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one east follows those trying to get in and out of moscow in a time of pandemic. india becomes the 2nd worst affected country in the world that reports 90000 new coronavirus cases in a single day. alone down in jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up warnings of strong winds and very heavy rainfall in south korea's powerful typhoon makes landfall that . military helicopters are brought in to rescue residents trapped by large wildfires in northern california. and crowds rush out to shop in colombia's capital as the country easiest coronavirus restrictions but there are concerns it could
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cause infections to rise. we start in india which has become the world's 2nd worst affected country by the corona virus pandemic in the past 24 hours india's health ministry has reported more the 90000 new cases and over a 1000 deaths the country's been reporting the world's largest daily number of infections for almost a month now but the government continues plans to reopen including resuming metro rail services in the capital new delhi where elizabeth branom is live from one of those stations elizabeth so how does the government justify the reopening the numbers rising as much as they are. good morning down by one would it is the economy despite india recoding more cases
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than any other country and yet it is easing up that it isn't our stretch and some are set to continue and that's also despite the fact that you will see a lot to consider that switch to span t. bodies and independent politics but it will say that the real number of cases are actually many times the confirmed number where the metro station where as you mentioned metro rail service lasting around the country for the 1st time in more than 5 months later on this week boss will reopen in delhi with the opening number of the state polluting on loan from the nightlife local like cut nothing from the government says that andy and the message has been for months now that indians must learn to live like a run of virus but taking the proportions the house on the street keeps pointing to what it says is one of the lowest fake taliban breaks in a quote less than 2 percent of indians they say provide a virus have died and the government also says that the country cannot put enough
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votes trekked nationwide locked down like it had for the phones 2 months because of an impact on the economy the latest g.d.p. figures out last week that showed india's economy shrunk by me 24 percent that's more than any other major economy in the world elizabeth as you say in metro rails are reopening for the 1st time since march but it's a whole new travel experience. for. yes absolutely down where we are in that article metro station they would be around 500000 people a day who used to use the station but the reopening it's being done in a very phased mat with limited line limits at times lots of the structures including the wearing are not us. listen the socialist i'm saying people the only allows that oh no alternative states are never the best the reopening of a huge relief you know people have told us that they really happy to be able. to
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catch the metro to put color to it is a problem line 1st day in new denim is a thank you. typhoon hi shannon has made landfall in south korea it's now traveling inland where it's expected to bring more strong winds and heavy rain earlier baton japan forcing more than 1800000 people to leave their homes it's the 2nd storm to hit the region in a week from the bride has been following developments from pohanka in south korea. iceland is still making its way north there across the korean peninsula it is still in south korea still making its presence felt but very soon will be passing again have to see this is very much following the same track as another typhoon of a few days ago typhoon my sack passing out to sea but it came ashore in the southeast of the country here with very strong winds also a loaf a lot of rain bringing with it we had the in the city a poet hang here when it did come ashore that this part of the city it's out
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towards the more exposed coastal area where it's ported they were recording gusts of up in excess of 150 kilometers per hour of course the strongest winds affected q shoe the japanese main japanese island of the south where we had gusts in excess of 200 kilometers per hour hundreds of thousands of people evacuating seeking shelter and that's where we've seen the most damage but as this typhoon progressed sees it goes out to sea late to monday and then monday he think it makes landfall again as my sack did in north korea as they reach north korea they do lose some of their intensity but north korea raising quite a precarious position it doesn't have the kind of infrastructure that south korea and japan has to deal with these extreme weather events but interestingly the north koreans have taken a pummel proactive approach they've been suffering from these storms with formal reporting almost in real time on state run television which is quite unusual for
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north korea and we've also seen kim jong un the leader being outgoing seeing the places that have been impacted i think want to go much to show that he is the lead . who cares about his people he knows that the kinds of things they going through because of course they face all of these problems which are exacerbated by the storms such as the cove that the isolation for because of covert 19 and also the ongoing sanctions and so he said we do know that he north koreans are very concerned about this bracing for it and we do know that from their reporting that their main city in the east of one son is once again under water it has been flooded so more damage to come and this latest storm approaches north korea. 300 rangar refugees of a rived in indonesia it's believed the group came by boat to province but it's unclear from where previously local officials refused to allow a boat over him to refugees to land citing the coronavirus pandemic hundreds of thousands of writing got fled nehemiah after
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a military crackdown in 2016 months to a neighboring bangladesh. there's been a dramatic rescue in the u.s. state of california after a fost moving wildfire trapped hundreds of people at a popular campsite in a national forest california national guard was forced to step in and comes as the state is also experiencing extreme heat which is increasing the intensity of the blaze rob reynolds reports from los angeles. they barely made it out alive a galloping wildfire trapped more than 200 people at a remote campground in the rugged central california mountains when fire blocked the only road out the california national guard mounted an emergency nighttime rescue mission sending in helicopters to airlift the campers to safety this picture shows dozens of evacuees crowded into a national guard chinook helicopter that fire grew so quickly so fast it trapped
