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and. the u.s. unemployment rate falls unexpectedly adding $2500000.00 jobs in may as states ease their coronavirus lockdowns hopefully george is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing that's happening for a country president trump invokes george floyd's name as he celebrates the new job numbers. watching others here on live from london i'm doubting obligates are also ahead police actions in the spotlight as peaceful protesters are shoved beaten and tear
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gassed in the u.s. . and forces loyal to libya's u.n. recognized government celebrate the collapse of khalifa haftar out his 14 month offensive to take tripoli. loss on the world environment day the u.n. issues a rallying cry to protect the planet's living system this. fellow the u.s. unemployment rate has unexpectedly dropped according to new figures for may which indicate that the american economy is starting to recover from the pandemic in march 1 point 3000000 people lost their jobs due to the lockdown measures aimed at containing the virus taking the unemployment rate to 4.4 percent a further $20600000.00 jobs were lost in april when unemployment hit a record high of 14.7 percent but in may that rate dropped to 13.3 percent
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as 2 and a half 1000000 jobs were created in leisure and hospitality construction and education. when we had a problem we were able to cut it off stop it just like this stop it keep everyone inside keep them away keep them together away uninfected and we saved millions of lives and now we're opening and we're opening with a bang and we've been talking about the v. this is better than a v. this is a rocket ship let's get the latest from our white house correspondent kelly halkett so this was a surprise kimberly yeah it was expected we'd be talking about a 20 percent unemployment rate instead it fell to 13 percent because some of those jobs that disappeared came back when businesses reopened and the president is calling this the great american comeback promising that things are going to get
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better in subsequent months and that if you will relax him in november things will get even better next year but his opponent in the presidential election the presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden has said that it is not an act of god that made these jobs disappear referencing coronavirus but the steady calls that incompetence mismanagement and he also criticized the u.s. president for essentially hanging a mission accomplished sign over the u.s. economy when there are still millions of americans out of work and struggling to put food back on the table now house speaker nancy pelosi has also been criticizing the president's comments saying that it was the president's but it was congress that turned things around but the u.s. president still hailing this as a success yet and given the social unrest over racial inequality that the state has been witnessing troublesome. was criticized rather over another comment that he made. yeah well he was talking in the rose garden about the economy he also
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transition to the social unrest in the united states specifically say that he's done more for the black community when it comes to jobs and other improvements than any other president but it was this comment that really touched off a nerve take a listen hopefully george is looking down right now and say it was a great thing that's happening for a country there's a great day for him it's a great day for everybody it's a great day for everybody this is a great great day in terms of equality. now the problem with this 1st of all is that it's a way as speaking on behalf of a black man a black man who is now no longer with us given the fact that he had a white policeman kneeling on his neck and that was the cause of death according to the family's autopsy so this is not sitting well with the millions of african-americans and others who are protesting on the streets for to try and bring about change and racial equality or inequality that exist trying to bring about
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equality in the united states it never is goes over very well when a white man speaks for a black man but given the fact that there is social unrest that has spread not just across this country but canada europe these comments are not being particularly well received all right kimberly thank you very much for that update now is george floyd's family attend a memorial service for him in north carolina the mayor of washington d.c. has sent a message to president trump a very big one morial browser has renamed a street right in front of the white house block lives matter plaza and had the slogan painted in huge letters along the roads it was done to send a message that the city stands with the protest movement it comes days after donald trump ordered the forceful removal of peaceful demonstrators who had gathered outside the white house. new york's governor says police officer is filmed pushing over an elderly man should be fired scrutiny has been growing have the tactics used
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by police at anti racism demonstrations across the country as alexei o'brien reports. at a time when police misconduct is in the spotlight. this video has gone viral a 75 year old man left on the ground after officers appear to shove him police in buffalo initially said he tripped and fallen in changed their statement adding that 2 officers had been suspended. for cheer gas or pepper spray. and. live ammunition in violation of international standards so the use of force but this is continuing and go way. over the past 40 years government funding for the police has tripled to more than $100000000000.00 police departments have also been reinforced with excess equipment
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from the u.s. military all as crime rates have dropped. the days of george floyd sparked outrage and condemnation across the u.s. and in many other countries process to say they've had enough of decades of racism and repression and totality by those who are supposed to protect and serve we're sorry we grieve and this is an injustice that should never happen again. but despite the mostly peaceful protests. critics say there's plenty of evidence the injustice is continuing with several confrontations since floyd's death now under investigation. the. peaceful protesters have been tear gassed in iowa and los angeles national guard who look like they're dressed for the battlefield have patrolled a stretch of hollywood boulevard normally frequented by tourists and celebrities
