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eventually candidates ever hit the road and so their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the us elections on a. both the rebels and yemen say they've launched their largest military operation across the border in saudi arabia the saudi led coalition says it's intercepted just one ballistic missile. hello everyone forget this is al jazeera live from also coming up libya's internationally recognized government rejects calls for peace talks by the arab league saying that it won't make a deal with supporters of the war after. a powerful earthquake rocks southern
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mexico tsunami warnings are issued along coastlines throughout central america. and 2 u.s. states vote to decide who they want to see as the next u.s. president but he kept talking there are concerns that not everyone will get to vote . on this who think rebels say they've launched their biggest military operation against saudi arabia britain's foreign secretary has condemned the missile attack on riyadh calling for an end to hostilities and to allow humanitarian efforts to resume in yemen 8 drones and 3 ballistic missiles have been fired towards the kingdom since monday and the hooty say they plan to launch even more for its part the saudi coalition fighting in yemen says that it's intercepted a ballistic missile that was heading towards riyadh who think spokesman claimed that they'd attacked the defense ministry and a military base in. capitol among other targets well then i left them. in response
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to the continued and just blockade and brutal aggression on the great people of yemen and our great country the yemeni armed forces launched the biggest attack on the capital of our saudi enemy riyadh using drones and a massive number of ballistic missiles we stress once more that more fierce attacks and military operations on the enemy will be launched so the blockade is that it entail our freedom and independence are gained mohamed al is in yemen is capital sanaa and says that the who want to send a clear message to saudi arabia this kind of build up of collation for by both sides has started with the latest oppression that we hope is described as the 4th deterrence operation that was launched monday night on saudi arabia the whole thing is claimed that they have launched 3 ballistic inside saudi arabia
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claimed that it has intercepted one of these 3 missiles so far also they have launched 38 drums operations on different military positions and design and run the whole thing is claimed and they believe that they have targeted the saudi defense ministry their intelligence center and also the the king's air base so far they have the houthi according to the tweet that has been circulated by the whole head of the diplomatic or political negotiating team he said that the hope he hopes that the saudi arabia would react positively to their masses even though this is haven't had their targets but is a consultant to the yemeni embassy in london he says that the attack is a sign that the 2 things confidence is growing. i mean does the. office and or on this by he doesn't look like they need to physically go there is that if
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they feel that there's. not a. will. of the transitional council or the transitional council is why the u.a.e. but also doesn't enjoy it also that much of the focus because of because there's many many many reasons but the wrong guy thought this was. on the front there was the the international community may say that they want they use their national thank you but they don't have the means to the means to do that in order. for the beauty they're trying to do you have. conflict as much as possible and eventually the question will be are libya's internationally recognized government says that it rejects our bleak coals for peace talks so long as the initiative
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comes from ward khalifa haftar as egypt's president called on the government of national accord to stop its offensive against tough tough east of the capital threatening it with military intervention awards troops have been retreating and losing ground since the government's national accord launched a turkish backed defensive in may france's president is accusing turkey of playing a dangerous game in libya the commo longer be tolerated and ahsoka masi is a libya analyst and says this isn't the 1st time that egypt has tried to hinder libya's peace process. it's a real weaponization of the peace process beautiful 2 weeks ago. it's a bit off with a peace deal in cairo but the murder of the police officers forces who treats and this is really a policy of preservation. cartel or there were various states in the arab league and it's perhaps one of the most bizarre diplomatic incidents in recent history
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with libya and there is a lot there's 000-000-0000 extension 0000 with the way the east and because of this one has the. country that is frankly an insurgent. tells a software government that is a red like a replay of an territory it's quite a bizarre move on the whole part. of the zone but i would say that the arab league and egypt kind of on the authoritarian were directed and in cahoots the political weapon on it's really these forces going for the president funneling only moments ago as it was the tense in january 20th in berlin 8 days before that there was a sense in moscow it's the words of the park that have now become infamous in moscow which was he refused to do and so i me more from him than time has come in this and really going to backfire on him only factor is not it that's where the real issue is today 6 months later they're going from the offensive to the troops and then it's really it was
