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parties that have grown a contamination in need they look good in his book public communities to safely get them down to the i believe. it. lands on al-jazeera. the arab the air the air. a cautionary call for to protestors from hong kong's leader as planned new security laws get closer to coming into effect. play watching al-jazeera live from our world headquarters in doha and fully back to board also ahead driving the jeepney once provided an income voice family now it's become their home we meet filipino workers struggling to make ends meet this school is under attack com conflict in brooklyn a fossil is denying thousands of children and education.
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and the people around the world the top at home because of the coronavirus pandemic we take you to a lot of qatar where life is booming. thank you very much for joining as hong kong's leader is trying to ease fears about beijing's planned new security dolls' kerry has appealed for people to wait to see the details before they launch into another round of mass protests as a proposed laws are being discussed behind closed doors in beijing lamb insists the legislation won't trample on hong kong and freedoms. we are very free society is sort of all the time being people have this freedom to say whatever they want to say but ultimately what is to be provided in this piece of legislation is for or of us to see in order to be assured that hong kong's freedoms will be preserved
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and hong kong's vibrancy and the core values in terms of the rule of law the independence of a traditionally the various rights and freedoms enjoyed by people will continue to be there or claudia mo is a pro-democracy member of hong kong's legislative council she was listening to carry speech he has a reaction to the. as she was being intellectually dishonest oh she was saying that only a handful would be affected well i mean hong kong has a population of 7500000 people and our n.t. government protested since last june the whole notion yet now they've arrested the fat will no more than 10000 people so if you look at the numbers. the arrestees of a very small number but that's not the point the point is they are claiming beijing
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is claiming full complete jurisdiction over hong kong and they can do whatever they want because beijing has now realized that too many gaping homes and their version of the one country 2 systems in hong kong the hong kong story the homes being that to hong kong people it turns out actually enjoy freedoms and rights to protest to criticize to complain to want some change and they think in beijing they think they've had enough of this and they're cracking down on us it's the piri heart breaking trends in hong kong technically we can come up with say no to anything because if you say all this new logo is a technique lee unconstitutional that's what some of our legal experts here are saying but then it's a genuine self that is the constitution so what i mean channelled you know who are
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you trying to challenge right and we knew taking to the streets and seeing the young getting getting all into nothing and arrested and that sort of protest just may not be very sustainable but then the young the plate and for their future it's the their future and people in my generation engage in. what we could we should at truth at least and show some understanding and so we're going to have a very unsettling. china is preparing to repatriate its citizens in india as corona virus infections then the chinese embassy in new delhi notified people of the plan on monday they have until wednesday to register to leave those suspected or diagnose with all the 19 won't be able to go back let's speak to katrina you our correspondent in beijing about this katrina why have these batteries become such an issue now well the chinese
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authorities are saying that it's because of concerns related to the pandemic simply it's not safe in india anymore and would they would rather the citizens be back home in china now and we know there are about $5000.00 chinese citizens currently in india tourists as well as business people it's a popular destination for many in china but that 5000 is just a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of chinese currently stuck abroad estimates of about 1400000 chinese currently unable to get home because of the pandemic at the moment china has some very strict travel restrictions in place only one airline per country per week is allowed to land in china so those flight tickets are extremely difficult to come by and if you do come by them they're extremely expensive so there's a lot of actually anger from people from chinese people who are stuck abroad about this move questioning why those in india are being prioritise well they could be
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another at the moment india and china are involved in increasingly tense diplomatic spat there have been some scuffles on the chinese indian border between pilate chinese troops and indian troops or disagree over the line of control now this dispute about the border has is. years old it's been going on for some years now but these skirmishes between the both sides have been intensifying in recent weeks there have been no bullets reportedly fired yet but there have been saved this fights and scuffles and and reportedly a soldiers on both sides have been injured so there are some analysts saying that there are very real fears now that should these scuffles in continue there could be an all out conflict between the 2 countries in the future thank you for that katrina you live for us there in beijing now more than 2 and a half 1000000 filipinos have lost their jobs during
