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we know what i read and we know how to get the playfield that others cannot fire going on the way the story is what can make a difference. arise and infections in spain drives up fears of a resurgence now the u.k. says anyone returning from holiday that must sell quarantine. down jordan this is down to 0 live from doha also coming up the u.s. is still struggling to bring the spread of the virus on the control reporting of a 1000 deaths for the 4th straight day. of. protests late into the night in jerusalem demonstrate just keep up the pressure on israel's prime minister to quit over his handling of the outbreak and corruption
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charges plus. the treaty. which just 6 months after the city put it down because of. this. we begin with a spike in the number of new coronavirus infections in spain outbreaks of prompted the u.k. government to make a last minute decision to reimpose the 2 weeks of course and hundreds of people who travel there infections have tripled in the past 2 weeks with catalonia emerging as a new hotspot some of the lego has a story. a welcome break on a beach in catalonia after an unprecedented lockdown would be difficult for most people to resist but amid these relaxed scenes and uncomfortable question is being asked is this the start of a 2nd wave of the pandemic on saturday almost 1500 new cases were recorded in the
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region most of them in and around the city of barcelona many of the new cases are young people showing mild or no symptoms at all it prompted a swift shutdown of night clubs throughout the region as well as a curfew on bars and concern among other european countries of further outbreaks the u.k.'s government announced on saturday that a 14 day quarantine period would be introduced for travellers returning from spain and in france there were requests to avoid travels to the country altogether so he saw the us. concerning the situation in catalonia which is displaying worsened indicators for infection there as you know those who are going to get is are deteriorating we strongly encourage french citizens to avoid going there until the health situation improves and. this is the high season for tourism and many working in the sector are already feeling the drastic impact of the pandemic in the thing
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to be able to be in all the years that i have been here this is catastrophic things were good for a time over the past weeks but not now even 2 weeks ago you saw more people out but not now there is nothing or nothing. all over the country towns and cities are once again closing up after a much awaited easing of restrictions the last couple proper track and trace system is prompting an increase in infections around the country it was hoped that the summer would deliver a pause in the pandemic but the contagious nature of the krona virus seems to once again trump optimism of a rest pite anytime soon sunny guy i go. well the deputy chief medical officer for england explain why the u.k. decided to re-impose quarantine measures so quickly one of the things that we always have to be prepared for in this pandemic is i'm afraid that things can change very quickly and things have changed quite remarkably fast inspire in and
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that is the reason why we do not wish to do larry we wish to protect the public health and give this advice this evening there is no magic time which to do this the thing that we have to do is do it as soon as we don't know about the date and feel certain that it is time to let the coronavirus pandemic shows no signs of slowing down in the u.s. it's recorded more than a 1000 deaths for the 4th straight day 74000 new infections were reported nationally on friday one of the highest single day total since the outbreak began the state of florida remains one of the worst hit areas with more than 12000 cases detected in the past day top infectious disease expert dr anthony fauci has warned state governments to roll back on reopening to cope with a surge in factions let's cross live now to hide your castro in marin the hardest things just seem to be going from bad to worse for florida 12000 new infections in the last day tell us what's been happening there. that's right of the death toll
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in florida is rising as well in bands one person in florida is dying of covert every 10 minutes and florida certainly is not alone 18 states in the united states have broken totals and as far as cases or deaths in this past week in florida it's governor rick to santa is a heavy strong is a supporter and he has been praised by the president even now for his response to the pandemic ordo was one of the 1st states to reopen and now critics are seeing what's happening with these numbers resurging in saying that that move was prioritizing the economy over people's lives and this similar story repeated across the country much of the south now including the state of texas where and along its border with mexico we're seeing dire situation with hospitals begging for more supplies the military responding there with their resources and refrigerated
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morgues parked behind those hospitals the same scenes we had seen in new york not so long ago and fortunately repeated now in new hot spots across the u.s. . another grim milestone for the u.s. 4000000 cases pasta 1000 deaths a day i mean these a stud growing figures even president trump has conceded things are going to get worse before they get better. he has said that and he's also said though in recent days that it seems like much of the country is dealing with no problem at all his words but we have seen the president retreat on some of his positions just in the last briefing at the white house he pulled back on his previous demands for schools to reopen in person he said that school districts in hot spots may have to delay those openings he wore a mask for one of the 1st times in public and urged americans to do the same and of course he canceled the republican national convention that was supposed to be
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taking place in florida citing health concerns so certainly the president may be making some changes but the question is whether that will do anything polling shows that also politically speaking americans are not on the side of president trump in his response to the pandemic with most answering that they disapprove of the way he's handling this and in polls that have him heading off against. joe biden the democratic challenger for the presidency will we see trump trailing by double digits in many of those polls the pandemic response a driving factor. well dr connie is a senior clinical electrode the university of exeter his medical school he says many comforts of prioritize the economy of the containing the pandemic. i personally feel this is a continuation of the pandemic rather than a start of a new wave the the number of cases only went down because we went into
