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in south central chile indigenous communities are flourishing to reclaim the ancestral roots and the culture is becoming increasingly funny to talk to or to see the troubles to the region to see why the mcclatchy people are rising up and asks is there a profit to peaceful coexistence on al-jazeera. the arab . 2 deaths every minute says surgeon coronavirus cases in the u.s. sends california into yet another long down while other south korean president brings in the military to help step up the testing amid warnings hospitals could soon be over while. the air. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the battle also ahead gonna
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incumbent leader and his predecessor a facing off and in an election that's being called a battle of 2 giants and iran really says more details about the assassination of its top nuclear scientist saying he was killed by a satellite controlled machine gun. the air. millions of people across the u.s. state of california are now back on to a sweeping coronavirus lockdown roles the stay at home order places restrictions on the opening of restaurants cylons and stores while also limiting gatherings the measures are being implemented as a state reports its highest ever number of infections more than 30000 in a single day there is some hospitals could run out of intensive care beds while the virus is now killing more than 2000 americans a day that's 2 people every minute it's helped the food and drug administration
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will approve a vaccine soon but it will still take months for it to be fully evolved out reports from washington. new walk downs are being put in place in a number of regions amid the ongoing surge in infections health officials are considering ending even outdoor dining and in most of california stay at home orders have been imposed this far from festive season for the small businesses that rely on holiday trade christmas temple mean that's how people get the now no mortgage no get beautyful holiday and now they sit down again the food and drug administration is set to review a new vaccine this week it's a process that in the past would have taken months but in what amounts to a life or death situation hell the fishes are hoping it will take a matter of hours based on the data that i know i expect the f.d.a. to make a positive decision but of course it's their decision and as you probably know they
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are totally separated and fired from the operation they would make their own judgment based on the data and i hope that the decision would be positive but even when they are approved it will take months before the vaccines are widely available to the general public be thinking in the february march timeframe that you're going to see more general vaccination and by the 2nd quarter of next year will still have enough vaccine for every american that wants it as health officials continue to call on americans to follow social distancing measures and no other member of trump's inner circle who hasn't followed that advice has fallen ill to the virus rudy giuliani personal attorney was reportedly hospitalized sunday after he tested positive he traveled the country last week trying to help the president overturn the election it was trump who announced his lawyer has coded 19 on twitter calling it the china virus meanwhile the pandemic is claiming the lives of 2 americans
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every minute. castro al-jazeera washington. south korea's president meanwhile has deployed the military to assist with expanded corona virus testing and tracing more than 600 cases were reported on monday the 30th day in a role of triple digit increases rob mcbride reports themselves. this is the 3rd time restrictions have been increased in the past month and it comes as the number of daily infections has continued to rise what worries the author a tease is that this 3rd wave is far more 'd widespread than previous surges and unless the numbers are curbed hospital resources could become stretched upon the new not there is no center of this wave for us to focus our prevention measures this could result in a much larger threat if the medical system reaches its a limit it will coast great damage to all of us there will be tighter controls on
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restaurants and indoor gatherings no spectators at sporting events 50 percent occupancy on intercity trains and buses and private companies are urged to get a 3rd of their staff working remotely from home the measures introduced during this 3rd wave have resulted in a 20 percent drop in the amount that people are travelling and mingling just as it did in the 2nd wave over the summer but there hasn't been a corresponding drop in the number of new infections that's led to further concerns that people have been finding ways around these tighter restrictions and that in a country known for its high level of public compliance even here pandemic fatigue may be setting in robert bright al-jazeera so. more than a 1000000 doses of covert 900 vaccines from china have arrived in indonesia 2 days after the government approved its use indonesian authorities say they'll prepare
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the country's culture just 6 accordingly but experts say it will be a challenge as jessica washington bridge or some jakarta. at indonesia's main airport a highly anticipated delivery has arrived inside this container a 1200000 doses of the covert 900 vaccine from china more will come next month and later the room materials to allow indonesia to manufacture millions of doses itself . scientific considerations and the final results of the clinical trials will determine when the covert vaccinations can be carried out the vaccines won't be used until they're given clearance by the intonation food and drug authority and. we're still waiting for the data relating to safety and efficiency we need 3 months of data to check the blood test in town not far from the capital hospital workers are preparing pharmaceutical refrigerator's for the son of a vaccine needs to be stored between 2 to 8 degrees which is
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a common temperature requirement for many vaccines indonesia's government has also preordered 100000000 doses of the vaccine developed by oxford astra zeneca which has the same temperature requirements. we are ready to receive to store and distribute in accordance to the standards set by the national agency of drug and food control but not everyone shares this confidence far from the capital on the island of floors health officials in sicca are concerned about their lack of resources for. coffee the problem we face now even for regular vaccines is that electricity cuts out often people thousands of remote communities around the country don't have reliable power health workers also say they don't have enough cold storage units. and they believe that under the infection will number if the coronavirus vaccine comes here we can't store it yet i hope we can have a bigger cool room so we can store vaccines for the whole area when needed