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a 2 month long down hardest hit have been no paid workers who are now forced to beg for food jermain alynda them reports some manila. julius evangelist's a used to earn around $300.00 a month as a jeep driver that was barely enough to feed his family but he says somehow they were able to get by but life became much worse 2 months ago when the lockdown was imposed by the government to stop the spread of coronavirus he's unable to work and pay for the house rent in manila so they live like this now in the cheap begging in the street just to feed his family. this is really tragic you can see all the children suffers. from our situation here and we don't know in our next meeting. christian going to see also says the pandemic brought more suffering for his family he used to be a professional photographer but when the lockdown of the entire region of luzon
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happened workers stopped coming in to. he found a job as a delivery driver earning less than half of what he used to image and i know i love god more professional ain't gonna imagine and years and years of professional experience i swallowed they prayed and rolled up my sleeves yes so i can earn thanks are heard but we simply don't have a choice anymore it is some other absurd by below the philippine government implemented one of the world's a strictest and longest quarantines a 2 month lock down for more than $50000000.00 filipinos the region of luzon accounts for at least 75 percent of the entire economy quarantine restrictions were recently eased in an attempt to restore some normalcy and limit the economic damage after 2 decades of uninterrupted grooves. but at least 2 and a half 1000000 filipinos have already lost their jobs since the lockdown began and
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the government says millions more are expected to be unemployed this year the impact of this health crisis is causing quite secular suffering to those who have very little to begin with. the government is giving cash aid to millions of impoverished families but leaders admit resources are already stretched and much of the government's so-called calamity fund has been used up. those like julius of always lived on the fringes say they feel left out if the virus doesn't kill them they say hunger most likely will. dog an al-jazeera manilla. working a fossil is facing an education crisis after years of conflict according to human rights watch there was a rise in attacks on scores last year 12 teachers were killed in $21000.00 and loan on groups like on several islam and i saw a fairly have claimed responsibility for many of these attacks before the
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government closed all schools in mid march in response to the coronavirus pandemic 2500 schools were closed for safety reasons this is left nearly 350000 students without access to an education. reports. armed gunmen had warned for 2 months in other children in her class not to go to school but they didn't listen and continued attending lessons during french class she heard the sound of gunfire for 2 months ahead close your eyes and prayed for her life. is the only way you close and. i thought it was going to kill me ask children and teachers to leave warning they no longer want to see children learning in school. the armed men burned books and the children's notepad so. teachers like mr sourdough go escaped others were executed but. they told us to stop teaching in french that is their main issue
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they are targeting schools to fight the government in april 200-1000 we travelled to teacher i wouldn't go into too much as villages after fighters of the slum exceed in the greater killed a local pastor and members of the congregation shortly after they killed any moment worshippers in january they went to the towns of market and shot down merchants according to the u.n. 848000 people have been displaced from the northern region fleeing the violence like most are children with school shot the no longer receive an education. human rights watch says instead children beg for food or work with many young girls forced into early marriages school in a time of conflict is so important because it provides a place where you can have a routine and some security for students in which they were in where the rest of their life is in chaos and turmoil in addition to you have opportunities for the
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future and the longer that they get behind some of them may decide to drop out. security forces are turning primary schools into military camps and this has made schools even more vulnerable to attacks from armed groups the government says education is the country's priority but most facilities are shut. since the corona virus outbreak classes are being broadcast on t.v. for those children who have the luxury to watch it not for. who misses her math teacher but. she now makes careful count of the $20.00 a month she earns in this vegetable stall while it isn't enough to feed her 7 relatives or pay for an education she says $1.00 day she will be back at school to become a math teacher nicholas hawke al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera petrol pumps in venezuela that were out of stock may soon get much needed supplies. no i
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don't i don't practice. what i did. the u.k. prime minister's chief advisor defies calls to resign over a 400 kilometer take trip he made during his tricks knock down. we've got a big contrast in the weather across europe at the moment a lot of shell a cloud over towards the some big a lot of the thundershowers force i would to a central western parts but it's brightening up quite nicely all over got a week with the system just around the united kingdom pushing up towards norway so want to show is a possibility in scandinavia but for the most part as you can see across the west is warm and dry temperatures getting up to $25.00 or $26.00 degrees there we go with the showers little cooler over towards austria wards opponent easing across
