tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera May 26, 2020 6:00pm-7:01pm +03
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al jazeera. well every. hour. when. this is al jazeera. television on it this is the news on live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. increasing desperation across latin america protests by the poor and unemployed migrants sleeping on the streets and coronavirus casualties mount. russia has told its ally libyan warlord who for have to that moscow backs an immediate cease fire and talks. white china's government is taking action to flight
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citizens out of india within days. plus why the latest tragedy to fight crime has triggered a controversy in the u.s. city of baltimore. from joining us roscoe the sports including uncertain times of mclaren's formula one team you hate common in fact she says it will cut the quarter of its workforce across all operations because of a pandemic. all right so there's a growing anger as countries in the new hot spot of the coronavirus pandemic struggle to cope with the outbreak poor people across latin america say they're the ones who are suffering the most from lock downs and from spending cuts and it's leading to protests throughout the region next year brown begins our coverage. in ecuador they marched in defiance of the lock down angry of the government cuts to
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jobs and salaries brought in to tackle the pandemic. the mayor of the capital quito had asked the crowds to stay home because of the risk of infection but these protesters believe the stakes are too high and the more we have no fear of contagion on the contrary we were afraid of the hunger that our comrades and hundreds of family members will if jobless will go through. this anger to ensure. where demonstrators have pleaded for help saying they don't have enough food. this is not legal but it's the only way to make them listen to us to protest and to create barricades chile's president sebastian pinera has warned the health system is reaching its limits there's been a rapid increase in infections in recent days with a new field hospital opened to help ease the strain on facilities. hospitals in brazil are also overwhelmed it's the 2nd worst affected country in the world with about 375000 cases and in this ward in rio de janeiro patients shared
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a room for hours with someone who died from the virus staff say they were too busy trying to save lives to move the body also users into the a lot of we have double the patients and half of the team and that happens in 90 percent of the health units and hospitals and clinics with that overload the quality of the service is inefficient and causes physical and psychological problems to the health care workers on monday the daily coronavirus death toll in brazil who exceeded that of the united states for the 1st time with 807 deaths recorded in 24 hours from a virus president diable so narrow has described as a little flu the pandemic is ravaging latin america's poorest and entire low income neighborhood on the outskirts of the argentinean capital one osiris is now in isolation after dozens of cases were confirmed their aid parcels are being delivered but some residents say they're already going hungry. and in the bolivian
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city of trinidad grave data is a working overtime more evidence of this pandemics davis stating impact on communities around the world. and al-jazeera. well human rights watch is warning the collapse of the health care system in venezuela could make the pandemic worse across the whole region years of economic and political turmoil have led millions of venezuelans to seek refuge elsewhere for more than 5000000 who fled in the past 6 years hundreds of thousands have no legal documentation it is latin america's largest refugee crisis in recent history most of traveled to colombia peru chile ecuador into brazil and some have headed to the caribbean european nations are hosting a pledging conference asking for money to help venezuelan refugees in the region let's get more on this from a lot of america to human induced something certainly leads to be done because there is a poorest hit hardest and certainly how it's playing out in latin america. yes
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absolutely that seems to be the rule during any crisis economic or sanitary and this is no exception at this hour that that donor's conference you mentioned is underway with european nations and also international lending institutions apparently pledging as much as $2000000000.00 for the venezuelan refugees and it can't come soon enough the president also of peru ecuador and colombia taking part in that conference and that's where the majority of the refugees are but also here in chile where there are thousands and thousands and tens of thousands of venezuelans who have lost their jobs they can no longer pay rent they have nowhere to go except in many cases in these tents that you see behind me they lead to the to the venezuelan consulate that is at the end of this street and these people have been camping here now for a long long time trying to pressure their government to bring them home even though
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they know about the that the situation both economic and in terms of the health system out there in venezuela is abysmal. jim shows us where he's been camped for weeks with his wife and seen me in the little daughter outside of the colombian plimsoll and in santiago along with dozens of other families sleep past the time and the cold as best they can waiting for help from their government that i mean that will break. this is precarious the way our politicians count on us for votes we need now to count on them to bring us home. not far away peruvian migrants to start temperature before allowing us in to see their open your camp outside consulate they too want help to return home because the pandemic is less than jobless and destitute which is real it's freezing there are no bathrooms we sleep in cold cement but by far the largest number of
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foreigners who lost their livelihoods are the. unusual aliens who make of chile's newest and largest migrant community. for 2 months hundreds of men women and children have been living like this outside of the consulate. when the pandemic started president nicolas maduro sent airplanes to repatriate those who wanted to leak but now the doors of the consulate are shut right. we have nothing left anymore we're living from charity and getting desperate and not a peep from our government we are undocumented and we can't ask chile for help the u.n. special representative for the news whaling migrants and refugees system of government is laying out conditions for people to return one is a quarantine period at the border and the other is more of a long the lines of. more. of the investigation of
