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every generation has higher purpose. hours. brazil's coronavirus death toll surges to become the 2nd highest in the world the un's health agency warns the country's hospitals are under huge strain. i'm not matheson this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up several food markets are closed in beijing after the 1st locally transmitted virus infections in nearly 2 months. taking steps to end police brutality new york state introduces new laws to overhaul its police departments in the wake of the death of george floyd. a
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2nd night of protests in lebanon over the government's handling of a deepening economic crisis. brazil's president was described corona virus as a little flu it's now become a health crisis the country has the 2nd highest number of deaths from covert 900 in the world on friday another 900 deaths were reported and that makes the total number of fatalities in the $42000.00 out of sounder than p.s.e. reports. workers at the largest cemetery in sao paulo or exhuming more than double the amount of bodies they usually do to make room for fresh. as the number of 1000 deaths in the country overwhelms capacity but even if the country is now the world's 2nd highest death toll after the u.s.
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people are returning to the streets in mass the world health organization is again sounding the alarm. says so far the national health system is holding up to the pressure over all the health system is still coping in brazil though having said that with the sustained number of severe cases. it is that remains to be seen and clearly the whole system in brazil across the country needs significant support in order to sustain its efforts in this regard president jackie both so narrow west threaten to leave the w.h.o. all together is this missing concerns about a lack of beds calling on his followers to go into hospitals to demonstrate that this is just a political ploy against them. is there a field hospital near you or a public hospital find a way to get in and film it a lot of people are already doing this more people have to do it to show if the beds are occupied or not. narrows dismissive response to depend demick has further
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entrenched and already deeply divided country with weekly protests in favor and against the president which at times that turned violent. adding to the turmoil both are not only sons are under investigation for corruption your position is calling for the presidency impeachment while its allies are saying a military intervention is necessary to keep him in power. with the current a virus pandemic he had in fact an increase in political instability and a political crisis meaning more conflict between the powers the executive branch the supreme court the national congress. as the number of coronavirus cases rice the political divisions are widening testing the health and the stability of latin america's largest democracy allison that m.p.'s and. mexico has recorded its highest daily number of coronavirus infection since the start of the pandemic more
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than 5200 new cases were reported on friday bringing the total to nearly 140000 at least 16000 people have died from covert 19 despite the rise in infections mexico said it plans to live transport restrictions next week to allow people to get back to work. beijing's 1st locally transmitted corona virus infections in nearly 2 months and forced several food markets to close 2 men working at a food research center visited the markets before they were confirmed covert 19 officials are now investigating how the men picked up the virus at least 7 new locally transmitted cases have been discovered in the past 2 days beijing is also delaying the reopening of some schools as a result. a dire picture is emerging of how the world's 2nd most populous nation is coping with corona virus india has more than 300000 cases but the number is close. rapidly and the health system is struggling the supreme court says conditions are
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deplorable for patients in the worst affected states that all reports of people being denied treatment and of bodies not being disposed of properly elizabeth put on them reports from new delhi. hundreds of doctors in hyderabad smain hospital for corona virus patients on strike just one of many protests by health care workers across india a doctor here was attacked by relatives of a patient he had just declared dead who were rushed towards us and they just throw the chain on plastic plastic at me and it was broken it was hard to my left and i guess i was very scared and. i still was going to throw it at me doctors in hyderabad want the government to enlist more hospitals to treat covered 9000 patients nurses in india's leading public hospital protested for 8 days in delhi until the all india institute of medical sciences promised to
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improve working conditions of the river there are nearly 300000 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 i mean it's. the 1st limitation to dreams it's. real for the whole world to see. says his father is interested 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. without a thought about it but kept on walking from the more to the hospital with great difficulty we got the body and did the funeral he too. submitted here there were no
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beds available in all of delhi we had to put in a huge effort to get unlimited here the west of delhi and mumbai to have some of the best health care infrastructure in the country. 10 away from hospitals continued and here there are discrepancies in the number of deaths municipal councils buried twice the number of patients and also 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. by that that the 1st of july we will eat 80000 beds this will be a huge challenge to. 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 rodham al
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jazeera new delhi. new york has become the latest state to introduce reforms to its police department following the death of a black man as he was being arrested almost 3 weeks ago george floyd died after an officer in minneapolis pendant to the ground and knelt on his neck ford's death sparked protests across the u.s. calling for racial justice and demanding a change in policing the governor of new york describes the new laws as the most aggressive in the nation aimed at ending police brutality against african-americans there is no quick fix to this there is no well stop here gas. change the uniform that's not what this is about my friends and it would be a mistake if we went down that path this is systemic reform a police departments. this is sitting down and taking a look at exactly what they do and have been doing and looking at it through