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a lockdown but when we went into a lockdown you case numbers were down but they were not 0 or they were not impossibly low and what happens when the virus is out there in circulation and then you start opening up things like night clubs socializing meeting in restaurants clubs bars clubs etc and pretending this is the important bit and pretending that it's all over let us resume because we need the economy to run unfortunately we get these huge number of new cases created we must accept that the virus is in say collation we must open the economy but we must be very very careful why are we not doing this baffles me and i worry about the united states united kingdom europe and the rest of the world there has been a pressure from the economy side to open up and i feel for example the united kingdom opened up prematurely and i feel the health and the economy should
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run together which is we work together on how we open it safely rather than open it prematurely and unsafely security forces are on high alert in the u.s. city of portland demonstrators have rallied every night for 8 weeks demanding racial equality and police reforms local leaders in oregon are criticizing federal agents for using excessive force. when or 2 armed groups have been involved in a standoff in the u.s. city of new evo one group an all black militias protesting against racism and police brutality officers are at the barricades to separate them from a far right group the city has seen protests after the police shooting of a black woman briana taylor she was killed in march by officers already in her apartment for drugs but found none. hurricane hanna has made landfall in the southern coast of texas strong winds and rain in lashing the coast with a category one system arriving on saturday just south of corpus christi and is the
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1st atlantica hurricane of the season. meanwhile hurricane douglas is heading towards hawaii the category 4 storm is expected to reach the pacific islands on sunday which ologist say should weaken by then social distancing rules will be enforced in storm shelters i would like to remind everyone who is in quarantine that you should remain in quarantine to the extent possible if you need supplies please ask friends and others to provide and help you acquire them or as a last resort if you need to you can break quarantine to get those needed supplies china is accusing the u.s. of sending law enforcement officials into its consulate in houston after it was forced to shut it down on the other side of the world american staff are leaving the u.s. consulate in chengdu which china ordered closed in retaliation the diplomatic feud between the world's biggest economies is escalating of a growing number of issues including the coronavirus pandemic hong kong and
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allegations of spying in north korea has placed the city of k. song under lockdown of the concerns of a corona virus outbreak its leader kim jong un has reportedly convened an emergency meeting it's the 1st time that north korea has officially reported a covert 19 infection the state news agency says the patient is a defector were legal across the border from the south earlier this month. but it's been 6 months since the corona virus outbreak forced the chinese city of who had into a strict lockdown the city was china's worst affected and only $4000.00 people died from the illness those who survived have been struggling to recover from the standstill and now the city's 11000000 residents are facing a new threat katrina you know reports from in her bay province. there used to be a part where 100 fun town now works but last week's to wrench the reins changed that flooding and polluting his crayfish and crab ponds gotta hold the coronavirus
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this year already impact my business when the operate was contained i was really hard to recall the business but just before the harvest time this flock am i've lost soil. if almost all of science stock died in just a few days he lost more than a year's worth of income. he says 2020 has so far been a year of disasters the coronavirus crisis forced his farm on the outskirts of ohio to close for much of the 1st half of the year infections have eased but for the city's 11000000 residents flooding poses a new threat 6 months off the top of this 1st put in lockdown was this time i thought it was parts of the city off the record i know the governor has already said that's an arrow so far more than 1000 rivers in the region have breached flood warning levels heavy rain
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is expected while some a worried about the future old giles lake can think about is the past her father died suddenly and without diagnosis and early february despite having symptoms of carbon 19 a fever and breathing difficulties the authorities never formally acknowledge him as a victim. yes what's with shock waves or that remember what happened to my father that day it was so tough taking him to the hospital there was no car no help he was in the hospital waiting room and then a few minutes later he stopped breathing then a doctor came and told my mom he passed away. the government says about 3800 people who han died after contracting corona virus with 50000 infected beijing says it successfully contain the outbreak but its source remains unknown world health organization officials say they've launched an investigation but the u.n. agency isn't saying what progress is being made while the virus crisis in will harm
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is over at least for now for john lay the scars remain. where you horror so my life has completely changed i don't think we can ever go back to normal. sidewalk tao is grateful his family survived the outbreak he says he's now trying to shift his focus from counting his losses to making do with what's left katrina you al-jazeera high on. time for a short break here now to 0 when we come back after nearly 3 weeks in quarantine brazil's president tests negative for covered 19 and praises an unproven drug for his recovery. for the love of the game we'll tell you why it's kicking off in mexico despite coronavirus fear more than steroids.
