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our interview will cut short as he hears that the israeli army has arrived in the village with the bulldozer residents say soldiers give them one minute to do. it took the found me months to build their brick house and less than an hour to see it get demolished. experimental drugs for the u.s. president as a covert 19 infection sees him admitted to hospital. i'm good and you want to really. think i'm doing well. how far has the infection spread through the white house more positive tests raise concern about some event being called the super spreader.
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hello there are a trial this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up limiting who goes in and out of madrid new lockdown measures for spain's capital which opponents say will create chaos. armenia and azerbaijan accuse each other of selling civilian areas as fighting continues in the disputed the going to occur about. the. dancing and celebrations where the sudanese government and rebel leaders assigning a landmark peace deal. he suffered fever and fatigue now u.s. president donald trump is receiving experimental treatment for covert 1974 year old was taken late on friday off to new into the walter reed national military medical center in maryland just gone 7. and that and the last update from the white house
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the president was not needing supplementary oxygen to help him breathe trungpa tweeted from the hospital that things are quote going well i think and he thanked supporters from maryland mike hanna reports. dressed in a suit and wearing a mask president trump walked to marine one on assisted minutes before he tweeted out this 5000 to thank everybody for the tremendous support i move into walter reed hospital or think i'm doing very well but we're going to make sure of the things we're the 1st lady's doing very well so we're thank you very much very appreciated . they are. here i put the ball to retail and once again walked unassisted to a waiting car on his way to a special suite to the hospital where his staff say he will continue to work for
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the next few days democratic challenger joe biden stood on the same stage as the president on tuesday he tested negative for the virus on friday and sent his best wishes to eating jill and i send our thoughts to president trump and 1st lady melania trump for a swift recovery we will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and his family trump has several risk factors that put him in danger of complications from covert 19 hughes in his mid seventy's and overweight we have to wait for the next few days and you know for some people get really sick within hours but you know some people don't get sick until week after and so we have to really be carefully observing the situation trampas often chosen not to wear a mask including at his own rallies where many of his supporters reject the science behind the idea. his team including family members went masculists at the tuesday
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debate trump even ridiculed democratic candidate joe biden for wearing a mask as recommended by virtually all public health experts i don't wear mesh like him every time you see him is going to miss he could be speaking 200 feet away from him he shows up with the biggest mask of ever seen thanks especially in the oval where the president may have become infected have also turned to a ceremony in honor of supreme court nominee amy coney beret which took place in the white house rose garden last saturday several people who attended that largely mosque free event have since tested positive house speaker nancy pelosi sent her best wishes to the president but said this was a lesson to be learnt this is tragic it's very sad but it also is something dead again who is going into crowds unmasked and all the rest the sort of
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a brazen indication for something like this to happen it's sad that it did but nonetheless hopeful that it will be a transition to a saner approach to what this virus is all about the white house doctor has confirmed the president received one dose of an experimental drug we're general on it has not been through final clinical trials and was administered on what is called a compassionate use basis this is the only way a drug and not approved by the f.d.a. can be administered to a patient who is not part of a clinical trial mike hanna al-jazeera but those don't. so what are the treatments being given to the president for rendez if there is an antiviral drug that was previously tested for a bowler it's not approved by the u.s. struggle thirty's but it is being allowed to treat patients with severe kovac 19 and is the only medicine proven to help severely ill people recover more quickly 4
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days on average according to one study of the same data does not reduce fatalities and the other treatment is an experimental antibody combination made by it with general the company says its trials the cocktail reduces viral load and associated symptoms is also unapproved but the company can grant access for compassionate use simon clark is an associate professor in microbiology at the university of reading and he explains how some of these antiviral drugs work. well as i understand it he's taken with general and given regenerative that were written this is there now they need 2 quite different things re general and as i understand it it's an antibody which will can be administered to help new immune system block the virus or to mop it up and destroy its rendez if there is actually a viable route that interferes with the virus its life cycle and stops it from
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reproducing so really it's a sort of jewel approach where the doctors are trying to stimulate a presidency in system to throw off and destroy the virus and administer a drug and alternative growth which should stop it from replicating rendez if it is admits that all the data so far shows that it shortens people since i was in the u.k. in the east which is where i live people have to be doing it in hospital not so much in the community and it shortened their state hospital so it's given to people as being given the u.k. to people who are well but not at the serious stages of the illness because we don't think it has an effect on ben it doesn't save the most seriously ill people it shortens the symptoms all that sort of middle ground of people who need to be in hospital but are not so serious that they need to be in intensive care. well
