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hard to just bury the history of hate the old south a witness documentary on al-jazeera. revealing ecofriendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on al-jazeera the in the air. the air. india's increasing anxiety over coronavirus it now has more than half a 1000000 infections and its capital expects andries of thousands more in the coming weeks. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back he will also coming up . to fail a mega dam on the naive hopes for
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a deal with egypt and sudan within weeks facebook announced his warning tags for some content as more big companies pull advertising because of hate speech concerns and still seeking justice why activists say u.s. sanctions against the syrian government don't go far enough. the enormity of the coronavirus crisis is triggering fears about the ability to treat patients in some parts of the world indiana now has more than half a 1000000 infections driven by another record daily greece announced a few days ago in the capital region of new delhi alone expects that many cases by the end of july and that's led to worries about a shortage of medical equipment and a scramble to build temporary facilities on friday the united states reported its highest increase in cases since a. pandemic began florida and texas are among states delaying fs to reopen and
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increasing restrictions europe meanwhile is forging ahead with reopening but is struggling to reach a consensus on how to do it either leaders have not yet agreed on which countries will be allowed quarantine free access from wednesday how did seeing bhatti as a doctor working on call the 1000 cases and president of the progressive medical ascends scientists form in india he says the easing of restorations needs to be managed more carefully. personally as a physician i don't see any achievement and a lot of them has because it's so ordered to you anything be the have rules and there. are a number of cases where the best and the as it was one of the just and students cannot be there they're expecting for the moment there who are students they isolated more be sure it's all their big break the chain of transmission but doing
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their. job for spirit to break the chain of transmission and all of that for their way just by walking in a lot don't even already be very sure that others but it doesn't happen there and that is also at school the crisis situation was really. late we have seen the vagrants graces many of the needs of migrants are almost also see the poor who want more people who get their behavior if they're good at the view just because of it is the work of people suit themselves so there is the best because of their arsenal and because they're still locked down or body management not management of bishops v.m.c. deaths of others are the only diseases so they're vicious thoughtful. a top infectious disease expert in the u.s. has warned of a serious problem mask over 1000 cases increase there's also concern young people are getting infected at an alarming rate allen says sherry for some washington d.c.
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rising cases after almost 2 months away it's back this moment in the coronavirus pandemic is different and faced with a surge in cases across the country the white house coronavirus task force faces a renewed threat we're in a much stronger players the truth is we did slow the spread of the curve recent days have brought a record number of infections 16 states are seeing a rising number of cases and infection rates states like texas which had started to reopen no bringing back all distractions after a 145 percent rise in cases in just 14 days bars closed restaurants cutting capacity public gatherings limited kristen's mayor calls it a crisis the numbers are jumping exponentially and rising fast and we are quickly moving in the wrong direction arizona has no more cases provide a population than brazil 88 percent of the state's intensive care beds are full doctors see a health system on the edge and as part of an experience to make for each other at
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some point there's a tipping point and we're hoping we don't already actually say this is tender waiting to explode but i'm thinking that some of that has already been let and that is concerning the man who has played a major role in the white house response had this warning to young people the thing that you really need to realize that when you do that you are part of the process so if you get infected you will infect someone else who clearly will infect someone else we know that happens because the reproduction element of the virus is not less than one so people are infecting other people and then ultimately you will infect someone who is vulnerable the task force met at the department of health not here at the white house opponents say. that shows the president's level of engagement with the crisis no the president also said the virus would start to go away in the warmer weather it hasn't one expert saying this isn't the 2nd wave it's still the
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1st alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. the u.k. is set to cancel its 14 day quarantine for people arriving from countries it considers to be low risk folk ovid 19 it will divide nations into grain amber and red categories those arriving from the 1st so groups will no longer have to go into isolation the rule changes are due to be announced next week and the u.k. is also expected to establish so-called bridges with france italy spain and germany as well as greece that would mean quarantine free holidays for travelers to and from those countries but a u.s. fortune will and south america are expected to be among those in red the u.k. south fascination policy came into effect on june 8th and has been criticized by and i and airports and the hospitality sector and i speak to paul brennan in london for us of all restrictions are being eased and people saw it's turning to the possibility of travel overseas where we with that. well certainly
