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make the rules people and are investigates exposes and question they use and abuse of around the. announces in. small signs of hope in the fight against corona virus a vaccine trial in the u.k. shows some promising results. hello i'm daryn jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up talks continue in brussels for a 4th night for the e.u.'s coronavirus economic recovery plan. covered 19 infections are still rising rapidly in the u.s. florida cases soar past 100048 6th straight day plus. a reporting from milan would be the largest exporter in the world we'll tell you why
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the numbers. we begin with the fight against covert 19 and a breakthrough in the race to develop a vaccine the lancet medical journal has published encouraging results from scientists at oxford university who've been conducting early human testing they found there vaccine appears to be safe and produced a strong immune response right now is being tested in large numbers in the u.k. as south africa and brazil there are more than $250.00 different vaccines being worked on around the world $23.00 of them already in human trials well the world health organization has welcomed the progress but says that any viable vaccine must be available to everyone. with political commitment of course. that's the only way you can get you know fair distribution but one of
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the warning part of this we see is. some countries moving the other direction of course more and more countries are joining the. benefits the advantages of making this global public good. paul brown has more now from oxford. phase one really couldn't have gone much better for the oxford team early positive signs now confirmed in the published research so this is an important milestone on the par but we're now moving rapidly forwards to trying to evaluate whether the vaccine actually protects the population. by conducting large scale trials we have 10000 people already vaccinated around the world we still need to see how the vaccine in older people more is the disease than the.
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so that's the subject of work and the be more public. the oxford vaccine is adapted from a common cold virus found in chimpanzees spike glycoprotein a genetic material from the co with 1000 virus was added the hope is the human body will develop immunity to the spike protein stopping the virus from entering cells and preventing infection tests indicate the vaccine produces 2 reactions by producing a defensive antibody response as well as t. cells which attack the infected cells t. cell response peaked just 14 days after volunteers were injected antibody response peak to 28 days and side effects were minor mainly just tiredness and headaches treated with paracetamol i'm hopeful i've got my fingers crossed but to say that i'm 100 percent confident that we'll get a vaccine this year or indeed next year is alas just you know an exaggeration we're not there yet this is a hugely encouraging result for the team here in oxford but provoking an immune
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reaction is just the 1st stage in vaccine development phase 3 trials are already underway in the u.k. south africa and brazil are looking at issues such as optimal dosage and exactly how much protection vaccinated people have when exposed to the actual corona virus fairly cameron was injected with the oxford vaccine as part of the phase 3 trials she's a family doctor herself and has lost friends and patients to the virus. rather than sitting in front of the t.v. and screaming at the mortality rates every day screaming at politicians or getting annoyed and social media right i really felt very strongly. that i wanted to do something i just wanted to be a part of the armed sarah i don't think there's going to be one ounce it i think there's going to be a few different answers 9 in 10 vaccine projects and in failure and there's no guarantee that the early promise of the oxford trials will lead to an effective
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covert job but it is a very positive step paul brennan al-jazeera oxford professor adrian hill is part of that research group at oxford he explains what happens next. the immune responses that the vaccine produces have been found to be pretty encouraging we're seeing that both signs of the immune system are triggered interaction producing antibodies on the one hand and t. cells of the center immune system on the other and the numbers that are pretty encouraging about the level that you would see in somebody who's had a really severe significant bit infection so these are really about as good as we could have hoped at this stage of the vaccines journey so where at the stage now looking for efficacy of the back scene and that has involved recruiting almost 10000 people into our circles phase 3 trial those people are being recruited at
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19 centers around the country in britain and we are following those to see who gets infected by that and. that will come to a conclusion as soon as we have enough cases in the trial that hasn't happened yet it will probably take a couple of months at least yet we will get an answer on whether or not there are more cases or less cases i did at least of vaccine of it in the backseat group and in the polls we can't judge how long efficacies subtlely have some efficacy so we don't know that yet but we are confident that as with nearly all vaccines the immune responses last years not months and even though they make applying a bit over time we don't expect that to be an initial problem in other words the vaccine should last for at least a year and thank fully long for that so the main problem right now is to get a vaccine that we can deploy and use even if it only did last for