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a policy of preservation here as health officials say that they have not been osc to slow down coronavirus testing even though president trump had said that he'd instructed staff to do so members of the u.s. coronavirus task force and public health officials are testifying at a congressional hearing about the government's response to the pandemic democratic politicians have consistently criticized the white house over its handle the situation a top infectious disease expert dr anthony fauci is among those giving evidence. to my knowledge none of us ever been told to slow down on testing that just is a fact in fact we will be doing more testing as you've heard from admiral gerar not only testing to specifically identify people in the identify isolating contact trace but also much more subdued aliens if you want to get your arms around and understand exactly what's going on in communities spread so it's the opposite we're
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going to be doing more testing not less but president trump when asked if he was joking about calling for less testing said that he wasn't and praised the u.s. response i don't kid let me tell you let me make it clear we have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world we had better than anybody in the world our best for the best in the world and we have the most of them by having more than we find more. we did want to buy but one in 5000000. figure that one replied that if you look at other countries they did 1w2w3w because we did 25000000 way more by double triple quadruple any other got. a tsunami warning has been issued for the coast of central america following a major earthquake in southern mexico the epicenter of the magnitude 7.4 trauma was the result of quad talk 0 buildings shook far to the north in mexico city
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in mexico city is 0 home and so john did you feel it. yes we did a good pronunciation there on what talk oh so that was close to where the epicenter of this was and that was where people worry that's resort town with as you mention with a lot of hotels a lot of people there just heard the governor of one hacker saying that one person possibly lost their life there apart from that fairly minor damage and perhaps rockslide is the only other thing that he reported so it's one that makes can really got away with what's your question we did feel it here in mexico city building shook we managed to get out in the street on time with quite a lot of other people this is a country that's slightly traumatized i would say still after the earthquake of 2017 about 40 buildings fell down in mexico city more than 300 people lost their
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lives the earthquake of today was actually stronger than the earthquake. really got away with it today in terms of not having as yet more damage reported even here or in the coast that some the state could which is one of the poorest states in mexico or germany thanks david observes john home and reporting live there from mexico city. we'll get a weather update next here on al-jazeera then. a long. hibernation is beginning to come to an end prime minister boris johnson eases lockdown restrictions in england cinemas and restaurants to reopen next month as. leaflets battling it out against loudspeakers a propaganda war and rising tensions on the korean peninsula.
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and their conditions remain homeless and dry throughout much of the middle east and the winds have been pretty strong and they're going to stay strong over the next couple of days you can see here on the map. we've got these big green arrows coming from and also coming through the interior so hot and dry picking up the deaths in the sun 46 in baghdad is it warmer across into kuwait not about further to the south 40 celsius in doha some of the best the weather through the eastern end of the matter. keeping temperatures really in the mid twenty's celsius meanwhile few washouts into northern areas of turkey 27 is the high in ankara and we should see those dying out on a thursday elsewhere the winds continuing to say they already quite strong with. further to the south 8 is the high expected high anyway in doha down into southern africa the usual across central regions out west across the gulf of guinea but all the while wednesday some very heavy showers in particular through coastal as the tanzania and ready trade back into the mozambique in quite
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a cloudy picture for the next couple of days it has been clear across much of the south africa it'll stay fine and dry as well as we head off into thursday when is the getting to increase into cape town time which is in the high teens but a very warm day so important about again on thursday with a high of 27. from fossil fuels to a renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such an amount as a global power developing to the investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the stick around us we provide business great promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound energy solutions for future generation the british pioneering future energy.
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well again this is of the service for much of the main news this yemen's with the rebels so that they've launched their biggest military operation against saudi arabia britain's foreign secretary has condemned a missile attack calling for an end to hostilities. libya's it's nationally recognized government is rejecting arab league calls for peace talks foreign ministers held an emergency session on myatt and demanded an end to foreign intervention. and a tsunami warning has been issued for the coast of central america following a major earthquake in southern mexico the epicenter of the magnitude 7.4 trauma was the resource of. voting in the primary elections is underway in the u.s.