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who is coming back and what would be the true motivations for that richard that you believe is slowing down the number of people that they're allowing back in yes but yes. every day more people arrive at the camp trying to find comfort in numbers around the corner of the venezuelans are beginning to be tested now for coronavirus either way a group of them we understand will be placed in quarantine so that they will be ready if and when venezuela's government sends an airplane to get them but the real question is what will happen to them once they get out. they tell us they know that the economic insanity situation in venezuela is worse than in chile the to argue that if they have to die of coronavirus or hunger they'd rather it be in their country of birth close to their families and not in a faraway strange land. well we can confirm that at least 4 of the venezuelan migrants from this camp have tested positive 2191 of them
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a 2 month old baby that was born who was born here in chile a short time ago the infection rate in this city which is the epicenter of the pandemic in this country is absolutely soaring yesterday there were almost 5000 cases the highest number so far and more than in fact we had seen in spain at the height of the pandemic there the death rate though is still relatively low and that is not the case in brazil where the numbers are of the fictions and of course deaths are increasing all across the country from rio de janeiro sao paolo the largest cities all the way to the amazon and in the government's response to that of president j. bull so narrow has been to promote the extensive use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxy chlorine which of course has not been tested in which just yesterday the
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international the world health organization warned should not be used because of its potential dangerous side effects you see things very much indeed and you would reporting there from santiago let's speak to a white house calls when it can be how washington d.c. . was talking about the growing number of the problems that are existing is there a crisis that there is in brazil and now the u.s. is shutting the door and passengers flying in from brazil given the numbers i guess that makes sense to. yeah and in fact what we're hearing and it's been widely reported that this deadline which was to be thursday for shutting the doors in the united states to travelers from brazil has been accelerated because of the very high number of cases that is occurring of covert $9000.00 in brazil what we understand is the trumpet ministration set to put this travel ban in place 2 days early essentially it would be coming up on midnight eastern standard time but this is very consistent with what the administration has
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done in terms of travel bans for other global hotspots of course china being one the u.k. as well as some european countries but what's interesting about all of this is the president also naro much like president trump in the early days really downplayed the seriousness of coronavirus and now has seen his country emerge as one of the global hot spots and as we heard in our report earlier he called it a little flu and said that the direct economy essentially would be far worse and so has really pushed back on some of those stay at home restrictions but apparently the trumpet ministration who has often been kind of a supporter distantly of the boston area administration has now decided that this is so serious that they are going to close the border to travelers from brazil. what about the sort of being that we hear your brother to the united states to to try and get trumbo for his favorite platform which is of course to what's going on
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. yeah well to put this into context the united states is coming up on a very grim deadline and that is 100000 deaths not a deadline but really a marker if you will a very grim one at that 100000 deaths from coronavirus or covert 19 and while the u.s. president thing might be focused on that instead what we've seen in recent days is have a railing against political foes on twitter whether it's president obama whether it's a former democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton or even the presumptive nominee joe biden but the one that's really catching people's attention is his assertion essentially that one of his political foes has committed a felony that's what he's been doing for a number of days including today railing against the former republican congressman turn to m s n b c anchor joe scarborough essentially accusing him of or intimating that he may have had something to do with the death of a congressional staffer in his office back in 2001 we should point out that the
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widow of this congressional staffer has written an open letter to twitter requesting that the u.s. president's tweets be deleted that he be removed from the platform but the latest coming from twitter is the fact that they won't be doing that despite the widow's request still many people raising some eyebrows about why the president is so consumed with this when we have again this very grim reminder of the number of deaths from covert 19 set to occur 100000 the united states fast approaching that very grim number right there can really have them can we how could a white house. plenty more still ahead on news hour including. no i do i do with rex being wanted. more fallout in the u.k. after the prime minister's chief advisor refuses to resign every trip he made during a strict lockdown. a cautionary call from hong kong is needed to protest it says planned new security rules get closer to coming into effect. and in support we'll
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have an update on the lessons injury from his challenge club that will be with the later. that russia has told libyan war 24 have to that it backs an immediate cease fire and talks to form a united governing body that's after the u.s. accused russia of deploying more fighter jets to help after in his attempt to topple the un recognized government in tripoli there's been a major withdrawal of mysteries from southern tripoli many of whom are russian the tripoli based government says its forces found large amounts of ammunition left behind by messrs who have been fighting on behalf of hafta for more on this mahmoud joins us from tripoli. tell us 1st of all more about this russia saying that they want to encourage talks. in libya.