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people at mammoth pools reservoir up in the mountains the creek fire broke out on friday evening and quickly exploded in size by sunday it had burned more than 18000 hectares tinder dry forest and underbrush fed the flames several small communities in the area were evacuated as hundreds of firefighters battled the blaze authorities say 63 people were hurt fleeing the flames 17 were admitted to local hospitals and injuries including both broken bones lacerations scrapes bruises those kind of things another blaze called eldorado fire is threatening homes near san byrd. deano east of los angeles it broke out on saturday and grew rapidly burning more than 1200 hector's and forcing some residents to evacuate the multiple fires are burning as a record smashing heat wave scorches california and other western states
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a community near los angeles reported a blistering 49.4 degrees celcius rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. security forces and better detained dozens of protesters that a large anti-government rally in the capital tens of thousands of people gathered across ments calling for president lukashenko his resignation a process that's continued every day since last month's disputed election which look at shanghai's opponents say was rigged smith reports now from neighboring lithuania. there is still some safety in numbers for the 10s of thousands of protesters on the streets of many sq the ministry of interior and valorous has warned them that demonstrations are illegal closing off city squares and streets but that hasn't stopped people descending on the capital for a 4th week of protests against the continued leadership of president alexander lukashenko
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he claims he won the oldest one connection with 80 percent of the vote the opposition say the poll was rigged and they want to read up. as protesters made their way home on sunday security forces seem to take advantage of the thinning crowds pulling out people apparently at random according to witnesses and bundling them into vans. another video has emerged on social media of masked men in civilian clothes beating up people on the streets of minsk. in-wall now breaking down the door of a cafe where the owner had given shelter to protest has. been measured as it regards people started running in say to the door and then out on 15 to 20 people in black mosque started to some mosque. the glass into some people our human rights experts from the united nations say they've received hundreds of pages of torture impeaching you. this is older call kovar of the opposition coordination council sentenced to 10 days in jail she appeared in poland on saturday after she says she
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was forcibly taken to the border and then priya. they came to the center where i was isolated they gave me had a mask and took me out of prison they made me lie in the back seat and they drove me away from the isolation center. of the presidential palace in minsk that was tight security to protect luka shanker from his own people. we won't forgive we won't forget their shouting the video is emerging out of minsk on sunday night suggests that whatever tolerance the government had for the protesters is wearing thin that could increase pressure on western powers to impose sanctions on alexander lukashenko and senior members of his administration lithuania's foreign minister says in an interview that the european union's lack of action over belarus is undermining the credibility of its foreign policy. but it's my al-jazeera release now a concept called i was
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a leading bella russian activist who fled to poland after last month's election and she says the protests will continue until the question customers down we working very hard with the international community we get to meet international leaders we describe what's going on in bellows because we want the entire community a world community to know what's going on the belarus and would like look i should go to leave some of the possible because he will if this is election he's not the g to most the president and him any longer and he is the one for bush if you don't there are always people where one can muster with the international community with the must meter just through quickly to let everybody know what's happening the people want the changes they want the question to leave as i said before and those people will never give up the most but don't give up on to a question because he has been in the power for 26 years and for the last 4 weeks we saw the way he treats people the way he tortured those people the way he beat
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the mob and we as a nation the nation we don't want him any longer so we will never give up until he gives up the power. lots more still to come here in al-jazeera including under pressure mexico's president orders an investigation into a shooting by soldiers that left 12 people dead. and thousands of people rallied montenegro out approach been production parties declared victory in parliamentary elections or not stay with us. once again the weather remains extremely hot surround the levant we have got clear skies right throughout the middle east lots of hazy sunshine temperatures in jerusalem still getting up into the mid thirty's and a touch in the low thirty's there in beirut part of the of course into baghdad and
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into kuwait not too bad here in doha temperatures of around 41 celsius that will see those temperatures falling back a little as we go on into tuesday said the possibility of some he'll be nice to come as we go through the coming 24 to 48 hours they'll be a few shows just around that western side of yemen once again just around the southern end of the red sea joining up with the showers right across the heart of africa they want to coastal showers just pushing their way to that eastern side of kenya but it's western kenya pushing across into uganda that will see some really heavy rain as we go through the next couple of days more of the same there on choose day just noticed over towards the gulf of guinea as a ship it will be some heavy downpours there all the way across into nigeria for much of southern africa. has seen some wetter weather just around the eastern cape that's in the process of just not going away now so brightening up quite nicely here 18 celsius in portland both warmest still as we go on into cheese day.
