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0 we know what's happening you know region we know how to get that they feel that others cannot fire system going on the way they tell the story is what can make a difference. this is al-jazeera. they're on the clock this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. hospitals turned coronavirus patients away in new delhi is india sees the highest number of cases in a single day. renewed fears about a rise in covert 19 infections in the u.s. sends global markets tumbling. around to gather in hong kong to mark one year since demonstrators surrounded the legislative building leading to months of protests.
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returned to the streets of lebanon as the currency tumbles to you know it. and i'm here to say majority sports news for me the one races in azerbaijan singapore and japan become the latest sports events to be canceled because of coronavirus. but 1st we have some breaking news out of afghanistan there has been an explosion at a mosque in the capital kabul police say at least 4 people have been killed and many more injured in the blast and they say the mosque official leading the prayer is among the dead there has been no immediate claim of responsibility but let's get more of it find out much so we can we can speak to have wardak who lives close to the mosque where the blast happened and is also an analyst on national security matters joins us now via skype happy but so you live nearby what did you hear and
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see. when i saw people walking out of the mosque and rush. ambulances going to the mosque and perhaps nice sound of the explosion it sound like it happened right when you leave for a good pair where a huge crowd of people from the neighborhood radios were attending the friday prayer and this comes on following a recent spike in violence doesn't it. yes but does this one but haps is very interesting with just 10 days ago we have had a similar incident where the in mom of you was it about heart what you know but one which is located in the green zone of the city. was 'd targeted in a similar incident that was perhaps a pretty pleased i eat dean and
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a similar incident happened today and another city of course is of copper which is the got to charge. and interesting to me just now you're proud to be i escaped be taking the credit for it in a way the responsibility you quote and. the time you have this peace process between the afghan government and the movement of the taliban gaining some momentum and because you have these kinds of attacks despite the fact that you have these new rules and press conferences coming from the afghan government that they have a limited escapin but then be the ballot boxes how can they conduct such as requests to get to operations in kabul mind you decide to act m.r. what started it did not need a rest of the crowd and these are the people who lives in the house. have been response in sort of
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a stand where they have supported the peace process with the taliban movement this is another side of food the other political aspect of these and of a doctor that somehow different all of these these pointers who want to how i think the the phenomena of diversion of understand trying to convey a message peace with the taliban movement we're not ever i begin to violence an honest one because you do have the dying wish and similar incidents you have queens coming in from various government personnel. hi i'm going person and blaming the taliban thought it was the taliban will then condemn and deny and so it's very very interesting one thing that the afghans are sort of. understanding now is that every time you have this momentum in the peace process you will have spoilers who do not want to dismantle done deal would i do want to hype the daiichi or try to blame the
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taliban movement for it or i'd to abbi thanks very much david that's happy speaking to us there thank you. health officials in india have recorded the biggest single day jump in crowbars cases with nearly 11000 new infections in just 24 hours hospitals in fact is so overwhelmed with patients the turning some away the right infections comes as the government says it's nationwide look to india now has around 300000 cases which is the 4th highest in the world and at least 18 a whole 1000 people died let's go now to new delhi and it's with her and i'm standing by for us and hospitals are under intense pressure patients. and that is the patients and the hospital workers who seem to be paying the highest price the situation has come to such that the supreme court today had really strong condemnation describe the situation facing patients around the country but
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especially in the worst affected states including here in the capital delhi as deplorable that's after reports that patients have been going from one hospital to another to try to get admitted reports of dead bodies being disposed of in the garbage bags the supreme court has some states to explain what's going on delhi has a lot of explaining to do also because testing went down in the past week even though the number of cases continue to rise and also the number of deaths on to adding up in delhi municipal councils say that they're very twice the number of patients than those being reported by the delhi government the delhi government is now investigating that there is so much frustration from patients patients families from health care workers they have been a number of protests this week from hundreds of doctors who went on strike in the southern city of nurses in delhi and doctors at 2 of the biggest hospitals public