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and police wayne besen said people who witnesses say was simply standing with their hands up. protesters were arrested in new york city on wednesday as police tried to enforce a curfew. the next day the city's mayor bill de blasio was booed at a memorial service to george floyd after he tried to defend the police action. president donald trump who accused of weaponize in his response to the protests by threatening to send in the military if demonstrations on brought under control the streets outside the white house before slowly cleared before troops photo op on monday several protesters and the american civil liberties union a sowing the police over what happened while the vast majority of police officers do their job bravely and righteously it is undeniable that many african-americans lacked confidence in our american criminal justice system. this must
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change not just the. protesters hope that change will come perhaps in this little girl's life time brian al-jazeera. forces loyal to libya's u.n. back government have captured the city of tal horn our 24 half times last major stronghold in the west for the past 14 months the city has been used by have started forces as a launch pad for their offensive on the capital tripoli on thursday the government forces regain full control of tripoli as dorsett reports. celebrating another important game. forces for the un backed government of national accord in control of tohu now the city was the last major stronghold of world war khalifa haftar in western libya in the mosul after we were all keen to achieve the victory
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without hesitation there is a big difference between a solid fighter who fights for his cause and another one who does have weapons without a cause will be defeated if you don't have a cause to fight for we have a cause france the air of the thousands here the turkey's military support has helped the internationally recognized government of national accord to a series of territorial gains in recent weeks. as well as ending have 2 hours 14 month attempt to capture tripoli that led to battles in the capital southern suburbs and rocket attacks on the city center. after our self declared libyan national army which is backed by russia the u.a.e. and egypt said its troops were being withdrawn from tripoli in order to give the ceasefire talks a chance to who now was the main launch pad for the offensive against the capital that have to use force is finally abandoned this week. g.n.a.t.
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commander said forces had reached the center of town huna after entering from 4 sides. but the l.n.h. continues to control in eastern libya where there is a parallel administration into broke as well as large parts of the south where the main oil fields are located the united nations has warned the recent flood of weapons and fighters to both sides in libya risks in a major new escalation has those offensive on no tripoli had 2 key strongholds into it was it launched from 2 key strongholds the 1st was a what the or the airbase that was taken not too long ago and the 2nd was that. after the fall of a lot the half those forces knew that they could not hold on to. tripoli offensive so they began to withdraw some of their troops and don't want to hold a news from taiwan or comes after the d.n.a. went to moscow and after the meeting between and again and several hours the president of the g n a where it's believed that turkey and russia are now negotiating
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a framework of cooperation so the tone of today it's unclear whether it fell because of the military attack by the d.n.a. forces or whether this is part of a negotiated exchange between the russians and between the turks with regards to libya but in terms of its significance it means the end complete end of hastert as a tripoli offensive a new diplomatic effort is underway to try to restart talks on a lasting cease fire and ending 9 years of civil war since the overthrow and killing of longtime ruler muammar gadhafi. dorsetshire bari al-jazeera. what are the ahead isn't on hold our soldiers have been celebrating. this is the main square in the city of the hoon. that used to be the major stronghold for half the forces in the west of libya now forces loyal to the internationally recognized government are in full control of the city after heavy
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fighting after they managed to drive i would have to his forces from the city now the swift converter of the city after who now by the government forces is mainly attributed to turkish military support for the government forces and also there was duel of the russian mil series who flew into long island have tears forces the full of the city of the moon into the government forces hands means the feel of have kurds who chipped in the west of libya the 1st of his military campaign there his 1st is launch it in april last year to seize the capital tripoli . the city of the huna used to be very strategic and very significant for half the us forces from corona military supplies went to have to. everybody
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and in fact they had a central command here in the city i've got to own up that was running the battles in southern to pretty little command here of those forces was run by russian egyptian and the military experts according to the that's according to the government military sources that the capital promoted by the government does not mean the end of the fighting as the government forces say that they are determined to. help them. further south to the city of anyone. still ahead on al jazeera arrested for not wearing a mask the death of a man in mexican police custody triggers violent protests. and calls for amal these president to step down as insecurity grows and quality of life gets worse.