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a new lens of reform and reinvention because this has been 4050 years in the making demonstrators and some politicians across the united states have been calling for major changes in the way the police operate in some cities like minneapolis where george floyd was killed moves to be made to dismantle the police department christensen and we visited one city that the just thought a lot has changed in camden new jersey since muhammad 1st bought his business here 15 years ago 2012 the city had the highest murder rate in the country and a police department with a troubled reputation mohammad credits the creation of an entirely new county police force for making his street safer doing our share and there is chris. baker now gunning down the bodies that is was the then head for the new camden county police department points to this incident with
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a knife wielding man caught on video as evidence doing away with the old department was a good move they say this kind of disciplined nonviolent response has led to a sharp reduction not only in crime but also in the taliban complaints officers including sergeant raphael thornton had to reapply for their jobs with the new department i would say the biggest thing that allow. people such as myself who are the minority to be the majority. they change the culture camden chief actually joined demonstrators recently who are protesting the police killing of george floyd violent crime has gone down dramatically here in camden since the county took over the local police department but they've also nearly doubled the number of officers on the street and some local activists think that is exactly the wrong approach i n d merrill believes there would be even less crime in camden if there were more opportunities he's with a local group that supports what's become
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a national movement to cut funding for police if you look at the communities that the police are occupying people's lives getting better are you improving the overall quality of these people's lives the people feel safer they don't and the relationship is just as sure as the previous administration more accountability and local control of camden police not disbanding them altogether is what he's calling for and he hopes the growing reform movement will get more people to listen christian salumi al-jazeera camden new jersey canada's prime minister says police video of the violent arrest of a prominent indigenous chief is shocking and raises questions about the use of force but as confidence it shows federal officers tackling chief alan to the ground and punching him in the face incident and march began over an expired license plate the video is being used in a legal challenge to criminal charges filed against them the police known as the r.c.m.p. say they used reasonable force after he resisted arrest. a bomb has ripped through
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a crowd of worshipers at a mosque in kabul at least 5 people were killed including the man who was leading friday prayers for the o'connell 40 reports in the afghan capital. the shares sussudio mosque was packed with worshippers for friday prayers when an explosion ripped through it killing several people according to the afghan ministry of interior the explosives were placed inside the mosque some witnesses say they tried to help the injured person or the myself i was in but when i entered the mosque i saw all the injured people the mom was killed on the spot we started to carry the dead bodies as well as the injured and then they didn't allow us to go inside a mosque. the taliban has denied responsibility for the attack explosion comes days after another mosque in kabul was targeted a mom was killed and i still claimed responsibility the government and afghans
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alike have condemned the attacks on these places of worship by the. judge this is how the terrorists are targeting holy places like mosques we condemn this attack and it's against any rule of fighting the attack happened at a critical moment for afghanistan peace talks between the taliban and the afghan government are closer than ever some saying they'll start within weeks and as attack some places of worship increase so is the concern that spoilers like myself could try to undermine the political process everyone involved in the negotiations says they must be prevented from doing so for your country free al-jazeera kabul. still had an al-jazeera pakistan tries to dig itself out of a financial hole as a tackle is its 1st recession in almost 70 years. removed all revered we're look at the contrivances surrounding some historical monuments.
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hello those a few showers across areas attack here the last couple days and there is some more showers in the full cause not see bad temperature wise you can see in ankara 23 degrees with those rain showers they could be quite heavy at times the system working its way through eastern areas of the country meanwhile a fairly brisk own show flow on the mediterranean shoreline say 31 in jerusalem and 27 in beirut so should be feeling pretty nice that under the sunny skies but of course away from their father to the south the temperature has a whole different story 42 in baghdad 45 in kuwait the winds a fairly strong as we go throughout the weekend by sunday really quite strong further to the south pushing across katahdin again across into these areas of saudi and touch as well generally made it to high forty's celsius 4643 and 40 celsius
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across into dubai now being very cool for the last few days across the areas of southern africa that is set to improve all the time to still think the low below the average already for namibia across into balls want to much of south america as well 14 celsius in johannesburg and in h.s. some rain beginning to push in the fall south of the south africa now this will bring the rain shall settle sunday 17 degrees in cape town 19 import lizabeth meanwhile to the north through central regions the usual showers and thunderstorms . talk to old usera we heard let me argue how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen we listen this is the moment to stop all really very action this is the moment it also trades on fighting over why didn't we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the edges there are.