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the option is now in front of people both from the u.k. and people traveling in the u.k. to arrive here without the need to self isolate for 14 days depending on where exactly they're coming from as you say the original policy imposed on june the 8th by the home secretary pretty patel was widely criticized as being far too late in the 1st place and far too blunt in the 2nd place and what this review this 1st opportunity to review just 3 weeks on from the imposition of this does is it lets it be a lot more nuanced what the government is saying is that from monday when its review takes place it will start to announce bridges taking place between countries that are actually have similar infection rates to the u.k. where travel between the 2 is not going to impact one way or the other that said there are a few important exceptions sweden for example portugal those 2 countries are unlikely to be included in the new deal and why there is of the rest of the world
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you know we're talking here in this 1st part. just a handful of european countries where people will be able to arrive aboard it does do is it starts to encourage people to actually start to take foreign holidays and that's been welcomed by the association of british travel agents who describe this news is encouraging it means that people departing today for example for 2 recall a day should be able to come back without needing to self isolate and the expectation is that it will get the wheels turning on this tour on the tourism industry again right but they've been challenges for the police fall on the streets . yes i mean the the relaxation of lockdown has led to an outpouring of relief and a few civs nurse riches bordered on violence in some areas we've seen block parties the metropolitan police in the london area have seen 3 major block parties with hundreds of people attending sound system being played and the police have had to go in and break those up because the fear of that could be
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a hot spots of infection and also up in liverpool where the liverpool football club just won the premier league title after 30 years of waiting the outpouring of joy in liverpool has led to large crowds gathering for 2 nights consecutively and the police having to issue dispersal orders up there because of the risk of corona virus infection thank you for that paul brennan line for astaire in london and other world news ethiopia's prime minister says an agreement over its mega dam project should be finalised in 2 to 3 weeks its grand renaissance dam has been the source of an increasingly bitter dispute over the cheap tents of don talks have stalled over the speed at which ethiopia should fail the reservoir so don in egypt have both raised the issue recently at the un security council ethiopia about the ground running dam on the blue nile which is the source of most solve the nonce water age of 10 sudan downstream depend heavily on it dan fear their water supplies could be put at risk if your he says the hydro power the dam uses would essentially
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be essential for a sea konami growth. al jazeera as morgan has more from sudan's capital khartoum it took a meeting between the prime ministers of sudan egypt as well as other members of the african union including the current chair of the african union south african president. to try to bring the 3 sides together after several rounds of talks. for you know what this is what the statement that was released by the prime minister of the office of the prime minister of the i'm told is that the 3 sides have agreed that they will resume talks immediately on a technical level we've repeatedly heard statements from the 3 sites saying that 95 percent of the issues have been resolved and that there's only remaining 5 percent as well as the legal aspects. facebook says it will stop dragging out more posts that break its rules ahead of the u.s. election in november critics of accuse it of failing to act on hate speech fronting
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a boycott by some of the world's biggest advertisers alexia ryan reports. when the us president suggested protesters against racism and police brutality without and said that when the losing starts the shooting starts to as a put a warning on it saying it glorifies violence facebook did nothing its c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has often argued that the platform should take a hands off approach but now that's changing and it will tag posts that break its rules if we determine the content maybe we need to follow and sort people of the right to vote. content out no matter who says. social media platforms have been under the spotlight as global outrage grows against racism and discrimination sparked by the police killing of george floyd in may but why they're not focusing on the importance of true evidence and verifiability the sort of contributing to a whole lot of these sorts of very. very dangerous information. on
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friday 2 of the world's biggest advertisers coca-cola and uni lever pulled their advertising from the platform uni levers also removing content from twitter and instagram until the end of the year more than $100.00 companies have joined a campaign called stop hate for profit which accuses facebook of not doing enough to combat hate speech the campaign said in a statement faced with this tidal wave mark zuckerberg responded today with a small number of small changes we've been down this road before they've made apologies in the past one of those apologies was in 2018 was called to testify in congress over his company's handling of use a doctor and how it was exploited to meddle in the 2016 u.s. election we did. take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake while facebook's shares dropped 8 percent on friday analysts believe
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this controversy won't hurt the social media giant in the long run they are the total power in the media field last year even amid criticism which is very similar to what you're saying this week their advertising revenues last year 2101 up something like 27 percent and nearly 70000000000 u.s. dollars so zucker bird knows that he's the king of the hill he is the gatekeeper with the november presidential vote just 4 months away facebook has already taken down a video posted by donald trump's reelection campaign and the president's lashed out at social media platforms as if it's accusing them of censoring conservative views elixir brian al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera they say they're imprisoned at sea we'll look at the difficulties facing workers left stranded for months because of the global coronavirus pandemic and tunisia is opening up for tourists but there is concern about how quickly.