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states of new york and kentuckian but there are concerns in kentucky about voters not being able to cast their ballots officials closed thousands of voting stations due to the covert 900 pandemic fewer than 200 of them are available there especially sparse in areas where black voters live. new york social distancing measures are in place as people vote that like kentucky new york has made it easier for the voters to cost about up by mail this year but the high number of mail in votes is expected to delay the results from both states to several days john hendren is a polling station in louisville kentucky. critics are concerned that the kentucky primary is a recipe for disaster specifically voter suppression and the reason for that is that the state due to the coronavirus has reduced the number of polling places that normally has 3700 now the entire state has only 200 that means in a county like this jefferson county
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a largely urban place home of louisville there's only one polling place here at the kentucky exposition center when you come here you go down to one of those letters representing your last name you pick up your ballot and then you come fill it out here at one of these many buddhas and in the end you submit it to a machine over here which reads your ballot and right now you can see that there's plenty of space here but the concern was that with 600000 registered voters this place might be overwhelmed so the state increased mail in early voting so that 200000 people asked for a ballot ahead of time but for anyone else they have to come here in the concern was that people would be dissuaded by reports of crowding and that some people simply wouldn't vote that's important because african-american voters are expected to come out in large numbers half of the state's african-americans live right here in jefferson county and they've got reason to go out and vote there is
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a senate candidate james booker running for the democratic nomination to the senate and if he wins he will run against mitch mcconnell the u.s. senate majority leader a republican there's also been the death of briana taylor and a black woman who was shot by police in her own home and that has sent people out in the streets protesting for weeks now. black voters are expected to come out in high numbers and the concern is that they might not end up voting and that could determine the outcome of this election. more coronavirus restrictions are being lifted in england bars restaurants and hotels will reopen from july 4th and the 2 major social distancing rule is being relaxed to one meets a plus separate rules remain in scotland wales and northern ireland today. we can say. that our lone national hibernation is beginning to come to an end and life is returning to our street and to our shops the bustle is
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starting to come back and the new. optimism is palpable. while restrictions are being lifted in england lockdown restrictions are being reimposed in northern germany where $1500.00 workers connected to a meat processing plant tested positive 2 districts in north ryan westphalia are being shut down it's the 1st german state to restore emergency measures since they began to ease in april a judge in brazil has ordered president jaya balsa nado to wear a face mask in public or face penalties the number of the coronavirus of coronavirus cases in latin america's largest country is supposed over a 1000000 and the president has been accused of downplaying the threat of the outbreak the world health organization says the number of infections could be much higher than is being reported because of insufficient testing al-jazeera as priyanka gupta reports. scindia digit value is mourning her father's death
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from a distance like so many families around the world the coronavirus pandemic has taken away the traditions of burial underleaf mentioned this family in rio de janiero. he's one of more than 51000 percent liam's has died after contracting the virus. actually the disease causes in a moment when we were completely unprepared and brazil is still unprepared to deal with a pandemic with a disease like this one and people are joking they're not respecting it but as you can see it's a fact it's true my father died from us after months of lockdown brazil is reopening its economy. sunbathers aroud shoppers are flocking to markets. demonstrations for and against brazil suppressed enjoyable tomorrow have been continuing every week. social distancing it's difficult to enforce and the number
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of cases have sold even in small towns we did you order started something interior of the state of south palos a part of the capital's our policy city in the number of new cases right now there are 600 minutes of parities in the state of south paolo with confirmed cases of corona virus and adjust accordingly to say their worst fears are coming true we have patients waiting for spaces in the i.c.u. we didn't want to reach this point but we have reached this point from here on out things are going to get to a point where we won't be able to control them anymore so people have to cooperate even with more than a 1000000 infections the world health organization says brazil is not testing enough and the number of cases is likely to be much higher brazil is still without a permanent health minister since one was fired and another resigned in the past 2 months preston jabal scenario has repeatedly played down the track of the virus calling it a little slow a judge has not ordered the president to wear
