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you story like this play and talking points are pretty i don't think it can forge narratives all right through the listening post gives you the full picture. 'd there is no silver bullet at the moment and then it might never be a grim warning from the world health organization has countries bring back restrictions in order to hold a surge in corona virus infections. and again i'm adrian for the given this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. at least 300 inmates of a skate and 36 people killed event islip attack a high security prison in afghanistan. anti-government protesters showed no sign of
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letting up in mali demonstrators are demanding the president step down plus. a cup of coffee with a message we tell you how cafe in north macedonia is inspiring people with disabilities. we begin this hour with a stark warning from the world health organization as the rush to find a coronavirus vaccine intensifies while the world health organization is applauding efforts of more than $140.00 research teams around the world it says the people should not pin all their hopes on the discovery of effects of the effective vaccine . we also hope to have a number of effective vaccines that can help prevent people from infection however there is no silver bullet at the moment and then might never be for now
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stopping outbreaks comes down to the basics of public health and disease control testing isolating and treating patients and tracy and quarantining their contacts do it on inform empowered and listen to communities do it all for individuals it's about keeping physical distance wearing a mask cleaning hands regularly and coughing safely away from others do eat all without call for global solidarity came with an extra warning for countries with high transmission rates including brazil and india the w.h.o. saying that they face a long battle to find a way out of the pandemic what else is a professor of epidemiology in medicine that columbia university's melbourne school of public health she says the w.h.o. as message is timely. i think the warning from the director general is is
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a wise move at this point in time as the as think we want to do is to have people be complacent let go of all the preventive measures that they need to be practicing in the hope of having a vaccine down the line this will be a big mistake which we need to do is to continue to lead double our efforts to do what needs to be done now rather than let go of those measures and hope for a vaccine in the future i would take an optimistic stand then i would say even if we find an effective and safe exene and this does not mean that everyone will get the vaccine immediately and we have to start planning today our public health systems have to start planning now for the availability of such a vaccine so we can prepare communities we can prepare people so they are willing to get the vaccine because it does not help to have an effective and safe sex scene
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sitting on shall we have to get a vaccine to the largest numbers of people around the world as quickly as possible the philippines is among the latest countries to bring back restrictions to try to contain the spread of the virus it's reported more than 3200 new coronavirus infections pushing a close to overtaking indonesia as the worst hit country in southeast asia. alan duggan reports over health care workers are only take care of patients at the stress cause with a clear message thousands of filipino health workers are appealing to the government to impose tighter controls saying the country is losing the fight against the coronavirus the help that they're going to hold you have to hold the line for much longer health care workers should not bird the burden of saving lives in the days. it is all they really are all the many.
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more than 5000 new infections were recorded on sunday the largest single day increase since the 1st case was recorded months ago the number of recorded cases is now over 100000 the 2nd highest number of coronavirus infections in southeast asia after indonesia. the philippines government has already implemented one of the most stringent lockdowns in the world more than 50000000 people were forced to stay at home in the entire region of luzon for more than 2 months it began easing restrictions in march hoping to soften the impact of the country's economy now in one of its worst periods of recession in recent years millions of filipinos have lost their jobs since the pandemic broke out. i fully understand why your health workers would like to ask for such a timeout period they have been in front lines for months and they're exhausted
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next time you can ask for on the weekends. and ask for a revolution if you want that evolution no let's kill all those with go with that means metro manila and some nearby provinces will face further measures not a lockdown at least for now critics say although the months long so it's all locked down had slowed down corona virus infections it was also a missed opportunity they say the government failed to conduct widespread various tests the would help contain hotspots early on that the government too should also start to reassess its priorities in the coming months the country has long struggled with an adequate resources and health experts are warning that this pandemic may bring the public health system closer to collapse. dogon al-jazeera manila. the u.k. government says that it's rolling out tests for the coronavirus that can provide a result within 90 minutes millions of these it will be sent to hospitals care
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homes and laboratories as early as next week some health experts though voiced concern over how reliable the new tests will be but britain's health minister says that swift testing could help to make the country safer these technologies which deliver these rapid turnaround tests mean that we can expand testing capacity further and into settings where for instance in schools we have a currently we have survey testing so we have some testing that would be able to be expanded but also looking at looking across the community where we want to test people who don't have symptoms to find out where the virus is the financial security of millions of americans is hanging in the balance as politicians debate further relief for the unemployed around for about 3 months a $600.00 weekly pavement has been a lifeline for people who've lost jobs democrats and republicans have so far failed to agree on how the program should continue after it expires on friday.