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president trump is just one of the hundreds of thousands of americans who've been infected with the coronavirus the united states is the worst affected country in the world just over 48000 new cases were reported on friday alone. india has the 2nd highest number of cases it's reporting it's 100000 virus related death meanwhile in europe spain is limiting who can get in and out of the capital as part of a new lockdown that's been imposed by the central government madrid's regional administration is pushing back to her 6 in the capital madrid with the latest. we are right now in your one of the most charity touristy spots in in across spain this square normally busy with tourists and locals have now 30 percent of the terraces and restaurants close seen march 13th and all the uncertainty uncertainty
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of not knowing what they will be reopening again or if these will be permanent also there will be travel restrictions in all these areas affected by these partial lockdown people won't be able to enter or to leave all these areas and for these the national government has deployed 700 police officers that will be monitoring and controlling all these moves the feeling right now is quite disappointing cow people are not haven't got really clear what they're allowed to do or not because the general government despite the rejecting the order from the health ministry but implementing aid they have appealed in court this decision so they get some time they gain some time and delay the implementation of these restrictions which means that people have to be able to be fined by police officers if they don't stick to these new restrictions the allege that these new restrictions will cost. impact in
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regions economy we could cause a loss of 7 over 700000000 euros a job loss of 800000. civilians who fled fighting in nagorno-karabakh have taken refugees in refuge in public buildings in azerbaijan including schools 1st fighting between the armenian as area militaries is under way as the 7th day of the conflict both sides are reporting civilian deaths armenia says this video shows a very destruction and the largest city so panic as a by john says armenian forces hit several towns and a safe haven for civilians or burn a space is in the cities to panic in nagorno-karabakh. the mood here and step on a curve has darkened considerably in the last 12 hours or so and that's because overnight friday into saturday this main 50 have been going to car about with pay by large october e.c.l. some buildings that we saw in the city center were hit by the artillery and that's
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the 1st time this city's been hit since the end of the war in 1904 and there was further shelling today shelling that we saw and we didn't hear shelling going on in the distance so that has made people here very very nervous women and children have left town other people are taking shelter in bunkers the military here will not follow them well whether there have been any gains or losses they say for security purposes but they have restricted those now to staying to reporting here from the panic at the before those restrictions we were able to visit not far from the control line between armenia and azerbaijan to see the towns and villages very close to the front line. al-jazeera is to them culturally spoke to azerbaijan's president and back about the conflict. at the crucial moment his forces
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are in a battle over at a speech at regent azerbaijan's presence in how mali asked to blame squarely on our men yeah the main reason is that me and doesn't want peace they want to keep our lands on the patient for ever they don't want to change the status quo and this is a reason why it's lasted so long because otherwise if i mean it demonstrated it would it will the conflict would've been resolved many years ago. the battle is not only in the field but it's also being fought in the media and elsewhere. both are many honors or bridge and accuse each other of hiring foreign mercenaries to fight in a car about but the president denied any foreign involvement and that turkey shot down an armenian fighter jet this is fake news absolutely is this a fake news as this is a turkish if 16 shot dollars or so $2525.00 had an accident but they say they have
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evidence to present shoreward where is evidence i think armenians control mcgurn a car of our but many and prime minister in the quote by shinya has now gone further and said that. it's part of armenian soil while the president accused their mania of causing this latest round of fighting you really look at what our media did after the so-called revolution. during the last 2 years and was very clear we will see that they were always provoking us and they were aiming at starting a new war as the reason is to disrupt negotiations completely the conflict between azhar bridge on our mania doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon both sides have preconditions on any possible negotiations the dynamics of their internal politics
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are also of a concern. as are big john has vowed to retain what it considers asiri territory and ses it's ready to destroy any threats coming from our main in soil there are many in government say's it's ready to work with mediators but it warns any aggression towards not go in a car or a bar will receive every salutes respons see namco solo al-jazeera but as ever. and you can watch an interview with the armenian prime minister. talked to al jazeera on sunday at 830 g.m.t. still ahead now here on al-jazeera an increasing number of civilians are being tortured and beheaded and. the head who's being accused. not so crowded field as professionals any for the london marathon this year with safety precautions bumped up to the top priority.