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1st of all according to the russian foreign ministry the call was initiated by the libyan side and as you know in this call the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has distressed on the political solution instead of the military solution to the libyan crisis has also called on renewing the negotiations into libyan negotiations to end this conflict but this is all seems at least ironic because as you know the russian intervention in libya according to the africa the u.s. africa command has contributed to excessive baiting. human suffering on both sides especially after the news about russian fighter jets from the 4th generation are being deployed to libya to take part in the current conflict with have those
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forces against the forces of the internationally recognized government or what seem are contradictory because russia gird girl her neck. it seems contradictory because until this moment did our russian ministries in libya with the weapons of vans with weapons. even the that was that all from saddam tripoli but that is still in bed he will lead the city about 300 kilometers from the capital tripoli that base there eyewitnesses local sources tell us that the walking were around freely in the city and they're being deployed somewhere else and central libya and have been flights to carry them to an identified. distillation may be inside libya again so the question now is whether or not the russians would be able to. fly these fighter jets to be engaged in the conflict after the american warning
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nic it's like we're close but more broadly just because you and i spoke about last week and they arrived last week by all accounts so have more arrived no are these the same jets that the u.s. in are referring to. well according to the united nations report about 1200 that russian medicine is from the bagnall group have been deployed in libya to fight alongside have to his forces against the internationally recognized government people embed he will lead city especially the mayor of benny will tell us that about 1500 russian most of these have been or have arrived to binny will lead the city many of them was drawn from the confrontation axes in southern tripoli and in fact that caused a major setback to how far his forces especially at the last strategic locations including 3 military camps in southern tripoli and the government forces are now proceeding until this moment in many axes in the vicinity of the old inactive
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international airport in also in haines our neighborhood will now move in going to have to his forces in southern tripoli and they are gaining ground and that's also attributed to the withdrawal of the russian military is in southern tripoli but the question now is whether or not they're going to leave the country especially after the news about being given deployed again and being provided with advances fighter jets. tripoli with him but let's move on to cure who is a professor of political science at university of texas in san antonio and joins us from there on skype right now so what do you make of this russian backing of a cease fire and and more talks just as the u.s. africa command says that russia is in fact exacerbating the human struggle in libya especially with the arrival of these jets. women so have been doing the same thing
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too i mean this has been if you'd be here i'm sure you have been looking at the news and following it but about last week of the motions and so stuck together and they said then once again they want to draw from libya but then they won't do that they have too much to say what actions of the turks. fortunately were here that will be talking it's like the the the point trying to get the black or vice versa the chemical of the pot black then there's a reason to have been 30024000 mostly they get weapons from from from turkey in the end which is under the supplies so the russians as well helping out with helping them it's it's a 0 sum game they were they needed the russians not to turks are willing to give up their gains in libya know the egyptians either and so on so i don't know for sure you that if. those forces loses looks a lot more in tripoli you can apply in egypt intervening in that it's i think that
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should be ok so given that what do you make of moscow now backing this immediate cease fire and political talks that they say would culminate in a huge united governing authority. i mean this is fine talk is cheap but ultimately what is what is what is the reality on the ground that they might withdraw their forces but then they're not going to treatment you know it was still going to get come to have to one way or another directly or through or through or through egypt also some of the other other source doesn't doesn't doesn't really matter a lot of talk but there is jewish and the ground is going to be thought on the ground between libya and that's it right well that sounds like a grim fall cos of what is then and the danger is this escalating internationally if you've got these russians applied across talking the case. and the concerns of like what's going to happen. the russians have been supplying the wrong so it isn't i mean on the under the guise of spare parts of books i mean how many how many made
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20 ones and make $23.00 does libya have to continue coming up with new ones every day so it doesn't need much difference all of this is nonsense i assure you it is it is a grim report because as i said libya's libya's enemy is not to russia is the international community is the un and then this and this and this is a fact that the commute have to get with little bit even in the new years after this war is over all right so what's the solution that. ultimately it's. the only way either i don't want all this a lot of us government when it's at the end that it's going to start and if it can be possible when it can be political but what we're seeing today is that there's so much hostility between east and west or perhaps the division what you will see the vision of libya is done with but then you would have another problem and the