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afghan security forces are currently engaged in a gun battle with armed men in jalalabad are reports that rockets upand fired towards the city's airport numerous explosives have been seized from one house but security officials say that a group of attack is now hiding in another location near the airport we know that at least one of the gunman has been killed but it comes as afghan forces retake control of a prison in jalalabad eisel claimed responsibility for storming the high security facility 46 people were killed including 10 of the attackers officials say that more than 300 prisoners escaped or fighters linked to i saw in afghanistan have claimed responsibility for many recent attacks one of the worst so far this year was the suicide bombing which killed $32.00 mourners at a funeral for a police commander in may the united nations' latest estimate is that i saw has
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around 2200 fighters in afghanistan while i saw is in territorial retreats with its leadership depleted the u.n. says that it remains capable of carrying out high profile attacks in various parts of the country the u.n. recorded 17 isolette tanks during the 1st 6 months of this year which caused civilian casualties kate clark is the co-director of the afghanistan analyst network a policy research think tank she says that this year the situation in afghanistan has become more complex. the war is actually becoming more difficult to read and we had the agreement between the united states and the taliban right at the end of february which the on the back of that the u.s. withdrew thousands of its troops it said that the taliban had also agreed to a reduction finest the taliban said no absolutely not we've only agreed not to
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attack u.s. forces and not to attack him in major cities in bases now sits and the taliban have really been probing to see how much violence they can get away with without drawing the us military back into the war and we know that both the taliban and the government have been under claiming attacks whereas before they would probably be exaggerating what they were doing on the battlefield now they're then they're not claimed so many so it's actually quite difficult to read who is responsible for what anymore and we've also had an a surge an unclaimed attacks or attacks that are difficult to pin down video conferencing talks are underway to try to break the deadlock of africa's largest hydroelectric dam in ethiopia if the o.p.'s government says that the 5000000000 dollar project will boost its economy but sudan and egypt downstream on the river nile are worried about reduced water supplies. anti-government protests
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protesters rather are back on the streets of mali's capital demanding the resignation of president ibrahim boubacar. the opposition stop the rallies for eat at least 14 people have died during demonstrations over the past few weeks mollies opposition is accused of failing to deal with insecurity and corruption regional bloc ecowas has been leading mediation efforts it's given both sides a deadline that expires on thursday to implement its proposals that include the formation of a unity government al-jazeera is nicholas hawk is following developments from neighboring senegal. what the president has done is named a few new cabinet ministers 6 of them there's still the same new prime minister who's in charge the judges of the constitutional court refused to resign and so have the 31 ruling party members of parliament that when there are seats in
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contested elections earlier this year well they also refused to resign and that was part of the ecowas recommendation that they that they resign or that new elections are held so they're not meeting their end of the bargain meanwhile the opposition say they don't want any of that they just want president to leave power they say that he's in breach of article 37 of the constitution because he set out commandos trained to fight armed groups in the north of the country against unarmed protesters earlier in july add to that the mix of corruption impunity money and soldiers accused according to u.n. investigation. of extrajudicial killing on mali ins instead of protecting them and bad governments all of that means that they're still back on the streets right now and they're trying to to slow down traffic in the capital bamako there is trying to close down streets not just in the capital but in other regions of the
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country look at a weather update next here on al-jazeera that lebanon's foreign minister resigns slamming the government for failing the country. making a sharp rebound china's economy bounces back after the corona virus outbreak. we have tropical storm making its way towards eastern china now there we go with a circulation very close. to taiwan is going to continue drifting further northward eventually pushing up towards shanghai it will bring some very very heavy rain in the risk of flash flooding storm surge will be some major problems coming in the system continues to drift further north woods the winds not too much of
