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strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world i feel more german and syrian the. how much money does a richer get those people you would think. and german and american the new germans on al-jazeera. they're straining state of victoria says it will deploy the military to ensure people of bag coronavirus isolation orders. hello i'm sam is a than this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. should person have a lot of respect for donald trump defends his working relationship with the coordinator of the white house current virus task force after accusing dr deborah
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burke's of hurting the administration. $300000.00 without power struggle storm hits the carolinas. and moving out rain ians faced a housing crisis as they struggle to pay rising rents. hundreds of military personnel are being deployed to the astray and state of victoria to help and force crown a virus isolation orders the state has introduced a number of measures to control its outbreak anyone found breaching the rules will be fined 3 and a half $1000.00 melbourne is introduced a night curfew non-essential businesses have been ordered to close because a gauge is monitoring developments from sydney. what is clear is that the victorian government wants everyone to use peace dang it harm unless it's absolutely
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necessary not to do so and it is doing everything in its power and so make sure that the citizens of victoria and those in the city of melbourne where complete lockdown is underway over not probably a daniel andrews has said that they've restrictions were absolutely needed because one big problem has been that many people who tested positive through the virus have not been staying at home he said that nearly one 3rd of people who did have quite a bit 19 wanted hoeing when all forty's it did knock on their door over the past few days so this means that there will be a huge police presence defense force personnel presence on the streets of melbourne and around regional victoria making sure that papal abiding by the rules and that is to make sure that these community transmission is not continuing and we all thing a drop in the number of cases. in the philippines long towns have been reimposed in and around the capital manila president of the bigger the territory approved the
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new measures following a call from a health worker groups who say the country is losing the fight against coronavirus 3 more than 300000 or other more than 3200 new infections were confirmed across the country on monday general allen dogon has more. ryanair to go is on his way home after is 12 hour overnight shift at the airport in manila taking the train is now out of the question the government has imposed another round of lock downs to stop the spread of coronavirus in manila and public transport has been halted for 2 weeks. what makes this particularly difficult is that they know they have been slipped and i am dead but i had to keep walking. article point is on his way to work in a shopping mall with the sprint they have been walking for 2 hours and need to move
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fast to make it to the central business district by 10 am. that they were they were already exhausted and then our 10 hour work starts this is it we have no choice but to follow the protocols by the government and hope this doesn't last forever the country recorded more than 5000 additional infections and sunday the largest single day in crease since the 1st case was recorded months ago the total is now more than 100000 the 2nd highest number of coronavirus infections in south east asia after indonesia that's forced the government to reimpose restrictions after losing quarantine rules for almost 2 months domestic flights are banned and international air travel limited police have set up additional checkpoints. present metro manila and people have to carry quarantine passes many of the people we've
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spoken to here tell us they will now have to spend an average of 4 to 5 hours every day for the next 2 weeks just to go to work almost all of them are under a no work no pay status they can't even afford to stay at home they say they simply do not have a choice. even before restrictions were tightened public transportation in manila was only allowed to operate at half its capacity and many businesses are still operating under a so-called modified enhanced community quarantine thousands of public transport workers have lost their jobs and some have turned to banking. many workers tell us they understand that these measures are necessary but can only hope the government decides to help those who have little to survive on similarly dugan just here in manila. the u.n.
