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people in power investigation bureau 39 cash for came to jersey. we understand the differences and similarities the cultures across the world so no matter what we do using calendar for that matter to you. the world approaches 100000000 coronavirus cases a new variant is raising alarm in germany. by money and by this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up uganda's high court rules the house arrest of opposition leader bobby wind unlawful and our security personnel to leave the premises. the most of vulnerable countries
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are those that are least responsible for the ones with climate change who are leaders are set to meet virtually to come up with a plan to deal with the effects of global warming specially in poor countries. 10 years after egypt's revolution we look at what's changed and what hasn't. alone while can we begin with the pandemic and the global number of corona virus infections quickly approaching 100000000. according to the john hopkins university track of the world is about 800000 cases away from reaching that milestone and it could be just in the next 24 hours meanwhile countries are struggling to balance measures with growing anger over a lack of action or stricter lockdowns mexico's president who's faced criticism
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over covert 19 management has him self tested positive the u.s. is reinstating a travel ban in an effort to contain highly contagious corona virus variants new zealand has reported its 1st community case in months which was contracted in quarantine it's believed to be the south african strain of the virus and those mutations are also plaguing germany where experts say the more infectious u.k. variant is likely to become the dominant strain there. is dominant cane from berlin . isolated cases instances of this variant were 1st reported some time ago but it's clear that the mere existence of the variant in germany now is really causing great concern to the ministers whose job it is to tabulate the information but then also use that information to make policy certainly the minister at the chancellery so a person who works on
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a day to day basis in close proximity with angle americal was saying on german media yesterday evening that he believes quite soon that the british identified variants of the variant of the virus 1st identified in the united kingdom is going to become the dominant variant the dominant strain in this country what's also interesting is that here in berlin itself we now have an incidence of the new variant the very 1st event that occurred in the u.k. being causing an outbreak in a hospital not that far away from where i'm broadcasting right now there are suggestions that perhaps 20 people had tested positive for the new variant but that the authorities at that hospital having now to test the entire population of that hospital more than 1500 people having to be tested we know that more than $500.00 have already been tested in the balance the remaining balance will be tested today but the fear is that the outbreak people know about it now but the fear is how long
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how much time there was between the 1st case appearing there and the quarantine happening. more now on the travel ban the u.s. is reinstating to contain highly contagious variants of corona virus the government says it won't apply to u.s. citizens and residents president joe biden has promised to administer $100000000.00 doses of covert $900.00 vaccines in the next 3 months it also wants congress to pass the nearly 2 trillion dollar pandemic really fell wasn't in jordan reports from washington d.c. . it's the worst affected country in the world nearly a year after the u.s. recorded its 1st covert 19 case that number has climbed to more than 25000000 but it appears that one in 14 americans infected with the disease almost 420000 of them have died president joe biden says the pandemic is his top priority but his team is
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already revising his goal of that's an eating 100000000 americans in 100 days it was a little bit of a misunderstanding what we're talking about is 100000000 shots in individuals so the shots as in other words when you get down to let's say a certain part of the 100 days at the end of 100 days you're going to have some people who will have gotten both shots and some will still be on their 1st shots what the president is saying 100000000 shots in the arms of people within 100 days and by the officials are accusing the trumpet ministration of making a grave mistake in it's an demick response plans everyone american has seen the way in which people get vaccine is chaotic it's very limited we've seen this factor all over the country where millions of doses have been distributed about half of that has been given out the president wants congress to approve nearly 2 trillion dollars in pandemic relief spending this on top of the $900000000000.00 measure
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passed back in december biden's fellow democrats say supporting the economy is. critical right now but congressional republicans say not so fast idea that we need a stimulus is a little hard to understand because i'm one of those is convinced that if you want to see this economy get going we've got to get beyond covert if we get beyond covert i believe that the economy is going to come roaring back and spending and borrowing trillions of dollars from the chinese among others is not necessarily the best thing we can do to get our economy to be strong long term. before donald trump left the white house he lifted a coke at 19 travel ban on not americans coming from europe and brazil but on monday that band comes back and will extend to those coming from south africa by the end of the week the u.s. reportedly is trying to stop the spread of the so-called south africa variant of code that 19 another variant from the u.k. has already been found in 20 u.s.