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hello there very unsettled picture throughout much of europe and of course it has been feeling cooler the last few days although it is a bit of a giveaway of course bringing in the rain but we have some places enjoying the sunshine is in the gulf in southern portugal but i have to say it's a little bit more like this for many cities and towns like this and here the dark clouds and of course that just rushing more rain showers and thunderstorms as we go through saturday we have this area of low pressure sinking south with across the u.k. some very strong winds coming from the north so that cold winds as well that rain really very widespread throughout much of scandinavia push across into western russia and some heaviest particularly through northern spain areas of france and again across the. line of the alps now as we head off into sunday that rain does begin to push eastwards and pull away from the u.k. but it's a very cloudy picture but temperatures a little bit better 18 degrees 19 celsius in paris but you really can't see quite
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a blanket a path through much of europe and again that line of very heavy rain not really moving this could produce some severe thunderstorms at times and also there is the threat of flooding but to killer in those high elevations and we have got a fair amount of cloud with one or 2 shots pushing into morocco this is the system heading towards portugal a major much headway really on sunday but by sunday we'll see a few more showers into the coast of algeria. so controversial approach i am not an idealogue let me be absolutely clear to democracy and international development deliberate doesn't cut inequality in fact to increase i was from a bestselling author and distinguished global economist you don't advocate for greed i sure learned i sure do many terms of one having read my blog just how many men might know i'm leery of the committee whose son goes head to head we've done be some lawyer i've been accused of being crazy i'm not in fact crazy on al-jazeera.
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roof. by the way on the top stories on al-jazeera forces loyal to libya's u.n. backed government have captured worth 25 to his last major stronghold in western libya. the u.s. unemployment rate fell unexpectedly to just over 13 percent in may with 2 and a half 1000000 jobs added coronavirus lockdowns. and 2 u.s. police officers have been suspended after. video emerged of them shoving your 75 year old man to the ground during out to races in front of us. while protesters in the united states mourn george floyd police brutality is also
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a concern south of the border in mexico demonstrators there are accusing arresting officers of beating a construction worker to death or birdman lee has more. i. assure you a few guadalajara again police brutality. the arrest and death of construction work a job on in the present month ago has caused controversy and conflicting accounts in mexico's 2nd largest city. the police say the 30 year old was detained for disturbing the peace but this video shared widely on social media provoked protests will not fall from list city. bystanders identified the man being shoved into a vehicle as an inquiry they say police were using excessive force and that he was arrested for not wearing a mosque then mandatory to prevent the current of our spread police say he was
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taken out of a cell phone medical treatment and died hours later. the police didn't know i be telecine the protesters are demanding accountability. i know some use buttons to smash police vehicles so police officers pick up whatever they can to fend off protesters one policeman had petal put over her and. the governor of state says video of lupe has a rest doesn't show the reality. of the misleading way in which they made everyone in jealous go believe that giovanni was arrested for not wearing a mask that's already been exposed by the public prosecutor and what happened today was the cherry on the cake it was the way in which they allowed a legitimate protest a protest for a cause to be infiltrated and turned violent the government minister the human rights accuses the police abusing excessive who was saying it's
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a clear violation of human rights and he's condemning the events which police use force the preventative measure is one of the. protests have swelled across mexico in solidarity with george floyd's death in the united states but many mexicans are also dealing with that in issues with the police where they live human rights groups have collected years of evidence of police brutality torture and extrajudicial killings of protesters in court all a harvest says what happened to giovanni has is the latest example of that and they're demanding justice moore about the money al-jazeera. brazil has reported a new record of 1473 coronavirus deaths in just 24 hours it now has the 3rd highest number of fatalities in the world overtaking italy despite the beaches and parks in rio de janeiro have reopened as long as social distancing is carried out by the public earlier president also narrow called any protesters opposing his