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hospitals treating coronavirus patients here in the capital say that they're going to resign on mass next week unless they have paid. 3 months salary that's open to them now the government is predicting that again the worst affected states are going to run out of i.c.u. beds out of ventilators over the next 2 months if they haven't done so already and it's asking states all states to better prepare dennys government is expecting to have more than half a 1000000 cases by the end of july and need 80000 more beds it says admits that that's going to be a huge challenge it's going to want to follow mumbai's example of converting sports stadiums into treatment centers but health experts say that you can't build a health care system in a time of crisis and he has spent less than 2 percent of its g.d.p. on health for decades and that as that there's only so much that the health care system can only grow at a certain pace and that as well as that the government needs to keep testing more
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it's still not testing enough and it needs to report on deaths accurately our lives leave it there for the moment thanks very much indeed for the turbulence take this all we can speak to. the kurds and all 3 journalists frequent political commentator in india joins us now from new delhi. first up this is clearly a donna situation people just dying waiting for a hospital bed and it seems it's likely to get worse as. you are indeed right i'm nic this is absolutely terrible and no words are strong enough to disgust a situation i as an indian citizen as a broad indian citizen i am today ashamed to tell you that india has publicly and get a system which is in a tenement she is the i mean it is it the face limitations it's going street it's in on it which he's now been revealed for the whole world to see we just haven't
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really investing enough in public and can't and what is happening is shocking devore or deplorable it it's absolutely they're not it i mean not in our go it's private think about us some but try to take our dream big story of people individual families i have no then my my own brother in law has passed away on account of coleridge but the point is on the 24th of march with the prime minister enter into all these suddenly declared oh not $1.00 giving people barely 2 and a half hours notice in my opinion that was a terrible thing to do what we witnessed there after and what we continue to witness now is a huge internal migration arguably one of the biggest migrations if not the biggest internal migration in the history of human kind but what is also happening is that within the cities where people live in the proximity to one another. densely
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populated parts of india that includes a national capital that includes the commercial capital it includes a capital of the drug and of the bite which is its owner in the mall the state all of these but to get these urban areas very very very high you know incident october the infections large number of dead right and yes and no to the middle of that maybe just given all of that leads to the point now when the lockdown has been lifted and should have been lifted when all these the worst affected states were still reporting record number of cases. you know the laws don't have to be missed it because the economy has been device to india's economy has entered the. depression and livelihoods of actually just one 4th of the population by actually more than that happy they're even badly affected but didn't is as the lockout has been open as the next has been had been expected by experts
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by keeping you know just d. there's been a spike in the numbers that b.s.e. again these numbers the credibility of these numbers are being questioned we haven't been doing testing there is an inadequate i mean the treatment person protection equipment for doctors is inadequate i mean if i see you bend a little bit of hospitals and everything is in short supply as a result of which we are hearing these pills do not station all around us if the government of india and it and rewrite the citizen does not a week up and realise that criminal neglect i'll probably try and get in this country its consequences its consequences that i think speech by the people that i think i mean i mean what can i add but to say. something has to be done and i got to be done so one of the guys we don't actually his boss ok we appreciate that
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thanks very much indeed for the perspective paranoid because i thank you thank you . now there are protesters have gathered in hong kong as a controversial national anthem law comes into effect the legislation makes it a criminal offense to mock china's anthem to say it violates freedom of expression they see it as another sign that beijing is doing away with hong kong's autonomy if a problem is in hong kong and she says the events that happened in the city a year ago came to define its protest movement. a year ago today protesters surrounded the legislative council. headquarters when they were debating an extradition bill not that bill would have allowed hong kong suspects to be tried in mainland china opaque and communist one courts and they were trying to disrupt proceedings at that point police british shut down those protests people dispersed and both protesters and police upped the ante to sell canisters of tear gas water cannon and in the ensuing months molotov cocktail from the protest side rubber
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a live fire from the police side rubber bullets so today is seen as the day that hong kong protest movement changed in nature human rights activists say today when police started using excessive force on protesters and protesters then changed their tactics in response to that setting up blockades across hong kong and it led to nearly 6 months of daily antigovernment almost violent protest almost every day without blockading roads trying to disrupt the city it completely changed the way the protest movement began and now is seen in hong kong. well including a mother is a pro-democracy member of the legislative council joins us now from home go welcome to the program quoted by a year on from the protests and this national anthem doors coming into effect things about should go in the opposite direction from the public the protesters want to try it. not quite true i mean political state.