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states and it said the list of countries could get longer if that's what it takes to end the pandemic rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington as we mentioned earlier new zealand's 1st community coronavirus case in months was likely spread jury in quarantine a woman tested positive just days after completing 2 weeks if mandatory quarantine after arriving in the country it's believed the course of more infectious south african variant of the virus from another traveler inside the quarantine facility. the case has now been given confirmed status it was a probable cases today it is now a confirmed case we know that the person's husband and he had recently. i would so i outlined this morning it's a very encouraging development that we can also confirm that the strain of in fiction is the south african variant and the source of in fiction is highly likely to be a fairly rich need during the person stay at the poor woman or tell. uganda's high
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court says the continued detention of opposition leader bobby wine is unlawful the court has directed the police and the military to leave winds residence he's been under house arrest since january 15th the day after uganda's presidential election catherine so we've been monitoring developments from neighboring kenya i have not too long ago spoken to one of bobby wines a lawyer benjamin qatar knife he said there was headed at the time to some of these orders to the police and military commanders including the inspector general of police and he also told us he's aware and not holding his breath really because they have seen previously our security parys has failing to abide by a court order that has happened before with bobby wine it has happened with other opposition leaders like for example cuba best suggest he's an opposition leader who
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was previously contested for the presidential elections and 2016 he was put in the house arrest for 40 days and the security apparatus refused to a by court orders to have that leaf dead and you know in other cases as well so the lines lawyers telling us that they are not holding their breath but they are hoping that this time around things will be different and least the police and the military do not respect the judge's orders then they will have the lawyers will have to go back to court to file for contempt and we have been talking also to some of our colleagues and other journalists who attempted to go to bobby white house right after the ruling these are roadblock about 500 meters away from his home so they jolly journalists was stopped from going father is going to be interesting to see going forward whether the police and the military are going to abide by that ruling by the judge. several world leaders will attend
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a virtual summit later on monday to discuss how to cap the effects of climate change the adaptation summit will work to close a huge gap in funding needed to protect the most vulnerable and the poor nations of the world clark explains this summit is all about supercharging the effort to protect people and nature from the effects of a rapidly heating climate as well as the urgent need to reduce emissions we also need to defend ourselves it's already unavoidable impacts of climate change on fold we're seeing those impacts every day this was mozambique less than 2 years ago when i killed more than a 1000 people now literally today the country is again in pick itself up of the cycle and always swept through from a stranger to california wildfires are growing in intensity destroying whole communities to those floods droughts sea level rise all threats we need to adapt to adaptation is crucial because more than 1000000000 people around the world are
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highly variable to climate change and it is really a matter of interest and intergenerational equity. the most vulnerable countries are those that are least responsible for the bites of climate change so this is really about climate justice now many of the adaptation measures to make people safer are relatively cheap to implement from early warning systems against storms to regrowing coastal mangroves to provide a natural barrier against storm surges but hard cash promised by richer nations to build this resilience well that's not been forthcoming it's estimated funding needs to increase 10 fold to $300000000000.00 a year as part of an overall reset of the way we live. it is not a choice of either the economy or you know a terrible life it's not because everybody's going to eat meat or whatever choices
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are thrown around there's going to be the greatest economic transformation and global history and just like the industrial revolution this will be the defining of a better quality of life for our citizens over a long period of time climate related disasters have cost $650000000000.00 globally in the last 3 years but it has been calculated that every dollar spent on that taishan prevents $12.00 of damage while at the same time building resilience against extreme events that are already upon us which impact the pool most of all. one place on the threat from rising sea levels is the city of st louis in senegal from the well bank have donated more than $48000000.00 to help people living in the nest a welt heritage site nicholas haq has an atheist. an unexpected tide swept away xena goofballs home with it
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a lifetime of memories remember she says to her son at emma how in a matter of hours our living room where you used to watch t.v. kitchen and your bedroom were wiped away by the ocean's currents you now live on the outskirts of the city with thousands of others displaced a new life the city council told them to adapt to that sound but being forced to live a difficult life here this was supposed to be temporary and we're living here now for 2 years there's no food no help and no sign from authorities anything will change we won't be able to return home. to save what is left of what used to be the capital of the colonial era french west africa france and the world bank have raised $40000000.00 for what they call climate adaptation the funds have so far been used to buy more tense educate displaced children and construct new embankments but when the tide recedes the ocean's destruction appears entire neighborhoods of a historic unesco world heritage site are swallowed into the atlantic in 2006 the
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city cut a 3 metre breach in an embankment thinking it would empty out the water instead it allowed more of it in with the breach growing to 8 kilometers long making matters worse you sand formation has made it dangerous for fishermen to navigate. from the moment but it's a catastrophe more than 500 fishermen have drowned because of the breach people are desperate now that's why so many young people are leaving sunway to try to get to europe. more than 20000 people made it to spain's canary islands last year many from sunday week as a result the spanish coast guards can now be seen patrolling some of the shores. first spain protecting europe from a wave of illegal migration starts here but there is no protection against the rising oceans for this and they believe living here and while rich polluting countries poor countries to adapt to a changing climate people here say the damage is done it's too late woman clean up
