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i mean it cannot be what about the guy and afterward tell me is water in a new 2 part series al-jazeera examines the social financial and environmental impact of water privatized loads of water on al-jazeera. india's top call criticizes the deplorable state of coronavirus and medics threaten to resign. as the whole robin you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes the british prime minister says black lives matter protests in the u.k. have been hijacked by extremists as winston churchill statue is boarded up. also burned his top court rules that the president elect can be sworn into office after
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the sudden death of caesar. as libyan government forces surge into the strategic city of sirte we look at the barriers to striking a ceasefire with warlord khalifa haftar. welcome to the broken we start in asia where a dire picture is emerging of how the world's 2nd most populous nation is coping with corona virus india has nearly 300000 cases but the number is climbing rapidly and the health system is struggling the supreme court says conditions are deplorable for patients in the worst affected states they've been reports of people being denied treatment and of bodies not being disposed of properly elizabeth purana reports now from the capital new delhi. hundreds of doctors in hyderabad main hospital for corona virus patients. strike just one of many protests
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by healthcare workers across india a doctor here was attacked by relatives of a patient he had just declared dead who rushed towards us and they just throw. me under data was broken it was hard to my left and i didn't i was very scared and . i still. need to order doctors in hyderabad want the government to enlist more hospitals to treat that 19 patients nurses in india's leading public hospital protested for 8 days in delhi until the all india institute of medical sciences promised to improve working conditions everybody over there in 830-0000 cases and more than 8000 deaths along with a public health system that has faced years of cutbacks india's public and. it was in a terrible shape is that i mean it's. the 1st limitations it's dreams it's in and
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it was. for the whole world to see. his father as interesting even proper treatment in hospital but he was admitted yesterday and a doctor came to check all the time since and no doctor has come to check on him my father is 60 years old and a heart patients he has a severe cough and a fever. his uncle died from the corona virus at the same hospital this week it was a good death but we couldn't sort of talk about it we kept on walking from the more to the hospital with great difficulty we got the body and did the funeral he too was admitted here there were no beds available in all of delhi we had to put in a huge effort to get him limited here the worst cities of delhi and mumbai most to have some of the best health care infrastructure in the country but reports of people being turned away from hospitals continued and here in jelly there are discrepancies in the number of deaths municipal councils. then buried twice the
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number of coronavirus patients and those being reported by the government this week . delhi's chief minister says they're expecting more than half a 1000000 cases by the end of next month because. a c. has are by that there be 1st of july really 80000 births this will be a huge challenge. year delhi try to restrict the territories beds to its residents but the central government has overruled that decision and the supreme court says the situation facing patients is deplorable and ask the worst affected states to explain why the people aren't receiving proper care elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi the united kingdom is also battling to contain the pandemic in england the coronavirus are number which indicates how contagious disease is nearly one when it goes above that it means each person with the virus will in fact more than one other health officials are worried that it isn't improving lawrence lee has
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more on the situation in the u.k. as a whole. across the whole country it's more or less static and not point $7.00 to $9.00 and the concern is the reproduction rate across the piece going above wharton because that would. inevitably mean an end to any relaxation of the lockdown in wales has actually gone down in the south west of england it's the only part of the country that listed where it may be. around warm but then again the southwest only had 3 deaths yesterday out of a total of $200.00 in most other places estates static and so it's not really that it's getting noticeably worse it's just that it's not getting better and that's really the problem because. at some point in time when they do that i mean the economic figures they were absolutely abysmal a 20 percent fall in gross domestic product in the 1st quarter of the year it's
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only if the reproduction rate gets a lot better and there's proper signs at the epidemic is it is improving that they can get industry back so it's it's it's very very slow that's the problem the 3 biggest airlines have launched legal action against the government's quarantine policy which requires 2 weeks of self isolation on arrival in britain british airways easyjet and ryanair say the rules introduced on monday are flawed and will have a devastating effect on tourism well the british prime minister boris johnson has accused extremists of hijacking the black lives matter protests as demonstrators gear up for a further 3 days of rallies starting on saturday in a twitter post the prime minister described the attacks on police and violence during protests last weekend as intolerable an apparent he also defended the protection of british monuments including a statue of winston churchill from vandalism he says you people against attending this weekend's demonstrations. what's happen with these these demonstrations is