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revealing eco friendly solutions to comeback threats to our planet on al-jazeera. to. the i. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour brazil now has the 2nd highest number of covered 19 deaths worldwide the health ministry reported more than $900.00 fatalities in fighting putting the total at nearly 42000 it also has the biggest number of infections after the u.s. . beijing's 1st locally transmitted corona virus infections in nearly 2 months of forced several food markets to close 2 men working at
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a food research center visited the markets before they were confirmed to have covered 19. the governor of the u.s. state of new york has signed a package of sweeping police reforms into law include a ban on child calls the measures followed nationwide protests over the death of george floyd in minneapolis last month. in a rare climbdown donald trump is reshuffling a rally that was due to be held on a day that commemorates the end of slavery that follows a growing outcry from black leaders for days the u.s. president had defended his decision to hold his 1st rally in 2 months on june the 19th also known as juneteenth it will not be held a day later than she had told in tulsa oklahoma that's the site of one of the bloodiest massacres of black americans in u.s. history trump says he's making the change out of respect. protestors have rallied for the 2nd night in lebanon over the government's handling of a deepening economic crisis hundreds voiced anger over the spiraling cost of living
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despite a government pledge to bolster the local conferencing victoria gave me reports. have no confidence the lebanese government can stop the worsening economic crisis that anger and frustration is fueling violent protests as people least hope. they reach 10. strange history fireworks and rocks at riot police. they were met with a volley of tear gas. shops in the capital were attacked. and in the northern city of tripoli protesters holed petrol bombs at soldiers. they should all resign so we can live and so those young unemployed men can live instead of becoming robbers and thieves. since october the local currency has lost
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70 percent of its value but they banks are still maintaining the official price paid at $1500.00 lire to the dollar black market prices have surged inflation is soaring there are shortages of food and fuel and unemployment has spiked to 35 percent after an emergency cabinet meeting on friday the government promised to stabilize the current say by injecting more dollars into the market but feel. the value of the dollar against the neben us currency will be reduced as of today but in reality it will not appear before monday $1.00 will equal less than $4000.00 lebanese lira and it will go down to 3000 or 3200. but for these protesters this crisis is not a and they want those empowered to be held responsible for the years of mismanagement and corruption victoria gazin be i'll just say or. a report to the u.n.
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security council has found missiles used in attacks in saudi arabia's oil facilities and an airport last year where all of iranian origin run has denied any involvement our diplomatic editor james bays reports 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 now it is or is 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 in a manner inconsistent with the security council resolution 2231 that's the resolution in shrine and 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
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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 said 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 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
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united states more than 200000 south korean children have been adopted over the last 16 years tracing their birth parents is notoriously difficult but now one woman search has led to a land. ruling accord is officially recognized as the daughter of her biological father she was adopted by an american family at the age of 2 but she was refused help when she tried to look 8 her birth parents many korean adoptees face legal restrictions when trying to trace their roots by these ruling will mean both will be able to access official records of her father's family. i think this is momentous for all of us adoptees just to have the right finally. took. the struggles that we face with not having any rights whatsoever to be able to contact their families and i hope this can change and i hope that no one else gets to go through what i did to be able to come behind these details of knowing
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just a fundamental rights of who my parents are in for my family. russian president vladimir putin has attended his 1st major public event since the nationwide lockdown and more than 2 months ago that he made putin observe the hosting of a russian flag at a moscow park while marking a national holiday the 67 year old leader was last seen in public in late march when he announced a partial economic shutdown would be rumors the president himself may have called covert 19 russia has reported more than 510000 coronavirus cases and over 6000 deaths a french research show has won the right to review former french president francois mitterrand archives on little wonder and genocide accords ruled the documents would allow fall songkran need to shed light on france's role in the 1904 mass killings or want to accuse france of having direct involvement in the assassination of then
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president juvenile mana which triggered 100 days of ethnic violence. pakistan's government has announced its next budget as a grapples with weak economic prospects and the fallout from coronavirus osama bin survey of reports. as politicians in pakistan met to discuss a budget in excess of $43000000000.00 for the next financial year 70 year old gorry was forced to sell mosques in islamabad the adults in the family and well she must wait for customers to be able to earn some money. and. my mother is sick my father is sick i'm a sell masks and less to take home some food in the evenings. the economy was already struggling and the coronavirus pandemic added additional strain. government data indicates that a complete shutdown to stop the pandemic could see an additional loss of $18000000.00 jobs by cosign economy is predicted to suffer negative growth for the
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1st time in 68 years and the government says it understands people are suffering so no new taxes have been added to disuse budget the budget. is meant to bring relief. to citizens of workers. why this. support. even attractive offers such as not asking investors where their money came from have not worked investment hasn't improved enough to create jobs anywhere that. just people are of a high what's a poor man supposed to eat how do if you children send them to school buy clothes inflation is broken or even my mobile phone is blocked a new law means now i must be to get out all these problems of the poor the rich keep getting richer. i made $12.00 in 10 days what should i do. there's an additional allocation for the health budget to fight the pandemic many