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indonesia with its tropical climate and thousands of remote communities is not alone in facing issues with cold chain logistics. the vaccines developed by american pharmaceuticals corporations pfizer and maternal require ultra cold storage at subzero temperatures because of that requirement may not be a feasible option for some countries. it will be free helpful if the term predator is not too low for their requirements so far dopamine mass storage and distribution. have a big challenge for the country and for no profits manufacturing and procuring the vaccine is only part of the problem in the fight against covert 19 in many countries the biggest challenge is managing the logistics jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta china's economy has recorded is 6 straight months of growth in
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november exports were up 21 percent on last year rising at their fastest pace in nearly 3 years so it's being driven by demand for medical equipment and electronics do in part to remote working earlier this year the economy dropped by 6.8 percent when parts of the country were on lockdown. in other world news voters in ghana heading to the polls to choose their president and members of parliament incumbent president monocle 4 do is facing 11 challenges his main contender is john dramani mahama the man he replaced 4 years ago both have signed a pact saying they will accept the officially declared winner 275 parliamentary cease seats will also be up for grabs in monday's polls live to our media theresa's covering these elections for us he joins us from krog honest capital at the largest polling station there so ahmed there were concerns in the lead up to this election over security what's the situation like a voting day is underway. well ali so far
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election is on the peaceful note and things appear to be going smoothly both here in the greater region and across the country. we understand that the security forces have deployed more than $63000.00 across the country to various posts especially hot spots across the country including of course the volatile region where a few months ago we've seen. elements of such an is trying to stir up trouble there now to talk about the security operations in the great our car region i would need to produce a pretended to police. who will talk to us about the arrangements in place and whether or not you're receiving information regarding security breaches across the great tech region how are things going to. have
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already begun. it's been very smooth so far. for all the money training that we have done so far so again with the feedback we pick in on the ground. and everything is going on peacefully and those areas we're talking about be hotspots how many are there in the greater car region and whether or not you have enough but you know to deal with any trouble yes for a car regional police come and we consider every polling station as a potential hot spots. and i think. we also have such an. we how. on because recent events and development and soulful place like the do you do. like those when we recently had some class
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between the major political parties we have a makeshift structure but as i say in. the formed police units who are stationed 24 hours so response to any event we also have money tree who are also the being that includes then we have $7.00 electoral. the long haul of 289. and for each of the areas we how. police together would combine all the security officials. to gather with even the amount that has to do with the hospice so also respond to a royalty of assaults if your target or the spokesperson of a crime greater across regional police thank you for your time well what. do you
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the current situation is such that the reports are getting across the region including of course the volta region it's not things are going on peacefully we've seen the military patrols in the city we've also heard about military patrols in various areas of the country so far so good the police spokesperson was saying a few short while ago thank you very much for that for us in ghana's capital accra . to india now where athletes from punjab planned to return their medals on monday in solidarity with thomas protesting against new laws they've joined a growing list of celebrities who say they stand by the protesters tens of thousands of farmers have been rallying at entry points to the capital new delhi for more than a week now they're pushing to overturn laws they say will damage their livelihoods 2 rounds of talks with government officials have failed to resolve the dispute so far there's a quantum is that the gaza for crossing that links the capital and the se to falter for days she says the protests are gaining momentum. we have had some of the
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country's biggest opposition parties now say that they're going to contest the case in the nationwide protest on tuesday again floors which they've said. threaten india state security destroy farmers and the agriculture sector by mortgaging it to put prince thomas themselves are saying that they're going to block every single road coming into the national capital region of delhi. on tuesday tens of thousands of promises are already blocking 3 key borders including where we are in ghazi pool between india's most populous state of the british and delhi and elsewhere in the country wholesale. food wholesale produce markets are planning to shut in the state of rajastan some of the country's biggest transport trade and banking unions say they're going to shut all of this services on tuesday and a number of prominent athletes including
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a limpet gold medalist from the states of punjab and haryana where many of these promises from have been traveling for 2 days from those states are going to go to the presidential building on monday afternoon return their national awards in protest against what they say is the government's ill treatment of. still ahead on al-jazeera trying to build a new life ethiopian refugees are given supplies to create temporary homes at camps in sudan and australia bangs again emergency services rushed to evacuate people in the power of that bushfire in queensland. there's a bit of a burst of the northeast monsoon across the south china sea which is again encourage some pretty big showers in vietnam and in the philippines that mass will