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problem is the west is not going to now he's got to hold all of them to the oil and then well it is not in the center libya is in the east it's but it's part of saturday get it i'm going to give it up now so this war is going to end it's going to continue but of that another big t 20 is. here we appreciate your perspective on this thanks very much and if your time thank you thank you for having me thank you for having human rights watch is calling for an investigation into the burning of 200 homes and buildings in maine miles west and kind today new satellite imagery shows evidence of the fires which advocates say was probably an autumn attack fighting between them in my military and b. f. the iraqi in a kind of army has resulted in a number of civilian deaths and has destroyed homes phil robertson is the deputy asia director at human rights watch and he says the chances of justice being served for the fathers are slim. what we can say is the burning of the car village you
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know it has all the hallmarks myanmar military arson that we saw done against the rohingya several years ago in 2017 and that's why we're calling for a credible and impartial investigation to find out what happened and punish those responsible well that's what we would like to see but i think the likelihood is extremely slim. i would say that really almost no chance whatsoever you know on the our economy of course is accusing the military the military is accusing our con army without any sort of independent investigation it's just going to be 2 fingers pointing at each other and at the end of the day it's the civilians who are caught in the middle you know who are facing the rights abuses who are losing their property in this case you know well over 70 percent of the houses in that village were burnt down on kong's leaders trying to ease fears about beijing's planned new security law to say it will mean the end of the special one country 2 systems arrangement with china to carry lamb has appealed to people to wait to see the
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details promises the legislation will not trample on home cones rights and freedoms she says that fiz people will be arrested for speaking out or imagined we are very free society is so awful 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 fault or of us to see in order to be assured that hong kong's freedoms will be pre-certified and hong kong vibrancy and a core values in terms of the rule of law the independence so much of the various rights and freedoms enjoyed by people will continue to be death well claudia mo is a pro-democracy member of hong kong's legislative council and here's her reaction to carla speech. she was being intellectually dishonest oh she was saying that only a handful would be affected well i mean hong kong has
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a population of 7500000 people and the n.t. government protests this since last june the whole notion yeah now they've arrested at the back door no more than 10000 people so if you look at the numbers. the arrestees of a very small amount but that's not the point the point is they are claiming beijing 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
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heart breaking trend in hong kong technically we can come up with say no to anything because if you say all this new logo is a technically 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 chant you don't know who are 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 a plane for their future it's the very future and people in my generation i'm engaged in. what we could we should at truth at least and show some understanding and so we're going to have a very unsettling. agena u.k.
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government minister has quit over the controversy surrounding top adviser dominic cummings cross-country trip during the coronavirus lockdown prime minister johnson has defended cummings who has defied calls to quit or apologize he travelled with his family from london to northeast england in march while his wife had coped with 900 symptoms and a fog has more now from london. it's been a really untimely distraction for the government when it's trying to set its sights on easing restrictions something that it's hoping to do on the 1st of june on the words but there's a tremendous amount of anger still directed towards dominic cummings despite his lengthy explanation in the garden of number 10 downing street on monday many feel that he he spotted a detail in the small print of regulations that justified his several 100 kilometer mile a kilometer trip to the north east of england at the height of restrictions in march and many feel that there is a rule for the political elite and there's
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a role for other people and as results there's been a tremendous fallout not just for opposition m.p.'s but also from m.p.'s within the ruling conservative party who continue to pile the pressure on the prime minister to force a resignation from dominic cummings or to sack him and we've seen already in protests one junior conservative minister resigned that minister is a conservative m.p. in scotland we have a clearly seeing m.p. some across the political divide talking to each other because dominic cummings is a divisive figure going back several years he was the chief architect of the vote leave campaign he polarizes opinions when it comes to his style and his politics but the focus now is very much on what the country should do next however the prime minister's own ratings have been dented significantly over the past few days only 2 weeks ago according to one poll his popularity rating was in the early twenty's