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this lands of money and. p.p.p. shin. ground during election season they say if you win on your god they are but he . promises are made and votes are counted they're also for c. so you have to think they're both very but we're real changes make their way to the lives of the people who are now on leave in. this land. on al-jazeera.
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welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera india has become the world's 2nd worst affected country by the corona virus and the make the total number of confirmed infections has passed 4200000 the country's been reporting the world's biggest a number of infections for almost a month now. typhon high shana's made landfall in south korea it's now traveling inland where it's expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain after battering japan. and tens of thousands of marched in bellerose despite threats of retaliation from the government they say last month's election was rigged and a calling on president lukashenko to resign. libya's rival sides are meeting in morocco 2 weeks after they announced a cease fire agreement delegations from tripoli's un recognized government and the eastern based to brooke parliament are holding talks south of russia but a larger meeting including countries backing the 2 sides expected on monday in switzerland the edits to we urge you to be pragmatic and practical to reshape and
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find an ultimate solution the libyan people are eager for peace and i'm hopeful that within a couple of days the delegations will bring the people positive developments but morocco's playing an important role in the mediation effort says mahmoud have the wire reports now from tripoli. morricone foreign minister spoke and both of the legations also spoke it seems that there is a positive atmosphere apparently bought this is only this seems to be only the beginning of a series of meetings to be hostage by morrocco it seems that workers are also keen to invite both rival leaders the head of the tripoli high council of the state of the missionary and the speaker of the pro hafter eastern parliament aguilar sala later there is no definite time for
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that to be meeting but as you know that morrocco is also in a way or another tries to make sure and to stress on the fact that the agreement that was sealed and morocco in 2015 known as the libyan political agreement is the main bases for any political settlement to the crises in libya now this invitation to the rival delegations by america is a whole moral can initiative and it paralleling with other international efforts to sustain or to make sure that the seas fire dick aeration is being implemented on the ground saudi arabia says it's intercepted undestroyed an explosives laden drone from yemen who the spokesman says several
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drones were sent to attack the airport in response to an increase in saudi air strikes in yemen and saudi u.a.e. coalition been fighting yemen's with the rebels since 2015. mexico's president has ordered an investigation into a shooting by soldiers as the incident in the border city of malevolent nato left 12 people dead and there is money on up as our door has been under growing pressure from the united nations to take action man in iraq and i reports now from mexico city. this is the moment mexican soldiers in gage in a shootout with alleged gunmen on the streets of mabel let it all. body cam footage shows security forces letting loose a barrage of gunfire on a silver pickup truck continuing to shoot even after orders were given to stop. by the end of it 12 people had been killed. in the video as authorities approach
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the vehicle you can hear one soldier saying one is still alive before another soldier gives the order to kill him. it was later revealed that at least 3 of those killed were kidnapped victims being held with their hands and feet bound in the back of the truck these are the germans as if they're an offense that i have instructed the defense secretary to investigate because we will not allow these practices this is how things were done in the passages that. experts say were sitting in security in mexico has made the job of the armed forces more dangerous than ever but worn excessive force by some soldiers often leads to the deaths of unarmed civilians or not it was units that were with an extrajudicial killing shows he said lack of. it reveals that weakness in the state is what it shows is a state that can be can see that a failed state where that who no no no longer privy. in recent years smartphone
