kong status as asia's leading financial center and put further pressure on its independent judicial system it is almost 2 years since protests began over another proposed law
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that would have allowed wanted people to be sent to the mainland that bill was eventually dropped but the prospect of more on rest this time is unlikely to deter china's government from pressing ahead with this security law adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. iran is threatening to retaliate if the u.s. navy tries to stop a fleet of fuel tank is heading for venezuela venezuela has critical shortages of petrol but the shipments are in defiance of u.s. sanctions imposed on both countries. this isn't just 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. games are another setback after hours year long campaign to capture the capital for her that's all ahead has the latest from tripoli. for her
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to the forces a major said burke for his forces losing these military camps as you know the military that the government forces recaptured today and in fact advance beyond a year more military has been set what have the us 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 on my resume clear cuse is mohammed bin said and mohammed bin salmond of undermining countries involved in the arab spring uprisings including tunisia. 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 also on the ground when the air bus crashed into homes gaza's health ministry has reported the
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territory's 1st coronavirus death officials say the 77 year old woman had been under quarantine after returning to egypt on tuesday. spain's prime minister has promised international tourists can return in july pitter essential is under pressure to reopen in time for the peak summer season lockdown restrictions are gradually easing but the state of emergency remains in force for another 2 weeks brazil's supreme court has released a video apparently showing president jaya both an adult threatening to fire senior police officers their bosses and the minister for to protect his family britain's government is defending the prime minister's chief advisor for driving 400 kilometers during lockdown dominic cummings was supposed to be self isolating after showing symptoms of the virus. but as the headlines the news continues here on algis there are the inside story and i'll be back with you at the top of the hour stay with us.
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