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it's time for brain for japan for a day or so this is the season right gets that message you look at what's happening in china you could argue some here and some here but as overlay the forecast and you can see the shape organizing and so is more rain too for the yangtze topping up the flooding here plenty more for q shoe honshu and elsewhere not much in the korean peninsula but that will be addressed i think that if not on monday then on tuesday as the system start the movie further north so it's coming north of the yangtze as well he would wherever hong kong enough humidity for showers in beijing as well and possibly as. size of all this good comes to shout at the moment they're missing job they're missing most to sulawesi in the bottom half of borneo but they're still showing themselves at the hours top of the one so watch for these other deeper showers and we see them returning to parts the sumatra lump in singapore with not so much an increase in the many cambodia bangkok's a fairly wet by system here as well that's to be expected the monsoon rain is
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falling quite steadily since the jump around nice focus so although we've seen a brief relief in the northeast of india those shares occurring back again as well that also follows as good drought and some pakistan. but. we will get a feel of the element that's in the cloud i can assume to solo. for you for your very very harsh i'm sorry. 8 person i was 14 i was just that. short documentaries from around the world about those who will give up their fight for justice. al-jazeera selects justice.
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welcome back a quick reminder our top stories here on al-jazeera the u.k.'s reimposing a 14 day quarantine on travelers returning from spain infections have tripled in the past 2 weeks with catalonia emerging as a new hot spot. the u.s. has recalled more than a 1000 virus deaths for the 4th straight day florida california and texas are among the worst hit states and hurricane hanna has made landfall in the southern coast of texas strong winds and rain of been lashing the coast with a category one system arriving on saturday just south of corpus christi. brazil's president says he's now tested negative for corona virus after spending weeks in quarantine with code 19 jebel so narrow posted this photo on twitter showing him
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with a box of anti-malarial drug drug security in the fall of the u.s. president and touting its use although it hasn't proved effective in studies also now is ready to downplay the severity of the outbreak brazil has now reported more than 85000 coronavirus deaths and over 2000000 cases are sound from petty's following the story from bogota in colombia. you'd expect to see them both an hour after getting sick and considering the horrible numbers in brazil the more than 85000 deaths in the country you'd expect the president to show some. by and large he has being doing the opposite throughout this crisis and he seems that he will continue to do so now that he has recovered his 1st act on saturday after announcing he was 19 free was to go in a more a cycle ride across the capital brasilia and to mingle with
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a number of supporters and also to continue to prove to the use of this proven and take my lariat drug he has also asked the army there to mass produce it now while all this is happening and in even seeing some benefits from it he's been doing better in polls the last week he had at the start of the pandemic but at the same time there are other people quite concerned in brazil so much so that for example and this is just one example this is the video already this cited that it will cancel for the 1st time its traditional party on the copacabana beach december 31st hundreds of nicaraguans are stranded at the border crossing between costa rica and their home country authorities in nicaragua blocking them from entering as part of measures to contain the spread of coronavirus the government says nicaraguans must show proof they've taken
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a code test in the last 3 days all they want to let him. help us to give us a few more than anything else we don't want to go back to costa rica or stay here we want to get home here there are mothers with children there are children with pregnant women and they don't do anything to help us now muslims from overseas won't be able to attend hodgins saudi arabia due to coronavirus restrictions i have a limited number of domestic programs are being permitted the pandemic presents a real concern for organizers around a 1000 pilgrims are being allowed to attend from within the kingdom last year 2000000 muslims took part. yeah under it's a very special year and it's a very special event we are so happy i'm so happy and excited to be here. nobody should take special care. and. was. right this. also measures to prevent this or the infection.