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cameras and surveillance video have increased the visibility of abuses by armed forces like this 2017 video of a soldier in shooting an unarmed civilian in the head. point blank cases like these have painted a troubling picture of systemic misconduct within the ranks of the mexican military . mounting allegations of abuse have led to increased pressure from human rights organizations for mexico's government to apply the highest international standards when investigating cases of misconduct forced disappearances extrajudicial killings violence from cartels and violence from the military these are not new problems for mexico but mexico's president did recently say that the united nations would be allowed to intercede in the country without limitations on all matters related to human rights. the strategy of the last 3 mexican presidential administrations has been a militarization of the nation's police force. the most recent example was the creation
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of the $60000.00 member national guard which deployed nationwide just last year. but critics point out the data on violence and insecurity in the country suggests more boots on the ground has not meant less violence on the streets. below al jazeera mexico city guinea's leading opposition leader. has announced plans to run the next month's presidential election the former prime minister says he wants to stop president alpha condé from winning a controversial 3rd term in office a 2 year old condé is near the end of what should be his 2nd and final term but he's running again after pushing through changes to the constitution people in senegal as capital dakar are clearing debris and mud after heavy rain caused flash floods destroying homes and businesses 3 months of rain fell in just 7 hours on saturday the president has announced an emergency aid plan and historic changes underway in montenegro off the process and production parties declared victory in
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parliamentary elections last week but supporters of the pro western government are worried about the change in power. i reports. after 30 years of being ruled by a single party montenegrins are at a crossroads for the 1st time since a multi-party system was introduced in 1990 the democratic party of socialists won't be forming the next government and many are worried that lots of us a lot of the gods of today i came to the capital of montenegro with my friends and my family just a quarter our state to help many people remember what their ancestors did and what they died for and that is for justice ana and the freedom of montenegro. supporters of president milosevic on a bitch in the d.p.'s rally by the thousands on sunday they were alarmed by what they saw after the august 30th elections serbian symbols and the 3 finger salute that accompanied the opposition coalition's declaration of victory. i am a citizen of the of the day only sure they put the scare i think people have given
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here to support pace harmony tolerance rather than sube nationalist interests we all live in harmony as brothers we don't need divisions among the negro and because of that i support my log but i am against any other flag being waved in our country by any in bosnian serb in turkish german any other except for the montenegran flag. d.p.'s is pro western and pro nato and saddled with corruption charges and accusations of becoming increasingly authoritarian the pro serb pro russian parties that ran under the banner of the future months negro are likely to change course away from the west and towards moscow and belgrade bureau in the premier's trip djukanovic accuse serbia's president aleksander few chip shot in the serbian orthodox church of interfering in the election and in an attempt to revive greater serbian nationalism. the real fallout from the election is yet to be seen at the
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minorities that depend on montenegro stability and ethnic harmony want to make sure they'll be protected by any change in power. and for many repeat of the past and you should help how does the. u.k. prime minister bars johnson has set a deadline of october the 15th to strike a trade deal with the european union if there's no agreement by then he says britain will move on the u.k.'s chief brigs that negotiated david frost earlier warned that britain isn't afraid to walk away if brussels doesn't really enter on key issues frost and a uni go shares a michel barnier will hold an 8th round of talks on tuesday the u.k. left the e.u. in january but still follows most of the blocks rules until a transition period runs out at the end of the year. corona virus infections in several european countries are rising france reported another $7000.00 cases on sunday officials there say the spike is partly due to more testing that there hasn't been an increase in hospitalizations or deaths in the u.k.