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into bellerose and into ukraine the showers extend all the way down into grace and on the life a side here as well sort of part of the med fun to draw you might catch a few shows into central parts of spain for a time these will diminish it a warm up as we go on into wednesday matric getting up to 30 degrees celsius is still nice and warm if it was a western pass the show is not quite as intense for the race as we go on through the middle part of the week but they are still there nevertheless not too many showers in the forecast across northern parts of africa well gee we could catch one or 2 shows just around the sahara for a time the majority of the showers they are across the heart of africa pushing which was ethiopian hadas heavy showers into west africa particularly the for liberia. as the world fights the corona pandemic and we're learning more about this every day it's a new adventure and join our global community it's up to us on how we come together
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to fight i'm sorry your questions can i just ask you think this is me directly that's coming on on you tube as you were saying i'm concerned about the funny like oh nothing very quiet and not keeping you up to date amusing countries beating back and beating back successfully the stream on 00. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera hong kong's leader carrying out has defended beijing's proposed security laws she says the legislation won't affect hong kong's rise in freedoms and that c.s. people will be arrested for speaking out on imagined china as her bearing to
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repatriate its citizens in india as infections or the virus infections are increasing the chinese embassy in new delhi notified nationals of the plan on monday they have until wednesday to register. and booking a fossil is raising an education crisis up to years of conflict around 350000 children are missing out on schooling because on groups have killed a number of teachers and forced schools to close. and other world news a 2nd iranian oil tanker has entered venezuela and water is carrying much needed fuel a 1st vessel from a 5 ship convoy arrive on monday the united states has imposed sanctions on both countries and says it's monitoring the situation there is a ball reports. the iranian oil tanker fortune is quoted by the venezuelan military in the caribbean sea it's just one of the 5 tankers carrying over 1500000 liters of gasoline it's heading towards the refinery in the state of qatar will.
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president says his country has a right to import gasoline to the religion we have the right to trade freely in the seas of the world in the skies of the world between those between iran and venezuela to exchange products to buy products from us to sell products to us but not everyone agrees especially the united states washington has already imposed sanctions on both countries and is considering new ones gasoline is cars in venezuela due to a near complete breakdown of its refining network years of mismanagement and lack of investment have had a devastating effect into what once was one of the biggest oil exporters in the world. the venezuelan government imposed a strict lockdown almost 2 months ago to deter the spread of call that 19 most gas stations in caracas are closed and in the ones that are open people have to line up
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for hours and look for maize they come here every month and it takes us one night i came at 5 and i have to stay until the next day i only get 20 liters but also as i was and i will get gasoline from iran we will only last for a while it won't change anything there are political reasons social economic we depend on the offshore riches to give us gas and letters move it will last only for a few munger's. iran has become a strategic partner for venezuela see as well chavez came to power in the past months venezuela relied on companies like russia's hoss nafta for gasoline but the situation has changed in the past year. by rosneft stop being interested in venezuela mostly because of the sanctions it has to do with strategic decisions they will have to invest lots of money and there are so many troubles in venezuela that people are not attracted to iran is
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a desperate measure for a country that has been collapsing for years. and desperate measure that will give the government some area in the months ahead but that won't solve the endemic troubles venezuela is facing today. and. the world health organization's has suspended trials of an on time an area drug promoted by the u.s. president as a potential coronavirus treatment in osman came as donald trump and democratic rival joe biden mocks memorial day and national holiday honoring america's war dad rob reynolds from force. president donald trump visited fort mchenry in baltimore the site of a victory by u.s. forces over british invaders in $814.00 the president framed the struggle to control the coronavirus pandemic in military terms together we will vanquish the virus and america will rise from this crisis to new and even greater heights
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as our brave warriors have shown us from the nation's earliest days in america we are the captains of our own fate in less than 6 months covert 19 has killed more americans than all who died in the vietnam war the war in korea and the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan combined former vice president joe biden the presumptive democratic party nominee made his 1st public appearance in 2 months he and his wife jill laid a wreath that a veteran this memorial in delaware the bidens war masks something trump has refused to do in public the world health organization announced it was stopping trials of the anti-malarial drug hydroxy chloroquine due to safety concerns trump has touted the drug as a treatment for covert 19 and claimed he has been taking it to ward off infection