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a concern running gradually becoming little lighter as he make our way into the 2nd half of the week in that will pick up a little more moisture as it runs out towards the yellow sea towards the korean peninsula we've already got some heavy rain of course across the korean peninsula japan on the other hand looking fine and dry with plenty of sunshine south of us still what we still got very heavy rain there feeding into the far south of china in the remnants of the previous tropical storm heavy showers continuing to across much of in the china wanted to have a shower still in place there across a good part of the philippines but otherwise it's the usual sunshine and heat of the day showers plenty of showers meanwhile across parts of south asia through into india we go to an area of low pressure developing in the babbin gold and that's bringing very heavy rain also in myanmar. on counting the cost the wealth of banks prime minister says parish make his built
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on the backs of slaves how much has britain now in preparation how the pandemic could wipe out latin america's hard earned social and economic gains plus wild cards missing billions counting the cost on al-jazeera we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what you see the news in kind of forms that matter to you. color again this is all deserve a 2nd of a trilogy of the main news this hour the world health organization is well that i mean it may never be a silver bullet for corona virus in the form of
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a perfect vaccine it's nations to rigorously enforced preventative measures such as more squaring and testing. afghan security forces have retaken a prison in jalalabad after all the men attacked the facility at least $46.00 people were killed including 10 of the attackers $300.00 prisoners escaped. and anti-government protesters are back on the streets of mali's capital demanding the resignation of president abraham who become. the opposition that stopped the rallies for aid. trading has resumed on zimbabwe's stock exchange after a month long suspension in order to try to stabilize the country's currency zimbabweans are suffering 800 percent inflation and the worst financial crisis in more than a decade. spain worsened by coronavirus lockdown restrictions and police have arrested activists demanding the fall of the governing zanu p.f. party in connection with corruption allegations about ways economic troubles have
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been compounded by the corona virus outbreak the world food program is warning but the by the end of the year 60 percent of the population will lack food security the pandemic has highlighted the impact of corruption on zimbabwe's economy transparency international estimates that it costs almost 2000000000 dollars each year in april doctors in zimbabwe took the government to coles and nurses went on a nationwide strike over a lack of protective equipment zanu p.f. ruling party has been cracking down on attempts to expose corruption and investigative journalists and dozens of activists and opposition politicians have been arrested in recent weeks since you say way is an economist in harare that explains what else is making it difficult for people in zimbabwe to get by right now. the pandemic is investigating simply because number one we had to close the border because we locked down in south africa botswana countries that are around
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him and this is obviously stifled a lot of trade a lot of the zimbabwe given formal market for example green groups from south africa zambia and all over the region so the close closure of what is meant that millions of people have become an employer and the government did promise that there would be some questioning but no one has seen that questioning coming so people are really in a fix regarding income tax. on disposable income people don't have enough to manage went by and in order to survive during this particular knock on the issue of inflation that we continue to have in place should you know it's getting a 100 percent bound to continue simply because number one we always put in company we put a lot of. so we always priced them using the u.s. rate adulterate and they've learned that keeps going up. in the supermarkets
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would be to increase and they know the increase in disposable income which means the everybody's really feeling the screen africa's largest supermarket chain says that it's considering pulling out of nigeria by the end of the year the shoprite group is looking at setting all of its operations in the continent's most populous country the south african grocery some cases some mainly middle class shoppers and opened its 1st store in nigeria in 2005 shoprite operates more than 2300 outlets in 15 african nations. lebanon's foreign minister has resigned saying that the country is at risk of turning into a failed state and sci fi t. is the 1st cabinet minister to step down since the start of a growing economic crisis which is supposed to push lebanon to the brink of bankruptcy he's been replaced by presidential advisor shovelware be serious they called a halt to reports now from beirut. the foreign minister's resignation is being seen
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as a blow to prime minister has given his government that he's been trying really to gain credibility and legitimacy at home and abroad since taking office in january but he has largely failed to do so the prime minister made many many promises like to fight corruption to fix the economic situation nothing has changed in fact the situation is only getting worse and now criticism from within his own government the foreign minister saying that lebanon is becoming a failed state he's accusing those in power of not having a vision and saying that they are not carrying out the 4 reforms that are needed to be able to be eligible for much needed international financial assistance in fact talks with the international monetary fund to bailout the economy are now on hold and the statistics really are staggering more and more people are losing jobs