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a year that would still be very useful indeed and what we've shown in this report today is that we can give the vaccine again and boost immunity with. us. the year leaders are locked into their 4th night of tense negotiations over a coronavirus rescue fund there are signs the deal may be imminent france and germany want the e.u. nations most affected to receive bailout grants but there's resistance from some members who want loans not handouts the tasha butler reports. american ease summit and the fatigue was evident leaders arrived for more talks on a proposed $860000000000.00 fund to help the bulk recover from the coronavirus pandemic the leaders of spain italy france and germany the 27 to back the deal as. it's clear that these are incredibly tough negotiations and they will continue but exceptional situations also require exceptional efforts we have done justice to
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this so far and i hope that the remaining distance which will not be easy can be covered by discussions of the intense and at times hostile he does disagree over the size of the fund and how the money would be distributed the main opposition coming from leaders of sweden denmark austria and the netherlands the same called frugal full he worries about shared debts and prefer loans with strict conditions rather than grants. we haven't found a way out yet it may still fail but i'm more optimistic than i was at one point last night i said to myself it over the french president says the e.u. must show unity and solidarity at a time of crisis or risk feeling anti e.u. sentiment. we must enter into the details of a proposal it must be a proposal of compromise which each of us moves forward but it must retain the ambitions of our great european policies for the future that proposal came on monday evening with concessions made to the frugal 4 e.u.
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council headshell michel leaders to sign off on the full 860000000000 figure spit nearly equally into moans and groans with some conditions attached i know the last steps always the most difficult but then turned for didn't i think that even if difficult even. important to continue to work i think and i am convinced that an agreement is possible. earlier in the summits michele said it was time to finish what he called a mission impossible the choice he said was between a europe capable of building unity and trust or a weak europe undermined by mistrust national interests are clearly at stake but so is the e.u.'s reputation with al-jazeera paris. new cases of corona virus in the u.s. state of florida have soared past 10000 for the 6th day in a row california and texas are also experiencing surges with expanded employment
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benefits set to expire next week president trump has met with republican leaders to discuss another trillion dollar relief bill alan fischer reports. as the u.s. heads towards 4000000 qubit cases the president has been discussing a new aid package for states being overwhelmed he plans to bring back the daily briefing he abandoned weeks ago frankly a lot of the country is doing well a lot of people don't say as you understand but we have had this big flare up in florida texas couple of other places. and so 'd i think what we're going to do is get involved and we'll certainly briefings florida has no recorded more than 10000 new infections for the 6th day in a row the state because slowly and reopen quickly protesters disrupted a briefing by the governor in orlando. in los angeles there are lines at the famous dodger stadium but no one's watching baseball these are for covert tests the site
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is handling your own 6500 tests a day but still people have to wait for hours in washington congress is back after a summer break 6 months to the day after the 1st positive us test the democratic controlled house has already passed a raft of new measures including a 3 trillion dollar relief plan economy will only get worst worse if we do not if we do not continue to support working families in our country as we have done but the senate ignored the measure the republicans there say they're working on their own package it would neither be another multi trillion dollar bridge loan to make up for a totally shut down economy nor an ordinarily an ordinary stimulus for an ocean ready to get back to normal. the need now of for more and. the president who had been reluctant to cover up has now sent out
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a picture of him wearing a mask on an issue which has become politicized he tweeted we are united in our effort to defeat the invisible china virus and many people see that it is peachy or take to win a face mask when you can't socially distance there is nobody more pitchy or take than me your favorite president it was just over a week ago the president was seen in public for the 1st time wearing a mask and he continues to reject the idea of issuing a national mass monday alan fischer al-jazeera washington. no it's not all to come here and al-jazeera as german chancellor angela merkel reaches out towards europe we'll take a look at the pressure she's facing from within and back out on the streets of bomb occur without reaction to a new proposal by international mediators to end the ongoing crisis and not more in that stay with us.