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and still more heavy rain across central and eastern areas of china you can see plenty of trying to get in the last real mass across the most central areas now across areas in the east in particular 37000 people have been rescued over the last few days across 38 counties and you can see the damage that is being done by these floodwaters but of course across much of southern and eastern china as many as 11000000 people have been affected by these floodwaters as more in the 4 calls through sunday work its way again tools east bring the rain later in the day across into shanghai heavy rain as well work its way mostly through eastern areas of japan italy the sherry day on monday and that's when the very heavy rain will push east away from shanghai across the n.s.a. and of course beginning to push across towards the korean peninsula elsewhere through china again some heavy downpours at times but
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a bit clearer across areas in the south in india's the little things where we've seen the heaviest of the rain of the last few days and you can see here the result of these very heavy downpours and there is more rain in the forecast particular cross the northeast that is where we'd like to see the heaviest of the rains that back across into each other west bengal as well and then all the while the rain is very heavy along the west and gatson really is a similar story on monday but it's mostly dry out to the north maybe ascott a thunderstorm in new delhi with a high of 38 celsius. in a 2 part series. 0 observes the lives of 2. over 20 years. where insights into circumstances that shape lives. in a rapidly changing world. 20 years of mean starts with blood and land who do stories on how to 00.
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0 m. . a reminder our top stories on al-jazeera this hour corona virus infections have surge in india's biggest cities pushing the total number of cases to more than half a 1000000 hospitals are under pressure and some cities like new delhi as scrambling to build temporary facilities if the o.p.'s prime minister says and i remained with sudan in egypt over its mega dam project should be finalized in $2.00 to $3.00 weeks talks stalled over the speed at which ethiopia should feel the ground renaissance dams reservoir. and facebook says it will file goalposts that break its
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rules including those from politicians like us president all trump the move comes after more than $100.00 companies boycotted the past. argentina has extended its coronavirus restrictions when osiris and surrounding regions roles that were due to end on sunday will now stay in place until at least july 17th and that's putting more pressure on businesses that are barely scraping by traceable has more from buying size. these are not easy times for float in the us and her husband. the only son they beat their restaurant in one of scientists but i mean because 1000 prices marion the says there's just not enough business and the restaurants may have to close feel good. that we think we come from one crisis after another and we're tired timur feeling it a lot we don't know what's going to happen so we're trying to go day by day trying to keep things going by selling takeaway as argentines we're used to readapting but
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it's not easy but this something that is not the only restaurant trying to survive there are over 100000 businesses in argentina they're on the verge of collapse. argentina was already struggling with inflation and recession prior to the pandemic and that's one of the reasons why many small businesses are finding it difficult to remain open this restaurant for example is shutting down the onerous road here that they're closing their business because of acquiring. argentina was one of the 1st countries in the region to impose a strict lockdown to prevent the spread of disease it's been over 3 months but a recent spike in cases in hard hit areas that include one aside is has convinced the government to extend it even further but imo i know not everyone agrees with what we're doing but we need to do something to stop the amount of contagions money to make sure there are enough beds and guarantee that all arjun tines get the attention they deserve for many this is a mistake to extend something that has
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a konami consequences but the world bank says not alberto fernandez that it's the most severe economic crisis since the 1970 s. it's not only urgent tina but the whole world that is deteriorating because of the pandemic even though some businesses in the city were allowed to reopen in recent weeks they will now have to close their doors again meanwhile authorities are fighting against lockdown fatigue and enormous economic difficulties that have many arjan times on the edge she. says if the government like in other countries covered part of the economic earnings of retailers like myself we would be at home without the concerns that you have with mounting goals and debt that makes you frustrated and on top of that you have to feed your family. the government is giving away cash handouts to help those in need and is assisting businesses but it's not reaching everyone a major problem in a crisis that has no end in sight. a