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an indignity in the camp an elder takes in a blue son adam aside you have nothing to lose he explains showing him a picture of a young man who is now in madrid with so much loss adapting to a changing climate means letting her son go and brave the oceans tight in search of a safe place to live because hawk al-jazeera center we send it off. still ahead on al-jazeera and also call of impeachment is set to be sent to the u.s. senate later on monday triggering the 2nd trial for donald trump plus a lot of things that. in this world largest number not. the anniversary of kobe bryant's death approaching n.b.a. stars take a moment to reflect on this legacy. it's
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time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored player qatar airways. the weather is changing fortunes daily at the moment in japan you see something coming out of china that's the real coda the real real cold is held a long way north there will be snow as fast as maybe as north korea the most it's going to be held beyond that and there's warm enough for rain to come across japan still snow on the grounds there be yet more snow melt much of china is increasing the clarity that breaks of lightish rain with temperatures actually on the way up temporarily then probably way down again on wednesday we're hounds example 11 down to 7 hong kong hangs on to about $21.00 degrees the picture in india is very quiet one quite in foggy actually for most of bangladesh and over northern plain of india this persistent fog searched the day overseas thickening and now we've got the cold wave returning was champus that means below normal by day but really below nor by
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night without a low single figures as an example in delhi which is no good if you don't have any form of heating the northeast monsoon which brings the right time it is a weak one a few showers likely in sri lanka otherwise nothing much and for another day or so it's fairly quiet throughout the arabian peninsula and the event in fact the temperatures in for example beirut are rising steadily. qatar airways. winning best to katyn crime an admission of guilt is the ultimate corroboration. or is it your tactics that can be used to get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit witness explores the shocking phenomenon of people incriminating themselves the person who falsely contrast actually came to believe the lie that they were told about their own behavior false confession on al-jazeera.
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the watching al-jazeera mind of our top stories this hour the number of covert 900 cases around the globe is quickly approaching 100000000 it comes as well leaders struggle with their individual responses including mexico where president of that war has tested positive for the virus. new zealand house reported its 1st community case in months which was contracted in quarantine is believed to be the south african strain of the virus. uganda's high court says the detention of opposition leader bobby wine by security forces is on no fault of course has direct the police on the military to leave winds residence he's been under house arrest since january
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15th a day off to uganda's presidential election. more than 200 people have been detained across another lens while protesting against coronavirus lock down walls police deployed to 10 cities on sunday use water cannons to clear some of the crowds after schapelle has more. for the 1st time since world war 2 the capital of the netherlands is under curfew from 9 in the evening until 4 30 in the morning people in amsterdam have been told to stay home and on sunday this was the reaction of many crowds of hundreds of people voicing defiance even as needing some measure enlightened i don't agree with the actual politics in the netherlands the restrictions of freedom and it's all the whole point the media don't always show these protests nicely but i hope we can show that this is just a voice a voice saying no we have so fright that we're going in the wrong direction this is understandable but it's really the wrong way. bars restaurants cinemas and cafes in
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the country had already been ordered to close in october but the extra restrictions have created an unexpected backlash. if it needs aimed at the apple floor i don't agree with the curfew because i don't believe that you will have a big effect overall i believe that people who come up with alternatives anyway normally people would meet at 9 pm but not there will meet at 3 pm they will keep on seeing each other. parliament tighten the restrictions last week to prevent a new surge in cases from a coronavirus variant 1st identified in the u.k. police were deployed in amsterdam and at least 9 other cities nearly 200 people were arrested in the dutch capital on sunday a water cannon were used on demonstrators another 90 were detained 9 of them with a central train station in the city was attacked and vehicles burned the prime minister has condemned the violence and that it's to an opposition that this is unacceptable every normal person can only be disgusted by this one really wonders
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what has got into these people this has nothing to do with protesting it's criminal violence which will treat as such the government has also banned flights from south africa south america and the u.k. and is preventing ferries carrying british passengers from docking officials have issued a message telling people not to travel to the netherlands and the national lockdown is due to remain in place for at least the next 2 weeks and al-jazeera. 10 miners have died in northeastern china after being trapped underground for 2 weeks they were among the 22 people caught in a blast at a gold mine in shandong province 11 have been pulled to safety and one person is still missing an article of impeachment will be handed over to the senate's later on monday in accuses former president donald trump of inciting a riot which resulted in the storming of the capitol building the senate's will convene to decide on the rules of the trial which is unique as it's the 1st time it
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involves a president who no longer holds office mike hanna reports from washington. past manages to walk articles of impeachment through the corridors of the capitol to the senate this was a little over a year ago but for the 1st time in american history this ritual is to be repeated against the same man. this marked the beginning of the chain of events that led to impeachment joe biden declares victory in the november election but his opponent donald trump refused to acknowledge it and declined to concede if you count the legal votes easily when instead a sitting president mounted to the real in campaign against the result deeming the process fraudulent and contesting it in dozens of courts all in pain the supreme court including 3 of trump's picks simply ignored repeated requests to