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how those seasonal rains changes orientation is brought up a little bit but it's still there the last bit of heavy rain which is on this frontal system went through north korea now it's in siberia and it stretches down through a car don't honk shoe that will be the case during choose the rain over the northern shores of japan in particular but a break for q shoe increasing clouds in south korea and the next pulse developing in the west and the yangtze will be a bit further north than the yangtze river itself that stretches to the yellow sea towards south korea which i think will see the significant rain in a couple of days' time south of this and there's an area of thunderstorms that maybe not obvious from what has just happened but what will happen not this one just a scattering in west papua but further west of sumatra and over the far south of thailand peninsula malaysia and singapore the scenarios i think we see quite a few thunderstorms and big ones develop over tuesday and wednesday and maybe on
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less so to the east there so in java the monsoon rains have taken the wrong turn i think for many points of view they are concentrating now once again in nepal in the northeast of india and bangladesh and a few showers in northern pakistan but this looks worrying. but. the us is a tipping point. right now that we have just 12 years as the world's leaders fail to agree on a solution. taking matters into their. actions because it's understand that it kills people and it kills people. both fronts return to people's doors.
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welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour oxford university has made a breakthrough in the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine early results appear to show its safe triggers an immune response the world health organization has welcomed the progress e.u. leaders are considering a new budget proposal put forward by the council president to try and break the deadlock over a massive pandemic recovery package members are divided on how the multi-billion dollar fund should be given out. in case of coronavirus in the u.s. state of florida have soared past 10000 for the 6th day in a row california and texas are also experiencing surges. well economic prudence is
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central to germany's political image on the way it hope to lead europe to a post pandemic recovery but with a crisis on our hands the chancellor angela merkel has decided it could be time to spend as dominic came reports now from berlin. angela merkel's mantra was always for european partners to live within their means but then came corona and with it what she calls the biggest challenge post-war europe has faced reason enough in her mind to abandon 12 years of thrift and use the german presidency of the e.u. to its best advantage. what we want now the recovery fund or the next generation a new program it has to be staggering something special because the task at hand is huge so the answer has to be big as well. and some analysts say what changed her mind was the indiscriminate nature of the pandemic that the countries who need the most help did not bring about their own misfortune she realized ok 1st it's an
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issue of solidarity a real human solidarity not a political one but then 2nd also on the political level to hope those governments are already close to or of through an economic bankrupt due to the shutdown of their countries and their economies but how much of merkel's mission is altruism and how much in light and self interest because germany remains the main source both for import and export goods for a majority of e.u. member states meaning the harder that they suffer now the more likely the currently ailing german economy might suffer further down the line there certainly a combination of self interest but also an understanding that this is the moment for for leadership within europe and germany might be the right player to execute this leadership it will be the last president see under chancellor merkel so it's her time to create a legacy project and move the european union forward in a substantial victory surveys suggest many germans approve of merkel's handling of
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the coronavirus but they're also worried at the effect it's had on their economy germany is in recession with millions of people either on reduced hours or unemployed which explains why the mcleod. medical plan is unpopular in some conservative circles many germans like to think of themselves as good europeans willing to help friends and neighbors in a time of need that's usually meant lending money. but now that america wants to give their money away change dominic al-jazeera. u.s. president donald trump person putting the conflict in libya on his agenda holding talks with multiple leaders on the situation in a phone call with egypt's president abdel fattah el-sisi the white house says the 2 leaders affirm the need for immediate deescalation in libya including through a cease fire or trump also spoke with the french president emanuel macro about
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deescalation with the white house statement saying the situation has been exacerbated by the presence of foreign forces and. egypt's parliament later voted to allow president c.c. to deploy troops abroad it allows a potential intervention in neighboring libya sisi has previously threatened to support warlord hell if they have task forces if tripoli's government and its turkish allies launched an assault on the city of sirte there is another control of have task forces and is a gateway to libya's oil rich region where just before that parliament vote the u.n. warned against any foreign intervention in the libyan conflict and particularly singled out egypt. whether it's ca gyptian with already or were any other country. has an influence over the parties in no or in libya i think they all know our position you know there is no military solution to this conflict that this buildup of forces around sooty is worrying in just puts more libyan civilians at