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has definitely become much much was the end camillo a child to practically irrelevant to one of the many political 2 that they can use to clamp down on. national security law that's going to really shut down those 6 am scale way investigations and then what's happening today a year on he would say oh you haven't achieved so much the thing is if we didn't fight they would do what's have that they want but if now that we have to fight for more then they would trade that. idea and so you need to be cracked down upon and that's why we need to you know the question the mom has this ruction goals of security lol on home call yes what do you make of the international response
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specifically the u.s. removing special privileges the whole goal of imposing sanctions on some chinese officials as well from this kind of intervention. i wouldn't say i would welcome it because with her takes a not exactly spring break yet the fact that this american presidential election yeah this way we need to see things being properly approved and mongst and executed before we can say when it's a good thing but a fact is the should she know a tree and roll it so the slept on the home called by staging would have scared away many shore in basements and i mean that's a business confidence and they're supposed to international financial it's going to suffer a lot so what have the other the. opponents of the
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opponents of phasing would do what she meant much less read it in new jersey we lose the international status of the best hypocrites how do you assess the future do you forward with with hope or with this. the mood on the ground at the moment chiefly. that probably desperation plus wrestle nation many people with thinking that emigrating and somewhat actually meant that they flee hong kong because they would consider them so close to the refugees now that that might be a bit exaggerated but then what's in the future especially for young couples children they need to think of the shield so they need to do whatever they think. that's the best for their family but they're for the whole of hong kong i mean it's obvious by now that taking to the plate to protest just may not be
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a sustainable way of. going against the government they munging democracy freedom and so on and so what's going to happen osca they actually implemented the if the charity law as something for everyone to seriously think about because this city has become so orwellian that we have hong kong the when they say a day is night and dock cricklade and we light a little just what how do you occupy what do you do right by we do appreciate your time thanks very much. part of the thanks to them brinkley noticed that the. plenty more still ahead including a rough road ahead for britain's current every space industry since the u.k. economy suffers its biggest monthly decline on record. plus a change of mind north korea says it sees good reason to maintain relations with
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donald trump. on professional goals makes its return from a current of our stoppage without its friends peter will have the details. so then share markets in asia have opened but european stocks shot the higher off the huge losses on wall street on to the drop is being fueled by concerns of a 2nd wave of corona virus infections in the u.s. as well as fears of a slow recovery there is going to be limits on the as more now from new york it's about many things but it all boils down to corona virus there are still deep worries now that this is spreading in more than a dozen states we're seeing numbers positive cases that are on the increase particularly texas florida and arizona these are all states that with of last few weeks if lifted their stay at home orders and so the economy is really coming back
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but coronavirus is as well and i think that has really spooked the markets as we also saw this is not even the 2nd wave study at the university of washington came out saying that the that so-called 2nd wave of chronic viruses and expected to hit the u.s. in till probably september and then you also still have no signs of a vaccine anywhere on the horizon late this year or early next year probably at the earliest add all that up and what as one trader said the markets have been operating on irrational exuberance the last few weeks and all of that ended with this huge sell off on thursday. the top u.s. general says he was wrong to join president donald trump for a photo opportunity and side a church near the white house after the area was cleared of anti-racism protests the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff might milly's seen here in army fatigues says he regrets making the war withdraw he says it created the perception of
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military involvement in domestic politics many was with the president as he walked through lafayette square in washington the police used pepper spray and stun grenades to disperse protesters and he got because says it's just the latest sign of dissent within the trump ministration. i think it's pretty significant that a 4 star general with decades of experience in the u.s. armed forces made a statement like this this is a man that serves the president and also represents the constitution and the american people and i think that he's really owning what he admits himself was a mistake we saw those pictures of him strolling with president trump and those unprecedented scenes shortly after those peaceful protesters were cleared out in full army fatigues and there is a clear you know confrontation between what his job is and what he was doing enough moment in time and now you've got marcus but the secretary of defense who publicly disagreed with president trump over his threat to deploy the military to calm the
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protests here across the country now saying that he will review the national guard's reviews over the past few weeks in these protests we've seen across the nation so there is dissension in the ranks i think. in the white house and marcus for apparently president trump was considering firing him and he was talked out of it by some of his senior advisers that's according to at least one publication here in the u.s. but these are most men i think that realized in that moment that their job was not just to work for the president but also to represent the american people and up hold the constitution so in some ways i think the general especially took a risk but he also is a man of honor i think that and realize what he did there was wrong and he's really owning that mistake mark asked for the secretary of defense may well be on thin ice that's certain the impression you get from the latest press conferences at the white house where the press secretary was saying for the moment marcus remains the