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that a tiny minority or a few a growing minority unfortunately have hijacked and they are using them as a pretext to attack the police to to cause violence and to cause damage to public property so my unforeseen my message to everybody is that for all sorts of reasons they should not go to these demonstrations but in bars in central london explains why the prime minister has felt compelled to speak about the statue protests he has said that it's absurd that these statues need defending this is in light of what's happened in the past week particularly last sunday in bristol in the southwest of england where a statue of a slaver edward colson was pulled down and thrown into a river by black lives matter protesters that set off a whole debate about how the country memorializes remembers its past who deserves
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to be elevated and what happens to controversial figures winston churchill of course notable for his role in the 2nd world war boris johnson saying this is a permanent memorial to his achievement in saving europe from a racist and fascist power but of course he has got his critics around the country for other episodes in history to do so to the us now where new york governor andrew cuomo says a divisive statue of christopher columbus should not be removed because of its importance to italian americans his comments come against a backdrop of global anti racism protests in response to george floyd's killing statues of columbus and other european explorers have been attacked because of the harm they cause to native americans and africans. the curse of a columbus statue represents. in some ways the italian
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american legacy in this country. and the italian american contribution in this country i understand the feelings about christopher columbus and some of his acts which nobody would support but this statue was has come to represent and signified. appreciation for the italian american contribution to new york so one night for that reason i supported and in the city of hamilton in new zealand they've removed a statue of the british naval officer that it's named after it concerns its culturally offensive to indigenous maori people captain john hamilton is accused of killing maori people in the 18th sixty's the decision was made just a day after local tribes asked for it to be removed such as world wide have been taken down the middle over racial oppression following the death of george floyd traficant a constitutional court has ruled that the president elect must be sworn in as soon
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as possible following the sudden death of pierre couldn't caesar the outgoing president died on monday weeks after elections were held to choose a successor the ruling party's candidate was announced as the winner welcom webb is following the latest developments from nairobi. the constitution says it's the speaker of the national assembly that takes over in the case of the head of state dying on currency that died while it was announced on tuesday we don't know when exactly he died the government said it was a heart attack growing number of people believed it was in fact coded one thing that following his surprise death in normal circumstances it would have been the speaker of the national assembly his then mentor oversee an election to choose a new president because it already had an election last month which was marred by violence and irregularities that the ruling party's candidate every day shumi a he was announced the winner of the constitutional court has ruled today that that means he should take over as soon as possible without any kind of interim
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administration and now there are at least 2 factions vying for power within the generals and the ministers. who control the run d. and today's result is going to be good news for one of them. got this time there's been an explosion at a mosque in the capital kabul please sir at least 5 people have been killed and many more injured in the blast officers say the mosque official who was leading friday prayers is a monster has been no immediate claim of responsibility for your concert house the latest from kabul. the minister of interior phrased the number of dead to 5 and says that at least 8 people have been injured however there are reports from other ministries that praise the number of injured to at least 17 and i can confirm that the emergency hospital here in kabul there have been at least 9 people have been transferred there 2 are in critical condition so there is others have been
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transferred to other hospitals so it appears that the number of injured right now is higher than the number 8 that the minister of interior who gives there are some reports that the explode the explosives where underneath the podium where they mom was supposed to hold a sermon late in the day during today's prayer and then as soon as he approached the podium that's when there was the explosion so if the turns out to be true it appears that the mom was the primary target of the attack but places all initial stages and we're still waiting for more information to come out from the ministry of interior well still ahead here although it was a crowds on the streets of hong kong 2 more war years since demonstrators surrounded the legislative building but into months of protests and was hundreds of rallied in the philippine capital going to
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a new antiterrorism law those stories after the break. my you buy you system that brings the rain every year to china and japan has really got into gear let's north across the young sea so there's been some heavy rain in the morning saturday but. korea and into the major islands of japan take you away what has been something of a heat wave from tokyo that looks like saturday will end up with the heaviest stuff disappearing and creeping out cross the waters towards japan where it's really concentrates on sunday so the surprising forecast very is not one of heavy downpours but light rain for the next 3 days warm and humid but light right they would of course be some further thought into come elsewhere in southern china and