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keep revolving in just south of java the potential for a tropical depression even a tropical cyclone exists in the next day or so that may well fall falls on pretty heavy showers discipline sumatra and west java whilst the showers continue in northern sumatra where we had flooding just recently now the weather in the northwest of australia has been pretty stormy recently anyway around broome and it looks like it will carry on the line you can follow across here frontal system has just gone across brisbane's the temperatures will drop their wind direction has changed in fraser island where the fire is still burning well as improved in victoria the tempest slowly coming up there was up to 24 adelaide 27 on wednesday which matches brisbane and here's a hint of what's to come in both the northeast and the northwest of australia proper circulation a significant weather in broome perth is just enjoying fairly high temps is about $33.00 degrees and new zealand not to be left out is seeing considerable rain or where the western coast of particularly focusing on north island on tuesday and
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the end of a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera millions of people across the u.s. state of california are back under lockdown the stay at home order is being implemented as a state records its highest ever number of infections more than 30000 in one day south korea's president has deployed the military to help with expanded coronavirus testing and tracing more than 600 cases were reported on monday the 30th day in a row of daily triple digit increases and voters in guyana heading to the polls to pick their president and members of the economy and the main presidential contenders are not before i do and the man he replaced 4 years ago drawn dramani mahama both of signed a pact saying they'll accept the officially declared winner. iran's top nuclear scientists was killed by a satellite controlled machine gun according to state media will say in fact reside
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a died in hospital last month after he was ambushed tehran iran spread in tasmania assassination on israel has more from tehran. these details were revealed why the deputy commander of the revolutionary guard who was speaking at an event to her own university on sunday evening he said that there was the use of artificial intelligence in carrying out this is fascinating that nuclear scientists was killed on november 27th he was accompanied by 11 bodyguards in 3 vehicles now the events that the sequence of events that we've heard from this revolution guard commander paints a picture that shows that there was no actual physical people that carried out any components of this attack the commander said that the nuclear scientists was hit there were 13 bullets that came his way and the head of his bodyguard team took 4 of those bullets because he threw himself on top of the to prevent him from being
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hits and he was taken to hospital as well and he's believed to be certain ok at the moment he's going to be released shortly the attack is the details that we're hearing now is that there was that gunfight in the beginning of this attack and then there was a large explosion all of which was carried out by remote control that is what the officials here have been saying and we also are still waiting for the official report from the intelligence ministry who is carrying out the investigation. venezuelan president nicolas maduro is claiming victory in a congressional election that was boycotted by the opposition results show 2 thirds of voters supported pro maduro candidates but less than a 3rd of all alleged overdose to pot his rival. still the leader of the national assembly regardless of the results a lot of markets in the cinema and requests. it wasn't necessary to wait for the official election results to be announced to know the outcome as a jubilant president nicolas maduro made clear. we had the patience the wisdom to
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wait for this hour to wait for the state to get rid of that nefarious national assembly that the opposition used to bring the plague of sanctions on to venezuela now with this vote we will have just. been israel's mainstream opposition boycotted the legislative assembly poll which they say lacked the minimum conditions of a fair and free election the pro-government supreme court had taken over 3 of the 4 principal opposition parties appointing new leaders who were accused of being pawns of mother in addition the court appointed a new electoral council also loyal to the government. and there were no independent observers only staunch supporters like former bolivian president evo morales despite threats to withhold subsidized food boxes to those who didn't vote the turnout was poor. young in this voting center in the macoutes
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a district that is normally a lot of people when there's an election today what you have is a fraud in our country which is clearly to check on my. mother's foreign allies like russia china and iran will likely applaud the elections which could give their commercial agreements with venezuela a stronger legal framework with which to circumvent u.s. and european sanctions but the united states the e.u. and many latin american countries say they. won't recognize the new parliament. mother who plans to ask the new assembly to appoint a special commission to try anime's of the state especially opposition you know one by the law but that could bring on more international reprisals dirtier. i think it would be better from a juror to leave quite all alone and play cat and mouse with him grab him by the tail and let him go what will the world see an opposition leader who once had 61 percent support and now has half of that and is losing more by the day. why don't
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has been recognized it's been his will as interim president by more than 50 countries but his legitimacy has rested on being the elected leader of the national assembly and come january when the new legislature is sworn in the opposition will lose the only state institution it controlled destroying what critics regard as the last remnant of democracy in venezuela. you see in human al-jazeera. and the fighting in ethiopia is no then to grave region has pushed more people out of the area each day refugees are fleeing into neighboring sudan in the hope of trying to build a new life mom advance has estoy. the job you're refugees at the camp getting ready for a long stay they use these plastic sheets to top the ceilings of their new homes the un distributed 480 of them on sunday it also provides these bumble sheets to be
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used the side walls just creative ways to cook food are tested here as well solo over designed to do the job with no environmental impact the norwegian refugee council distributes cash amounts equivalent to about $25.00 per individual if we give them cash they can buy whatever is the. same cards baby milk formula new clothes none the worse because they've been in the same clothes for 3 weeks now. they can borrow that from from local traders who are coming in for the camp. instead of us. are spending a lot of money with logistics importing items from different parts of the. road and his wife canobie soft drinks and biscuits or sweets for their children i am happy. any tank to have a chain if you have no food to pay by the money it would in my child just. become the eat your bread past any chink.