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the son of imprisoned saudi clerics out aloud is accusing the kingdom of human rights abuses against his family. is a prominent advocate of reform in saudi arabia he was arrested in 2017 and is facing the death penalty on a range of charges including stirring public discord and inciting people against the king if son of dollars says the charges absurd and the saudi government as valid to the rights of both him and his father had the town hall ought to be we are talking about violations like banning any interaction with the family and even banning any legal framework to communicate with my father in an outside court a secret trial took place in suspicious circumstances security offices abused my father and searched our house and farm and went after me and the family these violations took place over 3 years but just as i've gathered outside the israeli prime minister's residence in west jerusalem calling for him to step down for weeks
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protests have been growing louder against benjamin netanyahu over his handling of the pandemic and his corruption trial on thursday police made dozens of arrests and used water cannon to disperse demonstrators sorry for searches in west jerusalem he says protests are intensified. these are protests which have been going on for some weeks now but especially in the last 2 weeks or so we've seen 8 of these protests just here in west jerusalem there are also been protests across the country on several of these occasions tonight being no different several 100 outside the prime minister's sort of summer home or 2nd home north of tel aviv. a few 100 more in television and then it's various road intersections across the country as well as for what they're demanding world demands defer to some extent depending on which group you're talking about there are lots of different groups here from the the black flag so-called pro-democracy protesters who say that netanyahu is a threat to israeli democracy because of his corruption cases that the trial that
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he is currently facing which is due to start in earnest in terms of hearing witnesses and evidence in january they're also small business owners and self-employed people out on the streets protesting against the lack of economic assistance as they see it as a result of the or rather the combat the the economic fallout of the pandemic there also just lots of people in young israelis here in west jerusalem especially who are out protesting against a government which for many of them hasn't tackled the grown a virus pandemic properly that there was a lot of success being celebrated in the 1st wave but now we're deep into the 2nd wave and there has been a pretty chaotic back and forth in terms of decision making in terms of restrictions being imposed and lifted then somewhat tweaked and reimposed and a lot of people are on the streets saying that this prime minister this government isn't focusing properly on the coronavirus pandemics. she has been named tunisia's
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new prime minister the former interior minister now has one month to form a government and win a confidence vote in parliament if you fail to do so new elections will have to be called the last prime minister. resigned earlier this month after coming under investigation of a conflict of interest in his business dealings. kuwait has lifted covered $9000.00 restrictions on nia that's the last area that was still on the lockdown to contain the outbreak tight restrictions were imposed in may but since then measures have been ease in a series of phases the government's hoping to completely reopen the economy by september reported around $63000.00 cases and more than $400.00 deaths since the outbreak began. somalia's president has appointed an interim prime minister after parliament voted to remove his son kerry from office there's been growing criticism over kerry's handling of security the vote comes during a dispute with regional leaders over the timing of
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a national election due to take place early next year kerry's deputy mufti mohamad good will take over as acting prime minister poland is set to withdraw from a european treaty aimed at preventing violence against women thousands joined marches across the across against the plan in cities across the country the justice minister says the treaty is harmful violates parents' rights for acquiring schools to teach children about gender president due to was reelected earlier this month following a campaign which he described l g b t rights as an ideology or destructive and communism. noways arctic archipelago has recalled its highest ever temperature the moment today had reached 21.7 degrees on sunday that 0.4 degrees above the previous record set in 1979 the ardennes would normally be seeing temperatures between $5.00 and $8.00 degrees at this time of year scientists say global warming in the arctic is happening twice as fast compared to the rest of the world. protesters in spain ever marching against the
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royal family if they're angry about corruption allegations involving king philippe's father juan carlos were abdicated in 2014 spain's supreme court opened their investigation into the former king in june looking at his involvement with the awarding of a high speed rail contract in saudi arabia one carlos has declined to comment on the allegations. bangladeshi migrant is facing deportation from malaysia criticizing the government's treatment of workers during the coronavirus crisis kabir was detained on saturday he was interviewed in al-jazeera as one of one east documentary called locked up in malaysia's lockdown al-jazeera says his arrest is disturbing and reaffirms that support for freedom of expression is a fundamental human right without fear of being criminalized. now mexico is moving forward with the 1st division football the opening match of the 2028 league m.x. was played on friday after being postponed by
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a day despite warnings of the heightened risk of coronavirus spreading among players monita rajpal has more now from mexico city. after an uncertain season on and off the pitch footballers in mexico are returning to work. for league football has kicked off a 4 day tournaments with the theme on arena health workers on the front lines of mexico's ongoing struggle against the corona virus pandemic. in recognition and gratitude of those who care for health against the toughest of rivals the tournament name will be changed to guard against 2020 this is a message of solidarity on behalf of mexico's football industry the minister gushes but if you don't well this year's league has been highly anticipated though many in mexico see the tournament as a risky mistake as you you may know we have been using their government has been using. a little chris.