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businesses are closing in fact to an aid agency recently said that 500000 children are growing hungry just in the beirut area alone so the situation is worsening the foreign minister is saying that the government has done nothing and really raising the alarm saying that the sink the ship is sinking and if it is not saved everyone will drown in a clear reference that the government itself and those who hold power who are starving want to mentation power they too will drown if no solution is found. a mass is described overnight israeli air strikes in gaza as a dangerous escalation israeli ministry says that it targeted several sites ultra rocket was initially 5 from gaza it's the 1st such exchange in a month is ready army says that it's killed 4 faces in the occupied golan heights it's reste this video which it says shows them planting explosives along the border fence the military described them as
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a terrorist squad that says the syrian regime is ultimately responsible the video can't be verified new group has claimed any such attack al-jazeera sorry force of the west jerusalem says an investigation is now underway. i mean to base it in the account friendly israeli military they say that what took place was this group of 4 what they call terrorists coming into israeli controlled territory in the southern occupied golan heights they said they were trying to plant explosives at an unmanned israeli military outpost there they were tracked as they did so and they were fired upon by troops on the ground and from the air similar tenuously and all 4 of them were killed what we don't know and what the israeli military says they are investigating as to whether there is any link between this whether it's an isolated incident or is connected to the already heightened security situation in israel's north israel has been reinforcing its troops along the border with lebanon
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and in the occupied golan heights in anticipation of a potential hezbollah attack thought to be likely to come from lebanese territory that soft as butter fighter was killed in an air strike inside syria last month as well has a long standing promise to retaliate to any of its fighters being killed inside syrian territory and to be there was an incident a week ago on monday when israel fired upon and it says drove back a group of would be infiltrators into its controlled territory in the disputed shebaa farms area as well a sudden there was no attack carried out in that instance so the israeli military is saying that there is currently no known connection between what took place overnight but it is investigating the situation russia has strikes have killed at least 3 people in northern syria 5 others were injured and bombs and a weapons step in the city have been a rebel held province last month un investigators accused russia and its syrian
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allies of indiscriminate bombardment of civilians. global banking giant h.s.b.c. has announced plans to accelerate $35000.00 redundancies due to bad loans that are linked to the coronavirus pandemic pretax profits plunged 65 percent in the 1st half of the year and that was much steeper than expected the bad loans it says could total more than $12000000000.00 china's economy appears to have rebounded sharply after the corona virus outbreak and the historic contraction but many people are still unemployed job seekers have been encouraged to become street vendors to spur the country's economic growth and zeros katrina new reports from chengdu. food makes a living selling sunflowers to pedestrians in time to city in china southwest before they covered 1000 outbreak he worked as a security guard. my company for
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a lot of people because of the epidemic at 1st they just to lower my salary but eventually they said they couldn't employ me anymore that's why i'm doing this. more than 20000000 chinese workers are estimated to have lost their jobs because of the pandemic. like food many have taken up informal streets selling to make ends meet street markets are now putting up across cities and towns with many vendors selling their own handmade goods. lead lay decided to organize this market after losing his job as a hairdresser he says street vending is for many the only way to generate income but sales aren't easy to come by. the fact is not many sellers can make good money some new sellers are even losing money it all depends on the products and experience. the official data suggests strong recovery for china's economic growth
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the emergence of legions of street sellers nationwide paints a bleak picture the chinese government says unemployment is at 6 percent but other estimates put it at closer to 20 chinese premier league china last month encourage the development of the so-called street stall economy to help china's economic growth get back on track but these vendors aren't welcome everywhere. some local governments have banned unlicensed street vendors calling the stalls backward and unhygienic chinese state media says the street economy is only a temporary solution and not suitable for so-called 1st tier cities like shanghai and beijing but food dong says he prefers this work to his old job but you're not going to work as a security guard again there the salary was too low and this job gives me more freedom if you work hard enough you can make more money and very happy. that's one