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there's a developing thing on its way towards just west of hong kong so full of active weather now is drug much of the end yet for further south so that we've got a good scattering of showers through borneo too with poppy with the not as active as the world's further north or indeed the ones that are affecting ton in cambodia and vietnam is particularly wet on the coast of combo here in the forecast the mountains also lippy had certainly up to speed with the average and the rain quite heavy is pretty obvious in the forecast. of. white supremacy is on the rise in the u.s. it's an undercurrent that he's following up because mainstream extreme i guess this is the 1st step toward taking america back. faultlines examines the doctor a treat and that one too often deadly consequences what are you telling your
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congregation. we have to be conspiracy to massacre anti semitism in america on al-jazeera. oh. oh. welcome back you're watching undeservedly 0 rama reminder of our top news stories india has recorded the biggest single day jump in corona virus cases with nearly 11000 new infections in just 24 hours the rise in infections comes as the government eases its nationwide lockdown. most of the credit cards transmission rate in england has risen to nearly one its a value slightly higher than for the u.k.'s home but they are number represents the
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number of new people each coronavirus case infects and there's been an explosion of them all skin the afghan capital kabul police said least 5 people have been killed and many more injured in the blast. first day in asia because pakistan's government is set to present its budget in parliament as it grapples with fallout from the coronavirus pandemic the health crisis is expected to push millions into unemployment and poverty now the government says the economy will contract by up to 1.5 percent this year more than 100000 cases have been reported across the country critics say prime minister in one car. of easing restrictions too soon because that increase has caused an increase in deaths and infections. protesters are facing off with police in hong kong as the controversial national anthem law comes into effect now the legislation makes it a criminal offense to mock china's anthem activists say dilates their freedom of expression it's one year since police crackdown on demonstrators who are
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surrounding the government headquarters leading to months of violent demonstrations which is there is to be a part of his amongst the protesters in hong kong and sent this update. the police are still moving people away they're trying to break up gatherings now they keep saying that this isn't an authorized gathering as you can see that as a blue that held up a blue flag they say that people are risking arrest by coming here protesters wanted to come here to mark one year since. the hong kong's protest and pro-democracy movement reached a turning point a year ago a large number of protesters in the 10s of thousands surrounded the legislative council the government headquarters to try and stop proceedings on a law it was said next traditional proposed extradition law that would have seen hong kong criminal suspects sent to mainland china to face their opaque courts that are ruled by the communist party the protesters grew larger and larger and police
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broke that up and protesters say they used excessive force human rights activists also called out police abuse against the protesters since then to hong kong's protest movement changed both sides up the ante we saw police use more force against the protesters to break up gatherings and we saw the protesters change their tactics to confront the police and there were almost daily violent confrontations in the last half of 2019 but in the past year the protest movement has somewhat died down. somewhat died down it was subdued mainly due to the corona virus outbreak and due to social distancing restrictions. hundreds of people are protesting in the philippine capital manila against a new anti terrorism law activists say the bill gives pleas expanded powers that could be open to abuse now they fear that president roderigo deter they could use it against his political opponents and critics but the government says it's needed
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to stop attacks by armed groups and has been speaking to some of the protesters about their concerns with the new legislation. this is the biggest protest since 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 you. know to give them my voice to talk but the real 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 country's social services to focus on mass testing and to provide for jobs for millions of filipinos who continue to lose their employment and then they say the government focus has been to impose more oppressive and restrictive laws and there not enough measures
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basically to make sure that he won't be used against average citizens. north korea says it will point to maintaining a relationship between its leader kim jong un and the u.s. president while washington remains hostile pillions the foreign minister made the commons on the 2nd anniversary of a landmark summit between the 2 leaders he said north korea would no longer allow donald trump to score political points by meeting kim while giving nothing in return. north africa now where libya's national oil company says it's lost more than $5000000000.00 since january because of the ongoing fighting it was false to put exports on hold as its largest fields this week after it was shut down again by an armed group libya's oil questioned his claims to the latest battles between the u.s. backed government and fighters loyal to wald cling to have to train. in a major setback for warlord khalifa haftar forces loyal to the internationally