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secretary general is warning of a generational catastrophe as education systems worldwide go through their worst disruption in history because of the pandemic and done. it could undermine decades of progress we already faced the learning crisis before the pandemic more than 250000000 school age children were out of school and only a quarter of secondary school children in developing countries were leaving school with basic skills now we face a generational note at the still fee that would waste untold human potential and then mind decades of progress and exacerbate entrenched inequalities. the outbreak has affected nearly $1600000000.00 students across more than $190.00 countries at least $40000000.00 children have missed their preschool year because of covert $1000.00 restrictions more than 250000000 children were out of school before the pandemic now the u.n. is warning nearly 24000000 or more could drop out or lose access to education the
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u.n. says before reopening schools it's important to control local transmission supply adequate funding and reach worse off students anthony welsh is a professor of education at the university of sydney australia he explains why access to learning has been a challenge particularly for young people in lower income countries for the wealthiest countries they have already have moved online and have. strong capacity to. use online facilities teachers and programs online that's not the case in much of the developing world where capacity is limited teachers don't necessarily have training. including to put curriculum online. and the information the i.t. networks are not as strong or as well developed so the impact is going to be quite
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differential across the world and as i say it again will have a deeper impact on those groups that are already marginal so i think the recovery. will also be quite differential and developing countries are going to need most help at the very time when aid budgets increasingly at risk. u.s. president donald trump has publicly rebuked the head of the white house kind of virus taskforce he's accused deborah books of hurting his administration office she said the rapid spread of covert 900 throughout america marks a new phase in the pandemic well brown's reports from the sands days here with her dr deborah burke says one of the most prominent experts supposedly advising president donald trump over the coronavirus pandemic but trump lashed out at burke's on monday calling her pathetic and suggesting that she was out to do him
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political damage burke said warned in an interview that the outbreak had entered a new stage and the virus was extraordinarily widespread in the u.s. in a white house press conference trump seemed to backtrack should person have a lot of respect for so far the virus has infected more than 4000000 700000 people in the u.s. and killed more than 155000 the centers for disease control forecasts $20000.00 additional deaths by late this month. trump once again hailed his administration's response the united states has done an amazing job and great job meanwhile teacher protests continue to grow against schools fully reopening next month something continues to strongly support and negotiations stalled over extending an economic lifeline to $30000000.00 unemployed us workers as white house
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negotiators met with democratic leaders on capitol hill the sticking points include the democrats' desire to continue unemployment benefits of $600.00 a week republicans say that's too generous and proposed $200.00 a week instead democrats also want to allocate a trillion dollars to states and cities hit hard by revenue shortfalls resulting from the pandemic trying to dismiss the idea they want to bail out cities and states that have done a bad job over a long period of time nothing to do with the coronavirus or china virus or whatever you want to call it they want to bail out 2 cities and states and what bailout money trump has been talking about signing an executive order extending unemployment benefits and banning dictions but so far he has not acted robert oulds al-jazeera. typhoon has struck china as jang
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province the storm reached the eastern coast in the early hours of tuesday more than 380000 people have been forced to leave their homes the storm is the region's 4th typhoon this year flooding and landslides in south korea have killed at least 13 people want to the damages in the region surrounding the capital seoul president jane is called an emergency meeting he says rescue teams will do all they can prevent further loss of life. and u.s. investigators say a wildfire in southern california was probably sparked by the exhaust of a diesel truck nearly 8000 people have been forced from their homes since friday emergency crews say they're struggling to contain the fire that's burned across 100 square kilometers of land. the u.s. federal judge whose son was killed by a gunman is calling for better privacy laws for those who serve on the bench investigators believe as the sallust and their family were targeted because of her
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position she had firsthand see reports last month a man dressed as a career pulled up judge esther services house in new jersey silas was tidying up with her son following his 20th birthday celebrations the day before daniel and i went downstairs to the basement and we were chatting as we always do and daniel said mom let's keep talking i love talking to him. and it was that exact moment that the doorbell rang again and looked at me and said chris that and before i could say a word he sprinted up stairs within seconds. i heard the sound of bullets and someone scream you know i later learned. that. this
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monster who had a fed ex package in his hand opened fire. a daniel being daniel protected his father and he took this year's 1st bullet. so regularly to the test the gunman then shot judge silas's husband multiple times he's recovering in hospital however the target is believed to have been judge solace the alleged gunman 72 year old attorney roy dunn hollander described himself as an empty feminist last summer here appear before john salazar who he later described as a quote lazy and incompetent latino judge appointed by obama and quote hollander was found dead in his car in new york the day after he killed silas a son authorities say he shot himself in addition hollander had a list of what i thought to be other potential targets including several female judges john seiler says she's speaking up to protect other judges and their
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families we know that our job requires us to make tough calls. and sometimes those calls can lead people angry and upset and fortunately for my family the threat was real and the free flow of information from the internet allowed this sick and deprived human being to find all our personal information and target us my sons that cannot be and however this is a time when all of our personal information has been commodified as never before and josiah says she accepts change will be complicated but she ends the dialogue should begin shared hansie out 0 new york. still ahead on al-jazeera spain's former king juan carlos has left the country after being accused of accepting $100000000.00 from saudi arabia.