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there's been nearly 3000 new infections the highest daily rise since late may the government says it's mostly among young people but there are fears it could spread to the vulnerable we'll take whatever action is necessary but the 1st line of defense is that people should follow social distancing we've also got the testing in the tracing and they're happening wreck order rates we can use and we will use local lock downs if that's what's necessary but the 1st line of defense for everybody no matter who you are no matter how old you are is to follow that social distancing so that we don't pass it on to people who will end up hospitalized or worse. colombia is easing some coronavirus restrictions after months of being under lockdown many of flouting some of the rules that are still in place but officials in the capital new ways to keep them in check using cons. as the story. tens of thousands of residents are back on their bicycles for sunday's traditional
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or bikeway event in the colombian capital the city is reopening after dinner. fiction's appear to have passed a peak. regarding the rules the city has dispatched clowns to stop the worst offenders and remind masks and keep a safe distance that there is that ok if they move it's necessary to keep reminding people as they come out again that we can't be too close and still need to take care of ourselves i think they're listening. yet many say after more than 5 months of lockdown you can't blame people for taking some risks but our let me yeah it might have an effect in increasing contagions but it's been 6 months since we've been able to do this it has been too long. restaurants have also started pilot programs across the city over the weekend allowing them to serve customers in open
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spaces under strict health measures. but in other parts of town the situation seemed out of control. as big crowds took over shopping areas jammed to by informal vendors under the current rules shopping areas like this one are only open. to try and reduce the amount of people on the streets on a daily basis but with this kind of growth many fear won't be long before colombia season other spike in infections. there are a lot of people gathering so the truth is i'm a bit worried lots of people without masks and no police so i'm not going to. until its base are organized. other countries in the region that have reopened have seen a resurgence in the number of cases. in mexico new reports on excess mortality rates suggest the true coronavirus toll there could be much higher. than the
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country has recorded 120000 more deaths during the pandemic that's almost double the current official number of covert in 1000 fatalities is somebody reminder that the fight against the virus is far from over alison the. protesters have gathered near a melting glacier in switzerland to push for action on climate change the demonstration comes a day before the swiss parliament begins debating new legislation on reducing c o 2 emissions the government says nearly all the remaining glaciers in the alps will disappear by the end of the century if nothing is done. now the world's top tennis player novak djokovic has been kicked out of the u.s. open after accidentally striking a judge with a ball he was playing a 4th round match when he hit a ball in frustration after losing a game but it ended up hitting a female official in the throat after a long discussion with the tournament referee it was confirmed he had been disqualified djokovic has been fined all the prize money he turned in new york
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where jock which has since apologized for the incident he took to social media to say it was wrong and he didn't intend to hit the official the tennis star also said he needs to work on his disappointment and that he needs to evolve as a player. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera india has become the world's 2nd worst affected country by the coronavirus pandemic the total number of confirmed infections has passed 4200000. the country's been reporting the world's largest daily number of infections for almost a month now well these latest figures have been released on the day metro rail services are resuming in the capital new delhi it's one of the busiest in the world isn't as a. matter of else it was sloshing around the country for the 1st time in more than
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5 months later on this week was. the opening number of the state losing one. look like had enough and the government thought that the message has been for months now that indians must live by us but taking the fortunes of history keeps pointing to what it is one of the lowest paid talent to break the 2 percent of indians think they have died and the government also says that the country. was wrecked nationwide locked down for typhoon haiyan has made landfall in south korea it's now traveling inland where it's expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain posh and early a battered japan forcing more than 1800000 people to leave their homes. 300 reading the refugees of arrived in indonesia it's believed the group came by boat to a province but it's unclear from where previously local officials refused to allow
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a boat to bring the refugees to land citing the coronavirus pandemic hundreds of thousands of rotting get fed me and after a military crackdown in 2016 most are in neighboring bangladesh. and security forces and better rusev detained dozens of protesters that are large anti-government rally in the capital tens of thousands of people gathered across minsk calling for president zaandam to question because resignation. saudi arabia says it's intercepted and destroyed an explosives laden drone from yemen the spokesman says several drones were sent to a chalk board and response to an increase in saudi air strikes in yemen this saudi coalition has been fighting yemen's who the rebels since 2015 those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after one of many statements and so much . after 2 years in office has the pakistani prime minister delivered on his promises of freedom of speech it's now being curtailed under your watch mr prime
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minister. watch as the evidence then you just talked earlier to stan's prime minister imran khan talks to al jazeera. multiple sclerosis is a debilitating and cruel disorder with no known cure. now a russian doctor is providing hope performing stem cell transplants on foundations of patients people are traveling from as far away as australia biggest fear right now is the best progressing may getting another episode of may result in further disability god knows what that disability could bring. that's the scariest thing. but the covert 19 pandemic is throwing up unexpected challenges there's really nothing. scheduled. 101 east follows 2 men risking their lives for treatment on the other side of the world.

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