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teresa was a commodity traded for profit and the u.s. elections shaping up as the country battles calls with 19 we'll look into whether donald trump can survive these historic setbacks you announce. the bleak warnings about the coronavirus spread in latin america and predictions of a 5 fold increase looming in brazil and venezuela is failing economy puts pressure on its health system and its neighbors as the pandemic makes life worse. the whole rommany watching al-jazeera live while headquarters here in doha are also coming up questioning the president's story twitter put a fact check warning on 2 messages from the u.s.
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president donald trump. also russia tells libyan warlord khalifa haftar that moscow backs an immediate cease fire and talks. welcome to the program the world health organization is warning of tough days ahead for latin america with the coronavirus still accelerating across the region more daily infections that are being reported there than in the u.s. or across europe brazil registering nearly $17000.00 new cases in the last 24 hour period in a few hours the u.s. ban will come into place on foreign travelers coming from brazil where infection numbers and deaths continue to search the white house is hoping to ramp up testing in the united states with plans to buy 100000000 swabs and vials by the end of the . and russia's president vladimir putin has declared the country is past the peak
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of the epidemic despite reporting its highest daily death toll or trees about begins our coverage with the challenges facing the hardest hit country in latin america. away from the sandy beaches of rio we rational and fabiano the alcan that are i trying to locate covert patients in they've 1115. but they have just recovered from 1000 themselves and are now working on their day off to help those in need of. hospitals are full most cases were not serious so this way we could help them to going to people where to go with visiting people and also to see their problems in their homes small houses with not a lot of airflow we could give an overall guidance on care and cleaning. as the amount of cases of coal with 1000 continues to rise in brazil these doctors believe
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that early detection is crucial to saving lives. that's why they have turned this somber school into a temporary office. these people have been historically abandoned by society and politicians they have no access to public health care a cannot afford medicines that is why we are here. people like that the energy sources say they have been abandoned by the government don't you it makes you scared very scared there are a lot of people who believe the virus is a lie from the politicians but it's not a lie we know what we're talking about my neighbor had it and recovered i have other friends infected a friend died it's very sad. the demographic density in the favelas increases the chances of catching covert 19. in the past few days human rights activists have to announce a change in the body removal protocols what once was a public service now depends on the relatives of the deceased where you reach such
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after 27 hours a body was removed from this house it is absurd what the state is doing with people who do not even have a chance to bury their dead. it's all happening as brazil is caught in a political crisis that has polarized the country between those who believe the way out is by imposing a lockdown and those like president who want to open up the economy the fight has forced governors to clash with water. on tuesday the police raided the residence of rio's governor wilson read cell who is being investigated for corruption in the handling of covert 1000 vets has said on twitter also not o. is using the federal police to attack him. caught in the middle of the dispute are the victims of brazil's political system which is failing to protect those who are in need of help the most. well earlier my
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colleague during obligating spoke with the governor paolo state she began by asking him how he's enforcing virus restrictions despite his differences with president john bolton all right we are in different position here in some paulo we we have lation we are 2 months and a half in the social his relation and asking people to stay home and use masks that that still all to use masks the now so asking people to stay at home but unfortunately the position of presidents both on audio is completely different is asking to the people to go to the streets. making a very bad example leaving their policies in brazil that without a mask and asking people to use chloroquine so we are very concerned about that is not just my road but also we have other 26
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governors in brazil all of these recalled mandate a so show us all asian against the position of the president of brazil is a very sad moment to us because we have to come back to virus the coronavirus and unfortunately they're both run out of virus so does this not at all really complicate the fight against the virus if there isn't a coordinated government program and you don't have the support of the president. became more difficult you're right of course could be much better if we could have in brazil just one way the right way to protect lives to save lives and to follow their health the world health organisation as we are doing here in sao paulo unfortunately that's not the position of president of brazil and how is this filtering to people on the ground because as you are saying and the
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president himself is urging people to go to work some state governors including yourself yourself are telling people not to go to work so clearly there is a conflicting message. yes conflicting masters. very difficult moment that we are fighting against here in sao paulo brazil but fortunately here the population of some polish state we have here 46000000 people living here in some paulo almost 55 percent of the people are following their rights. and they are you staying at home using mosques following the orientation of their right orientation of the state government well a new report is warning that is way lower is so poorly equipped to deal with current virus that it could make things worse for the whole region millions of venezuelans have fled the country in recent years as it deals with an economic