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the camp is spreading and slowly turning into a village with about 10000 refugees this place is already crowded and ours more people are still coming the numbers are expected to grow the main concern now is that there seem to be no protection measures here to prevent a potential outbreak of the coronavirus in the camps. there is 0 social distancing here no masks and no covert tests whatsoever but there are also nobody ported cases of severe illness that looks like the coronavirus much more concerning for people like yeah faith and his wife is food and shelter for the 19 days old baby after many days of sleeping rough with no ceiling above their heads they are now going to share one shack with another family until they can have their own. the baby was born in ethiopia making him perhaps the youngest refugee to cross the border police
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name her after the highly followed. the attack on all village took place 2 days after the birth of a child my wife and i took him and run away and he decided to ditch for some time they would have died had we not found some people who gave us some milk intrude. some of the refugees were themselves born in this camp during previous famines and wars gave birth to their children here to the current cycle of escape their future once again on set 10500 morocco refugee camp eastham sudan. record numbers of migrants and refugees arriving on the shores of spain's canary islands many a making the dangerous journey by sea after losing their income during the pandemic temporary camps are being set up by the government to cope and let's take a look at the scale of the problem nearly 20000 refugees and migrants have ratio archipelago this year as around 10 times as many people as last year
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a record 8000 people arrived in the past month alone a sum of input in hotels and tourist apartments that are empty because of the pandemic others are being placed in temporary reception center is al-jazeera is burnet smith has more from the island of gran canaria. just in the last 24 hours more than $300.00 migrants have arrived here on grand canaria that's about typical in november there were more than $8000.00 the whole month was believed to be a record for migrant arrivals and they all appear on these fishing boats from the north african coast about $25.00 people crammed into a boat each paying around $1000.00 per person the ambition for most of them nearly all of them is to make it to mainland europe to look for better opportunities but at the moment they're not being allowed to leave these islands because the european union doesn't want to encourage more migration the recent bush people still flee from their country they are also it makes recent i mean it means that there are
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economic reason because of the crisis of. there are also person there reasons because you know most people coming from western africa it means that you know in this area. because enough of the clay climate change there you know different mean that this can mean for families in a hilarious the last the rescue boat heading out on another mission and more and more migrants heading to the canary islands because it's getting much harder to cross from north africa over the mediterranean into europe because of increased patrolling particularly along the libyan coast the spanish government wants other e.u. member states to agree to take an equitable share of all the migrants arriving here but there's currently little and for that it also wants morocco and other countries to take back those migrants who have no legal right to be here but we coronavirus
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restrictions on transport but it is also making things extremely difficult which is why the canaries of filling up with migrants in australia emergency services are evacuating homes in the path of a bushfire in queensland people on trains. island have been told to leave after the fire burnt large parts of the northeastern coast the blaze was sponsored by an illegal count fire 7 weeks ago and scorching temperatures are making the situation worse but this far in fraser all it is a marathon not a sprint is not a significant rain in the forecast and really rain is the only thing that's going to put this for us so we'll continue our fall falling if it's for the coming days and perhaps even weeks ahead of us demonstrators in moldova are demanding early parliamentary elections thousands gathered in support of incoming president my asunder she's accusing the government of trying to block her ability to fight corruption politicians noire her predecessor voted to strip her of her power over the intelligence services the largest party in parliament is aligned with the
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former leader and is led by a businessman convicted of fraud by chinese moon probe has successfully docks with another craft in lunar orbit the probe is carrying samples of moon rock and is now heading back to earth it's due to land in in among volia in the next 10 days it would be the 1st time in 4 decades that a new no rock has been brought back to. again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on millions of people across the u.s. state of california are back under lockdown the stay at home order is being implemented as the state recourses highest ever number of corona virus infections more than 30000 in one day. south korea's president meanwhile has deployed the military to assist with expanded covert 1000 testing in tracing more than 600 cases
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