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a mask in public or face find this long seemingly endless list are victims of the virus be remembered when online memorial the message at the end of this collective wall of crieff 2 simple lines in portuguese nobody likes to be a number we deserve to exist in prose. on syria. the un is highlighting the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on education the agency that focuses on poverty alleviation through education of other means says that 40 percent of low income nations haven't supported disadvantaged students over 90 percent of the global student population is affected by coronavirus related school closures most of them are in sub-saharan africa the un body says that half of the world's out of school children were in this region even before the pandemic began in the middle east 17000000 young people are missing out on an education
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unesco blames it on governments failing to ensure that poor students have access to learning your in lockdown while in central and southern asia 95000000 children aren't getting an education and many nations in latin america are also suffering inequality in education to see a new reports now from chile on how students are coping. this student has a decent computer a quiet place to study and of course high speed internet they're indispensable especially now that schools and universities in chile have been closed for months and classes as well as assignments are all online. but for 47 percent of chileans these are luxuries well beyond their reach on the eve of a total lockdown in chile's capital we followed my little andersonville in to an internet cafe that's been their salvation. they are here they look up information
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for dylan's homework. and print out the assignments they'll need to later email to the teacher. back at home they just plain that even that will now be impossible because the internet cafe can't open under lockdown so there's a local i only have one mobile phone with a very limited intimate plan and that's not good enough to watch classes on line the connection always fails. to share the same phone. who has 2 other small children was attending one night to finish their studies but with no money for internet or a computer what was difficult before is now hopeless she says as they get the wake of people i told my teacher that i'd better leave my space to someone else who has the means to keep up with the curriculum and exams online julie has 1st world digital technology but only if you can afford it 90 percent of the students at this university rely on government loans or scholarships and now they risk losing them
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if they cannot keep up with their courses online. your student. explains why even though her campuses closed students have decided to go on strike. we wanted to make the digital divide visible we're asking that the state guarantee a constitutional right which is education and today education is impossible without access to internet. congress has in fact just passed a bill that would oblige internet companies to provide free service to all students who receive government help which are the majority while the pandemic lasts but of a lot of through no fault of their own simply because they're poor and this unveils the reality of the crisis we're living through that has a strong social impact. it's a social thought line that with the pandemic is highlighting growing demands for digital rights to be considered a human right you see in human al-jazeera sent the apple polls are now closed in
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malawi after the rerun of last year's disputed election the constitutional court and all that result because a ballot rigging president with arika tried to stop the rerun but supreme court judges turned down his appeal the results of the vote is expected by next wednesday ethiopia is accusing hackers based in egypt of attempting cyber attacks on government and private websites in the o.p.'s security agency says the attacks were aimed at pressuring the government over the opening of the largest hydroelectric dam on the river nile if you plans to start filling the reservoir next month but egypt and sudan fear reduced water supplies further downstream. former south african president jacob zuma has appeared in court on several charges of corruption his face has been its case rather has been adjourned until september 8th zuma is charged with fraud racketeering and money laundering relating to a deal to buy european military equipment the south africa's armed forces in the
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1990 s. he denies any wrongdoing a group of mainly north korean defectors has managed to evade south korean police and fly propaganda balloons into the north the balloons carry leaflets money and memory cards that usually contain south korean dramas and music over the border the government and so a tried to stop them it has condemned the move activism like this has been one cause of recent tension between the 2 neighbors. and the north korean military has reportedly reinstalled loudspeakers along the border while the south is warning it not to undermine efforts to keep peace on the peninsula we want to know what use our military is monitoring the north koreans around the clock and maintaining military readiness please understand that we cannot tell you in detail about the situation but i have already said north korea will pay if it commits any acts that can thought the effort to improve the relations and maintain peace in the korean
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peninsula health experts in indonesia are warning that efforts to contain covered by a team could lead to an increase in preventable but the potentially fatal childhood diseases the pandemic is disrupting mass vaccination efforts with some programs suspended jessica washington reports from jakarta. this is what it takes to give a child a safe and healthy indonesian region. as part of a community health service known as policy and do this team of medics goes door to door checking the health of local children and vaccinating them. these but they did say good bye to both of you we give them vaccinations for tuberculosis polio and measles we need to boost their immune systems and keep them safe. i was worried that my child wouldn't get vaccinated i'm grateful that they came to take care of us. these medics administer more than 80 percent of all the x.