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crisis that has left many struggling for basic supplies human rights watch and johns hopkins university say its lack of capacity to deal with covert 19 could worsen the situation at the borders and listen to them as more. a ticking time bomb that's how a report published on tuesday by human rights watch in john hopkins university describes the converging crisis of venezuela's collapsing health care system and the rampant coronavirus been them ik doctors around the world earth last year have already denounced the deteriorating conditions in hospitals across the country many are without access to running water and shortages of even basic medicine are commonplace sort of the immediacy and cost of the venezuelan government has so far confirmed just over a 1000 cases of coronavirus and 10 deaths numbers the researchers say are impossible to believe. the venezuelan government doctor is absurd in
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a country where doctors don't even have water to wash their hands the health care system is totally collapsed people are overcrowded and poor neighborhoods and prisons and authorities harass and chase journalists doctors and nurses who are trying to inform people doctors interviewed for the report described their working conditions and the plight of patients as the plausible missions are asked to bring the water for a mission which means that for the most vulnerable and or that becomes a huge obstacle for admission to the hospital they have to bring 25 liters of water which is really quite expensive so why don't they are asked to bring us not only for their own consumption but even to flush toilets in some cases this iteration is so dire that patients are being told to the f.a.q. and you're only outside the hospital in a car which creates a whole host of emanation one other doctors desperate to be able to wash its hands before a procedure had to use the what it was dripping from air conditioners. years of
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economic and political turmoil have led millions of venezuelans to seek refuge elsewhere more than 5000000 have fled in the past 6 years thousands are now going back as the pandemic ravages the economies of receiving countries the to a future there may be even worse alison that amputee. well across europe many countries are continuing to ease their virus restrictions as new infections to climb in the u.k. political storm is intensifying over a top government advisors cross-country trip during the lockdown the barker reports of new london. coming to you from the truth should he stay or should he go dominic cummings may have shared his side of the story for the anger surrounding his trip from london to the northeast of england defying the government's own lockdown rules isn't going away newspapers on the right and left of politics are saying the same
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thing no apology no regrets reads one no regrets no apology the other meanwhile politicians from the governing conservatives and opposition parties are piling pressure on the prime minister to sack his chief advisor one junior government minister resigned in protest there are aspects of cummings explanation that i have trouble with he tweeted the government's now desperately trying to refocus attention on what it's achieved including the announcement that britain would provide the antiviral drug does appear to some covert 19 sufferers this is probably the biggest step forward in the treatment of coronavirus since the crisis began these are very early steps but we determined to support the science and back the projects that show promise the government's expended an awful lot of political capital defending dominic cummings only 2 weeks ago the prime minister's approval
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rating according to one poll was 25 percent after supporting his chief advisor it's now in negative figures at a time when the government's trying to inspire public confidence. in other parts of europe people are adjusting to a relaxing of restrictions but it goes the way. the russian president vladimir putin says his nation's past the peak of inspections despite recording his highest daily death toll. flags in the spanish capital madrid were lowered ahead of 10 days of mourning for the victims of covert 19 as the pandemic appears to be winding down people are left counting the economic cost. a group of restaurant chefs gathered outside the spanish parliament demanding more financial aid for a sector hardest hit by the lock down. in germany the government agreed to extend social distancing restrictions until june the 29th after a round between federal and state authorities over how fast to ease the lockdown
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the government also agreed to a 9800000000 dollar bailout for its national carrier. officials there want to lift a travel warning for 31 european countries for mid june the major travel slump select even the strongest airline struggling in the u.k. is restrictions ease life returning to london's parks and tennis courts with a few more rules on how many people can play in the absence of a vaccine life after lockdowns likely to be governed by far more regulations rules meant for everyone leave barca al-jazeera london french president has announced an $8800000000.00 investment fund to support the auto industry the sector employees hundreds of thousands of people in france in dozens of vehicles and parts factories. or of thomas and electric cars will be the focus after the coronavirus
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crisis he wants france to become europe's leading producer of clean cars. us present all trump has run into trouble with his favorite form of communication just over an hour ago twitter labeled 2 tweets pardon me on his official account as misleading for the 1st time it refers users to fact check page and comes amid controversy over another series of tweets about the death the 20 years ago let's get more on the spy joining michael our correspondent in washington d.c. and mike i mean what do we make of sort of twitter basically advising readers to fact check trump tweets on voting rights in this case and that he may be misleading them. well critics have contended that president trump has used twitter to spread a number of full swords now twitter finally is a marking each particular bents now what these 2 tweets deal with is a mail in ballots president trump has seized on the issue in recent weeks and in
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these 2 tweets he describes it as fraudulent he continues to rail against any use of mail in ballots even at the time of fighting corona virus pandemic now twitter has put up a label on these tweets basically fact checking it referring viewers or readers to news reports concerning these claims which twitter says you know are completely fraudulent so this is the 1st time there has been some kind of response to twitter for what many critics have continually labeled as stream of false swords being done by the president on this particular forum and of course this adds to the ongoing reliance the president has on twitter or another propagating a murder conspiracy theory that has no basis in fact and in fact is upsetting a whole range of people including the deceased's family.