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secretary of defense president trumps pleasure but it seems for now president trump has been talked out of firing and. well calls for changes to u.s. policing practices have prompted a response from donald trump at a campaign style event in dallas trump said he wants police departments to adopt a national standards this comes in the wake of a nationwide protest against police brutality off of the death of george floyd in police custody well we're going to finalize an executive order that will encourage police departments station wanted to meet the most current professional standards of force and that means force but force with compassion but if you're going to have to really do a job if somebody is really being it you're going to have to do it with real strength real power and i said and people said oh i don't know if we like that expression i said we have to dominate the streets you can't let that happen what happened in new york city the damage they get down to. you know chris says there's
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little point in maintaining a relationship between its leader kim jong un and the u.s. president while washington remains hostile join gangs foreign minister made the comments on the 2nd anniversary summit between the 2 he said north korea would no longer allow the will trump to score political points by meeting kim while giving nothing in return kelly is professor of international relations at south korea's busan national university is says north korea no longer trust the u.s. president to bring about substantial change. thank think the north koreans came into that really expecting that meeting with trump personally that was the 1st time ever got to meet a u.s. president would bring some kind of change right it would allow them to skirt around the national defense bureaucracy and foreign policy community in america which is not hostile to deal with north korea for decades right and this would allow them to sort of leapfrog over that go straight to the president and finally pull out a deal and trump just didn't do that i mean he has pushed for a deal with north korea has been sort of erratic and kind of confused you know he
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talks about the love letters and then he kind of drops north korea for 6 months you know and i think the north koreans have just sort of gotten burned sort of like i think the way the rest of us about burned right that that trump is a sort of very erratic and he loses the thread often and he drops things that don't interest him and everything else and i think that's what you heard today the north koreans have just they just had it and they're not going to let you know they don't want trump's for manipulate photographs and this and that you know it's a there's a big deal coming because the elections coming up the north koreans have always played it tough right i mean this is one of the sort of the longstanding criticisms of efforts to engage north korea is that the north koreans always sort of offer a door demand sort of these enormous preconceptions in this case a south korean lee it's been very very difficult because the north koreans want the south korean government to clamp down on anti north korean protesters but south korea is a liberal democracy and that's really difficult obviously in the south korean government is now being accused of sort of doing the dirty work of the north koreans it's all really sort of difficult and complicated and this is one of the reasons why trump didn't get much out of north korea because the north koreans sort of fight over every single inch and the behavior that we're seeing now we've seen in the past. to syria now where the president bashar al assad has sucked his prime
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minister just a month ahead of elections the water resources minister will take over until the parliamentary vote in july the president's decision comes amid a deeply economic crisis which has seen the country's currency plunge. well the crisis has led to red protests in the southern the syrian this way to probably the days demonstrators have gathered to chant anti-government slogans authorities have blamed it on a wave of new u.s. sanctions which take effect later this month to nothing really took money who's the director of the syria conflict research program at the london school of economics and political science and she says changing the syrian prime minister will make no difference to the economic crisis. the main reason there was a popular pressure to. change the prime minister really is the economic deterioration and the reason why the syrian public were criticizing the prime minister and the minister is only because they know this is the level they can
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criticize without getting in trouble they know that any syrian prime minister has no power at his disposal to change the situation they know that the power lies somewhere else but this is that where this is about where they can create you know point their criticism so it may relieve a little bit of criticism but is not in exchange anything the constitution doesn't give the prime minister any power even if he has a right now the economy isn't complete completely under one and there's very little he can do to rescue the situation the household income which was almost $230.00 the average salary in 2010 right now it's $40.00 when the prices of good have increased 34 so the level of suffering right now in syria i just i'm president and i'm we're we're getting about people more like really high upper middle class going to bed hungry right so it's really hitting everyone and
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changing the whole government is not going to lead to any change. i thought it was a now it's been a grim june in much of europe yeah we're in the month of the summer solstice and to look at more like march we look at the spin of cloud of the bay of biscay been like a more like a winter storm churning up the waters keeping everything under needs cloud and to some degree wind and rain the there was a coffin inevitable flooding it was caused because it was caught yesterday and that was only about $4450.00 millimeters of rain but all channeled down through the capital of the island and causing a consider mant of distress indeed a fair amount of damage to the risk today is not of course coverage of french territory france itself running up through the middle of france almost the east so claim of all is at risk is a very dry area this normally this is a big sum a dime port of course it's kept temperatures quite low when 15 degrees today really june in the middle of france that something of
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a jug the heat recently has been further east in europe and extending across into western russia such has been really quite enjoyed now the record for minsk or example this time there is that 34 celsius they were well out there 33 s. the moscow 31 is on the hot side to so that's where the heat has been nice not going to last here things are certain cooling down in minsk at the same time in seville in space existed warming up to about a half reach rob thanks very much for the. still ahead here out there why hundreds of rallied in the philippine capital against a new engine terrorism will. show. just threatened by the pandemic and by the government brazil's indigenous communities fear the future. and the n.f.l. announce plans on how they'll fight racial injustice people details and.