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take up any of the cases and an increasingly frustrated president focused in on preventing the vote being certified in congress and pressing his vice president to abandon his constitutional duty and prevent certification once again in vain let's get back to work in a series of tweets he urged his supporters to come to the capitol to protest it will be wild he promised. and when they arrived the article of impeachment alleges that then president incited them to riot now it is up to congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy and after this we're going to walk down and i'll be there with you we're going to look down because you'll never take back to our country with weakness you have to show strength and you have to be strong he
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seems it's alleged by a majority in the house was a direct consequence of trump's words and actions in contesting the democratic vote as if it's not enough that he sent an angry mob down the mall to invade the capitol didn't try to stop it and a police officer was killed i don't really know what else you need to know some senate republicans say they've already made up their minds not to impeach the 1st chance i get to vote to end this trial and do it because i think it's really bad for america for others are keeping open minds article of impeachment that were sent over by the house suggests impeachable conduct but we have not yet heard either from the prosecution or from the from the defense in the last trial then president trump was confident of the outcome is confidence in the decision not to republican controlled senate was not misplaced only one republican registered a guilty vote along side the democrats but just over
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a year later the dynamics have changed and democrats have a slim majority in a senate that will act as jury healing and unity will only come if there is truth and accountability and that is what this trial will provide and if a minimum of 17 republicans vote to convict these could be the last if the pictures of donald trump holding any form of public office mike hanna al-jazeera washington. it's been 10 years since the start of an uprising in egypt that toppled its longtime president hosni mubarak and the arab spring in egypt hasn't lived up to the hopes of those who took to the streets asylum reports. there were scenes that gripped the world's attention for 18 straight days millions
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of egyptians demonstrated in the streets and squares of the country's cities ultimately bringing about the end of president hosni mubarak's 30 year rule the the protests began in general the 25th with wholesome social media platforms for people to take to the streets demanding freedom justice and bread. those calls by unarmed civilians were met with a type of police brutality that was synonymous with the mubarak regime consequently the demands and chants shifted to a simple and very clear one was was shaab you read scott in the rom or the people demand the form of the regime. on february the 11th it's felt or solo the faults were boxed up the site and the country's military generals took charge despite attempts by the army to maintain power they were forced to allow the country's 1st ever free and fair parliamentary elections to take place those were
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then followed by a vote for the presidency which resulted in the muslim brotherhood parties mohamed morsi becoming egypt's 1st ever democratically elected president. throughout that time social and economic instability became the norm egyptians had begun experiencing political freedom but living conditions remained bad regular attic tricity outages and the never ending fuel shortage crisis led many to direct their opposition to egypt's post revolution president discontents continued to rise and in 2013 supported by the army and police another mass protest took place will be its. far smaller in size and shorter in duration than that of 2011. the protesters said morsi had to go because he failed to deliver on the goals of the revolution his supporters said it was the counter revolution that had been sabotaged the morsi presidency and was now behind the unrest it's led to transpired that most of the
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crises were in fact manufactured and the violence which rocked egypt streets had been encouraged by a deep states that once a quarter versus the gains of the gen-u. 25th revolution. their move all of morsi by a military coup in 2013 installed on the general abdul fatah has sisi as either an ultimate the president it. since assisi came to power egypt has become the world's 2nd largest borrower from the i.m.f. in 2014 the country had a foreign debt of $46000000000.00 today that figure is more than 125000000000 poverty levels in egypt have increased just a clique and more than 50 percent of the country's revenue is spent on trying to pay back its foreign debt. and c.c. points to infrastructure projects like the expansion of the suez canal and the construction of a new administrative capital to justify the loans but she's also found money to build several huge new palaces and buy
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a new presidential plane amongst other things but she can hear ok actions that have enraged the egyptian public the vast majority of which lives on or below the poverty line. 10 years on in cairo's tahrir square is a far cry from what it's look like egypt is not the country those who protested dreamed it would become and for tens of millions of egyptians they have little in the way of freedom justice and brought. it up. now tuesday will mark the one year anniversary of the tragic death of the basketball legend kobe bryant he was killed on january 26th in a helicopter crash along with his daughter giana he was $41.00 kobe spent his 20 year playing career with the l.a. like his lakers forward le bron james took a moment to reflect on bryant's legacy. and it takes time everyone has their own
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grieving process everyone understands you know everyone individually is different and one is going to. you know grieve differently and how long it takes him to come to grips with it it's up to them and that individual is a lot of things that. in this world lead just never dug. so it's all about representing now before we go let's take a look at south korea's new celebrity it's the baby panda fu bowo the giant panda club was caught on camera clinging on to keep it off to a weighing session millions have watched the 15 minute video of the 6 month old the 1st of a panda to be born in south korea or just. this is al-jazeera these are your top stories the total number a coven.

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