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we may well see some flooding problems into central parts of china over the next couple of days big area cloud here sweeping through slow moving front that's going to slip a little further south it's a nice was heavy downpours coming into shanghai with the possibility that flooding some disruptions in the likely west the weather does push its way over towards japan but i don't think is going to be too bad more the piles of hunch that we'll see some heavy rain could be some disruption but for much of the parish should be fine and dry along with the korean peninsula and northern areas of china let's look a little further south the showers becoming more expansive as we go through sunday and audience monday they will sink a little further south was as we go on into the early part of the new working week
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meanwhile to the south is that we've got some very heavy rain it's a good part of india china and southeast asia heavy shows to which of the eastern side of india at the moment some longer spells of rain still in play here the circulation has been hanging around for the past few days bringing some very wet weather into bangladesh into the far northeast of india just rather stay the poll also seeing some wet weather along with a good parts hold me and now the western ghats also seeing some heavy rain as we go through the next couple of days and that heavy rain pushing all the way out was mumbai. current tensions between countries along the river nile have their roots in a colonial past from egypt point of view cannot attend an agreement for the fools because the new political realities on the ground are increasing the sense of uncertainty over cohen is that with a mild there was a need to do that and when it was held the countries through which the nail pushed
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kind of a defeat could topple the. struggle over the nile on al-jazeera. were born to on. hello again you're watching al-jazeera has reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump has been moved to a military medical center where he's being treated for covert 19 white house says he's doing very well jumps had to experimental treatments but is not receiving extra oxygen. and spain is limiting who can leave or enter the capital including setting up police checkpoints as part of new coronavirus restrictions the central government insists the measures are necessary but regional officials say the
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shutdown will cause uncertainty and on rest. and armenia and azerbaijan a trading accusations of shelling residential areas in nagorno-karabakh fighting has continued into a 7th day some civilians are sheltering in public buildings in azerbaijan including schools. south sudan is hosting the final signing ceremony of a peace deal between sudan's transitional government and rebel groups this is the signing just a few moments ago agreement aims to end 17 years of fighting across different regions including darfur which killed 300000 people and forced 2000000 from their homes various groups some of the arms that make up the sudan a revolutionary front jus to sign the deal with the transitional government and the groups opposed to previous government and present who was overthrown last year the deal gives the groups 3 seats in the sovereignty council and
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a quarter of the seats in the executive council of the transitional government also grants more power to local governments and autonomy to southern states of blue nile and south kordofan. morgan is following the ceremony from 2 men have a tell us a bit more about who is involved in this peace deal and perhaps more crucially it was not. yes indeed now this peace deal involves various armed groups that make up the sudanese revolutionary front coalition they include armed groups from the western regions of dar for including the rebel group most of them who have been fighting the government for 17 years they also include armed groups from the southern regions of and south kordofan as well as groups from the northern parts of the country those are unarmed and they are groups from the eastern region of these areas have seen some types of unrest most of them armed most of them leading to negotiations between the groups themselves and the previous government deals that
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did not last now there are groups that are yet to join this peace deal or to sign in a peace agreement with the transitional government and they say that the reason they're not part of the talks that have happened in juba is because they feel that these talks are very much just a repetition of what has happened in the past with the previous government the group of people liberation movement north led bab that as he said hello has signed a declaration of principles that's some kind of a road map that would pave way for talks between the transitional government and as he said. faction now he has strongholds in blue nile and south kordofan regions and there's also have been what has become of no who's based in france but has armed groups in central darfur he is also yet to start negotiating with the government so while this peace deal is the final peace deal that is being signed between the sudanese revolutionary front groups and the sudanese liberation movement led by me now we there are other groups that are yet to sign
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a final peace deal with the government so this peace deal is not exactly comprehensive members of the armed groups and the transitional government government however say that this paves the way for development and economic stability. political stability of sudan and that they will work hard to make it become a reality rather than just a piece of paper and that they would need support from regional and international partners to make it become a reality and just briefly about how is the deal going to be implemented. within the next month we are expected to we're expecting to see members of those coalition of this with the news revolution from coalition returning back to hard sume we will see a reconfiguration of the transitional government in terms of the sovereignty council and the executive council and this deal paves the way for the formation of the transitional legislative assembly that is something that has been put on hold for a few months it was supposed to be formed in november of $21000.00 but hasn't been formed because the transitional government said that they were waiting for this
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peace deal to be signed this deal also resets the clock of the transitional period it's the transitional period is set to last for 33 years and 3 months that is going to be starting from the moment that this peace deal is signed so we are going to see now members of these armed groups coming back to how to reconfigure the transitional government and starting a new era for sudan morgan in-car saying thanks very much over. a car bomb explosion in afghanistan has killed at least 15 people with more fatalities expected a government building in the town of danny calle in niagara province is the suspected target a spokesman for the local governments at least 30 people are injured and the death toll is expected to rise. prison mexico's capital of faced off with protesters commemorating the 52nd anniversary of a student massacre protesters blame the government for the lack of accountability for what happened then as well as modern day failures such the disappearance of students 6 years ago security forces stormed the student protest in $168.00 the