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agenda terrorists and encourage security forces to act swiftly against any who break the law. well venezuelan migrants wanting to return home are stranded in unsanitary conditions in neighboring colombia because of the coronavirus pandemic trying to sound or a pet is joining us from he's joining us from a makeshift camp where at least 300 people are living on the outskirts of the capital bogota what are you seeing where you are on a sunday oh. yes very now actually by the latest count there are now at least 500 people in this camp that has been built in the last week these are all venezuelan migrants most of them were living here in colombia but some that are coming from as far as ecuador and petrou they're trying to make their way back about the problem is that the venezuelan now tory peace in the past 10 days have reduced the number of people that they allowed back
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in on a daily basis from roughly 800 a day we're now down at times to just 80 and that is creating bottlenecks then along the way and this is one of the consequences of that people using plastic bags as are sleeping here without running water without any kind of services they are depending on the goodwill local people here foundations nongovernmental organizations that have been bringing food and so on some of them even have bus tickets to reach the border city. but that's where colombia now tory does have been because of the huge crowds at the border town and they're trying to stop people along the way is a very complicated situation that is getting worse by the day migration out $3.00
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to 0 in colombia say that at least $72000.00. gone back home since the beginning of the fund and that's because they have lost their jobs here they haven't been able to pay rent in many cases they've been kicked out onto the streets they've lost. the place where they were living and so they've decided to go back even if the situation is quite obviously with the economic crisis back in venice where leavitt they say at least they can see their relatives they're going to have a roof over their head but the problem is they're going to get back. all right alexandra thank you for that update from bogota. now british scientists have abandoned a large clinical trial that explored the use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxyl couric when for coronavirus patients the scientists said they would stop recruiting
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patients with immediate effect after initial results showed no evidence of benefits the malaria and rheumatoid arthritis drug was previously promoted and even taken by president donald trump the u.s. has also sent 2000000 doses to brazil the u.n. is saying more than 1300 people have been killed during fighting in the democratic republic of congo in the past 8 months various conflicts are underway in the country involving enormous number of armed groups and government forces the violence has forced more than half a 1000000 people to flee their homes in just 9 months u.n. high commissioner for human rights has some incidents may amount to war crimes i call on the footies to do their utmost to eat to do so or expand the presence of his duty forces in the areas of conflict to ensure they protect civilians rather than prey on them protection of civilians is a sport responsibility of the state and when the state leaves a vacuum it puts this community at great risk in the air see past experience shows
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these can have catastrophic results. thousands have been protesting in mali's capital calling on the president to resign there demonstrating against corruption arbitrary arrests and allegations of vote rigging during parliamentary elections in april has been following developments from the car and neighboring senegal people are asking is for the government to do their job and to protect the population that's one of the issues there but there are numbers of groups involved in these protests and we're talking more than 20000 people so a gathering in the capital of we haven't seen protests like this since the return of democracy in 1991 last year the organizers of this person. had organized demonstrations where people were chanting out with foreign troops this year today they're asking for the resignation of brian burke our kates up and the reason behind all of this is that not only is the security situation getting bad but for
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ordinary mali and for instance some of the protesters are there are teachers that haven't been paid for 7 months you have nurses we're dealing with the current outbreak of the coronavirus who are struggling to have access to running water and you also have members of the opposition with their leaders to my less say who's been in the hand in the custody of armed groups for now 3 months with the government seemingly doing little to try to bring him back or to try to secure his release so all of this combined means that there's a lot of people that are growing impatient with their government they want to see more action from the. friday is world environment day and the un is calling for greater efforts to protect the planet's living systems this year's focus is biodiversity which is under threat like never before so the u.n. is saying that a recent event such as wildfires in the amazon the u.s. and australia as well as locust infestations across the east africa so just how fragile the world's ecosystems have become the emergence of covert 19 has also