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federal judge has ruled the u.s. government must release children held in 3 immigration detention centers on coronavirus he is the order applies to those who have been held for more than 20 days at centers in texas and pennsylvania where they've been in some cases the children have to be released by july the 17th if they cannot be released to their parents be sent to family sponsors peru has launched a nationwide vaccination program to ward off a surge in preventable diseases as it deals with the pandemic hundreds have been queuing in the capital to be immunized against measles and other illnesses months of knock down have prevented many children and elderly people from getting routine vaccinations and the pandemic has been making it difficult for crews on merchant ships to return home some have been at sea for more than 6 months without stepping ashore at the same time crew hoping to resume work have been struggling to get to
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their ships john psaropoulos reports from the greek port of period. merchant seaman your hasn't worked in 7 months coke at 19 has prevented his ship from sailing he still has a mortgage to pay and $3.00 daughters to support and the latest blow he says comes on top of years of austerity following the 2008 global financial crisis i think when i 1st chose this law if things are good that a family had dreams in the past 11 is a series of form by more than a ha texaco not other seafarers are having the opposite problem they're only able to get home after many months at sea because of travel restrictions due to coated 19 speedily not a vocalist has been on a very large crude carrier for 7 months he spoke to us by satellite phone from the philippines. the fatigue is psychological we tell it even 6 months is a long time and we haven't stepped on a shelf a 7 months we haven't seen
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a single new person it's a kind of imprisonment about 400000 merchant seaman thought to be stranded at home or at sea due to coronavirus related travel restrictions and that could eventually have an impact on global trade 80 percent of which is carried by ship the supply of goods across the world is what keeps factories working shop shelves stocked and even fuel pumps full shipowner. says whereas things are slowly starting to loosen up it's still difficult and expensive to rotate crews out of port where there was a device that they have started to allow crew rotation we inquired as to how this can be done and the list of requirements was such that it made it impossible so the vessel had to be there 2 days before the caucus had to go on board and the job and cost cuts had to be done the vessel had to wait and then the cash would come back and the crew would go would get off and the 2 would be quarantined then the group that would come in would be part of the men the vessel that the wait for that would
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it was quite easy and it goes on and on fatigue and poor mental health a dangerous at sea. they create conditions in which accidents can happen and lives are lost the crews stranded around the world of finding it difficult to understand considered potential sources of infection they spend weeks between ports and they're among the most isolated people in the world jump. record in part 2 of our series on people stranded by the pandemic will meet a migrant stuck in kenya they're among tens of thousands in limbo across the continent some 10 g.m.t. on sunday here on al-jazeera the world health organization says any boy outbreak in eastern democratic republic of congo is no longer an international public health emergency well in 2200 people have died since it was detected 2 years ago the focus now shifts to another outbreak in the northwest region as well as containing coronavirus. more heavy rain is expected in the commercial capital of ivory coast
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where at least 7 people have been killed in flooding as been 3 times the normal rainfall in abidjan in the past few days causing widespread damage people living in areas at risk for the flooding and landslides are being or should leave their homes the country's in the middle of its rainy season which usually lasts until october evacuations and rescues are underway in southern china following heavy rain and flooding more than 40000 people have been forced out of shang province alone since tuesday rescuers used a rope to bring 6 people to safety after they were stranded in a flooded river heavy rain is expected to continue until 2 say. israel's prime minister benny gantz has weighed in on a controversial plan to an expanse of the occupied west bank in a facebook post on friday he suggested that any palestinians in future an extent he is may be granted equal rights israel is set to start rolling out its plans on july the 1st 6. as for in a week since a u.s.