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risk contact have been had with the egyptian authorities as i say we're continuing to urge countries. to help alleviate these agree on a lasting cease fire rather rather than uniting the world. meanwhile libya's interior minister has met the turkish and qatari defense ministers in ankara to discuss the situation the group agreed to continue cooperation between their countries they're supporting the u.n. recognize government in tripoli while the u.a.e. egypt or russia back have tough people in gaza city have been protesting in support of palestinian prisoners who are sick and being held in israeli prisons the march organized by the popular front for the liberation of palestine was held outside the red cross into. and egypt's foreign minister has met palestinian leaders in the occupied west bank city of ramallah. reaffirmed egypt's support for a 2 state solution and rejected israel's plan to. israeli prime minister benjamin
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netanyahu had said he would begin the process of mixing parts of the west bank and the jordan valley from july 1st need to aber him more on the visit from ramallah. it's come as part of palestinian officials diplomatic efforts to try and pressure the u.s. and israel through the arab countries especially those who are peace agreements with israel we know that they both towards israel are against the next station they said it's against international law and international just a mistake we've also heard they need officials. and they should read the peace treaties signed with israel there is a visit comes a day after he was in 2 words and he met with the. jordanian foreign minister and they both firmed their rejection of plans and they've invited the 2 parties to engage in any meaningful negotiations process of course palestinians
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have been saying for so long that it's read to that today through the palestinian foreign minister. that they are not interested in a peace process with us being the sole mediator of it they say the u.s. is very biased towards israel i think has already taken steps on the ground to show that it's not going to be. there for that process they hold and today with the palestinian foreign minister calling for an international peace conference where different players take in holding. peace in order to really hold the palestinians called to do what they see the. international. the saudi government may soon announce corruption charges against former crown prince mohammed bin nayef that's according to the reuters news agency they point to
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a pro-government twitter campaign that's been active since friday accusing been misspending billions of dollars of counterterrorism funds crown prince mohammed bin saddam on sideline been in 2017 when he became heir apparent since then m.b.'s has consolidated power by prosecuting potential rivals within the family under the guise of fighting corruption all this is happening as king solomon is in the hospital he was admitted on monday suffering from information of the cold blood oh . israel has fired multiple missiles toward syria's capital that's according to syrian media they were seen flying about damascus late on monday evening its military insists most of the rockets were intercepted while the monitoring group the syrian observatory for human rights says several missiles hit government iranian targets. international mediators eye heading back to mali later this week to try to find an end to the ongoing political crisis the opposition has already rejected a proposal from echo us calling for
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a unity government there insisting mommy's president brand will step down as more. they call it operation ghost town opposition protesters from mali's and 5 movements have set up roadblocks in the capital bamako and in the cities of timbuktu and go to protest movement is spreading we don't want to be gassed we raise your hands high up so that they can see we are not looking for violence that we are not a threat our motivation is to continue our movement of civil disobedience so that our demands are met. moments later police fire tear gas in an attempt to disperse the crowd demonstrators want to see president. resign and the newly elected national assembly dissolved the accused of rigging the ballot which was held earlier this year in favor of his governing party candidates many of whom are close allies or relatives of the president to end the crisis the regional bloc echo oss led by former nigerian president goodluck jonathan says yulia pointed
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constitutional judges should rule over the contested election results while the block calls for national unity it says there is no reason for the president to resign. it is original to set up a government of national unity on the basis of consensus taking into account the recommendations of the inclusive national dialogue the proposals of the 50 percent of government members to come from the ruling coalition 30 percent of government officials will come from the opposition and 20 percent will come from civil society . says a monitoring mission will be sure that this is implemented before the end of july but the movement has rejected ecowas as recommendations it wants a transitional government saying president is in breach of the constitution after commando units trained to fight armed groups such as al-qaeda and i salute philly 8 were deployed and fired live rounds on unarmed protesters several were killed and many injured. we have told that
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we would not want people to feel a dnd of this whole process that ecowas has disowned of of keeping a president in power against his people must not be an instrument for protecting the heads of state it must be an instrument of the service of the interests of the people the protest movement continues to gain momentum those who support it say they have lost confidence in my leadership in president is increasingly becoming isolated nicholas hark al jazeera. police in zimbabwe have raided the house of a prominent journalist. live streamed the moment security forces entered his room on facebook the rest of journalist has been reporting on corruption and anti-government protests in the country opposition leader. is also in police custody he's been involved in planning demonstrations. argentina's government has rejected credit to office to restructure $66000000000.00 worth of debt argentina