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according to the same poll now after defending dominic cummings it stands at minus 2. just ahead here on al-jazeera a bailout for france's car industry aims to put it back on track but the rescue plan comes with one condition. and traps where there are abuses more in this surge in domestic violence who. coming up to 20. 2 teams go head to head in an empty stadium that's come out with. similarly hates into the middle east at the moment i know this is about is to be hot but it's even by middle east on the stand there's we've got some showers just
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around the towards the caspian sea for most of us here through events pushing down across the red and potentially dry and sunny sums it up to be getting up to 40 celsius here in doha on the hot side of 43 in kuwait 44 am baghdad is that hot sunshine hotter still as we go on into thursday 47 in kuwait 46 in baghdad we shouldn't see the they sort of temperatures until around july or august so it very much on the hot side want to see showers into the far south of the region just around the gulf of aden and of course usually showers there across the heart of africa pushing right across the central belt some big downpours there for cameroon pushing into work in parts of nigeria now the wettest weather has to be over towards liberia towards yeah we could see some flash flooding as a result of these storms still not too far away from kenya the kenya coast just around tanzania still a few showers in play here but a bit of wet weather started to push its way into the mozambique channel we've had
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some rain to southern parts of africa recently walsh i was this weekend. your men killed a mother and son on their way to an appointment sadly the insurgents don't wear uniforms or so it is seen long ago with the was the american occupation of iraq matthew has on hold an arrogance to account from tower 2016 how come you didn't mention not meeting to congress and i did i don't know if i got the transcript wrong. i don't think you're that sure that you can tell the difference between a polish guy a french guy or you leave your head to head on a jersey or. on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise there or you have to go from other potential understand that this is all from pluses and and increasingly migrant farm workers are victims of vicious beatings. these
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aslam is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often have towed by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is iraq on al-jazeera. but again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder about top stories this hour and there's growing anger across latin america which is struggling to cope with the scale of the coronavirus pandemic the protests throughout the region with poor people saying that they're the ones suffering the most reluctance and spending cuts. russia has told an ally of libyan war he for have to that it backs an immediate cease fire and talks to form
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a united governing body comes as u.s. is accusing russia of deploying more fighter jets to help have to topple the un recognized government of tripoli. hong kong as leader kerry has defended beijing's proposed security laws she says the legislation will not affect hong kong's rights and freedoms and fears people will be arrested for speaking out of their imagines she says. china is preparing to repatriate its citizens in india as corona virus infections there increase its embassy in new delhi told people of the plan on monday they have until wednesday to register to leave a suspected old diagnosed with covert 900 will not be able to go back to training you has more now from beijing. according to the chinese government they're concerned about the safety of their people in india because of the spread of the pandemic they have about 5000 chinese citizens in india at the moment who are tourists or they're the business and they're concerned about them and so they want to repatriate them but this $5000.00 it's significant but it's just
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a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of chinese currently stuck abroad because of the pandemic china currently has a very strict limitations on travel into the country only one airline per country per week is allowed to fly into china and those tickets are extremely rare and expensive so this move has relieved many chinese in india but it's provoked anger in others saying well why of those in charge in india been prioritised and i think that brings us to the 2nd reason why the government is moving so quickly on this there are currently rising tensions between china and india because of a spat on the border chinese troops and indian troops have disagreed over the line of control and that they've been engaging in scuffles on the border and this is the last of 3 years but these skirmishes have been taking place with more intensity and more frequency in recent weeks and really analysts say there could be a real fear that these skirmishes so far no bullets have been fired so far just
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fistfights but they could descend further into all out conflict at some point in the near future when their enjoyment share the world's longest or more border although not clearly marked. take a look at this the line in yellow is the so-called line of actual control but there are several disputed areas on either side and one of the main ones is the chin province claimed by india but it's been administered by china since 1982 that's when the 2 countries went to war over the border and the most serious recent tension was back in 2017 over a chinese road construction hundreds of troops from both sides deployed on the docks plateau which is an area between nepal and bhutan where now tension is rising again skirmishes between indian and chinese soldiers began 3 weeks ago at pan going so lake there are reports of fistfights and stone throwing troops are standing face to face in at least 4 places and both sides have reportedly increased deployments.