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impose its toughest sanctions yet on syria's president bashar assad and his allies central to those sanctions was evidence that syrian prisoners have been tortured but activists say the u.s. action fall short of delivering justice breyer govt of reports. in this gallery in serious it looks city lies evidence of atrocities inside president bashar al assad's military prisons pictures of detainees hung on the walls image of someone's father brother sister or child tortured starved and killed 2 graphic to show they were smuggled by military defector called need cesar and his colleagues. were all grateful to cesar who succeeded in smuggling dizzy images to the world and fortunately i said is still free without any intervention from the international community to bring him to justice to relatives of those victims will not rest until that is penalized for his crimes had after climbing. the 40 graphs
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may be difficult to look at but for a jury are mahmud ali it meant she could finally grew one of her sons who died in assad's military prison she still doesn't know what happened to her other son who's also detained here. i've been picturing him knocking at our door until i was showing his photos among the dead my mind is blown away he had left to earn his living as he has 3 daughters he was stopped and detained along with his cousin a university student studying in damascus this was more than 8 years ago my youngest son moustapha was also stopped and detained the evidence of mass killings inside what's been described as a human slaughterhouse 1st came to light in 2014 the photographs have since been shown at the u.n. and the european parliament among others cesar has led the country provided crucial testimonies at us. has it come to the toughest american sanctions yet against
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president bashar assad and his inner circle under load named after the syrian defector but for many syrians that's not enough other lot of another for you john bashar assad although the act will have some economic impact on the regime but this day the international community has failed to prove that it's genuine intentions to work for the syrian detainee. these images prove one thing that we must act to save the rest of. the syrian network for human rights says more than 146000 people are still detained or have been forcibly disappeared by the government since 27 and that number could be much higher. after more than 3 months have restrictions to nature is reopening its borders it wants to boost tourism which was struggling even before coronavirus but as mama john john reports his psyche to be a long road to recovery. in the historic heart of tunisia's capital
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coppersmith mohammed shows she is putting his skills to work hammering away at plates he plans to sell hoping the worst of the pandemic is over. the greater virus outbreak was a very very tough period even after we reopened it still being very difficult. because we were working for tourists who still can't come here. shoppers in the old medina of tunis or unesco world heritage site the treats visitors to a rich sampling of local crafts and cuisine an area that's usually overflowing with people. for tunisia's economy tourism is crucial. 5 years ago gunman killed 38 european tourists during an attack at a beach resort near the city of seuss' which significantly affected the tourism sector now as the number of confirmed coated 1000 cases declines government
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officials have said june 27th as the date for reopening their air land and sea borders travel agency owner of the humvee is happy with the decision but says tunisia will face a harder time recovering from cope with 19 than it did from the aftermath of violence. terrorism had almost everywhere in the world and we survived we knew how to overcome it but for coronavirus it is affecting the whole willed and so far we don't know yet how to deal with it i think with. tunisia's hospitality sector is trying its best at this restaurant in tunis that means new hygiene and social distancing measures like the hand sanitizer being offered at the entrance and the masks that are mandatory for staff in the town of cd was hurried about 20 kilometers away from tunis boutique hotels like the villa blue have been preparing for a while now we dealt with the professional cleaners to clean all the furniture
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all the all over the bed inks all of the flooring so everything has been. professionally done and. and we abide by the rules that were set by by the government. with the room's ready all that's left now is for the guests to arrive mama june and jesse are. well again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera corona virus infections have surge in india's biggest cities pushing the total number of cases to more than half a 1000000 hospitals are under pressure and cities such as new delhi are scrambling to build temporary facilities. if the o.p.'s from minister says an agreement with sudan in egypt over its mega dam project should be finalised in $2.00 to $3.00
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weeks talks told over the speed at which ethiopia should fill the ground renaissance dams reservoir facebook says it will fly goal posts that break its rules including those from politicians like us president donald trump fox october previously said it wasn't up to social media sites to police the truth and will comes after more than $100.00 companies boycott of the platform we're going to have a story legal in content. that we find newsworthy that might otherwise violate our our c s there's no newsworthy exemption to content that incites violence or suppress the vote even if a politician or government official says it if we determine the content maybe we need to violence or deprive people of their right to vote we're going to take the content out no matter who says. a federal judge has ordered the u.s. government to release children held in 3 immigration detention centers on
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coronavirus vs the order of fries to those who have been held for more than 20 days at centers in texas and pennsylvania where there's been some cases the children have to be released by july 17th. the wild housefull been ization say is an ebola outbreak in eastern democratic republic of congo is no longer an international public health emergency more than 2200 people have died since it was detected 2 years ago the focus now shifts to another operate in the northwest screeching. and more heavy rain is expected in the commercial capital of ivory coast where at least 7 people have been killed in flooding there's been 3 times the normal rainfall a not be jolly in the past few days causing widespread damage people living in areas at risk of further flooding and landslides being to leave their homes. after a date with the headlines on al-jazeera will have more news for you after inside story stay with us.
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