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well it is actually quite astounding incentives on an m.s.n. b.c. talk show host joe scarborough who 19 years ago employed and interned while he was a representative for florida now she died the police examined it and found that there was no foul play. involved at all president trump in recent weeks has seized on this 19 year old incident and has gone so far as to suggest that joe scarborough is guilty of murder now the it in turns widower has written a letter to the c.e.o. of twitter asking the c.e.o. to take this tweet down saying it's causing incredible suffering in the family who want to remember her as she was and to be reminded of this particular event what they say this particular act of cruelty being carried out by the president not the president himself has confirmed to reporters that he did read that letter from
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the widower however he gave no indication whatsoever of backing down or stopping this campaign against a television talk show host or for those of mike hanna thanks for joining us from washington d.c. . still ahead here on out is there or china's government is taking your time to flight citizens out of india within days and. stock exchange floor reopens with new precautions in place we'll have those details straight after the break. how i once again we've seen some flooding recently into miami some very heavy rain just around the far south east of the u.s. then we got this chain of storms rolling up across the great plains from texas
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through oklahoma all the way up into central parts of canada rest they some very very heavy rain notching over towards the midwest but it's a slow moving feature it's been lingering here for the past few days and it's going to not move too far east as in any great hari actually we're looking at to this system down towards surf lauda pushing up towards the middle lanty states south carolina could see some wet weather as we go on into the middle part of the way let's push further north because i'm hot sunshine there it's eastern parts of canada 33 celsius in ottawa a little colder as we go on into thursday but still warm enough and there we go we'll see further showers just around the eastern seaboard of that state as that china storms down towards parts of texas but over towards the west where there really is about the intense heat the epic heat wave that we have down across the south where west cold set to continue 30 celsius there for. this case of sunshine and showers across the caribbean still some lively showers there around the greater
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antilles are also seeing a chance of some rain there for the eastern islands this week. a story of blackmail. this piracy. has killed i have strangled i have a story of current which a lot of the fear is real. passion. and a very serious just. you're
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watching al-jazeera with me said whole run a reminder of our top stories as infections and deaths continue to mount in brazil my study years warning that the number of coronavirus deaths there could increase 5 fold by all cost. and a new report is warning venezuela is so poorly equipped to deal with corona virus that could make things worse for the whole region human rights watch says the country's people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid. and twitter has flagged to tweet spy us president donald trump about forgery and mail in ballots misleading social media platform has managed to tweet with a link to another page where fact checkers have debunked the claim. russia says it backs an immediate cease fire and talks to form a united governing body in libya after the u.s. accused russia of deploying more fighter jets to help ward cleaver hafter his
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forces have been trying to seize the capital tripoli from the un recognized government and the russian mercenaries have already withdrawn from southern tripoli libya's government says its forces found large amounts of ammunition left behind in the area. is a professor of political science at the university of texas in san antonio he says that neither russia nor turkey or any real interest in pulling out of libya. last week the motions and so work together and they said they want to they want to draw on libya but then they won't do that they have too much to say it's it's a 0 sum game they were they needed the russians nor turks are willing to give up their gains in libya nor the egyptians either and so and so i don't know for sure you that if if those forces loses a lot a lot more in tripoli you can have one egypt intervening in that it's
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a significant us repeat talk is cheap but ultimately what would be what is what is the reality on the ground that they might withdraw their forces but then there are the military moves you had with them going to get come to have to one way or another director mueller 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 usually the ground is going to be all out on the run between libyans and that's it what you will see the vision of libya is then with but then you would have another problem and the problem is well the west is going to now he's got to hold hold on to the oil and the oil is not in the center libya is in the east it's part is part of that an acre you don't want to give it up and so this was war is going to end is going to continue one of the other big you 20 is that china is preparing to repatriate its citizens and india has coronavirus affections there increased its embassy in new delhi and told people of the plan on monday they have until wednesday to register to lean those suspected of having
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heavy 19th won't be able to get back to you has more 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 their 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 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 eline 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
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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 there so so far just fistfights but they could descend further into all out conflict at some point in the future so human rights watch is calling for an investigation into the burning of 200 homes and buildings in meals western rakhine state new satellite imagery shows evidence of the fires which the kurds say was probably an arson attack fighting between the me and marble a tree on the rakhine. has resulted in a number of civilian deaths and destroyed homes. 4 police