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bright spot at least for this new worker katrina al-jazeera to do some sun has become the 1st company in south korea to open an in-house testing center for corona virus it says the facility at its main campus south of the capital so will save time as it monitors the health of employees the firm which employs tens of thousands nationwide plans to open testing centers at other production sites homes have collapsed the rice fields destroyed in thailand after flash flooding hit the northern and eastern parts of the country this was filmed by a resident of lowy province who was sitting on the roof of the house as the floodwaters swept through a village the rains were brought on by tropical storm and local at least 2 people were killed and more every downpours are expected. tributes are being paid to a major influence in the old island peace process john hume has passed away at the
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age of 83 after a long illness he won the nobel peace prize for helping draft the good friday peace agreement in 1998 he's been described as the man who kept hope alive during the darkest days of fighting between catholic and protestant paramilitary groups. the 1st sign language cafe in northern macedonia has opened its doors in the capital skopje it's hoped the business venture will inspire thousands of other people with disabilities in the country who struggle to get work heavily on the state for help correlate reports. martin and red mill a long wanted to start their own business and after meeting others like them with hearing in speech impediments while traveling abroad they came up with an idea a cafe that welcomes and caters to such people along with other customers yes. during my time abroad i saw many ideas and learned that many different people have
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started their own businesses this gave us an idea to do the same. they received a state grant to help them and after months of preparation were about to open the cafe in march but then the coronavirus pandemic broke out noting that the hardest thing was finding an interpreter that was the most difficult as time went by we thought we were going to make it the bank requires you to have an account but the law on the winsome changes which was a shock for us we somehow managed to find an interpreter but the problem was how to pay him martin and i were struggling to make our own living we could not paid interpretation services. but the pair overcame the challenges and hope their success can be an example to others customers can use the digital menu to make orders and also learn sign language they and government officials hope they can help change people's attitudes to those with disabilities and show others they
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don't need state aid to start their own business. when the aim is to remain the law in this regard so this is many people with disabilities as possible can join the open market rather than the protected one we have to raise awareness and consider people with disabilities as equal to all of the workers in the country for now sign lang. which is only used for ordering beverages but the couple intends to supplement that off that very soon with a car leg al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the world health organization has issued a stark warning that there may never be a silver bullet and the coronavirus pandemic it says that people shouldn't pin their hopes on a vaccine and the basic prevention measure measures remain crucial to finding a way out of the crisis we all hope to have
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a number of effective vaccines that can help prevent people from infection however there is no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be for tomorrow stopping outbreaks comes down to the basics of public health and disease control testing isolating and treating patients and tracy and quarantining their contacts do it on the philippines has reported more than $3200.00 new corona virus infections pushing it close to overtaking indonesia as the worst hit country in southeast asia tougher restrictions are being reimposed in at around manila after infections jumped to more than 100000 from tuesday businesses and public transport are expected to shut down and people will need special passes it will decide leave home the u.k.'s government says that it's
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rolling out tests for the corona virus that can provide a result with a 90 minutes millions of these are to be sent to hospitals care homes and laboratories as early as next week some health experts though have voiced concern over how reliable the new tests will be. afghan security forces are currently engaged in a gun battle with armed men in jalalabad are reports of rockets being fired towards the city's airport we know that at least one of the gunmen has been killed a list comes as afghan forces re took control of a prison in jalalabad ice will claim responsibility for storming the high security facility $46.00 people were killed including 10 of the attackers official say that more than $300.00 christmas escaped there's the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost next.
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