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coveted beyond well. taken without hesitation. cold and dark full power defines our world we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas we leave here we make the rules investigating exposing and questioning the use and abuse of power across the globe people in power returns to our. june 9676 days there redrew the map of the middle east just america to victory of the israeli army in that war was the greatest tragedy in the history of islam 50 years later al-jazeera explores the events leading to the war and its consequences which is still felt today we tried everything went to the united nations and tried to mediation has contacts through different countries and it was clear that all this was to do all of the will in
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june. july to. i forgot you want to remind of our top stories this hour and there's been an explosion at a mosque in afghanistan's capital of kabul police say at least 4 people have been killed many more injured they say the mosque official who was leading a prayer is among the dead there's been no claim of responsibility. india has recorded the biggest single day jump in coronavirus cases with nearly 11000 new infections in just 24 hours the rise in infections comes as the government he says its nationwide. asian stocks. are up after
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markets in the u.s. recorded the steepest declines since mid march all this follows rising coronavirus infections of the whole economic forecasts from the federal. now that around $25000.00 patients in the united kingdom were discharged into care homes without 1st being tested for corona virus at the height of the pandemic that is according to a national audit office report it's estimated that at least 15000 care home residents died from covert 1000 in the united kingdom that's crossed a long sleeved live for us in london it's a pretty damning report lawrence at the department of health been saying that it took the right decisions at the right time. it's absolutely scandalous and it to be honest with you as far back as february the scientific advisors of the government were saying we don't believe that the virus can get into care homes and then that in thousands and tens of thousands of deaths in across the country and for all the blame that's been laid of the face of politicians this wasn't politicians who have
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been responsible for all these deaths it was scientific advisors and clearly managers in the national health service because this report makes clear between the middle of march in the middle of april 25000 elderly people who were exhibiting symptoms of the virus which were discharged from hospital straight back into care homes without necessarily being tested for the virus it's it's so shocking as almost to be unbelievable and as well as they do that that the death toll in this country which obviously is it is now extremely high with the highs in the world the other thing that's very damaging about this to be honest is reputation of the countries are judging each other on their response to the virus and increasingly have people in other countries saying what is going on in the u.k. you just haven't got a grip on things and they're saying they're just not on the political level as well in the scientific level and also going on in the u.k. is bike everywhere else in the world is a diminishing economy it's been brutal in the. yet the economy shrank
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g.d.p. gross domestic product the amounts of money a country make shrink by 20 percent in the 1st quarter of this year and in doing so wiped out 20 years of economic growth in just 2 months now obviously it's the same in every every country but the specific issue in this country is the government's insistence on 2 meats as social distancing which means the pubs can't open restaurants can't open just can't get enough people in but the biggest driver of any economy is manufacturing that's where economic growth most comes from and as i've been finding out on a trip to the west midlands the home of the british most are industry manufacturing is now on the verge of collapse it might be james bond's car of choice but the pandemic is proving to strong aston martin the luxury carmaker announcing nearly a quarter of its highly skilled workforce is to go it's a sign of the times where can they go if they lose their job to the most well at the moment there is nowhere to go nobody's recreating in the car industry across
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the west midlands nobody is recruiting in the car industry across the u.k. we've seen the announcements from bentley of a 1000 workers blame i didn't know we've seen the previous scenario from that side is where they are losing a very large number of their existing employees so the reason nowhere for them to go every job in a car factory generates 10 in the supply chain just up the road this company which makes parts for nisanit and jackie were landrover just announced over 400 job cuts to jackie landrover has only just come back to work with very limited capacity because of social distancing it's announces its annual results next week and it will not be pretty. in april of this year the u.k. produced fewer than $200.00 new cars and registered just over $4000.00 that's the lowest level since $946000000.00 which are completely unsustainable the government's focus then and now remains on reducing infection rates on what to do
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about the flood crisis in british manufacturing is almost total blanket silence. nearby is commentry the u.k.'s home of the motor car it went through a collapse in commie king when margaret thatcher was prime minister in the 1980 s. and it has taken nearly 2 generations for the city to get over it but it now has a plan for how to avoid it all happening again and he wants the government to hear it's the figures i'm seeing taking in employment levels to a place that we haven't seen not just my generation the generation before that maybe the 1920s what we need the government to do is as well as thurlow in people and spending billions of pounds on actually keeping people off work and each we invest in new technology called trees the location for the u.k. interest lies ations center we need to be the place where the new batch of the future built union leaders nationally are having similar conversations even suggesting a new made in britain strategy could tie in with brics states but they say they
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aren't getting very far reopening the economy will make the difference between a very deep and damaging recession and a depression and if we move into a longstanding depression that has consequences not just on jobs and i'm talking millions of jobs. but on people's health it recessions kill people the view across the industry is that it's like watching a tidal wave coming and not getting off the beach companies are making hard choices effects on people will be every bit as bad as the virus. nick i've spent the last 4 weeks traveling around england trying to understand the impact of the virus on communities and i have to tell you that the overwhelming view that i found is that people are much less worried now about the virus than they are about the economic impact of it and when he said that depressed illnesses by the government told me over and over again every day about infection rates and the all rates and you have to get it down it just seems now totally it holds with the public view that the