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chardy is a professor of east asian studies jarle near university and she explains the possible motives behind the escalation in tension at the border. we need to look at that not a strategic picture that we have that we munch in. india is not even maintain it's going forward or what the tell it to mean that it claims because. at this point the chinese are moving into indian territory came to bite india which will give them a very very good c'mon big position in that particular year and it is obviously and coaching up on places where the indians have their own infrastructure they have their own. bases and yeah actually all that upbeat out
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of this place has been in contention because the many scholars have claimed that the chinese have been steadily pushing and in poaching gradually one wanted to do so and i see it this is the map which has to be immediately taken up at the highest and then chains must be to cuba. to france where the president of momo michaelmas announced an investment fund worth more than a $1000000000.00 to support his country's auto industry sector employees hundreds of thousands of people in france with roughly 30 vehicle and factories dotted around the country as autonomous and electric cars will be the focus of the coronavirus crisis for more on this let's begin to. tell us more about the measures the macro has announced to help the auto industry. yes this is one of the latest rescue plans it's been ordered by the french government very sectors we've seen the tourism culture business and now the car
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industry present saying that the car industry is in a deep crisis not just because of the current virus pandemic but also because it faces the challenges of the transition to more environmentally friendly vehicles macro has said to the car industry is one of france's main economic sectors that's why the government is stepping in to try to help revive it in april sales fell by nearly 90 percent so what he wants to do is try and encourage people to buy cars so he revealed a certain amount of measures he revealed that people will have access to financial incentives or bonuses if you like you to buy electric or hybrid vehicles also to change their old calls for less polluting new calls that also be hundreds of millions of dollars invested into car makers to upgrade to modernize their production lines to also make them more ecological if you like so that they can produce more electric cars and more money invested in research for electric and
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hybrid vehicles so that this ties in closely with the. view on the world in terms of dealing with climate or. yes indeed the french president on my car says he wants from us to become the main country producing electric. they calls i don't really give much of a timeframe but he also made it very clear to car manufacturers that if the government was going to keep this sort of financial aid from come manufacturers have to give some guarantees in return that those guarantees are that they'll be more fair to their supply is also that they would invest in electric vehicles a lot more and that they would keep as much production as possible in france and i know mike ross said that he wants the car industry to be more about made in france 3rd car manufactures must keep for example all of their high tech research and production in france rather than moving it all shifting it to lower cost countries
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already touch thanks very much they've. ordered from paris as coronavirus lockdowns are lifted around the world health professionals are warning about potential new health threats weiland isolation some have turned to. and sleep aid to drugs for relief well the number of prescriptions for such medications in the united states has risen sharply conservative estimate by health research shows that american doctors prescribe 10 percent more anti-anxiety and antidepressant drugs in march than they did in the same period last year and health professionals say such drugs can be an effective short term treatment for acute anxiety but they also want to about the potential for abuse and long term addiction the state's own that's big peter kenyon who's a professor of clinical psychology at the university of liverpool in the u.k. joins us on skype from peter kenyon welcome to the program and perhaps in the 1st the 1st instance we should ask you to just give us an impression of the type of anxieties that are being presented to physicians as
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a result of these lockdowns around the world. ok so i think it's quite a leap to tell where we're receiving some messages that the vast bulk of the population are actually dealing quite well not only but the fact of the virus but also with the pressures of lockdown i think we've yet to see the major impact on our mental health which is going to be the damage to the economy frankly when people start losing their jobs and then the knock on consequences where people are poor where people are unsure of their employment i'm sure of the housing i think then we're going to see some very real problems right when my colleagues and i don't have them reporting now a lot of pressure from people with with existing mental health problems coming forward and struggling to cope at the moment and what do you make of these figures from united states antidepressants up by what is it 9.2 percent of the anxiety drugs like 10.2 percent is that is that a case of physicians perhaps being too quick to prescribe drugs or you know what's
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the alternative. well i mean i wouldn't want to blame either the people who are coming forward and asking how but i wouldn't particularly want to blame my calling so heartless to please doctors and so forth for describing i suspect they're under quite a lot of pressure from people who want a solution one some resolution for their difficulties but i do think we should be very worried about the trends we know that these drugs. but we know that these drugs are not actually terribly good at helping us with mental health problems they're not that good of alleviating depression or reducing anxiety but they do have found effects on the brain and we know that they were associated with long term physical health problems and after long term dependency on the drugs we technically what happens is they change the chemistry of your brain and then it takes your brain quite a long time in some cases to return to normal so that they have a profound effect on our systems and i think we should be very careful before we're