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despite lack of scientific evidence of its effectiveness the w h o's head of emergency programs warned countries to remain vigilant to avoid a resurgence of the pandemic. countries around the world have to continue to put in place the public health and social measures the surveillance measures the public health measures the testing measures and a comprehensive strategy to ensure that we continue on a downward trajectory and that we don't have an immediate 2nd but social distancing seemed far from the minds of parents and children who flocked your water park in texas the park reopened despite orders by the state's governor that amusement parks should remain closed some splashy holiday fun heedless of potentially serious risks rob reynolds al-jazeera the daily coronavirus death
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toll in brazil has exceeded the united states for the 1st time the south american nation recorded 807 deaths in 24 hours while 620 people died in the u.s. brazil has more than 370000 confirmed infections a ban on foreign travelers arriving in the u.s. from brazil is set to come into effect slated to say 2 days earlier than planned brazilians have been scrambling to get on friday the head of the restorations the white house says the measures will prevent additional infections in the u.s. . protesters have rallied in cities across ecuador against government austerity measures brought in to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. demonstrators gathered in defiance of lock down restrictions and last week the president announced spending cuts including the closure of state companies and a 16 percent pay cut for public sector workers. in the u.k.
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the prime minister's top advisor has defied calls to quit or apologize over accusations ebro coronavirus knock down walls dominic coming says he doesn't regret his actions he travelled with his family from london to northeast england in march while his wife had called the 1900 times needs baka reports from london this was an unusual moment for dominic cummings a mom more comfortable in the background of british politics the prime minister's chief advisor has been under huge pressure to explain his trip to the north east of england which appear to defy the government's own look down rules a journey he said he was forced to take under exceptional circumstances no i don't regret is willing to do so as i said i think i'm reasonable people may well disagree about how i. thought about what to do in the in the in the circumstances but i think that i think what i did was actually reasonable in these.
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in these circumstances. cummings who faced a daily media scrum outside his home so the journey was to ensure his 4 year old son was looked after because his wife was suffering from coronavirus symptoms something he would also develop he said he remained in isolation in a separate property on his parents' estate leaving the house to collect his son from hospital when he fell ill walk in woods on his father's land and return to london after 1st travelling to a local beauty spot to check if he was fit to drive the scandals dominated the front pages of many of monday's newspapers opposition m.p.'s are calling for an immediate inquiry and there's a growing number of m.p.'s in the ruling conservatives cummings's own party that want him to immediately resign his explanation goes some way in diffusing some of the anger directed towards him but others are asking whether they can add their own personal interpretation to the lock down rules. summer's come early to the british capital and with it an increasingly relaxed attitude to social distancing rules at
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the height of restrictions the british government urged people to stay at home and save lives a message most followed by the scandal surrounding dominic cummings has a roaded people's trust in government anybody think they're above this letter of the law is a maniac and they should. add here to it as much as possible and i think he's an absolute shocker on iraq to go immediately why should we be following up down when they don't want him to be any punishment if you don't follow it boris johnson defended his chief adviser saying cummings acted lawfully and with integrity in following his parental instincts the comments have been raised johnson's critics who accuse cummings of double standards over the lot down rules every single person in the country decide to do these things but one person in the country boris johnson has staked his entire reputation authority on career in saying no no no
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whatever he told me you did nothing wrong the government meant to be using this time to leave the country out of lockdown instead it's struggling to silence a scandal at the heart of power the barker al-jazeera westminster the par 7 actually world are flourishing during coronavirus lockdowns here in qatar it's having a positive effect on wildlife from whale sharks to turtles and hundreds of species of birds. as a story. every sunset off the coast of cats are a little bit of magic happens. thousands of course return to this island where they spend their nights. these beautiful images were taken by dr mussen. a qatari marine environmentalist we joined him on one of his recent trips he shows us the different species of birds we were these are herons like me when i fix the camera on the so. it's there