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highlighted the ever decreasing frontier between wildlife and humans 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic meaning they can jump from animals to humans and $1000000.00 species are under threat off extinctions experts warn action must be taken now to prevent an irreversible collapse and biodiversity in the clark reports the wonders of the natural world are in and to do to these troubling times especially the extraordinary life in our ations like the millions of golden jellyfish here in the marine lakes of pillow a unique subspecies evolved to harvest energy directly from sunlight all the myriad diversity of the world's coral reefs where 25 percent of marine species live but here too there's another biomass which dwarfs everything else combined and it's invisible to the naked eye it's the microbial life of the seas and it's found
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everywhere from the surface to 4000 meters down. and these unseen microbes include astronomical quantities of viruses that attack marine bacteria all part of the web of life in the sea. in fright every liter of seawater contains more viruses that there are people on the planet 95 percent of all life in the oceans by weight is comprised not of fish or of whales but of microbes. and it is these microbes that create 50 percent of all oxygen on the planet every 2nd breath that we brief. the problem is from invisible lifeforms to some of the biggest piece on the planet biodiversity is threatened by environmental destruction for the african elephant it's more than just poaching for the ivory trade we're also facing big big challenges when it
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comes to happen that transformation for larger industries and of course the biggest impact that is less talked about which is the increasing population of africans and therefore the competing nature of land between elephants and people and it's when the ever decreasing frontier between wildlife and humans is breached disease like corona virus can jump from animals to people out of the 7800000 species that we have on the planet about 1000000 species are under threat from extinction and that's a lot because the nature is this finely attuned by diversifying its human system where each one plays each species plays a role in the bigger puzzle with 19 is clearly one of these messages that we need to understand and heed very fast that you can't continue to undermine and encroach
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on nature and expect nature to be stable. it's apparent that we're at a turning point experts say the era post cave it must be one where we act to save our environmental heritage or will continue to pay a heavy price nick clarke al-jazeera well for more on world environment day you can head online to al-jazeera dot com. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera forces loyal to libya's u.n. back government have captured top hona were lowered 24 have taught his last major stronghold in western libya after forces have been using the city as a launch pad for their offensive on the capital tripoli for the last 14 months on thursday government forces regained full control of the capital and u.s. unemployment rate has unexpectedly dropped according to new figures for may which
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indicate that the american economy is starting to recover from the coronavirus pandemic 2 and a half 1000000 jobs were added in leisure and hospitality construction and education causing unemployment to fall to 13.3 percent when we had a problem we were able to cut it off stop it just like this stop it keep everyone. inside keep them away keep them together away uninfected and we saved millions of lives and now we're opening and we're opening with a bang and we've been talking about the v. this is better than a v. this is a rocket ship 2 police officers in the u.s. have been suspended after video emerge of them shoving a 75 year old man to the ground the elderly man is in a serious but stable condition and hospital police are coming under increased scrutiny over the tactics they're using during answer racism protests a wave of demonstrations were sparked by the death of an african-american man
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george floyd whilst in police custody. a protester in mexico has set fire to a police officer during a demonstration against police brutality anti-police protests erupted in guadalajara on thursday after a man was found beaten to death hours after he was arrested the construction worker was detained by police for not wearing a mask in public. brazil has reported a new record of $1473.00 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours it now has the 3rd highest number of fatalities in the world overtaking italy despite those beaches and parks in rio de janeiro have reopened as long as social distancing is carried out by the public president joy of also narrow has called any protesters opposing his agenda terrorists and delinquents those are the headlines a.j. selects is up next well by.
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