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comfortable with an increase in prescription certainly in the u.k. public health england and the medical coerces have started to become aware. of an increase in the use of this medication over the past decade or so and i'm very much trying to provide people with alternatives to medication specifically because we want to avoid less dependence so these understandable that people are coming forward it is understandable that medics are responding i'm not sure that an increase in soccer traffic medication an increase in brain altering chemicals is the best way to cope with this particular challenge so there briefly if you would said these alternatives to medication i guess it's kind of dealing with behavior changes if you can what kind of things are you talking about that. oh yes so so i mean sometimes when people are coming forward for help with sleep there are techniques that we can encourage people in terms of their sleep often very simple in terms of avoiding caffeine or alcohol late at night behavioral changes
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a little bit a light exercise and then some calming reading or other relaxation into the bedtime lucy and that may be just as effective as medication sounds like you wouldn't it sounds like you need not count rocks but in fact very very simple techniques have a sleep and i thank science your depression a powerful emotion many with exercise now exercise is difficult joining a lockdown but if we all made the effort to do a little bit more physical exercise we may well find that those experiences of anxiety and depression markedly reduced and so it is those sort of simple interventions that i think might pay for a large majority of people acceptable attempts to reach into the pill bottle peter could have been available perspective we appreciate that thanks very much leave your time thank you thank you. of u.n. thank you general says there's been a horrifying surge in domestic violence since lockdowns were imposed around the world women and girls have found themselves trapped with their abusers without a safe refuge available sort of chicago's force of partnership between the public
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and private sectors to address what was already a challenging housing issue especially going to as this report. fear boxes in this woman will call more like a cage she's recovering from the trauma of being married to a man who beat her denied her the choice to even leave the house and exploited the fact that she was an immigrant who moved to the states to marry him after the last 911 call from a locked bathroom she and her 2 young sons escaped neither i'm going to lose their lives here lose yourself in that situation or you've got to save yourself i've been still flow koran no fear who might come after a i don't know there's always a threat as all of. the city of chicago recognized that women might be trapped by danger inside their homes and the danger of the coronavirus lurking outside the city formed a partnership with air b.n. b.
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and its company hotel tonight women and children fleeing violence will be given see fred fuge in hotel rooms the state of illinois has also devoted $1200000.00 to expand services for domestic violence survivors during the coded $1000.00 crisis. there are signs of an increased need due to stressors such as job loss school closures and lockdown orders associated with the pandemic the chicago police department reports a 12 percent increase in domestic violence related calls in the 1st 3 and a half months of 2020 compared to last year even people in decision making roles don't fully realize the extent of the problem which is i would say that domestic violence and gender based violence has been a problem of pandemic levels before this pandemic and so certainly it's just exacerbated and made way worse by what we're dealing with nonprofit organizations
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combat engender violence such as opera garcia a as the pandemics economic fallout continues to unravel public and private budgets will likely lose funding at a time when their services are most needed. in a matter of weeks covert 19 bulldoze the stability maria has struggled to achieve the nursing assistant lost her job in a nursing home when school shattered and she couldn't find anyone to watch her son it's more scarier when you are in this situation everything is shut down and just you don't know where to go i don't know what the future is going to look like and the kids going back to school are not i'm able to fly and you know i'm better and i'm leaving you really in the type situation maria seesaws between the relief of living in a safe home and the stress of being a single immigrant mother alone in this country she thinks the only way she'll truly shed her fear is to put as many kilometers between her and her estranged
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pedicle he explained. when many people think of the us city of baltimore they picture this block after block of rundown homes litter crime. this is the city with the 2nd highest murder rate in the country just last year 340 people were murdered on the streets good afternoon everybody community activist joyce jones is talking to a local radio station to sell people what she sees as a possible solution. one that takes a very different view of baltimore from above 3 planes flying 12 hours a day over most of the city filled with cameras tracing everyone's movements the pictures stored for $45.00 days and if there's a violent crime police can go back and retrace the steps of everyone nearby people are free to speak out. the community with