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a nation's across the country for free and while the children of this rule village were able to get their vaccinations thousands more in other provinces are missing out in west java this mother is anxiously weighing up the risk i'm not high enough my son is 9 months old he should have gotten his measles vaccination last month but he hasn't had it yet i'm afraid of taking him to the health clinic. the posse under in her community word vised by the local government to temporarily working 3 months ago as part of covert 19 restrictions parents in urban areas are instead encouraged to go to health clinics the some health workers say it's not that straightforward yet i walk to my mind a more adult children will miss out on compulsory immunizations because their parents do not have the money to go to a private health clinic. more than 80 percent of inoculation programs in indonesia have been disrupted by code 19 and the government says it's trying to get them back
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on track the health ministry is advise in provinces on how to resume vaccinating safely during the pandemic. and. during. international public health groups say there are safe ways to resume vaccination programs in indonesia and around the world by making sure that medics have adequate personal protective equipment in tunisia the country's safety to turn . to ensure. that. if we were to meet sure that b.c.g. troops continue without these inoculation programs the fear is that the next mass outbreak could be one of an entirely preventable disease jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta tennis world number one novak djokovic just tested positive for
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the coronavirus it follows a controversial series of exhibition events that he organized in the balkans joke of it she is the 4th player who competed in the tour events to test positive the tournament took place in serbia and croatia korea should ease lock down measures for the most recent event meaning the players didn't have to observe social distancing rules. milan boscovich reports from belgrade. you know a brief statement joke of each tried to defend his idea of organizing committee tournaments by saying everything we did in past month we did with a pure heart and sincere intentions our tournaments are meant to unite ensure a message of solidarity and compassion throughout the region we organize the term and at the moment when the virus has a big and believing that the conditions for hosting deter had been met unfortunately the virus is still present. in his statement explain that he will be in carrington for next 2 weeks that he will be tested in 5 days but djokovic is the president of a union of tennis professional players many have been already against
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a decision to organize these tournaments where the crowd being present and really here in belgrade there was 0 social distance at the stands and implications might be major not only within the tennis circles but in serbia as well and in the creation. it is good terry with a stellar adrian for going to here in doha the headlines and i was there a yemen's with the rebels say they've launched the biggest military operation against saudi arabia britain's foreign secretary has condemned the missile attack plan calling for an end to hostilities the saudi coalition says that a ballistic missile was intercepted who think spokesman claimed they attacked the defense ministry and the military base in the capital among other targets.
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in response to the continued and just blockade and brutal aggression on the great people of yemen and our great country the yemeni armed forces launched the biggest attack on the capital of our saudi enemy riyadh using drones and a massive number of ballistic missiles we stress once more that more fierce attacks and military operations on the enemy will be launched so the blockade is lifted and till. freedom and independence again libya's internationally recognized government says that it rejects arab league calls for peace talks so long as the initiative comes from warlord khalifa haftar us allies egypt's president has called on the government of national accord to stop its offensive against tough east of the capital threatening it with military intervention warlords troops have been retreating and losing ground since the government of national accord launched a turkish backed defensive in may a tsunami warning has been issued for the coasts of central america following a major earthquake in southern mexico the epicenter of the magnitude 7.4 trauma was
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nears the resort of quartal co buildings shook farms in the north in mexico city u.s. health officials say that they have not been asked to slow down coronavirus testing even though donald trump has said that he instructed stuff to do so members of the u.s. coronavirus task force and public health officials have been testifying at a congressional hearing about the government's response to the pandemic democratic politicians have consistently criticized the white house over its how it's handled the situation more coronavirus restrictions are being lifted in england bars restaurants and hotels will be open from july 4th the to meet a social distancing rule is being relaxed to one plus. those badlands more news for you here on al-jazeera after today's inside story next.
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what's keeping millions of children away from school worldwide unesco says it's public and discrimination and coronaviruses making things even worse so what should be done to secure education for all and cannot get the privileged this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. girls immigrants ethnic minorities and the disabled just some of the.
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