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for me. so i can do something you know how to protect them from from the future. if you seem to know just how rich catarrh is in wildlife there are at least 200 species of birds and as we get closer to this little eyelet. they keep circling above us. and this is incredibly beautiful what they're actually doing because defensive behavior because there's a whole little island that they are that they're resting on to they're going to get off. to move and this northern part of cattle really not many people come here and so really nature left to itself. huge restrictions on movement due to the coronavirus there are hardly any boats on the water anymore and it's having an impact. have you observed
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a change in nature due to corona and less people on the water less people out there not just anybody with even the vision you can see a clear sky everywhere the water to be clear more fierce coming closer. and. tell us one thing where is the human where does the. captain ahmed navigate the waters for us he works for the wildlife protection unit in the ministry of the environment he tells us since the pandemic started nature has blossomed. we spot flamingos casually strolling the shallow waters for food. but the sun is starting to set and we have to go on. we don't want to miss the main event. it is quite a spectacle. thousands of cormorants have been feeding all around
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calcutta out the day and now is as the sun is setting coming back to where they spend the night. and it's incredible to see they are just flying over our heads thousands and thousands of them. it continues until the sun disappears and in the dark we stumble across one last street to want to hear oh yeah then back on the 3rd of the north with we've been if this will come again to us tonight oh well yeah but maybe he will come out on by with the high tide the turtle egg hatching season starts now and all these areas are protected we're told to walk and a lot of support has been given by the ministry of municipality and environment people are now aware of the importance of wildlife so the result has been great and the numbers of birds and turtles have increased as many of us are forced to stay home there are less cars less airplanes less boats less pollution and it seems
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at least here in this part of qatar the natural world is thankful stephanie decker al-jazeera of the qatari coast. now to a failed flight virgin orbits 1st attempt to launch a rocket in mayday at the company's launch or one rocket was dropped from under the wing of a 707 over the pacific ocean the booster ignited by the mission was cancelled or undisclosed reasons the firm wants to use the technology commercially to launch small satellites. the air flow again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera hong kong's leader carrier has defended beijing's proposed security laws she says the legislation won't impact hong kong's rights and freedoms and that fears people will be arrested for speaking out are imagine. china is preparing to repatch citizens in india ask corona virus infections their rise the chinese embassy in new delhi
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notified nationals off the plan on monday they have until wednesday to register to katrina you has more from beijing. well the chinese authorities are saying that it's because of concerns related to the pandemic simply it's not safe in india anymore i would they would rather the citizens be back home in china now and we know there are about 5000 chinese citizens currently in india tourists as well as business people it's a popular destination for many in china but that 5000 is just a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of chinese currently stuck abroad estimates of about 1400000 chinese currently unable to get home because of the pandemic the world health organization has paused the global trial of the drug heidrick securicor in over safety concerns the anti-malarial drug was being tested as a possible treatment focal that 19 the temporary suspension comes after a study said people taking the drug were at a high risk of death the daily coronavirus death toll in brazil has exceeded the
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united states for the 1st time a south american nation recorded 807 deaths in 24 hours while 620 people died in the u.s. for sale has more than 370000 confirmed infections in el salvador 3 dozen inmates have tested positive focal the 19 the prison system was already facing criticism from rights groups over harsh conditions the government is now implementing strict to health in isolation part of all to prevent the virus from spreading as salvador has reported around 2000 confirmed cases in 35 deaths 14 a fossil is facing an education crisis after years of conflict around 350000 children are missing out on an education because on groups have killed a number of teachers and forced schools so close those are the headlines up next on al-jazeera the street. talk to older sarah we are all sort of let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen we listen this is the
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moment to stop all the 30 action this is the moment it all sounds right on fighting every idea we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the al-jazeera. high after the i.k. welcome to this strange john hopkins university keeping track of the global numbers for co the 19 let's have a look here on my laptop it is difficult to get accurate figures but this is what they are seeing round about now is 5000000 to firm cases look at the number of deaths here and we're going to be talking a lot about deaths but about remarkable survivors as survivors come from the u.s. from the u.k. at also from south.

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