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has been in recession since 2018 and fell behind on foreign payments in may the government set a deadline in august to reach a deal on the terms of repayment the economy minister says the latest demands would push more argentinians into poverty now thailand has been relatively successful at handling the coronavirus so far it's confirmed just $3000.00 cases but its economy is taking a battering am is expected to be the most affected in asia that's down to its reliance on international tourism and exports the agricultural sector mainly rice is facing a particularly tough time when he reports from bangkok. farming has never been an easy way to make a living but in thailand these are particularly tough times this year growers of rice and other crops have been hit hard on multiple fronts all beyond their control but. there's not enough water to grow rice probably the rainy season arrived late this year and the water in the canal is true salty the farm will be in trouble if
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there's not enough rain soon because the drought was really bad this year. thailand is the world's 2nd largest exporter of rice but is likely to drop down the list this year the coronavirus pandemic slow demand to tie rice as other produces such as vietnam stockpiled their own product to protect domestic food stocks in case of a shortage now they are freeing up supply flooding the international market which is pushing prices down but not the thai exporters who can't compete on price even though thailand's rice farmers have had a difficult year with drought which is affected production warehouses and mills like this are expected the fill up in the months ahead as exports continue to decline they'll have the product to sell but the strong thai currency makes it the most expensive rice in southeast asia exports may fall by 30 percent this year and industry leaders worry about the long term future of the sick. we are less
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competitive now it's you know why because our labor costs is increasing our land prices increasing and our farmers. you know it's more than 55 years old most of them. are next generation they don't want to go into farming send in more growers who've been working the fields their whole lives are also concerned they say a government subsidy in the form of a price guarantee won't be enough but walking away from farming isn't an option for the incumbent in the one i continue to grow rice i don't know what else i can do i'm getting old and i can't work in the factory and know that i'm not going to make a lot of money but i have to carry on with around a 3rd of thailand 70000000 people working in agriculture that's a sentiment that will be echoed around the country wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. now space x. isn't wasting any time putting its reusable rocket boosters to use 3 you buy.
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it. in a mass company just launched a south korean communications satellite into space aboard its falcon 9 booster that's the same one used by astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken on their mission to the international space station nearly 2 months ago space x. says that's the fastest turnaround time yet on reusing rocket. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera oxford university has made a breakthrough in the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine early results appear to show it is safe and triggers an immune response the world health organization has welcomed the progress but it wants the banks in made of edible to everyone we pull if you can go meet them and of course. that's the only way you can get you know distribution but one of the. part of this we see is.
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some countries moving. of course more and more countries are joining the. benefits the advantages of making this global public good e.u. leaders are closing in on a deal for a massive coronavirus recovery fund they're locked into their 4th night of talks and are considering a new proposal put forward by the council president members are divided over how the 858000000000 dollar fund should be given out new cases of coronavirus in the u.s. state of florida have soared past 10000 for the 6th day in a row california and texas also experiencing surges. egypt's parliament has voted to allow president sisi to deploy troops outside the country and allows for a possible intervention in libya u.s.
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president donald trump has called sisi to urge deescalation. israel has fired multiple missiles toward syria's capital according to syrian media they were seen flying over damascus late on monday evening the syrian military insists most of the rockets were intercepted police in zimbabwe have raided the house of a prominent journalist hope will cino live stream the moment security forces entered his room on facebook his lawyers claim police broke the glass front door to gain access the journalist has been reporting on corruption and anti-government protests in the country argentina's government has rejected credit to offers to restructure $66000000000.00 worth of debts the country fell behind on foreign payments and the way the 2 sides have to work out a deal. so those were the headlines the news continues they on al-jazeera after what i want to stay 2000 watching as protests rage over police brutality and coronavirus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to
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take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the u.s. elections on a. we have over 10000 new cases. 102000 total tested positive $14000.00 hospitalized. the frontline battle is in the health care system. a deadly pandemic has cut a swathe through america's biggest cities and filipino nurses are in the hospital battle filipino nurses they are very friendly you are very carrying 150000 nurses from the philippines make up the largest foreign contingent of health care workers in the united states. but for some the.

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