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economic damage is going to be much worse than the damage from the virus and economic story is going to run for years probably isn't it lawrence thanks very much indeed for that the timing neurotically well meanwhile the u.k.'s 3 biggest airlines have launched legal action against the government's quarantine policy which requires 2 weeks of self isolation on arrival into britain british airways easyjet and ryanair say the rules which came to effect on monday a fraud and will have a devastating effect on british tourism well a statue when situation has been boarded up after it was sprayed with graffiti during and the racism protests in london last weekend the move comes ahead of further demonstrations are planned for saturday u.k. prime minister bruce johnson says it is absurd and shameful that the statue should be at risk of attack. and the mare of bristol marvin reese has described the
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toppling of his city's statue of a slave trader called it would cost them as a powerful image and a piece of historical poetry i spoke to him earlier and began by asking him what he meant by that. well what i didn't mean was that i condone criminal damage here is the political leader of the city that's something i i cannot do. but it wasn't lost on me that you know the statue of a man he may so much of his wealth through the kidnap and you know transport and his statement about africans and you know being pulled to the floor drags you to streets and thrown into the water and you know african bodies would have been damaged and also the african bodies that would have been thrown overboard 'd on the ships because they got sick they died off their insurance rates and his they start you know ends up underwater like that and also off the quay side where costanzo ships would have bought next to the bridge named after and install
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a buffer can. right it's got a lot of significance isn't it and what's going to happen to the statue you know what we've taken we've received the statue from the water now and we've taken it to one of our museums to be taken care of make sure there's no further erosion going on by name we will be able to display in context with a full understanding of who caused the most and actually been collecting some of the placards as well that were held up as this that she was talking to because that is that is history that is part of the meaning of that statue in that moment those were the voices of the people that pulled it out right to what degree do you think that the existence of monuments like police and start you perpetuate racism in britain and how how seminal a moment is is to address racial inequality in britain and in the around the world . i think that's a question that has to be answered you know oncet incredibly carefully. symbols are
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important they create a narrative they create a sense of self they they contribute to hierarchy that's why they are used but symbols in and of themselves you know on the whole powerful. you know what the drive is a very sort of quality it's housing inequality education equality health inequality inequalities in the criminal justice system in the political system in journalism so actually the extent to which a simple gives you a change and a symbol gives you a gateway to tackling those why that. those wider inequalities is important to the extent to which change in a symbol changes those wider inequalities. is important but we also recognize that they don't necessarily do that and the danger is we get caught up in symbolic acts but don't change underlying conditions that is that would lead to further injustice and it with the great frustration what do you say to those he say that when dismantling the historical context of the way british society was built.
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that when i say we're not. it well one is i can take is that i did pull this that you don't is a thing but but staci said gnomes in a not themselves do not do the job of teaching assistant you know if you were to try to base your historical knowledge a person of on the stature of khowst him and you are using that to divide a novel paper i'd give you an 8 because it tells you he was a wise and to a son of the city but that's not the full story is so you wouldn't be taken out the complexity the contradiction the new ones of this person and the community was a part of those merchants if you were simply to talk about him being a philanthropist you would talk about his attitude towards certain groups of poor people in your drawing social structure within bristol so statues it out themselves do not teach us history they bait talk to us about. a message a certain group of people what's a good base sign his profile history is done by high quality historians do and do
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quote good quality research and we should wrestle with our monuments as well in the same ways we begin to try to uncover the true history the full history of the book the up and i'm also concerned you know i'm also aware of of people's feelings that you know challenging some of these monuments removing them is about loss i'd say is not actually what we're doing is we're getting more we're getting better history better knowledge better insight and see who we are today and how we got to become media so this is just about equipping us one in a stand up world better s.s. mufon recently bristol in the united kingdom now the city of hamilton in new zealand has removed a statue of the british naval officer it's named after a concerned that is culturally offensive to indigenous marry people captain john hamilton accused of killing mary people in the $860.00 s. the decision was made just a day off to local tribes a threat to be removed. now protesters in lebanon have tried to occupy the central
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bankers the nation's currency dropped to new lows against the dollar the government has been in talks with the international monetary fund for weeks there are no signs of an imminent deal on a rescue package for torgan. antigovernment protesters face so food security forces instead. they played the ruling alliance but the political turmoil and economic chaos engulfing let alone. this area of the capital has been a frontline since october when the protest movement began against the sectarian political class which has ruled for decades but the one being able to stop the revolutionaries will topple the government and a new technocratic government will emerge which will save the country from the existing crisis the current government and political parties are not able to and they don't want to save the country from the ongoing crisis they want to steal it