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however we've had some very heavy showers across parts of southeast asia particularly up towards thailand's towards indochina he was $142.00 millimeters of rain in the space of 24 hours but even a little further south into indonesia it was $170.00 millimeters of rain more big downpours as we go through the next couple of days that what's the weather will be across malaysia up towards the philippines up towards secured parts of india china fading out there into parts of vietnam cambodia laos and more the same as we go on into thursday further south more the way of sunshine but the shot was still there nevertheless now over the last couple of days you say some very very cold weather wintry showers in fact across the southeastern coast of australia really dragging
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out some very cold air out of antarctica across a good part of the southeast so quite a dusting of snow across tasmania some snow around the snowy mountains and out a suicide of victoria because more disturbed weather to come as we go on through the next couple days as that snow that'll make its way down towards the southeastern corner of victoria southeastern areas of new south wales as well wetter weather too coming across south australia spilling out of western australia could even see some wet weather into western parts of queensland. if. bought into existence by a slave rebellion. yet rife with slavery. at the 2010 earthquake forced into domestic were. deprived of an education and wrapped up a childhood. child slaves part of slavery
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a 21st century evil. on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines hundreds of military personnel are being deployed to the israeli and state of victoria to help in force for a virus isolationalist anyone found breaching the rules will be fined 3 and a half $1000.00. the philippine capital manila is back on the coronavirus long down public transport has been halted in only essential businesses are allowed to operate cases have surged past 100000. resident donald trump has
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publicly rebuked the head of the white house burn a virus taskforce he said deborah burke said hurt his administration after she said the rapid spread of covert 19 in the us was a new phase in the pandemic. oil giant british petroleum is reporting a record $16800000000.00 quarterly loss as a result of the pandemics economic fallout the company has cut its dividends by half b.p. had already announced it's cutting $10000.00 jobs 2000 of which are in the u.k. along with major losses the company has announced new plans to increase investment in low carbon energy. better ruses holding presidential elections after rare anti-government protests alexander lukashenko is lead the country since 994 he's vying for a 6th consecutive term is currently speaking to parliament the president is facing
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his strongest opposition in a decade protests against his leadership have been intensifying driven by a poor economy and his handling of the pandemic. argentina's government has unveiled plans to reform its judiciary by increasing the number of federal courts but the opposition says the move is president alberto fernandez his attempt to shield his free decisive from prosecution that is about reports from one of scientists. with argentinean flags and a call to respect the republic hundreds protested against the government's initiative to reform the justice system. i'm worried because they want to try and just supreme court 1st it had 9 members then 5 now they want to increase it again it's a pretty court of a country cannot be manipulated by the wishes of one person. for decades in argentina have repeatedly been accused of pro-government bias reforming the
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judiciary was one of the 1st pledges of this when he became president in december. to believe that reforming the justice system is necessary because it's filled with corruption and irregularities but many do not trust in the government essentially because they believe that this is a way of ensuring control over the judiciary during the previous government of president. there were a series of high profile detentions of people close to former president and now vice president cristina fernandez. most are facing corruption trials including question herself who says the allegations against her are politically motivated. but the precedent says he's main objective is an independent judicial branch. with this we are looking to get beyond having decision making power concentrated in a reduced number of magistrates that as is currently the case have the power to know and decide in nearly all cases with institutional and therefore high profile
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relevance. the proposed law plans to increase the number of federal courts from $12.00 to $46.00 and create a commission made up of 11 experts to assess additional reforms that include the supreme court questioners lawyer is part of the commission we known sociologist and legal expert provided the latter adolescence the government is making a mistake. here the name of the lawyer of the former president is a very clear message the government has given us we don't have to cover our eyes there are no excuses on why that lawyer is there in many latin american countries they have been reforms of the judiciary in colombia in the 1990 s. the access to tribunals the changed history but they are not during that. week forming the judiciary is likely to increase political tensions here for many being