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offices in the us city of minneapolis have been sacked after the death of a black man a video posted on social media showed an officer kneeling on his neck before he eventually stopped breathing it's the latest example of police brutality against african-americans so 100 has more from chicago. that it is happened again in america a black man in police custody pleads for help as he struggles to bree what you want to receive these are the images on a minneapolis street the man cries out in pain a policeman's knee on his neck. humor. george floyd accused to check forgery is pressed down his face bloody murder when they do. anything or. bystanders plead with the officer how. he later dies in police custody it
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is the latest incident of a deadly confrontation between a white police officer and a black man captured on video on you would really help. the police spokesman describes the death in sterile language really give the suspect in the here. and realize that the suspect was suffering a medical distress the city's mayor calls the death unacceptable being black in america should not be a death sentence 1st 5 minutes we watched as a white officer pressed his knee into the neck of a black man for 5 minutes. this scene bears an eerie resemblance to a 2014 incident in new york city where another black man eric garner says his last
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words to the police officers restraining him i can't breathe after officers were cleared the guard case led to protests across the us police say george floyd had been resisting arrest bystanders said the force was clearly excessive and when it comes to excessive force in the us the pendulum has increasingly swung away from police into ward the alleged victim. officer jason van dyke is now serving a 7 year prison term for this 2014 shooting in chicago with luke kwan mcdonnell. now protesters have printed new signs with those same familiar words i can't breed john hendren al-jazeera chicago will stay in the country in new york a verbal dispute between a white woman walking her dog and a black man birdwatching in central park has drawn criticism please called i'm going to tell every african-american man threatening my life please tell me the confrontation happened on monday morning when christian cute has said he noticed
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any keeper had let her dog off the leash against park rules when he began recording she called police claiming he was threatening her life amy cooper has not been placed on leave by her employer and voluntarily surrendered had told police say by the time they responded they were both called. now the coronavirus has said the u.s. economy but it had a much needed morale boost with the reopening of the new york stock exchange but like the rest of the country reopening it did not mean it was business as usual as capable as on the explains. a sign of the times a past governor of new york arrives for the reopening of the stock exchange trading floor nearly 2 months after coronavirus shut it down for the 1st time in its more than 100 year history thanks andrew cuomo ringing the opening bell to cheers from traders also wearing masks all quarter have been allowed back the rest
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continue to work remotely making for a sparsely populated and unusually sedate trading floor traders were forbidden from using public transport to get to work and also needed to take a temperature test upon entering the building i feel very safe and very couple coming back into this building the measures that they put in place prior to the n.y.s.e. closing and continuing through today is something that certainly reassuring they were also required to sign a waiver promising not to sue should they catch coronavirus with the work necessary move according to the stock exchange president most of the people that work down here on the trading floor are not employees of the new york stock exchange so we need to make sure that they are committed to following all those protection productive measures that we put in place in the way where is really focused primarily on that as a governor left he seemed upbeat in pleased even as the rest of new york city remains mostly closed trading on the new york stock exchange did not stop over the
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last 2 months as the majority of buying and selling is done electronically however the reopening is significant symbolism as the american economy in shoes towards reopening. al-jazeera new york. and of course you can follow all of the stories that we're covering here on al-jazeera by logging on to website and is there a dot com is updated to 24 hours a day. and you are watching how deservedly so romney a reminder of our top news stories as infections and deaths continue to mount in brazil a study is warning that the number of krona virus deaths could increase 5 fold by august the u.s. is due to begin to ban on foreign travelers from brazil and a new report is warning venezuela was so poorly equipped to deal with corona virus that it could make things worse for the whole region human rights watch says the
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country's people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid twitter has flagged 2 tweets by u.s. president donald trump about fraudulent mail in ballots and misleading social media platform has marked the tweet with a link to another page where fact checkers have debunked the claim mike hanna has more from washington d.c. now twitter has put up a label on these tweets basically checking it referring viewers or readers to news reports concerning these claims which twitter says here are completely fraudulent so this is the 1st time there has been some kind of response to twitter for what many critics have continually labeled a stream of false swords being done by the president on this particular forum junior u.k. government minister has quit over the controversy surrounding top advisor dominic cummings as cross-country trip during the coronavirus locked on prime minister
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boris johnson has defended cummings who defied calls to quit or apologize but he traveled with his family from london to northeastern england in march while his wife had covert 900 symptoms. and russia says it backs the media ceasefire and talks to form a united governing body in libya and that's after the u.s. accused russia of deploying more fighter jets to help libyan ward cleaver after his attempt to topple the un recognized government in tripoli and human rights watch is calling for an investigation into the burning of 200 homes and buildings and we're miles western rakhine state new satellite imagery shows evidence of the fires which advocates say was probably lost the time fighting between the meum our military and the american army has resulted in a number of civilian deaths and destroyed homes those are the headlines and back with more news in half an hour next it's one of one east if you stay with us. join me steve clemons on the bottom line your weekly take on u.s. politics and time to change. the system itself to benefit
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