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they don't care about the country. lebanon is facing its worst economic crisis in decades foreign currency has stopped flowing and its reserves are dwindling the lebanese lera has lost 70 percent of its value since october and inflation is soaring the world food program says prices of basic goods have increased by at least 40 percent 'd. i came down here to protest to try to build a country and this is the 1st starts of the protests started on october 17th i get that feeling that we the people are all in the same boat. the government is seeking billions of dollars because so far talks with the international monetary fund have made little progress prime minister has has promised positive change parties being criticised for lack of action victoria gates and the al-jazeera. hundreds of people are protesting in the philippine capital of
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manila against the new. oh activists say the bill gives police expanded powers who could be open to abuse the fear that the president were to go to tennessee could use it against his political opponents and critics but the government says it's needed to stop a tight spot on the group's jamelle and again it's been speaking to some of the protesters about their concerns with the new legislation oh this is the biggest protest the sense of the lockdown was imposed by the philippine government more than 2 months ago that tried to stop the spread of coronavirus in the country on one with everybody. here to give them my voice for junk but there are people here tell us they have been protesting online over the past few months but the government refuses to listen they've been calling on the government to improve the conscious social services to focus on mass testing and to provide for jobs for millions of filipinos who come to new to lose their employment
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in a government spoke. to impose more oppressive and restrictive laws and there are not enough measures basically to make sure that it won't be used against average citizens. now then the pandemic has been particularly devastating for indigenous people across latin america some of fighting back hundreds of tribes living deep in the amazon rain forest to difficult to access old tests for the disease now the yellow here that shows where the tribes live in the green shows protected land and some of the most vulnerable are in brazil and many that have blocked public access to their villages but rights groups say they're still twice as likely to die from the virus as other brazilians in mexico the indigenous population of 12700000 often use community radio to share information about covert 900 in remote areas ecuador's khiam be a population of 80000 they guarding the entrance to that town and well they might
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because. they have just one infection and then colombia's cloud forest 10000 members of the who are trying have also set up goal posts well in the 1st reporting of zeros on covert 900 impact on indigenous people were taking a look at brazil and their rights groups say deaths among the most vulnerable tribes have increased more than 5 fold in the past month it was about as this. more than 900000 people from more than 300 tribes these are members of brazil's indigenous communities corona virus is spreading fast among them and now they're struggling to cope with d.c.s. so much more ridiculous yet they have a specific word for indigenous people for salmons for us to perform our rituals and our medicines but there's nothing like that here we have to go through other hospitals for referral when you get there they don't put on the documents that we're indigenous. this hospital in my analysis has a designated area for treating indigenous patients but doctors say the biggest
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problem is not here. the disease is spreading into the interior and now it's going to hit the municipalities the river communities and the indigenous and the case of indigenous people they'll be brought here and why do we have an indigenous ward because we need to learn to treat people that are different differently and to value what sounds from the amazon with the state with the highest concentration of indigenous and brazil the highest concentrations of indigenous in the world and geo saying that death toll among indigenous people in brazil rose from 28 to nearly 200 in just one month and they expect the number to rice we spoke to sonya who is in the city of d.p.m. a zone she says many communities are fearing extermination. there is an increase in illegal miners and loggers and they bring in the risk of infection we don't have the privilege to care for the pandemic alone we have to do this and at the same
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time keep on fighting with historical problems we face that will never dissolve like deforestation and invaders in our territory deforestation has also increased in the past month compared to previous years illegal miners and loggers are pushing deeper into the jungle brazil's president has made it clear he wants to open up the rain forest for business and the discourse is an incentive to those who want to expand brazil's agriculture frontier a video released by the supreme court during an investigation against the president shows his environment minister expressing the government's plans. to susan we need to make an effort while we are in this call moment in terms of prasco overage because they are only talking about corporate and push through and change all the rules and support for norms environmental groups say the government wants to move forward with a legislative. that will we can say guards against the incursion on indigenous
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lands. and for these communities it means their livelihood is seriously had risk threatened not only by epidemic that continues to spread but also by a government that is ignoring their calls for help. now still ahead here on al-jazeera to take your 3 month break because of grind of ours the board turns and spade peter will have the option it's for.
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you. well again let's put up peter thank you nic has
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a beijing and singapore and japan have become the latest grand prix races to be cancelled but for me one organizers because of the coronavirus pandemic virus restrictions present too many challenges for those countries to host races according to a statement from f one the start of the season had already been delayed to july when it will begin in austria with no spectators formula one says it's still hoping to run between $15.18 events with new races in low risk countries also being considered football has returned in spain for the 1st time in 3 months with a darby in between severe and real betis on thursday there was a moment's silence between kickoff before kick off 2 on a more than 27000 in spain who have lost their lives due to the disease took the lead with a 56 minute penalty from newcastle compass fernando doubled at the advance of 6 minutes later for to know when. they also saw a return to action for professional golf as the p.g.a.