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recognized government in tripoli are now at the pentagon into the city of sirte on libya's central coast after a string of victories in the west. syria is located near libya's most important asset its oil producing region in the east which is under hunter's control. libya which has africa's richest proven crude reserves and relies on oil exports for nearly all its state revenue plunged into violence with the toppling and killing of longtime leader while mortgage death the in 2011. the country's oil fields pipelines and terminals have frequently been damaged in fighting putting libya on the path to economic government preserving libyan oil facilities and strong access to the national oil corporation how after is backed by the u.a.e. egypt and russia among others more than a year after he launched his unsuccessful campaign to take control of tripoli from the internationally recognized government his backers are now seeking to keep half
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they're involved through diplomacy but now embolden with turkish support and gaining territory rapidly government forces and officials say they will not negotiate with have to nor accept the ceasefire. we will enter a shot this isn't the battle for cities like. it is a fight for libya for freedom and democracy we will continue east until we liberate all of libya from the war criminal. european leaders have called for a cease fire with the german ambassador visiting have to in eastern libya on wednesday and then tripoli the day after much to my leave. unfortunately the international community stood by while have to our sort of tripoli and killed civilians the feeling among libyans is they no longer trust the international community countries who recognize the g.n.a.t. but support have to like egypt can't be trusted the u.n.
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support mission in libya has said that the d.n.a. and half there's military delegations are now fully engaged in the 3rd round of talks but with both sides setting strict conditions it is unlikely we will see a ceasefire in libya any time soon now traina al-jazeera misrata. report to the un security council has found that missiles used in attacks on saudi arabian oil facilities and an airport last year were of iranian origin to iran has previously denied any involvement or diplomatic answer to james bays has more from u.n. headquarters. this is a report by the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists to the security council it's not yet been published but al-jazeera has obtained a copy and it's following the work of the u.n. panel of experts who have been looking into a number of attacks on saudi arabia on oil facilities and on an airport and they conclude that some of the materials used in the attacks may have been transferred
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in a manner inconsistent with the security council resolution 2231 that's the resolution enshrined the 2015 iran nuclear deal of course they can't make a definitive judgment on that because it's not clear to them when exactly these materials were transferred from iran whether it was a breach of the nuclear deal what i think is important about this is it gives fresh ammunition to the u.s. at what is a very politically sensitive time the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft is preparing a draft resolution which is very controversial she want to extend the arms embargo on iran and she's making threats she's saying if she doesn't get her way then she's going to trigger a provision of the iran nuclear deal called snapback bring all the sanctions international sanctions against iran back into force you may ask well how can the u.s. do that because it pulled out of the iran nuclear deal it is
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a very tricky legal position and certainly legally doesn't seem to be any right now . there's certainly going to be a big dispute if they go down that route and it's going to be a dispute that pits the u.s. is closest allies its european allies on the side of russia and china against the united states but the u.s. has issued a desperate plea for financial aid and support in yemen saying more than 30 of its 41 programs in the country could close in weeks doctors in yemen have officially recorded more the. 500 cases of covert 19 but health care workers say that the number lags far behind the actual infection rates the u.n. says the health system has collapsed with hospitals lacking beds and basic medicine and turning away sick people more than $24000000.00 yemenis that's more than 2 thirds of the population rely on some form of aid yemen is facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis that includes an ongoing 5 year civil war and with the threat
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of famine and the spread of diseases like malaria humanitarian aid is becoming the only lifeline for millions across the country sara bias loney anti is the country representative for yemen at unicef she says the situation is growing worse by the day for 90 percent of children in the country that need aid the crisis is of cataclysmic proportions you have a preexisting situation where children were already in dire need and now and children are confronted with multiple issues in just adds to their complex in very difficult lives that they leave the children in yemen are worse off than all children in the world in for us this is an emergency adequate testing in yemen we know that we don't have. all of the communities with access to testing and so definitely what we're hearing as well we're seeing as the numbers being officially declared do not tell the story that the children of facing children are facing