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support program will be v 8 bills. witnesses that are free to speak because the cameras speak for themselves activist dave on love disagrees. with. police officers. that level. that's. one possibly. because of the war on the black male the baltimore police do have a troubled history black eyes a matter of pride to them black people the suspicious death of freddy grey in police custody sparked widespread riots in the city in 2015 not long after the police started the aerial surveillance program in secret when it was discovered activists sued to stop it but a judge recently ordered the flights could resume they're appealing the decision still the baltimore police commissioner believes it will be held up in the courts
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the city already uses cameras on street corners and microphones to pick up the sound of gunshots there is no expectation of privacy in public on a public street on a sidewalk and so it can film inside of private places on the walls the cost of the program will be more than $3.00 and a half $1000000.00 over 6 months it has been paid for by a texas billionaire and if it's deemed a success it's likely it could spread to other u.s. cities a program designed to protect american soldiers at war overseas turned it on its citizens at home patty calling al-jazeera all right it's going to fall just anywhere nic thank you my current formula one team is bracing itself after the state become a more than a quarter of its stuff overall $1200.00 people will be made redundant across the company which is based in the u.k. it will impact the racing teams write car and apply technologies operations the current crisis has seen the 1st 10 races of the f one season canceled or postponed
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and its indy car tame has also been able to write over in states a car and say they have no choice but to reduce the size of the workforce. iceman of confirmed latin abraham which is injuries less serious than 1st thought it was feared the swedish legend had damaged his achilles tendon in training on monday at 38 years old that could have ended his career but the club say it's just a problem with his cough muscle and that his achilles is perfectly intact you have another scan in 10 days it means there's still a chance as latin can play some part in the end of the set he asked season which is set to restart sometime in june germany's been does leader is the only european league back up and running and there's a big game coming up later between the top 2 buy in munich and dortmund defending champions by an lead don't win by 4 points going into the match known as dec classico which will be behind closed doors but don't win now have the most informed striker in europe 19 year old alan holland has scored 13 goals since joining in
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january. my job is to. reach the goals of course. also you see the last games that not only i can story. is that the full back says. it's the loose you know so. everyone can score match city manager pep guardiola lost his mother to cope at 19 but he says he's excited for the premier league season to restart sometime in june of course there are bigger priorities right now is what he says the most important thing is for all the instructions if they say use the mosque as the social distance and we have to do it because there are many many people that go to the n h as around the world to again to put all live in risk you know and. to save our. the french football season was scrapped 4 weeks ago but the club
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president leon wants that decision overturned john michel all us on the left here has written to the french prime minister claiming it will cost clubs up to $980000000.00 leon finished in 7th out of the european qualification places they took legal action but their case was thrown out by a paris administrative court so now they're asking france's highest courts to issue a ruling haiti's football federation president has been suspended after allegations he sexually abuse young female players at the country's national training center football's governing body fifa say eve barred would be banned from all football related activities for 90 days while investigations take place john bartz who has led the federation for 20 years has denied the claims against him. tennis is not set to return and to organise but not a joke of it has launched a new mini tournament in the balkans the wild them one had been stranded in spain during lockdown but he's back home in belgrade now his 8 man event played in june
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and july with legs in serbia croatia montenegro and bosnia joke of which will be joined by dominant team alexander is fair of and grigor dimitrov he was asked if he had considered inviting roger federer and rafael nadal the problem of rodgers still has problems with his knee so i didn't ask him as to rafa here he recently started playing again we talked about a week ago about the us open but i didn't ask him about playing maybe i will but it would be hard i don't expect him to come. australian rules football teams of pairing for best start restart on june the 11th but they face some tough choices to get the game going again teams could be forced to share flights and venues with rivals with multiple games being played on the same day in the same stadium the f.l. was one of the last sports to shut down during the pandemic and having lost revenue officials to came to find ways of saving money the teams who returns a full contact training on chu say say it's
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a strange situation but clubs will have to make sacrifices of think it's just. everyone's going to have to adjust and. adapt and we're really going to do when we've got them. whatever happens happens we just go together and go do it it's for you we were very lucky that we get to play like the i felt on a fantastic job of getting used to this week. for us to be able to get there through a storm. could be more happy another day in another nascar race as a sport looks to make up for lost time is packing in as many races as possible after a 10 week shutdown again there were no fans for the latest event at the charlotte motor speedway one pit stop went wrong for jeffrey earnhardt who ended up rejoining the track with a jack and it was bush who took the checkered flag for a record extending $97.00 when. all right that is your sport for now it is back to nic your excellent thank you very much thanks for that is it for this you to i'll
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