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tour got back underway after its pandemic stoppage but it wasn't just the virus that has been a hot topic for players on the tour lately journal reports. it's been 3 months since professional golf was last plate but in that time much has changed around the world and on the p.g.a. tour all week players have talked about the fight against racism and a moment of silence was held for george floyd ahead of that opening round. one of those who's been at the center of the conversation and pushing for change is harold fond of the 3rd the world number 124 let his golf do the talking on thursday as he grabbed a share of the lead alongside justin rose at the colonial country club in texas i woke up and i was like i'm not really about to play golf but i want to start you know worked out not trying to this morning i was like oh it's game on like you know just back in the saddle it's not just social justice it's forced golf to take a good look at how it needs to move forward the current virus pandemic which pulls
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the game for so long as led to a ban on spec tastes for the 1st 4 events as major champions just in thomas children speak and rory mcilroy rolled in the birdies it felt more like a practice round and in a way that's what it was with the p.g.a. tour the 1st major sport in north america to return it off as a glimpse into the future for other sports expected to come back soon but it's a little strange you know not having anyone to run but at the same time you know. we are so concentrated on what we're doing and trying to shoot good scores and play good golf and so once we you know me personally once i got into it i didn't feel like it was much different it's certainly awkward not having everybody out here but to i'm certainly proud of the steps the p.g.a. tour has taken to have everybody be safe feel safe in this environment and to hopefully entertain and have some people watching on t.v. even though they're not here. t.v. viewers was certainly entertained by south korea's sung kang on the 13th hole but
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the lack of an audience at the course meant the celebrations for his hole in one were decidedly meted joining us roster al-jazeera. england cricketer james anderson says he's team are working with the west indies to plan how both support the black lines matter movement in the upcoming test series the 2 sides are set to meet in the 3 to a series beginning in southampton on july the 8th anderson says the death of george floyd has made him to question his own actions in the polls. so i've experienced racism on the cricket field. and i couldn't remember any instances i know just for recently i was in error in new zealand when he. was racially abused in new zealand . well it made me think and then also it made me think that i have by just turned a blind eye to things the n.f.l. has pledged to donate $250000000.00 over 10 year period to combat systemic racism
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it comes after the league's commissioner apologized for failing to listen to players who protested and agreed that black lives matter but some are calling for the n.f.l. to go further hall of fame wide receiver terrell owens to join the protests in california and says it's time to bring the man who started the kneeling protests back into the game. this is a systemic. that's a just a stop start on your. hand man 4 years ago. the president place in order. to sign them instilling fear into those players they want to support because those guys didn't want to i want those guys to help our. people. organizers of the olympics say they have secured the majority of venues for next year's games the olympics are postponed by a year because of the coronavirus it means at justin's had to be made since some venues already had bookings for 2021 the delay in staging the games could cost
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japan between $2.00 and $6000000000.00. has made an unconventional return after its coronavirus hiatus the impossible games were staged in an empty stadium in oslo with several athletes taking part remotely in the 2000 meters a norwegian team running in no way be to kenyan team running in nairobi and in the pole vault record holder mando duplantis won by clearing $5.00 metres which could not be matched by his nearest rival who was competing in his back garden in fronts . but the most impressive performance came from a man racing against the clock noways to turn 400 metre hurdle world champion cost involved was trying to set a new record over 300 metres and he did it in a time of 33.78 seconds which has come to be clear of chris roland since mark set back in 2002. i'll be back again a little bit later with more sports like previous we'll see in
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a couple of hours thanks very much dave that is it for this news for you but it will be here in couple minutes with another half hour of news with mina clarke. one of the really special things that work in progress here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for it is you know it's very challenging liberally particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are with the people believed to tell the real stories are just mandate is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.
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frank assessments tourism but income stream is dead in the water what's been the result of recent poaching go up quite significantly informed opinions there has been a very aggressive political rhetoric that has become very normal in israeli society in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines it's time for new policy it's safe on the street they cannot all be seen to grady brittany fish the really deep we all continue inside story on al-jazeera save humanity i really really not getting anywhere near. the british iraqi journalist who's visualizing complex statistics in a simple art form i think your office are some really exciting opportunities to break apart from those systems of power and so you collect data in a way that makes a represents different community challenging mainstream misconceptions and hope the
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by creating handle ministrations it doesn't alienate people it doesn't make people who are like i'm not smart enough to understand this truth is that any way. hospitals turn coronavirus patients away in new delhi as india sees the highest number of cases in a single day. the be . fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead crowds gather in hong kong to mark one year since demonstrators surrounded the legislative building leading to months of protests renewed fears about a rise in covered 19 infections in the us.

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