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people ignored the government safety advice when markets real. after bhatia lockdowns more than one 128000 people have been infected and 2400 have died including 40 medical staff 2000 others have also contracted the virus pakistan's doctors and paramedics have been critical of the government's response to the pandemic is a shortage of lifesaving drugs and many fear even specialist care facilities may not be able to properly treat patients hospital staff say people are panicking about the availability of oxygen tanks which are in short supply israel there's also a fuel shortage in many areas emergency workers say they do not know how to respond to the lack of fuel and oxygen cylinders have done over the long distances is an issue because of the fuel shortage ambulances have to wait in line as well and we only get $3.00 to $8.00 worth of fuel we have to transport patients many of them are critical so fuel is a major issue only small oxygen tanks are available like this one which last only 3
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hours finance and charities have stepped up efforts to feed the hungry at this center in islamabad a 1000 people are fed every day organizers say most of those in queues a daily wage workers carpenters household help and even unemployed skilled workers . as politicians squabble define and allocate appropriate resources the options to stem the rising number of those living in poverty remain clear simon job aid is there a statue of britain's wartime prime minister winston churchill has just one to have been boarded up ahead of anti racism protests expected in london this weekend the con leader but his johnson says the marches have been hijacked by extremists after monuments what attacked but as the barber reports it's opened up a debate about who still deserves to be remembered and how. a reflection of a wider debate raging in britain black lives matter supporters arguing with
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opponents by the statue of winston churchill opposite the u.k. parliament it was boarded up because of fears it could be targeted by protesters now the prime minister's called the need to protect monuments observed and insisted people should not be protesting what's happened with these these demonstrations is that a tiny minority or achieve 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 why they should not go to these demonstrations. last weekend's demonstrators in the city of bristol pull down a statue of 17th century slave it would cost him it's now been retrieved from the river will be housed in a museum some commentators have suggested britain should leave such monuments up as
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a reminder of the evils of the past the local man disagrees statues you know in a not themselves do not do the job of teaching assistant you know if you were to try and base your historical knowledge of person on the statue of coast and you were using that to write in a 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 and at the latest anti racism protest in central london there was little sympathy for boris johnson strongs i'm not sort of for ripping going around and ripping down structures but i think i mean people have to also sells releases so it's questions about who we stock what we hold up a standard bearer i mean some parts and people in munich i want to have a not just of me whatever people do as a whistle and complain about how we're trying to get a message across so we prayed tast and i feel like that's one of the best face that mr president knows to listen to us to 70 things other people are just ignoring yeah
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these protests have given people a chance to a grievances about perceived police brutality and discrimination in britain right now but they've also put up a debate about how the country remembers its past and who it chooses to celebrate the protesters say it's about opening up difficult discussions not just closing down symbols of oppression. al-jazeera london. this is all just here are these are the top stories brazil now has the 2nd highest number of coronavirus deaths worldwide the health minister reported more than $900.00 for talents on friday putting the total at nearly 42000 it also has the highest number of infections after the us the world health organization has voiced concern but says the health system is standing up to the pressure for now. the
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health system is still coping in brazil to having said that with the sustained number of severe cases. these that remains to be seen and clearly the system. will treat significant support in order to sustain its efforts in this regard mexico has recorded its highest daily number of infections since the start of the pandemic more than 5200 new cases were reported on friday bringing the total there to nearly 140000 at least 16000 people died despite the rise in infections mexico city will live transport restrictions from next week. beijing's 1st locally transmitted corona virus infections in the ending 2 months of forced several food markets to close 2 men working at a food research center visited the markets before they were confirmed to have covered 19 officials are now investigating how the man picked up the virus the
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governor of the us state of new york has signed a package of sweeping police reforms into law they include a ban on chokeholds and allowing the release of officers disciplinary records measures followed nationwide protests over the death of george floyd in minneapolis last month. canada's prime minister says he's shocked by police video showing the violent arrest of a prominent indigenous chief the dash cam footage from an incident in march is being used in a legal challenge to criminal charges filed against chief. protesters have rallied for the 2nd night in lebanon over the government's handling of a deepening economic crisis hundreds voiced anger over the spiralling cost of living despite a government pledge to bolster the local currency those are the headlines the news continues here on after talk to all of us here goodbye. as protests rage over police brutality and corona virus grips the nation campaigning
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on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and so their brand of politics to americans before the votes follow the u.s. elections on a. little. 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 only appointed government led by most of the me is now faced with a challenging task.

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