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multiple issues so for example i will give you children are for now out of school and you would say well all should know the world out of school for the most part but the children in yemen almost 6000000 of them who've been out of school since march schools are probably closed had no access to any distance money no access to education online no form of education at all in addition to that they're facing a conflict we have active lines right now you can talk about children playing you can talk about today even having some sort of recreation so at the end of the day the children of yemen are stuck stranded. the u.n. refugee agency is making an urgent appeal for nearly $200000000.00 to cope with the recent wave of displaced people who fled violence in the region groups with bases in mali have spread their tanks to tunisia and the kenya fast say at least $4000.00 people were killed in 3 countries across africa last year as more. hiding under the staircase of in abandon school is
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a bully family shaken from an attack they've turned classroom benches into beds beneath is everything they save before dawn militia armed with machetes and guns tore through their village in central mali 66 year old bully has seen a lot of conflict between philosophies and doggone in his lifetime but the brutality of this week's attack has left him in shock i am afraid of the dog and not the jihadi groups and forces they don't harm us like them but they don't protect us either the militias control our movements they kill us and burn our villages. the u.n. investigation accuses doggone militias in the militaries of this a hell of committing war acts of extrajudicial killings on the civilians they are meant to protect than the armed groups their fighting no individual has been a function and held responsible for all of the nations for that has generated a general sense of impunity. and a repetition of. 2.3000000 people mostly children are on the move fleeing the
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violence in the south 5000000 are facing hunger and are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance the united nations refugee agency says they are overstretched and are appealing for 200000000 dollars to help those displaced people have fled their homes have literally fled with the clothes on their back they don't have shelter they don't have food they don't have the most basic stuff things all focused in this came up will be to bring in that shelter. to be supporting governments which started off as an armed insurgency in northern mali in 2013 has now spread beyond us to hell into togo and ivory coast with attacks being carried out by groups linked to islamic state and al-qaeda last friday while tens of thousands of demonstrating against their government's inability to protect people from the violence french forces said they killed the leader of al qaeda and islamic magreb. in northern mali you know incident comes as the united nations
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wants to slash the $1000000000.00 budget of the un peacekeeping operation in mali for failing to deliver peace the mandate of the $14000.00 troop is up for renewal while the united nations security council debates the future of the mission i believe bully and his family wondered not when but if it will be able to return home nicholas hawk al-jazeera. a reminder of our top stories india has recorded the biggest single day jumping coronavirus cases with nearly 11000 new infections in just 24 hours the rise in infections comes as the government eases its nationwide lockdown the coronavirus transmission rate in england has risen to nearly one its a value slightly higher than for the whole of the u.k. the our number represents the number of new people each coronavirus case intersects
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and the british prime minister boris johnson has accused extremists of hijacking and braces protests in london a statue of winston churchill has been boarded up after it was sprayed with graffiti jobs and called it absurd and shameful what's happened with these these demonstrations is that a tiny minority or a growing minority of have hijacked and they are using them as a pretext to attack the police to to cause violence and to cause damage to public property so my message to everybody is that for all sorts of reasons they should not go to these demonstrations burundi's constitutional court has ruled the president elect must be sworn in as soon as possible following the sudden death of . the outgoing president died on monday weeks after elections were held to choose his successor the ruling party's over easter. was announced the winner.
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police in hong kong have dispersed pro-democracy protesters a controversial national law comes into effect the legislation makes it a criminal offense to mock trial as the activists say violates their freedom of expression it's one year since police crackdown on demonstrators who are surrounding the government headquarters leading to months of violent protests and north korea says there's little point in maintaining a relationship between its leader kim jong un and the u.s. president while washington remains hostile. foreign minister says north korea would no longer allow donald trump to score political points by meeting kim while giving nothing in return calls because all of those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com about the more news in a half hour here on al-jazeera but next it's talk to al-jazeera you stay with us.
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to. see. after months of anti-government protests and political uncertainty iraq is now grappling with the worst fiscal crisis in decades. iraq's economy and state budgets are heavily reliant on oil income and have been hit hard by the sharp decline in global oil prices the world bank has projected g.d.p. to contract by 9.7 percent of the fiscal deficit expected to reach almost 30 percent of g.d.p. iraq's new of the appointed government led by most of the me is now faced with a challenging task of implementing long over.

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