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so in the middle of economic and social problems caused by the covert 1000 pandemic is wrong. when a scientist. mainmast leader has officially declared her candidacy for a 2nd term in office on sound suchi took the reins of power in 2016 after intellectual landslide been subject to global criticism for denying crimes committed against 3 $190.00 election is set for november. pakistan's prime minister a man can tells al-jazeera his country prevented a military escalation between saudi arabia and iran he also spoke about last year's border skirmish with india and new delhi's decision to revoke the autonomy of indian and minister of kashmir the indian government rather than. asking us for an explanation or warning proofs trying to prove that pakistan was involved this sent the jets and bombed us we we had to retaliate one of the indian
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jets was brought down in pakistan we returned the pilot because pakistan does not want an escalation and i repeat nuclear armed countries you can order of an escalation because you do not know once even a small skirmish starts you don't know where it will end up and that's why we tried our best to tell the indians let's resolve this issue on the table we are willing to talk to them but that was only till 5th august last year and the curfew has been imposed in indian administered kashmir ahead of the one year anniversary since the region was stripped of its autonomy thousands of indian troops have been deployed to the region soldiers have warned residents to stay indoors in the border chops closed and internet blackout and security clampdown last year resulted in thousands of people being arrested. at least 17 people including children have died
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in yemen where flash floods of swept through several provinces the mount of governorates is one of the worst affected 2 weeks of heavy rain and destroyed shelters and farms or 2 and a half 1000 families have lost their homes more rain is forecast hurrican has way we can to a tropical storm after making landfall in north carolina in the u.s. power supplies to 300000 people have been can't flooding in a beachside community cause several house fires the storm is passing through the state's eastern areas and heading north towards new york state the iranian capital tehran is becoming one of the most an affordable cities in the world to live in high inflation stagnant wages and rising house prices are pushing many into poverty many are blaming us sanctions and government policies said big reports from to iran. with
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a population of $8600000.00 people that iran has more residents per square kilometer than london and istanbul but iran's capital is facing a housing crisis. asking about prices they've gone up people's purchasing power is reduced rents also hiked people are stuck in the middle they can't pay these friends there is pressure on them a worker whose salary is $470.00 cannot pay $420.00 for rent. small apartments type keypad together and old homes standing next to new developments yet even in this neighborhood the cheapest into iran people are moving out because they can't afford the prices life here is in sharp contrast to that in the north of the city gated communities expensive cars and luxury apartments. but even here the affluent say they are feeling the pinch. the u.s. dollar has a great impact most of the construction projects in this area he was foreign
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materials and when the dollar goes up property prices are multiplying the country is facing record levels of inflation stagnant wages and its currency is losing its value rents in this part of the front can cost anything from 2000 to $10000.00 a month prices out of reach for most iranians people are looking to the government for more affordable housing and it's important that the government delivers because it's the working class here that make up the core support for the political establishment and with difficult times ahead the last thing you rein in authorities want is people voicing their discontent on the streets but many say the government hasn't delivered affordable housing projects like this have stalled in recent years and fallen short of the target of 900000 housing units needed to be built every year. when it comes to the real estate sector i as president can face we've had shortcomings in our government unfortunately some of our housing policies were into
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implemented his words are of no comfort to those struggling to pay rent well until i was my age i work in a lab and earn $700.00 per month but i have to be totally to rent my husband works too but we're under pressure. i rented a flat 2 to 3 years ago because of high rents now i have to live in social security benefits and stay at a shelter for homeless women not all the problems can be blamed on the government u.s. sanctions mean state revenues have dropped there's less money available for projects including housing and initiatives have been launched to change things a proposed tax on empty properties and a 25 percent cap on increasing grain prices right now it's not certain any government policy will work to bring down costs and the one remains a city with more demand for housing than supply side beg al-jazeera. spain's former king juan carlos has left the country after corruption allegations