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government says at least 30 were killed witnesses say the total was around $300.00 . mexico's government has deployed around 26000 military officers to its southern border in an effort to block a migrant caravan from entering the united states thousands of mostly honduran migrants have been traveling through guatemala headed for the u.s. via mexico it comes just weeks before a tense u.s. presidential election which immigration does remain a key issue. human rights groups say they're increasing the number of civilians. tortured and beheaded government forces have confronted armed groups fighting to create an islamic state. province in the last 3 years both sides are accused of targeting civilians in their battle for control. so we're calling him to protect his identity he says he was on his way to the market
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in northern mozambique when military police stopped him and beat him. labor filmed it on a mobile phone government security forces are fighting armed groups in cabo delgado province. is one of a growing number of civilians who complain of uses by police and soldiers. one of them called me come here he had a gun on me he asked me about my id card and at that moment i didn't have it he told me to lie on the floor and he told his colleague to hit me with a baton he hit me 14 times on the head and the buttocks before i was sent away. government troops have been accused of consistent abuses against civilians since the conflict began 3 years ago the fighting armed groups known locally as al-shabaab you say they want to create an islamic state. this video which circulated on social media last month appears to show mozambican soldiers. cues
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a naked woman of being a member of al-shabaab and she tries to run away she's beaten. and then shot dead. rights group amnesty international says its analysis has verified the video and that it proves government rights violations. government condemn the killing and other abuses against civilians but often blames them on the armed groups and. the military never violated human rights in the north an area of operations killing a terror. arrest is not a violation of human rights videos of men in mozambique in military uniforms committing abuses such as lethal beatings and beheadings have become common on social media in recent months the government says rebels steal and wear military uniforms rights groups say nobody is held to account well most all just think that what they're really not only fun to do but they're very sure that nothing is going
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to happen to them because the mail on. demand does all of those we love you and the actions. the armed groups are accused of widespread abuses to including beheadings and burning homes. they've made significant gains this year taking control of some towns as seen here in the center of one of them the government struggling to fight back violence has caused more than 200000 people to flee their homes rights groups say the people can't trust the government and its soldiers the conflict will only get worse malcolm web al-jazeera disgraced hollywood film producer harvey weinstein has been charged with 6 walkout counts of rape and sexual assault the latest charges are in a los angeles court and relate to incidents from more than a decade ago feinstein was already convicted of sex crimes in new york earlier this
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year and sentenced to 23 years in jail the new charges carry a possible sentence of up to 140 years. of course in italy is deciding whether former deputy prime minister. stand trial for kidnapping the case stems from innocent in 2019 when he refused to allow a coast guard ship carrying more than 100 migrants insistently the far right leader is also accused of abusing his power salvini could face 15 years in jail if found guilty and may be barred from public office. crevasses texans have had a catastrophic impact on sports and entertainment social distancing means many venues are closed and sports teams are playing an empty stadiums a new technology being tested at the london marathon could pave the way for spectators to return paul brennan has more last year the london marathon involved 45000 runners and 3 quarters of a 1000000 spectators crowding the streets of london seems that the coronavirus has
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made unthinkable this year is just elite athletes on an enclosed course. as the runners checked into their pre race accommodation this week they found something new in their welcome pack it's called bump the runners on staff all wearing the devices to maintain social distancing and minimize infection risk this is really for everybody's safety and it is it incredibly good piece of technology it is just helped us enormously over the last week to have the athletes keep them safe. building this environment here on the mound to do that for the contractors'. at its heart the bonce advice is a relatively simple proximity of a large safe distance away and the lights stay off but moved to within 2 meters of somebody else wearing the bump on the lights turned blue letting you know how close you are stay within one and a half meters of that person and the lights turn red and alarm sounds warning you
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to move away. to monitor effectively the system works best in an enclosed area like a workplace where everyone within can be given a bump device but that also makes it ideal for theaters galleries music venues and sports stadia many of which are facing financial ruin unless they can find a safe way to welcome back audiences and spectators a company which makes the devices is already expanding production is a lot of organizations which are unable what written minutes and having you know effective with real time and situation management provide lawson really robust track and trace community we can open more of these environments safely i'm also increased the cost in the critical final preparations are being made for a very different london marathon this weekend the 1st and hopefully last time that spectators are absent paul brennan al-jazeera london. as if you with athletics and. london marathon defenses got
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a little bit easier after his main rival withdrew from the race. pulled out with a cough injury and she blames on a train. hoping to mount a serious challenge to keep drug use aiming to win the london race for a 5th time in 6. al-jazeera. top stories yes present donald trump has been moved to a military medical center where he's being treated for a. white house says he's doing very well to experimental treatments but is not receiving extra oxygen. spain is limiting who can leave or enter the capital.
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