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lawrence we are turning this in. their states of the mix every publicly every turn to read that's the highest level of reason so this is not the time to return to stadiums concerns have also been growing over the risk to players and league staff among mexico's 18 1st division teams 16 have reported coronavirus infections within their ranks. even so many players say they're just glad to return to doing what they love so you are mine and i simply at that like i say if you can going to keep well we'll continue to connect with our fans though it's not possible to have them in the stadium at the moment until the authorities permit but we want them to know what we'll do want jobs in the field and bring them as much happiness as we can. mexico is one of latin. america's worst hit countries by the corona virus pandemic and 2nd only to brazil in cope with related deaths health policy analysts say continuing mexico's prolific football season is that
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a sign the corona virus outbreak is improving but rather a decision that was made despite evidence and warnings that contagion is still on the rise. the remaining matches of the guardian's 2020 tournaments will be played in empty stadiums the recent poll found that 3 in 4 mexican football fans would not attend live games even if the stadiums were open out of fear of contracting code 19 . below al-jazeera mexico city another morial fellate u.s. congressman john lewis is being held in his home state of alabama lewis is being remembered for his role in politics and as a civil rights icon every 6 days of ceremonies and line state in the u.s. capitol before being buried in georgia regis philbin has died at the age of 88 the talk show and game show host had a remarkable career over 60 years on programs such as live with regis and kathie lee and the us version of who wants to be a millionaire he spent more time in front of a camera than anyone else in the u.s.
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television history 17000 hours according to the guinness world records. by time for a quick check of the headlines here on the al-jazeera the u.k.'s reimposing a 14 day quarantine on travelers returning from spain infections have tripled there in the past 2 weeks with catalonia emerging as a new hotspot. the u.s. has recorded more than a 1000 coronavirus deaths for the 4th consecutive day florida california and texas are mung the worst hit states how does a castro has more now from maryland. there are many hotspots concentrated in the american south we're also seeing rising numbers in california and louisiana and in taxes the border region of taxes and particularly feeling the effects of being an under resource an impoverished region to begin with what hospitals there now
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they're going for resources to help you know the military has moved in some help there as well as refrigerated morgues to be parked behind hospitals so very grim figures and images that we're seeing from around the country. for the president says he is now tested negative for corona virus after spending weeks and quarantine with covert 19 jabil tomorrow posted this photo on twitter showing him with a box of the drug security he followed the u.s. president in promoting its use although it hasn't proved effective in studies that are as regularly downplayed the severity of the outbreak brazil has now reported more than 85000 coronavirus deaths and over 2000000 cases are again has made landfall in the southern coast of texas strong winds and rain the been lashing the coast with a category one system arriving on the south today just south of corpus christi and it is the 1st atlantic hurricane of the season. we know how we're going douglas is
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heading towards hawaii the category 4 storms expected to reach the pacific islands on sunday meteorologists say should weaken by then social distancing rules been forced in storm shelters. just as have gathered outside the israeli prime minister's residence in west jerusalem calling for him to step down for weeks protests have been growing louder against benjamin netanyahu over his handling of the pandemic and his corruption trial. memorials for the late u.s. congressman john lewis being held in his home state of alabama lewis is being remembered for his role in politics as a civil rights icon now the 6 days of ceremonies in lie in state in the u.s. capitol for being buried in georgia those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the misting post so watching. breaks everybody on this planet matters the body our when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told here human development has moved right to the edge of the
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