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surfaced against him he insists he'll be available to prosecutors if they need to interview him charlotte has more. spain's former king juan carlos nowhere to be saying as investigations continue into his involvement in a rail contract in saudi arabia and an alleged $100000000.00 gift from the late saudi king abdullah spain's world house published one carlos his decision to leave the country in it he tells his son king philippe his departure is necessary due to public repercussions from susan past events in his private life the announcement live spaniard stunned and divided. must be the concept of innocence before being held guilty in mind the narrow i thought of this is that it's better that he just goes he hasn't been giving a very good image of spain but if it had. we think it's terrible because this person has done a lot for spain with his dark and bright moments but he has done more good than
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harm. one carlos is credited with helping spain peacefully restore democracy after the death of dictator francisco franco in 1975 but he was tanishq by scandals including a luxury safari trip which involved shooting elephants during spain's economic crisis in 20122 years later he abdicated in favor of his son felipe a newly gumby fuel of fuel you say you know him but my only ambition was and always will be to contribute to the welfare progress and liberty of all spanish people i want the best for spain to whom i've dedicated my entire life and who service i've given all my a bit see my hopes and my efforts. but stooping down hasn't stopped corruption allegations from 3 singing the panelists is education also maintain lost immunity from prosecution right given to spain's head of state. sued investigations can
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contact him if needed dallas' 02 years after one of the worst bridge disasters in europe a replacement has been inaugurated in the italian city of genoa the ceremony was dedicated to the 43 people who were killed and many relatives boycotted the event they're angry about the company that maintained the original bridge will oversee the new structure prosecutors are investigating what caused the disaster and whether or maintenance was to blame. and let's take a look at some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now hundreds of military personnel are being deployed to the australian state of victoria to help in force coronavirus isolation orders the state has introduced a number of measures to control its outbreak anyone found breaching the rules will
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be fined 3 and a half $1000.00 has more from sydney premier daniel andrews has said that based restrictions were absolutely needed because one big problem has been that many people who tested positive. have not been staying at home he said that nearly one 3rd of people who did have 19 work at home when or parties did knock on their door over the past few days so this means that there will be a huge police presence defense force personnel presence on the streets of melbourne and around regional victoria making sure that people are abiding by the rules and that is to make sure that this community transmission is not continuing and we are seeing a drop in the number of cases. the philippine capital manila is back under coronavirus lock down public transport has been halted in only essential businesses are allowed to operate cases have surged past 100000. president donald trump
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has publicly rebuked the head of the white house coronavirus task force he said deborah burke said hurt is administration work said this spread of covert 19 in the u.s. was a new phase in the pandemic flooding and landslides in south korea have killed at least 13 people much of the damage is in the region surrounding the capital seoul president jane is called an emergency meeting hurrican they say yes has weakened to a tropical storm in north carolina $300000.00 have lost power it's now heading towards new york state or will giant british petroleum is reporting a record $16800000000.00 net loss in the 2nd quarter it's a result of the pandemics economic fallout company is cutting 10000 staff.
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15 years ago an explosion ripped through lebanon's capital killing prime minister graffiti and 21 others now the special tribunal for lebanon in the hague will deliver its verdict on august 7th find out what this means for lebanon and for those indicted follow all the developments on. the 300 years the most powerful nations group on strong go on the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 men women and children with philosophy transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south america today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the 19th century it is a life that is thriving and it is bigger than ever.
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